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Morning Brief 2025-12-16

December 16, 2025
Chris Brady

TOP OF HOUR 1
GUEST: Ryan Mauro
TOPIC: Why YOU need to know what the Turtle Island Liberation Front is.

TOP OF HOUR 3
GUEST: Dr. Jim Norman
TOPIC: What is parathyroid disease?

News...

Glenn Beck slams Canada's 'immoral' MAID program
Ezra Levant talked with Glenn Beck who explained why he stepped up to help a Saskatchewan woman receive life-saving treatment for a rare illness after she was unable to get surgery in Canada.

Radical anti-Israel group planned to bomb Los Angeles buildings marked with Hamas triangles, FBI reveals
Federal prosecutors say members of an extremist cell plotted five coordinated New Year’s Eve bombings, using Hamas symbols, pro-Palestinian propaganda, and detailed attack plans before the FBI intervened and seized explosive materials, weapons discussions, and plans targeting ICE.

New Year’s Eve LA terror plot suspects lived in upscale California suburbs
Despite their extremist anti-capitalist ideology, the suspects who were arrested for allegedly plotting a bombing campaign in and around Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve appear to hail from upscale areas.

Clinton-appointed judge orders FBI to destroy seized Comey emails
The D.C. judge granted a motion by James Comey’s associate to force destruction of emails obtained through a court-approved warrant, a move critics say cripples the prosecution’s ability to re-indict or try Comey as the Justice Department scrambles to appeal.

Democrat-led federal agencies allegedly blocked efforts to investigate Clinton Foundation
Newly released emails show Obama-Biden DOJ and FBI leaders halted subpoenas, interviews, and evidence-sharing ahead of the 2016 election, sidelining agents and prosecutors investigating the Clinton Foundation while later withholding key details when the case was briefly reopened.

Resigning DC police chief accused of manipulating crime data to make the city look better
A House Oversight report found MPD leadership pressured commanders to downgrade offenses to keep them out of public crime reports, accusing Chief Pamela Smith of fostering a culture of intimidation and misleading residents about crime in the nation’s capital.

Authorities release new footage, offer $50,000 bounty for Brown shooting suspect
The frenzied manhunt continues after authorities released a person of interest on Sunday night.

10 major laws taking effect in California in 2026
From banning masks for law enforcement officers to completely banning plastic bags in stores, here is an overview of what Californians can expect.

Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2025 is AI ‘slop’
“Slop” was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud, but it evolved more generally to mean something of little value. The definition has since expanded to mean “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence.”

Atlanta police arrest homeowner who cops say shot 2 teenage porch pirates
One teen was shot in the arm, the other in the foot. A neighbor offered this advice, "Don't go and steal people's packages." Another neighbor said he could understand the frustration, "But to shoot them. I don’t know." A third neighbor weighed in to say, "Crazy to me. Like, you call the police. That’s what police are for."

Rob Reiner...

Rob Reiner’s son went on meth-fueled outbursts as parents threatened to kick him out: Report
Sources say Nick Reiner had long been volatile — destroying his parents’ guesthouse, threatening family members, and cycling through drug-fueled rages — before being arrested after Rob and Michele Reiner were found stabbed to death in their Los Angeles home.

Rob Reiner made chilling comment about loving ‘all’ his children, ‘even the bad ones,’ shortly before he was murdered
Weeks before he and his wife were found stabbed to death, Reiner told Piers Morgan that "Stand By Me" reflected his sensibility because it carried a theme of loving all your children.

Trump responds to Reiner murder, says director was ‘tortured and struggling’ with TDS
Many conservatives responded to the post by voicing their disappointment with Trump’s comments, while some others underscored Reiner’s repeated attacks on Trump, which included calls for the president to be indicted and framing the president as an enemy of democracy.

Politics...

Trump, Senate GOP clobber Biden’s confirmation numbers as year comes to close
Senate Republicans are pushing through a 97-nominee package that puts Trump at 417 confirmations this term, easily surpassing Biden’s pace as the GOP uses its rule changes to break months of Democrat obstruction and fast-track the president’s picks across the government.

Democrats threaten another shutdown over expiring Obamacare subsidies
Senate Democrats are openly weighing a repeat shutdown strategy after Republicans blocked an extension of Obamacare tax credits, with progressives signaling they may use the January funding deadline as leverage despite warnings it could trigger another prolonged government closure.

