A former United States Marine Corps. An intelligence analyst has been indicted by a grand jury in Missouri for transmitting classified national defense information to two individuals, including one in the People’s Republic of China, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Friday. 

Seth Chambers, 35, was a civilian contractor stationed in Iraq, a role that gave him security clearance to view classified materials at the TOP SECRET level.

He “willfully transmitted SECRET level documents to two separate individuals who were not entitled or authorized to receive it,” the DOJ said.

Chambers allegedly transmitted documents “containing verbatim and near verbatim excerpts from classified U.S. government documents” to one individual in Maryland in December 2022 and to one individual in China in April 2023.

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Hard to believe, isn’t it? This past week I have purchased over 10,000 incredible albums and my store is overstocked to no end. So spread the word, the Route 346 Emporium has over 50,000 albums in stock and is likely the largest album store on the shore.

While we have a massive amount of Classic Rock-N-Roll albums, we also have Old Country, Jazz and Blues as well. We even have Movie Soundtracks, Disney and Children’s albums. 

Come see us at 32993 Old Ocean City Rd. Parsonsburg, MD. 21849. Open Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10 to 4 and Sunday 12 to 3. 410-430-5349

No matter how far liberals sink, we can always count on them to explore new depths of pettiness.

For instance, leave it to liberals to grouse about a modest and historically appropriate change to a commemorative coin now in circulation.

Then, leave it to those same liberals to blame President Donald Trump for the design when, in fact, the change occurred during the final months of former President Joe Biden’s administration.

According to USA Today, “Americans are raising their eyebrows” at the new “Emerging Liberty Dime,” the back of which — for one year, at least — now features an eagle carrying only arrows in its talons, rather than the version of the eagle seen on the Great Seal of the United States, which shows the bird clutching arrows on one side and an olive branch on the on the other.

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Trump reiterated during a White House event that he would “love to” go to China, “but because of the war, I want to be here. I have to be here, I feel.”

President Donald Trump said Monday that he has asked China to delay his official trip to the country by a month amid an ongoing conflict in the Middle East that he feels requires him to stay in the United States.

Israel and the United States waged a conflict against Iran last month in an effort to stop the country from developing a nuclear weapon. Approximately 200 American servicemembers have been wounded in the conflict and 13 have died.

Trump reiterated during a White House event that he would “love to” go to China, “but because of the war, I want to be here. I have to be here, I feel.”

“We’ve requested that we delay it a month or so,” he continued. “And I’m looking forward to being with [Chinese President Xi Jinping].”

The request means that the trip would likely take place at the end of April or in early May. The push also comes as the president presses China to help the U.S. reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which would hopefully bring down oil prices.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian has confirmed China and the U.S. are “maintaining communication regarding President Trump’s visit to China,” but did not indicate whether the country agreed to push the trip, per CBS News.

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Investigative journalist Nick Shirley released his latest video on Monday, uncovering $170 million in fraud in California.

And this is just the tip of the iceberg in Democrat-run California.

“We uncovered over $170,000,000 in fraud as these fraudsters live in luxury with no consequences,” Nick Shirley said.

“California’s version of Medicaid called ‘Medi-Cal’ has more than doubled since 2022 from $108 billion to a proposed $222 billion in 2026. Their population, however, has not grown exponentially. However, their spending has,” Nick Shirley said.

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On the 14th day of the war Ali Larijani, the brutal Iranian regime’s security chief, sought to taunt Donald Trump from the streets of Tehran.

Larijani, 67, joined an annual Quds Day march and, as an explosion rocked Ferdowsi Square, he ranted to a state media TV camera that America would be defeated.

‘The attacks they carry out are out of fear, out of desperation,’ he claimed. ‘Trump’s problem is that he doesn’t understand the Iranian nation is wise and determined.’

Around him chants erupted of ‘Death to Israel‘ and ‘Death to America.’

Larijani, the strongman head of Iran‘s Supreme National Security Council, continued his threats with a stream of invective on X aimed at President Trump.

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As TGP previously reported, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett’s security officer was fatally shot by Dallas SWAT officers last week.

The security officer, Mike King, was a fugitive after impersonating a law enforcement officer.

King was killed in a parking garage during a standoff with Dallas SWAT officers last Wednesday night.

According to CBS News, he drove a “replica undercover police vehicle” with license plates “stolen from cars outside a military recruiting office.”

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President Trump’s hand-picked Kennedy Center board voted unanimously Monday to go forward with his two-year closure and renovation plan, which is set to begin this summer.

In a Monday release, the performing arts center said the board voted to “temporarily close the Center for a comprehensive revitalization project.” The center will close after a July 4 celebration for roughly two years, with a “Grand Re-Opening” to follow once the project is complete, the release added.

The president last month revealed plans to renovate the center, over which he has exerted significant authority by appointing new board members and himself as chairman. The new board also voted to add Trump’s name to the center in December, a move met with backlash from congressional Democrats, who said that only an act of Congress can change the name.

Trump urged the center’s board to approve the renovation project before Monday’s vote.

The renovations, which the release said will be funded via $257 million allocated from Congress, will “allow for the most comprehensive and efficient renovation effort, setting the stage for a revitalized National Cultural and Entertainment Complex for all Americans to enjoy.”

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President Trump slammed the nation of Somalia and Somali Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), noting that she “married her brother” and is “here illegally” while signing an executive order to establish the nation’s “first ever” task force to investigate fraud in federally administered housing, food, medical care, and cash assistance programs. 

The task force will serve to “advise the President and coordinate government-wide efforts to combat widespread fraud, waste, and abuse in Federal benefit programs.”

Chaired by Vice President JD Vance, with Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson as Vice Chairman, “the Task Force will coordinate measures to improve eligibility verification, implement pre-payment controls, detect high-risk fraud trends, and disrupt and dismantle fraud networks and the mechanisms through which fraud is committed,” according to the order. “The Task Force will also coordinate development of minimum anti-fraud requirements to prevent exploitation of taxpayer-funded benefits, including proof of identity and documentation requirements, risk controls, and audit and remedial actions, while each member agency’ works to develop a measurable implementation plan.”

The order also highlights the massive “organized ring involving Somali immigrants” in Minnesota through programs like Feeding Our Future, noting that “There is strong reason to believe similar vulnerabilities exist in California, Illinois, New York, Maine, and Colorado, where insufficient safeguards and weak oversight increase the risk of large-scale fraud.”

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• Xi has been supremely confident that China will dominate the rest of the century… “Change is coming that hasn’t happened in 100 years,” the Chinese leader told Vladimir Putin after their 40th in-person chat, in Moscow in March 2023. “And we are driving this change together.”
• Many in Washington and New York policy circles essentially agreed with Xi as they accepted the narrative of America’s managed decline.
• Not President Donald Trump. In a spectacular move, he extracted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife from Caracas on January 3 and is now in the process of taking down Iran’s theocracy.

American and Israeli strikes have severely degraded Iran’s ability to wage war.

Perhaps more important, they are finishing off Xi Jinping’s most cherished narrative of the “China Dream” of national rejuvenation and dominance. In Beijing these days, just about everyone knows China’s arrogant leader was wrong about the long-term direction of the United States.

