It’s amazing, the insanity leftists can get away with today.

When I think about the changes I’ve seen in this great nation over the course of my life, I’m stunned at the many bizarre deviations that have occurred right under my nose.  Did I not see it coming?  Was I so confident that the U.S. would always be rooted in moral values that I let down my guard?

Looking back, I’m reminded of the maxim about the frog placed in a pot of comfortable room-temperature water while the heat gradually turns up until the frog is boiled alive.  How many of us are so comfortable that we pay scant attention to the rising fever of corruption that has become SOP?

Certainly, if you’ve lived through the past few decades, you’ve seen a steady decline in the cultural and moral values that most of us grew up with.  During our younger years, we would have been shocked out of our shorts to hear some of the mind-boggling concepts that have been insinuated into our lexicon.

Imagine attending a social function in the late seventies or early eighties and hearing someone say, “I heard that Mike had that sex change operation and is now a woman.  He’s planning to get pregnant before the end of the year.”  Everyone within earshot would have turned toward the voice and thought someone was beginning a comedy routine.  However, if that person had continued talking seriously about it, the guests would surely think the speaker was suffering from a mind-altering drug.  Moreover, the host would have been questioned as to how such an oddball got an invitation to a party with normal folks.  There wouldn’t be anyone trying to make sense of such gibberish by attempting to reason with the weirdo.

Those were the days when we weren’t so tolerant of aberrant misfits.  It was before we were indoctrinated to believe that being intolerant toward radical notions made us narrow-minded troglodytes.  It was the beginning of a sinister and well orchestrated campaign of mind manipulation, designed to replace common sense with a mental state that would accept all forms of degeneracy in our homes and in our schools.

Before we were conditioned to accept such repugnant ideas into the fabric of what was acceptable social discourse, someone, or perhaps many in the group, would have had no compunction about chastising the speaker.  Not anymore!  In our current capitulation to the dystopian fog, which has invaded our reasoning processes, we attempt to deal with the perversity gracefully, rather than appear to be inflexible tyrants, bullying those who are different from us.        

It seems as though every mode of communication has been altered to implant a distorted image of reality into our psyche.  Ask ChatGPT how many genders there are, and you get this: “Gender is broadly understood as a social, psychological, and cultural concept, distinct from biological sex.”  That is textbook psychobabble directly out of the woke playbook!  You’d get similar answers from Google and many other mainstream Internet search engines.  Would I be considered a conspiracy theorist if I said there seems to be a pattern by America’s enemies to infiltrate and conquer the U.S. by shattering the Jewish and Christian foundation on which it is based?

Therefore, what has happened to our country is that too many decent Americans have decided to stay out of the vicious war on their values, customs, and shared beliefs…most likely because the conflict hasn’t arrived at their doorstep.  Yet!

American Thinker

In the wake of several close elections and a few Republican upsets, Democratic Party elites are increasingly embracing rhetoric that suggests a growing contempt for the will of the voters and an eagerness to circumvent the democratic process to beat the opposition party.

The redistricting wars have resulted in Republicans gaining a modest advantage in the upcoming race for control of the House, and legal setbacks to Democratic countermeasures have resulted in pivotal political leaders voicing their frustrations in increasingly provocative ways.

“Either MAGA extremists are gonna break the country or we are gonna break them,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said this month. “We have to beat them electorally and then we have to break their spirit.”

Polling data, moreover, appears to suggest that a conscious willingness to circumvent the will of voters, even through cheating, has become a pervasive attitude among a top slice of party elites.

Accusations of cheating and electoral fraud have become commonplace, especially since President Donald Trump spearheaded a campaign questioning the veracity of the 2020 election results. Despite limited evidence to support those specific claims, the idea of cheating itself is, unsurprisingly, broadly unpopular with the public.

A recent Napolitan Institute/RMG Research survey found that a mere 7% of voters would actively support their preferred party cheating to win an election. Despite broad public sentiment against it, however, support for outright cheating in elections rose dramatically among a group of voters that Napolitan identified as the “Elite 1%.” Of that group, 73% identified as Democrats, 67% were aged 35-54, 86% were white, and 47% embraced “Sanders-like policies.”

Among that block, 35% expressed support for cheating to win elections. But the survey broke it down further to address “politically active elites,” 69% of whom said they would support their side cheating to win an election.

“These attitudes reveal an elitist revolt against the nation’s founding principles,” pollster Scott Rasmussen wrote of the results in a USA Today column. “A growing faction within America’s leadership class increasingly believes it is better suited to rule than the public itself.”

Rasmussen’s analysis appears to validate some longstanding Republican gripes about the “left-wing political elite,” which have persisted for decades but grew even more prevalent after then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s notorious “basket of deplorables” comment.

Further data suggests an equally significant disconnect between the average voter and the elite voter on basic ideals like individual freedom.

Overall, 35% of the elite 1% said the U.S. had “far too much” individual freedom, compared to 58% of politically active elites who said the same and a mere 4% of voters overall. A further 19% of the elite 1% said the U.S. had “somewhat too much” individual freedom, while another 11% of the politically active elite said the same and just 12% of voters overall did.

Some such attitudes and comments seemingly dismissing the intelligence of the average voter have brought trouble for Democratic candidates this cycle.

State Sen. Mallory McMorrow, D-Mich., for instance, is seeking the Wolverine State’s open Senate seat and caught flak in April over a CNN report documenting her deletion of “thousands of old tweets” in which she criticized the Midwest, speaking as a Californian, and demonized the “morons from the other side of the country.” McMorrow defended her past comments as “normal” and suggested that she had not curated her Twitter feed to be a politician.

