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Saturday, March 28, 2026
Rep. Roy to Newsmax: Islamic Influence Rising in US
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Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, told Newsmax on Friday that he is concerned about what he described as growing Islamic influence in the United States. He cited recent controversies involving public displays of Muslim prayer near sites connected to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
"It's unconscionable," Roy said on "Finnerty," referring to reports of Muslim prayer rugs displayed at a 9/11 memorial in New York. "Twenty-five years has passed. And during that time, we have admitted into the United States 5 million people from majority Muslim countries. Islam is on the march, all in concert with their memorandum from the Muslim Brotherhood." Roy, who has introduced the Preserving a Sharia Free America Act and helped establish the Sharia Free America Caucus in Congress, said organizations are working to expand Islamic influence in the U.S.
"Six hundred organizations fully funded, CAIR [Council on American-Islamic Relations], Muslim Brotherhood organized to advance Islam into the United States," Roy said. "And it's not just Dearborn [Michigan]. ... It's happening in Texas. It's happening in Houston. It's happening in Dallas-Fort Worth. There are 330 mosques in Texas." His comments follow controversy over a Ramadan fast-breaking meal held March 4 at a New York Fire Department site. During the event, prayer mats were placed in the lobby near a memorial honoring 343 firefighters killed in the 9/11 attacks. The images drew criticism from some who said the setting was inappropriate given the memorial's significance. Roy cited the incident as part of a broader concern. "This is a real war, and you can't win a war that you do not acknowledge exists," he said. "They are trying to wage jihad against our way of life, and we've got to stand up against it." Asked about CAIR labeling his congressional caucus a hate group, Roy rejected the characterization. "I'm not surprised that CAIR would do that," he said. "We know what CAIR is up to. We know the organizations that are trying to advance this, and they are waging jihad against the West." Roy also linked the issue to his campaign to become Texas attorney general. "We're going to open up every one of the books for those 600 organizations," he said, "and we're going to take their charters away if they're going to continue this." © 2026 Newsmax. All rights reserved. |
Speaker Johnson Kills Senate Filibuster?
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It’s frequently observed around Washington that Capitol Hill is the closest thing available to adults to “permanent” college. Within its insular campus, everybody knows everybody, they work hard and play hard, and the latter includes perpetual last-minute-cramming for that end-of-term final or all-nighters to make the term paper deadline. Only for Congress these deadlines are whatever the legislative or policy priority of the moment happens to be. This is why you never get a deal until said deadline arrives (e.g., budget-process timelines, or the end of the fiscal year, or some other legal- or process-imposed date). Politicians posture and thereby procrastinate until a painful prospect gets their attention. The pain in this case was the prospect of the Senate losing its Easter recess. Back to the college analogy, Congress also operates not unlike an academic calendar – it takes “breaks” throughout the year – the aforementioned Easter recess, 4th of July recess, August recess, a fall break around Veterans Day, and a Christmas/New Year’s recess (or adjournment if at the end of the two-year congressional term). READ ON: Making It Official: Trump Signs Presidential Memorandum to Pay TSA Employees House GOP Fights Back: New 60-Day Clean Bill Funds ICE and CBP Now to some degree, members of Congress are proverbially damned if they do or don’t, which is tritely, but more or less accurately, summed up in a couple of other contradictory shop-worn saws: “at least the country is safe when Congress is gone” and “Congress only works three days a week.” So with all this said, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, on Thursday night, chose to make the Easter recess an off-ramp for his caucus. Amid the DHS shutdown, the intraparty feuding over the SAVE America Act, and the incessant Democrat and media defeatism over Iran, he chose to punt the whole mess to the House. But Speaker Mike Johnson (LA-02) is having none of it. On Friday, he announced that he's working to round up the votes to pass a 60-day DHS funding extension, including all of Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which the Senate version passed late Thursday night does not, and that would again send the legislation back to the Senate. Thune is claiming victory Friday as the Senate bill makes no so-called reforms to ICE or CBP - demands by the Democrats through the course of the shutdown. But Johnson could score his own victory as well – whether or not he successfully secures the votes for his 60-day extension. What Johnson has done has reinforced President Trump’s long-time mantra (going back to his first term and re-iterated again this week): the filibuster needs to go. Along with many others, I’ve