Xi has been supremely confident that China will dominate the rest of the century, and he has not been reluctant to express his belief. “Change is coming that hasn’t happened in 100 years,” the Chinese leader told Vladimir Putin after their 40th in-person chat, in Moscow in March 2023. “And we are driving this change together.”

Xi’s favorite phrase of recent years reflected this view: “The East is rising, and the West is declining.”

Many in Washington and New York policy circles essentially agreed with Xi as they accepted the narrative of America’s managed decline.

Not President Donald Trump. In a spectacular move, he extracted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife from Caracas on January 3 and is now in the process of taking down Iran’s theocracy.

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The Wicomico County Department of Public Works in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service will be conducting a prescribed burn(s), within the limits of the Sharps Point Dredge Management Facility located at 622 Sharps Point Rd. Fruitland, between March 18th, and April 1st, 2026. This effort will assist the Department in the performance of aerial survey work and upcoming dredge management activities, and help to control invasive phragmites.

All addresses within one-half mile of the facility have been notified via mail; Notice of Prescribed Burn attached. Please contact the Department of Public Works with any questions at 410-548-4935.

Perhaps it’s not surprising that liberal Minneapolis prosecutor Julie Le, who went viral for telling a judge “this job sucks” in protest of immigration enforcement is looking for a new job. It’s also not surprising the new job she’s seeking is that of a lawmaker running on an anti-ICE platform.

What is surprising is who the Democrat is taking on: Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, the left’s most obnoxious sacred cow.

As the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported Thursday, the former federal attorney who lashed out at a judge over ICE enforcement during Operation Metro Surge is gunning for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. House in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District.

“Former Assistant Chief Counsel at the Department of Homeland Security and former Special Assistant United States Attorney at the United States Attorney’s Office, Julie T. Le has witnessed firsthand the failures of our broken immigration system,” her campaign website reads.

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During an exclusive interview in his office on Wednesday afternoon, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz delivered a striking warning about what he sees as a dangerous theological distortion being spread online – one that mixes Christian language with hostility toward Jews and support for controversial ideas about Israel. This is the antithesis of true biblical Christianity.

At the center of the debate is a phrase that many Christians would seemingly embrace. But Senator Cruz believes its use online has taken on a darker tone.

“I’m really troubled by how the phrase ‘Christ is King’ is being used,” Cruz told me during our conversation. “Look, I agree with the statement Christ is King, although it is being used online in a way that is meant to say, screw you, Jew. It is being used in a context very directly to say, I hate Jews.”

That may sound shocking to many Christians who view the phrase simply as a declaration of faith. But Cruz argues that context matters. “Because you see the people who are saying it and they’re saying it in that context,” he explained. “They’re saying Jews are horrible, like they’re attacking Jews, and they end with Christ is King to make it sound like somehow there’s a biblical basis for attacking Jews.”

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UK: Sharia Patrols on Horseback Rampage Through Manchester Streets as Police Stand Idly By – Starmer’s Two-Tier Tyranny Accelerates Britain’s Surrender to Islam

In a scene straight out of a dystopian nightmare, self-styled “Sharia patrols” on horseback charged through Manchester’s streets on March 4, 2026, chasing down peaceful demonstrators celebrating the end of Iran’s brutal Islamic Republic regime.

These vigilantes, reportedly wearing armbands emblazoned with “Sharia Law,” terrorized anti-regime protesters—many from the Iranian diaspora and local Jewish communities—who gathered to mark the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in recent US-Israeli strikes.

Greater Manchester Police, under the watchful eye of Keir Starmer’s Labour government, did nothing to intervene, with one officer dismissively asking a concerned bystander, “What do you want me to do? Pull him off the horse?” The bystander fired back: “You would if he had a Union Jack.”

This brazen display of Islamic intimidation, captured in viral footage circulating on X and YouTube, is maybe the most stunning proof of the horrifying reality: major UK cities like Manchester are increasingly operating under de facto Sharia rule, where equality before the law is a relic of the past.

While self-appointed enforcers of Islamic law roam free on horseback, wielding their mounts as weapons of terror, ordinary Britons face arrest for the “crime” of waving their own national flag. This is the insidious legacy of the Starmer regime—a government that appears hell-bent on erasing British identity, either by directly empowering Islamic forces or using them as proxies to pave the way for a globalist, communist-style polity where dissent is crushed, and any kind of individual identity or freedom of thought is erased.

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SF 3655 would also outlaw firearm magazines with more than 10 rounds.

States and utilities can submit applications to secure funding by May 20, and the department is set to select projects by August.

The Department of Energy (DOE) has announced a $1.9 billion funding opportunity for projects aimed at speeding up improvements to the nation’s power grid to meet rising electricity demand while bringing down costs, the department said in a March 12 statement.

The money comes from the $10.5 billion authorized for a five-year grid resilience program under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021. The funds were to be disbursed to states and electric utilities over five years.

The DOE will prioritize projects that replace existing power lines with higher‑capacity conductors, expand grid capacity, increase efficiency, lower prices for consumers, and improve overall system reliability and security, the statement said.

Project applications to secure funding are due by May 20, and the DOE is set to select projects by August.

The funding opportunity will stabilize and optimize grid operations, strengthening it for rapid growth, according to Katie Jereza, assistant secretary at the DOE’s Office of Electricity.

Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said: “For too long, important grid modernization and energy addition efforts were not prioritized by past leaders.

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Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Abbas Araghchi stated in a Saturday interview on MS NOW the only countries prohibited from using the Strait of Hormuz are the United States and Israel.

Iran reacted to Operation Epic Fury by launching hundreds of ballistic missiles and drones at targets located in multiple Middle Eastern countries. Araghchi maintained that the Iranian regime was not targeting ships when asked about reports of attacks by MS NOW host Ayman Mohyeldin.

“Is there any sign that Iran is prepared to allow passage of the Strait of Hormuz? Will the Strait of Hormuz remain closed so long as this war continues?” Mohyeldin asked Araghchi.

“Well, as a matter of fact, the Strait of Hormuz is open,” the foreign minister responded. “It is only closed to the tankers and ships belonging to our enemies, to those who are attacking us and their allies. Others are free to pass. Of course, many of them prefer not because of their, you know, security concerns.”

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Since President Trump initiated strikes on Iran’s theocratic, totalitarian regime two weeks ago, members of the so-called “religion of peace” have been carrying out revenge killings across the United States.

On March 1, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Senegal wearing a “Property of Allah” hoodie opened fire on patrons having fun at an Austin, Texas, beer garden.  He killed three Americans and injured a dozen more before being put down.  When feds searched the shooter’s home, they found an Iranian flag and pictures of Iranian leaders.  There was a Quran in the killer’s vehicle.

On March 7, two Muslim men (an eighteen-year-old Turk and a nineteen-year-old Afghan) traveled from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, to the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan and attempted to detonate two bombs in a crowd of Americans protesting the Islamification of New York City.  Although no-one was hurt, the would-be murderers had pledged allegiance to ISIS and were trying to carry out an even deadlier attack than 2013’s Boston Marathon bombing (also an act of Islamic terrorism).

