#2 | No One in Scripture Interpreted it on Their Own

 In this episode, our founder Joshua Charles recounts how, in order to solve “my unsolvable dilemma as a protestant” (see Episode #1), he went to Scripture to see how doctrinal disputes were resolved. In the process, he discovered a disturbing fact: no one in Scripture interpreted it on their own.

In other words, no one in Scripture was doing what he thought was normative Christian practice as a protestant. On the contrary, everyone was under apostolic authority: the authority of the Apostles themselves, or those they had appointed. Outside this line of authority, no one was empowered to interpret Scripture on their own. Despite the fact that his conversion to the Catholic Faith was still years away, Joshua realized even then that what he was seeing in Scripture was simply not compatible with protestantism (or at the very least, most forms of it).

Who Is Zohran Mamdani?

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This summer, the voters of New York City have indicated that the man whom they would most like to elect as their next mayor is – for now, at least – Zohran Mamdani. On June 24, Mamdani finished first in an eleven-person primary race for the Democratic Party’s mayoral nomination, outpacing runner-up Andrew Cuomo by nearly 13 percentage points in New York’s “ranked choice” voting system. Both Cuomo and incumbent mayor Eric Adams plan to run against Mamdani as independents in the November general election, but at this point Mamdani is the overwhelming favorite to become New York’s 111th mayor. In light of this, let us take a close look at exactly who Mr. Mamdani is, and what his foremost political values and agendas are.

Radical Roots: Anti-American, Anti-Israel Father

Zohran Kwame Mamdani was born on October 18, 1991, in Kampala, Uganda, the only child of Marxist scholar Mahmood Mamdani and filmmaker Mira Nair – both of whom were of Indian descent. Zohran’s middle name was given to him by his father, in honor of Kwame Nkrumah, the first prime minister (1957-1960) and then president (1960-1966) of Ghana. A socialist and Pan-Africanist, Nkrumah in 1962 was awarded the Soviet Union’s International Lenin Peace Prize – an honor given by a Soviet government-appointed panel in recognition of individuals who advanced the totalitarian agendas of the Kremlin.

Since 1999, Mahmood Mamdani has been employed by Columbia University as a Professor of Government, International Affairs, Anthropology, Middle Eastern Studies, South Asian Studies, and African Studies.

During a 2022 panel discussion hosted by the Asia Society, Mahmood Mamdani stated that Adolf Hitler had drawn his “inspiration” for the genocide of Jews directly from Abraham Lincoln. “With the Civil War,” said the professor, “Abraham Lincoln generalized the solution of reservations; they herded American Indians into separate territories. For the Nazis, this was the inspiration – Hitler realized … that genocide is doable. It is possible to do genocide, that’s what Hitler realized.”

Characterizing America as the “genesis of what we call settler-colonialism” across the globe, Mahmood Mamdani argued that “nationalism and colonialism” were two faces of the same proverbial coin, and that the goals of the Allied forces during World War II were indistinguishable from those of the Nazis. “The Nazi political project was shared by the Allies,” he said, “and that political project was to turn Germany into a ‘pure’ nation — a ‘pure’ nation rid of its minorities.”

Objecting to the use of the term “suicide bomber” to describe Muslims who blow themselves up with explosive devices in an effort to kill Jewish civilian bystanders in their vicinity, Mahmood Mamdani claims that such murderous operatives are no different from professional “soldier[s] whose objective is to kill.” “We need to recognize the suicide bomber, first and foremost, as a category of soldier,” he wrote in 2004.

Consistent with his personal anti-Semitic sympathies, Mahmood Mamdani currently sits on the advisory policy council of the Gaza Tribunal — an anti-Israel organization that supports the Boycott, Divestment, & Sanctions (BDS) movement, a Hamas-inspired initiative dedicated to financially crippling the state of Israel and making its long-term survival impossible. Further, the Gaza Tribunal accuses Israel’s government of committing “genocide” against Palestinians.

According to a report in which the Washington Free Beacon chronicled Mahmood Mamdani’s academic arguments on an array of topics, Mamdani views Israel as “the logical conclusion of Nazism.”

In June 2025, Fox News reported that Professor Mamdani, while teaching a course titled “Settlers and Natives,” articulated his belief in “the necessity of violence in anticolonial struggle.”