written about the SAVE America Act and the filibuster’s implications for
it. The rules don’t change per piece of (non-budget) legislation, and everyone following that debate is acutely aware that Senate legislation effectively requires 60 votes to pass. READ MORE: The SAVE America Act: Americans Voted for the Senate to Do Its Job Johnson, by rejecting the Senate bill, is effectively saying to Thune, and the whole Senate: find 60 votes, or change your rules. As I said, whether or not Johnson’s new proposal passes or not is irrelevant - to do anything, Thune has to fix his Senate problem. “The Republicans are not going to be any part of any effort to reopen our borders or to stop immigration enforcement,” Johnson said. “We are going to deport dangerous criminal illegal aliens because it is a basic function of the government.” But to do any of these “basic functions” in the Senate right now takes these 60 votes to end debate (or “invoke cloture” in Senate parlance), which is purely a product of Senate rules – rules that are hamstringing it on ALL legislation, not just DHS funding and the SAVE America Act. The Senate is requiring a supermajority to pass supermajority-supported legislation! Thune’s off-ramp has led him right back into the filibuster brick wall. He got his recess, but when he gets back to town, he’s likely to be greeted by President Trump in full New York-developer mode, presenting him with a sledgehammer and hard hat, maybe even shouting some words from another great Republican: “tear down this wall!” After getting him and his colleagues their two weeks off, Thune’s problems will still be waiting for him when he returns. Johnson has made sure of it. And by that point, most Americans may very well consider it high time the job gets done – and some Senate “filibuster” a pathetically weak excuse – that even after getting their vacation, they still can’t do their work. |
Troubling Times in the Empire State Governor's Race
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This week, there was a flurry of news reports concerning the race for governor in New York. In my previous column on this race, I wrote on Bruce Blakeman,
the Nassau County Executive. I ended the late December 2025 column with:
Well, guess what? So far, Bruce Blakeman hasn’t raised the money he needs to win. Reportedly, Blakeman has only raised $1.6 million cash in the almost four months since he announced for governor (he announced in December of 2025). Further, records show this total is “buoyed by more than $1.1 million in transfers from the Nassau County GOP since January.” Blakeman has also “registered for the state’s public matching fund program, which could unlock up to $3.5 million for his campaign if he meets certain fundraising thresholds. But Democrats have questioned whether a paperwork snafu could keep him from qualifying for the funds.” Meanwhile, Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul has not released her latest numbers, but she has $20.2 million in her campaign account, while the New York state Democratic Committee has another $13 million on hand. Blakeman, as I described in my earlier column, had surprisingly jumped into the Republican gubernatorial race to challenge the (then) heavily-favored Republican candidate, Rep. Elise Stefanik (NY-21). This prompted Stefanik to unexpectantly drop out of the race. Stefanik did so primarily because she now faced a potentially tough primary race, which, although she would be favored to win, would certainly bleed her campaign war chest and drive up her negatives. Then, assuming she won the nomination, Stefanik would still be the underdog in Democrat-leaning New York, facing an incumbent with far more money. READ MORE: Just In: Elise Stefanik Makes Shock Announcement About Her Future But here is the important part – when Stefanik dropped out of the race in December of 2025, she was sitting on a campaign kitty of over $12 million, according to Axios. Going back to the previous race for governor, the (then) Republican nominee, Rep. Lee Zeldin of NY's 1st district, in March of 2022 had over $4.2 million in the bank. And he lost that race in the general election by six points, although doing far better than what was expected. Let me be blunt – there is no excuse for Blakeman’s inability to raise funds for this race. I have worked on four statewide political races and volunteered for numerous others. During my schooling, I also attended the American University’s Campaign Management Institute, which was all about managing a political campaign. So, I can tell you with certainty that when a credible candidate announces a campaign for a significant public office, it is expected that he already has a credible plan to fundraise a credible amount to run for that office. Often, this plan is written out, with a list of names as potential donors, and a short biography of them that leads to a suggested amount for the donations. When the candidate gets into the race, all he