Can the American Flag Once Again Lead Us Back to Unity?

 

Imagine a moment when the American flag, battered but resilient, stood as a beacon of unity. From the tragic ashes of 9/11 to moments of national triumph, this enduring emblem has symbolized resilience, hope and a shared identity. Today, as cultural divisions deepen, can the flag again inspire us to unite as one nation?

The U.S. State Department’s “One Flag Policy” mandates that only the American flag — except for specific instances, such as the POW/MIA flag — be flown at U.S. embassies around the world. To ensure a unified identity, this policy prohibits additional flags, including the Pride flag and the Black Lives Matter flag. 

While the policy invites debate, its purpose is clear: to promote unity over division. In an era when division permeates our culture and churches, this policy encourages us to reflect on unifying principles and the significance of raising one banner high.

Red, white and blue: symbols of freedom

Flags signify a common identity and set of values. The red in the American flag represents sacrifice, white denotes purity and blue signifies justice. Together, these colors capture the essence of liberty and unity.

From its adoption in 1777 to its iconic presence at Ground Zero after 9/11, the flag has brought Americans together during both crises and celebrations. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. marched under this banner, urging the nation toward justice and reconciliation grounded in biblical truth. He proclaimed, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

The “One Flag Policy” emphasizes unity over competing agendas, reflecting the Gospel’s call for oneness. Ephesians 2:14 reminds us that Jesus “has broken down the dividing wall of hostility.” Just as a flag unites a nation, the gospel unites believers, transcending the labels that divide us.

Time and truth

Recently, my wife and I celebrated our anniversary in Chicago and reflected on what we’d change if we could go back 20 to 30 years. Time tests ideas — some endure while others fade. Just as enduring symbols like the flag remind us of timeless values, the Gospel also points us to eternal truths.

As believers, we must focus on rhetoric rooted in Christ’s truth rather than chasing trends. The media generates significant noise, leading many astray. We should pause and ask: Is this grounded in biblical truth or merely a distraction? Like the Gospel, the American flag represents shared values that endure through time: liberty, unity and justice.

The dangers of division

The United States should continue to acknowledge the painful truths of its history, which have caused deep suffering for African Americans and other people of color. Understanding the past is essential; however, unity requires reconciliation and progress.

As the body of Christ, we cannot let diversity divide us; instead, we must allow it to unite us in His love. Dr. King’s reminder resonates here: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

Critical Theory, which divides society into oppressors and the oppressed, often fuels division by emphasizing identity rather than shared humanity. This theory categorizes overlapping identities (e.g., gender, class, race) as either oppression or privilege. Movements like Black Lives Matter function within this framework.

While these movements raise important issues, they risk dividing us further by focusing on what separates us rather than what unites us. Dr. King’s vision emphasized reconciliation over division. He warned, “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” Christianity teaches that all people are made in God’s image, hold equal value, and can find redemption in Christ.

While Black lives are undeniably important, the organization “Black Lives Matter” promotes principles that conflict with biblical teachings, such as undermining the nuclear family. These ideologies threaten unity by prioritizing group identities over shared values.

The Gospel: a superior banner

The Gospel provides the ultimate solution to division. While ideologies such as Critical Theory create fractures, the Gospel brings all people together under Christ. Ephesians 2:11–16 illustrates how Jesus reconciled Jews and Gentiles, forming “one new man.” This peace promotes justice and unity.

Dr. King’s vision aligns with biblical teachings such as Micah 6:8: “Do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God.” Likewise, the One Flag Policy brings Americans together under one banner, steering clear of divisive ideologies. As Christians, we should raise Christ’s banner above worldly beliefs.

One nation under God

Christians should see the Gospel as the ultimate remedy for cultural divides. True freedom requires responsibility, which fosters unity, reconciliation, and shared values. Dr. King reminded us, “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”

Displaying the American flag reaffirms our commitment to unity and hope. As we reflect on the flag, let’s also contemplate the cross. The red, white and blue remind us of the sacrifices for freedom, the purity of hope and the pursuit of justice. Above all, we must elevate the Gospel that transforms lives and transcends divisions.

As followers of Christ, let’s take the first step toward unity — extending our love across divides, raising the banner of Christ above all, and living as one nation under God.

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Imagine What Republicans Could Achieve Without Undoing Democrats’ Failures

 

Each time you think Democrats have hit the bottom of stupid, they break out a shovel. Or a drill. Or a backhoe. It’s really something, considering they already start off in the Mariana Trench. But there is no bottom for them to hit. Like someone smoking through a trach hole or a junkie angry over being revived with Narcan, the left simply cannot quit being what they are. The residual damage done by Democrats is occupying much of the first month of the Trump administration and far too much of what the country has to do every time they are tossed out of office.

Taxes will go up if Republicans don’t make the Trump tax cuts from 2017 permanent. Were it not for Democrats and their lies about how federal revenue is collected, they would have been made permanent in the first place. 

On their way out the door, Joe Biden’s handlers imposed countless new regulations and tried to cram through spending on their pet causes and interest groups, all of which has to be found and stopped before it happens and the money is gone – which is why you get an executive order freezing so much spending. That leads to lawsuits because that’s what the left loves to do and how they get most of their political victories, which only gums up the works for getting more things done.

That’s why President Trump’s initial rush of actions is so important this term. Last term, Democrats flooded the zone with lawsuits, preventing the implementation of Trump’s agenda and catching them off-guard. This froze them and hampered them. 

This time, with Trump being the one flooding the zone, he is overwhelming the left’s ability to focus – they are not good multi-taskers – and find themselves reacting to everything, which makes their reaction to anything less impactful. They are firing wildly, without focus, at everything that moves. Sure, they may hit something here or there, but they’ll miss much more of it. 

The media can’t even report effectively on everything Republicans are doing; they’re too busy trying to figure it out for themselves.

It’s beautiful.

Donald Trump fired the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the left-wing activist organizations masquerading as a quasi-government agency. The whole thing should be dismantled, but until that is possible, cutting off its head is as good of a place to start as any.

It’s just the Trump administration or even Republicans plowing through the obstructions to liberty and prosperity Democrats build, it’s everyone. DEI is being ripped out of corporate American, root and branch. The biggest electricity company in Georgia is pushing to keep its coal burning plants because it’s the most effective way to meet the state’s energy demands. 

There is a rebellion, albeit minor, happening across the country. The progressive agenda, the parts that were imposed in city council meetings people weren’t attending, and pieces of state legislation no one read are being steamrolled, repealed, or ignored to the benefit of everyone. 

California’s devastating wildfires are now contained, and all it took was a new President pressuring and overriding their worthless Governor’s insane water re-direction orders that dumped hundreds of millions of gallons into the ocean. New President, a week and a half, and problem solved. 

None of this is lost on the American public, and none of it is lost on the left. It scares the hell out of them. That’s why you end up with stories in Political like, “How Trump Could Snatch a Third Term — Despite the 22nd Amendment.” 

Politico’s “legal editor,” demonstrating the fact that title means nothing, declares Trump may magically override the Constitution by one of these ways: repealing the 22nd Amendment, “exploit a little-noticed loophole in the amendment that might allow him to run for vice president and then immediately ascend back to the presidency,” simply run again assuming no one and nothing – including the Supreme Court – would object or stop him, or just refuse to leave office.

It’s so dumb of an idea you’d expect it from a high school newspaper. 

Democrats are melting down, unable to work at the speed of Trump that they’re lost. Republicans are getting things done, addressing the issues Americans really care about. Just imagine how far advanced we’d be if we didn’t have to waste time undoing all the damage Democrats created every time they’re in power.