The recent redistricting effort in Virginia, moreover, drew widespread accusations of an antidemocratic, pro-elite sentiment among state Democrats.

To be sure, Republicans have faced similar allegations over redistricting, but the specific redraw in Virginia notably split the heavily Democratic-leaning suburbs of Washington, D.C., across several congressional districts to create a 10-1 Democratic-leaning slate of maps in a state that broke for that party by mere single digits in the last presidential election.

The state Supreme Court ultimately invalidated the referendum in which voters narrowly approved the change, prompting Democrats to make claims of antidemocratic actions against Republicans.

Ultimately, neither the survey data nor public comments from political figures have suggested that an open embrace of undemocratic methods and attitudes would go over terribly well in either party. Nevertheless, the evidence of such sentiment among the top brass will potentially undercut any messaging from the party claiming to represent the downtrodden.

Just the News

President Donald Trump reignited debate over Greenland on Saturday after posting an image to Truth Social showing himself peering over snow-covered mountains toward the Artic island territory with the caption: “Hello Greenland.”

The post comes amid heightened tensions between Greenlanders and the Trump administration following the opening of a new U.S. consulate in Nuuk and a controversial visit by Trump ally and Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry.

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the new American diplomatic mission on Friday, chanting “Greenland is for Greenlanders” and protesting what many viewed as renewed U.S. pressure over the strategically located territory.

President Donald Trump reignited debate over Greenland on Saturday after posting an image to Truth Social showing himself peering over snow-covered mountains toward the Artic island territory with the caption: “Hello Greenland.”

The post comes amid heightened tensions between Greenlanders and the Trump administration following the opening of a new U.S. consulate in Nuuk and a controversial visit by Trump ally and Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry.

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the new American diplomatic mission on Friday, chanting “Greenland is for Greenlanders” and protesting what many viewed as renewed U.S. pressure over the strategically located territory.

Protest organizer Aqqalukkuluk Fontain said Greenland’s government had already made its position clear to Washington.

“In a democratic world, no means no,” he told the BBC.

Landry’s three-day trip drew criticism after he arrived without an official invitation while diplomatic tensions remain unresolved over Trump’s push for greater American control and influence in Greenland, which is a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark.

During his visit, Landry met with Greenlandic officials and business leaders while also suggesting Greenland could prosper as an independent nation.

The newly expanded 3,000-square-meter U.S. consulate, nicknamed “Trump Towers” by some locals, has become a symbol of Washington’s growing Arctic ambitions.

The Trump administration has argued that Greenland is critical to U.S. national security interests in the Arctic region.

While Trump’s social media post was brief and lighthearted in tone, it underscored the administration’s continued focus on Greenland at a time when many residents remain wary of increasing American involvement.

James Morley III ✉

James Morley III is a writer with more than two decades of experience in entertainment, travel, technology, and science and nature. 

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The post comes amid heightened tensions between Greenlanders and the Trump administration following the opening of a new U.S. consulate in Nuuk and a controversial visit by Trump ally and Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry.

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“In a democratic world, no means no,” he told the BBC.

Landry’s three-day trip drew criticism after he arrived without an official invitation while diplomatic tensions remain unresolved over Trump’s push for greater American control and influence in Greenland, which is a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark.

During his visit, Landry met with Greenlandic officials and business leaders while also suggesting Greenland could prosper as an independent nation.

The newly expanded 3,000-square-meter U.S. consulate, nicknamed “Trump Towers” by some locals, has become a symbol of Washington’s growing Arctic ambitions.

The Trump administration has argued that Greenland is critical to U.S. national security interests in the Arctic region.

While Trump’s social media post was brief and lighthearted in tone, it underscored the administration’s continued focus on Greenland at a time when many residents remain wary of increasing American involvement.

James Morley III ✉

James Morley III is a writer with more than two decades of experience in entertainment, travel, technology, and science and nature. 

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The post comes amid heightened tensions between Greenlanders and the Trump administration following the opening of a new U.S. consulate in Nuuk and a controversial visit by Trump ally and Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry.

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the new American diplomatic mission on Friday, chanting “Greenland is for Greenlanders” and protesting what many viewed as renewed U.S. pressure over the strategically located territory.

Protest organizer enland’s government had already made its position clear to Washington.

“In a democratic world, no means no,” he told the BBC.

Landry’s three-day trip drew criticism after he arrived without an official invitation while diplomatic tensions remain unresolved over Trump’s push for greater American control and influence in Greenland, which is a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark.

During his visit, Landry met with Greenlandic officials and business leaders while also suggesting Greenland could prosper as an independent nation.

The newly expanded 3,000-square-meter U.S. consulate, nicknamed “Trump Towers” by some locals, has become a symbol of Washington’s growing Arctic ambitions.

The Trump administration has argued that Greenland is critical to U.S. national security interests in the Arctic region.

While Trump’s social media post was brief and lighthearted in tone, it underscored the administration’s continued focus on Greenland at a time when many residents remain wary of increasing American involvement.

f peering over snow-covered mountains toward the Artic island territory with the caption: “Hello Greenland.”

The post comes amid heightened tensions between Greenlanders and the Trump administration following the opening of a new U.S. consulate in Nuuk and a controversial visit by Trump ally and Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry.

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the new American diplomatic mission on Friday, chanting “Greenland is for Greenlanders” and protesting what many viewed as renewed U.S. pressure over the strategically located territory.

Protest organizer Aqqalukkuluk Fontain said Greenland’s government had already made its position clear to Washington.

“In a democratic world, no means no,” he told the BBC.

