Biden regime “attorney general” Garland told Congress this week that criticism of his actions in office are “dangerous.” I have noticed he says this a lot, as do other members of the regime. Dissension is dangerous. Speaking out — in this case, about obvious, glaring acts of injustice — is “dangerous,” as a violent criminal might be dangerous.

This isn’t a slip. And it’s not new; it’s only new to America. It’s the attitude of all dictatorships, past and present, and it’s the rationalization for all that they do. “Your speech is dangerous, so I can throw you in prison, make up laws to prosecute you, or do whatever I have to do in order to get you to shut up.”

Garland and the rest of the Biden regime are essentially telling us, “Don’t criticize us. If you do, then you’re a literal, physical danger to America.” No, we’re not. That’s what America was built on — dissension and opposition. Garland knows this. What he really means is that dissension is a danger and a threat to HIM, to his power and the power of the lawless, authoritarian Uniparty now running our government and (increasingly) every aspect of our lives.

We got the Big Government our founders warned us about. Ronald Reagan’s warning, that because liberty is by definition always vulnerable, America was only a generation away from dictatorship at any given time, is coming true, right before our eyes. As Donald Trump prepares to be sentenced to jail (right before the Republican convention) by this lawless regime, most conservatives are focused on hoping for the best and planning for Donald Trump’s second term. I think we need to open our eyes just a little more clearly as to what’s really happening, right in front of us. Trump is great, but we need a Plan B.

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“The past four years have been a period of extreme trials and tribulations for the people of the United States. They are struggling to regain a sense of optimism and confidence in the face of near unbridled despotism, brought about by one political party.

If Americans, beginning in 2024, do not begin the process of soundly rejecting the Democrat party and returning to the advancement of liberty and individual self-determination that so many over the past 248 years fought to defend, then the sacrifices of the soldiers on D-Day and their fellow patriots over the centuries will have been in vain.” [The American Thinker]

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Is the United States becoming a Third World nation? This question has long been on the edge of polite conversation, but former President Trump’s conviction in two New York courts has pushed the query to the forefront. The short answer is that while this slide was once unthinkable, it currently seems “unlikely.” Worse, all the trends point to its increasing likelihood.

What generally defines “Third World” includes pervasive poverty, dilapidated infrastructure, lack of sanitation, inadequate modern healthcare, rampant crime, ineffective education, and violent political instability often reflecting ethnic rivalries, not democratic elections. Law reflects the whim of the powerful; not following written precepts. Third world governments also have a penchant for crushing national debt and wild spending. Invariably, a very rich minority governs masses living in squalor.

What separates First World nations like the U.S. from Third World nations like Nigeria is not vast natural resources. Third World Nigeria abounds in natural wealth while First World Japan has little.

The key difference is human capital, a collection of multiple traits, especially brain power and a strong work ethic, and absent these traits, a modern capitalist economy cannot exist. Expats in Third World countries routinely complain “nothing works,” and the corrupt government cannot fix or maintain anything.

Countless outward signs of a typical Third World nation have recently emerged in the United States. Most visible is the physical decline of major cities: filthy streets, unsanitary homeless encampments, open drug dealing and use, unpunished crime, burgeoning slums “off limits” to ordinary people, and a general incivility. Add a growing multi-generational pathologically ridden underclass permanently dependent on government assistance. A Baltimore resident would be shocked by the contrast with his hometown if he visited Helsinki or Athens.

Less visible is the decay of public education manifested in declining test scores, rampant school violence, and replacing traditional education with radical racial ideology prizing self-esteem over merit-based academics. Meanwhile, innumerable students at elite colleges, disproportionately majoring in academically “soft” fields, not engineering or science, demand “Death to America” while exhibiting profound ignorance of world affairs. Tellingly, in intellectually challenging fields, American must increasingly import its brain power from abroad.

These Third World style conditions persist despite spending billions and huge ameliorative bureaucracies, especially for curing our social pathologies. Ironically, these interventions only seem to exacerbate horrible conditions so the more we spend on homelessness, the greater the number of homeless. Such failure can only suggest a deficiency of brainpower. Remember, First World nations, by definition, can solve problems, whether running subways or cleaning streets.

