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January 03, 2024
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News...

Ghislaine Maxwell reportedly withheld Bill Clinton sex tapes to protect Hillary's 2016 bid
The Epstein associate would not divulge the whereabouts of tapes reported to feature Bill Clinton - because it might have hurt Hillary's failed presidential campaign in 2016, according to a new book.

Flashback: Lawyer For Epstein’s Victims Says Trump Was The Only Powerful Figure Who Helped Him With Investigation
A video resurfaced Tuesday of attorney Bradley Edwards discussing former President Donald Trump’s attitude and actions toward late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein following the latter’s first arrest.

Prosecutors Recommend 6 Months Of Prison For Ray Epps
A court filing in Washington, D.C., said the government recommends the “high end of the applicable guidelines range” of six months of incarceration, one year of supervised release, and $500 in restitution.

Report Finds Biden Admin's False Claims of 'Extremism' in Military Are Unfounded
A report commissioned by the DOD found that there is little to no evidence that extremism is a problem in the military.

Court rules Biden admin cannot override state law in win for GOP
A 5th Circuit panel ruled in favor of Texas and two anti-abortion organizations who sued the Biden Justice Department.

Louisiana Supreme Court Allows Election Do-Over After 11 Illegal Votes Found In Race Decided By 1 Vote
Following the state’s Nov. 18 election, early results indicated that Democrat Henry Whitehorn defeated Republican John Nickelson by one vote in Caddo Parish’s sheriff’s race.

State AG Says Boston Mayor’s No-Whites-Allowed Party Was Totally Fine
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell has found that Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, a fellow Democrat, did nothing wrong holding a holiday party for public officials that excluded white people.

California still bleeding residents amid looming $68B deficit as population flees to Republican states
Residents of California continued to leave the state in 2023 with reports showing many defectors heading to Arizona, Texas, Florida, and North Carolina.

California’s war on fast food
While the rest of the nation is enjoying job growth and falling unemployment, California’s jobless rate has risen steadily since August, and at 4.9% is now more than a point higher than the national average of 3.7%.

DC police to hand out more free AirTags Tuesday amid rise in car theft
The Metropolitan Police Department released data for 2023, showing motor vehicle theft was up by 82%.

Explosions reported on Roosevelt Island after NYC earthquake
A 1.7-magnitude quake registered around the same time that people in Manhattan and Queens reported hearing what sounded like several explosions coming from Roosevelt Island.

Academy Sports + Outdoors reportedly fires employees for chasing after shoplifter who stole firearm
Three employees were terminated after they responded to a report of a firearm theft.

George Soros' New York residence swatted following hoax 911 call
Swatting incidents have become an increasingly common way to harass, and possibly endanger, people on both sides of the political aisle.

Politics...

White House proudly admits Biden has 'always, always put equity at the center of every policy'
Karine Jean-Pierre told MSNBC on Tuesday that President Joe Biden has "always, always put equity at the center of every policy he's put forward!"

Biden departs St. Croix with a wicked sunburn after 7-day island vacation
Joe's new sunburn was on full display as he shook hands on the tarmac in St. Croix, before boarding Air Force One.

Trump-Fox News town hall in Iowa to counter with CNN GOP presidential primary debate
While the GOP debate is slated to air next Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET on CNN, the Fox News Channel will be host a live town hall with Trump at the same time.

David Axelrod is trying to warn his party that removing Trump from ballot will backfire
"I do think it would rip the country apart if he were actually prevented from running because tens of millions of people want to vote for him," he predicted. "I think if you are going to beat Donald Trump, you are going to have to do it at the polls."

After Veto Siding With Trans Lobby, Ohio Voters Should Transition Mike DeWine Out Of Office
On paper, Ohio appears to be one of the most Republican states in the nation.

Sen. Menendez entangled in fresh bribery allegations with Qatari links
The Democrat politician is accused of exchanging favorable statements for lavish gifts, adding a new chapter to his ongoing legal saga.

Economy / ESG...

CNN: Rate cuts and a soft landing: This will be a critical year for the Fed
America’s central bank is on the verge of defeating inflation without causing a sharp rise in unemployment, an extremely rare feat known as a “soft landing.”

Copper could skyrocket over 75% to record highs by 2025
Rising demand driven by the green energy transition and a decline in the U.S. dollar strength come the second half of 2024 will fuel support for copper prices.

Immigration...

Report: U.S. Sets Record For Most Single-Month Illegal Encounters At The Southern Border
More than 300,000 illegal immigrants were encountered by U.S. border officials in December, marking a record for the highest number recorded for a single month.

