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U.S. Department of Justice Says UNRWA Can Be Sued In American Courts

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By Jihad Watch

Lawfare may now be about to have its finest hour. For UNRWA could face a potential loss of one billion dollars in a lawsuit brought against it by relatives of people murdered by Hamas, the terror group with which some UNRWA staff, we know now, had such close ties, while the organization itself permitted its facilities in Gaza to be used as command-and-control centers, and as places to hide both combatants and weapons. Several hundred staff members of UNRWA were discovered by the IDF, from documents it seized in Gaza, to be full-fledged Hamas members; dozens of UNRWA staff accompanied the 6,000 Hamas operatives who smashed into Israel on October 7, 2023, and they participated in the atrocities committed that day, of rape, torture, mutilation, and murder. UNRWA allowed Hamas to build its tunnels right under its buildings, including its main Gaza headquarters; it knew about the Hamas tunnel network, but revealed nothing to the IDF.

Now that lawsuit may proceed, because the US DOJ has rejected UNRWA’s claim to be immune from lawsuits in the U.S. The immunity from such a suit extends to the UN and its “subsidiary organs,” but according to the DOJ, does not extend to UNRWA, which is classified as a mere “affiliate or instrumentality” of the UN. Having had UNRWA’s claim to immunity from suit in American courts dismissed, the plaintiffs can now proceed with their lawsuit. More on this threshold victory, one with such potentially damaging consequences for UNRWA, can be found here: “DOJ strips UNRWA of immunity, clears way for lawsuit over Oct. 7 attack,” Jerusalem Post, April 25, 2025:

The US Department of Justice submitted a letter on Thursday [April 24] arguing that the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is not entitled to immunity from lawsuits in the United States.

This filing is part of an ongoing case in which the families of over 100 victims of the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack are seeking $1 billion in damages, alleging that UNRWA supported Hamas by allowing its facilities to be used for weapons storage, the construction of tunnels and command centers, and the transfer of funds to the group through employee payments in US dollars.

The lawsuit, filed last June in the Southern District of New York, accuses UNRWA, which coordinates much of the aid to Gaza, of enabling Hamas’s operations. The plaintiffs argue that the agency’s activities played a direct role in facilitating the October 7 attacks.

Previously, in September, the Department of Justice under the Biden administration had contended that UNRWA was immune from prosecution in US courts, citing that the UN itself had not waived immunity. This stance blocked the lawsuit from advancing….

Quite something, isn’t it, that the Biden administration took the side of Hamas’ loyal helpmeet in Gaza, UNRWA, arguing that it was immune from being sued in an American court. Why were the Bidenites so determined to block the lawsuit by relatives of those whom Hamas had murdered? What can conceivably explain such sympathy for the devil? Was the anti-Israel animus of Biden’s appointees that profound?

Dozens of UNRWA staff members took part in Hamas’ atrocities committed inside Israel on October 7, 2023. Hundreds of UNRWA staff have been discovered to be members of Hamas. UNRWA collaborated with Hamas in providing the use of its buildings, especially its schools, as places to hide both men and weapons and from which to launch rockets at Israel. UNRWA did nothing to prevent Hamas from building tunnels under its buildings, including a massive tunnel dug right under UNRWA’s Gaza headquarters, with UNRWA’s full knowledge. At no time did UNRWA cooperate with the IDF in pointing out buildings that Hamas was using; nor did it help the IDF locate tunnels. UNRWA was fully committed to protecting Hamas from the IDF.

Now that UNRWA’s claim to enjoy immunity to lawsuit in American courts has been denied, the case can now proceed. May it end in UNRWA losing and left penniless. That most public loss should raise in the minds of many a question: why, alone among the hundreds of millions of refugees created since World War II, are the “Palestinian refugees” uniquely allowed to pass on their status as an inherited trait, to their children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and so on ad nauseam? Isn’t it time to end this privileged treatment of the “Palestinians,” and make them subject to the same rules as very other group of refugees? And no matter what the final verdict, the trial itself will be a public relations nightmare for the organization, as its many ties to Hamas are laid bare and held up for public inspection. UNRWA is about to enter a well-deserved world of woe.

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Will the Conclave select a Catholic Pope or another Communist Cleric?

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By Editorial Board – DrRichSwier.com

Catholics suffered under Pope Francis, globally. His reign was marked more by Marxism than Catholicism.

In November, 2022 Pope Francis gave the Jesuits of left-leaning America magazine an extensive and exclusive interview. During that interview Pope Francis stated, “If I See the Gospel in a Sociological Way Only, Yes, I Am a Communist, and So Too Is Jesus”

reported,

It is shocking for a pope to insinuate that the “Gospel [viewed] in a sociological way only” reveals that Jesus was a communist, and, therefore, he is too.

Besides being blasphemous, such an insinuation stems from a methodological error.

Obviously, a sociological analysis of the Gospel, in strictly scientific terms, does not lead to that conclusion. That only occurs if one adopts the so-called “Marxist analysis” as scientific—as does liberation theology. Now, Marxist analysis is nothing but an adaptation of reality to the aprioristic Marxist premises. Marxists do not investigate reality according to objective facts but interpret and adapt it to previous conclusions of the communist and socialist parties’ ideology.

It is not surprising that Pope Francis states: “The communists stole some of our Christian values.” It also explains his lavish praise for the late Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, the leading promoter of the Vatican policy of détente with communist regimes, who affirmed, “Catholics who live in Cuba are happy under the socialist regime.”4 Ditto Pope Francis’s satisfaction concerning the dialogue with China because, he says, the Chinese are “a people of great wisdom.”5 Everyone knows he is not ‘dialoguing’ with the Chinese people but with the Chinese Communist Party.

QUESTION: How did this happen, how did Catholics get a Communist Cleric?

KGB in Catholic Church

During the Cold War, the KGB extensively infiltrated the Catholic Church in various Eastern European countries. The KGB aimed to undermine the Church’s influence and promote Communist interests. For instance, in Lithuania, the KGB infiltrated the Catholic seminary with agents and recruited seminarians to spread pro-Soviet ideologies.

The KGB also targeted high-ranking Catholic officials. In 1975, the KGB organized a conference in Warsaw to devise a strategy for more coordinated intelligence operations against the Catholic Church. They aimed to cultivate influential Catholic officials and gather intelligence on future papal elections.

In addition, the KGB attempted to create divisions within the Catholic Church by promoting leftist Catholic groups and publishing anti-Vatican materials. For example, the KGB supported the publication ‘Neo-Znak’ to publish anti-Vatican or pro-Soviet Catholic materials.

Former KGB agents and defectors have provided evidence of these infiltrations. Ion Mihai Pacepa, a former general in Romania’s secret police, claimed that the KGB created liberation theology, a quasi-Marxist movement that flourished in Latin America from the 1960s to the 1990s.

These infiltrations highlight the extent to which the KGB sought to influence and control the Catholic Church during the Cold War period.

Homsexuality during the reign of Frances

Pope Francis’s Initiatives:

Pope Francis has moved towards greater inclusivity, including allowing blessings for same-sex couples in specific contexts, a significant shift in the Church’s stance. He has also spoken out against laws that criminalize homosexuality and has emphasized the Church’s welcoming of all people, according to PBS.

Transgender Inclusion:

The Vatican has also released a document outlining the inclusion of transgender people in Catholic sacraments, allowing them to be baptized and serve as godparents and witnesses.

Legal Status in Vatican City:

Vatican City does not have laws criminalizing same-sex sexual activity between consenting adults.

 The Bottom Line

Pope Frances, formally Jorge Mario Bergoglio, was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 13 March 2013 until his death. He was the first pope to be a Jesuit, the first Latin American, the first from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first born or raised outside Europe.

In his preaching at Santo Spirito Church in Sassia close to the Vatican, on Sunday 11 April, 2021, Pope Francis claimed that the ideal of sharing property — in contrast to private ownership — is “pure Christianity and not Communism“.

Pope John Paul II consistently criticized communism, viewing it as an atheistic system that suppressed individual dignity and freedom. He believed it was inherently flawed and ultimately self-destructive. While acknowledging his role in inspiring resistance, he emphasized that the fall of communism was also due to its own internal weaknesses and mistakes.

Here are some key points from his teachings on communism:

Atheistic System:

John Paul II saw communism as inherently atheistic, emphasizing its rejection of God and spiritual values.

Suppression of Individual Dignity:

He criticized communism for its focus on collective interests at the expense of individual rights and freedoms.

Flawed Social System:

He argued that communism failed to deliver true social justice and economic prosperity, instead leading to oppression and poverty.

Self-Destructive Nature:

John Paul II believed that communism’s internal contradictions and failures ultimately led to its collapse.

Inspired Resistance:

He played a significant role in inspiring resistance to communism, particularly in Eastern Europe, but acknowledged that the fall was also due to other factors.
For example, he stated, “It would be simplistic to say that Divine Providence caused the fall of Communism. In a certain sense Communism as a system fell by itself. It fell as a consequence of its own mistakes and abuses. It proved to be a medicine more dangerous than the disease itself” according to a post on Medium.

His words and actions, especially during his visit to Poland, were seen as a catalyst for the weakening of communist regimes in Eastern Europe.

Frances was a Communist Cleric.

What Catholics globally are praying for is a Catholic Pope like Saint John Paul II.