then has to do is to implement that plan. In 1996, when I attended the Campaign Management Institute, I and my three teammates – you all know one of my teammates, this guy – were required to write out a full campaign plan, with a section detailing our planned fundraising. Bruce Blakeman should have done the same. However, either he didn’t bother planning to raise the money, or he had a plan, but it wasn’t a credible plan that could actually raise that money. And what makes this inexcusable is that he is a County Executive, which is a prominent elected position in the state, so he knew what was expected of him. Regardless, he still jumped into a race without the ability to raise the necessary funding, and then he pushed out another candidate who already had shown the ability to raise that money. My good buddy Cameron, who is a major Elise Stefanik fan, was very upset when this happened. And considering what has since occurred, I can’t blame him. So now, the GOP finds itself in a deep hole, facing a governor who can swamp the Republican Party's effort with her own millions. What’s sad here is that there is a major opening to oust Gov. Hochul in the Empire State. Blakeman’s own polling – which he just released to spark his own fundraising – demonstrates that Hochul is not a solid re-election bet. Even the public polling that has Hochul more firmly ahead still has her only barely winning a majority of the vote, and that is against a candidate who is largely unknown across the state. This is because Hochul is an arch leftist, without charisma, who has totally mismanaged the Empire State, as my RedState colleague Sister Toldjah recently reported. And the Democrat incumbent faces the added weakness of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who needs her to implement his big spending plans, meaning she either assists him to raise taxes, or refuses to do so and antagonizes him and his fellow communist Democrats. It would be nice if the GOP had a candidate who could take advantage of these weaknesses, wouldn’t it? |
We Can't Report THAT, It Will Make Muslims Look Bad!
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For most of my life, Westerners have been harangued by feminists over our having a "rape culture." It's always annoyed me a bit because, while rapes obviously do happen, my own experience is that rape is considered one of the most heinous crimes, comparable with murder. Most people I know would happily applaud a father who killed his daughter's rapist. But when confronted with an actual "rape culture," liberals bend over backwards to excuse the rapists, hide the crimes, and embrace the culture that quite openly treats its own (and our) women like cattle. Rape apology is baked into Islam itself. The lax attitudes about rape are not something that has arisen despite Islamic teachers; they exist BECAUSE of Islamic teachings. Liberals accuse us of
"Islamophobia" when we point out these basic facts, but not even they
seem to really believe what they are saying. They know about the
unimaginably high rate of rape among Muslims; that's why they go to
extraordinary lengths to hide that they occur.
By now, we all know about the so-called "grooming gangs" in Britain, but the problem exists throughout Europe, and for all I know, right here in the US. We know they cover up rapes and sexual crimes by "gender diverse" kids in schools. What else are they covering up?
Should this sort of thing surprise us? In a sane world, perhaps. But in Germany, a left-wing politician originally lied about who raped her because she didn't want to stir up anger at Muslim migrants.
The embrace of Islam in the West has inevitably led to an embrace of a genuine rape culture. Islam, or at least the "South Asian" version of it, embraces rape as normal and even as a tactic to force women to convert. But we are "bigoted" if we notice this, right? |
The 'Voter ID Is Jim Crow' Narrative Took a Huge Blow in North Carolina This Week
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While Congress is working out ways to fund the Department of Homeland Security, the core principles of the SAVE America Act are next. With the Democratic Party’s intransigence, there’s talk of including some of these provisions in a future reconciliation package, which will also fund ICE and Border Patrol—frontline officers are getting paid, but the civilian support staff is not right now. The issue surrounding voter ID is over: everyone supports it. Overall, the Save Act has a 71 percent approval rating from a Harvard poll. On voter ID specifically, it holds similar approval figures across the board. It’s been that way since the Obama administration. It’s a popular policy that some Democrats have labeled Jim Crow 2.0. Well, in North Carolina, years of litigation have been settled on that state’s voter ID law, and it’s not good for Democrats. Oh, and this ruling was handed down by an Obama-appointed judge A
federal judge has upheld North Carolina’s voter identification law
nearly two years after holding a trial in a lawsuit challenging the ID
requirement. The same judge had blocked the law from taking effect for
the 2020 election cycle.