A key harbinger of a slide towards Third Worldism is an appetite for unsustainable debt that inevitably brings economic collapse when lenders refuse to keep lending, and the United States seems headed in that direction. Our national debt is now $34 trillion, and the consensus is that it is out of control and a potential economic disaster. Yet, the cravings seem insatiable. The “free lunch” mentality has become part of our politics.

This pattern also occurs locally. In Chicago, for example, the total debt is now $40 billion or $43,000 per resident, and given the city’s anti-business policies and already elevated local tax rate, it is unclear if the debt can ever be repaid. Then add fiscal wastefulness like the city’s “Green New Deal for Schools.” Consequently, half the city’s budget now goes to servicing the debt and pensions so vital services like policing and fire protection are sacrificed, and matters will only deteriorate as residents and industry flee. Chicago may soon be a de-populated monument to Third World policies.

Urban squalor and financial mismanagement are just outward signs of decline. Less obvious is the spread of identity politics that prizes skin color and gender over merit, so people are hired for appearances, not an ability to do the job. The results are disastrous despite all the yammer about diversity being America’s greatest strength. Charles Murray’s Facing Reality (Ch. 5) details the dreadful consequences of this box-checking mentality. Whether you are hiring brain surgeons or janitors, ignoring merit guarantees inferior outcomes that bring lawsuits, chaotic conditions and, in some instances, death. Identity politics is the perfect ticket to economic decline, and while recent efforts to ban racial and gender preferences have had success, these practices persist. An incompetent applicant admitted and then graduated from medical school due to race today may ineptly practice medicine for the next 40 years.

Identity politics is explicitly anti-white and rejects the values held by white people. Jeremy Carl’s The Unprotected Class depicts how this ideology condemns as “white” hard work, objectivity, tenacity, the belief in reason, and similar values that undergird American greatness. One educator who trains teachers recently called the American flag a symbol of hate and extremism. Politically, those demonizing whiteness unashamedly demand a Third World country. This is not about civil rights or promoting equality, and champions of anti-whiteness have won significant victories in education and corporate America, even the military.

Also pushing America in the Third World direction is declining IQ. Intelligence, as measured by IQ, is at the center of human capital, and lacking brain power, all else is irrelevant. Unfortunately, all the evidence points in the direction of a decline in brain power. The movie Idiocracy depicts this dystopic future. According to one study with a sample of 400,000 respondents, while the average intelligence of Americans increased over the last century, a period of America’s greatest accomplishments, since the 1990s it has fallen on three of the four major intelligence domains—logic, vocabulary and mathematical, and visual problem solving. Only for spatial reason have IQ scores risen. As one California psychologist put it, “We’re all getting super lazy in our cognition because it’s getting super easy to do everything.”

These statistical IQ data are confirmed by “soft” data on grade inflation pervasive in American education, the declining intellectual levels of popular culture like movies and TV, and the explosion of social media featuring child-like ideas and gimmicky images. Attention deficit order on a grand scale. Professors who began their careers in the 1960s now complain about their shrunken, dumbed down reading lists and dismal student papers.

Further add massive immigration from Third World countries, and in today’s environment celebrating multiculturalism, Salvadorians’ habits may persist for generations.  Then there is a declining birthright among high IQ women who choose careers over motherhood. Statistics on falling labor participation rates suggest a declining work ethic. Sadly, it’s not easy to find any indicator showing the ascendancy of First World values.

Banana Republic politics centered around simple “us” versus “them” thanks to a less-than-brilliant populace. The idea of democracy with its complex principles of fair play and moderation is just too difficult. In its place, policy is decided by violent rioting, kidnapping, and military coups that make elections a rigged formality. Intellectual accomplishment no longer becomes a prerequisite for high office, and expropriating property and re-distributing to allies becomes normal. Trump’s two New York show trials may be a harbinger of things to come, and he rightfully worries about Third World creep. It is no accident that Wall Street is now generously funding his campaign, because billionaires know what happens to capitalists in Banana Republics.

