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Morning Brief 2025-10-08

October 08, 2025
Chris Brady

BOTTOM OF HOUR 1
GUEST: Kristen Waggoner
TOPIC: Is counseling free speech?

TOP OF HOUR 3
GUEST: Jack Carr
TOPIC: Carr dives deep into the Vietnam War in "Cry Havoc," his new book from “The Terminal List" series.

News...

Controversial speakers must be welcomed on campuses and elsewhere
Glenn Beck will headline a Turning Point USA event at the University of North Dakota following Charlie Kirk’s death, as the university defends free expression and urges students to embrace civil debate instead of censorship.

The government finally uses the FACE Act on real thugs, not praying grandmas
After decades of one-sided prosecutions, the DOJ charged Islamist and communist agitators under the FACE Act for assaulting Jews outside a New Jersey synagogue.

Comey to be arraigned Wednesday in Virginia on charges stemming from grand jury indictment
Although the arraignment is highly anticipated, top Justice Department officials denied reports that law enforcement would be theatrical by arresting Comey and escorting him to the Virginia court.

FBI disbands ‘corrupt’ team used to spy on GOP senators
“We fired those who acted unethically, dismantled the corrupt CR-15 squad, and launched an investigation,” Kash Patel said. “Transparency and accountability aren’t slogans, they’re promises kept.”

Joe Biden’s team blocked CIA from distributing report on son Hunter’s Ukraine business dealings
Then-Vice President Joe Biden’s team intervened in February 2016 to prevent the CIA from disseminating an intelligence report to policymakers about the perceptions senior Ukrainian officials held about his son’s business dealings, newly declassified memos show.

More shady Hunter Biden dealings — this time in Romania
While Joe Biden was vice president, Hunter reportedly worked both as a lawyer and investor in a deal that could have given a Chinese state-linked firm control of property surrounding the U.S. embassy in Bucharest — yet another foreign influence scheme that quietly collapsed without consequence.

FBI corruption probe picked up evidence Bill Clinton paid through back door, GOP senator says
As part of a political corruption probe, the FBI obtained evidence that Clinton was being paid through a backdoor arrangement with an allied consultant, according to a 2017 document released Tuesday.

Pam Bondi tears into Democratic senator: 'I wish you loved Chicago as much as you hate President Trump'
Bondi testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where the attorney general ripped into Ranking Member Dick Durbin over the legality of deploying the Texas National Guard to Chicago.

Man with 200 explosives and leftist manifesto arrested outside Supreme Court event at church: Police
On Monday, after reviewing the bombs more carefully, police filed an affidavit from a bomb technician saying, “There were over 200 devices recovered from D-1’s tent ... the devices appeared to be fully functional.”

Matt Walsh: The case of the child killer released from prison just got even more insane
Kentucky officials say Ronald Exantus, who butchered a 6-year-old boy, was classified as a “nonviolent offender,” allowing his early release under a state law that lets brutal criminals walk free after serving a fraction of their sentences.

Government shutdown...

Republicans face pressure to consider Democrats’ health care demands as shutdown drags on
Sen. Susan Collins of Maine has reportedly circulated a “discussion draft” of a proposal that would include GOP pledges on an Obamacare deal.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene breaks with the GOP on Obamacare, calling to avoid premium hikes
Funding for Obamacare expires at the end of this year, and Democrats are pushing to have it extended, along with a select few Republicans, now including Greene.

Politics...

Dead canary in the Zoomer coal mine? Disillusion among key Trump backers spells danger ahead
Comedians and podcasters who helped Trump connect with young voters in 2024 — including Joe Rogan, Theo Von, Adin Ross, and Andrew Schulz — are now voicing regret and frustration over immigration raids, spending hikes, and broken promises, threatening GOP momentum with Gen Z heading into 2026.

Senate confirms more than 100 Trump nominees amid government shutdown
The Senate confirmed 107 of President Trump’s nominees in a single vote on Tuesday evening, significantly clearing the backlog of the president’s picks awaiting floor consideration.

On Oct. 7 anniversary, Mamdani accuses Israel of launching ‘genocidal war’
The NYC mayoral front-runner used the second anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack to blast the Israeli government for launching a “genocidal war” in Gaza and argue the U.S. “has been complicit through it all” in a statement that drew scorn from both Republicans and Democrats.

