New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill has now entered a surreal stage. The Washington Examiner has reported that there is Chinese Communist Party Link to Mikie Sherrill in the race for Governor of New Jersey.
Pin Ni, An Automobile Executive Is Apparently A Member Of The Chinese Communist Party. According to reporting by the Washington Examiner, Pin Ni has donated about $45,000 to Sherrill. Pin reportedly has made contributions to Sherrill throughout her elective office career in Congress and now running for Governor of New Jersey.
The Contributions to Sherrill Include: A $30,000 check to a Super Political Action Committee that supports Sherrill’s campaign for Governor of New Jersey.
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There is a surprisingly wide-range of possible reasons.
Sometimes there are very important things that we simply do not give sufficient Critical Thought to. My belief is that the grades our children are given in K-12 is one of them.
Let’s say that you have this choice: do you want your child’s grades in K-12 (e.g., 8th grade average) to be “C” or “A”? I suspect that you’re thinking this is a dumb question, as you obviously are going to say “A”.
OK, you say “A” — but WHY? It seems to me that the possible answers reveal some interesting reasons that we don’t give much thought to… On reflection, your child getting an “A” average for some K-12 year might indicate:
Reason #1: That they got this grade by using AI, or some other form of cheating (which is widespread), mostly to placate inattentive parents. If so, their grade has little correlation to their competence.
Reason #2: That the teacher is practicing grade inflation, again mostly to placate inattentive parents. That also means that their grade has little (if any) correlation to their understanding of the subjects’ materials.
[Note 1: Another variation of this is when a teacher purposefully asks easy questions on tests, assuring that more students will score well.]
[Note 2: Contrary to what may appear intuitive, students not only prefer a tougher grading teacher, they also learn more (e.g., see this study).]
Reason #3: That they had familiarity with test questions given. This is also known as teachers’ teaching to the test. That means that your child has the ability to regurgitate back what they are told, and is NOT an indication of comprehension.
Reason #4: That they have a better grasp of these subject materials compared to their classmates (e.g., they got an “A” based on teachers grading on a curve). The value of that depends on the quality of their peers.
Reason #5: That they are motivated to do well, so theypay closer attention to the subject areas. That means that even though they may not have natural talent, if they apply themselves, they can do well. This is a good sign that portends future success in areas they commit to.
Reason #6: That they have superior intellectual competence. This usually means that they are a Critical Thinker. If so, that indicates that they will be more successful in a broad spectrum of life’s aspects (e.g., see here).
When a child gets an “A” in K-12, the parents typically default to assuming that it is due to reasons #5 or #6. The other possible scenarios are rarely seriously considered as possibilities.
Of course, K-12 schools are well aware of this proclivity, so that they have no qualms about giving students an “A” due to any of the reasons from #2 to #4.
If K-12 public schools contributing to inaccurate grades wasn’t bad enough (it is) the reality is that US K-12 schools: a) do not have Critical Thinking as a stated primary objective, b) do not formally teach Critical Thinking in any K-12 subject area [especially Science], andc) are actually teaching the opposite of Critical Thinking (conformity: see here).
Parents should want to know for sure which reason their child gets a good grade. But how do they know which one is the actual cause? One way is by simply observing whether their child is a Critical Thinker. If the answer is YES, then either #5 or #6 is MUCH more likely.
If the answer is NO and they are genuinely interested in the success of their child, they should take proactive steps to fix that major deficiency, which will soon turn into a lifelong crippling burden.
What can they do? Depending on the age of their child, some options are: a) speak to their child’s Science teacher about them teaching Critical Thinking, b) investigate alternative schools, c) consider home schooling, etc.
NB: My next Substack commentary will discuss the matter of grades further…
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Laurie Cardoza-Moore, a Zionist Evangelical activist, called on Vice President JD Vance to denounce Tucker Carlson for promoting antisemitism and misrepresenting Christian values.
She criticized Carlson and others for claiming to speak for Christians without understanding the Bible, emphasizing the need to defend America’s Judeo-Christian roots and stand with Israel.
Laurie has been my friend for many years – two strong women from two separate worlds that converge in Israel and in the love and awe of The Almighty. It is Laurie and her husband, brilliant filmmaker, Stan Moore, who brought my Dad’s tragic and heroic life story to life on the screen, which feature movie has won 30 international film awards across the globe!
These are people who live and breathe Israel and The Creator. If our world were filled with such love, our children would be joyful to be alive rather than fearful to play outdoors, glued to inanimate screens, distrusting of adults, and saddened by inexplicable realities harming young lives every day.
Their lives are the polar opposites of those whose voices are raised to denounce Israel and the Holy Word that praises it. Persons of fame and fortune can choose to use their blessings as instruments against The Almighty or in His service. We choose and will find out …
Evangelical Christian leader Laurie Cardoza-Moore: Christians who don’t support Israel will receive a harsh judgment from God
Christians who don’t support Israel will receive a harsh judgment from God, according to evangelical Christian leader Laurie Cardoza-Moore.
The head of Proclaiming Justice to the Nations told the ILTV News Podcast that in Genesis 12:3, God says He will bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel. She explained that those who ignore this mandate “are bringing a curse upon their own head, but they’re also subjecting our country to the curse because they are failing to present the biblical message, the biblical story, the biblical reason as to why we stand with Israel. I mean, it’s those Judeo Christian values our nation was founded upon.”
An American Christian who has spent much of her career fighting antisemitism, Cardoza-Moore recently made headlines for a row with media personality Tucker Carlson. She accused him of antisemitism and said he does not belong in the White House because his values do not reflect those of the American administration.
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Democratic Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy said Thursday his party’s “brand” could undergo “substantial damage” if Democrats were to cave and reopen the federal government following their overwhelming election victories Tuesday night.
“There will be some pretty substantial damage done to a Democratic brand that has been rehabilitated, if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop fighting,” Murphy told Punchbowl News on Thursday morning. “We’re going to start operating on an increasingly short calendar. The 2026 election is just 12 months away. And if we surrender without having gotten anything, and we cause a lot of folks in this country who had started to believe in the Democratic Party to retreat again, I worry that it will be hard to sort of get them back up off the mat in time for next fall’s election cycle.”
Murphy alluded to Democratic victories in California, Virginia, New Jersey and New York, and suggested voters’ support for his party also validates Democrats’ shutdown strategy. The senator’s comments come as moderate Democrats continue shutdown talks, and millions of Americans feel the impacts of the frozen government reach their wallets, kitchens and airports.
Republicans’ latest shutdown offer includes advancing a package of three full year spending bills and a willingness to discuss the rehiring of federal workers that were laid off during the shutdown. It reportedly does not address the expiring Obamacare subsidies, according to Politico.
The ongoing negotiations have caused some Democratic lawmakers to shun the idea of reopening the government without securing an extension of the enhanced Obamacare subsidies that both the House Speaker Mike Johnson and President Donald Trump agree to.
Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who caucuses with Democrats, told reporters Wednesday it would be “devastating” to the party if Democrats caved on the heels of the election and reopened the government for a “meaningless” subsidy extension vote.
“I think all over this country people are saying, ‘Please Democrats, you haven’t been strong in the past. Stand tall now, protect us,’” Sanders told reporters Wednesday. “The Democrats now are winning because they’re standing with working people. So, to answer your question, if they cave now and go forward with a meaningless vote, I think it will be a horrible policy decision, and I think politically, it will be devastating to Democrats.”
Others in the party, however, don’t see a connection between the election and the shutdown, and rather view the election as a wake up call for lawmakers to focus on the economy and affordability.
Democratic Maryland Sen. Angela Alsobrooks told the Daily Caller News Foundation “the two have nothing to do with each other.”
“We’ve not seen the cost of groceries come down and I think the American people want us focused on them and their kitchen table issues,” Alsobrooks said Wednesday. “I think whether we have this shutdown or not, we have to address the cost of healthcare and the cost of affordability for America.”
Still, the shutdown and its repercussions ensue.
The Department of Transportation on Thursdayannouncedreductions in flight schedules across 40 airports nationwide on Friday if the shutdown ensues, and air traffic controllers aremissingtheir second paycheck this week as they turn to second jobs — such as delivering food for DoorDash or driving for Uber — in order to make ends meet.
The Trump administration has already moved to usetariffrevenue to cover lapsed funds for the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), and has recently moved to provide half of the funding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will need for the month of November.
The shutdown is also affecting Americans’ home energy bills. The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program is set to run out offundingat the end of the week, crippling a major safety net which helps households manage energy costs.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune told the DCNF Wednesday that “nobody wins in a shutdown” and it would be a mistake for Democrats to prolong it.
