COVID-19 was a traumatic experience for our families, small businesses, schools, and country. Understandably, people don't like thinking or talking about it. But we must. We now know, thanks to Sen. Rand Paul's doggedness and Anthony Fauci's supreme arrogance, which he freely expresses in his diary, that almost every decision made by the medical-industrial complex was exactly the wrong thing to do.

These "mainstream" leftists are angry with the DSA because they are not hiding the fact that they are Marxists. They are overtly professing their allegiance to the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. These mainstream leftists are closet, covert Marxists and prefer to use deception to still attain their goals. As Vladimir Lenin said, "the goal of socialism is communism," the two economic and societal models of Marxism.

Anthony Fauci is 85; he’s not going to live forever. He knows this and isn’t counting on it; he’s counting on living long enough to see Democrats take back Congress. As the validity of his assertion of the 5th Amendment works its way through the legal system, there is an election coming up in November. If Democrats take the House and Senate, Fauci will never again face questioning under oath before Congress about anything of his previous lies. 

Through more than 1,000 pages, Dr. Anthony Fauci – who not long ago headed the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases – revels in a high regard for himself. Recall, he once said, "I represent science. I am science." That testimony of self-importance is also now reflected in his claim to be an "international celebrity." He loved having his picture taken with celebrities (like Barbra Streisand.) He claimed to have appeared before Congress more than anyone else. We all are born with an ego - most can control it. Some give it free rein.

I don’t know if social media created really horrible people blasting their insanity to the world, or if it simply provided the pathway for the insane to expose to the world that they were always there – but, neither answer is good. Just like it’s unclear if TDS actually broke people, or gave broken people the avenue they’d been seeking to purge their worlds of contrary or original thoughts. There's a disturbingly large percentage of our fellow Americans who are broken, possibly permanently. Maybe they always were and we just never noticed? 

President Trump has said from the beginning that preventing Iran from obtaining a Nuclear Weapon was the primary purpose. NATO Sect. Gen. Mark Rutte has publicly agreed, and said Iran's acquiring Nuclear & Ballistic-Missile Capability "is posing a threat not only to the Middle East – including posing an existential threat to Israel – but is also posing a huge threat to us in Europe." Americans cannot intelligently judge this war when Major News Organizations discuss its costs – while refusing to, or barely mentioning, the danger it was intended to prevent.

But now we can see what happens when governors really care about children and families, put learning as their priority, and let the marketplace work to give parents freedom to choose what they see as best for their kids. Under the leadership of Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Arkansas set up its Education Freedom Accounts program, establishing a platform through which parents have available scholarship funding to use to choose where to send their children to school.

He may be a New York Times "conservative," but on this one, Bret Stephens is right on target. On the ‘The Fifth Column’ podcast, Stephens skillfully shoots down the "Gaza is Genocide" war cry that’s been playing nonstop among Leftist Circles. It's one of the main drivers of the Socialist's anti-Jewish shift in the Democrat Party — and you already know this, but the flawed narrative that Israel is committing genocide is deeply ingrained in the minds of Democrats, especially the young ones.

I spent years chairing the House Agriculture Committee listening to farmers explain the same frustration in a dozen different ways: they owned the equipment, but they didn't control it. They'd bought the machine outright, sunk their own capital into it, and still had to ask someone else's permission just to open the hood. They needed someone else's permission to fix it and, given the current rules on the books, they often have no choice but to pay a dealership hundreds of miles away. On Wednesday, President Trump delivered.

A week before the deadline to withdraw from the Maine race, a woman has come forward to accuse Platner of sexually assaulting her in 2021. Platner has said any sex he had was "consensual" and denies her charges. This comes on top of his Nazi tattoo and revelations that he sexted women after he was married and apparently has—or had, according to him—a drinking problem.

Zohran Mamdani has been talking about America being "racist," yet he's expressed more racist sentiment in his first six months in office than any other mayor in the history of New York. His advisors have said on multiple occasions that "whites must be defeated." Imagine if you had — if any other mayor, anywhere, said "blacks must be defeated," or "Asians must be defeated," or "Hispanics must be defeated." That’s about as racist as you can get.

After some obligatory praise for the nation to which he immigrated, NYC Mayor and now Leading Democrat Spokesman Zohran Mamdani wrongly equated Legal & Illegal Immigration by saying: for "the powerful, America is an arena of supremacy where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal. America, if you ask them, becomes less the more people it welcomes. America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin."

The United States Supreme Court has weighed in, and in a welcome 6-3 decision, they have determined that states can bar confused men from women’s sports. This conflict was an 80-20 political winner for Republicans, and it remains a winning issue for them, since the regressive Left has no interest in backing away from their (shotgun wedding) support for the LGBT cult. Even left-leaning news anchors acknowledged the unavoidable injustice of allowing these biological men to compete against women and romp them again and again.

The 4th of July is a special time for every American. It's a day to reflect on the meaning and origin of our Freedom – and it's a day full of Picnics, Parades, Bar-B-Qs & Fireworks. It's a highlight of Patriotism, and the Celebration of Independence. But July 4th, 1776 wasn’t marked by the festivities we experience today. Here's three quick stories to show how might we fight the movement of Socialism & Marxism growing in the Democrat Party and surrendering American greatness today.

The phrase "Self-Evident Truths" meant something to our nation's Founding Fathers 250 years ago. They justified freedom by the text that we are all created in the divine image, and all were partakers of the Divine Spirit. They preached equality because they believed in the Fatherhood of God – and the brotherhood of man. Today, obviously, things appear far less "self-evident," and "truth" has become subjective – and that's a problem.

Scratch a Democrat, and you’ll find a Communist underneath their lizard skin. Last week’s elections in New York City just confirmed that — the Younger Leftists are ascendant, and the Older Democrats, who were also Leftists, are very upset. Think of it like the #MeToo movement. Remember that? Younger, hard-left women (and men) wanted to gain political power from older, establishment Democrats. This is all really a generational Young Socialists vs. Older Leftists battle.

The unlikely symbol of this phenomenon is "Freddy," a young German soccer fan who has become an internet sensation while documenting his first road trip across the United States. Freddy's viral social media posts have attracted tens of millions of impressions because they reflect something both rare and refreshing: genuine, boy-like wonder. As he has crisscrossed the American South, Freddy has gushed at everything from Waffle House and Taco Bell to Buc-ee's, Bass Pro Shops, sprawling football stadiums and the impressive size of regular, middle-class American homes.

Texas has built its reputation on Freedom, Opportunity, Entrepreneurship – and Common Sense. And we are a state where people come to build businesses, raise families, create jobs, and take risks. But that promise is weakened when our Civil Justice System is treated less like a place to resolve real disputes, and more like a lottery ticket. Texas has confronted Lawsuit Abuse before, and we know reform works.

Why are Democrats and their teachers’ union masters trying to shoot down parental choice in education – even when we now have so many examples of these programs working? When stores compete, customers win. This is also true for schools – but Democrats, acting as if its the Bubonic Plague, are trying to shoot down School Choice across the country.  Amazingly, more than half the states with Democrat governors are passing up FREE money for parents in their states.

Father’s Day has always been a tender day for me—one filled with gratitude, memory, and reflection. As the holiday approaches, I find myself thinking about the fathers who shape our lives, the men who guide us with strength and gentleness, and the father figures whose love becomes a foundation we stand on long after they are gone. For me, that person was my father, Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein. He was not only a spiritual leader and visionary—he was a devoted father who taught me what it means to live with purpose, compassion, and faith.