A rare Oval Office moment: Trump and Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani answer tough questions, defuse tension, and battle for control of the room. In this video the communication strategies, power moves, and framing tools both leaders use
Alastair Campbell quotes Umberto Eco to that effect. And Tucker Carlson’s bizarre friendship with the notorious Nick Fuentes has made the work of more sensible people exponentially harder. Whatever gains America has made since the dark days of Joe Biden are in danger of total erosion thanks to people like Carlson, Fuentes and Candace Owen.… Read More Is the Cult of ‘Tradition’ the Birth of Fascism?
I think it is critical to notice when the trees seem to be advancing against the Christian Worldview, and who has been charged with leading the assault. The aim has been to tear apart the Christian world and its traditional moral values from the beginning, and to substitute a “Rules Based” “Liberal” Order in a… Read More The Pied Pipers of the Old ‘Liberal World Order’. Rory Stewart & Alastair Campbell.
NYPost: …”If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians the U.S.A will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, “guns-a-blazing,” to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,” the president wrote in a post to Truth Social Saturday… Read More Trump Threatens Military Strike on Nigeria if Slaughter of Christians Doesn’t Cease
Leon Hadar Analysis Oct 21, 2025 As the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas limps .., Washington’s foreign policy establishment is engaged in its favorite parlor game: declaring victory. President Trump has proclaimed himself peacemaker-in-chief, Netanyahu has welcomed returning hostages with tears and embraces, and Hamas leaders insist from their Doha offices that the resistance… Read More The Real Winner of the Gaza Ceasefire?
A Strategic Blunder disguised as strength “… North Korea, the only nation conducting actual nuclear tests in recent years, is hardly the standard by which America should calibrate its strategic posture. What Trump has done, whether intentionally or not, is hand a propaganda victory to Beijing and Moscow while potentially accelerating the very nuclear competition… Read More Trump’s Nuclear Testing Blunder
…and soon all Americans will feel the results. President Donald Trump’s tariffs appear to be working. Walmart’s chief executive has confirmed that the company is increasing its investments in US-made products and suppliers. The retail giant is not the only major American company paying more attention to American manufacturing. Now that Trump has placed tariffs on most countries outside… Read More Walmart boss says Trump’s tariffs gamble is paying off…
The last time my blood pressure probably hit the roof was when I saw Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, James Coney and others conspire to get Donald Trump, the next President of the United States, kicked off of what was then known as Twitter. And it was, as always, to be done under the pretext of… Read More Twitter by Any Other Name..
Donald Trump in 2017 said to television news commentator, Bill O’Reilly in regards to Putin being a killer, “There are a lot of killers. We have a lot of killers. Well, you think our country is so innocent?” O’REILLY retorted, “I don’t know of any government leaders that are killers.” TRUMP: “Well — take a… Read More Donald Trump and the Democrats
‘Today, as Donald Trump reportedly provides Ukraine with intelligence for long-range missile strikes against Russia, we assess just how serious the economic situation is becoming amid reports of gas shortages. Then, as European leaders join President Zelensky in Copenhagen, we hear about the new ‘drone wall’ and how Moscow has upgraded its missiles to better… Read More Donald Trump Reportedly Shares Intelligence For Long-Range Strikes on Russia
The Telegraph 2024 Is the UN still relevant? The organisation faces numerous unresolved conflicts, a cash crisis, deep polarisation among its members, a bloated bureaucracy and the waning interest of its biggest backer, the US. Venetia Rainey speaks to Richard Gowan, veteran UN watcher and UN director for the US think tank International Crisis Group.… Read More Is the UN Still Relevant?