“Continuing a government shutdown just because they had some good election outcomes seems like a really bad rationale to extend what is already the longest shutdown in history,” Thune said during a sit-down interview in his leadership office. “We can talk about politically who’s getting blamed, who isn’t getting blamed, but in the end nobody wins, and least of all the American people.”
Murphy’s office did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.
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New York City Fire Commissioner Robert Tucker resigned on Wednesday, hours after Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the mayoral election, citing irreconcilable differences with Mamdani’s positions on Israel and Palestine. Tucker, a Jewish leader with a security firm operating in Israel, will leave his post effective December 19, becoming the first major change in the incoming administration.
He’s Jewish. He knows what’s coming.
Sources say Tucker’s departure was driven by deep concern over Mamdani’s anti-semitic ecord and refusal to condemn calls to “globalize the intifada.”
Tucker’s resignation marks the first high-profile exit under the new mayor-elect and a warning sign for Jewish New Yorkers about what’s coming next.
Robert Tucker is the city’s 35th Fire Commissioner—for whom this position was his “lifelong dream” (NYC).
On the morning after the Mamdani win, he tendered his resignation.
Fox News: In a statement, Tucker said he will remain on the job until Dec. 19, allowing the department to have “an orderly transition.” Mamdani is set to be sworn in on Jan. 1, 2026. “It has been the honor of a lifetime to serve as the 35th New York City Fire Commissioner,” Tucker said. “Thank you to Mayor Adams for his trust and confidence in doing this job. We empowered the brave men and women who keep our city safe, bringing fire-related deaths to a historic low.” “Commissioner Robert Tucker has led the Fire Department of the City of New York with courage, passion, and a sincere dedication to public safety,” Adams said. “When I appointed Commissioner Tucker to this critical role, I knew he’d have the experience, grit, and zeal to protect our city and support our fearless heroes – the firefighters, emergency medical technicians, and paramedics who put their lives on the line for New York every day” (Fox News).
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Islamic supremacists pushing Sharia law have infiltrated America at every level of society. The latest involves Islamic schools in South Florida which have been using taxpayer funds. “School vouchers row: Islamic leaders hit back at ‘Sharia law’ claim,” by Natalie La Roche Pietri, WLRN, November 5, 2025:
Islamic leaders in South Florida have pushed back against Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier’s claims that tax-payer funded vouchers for private Islamic schools violate Florida law and pose a national security threat.
Writing on social media recently, Uthmeier said, “Sharia law seeks to destroy and supplant the pillars of our republican form of government and is incompatible with the Western tradition.”
Others in the all-Republican Florida cabinet, including Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia and Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson, joined Uthmeier in questioning the legality of public dollars going to Islamic private schools.
The criticism came after it emerged a couple of Tampa-area Muslim schools accept voucher money.
Hifz Academy and Bayaan Academy have brought in $15,700,000 and $2,668,000, respectively, in voucher funds over the past decade, according to reporting by the Florida Phoenix.
Neither of the schools name Sharia law on their websites. WLRN has reached out for comment.
Sharia law is Islam’s moral code as outlined in the Quran. It guides worship practices, personal behavior and family principle, as well as some legal code integrated in Muslim-majority countries.
Azhar Subedar, the development director of the South Florida Muslim Federation, told WLRN the political focus onSharia law is often misguided and misunderstood. It’s not an extremist system, he said, it’s to “teach us to be the best versions of humans that we can be for ourselves, thereby being better citizens.”…
There is only one way to verify Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier’s claim: surveillance. Islamic schools, as well as mosques, operating on American soil should be monitored for the teaching of any doctrine that is a threat to America’s constitution. Sharia law is considered to be divine law in Islam, and it is incompatible with American law; in fact, it is incompatible with the laws of all Western free societies. So the question of what is being taught in Islamic schools in South Florida that have been taxpayer funded via vouchers should be investigated.
Only an investigation can uncover truths. But Islamic supremacists are infamous for silencing critics and resisting investigations. They do it by screaming “Islamophobia” — a routine stratagem.
Note the deceptive Azhar Subedar, the development director of the South Florida Muslim Federation. He lies by omission, leaving out all mention of the violent tenets of Islam, and those verses of the Qur’an which are damaging to women and anti-Jewish. A broad investigation would turn up a great deal.
Two words that the worst Islamic deceivers often employ are “misunderstanding” and “misinterpretation,” when texts are in plain black and white.
Merely a few examples from the Quran and Hadith:
“The Prophet married her when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old. Hisham said: I have been informed that `Aisha remained with the Prophet for nine years (i.e. till his death).” (Al-Bukhari 5134)
And tell the believing women to lower their gaze and be modest, and to display of their adornment only what is apparent, and to draw their veils over their bosoms, and not to reveal their adornment except to their own husbands or fathers or husbands’ fathers, or their sons or their husbands’ sons, or their brothers or their brothers’ sons or sisters’ sons, or their women, or their slaves, or male attendants who lack desire, or children who know nothing of women’s nakedness. And do not let them stamp their feet so as to reveal what they hide of their adornment. And turn to Allah together, O believers, so that you may succeed. (Quran 24:31)
If a woman does not cover, she is fair game to be assaulted:
“O prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their veils close around them. That will be better, so that they may be recognized and not molested. Allah is always forgiving, merciful.” (Quran 33:59)
“Let those who sell the life of this world for the next fight in the way of Allah. Whoever fights in the way of Allah, whether he is killed or victorious, on him we will bestow a great reward.” (Quran 4:74)
“When your Lord inspired the angels, I am with you. So make those who believe stand firm. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Then strike the necks and strike their fingertips.” (Quran 8:12)
A man asks Muhammad “which of men is the best?” Muhammad replies that it is the man who is always ready for battle and flies into it “seeking death at places where it can be expected.” (Sahih Muslim 20:4655)
In the words of Muhammad: “I would love to be martyred in Allah’s Cause and then get resurrected and then get martyred, and then get resurrected again and then get martyred and then get resurrected again and then get martyred.” (Sahih al-Bukhari 2797)
“Indeed, Allah has bought from the believers their lives and their wealth, because the garden will be theirs, they will fight in the way of Allah and will kill and be killed. It is a promise that is binding on him in the Torah and the Gospel and the Qur’an. Who fulfills his covenant better than Allah? Rejoice then in your bargain that you have made, for that is the supreme triumph.” (Quran 9:111)
Do these verses make Muslims “best versions of humans” and “better citizens” (of America), as Azhar Subedar claims? or is he talking strictly in terms of Sharia law?
2. In New York, the state can endorse the same candidate, so some can appear multiple times, like Mamdani in these elections.
3. Ballots list major party candidates first and posted Cuomo on X on the very bottom of the page, with zero context, which makes people think there is fraud or cheating.
4. New York’s ballots list candidates by party line, not by personal ego. That’s not corruption, it’s DESIGN.
5. Signature verification replaces voter ID for a reason: to protect access, not privilege. And fairness will always appear chaotic to those who expect control.
Following are Israeli investigations of fraud in 2020 election by the Democratic Party, described in a video (below) and followed by a summary:
Amir Tsarfati investigated the following and also used an investigation of an Israeli journalist who investigated it.
The following are Israeli investigations about lots of unconstitutional activities of the Democratic Party and the US Supreme Court in the 2020 US elections, described in this video, followed by a summary of key things:
Democrats created a system to appeal to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and made it easier to change the criteria, where every single envelope would be counted, which allowed them to count ballots sent after election day, by people who left the state, without ID and without a signature on them, ballots of dead people, and ballots without a name.
Dems prepared before a huge bank of DEAD people and kept them in a separate room.
When the real results started coming in from Florida and Texas and they realized Trump had a big lead on Biden of hundreds of thousands of real votes, they realized they were in real trouble and moved in all the fraudulent ballot votes and even started to create fake ballots on the spot, in the counting room.
They released bulks of ballots that were 100% Biden, they started using the engineered fake ballots from the other room and from trucks that started to download TENs of MILLIONS of fake ballot envelopes-
This happened at 4 AM, and the Republican observers were asked to leave the room We have a testimony of a woman on it, from that counting room, who said:
“At 4:00 AM, vans started coming in. Ferrari came in and boxes were unloaded and immediately rushed into the counting room. This is when the Republican observers were literally kicked out of the room”.