Landry’s three-day trip drew criticism after he arrived without an official invitation while diplomatic tensions remain unresolved over Trump’s push for greater American control and influence in Greenland, which is a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark.

During his visit, Landry met with Greenlandic officials and business leaders while also suggesting Greenland could prosper as an independent nation.

The newly expanded 3,000-square-meter U.S. consulate, nicknamed “Trump Towers” by some locals, has become a symbol of Washington’s growing Arctic ambitions.

The Trump administration has argued that Greenland is critical to U.S. national security interests in the Arctic region.

While Trump’s social media post was brief and lighthearted in tone, it underscored the administration’s continued focus on Greenland at a time when many residents remain wary of increasing American involvement.

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President Donald Trump reignited mage to Truth Social showing himself peering over snow-covered mountains toward the Artic island territory with the caption: “Hello Greenland.”

The post comes amid heightened tensions between Greenlanders and the Trump administration following the opening of a new U.S. consulate in Nuuk and a controversial visit by Trump ally and Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry.

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the new American diplomatic mission on Friday, chanting “Greenland is for Greenlanders” and protesting what many viewed as renewed U.S. pressure over the strategically located territory.

Protest organizer Aqqalukkuluk Fontain said Greenland’s government had already made its position clear to Washington.

“In a democratic world, no means no,” he told the BBC.

Landry’s three-day trip drew criticism after he arrived without an official invitation while diplomatic tensions remain unresolved over Trump’s push for greater American control and influence in Greenland, which is a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark.

During his visit, Landry met with Greenlandic officials and business leaders while also suggesting Greenland could prosper as an independent nation.

The newly expanded 3,000-square-meter U.S. consulate, nicknamed “Trump Towers” by some locals, has become a symbol of Washington’s growing Arctic ambitions.

The Trump administration has argued that Greenland is critical to U.S. national security interests in the Arctic region.

While Trump’s social media post was brief and lighthearted in tone, it underscored the administration’s continued focus on Greenland at a time when many residents remain wary of increasing American involvement.

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President Donald Trump reignited debate over Greenland on Saturday after posting an image to Truth Social showing himself peering over snow-covered mountains toward the Artic island territory with the caption: “Hello Greenland.”

The post comes amid heightened tensions between Greenlanders and the Trump administration following the opening of a new U.S. consulate in Nuuk and a controversial visit by Trump ally and Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry.

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the new American diplomatic mission on Friday, chanting “Greenland is for Greenlanders” and protesting what many viewed as renewed U.S. pressure over the strategically located territory.

Protest organizer Aqqalukkuluk Fontain said Greenland’s government had already made its position clear to Washington.

“In a democratic world, no means no,” he told the BBC.

Landry’s three-day trip drew criticism after he arrived without an official invitation while diplomatic tensions remain unresolved over Trump’s push for greater American control and influence in Greenland, which is a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark.

During his visit, Landry met with Greenlandic officials and business leaders while also suggesting Greenland could prosper as an independent nation.

The newly expanded 3,000-square-meter U.S. consulate, nicknamed “Trump Towers” by some locals, has become a symbol of Washington’s growing Arctic ambitions.

The Trump administration has argued that Greenland is critical to U.S. national security interests in the Arctic region.

While Trump’s social media post was brief and lighthearted in tone, it underscored the administration’s continued focus on Greenland at a time when many residents remain wary of increasing American involvement.

cial showing himself peering over snow-covered mountains toward the Artic island territory with the caption: “Hello Greenland.”

The post comes amid heightened tensions between Greenlanders and the Trump administration following the opening of a new U.S. consulate in Nuuk and a controversial visit by Trump ally and Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry.

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the new American diplomatic mission on Friday, chanting “Greenland is for Greenlanders” and protesting what many viewed as renewed U.S. pressure over the strategically located territory.

Protest organizer Aqqalukkuluk Fontain said Greenland’s government had already made its position clear to Washington.

“In a democratic world, no means no,” he told the BBC.

Landry’s three-day trip drew criticism after he arrived without an official invitation while diplomatic tensions remain unresolved over Trump’s push for greater American control and influence in Greenland, which is a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark.

During his visit, Landry met with Greenlandic officials and business leaders while also suggesting Greenland could prosper as an independent nation.

The newly expanded 3,000-square-meter U.S. consulate, nicknamed “Trump Towers” by some locals, has become a symbol of Washington’s growing Arctic ambitions.

The Trump administration has argued that Greenland is critical to U.S. national security interests in the Arctic region.

While Trump’s social media post was brief and lighthearted in tone, it underscored the administration’s continued focus on Greenland at a time when many residents remain wary of increasing American involvement.

James Morley III ✉

James Morley III is a writer with more than two decades of experience in entertainment, travel, technology, and science and nature. 

Mike Lindell just posted numbers that have to be making his rivals nervous.

A new Big Data Poll released by the Lindell campaign shows the MyPillow founder leading the Minnesota Republican gubernatorial primary at 21 percent, narrowly ahead of Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth at 19 percent.

election is less than a week away.

The poll, conducted May 18 through May 20, surveyed 1,236 registered voters including 512 Republicans, according to the Lindell campaign.

On the initial ballot, Lindell is listed at 21 percent, Demuth at 19 percent, and Qualls at 9 percent, with Patrick Knight, Peggy Bennett, John Krhin, Phillip Parrish, and Raul Estrada trailing behind them. The release gives Big Data Poll’s field dates as May 18 through May 20, with 1,236 registered voters, 1,114 likely voters, and 512 Republicans included in the sample.

