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What does the future hold? Let’s turn back the clock to the end of a year over a century ago. Posting this article has become an annual tradition ever since the grim end of 2012. It’s a reminder that the end of each year ushers in unknowns, but also opportunities for heroism. History does not stand still, and we should never assume that we know how it will come out. The next year sweeps around the earth like the hand of a clock, from Australia to Europe and across the great stretch of the Atlantic it rides the darkness to...

Here’s how our economy currently works. We raise taxes on working Americans to give the money to Somali non-profits who claim to help kids and who then give the money to a Somali political candidate who threatened to blow up a school bus full of America kids for Somalia. Meet Ubax Gardheere, who was part of a conference on how Americans are racist, who ran as a progressive and who did this. In 2010, Gardheere faced felony charges after she boarded a Highline School District bus making its morning rounds and demanded the driver inform his dispatch “that a national...

Australian Federal Police Commissioner Krissy Barrett (above) has faced criticism for saying the Bondi Beach terrorist attack was “not motivated by religion”. Commissioner Barrett had stated in the aftermath of the December 14 attack that the alleged terrorists were “inspired by Islamic State”.

“When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse,” Osama bin Laden said at the beginning of his talk taking credit for the 9/11 attacks. The line launched a thousand geopolitical analyses, was quoted by Thomas Friedman in the New York Times and was pored over endlessly by experts who completely missed the point. Osama bin Laden was not talking about great powers or nations, he was talking about Islam. “There is only one goaL,” Bin Laden continued, the supremacy of Islam. He followed that up with a quote from a...

Every year huge crowds gather in Paris at the Champs-Élysées to ring in the new year with fireworks and concerts. Much like the New Year’s Eve parties in Times Square in New York City, the joyous festivities are a key link in the chain of worldwide celebrations of the year to come. No more. New Year’s has been canceled in Paris. The New Year’s Eve concert was pre-recorded with actors pretending to be the audience. The fireworks will appear on TV. And there will be no one to count the countdown because the Champs-Élysées has become France’s latest ‘no-go’zone’. Ten...

The Biden DOJ went ahead and conducted its banana republic raid of Mar-a-Lago in 2022 in order to keep Biden as the nominee. (A plan that ultimately failed.) The raid went ahead even though the FBI warned about a lack of probable cause. The FBI did not believe agents had probable cause to raid President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in August 2022 — but former President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice approved the search anyway, according to newly released records. An FBI official even noted that agents had spent six “counterproductive” weeks trying to establish they had grounds for a search...

This is a special time for Christians, Jews and for the Muslims trying to kill them. On October 9, 2023, the Sydney Opera House was supposed to be the scene of a Jewish solidarity rally with the victims of the Oct 7 Islamic massacres in Israel. Muslim mobs instead took over, waving terrorist flags and screaming, “Where are the Jews” and F___ the Jews” while the authorities did nothing. Despite the widespread availability of videos and eyewitness accounts, the authorities and the media vocally denied it ever happened. Arson attacks at two synagogues, one of which was set on fire...

“I’m not going [up] to a Christian to tell him ‘I hate you’… but that does not deny the fact I do.” Should foreign nationals who hate America be allowed to come here and be allowed to stay here? Should they be able to set up institutions to preach their hatred for Americans? The North Miami Islamic Center, aka ‘Masjid As Sunnah An Nabawiyyah Miami’, which claims to be “one of the largest Islamic Centers in the state of Florida” made headlines before when Imam Fadi Yousef Kablawi called for the destruction of the Jews. Among his supplications at the...

Earlier this week, in ‘Easy A’s for Ivy League Idiots’ I wrote about the massive level of grade inflation in the Ivy League. In 2005, a quarter of Harvard students received A’s. In 2025, it’s over 60%. At Yale, A’s went from 67% of grades in 2010 to 78% of grades in 2023. The prestigious university has had awkward moments like before, such as when 91% of students graduated with honors in 2001, and these days it tries to keep the number of honors graduates in the 50s. But much like shopping in a supermarket, it’s hard to avoid the...

They didn't have a problem when Jon Stewart used it as his go-to insult again and again. Gov. Tim Walz is retarded. Not because he suffers from developmental disabilities or other medical problems, but because he’s an idiot. Everyone who isn’t Gov. Tim Walz knew exactly what President Trump was saying when he called Walz “seriously retarded”. The fake outrage over this is just that… fake. No one is seriously outraged over Trump using “retarded”. They’re pretending to be outraged to scuttle the investigation of Somali fraud under Walz’s watch, the redistricting battle in Indiana and because being professionally outraged...

