More Spending, More Suffering - The Failure of America's Homelessness Policy

By Michele Steeb, Discovery Institute's Fix Homelessness Initiative

The fight to reform homelessness isn't about housing - it's about power.

In a recent ruling that defies both logic and compassion, a federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's effort to reform the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Continuum of Care program - the federal government's primary funding mechanism for homelessness assistance.

The lawsuit - filed by a coalition of 20 mostly Democratic-led states, local governments, and nonprofit organizations and spearheaded by groups such as Democracy Forward - warns of "funding gaps," winter instability, and the potential displacement of people currently housed. These alarms are sounded even though HUD includes a nearly 12% increase over last year's funding allocation.

At the core of the complaint is a revealing claim: that reform would "upend longstanding projects that have been thoughtfully developed to comport with evidence-based, best-practices services delivery." [more...]

Robert Spencer Testifies Before Congress on the Dangers of Sharia Law

Robert Spencer, Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, Testifies Before Congressional Subcommittee on the Dangers of Sharia Law

“Sharia is inherently political, supremacist, expansionist, and violent.”

Robert Spencer, a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and the director of JihadWatch.org, testified before a U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee Tuesday on the dangers of political Islam and the threat that it poses to America and the Constitution.

The hearing was titled “Sharia-Free America: Why Political Islam & Sharia Law Are Incompatible with the U.S. Constitution.”

Congressman Chip Roy (R-TX), Chair of the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, introduced the hearing by explaining that “Principles of Sharia are at odds with the Constitution and the laws of the United States… Sharia encourages violences, silences dissent, rejects religious freedom, and subjugates women and children.”

In his testimony, JihadWatch.org director Robert Spencer spoke to each of these points, stating “Sharia is inherently political, supremacist, expansionist, and violent…these are facts that Muslim authorities on Sharia openly attest.”

“The Islamic imperative to establish the hegemonies of Sharia as the law of the land, as in today the Islamic Republic of Iran, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, is obviously at variance with the First Amendment principle of non-establishment of a religion,” he added.

Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 32 books, including many bestsellers, such as The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), The Truth About Muhammad, The History of Jihad, The Critical Qur’an, and Muhammad: A Critical Biography. His new books are Intifada on the Hudson: The Selling of Zohran Mamdani and Holy Hell: Islam's Abuse of Women and the Infidels Who Enable It. Coming in April 2026 is The Tragedy of Islam: Failure and Excuses.

Video of the full hearing is available here. Congressman Chip Roy’s introduction begins at the 18:00 mark. Robert Spencer’s testimony begins at 52:38. [more...]

2-10-26 Expert Guests for Your Show

1. Rabbi Daniel Schonbuch: Mamdani is Lying, Misuses Religion as New Yorkers Freeze to Death

2. Kenneth Rapoza: Canada Has Joined Opposition to U.S.

3. Michele Steeb: The Homeless Epidemic Takes a Tragic Turn

4. Todd Sheets: Who is Fed Chair Kevin Warsh?

5. Daniel Greenfield: China's Democrat Minority Leader in Texas Calls for Race War

6. James Hirsen: New England Quarterback Drake Maye a Winner Nonetheless

7. Josh Hammer: Is This the End of Transgender Hysteria?

Mamdani is Lying, Misuses Religion as New Yorkers Freeze to Death

By Rabbi Daniel Schonbuch

New Yorkers are freezing on the streets, and the truth is being buried beneath rhetoric, excuses, and moral posturing. As temperatures drop and basic city services collapse, Zohran Mamdani continues to mislead the public, using religion not to solve problems, but to evade responsibility. This city is failing at the most basic level. Homeless New Yorkers are sleeping in deadly cold. Cars are still buried ten days later. Garbage sits uncollected, ripped open by rats that now roam freely in daylight. And amid this civic decay, men and women sleep on frozen sidewalks in life-threatening temperatures. This is mismanagement by Mamdani and his supporters. And yet, instead of confronting these failures, Mamdani pivots to sermons. He now quotes the Bible and the Quran to defend a borderless ideology and sanctuary city policies that New York simply cannot afford. Faith is invoked not to mobilize solutions, but to shield failed governance from accountability. Criticism is reframed as moral intolerance. Results are dismissed in favor of rhetoric. That is not leadership. It is a misuse of religion. [more...]

