9-15-26 Excellent Guests for Your Show

1. Michael Levine: Omar's 'Blame the Accountant' Alibi Won't Add Up

2. John Lott: Left's Push to Delay Deporting Illegal-Migrant Criminals Imposes Huge Costs on Taxpayers

3. Todd Sheets: What in the World Should We Do About AI?

4. Geoffrey Simmons: If a Nuclear Bomb Hits Your City Tomorrow, Your Evacuation Plan Will Kill You

5. Kenneth Rapoza: House Ways & Means Committee Hearing Suggests Critical Minerals Partners Should Get Special Tariff Treatment

6. Kerry Lutz: The W-2 War is Over - Welcome to the 1099 Battlefield

7. Daniel Greenfield: China AI Deal Will Work as Well as Nuke Deals Did with USSR

 

Omar's 'Blame the Accountant' Alibi Won't Add Up

By Michael Levine, Public Relations Expert, Author of Authentic PR

Rep. Ilhan Omar's explanation for major discrepancies in her financial disclosures will fail the public credibility test.

A watchdog group has urged the House Ethics Committee to obtain Omar’s financial records after the Office of Congressional Conduct voted 5-1 to recommend dismissing its investigation. This story will not disappear because a committee wishes it away. In public relations, unanswered questions don't shrink; they grow teeth. Omar needs documents, details and complete transparency. Anything less will look like evasion, and voters can smell evasion from a mile away. [more...]

Left's Push to Delay Deporting Illegal-Migrant Criminals Imposes Huge Costs on Taxpayers

By John Lott, President of the Crime Prevention Research Center

Much of today's deportation debate centers on the question of who should count as "criminals" to be immediately sent back to their home countries - with anti-deportation advocates ignoring the huge cost of delay. The Department of Homeland Security claims that 70% of illegal aliens have been convicted or charged with a crime (beyond the immigration violation). At a minimum expense of $150,000 per case, prosecuting all 248,000 would run taxpayers $37.2 billion. At $600,000 or more per case, the total would exceed $148.8 billion. The liberal and libertarian advocates offer no good justification for forcing taxpayers to spend such vast sums - again, at least hundreds of thousands of dollars per illegal immigrant - when the government already has legal authority to deport every one of them. [more...]

What in the World Should We Do About AI?

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

This past week, a 27-year-old researcher at Anthropic quit his job in protest over fear that leading AI companies aren’t doing enough to contain the risks of their rapidly emerging frontier models.  After his departure, a senior executive at the company seconded his concerns and added that he sees a 10% chance AI will wipe out mankind. Within a short time, the on-line post from the young researcher went viral and sparked a fire in the political tinderbox that had begun to form around AI. My thinking on AI has not changed since I first wrote about it. First of all, don’t panic.  Many of the doomsayers are the same people who, not that long ago, were predicting that AI would soon create massive unemployment.  So far, the evidence shows that just the opposite is happening.  [more...] MORE from Todd: The Midterms are a Referendum

If a Nuclear Bomb Hits Your City Tomorrow, Your Evacuation Plan Will Kill You

By Geoffrey Simmons, Community Emergency Response Team, Author of OPPENHEIMER'S DEMON: Nuclear Terror... and the Race to Save a City

Our nation's major metropolitan areas have detailed community response plans for hurricanes, forest fires, and other natural disasters. But in my decades in the field, I have noticed a worrisome gap: pre-disaster community planning for a nuclear event such as a terrorist plot. To fill several gaps in our current level of readiness, the federal government's old civil defense plans, terminated in 1994, need to be resurrected and modernized. Community Emergency Response Teams classes, overseen by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, need to be mandatory in schools. Depending on the community, voluntary participation is not nearly enough. First step: Visit ready.gov and prepare a go bag. [more...]

House Ways & Means Committee Hearing Suggests Critical Minerals Partners Should Get Special Tariff Treatment

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

A recent House Ways & Means Committee hearing on critical minerals had both members and witnesses suggesting that countries the U.S. relies on for these hard-to-mine, harder-to-process minerals be granted trade preferences. That included the possibility of extending the African Growth and Opportunities Act (AGOA) for at least 10 years, granting Kazakhstan permanent normal trade relations, and eliminating the downstream Section 232 metals tariffs to import finished product from Africa. The latter would be highly unpopular with domestic metals producers. [more...]

