"I left Islam for Christ. Playing 'crusader' in Dearborn is ruining our witness" Abdu Murray

 I have had gracious, edifying conversations with a few Muslims, but you can see by the Hamas and Oct 7th commentaries in the Tunnel Wall, compassion and respect ends with those who behead babies and murder families. TD

Washington Examiner   

"Christians are to be ambassadors of Christ (2 Cor. 5:20), expressing what is beautiful, good, and true. I met such ambassadors during my nine-year odyssey from Islam to Christ. What persuaded me was not spectacles or confrontation, but the credibility of the gospel, conveyed by Christians who compromised on neither truth nor compassion."

"Knights of the Crusades, crosses on their chests and swords held high, rushed toward a Muslim horde with violence in their eyes and scimitars raised. That image circulated on social media ahead of the Aug. 18 political march in Dearborn, Michigan — only a few miles from where I have lived my whole life, first as a Muslim, now as a Christian for the last 26 years. The image, and what happened that day, troubles me — but not for the reasons many assume.

"I support Christians engaging in the public arena, politics included. But we must ask whether our engagement bears the image of Christ or confirms the caricature of Christianity we hope to overcome.

"Every Christian in metro Detroit who wants to talk to a Muslim neighbor about Jesus now has the additional barrier of that crusade image and the news coverage of Christians angrily pointing their fingers. 

JAMES TALARICO SAID HE ‘HATES CHRISTIANITY.’ HERE’S WHY

"I understand the concerns that brought some Christians to that march; I've shared some of them publicly. Friends of mine were mistreated — and even arrested — for preaching the gospel at a Dearborn festival, then vindicated in court, acquitted, and awarded damages in a civil suit. More recently, Dearborn’s mayor chastised a Christian at a City Council meeting, telling him he wasn't welcome in the city where he pays taxes. A protester was recently attacked in the streets. His attackers were arrested, and the legal system is running its course. These are legitimate causes for concern.

"Those events, coupled with fears that the Muslim-controlled “no-go zones” of Europe and the UK might take root here, drove much of the support for the Aug. 18 march. Police arrested 22 people for misdemeanors (though they declined to say which side they came from). That the justice system is working gives me hope that we are not in the same place as Europe and the U.K.

"Some critics say Christians should stay out of politics altogether. That swings the pendulum too far." . . .  Full article...

Abdu Murray is a speaker, author, and attorney who specializes in addressing issues where religious faith and emerging cultural trends intersect and collide. He has written four books, including Saving Truth, Grand Central Question, Apocalypse Later, More than a White Man’s Religion. His newest book, Fake ID: How AI and Identity Ideology Are Collapsing Reality―and What to Do About It, was released nationwide Feb. 3, 2026.

Gavin Newsom signs ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’ expanding protections for immigrant service workers

MEAWW News

"Critics have condemned the measure, arguing that it could intimidate people 'trying to shine light on bad behavior'"

"LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: On Saturday, August 22, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 2624, expanding the Safe at Home program. Now, employees at nonprofits that help immigrants with the immigration system get covered by this protection too. This happened just days after a staffer from the state Assembly interrupted an interview with journalist Nick Shirley outside the state Capitol in Sacramento." . . .

What does the 'Stop Nick Shirley Act' do? – Deseret News   . . . "The act, sponsored by Assembly Member Mia Bonta, the wife of California’s attorney general, would outlaw the sharing of photos or personal data of “immigrant service” providers on the internet in the state, if it was done as harassment.

"Specifically, it builds off of the state’s existing “Safe At Home Program,” which is supposed to help domestic violence survivors, and adds the following:

• Shields public home and work addresses from public records.
• Prohibits any individual or entity from posting, displaying, selling or distributing the personal information or images of program participants online when done with the intent to threaten, intimidate or incite violence." . . .

(Republican Assembly Member Alexandra) "DeMaio continued, “This is not about protecting people from violence. This is about threatening and intimidating people who are trying to shine a light on bad behavior. If you have nothing to hide, why fear the transparency?”

The act's purpose seems to be anti-doxxing which the left does with ICE members and causes them to wear masks. TD

“Here in California, the politicians, instead of going after the fraudsters, they’re going after the ones that are going to expose the fraud,”

   . . . "Shirley also pointed to the legislation’s author, Assemblywoman Mia Bonta, whose husband, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, serves as the state’s top law enforcement official.

