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Bill Belichick made it clear on Monday that he isn’t answering any tabloid-style questions about his relationship with Jordon Hudson. The Big Js can keep those types of questions to themselves, because he’s keeping the answers to himself.News of the reported breakup between the 74-year-old North Carolina Tar Heels coach and the 25-year-old made the rounds over the weekend. The two are said to have called it quits more than a year ago, but “remain close friends.”They’re still also reportedly in business together, but that’s not Belichick’s focus right now. The possibly single and ready to mingle ball coach has a college football season to get through and an improved team to coach.THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW!That improved team of his gave the No. 1 Miami Hurricanes all they could handle on Saturday night in Chapel Hill after all this nonsense about his personal life made headlines.According to the NY Post, WRAL reporter Brian Murphy, was the one who decided to ask Belichick about the Jordon Hudson relationship news and “what it might mean moving forward.”Anyone who thought Belichick had actually lost a step, or that nearly pulling off an insane upset of Miami was going to have him lower his guard any couldn’t have been more wrong. He’s still got it.JORDON HUDSON, BILL BELICHICK TAKE IN CHURCHILL DOWNS DURING KENTUCKY DERBY WEEKEND”Do you work for a tabloid now?” Belichick said before adding, “I’ll keep my personal comments and relationships to myself, if that’s alright with you?”Uncomfortable. Awkward. Perfectly Bill Belichick. You can’t tell the full story of the coaching legend without it.These types of moments in news conferences, the cutoff hoodies, and the 25-year-old ex-girlfriend/business partner are all as much of his story as all the winning he’s done throughout his career.You can call me a sucker for a good time if you must, but I could listen to these types of answers from Belichick all day long.

Michigan’s least transparent Secretary of State just took another court loss. A Michigan Court of Claims judge has permanently struck down Rule R 168.48, the Benson-issued requirement that forced local clerks to delete electronic poll book software and all associated files within seven days after an election is certified. The rule is invalid. Statewide. Starting now.
MI SOS Jocelyn Benson
The decision comes in the case brought by Bridgewater Township Clerk Michelle McQueer. Federal law (52 U.S.C. § 20701) requires election officers to retain and preserve all records relating to voting in federal elections for 22 months. Willful destruction is a federal crime. Benson’s rule ordered the opposite: erase the electronic poll book files after seven days. McQueer asked which law controlled. She waited. She asked again. She got silence. So she sued.
This is the same case The Gateway Pundit first reported in August, when attorney Kevin Kijewski filed the verified complaint on McQueer’s behalf. The electronic poll books contain activity logs, timestamps, ballot transactions, and operator actions that are not fully captured in printed reports or the Qualified Voter File. Once deleted, that information is gone. McQueer argued the seven-day deletion rule collided with the federal 22-month retention requirement and put clerks at risk of criminal charges.
The Court of Claims denied the state’s motion to dismiss. The RNC and Michigan Republican Party later joined as intervening plaintiffs. McQueer secured a temporary restraining order protecting her August 4 electronic poll book file. She is the only Michigan clerk known to still possess one. Every other clerk’s August file is already gone.
In October, the U.S. Department of Justice took the rare step of filing a Statement of Interest in the state trial court. DOJ told the judge that electronic poll book data—including all metadata—are federal election records and that Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is responsible for preserving them. Statements of Interest from the Justice Department in pure state-court cases are uncommon.
It is rarer still for DOJ to appear at the trial-court level rather than on appeal. Kijewski noted at the time that the government’s statement was written from the Secretary’s earlier position. The day before it was filed, the Secretary’s own data manager, Rachel Clone, swore in an affidavit that the list of voters each precinct used on Election Day is never copied into the state database because it would be “duplicative.” After the election, the state updates its file.
The original list poll workers saw is gone and can only be reconstructed later from a change log. McQueer’s reply was direct: a record that must be rebuilt after the fact has not been retained. A receipt that something was uploaded is not preservation. Reconstruction is not retention.
Benson’s office did not accept the temporary order. With an election weeks away, she filed an emergency application in the Court of Appeals seeking to undo the judge’s TRO and allow the files to be destroyed while the case was still pending. The application, in Kijewski’s words, “asks leave to destroy the evidence while the court decides whether destroying it is lawful.” She did not first ask the trial judge for a stay.
