Showing posts with label America. Show all posts
Showing posts with label America. Show all posts

Saturday, October 24, 2026

The Founding Fathers Warned America About This. Now It's Happening.

The Founding Fathers Warned America About This. Now It's Happening.

Heritage & Hope Ministries

Was America really founded as a Christian nation, and what did the Founding Fathers actually believe about the separation of church and state? 

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As Christian nationalism gains momentum and religious liberty becomes an issue of increasing discussion, we return to the original writings of America's Founders to uncover what they really believed about Christianity, government, and freedom of conscience. Join us as we examine the historical evidence, challenge popular narratives about America's founding, and explore how these principles connect to Bible prophecy and the future of religious liberty in America.



Thursday, October 22, 2026

Minnesota Rapper urges Americans to 'raise hell' after France Riots — as radical groups plan DC protests


Gary Franchi October 21, 2026

 

Political unrest and protest movements in American cities draw new scrutiny. | Next News Editorial Illustration

A Minnesota rapper and activist is urging Americans to follow France's lead and "raise hell" after returning from a visit to a Saint-Denis high school alongside Greta Thunberg, as radical groups in the United States organize protests in the nation's capital modeled on the violent French unrest.

Rafael Gonzalez Jr., who performs under the name Tufawon, traveled to Saint-Denis and demonstrated alongside high-profile figures including Thunberg outside the Lycée Paul Éluard, according to reporting from Fox News Digital. On returning, Gonzalez published statements on social media urging activists to become more radicalized and to take influence from the French, including a call for white Americans to "raise hell."

Fox News Politics reported that the rapper defended "solidarity" with France's radical activists and pushed for protests to come to the United States. The visit and subsequent posts come after riots across France that left more than 2,400 people arrested and 1,000 police officers injured, according to VOZ.

French Unrest Sets Off Alarm Bells in Washington

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said 1,200 people had been arrested and more than 150 police officers injured during the unrest on Saturday, 17 October, according to IBTimes UK. The scale of the violence has drawn attention from American lawmakers and analysts, who are watching for signs that the tactics could be replicated domestically.

Those fears appear to be materializing. CodePink, the anti-war group, has promoted a Washington campaign against U.S. military spending and has coordinated a three-day mobilization targeting Congress on 10-12 November, IBTimes UK reported. The planned demonstrations come after the U.S. midterm elections on 3 November.

CodePink co-founder Jodie Evans, in an interview reported by Fox News Digital, urged Americans to look at protests in France as examples of mobilization. CodePink has framed the campaign as peaceful civil disobedience opposing U.S. military spending.

The group receives a significant portion of its funding from sources linked to tech billionaire Neville Roy Singham, according to IBTimes UK, a financial relationship that has drawn intense scrutiny from U.S. lawmakers who allege the nonprofit uses foreign-linked funds to promote anti-American narratives. CodePink and Singham have denied those accusations, maintaining that the group operates independently.

“This is the single greatest threat to America” - Prof Robert Pape

 “This is the single greatest threat to America” - Prof Robert Pape

Americano with Freddy Gray and The Spectator

Oct 15, 2026  Americano

Freddy Gray speaks with University of Chicago international security scholar Professor Robert Pape about his book, Our Own Worst Enemies: America in the Face of Violent Populism, exploring how demographic transformations, widening wealth inequality, and the normalisation of political violence across the political spectrum are intersecting to pose a profound internal threat to American democracy and global stability.

Saturday, October 17, 2026

Islamists Are PANICKING After Islam Expert EXPOSES Their 4-Step Plan



Islamists Are PANICKING After Islam Expert EXPOSES Their 4-Step Plan
Oct 15, 2026

Islamists Are PANICKING After Islam Expert EXPOSES Their 4-Step Plan - On September twenty-ninth, Florida's governor and cabinet voted to designate the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the largest Muslim civil rights group in the country, as terrorist organizations. Eight days later, on October seventh, Indiana's attorney general served investigative demands on the same group. And on October eleventh, the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate in Michigan sat on Meet the Press and was asked, point blank, whether he or his family had ties to the Brotherhood. He answered with one word. No.

Catholic Charities, Lutheran Social Services were paid $62 MILLION in government grants...

