President Trump’s Truth Social post last weekend which seemed to depict him as the Great Physician (though he later deleted it) serves as a reminder of why the biblical principle often described as the separation of church and state still matters.

Yes, I support that separation and always have. Let me explain.

When many on the Left invoke “separation of church and state,” they often mean the exclusion of God from government, suggesting He has no authority or place in public life. That is neither biblically grounded nor practically sustainable. As the Apostle Paul writes in Romans 13:1, “there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God.” Civil leaders get their authority from God.

And when governments deny or marginalize that truth, they ultimately erode the very foundation of their own authority.

Scripture draws a clear boundary. Civil leaders are not to assume roles or authority that belong to God or His ordained institutions, yet spiritual leaders are responsible for upholding those boundaries.

We see this vividly in 2 Chronicles 26 during King Uzziah’s reign. Israel was flourishing, economically strong, militarily secure, and territorially expanding. But success gave way to pride: “But when he [Uzziah] was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the LORD his God and entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense. But Azariah the priest went in after him, with eighty priests of the LORD who were men of valor, and they withstood King Uzziah and said to him, ‘It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the LORD, but for the priests…’” (2 Chronicles 26:16-18)

He entered the temple to burn incense, a duty reserved exclusively for the priests. Azariah and 80 priests confronted him, warning that he had crossed a line established by God. Uzziah’s judgment was swift and sobering.

The lesson is clear: God establishes both authority and limits. The king was not above those limits. The priests had the authority not only to defend the sacred but also to confront and correct the king. To do so, they needed to be independent of the king.

This is the proper understanding of the separation of church and state: civil leaders must not assume spiritual authority, and spiritual leaders must not surrender moral authority. It protects the church’s independence so it can speak truth to power — and it restrains the state from assuming spiritual authority it does not possess.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. captured this well in his sermon “A Knock at Midnight”: “The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority.”

When any political leader is portrayed — or allows himself to be portrayed — in explicitly messianic terms, a line has been crossed. And when the church remains silent, the line fades.

The question is not merely about one post or one moment. It is whether the church will faithfully serve as the conscience of the state — or quietly surrender that role.

Because when the line disappears, both institutions suffer — and truth is the casualty.

Tony Perkins is the president of the Family Research Council and executive editor of The Washington Stand. He also served two terms as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, and served as Chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.

Source: Biblical Authority And Limits: The True Meaning Of The ‘Separation Of Church And State’ – Harbinger’s Daily

It should go without saying that the First Amendment freedoms of conscience, religion, and speech are foundational to our constitutional order. The more these rights are eroded, the faster we will find ourselves on a path toward the type of political and social decay afflicting so much of Western Europe.

This should be a completely bipartisan position. Unfortunately, the Left’s growing hostility to people of faith – and particularly, to Christians who oppose abortion – has created an environment in which progressive politicians feel empowered to trample upon the First Amendment rights of pro-life individuals and organizations.

Thankfully, President Trump is prioritizing the protection of conscience rights and is taking long-overdue actions to address the many abuses of the previous Administration. A new report by the Justice Department’s Weaponization Working Group has revealed the full extent of the Biden Administration’s efforts to undermine the First Amendment rights of pro-life Americans. An extensive review of internal records confirms that the Biden Justice Department systematically weaponized the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act against pro-life Americans – an outrage that the ACLJ has fought for years to expose.

The findings of the report are damning: showing that the Biden DOJ worked with pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood to monitor and target pro-life activists with legal harassment; sought significantly harsher sentences for pro-life defendants than pro-abortion defendants; and ignored or downplayed violent attacks on faith-based Pregnancy Resource Centers.

Since the Supreme Court struck down the constitutionally factitious Roe v. Wade decision, progressives have intensified their persecution of pro-life activists and organizations, as well as the Pregnancy Resource Centers that provide ultrasounds and other services that encourage women to bring their pregnancies to term. Ironically, the people who never stop shouting about “choice” apparently do not want women to have the opportunity to do just that if it means choosing life.

The collusion between the Justice Department – an arm of the Executive branch tasked with the fair and impartial administration of justice to all Americans – with pro-abortion activists against their ideological foes flies in the face of the DOJ’s mission, and the animating spirit of our Constitution. This doesn’t just compromise the rights of pro-life Americans – it opens the door for future abuses by government officials of all political and ideological stripes.

As a person of faith and as an American, I am grateful to the current Administration for doing the necessary to defend the First Amendment liberties of pro-life Americans. We cannot have a country in which the government treats our constitutional rights as conditional, or as favors to be granted to preferred political constituencies rather than God-given liberties.

But the fight doesn’t stop here. While we can hope that the legal remedies being pursued by the Trump DOJ will chill future efforts to engage in this type of behavior, there can be little doubt that pro-abortion activists will continue to use their power within the increasingly radical far-Left base to push for these tactics to continue. I give thanks every day for organizations like the ACLJ, which are truly doing the Lord’s work to ensure that these anti-constitutional, anti-faith zealots do not prevail.

Mike Pompeo is the former Secretary of State and former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He is currently Senior Counsel for Global Affairs at the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ).

Source: Mike Pompeo: We Must Resist The Left’s War On Religious Freedom – Harbinger’s Daily

Only after my release from Iran’s notorious Evin prison in 2009 did I begin to learn about the extent of the wide, grassroots support my friend and I received from around the world. At one point, one senior prison official angrily let me know about the huge number of letters of support that were sent to us in prison, though we were never given access to any of them. The number must have been vast, in that it’s believed that the widespread pressure on the Islamic regime was at least in part responsible for our being released from death row, fearing the possibility of being executed by hanging at any time.

It’s no secret that since 1979, the Islamic Republic has used arrests, torture, and execution as a means of repressing the Iranian people. Hundreds of thousands have been slaughtered over the decades, some following fake, staged trials like mine, where the verdict was predetermined. Others have been executed in cold blood on the streets, many of whose remains “disappeared” by being buried and literally paved over, thrown in lakes with their hands bound, and other sick, inhuman acts that define the Islamic Republic.

With hundreds of thousands of Iranians executed, what made my case different? Why the international outcry from people as influential as the Pope, and why does that matter today?

I was arrested in March 2009 and convicted of “apostacy,” carrying an automatic death sentence. My “crime?” I converted to Christianity a decade earlier. When my friend and I were arrested, all the authorities knew was that we had become Christians. That was a crime enough for them, and reason enough to sentence us to death by hanging. They did not know that we had distributed 20,000 Bibles across Iran, that we ran two home churches, that we spoke openly about Jesus and the Gospel, bringing many other Iranians who were hungry for truth and a relationship with the true God to Christianity as well.

Since being released from prison due to the pressure on the regime and moving to the United States, I have spoken out and written widely about the need to bring down the Islamic Republic. In a dream, God once told me He was giving them a chance to repent, otherwise He would destroy them. Given the evil it represents and the death and suffering it has inflicted, no means to do so are illegitimate. I speak from my personal experiences, but also as a Christian. So it’s shocking to hear Christians directly or indirectly defend the Islamic regime by not standing up and speaking out for oppressed Christians in Iran, the Iranian people, and supporting any means necessary to eradicate the Islamic regime when Islam is at its core the enemy of Christianity.

Recently, there has been friction between President Trump and Pope Leo related to the war against the Islamic Republic. The president wrote that the Pope “should get his act together as Pope, use Common Sense, stop catering to the Radical Left, and focus on being a Great Pope, not a Politician. It’s hurting him very badly and, more importantly, it’s hurting the Catholic Church.”

Pope Leo responded, “I have no fear of the Trump administration or speaking out loudly of the message of the Gospel, which is what I believe I am here to do…there has also been this threat against the entire people of Iran. And this is truly unacceptable! There are certainly issues of international law here, but even more, it is a moral question concerning the good of the people as a whole, in its entirety.”

What I know as an Iranian who spent nearly a year on death row, and a lifetime subjugated by the evil Islamic regime as a woman and as a Christian, is that the threat to the Iranian people comes from the Islamic regime. Not only should pressure not yield, but pressure on the regime works. The Islamic Republic is evil. The Iranian people and Christians in Iran must be supported through all means necessary. If Pope Benedict spoke up on my behalf, I can’t imagine him not speaking up for all Iranians, and Iranian Christians in particular. Where was Pope Leo’s moral outrage when the Islamic regime slaughtered tens of thousands?

The Islamic regime has slaughtered tens of thousands of Iranians this year alone, injuring hundreds of thousands. The regime is evil, satanic, to its core. It must be stopped. How can the Pope do anything other than support the Iranian people, the persecuted Iranian church, and every effort to bring down the godless ayatollahs, mullahs, and IRGC, who have repressed Iranians for so long, not to mention being responsible for the death and harm to hundreds of thousands around the world?

The Pope also recently stated that God does not hear the prayers of those who make war. Forget that this is biblically unfounded, that God Himself designated people who led and fought wars to be some of the greatest Biblical role models; sometimes, war is necessary. In the case of Iran, it is. If the Islamic regime is not eliminated and Iran is not freed from the darkness of Islam, it will continue to infiltrate Western society, erode our Judeo-Christian values, and see many more victims inside and outside Iran who will not be as lucky as I was.

But if Pope Leo doesn’t believe me, hopefully he’ll listen to the words of the prophet Jeremiah (49:34-39), who says that God Himself will destroy Elam (modern Iran) and establish His kingdom there. Rather than being critical of the war to destroy the regime, the Pope should be celebrating it as a prophecy fulfilled.

Marziyeh Amirizadeh is an Iranian American who immigrated to the U.S. after being sentenced to death in Iran for the crime of converting to Christianity. She endured months of mental and physical hardships and intense interrogation. She is the author of two books (the latest, “A Love Journey with God”), a public speaker, and a columnist. She has shared her inspiring story throughout the United States and around the world, to bring awareness about the ongoing human rights violations and persecution of women and religious minorities in Iran, www.MarzisJourney.com.

She is also the founder and president of NEW PERSIA, whose mission is to be the voice of persecuted Christians and oppressed women under Islam, to expose the lies of the Iranian Islamic regime, and restore the relationships between Persians, Jews, and Christians. www.NewPersia.org.

Source: The Pope, Iran, and My Being Sentenced to Death As a Christian in Iran

The magnitude of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s defeat is surprising, perhaps even shocking. The fact his Fidesz party lost by a solid margin, however, should have surprised no one.

Orbán is widely derided by Western elites as an autocrat, and it is true that the state and most privately owned media are relentlessly supportive of him. But that’s never why Orbán was re-elected three times. He won because he did what every good democratic politician does: Provide peace and prosperity while respecting the nation’s values.