The W-2 War is Over - Welcome to the 1099 Battlefield

By Kerry Lutz, Founder of the Financial Survival Network, Economist

While cable news commentators scramble to decode the latest Iranian missile salvos, the foreign-policy establishment has reached for its favorite analytical tool: a historical comparison that sounds impressive until you examine it. The comparison du jour is the Tet Offensive. The theory is that Iran is repeating North Vietnam's 1968 strategy - launching a dramatic wave of attacks designed less to achieve a military victory than to break America's political will. It is an interesting comparison. It is also wrong. Tet worked because North Vietnam was a unified country backed by two superpowers and fighting an America that had placed hundreds of thousands of its own troops directly in the line of fire. Iran faces a very different opponent operating under a very different model of warfare. The easiest way to understand it is to forget military jargon for a moment and think about the difference between a W-2 employee and a 1099 contractor. [more...]

China AI Deal Will Work as Well as Nuke Deals Did with USSR

By Daniel Greenfield, CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center

Anyone calling for a Chinese AI deal is a useful idiot or a traitor.

The hysteria over AI in political circles is clearly a Chinese op which is why Bernie Sanders is promoting a conference with Chinese AI 'safety experts' and is now rallying with Bannon against AI. Hillary Clinton has now joined in, urging an AI deal with China. Let's be clear, an AI deal with China (or any deal with China) is as worthless as the old nuke deals with the USSR were. Communists don't honor deals. China especially doesn't honor deals. There hasn't been one agreement of any significance with the U.S. that Communist China has honored in good faith. [more...]

What In the World Should We Do About AI?

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

Doomsday Predictions

This past week, a 27-year-old researcher at Anthropic quit his job in protest over fear that leading AI companies aren’t doing enough to contain the risks of their rapidly emerging frontier models.  After his departure, a senior executive at the company seconded his concerns and added that he sees a 10% chance AI will wipe out mankind.

Within a short time, the on-line post from the young researcher went viral and sparked a fire in the political tinderbox that had begun to form around AI.  Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei followed up by recommending new global AI regulations to curtail its development.  Sam Altman, the CEO overseeing Chat GPT publicly agreed with these recommendations.

Regulatory Capture

President Trump’s former AI Czar David Sacks has long accused Mr. Amodei of promoting a narrative designed to help Anthropic achieve what’s called Regulatory Capture, which occurs when large companies work with government to limit competition.  Indeed, Anthropic and other frontier model developers would benefit substantially from curtailing the growth of much cheaper open weight models that cost around 90% less to operate and that are already sufficient for a significant share of AI use cases. 

The AI Genie and China

As Sacks and others have also pointed out, the AI genie is out of the bottle and, all protestations to the contrary, there will be no containing it.  China (and other foreign countries) will only use the idea of a global regulatory body to try and game the system so that they might catch up and leap frog us.  Given the economic and military stakes at play this is an enormous risk, one that is quite likely substantially higher than other doomsday scenarios. 

President Trump, who shares this view, has boiled it all down to: “Whoever wins AI wins”, and he’s right.

A Head Spinning Issue, even for Elon

No less an authority than Elon Musk has been on all sides of this issue.  He co-founded Open AI as a non-profit to help guard against potential risks and later sued its CEO (Sam Altman) to prevent it from transitioning to a private company.  Then, just this past July, Musk gave an interview to The Economist where he said AI is developing too quickly to be contained, in all likelihood it will be enormously beneficial to mankind and, therefore, we might as well just sit back and enjoy the ride.

But then this past week, Mr. Musk seemed to do another about face when he backed Amodei and Altman’s calls to curtail AI development.

What should we do?

My thinking on AI has not changed since I first wrote about it. 

First of all, don’t panic.  Many of the doomsayers are the same people who, not that long ago, were predicting that AI would soon create massive unemployment.  So far, the evidence shows that just the opposite is happening.

Further, statements from industry insiders that put a 10% probability on total extinction are totally irresponsible.  They have no idea how this will actually play out, and their probability estimates only add a false sense of certainty to their claims.

The fact is, the Genie is out of the AI bottle and the potential economic and military benefits are so enormous it will not be put back in.  Ceding leadership to China or any other foreign country or actor would be a huge mistake, one that could materially alter our future.