Michigan court rules require that step. The Department’s claimed harm was one memo telling clerks not to delete. The clerks’ exposure without the order was a federal statute that punishes willful failure to keep election records with up to a year in prison.
Now the final judgment is in. The Court of Claims has ruled that Rule 168.48 is invalid. When an administrative rule conflicts with a statute, the statute controls. The electronic poll book files—including the metadata—must be retained. The Court directed the Secretary to issue new instructions to all Michigan clerks requiring the poll book files to be transferred onto encrypted flash drives and securely stored for 22 months.
The State’s claimed burden? At most $100 per additional flash drive. The Court found that retaining the metadata is as crucial as retaining the data itself.
One township clerk asked a simple question after the state refused to answer it: when a state rule says delete, and a federal law says keep, which one does she follow? She waited. She sued. The law won. The poll books stay. Benson can appeal. Until a higher court says otherwise, Michigan clerks follow the federal statute, not the invalidated rule.
This is not Benson’s first court loss on election procedures. It is simply the latest. The record of how a federal election was run is not supposed to be destroyed a week after certification by anyone, in any party. One clerk stood up for that principle. The Court agreed. The files remain.
Kijewski tweeted:
BREAKING: WE WON. A MICHIGAN COURT JUST STRUCK DOWN MICHIGAN SECRETARY OF STATE JOCELYN BENSON’S RULE ORDERING CLERKS TO DELETE ELECTION POLL BOOKS.
FINAL JUDGMENT. PERMANENT. STATEWIDE.
“Rule 168.48 is invalid.”
The rule: DELETE the poll book files after every election.
The law: KEEP election records 22 months.
The Court: “When an administrative rule conflicts with a statute, the statute controls.”
One township clerk asked which law to follow. Nobody answered. So Michelle McQueer sued.
82 days later, she won. For EVERY clerk in Michigan. Starting with TOMORROW’S election.
And the Court directed the Secretary to write NEW instructions for all 1,520 clerks that follow the ruling. The poll book files go on encrypted flash drives and stay there for 22 months.
Remember what we said in October? Reconstruction is not preservation.
The Court agreed: “Retaining the metadata is as crucial as retaining the data itself.”
READ THAT ONE TWICE.
The State’s big burden? The Court found it’s “at most, $100 per additional flash drive.”
Thank you to the RNC and Michigan Republican Party for joining me in the fight.
The State can appeal. Until a court ever says otherwise, the poll books stay.
ONE CLERK. TWO LAWS. THE LAW WON.

BREAKING: WE WON. A MICHIGAN COURT JUST STRUCK DOWN MICHIGAN SECRETARY OF STATE JOCELYN BENSON’S RULE ORDERING CLERKS TO DELETE ELECTION POLL BOOKS.
FINAL JUDGMENT. PERMANENT. STATEWIDE.
“Rule 168.48 is invalid.”
The rule: DELETE the poll book files after every election.
The law: KEEP election records 22 months.
The Court: “When an administrative rule conflicts with a statute, the statute controls.”
One township clerk asked which law to follow. Nobody answered. So Michelle McQueer sued.
82 days later, she won. For EVERY clerk in Michigan. Starting with TOMORROW’S election.
And the Court directed the Secretary to write NEW instructions for all 1,520 clerks that follow the ruling. The poll book files go on encrypted flash drives and stay there for 22 months.
Remember what we said in October? Reconstruction is not preservation.
The Court agreed: “Retaining the metadata is as crucial as retaining the data itself.”
READ THAT ONE TWICE.
The State’s big burden? The Court found it’s “at most, $100 per additional flash drive.”
Thank you to the RNC and Michigan Republican Party for joining me in the fight.
The State can appeal. Until a court ever says otherwise, the poll books stay.
ONE CLERK. TWO LAWS. THE LAW WON.
The Opinion: https://t.co/5RzUfmForW
McQueer v Benson, Michigan Court of Claims No. 26-000172-MZ
Let’s make Michigan safe, normal, and responsible again!