American News
 
Oct 16, 2026

Catholic Charities, Lutheran Social Services were paid $62 MILLION in gov grants to resettle thousands of Somalis in Minnesota: report



Both Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services have been at forefront of shaping the region in Minnesota with the heavy Somali populaiton.

Oct 16, 2026

$62 million was paid out to two Christian groups to build up and settle a sizeable portion of the Somali community in Minnesota, which eventually led to the growth of the Somali population in the state.

Both Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services have been at the forefront of shaping the region in Minnesota with the heavy Somali population, in part because of government contracts that have been going back generations, per the New York Post.

Parker Thayer, an immigration expert at the Capital Research Center in Washington, DC, told the outlet, "This is a very big pile of government money and a whole bunch of different groups have come to get their own slice of it."

Thayer said that the money flowing into immigration programs in Minneapolis is "in the hundreds of millions.” Since 2021, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has been given over $140 million in federal resettlement contracts, Thayer said. The US Conference of Catholic Bishops oversees Catholic Charities.

“It is hurting the ability of these organizations to fundraise in arguably more important areas of their work. I imagine a lot of donors are being pushed away by something that is very reasonably viewed as highly controversial by a lot of people,” he added.

Sunday, October 11, 2026

My Message To All Americans


My Message To All Americans

Tulsi Gabbard
 
Oct 10, 2026

Tulsi Gabbard's powerful message at the Texas Youth Summit, warning about threats to our freedom, constitutional rights, privacy, and the future of our republic. She calls on the next generation of Americans to stand up, speak out, hold leaders accountable, and defend the freedoms that make America great.

Thursday, October 08, 2026

America owes Mahmoud Khalil nothing



Pro-terrorist activist Mahmoud Khalil was asked by CNN the other day if he would condemn Hamas. He, of course, would not, calling the question “silly” and “disingenuous.” It is not “black and white,” he whined.

Even if you oppose Israel’s reaction to the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, the answer is still black and white for any person with a conscience. Certainly, it should be for any person who wants to become a naturalized citizen of the United States. After all, Hamas is designated by the State Department as a terrorist organization for, among other things, murdering Americans.

But the fact that Khalil can’t condemn Hamas — and anyone paying attention understands that he supports the terrorist army — not only tells us that he deserves to be deported but also that it’s imperative we deport him.

During the 1960s and 1970s, immigration officials grilled newcomers to the U.S. and elsewhere about their affiliations with communist parties. Why would we import people who want to destroy our system? Newcomers were, and still are, compelled to disavow associations with illiberal movements, violent groups, and ideologies. They were also required to promise not to engage in any subversive or revolutionary activity.

Well, Khalil’s entire job as an “activist” is to engage in subversive or revolutionary activity.

Khalil is an Algerian, incidentally, not a Palestinian, though he is a champion of Palestinianism, one of the most nihilistic, bigoted, violent, anti-Western ideologies of the age. There’s no anti-American or Marxist protest or riot anywhere in the world these days where Palestinian flags are not prominent.

The French, of course, don’t need much impetus to riot. But protests that began over a lack of school funding a few weeks ago have now escalated into increasingly destructive and violent riots across France, clearly fueled in part by Marxist pro-Palestinian elements. The red-green alliance between Islamists and communists isn’t new — it’s just more popular than ever. France has over 5 million Muslims.

What you see happening on the streets of Paris is exactly what Khalil hopes to see in the U.S. We saw as much when he was the lead “negotiator” for Columbia University Apartheid Divest, which rioted at the school in 2025. The group’s goal is to fight for the “total eradication of Western civilization,” “global intifada,” and the “armed resistance” of Hamas. That doesn’t sound very American.

Khalil’s friend, Mohsen Mahdawi, another leader of CUAD fighting against deportation, reportedly has a propensity to make Hamas-like statements, such as “I like to kill Jews,” “soon, very soon, we will annihilate the Jews,” and that “servants of the Jews or the Americans” will have their heads “cut off.” Would we give citizenship to a foreigner who said, “I like to kill blacks” or “I like to kill Christians”? I hope not.

Khalil is being deported for lying on his application, though he was initially picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers for threatening U.S. foreign policy. These deportations should not be treated as a matter of botched paperwork but as a matter of national security.