From 2010 through 2022, Hungary’s economy grew steadily, bringing comfort and some luxuries to the former Communist nation for the first time. The country did not get sucked into the nascent conflict in Ukraine and proudly refused to take in the any of the millions of mainly Middle Eastern migrants who swarmed into Europe in the last decade.

Those latter stances may have annoyed many other Western European leaders, but there is no evidence that average Hungarians wanted something different. Many current leaders probably wish their nations had been more like Orbán as they figure out how to deal with the growing internal unease over the migrants whom their predecessors let in.

Orbán also had the luxury of running against a largely discredited centre-left, Budapest-focused opposition. Hungarians had decisively rejected that path in 2010 after the Socialists ran the economy into the ground in 2008. Even had they wanted to change horses, they knew they didn’t want that one.

He lost on Sunday because he took his eye off the ball following his decisive 2022 re-election. Cronyism, never far beneath the surface, seemed to increase. The clemency scandal that caused the resignation of the President and Justice Minister added to the sense that Fidesz now served a clique rather than the people.

Fidesz wasn’t entrusted with government to enrich its friends and protect them from justice. It was elected to make Hungarians richer materially and spiritually. The fact that Fidesz elites would pardon a paedophile in their circle severely weakened the national spiritual bond the party had spent so much time building up.

Orbán also stopped delivering material riches. Inflation has been much higher in Hungary than elsewhere in Europe since 2022, and real GDP has been essentially flat. The country isn’t in recession, but it is in the fourth year of stagnation – and that is never good news for an incumbent government.

Any Western European government that had experienced scandal and a stagnant economy would expect to be tossed on its rear come election time. That’s what happened to Britain’s Conservatives in 1997 and 2024, and that’s what happened to Viktor Orbán.

The fact that this seems so surprising to Fidesz backers – presumably including President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance – makes this landslide defeat stand out, however. It seems that the media empire Orbán created also built a bubble for the regime’s allies.

Regime friendly pollsters churned out surveys that told them what they wanted to believe, that Orbán was sure to win re-election. Other polls were discredited for being connected to the opposition, which in many cases was true. But just because someone is your adversary doesn’t mean they are lying.

A genuinely independent poll from Atlas Intel, a South American firm, showed the same thing as the non-Fidesz pollsters. I saw a privately commissioned poll by James Kanagasooriam of Britain’s Focaldata that not only showed Tisza with a large double-digit lead but did a seat-by-seat analysis using an MRP to find Tisza with a huge majority and a shot at a supermajority.

These polls were accurate and mainly backed up the opposition polling narrative. Yet Fidesz supporters I met in the last few days were supremely confident of re-election with only relatively minor losses. They believed their leaders – and those people were either lying to themselves or to their backers or both.

Hungarian populist conservatism may be down but it’s not out. It took an enterprising politician, Tisza leader Péter Magyar, and a complete rebranding of the opposition into a centrist-to-centre-right entity to give it even a shot at winning. Keeping a centre-right policy focus while depending mainly on centre-left voters is going to be very difficult.

Magyar will also find it easier to talk about restoring economic growth than bringing it about. He surely will soon be rewarded with a resumption of suspended European Union funding, which should help. That won’t do anything to improve Hungary’s lacklustre entrepreneurial culture, nor can it shield the country from the energy insecurity that affects everyone.

Magyar was also aided by the magnitude of Fidesz’s complacency. Orbán should have known he needed to shift gears, and the older Viktor Orbán would surely have done that. That’s what he did when the far-right nationalist Jobbik party rose in the early 2010s, pushing Orbán make opposition to migration a centrepiece of his platform.

Instead, we saw the government doubling down on its old playbook. It added even more subsidies for families and pensioners rather than spend on the decrepit health service. It tried to tie Magyar to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky even though its simply not plausible that Hungary is going to get dragged into a war that has been a stalemate for years.

No wonder Hungarians rejected him.

It’s difficult to see how Orbán can remain as Fidesz’ leader. His successor will surely realize that the party needs to reform to regain credibility. Magyar may not get the chance to run again against a tired, overconfident foe.

The Brussels elite surely thinks it has won, and indeed it has for now. It also thought it had won a permanent victory, though, in Poland in 2023 when Donald Tusk’s coalition unseated the populist Law and Justice party. Tusk found it hard to govern, though, and the Law and Justice-backed candidate for President, Karol Nawrocki, won last year. Victory, it seems, can be fleeting.

Hungarian conservatives will get over the shock and start the painful but necessary task of rethinking and reforming. Populist conservatives elsewhere – I’m looking at you, President Trump – should take note that cultural affinity will not trump economic stagnation at the ballot box. In short, this is a setback for populist conservatism, not a final defeat, as long as they take away the right lessons.

In democracies, ultimately the people rule. Orbán forgot that. We will see if other populist leaders learn from his demise.

Henry Olsen

Source: SPECIAL What actually happened in the election: Our poll expert takes apart Orbán’s defeat – Brussels Signal

(Queensland, Australia) — This week’s news takes us “across the ditch” to New Zealand. Although our Kiwi cousins rarely generate negative news, particularly since Jacinda Ardern left office, recent military exercises have aroused the interest of believers in the southern hemisphere.

The military exercises in question were conducted in late-2025 and involve a fictional conflict where an armed faction is depicted as emerging from “Christian communities.” The scenario involved use of the training system known as DATE (Decisive Action Training Environment). New Zealand is not the only nation to utilise this system.  It is primarily used by the US, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. According to the Australian Army website, use of the DATE training system enables “an immersive suite of doctrine and tactics, and underpinned by realistic modelling of both the pacing threat and regional operating environments.”

Although most of the training packages involve fictional state actors, the one which caught the interest of Christians involved a fictional non-state actor known as the “Visayan Peoples Front”.  According to the training video (which is available for viewing at the Australian Army’s official DATE site) the fictional Visayan Peoples Front is a longstanding separatist insurgency that uses guerilla tactics and criminal activities to resist the ruling fictional government. Amusingly, the training video goes on to state that the Visayan Peoples Front “began as a far-left populist movement” but “over time it devolved into an Evangelical Christian socialist insurgency”.

The target of this so-called insurgency was not only the ruling government but also “the Muslim minority.” In detailing the operational aspect of the Visayan Peoples Front, the video goes on to state that the group “advocates for adherence to conservative Christian values” but also engages in roadside bombings, theft and drug trafficking. Information published at a website aligned with The US Army Training and Doctrine Command (now the US Army Transformation and Training Command), gave further details to the backstory, claiming that the Visayan Peoples Front “demanded the exclusion of Muslims and creation of a Christian nation” and that the group’s “ideology is a strange mishmash of extreme left wing, evangelical Christian, and nationalist separatist” beliefs.

These training scenarios continue to feed into the narrative that conservative Christians are an armed, angry, and apocalyptic gang who need to be treated like every other terrorist organisation. The reality is that underpinning the constant assault on Christianity is the fact that globalists seek to advance the narrative that Christianity is intolerant of global ideas because patriotism is divisive. By doing this, the hope amongst the ruling class is that by equating Christians with fanatics and conspiracy theorists, they will silence and sideline Christians from participating in the political process because Christians are supposedly nefarious, subversive and violent.

In so doing, what they really demand is that Christians operating in civil life must adopt either a secularist or non-threatening religious posture. Because what they want is to ensure that Christianity is either rendered harmless or that it can be harnessed to advance a secularist global agenda.  Key to this is their attack on the Bible. You see, in the elitist (and thoroughly neo-Marxist) mindset, if they can convince the world to completely reject the Word of God, then they are able to firmly establish themselves as the ones who may rewrite the script at will.

But to do this, they must aggressively destroy the credibility and influence of Judeo-Christian faith, which insists the true script has already been written and is not only binding but divinely assured. Marxism cannot tolerate rival sovereignties because within the ecosystem of a sovereign rival is a centre of loyalty that threatens their revolutionary aims. This is why power structures which are sympathetic to, or dominated by, Marxist ideology target traditional family structures, churches, and even individual Christians who, in the spirit of Acts 5:29, obey God rather than men. So, how better do you foment distrust of such rivals by connecting their existence to extremism and terrorism?

Although Marxists have deceived themselves into believing they determine their own destiny, in Acts 17:26-28 we read: “And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’”

God’s purpose in regulating times and boundaries was so that people would realise His sovereignty and seek Him.  However, for those who uphold the Marxist worldview, they not only reject God’s sovereignty, but seek to establish their own in place of God.  We know of a prideful creature who adopted that same philosophy, don’t we?

Dean Dwyer serves as a Senior Columnist at Harbinger’s Daily, where his thought-provoking articles engage a global audience of millions. With more than two decades of leadership as Pastor and President of Eiser Street Baptist Church in Toowoomba, Australia, Dwyer brings sophisticated Biblical discernment and analysis to examine world events and issues through the lens of God’s Word.

Source: New Zealand War-Game Involves Training Scenario, Connecting ‘Evangelical Christians’ To Extremism And Terrorism – Harbinger’s Daily

In Donald Trump’s America, many Americans think “woke” gender and sexual issues are settled. They should think again.

Alaska proves it. The state’s lawmakers are currently advancing Senate Bill 238, which would protect Alaska librarians who promote sexually explicit books to children. The bill grants libraries — represented by the American Library Association (ALA) — sweeping power to stack kids’ shelves with pornographic material, even when parents object.

Oftentimes, conservatives stretch the definition of “woke” to include anything they perceive as liberal. But the Alaska debate has nothing to do with kids learning about different religions or the history of slavery. It has to do with exposing kids to topics like anal and oral sex, bondage, masturbation, and pederasty.

What is pederasty? Sex between a man and a young boy — yes, shown to little boys and girls. Seeing Playboy in a middle school would be bad enough, and this is even worse.

If SB 238 passes, it would become virtually impossible for parents to speak out against the ALA’s most controversial books. These include Gender Queer: A Memoir, a recommended “trans read” that contains multiple pages of illustrations depicting oral sex. One scene shows the author masturbating with a sock, while another portrays the use of a strap-on harness. Such inappropriate images have been entered into the congressional record for all to see (buyer beware).

How could the ALA possibly object? By labeling concerned parents as “book banners.” The world’s largest association of libraries claims that objectors simply oppose the “freedom to read,” a mantra echoed by pro-ALA legislators.

As the ALA’s chief critic, I am a firm believer in the importance of reading different books at a young age; I just don’t want fifth graders reading about blowjobs and strap-ons. Most parents agree: Democrats, Republicans, and independents believe that schools and libraries shouldn’t peddle porn to kids, and they believe in parental involvement.