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The Most Significant Accomplishments of Trump’s First 100 Days

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By Family Research Council

Since Franklin D. Roosevelt ushered in the New Deal in 1933 in just three months, historians have measured a president’s success or failure by its first 100 days. As we reach President Trump’s 100th day in office, the 47th president’s second administration has taken a whirlwind of decisive actions to protect life, end artificial support for extreme transgender ideology, uphold religious liberty, secure America’s southern border, restore national sovereignty, and return to a traditional America First foreign policy fostering peace and prosperity.

President Trump’s second first-100-days in office have been “all about one thing: promises made and promises kept. And we have pages and pages and pages of those promises being kept already in just 100 days,” Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) told “This Week on Capitol Hill” host Tony Perkins ahead of this week’s milestone.

Here are some of the president’s most significant accomplishments since his recent return to the Oval Office.

Abortion: Protecting Pro-Life Rights

President Trump began protecting pro-life advocates’ unalienable right to freedom of speech, reversing his predecessor’s weaponization of government against pro-life Christians, and stopping pro-life taxpayers from financing abortion on day one. By the afternoon of January 20 — inauguration day — a Biden-era government website promoting abortion, ReproductiveRights.gov, had gone offline.

On January 23, Trump kept a campaign promise he had made at the 2023 Pray Vote Stand Summit by signing the pardon of 23 pro-life advocates jailed by the Biden-Harris administration. “This is a great honor to sign this,” said the president as he held the pardon aloft in the Oval Office.

The Biden-Harris Justice Department imprisoned many of those nearly two dozen pro-life advocates under a novel legal theory that accused them of violating both the Federal Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act and the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871. From this time forward, the Justice Department will only press charges under the FACE Act if the allegation results in “death, serious bodily harm, or serious property damage,” announced the Trump administration in a January 24 memo. “Cases not presenting significant aggravating factors can adequately be addressed under state or local law.”

Trump also protected U.S. taxpayers from funding foreign abortions and many abortions in the United States. A January 24 presidential memorandum reinstated his 2017 Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance (PLGHA), which assures U.S. taxpayers shall not be forced to pay any foreign organization that commits, refers, or advocates for abortion. The action also aims “to ensure that U.S. taxpayer dollars do not fund organizations or programs that support or participate in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization.”

The same day, Trump signed an executive order “Enforcing the Hyde Amendment,” which assures the nearly five-decade-old policy embraced by President Jimmy Carter will be respected for the next four years. Although a younger Joe Biden voted for the Hyde Amendment — which safeguards taxpayer funds from footing the bill for most abortions through Medicaid — the White House detailed how the Biden-Harris administration subsequently undermined this longstanding norm by compelling taxpayers to underwrite “abortion-related travel expenses,” while “the Department of Veterans Affairs allowed hospitals to provide abortions, and the Department of Health and Human Services paid for abortions for illegal immigrants.”

Additionally, in March the Trump administration held up tens of millions of dollars in Planned Parenthood funding over allegations the nation’s largest abortion business adopted so-called “diversity, equity, and inclusion” policies that violated federal civil rights laws. Leakers have said this may presage a larger administration initiative to defund Planned Parenthood, which received $699.3 million in taxpayer funding and carried out 392,712 abortions in its 2022-2023 fiscal year.

The Trump administration’s pro-life actions should prove popular. Three out of four Americans (73%) oppose taxpayer-funded abortions overseas, and nearly six out of 10 of Americans (57%) oppose using federal funds for abortions at home, according to a Marist poll released in January.

Symbolically, Vice President J.D. Vance delivered a speech in person at the 2025 March for Life, and Trump sent a recorded message to the annual pro-life gathering. In his first administration, Trump became the first sitting president to speak to the March for Life in the flesh.

Extreme Transgender Ideology

President Trump has opposed extreme gender ideology from day one, protecting children from transgender hormone injections or surgeries, sheltering battered women and female prisoners from men who say they identify as female, and maintaining fairness in women’s sports.

On his first day in office, Trump signed the executive order “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” which said the federal government recognizes only two sexes, based in observable biological reality, from the moment of fertilization. “‘Female’ means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell,” says the order. “‘Male’ means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell.”

Eight days later, the president’s executive order “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation” ended taxpayer funding for transgender procedures involving minors, allows those subjected to such experimental medical interventions to sue, and may lead to the prosecution of those who carry out transgender surgeries. The predatory transgender industry’s “maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex … will be a stain on our [n]ation’s history, and it must end,” the order declared.

Trump underscored this in a March 4 address to a joint session of Congress, when he told American youth directly, “Our message to every child in America is that you are perfect exactly the way God made you.”

Trump made it official policy that the military’s emphasis on winning wars and lethality is “inconsistent with the medical, surgical, and mental health constraints on individuals with gender dysphoria. This policy is also inconsistent with shifting pronoun usage or use of pronouns that inaccurately reflect an individual’s sex” in his January 27 executive order “Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness” on January 27. The order reverses President Biden’s order opening the military to those who openly identify as transgender but grandfathers in those who have been “stable” for at least 36 months. The executive order stated that identifying as transgender prevents people from living an “honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one’s personal life.”

On February 5, Trump announced his administration would prosecute Title IX violations by schools or universities that force female students or athletes “to compete with or against or to appear unclothed before males.” Allowing males to compete in women’s sports is “demeaning, unfair, and dangerous to women and girls,” stated the executive order “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.” He also cut off student loan forgiveness for LGBTQ activists in a March 7 executive order, “Restoring Public Service Loan Forgiveness.”

The Trump administration has steadfastly implemented these orders against intransigent blue states such as Maine, led by Governor Janet Mills (D). On April 7, the Trump administration notified Maine officials that it would withhold all non-essential funding from the state Department of Corrections after it placed a 6’1” man who confessed to murdering both his parents (and his dog) in a women’s correctional facility. The Biden administration, by contrast, forced women to share prison cells with trans-identified male offenders and filed lawsuits against states that refused to go along with his orders. By January, 15% of all inmates in female correctional facilities were men.

On April 11, the Education Department announced it was moving to cut off all K-12 funding to the state of Maine for flouting federal law, cutting off prison funding. Similarly, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins held up USDA funding for “administrative and technological functions” in Maine schools that forced girls to change in front of, or compete against, boys.

Th White House released a theologically rich and inspiring statement celebrating Holy Week. One year earlier, then-President Joe Biden placed the weight of his bully pulpit behind a campaign needling Americans to celebrate the “Transgender Day of Visibility,” which also fell on Easter Sunday. Biden’s transgender proclamation ran nearly seven times as long as his Easter statement.

Trump press aides have said they do not respond to questions from reporters who put their personal pronouns in their biographies or social media profiles.

Restoring Religious Liberty

President Trump has established religious liberty departments within Cabinet agencies and recently hosted a conference on the violation of Christians’ rights. The administration has pointedly denounced violations of religious liberty and free speech rights by U.S. allies in Europe. Vice President J.D. Vance told the Munich Security Conference in February that the continent’s “backslide away from conscience rights has placed the basic liberties of religious [believers], in particular, in the crosshairs.” Days later, police handcuffed a 74-year-old grandmother for silently offering to talk to mothers outside an abortion facility. They charged her with violating Scotland’s Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Act, which carries a potential fine ranging from £10,000 ($12,600 U.S.) to an unlimited amount.

Securing the Border

On the president’s signature issue, Trump swiftly returned order to the U.S. border by reinstating the Remain in Mexico policy, ending the policy of catch-and-release, designating criminal syndicates such as Tren de Aragua and MS-13 as foreign terrorist organizations or criminal enterprises, and using the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport illegal immigrants. He also signed the Laken Riley Act into law and turned the CBP One app from importing to exporting illegal immigrants. He has deported 135,000 illegal immigrants to date.

His policies have proven effective. “Illegal border crossings dropped precipitously. In March, U.S. Customs and Border Enforcement said 7,181 people were apprehended nationwide between border crossings — a 14% decrease from February and a 95% drop from March 2024,” reported the Associated Press. As Trump told Congress, “The media and our friends in the Democrat Party kept saying we needed new legislation. ‘We must have legislation to secure the border.’ But it turned out that all we really needed was a new president.”

National Sovereignty

President Trump has restored national sovereignty by withdrawing from the World Health Organization (WHO), effectively scuttling any chance the global body had of seeing significant progress on the WHO Pandemic Agreement. “WHO proved itself to be a corrupt organization run by the Chinese Communist Party and global leftists,” Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) told “Washington Watch” earlier this month. “President Trump is acting boldly, swiftly, and decisively.” WHO reported a $2.5 billion budget shortfall shortly after Trump’s announcement.

The 47th president also promptly withheld U.S. taxpayer funds from the World Trade Organization (WTO), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).

The February 4 directive also ordered the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations to “conduct a review of [Ameria’s] membership in UNESCO,” the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. President Ronald Reagan exited the organization in 1984, but George W. Bush rejoined in 2003. Trump then withdrew again in 2018, but the Biden administration reversed that decision in 2023.

On February 6, Trump issued an executive order titled “Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court,” rebuffing the ICC for investigating U.S. personnel “without a legitimate basis” and for “issuing baseless arrest warrants targeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant” for committing war crimes in Israel’s response to the October 7, 2023, terrorist attack by Hamas.

Moving to Abolish the Department of Education and Hold the Federal Bureaucracy Accountable

In what may prove to be President Trump’s most consequential action, he has taken the first steps to abolish the Department of Education. On March 11, the Trump administration fired half of the Department of Education’s staffers. Although the DOE has spent more than $3 trillion since its formation by President Jimmy Carter in 1979, U.S. reading scores in 2023 were “not significantly different from the average score in 1971,” according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The action fulfills a campaign promise made in a July 2023 online video and repeated at the 2023 Pray Vote Stand Summit to “move everything back to the states.”