Monday, September 28, 2026

Resistance to Christian Nationalism Could Help Decide Midterms | Opinion

Opinion
Resistance to Christian Nationalism Could Help Decide Midterms | Opinion

PUBLISHED

SEP 24, 2026 AT 05:00 AM EDT

By Melissa Deckman and Ruth Braunstein


Since the start of the second Trump administration, Christian nationalism—a political movement asserting that the U.S. was founded as, and should remain, a nation of, by and for Christians—has gained unprecedented influence in American politics, challenging long-established lines between church and state and promoting a policy agenda aligned with its right-wing vision of “Christian” values.

Several Trump cabinet officials have deep ties to the movement. Russell Vought was a primary architect of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, widely considered a “Christian nationalist blueprint” for remaking the federal government. As head of the Office of Management and Budget, he has targeted programs the movement views as contrary to Christian values.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has led Pentagon prayer sessions featuring Doug Wilson, an avowed Christian nationalist who supports repealing the 19th Amendment, outlawing all abortion and homosexuality, and has downplayed the horrors of Southern slavery. Under Hegseth's leadership, the Defense Department has also led a propaganda blitz that incorporates Christian nationalist symbolism and directly links American military actions to passages from Christian Scripture.


U.S. President Donald Trump bows his head in prayer during the National Prayer Breakfast on February 5, 2026, at the Washington Hilton in Washington, ...Read More | SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images

Yet their worldview remains deeply unpopular. A new joint survey report from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and the Meanings of Democracy Lab of the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University finds that nearly two-thirds of Americans reject this worldview. That could be important come November, when voters get their first chance to weigh in on Trump's second term performance, including the many overtures he's made to Christian nationalists while in office.

While 56 percent of Republicans support Christian nationalism, only 32 percent of Americans overall do. Majorities in all but four states reject Christian nationalism. In Iowa—where Trump won by 13 points in 2024—a strong majority (60 percent) oppose Christian nationalism, as do 57 percent of Texans and 56 percent of Alaskans.

Sunday, September 27, 2026

United in debt: America has become a nation of fake rich people

by John Mac Ghlionn, opinion contributor - 09/26/26 1:00 PM ET



Phoenix-based content creator holds up a house margarita while filming content during the grand opening of Padeland, a venue for the racket sport padel in Chandler, Ariz., Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Rebecca Noble)


The U.S. now functions as two distinct, fully realized nations occupying the same geographic coordinates. One exists in concrete and brick, where citizens drive 20-year-old sedans and buy generic eggs. The other exists within a six square-inch, forever-vibrating rectangle, where every third twenty-something is a lifestyle curator living a life built on reckless financial decisions.

A recent report by Empower, a major financial services company based in Colorado, found that 24 percent of Gen Zers experience intense pressure to display material wealth on social media, even as 41 percent of all Americans don’t consider themselves financially well-off. The math is simple, brutal and undeniable. Millions of broke people spend borrowed money to convince other broke people they live like oil barons.

Walk into a cafe in any major city on a Tuesday morning. The line stretches out the front door with men and women waiting to pay $7 for an oat milk latte. The transaction takes three seconds via a plastic card. The coffee is gone in ten minutes. The debt remains on the balance sheet for 30 days at a 28 percent annual percentage rate.

The person holding the cup takes four photos of the foam art before taking a single sip, uploading the image to an audience of 700 acquaintances doing the exact same thing three blocks away. It’s entirely absurd and slightly insane, but this is modern-day America, where a sandwich that costs more than most can reasonably afford becomes a status symbol for a sick, performative culture.

The physical economy relies on the illusion of endless prosperity. A $400 T-shirt made of standard cotton moves off the rack because it contains a small but highly visible logo. The owner wears it to a sit-down dinner, paid for with a buy-now-pay-later app that splits a $120 pasta bill into four easy installments due every two weeks.

Friday, September 25, 2026

At Trump meeting, Xi Jinping lays out terms to avoid US-China military conflict



Chinese president’s proposals for lessening tensions come amid period of intense competition between the two countries over AI and trade


Xi Jinping has called for extensive cooperation with Washington to avoid the “Thucydides trap” that could put the US and China on a military collision course amid rising tensions over artificial intelligence, trade and Taiwan.

At the start of his summit meeting with Donald Trump in the White House, the Chinese president laid out terms for a mutual understanding that he said could steer the two competing superpowers away from future military conflict and on to a road of mutual gain.

