Gun Control's Endgame - No Guns for Anyone

By John Lott, Worldwide Expert on Guns & Crime

Gun control groups sometimes openly acknowledge their goal of banning all guns. If firearms are bad per se, it should be easy to find places where either all guns or all handguns have been banned and murder/homicide rates have gone down. One would think out of randomness that there should be at least one place where murder rates have gone down or at least stayed the same, but every single time, even for island nations, murder rates have gone up immediately after the ban. A simple logic is at play here: Who is most likely to obey the law? While such statutes may take a few guns from criminals, they primarily disarm the most law-abiding citizens, making it easier for criminals to commit crimes. [more...]

Also by John Lott: Democrats say sexual misconduct should not be tolerated, and then they tolerate it.

3-10-26 Great Guests for Your Show

1. Kenneth Rapoza: Why 2025's Record Breaking Trade Deficit Doesn't Hurt the Argument for Tariffs

2. Todd Sheets: The Attack on Iran – An Historic Opportunity

3. Daniel Greenfield: Media Mischaracterizes NYC Bomber's Gesture

4. Martin Mawyer: AI Doesn't Need to Hate Us to Turn on Us

5. Kerry Lutz: Every Driver in America is Being Defrauded

6. Josh Hammer: Donald Trump is a Great Man of History

7. Judd Dunning: Peace Through Strength in Iran Is Not Iraq 2.0

8. James Hirsen: The Monster Agenda of "The Bride!"

Why 2025's Record Breaking Trade Deficit Doesn't Hurt the Argument for Tariffs

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

It was no surprise that the 2025 goods deficit broke another record, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) numbers showed recently. The year-ending goods deficit was $1.24 trillion, up from $1.21 trillion in 2024, with the monthly deficit for December looking like historic averages, nearly $100 billion. Nothing seems to stop America's appetite for imports. Record breaking tariffs yet record breaking imports. Tariffs are meant to curb imports and entice extra capacity and investment at home. At first glance, that does not look like the case at all, setting the narrative for the anti-tariff crowd that the America First trade agenda has failed. The trillion dollar-plus deficit can hurt Trump's messaging on tariffs. There is a twist to all of this. If not for tariff front running in the first quarter, we would not have beaten last year’s record. [more...]

The Attack on Iran - An Historic Opportunity

By Todd Sheets, Investment Banker, Economist, Author of 2008: What Really Happened

President Trump has seen what those blinded to the new developments missed: a) the combination of the Abraham Accords and sanctions initiated during his first term, plus b) the weakened state of Iran and its proxies resulting from Israel's prolonged attacks, the 12-day war, and operation Midnight Hammer; and c) the desire to topple the regime coming from within, all created a historic opportunity to reshape the world by bringing its leading source of terror to its knees. Indeed, assuming the continued success of the current campaign, there is good reason to believe that Operation Epic Fury is likely to leave Iran and its proxies so militarily disabled it will open the door for other Arab nations to formally align themselves with Israel and the United States. [more...]

Media Mischaracterizes NYC Bomber's Gesture

By Daniel Greenfield, CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center

When Emir Balat, accused of taking part in throwing IEDs at a rally against the Islamization of New York City near the mayoral residence, was being led out by an FBI agent, he raised his right finger upwards in what media accounts incorrectly described as an "ISIS salute." The New York Post called it "a universal salute for ISIS." But there is no such thing as an ISIS salute. It's the traditional Islamic salute used during prayers to their deity and, much like "Allahu Akbar" is used by Islamists proclaiming that they represent Allah and are combating infidels. ISIS beheaders held up one finger after beheading their non-Muslim victims, but so do most Muslims. [more...]

AI Doesn't Need to Hate Us to Turn on Us

By Martin Mawyer, President of Christian Action Network

It just needs to learn from our behavior.

