The REAL Reason He Walked Away from Christianity

 

Ken Burns Is Completely Wrong About the Iroquois

 The Iroquois confederation wasn’t even a democracy. Leaders were selected by women elders, whose status was hereditary.

Ken Burns Revolutionary War Documentary Is Completely Wrong About Iroquois | National Review

Grace Community Church accused of ‘aiding and abetting’ alleged child abuser: lawsuit

 A new lawsuit alleges that Grace Community Church of Sun Valley, California, a prominent nondenominational church once led by John MacArthur, aided and abetted a child abuser.

A plaintiff identified as Jane Doe and three minors identified as “J.J.,” “A.J.,” and “R.J.” filed a complaint for damages against GCC and an individual named Clinton Jung in the Superior Court of the State of California in Sacramento County back in September.

According to the complaint, a copy of which was provided to The Christian Post on Nov. 17, Doe was married to Jung and had reported to Grace Community leaders in early 2021 that he had sexually abused their toddler-aged daughter.

Doe alleges that GCC leadership attempted to conceal Jung’s abusive behavior despite being legally required to report such abuse to authorities and told her to “submit” to Jung’s authority as he continued to abuse her and their children.

“At numerous points, the Church colluded with Clinton to force Plaintiff to remain in the home with him and under his control despite knowing he had engaged in domestic violence and was likely to do it again in the future,” the complaint claims.

“Clinton was emboldened to repeatedly engage in his conduct, including by sexually abusing his toddler again and again — conduct that a single report by the Church to proper authorities, at any of the numerous points during which the Church became aware of suspected abuse, could have prevented.”

Additionally, according to the suit, when Doe and her children finally left Jung, church leaders testified on his behalf in support of being allowed weekly supervised visitation.

On one of these weekly visits, Jung allegedly forced J.J. to touch his penis. While at another visit, he allegedly took J.J. to a hotel bathroom and forced her to look at his penis.

The complaint alleges childhood sexual abuse, negligence, domestic violence, and aiding and abetting domestic violence, and demands a jury trial for the proceedings.

Following what the complaint called “a lengthy investigation,” a district attorney could not file charges against Jung “due to an inability to prove intent beyond a reasonable doubt.”

The lawsuit also cites a 2023 letter from the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office to investigating officers, which involved rebuking the church over the alleged incident.

“[T]he pastor and elders at Grace Community Church muddled what could have been helpful evidence as to [Clinton’s] intent,” states the letter, which is quoted in the suit.

“Their arrogance in attempting to handle such a delicate — and potentially criminal — matter, in house, and without the due diligence that certainly would have triggered their mandatory reporting edicts, hinders our ability to use the prior events to ascertain the suspect’s intent.”

Shounak Dharap, an attorney and partner at the San Francisco, California-based Arns Davis Law, who is representing the plaintiffs, told CP in an interview on Friday that the complaint was in the process of being served to GCC.

Grace Community Church accused of ‘aiding and abetting’ abuser | Church & Ministries

X revealed the fake accounts pushing anti-Israel propaganda

 Although WWII is fast (and dangerously) becoming a misty memory, it’s probable that most people still know about the infamous “Tokyo Rose” (actually a collective of English-speaking Japanese women) who would broadcast reports intended to demoralize troops fighting the Japanese. In England, Lord Haw-Haw (another collective) broadcast false news intended to demoralize troops fighting the Nazis. Indeed, Wikipedia has a long list of famous fake-news spouting propagandists during wartime.

Today, propagandists don’t use radios; they use social media, but the tactic is the same: disseminate false material to demoralize the enemy. Yesterday, X, whether intentionally or not (I’ve seen conflicting reports), allowed people to see the countries of origin of tweets. Imagine everyone’s surprise to learn that some of the most vile anti-Israel propaganda during the Gaza war came from anywhere but Israel. Well, maybe that wasn’t so surprising given the world’s interest in seeing Israel destroyed.