“While the attorney general is supposed to go after fraudsters, his wife is doing the opposite,” Shirley said.

"Explaining how he and others intend to fight it, Shirley said: “This is not the end; this is just the beginning.”

"Other speakers at the rally argued that the issue extends beyond Shirley and could affect Californians’ ability to scrutinize how taxpayer dollars are being spent."

Los Angeles Residents Disgusted by Their Choices for Mayor: ‘I Wish They Could Both Lose’ 

. . . "Lots of people who live in Los Angeles are disgusted by the two choices they have for mayor this year, Democrat incumbent Karen Bass and radical DSA candidate Nithya Raman.

"It is still amazing to think that leftists managed to bump Republican Spencer Pratt off the ballot, leaving voters with the choices of far left or super far left.

"The city is in need of rescuing, but no one is coming to the rescue. The left made sure of that by removing Pratt from the race." . . .

. . . "People in Los Angeles have only one option left. Write in Spencer Pratt for mayor. It might not work, but it’s their last hope."

Newsom bristles at Nick Shirley alleged fraud exposé on California

"YouTube content creator Nick Shirley, the independent journalist and conservative influencer who shined a light on alleged child care fraud in Minnesota, has set his sights on another Democrat-controlled state: California. His new exposé suggests fraudsters in the Golden State are creating fake hospice businesses by using the Medicare beneficiary numbers of seniors who are actually healthy. NewsNation's Nancy Loo has more."

Racism Isn't Fueling Gary Power Outages. Black Leaders Are

"It is not racism preventing Gary from thriving. It is apathy, political thievery, and race obsession."

The Federalist  

"Take it from someone who knows. Gary isn’t in the dark because of racist white people. Gary is in the dark because of incompetent, selfish, self-interested black people who trade on the language of racism to maintain their power without accountability." 

"Gary, Indiana, just wrapped up week two with no power, and the left-wing narrative on the extended blackout is (unsurprisingly), “It’s racism!” As someone who lived in Gary for a decade, I can tell you it is anything but that. 

Gary made me a conservative. In 1999, I married a man from Gary and moved to his home on the west side. That marked the beginning of a 10-year journey in one of the most dangerous cities in America. I was a default Democrat at the time, like most black Americans. Still, as a Christian woman, I dove into community service right away, helping launch and direct an afterschool program.

"There I saw how all the laws and policies I had supported my entire adult life worked up close. I quickly discovered they don’t. I was treated to an endless stream of haughty, entitled bureaucrats who openly despised anyone trying to improve the city on their own. In a city that is almost all black and run exclusively by black people, you’d think I would have found many allies and people excited for progress. It was the exact opposite. Gary was a mess then, and it’s still a mess. 

The cries of racism have been the loudest these past few days. Memphis is also experiencing a mass power outage, and Malcolm X impersonator Justin Pearson is using Gary’s current crisis to make a connection to the Memphis blackout:" 

Another Joy Reid type.

"The post is quite the self-own. Pearson skates near the edges of the truth here, but per usual glides right by the obvious conclusion: Majority-black cities are governed terribly. 

"Gary is not experiencing storm racism. Gary is experiencing complete incompetence, and the storm laid it bare. There are a few reasons Gary remains in a position of suffering.

"First, people literally shot at the power company. NIPSCO (Northwest Indiana’s energy provider) has reported that multiple bullets struck their vehicle as employees tried to navigate the streets of the city and make repairs. 

"Second, people are abandoning their homes in search of air conditioning, gas, and electricity, leaving property vulnerable to thieves and home invaders. My senior citizen uncle refuses to leave his home for fear there will be nothing to come back to. He and his wife feel they must choose between suffering and theft." . . .   More...

Kira Davis is a political pundit, broadcaster, and writer. She has appeared on outlets such as Fox News, Newsnation, Newsmax, BBC, and more. She is the author of “Drawing Lines: Why Conservatives Must Begin to Battle Fiercely In the Arena of Ideas” and lives in southern California with her family and a blind dog. 

