9-1-26 Excellent Guests for Your Show

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Supreme Court Just Gave Mail-In Ballot Safeguards a Chance

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

Dolly and an American Dream for All

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

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

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

By Daniel Greenfield, CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center

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

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

AI is Coming for You - But in a Good Way

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

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

Moral Relativism Made Norms Optional, Let Communism In

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

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

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

If a Terrorist Nuked a U.S. City,

Are We Really Prepared?

By Geoffrey Simmons

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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