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January 27, 2023
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Domestic News...

Colorado Condemns Jack Phillips For Being A Devout Christian, Again
Masterpiece Cakeshop owner and devout Christian Jack Phillips is facing another bout of legal persecution after the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled that he violated the state’s anti-discrimination laws for refusing to bake a cake celebrating transgenderism.

Biden judicial nominee stuns with inability to answer basic questions about the Constitution
One of President Joe Biden's judicial nominees was stumped on Wednesday when Sen. John Kennedy asked her basic questions about the Constitution.

WaPo: How do you stop abortion? Here’s what antiabortion marchers told me.
Among participants at this year’s March for Life, it was beginning to sink in that ending abortion would never be as simple as they might have hoped.

Federal trial begins in case of pro-life activist targeted by Biden DOJ
"They made a federal case out of a shove," Houck's attorney said.

WA Democrats releasing 'worst of the worst' inmates from sex offender prison island
"This installation would leave former McNeil Island sex offenders, self-described by the government as the 'worst of the worst' when it comes to sex offenders, in an unsecured, rural residence with no enforcement."

Whistleblower: Yes, Election Data Company Gave U.S. Poll Workers’ Personal Info To China
A whistleblower lawsuit against detailed allegations from a former employee that corroborate True the Vote’s claim that Konnech transferred American poll workers’ data to China.

San Francisco Lawmakers Could Skirt Ban on 'Safe Injection Sites'
California Democrats are forging ahead with a plan to open so-called safe injection sites after Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have legalized them.

Man Convicted in Terror Attack That Killed 8 on a Manhattan Bike Path
Sayfullo Saipov could face the death penalty in the federal case. He said he was inspired to carry out the attack by Islamic State videos.

Topless woman allegedly smashes Jesus statue in North Dakota cathedral
Brittany Reynolds was believed to be under the influence of narcotics when police found her shirtless, braless and shoeless on Tuesday fleeing St. Mary’s Cathedral in downtown Fargo.

Colorado man ‘intentionally’ crashes pickup truck through front of police station
He claimed people were “following him,” police said.

Plant-based meat sales plummet because they mimic real meat too closely, experts contend
Consumers who are drawn to plant-based meats are apparently no longer as keen on products that convincingly "bleed."

Politics...

National Archives Asks Ex-Presidents and Vice Presidents to Scour Their Files
The responsibility to comply with federal records law “does not diminish after the end of an administration,” the archives said in a letter.

Biden Warns of ‘MAGA Republicans’ In House Destroying His Progress
“They want to cut your Social Security, Medicare. Now, this is the God’s truth. It’s almost unbelievable,” Biden said.

Biden Trails Mayor Pete in New Hampshire Poll
Early polling has Buttigieg at 23% support, with Biden and Warren both receiving 18%, Sanders at 15%, AOC at 6%, Klobuchar at 5%, Harris at just 2% and Warnock and Newsom tied at 1%.

Trump seeks to shift his idling White House campaign back into gear
Trump will seek to kick his campaign for the 2024 Republican nomination into gear this weekend, with a pair of campaign stops in key early-voting states more than two months after he announced his intention to run.

DeSantis says 'new blood' needed at Republican National Committee
DeSantis said that he believes that the RNC needs "change" and "new blood" and that he supports Harmeet Dhillon's position on pulling the RNC out of the nation's capital.

This site bet big on political gambling. Regulators want it shut down.
Politics junkies have made and lost millions placing bets with PredictIt. But soon all bets may be off.

Hunter Biden art dealer hails first son as ‘one of the most consequential artists’
“I represent Hunter Biden because I feel that not only his art merits my representation, but because his personal narrative, which gives birth to his art, is very much needed in the world,” Berges said.

Biden donor offered prez’s convict niece Caroline $85K job she called ‘below minimum wage’
A major donor to Biden offered his niece a job in LA to help her get back on her feet in the summer of 2018, only for her to scoff at the $85,000 annual salary as “below minimum wage,” according to emails and text messages found on Hunter Biden’s laptop.

Economy / ESG...

Carol Roth: A federal consumption tax is a terrible idea
While the income tax system today is no doubt broken, amazingly the GOP has come up with an idea that’s even worse: a federal consumption tax (aka a federal retail sales tax).

NY Times: U.S. Economy Showed Momentum at Year’s End, Defying Recession Fears
The continued growth in the fourth quarter showed the resilience of consumers and businesses in the face of inflation and rising interest rates.

Hasbro warns of weak holiday quarter results, cuts 15% of its workforce
The toymaker warned of weak holiday quarter results.

Border...

Cory Booker compares Title 42 to turning away Jewish WWII refugees
"We have dark chapters. Like when the St. Louis, during the Holocaust, sailed to our shores and was turned around, where folks were sent back to those horrors and many died," Booker said.