Dem NJ Mayor: We Turned Away Migrant Bus Because It’s ‘Major Security Risk’
While speaking to WABC, Edison Mayor Sam Joshi stated that he turned a bus full of illegals sent to the city back because local police “did not know if any of those 40 individuals were carrying weapons, they couldn’t be identified.”

Maryland county argues for power to create school board seat limited to illegal immigrant vote
Howard County says it would be allowed, under the 14th Amendment, to create a school board seat that only illegals could vote for.

Biden admin effectively fast-tracks interview process for Chinese illegals
According to an email obtained by the Daily Caller, a CBP supervisor instructed roughly 500 Border Patrol agents to reduce the number of interview questions posed to Chinese illegals from approximately 40 to five.

Illegals using 'fraudulent or altered' passports to pose as unaccompanied minors: Report
CBP officers have been notified to watch for Guinean passports issued in the municipality of Conakry after June 2023. According to the notice obtained by Fox News, the documents are “most likely fraudulent or altered.”

Man Arrested At US Capitol For Carrying Machete Was An Illegal Released By Biden Admin
Border Patrol apprehended Marquez on August 21, 2022 and released him from custody “due to a lack of detention capacity,” enrolling him in the tracking program known as “Alternatives to Detention.”

WAR News... 

Israel confirms it’ll defend itself from Gaza genocide claims in The Hague next week
The first hearing at the International Court of Justice on the South African filing accusing Israel of perpetrating genocide against the Palestinians in the ongoing war with Hamas in Gaza will take place next week, an Israeli official said on Tuesday.

Hamas Used Gaza Hospital as a Command Center, U.S. Intelligence Says
Israeli forces stormed the site in November, drawing intense international scrutiny and criticism.

Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri killed in alleged Israeli strike in Beirut
Hezbollah has said it would respond to any targeting of Hamas in Lebanon.

Saleh al-Arouri: Mastermind of Hamas terrorism in West Bank, hostage deal negotiator
As the group’s senior official in Lebanon he played a big role in cementing Hamas’s relations with the Lebanese terror organization Hezbollah, and through it with Iran, the main backer for both groups.

COVID-19...

More Evidence Emerges Confirming Covid Lab-Leak Theory, But Corporate Media Stay Silent
Emily Kopp, a journalist at U.S. Right to Know,reported recently that her organization has obtained a 2018 grant proposal called Project DEFUSE, coauthored by the Wuhan Institute of Virology and their counterparts in the United States, including EcoHealth Alliance.

Predictions...

Vox: 24 things we think will happen in 2024
How 2024 will shake out, according to the Future Perfect team ... Donald Trump will return to the White House.

Top 10 Predictions for 2024 by Celebrity Psychics
Psychics and mystics, including Uri Geller and Sylvia Browne, forecast a year of unprecedented events for 2024.

‘Living Nostradamus’ who predicted Covid says to expect WW3 in 2024
According to Athos Salome, 2024 will be a "new chapter in human history" with aliens, a robot rebellion, global catastrophe and even World War 3.

Psychic who predicted Queen’s death using asparagus reveals her predictions for 2024
Jemima Packington is a woman from Bath with a strange ability to predict the future by throwing asparagus spears into the air.

Entertainment...

Protest too much? Jimmy Kimmel threatens to sue Aaron Rodgers after he jokes Kimmel is on the Jeffrey Epstein associates list
“There’s a lot of people, including Jimmy Kimmel, are really hoping that doesn't come out," Rodgers joked with Pat McAfee. Kimmel, a former comedian, was outraged and angrily posted on social media that he never met Epstein, and certainly wouldn't be on any list.

The 2024 box office is a franchise frenzy — at a time when audiences are feeling IP fatigue
“Dune: Part Two” is followed by a slew of sequels, prequels and spinoffs from franchises such as Ghostbusters, Gladiator, Bad Boys, A Quiet Place, Planet of the Apes, Transformers, Alien, Sonic the Hedgehog and Saw.

Mini-bike riders attack actor Ian Ziering on Hollywood Boulevard
"...the incident has left me deeply concerned about the growing boldness of such groups who disrupt public safety and peace. This situation highlights a larger issue of hooliganism on our streets..."

Trendy, celeb-loved IV drip treatments could be dangerous
IV drip treatments to boost wellness and cure hangovers — favored by celebs like Chrissy Teigen, Lorde and Miley Cyrus — have skyrocketed in popularity during the last decade.

Europe...

Obese employees may soon face fines in an effort to tackle weight issues
“[It’s] quite right to urge that waist measurements be now taken annually from the time a child first goes to school,” Tam Fry, chair of the National Obesity Forum in the U.K., told The Telegraph.