The governor and Secretary of Pennsylvania said to all their operatives, “Whatever it takes, Trump cannot win this state” and the head of the postal service (all three were Democrats) instructed all his people that any envelope would be counted, even if it was sent after election day (all the above were unconstitutional acts).
In October 2020, the U.S. Chief Justice made an unconstitutional decision by allowing the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to bypass the legislature and take those illegal actions.
Beforehand, they appealed to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to ease the regulations and allow to count even ballots without a stamp, with no ID or signature, with nothing.
In this case, the Chief Justice of the USA made an unconstitutional decision by allowing the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (with a Democratic majority) to do those without going to the legislature in Pennsylvania.
In this case, the USA Supreme Court, in a very odd manner, did not give opinions and explanations. This unconstitutional US Supreme Court created unconstitutional election orders and executive orders.
Dems allow counting ballots three days after election day.
Thousands of people in Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, and Pennsylvania who do not exist or do not live there voted.
They released batches of ballots that were 100% Biden, by using these banks of illegal ballots on Nov 4, it basically made the voting of the 2020 elections not important: 100 MILLION Americans already SUPPOSEDLY VOTED with the illegal ballots.
We caught them on camera for the following:
At 4 AM in the morning, Boxes were entered from coming-in trucks and it was moved to the counting room immediately (caught on cameras). They threw away ballots for TRUMP after they already separated them ahead of time (they were not allowed to do that). It was a huge blue wave and not a red wave
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Representative: Brandon Gill: “I just filed Articles of Impeachment against radical activist Judge James Boasberg.
Judge Boasberg abused his power by weaponizing the judiciary against critics of the Biden Administration. As part of the Arctic Frost Investigation, Judge Boasberg signed off on frivolous nondisclosure orders to conceal the fact that sitting US Senators were being surveilled. Not only was this action egregiously improper; it was a gross violation of the separation of powers.
Judge Boasberg is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors, is unfit for office, and should be impeached.”
“Merrick Garland was a fundamentally corrupt attorney general. Jack Smith was a fundamentally corrupt prosecutor. This was a political enemies list from the beginning,” he told reporters, brandishing the court order that demanded AT&T hand over his cell records to the feds.
The order was signed by US District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg and barred the cell carrier from letting Cruz know about the request “for at least one year,” he said.
The Texas Republican and others called for Boasberg’s impeachment in the House, with Cruz claiming the judge was “abusing his power” by asserting in the order there were “reasonable grounds to believe that such disclosure will result in destruction of or tampering with evidence, intimidation of potential witnesses and serious jeopardy to the investigation.”
Fox News: Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, is formally introducing impeachment articles against U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on Tuesday for his role in the “Arctic Frost” probe. Republican allies of President Donald Trump have been criticizing Boasberg after news broke that he was the judge who signed off on subpoenas and other measures in former special counsel Jack Smith’s probe. “Chief Judge Boasberg has compromised the impartiality of the judiciary and created a constitutional crisis. He is shamelessly weaponizing his power against his political opponents, including Republican members of Congress who are faithfully serving the American people within their jurisdiction,” Gill told Fox News Digital (Fox News).
Gill: Judge Boasberg signed off on frivolous nondisclosure orders to conceal the fact that sitting US Senators were being surveilled. Not only was this action egregiously improper; it was a gross violation of the separation of powers. Judge Boasberg is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors, is unfit for office, and should be impeached (Gill).
Bondi: These judges obviously cannot be impartial. They cannot be objective. They are district judges, trying to control our entire country and they are trying to obstruct Donald Trump’s agenda.
“Judge Boasberg’s controlling the national security policy of the United States. There’s about 330 or 340 of these liberal judges. They’re cherry-picked by these well-financed groups. It’s all a symptom. Democrats don’t have a counter-agenda. They lost the White House, the Congress, they lost the Supreme Court, they lost the popular vote.
Boasberg and his family are very much a part of the Democrat criminal rackets. Congress must fast-track challenges to executive actions and mandate full disclosure of judges’ financial/political ties.
Trump foe Boasberg hit with articles of impeachment
Rep. Brandon Gill filed impeachment articles against Judge James Boasberg on Tuesday over his role in ‘Arctic Frost’
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, joins ‘Sunday Morning Futures’ to discuss the scale of the Arctic Frost investigation, how cell phone providers Verizon and AT&T responded to subpoenas in the case and more.
FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, is formally introducing impeachment articles against U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on Tuesday for his role in the “Arctic Frost” probe.
Republican allies of President Donald Trump have been criticizing Boasberg after news broke that he was the judge who signed off on subpoenas and other measures in former special counsel Jack Smith’s probe.
“Chief Judge Boasberg has compromised the impartiality of the judiciary and created a constitutional crisis. He is shamelessly weaponizing his power against his political opponents, including Republican members of Congress who are faithfully serving the American people within their jurisdiction,” Gill told Fox News Digital.
“Judge Boasberg was an accomplice in the egregious Arctic Frost scandal where he equipped the Biden DOJ to spy on Republican senators. His lack of integrity makes him clearly unfit for the gavel. I am proud to once again introduce articles of impeachment against Judge Boasberg to hold him accountable for his high crimes and misdemeanors.”
Gill’s resolution accused Boasberg of one count of abuse of power, according to text obtained first by Fox News Digital.
“Ignoring his responsibility to wield the power of his office in a constitutional manner, Chief Judge Boasberg granted Special Counsel John L. Smith authorization to issue frivolous nondisclosure orders in furtherance of the Federal Bureau of Investigation project codenamed ARCTIC FROST,” the text said.
“These nondisclosure orders covered Members of Congress who were acting in accord with their legislative duties and privileges guaranteed by Article 1, Section 6, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution.”
WHO IS JAMES BOASBERG, THE US JUDGE AT THE CENTER OF TRUMP’S DEPORTATION EFFORTS?
The redacted Arctic Frost documents were made public late last month by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. They included subpoenas of phone records for 10 senators and one House lawmaker, and gag orders sent to Verizon and AT&T instructing them not to notify lawmakers of the subpoena. Verizon complied, but AT&T did not.
Both the subpoenas and gag orders were signed by Boasberg, according to the documents — a detail that prompted fresh criticism and indignation from Republicans, including Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who blasted the investigation as “worse than Watergate” and a gross violation of prosecutorial powers. former special counsel Jack Smith speaks to reporters.
Jack Smith, former U.S. special counsel, speaks during a news conference in Washington, Aug. 1, 2023. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Under the Stored Communications Act, federal judges exercise discretion in signing off on such orders — they are not automatic. It is unclear what materials Boasberg would have reviewed in this particular case before authorizing the tolling records of the senators, as much of the information and materials in the probe remain classified or are heavily redacted.
Republicans named in the subpoenas have argued they are potential violations of the speech or debate clause of the U.S. Constitution, which protects lawmakers from being arrested or questioned by law enforcement for things they say or do in their legislative roles.
The protections are absolute for legislative acts, though courts sometimes dispute what qualifies as legislative.
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The ink on those cursed ballots is barely dry, and already the stench of betrayal hangs heavy over the skyline of New York City, that once-unconquerable fortress of American grit and ingenuity. Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old firebrand of foreign birth and socialist fury, has seized the mayoralty like a conqueror planting his flag on enemy soil. Uganda-born, South Asian-rooted, and steeped in the toxic brew of far-left radicalism, he now stands as the Big Apple’s first Muslim, first South Asian, and first avowed socialist overlord – a triple-threat abomination that mocks every principle our forefathers bled for. With 50.4% of the vote, he trounced Andrew Cuomo’s 42% and left Curtis Sliwa’s pathetic 7.1% in the gutter, all while crowing about a “mandate for change” that reeks of chains and collectivism. And in his victory speech? The smiley-face facade of the campaign trail shattered like cheap glass, revealing the snarling beast beneath: a venomous tirade of racial hatred, class warfare, and open war on President Trump himself. “Turn the volume up,” he taunted the man who embodies American resurgence, as his Brooklyn mob howled like wolves scenting blood. This isn’t victory; it’s a declaration of siege. And America, as I grow old and weary after 35 years of sounding this alarm, I say it again with a voice cracking from exhaustion: I warned you not to let a single one of these ideologues in. You ignored every thunderous proclamation. Now reap the whirlwind.
