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December 08, 2022
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Domestic News...

They brought their sick baby to the hospital. Three days later, the state took their kids away.
Parents Sarah Perkins and Josh Sabey took their 14-week-old child to the emergency room last July, concerned about a fever. However, what followed was a series of inspections that would eventually lead to child protective services taking custody of the small child in the middle of the night.

The Hijacking of Pediatric Medicine
The American Academy of Pediatrics claims to support the health of all children. Many doctors are appalled by its prescriptions.

A New Drug Called 'Tranq' Is Worsening Philadelphia's Already Out-Of-Control Drug Problem
Ever-changing trends in the nation's opioid epidemic have resulted in an increasingly tainted drug supply in the United States.

JFK Assassination Investigator Has Jarring New Claim About Oswald's CIA Involvement
The CIA holds documents that show presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was involved in an intelligence operation before the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a prominent Kennedy assassination reporter alleged Tuesday.

More than 70% of voters in poll want Biden to release secret JFK assassination records
The records are supposed to be released Dec. 15.

Manhattan renters face sticker shock with average rent at $5,200
Manhattan rents rose 2% in November, dashing hopes that prices would cool and forcing many renters to give up their leases or downsize.

Your favorite NYC restaurants not only escaped to Florida, they're expanding
The glut of Miami restaurants and high prices has them spreading their wings beyond South Beach.

You could have a penny worth $7K in your pocket
A coin connoisseur has made a convincing case for never giving away your change by revealing a 1983 Lincoln penny could be worth $7,000.

Politics...

Will Thom Tillis’s Plan To Give Amnesty To Illegal Aliens Be Senate Republicans’ Next Act Of Betrayal?
While it’s unclear whether the Senate plans to take up the bill before the current congressional session ends, Tillis’s last-minute attempt to ram through an amnesty package before Republicans take control of the House of Representatives next month runs contrary to claims issued by his office earlier this year.

Anti-McCarthy group says defunding ‘woke and weaponized government’ is key to balanced budget
Former Trump budget director proposes cutting $9 trillion from budget over next decade.

The Supreme Court must stop state courts from hijacking federal elections
To hear Democrats like twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tell it, democracy will end if North Carolina Speaker of the House Timothy Moore prevails in the case being argued before the Supreme Court today, Moore v. Harper.

Supreme Court unconventionally split on election authority case
An unconventionally split Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday over a Republican appeal to determine whether legislators have the power to set federal voting rules without the oversight from state courts, a consequential question that could drastically change the landscape of future elections.

Democrats push banks to 'atone' for slavery, 'redress past wrongs' by funding higher education for black people
Democrat Al Green from Texas claimed that the wealth and success of U.S. banks were "built on the backs of enslaved people."

AOC is under House ethics investigation over Met Gala appearance where she wore 'Tax the Rich' dress
Tickets to the lavish event reportedly cost between $35,000 to $50,000.

Economy / ESG...

Vanguard quits net-zero climate effort, citing need for independence
Vanguard Group Inc. is pulling out of a major investment-industry initiative on tackling climate change, the world's biggest mutual fund manager said on Wednesday, explaining it wants to demonstrate independence and clarify its views for investors.

BlackRock CEO accused of ESG 'hypocrisy'
Pressured to step down by green activist investor for attracting "an undesired level of negative publicity."

Does ESG Violate America’s Antitrust Laws?
While much has been made over whether or not ESG is a sound investing framework that prioritizes left-wing ideological ends over profits, an even greater case can be made that ESG, as currently practiced, violates America’s age-old antitrust laws.

Wells Fargo, BofA CEOs point to cooling consumer growth amid Fed hikes
“There is a slowdown happening, there’s no question about it,” Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf said. “We are expecting a fairly weak economy throughout the entire year.”

Tom Cotton drops mic on woke Kroger CEO for running to Republicans to save merger from Democrats: 'Best of luck'
Kroger was sued by "two former employees in Arkansas who were fired after they refused to wear aprons supportive of the LGBTQ+ community."

