“The President’s absurd characterizations do not match what is happening on the ground [in Chicago]… there is no [crime] emergency.“
– Illinois Governor JB Pritzker
“Judges wear black robes because we are not partisan,” Barrett, one of three high court appointees of President Donald Trump, said. “Thinking in those categories of left and right is just the wrong way to think about the law.”
“I think the Constitution is alive and well,” Barrett said during the interview, adding, “I don’t think that we are currently in a constitutional crisis.”
– Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett
“It is not NATO that is pushing Russia’s neighbors to join. It is that Russia’s neighbors want to be in NATO. Why? Because Russia has invaded several neighbors and bullies the rest. No one has done more to enlarge NATO than Putin.”
– Congressman Don Bacon
“Peace doesn’t come when country which was invaded stops fighting. That’s not peace. That’s occupation.“
– Ukrainian Nobel Laurate Oleksandra Matviichuk.
“Why are we interested in what Russia thinks about troops in Ukraine? It’s a sovereign country. It’s not for them to decide.“
– NATO Secretary-General, Mark Rutte
Putin is “possibly the most serious war criminal of our time” and stressed: “There is no room for leniency.”
– German Chancellor Merz
Democrats Turn Down Trump on Crime: Fine. If Democrat Governors and Mayors don’t want the help President Trump is offering their citizens to help fight crime, let them show America what Democrats can do on that front.
The Democrats have empowered criminals, radicals, and revolutionaries all over our country. The Democrats think they can somehow take the side of criminals and make the case that President Trump is trying to play “King”… let them eat cake.
Engage with the states and cities that want the help. Let the Democrats “fight” crime their way and see how their citizens/voters eventually react.
D.C. is a shining example of how a federal/city partnership can work. The streets are safer, the neighborhoods are safer, the metro is safer… the city IS safer. No King, no federal take over… just no nonsence, common-sense approach to deterrance and prosecution of those who break the law.
Illegal Immigration: We need and welcome legal immigrants. Those, like my parents, came here to find their share of the American Dream. Be it in the Fischer Body auto plant in Detroit or the fields of Iowa, we want patriotic immigration. It has worked before and can work again.
Illegal immigration has brought a wave of crime, overcrowded schools, a drain on state and local resources, and set the wrong “founding principle” for illegals… because we are a country founded on the rule of law. And if your first act in entering our country, you’re off to a bad start.
Secure our borders… ONLY allow legal U.S. citizens to vote and continue the deportation of illegal immigrants.
Illegal Immigration: We need and welcome legal immigrants. Those, like my parents, came here to find their share of the American Dream. Be it in the Fischer Body auto plant in Detroit or the fields of Iowa, we want patriotic immigration. It has worked before and can work again.
Illegal immigration has brought a wave of crime, overcrowded schools, a drain on state and local resources, and set the wrong “founding principle” for illegals… because we are a country founded on the rule of law. And if your first act in entering our country, you’re off to a bad start.
Secure our borders… ONLY allow legal U.S. citizens to vote and continue the deportation of illegal immigrants.
Liberal Democrats Are Losing It: Step back and let the looney left progressives do their thing.
Americans are watching. Non-traditional Republican voters are watching.
– Wrong on immigration
– Wrong on crime
– Wrong on WOKE politics
– Wrong on allowing boys in girls’ locker rooms
– Wrong on defunding the police
– Wrong on defending rioters and terrorists on our streets
– Wrong on opposing everything Trump just because it’s Trump’s idea
Common sense policies and politics are winning out in America. Its about time… and let’s hope it’s not too late. Just look at what is happening throughout much of Europe.
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Democrats Refusing Trump’s Help Prove Blue City Lawlessness Is A Choice
More than 50 people were shot in Chicago this past weekend — 8 of whom were killed. Instead of addressing the bloodshed, Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson spent his time telling residents to be ready to “defend this land” from the National Guard, anticipating President Donald Trump may deploy the National Guard to crack down on rampant crime in the Windy City.
In a post on Truth Social on Tuesday, Trump suggested he would “solve the crime problem fast” in Chicago, just as he’s done in D.C. Chicago is in dire need of intervention: 274 murders this year alone, and more than 1,200 people have been shot, as reported by CNN. That’s “more than those reported” in New York City and Los Angeles which both have larger populations, according to the report.