The same order directs the secretary of Education to assure all public schools abide by the “requirement that any program or activity receiving Federal assistance terminate illegal discrimination obscured under the label ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ or similar terms and programs promoting gender ideology.”

Trump’s executive orders and actions have also rooted out racially discriminatory policies branded under the label “diversity, equity, and inclusion” — which often include LGBTQ indoctrination — from federal agencies and sought to thwart bureaucrats who simply maintained DEI policies and offices under different names. Meanwhile, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has exposed federal waste, fraud, and abuse, and sought to make the vast federal workforce responsive to the will of the American people.

In less than 100 days, President Donald J. Trump has “accomplished more than most politicians and presidents accomplish in an entire lifetime,” Speaker Johnson told Perkins.

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By The Daily Caller

Vice President JD Vance will mark the administration’s first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term with a factory tour of the U.S.’s largest manufacturer of steel, the Daily Caller has learned.

Vance, alongside EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, will travel to Huger, South Carolina, on Thursday to visit a Nucor Steel Berkeley factory, which makes all its steel in the U.S., according to plans shared with the Daily Caller. The vice president and Zeldin will tour the factory while it is operating and then Vance will deliver remarks “touting the Trump administration ushering in America’s industrial renaissance during its first 100 days,” a White House official told the Caller.

“Nucor Steel employs tens of thousands of Americans in good paying jobs and produces key raw materials for defense, infrastructure, and domestic manufacturers, making our workers better off and our entire nation safer. The Trump administration is undoing onerous regulations and unfair trade rules to usher in an American industrial renaissance,” Taylor Van Kirk, the vice president’s press secretary, told the Caller in a statement.

With the president’s 100th day of his second term Tuesday, the White House has a week of celebration planned to tout Trump’s accomplishments. On Monday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt briefed reporters with White House border czar Tom Homan on the administration’s efforts to secure the southern border. Photos of 100 illegal immigrants arrested and convicted for crimes, such as rape and murder, lined the White House drive where reporters work.

Leavitt plans to brief Tuesday about the state of the economy and the administration’s work alongside Department of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. In an effort to tackle both the economy and the “industrial renaissance” he plans to build, Trump has enacted a flurry of tariffs on various imports. In February, Trump signed an executive order resurrecting a 25% tariff on all foreign steel and aluminum, a move he made in his first term.

Trump announced reciprocal tariffs on about 90 countries in what the White House deemed “Liberation day” at the beginning of April. A week later, the president paused the tariffs on the countries and implemented a 10% baseline tariff. The steel tariffs remain in place as of late April.

“In just his first one hundred days President Trump has accomplished more than Joe Biden did in four years. President Trump has issued a record number of executive orders and is speeding through his key nominations, and Vice President Vance and the entire White House are taking their cues from the president’s breakneck pace,” Van Kirk said in a statement to the Caller.

“Most importantly, in just a hundred days, Americans have become safer, more prosperous, and more free: Border crossings hit their all-time low, wokeness is dead, waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government are on the retreat, inflation is down, military recruiting is way up, and the president is forcing other nations to come to the negotiating table and start treating American workers fairly,” she continued.

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Soft Jihad in Texas

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By Amil Imani

Texas, the unbreakable heart of American freedom, is under attack. A creeping, insidious force is burrowing into the Lone Star State, and it’s not coming with guns or bombs; it’s arriving with land deals, mosques, and a calculated plan to transform Texas into an Islamic stronghold. The evidence is undeniable, the stakes are apocalyptic, and the time for action is now. This is not a drill but a war for the soul of Texas.

The East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) is ground zero. They’re not just building a neighborhood; they’re carving out a 402-acre Islamic fortress called EPIC City, a self-proclaimed “epicenter of Islam in America.” This isn’t about houses or community centers – it’s about planting a flag and claiming Texas for Sharia. Their promotional videos boast of a “meticulously designed community that brings Islam to the forefront.” That’s not integration; that’s domination. They want 1,000 homes, a mosque, Islamic schools, clinics, and a senior living facility, orbiting around their green-domed house of worship with 3,200 worshippers. This is a city within a city, a parallel society that answers to the Quran, not the Constitution.

Many of our elected officials don’t even dare to challenge Islam and its barbaric rules. They usually avoid any questions about the nature of Islam when speaking with their constituents or deceive them by telling them not to worry about the horrific things that are happening on the other side of the world.

This is alarming. But regrettably, too few Americans are aware of all this, and organizations such as the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) and other Muslim Brotherhood-linked organizations are taking full advantage of our naïveté. CAIR is only one of many Islamic organizations that provide refuge to stealth jihad.

At least Governor Greg Abbott has sounded the alarm, and he’s not whispering. “Sharia law is not allowed in Texas. Nor are Sharia cities,” he declared, unleashing a dozen State agencies that are investigating EPIC’s activities. The Texas Rangers are probing potential criminal violations, including operating an unlicensed funeral home, misleading investors, and breaching fair housing laws. Attorney General Ken Paxton criticizes EPIC for consumer protection violations, while the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has issued cease-and-desist orders for starting construction without permits. This is Texas fighting back, and it’s a beautiful sight.

But the enemy is cunning. EPIC’s leaders, like resident scholar Yasir Qadhi, claim they’re just building a “diverse community” that follows state and federal laws. Don’t be fooled. Their own words betray them. A viral video tied to the project brags about creating a “self-governed Islamic city.” Self-governed? That’s code for a no-go zone where Texas law is a suggestion, not a mandate. They aren’t here to blend in but to take over. And they’re not alone. Shadowy Islamic groups are acquiring land across Texas—Sachse, Aubrey, Blue Ridge—and even converting megachurches into ideological outposts. This is a coordinated invasion, and Texans are sleeping through it.

The X platform is ablaze with warnings. Patriots like @AmyMek and @Carlos__Turcios are exposing the truth: Islamic compounds are sprouting with zero oversight, and symbolic rituals are being performed to claim Texas for Islam. One post revealed a Pakistani ex-president invited by EPIC’s backers, openly preaching that “the resurgence of Islam can take place from the US.” They’re not hiding their goal—a caliphate on American soil. Another user, @JohnnyWhiskyTX, roared that while Texans are distracted by BBQ and football, their state is being transformed into Pakistan. Wake up, Texas. Your heritage is being stolen.

This isn’t new. Texas has been a battleground for years. Two Muslim lawmakers, Salman Bhojani and Suleman Lalani, have already pushed bills like HB 1044, which critics say lays the groundwork for Sharia-compliant family law. They’ve also secured “Muslim Heritage Month” for the next decade, a Trojan horse to entrench Islamic influence in schools and public policy. Halal certification schemes are bleeding Texas businesses, funneling money to fund lobbying and radical agendas. This is economic warfare dressed as cultural accommodation.

The opposition is fierce but not fierce enough. EPIC’s defenders, like Mustafaa Carroll from CAIR’s Texas branch, cry “Islamophobia” and accuse Abbott and Paxton of spreading “hateful misinformation.” They claim the project is inclusive and open to all. However, their actions scream otherwise. Death threats have poured in against the project’s critics, and locals are terrified of a loudspeaker blasting the call to prayer five times a day. This isn’t about coexistence; it’s about submission.

Texas history is forged in defiance—San Jacinto, the Alamo, the Texas Rangers. We don’t bow to foreign creeds or allow our laws to be trampled. However, the enemy is banking on our complacency. They’re counting on Texans to shrug and say, “It’s just a neighborhood.” It’s not. It’s a beachhead. If EPIC City rises, it will serve as a model for additional Islamic enclaves throughout the state, each gradually undermining the Texas way of life until a crescent moon supplants the Lone Star.

The fight is now. Gov. Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton are drawing a line in the sand, but they need every Texan to stand with them. Flood the Collin County Commissioners Court with demands to deny EPIC’s permits. Arm yourself with the truth—follow X accounts like @KamVTV and @EndWokeness for real-time updates. Demand transparency from your lawmakers and reject any compromise that smells of Sharia. Texas is the last bastion of American grit. If we lose here, we lose everything.

This is not a debate. This is not a discussion. This is a call to arms. Texas will not become an Islamic state. Not today, not ever. Rise, Texans, and defend your land. The eyes of history are watching.

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The Explosion of Foreign Funding at U.S. Universities

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By The Geller Report

Terror sponsor Qatar and Communist China are among the largest sources of funding to America’s ivys.

“The floodgates opened during the Biden era,”

You want these fiends dictating what your child learns?

Destroy young minds, destroy a country’s future.

Qatar and China Are Pouring Billions Into Elite American Universities

Foreign countries such as China and Qatar have poured $29 billion into campuses over the past few years. ‘Hostile powers are buying influence on American campuses at an industrial scale.’

By Frannie Block and Maya Sulkin, Free Press, April 28, 2025:

Foreign donors have given as much to U.S. universities in the last four years as they did in the previous 40, according to a new report by the Network Contagion Research Institute shared exclusively with The Free Press. The study shows an explosion in overseas funding for American schools between 2021 and 2024, with nearly $29 billion in foreign money donated during that period.

Qatar and China are among the largest sources of funding.

That $29 billion figure is more than double the total for the preceding four years, and accounts for half of the estimated $57.97 billion in foreign funding since 1986, when the federal government began tracking the data.