What was probably very surprising, though, was to learn that tweets that purported to come from disaffected Republicans who support the Nick Fuentes/Tucker Carlson/Candace Owens faction of virulent antisemites and Israel-haters weren’t from Americans at all. These tweets were also from foreign accounts.

In other words, there is no serious Republican civil war over Israel. There is a strong fringe of antisemites (as is always the case during unstable times), but most of the Republican party lives where it has always lived: Supporting Israel, because it recognizes that the tiny nation is America’s frontline in the war against radical Islam, sparing America uncounted deaths and destruction.  

That’s the premise. Here’s the proof. Faerie, a pro-Israel account, amusingly summed up what was happening:

X revealed the fake accounts pushing anti-Israel propaganda - American Thinker

Mamdani’s Numbnut Voters

 “Numbnut” is derogatory American slang, sometimes used for humor, to mean a “slow-witted, unresponsive, or inept person.” But no humor exists in the fact New York City (NYC) voters, always on the edge of numbnut-osity, went over it by electing socialist/communist Zohran Mamdani mayor.

A majority (50.4%) of NYC voters demonstrated unbelievable incomprehension, as would be expected from slow-witted, inept and—by choosing to ignore numerous red flags about Mamdani—unresponsive constituents. As the proverb goes, they will now have to “reap what you sow.”

Mamdani’s campaign was a blank check of promises providing all sorts of things. These included free bus fare, government-run grocery stores (already a $29 million failure in Kansas), free high quality child care, freezing rents, maintaining abortion rights, opposing President Donald Trump, increasing the minimum wage to $30 by 2030, etc. Prior to the election, Trump forewarned a Mamdani victory could well result in the loss of federal funding to NYC wherever it could legally be done.

Thus, Mamdani may well face having to fund a lot more than he anticipated to make good on his blank check promises. It will be interesting to see from where such money comes to do what his campaign claimed it would do to make NYC life more affordable. He made clear some of it will come by way of increased taxes for the wealthy and corporations, which is already leading to an exodus. (A recent Daily Mail poll reported over 760,000 New Yorkers would “definitely” leave the city if Mamdani won while another two million indicated they would seriously consider it.)

Labeled a communist by Republicans, Mamdani denies it, calling himself a democratic socialist. He has been a longtime member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) which does not claim political party status—undoubtedly for the tax benefits gained as a political non-profit organization. It has given both Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib political life as members of Congress. And, it provided Mamdani with enormous support during his campaign, adding yet another ideological soulmate to government.

While DSA members argue they are not communists, they fail to look in the mirror. Their espoused strategy mirrors that of the Communist Party in seeking the same objective—i.e., America’s destruction as a democracy. It is run by a group that parallels the Communist Central Committee. A majority of DSA committee members are openly communist, having come from openly communist groups within the U.S., to which democracy is anathema.

Interestingly, during his election victory speech, Mamdani felt compelled to quote a socialist five-time U.S. presidential candidate of the early 1900s—Eugene Debs. Mamdani proclaimed, “I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.”

Mamdani’s speech was notable for another reason as well—i.e., he made no effort to use it as a call for political unity in working together to solve the city’s problems. He dismissed his main political opponent, Andrew Cuomo, with the statement, “Let tonight be the final time I utter his name.”

Calling for the protection of illegal immigrants, he challenged Trump to come through “all of us” to get to them. It was not the same Mamdani who had demonstrated a more conciliatory persona during the campaign—it was his radical doppelganger finally taking off the mask to set the tone for his term.

At one point during Mamdani’s victory celebration, the massive screen at his campaign headquarters was hacked to portray the message “Trump is your president.”

Mamdani gamed voters too with his Islamic religion, claiming that being a Muslim was to sacrifice safety. NYC hate crimes against Muslims is only a fraction of overall crime, while the vast majority in 2023 (88%) were against Jews, of whom he made no mention.