Radical Roots: Anti-Israel Mother

Zohran Mamdani’s mother, Mira Nair, is an Indian-American, Oscar-nominated film director, producer, and writer. Like her husband, she supports the Boycott, Divestment, & Sanctions (BDS) movement dedicated to Israel’s permanent dissolution as a Jewish state.

In July 2013, Ms. Nair, citing her opposition to Israel’s alleged mistreatment of Palestinians, declined an invitation to be a “guest of honor” at the Haifa International Film Festival. “I will not be going to Israel at this time,” she said in a statement. “… I will go to Israel when occupation is gone. I will go to Israel when the state does not privilege one religion over another. I will go to Israel when apartheid is over.”

In 2025, Ms. Nair signed onto an open letter exhorting the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to bar Israeli actress Gal Gadot from attending that year’s Academy Awards ceremony. The letter said, in part: “Gadot has openly and repeatedly expressed her support for Israel’s military actions against Palestinians, a stance that aligns her with a system that has caused immeasurable pain and destruction. This is especially troubling in light of the International Court of Justice’s determination that there is a plausible case for genocide against the Palestinian population.”

Zohran Mamdani’s Privileged Youth

Zohran Mamdani lived in Kampala, the capital city of Uganda, until he was five, at which time he and his parents moved to Cape Town, South Africa, where his father taught African Studies at the University of Cape Town.

Two years later, the Mamdani family immigrated to the United States, settling in the Morningside Heights section of Manhattan’s Upper West Side. There, Zohran attended the Bank Street School for Children, a very high-priced private institution. From 2006 to 2010, he attended the prestigious Bronx High School of Science. Throughout his youth in New York City, Zohran lived in the housing facilities of Columbia University, where his father was employed as a professor.

In 2025, Zohran Mamdani reflected upon his youth in an interview with The New York Times: “I would say I had a privileged upbringing. I never had to want for something, and yet I knew that was not in any way the reality for most New Yorkers.”

Self-Identifying as Both “Asian” and “Black”

When Zohran Mamdani applied for admission to Columbia University in 2009, he identified himself on his application forms as both “Asian” and “Black or African American.” When Columbia ultimately decided not to admit him, he enrolled instead at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.

Students for Justice in Palestine

During his years at Bowdoin (2010-2014), Mamdani co-founded the school’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), an anti-Israel advocacy group that supports the Hamas-inspired BDS movement. In 2013, Bowdoin’s SJP chapter invited the radical Lebanese-American political science professor As’ad AbuKhalil, to address the student body.

• Nicknamed the “godfather of Middle Eastern terrorism,” AbuKhalil is a BDS leader who openly and proudly acknowledges that the movement’s objective is to permanently destroy the Jewish state.
• In 2019, AbuKhalil said that the Trump administration’s reported desire to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization showed America to be an “arrogant” nation that – in light of the fact that it was “killing more civilians [in Afghanistan] than the Taliban” – “certainly should not have the moral authority to judge and label an organization on the basis of the criteria of terrorism.” “This is very much like the Israelis when they themselves declare their enemies and the people who want to resist their occupation as being terrorists,” he added.
• In 2021, AbuKhalil accused the U.S. of having brought the 9/11 attacks upon itself, saying: “We have to remember that the U.S. basically was hit on 9/11 by forces that were reactionary and fanatic and were raised and armed and sponsored by America and its allies in the Middle East…. [T]here were many earlier 9/11s that the U.S. inflicted on people around the world.”

In 2014, the year Zohran Mamdani graduated from Bowdoin College, the school’s SJP took to Facebook to share an article about Rasmea Odeh and demand “justice” for her. A longtime organizer with the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Odeh famously masterminded a February 1969 PFLP terrorist attack in which two Israeli university students were killed by a bomb blast in a Jerusalem food market. When Odeh stood trial for her role in the bomb plot, she was convicted on all charges and sentenced to spend the rest of her life in an Israeli prison. She was freed in 1979, however, as part of a deal in which she and 77 other Palestinian prisoners were released from Israeli jails in exchange for a single Israeli soldier who had been taken hostage in Lebanon. Odeh eventually immigrated to America in 1996 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2005 — falsely and illegally denying, on both occasions, that she had ever previously been convicted of, or incarcerated for, a crime. In 2014 a federal jury in Detroit convicted Odeh of immigration fraud because of those denials and sentenced her to 18 months in prison, prompting Bowdoin’s SJP to call for her exoneration in the name of “justice.”