To silence parents like myself, ALA activists argue that the Supreme Court’s 1973 “Miller test” is the proper standard for inclusion in school libraries, allowing librarians to stock kids’ shelves with all materials that are not explicitly deemed “obscene.” Based on the Miller test, which determines whether material is legally obscene, even the most pornographic adults-only magazines and movies are difficult to challenge. As Sarah Lamdan, Executive Director at the ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, recently suggested, the Miller test is broadly applied to stifle parental dissent.

Under the Supreme Court’s more applicable Pico standard of 1982, inappropriate books that are educationally unsuitable don’t need to go to a judge. They can be contested by a school board or superintendent, with parents having a direct say. But that would require the ALA to respect parents in the first place.

From Alaska to Washington, D.C., the ALA’s agitprop is a serious wake-up call to parents. Here is a new Miller test: Fear the worst when the ALA brings it up. If school policy names Miller or the “as a whole” test, it is safe to assume that foul play is afoot. We only hear about the Miller test or “book banning” or the “freedom to read” in cases where ALA librarians are handing out sexually explicit books to children.

Parents have no choice but to come together, and the rest of America has to wake up. We need support from institutions such as the mainstream media and influential leaders like Elon Musk or Robert Kraft, who have long championed free speech but can take a stronger stance on porn in school libraries. We also need the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services to step in as a viable alternative to a fundamentally broken library association.

Against the woke ALA, parents need all the help we can get. Our kids’ future is at stake.

Dan Kleinman | April 14, 2026

Dan Kleinman is the owner of SafeLibraries educational services. He is also executive director of the World Library Association, an alternative to the American Library Association.

Source: Stopping Pro-Porn Librarians and Lawmakers – American Thinker

It makes perfect sense that Democrats freaked out when DOGE started following the money. Look at what they’ve been up to all these years.

There’s a reason Al Capone spent a few years in Alcatraz for tax evasion: Money is harder to hide than bodies.  Any thug can take a few bucks from someone weaker.  But when used, money leaves a trail.  The key to criminal success is making ill gotten booty look as though it’s not ill gotten.  That’s way easier said than done.

This brings me to the Democrat party’s current woes.  It is a political organization in the same sense that Tony Soprano was a garbage collector.  In both cases, their organizations are or were merely tools to fleece the public.  But as noted above, stolen money must be laundered to be useful.  One can’t attract the attention of the taxman while spending money one shouldn’t have without acquiring an unwashed roommate with “flexible” sexual preferences, that is.  The cash from a criminal enterprise must appear legit, or it’s worthless.

In the Netflix series Ozark, white-collar criminal Marty Byrde solves that problem by maintaining the appearance of middle-class normalcy, while methodically laundering money for a vicious drug enterprise, the Navarro Cartel.  In the program, Marty funnels truckloads of cash through front companies, casinos, and foreign accounts, until its origin is a complete mystery — as in, can’t be tied to drug-trafficking.  Only then can the cartel use it for boats, planes, mansions, and payoffs without attracting the unwanted attention of law enforcement.

If you substitute “Democrat party” for “Navarro Cartel,” Ozark could be the story of the donkey party’s approach to financial solvency.

Tulsi Gabbard recently learned that hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars were being sent to Ukraine as green energy grants.  But the money didn’t build windmills or solar farms.  The Ukrainians planned to send it back to America and launder it through a maze of NGOs, eventually to land back in the control of the Democrat party.  The Dems would then use our hard earned money to fund Joe Biden’s re-election campaign, and probably the First Son’s “ho and blow” habit.  That Hunter Biden (D-Hazelden) was pals with the Ukrainians was just a coincidence — wink, wink.

The list of suspicious Democrat interactions with money goes on and on:

• DOGE uncovered a mountain of government grants from USAID funding non-profits that secretly funneled campaign contributions back to Democrat party operatives.  It was the classic Marty Byrde scheme — which was designed to fool humans, not A.I. engines, much to their chagrin.
• San Fran Nan (D-Tent City) amassed something north of a quarter of a billion bucks of personal wealth by outperforming the world’s best investors.  Supposedly, there’s no link between her wealth and the fact that she and her husband made it while trading on companies that she regulated.
• Robert Menendez (D-Boardwalk Empire) was convicted after investigators discovered gold bars hidden in his sock drawer, with no accompanying 1099 forms.  He should have taken notes watching Ozark.  Instead, he’s spending a few years behind bars, learning group showering etiquette.
• Ilhan Omar (D-Northern Somalia)’s net worth surged 3,500 percent in one year, to over 30 million bucks.  On a salary of $174K per year, the math seems suspicious to me.
• Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Hanging Chad Land) has been indicted for embezzling 5 million dollars of FEMA funding and laundering it through family members, for use on bling and campaign expenses.  She screwed up when she started sporting jewelry she couldn’t afford on a government paycheck.  A criminal’s downfall is always her spending.
• Power Forward Communities went from an almost empty bank account to a 2-billion-dollar grant just after making Stacy Abrams (D-Federation of Planets) one of its leaders.  I wonder how much of our money she got as her taste.
• And of course, the financial shenanigans of the Clintons (D-Epstein Island) and Bidens (D-La-la Land) are too numerous to cover in any article shorter than War and Peace.

Can we finally admit the obvious?  The Democrat party isn’t a political organization competing to represent the American people.  It is a crime syndicate, using a political party to loot Americans on a scale that makes the Sinaloa Cartel look like pikers.

Our country has amassed an astronomical $39T of debt.  (I had to use a “T” because the required number of zeros didn’t fit on one line.)  Given what we’ve learned in the last year, would it surprise anyone if much of that mountain of cash landed in the hands of Democrat party launderers operators: foundations, non-profits, NGOs, politicians, propagandists, and such?

Suddenly, it makes perfect sense that the Dems freaked out when DOGE started following the money — something they didn’t think anyone would or could do.  But Elon Musk and his merry band of A.I. jocks turned out to be adept at unraveling the maze of money transfers that took taxpayer funds and illegally transferred much of it back to campaign and personal coffers, after siphoning off an appropriate taste processing fee, of course.

For as long as I can remember, the Dems have had an almost insurmountable funding advantage over Republicans — which they’ve used to mobilize radicals and gaslight voters.  But for the first time in decades, the Dems are going into a campaign season with less cash than their opponents, and a mountain of debt left in the wake of the Kamala Harris train wreck.  Is it possible their financial woes are tied to the exposure of their NGO money-laundering complex?

John Green is a political refugee who escaped Minnesota, writes for The American Free News Network, and is a state content writer for Convention of States Action.  He is an engineer with 40+ years of experience in systems and organizational development.  He can be reached at greenjeg@gmail.com.

Source: It’s Always the Money That Gets Them – American Thinker

In the second half of the 20th century, she already had prescient insights into America, circa 2026.

Maggie Thatcher, easily one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century, was a no-nonsense woman. She became Prime Minister of the UK in 1979 and would rescue her nation from the economic quagmire her leftist predecessors had created.

Maggie was the daughter of a merchant. And as one might expect from the daughter of someone who had to deal with customers and vendors and regulators, all the while making sure there was something left in the bank at the end of the month, she was a straightforward and pragmatic leader.

For someone born almost exactly 100 years ago, she had a vision of government and culture that we could use more of today. She was something of a combination of Nostradamus, Mark Twain, and (rather sadly) Cassandra rolled into one.

Her thoughts and observations provide an extraordinary insight into many of our problems today.

The clarity began even before she was Prime Minister. In a series of campaign speeches before her historic election, she repeatedly stated a variation of this principle: “If a Government can’t protect citizens and their property against violence, vandalism, and theft, there is little point in having a government at all.” If anything resonates with Americans today, it’s the fundamental failure of government to do exactly that.

She also had a clarity on the economics of leftism, saying,

Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If the State wishes to spend more it can do so only by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more. It is no good thinking that someone else will pay—that ‘someone else’ is you. There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers’ money.

Maggie clearly understood what most American politicians don’t, namely, that government can spend only as much as citizens produce. Only through taxes or IOUs can the government spend a single penny. Given that our national debt is almost $40 trillion and our unfunded liabilities are approaching $100 trillion, financed by a GDP of $30 trillion, another of her quotes drives home the reality:

We are told that the present Government have learned from their mistakes. I say that they have not learned. They still believe that you can spend your way out of recession and that you can create jobs by inflation… and that is the road to ruin. … You can’t tax and spend your way into prosperity. Eventually, you run out of other people’s money.

(This is more commonly remembered as “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”)

Thatcher hit the bullseye with this idea, too, summed up in a common paraphrase: “The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you to work for it in the first place.”

Along those same lines, Thatcher anticipated the evolution of the left’s political MO beginning with the ascent of Barack Obama, where every critique, criticism, or disagreement was labeled racism, then expanded to every element of American politics: Homophobic, Islamophobic, Sexist, etc. She clearly recognized the tactics: “I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.”

The Iron Lady addressed what would become one of America’s biggest problems when someone like Donald Trump, who is not a creature of the Swamp and wanted to upset the apple cart, came into office:

Whether it is in the United States or in mainland Europe, written constitutions have one great weakness. That is that they contain the potential to have judges take decisions which should properly be made by democratically elected politicians.

If there’s anything that characterizes America in 2026, it’s the army of black-robed judicial activists who think they have the power to transform themselves into the Executive. These leftist judges are making a mockery of our Constitution, and sadly, Congress and the White House are allowing them to do so.

And she understood that the left was not only a danger at home, but was an equally dangerous threat on the world stage. Her frequent speeches about Marx have resulted in this paraphrase: “To the extent that the West is to blame at all for the ills of the Third World, it is to the extent that the West created Marx and his successors, among whom must be numbered many of those who advised the Third World leaders in post-war years.” From the UN to the EU to the Democrat party, Marxism has almost certainly caused more death and destruction across the country and around the world than any other philosophy in all of human history.

And particularly resonant today is the fact that Thatcher understood what it meant to be an ally. After allowing Reagan to use US bases in the UK to strike Gaddafi, while other European allies wouldn’t allow him to use their airspace, she is reputed to have said the following, although it’s a paraphrase of several speeches, not a quotation:

It had the effect of cementing the Anglo-American alliance. What’s the good of having bases if when you want to use them you’re not allowed to by the home country. It made America realise that Britain was her real and true friend, when they were hard up against it and wanted something, and that no one else in Europe was. They’re a weak lot, some of them in Europe you know. Weak. Feeble.

There were many other jewels, of course. These are two of the best:

“Many of our troubles are due to the fact that our people turn to politicians for everything.”

“Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.”

Maggie Thatcher had a clarity of vision and an understanding of the nature of man and the nature of government that few Americans (or Brits for that matter!) appreciate today, and sadly, even fewer politicians.