INFORGRAPHIC NEWLY REPORTED FOREIGN FUNDING, BY YEAR via NCRI

“The floodgates opened during the Biden era,” said NCRI’s co-founder Joel Finkelstein. ”This isn’t just a financial issue—it’s a national security crisis. Hostile powers are buying influence on American campuses at an industrial scale.”

Here’s what the NCRI study found:

Qatar is the largest source of foreign donations to U.S. universities since reporting began in 1986, with $6.3 billion coming from the gas-rich Gulf state.

Germany ($3.3 billion) was the largest source of foreign funding over the last four years, followed by China ($2.3 billion), Qatar ($2 billion), and Saudi Arabia ($1.9 billion). Almost two-thirds of the money from Germany ($1.9 billion) went to the University of Pennsylvania, including $467 million in a settlement last fall after the university accused a German pharmaceutical firm of improperly licensing their vaccine technology.

Qatari donations have ramped up significantly over the last four years. Nearly a third of donations from Qatar—over $2 billion—were given between 2021 and 2024.

The second-largest source of foreign funding is China. Chinese funding accounts for $5.6 billion and, as with Qatar, Chinese donations have increased sharply in the past four years, with $2.3 billion in donations from 2021 to 2024. China is the single largest source of overseas donations to some of America’s most prestigious universities, including Harvard, Columbia, and Stanford.

Harvard has historically received the most funding from foreign donors ($3.2 billion), followed by Cornell and Carnegie Mellon (which have each received $2.8 billion).

INFORGRAPHIC TOP UNIVERSITIES, BY FOREIGN FUNDING ALL TIME via NCRI

The findings come amid increased political scrutiny of foreign donations….

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AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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Good Morning, America!

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By The Geller Report

It’s morning in America!

White House displays lawn signs highlighting illegal immigrant crime

White House displays yard signs of the 100 ‘worst illegal immigrant criminals’ arrested in Trump’s first 100 days

By Danielle Wallace, Fox News, April 28, 2025:

White House lawn lined with the faces of people ‘arrested’ for sex and drug-related violent crimes

The White House lawn is lined with posters of 100 of the “worst illegal immigrant criminals” arrested in the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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Trump’s Wants Tariffs to Eliminate Income Tax for Earners Under 200K

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By The Geller Report

President Donald Trump said that some people’s income taxes will be lowered or perhaps even completely eliminated due to tariffs.

Trump is trying to move us from an income tax to tariffs. I love it.

“When Tariffs cut in, many people’s Income Taxes will be substantially reduced, maybe even completely eliminated. Focus will be on people making less than $200,000 a year,” he declared in a post on Truth Social.

“Also, massive numbers of jobs are already being created, with new plants and factories currently being built or planned. It will be a BONANZA FOR AMERICA!!! THE EXTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE IS HAPPENING!!!” the president added.

Trump says trade tariffs could help cut income tax, focus on incomes below $200k

By: Ambar Warrick, April 27, 2025;

Investing.com– U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday said that his sweeping trade tariffs could help him cut income taxes for people making less than $200,000 a year, amid heightened anxiety over his economic agenda.

Trump repeated his past claims that revenue from trade tariffs could help the U.S. government reduce income taxes, although he has not elaborated on these claims.

“When Tariffs cut in, many people’s Income Taxes will be substantially reduced, maybe even completely eliminated. Focus will be on people making less than $200,000 a year,” Trump said in a post on Truth.Social.

Trump’s comments came before a May 2 deadline for the full imposition of his steep trade tariffs on China, which already appear to be sparking price increases for U.S. consumers. Media reports and social media posts over the weekend showed popular Chinese e-commerce platforms Temu and Shein had sharply increased their prices for U.S. customers last week.

A Bloomberg report showed U.S. customs duty collections surged over 60% in April, with the federal government collecting at least $15.4 billion in customs duties after the first wave of Trump’s tariffs.

But the figure is still a fraction of the income tax revenue collected by the federal government, and will need to be far greater to support Trump’s assertions of lower income tax.

Treasury data showed the government has collected about $2.26 trillion in tax revenue so far in fiscal 2025, with over 50% of the revenue coming from individual income taxes.
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Trump had earlier this month unveiled a raft of sweeping trade tariffs on major U.S. trading partners, although backlash against his plan saw the President postpone most tariffs. But he hiked tariffs on China to 145%, sparking a bitter trade war between the world’s largest economies.

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Pamela Geller

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WHITE HOUSE: 100 Days at the Border

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By The White House

President Donald J. Trump has delivered on his campaign promises to secure the U.S. border, achieving historic reductions in illegal crossings and apprehending dangerous criminals.

His administration has implemented tough policies, including designating violent gangs as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and resuming border wall construction, to enhance national security and public safety.

Through mass deportation operations and targeted enforcement, the administration has arrested over 150,000 illegal immigrants, including gang members and criminals, while drastically reducing the number of unaccompanied minors crossing the border.

The President has taken decisive action to eliminate sanctuary cities and cut federal benefits for illegal immigrants, redirecting resources to support American citizens.

His administration has also invoked the Alien Enemies Act to dismantle migrant criminal networks and shut down immigration apps used to exploit the system.

With measures like the Laken Riley Act and executive orders to streamline border security, his policies have transformed the border into the most secure in modern American history!

America is BACK & America is SAFE!

PROMISES MADE, PROMISES KEPT: Border Security Achieved in Fewer Than 100 Days

Since President Donald J. Trump took office, he and his administration have ushered in the most secure border in modern American history — and he didn’t need legislation to do it. President Trump has made good on the promises he made on the campaign trail to usher in an unprecedented era of homeland security.

Here are a few of those promises:

PROMISE MADE: “We will close the border. We will stop the invasion of illegals into our country.” (10/12/24, Aurora, CO)

PROMISE KEPT:

  • Illegal border encounters are down by 95%.
  • Illegal immigrant “gotaways” — the top threat to public safety — are down by 99%.
  • Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin: “If Fox were to send me down there right now, I would have trouble finding a single migrant on camera.”
  • CBS immigration reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez: “Typically, when we go to the U.S./Mexico border, we at least see one group of people who are trying to cross into the U.S. illegally. We did not see a single migrant.”
  • The Wall Street Journal: Border Crossings Grind to Halt as Trump’s Tough Policies Take Hold
  • Bloomberg: US-Bound Migration Plunges 99% Along Panama Jungle Route
  • The Washington Times: Under Trump, border catch-and-release has dropped 99.99% from worst Biden month
  • Los Angeles Times: California-Mexico border, once overwhelmed, now nearly empty.

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In the First 100 Days, the Trump Administration Has Taken Killers, Rapists Off Our Streets

This morning, images of the worst of the worst criminal illegal immigrants arrested since President Donald J. Trump took office were placed on the lawn of the White House for the world to see — highlighting the Trump Administration’s unprecedented effort to secure our homeland and send these vicious criminals back where they belong.

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Illegal Aliens Using Active Duty Service Members For Armed Security

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By Royal A. Brown III

114 illegal aliens and U.S. citizens arrested in raid of underground nightclub in Colorado Springs. Including active duty service members as patrons and armed security.

I wonder how busy the JAG offices in Ft. Carson, Peterson AFB, and other area military installations are this morning?

The troops did not just begin working there since 20 JAN 2025.

More of Lloyd Austin’s military legacy bites the dust.

100-plus undocumented immigrants detained in large drug raid at Colorado Springs nightclub: Officials

DEA reports more than a dozen U.S. active-duty service members were also in the club at the time of the raid.

Federal law enforcement officials said they detained more than 100 people who were in the country illegally in a raid at an “underground” Colorado Springs nightclub early Sunday morning.

The Drug Enforcement Administration said it also seized cocaine and guns during the raid at the northwest corner of Academy Boulevard and Airport Road.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, in a post on X, said the club is frequented by members of the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua and international gang MS-13.

“This morning @DEAHQ apprehended over 100 illegal aliens at an underground night club frequented by Tda and MS-13 terrorists. Cocaine, meth, and pink cocaine was seized. 2 people were also arrested on existing warrants,” Bondi’s post read.

The Rocky Mountain division of the DEA reported the multi-agency enforcement operation on X around 4 a.m.

“@DHSgov has taken more than 100 illegal aliens into custody. Drugs and weapons have also been seized at this underground nightclub in Colorado Springs,” the agency posted around 6 a.m., sharing a video of the raid.

The video shows dozens of men and women stream out of the front door of the building after law enforcement officers break a window.

During a news conference, DEA Special Agent in Charge Jonathan Pullen said Colorado Springs “was waking up to a safer community” Sunday after agents found pink cocaine, evidence of prostitution and drug trafficking, and firearms during the raid.

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Trump confident of Iran deal, says if talks fail ‘U.S. will lead attack on Iran’

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By Jihad Watch

The Biden appeasement days are gone, and Iran knows it. Trump fully recognizes that Iran is as much as a menace and threat to America as it is to Israel, so he has warned that he’ll deal with the Islamic regime accordingly as he stated: “You asked if he’d drag me in, like I’d go in unwillingly. No, I may go in very willingly if we can’t get a deal.”

Trump has clarified that it isn’t even an issue of being “dragged in,” as some suggest. 

Recall that earlier in April, Trump was explicit about America’s role in willing partnership with Israel against their mutual threat, when he stated that “Israel would take a leading role in a potential military strike on Iran along with the US if upcoming nuclear talks don’t succeed.”