Robert Weissberg

Donald Trump’s poll numbers were supposed to sink after a conviction. Instead, they’re still high or even rising (for what polls are worth). More objectively and reliably, donations to Trump’s campaign have surged to record levels — since his convictions, and precisely BECAUSE of those convictions.

Commiefascist “Democrats” and RINOs may be able to rig elections and eviscerate the American judicial system. Clearly, they have done that and will continue to do, unless forcibly stopped (through arrests and treason convictions).

But mass numbers of people don’t believe in the validity of our entirely politicized judges, courts and juries; and they consider these “felony convictions” not worth the paper they’re printed on (to use an old expression).

When mass numbers of people start to view their government as having no moral standing, the legal legitimacy of that government will soon collapse as well. I believe that’s what we see happening in large swaths of America.

They’re playing a dangerous game, these sociopaths in power. While they feel like they can do anything they want — and clearly act that way — they fail to note the lessons of history, that eventually every dictator comes down. Millions of Americans are armed. Millions more retain the right to noncompliance, the great American tradition that got our republic started.

When and if a tipping point comes, it may not be pretty, but it will all be over for the Bidens, the Obamas, the Clintons, the McConnells, and all the others decimating our freedom.

I smell a potential revolution in the works. That includes, but is not limited to, a French Revolution, where the tyrants are literally and visibly dethroned.

Watch yourselves, Commiefascists. You may think you’re smart, but you better dust off your history books.

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On this day eighty-years ago, in the largest combined naval, air, and land operation in history, 154,000 Allied troops, including 71,000 American soldiers, landed on the beaches and in the marshlands of Normandy.  Within the first twenty-four hours, American forces suffered 3,393 killed or missing and 6,603 wounded.

Thus began the liberation of continental Europe in a war that the United States had thrust upon it by the feckless efforts of others at appeasement and compromise with those who for years made clear their intentions and determination to conquer and impose their will on others.

In winning the war, this nation freed millions from tyranny and certain death, established democratic governments in the lands of their former enemies, rebuilt entire countries, and above all showed the world the true power of liberty and freedom.

I am among those freed from this tyranny and, thanks to the benevolence of the American people, brought to the United States as a displaced war orphan.  In 1997, I fulfilled a lifelong goal of walking along Omaha Beach and visiting the Normandy American Cemetery.  Little did I realize that it would turn out to be one of the most emotional days of my life.

An overcast, dreary day, together with the rhythmic breaking of the waves on the shoreline, accompanied my walk along the stretches of sand known forever as Omaha Beach, the site of the bloodiest battles of D-Day.  As I looked out at the now tranquil English Channel, I tried to imagine the emotions of the young men in their teens and early twenties from cities and towns throughout America as they approached the shoreline and the mind-numbing violence and death awaiting them.  Despite the rough seas and subsequent disorganization, they unhesitatingly faced the hail of bullets and artillery shells coming from the fortified bluffs along the entirety of the beach.  It was the indomitable American spirit that spawned innumerable acts of individual heroism and initiative that ultimately won the day.

After spending an hour or so on the beach, I walked up a path leading to the Normandy American Cemetery on a bluff overlooking Omaha Beach.  On my arrival, my breath was taken away by the sight of seemingly endless rows of 9,388 crosses and Stars of David.

As I walked along the paths and rows of white marble monuments, I could not help but notice that the surnames memorialized on the crosses and Stars of David reflected the melting-pot uniqueness of the United States.  As I continued my walk, I soon found myself talking to the young men interred there.

I thanked them for rescuing me and millions of others.  I told them about the failures and successes in the life I had been granted.  How the nation they loved and sacrificed for had sent men to the moon; that the computers, technology, and space travel they had seen and read about in science fiction movies and comic books were now a reality.  That an actor they saw in the movies, Ronald Reagan, was elected president of the United States.  How America evolved into the global superpower advancing freedom and economic security not only for its people, but for all of mankind.  I told them they would have enjoyed watching Don Larsen pitch a perfect game in the World Series on this thing available to everyone called a television.  And above all that they were still remembered, and the sacrifices they made were not in vain.