For three and a half decades, I and few others watchmen on the walls, bellowing into the gale winds of complacency: “Seal the gates! Do not import the architects of our undoing!” From the Reagan years through the Clinton betrayals, the Bush blunders, and the Obama abominations, I railed against the folly of open borders that funneled in not just dreamers, but destroyers – minds marinated in foreign doctrines of division and domination. Muslims? I named them plainly, repeatedly, as carriers of a creed incompatible with our liberty-loving republic, a faith that demands submission where we demand sovereignty. “They’ll erode us from within,” I prophesied, citing the creeping Sharia shadows in Michigan, the jihadist cheers on campuses, the foreign flags waved in halls of power. But the elites sneered, the media maligned, the bleeding hearts built bridges to hell instead of walls of wisdom. “Diversity is strength,” they droned, as the demographic deluge swelled. And now, in the crown jewel of our nation – the city where Wall Street forges fortunes and Broadway lights the free world’s stage – a man like Mamdani rises not on merit, but on the imported votes of the aggrieved and the engineered. He’s no self-made titan; he’s a political parasite, son of a Sharia-peddling professor and a filmmaker of the left, enabled by CAIR’s deceit and Obama’s shadow networks. His daddy’s classroom poison? Straight from the madrassas of division. And the people? They bought the TikTok mirage of the “warm, embracing” charmer, only to face the real Mamdani: a yeller, a divider, a class warrior wielding the microphone like a machete.
Even CNN’s Van Jones, that paragon of progressive polish, recoiled in horror from the podium at Brooklyn’s Paramount Theatre. “I think he missed an opportunity,” Jones stammered, his voice laced with the unease of a fellow traveler spotting the abyss. “The Mamdani that we saw on the campaign trail, who was a lot more calm, who was a lot warmer… was not present in that speech.” Sharp tone? Check. Yelling into the mic like a street agitator? Double check. “A character switch,” Jones called it, where the “guy close to working people” vanished, replaced by “some other voice” – the voice of rage, of racial resentment, of a man who sees enemies in every white face, every capitalist corner store, every Trump voter daring to breathe free air. Jones nailed it: This was no slip; it was the unveiling. The smile was the lie, the snarl the truth. And in that 20-minute screed, Mamdani didn’t just topple Cuomo’s “dynasty” – he spat on it, vowing never to utter the name again while wishing him a private life of exile. Mandate for affordability? That’s code for the grocery-store gulags I eviscerated before, those $60 million taxpayer troughs plunked in food deserts to peddle “rights” to rations, strangling private enterprise in the crib. Budget-busting? You bet – a socialist lab experiment, as the Wall Street Journal warns, where this jobless politico’s “ideas are armed to the teeth,” primed to test “how much ruin there is in a city.” Alex Soros, that chip-off-the-Marxist-block, couldn’t contain his glee: “So proud to be a New Yorker! The American dream continues!” No, Alex – it ends here, under your daddy’s billions greasing the skids to serfdom.
Both Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller, those unflinching sentinel against jihad’s creep, saw it clear as a gulag dawn: This echoes Obama’s angry inaugural, where the honeyed words curdled to commands. “Now the smiles end and the true agenda becomes clearer,” Spencer thunders. “The capitalist roaders and Trotskyite wreckers will be dealt with firmly.” Don’t stop applauding, comrades – remember Solzhenitsyn’s factory chief, hauled to the camps for daring to cease clapping for Stalin. New York won’t go full gulag overnight, not with the republic still breathing down its neck, but the drift is deadly: Opposition bottled like bootleg hooch, the GOP reduced to a whisper, Jews fleeing en masse as this Islamist’s anti-Israel bile boils over. Cynthia in the comments nails the peril: “The Jews of NY and on campuses there will no longer get needed protection. This Islamist will bring down NY. Flee!” Erika M. Messer cuts deeper: “They had Communism vs. Democracy/Freedom… and they overwhelmingly chose Communism.” Socialism as Marx’s bridge to the red hell – and Mamdani’s the engineer, waving not the Stars and Stripes, but the banners of division. Roark echoes my weary soul: “I’m the modern Cassandra. I’ve been warning people for years and no one listens… The seeds of our destruction are now in place. Soon every day will be 9/11.” Brother, I feel you – 35 years of this fight have grayed my temples and hollowed my eyes, but the fire still burns.
Yet, amid this metropolitan Armageddon, a flicker of defiance: Up in Minneapolis, the heartland held the line. Somali Muslim Omar Fateh, that senate-floor firebrand who branded his “white Republican colleagues” as the real terrorists, who waved Somalia’s flag and pledged fealty to foreign soil, crashed to defeat in the mayoral race. Incumbent Jacob Frey, flawed as he is, clinched a third term by 10 points in ranked-choice fury, dodging the bullet of Fateh’s alliance of radicals. Minnesota breathes – for now – a rebuke to the Mamdani madness, proof that vigilance can still vaccinate the body politic.
But New York? The die is cast, the poison poured. DUMBO_Dems cheers the spectacle: “Watch these idiots… eat each other. Then… they will HAVE THEIR HANDS OUT TO TRUMP… ‘LIVE WITH IT’.” Popcorn indeed – but this isn’t mere theater; it’s tragedy, a self-inflicted wound on the republic’s jugular. PlatinumGhost exposes the fraud: “The man you saw before the election was the lie. Now, you will see who he really is.” Jjank invokes the divine delusion: “In the last days many will be deceived… know the Word of God.” Atikva vows boycott: “I will not set foot over there until this madness ends.” And Michael? “I’m not a panican – I’m a PISSEDOFFICAN.” Damn right.
America, the clock ticks merciless. I’ve warned for 35 years – repeatedly, relentlessly – against this imported insurrection. Muslims in power? A recipe for ruin, from Sharia whispers to socialist screams. You ignored me, elected the enemy within. Now, as I tire in the twilight of my crusade, I beg: Wake up! Rally the remnants! Trump stands as bulwark; fortify him. Reclaim the ramparts before the red tide drowns us all. The soul of this nation hangs by a thread – snap it not with apathy, but with the thunder of resolve. Fight, or fall. For liberty’s ghost weeps already.
When a grieving family got a $195,000 hospital bill, they didn’t surrender — they armed themselves with AI and fought back.
There are scammers everywhere — and by now, you know to look for them. They hide in your phone, your inbox, your text messages, pretending to be your bank, your grandchild, even the IRS.
They threaten, they prey, they deceive — all trying to steal your money and your peace.
But what if I told you the worst scam of all might not be coming from a shady call center overseas… …but from an institution we were raised to trust?
Not a hacker. Not a cartel. Not some anonymous cybercriminal in a basement in Belarus.
I’m talking about American hospitals.
Yes — the same institutions that hold your hand in moments of deepest fear… can also hold you upside-down by the ankles the minute you walk out the door. And for one grieving family, that truth hit like a second heart attack.
This story will shock you — but it will also arm you, because what happened next didn’t just expose a medical billing system that often preys on the vulnerable… it revealed a surprising new weapon everyday Americans can now wield to fight back.
And it’s not a lawyer. It’s not a lobbyist.
It’s a $20-a-month artificial intelligence program.
The family had barely begun to process the sudden loss — a fatal heart attack. Four hours in the hospital. Four hours of panic, prayer, and ultimately heartbreak.
Then came the bill.
$195,000.
You read that correctly.
No long-term stay. No heroic weeks-long effort. Just four hours.
To make matters worse, there was no active insurance coverage at the time. The hospital wasn’t interested in grieving hearts — only in the numbers printed at the bottom of their statement.
They wanted nearly every penny.
This is the moment hospitals count on:
When you’re dizzy with grief. When you’re exhausted. When you’re vulnerable and unprepared for a fight.
They expect you to give up.
When the hospital provided only vague, department-level billing, the family pushed. When itemized codes were delayed due to a “system upgrade,” they pushed again.
But to do what most Americans can’t: Decode the hospital’s billing system.
They fed the codes into Claude, an AI assistant, and began cross-checking:
Medicare billing rules
Procedure code standards
Duplicate service flags
Inpatient vs emergency coding
Ventilator billing rules
Then the truth surfaced.
The hospital had double-billed certain procedures — charging a master “package” fee and individual line-items for the same services.
Some services were misclassified to inflate reimbursement amounts.
One charge for ventilator services was found to be out of compliance with federal billing rules.
In other words:
They got caught.
The family organized the findings into a professional, airtight appeal — drafted with AI’s help.
Then they confronted the hospital.
“You billed an unconscionable amount.”
And here’s the part that should give every American hope:
The hospital blinked.
The Result? $195,000 → $33,000
Fraudulent-style duplications removed
Procedures reclassified correctly
Billing codes corrected
Phantom costs erased
The final number settled around $33,000 — a staggering drop from the original $195,000 demand.
