1,000 American Pastors Mobilize for Israel! AMEN!

By Beverly Newman, Ed. D.

“We need the pulpits of America to be on fire with the truth,” Mike Huckabee said in a fiery address. “I hope you will go back to the U.S. with the fire of G-d burning in your bones and say it is time to be pro-biblical, because then you will find your voice to be pro-Israel.”

‘Pro-Bible is pro-Israel,’ Huckabee tells 1,000 US pastors in Jerusalem

Tucker Carlson booed at the largest gathering of pastors in Israel since the establishment of the state.

” … we should say thank G-d [the Israelis] had humanity that valued every life. Let us never forget every enemy of Israel is the enemy of America: Israel is the appetizer and America is the entre,” Huckabee said.

‘Pro-Bible is pro-Israel,’ Huckabee tells 1,000 US pastors in Jerusalem

Dec. 4, 2025 / JNS

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Wednesday urged more than a thousand visiting American pastors and Christian leaders to “light the pulpits of America” with the truth about Israel, and to quash criticism of the Jewish state from both the left and the right with the facts and the Bible.

“We need the pulpits of America to be on fire with the truth,” Huckabee said in a fiery address. “I pray that you don’t just go back home and say, ‘Oh, I had wonderful trip. I took some good pictures. I saw some wonderful sites.’ I hope you will go back to the U.S. with the fire of God burning in your bones and say it is time to be pro-biblical, because then you will find your voice to be pro-Israel.”

The Baptist minister turned ambassador urged his fellow pastors to speak out against criticism of Israel that is clouding American support among young people, singling out The New York Times and conservative commentator Tucker Carlson. The boisterous audience loudly booed Carlson’s name amid chants of “U-S-A, U-S-A” and “amen.”

“Those who are saying things about Israel that are not true they have the right to free speech,” Huckabee said. “But you have the free speech possibility to push back, stand up, speak up, and say not in this country. America will not stand silent,” he added to a thunderous standing ovation.

The weeklong visit, which was organized by American evangelical leader Mike Evans with the Israeli Foreign Ministry, was the single largest gathering of pastors in Israel since the establishment of the state in 1948. It included a tour of the southern communities that came under attack during the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led massacre as well as meetings with survivors and former hostages.

In his address, Huckabee denounced criticism of Israel that it had overreacted in the two-year war against Hamas in Gaza, noting that the campaign—which, he said, could have been over on Oct. 8, 2023, if Hamas returned the hostages—resulted in the lowest proportion of civilian casualties count of any urban warfare conflict in history.

“That would be true, but that’s not the point,” he said. “Here’s the point: If your daughter or son was held in the tunnel, what would be the limit to your tenacity to get them and bring them home?” he asked. “Why every single one of us …, if those were my children, I would move heaven and earth and I would be like a crazed madman to do anything and everything I could to get into those tunnels and bring my child home.”

The ambassador continued, “And that’s what Israel has done. And instead of criticizing, we should say thank God they had humanity that valued every life.

“Let us never forget every enemy of Israel is the enemy of America: Israel is the appetizer and America is the entre,” Huckabee said.

Omer Shem Tov, whom Hamas terrorists held captive in the Gaza Strip for 505 days, including 450 days alone in tunnels, sang Psalm 121 in Hebrew at Wednesday evening’s event. He had repeatedly recited the psalm during his time in captivity.

700 million non-Jewish Zionists

“There are more than 700 million non-Jewish Zionists in the world,” said Evans, founder of the Friends of Zion Heritage Center in Jerusalem. “They believe in one book and it is a Jewish book. This is a covenant based on faith and a commitment to shared values.”

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar called the gathering “an alliance of believers” against an axis of evil that wants to destroy the Jewish state and its biblical connection to the Land of Israel.

“There is a huge global movement trying to erase our biblical roots and trying to destroy us,” he said. “But the Land will be as it always was: the Land of Israel.

“Over these last two difficult years, we saw who our true friends are,” Sa’ar said. “Our Christian friends are our most important and true friends.”

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Critically Thinking About Our Health: IMO a key MENTAL component is too frequently overlooked

By John Droz, Jr.

The physical health of Americans is simply atrocious. For example, over 75% of American adults have at least one chronic disease, and the rate of child illnesses continues to grow. Considering our knowledge, scientific advancements, financial resources, etc, this is unconscionable.

The good news is that many people and groups (like RFKjr, MAHA Action, etc.) are now aggressively chipping away at this huge elephant-sized issue. I am in full support of these efforts, and (despite being time-challenged) religiously watch MAHA Action’s 1-hour weekly meeting. It rarely disappoints. (You can join, for free, here.)

That said, I have one major beef.

No one is seriously addressing the underlying mental part of this health crisis. I don’t mean mental illnesses, but rather mental ability. We can provide citizens with boatloads of great information, but if they can’t properly process it, what good is it?

Yes, to truly fix this crisis we need many more citizens to be Critical Thinkers!

Interestingly, medical people (and other good souls) immersed in trying to solve parts of our health crisis repeatedly say things like “We need to change the public’s thinking!” yet they don’t get this connection…

The human body is a collection of parts working together in various systems.

These unique elements range from relatively passive parts like a bone in your little finger to very active parts like your heart.

These complex systems range from the respiratory system to the circulatory system to the digestive system to the endocrine system.

The sophistication of these parts and systems is a major differentiation between animals and plants.

A key difference between humans and other animals is that humans have a much more advanced brain.

A human illness is a serious degradation of one or more parts or systems.

The human brain is designed for thinking critically. For example, young children are naturally inquisitive, which is a clear indication that they are developing their critical thinking skill — which is rooted in asking questions.

K-12 schools should be focused on maturing this powerful skill, which is a cornerstone of what sets us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom.

Instead of making this a priority, almost all US K-12 schools actually infect children with a mental illness: lemmingitis. (See my earlier related commentary.) This disease occurs when the brain’s healthy and naturally occurring critical thinking is purposefully replaced by conformity.

The result? Such a brainwashed person now has herd mentality, which means that they are not much different from many animals. Thus, the term sheeple.

Surprisingly, much of psychology (and many other treatments of what we call mental illnesses, e.g., depression) can often be traced to a lack of critical thinking skills. This results in those victims making poor decisions (regarding diet, exercise, drugs, relationships, and much more).

So, when we talk of mental illness, lemmingitis should be at the top of our list.

Put another way, the number one thing to significantly reduce Americans’ chronic illnesses is to nurture their inherent Critical Thinking ability, starting when they are youngsters.

We need to fix what goes into people’s minds before we can fix what goes in their mouths.

Put another way: until we make major inroads to restoring the critical thinking skills of Americans (e.g., starting in K-12), we have little hope to successfully restore the health of our nation.

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NY Times Op-ed Writer Slams Whites: “You Lost”; “Your Culture Sucks”

By Selwyn Duke

Reacting to invasion (im)migration trends years ago, Ambassador Alan Keyes put it bluntly.

“We’re being colonized,” he said.

And if ever there was proof of this, and the low quality of many post-1965 newcomers—and of the lie of “diversity”—it’s a viral video posted by one Wajahat Ali.

Mr. Ali is a Pakistani-descent Muslim whose parents came to the U.S. in 1965 and lived the American dream—and an un-American scheme. That is, they served prison time in the mid-2000s for conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering for defrauding Microsoft out of millions of dollars.

Some say Ali weaponized this experience, playing the victim.

What’s for sure is that it didn’t stop him from becoming a Daily Beast columnist and New York Times op-ed writer. And that status didn’t stop him from something else:

He went on a bigoted anti-white tirade on social media in which he made clear that he’s an enemy within who hates the Western people who founded our country. As he said in his video, which is making the rounds:

You have lost. You lost. The mistake that you made is, you let us in in the first place. It has to do with brown people, and I am going to say this as a brown person:

There’s a lot of us—like, a lot. There is like 1.2 billion in India, there is more than 200 million in Pakistan, there’s like 170 million Bangladesh. Those are just the people there; I ain’t even talking about the folks who are expats or immigrants. There’s a bunch of us—and we breed. We’re a breeding people, and the problem is, you let us in in 1965.

There was a few us beforehand, but once you let one of us in, you know what happens with brown folks? Our grandmother comes, our grandfather comes, our uncle comes, our aunt comes, her cousin comes, a second cousin comes, her third cousin comes [and then they marry each other?]. Then we had kids, a bunch of kids. And then guess what?

Some white women—you know, the Western Civilization women, the pure women, the American women…the “rust belt” women, the real women—they like some of us brown folks. We don’t take them; they come to us. So we’re embedded; we are everywhere, we are everywhere. I travel this country, and I’m going to speak as a brown person, brown people are everywhere. There will be a Patel motel or there will be a Desi restaurant everywhere.

I want you to realize this: You have lost. Your story is a s****y story, filled with misery. It’s filled with bland chicken. It’s filled with terrible terrible, terrible dry a** meat. Your music sucks. All your culture sucks. Nobody…that’s why the kids, like listen to black people in their music. That’s why the kids love Latinos. Your parties suck, because they’re monochromatic. Our parties have better food, better music, better looking women.

Here is Ali’s video:

Wajahat Ali: “Whites, your mistake is you let us in. We are breeding people. Your culture suck. You already lost.”

White culture is being exterminated… pic.twitter.com/CICqZyMiYI

— Officer Lew (@officer_Lew) November 30, 2025

For a little more context, Ali was responding to President Donald Trump’s expressed desire to suspend Third World immigration. If anything, however, he buttressed Trump’s case.

I mean, you’d think, had you been asleep for 20 years like Rip Van Winkle, that Ali might fear being fired from his Gray Lady gig for delivering such bigotry. You would think, were you naive, that he might show some appreciation to the civilization that founded the country that has given him everything. Instead, he’s a walking advertisement for why we need to end all immigration in about…well, 30 years ago.

Of course, Ali is right: Our culture stinks so much that brown folks, to use his terminology, just can’t flock to America fast enough. As for his ancestors’ culture, which he seems to fancy superior, of what is he so enamored?