The release puts the overall sampling error at plus or minus 2.8 percent and says subgroup margins are higher, which matters because the Republican primary numbers come from a smaller slice of the full sample. The President Trump endorsement test is the other major piece: under that scenario, Lindell jumps to roughly 36 percent, Demuth falls near 14 percent, and Qualls sits around 8 percent.

That is the poll result driving the political heat here, especially with convention week now closing in on every campaign.

Now here is the number that jumps off the page: in a President Trump endorsement test scenario, Lindell surges to nearly 36 percent while Demuth drops to roughly 14 percent.

That is a 22-point gap if Trump were to put his thumb on the scale.

To be clear, this is an internal poll commissioned by the Lindell campaign rather than an independent media survey. Internal polls are designed to show a candidate’s best possible positioning, and campaigns rarely release numbers that make them look weak.

Still, the trend line is not new. An older Peak Insights/NRSC topline from earlier this year already had Lindell at 18 percent and Demuth at 17 percent among GOP primary voters, with 68 percent of respondents identifying with the Trump/MAGA wing of the party.

Lindell has been competitive in this race for months. The new numbers suggest he may be pulling ahead.

The massive undecided vote is the elephant in the room. Over 40 percent of Republican respondents have not committed to a candidate, which means the convention fight is wide open and delegate loyalty will matter enormously.

The Republican Party of Minnesota has the convention stakes laid out here:

The 2026 State Convention is scheduled for May 29 through May 30 at the Duluth Entertainment Center, with the event built around party business and statewide endorsements. One listed purpose is endorsing gubernatorial and lieutenant governor candidates, which makes a late movement poll especially important for campaigns trying to show delegates they have real grassroots energy.

The statewide abiding-candidates page names Lisa Demuth and running mate Ryan Wilson, Kendall Qualls, and Patrick Knight as governor candidates who agreed to honor the convention endorsement. Lindell is absent from that abiding list, so his campaign can fight for delegate momentum while also preserving the option to take the race directly to August primary voters.

That dynamic gives this poll a second layer. If Lindell can convince Minnesota Republicans that he has the strongest connection to President Trump’s voters, he can pressure the party establishment even if the formal endorsement process tilts toward one of the candidates already committed to abide.

That distinction matters.

A candidate who does not agree to abide by the endorsement can still run in the August primary regardless of the convention outcome. Lindell appears to be keeping his options open.

KTTC reported that a May 21 GOP gubernatorial debate featured Demuth, Knight, and Qualls, each of whom had committed to honor the convention endorsement.

Lindell missed that debate stage. If these numbers hold, he may not need that stage to prove he has a lane.

The MAGA grassroots energy in Minnesota is real. Nearly seven in ten GOP voters in the earlier NRSC survey identified with the Trump wing of the party, and Lindell is the candidate most visibly aligned with that movement.

Whether this momentum carries through Duluth next weekend is the question that matters now. With 40 percent of voters still up for grabs, nothing is locked in, but Lindell has positioned himself exactly where he wants to be heading into convention week.

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.

What are your thoughts?

The story of the Protestant Reformation is a complicated and often confusing series of historical events to approach. With the geopolitical and social movements of the time, getting a clear timeline is a difficult task. Along with this, many of the big themes are difficult to comprehend as they deal with medieval metaphysics.

For much of Reformation history, this is the hard truth though, in my opinion, we do get to see a plethora of fascinating groups. One of the most intriguing groups to emerge from the Reformation period were the Anabaptists.

Why are They Special? Without getting into the specifics of the doctrine, Anabaptists were known for two important things: Radical political views and baptism… hence the name.

The term Anabaptist itself has the Greek prefix “ana” meaning “again,” so their name literally meant “re-baptizer.” One of their core beliefs focused on adult baptism, and they claimed that the traditional practice of infant baptism had no use.

Actually, the name Anabaptist was a derogatory nickname given to the group, though it eventually stuck.

The second core Anabaptist belief came in the form of the “Two-Sword Theory”. This theory traditionally stated that the Spiritual Sword, given to the Pope, and the Temporal Sword, given to kings, were the two important seats of power in the world.

Anabaptist leaders such as Hans Hut and Balthazar Hubmaier (awesome name, I know) were quick to hop on the bandwagon to reunite these two swords, effectively turning church and state into one.

These early Anabaptist leaders expanded this sword-unifying theory to its extreme, especially Hut. He took an… apocalyptic approach, and began to claim that we humans could only hope to hold the spiritual sword, while the temporal sword would only return to the earth in the hand of Jesus Christ based on The Book of Revelation.

All of this is a complicated way of saying that the only true Christians were the Anabaptists and, if you wanted to be saved in the upcoming apocalypse, you better get re-baptized and join. Hut was so sure of this that he actually calculated the date of Revelation. He claimed it would happen on May 31, 1528.

Communism? Doomsday prophecy aside, Hut also had some other big ideas that were radical for the time. He believed that as spiritual sword holders, it was the Anabaptist’s job to create the ideal society for Christ to come back and rule.

This society was to be one of “communal aid.” One where all assets, food, money, and more, were to be divided among everyone to create an ideal Christian community. While this was completely revolutionary for the time, it also sounds strikingly similar to another communal theory that would be introduced not 400 years later.

The “Incident” Things stayed relatively silent for a few years. Hut’s doomsday date came and went, and the Anabaptists had general radio silence for about three years. This was until a duo arrived on scene in the city of Münster.

