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Mark Steyn predicted the world we live in 20 years ago with the publication of America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It. Conservatives credit George Orwell for predicting the oppressive moves of our government, and rightly so. But as the world churns—as our oppressive but incompetent governments waste time, energy and money on foolish things like DEI and net zero—a darker and older threat has risen that surpasses the evil outlined in 1984. Muslims saw our weaknesses and exploited them. 9/11 was met with fire, true, but also wimpishness such as George Walker Bush calling Islam...

The woke mind virus is a terrible disease. VIDEO AT LINK.............. 🚨 SOMALI GIRL (Minnesota): "We shouldn't be illegal when this is literally stolen land."Unbelievable.Parents and leftist teachers are indoctrinating their youth into this ideology, and it won't end well.pic.twitter.com/DfMfsWxVEj— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 22, 2025The U.S. government didn't always hold up its end of the bargain when it was making treaties with native tribes that were constantly fighting each other and/or killing Americans, so that means Muslim tribes from East Africa can claim ownership to Minnesota? 🥴 I guess that explains the billions in welfare and tax fraud! I'll...

Hunter Biden just shocked the Democrat party by essentially condemning his father’s entire four years in the White House. During a rare interview on the ‘Shawn Ryan Show’ while promoting his new book, Hunter called out Joe Biden’s immigration policies for failing the American people and prioritizing illegals over veterans. “We don’t want immigrants coming here illegally, DRAINING us of resources, and being prioritized above people that are actual, literal heroes. People that are still recovering from years of endless war, or anybody else in our society,” Hunter said. Maybe this is why his family tries so hard to keep...

Former FBI agent and Navy SEAL Jonathan Gilliam says Trump should name a “Justice Czar” to coordinate both prosecutions and policy fixes. "This would be a slam dunk case for any US Attorney," he said. Aretired FBI agent who assembled major crime cases for years says Attorney General Pam Bondi has a “slam dunk” conspiracy case to prosecute former federal agents and prosecutors for election meddling for relentlessly pursuing Donald Trump for political purposes while protecting prominent Democrats like Hillary Clinton in the face of damning evidence. Jonathan Gilliam, a retired FBI agent and Navy SEAL, told the Just the...

Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Ken Martin has decided not to publish the post-election autopsy the Party has been working on since last year. "Look, we did our best to try to convince voters that Trump and the Republicans are fascists who want to undermine our democracy," he said. "But our message was drowned out by unfavorable media coverage and the inherent racism of white voters. The censorship of social media that was so successful during the pandemic lost steam as more folks began to doubt the effectiveness of the vaccine President Biden mandated. As data showed the vaccine didn't...

This week, acting US Attorney for the District of Minnesota Joe Thompson reported that "in addition to the billion dollars of fraud previously discovered another $9 billion has gone missing. The magnitude of fraud in Minnesota cannot be overstated. Staggering amounts of money have been lost." Gov. Tim Walz called Thompson's report "one-sided. He overlooks the initiative demonstrated by a number of our state's refugees from Somalia. Though most of these folks are poorly educated and have few, if any, marketable skills, a cadre of clever scammers were able to enrich themselves far beyond anything they could have hoped for...

Today I'm happy to announce the availability of the book Reflections on Violence, by George Sorel. A lot can be said about this book, but one of the keys to it is that the outlook it carries was instrumental to the syndicalism that motivated radicals in Italy in the early 20th century. It is a little outside of my normal focus but someone else started this work and then abandoned it, and I am aware of this book's importance so I continued its work to completion. It's been somewhat slow over at LibriVox these days, not that I haven't been...

A Georgia State Election Board investigation substantiated that Fulton County violated election rules in 2020 by failing to have poll workers sign required tabulation tapes for early votes in 36 out of 37 advanced voting precincts, affecting approximately 315,000 ballots. These unsigned tapes broke the chain-of-custody and certification requirements under Georgia law, which mandates signed tapes as the sole legal proof of authentic vote totals. During a board meeting on December 9th, Ann Brumbaugh, attorney for the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections, contends that Fulton County does “not dispute that the tapes were not signed.” Oof. So much...

Those on the left who label Robert E. Lee a traitor and call for statues of him to be torn down have no interest in the historical facts or good faith debate.On Tuesday, the Commonwealth of Virginia installed a new statue to represent the state in the U.S. Capitol. Virginia is one of the most storied states in the union. Some of the most prominent Founding Fathers were Virginians, and four of the first five presidents hailed from the Old Dominion. Out of countless worthy figures, Virginia chose … Barbara Rose Johns. Never heard of her? Well, don’t feel bad....

Inside a closed Los Angeles courtroom, something wasn’t right. Clerks working for family court Judge Amy Pellman were reviewing routine surrogacy petitions when they spotted an unusual pattern: the same name, again and again. A Chinese billionaire was seeking parental rights to at least four unborn children, and the court’s additional research showed that he had already fathered or was in the process of fathering at least eight more—all through surrogates. When Pellman called Xu Bo in for a confidential hearing in the summer of 2023, he never entered the courtroom, according to people who attended the hearing. The maker...