On this the eighty-year anniversary of the D-Day landings, I am haunted by the memory of my visit and the thought of what this nation has become.

were to return to Normandy, how could I tell those young men that the totalitarian mindset they fought and died to defeat now dominates virtually all of America’s institutions?  How could I relate to them that the nation’s ruling class is accelerating the transformation of the nation into a one-party Marxist/socialist oligarchy by allowing untold millions of illegal aliens, including criminals, terrorists, and potential saboteurs, unfettered admittance and access to virtually all the rights of American citizenship?

How would I be able to explain that the justice system has been so corrupted that it is now being openly used by a Marxist-dominated Democrat party to imprison its political adversaries?  How could I tell them that the military in which they so valiantly served is concerned about “diversity, equity, and sexual orientation” more than winning wars?  How could I relate to them that only 18% of today’s young adults (18–34) are extremely proud to be Americans?  How would I explain that a plurality of American society has mainstreamed the inane concepts that a man can choose to become a woman and that men can get pregnant?

American military cemeteries, with their verdant fields of seemingly endless rows of monuments marking the graves of those who made the ultimate sacrifice, dot the globe.  The United States in 2024 is not the nation those interred among them willingly chose to defend and protect.

In 2024, the United States is a ship without a rudder, aimlessly wandering about the turbulent seas, piloted by those whose only interest is themselves, their Marxist-inspired ideology, and their thirst for power.

With each new generation, the knowledge, the firsthand experience of war, survival, and adversity fade into the distant past, replaced with the demands of day-to-day living.  There is an unfortunate tendency to fall prey to not only the false but fashionable proclivity of blaming America for all of mankind’s ills, but also the inexorable acceptance of the belief that a powerful central government is the source and arbiter of human rights and freedom.

This nation cannot be salvaged if far too many Americans continue to be obsequiously deferential to and place their unbridled faith in the self-serving promises of egomaniacal politicians and succumb to the irrational influence of the nescient societal elites.

With each new generation, the first-hand experience of global war, survival, and adversity fade into the distant past and are replaced with the demands of day-to-day living.  Seventy-eight years of overwhelming peace and prosperity has brought forth an unfortunate tendency to fall prey to the false but fashionable proclivity of blaming America for all of mankind’s ills and acceptance of the belief that a powerful central government is the source and arbiter of all human rights.

This nation is at the stage that it cannot be salvaged if far too many Americans continue to be obsequiously deferential to and place their unbridled faith in the self-serving promises of egomaniacal collectivist politicians and succumb to the irrational influence of the nescient societal elites.   

The past four years have been a period of extreme trials and tribulations for the people of the United States.  They are struggling to regain a sense of optimism and confidence in the face of near unbridled despotism, brought about by one political party.

If Americans, beginning in 2024, do not begin the process of soundly rejecting the Democrat party and returning to the advancement of liberty and individual self-determination that so many over the past 248 years fought to defend, then the sacrifices of the soldiers on D-Day and their fellow patriots over the centuries will have been in vain.

Steve McCann, American Thinker

Instead of an executive branch, we have a branch of managerial dysfunction. Bureaucrats taking a maximally risk-averse interpretation of laws have created a culture too neurotic to do basic software development. America needs sweeping reforms targeted at good governance ends.

Managerial culture was best described by mid-twentieth century thinker James Burnham:

Managerial activity tends to become inbred and self-justifying. The enterprise comes to be thought of as existing for the sake of its managers—not the managers for the enterprise.

In other words, managerialism becomes a competition to check as many compliance boxes imaginable.

To address this problem, President Trump signed Schedule F, an executive order “to provide agency heads with additional flexibility to assess prospective appointees.” Since then, Schedule F has become a symbol of broader reforms designed to give presidents more control over the civil service.

