There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. —Soren Kierkegaard. "…truth is true even if nobody believes it, and falsehood is false even if everybody believes it. That is why truth does not yield to opinion, fashion, numbers, office, or sincerity–it is simply true and that is the end of it" – Os Guinness, Time for Truth, pg.39. “He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.” – Blaise Pascal. "There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily" – George Washington letter to Edmund Randolph — 1795. We live in a “post-truth” world. According to the dictionary, “post-truth” means, “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Simply put, we now live in a culture that seems to value experience and emotion more than truth. Truth will never go away no matter how hard one might wish. Going beyond the MSM idealogical opinion/bias and their low information tabloid reality show news with a distractional superficial focus on entertainment, sensationalism, emotionalism and activist reporting – this blogs goal is to, in some small way, put a plug in the broken dam of truth and save as many as possible from the consequences—temporal and eternal. "The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." – George Orwell “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ― Soren Kierkegaard
During the 2016 Presidential Election we were chastised for reporting on Hillary’s poor health. This week DNI Tulsi Gabbard provided evidence that we were absolutely spot on.
(One of my first posts at TGP was a story of Hillary taking off weekends.) On August 15, 2016 we reported that Hillary was taking weekends off while candidate Trump was a machine.
By reviewing the activities of Presidential candidates Trump and Clinton a new phenomenon has appeared. While Trump continues to smash Clinton in attendance at events, Hillary appears to have decided to take weekends off.
Clinton took the weekend of August 6th and 7th off and she decided to take three days off this past weekend August 12th through 14th. She also has no events scheduled to participate in this coming Thursday through Saturday August 18th through 20th. This in essence would mean another three days off after three days of events scheduled starting today. In total Clinton has taken 7 days off in August out of the first 14 days and is scheduled to continue with this approach through at least this coming Saturday.
Donald Trump on the other hand has taken only two days off in August, Sunday August 7th and Sunday the 14th. Trump has 7 days where he has participated in more than one campaign event.
This article was the top story in the country as it appeared on Drudge as the headline. (This was back when Drudge led the news cycle and before it turned far-left radical.)
This led to more and more reporting on Hillary’s horrible health culminating in reports of a doctor traveling with her and Hillary needing help up stairs and more leading up to 9-11.
On that day Hillary left an event at Ground Zero and got up and mysteriously walked out with what appeared to be a doctor. A citizen reporter caught what happened next on his cell phone.
Now we know why Hillary really fell out and had to be tossed into that van
It’s been revealed that during the 2016 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton was on strong tranquilizers for psycho-emotional problems and was suffering from ischemic heart disease. pic.twitter.com/6AFZtON1fq
Earlier this week, DNI Gabbard shared that the media lied about Hillary’s health. She was as bad off as we reported.
Gabbard reported that “DNC emails that detail evidence of Hillary’s ‘psycho-emotional problems, uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression, and cheerfulness,’ and … a daily regimen of heavy tranquilizers.”
.@DNIGabbard: The House report details information Russia had on Hillary Clinton, including "DNC emails that detail evidence of Hillary's 'psycho-emotional problems, uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression, and cheerfulness,' and … a daily regimen of heavy tranquilizers." pic.twitter.com/k3a77dMiHg
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 23, 2025
The media seemingly lies about everything and has done so for years.
“Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.” —John Adams (1776)
Record-low migrant encounters: Donald Trump’s promise to shut down the border to illegal immigration is being realized in a big way. June set a new record for the fewest border encounters in U.S. history. The total number of illegal border crossings that Customs and Border Protection registered for last month nationwide was 25,243, a 12% drop from the previous record low set in February. Furthermore, this June’s numbers are 89% lower than the average monthly totals for the years 2021-2024. The number of gotaways has also dropped precipitously, with June’s total down 90% from the year prior. And the most significant data point is that the U.S. Border Patrol released zero illegal migrants into the U.S. last month. As has been repeatedly noted, all it took to fix the border crisis was a president willing to uphold American sovereignty and the laws already on the books.
OBBBA is a win for pro-life: Within the massive One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which the House passed on Thursday and Donald Trump subsequently signed into law on Friday, is a provision that reforms Medicaid to prevent any taxpayer dollars from going to the nation’s biggest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood. While the Hyde Amendment prevents the federal government from directly funding abortions, it does not prevent Planned Parenthood from receiving taxpayer funding for other health-related services. Of course, our tax dollars do subsidize abortions because money is fungible. While this provision is only good for one year, it still serves as a significant hit to Planned Parenthood’s bottom line, further ensuring the abortion provider will have to close more of its abortion mills.
Supreme Court agrees to take on bans of boys in girls’ sports: In June, the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s ban on “gender-affirming care” gender mutilation for minors. Now, SCOTUS has agreed to take on West Virginia and Idaho’s bans on “transitioned” boys playing in girls’ sports. The Court is currently out of session, with the next term scheduled to begin on October 3, at which time this case will be heard. The West Virginia case was brought by a boy whose malfeasant and malicious parents have denied him his natural body through puberty blockers since third grade. Given his lack of puberty, he cannot compete with the boys, and his lawyers argue that if he can’t compete against girls, he is being denied access to sporting competition altogether. The Supreme Court should see that transitioning children is child abuse; the inability to compete in sports is just one manifestation of that abuse.
EPA officials pillory Trump agenda: Some 144 Environmental Protection Agency officials have been placed on leave after signing a public letter blasting the Trump administration’s focus on all available resources for energy dominance. The letter, which was also signed by several former EPA officials, most of whom were Democrat appointees, claimed that the Trump administration was undermining public trust in science and promoting a “culture of fear.” That charge is ironic given that climate change alarmism, which these EPA officials espouse, is predicated on promoting fear. EPA Director Lee Zeldin explained that these rogue officials have been put on leave pending an internal investigation. “We have a ZERO tolerance policy for agency bureaucrats unlawfully undermining, sabotaging, and undercutting the agenda of this administration as voted for by the great people of this country last November,” Zeldin stated, adding, “Unfortunately, a small number of employees signed onto a public letter, written as agency employees, using their official work title, that was riddled with misinformation regarding agency business.” The EPA has over 15,000 employees.
Trump’s tariff ultimatum letters: Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs on most of the world on April 2, or “Liberation Day.” Quickly thereafter, most of the tariffs were suspended for 90 days to allow for the negotiation of new trade agreements that would obviate the tariffs. Wednesday, July 9, marks the expiration of the 90-day grace period, and Donald Trump has sent out about a dozen letters to nations or groups, such as the EU, that have failed to negotiate new terms. The letters inform these nations what tariffs they can expect on July 10. So far, only two nations have negotiated new trade agreements that settled the tariff issue: the United Kingdom and Vietnam. Nations that have been slow to negotiate and should probably expect a letter include Japan, Australia, India, Canada, and South Korea.
Update on Iran’s nuke program: Last week, the Pentagon released its assessment of the impact of the U.S. military’s June 22 MOP bombing of Iran’s most protected nuclear facilities. According to Defense Department spokesman Sean Parnell, “We have degraded their program by one to two years — at least intel assessments inside the Department [of Defense] assess that.” He added, “We believe that Iran’s nuclear capability has been severely degraded, perhaps even their ambition to build a bomb.” Parnell also reiterated, “All of the intelligence that we’ve seen [has] led us to believe that … those facilities especially have been completely obliterated.” Meanwhile, the U.S. has also raised sanctions against a network that smuggles Iranian-sourced oil and seeks to pass it off as Iraqi oil. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent explained, “Treasury will continue to target Tehran’s revenue sources and intensify economic pressure to disrupt the regime’s access to the financial resources that fuel its destabilizing activities.”
