MEDIA – BLAMING REPUBLICANS FOR SHUTDOWN

November 7, 2025

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Media’s message: Don’t blame Democrats for the shutdown

By Susan Ferrechio Nov 7,2025

The media’s favorable coverage of Democrats during the record-breaking government shutdown is overwhelmingly one-sided and has shielded them from blame, even though party lawmakers have voted more than a dozen times to block reopening the government, an analysis found.

Democrats are insisting the shutdown, and all the pain and inconvenience that goes along with it, is the fault of the GOP. Few mainstream news outlets are challenging their claims.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul Friday morning told angry airline passengers who faced canceled flights due to the lapse in federal funding to “thank Trump and Washington Republicans,” and then called on the Republican-led House and Senate and President Trump to “end the GOP shutdown.”

It may sound like gaslighting, because Senate Democrats are holding back the votes needed to pass a measure to fund the government and restart services.

But many media outlets have largely echoed Ms. Hochul’s point of view, and it’s reflected in polls that show the public largely blames the GOP for the shutdown, despite Democrats’ attempts to force Republicans to expand extra health care subsidies.

For the past month, ABC, CBS, and NBC, where millions get their news, “have hammered both Congressional Republicans and President Trump with a wall of negative shutdown coverage, while largely shielding Democrats from blame for the now-historic gridlock,” a Media Research Center analysis found.

Analysts who watched 67 reports about the government shutdown across the three networks during October found the vast majority heavily favored the Democratic Party’s spin.

Just 12 reports — less than 20% of the coverage — informed viewers that Democrats had refused to vote for a stopgap spending bill that would reopen the government.

Instead, ABC News and the other networks flipped the narrative, defending Democrats for “fighting for an extension” of enhanced Obamacare tax credits and warning that without the subsidies, health care premiums “could go up 169%.”

Dan Schneider, vice president for free speech at the Media Research Center. said the one-sided coverage worsens the public’s growing mistrust of the media.

“With Senate Democrats exclusively to blame for the longest shutdown in our history, one might hope that the media would try to repair their tattered reputation and shoot straight for once. But instead the evidence shows that the media are far more interested in helping Democrats retake Congress than they are in actually providing objective news to the public,” Mr. Schneider said.

The subsidies were meant to expire after the pandemic, and Democrats who added them to a massive COVID-19 spending bill could have made them permanent, but didn’t to reduce the cost of the legislation.

Now Democrats want the GOP-led House and Senate to make the subsidies permanent, at a cost nearly half a trillion dollars over the next decade. Republicans are refusing the party’s demands and said the health care law must be reformed to rein in sky-high costs.

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TRUMP MAKES VISA FRAUD COSTLY AGAIN

November 6, 2025

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Trump Makes Visa Fraud Costly Again

Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2025

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by Mike Marlowe

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If you ever wondered what would happen if you combined a Ponzi scheme, a Chinese sweatshop, and a Nigerian email scam, the answer is America’s visa system.

Our visa system was supposed to bring in the world’s best and brightest. Instead, it has devolved into one of the biggest frauds ever perpetrated on the American people.

Two of the worst offenders are the H-1B and F-1 programs. The H-1B is a “temporary” work visa that supposedly lets companies hire “highly skilled” foreign workers when they can’t find qualified Americans. In reality, it’s almost never temporary, the workers are low skill, and the companies can find Americans, but don’t want to pay them fair wages – or they’re just flatly discriminating against native-born workers.

The F-1, meanwhile, is the student visa that supposedly brings the world’s best minds to study in America, but increasingly attracts the world’s most creative scammers.

Both were sold as merit-based programs that would benefit America. Both turned into slot machines for fraud.

Every spring, the H-1B program gets flooded with applications filed by well-known American companies. The scale is staggering. Last year, the government received more than 750,000 H-1B applications for just 85,000 slots – even as tens of thousands of native-born Americans were actively looking for jobs.