Evidence of NYC voters’ numbnuttiness was further evidenced by the fact they elected a candidate committed to defunding police, using $600 million that could provide a safer city for residents, instead to create a new agency to replace the depleted ranks of the police force. Subsequent to George Floyd’s death in police custody, Mamdani repeatedly called for slashing NYPD’s funding, and even dismantling the force altogether.

Mamdani plans a $1.1 billion program to carry through on this effort with an initiative to replace police with social workers on 911 calls. He fails to grasp that doing this will only increase crime as criminals confront unarmed mental health professionals supposedly trained to defuse non-life-threatening incidents instead of experienced and armed law enforcement officers. This totally ignores the fact that oftentimes what may initially appear to be a non-life-threatening situation can quickly turn violent.

Mamdani’s Numbnut Voters - American Thinker

Lebanon Is Hezbollah, And America Must Stop Pretending Otherwise

 For decades, U.S. policy toward Lebanon has followed the same doomed cycle: polite visits, warm meetings, generous aid packages, and long declarations about reform, sovereignty, and transparency. In return, Washington receives empty promises, beautifully worded communiqués, and a Lebanese political class that smiles for the camera—before returning to the same corruption, paralysis, and Hezbollah-driven submission that brought the country to collapse. Lebanon doesn’t need more American compliments; it needs American consequences. And yet, here we are again.

Lebanon Is Hezbollah, And America Must Stop Pretending Otherwise - American Thinker

Marjorie Taylor Greene hits Trump for calling her 'traitor,' warns MAGA being 'ripped apart' over Epstein

 Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., struck back at President Donald Trump on Tuesday for calling her a "traitor" last week, and warned the president's handling of the Epstein investigation is fracturing his MAGA coalition.

Speaking during a press conference on Capitol Hill while flanked by Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and a group of Jeffrey Epstein's alleged victims, Greene implied she felt betrayed when Trump pulled his endorsement of her last week, calling her "Wacky Marjorie," a "ranting lunatic," and a "traitor" who had gone "Far Left."

Trump, whose statement was posted Friday to Truth Social, came as Greene threw her support behind a bipartisan discharge petition in the U.S. House of Representatives to force the Epstein Files Transparency Act out of committee for a floor vote.

The bill overwhelmingly passed by a vote of 427-1 on Tuesday afternoon, with Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., being the only vote against the measure. It heads to the Senate, where House Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has expressed support for its passage in the upper chamber.

The bill, which was authored by Massie and Khanna, would force the U.S. Department of Justice to release all files related to the investigation into the late convicted sex offender. Trump has signaled his willingness to sign the bill, despite formerly dismissing ongoing concerns about Epstein and his sex trafficking network that involved powerful figures internationally.

"I was called a traitor by a man that I fought for five — no, actually, six — years for, and I gave him my loyalty for free," Greene said of Trump during the press conference.

"I won my first election without his endorsement, beating eight men in a primary, and I've never owed him anything, but I fought for him, for the policies and for America first, and he called me a traitor for standing with these women and refusing to take my name off the discharge petition," she continued.

"Let me tell you what a traitor is. A traitor is an American that serves foreign countries and themselves. A patriot is an American that serves the United States of America, and Americans like the women standing behind me," she added, referring to the women around her who claim Epstein abused them.

Greene went on to warn that the Epstein issue is fracturing Trump's coalition and alienating members of his political base, which has faced infighting in recent weeks over other contentious issues, such as H-1B immigration and foreign policy.

Greene has recently expressed opposition to Trump's position on H-1B visas, as well his stances on Venezuela and Syria.

Marjorie Taylor Greene hits back at Trump over 'traitor' remark | Politics

Latino Spring? Mexico City explodes into anti-narcostate riots

 Is President Trump's show of strength against Venezuelan and Colombian drug traffickers having an unexpected knock-on effect in cartel-plagued Mexico?

