"Have we ever seen a time when so many Democrats were completely off the wall?
"Disqualifying.
"The left is out of control."
"Taxpayers deserve better than symbolic compassion backed by shell games and ballooning deficits."
"President Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration has earned no shortage of condemnation from progressive governors across the country. So it may be surprising that many blue-state leaders are quietly rolling back health coverage for people without legal status.
"Over the past few months, Democratic governors in California, Minnesota, and Illinois have all arrived at the same conclusion: It's not practical to offer taxpayer-funded health insurance to undocumented immigrants.
"In addition to being wildly expensive, such open-ended largesse jeopardizes health care access for vulnerable U.S. citizens who need the safety net most -- single mothers, pregnant women, the elderly, and the disabled." . . .Sadly, the full article is behind a pay wall.
Sally C. Pipes is the president, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy at the Pacific Research Institute. Her latest book is False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All. @sallypipes
"But while Obama snubbed Trump, other liberals heaped praise on the president's Barack Obama refused to name Donald Trump in an astonishing snub to the president as he celebrated the Gaza peace deal.
"The Democratic ex-president posted a statement on social media, saying he was 'relieved that an end to the conflict is within sight.'
"But he could not bring himself to name his nemesis Trump, who defied all odds in securing a peace agreement on Wednesday to end the bloody two-year conflict between Israel and Hamas.
" 'I'll finish it for you. "Thank you, Donald Trump,"' the president's son, Don Jr. wrote, mocking Obama's statement.
"Trump had earlier attacked his predecessor in the Oval Office for receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for 'doing nothing' when asked if he now expected to receive the award.
'I've stopped eight wars, so that's never happened before — but they'll have to do what they do. Whatever they do is fine. I know this: I didn't do it for [the Nobel Peace Prize], I did it because I saved a lot of lives,' Trump said.
Obama received the prestigious award in 2009, eight months into his first term in a decision that shocked the world. Even the liberal New York Times said it was 'very premature' and argued the Nobel 'should have a higher bar.'peace deal."
Biden Tried to Put Trump in Prison, and the Media Wants Us to Forget That – PJ Media
I can only take Biden's three speeches - Independence Hall, the SOTU and the DNC speech - as a call for the assassination of Donald Trump. Biden's mental state I feel cannot be a mitigating factor. The Tunnel Dweller
. . . "Biden's regrets about Garland expose the entire charade. His administration absolutely tried to weaponize the Justice Department, and the mainstream media wants us to pretend it never happened, that Biden’s Justice Department never targeted Trump or his associates. Not only did they target them, Biden wished they'd done it better. Now the media wants us to forget all that and clutch our pearls over accountability finally coming for those who abused their power."
Trump Cheered in Israel, As Liberal Media Makes Stunning Statements Praising Him and Chiding Obama . . . "It's not unfair to say if President Obama is going to write a whole post about a peace deal, maybe he should acknowledge the president that brokered it?" she observed.
"Did you ever think you would see CNN criticizing Obama for shorting Trump?
"Of course, she's right. Obama should have done it.
"This is a man who blew up the Middle East with his decisions, and he clearly had some issues acknowledging that Trump was right and achieved more. He got the Nobel Prize for nothing, but it's Trump who has done the work; whether he ever gets the Nobel, his achievements will live on."
Leftists either ignore Trump’s role in the peace deal or try to claim credit
"[Democrat] Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Gaza peace deal: "It’s good that President Trump adopted and built on the plan the Biden Administration developed.' "
Joe Biden’s plan, of course, was to slow walk weapons to the Israelis, blocking them from bringing the war to a clean and swift end. He also built a pier that washed away in hours, killing one American in the process. Throughout his tenure, Biden kept Hamas’s hope alive. Under Biden’s aegis, Israel would have been worn down, starved of weapons, and the target of ever-escalating world antisemitism.
. . . "But all these leftists are sleazes. These are people who, by hook or by crook, did everything they could to ensure that Israel lost the war or that the war dragged on forever. And now that our wonderful, iconoclastic, and quite unique president, whom they all despise, worked with Bibi Netanyahu to change the game, they’re pretending that they’re the winners."
"People outside of Gaza call Hamas freedom fighters when they are killing innocent Palestinians for nothing. Hamas is holding the people of Gaza hostage."
Now the Left Is Trying to Give Biden Credit for Trump’s Peace Deal – PJ Media
. . . “It’s good that President Trump adopted and built on the plan the Biden Administration developed after months of discussion with Arab partners, Israel and the Palestinian Authority,” he said.
