The disgraced, far-left New York Times, is blaming “misogyny” for Supergirl’s humiliating and well-deserved crash-landing at the box office.
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Nayib Bukele Registers to Run for Third Presidential Term in 2027
President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele on Sunday registered his pre-candidacy for the 2027 presidential elections — seeking to obtain a third consecutive term after lawmakers from his New Ideas (NI) party eliminated term limits last year.
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Alaska Judge Overrules Election Officials, Lets ‘Fake’ Dan Sullivan Stay On Ballot
Alaska Judge Overrules Election Officials, Lets ‘Fake’ Dan Sullivan Stay On Ballot
A retired elementary school teacher from Petersburg just punched his ticket back onto Alaska’s Republican U.S. Senate primary ballot after he was accused of being a deliberate spoiler and struck from the ballot.
Dan Sullivan of Petersburg announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate on May 29 to challenge incumbent U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan. (Photo courtesy of Dan Sullivan)
Superior Court Judge Thomas Matthews ruled late Friday that the Alaska Division of Elections had no legal right to disqualify Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. The Division had yanked him on June 15, calling his filing a sham designed to confuse voters and tilt the race toward Democrat Mary Peltola in November. Matthews said the state basically invented a “good faith” test that doesn’t exist in the U.S. Constitution, Alaska statutes, or the Division’s own rules – and that’s a problem when you’re talking about a federal office.
In the Friday night ruling, the judge determined Dan J. Sullivan, a retired teacher from Petersburg, is an eligible candidate for U.S. Senate and that the division shall include his name on the August 18 primary ballot.
The division’s decision to disqualify Sullivan because it determined his candidacy was not filed in “good faith” was unconstitutional, Superior Court Judge Thomas Matthews ruled. “The director’s assertion that Mr. Sullivan seeks to confuse or misguide voters is not supported by a preponderance of evidence,” he wrote. -Alaska Beacon
The U.S. Constitution sets only three qualifications for senator: age, citizenship length, and state residency. States can’t tack on extra hurdles, especially subjective ones about someone’s motives. The judge noted the Division accepted Republican complaints at face value while brushing aside Sullivan’s explanations, and he pointed out that practical fixes like printing middle initials (Dan J. versus Dan S.) exist if name similarity is the real worry.
What set this off
Sullivan, a former U.S. Forest Service employee who taught fifth grade in Petersburg, filed May 29 as a Republican. He shares the incumbent senator’s first and last name – a coincidence he’s called a “matter of fate.” Election officials and GOP groups zeroed in on several red flags: he’d recently switched his registration to Republican, having spent decades with the now-defunct Alaskan Independence Party until it dissolved late last year; his campaign materials and website looked similar to the incumbent’s; and he’d worked with a political consultant, Amber Lee, whom Republicans flagged as a longtime supporter of Democratic candidates. Officials also seized on the fact that he first emailed the Division asking to appear on the ballot as “Dan S. Sullivan” – the senator’s exact name, down to the middle initial – before switching the request to “Dan J.” They argued the whole package was meant to siphon votes in a primary that could decide whether Sen. Dan Sullivan faces a tougher general election.
The opposition came from the top: Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom opened an investigation, the Alaska Republican Party filed formal complaints, and the National Republican Senatorial Committee referred Sullivan to the Federal Election Commission, claiming his candidacy broke federal law.
Sullivan’s response was straightforward: he’s unhappy with the incumbent’s record after 12 years and wants to give voters another choice. He says he followed every rule, paid the fees, and met the qualifications – and he flatly rejects the idea that he’s a Democratic plant. Asked by the Associated Press whether he’d had any contact with Peltola’s campaign, he said “zero, none, zilch.” Peltola’s camp and state Democrats have denied the spoiler accusation too, and when the Division actually pulled him, it didn’t point to any proof of coordination – it rested the call on his supposed lack of “good faith.” His small Southeast Alaska hometown has largely rallied behind him.
Matthews didn’t buy the Division’s claim that it had broad power to police “ballot fairness” by removing candidates it disliked. He ordered Sullivan’s name on the August 18 primary ballot. The state immediately moved to appeal to the Alaska Supreme Court, which has until Tuesday to settle the matter – right up against the deadline for printing ballots.
For now, the “other” Dan Sullivan stays in. Alaskan voters might have to do a little extra homework to tell the two apart, but the judge made clear that’s not grounds to disqualify someone who otherwise qualifies.