Canada Has Joined Opposition to U.S.

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

Unlike Mexico, Canada has been moving away from the United States since 2017, with recent realignments serving as counters to Trump. Prime Minister Mark Carney's speech at Davos explains it all, even though he refused to name the target of his angst, which is us. Carney's speech about the "middle powers" at the World Economic Forum recently was simple: stop pretending there is a liberal international order that works. It was always international lawfare led by the most powerful Western nations, he said. We were all bullies imposing the will of the globalist liberal order upon the plebs of the developing world. Do as we say or face the consequences. He put a new spin on it, aimed at the Europeans primarily. Less powerful countries in that old order are "facing the consequences." [more...]

The Homeless Epidemic Takes a Tragic Turn

By Michele Steeb, Discovery Institute's Fix Homelessness Initiative

We're watching in horror as policy changes in New York City recently caused the deaths of 18 homeless people who froze to death. Across America's streets, the homeless epidemic is claiming lives, fracturing families, and eroding public safety. Often deeply intertwined with mental illness and addiction, it has become a humanitarian crisis that traps vulnerable individuals in cycles of dependence and despair while destabilizing the communities around them. This crisis has been worsened by policies that elevate the notion of "freedom" over timely, life-saving intervention. Recent events make the consequences of that choice unmistakably clear. When public policy relies on voluntary compliance alone, this version of "freedom" becomes a slow, preventable death sentence for those least capable of protecting themselves. The result is a system paralyzed by fear of intervention, even as untreated illness escalates into violence, loss, and irreversible harm. [more...]

Who is Fed Chair Kevin Warsh?

By Todd Sheets, Author of 2008: What Really Happened

This week, President Trump chose Kevin Warsh to become the next Chairman of the Federal Reserve - the most prestigious economic position in the world. It was an inspired choice. Warsh has long been known as an inflation hawk who understands that controlling the growth of the money supply is the only way to achieve sustainably low interest rates. As his resignation from the Fed amply demonstrates, he also understands that excess money creation only distorts markets, which inevitably leads to problems that are far worse than those such policies were intended to rectify. Warsh has called for drastically reducing the bloated balance sheet that resulted from Bernanke's policies and for ending the increased regulatory responsibilities bestowed upon the Fed after the Financial Crisis. As I noted in 2008: What Really Happened, it is now clear that the Fed bears (or shares) primary responsibility for the three greatest periods of economic dysfunction in the past century: the Great Depression of the 1930s, the Great Stagflation of the 1970s, and the housing bubble and Great Financial Crisis of the 2000s. Nevertheless, its power over the economy has only grown and expanded over time. [more...]

China's Democrat Minority Leader in Texas Calls for Race War

By Daniel Greenfield, CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center

"We have the ability to take over this country."

"I always tell people the day Latinos, African-American, Asian and other communities realize that they share the same oppressor is the day we start winning. Because we are the majority in this country. We have the ability to take over this country," State Rep. 'Gene' Yuanzhi Wu, who serves as the Texas Democrat House Minority Leader, recently declared. Who is oppressing Wu? The Chinese immigrant came here from Guangzhou, graduated from law school and became one of the top officials in the state. Good luck to any American who wants to move to China, become a lawyer and run for public office. And if a non-Chinese immigrant were to suggest that minorities in China should ally together against their Chinese oppressors and take over, his organs would be for sale on Temu in 15 minutes or less. [more...]

New England Quarterback Drake Maye a Winner Nonetheless

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

The New England Patriots may not have won 2026's Super Bowl LX, but the team's quarterback Drake Maye is a winner off the field for comments that he recently made on marriage and family. At a time when too many professional athletes are making headlines with negative commentary, Maye stepped up and shared something positive. Maye's personal story stands as a powerful counter-narrative to a sub-group of the culture that all too often glorifies excessive self-gratification, serial dating, and superficial interaction as rites of passage. [more...]