Companies routinely lie that they need to import foreign talent. They really don’t. They just prefer workers who cost less and are too afraid to quit. You see, when a foreign worker receives an H-1B visa, it is tied to their employer, meaning if they quit their job, they immediately risk deportation. You may remember this economic system by its previous name: indentured servitude.

But the scam really kicks into high gear when an employer wants to transform a temporary H-1B worker into a permanent Green Card holder. Before they can do that, employers first have to test the marketplace to see if there are any qualified Americans interested in the job. If not, then the foreign worker can move forward with their Green Card application.

To avoid getting applications from Americans, the employers “advertise” these jobs in places where no American will ever see them – buried on obscure websites or in the back pages of small-town newspapers. When no one applies, they tell the government, “See? No qualified Americans!” and the visas roll in.

The F-1 student visa system is just as rotten. Student visas are supposed to let foreign nationals come here to study at legitimate universities, then return home after graduation. In reality, it’s become one of Washington’s most abused immigration loopholes.

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FILIBUSTER – HISTORY AND DEFINITION

November 6, 2025

https://grokipedia.com/page/Filibuster

Filibuster

A filibuster is a tactic employed in the United States Senate to prolong debate and thereby delay or prevent a vote on a bill, resolution, amendment, nomination, or other debatable matter, exploiting the chamber’s lack of inherent limits on discussion time.^[1] This procedure, not explicitly designed in the Senate’s original rules, arose from an inadvertent omission in 1806 of the House’s “previous question” motion, which would have allowed ending debate, leading to its first recorded use in 1806 and more prominently in 1837 to block a bill.^[2]^[3] To overcome a filibuster, supporters must invoke cloture, a mechanism adopted in 1917 requiring initially a two-thirds vote—later reduced to three-fifths of senators duly chosen and sworn in 1975—to end debate and force a vote.^[4]^[4] While intended to protect minority viewpoints and encourage deliberation, the filibuster has evolved into a routine supermajority hurdle, invoked thousands of times since 1917 with over half occurring in the decade prior to 2021, often resulting in legislative stalemate on contentious issues ranging from civil rights measures in the mid-20th century to contemporary policy disputes.^[5]^[5] Its persistence has fueled repeated reform efforts, including procedural changes like the “nuclear option” to eliminate it for certain nominations, highlighting tensions between safeguarding deliberative process and enabling majority rule.^[4]

November 4, 2025

MAMDANI’S RISE WAS NEVER GRASSROOTS – IT WAS BANKROLLED BY CAIR

November 3, 2025

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2025/11/03/canary-mission-muslim-funding-behind-mamdani-n2665858

Mamdani’s Rise Was Never Grassroots — It Was Bankrolled by the Council on American-Islamic Relations

Amy Curtis | November 03, 2025 12:30 PM

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Last week, Canary Mission reported that Zohran Mamdani’s candidacy is a trial balloon for a radical socialist takeover of America. They’re right, and we spelled out how several Democratic Party Senate candidates are following in Mamdani’s radical footsteps.

However, there’s more to Mamdani’s campaign, and Canary Mission has revealed the connection between the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and how they’re bankrolling Mandani’s campaign.

“Right now, I’m a little more quiet because I’m on the quiet side of this race,” Sarsour said. “But I’m going to tell you that once November 4 comes around, I will tell the story.”

“The story is not just, you know, that it’s random that Zohran ascended to this place,” Sarsour continued. “It is our Muslim-American communities, and I’ll also say that’s Muslim money. The PACs that have supported Zohran, or a particular PAC that has supported Zohran is probably over 80% of Muslim American donors in this country. High net donors, grassroots donors. And I want to make the point that the Unity and Justice Fund PAC, which is the CAIR super PAC…was the largest institutional donor to the pro-Zohran PAC in New York.”

You can watch more of Sarsour’s remarks here on the CAIR YouTube channel.

We’ve already told you about Mamdani’s troublesome times with Imam Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing who believes gays are the “disease of society.” So it’s not surprising that Mamdani is being funded by CAIR and the likes of Linda Sarsour.