However, it is not just conservatives who are concerned about managerial dysfunction. Jennifer Pahlka, Deputy CTO of America under President Obama, frames the difference in administrative cultures by comparing the “waterfall” and “agile” hierarchies:

Agile, that is all the opposite. You’re in a build, measure, learn cycle over and over again. You build something, if it works, you learn from it, you build more. In a waterfall paradigm, the software never touches users until the very end, in what’s called user acceptance testing. That’s very different from agile, in which you are working with users from the very beginning.

At the very top, you have whatever legislative body writes the law. It gets handed off to agencies who write regulations based on the law and policy, and it descends all the way down to the people who create the interfaces that administer that law…. If learning only goes one way, the people who are actually interacting with the users of the system have no way to tell the people who wrote the law what’s working and what isn’t. And we continue not to learn.

Though Pahlka raises objections to the explicitly conservative Schedule F, she identifies a similar cultural problem at the root.

Conservatives tend to frame this problem solely as an ideological war between Trump and the “deep state.” As Pahlka documents in her book Recoding America, this risk-averse culture has obstructed policy goals as straightforward as sending out Medicare checks or building the healthcare.gov website. Managerial culture leads to incompetence, even for bipartisan or left-wing goals.

What conservatives get right is that fundamental civil service reforms are necessary. Culture is made of people. There must be drastic changes to the incentives of individual bureaucrats to fix this culture. Without civil service reform, Pahlka’s policies risk the hiring of new talent just for them to be assimilated into the current culture of managerial dysfunction.

AI provides both the motivation and the means to shift this culture. The AI race means that the U.S. government must compete with China on tech adoption. Simultaneously, AI analyzes precisely the type of information executives need to create a culture of decisiveness.

As AI is adopted, bureaucracies in the private sector and in adversarial governments will make rapid increases in efficiency. Attempts to slow down adversaries will not delay China for more than two to three years. To compete, the U.S. government must speed up the adoption of new technology

One proven way to change a managerial culture is to give executives more visibility. Every modern company is built with a dashboard that helps executives track progress in each subdivision. AI enables anyone to make qualitative judgements about sentiment, valence, and progress over thousands of documents at the same time. AI creates a more accurate breakdown of how effectively parts of an agency implement an administration’s goals. It gives agency heads the visibility of a company executive, even if the agency wasn’t built with that in mind.

While Schedule F is a move in the right direction, fostering a decisive culture requires a fine-grained approach. AI feeds agency executives exactly the information they need to shape the agency’s broader culture while automating evaluations and workflows.

There is a misconception that fundamental reforms such as Schedule F are synonymous with grand ideological change. In reality, fundamental reforms are necessary for a goal as simple as increasing government competence with software. Prematurely taking them off the table will make even a moderate good governance agenda impossible.

We are approaching a moment where it is politically possible and technologically necessary to act. As Keegan McBride puts it: “If the United States wants to remain competitive in the world’s emergent digital future, it must invest in and modernize its crumbling digital infrastructure, making the digitalization of the state a priority.” Hopefully, America can rise to this call.

Brian Chau

In the lead up to the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) operation to destroy Hamas and secure the release of over 100 hostages – including 8 Americas – believed to be in and around Rafah, leaders around the world from Joe Biden to the collective leftist leaders of the European Union to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi panicked and ordered Israel to forestall its necessary means to end the war.

Why did world leaders clamor for Israel to do nothing?

What are they hiding?

It turns out they are hiding a lot.

Over one million Gazans were said to be sheltering in humanitarian safe areas in Rafah, and Hamas used them as human shields to ensure that Israel would not invade. An Israeli operation would force the vaunted international community to warn Israel against such action to protect civilians. Indeed, Hamas’s strategy of sacrificing civilians has led Norway, Spain, and Ireland to decide that terrorism should be rewarded with recognition of a Palestinian state. This is the moral equivalent of offering a restored Reich to Adolph Hitler.