Is it that perhaps 60 percent or more of marriages in Pakistan involve first cousins (incest is best?)?

Is it honor killing?

Is it the death penalty for blasphemy?

Is it the common practice of grown men molesting young boys?

If whites’ story is so excremental, as Ali so eloquently put it, what do you call that (still ongoing) story?

Oh, and I’ve got news for him: If whites have “lost,” so has he and everyone else. Because when America ceases being a Western-character land run mainly by Western people (aka whites), it will come closer to being like the place from which his parents fled.

Anyway, yes, we’re being colonized—and they call it “diversity.”

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Ben Franklin’s Famous Letter

By John Droz, Jr.

Critically Thinking about Relationships

During the time of the American Revolution, we were blessed with numerous competent, hard-working, insightful patriots. Benjamin Franklin is a good example. His involvements ranged from scientific experiments (like here) to being a very successful diplomat (like here).

What most people don’t know is that in this wide range of abilities and interests, Ben was also a ladies man…

This meant that the fair sex was a subject that frequently came up in conversations with him. That, in turn, resulted in other men asking him his opinion on relationship issues.

One one such occasion he was conversing with a younger gentlemen, and the question came up: if you were going to have an affair, would it be better for it to be with a young lass or an older woman? Ben advocated against having affairs, but if it was “necessary,” he believed in the latter.

His young friend did not buy it, so Ben went home and composed a letter outlining his reasons. This has become one of the more famous letters in history. Here is the original letter (with its misspellings) plus some fascinating background. See if you accept the humorous and creative reasons Ben put forward…

June 25, 1745

My dear Friend,

I know of no Medicine fit to diminish the violent natural Inclinations you mention; and if I did, I think I should not communicate it to you. Marriage is the proper Remedy. It is the most natural State of Man, and therefore the State in which you are most likely to find solid Happiness.

Your Reasons against entering into it at present, appear to me not well-founded. The circumstantial Advantages you have in View by postponing it, are not only uncertain, but they are small in comparison with that of the Thing itself, the being married and settled.

It is the Man and Woman united that make the compleat human Being. Separate, she wants his Force of Body and Strength of Reason; he, her Softness, Sensibility and acute Discernment. Together they are more likely to succeed in the World. A single Man has not nearly the Value he would have in that State of Union. He is an incomplete Animal. He resembles the odd Half of a Pair of Scissars. If you get a prudent healthy Wife, your Industry in your Profession, with her good Economy, will be a Fortune sufficient.

But if you will not take this Counsel, and persist in thinking a Commerce with the Sex inevitable, then I repeat my former Advice, that in all your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones. You call this a Paradox, and demand my Reasons. They are these:

1. Because as they have more Knowledge of the World and their Minds are better stor’d with Observations, their Conversation is more improving and more lastingly agreable.

2. Because when Women cease to be handsome, they study to be good. To maintain their Influence over Men, they supply the Diminution of Beauty by an Augmentation of Utility. They learn to do a 1000 Services small and great, and are the most tender and useful of all Friends when you are sick. Thus they continue amiable. And hence there is hardly such a thing to be found as an old Woman who is not a good Woman.

3. Because there is no hazard of Children, which irregularly produc’d may be attended with much Inconvenience.

4. Because thro’ more Experience, they are more prudent and discreetin conducting an Intrigue to prevent Suspicion . The Commerce with them is therefore safer with regard to your Reputation. And with regard to theirs, if the Affair should happen to be known, considerate People might be rather inclin’d to excuse an old Woman who would kindly take care of a young Man, form his Manners by her good Counsels, and prevent his ruining his Health and Fortune among mercenary Prostitutes.

5. Because in every Animal that walks upright, the Deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever: So that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one. And as in the dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal, and frequently superior, every Knack being by Practice capable of Improvement.

6. Because the Sin is less. The debauching a Virgin may be her Ruin, and make her for Life unhappy.

7. Because the Compunction is less. The having made a young Girl miserable may give you frequent bitter Reflections; none of which can attend the making an old Woman happy.

8thly and Lastly They are so grateful!!

Thus much for my Paradox. But still I advise you to marry directly; being sincerely Your affectionate Friend.

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Why I [Also] Left The Left

By Joan Swirsky

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

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

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

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

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

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

WHAT???

But, to our shock, the referendum was defeated!

That was when I attended my first schoolboard meeting.

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

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

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

Ummm…

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

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

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

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

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

LETTUCE?

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

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

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

SWAMPS?

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

Whaddaya mean? I asked.

“We think right,” she said.

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

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

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

THE TURNING POINT

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

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

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

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

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

JUST ONE SIMPLE QUESTION

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

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

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

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

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

IMPOVERISHED

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

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

EMPOWERED

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

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

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

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Global Jihad It’s Not Just a Slogan

By Beverly Newman, Ed. D.

Q: What does the word Islam mean?

A: The word Islam literally means “submission” or “surrender” in Arabic, referring to submission to Allah…. under Islamic/Sharia law.

WHAT ARE THE JIHADIST GOALS?

  1. Large and ever-increasing numbers of hostages
  2. Extreme durations of captivity
  3. Extreme public fear
  4. Extreme submissiveness to terror
  5. Building a worldwide caliphate that dictates all aspects of life under extreme penalties imposed by Sharia law, including death, flogging, amputations, public humiliations, forced conversion to Islam

Global Jihadist Dogma —Will you leave the disbeliever to sleep safely at home while the Muslim women and children shiver with fear of the roars of the crusader airplanes above their heads day and night? How can you enjoy life and sleep while not aiding your brothers, not casting fear into the hearts of the cross worshippers, and not responding to their strikes with multitudes more? So O muwahhid wherever you may be, hinder those who want to harm your brothers and state as much as you can. The best thing you can do is to strive to your best and kill any disbeliever, whether he be French, American, or from any of their allies …

Strike their police, security, and intelligence members, as well as their treacherous agents. Destroy their beds. Embitter their lives for them and busy them with themselves. If you can kill a disbelieving American or European – especially the spiteful and filthy French – or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be. Do not ask for anyone’s advice and do not seek anyone’s verdict. Kill the disbeliever whether he is civilian or military, for they have the same ruling. Both of them are disbelievers …

… Rig the roads with explosives for them [the disbelievers]. Attack their bases. Raid their homes. Cut off their heads. Do not let them feel secure. Hunt them wherever they may be. Turn their worldly life into fear and fire. Remove their families from their homes and thereafter blowup their homes … … If you are not able to find an IED or a bullet, then single out the disbelieving American, Frenchman, or any of their allies. Smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him, or poison him … … If you are unable to do so, then burn his home, car, or business. Or destroy his crops. If you are unable to do so, then spit in his face …

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The kidnap gangs, jihadists and separatists wreaking havoc in Nigeria

Nigeria is currently grappling with a spate of mass abductions. But the vast country – bigger than France and Germany combined – also faces many other security challenges.

Recent attempts by US President Donald Trump and his supporters to frame the insecurity purely as the persecution of Christians overlooks the complexity of Africa’s most-populous nation.

There are more than 250 ethnic groups in Nigeria, which is roughly divided into a mainly Muslim north, a largely Christian south, with intermingling in the middle – and the government says people of all faiths have been victims of attacks.

There are criminal gangs in the north-west, an Islamist insurgency in the north-east, clashes over land in central regions and separatist unrest in the south-east – leaving the 400,000-strong army and the police force of 370,000 officers overstretched.

Here’s a breakdown of the main armed groups and flashpoints:

‘Bandits’ – kidnap gangs

These criminal gangs, known locally as “bandits”, are largely composed of people from the Fulani ethnic group, who traditionally make their living by raising animals. They have traded their pastoral tools for assault rifles, which have flooded Nigeria – and other states in the region – since Libya descended into anarchy following the overthrow in 2011 of long-time strongman Muammar Gadaffi by Nato-backed forces.

The gangs are not known to be motivated by any religious or political ideology, but see kidnapping people for ransom as a quick and easy way to make money rather than walking for miles with their livestock in search of water and grazing land.

They typically move in large numbers on motorcycles, which makes them highly mobile and allows them to strike quickly and escape before the security forces can respond – a tactic used during two recent school abductions.

There is no centrally organised leadership – each gang, often drawn from one family or a specific community, tends to be loyal to its own leader. The police have placed bounties on some of the notable leaders, including Ado Aleru and Bello Turji, and in 2022 the government designated the bandits as “terrorists” in a bid to stem their violence.

Aleru is from Yankuzo town – an area in the north-western state of Zamfara which has been a hub for bandit activity over the last three years.

The gangs, which sometimes fight one another, also travel to neighbouring states and central regions to carry out kidnappings. They also prey on their local communities and are indiscriminate in their ransom demands. In some areas, they tax residents.

Younger bandits, some in their teens, are increasingly taking to TikTok to show off their ransom money, guns and motorcycles – and have garnered thousands of followers.

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Putin’s Socialist Revolution in America

By Simona Pipko

“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

​The most famous word in November 2025 America is the term Affordability, in the country where socialism is spreading nationwide. For me, the term and its agenda mean: able to be afforded : having a cost that is not too high. It is a combination between vagueness and cost. Lawmakers address policy for Affordability and all media, radio and TV are discussing the term.  This discussion reminded me of an incident that happened forty years ago in 1981 at the time we were immigrating from the Soviet Union to the West. Our first stop was in Vienna Austria. We knew the city by the Eoghan Strauss Waltzes. But at that time music and theater had not been in our minds, so we, a group of women, went to a grocery store.

