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The First Holy Week
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From March 29 to April 5 this year, most of the Christian world enters into the holiest days of their calendar year. These are the days that commemorate the final days of the life of Jesus. Investigating what is remembered and celebrated can be both practically impactful and spiritually inspiring.
On Palm Sunday, Jesus entered into Jerusalem riding on a donkey. This was a specific and calculated choice evoking the Old Testament prophecies from Zechariah. The prophet tells Israel that “your king is coming to you, a just savior is he, Humble, and riding on a donkey” (Zechariah 9:9).
Mexico’s government continues to use faulty stats to push a false narrative that the cartel-controlled country is safe. In the most recent attempt to trick the public, Mexico’s government is claiming that one-third of the country’s more than 130,000 persons reported as missing are believed to be alive. During one of Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily news conferences, her team presented a report on missing persons, trying to downplay a figure of more than 130,000 missing people in recent years.
Bank of America will be dishing out $72.5 million to settle a federal lawsuit that accused the bank of ignoring Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged sex-trafficking operation, joining two other big banks that have also settled with multimillion dollar payments. The lawsuit, based in Manhattan, accused Bank of America of providing accounts and processing transactions for Epstein and his associates despite “obvious red flags,” the New York Post reported Friday.
The Bank of America settlement, which still has to be approved by U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff, joins settlements already paid by JPMorgan Chase for $290 million and Deutsche Bank for $75 million.
No Kings protests in Portland, Los Angeles and Dallas grew violent Saturday — and one near Mar-a-Lago in Florida took a lewd turn — as thousands filled streets around the US in angry demonstrations against the Trump Administration.
No Kings demonstrations in Portland, Oregon got out of hand in the evening with protesters sporting gas masks attacking police officers who were trying to control the crowd, according to video posted on X by FreedomNews.tv. There was no immediate word on arrests.
In Dallas, Police had to separate No Kings demonstrators from “Pro America” counter demonstrators as the two groups engaged in heated clashes.
Vice President JD Vance is the favorite to earn the Republican nomination for president in 2028, according to a new straw poll taken at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Saturday.
Vance earned support from about 53 percent of attendees who participated in the presidential preference poll at the annual gathering in Grapevine, Texas, according to New York Times reporter Kellen Browning. Secretary of State Marco Rubio came in second with 35 percent, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump Jr., the president’s son, tied at 2 percent for a distant third place.
As Operation Epic Fury/Roaring Lion continues to degrade and destroy Iranian military capability, the Islamic Republic continues to lash out with what they have left, and that has included attacks on their neighboring Gulf states. In the latest incident, 12 American service members were injured, and two American aerial refueling aircraft were damaged, in an Iranian missile and drone attack on a Saudi Arabian air base. The War Department, as of this writing, has not given any update regarding the 12 service members' identities or the extent of their injuries.
This hasn't been a one-sided exchange. American and Israeli forces are still disassembling Iranian industry with high explosives.
commentator in (mirabile dictu) The Washington Post made an excellent point about how the war in Iran is being understood. “We are living through the first alt-war,” the Tel Aviv University scholar Jen Brick Murtazashvili wrote. On the one hand, we have the war as it is fought online. On the other, we have the war as it is fought in reality, on the ground. The two “have diverged so completely,” Murtazashvili noted, “that they might as well be happening on different planets. It’s not that people lack information; it’s more that they are constructing an entirely different alternate reality—one that confirms what they already believe.”
How Math Can Kill You
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Math ruins some really enchanting ideas. Things like fossil-free energy and open borders, combined with generous social welfare. This week, governments that ignored the basics are seeing serious consequences for fantastical thinking. By the same token, however, properly applied math can dispel doomster thinking.
Pollster Mark Penn presents a “math camp” this week. It’s a refreshing response to offset the hysteria about the economic disruption of Iran’s “global terror network.”
We use 20 million barrels of oil a day. So if oil prices increased during the war to $110 a barrel that is an extra $1 billion a day in costs.
I remember seeing a comedian on TV years ago who mocked Canadians as “nice people with brown hair.” These days, you wouldn’t use the word “nice” to describe many Canadians.