How David Letterman Failed the Dangerous Laughter Test

 The Hayride   

"And if Allen is right that the roots of Russiagate reach much further back than 2016, then that missing Letterman interview may be a small piece of a much larger story about who shaped the narratives Americans were given, who repeated them and what eventually disappeared from view."

"(Mark Anthony) — Seven days after the Benghazi attack, Barack Obama went on David Letterman’s show.

"The date was September 18, 2012. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were dead. The Obama administration was under mounting pressure to explain what had happened, the election was less than two months away, and the administration’s explanation that the attack had grown out of a spontaneous reaction to an anti-Islam video was already under scrutiny.

"So Obama went to Letterman. Naturally. 

"That was one of the more striking moments in A.J. Rice’s Dangerous Laughter conversation with Drew Thomas Allen, author of Clinton Hoax, Obama Coup: The Declassified Story of the Trump-Russia Delusion. Allen’s book argues that the political and intelligence controversies that exploded around Donald Trump in 2016 did not begin with Trump. To understand Russiagate, he argues, you have to go backward through the Obama years, Benghazi, Hillary Clinton and the intelligence community.

"But the Letterman story is where the conversation gets genuinely strange.

"Allen says that while researching the book, he found references to Obama’s Letterman appearance in material associated with the Benghazi investigation. Finding the actual interview, however, proved to be another matter. According to the discussion, only a small portion of the September 18 appearance remains readily available, while the section dealing with Obama’s explanation of Benghazi is the part that cannot readily be found. Rice points out that plenty of Letterman interviews from that period remain online, making the absence of this particular material difficult to ignore.

"Let’s be careful about what that does and does not mean. The missing footage does not prove who removed it, why it disappeared or whether anyone deliberately removed it at all. Television archives are complicated, rights change hands and old material can disappear for mundane reasons. Rice and Allen themselves discussed trying to obtain a complete copy or transcript rather than treating the missing footage as proof of a conspiracy.

"But it does raise a pretty remarkable question: why is a presidential interview, important enough to be referenced in the Benghazi investigations, so difficult to watch today?

"Rice’s answer was almost tailor-made for Dangerous Laughter: it has been “memory holed.'”. . .    More...

The New WWE—Women’s Wrestling Entertainment

 Caitlin Clark made the WNBA rich, but its players seem determined to destroy the league by turning women’s basketball into a violent spectacle.

Victor Davis Hanson  

"Two ex-NBA players, Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White, took the WNBA at its word, nobly identifying as women and declaring themselves for the WNBA draft. Yet their declaration of their preferred gender identities—which are usually affirmed as brave and stunning by the WNBA and other forms of officialdom—only elicited furor from the league."

"The WWE is getting rich not so much by just playing basketball as by waging a veritable physical and cultural
 war on Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham."

"A better name for the current Women’s National Basketball League (WNBA) might be Women’s Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), given the growing performance-art violence that is now endemic in the league.

"Prior to the 2024 arrival of then-22-year-old Iowa superstar Caitlin Clark, very few people watched the WNBA.

"Team franchises were worth less than $20 million. The league ran chronic deficits and was subsidized by the men’s professional basketball league, the National Basketball Association (NBA).

"An unspoken subtext of the WNBA was that the owners and coaches were left-wing and made little effort to hide their political biases.

"Despite talk of diversity, the league was—and remains—about 83 percent nonwhite and about 70 percent black.

"Some media outlets have suggested that about 50 percent of the players are gay.

"By Clark’s third year, her level of play had revolutionized the WNBA—or rather, saved it from financial collapse and cultural obscurity.

"Economists have concluded that she has already infused $1 billion into the league through increased attendance, new media contracts, endorsements and sponsorships, and sports tourism.

"Once-obscure players are now pampered and highly compensated.

"Team franchises are now more than 20 times as valuable. In Caitlin Clark’s mere three years, the average team market value has soared to nearly $500 million.

"Caitlin Clark did not revolutionize the WNBA by belonging to a white and heterosexual minority. Indeed, there are plenty of such players in the league.

"Rather, in less than three years, she has proven to be arguably the greatest and most exciting female basketball player in history—hence the strange envy and hatred of her competitors." . . .  More.