WAR News... 

Ukraine Under New Missile Barrage as Russia Warns West About Tank Pledges
Moscow says the promise of Western-made tanks for Kyiv would escalate the conflict.

M1 Abrams Tanks in U.S. Inventory Have Armor Too Secret to Send to Ukraine
Though it’s not yet clear what specific variant of the Abrams Ukraine’s military is set to receive, the tanks will have to be in a unique export configuration. This is largely due to the classified armor packages found on U.S. military versions, which contain depleted uranium.

US Monitoring Iranian Bid To Establish ‘Military Presence’ in Panama Canal
A State Department spokesman told the Washington Free Beacon that it is tracking a recent announcement by the commander of Iran’s navy indicating that warships will establish a presence in the Panama Canal as soon as next month.

US takes out ISIS terrorists in Somalia strike
ISIS leader Bilal al-Sudani, who was a “key facilitator for ISIS’s global network,” was among the multiple terrorists killed in the “assault operation.”

COVID-19...

Report: Biden and Big Tech adapting military-grade AI to silence those who question vaccines
The Biden administration, in concert with Big Tech, academia, and big corporations, is pouring taxpayer money into an AI censorship program that allegedly utilizes systems once called upon to wage information warfare against the Islamic State.

Pfizer Official ‘Physically Assaults’ James O’Keefe, ‘Destroys iPad Showing Undercover Recordings’
Project Veritas released video footage Thursday night allegedly showing a Pfizer official becoming angered after being confronted by journalist James O’Keefe over recent remarks that he was caught making during an undercover sting video.

FDA advisors recommend replacing original Covid vaccine with bivalent omicron shots for all doses
The 21 members of the FDA committee unanimously backed the proposal, agreeing that it would simplify the U.S. Covid vaccination program.

Babylon Bee: Pfizer Pleased To Announce Their New Vaccine 90% Effective Against New Virus They Created
"A new variant is scary. That's why we wanted to make sure the vaccine was ready to go right away."

Commie Update...

China Wages Intimidation Campaign to Silence ‘Zero Covid’ Protesters
Recent protests were a rare rebuke of Xi Jinping’s rule. Beijing is trying to discredit the protesters by casting them as tools of malevolent nations.

Entertainment...

A priest claims to have visited hell where he saw demons singing Rihanna
Explaining what he saw when in hell, Johnson said he “wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy,” adding: “The things that I saw were indescribable and it makes me emotional every time I talk about it.

Pamela Anderson Defends Tim Allen For Flashing Her – Which He Flatly Denies
Anderson defended Allen on Thursday in a new statement provided to entertainment site Variety, saying that as a comedian it was Allen’s job to cross lines and push things to the limit.

Director of 'Till' condemns Hollywood after film receives zero Academy Award nominations
The director of "Till" — a film about the mother of Emmett Till pursuing justice after her son was lynched in 1955 — condemned Hollywood for "upholding whiteness and perpetuating an unabashed misogyny towards black women" after "Till" received no Academy Award nominations.

Media...

AP says not to refer to 'the' French because it is 'dehumanizing'
"We recommend avoiding general and often dehumanizing 'the' labels such as the poor, the mentally ill, the French, the disabled, the college-educated."

CNN reporter suggests 'amnesty' over classified documents scandal: 'A hellacious PR nightmare'
Reacting to the discovery of classified documents at the private home of Mike Pence, CNN's Jamie Gangel explained how the development is a "gift" to both Biden and Trump.

Canada...

Montreal University hosts session on pedophilia research
"Everybody in the room has some amount of sexual interest in children"

Europe...

UK to update trans prison policy to prevent biological males from being housed in women's prisons
Secretary of State for Justice Dominic Raab said that the changes will "ensure a sensitive and common-sense approach to meeting the needs of women in custody."

Accused pedo met underaged girls by dressing as a teen girl, social media, enrolling in school
A British man devised elaborate and "unbelievable" schemes to meet underaged girls. The accused pedophile allegedly created multiple fake social media profiles, pretended to be a schoolgirl by dressing in uniform, and attempted to enroll in the minor's school.

Middle East...

Nine Palestinians killed in Jenin, Israeli security forces thwart terror attack
Israel said it was in Jenin to thwart a massive terrorist attack. Palestinians say they downed IDF drone.

Biden vowed to punish Saudis over oil cut. That’s no longer the plan.
Months after the White House vowed to punish Saudi Arabia for cutting oil output in defiance of American wishes, the Biden admin has ended its talk of retaliation, emphasizing the two countries’ long-standing security ties and Riyadh’s steps to back Washington’s priorities in Yemen and Ukraine.

