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

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

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

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

By John Lott

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

2-17-26 Great Guests for Your Show

1. Dr. Tim Murphy: Mentally Ill Children Doing Time Without a Crime

2. Kenneth Rapoza: Senate Finance Hearing - Pro-USMCA and Decisively Anti-Tariff on Mexico and Canada

3. Todd Sheets: Trump's Great American Economic Recovery

4. Michele Steeb: More Spending, More Suffering - The Failure of America's Homelessness Policy

5. Martin Mawyer: AI.com

6. Why Aaron DeHOOG's 'Called to Prosperity' is Resonating with Christians Seeking Financial Purpose

7. Josh Hammer: Is Free Speech Really the Highest Value?

8. Daniel Greenfield: Every Dem President Including Obama Was into UFOs

Mentally Ill Children Doing Time Without a Crime

By Dr. Tim Murphy, Psychologist and mental health advocate, Author of The Christ Cure

Jail is no place for a child with mental illness. A new report for Congress was just released showing many children with mental illnesses are sent to prison, not a treatment hospital. In some cases, they haven't even committed a crime. Children eligible for release in 75 facilities across 25 states were held in jails just because they had nowhere to go for treatment. Twenty facilities in 13 states incarnated children with no charges, or charges that would otherwise not lead to incarceration. One facility in North Dakota reported they held 29 children who had no criminal charges. The children were unnecessarily jailed for times between one month and one year. Why? Because states and counties say they have nowhere else to put them. That's a crime in itself. [more...]

Senate Finance Hearing - Pro-USMCA and Decisively Anti-Tariff on Mexico and Canada

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

The Senate Finance Committee agrees on two things: First, the U.S. Mexico and Canada Agreement (USMCA) isn't perfect, and a number of issues need fixing. Second, they don't want tariffs. And even though no one on the committee mentioned steel and aluminum tariffs during a Feb. 12 hearing on USMCA, former House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady said as one of the witnesses that exempting Mexico and Canada from the Section 232 tariffs were a "top priority" in his view. No one brought the subject up again after that. The USMCA will undergo a congressional review process beginning July 1. [more...]

Trump's Great American Economic Recovery

By Todd Sheets, Author of 2008: What Really Happened

Recent concerns about job growth, affordability, and ICE deportations - as well as Republican setbacks at the polls - led conservative commentator Ross Douthat to observe, "A year into his presidency, Donald Trump has lost the country." But is this really true? And what is the bigger picture here? In fact, after a whirlwind start, the administration has faced some difficulties. More recently, high GDP growth, improving job numbers, and lower inflation could well indicate we are moving into a widespread economic recovery that will turn the election momentum back in the Republicans' favor by the mid-terms. From a bigger picture perspective, Trump's battles against China and domestic socialism are the most important political conflicts since Reagan won the Cold War. He deserves and needs the constructive support of all those who want to see him re-invigorate and expand access to the dream that has long been America. [more...]

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

By Michele Steeb, Homelessness Expert

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...]

AI.com

By Martin Mawyer, President of Christian Action Network

Kris Marszalek, co-founder and CEO of Crypto.com, just shelled out $70 million, the price of a pro sports franchise, for the domain AI.com. Marszalek says AI.com will power a new generation of personal AI agents. He wants to give you your very own "personal AI agent." That sounds impressive. From what we're told, this digital assistant will send messages for you, build projects for you, trade stocks for you, and even update your dating profile. What exactly is an AI agent? And what could go wrong? [more...]  Subscribe to Patriot Majority Report

Why Aaron DeHOOG's 'Called to Prosperity' is Resonating with Christians Seeking Financial Purpose

At a time when inflation, market volatility, and financial anxiety dominate headlines, financial author and Christian educator Aaron DeHOOG is stepping into the national conversation with a bold message for believers. "Stop fearing prosperity, start embracing it," DeHOOG remarks, referencing his new book, CALLED TO PROSPERITY: Discover How to Give, Gain and Grow Your Wealth for God's Kingdom. Rapidly gaining attention among faith-driven investors, business leaders, and church communities for one reason: it directly challenges what DeHOOG calls "the poverty mindset" that has taken root in much of modern Christianity. [more...]

Is Free Speech Really the Highest Value?

By Josh Hammer, Conservative Political Commentator

The free-speech-as-highest-good view misunderstands the purpose of free speech in a free society at an even more fundamental level. Legal systems of free speech do not exist to bestow legitimacy on the idiosyncratic musings of any individual. To borrow progressive jargon, we don't maintain systems of free speech to protect and secure "your truth" or "my truth." Rather, as was historically understood as far back as Plato's Academy in ancient Athens, we maintain systems of free speech and free questioning because we believe it is helpful in pursuing "The Truth." In bilateral or multilateral colloquy, it is the truth of the matter with which we are primarily interested - not in ensuring that any individual feels heard or seen. [more...]

Every Dem President Including Obama Was into UFOs

By Daniel Greenfield, CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center

Plenty of you probably remember when Jimmy Carter saw a UFO: one of a dozen or so warning signs. The Clintons had a much bigger UFO obsession that the media chose to underreport on. This was more than just harmless nuttery once you follow the Rockefeller connection. Nuttery in political circles is rarely harmless these days and a belief in UFOs often overlaps with radical environmentalism and all sorts of supernatural notions that also line up with hostility to religion and totalitarian politics like those of the Left. Former President Barack Obama said in an interview published Saturday that aliens are "real," but added that he hadn't seen them. [more...]

Why Aaron DeHoog's 'Called to Prosperity' is Resonating with Christians Seeking Financial Purpose

By Aaron DeHOOG, Financial Expert

At a time when inflation, market volatility, and financial anxiety dominate headlines, financial author and Christian educator Aaron DeHOOG is stepping into the national conversation with a bold message for believers. "Stop fearing prosperity, start embracing it," DeHOOG remarks, referencing his new book, CALLED TO PROSPERITY: Discover How to Give, Gain and Grow Your Wealth for God's Kingdom. The hardcover is rapidly gaining attention among faith-driven investors, business leaders, and church communities for one reason: it directly challenges what DeHOOG calls "the poverty mindset" that has taken root in much of modern Christianity. [more...]

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...]

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...]