Liberal Women

 What Lindsey Clancy’s defenders have revealed about American women - Patricia McCarthy    

"There are thousands of depressed and maybe even psychotic people who do not murder." 

. . . "There are thousands of depressed and maybe even psychotic people who do not murder.  But for an astonishing number of women across America, the answer is a no-brainer:  Clancy is innocent because … her husband did it (no evidence whatsoever), the psychiatric drugs she had amassed from several if not numerous psychiatrists made her do it, and/or that she suffered so seriously from postpartum psychosis, a rare but extreme form of postpartum depression.

"We’ve all seen the bizarre cult of moonbats who believe Luigi Mangione should be allowed to walk free after shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in the back because he headed a health insurance company; Mangione hated health insurance companies.  

"Then there are the “activists” who think Karmelo Anthony is not guilty of stabbing Austin Metcalf to death when all the evidence proves that he did, without cause.  Recent evidence shows that Anthony was on the edge that day and looking to stab someone and wanted to “lick their blood off his knife.” 

"The theoretically same people believed O.J. Simpson was innocent, that George Floyd was not the drugged-up criminal with a violent past that he was.  

"These are the same people who believed Kamala Harris’ pal Jussie Smollett did not set up his absurd attack by two men wearing MAGA hats.  How many fake “racist” hoaxes are there?  Too many to count." . . .    

. . . "But with the invasion of 12 million to 20 million migrants from third world failed states our American culture has been polluted, the obvious consequence is the disruption of what was once a relatively ideologically cohesive country.  And now we have mothers defending a mother who murdered her own three babies."  

Why Are Liberal White Women So Angry? - American Thinker 

"Because the United States is living in the feminist future that these witless, self-indulgent, agnostic, supposedly well-educated, and miserable women promoted, there is an ongoing calamitous erosion of a unique American civilization."

We Happy Few, We Band Of Wokesters

Ann Coulter  

"Okay, fine. You have more beautiful buildings, accents, traditions, and castles, etc. We’re vulgar arrivistes who eat Texas chili out of a Frito bag. Then why, Britain, do you slavishly imitate the worst woke nonsense America has to offer?" 

"Assuming the ridiculous gushing over a Cambridge conman was not a national Monty Python sketch arranged for tourists, the Jason Arday affair reminded me of one of the most peculiar things about Britain: They’re more woke than the U.S. Which is weird, because the Mother Country still has a monarchy that rules over tens of millions of white subjects. The closest we have to that in America is the NAACP.

"According to the 2021 census, the U.K. is 2.5% black, but more than half of all its TV advertisements feature black people. (That’s even more lopsided than their representation in the country’s homicide statistics, where black Britons make up 24% of all convicted killers.)

"You’d never know Britain was the first nation in the world to abolish slavery, then proceeded to use the most powerful navy in the world to end the global slave trade. Black lives mattered to them way before Michael Brown got himself killed in Ferguson, Missouri.

"At a cost of thousands of sailors’ lives and billions of dollars ($170 billion relative to GDP at the time) British ships patrolled the African coast for 50 years, intercepting more than 1,000 slave ships, and freeing 150,000 humans. British taxpayers finally finished paying off that bill in 2015.

"So obviously, Britain has a lot to atone for.

"The study of TV ads, undertaken by the U.K.’s left-wing Channel 4 last year, also found that “[m]ulti-ethnic families with young multi-ethnic children continue to be the go-to for family representation,” constituting 47% of all ads with families. Interracial couples in the U.K. are like gay wedding planners in the U.S. Nobody has ever met one, but they seem to be everywhere.

"For extra “diversity,” Asians (mostly Indians and Pakistanis), who make up 9.3% of the population, are featured in 28% of ads. To be fair, Pakistanis are also wildly over-represented among leaders of white slavery rape gangs.

"The census numbers don’t quite add up, but 81.7% of Britons identified their ethnic group as “white.” At most, 12% of TV ads show white people. On the bright side, gay people in ads were 33% more likely to be white.

"London is gorgeous, has more shops than New York City, and a lot fewer muggers, homeless people and pot-smokers than in any American city." . . .More...