Free at Last, Free at Last, Free of Climate and Energy Insanity at Last

 

This is what winning looks like!

In the past two weeks, first in the private sector, then in the public sector, climate and energy reality has begun to dawn on large institutions and the elites who run them.

A few weeks ago, every major bank in the United States withdrew from the UN-sponsored Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA). The NZBA was a transglobal cabal of big banks attempting to control peoples’ freedom by controlling their access to banking services, capital, and by limiting loans only to projects that satisfied progressive climate fetishes. The banks had already been under pressure in various states with lawsuits claiming that by imposing climate preferences and politics on average people and private businesses, banks were violating anti-trust laws. The Heartland Institute discussed the dangers of the overlapping international climate banking organizations in our 2023 report “ESG Is a Threat to Individual Liberty, Free Markets, and the U.S. Economy.” It seems the world finally got clued into the truth of our message – certainly President Donald Trump understands it.

With Trump’s stated hostility to climate policies that place America at a competitive disadvantage while benefitting transglobal elites and technocrats, the bankers saw the writing on the wall. Wanting to play nice with Trump, within the space of a few weeks, days before Trump’s inauguration, JP Morgan, Citigroup, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, and Goldman Sachs withdrew from the NZBA.

To be clear, they have yet to eschew their individual net zero goals as stated in various public statements online, but that might be coming. Otherwise, the banks may be in for a bumpy ride for the next four years. In the end, the banks are on the wrong side of climate science, there is no climate crisis, and the wrong side of economics.

Climate policy is bad for everyone except politically connected business grifters, and their days of subsidies and access seem to be coming to an end.

The private banks are not alone, the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) withdrew from the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), days before Trump’s inauguration. The Fed said it was pulling out of the NGFS because its work has increasingly broadened in scope, covering a wider range of issues that are outside of the Board’s statutory mandate. The NGFS is a transnational organization of central banks colluding to shape the world’s economy in ways that benefit the wealthy and powerful by directing development and financing funds to programs and projects that meet the elites’ standards of sustainability based on their supposed climate impact. Any country or major development project that didn’t subscribe to the climate concerns of the central banks was shut out.

In truth, the Federal Reserve should never have joined the NGFS because fighting climate change is not within its charter. With Trump now in office, the Fed is out of the global climate cabal and none too soon. 

Canadian bankers, it seems, got the message of the impending collapse of net zero mandates as well. In Canada, soon to be ex-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was the biggest pusher of climate alarmism, imposing harmful climate policies on often resistant provincial governments and their people. Working with Canadian’s for Sensible Climate Policy and Friends of Science, I co-authored a publication, “Energy and Climate at a Glance: Canadian Edition,” which demonstrated the dangers from international net zero goals, developed with and embraced by Trudeau and his cronies. With Trudeau in retreat, and the dangers of climate mandates becoming ever more apparent to the public, five of Canada’s biggest banks, BMO, National Bank, TD Bank Group, CIBC, and Scotiabank, have announced a strategic withdrawal from the NZBA in the past two weeks.

Then there is the United States, where Trump is firmly at the helm once again. In lighting quick succession, Trump issued a flurry of executive orders (EO) signifying that any net zero pipedreams still held by the elites at the UN and Davos are effectively dead.

Trump’s EOs end climate lockdowns and unjustified, harmful mandates restricting personal freedom and consumer choice and imposing energy subservience to international bureaucrats, green-energy profiteers, power-hungry elites, and the Chinese Communist Party.

The first EO Trump signed rescinded 78 EOs, directives, and memorandums his predecessor, President Joe Biden, had enacted. The reversals included EOs wasting money and resources on “tackling the climate crisis at home and abroad” (his signature order initiating his “all-of-government approach” to climate change, making climate considerations a primary concern in every Cabinet agency and department); ending the climate change support offices and directives for climate financial risks and climate justice; halting Biden’s clean car initiative, which served as a justification for the Biden EPA’s EV mandate; ending restrictions on federal infrastructure, buildings, and repairs to ensure “sustainability” (which made cost and effectiveness secondary considerations) in contracting for projects, to boost the fortune of purportedly “green” developers and contractors; and reversing Biden’s offshore oil ban.

Trump also issued an EO blocking permits and consideration of new offshore wind industrial facilities. Trump calls them ugly. More importantly, they are expensive, unnecessary, and harm marine mammals, the commercial fishing industry, and tourism. There is no climate justification for offshore wind farms.

Trump’s National Energy Emergency EO may prove to be the most consequential order of all in the long term. Under national emergency orders, the president can waive many rules, regulations, studies, analyses, hearings, and public comment periods to expedite critical infrastructure. This allows Trump to hasten construction of pipelines and railways, avoiding the copious delays such projects typically face because of lawsuits by environmental groups. Trump specifically mentioned oil, gas, coal, uranium, and critical minerals, all things we have in abundance and can produce, develop, and use right here. Trump left off the list anything to do with wind and solar power because they are expensive and unreliable and China controls the market for the key elements that go into them.

 Trump also withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement (for the second time) on his first day in office.

 The Paris agreement has done, and in fact can do, nothing to prevent or slow climate change. As Trump rightly recognized, it put the United States at an economic and geopolitical disadvantage to China by throttling U.S. fossil fuel use, the lifeblood of the economy, while China increased its use of coal, oil, and natural gas.

 “We will drill, baby, drill,” Trump said at his inauguration. Trump’s moves, combined with the other actions this month by banks and Trudeau’s fall in Canada, have put net zero and misanthropic global climate diktats firmly in retreat. Let’s hope the climate cult can’t revive this patient.

The Left’s Sin Is of Omission and Lost Opportunity

Over these first few days of the Trump administration, we’ve seen these bold measures. And it’s starting to incur a big backlash, or anger, or counter response from the Left.

And it runs something like this: well, yes, maybe this needed correcting, but it’s going to be so expensive, do you understand what you’re doing? You’re supposed to be cost-cutters and now you’re going to spend all this money to rectify something. It’s almost as if, well, the person who’s going a hundred miles drunk and when you pull him over the cost to arrest him, to bring him into the police station to arraign him, to indict him, to impound his car, is so much more than the damage he did by going a hundred miles and endangering people.

So, you don’t arrest him, in other words. So, here’s what I mean, we’re told, oh, Donald Trump is spending billions of dollars to fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, does he have any idea—well, who emptied it? When he left office, there was about 650 million barrels. It got down to 340. It’s only 40—I mean, he took almost half of it.

And why did Joe Biden do that? He timed it right before the midterms and the general election. So he could lower the price of gas. There was no national emergency. There was no global tension, which the reserve was designed to preempt. So yes, it’s going to be expensive to fill it back up because Joe Biden drained it for his own political selfishness.

Another thing is about the wall. They’re saying, well, Donald Trump wants to build the wall. Does he have any idea what it’s going to cost?

Well, a couple of things. What was the cost of letting 12 million people in here? Twelve million people. We have no idea. What was the cost of allowing 80,000 to 100,000 people to die every year from cartel-imported fentanyl?

What was the cost of telling legal applicants, wait in line for six, seven years—with real talent, some of them—you can’t come in because we have to handle all of this? What was the cost to tell people, our own citizens who are in social service dependencies, I’m sorry, the doctor’s office is too crowded?

So, there was a cost. And it’s not—that cost was much greater than building the wall. We have 700 miles that are walled pretty well now. There’s gaps. The governor of Texas is helping. We have a 2,000-mile border. We need another 1,300 miles. Some of it is in rough terrain, some of it is on the banks of rivers, and we don’t know exactly, what can be walled and not.