Still a painful bill.
But a $162,000 victory over predatory pricing.
And the family’s verdict?
“My $20/month AI subscription more than paid for itself.”
Hospitals will tell you it’s “just billing complexity.” Insurance companies will shrug. Politicians will bluster.
Meanwhile, families in grief — or fighting cancer, or caring for elderly parents — see their lives destroyed by paperwork and financial traps.
Bankruptcy. Ruined marriages. Lost homes. Destroyed savings.
All because someone in a billing department padded a code, clicked the wrong checkbox… or clicked the right one knowing exactly what it meant.
This is not just a story about AI.
It’s about power.
For decades, big systems — banks, insurance corporations, Big Tech, government agencies, and yes, hospitals — had all the leverage. And we were expected to accept it.
But something is changing.
The scam artists aren’t only in call centers anymore.
They’re also wearing badges, holding clipboards, and billing you in broad daylight.
And for the first time in a long time…
Everyday people finally have a weapon to fight back.
If you or someone you know ever faces a medical bill that doesn’t feel right:
Demand an itemized bill with CPT/HCPCS codes
Compare costs to Medicare pricing (publicly available)
Look for “facility fees,” duplicate line-items, and bundled mischarges
Appeal in writing — always
And yes… use AI to check the codes
Because today, knowledge isn’t just power.
It’s protection.
Then they hand a grieving family a $195,000 invoice.
But today, Americans aren’t alone in this fight anymore.
We don’t just have prayers.
We don’t just have courage.
Now we have tools.
And when used righteously and wisely, those tools can topple giants — one line-item at a time.
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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I will be reporting on the reaction to Bill Gates’ transformation into a climate skeptic, the clear-cutting of thousands of acres of the Amazon rainforest & will be urging the Trump administration to withdraw the U.S. from the 1992 Rio Earth Summit treaty that got the U.S. into this whole UN climate agenda/sustainable development mess! Stay tuned…!
Team of Climate Skeptics to Descend on UN COP30 Climate Summit in Brazil
Self-Declared ‘Unofficial U.S. Delegation’
The UN climate summit, COP30, kicks off next week in Belém, Brazil — from November 10-21 — deep in the Amazon rainforest. Once again, CFACT (The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow) is dispatching a U.S. delegation to the annual climate confab, ready to challenge the agenda head-on.
CFACT’s mission at COP30 is clear: build on the momentum from President Trump’s bold withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and rally other nations to follow suit, derailing the UN’s expansive climate agenda once and for all.
CNN has already hyped COP30 as “one of the most consequential climate summits in a decade.” — but it could prove even more historic. For the first time since the U.S. signed the 1992 Rio Earth Summit treaty, there will be no official U.S. delegation present.
Undeterred, CFACT’s team of U.S. climate skeptics is stepping up as the self-declared “unofficial” U.S. delegation to COP30. They’ll be on the ground to amplify Bill Gates’ recent climate realism — that climate change “will not lead to humanity’s demise” — while backing the more than 100 nations that have yet to submit their so-called “required” plans to the UN for hitting the Paris Accord’s net-zero targets.
At COP30, CFACT’s Craig Rucker, Marc Morano, and their team will seize the global stage to press the Trump administration to formally withdraw the U.S. from the 1992 Rio Earth Summit treaty — signed by then-President George H.W. Bush and ratified by the U.S. Senate.
CFACT’s Marc Morano added urgency to the call: “Withdrawing from the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change would be the most significant step the Trump administration could take to shatter this 33-year climate stranglehold on America. No Republican president has ever dared attempt it. This would etch Trump’s agenda in stone — making Trump 2.0’s climate legacy truly permanent and a nightmare for any future President AOC or Gavin Newsom to reverse.”
The Trump administration needs to officially withdraw the U.S. from the 1992 Rio Earth Summit Treaty, signed by then-President George H.W. Bush and ratified by the U.S. Senate.
An analysis by Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki’s revealed: “It was written into U.S. law when President George H. W. Bush signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at the Rio Earth Summit on June 12, 1992, and the U.S. Senate gave its advice and consent on October 7, 1992. Bush then signed the instrument of ratification on October 13, 1992, making the U.S. the first industrialized nation to ratify the treaty.” …
The treaty explicitly provides a withdrawal mechanism: a country may notify the U.N. and, one year later, the exit takes effect. If the Paris executive pledge could be reversed, this Senate-ratified foundation can be lawfully revisited as well.”
“During his first term, Trump declined to exit the UNFCCC, which the Democratic-led Senate had ratified during George H.W. Bush’s presidency following the “Earth Summit” in Rio de Janeiro.” …
“If Trump does pull the country out of the framework, it could be difficult for a new president to undo. Joining a treaty requires a two-thirds Senate vote — a high hurdle even in less polarized times…”
It’s the COP30 piss take. Starting off with UN Chief. This year he’s demanding tougher Net Zero restrictions and $1.3 TRILLION a year in finance for “Climate Justice” He means Communist justice, where we all become equally poor, whilst the climate evangelists get even richer. pic.twitter.com/TB6oK8ORY9 — Bernie (@Artemisfornow) November 4, 2025 Flashback: UN […https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/03/international-climate-aid-just-transition By Dharna Noor Less than 3% of international aid to slash carbon emissions is supporting a “just transition” for workers and communities away from polluting industries, according to a new report. Released one week before the start of major United Nations climate negotiations in Belém, Brazil, the analysis from the climate and development non-profit ActionAid warns […]
I hereby self-declare myself to act as the ‘unofficial’ U.S. representative to COP30! I leave later this week for a 10-day trek to Belém, Brazil, to attend the UN climate summit in person. I am fully UN credentialed, & this will be my 21st out of the past 23 in-person… https://t.co/yOwiMEiwv9 — Marc Morano (@ClimateDepot) […]
Author and publisher of ClimateDepot.com Marc Morano told the DCNF that this “UN COP FLOP” is a result of “the Trump Effect.”
“Other, more timid nations are picking up the Trump energy and quietly walking away from this 30-year global fiasco known as the UN climate agenda. Trump came along at just the right time in history, as Europeans and others are now fully realizing they have been had by decades of false promises that green energy would be ‘cheaper’ and that they could easily ‘transition’ away from fossil fuels,” Morano continued. “Trump has done the U.S. and the world a great favor by exposing this fraudulent UN climate process.”
Morano previously told the DCNF that Democrats and Europeans seem to be retreating from aggressive climate policies as the American “public is not tolerating virtue signaling about saving the planet anymore.” Several corporate media outlets and some Democrats have recently shifted away from climate policy and are instead focusing their message on rising electricity prices and reliability.
“Leave it to ‘Mitt Romney’ style Republicans like Sen. Curtis to try to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. … The UN climate agenda and the UN’s COP30 meetings should be disbanded, not given credibility by GOP senators,” Marc Morano, author and Climate Depot executive editor, told the DCNF.
“This is a pathetic throwback to the pre-Trump Republicanism of George H. Bush, George W. Bush, John McCain, and Mitt Romney. … The UN climate agenda has quite literally overseen the outsourcing of the West’s once dominant industries to China, India, and the developing world. The U.S., Canada, and Europe have boasted about emission accounting tricks, while China builds two new coal plants a week and benefits from the West’s attempts at a ‘green transition.’ The U.S. does not need ‘a seat at the table’ at the UN climate summit, we need to knock the table over.”
The Trump Effect = UN COP FLOP! 100 countries stall on ‘climate targets’ ahead of COP30 — As Trump is pushing world leaders to abandon the climate fight
https://t.co/HqbrqeewVO — Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki (@MatthewWielicki) September 23, 2025 By Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki Global elites have spent three decades telling us “climate is a global problem, so only global solutions will do.” That framing didn’t appear by magic. It was written into U.S. law when President George H. W. Bush signed the […]
The world gets 14.2% of its energy from renewables That’s near the record-low of 11.1% in 2007 and far from average since 1800 of 47% Increase since 2010 so slow that, on current trends, world will reach 100% renewables in 2392https://t.co/5CnwvAEmorpic.twitter.com/dE1gvTWBKI — Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) September 21, 2025 The world is mostly fossil-fuel powered […]
China is positioning itself to be the world leader in electricity for the rest of this century, supplementing its massive 1,500 GW of coal with dynamic development programs of nuclear, renewables and hydroelectric, including ongoing construction of the Motuo Hydropower Station of 60 GW, three times greater than their Three Gorges Dam.