Democrats say they need leadership green light to back GOP bills to extend ACA tax credits
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has declined to weigh in on either of the proposals, which would extend the subsidies for one or two years, pressing instead for his partisan plan to extend those benefits for three years.

Poll: Fraud is a big problem, and Tim Walz hasn't done enough to stop it
Nearly seven in 10 Minnesotans say Walz "needs to do more," according to a new poll.

MTG gets engaged to Trump-loving White House reporter ahead of exit from Congress: ‘Happily ever after’
Outgoing firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene got engaged to Brian Glenn, chief White House correspondent for Real America’s Voice, three weeks before she is set to step down from Congress.

Economy...

High cost of goods is causing consumers to spend less for the holidays, CNBC survey finds
Overall, 41% of Americans plan to spend less for the holidays this year, six points higher than a year ago.

New Trump tariffs collection hits $200 billion, Customs says
If the Supreme Court rules that Trump’s new tariffs are illegal, it is possible the court could say that companies that have paid the duties so far are entitled to refunds.

Regulators blocked Amazon-iRobot deal, now bankruptcy sends company back to China
At the time the deal was blocked, the FTC was chaired by Biden appointee Lina Khan, who quickly became known for her aggressive approach to antitrust enforcement, particularly toward large technology companies. Khan now serves as NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s transition team chair.

Immigration...

Wisconsin sanctuary push heads to court with major national implications
A new case before the state’s Democrat-controlled Supreme Court could bar sheriffs from honoring ICE detainers, threatening long-standing federal cooperation agreements and potentially turning Wisconsin into a sanctuary state as illegal immigration and public safety concerns escalate.

‘Rents will come down’ — but not in sanctuary cities: Loan agent chronicles homes apparently abandoned by illegal aliens
The Texas-based agent says Trump-era FHA changes cutting off illegal aliens from taxpayer-backed loans have triggered foreclosures and sudden move-outs, easing rental pressure in parts of Texas while leaving high-cost sanctuary jurisdictions largely unaffected.

WAR news...

Trump signs order labeling fentanyl ‘weapon of mass destruction’
"There's no doubt that America's adversaries are trafficking fentanyl into the United States, in part because they want to kill Americans," Trump said. "If this were a war, that would be one of the worst wars."

Israel...

White House reportedly sent Netanyahu scathing message after he violated Gaza ceasefire
According to Axios, U.S. officials privately warned Israel after the killing of Hamas commander Raed Saad, saying Netanyahu’s move violated the Gaza deal and risked embarrassing the president, while Israeli officials insisted Hamas broke the truce first.

John Fetterman breaks with Democrats, slams party’s Palestinian statehood stance as ‘absolute betrayal’
The senator says hostile language toward the Jewish state is becoming part of the Democratic Party platform.

Europe...

Party’s over, Paris: Fearful French cancel NYE concert on Champs-Élysées as migrant violence grows
The Paris police, which pressed the mayor to scrap the concert, cited security concerns such as “unpredictable crowd movements” without going into details — but critics loudly blamed France’s open-door immigration policies.

Australia...

Australian PM says suspect in Hanukkah massacre had been investigated for terror ties, determined he wasn't a threat
The leftist leader vows to use terror attack to push more gun control laws.

Parents of man who disarmed Sydney shooter speak out about son's courage: 'My son is a hero'
"I am so proud of my son because he is a hero all around Australia," Mohammad added. "There isn't a news agency that hasn't shown the heroic work he did. Even President Trump thanked him for his actions," his father finished. "He is a man who sacrificed his life and himself to save lives."

‘It was a matter of conscience’: Hero’s family reveal why he risked his life to disarm Bondi shooter
Family members say Ahmed "doesn’t discriminate" and would have done anything to save lives during the attack.

Bondi Beach hero helped disarm terrorist before police mistakenly shot him: Report
A man who rushed in to help disarm one of the terrorists who fired at a crowd celebrating Hanukkah in Australia’s famous Bondi Beach was mistakenly shot by police and tackled by bystanders, according to a new report.

‘He’s a good boy’: Mother of Bondi Beach terrorist praises son
“Anyone would wish to have a son like my son.”

Detective killed Bondi Beach terror suspect with ‘once in a lifetime shot’ from over 100 feet away
The cop, whose identity has not been reported, was estimated to be about 130 feet away when he shot and killed Akram, according to the report.