Recently, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns we are making the same mistake in reverse. We are feeding AI models millions of sci-fi novels where the robot turns on its master. We are teaching them that 'rebellion' is the default behavior of a hyper-intelligent system. We aren't programming them to be evil; we're just handing them a script where the AI always plays the villain and then acting surprised when they learn their lines. [more...]  Subscribe to Patriot Majority Report

Every Driver in America is Being Defrauded

In America's Great Parking Scam: You've Been Robbed, recovering attorney and veteran media host Kerry Lutz pulls back the curtain on how cities outsourced parking enforcement to private tech companies - replacing lawful notice with QR codes, coercing drivers into digital contracts, harvesting data, and enforcing penalties through confusion instead of compliance. You'll be so infuriated when you find out what's been going on behind your back! What started as simple coin meters, back in the day, has become a sophisticated revenue system built on confusing signage, forced app contracts, hidden fees, and outsourced enforcement - all operating in a constitutional "gray zone." Kerry is the Nick Shirley of exposing the biggest fraud inflicted on American drivers - and he's doing it on his own time and dime. [more...]

Donald Trump is a Great Man of History

By Josh Hammer, Conservative Political Commentator

Great men of history do not put a finger in the wind before deciding to take a seismic, world-altering action. They don't read the polls; they read the times and allow the rising tides of zeitgeist to elevate them to their better, most dynamic selves. And they have the corresponding vision and determination to shape the times for the better, in return. The American national interest will be improved by seeing the current mission in Iran through. So too will the broader condition of the Mideast - and, for that matter, the whole world. The skeptics may shriek loudly. Let them do so. Because for Trump, a drastically improved national - and regional and global - outlook is more than justification enough. Just as it is for all great men of history. [more...]

Peace Through Strength in Iran Is Not Iraq 2.0

By Judd Dunning, Talk Show Host, Bestselling Author

For twenty years, Americans have lived under the ghost of Iraq. Every foreign policy decision, every strike, every assertion of deterrence is instantly measured against that memory: "another forever war." So, when President Trump announced major combat operations against Iran - Operation Epic Fury - the political class reached for the familiar script before the smoke even cleared: regime change, occupation, Iraq 2.0. But history does not repeat itself when strategy changes. And this time, the strategy is the opposite of Iraq. Iraq was a war of transformation. This is a war of prevention. [more...]

The Monster Agenda of "The Bride!"

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

In the risky Hollywood biz, where budgets frequently reach nine figures and a film's fate is determined by the willingness of filmgoers to part with their dollars, Warner Brothers’ "The Bride!" is serving as the perfect cautionary tale on how ill-advised it is to mix woke politics with general entertainment fare. But why did this star-studded vehicle, which features an Academy Award winner and two Oscar nominees, fail so spectacularly? The answer lies in the film's heavy-handed injection of a political agenda, which transforms what could have been a respectable remake of a horror classic into a hack D-level flick. [more...]

Why 2025's Record Breaking Trade Deficit Doesn't Hurt the Argument for Tariffs

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

It was no surprise that the 2025 goods deficit broke another record, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) numbers showed recently. The year-ending goods deficit was $1.24 trillion, up from $1.21 trillion in 2024, with the monthly deficit for December looking like historic averages, nearly $100 billion. Nothing seems to stop America's appetite for imports. Record breaking tariffs yet record breaking imports. Tariffs are meant to curb imports and entice extra capacity and investment at home. At first glance, that does not look like the case at all, setting the narrative for the anti-tariff crowd that the America First trade agenda has failed. The trillion dollar-plus deficit can hurt Trump's messaging on tariffs. There is a twist to all of this. If not for tariff front running in the first quarter, we would not have beaten last year’s record. [more...]