But the wall is a reaction to the waste and expenditure of the Left, and it will save money in the long term. Now, finally, there’s also this question of DEI. Everybody’s saying, Donald Trump just ended DEI, and he’s giving them paid leave. So, Mr. Costcutter is telling people to go home and not do anything.

Well, no, he’s telling them, I’m not going to be sued right now. You’re going to get out right away because you’re doing damage every second. And the second—anytime you’re not on the job, even if we have to pay you for a while, we’re saving money because your sin is not just commission—in other words, you’re a, what, a Russian Soviet commissar who is overlooking every type of productive activity and say, no, you don’t. That person needs to not be in the pool.

I’m disturbed about that talented person because they’re the wrong race, or the wrong religion, or the wrong sex, or the wrong sexual orientation. But they also commit this sin of omission. While we spend all this money in these programs, we’re taking money away from other things. It’s been estimated—just to take one final example—in the National Institute of Health, $50 billion, maybe a fifth of that money is not on scientific research or medical studies to cure cancer or to cure viruses, but things like what is the race, sexual orientation, gender of this particular group, and were they treated fairly by this particular program?

So, maybe we’re going to look at—spend $5 million to look at how many people got chemotherapy and see if we can just find, just we hope, we can find there is some discrimination. That’s not going to get you a better chemotherapy.

And so there was a sin of omission: what we didn’t do because we were spending on DEI and commission. We were discriminating against people and robbing ourselves of talent. Bottom line is the corrective.

The remedy for this malady is going to be expensive, and that’s what the Left is glomming onto, but they’re forgetting that the malady itself that they cause was far more expensive than the cure.

The Harder the Change, the Tougher the Vote

 

We’re in a weekslong process of confirming nominees of the Donald Trump administration for these 13 Cabinet-level positions. And I think it may go on all the way through February, given the Democrats’ strategy to oppose, wherever possible, the confirmations.

There’s a general rule, though, that we can make sense that, I think, will apply—has applied to Pete Hegseth. It will apply to Kash Patel, especially, RFK Jr., and others.

And that is three things: The more important the Cabinet position is, the more controversial the vote; the more likely a Republican nominee is going to try to make fundamental and needed changes, the more controversial the vote; and the more that senators in swing states worry about being reelected, the more controversial vote.

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Put that all together, and on the Republican side, there’s usually going to be two to three votes that are going to be ambiguous: Susan Collins in Maine, Lisa Murkowski in Alaska, and here and there, Mitch McConnell. Take the Pete Hegseth recent nomination confirmation, that was only the second time in nomination history for a Cabinet post that the nominee was completely deadlocked and the vice president, in this case JD Vance, interceded to break the vote. That had only happened one time before, when Mike Pence came in and ensured that Betsy DeVos would be confirmed.

Why was that necessary? Because three senators obliterated the Republicans’ 53 Senate margin; Mitch McConnell, Lisa Murkowski, and of course, Susan Collins. Looking back, we have to ask ourselves, do they really believe that Pete Hegseth is going to be a worse defense secretary than Lloyd Austin in retrospect? Lloyd Austin was AWOL for a week.

Lloyd Austin oversaw the worst catastrophe humiliation in U.S. history with the withdrawal from Kabul. Under Lloyd Austin, we had two theater-wide wars and we were very ambiguous, ourselves, on whether to support Israel fully or to give them necessary munitions. Or what was our position about Ukraine?

Give them enough to win, but not lose or just prolong that war, that cost 1 million lives? So, there’s a lot of inconsistency.

And now we look at the upcoming nominations, specifically RFK and Kash Patel. And I think it’s going to be very, very close again. I expect both Collins and Murkowski to vote against Kash Patel, to vote against RFK.

And it’ll depend on whether Mitch McConnell is there. A couple of other things I want to point out in the past as well, Betsy DeVos, who remember, she resigned early in anger at Donald Trump after Jan. 6. But I don’t think she remembers, fully, that when she was nominated, she was more controversial in 2017 than was Donald Trump.

She was the only Trump nominee that got the entire Democratic side against her. And again, Sen. Murkowski and Sen. Collins joined the Democrats. That said, after she was confirmed, she turned out to be, I think, a spectacular secretary of education. She went after the teachers union, she tried to make reforms with higher education, she looked at illicit donations from China to major university campuses.

And yet, she would not have been confirmed if it had been up to those two Republican senators. Contrast that with the most recent secretary of education, Miguel Cardona. I don’t think we’ve seen a worse secretary. He was in power during this outbreak of antisemitic, anti-Israel violence throughout the United States on major campuses, from Oct. 7, 2023, to Jan. 20, 2025.

He said nothing. He was pressed to say, “Do you condemn the antisemitism?” He would say nothing because he was a hard leftist. Nobody really knew who he was before he was selected as education secretary. And nobody knows who he is now after four years and no one knows—we’ll know where he’ll be in four years.

And yet, two Republican senators suggested that—I shouldn’t say suggested—they voted that he was more qualified than Betsy DeVos, whom they opposed. So, the Republican Party, once again, has a big problem that they don’t have the discipline and the solidarity that the Democrats do. And they have to count on JD Vance and these particular cases to save them from themselves.

Death Threats Come With the Job of a Public Figure

 

In this first two weeks of the Trump new tenure, there’s just been a flurry of news and disinformation. We’ve heard about all of these pardons, all of these yanking of security clearances, and now most recently, the end of security details for former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former national security adviser John Bolton, and former Director of the [National] Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci.

And let’s cut through all of the hysteria and look at a few constant themes in all of these cases. Donald Trump said, when he was pressed about this, aren’t you worried that you may be culpable if any of them are harmed, since, supposedly, right-wingers don’t like Fauci and the Iranians are mad at Bolton and Pompeo?

And he said, “Do we give security details forever?”

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And then he pointed out in the case of John Bolton and Anthony Fauci that they’re quite wealthy people and they made a lot of wealth while they were in office. Anthony Fauci and his wife were probably the highest-paid couple in the federal workforce, perhaps nearing a million dollars in annual compensation.

John Bolton had his own political action committee that traditionally raised $7 million a year. And his blockbuster bestseller, a tell-all book, damning the person who hired him, made him a lot of money. It’s not true of Mike Pompeo. He did not cash in. There’s another thing to remember. Donald Trump will do more to keep Pompeo and Bolton safe by confronting Iran.

And he already has told Iran that they are going to be held responsible, not just for threatening Bolton’s life or Pompeo’s, but his life. And remember, the recent interview with the president of Iran, what did he say? He said, “I have no intention of starting a war. I have no intention of attacking Israel. I have no intention of assassinating a U.S. official.”

Why that change in attitude? It’s because Donald Trump has given them an ultimatum and that will ensure the safety of, not only, Bolton and Pompeo, but Trump himself. And then there’s the other question; Donald Trump was almost shot twice with, supposedly, the most impressive security detail in the world.

So, nobody can be completely protected. And so, let me get back to another point—in the case of Anthony Fauci, he has his own resources, as I said, to protect himself. His detail was scheduled to run out anyway at the end of his tenure. It was inaugurated by Joe Biden and paid for within the budget of [the Department of] Health and Human Services and the [National Institutes of Health].

So, it wasn’t Donald Trump that came in and said to Anthony Fauci, “I’m going to expose you to danger.” All of us in this public sphere, every pundit, every op-ed writer, college prep—all of us have received threats, existential threats. And I can attest that I have. And so, it’s part of the game when you get into the political arena.