Israel, undaunted by the virtue signaling of the international community and determined to defeat Hamas and rescue hostages, entered Rafah. Prior to the IDF entry, it flooded Rafah with instructions: sending Gazan civilians phone calls, text messages, and millions of dropped leaflets urging them to leave the area in advance of an Israeli incursion. They literally warned the enemy that they were coming and urged civilians to flee. Nearly one million Gazans fled to humanitarian zones in Rafah.

Meanwhile, Israel continued to negotiate through the “good” offices of the United States, Egypt, and Qatar for the release of hostages. Out of thin air, on May 6 Hamas agreed to the ceasefire terms. Only, what actually happened was that the terms they agreed to were not the negotiated terms that the US, Qatar, and Israel had seen. Indeed, Egypt edited the ceasefire terms in such a way that Hamas would get a “win” and say they accepted the terms, but the terms, as edited, were outrageous. Even the even-keeled US negotiator, CIA Chief William Burns, was mystified and outraged. What kind of nonsense game was Egypt playing? Cairo pulled a bait-and-switch on the Israelis and the other negotiators ensuring that, needless to say, negotiations broke down.

On the IDF’s first day of entry into Rafah in mid-May they discovered hundreds of tunnels with over 50 two-way underground tunnels between Rafah and Egypt. Dozens more cross-border tunnels have been discovered since, along the Rafah-Egypt border. Some tunnels were paved and wide enough for passage of full-sized cargo trucks. The IDF also found more gruesome evidence of Hamas’s barbarism, the bodies of hostages stolen from Israel on October 7, 2023. Some, like Shani Louk, had been raped, dismembered, and murdered with her corpse paraded into Gaza as a trophy by the barbarous terrorists, others were tortured in the tunnels and murdered there. Beyond hostage remains, the IDF seized hundreds of weapons and war materiel They discovered UN relief packages, food, cash, electrification, housing, office space, etc. An underground metropolis was built by Hamas in Rafah.

The construction of Gaza’s underground cities is of particular interest to Egyptian financial concerns. Egyptians are renowned for their above-ground pyramids. As it turns out, they know there is value to building below ground as well. In the Middle East marketplace, the souk culture is all about the baksheesh (bribery).

Egypt built a formidable border wall, something Donald Trump could not even imagine in a fever dream for America. It is impenetrable, militarized, and closely guarded with Egyptian troops and security forces. The way through it for Gazans seeking to get out of Gaza? Baksheesh. Upwards of $5,000 per person. It has also been a gateway for international aid and smuggling into Gaza resulting in over $88 million in profit to the holder of the border keys.

The holder of those keys is a Bedouin tribal leader named Ibrahim al-Organi, now the wealthiest man in northern Sinai. But how could an ex-con smuggler rise to a position of border control prince? Through connections to the Egyptian government, Organi has cultivated extremely close ties with Egyptian President al-Sisi, and more significantly, with al-Sisi’s son, Mahmoud. General Mahmoud al-Sisi is the Deputy Chief of Egyptian intelligence and he sits on Organi’s board. It’s good to have friends in high places, and in the case of Organi, it has made him, and those in his network, very wealthy.

Every day there is additional evidence of Egyptian smuggling in Gaza. Intelligence on May 31, 2024 uncovered surface to air missiles smuggled into Rafah from Egypt. The large cache purportedly would have been used to take down IDF helicopters. How much money changed hands for Egypt to have turned a blind eye (or been complicit) in these types of smuggling operations?

Trafficking helps explain Egypt’s desperate moves, down to its clumsy diplomatic effort. The embarrassment to rain down on Egypt’s government for its perfidy toward Israel and its American patron will be catastrophic reputationally and financially for the al-Sisi family.

Why did Washington pressure Israel to remain outside Rafah, including withholding arms to keep the IDF from entering? What’s in it for Team Biden? Avoidance of utter humiliation.

Joe Biden, Antony Blinken, and Jake Sullivan have been straddling a so-called ironclad commitment to Israeli security on one hand and a restive Democrat party that is increasingly hostile toward America’s only democratic ally in the Middle East. Biden’s team is forced to reconcile the fact that it is selling out Israel while acknowledging that Israel is obeying the laws of war as well as international humanitarian law. Biden, Blinken, and Sullivan constantly harangue Israel to not cross any of their artificial redlines in an effort to constrain IDF activities, most recently in Rafah. Then they are forced publicly to acknowledge that Israel has not crossed any redlines.