Who Is Zohran Mamdani? | Frontpage Mag

#1 | My Unsolvable Dilemma as a protestant

 

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Gay Man Who Crowdfunded Surrogacy Journey With Husband Revealed As Child Sex Offender

 A widely circulated video showcasing a gay couple’s “surrogacy journey” has revealed that a baby boy is currently in the custody of a registered child sex offender. The couple, Logan Riley and Brandon Mitchell, gained viral attention after posting a video introducing their newborn son. It has since emerged that Mitchell is a convicted pedophile.

The video, which was initially shared by the couple on their own social media platforms, was meant to offer a heartwarming glimpse into the first year of their newborn’s life. However, it quickly drew scrutiny after being reposted on July 27 by Irish right-wing activist and political figure Derek Blighe on X (formerly Twitter).

“Unless a miracle happens, this child has almost no chance at a normal life,” Blighe wrote in the caption, a post that has since garnered over one million views. At the time, the couple’s identities were not publicly known, and Blighe’s post drew criticism and ridicule, particularly from advocates of same-sex adoption, who dismissed his concerns as homophobic.

Gay Man Who Crowdfunded Surrogacy Journey With Husband Revealed As Child Sex Offender - Reduxx

Inside socialist Zohran Mamdani’s posh wedding bash at secluded Uganda compound — complete with phone jamming system, armed guards

 Socialist NYC mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani celebrated his recent nuptials with a lavish, three-day affair at his family’s ritzy, secluded Ugandan compound — complete with masked security guards and a cellphone jamming system, The Post has learned.

The gates of the bustling, private compound, which sits in the wealthy Buziga Hill area outside the capital city of Kampala, were heavily guarded by military-style, masked men this week, with guests streaming in and partying until midnight, according to sources in the town who wished to remain anonymous for security reasons.

Mamdani, 33, eloped with artist and animator Rama Duwaji, 27, in February.

He told his social media followers Sunday he was heading to his homeland to celebrate with his wealthy filmmaker mom and professor dad, who own the Buziga Hill property.

The neighborhood is home to some of Uganda’s richest, including billionaire businessman Godfrey Kirumira, a city tycoon with stakes in real estate, tourism, petroleum and infrastructure, and houses neighboring the Mamdanis easily fetch more than $1 million.

Exclusive | Zohran Mamdani's presidential-style Uganda wedding bash

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Firing Colbert is no censorship victory

 The recent cancelation of The Late Show host Stephen Colbert is a study in projection, socialism, and capitalism. Colbert, who reportedly makes up to $20 million a year, isn’t actually immediately fired. CBS announced it is canceling The Late Show, not finding another host, in May 2026 when Colbert’s current contract ends. Colbert will make another $15 million+ until then. Normal Americans can only wish they were “fired” that way.

CBS says it’s entirely a business decision, but Democrats, including the many Democrat politicians who regularly appear on Colbert’s alleged comedy show, vehemently disagree. The problem is Colbert hasn’t been funny for years, if ever. His show has turned into a leftist political forum, largely for Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers. 

Firing Colbert is no censorship victory - American Thinker

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Home News Oregon can't force Christian woman to embrace LGBT ideology in order to adopt: 9th Circuit

 Oregon officials cannot prevent a conservative Christian mother from adopting solely because she objects to LGBT ideology, a federal appeals court panel has ruled.

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 on Thursday that Jessica Bates was wrongfully denied an adoption application by the Oregon Department of Human Services, reversing a lower court decision.

Circuit Judge Daniel A. Bress, a Trump appointee, authored the majority opinion, writing that Oregon was wrong to require adoptive parents to agree to "respect, accept, and support" the self-identified gender identity and sexual orientation of a child.

"We hold that Oregon's policy violates the First Amendment as applied to Bates. We reverse the district court's denial of preliminary injunctive relief and direct that a preliminary injunction be entered," wrote Bress.

Bress said that adoption is "not a constitutional law dead zone" and that "a state's general conception of the child's best interest does not create a force field against the valid operation of other constitutional rights."