My colleague Rick Moran wrote a piece on Saturday morning about how antisemitism is rife in Canada. Rick wrote:
The explosion of antisemitic hate directed at Canadian Jews is without precedent in Canada. Rather than address the hate with concrete action, political, cultural, and religious leaders in Canada could only offer sympathetic words and the "This isn't us" bromide.
Except that it is you, Canada. And your tolerance for hate is driving your Jewish friends and neighbors into hiding.
It’s not just Jews who
Month Two Begins
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~As Month Two begins, the war continues to widen:
Many dissatisfied Steyn Club members have accused me of fighting the last war. (Snip}Yesterday, for example, another dozen US servicemen were wounded and multiple refuelling aircraft were crippled at the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. America's military bases in the Gulf are some of the most expensive on the planet, and yet, as with the killing fields of eastern Ukraine, they're highly vulnerable to drones that cost a few thousand bucks. Result?
"Iran's Attacks Force U.S. Troops to Work Remotely"
Chicago police are warning about a spike in car thefts across the Loop, and the manager of some of the lots dealing with the thefts said the problem is worse than police have said. (Snip) Despite having security cameras on their lots, he said thieves aren't deterred, stealing cars morning, afternoon, or night. "That's how bold and blatant they are. They will just walk right in front of a camera, and sometimes they'll even look right in the camera," he said. A few of his lots are listed in a recent alert from Chicago Police, warning of a series of
500 groups with $3B in revenues are behind
the #NoKings protests and communist call
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the #NoKings protests and communist call
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ST. PAUL, Minn. – A network of about 500 groups with an estimated $3 billion in combined annual revenues is behind the coordinated nationwide "No Kings" protest Saturday, including communist groups who are using the day to call for a "revolution," according to a Fox Digital News investigation.
According to a copy of the permit for the "flagship" march in St. Paul, Minn., Indivisible, a national well-heeled Democratic political advocacy organization funded by billionaire George Soros, is the lead coordinator for the protest.
But Fox News Digital has also identified key participation by a network of radical socialist and communist organizations funded by Neville Roy Singham,
James Tolkan, the character actor who expressed a disdain for “slackers” in the Back to the Future trilogy and portrayed Tom Cruise’s no-nonsense commanding officer in Top Gun, has died. He was 94.
Tolkan died Thursday in Saranac Lake, New York, a family spokesperson announced.
Tolkan also played Napoleon and his look-alike in Woody Allen’s Love and Death (1975) and was the crooked accountant known as Numbers who works for Big Boy Caprice (Al Pacino) in Warren Beatty’s Dick Tracy (1990). He appeared in three movies directed by Sidney Lumet: as a cop in the Pacino-starring Serpico (1973), as a determined D.A.
GRAPEVINE, Texas—Europe is going to need a “Trump-style revolution” to turn back the tide of illegal immigration that has changed the face of Europe, according to two former prime ministers.
Liz Truss, former British Prime Minister, told those attending the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that an elite class in Britain and Europe wants to destroy Western civilization.
“There has been a globalist movement,” she said. “They captured the institutions, universities, mainstream media, corporate sector, and bureaucracy. They believe in open borders.”Truss said the conservative party in Britain didn’t do enough to stop the globalists who support illegal immigrants and transgender ideology, and don’t believe the family is important.
Millions of student loan borrowers who thought they wouldn’t have to pay back their student loans under former President Joe Biden’s loan forgiveness plan found out March 27 they will have to start making payments on the money they borrowed.
The U.S. Department of Education began notifying 7.5 million borrowers on March 27 who enrolled in Biden’s “Saving on a Valuable Education” (SAVE) plan that they must exit the plan and enter a new federal repayment plan.
“Today’s guidance, which every borrower enrolled in the defunct SAVE plan will receive over the next week, puts the Biden Administration’s illegal student loan bailout agenda to rest once and for all,”
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are seeking testimony from private investigators who removed and stored a trove of evidence from the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's Palm Beach mansion before it was searched by police in 2005, according to letters reviewed by ABC News. (snip) the evidence included three computers and more than two dozen phone directories (snip.) The Department of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) issued a report in 2020 faulted Alexander Acosta for agreeing to a plea deal with Epstein (snip) before securing the missing computer, one of which was believed to have video footage from Epstein's home surveillance cameras.