Many have talked about a regulatory body of experts to oversee and control AI – but this is a false promise.  The only people with the knowledge and expertise needed to oversee this fast developing and cutting edge technology are the leaders at the AI companies themselves.  In fact, no one has more to gain or lose, than these leaders.  Whether they like it or not, it is their responsibility to develop safe programs that benefit their clients (who are ultimately paying for its development) and to develop the systems that can protect their products and their clients from hostile systems created by bad actors. 

If they don’t think they are up to this job, they should cede control of their companies to leaders who are.

AI companies may well need to pause development of certain models as they take the time to create protections for their current and prospective clients.  But ceding this authority to ill-advised political bodies would inevitably lead to either uninformed regulations with dangerous and unintended consequences, regulatory capture, or systems that are intentionally gamed by foreign actors seeking their own benefit.  Further, there is the risk that too much government control will lead to uniform AI models trained with biases that reflect the views of the regime in power, just as we saw during Covid and as we see on a daily basis in authoritarian countries.

Modern history is filled with failed doomsday prophecies ranging from nuclear annihilation, to warnings that an inevitable population bomb would lead to mass starvations, to fears that Y2K would cause computer dysfunctions that would cause to airplanes to fall from the sky, and that global warming would doom mankind.  Each of these theories was supported by no shortage of highly educated “experts” and other influential observers. 

For nearly 6 million years now, mankind and our ancestors have not only managed to survive, but to thrive.  Today’s living standards are far superior to what any prior generation has known and there is every reason to believe that AI will help produce the next major leap forward in human flourishing. 

Put simply: all of human history is on our side.

9-8-26 Great Guests for Your Show

1. Michael Levine: The Screenshot That Pulled the Plug - Maria Bartiromo's Fox Exit

2. Todd Sheets: The Befuddling Case of Rising Interest Rates

3. Daniel Greenfield: After 19th Subway Push, NY AG Vows to Castrate Kids

4. Judd Dunning: The Radical Stupidity of Modern Antisemitism

5. John Lott: Supreme Court Just Gave Mail-In Ballot Safeguards a Chance

6. Kenneth Rapoza: Blue State's Green Energy Push Threatens Iconic 'Sacred' Food Source

7. Prof. Janice Fiamengo: The Radical Girl Next Door

8. Kerry Lutz: The Cybercab Just Landed - and I Think We're Watching History Bend

 

The Screenshot That Pulled the Plug - Maria Bartiromo's Fox Exit

By Michael Levine, Public Relations Expert, Author of Authentic PR

Maria Bartiromo’s departure from Fox News offers a lesson about trust, judgment, and the line between journalism and political advocacy. Fox News has described Bartiromo's exit after more than 12 years as a "business decision," without disclosing a reason. However, media reports, citing sources familiar with the matter, say the anchor wanted to pursue a story involving China and conspiracy theories surrounding the 2020 presidential election - a sensitive subject for Fox because of its Dominion settlement and Smartmatic litigation. According to those reports, a Fox Business executive texted producers that the proposed story could not air. Bartiromo allegedly captured a screenshot of that direction and forwarded it to White House officials. Network leaders learned of the disclosure after receiving a call from the White House and viewed the alleged breach of confidential editorial guidance as grounds for firing. The media lesson is clear: credibility takes decades to build, one screenshot to fracture, and almost no time at all to lose. [more...]

The Befuddling Case of Rising Interest Rates

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

A Wall Street Journal article nicely summarized current attempts to explain rising interest rates: "There are four forces pressuring bonds: war is no. 1; fiscal worries, a new Federal Reserve chairman and even the flood of AI bonds are helping drive the recent climb in yields." Yikes! It's enough to make you think that if the war and debts don't tank us, AI and our new Fed chair surely will! [more...]

After 19th Subway Push, NY AG Vows to Castrate Kids

By Daniel Greenfield, CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center

In the latest grim milestone under Mamdani, the 19th person was pushed onto the subway tracks so far this year. New York's pro-crime AG Letitia James is however busy investigating the police officers who shot a knife-wielding psycho who had just murdered a woman and is vowing to make sure kids continue to be castrated. "I want transgender youth and all New Yorkers to know I've got your back. I will fight to stop the federal government from taking away the care New Yorkers rely on," James complained over a rule blocking Medicaid funds from being used for castrating kids to make them transgender. [more...]