"Let’s be real. There’s no Biden groundwork here. The reason there’s a ceasefire at all is because Trump projects strength, not weakness. Hamas understands force, not hashtags. And no amount of Blinken’s poetic hand-wringing about “hope,” “dignity,” or “the pathway to peace” can change the fact that the only reason there’s peace now is because Trump finally did what Biden never could: win.
"In stark contrast, Biden and Blinken's earlier ceasefire efforts came under fire for leaving hostages in Hamas hands and putting pressure on Israel to make concessions. It is beyond insulting to pretend that the Biden administration laid the groundwork for the peace deal, when they had two years to achieve what took Trump mere months." . . .
Unbelievable: Antony Blinken Gives Biden Credit for Gaza Deal, and It Gets Worse From There
. . . "At no point did the Biden administration apply any pressure on the Arab nations to turn against Hamas and end the war. More importantly, they never applied pressure on Iran, which was fueling the conflict in Gaza and propping up Hezbollah in the north as a threat. In short, the entire region was on fire, and it was handed over to Trump in far worse condition than Biden and company found it.
"For Blinken to pretend the former administration laid the groundwork and showed the path forward is laughable. But he hadn't reached peak shamelessness yet. That came later in his thread when he demanded the establishment of a Palestinian state." . . .
. . . "Americans should be so thankful that no one is listening to these over-credentialed imbeciles anymore. The arsonists don't get to wag their fingers and lecture the firefighters who put out their fires. They certainly don't get to take credit for it. The foreign policy establishment is a joke, and it should be treated as such."
The same deal that reunites families also reopens wounds that never healed
. . . "Because for every hostage who steps into the light, a terrorist steps out of the darkness. And as much as we celebrate this moment, we can’t pretend it comes without consequence. The return of life is always sacred but the release of evil is never without cost.. . . "
There is so very much more on this that I could use that will use to stifle the celebration, but MSNBC, "The View" and the media of all hours will happily do that. The Tunnel Dweller.
"This comes as Hamas has stated that it is encountering “very great complexity” in locating all the deceased hostages, and that it will need over 72 hours to find their corpses, which would violate the 48 hour timeframe allotted to return them under the ceasefire agreement. As of this writing, 10 bodies of hostages are reported to be missing.
"The following are just some of the terrorists who are expected to be released this week." . . .
IDF releases footage showing Hamas' brutal treatment of prisoners "Solitary confinement, suffocation, and prisoners thrown down stairs: New footage reveals Hamas’ abuse of Gaza prisoners.
"The IDF has released videos from 2023 obtained by Israeli forces and the ISA, taken from security cameras inside Hamas' "Al-Katiba" Prison in the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City.
"These videos expose severe abuse by Hamas prison guards against prisoners, including holding them in brutal conditions that violate their most basic human rights." Video: Palestinians hatred for Jews made visible.
"More than that, while Hamas survives on paper, the fact is that there’s almost nothing left of it. Israel systematically wiped out the leadership and huge numbers of troops. The weapons are gone. And, most importantly, the support from the Arab and Muslim world is gone. Iran and Hezbollah are broken, Qatar learned that it’s not safe from Israeli reprisals, and the rest of the Middle East wants the war over. It was the Arab nations that forced this settlement." . . .
‘Ceasefire’ Democrats go quiet after Trump secures first phase of Israel-Hamas peace deal
"See if you can spot it. First, here’s Schumer’s statement:" . . . Read full article here...
That’s right, neither statement mentioned Trump — whose administration played the starring role in brokering the agreement — or even a reference to the United States government.
"The fact that the flyers for the John Brown Club were posted and allowed to remain for two days — while the entire community walked past them — suggests that the university’s ideological intimidation has chilled speech sufficiently so that no one, except for the courageous Shae McInniss, felt compelled to do anything about them."
"While Georgetown University administrators should be lauded for removing the violence-promoting recruiting flyers that were posted throughout the Catholic campus for the ANTIFA-affiliated John Brown Club, it is important to determine how the hateful flyers were allowed to be posted on buildings and bulletin boards in the first place. Carrying the slogan “Hey Fascist, Catch This!” along with a recruitment QR code, Georgetown students, staff, and faculty were confronted with the flyers as they walked through campus last week.