And in 2019, Trump warned: “If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran…Never threaten the United States again!”

“America will ‘lead the pack’ in strike on Iran if no deal is reached, Trump tells ‘Time,’” Jerusalem Post, April 27, 2025:

In a wide-ranging interview with Time magazine, the US President discussed the possibility of a broader conflict in the Middle East.

US President Donald Trump said that if his negotiators are unable to reach a deal with Tehran, the US could lead strikes on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure.

“If we don’t make a deal, I’ll be leading the pack,” he said in a Friday interview with Time magazine.

He added that while he believed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could face a wider conflict in the Middle East if Iran’s nuclear program is attacked, the US would not be “dragged in” because it would help lead strikes.

“You asked if he’d drag me in, like I’d go in unwillingly. No, I may go in very willingly if we can’t get a deal.”

However, Trump told Time magazine that he was confident that he could make a deal with the Islamic Republic.

Making a deal with Tehran

“I think we’re going to make a deal with Iran. Nobody else could do that,” he said.

In the transcript of the interview, Trump added that he blamed the previous administration’s policy on Iran for the number of civilian casualties in Gaza.

“Iran was broke under Trump, and you know that, he knows that, broke. They had no money, and they told Hamas, we’re not giving you any money,” he said. “I blame the Biden administration, because they allowed Iran to get back into the game without working a deal.” …

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A New and Growing Strain of Anti-Semitism

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By Amil Imani

First published in April 2018

These two freshman Jew haters and anti-Semites did not waste any time attacking Israel and the Jewish people the moment they arrived at Capitol Hill. Like their fellow Muslims, they consider Jews and Israel the sworn enemies of Islam. This hostility dates to the time of Muhammad’s treatment of the Jews in Medina. At first, expediently, Muhammad called the Jews “people of the book,” and accorded them a measure of tolerance until he gained enough power to unleash his devastating wrath upon them.

“Israel has hypnotized the world,” Omar tweeted in 2012. “May Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.”

Anti-Semitism has always existed throughout the ages for no valid reason. However, there is a new strain of violent anti-Semitism now widespread throughout the left, permeating deep into the Democrat party’s lowest and highest echelons and their left wing. It is a raw Jew-hatred that disguises itself as “anti-Zionism.”

For days, the Democrats struggled with whether to discipline lawmaker Ilhan Omar for her anti-Semitic views, debating whether Omar, one of two Muslim women in Congress, should be singled out, what other types of bias should be condemned in the text, and whether the party would tolerate opposing views on Israel. However, they could not find a way to blame her simply because she is a Muslim. Muslims all over the world receive a free pass because elected officials fear being labeled racist, even though Islam is not a race.

By granting Omar a free pass, the Democratic Party officially announced that using anti-Semitic diatribes will be tolerated at the highest level of the Democratic Party. It was disheartening when 22 Senate Democrats, including five presidential candidates, voted against legislation aimed at curbing the anti-Semitic boycott movement.

It appears that anti-Semitism is being normalized at the highest levels of government. Is it shocking that the hatred of Jews has seeped into academia, where thousands of professors support the anti-Semitic boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement?

Many universities in the U.S. are bastions and incubators of Useful Idiots. Far-left professors do more than teach their specialty subjects; they feel that they have a license to pontificate on any and all matters. That is why they are called “professors.” These self-appointed prima donnas cover themselves with the shield of academic freedom. Academic freedom is like liberty- it can be abused often and greatly. That is the price of liberty. Yet these abusers of freedom, the far left, will be among the first to be buried under the rubble of a free society’s collapse that they work so doggedly to bring about.

For example, a university professor refused to write a letter of recommendation for his student when he discovered she was planning to study in Israel. Then, more than 1,000 of his colleagues signed a petition in his support, stating they would do the same thing. This is an unbelievable response and unconscionable in the extreme to witness such bigoted behavior on display at an American university.
Unfortunately, social media has become a gutter filled with anti-Semitic websites, posts, and comments that reinforce, encourage, and publicize Jew-hatred. I personally have been banned by both Twitter and Facebook for no reason at all except for telling the truth and posting a picture of a Palestinian terrorist. There is no accountability whatsoever as to why Muslim terrorists and their fellow Democrats are free to say and post anything without repercussions. At the same time, a conservative is banned or has his account closed for expressing his factual and accurate opinion.

It is long overdue for responsible journalists and editors to oversee news and editorials, putting an end to the anti-Israel or anti-Jewish bias that often carries anti-Semitic undertones and presenting the unfiltered facts.

This does not imply that Israel cannot be criticized, but it does mean that it should be covered with the same level of objectivity as other countries and that its actions should be placed in historical and synchronous context.

In short, the Democratic Party has officially aligned itself with other anti-Semitic groups around the world.

The Democratic Party has deliberately put America on a precarious path to lose its freedom, American values, religious freedom, and much more. We must not only reject this but also be as vocal as possible in declaring the current Democratic Party an adversary of the United States and our Constitution. Their racist and tacit actions against the Jews must be condemned at all levels. The Democratic Party is no longer the party of JFK or Harry Truman; it has become the greatest threat to our national security and America’s survival as a nation.

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DHS Spox Touts ‘Major Success’ In Florida After Nabbing Nearly 800 Illegals In 4 Days

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By The Daily Caller

Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin described the arrest records of some illegal immigrants arrested by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as part of “a large-scale operation” during a Saturday evening appearance on Fox News.

Federal, state and local law enforcement carried out Operation Tidal Wave in Florida, arresting nearly 800 illegal immigrants during the four-day operation, according to a post on X by Fox News reporter Bill Melugin. McLaughlin said the sweep was a “preview” of additional operations.

“This was a major success, it was a large-scale operation. And to your point, this is a preview of what is to come throughout the nation,” McLaughlin said. “We have partnerships under 287(g) authorities that Secretary [of Homeland Security Kristi] Noem signed, and this empowers state and local law enforcement to actually be able to use their enforcement authority to carry out immigration enforcement.”

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Section 287(g) was enacted in 1996 and allows ICE to delegate certain functions to state and local law enforcement agencies, according to ICE’s website.

“What that means is they can actually make arrests and clean up our streets get these criminal aliens off our streets,” McLaughlin said. “So, like you said, almost 800 aliens including MS-13 gang members, convicted murderers, rapists, all of these people are now off of our streets who otherwise have been acting with impunity and terrorizing U.S. communities. You are going to be seeing this throughout the country, and I think that Americans are going to be really thrilled with the results under this administration in the next 100 days.”

Ramon Ciro Castaneda (Department of Homeland Security)

Among the illegal immigrants arrested were Ramon Ciro Castaneda and Carlos Perez-Perez, members of the Venezuelan prison Tren de Aragua (TdA) and each under a “Final Order of Removal,” according to summaries provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation by the Department of Homeland Security.

“This success and massive operation is a window into what is to come throughout the country for the next 100 days of the Trump administration,” McLaughlin told the DCNF when reached for comment. “Our state and local law enforcement are heroes as we execute on the president’s mandate to secure the border, remove illegal aliens and make America safe.”

Carlos Perez-Perez (Department of Homeland Security)

President Donald Trump issued multiple executive orders to address border security and illegal immigration upon taking office Jan. 20, including designating Mexican drug cartels, TdA and the Salvadoran gang MS-13 as foreign terrorist organizations, while invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to speed up the deportation of members of the two gangs on March 15.

McLaughlin also commented on the Friday arrest of Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan on obstruction charges after she allegedly misdirected ICE agents seeking to arrest an illegal immigrant who had a hearing before her on April 18 before escorting the illegal immigrant out through a back door.

“This is just beyond the pale. I mean, take the Wisconsin judge. The fact she let this individual this illegal alien. American people should know the charges against him more. Strangulation, suffocation, battery, other domestic abuse charges. This is no innocent guy,” McLaughlin said. “As far as the New Mexico case it went beyond just harboring this member of Tren de Aragua.”

“The wife and that judge went so far as to destroy evidence including two photos on this criminal illegal alien’s phone that showed decapitated individuals, he was sending that around,” McLaughlin continued. “They went so far as to take a hammer and destroy this phone so that police couldn’t access this. We are going continue to go after these activist judges, especially in such egregious cases like this.”

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By Udi Geva

Raviv Drucker (left Israeli journalist) and Biden’s people are admitting for the first time what we all knew: the Biden administration tried to replace the elected government of the State of Israel — an act that constitutes an infringement of the state’s sovereignty at the most serious level.

If it is definitively established, in the congressional investigation currently underway, that certain left-wing organizations did indeed receive funds from the government for this purpose, there will be joy here, and above all, they will make them and their managers very happy in Washington.

It will be interesting.

Tamir Morag

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The script summary of the video:

“Suspects of undermining the democracy of the State of Israel and U.S. Congress future hearing of two Israeli left leaders.”

“The U.S. Government is sending to two Israeli left leaders invitation of hearing letters for Suspects of undermining the democracy of the State of Israel ( an ally of USA), with funding support from the Biden administration for this Illegal purpose

target.

In the last two years, six Israeli-U.S. groups received these letters from the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives Brian Musk. They were told about a deadline to submit all documents.

Eliad Shraga, founder of an Israeli leftist group, and Eran Schwartz, Chairman of “blue amd white“ group, are asking for documents of all the funds that went into their organizations and from which organizations the funds came. They are also being warned not to destroy evidence and received messages. These is called testimony but actually they are complicated investigations.

