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...]

1-27-26 Great Guests for Your Show

1. Daniel Greenfield: 'SOMALIMERICA' - The Rise of Somali Fraud, Crime and Terror in America

2. Kenneth Rapoza: Why the 2025 Trade Deficit Might Not be as Bad as it Looks

3. Rabbi Daniel Schonbuch: When a Rabbi Must Defend Churches

4. Todd Sheets: Trump's Greenland Pivot

5. Josh Hammer: Trump is Right on Greenland and the National Interest

6. John Lott: How Trump's ICE Enforcement Record Blows Obama's Out of the Water - By a Lot

7. James Hirsen: The Imaginary Notion of a Sanctuary City or State

'SOMALIMERICA' - The Rise of Somali Fraud, Crime and Terror in America

By Daniel Greenfield, CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center

The Freedom Center's new pamphlet reveals the horrifying truth the Deep State wants buried.

Somalis built America, Rep. Pramila Jayapal claimed. "You cannot talk about any achievement the City of Boston has had," Boston Mayor Michelle Wu insisted, "without mentioning the Somali community that has lifted our city up." Do we live in America or do we live in 'Somalimerica'? If you look at the Minnesota state flag, its politicians, its fraud and its anti-ICE riots, you can see how parts of America are turning into 'Somalimerica.' Right now, mobs of angry white leftists are rallying in Minnesota to fight and die in the streets so that Somali pedophiles like Sahal Osman Shidane, convicted of criminal sexual conduct with a victim 13-15 years old, and Abdi Gelle Mohamed, convicted of the sexual abuse of a minor, don't have to go back home to Somalia. [more...]

Why the 2025 Trade Deficit Might Not be as Bad as it Looks

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

Once year-ending 2025 trade data is released in February, we will be looking at another $1 trillion deficit. Assuming the monthly goods deficit for November and December looks like the low October goods deficit of $58.5 billion, the U.S. will record a minimum $1.17 trillion goods gap for 2025, the second largest trade deficit since 2024's $1.2 trillion barnstormer. But should November and December numbers come in higher than October (say around the usual $76 billion), we will beat those 2024 record numbers. Pundits and the political opposition will immediately declare the tariff strategy has failed to balance trade because the deficit remains as high as ever. Are they right? [more...]

When a Rabbi Must Defend Churches

By Rabbi Daniel Schonbuch

On January 18, activists disrupted a Sunday worship service at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. Three demonstrators were arrested and later charged, and the incident drew national attention in part because Don Lemon was present and livestreamed portions of the disruption. Federal authorities cited potential violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, commonly known as the FACE Act, which also protects houses of worship from obstruction, intimidation, and interference. From what I saw, this was not a protest outside a building or a demonstration in a public square. It was an intentional intrusion into a sanctuary during an active worship service. People were praying, singing, and listening to scripture when activists decided that prayer itself was an acceptable target. That distinction is not technical. It is civilizational. [more...]

Trump's Greenland Pivot

By Todd Sheets, Author of 2008: What Really Happened

Almost everyone now acknowledges that Greenland has long been a strategically important but underdeveloped and under-defended territory that has become even more critical with time and the thawing of the arctic sea-lanes. While few outside the Trump administration want to say it, there is no NATO; there is only the U.S. If Europe was a reliable partner capable of helping us in a time of need, then surely they'd at least be able to defend themselves from Russia, whose troubled economic resources today are about the size of Italy's, and but a fraction of the EU combined. So, even though Trump's tough love has finally pushed Europe to verbally commit to increase defense spending, we have yet to see how this will actually work out in practice and over time. [more...]

Trump is Right on Greenland and the National Interest

By Josh Hammer

Trump has earned reasonable deference in his diplomacy.

The opposition to Trump's Greenland campaign typically takes one of two forms. First, many Beltway foreign policy "experts" decry Trump's obsession with what they blithely dismiss as a barren and worthless icebox, especially at a time when Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei slaughters tens of thousands of his own people, Russia's Vladimir Putin continues to shell countless innocent Ukrainians, and China's Xi Jinping gets ever closer to an all-out amphibious invasion of Taiwan. Second, many also decry Trump's occasional bombastic spurts of rhetorical flourish and take issue with his alleged lack of proper decorum vis-à-vis our European "allies," in particular. [more...]

How Trump's ICE Enforcement Record Blows Obama's Out of the Water - By a Lot

By John Lott, Worldwide Expert on Guns & Crime

I have a new piece at the New York Post comparing President Trump’s ICE enforcement numbers to Obama's. They are biased against Trump because Obama’s numbers include cases where people are turned back at the border, so those individuals can’t be mistakenly detained or there will be the possibility of them dying in custody. Under Obama, border removals/returns were about 70-75 percent of those returned, so these calculations are significantly biased in favor of making Obama’s immigration enforcement process look relatively good. Here is Grok’s analysis of that point. Here is Grok’s evaluation of the accuracy of the article. ChatGPT’s evaluation of the article is available here. [more...]