U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, NOT the retired teacher, at the Alaska State Capitol in February.
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Country star Morgan Wallen showcases Christian faith with Bible verse on cast during concert
Morgan Wallen put his Christian faith on display during a recent concert, taking the stage with a Bible verse written across a cast on his leg.In videos and photos shared on social media, the 33-year-old country star wore a black cast featuring the Scripture reference “Joshua 2:21” in white writing during his show at Clemson University’s Memorial Stadium in Clemson, South Carolina on Saturday.Joshua 2:21 (KJV) reads, “And she said, According unto your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet cord in the window.”The verse is part of the Old Testament story of Rahab, a woman who hid two Israelite spies before the fall of Jericho. After the spies promised to spare her family, Rahab immediately tied a scarlet cord in her window as a sign of their covenant.MORGAN WALLEN SENDS PRAYERS TO CHARLIE KIRK’S WIDOW ERIKA DURING EMOTIONAL CONCERT PERFORMANCEAccording to Bible Hub’s commentary on the verse, the scarlet cord has long been understood in Christian tradition as a symbol of faith, redemption and God’s protection. It is also widely interpreted as foreshadowing Christ’s redemptive sacrifice because it marked Rahab’s household for deliverance during Jericho’s destruction.Wallen has previously spoken publicly about his Christian faith. The Grammy Award nominee, who is the son of Southern Baptist pastor Tommy Wallen and elementary school teacher Lesli Wallen, grew up singing in church before launching his music career.”During an April 2025 Spotify interview video ahead of the release of his collaboration with Post Malone, “I Ain’t Comin’ Back,” Wallen explained that he intentionally includes biblical themes in his music.ELLA LANGLEY GOES VIRAL WITH PASSIONATE COMMENTS ABOUT HER CHRISTIAN FAITH, GOD, LOVE AND RELIGION”Me as a Christian, I think anytime that I can throw a little hint of that in my music, I’m always all for it,” he said via Taste of Country.In 2022, Wallen released his faith-based single “Don’t Think Jesus” on Good Friday. Other songs in his catalog that feature biblical language and imagery include “I Wrote the Book,” “Devil Don’t Know,” “In the Bible,” “Thought You Should Know” and “Genesis.”CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTERDuring a December 2025 episode of his podcast “This Past Weekend,” comedian Theo Vonn said that he participates in a Bible study with Wallen, describing the singer as “an inspiring guy” and “authentic.”Following Hurricane Helene’s devastation in Appalachia in 2024, Wallen wrote Psalm 40:2 on the exposed studs of a storm-ravaged home as its owners rebuilt. He also visited flood victims in his native East Tennessee, organized a food drive and donated $500,000 to relief efforts.LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSAfter the November 2018 shooting at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, California, Wallen explained how he was leaning on his faith to cope with the tragedy.”I don’t have any answers, but in my personal opinion, I’m a person that has faith and I believe that a lot of people have neglected God,” he explained during an interview with Taste of Country.”We don’t put the Ten Commandments in school anymore. We just neglect everything and people act like the Ten Commandments is something so terrible. I mean, it’s a way to live. I think we all could agree on what they say.”He continued: “I believe in God. I believe that He’s real and I believe He has control over a lot of things and I think throughout history there has been a lot of countries that have turned their back on Him and the result is not great. Hopefully, we can get something figured out.”