Coal provided 45% of electricity in the US as of 2010. After the closure of over 300 coal plants, coal now produces only 16% and, based on the latest DOE forecast, by 2030 coal will provide only 8%. President Trump has taken steps to temporarily protect certain coal plants, but it is important to note that some of the groups filing suit to close the units are the utilities themselves, essentially guaranteeing these plants will eventually be closed.
Climate Depot’s Morano comment: “We may have to look at scaling back LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) exports as needed to benefit American consumers. Are we riding the correct horse when it comes to the alleged ‘AI race’ to beat China? Should we be reconsidering our AI push because AI power demands are set to harm American consumers and possibly derail the Trump Administration’s energy plans?
We have to be wary that Big Tech subsidies and AI data center power demands are gutting Trump’s agenda of plentiful, cheap energy.
With current AI policies, we may be heading straight to a huge consumer rebellion over rising utility bills in the USA. AI may have its pluses and minuses, but for anyone who thinks that Big Tech billionaires are pushing AI to make our lives better, think again: AI has a massive potential to control our lives.
Are American consumers going to be stuck with subsidizing Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill Gates’ grandiose AI visions? Perhaps it’s time to send these AI-induced, larger electricity bills directly to Big Tech.”
As Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman warns in “The Coming Wave,” his book co-authored with Michael Bhaskar:
“AI can provide rocket fuel for authoritarians and for great power competition alike … an ability to capture and harness data at an extraordinary scale and precision; to create territory-spanning systems of surveillance and control.”
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It’s called the “gender gap” (should be “sex gap,” really) in voting, and, boy, did it ever manifest itself Tuesday night. In fact, November 4 was a great day for the GOP.
That is, in an alternate universe in which only men vote.
Let’s go down the list. In Virginia there were three major races, and men broke Republican in all of them. They went for Winsome Earle-Sears for governor (all figures represent percentages), 53-47; John Reid for lieutenant governor, 55-44; and Jason Miyares for attorney general, 57-42.
Meanwhile, in the upside-down, women broke Democrat in all three races by even wider margins. They supported Abigail Spanberger for governor, 64-36; Ghazala Hashmi for lieutenant governor, 62-38; and mad texter Jay Jones for attorney general 58-41.
The story was similar up north in New Jersey. Men voted for Republican Jack Ciattarelli over Democrat Mikie Sherrill, albeit by a narrow 51-49 margin. Women went for Sherrill 62-38.
The only exception was the NYC mayoral race, in which the sexes each offered the communist-in-democratic-socialist-clothing Zohran Mamdani 50 percent support. The only thing we can say for the lads is that they did give Republican Curtis Sliwa two more percent of their votes than the gals did (eight vs. six). This reflects why I try to avoid the Big Granny Apple like the plague: It apparently wreaks havoc on testosterone levels.
To the raised eyebrows right now, I’ll point out that this political sex gap is not a new phenomenon. In fact, pundit Ann Coulter took note of it in 2007.
“It would be a much better country if women did not vote,” she wrote at the time. “That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950—except Goldwater in 1964— he Republican would have won, if only the men had voted.”
And what of current times? According to a Grok artificial intelligence analysis I ran, President Trump would’ve won all 50 states in 2024 if only men voted. I’m a little skeptical as to whether the GOP really would have carried Vermont, Hawaii and Massachusetts even absent the female vote, but I pressed Grok on this and it stood by its finding. Whatever the case, if the Democrats did win some states under a male-suffrage-only scenario, it wouldn’t be very many.
I’ll lastly cite one other example. In the 2018 midterms, men broke Republican 51-47; women went Democrat 59-40. The latter enabled the Democrats to retake the House of Representatives and impeach Trump twice.
Oh, and here’s the kicker: This political sex gap is widening, with young men becoming more conservative (by today’s standards, anyway) and young women veering hard left.
(And this is another reason why many young fellows aren’t marrying. Can you blame them?)
As for why women have this affinity for leftism, it’s a deep issue beyond this blog’s scope. But I did examine it in the following articles, among others:
“The Security Sex.”
“‘Woke’ Culture Is Just Feminine Culture, Says Writer—and It’s Killing America.”
And one more thing. I also examined the racial/ethnic breakdown of Tuesday’s voting, and it supports my theory that non-white voters’ “movement toward the GOP” is really just movement toward Trump. In fact, the major racial/ethnic groups voted as they have for decades. Democrats won about 90 percent of the black vote, approximately 65 percent of Hispanic votes, and in the neighborhood of 75 percent of Asian-descent Americans’ votes. It all just underlines how old habits die hard. Unfortunately, though, republics, when populated by too many people lacking in virtue, die far more easily. Or, you could just say: As morality dies, Mamdanis rise.
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I heard a very moving talk from a rape victim this past weekend, which I’ll share in a moment. And what she said reminds me of the reason why abortion has gained such a stranglehold in America.
Rape is a horrible and violent crime. Interestingly, the allegation of rape is part of the reason America has embraced abortion so strongly in the last half-century.
Our founding documents embrace a culture of life, but abortion is at war with the right to life.
In months, we’ll be celebrating the life-affirming birthday of America. July 4, 2026 will be the 250th anniversary of theDeclaration of Independence, which famously says, “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life.”
11 years later, in 1787, the Constitution, predicated on the Declaration, opens this way: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice…and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”
But in 1973, in Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court famously voted in favor of abortion rights as they set out “to resolve the issue by constitutional measurement.”
Dissenter Byron Johnson called Roe (and its companion decision of the same day, Doe v. Bolton) an act of “raw judicial power.”
To gain sympathy for her quest to get an abortion, the plaintiff Jane Roe (who we now know was the late Norma McCorvey) claimed she was raped—gang-raped no less.
But years later, Norma McCorvey revealed that she had lied. She said, “Initially I had told [attorney] Sarah Weddington that I had been raped—and I was not raped.”
In the mid-1990s, Norma had a come-to-Jesus moment and changed from being the poster child for abortion to being an avid opponent of it. She said in an interview on Christian TV, “I was a hippie of sorts and I sold drugs, and that’s what got me into so much trouble. I didn’t know how to respond to people and their problems. Since 1995, I’ve been walking with Jesus Christ, and I tell you: You can’t find a better life.”
A few years ago, some allegedly repudiated Norma McCorvey’s conversion. But I wrote about this at the time, setting the record straight. Also, I interviewed Frank Pavone about this. He is the founding president of Priests for Life, who baptized her, and he explains how her commitment to Christ and to the pro-life size was genuine.
Roe v. Wade ultimately resulted in the deaths of 63 million unborn babies. I wonder how many Americans realize that it was based in part on a lie. In 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe in the Dobbs v. Jackson decision. At least, that put the issue back into the hands of the states.
This past Saturday, I heard a powerful speaker named Lianna Rebolledo, who addressed the Broward Right to Life breakfast, for which I was privileged to serve again as MC.
Lianna told us that she was born in Mexico. But because of her parents’ divorce, she came to Los Angeles with her mother at the age of 11. When she was around 12, Lianna was kidnapped by two men, who raped her repeatedly, and left her for dead.
This devastated Lianna. When she went to the hospital, they told her she was pregnant, and they wanted her to abort the baby. They told her that “she didn’t deserve to have to live with the consequences of rape.”
But she realized that abortion could not undo the rape or take away the awful memories. So, she chose life for her daughter, and for 25 years that daughter gave her meaning in life.Tragically, the daughter died of brain tumors, but Lianna was so grateful for the time she had with her. As she told her life story, there wasn’t a dry eye in the place.
Lianna shares such observations, as noted per writer Amy O’Donnell:
“I thought I would be giving my baby the death penalty when it wasn’t my baby’s fault. My baby didn’t deserve to be punished for the rape because my baby didn’t have anything to do with that.”
“[My daughter] wasn’t lower class or second class because of how she was conceived; she was just like any other human being, and she didn’t deserve less than anyone else.”
“Even with all the suffering and pain, I would go through that again just to know my daughter. It wasn’t easy, but it was definitely worth it. In my situation, two lives were saved.”
“Abortion is not the solution….Not even for rape.”
To me, Lianna Rebolledo’s story is a powerful reminder of our need to get back to the goal of the right to life as mentioned in the Declaration of Independence.
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Recent reports suggest that the Trump administration is considering attacks on Venezuelan military targets that abet the drug trade. Such reports signal a diplomatic crisis that has brought the two countries to the brink of war. Yet such behavior is hardly without precedent in the history of America’s relations with Latin American states.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the Trump administration is considering whether to strike at military facilities inside Venezuela, such as ports and airports, which are used for smuggling drugs. However, they note that “the president hasn’t made a final decision on ordering land strikes.”