A big store with a lot of mirrors and Crystals had reminded me the Eliseev’s gastronomy in Leningrad. The store had several sections. We were standing in front of the cheese section. There were 15-18 kinds of different cheeses. Suddenly a woman yelled:  “help me, she is fainting!” The women run to hold the victim vertically, preventing her from falling. The manager of the store promptly organized a medical person to help. In a half hour, we were able to continue our excursion along the store. The fainting woman was a lover of cheese. She was shocked or stunned by 15-18 kinds of cheeses. In the Soviet Union all shelves usually were empty in the state stores. We could’ve bought cheese, one kind, sometimes. It is the abundance of the cheeses in the Vienna store that made her faint… What Charlie Kirk called “economic disorder” you can read in my book of how a prominent attorney was buying meat under Socialism. Baltic Winds Testimony of a Soviet Attorney Xlibris, 2002, p. 168.

​I didn’t faint in Vienna’s store, but I was mad at how many years of life Socialism has stolen from us. To talk about Affordability under Socialism is laughable—nothing is affordable under Socialism. I am talking about ideology and system of Soviet Socialism, the only one that exists in the world today. Yes, Marxist Theory, a philosophy, was designed and established by Marx for “Industrial European countries”. Bur, no one country of “Industrial Europe” materialized Marxist Theory—Western civilization of Europe rejected it in the 19th century. The Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin has lived in Europe and predicted that “we will do it other way.”  Socialist Revolution in Russia has taken place in 1917, of the 20th century and soon after the revolution Lenin was assassinated. Comrade Stalin has become an unlimited ruler of a former Great Russian Empire, spreading eleven time zones. Read my columns for free to learn Stalinism…

​Those who talk about Socialism should understand that Socialism is not an abstraction. It is an economic term and there is only one Socialist system in the world designed and invented by Comrade Stalin—system where all means of production belong to the government. Alas, America doesn’t know Stalin and his invention of Soviet Socialism, the Soviet people called it—Stalinism. I dedicated four decades of my life to educate Americans in Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet Fascism. This ideology and system had been spread globally by the Law Enforcement agency; I called the KGB’s Mafia/Army—the Evil Doer. When you hear today about Cartels in Mexico, narcoterrorism of Afghanistan, Venezuela, Colombia, China, and many others, please remember: they are all the countries of Soviet Socialism, designed by Stalin, the satellites of Russia—Russia’s proxies…

Mass slaughters of Christians were going on in Nigeria for years. But we were sending $1 billion to help Nigeria every year. We don’t know that the Russian invasion to Africa was going on for decades of the 20th century to get rare Earth metals and implement the ideology and system of Soviet Socialism. Russia was very successful in that intervention, 80-90% of African countries now exercised the ideology and system of Soviet Socialism, Stalinist’ vicious violence in Sudan and Nigeria is a Red Flag to recognize Soviet Socialism. Mass slaughters of Christians, kidnaping School girls to rape them is a Red Flag—Nigeria is Soviet Socialist state—Russia’s proxy Ask any Dems or Sen. Warner what they know about Soviet/Russian intervention in Africa. Learn it by reading my book: The Russian Factor from Cold War to Global Terrorism Xlibris, 2006.

History is the mother of all sciences—knowledge of history is a Must to save America. Soviet Socialism was also implemented in our soil by the Dems Biden’s team in collusion with Russian Intel. Please, read my columns for free to learn about Stalin, his ideology and system of Soviet Socialism, and his Socialist Modus Operandi: lies, deceit, fabrication and fraud. Biden’s team had been showing us those dirty actions: they lied and deceived us; they committed fabrication and fraud. Our Congress now investigates numerous criminal cases committed by  the Democrat party, it has been infiltrated by the Soviet Intel in the 20th century and overturned America to Socialism. Today we have an anti-American Army of the Dems Progressives, who are destroying our republic from within every day… I have published my book Socialist Revolution in America Xlibris in 2021; it is a compilation of my columns; read it to succeed in the investigation of the Dems crimes.

​I also warned you in August 2021 by my three columns that America’s shameful retreat from Afghanistan had been designed by Putin, while the Biden White House had executed the departure. I had in mind the Dems collusion with the Russian Intel. I haven’t changed my mind. Moreover, now a former CIA analyst Sen. Slotkin and Co. are convincing military to defy Trump orders, they are undermining chain of command. They try to turn military against Trump. For me it is an attempt to create a military coup. Disgusting, it is not only wrong; it is almost criminal. I remember in the Soviet Union we had a statue 58 of Criminal Code: Counterrevolutionary agitation and propaganda—punishment 25 years in GULAG. It is for a reason I have been warning you about the KGB’s Mafia/Army—the Evil Doer for forty years, I knew their agenda: to implement the ideology and system of Soviet Socialism in America. Moreover, I have been warning you about the Dems’ treason against the American republic by showing Putin’s global leadership in my columns titled A Global Spy Ring for many years.

Under these circumstances I have suspected some Dems with the Russian last names: Slotkin, Raskin, and Tarlov. I don’t know what kind of connection they have to Russia, but we didn’t have the functional FBI, CIA, and DOJ for 25-30 years, those agencies had been infiltrated by the Russian Intel and worked in cahoots with the Dems. Now is the time to investigate the past that has been ignored for many years. Republicans have problems with Obamacare, because Obama took a page from the Soviet/Russian Health care, tying individuals with the government in Obamacare. My columns maintain a lot of information that help our Congress to investigate the crimes of the Dems and “Seditious six.” Read them for free. I named dozens of dirty actors working for the Russian Intel: Mayor Pete, George Stepanopolus, George Soros, and many others. Those 25-30 years had allowed our enemies to destroy us from within. Read about the Dems’ saboteurs in my column: Soviet Socialism in America—Communist Mafia of the Democrat Party. October 28, 2025.

The election on November 4, 2025 and victory of Socialist Mamdani didn’t surprise me. I have been writing about Socialist-Communist Global Cabal and invasion of American democracy by our adversaries for decades. Those decades have drastically changed our culture, moral standards and way of life. There is a variety of methods they applied to undermine Trump’s authority and weekend Constitutional republic. One of the methods is the transgender people–the Russian invention. It started in 1950th. My two last columns described the Warsaw Pact of 1950th and  how Russia was selling blond girls of Czechia, Slovakia and Poland to Muslim countries. Russia was using all human weaknesses, sex, gender and procreation for ideological agenda. Decades of infiltration and crime finally touch America. Look at our culture today.

​Encouraged by the election results, the  Dems Governors of California and Illinois have the audacity promising to continue fighting I.C.E.—the federal Law Enforcement agency. The War against Republicans turned out to be a war against the American people. The Dems and AOC are celebrating transgender awareness’ week. Glamour magazine gave a statues-rank to transgenders, showing a group of women, as Women of the Year, presented by the trans men. It is not only wrong; it is almost criminal. And again, I recalled the Soviet Union and a statue 58 of Criminal Code: Counterrevolutionary agitation and propaganda—punishment 25 years in GULAG. The editor of Glamour magazine, doesn’t know political history and was definitely making a mistake, helping the enemy to promote their agents. Yes, now 80-90% of transgender people have connected to the Russian Intel. I know that because I have been warning America about Russian infiltration and the Dems’ collusion with them for decades. Please, read my column: American Fascism: How Soviet Socialism is Devouring Our American Dream  December 27, 2023.

There is a theoretical problem from the past for Republicans, too. As you remember Marxist Theory was rejected by the West in 19th century. But, in the 20th century Stalin was preaching rhetoric of Marxist Theory to promote his own authority and called it Marxism. Then he substituted a philosophy with a weaponized ideology of Marxism. 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 and created a violent ideology of Soviet Socialism. That ideology has been spread across the world including America by Stalin’s Law Enforcement agency, I named this agency: the KGB’s Mafia/Army—the Evil Doer. This theoretical problem should be fixed now. It is not Marxism that Republicans are fighting against, it is Stalinism that was spread across the world, infiltrating the Dems  party of America, which has become an enemy No.1 of our Constitutional republic.

The Democrats have been at the Permanent Soviet/Russian Destabilization Operation for the last ten years. Just look at this list:

  1. A numerous Hoax against Trump—Russia, Russia, Russia made by the Dems colluding with the FBI, turned the Dems party to the Anti-Trump party. But it was a fraud, convenient to the Dems. They hated our Constitutional republic and the Anti-Trump rhetoric has allowed them to cover-up their hate. The “Seditious six” is the recent example of that.
  2. Biden’s open border policy legalized a catastrophic migrants’ invasion to the U.S. from 120 different countries and continents. This invasion is the factual testimony of the Dems collusion with the enemy. Writing about the KGB’s Mafia/Army—the Evil Doer for decades, I can state that putting together 300. 000. unaccompanied children from 120 different countries and continents could only be called the Russian Intel Operation by the KGB’s Mafia/Army…
  3. Our country has 25 million illegal migrates, among them terrorists and spies. We are clear in present danger. The country cries for protection. Despite that fact, the Dems are campaigning nationwide to defund the police and some are arguing to abolish it. What is that stupidity or treason?
  4. Some Dems’ Governors are staging a war against the American Law Enforcement. I.C.E.—the federal Law Enforcement agency. The  Dems Governors of California and Illinois have the audacity promising to continue fighting I.C.E. The war against I.C.E. is now going on nationwide and preventing I.C.E from establishing Law and Order in the country…
  5. The Democrats colluding with the FBI have been deceiving Americans for a long time. They have in their position Hunter Biden’s computer file, but they lied and refused to admit it, buying time. They shut down the government to prevent the Congress from investigating their crimes.

I could’ve continued this list, but I think it is pointless. We all have lived through the last ten years and watched the rise of crime and terrorism, rebirth of Antisemitism, the assassination culture, and spread of the ideology of Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet Fascism.

My fellow Republicans!

You have an immediate duty to expose the Democrat party and show their real face. To save America the Beautiful you have to find the Dems’ connection overseas and expose their treason against the American Constitutional republic.

Good Luck!!!

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Reverse Racism in Post-Apartheid South Africa

By Amil Imani

South Africa’s transition from apartheid in 1994 was hailed as a triumph of reconciliation, with Nelson Mandela’s rainbow nation promising equality for all. Yet, three decades later, a troubling undercurrent has emerged: accusations of systemic discrimination against white South Africans by the black-majority government and society. Policies like Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) and affirmative action, intended to redress apartheid’s injustices, have been criticized as tools of “reverse racism,” sidelining whites in employment, education, and land ownership. Farm attacks, inflammatory rhetoric from political leaders, and social media incitements paint a picture of escalating racial hostility.