Rather than confrontation, conditions for “achieving the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and making America great again go hand in hand” and should be the goal, Xi said, citing Trump’s political catchphrase.

“We should strengthen communication. China and the United States are different in national conditions, but through candid, in-depth and continued dialogue, our two countries can understand each other better, seek common ground while shelving differences, and build up mutual trust,” said Xi, with Trump looking on.

“We should coexist in peace. China and the United States, as two major countries, stand to gain from cooperation and will both lose in confrontation. Our two militaries should maintain regular dialog and improve mechanisms for crisis communication and prevention.”

With such conditions in place, Xi said, “the Thucydides trap can be overcome”, referring to the phenomenon, defined by the Greek historian, of tensions that arise when an emerging power challenges the dominance of an established power.

Xi invoked the phrase in his meeting with Trump in Beijing in May, asking the US president how he planned to avoid it.

His proposals for lessening tensions – which also included the invitation of 100,000 young Americans to visit China on student exchanges – come amid a period of intense competition between the two powers over artificial intelligence and trade, with each side imposing tariffs on the other.

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Xi is going to be in America, but not at the UN: Why China’s president chose Trump over the General Assembly



Edited By Jatin Verma
Published: Sep 22, 2026, 14:53 IST | Updated: Sep 22, 2026, 14:53 IST


Xi Jinping and Donald Trump Photograph: (AFP)

Story highlights

Xi Jinping is skipping the UN podium to meet Donald Trump in Washington, putting China-US ties, trade, AI and Taiwan at the centre of his US visit
Chinese President Xi Jinping will be in the United States this week, but he will not be taking the podium at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Instead, Xi is heading to Washington for a state visit and a closely watched meeting with US President Donald Trump. The UN General Debate opens in New York on September 22, bringing together more than 130 world leaders at a moment marked by wars, economic tensions, artificial intelligence risks and questions over the future of the multilateral system. Yet Xi's three-day US visit begins on September 23, with his most important engagement taking place at the White House on September 24.

The decision means Xi will be hundreds of kilometres away from the UN podium while Trump addresses the General Assembly in New York. But Beijing has not presented Xi's absence as a rejection of the UN. China has officially said Xi is travelling to Washington at Trump's invitation from September 23 to 25, where the two leaders will discuss China-US relations as well as international issues involving peace and development.

Washington takes centre stage

For Beijing, the immediate diplomatic priority appears to be direct engagement with Washington. The White House has planned a high-profile reception for Xi. Trump is scheduled to personally greet the Chinese president at Joint Base Andrews on September 23, followed by a state arrival ceremony at the White House on September 24. The visit comes more than a decade after Xi's previous White House visit.

That symbolism matters. Rather than participating in the crowded diplomatic environment of UNGA, Xi will have direct access to Trump in a bilateral setting where trade, technology, Taiwan and wider geopolitical issues can be discussed without the constraints of a multilateral forum. The meeting also comes after years of friction between the world's two largest economies, including tariff disputes, technology restrictions and tensions over Taiwan.

Trade, AI and Taiwan on the table

The Trump-Xi meeting is expected to cover several of the most sensitive areas of the relationship. Trade remains a central issue, with both sides having an interest in preventing another escalation in tariffs and economic restrictions. Artificial intelligence and technology controls are also increasingly important areas of competition, particularly over advanced chips and access to critical technologies. Taiwan is another major fault line. US arms sales to Taiwan and Washington's broader security relationship with Taipei remain highly sensitive issues for Beijing.

Not a Chinese withdrawal from the UN

It would be misleading, however, to interpret Xi's absence as China walking away from the United Nations. China continues to participate in the UN system, and Chinese officials remain involved in the General Assembly and other diplomatic discussions. Xi's choice is better understood in the context of his unusually significant Washington agenda this week.

Why the timing matters

Xi's decision comes at a moment when Washington and Beijing are attempting to manage competition without allowing it to spiral into a broader confrontation. The two leaders have already met earlier this year, and the September visit is being presented by Beijing as another important high-level engagement. The White House, meanwhile, is giving Xi a formal state welcome, underscoring the importance Washington attaches to the meeting.

For Xi, the Washington meetings offer an opportunity for sustained, direct discussions with the US president on issues that affect China's economic and strategic interests. For Trump, hosting Xi during UNGA week puts the US-China relationship at the centre of an already crowded diplomatic calendar.




P.S.