"Oregon's rule, as reflected in the [Resource and Adoptive Families Training] materials, quite clearly restricts and compels speech based on both content and viewpoint," he continued.

"The situation would be no different if the state had restricted parental speech favoring more 'progressive' views of sexuality and gender identity, while compelling speech along the lines of Bates's more traditional understanding."

Circuit Judge Richard R. Clifton, a George W. Bush appointee, authored a dissenting opinion, arguing that the state "should not be powerless to protect children for whom it has parental responsibility and for whom it has decided respect should be given."

"No one should be able, as a matter of right, to require the state to turn over its wards and treat them in ways that are, in the state's judgment, disrespectful and even dangerous," wrote Clifton.

"Oregon has determined that the ability to respect a child's sexual orientation and gender identity is an important qualification for a foster parent. It is not our job to quarrel with that determination."

Jonathan Scruggs of the Alliance Defending Freedom, who argued the case on behalf of Bates, celebrated the decision.

"Jessica is a caring mom of five who is now free to adopt after Oregon officials excluded her because of her common-sense belief that a girl cannot become a boy or vice versa," said Scruggs in a statement Thursday.

"The 9th Circuit was right to remind Oregon that the foster and adoption system is supposed to serve the best interests of children, not the state's ideological crusade."

Oregon can't stop Christian mom from adopting: appeals court | U.S.

'Security situation has completely collapsed': Hamas has lost 80% of its control over Gaza- report

 Hamas has reportedly lost about 80% of its control over Gaza, a senior official from the terrorist organization told the BBC.

The official explained that Hamas’s command and control infrastructure had collapsed after months of Israeli airstrikes, which wiped out its political, military, and security leadership.

“Let’s be realistic here – there’s barely anything left of the security structure. Most of the leadership, about 95%, are now dead... The active figures have all been killed,” he said in the interview published Sunday.

Hamas has lost 80% of its control over Gaza Strip, the BBC reports | The Jerusalem Post

Columbia University punishes anti-Israel students over library takeover, encampments

 Columbia University cracked down on dozens of students who participated in the anti-Israel encampment and a recent takeover of a campus library, where protesters injured at least two public safety officers and vandalized the building. 

Sources familiar with the matter told The Christian Post that over 70 students of the New York City-based institution are facing consequences, with about 80% of them receiving suspensions, expulsions or degree revocations. Most of those suspended received two-year suspensions. 

The disciplinary measures are related to the Butler Library disruption on May 7 and an anti-Israel encampment organized in protest of Israel's military offensive in Gaza following the Hamas-led terrorist attack on Oct. 7, 2023. 

Columbia University confirmed in a Tuesday statement that the University Judicial Board had issued sanctions following an investigation by professors and administrators on the panel. Those who received the steepest punishments were "given multiple opportunities to leave Butler Library during the disruption and refused," the source added.

The university could not release the disciplinary results of individual students, but it disclosed that sanctions from Butler Library include probation, suspension, degree revocation and expulsion. Suspensions from the university range from one year to three years, according to the statement. 

"Our institution must focus on delivering on its academic mission for our community. And to create a thriving academic community, there must be respect for each other and the institution's fundamental work, policies, and rules," Columbia University said in its Tuesday statement.

"Disruptions to academic activities are in violation of University policies and Rules, and such violations will necessarily generate consequences," the university continued. "The speed with which our updated UJB system has offered an equitable resolution to the community and students involved is a testament to the hard work of this institution to improve its processes."

Columbia University punishes anti-Israel rioters | U.S.

Keeping arms and militia service was historically mandatory

 The roots of the government’s recognition of our right to keep and bear arms began with King Henry II in 1181. It was, in fact, mandatory in England’s first American colony.

In the nearly five hundred years since King Henry II issued his Assize of Arms in 1181, the citizens of England and, later Great Britain had for the most part assumed communal responsibility for military defense. … Within two decades of the landing at Jamestown, for instance, the fledgling Virginia legislature passed laws requiring all able-bodied freemen between the ages of seventeen and sixty to own weapons and be ready to serve in the dominion’s militia. — Blood and Treasure by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin

This is the deep root of our Constitution’s Second Amendment. It combines the obligation to keep and bear arms with the duty of military service. It mandates that able-bodied male citizens endure the harshness of military service, and the bodily risks of fighting and killing our enemies.