The terrorists had considered shopping malls and other targets that would allow them to maximize the number of Americans they could murder.  Islamic terrorists have used similar bombs to kill in India, France, Belgium, and the United Kingdom.  New York City’s Muslim mayor — a naturalized U.S. citizen — has spent more time criticizing the American protesters than the terrorists who attempted to murder them.

On March 12, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Sierra Leone yelled, “Allahu Akbar,” before opening fire on a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps class at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.  The Islamic terrorist killed the ROTC instructor, Lt. Col. Brandon Shah, and critically injured two cadets before other class-members stabbed him to death.  The Islamic State ally was allegedly trying to recreate the 2009 slaughter at Fort Hood, Texas, in which another Islamic terrorist murdered fourteen Americans and injured several dozen more.  He had already been sentenced to eleven years in prison for providing material support to ISIS, was a known admirer of slain al-Qaida leader Anwar al-Awlaki, and had expressed a desire to murder Americans during the month of Ramadan.  The Biden administration released this killer from federal custody with years left on his sentence.

Also on March 12, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Lebanon attacked the Temple Israel synagogue and daycare in suburban Detroit — one of the nation’s largest Reform synagogues — with an explosives-packed car.  After ramming his car into the building, the Islamic terrorist opened fire before security guards neutralized him.  He lived in Dearborn, a suburb with the notorious reputation of being the “Jihadi capital” of the United States.

Do you think we might have a problem with naturalizing foreigners unworthy of American citizenship?  Is it possible that after decades of fighting Islamic extremists “over there,” we might have an even bigger problem with Islamic extremists already in the United States?

Whenever politicians or pundits observe that Islamic immigrants often refuse to assimilate to American culture and are often downright hostile to the United States (while living off of state and federal welfare programs), those politicians and pundits are denounced as “Islamophobic” bigots.  Apparently, if you are unwilling to look the other way while Islamic terrorists murder Americans, you are “guilty” of being insufficiently “politically correct.”  Heaven forbid that we ever have another Islamic terror attack on the same scale as 9/11.  Public school teachers’ unions will insist that we deserved it.  Jake Tapper and CNN will find a way to blame President Trump.  The Democrat Party (and Establishment Republicans) will look for new ways to bring millions of unvetted Islamic foreigners into the United States.  And NYC Mayor Mamdani will hold Islamic prayer services in Times Square.

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“It should not require bravery to come to a Shabbat, but here we are,”

    Those were the words of Pamela Nadall, a professor at American University and author of the new book Antisemitism, An American Tradition. It was a recent Friday night in March, and Professor Nadall was speaking at a Jewish Shabbat in Maryland.

I was also there. A Catholic journalist, I wanted to witness how a local Jewish community near me was reacting to the epidemic of anti-semitism that is raging in America and the rest of the world. It’s also part of a bigger project I am working on about how Jews have enriched American culture, from literature to movies to Mad magazine.

I have also witnessed the absolute collapse of journalistic standards in recent decades, which has fueled the new war against the Jews. The leftists in the media have been propagandists for over a century, but the right in recent years has not been much better.  People like Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, and Megyn Kelly do not employ fact checkers. They do not have editors to answer to, editors who ask them about sources and accuracy. (To be fair, Ben Shapiro, whose arguments about the War in Iran and anti-semitism I generally agree with, also has refused to acknowledge or correct mistakes about stories.)

I have given up trying to get the Stasi media to tell the truth, but the conservatives have almost been as bad, and completely gone off the rails when it comes to Jewish people. So I came to a lovely synagogue on a Friday night to attend Shabbat. It was a beautiful service, with songs, fellowship, and Professor Nadall giving a talk on anti-Semitism. I could see the similarities between Shabbat and the Catholic Mass. I was reminded of something the great priest Father Richard John Neuhaus once said – Christians and Jews are not people in two separate houses, but people in different rooms of the same house.

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Due to the installation of pipes and future paving, Porter Mill RD will periodically be closed. The plan is to have the three pipes installed by the end of this week and the road will be opened. Paving is expected to begin at the end of March.

We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause.

Any questions, please call 410-548-4872

Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman criticized his party Saturday over the ongoing partial government shutdown and its impacts on federal employees and operations.

Multiple agencies, including the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), are being subjected to “emergency measures” due to the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), according to a release by DHS. Fetterman said he spoke with TSA agents during his frequent travels about the effects of the shutdown.

“I am the only Democrat that has refused to vote in shutting down DHS, literally the only one,” Fetterman said during Saturday’s episode of “The Big Weekend Show.” “And now all agree that this would not have any impact on ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement]. They already have their funding, and it doesn’t push or force ICE to do any of those kinds of reforms that people think are necessary now, too.”

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The mayor has tapped Taylow Brown, a transgender-identifying attorney, to serve as the office’s director.

New York City socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed a transgender-identifying male to lead his new LGTBQ office.

Mamdani created the city’s first-ever Mayor’s Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs through an executive order. The office is intended to increase LGBT outreach at a time when the Trump administration has sought to roll back certain initiatives. The office will primarily serve as a central hub focused on how agencies can better benefit “queer” New Yorkers.

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With Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s Friday presser came the birth of a new hoax, and it may be one of the dumbest ones yet.

According to Sen. Mark Kelly, Rep. Jason Crow, and Rep. Eugene Vindman (yes, people actually elected a Vindman to Congress), Hegseth gave an “illegal order” when he used the phrase “no quarter” during his remarks.

HEGSETH: They’re confused, and we know it. Our response? We will keep pressing, we will keep pushing, keep advancing, no quarter, no mercy for our enemies. Yet, some in this crew, in the press, just can’t stop. Allow me to make a few suggestions. People look up at the TV, and they see banners. They see headlines. I used to be in that business, and I know that everything is written intentionally.

For example, a banner or a headline, “Mideast war intensifies,” splashing on the screen the last couple of days alongside visuals of civilian or energy targets that Iran has hit because that’s what they do. What should the banner read instead? How about, “Iran increasingly desperate.”

He goes on to debunk a claim from CNN that stated that the Trump administration had not planned for Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz. The left-wing network would go on to correct their report, but publishing it in the first place was inexcusable. The Pentagon has been planning for this exact scenario for decades, and President Trump was briefed on the possibility and viable responses.

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Under the proposed bill, public schools and community colleges in California could close in observance of the holidays, and they would be added to the list of required excused absences for students

The California State Legislature has introduced a bill that would designate the Muslim holidays of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha as state-recognized holidays.

The bill was officially introduced last month by Assemblyman Matt Haney and formally announced this week. If passed, California would become the second state in the country to recognize these holidays, after Washington.

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NBC hack Kristen Welker surprisingly confronted Democrat Senator Adam Schiff (DCA) on live television over Democrats’ role in keeping the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) partially shut down for nearly a month despite rising fears of terrorist attacks inside the United States.

Just this week, the FBI confirmed two horrifying terror attacks: a targeted car-ramming assault on Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan, and a shooting rampage at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, that killed one and wounded others.