Vince Coyner | April 11, 2026

Source: Maggie Thatcher’s Timeless Wisdom – American Thinker

This year’s midterm elections aren’t just about who wins in November; they’re about who wins fights over gerrymandering taking place right now. Nowhere is the battle fiercer than in Virginia, a state where voters just six years ago approved a constitutional amendment to take partisanship out of congressional redistricting.

Now Democrats want to make an exception to the rule Virginia voters approved by a nearly two-thirds majority in 2020: They want this year’s congressional map to be drawn up by their own state legislators, erasing the districts set up by the bipartisan board established by the amendment just a few years back.

It’s no surprise when a state like Texas or California that leans overwhelmingly toward one party indulges in partisan gerrymandering. But Virginia is a purple state, and its congressional representation—six Democrats, five Republicans—currently reflects that.

Yet, if Democrats get their way on April 21, they’ll be able to seize 10 of Virginia’s 11 congressional seats for themselves, in the most brazenly unjust reapportionment seen anywhere in decades. This isn’t about making a blue state bluer or a red state redder; this one’s an effort to manufacture a virtual monopoly for one party, depriving millions of the other party’s voters of their representation.

One thing the sheer audacity of this move suggests is that Democrats nationwide aren’t quite as confident as they pretend to be about winning the midterms fair and square. If they expect voters coast to coast to repudiate Trump’s GOP in a landslide, why resort to such extreme measures in a place like Virginia?

Either Democrats are more worried than they let on, or they want to do more than just win—they want to annihilate their competition. They’re proving far more ruthless than Republicans, who balked at the opportunity last year to redraw Indiana’s congressional map from a 7-2 partisan split to a 9-seat GOP sweep.

What Democrats are attempting in Virginia is tantamount to legalized election theft, if voters are unwise enough to approve the amendment they’re pushing. There’s a political cost for this attack on small-d democracy: Gov. Abigail Spanberger, for one, is paying a price in her polling.

She was elected by a whopping 15-point margin last year and was soon touted as the Democrats’ new face of moderation, which is why she was the party’s choice to respond to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address this year. Yet her approval ratings are already poor, with a Washington Post survey at the end of March finding 47 percent of those polled gave her a passing grade, while 46 percent disapproved of her performance in office so far.

The numbers are similar to polling on the amendment to give Virginia’s Democrat-controlled legislature the power to draw the congressional districts for the midterms: 50 percent say they approve, 47 percent disapprove. The amendment can pass with a simple majority, but if the polls are right, Democrats have no margin to spare, and early voting reports so far indicate there’s particularly strong turnout in Republican areas of the state.

The early vote is outpacing early voting in last year’s gubernatorial election, too. Arguably, the amendment shouldn’t be on the ballot at all: it’s faced several legal challenges, with the state Supreme Court ultimately deciding the April 21 election can proceed even while doubts about its legality remain to be settled later.

The very wording of the amendment is illegal, Republicans contend, since state law specifies the text accompanying the measure “shall be limited to a neutral explanation,” while the amendment itself is tendentiously worded as an attempt to “restore fairness.”

Who wouldn’t vote to restore fairness?

The campaign for the amendment has been a master class in deceit and manipulation, with even news outlets in the deep-blue D.C. suburbs of Northern Virginia noting the copious use of “pink slime” techniques by the “Yes” side. Those techniques involve propaganda disguised to look impartial—like a made-to-purpose publication branded as The Virginia Independent, which the Arlington-based news site ARLNow.com describes as “a partisan newspaper advancing Democrats’ arguments.”

That slime has been flooding into voters’ mailboxes, including mine. Maybe my blue suburb hasn’t been a target of whatever efforts the Republicans are making—though the other possibility is that the GOP just isn’t trying as hard.

Texas kicked off the latest wave of redistricting ahead of the midterms, as Republicans there looked to widen their advantage over the Democrats. Yet as the divergent examples of Indiana and Virginia show, it’s the Democrats who are more hellbent on winning, even if they have to turn state constitutions into confetti to do it.

Politics is a test of wills-and if Republicans fail this one, they’ll almost certainly fail in November, too.

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April 6, 2026By Daniel McCarthy

Source: Virginia: A New Extreme in Gerrymandering – Chronicles

‘Mental Heath’ And Progressive Propaganda: A Deeply Controversial Agenda In Schools That Should Alarm All Parents

Illinois lawmakers’ obsession with getting in children’s minds is getting creepier, with multiple controversial bills in the legislature this session targeting students in the state.

From mandated “social-emotional” indoctrination to more forced “mental-health education,” Big Pharma-funded lawmakers appear to believe that doing more of the same thing will somehow achieve different results for Illinois children. It will not.

The initiatives are disguised as efforts to improve the social, emotional, and mental wellbeing of children. But in reality, the bills are yet another foundational step toward a national system for psychological conditioning and manipulating children’s attitudes, beliefs, and worldview. The language being used to support the rollout is merely a mask to conceal a deeply controversial agenda that should alarm all parents.

SEL Indoctrination

One of the schemes, HB 4855, purports to require that every school district in Illinois force every child to receive direct instruction in “social and emotional learning” (SEL) throughout the year.

Introduced by Democrat State Rep. Janet Yang Rohr, the legislation amends the Children’s Mental Health Act to force SEL into everything. First, it mandates direct SEL instruction four times per year. But it also forces teachers to reinforce the SEL programming by intentionally integrating it into curricula and classroom activities.

Under the bill, school districts are required to provide “professional development” to help educators align their teaching with SEL principles. The SEL indoctrination, which focuses on giving children government-approved attitudes and beliefs on a wide range of issues, must be aligned with the Illinois Learning Standards for Social/Emotional Learning.

Those SEL standards were developed in partnership with the Bill Gates-funded Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL). The organization has publicly boasted about using SEL to turn children into “global citizens” and activists for “social justice.”

But perhaps even more troubling, CASEL admitted on its website that the whole idea came from a New Age institution deeply tied to the occult known as the Fetzer Institute. The institute’s leading luminary on SEL, Professor Linda Lantieri of Columbia University, has openly acknowledged in webinars getting insights from spiritual beings she claims to communicate with.

Earlier this year, lawmakers in Utah considered a bill to ban SEL in government schools. The legislation did not pass. But many more bills are expected nationwide next year.

“Mental Health Education”

Another bill being considered by Illinois lawmakers, HB 2960, orders schools to incorporate “mental health” instruction into their “health education” courses. The legislation includes a broad range of required topics, including “symptoms” of alleged mental problems, supposed “services” to deal with those problems, and more.

Introduced by State Rep. Laura Faver Dias, a Democrat whose campaign was lavishly funded by Big Pharma interests, the legislation will mainstream Big Pharma’s highly profitable understanding of “mental health” among students. The bill also brings in all manner of progressive propaganda on race, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and more.

Big Pharma and Big Psychiatry

Even a brief analysis of the effort reveals the unchallenged assumption that the secular Big Pharma-backed view of “mental health” is unquestionably true and good. But even many leading psychiatrists and psychologists have rejected that notion as absurd. Legendary Harvard-trained psychiatrist Dr. Peter Breggin, whose work exposing everything from lobotomies to Prozac has led to profound changes in the industry, blasted the schemes of Illinois lawmakers.

There is a long history of collaboration between “organized psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry” to “make a market out of children” by reaching them through schools, he explained.

The bills come as government schools prepare to begin mandatory “mental health” screenings of all children soon as part of an edict passed last year.

“The idea of screening school children for mental problems is equivalent to screening them for the drug market,” Breggin said when the bill was being considered. “This will stigmatize increasing numbers of children, lead many of them to taking dangerous psychiatric drugs, and push some into a lifetime ‘career’ as mental patients.”

“Nothing is worse than telling a child they have a mental problem, first because it demoralizes them, and second because the problem, if there is one, is corrected by improving how we relate to them,” added Breggin.

Psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry have “much too narrow an approach” to dealing with children’s problems, he told IFI. Instead of pushing drugs and social engineering on the children via “mental health” programs, Dr. Breggin argued for other approaches. “Their ‘problems’ may disappear with a different teacher or a different school,” he said, adding that many so-called “mental problems” are really spiritual or emotional in nature.

Mental Health Crisis?

It is true that there is a so-called “mental health crisis” afflicting not just Illinois students, but children across America. In fact, according to the latest data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), some 40 percent of high-school students report persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness.

Even more alarming: one in five U.S. students in public schools “seriously considered suicide,” and about 10 percent actually attempted suicide just in the last year. Perhaps even more insidiously, children in Illinois are being used as props to advance the Big Pharma’s “mental health” agenda.

“I think something that we’re seeing on a day-by-day basis throughout middle and high schools is that education is unable to address this issue,” argued Abhinav Anne, an Illinois high-school student who is supposedly involved in pushing the legislation.

“Bullying, anxiety, how to combat depression,” continued Anne. “We teach students how to recite tables and memorize every state and country on a map, but we’re not really teaching students these fundamental issues…we’re seeing this gap in knowledge.”

Just this month, the Illinois Senate Behavioral and Mental Health Committee unanimously approved a bill to promote a deeply controversial “suicide prevention” hotline to students. The hypersexualized “hotline” has become infamous for promoting LGBT ideology and for grooming children, even directing children to the horrifying “Trevor Project.”

Ironically, the mandatory “suicide prevention” demanded under the bill has been known to plant seeds in children’s minds.

Big Picture

The state and its schools are aiming to sideline and ultimately replace parents on these critical issues. It is true that children are suffering badly today. But it is not due to a lack of SEL and “mental health” schemes. In fact, for centuries, children were thriving without any such programming. What they had was faith and family.

Remember, the government’s own data prove its schools cannot even teach reading, writing, or math properly. Clearly, government and its “educational” institutions are not cut out to serve as parents, therapists, mental health counselors, or anything of the sort.

Even if well intentioned, lawmakers should recognize the danger of these SEL and “mental health” schemes.

Children need God, truth, parents, and families — not occult-themed SEL, dangerous “mental health” indoctrination, and psychotropic drugs. Unfortunately for those still in government schools, that is not an option.

Alex Newman is an award-winning international journalist, the Founder of Liberty Sentinel, and a Contributor to Harbinger’s Daily.

Source: ‘Mental Heath’ And Progressive Propaganda: A Deeply Controversial Agenda In Schools That Should Alarm All Parents – Harbinger’s Daily

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin walked onto the Heartland Institute’s climate summit on Wednesday and did something the radical left can’t tolerate: He told the truth about the climate racket.

He blasted the fear merchants, defended American energy, and made it clear that the days of handing blank checks to climate zealots are over. For the left, which has treated climate alarmism like a religion, to hear that from the EPA administrator has to sting.

For years, the climate crowd has treated every weather event, every policy debate, and every energy decision like a prelude to apocalypse, requiring billions of dollars to stop it. How many times have we heard “We only have X years to prevent” stop some devastating climate event, only for that event never to come to pass?