"Emerging on September 24th on flyer boards in Village A, a Georgetown student housing complex, the second wave was posted in broad daylight the next day on campus activity boards and public posting areas throughout “Red Square,” the Georgetown University central free speech area on campus. Obviously fearful of retaliation for attempting to remove the violence-promoting posters on a campus that has stifled the speech of many conservative students for decades, no one attempted to remove the hateful posters until sophomore student Shae McInnis, Treasurer of the Georgetown College Republicans, discovered the posters and reported them to university authorities.
"Describing the posters as threatening and explicitly referencing the assassination of Charlie Kirk, McInnis stated that the flyers were a “direct threat to conservative students” and called attention to their violent rhetoric, including slogans such as “Hey fascist! Catch!” The posters proclaimed themselves to be the “only political group that celebrates when Nazis die.” . . . More...
Charlie Kirk: A Conservative Advocate, Not a Fascist
. . . "However, a close examination of Kirk's positions through established academic and scholarly definitions of fascism reveals a different picture. Far from embodying fascist ideology, Kirk's advocacy aligned more closely with classical liberalism, libertarianism, and conservative populism, emphasizing limited government, free markets, and individual liberties. This analysis draws on key definitions from academic scholarship and economists Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, and Friedrich Hayek to demonstrate why Kirk did not fit the fascist mold."
Treasury Sanctions Hamas-Aligned Terrorist Fundraising Network "A Palestinian-American billionaire helped lay the groundwork for the Hamas Oct. 7 attacks, families of American Oct. 7 massacre victims alleged in a new lawsuit released Monday.
"The lawsuit targets Bashar Masri, a Palestinian-American billionaire who allegedly used his Gaza-based companies to quietly aid Hamas in building key infrastructure that would be used in the conflict, including tunnels, buildings for high-level meetings and even power generation. Some of the construction was done using U.S. taxpayer funds, according to the lawsuit, which pointed to funds doled out by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
“ 'By actively working with Hamas to build and maintain its attack tunnel infrastructure while simultaneously advancing Hamas’s campaign of deception, Defendants aided and abetted and conspired with Hamas, and the October 7 Attack and the deaths of soldiers and civilians thereafter were a foreseeable consequence of Defendants’ collaboration with Hamas,” the lawsuit reads. “Plaintiffs—American victims of the October 7 Attack and its aftermath, and their family members and their estates—therefore bring this action under the Anti-Terrorism Act (“ATA”) as amended by the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (“JASTA”).” . . .
Well-Connected Billionaire Leveraged US Tax Dollars To Help Hamas Gear Up For Oct. 7, Lawsuit Alleges "A Palestinian-American billionaire helped lay the groundwork for the Hamas Oct. 7 attacks, families of American Oct. 7 massacre victims alleged in a new lawsuit released Monday.
"The lawsuit targets Bashar Masri, a Palestinian-American billionaire who allegedly used his Gaza-based companies to quietly aid Hamas in building key infrastructure that would be used in the conflict, including tunnels, buildings for high-level meetings and even power generation. Some of the construction was done using U.S. taxpayer funds, according to the lawsuit, which pointed to funds doled out by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)." . . .
New York Times Obtains a Memo Hamas Leader Ordering October 7th Massacre "The NY Times has obtained a handwritten memo by Yahya Sinwar with plans for the October 7 Massacre & intercepts of Hamas communications.
The cruelty was premeditated. Burning houses with people inside. Stomping on people’s heads. Filming it all for the whole Islamic world.
“It’s a great deal for Israel, but it’s a great deal for everybody,” he told reporters in the Oval Office. “I can tell you that I saw Israel dancing in the streets, but they were dancing in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, many, many countries.” DJT
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"Hamas might have expected a hero's embrace in the Arab world after signing off on the hostage-exchange and ceasefire agreement. They have spent the last two years proclaiming their victory for "Palestine" in the October 7 massacres that started the war, and they have doubled down on that spin since agreeing to Donald Trump's proposal this week.
"After two years of destruction -- much of it involving investment from the Arab world in Gaza -- reality could be a bit different. In the cold light of a cease-fire, not even nominally friendly forums are letting Hamas spokespeople off the hook. Hamas co-founder Mousa Abu Marzouk told a Qatari interviewer to "go to hell" and show him some respect for asking the obvious question: What the ever-loving f*** were you idiots thinking on October 7?
"To be fair, the Pan-Arab Ghad interviewer put it more politely, but still ...
Abu Marzouk, who lives in Qatar, tried to justify the terror organization’s crimes by saying that Hamas “fulfilled its national duty.” At that point, the journalist asked: “Was what you did on October 7 to lead the Palestinians to liberation?”