At the same time, the CEOs of the nation’s major airlines and cargo carriers issued a letter to Congress urging lawmakers to immediately resolve the shutdown, warning that national security and aviation safety could be impacted if DHS remains unfunded.

During the interview, Welker finally did her job for once and asked the tough question that every sane American has been screaming for weeks: “Is it responsible for Democrats to hold up DHS funding with the threat of terror attacks looming?

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President Donald Trump’s executive order last month, aimed at ramping up production of elemental phosphorus and glyphosate herbicides under the Defense Production Act, has ignited a firestorm among those committed to revitalizing America’s health through its food system. Far from derailing the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, this decision has only amplified calls for a decisive pivot away from chemical-laden agriculture toward regenerative practices that honor the land and nourish the body. As farmers and consumers alike grapple with the implications, the order serves as a stark reminder of the entrenched interests in industrial farming—and the growing resolve to challenge them.

The order, signed on February 18, cited potential shortages as a national security risk, prioritizing the manufacture of these key ingredients in herbicides like Roundup. Glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide, has long been a cornerstone of conventional farming, enabling vast monoculture operations that dominate American agriculture. Yet, for MAHA advocates, this reliance represents a profound moral failing: poisoning the soil, water, and people in pursuit of efficiency and profit.

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A newly released study by the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), nearly 50 percent of Muslims under the age of 40 in Germany hold “Islamist” views, with these Muslims expressing an attraction to Islamism, a preference for Sharia law over the German Basic Law, and harboring anti-Semitic prejudices.

The findings, described as “explosive in nature,” were featured in the latest edition of the “Motra Monitor.” The study reports that as of 2025, Muslims in Germany under the age of 40 (45.1 percent) hold “latent or manifestly Islamist attitudes.“

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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr warned media outlets Saturday that they may lose their broadcast licenses if they insist on running “fake news” content.

Carr wrote in an X post he was giving broadcasters who were “running hoaxes and news distortions ‐ also known as the fake news” the chance to “correct course before their license renewals come up.” His warning came in response to a Truth Social post by President Donald Trump slamming “the Fake News Media” for what he called an “intentionally misleading headline” about U.S. Air Force planes reportedly hit by an Iranian missile strike.

“The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do not,” the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman wrote in his post. “And frankly, changing course is in their own business interests since trust in legacy media has now fallen to an all time low of just 9% and are ratings disasters.”

The FCC chief was likely citing a Gallup survey released in September 2020 which showed that only nine percent of U.S. adults had “a great deal” of trust in mass media to report “the news fully, accurately and fairly.”

“The American people have subsidized broadcasters to the tune of billions of dollars by providing free access to the nation’s airwaves,” Carr continued. “It is very important to bring trust back into media, which has earned itself the label of fake news.”

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Another day. Another terror attack on Jews at a Michigan temple where innocent Jewish children were at a day school.

At the same time at Old Dominion University, another terror attack by an ex-National Guardsman named Mohammed. Wanna guess what that’s about?

We are under attack. Americans. Christians. Jews.

The attacks will only get worse with anti-Jewish rhetoric, and hate speech, coming from both the left and the right.

On the left, it comes from almost everyone.

Democrat office holders, politicians, voters, activists. They all hate Jews and Israel.

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Bible sales in Britain have surged to their highest levels since records began, reflecting a growing spiritual interest across the nation—particularly among younger generations.

According to NielsenIQ BookData, Bible purchases increased by 19 percent last year, reaching their highest level since tracking began in 1998. Christian publisher SPCK Group reported that Bible sales totaled £6.3 million in 2025, more than doubling since 2019.

Sam Richardson, CEO of SPCK Group, said the rise reflects a broader search for meaning during a time of global uncertainty.

“As we face worldwide political and social change, including the after-effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, global wars, the rise of AI, and a growing mental health crisis, individuals are re-engaging with questions of meaning and spirituality,” Richardson said.

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Let’s stop pretending: Islam is not a religion in any sense of the word. Love thy neighbor? Hardly. Temperance and self-control? Laughable. Do unto others? Well, maybe, if that doing includes jihad.

The incontestable truth is that Islam is a violent, misogynistic, intolerant political system that has been on a millennium-and-a-half-long global holy war to conquer the globe by conversion, enslavement, and murder. Denial of this basic historical fact is akin to denying the moon landing.

And we don’t have to go back to the Battle of Tours, the Crusades, or the fall of Constantinople to appreciate this; just turn on the news. This week alone, we had an attempted terrorist bombing in NYC, the actual bombing of a synagogue in Michigan, and a shooting at Old Dominion University in Virginia by, wait for it, “Mohammed” Jalloh.

Still not convinced? The French think tank Fondapol published a study showing that since 9/11, Islamic terrorists have committed 64,678 attacks, killing a quarter of a million people.

And yet, despite these shocking realities, Western countries have opened their doors to Islamic immigration out of either suicidal masochism, suicidal empathy, or suicidal historical illiteracy. Take your pick, but the keyword is “suicidal.”

Europe is already finished, but here in America, it’s barely been a generation since we all watched the Twin Towers crumble at the hands of our Allahu Akbar enrichers. And worse, in the immediate aftermath, all those “good” Muslims we’re lectured about erupted into spontaneous celebrations from every corner of the Islamic world.

How did America go from having a visceral revulsion toward Islam to voting a Muslim the mayor of not only its financial capital but Ground Zero for the 9/11 attack? How did we throw our doors open to, as Winston Churchill described it, the most “retrograde force in the world,” which is as “dangerous in a man as [rabies] is in a dog.”

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The Open Society Foundations (OSF), founded by George Soros and currently chaired by his son Alex Soros, has played a major role in lobbying efforts to extract slavery reparations from Britain. Drawing from its roughly $23 billion endowment, the organization has directed hundreds of thousands of dollars toward groups advocating for compensation.

The reparations push gained formal momentum in 2014 through the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), and broadened in 2023 to encompass African countries—despite the fact that many African rulers profited handsomely from the international slave trade, and continued to practice it at home until being forced to give it up by the West in general and Britain in particular.

OSF has helped facilitate collaboration between Caribbean and African advocates and officials, including by organizing a “study tour” in Barbados and by backing a significant summit in Ghana. That gathering contributed to a unified declaration committing to seek remedies for supposed historical injustices.

OSF’s support has included grants such as $350,000 to the University of the West Indies in 2023 to promote awareness of “reparatory justice” and foster stronger Caribbean-Africa ties, along with $300,000 to Ghana’s foreign ministry that same year. In addition, the foundation helped organize a 2024 summit in New York, where the leader of Barbados called for the Church of England to provide reparations for its role in slavery.

Bolstered by this backing, the African Union has advanced its own reparations initiative and is exploring legal avenues to apply pressure on Britain. The OSF-funded African Judges and Jurists Forum has focused on crafting legal arguments and cases to push the reparations agenda.

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Commentator E.D. Hill criticized what she described as renewed claims of Islamophobia in the United States while pointing to a recent scene in Times Square as an example of growing tension surrounding discussions of radical Islam.

Hill made the remarks while discussing reactions from Muslim groups following a public demonstration in Times Square that drew attention on social media and in news coverage.