Game over. Democrats have fought this in the court of public opinion, and they have lost. Now, the real courts have ruled, and have established precedent that these laws are constitutional. |
House Committee on Ethics: 25 counts of misconduct proven true against Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick
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A subcommittee of the House Committee on Ethics found 25 counts of misconducts were proven true against Representative Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick. In an hours-long meeting on Thursday, prolonging well past midnight, the committee found all but two of the counts levied against Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) to be proven “by clear and convincing evidence,” according to a press release from the chairman of the ethics committee. The violations, listed in the December Statement of Alleged Violations (SAV), center upon financial misconduct, especially dealing with alleged illicitly funneled funds to her campaign. In a report by the Board of the Office of Congressional Ethics, transmitted to the ethics committee, the nature of the alleged violations are stated, which include Cherfilus-McCormick possibly having “dispensed special favors or privileges to friends in connection with her congressional office’s requests for community project funding.” The two counts that were not proven dealt with money laundering through a foreign company and a “Lack of Candor and Diligence in Ethics Investigations.” In November, Cherfilus-McCormick was indicted by a Florida grand jury for allegedly stealing $5 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funds for her 2021 congressional campaign. According to the indictment, her and her brother collected $5 million overpayment from FEMA for their family’s healthcare company, which she had served as CEO. The representative denied the allegations, and in a response to the SAV, she had asked for the proceedings to be stayed until the criminal indictment is resolved, noting the committee proceedings involve “allegations that overlap substantially with an ongoing federal criminal investigation.” “To not do so, would risk compromising Representative Cherfilus-McCormick’s constitutional rights in the criminal proceedings,” the response stated. The press release states that the appropriate sanction, if any, will be decided after the House’s April recess, which could be expulsion from the House. “I look forward to proving my innocence. Until then, my focus remains where it belongs: showing up for the great people of Florida’s 20th District who sent me to Washington to fight for them,” Cherfilus-McCormick said in a Friday statement, news outlets reported. |
CNN’s Ratings Plummet as Viewers Seek Authentic News Alternatives
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Cable news watchers are waking up to a plain truth: CNN’s audience has cratered. Once a must-watch for Americans seeking mainstream coverage, CNN now finds itself mired in a ratings slump that conservative media observers say is proof that viewers are tired of a partisan podium dressed up as news. While CNN flounders, competitors that court everyday Americans are reaping the benefit; Fox News continues to dominate primetime and capture the lion’s share of the live TV audience. The numbers show a stark marketplace verdict — viewers vote with their remotes, and they are choosing outlets that reflect their values and concerns rather than preach to them. Part of the narrative about falling linear numbers is technical: Nielsen’s shift to “Big Data + Panel” changed how viewership is counted, and networks are trying to blame methodology rather than their own content choices. That’s a convenient talking point for executives who should be asking why their product repels the average American, not why the scoreboard looks different. Instead
of facing the music, CNN’s answer has been to double down on rebrands
and digital paywalls, launching new streaming tiers and “All Access”
products to paper over the collapse of their cable business. Executives
and corporate parent boards are betting big on subscriptions to bail
them out, but you can’t buy credibility back once you’ve lost it with
viewers who feel talked down to every night. Voices like Megyn Kelly and Jesse Kelly are blunt about what the real problem is: sanctimony, predictable left-wing cheerleading, and a newsroom tone that feels like a moral lecture rather than honest reporting. Hardworking Americans don’t want their news handed to them by a soapbox of opinion disguised as journalism; they want facts, balance, and respect — and when networks ignore that, viewers walk. Advertisers and corporate partners should take note: audiences are fleeing anything that smells like partisan clickbait or cultural posturing, and markets reward trust and relevance. If CNN wants to stop the bleeding, it will require real accountability, a return to fair coverage, and less newsroom virtue-signaling — otherwise the ratings collapse will be remembered as the price of abandoning the public for a political faction. |
Debate Heats Up: Schmitt Blasts Grim on Cuba Strategy