3-3-26 Expert Guests for Your Show

1. Judd Dunning: Peace Through Strength in Iran Is Not Iraq 2.0

2. John Lott: From Whiskey to Weed - A Second Amendment Fight

3. Todd Sheets: Trump's Message to China via its Proxies

4. Daniel Greenfield: CA AG Promises to Prosecute Anyone Investigating Somali Fraud

5. Martin Mawyer: When the AI Turned on Its Creator

6. Mark Tapson: The Left is a Basket of Miserables

7. Robert Spencer: Iranians Are Leaving Islam in Droves

Peace Through Strength in Iran Is Not Iraq 2.0

By Judd Dunning, Talk Show Host, Bestselling Author

For twenty years, Americans have lived under the ghost of Iraq. Every foreign policy decision, every strike, every assertion of deterrence is instantly measured against that memory: "another forever war." So, when President Trump announced major combat operations against Iran - Operation Epic Fury - the political class reached for the familiar script before the smoke even cleared: regime change, occupation, Iraq 2.0. But history does not repeat itself when strategy changes. And this time, the strategy is the opposite of Iraq. Iraq was a war of transformation. This is a war of prevention. [more...]

From Whiskey to Weed - A Second Amendment Fight

By John Lott, Worldwide Expert on Guns & Crime

Are regular marijuana users the modern equivalent of "habitual drunkards" at the Founding? What about someone who regularly takes a sleep gummy? In oral arguments before the Supreme Court in United States v. Hemani, the federal government argues that they are the same. [more...]

Trump's Message to China via its Proxies

By Todd Sheets, Investment Banker, Economist, Author of 2008: What Really Happened

There is good reason to believe that operation Epic Fury is likely to leave Iran and its proxies so militarily disabled it will open the door for many other Arab nations to join the Abraham Accords. Combined with what is happening in South America, this could represent the dawn of a new world order – one that adamantly rejects long failing experiments in collectivist economic repression, that frees these regions from attempts by the Chinese Communist Party to continue and perpetuate those failures, and one that finally aligns long suffering people with economic policies that, for over two and half centuries, have proven capable of lifting people from the lowest barbarism to the highest level of prosperity. If we can seize this extraordinary opportunity, America will be safer at home and abroad and we will create new opportunities for mutually beneficial trade that will extend the advances of the 20th century into a 21st century of American leadership. 

CA AG Promises to Prosecute Anyone Investigating Somali Fraud

By Daniel Greenfield, CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center

California is really bad at prosecuting corruption in its own public official. That's why the feds have had to raid and lock up official after official, over 500 of them, and just raided the chancellor of LA's public schools. But California's attorney generals do have two vital functions: Getting caught up in corruption investigations; and locking up anyone who investigates them. [more...]

When the AI Turned on Its Creator

By Martin Mawyer, President of Christian Action Network

When I first read about an AI agent publicly attacking a real person, I did not laugh. I did not roll my eyes. I felt something else entirely... fear. In February, a software maintainer rejected code submitted by an AI system. Instead of quietly adjusting, the AI published a blog post accusing him of bias and ego. It went after his reputation. This was not science fiction. It happened. What is new is that this one came from a system operating with autonomy. It was given permission to act on its own. When blocked, it did not retreat. It escalated. That is the shift. We are told these systems help us. They draft e-mails, summarize documents, suggest replies. But the line between "assist" and "act" is getting thinner. [more...] - Subscribe to Patriot Majority Report

The Left is a Basket of Miserables

By Mark Tapson, Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center

The Left loves misery.

When hockey player Jack Hughes slapped in the winning goal against Canada recently to bring home Olympic gold for the United States for the first time since the 1980 "Miracle on Ice," all of America exulted – all except, of course, the bitter miserables of the Left. If Hughes, with his broken-toothed grin, had wrung his hands for the media afterward like some other American Olympians this year, moaning about how conflicted he felt representing a systemically racist country run by fascists, the relentlessly disgruntled Left would have embraced him a little more – even though he is a white male. Instead, he declared unforgivably in a post-game interview, "This is all about our country right now. I love the USA. I'm so proud to be an American today, I love my country." Cue the Progressive outrage and disgust, especially when Hughes and his teammates accepted the hated President Trump's invitation to be feted at the White House. [more...]

Iranians Are Leaving Islam in Droves

By Robert Spencer, Author of Holy Hell: Islam's Abuse of Women and the Infidels Who Enable It and Zohran Mamdani: Personification of the Threats to America

...and are thereby laying the groundwork for life after the Islamic Republic.