The Imaginary Notion of a Sanctuary City or State

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

What is the meaning of the word "sanctuary" within its current political context? From California's longstanding policies to Minnesota's more recent defiance amid ICE operations, these state jurisdictions appear to be working to severely limit cooperation between state and federal immigration authorities. Certain jurisdictions have refused to honor detainer requests or lend assistance in deportation matters, even in cases that involve the most dangerous of criminals. Proponents of city and state sanctuary policies claim to be guardians of civil liberties. However, a closer examination reveals that sanctuary status is actually a legal fiction. In my research, I have found the idea of sanctuary cities and states to be a clever contrivance - clever, but at the same time insidious, because it skirts federal supremacy and flirts with partial secession. [more...]

How Trump's ICE Enforcement Record Blows Obama's Out of the Water - By a Lot

By John Lott, Worldwide Expert on Guns & Crime

I have a new piece at the New York Post comparing President Trump’s ICE enforcement numbers to Obama's. They are biased against Trump because Obama’s numbers include cases where people are turned back at the border, so those individuals can’t be mistakenly detained or there will be the possibility of them dying in custody. Under Obama, border removals/returns were about 70-75 percent of those returned, so these calculations are significantly biased in favor of making Obama’s immigration enforcement process look relatively good. Here is Grok’s analysis of that point. Here is Grok’s evaluation of the accuracy of the article. ChatGPT’s evaluation of the article is available here. [more...]

1-20-26 Expert Guests for Your Show

1. John Lott: Hawaii Tries to Evade the Second Amendment

2. Rabbi Daniel Schonbuch: How Radicalism Went Mainstream in the United States

3. Mark Tapson: Don Lemon and Domestic Terror Pals Invade Church Service

4. Daniel Greenfield: Bernie Sanders Too Busy Trying to Make New Holocaust Happen to Commemorate Old Holocaust

5. Todd Sheets: D.O.G.E Exposed Minneapolis

6. Josh Hammer: The Moral Blackmailing of the American People

7. Judd Dunning: Trump is Not Invading Greenland

Hawaii Tries to Evade the Second Amendment

By John Lott, Worldwide Expert on Guns & Crime

The Supreme Court should strike down a law that effectively bans firearms on most private property.

Blue-state gun laws are back before the Supreme Court. The justices barred states in 2022 from requiring concealed-handgun permit applicants to demonstrate a need for the license. Rather than comply with the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen in good faith, Hawaii and four other states sharply restricted where concealed carry is allowed. On Tuesday in Wolford v. Lopez, the court will hear oral arguments in a challenge to the Hawaii law. [more...]

How Radicalism Went Mainstream in the United States

By Rabbi Daniel Schonbuch

There is a quiet but consequential transformation underway in the United States, and it is easy to miss precisely because it no longer looks extreme. Radical ideas no longer announce themselves as radical. They arrive polished, articulate, and wrapped in the language of compassion, inclusion, and justice. What once appeared on the fringes now presents itself as enlightened common sense. This shift, more than any single election or politician, defines the moment America is living through. What is happening in the U.S. is not chaos, but something more subtle and more dangerous. It is the normalization of ideas that hollow out liberty while speaking the language of virtue. Radicalism no longer looks radical. That is the warning. When it speaks softly, dresses well, and claims moral superiority, resistance becomes harder - not because it is wrong to resist, but because fewer people recognize what they are being asked to surrender until it is already gone. [more...]

Don Lemon and Domestic Terror Pals Invade Church Service

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

"The Democrats are the party of lawlessness, of cultural decay, social disorder, and death."

The Democrat insurrection that has captured the entire state of Minnesota and threatens to spread nationwide continues apace, as an anti-ICE mob stormed Cities Church in Minneapolis on Sunday and accused the pastor of being a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent. Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon posted to X, “The @CivilRights is investigating the potential violations of the federal FACE Act by these people desecrating a house of worship and interfering with Christian worshippers. We will pursue charges in this case. The FACE Act has been mentioned as one of the predicates there.” Dhillon added that the DOJ is looking at charging Lemon for his involvement in the incident. [more...]

Bernie Sanders Too Busy Trying to Make New Holocaust Happen to Commemorate Old Holocaust

By Daniel Greenfield, CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center

Sen. Bernie Sanders has the legislative footprint of a flamingo. He never held an actual job for long and it will not surprise you that he couldn't be bothered to show up to a Holocaust Museum board meeting. Sanders has served on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's board for 18 years, but hasn't attended a single meeting — inspiring a bipartisan push to oust him, The Post has learned. It's hard to find time to commemorate the actual Holocaust when you spend all your time trying to make a new one happen. [more...]