Africa...

Archeologists discover 4,300-year-old Egyptian mummy, relics
“I put my head inside to see what was inside the sarcophagus: A beautiful mummy of a man completely covered in layers of gold.”

Environment...

WaPo puff piece: Meet the man who unwittingly triggered the war over gas stoves
If there are recurrent themes in Trumka’s career, protecting young people would be a big one. He’s the father of two young children and is highly attentive to the risks they face in everyday life. To that end, the commission recently passed a rule to prevent cords in window coverings from accidentally strangling kids.

Jane Fonda Says There’d Be No ‘Climate Crisis’ If Not For ‘Racism’
“Well, you know, you can take anything — sexism, racism, misogyny, homophobia, whatever, the war,” the dummy added. “And if you really get into it, and study it and learn about it and the history of it and everything’s connected. There’d be no climate crisis if it wasn’t for racism.”

California is scrambling to fix its anti-nuclear mistake
Only California Democrats and the hippie-holdover zealots who drive the party thought it was a good idea to jettison nuclear energy.

LGBTQIA2S+...

Predator’s Paradise
On the grounds of creating a more welcoming environment for LGBTQ youth, State Senator Scott Wiener is making California a haven for human trafficking.

Why Conservatives Will Lose The ‘Grooming’ Debate
If you have a problem with Gonzo the Muppet being nonbinary, then you’re left with two bad options: an unpopular argument and an incoherent one. Neither has much chance of success.

Trans-identified biological woman claims to be no 'less of a man' despite giving birth, breastfeeding
A woman and who gave birth and is breastfeeding a child has hit back at critics who suggest such actions are not congruent with “living as a man” and question the safety of nursing after taking hormones.

Education...

WaPo: Biden is trying to transform student loans
To impose this big new policy without going through Congress, the administration proposed taking an existing student loan program and making its terms so generous that it would essentially become a grant program.

DeSantis’ College Appointees Like Chris Rufo Show The Battle For America’s Academies Is Far From Over
Rufo suggested that by embracing classical education, New College could stave off the bureaucratic materialist bloat that has come to characterize and bog down much of higher education.

‘1619 Project' author receives $29K in taxpayer funds from public library for 1-hour speaking event
The Fairfax County Public Library doled out $29,350 in taxpayer funds to "1619 Project" author Nikole Hannah-Jones for an upcoming one-hour speaking event.

Teacher fired for reportedly filming adult OnlyFans content in school bathroom
A Massachusetts preschool teacher was reportedly fired from her job after the Libs of TikTok account revealed that she filmed adult content for OnlyFans in a school bathroom.

Free speech org blasts Stanford after student reported for reading ‘Mein Kampf’
A “Protected Harm Identity Report,” the California university’s system for addressing incidents in which a student feels attacked due to their identity, was filed against the student after a screenshot of the student reading the Nazi manifesto was sent to university officials.

Technology...

Elon Musk gives Dave Rubin behind-the-scenes look at Twitter and what causes shadowbans
Dave Rubin received a behind-the-scenes look at Twitter and why the code that owner Elon Musk called a "flaming dumpster rolling down the street" continues to limit engagement for some users.

Elon Musk Meets With Speaker McCarthy And Minority Leader Jeffries
"Just met with @SpeakerMcCarthy & @RepJeffries to discuss ensuring that this platform is fair to both parties"

Holocaust survivors use AI imagery to keep stories alive
19 Israeli Holocaust survivors have been involved in a project to retell their stories via an AI service generating images that will leave an enduring record of their experiences.

Judgment Day: Scientists create humanoid robot with ability to liquefy and reform
A team of Chinese and American scientists created a humanoid robot with the ability to liquefy and reform, eerily similar to the T-1000 terminator in Terminator 2: Judgement Day.

Travel...

Disney’s Splash Mountain Closed. Now Superfans Are Selling the Water.
Jars and bags of what sellers claim is water from the popular Florida attraction are being offered for sale online.

Sports...

World Athletics' Proposal Would Allow Males to Compete Against Females
World Athletics, the top governing body in international track and field, released a proposal this week that, if adopted, would allow males to compete against females provided they artificially lower their testosterone levels ahead of competition.

Jan 27, 2011 - The best way to destroy the USA is to disconnect the people... Sportsmanship... Who is Dr. Catastrophe?... Education and transportation have been taken over by the government... France is more opposed to capitalism than China... Violence becoming more prevalent.. GB respects Van Jones... Taco Bell news... 80% of states have real financial burdens...

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

Andrew Harnik / Staff | Getty Images

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?

NurPhoto / Contributor | Getty Images

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

Spencer Platt / Staff | Getty Images

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.

Barbara Davidson / Contributor | Getty Images

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.