Tucker Carlson interviews Iranian president: This morning, Tucker Carlson released an interview he recorded with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. Pezeshkian is not the leader of Iran; that remains Ayatollah Khomeini. Tucker’s interview is the latest in a series of interviews he has conducted with world leaders, which have famously included Vladimir Putin. Tucker explained that he chose not to ask questions on the state of the Iranian nuclear sites hit in Operation Midnight Hammer because “there’s no chance he’s going to answer that question honestly.” The questions he asked in the interview include whether Pezeshkian believes the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency was spying on Iran and sharing information with Israel, “Should Americans Be Afraid of Iran?” and, “Are There Iranian Sleeper Cells in the United States?”
Epstein conspiracies quashed? The Justice Department and FBI have released new information that quashes all that is left of the Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theories. The release includes video of Epstein’s cell the night of his alleged suicide, both raw and with visual enhancements that show no one entering Epstein’s cell that night. The administration also claims there is no evidence that Epstein kept a client list or blackmailed any prominent individuals. This is meant to be the final word on the Epstein chapter, with the DOJ saying that no further disclosure is warranted, that much of the unreleased Epstein material involves child abuse, and that the DOJ will not permit the release of what amounts to child pornography.
The scene was sublime, and patriotic Americans had much to celebrate.
It was Friday, July 4, and there on the south lawn of the White House was Donald Trump, and all around him were beaming lawmakers and service members and their families. They were gathered for a picnic in celebration of our Armed Forces and commemorating our nation’s Declaration of Independence for the 249th time.
But that wasn’t all. During normal times, such an Independence Day celebration would’ve sufficed. These, though, aren’t normal times, and Trump, the America First President, had one other matter to attend to.
A day earlier, after a sleepless night and a long and bruising battle, House Speaker Mike Johnson brought down the gavel on Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. “On this vote,” Johnson said, “the yays are 218, the nays are 214. The motion is adopted.”
The chamber then erupted, and chants of “USA! USA! USA!” broke out. And with that, the bill headed to Trump’s desk for his Independence Day signature, just as he’d asked.
It was, without a doubt, Speaker Johnson’s finest moment. And it was also Donald Trump’s greatest legislative win. As I noted a while back, OBBBA is the Trump agenda, and failure was never an option.
Trump had been in Iowa on Thursday, and he marked the event’s significance. “There could be no better birthday present for America,” he said, “than the phenomenal victory we achieved just hours ago when Congress passed the one big, beautiful bill to Make America Great Again.”
Indeed, there’s much to like in OBBBA. As the editors at National Review write: “It is a significant conservative policy win that the bill makes permanent the meat of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017: the individual income tax brackets, the doubled standard deduction, the repeal of personal exemptions, the cap on the mortgage interest deduction, and the near-elimination of the alternative minimum tax and the estate tax.”
OBBBA is also a win for pro-lifers, as it includes language that forbids Planned Parenthood from receiving federal funds.
But, as National Review adds: “The spending side of the bill is much worse than the tax side. Despite the caterwauling from Democrats and the media about drastic cuts, it hardly cuts spending at all. The fundamental problem with American fiscal policy is that relatively low taxes are funding relatively high spending. Republicans get the tax side right while getting the spending side only slightly less wrong than the Democrats.”
The left-leaning scaremongers at the Congressional Budget Office say the bill will add $3.3 trillion to the national debt over the next 10 years and leave millions of us without health insurance. But as our Nate Jackson cautioned last week, the CBO’s scoring is just plain garbage: “It does not, as the CBO says, ‘add $3.3 trillion to the debt’ over the next 10 years. That’s based on the CBO’s bogus baseline scoring, which treats the tax cuts as if they will expire and then calculates the ‘cost’ of extending them.”
Democrats, of course, are upset, but they aren’t the only ones. Elon Musk, bless his heart, is forming a new political party. “By a factor of 2 to 1,” Musk posted, “you want a new political party and you shall have it! When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste & graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy. Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom.”
Yes, Americans want choice. But they also want what Donald Trump ran on. And he’s delivering.
The Democrats, though, are in a heckuva bind. Yeah, they say, let’s rile up our base about a spending bill that closes the border, rebuilds our military, reforms Fraudicaid, and delivers the greatest tax cut in American history — including no taxes on tips or overtime. Yeah, yeah, and while we’re at it, let’s all of a sudden become deficit hawks and lament the size of the national debt. Yeah, yeah, that’s the ticket.
James Carville, for example, is the increasingly unhinged gift who keeps on giving. Recall what the Ragin’ Cajun told his audience of dead-enders and true believers just four months ago: “I believe that this administration, in less than 30 days, is in the midst of a massive collapse, in particularly a collapse in public opinion.”
Some collapse, huh?
And this weekend, Carville was at it again, sounding downright Linus-like in his Great Pumpkinness during an appearance on CNN. First he lauded the Democrats for voting en masse against OBBBA without a single defection — as if they had a choice, and as if such knee-jerk obstruction is actually a virtue. Then he primed and pull-started the ol’ prediction machine for untold dozens of Anderson Cooper groupies: “We’re going to pick up more than 40 House seats. … I mean, you know, political anthropologists are going to look back at this, and it’s going to be called a mass extinction event because there are a lot of them are going to be extinct.”
Mark it down: “more than 40 House seats.” Carville thus thinks the 2026 midterms will be a repeat of the 2018 midterms. And he obviously thinks OBBBA will be this cycle’s animating principle, its Russia collusion hoax.
On the one hand, we can’t blame Carville. He’s become a political drug dealer, and he’s continuing to push a drug called “Hope” to an increasingly strung-out and zombie-like customer base.
These days, it’s got to be tough to be a Democrat.
Mark Alexander: Trump Kills Children in Texas Flash Flood — Before the flood waters had receded, Democrat politicos and hordes of their unhinged leftist surrogates emerged to blame Trump for the flooding and deaths.
Emmy Griffin: Good Intentions Don’t Justify Dubious Freeze on Education Funding — The president should follow the law by not withholding congressionally approved funding. At the same time, DOE funds aren’t going straight to classrooms, despite what Democrats claim.
Thomas Gallatin: ATF in the Crosshairs — The pro-2A Trump administration rightly wants to downsize the ATF’s bureaucracy, but merging the agency with the DEA creates competing objectives and undermines the mission.
Brent Ramsey: A Tribute to CDR Phillip Keuhlen, USN (Retired) — “What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments but what is woven into the lives of others. Phil Keuhlen wove much into the lives of many.”
Roger Helle: Not Just Another Long Weekend — Most young churches today don’t recognize patriotic holidays, so I was overjoyed yesterday to speak at a church in my hometown and share about America’s many blessings.
Stop Apologizing for Being American — Some Americans chose not to celebrate the 4th of July this year. Let’s talk about why this is so disrespectful and highlight the other end of the Internet that is posting amazing American hype reels.
‘They’re Slaughtering Everyone!’ — Mayhar Tousi, an Iranian political commentator and journalist, elucidates how the Islamic Republic is facing domestic losses. He also explores the possibility of the regime’s collapse and the sentiments of the Iranian civilian population.