I’ve lost track.

And Zeldin called it out. He said that mentality has warped U.S. policy and pushed Europe into a mess of higher costs, weaker security, and dangerous dependence on foreign energy sources. That’s what happens when “save the planet” becomes a slogan for self-inflicted economic sabotage.

He also put his finger on the political shift that changed everything. The Trump victory in 2024 ended the era of speculative, expensive, self-harming climate policies getting a free pass from Washington. As Zeldin put it, “Now, if the election didn’t go the same way, in November of 2024, I’m pretty confident that whoever would be in this position instead of me might not have been here [at the conference] this morning.”

That line may seem trivial, but it’s not. It tells you exactly how much these people counted on power, not persuasion. “I’m pretty confident that instead of grants getting canceled to the tune of tens of billions, instead the grift would be continuing,” Zeldin said. And that’s the whole game in one sentence. Billions in wasteful grants, endless alarmism, endless pressure… it was all about stoking fear and empowering those who elect Democrats.

Zeldin went even further, describing how climate policy was captured by elites who decided they alone could define science. “What happened for years and decades in this country is that the elite, the ruling class, the people who had run the agencies, the people who have decided that they are in charge of the science, the politicians, the biggest grifters — there would be a cabal that would decide exactly which model is the chosen model, which methodology is the higher methodology.”

And we all know how that worked out.

That’s the part the media can’t stand. They call these gatherings “climate deniers” because they don’t want the public asking whether the so-called consensus has been used as a political weapon. Which, of course, it has.

And then came the line that will drive the alarmists into full meltdown mode: “It’s controversial that we won’t sign up for the script that the world is imminently about to end.”

That is exactly why this speech matters so much. It rejects panic as policy. It chooses science over fear.

Zeldin also pointed to Europe as the cautionary tale. The “sky is falling” crowd pushed leaders there to weaken their own energy systems and security, and now European nations rely far more on foreign energy sources. That dependence is not a virtue signal. It is a vulnerability, especially given how much of their oil passes through global chokepoints like the Strait of Hormuz.

I should point out that there is nothing wrong with wanting to be a good steward of the environment. Conservatives have said that for years. But being a good steward means realism, not panic theater, and it certainly does not mean kneecapping your own economy while pretending the sky is about to fall. Democrats have been pushing that for years, and it doesn’t accomplish anything but lining the pockets of their donors.

The reason Zeldin’s speech matters so much is that he spoke like someone who understands the difference between environmental protection and ideological crusading. He didn’t apologize for American energy. He made it clear that the EPA should follow the law, not invent authority because the latest doomsday script demands it.

And frankly, it was refreshing to hear an EPA administrator say it.

Full Video of Event

Matt Margolis  | 9:29 AM on April 09, 2026

Source: This Is the Best Thing You’ve Heard an EPA Administrator Say – PJ Media

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We’ve been reading and hearing a lot about the brilliant operation to bring home one of our people, an as-yet-unnamed F-15E Weapons Systems Officer (WSO). I won’t go into the details of that operation, as that’s already been revealed; suffice it to say that the War Department and our people in the air and on the ground performed brilliantly, did the seemingly impossible, even building an improvised airfield deep in Iranian territory, only a short drive from a good-sized Iranian city. The WSO followed his training, escaped and evaded, and managed to surmount a ridge from where he could be extracted while American munitions pounded the goblins who were after him.

The WSO is now on his way home. He’s safe. And that’s as it should be. We’re Americans. That’s one of the great things about being an American — knowing that your country will come for you. There have been lapses in this matter; some of us are old enough to remember when Iran held American hostages for over a year, until a president took office who even the mullahs feared: Ronald Reagan.

In some parts of the world, in some cultures, the WSO would have been abandoned. Some countries, some cultures would have decided he wasn’t worth the risk, wasn’t worth the cost. Not America. Not now. And we should note that this brilliant operation was planned and carried out, literally, in a matter of hours: Special operations people brought in, briefed and deployed, equipment staged forward, even that improvised airfield built and held for the time we needed it. Yes, we had to leave some aircraft behind, destroyed to deny the enemy any intel. So? We can build more.

This was important. There was an American out there whom we had to bring home. And we did.

We’ve done this kind of thing before; just read about the Vietnam War operation to bring in Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Iceal Hambleton, call sign Bat 21 Bravo. Read about the Balkans war rescue of Air Force aviator Scott O’Grady. Read about the 1945 raid at Cabanatuan, where we freed prisoners of a Japanese prison camp in the Philippines.

We did these things not because it was strategically or tactically important. We did these things knowing there would be costs involved, certainly of equipment, very likely of people. We did these things not because the war effort depended on it. We did these things because there were Americans in captivity, in trouble, and we had to bring them home. We did these things because being an American means your country’s men-at-arms will never, ever leave you behind.

That’s what being an American means: Every one of us is valuable. That’s why you can’t just make someone an American by having them pass a test and sign a piece of paper. Being an American means more than that. Being an American means you know that, regardless of where you came from originally, you have value to your fellow citizens, and they, to you. Being an American means that if you’re in trouble in a foreign place, America will come for you, and get you home — even if that means building an improvised airfield deep in enemy territory, even if it means the loss of some equipment.  We’ve fallen short of that standard a few times, but not today, not this time. This operation, this rescue, epitomizes what it means to be an American: A fighting spirit, a loyalty that has been unknown to most cultures throughout human history. It means knowing that if you’re in trouble, your country will come for you.

So we lost some equipment. So what? After all, we can build more equipment. But every one of us is worth more than an airplane or a helicopter, because we’re Americans.

That’s what that means.

By Ward Clark  | 11:50 AM on April 05, 2026

Ward Clark hails from Alaska’s Susitna Valley, where he maintains his rural household in one of America’s last free places.  Ward is a twelve-year veteran of the U.S. Army, including service in Operation Desert Storm and (in Germany in support of) Operation Joint Endeavor, and today is a staunch minarchist libertarian, along with being an author, novelist, self-employed small businessman, woods bum, and semi-professional bad influence. You can see some of Ward’s fiction writing here, and be sure to follow Ward on Rumble!

Source: Bold, Brave, Unstoppable: US Rescue in Iran Defines Our Spirit – RedState

When God delivered the children of Israel from bondage in Egypt and defeated Pharaoh’s army, Moses responded with a song, recorded in Exodus 15. He declares, “The Lord is a man of war, the Lord is His name.”

That description is revealing. Scripture repeatedly presents God as one who defends His people, upholds justice, and ultimately triumphs over evil. He is not a distant observer of human conflict, but a righteous judge who acts in history.

And this imagery is not confined to the Old Testament. In Revelation 19, Jesus Himself is depicted as a warrior riding a white horse, bringing judgment against the nations, with a sword proceeding from His mouth. The biblical witness is consistent: God is both Redeemer and Righteous Judge.

War, therefore, is a tragic but real feature of a fallen world. The Bible does not ignore it — it regulates it. From these biblical principles, Augustine of Hippo articulated what would become known as Just War Theory, later refined by Thomas Aquinas. This framework has guided much of Western moral reasoning about war for centuries, recognizing that while war is never ideal, it may at times be necessary to restrain evil and protect the innocent.

Which is why recent comments from Pope Leo XIV in a Palm Sunday homily are both puzzling and concerning. He stated, in part, that Jesus “rejects war” and does not listen to the prayers of those who wage it.

Was the Allied effort in World War II — undertaken to stop Adolf Hitler and the atrocities of the Third Reich — contrary to the will of God? Were the prayers of leaders and soldiers, offered in humility and desperation, somehow rejected?

On June 6, 1944, as American troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, Franklin D. Roosevelt led the nation in prayer. He asked God’s blessing on those risking their lives to defeat tyranny and secure freedom. It was not a prayer for conquest — it was a prayer for justice, for deliverance, and for peace.

Likewise, during the brutal winter of the Battle of the Bulge, George Patton called for prayer. Facing impossible conditions, he urged his troops to seek God’s intervention. Two hundred and fifty thousand copies of that prayer were distributed to the soldiers of the Third Army.

And when the weather broke and the tide of battle turned, Patton famously remarked to his chaplain, “Well, Padre, our prayers worked.”

And thank God they did.

Scripture gives us confidence in this very truth. As the Apostle John writes in 1 John 5, if we ask anything according to God’s will, He hears us — and if He hears us, we have what we have asked of Him.

That is the key: according to His will.

Not every war is just. Not every cause is righteous. But when those entrusted with authority act to restrain evil, defend the innocent, and pursue a just peace, they do not stand counter to God, they stand within the very purposes of His justice.

And in those moments, prayer is not rejected — it is heard.

The question is not whether God hears the prayers of those in battle.

The question is whether those who lead — and those who fight — are aligned with the will of the One who is both Prince of Peace and the righteous defender of the innocent.

When they are, they can pray with confidence.

And history suggests — He answers.

Tony Perkins is the president of the Family Research Council and executive editor of The Washington Stand. He also served two terms as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, and served as Chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.

March jobs report beats expectations with 178K jobs added and unemployment falling to 4.3%.

The so-called experts didn’t just miss the mark on March jobs numbers; they got steamrolled by reality.

Economists predicted a weak 59,000 jobs. The actual number came in at a stunning 178,000. Talk about getting it completely wrong.

And it’s the latest reminder that the same crowd that spent months warning about economic doom under President Donald Trump still doesn’t understand what’s actually happening on the ground.

Even CNN couldn’t deny that this was huge.

https://twitter.com/i/status/2040050888035680410

CNBC couldn’t contain its excitement.

https://twitter.com/i/status/2040050667557884355

Unemployment dipped again, falling from 4.4% to 4.3%. Even more telling, the rate dropped across multiple groups, including women, black Americans, Asians, Hispanics, and veterans. That kind of broad-based improvement doesn’t happen in a weak economy. It doesn’t even happen when a Democrat is in the White House.

Meanwhile, jobless claims are now hovering near a two-year low. In other words, fewer people are losing jobs, and more people are finding them. That’s the formula for sustained momentum. Manufacturing and construction both saw real growth, the kind that signals strength in the backbone of the economy.

Let’s keep going, shall we?

Since Trump returned to office, the private sector has added 609,000 jobs. At the same time, federal government employment has dropped by 352,000. On top of that, native-born Americans are benefiting, too. A total of 218,000 native-born workers have gained employment, and 193,000 have entered the labor force.

That’s no accident; that’s by design. Trump’s design.

Wages are also moving in the right direction. Average hourly earnings rose 0.2% in March and sit 3.5% higher than a year ago.

It gets better.

Blue-collar workers, who took a beating during the Biden years, have now recovered those lost wages in just one year under Trump.

