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For decades the Iranian regime has brutally suppressed any uprising in country by shooting, beating, jailing, innocent protesters. The evil Shiite regime is famous for slaughtering young protesters in the streets during any political uprising. And for years, the protesters have called out to American leaders to help rescue them from the brutal regime. The regime’s anti-riot police are frequently filmed firing on innocent protesters in Iran. This sniper, filmed in 2022, was aiming precisely at the protesters in the crowd and firing his weapon. Of course, this is not the first time the regime was out shooting at protesters....

A confidential and classified directive issued by the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic has been leaked. The document orders all major Iranian banks, payment networks, card systems and financial institutions to immediately enter emergency operational mode in anticipation of nationwide unrest, sabotage, shutdown scenarios and regime-level crisis. The directive explicitly instructs banks to: • Prepare for blackouts and infrastructure collapse • Secure and relocate critical financial data • Activate crisis-mode parallel payment systems • Prepare for system shutdowns, mass disruption, and nationwide instability • Create alternative financial survival mechanisms in case the regime loses control In plain language: The...

Every December, the staff of the Martin Center share our higher-ed-reform dreams for the coming 12 months. Some are obvious; others are fanciful. We offer them all here in a spirit of optimism, for the reader’s enjoyment and edification. Turn to the Founders The Founding Fathers are a source of insight and wisdom that should be drawn on more frequently. Their writings on liberty and natural rights shed light on questions of human dignity. Their example of simultaneous restraint and boldness in the appropriate contexts provides a model of leadership. And their educational vision adds clarity to the purpose of...

Minnesota-based organizations that receive government grants are also raising money through ActBlue, the same platform synonymous with Democratic campaign fundraising. These donations are run through ActBlue Charities, the platform’s 501(c)(3) “charitable giving” arm. But these groups are still tapping the ActBlue infrastructure, branding, and donor rails while simultaneously drawing down taxpayer funds. This revelation comes as authorities have started investigating troves of financial fraud plaguing Minnesota-based NGOs and daycare centers run by Somali migrants. The newfound ActBlue ties adds a political dimension to this scandal. The following Minnesota groups are listed on ActBlue’s directory: Sabathani Community Center Isuroon Alight African...

One Big Beautiful Bill Act – car loan interest tax deduction is a groundbreaking new tax benefit that allows taxpayers to deduct up to $10,000 per year in interest on loans for new U.S. assembled vehicles from 2025–2028. This provision, part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025, aims to support American manufacturing and provide significant tax savings for vehicle owners. Below, you’ll find a comprehensive list of qualifying vehicles and all the key requirements you need to know to claim this deduction. To qualify for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act car loan interest tax deduction, your...

CHRISTMAS BIBLE-ART EPISODE #20 of 33 SHEPHERDS, FIRST TO SEE THE SAVIOR L U K E CHAPTER 2 She gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good...

VIDEOThe CNN "journalist" Whitney Wild, who attempted to cast ridiculous aspersions upon the reporting by Nick Shirley on day care fraud in Minnesota, has a record of absurd mendacity. Here is a flashback to June 2022 when Wild was reporting on the attempted assassination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the wake of the release of the leaked draft decision that could overturn Roe v. Wade.First Wild CONTRADICTED her own CNN chyron running below her, that stated that the attempted assassin was ARMED, by claiming it was unknown whether he was armed. She again flat out LIED by claiming...

MAYOR MAMDANI: "We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism."

This year will feature a barrage of bee ess from the left because every year is like this. Here are what they are, and my top five ways of beating them at their own game. 1. Self-labeling with positive-sounding words: This is the left's perennial favorite in lying with language – always labelling themselves with positive-sounding words that automatically convey a false impression of compassion and probity, putting them two steps ahead whenever anyone uses them. False impressions are created by the labels progressive, liberal, democratic, and even socialist. After all, who can be against progress, liberty, democracy, or being...

The city of Santa Monica is asking a judge to declare the two Waymo charging stations public nuisances and order that overnight operations be curtailed due to the effects of noise and lighting on nearby residents. The city's court papers, filed Dec. 24, say those who live near the stations have used such terms as "mini-Las Vegas," "living next door to a spaceship," "a circus" and "a city that never sleeps" to describe their plight. Residents also say they hear workers' whole conversations in normal speaking voices in the middle of the night, along with all the other sounds the...

This “block party” was a bust. Scores of Zohran Mamdani fans who braved freezing temperatures to celebrate the new mayor as he was publicly sworn into office Thursday were left disappointed by the bash the socialist pol had promised. Around 10,000 supporters stood outside City Hall during the event — billed as an “Inauguration for a New Era Block Party” by Mamdani’s staff — crammed into several barricaded pens without access to bathrooms or any food concession stands. Mamdani supporters watching the mayor speak at the inaugural "block party" at City Hall. “It’s definitely not a block party,” said Danny...