Is This the End of Transgender Hysteria?

By Josh Hammer

Medical fad meets legal reality.

During the 2020 presidential race, then-candidate Joe Biden tweeted, "Transgender equality is the civil rights issue of our time." Later, Biden followed up by stating, "Transgender people are some of the bravest Americans I know." That same year, the transgender fad achieved unprecedented reach among impressionable youngsters: While Gallup reported that (an already-high) 7% of all Americans identified as LGBTQ, that number soared to 20% of all Gen Z - and as high as 38% on some elite Ivy League campuses. But the social craze began to face setbacks. [more...]

Canada Has Joined Opposition to U.S.

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

Unlike Mexico, Canada has been moving away from the United States since 2017, with recent realignments serving as counters to Trump. Prime Minister Mark Carney's speech at Davos explains it all, even though he refused to name the target of his angst, which is us. Carney's speech about the "middle powers" at the World Economic Forum recently was simple: stop pretending there is a liberal international order that works. It was always international lawfare led by the most powerful Western nations, he said. We were all bullies imposing the will of the globalist liberal order upon the plebs of the developing world. Do as we say or face the consequences. He put a new spin on it, aimed at the Europeans primarily. Less powerful countries in that old order are "facing the consequences." [more...]

2-3-26 Excellent Guests for Your Show

1. Dr. Tim Murphy: The Enormous Cost of Failing to Treat Schizophrenia

2. Michele Steeb: The Homeless Epidemic Takes a Tragic Turn

3. Todd Sheets: The Never-ending Struggle Against Socialism

4. Daniel Greenfield: Warmth of Collectivism - 16 Dead After Mamdani Lets Homeless Freeze

5. Josh Hammer: The Rise of the New Confederacy

6. Kenneth Rapoza: November Trade Deficit Returns to Normal After October Lull; Record Goods Deficit Likely In 2025

The Enormous Cost of Failing to Treat Schizophrenia

By Tim Murphy, Bestselling Author of The Christ Cure

Its cost is driven by the failure to intervene early, provide sustained care, and recognize that neglect is the most expensive option of all.

A newly released study on schizophrenia exposes a hard truth: The greatest cost of this illness is not treatment, it is neglect. Schizophrenia affects roughly 1.2 percent of the adult population, (3.7 million), yet its annual economic burden has reached a staggering $366.8 billion. Most of this cost is not driven by medical care, but by poor, delayed, or entirely absent treatment. The dominant narrative suggests that serious mental illness is simply expensive. [more...]

RELATED ARTICLE: Make America Mentally Healthy Again.

The Homeless Epidemic Takes a Tragic Turn

By Michele Steeb, Discovery Institute's Fix Homelessness Initiative

We're watching in horror as policy changes in New York City recently caused the deaths of 16 homeless people who froze to death. Across America's streets, the homeless epidemic is claiming lives, fracturing families, and eroding public safety. Often deeply intertwined with mental illness and addiction, it has become a humanitarian crisis that traps vulnerable individuals in cycles of dependence and despair while destabilizing the communities around them. This crisis has been worsened by policies that elevate the notion of "freedom" over timely, life-saving intervention. Recent events make the consequences of that choice unmistakably clear. When public policy relies on voluntary compliance alone, this version of "freedom" becomes a slow, preventable death sentence for those least capable of protecting themselves. The result is a system paralyzed by fear of intervention, even as untreated illness escalates into violence, loss, and irreversible harm. [more...]

The Never-ending Struggle Against Socialism

By Todd Sheets, Author of 2008: What Really Happened

From the end of World War II until Reagan's victory in the Cold War, we've fought to defend the Western values that had finally lifted mankind up from the ash heap of history from international socialists fighting to overthrow those values. Today, despite centuries of evidence showing how disastrous socialism has been in practice, we are engaged in an equally dangerous battle against those same forces within our own borders. We can only hope that Trump's decision to de-escalate in Minneapolis, his continued enforcement of immigration laws, and his various other initiatives will ultimately lead to a victory as momentous as the one Reagan delivered as the twentieth century came to an end. [more...]