NYC Council candidate nicknamed ‘Sperminator’ fakes endorsements, news clips
Perennial New York City candidate and prolific sperm donor Jonathan Rinaldi is running on the Republican line, though he does not have the backing of the Queens Republican Party. He also claimed to have the endorsement of Andrew Cuomo, whose spokesman said, “I don’t even know who that guy is.”

Virginia...

Democrats stand by their man despite vicious texts wishing death on GOP rival and his kids
"I think it's a test for Virginia. It's now no longer right versus left in Virginia. This election's about, in my opinion, right versus wrong," Jones' opponent, Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares, told Glenn Beck on Tuesday.

Gun control zealots stand by ‘two bullets’ Jay Jones
Despite branding themselves champions of “gun safety,” Moms Demand Action and dozens of liberal groups are still backing Virginia AG candidate Jay Jones, keeping their endorsements live even after his violent rhetoric became public.

Tim Kaine calls Jay Jones ‘two bullets’ texts ‘indefensible,’ then defends him
The Democrat senator claimed to have a different perspective on Jones, noting that he has "known Jay since he was a teenager" and still supports Jones' bid for Virginia attorney general.

Jay Jones appears to have violated judge’s terms for reckless driving charge
The Virginia AG candidate used his own political PAC to satisfy court-ordered community service from a 2022 reckless driving case, despite state law requiring the work be done through a nonpolitical nonprofit.

Economy...

The government shutdown means there’s no September jobs report. Is that bad?
With the Bureau of Labor Statistics down to one employee, the Fed must set interest rates without its most important labor data, leaving economists and markets to guess the strength of the job market.

Ray Dalio says today is like the early 1970s and investors should hold more gold than usual
Dalio, founder of one of the world’s largest hedge funds, believes investors should allocate as much as 15% of their portfolios to gold.

Tesla prices Model Y SUV below $40,000, debuting more affordable vehicle
The new Model Y standard features a battery that gets 321 miles of estimated range on a full charge. The lower prices may help Tesla attract some buyers after the loss of $7,500 federal EV tax credits.

Immigration...

Julio Rosas: Inside the Portland ICE facility under siege by Antifa extremists
The day of my visit came after a federal judge put a temporary halt on the deployment of Oregon National Guardsmen. The facility had been prepared to receive the reinforcements, but now it was business as usual.

Conservative journalist Nick Sortor threatens lawsuit after arrest in Portland Antifa clash
Sortor is demanding an apology and investigation from Portland police, saying his arrest for defending himself against Antifa attackers was unconstitutional and politically motivated.

Suspected Latin Kings boss in Chicago accused of putting hit out on Border Patrol chief
Amid rising tensions in Illinois as Operation Midway Blitz carries on, law enforcement arrested suspected Latin Kings "ranking member" Juan Espinoza Martinez and charged him with a single count of murder for hire after he allegedly put a hit out on a Border Patrol chief, according to Fox News.

8 things Chicago has done to put illegal aliens first
Chicago's sanctuary city status dates all the way back to 1985, when Mayor Harold Washington signed an executive order that stated city workers could not ask people about their immigration status.

Durbin pushes debunked ‘zip-tied kids’ ICE hoax during DOJ hearing
Despite DHS confirming no children were zip-tied, Sen. Dick Durbin repeated the false claim to smear ICE, echoing a pattern of left-wing emotional hoaxes.

Church joins persecution of Texas business owner who criticized H-1B visas
After posting frustration over an Indian street festival and calling to end H-1B visas, small-business owner Daniel Keene was doxxed, banned from his gym for lacking “inclusivity,” and pushed out of his church after refusing to recant his immigration views.

WAR news...

Over 70% of Americans Back Trump's Strikes on Drug-Smuggling Boats: Poll
Support for destroying drug-smuggling boats appears strong across party lines, with 89% of Republicans, 67% of Independents, and 56% of Democrats expressing approval, according to the Harvard CAPS/Harris poll released Tuesday.

Israel...