Her comments referenced both the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the public response to more recent events.

“Just like in the days after 9/11 we are back to Muslims across the country crying about Islamophobia. It’s everywhere. How dare we be afraid of radical Islam? Why in the world would anyone be Islamophobic?” Hill said.

Hill then referenced a video that circulated online showing a public gathering in Times Square.

The location, often described as the crossroads of the world and known for large public celebrations such as the annual New Year’s Eve ball drop, became the focus of her remarks about religious demonstrations in major American cities.

“Hmm, where is that? No, that’s not Iraq. It’s not Afghanistan. That’s Times Square. A few days ago, the crossroads of the world, the place where the ball drops, New Year’s Eve, which, by the way, would be a violation of Sharia law, playing music and celebrating, if it were anywhere in the Muslim world, never before have we witnessed a scene like that in the middle of America’s largest city,” Hill said.

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A new Rasmussen survey of 1,158 likely U.S. voters – conducted September 7–9, 2025, with a ±3% margin of error – reveals that 56% believe side effects from the COVID-19 shots have likely caused a significant number of unexplained deaths. Nearly one-third (32%) say it’s very likely. Only 35% still dismiss the idea.

This shows that what was once called a “conspiracy theory” has become the mainstream view. The majority of Americans now believe vaccine harms are real and widespread.

Support for HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reflects this shift. Half of voters (50%) say government health officials deserve criticism for their handling of the pandemic, while 42% even think CDC employees should be fired for their role in misleading the public.

Among those who strongly believe the shots caused deaths, over 70% want CDC firings.

Partisan divides remain—70% of Republicans, 46% of Democrats, and 54% of independents think the vaccines likely caused deaths—but the skepticism crosses party lines and racial groups.

In fact, black (64%) and Hispanic (57%) voters are even more likely than white voters (54%) to suspect deadly vaccine effects.

According to the survey, RFK Jr. is viewed favorably by 45% of voters, with strong support among Republicans and independents, even as Democrats turn sharply against him.

The takeaway: A credible, nationally representative poll now confirms most Americans believe COVID-19 shots have killed many people, and they want accountability from the CDC and government health leaders.

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MINNEAPOLIS — The Fort Snelling Immigration Court is holding expedited online hearings, largely in secret, for Somali nationals with asylum claims.

Everyone appears for the hearings remotely and observers are rarely allowed. While the immigrants who are the subject of the proceedings are in Minnesota, the judges and government attorneys are in other states.

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At the turn of the century, educational technology initiatives put laptop keyboards at the fingertips of U.S. schoolchildren. Now, 25 years later, the next generation of students have turned to AI—and education experts warn unrestricted use of the technology could atrophy critical thinking skills.

AI use among students has become ubiquitous following the 2022 release of ChatGPT. More than half of teenagers are using the technology for schoolwork, a Pew Research Center report released last month found. Of the nearly 1,500 parents and teens interviewed for the survey, 57% of teen students use AI to search information, and 54% use it for schoolwork.

While access to AI chatbots makes homework as easy as plugging a question into one’s phone, the frictionless retrieval of information using AI has raised concerns among educators: Rather than aid in learning, could AI actually hinder the process?

A Brookings Institute study published in January laid bare anxieties around the potential harms of AI in the classroom. Analyzing data from interviews and focus groups with more than 500 educators, parents, and students across 50 countries, as well as from more than 400 studies, the researchers found at this point, “risks of utilizing generative AI in children’s education overshadow its benefits.”

The report gave credence to early research—including a February 2025 Microsoft study—finding AI use was associated with worse judgement and critical thinking skills.

“The cognitive offloading, and the cognitive decline that’s associated with that, the decline in critical thinking, and just even reading and writing and knowledge of basic facts—I absolutely believe that,” to be the case, Mary Burns, an education consultant and co-author of the Brookings Institute study, told Fortune.

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The New York Times also reports executive editor Matt Murray had plans to leave the newspaper ahead of the cuts

The Washington Post lost over 60,000 subscribers following Jeff Bezos’ sweeping layoffs of 44% of the paper’s newsroom in February, The New York Times reported Saturday. The Times additionally detailed “how Bezos upended the Washington Post,” per its headline, including his decision to retain executive editor Matt Murray on staff to see through the layoffs, even after CEO Will Lewis’ departure.

The Times also noted a “spokesperson for the Post disputed” the 60,000 figure, “but declined to provide an alternate number.”

Murray had known the layoffs of 350 staffers in February were coming since at least November. Murray also told Lewis he was planning to leave, according to The Times.

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Almost 19 million illegal migrants are living in the United States, according to the Federation for American Immigration Reform.

“Since our December 2020 estimate, the illegal alien population in the United States has grown by 4.1 million, or 28.2 percent, reflecting an unprecedented wave of illegal immigration during the Biden administration,” the group reported on Wednesday

The higher figure will add to pressure on GOP leaders and President Donald Trump as they are being pushed by business interests to roll back the popular deportation of all illegal migrants. But the deportations are both popular and beneficial for Americans during the run-up to the 2026 mid-term elections.

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They’re not on our side.

Millions of Republican voters are scratching their heads, wondering why they should send Republicans to Washington, D.C. when they refuse to represent their voters.

Voter ID has the approval of 84% of the American public — that’s Democrats and Republicans!

But John Thune refuses to pass the legislation with his Republican majority, knowing that the GOP will then lose the midterms.

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The plaintiffs claim that either they or ⁠family ⁠members rely on the ⁠restricted foods ​to manage health conditions such as diabetes and allergies

Food stamp recipients have ⁠filed a lawsuit against the Agriculture ⁠Department over agency restrictions in 22 states on candy as well as energy and sugary drinks.

The suit was filed Wednesday in federal court in Washington, D.C., by a private firm and the National Center for Law and Economic Justice, which advocates for low-income people, on behalf of five plaintiffs.

The plaintiffs argue the restrictions “destabilize food access” for participants in ⁠the Supplemental ⁠Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAPS, in the states in which the USDA has ​approved the “food restriction” waivers, according to Reuters.

The plaintiffs live in Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, Tennessee and West Virginia, and said that either they or ⁠family ⁠members rely on the ⁠restricted foods ​to manage health conditions such as diabetes and allergies, or to obtain energy boosts to conduct their ⁠daily lives.

According to the lawsuit, the waivers cause confusion at the checkout line and irreparable harm by forcing the plaintiffs to choose between spending cash on restricted items or forgoing spending money on rent and transportation.

The Tennessee plaintiff, Amanda Johnson of Knoxville, claims that letting her state’s waiver take effect would restrict her autistic 19-year-old ⁠daughter to only three “safe” foods and beverages because of a serious eating disorder. She said that her daughter’s other six safe foods, including M&M’s and Welch’s fruit punch, would not be covered by SNAP.

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As part of the original rehabilitation/over-haul of the Upper Ferry, the final stage of ancillary equipment installation, is prepared to be completed on Monday and Tuesday March 23rd and 24th, 2026.

This effort will complete the remote cable control system installation and testing, prior to reopening. As such, the Upper Ferry will be closed to customers on this Monday and Tuesday.