Bernard Rothmann, a local mover and shaker, and Melchior Hoffman, a classic “the end is nigh” preacher, began to spread Anabaptism around in Münster, and it spread… fast. As Anabaptism spread, two more players joined, Jan Beukels and Jan Matthys. The Jan’s only sped up this spreading doctrine, and by 1534 Rothmann was re-baptized.

Now, this in itself is impressive, but within 8 days of Rothmann’s re-baptism 1,400 more Münster citizens were baptized.

Rightfully so, the leaders of Münster began to express their concerns about the rapidly growing Anabaptist force, but it was okay because Rothmann and co. held a new election where he and his subordinates were elected as Münster’s new leaders.

To top that off, as his first new act as ruler, Rothmann ordered all of the previous rulers of Münster publicly executed, if they didn’t immediately convert or leave.

Growing Problems Naturally, the public murder of their leaders was off putting to some, so many fled to both Catholic and Reformation states. This news was so shocking to the rest of northern Europe, that both Reformation and Catholic armies showed up at the walls of Münster.

Meanwhile, events inside of Münster were going just swimmingly. Seven deacons were appointed and all inhabitants of the city were forced to hand over their belongings. So, the Anabaptist commune was established. The “true Christian community” was finally equal. Though, not all conformed to this new doctrine, so Rothmann had them publicly executed if they didn’t leave.

With the two armies stationed outside the wall, the new Münster government decided to close off all the gates… cutting off the food supply. Not only this, but Jan Beukels (a.k.a. John of Leiden) was named the new king declaring himself the “voice of the Lord”, and under him were twelve elders/disciples… I can not make this up.

Quickly after becoming King, Beukels enacted Civic Ordnung (civic order), and this introduced new, stricter, laws. Many of which took more away from the common person while also making polygamy a requirement for all men. The idea was that this was the only way to rapidly grow the Anabaptist community.

A Bloody Conclusion June 25, 1535, both Reformed and Catholic forces stormed the city and slaughtered all who opposed.

It is important to note that everything from Rothmann’s re-baptism to the fall of Münster happened in the span of a year.

Many of Münster’s leaders were captured and on January 22, 1536 they were publicly tortured and executed. After this, their bodies were thrown into cages and hung from the top of St. Lambert’s church for 50 full years.

It was a clear message to any who might have wanted to repeat the Münster experiment.

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America survives as a healthy, wealthy nation only if the majority of the population is willing to stand on its own two feet.

Allan J. Feifer | May 23, 2026

Long before we Americans pick a side politically, we adopt a rhetorical stance that matches our worldview. That stance becomes the filter through which we interpret everything we see and hear, shaping our preferences and our politics.

Broadly speaking, Americans fall into three groups:

A. Dependents—those who believe in the primacy of the collective, where individualism is subordinated to the needs of the group. Their worldview echoes the “it takes a village” mentality.

B. Individualists—those who believe that responsibility begins and ends with oneself, and that we are meant to become the best version of who we are through our own decisions, actions, and consequences.

C. Amoral Pragmatists—those who choose the path of least resistance. They are situational, opportunistic, and guided more by emotion and convenience than by principle or ethics.

These three groups are roughly equal in size. Dependents form the backbone of today’s progressives. Individualists form the core of today’s conservatives. And the third group—the amoral pragmatists—constitutes the modern swing vote. They are highly persuadable, driven by emotional security, and often vote with their pocketbooks. During times of societal stress, this group becomes especially volatile, prioritizing safety and comfort over principle. High gas prices, war, and economic anxiety can swing them dramatically, and as a result, they frequently determine election outcomes.

For a society to prosper, it needs more individualists than dependents. But government policy has spent generations cultivating the opposite. Government, by its nature, expands. America’s safety nets—federal, state, and local—have grown steadily for more than a century, and many people, especially those in the third group, no longer see themselves as responsible for their own well-being to the degree their parents or grandparents once were.

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Geography reinforces this divide. The South and Southwest remain strongholds of individualism. The North and West Coast have embraced a near-total reliance on government to shield them from crime, economic hardship, health risks, and educational failures. Government has become, in effect, a surrogate parent—a provider of safe spaces and emotional reassurance. To individualists, this is anathema. To the swing group, it is sometimes comforting, sometimes not. Together, these dynamics explain much of the country’s deepening bifurcation.

It’s worth remembering that none of these three groups existed in 1776. The country was founded by people whose values centered around independence, self-governance, and personal responsibility. These principles left no room for a dependent class or an emotionally driven swing bloc. Those who still favored British rule kept quiet and adapted. And the dependent group, as we know it today, simply could not have survived. There were no government programs to fall back on, and private or religious charity came with expectations that discouraged idleness or fantasy.

It took roughly 140 to 150 years after America’s founding for large-scale, government-run safety nets to meaningfully displace America’s original model of individualism supported by local charity. The shift began in the late 1800s, accelerated at the state level in the early 1900s, and became unmistakably national with the New Deal in 1935. That moment marked the inflection point at which individualism began to give way to federal and state social programs and a growing cultural belief in government’s central role.

From that point forward, a kind of countdown began—a slow transition from independence to dependence. Immigration played a major role in accelerating this shift, particularly by introducing large numbers of people whose cultural assumptions were incompatible with the most productive aspects of the American ethos.

America has never opposed immigration per se, but we turned it into a lottery for those entering, rather than a benefit for those already here. And when change wasn’t happening fast enough for progressives, they just opened the doors to anyone and everyone, regardless of health, education, criminality, or willingness to assimilate. We all know how that turned out. It was simultaneously their most brilliant and most disastrous tactic.

Some argue that this flood of incompatible immigration was accidental—a misguided act of empathy. It wasn’t. It was a deliberate strategy by those who envisioned a Marxist America and were running out of time to see it realized. Their impatience may yet prove to be their undoing.