Combating the Myths About the Jewish People — Robert Spencer, author of Antisemitism: History and Myth, discusses the forces contributing to the rise of anti-Semitism across the Western world.
PopCon 103: ‘28 Years Later’ — It isn’t often that the PopCon team delves into the zombie movie genre, but “28 Years Later” — which had good reviews from critics — surprised us as well.
“ICE is acting like a terrorist force. People across the country of all legal statuses — including U.S. citizens — are being kidnapped and disappeared off the street by masked men. No oversight, no accountability. Completely lawless.” —Rep. Pramila Jayapal
Foiled Again
“Since, y’know, March and before, there were predictions that the tariffs … would lead to job losses. Predictions of doom — that doom just hasn’t happened yet.” —CNN’s John Berman after seeing the positive June jobs report
“This jobs market is like the Energizer Bunny. Every single time we expect it to run out of steam, it just keeps going and going.” —CNN’s Matt Egan
Old Man Yells at Cloud
“Many of the things I worked so damn hard, that I thought I changed in the country, are changing so rapidly.” —Joe Biden, as if that’s a bad thing
“I’m getting calls … from a number of European leaders asking me to get engaged. I’m not, but I’m giving advice. Because things are different. … I’m also dealing with a lot of Democrats and Republican colleagues calling me, wanting to talk.” —Joe Biden
Weird Flex
“I have many thoughts on how the Democratic Party might start to win back young men who have abandoned the party for fascism. … One of my suggestions is that the Democrats should embrace pornography and other examples of sexiness and smut under the umbrella of free speech.” —The Nation justice correspondent Elie Mystal
Political Futures
Shot across the bow: “By a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party and you shall have it! When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste & graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy. Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom.” —Elon Musk
Returning fire: “I am saddened to watch Elon Musk go completely ‘off the rails,’ essentially becoming a TRAIN WRECK over the past five weeks. He even wants to start a Third Political Party, despite the fact that they have never succeeded in the United States — The System seems not designed for them.” —Donald Trump
Re: The Left
“Only a deeply patriotic love of country can cause a person to sign up [to join the military] that could potentially cost them their lives. By and large, Democrats demonstrably do not possess this quality. In fact, they spend most of their time and energy degrading, undermining, and criticizing our nation.” —Nate Jackson
For the Record
“You got to celebrate Independence Day because American citizens had military-grade weapons!” —Mark Alexander
And Last…
“It takes a lot longer to build a lie than to tell the simple truth.” —House Speaker Mike Johnson
ON THIS DAY in 1954, a Memphis disc jockey played “That’s All Right” by an unknown local 19-year-old. Elvis Presley immediately became a fan favorite, and the rest is history.
Please join us in prayer for our nation — that righteous leaders would rise and prevail and we would be united as Americans. Pray also for the protection of our Military Patriots, Veterans, First Responders, and their families. Please lift up your Patriot team and our mission to support and defend our Republic’s Founding Principle of Liberty, that the fires of freedom would be ignited in the hearts and minds of our countrymen.
Supreme Court ends Mexico’s gun manufacturer lawsuit: Mexico has been attempting to sue U.S. gun manufacturers for $10 billion over their alleged aiding and abetting of Mexican drug cartels. The alleged catering to cartels includes Mexican-themed guns with engraved quotes popular within the cartels, as well as manufacturing AR-15s and magazines that carry more than 10 rounds. In other words, Mexico was trying to sue gun manufacturers for … making guns. (If these were the days of Barack Obama’s “Fast and Furious” gun trafficking scheme, the Mexican government might have a case.) This morning, the Supreme Court unanimously struck down the suit. Mexico just learned that the Second Amendment means what it says: “shall not be infringed.”
SCOTUS protects majority from discrimination: In a unanimous decision this morning, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that discrimination against majority groups violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The case in question was Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, wherein Marlean Ames claimed that she was denied promotion due to her sexual identity being that of a straight woman. Previously, the Sixth Circuit Court had rejected her case, essentially concluding that due to her status as a member of a majority group, she lacked standing to claim discrimination. The Supreme Court blew up that notion, unequivocally determining that “reverse” discrimination is still discrimination and therefore illegal. Tellingly, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson delivered the Court’s opinion, with Justice Clarence Thomas also offering a concurring opinion. This is a refreshing decision from the Court.
Another Biden judge blocks a deportation: The Trump administration was stopped from deporting the family of the Boulder, Colorado, anti-Semitic firebomber by a judge on Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Gordon Gallagher, a Biden appointee, issued a temporary restraining order on deporting the bomber’s wife and five children over due process concerns. Gallagher asserted that “deportation without process could work irreparable harm and an order must issue without notice due to the urgency this situation presents.” The bomber and his family entered the U.S. legally back in 2022, but all have overstayed their visas and are therefore currently illegally in the country. Complicating the matter is the fact that they all had applied for asylum prior to his assault. The Department of Homeland Security is “investigating to what extent his family knew about this heinous attack.”
Trump and Putin chat: Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin spoke for over an hour Wednesday after the audacious Ukrainian drone attack over the weekend. They discussed the Ukrainian attack on Russia’s “docked” nuclear-capable bomber fleet, and Putin insisted he will have to respond forcefully, though Western commentators hope the wildly successful drone attack will force Putin to the negotiating table. With Putin now describing Kyiv as a “terrorist organization,” peace may seem unlikely. Trump and Putin also discussed the stalled U.S.-Iran nuclear negotiations. Trump says that Putin is willing to participate in the talks and agrees that Iran should not acquire nuclear weapons. As always, anything Putin says must be taken with a grain of salt; whether Russia wants a nuclear Iran or not is not apparent.
CBO evaluates Trump’s bill: The Congressional Budget Office — which is not as nonpartisan as it claims — has reviewed the Big Beautiful Bill. The CBO estimates $3.7 trillion in cut taxes and a deficit increase of $2.4 trillion over the next decade, which is slightly higher than the $2.3 trillion estimate from House Republicans. Some 10.9 million people would lose healthcare, the CBO says, although 1.4 million of those are illegal aliens. While scary, those numbers pale in comparison to the cost of not passing the bill. Because the 2017 Trump tax cuts are set to expire unless renewed, if the bill (or one like it) fails, taxes will go up by $4.5 trillion next year, the largest increase in history.
Trump’s battle with Harvard and Columbia continues: Donald Trump has hit Harvard yet again, issuing an executive order on Wednesday revoking the university’s permission to host foreign students. Trump based his action on Harvard’s failure to protect Jewish students from anti-Semitic protesters, saying, “In my judgment, Harvard’s conduct has rendered it an unsuitable destination for foreign students and researchers.” For the same reason, the Trump administration also targeted another Ivy League school. Following an investigation into Columbia University’s failure to protect Jewish students on campus in the wake of Hamas’s October 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel, the Trump administration has notified the school’s accreditor that Columbia “no longer appears to meet the Commissions accreditation standards.”
Border czar warns more terror attacks imminent: Why would two million illegal immigrants pay double what they needed to enter the U.S.? That’s the question that has Tom Homan worried because there’s a clear answer: to avoid any documentation or official knowledge of their presence. As Homan explained, these illegals could’ve turned themselves in to Biden border authorities and gotten a ticket to a city of their choice, a hotel room, three meals a day, and more, all for half of what they paid to evade the authorities. Homan believes many of these unregistered illegal immigrants may be here with nefarious intent. When asked if this is an opening for another 9/11-style terrorist attack, Homan’s simple answer was chilling: “It’s coming.”