@MIGOP @Republicans @WhiteHouse @MI_Republicans @Th_Midwesterner @MINewsSource @stevegrubershow @MrJustinBarclay @JonathanTurley @RobGouveiaEsq @downi75 @Mike_Cox @MrAustinPredict @gatewaypundit @honestpollster @mifairelections @dcexaminer @MZHemingway @jsolomonReports @HarmeetKDhillon
— Kevin Kijewski (@KevinKijewski) November 2, 2026

Kevin Kijewski doesn’t get enough credit for taking on these tough election cases that other attorneys shy away from. He is a patriot and true hero for not only fighting for election integrity, but WINNING! Thank you, Kevin.

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President Eisenhower once said, “Without God, there could be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first – the most basic – expression of Americanism. Thus, the Founding Fathers of America saw it, and thus with God’s help, it will continue to be.”
And yet, here we are, on the eve of 2026 midterms, and we see the rise of socialism, even communism (in some cases), both of which are anti-God and pro-big-state.
Someone might quibble and claim that socialism simply means sharing, something Christianity has excelled at. But socialism doesn’t mean sharing. It means forced redistribution of wealth. And communism means the same, but will employ violence to achieve the outcome.
I pray that enough Christians and common-sense conservatives will show up at the polls to help save our nation before it’s too late. But, regardless of how the midterm elections turn out, the fact of the matter is, there are still millions of young people who are woefully ignorant about communism’s track record. So, we have our work cut out for us to educate them about the truth.
Ronald Reagan once observed, “Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”
Granted, many of our fellow citizens today, including the young, work hard and don’t seem to have a shot at the American dream. So the promises of the socialists may sound enticing. “Medicare for all.” “Free child care.” “Free college.” “Free housing.” “Free groceries.” Yada, yada, yada.
The settlers and the founders of America chose a different path – one that has prospered the masses.
It began with the Pilgrims who sought to worship Jesus Christ without government interference and continued with the Puritans who sought to create the New Jerusalem as they set out to create the City upon a Hill (Boston, 1630). They worked diligently under God in this “errand into the wilderness.”
It continued as various Christian groups created settlements in British North America. These included the Quakers, the Moravians, the Dutch Reformed, the Catholics, the Baptists, the Methodists and hundreds of thousands of Presbyterians in the mid-18th century. This was the beginning of what became the freest and most prosperous nation on earth.
But this experiment of self-rule under God will not last if enough of the people continue to demand free stuff from the government.
First of all, there is nothing free. If a good or service is provided by the “government,” that means it must be paid for by other citizens.
The government has no money of its own. It must forcibly seize the assets and property of the producers to give to the non-producers – and in the meantime, charge a hefty processing fee.
The bedroom communities surrounding Washington, D.C., are some of the wealthiest suburbs in the nation. These are the luscious homes of the federal bureaucrats who administer the welfare state.
Much of all this is done in the name of charity; but in reality, it’s a form of theft.
The politicians who promise “free stuff” are just being generous with other people’s money, certainly not their own.
Furthermore, America’s founders declared that our rights come from God. In contrast, the communists say there is no God.
During most of the 20th century, the whole world was gripped in the struggle, sometimes hot, mostly cold, of the cold war – mainly between these two ideologies, although today’s elites on the American side are often practical atheists themselves.
In 1952, there appeared an amazing book written by a former Communist-sympathizer who became a Christian. The book was called “Witness,” written by Whittaker Chambers, who used to have a major position with Time magazine.
Chambers writes, “What Communist has not heard those screams? They come from husbands torn forever from their wives in midnight arrests. They come, muffled, from the execution cellars of the secret police, from the torture chambers of the Lubianka, from all the citadels of terror now stretching from Berlin to Canton” (p. 14).
He adds, “The crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God. … Economics is not the central problem of this century. … Faith is the central problem of this age” (p. 17).
Communism stands fully against the God-given rights our framers acknowledged in the Declaration of Independence, the rights of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Instead, the government decides how you shall then live. And if you don’t conform and obey, there can be dire consequences. See “The Black Book of Communism” (Harvard University Press, 1999) to learn of such consequences.
The contrast couldn’t be more clear: Either God is the source of our rights or the state is. The former belief has blessed the world. The latter belief has cursed it.