Coinbase CEO expects revenue to plunge over 50%
Analysts expect Coinbase's revenue to plunge 75%.

Border...

LA DA Gascón Orders Prosecutors to Give Illegal Immigrants Special Treatment
The Soros-backed DA is ordering prosecutors to give illegal immigrants more favorable treatment than U.S. citizens.

WAR News... 

America Still Has Lessons To Learn From Pearl Harbor About Taking Foreign Threats Seriously
America is often slow to respond to a rising foreign threat until it hits us square in the jaw. Heeding that lesson is more important now than ever.

May The Anniversary Of Pearl Harbor Remind Us Of The Gravity Of War, As Our Inept Government Barrels Toward It
There are just wars, and there are needless wars, but all wars are tragic. None should ever be entered into lightly or haphazardly.

US State Dept. clears sale of Abrams tanks to Poland
Poland intends to buy 116 Abrams tanks on top of an agreement the country signed in April to buy 250 of the systems for $4.75 billion.

Navy lowers entrance exam requirements in bid to get more recruits
The test score change announcement comes after the Navy raised its maximum enlistment age to 41 last month, up from 39.

Putin signs expanded anti-LGBTQ laws in Russia
Putin makes it illegal for anyone to promote same-sex relationships or suggest that non-heterosexual orientations are “normal.”

COVID-19...

Here’s How The CDC Used A Back Channel With Twitter To Control The COVID-19 Narrative
Twitter set up a portal for government officials and “stakeholders” to submit posts that allegedly contained COVID-19 misinformation for Twitter to review.

Youngkin announces end of 'COVID-era draconian overreach,' reimbursement for 'unjustly' fined businesses
Gov. Glenn Youngkin indicated earlier this week that while the damage done by his Democratic predecessor's administration in the state of Virginia cannot be undone, he is nevertheless "taking action going forward to end COVID-era draconian overreach."

4 Takeaways from Sen. Johnson’s Panel on COVID-19 Vaccines
Sen. Ron Johnson held a panel on vaccines, featuring experts including Dr. Robert Malone and Dr. Peter McCullough.

New Zealand health officials take custody of baby whose parents refused 'vaccinated blood' transfusion
Health authorities have said that allowing parents to refuse the transfusion would set a "dangerous precedent" and open up the door to patients making demands as to where their blood comes from.

Entertainment...

Whoopi Goldberg defends classic 'Blazing Saddles' movie from cancel culture
"Blazing Saddles, because it's a great comedy, would still go over today. There are a lot of comedies that are not good, okay? We're just going to say that. That's not one of them. Blazing Saddles is one of the greatest because it hits everybody."

Jennifer Lawrence claims no women were action movie stars before her
"I remember when I was doing 'Hunger Games,' nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie because it wouldn't work."

Media...

New AP stylebook forbids use of the phrase 'late-term abortion'
"Do not use the term 'late-term abortion.' The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists defines late term as 41 weeks through 41 weeks and 6 days of gestation, and abortion does not happen in this period," the official account for the stylebook tweeted.

New York Times union calls on readers to join ‘digital picket line’ as strike begins
The unionized workers of the NYT are encouraging readers to join a "digital picket line" on Thursday.

Washington Post: ‘Shark Week’ lacks diversity, overrepresents men named Mike, scientists say
Researchers say Discovery’s programming overwhelmingly featured white men as experts while emphasizing negative messages about sharks.

Megyn Kelly blasts Keith Olbermann for ‘bitter’ rant against his ex Katy Tur
Kelly blasted Olbermann after he accused his ex-girlfriend, MSNBC’s Katy Tur, of physical abuse and various other misdeeds in a bizarre segment on his podcast this week.

Canada...

Woman featured in pro-euthanasia commercial wanted to live, say friends
The woman featured in a glamorous pro-euthanasia commercial for a Canadian clothing retailer only opted for assisted suicide after her years-long attempts to secure proper health care failed, friends have revealed.

Africa...