As for inflation, it continues to cool. It now sits at 2.4%, down from 3.0% when Trump took office — and way below the 9% it reached under Biden. Core inflation has dropped to 2.5%, its lowest level in five years. That’s a major shift after the price spikes Americans endured not long ago.

What does this mean for Americans? It means prices for everyday staples like bread, meat, fruit, and dairy have all come down. Egg prices, which became a symbol of runaway inflation, have plunged nearly 50% since Trump took office and 60% compared to last Easter. Housing is showing signs of relief as well. Mortgage rates have declined, and rents are down 1.7% over the past year.

Put it all together, and it’s clear that the Trump economy is working. Jobs are growing faster than expected. Wages are rising. Inflation is falling. And everyday costs are easing. The “experts” can keep predicting collapse if they want. The numbers keep telling a very different story. Trump’s golden age is coming through.

Neither Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, DNC Chairman Ken Martin, nor the Democratic Party has addressed the new jobs report on X.

Matt Margolis  | 11:46 AM on April 03, 2026

Source: HUGE March Jobs Report Leaves Democrats Speechless – PJ Media

American leftists held another “No Kings” rally last weekend.  Democrats and their ideological allies gathered in city parks and town squares to tell the rest of us how awful we are.  They screamed obscenities and called us “fascists” and “Nazis.”  They demanded President Trump’s removal from office.  Some even brazenly wished for his death.

To non-leftists, these things are cringeworthy spectacles.  The participants look loony and behave immaturely.  They are not serious people.  Their messages make no sense.

How are they able to protest so vocally if they are living under the yoke of tyranny?

How are they able to call for President Trump’s death if he is truly a malevolent king?

Such riddles are never asked or answered.  We are expected to treat their hurt feelings as reasonable justification for their demands to overthrow the government.

Democrats’ tantrums resemble nonsensical petitions listing infantile grievances, such as:

(1) Hillary really won!

(2) Russia, Russia, Russia!

(3) Don’t forget Epstein!

(4) Trump incited an “insurrection” on January 6!

(5) Biden should have imprisoned Trump!

(6) Kamala really won!

(7) The War in Ukraine is good; the War in Iran is bad!

(8) Trump is attacking the press!

(9) Trump is raising oil prices!

(10) Trump has lost his mind!

(11) Trump will never leave office!

(12) Trump must leave Venezuela and Cuba alone!

(13) Israel controls Trump!

(14) We’re all going to die from “climate change”!

(15) Trump wants to bring back slavery!

(16) Trump is committing “violence” against “trans” kids!

(17) Trump is intentionally dividing the country!

(18) “Undocumented” immigrants are Americans!

(19) The votes of “undocumented” voters must be counted!

This “writ of grievances” sounds as if it came from the addled minds of a bunch of nutters hopped up on amphetamines.

Leftists want to overthrow the government but insist that Trump should be in prison for trying to “overthrow” the government.

They think Biden was of sound mind but that Trump has lost his marbles.

They ignore all of Epstein’s ties to Bill Clinton and other Democrats, while insisting Trump did something nefarious.

They call for “hate speech” and “misinformation” to be prosecuted as crimes, while denouncing Trump’s “attacks” on free speech.

They want Trump’s “monarchy” to impose “climate” regulations that would increase fuel costs, while condemning Trump for causing gas prices to rise.

They accuse Trump of fomenting “division,” while organizing nationwide protests fomenting division.

They insist that Trump’s speech represents “violence” but that their violence is protected “speech.”

It’s all very crazy.  If you are incapable of bending over and sticking your head up your own derrière, then you probably can’t make sense of anything they say.

One social media guru named Yogi beautifully lampooned the “No Kings” protests:

“The modern left’s definition of fascism: You love your country?  Fascist.

You want to enforce the border?  Racist.

You think parents should raise their kids?  Bigot.

You want to know who’s voting in your elections?  Jim crow.”

Yogi then pointed out how ridiculous leftists are for ignoring all the aristocrats who have been ruling over them for decades:

“Congress has a 15% approval rating.  80% of Americans disapprove.  97% of incumbents got re-elected.

Chuck Schumer.  46 years.  Longer than Stalin.

Steny Hoyer.  45 years.  Longer than Mao.

Mitch McConnell.  42 years.  5x more than Napoleon.

Nancy Pelosi.  39 years.  Longer than Henry VIII.

Maxine Waters.  35 years.  Longer than Mussolini.

Bernie Sanders.  35 years.  Triple Hitler’s entire reign.

Trump.  5 years and 3 months.  Won the popular vote and the electoral vote.  But Trump is the king.”

Online and in the streets, leftists call for violence against anyone who disagrees with them.  They bully young conservatives.  They target Republicans at their places of business.  They dox ICE agents.  They vandalize churches.  The corporate news media almost entirely ignore these threats to Americans.

Democrat politicians are rarely asked whether they condone such intimidation and violence, but when they are asked, Democrat officeholders go out of their way to paint the aggressors as “victims” and the victims as “aggressors.”  In this upside-down world, Democrats can commit all kinds of crimes and never be punished, while Republicans are prosecuted for made-up crimes.

This two-tiered “justice” in the United States is leading to disaster.  It is no longer possible for the non-leftist half of the country to ignore the fact that leftists commit crimes with impunity, while abusing the court system to target conservatives.  The Trump administration must find some way to hold accountable those who have caused the most harm, while restoring balance and impartiality to the “justice” system.  So far, little has changed.

The Russia Collusion Hoax nearly took down a sitting president.  Hillary Clinton and her campaign team fabricated a dossier to frame Donald Trump as a Russian agent.  Barack Obama, John Brennan, James Comey, and so many other major players within the American Intelligence Community conspired to push rank disinformation upon the American people that would somehow justify the fact that the FBI and CIA were spying on the Trump campaign (and every other 2016 Republican primary candidate, for that matter).  We endured unethical lawyer Andrew Weissmann’s two-plus-years investigation of President Trump, and the whole thing was a scam meant to cover up Deep State crimes.  The corporate news media played their role as propagandists by treating the fake scandal as the most important story in the world.  To this day, the country is completely divided over the Russia Hoax.  Democrats have been brainwashed to believe both that the Russian Federation got Trump elected and that Trump secretly works for Vladimir Putin.  When close to half the country has been indoctrinated to believe such outrageous lies, someone important must go to jail!  Instead no-one has been held accountable.

Similarly, non-leftists watched Democrats and their allies burn down cities during 2020’s Black Lives Matter riots.  Leftists caused billions of dollars in property damage, and several dozen people were killed.  Nevertheless, Kamala Harris and other prominent Democrats raised money to bail out anybody arrested.  The corporate news media ignored all the violence and destruction and instead framed the country’s costliest riots as some glorious “victory” for civil rights.

Six months later, however, every American who showed up in D.C. to protest 2020’s election fraud was treated as a violent criminal.  Establishment politicians and corporate news propagandists immediately framed the three-hour frolic through the Capitol as an “insurrection.”  The FBI spent the next two years raiding the homes of Americans with no criminal records.  Prosecutors and judges shamelessly conspired to depict the election protest as an organized attempt to “overthrow the government,” even though none of the protesters carried firearms.  Nancy Pelosi convened a congressional show trial to drum up charges of “sedition” and “treason” against President Trump and his MAGA voters.  Only Trump voters were killed on January 6.  A Capitol Police officer shot and killed unarmed Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt.  Nevertheless, politicians (including installed “president” Joe Biden) and news propagandists continue to lie to the public by claiming that J6 protesters “murdered” police officers that day.  Congress even put up a plaque honoring the same Capitol Police who felt the need to kill unarmed women.

Tina Peters sits in jail for fighting election fraud in Colorado.  Social media platforms still censor conservative voices.  A leftist assassinated Charlie Kirk.  Other leftists have repeatedly tried to assassinate President Trump.  And leftists continue to call us “fascists.”

Until leftist criminals who promote violence against the rest of us are held accountable, America will continue to descend into madness.

Until prominent Democrats are prosecuted for serious crimes, two-tiered “justice” will remain.

President Trump takes his constitutional oath seriously.

It is the Democrat Party that is filled with lawless, bloodthirsty kings.

J.B. Shurk | March 31, 2026

Source: Democrat Kings Want Our Heads – American Thinker

Mike Rowe defends America’s aspirational spirit against Kimmel’s plumber insult, highlighting career flexibility and the American Dream.

As only TV personality and host Mike Rowe can, he embodied what makes America great. The American Dream is not just about a certain achievement like buying a home or being promoted to a particular vocation: It’s about the opportunity to dream big and aspire to higher things — or just different ones.

Of course, Rowe’s incredibly insightful commentary, which he posted to X on Sunday, was born from unfunny comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s joke that maligned the fact that a plumber — that would be former plumber, former U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, and current Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin — is now heading the agency in charge of combating terrorism.

Rowe began:

If you haven’t heard, and even if you have, Jimmy Kimmel said this about Markwayne Mullin, former Senator from Oklahoma, and our newest Secretary of Homeland Security:

“We have a plumber now protecting us from terrorism.”

Apparently, there has been some backlash. Plumbers were offended, obviously, as were parents of plumbers, spouses of plumbers, children of plumbers, and millions of people who have had a plumber show up when they needed one. Comedians were also offended, (the funny ones, anyway,) along with a surprising number of terrorists – especially those with access to hot and cold running water. However, in spite of the ensuing kerfuffle, @jimmykimmel doubled down.

Yeah, Kimmel loves to do that, because he knows he’s bulletproof. Remember when people called for his job, and two of his syndicators stopped airing his show, after he made those terrible comments about Charlie Kirk’s assassination? All Kimmel did was send out the Bat Signal, and his leftist friends in Hollywood cried censorship. Kimmel gave a half-baked fauxpology, then went right back to business as usual: being a terrible comedian, but a great left-wing activist.

Here’s how Kimmel doubled down on his stupidity.

“I’m not upset that the head of Homeland Security was a plumber,” he said, “I’m upset that he isn’t still a plumber.” He further elucidated by adding, “I wouldn’t put a plumber in charge of Homeland Security for the same reason I wouldn’t call a five-star general to pull a rat out of my toilet, OK? We all have our areas of expertise.”

 

Rowe makes a great point on this: Being offended is always a choice, and from my perspective, we live in an age where people think having thin skin is a badge of honor. Rowe is Gen X like me, so insults like this roll off our backs. But Rowe does make the point about what he did find offensive about Kimmel’s ignorant opinion.

But I am a tad butt hurt by the suggestion that skilled workers should never evolve into something new, and that competence is somehow limited to one vocation. Obviously, expertise and skill are important. If I need a new kidney, I’d prefer a doctor do the surgery, not a late-night talk show host. But if the doctor in question used to host a talk show, why would I hold that against him?