At the heart of these grievances lies BEE, a cornerstone policy enacted in 2003 to boost black participation in the economy. By prioritizing black ownership, management, and skills development through mandatory scorecards, BEE aims to dismantle apartheid-era disparities – whites, who comprise just 7.6% of the population, still control about 72% of commercial farmland. However, critics contend it institutionalizes racial quotas that disadvantage whites, even those from impoverished backgrounds.

A 2016 ABC News investigation highlighted white South Africans like Johan Coetzee, who, despite qualifications, was repeatedly rejected for public sector jobs due to his race and age: “Sorry, Mister, you’re white and you’re too old.” Coetzee, living in a squatter camp, embodies the “white poverty” phenomenon, where affirmative action has swelled white unemployment from negligible levels under apartheid to 8.1% today – still low compared to 37% for black Africans, but a stark reversal for a group once shielded by job reservations. The Employment Equity Act (EEA) exacerbates this by mandating “Representativity” in hiring, often interpreted as racial quotas, excluding white males unless disabled.

The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) estimates BEE has created a black elite while stifling merit-based advancement, deterring foreign investment and contributing to economic stagnation. In a 2021 study, economist Nic Spaull noted that while BEE scorecards favor black-owned firms for government contracts, white entrepreneurs face barriers to entry, leading to a brain drain: over a million skilled whites have emigrated since 1994. Helen Suzman, the anti-apartheid icon, decried this as “reverse racism” under Thabo Mbeki’s administration, arguing it perpetuates division rather than unity.

These policies, while constitutionally framed as redress, function as de facto discrimination. A 2025 Commission for Employment Equity (CEE) report revealed whites hold 62% of top management roles despite equity targets, yet complaints of exclusion in mid-level positions are rampant. This disparity fuels resentment, with white advocacy groups like AfriForum documenting over 145 race-based laws that embed such preferences.

No issue symbolizes white vulnerability more than farm murders. Since 1994, over 4,000 white farmers have been killed in brutal attacks, often involving torture, according to Brent Stirton’s investigative photography for Getty Images. The Witkruis Monument near Polokwane features nearly 3,000 white crosses commemorating these victims, a stark hillside reminder of loss.

Official statistics paint a nuanced picture: South African Police Service data for 2022-2023 recorded 51 farm murders out of 27,494 nationwide homicides, with farm attacks dropping 12.7% year-on-year. Yet, Agri SA and AfriForum report 50-74 murders annually, disproportionately affecting white owners who farm 72% of arable land. A 2003 inquiry found 61.6% of victims white, with motives blending robbery and revenge – often by disgruntled ex-workers.
Critics like the FW de Klerk Foundation argue these are racially motivated, citing 45 social media posts inciting “extreme violence against white South Africans,” predominantly from black users. The Economic Freedom Fighters’ (EFF) Julius Malema has sung “Kill the Boer” at rallies, a chant the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) deemed non-literal in 2019 but which stokes fear. In 2018, Malema declared, “We are cutting the throat of whiteness,” prompting Democratic Alliance accusations of racism.

While not genocide – Genocide Watch classifies it as Stage 4 polarization, not extermination – the attacks’ brutality and racial undertones substantiate claims of targeted hostility. White farmers like those in Orania, an Afrikaner enclave, cite this as a driver for isolation, with applications quadrupling amid fears.
Even Mandela, in 2001, warned of “growing racial intolerance by black South Africans” toward minorities. Afrobarometer surveys since 2011 show rising perceptions of discrimination among whites and Indians, with Milton Shain noting the ANC scapegoats minorities to mask class divides.

A 2016 University of Cape Town incident saw student Slovo Magida wear a “Kill All Whites” shirt, met with parliamentary cheers of “Yes! Yes!” – no charges followed. Jacob Zuma’s 2009 remark that only Afrikaners are “truly South African” drew Human Rights Commission complaints of unfair discrimination.

On X (formerly Twitter), recent posts echo this: AfriForum highlights U.S. bills like Senator John Kennedy’s AGOA extension excluding South Africa over “discrimination against whites,” linking it to 145 racial laws. Users like @Justnewssportp decry laws mandating “Representativity” in appointments, such as the 1998 National Libraries Act, as anti-white.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2025 executive order cut aid to South Africa, citing “unjust racial discrimination” against Afrikaners, including BEE and land expropriation laws allowing nil compensation. It offered refugee status to 59 Afrikaners, amplifying claims of “white genocide.” Protests outside the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria bore signs like “Thank God for President Trump,” decrying “racist laws.”

Elon Musk, a South African émigré, has tweeted outrage over Starlink’s exclusion due to 30% black ownership mandates, calling it discriminatory. These actions underscore global concern, with the IRR arguing BEE deters investment, costing billions.

Discrimination against white South Africans — through BEE exclusions, farm violence, and hate speech — stems from legitimate redress but risks becoming apartheid’s mirror image. Whites remain economically privileged, holding disproportionate wealth, yet face tangible barriers that breed alienation. SAHRC insists whites are not an “oppressed minority,” but rising emigration and protests suggest otherwise.

Reconciliation demands nuance: enforce anti-hate laws rigorously, reform BEE for class-based aid, and prioritize crime reduction over rhetoric. As Max du Preez warns, ignoring white grievances harms all South Africans. Without addressing this reverse racism, Mandela’s dream fades, replaced by mutual suspicion in a nation still scarred by race.

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Communism Never Works, Not Even With Pilgrims

By Jerry Newcombe, D. Min.

We are in the 250th year of America. Of course, on July 4, 2026 we will celebrate the birth of the nation, because two-and-a-half centuries earlier to the day, 56 men in the 2nd Continental Congress in Philadelphia unanimously agreed by voice vote to accept the final wording of the Declaration of Independence.

Our nation’s birth certificate notes famously that we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights. The “right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

But since that time, anti-Christian ideologies∞most notably communism—have arisen, declaring there is no Creator. And ultimately, what have they given us? Death, tyranny, and the pursuit of the border (to flee).

One of my favorite indictments of communism came from two former “fellow travelers.” Former communist Eugene Fox-Genovese, who, along with his wife Elizabeth, had been the editor of Marxist Perspectives.

When the Soviet Union finally imploded, Eugene told interviewer Frederica Mathewes-Green in National Review (2/24/1997): “When it all collapsed, the question was, after seventy years, what do we have to show for it? Especially when it became clear that, even on a basic level, the system didn’t deliver the goods, the one thing it was supposed to do. So what we had to show for it was tens of millions of corpses.”

A quote attributed to Winston Churchill says, “Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth. Socialism is the equal distribution of misery. And communism is socialism with a gun at your back.”

Sooner or later, all socialistic schemes have to involve force in order to be implemented. As Dr. Paul Kengor, noted author on communism, told me recently in a radio interview that when it comes to socialism, here is their modus operandi: “First they suggest. Then they shove. Then they shoot.”

Amazingly, there was a type of communism or socialism imposed on the Pilgrims, who settled Plymouth in December 1620, by those who lent them the money for the voyage of the Mayflower. And as always, it didn’t work. And it caused some to starve to death.

One of the stipulations of the London Adventurers who had lent money to the Pilgrims for the expedition was that everyone in the colony was to receive exactly the same amount…the same amount of reward, no matter how much work he or she did. The problem with this imposition is that those who worked hard were paid just the same as those who chose not to work at all. This common-store stipulation undercut productivity immensely.

In a short video segment I made for Providence Forum on the Pilgrims and socialism, guest Dennis Prager, founder of PragerU, remarked: “The Pilgrims did experiment with socialism or communalism, and they realized it didn’t work. They embodied this. It didn’t take long to realize that doesn’t work. It is against human nature. The moment you tell people that the community will take care of you, they work less. It undermines character.”

In 1989, for a Coral Ridge Ministries television program, I had the privilege to interview an elderly Pilgrims descendant and historian, Dr. Robert M. Bartlett, at his home in Plymouth.

In his 1971 book, The Pilgrim Way, Bartlett summarizes well the Pilgrims’ experiment in socialism: “The communal system set up by the Adventurers proved a fiasco. The young men did not want to work for the wives and children of the older men. The good worker received no more than the poor worker. The wife disliked washing clothes and dressing meat for others outside her home. The idea of all to have alike and do alike led to discontent and confusion.”

He continues, “So in 1623 [Plymouth Governor William] Bradford and his assistants decided to assign every family a parcel of land to cultivate on their own. The new system was an immediate success. Even the women and children went into the fields to plant and reap. Thus, private enterprise initiated a new era.”

Historian Bill Federer quotes the conclusion Gov. Bradford came to after this disastrous economic experience foisted on them: “The failure of that experiment of communal service, which was tried for several years [1620-1623], and by good and honest men, proves the emptiness of the theory of Plato and other ancients, applauded by some of later times,—that the taking away of private property, and the possession of it in community, by a commonwealth, would make a state happy and flourishing; as it they were wiser than God.”

In contrast with socialism and its entitlement mentality—the state owes me something, regardless if I work or don’t—is the thanks-giving mentality. God is the source of our blessings. To Him we should all give thanks. It’s a timeless lesson. Why do different generations seem to have to learn it over and over again? Thanksgiving is not a by-product of socialism.

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Stop Dragging the U.S. Military Into Anti-Trump Politics

By Oladigbo Oluwasogo Olalekan

One of the great strengths of the United States has always been the clear separation between civilian politics and military professionalism. Presidents change, parties rotate in and out of power, and political arguments flare up—but the armed forces remain steady, disciplined, and loyal to the Constitution.

Today, however, many Americans are becoming increasingly uneasy. They worry that certain Democratic lawmakers, driven by intense political hostility toward former President Donald Trump, may be crossing lines that could unintentionally sow discord within the ranks of the U.S. military.