Nigeria restricts ATM withdrawals to $45 per day in push to digital currency
Nigeria will soon begin restricting ATM withdrawals to just $45 per day as part of a push to move the country toward a cashless economy.

Environment...

DeSantis Raises $59 Million For Florida Hurricane Relief After Biden Admin Denied Funds
The announcement comes after Florida was denied $25 million in emergency funds by FEMA, DeSantis said Monday.

UK’s first new coal mine for 30 years gets go-ahead in Cumbria
Michael Gove gave the green light for the project, paving the way for an estimated investment of $200M that will create about 500 new jobs.

Climate Analysis: There’s No Denying the Next Greta Thunberg Is a Total Babe
Sophia Kianni says the planet's getting hotter.

LGBTQIA2S+...

Story Hour: Drag Queens? Yes. Christians? No.
In 2022, what are the acceptable criteria for reading to children in a public library? If you are a Christian with a faith-based book, you won’t find a spot. Kirk Cameron and his new faith-based kids’ book found that out. They learned it was impossible to book public libraries for a Story Time reading.

California Math Professor Under Investigation For Opposing Children Getting Sex Changes
Professor Robert Crawford wrote that kids should be able to “figure out who they are without being bullied into radical surgeries and hormone blockers.”

De-transitioner, experts issue warning over American Girl pushing gender transitions
The American Girl doll brand is facing backlash over a book targeted at prepubescent girls that promotes gender transition seemingly without parental consent.

Religious broadcasting chief warns marriage bill to spur lawsuits against Christian groups
"The real issue here is about silencing the church or silencing anybody or any organization that doesn't affirm same sex marriage," Troy Miller said.

Men are slowly losing their Y chromosome, could go extinct
The human Y chromosome is degenerating and may disappear in a few million years, leading to our extinction unless we evolve a new sex gene.

Education...

Teachers Flee Unions As Membership Plummets By Almost 60,000
The decline comes as public schools added 95,000 educators from September 2021 to 2022.

Zero GOP professors in nearly 3 dozen university departments across multiple schools, survey shows
Just over half of surveyed departments had no Republican instructors.

Loudoun County Superintendent Scott Ziegler fired after grand jury report on handling of sexual assaults
The grand jury said the district was looking out for its own interests instead of the best interests of its students.

Chicago Private School’s Dean of Students Brags About Bringing in LGBTQ+ Health Center to Teach ‘Queer Sex’ to Minors
‘That’s a Really Cool Part of My Job’ … ‘Passing Around Dildos and Butt Plugs’ ... ‘Using Lube Versus Using Spit’

Small-town elementary teacher accused of forcing young boys to touch his groin during class
Ebnet has worked for the district for 30 years and was named an Educator of Excellence in 2017 by the Minnesota Rural Education Association.

Health...

Skyrocketing demand for ADHD meds is straining the US health care system
“A lot of my patients would hold up their phone to the camera and be like, ‘Here’s this video that I saw on TikTok and this is why I have ADHD,’” said Dr. Sasha Hamdani.

I tattooed my eyeballs purple and blue — now I’m going blind
A mom of five brushed off her daughter’s advice not to get her eyeballs tattooed due to potential blindness — and now, she’s losing her vision.

Twitter Files...

Elon Musk tells Jack Dorsey 'important' Twitter files were 'hidden' from bosses, suggests some were 'deleted'
Dorsey called on Musk to "make everything public" after the termination of Twitter deputy general counsel Jim Baker.

Questions must be answered on ex-Twitter lawyer James Baker’s role in censorship scandals
Having been parachuted into Twitter conveniently five months before the 2020 election, Baker played an instrumental role in the censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story.

FBI Official Casts Doubt on Twitter’s Rationale for Censoring Hunter Biden Laptop Story
FBI supervisory special agent Elvis Chan disputed former Twitter executive Yoel Roth's claims that the FBI warned that Russia would likely release Hunter Biden's emails before the 2020 election.

Musk Blasts SF Mayor After City Probes Twitter Setting Up Sleeping Areas For Employees
"So city of SF attacks companies providing beds for tired employees instead of making sure kids are safe from fentanyl. Where are your priorities?"