The Miami Herald goes further, declaring on the authority of anonymous sources that “the Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment … in a matter of days or even hours.”
When asked, the White House denied the rumors. “Unnamed sources don’t know what they’re talking about,” insisted White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly. “Any announcements regarding Venezuela policy would come directly from the President.” President Donald Trump himself denied making a decision when asked Friday aboard Air Force One.
It isn’t clear what Trump administration officials have discussed or decided behind closed doors.
What is obvious, however, is the major pressure campaign Trump has constructed against Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro. After labeling the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua as a narco-terrorist outfit earlier this year, the administration in July also designated the “Cartel de los Soles (a.k.a. Cartel of the Suns)” as a sanctioned terrorist outfit “headed by Nicolas Maduro Moros and other high-ranking Venezuelan individuals in the Maduro regime.” Trump doubled the bounty for Maduro’s capture to a record-setting $50 million and greenlit CIA operations against drug activities inside Venezuela.
Alongside these moves, Trump has amassed a sizable American fleet off of Venezuelan shores, which has attacked boats suspected of carrying drugs and flown planes near Venezuelan shores, leading some to speculate that Trump aims to remove Maduro from power. “This is an operation against narcoterrorists, the al Qaeda of the Western Hemisphere. … And they need to be dealt with,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared.
Whatever the president’s intentions with regard to the Maduro regime, what is certain is that Trump has brought back the tactic known to American history as “gunboat diplomacy.” It began in 1853, when Commodore Matthew Perry sailed a squadron of U.S. warships into Tokyo Bay, forcing Japan to end nearly four centuries of isolationism.
Fifty years later, President Theodore Roosevelt exercised the muscular tactic in Latin America to establish the “Roosevelt Corollary.” Ever since America’s fifth president, James Monroe, America had opposed the presence of European powers in the Western hemisphere as a potential threat to American interests. In the Roosevelt Corollary to the “Monroe Doctrine,” the hero of San Juan Hill argued that the U.S. must act, if necessary, as an international policeman of bad actors in the Western hemisphere.
The impetus for this new doctrine came from an incident involving none other than Venezuela. In 1902, the U.K., Italy, and Germany established a coastal blockade of Venezuela to force that country to pay its debts; Roosevelt intervened with a show of naval force in the region and insisted on U.S. mediation. (European presence in the region really did threaten American interests, as the U.S. had only just pushed Spain out of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and its other colonies four years earlier.) After European powers attempted another debt-collection blockade in the Caribbean in 1904 (this time of the Dominican Republic), Roosevelt formally proposed his corollary in an address to Congress.
But Roosevelt’s gunboat diplomacy was not confined to keeping European powers out of the Caribbean. Also in 1902, Roosevelt deployed American naval power to the Pacific and Caribbean shores of Colombia (which still owned Panama at that time) after the Colombian Congress rejected a treaty for the U.S. to build what would become the Panama Canal. Roosevelt’s navy supported Panama in gaining independence from Colombia, thereby winning for America the right to dig the canal.
In other instances of Caribbean gunboat diplomacy, the U.S. occupied Cuba in 1906, Nicaragua in 1912, Veracruz, Mexico in 1914, and Haiti from 1915 to 1934.
Thus, Trump’s major show of force in the Caribbean is not without precedent. The question is what, exactly Trump hopes to accomplish. “There isn’t enough combat power for an invasion,” said retired Marine colonel Mark Cancian, “but there is plenty for air or missile strikes against the cartels or the Maduro regime.”
Some analysts believe that simply a show of force might push Maduro out of power. “This is the U.S. really putting to the test the claim that Maduro is weak and the military will flip with just a gentle push,” suggested Atlantic Council analyst Geoff Ramsey. “So far, we haven’t seen any evidence of major defections in the country, but I think if the U.S. carries out the military strikes on the Venezuelan armed forces, that equation might change. However … there’s a chance that this leads to a rally-around-the-flag effect.”
Yet Venezuela would be within its rights to interpret U.S. military strikes on Venezuelan military targets as acts of war, escalating the situation beyond what the Trump administration bargained for. Venezuela operates sophisticated, Russian-made air defense systems, and Russia could send Maduro further support in the event of war.
If it comes to war, let us pray, for the sake of the Constitution, that President Trump appeals to Congress for war authorization, since the Constitution explicitly invests Congress with the power “to declare war.”
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Political violence has been on the rise in recent months, and most Americans expect the fatal trend to continue, according to a new survey. Politico and Public First released a poll Monday which found that a majority of Americans anticipate political violence in the U.S. to worsen in the coming years.
In total, 55% of respondents said that they expect political violence to increase, while only 29% said that they expect political violence to decrease. Additionally, 50% of respondents said that they believe it is either somewhat likely (31%) or very likely (19%) that a political candidate will be assassinated within the next five years. Only 18% said that such an occurrence was somewhat unlikely (9%) or very unlikely (9%).
While a total of 24% of Americans polled replied that political violence can sometimes be justified, that share was even higher among young voters. Over a third of voters aged 18 to 24 (36%), 25 to 34 (35%), and 35 to 44 (34%) agreed that some circumstances justify political violence. In comments to The Washington Stand, Family Research Council Senior Fellow for Biblical Worldview Joseph Backholm said, “The expectation of more political violence and the rising belief that it can be justified are largely connected. Unfortunately, growing secularism in the West has turned government into our God. Somehow, we see government as both the cause and the solution to all our problems.”
He explained, “Since the people are the government, we see those who enable government we dislike not as neighbors we disagree with but as the source of all our problems. Secularism provides both unreasonable expectations for the present and no reason for hope when our expectations are not met. When we believe certain individuals are the source of all the world’s problems, we can see why some people would come to believe a little violence is justified to bring about utopia.”
“People across the political spectrum all recognize the world is broken, but misunderstanding the source of the problem leads to solutions that actually make the problem worse,” Backholm continued. “The solution to all of it is understanding that God is God, not government. If we do that, we are much less likely to despair when government fails to solve all our problems.”
Although Politico noted that its survey found “little partisan divide in that belief,” much of the political violence seen in recent months has been perpetrated by left-wing actors. Last year, President Donald Trump survived two assassination attempts, and this year has seen violence and rioting targeting federal immigration authorities, the murder of Turning Point USA founder and Trump administration ally Charlie Kirk, and Democratic nominee for Attorney General of Virginia Jay Jones admitting to sharing text messages discussing killing a Republican opponent and his children. Trump administration officials have also been forced to live on military bases as progressive activists target them for harassment and death threats.
Shortly after Kirk’s murder in September, an Economist/YouGov survey found that one-third (33%) of Americans faulted the Left for the rise in political violence, while 29% said that the right-wing is responsible, and 24% blamed both Left and Right. Overall, 67% of respondents agreed that the country has become more politically divided over the last five years. Immediately following the first assassination attempt against Trump last year, an Unheard poll discovered that “one-third of Democrat respondents agreed with the statement, ‘I wish Trump’s assassin hadn’t missed.’” Likewise, a Napolitan News Service survey following the second assassination attempt against Trump found that over a quarter of Democrats said that the U.S. would be “better off” if Trump had been assassinated.
Backholm explained, “Political violence is more of a problem on the Left because leftism is inherently secular and therefore offers no hope when life isn’t going the way you prefer. Their worldview tells them sin isn’t a problem, everything bad is caused by systemic injustice, and government should be able to solve that problem if only the right people are in charge.” He continued, “When the plan doesn’t work, and things are going badly, they have no reason for hope. So when you despair, it’s normal to lash out violently against the people you blame for your problems unless you have a reason not to.”
“Faith in God, and the gospel specifically, gives people a reason to have hope despite bad circumstances,” Backholm emphasized. “It gives us a reason to forgive those who have wronged us and even work for their good. The gospel is inherently hopeful, but secularism is inherently despairing, which is why despair is more common on the Left. A world without God is very sad.”
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Democratic New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani was one of at least six candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) who won local offices across the country Tuesday.
Kelsea Bond in Atlanta, Georgia, Denzel McCampbell in Detroit, Michigan, Danny Nowell in Carrboro, North Carolina, Ayah Al-Zubi in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Frankie Fritz in Greenbelt, Maryland, won city council races after receiving DSA endorsements, according to multiple reports. The results show that DSA-style radicals bucking the establishment left through Mamdani marked a wider trend.