We recently came very close to the tipping point. Had Kamala Harris been elected president, the transformation would likely have been completed. Another 15 to 20 million illegal immigrants would have crossed the border, creating a national crisis of staggering proportions.

Under a Harris administration, the filibuster would have been eliminated, D.C. and Puerto Rico would have become states, and the Electoral College and Supreme Court would have been “reimagined.” Progressives would have framed all this as moral necessity—a suicidal empathy, to use Gad Saad’s term, demanding that we absorb tens of millions of newcomers at any cost, just as Europe did, surrendering sovereignty and stability in the process.

Through divine providence, Donald J. Trump’s election, and other forces, we may yet avoid the fate now overwhelming many first-world nations. But the other side is not giving up. As we approach a pivotal moment this November, we must understand exactly what we are up against and craft a message that resonates with the persuadable middle. That’s not a new insight. What is new is recognizing that dependence functions like a drug—and more and more swing voters are becoming addicted.

The question before us is simple: What are we doing to counter that message?

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The EU assumes the truth of an ideology that most Hungarians—and millions of other Europeans—reject.

On April 21, just nine days after Viktor Orban’s electoral defeat in the Hungarian parliamentary elections, the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered its ruling in Commission v. Hungary, decreeing that Hungary’s 2021 Child Protection Law prohibiting the exposure of minors to LGBT propaganda is in violation of EU law and core values. Sixteen member states joined the EU Parliament in the case against Hungary, and so the outcome was, in many ways, foreordained. Mark Rutte—then prime minister of the Netherlands, now secretary general of NATO—famously promised to bring Hungary “to its knees.”

News of the ruling reached Luxembourg’s Foreign Minister Xavier Bettel (who served as prime minister from 2013 to 2023) as he spoke to a meeting of foreign ministers. “It’s not the fact that I’m gay that I just fight for gay rights, but it’s the fact that I fight for minorities and it’s always easier to fight against the smallest group in some countries,” he gloated unconvincingly to Euronews, noting that he’d confronted Orbán about the law. “To do politics by blaming someone reminds me seriously of how it starts with Jewish people and then with gypsies and etc.” The allusion to the Holocaust was insidious and deliberate.

“There is now no excuse for the Commission not to require Hungary to quickly withdraw the law,” stated Katrin Hugendubel of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association Europe on the day of the ruling. “Hungary cannot enter a post-Orbán era without repealing [anti-LGBTQ+] legislation, including the Pride ban. If [incoming prime minister] Péter Magyar truly aims to be pro-EU, he must place this at the top of his agenda for his first 100 days in office, as an essential part of his EU-facing reforms.”

John Morijn, professor of law and politics at the University of Groningen, hailed the ruling as historic and far-reaching as a precedent for LGBT rights overriding the sovereignty of member states, telling the BBC: “You cannot equate what is totally natural—that 10% of the population loves the same sex—with egregious crime.” European Commission spokeswoman Paula Pinho was positively imperious. “It’s up to the… Hungarian government to abide by the ruling and once that is done the issue is solved,” she said.

Before leaving office, Orbán stated in a letter that Hungary would not comply with the order from Brussels, citing political, legal, and constitutional concerns. The ball is now in Péter Magyar’s court. Brussels and the LGBT activists they speak for have made their demands clear.

Both the timing and the tactic of ruling are obvious. If Magyar wishes to make nice with the EU and gain access to billions in frozen funds as he promised during the campaign—a declaration that Hungary “chooses Europe” was part of Tisza’s 2026 election program—he will have to genuflect to the LGBT flag to do so. He will, as Rutte demanded, have to bow the knee. For his part, Magyar has been slippery about how he will deal with EU demands to get in line with the EU-enforced sexual revolution. During his April 12 victory speech, Magyar called Hungary a country “where no one is stigmatized for … loving differently than the majority” but has been vague when it comes to policy.

The CJEU’s ruling has been universally celebrated across the European establishment, but the precedent is worth taking a closer look at. The CJEU, presumably sensitive to backlash from socially conservative countries, was careful not to openly articulate the implication of their decision: that children do have a right to LGBT content, or, conversely, that LGBT activists have a right to expose children to ideological content unimpeded by the law. The ruling even gave a perfunctory nod to the idea of parental rights, conceding that laws oriented towards the “best interests of the child” can justify restrictions.

But the ruling emphasizes the divide between those who believe that the public promotion and protection of the natural family and protection from LGBT ideology are in “the best interests of the child” and those who believe, for example, that sex changes for gender-dysphoric children are in “the best interests of the child.” Throughout its ruling, the CEJU promiscuously used phrases such as “sex assigned at birth,” indicating its complete acceptance of the premises of transgender ideology and emphasizing its total lack of neutrality. The EU assumes the truth of an ideology that most Hungarians—and millions of other Europeans—reject.

As I noted in at europeanconservative.com last year, public Pride parades and other LGBT events routinely expose children to adult nudity, displays of bizarre and grotesque sexual fetishism, simulated sex acts, and pornographic displays. This is not a matter of isolated incidents but recognized and celebrated standard fare—in 2021, Dutch photographer Jan van Breda won a €2,500 prize for snapping, as a local newspaper put it, “the most iconic, meaningful and aesthetic” picture from 25 years of Pride in Amsterdam, featuring a small child playing on a swing while men in latex bondage gear mingled nearby. This is what the CEJU is defending—and what Rutte was defending.