Janitors' union called a strike outside Twitter, so Elon Musk canceled its contract and fired the janitors
A representative from SEIU Local 87 said 20 janitors were told on Friday that they were fired with no notice. By Monday, the union organized a strike. Now they're all gone.

Technology...

FBI agent's testimony implicates headquarters brass in social media censorship
Elvis Chan estimated social media companies took censorship action 50% of the time when FBI asked.

Google, Oracle, Amazon, and Microsoft awarded Pentagon cloud deal of up to $9 billion combined
Of the four companies receiving cloud-computing contracts from the Pentagon, all of them had received requests for bids from the U.S. federal agency last year.

New AI Chatbot Covers For Biden, Says Rachel Levine Is A Woman. Can It Replace The Washington Post?
There’s a new child of artificial intelligence that is just as woke as the children going from liberal arts colleges to legacy newsrooms.

Travel...

Judge orders Southwest Airlines to reinstate flight attendant fired for pro-life views
Southwest Airlines fired former flight attendant Charlene Carter from her "dream job" for expressing pro-life views. Carter fought the airline and Transport Workers Union Local 556 for nearly six years and won in July.

Sports...

Despite failing to complete a pass all season, California high school earns spot in state championship
Granada Hills only attempted seven passes over the course of the season.

Dec 8, 2010 - Glenn is a big fan of Brad Thor... Soros says that we are about to have a dictatorial democracy... Glenn warns we are watching the destruction of our country in real time... Rooster Wars!... Andy Williams... Remembering 'The Clapper'... Marcus Luttrell in studio... Pat Gray hates Christmas... Glenn avoids the news...

Trump's proposal explained: Ukraine's path to peace without NATO expansion

ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / Contributor | Getty Images

Strategic compromise, not absolute victory, often ensures lasting stability.

When has any country been asked to give up land it won in a war? Even if a nation is at fault, the punishment must be measured.

After World War I, Germany, the main aggressor, faced harsh penalties under the Treaty of Versailles. Germans resented the restrictions, and that resentment fueled the rise of Adolf Hitler, ultimately leading to World War II. History teaches that justice for transgressions must avoid creating conditions for future conflict.

Ukraine and Russia must choose to either continue the cycle of bloodshed or make difficult compromises in pursuit of survival and stability.

Russia and Ukraine now stand at a similar crossroads. They can cling to disputed land and prolong a devastating war, or they can make concessions that might secure a lasting peace. The stakes could not be higher: Tens of thousands die each month, and the choice between endless bloodshed and negotiated stability hinges on each side’s willingness to yield.

History offers a guide. In 1967, Israel faced annihilation. Surrounded by hostile armies, the nation fought back and seized large swaths of territory from Jordan, Egypt, and Syria. Yet Israel did not seek an empire. It held only the buffer zones needed for survival and returned most of the land. Security and peace, not conquest, drove its decisions.

Peace requires concessions

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says both Russia and Ukraine will need to “get something” from a peace deal. He’s right. Israel proved that survival outweighs pride. By giving up land in exchange for recognition and an end to hostilities, it stopped the cycle of war. Egypt and Israel have not fought in more than 50 years.

Russia and Ukraine now press opposing security demands. Moscow wants a buffer to block NATO. Kyiv, scarred by invasion, seeks NATO membership — a pledge that any attack would trigger collective defense by the United States and Europe.

President Donald Trump and his allies have floated a middle path: an Article 5-style guarantee without full NATO membership. Article 5, the core of NATO’s charter, declares that an attack on one is an attack on all. For Ukraine, such a pledge would act as a powerful deterrent. For Russia, it might be more palatable than NATO expansion to its border

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Peace requires concessions. The human cost is staggering: U.S. estimates indicate 20,000 Russian soldiers died in a single month — nearly half the total U.S. casualties in Vietnam — and the toll on Ukrainians is also severe. To stop this bloodshed, both sides need to recognize reality on the ground, make difficult choices, and anchor negotiations in security and peace rather than pride.