The Radical Stupidity of Modern Antisemitism

By Judd Dunning, Talk Show Host, Newsmax Columnist

The stupidity of antisemitism has no merit. It is simply bigotry, one of mankind's oldest, ugliest and most irrational hatreds. There is nothing intellectually interesting about judging a person because he or she is Jewish, just as there is nothing intellectually defensible about judging an entire race, religion or ethnicity by the sins, politics or actions of somebody else who shares that identity. Yet somehow, in supposedly sophisticated America, antisemitism has again acquired an ideological costume that allows people who would never tolerate open racial prejudice against almost anyone else to rationalize their hatred of Jews as politics. [more...]

Supreme Court Just Gave Mail-In Ballot Safeguards a Chance

By John Lott, President of the Crime Prevention Research Center

The Supreme Court's decision to stay the injunction blocking President Trump's March executive order on mail-in ballots gives voters something they are clamoring for: greater confidence in election integrity. A new Rasmussen Reports survey finds that, by a 52% to 34% margin, likely voters say the government has not done enough to prevent election cheating. Even more striking, voters say by nearly two to one that widespread cheating is likely to affect the outcome of this fall's congressional elections. [more...]

Blue State's Green Energy Push Threatens Iconic 'Sacred' Food Source

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

When the Trump administration moved in January 2025 to pause new offshore-wind leasing and review federal wind permits, it cited, among other things, the need to protect marine life and maintain "a robust fishing industry for future generations." The pause offered Massachusetts and federal regulators a chance to reconsider whether industrial construction belongs near one of the region's most important marine habitats: Cox's Ledge. Instead, Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell celebrated in June when Democratic-appointed federal judges invalidated the Trump administration’s wind-permitting pause. [more...]

The Radical Girl Next Door

By Prof. Janice Fiamengo, Author of The Goddess That Failed: Feminism's Unending War against Men, Families, and Civilization Itself

Gloria Steinem was the beautiful face of an ugly ideology.

Following her death last Wednesday at age 92, Gloria Steinem has been described as "a woman who mattered," "a feminist icon," and even "the personification of the women's movement." Despite her modern style and reassuring demeanor, there was nothing "compassionate" or humane about Steinem's vision. Rooted in revolutionary cant about men objectifying women, and dedicated to the subversion of marriage and motherhood, it was socially and culturally poisonous. Perhaps more than any other feminist leader, Steinem promised liberation and fulfillment for both men and women while delivering the sterile narcissism of today's feminist culture. [more...]

The Cybercab Just Landed - and I Think We're Watching History Bend

By Kerry Lutz, Founder of the Financial Survival Network, Economist

September 3, 2026, Tesla pulled the sheet off the production of Cybercab in Austin. Two seats. No steering wheel. No pedals. Built from the ground up to drive itself, full stop. It’s easy to scroll past a headline like that in between the gold charts and the Fed watch, but I don't think this is just another product launch; I think it's an **inflection point** - one of those rare moments where the direction of an entire industry, and honestly a big piece of how we live our daily lives, quietly bends onto a new path. [more...]

9-3-26 Expert Guests for Your Show: 9/11 Anniversary and more...

1. John Lott: Supreme Court Just Gave Mail-In Ballot Safeguards a Chance

2. Kenneth Rapoza: Blue State's Green Energy Push Threatens Iconic 'Sacred' Food Source

3. Prof. Janice Fiamengo: Feminist Women and their Toxic Love Affair with Islam

4. Todd Starnes: 9/10... 9/11 and The Golden Age of Trump

5. Kerry Lutz: A 1957 Dollar is Worth $171 Today

6. Michael Levine: L.A. Media Expert Calls Officials "Insane" Over Street-Food Health Hazards

7. Mark Tapson: Why People Commit Terrorism

8. Geoffrey Simmons: If a Terrorist Nuked a US City, Are We Really Prepared?

Supreme Court Just Gave Mail-In Ballot Safeguards a Chance

By John Lott, President of the Crime Prevention Research Center

The Supreme Court's decision to stay the injunction blocking President Trump's March executive order on mail-in ballots gives voters something they are clamoring for: greater confidence in election integrity. A new Rasmussen Reports survey finds that, by a 52% to 34% margin, likely voters say the government has not done enough to prevent election cheating. Even more striking, voters say by nearly two to one that widespread cheating is likely to affect the outcome of this fall's congressional elections. [more...]