Kushner, Witkoff will not leave Egypt without Hamas deal that frees Israeli hostages: Report
The Trump administration duo are expected to land in Egypt early Wednesday morning and sources said they will not leave the Middle Eastern country until Hamas agrees to release hostages and end its war with Israel.

October 7: The Blood, the Lies, and the Betrayal That Followed
Hamas understood something vital about modern warfare: Battles are fought not only with bullets but with stories. It learned to weaponize suffering, knowing that Western audiences would respond with emotion before reason.

New Footage Shows Hamas Terrorists — and Gazan Civilians — Kidnapping Israeli Women and Children on Oct. 7
The videos underscore the violence on the part of both terrorists and run-of-the-mill Gazans that spurred Israel's war against Hamas.

Anti-Israel protesters chant anti-Semitic slogan in NYC on 2-year anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack
Hundreds of anti-Israel protesters converged in Manhattan, screaming the anti-Semitic slogan “From the river to the sea” and wielding vile signs on the second anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack.

Israel's Christian friends have no qualms about standing by the Jewish people
Thousands of Christian pilgrims have arrived for the Feast of Tabernacles, showing no hesitation in supporting Israel during these trying times.

Greta Thunberg shares image of emaciated Israeli hostage in post protesting treatment of Palestinian prisoners
“The suffering of Palestinian prisoners is not a matter of opinion — it is a fact of cruelty and dehumanization. Humanity cannot be selective. Justice cannot have borders,” the post read.

Ukraine - Russia...

Former Russian newspaper publisher dies after falling from window
He is the latest Russian figure to die from falling out a window.

Canada...

Organ harvesting surges in woke dystopia pushing euthanasia as a cure for depression
Canada’s euthanasia program has become a "world leader" in organ harvesting, with 15,280 doctor-assisted suicide deaths reported in 2023 alone.

Europe...

UK’s digital dystopia is a warning for America — but some are treating it like a roadmap
As the U.K. launches its mandatory digital ID program and revelations surface of FBI surveillance on Trump allies, both governments appear to be normalizing an era of mass data tracking and political monitoring.

Entertainment...

Will Zach Bryan write a song about murdered women Laken Riley and Rachel Morin?
Country singer Zach Bryan has joined the chorus of radical left-wingers vilifying and demonizing the law enforcement officers who protect innocent Americans from the violent crimes of illegal immigrants.

Media...

Jimmy Kimmel nears pre-suspension viewership, sheds 85% of key viewers since hyped comeback show
On Thursday, Kimmel averaged 1.9 million viewers, shedding 71% of the audience that tuned in for the host’s return from suspension, with ratings in the key 25-54 demo down 85%.

MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace Suggests Trump Supporter Set South Carolina Judge’s House Ablaze — After Authorities Found ‘No Evidence’ of Arson
Wallace also let a former Biden official advance the false narrative at length.

Melania Trump posts victory against 'unverified claims' from book publisher
HarperCollins U.K. pulled a Prince Andrew biography from circulation after admitting it included “unverified claims” that Jeffrey Epstein introduced Melania and Donald Trump. The first lady’s legal team said the defamatory story, echoed by Hunter Biden, spread to millions online.

Bob Ross paintings will be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts
The auctions of the 30 paintings soon to be sold have an estimated total value of $850,000 to $1.4 million.

LGBTQIA2S+...

Liberal media, activists silent as Bari Weiss makes LGBTQ history at CBS News
Groups who claim to promote diversity and inclusion refuse to acknowledge lesbian trailblazer.

Supreme Court signals end to Colorado laws that push kids to transition
The court heard a First Amendment challenge to a law that bans so-called conversion therapy.

Education...

Trump administration weighing sale of $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio to private market
“Unlike the previous administration, we are focused on ensuring the long-term health of the portfolio for the benefit of both students and taxpayers.”

Health...

California jury orders Johnson & Johnson to pay nearly $1 billion in talc cancer case
The family of Mae Moore, a California resident who died at age 88 in 2021, sued the company the same year, claiming J&J’s talc baby powder products contained asbestos fibers that caused her rare cancer.

AI...

