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Polling shows that more Democrats under 50 have a favorable view of Iran than of Israel. That comes fresh off the Islamic regime massacring tens of thousands of its own protesters after helping perpetrate the Oct 7 massacre inside Israel. The victims of both sets of atrocities, from the protesters in Tehran to Nova music festival attendees in Israel, were young and liberal. And yet the young liberals of America have chosen the old theocrats who ordered their deaths. It’s a reversal of sympathies that baffles Iranian dissidents and pro-Israel activists, but it shouldn’t. The Islamic takeover of Iran was horrendously bad for civil rights, freedom and any kind of liberal society, but had nevertheless been advocated for by marxists and socialists as part of the grand march of decolonization across the world that saw them support Communist genocides across Asia, Islamic terrorism in the Middle East, brutal dictatorships across South America and Africa, and black nationalist terrorists in Am...

There was nothing radical about Cole Tomas Allen: the attempted White House Correspondents’ Dinner assassin. Allen’s manifesto reads a lot like that of the previous three-named assassin Ryan Wesley Routh who was stalking President Trump at a golf game. Apart from the explicit murder plots, there is nothing in Routh’s ‘Dear World’ letter and Allen’s manifesto that you wouldn’t find in the Washington Post, a Jimmy Kimmel or Stephen Colbert monologue or a rant by a Democrat member of Congress. Routh was obsessed with Iran and Ukraine, sounding like Thomas Friedman when he complained that Trump had “ended relations with Iran like a child and now the Middle East has unraveled.” Allen offered even more generic foreign policy criticisms that seemed plucked from network newscasts and fake news coverage of Trump’s campaign against illegal alien criminals, drug cartels, Islamic terrorists in Iran and the cutoff of funds to USAID, ranting about being (“raped in a detention camp”, “fisherman exe...

Some politicians are accused of being two-faced, but one candidate for office in the UK has no face. Fajila Patel wants to be the first faceless politician by getting elected wearing a burka. Newspapers claim that Fajila is 36-years-old and a mother of four, but critics argue that it could really be anyone under there. Her ‘Niqab’is one of the most extreme versions of the garment that some people associate with the ‘burka’, spread out of Saudi Arabia and covers everything except the eyes. (Some Muslims insist on also partly or entirely covering the eyes of women.) In the UK, which already appears to be run by faceless bureaucracies, elected officials are supposed to offer what the Czechs had very briefly called “socialism with a human face”. But what happens when the socialists with a human face are replaced by faceless Islamists? Fajila, or whoever is under there at any given time, had already run for office and lost back in 2022 to another Pakistani candidate in an area that is 84% M...

Fourteen years ago, the Southern Poverty Law Center named me a hate group of one. The honor wasn’t mine alone, I shared it with a sign outside a bar and a brand of gun oil. What was behind the SPLC’s sloppy hate group designation of one man, a bar sign and other random items was its obsession with manufacturing a constant rise in ‘hate groups.’ Year after year, the SPLC would issue reports claiming that hate groups were increasing in number, and then fundraise off the urgent threat that they had invented. I caught them doing it time and time again. In 2017, the SPLC issued a report claiming that the “number of anti-Muslim hate groups tripled since 2015”. How did the leftist group arrive at this number? It listed Act for America, a patriotic organization started by a Christian refugee from Islamic persecution, as one group in 2015. Then it listed 45 chapters of Act for America as separate organizations in 2017. Suddenly the number of ‘Islamophobic’ groups had tripled . Such pathetica...

When Al Sharpton celebrated the 35th anniversary of his hate group and shakedown operation, the National Action Network, which has been linked to the killings of at least 9 people in various hate crimes, presidential hopefuls celebrated with him. Former Vice President Kamala Harris, still Sharpton’s favorite after her previous pledge at the National Action Network to implement racial reparations, was there, as were former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, hoping to compensate for his notoriously poor performance with black voters, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, humiliating himself one more time, Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland, just caught lying about his past, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, the man Sharpton would be if he were white and hadn’t stopped eating everything in sight, Sen. Mark Kelly, hoping to meet his first black person, and Rep. Ro Khanna, a sleazy Silicon Valley grifter backed by an Epstein associate, who claims to be against the ‘Epstein Class’, and a champion of bann...

For 125 years, a monument was supposed to rise on what is now a traffic circle by Arlington National Cemetery. Now, President Trump has proposed a 250 foot tall ‘Independence Arch’ (one year for every year of America’s existence) to mark the nation’s 250th birthday. Democrats however have rallied in defense of the traffic circle in the name of the Confederacy. After President Trump’s reelection, the demolitionist party that had cheered the toppling of monuments, the vandalism of the statues of Columbus, Lincoln and Francis Scott Key, suddenly became born-again preservationists, clutching their pearls over the White House ballroom, the Kennedy Center renovations and now the even more suddenly sacred traffic circle. Calling for the preservation of a traffic circle, one that doesn’t even have BLM stenciled on it, is an uphill battle, especially since the ‘preservationists’ suddenly interested in it had never expressed any prior interest in the particular traffic circle. It’s not that th...

  " Who can count the dust of Jacob or number the seed of Israel ." Numbers 23:10 The sun sets above the hills. The siren cries out and on the busy highways that wend among the hills,  the traffic stops ,  the people stop , and a moment of silence comes to a noisy country. Flags fly at half mast, the torch of remembrance is lit, memorial candles are held in shaking hands and the country's own version of the Flanders Field poppy, the Red Everlasting daisy, dubbed Blood of the Maccabees, adorns lapels. And so begins the Yom Hazikaron, Heroes Remembrance Day, the day of remembrance for fallen soldiers and victims of terror-- Israel's Memorial Day. What is a memorial day in a country that has always known war and where remembrance means adding the toll of one year's dead and wounded to the scales of history? A country where war never ends, where the sirens may pause but never stop, where each generation grows up knowing that they will have to fight or flee. To stand w...