This concern is not about disagreement. Democrats and Republicans have always disputed policy. That is the heartbeat of a healthy democracy. The issue arises when political rhetoric touches the military chain of command—one of the most sensitive pillars of national stability.

Recent comments by several Democratic lawmakers—including individuals with military or intelligence backgrounds such as Mark Kelly, Elissa Slotkin, Jason Crow, Chris Deluzio, Maggie Goodlander, and Chrissy Houlahan—have sparked controversy. Their public discussions about resisting what they describe as potential “illegal orders” from President Trump have been interpreted by critics as blurring the line between necessary constitutional caution and political messaging that could create confusion within the armed forces.

To be clear: elected officials absolutely have the right to warn against unlawful directives from any president. That safeguard is part of the American system. But when members of Congress make statements that can be read as urging the military to distrust or pre-judge the commander in chief, they risk undermining the unity, discipline, and non partisanship that America depends on.

President Trump responded forcefully, calling such rhetoric “seditious.” The lawmakers in question then portrayed themselves as victims, accusing Trump of incitement. But they have largely dismissed concerns about the potential implications of their own messaging.

Even if these Democrats intended to promote constitutional vigilance, the perception created is dangerous. When military officers hear politicians imply that the armed forces should be prepared to question the legitimacy of presidential orders based solely on political fears, the seeds of division can be planted—whether intentionally or not.

With Secretary of War Pete Hegseth now reportedly investigating the matter, the stakes could not be higher. America cannot afford even the appearance of political parties attempting to shape military loyalty.

At a time when global adversaries are eager to exploit any sign of internal weakness, U.S. leaders—on both sides—must treat military cohesion as sacred. Political disagreements should never spill into the chain of command. No hatred for a political figure, Trump included, should ever justify messaging that risks confusion or distrust among the men and women who defend the nation.

Democrats, like all political actors, must remember that presidents come and go, but the nation remains. The military is not a tool for partisan battles. It is a national institution that deserves protection from political chaos.

America needs its leaders to rise above resentment, reject rhetoric that threatens unity, and reaffirm their commitment to safeguarding the integrity of the armed forces. The country is stronger when political fights stay in the political arena—not in the barracks.

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Will blood libels never cease?

By Matthew Hausman, J.D.

Is there any difference between medieval blood libels inspired by the Church and fabricated claims of Israeli genocide disseminated by today’s useful idiots in the west? Not really. 

As an adjunct professor of law and criminal justice for undergraduates, I eschew institutional politics and have no use for academic unions that seem compelled to support partisan agendas. If the raison d’être for such unions is to maximize salaries and benefits for professors, then fine. But when they act like political action committees pushing radical ideologies, they should be exposed for misrepresentation of purpose, recognized as lobbying organizations, and required to refund dues used to promote causes that may be irrelevant or offensive to their members.

And when they use their platforms to spew hysterical anti-Israel propaganda that echoes the talking points of antisemitic terrorist groups, they should be exposed for sanctimonious hypocrisy.

Recently, one of the unions in our region passed an embargo and divestment resolution against Israel over the war in Gaza (as have unions at other schools), which contained inflammatory language and erroneous, misleading casualty statistics. The resolution was long on baseless accusations of Israeli apartheid and genocide, short on truth, and brimming with provocative rhetoric, as illustrated by the following excerpted recitals:

“WHEREAS, from October 2023 to September 4, 2025, Israel has killed at least 64,000 Palestinians in Gaza, half of them women and children. It has likely killed over 100,000 more people through its blockades on food aid and its systematic destruction of Gazan medical facilities and water and sanitation infrastructure. Israel simultaneously continues to illegally annex land in the occupied West Bank and displace Palestinians there; and….

“WHEREAS…Top genocide scholars agree that Israel is committing genocide [and]…the ICJ affirmed that Israel’s prolonged occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, is illegal, as is its system of racial segregation and apartheid; and…

“WHEREAS, in February 2025, United States President Donald Trump called openly for ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza, followed by Israeli government’s plan for forced displacement in May 2025; and…

“WHEREAS, Israel is currently using blocking of humanitarian aid and forced starvation of Palestinians in Gaza…”

Aside from the glaring mistruths stated in these recitals (e.g., that Israel has caused starvation by blocking humanitarian aid, illegally annexed parts of Judea and Samaria, conspired with the US to engage in “ethnic cleansing,” and systematically destroyed medical facilities – all false), the resolution also contained unverified casualty statistics mirroring those circulated by the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry. The ministry’s figures are unreliable because, among other things, they (a) overstate the total death toll, (b) fail to distinguish civilians from combatants and children from adults, and (c) fail to identify deaths caused by Hamas’s use of human shields and its appropriation of schools, hospitals, residential areas, and mosques to launch missiles, store weapons, and hide hostages.

Though it may be difficult to calculate casualty statistics precisely during wartime (and despite the reliance of haters on specious data concocted by Hamas and disseminated by propaganda merchants posing as news and human rights organizations), objective analyses indicate lower civilian-to-combatant death rates in Gaza than in other instances of urban warfare (e.g., the battle for control of Mosul). Agenda-driven media outlets and NGOs, however, use erroneous statistics to falsely portray civilian casualties in Gaza as unprecedented and the result of coordinated Israeli attacks against noncombatants – all in order to promote the lie that Israel is committing genocide.

The resolution’s recitals included foul slanders against Israel without mentioning the depraved acts of murder, rape, torture, and kidnapping perpetrated by Hamas that started the war in the first place. Moreover, the language and imagery used sounded similar in tone to the anti-Israel (and antisemitic) tropes that have become commonplace on university campuses and throughout academia.

The resolution attempted to buttress genocide claims by citing “top genocide scholars” – unnamed, of course – and regurgitating misleading mortality statistics. But such claims are groundless as the reality does not even comport with the expanded definition of genocide contained in the UN’s “Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.”

As discussed in Article II, “genocide” includes “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical (sic), racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”

Such definitions apply not to Israel, but to Hamas – whose charter calls for Israel’s destruction and the annihilation of all Jews, and which has launched five wars of attempted extermination against the Jewish state since 2007. Despite propaganda to the contrary, Israel does not target civilians and never has. In contrast, Hamas specifically attacks Jewish men, women, and children – while simultaneously endangering Arab civilians by using them as human shields in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, preventing them from leaving battle zones, and often slaughtering them as “collaborators.”

Furthermore, the documented increase in Gaza’s population since 2023 clearly undercuts any claim of “genocide.” Israel-haters, accordingly, have had to redefine the term to strip it of substance and meaning. Collateral civilian deaths – though regrettable – are by definition not genocide, particularly when they are largely the consequence of Hamas’s strategic entrenchment in civilian areas and institutions in order to maximize casualties.

If anti-Israel critics are genuinely concerned about genocide, why do they not condemn the extermination of Uyghurs in China? Or of non-Muslims by Arabs in Darfur (Sudan), the Rohingya in Myanmar, Tigrayans and Oromos in Ethiopia, Christians in Nigeria, or Hema tribesmen in the Congo? Apparently, real genocide elicits no outrage from those who condemn Israel for essentially defending herself.

Accusations of Israeli “segregation” and “apartheid” are likewise baseless, as the ICC’s Rome Statute of 2002 defines apartheid as “an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime.” This definition does not fit Israel, where ethnic and religious minorities have equal rights by law and Arabs serve in the Knesset, judiciary, and all professions.

But it does describe dictatorships like China, Islamist regimes like Iran, and genocidal terror organizations like Hamas, whose agitprop seems to have found its way onto university campuses and into classrooms, student senates, and the misinformed resolutions of academic unions.

Those who wrongfully accuse Israel of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and forced starvation often claim they are not antisemitic and that one can be critical of Israel without harboring hatred against Jews. However, when they make objectively false accusations against Israel while ignoring real atrocities occurring in China, Sudan, Nigeria and elsewhere, prejudice is the only rational explanation for their exclusive (and rabidly obsessive) focus on the Jewish state. Indeed, their anti-Israel calumnies are but the latest iteration of ancient blood libels used to justify the persecution and murder of Jews throughout Christian and Islamic history.

The classical blood libel accused Jews of using gentile blood to bake matzah and for other ritual purposes and was invoked to whip mobs into murderous frenzies to facilitate pogroms and massacres, particularly around Easter time. And the putative victims – usually children – were almost always venerated as martyrs, including William of Norwich, Simon of Trent, and Gabriel of Bialystok, who was elevated to sainthood in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

This theme was updated to cater to modern sensibilities, as when a Scandinavian tabloid accused the Israeli military of killing Arabs and harvesting their organs, and other outlets ran sinister stories of Jews controlling the illicit organ trade.

Intertwined with the blood libel myth were stories of the Jews’ supposed predilection for killing children – a malignant theme modernized by the Mohammed al-Dura hoax in 2002, when a French television station used edited film to report on Israelis killing an Arab child being shielded by his father during a supposed standoff with the IDF. As shown in court, unedited footage indicated that (a) the scene was staged, (b) Israelis were not shooting in the boy’s direction, and (c) he was neither killed nor injured.

And then there are the myriad stories of supposed civilian massacres by the IDF, which are embraced by unethical journalists only to be quickly refuted – usually without apology. Such was the case with the apocryphal Jenin massacre during the second intifada in 2002, a fraud initially validated by a fawning western media and the UN.

Is there any difference between medieval blood libels inspired by the Church and fabricated claims of Israeli genocide disseminated by today’s useful idiots in the west? Not really. Though times and societies certainly change, antisemitic myths and stereotypes remain constant themes connecting the generations.

And make no mistake, false accusations of genocide do indeed constitute a modern-day blood libel.

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Western Values Will be Tested Again in 2026 and 2028

By John Droz, Jr.

I occasionally repost another author’s column that I believe is consistent with my Critical Thinking objective.

This is a good example from conservative commentator Mike Pfaff who lives in our area of coastal NC and writes a column for our local paper.