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Rob Schmitt’s back-and-forth with Drop Site News reporter Ryan Grim put on display something the American people already know: the Cuba question is not a polite academic debate but a battle over whether the United States will stand for freedom or kowtow to regimes that crush it. Grim’s insistence on casting U.S. pressure as reckless overlooks decades of Communist brutality on the island and the genuine yearning of ordinary Cubans for liberty. As Schmitt pressed, this is about strategy and results — not about scoring woke points for journalism elites who romanticize dictatorships. Ryan Grim’s reporting in Drop Site News claims that senior officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, have misled President Trump about supposed high-level talks with Havana — and that, in reality, no substantive negotiations have been taking place. That allegation, if true, exposes dangerous information games inside the Beltway where politics and personal agendas can trump straightforward diplomacy. Americans deserve clarity: are talks being pursued to open doors for ordinary Cubans, or are they being manipulated to manufacture pretexts for policy failures? What cannot be disputed is the administration’s decisive move to choke off the regime’s lifelines: on January 29, 2026, the president signed an executive order creating a process to impose tariffs on countries that sell or provide oil to Cuba. This was not an impulsive threat but a strategic lever to starve an illegitimate government of the resources it uses to prop up oppression and fund malign activity. For patriotic Americans who demand results, using economic power to pressure tyrants is both smart and morally defensible. The consequences have been immediate and
stark: Mexico has at least temporarily suspended oil shipments to Cuba,
and Havana is grappling with severe energy shortages that the regime
itself admits are jeopardizing basic services. When our diplomatic and
economic tools produce tangible pressure on a communist kleptocracy,
critics rush to play the humanitarian card while glossing over how the
regime has long misallocated resources and prioritized repression over
people. If that pressure speeds the day when Cubans can reclaim their
nation, then it is pressure worth applying. Practical fallout has not been abstract: Cuba warned international carriers it could not refuel flights because jet fuel was unavailable at multiple airports, forcing airlines to suspend services and stranding tourism dollars that the regime clings to. The blackouts and grounded flights aren’t pleasant — they’re consequences of a regime that chose repression over reform for decades, and of an international system that has too often indulged its patronage networks. Journalists like Grim treat these developments as evidence that the United States has gone too far, but they too often ignore that engagement without leverage simply allows authoritarianism to persist. Now the island is experiencing rolling blackouts and even full-grid collapses, with official Cuban sources noting weeks without critical fuel supplies and emergency measures to protect hospitals and water systems. This is precisely why American resolve matters: a regime that runs on coercion and corruption should not be bailed out by nations unwilling to stand for democratic norms. The alternative is endless, costly appeasement that leaves the people of Cuba trapped under the same tyrannical apparatus that robbed them of freedom for generations. Make no mistake: patriots should demand a humane and strategic endgame that liberates the Cuban people, not one that rewards dictators. If Secretary Rubio and others are holding firm because they recognize the stakes of normalization without accountability, that deserves respect rather than sneers from left-leaning reporters who prefer optics over outcomes. The real question for Ryan Grim and his allies is whether they stand with tyrants who enrich themselves and wreck nations, or with the brave Cubans who risk everything for the simple right to speak, worship, and work freely. America should double down on pressure while supporting clear, targeted humanitarian channels that get relief to people, not to party apparatchiks. Rob Schmitt was right to press these points on air — this isn’t a time for sentimentalism, it’s a time for strategy, courage, and a commitment to liberty. Hard power paired with principled diplomacy made America a beacon of freedom; we should apply it now to help free our neighbors in Cuba from the same failed ideology that has destroyed so many lives. |
Friday, March 27, 2026
Senate Moves to Fund Most of DHS After Shutdown Disrupts Airports
The U.S. Senate passed legislation on Friday that would finance most of the Department of Homeland Security but withhold funds from ICE, as a weeks-long partial government shutdown caused widespread disruptions at airports. Senate Democrats blocked DHS funding last month, as they pressed to rein in the Trump administration's immigration crackdown after federal agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis. The funding shortfall has left tens of thousands of Transportation Security Administration employees working without pay, prompting some airport security officers to call in sick or resign. As the standoff in Congress persisted, President Donald Trump said on
Thursday he would take executive action to pay 50,000 airport security
workers in an effort to address staff shortages that have snarled travel
around the country.