Any questions, please call 410-548-4872

At 2:00 PM today, Monday March 16, 2026, the Newland Park Landfill Hill and Scales will be closed to all traffic in an abundance of caution in light of pending severe weather.

All convenience centers will be closing at 3:00 PM due to the expected severe weather.

Any questions, please call 410-548-4872

Yet another American life has been shattered by Democrat soft-on-crime policies that keep dangerous repeat offenders on the streets, this time in Virginia where an illegal immigrant with a staggering 30 prior arrests allegedly murdered a 41-year-old mother waiting at a bus stop.

Stephanie Minter’s brutal stabbing death exposes the deadly consequences of leftist prosecutors who prioritize leniency over public safety, allowing predators like this one, Abdul Jalloh, to roam free despite a rap sheet loaded with violent crimes.

The attack unfolded last month in Fairfax County, Virginia. Homeland Security confirms Jalloh entered the U.S. illegally from Sierra Leone in 2012 and racked up 30 arrests over the years, including charges for rape, malicious wounding, assault, drug possession, identity theft, trespassing, larceny, and firing a weapon.

Despite all this, he’s remained in the country and on the streets.

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The number of Americans losing their homes to banks has risen for the twelfth consecutive month, highlighting mounting pressure in the US housing market.

In February, foreclosure activity reached 38,840 properties – a 20 percent increase compared with the same month last year.

Filings track the full spectrum of the process, from initial lender warnings to the formal repossession of homes after missed mortgage payments.

Although the February total was slightly lower than January, it marked the twelfth straight month of year-over-year increases, showing how Americans are increasingly struggling to pay their bills.

‘Foreclosure activity in February marked the twelfth consecutive month of annual increases, extending a gradual upward trend that began early last year,’ said Rob Barber, chief executive of ATTOM.

Foreclosure starts – when lenders officially begin reclaiming a property – have climbed 14 percent from last year, while completed repossessions have jumped 35 percent.

This strain is already being felt in neighborhoods. As more homes are seized, and the market is flooded with discounted properties, surrounding house values drop, eroding equity for nearby homeowners who have kept up with their payments.

The surge in foreclosures reflects broader financial stress for Americans. Rising taxes and interest rates are pushing some behind on mortgages, while unpaid credit card bills and auto loans add further pressure.

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When a 7-year-old’s heartfelt sketch promoting equality gets twisted into “racism” by leftist school officials, it’s a chilling sign of how far indoctrination has gone—now finally overturned in a resounding First Amendment victory.

This case exposes the hypocrisy at the heart of progressive education: punishing a child for daring to change “Black Lives Matter” into a message of universal value, all while claiming to champion inclusion.

In 2021, at Viejo Elementary School in California, a first grader identified as BB created a simple drawing after her class learned about Martin Luther King Jr. and “Black Lives Matter.” The artwork showed four oval shapes in shades from orange to brown, representing friends holding hands, with the words “Black Lives Mater” above and “any life” below.

BB gifted it to a black classmate in a show of friendship. The child thanked her and showed no signs of offense. But the child’s mother complained to Principal Jesus Becerra, writing, “My husband and I will not tolerate any more messages given to our daughter because of her skin color. As the administrator we trust you know the actions that need to be taken to address this issue.”

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When a shooter attacked at Old Dominion University today, he managed to kill at least one person and injure others, but he didn’t last long.

According to an update from the FBI, ROTC students leapt into action and ‘subdued’ the attacker until he was no longer drawing breath. In other words, they killed him by beating him to death with their bare hands. This was just confirmed.

It seems like a fitting end for the attacker, doesn’t it?

NBC News reports:

ROTC students at Old Dominion University subdued and killed shooter who left 1 dead, 2 hurt.

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Human metapneumovirus causes symptoms similar to other respiratory viruses.

The human metapneumovirus (HMPV) is spreading in the United States, including in California and the Great Lakes region, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Investigative journalist John Solomon joined Benny Johnson this week to deliver a chilling update on the state of our Republic.

According to Solomon, the American people are about to learn the horrifying truth: Communist China has successfully penetrated state voter ID databases to conduct influence operations during U.S. elections.

According to Solomon, the investigation involves senior leadership from the CIA, FBI, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and could have massive implications for ongoing debates in Washington over election security legislation.

During the interview, Johnson asked Solomon about the situation unfolding in Maricopa County, Arizona, where investigators recently seized election-related materials through a grand jury subpoena.

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The U.S. Marine Corps is sending more than 2,000 men currently stationed in Japan to the Middle East as the joint U.S.-Israeli Operation Epic Fury continues to intensify.

The Wall Street Journal and ABC News reported the deployment shift first and Fox News subsequently confirmed it after speaking with a federal official. Fox’s Chief National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin posted on X, “US defense official confirms to Fox News that the Pentagon is sending the USS Tripoli, a Marine Amphibious Ready Group, and the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) to Mideast. The Tripoli is stationed out of Japan and would take about 2 weeks to get to the Mideast. Accompanying the ARG and the MEU are approx. 2500 US Marines.”

Before everyone loses their minds about boots on the ground, it appears that the deployment is primarily connected to air and naval capabilities, as Operation Epic Fury has been using ever since the beginning, as ABC News reported:

The 31st MEU is permanently deployed to Japan and operates in the INDO-PACOM region, but it is now being ordered to head to the Middle East.

Its deployment does not mean that the unit is going to be used as a ground force for use in Iran, but it offers land, amphibious and aviation assets that can be available to military commanders if needed.

This particular MEU also includes a squadron of F-35 fighter jets and a squadron of MV-22 tilt rotor Osprey aircraft.

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A former New York state trooper accused of ramming his vehicle into an SUV during a high-speed chase leading to the death of an 11-year-old girl was convicted of manslaughter Friday at his second trial.

Prosecutors say Christopher Baldner, 47, rammed the SUV twice on the New York State Thruway, causing it to lose control and flip over. Eleven-year-old Monica Goods, who was in the SUV, was killed in the December 2020 crash. Baldner’s attorneys said the accident occurred after the SUV cut the trooper off as he pulled alongside during the pursuit.

“While nothing can bring Monica back, this verdict is some semblance of justice for her loved ones,” state Attorney General Letitia James said in a prepared statement.

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A man known publicly as Mike King, who reportedly provided security services for U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), was fatally shot by Dallas Police SWAT officers during an armed standoff Wednesday night.

The incident, as earlier detailed by The Dallas Express, occurred on Wednesday evening, with the suspect not identified at the time. Officers from the police fugitive task force tracked the individual to the 1900 block of Medical District Drive during a surveillance operation, according to Chief Daniel Comeaux. When they tried to approach him, the suspect barricaded himself inside his vehicle.

Dallas police, including their fugitive team, tracked King to the location amid an active warrant for impersonating a law enforcement officer. When King barricaded himself inside his vehicle, SWAT intervened. Officers deployed tear gas to force him out; upon emerging, he allegedly pointed a gun at them, leading to the officer-involved shooting. No officers or bystanders were injured, and the hospital briefly went on lockdown.