The suspect in Charlie Kirk’s assassination became ‘more political’ in recent years and spoke about disliking the conservative activist’s ideas, officials said on Thursday. The suspect was named as 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, from Washington, Utah. Robinson was turned into police overnight by his father and a minister in southern Utah after authorities shared images of the… Read More Kirk’s Alleged Assassin Motive Revealed
Charlie Kirk, the founder of the conservative youth activist organization Turning Point USA, has died after he was shot during an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday, President Donald Trump said. “The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead,” Trump said on social media. “No one understood or had the Heart of the… Read More Outrageous
9/9/25. In addition to marking out today’s geopolitical dangers, Ferguson in this Charlie Rose interview also explains why he does not believe January 6 was a coup, and also why he converted from atheism to Christianity. Sir Niall Ferguson, born in Glasgow, Scotland, combined his education in history, politics, and economics at Oxford with his… Read More Historian Niall Ferguson on Where Trump Stands Today
During a conversation on “Washington Week with the Atlantic,” ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jon Karl, MSNBC’s Jonathan Lemire, and The New York Times White House correspondent Tyler Pager were discussing President Donald Trump’s announcement that he and private donors would foot the bill for a new ballroom costing $200 million at the White House. “I mean, he’s planning… Read More NYT Reporter: Trump “Way More Effective” in Second Term
… he’s the most consequential President since FDR. @realDonaldTrump: “I don’t care what India does with Russia. They can take their dead economies down together, for all I care. We have done very little business with India, their Tariffs are too high, among the highest in the World. Likewise, Russia and the USA do almost… Read More Like him or not…
DNI Tulsi Gabbard has accused Obama Deep State officials John Brennan, James Clapper, Susan Rice and James Comey of organizing a COUP against President Trump. * “Proof” Former President Obama knew of “manufactured conspiracy” from the beginning
John J. Mearsheimer, Author.International Security (2019) 43 (4): 7–50. Abstract. The liberal international order, erected after the Cold War, was crumbling by 2019. It was flawed from the start and thus destined to fail. The spread of liberal democracy around the globe—essential for building that order—faced strong resistance because of nationalism, which emphasizes self-determination. Some targeted… Read More Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal International Order
Two Takes. President John F. Kennedy’s interview with NBC anchors Chet Huntley and David Brinkley. They sat down with the President in the White House for an exclusive interview for their program, The Huntley-Brinkley Report. In the interview the President discusses various topics including the nuclear test ban treaty, South Vietnam advisors, tax cuts, and… Read More September 1963. JFK on Tax Cuts, Tariffs, So. Vietnam Advisors, and Civil Rights
Environmental Socialist Naomi Klein says Elon Musk and some “fascist” Maga friends have “given up on this world” and given in to a secular “Apocalyptic Fever”. In consequence they are using this planet, she says, to extract from this world fossil fuels, critical minerals, water…”anything that can be used for energy and money with a… Read More Artificial World? “End Time Fascism?” Third Temple?
“Top diplomats from the United States and Russia met in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to discuss ending the war in Ukraine and improving relations between Washington and Moscow. The Riyadh summit represents a monumental shift in U.S. policy after the Biden administration led an international effort to isolate Russia over its invasion and gave tens… Read More Victory for Putin in Ukraine? Jeffrey Sachs and Matt Duss Debate War.
Updated. Calling out Europe on its Human Rights contradictions, promiscuous immigration laws and its failure to provide for its own security aims. Link to speech here Also: PARIS—Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that the U.S. would hit Moscow with sanctions and potentially military action if Russian President Vladimir Putin won’t agree to a peace deal with Ukraine that… Read More JD Vance’s History Making Speech to Munich Conference 2025
Court insiders claim Trump sanctions could destroy the ICC. Blow to Political Internationalism. “ICC sources told The Guardian that the measures expected to be implemented by the Trump administration could “shut the court down entirely”. “The concern is the sanctions will be used to shut the court down, to destroy it rather than just tie its hands,” one official warned.… Read More Trump’s sanctions will hit the International Criminal Court hard
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — President Donald Trump’s plan to seek U.S. ownership of the Gaza Strip and move out its population infuriated the Arab world. It stunned American allies and other global powers and even flummoxed members of Trump’s own party. The reaction in Israel was starkly different. The idea of removing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians… Read More Trump Gaza plan shocks the world but finds support in Israel
Sitting next to a beaming Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump announced that the US would be clearing all Palestinians off their land in Gaza, that US troops would move in, and that the US would rebuild it for Israelis to take over once finished. This is making America great again? Also today: the… Read More Former Presidential Candidate Ron Paul: Trump Plan for Gaza Could End Up Our Vietnam.
It is stunning that a truism should be stunning. But given the last four years of the Biden administration, President Donald Trump, by reaffirming the exclusive male-female binary at the Federal level on day 1 of the second term of his Presidency, has done a marvelous thing for the entire world. This is something Leftists,… Read More Trump and IVF. Just the Facts.