Peace or bloodshed?

Both Russia and Ukraine claim deep historical grievances. Ukraine arguably has a stronger claim of injustice. But the question is not whose parchment is older or whose deed is more valid. The question is whether either side is willing to trade some land for the lives of thousands of innocent people. True security, not historical vindication, must guide the path forward.

History shows that punitive measures or rigid insistence on territorial claims can perpetuate cycles of war. Germany’s punishment after World War I contributed directly to World War II. By contrast, Israel’s willingness to cede land for security and recognition created enduring peace. Ukraine and Russia now face the same choice: Continue the cycle of bloodshed or make difficult compromises in pursuit of survival and stability.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

The loneliness epidemic: Are machines replacing human connection?

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Seniors, children, and the isolated increasingly rely on machines for conversation, risking real relationships and the emotional depth that only humans provide.

Jill Smola is 75 years old. She’s a retiree from Orlando, Florida, and she spent her life caring for the elderly. She played games, assembled puzzles, and offered company to those who otherwise would have sat alone.

Now, she sits alone herself. Her husband has died. She has a lung condition. She can’t drive. She can’t leave her home. Weeks can pass without human interaction.

Loneliness is an epidemic. And AI will not fix it. It will only dull the edges and make a diminished life tolerable.

But CBS News reports that she has a new companion. And she likes this companion more than her own daughter.

The companion? Artificial intelligence.

She spends five hours a day talking to her AI friend. They play games, do trivia, and just talk. She says she even prefers it to real people.

My first thought was simple: Stop this. We are losing our humanity.

But as I sat with the story, I realized something uncomfortable. Maybe we’ve already lost some of our humanity — not to AI, but to ourselves.

Outsourcing presence

How often do we know the right thing to do yet fail to act? We know we should visit the lonely. We know we should sit with someone in pain. We know what Jesus would do: Notice the forgotten, touch the untouchable, offer time and attention without outsourcing compassion.

Yet how often do we just … talk about it? On the radio, online, in lectures, in posts. We pontificate, and then we retreat.

I asked myself: What am I actually doing to close the distance between knowing and doing?

Human connection is messy. It’s inconvenient. It takes patience, humility, and endurance. AI doesn’t challenge you. It doesn’t interrupt your day. It doesn’t ask anything of you. Real people do. Real people make us confront our pride, our discomfort, our loneliness.

We’ve built an economy of convenience. We can have groceries delivered, movies streamed, answers instantly. But friendships — real relationships — are slow, inefficient, unpredictable. They happen in the blank spaces of life that we’ve been trained to ignore.

And now we’re replacing that inefficiency with machines.

AI provides comfort without challenge. It eliminates the risk of real intimacy. It’s an elegant coping mechanism for loneliness, but a poor substitute for life. If we’re not careful, the lonely won’t just be alone — they’ll be alone with an anesthetic, a shadow that never asks for anything, never interrupts, never makes them grow.

Reclaiming our humanity

We need to reclaim our humanity. Presence matters. Not theory. Not outrage. Action.

It starts small. Pull up a chair for someone who eats alone. Call a neighbor you haven’t spoken to in months. Visit a nursing home once a month — then once a week. Ask their names, hear their stories. Teach your children how to be present, to sit with someone in grief, without rushing to fix it.

Turn phones off at dinner. Make Sunday afternoons human time. Listen. Ask questions. Don’t post about it afterward. Make the act itself sacred.

Humility is central. We prefer machines because we can control them. Real people are inconvenient. They interrupt our narratives. They demand patience, forgiveness, and endurance. They make us confront ourselves.

A friend will challenge your self-image. A chatbot won’t.

Our homes are quieter. Our streets are emptier. Loneliness is an epidemic. And AI will not fix it. It will only dull the edges and make a diminished life tolerable.

Before we worry about how AI will reshape humanity, we must first practice humanity. It can start with 15 minutes a day of undivided attention, presence, and listening.