In case you haven’t noticed, Democrats are going bananas trying to win America’s midterm elections. There is also leftist political mayhem in other countries, but more about that later.
In Michigan, a campaign ad for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed features a couple complaining about high prices. Holding a bunch of bananas, she tells her presumptive husband to put back some eggs, asking rhetorically, “We have to set that $7 aside – for killing Palestinians?”
Then they talk about how America sends billions in aid to Israel. This is akin to saying “the Jews are making you pay higher prices for your groceries.”
Mr. El-Sayed, an Islamist, said that his campaign didn’t run the ad, which in fact was from an outside group. But he refused to denounce it and doubled down, saying he didn’t want Americans paying to “drop bombs” on other countries.
In Texas, Democrats are running fake Christian James Talarico against Attorney General Ken Paxton, hoping that voters won’t notice the wolf’s hair poking out from Mr. Talarico’s sheep suit. His campaign slogan should be: “I’m living proof that even the devil quotes Scripture!”
In Colorado, Democrats are pulling out all stops to defeat a ballot initiative that would prohibit sex mutilation surgeries on minors, and another keeping female sports for females.
In Alaska, Democrats put a fake candidate on the ballot by the same name as incumbent U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, a Republican, to try to siphon off enough votes to elect Democrat Mary Peltola. On Wednesday, the New York Times reported that Ms. Peltola and national Democrats collaborated on this ranked-choice voting scheme to steal the election.
The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit to delay certification of the election. On cue, Sen. Adam Schiff, the shameless California Democrat who led the first impeachment of Mr. Trump, said Republicans were trying to “subvert the elections.”
This is like Bernie Madoff accusing someone of playing fast and loose with a client’s money.
Not to worry, Mr. Schiff. U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason, an Obama appointee, threw out the suit on Nov. 1.
Elsewhere, a group of “Democratic donors, dark-money groups and left-leaning super PACs has spent more than $10 million backing five independents in Republican-leaning areas,” according to Fox News.
In Nebraska, Idaho and South Dakota, for instance, Democrats withdrew from their races, putting independents who lean Democrat on the ballot. This makes sense because progressives have made “Democrat” synonymous with crazy, deviant, Islamist, or communist.
The party continues to push transgender insanity at all levels despite the public’s overwhelming revulsion against fictionally reworking God’s natural order and telling parents to like it or else.
The Democrats’ lockstep obsession with transgenderism doesn’t play well in states that President Donald Trump won by an average of 28 percentage points, like the ones mentioned above.
Meanwhile, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are pulling the party further left.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a human weather vane who is already campaigning to be president, told a PBS interviewer that the Democratic Party was “pretty aligned” with the DSA, especially on banning fossil fuels and having the government seize the health care system.
The DSA platform also calls for dismantling our constitutional republic and having wide open borders, confiscatory taxation, free housing, free food, free childcare, defunding the military, and forcing acceptance of transgenderism and abortions up to birth.
This is so flat-out insane you might think it is a hostile caricature, but it is real.
Now, a look at some other countries dealing with their version of Democrats.
Great Britain’s Labour party has moved further left under Prime Minister Andy Burnham, and the Green party is gaining adherents with its “eco-populist” schemes and pro-Palestinian stances. Jews don’t feel safe in the U.K. anymore, and the media are deliberately underreporting major protests by traditionalist Brits against mass immigration.
France continues to be convulsed with leftist protests and riots, despite President Emmanuel Macron offering a billion euros to them for college campuses and student grants. The socialist student/labor movement rejected the deal and has planned more demonstrations.
In South America, it’s been mostly good news, with a string of countries voting out leftists and installing free market governments, led by Argentina’s Javier Milei.
In Brazil, however, the trend toward Latin American liberty stalled with the Oct. 25 reelection of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a socialist ally of the communist regime in Cuba who had served three previous terms.
Flavio Bolsonaro, son of former conservative President Jair Bolsonaro, who is in prison for allegedly trying to overthrow the government, had won the first round of voting, but came up short in the runoff.
Mr. da Silva had a little help at the last minute. His former personal attorney, whom he appointed as a Supreme Federal Court justice, ordered the polls to stay open two hours longer at Mr. da Silva’s request. When the vote was in, surprise, Mr. da Silva was declared the winner.