Residents themselves know change is needed. Cedric Hawkins told CNN that he wants Trump “to send the right resources” — but fears the National Guard could cause more crime. Rochelle Sykes told CNN her “grandkids can’t sit outside. They can’t sit in the living room or at the kitchen table, because a bullet may come through.” Sykes, like Hawkins, also doesn’t want the National Guard — but wants relief.
Ameenah Haque, however, would like to see the National Guard in the city.
Melania Trump Advocates for Responsible Management of Artificial Intelligence Growth
First lady Melania Trump underscored the importance of managing Artificial Intelligence (AI) growth responsibly and urged tech leaders to support the Presidential AI Challenge on Thursday.
The first lady hosted a meeting of the White House Task Force on AI Education at the White House on Thursday, alongside Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Education Secretary Linda McMahon, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks, and other task force officials.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, and Code.org President Cameron Wilson attended the event as “AI Education and Workforce Champion Representatives,” while OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was also on hand, per the White House press pool.
The first lady predicted that AI would account for “the single largest growth category in our nation” over the Trump administration, and highlighted the possibility of AI becoming “known as the greatest engine of progress in the history of the United States of America.”
“But, as leaders and parents, we must manage AI’s growth responsibly. During this primitive stage, it is our duty to treat AI as we would our own children–empowering, but with watchful guidance,” she said.
Barrett says thinking about Supreme Court as ‘Left and Right’ is wrong
Justice Amy Coney Barrett pushed back on partisan portrayals of the Supreme Court during a conversation in Manhattan on Thursday, saying it’s a “mistake” to view the justices as aligned with the political Left or Right.
“Judges wear black robes because we are not partisan,” Barrett, one of three high court appointees of President Donald Trump, said. “Thinking in those categories of left and right is just the wrong way to think about the law.”
The remarks came during a live interview with journalist and Free Press founder Bari Weiss at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, part of a speaking tour for Barrett’s new book, Listening to the Law, which is slated for release on Sept. 9.
Barrett, a member of the court’s 6-3 conservative majority, also said she does not believe the United States is experiencing a constitutional crisis despite critics’ concerns about Trump’s aggressive use of executive power and growing tension between the administration and the judiciary.
“I think the Constitution is alive and well,” Barrett said during the interview, adding, “I don’t think that we are currently in a constitutional crisis.”
14K migrants hoping to enter US turn back, UN finds
The phenomenon has been referred to as ‘reverse flow’ migration, with migrants citing US policy changes for turning back
A new report reveals that more than 14,000 migrants who had hoped to cross into the United States have turned back and reversed course due to the Trump administration’s hardline border enforcement policies.
The new phenomenon, referred to as “reverse flow” migration, has mainly impacted migrants fleeing the economic and political turmoil in Venezuela and who had been moving north through Central America toward the U.S.
Since 2017, around 8 million people have fled the political crisis in Venezuela.
The report, published by the governments of Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica with the support of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said that northward migration had plummeted by 97% this year.
“It’s time to go back — the American dream wasn’t like this,” one migrant said, per the report.
Private Social Security accounts offer a path to reform
Social Security is broken. The program has run deficits for many years and will continue to do so indefinitely. The so-called “trust fund” is nothing more than IOUs from the federal government and that will be exhausted in late 2032, and the long-term unfunded liabilities are in the tens of trillions of dollars. Politicians who insist Social Security can’t be touched are not protecting seniors. They are pandering, and when the “Trust fund” is exhausted, there will be 24 percent benefit cuts across the board unless something is done to fix the problem.
The system can no longer be seen as the “third rail” and must be fixed for good.
For decades, Washington has tinkered at the edges by raising payroll taxes and raising the retirement age. None of this has solved the fundamental flaw of Social Security, namely, that it is a pay-as-you-go scheme. Current workers are paying for current retirees, and nothing is being accumulated to pay the current workers. With fewer workers supporting more retirees, the math simply doesn’t work anymore.
There is a better way, one that has worked in many countries around the world, private retirement accounts. Instead of sending their payroll taxes into a government system that is broken and getting worse, workers would invest those contributions in their own accounts, managed professionally, compounding in value over time. At retirement, that nest egg would belong to them, not to the government. And when they pass away, the remaining assets would go to their heirs, building generational wealth instead of disappearing into Washington’s black hole.