There’s one other factor: Mike Pompeo, I think, is in a different category of John Bolton and Anthony Fauci. He had a longer tenure as a political appointee than Bolton did. He was very loyal to the president. But more importantly, he doesn’t have the individual means—the profit-making, during or after his tenure, that puts him in a financially secure position, as Fauci and Bolton.

Second, because his tenure was much longer and because he was much more high profile in opposing the Iran deal and being vocal about [Qasem] Soleimani, he is in some jeopardy, I think, to a greater degree than either Fauci or Bolton. And so, that’s something that we might want to re-examine, depending on the attitude of the Iranians.

But again, the best way to protect Bolton and Pompeo is to preemptively tell Iran that if anybody—Donald Trump, those two—anybody is in danger of an Iranian attack, the consequences will be existential for Iran. This all takes place in sort of a hysteria that Donald Trump is calling people to account in the Biden administration.

And it’s part and parcel of yanking the security clearances of 51 “intelligence authorities,” the pardons of the Biden family. My only advice to all of us is just take a deep breath. And when you hear these hysterical news accounts, understand that they have a political motivation behind them.

movies seen on tubi

 Position    Name    Year
1    The Hound of the Baskervilles    1939
2    The Satanic Rites of Dracula    1973
3    Lured    1947
4    Night of Terror    1933
5    Terror by Night    1946
6    The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire    2002
7    The Man Who Could Cheat Death    1959
8    Dead Man's Folly    1986
9    The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde    1968
10    The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes    1935
11    King of the Zombies    1941
12    Independence Day    1996
13    Pixels    2015
14    Ace Ventura: Pet Detective    1994
15    Beetlejuice    1988
16    Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls    1995
17    The 5th Wave    2016
18    Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows    2011
19    Meet Joe Black    1998
20    Gifted    2017
21    The Notebook    2004
22    Apollo 13    1995
23    Run All Night    2015
24    Armageddon    1998
25    Clash of the Titans    2010
26    The Thing    2011
27    Halloween II    1981
28    The Wedding Date    2005
29    American Me    1992
30    Hard Target    1993
31    The Family Man    2000
32    The Whole Truth    2016
33    Miss Marple: The Body in the Library    1984
34    Murder with Mirrors    1985
35    Now, Voyager    1942
36    Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder    1987
37    Pandorum    2009
38    The Rockford Files    1974
39    Peter Falk Versus Columbo    2019
40    Battleship    2012
41    The Oxford Murders    2008
42    Anne    2022
43    Showtime    2002
44    The Love She Sought    1990
45    Appointment with Death    1988
46    Eyes in the Night    1942
47    The Hound of the Baskervilles    1983
48    The Sign of Four    1983
49    The Machinist    2004
50    Rat Race    2001
51    Draft Day    2014
52    The Stranger    1946
53    Valentine Road    2013
54    The Rosary Murders    1987
55    Impact    1949
56    Please Murder Me    1956
57    The Cheap Detective    1978
58    Murder by Death    1976
59    Cat's Eye    1985
60    Miss Annie Rooney    1942
61    Pennies from Heaven    1936
62    Made for Each Other    1939
63    The Stork Club    1945
64    Africa Screams    1949
65    Alias Jesse James    1959
66    An Innocent Affair    1948
67    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court    1949
68    Little Lord Fauntleroy    1936
69    Sweet Smell of Success    1957
70    I'll Take Sweden    1965
71    The Million Pound Note    1954
72    The Silencers    1966
73    The Secret Life of Walter Mitty    1947
74    The Man from the Diners' Club    1963
75    Royal Wedding    1951
76    Murder by Invitation    1941
77    Merrily We Live    1938
78    The Time of Your Life    1948
79    Support Your Local Gunfighter    1971
80    What's New Pussycat?    1965
81    The Pajama Game    1957
82    Brewster's Millions    1945
83    Witness to Murder    1954
84    Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life    2016
85    The Client    1994
86    A Time to Kill    1996
87    Ticks    1993
88    Fresh Meat    2012
89    Sodium Babies    2009
90    Ryde    2017
91    I Can Make You Love Me    1993
92    Tideland    2005
93    Hollow    2011
94    Seven Stages to Achieve Eternal Bliss    2018
95    Take Me Home    2016
96    Housebound    2014
97    Blood Punch    2014
98    Jacob's Hammer    2012
99    Alleluia    2014
100    The Baby    1973
101    Slaughterhouse    1987
102    Sweet Kill    1972
103    Straight Talk    1992
104    Streets of Fire    1984
105    Falling for Christmas    2022
106    Dead for a Dollar    2022
107    Studio 666    2022
108    Murder in Coweta County    1983
109    The Good Shepherd    2004
110    Broken Vows    1987
111    Fletch    1985
112    Chef    2014
113    The Shawshank Redemption    1994
114    Atonement    2007
115    Little Miss Sunshine    2006
116    Broken Flowers    2005
117    The 400 Blows    1959
118    The People vs. Larry Flynt    1996
119    A Very Long Engagement    2004
120    The Good Girl    2002
121    Scott Pilgrim vs. the World    2010
122    Running with Scissors    2006
123    The Squid and the Whale    2005
124    Ghost World    2001
125    Almost Famous    2000
126    Blue Valentine    2010
127    The Holiday    2006
128    A.I. Artificial Intelligence    2001
129    Platoon    1986
130    The Imitation Game    2014
131    Bean    1997
132    Johnny English Reborn    2011
133    Breakfast on Pluto    2005
134    Confessions of a Shopaholic    2009
135    In America    2002
136    A Life Less Ordinary    1997
137    Whip It    2009
138    Fried Green Tomatoes    1991
139    Gangs of New York    2002
140    Lost in Translation    2003
141    The Happening    2008
142    The Transporter    2002
143    The House of the Spirits    1993
144    Message in a Bottle    1999
145    Emma    1996
146    Requiem for a Dream    2000
147    Casanova    2005
148    The Four Feathers    2002
149    The Brothers Grimm    2005
150    In Good Company    2004
151    The Exorcism of Emily Rose    2005
152    Stardust    2007
153    Proof of Life    2000
154    A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints    2006
155    Never Been Kissed    1999
156    The Basketball Diaries    1995
157    Two Weeks Notice    2002
158    Fantastic Four    2005
159    Merlin    1998
160    What Happens in Vegas    2008
161    The Saint    1997
162    Into the Blue    2005
163    The Doors    1991
164    Intolerable Cruelty    2003
165    The Prince & Me    2004
166    Me, Myself & Irene    2000
167    Somewhere    2010
168    Regarding Henry    1991
169    Blind Dating    2006
170    This Is England    2006
171    Steel Dawn    1987
172    Lawman    1971
173    True Confessions    1981
174    She Wore a Yellow Ribbon    1949
175    Three Smart Girls Grow Up    1939
176    Dennis the Menace    1987
177    Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell    2001
178    Highlander II: The Quickening    1991
179    Our Dancing Daughters    1928
180    Romeo and Juliet    1968
181    Safe House    2012
182    Cauldron of Blood    1970
183    Forbidden World    1982
184    The Quiet Gun    1957
185    Fire in the Sky    1993
186    Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man    1991
187    Vampires    1998
188    On Golden Pond    1981
189    Chaplin    1992
190    The Onion Field    1979
191    Sergeant Ryker    1968
192    Timescape    1992
193    The Craft    1996
194    Mary Queen of Scots    2018
195    Union Pacific    1939
196    The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean    1972
197    Western Union    1941
198    Sorrowful Jones    1949
199    The Unguarded Moment    1956
200    A Rage to Live    1965
201    The Cider House Rules    1999
202    Rehearsal for Murder    1982
203    Midsomer Murders Holiday Pop-Up Collectible    2019
204    Cold Mountain    2003
205    The Eternal Sea    1955
206    The Plainsman    1936
207    Pork Chop Hill    1959
208    The Secret War of Harry Frigg    1968
209    Run Silent, Run Deep    1958
210    Sullivan's Travels    1941
211    PT 109    1963
212    The Running Man    1963
213    Viva Las Vegas    1964
214    The Unsinkable Molly Brown    1964
215    A High Wind in Jamaica    1965
216    Nevada Smith    1966
217    The War Wagon    1967
218    Tobruk    1967
219    Spirits of the Dead    1968
220    Hello, Dolly!    1969
221    Support Your Local Sheriff!    1969
222    Jeremiah Johnson    1972
223    Fuzz    1972
224    Tales from the Crypt    1972
225    The Wild Party    1975
226    The Return of the Pink Panther    1975
227    The Warriors    1979
228    Salem's Lot    1979
229    Meatballs    1979
230    ...And Justice for All    1979
231    Elvis    1979
232    Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy    1979
233    The Electric Horseman    1979
234    Wanda Nevada    1979
235    Popeye    1980
236    The Big Red One    1980
237    Cheech & Chong's Next Movie    1980
238    Heavy Metal    1981
239    The Howling    1981
240    Kindred    2020
241    Missing    1982
242    Tales from the Darkside: The Movie    1990
243    Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe    2017
244    Snowbeast    1977
245    Paris, Texas    1984
246    Dreamscape    1984
247    Firestarter    1984
248    Teachers    1984
249    National Lampoon's European Vacation    1985
250    The Country Girl    1954
251    The Bridges at Toko-Ri    1954
252    They Rode West    1954
253    Ill Met by Moonlight    1957
254    Top Dog    1995
255    The Thomas Crown Affair    1999
256    The Longest Ride    2015
257    Zoolander 2    2016
258    Shotgun    1955
259    Valley of the Kings    1954
260    Long John Silver    1954
261    Romeo and Juliet    1954
262    The Purple Plain    1954
263    Saskatchewan    1954
264    Scaramouche    1952
265    Don't Bother to Knock    1952
266    Clash by Night    1952
267    Mandy    1952
268    The Sound Barrier    1952
269    Carrie    1952
270    This Woman Is Dangerous    1952