The latest brutal act of Afghan refugee terrorism claimed the lives of two brave members of the National Guard in D.C.. Since their arrival in the United States, Afghan ‘refugees’ have been involved in violent attacks, in assorted crimes, and in sexual assaults on women and girls.The attack by Rahmanullah Lakanwal took place a mere week after another Afghan, Abdullah Haji Zada, was sentenced to 15 years in prison in the Election Day plot.Abdullah and Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, his Afghan brother-in-law, a former ‘guard’ at an American facility in Afghanistan, had plotted a mass shooting attack directed at “large groups...

They're not vetted. And they're not refugees. They're here to kill us. The killing of two National Guardsmen by an Afghan Muslim ‘refugee’ is only the latest act of Afghan refugee violence. Biden’s decision to import huge numbers of unvetted Afghans has created a ticking time bomb. The only way to defuse it is to deport them. In the years since Biden’s mass importation of Afghans, every possible effort has been made to try and legalize them. But one day those efforts will succeed unless they are removed from this country. We’ve been lied to over the years about Afghans....

Exposing Mamdani is “racist misinformation” according to the SPLC.The Southern Poverty Law Center took a victory lap after the death of David Horowitz, celebrating the passing of a man whom the leftist group shamelessly smeared as a “longtime anti-Muslim hate figure” and “a force in organized bigotry” and then attacked “mentees of his like Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA and Stephen Miller” for publicly honoring his memory.The SPLC did everything it could to destroy the man himself and his work at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, leveling false charges, putting us on a list of ‘hate groups’, and campaigning...

Billions of dollars in total in welfare fraud of every kind. President Trump has announced that he’s ending TPS or Temporary Protected Status for Somalis due to Minnesota becoming a “hub of fraudulent money laundering activity… Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great State, and BILLIONS of Dollars are missing. Send them back to where they came from. It’s OVER!” Freedom Center Investigates had been covering Somali fraud from the beginning. ...

The rise of a Nazi movement would play out very differently here.The recent debate around the ‘Groypers’ and antisemitism creeping into the movement has led to lots of Weimar references. And I’m as guilty of that as anyone else. But there’s a big problem with the Weimar rhetoric. America isn’t Germany. Germany was a generally conservative country with a similar ethnic population (apart from Jews and Slavs, both of whom the Nazis targeted) and a violent radical left as well as a less violent moderate left. The Nazis had a backdoor arrangement with the Soviet Communists under which both sides...

How did an Islamist socialist who posed with an unindicted terror bombing coconspirator become elected to head a city of terror survivors, the “most Jewish city in America” and how did he defeat an Italian-American political dynasty in what was once an Italian-American city? Because that New York City, the one people imagine from movies, no longer exists. In 1989, the last year of Mayor Ed Koch’s administration, Jews outnumbered Muslims roughly 4 to 1. By 2013, the last year of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration, the number of Muslims had doubled and the number of Jews continued to drop. ...

The New York City mayoral race and the New Jersey’s governor’s race is one of those times when the Jewish vote actually matters and the skew of the Jewish vote looks nothing like the stereotypes. President Trump personally reached out to the Orthodox Jewish community in New Jersey, urging, “I need all of my supporters in the orthodox community in Lakewood and its surrounding towns to vote in huge numbers for Jack Ciattarelli. Jack needs every single Vote in the community, including all the Yeshiva students who turned out to vote for me last year.” Conservative activists and personalities posed...

Three years before a leftist transgender-linked gunman murdered Charlie Kirk, a transgender assassin tried to carry out his plan to kill three Supreme Court justices to wipe out humanity. At one in the morning, Nicholas Roske allegedly showed up outside Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home carrying a gun, zip ties and tools for breaking and entering. Roske was angry about the Supreme Court’s ruling on abortion because he believed that abortion should be “mandatory for pregnant women” so that “no new people would be born” and “humanity will end”. Roske wanted to kill three Supreme Court justices so that “there are...

"Obama maneuvered behind the scenes to fight Trump"When Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted to express an opinion on gerrymandering, he issued public statements and gave interviews. Gov. Gavin Newsom and Trump certainly have been pretty clear about their positions. So have most elected officials.So why do we get this?How Obama maneuvered behind the scenes to fight Trump on redistricting – Washington PostWhy does Obama have to maneuver behind the scenes? He’s a former president. The most popular and prominent ex-president that the Democrats have. His name recognition is pretty much universal.So why all is maneuvering ‘behind the scenes’?It’s a good question because...

The taxpayer-funded deal was also labeled as ‘confidential.’ Chicago, Baltimore, sure they’re bad, but I don’t think any part of the country has a political class as completely insane, corrupt and entitled as California does. Unlike some of the blighted urban areas, SoCal isn’t naturally that dysfunctional, much of this is a choice, a choice to run a state and key cities like they were a UCLA campus takeover but with lots more money at stake. This is the work of a political class that has become self-electing and self-selecting to the point that being forced to run for office…...