In Minnesota, Democratic Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and DSA-backed leftist Omar Fateh completed their first round of vote counting in the city’s ranked-choice voting system Tuesday with Frey in the lead, The Associated Press reported. Unofficial election results show Will Burnley Jr., another DSA candidate, lost against Jake Wilson in Somerville, Massachusetts’ mayoral race, according to The Tufts Daily.
The DSA said it endorsed 18 candidates throughout the year in a Tuesday statement celebrating Mamdani’s mayoral win. “DSA will continue to support Democratic Socialists running for office throughout the United States as we build a political movement of and for the working class that can defeat the oligarchy and win the political revolution,” the group said.
“Through Zohran’s victory, the people defeated the oligarchy; the working class defeated major corporations; Democratic Socialism defeated the Democratic Party status quo,” the DSA said. “This movement was powered by over 99,000 volunteers and millions [of] voters. Thousands of DSA members in NYC-DSA played critical roles in the campaign as staff and volunteers: knocking doors, calling voters, talking to coworkers, and organizing in our unions and communities.”
Left-wing financier Alex Soros celebrated the win Tuesday by posting a photo on X of himself posing with the self-proclaimed socialist. “So proud to be a New Yorker! The American dream continues!” Soros said.
Democrats unaffiliated with the DSA won elections for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general in Virginia and for governor of New Jersey on Tuesday.
A liberal incumbent candidate for school board lost to an independent in Loudon County, Virginia, infamous for sexual assault scandals related to the school district’s stance on transgenderism. Amy Riccardi, the independent, campaigned in favor of separating bathrooms and other school spaces by biological sex.
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If you missed last night, a few blue state politicians won some elections in a few blue states and now the big blue sky is falling. The 2026 midterms are a fait accompli! President Donald Trump is a lame duck!
I pity my friends who live in the commonwealth across the river who have enjoyed the past four years with Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin sitting in Richmond, but this is not so.
The conservative chattering class will lament loudly and profusely about Tuesday’s results, not only because it is good for business, but because it’s their elections. Virginia, New Jersey, New York City—these are the places they call home, and they expect too much of the citizens of Sodom and Gomorrah. Which I only feel comfortable saying because I’m from California, a modern-day Capernaum.
Certainly, the temptation to get swept up in the punishment about to be exacted on these places is strong. In New York City, Democrat Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s policies will destroy what’s left of the city’s independent working class. In Virginia, Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger is poised to set the schoolmarms loose on parents who don’t want their girls changing in locker rooms with boys. In New Jersey, Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill, if her absentee voting record in Congress is any indication, will do little to relieve citizens of the Garden State from the green policies pushing up energy prices.
Weep, if you must, but it’s best not to turn back.
On Tuesday night, the temptation for professional and casual election observers alike will be to assume that if more candidates win with D’s next to their names than R’s, Democrats are in the driver’s seat for the midterms, and vice versa….
The truth is that the party identification of Tuesday night’s winners are oftentimes bad predictors of how the chips will fall in the midterms.
What we did learn from the 2025 election cycle that culminated in Democrat victories across the board, however, is that Democrats have no interest in moderating.
Their base has the basest desires. They demanded the government shutdown, now the longest in U.S. history. They embraced Mamdani’s democratic socialism. They pulled the lever for Virginia Attorney General-elect Jay Jones, who explicitly called for the death of a former speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates and his family. This, of course, came less than two months after the most high-profile political assassination of my lifetime.
And the Democrat base has rewarded its Democrat candidates for their hostility, extremism, and violence.
James Madison, the father of the Constitution and one of Virginia’s finest statesmen, wrote in Federalist No. 51: “If men were angels, no government would be necessary.” Perhaps the 2025 elections demonstrate the opposite truth: If men were devils, no government would be sufficient.
Sounds like I’m getting swept away. I am not. This radicalism forced Democrats to spend more money on races Republicans thought unwinnable just two months ago—much less before the 2024 election, when Trump made massive inroads in both New Jersey and Virginia.
Take Jones’ message, “war to the death” with my political opponents, and Mamdani’s “let them eat cake” from government-run grocers, and see how it plays in the purple areas of Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Texas. It won’t.
I’ve long thought it is a fallacy to wish to face a more extreme opponent in a general election, and I’d still take a 2028 presidential matchup against Democrat Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro over Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. My blood is just not that rich.
While Democrat radicalism makes the stakes of each and every race in the 2026 midterms that much higher, conservatives now know the Democrat playbook for 2026. With well-laid plans, there’s hope to find peace in Canaan.
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Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor of New York City, capping a stunning ascent for the Muslim, 34-year-old state lawmaker.
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialist nominee who has a history of anti-Israel rhetoric, has won the New York City mayoral race.
At press time, with 75% of the votes counted, Mamdani had 860,327 votes (50.4%), followed by 704,866 (41.3%) for former Democratic state governor Andrew Cuomo, running as an independent, and 128,400 (7.5%) for the Republican candidate, Curtis Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels.
The Republican Jewish Coalition stated that “it’s official. Zohran Mamdani is the face of the Democratic Party now.”
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In a previous article, I discussed Executive Order 14248 which contains the following elements that put “teeth” into enforcing election integrity laws in Nevada and across the nation.
1. Voter Roll Maintenance (Cleaning Voter Rolls): EO 14248 Section 2(b)(iii) requires federal review of voter rolls, citing 52 U.S.C. §20507 (NVRA), and HAVA §303(a)(2)(A) mandating states make a “reasonable effort” to remove ineligible voters. The Executive Order directs the Federal Attorney General to act against states failing to clean their rolls.
2. Proof of Citizenship for Voter Registration: EO 14248 Section 2(a)(i–ii) requires documentary proof of U.S. citizenship. NVRA currently allows self-attestation of citizenship under penalty of perjury — applicants must check a box and sign but not show documentation.
3. Inactive Voter Waiting Periods: The EO does not shorten or bypass the two-federal elections (NVRA and HAVA) waiting periods before a voter can be purged. It directs the DOJ to enforce list maintenance procedures.
4. Federal Databases for Voter Eligibility Verification: EO 14248 Section 2(b–c), 3(a) requires federal agencies (DHS, SSA, State, DoD) to give states access to immigration, death, and ID records to cross-check voter rolls. HAVA §303 allows registration matches with DMV, SSA, and death records.
5. Election Day Deadlines: EO Section 7 mandates ballots must be received by Election Day, based on 2 U.S.C. §7 and 3 U.S.C. §1. Nevada’s Constitution Article 15 Section 5 defines Election Day and where NRS conflicts, the state Constitution is the ultimate authority.
6. Blocking Biden’s Executive Order 14019: EO 14248 Section 9 halts implementation by voter registration by Federal Agencies. 7. Voting System Standards and Security: EO Section 4(b) requires paper ballots and disallows encoded-only barcodes. HAVA mandates voting system standards, including voter-verifiable audit trails.
After the executive order was signed, Nevada’s present Secretary of State, Francisco Aguilar said: “This Executive Order…is a federal overreach on the duties and obligations of the states.” He noted that Nevada has no evidence of widespread fraud. Those who oppose election integrity efforts often deny or diminish election crimes. (I wrote about this in the Angle Examiner available free on my website (SharronAngle.com)
In a joint press release with Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford, Aguilar said: “The Trump administration’s executive order on elections is an unlawful attempt to grab power from both the states and Congress. The United States Constitution is clear: states have primary responsibility for the administration of elections.” Given his rhetoric, Aguilar is signaling that he will not comply with or help enforce Trump’s order acting in coordination with the Nevada Attorney General to block key provisions of the executive order. He does not address the provisions of existing law or the Executive Order only repeating a “political soundbite” about “power grabs” of what he perceives to be his authority.
The future of free, honest, and fair elections depends on bold leadership and enforcing the election laws that secure our vote. President Trump has set the standard with his Executive Order. I have a proven record of boldly standing for the rule of law and the Constitution. That’s why I’m running for Nevada Secretary of State.
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The CBS News program 60 Minutes heavily edited down an interview with Donald Trump that aired on Sunday night, his first sit-down with the show in five years. Trump sat down with correspondent Norah O’Donnell for 90 minutes, but only about 28 minutes were broadcast. A full transcript of the interview was later published, along with a 73-minute-long extended version online.
While 60 Minutes traditionally cuts down interviews, these edits are particularly notable because, exactly one year before Trump was interviewed by O’Donnell at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Friday he had sued CBS over the editing of a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, then the vice-president, which he alleged had been deceptively edited to help her chances in the presidential election.