271    Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd    1952
272    Hellgate    1952
273    Maigret Sets a Trap    1958
274    Marjorie Morningstar    1958
275    Westbound    1959
276    The Quiet American    1958
277    Edge of Eternity    1959
278    Al Capone    1959
279    Return of the Fly    1959
280    Up Periscope    1959
281    Phenomenon    1996
282    The Comeback Trail    2020
283    The High Note    2020
284    Unpregnant    2020
285    Nine Days    2020
286    Star of Midnight    1935
287    Brannigan    1975
288    Charley Varrick    1973
289    To Live and Die in L.A.    1985
290    Bringing Up Baby    1938
291    Fitzcarraldo    1982
292    Raising Arizona    1987
293    Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison    1957
294    Ticket to Paradise    2022
295    Filip    2022
296    Armageddon Time    2022
297    Shadow of a Doubt    1943
298    House Broken    2009
299    The Thin Blue Line    1988
300    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows    2016
301    Reindeer Games    2000
302    The Skulls    2000
303    Ready to Rumble    2000
304    Can You Ever Forgive Me?    2018
305    20th Century Women    2016
306    Killers of the Flower Moon    2023
307    The Virgin Suicides    1999
308    For Love of the Game    1999
309    Eight Men Out    1988
310    Terms of Endearment    1983
311    How Do You Know    2010
312    Urusei Yatsura    2022
313    Urusei Yatsura: The Final Chapter    1988
314    Lady in White    1988
315    Dead Ringer    1964
316    The Vampire Bat    1933
317    The Case of the Curious Bride    1935
318    The Case of the Velvet Claws    1936
319    The Case of the Stuttering Bishop    1937
320    Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun    1986
321    Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star    1986
322    Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit    1987
323    The Famous Ferguson Case    1932
324    Invasion of the Body Snatchers    1956
325    The Black Sleep    1956
326    The Incredible Shrinking Man    1957
327    Scared Stiff    1953
328    I Bury the Living    1958
329    Them!    1954
330    The War of the Worlds    1953
331    Corridors of Blood    1958
332    The Hound of the Baskervilles    1959
333    Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde    1953
334    The Blob    1958
335    It Came from Outer Space    1953
336    The Giant Behemoth    1959
337    Invaders from Mars    1953
338    Sleuth    2007
339    Alfie    2004
340    Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves    1991
341    The Bodyguard    1992
342    The Prince of Tides    1991
343    The Way We Were    1973
344    Blue Crush    2002
345    A Study in Terror    1965
346    Room at the Top    1958
347    Evil Laugh    1986
348    Mannequin    1987
349    The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire    1971
350    The Upturned Glass    1947
351    Dressed to Kill    1946
352    Journey to Christmas    2023
353    8-Bit Christmas    2021
354    No Highway in the Sky    1951
355    The Burial    2023
356    Bleach    2018
357    The Talk of the Town    1942
358    Helter Skelter    1949
359    Along Came Polly    2004
360    AMAIM Warrior at the Borderline    2021
361    The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother    1975
362    The Adventures of Baron Munchausen    1988
363    Adi��s, Sabata    1970
364    Angel Heart    1987
365    Another Stakeout    1993
366    Annie Get Your Gun    1950
367    The Accountant    2016
368    The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford    2007
369    Arabian Nights    1942
370    The Bamboo Saucer    1968
371    The Bad and the Beautiful    1952
372    Band of Outsiders    1964
373    BASEketball    1998
374    The Ballad of Cable Hogue    1970
375    The Bells of St. Mary's    1945
376    Bells Are Ringing    1960
377    The Best of Everything    1959
378    Big Trouble in Little China    1986
379    Billy Two Hats    1974
380    Boomerang!    1947
381    The Border    1982
382    Bullfighter and the Lady    1951
383    The Buccaneer    1958
384    The Bucket List    2007
385    A Bullet for Joey    1955
386    Canadian Pacific    1949
387    Celtic Pride    1996
388    The Curse of the Crying Woman    1963
389    Dragonslayer    1981
390    The Duke of Burgundy    2014
391    The Duchess    2008
392    Edge of Darkness    1943
393    Eureka: Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution    2021
394    Fear in the Night    1972
395    Flamingo Road    1949
396    Flashdance    1983
397    For Whom the Bell Tolls    1943
398    Outlaws - For Greater Glory    2012
399    Fort Massacre    1958
400    New Frontier    1939
401    The Gallant Hours    1960
402    The Girl from Rio    1969
403    The Gilded Lily    1935
404    Good News    1947
405    Gridiron Gang    2006
406    Hit the Deck    1955
407    Home from the Hill    1960
408    If I Were King    1938
409    The Illusionist    2006
410    Lone Star    1996
411    Dog Day Afternoon    1975
412    Raw Force    1982
413    Dial Code Santa Claus    1989
414    Dead Heat    1988
415    Primal Rage    1988
416    Trip with the Teacher    1975
417    Arthur Hailey's Detective    2005
418    The President's Man    2000
419    Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes    2024
420    Diggstown    1992
421    In the Line of Fire    1993
422    The Good Son    1993
423    Outbreak    1995
424    Coming 2 America    2021
425    Lansky    2021
426    Pickup on South Street    1953
427    Two on a Guillotine    1965
428    The Ghost Ship    1943
429    Dressed to Kill    1980
430    I Walked with a Zombie    1943
431    Sodom and Gomorrah    1962
432    Night of the Eagle    1962
433    The Nutty Professor    1963
434    The Thrill of It All    1963
435    Lilies of the Field    1963
436    The Incredible Journey    1963
437    Albert Lee & Hogan's Heroes - Live In Paris 2003    2005
438    I Dream of Jeannie... Fifteen Years Later    1985
439    The Heroes of Telemark    1965
440    Chimes at Midnight    1965
441    The Professionals    1966
442    7th Cavalry    1956
443    Comanche Station    1960
444    The Doolins of Oklahoma    1949
445    Coroner Creek    1948
446    The Walking Hills    1949
447    Frontier Marshal    1939
448    How to Blow Up a Pipeline    2022
449    Get Low    2009
450    The Lone Ranger    2013
451    Klondike    2014
452    In Society    1944
453    Alien: Romulus    2024
454    Play Girl    1941
455    The Last of Mrs. Cheyney    1937
456    Fast and Loose    1939
457    Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff    1949
458    Hold That Ghost    1941
459    Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man    1951
460    Little Giant    1946
461    The Time of Their Lives    1946
462    In the Navy    1941
463    One Night in the Tropics    1940
464    Wolf Creek 2    2013
465    Wolf Creek    2005
466    The Odd Angry Shot    1979
467    Strangerland    2015
468    Mr. Nice Guy    1997
469    Red Dog    2011
470    Sirens    1994
471    Planet of the Vampires    1965
472    The Lair of the White Worm    1988
473    Once Upon a Honeymoon    1942
474    Affair with a Stranger    1953
475    Our Vines Have Tender Grapes    1945
476    Hellboy: The Crooked Man    2024
477    September 5    2024
478    Road House    2024
479    Enemy Territory    1987
480    Night of the Juggler    1980
481    The Fool Killer    1965
482    The Turning Point    1952
483    Ace High    1968
484    Never Say Die    1939
485    Thanks for the Memory    1938
486    Fancy Pants    1950
487    The Octagon    1980
488    A Force of One    1979
489    You're Telling Me!    1934
490    Time Out of Mind    1947
491    You Can't Cheat an Honest Man    1939
492    Man on the Flying Trapeze    1935
493    Golden Earrings    1947
494    The Crime of the Century    1933
495    Night Has a Thousand Eyes    1948
496    Marco Polo    1982
497    The Bride Comes Home    1935
498    Arise, My Love    1940
499    Unconquered    1947
500    Strange Bedfellows    1965
501    Duck, You Sucker    1971
502    The People Vs. Dr. Kildare    1941
503    Dr. Kildare's Victory    1942
504    Hatari!    1962
505    Shout at the Devil    1976
506    Escape to Athena    1979
507    Funny People    2009
508    Nobody's Fool    1994
509    Hannah and Her Sisters    1986
510    A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving    1973
511    Holiday Inn    1942
512    Grumpy Old Men    1993
513    The Daytrippers    1996
514    An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving    2008
515    Son in Law    1993
516    The Prince of Egypt    1998
517    The Ten Commandments    1956
518    Ben-Hur    1959
519    Here Comes Peter Cottontail    1971
520    Peter Rabbit    2018
521    The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town    1977
522    A Walton Easter    1997
523    Rise of the Guardians    2012
524    The Resurrection of Gavin Stone    2017
525    The Last Temptation of Christ    1988
526    Son of God    2014
527    The Greatest Story Ever Told    1965
528    Barabbas    1961
529    Pieces of Easter    2013
530    Jesus Christ Superstar    1973
531    Hank and Mike    2008
532    Jesus of Nazareth    1977
533    The Robe    1953
534    Wrong Turn    2003
535    Funny Games    2007
536    Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale    2010
537    Mon oncle Antoine    1971
538    Troublemakers    1994
539    The Man Who Invented Christmas    2017
540    Switchmas    2012
541    12 Dates of Christmas    2011
542    Noel    2004
543    Just Friends    2005
544    A Cozy Christmas Inn    2022
545    London to Brighton    2006
546    Love, Honour and Obey    2000
547    Factotum    2005
548    Avenging Angelo    2002
549    Urban Justice    2007
550    City by the Sea    2002
551    You Can Count on Me    2000
552    Prince of the City    1981
553    Bound by Honor    1993
554    The Good Father    1985
555    Jacknife    1989
556    The Assassination of Richard Nixon    2004
557    Light Sleeper    1992
558    The Unsaid    2001
559    Wild Side    1995
560    Borderline    1980
561    For Queen & Country    1988
562    The Night Strangler    1973
563    The Night Stalker    1972
564    Far from Heaven    2002
565    The Eagle and the Hawk    1933
566    The Ex-Mrs. Bradford    1936