'Swarms of killer robots': Former Biden official says US military is afraid of using AI
Mieke Eoyang, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy during the Biden administration, said current off-the-shelf AI models are poorly suited for use in the U.S. military and would be dangerous if implemented. Only with a former Biden official can you get that level of insight.

Daughter of Robin Williams calls AI videos of late actor 'disgusting' amid generative AI Wild West
"Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't," she posted in an Instagram story.

Oct. 8, 2009 - 'Dancing with the Stars'… Obama’s promise to put bills online… Madeleine Albright jewelry… It’s going to be harder and harder for you to speak out… Radicals in the White House… We are under the microscope…

When 'Abolish America' stops being symbolic

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Prosecutors stopped a New Year’s Eve bombing plot rooted in ideology that treats the US as an enemy to be destroyed.

Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles announced that four members of an anti-capitalist extremist group were arrested on Friday for plotting coordinated bombings in California on New Year’s Eve.

According to the Department of Justice, the suspects planned to detonate explosives concealed in backpacks at various businesses while also targeting ICE agents and vehicles. The attacks were supposed to coincide with midnight celebrations.

Marxists, anarchists, and Islamist movements share a conviction that the United States, like Israel, is a colonial project that must be destroyed.

The plot was disrupted before any lives were lost. The group behind the plot calls itself the Turtle Island Liberation Front. That name matters more than you might think.

When ideology turns operational

For years, the media has told us that radical, violent rhetoric on the left is mostly symbolic. They explained away the angry slogans, destructive language, and calls for “liberation” as performance or hyperbole.

Bombs are not metaphors, however.

Once explosives enter the picture, framing the issue as harmless expression becomes much more difficult. What makes this case different is the ideological ecosystem behind it.

The Turtle Island Liberation Front was not a single-issue group. It was anti-American, anti-capitalist, and explicitly revolutionary. Its members viewed the United States as an illegitimate occupying force rather than a sovereign nation. America, in their view, is not a nation, not a country; it is a structure that must be dismantled at any cost.

What ‘Turtle Island’ really means

“Turtle Island” is not an innocent cultural reference. In modern activist usage, it is shorthand for the claim that the United States has no moral or legal right to exist. It reframes the country as stolen land, permanently occupied by an illegitimate society.

Once people accept that premise, the use of violence against their perceived enemies becomes not only permissible, but virtuous. That framing is not unique to one movement. It appears again and again across radical networks that otherwise disagree on nearly everything.

Marxists, anarchists, and Islamist movements do not share the same vision for the future. They do not even trust one another. But they share a conviction that the United States, like Israel, is a colonial project that must be destroyed. The alignment of radical, hostile ideologies is anything but a coincidence.

The red-green alliance

For decades, analysts have warned about what is often called the red-green alliance: the convergence of far-left revolutionary politics with Islamist movements. The alliance is not based on shared values, but on shared enemies. Capitalism, national sovereignty, Western culture, and constitutional government all fall into that category.

History has shown us how this process works. Revolutionary coalitions form to tear down an existing order, promising liberation and justice. Once power is seized, the alliance fractures, and the most ruthless faction takes control.

Iran’s 1979 revolution followed this exact pattern. Leftist revolutionaries helped topple the shah. Within a few years, tens of thousands of them were imprisoned, executed, or “disappeared” by the Islamist regime they helped install. Those who do not understand history, the saying goes, are doomed to repeat it.

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This moment is different

What happened in California was not a foreign conflict bleeding into the United States or a solitary extremist acting on impulse. It was an organized domestic group, steeped in ideological narratives long validated by universities, activist networks, and the media.

The language that once circulated on campuses and social media is now appearing in criminal indictments. “Liberation” has become a justification for explosives. “Resistance” has become a plan with a date and a time. When groups openly call for the destruction of the United States and then prepare bombs to make it happen, the country has entered a new phase. Pretending things have not gotten worse, that we have not crossed a line as a country, is reckless denial.

Every movement like this depends on confusion. Its supporters insist that calls for America’s destruction are symbolic, even as they stockpile weapons. They denounce violence while preparing for it. They cloak criminal intent in the language of justice and morality. That ambiguity is not accidental. It is deliberate.

The California plot should end the debate over whether these red-green alliances exist. They do. The only question left is whether the country will recognize the pattern before more plots advance farther — and succeed.