🚨NEW: @ScottAdamsSays shares devastating health update😞🙏 "I talked to my radiologist yesterday and it’s all bad news. So the odds of me recovering are essentially zero." "You should prepare yourself that January will probably be a month of transition one way or the other." VIDEO AT LINK.......................

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A strong earthquake rattled southern and central Mexico on Friday, interrupting President Claudia Sheinbaum’s first press briefing of the new year as seismic alarms sounded. The earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.5 and its epicenter was near the town of San Marcos in the southern state of Guerrero near the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco, according to Mexico’s national seismological agency. Sheinbaum resumed her press briefing a short time later and said that she had spoken with Guerrero’s Gov. Evelyn Salgado, who told her there was no serious damage reported so far. Residents and tourists...

A new report alleges that Somalia’s Foreign Minister Abdisalam Abdi Ali, a U.S. citizen whose Ohio-based healthcare company has raked in millions from American taxpayers, also controls an LLC operating out of the same address as a Somali money transfer firm previously accused of funneling funds to terrorist organizations. Abdisalam Abdi Ali was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Somalia in May 2025. Born in Somalia but building a life in the U.S., Ali established Ritechoice Healthcare Services LLC in Toledo, Ohio, over a decade ago. Shockingly, two additional healthcare companies operate out of the same office...

“The left can act with an insane decentralized unanimity typically seen only in the insect kingdom.” —Curtis Yarvin. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, flummoxed.All winters are winters of discontent, but some winters are more discontented than others, and this one is like being stuck in a smoke-filled sod hut on the lonely prairie, with lice crawling under your hair-shirt, while a sleet-storm rages outside. . . . And it was only just Christmas days ago! Immigrants, legal and otherwise, are the gifts that keep on giving. Minnesota is acting all indignant now over the discovery that its many thousands of Somali...

Not the Bee has been summoned. If you handed this in as a plot in a script, the studio would send it back because it just feels too unbelievable. But it’s real and radicalizing stuff. https://t.co/2t4RwNj7Tb— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) January 1, 2026Imagine Seth Dillon and Kyle Mann huddled around a table with the writers of The Babylon Bee. "How can we top this?" they ask. You can't! Satire can no longer compete with reality! Here's more links for the naysayers: LINKS AT SITE.............. It was already ironic enough that Somalia, the failed pirate nation known for war and chaos, is...

Minnesota’s sprawling welfare-industrial complex is once again under the microscope after a stunning investigation by NewsNation revealed that so-called “assisted living” facilities funded with millions in taxpayer dollars are, in reality, nothing more than ordinary single-family homes. According to reporting from Rich McHugh of NewsNation, Minnesota continues to shovel millions of Medicaid dollars to properties owned by a man already indicted in the state’s massive Feeding Our Future fraud scandal, despite overwhelming red flags and a growing list of exploited public programs. The properties are owned by Gandi Mohamed, also known as Gandi Abdi Kediye, who was indicted in February...

The US Coast Guard is searching for a 77-year-old woman who fell off a Holland America cruise ship miles away from the shore of Cuba. Officials said an unidentified woman fell off the Neiuw Statendam on Thursday about 40 miles northeast of the Sabana. In a statement the Coast Guard said the Air Station Clearwater MH-60 helicopter crew and the crew of the Cutter William Trump are assisting in the search. The ship was expected to make a seven-day journey throughout the Caribbean, returning on January 3, following its departure from Fort Lauderdale on Saturday. In a Statement to the...

A couple of years ago, in July 2023, I participated in a debate at the Soho Forum on the subject of immigration. The resolution for the debate was: “Resolved: The U.S. should have free immigration except for those who pose a security threat or have a serious contagious disease.” Alex Nowrasteh of the Cato Institute took the affirmative. I took the negative. Nowrasteh, a Senior Vice President for Policy at Cato, is known as a free immigration absolutist. And to his credit he had some good points to make. The most important one was that nothing increases world GDP so...

When the news broke of convictions for rampant fraud across several pandemic programs in Minnesota, the $1 billion price tag and over 90 indictments were staggering. We now know this is a very low estimate of the price Americans have paid to fund deeply corrupt state-administered welfare programs. snip The governor recently defended the state’s "generosity" which allowed Somali fraudsters to purchase luxury cars, homes and vacations at the expense of hungry Minnesotans. Its welfare state is widely considered a magnet for those seeking to become beneficiaries. Alarmingly, welfare is now the state’s single-largest annual expenditure — higher than education,...