Hobbs placates the ChiComs: Arizona Democrat Governor Katie Hobbs has vetoed bipartisan legislation that would have prevented China from purchasing land near U.S. military bases and other strategic locations. State Senate Majority Leader Janae Shamp blasted Hobbs’s veto as “politically motivated” and “utterly insane.” Shamp charged her with being “an obstructionist against safeguarding our citizens from threats.” In getting the bill passed, Shamp noted China’s efforts to buy land alongside Arizona’s Luke Air Force Base, which trains U.S. fighter pilots. Hobbs claimed the bill would have done little to counter China’s espionage efforts and also opened the door for “arbitrary enforcement.” Despite Hobbs’s veto, it may be overridden, given the bill’s bipartisan support. Should it become law, it would prevent China from having more than a 30% stake in Arizona property. Thus far, 17 states have passed similar legislation.
Abortion mandate reined in: On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) rescinded the Biden administration’s abortion services mandate within the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA). That mandate forced hospitals and pro-life healthcare workers to provide abortions if it was determined to be a needed treatment. CMS notes that EMTALA will continue to be enforced, but with the clear condition that those hospitals and healthcare workers who object to abortions will not be forced to provide them. The original intent of EMTALA was to ensure the lives of both mother and preborn babies were protected and cared for. The Biden administration twisted the law into doing the opposite in an effort to force pro-life hospitals and healthcare workers to perform abortions.
June to be declared Family Month? A resolution from Congresswoman Mary Miller would name June “Family Month,” a welcome change from “Pride Month.” Miller’s legislation highlights the nuclear family as “the foundation of a healthy society” and quotes John Adams on the Constitution’s existence to govern “moral and religious people.” The resolution mentions that the best environment for children is a loving home with a married mother and father. Hear, hear! This is the latest in a series of government actions that finally begin to address a critical problem in America: the falling birth rate. Nations like the U.S. that are below the “replacement rate” don’t have a bright future. Maybe by focusing on family instead of the perversion of “Pride Month,” America can start correcting that problem.
GLAAD counts protests as hate: Conservatives have known for a long time that anything but the affirmation of LGBTQ+ nonsense would be called “hate” by the Rainbow Mafia, but it’s nice of GLAAD to confirm it. The organization has released its “Anti LGBTQ Extremism Reporting Tracker” for 2025, and it doesn’t disappoint. The largest category included in the report is “protests”; the exact protests included are unclear. “Propaganda drops” is another major category that isn’t explained. The 20 bomb threats and 15 arson attempts in the report are included in the 932 “hate incidents,” alongside over 200 anti-trans protests and 33 “propaganda drops.” Can someone explain to the gender cultists that parents fighting for their daughters not to change in front of men is not the same as a bomb threat?
Headlines
Supreme Court expands tax exemptions for religious charities (Forbes)
U.S. vetoes UN Security Council resolution for Gaza ceasefire (Newsweek)
Israel recovers bodies of U.S.-Israeli couple Judi Weinstein and Gadi Haggai from Gaza Strip (NY Post)
Auto industry sounds the alarm as China’s rare earth curbs start to bite (CNBC)
2.1 million students left higher ed without a degree last year (Inside Higher Ed)
Episcopal Church inaugurates Pride Month with “pride eucharist” (Not the Bee)
Humor: Hamas agrees to surrender if Europe will take Greta Thunberg back (Babylon Bee)
Cue up the “s***hole countries” comment in 3, 2, 1…
Yesterday, President Donald Trump ordered a travel ban on 12 countries, most of them in Africa and the Middle East. In addition, he placed travel restrictions on seven other countries. He did so in the wake of Sunday’s sickening terrorist attack in the left-wing enclave of Boulder, Colorado, in which a Jew-hating Egyptian used a homemade flamethrower and Molotov cocktails to attack and set afire a group of peaceful demonstrators who were there to raise awareness of the hostages still held in Gaza by Hamas. According to DHS sources, that Egyptian, 45-year-old Mohamed Soliman, entered our country on a B2 visa during the open-borders Biden years and — surprise! — overstayed his visa.
While Sunday’s anti-Semitic attack might have been the catalyzing event, it was far from the only reason for Trump’s travel ban. Indeed, Egypt didn’t even make the list. As the president put it yesterday in a Truth Social video: “In my first term, my powerful travel restrictions were one of our most successful policies, and they were a key part of preventing major foreign terror attacks on American soil. We will not let what happened in Europe happen in America. That’s why on my first day back in office, I directed the secretary of state to perform a security review of high-risk regions and make recommendations for where restrictions should be imposed. Among the national security threats their analysis considered are the large-scale presence of terrorists, failure to cooperate on visa security, inability to verify travelers’ identities, inadequate recordkeeping of criminal histories, and persistently high rate of visa overstays.”
The 12 countries whose citizens are banned from traveling to the U.S. are Afghanistan, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Myanmar, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. Additionally, citizens of seven other countries are banned from immigrating permanently to the U.S. or applying for tourist or student visas, although they’re still eligible for the H-1B work visa.
While several of the countries have high temporary-visa overstay rates, others couldn’t be counted on to verify their people’s identity. Haiti, the Original S***hole Country, is the only nation in the Western Hemisphere to merit a complete ban, and it made the list, according to the White House, because “hundreds of thousands of illegal Haitian aliens flooded into the U.S. during the Biden administration.” Indeed, we haven’t forgotten Springfield, Ohio.
Taken as a whole, the lists seem pretty solid — with one exception: China. After all, this lying, thieving, pandemic-unleashing menace is our foremost geopolitical foe, and two of its dutiful commies were, on Tuesday, charged with smuggling a “dangerous biological pathogen” into the U.S., ostensibly to study it at the University of Michigan. Uh-huh. According to federal prosecutors, the fungus in question, fusarium graminearum, attacks wheat, barley, maize, and rice, “is responsible for billions of dollars in economic losses worldwide each year,” and can be used as an agroterrorism weapon. We’re already rightly revoking their student visas, so why not tighten the screws a bit further, especially in light of this week’s deeply disturbing news?
Trump added that “new countries can be added as threats emerge around the world,” so perhaps there’s hope for China yet. As for the unrepentant globalists on the Left, their reaction was entirely predictable. “Democrats condemned the administration’s announcement and cast the ban as a betrayal of American values,” reports The Washington Post. “Sen. Edward J. Markey (Massachusetts) said the move will not make America safer, and Sen. Adam Schiff (California) said the ban will serve to further isolate the United States on the global stage. Rep. Yassamin Ansari (Arizona), who is Iranian American, said the ‘xenophobic and racist ban will devastate my constituents and families like mine.’”
This caterwauling misses the point entirely. These countries, and their people, have no right to be in our country. They are privileged to be here, and that privilege can be taken away if the American president believes they’re abusing it.
The ban from Trump’s first term was immediately labeled by Democrats as “a Muslim ban,” but, again, that claim misses the point entirely. These are bans of countries that aren’t holding up their end of the immigration and visitation bargain.
Think about it: When a guest wipes his nose on the tablecloth, you don’t invite him back.
“We don’t want ‘em,” President Trump said. And he’s right.
Nate Jackson: Investigating President Autopen — Donald Trump and congressional Republicans rightly demand to know exactly who was running the country for the four years of Joe Biden’s only term in office.