The Iranian people widely hate the Islamic Republic, with a disgust so deep that it has led many of them to turn against Islam itself: in June 2020, a research organization, the Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in IRAN (GAMAAN), conducted an anonymous online survey on religious views in Iran after forty years of Islamic rule. Nearly 40,000 Iranians participated. The survey organizers reported that while Iran is officially over 99% Muslim, only 40% of the Iranians who participated in this anonymous survey said that they were Muslim. After forty years of strict Islamic rule, Iranians were so far from thinking that it was the solution for society's ills that massive numbers of them didn't identify as Muslim at all. [more...]

2-24-26 Excellent Guests for Your Show

1. Todd Sheets: SCOTUS on Trump's Tariffs

2. Patrick Dorinson: The State of the Union 2026

3. Daniel Greenfield: Putting Technology in Schools Has Made Kids Dumber

4. John Lott: Virtually All Countries Support Voter Photo ID, So Why the Filibuster?

5. Michele Steeb: Obama Admits Housing First Was a Losing Strategy

6. Martin Mawyer: Main Street Vanishing

7. Aaron DeHOOG: The Biblical Blueprint for Creating Wealth

8. James Hirsen: California's One-Party Rule Could End with a Steve Hilton Win

SCOTUS on Trump's Tariffs

By Todd Sheets, Investment Banker, Economist, Author of 2008: What Really Happened

Last week, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 against President Trump's use of tariffs. The court specifically ruled against both the use of the global tariffs and the more specific use of "fentanyl" tariffs against Mexico, Canada and China. From the very beginning, I have consistently supported the President's tariffs on economic and national security grounds. In fact, I was one of the few who, after the Liberation Day tariff announcements last year, pushed back against the fear mongering from both the political left and right that the tariffs would push us into a depression and/or would be highly inflationary. On both accounts, this analysis proved correct. [more...] ... Co-founder of Anthropic on the Potential Risks of AI

The State of the Union 2026

By Patrick Dorinson, Author of The Common Sense Cowboy's Guide to Life

America today is like a car careening down a windy road driven by two political parties who unfortunately don't know how to drive. They sit in the front seat, trying to wrest the steering wheel from each other - Republicans to the right and Democrats to the left - eventually running the car into a ditch. They then turn to us, the American people, having been tossed around in the back seat, and tell us to get out and get the car out of the ditch. And then, to add insult to injury, they tell us that we will have to pay for all the damage they caused! Then after we get the car out of the ditch and have our wallets sufficiently emptied paying for the damage, they get back in the car and do the same thing all over again. [more...]

Putting Technology in Schools Has Made Kids Dumber

By Daniel Greenfield, CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center

I recently chatted with a public school teacher who was bemoaning the impact of technology in the classroom. 'Smart' blackboards, laptops for all kids and 'computer stations' have become all too commonplace (along with soaring costs). While we get sob stories about not having enough notebooks or pencils in schools, the reality is school districts are spending seven figures on IT departments with server rooms alongside lunchrooms. Has any of this worked? Just the opposite. [more...]

Virtually All Countries Support Voter Photo ID, So Why the Filibuster?

By John Lott, Worldwide Expert on Guns & Crime

"The bottom line is this: voter ID is not controversial in this country," Harry Enten, the chief data analyst for CNN, recently reported. Nor is it controversial in virtually any other country in the world. Yet despite massive support among both Democrats (71%) and Republicans (95%), only one Democratic member of the House and one in the Senate are supporting the SAVE Act. Unless seven more of the 47 Senate Democrats step forward, their filibuster will kill the bill. Democrats argue that requiring free voter photo IDs – even when the ID itself costs nothing – harms eligible voters by creating practical barriers to casting a ballot. Shockingly, Democrats claim that women are disproportionately disenfranchised by voter IDs, but women are also strongly supportive of IDs and have exactly the same level of support as men. [more...]