D.O.G.E Exposed Minneapolis

By Todd Sheets, Author of 2008: What Really Happened

Early last year, DOGE rooted out the kind of waste, fraud and abuse now being exposed in Minnesota. At the time, the far left responded with escalating threats and outright violence against Elon Musk, his companies, and even his customer's property. Long-running fraud schemes that have diverted what is currently estimated at $9 billion from Minnesota's most needy citizens have recently mushroomed into the national consciousness. This is the local proof of the existence of what DOGE originally set out to expose and bring an end to. It should be pointed out that the emerging fraud scandal did not necessarily require a concurrent surge of immigration officials: while the vast majority of those charged have come from Minneapolis' Somali community, records (which are also being investigated) so far seem to indicate that the vast majority of these alleged perpetrators were U.S. citizens, not illegal immigrants. [more...]

The Moral Blackmailing of the American People

By Josh Hammer

Crass lawlessness and Mafia-esque shakedown artistry.

Liberals and open-border activists play with fire when they so casually compare ICE, as MN Gov. Walz previously has, to a "modern-day Gestapo." The fact is, ICE is not the Gestapo, President Trump is not Hitler, and Charlie Kirk was not a goose-stepping brownshirt. To pretend otherwise is to deprive words of meaning and to live in the theater of the absurd. But as dangerous as this rhetoric is for officers and agents, it is the moral blackmail and "mobocratic spirit" of it all that is even more harmful to the rule of law. The implicit threat of all so-called sanctuary jurisdictions, whose resistance to the federal government smacks of John C. Calhoun-style antebellum "nullification," is to tell the feds not to operate and enforce federal law in a certain area - or else. The result is crass lawlessness, Mafia-esque shakedown artistry and a fetid neo-confederate stench combined in one dystopian package. The truth is that swaths of the activist Left now engage in these sorts of threats as a matter of course. [more...]

Trump is Not Invading Greenland

By Judd Dunning, Talk Show Host, Bestselling Author

Greenland has become an American political Rorschach test. Leftists created a colonial fairy tale with Trump as conqueror in America's empire. This flatters their preferred script and keeps their base permanently anxious. Conversely, a sliver of online right-wingers invented a fantasy -Trump was Caesar, Greenland the trophy. This flatters the conservative appetite for domination masquerading as strength. Both narratives miss what matters. Greenland is strategically important. Trump seizing Greenland would be legally absurd, geopolitically suicidal, and strategically unnecessary. 

1-13-26 Excellent Guests for Your Show

1. Josh Hammer: Megyn Kelly's Tragic Journey from Gaslighter to Useful Idiot

2. Daniel Greenfield: Golden Globes Celebs Protest ICE, Israel, Ignore Iran Genocide

3. James Hirsen: The Never-ending Erosion of Privacy

4. Todd Sheets: Two Socialists in New York and Trump in Venezuela

5. Kenneth Rapoza: October Trade Deficit Falls 39%, Lowest in Years

Megyn Kelly's Tragic Journey from Gaslighter to Useful Idiot

By Josh Hammer

Megyn Kelly wasn’t always a coward. Nor was she always an ignorant stooge for America's enemies. On the contrary, Grandma Groyper's descent into pitiable lunacy is a fairly recent phenomenon. During her long career at Fox News, Kelly made her bones as a no-nonsense, vaguely centrist, mostly nonideological interviewer. Kelly, a lawyer by background, grilled her cable news interview subjects as a prosecutor might hound an expert witness on the stand. Sometimes that made things rather uncomfortable for Fox News, as during her infamous feud with then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. But at least Kelly's brand was clear: tough, firm, politically independent." Or so it seemed. [more...]

Golden Globes Celebs Protest ICE, Israel, Ignore Iran Genocide

By Daniel Greenfield, CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center

In the least surprising news ever, the union of leftist professional virtue signalers known colloquially as Hollywood joined together to protest for open borders and Hamas for the twentieth time while ignoring actual courageous protesters being massacred in Iran. The Golden Globes, an event thrown by foreign media in Hollywood to give prizes to celebrities for screwing up their faces on camera, is mostly irrelevant, especially since it was gutted in the BLM era over (in part) one of my articles about Hollywood's BLM ties. But it serves as a forum for movie stars to show off their latest fashions, for celebrities to show off their latest awkward jokes, and their even more awkward causes. [more...]

The Never-ending Erosion of Privacy

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

In this era of out-of-control crime, certain retail chains and big-box stores are now using surveillance technology in an effort to address the massive amount of theft that has been taking place. Up until recently, most of us were generally unaware that such surveillance methods were being utilized by establishments. But as word has spread, so has public concern. And for good reason. Newly applied surveillance techniques now include the use of facial recognition devices, which quietly scan and store biometric data on customers as they shop for everyday groceries and household supplies. Aside from the privacy issue, these systems allow for deeper intrusions. It is my legal as well as my personal opinion that the time has come to ban altogether the practice of biometric surveillance in retail spaces. [more...]