The November 2025 elections told us:

  1. Democrat politicians won elections in blue states;
  2. socialism is exactly what younger indoctrinated liberal voters want;
  3. extremism is infecting the Democratic Party;
  4. the Centrist Democrats are losing;
  5. the Democratic Party signals a more profound ideological shift toward wealth redistribution and expansive government programs;
  6. Democratic unity won big across the country;
  7. Republicans beware, it’s about the cost of living, and you only one year before midterms to “Git-R-Done”;
  8. there are now more Muslims in NYC than Jews.

What will be the potential impact of socialist policies on the 2026 elections? Will the socialist train gain momentum in more parts of the country? And what about the significant portion of Americans who consider themselves Independents–will they lean towards radical socialism?

AOC says Mamdani’s election was a victory in a ‘two-front war.’ She says it was a victory over the Republican Party, but, more importantly, over the “old guard” of the Democratic Party. AOC promotes dependency on the government.

AOC is economically illiterate, but may be creating a path to winning the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028. And Bernie Sanders—who started strong in the 2020 nomination in a less radical Democratic Party—is passing the socialist baton to AOC.

Mamdani, an Islamist Socialist, the next mayor of NYC, wants a rent freeze, city-owned grocery stores, supports open borders, higher taxes on “richer and whiter” folks, is anti-Israel, and supports a $30-an-hour minimum wage. He expressed support for seizing the “means of production” by increasing regulations, taxes, mandates, and bureaucratic controls on businesses. He wrote on Twitter, The NYPD is racist, anti-queer, and a significant threat to public safety. Unfortunately, his extreme positions didn’t hurt him at the polls.

Mamdani’s victory has placed the Democrats in a challenging position, compelling them to define their party and potentially chart a new course. His election and the high-profile endorsements he received from within the Democratic ranks have positioned him, in the eyes of many, as a potential leader of his party.

In his victory speech, Mamdani said, “Socialism is a mandate in NYC” and “We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve.”

Socialism is a broad category of economic and political ideologies, while Marxism is a specific, comprehensive theory within the socialism category. Marxism is a particular analysis of capitalism and its downfall, leading to socialism and, eventually, communism, and is distinct from other socialist ideologies, such as Democratic Socialism.

Mamdani often quotes Karl Marx. For Karl Marx, socialism was the road, not the destination. Communism is the end of that road.

The “Angry White Women Leftist,” or what many call the “Karens,” thrust Mamdani’s victory, touting their disrespect for anyone with conservative values.

These women, often well-educated, demonstrate a concerning lack of understanding of the country’s finances. Their alignment with figures like AOC, despite their financial naivety, raises questions about their decision-making abilities.

The Karens of NYC, with their reduced marketable skills, are drawn to the charismatic radical Mamdani’s promises of ‘free stuff’. Their reliance on these promises raises skepticism about their political choices.

Karens, easily swayed by the media, advocate for the use of taxpayer dollars to fund health care for illegal immigrants, gender surgery for minors, and to abolish ICE. They also champion DEI for the inept, showcasing their disdain for Republicans and providing their support for the Democratic chaos in the country.

Karens supported Jay Jones as Virginia’s top law enforcement officer, who publicly fantasized about murdering his opponents and their children, while also saying that if more cops were killed, they would shoot fewer people.

Mamdani’s socialist ideology is not just shaping the Democratic Party’s identity but also posing a significant dilemma. Democratic strategists are grappling with the type of party they want to be: to reject socialism and risk alienating their vocal left wing, or to align with Mamdani’s socialist platform and jeopardize support from traditional Democrats and Independents.

Western values will be tested again in 2026 and 2028. Do Democrats honestly want Socialism that transitions to Communism to define its party nationally? The character and morals of elected officials are a direct reflection of the character and morals of their supporters.

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Democrat Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick INDICTED For Stealing $5 MILLION in FEMA funds

By The Geller Report

Rep Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) indicted for stealing and laundering $5 million in FEMA funds.

The poor American taxpayer has been robbed blind by the Democrat criminnal party.

By Victor Nava, NY Post, Nov. 19, 2025

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) was hit with a federal indictment Wednesday, accusing her of stealing $5 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funds to support her 2021 congressional campaign.

Cherfilus-McCormick, who has been under investigation by the House Ethics Committee since December 2023, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Miami and faces up to 53 years in prison if convicted.

Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick speaks at a news conference, flanked by American and House of Representatives flags.
Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick is accused of stealing $5 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funds to support her 2021 congressional campaign.
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“Using disaster relief funds for self-enrichment is a particularly selfish, cynical crime,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement. “No one is above the law, least of all powerful people who rob taxpayers for personal gain.

“We will follow the facts in this case and deliver justice.”

The Justice Department alleges that Cherfilus-McCormick, 46, and several co-defendants, including her brother, Edwin Cherfilus, 51, “conspired to steal” an overpayment of $5 million in FEMA funds their family health care company received in July 2021 as part of a COVID-19 vaccination staffing contract.

Cherfilus-McCormick and another co-defendant, Nadege Leblanc, 46, further schemed to utilize “straw donors” to contribute the stolen money to the Florida Democrat’s campaign, according to prosecutors.

The congresswoman and her tax preparer, David K. Spencer, 41, are also charged with conspiring to file a false federal tax return for allegedly falsely marking political spending and other personal expenses as business deductions — and inflating Cherfilus-McCormick’s charitable contributions to ease her tax obligations.

“Today’s indictment shows no one is above the law,” US Attorney Jason Reding Quiñones of the Southern District of Florida said in a statement. “This indictment reflects our Office’s commitment to follow the facts, apply the law, and protect the American taxpayer.

“Public money belongs to the American people,” he added. “When FEMA funds are diverted for personal or political gain, it erodes trust and harms us all.”

Cherfilus-McCormick was first elected to serve Florida’s 20th District in Congress in 2022, replacing the late Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.), who died in 2021.

During that campaign, Cherfilus-McCormick aroused suspicion by personally loaning her campaign more than $6 million and then paying herself back to the tune of roughly $2.5 million, Federal Election Commission filings show.

The Florida Division of Emergency Management claimed in a December 2024 lawsuit against the health care company owned by Cherfilus-McCormick’s family — Trinity Healthcare Services – that it overcharged the state by nearly $5.8 million for work done during the pandemic and refused to give the money back.

Cherfilus-McCormick was the CEO of Trinity at the time of the overpayment.

The congresswoman’s office did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.

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Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan, MBS, and More

By Kenneth R. Timmerman

It was a big week for US national interests, and another reminder of what a difference having a strong president makes.

On Wednesday, President Trump gave Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS) the red carpet treatment at the White House, first with a joint press conference, and later with a lavish all-but-state dinner.

The Saudi Crown Prince surprised by speaking English in public for the first time. We learned not only was he a fluent English speaker, but his rapid-fire delivery reminded me of another ADHD Arab leader, Crown Prince Hassan of Jordan, whose head was so full of data he couldn’t get the words out fast enough to lay it all out.

MBS pledged to invest $600 billion in the US — which he upped to $1 trillion during the presser with Trump – and came with an entourage of 1,000 people to handle the details. That’s serious.

And while he disappointed Trump by announcing that Saudi Arabia could not join the Abraham Accords until he saw a clear path to Palestinian statehood, the emphasis was on “path,” not statehood.

The Crown Prince also showed he could handle the US fake news media.

When an ABC News reporter asked him about the murder of Saudi columnist Jamal Kashoggi in October 2018, he didn’t shy away from answering, calling the murder a “mistake” and revealing that his government had investigated it and put in place new safeguards so it couldn’t happen again.

I discussed the absolutely scurrilous US “intelligence” report blaming MBS for the Kashoggi murder on Newsmax’s National Report on Thursday. You can access that video from my twitter feed @KenTimmerman.

On Thursday, the administration leaked the new 28-point Peace Plan for the Russia-Ukraine war, which the anti-Trump media promptly touted as heavily slanted toward Putin’s demands.

I beg to differ.

If you read through it, the Plan contains many strong measures that will not be to Putin’s liking.

Yes, the Plan reduces the size of Ukraine’s army — but to 600,000, down from 800,000 today, but way more than the 50,000-man rump security force Putin has demanded in the past.

Frozen Russian assets will not be returned but allocated to Ukraine’s reconstruction. European fighter jets will be stationed in Poland – way too close for Putin’s comfort. And Ukraine will be allowed to join the European Union.

Putin’s opposition to Ukraine joining the EU is what started the conflict in 2014! So that is definitely not a Putin win.

Okay, so Russia gets all of the Donbas, where fighting is currently underway, and gets to keep Crimea, which it annexed in 2014 after a referendum.

Sure, that is a big Putin win. But does Ukraine really want to continue fighting forever to retain territories where the people are ethnic Russians who hate them?

You can’t occupy hostile territories. Ask the Israelis about that. Or the US Army post 9/11, for that matter.

Ukrainian president Zelenskyy has been talking about a “dignified” peace, and made positive noises about the 28-point plan after the visit on Thursday ti Kyiv of US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll.

Driscoll apparently agreed to change one of the 28 points, which called for an audit of all international aid Ukraine had received, a real howler for the corrupt Ukrainian politicians and military leaders who have been skimming for years.

The Zman got it changed to say that all parties will receive “full amnesty for their actions during the war.”

We should know by Thanksgiving whether this bird will fly, but my guess is that it will. Kudos to all the hard work put in by Steve Witkoff, Marco Rubio, Jared Kushner and Lt. General Keith Kellogg for getting us to this point.

I discuss these subjects, as well as the difficulties in getting Arab soldiers to disarm Hamas and Turkish president Erdogan’s increasingly anti-Israel zealotry, in this week’s Prophecy Today Weekend.

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PRESTIGIOUS NYC OFFICE: Ruling the Rat Kingdom

By Beverly Newman, Ed. D.

An estimated 3 million rats live in New York ….How many are registered socialists?