Exactly. Dr. Ben Carson was a brilliant brain surgeon, but he chose to stop doing that and enter the political space, running for president in 2016, becoming Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in the first Trump administration, and now serving as a special advisor in this second Trump administration. So, is Dr. Carson any less competent at any of these professions because of his choice to aspire to be something different?

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) won her seat in 2018 after working in sales and retail fashion, and then founding her own marketing and event management company that she successfully ran for over 30 years. Blackburn is the first woman to have been elected as a U.S. Senator from Tennessee. That’s a huge aspiration, and she achieved it. After winning re-election in 2024, Blackburn decided she aspired to become Tennessee’s governor, and if the winds hold, she may just achieve this. So, does Kimmel wish to insult her for moving ably from being a successful businesswoman to U.S. Senator, and now potentially a governor?

He really needs to go sit down.

Rowe brought his point home with the 2016 presidential debate, when then-Senator and presidential candidate Marco Rubio responded to a debate question by saying that “America needed to get shop class back into high schools,” and “What our country needs are more welders and fewer philosophers.”

Rowe continued,

I don’t think the current shortage of welders has anything to do with an overabundance of philosophers. In fact, I think it’s a mistake to promote one vocation at the expense of the other. What we really need in this country, are more welders who can talk intelligently about Aristotle, and more philosophers who can run an even bead. More Generals, in other words, who can fix their own toilets, and more plumbers who can hold a powerful government job.

Amen to that. Then Rowe laid out Mullin’s trajectory, something that Democrats and the Left always omit when complaining about his ascension.

This is what Mullin did. He was a private citizen who mastered an essential skill and then turned that skill into a multi-million-dollar company that employed a lot of people and served a lot of customers. That gave him the freedom to do other things with his life, including a career in public service which got him into Congress, where he’s spent the last eleven years doing whatever Congressmen do. Now, he has a very consequential position in the Cabinet of the current administration.

Boom. If anything, Mullin is the embodiment of someone who not only aspires to become more, but also to be a person of agility and flexibility. As the adage goes, “Blessed are the flexible, because they’ll never be broken.” If Kimmel did finally get fired from his gig, he probably wouldn’t know how to pivot to anything new or different. He’s a small man, and small people only see their little elitist box.

Rowe brings it home beautifully. It’s not about a profession or competence in that profession: It’s about the American Dream, a dream that you can continue to pursue until you draw your last breath.

Is that not the embodiment of the American Dream? I get that Jimmy Kimmel might have a problem with Mullin’s politics, but what possible objection could he have about the trajectory of his career, or his desire to do more than one thing with his life?

The only sensible thing to do in the wake of a moment this tone deaf, is remind America that the skills gap is wide, and getting wider. The shortage of skilled tradespeople is now headline news and closing it is nothing less than a matter of national security. This year, my foundation has set aside $10 million dollars to help train the next generation of plumbers, and lots of other essential workers. I’m talking about hundreds of thousands of AI-proof, six figure jobs that don’t require a four-year degree, waiting to be filled. The money is currently available to anyone who wants to master a useful skill at https://mikeroweworks.org. Apply today.

As for those of you genuinely offended by Kimmel’s comments, consider expressing your disappointment with a modest donation to mikeroweWORKS. Our work ethic scholarship is making a real difference, and your money will be well spent, I promise. The donate button is big and red and hard to miss, at https://mikeroweworks.org

Excellent way to promote the power of aspiration, and how anyone who pursues their dream can always benefit from a little help.

That is what I love about being an American and pursuing my American Dream. My maternal grandmother and grandfather were sharecroppers who decided they wanted to aspire to a better life. Those aspirations took them out of the fields into working the “better” jobs at that time for Southern Blacks: a maid and a bellman. They moved from Tyronza, Arkansas, to Memphis, Tennessee, and then to Chicago, Illinois, joining that Great Migration from South to North that many took during that time because they aspired to something more. I am a product of that aspirational push, and I am always dreaming bigger and reaching higher. While the golden handcuffs of being a software and document specialist in law firms might be fine for most people, I knew from a young age I wanted to be a writer, and through fits, starts, and many detours, that is what I am doing today.

Always aspiring to go higher is what the American Dream is all about. People like Mike Rowe, DHS Secretary Mullin, and I get it. Poor souls like Jimmy Kimmel never will.

By Jennifer Oliver O’Connell  | 7:24 PM on March 29, 2026

Jennifer Oliver O’Connell (As the Girl Turns) is a contributor at Redstate and other publications. Jennifer writes on Politics, Pop Culture, and the American story, with occasional detours into Reinvention, Yoga, and Food. You can read more about Jennifer’s world at her As the Girl Turns website. You can also follow her on X and Facebook.

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Source: Mike Rowe Hits It on the Head: Kimmel Didn’t Insult Plumbers; He Insulted America’s Aspirational Spirit – RedState

Conservatives are not being hypocritical when they say it’s okay for Cesar Chavez statues to go, but other civic statues to stay standing.

I’ve previously written that the United States should cancel Cesar Chavez and remove his images from the public square. Regardless of the alleged heinous crimes against women and children, he was a dedicated leftist committed to the union labor movement against farmers (and consumers) who didn’t respect free enterprise or free trade among the citizenry.

For me, this blunt decision brings up a larger question: If we should feel no compunction about tearing down Chavez, does that make conservatives in particular and common-sense Americans in general hypocrites because we opposed leftists removing other statues?

What’s the standard? Where do we draw the line? To form a more perfect union, should we scrap all the statues?

The slippery slope of social policy is real. We shouldn’t idly tear down everything we don’t like today just because our standards, knowledge, or public opinion have changed over the decades or even centuries past.

Furthermore, we must not ignore the subversive undercurrent about statute removals: Marxist agents in this country want to wipe out our entire history. Consider George Orwell’s devastating yet accurate maxim from 1984:

He who controls the present controls the past

He who controls the past, controls the future.

The important point, then, is to remember the past, not erase it. The same communistic miscreants who tried to erase two and a half centuries of American history also push climate alarmism, open borders, LGBT ideology, and collectivist ownership of property. They cannot succeed if the American people remember and revere their country, past and present.

In 2020, communists exploited the George Floyd Riots to erase America’s history, accomplished symbolically by damaging and destroying statues and monuments throughout the country. Even the Boston memorials recognizing President Abraham Lincoln and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment during the Civil War did not escape vandalism. Under the guise of erasing white supremacy, left-wing goons trashed, demolished, and destroyed our nation’s heritage, including those who undermined the perverse notion that one man’s value depended on his skin color.

What about the Confederate statues, conservatives? Should they have remained? That discussion certainly brings up complex issues!

Lincoln Project critics of Trump mocked the outrage from conservatives about the tearing down of statues. They posted a painting of colonists tearing down the statues of King George III at the outbreak of the American Revolution, then mockingly called them “Antifa” to deride the rest of us who didn’t want our country’s heritage removed. In effect, they dismissed the robust opposition to our nation’s heritage getting torn down, suggesting that it’s part of the American character to topple the monuments.

So, what should the standards be? We cannot—nor should we—remove all the statues, monuments, and commemorations. And yet we should have no problem with the removal of Cesar Chavez from the public square?

Here’s how I look at it:

One. We need to commemorate and celebrate those individuals and groups who built our country. Christopher Columbus is a no-brainer. He literally found the Americans!

Our American Founding Fathers should also remain. Establishing this great Republic on principles of ordered liberty, they pledged their lives and their sacred honor.

Critics will fault some of them for owning slaves during their fight for America, but we are not honoring demi-gods. Rather, they are heroes of our nation who accomplished great deeds despite their failings. Furthermore, some of the Founders, such as Thomas Jefferson, took great pains to try to end slavery before, during, and after the American Revolution. As the colonial governor of Virginia, he passed legislation to ease the process for the manumission of slaves. Unfortunately, a future governor repealed his efforts, but the will and hope of Jefferson and the patriots of his age pressed for the abolition of slavery.

Two. We should celebrate historical figures who improved the United States, or who helped steer this country from crisis to restoration. The Abolitionist movement and its adherents deserve our respect. President Abraham Lincoln should not be removed, either, but rather honored, even more than George Washington, in my view, because while Washington laid the groundwork for a new country, Lincoln overcame the contradiction of slavery to its eradication, and he kept the country together despite violent efforts to achieve its disunion.

Three. People of service who loved America should be honored. I don’t think this needs a great deal of explanation.

So, in general, when is it appropriate to tear down the statues?

One. If the man or woman being honored engaged in heinous crimes (heinous at the time they were committed, unlike slavery, which was legal), which were then covered up and revealed only later to the public—and those crimes are of such a horrific magnitude that no one would have commemorated them if everyone had been aware of those deeds.

There’s nothing wrong with tearing down the Cesar Chavez statues, presuming that all the allegations are true. Also consider when Penn State University removed the statue of famous football coach Joe Paterno after the horrid truth about his assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky, came out. That would-be philanthropist had abused thousands of children, all while running volunteer services for kids, and reports indicated that JoePa knew all about it and covered it up.

Frankly, it seems odd to me that any institution would put up statues honoring someone still alive. At least wait until the person of interest has passed away, when a committee or a historian can review his life and work and decide whether to honor him.

Two. When tyrannies fall and the corrupt, oppressive regimes of those dictators collapse, every citizen should gleefully demolish their former rulers’ physical tributes.

When the citizens of the Eastern Bloc countries were freed from communism, right away, they began tearing down and throwing away all the icons of Communism. To this day, I love looking at the trash cans and dustbins filled with portraits and busts of Marx, Lenin, Stalin, all the other vile collectivists who wrought a veritable hell on earth. This principle justifies our American forebearers tearing down the statues of King George III, as well—So take that, Lincoln Project!

Three. If the man or woman being honored did not actually accomplish anything, or if the mythos around the individual is false. Most Americans are not ready for this tough discussion, but Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was not the freedom fighter, civil rights hero, or upstanding Christian minister that history (or rather progressive PR) makes him out to be. The whole truth about the man would fill another article. For now, follow historian Chad Jackson on Instagram to learn more.

One thorny question: the statues of the Confederate forces? Should they be torn down?

Those commemorations were erected in part to help the country heal. American military barracks received the names of Confederate generals for this reason, too.

Those memorials should remain as a testimony—and a reminder—that the Greatest, Freest country on earth held together despite a horrific civil war. Most countries never survive such a terrible conflict.

But we did.

That’s what statues and monuments are for: to remind us of our history, remember the good, and inspire us for future great exploits.

Arthur Schaper | March 30, 2026

Arthur Schaper is the Field Director of the International Pro-Family Group MassResistance.