Former FBI Director James Comey got another assist from a Clinton-appointed judge Friday as the Justice Department looks to hold him accountable for his role in Russiagate. Last month, U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, a Clinton appointee, ruled that Interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan was incorrectly appointed and therefore, the charges brought by her office against Comey were “defective.” “All actions flowing from Ms. Halligan’s defective appointment … constitute unlawful exercises of executive power and must be set aside,” the judge wrote. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced at the time that the Justice Department would be appealing the ruling....

A convicted murderer who was scheduled to be executed in Georgia this week had his date with death suspended after the state announced Monday that it was considering a new clemency application. Stacey Humphreys, 52, was preparing to be put to death by lethal injection Wednesday, when the state Board of Pardons and Paroles saidit was ordering the suspension of his execution following an 11th-hour petition. Filed by the nonprofit Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, the petition, which received more than 1,400 signatures, highlights “profound irregularities that occurred inside the jury room” during Humphreys’ trial. “The Board has...

How Doubling the Workforce Doubled Government Revenue and Compressed the American Family SOLD AS: THE LIBERATION OF WOMEN Operational Pattern Beginning in the late 1960s and accelerating into the 1980s, cultural, political, and economic incentives pushed women into the full time workforce. The messaging framed this shift as empowerment, but the structural result was a dramatic increase in taxable labor. More workers meant more taxable hours. More taxable hours meant more state revenue without raising official tax rates. Observed Outcomes • Cost of living rose faster than wages • Dual income households became mandatory rather than optional • Time available...

The Tower of David Museum has recently undergone comprehensive renovation work and in the process, an astonishing archaeological discovery has been unearthed. Just in time for the Hanukkah holiday, when we remember how the Hasmonean Maccabees fought and gained victory over their Greek oppressors 162 years before the birth of Yeshua (Jesus), a huge section of ancient wall from the Hasmonean era has been found underground. The Tower of David is an iconic part of Jerusalem’s old city skyline, and has been made into an impressive museum. The Israel Antiques Authority (IAA) have been carrying out excavations at the historic...

US District Judges James Boasberg and Deborah Boardman have both turned down invitations to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Both invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. "Look," Boasberg said. "The title of the hearing session is 'Impeachment: Holding Rogue Judges Accountable.' We don't want to be held accountable. We're both members of a separate but equal branch of the government. Congress can't force us to be accountable to them." Senate Committee on the Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassly (R-Iowa) pointed out that "both of these judges have exercised powers that they do not have to thwart federal law and...

The Hidden Cost of Convenience: What We Lose When Technology Becomes Our ServantFor most of human history, progress meant learning more. Each new tool expanded capability, extended reach, and added to the skills a person needed to function in the world. But our relationship with technology has changed. Increasingly, progress means we know less while outsourcing more.Artificial intelligence pushes this shift further than any tool before it, and the coming wave of humanoid AI robots will accelerate it. These machines won’t simply take over hard labor—they’ll take over the small daily tasks and judgments that once formed the foundation of...

Hundreds of social service workers at the Minnesota Department of Human Services have identified Gov. Tim Walz (D) as the reason why fraudsters were able to steal over one billion dollars of public funds intended to feed the hungry, saying "Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota. We let Tim Walz know of fraud early on, hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud. Instead, he systematically retaliated against whistleblowers and did his best to discredit fraud reports. Meanwhile the perpetrators of the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme stole the money that was supposed to feed children during...

Renew group EU parliamentary leader MEP Valérie Hayer (of Macron’s Renaissance party) sitting next to close ally EU Commission Chief Ursula von der Leyen ========================================================== Europe’s embattled liberal-globalist elites erupted in fury this week after the Trump administration released its bold new National Security Strategy, which rightfully called out the EU’s anti-European positions, bureaucratic nightmare, and its diminishing geopolitical influence. Valérie Hayer, head of the EU Parliament’s globalist Renew group, exploded in response, calling the U.S. analysis “unacceptable and dangerous.” She even went so far as to brazenly label the Trump administration “an enemy of Europe,” arrogantly claiming Washington has...

Rahmanullah Lakawal, the Afghan national who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington DC, killing one of them, shared a close tie with an Afghan “suicide bomber” arrested in Texas the day before the shooting. The New York Post has revealed that Lakanwal and Mohammad Dawood Alokozay, who was arrested for making terroristic threats, both worked at the same US military base in Afghanistan for years. It’s not yet known if the two men interacted with each other at the base. “Alokozay used to be in this unit for six years. He was guarding the towers inside the base,” Gen. Haibatullah...

All over the globe, the digital control grid that we are all living in just continues to get even tighter. They are using facial recognition technology to scan our faces, they are using license plate readers to track where we travel, they are systematically monitoring the conversations that we are having on our phones, and they are watching literally everything that we post on social media. At this stage, many of us just assume that nothing that we do or say is ever truly private. We really do live in a “Big Brother society”, and the potential for tyranny is...