One of the services of the Israeli FBI (Shabak-Shin Bet) is to avoid this type of funding support, but the Americans are doing this exact job, instead of the “Shin Bet” in the last few years.

What happened here at the demonstration against the Israeli government before the war was political consulting.”

Video — for distribution as public knowledge.

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Trump 2028 Merchandise Appears in His Online Store, and the Left Goes Mad

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By Jihad Watch

Trump 2028 merchandise, including t-shirts, hats, and can coolers, are now available for sale in Trump’s official online store. The t-shirt says “TRUMP 2028 (Rewrite the Rules),” and the ad copy adds cheerfully: “The future looks bright! Rewrite the rules with the new Trump 2028 t-shirt.” As you may expect, heads are already exploding on the left.

A leftist who has over 41,000 followers on X and exhorts them to “Resist” summed up a common leftist response to Trump’s floating the idea of a third term by writing, “The ‘Trump 2028’ push is a calculated campaign to normalize authoritarianism in America. With 270 million followers, Musk is the most powerful political amplifier alive – and he’s using that reach to casually mainstream the idea of a dictatorship.” On ABC30 Action News’ post about the store offerings, one woman commented, “Hell no, please impeach this man already!” Ah, yes, the Democrats’ perennial fallback strategy.

The establishment media, meanwhile, hastened to remind the world that the 22nd Amendment says that “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.” The Guardian warns that “any serious effort to amend the founding document would send the United States into uncharted territory.” Yeah, who ever heard of the Constitution being amended? Uncharted territory, indeed.

And in late March, when Trump suggested that he was interested in a third term and that the 22nd Amendment wasn’t an insurmountable obstacle (although in all the excitement, it has been completely forgotten that he also said, “I’m not looking at that” and “I don’t even want to talk about a third term now”), New York Magazine stopped hyperventilating long enough to publish an article entitled: “If Trump Gets a 3rd Term, Democracy Will Have Already Ended.” Yeah, yeah, just like we have all died from COVID two or three times over by now.

Amid all the hysteria over Trump’s third term talk, one salient detail seems to have been widely forgotten: He would have to win the 2028 election to remain in the Oval Office after Jan. 20, 2029. The Trump 2028 merch in the Trump online store takes that for granted; otherwise, there would be no need to mention the next presidential election year. No one is talking about canceling elections and ruling as a dictator except leftists who are claiming that Trump wants to do that.

Also, the idea of a president serving a third term didn’t become a symptom of authoritarian dictatorship until Trump started talking about it. Barack Obama said in 2015, “I am in my second term. It has been an extraordinary privilege for me to serve as President of the United States. I cannot imagine a greater honor or a more interesting job. I love my work. But under our Constitution, I cannot run again. I can’t run again. I actually think I’m a pretty good President — I think if I ran, I could win. But I can’t.”

Obama also famously said in late 2020, “I used to say if I can make an arrangement where I had a stand-in or front-man or front-woman and they had an earpiece in and I was just in my basement in my sweats looking through the stuff and I could sort of deliver the lines while someone was doing all the talking and ceremony, I’d be fine with that because I found the work fascinating.” Hmm, could it be that exactly that plan was implemented from 2021 to 2025?

Whether it was or not, nobody was running around spreading the-sky-is-falling hysteria about Obama’s third term talk. And back when Franklin Delano Roosevelt broke a 150-year-old precedent and was elected not only to a third, but also to a fourth term, it was Republicans who pushed through the 22nd Amendment in the first place. Back then, Democrats were the ones assuring the world that the republic was not endangered if someone were elected to the presidency three or more times.

But this is Trump, and so it’s a vastly different story. And while the president himself has remained resolutely mum about how exactly he could run in 2028, the online store offerings prompted a new flurry of speculation. Eric Trump was photographed wearing the Trump 2028 hat; could he be thinking of a 2028 run? Or Donald Trump Jr., who has already been rumored to be considering a run?

Or is the whole thing a joke, another instance of Trump’s masterful trolling of the left? Elon Musk seems to think so, as he reposted the photo of Eric Trump wearing a Trump 2028 hat with fire and laughing emojis. The left’s hysteria over a Trump third term certainly shows up its hypocrisy and Trump derangement, and keeps it in the perpetual limbo of hating Trump rather than formulating a positive policy program that might actually appeal to Americans.

And so, in response to the Trump online store offerings, the best course of action is clear: grab some popcorn and watch the show, as the master troll drives those who would destroy him crazy once again.

This column orignially appeared in PJMedia.

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Tulsi Gabbard Gives the Deep State the Boot

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By Family Research Council

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard referred two intelligence officials to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution over their alleged leaks of classified information Wednesday.

The two officials reportedly leaked top-secret military information to The Washington Post and The New York Times, purportedly to hamper President Donald Trump’s foreign policy and stir up public opinion for their own partisan political gain.

“Politicization of our intelligence and leaking classified information puts our nation’s security at risk and must end,” Gabbard told Fox News, noting that a third criminal referral is on its way. “Those who leak classified information will be found and held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.”

This isn’t the first time Gabbard has cracked down on intelligence community leakers. In March, she announced her department’s intention to aggressively pursue such activity and gave examples of how leakers recently shared classified info ranging from American intel on Israel and Iran to the U.S.’s relationship with Russia with left-wing media allies such as The Huffington Post, The Washington Post, and NBC.

At the time, Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton (R) praised Gabbard for working to end “the weaponization of the intelligence community.”

Yet the weaponization of the intelligence community against the Trump administration is far from over. Gabbard’s recent criminal referrals for two intelligence leakers come as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faces a slew of coordinated media attacks meant to slander his reputation and give him the boot at the Pentagon — all thanks to partisan intel officials leaking to their allies in the press. For example, The New York Times recently tried to resurrect “Signal-gate” by alleging Hegseth sent classified info via Signal to his wife and other personal contacts. NPR joined the psyop, by reporting that an unnamed “U.S. official” told the outlet the Trump administration is now looking for a new Defense secretary (the White House immediately repudiated the claim). Notably, both “scoops” rely entirely on anonymous sources for their articles (NPR’s “story” relies on only one anonymous source).

These anonymous sources are the partisan operatives within the intelligence community Gabbard hopes to root out. Because they are diametrically opposed to Hegseth and the threat he poses to both the military industrial complex and pointless foreign conflicts, as well as the PC-ification of the military, they regularly leak to their ideologically-aligned allies in the press and jeopardize the integrity and cohesion of Trump’s intelligence agencies.

“Leaking is always designed to damage a specific target and promote a narrative,” Chris Gacek, senior fellow for Regulatory Affairs at Family Research Council, told The Washington Stand. “The Deep State cannot be given free shots on goal. It appears Gabbard realizes this, and she is taking action.”

The Trump administration has learned its lesson from its first term, where leaks abounded and intelligence officials and federal employees — both overwhelmingly Democratic Party-affiliated — tried thwarting President Trump’s agenda at every turn, many times through coordinated media attacks made possible by anonymous leakers.

But this time around, it’s different. “We are aggressively investigating other leaks and will pursue further criminal referrals as warranted,” a Gabbard official told Fox News. “Any intelligence community bureaucrat who is considering leaking to the media should take this as a warning.”

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Victoria Marshall is a news reporter for FRC’s Washington Watch and is a contributor to The Washington Stand.

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Waste and Fraud Unmasked by DOGE Sparks Question — Why Didn’t Congress Find It First?

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By Family Research Council

So much waste, fraud, and inefficiency in federal spending have been exposed since President Donald Trump re-entered the Oval Office three months ago that it raises the question: why didn’t Congress shine the light on such outrages long before Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) came along?

Americans for Limited Government (ALG) President Rick Manning, for example, put it well recently, asking congressional watchdogs what they “have been doing over the past 20 years? Where was their spending oversight? Why have they not forced these systems to be opened up for public review so they could dig deep into the spending on authorized programs to determine whether they are being administered properly, and that the taxpayer has been getting their [money’s] worth?”

Manning’s question makes sense, considering what DOGE has uncovered barely three months into its deep-dive, including trillions of dollars in checks issued by the Department of Treasury — with no coding showing the purpose of the spending, billions of dollars of improper payments to ineligible or fictious Social Security, Medicare, pandemic, and unemployment beneficiaries, and millions of grant dollars to pay for things like transgender surgeries for Latin American men.

To get some answers to the question posed by Manning and others, The Washington Stand dug into the years of demands from congressional investigators to executive branch departments and agencies for millions of documents, threatened and delivered subpoenas, transcribed interviews, whistle-blower reports, and public hearings.

What we found can best be summed up in a comparison of what those sleuths looked at as a measure of their priorities in two years, including 2022 when Democrats controlled both chambers of Congress and Democrat President Joe Biden was in the White House, and 2024 when Republicans controlled the House, but Biden remained in office.

More specifically, we focused on one House committee, known in 2022 as the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (HOGR), and in 2024 after the panel was renamed the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability (HCOA).

In 2022, Democrats running HOGR were extremely active, but exposing waste, fraud, and corruption in government was not a priority. In 2024, Republicans focused almost entirely on waste, fraud, and corruption in government, but they met a solid wall of refusals to cooperate from political appointees and career civil servants in the executive branch.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney, a 30-year Democratic veteran of the House, chaired HOGR in the 116th and 117th Congress with Rep. James Comer, a Kentucky Republican, as the Ranking Member in 2022. When Republicans regained the House majority in 2023 for the 118th Congress, Comer succeeded Maloney as chairman. Because it has such wide-ranging investigative authority, the oversight panel is a major newsmaker.