Blue State's Green Energy Push Threatens Iconic 'Sacred' Food Source

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

When the Trump administration moved in January 2025 to pause new offshore-wind leasing and review federal wind permits, it cited, among other things, the need to protect marine life and maintain "a robust fishing industry for future generations." The pause offered Massachusetts and federal regulators a chance to reconsider whether industrial construction belongs near one of the region's most important marine habitats: Cox's Ledge. Instead, Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell celebrated in June when Democratic-appointed federal judges invalidated the Trump administration’s wind-permitting pause. [more...]

Feminist Women and their Toxic Love Affair with Islam

By Prof. Janice Fiamengo, Author of The Goddess That Failed: Feminism's Unending War against Men, Families, and Civilization Itself

In a recent incident, New York Governor Kathy Hochul donned a hijab when visiting an Islamic Center in New York to speak to Muslim constituents. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) did the same about three months back. Their actions indicate a deference to Islam that seems decidedly out of step with their aggressive claims about gender equality (and indeed about female supremacism). Feminist women in the West exhibit a toxic love affair with Islam that demonstrates how their rhetoric about women's empowerment is ultimately hollow. Nowhere is this more evident than in their eagerness to wear the hijab in the company of Muslim men. Such feminists will destroy themselves and their country in their eagerness to proclaim their pro-Islamic deference. [more...]

9/10... 9/11 and The Golden Age of Trump

By Todd Starnes, Author of THE GOLDEN AGE: How Trump Saved America

Being a member of the media in talk radio is a blessing and also tough. I was at Ground Zero the day after the 9/11 attacks - literally reporting from the pile. I also covered the rise of the new Freedom Tower for years at my previous network. The assassination of Charlie Kirk happened during my live radio show. There is a chapter in THE GOLDEN AGE: How Trump Saved America about the impact Charlie had and how it still resonates on the first anniversary of his untimely death. The Golden Age is upon us... post-9/11... post-Charlie... and we're still learning every day from both tragedies. [more...]

A 1957 Dollar is Worth $171 Today

By Kerry Lutz, Founder of the Financial Survival Network, Economist

Same dollar. Same 69 years. The only difference is whether you spent the dividend check or let it ride. I turned 69 this year, which means I've been watching the dollar get mugged in broad daylight since 1957. So, I built something - not a book, not a podcast episode, an actual interactive tool. It's called the Dollar Time Machine, and the concept is stupidly simple: pick a year, pick an amount, and it tells you what that money was actually worth then versus now - measured against everyday prices, housing, gold, silver, the Dow, the S&P 500, and even Bitcoin. I set the default year to 1957... not because it's historically significant; but because it's the year I showed up, and I wanted to see the truth in one place. [more...]

 

L.A. Media Expert Calls Officials "Insane" Over Street-Food Health Hazards

By Michael Levine, Public Relations Expert, Author of Authentic PR

There is a disturbing report detailing thousands of public health complaints involving street-food vendors across Los Angeles County. According to the California Post, a previously unreleased 662-page government dossier contains 9,746 complaints filed between 2023 and early 2026. The allegations reportedly include a dog eating meat from a vendor's bag before it was served, cockroaches crawling from a food truck, mice near open salsa, raw meat sitting unrefrigerated in the heat, and people urinating around cooking equipment. These complaints describe conditions that sound less like a major American city and more like a public-health nightmare. Yet officials who know about these dangers appear unwilling to act. That is not compassion. It is insanity. [more...]

Why People Commit Terrorism

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

With the 25th anniversary of 9/11 upon us, we must revisit this subject, no matter how painful. Apart from the fact that terror icons like Osama bin Laden and Yasser Arafat were wildly wealthy men, economic inequality does not drive people to plow vehicles into a crowd of Christmas shoppers or slaughter a sleeping family. Only blind ideological hatred does that. No matter how terrorists and their apologists want to dress it up, terrorism is never just or justifiable, and its innocent victims are never responsible. It is always and everywhere a murderous cruelty born of a bottomless, sick hatred that is a toxic blend of the psychological, ideological, and satanic. [more...]