Many, many Americans went on militia campaigns during our Revolution, the Indian wars, and the War of 1812. Many thousands were killed and injured performing their civic duty with their own weapons.

Keeping guns is a key legal right because it serves our nation’s needs. Fighting to defend our nation is the just, obligatory duty of men who enjoy the benefits of living in our nation.

This is a core civic duty among citizens — to fight for what we have. That requires weapons and military service.

Those trying to disarm free men want to enslave us with the tyrannies that thrive over unarmed people. Wannabe tyrants will have to whip us in combat to have their way.

Keeping arms and militia service was historically mandatory - American Thinker

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Anti-Black Genocidal Sudan Destroys Church Building in Khartoum North

 JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Authorities in Sudan on July 8 demolished a church complex in Khartoum North, sources said.

With no prior warning, bulldozers and trucked accompanied by police and armed forces personnel arrived at the compound of the Pentecostal Church in the El-Haj Yousif area of East Nile District at noon and began demolishing the church building, sources told local media.

Officials initially gave no reason for demolishing the building, which included a worship hall and administrative offices, sources said.

“It was shocking,” one eyewitness reportedly said.

The church, which belongs to the Sudan Pentecostal Church denomination (SPC), constructed the building in the early 1990s, according to Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW). Christians have called on the Sudan Council of Churches, an ecumenical body, to take notice of the religious freedom violation.

Officials reportedly did not ask for ownership papers of the church building before demolishing it.

Authorities later told church officials the building was destroyed as part of a drive to remove “unregulated” buildings throughout Khartoum state, according to Christian support group Open Doors.

“Last month, Rafat Samir, a church leader and the chairman of the Evangelical Community Council for Sudan, warned that the future of the church in Sudan remains precarious under the SAF’s de facto government,” Open Doors reported. “‘They will target all churches in the outlying areas of the main cities and demolish them with a direct attack,’ he said after last week’s incident. ‘As for the large churches within the city centers, they will target them by using other apparently lawful reasons to destroy the church buildings.’”

Church leaders condemned the destruction, describing it as part of an increase in persecution against Christians in Sudan.

“We urge all Christians to pray so that this strengthens us in this persecution, and pray for the church in Sudan,” area pastor Juma Sapana stated on his Facebook page.

The demolition comes after the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in May declared it had liberated Khartoum from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) with which it has been locked in battle since April 15, 2023, though fighting continues in neighboring Omdurman. Both the SAF and the RSF have attacked places of worship since then.

Sudan was ranked No. 5 among the 50 countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian in Open Doors’ 2025 World Watch List (WWL), down from No. 8 the prior year.

Conditions in Sudan worsened as civil war that broke out in April 2023 intensified. Sudan registered increases in the number of Christians killed and sexually assaulted and Christian homes and businesses attacked, according to the WWL report.

“Christians of all backgrounds are trapped in the chaos, unable to flee. Churches are shelled, looted and occupied by the warring parties,” the report stated.

Both the RSF and the SAF are Islamist forces that have attacked displaced Christians on accusations of supporting the other’s combatants.

Sudan Destroys Church Building in Khartoum North - Morningstar News

The Damnation of Israel and Other Musings in the American Conservative

 By Peter Nichols

Writing in the American Conservative (June 17, 2025), Hunter DeRensis demonstrates with pristine lucidity the hatred of Israel that underlies much isolationist conservative writing today. Refreshingly absent from Mr. DeRensis’s piece, entitled “Zionism Is Not an American Principle," is any “nice cop/tough cop” affectation wherein the Jewish nation is admonished to lay down its arms for its own good. He offers no vision of peace in the region if only Israel would withdraw to some former boundary or curb the belligerent propensities of its prime minister.

No, DeRensis tells us that Zionism is not an American principle. Of course, by this, he means that Zionism, the movement to create and defend a Jewish homeland, is antithetical to American principles. It is to be abhorred by all real Americans. The Holocaust, as far as DeRensis seems to be concerned, represented no reason for the formation of Israel, and the October 7, 2023, attack no justification for her military response. Nazis and Hamas killers are not the villains he is here to denounce.