Crying Mets star Bo Bichette looked like a guy second-guessing his move from Toronto to Queens
One of the Mets’ premier acquisitions this past offseason, infielder Bo Bichette has quickly become part of the Amazins’ terrible year.Last season, Bichette helped carry Toronto to the World Series. Now, he’s stuck at the bottom of the NL East, dealing with a dysfunctional front office that recently fired manager Carlos Mendoza.Back in Toronto as the road-weary Mets opened a three-game series against his former team Monday, Bichette was asked what returning to Rogers Centre meant to him.And the waterworks began.BLUE JAYS’ BO BICHETTE SENDS FANS INTO FRENZY WITH EPIC GAME 7 HOME RUNSpeaking to reporters, Bichette said he gave Toronto “everything he had.”He added, “I don’t know what to expect … I gave it everything I had … I just hope that’s appreciated.”WATCH:The Mets’ season has spiraled despite the additions of Bichette and Juan Soto, while former cornerstones Pete Alonso and Brandon Nimmo are gone.With Mendoza out, frustrated Mets fans have increasingly turned their attention to President of Baseball Operations David Stearns, whose offseason overhaul has produced more questions than wins.Things were supposed to work out in Queens. Bichette’s acquisition was seen as the Mets’ response after watching the Dodgers take another bite out of free agency by signing Kyle Tucker … though Tucker hasn’t quite panned out at Chavez, either.Bichette was a two-time All-Star in Toronto.During the Blue Jays’ World Series run, Bichette batted .348 with a .444 on-base percentage despite battling a late-season knee injury. His Game 7 three-run blast off Shohei Ohtani put Toronto on the brink of its first title, but the Dodgers broke the Blue Jays’ hearts in extra innings.Bichette subsequently agreed to a three-year, $126 million contract with the Mets. He pushed his chips onto Queens, but the baseball gods landed on black. (We’ve all been there, Bo.)This moment will probably rub some Mets fans the wrong way.Then again, Dodgers fans were able to forgive Freddie Freeman for getting emotional about his time in Atlanta. Mets fans should be able to do the same.Send us your thoughts: alejandro.avila@outkick.com / Follow along on X: @alejandroaveela
President Trump Announces Nomination For Labor Secretary
President Trump on Monday afternoon announced he is nominating Keith Sonderling to serve as Secretary of Labor.
Keith Sonderling is currently the Acting US Secretary of Labor.
Full statement from President Trump:
It is my Great Honor to announce that I am nominating Keith E. Sonderling, the outstanding Acting United States Secretary of Labor, to be permanent.
Keith previously served as Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer and, during my First Term, worked at the U.S. Department of Labor as the Acting and Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division.
Throughout his career, Keith has proven his dedication to delivering strong results for the Hardworking People of our Country, and I know he will do an incredible job in his new role.
Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Earlier this year, President Trump’s previous Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned amid an investigation into her husband’s sexual misconduct in the latest Cabinet shakeup.
She was the third Cabinet official to leave in Trump’s second term.
Then-Deputy Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling will replace Chavez-DeRemer as Acting Labor Secretary.
Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s husband, Shawn DeRemer, was under investigation for sexual misconduct.
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12 score and 10 years ago …
Twelve score and 10 years ago, “our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
When our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, delivered his famous speech on the Gettysburg battlefield on Nov. 19, 1863, he was harkening back to the Declaration of Independence.
Score = 20 years. Lincoln said, “Four score and seven years ago.” Subtract 87 from 1863, and it takes us back to 1776. The very thing we now celebrate 250 years of, the Declaration of Independence.
The Gettysburg Address is easily one of the top 10 speeches in American history. It is informed by the Bible, as we will see. So also was the Declaration of Independence, which mentions God four times.
We celebrate our national birth certificate on July 4, 2026, because 250 years ago, 56 men in Philadelphia, representing 3 million back home, made a voice-vote to approve the final wording of the Declaration of Independence. Only later did they all sign it.
During the Civil War, the nation was tested. It easily could have perished. It could have split into many nations, not just two. Once the division became permanent, it easily could have have divided up even further.
On a few occasions, I have had the privilege of interviewing author Dr. Daniel Dreisbach of American University. He writes much on the link between the Bible and America. One of his books is called, “Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers.”
I interviewed Dreisbach for my Foundation of American Liberty series for Providence Forum. In the episode, “The Beginning of Wisdom,” we set out to show the link between the Bible and widespread literacy in America. I have even edited a short portion of that episode to feature Dreisbach on Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
In his Gettysburg Address, notes Dreisbach, Lincoln provides a virtual textbook case of the influence of the Bible on the founding and unfolding development of America.
Dr. Dreisbach told our viewers, “Abraham Lincoln, even when not quoting the Bible, spoke the language of the Bible. So, take, for example, perhaps his most famous speech, the Gettysburg Address. Now, there is no direct quotation from the Bible in the Gettysburg Address, but there is hardly a line that doesn’t echo King James-like language.”
Dreisbach goes on to give many examples, all of which are based on the King James Version of the Bible Lincoln used:
“Four score and seven years ago” harkens back to Psalm 90:10, which says, “The days of our years are threescore years and ten.”
“Our fathers” alludes to the patriarchs, e.g., Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the “Our Father” in the Lord’s Prayer.
