9-22-26 Expert Guests for Your Show

1. Michele Steeb: We're Ignoring the Cause of Homelessness and How to Solve It

2. Michael Levine: AI Force, American Future

3. Todd Sheets: Warsh's Fed Raises Rates

4. Kerry Lutz: Ozempic was Nothing Compared to What's Next

5. Daniel Greenfield: Network News Trump Boycott Might Matter If Anyone Watched Network News

6. Kenneth Rapoza: Renewable-Energy Mandates are Actually Bad for Consumers

7. Ken Buck: National Debt Threatens National Security

We're Ignoring the Cause of Homelessness and How to Solve It

By Michele Steeb, Homelessness Expert

While we cannot expect every homeless person to become a homeowner, or that every journey will look the same, all people deserve a system that treats them as if they were created to flourish.

Imagine the hundreds of thousands of people who could be strengthening cities like New York, Seattle and Los Angeles had local leaders invested in systems designed to restore lives and cultivate human flourishing, rather than embracing the federal government's Housing First approach adopted in 2013. Housing First made housing placement the primary intervention and measure of success, while removing expectations for treatment, sobriety, employment or progress toward self-sufficiency. In doing so, it too often treated the symptom of homelessness – lack of housing – while leaving the deeper human crises that frequently accompany and perpetuate it unaddressed. [more...]

 

AI Force, American Future

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

President Trump's plan to create an "AI Force" and appoint a national artificial intelligence czar, is a smart, proactive move - both in reality and perception. Trump compared the proposed initiative to the U.S. Space Force, although it remains unclear whether the AI Force would operate as a military branch, civilian agency, or government-wide command. Artificial intelligence will transform national defense, business, education, medicine, communications and nearly every corner of American life. The country that leads this revolution will help write the rules of the twenty-first century. America cannot afford to arrive late, be confused or divided. The announcement comes as technology leaders, researchers and lawmakers debate the breathtaking speed of AI development. Some urge a slowdown, while others demand stronger safeguards against fraud, job displacement, misinformation and national-security threats. The president's decision sends an unmistakable message: America intends to compete and win. [more...] ...MORE from Michael: Final Bill for 9/11 Still Unknown

Warsh's Fed Raises Rates

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

This past week, Warsh's Fed finally realized the need to realign its interest rates with persistently high inflation. Many Republicans, including the president, may disagree, but it is a paradoxical truth that the Fed Funds rate is too low, and inflation is too high and the soundest way to bring interest rates down in the long run is to increase them now. This will enable the more stable prices that can ensure that future rates are as low as possible. In addition to getting the recent rate increase right, Warsh's efforts to reform the runaway Fed are further evidence that he may well be what we have all been waiting for. Much to his credit, Mr. Warsh resigned from the Fed in 2011 over its ever-expanding attempts to steer the economy. Now, returning as its Chairman, he has set forth on a mission to remove the Fed from the driver's seat of the nation's economy and relegate it to the back seat where it belongs. [more...]

Ozempic was Nothing Compared to What's Next

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

The Unprepared World: How Incretin Therapies are Erasing Our Leading Causes of Death

We are witnessing the greatest public health transition since the invention of municipal water treatment and modern sewage systems. And yet, society is almost completely unprepared for what happens next. In the early 20th century, clean drinking water didn't make human cells immortal; it simply removed cholera, dysentery, and typhoid allowing millions of people who would have died at 35 to reach their natural potential lifespan of 75. Incretins are doing the exact same thing for the 21st century's deadliest non-communicable killers: cardiovascular collapse, fatty liver disease, diabetic renal failure, and peripheral microvascular damage. By removing the primary friction keeping human beings from reaching old age, average life expectancy and more importantly, functional healthspan is about to jump dramatically. [more...] ...MORE from Kerry: Cathie Wood is Right: The New Industrial Revolution is Already Here

Network News Trump Boycott Might Matter If Anyone Watched Network News

By Daniel Greenfield, CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center

ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox and NBC have announced that they're suspending pool coverage after President Trump banned CNN, MSNBC (MSNOW) and Politico. There's a lot of media fuss and outrage over the whole thing which no one outside the media cares about. The media is now running stories bragging about how they cut off Trump from media coverage because they're not doing the pool anymore. Someone may want to mention to them that the year is 2026 and all that's really needed to capture usable audio and video is a phone. [more...]

Renewable-Energy Mandates are Actually Bad for Consumers

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

Renewable mandates created demand for solar equipment, but policymakers failed to ensure that this demand would build an American supply chain. Chinese producers captured much of the market while U.S. ratepayers financed deployment. The latest Section 232 policy on polysilicon used in solar supply chains could correct that failure, so long as its benefits are reserved for genuine U.S. producers and not Chinese importing giants. Mandates can encourage deployment, but they can also inflate electricity prices, due to supply-and-demand imbalance, and stimulate imports. [more...]

National Debt Threatens National Security

By Ken Buck, Author of Wake Up America!

This year, the federal debt surpassed $40 trillion for the first time ever, doubling in size in less than a decade. This financial spiral directly affects our military readiness. Today, the U.S. spends more on interest payments to service our debt than it does on national defense. The CBO projects that within 10 years, 25 cents of every dollar of tax revenue will be sucked up by interest expenses. That's money that could be used to pay service members, modernize our fleets, or invest in the new technologies and capabilities necessary to stay ahead of our adversaries - but that instead automatically goes to pay borrowing costs on programs we can't afford. [more...]

We're Ignoring the Cause of Homelessness and How to Solve It

By Michele Steeb, Homelessness Expert

While we cannot expect every homeless person to become a homeowner, or that every journey will look the same, all people deserve a system that treats them as if they were created to flourish.

Imagine the hundreds of thousands of people who could be strengthening cities like New York, Seattle and Los Angeles had local leaders invested in systems designed to restore lives and cultivate human flourishing, rather than embracing the federal government's Housing First approach adopted in 2013. Housing First made housing placement the primary intervention and measure of success, while removing expectations for treatment, sobriety, employment or progress toward self-sufficiency. In doing so, it too often treated the symptom of homelessness – lack of housing – while leaving the deeper human crises that frequently accompany and perpetuate it unaddressed. [more...]

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...]