If a Terrorist Nuked a US City, Are We Really Prepared?

By Geoffrey Simmons, Community Emergency Response Team, Author of OPPENHEIMER'S DEMON: Nuclear Terror... and the Race to Save a City

As the 25th anniversary of 9/11 fast approaches, we must wake up to the possibility of another attack. Our nation's major metropolitan areas have detailed community response plans for hurricanes, forest fires, and other natural disasters. But in my decades in the field, I have noticed a worrisome gap: pre-disaster community planning for a nuclear event such as a terrorist plot. To fill several gaps in our current level of readiness, the federal government's old civil defense plans, terminated in 1994, need to be resurrected and modernized. Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) classes, overseen by FEMA, need to be mandatory in schools. Depending on community voluntary participation is not nearly enough. [more...]

Feminist Women and their Toxic Love Affair with Islam

By Prof. Janice Fiamengo, Author of The Goddess That Failed: Feminism's Unending War against Men, Families, and Civilization Itself

In a recent incident, New York Governor Kathy Hochul donned a hijab when visiting an Islamic Center in New York to speak to Muslim constituents. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) did the same about three months back. Their actions indicate a deference to Islam that seems decidedly out of step with their aggressive claims about gender equality (and indeed about female supremacism).

Feminist women in the West exhibit a toxic love affair with Islam that demonstrates how their rhetoric about women's empowerment is ultimately hollow. Nowhere is this more evident than in their eagerness to wear the hijab in the company of Muslim men. 

Devout Muslims believe that a woman should cover her hair as a form of modesty, on the assumption that a woman's hair is sexually arousing to men and therefore should not be displayed in public.

Why would sexually liberated western women be in favor of the hijab? These are the "My body, my choice" proponents, the ones who scold western men for allegedly attempting to "police" what women wear. They are the same feminist women who march in so-called "Slut Walks" to celebrate women's right to dress as skimpily and revealingly as they wish without censure or assault.

Meanwhile, in Islamic countries such as the Islamic Republic of Iran, women are arrested, beaten, raped, and killed for refusing to wear the hijab, or for wearing it improperly. Why would any western feminist support that for a moment? Yet they do.

But their actions make sense when we understand that western feminism, long influenced by Marxist and other anti-Western and anti-colonial ideologies, prefers Islam to Christianity. Feminists deliberately align themselves with the values of a people who excoriate America and wish to destroy it because feminists believe that America is the worst, most oppressive country in the world, a white supremacist colonizer nation that deserves to be brought low. Such feminists will destroy themselves and their country in their eagerness to proclaim their pro-Islamic deference. [more...]

9-1-26 Excellent Guests for Your Show

1. Geoffrey Simmons: If a Terrorist Nuked a US City, Are We Really Prepared?

2. John Lott: Supreme Court Just Gave Mail-In Ballot Safeguards a Chance

3. Kenneth Rapoza: After Canada Impasse, Mexico Quietly Left Washington Empty Handed, But Reiterates Section 232 Tariff Goals

4. Michael Levine: L.A. Media Expert Calls Officials "Insane" Over Street-Food Health Hazards

5. Todd Sheets: Dolly and an American Dream for All

6. Daniel Greenfield: Michigan AG Urges Jews to Sacrifice "Survival" to Elect Abdul El-Sayed

7. Kerry Lutz: AI is Coming for You - But in a Good Way

8. James Hirsen: Moral Relativism Made Norms Optional, Let Communism In

If a Terrorist Nuked a US City, Are We Really Prepared?

By Geoffrey Simmons, Community Emergency Response Team, Author of OPPENHEIMER'S DEMON: Nuclear Terror... and the Race to Save a City

As the 25th anniversary of 9/11 fast approaches, we must revisit the possibility of another attack. Our nation's major metropolitan areas have detailed community response plans for hurricanes, forest fires, and other natural disasters. But in my decades in the field, I have noticed a worrisome gap: pre-disaster community planning for a nuclear event such as a terrorist plot. To fill several gaps in our current level of readiness, the federal government's old civil defense plans, terminated in 1994, need to be resurrected and modernized. Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) classes, overseen by FEMA, need to be mandatory in schools. Depending on community voluntary participation is not nearly enough. [more...]

