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1. Kenneth Rapoza: How Colombia Proved That Tariffs Work

2. John Lott: Government Price Controls Won’t Help Residents in California Recover From LA Fires

3. Col. John Mills: In One Social Media Posting, President Trump "Trudeaus" The President of Colombia

4. Daniel Greenfield: Sanctuary Cities Were Always Anti-American

5. Judd Dunning: Progressive Arrogance, Failures Set California Ablaze

6. Dr. Robert Marbut: Trump Has the Attention of China, Mexico & Canada on Fentanyl

7. Cheryl Chumley: Trump Effect Spreads from Colombia to California and All Places in Between

8. James Hirsen: The Question of Birthright Citizenship

How Colombia Proved That Tariffs Work

By Kenneth Rapoza, Reporter/Columnist for Coalition for a Prosperous America

Gustavo Petro, a former teenage Marxist revolutionary who became Colombia's president in 2022, just got beat by the BOSS: President Donald J. Trump. And he got beat because Trump's tariff threats, a cornerstone of his America First policy platform, worked. The story began when Petro refused to repatriate Colombian aliens who have committed crimes in the U.S. and had been released by Democrat district attorneys and blue city police departments. Upon learning about Colombia's refusal to take their own criminals back, Trump posted to social media that he was imposing an immediate 25 percent tariff on Colombia, along with assorted other sanctions - whereupon Petro backed down not 47 minutes later, promising to send his own plane to Washington to pick up the migrants. What's next? Mexico building the wall? Don't discount it! Mexico and Canada are facing similar threats of tariffs which might go into effect this weekend. The weekend kerfuffle proved how effective tariffs can be. [more...]

Government Price Controls Won’t Help Residents in California Recover From LA Fires

By John Lott, Worldwide Expert on Guns & Crime

With prices of hotels and short-term rentals soaring in Southern California due to the recent devastating wildfires, "price-gouging” has once again become a buzzword. With inflation already one of Americans’ greatest concerns, it is a message many people will be primed to hear. Now, California Attorney General Rob Bonta is threatening to prosecute businesses that raise prices “by more than 10 percent above the price before an emergency declaration.” California Gov. Gavin Newsom also declared a state of emergency that triggered various provisions of California’s anti-price-gouging law. [more...]

In One Social Media Posting, President Trump "Trudeaus" The President of Colombia

By Colonel (Ret.) John Mills, Author of War Against the Deep State

Leftist (really Maoist/Communist) Colombian President Gustavo Petro has learned a very hard lesson and made a fool of himself for accepting repatriation flights, then trying to cancel them with a loud and obnoxious rant and then caved like a lawn chair within an hour of a social media posting by President Trump. Things are not looking good for Petro in his own country. [more...]

Sanctuary Cities Were Always Anti-American

By Daniel Greenfield, Author of Domestic Enemies

The real origins of our open borders nightmare

New York City, Chicago and Boston are among the sanctuary cities collapsing after waves of migrants stormed across the open borders. Even cities that once boasted of providing sanctuary to illegal aliens from federal immigration enforcement are now running away from the name. Sanctuary cities were always intended to be destructive. They were not, as many Democrats now wrongly claim, about providing safe harbor to refugees, but about bringing down America. The sanctuary cities did not emerge in response to the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide or any actual genocide, but to provide support and sanctuary for Marxists fleeing the civil wars they had started in Latin America, and then later for Islamic terrorists after September 11. [more...]

Progressive Arrogance, Failures Set California Ablaze

By Judd Dunning, Talk Show Host, Bestselling Author

Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif. epitomizes everything wrong with progressive governance. The man who has held the reins of power for years somehow believes the crisis is everyone else’s fault. Seemingly ever the opportunist, Gavin is a master of distraction. Why address California’s crumbling infrastructure, failed energy policies and regulatory overreach when you can point fingers instead? California’s wildfires are not a freak accident. They are a predictable result of decades of progressive mismanagement, pseudo-green virtue signaling, and bureaucratic red tape and Gavn's California has become the shining jewel of progressive failure. [more...]

Trump Has the Attention of China, Mexico & Canada on Fentanyl

By Dr. Robert Marbut, Producer of Fentanyl Death Incorporated

Because of the mass deportations, fentanyl deaths are decreasing. We know that the deadly fentanyl crisis in America originates out of China and passes through Mexico and Canada. President Trump has done more in one week than the Biden-Harris administration did in four years to address the fentanyl scourge. He now has the attention of China, Mexico, and Canada; Mexico and Canada have already had historic fentanyl drug busts in the last 40 days after their leaders talked to President Trump. Hopefully, we’ll get improvement out of China, too. I am the producer of the new film, “Fentanyl: Death Incorporated,” now streaming at Salem NOW. To find out more about the film, go to fentanyldeathincorporated.com. [more...]

Trump Effect Spreads from Colombia to California and All Places in Between

By Cheryl Chumley, Author of God-Given or Bust

On Friday, President Trump sent a couple of planes filled with illegals from America back to their home country of Colombia. On Sunday morning, Trump learned that Colombian President Gustavo Petro turned away the planes and refused to allow them to land. Trump responded by vowing tariffs on all Colombian goods coming into the United States. By Sunday afternoon, Colombia’s president was welcoming the planes filled with migrants back to his country, a la open arms. Bang. Bam. Voila. That’s the Trump Effect. [more...]

The Question of Birthright Citizenship

By James Hirsen, NY Times Bestselling Author, International Business Attorney, News Analyst & Cultural Commentator

In my legal assessment, by issuing the executive order on birthright citizenship, President Trump is prompting the courts to clarify and rule on the language, meaning, and substance of what the law actually states. For quite a long time, government institutions have allowed policies to be implemented apart from the law, policies that deem all persons born in the U.S. to illegal alien parents are citizens. However, the United States Constitution does not necessitate this policy. In fact, there is nothing in either the Constitution or in any federal statute that grants birthright citizenship to a child born in the U.S. to illegal alien parents. What appears to be a complex issue actually isn’t. A look back at constitutional history provides quite a bit of insight and may help to clarify things. [more...]