Change usually comes when pain finally wins. Let’s not wait for that. Let’s start now. Because real connection restores faster than any machine ever will.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Exposed: The radical Left's bloody rampage against America

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For years, the media warned of right-wing terror. But the bullets, bombs, and body bags are piling up on the left — with support from Democrat leaders and voters.

For decades, the media and federal agencies have warned Americans that the greatest threat to our homeland is the political right — gun-owning veterans, conservative Christians, anyone who ever voted for President Donald Trump. President Joe Biden once declared that white supremacy is “the single most dangerous terrorist threat” in the nation.

Since Trump’s re-election, the rhetoric has only escalated. Outlets like the Washington Post and the Guardian warned that his second term would trigger a wave of far-right violence.

As Democrats bleed working-class voters and lose control of their base, they’re not moderating. They’re radicalizing.

They were wrong.

The real domestic threat isn’t coming from MAGA grandmas or rifle-toting red-staters. It’s coming from the radical left — the anarchists, the Marxists, the pro-Palestinian militants, and the anti-American agitators who have declared war on law enforcement, elected officials, and civil society.

Willful blindness

On July 4, a group of black-clad terrorists ambushed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Alvarado, Texas. They hurled fireworks at the building, spray-painted graffiti, and then opened fire on responding law enforcement, shooting a local officer in the neck. Journalist Andy Ngo has linked the attackers to an Antifa cell in the Dallas area.

Authorities have so far charged 14 people in the plot and recovered AR-style rifles, body armor, Kevlar vests, helmets, tactical gloves, and radios. According to the Department of Justice, this was a “planned ambush with intent to kill.”

And it wasn’t an isolated incident. It’s part of a growing pattern of continuous violent left-wing incidents since December last year.

Monthly attacks

Most notably, in December 2024, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione allegedly gunned down UnitedHealth Group CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan. Mangione reportedly left a manifesto raging against the American health care system and was glorified by some on social media as a kind of modern Robin Hood.

One Emerson College poll found that 41% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 said the murder was “acceptable” or “somewhat acceptable.”

The next month, a man carrying Molotov cocktails was arrested near the U.S. Capitol. He allegedly planned to assassinate Trump-appointed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and House Speaker Mike Johnson.

In February, the “Tesla Takedown” attacks on Tesla vehicles and dealerships started picking up traction.

In March, a self-described “queer scientist” was arrested after allegedly firebombing the Republican Party headquarters in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Graffiti on the burned building read “ICE = KKK.”

In April, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s (D-Pa.) official residence was firebombed on Passover night. The suspect allegedly set the governor’s mansion on fire because of what Shapiro, who is Jewish, “wants to do to the Palestinian people.”

In May, two young Israeli embassy staffers were shot and killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. Witnesses said the shooter shouted “Free Palestine” as he was being arrested. The suspect told police he acted “for Gaza” and was reportedly linked to the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

In June, an Egyptian national who had entered the U.S. illegally allegedly threw a firebomb at a peaceful pro-Israel rally in Boulder, Colorado. Eight people were hospitalized, and an 82-year-old Holocaust survivor later died from her injuries.

That same month, a pro-Palestinian rioter in New York was arrested for allegedly setting fire to 11 police vehicles. In Los Angeles, anti-ICE rioters smashed cars, set fires, and hurled rocks at law enforcement. House Democrats refused to condemn the violence.

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In Portland, Oregon, rioters tried to burn down another ICE facility and assaulted police officers before being dispersed with tear gas. Graffiti left behind read: “Kill your masters.”

On July 7, a Michigan man opened fire on a Customs and Border Protection facility in McAllen, Texas, wounding two police officers and an agent. Border agents returned fire, killing the suspect.

Days later in California, ICE officers conducting a raid on an illegal cannabis farm in Ventura County were attacked by left-wing activists. One protester appeared to fire at federal agents.

This is not a series of isolated incidents. It’s a timeline of escalation. Political assassinations, firebombings, arson, ambushes — all carried out in the name of radical leftist ideology.