Visibly annoyed and embarrassed, Abu Marzouk remained silent and then responded that “no sane person would claim that on October 7, with just a thousand or so fighters, it was possible to liberate Palestine.”
He then demanded from the interviewer: “Please, at least make your questions respectful.”
The journalist calmly continued, “I am asking you the questions that are being asked on the streets of Palestine, by the residents of Gaza.”
At that point, Marzouk lost his temper and began to shout: “These are your questions! Show some respect for yourself. I don’t want to talk to you. I don’t want to see you. Cut it out. Cut it out. Go to hell!”
"Marzouk had better get used to this question. Those left in Gaza will ask it, especially when Hamas has to step aside for the proposed pan-Arab force that will take control of Gaza at the end of the ceasefire proposal. At that point, the only accomplishments that Hamas can claim will be:
"What makes Mayor Johnson even more ridiculous is that he is doing nothing to attract prosperity or support local businesses desperately trying to keep thieves from their stores. He is a first rate demagogue obsessed with President Trump, rather than making his city a better place to live."
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"Is there a worse city mayor than Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago? I don’t know, but it’s hard to deny that Chicago is a mess. This is from Professor Jonathan Turley:
As a native Chicagoan, I must confess that I have little patience for Mayor Brandon Johnson, a politician who has been a disaster for the city. One of the most unpopular mayors in the city’s history, Johnson has been using the increased ICE operations to try to ride a wave of rage back into popularity. His language has become more and more inflammatory in calling for citizens to ‘resist’ and ‘fight’ federal law enforcement. Now, he is claiming the authority to not only mandate ‘ICE-free zones’ in the city but to arrest federal officers.
Ironically, Johnson has declared that President Donald Trump wants a ‘rematch of the Civil War.’ However, it is Johnson who is pursuing antebellum policies. It was the South that claimed independence from the Union and fought to expel federal troops.
"I guess that Mayor Johnson don’t know much about history either, as Sam Cooke’s song goes. (“Don't know much about history....”)
"The latest nonsense from Mayor Johnson is to effectively exempt Chicago from federal law. Back to Professor Turley:
Johnson signed a ridiculous executive order creating ‘ICE-Free Zones’ to ban federal agents from using city-owned properties and property of unwilling private owners as staging areas for immigration enforcement.
The federal government has its own jurisdictional authority and can enter city and private property in pursuit of lawful operations. In terms of ‘staging’ operations, the Constitution, not Brandon Johnson, protects citizens from having their property seized or used for the quartering of troops.
"So Mayor Johnson doesn’t know that one about the federal government and supremacy over state law (of course, as long as it’s “in pursuance” of the Constitution). Maybe he should chat with President Obama and how they attacked Arizona for trying to pass a secure border law back in 2012. Remember that one? I do." . . . More...
. . . "The media and other Democrats have said Trump doesn’t like strong women, but he surrounds himself with very strong and intelligent women, including his wife. It is a shame that the mainstream media doesn’t cover Melania’s speech from yesterday about Russia, Ukraine, and the children she helped save."
"For confused journalists and other analysts or supposed experts wondering how Trump is succeeding in bringing peace to the Middle East, all that they must do is look at how Obama, Biden, Europe, and their career diplomats handled Iran to see why they failed where Trump has succeeded. The Democrats’ goal has been to harm the West; Trump’s policy has been to benefit America and the Western world.
"Iran has been a threat to the World for decades, as they developed dangerous weapons and supported multiple terrorist groups that were killing and maiming people throughout the Middle East and the world. So, what did Obama and Biden do? They spent years building up Iran and appeasing the mullahs instead of trying to destroy them.
"Trump, on the other hand, has spent his first and second terms working on weakening Iran by destroying their finances. Doing so also cuts off the funds Iran delivered to terrorists.
"In Trump’s first term, he finally kept the promise several U.S. presidents had made to move our embassy to Israel, despite warnings about how dangerous that was to the region. It didn’t cause problems, but it did show the world and the region that he would keep the promises.
"Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who is not a career Middle East expert, worked to implement the Abraham Accords across the region.
"Trump took out a top terrorist Iranian terrorist (Qassim Soleimani). Biden and the Democrat crowd said that doing so was terribly dangerous. It wasn’t. Iran barely retaliated.
"Trump imposed severe sanctions on Iranian oil. Biden refused to enforce any sanctions, allowing Iran to go back to funding its war machine and terrorist organizations.