“Two rats in a given year can reproduce 15,000 descendants,” New York City Councilmember Shaun.

“You were walking in the street rather than walking in the sidewalks because the rats owned the sidewalks.” — Nicole Rosenthal

NYC residents demand new ‘rat czar’ when Mamdani takes office: ‘Rats owned the sidewalks’

By Nicole Rosenthal

Rats, not again!

A coalition of rattl-ed Brooklynites living on notoriously rodent-infested blocks are pleading with Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to bring in a new rat czar – after their calls for the city to renew the fight against the filthy creatures allegedly fell on deaf ears.

The pair of Prospect Heights resident groups penned a letter Friday to Mamdani, urging him to reinstate the City Hall rat-fighting position, which was dissolved in September when former Rat Czar Kathleen Corradi quietly traded the role for a leadership position at NYCHA.

Carol Morrison, of the City Council member-created District 35 Rat Task Force, told The Post she is “concerned” there is no longer a point-person to resolve rodent swarms plaguing local playgrounds and backyards.

“There is no real connection between these [city] agencies, and when you have neglect … you need to have somebody on the ground,” Morrison told The Post.

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NYC’s Central Park playground overrun by brazen rats who even raid baby carriages: parents

By Georgia Worrell

Central Park is turning into a squeak show.

New York City is losing the rat war in the iconic green space — where the vermin are so brazen, they routinely raid baby strollers for snacks at a besieged playground for toddlers, The Post found.

And after the rotating posse of at least a dozen “guinea pig” sized rats is done ransacking strollers at Tarr-Coyne Tots Playground at West 67th Street, some will defiantly frolic by the jungle gym near young kids, disgusted parents told The Post.

“Every single day that I go to play with my son, there will be one, two, three [rats], scurrying around and even jumping up in an area where our kids are eating their snacks. They have no shame,” said Upper West Side mom of a 3-year-old son, Amy Meyers.

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THE REAL CEASEFIRE: “Peace, peace, when there is no peace.”

By Beverly Newman, Ed. D.

What does “peace, peace, when there is no peace” mean in Jeremiah 8:11.

It means believing promised words over actual events, deaths, horrific injuries, years of surgeries, Post Traumatic Stress Disorders, relentless brutal attacks on civilians, deadly ambushes anytime and anywhere, …. It means no choice other than total victory, as Divinely decreed.

WATCH: Terror at Gush Etzion: Two Knife-Wielding Attackers Neutralized After Ramming and Stabbing Spree

Palestinian terrorists kill one, wound three in ramming, stabbing attack at Gush Etzion junction

Kiryat Arba resident Aharon Cohen, 70, was killed in the attack. Cohen, a widower, leaves behind six children and several grandchildren.

By YANIR YAGNA, DARCIE GRUNBLATT

Kiryat Arba resident Aharon Cohen, 70, was killed, and three others were wounded in a ramming and stabbing attack at the Gush Etzion junction on Tuesday.

One woman in her 40s was severely wounded, and two others, a 30-year-old and a 15-year-old, were moderately wounded in the attack.

Cohen, a widower, leaves behind six children and many grandchildren.

Two terrorists arrived in a vehicle at the junction, drove into the civilians standing nearby, then exited the vehicle and attempted to stab them.

They were killed by reservists who happened to be in the area. The terrorists were identified as Ibrahim Imran al-Atrash, 18, from Hebron, and Walid Muhammad Khalil Sabarneh, 18, from Beit Umar, according to the Palestinian Authority’s Health Ministry.

Palestinian Islamic Jihad took credit for the attack and congratulated the terrorists in a social media post. They also called on Palestinians to escalate their attacks against Israelis.

The three terror victims were evacuated by medical personnel to Shaare Zedek Medical Center and Hadassah-University Medical Center in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem for treatment.

The military cordoned off Palestinian towns in the area of the attack and set up roadblocks.

A ‘serious and complex incident’

“When we arrived at the scene, we identified that this was a serious and complex incident,” MDA paramedic Uriel Lavi said.

“We located several injured individuals suffering from penetrating wounds. We provided them with initial medical treatment on-site, and after stabilizing their condition, we evacuated them for further treatment at the hospital.”

Highway 60 was reopened to traffic approximately three hours after the attack took place.

“Security forces arrived very quickly at the scene,” Gush Etzion spokesperson Akiva Speigelman said. “The terrorists were neutralized quickly, thanks to the initiative of those at the station.”

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett called the attack “Oslo on steroids.”

“Any government that, after the most horrific massacre in the country’s history, awards the enemy a Palestinian state, bears responsibility for reigniting terrorism against Jews. We will fix it soon,” he promised.

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Chile Swerves Right in Sunday’s Election: Wins Historic Majority in Parliament

By Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.)

Chile joins Bolivia in making a pivot away from leftist government.

Argentina, as well, has recently re-affirmed their embrace of free market economics with Milei in their recent midterm victory.

Wall Street Journal: Chileans rallied behind hard-line conservatives in elections Sunday as rising anger over crime and immigration pushes the mineral-rich country to the right, setting the stage for a possible alignment with President Trump. In the first round of a presidential vote, some 70% of voters backed the four leading right-wing candidates. José Antonio Kast, a 59-year-old ultraconservative former congressman, secured 24% of the vote, earning a spot in the Dec. 14 runoff vote.

Reuters: “Chile’s traditional parties are in crisis,” said Guillermo Holzmann, a political analyst from the University of Valparaiso. “Their votes have dropped and new leaders have emerged, like Parisi, like Kast.” Kast is favored to beat front-runner Jeannette Jara, the leftist government’s coalition candidate from the Communist Party, in a runoff on December 14 after no candidate reached the majority needed to win the race on Sunday.

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Judge Rules Mom Is TOO Christian to Be a Parent

By Majority Report

Maine judge even bans daughter from church. This isn’t parody — it’s America 2025.

If The Babylon Bee published this headline —“Judge Rules Mom Is TOO Christian to Be a Parent” —you’d laugh, shake your head, and say, “Alright, Bee… take it down a notch.”

Because satire isn’t supposed to be so outrageous that it looks written by a toddler.

Satire, in its purist form, is meant to push reality’s edge just far enough for the truth to slam the head like a hammer — and maybe add a good laugh in the process.

It’s getting hard to tell the difference between satire and news anymore.

Something has shifted in America when the most outrageous, excessive, over-the-top Babylon Bee headline suddenly becomes… the actual story.

And that’s exactly what happened in Maine.

A judge actually ruled that a mother is fit to be a parent, except she’s Christian.

Yes. That sentence is real.

And we’ve officially entered the era where parody has been overtaken by raw lunacy.

What do you even do with a statement like that?

Frame it?

Or ship it straight to The Babylon Bee so they can ask, “Why are you stealing our material?”

I’ll tell you what it does:

It collapses the wall between satire and reality.

Because this judge didn’t just attack Christianity.

He went full scorched earth.

The mother in this case, Emily, is raising her daughter, Ava, normally — school, home, church, friends — with zero accusations of harm or instability.

The father, Matt, however, hates Christianity, hates the Calvary Chapel church she attends, and hates the idea of his daughter being baptized.

So, he found the perfect ideological cocktail:

Find an activist judge + a Marxist professor flown in from California to declare Calvary Chapel a “cult.”

And from there, the judge dropped a ruling that looks less like family law and more like the script of a bad dystopian comic book.

The Court Order Reads Like a Satirical Checklist — Except It’s Real

Here’s what the girl, Ava, was banned from doing:

  • No attending her church.
  • No associating with church friends.
  • No Christmas.
  • No Easter.
  • No weddings or funerals if they involve Christianity.
  • No hospital visits from her church friends.
  • No Bible.
  • No religious literature.
  • No volunteering with Christian charities — including Salvation Army.

This is not a joke headline. It’s not a joke court case. And it’s not a Babylon Bee article.

This is an American court order issued by an American judge, in the year of our Lord 2025, in a country with a First Amendment.

America’s judiciary should say, “This judge shouldn’t have a robe, shouldn’t have a gavel, and shouldn’t be anywhere near another judge — or a courtroom.”

And if you’re the attorneys defending the mother in this case — as Liberty Counsel was — you’ve got to be looking at this case and thinking:

“This will be a slam-dunk win. Open-and-shut. No jury needed. Just hand us the trophy.”

But, not so fast. We’re living in a moment where cultural insanity is moving faster than comedians can mock it.

For years, Christians joked that anti-faith hatred would one day ban Christmas as “trauma-inducing” or label the Bible a “psychological harm.”

Now a judge has done exactly that — in writing — and the father is arguing that the state should have the power to purge his daughter of Christianity if that faith can possibly cause “anxiety.”

My goodness.

If a single moment captures the spiritual crisis of our nation, it’s this:

We’re living in a time when parody looks sane and the real world looks fictional.

Here’s the terrifying legal precedent being tested in Maine:

Can a judge violate your constitutional rights if your faith makes someone “uncomfortable”?

If the answer is yes:

  • You can lose your child for taking them to church.
  • You can be declared an “unfit” parent for believing Scripture.
  • Your parenting decisions can be overridden if your faith is labeled “psychological risk.”

This is not just a Maine problem.

This is a national warning flare.

Whatever happens in this ruling will echo through courtrooms across America.

And what began sounding like parody will end as policy.

At this point, the only difference between The Babylon Bee and the Maine trial court is this:

The Bee is still trying to be funny.

The courts aren’t.

The Bee writes jokes.

The courts write orders.

And right now, the orders are more absurd than the jokes.

We’ve entered the era where satire is no longer prophetic. Reality has overtaken it.

This case is a signpost — a loud, blaring trumpet — that the country is crossing a line we were never meant to cross:

If one judge can ban a child from her faith, then another judge can ban your child from yours.

And if the courts don’t stop this now, America will wake up one day and discover that the First Amendment is simply a museum exhibit.

We’ve reached the moment when the absurd becomes the authoritarian.

This Maine courtroom isn’t an outlier.

It’s a preview.