Mexico Blocks U.S. Military Deportation Flight, Prevents Landing

 

In yet another defiant move against the new Trump administration, Mexico refuses to accept a U.S. deportation flight and prevented it from landing on Thursday. This raised serious concerns about border security and international cooperation despite saying it would cooperate with the new administration. While the Biden administration pushed for more lenient immigration policies up until the day former President Joe Biden left office, President Donald Trump has refused to allow the United States to continue rolling out the red carpet for illegal aliens. Mexico’s refusal underscores the challenges the U.S. faces in dealing with illegal immigration. Its response not only hinders the deportation process but also sends a troubling message about the lack of shared responsibility in addressing the crisis at our southern border.

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According to NBC News, Mexico denied a U.S. military plane access to land, thwarting the Trump administration's efforts to deport illegal immigrants living in America back to their home country of Mexico. Two Air Force C-17s, each carrying roughly 80 deportees, flew to Guatemala, while the third flight to Mexico was grounded.

🚨BREAKING: Mexico refused a US deportation flight, preventing it from landing, per NBC.

FAFO… pic.twitter.com/aUw21zHtNW

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 24, 2025

🚨 JUST IN: The Mexican government is DENYING landings of U.S. deportation flights, per NBC

Mexico’s about to FAFO.

Trump is NOT messing around. pic.twitter.com/GnkVTQn91L

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 24, 2025

Neither the White House nor the Mexican Embassy responded to requests to comment. 

This comes after President Donald Trump threatened to slap Mexico with a 25 percent increase in tariffs for refusing to stop its people from illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump’s actions serve as a retaliation effort for illegal immigration and “crime and drugs,” such as dangerous gangs and fentanyl that are coming into the U.S. across the border.

Mass Deportation Raids Have Begun in Los Angeles

 

We knew the mass deportations were going to begin right away, and it was likely that some of the targeted cities were going to leak to the press, though it was an open secret as to which urban enclave would be raided. In Los Angeles, it’s already begun with ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers. The illegals get detained, and military planes export them the hell out of our country. ATF, DEA, and the US Marshal Service have been granted deportation powers.  

The Trump administration is utilizing a decades-old and, until recently, never invoked power that authorizes “willing state and local enforcement officers to carry out "any of the powers, privileges, or duties" of an immigration officer. Most states will likely sign onto this measure. The deportation force, one the liberals laughably said couldn’t be assembled, is being mobilized with gusto. Also, the other narrative, that we couldn’t find these illegals, is false. We are nabbing them left and right, and we have four years of continuous immigration enforcement to see the rest. They need to come up for air at some point. For now, the illegals in Los Angeles are being rounded up (via NY Post): 

The Trump administration’s mass-deportation offensive expanded into Los Angeles Saturday with pre-dawn roundups, part of a West Coast operation expected to run seven days a week, sources told The Post. 

