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 My son has narrated the last book I wrote.
Please consider listening to it and encouraging others to do so too. (Click on Book Cover) World & Nation Trump’s DC law-and-order blitz marks one year with eye-popping haul of suspects The crackdown has led to nearly 2,000 illegal firearms seized, 35 homicide suspects caught and 25 missing children found The Make D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force will mark its first anniversary Tuesday after making more than 16,000 arrests since its launch, Fox News Digital has learned exclusively, as the Trump administration points to the results of its sweeping crackdown on violent crime in the nation’s capital. "Under President Trump’s leadership, the Department of Justice and our law enforcement partners have delivered extraordinary results in our nation’s capital. More than 16,000 arrests, thousands of illegal drugs and firearms taken off the streets, and dangerous violent offenders brought to justice mean safer neighborhoods and lives protected," said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. "We will not relent until every community in Washington, D.C., is safe." The task force launched Aug. 11, 2025, bringing federal, state and local law enforcement together after Trump declared a crime emergency in Washington, D.C. Trump also deployed National Guard troops, drawing criticism from Democratic officials. Sen. Tim Scott: El-Sayed Making Midterms 'Easier' for GOP Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., said Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is making the GOP’s path in the midterm elections “easier,” arguing his positions are out of step with voters in the battleground state. “I’m certain that Abdul El-Sayed is making it easier. Because he is inconsistent with Michiganders of either side of the aisle,” Scott, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, told CNN’s Manu Raju on Sunday. “By the way, he’s someone who wants to defund police, defund ICE, who wants to abolish our concept of a border,” Scott said, referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “He’s just wrong for Michigan.”
El-Sayed admits free healthcare means paying 'a little bit more in taxes' regardless of income The Michigan Democratic Senate nominee has insisted that he was not a socialist despite supporting similar policies Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed appeared to admit on Sunday's "Meet the Press" that everyone, regardless of income, would have to pay "a little bit more in taxes" for universal healthcare. NBC News host Kristen Welker asked El-Sayed about his support for Medicare for All and whether Americans need to worry about paying more taxes to make it possible. El-Sayed answered that he was in favor of raising taxes on billionaires but seemed to concede that even Americans earning under $1 million or less would also see their taxes increase. Iranian President: Supreme Leader Urges 'Unity' Amid US Sanctions Iran's president says the country's supreme leader is calling for "unity and cohesion" as the Islamic Republic faces economic hardships and sanctions amid its war with the United States. Here's a look at the latest developments in the Iran war and the wider Middle East on Monday. Full coverage can be found here. President Masoud Pezeshkian described a nearly seven-hour meeting with Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei in an interview Monday with Iranian state television that aired amid apparent tensions among the Islamic Republic's leaders. Pezeshkian told the state-run IRIB that he and Khamenei discussed "people's livelihoods, the state of the market, employment, people's housing," as well as "problems that are now being created as a result of the [U.S.] sanctions." He didn't say when or where they met.
Iran airs rare clip of supreme leader — but here’s why it does nothing to dispel dire health rumors Iran released a rare video Sunday of its supreme leader appearing in prime condition amid his long absence from the public eye and swirling reports of deteriorating health. The country’s semi-official Mehr News Agency flaunted video of Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, sitting in a circle and speaking with a group of men, with no context of when or where the scene took place. Khamenei was notably free of any of the horrific injuries he was believed to have suffered in the initial airstrikes of the war that killed his father, suggesting the video was taken before the conflict began. Israel ‘rejects’ Trump’s 15-point peace plan for Gaza, Netanyahu says
Iran has made our most urgent national-security priority painfully clear Iran moves to block US, Israeli shipments from Strait of Hormuz Iranian state media on Thursday reported that Tehran could attempt to block U.S. and Israeli shipments from transiting the Strait of Hormuz under its joint venture with Oman to reopen the critical waterway to commercial traffic. Members of the Iranian Parliament are reviewing a proposed bill to block “hostile” vessels from moving through the choke point, which is responsible for carrying about a fifth of the world’s oil transports per day under normal conditions. Ships caught violating the policy could face a 20 percent fine if caught by Iranian authorities, per state media. Each ship approved to transit the strait will face fees for insurance, refueling and/or environmental costs, according to Iranian state media. Russia just quietly admitted Ukraine’s deep strikes are working — Putin reorganized his military to protect the rear Less than a month after Zelenskyy dismissed Mykhailo Fedorov as Minister of Defense and Oleksandr Syrskyi as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Moscow seems to be conducting its own “shake-up” in the Ministry of Defense. Yesterday, Vladimir Putin announced that some changes were being made in the command structure of the Russian Armed Forces “aimed at improving the systems of materiel and military-technical support for the troops.” The aim is to strengthen the Russian backline, logistics, and procurement systems to better support troops at the front lines. As the war with Ukraine has progressed, the Russians have been forced to learn some very harsh lessons about the nature of modern warfare. These new appointments, therefore, seek to address some of the lessons learned. Moscow mayor predicts latest Putin overhaul will kill the country When a nation stays locked in a long conflict, the pressure to throw every last cent at the military grows fast. Officials begin searching for drastic new ways to fund the front lines, sometimes at a massive domestic cost. But one high-profile insider is now pushing back against a dangerous financial overhaul. Deep inside Vladimir Putin’s administration, whispers of a major economic shift are growing louder. Some politicians want to place the entire Russian financial system on a total war footing to fund the ongoing conflict. Chuck Schumer’s meat market takeover will drive up your grocery bill Despite its clever name, Sen. Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) so-called “Family Grocery and Farmer Relief Act” won’t provide relief for grocers or producers, or consumers for that matter. Instead, it will make things worse by inserting the federal government into the dynamic, highly sophisticated, and competitive meat, livestock, and poultry markets. First, Schumer’s bill makes it unlawful for a major meatpacking company to produce more than one kind of meat — beef, pork, or poultry — by directing the Federal Trade Commission to design and enforce divestiture plans. Many packers, however, spread their business activities across multiple proteins as a hedge against tight or negative margins in one sector. For example, beef processing margins have been in negative territory for more than two years. Meanwhile, broiler margins are near their 5-year averages. Eliminating the option to produce multiple species of meat would be detrimental to the industry, potentially forcing losses of millions on individual packers. Trump-backed incumbent loses primary after super PAC bankrolled by Dems meddled in race Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., was defeated in a primary challenge on Thursday evening by Republican challenger Charlie Hatcher, a farmer and the state's former commissioner of agriculture. Although the primary was far from a top-watched contest coming into the 2026 primaries, it served as a microcosm of larger forces at play in the Republican Party. From a break in endorsements between President Donald Trump and Tennessee’s Republican Governor Bill Lee to millions being pumped into the district over environmental policy, the race attracted attention well beyond its borders. The Invest in Tomorrow Coalition super PAC had spent roughly $2 million opposing Ogles and supporting Hatcher. The group has raised $6.7 million this year, making Ogles a sizable portion of their spending this cycle. "When you have a group spending roughly $2 million in a Republican primary, that tells you how much money they're making off of government subsidies, and they're upset that the government welfare has been taken away from them," Ogles told Fox News Digital in an interview. Ex-Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker warns Republicans against backing ‘VERY dangerous’ DSA-backed Francesca Hong in Dem primary Former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker warned mischief-minded Badger State Republicans Sunday not to cross party lines to vote for socialist state Rep. Francesca Hong in Tuesday’s Democratic gubernatorial primary. “Crossing over to vote for Francesca Hong is a big risk because she would be VERY dangerous if she was Governor,” Walker wrote on X, discussing the prospect of GOP voters boosting a candidate perceived as weaker in the general election. Under Wisconsin law, both parties have to have open primaries, giving voters the choice where to cast their ballots. Parks Worker Saw Ex-Olympian Vandalize Pool President Donald Trump said Sunday a National Park Service employee witnessed former U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn "violently" vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. He renewed his push for a criminal prosecution even as he acknowledged a contractor made some errors during work on the pool. In a Truth Social post, Trump called the career Park Service employee a "highly credible witness" who allegedly saw Hearn "in broad daylight vandalize the Reflecting Pool by 'violently' ripping and tugging at the Pool's somewhat delicate coating."
Fresh proof that ‘Democratic Socialists’ will act like communists once elected By Victor Davis Hanson
It is not difficult, these days, to see the neo-communist flipside of “Democratic Socialists” — once they find power. Indeed, the more the ossified Democratic Party claims that its growing cadre of socialist renegades are not really socialists, the more they act like — and even appear comfortable being called — communists. With every new policy they propose, the socialists have been dropping the pretense that they are not Marxists. The walls — and evidence — are slowly building around Dr. Anthony Fauci By Miranda Devine
Sen. Rand Paul is examining Dr. Anthony Fauci’s government-issued phone and says he is taking a special interest in whether it contains evidence of “deletions.” That’s significant because Fauci’s former factotum, David Morens, is awaiting trial on charges of concealing and destroying government records, allegedly on behalf of his boss, and is facing up to 51 years in prison. Not that many people know that, since only one reporter covered his arraignment in May: The Post’s own Josh Christenson. Paul may have bigger ambitions for Fauci than the criminal referral for contempt of Congress he sent off to the DOJ last week, after the former COVID czar pleaded the Fifth an excruciating 111 times in his Senate committee testimony rather than come clean with the American people about why he funded dangerous gain-of-function research in China’s Wuhan lab. If Fauci can be shown to have concealed or destroyed government records, then he could find himself sitting alongside Morens in the dock, depending on how robust his last-minute pre-emptive autopen pardon from Joe Biden proves to be. |
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