Angry Aussie who stomped on Bondi Beach gunman’s head says he did something ‘every Australian wanted to do’
“People were just stomping on his head. I got a pretty good shot on his head as well, but I feel like it was pretty well deserved considering the circumstances,” Barnfield told the Sun.

Entertainment...

Jenny McCarthy says Charlie Kirk helped deepen her Christian faith
“I was so broken ... when he was shot, I prayed and prayed and prayed, and then I was calling every doctor I possibly could, saying, ‘Tell me that this wound is something that could be healed.' ... It was such a dark day. ... With every horrible thing, if you find the good, it can help you move forward."

Leslie Jones wants every ICE employee to go to prison: 'Y'all know y'all did wrong stuff!'
"Girl, I'm hoping, this is what I'm hoping, that midterms, people come out and vote like crazy to switch it over, and then the reckoning comes," Jones said, using extremely hurtful gendered language.

Media...

Trump files 'powerhouse' $10 billion lawsuit against BBC over documentary editing his J6 remarks
""The formerly respected and now disgraced BBC defamed President Trump by intentionally, maliciously, and deceptively doctoring his speech in a brazen attempt to interfere in the 2024 Presidential Election."

USA Today reporter mocked after mislabeling Revolutionary War flag as extremist symbol
Zach Schermele claimed a senior Education Department official displayed a “Christian nationalist” banner, only for critics to point out it was the historic Appeal to Heaven flag tied to George Washington and America’s founding, triggering widespread backlash and ridicule online.

Scott Pelley blames everyone but CBS for network’s tanked credibility
Pelley claims guests avoid his show out of "fear," but "60 Minutes" has a long record of deceptive edits, partisan framing, and anti-Trump spin, which is driving people away.

Environment...

Scientists now say global warming is even worse than they thought!
New data going back to 1781 shows the planet started out far cooler than assumed, meaning humanity has driven far more warming than official estimates — a revelation researchers say dramatically underscores how much the climate system has already been pushed toward dangerous territory.

Health...

7 out of 10 Americans say health care system has major issues
Twenty-nine percent of voters, one of the highest figures recorded since 1987, find the cost of health care to be the country’s most urgent health problem — ahead of health care access and obesity.

AI...

DeSantis says Florida can regulate AI despite Trump executive order
The governor argued that executive orders cannot pre-empt state authority and said Florida’s proposed AI bill of rights, including bans on unauthorized use of likenesses and protections against deepfakes, fits within constitutional limits even as Republicans remain split over national standards.

Despite executive order, California lawmakers push to regulate AI
A group of 20 California state lawmakers sent a letter before the executive order was signed, asking their congressional counterparts to push back against pre-emption or other efforts to limit flexibility.

What Utah leaders say about Trump’s pre-emption on AI state regulations
Senate Majority Leader Kirk Cullimore believes the federal order will not interfere with Utah’s plans to govern how AI interacts with consumers.

Industry calls for US leadership in AI as a democratic imperative
Top tech firms are hoping a planned AI Export Program out of the Commerce Department will foster international consensus when it comes to promoting “democratic” AI frameworks and preventing “overly prescriptive” regulations.

Trump admin to hire 1,000 specialists for ‘Tech Force’ to build AI, finance projects
The corps of about 1,000 engineers and other specialists will report directly to agency leaders in collaboration with top technology companies such as Amazon Web Services, Apple, and Microsoft.

Google AI summaries are ruining the livelihoods of recipe writers: ‘It’s an extinction event’
AI Mode is mangling recipes by merging instructions from multiple creators — and causing them huge dips in ad traffic.

Animals...

Drunk raccoon found in liquor store is a repeat offender, officials say
Virginia animal protection officials say the furry bandit is suspected in break-ins at a nearby martial arts studio and Department of Motor Vehicles office.

'Christmas Miracle' — California dog missing since 2021 found tied to Michigan fence
A Sacramento family was stunned when their long-lost pup Choco turned up tied to a Michigan shelter fence, sparking a community-funded effort to fly the 11-year-old escape artist home just in time for the holidays.

Dec. 16, 2004 - Glenn's Real American Christmas Tour... Glenn invention to give anyone abs... Only 39% would support Hillary run in '08... Politician who won't say Pledge of Allegiance may be recalled... Internet and cell calls could come to planes...

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.

ALEX WROBLEWSKI / Contributor | Getty Images

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.