Supreme Court Just Gave Mail-In Ballot Safeguards a Chance

By John Lott, President of the Crime Prevention Research Center; he served as senior adviser for research and statistics in the Office of Justice Programs and the Office of Legal Policy at the Justice Department.

The Supreme Court's decision to stay the injunction blocking President Trump's March executive order on mail-in ballots gives voters something they are clamoring for: greater confidence in election integrity. A new Rasmussen Reports survey finds that, by a 52% to 34% margin, likely voters say the government has not done enough to prevent election cheating. Even more striking, voters say by nearly two to one that widespread cheating is likely to affect the outcome of this fall's congressional elections. [more...] ...MORE FROM JOHN: The Trump Administration Restores the Gun-Defense Data the Biden CDC Buried

After Canada Impasse, Mexico Quietly Left Washington Empty Handed, But Reiterates Section 232 Tariff Goals

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

Mexico's top trade diplomat, Marcelo Ebrard, was in Washington for several days last week [from Aug. 24 to Aug. 26] but quietly left empty-handed on Wednesday. Ebrard's trip followed the now infamous Canada trade impasse. Despite that very public blow up in negotiations, Mexico's president Claudia Sheinbaum said last weekend, prior to Ebrard's visit, that she was "optimistic" of a deal and reiterated that Mexico's goal is also to lower the Section 232 tariffs on steel, aluminum and automotive. Just like Canada. The concern for many in the U.S. was if Mexico would get a similar tariff reprieve offered to the Canadians. USTR has long labeled Mexico as the easier trading partner, while Canada has decisively been labeled the more belligerent, with Trump calling them "nasty" – a term he has never used to describe the Mexican side. [more...]

 

L.A. Media Expert Calls Officials "Insane" Over Street-Food Health Hazards

By Michael Levine, Public Relations Expert, Author of Authentic PR

There is a disturbing report detailing thousands of public health complaints involving street-food vendors across Los Angeles County. According to the California Post, a previously unreleased 662-page government dossier contains 9,746 complaints filed between 2023 and early 2026. The allegations reportedly include a dog eating meat from a vendor's bag before it was served, cockroaches crawling from a food truck, mice near open salsa, raw meat sitting unrefrigerated in the heat, and people urinating around cooking equipment. These complaints describe conditions that sound less like a major American city and more like a public-health nightmare. Yet officials who know about these dangers appear unwilling to act. That is not compassion. It is insanity. [more...]

Dolly and an American Dream for All

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

With Dolly's passing, we are once again reminded of the beauty, dignity, and grace of those individuals who have had the opportunity to pursue a dream that is so uniquely American. It's a dream built on Western values that lifted an illiterate Tennessee sharecropper's daughter from the humblest of circumstances to the most unimaginable of heights. And it's a reminder that those values that must be preserved if we are to continue passing that dream on to future generations. [more...]

Michigan AG Urges Jews to Sacrifice "Survival" to Elect Abdul El-Sayed

By Daniel Greenfield, CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center

"Sacrifice the comfort, safety and security and even the very future of our own people"

Some endorsements are so bad that they qualify as anti-endorsements. And I can't think of any endorsement worse than the one that Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, who is Jewish and said that she couldn't attend the state Dem convention because of fears for her safety, just offered Abdul El-Sayed and her party at the Michigan Jewish Democratic Convention. Abandon "survival" and commit suicide on the theory that electing Abdul El-Sayed and giving Dems a Senate majority will save the planet? [more...]

AI is Coming for You - But in a Good Way

By Kerry Lutz, Founder of the Financial Survival Network, Economist

For the last three years, we've been warned that artificial intelligence is coming for our jobs. That framing misses the bigger story. AI is coming for your wasted time, your repetitive work and the $300-an-hour task that should never have required a $300-an-hour human being in the first place. That may turn out to be one of the greatest productivity booms of our lifetimes. [more...]

Moral Relativism Made Norms Optional, Let Communism In

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

The news of late has been filled with stories about election wins here in the United States for socialist (aka, communist) candidates. It wasn't that long ago that a majority of people in our country would have considered it preposterous for a major American political party to openly advocate Marxist governance. But here we are. Many in our nation were already aware of how detrimental such policies were and where they would eventually lead. A major factor in the societal equation is the collapse of several of our country's foundational pillars. The pillars were actually displaced over time by a distinctly different worldview known as moral relativism. [more...]