Asia...

Jumbo Jet Erupts in Flames Landing in Tokyo, but All Aboard Survive
As flight attendants yelled, urging passengers to evacuate, an eerie orange glow burned outside the windows of Japan Airlines Flight 516. The harrowing scene was caught on video from inside the plane, which collided with a Japanese Coast Guard aircraft as it was landing.

Environment...

Market Share For Green Bonds Slumped For Another Year Following Backlash
Bonds that consider environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors for their investors made up just 2% of all bond issuance in the U.S., the lowest point in terms of market share since 2020 after also declining in 2022, according to Bloomberg.

SEC delays decision on natural asset companies (Dec 22)
The SEC had previously said it could make a decision by Jan 2, three months after making the proposal public. It will now open a 21-day comment period and start proceedings that could take up to six months.

LGBTQIA2S+...

Feminists decry PETA silence on gruesome study mutilating female dogs for trans surgeries
Feminist groups are calling out PETA for lack of outrage over a Chinese study that butchered female dogs to test new methods of constructing fake penises for gender transition surgeries.

WHO calls for self-ID to become a right in its first global guide to transgender care
The WHO said 21 experts will meet at its headquarters in Geneva next month to work on the guide, which will focus on the 'provision of gender-affirming care, including hormones' and also 'legal recognition of self-determined gender identity'.

The Left’s Transgender Hysteria Is Harming People In Ways We Never Could’ve Imagined
Researchers warned “that blurring the lines between biological sex and gender identity on medical forms and in research threatens” their ability to collect accurate data and “can lead to serious medical errors.”

Dave Chappelle jokes he would identify as a woman to transfer into female prison if convicted of crime in California
"God forbid I ever go to jail, but if I do, I hope it’s in California, because as soon as the judge sentences me I’ll be like before he sentences me I just want the court to know I identify as a woman."

Oregon high school to host 'all-ages' drag festival
"We are very excited to be putting on the first Oswego Drag Fest featuring Poison Waters!" the Lakeridge Gay Straight Alliance wrote in an Instagram post promoting the event.

Education...

Harvard President Claudine Gay resigns over plagiarism claims, claims she's a victim of racism
Her resignation comes after her congressional testimony about campus antisemitism, where she refused to categorize calls for Jew genocide as harassment.

A century before Claudine Gay, Harvard helped Nazi Germany improve its image in the West
Research into ‘active collaboration’ between Harvard and Nazi Germany gains relevance as Harvard continues to frame antisemitic rhetoric on campus as freedom of speech.

Claudine Gay Was Forced To Resign, But She Will Thrive Personally And Professionally
It’s the new, ugly American way.

Claudine Gay will keep her almost $900,000 salary
Gay, a Political Science professor, is set to return to a faculty position at the prestigious institution in Cambridge, Massachusetts despite the scandals.

Health...

People are ‘about 20%’ responsible for own health while ‘structural racism’ is biggest factor: MSNBC guest
"I think so often we think about health as individual choices that patients make ... we really need to understand how practices and policies, you know, the legacy of slavery, the legacy of Jim Crow, current-day systemic racism impacts the health of our communities."

AI...

This AI stock trader engaged in insider trading and lied about it
Researchers created an AI stock trader to see if it would engage in insider trading under pressure. They found the AI did — and also lied to its hypothetical manager about why it made its decision.

Technology...

Police investigate first case of 'virtual rape' after girl gets 'attacked' by group of men in metaverse
"There is an emotional and psychological impact on the victim that is longer term than any physical injuries."

Driverless cars in California can get out of almost any ticket: Report
California will ticket a driver for violating the rules of the road, but for driverless vehicles, there is reportedly no mechanism to ticket the person responsible because of a loophole in some jurisdictions.

Sports...

The People Who Brought You Travis Kelce
AA plan was hatched to make the football player “as famous as the Rock.” And it began long before he started dating the world’s most famous pop singer.

Animals...

Update: Woman behind acrobatic horse show is sentenced
A high-maintenance equestrian previously known for being involved in a multimillion-dollar horse show in San Diego recently admitted to putting a $2 million hit on her husband. She has been sentenced to less than four years in prison for the crime.

Jan 3, 2007 - Poll: In 2007 that 35% of Americans think there will be a cure for cancer, 65% predict a major terrorist attack, 25% think that Jesus will return... Glenn's predictions... Duke Lacrosse story dropped on Christmas Eve... Saddam's execution...

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?

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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.

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.