Canary Mission’s website lays out Sarsour’s radicalism and her ties to the DSA:

As of July 2025, Sarsour’s LinkedIn profile said she was the co-founder and executive director of MPower Change, which is “the first Muslim online organizing platform.” She was also listed on the Until Freedom website as the co-founder of this “intersectional social justice organization.”

Sarsour has been a “proud member” of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) since 2017. She was a featured speaker at the 2019 DSA National Convention and a “monthly donor” to the DSA as early as 2019.

Sarsour promoted 2025 New York mayoral candidate and DSA member Zohran Mamdani and donated to his campaign. She denied allegations that she holds “any official positions in the Mamdani campaign.” Sarsour has backed Mamdani since his run for New York State Assembly in 2020.

Mamdani’s anti-America and far-left activist network, which includes the DSA, helped secure his 2025 Democratic Party primary victory. DSA’s ideology includes anti-American and abolitionist elements. DSA justified Hamas murdering 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023. Notable DSA members include activist Linda Sarsour and Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib.

Tomorrow is election day in New York, and while the race has tightened, Mamdani still leads Democrat Andrew Cuomo by six points, according to polling published in the New York Post.

Mamdani’s radical socialist and Islamic ties should be an alarm bell for all New Yorkers as well as all Americans. They are not hiding their Leftist agenda or their goal to topple America and remake it in a socialist-Muslim image. Other Democrats are hopping on this radical bandwagon, and they must be stopped.

SNAP – MASSIVE FRAUD

November 3, 2025

Secretary Brooke Rollins

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On my first day

@USDA

, we told every state to send us their SNAP data so we could make sure illegal immigrants aren’t getting benefits meant for American families. 29 states stepped up. 21 blue states refused — and two SUED US FOR ASKING! 🤦🏻‍♀️

And guess what? In just the states that cooperated, we’ve already uncovered massive fraud.

The Democrat Party has turned its back on working Americans and built its entire strategy around protecting illegal aliens. They know if the handouts stop, those illegals will go back home, and Democrats will lose 20+ seats after the next census.

There’s a new sheriff in town.

@POTUS

will not tolerate waste, fraud, or abuse while hardworking Americans go hungry.

VIDEO – DIGITAL ID WARNING

November 3, 2025

VIDEO – Digital ID Warning

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WATCH: Mandatory Digital

ID is Coming and Here’s What We MUST do to Stop It.

November 1, 2025/by Joe Miller

If you don’t think this terrifying control system is coming, think again. America’s digital ID ecosystem is already here at the state level. As of late 2025, 17 jurisdictions allow mDLs (digital driver’s licenses or “mobile driver’s licenses”): Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Montana, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Puerto Rico, Utah, Virginia, and West Virginia. And mDLs are accepted at over 250 TSA checkpoints. Another 18 states plan adoption by year-end, building on the REAL ID legislation already enacted. This is just the start, with mandatory provisions coming. Joe explains more below:

Confront Sharia Law

November 1, 2025

First, please watch the alarming Radio Genoa video and then read the article below explaining why the No Sharia Act needs to be passed. Nancy

VIDEO

RadioGenoa on X: “Islamic leaders in UK want British citizens to pay Jizya, a tax

that non-Muslims pay to Islamic State. It seems like a joke but it isn’t. https://t.co/v2zdhq2qED” / X

https://amac.us/newsline/politics/how-gop-can-confront-radical-islam-and-expose-democrat-extremism/

How GOP Can Confront Radical Islam and Expose Democrat Extremism

Posted on Thursday, October 23, 2025

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by Shane Harris

Before the midterms next November, one of the most important actions that congressional Republicans should take is a vote on the No Sharia Act, a critical bill that reaffirms the Constitution as the supreme law of the land and ensures that Sharia law never finds a home in the United States.

The No Sharia Act, introduced by Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) last month, very simply “prohibits the enforcement of Sharia or any foreign law that infringes on constitutional rights.” It also states that “In matters involving marriage, divorce, child custody, adoption, or inheritance, no court shall apply or enforce foreign law if inconsistent with fundamental rights or public policy.” Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) has introduced a companion bill in the Senate.