President Donald J. Trump. Executive Order.January 20, 2025. “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Purpose.The First Amendment to the United States Constitution, an amendment… Read More Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship
Executive Order Affirming ‘Biological Reality Of Sex’. Rebukes and Reverses Democrat Decadence. CNA to. ” The executive order is sweeping in nature. Its application will include removing gender ideology guidance, communication, policies, and forms from governmental agencies. It explicitly affirms that the word “woman” means “adult human female.” And it orders that government identification like… Read More Trump Returns Nation to Gender Sanity
Elon’s hoarding? “I was wondering……Where are all the Elon Musk cancer centers?Where are all the Elon Musk hospital wings?Where are all the Elon Musk food banks?Where are all the Elon Muskeducational grants & scholarships?What disease eradication effortsdoes Elon Musk support?How does Elon Musk use his vastwealth to help eradicate poverty?How does Elon Musk use his… Read More Ebenezer Elon?
Raise the child tax credit and introduce a ‘baby bonus’ for parents of newborns. Leah Libresco Sargeant and Daniel Darling | Jan 20 2025, National Review. Donald Trump’s return to office will unfold in a post-Dobbs policy landscape. With a Republican trifecta, conservatives have a unique opportunity to define what pro-family and pro-life governance truly means. During the vice… Read More The Republican Trifecta Should Focus on Pro-Family Policy
On February 26, 1950, a couple of years before I was born, Leonard Bernstein premiered his second symphony, The Age of Anxiety, in New York City. It was based on W. H. Auden’s 1948 Pulitzer Prize winning poem which had used the metaphor to describe the spiritual, psychological, and political milieu after World War II.… Read More The Age of Anxiety
January 15, 2025 at 12:27 p.m. EST “Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire deal, in a major breakthrough that includes the release of Israeli hostages, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive negotiations. The first phase of the agreement, brokered by the United States, Qatar… Read More Israel and Hamas agree to ceasefire, release of Israeli hostages, senior U.S. official says
From the December 2024 New Oxford Review symposium Catholics and Political Life. 1. It is hard for me to understand how a nation can be an experiment. Such a notion presupposes that the United States is not actually a nation but an idea, something that underlies our many attempts, from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush,… Read More Thomas Storck on the American Experiment
Trump joins other world leaders at “reopening” of Notre Dame Cathedral. What burned in that fire and what is possibly being reborn? Antichristic Uncertainties. 12/7/24 + March 2025. Christians reportedly suffering increasing persecution in Syria + UN ignores Persecution of Christians + “…more than two Christian monuments are targeted EVERY day in France” + At… Read More Antichristic Uncertainties
Heck, we don’t to want turn away important allies in seeking to restore at least some “old” values anywhere, and it’s got to be better than what Kamala Harris was selling, but some of this is seeming a bit exploitative and schlocky. SH. “Viewers tuning into Fox News on Thursday afternoon were treated to an… Read More Selling America? Donald Trump Hawking Bibles, Sneakers and cologne.
…Or does he want to develop them with Ukraine to the benefit of the American people? Opinion. Washington Post 12/18/24 Donald Trump often says that liberating Iraq without getting its oil resources was one of America’s biggest foreign policy blunders. He has a chance to avoid a similar mistake in Ukraine. Ukraine is not only… Read More Does Trump Want Putin to Get Ukraine’s $26 trillion in gas and minerals?
“Why Martin Gurri, a former CIA analyst who is a visiting fellow at the Mercatus Center and a columnist for The Free Press, voted for ‘Trump the Agent of Chaos’ vs. ‘The Will to Power Democrats‘. A decade ago, in the wake of the Arab Spring and various “color” revolutions around the world, Gurri published The Revolt of… Read More Chaos and Control. A Fascinating Discussion.
Updated. 95% of all abortions are procured for elective not emergency reasons. Who needs Roe v. Wade anyway in this day and age? The beat goes on, just not the beating of the baby’s heart which can easily be stopped when decided upon. + ‘Planned Parenthood Direct’ ‘Telehealth’ App to Circumvent Funding Cuts + Why… Read More The Little Pills That Will “Terminate” With Extreme Prejudice. A Global Phenomenon.
Critics have been punished on X. “Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s support for H1B visas triggers full-blown MAGA meltdown over the Christmas holiday – Laura Loomer penalized for opposing Musk on X – and more.” Importing workers at the expense of American workers? Did Elon Musk use Maga for strictly global hegemonic business purposes? [Strong… Read More Musk, Bannon, and the Corporatocracy
See also The Drama of Atheist Humanism Ignatius Press Fulton J. Sheen: “The Roots of Democracy and Peace. The word “crisis” in Greek means judgment. A crisis in history is therefore a “verdict of history” upon the way any given civilization has lived and thought, married and unmarried, bought and sold, prayed and cursed. That… Read More Democracy. Philosophies At War. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.
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