“Brought forth” is used many times throughout the Bible, even in first chapter.
Why would President Lincoln use such arcane phraseology? Dreisbach answers: “Now, what I would suggest to you that he deliberately chooses this mode of communication, four score and seven years ago, to put his audience in a biblical frame of mind. He’s signaling to them; I have something serious to say here.”
Most importantly, notes Dreisbach, the Bible informs the overall message of the Bible: “What is the core theme of the Gettysburg Address? It is about the conception, birth, life and death, and new birth of a nation. That’s the gospel narrative, is it not? The conception of the incarnated Christ who comes to earth. Birth, life, death and resurrection.”
Picture Lincoln addressing the families of those who died on that battlefield, observes Dreisbach:
“And what does he say to them? He says, your sons and daughters did not perish here in vain. They gave their life so that this nation can enjoy a new life, a new life that will not perish. Now, that’s the final ending of the Gettysburg Address, ‘will not perish.’ Isn’t that kind of interesting? That echoes the language of John 3:16 and elsewhere, right? But think about this theme, there has been death here, but it’s not a death in vain. It is a death that gives us a hope of a new life, not simply a new life, but an eternal life. He uses the Bible in profound ways, and he’s speaking to an audience that knows exactly what he’s speaking to these broader themes about conception, birth, life, death and rebirth.”
In short, said Lincoln in 1863, “this nation, under God [needs] a new birth of freedom.”
Well, we’ve made it 250 years. Given the present division we see at this time, will we make it 50 years from now? The American experiment, articulated so well 12 score and 10 years ago, could easily perish, if we do not experience genuine God-given revival. It is my prayer that God will help us to make it so.
Beyond bias: What the media are not telling us
We are looking at a 1984-style Soviet news blackout right now on several crucial news stories.
Before departing as director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard released, on June 19, a declassified smoking gun report about the COVID-19 pandemic. It was ignored by all major media except Fox News.
The report documents how Dr. Anthony Fauci lied to Congress about COVID’s likely origin. He denied facilitating federal grants to a nonprofit company, EcoHealth Alliance, which did gain-of-function research on bat-borne viruses at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Among other things, Dr. Fauci steered media away from the obvious lab leak explanation and toward wet market-based nonsense about tasty bats infecting people.
“Politicized self-serving leaders like Dr. Fauci covered up their own wrongdoing and abuses of power, manipulated intelligence, lied to Congress, and undermined a duly elected President by restricting his access to vital facts,” Ms. Gabbard charged. “Yawn,” said the media.
If Mr. Fauci did what Ms. Gabbard and Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, have documented, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) should be serving a life sentence.
But to the press, this isn’t worthy of reporting and might reflect badly on the previous Democratic administration.
For some reason, the Biden administration’s autopen issued a sweeping pardon to Dr. Fauci as it did for members of the January 6 House Committee.
On June 19, Yahoo!News carried a clip from Fox about the Gabbard report, but just below it, this from Salon: “Tulsi Gabbard was in more than one cult.”
You’ve heard of “The Art of the Deal?” This is “The Art of the Smear.”
Here’s another massive cover-up. On June 16, Reform Member of Parliament Rupert Lowe issued “The Rape Gang Report,” a 219-page study documenting “the systematic rape and even slaughter of White British girls” in the United Kingdom by “chiefly Pakistani Muslim men” over the past few decades.
According to the Media Research Center (MRC), the report was ignored by major American cable and broadcast media (ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and MS NOW) and covered only by Fox News.
It was virtually ignored or dismissed as “right-wing” in The New York Times and Washington Post but got significant coverage on Newsmax and in The Washington Times, The Epoch Times and The New York Post.
“The scale of the crimes committed is staggering. … At the very least, 250,000 young White girls have been subjected to repeated rape, gang rapes, trafficking, torture, pregnancy, forced Islamic conversions and lifelong trauma,” the report says.
It contains eyewitness accounts too horrifying to share here, which match atrocities suffered by Israeli women during the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas invasion.
The grooming and rapes began in the 1950s but took off after the 1977 election of Labor Party Prime Minister’s Tony Blair, whose government “orchestrated mass immigration,” the report said, noting that officials looked the other way or were even complicit.
In London, there have been massive demonstrations by Union Jack-waving Brits who say they want a full stop to immigration from countries that don’t share Judeo-Christian values.