Democrats and the liberal media have predictably labeled the bill and its sponsors “Islamophobic.” But there’s nothing bigoted about wanting to outlaw a dangerous and fundamentally anti-American ideology that undermines the U.S. Constitution.

Sharia law is a strict legal code based on fundamentalist interpretations of Islamic texts rather than democratic or secular principles. In places like Iran, Afghanistan, and Saudi Arabia, these interpretations have been used to justify marrying off girls as young as six years old to middle-aged men, as well as punishments like public floggings, amputations, and executions for offenses including apostasy, adultery, or blasphemy.

In societies ruled by Sharia law, women face harsh restrictions on dress, movement, employment, and access to education. Political dissent and religious freedom are sharply limited, and legal protections for minorities, including Christians, are virtually nonexistent. (Even in the United States, radical imams are on record advocating for the execution of homosexuals under the pretext of Sharia law.)

Muslim apologists say that Sharia law is a personal moral guide, and that it is really about values like charity and forgiveness. But the undeniable record is that wherever it has been applied, Sharia law has resulted in grave human-rights violations and suppression of basic freedoms.

Many Muslims in the U.S. and throughout the world reject Sharia law. Most American Muslims respect the Constitution, which protects their right to worship freely.

But radical Islam – and by extension Sharia law – is undoubtedly making inroads in the United States. Less than one month from now, America’s largest and most important city will very likely have a Muslim mayor in Zohran Mamdani who has refused to say that Hamas should disarm, accused American taxpayers of “funding genocide” in Gaza, and has praised Holy Land 5, a group which provided material support to terrorists.

Meanwhile, organizations like the RAIR Foundation and Memri TV, which document incidents of Islamic extremism throughout the world, have catalogued dozens of cases where Islamic leaders are pushing radical Islamist beliefs and even jihadism in the United States.

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VIDEO – CANADA’S TOP MILITARY OFFICER

October 31, 2025

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This is Canada’s top military general. She is crying while apologizing for systemic racism and discrimination in their forces. A deeply unserious country. This is how Western civilization dies.

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CLIMATE TRUTH AT LAST !

October 30, 2025

Thanks to Martha Jenkins for sharing this article. Also, Congratulations to Martha as she is now the President of the National Federation of Republican Women NFRW. Nancy

https://redstate.com/heartlandinstitute/2025/10/28/the-week-climate-catastrophism-lost-its-grip-n2195521

The Week Climate Catastrophism Lost Its Grip

By The Heartland institute October 28, 2025

Last week may go down as the moment when the climate narrative finally cracked. In climate parlance, a “tipping point” occurred.

In the space of a few days, two events reached millions of people outside the usual scientific and media gatekeeping apparatus, and they both told the same heretical story: that the science of climate catastrophe isn’t nearly as settled, nor as dire, as we’ve been told.

First, the world’s most-watched podcaster, Joe Rogan, hosted two of the most-respected dissenting climate scientists alive, Dr. Richard Lindzen of MIT and Dr. William Happer of Princeton, for a long-form conversation about the actual evidence behind global warming claims. The second event came from inside the climate establishment itself: Ted Nordhaus, founder of the Breakthrough Institute and once a self-described climate activist, published an essay titled “Why I Stopped Being a Climate Catastrophist.”

Each, in its own way, exposed the gulf between scientific nuance and political narrative — and together they may mark a turning point in public understanding.

For years, the mainstream press and peer-review gatekeepers ensured that anyone who questioned climate orthodoxy was dismissed as a “denier.” That tactic doesn’t work when Joe Rogan, whose audience dwarfs CNN’s, sits across the table from two emeritus professors calmly explaining why CO₂ is not the planetary thermostat it’s made out to be.

Lindzen and Happer have impeccable credentials. They are not bloggers, not “influencers,” but physicists who spent decades inside the world’s top research institutions. Their message was simple: the climate system is complex, and the claim that we can fine-tune global temperature with carbon taxes and wind turbines is fantasy.