It's hard not to think that when one sees the intensity of protests like these at the center of Mexico City:

‼️🇲🇽 HAN CAÍDO TODAS LAS BARRERAS QUE RODEABAN EL PALACIO DE GOBIERNO DE MÉXICO.

Solo queda el esquema de seguridad. No lo puedo creer, los jóvenes van a tomar el Palacio.pic.twitter.com/ro6s5nzqND

— Agustín Antonetti (@agusantonetti) November 15, 2025

🚨Anti-Sheinbaum protesters have hopped the wall protecting the National Palace in Mexico City. Mexican police are responding with crowd control munitions. pic.twitter.com/WgdIMi1K1e

— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) November 15, 2025

Brutal videos coming out of Mexico City.

Both anti-cartel protests and riot police officer are being kicked unconscious in front of the presidential palace

🇲🇽 pic.twitter.com/zZzAmg0R7K

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) November 15, 2025

🚨 BREAKING: It's getting WORSE in Mexico. The rioters are now fighting the police and police are KICKING a rioter who fell to the ground.

This is insane.

These people came out because they're fed up with "Narco-President" Sheinbaum.pic.twitter.com/xtyXEC029d

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 15, 2025

🚨Update: Battle in Mexico City. In the main square, Zócalo, while patriots battle with police protecting the Presidential Palace. Officers launch tear gas and bullets! . Mexico rises up against Sheinbaum!!pic.twitter.com/ChnJZGD6w4

— US Homeland Security News (@defense_civil25) November 15, 2025

The Mexican anti-cartel Gen Z rebellion has reached Claudia Sheinbaum’s presidential palace in Mexico City.

The crowd has torn down the wall she built a few days ago and is now trying to get past the riot police who have taken cover in an ancient Roman testudo (turtle) formation pic.twitter.com/3AWvsmb4Zc

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) November 15, 2025

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— Erika Aleman (@Eridoc) November 15, 2025

As President Trump blows narcoboats out of the water in a bid to shake Venezuela's Marxist cocaine dictator, Nicolas Maduro, out of his illegitimately held nest, now narco-plagued Mexico is seeing huge protests in a bid to accomplish something similar, and the words "Latino Spring" come to mind.

I've seen radical protests in Mexico City before, but nothing like these videos. I recall being there as the guest of a billionaire I was covering for Forbes magazine in March 2001. When the Chiapas 'revolutionary' known as Subcomandante Marcos marched into the Zocalo with his communist denizens (same place where these riots took place), we got up from our meal and looked out the window of the restaurant to watch the radicals march in pretty peacefully, not saying much.

This riot seems more similar to the 2010-2011 Arab Spring chain of events and protests that toppled one weak dictatorship after another in the Arab world, brought on by one seemingly insignificant event when a Tunisian fruit seller self-immolated after police goons seized his fruit cart.

In Mexico, the triggering event was likely the broad-daylight assassination a few weeks ago of the small-city mayor of Uruapan, who had challenged the cartels and criticized the government for doing little, prompting the government to deny him the needed security. Yes, many elected leaders have already been killed in Mexico. But something about this killing seems different.

Both the Arab Spring and these events in Latin America come in the shadow of U.S. policy shifts. The Arab Spring took off when President Obama shifted U.S. policy to one of weakness and apology tours. This event in Mexico City is coming as a result of President Trump's show of strength. That may make a difference in the outcomes.

Regardless of the U.S. role, the assassination of the mayor put the population on the boil. Mexicans are tired of the narcos ruling everything, tired of the thievery, murders, lost quality of life, and their flaunted riches, brought on by the border surge's "crossing fees" from illegal migrants from all over the globe into the U.S. They are especially tired of the government's coddling of these dirtbags as cartel power grows. They seem to be afraid of them.

Now a protest was organized, beginning with the spraying of the words 'narcostate' on the hastily erected walls protecting the presidential palace, and the riots have begun.