Emmy Griffin: Governor Gavin Newsom Cozies Up to the ChiComs — A clandestine trade meeting in California this week marks yet another strike against the “moderating” Newsom, whose past checkered record will haunt his presidential aspirations.
Thomas Gallatin: A Case of ‘Climate Homicide’ — Climate alarmists are using lawfare to advance their ecofascism by claiming that a Seattle woman’s heat-related death was due to climate change, which is caused by Big Oil.
Samantha Koch: Dems Spend $20M and Hire a Queer Activist to Attract Men — The total disconnect with reality deepens as the Democrat Party, which has spent decades demonizing men, now spends and scrambles to find ways to gain their votes.
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KJP Rebrands Herself as an ‘Independent’ — Megyn Kelly discusses former Press Secretary Karine-Jean Pierre’s rebranding herself as an “independent,” her part in covering up the cognitive decline of Biden, and her failures at the White House.
Ukraine’s Surprise Drone Attack — Footage is released of Ukraine’s drone assault on Belaya Air Base in Russia’s Irkutsk Oblast.
How Fossil Fuels Are Saving the Planet — Alex Epstein explains why environmentalism is anti-human, why fossil fuels are essential for human flourishing, and how green energy policies are putting the West in serious danger.
SHORT CUTS
Yellow Journalism
“Boulder suspect’s daughter dreamed of studying medicine. Now she faces deportation.” —USA Today headline
Non Compos Mentis
“We’re not gonna have anybody around to wipe our a**es because we don’t have enough people.” —Rep. Becca Balint advocating for more immigrants
Crockett’s Believe It or NOT
“I’ve had Republicans walk up to me and tell me how much they like me.” —Rep. Jasmine Crockett
Shot/Chaser
“Mark Hamill starred in the ultimate battle of good and evil. Now he just wants to make America normal again.” —Los Angeles Times headline
“We have now arrived at the ‘arresting judges’ level of fascism.” —actor Mark Hamill reacting to the arrest of rogue Judge Hannah Dugan in April
Village Idiots
“I believe Elon Musk did something. I believe the down-ballot proof. I believe that he did not win this election because I am looking at how many people Kamala Harris had, and I just don’t believe it.” —actress Rosie O’Donnell
“What if we all took a new pledge? … I’ve taken the liberty of writing one for us on this day: ‘I pledge allegiance to the people of the United States of America. And to the democracy for which we all stand: One person, one vote, one nation, part of one world, everyone! A seat at the table! Everyone! A slice of the pie! With liberty and justice, equality and kindness, and the pursuit of happiness for all.’” —filmmaker Michael Moore
Memo to Moore: We love our constitutional Republic’s freedom. Get your hat today!
Re: The Left
“Democrat politicians are attacking the brave men and women who enforce our immigration laws. … Meanwhile, not one elected Democrat that I am aware of has condemned Antifa, Transtifa, or other leftist antisemitic demonstrators who routinely show up with their faces masked as they engage in acts of violence.” —Gary Bauer
Yeah, Probably…
“The Feds are about to deport the Boulder Terrorist’s family which means somewhere a Democrat is getting ready to go have margaritas with them.” —Jimmy Failla
Inquiring Minds Want to Know
“Why can we not condemn antisemitism while also condemning so-called Islamophobia (real or imaginary), particularly when many antisemitic attacks are carried out by Muslims?” —Ian Haworth
Upright
“It helps when you know that borders are not racist. Speech is not violence. America is good. Terrorists are bad. Men can never become women. Police are not criminals, and criminals are not victims.” —Donald Trump
Changing the Game
“A badly outmanned and outgunned country just reached far inside its adversary’s territory to destroy or damage hugely expensive, nuclear-capable strategic aircraft with low-cost drones basically indistinguishable from ones available on Amazon.” —Rich Lowry
Setting the Record Straight
“Harvey Milk was an unrepentant pederast and all-around reprobate. It was wrong to name the ship after him, and, at a purely practical level, it was not helping the Navy beat the accusations!” —Michael Knowles on the renaming of the USNS Harvey Milk
ON THIS DAY in 1947, Secretary of State George Marshall laid out what became known as the Marshall Plan — an ambitious agenda to rebuild Europe following the widespread devastation of World War II.
Please join us in prayer for our nation — that righteous leaders would rise and prevail and we would be united as Americans. Pray also for the protection of our Military Patriots, Veterans, First Responders, and their families. Please lift up your Patriot team and our mission to support and defend our Republic’s Founding Principle of Liberty, that the fires of freedom would be ignited in the hearts and minds of our countrymen.
“For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.” —Patrick Henry (1775)
Judicial ping-pong on Trump’s tariffs continues: In April, Donald Trump stunned the world with his “Liberation Day” tariffs. Since then, the question of whether he had the legal authority to impose those tariffs has been working its way through the courts. On Wednesday, a court ruled that the tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 (IEEPA) were not legal. Trump’s legal team filed an appeal within minutes, and by Thursday afternoon, a temporary stop was granted on the block of Trump’s IEEPA tariffs. What’s next in this game of judicial ping-pong — a pause on the stay of the block of the tariffs? A separate decision from DC District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras on Thursday put an injunction on the IEEPA tariffs but stayed his order for 14 days to allow a review in the Court of Appeals. Meanwhile, Trump and Co. are assembling an alternative tariff plan.
SCOTUS green-lights Trump’s CHNV deportations: Today, the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a lower court’s block on the Trump administration’s efforts to deport some 530,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, dubiously brought into the U.S. by the Biden administration’s “CHNV program.” The Supreme Court overturned Boston-area U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani’s ruling to halt the removals. Talwani had insisted that these migrants who were brought into the country en masse must receive individual case-by-case reviews prior to any deportation. The Court made its ruling based on the view that the Trump administration would likely win its case against Biden’s controversial “humanitarian parole” program. Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson wrote a dissenting opinion blasting the majority, warning of “devastating consequences of allowing the Government to precipitously upend the lives and livelihoods of nearly half a million noncitizens while their legal claims are pending.”
SCOTUS quashes micromanaging from ecofascist courts: On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously slapped down one of the favored tactics used by ecofascists to prevent the construction of federally approved infrastructure projects. That tactic involves persuading favorable courts to misapply the National Environmental Policy Act’s (NEPA) environmental impact statements to derail and block infrastructure projects, such as pipelines. “NEPA does not allow courts, ‘under the guise of judicial review’ of agency compliance with NEPA, to delay or block agency projects based on the environmental effects of other projects separate from the project at hand,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote. “Courts should afford substantial deference and should not micromanage those agency choices so long as they fall within a broad zone of reasonableness.”
President Donald DOGE: Elon Musk officially ends his brief stint as a Special Government Employee and head of the Department of Government Efficiency today. According to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, the new leaders of DOGE are the Cabinet secretaries and President Trump himself. The implication is that DOGE teams will be folded into each secretary’s purview, maintaining the same intent of identifying inefficiencies and corruption. Donald Trump was always the ultimate head of DOGE, even before Musk’s departure. Musk stated on X Thursday that he was thankful for the chance to reduce wasteful spending and expressed his belief that DOGE’s mission will become “a way of life throughout the government.”