If a Terrorist Nuked a U.S. City, Are We Really Prepared? By Geoffrey Simmons

If a Terrorist Nuked a U.S. City,

Are We Really Prepared?

By Geoffrey Simmons

Our nation’s major metropolitan areas have detailed community response plans for hurricanes, forest fires, and other natural disasters. But in my decades in the field, I have noticed a worrisome gap: pre-disaster community planning for a nuclear event such as a terrorist plot.

In April 2010 President Obama told the 47-country Nuclear Security Summit, “Two decades after the end of the Cold War, we face a cruel irony of history—the risk of a nuclear confrontation between nations has gone down, but the risk of nuclear attack has gone up.” A May 17, 2026, UN News article by Conor Lennon concurs, stating that the threat of nuclear terrorism is higher than ever.

The theft of 133 commercial grade, uranium dioxide tablets in Tajikistan in 2021 remains unsolved. Some believe terrorists are planning a radioactive dirty bomb. That’s the low-tech scenario, which would be bad. But the higher tech scenario is the greater threat: terrorists detonating a compact tactical nuclear bomb in a US city.

Imagine you and your family are home, and a flash of light floods the room. Your vision is temporarily blurred. Your home starts shaking as if a major earthquake just struck. Next, a giant sonic boom ruptures your eardrums, leaving you in pain and with the sound of Niagara Falls persisting in your ears.

Everything in the house that can fall does. Every dish and glass in the kitchen cabinets flies out. You duck and cover under the dining room table. Car alarms go off outside. People everywhere are screaming for help. After the rumbling ceases, you work your way across broken glass to a shattered window. You see a massive mushroom cloud rising in the distance.

Panicked, you try calling 911, but your fingers barely cooperate. No matter, you’ve already lost wi-fi and cell service—which also means you can’t go on the internet to ask for help or get advice.

You recall public health experts on TV recommending everyone stay indoors, preferably in a basement, until radiation dissipates. But you don’t have a basement. Or a bomb shelter. Fearful of the spreading radiation, you hastily decide to flee.

The experts say to have a Go-Bag ready in case of disaster. But you never got around to it. You toss some saltine crackers and a few bottles of water into a shopping bag. Two gallons of water per person per day for a week is recommended. But you don’t have that on hand, and your faucets are spitting air.

You and your family are not sure which way to drive. Or, how far to drive. It seems like everyone is doing what you are doing. You notice your fuel tank is low. You head for the nearest gas station, but the pumps are down. No power. You drive on but you don’t know which highway is best. There are no signs for evacuation routes like the signage seen along the west coast for tsunamis. No zone assignments for forest fires. And your radio is all static.

Soon. you are stuck in gridlock. After three exasperating hours—no gas and maybe five miles covered—your family abandons the car and heads home. You are walking home through radioactive dust. And mayhem. You may be robbed. You likely will be seriously sick in a few days.

Now, rewind the tape. What if you and your community had made suitable preparations. You have plenty of bottled water. You quickly tape up your windows. You and your family stay put in an interior room. You try not to panic. You and your neighbors have some disaster training and have plans to help each other. You communicate via walkie talkies. You have a first-aid kit and key medicines on hand, like prescription antibiotics and pain pills.

Staying put has its problems, but mayhem, heightened radiation exposure, dehydration, and starvation on the clogged highways is surely worse. Two days or so later you learn that radiation levels have dropped to safe levels. Your city government is well prepared, the feds are coming, and local radio stations begin broadcasting life-saving recommendations for obtaining food, water, and emergency medical care.

Note, this is ideal. You must be patient. Depending on the extent of the terrorist attack, some supplies could take weeks. Bu if you and your community are well prepared, many additional lives will be saved. Perhaps yours.

To fill several gaps in our current level of readiness, the federal government’s old civil defense plans, terminated in 1994, need to be resurrected and modernized. Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) classes, overseen by FEMA, need to be mandatory in schools. Depending on community voluntary participation is not nearly enough.

First step: Visit ready.gov and prepare a Go-Bag.

Geoffrey Simmons, MD, is a CERT Trainer of Trainers, former FEMA RAC X member, boarded in internal medicine and disaster medicine. He is author of Common Sense and Disaster Preparedness and his latest novel, the nuclear terror thriller Oppenheimer’s Demon.