What an image.#Mexico #Narcostate #morena https://t.co/RvO3Tm2UWW pic.twitter.com/9SfKC2IHZ3

— David Wolf (@DavidWolf777) November 14, 2025

They have reportedly spread to other Mexican cities whose leaders are accused of complicity with narcotraffickers.

DEVELOPING, Mexico 🚨: It’s being reported multiple states are undergoing mass civil unrest, with states like Guadalajara, Puebla, Mexico City, and others showing clashes between police and anti-cartel protestors.

Puebla, MX 📍

pic.twitter.com/ey8LalPAAt

— Anthony (@anthonycabassa) November 15, 2025

Watch Colombia, too.

Mexico's president, Claudia Sheinbaum, blames computer bots and two disfavored billionaires for organizing the riots.

According to Bloomberg:

President Claudia Sheinbaum criticized a Gen Z march planned for Saturday in Mexico City, calling it a movement financed by right-wing politicians and business leaders who oppose her government. The demonstration is being promoted on social media by 8 million bots operating from outside the country, she said on Thursday during a daily news conference from the presidential palace. “We agree with freedom of expression and freedom of demonstration if there are young people who have demands, but the issue here is who is promoting the demonstration,” Sheinbaum said. “People should know how this demonstration was organized so that no one is used.”

... and ...

Other government officials named specific individuals: Billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego, former President Vicente Fox and businessman Claudio X. Gonzalez are among the key sponsors of the march, according to an analysis produced by Infodemia, an official fact-checking agency tasked with combating what it calls “fake news” targeting the government.

I've spent time with both of those billionaires, too, from that same Forbes run -- one fiery and the other a sweetie -- but both are Milei-style libertarians in contrast to Sheinbaum's boutique socialist orientation.

She hates them, and her minions blame them for the rioting. I find it doubtful that either would have had anything to do with it, though I wouldn't rule out the CIA, which has been called to get active in Venezuela's narcostate and might have extended orders. Fox seems more like a buffoon but I don't know everything.

But riots like this, with this intensity, are hardly likely to be astroturf. The discontent in Mexico is real. The U.S. finally has a president willing to do something about narco problems. That can credibly be something that gives angry, frustrated Mexicans heart to continue. There's still a lot of information we don't know at this point, and the media coverage here has been sparse. But the reaction looks pretty big. And the rioters may well force Mexico into getting serious about its narco problem, or else consider that they may go the way of Maduro, too.

UPDATE from Andrea: 

Looking at what Monica describes, I can’t help but be reminded of what I wrote in 2017, right after Trump’s first inauguration. I wrote this at Bookworm Room, my personal site (where I try to have meme roundups most weeks, although I didn’t get the chance this past week). I was relaying a back-and-forth I had on Facebook against a Progressive who was hysterical about the fact that the first Trump administration planning to deport illegal aliens:

My first point was that, behind all that compassion, he is actually complicit in a moral evil when he supports corrupt Latin American governments — the ones that prey on their people — who use illegal immigration as a safety valve. The system he supports means that decent people in Latin America who are devastated because of government corruption and its related economic devastation are actively encouraged to trek through dangerous deserts and sneak into America just so that they can send home billions of American dollars that keep those rotten systems afloat. With the funds illegal immigration brings to Latin America, those governments don’t have to improve. I finished by telling the man he ought to be ashamed of himself, and was quite racist, for being complicit with tyrants.

It strikes me that Trump’s deportations and the closed border mean that corrupt governments have lost their safety valve—and their beleaguered people, with nowhere to go, are finally pushing back.

Latino Spring? Mexico City explodes into anti-narcostate riots - American Thinker

Holy See reiterates opposition to gender ideology at UN conference

(LifeSiteNews) — The Holy See reiterated the Catholic Church’s position on gender, stating there are only males and females at the recent 16th Ministerial Conference of the United Nations Trade and Development.