There are many advantages to privatization. Private accounts are assets owned by the individual, offer higher retirement income, promote economic growth through investment, and eliminate the government’s massive unfunded liability. Workers could contribute more if they chose, employers could match additional savings, and the program would become permanently self-sustaining.
Ranking the Democratic contenders for president in 2028
Democrats are still licking their wounds from then-Vice President Kamala Harris’s defeat last November — and grappling with the implications of President Trump’s second term.
For the moment, they are essentially a leaderless party. But that will change in due course.
The 2028 presidential field looks wide open from this distance. But some prominent Democrats have already been making moves that seem plainly geared toward the next presidential cycle.
The Hill ranked the Republican presidential contenders Sunday.
Here are The Hill’s rankings of where the Democratic contenders stand.
Putin’s failed summer offensive shatters the myth of inevitable Russian victory
During the early months of 2025, there was much speculation that Russia’s coming summer offensive would prove the decisive campaign of the entire invasion. Many thought the Ukrainian army was already close to collapse, with Putin himself declaring in March that “there are reasons to believe we can finish off” Ukrainian forces. The stage seemed set for Russia to finally break Ukraine’s dogged resistance and win the war.
As August gives way to September, it is now abundantly clear that Putin’s big summer offensive has failed. The Russian army has been unable to secure any front line breakthroughs or capture a single major city, with overall Russian advances during the three summer months limited to an estimated 0.3 percent of Ukrainian territory. Crucially, key strategic objectives like Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine remain in Ukrainian hands.
The Kremlin’s ambitious plans to expand the war into northern Ukraine’s Sumy and Kharkiv regions have also fallen flat. During the initial weeks of the summer offensive in June, a swaggering Putin confidently declared that “all Ukraine is ours” and threatened to seize regional capital Sumy as part of efforts to establish a so-called “security buffer zone” stretching deep inside Ukraine. With the summer season now over, his invading troops find themselves pinned down in a handful of border villages, having been forced to retreat after a series of battlefield reverses.
Russia’s extremely modest recent gains have come at a terrible price. While the Kremlin does not release information about its war dead, conservative estimates of Russian casualties based on open source data suggest catastrophic losses during the summer months numbering tens of thousands. As German journalist and BILD correspondent Julian Röpcke has noted, any sober assessment of Russia’s summer offensive must conclude that it has been a “debacle.”
Britain’s Descent Towards Civil War Is No Accident
Having lived in Australia for the past three years, I sense that this country is the least advanced down the road towards the multicultural dystopia confronting much of Europe.
That is not to say there is room for complacency: Australia has its own canaries in the coal mine, echoing trends observable across the Western world. Yet relative prosperity, firm immigration policies, a distinct welfare regime (mandatory health insurance, means tested pensions), a robust federal system, and above all a unique electoral framework of three-year cycles and compulsory voting all help, willy-nilly, to keep politicians on a short leash and broadly tethered to the popular will.
The greatest safeguard against social fracture and disintegration in Australia, however, is not institutional design but rather watching Britain implode in real time. Many Australians, still bound by ties of kinship and tradition to the old country, see in the United Kingdom both a cautionary tale and an anti-role model: a once-settled, relatively harmonious state busily teaching the world how to dismantle itself through the enthusiastic embrace of liberal dogma.
As an observer no longer resident in Britain, I am reluctant to pontificate on the fate of my homeland. Yet it is a sight to behold: an establishment seemingly bent on self-destruction, clinging to an incontinent immigration system and an almost devotional attachment to international and human rights laws that disadvantage its own citizens. The Epping hotel protests — complete with the Home Office’s recourse to legal appeals — illustrate the point. No doubt the legal complexities are real, as David McGrogan rightly pointed out in these pages, but such manoeuvres only pour petrol on an already combustible national mood.
One is left to wonder whether Britain’s Labour Party, now so hopelessly enthralled by socially progressive ideology, will ever rediscover the ability to represent anything resembling national sentiment — or whether it will, like the Conservatives, simply perfect the art of political self-evisceration.
Final Thoughts