Global leaders head to UN, Xi Jinping will go to White House

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

SEPT. 11 MEMORIAL, TRUMP & IRELAND




Tuesday, September 15, 2026 at 2:18PM

Today's Show: SEPT. 11 MEMORIAL, TRUMP & IRELAND - 09.15.2026

Chris discusses the aftermath of the 25th anniversary of 9-11 and the continued pursuit of justice concerning the role of Saudi Arabia in the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001. An American widow confronts America's past presidents for their role in the cover-up and calls on the Trump administration to seek justice for what was done. We discuss. Also considered is President Trump's recent comments about a "united Ireland" ... which has sparked controversy among Irish Protestants especially. We examine the history of that region, and how a united Ireland would wipe out the Protestant interest and force all citizens into submission to a Socialist form of government.


Sunday, September 13, 2026

Americans Are Stealing Food Now And Stores Are Locking Everything Up

Americans Are Stealing Food Now And Stores Are Locking Everything Up

Epic Economist

Sep 12, 2026

There are two separate things going on in this video, and it matters that they do not get blurred together. The first is what somebody says once they are caught. Hardly anybody argues they did not do it — they argue about what it was for, and the sentence that keeps surfacing is some version of I needed to feed my family. That may be true and it may be a line, and there is no way to tell which from the outside.

The second thing is not people at all. It is equipment. A camera counting you. A check at the door. A glass case you have to ring a bell for. All of it signed off as an answer to the first thing, and all of it landing on the ninety-nine who paid. That is the part nobody explained to anyone who shops in one of these stores, and it is the part this video is really about.

Friday, September 11, 2026

Mistakes, mistrust and misdirection: 25 years after 9/11, its dark legacy continues to unfold



The initial heroism, goodwill and unity of 9/11 gave way to discord at home and diminished moral authority abroad.’ Illustration: Guardian Design

The world’s most powerful country responded to the worst terrorist attack in its history by inflicting terror of its own – around the world, and at home

David Smith in Washington
Fri 11 Sep 2026 02.00 EDT

As clear as that cloudless September morning, Jenna Jacobs McPartland remembers the moment everything changed. “I was cleaning the bathroom and watching the Today show in the background and nine months pregnant,” the 52-year-old recalls by phone. “I think they were showing ‘Today throws a wedding’ when the news broke in.”

A plane had hit the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York. McPartland did not know that her husband, Ariel Jacobs, was attending a conference at its Windows on the World restaurant. “I called his office to say, ‘Hey, turn on the TV. Do you guys know what’s going on?’ His assistant said, ‘Oh my God, Jenna, he’s there.’ The whole world disappeared and there was this sort of hollow collapsing feeling.”

Ariel Jacobs did not live to see his son, Gabriel, born six days after September 11, 2001. McPartland, then living in Briarcliff Manor, New York, would marry twice more, set up a grief support charity, and become a chef and restaurateur. Each 9/11 anniversary, she has a picnic at the cemetery where a few pieces of bone from her late husband are buried.

Speaking from Fairfield, Connecticut, McPartland says: “Ari was an incredibly joyful person who cherished his life. I made a conscious choice to honour him by living as joyfully as I can. It’s not always easy. I still cry pretty frequently. If there’s a movie with a building getting blown up, or if I’m reading a book and they casually mention ‘post 9-11 this’ or whatever, it catches me off guard. The grief finds a place to live in the heart, and you visit it.”


View of smoke from the collapse of the World Trade Center’s South Tower, in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, as seen from Exchange Place, Jersey City, New Jersey, September 11, 2001. Photograph: Michael J Powell/Getty Images

McPartland and other victims’ families have learned to live with that grief over the past 25 years. But America writ large has struggled to carry the weight of the worst terrorist attack in its history. The world’s most powerful nation responded by inflicting terror of its own, betraying its history as a safe harbour for immigrants, and pitting Americans against one another. The initial heroism, goodwill and unity of 9/11 gave way to discord at home and diminished moral authority abroad.

McPartland adds: “It makes me incredibly sad and bordering on angry that the death of my husband has been invoked to cause more violence. It is the othering of people that got him killed in the first place and, when we Americans fail to learn that lesson and choose collectively as a nation to other people, whether it’s immigrants or other nations, that is a deepening of that tragedy that is sickening and unfathomable to me.”