The Senate bill would fund DHS components such as TSA and the U.S. Coast Guard but withhold funds from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and part of Customs and Border Protection. Lawmakers in the House of Representatives could vote on the bill as early as Friday. "This agreement funds TSA, the Coast Guard, FEMA, CISA, strengthens security at the border and ports of entry, and keeps America safe," Democrat Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement. "Democrats held firm in our opposition that Donald Trump's rogue and deadly militia should not get more funding without serious reforms," he added. Republican Sen. Susan Collins, who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee, said Democrats had damaged Congress' annual funding process, weakened national security, and set "a precedent that they may one day come to regret." "Democrats remained intransigent and unreasonable with their list of demands," she said in a statement. |
Trump Calls Into Fox News Show, Obliterates Failed CA Gov. Gavin Newsom As Only He Can
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There are certain politicians that I have a visceral — highly negative — reaction to. At the top of the list is California Democrat Senator Adam Schiff, followed closely by Golden State gubernatorial candidate Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA-14) and the repellant Rep. Dan Goldman (NY-10). Rep. Nancy Pelosi (CA-11), the lip-smacking, speech-ripping former speaker of the House, also deserves honorable mention, but let’s be real: she no longer seems to be relevant anymore. So I understand that not everyone finds President Donald Trump funny or entertaining and thinks his policies are destructive. Many relatives and friends I know cringe at the sight of him. That doesn’t dissuade me, however, from reaching my own conclusion, which is that he is genuinely funny as hell, is still sharp as a tack at 79 years old, and is dead right on most of the issues. He proved it once again when he phoned into the Fox News show The Five on Thursday. While the president talked about a number of issues, he was at his best when he exposed California Gov. Gavin Newsom for the failed fraud that he is. I moved to California over 30 years ago, and over the last seven years, I have watched as Gov. Hair Gel and the far-left Democrat legislature have virtually destroyed the state with endless taxes and regulations, one of the most draconian COVID policies in the nation, and an utter inability to solve the problems of homelessness, crime, and fraud. Trump let him have it: Trump was asked which of the potential Democrat candidates for
president would do better, former Vice President Kamala Harris, who the
president crushed in the 2024 election after Biden dropped out, or
Newsom. Trump, as his custom, didn’t hold back:
True: MORE: Gavin Newsom Steps in It Again As His GA Remarks Go Viral and He's Accused of Racism Gavin Newsom Is Asked About His Goals - His Response Clearly Shows Why He Should Not Be President Trump, ever loquacious, wasn’t done:
Now, normally, I would condemn a person for making fun of someone’s mental state or learning issues, but this isn’t just “someone” we’re talking about. This is a guy who almost certainly will be running to be the next president of the United States, and we’ve seen that movie before — very recently:
I don’t think Newsom should be disqualified as a serious candidate because of dyslexia, his upbringing, or anything else of that nature. I think he should be soundly rejected by the American voters because he has an unbelievable record of failure, and his woke policies have destroyed countless lives and demolished the California dream. Bonus coverage: Trump also smoked the liberal on the show, Jessica Tarlov, who, although she wasn't there for this segment, often looks like she’s experiencing extreme stomach pain and will jump to the defense of even the most ludicrous policies, much to the chagrin of co-host Greg Gutfeld:
Donald Trump is blunt, he is coarse, and he often says things that are not “politically correct.” I get that he’s not everyone’s cup of tea. But after eight years of Barack Obama, four years of Joe Biden, seven years of Gavin Newsom, 39 years of Nancy Pelosi, and 45 years of Chuck Schumer, we’ve seen the Democrats’ playbook, and it’s a mission to destroy everything that makes the United States special. If it takes a bull in a china shop to right the ship, then so be it. Eat it, Democrats. Editor's Note: President Trump is leading America into the "Golden Age" as Democrats try desperately to stop it. |
As Iran War Tightens Global Supply Lines, Trump Rolls Out New Minerals and Energy Strategy
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The Trump administration is putting $250 million into a new Pax Silica fund aimed at critical minerals, energy infrastructure, and semiconductor supply chains. The State Department said the funding will support extraction, processing, and manufacturing tied to secure chip supply chains while helping pull in larger pools of private and allied capital. It also said the fund is intended to “catalyze trusted capital” from sovereign wealth and institutional investors backing supply chain security. Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Jacob Helberg said the U.S. would administer the consortium, which is expected to draw from partners managing more than $1 trillion in combined assets. Early participants include SoftBank, Temasek, and Mubadala, as well as sovereign wealth funds from allied countries. Helberg said the group already has projects lined up for review.