Maloney’s HOGR publicly issued at least 189 official letters to government and corporate individuals and entities, providing detailed background information to explain and justify the panel’s concerns, as well as posing multiple questions to recipients who were expected to answer as if they were under oath. In only a handful of those many letters did Maloney go beyond questions and ask for documents related to the subject and issues in the committee’s investigation.

Sorting the letters according to investigative issues produces the following breakdown:

  • 26 of the 189 letters, or 14%, were focused on one of a wide assortment of left-wing ideological causes such as confirming the failed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the Constitution, converting the United States Postal Service (USPS) vehicle fleet to Electric Vehicles (EVs), weaponization of election disinformation, and the availability and accessibility of menstrual products, among others.
  • 17 of the letters, or 9%, focused on allegations that the 20 biggest fossil fuel corporations like Exxon and Shell were exaggerating their efforts to reduce carbon emissions and prevent climate change-caused disasters.
  • 14 of the letters, or 7.4%, concerned Trump scandal allegations, including classified documents kept illegally at his Mar-a-Lago compound, allegations of excessive rates charged to representatives of foreign nations staying at the Trump Hotel in the nation’s capital, improper foreign gifts to Trump, and claims various Trump family members and appointees profited from their positions in government.
  • 11 of the letters, or 6%, dealt with issues related to cryptocurrency.
  • Nine of the letters, or 5%, were devoted to allegations of food and supply-chain inflation.
  • Five of the letters, or 2.6%, questioned whether social media giants like Facebook were sufficiently aggressive in removing disinformation from the internet.
  • Only 14, or 7.4% of the letters covered issues of oversight of government programs such as the propriety of contracts awarded by the departments of Agriculture and Defense to particular firms, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) concerning its response to shortages of infant baby formula.

The balance of the letters, 93, covered a wide range of unrelated topics such as allegations former Washington Redskins’ owner Dan Snyder tolerated a work environment hostile to women, accusations New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) wasn’t doing enough to assure mental health care access for Riker’s Island prison inmates, Amazon labor policies and cheers for state-level programs such as New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s (D) “Cumulative Impacts” program.

Only one of the 189 letters was addressed to a federal agency — the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector-General (IG) — concerning the failure to produce documents requested on three occasions about that office bungling its investigation of allegations of sexual improprieties by government workers.

Notably, the HOGR did not ask the Social Security Administration (SSA) about checks being paid to dead recipients or the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) about improper payments to unqualified recipients covered by the Medicaid and Medicare programs. The improper payments issue has been prominent in the work of DOGE.

Maloney, who lost her 2022 re-election bid after serving in the House since 1993, could not be reached by TWS for comment. A spokesman for the Democratic minority members of the committee did not respond to TWS’s request for comment.

The oversight panel was even more prolific in writing official letters during Comer’s chairmanship in 2024, with a total of 210. And where only one HOGR request to a federal agency in 2022 concerned failure to produce requested documents, such requests were at the center of virtually every major controversy involving the committee in 2024.

Comer’s investigators encountered opposition from the Biden administration-led executive branch to virtually every request for documents, not just to those involving the controversial and politically sensitive corruption allegations related to the chief executive’s family business.

“Biden withheld tens of thousands of documents pertaining to his involvement in his family’s corrupt influence-peddling racket that generated millions for the Bidens and their associates. … [The White House] refused to hand over documents pertaining to its war on domestic energy production, which drove up energy costs for Americans and jeopardized our national security. And the Biden administration failed to provide critical information about President Biden’s border crisis. Thankfully, the Biden nightmare is now over, and President Trump is taking action to reverse President Biden’s detrimental policies and is providing transparency to the American people,” Comer told TWS.

For example, an executive order (EO) signed by Biden in March 2021 directed an executive branch-wide campaign to ensure voter access by, among other techniques, funding supposedly non-partisan groups conducting voter registration campaigns. Republican critics contended that those registration campaigns always seemed to focus on strongly Democratic areas.

Comer’s panel made its first inquiry to the Biden White House about the EO on May 13, 2024, seeking all documents concerning the drafting, implementation, and third-party organizations involved, to be produced no later than May 28, 2024.

“The executive order requires the heads of federal agencies to allow ‘approved, nonpartisan third-party organizations and state officials to provide voter registration services on agency premises.’ To date, the administration has not provided a comprehensive list of who these approved organizations are, the process for becoming approved, or any guardrails for agencies in implementing this order,” Comer said.

Three months later, in an August 26 letter to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Shalanda Young, Comer emphasized the delays.

“The committee received a short letter response from Office of Management and Budget (OMB) over one month past the deadline, in which none of the requested documents or communications were produced. Additionally, OMB has not provided a timeline for production of responsive documents despite several requests by committee staff to work with your agency on this matter to obtain the requested documents and communications,” Comer told Young in the letter.

Comer said a subpoena would be on the table if the requested documents were not produced by September 2. The documents were never produced, according to a committee spokesman.

Similarly, the oversight Republicans repeatedly pressed Secretary of State Antony Blinken to produce multiple documents and other unredacted records regarding the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (SPEC), headed by former Secretary of State John Kerry.

In a lengthy August 7, 2024, letter to Blinken, Comer pointed to multiple ways in which State Department officials evaded providing requested materials: “In a recent production to the committee regarding the SPEC office’s staff names and payroll information, the department made significant unjustified redactions and has withheld fully responsive information, thus undermining the committee’s ability to effectively perform its oversight functions.”

Comer further pointed out that it was “only after the threat of compulsory process did the department release some documents and communications revealing a sophisticated and targeted coordination between leftist environmental groups and the SPEC office that undermines U.S. foreign policy, energy policy, and national security policy.”

The committee also dug into the federal government’s chronic problem of improper payments, one of the most widely publicized examples of wasteful federal spending highlighted by the DOGE effort in 2025. In a March 26, 2024, statement, the committee noted the latest in a long-running series of reports by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on the vast extent of improper payments across major federal departments.

“The GAO’s new report found there were $236 billion in improper payments in Fiscal Year 2023. Nearly 80 percent of Fiscal Year 2023 improper payments are concentrated in five areas: the Department of Health and Human Services’ Medicare and Medicaid programs; the Department of Labor’s federal pandemic unemployment assistance; the Department of Treasury’s Earned Income Tax Credit; and the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program loan forgiveness. Since 2003, cumulative improper payments have totaled $2.7 trillion,” the statement said.

The panel’s Subcommittee on Government Operations and the Federal Workforce, chaired by Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) was the point of the spear in addressing improper payments, convening three hearings during 2024 to examine the costs, causes, and needed reforms.

Against the backdrop of hyper-partisanship that dominated Congress and the rest of the national political scene throughout the year, Sessions and Ranking Member Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D-Md.) demonstrated in those hearings that members of the opposing parties can still work together seeking workable solutions to national problems on Capitol Hill.

Asked by TWS about his relationship with the Baltimore Democrat, Sessions responded that “Mr. Mfume understands this main point: If you’ve got misdirected payments to the extent that we have, that means the people that money is intended for will not get it.”

In an October 29, 2024, joint letter to Comptroller General Gene Dodaro, who heads GAO, Sessions and Mfume recognized the obstacles presented by the lack of congressional access to vital documents and poor record-keeping by agencies.

“The subcommittee seeks to continuously evaluate whether agencies are getting better or worse at ensuring the levels of fraud seen during the pandemic will ‘never happen again.’ Unfortunately, because of limited or unreliable information maintained by federal agencies, the subcommittee has been unable to adequately assess agencies’ progress,” they told Dodaro.

As a result, Sessions, Mfume, and GAO launched a wide-ranging probe of why agencies too often seem incapable of eliminating improper payments and what Congress must do to fix things.

“We’re in the process now, because this is the first time in four years that we’ve had access to excessive amounts of misdirected spending. This is the first time we’ve had that kind of visibility. We knew numbers existed, fed to us by official people about money that was misdirected with, for example, COVID payments,” Sessions told TWS.

“But when you start going $400 billion here and this and that there, you are not really putting it all together for the State Department, USAID, EPA, and so forth,” he added. The Texas Republican is confident that the joint effort he and Mfume launched with GAO will yield concrete, long-term reforms enacted by Congress and signed into law by the president that ultimately will produce victory in the war against wasteful and corrupt spending throughout the executive branch.

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Mark Tapscott

Mark Tapscott is senior congressional analyst at The Washington Stand.

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A Christian Response to an Increasingly Violent ‘Assassination Culture’

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In a world where death threats flood phones and vandalism becomes a political statement, the words of Jesus in John 10:10 ring truer than ever: “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.” If we view the “thief” as the destructive forces of the world, the flesh, and the devil, it helps bring the chaos of our society into sharp focus.

We live in a paradoxical age — hyper-connected through technology yet profoundly isolated. Social media’s rise has confined us to digital echo chambers, where global communities and endless streams of information are just a tap away. You could stay holed up in your room and feel plugged into the world. But here’s the catch: this torrent of information is often warped, and far too many of us struggle to separate truth from deception in this digital storm. This isolation breeds a dangerous tribalism, replacing dialogue with division and turning disagreement into enmity.

Rather than bridging differences through open exchange, opposing groups retreat into cliques, shunning engagement. Worse, this herd mentality has fueled a chilling trend: the growing justification of violence to silence dissent, seemingly excusing murder as some kind of a “solution.” While this cuts across divides, the Left has notably embraced this path, as seen in the shocking reality of two assassination attempts on President Donald Trump during his 2024 campaign.