Epstein killed himself, film at 11? Yesterday on Fox News, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino addressed the popular conspiracy theory surrounding the death of financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — that he did not kill himself while in custody in New York City’s Metropolitan Correctional Center. Bongino again stated that the evidence shows that Epstein did kill himself. He noted the existence of a video, which he promised would soon be released, that doesn’t show Epstein killing himself, but it does show “there’s no one there but him [Epstein].” He added, “There’s no DNA. There’s no audio. There’s no fingerprints. There’s no suspects. There’s no accomplices. There’s no tip. There is nothing. … There’s video, clear as day. He’s the only person in there and the only person coming out. You can see it.”
Trump’s presidential pardon spree: Donald Trump pardoned 12 people this week. The power of presidential pardons is sweeping and absolute; presidents can pardon whom they want. Joe Biden used this power sweepingly, pardoning his son and hundreds of others, some of whom were guilty of murder, accepting bribes, and more. Biden’s pardons were, in many cases, despicable, but two wrongs don’t make a right. When Trump pardons a former Army lieutenant who was court-martialed for refusing to comply with the COVID policy, that’s one thing. Still, other cases, such as a gang leader or a sheriff convicted of accepting $75,000 in bribes, are a different story. The Washington Times points out that one common thread in these pardons is vocal support of President Trump. Flattery probably should not be rewarded with a presidential pardon.
DOGE and DOD: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is serious about implementing the DOGE ethos in the Pentagon. Hegseth announced this week that $5 billion in wasteful spending on “consultants and contractors” had been identified and would be cut, in addition to the $5 billion already identified, adding up to $10 billion. If you ask RedState, these cuts are “massive.” If you ask our own Mark Alexander, $100 billion in Defense Department savings would be “a drop in the bucket.” Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve Feinberg has been working with DOGE to identify these savings, but Hegseth isn’t stopping there. He issued three memos aimed at reducing the number of contractors and consultants, reforming the use of executive assistants, and making weapons testing more efficient. The savings found so far are encouraging, but they’re just a start.
Job Corps pause: Concern over reports of fraud and corruption has resulted in the Department of Labor announcing it would “begin a phased pause” of the nearly $2 billion Job Corps. Established in 1964, the federal job training program targeted runaway teens in an effort to house, educate, and train them for gainful employment. However, for decades, evidence has shown that contractors have been gaming the program to keep the money flowing. As Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer explained, “A startling number of serious incident reports and our in-depth fiscal analysis reveal the program is no longer achieving the intended outcomes that students deserve.” Shocking, we know. Effectively, Job Corps has become a massive grift for federal contractors as the program spends $764,000 per graduate, who end up earning an average of $17,000 annually. Furthermore, two-thirds of students in the program never graduate.
White House cuts out ABA: The American Bar Association (ABA) will no longer receive “special access to judicial nominees,” Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Thursday. The reason, Bondi explained, was that the ABA has become so politically biased that it “has lost its way, and we do not believe it serves as a fair arbiter of judicial nominees.” It is true that the ABA has a long history of supporting progressive judicial nominees while giving unfavorable ratings to conservative nominees. “In some administrations,” Bondi noted, “the ABA received notice of nominees before a nomination was announced to the public. Some administrations would even decide whether to nominate an individual based on a rating assigned by the ABA.” It was the ABA that infamously gave Judge Robert Bork a “Not Qualified” rating.
Headlines
Judge blocks Trump from stopping Harvard international admissions (Just the News)
Government employee arrested after sharing classified info with FBI agent (Fox News)
U.S. presents Israel-approved ceasefire deal to Hamas that could end Gaza war (NY Post)
“Sleazebag”: Trump attacks former Federalist Society chair (Forbes)
Illegal alien arrested over handwritten letter threatening Trump assassination may have been set up (NY Post)
The sanctuary cities, counties, and states the Trump admin just put on notice (Newsweek)
Humor: Elon Musk leaves job of making government more efficient for much easier job of sending humans to Mars (Babylon Bee)
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: Scientists and health researchers didn’t fully do their homework, often exaggerating or outright fabricating information to advance their predetermined conclusions and agendas.
Donald Trump’s White House is under fire today for doing just that, though I’m guessing you can already spot the irony, which I’ll get to in a moment. “Some of the citations that underpin the science in the White House’s sweeping ‘MAHA Report’ appear to have been generated using artificial intelligence,” reports The Washington Post, “resulting in numerous garbled scientific references and invented studies, AI experts said Thursday.”
MSNBC adds, “There’s new evidence that the White House’s ‘The MAHA Report: Making Our Children Healthy Again’ relied in part on scientific research that doesn’t exist.”
That sounds a lot like the fake, AI-generated summer reading list our Emmy Griffin covered last week. It’s a reminder that AI is only as good as the information put into it, which is why Patriot Post authors research and write our own content.
MAHA stands for Make America Healthy Again, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s director of the Department of Health and Human Services, is leading the charge. MAHA’s laudable goal is to make progress in addressing the health issues that are adversely affecting millions of Americans. Obesity is rampant, along with an increase in diabetes and other weight-related complications. Autism and attention disorders seem to have exploded, as have asthma, allergies, autoimmune disorders, and cancer.
RFK wants to know why, and he wants to reverse the decline.
That was the point of his MAHA Commission’s major report, released last Thursday. Some argue, and not without reason, that the report should now be scrapped entirely. “This is not an evidence-based report, and for all practical purposes, it should be junked at this point,” said Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association. “It cannot be used for any policymaking. It cannot even be used for any serious discussion because you can’t believe what’s in it.”
The White House, however, has already been updating the report to correct what an HHS spokesman called “minor citation and formatting errors.” He insisted, “The substance of the MAHA report remains the same — a historic and transformative assessment by the federal government to understand the chronic disease epidemic afflicting our nation’s children.”
At best, I’ve been lukewarm on RFK Jr. since it became obvious last fall that Trump was going to put him in charge of HHS. A lifelong Democrat, RFK has a history of being a blind squirrel who finds a few nuts. Those nuts can be really important, but sometimes he’s just nuts.
I’d also note that every conservative in the country would be outraged if Joe Biden’s administration had fabricated research to bolster a health report.
Oh, wait. We were outraged when that happened.
That’s why it’s utterly preposterous to see the smug rebukes from the Leftmedia.
They spent years defending left-wing quack science about COVID, from Anthony “The Science” Fauci’s transparent flip-flop on masking (saying it was worthless before eventually demanding two masks) to the wholly invented “science” of social distancing. The COVID vaccines increase the risk of myocarditis, but media outlets spent years backing Biden’s mandates and public shaming operation while looking the other way when evidence of the risks was presented early on.
Left-wingers also obsess over abortion, even though it takes a human life in the womb. Just this week, Michelle Obama let the cat out of the bag: “Women’s reproductive health is about our life. It’s about this whole complicated reproductive system that the least of what it does is produce life.” I’d hardly agree that making a baby is the “least” of what a woman’s reproductive system does, but at least Obama admitted it’s life.
Also, in defiance of God-created reality, the Left still insists that its upside-down euphemism of “gender-affirming care” is an untouchable scientific fact rather than a dogmatic sacrament of the genital-obsessed gender cult. To serve as deputy HHS secretary, Biden appointed a dude in a dress — a groomer who advocated child gender mutilation.
When it comes to conversations about health and science, maybe they should stay on the sidelines.