This is not about one group, one ideology, or one arrest. It is about a growing coalition that has moved past rhetoric and into action. History leaves no doubt where that path leads. The only uncertainty is whether Americans will step in and stop it.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Trump v. Slaughter: The Deep State on trial

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The administrative state has long operated as an unelected super-government. Trump v. Slaughter may be the moment voters reclaim authority over their own institutions.

Washington is watching and worrying about a U.S. Supreme Court case that could very well define the future of American self-government. And I don’t say that lightly. At the center of Trump v. Slaughter is a deceptively simple question: Can the president — the one official chosen by the entire nation — remove the administrators and “experts” who wield enormous, unaccountable power inside the executive branch?

This isn’t a technical fight. It’s not a paperwork dispute. It’s a turning point. Because if the answer is no, then the American people no longer control their own government. Elections become ceremonial. The bureaucracy becomes permanent. And the Constitution becomes a suggestion rather than the law of the land.

A government run by experts instead of elected leaders is not a republic. It’s a bureaucracy with a voting booth bolted onto the front to make us feel better.

That simply cannot be. Justice Neil Gorsuch summed it up perfectly during oral arguments on Monday: “There is no such thing in our constitutional order as a fourth branch of government that’s quasi-judicial and quasi-legislative.”

Yet for more than a century, the administrative state has grown like kudzu — quietly, relentlessly, and always in one direction. Today we have a fourth branch of government: unelected, unaccountable, insulated from consequence. Congress hands off lawmaking to agencies. Presidents arrive with agendas, but the bureaucrats remain, and they decide what actually gets done.

If the Supreme Court decides that presidents cannot fire the very people who execute federal power, they are not just rearranging an org chart. The justices are rewriting the structure of the republic. They are confirming what we’ve long feared: Here, the experts rule, not the voters.

A government run by experts instead of elected leaders is not a republic. It’s a bureaucracy with a voting booth bolted onto the front to make us feel better.

The founders warned us

The men who wrote the Constitution saw this temptation coming. Alexander Hamilton and James Madison in the Federalist Papers hammered home the same principle again and again: Power must remain traceable to the people. They understood human nature far too well. They knew that once administrators are protected from accountability, they will accumulate power endlessly. It is what humans do.

That’s why the Constitution vests the executive power in a single president — someone the entire nation elects and can unelect. They did not want a managerial council. They did not want a permanent priesthood of experts. They wanted responsibility and authority to live in one place so the people could reward or replace it.

So this case will answer a simple question: Do the people still govern this country, or does a protected class of bureaucrats now run the show?

Not-so-expert advice

Look around. The experts insisted they could manage the economy — and produced historic debt and inflation.

The experts insisted they could run public health — and left millions of Americans sick, injured, and dead while avoiding accountability.

The experts insisted they could steer foreign policy — and delivered endless conflict with no measurable benefit to our citizens.

And through it all, they stayed. Untouched, unelected, and utterly unapologetic.

If a president cannot fire these people, then you — the voter — have no ability to change the direction of your own government. You can vote for reform, but you will get the same insiders making the same decisions in the same agencies.

That is not self-government. That is inertia disguised as expertise.

A republic no more?

A monarchy can survive a permanent bureaucracy. A dictatorship can survive a permanent bureaucracy. A constitutional republic cannot. Not for long anyway.

We are supposed to live in a system where the people set the course, Congress writes the laws, and the president carries them out. When agencies write their own rules, judges shield them from oversight, and presidents are forbidden from removing them, we no longer live in that system. We live in something else — something the founders warned us about.

And the people become spectators of their own government.

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The path forward

Restoring the separation of powers does not mean rejecting expertise. It means returning expertise to its proper role: advisory, not sovereign.

No expert should hold power that voters cannot revoke. No agency should drift beyond the reach of the executive. No bureaucracy should be allowed to grow branches the Constitution never gave it.

The Supreme Court now faces a choice that will shape American life for a generation. It can reinforce the Constitution, or it can allow the administrative state to wander even farther from democratic control.

This case isn’t about President Trump. It isn’t about Rebecca Slaughter, the former Federal Trade Commission official suing to get her job back. It’s about whether elections still mean anything — whether the American people still hold the reins of their own government.