Now, someone might answer that an American sympathy for the founding of Israel is natural for certain reasons. The association of the first migration from Europe to America with the Exodus and journey to the Promised Land is a striking aspect of John Winthrop’s City on a Hill Sermon (1630), from which we quoted on these pages. Peter Beinart vs. Israel and the Jews.

George Washington, in his Letter to the Hebrew Congregation (1790), expressed hope that “the Children of the stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants.” Would that goodwill not likely extend to supporting a homeland in the place to which the prophet Moses led the Israelites, according to Scripture? Particularly after the culminating disaster of the diaspora in the middle of the Twentieth Century, was American support for the founding of this new nation surprising?

President Harry Truman, one of DeRensis’s targets, found American sympathy for the new Jewish homeland unsurprising. He had a series of ignoble impulses in those years, according to DeRensis: recognizing Israel, over the vehement objection of Secretaries Marshall and Forrestal, and ordering that atomic bombs be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Jews are implicated in this latter atrocity as well (“Today, you’ll find many Zionists defending Truman’s decision to drop nuclear weapons against the civilian cities [as opposed to ‘military cities?’] of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”). Real Americans apparently recognize Truman for the war criminal that he was. But we cannot dwell on this—the Noam Chomsky-Jeremiah Wright-American Conservative view—and will move on.

The Israeli attacks on Iran’s nuclear and military sites were “unprovoked,” says DeRensis. Obviously, the attacks upon Israel by Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis had nothing to do with Iran. It is not as though those groups were Iran’s proxies. The same is true of Hezbollah’s 1994 destruction of a Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires.

And neither Iran’s own drone attacks on Israel nor the mobs shouting “Death to Israel” in Tehran’s streets were provocations. DeRensis himself would take them in good humor, were they directed at him. What matter if the Iranians attained nuclear weapons with the capacity to reach Tel Aviv?

Like so many purveyors of this particular hatred, DeRensis tells us both that no one likes the Israelis these days (“public opinion is changing dramatically [against Israel] among young people”) and that it takes great courage (“patriotic” courage) to attack them. He must be jubilant that so much of the Western world, from Europe to Britain and Ireland, to Australia and Canada, to American universities, is imbued with the same strain of heroism. Jews are today reviled everywhere, and yet it takes bravery to pile on!

Mr. DeRensis, of course, does not refer to the “Jews,” though he names a few whose presence in government he finds threatening. In any case, it is apparent that persons of that ilk are responsible for all his woes. They, represented by the Israeli prime minister, contrive at the “entrapment” of our leaders. They, as Israelis, threaten “the safety of U.S. soldiers caught in the middle” of their wars of aggression.

The Israelis “maneuvered” the United States into “foreign policy disasters like the Iraq War,” forcing it to “reap[] the blowback of Islamic terrorism.” Which blowback? Were the Israelis responsible for 9/11 and the assassination of Robert Kennedy? Israel’s supporters “poisoned [America’s] domestic politics with loyalty oaths and the suppression of speech” and caused the United States to lose “inestimable trust and respectability with the rest of the world [emphasis added].” Is the reader aware of anyone in this country being forced to sign or recite an oath of loyalty to Israel?

Continuing his indictment, DeRensis warns, “And this latest gamble by Tel Aviv to force the United States into another major war must be the final straw [emphasis added].” The “final straw before what?” we venture to inquire.  Since DeRensis published this, the United States, of course, has participated significantly in the destruction of Iranian nuclear capacity without entering another major war.

Now the entire history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, as DeRensis tells it, is the history of Jewish persecution of the Palestinians—genocidal persecution to be compared to Hitler’s. The only mention of the Holocaust in this diatribe occurs in that context. The connection between German Naziism and the Arab antisemitic animus illustrated by the Grand Mufti’s actual association with Hitler and the veneration of the Mufti by the present leader of the Palestinian Authority, Mr. Abbas, DeRensis omits to mention.

Menachem Begin, a fascist, DeRensis assures us, returned the Sinai to Egypt in the Camp David Accords. Again at Camp David, in 2000, Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered to give Arafat a Palestinian state. The result was the Second Intifada. The Israelis withdrew from Gaza lock, stock, and barrel in 2005. The eventual result was October 7, 2023.