Helberg tied the effort to the war with Iran, where shipping routes and energy flows were disrupted. The Strait of Hormuz blockade pushed the effort further into energy infrastructure and logistics planning. That is the kind of disruption this fund is trying to get ahead of. Ports, logistics corridors, communications networks, and power systems are now being treated as part of the same strategic layer as semiconductors and AI systems. Read More: New Report Crowns Port MacKenzie Alaska Mineral Export Leader Now, a New Look at American Energy and Mineral Wealth China’s dominance over rare earth processing remains a central pressure point. Export controls on key minerals and magnets have already spooked manufacturers that depend on those materials. New domestic and allied mineral supply chains will take years to come together, even with funding in place. The State Department describes Pax Silica as linking artificial intelligence, semiconductors, energy, and minerals with partner nations.
Helberg said the goal is to keep the “minerals, ports, corridors, factories and energy assets” behind supply chains in “trusted hands.” The administration is treating control over supply chains as leverage, not just commerce. Officials are discussing a broader $4 trillion investment target tied to energy, minerals, and semiconductor infrastructure, though details remain limited. The scale does not match the underlying numbers, and the gap is hard to miss. Total global foreign direct investment last year was about $1.6 trillion, making a $4 trillion target an aggressive leap by comparison. The administration has not explained how that level of capital would be assembled. New mining capacity, refining operations, and semiconductor infrastructure projects will take years to build, even with funding and political alignment in place. Washington is now treating minerals, ports, power, and chipmaking capacity as strategic assets. That does not guarantee the money will come, but it makes clear where this is going. |
Watch This NJ Lawmaker Cut Through Gov. Sherill's Anti-ICE Law Like a Blowtorch Through Butter
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All you can do here is laugh: a state telling a federal law enforcement agency how to operate. That’s
not how any of this works. New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherill
signed into law some piece of paper stating that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents can’t be masked or something, among other things. Lady, you can’t do that. Toilet paper used to wipe one’s a** is more useful than what you just signed. Assemblywoman Dawn Fantasia
cut through this like a blowtorch through butter. She reminded Trenton that there is a thing called the Supremacy Clause. The governor cannot dictate to ICE how to operate. It’s just not how this works: So, congratulations on getting high marks for political theater, Mikie, but ICE doesn’t have to obey, and they won’t. ICE is funded through 2029. The deportations will continue, especially in New Jersey. Even with this agency helping out TSA at our airports, TSA can still do its job. |
Here's What Happened When CNN Reported Trump Nuked the Dems' Leverage in DHS Shutdown Fight
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That’s it. Sorry, Democrats, you lose to Trump again. Your leverage was undermined when the president signed an order allowing the Department of Homeland Security to pay TSA agents. The agency has funds from last year’s tax cut bill. Democrats will spin this, claiming Trump had the money to pay the agents and avoid long airport lines. That’s not going to work, guys. You caused this shutdown. The funding bill was non-controversial; it didn’t allocate funds for
DHS during Operation Epic Fury, and the increasing threats of terrorist
retaliation are outrageous. We’re now at a point where even the media is
reporting on your widespread foolishness regarding this issue. I’m also
annoyed with Republicans, who gave Democrats too much leeway in terms
of respect and decency. It’s obvious they just want to harm American
workers — this was an anti-Trump tantrum. Plain and simple. They were
likely to lose the fight, especially when ICE agents were deployed at
airports, easing TSA workload and reducing security lines. Here’s how CNN reported on Trump’s order, with some calling it a deer in the headlights moment:
It had to be done. And no, Democrats have been toying around on this for too long. Ignore what they say, treat them like idiots, and bulldoze them. Nuke the legislative filibuster and put that pillow over their heads. Enough of this. Also, for everyone fretting about splitting the DHS funding proposals, which would not include monies for ICE, that could’ve been handled in a new reconciliation bill. That also needs to happen. Editor’s Note: Democrats are causing chaos at airports and inflicting pain on the American people simply because they want to keep illegal aliens from being deported. |
DOJ probes Calif. and Maine over transgender housing policies in women’s prisons amid rise in rape reports
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The Trump administration has launched federal investigations into California and Maine following allegations of sexual assault and violent harassment linked to policies that house biological males with gender dysphoria in female correctional facilities. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Thursday that it is probing whether the presence of biological males in women’s prisons violates the constitutional rights of female inmates, specifically citing reports of rape and a case of pregnancy resulting from these placements. Governors Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) and Janet Mills (D-Maine) were officially notified of the investigation, which aims to determine if these state-level housing mandates infringe upon the 8th and 14th Amendment protections afforded to the female prison population.