On June 18, the Lowe report “still has yet to receive a single second of airtime on any of the left-wing cable or broadcast networks” in the United States, the MRC reported. Meanwhile, the media are still going crazy over maintenance problems at the Reflecting Pool in Washington.
The same major networks that gave zero time to the Fauci and rape gang reports devoted nearly seven hours of total coverage to the pool’s algae blossom, the MRC said. The pool’s renovation had been one of President Donald Trump’s most touted efforts to clean up Washington for the nation’s 250th anniversary celebration. So there.
Other major stories the media have ignored include the arrests of hundreds of people accused of stealing billions via welfare fraud in Democratic-run cities, and the shocking backgrounds of successful Democratic Socialist candidates in last Tuesday’s Democratic Party primary in New York City who were backed by communist/Islamist Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Most media accounts describe them as “progressives” or just part of Mr. Mamdani’s slate of leftists. But they are certifiable, and the public should not be kept in the dark.
Aber Kawas, a Muslim naturalized Palestinian woman who won a state Senate seat primary, justified the 9/11 terrorist attack, saying America has a “system of capitalism, and racism, and white supremacy.”
Darializa Avila Chevalier, who won a New York congressional primary, attended a pro-Palestinian rally on the day after the Oct. 7 Hamas slaughter.
She also expressed contempt for America, saying, “I forgot to get napkins so I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me.”
Ms. Chevalier supports open borders, seizing private property, nationalizing industries, and abolishing – not just defunding – police.
In a 2020 social media post, she wrote, “The pyromania associated with anarchism is very intriguing to me.” That year, antifa/BLM mobs torched hundreds of cities, killed more than 25 people, wounded hundreds of police, and caused $2 billion in damages.
Seven of eight Democratic Socialist candidates won, including three congressional primaries in New York City. This pushes the Democratic Party closer to forced collectivism, outright anti-Semitism, and hostility to Christianity.
Will American voters learn in time to prevent what these people intend for this country, which is to replace the American way of life with communism and/or Sharia law?
Don’t count on the media to tell them.
This column was first published at the Washington Times.
Heroism 101: This patriot keeps marching into his 2nd century on Earth
We have a titanic hero in Southwest Florida.
He’s Bob Hilliard, who just turned 101.
His birthday on June 25 was so inspiring to those who know him, we wanted to make it a statewide holiday.
Hilliard is that consequential in a life spanning New York City, growing up and as a journalist and in theater, near Jacksonville for Army basic training, World War II in Europe, D.C. and Boston for careers in government and academia, down to Florida again at Sanibel Island and, after Hurricane Ian, Fort Myers.
He never quits, just as he dug deep when the Nazis came on as brutally as the Battle of Bulge’s deep freeze in Belgium.
“What I remember most,” he says, “is the terrible cold winter and having to use TNT to blast foxholes … for shelter and sleep. And I got frozen feet.”
He was just 19, an Army private hit by mortar shrapnel, from which he overcame and received the Purple Heart.
That was 1945, a few months before America and our Allies clinched victory on the continent.
What Hilliard experience at the Bulge was the bloodiest battle for American forces on the Western Front during the Second World War. But he survived and has thrived the 81 years since.
Thrived? That’s putting it mildly.
He has a sharp wife, JoAnn Reece, and two brilliant children, Mark Hilliard, a military historian, and Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, one of the country’s leading civil liberties lawyers as co-founder and head of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund.
Also in the past eight decades, he has produced 50 books and multiple stage shows. Even musicals, one of which, “Piccadilly,” my wife and I enjoyed at Fort Myers two years ago.
“Piccadilly,” obviously set in London, sings of love after WWII.
Can you imagine composing not only a screenplay, but also music and lyrics? I can’t, but then I’m not Bob, the Florida Firebrand. He burns with a fervor.
The Guardians of Democracy, a group of citizen journalists and activists, felt Hilliard’s heat from years of demonstrations and decided to honor him with its Lifetime Award.
Bob responded with a message captured by Florida Weekly’s Roger Williams: “When one gets to an advanced age … much of one’s thinking turns to remembrances of the past. One wonders whether they have fulfilled their obligation as human beings to make life better for as many others as possible. My mantra has been ‘be ashamed to die until you’ve made the world a little better than you found it.’ Your generous award – the Guardian of Democracy Lifetime Award – gives me hope that I am fulfilling my mantra, my goals in life. It buoys my spirits and supports my continuing commitment to our mutual fight for democracy.”