Democrats are radicalizing

This isn’t just the work of fringe agitators. It’s being enabled — and in many cases encouraged — by elected Democrats.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz routinely calls ICE “Trump’s modern-day Gestapo.” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass attempted to block an ICE operation in her city. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu compared ICE agents to a neo-Nazi group. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson referred to them as “secret police terrorizing our communities.”

Apparently, other Democratic lawmakers, according to Axios, are privately troubled by their own base. One unnamed House Democrat admitted that supporters were urging members to escalate further: “Some of them have suggested what we really need to do is be willing to get shot.” Others were demanding blood in the streets to get the media’s attention.

A study from Rutgers University and the National Contagion Research Institute found that 55% of Americans who identify as “left of center” believe that murdering Donald Trump would be at least “somewhat justified.”

As Democrats bleed working-class voters and lose control of their base, they’re not moderating. They’re radicalizing. They don’t want the chaos to stop. They want to harness it, normalize it, and weaponize it.

The truth is, this isn’t just about ICE. It’s not even about Trump. It’s about whether a republic can survive when one major party decides that our institutions no longer apply.

Truth still matters. Law and order still matter. And if the left refuses to defend them, then we must be the ones who do.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

America's comeback: Trump is crushing crime in the Capitol

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Trump’s DC crackdown is about more than controlling crime — it’s about restoring America’s strength and credibility on the world stage.

Donald Trump on Monday invoked Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control and deploying the National Guard to restore law and order. This move is long overdue.

D.C.’s crime problem has been spiraling for years as local authorities and Democratic leadership have abandoned the nation’s capital to the consequences of their own failed policies. The city’s murder rate is about three times higher than that of Islamabad, Pakistan, and 18 times higher than that of communist-led Havana, Cuba.

When DC is in chaos, it sends a message to the world that America is weak.

Theft, assaults, and carjackings have transformed many of its streets into war zones. D.C. saw a 32% increase in homicides from 2022 to 2023, marking the highest number in two decades and surpassing both New York and Los Angeles. Even if crime rates dropped to 2019 levels, that wouldn’t be good enough.

Local leaders have downplayed the crisis, manipulating crime stats to preserve their image. Felony assault, for example, is no longer considered a “violent crime” in their crime stats. Same with carjacking. But the reality on the streets is different. People in D.C. are living in constant fear.

Trump isn’t waiting for the crime rate to improve on its own. He’s taking action.

Broken windows theory in action

Trump’s takeover of D.C. puts the “broken windows theory” into action — the idea that ignoring minor crimes invites bigger ones. When authorities look the other way on turnstile-jumping or graffiti, they signal that lawbreaking carries no real consequence.

Rudy Giuliani used this approach in the 1990s to clean up New York, cracking down on small offenses before they escalated. Trump is doing the same in the capital, drawing a hard line and declaring enough is enough. Letting crime fester in Washington tells the world that the seat of American power tolerates lawlessness.

What Trump is doing for D.C. isn’t just about law enforcement — it’s about national identity. When D.C. is in chaos, it sends a message to the world that America is weak. The capital city represents the soul of the country. If we can’t even keep our own capital safe, how can we expect anyone to take us seriously?

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Reversing the decline

Anyone who has visited D.C. regularly over the past several years has witnessed its rapid decline. Homeless people bathe in the fountains outside Union Station. People are tripping out in Dupont Circle. The left’s negligence is a disgrace, enabling drug use and homelessness to explode on our capital’s streets while depriving these individuals of desperately needed care and help.

Restoring law and order to D.C. is not about politics or scoring points. It’s about doing what’s right for the people. It’s about protecting communities, taking the vulnerable off the streets, and sending the message to both law-abiding and law-breaking citizens alike that the rule of law matters.

D.C. should be a lesson to the rest of America. If we want to take our cities back, we need leadership willing to take bold action. Trump is showing how to do it.

Now, it’s time for other cities to step up and follow his lead. We can restore law and order. We can make our cities something to be proud of again.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.