King operated Off Duty Police Services, an online platform that connected North Texas officers with off-duty job opportunities. Sources indicate he used aliases and drove a replica undercover police vehicle equipped with stolen license plates—reportedly taken from cars near a military recruiting office—while under investigation for impersonation. His background reportedly includes a criminal history, raising concerns about how he secured roles involving law-enforcement coordination and high-profile protection, per CBS.

King was a visible presence in Crockett’s security detail, with images showing him near her at public events and during her recent U.S. Senate campaign efforts. He also oversaw security teams at downtown Dallas hotels and his church. Documents reviewed by media outlets confirm payments to a person named “Mike King” for “security services” from Crockett’s operations as recently as last year.

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Not since 1941 has Iran been conquered.

That year saw the armies of Britain and the USSR combine their air, land and sea might to rush the country during the Second World War to defeat the severely under-developed military set up by Iran’s then-ruler, Reza Shah.

Donald Trump appears to be angling to emulate the success of the UK-Russian invasion with his roiling war in the Middle East, as for the first time since the conflict began the US sent 5,000 US Marines to the Middle East.

The US troops will head to the conflict from Japan, as a defiant Trump told press last night that the war would end ‘when I feel it’, while defence secretary Pete Hegseth told CBS that the US is ‘willing to go as far as we need to’.

The deployment of US boots on the ground came despite White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt saying last week that ground operations were ‘not part of the plan right now’.

But Iran is a notoriously difficult country to invade, thanks to its tough terrain.

The country is home to vast salt flats, dense and swampy marshes, and a series of rocky mountains that create a natural, nationwide fortress, in which countless military and nuclear sites hide.

Iran’s dominance over the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway to its south, means that any enemy vessels in either the Gulf of Oman or the Persian Gulf may become sitting ducks.

Some experts have warned that America could face a worse environment than they encountered in Afghanistan, Iraq and even Vietnam.

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For many Americans, retirement was supposed to be the stage of life when responsibilities eased and freedom expanded. After decades of raising children, building careers, and caring for aging relatives, the expectation was simple: enjoy the fruits of your labor, travel, pursue hobbies, and spend relaxed time with family.

But for a growing number of retirees, life has taken an unexpected turn. Instead of stepping away from caregiving, they find themselves pulled back into it—supporting both aging parents and adult children at the same time. In many ways, the traditional “sandwich generation” dynamic has flipped. Retirees are now caught in a reverse version of it.

It’s a reality shaped by longer lifespans, economic uncertainty, and changing family dynamics. And while it can bring meaningful moments and deeper family connections, it can also create emotional strain, financial pressure, and difficult choices.

Why This Is Happening More Often

One of the biggest reasons retirees are facing this situation is simple: people are living longer. It’s no longer unusual for someone in their late 60s or early 70s to still have a parent in their 90s who needs assistance with daily life.

At the same time, younger generations are dealing with their own financial challenges. Rising housing costs, student loan burdens, childcare expenses, and economic volatility have left many adult children leaning on their parents longer than previous generations did.

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As the issue of Medicare fraud is now being exposed like never before, another healthcare-related issue needs to be fully illuminated.

Driving through my neighborhood, I pass a yard sign: “Healthcare is a human right.” Who would make such a claim? Is obtaining a driver’s license a right? One needs to demonstrate competence in driving and pass some tests. Driving an automobile, legally, is a privilege and a responsibility, but it is not a right. Likewise, healthcare is not a right. For openers, government intrusion in all aspects of our lives has proceeded unabated for 90+ years, largely accelerated under Franklin Roosevelt.

Today, led by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the sacrosanct viewpoint has emerged that healthcare is a right and that the Federal government should lead the charge. Aren’t each of us responsible for our own health, with exceptions for those who have endured unforeseen, extraordinary circumstances, or those whom nature did not fully equip?

Some Try, Most Don’t

In the general population, individuals who maintain a healthy body, on average, enjoy better health than those who do not. Sadly, large segments of our population do little or nothing to maintain their health and, worse, engage in quite unhealthy behavior.

Are individuals who smoke, drink to excess, overeat, barely exercise, consume drugs, and rarely support their own well-being entitled to healthcare insurance on par with those who do the opposite?

The cost of covering individuals who take no responsibility for their health is staggering. Unfortunately, even if you are diligent about maintaining your health, the healthcare insurance that you have to purchase partially funds the healthcare coverage of others, in some way, who do not share in your vigilance.

What Have You Paid?

I summed my decades of healthcare insurance payments versus the actual benefits I received via claims and reimbursements. I had paid more than $175,000 while garnering a little less than $15,000 in benefits. So, all told, I forked over $160,000+ for coverage that I never used and which was allocated to others. Meanwhile, I did nearly everything I could to stay healthy.

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It begins. Democrats in Virginia have been in power for barely a month and they are already pushing sweeping new gun control laws.

To make matters worse, they are doing this at a time when the country has seen four terrorist attacks on the homeland in the span of just two weeks. God forbid the American people are able to defend themselves from all of the potential terrorists that Democrats imported into the country on Joe Biden’s watch.

This is all about control.

FOX News reports:

Virginia Dems send sweeping gun ban to Spanberger as West Virginia weighs expanding machine-gun access

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The recent non-troversy now known as Lobstergate is a fake outrage, ginned up by the usual Trump haters in our liberal media and embraced by various Democrats and late night propagandists.

What this entire, stupid affair has exposed is that our liberal elites are even more out of touch with the American people than previously known.

If any of these idiots had a family member or friend serving in our armed forces, they would know that feeding the troops seafood and steak is a common occurrence that has happened under presidents from both parties for years.

These idiots on the left tried to create a scandal out of thin air and all it showed is their stunning ignorance.

Here’s an image of former First Lady Michelle Obama serving steak to the troops. What a scandal!

Paul Begala of CNN made a total jackass out of himself on the air by showing that he knows nothing about any of this. It was a perfect example of what this is all about. Liberals outraged about something that they know absolutely nothing about.

The Editorial Board of the New York Post wrote today:

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When a shooter attacked at Old Dominion University today, he managed to kill at least one person and injure others, but he didn’t last long.

According to an update from the FBI, ROTC students leapt into action and ‘subdued’ the attacker until he was no longer drawing breath. In other words, they killed him by beating him to death with their bare hands. This was just confirmed.

It seems like a fitting end for the attacker, doesn’t it?

NBC News reports:

ROTC students at Old Dominion University subdued and killed shooter who left 1 dead, 2 hurt

A former Army National Guard member who had spent eight years in prison for attempting to aid the Islamic State opened fire on a classroom at Virginia’s Old Dominion University on Thursday before ROTC students subdued and killed him, authorities said.

He had yelled “Allahu Akbar” before the shooting, which left one person dead and two wounded, according to the FBI.

Dominique Evans, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Norfolk field office, said at a news conference that the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps students showed “extreme bravery and courage” and prevented further loss of life by stopping the gunman, Mohamed Bailor Jalloh.

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A group of autism researchers and advocates with ties to Dr. Paul Offit on Tuesday said they formed their own autism research committee in protest of changes made by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the official government panel of autism advisers.