"Heck, Obama shipped Iranian leaders billions in unmarked cash and also dictatorially shut down a long investigation into Hezbollah’s billion-dollar drug-running operation to reach the worthless and dangerous Iranian nuclear deal.
"Trump also did everything he could to keep oil prices low, which greatly harmed both Iran and Russia. Biden set out to destroy low-priced oil. He succeeded in jacking up prices, which hurt Americans and financed wars and terrorism.
"In Trump’s second term, he began by meeting with several Middle Eastern leaders to negotiate business deals and improve relations." . . . More...
"I asked Bruner to come back on my Adult in the Room Podcast to break it all down for us. And I asked him why do these progressive blue-city, blue-state governments force their citizens to tolerate this violence?"
"How do they afford it? How do Antifa militants on the streets of Portland afford all the stuff that allows them to spend hours a day in waiting till the night so they can make life a living hell for Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers trying to come in or go out of the driveway? And why does the city protect them?
"We all know somebody's paying for all the prepared deli sandwiches and pastries that keep that topless lady in the wheelchair and her theater kid pals in rolls and butter.
"That storage unit full of their supplies costs money. Who's paying for that safe house down the street that Antifa militants use for rest and costume changes? Why do they get a pass from the cops? Why do elected officials make excuses for their violence and pretend it's not happening?
"Someone's getting paid for being willing to go to jail for harassing people and picking fights. How much did they get paid for being willing to hold armed checkpoints on behalf of Black Lives Matter on the streets of Portland in 2021, and beating two drivers? Who pays for their training?
"Antifa thugs chased reporter Andy Ngo through the streets of Portland and beat him... again. Why? Holding a summer camp in Portland parks to grow a new generation of mind-numbed bots isn't cheap.
"One of my West Coast, Messed Coast™ readers tasked me with the question: Why are they protecting Antifa?
"There are probably many answers, but the easiest one is that the big-money donors and unions handing out cash to politicians are also funding this unrest. They're of one hive mind. They are ideological twins.
"In Oregon, where a lot of this unrest plays out, the biggest funders of the progressive causes, not necessarily street violence, is government. But as we know, money is fungible.
"This is according to Open Secrets:
Oregon Health & Science University: $491,765
Portland State University: $343,309
State of Oregon: $750,194
VoteVets.org: $1,832,500
WE Communications: $808,166
Nike Inc: $695,141
"The Associate Director of Research at the Government Accountability Institute (GAI), Seamus Bruner, has written a book about the billionaires funding all manner of direct action violence on the streets. That means Antifa, BLM, and their fellow violence merchants. He presented his findings to the president and his key cabinet members at Wednesday's Antifa summit.
"In his presentation to the president, Bruner named five funders whose money is used for violence on the streets, whether they know it or not. The information is contained in his book The Controligarchs: Exposing the Billionaire Class, Their Secret Deals, and the Globalist Plot to Dominate Your Life." . . . More...
Antifa Has Awakened the Sleeping Giant "It is recorded in our history books that when he looked down at the ship full of smiling, victorious faces… faces of his flyers, just having returned from Pearl Harbor, Japanese fleet Admiral Yamamoto was quiet, pensive, even apprehensive. He later wrote in his private diary,
“I fear all I have done is awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.”
"It took the attack on Pearl Harbor to awaken Americans to the threat that the world faced, a bit over 82 years ago. A couple weeks ago, in my daily column, I raised what I considered at the time an unlikely but logical parallel between the 9/11 attacks and Charlie Kirk's death. I may have even used the same Yamamoto passage in that piece. But in researching today's piece over the last few days, and particularly in light of recent Antifa activity, I find the comparison more even more apt than I did then." . . .
. . . "I always liked the French philosopher Michel de Montaigne’s quote, which given the attachment of Antifa to our supposed institutions of "higher leaning" seems very appropriate here:
“I prefer the company of peasants as they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”
"I note that there seems to be an inverse relationship between educational credentials and what we used to refer to as common sense. Alas, that sense seems lacking in commonality in those places, these days." . . .
FOX 35 "Walt Disney World tickets and annual passes are going up, including annual pass renewals.
A one-day, one-park ticket varies by theme park:
Disney's Animal Kingdom: $119-$174
EPCOT: $129-$194
Disney's Hollywood Studios: $139-$194
Magic Kingdom: $139-$199
"Disney said increases would begin after October 2026 and the highest of its price points would be around the major holidays, such as Thanksgiving and Christmas." . . .