Unfortunately, HHS’s blunder undermines its work. RFK’s HHS also recently released a report concluding that “gender-affirming care” for minors is medical malpractice. Just this week, RFK sent a letter to healthcare providers instructing them on the subject. “Given your ‘obligation to avoid serious harm’ and the findings of the Review, HHS expects you promptly to make the necessary updates to your treatment protocols and training for care for children and adolescents with gender dysphoria to protect them from these harmful interventions.” On social media, HHS added, “Providers should no longer rely on discredited guidelines that promote these dangerous interventions for children and adolescents based on ideology, not evidence.”
That’s absolutely correct, but it’s a harder case to make when another report from the same HHS is exposed for shoddy citations, harming the credibility of the messenger.
Much like with the Signal snafu and other blunders, Trump’s team should be roundly criticized for this foolish and inexcusable own goal. RFK and Co. should have buttoned things up when presenting a report they had to have known would be dissected like a frog in biology class. Instead, they drew generally sound conclusions backed by dubious citations.
I support Trump’s agenda, which is why I’ve had to take on these careless blunders, which don’t help any more than zealous overreach.
A trio of writers at the libertarian Cato Institute are far more critical of the MAHA report than I am, but they offer a solid conclusion: “Good public health policy demands humility, precision, and honesty — especially when the stakes are high. … If we want to build a healthier future for our children, we must resist the temptation of prepackaged conclusions and demand evidence-driven thinking, not ideology in disguise. When the government controls both the research agenda and the health advice, it risks turning scientific inquiry into propaganda and personal health into political theater.”
Thomas Gallatin: Trump vs. NPR — National Public Radio is suing the Trump administration to keep raking in Americans’ tax dollars and to promote the false image that it is a non-biased news outlet.
Emmy Griffin: Trump Is Taking Harvard to Task — The storied Ivy League university, which has broken and continues to break the law, is now paying the piper and experiencing a taste of long-overdue justice.
Mark Alexander: Hiding the Demos’ Totalitarian Forest With Leftmedia Trees — “Democrats have been endeavoring to implement Orwell’s totalitarian state for decades, and never more so than the strides made in eight years by Barack Obama and the last four years by Biden’s puppeteers.”
Brian Mark Weber: Boys and Young Men Are Hurting — A return to the common sense of “boys will be boys” and that they need a father is the cure to the culture-induced male malady inflicting millions of boys and young men.
Mark Alexander: Profiles of Valor: MG Patrick Henry Brady (USA) — “When I have your wounded…” In his two Vietnam deployments, Brady flew more than 2,000 combat missions and daringly rescued an estimated 5,000 wounded Americans and friendlies.
Ron Helle: Underpromise, Overdeliver — In the midst of all the world’s underperformance, Christians have the honor of serving a God who actually overdelivers on the promises He has made to His people.
An Honest Take on the Looming Energy Crisis — Dr. Jordan B. Peterson joins geologist Scott Tinker to dismantle the myth of energy scarcity, exposing the flawed narratives that demonize coal, oil, and natural gas.
How China Controls America’s Biggest Tech Company — Apple, like all successful companies, became successful by maximizing profits and minimizing costs. However, to achieve this, it sold its soul to America’s biggest adversary: the Chinese Communist Party.
Why Rome Collapsed — Barry Strauss, an American historian and professor specializing in ancient military history, explains how it happened and why the West should be worried.
“You have a right to homeownership, regardless of legal status.” —Prysma Lending Group on facilitating mortgages for illegal immigrants, all while young Americans are unable to purchase a starter home
Self-Aggrandizing
“This book is about the virtues vital to our success as a nation and lessons we can draw from generations of Americans who fought for them.” —Sen. Cory “Spartacus” Booker promoting his new book about his 25-hour non-filibuster
Braying Jenny
“Women’s reproductive health is about our life. It’s about this whole complicated reproductive system that the least of what it does is produce life. It’s a very important thing that it does, but you only produce life if the machine that’s producing it — if you want to whittle us down to a machine — if the machine is functioning in a healthy, streamlined kind of way.” —Michelle Obama downplaying the miracle of life in the womb but also admitting that it’s life in the womb
Non Compos Mentis
“Christianity has long revered saints who would be called ‘transgender’ today.” —headline in The Conversation
Double Standards
“Too many are watching what is happening in America and realize that there are indeed two systems of ‘justice,’ and that is highly disconcerting. One group feels that anyone violating their ideological agenda and purposes must be persecuted and prosecuted. … Then there is the other group that is reticent and recalcitrant to be bold and hold individuals accountable for their actions in violating the rule of law.” —Allen West
Judicial Activism
“The Supreme Court’s recent opinions are confusing and disingenuous enough to allow the Left to claim that every illegal alien has a right to an attorney, a right to a trial, a right to appeal, and the right to appeal all the way to the Supreme Court.” —Gary Bauer
“These judges are threatening to undermine the credibility of the United States on the world stage. … Ultimately, the Supreme Court must put an end to this, for the sake of our Constitution and our country.” —White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt
Upright
“As my scheduled time as a Special Government Employee comes to an end, I would like to thank President @realDonaldTrump for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending. The @DOGE mission will only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government.” —Elon Musk
The Empire Strikes Back
“DOGE fought the swamp, and so far, the swamp has won.” —Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis
And Last…
“I wanna live in an America where the guy uncovering the waste and fraud STAYS and the politicians profiting from it GO.” —Jimmy Failla
ON THIS DAY in 1868, Americans observed the first Memorial Day, set aside to honor soldiers who had died during the War Between the States. It was originally called Decoration Day, and it was marked with flowers and flags on soldiers’ gravestones. As General James Garfield, who later became president, said in a speech at Arlington National Cemetery, “For love of country they accepted death, and thus resolved all doubts, and made immortal their patriotism and their virtue.”
Please join us in prayer for our nation — that righteous leaders would rise and prevail and we would be united as Americans. Pray also for the protection of our Military Patriots, Veterans, First Responders, and their families. Please lift up your Patriot team and our mission to support and defend our Republic’s Founding Principle of Liberty, that the fires of freedom would be ignited in the hearts and minds of our countrymen.
The Gateway Pundit has been the main target of the US censorship complex for several years now.
Former Harvard law professor and best-selling author Alan Dershowitz said on Monday that news organizations could potentially take legal action if they were silenced by the government censoship complex.
“For the marketplace of ideas to remain open, and that’s the essence of the First Amendment, it has to be equally open to all sides. You can’t have it [the First Amendment] with money allocated to foreign influences and use it domestically in the United States… That’s a clear violation of the spirit of the First Amendment.”
This is a vey real issue in America today. We know this because The Gateway Pundit has been a victim of this practice for several years now.
The Gateway Pundit has been reporting on the government censorship complex for many years aimed at pro-Trump and independent media.
For several years now, since President Donald Trump won his first election in 2016, the US government, foreign NGOs, Big Tech, and lawfare attorneys have worked diligently to destroy independent media and social media influencers who helped push President Trump over the finish line in his first historic win.
Hundreds of the original pro-Trump social media accounts did not survive this onslaught of censorship and targeted attacks by social media on their pages.
In 2016, according to studies by Columbia Journalism Review and Harvard University, The Gateway Pundit was listed as the fourth most influential conservative media outlet in America.
Since that time The Gateway Pundit has become the number one target of the media censorship complex.
For more than EIGHT years now government agencies, foreign NGOs, Social Media Giants, and far left groups, have worked to silence, ban, censor, smear, blacklist, and demonetize The Gateway Pundit.