Immigration agents avoided sections of the city suffering the most damage from the devastating wildfires burning through parts of Southern California, the sources noted. 

[…] 

Details of the LA raids were scarce as of Saturday afternoon, but sources said migrants rounded up there were being held in ICE detention centers in California pending deportation.

Officials are expecting the sites to fill up quickly, and the feds are scouting for more space to hold migrants, the sources said. 

ICE agents were also spotted in West New York, NJ, cuffing an unidentified Hispanic male and putting him in a van without asking questions, the Hudson Post reported 

[…] 

ICE on Friday reported arresting 593 criminals in the U.S. illegally and lodging 449 “detainer” requests with local authorities, asking them to turn over migrants targeted for deportation.
 […] 

Federal immigration agents have been rounding up hundreds of other migrant criminals daily since Trump took office Monday. 

Other arrests include a slew of pedophiles, drug traffickers and gang members and a suspected terrorist in New York. 

All I can say is adios.  

For the federal agents involved, happy hunting. 

DEPORTATION RAIDS HAVE BEGUN IN LOS ANGELES: NYP

— NewsWire (@NewsWire_US) January 26, 2025

 

Have you noticed during this transition, from the Nov. 5 election to the inauguration of Jan. 20, there’s been a whole change of mentality from the trivial to the existential? We can’t quite believe that. Mika and Joe Scarborough made a religious journey, as it is, to Mar-a-Lago.

Snoop Dogg once cut a film about shooting Donald Trump. Now he has endorsed him. And that is true all over the media. They just fired the head of MSNBC. Now we also learn these disclosures. Why now? Why now? Why did we suddenly learn from The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times that Joe Biden had had cognitive decline all these years, in which to point that out was blasphemy?

Remember Peter Daszak? He was in EcoHealth. He was the one who engaged in forbidden gain-of-function viral research. He was getting money from the NIH [National Institutes of Health], transferring it to the Wuhan laboratory. But, even to say that was considered heresy. And now all of a sudden, we hear we were right all along. All of you were.

That there was gain-of-function research. That we did have a role in the Wuhan lab. And guess what? Peter Daszak is barred now for five years from receiving one dime of federal health care. How about the FBI? They stonewalled, stonewalled, stonewalled. All of a sudden—suddenly, out of the head of Zeus—they tell us they’re going to abandon, abolish, get rid of their diversity, equity, and inclusion department.

And finally, Christopher Wray, in his last address to us, says, well, there are cabals of Chinese espionage activists and they’re in sensitive places. We have to be careful. Why didn’t he tell us that two years ago? Why all of a sudden is Mr. [Justin] Trudeau stepping down? Why did the Assad dynasty collapse? Why does Hamas want to negotiate?

It’s eerie. We’ve never seen anything like it. Why did Joe Biden suddenly abdicate? He’s kind of abdicated from power. Donald Trump is the de facto—and he has been for weeks—president. We’ve never seen anything like it. The obvious answer is, the king is dead. Long live the king. People gravitate toward power, especially when power is expressed by winning the popular vote, the Electoral College, having control of the House, the Senate, the Supreme Court, and having issues that all polled over 55% to 60%. It was a mandate. And everybody wants to be on the winning side, in the sense, you root for your football team when it’s 10 and zero, and you don’t go to the stadium when it’s zero and 10.

There’s another criteria here and that is, a lot of people, as they look back, see that what they did to Donald Trump—the lawfare, the Alvin Bragg, the Fani Willis, the Jack Smith, the Letitia James, the E. Jean Carroll, civil and criminal suits—they really were an aberration. They were a miscarriage of justice.

And when they’re compounded with the two prior impeachments, the trial of Donald Trump as a private citizen, the effort to get him off the ballot, the raid at Mar-a-Lago—a lot of people on the left in the media, in the Democratic Party, in the liberal circle itself are thinking if we were Donald Trump and we had suffered what we did to him and we were in power now, we know what we would do: revenge.

So, they project that onto Donald Trump, and they try to reach out now, whether it’s the media settling defamation suits, or talk that even CBS will settle with Donald Trump. But I don’t think that necessarily explains all of this vast change of heart. This new mindset. I think people, as they look back, they think we were in a coma.

We were drugged. This was an aberration. Maybe it was the COVID lockdown. Maybe it was the George Floyd. Maybe it was the hatred of Donald Trump. Maybe—I don’t know what it was, but it was a four-year aberration. And now they’re coming to their senses and they’re thinking Joe Biden really was cognitively declined. A coup dismissed him.

That was abnormal. The border should be closed. There really are two main sexes, not three. Looting and shoplifting have to be crimes or society will not exist. What happened in Afghanistan, turning over $50 billion to terrorists, that’s not normal. That’s not the United States. Nor is putting “daylight” between us and Israel.

So, there’s a sense now that, Rip Van Winkle, like we’ve woken up. And Donald Trump wasn’t a monster. In fact, Donald Trump has commonsense answers to all the things of the last four years. So we’re looking back and we’re saying we were mad. And now there’s a commonsense corrective and we don’t really care if it’s Donald Trump or not, but we’re going to go with the corrective and return America to common sense.

America Awakes From Its Coma

Why Trump Threatens Davos

 his is the week of the inauguration of Donald Trump, but it also coincides, not just with Martin Luther King’s birthday—on the same day as the inauguration, but also the meeting of the world’s elite at Davos, Switzerland, lorded over by 86-year-old Klaus Schwab, who, created this organization.

If you don’t know what Davos is, don’t worry about it. It’s not that important, in some ways. I mean, it’s not doing a lot of good for the rest of us.

But it is important because it has aspirations that are quite dangerous. Basically, its premise is that if we got together all of the “smart people”—those are people who have letters after their name, or they live in the right ZIP codes, or they’re wealthy, or they’re professors, or they’re key government officials—and we put them all in this beautiful, idyllic place, they can think up utopian dreams that then can be, from the top down, implemented by hoi polloi: the many.

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And they have actual disgust for elected governments because you see elected governments make mistakes. They elect people and then they do the wrong thing. They have these 19th-century borders. They believe in legal-only immigration. They don’t believe in redistribution of money. They believe in free market capitalism.

They are opposed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. And they don’t want to put mandates on corporations—ESG—about the environment and social questions and governance questions. They let the market adjudicate, which you can’t do.

Now the reason that they’re really angry this week is Donald Trump was elected in the United States. And he is a Jacksonian, populist, nationalist, who believes that the U.S. Constitution and the creation of this last great hope for Earth is unique and singular. And he trusts it and its Constitution more than he does these Davos international organizations, who, remember, are not elected by anybody. They’re appointed.

So, Donald Trump immediately got out of the International Criminal Court. This was an international body that, if implemented—in the case of the United States—fully, it would say that a major or colonel in the United States could be prosecuted if he issued an order that they felt was inhumane.

He got out of the World Health Organization. That was pretty much a Chinese-dominated world organization that functioned during the COVID crisis, largely, with the help of Anthony Fauci and Peter Daszak to suppress the truth that that virus was created in the Wuhan lab. May or may not have been a biological weapon. May or may not have escaped naturally by mistake. But in any case, Donald Trump poses the threat to the Davos crowd.