There is also the fact that multiple major studies—starting with Lisa Littman’s 2018 paper—revealed that trans identification among minors is often a “peer social contagion.” That is, it spreads through peer groups and is frequently driven by content consumed online. This thesis has been confirmed by other studies and has led to a reevaluation of transgender treatments for minors in many countries. Considering that exposure to LGBT content has measurably resulted in children identifying as transgender—and, indeed, a wide range of other new gender identities and sexual orientations—and that transgender treatments often result in irreversible damage, it is clear that protecting minors from such content is, in fact, in “the best interests of the child.”

CEJU’s ruling emphasizes the ‘values’ of the New Europe. Just fifty years ago, no civilized country would have accepted that children had a human right to consume LGBT content, or that LGBT activists had a human right to expose themselves in public or act out weird sexual fetishes in the streets. The EU despises leaders who will not accept these new ‘values’ because they are, fundamentally, more European than the new ruling class—because they cling to a continuity with the Christian civilization that once defined the continent, rather than the new Europe that has arisen out of the sexual revolution.

When Mark Rutte declared that he would work to bring Hungary to its knees, it is because he wanted Hungary to join the countries that already knelt before the rainbow flag. We will soon discover what sort of stuff Péter Magyar is made of.

The European Conservative

I bet you know the name George Floyd. He couldn’t breathe.

I’ll bet you don’t know the name Henry Nowak. He couldn’t breathe either.

Henry Nowak was an 18-year-old first-year university student at the University of Southampton (studying Accountancy and Finance), originally from Chafford Hundred, Essex.

He was fatally stabbed on December 3, 2025, while walking home from a night out with friends in the Portswood area of Southampton, England.

What happened to Henry was no less tragic or horrible.

Henry was the victim of a stabbing attack by a crazed Sikh, but after being stabbed, Henry was put in handcuffs and allowed to bleed to death.

British police handcuffed a teenager who had been stabbed by a Sikh man wielding an 8-inch ceremonial knife, and died in fear. The law currently makes an exemption allowing Sikhs to carry these weapons in public.

After he was stabbed, Henry Nowak, 18, tried to climb a fence to escape, but Vikrum Digwa, 23, “aggressively pursued” him, leaving a trail of blood.

Police were called to the scene but arrested Mr. Nowak after Digwa claimed he had been racially abused.

Mr. Nowak was then handcuffed before passing out and dying in the street a short time later.

The last memory Henry Nowak will have had was trying to tell the officers that he couldn’t breathe and that he had been stabbed.

The officer replied “I don’t think you have, mate.”

Well, he was. And while this cop wet his nappy worried about someone thinking he was a racist, Henry died.

Key points from reports:

• Nowak was reportedly recording videos on Snapchat and jokingly interacted with Digwa, calling him a “bad man” before the altercation escalated.
• He suffered multiple stab wounds (including to the back/legs and a fatal chest wound) and tried to flee.
• Bodycam footage showed police handcuffing Nowak upon arrival (based on the attacker’s racism allegation) while he was bleeding heavily and pleading for help; first aid was delayed, and he collapsed and died at the scene.

Vickrum Singh Digwa, 23, has been charged with his murder. Digwa denies the charge and claims self-defense, stating he feared an attack and used a ceremonial kirpan (a Sikh blade, described in court as around 21cm long). The trial is ongoing at Southampton Crown Court. Digwa’s mother has also been charged with assisting an offender.

The Nowak case is just one more obscene example of how far England fallen into a two-tiered justice system.

“Two-tier” policing or justice in the UK refers to the widespread perception that authorities (police, CPS, courts) apply the law unevenly based on race, ethnicity, religion, or political views—often showing leniency toward ethnic/religious minorities or left-leaning causes while being stricter with native British or right-leaning individuals.

This is hotly debated: critics (including figures like Nigel Farage, Robert Jenrick, and many on X) cite patterns in protest handling, sentencing, and responses to violence. Defenders (government officials, some media) call it a myth, arguing differences stem from context, threat levels, or public order needs—not bias. Polls show significant public belief in disparities, especially among certain demographics.(yougov.com)

Here are prominent examples often raised:

1. 2024 Riots vs. BLM/Pro-Palestine Protests

• Anti-immigration/Southport riots (mostly white working-class): Hundreds arrested quickly, fast-tracked courts, lengthy sentences for violence, incitement, or even social media posts. Keir Starmer vowed “full force of the law.”
• BLM 2020: Widespread disruption, statues toppled, some violence/police injuries. Police seen “taking a knee”; fewer immediate harsh responses despite lockdown breaches.(blogs.lse.ac.uk)
• Pro-Palestine marches (weekly since Oct 2023): Large-scale, with reports of hate speech (“jihad” chants, flags glorifying terrorism), road blockages, and intimidation. Often policed lightly; arrests mainly for clear crimes. In contrast, far-right or patriotic displays faced quicker intervention.(spiked-online.com)
• Harehills riot (Leeds, 2024): Roma/immigrant community unrest; police reportedly withdrew, allowing cars burned and disorder. Contrasted with heavy response elsewhere.