The Self-Cancellation of Jason Arday - by John Carter       "Jason Arday has been found dead at home, apparently by his own hand.  Arday has been written about extensively already, and I don’t want to waste time recapitulating the comical saga of his academic malfeasance here. If this is the first you’ve heard of him, you can do much worse than to start with the original piece by Nathan Cofnas exposing the Cambridge con artist’s record of plagiarism, semi-literate rambling, and outrageous tall tales:"

Hillbilly Elegance

  Don Surber; Barbara Walters did Dolly Parton a big favor that people in the 21st century just don’t understand

Greta Van Susteren was among those who denounced the questions. Why? You don’t elicit great answers by asking what’s your favorite color. Walters did Dolly a big favor by giving her a national audience to address the hillbilly stereotypes.

AfterMath - Home

"Dolly Parton’s death brought out the best in people. The Royal Family posted a video of a royal band of some sort playing 9 to 5 in tribute. The tweet said, “Remembering the late, great Dolly, who brought joy, comfort and inspiration to so many—including the millions of children given free books through her Imagination Library. We will always ❤️ you.”

""President Trump ordered flags flown at half-staff in her honor.

"'Born in a one room cabin with a half dozen siblings, they were dirt poor in money but richer than Midas in family.

"Dolly rose. Porter Wagoner gave her a big boost that was controversial as the woman she replaced on his TV show was quite popular. It was not easy, but she Breeze’d her way through the situation.

"When she went off on her own, he sued her. Instead of being bitter, she wrote I Will Always Love You in his honor. When paying back taxes bankrupted him and he had to sell his music catalog, she bought it back for him.

"In the 1970s, she decided to go mainstream. She made some movies with Best Little Whorehouse In Texas being my favorite.

"Part of her marketing was a Barbara Walters interview in 1977. It went well for both women.

"But in the 21st century, everybody is a busybody who is easily offended. Remember Bewitched? The nation is now overrun by Gladys Kravitzes.

"Objections pile up over this exchange."

Walters: “Dolly, where I come from, would I have called you a hillbilly?”

Parton: “If you had have, it would have been something very natural, but I would have probably kicked your shins or something.” . . .      More...

 Dolly Parton truly was a ‘star’ - Andrea Widburg   "In a world in which too many entertainers are narcissistic ignoramuses, Parton epitomized grace, charm, and true generosity of spirit."

. . . "Our young people, God alone knows why, look up to the stars in the entertainment world, most of whom live sordid lives and espouse stupid politics. Can you imagine how different the world would be if these stars behaved like Dolly Parton, just being...good?". . . 

Watch: Dolly Parton Recounts Pulling Gun from Purse to Stop New York City Aggressor

‘Disgusting:’ AG Blanche Blasts Philly DA Krasner After He Tells Activists “We All’ Will ‘Blow Up’ President Trump’s Ballroom

This man has no more intellect than does Eric Swalwell.

American Greatness

"The 90,000-square-foot structure is expected to cost around $400 million and will be entirely funded by private donations, according to the president."

"Attorney General Todd Blanche lashed out at Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner on Wednesday, after the Soros-backed prosecutor told a crowd of about 100 black activists that “we all” will “blow up” President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom.

"“It’s disgusting that a district attorney in Philadelphia who, by the way, is a city with its own problems, is so focused on what the president is doing at the White House,” Blanche told Fox News’ Dana Perino.

"Krasner made the fiery comments while speaking at a slavery commiseration event in Philadelphia organized by the “Avenging the Ancestors Coalition” on Tuesday. He stated that the destruction of the White House ballroom would be done in an “official ceremony,” presumably after Democrats regain control of the government.  The Philly DA told  the predominately black crowd that he would keep a fragment of the destroyed structure as a paperweight and sell other pieces to “give the taxpayers their money back,” despite Trump’s assurance that the project is privately funded.

"'I’m gonna have a paperweight sitting on my desk—you know what that paperweight’s going to be?” Krasner asked. “It’s going to be a piece of the ballroom after we all blow it up!” he exclaimed. “In an official ceremony, just so we’re clear,” he added. “In an official ceremony, we’re going to blow it up and we’re going to give the taxpayers their money back by selling all the pieces as paperweights and I’m gonna have one on my desk.”

"The motto of ATAC, the group that organized the event is “Never forget, always avenge.”