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THE LEFT ATTACKS THE RULE OF LAW

October 29, 2025

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-left-attacks-the-rule-of-law-bc1dedb1?st=pZJAdg&reflink=article_email_share

The Left Attacks the Rule of Law

Antifa terrorists, gang members and rioters are endangering federal officers in American cities.

By Kristi Noem Ms. Noem is U.S. secretary of homeland security. Oct 26, 2025

President Trump awarded my friend Charlie Kirk a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom this month. As a country, we need to honor Charlie’s memory, face some hard facts and take action. Before it’s too late.

Charlie’s assassination forced Americans to confront a dark truth: Leftist extremists are waging war on the rule of law, liberty and our way of life. Terrorists, gang members and rioters routinely attack federal law-enforcement officers working to reimpose order after years of chaos under the Biden administration.

Our officers have been shot at and assaulted. They have faced death threats, doxxing and confrontations at their homes. Spotter networks in Chicago linked to street gangs and Mexican cartels track the movements of officers for Customs and Border Protection as well as Immigration and Customs Enforcement, relaying locations and enabling ambushes during routine enforcement operations.

This month a member of the Latin Kings gang was charged with putting a bounty on the life of Border Patrol Commander at Large Gregory Bovino. The illegal alien charged with placing that bounty was arrested, has pleaded not guilty, and will face justice. The incident shows the enormous risk law-enforcement officers face to make our cities safe again.

A self-styled anarchist website in Portland, Ore., encouraged supporters to use high-powered laser pointers to bring down federal helicopters in the area.

In Dallas an anti-ICE terrorist opened fire on an ICE facility intending to kill officers. Instead, he killed two detainees. In Alvarado, Texas, Antifa terrorists ambushed ICE officers at a detention facility, wounding a local police officer in the neck.

Despite all this, pro-crime politicians seem intent on dismissing the violence, even encouraging it by stripping protections from law-enforcement officers. That is why our officers wear masks. Protecting their identity is one way to prevent bad actors from targeting their homes and threatening their families. Some politicians want to deprive officers of this protection, knowing that doing so puts their lives in grave danger. They tell local police to stand down while federal law-enforcement officers fight for their lives.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law purporting to ban federal law enforcement from wearing masks on duty. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has threatened federal officers with prosecution for enforcing immigration law. Antifa continues its attacks on law enforcement and innocent civilians in Portland, while city “leaders” hamstring the local police.

I met with Portland Mayor Keith Wilson last month to request more security measures for our law-enforcement officers who have been under attack for months in his city. Mr. Wilson responded by publishing an op-ed attacking federal law-enforcement officers for doing the job he refuses to do.

Portland’s problems go well beyond mere refusal to enforce the law. Its City Council continues to cut the police bureau’s budget. Portland ranks 48th among America’s 50 largest cities in the ratio of police staffing to population. Meanwhile leftist rioters, Antifa terrorists and violent criminals run wild.

That is why the federal government must step in, enforce the law and stand up to the violence that these politicians cannot or will not confront—as it did in Memphis, Tenn., Chicago and the District of Columbia. President Trump is tackling the crisis head on, including designating Antifa a domestic terrorist organization.

Meanwhile, the mainstream media continues to demonize ICE and Department of Homeland Security officers, contributing to the 1,000% increase in assaults on officers this year compared with 2024.

We shouldn’t be all that surprised. Democrats won’t denounce Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones’s text messages wishing violence on his political opponents and their young children. At No Kings rallies, many Democrats gave speeches and made common cause with protesters, reveling in violent symbolism, mocking Charlie Kirk’s assassination and calling for ICE agents to be gunned down.

The threat goes beyond the criminals, rioters and terrorists themselves to their enablers. That includes the network of nonprofits that support extremist ideology, recruit pro-crime district attorneys, and pay to release violent criminals on bond.

This climate of political violence is against everything our founders wanted. They fought a revolution so that we as a people could solve disagreements by what Alexander Hamilton called in the Federalist Papers “reflection and choice” over “accident and force.” Those on the left stoking this violence need to turn the temperature down before more people are hurt or killed.