It’s a pleasure to know Bob Hilliard, who’s walked the Earth longer than anyone I’ve known.
Think of what he’s lived through: the 1927 Yankees, the Great Depression, the Berlin Airlift, Bobby Thomson’s Shot Heard Round the World, the Dodgers and Giants leaving New York for California, JFK’s murder, Joe Namath’s Super Bowl, the moon landings, the Miracle Mets, Secretariat, the Bicentennial, the stock market’s rocket since 1982, the Berlin Wall’s tumble, Buster Douglas’ shocker over Mike Tyson, 9/11, America coming up on 250.
America 250? It’s also great seeing Hilliard 101.
Bob Hilliard and fellow newspaper guys Jeff Cull and Bucky Fox in Aprilin Fort Myers, Florida. Courtesy photo.
At 250, we should ask what our nation means
On the 250th anniversary of our independence, we should ask what America means.
Commentator Dennis Prager once wrote that, for most countries, the question is irrelevant. England, France and Spain are nations with their own histories and cultures. However, through mass migration, they are being colonized by the Third World.
Still, there are Englishmen who are rightly proud to be English.
Yet to ask what England means now that its empire is gone is absurd. That Britain has had six prime ministers in the past 10 years is a sign of a nation adrift.
America is unique. From our founding, the United States was meant to reflect certain truths: “That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
That is as much of a revolutionary statement today as it was in 1776.
We went on to offer a model of limited government in the Constitution. We fought two world wars in pursuit of our national purpose and later defended the free world during the Cold War.
We embraced Adam Smith’s free market vision, as set forth in “The Wealth of Nations,” published the year we declared our independence.
From the outset, we were a creedal nation, one based on ideas rather than blood. People came here from all over the world. We were e pluribus unum – out of many, one.
As it was during the Civil War, we are once again engaged in a great struggle to determine which will prevail: the philosophy of the founders or a darker vision.
The Democratic Party hates America. Only 27% of Democrats intend to display the flag on the Fourth of July this year.
Socialism – an ideology diametrically opposed to the principles of the founders and a failure everywhere it has been tried – is on the rise. New York and Seattle have socialist mayors. Washington just elected one. In New York City, socialists just won three congressional primaries.
Polls show that a majority of young adults have positive views of socialism. For a dose of reality, they should spend a week in Cuba or Canada.
President Reagan said: “Freedom is a fragile thing, and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction.” This could be that generation.
The leadership of the Democratic Party does not believe in borders. It thinks homelessness is a natural phenomenon and is convinced that crime can be controlled with more social spending.
A Democratic congressional candidate in New York believes that no one should be in prison, including murderers. Far-left Sen. Bernard Sanders, Vermont independent, thinks private property should be taxed out of existence.
The party’s leadership cannot tell you what a woman is, but it will help your son become one.
The national debt is a staggering $39.2 trillion, or $115,000 for each American. It grows by $2 trillion to $3 trillion a year. If the fiscal house of cards we have built ever collapses, we will all be buried in the rubble.
We are governed by career politicians, a notion the Founding Fathers abhorred. President Biden spent 55 years of his life serving in elective office.
Opposing this is an army of patriots of every race, religion and creed. These are people whose hearts beat faster when they see the flag or hear “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Some have worn their country’s uniform. Others have engaged in political warfare for decades.
Some have lineages going back to the Mayflower. Others, such as Secretary of State Marco Rubio, have immigrant parents.
When someone called novelist Ayn Rand a “foreigner,” she replied: “I chose to be an American. What did you do, besides being born here?”
Regardless of where we were born, we all choose to be Americans.
The fate of humanity will depend on the outcome of this struggle. Daniel Webster, the great 19th-century Whig leader, cautioned: “Hold on to your Constitution, for if the American Constitution shall fail there will be anarchy throughout the world.”
If not America, who will stop mankind from marching backward into slavery – old Europe, which has severed its religious roots?
This is our time to stand up for freedom.
As it was with the Colonial militia of 1775, the blue coats on Cemetery Ridge, the soldiers on Omaha Beach and those who fought in muddy fields, jungles and deserts around the world, now it is our turn to sacrifice for America and all mankind.
This column was first published at the Washington Times.