Israel is a “rogue nuclear state,” DeRensis proclaims. And yet it has had nuclear weapons since the 1960s and never used or threatened to use them. Is Israel really another North Korea? DeRensis, no doubt, would be eminently confident that the Iranian Mullahs with nuclear weapons would show prudent restraint. Indeed, their having both such weapons and intercontinental ballistic missile capacity apparently would not bother him in the least.

And finally, there is the ritual flair of indignation that anyone would call all this antisemitic. DeRensis invokes the names of Patrick Buchanan and Joseph Sobran in this phase of his argument. Those two eminent gentlemen were victimized by the “phony club of antisemitism,” and DeRensis, no doubt, anticipates experiencing a similar persecution. In the middle of his protest, he favors us with a long quotation in which Mr. Buchanan accuses “polemicists and public officials” of “colluding with Israel” and of seeking “to ensnare our country in a series of wars that are not in America’s interests.”

Is the intimation that the one very small Jewish nation is America’s enemy and that any American caring for it shows disloyalty not intolerance?  And if not, what is?

The Damnation of Israel and Other Musings in the American Conservative - American Thinker

If Mamdani Sinks the Democrats, So What?

 What’s wrong with New Yorkers electing Zohran Mamdani mayor? Seriously. He’s a socialist, isn’t he? He’ll wreck New York City, you say. But didn’t that process start with Bill DeBlasio? Do you think that process ends electing Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams? Perennial candidate Curtis Silwa is a savior? Hasn’t socialism been the road Democrats have been traveling for decades? When Mamdani’s socialist experiment crashes and burns, maybe it’ll persuade New Yorkers to abandon Democrats. Maybe independents decide to swing Republican.

JFK-style liberals began vanishing after Kennedy’s assassination. Mamdani’s election would make it obvious what should be obvious. Liberalism, progressivism -- call it whatever -- is a ruse. The Democrat Party tilts full Left. Trends are making it more so. Mamdani will pursue an agenda that’s part utopian drivel, Soviet-style top-down, and plenty of Cuban incompetence leading to dysfunctional public services, higher costs, and increasing scarcity. Dead Russians and living Cubans can testify to what glorious utopia brings.

A broken Democrat Party is a public necessity. Big failure means bigger brokenness. Let’s not hear nonsense from “good government” Republicans that a healthy two-party system profits the nation. Life isn’t a civics class. Franklin Roosevelt didn’t give a damn about anything other than healthy Democrat dominance. Jacksonian Democrats and Lincoln and McKinley Republicans believed no differently. When did Republicans go softheaded?

Let dogmatic Democrats stumble in the wilderness for a generation or more. A Trumpian sea change completes in two ways: the president keeps racking up Ws and Democrats continue to misgovern, driven by extreme policies. (Senator Dave McCormick’s energy and AI summit held at Carnegie Mellon University this past week showcased more huge wins for the president. Colossal benefits are expected for the economy, regionally and nationally.)

A busted Democrat party isn’t just about narrow partisan advantage. Clearing out Democrats is pivotal. MAGA is about the nation returning to its core values… about building a freer, more prosperous America.

Smarter Democrat operatives see their party teetering.

If Mamdani Sinks the Democrats, So What? - American Thinker

Spain: 70% want mass deportation of illegal immigrants, majority of Socialist Party supporters also want mass deportations

 The vast majority of Spain’s citizens want mass deportation of illegal immigrants, and there are even majorities for this policy amongst left-wing voters, according to a new poll.

This time, Sigma Dos, which conducted its poll for Spanish newspaper El Mundo, found that 70 percent of Spaniards support the deportations of illegal immigrants from Spain. The pollsters referenced the “flagship” Vox party proposal which called for mass deportation of all illegal immigrants, with the pollsters asking respondents whether they would support such a proposal.

Spain: 70% want mass deportation of illegal immigrants, majority of Socialist Party supporters also want mass deportations

protector of wife beaters, pedos and child abusers John Macarthur entered into Judgement!

will answer to his crimes against women and children and his cover ups

George Soros funneled $37M to Working Families Party, other lefty groups backing Zohran Mamdani

 That’s rich.

Socialist Zohran Mamdani has declared billionaires shouldn’t exist, but it’s unlikely he’d be the front-runner to become the Big Apple’s next mayor if it wasn’t for one — far-left kingmaker George Soros, financial records reviewed by The Post show.