Warmth of Collectivism - 16 Dead After Mamdani Lets Homeless Freeze

By Daniel Greenfield, CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center

It's cold in New York City. This isn't a harsh blizzard where people stumble around and die walking down the streets, but it's colder than usual (NYC winters have been light in past years) and the expanding population of junkies and mentally ill addicts hanging out on the street are at risk of going to sleep and never waking up again. Zohran Mamdani, who leveraged a predatory saturnine grin and the graphic arts squad to take over the city, has no idea of how to deal with it for dropping the policy of pushing homeless vagrants into shelters ahead of cold freezes instead of letting them stay in encampments. The current total is 16 dead. [more...]

The Rise of the New Confederacy

By Josh Hammer

...and Trump's clear legal precedent to respond to Minnesota.

Minnesota AG Keith Ellison and his Minnesota's Democratic Party leadership confreres argue that the constitutional federalism articulated in the Tenth Amendment and its corollary of "states' rights" can shield the Land of 10,000 Lakes from the long enforcement arm of federal immigration law. Ellison and Minnesota Democrats claim that by declaring their state and cities to be illegal alien "sanctuaries," they can "nullify" federal immigration law. Democrats in America have a long and inglorious history of invoking "states' rights" and shirking federal law. It has never ended well. [more...]

November Trade Deficit Returns to Normal After October Lull; Record Goods Deficit Likely In 2025

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

The November trade deficit numbers returned to a more normal figure, with the services surplus still in the $20 to low $30 billion range, and the goods deficit jumping from the October lull. A few immediate takeaways here from Thursday's Bureau of Economic Analysis' (BEA) spreadsheet: Any cheering over the October goods deficit falling to a low $58.9 billion was misplaced.  Assumptions that the October trade figures were an example of tariffs working were a bit impatient. We needed to see November and December import data to set a trend and that trend was quickly reversed. The November goods deficit was $86.9 billion. [more...]

Democrats Using Shutdown Threat to Rewrite Immigration Enforcement

By John Lott, Worldwide Expert on Guns & Crime

Another government shutdown looks increasingly likely by the end of the week. Democrats are demanding that major changes to Department of Homeland Security enforcement policy be written directly into the budget agreement. Those changes would largely shut down President Trump's deportation efforts. Trump has already made some changes. For example, DHS removed Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino – who had become a political lightning rod – from his assignment in Minneapolis. Democrats, however, are pressing for far more sweeping changes. They want to require judicial warrants for immigration arrests, force ICE agents to be easily identifiable, and grant states the authority to conduct their own investigations of federal ICE agents. Democrats have also demanded body cameras for ICE agents, even though the current budget proposal already funds them. [more...]

Tragic Tales Demand Reform

By Michele Steeb, Discovery Institute's Fix Homelessness Initiative

Across America's streets, the homeless epidemic is claiming lives, fracturing families, and eroding public safety. Often deeply intertwined with mental illness and addiction, it has become a humanitarian crisis that traps vulnerable individuals in cycles of dependence and despair while destabilizing the communities around them. This crisis has been worsened by policies that elevate the notion of "freedom" over timely, life-saving intervention. Recent events make the consequences of that choice unmistakably clear.

The Reiner family tragedy has laid this failure bare. Two parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, were brutally murdered in their Los Angeles home by their adult son - a heartbreaking outcome in the context of his long struggles with addiction, mental illness, and homelessness. Their surviving children are left traumatized, and their family is irreparably shattered.

Many cases are the results of public policy choices that ignore anosognosia - a neurological condition common in severe mental illness and addiction that strips individuals of insight into their own impairment.

When public policy relies on voluntary compliance alone, this version of "freedom" becomes a slow, preventable death sentence for those least capable of protecting themselves. The result is a system paralyzed by fear of intervention, even as untreated illness escalates into violence, loss, and irreversible harm. [more...]