China - by which I mean, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which for all intents and purposes is China - is not our friend. They may be a trade partner, but they are not an ally; at best, they are a rival. At worst? An adversary.
More evidence of this surfaced Friday, when a Stanford University student testified to a House of Representatives committee about years of harassment and stalking by the Chinese Communist Party, aimed at her work as an East Asia Studies major [snip]
Johnson confirmed that she was receiving harassing phone calls. The FBI has confirmed she was being monitored by CCP agents on the grounds of the university.
The Venezuelan illegal immigrant accused of murdering Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman is missing a part of his brain and has the "development of a child," his lawyer said in court Friday. Jose Medina-Medina was held without bail by Chicago Judge D'Anthony Thedford (snip.) Medina-Medina was shot in the head during a robbery when he was living with his mom in Colombia (snip.) He's being treated at the health facility inside the Cook County Jail, where his lawyer asked he remain so that immigration officials don't arrest and deport him.
The U.S. Department of Justice has formally notified Maine officials that it has launched a federal investigation into the state's prison housing policies, marking the latest escalation in an ongoing political and legal fight between President Donald Trump's administration and Gov. Janet Mills. (snip) Federal officials indicated the investigation is focused on whether housing male inmates in women's facilities creates unsafe conditions and violates protections guaranteed under the Constitution. (snip) Federal officials simultaneously launched a similar probe into women's prison facilities in California, where allegations include claims of harassment, intimidation, and safety risks (snip.)
Lake On VOA Dismantling Being Political:
Hirers Had "Sketchy Backgrounds," From
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The U.S. Agency for Global Media has been the subject of a political and legal tug-of-war since President Trump in March of 2025 named acolyte Kari Lake to lead it and ultimately shut down the agency. (snip) Major decisions under Lake besides the mass layoffs and restructuring at Voice of America included anti-corruption and cost-saving moves. (snip) about half the agency's workforce was never properly vetted. (snip) 500 of them were [sic.] never able to track down (sic) Were they real people? (snip) two days after President Trump got inaugurated, they put up a graphic with President Trump's face and a swastika over it.
Connecticut Democrat Sen. Chris Murphy openly admitted that the people his party cares about “the most” are illegal aliens, in an interview clip from 2024 that resurfaced this week. Democrats have filibustered to prevent funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over their objections to immigration enforcement operations, leading to a partial shutdown of the Cabinet department.
The lawmakers are demanding new restrictions be placed on United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good in January during clashes with “rapid response groups” opposed to federal immigration enforcement operations. In the resurfaced clip that went viral
Parents of more than four million children have claimed Trump Accounts, according to a report.
The tax-deferred investment accounts for children were instituted by President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act last year, providing a $1,000 contribution from the federal government for all children born to U.S. citizens between Jan. 1, 2025, and Dec. 31, 2028, the Washington Examiner reported.
Parents can claim the accounts for their children either through an IRS portal or by filing Form 4547 with their federal tax returns. Per IRS data reviewed by the news outlet, 983,784 children have qualified for the $1,000 bonus via Form 4547 through Wednesday.
A Texas man was sentenced Wednesday to over 12 years in prison and two years of supervised release for organizing and leading a $61.5 million health care fraud and wire fraud conspiracy in which thousands of Medicare beneficiaries who were the victims of deceptive telemarketing were sent thousands of orthotic braces, foot baths, and genetic tests they did not need. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Robert “Bobby” Leon Smith III, 50, of Archer City, Texas, owned and operated seven durable medical equipment supply companies based in Florida, Texas, and Maryland through which he submitted millions of dollars in false claims to Medicare for orthotic braces and
Immigration hard-liners are taking aim at rules that protect foreign-born U.S. citizens from deportation even if they become terrorists.
Naturalized citizens committed three suspected terrorist attacks in Texas, Michigan and Virginia in a two-week timeframe after the U.S. went to war with Iran’s Islamic regime in February. Other naturalized citizens caught plotting terrorist attacks have been released or are due for release back onto America’s streets, according to Department of Justice (DOJ), court and prison records.
Despite the jihadists’ crimes and increasing calls to expand denaturalizations, shredding their coveted status as American citizens is easier said than done; the system is unlikely to change without Congress passing contentious GOP-backed legislation.