Two Socialists in New York and Trump in Venezuela

By Todd Sheets, Author of 2008: What Really Happened

The Trump administration captured Venezuelan socialist Nicolás Maduro around the time NYC Mayor Mamdani was pontificating on his own socialist agenda. If New York's new mayor wants to understand where his collectivist policies are ultimately heading, a lovely weekend getaway to Caracas just might be in order. Trump's approach has the potential to return our Latin American neighbors to a life of liberty and the pursuit of happiness while making all of us safer in the process. Hopefully, before the electricity goes out in Times Square, even voters who have been swayed by the history-defying promises of our own democratic socialists will see the light. [more...]

October Trade Deficit Falls 39%, Lowest in Years

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

The October trade deficit fell by 39% for goods and services combined, but even the goods deficit fell to monthly numbers not seen in at least five years. The October deficit in goods was $59.14 billion, down 24.5% from September, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said last week. These numbers should not be a total shock. The International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) tariffs were on pause for months, then went into effect in August. The goods gap has been shrinking month over month ever since those tariffs were then imposed. [more...]

1-6-26 Great Guests for the New Year

1. Judd Dunning: Trump's Doctrine for Venezuela - Transition, Justice and Order

2. Rabbi Daniel Schonbuch: Mamdani Defends a Venezuelan Dictator Who Enslaved Millions

3. Daniel Greenfield: State Dept Cut Off Somali 'Family Reunification' Due to Fraud

4. John Lott: New Data Reveals the Horrific Truth About Illegal-Immigrant Crime

5. Mark Tapson: I Voted for This

Trump's Doctrine for Venezuela - Transition, Justice and Order

By Judd Dunning, Talk Show Host, Bestselling Author

Venezuelans are in the streets as a criminal regime is losing control. No routine political transition, this is the exposure and disruption of a state that crossed clear legal and moral lines. Venezuela transformed from authoritarian governance into an organized criminal enterprise operating behind sovereignty's facade. Venezuela's collapse was deliberate. A documented sequence of decisions dismantled lawful institutions and repurposed the state for illicit activity. Political authority, criminal finance, and coercive force merged over time into one structure designed to preserve power rather than govern. [more...]

Mamdani Defends a Venezuelan Dictator Who Enslaved Millions

By Rabbi Daniel Schonbuch

The Rhetoric of Workers’ Rights vs. the Reality of Tyranny

There is a stark and revealing juxtaposition at the center of Zohran Mamdani's politics. On the one hand, he presents himself as a champion of workers' rights, dignity, and liberation from economic exploitation. His language is saturated with moral concern for the oppressed, the marginalized, and those allegedly crushed by power. On the other hand, when confronted with the lived reality of socialist authoritarianism in Venezuela under Nicolás Maduro, Mamdani refuses to condemn the regime and actively opposes efforts to hold it accountable. This contradiction is not accidental; it reveals the true priorities beneath the rhetoric.  [more...]

State Dept Cut Off Somali 'Family Reunification' Due to Fraud

By Daniel Greenfield, CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center

The fraud didn’t start in Minnesota. It started before they even got here. While almost everyone by now knows about Rep. Ilhan Omar's interesting 'family ties,' this kind of thing was not unusual for Somalis where the goal was to smuggle each other in with little regard for the actual realities. The State Department knew about it enough to cut off family reunification programs back in 2008 because the 'family' members weren't actually family. [more...]

New Data Reveals the Horrific Truth About Illegal-Immigrant Crime

By John Lott, Worldwide Expert on Guns & Crime

Activists’ claims that illegal aliens commit crimes at lower rates than native-born Americans do may appear convincing, but new data from New York state shows that those here illegally commit crimes at a rate more than three times higher than that of legal residents. And it’s costing us billions. It’s true that if you lump all immigrants together, relatively few of them are accused and convicted of crimes committed here in the United States. Legal immigrants commit crimes at very low rates, so combining their crime data with that of illegal immigrants masks the latter’s higher criminal activity. [more...]

I Voted for This

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

In the wake of the United States seizure of cartel gangster and illegitimate Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, the worldwide Left from Hollywood to China predictably erupted in outrage and began blustering about "international law" and calling for the impeachment of President Trump. And not just the Left – an X account called Republicans Against Trump, which has nearly a million followers (most of them probably Russian bots), posed this smug question: "Hey, MAGA, still happy with your vote?" I don't presume to speak for the entire MAGA movement (although based on the flood of similar responses to that post on X, apparently I do), but my answer is an unreserved "Yes. I voted for this." [more...]