While commenting on the Geneva Consensus resolution adopted by the conference, the Holy See clarified the limits of certain terminology found in the document. It particularly highlighted concerns with the use of terms such as “equity” and “inclusion,” which are associated with gender ideology.

Holy See reiterates opposition to gender ideology at UN conference - LifeSite

Texas voters approve amendments on parental rights, banning non-citizens from voting

 Texas voters overwhelmingly approved ballot measures supporting parental rights, requiring citizenship to vote in statewide elections and imposing stricter penalties for defendants accused of certain criminal offenses in victories for conservatives on what was a mostly disappointing election night for them nationwide. 

While progressive victories in gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia, along with the New York City mayoral contest and a redistricting referendum in California received much of the spotlight following Tuesday’s elections, Texas voters approved several ballot measures reflecting the priorities of conservatives nationwide.

The legislatively referred constitutional amendments on the ballot received broad support from both parties in the Republican-controlled Texas Legislature, which passed resolutions sending them to the voters for approval. 

With 87% of the vote counted, unofficial results show that 69.8% of Texas voters backed Proposition 15.

Texas voters OK amendments on parental rights, non-citizen voting | Politics

Princeton University facing civil rights complaint as bathroom policy sparks women's safety concerns

 Princeton University's "gender-neutral" bathroom policy has reportedly left some women on campus feeling "scared" in one of the few spaces they've considered a "safe haven," according to a new federal complaint. 

The parental rights group Defending Education filed a complaint last week against Princeton University with the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, accusing the university of violating Title IX civil rights law by denying female students' rights to sex-segregated intimate spaces, requesting that the department investigate. 

"Princeton admits that Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, but Princeton's Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity equates sex discrimination with '[s]ex or gender discrimination,'" the complaint stated, citing the university's Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity's definitions regarding what constitutes harassment and discrimination. 

"Gender identity discrimination is not the same as sex discrimination under Title IX, and the Supreme Court has never held otherwise," the document continued. "Nevertheless, Princeton has prioritized some students' subjective feelings over all female Princeton students' rights to sex-segregated intimate spaces."

Princeton University did not immediately respond to The Christian Post's request for comment. In its complaint, Defending Education describes itself as an "interested third-party organization with members who are parents of students throughout the country" who oppose "discrimination on the basis of sex" in education. 

Princeton University facing civil rights complaint over bathrooms | Education

The Manosphere Myth (Throwback)

 

The Roots of Tucker Carlson’s Rage

 Tucker Carlson’s post-Fox News trajectory is a timeline of escalating provocation and plummeting credibility.

Its culmination: His Oct. 28 interview with Nick Fuentes, a sworn enemy of Donald Trump, the Republican Party, and an America worth living in.

After leaving Fox in 2023, Carlson pivoted toward an independent, subscriber-based platform that increasingly catered to extremist voices, abandoning the broad conservative appeal that had made him a household name.

His September 3, 2024, hosting of Holocaust denier Darryl Cooper drew sharp rebukes from influential Republicans, highlighting Carlson’s willingness to amplify venomous narratives.

By September 10, leading conservative outlets decried Carlson’s endorsement of Cooper as “the best and most honest popular historian.” The episode was a campaign season snag as November approached.

While Donald Trump clearly won the election, Carlson lost trust in 2025.

On June 17, he accused the president of complicity in war during Israel’s strikes on Iran, exposing tensions among MAGA supporters over foreign policy. The next day, Carlson confronted Sen. Ted Cruz, aggressively framing U.S. support for Israel as a betrayal of “America First” priorities.

Trump dismissed Carlson as “kooky” and emphasized his focus on preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, signaling a rift. Carlson seemed unfazed.

His eulogy at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service on Sept. 21 prompted credible accusations of antisemitism.

The apex of this troubling trajectory came on Oct. 28, when Carlson sat down with Fuentes.

