Stephen, a student at California's Santa Monica High School, contacted my radio show with a complaint. California's Education Code requires elementary, middle and high schools to conduct "a patriotic ritual," like citing the Pledge of Allegiance, at the beginning of each school day. Santa Monica High was not doing this. So, he called my show, cited the Education Code and talked about the value of the pledge as a way of teaching students to understand the principles upon which our "American exceptionalism" was founded.

When speaking of Democratic Party politicians, the answer to the question in the title is very easy—they are just pure evil.  Some of them, yes, do fall into the other categories as well, but the people who advocate and urge evil (more on that in a moment) are evil.  And every Democrat politician supports incredibly, vile, evil things. But when we are talking about the various people who vote for the Democrats, the motives and rationales are not always so uncomplicated.

On a night with little good news for Republicans, last week’s election results in Florida were among the few bright spots. Republicans kept the governorship and all three Cabinet offices, while Sen. Ashley Moody defeated Democrat challenger Angie Nixon to keep her Senate seat. Moody beat Nixon 50.9 percent to 48 percent in a race that was called at 8:33 PM ET, just 33 minutes after the final polls in Florida closed.

Law professor Jonathan Turley posted on X on Friday, “Democrat Richard Ojeda, who was just elected to Congress, has declared that he would be 'happy to go to jail' if he has a chance to physically assault the incoming Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.” While I’d love to see the Secret Service, under whose protection Miller lives because of violent leftists threatening to murder him and his family in the name of “tolerance,” break Ojeda’s jaw as they threw him to the floor, I somehow suspect the unfortunate-looking Democrat is all talk, as most Democrats are.

Well, that sucked — nay, it super sucked. It sucked like the giant black hole at the center of the galaxy. There’s no silver lining to this cloud; the best you’re going to get is some aluminum. But we’ve been here before. Not to this extent for a long time, but we have been here before. We’ve had bad nights. And Tuesday was a very, very bad night. OK, so we’re going to sit and cry about it? Are we going to give up? Not unless we want to give up our country. And I don’t want to give up our country.

President Trump has a unique personality among all the presidents of the modern age.  It’s well-known that the President doesn’t like to lose; in fact, he refuses to lose and will do whatever it takes to avoid even the perception of a loss.  He enjoys demeaning his political opponents of both parties with condescending nicknames like Sleepy Joe or Crooked Hillary. Imagine a non-narcissist Trump with just the normal amount of ego that your run-of-the-mill politician has.

As the 2026 midterm elections approached, the liberal media breathlessly reported an avalanche of new poll results. The purpose was not to inform, but to influence the election results. The clear goal was to emphasize a “blue wave” and the possibility that Democrats would take control of Congress, while suppressing Republican vote totals. The rationale was that bad poll results would discourage Republican voters from participating in the election.

Texas families need relief from rising healthcare costs, and House Speaker Dustin Burrows took an important step by convening a Select Committee on Healthcare Affordability. The committee gives Republican lawmakers an opportunity to examine what is driving those costs and develop reforms that put patients first. As that work moves forward, Texans should take a closer look at one prominent participant: Dallas billionaire and former Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.

"I love America," Michigan's U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed insists. Saturday, he rallied a crowd in Detroit, interjecting "y'all" frequently as he spoke, putting on an African American accent to suit his audience. All pols claim to love America, but when El-Sayed says it, he's lying. And that's only one of his lies. His long paper trail of academic writings, before he ran for any political office, shows what he actually believes.

I hope you’re sitting down for this: the New York Times did some actual journalism this week. I know, right? But seriously, they did. The Times ran a story about how Democrats in Alaska, specifically the campaign staff of the Democrat nominee for the Senate, Mary Peltola, cooked up an idea to try to fool voters into electing her and then executed it to near perfection. Their only flaw? Someone talked to the Times BEFORE the election.