That is what is at stake: not procedure, not technicalities, but the survival of a system built on the revolutionary idea that the citizens — not the experts — are the ones who rule.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

1 in 20 Canadians die by MAID—Is this 'compassion'?

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Medical assistance in dying isn’t health care. It’s the moment a Western democracy decided some lives aren’t worth saving, and it’s a warning sign we can’t ignore.

Canada loves to lecture America about compassion. Every time a shooting makes the headlines, Canadian commentators cannot wait to discuss how the United States has a “culture of death” because we refuse to regulate guns the way enlightened nations supposedly do.

But north of our border, a very different crisis is unfolding — one that is harder to moralize because it exposes a deeper cultural failure.

A society that no longer recognizes the value of life will not long defend freedom, dignity, or moral order.

The Canadian government is not only permitting death, but it’s also administering, expanding, and redefining it as “medical care.” Medical assistance in dying is no longer a rare, tragic exception. It has become one of the country’s leading causes of death, offered to people whose problems are treatable, whose conditions are survivable, and whose value should never have been in question.

In Canada, MAID is now responsible for nearly 5% of all deaths — 1 out of every 20 citizens. And this is happening in a country that claims the moral high ground over American gun violence. Canada now records more deaths per capita from doctors administering lethal drugs than America records from firearms. Their number is 37.9 deaths per 100,000 people. Ours is 13.7. Yet we are the country supposedly drowning in a “culture of death.”

No lecture from abroad can paper over this fact: Canada has built a system where eliminating suffering increasingly means eliminating the sufferer.

Choosing death over care

One example of what Canada now calls “compassion” is the case of Jolene Bond, a woman suffering from a painful but treatable thyroid condition that causes dangerously high calcium levels, bone deterioration, soft-tissue damage, nausea, and unrelenting pain. Her condition is severe, but it is not terminal. Surgery could help her. And in a functioning medical system, she would have it.

But Jolene lives under socialized medicine. The specialists she needs are either unavailable, overrun with patients, or blocked behind bureaucratic requirements she cannot meet. She cannot get a referral. She cannot get an appointment. She cannot reach the doctor in another province who is qualified to perform the operation. Every pathway to treatment is jammed by paperwork, shortages, and waitlists that stretch into the horizon and beyond.

Yet the Canadian government had something else ready for her — something immediate.

They offered her MAID.

Not help, not relief, not a doctor willing to drive across a provincial line and simply examine her. Instead, Canada offered Jolene a state-approved death. A lethal injection is easier to obtain than a medical referral. Killing her would be easier than treating her. And the system calls that compassion.

Bureaucracy replaces medicine

Jolene’s story is not an outlier. It is the logical outcome of a system that cannot keep its promises. When the machinery of socialized medicine breaks down, the state simply replaces care with a final, irreversible “solution.” A bureaucratic checkbox becomes the last decision of a person’s life.

Canada insists its process is rigorous, humane, and safeguarded. Yet the bureaucracy now reviewing Jolene’s case is not asking how she can receive treatment; it is asking whether she has enough signatures to qualify for a lethal injection. And the debate among Canadian officials is not how to preserve life, but whether she has met the paperwork threshold to end it.

This is the dark inversion that always emerges when the state claims the power to decide when life is no longer worth living. Bureaucracy replaces conscience. Eligibility criteria replace compassion. A panel of physicians replaces the family gathered at a bedside. And eventually, the “right” to die becomes an expectation — especially for those who are poor, elderly, or alone.

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The logical end of a broken system

We ignore this lesson at our own peril. Canada’s health care system is collapsing under demographic pressure, uncontrolled migration, and the unavoidable math of government-run medicine.

When the system breaks, someone must bear the cost. MAID has become the release valve.

The ideology behind this system is already drifting south. In American medical journals and bioethics conferences, you will hear this same rhetoric. The argument is always dressed in compassion. But underneath, it reduces the value of human life to a calculation: Are you useful? Are you affordable? Are you too much of a burden?

The West was built on a conviction that every human life has inherent value. That truth gave us hospitals before it gave us universities. It gave us charity before it gave us science. It is written into the Declaration of Independence.