In that interview, Carlson expressed explicit hatred for Christian Zionists, calling them victims of a “brain virus.” This direct attack targeted key Trump allies, including Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz, signaling an alignment with Fuentes’ anti-Israel views. It was a bold escalation of Carlson’s falling out with the president.

GOP leaders swiftly denounced the interview as legitimizing dangerous rhetoric, with Rep. Randy Fine branding Carlson “the most dangerous antisemite in America” at a subsequent Republican Jewish Coalition conference. By this point, Carlson had completed the full departure from mainstream relevance, leaving onetime GOP allies scrambling to repair the damage.

To understand the gravity of Carlson’s choices, it is essential to examine Fuentes himself, a figure whose poison is prolific. As early as 2019, Fuentes mocked Southern conservatives, denigrating their cultural heritage as backward. In 2024, he publicly rejected Protestantism in favor of a narrowly Catholic vision of “America First,” alienating the Evangelical base crucial to Trump’s coalition.

His rhetoric escalates to genocidal antisemitism: in July 2023, he called for a “holy war” against Jews. That same year, Fuentes ranted on his livestream that “women age like milk,” expressing a desire to marry a 16-year-old because “right when the milk is good, I want to start drinking the milk.”

Around this time, he instructed his followers to “raise your right hand, repeat after me: I will kill, rape, and die, for Nicholas J. Fuentes,” demanding a cult-like oath of violence and submission.

In his interview with Carlson, Fuentes called himself a “fan” of Joseph Stalin. Previously, he declared, “I love Hitler,” bestowing gushing compliments on the Nazi leader while targeting “Talmudic Jews” for eradication.

In 2024, Fuentes urged his followers to “withhold their votes” from Trump, with the obvious goal of throwing the election to Kamala Harris. Why? He explained as much years prior: “Destroy the GOP,” he demanded, proclaiming that “Christian Republican voters get screwed over because the GOP is run by Jews, atheists, and homosexuals.”

Earlier this year, Fuentes vented his hatred for Charlie Kirk by calling him a “Zionist puppet” who “sold out to the Jews,” then boasted that “I took your baby Turning Point USA, and I f----d it...We own you, we own TPUSA and we own this movement.”

Carlson decided to amplify Fuentes by interviewing him in an accommodating fashion. This came just weeks after eulogizing Charlie Kirk.

That signals not random provocation, but a monstrous deficit of character.

Indeed, Carlson prioritized spectacle over the concept of decency itself.

So, what drives Tucker Carlson? Here is my solid theory: Politics alone cannot explain the intensity of his animus. At its core, Carlson’s rage is personal, generational, and civilizational. It’s a reaction to the decline of WASPs, his tribe that founded and shaped America.

Born to a diplomat father and an heiress mother, educated at old-money prep schools, and immersed in the bi-coastal establishment, Carlson witnessed the crumbling of his society. He faced the rise of neoconservatives, arriviste trendsetters, and hostile globalists. His anger is, in essence, a grievance encoded in socioeconomic consciousness: a fallen aristocrat humiliated by his world being replaced.

The Roots of Tucker Carlson’s Rage - American Thinker

The Nigerian government agrees to Trump’s help against Islamic terrorists

 I doubt most people realize that Nigeria, located in West Africa, is the world’s sixth most populous country, with around 213.5 million people. Over 53% of the population is Muslim. That’s never a good thing for the remaining population in a country, because Muslims do not believe in pluralism.

Lately, Nigeria’s Muslims have been on a rampage, slaughtering Christians left and right. President Trump announced yesterday that the U.S. will intervene and will do so aggressively if necessary. Democrats were unimpressed—they don’t believe there’s a genocide—but Nigeria’s president, having first rejected the demand, just announced his willingness to accept the proposed help.

The Nigerian government agrees to Trump’s help against Islamic terrorists - American Thinker

Assemblies of God churches shielded accused predators — and allowed them to keep abusing children

 A children’s pastor was caught filming girls in a church bathroom in Arkansas. Elders suspended him for a few weeks.