In his spare time, he is a writer and commentator on topics both timeless and timely; political, cultural, and eternal. A life-long Southern California resident, Arthur currently lives in Torrance, CA.

Source: Which Statues Should Stay? Which Should Go? – American Thinker

We are capable of winning this fight.

When I write about threats to Western civilization, I struggle to find the sweet spot between describing the myriad problems we face and my firm belief that we are capable of winning this fight.  I do not think all is lost.  I do, however, think that it is important for as many people as possible to recognize what our enemies are doing.

When we are being attacked from all sides — culturally, politically, economically, socially, parentally, morally, religiously, psychologically — it is sometimes difficult to recognize that these attacks are all connected.  Those who wish to destroy Western civilization use every available weapon to hurt us.  When we concentrate on nothing but “bad news,” though, we talk ourselves into premature defeat.  We psych ourselves out.  We give our enemies greater power over us than they have.

We cannot bury our heads in the sand and ignore what is happening.  We also cannot allow what is happening to intimidate us into silence or cow us into submission.  Ideally, we will become more vocal in articulating exactly what our enemies are doing, find comfort in the growing chorus of voices urging resistance, and become only more confident in our defense of Western civilization.

Sounding the alarm is not a call for surrender.  Nor should hearing the alarm cause us to tremble.  This is the time for courage and determination.  When our Western ancestors faced similar dangers in the past, they did not hide or run away.  They prepared themselves for hardship.  They prayed.  They retrieved hidden swords from thatched roofs, straw beds, and bales of hay.

In broad strokes, we know what’s happening.  Open borders policies in North America and Europe are sabotaging social cohesion.  Christianity is under attack.  Reason, rationality, and scientific inquiry have been abandoned.  Our shared history is continuously rewritten in ways that turn our ancestors into villains.  Enlightenment ideals fostering individual sovereignty, personal freedom, and maximum liberty have been eroded by the pernicious encroachments of collectivism, Marxism, socialism, and communism.  Virtue is mocked, while sin is celebrated.  Unchecked desire, envy, and instant gratification have supplanted temperance, humility, and self-restraint.  The indulgence of personal fantasy has superseded the pursuit of eternal truth.  Schools, governments, and cultural institutions preach a false and destructive religion requiring Westerners to repent for their “climate change sins” and embrace the doctrines of “multiculturalism” and “diversity” as tenets of leftism’s “faith.”

Dutch political commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek spoke for many Westerners who have mourned Ramos’s death when she wrote: “The system didn’t fail her, it actively betrayed her.  This girl’s tragic story is a perfect illustration of how the establishment feels about European women.  They first endanger you and then when you need help and cost them too much money, they push you to your grave.”

Discarding the moral and intellectual enlightenment obtained over centuries of work and contemplation, today’s governments have abandoned the hallmarks of Western civilization and reanimated the rotting corpses of paganism, hedonism, idolatry, and child sacrifice.  While Western citizens desperately seek civilizational renewal, Western governments do nothing but fan the flames of the growing inferno.

Criminals who have no legal right to be in the United States — including those who fled criminal prosecutions in their native homelands — go on to commit new crimes while here.  Violent foreign nationals who should not be here have raped and murdered far too many Americans.  Negligent foreign nationals who should not be here have killed far too many Americans while driving cars and commercial trucks across the country.  Far too many schools have been forced to figure out how to teach illegal alien children who cannot speak English or easily assimilate.  Far too many towns and cities have been forced into insolvency while providing ever-expanding social services for illegal aliens whom American taxpayers cannot afford.  Far too many hospitals are overrun with illegal alien patients who delay treatment for and drive up the healthcare costs of Americans.  And now the Democrat Party wants to pay the tens of millions of foreigners who illegally reside here “reparations” for feeling “unsafe.”

In responding to the pro-foreigner / anti-American policies of Representative Jayapal and her Democrat colleagues, one online commenter concluded, “Sometimes seems like only a civil war will save this country.”  That’s a sentiment widely held throughout the West these days.

Last week, a European Parliament conference concluded that the whole continent is headed for civil war.  One professor argued that “the foundations of Western self-belief, prosperity, and competency” are now broken and that Europe is “on a track for a peasant revolt.”  In response to Western governments’ betrayal of Western civilization, there will be an “uprising in which the ruled seek to punish their rulers for violating their obligations under the social contract, and for changing the rules of the game against their wishes.”  Most of the politicians and academics who participated in the conference do not believe that Europe will survive this century.  Although they expressed various opinions about how the coming chaos will unfold, they reached a common conclusion: “It will be bloody.”

Those of us who wish to defend the West should not scurry and hide.  We should recognize the moment and prepare ourselves accordingly.  Our enemies are everywhere.  That’s okay.  We are everywhere, too.

J.B. Shurk | March 30, 2026

Source: Defending Western Civilization from Its Domestic Enemies – American Thinker

Imagine your daughter being pulled out of math class by a school official and told she must leave her faith at the door – while the very same school encourages other students to walk out for anti-ICE protests.

That’s not hypothetical. That’s exactly what happened to our client at a middle school in Washington state – in a district with a troubling pattern of violating the Constitution.

And we know this district well – because the ACLJ has already held it accountable once before.

Years ago, when our client was just a second grader in this same district, school officials searched her backpack every morning, treating Christian materials like contraband. Simply sharing her faith was enough to trigger daily inspections.

We stepped in. We took action. And we forced the district to back down.

After we sent a demand letter, the school district entered into a formal written agreement – explicitly affirming our client’s constitutional right to share her faith.

However, during a recent math class, the vice principal entered the room, pulled our client aside, and told her she was not allowed to distribute Christian Gospel tracts – even to willing classmates.

Our client responded with a question that cuts to the heart of this issue: Why are other students allowed to express their views – but she is not?

The vice principal’s answer was stunning in its candor, telling our client directly that students may share opinions, but not religious beliefs. 

We’ve seen this thousands of times at the ACLJ, yet it never fails to shock. A public school official – in the United States of America – told a child that her faith is a category of speech that the school can simply exclude. This is textbook viewpoint discrimination, and it is flat-out unconstitutional.

But it gets worse. In the very same conversation, the vice principal pointed to the school’s practice of allowing students to leave campus during school hours to participate in anti-ICE protests as an example of perfectly acceptable expression. Political protest – permitted. Quietly sharing a Gospel tract with a classmate who asked for one – forbidden. The double standard could not be more explicit – or more illegal.

The First Amendment does not allow public school officials to pick and choose which viewpoints deserve protection. The Supreme Court has made this unmistakably clear: Students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” 

Viewpoint discrimination – treating speech less favorably because of the perspective it expresses – is among the most serious constitutional violations a government actor can commit. And this school has now committed it twice against the same child.

The ACLJ sent a formal demand letter to the school superintendent. We are requiring the district to respond in writing and that response must include immediate, unequivocal written assurances on two points: First, that our client will be permitted to share her faith and distribute tracts to willing classmates during non-instructional time without any further interference from school officials; and second, that she will be allowed to form and operate a Christian student club on the exact same terms and conditions that apply to every other non-curriculum-related student group on campus.

Jordan Sekulow | Mar 27, 2026

Source: SHOCK: Christian Girl Subjected to Daily Backpack Searches, Scolded for Sharing Her Faith in Jesus

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On Sunday, a new statue of Christopher Columbus was placed on the White House grounds. It’s a 13-foot-tall, one-ton marble masterpiece now sitting just outside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building adjacent to the West Wing.

In announcing the news, the administration stated on X, “In this White House, Christopher Columbus is a hero, and President Trump will ensure he’s honored as such for generations to come.”

Designed and crafted by Maryland sculptor Will Hemsley, the statue is a replica of the one that anarchists threw into Baltimore’s Inner Harbor in the summer of 2020. Back during that rage-fueled season, unhinged provocateurs were lashing out over cultural claims of racial injustice. Along with the desecration and destruction of the Columbus statue, more than 30 monuments were torn down or removed.

Ronald Reagan was president in 1984 when the original monument was dedicated. During his remarks just outside the “Gateway” to Baltimore’s “Little Italy,” he stated:

When Columbus discovered America, he set in force a motion mightier than the world had ever known. People came here from every corner of the planet to be free and to improve their lot and that of their family. Well, we got off course a few years ago, but now we’ve set the good ship Columbia back sailing in the right direction. And I thank you for letting me be here to help you honor the man who started it all, Christopher Columbus.

History revisionists with an agenda shade truth or ignore inconvenient facts altogether. One of the popular anti-Columbus narratives is that the sailing explorer was driven by greed and a desire to exploit others. In fact, he was a devout believer in Jesus Christ. He saw himself as a missionary in search of new people and new pathways to share the Good News of Jesus Christ.

Those goals and Columbus’ pioneering accomplishments make the mere mortal man worthy of becoming a monument.

In the early days of America, modest monuments were constructed to acknowledge both people and turning points in history. The Bunker Hill Monument marked the beginning of the American Revolution. Engraved on the 221-foot granite obelisk is a phrase taken from Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Plantation. It reads, “His hand that made all things of nothing.” It’s taken from his larger observation that God can do great and mighty things from very little.

The Washington Monument obelisk was intended to honor America’s first president and his noble ideals, especially his commitment to freedom and independence. At the very top, facing east to receive the day’s first rays of sunshine, are two Latin words: “Laus Deo” or “Praise be to God”.

Not every statue or monument is intended to communicate such firmness of faith, but many of the men and women carved out of stone or whose images have been hewn out of metal were strong and unapologetic Christian believers. In most cases, those testimonies were not ancillary to their greatness but the driving force behind it.

Replacing or restoring statues that were vandalized or recklessly torn down is a helpful step in reminding Americans about the heroes on whose shoulders we stand. But simply returning to the status quo by putting back up old monuments won’t necessarily tell the full story of America’s storied history.

That’s why President Trump, in conjunction with America’s semiquincentennial, has announced plans for the “Garden of American Heroes” in Washington, D.C. in an area just south of the National Mall. It would include 250 life-size statues made of marble, granite, bronze, copper and brass.

Officials have stated historical figures like George Washington and Benjamin Franklin will be featured, but the Garden will also include a broad spectrum of other personalities ranging from Harriet Tubman to Babe Ruth to Walt Disney and Thomas Edison.

As Christians, we recognize that Jesus of Nazareth was the one and only perfect person who has ever walked the earth. As such, we don’t bow down or make idols of anyone, but that doesn’t mean we can’t acknowledge, honor, and learn from the achievements of others.

In an era when historic monuments and statues have been toppled or torn down in protest, the rising generation deserves to know more about the men and women whose faith and sacrifice helped build our country.

by Paul Batura | March 24, 2026 | Culture

Source: Making Statues Great Again – Daily Citizen