Mamdani recently told NBC News’ “Meet the Press, “I don’t think that we should have billionaires, frankly” while doubling down on his plan to jack up property taxes on “richer and whiter neighborhoods” if elected mayor.

But in less than a decade, Soros’ ultra-woke grant-making network Open Society Foundation has indirectly funneled a combined $37 million to the Working Families Party and at least other nine left-wing groups whose endorsements and get-out-the-vote groundwork played a pivotal role in helping Mamdani upset ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic mayoral primary, the foundation’s records show.

Since 2016, the far-left, socialist-friendly WFP — which helped score Mandani the Democratic line by brokering cross-endorsement deals that squeezed out Cuomo — has pocketed a staggering $23.7 million from Soros through its nonprofit fundraising arm Working Families Organization Inc.

And at least another $13,944,005 went to the nine nonprofits and their offshoot fundraising entities — including the Make The Road Action ($3,515,00), and social justice nonprofits Community Voices Heard ($2,635,000) and Move On ($2.3 million), and the anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace Acton ($650,000), according to records.

All those groups backed the Queens assemblyman’s mayoral campaign – as well as his Marxist agenda that includes advocating for criminal migrants and condemning Israel.

“While Zohran Mamdani attacks job creators and rails against wealth, the truth is he’s benefiting from millions in support from billionaires and the very nonprofit network he pretends to stand apart from,” Mayor Eric Adams told The Post.

“You can’t have it both ways. We need leadership that brings people together — not politicians who demonize success while quietly cashing in on it,” added Adams, a registered Democrat seeking re-election as an independent.

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AOC sets herself up so that Donald Trump can sue her for defamation

 I’ve never thought Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (“AOC”) is as stupid as the memes make her out to be. After all, despite bringing very little in the way of actual accomplishments to the table, she is (as of now) a four-term congresswoman who is well-positioned to become a senator from New York, has a hugely positive reputation, and is even considered a viable presidential candidate. It takes intelligence to achieve those heights.

However, feral intelligence is very different from either knowledge or wisdom. AOC’s decision-making and values show that she has severe knowledge and wisdom deficits, something she revealed yesterday when she used her personal X account to call Trump a “rapist,” setting herself up for a very costly defamation action. We know this is true because of the $15 million ABC agreed to pay Trump based on George Stephanopoulos’s calling Trump a “rapist.”

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Millionaires Michelle Obama, Julia Louis Dreyfus Whine About How Hard Life Is for Women in America

 Former first lady Michelle Obama and her guest, actress Julia Louis Dreyfus — both of whom are multi-millionaires — are being criticized for complaining about how hard life is for women in America today.

Dreyfus appeared on Wednesday’s episode of Obama’s IMO podcast when the topic turned to the plight of women in America. Obama argued that there are “landmines and barriers” put in place for women to overcome and it is so much harder for them to achieve in America.

“Women, we have so many landmines, and barriers, and don’ts, and limitations,” the former first lady exclaimed.

She then addressed her brother and co-host, Craig Robison, saying, “I mean, Craig, you’re the guy at the table, but I think it’s important for all guys listening, especially men raising daughters, to realize that difference. And that thing that in inadvertently, as you are loving and raising these beautiful girls, there are so many rules that make us small.

Meanwhile, societal markers seem to dispute Obama’s claim.

Take college graduation rates for instance. By 2022, 58 percent of all bachelor’s degrees were earned by women. That is compared to 37 percent for men. Meanwhile 60 percent of college grads are women compared to only 40 percent being men, according to AEI.org.

The job market does not exactly seem overly weighted toward men, either. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2024, the labor force participation rate for men ages 16-to-24 was 61.2%, and for young women, it was 59.6%. So, that is fairly close to the same with men only having a slight advantage.

In another part of the conversation, Obama insisted, that women are forced to grow up with “less certainty” than men.

“We’re always hedging, you know, because in the back of our minds, we weren’t raised with the certainty of maleness that, you know – kind of the confidence that young men in their 30s have, which they haven’t earned. They just have it,” she told Dreyfus.

Many social media users found Obama’s claims hard to believe.

Millionaires Michelle Obama, Julia Louis Dreyfus Whine About How Hard Life Is for Women