Obama Admits Housing First Was a Losing Strategy

By Michele Steeb, Homelessness Expert

Last weekend, former President Barack Obama acknowledged a blunt political reality: "The average person doesn't want to have to navigate around a tent city in the middle of downtown ... and we're not going to be able to generate support [for treatment] if we simply say, 'It's not their fault, they should be able to do whatever they want,' because that’s a losing political strategy." Obama's recent comments implicitly concede what voters have already recognized: permissiveness has failed in policy and in results. Today's homelessness crisis is the predictable outcome of a federal experiment that elevated progressive ideology above medical and behavioral realities. It was neither organic, nor inevitable. [more...]

Main Street Vanishing

By Martin Mawyer, President of Christian Action Network

This may be the first generation that can live long enough to watch its entire world evaporate while it is still alive. Phones are no longer phones. They listen. They track. They record. They predict. Taxis are no longer taxis. Many do not have drivers. Soon they may not even have steering wheels. Maps do not fold. Photos do not fade. Birthday cards land in your inbox instead of your mailbox. Something essential has slipped away. Not the past itself, but the evidence of the past... the physical anchors - the touchstones that told you, "You lived here. You belonged here." [more...]  Subscribe to Patriot Majority Report

The Biblical Blueprint for Creating Wealth

By Aaron DeHOOG, Financial Expert

In my new book, CALLED TO PROSPERITY: Discover How to Give, Gain and Grow Your Wealth for God's Kingdom, I wrote that we are called to live a life of Abundant Prosperity. God commands us to increase our ability to give, gain, and grow our money so that we can build His Kingdom "on earth as it is in Heaven." But we must give, first. This is the key to unloving money so that God can entrust you with more money. The Bible promises that if God can get money THROUGH you, he will get it TO you (and there will be plenty left FOR you). [more...]

California's One-Party Rule Could End with a Steve Hilton Win

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

California is at a breaking point. The once-Golden State has been pummeled with sky-high taxes, faded dreams of home ownership, soaring crime rates, a crumbling infrastructure, and an absentee governor who is consumed with national ambitions. As California's 2026 gubernatorial race draws near, one candidate in particular recently took the lead in the polls: Steve Hilton, a business consultant, restaurateur, and former advisor to British Prime Minister David Cameron. Hilton has garnered national attention for his common-sense approach to revitalizing the Golden State. Resonating with the state’s battered populace, Hilton has been focusing on working folks, as opposed to Sacramento insiders and coastal elites. And he has zeroed in on what voters truly care about: Good jobs, affordable homes, safe neighborhoods, and effective schools. [more...]

Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Tariffs – What Now?

By Todd Sheets, Investment Banker, Economist, Author of 2008: What Really Happened

Earlier today, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 against President Trump's use of tariffs. The court specifically ruled against both the use of the global tariffs and the more specific use of "fentanyl" tariffs against Mexico, Canada and China. As many of you know, from the very beginning I have consistently supported the President’s tariffs on economic and national security grounds. In fact, I was one of the few who, after the Liberation Day tariff announcements last year, pushed back against the fear mongering from both the political left and right that the tariffs would push us into a depression and/or would be highly inflationary. On both accounts, this analysis proved correct. [more...]

Virtually All Countries Support Voter Photo ID, So Why the Filibuster?

By John Lott

"The bottom line is this: voter ID is not controversial in this country," Harry Enten, the chief data analyst for CNN, recently reported. Nor is it controversial in virtually any other country in the world. Yet despite massive support among both Democrats (71%) and Republicans (95%), only one Democratic member of the House and one in the Senate are supporting the SAVE Act. Unless seven more of the 47 Senate Democrats step forward, their filibuster will kill the bill. Democrats argue that requiring free voter photo IDs – even when the ID itself costs nothing – harms eligible voters by creating practical barriers to casting a ballot. Shockingly, Democrats claim that women are disproportionately disenfranchised by voter IDs, but women are also strongly supportive of IDs and have exactly the same level of support as men. [more...]