2. Henry Nowak Case (2025)

• 18-year-old white student stabbed to death in Southampton by Vickrum Singh Digwa (23, carrying a large ceremonial blade). Bodycam allegedly shows police handcuffing the bleeding victim (on attacker’s racism claim) while delaying aid; he died at the scene. Attacker claims self-defense; mother charged with assisting offender. Limited mainstream coverage initially, sparking outrage over perceived prioritization of the suspect’s narrative.(facebook.com)

3. Sentencing and Pre-Sentence Reports

• 2025 Sentencing Council guidelines proposed “normally requiring” pre-sentence reports (potentially leading to more lenient/community options) for ethnic, faith, or cultural minorities, women, or transgender offenders—but not routinely for white males. Critics called this explicit two-tier justice; the government blocked it via legislation.(spectator.com)
• Older cases like Rhea Page (2011): Somali Muslim gang attacked a white woman, kicking her head while shouting racial slurs (“kill the white slag”). Light sentences criticized for downplaying racial element.(jsc-chambers.co.uk)

4. Speech and “Hate” Offences

• Lucy Connolly: Jailed for a tweet amid 2024 riots.
• Tommy Robinson: Imprisoned for contempt/film showing; contrasted with lighter treatment for other inflammatory speech.
• Non-crime hate incidents recorded unevenly; “hate crime hubs” and online policing criticized as targeting native concerns more.

5. Other Patterns

• Grooming gangs (Rotherham, etc.): Authorities delayed action for years fearing “racism” labels against Pakistani Muslim networks abusing thousands of mostly white girls.
• Protest symbols: Reports of Union Jack or Israeli flags confiscated; different handling for other groups.(youtube.com)
• Knife crime and street violence: Disproportionate impact on working-class areas, with debates over stop-and-search reductions in minority areas seen as contributing.

The UK is losing its identity as a nation with Two-tier Keir paving the road. This post captures the essence of the current situation in England.

Mohammed Starmer continues to flood the country with economically dependent “migrants” who have no use or respect for English culture, resulting in clash of civilizations.Worse, the invaders are afforded privileges superior to those of native Brits.

This is where the UK in headed.

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In any case, I think it’s  too late. The UK is a fascist state in which its own are automatically guilty and the guilty foreign vermin are automatically innocent. England does not deserve to survive.

Thankfully we have Trump.

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DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.

Except for liberals being foolish.

National Democrats are going after San Antonio-area congressional candidate Maureen Galindo, placing a last-minute ad buy against her amid backlash over antisemitic comments she made on social media.

The spot, which began airing Friday ahead of Tuesday’s primary runoff, dubs Galindo “MAGA Maureen,” highlighting what they say is Republican meddling in the race after a super PAC with suspected GOP ties began boosting her with supportive ads earlier this month. It’s paid for by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and is the group’s first spending in the runoff, totalling $34,000.

The group is hoping to prevent her from becoming the party’s nominee in a competitive seat that includes much of southern Bexar County. National Democrats have lined up behind Galindo’s challenger, former sheriff’s deputy Johnny Garcia, whom they see as the party’s best chance to retain a district that Republicans redrew to lean in their favor.

Galindo, a family therapist who describes herself as progressive, came in a narrow first during the March primary with 29% of the vote. She later came under fire for comments on Jews and Israel, including the notion that people who identify as Jews today are not the Jews of the Bible and that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is based in Tel Aviv.

Leaders including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and U.S. Rep. Greg Casar, D-Austin, began condemning the remarks last week and endorsing Garcia. Galindo doubled down last weekend, writing in an Instagram post she would seek to convert an immigrant detention center near San Antonio into a “prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers.”

Asked for comment, Galindo pointed to a statement posted on her campaign website that states the prison would be “for the billionaire zionists who have profited off genocidal prison state materials and trafficking.”

“Prosecution has nothing to do with religion – they could be Evangelical, Catholic, Mormon, Jewish, etc.,” it says.

The winner of the runoff will face the GOP nominee, who will either be state Rep. John Lujan of San Antonio or businessman Carlos De La Cruz.

“House Republican leadership must immediately cease propping up this antisemitic candidacy, pull spending in the race and forcefully condemn these comments,” DCCC spokesperson Madison Andrus wrote in a statement earlier this week.

Democrats in the U.S. House have killed a proposal for a Women’s Museum on the National Mall because it would be about … WOMEN!

Applying their anti-science transgender agenda, that men can become women by saying they are women, they rejected the plan because an amendment would provide that the subjects in the museum be biological women.

“The measure came up short in a vote of 204-216 after a handful of conservative GOP lawmakers joined Democrats in tanking the legislation that would secure a site for the forthcoming Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum on the grounds of the Mall,” explained a report from Fox News.

Some Republicans objected to the plan over concerns about whether a women’s history museum was needed. Others were concerned that there weren’t adequate protections against left-wing ideologies from being put on display there.

The report said it was unclear whether Republican leadership would to bring the legislation up for a vote at a later date.

It was the Democratic Women’s Caucus whose members had lobbied against honoring women, specifically because the location would not recognize “transgender women and girls.”

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., explained, “A women’s history museum is supposed to be dedicated to women, period. And the fact that they’re going to pull their support after overwhelmingly co-sponsoring this bill because the word biological was inserted, to me, is ludicrous.”

They said limiting a women’s museum to biological women was a “poison pill.”

“The Museum shall be dedicated to preserving, researching, and presenting the history, achievements and lived experiences of biological women in the United States,” an amendment from Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., said.

The legislation bans depicting “any biological male as female.”

That simply is putting into the law what President Donald Trump wrote in an executive order last year, barring men being presented as females.

“The addition of the word biological made them all run for the hills,” House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said. “If that’s controversial in the Democratic Party, we’re in serious trouble. The party that purports to support women, demanding that the museum include biological men.”

Media analysts pointed out that the vote was notable as it came immediately after the release of the DNC “autopsy” report from the party’s failures in the 2024 presidential race that flagged how transgender and identity politics contributed to their defeat.

That report cited Trump’s very successful messaging: “Kamala is for they/them, President Trump is for you.”

Bob Unruh