If it reminds you of how ballots were counted in some U.S. states on and after Election Night in 2020, well, you must be an “election denier” like me.
Another justice appointed by Mr. da Silva ordered Mr. Bolsonaro to surrender his passport, but the candidate and his family fled the country and wound up in Miami.
Mr. Bolsonaro was wise to get out and come to what is still a free country.
On Nov. 3, we will learn just how long we might remain that way. I am cautiously optimistic that the pollsters predicting a blue wave will be deeply disappointed.
This column was first published at the Washington Times.

Sometimes God takes us to the edge of an abyss and bids us look in to see what awaits us if we make the wrong choices.
That was what happened in the 1930s with Nazism and in most of the 20th century with communism. It is happening with the “red-green alliance” that is smashing France and spreading across Europe like a virulent contagion.
The left was born in the fires of revolutionary France. Now, the Jacobins are back with fire and devastation.
With open borders and socialism, it is probably too late for France, even if Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party wins the 2027 presidential election. Ms. Le Pen has already capitulated by declaring, “Islam is compatible with the republic.” She is supposed to be a realist.
The drama playing out in the streets of Paris and other European cities should serve as a warning.
To understand the chaos rocking France, we must go back 237 years to the French Revolution, which started with a protest over the price of bread. It ended in the world’s first totalitarian state, a sea of blood, decades of warfare and Bonapartism. Everything ghastly in the 20th century started in 18th-century France.
The French Revolution was ushered in by high taxes, massive public debt and a ruling class that refused to confront reality. Sound familiar?
Louis XVI borrowed to support the American Revolution. Then, to pay off the debt, he raised taxes – especially those that fell hardest on the poor. He called the Estates General to approve the new taxes, which became the National Assembly, which led to storming the Bastille, the end of the monarchy and the Reign of Terror.
Yet the biggest mistake the French aristocracy made was in thinking that the orchestra would never stop playing. Louis thought the people loved him until he got a shave with the national razor.
Today, countries such as France are ruled by leaders who are equally oblivious to what is happening around them. French President Emmanuel Macron, the country’s worst mistake since Waterloo, is deliberately blind to the truth. “People have claimed that we were invaded by hordes of migrants and Islamists which is totally false,” he insists.
Mr. Macron says the riots are a cry for better schools and a higher standard of living.
Of course. The Palestinian flag, which rioters wave, has always stood for excellence in education, and the hammer and sickle is a symbol of upward mobility. What is the French word for delusional?
Here are a few inconvenient facts for Monsieur Macron. The Muslim population of France has gone from roughly 1% in the 1960s to 10% today. Of young Muslims, 57% believe Shariah should take precedence over the laws of the French Republic. Why should little things such as polygamy and wife-beating stand in the way of a multicultural paradise?
There are 751 no-go zones in France, areas in or around large cities that the gendarmes dare not enter because so-called migrants have done such an exceptional job of assimilating.
Like the Ancien Regime, modern France is an economic basket case.
In 1974, the French public debt was around 15% of gross domestic product. Today it is 115%. Government spending is 57% of GDP, compared with 23% in the United States. French social spending is three times as high as in America and the highest in Europe. If French schools are crappy, it is because that is all they can afford.
Americans have had a taste of mob rule with the George Floyd riots in 2020. Antifa and its allies have been in the streets since President Trump began deporting criminal aliens.
The French have the hard-left, crypto Communist Party of Jean-Luc Melenchon: La France Insoumise. We have the Democratic Party dominated by the demented Democratic Socialists of America and neo-Jacobins such as Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, Sen. Bernard Sanders, Vermont independent – the fossil in a fright wig – and Bolshevik babe Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York and Stalingrad Democrat.
What was once the party of Thomas Jefferson, Harry S. Truman and John F. Kennedy has become a radical socialist, antisemitic gang addicted to violence. It is not only France or America that is at stake, but Western civilization itself.
You could say that 1789 was the opening gun. The current insanity is a milepost on the road to hell.
The upheaval in France is a warning for America. Republicans should be grateful for the campaign ads the French are doing for them.
This column was first published at the Washington Times.