Seven years ago, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), who is now the Democrat leader in the House of Representatives, signed on as cosponsor to a bill that would have prohibited preventing biological males from using women's restrooms and locker rooms. Titled the "Equality Act," it stated that "an individual shall not be denied access to a shared facility, including a restroom, a locker room and a dressing room, that is in accordance with the individual's gender identity."

The Constitution has been out of favor for some time now.  Several presidents have decided that they can do as they please with regard to matters of war.  And in the prior six years, both Joe Biden, a Democrat, and Donald Trump, a Republican, took it upon themselves to make momentous decisions without regard to the Congress, or the people.  Joe Biden decided all by himself, to virtually erase the southern border, and millions poured in, edging the United States toward third-world status. 

As a Texan, I know exactly what's at stake in this year's race for governor. My brother is one of the thousands of students who finally has access to a Texas Education Freedom Account (TEFA), but Gina Hinojosa wants to take that opportunity away.  I know firsthand what a difference school choice can make. I attended public school most of my life, but by high school, the environment had become increasingly difficult. After I was physically assaulted, my family felt strongly discouraged from pressing charges. I was no longer comfortable learning in this environment.

Rarely in American history have the two parties been so far apart or the choice between them so stark. In brief, Islamist-sympathizing socialism is on the ballot against free-market capitalism and American exceptionalism. The new Islamist-allied socialist Democratic Party is confident, largely because the party holding the White House has increased its share of House seats in a midterm election only three times since 1900. Each of those exceptions arose under unusual circumstances.

I had to laugh the other day when the Left-Wing Media came unglued about the swirling rumors over why Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico went missing for 9 days. You have to admit – it was a bit strange. But for Talarico, it seems to me no "dirty trick" was really necessary – after all, he wants a "welcome mat" at the border. He thinks "there are 6 genders." He’s a Christian who "hates" Christianity. And, he supports the radical trans agenda. His own words ought to be enough to stop his political career.

Consider this from the standpoint of the "messages" being sent. Are you a conservative? Pro-American and for our nation's cultural sense of decency that's now 250+ years old? The "message" of the executions of Charlie Kirk and Brian Thompson – as well as the attempts on President Trump's life – are remarkably clear. But the upcoming execution of jihadist, convicted murderer, and former Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan holds a different message. His execution – carried out by soldiers of the institution he betrayed – is aimed at different audiences. The former is aimed at you and me, the latter is aimed at terrorists supporting Radical Islam. One is terrorism, the other is accountability.

Riots in France.  Protests on college campuses.  Antisemitism running rampant.  New York’s mayor accusing Israel of genocide on the 3rd anniversary of October 7th.  It would appear that the intifada is already globalized and is part of three concurrent left-wing movements:  the radical LGBTQ agenda, the rise of the Democratic Socialists of America, and the infiltration of radical Islam into American politics.  These three ideologies have turned America upside down.  All these things are what the Left calls “social justice” and the Right calls “culture rot.”

Columbus was not perfect, even in his own age; all humans are fallible. What made Columbus great was, well, he changed history and the world. Rarely in history has one person ever done that. There is no more important date in the past millennium than 1492. It is obviously the watershed from which all subsequent history, to our very day, flows. Of course, 1492 did not happen in a vacuum, but Columbus did do something nobody else had done and which changed the entire world forever. Even the people who hate him are a product of what he did.

On October 7, 2023, Hamas killers slaughtered 1,200 people, more than two-thirds of them civilians, inside Israel. For the ensuing three weeks, they refused Israel's demands to turn over the 251 hostages and to surrender the architects of the massacre. No matter — within a day of the attacks, when Hamas gunmen were still fighting Israeli troops on Israeli soil, the American Left was already screaming "genocide!"

Democrats hate reality for a very simple reason: it does them no good. Their beliefs, their strategies, their actions are all antithetical to reality, so they have to deny it as best they can. They change the definition of words to suit their needs; “woman” is basically meaningless at this point, which makes “man” basically irrelevant in their perverted world – and they punish anyone who refuses to obey their edicts.