Another chilling example is Luigi Mangione, who murdered UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December. A few weeks ago, I spontaneously found myself at a random music event in which one of the opening acts (whom I had never heard of) sang a song called “The Rest of Them,” allegedly “inspired” by Mangione’s crime. In a grotesque display, the lyrics brazenly advocated assassination to eliminate ideological foes. It was as shocking as it sounds. And yes, my cue to leave.

The alarming desire to assassinate persists, with a Pennsylvania man recently charged for repeatedly threatening to kill not only Trump but also Elon Musk and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. This follows weeks of escalating attacks by enraged liberals targeting Musk’s company, Tesla, through firebombing, scratching, and vandalizing vehicles on both commercial and private property.

The Washington Times reports that death threats have now extended to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and her family. Federal prosecutors revealed that 24-year-old Aliakbar Mohammed Amin sent her this text: “Prepare to die, you, Tulsi, and everyone you hold dear. America will burn.”

The outlet noted that the death threats started long before Trump’s administration even took office. “The death threats began as soon as Mr. Trump started making nominations,” they wrote. “They targeted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, who was nominated as ambassador to the United Nations before withdrawing to help bolster the Republican House majority.”

Benjamin Ginsberg, a Johns Hopkins University professor studying political violence, underscored an undeniable truth: violence, though not new, is now erupting into plain view. “Hatred of Trump and the members of the administration is so severe, so intense, that normally sensible people are willing to countenance [violence], even if they themselves wouldn’t do it … directed against their opponents,” he stated. It is worth noting that conservatives are just as capable of using violence as well, it’s just not what we’re seeing.

For instance, a recent survey “found that about half of liberal-leaning Americans could ‘at least somewhat’ justify the assassinations of Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk,” and “more than half of liberals also said destroying Tesla dealerships is acceptable.” The survey was titled, “Assassination Culture: How Burning Teslas and Killing Billionaires Became a Meme Aesthetic for Political Violence.”

The evidence is overwhelming, and it strikes at the core of the issue. These violent acts — assassination attempts, death threats, cultural endorsements of murder — vividly embody what Jesus described in John 10:10. The “thief” — the enemy and the sin we confront — exists solely to steal, kill, and destroy.

As Christians, we have a duty to understand that this chaos — whether online or in our neighborhoods — reflects the depravity of a world lost in sin. This is not merely some societal crisis that will fade away if we just leave it alone. No, this is a spiritual battle that, in one form or another, will persist until the day Jesus returns. In fact, Scripture reminds us that “our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against… the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms” (Ephesians 6:12). The lies spread through digital platforms, the hatred fueling vandalism and threats, the grotesque celebration of murder in songs like “The Rest of Them” have the thief’s fingerprints plastered all over them.

What is the enemy doing through these acts? He is stealing, killing, and destroying. That’s all he knows how to do. And as a result, the world that he rules follows the same tactics. However, my aim here is not merely to draw attention to the brokenness we’re painfully aware of. Rather, it’s to call us, as followers of Jesus Christ — the true and sovereign Lord — to the response He commands.

Jesus’s words in John 10:10 don’t merely expose the problem; they proclaim the divine and only solution. “I came that they may have life and have it abundantly,” He declared. This, dear reader, is our unshakable hope in a world fraying at the edges. The abundant life Christ offers is anchored in the truth of God’s word, the boundless love of Jesus, and the certain hope of His eternal kingdom. Through salvation in Christ, this life is ours — eternal in scope, overflowing with glory, and available to us even now as we await its fullness.

Living this out means rejecting the world’s ways. In an age of misinformation, we seek discernment through prayer and Scripture, testing every spirit against the truth (1 John 4:1). Where hatred justifies violence, we are called to “love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you” (Matthew 5:44). In a world that denies God, we proclaim His truth boldly. As “ambassadors for Christ” (2 Corinthians 5:20), we must immerse ourselves in God’s word to counter lies, engage our churches to break isolation, and stand firm in love, hating evil and clinging to good (Romans 12:9). Above all, beloved, pray fervently.

Pray against the wickedness around us and the people who seek to do harm. Prayer is our weapon, not just for personal strength but for the healing of a fractured nation. The thief may prowl, but our God has already overcome. The violence and division we see are real, but they do not have the final say. Jesus’s abundant life — overflowing with grace, truth, and eternal purpose — is ours to embrace, untouchable by any thief.

Let us cling to Jesus’s promise, shining as light in a darkened world, and boldly proclaim God’s truth to a society dead in sin, desperately needing the abundant life only Christ provides.

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he establishment media propaganda will be that Israel struck a school. The Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad activities inside the former school building will be glossed over, buried way down in the story, or not mentioned at all.

 

“IDF, Shin Bet strike Hamas, PIJ terror compound in former Gaza school,” Jerusalem Post, April 23, 2025:

A group of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists operating in a command and control center was struck by the IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), the military announced on Wednesday.

The command center was embedded within an area that previously served as the “Jaffa” School in Gaza City.

The IDF expanded operations across Gaza earlier this month, as the military took control of several areas in Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahia, Rafah, and the Morag Axis.

This week, two female combat soldiers serving in the 414th Battalion were seriously wounded in the incident in which CWO G’haleb Sliman Alnasasra was killed in Gaza on Saturday.

An additional tracker was seriously wounded in the incident. According to Walla, CWO Alnasasra fell while helping the wounded female soldiers.

IDF troops in the Yahalom unit, under the Northern Brigade in the 252nd Division, destroyed an underground tunnel 1.2 kilometers long and 20 meters deep in northern Gaza, the military announced last week.

The brigade’s soldiers found a weapons cache near the route, containing a stockpile of approximately 20 explosive devices, an anti-tank launcher, and additional weapons….

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In Defense of Properly Teaching the 3R’s

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By John Droz, Jr.

I have frequently written that the two most important objectives of our K-12 education system:

a) should be clearly spelled out, and

b) should be consistent from State to State.

So far neither of these have happened — so the continued decline of our K-12 education system should be no surprise.

What are the two most important objectives of our K-12 education system? That graduates be properly educated so that they are:

1) proficient in the 3Rs (reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmetic), plus

2) critical thinkers.

I have repeatedly discussed the Critical Thinking part (e.g., here and here), but not as much the 3R aspect (as it seemed obvious). That said, I came across a wonderful commentary about the reading element of the 3Rs that I’m passing on. Thanks to Willis Eschenbach and his excellent “Illiteracy and Crime: A Dangerous Connection” which is posted below. I’ll add future commentaries about the other two R’s if I find the right material…

Here are a couple of depressing statistics.

  • About 20% of Americans are functionally illiterate, meaning they lack the reading skills necessary to navigate many everyday tasks, such as reading instructions, filling out forms, or understanding basic written information
  • About 70% of prisoners in US jails are functionally illiterate.

Clearly, illiteracy paves the road to jail. And this is understandable. If you can’t read, write, add, or subtract, there aren’t a whole lot of options for staying alive that don’t involve crimes of some sort.

We desperately need to fix this.

The first step is to reform our educational system. Here’s how crazy it’s gotten. In Oregon, they had a problem with functionally illiterate and innumerate kids being prevented from graduating from high school because they couldn’t pass the required 12th-grade English and math tests.

So did they improve the schools? Did they require further education for the teachers? Did they investigate which English and Math teaching methods work better than others? Did they institute special programs to bring the slower learners up to speed?

Get real. Oregon is a very blue state filled with the finest Democrats available. Here’s their solution.

They abolished the requirement that the kids have to pass the tests. They let anyone graduate, even if they can’t read one word.

That madness is happening in schools all over the US—keeping graduation rates up by simply lowering the standards. It’s not just Oregon. For example, Detroit has the highest functional illiteracy rate among high school graduates in the United States. According to research, only 18% of Detroit public school students demonstrated reading proficiency in the 2020–2021 academic year, and just 5% of 8th-grade Detroit students scored at a “proficient” level on the 8th-grade NAEP reading test.

As a result, the overall literacy rate in Detroit is approximately 47%, meaning that more than half of the city’s population is functionally illiterate. And surprise, surprise, Detroit also has one of the highest crime rates in the US. As I said above, illiteracy paves the road to jail.

So that lunacy has to stop. The best way to stop it is to make the tax money follow the STUDENT, not the SCHOOL. That way, the schools will have to compete to attract students by improving programs, conditions, and outcomes. In addition, it will encourage homeschooling. 74% of homeschooled students go on to attend college, compared to 44% of public school students.

Next, we need to institute a program to teach reading, writing, and life skills (budgeting, balancing a checkbook, communication, time management, etc.) in every prison in the nation. Yes, it will cost money, but I suspect that a number of people would volunteer to teach those subjects in prison if their safety could be guaranteed. And to make it work, we need to offer incentives to the prisoners to engage in the program.

As an example, in Brazil, there’s a program called “Redemption through Reading” (Remição pela Leitura).

For each book they read from an approved list and report on, inmates can reduce their sentence by four days, up to a maximum of 48 days per year. This initiative aims to promote education and rehabilitation within the prison system.

It seems to me that some variant of that system could be instituted to teach not just reading but math and the other life skills that the prisoners lack. This will give them the tools that they need to be able to survive without stealing.

Anyhow, that’s where my monkey mind has been wandering this Saturday evening. My very best to everyone — Willis Eschenbach

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