"Trump’s ballroom is currently under construction where the White House’s East Wing used to stand,  and is already 65 percent complete, according to the administration. The 90,000-square-foot structure is expected to cost around $400 million and will be entirely funded by private donations, according to the president.

"The Democrats’ lawsuit trying to stop the ballroom’s construction has been taken up by the Supreme Court, who has allowed work to continue as they consider the case." . . .  More...

Clancy's Supporters Care More About Circumstances Than Kids

"The Clancy case raises a larger moral question: What happens when circumstances become the rationale for defending the unthinkable?"

The Federalist

"In response to the ongoing trial of Lindsay Clancy, the woman who killed her three children in 2023, it seems women across the country are trying to quiet their consciences by swapping out pink pussy hats for pink T-shirts. These sympathizers have also raised more than $1 million for Clancy’s supportive parents. That stunning sum is akin to awarding a Golden Globe to an actress who publicly credits killing her offspring with advancing her career.

"Was Clancy pro-abortion? Maybe she was. Maybe she wasn’t. Either way, the more revealing question isn’t what Clancy believed about abortion; it’s what the women rallying around her believe about when it’s morally acceptable to take innocent life. Thus, scarier than the woman in the courtroom, sitting in a wheelchair and staring blankly into space, are the hordes of women who may be finding solace and justification for the intentional ending of innocent human life somewhere else in the life cycle.

"Is invoking Clancy’s mental illness to mitigate responsibility for her actions fundamentally different from invoking “health care” to justify abortion because a woman believes giving birth would cause her undue stress or derail her professional life? Abortion supporters can cite “reproductive freedom” all they want. That’s how it starts. The methodical murder of more than 65 million unborn human beings since Roe v. Wade is nothing more than permissible slaughter. But more important than which euphemisms we use for abortion and filicide is the message being sent to women who may come to believe that their overwhelming circumstances justify disposing of the unborn.

"Under this moral framework, the prohibition is no longer simply, “It is wrong to intentionally end an innocent human life.” It has become, “It is wrong — unless circumstances make it permissible.” Even research on homicidal violence has identified this moral threshold: Many people condemn homicidal violence in principle, while identifying circumstances where they find it permissible. This concept applies to the Clancy case, where her female supporters appear to argue that even the irreversible decision to strangle three children is defensible based on circumstances.

"For those who wonder, “How could the Nazis have killed 6 million Jews?” the answer becomes clearer when we see women rallying around a person who, one after another, wrapped colorful resistance bands around three children’s throats, applied sustained pressure, compressed the structures in their necks until they died, and then moved on to the next child."  More...

Get Ready for the Democrats’ Season of Bloodthirst

 PJ Media

  . . . "Those are the forces the Republicans are up against, and they are legion. Regardless of how you feel about the price of gas or groceries, we are in a battle between good and evil. The very least you can do is make sure these people lose on Election Day and lose big."

"In order for the Democrats to take control of the culture and ultimately the government, people have to die. It’s just a fact. As much as the left likes to blame conservatives for killing people for not wearing masks, not getting vaccinated, and for ignoring the lies of climate change and transgenderism, the movement that is fully reliant on violence and death is the left, and more specifically the 2026 version of the Democrat Party.

"In the coming weeks, you’re going to be treated to unapologetic displays from the left, celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and the radical Islamic attacks on America from 25 years ago on 9/11. For every sober and respectful commemoration event, it will feel like there are two or more disgusting displays from the left that can only appeal to the savage instincts of its base.

"This has already started. My colleague David Manney wrote about a recent Hasan Piker event, where he sang a song in celebration of the murder of Kirk, sparking the leftist crowd in attendance to cheer.

“'During a live performance of his Fear& podcast, Piker led a packed theater in a mocking rendition of ‘We Are Charlie Kirk,’ a tribute song that appeared after Charlie Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University last Sept. 10.

"His co-hosts laughed, the audience cheered and sang along, and Piker later posted a photo from the show with the caption, ‘Carried the flame in.’” . . .   More...

Tim O’Brien is a veteran communications and crisis management consultant. He’s the author of The Essential Crisis Communications Plan: A crisis management process that fits your culture, available on Amazon. He’s the host of the Shaping Opinion podcast on Substack and all of the major video and audio podcast platforms.