The investigations were prompted by a California-based campaign led by women’s rights groups Women Are Real and WomanIIWoman. The groups are drawing attention to the slew of ongoing reports of sexual assaults committed by gender dysphoric male inmates against women in correctional facilities. At the heart of the campaign lies the high-profile legal proceedings involving 52-year-old Tremaine Carroll. The case gained significant attention following charges filed in March, which allege that Carroll — a biological male who identifies as a woman — raped a female inmate, impregnating her, while incarcerated at the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) in Chowchilla.
Carroll was sent to a women’s prison under California Senate Bill 132, the Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act, signed by Newsom in 2020. A Madera County judge ruled in February that the inmate must be referred to using feminine pronouns.
The DOJ further vowed to investigate allegations of the “deprivation of female prisoners’ rights.”
In addition to the legal updates, Dhillon shared the formal correspondence dispatched to the two Democrat governors. These letters serve as an official notification that should any constitutional violations be identified within their respective states, the DOJ intends to “attempt to work with the state to remedy those violations.” By phrasing the outreach this way, the DOJ appears to be signaling a preference for collaborative reform over immediate litigation, while still making it clear that federal oversight is actively being applied to state-level operations. |
Spring Break Ignorance: Is America’s Future Being Wasted?
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Watching those viral spring break interviews feels like seeing the future of our country checked into a motel and left to rot. Young Americans, drunk on slogans and social media catechisms, stumbled through basic questions about politics, geography, and real-world consequences with embarrassing ease. It wasn’t just bad trivia night — it was a snapshot of civic illiteracy that our elites cheered on while they dismantled patriotism in classrooms and public life. What’s striking is how proud many of them seemed to be of their ignorance, trained to value performative outrage over knowledge and muscle memory over mastery. This is the predictable harvest of a generation raised on cable punditry, woke curricula, and a college industrial complex that rewards conformity and punishes independent thought. Hardworking Americans who pay taxes and serve in our armed forces deserve a country where the next generation can name allies, threats, and the fundamentals of how our republic operates. The political consequences are terrifying but obvious: a populace that cannot distinguish fact from fashionable myth is easy prey for demagogues and hard-left activists who want to remake America on the fly. If elections hinge on who yells loudest on social apps instead of who can argue policy soberly, we will lose not because our ideas were worse but because our people were unprepared. National security, economic competence, and common-sense governance require citizens who know more than hashtags. Blame
does not fall only on the kids; it lands squarely on teachers,
administrators, and media gatekeepers who have prioritized identity and
grievance over history and civics. Parents who surrendered their
authority to institutions must also answer for letting schools become
seminaries for ideology rather than nurseries for virtue. Meanwhile,
corporate media laughs from the sidelines or weaponizes these
soft-target interviews to push the very narratives that hollow out our
culture. There is a conservative remedy and it begins with reclaiming education and family life. Teach civics again, inoculate children against propaganda by encouraging critical thinking, and restore a culture that honors work, responsibility, and love of country. We must demand accountability from universities that churn out activists instead of apprentices and from policymakers who fund programs that leave kids ignorant of how America was built. Patriots cannot respond with mockery alone; we must organize, register, teach, and vote. This viral humiliation of spring breakers should be a wake-up call — not an excuse to sneer, but a call to build institutions that actually prepare young Americans to defend liberty. The future of the republic depends on whether conservatives rise to the challenge or continue to let the next generation be manufactured by a hostile cultural elite. |
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