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In anticipation of the address, reports suggest that President Trump is considering significant policy shifts, including the potential suspension or cancellation of U.S. military aid to Ukraine.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who witnessed the confrontation with Zelensky firsthand, told Laura Ingraham that there will be no more blank checks for Ukraine without a peace deal.
“Again, this is not the previous administration. Joe Biden is no longer in that Oval Office. We are no longer going to just write blank checks to a war very far away without real lasting peace. That’s what the President wants.”
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Trump Senior Advisor Jason Miller joined Fox’s Charlie Hurt on Sunday, where he laid out what the President’s speech on Tuesday will cover.
President Trump is expected to speak about Biden’s ongoing inflation crisis, the wasteful spending being uncovered by the Department of Government Efficiency, Congress’s tax bill, border security, and some other exciting developments in the race to Mars and the AI race.
Miller says the President will be focused on “making sure that we continue to bring peace and stability around the world, but we have to do it with respect and strength.” He added, “Those are the two keys that President Trump’s going to go into.”
In the first 40 days of his second term, President Trump has implemented several notable actions:
On January 20, Trump created a new “Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)” by executive order, placing Elon Musk at its helm.
The oversight office was charged with rooting out wasteful spending and cutting regulations. He concurrently froze all new federal regulations and hiring to curb government bureaucracy. One memo from OMB went further, freezing all federal funding pending a compliance review with Trump’s policies.
President Trump has strengthened border security by deploying 1,500 active-duty troops to the U.S.–Mexico border and cracking down on criminal illegal immigrants with targeted arrests.
He reinstated a travel ban on several predominantly Muslim countries (reviving his first-term policy).
He shut down the CBP One app, started deportation flights, and designated drug cartels as terrorist organizations. Additionally, he reinstated the term “illegal alien,” directed the Department of Justice to act against sanctuary cities, and announced the use of Guantanamo Bay for migrants.
Trump secured over $1 trillion in new investments, including a $500 billion commitment for AI infrastructure and $600 billion from Saudi Arabia over four years. He imposed tariffs on Chinese goods (10%) and foreign steel and aluminum (25%), prompting retaliatory tariffs from China. He also announced retaliatory tariffs on Colombia and authorized visa restrictions on Colombian officials, and launched a “gold card” visa program for high-investment individuals.
He declared a National Energy Emergency, rescinded previous energy regulations, and withdrew from the Paris Climate Agreement. Trump paused wind farm leasing, reversed restrictions on resource development in Alaska, terminated the electric vehicle mandate, and opened offshore drilling, allowing more energy exploration in Alaska.
Trump eliminated Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practices, ensured merit-based hiring, ended affirmative action in federal hiring, and affirmed the recognition of two sexes.
He stopped the display of activists’ flags at U.S. embassies, ended remote work for federal employees, and ordered their return to offices.
He took steps to end government censorship and the weaponization of government agencies, pardoned individuals involved in the January 6 Capitol events and two D.C. Police officers, and declassified files related to the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and MLK.
He signed the Laken Riley Act, ordered the creation of a National Garden of American Heroes, fired the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, banned transgender women from women’s sports via executive order, and instructed the Treasury to stop minting pennies.
Trump has signed an executive order to designate English as the official language of the United States.
In foreign policy, Trump redesignated the Houthis as a Foreign Terrorist Organization and engaged in diplomatic communications, including a phone call with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. He renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
He announced the U.S. Crypto Strategic Reserve, including various cryptocurrencies. Militarily, he ended diversity programs, reinstated service members who refused the COVID-19 vaccination, signed an order for an “Iron Dome for America,” and appointed Kash Patel as the new FBI Director.
Trump announced the Stargate AI company with a $500 billion investment, pardoned Ross Ulbricht, instructed federal health agencies to pause communications until approved by his appointees, placed nearly all direct hires at USAID on administrative leave
Donald Trump is expected to be named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” — and to celebrate the unveiling of the cover, the president-elect will ring the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday morning, according to three people familiar with the plans granted anonymity because they were not authorized to divulge the plans.
Last year, pop superstar Taylor Swift was recognized. To mark the magazine cover reveal, Time CEO Jessica Sibley rang the opening bell.
Trump was also named Time Person of the Year in 2016 after he won the presidential election. He joins 13 other U.S. presidents who have received the recognition, including President Joe Biden.
The award shortlist was revealed on Monday’s episode of The Today Show and included Trump, Kamala Harris, Kate Middleton, Elon Musk, and Benjamin Netanyahu.
In their descriptions of the finalists, Time wrote that Trump made a “stunning political comeback.”
In a stunning political comeback, Donald Trump won the 2024 election. He has reshaped the American electorate, activating young male voters who propelled him to a decisive victory that saw him win the popular vote for the first time and turn every swing state red. Trump’s remarkable victory comes after he lost the 2020 election to Biden and repeatedly refused to accept the results. His 2024 win is history-making in multiple ways: he will be the oldest President in U.S. history, and he was convicted earlier this year by a New York jury of 34 counts of fraud, making him the first convicted felon to be elected President. During his 2024 campaign, he identified the economy and the border as his top priorities. He’s promised to implement tariffs on America’s top trading partners—Mexico, Canada, and China—once he takes office, worrying economists, and has announced several controversial Cabinet appointments. Trump was previously named TIME’s Person of the Year in 2016, the year he won the presidency for the first time.
Politico cited three unnamed sources for its report.
In a statement to the outlet, Time said it “does not comment on its annual choice for Person of the Year prior to publication. This year’s choice will be announced tomorrow morning, Dec. 12, on Time.com.”
PALM BEACH, FL — The day after scoring a sweeping win to retake the White House, President-Elect Donald Trump stunned the American people and proved true what so many had tried to warn about by sporting a new mustache for his victory speech.
The facial hairstyle, which evoked comparisons to a prominent European leader from the 1930s as well as silent film star Charlie Chaplin, was a drastic change from the traditionally clean-shaven Trump — a clear indication that America should expect the worst.
“Don’t say we didn’t warn you about this,” said one despondent journalist. “We’ve been telling everyone for the last decade that this guy was literally Hitler. Did anyone listen? No! Now look at him. You see that little mustache? He means business. I suggest we all accept reality and start packing for our trips to the concentration camps. Goodbye, America. Hello, Hitler Part 2.”
Previous Trump supporters hid their faces in shame, incredulous that they were fooled by such an obvious Hitler. “What fools we were,” said former Trump fan Dan Kiniry. “Just look at that mustache. Everyone told me he was Hitler, but I was so sure he wasn’t. This is so, so embarrassing.”
At publishing time, Trump’s campaign had also unveiled new red armbands to be worn by all of his supporters.
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Kamala Harris has continued to absolutely cook herself ever since she was finally released by her handlers to do interviews and speak with the media. Not only is she fumbling all of her interviews as her poll numbers continue to nose dive, but she is being heckled everywhere she goes as well.
Kamala Harris attempted to deceive another church congregation by attempting to convince christians that she was God’s chosen candidate and those in the congregation began to heckle her mid fake sermon.
Kamala Harris also continues to under perform with black voters, particularly black men. As her campaign runs out of ideas of how to make this failing candidate somewhat succeed, they had her stop for a barbershop visit with black men and she looked completely out of place.
It appears all of the fake commie joy is running out for Kamala Harris as the nation and Democrat Party watch her brutal collapse.
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