If one judge can outlaw a child’s baptism, ban her from church, and erase Christmas because “Christianity causes anxiety,” then tomorrow another judge will do it to your daughter, your son, your grandkids.

The First Amendment isn’t dying of old age.

It’s being murdered in broad daylight by black-robed activists who think the Bible is child abuse.

Silence now is surrender. Scream. Share. Pray like hell is real—because it is.

And stand with the warriors who are fighting this insanity in courtrooms across America.

Emily and Ava need you.

The Church needs you.

The Republic needs you.

Because if we lose this case, the next headline won’t be satire.

It’ll be your family’s name.

Rise up—before the gavel falls on all of us.

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Democrats’ Epstein Gamble Backfires as New Document Release Expose Their Own Ties

By Oladigbo Oluwasogo Olalekan

For years, Democrats and their allies in the corporate media have seized on every opportunity to embarrass, undermine, or politically wound President Donald J. Trump. From the Russia collusion hoax — a narrative that collapsed under scrutiny — to the endless stream of negative coverage, the liberal media establishment has never hidden its bitterness over Trump’s resilience and historic comeback.

Now, they appear ready to weaponize the Jeffrey Epstein case in the same way they used the Russia narrative during Trump’s first term. For months, Democrats were agitating for the release of the remaining Epstein files, convinced that doing so would deliver a blow to Trump. The media echoed this drumbeat, framing the release as yet another opportunity to tarnish his image.

But the tables have turned.

With President Trump committed to full transparency — and with both the House and Senate having approved the release of the documents — the political winds have shifted dramatically. The emerging evidence suggests that Democrats may be far more entangled in the Epstein sphere than they expected. If there were anything in those files that could incriminate Trump, President Joe Biden’s Justice Department would have weaponized it long ago, especially during the peak of the election season when Democrats were desperate to boost Vice President Kamala Harris.

Instead, what we are seeing is deeply uncomfortable for the left.

Newly released documents reveal that during Michael Cohen’s February 2019 House Oversight testimony, Democrat Del. Stacey Plaskett exchanged messages with Epstein before, during, and after her questioning. Epstein coached her on what to ask — even instructing her to focus on Trump’s longtime assistant, Rhona Graff. When she finished, he texted back: “Good work.”

This alone should alarm anyone concerned about foreign influence, undue pressure, or shadowy connections in congressional proceedings.

Additionally, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is now facing scrutiny after a 2013 email surfaced in which Jeffrey Epstein was invited to a Democratic dinner — raising questions about whether Jeffries sought political or financial support from Epstein.

These revelations undercut the narrative that Democrats tried to build. Instead of harming Trump, the truth appears to be swinging the spotlight squarely back onto the Democratic establishment.

The fear inside Democratic circles is obvious. They set out to weaponize the Epstein case against Trump, but now the blowback threatens to engulf their own ranks. If this political gamble ultimately exposes hypocrisy, hidden alliances, and quiet favors, Democrats may come to regret ever turning this into a Trump-centered spectacle.

And when all is said and done, I firmly believe President Trump should consider legal action against news networks and individuals who recklessly labeled him a “pedophile” in an attempt to smear his character. Free speech does not cover deliberate defamation. Actions must have consequences.

In the end, the truth is catching up — and it is not falling on Trump.

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The Antichrist Doesn’t Want You to See the Scaffolding

By Majority Report

“Nothing to see here,” says the two-horned trickster. 

The most dangerous enemy is the one you ignore.

I was reminded of that recently while watching a YouTube sermon from a well-known megachurch.

The pastor was anxiously warning his congregation about the subtle dangers of artificial intelligence — its ability to impersonate your voice, manipulate your emotions, and fabricate entire realities out of digital air.

Amen, I thought.

This is exactly the right message for the moment—exposing the Antichrist’s scaffolding. I was pumped.

But then someone dropped a YouTube comment that could have been forged in the fires of hell itself — a comment that instantly ignited an argument:

“Churches need to stop talking about the Devil and focus on Christ.”

And I could almost hear Satan saying his own,

“Amen.”

Because this is his age-old strategy.
His favorite camouflage.
His masterpiece of misdirection.

Erect the scaffolding…
keep it in plain sight…
and hope Christians fawn over the pillars and wet cement while whispering polite, harmless speculations about what’s being built.

Some Christians honestly believe the mission of the church is to ignore the Devil.
To pretend that spiritual warfare is too negative.
Too divisive.
Too “Old Testament.”

But here’s a question every believer needs to confront:

What commander marches onto a battlefield without analyzing the enemy?

No general says,
“Let’s focus only on our troops. Let’s ignore the opposing army.”
No strategist says,
“Ignore the enemy’s supply lines, weapons, tactics, and objectives.”

But that’s exactly what Satan wants from the Church.
He wants a blind, cheerful, smiling army walking into an ambush.

He wants Christians who only study Christ’s beauty — but never Satan’s strategy.
He wants churches that preach comfort — but never confrontation.
He wants sermons about hope — but never warnings.

Because a church that refuses to analyze the enemy — choosing Beetle Bailey naps over battlefield intelligence — is a church that has already surrendered.

That brings us to the sentence at the heart of this entire moment:

“The Antichrist wants a world where Christians don’t notice the scaffolding going up around them.”

Scaffolding is the perfect metaphor.
It’s quiet.
It’s easy to ignore.
It’s “temporary,” so nobody takes it seriously.
It looks harmless, even purposeful.

But scaffolding is what goes up before a major construction project begins.

And make no mistake — something global is being built.

Digital ID systems in Europe and Australia.
Censorship regimes disguised as “safety.”
AI-driven surveillance with moral scoring systems.
Schools discipling children into a world where God is optional and government is absolute.
A worldwide push for “uniform values” that don’t look uniform at all — they look anti-Christian.

This isn’t chaos.
It’s construction.

And Satan’s banking on one thing:
Christians won’t look up.

It sounds spiritual.
It sounds wholesome.
It sounds like good doctrine.

But the same Bible that says “fix your eyes on Jesus” also says:

  • “Be sober, be vigilant” (1 Peter 5:8)
  • “Do not be ignorant of Satan’s schemes” (2 Cor. 2:11)
  • “Put on the full armor of God” (Ephesians 6:11)

You don’t put on armor unless a battle is underway.
You don’t stay vigilant unless an enemy is nearby.
You don’t study schemes unless someone is scheming.

Satan knows Scripture as well as any seminary professor.
He knows the commands.
He knows the warnings.

He knows the Bible instructs Christians to analyze his strategies.

So he created a deception tailor-made for the modern church:

“Talking about me is unspiritual.”

He loves that one.
He thrives on it.
He built an empire on it.

Because if the Church never names the enemy,
never studies the enemy,
never exposes the enemy,
never warns about the enemy—

Then the enemy gets to build his scaffolding in peace.

Technology is advancing faster than morality.
Governments are growing bigger than accountability.
Corporations are more powerful than borders.

And AI…
AI is rewriting the very concept of truth.

Not because it’s evil in itself,
but because evil is thrilled to use it.

And yet the average Christian is told:

“Stop talking about Satan. That’s fearmongering.”
“Stop talking about deception. That’s negative.”
“Stop talking about prophecy. That’s fringe stuff.”

Perfect.
Exactly what Satan wants.
Exactly what the Antichrist requires.

A distracted Church.
A comfortable Church.
A Church that refuses to name the rising system for what it is.

There’s a verse in Scripture that should make every believer stop, breathe, and pay attention.
Jesus Himself said that in the last days, “even the elect could be deceived” if He did not return and intervene.

Pause on that.

Not the lukewarm.
Not the fringe.
Not the skeptics.
But the elect!

The faithful.
The devoted.
The ones who love Jesus.
The ones who know Scripture.
The ones sitting in the pews every Sunday.

If they are vulnerable…
if they can be deceived…
Then deception must be unimaginably powerful.

And here is the part the modern Church does not want to face:

The elect are deceived precisely because they never recognized the scaffolding being built around them.

Not because they were weak.
Not because they were rebellious.
But because the deception was engineered — weaponized — to blend in.

And never in human history has deception been more technologically advanced than it is right now.

Today, deception is no longer a whisper from a serpent or a false teacher behind a pulpit.
It’s industrial-grade.
Digital.
Global.
Instant.

It comes through:

AI deepfakes that can mimic a trusted voice or create a false event.
Scams that exploit innocence, fear, and urgency — targeting both the elderly and children.
News media that manufactures narratives instead of reporting truth.
Politicians who lie with such precision that truth becomes unrecognizable.
Hollywood storytellers who moralize evil, normalize rebellion, and glamorize spiritual darkness.

This is deception with a budget.
With servers.
With algorithms.
With psychological research.
With global reach.

And Satan knows exactly what he’s doing.

If he can fool the elect — the strongest believers —
Then he can certainly fool the distracted, the careless, and the apathetic.

The scaffolding is deception.
The structure is control.
And the victims are the very people who believe they are immune to deception.

The Real Danger: Christian Blindness in the Most Prophetic Era Since the Early Church

We are living in the most biblically charged moment since the first century — and yet many Christians are spiritually asleep.

They see digital ID and say, “Convenience.”
They see censorship powers and say, “Safety.”
They see AI impersonation and say, “Cool tech.”
They see global governance and say, “Efficiency.”

They see scaffolding.
But they never imagine what’s coming next.

The Antichrist isn’t waiting for permission.
He’s waiting for blindness.

He doesn’t need to overpower the Church.
He just needs us to believe studying him is unholy.

He doesn’t need to hide —
Just convince Christians it’s tacky to look.

But not you.
Not now.

You see the scaffolding.
You recognize the design.
And you understand the strategy.

And that is exactly where awakening begins.

AUTHOR

Martin Mawyer

Martin Mawyer is the President of Christian Action Network, host of the “Shout Out Patriots” podcast, and author of When Evil Stops Hiding. Subscribe for more action alerts, cultural commentary, and real-world campaigns defending faith, family, and freedom.

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