Regardless, DHS won’t give up this fight for rule of law and will take all appropriate measures to keep our officers safe. There will be no sanctuary for those who threaten our Republic and our way of life.

INVESTIGATE LEFTIST NONPROFITS – CAREFULLY

October 27, 2025

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/investigate-leftist-nonprofitscarefully-c53eb2e3?st=gw4RDu&reflink=article_email_share

Investigate Leftist Nonprofits—Carefully

One important distinction is between violations of tax laws and criminal laws.

By Scott Walter Mr. Walter is president of the Capital Research Center October 22, 2025

Political violence is a deadly problem. The Trump administration understandably feels obliged to respond, and the resulting debate has focused on the enablers of violence, especially whether nonprofits and their donors are to blame.

The Capital Research Center, which specializes in studying nonprofits, has been caught up in the debate. The Justice Department urged federal prosecutors to read a report by the center on George Soros’s Open Society Foundations as prosecutors consider whether to investigate Open Society and its grantees. A New York Times piece last week criticized the center and the report.

To clarify this debate, we must distinguish between speech and lawbreaking. No donor or grantee should be criminally prosecuted for speech. Only those who violate laws should face legal jeopardy.

Another important distinction is between violating nonprofit laws versus breaching criminal laws. Capital Research Center reports have long documented apparent nonprofit-law violations that involve many areas of “charitable” work and span many donors on the left. In the present debate, the most obvious nonprofit law at issue is the Internal Revenue Service’s half-century rule that neither 501(c)(3) charities nor 501(c)(4) nonprofits may urge civil disobedience that breaks laws. The First Amendment protects the right to advocate such lawbreaking, but a nonprofit that enjoys tax privileges can lose those privileges for supporting unlawful conduct. The Times ignores this distinction, even though it admits that nonprofits criticized in the center’s report “encouraged U.S. activists to block roads or destroy property during protests.”

Compared with tax-law cases, criminal prosecutions of nonprofits or their donors would rightly face a much higher bar, because it must be proved that they intended to facilitate lawbreaking. Investigations in this area should begin by focusing on people who commit crimes before expanding outward to target any nonprofits or donors for aiding criminal acts.

Again, such charges won’t be easy to prove. Aiding and abetting a crime entails knowingly and intentionally assisting in its commission, while a conviction for conspiracy requires proving that a defendant intentionally entered into an agreement to commit a crime, and then an overt act in support of the conspiracy was carried out. If the Open Society Foundations’ claims of innocence are true, they have nothing to fear.

On the other hand, some nonprofit observers point to examples like the shutdown of streets surrounding Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport last year by the radical anti-Israel group A15 Action. Those blockages arguably violated federal civil-rights law. A Tides Center group advertised online in advance that it was raising money to bail out any A15 members who were arrested, which arguably makes Tides an accomplice or conspirator to the crimes that led to arrests.

Prosecuting A15 or Tides would be unconventional for federal prosecutors, but not necessarily unjustifiable under existing law. A federal judge in Illinois has rejected a civil suit based on a similar legal theory, but that case, Manhart v. WESPAC Foundation, is under appeal, with friend-of-the-court briefs in support from a dozen states and the Manhattan Institute.

Prosecutions that use traditional criminal laws would be more likely to succeed than ones using the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations laws, as often suggested by those who favor legal action against left-wing nonprofits and donors. RICO prosecutions require building complicated cases and usually take years to resolve.

However they are brought, any prosecutions should aim to strengthen the rule of law and America’s vigorous, highly diverse civil society. We suffer from both political violence and prosecutorial abuses, as no one knows better than President Trump. While conservatives should be wary of setting any precedent for overzealous prosecutions, left-leaning nonprofits and donors should honestly examine whether they are respecting nonprofit and criminal laws alike.

CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS REACHES AMERICA’S SHORES

October 27, 2025

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/26/samuel-huntingtons-clash-civilizations-reaches-americas-shores/?utm_medium=subscriber&utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_campaign=morning&utm_content=paywall&utm_term=newsletter&bt_ee=FgQ7Aj8zos0%2BewW%2FjfcKSwsZBENakJOU8RsCK677DI0%3D&bt_ts=1761571911043

Samuel Huntington’s ‘clash of civilizations’ reaches America’s shores

From London to New York, author’s warning about Islam’s bloody borders unfolds in real time

By Don Feder October 26, 2025

Samuel Huntington’s classic “The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order,” first published in 1996, may be the most insightful book written about terrorism’s war on the West because it gets to the heart of the conflict.

A Harvard professor for four decades, Mr. Huntington went from respected scholar to intellectual pariah for his controversial book. He wrote that after the Cold War, conflicts would be driven not by nation-states but rather by culture and religion.

Mr. Huntington coined the expression “Islam’s bloody borders” to explain its inability to coexist with others. To suggest that Islam was something other than the religion of peace outraged the left.

Since the publication of “The Clash of Civilizations,” we have had the World Trade Center attack (3,000 dead), the Oct. 7, 2023, assault on Israel (1,200 dead), the war in the Gaza Strip, a continuation of mass Muslim migration to Europe and Islam’s growing influence in the United States.

London has had a Muslim mayor since 1997. New York is about to get one. In London, mobs march in the streets, howling for Jewish blood. A lawyer there was recently arrested for wearing a Star of David near a pro-Hamas rally. The bobbies called it incitement.

In Nottingham, a prominent imam called on Muslims to take up arms against “White people,” who he says are planning to wipe them out. In the month since Asrar Rashid’s violent video was posted, the authorities have taken no action.

The city of Manchester has banned Israeli fans from an upcoming soccer match after a Muslim politician threatened a riot. “We will not show them mercy,” said Ayoub Khan, a member of the British Parliament.

In Britain, they ban the targets of violence, not those inciting violence. A record 25 members of Parliament are Muslims, up from 19 in 2019.

Several German cities have canceled their traditional Christmas markets because of security concerns. On Dec. 24, 2024, a Saudi refugee drove a car into a Christmas market in Magdeburg, killing five and injuring as many as 200.

Less than two weeks later, an American convert to Islam drove a pickup truck into a crowd celebrating New Year’s Day in New Orleans, killing 15 and injuring 37.

On Nov. 4, Zohran Mamdani, who has a double-digit lead over his opponents, will likely be elected the mayor of New York. Both a Muslim and a Marxist, Mr. Mamdani has radical ties up the wazoo, including a $100,000 donation from the Hamas-aligned Council on American Islamic Relations. He was recently seen campaigning with Brooklyn Imam Siraj Wahhaj, who, before the 1993 World Trade Center attack, sponsored appearances at his mosque by Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, mastermind of the atrocity.

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VIDEO – CCP’S GLOVES ARE OFF

October 24, 2025

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[RUSH TRANSCRIPT BELOW] The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) recently imposed unprecedented export controls on rare earths, escalating the U.S.–China trade war.

How is it that the Chinese regime managed to gain control of many of the most essential supply chains, from critical minerals to pharmaceuticals? How should the Trump administration approach this threat to national security?

In this episode, we sit down with Lee Smith, author of “The Plot Against the President,” and the soon-to-be-released book, “The China Matrix: The Epic Story of How Donald Trump Shattered a Deadly Pact.”

“It was simply American corruption that has allowed all of this to happen. And that’s certainly the point that [U.S. President] Donald Trump makes in the book,” Smith says.

What is Trump’s strategy when it comes to China? How does he actually view Chinese leader Xi Jinping?

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Mr. Smith:

What they did was they can underbid almost anyone. This is what they did in the pharmaceutical industry. You’ll remember after COVID, people were deeply concerned to realize, like, oh, wow, penicillin and everything else is made in Wuhan. Almost all of our pharmaceuticals come from the People’s Republic of China. What will we do? What can we do?