Biden foolishly announced in March during his State of the Union Address that the US would build a floating pier to assist in bringing humanitarian assistance into Gaza. No one asked for the pier. Biden assured that no US boots would be on the ground in Gaza, despite the construction being done by the US military. The White House said the IDF would be responsible for securing the pier while simultaneously prosecuting a just war to defeat a terrorist army. The nonsensical upside-down Biden approach to Gaza was further highlighted during the maiden delivery of aid across the pier into Gaza. Of the nearly 600 tons of food rolled off the newly-built pier on May 18, neary 75% of it was looted before it could reach the UN’s warehouse only eight miles away. To add insult to injury, Biden’s $320 million pier broke away from its moorings and ships sent to retrieve it were beached in the Israeli city of Ashdod. It has proven an unmitigated disaster. No one in Rafah benefited.

Why else is Biden so adamant that the IDF cannot proceed further into Rafah? What other humiliations is America hoping to keep under wraps?

Recently, following Israel’s successful surgical strike in Rafah to eliminate two terrorist masterminds, a humanitarian safe area caught fire and several civilians were killed. Hamas’s publicity hacks blamed Israel’s strike. The IDF undertook an investigation which uncovered that the fire ignited over 1.7 kilometers from the IDF strike and was not caused by their action. Rather there was an ordnance storage facility in Rafah abutting the humanitarian zone and there were explosions in the stockpile that caused the fire. Hamas purposely stored highly combustible ammunition alongside a humanitarian zone for civilians.

The ordnance themselves were quite interesting. It turns out many were US-manufactured munitions that had been sold to Egypt. With Israel now in control over the entire Gaza-Egypt border area, it is all but certain that more evidence of Egyptian smuggling of American-made weapons and possible collusion with Hamas will unfold. What will happen to the US-Egypt relationship as a result?

The IDF operation in Rafah is bound to turn up mountains of evidence of more money changing hands.

What is becoming obvious is that there were a lot of reasons for Egypt and America to want Israel to remain outside of Rafah. The secrets that will be revealed through the IDF’s operations may well surprise the civilized world as Israel fights to defeat the barbarians.

Bonnie Glick, Frontpagemagazine

The latest horror: Former FBI director James Comey (fired by Trump when Trump was President) — has spoken to the media about how Trump can be placed in a double wide trailer, for confinement in his prison sentence, possibly even without Secret Service protection. He’s not concerned about Trump’s safety, but the safety of other prisoners in the jail where Trump will presumably be placed, after sentencing.

That’s where we are. And if you think the NEXT Republican (if one ever comes along) to challenge the status quo of unlimited government won’t get the same treatment, you may be more deranged than James Comey.

Your reaction should NOT be based on whether you like or dislike Donald Trump. Your reaction SHOULD be based on principle. The principle? Whether or not the government of a free country, i.e., of a constitutional, individual rights-respecting republic, may incarcerate its main political opposition for no valid reason.

And don’t you DARE say Trump is a “convicted felon.” He was convicted of misdemeanors that were arbitrarily and unlawfully converted into felonies, for the purposes of this trial only. And even as felonies, they are completely nonviolent in nature and would not result in a prison sentence for the convicted felon in question. If Bill Clinton, Joe Biden or Barack Obama had been convicted of these “crimes,” they would NOT be incarcerated. Nor would they have been tried or convicted in the first place.

We are at a very, very bad point in this republic. If you don’t care about Trump, that’s fine. But if you don’t care about our Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and even the laws of civilized society and jurisprudence going back to the Magna Carta … well, I cannot help you. But I do know, if you applaud Comey’s attitude, you deserve what you’re going to get living under a one-party government where rights (and prosperity) are doled out by political standards alone. Heaven help your children, if you have them and if you love them.

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