Canada’s MAID program reveals what happens when a country lets that foundation erode. Life becomes negotiable, and suffering becomes a justification for elimination.

A society that no longer recognizes the value of life will not long defend freedom, dignity, or moral order. If compassion becomes indistinguishable from convenience, and if medicine becomes indistinguishable from euthanasia, the West will have abandoned the very principles that built it. That is the lesson from our northern neighbor — a warning, not a blueprint.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

A Sharia enclave is quietly taking root in America. It's time to wake up.

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Sharia-based projects like the Meadow in Texas show how political Islam grows quietly, counting on Americans to stay silent while an incompatible legal system takes root.

Apolitical system completely incompatible with the Constitution is gaining ground in the United States, and we are pretending it is not happening.

Sharia — the legal and political framework of Islam — is being woven into developments, institutions, and neighborhoods, including a massive project in Texas. And the consequences will be enormous if we continue to look the other way.

This is the contradiction at the heart of political Islam: It claims universal authority while insisting its harshest rules will never be enforced here. That promise does not stand up to scrutiny. It never has.

Before we can have an honest debate, we’d better understand what Sharia represents. Sharia is not simply a set of religious rules about prayer or diet. It is a comprehensive legal and political structure that governs marriage, finance, criminal penalties, and civic life. It is a parallel system that claims supremacy wherever it takes hold.

This is where the distinction matters. Many Muslims in America want nothing to do with Sharia governance. They came here precisely because they lived under it. But political Islam — the movement that seeks to implement Sharia as law — is not the same as personal religious belief.

It is a political ideology with global ambitions, much like communism. Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently warned that Islamist movements do not seek peaceful coexistence with the West. They seek dominance. History backs him up.

How Sharia arrives

Political Islam does not begin with dramatic declarations. It starts quietly, through enclaves that operate by their own rules. That is why the development once called EPIC City — now rebranded as the Meadow — is so concerning. Early plans framed it as a Muslim-only community built around a mega-mosque and governed by Sharia-compliant financing. After state investigations were conducted, the branding changed, but the underlying intent remained the same.

Developers have openly described practices designed to keep non-Muslims out, using fees and ownership structures to create de facto religious exclusivity. This is not assimilation. It is the construction of a parallel society within a constitutional republic.

The warning from those who have lived under it

Years ago, local imams in Texas told me, without hesitation, that certain Sharia punishments “just work.” They spoke about cutting off hands for theft, stoning adulterers, and maintaining separate standards of testimony for men and women. They insisted it was logical and effective while insisting they would never attempt to implement it in Texas.

But when pressed, they could not explain why a system they consider divinely mandated would suddenly stop applying once someone crossed a border.

This is the contradiction at the heart of political Islam: It claims universal authority while insisting its harshest rules will never be enforced here. That promise does not stand up to scrutiny. It never has.

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America is vulnerable

Europe is already showing us where this road leads. No-go zones, parallel courts, political intimidation, and clerics preaching supremacy have taken root across major cities.

America’s strength has always come from its melting pot, but assimilation requires boundaries. It requires insisting that the Constitution, not religious law, is the supreme authority on this soil.

Yet we are becoming complacent, even fearful, about saying so. We mistake silence for tolerance. We mistake avoidance for fairness. Meanwhile, political Islam views this hesitation as weakness.

Religious freedom is one of America’s greatest gifts. Muslims may worship freely here, as they should. But political Islam must not be permitted to plant a flag on American soil. The Constitution cannot coexist with a system that denies equal rights, restricts speech, subordinates women, and places clerical authority above civil law.

Wake up before it is too late

Projects like the Meadow are not isolated. They are test runs, footholds, proofs of concept. Political Islam operates with patience. It advances through demographic growth, legal ambiguity, and cultural hesitation — and it counts on Americans being too polite, too distracted, or too afraid to confront it.

We cannot afford that luxury. If we fail to defend the principles that make this country free, we will one day find ourselves asking how a parallel system gained power right in front of us. The answer will be simple: We looked away.

The time to draw boundaries and to speak honestly is now. The time to defend the Constitution as the supreme law of the land is now. Act while there is still time.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.