The way they did this was with steel. They’ve done it with a number of what people call strategic industries. What people mean by strategic industries is if you need steel, for instance, to build ships and you need it to build a whole bunch of other different munitions. If you don’t make your own steel, then you’re dependent on what is right now your number one adversary. I mean, there are other countries around the world that make steel, but China is a major producer at this point. We’re talking about the same thing in terms of pharmaceuticals.

Imagine if we really wound up in a hot conflict with the Chinese Communist Party. What happens when different American soldiers, Marines, airmen, sailors are wounded and they need medication? Well, that’s coming from China. But the Chinese had a plan for that, and that’s what they did. There were no measures or few measures to protect American industries. People just figured, well, what are we going to do? We can’t compete with them. We’ll have to do something else.

This is part of what we saw in the 90s when it was the whole idea like, well, we don’t need to do manufacturing anymore. We’ll become a service economy. A lot of people made fun of it at the time, and a lot of other people thought it was a stroke of genius. It wasn’t just the Clinton administration; there were a lot of Republicans as well. That’s the story the book tells. It’s not just Democrats here; it’s Republicans.

Remember, this relationship started with Richard M. Nixon and Henry Kissinger, who first went to the city once called Peking in February 1972. Some of it, at a certain point, was honest miscalculation. At a certain point, there was no way to rationalize it or excuse it anymore. It was simply American corruption that allowed all of this to happen. That’s certainly the point that Donald Trump makes in the book. I interviewed Donald Trump at great length in this book. He has the first word and the last word in the book.

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Jamie Dimon has his MAGA moment, and not a moment too soon

October 17, 2025 | By Liz Peek

Jamie Dimon, widely regarded as the most influential banker of this generation, has gone full MAGA. It couldn’t have come at a better time.

China’s president, Xi Jinping, is waging an economic war against the U.S., and our country needs to push back hard. As President Trump attempts to curb China’s unfair trade practices, America’s vulnerabilities are on full display. Despite the critical importance of the U.S. consumer to China’s struggling economy, the White House’s threat of punitive tariffs has not swayed Beijing. Xi is meeting — and, indeed, topping — Trump’s tariffs with measures such as blocking exports of rare earths, possibly crippling much of U.S. industry.

Beijing has the U.S. economy in a choke-hold, taking advantage of our dependence on Chinese rare earths and other critical goods where they have purposefully staked out a dominant position. Our country needs an all-out Manhattan Project-like effort to address those vulnerabilities, and JPMorganChase’s CEO has pledged to help. Other American businesses need to step up as well.

Dimon committed in recent days to make direct equity and venture capital investments of up to $10 billion in four areas essential to America’s future. The capital infusions will help facilitate $1.5 trillion of investment over 10 years, mostly in the U.S. The bank had previously committed to finance some $1 trillion in sectors targeted by Dimon. The recent pledge ups the ante by 50 percent.

The focus of that investment will be in four areas: strengthening our supply chain and beefing up advanced manufacturing of critical products; developing advanced defense technology, including secure communications; establishing energy independence, including battery storage and grid resilience; and pursuing “frontier” and strategic technologies like AI, cybersecurity and quantum computing.

These are areas vital to U.S. expansion, and are also a focus of the Trump White House. As Dimon pledges to invest in these sectors, he is also advocating “to remove obstacles that stand in the way: excessive regulations, bureaucratic delay, partisan gridlock and an education system not aligned to the skills we need.”

These ambitions are exactly in line with the America First agenda. Trump has called repeatedly for permitting reform and other policies that could speed up our country’s abilities to take advantage of fast-moving technologies, and also to counter threats from overseas. Dimon shares those objectives, describing the bank’s commitment as a matter of national security. He is correct.

Dimon’s program includes investments in 27 sub-areas, including shipbuilding, munitions, nuclear energy and, of course, artificial intelligence. Reshoring is one theme, which of course has been a top priority for the president. Trump’s trade initiatives are not only meant to level the playing field and make U.S. companies more competitive, but are also intended to bring manufacturing back to the United States.

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