On Jan. 28, Kennedy appointed 21 new members to the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC), a committee that coordinates federal efforts on autism, including policy and government-funded research. Kennedy said in a statement:

“President Trump directed us to bring autism research into the 21st century. … We are doing that by appointing the most qualified experts — leaders with decades of experience studying, researching, and treating autism. These public servants will pursue rigorous science and deliver the answers Americans deserve.”

Former committee members claimed Kennedy’s overhaul of the committee undermined its scientific integrity.

Helen Tager-Flusberg, Ph.D., a member of the new Independent Autism Coordinating Committee, founder of the Coalition of Autism Scientists and a former IACC member, said in a press release that the new group “restores the rigor and coordination needed to accurately assess progress and ensure that evidence-based progress continues to be made.”

The new committee plans to submit annual reports to Congress and issue recommendations on autism research priorities, Medscape reported.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Press Secretary Emily G. Hilliard told The Defender that the new committee doesn’t replace the federal committee appointed by Kennedy, which operates under HHS. She said:

“The federal IACC will continue to fulfill President Trump’s directive to bring autism research to the 21st century and support breakthroughs in autism diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.”

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On Monday, street videographer JJ Smith captured on camera what appears to be election crimes in San Francisco, California.  In broad daylight.

The video shows a line of people at the corner of 6th Street and Mission Street in the SoMa neighborhood, soliciting signatures on Monday afternoon.

The clip begins with Smith walking up on the line with a sign that reads, “Can you read & Write?  Sign Petition for $5.”

Smith asks a man in the line, “What’s the line for?”  He responds that they’re “giving five bucks to sign a petition.”

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Now that the Virginia General Assembly has passed what it calls “assault weapon ban” legislation, all that’s needed is for Gov. Abigail Spanberger to sign it into law, which is all but a given. Once signed, Senate Bill 749 will likely take effect as soon as July 1, 2026.

The law will ban the sale, import, manufacture, purchase, and transfer of what it describes as “assault firearms,” and it will treat high-capacity magazines that can hold 15 rounds or more in the same way. It will make any violations of the law a “Class 1 misdemeanor,” which could mean up to a year in jail and a $2,500 for a first offense.

While SB 749 does not explicitly ban AR-15 rifles, since the popular long rifle falls under the bill’s definition of assault weapons, it will be effectively banned.

A Bangladeshi immigrant who has served in the Virginia Senate since 2024 is the sponsor of the massively aggressive gun control legislation. Saddam Azlan Salim came to America when he was 10 years old, settling with his family in Fairfax County.

If you’ve been following coverage of the Trump administration’s military action against Iran, you’ve probably noticed something: A lot of people are determined to convince you that the United States is losing.

They’re wrong.

Even worse, many of them know they’re wrong. Critics across the political spectrum — from Democrats to elements of the so-called horseshoe Right — are pushing narratives that paint the conflict as a disaster in the making. The goal is simple: Undermine public confidence and turn what is shaping up as a strategic success into a perceived failure.

Three particular claims are circulating widely. All three deserve to be addressed.

Lie No. 1: The war is a quagmire.

The first claim is that the United States has stumbled into another interminable Middle East war — one destined to drag on for years and possibly escalate to catastrophic levels.

This is absurd.

At the time of this writing, the conflict is less than two weeks old. Twelve days. That’s not 12 years, as in Vietnam, or even 12 months, as in the Spanish-American War.

Wars unfold over time, and no one should pretend to know exactly how long any conflict will last. But the notion that the United States is already trapped in a generational quagmire — after less than two weeks of fighting — is less analysis than panic.

Lie No. 2: Iran is somehow winning.

A second claim insists that Iran is holding strong — that the regime is weathering the assault and even gaining the upper hand.

Again, reality tells a different story.

Iran’s military capabilities have been battered. Its missile and drone infrastructure has been heavily targeted. Its naval assets have reportedly suffered severe losses. Leadership turmoil inside the regime only compounds the problem.

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Experts warn that Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s newly selected leader, may be more radical than his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the former supreme leader who was killed during the Feb. 28 U.S. and Israeli airstrikes on Tehran. And Christian aid groups are concerned for the future welfare of Christians in the nation.

Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, was selected on March 8 by Iran’s 88-member Assembly of Experts. Long-rumored to be a key influence behind the scenes in Iran’s government and security forces, Khamenei is a mid-ranking cleric who was trained in Shiite seminaries in Qom, Iran.

Janer Rajabi, an Iranian exile and former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) operative who claims to have studied with Khamenei, warned in a recent interview with The Atlantic that Khamenei is an “apocalypse-obsessed” man who is “uniquely dangerous” and “more dangerous than 50 nuclear bombs.”

“He thinks there are milestones on the path to the end of the world and he himself will have a special part in hastening humanity down that path,” Rajabi said.

Rajabi also told ArabCast news that Khamenei “puts a lot of weight on visions and dreams and these things. He sees them and says, ‘I saw them, and they say that you are al-Sayyid al-Khorasani’ … I mean, once he told me, ‘Adam, peace be upon him, came to him [in a dream and told me this].’”

According to Rajabi, the newly selected leader believes he is a prophesied figure of the Khorasani that would help fulfill the Mahdi’s return. The Mahdi—sometimes called the 12th Imam—is an Islamic messianic figure who appears before the end times, based on Shia eschatology. Mahdi’s return, Shia Muslims believe, is to be announced by three figures, including the Khorasani, a leader from the historical region of Khorasan, which contains parts of Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asia.

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New AI tools are already capable of generating highly convincing audio and video. Voices are being cloned with remarkable accuracy. Images are being fabricated that are almost indistinguishable from authentic photographs. And video technology has advanced to the point where a person can appear to say things that were never actually spoken.

Artificial intelligence promises extraordinary advances in science, medicine, and technology. But in the realm of public discourse, it may push misinformation into an entirely new phase. Until recently, most distortions have relied on editing real events — cutting clips, removing context, and rearranging fragments of genuine footage. AI makes something more radical possible: the creation of convincing events that never occurred at all.

Public debate once rested on the assumption that public speech would be presented honestly and interpreted in good faith. Increasingly however, as many have realized, this is no longer the case.

Over the past decade, the phrase “fake news” entered the political vocabulary to describe the manipulation of information in modern media. These distortions did not usually arise from elaborate fabrications, but from simple manipulations of context and presentation. They rarely involved completely invented stories. More often than not, they relied on the careful reshaping of reality: statements taken out of context, video clips selectively edited, narratives framed around fragments rather than the full record.

That process has become all too familiar. A short clip circulates online. A headline cements the accusation. Commentators repeat the interpretation until it becomes the dominant narrative. By the time the fuller context emerges, the story has already taken hold.

Several widely known episodes illustrate how this process works.

After the 2017 Charlottesville protests, a fragment of Donald Trump’s remarks — “very fine people on both sides,” referring solely to the Confederate statues debate — circulated widely as evidence that he had praised white supremacists. Yet in the same speech he explicitly stated that neo-Nazis and white nationalists should be “condemned totally.” That portion of the speech was conveniently excluded in the viral clip.

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