In Illinois, a preacher was accused of sexually abusing children. Church leaders sent him to therapy rather than call police.

In California, a worship minister went to prison for molesting boys. His congregation threw him a party when he returned.

All of these men remained in ministry in the Assemblies of God, the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination. All went on to abuse more children.

Since the 1970s, Assemblies of God churches have repeatedly reinstated ministers and volunteer leaders accused of sexual misconduct, returning them to pulpits and youth groups, an NBC News investigation found. While some of the other largest Christian denominations now require safeguards such as background checks and mandatory reporting, national Assemblies of God leaders have resisted, arguing such rules would increase legal risk, undermine its commitment to local church autonomy and defy a core biblical command: to forgive.

The result is a patchwork system that has protected accused predators and left generations of children in danger.

NBC News identified nearly 200 Assemblies of God pastors, church employees and volunteer leaders accused of sexual abuse over the past half century, based on a nationwide search of lawsuits, criminal records and news archives. Together, they allegedly abused more than 475 people — the overwhelming majority of them children. The allegations stretch into this year, when a 10-year-old girl said in a lawsuit that her pastor groped her during Bible study.

How Assemblies of God churches shielded accused predators as they abused children

The Sources of Anti-Israel Hostility

 The primary goal of pro-Palestinian protestors is vilification of Israel rather support of Palestinian Arabs, as is suggested by these activists’ silence when Palestinians are murdered by other Arabs, most recently Hamas’ executions of opposing Gazans. Indeed, their limited perspective lacks focus on other contemporary ethnic conflicts such as Arabs attacking Africans in Sudan and Muslim persecution of Christians in Nigeria. The most apparent explanation for the anti-Israel monomania on campuses, in the United Nations, and elsewhere is that Israel’s direct opposition consists of populous, politically active, and oil-supported Muslims.

But why do non-Muslims join the anti-Israel frenzy -- even to the point of celebration of Hamas’ October 7, 2023, massacre of Israeli citizens? Two easy answers are ignorance and antisemitism. But these factors are hardly comprehensive. Observers have noted that anti-Israel sentiment is fostered by biased reporting, tendentious analysis, and lack of historical knowledge. Again, true but incomplete. Rarely noted are several factors extrinsic to the conflict itself.

As to media bias, several watchdog organizations publicize the frequent misreporting and misinterpretation in the mainstream media. For example, academics, journalists, and others characterize Israel’s military campaign as genocide despite Israel’s warnings to Gazan civilians prior to attacks on nearby military targets, provision of food to this overwhelmingly hostile population, and achievement of a remarkably low civilian-to-military fatality ratio even though Hamas uses its own people as human shields. This assessment is bitterly ironic given a prevalent Hamas’ goal of genocide of Jews, foreshadowed by the October 7 massacre. Related is the charge of Israeli apartheid that is contradicted by the prominence of Arabs in all walks of life including Israel’s Supreme Court, parliament, and military -- again in contrast to the Judenrein Palestinian -- and other Arab-controlled areas where even Jewish passersby would risk their lives.

Moreover, with limited knowledge of history, protestors claim as indigenous the descendants of 19th and 20th-century Muslim immigrants from Algeria, Egypt, and Syria into the Palestine region , overlook that so-called settlements include areas once populated predominantly by Jews (notably the Old City of Jerusalem, ethnically cleansed of Jews by the Jordanian Army in 1948), and disregard the mass expulsion of Jews from Arab countries shortly after the modern state of Israel was reborn. Despite Israel vacating Gaza in 2005, some still describe the area as Israeli-occupied. Few are aware of the goal of Islamic supremacy reflected in past and intended future colonialism and conquest. Eliminating Israel has been the enduring Hamas and Palestinian Authority intention, hence their refusal to negotiate several two-state proposals over the years.

The Sources of Anti-Israel Hostility - American Thinker