And more importantly, his threat, it is amplified because it works. People who have followed the model of Milton Friedman and free market economics in Europe, in Eastern Europe, in Argentina, and the United States are doing very well.

When the EU was created, its [gross domestic product] was almost—25 years ago—the same as the United States. And then it started to implement these Davos-like issues and laws and policy, and now it has almost a little more than half, half the GDP of the United States, and only about 60% of the per capita income.

So, the people at Davos know that their socialist, globalist model doesn’t work. And they know that people don’t want to listen to them anymore because when people adopt these views, their economy slows, they get poorer, their borders are overrun. Illegal immigrants come and cannot be assimilated or integrated. And the people feel they have less security, prosperity, and freedom.

Rather than addressing those concerns—and so having at Davos—why is Donald Trump being elected? Why was [Argentine President Javier] Milei? Maybe we can learn from these people because they represent elections and freedom.

No, it’s Donald Trump. How dare you say this? Milei is wrong. And so, they too, as I’ve said in an earlier broadcast, they have forgotten nothing and learned nothing.

Each year, Davos becomes more and more irrelevant. And the people who oppose them and put their trust in the people, in the U.S. Constitution, in freedom and individual liberty do better and better.

The Unhinged, Petty, and Vindictive Left

 

Donald Trump won the 2024 election in part because the Left’s hysterical style of attacking him no longer worked.

After a decade of this unhinged furor, it proved worthless in winning public support—and for two simple reasons.

One, after years of Russian collusion hoaxes, the laptop disinformation farce, and the warped lies about the “suckers” and “fine people on both sides,” the shrill Left became predictable.

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So, the bored public began tuning them out, switching channels, hitting the mute button, and pulling the plug.

Like the deleterious effects of inflation that eventually render a currency worthless, nonstop hectoring, hysterics, pontification, and distortion finally made all such criticisms of Trump mostly as valueless as 1930s German marks.

Second, the wearied public never heard reasoned counterarguments from the likes of a Rachel Maddow. Instead, on spec, she kept mouthing, “The walls are closing in” on Trump.

Now-former President Joe Biden did not explain why his open border was a better idea than Trump’s closed one. He preferred mumbling about “semi-fascists!” and the “ultra-MAGA!”

The Never Trumpers did not critique the Trump deficits. Instead, they hammered away that Trump was Adolf Hitler, or Benito Mussolini, or Vladimir Putin—or just a dangerous dictator or autocrat.

Angry retired generals never demonstrated why Trump was, in their view, an existential threat to democracy. Instead, they shouted nonstop in op-eds and interviews that he was a fascist, Nazi-like, no different from the guards at Auschwitz, a pathological liar, and should be summarily removed.

Worn-out voters began to understand that these psychodramas were substitutes for substantive criticism or occasions for legitimate debate.

Indeed, the exhausted public finally concluded that the hysterics increased in direct proportion to the poverty of the charges.

So, what did 10 years of such derangement achieve for the Left?

Trump now has control of the White House, and both houses of Congress operate under Republican majorities.

The Supreme Court is mostly conservative. Almost all of Trump’s issues—the border, immigration, the economy, foreign policy, and crime—poll well over 50%.

No matter, the Left is still hammering away at the trivial and irrelevant—and remains paralyzed in furor and hysterics.

When Snoop Dogg performed for the Trump inauguration, Ana Navarro of TV’s “The View,” in racist fashion, called the African American rapper “a trained seal.”

When Pete Hegseth went before a Senate committee for confirmation as secretary of defense nominee, Democrats asked almost nothing about nuclear strategy, recruitment shortfalls, or a paucity of artillery shells.

Instead, what followed were animated “gotcha” lectures about Hegseth’s prior adultery.

No sooner had Hegseth finished his successful audit than the Left rounded up his former sister-in-law, now divorced from his brother.

A hard-core Democrat, she confessed she wanted his nomination rejected. She further claimed—with no evidence—that she had “heard” from his ex-wife that Hegseth was a wifebeater.

His former wife immediately denied the charges. She pointed to their prior divorce settlement that recorded neither had ever lodged such a complaint against the other.

Next, the Left went after Elon Musk. Recently, he had finished an address by touching his heart and then extending his arm out to the crowd.

To the Left, that greeting now became proof of a “Nazi salute.”

Yet in no time, the internet cited photos of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, and Elizabeth Warren all extending their stiff arms out in identical fashion to Musk.

We were next told by critics that Trump was not technically president because he did not place his left hand on the Bible as he swore his presidential oath.

The Constitution, of course, demands no such act. But it does explicitly state that no religious test shall be required to hold public office.

During a National Prayer Service for newly sworn-in President Trump, the Episcopal bishop of Washington, D.C., Mariann Budde, hijacked the sermon. She rebuked Trump—sitting right in front of her—because he supposedly had portrayed illegal aliens and transgender children “in the harshest of lights.”

Budde later bragged that she had used the occasion to sandbag Trump with a “one-on-one conversation.”

She talked grandly of mercy, but not of the thousands of Americans who have been physically assaulted or attacked by illegal aliens, or tens of thousands of deaths due to illegally imported fentanyl, or the unfairness of open borders to legal immigrant applicants, or the suffering of our citizen poor when their social services are overwhelmed by some 12 million illegal entries of the last four years.

In sum, the Left wants no debate because they know voters have rejected what they saw and suffered during the past four years of the Biden administration.

Forgetting nothing, learning nothing, like zombies, leftists keep screaming banalities. But like addicts and their feel-good fixes, their hysterics only further turn off the public as they destroy themselves.

What McConnell Did After the Hegseth Vote Is Infuriating

 

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) had good qualities. He pushed through Trump’s judicial nominees during the first presidency, got his tax cuts passed, and is a noted legislative strategist and tactician. It doesn’t mean he always bats a thousand, but McConnell got key portions of the Trump agenda passed after the 2016 election. Now, he’s erased all that goodwill with this dastardly vote against Pete Hegseth for secretary of defense. McConnell’s defection, plus that of Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Susan Collins (R-ME), led to Vice President JD Vance performing his constitutional duty to break the tie.  

Mitch McConnell just voted NO on President Trump’s secretary of defense nominee

This led to VP Vance having to rush down to cast a tie-breaking vote, only the 2nd such vote in U.S. history

As Republican Senators gather around to congratulate Vance, notice McConnell walk over… pic.twitter.com/jPGxgJMTRR— Zach Henry (@zhenryaz) January 25, 2025

McConnell explained his decision in a lengthy statement, but after he voted, he was caught frolicking with Senate Democrats: 

anytime I see an elected official release a very long statement about something https://t.co/jPisSm4JmE pic.twitter.com/E1YSxRDFEW— Alex Colorado (@alexcolor) January 25, 2025

“The single most important way for Secretary Hegseth to demonstrate his professed devotion to America’s warfighters will be to equip them – urgently – to deter aggression… and rebuild the defense industrial capacity to restock the depleted arsenal of democracy. In this cause, he…— John McCormack (@McCormackJohn) January 25, 2025

U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, issued the following statement today on the nomination of Pete Hegseth to serve as Secretary of Defense: 

“The most consequential cabinet official in any Administration is the Secretary of Defense. In the face of the gravest threats to U.S. national security interests since World War II, this position is even more important today. 

“Major adversaries are working closer together to undermine U.S. interests around the world. And America’s military capabilities and defense industrial capacity are increasingly insufficient to deter or prevail in major conflict with China or Russia, especially given the real risk of simultaneous challenges from other adversaries like Iran or North Korea. 

“Stewardship of the United States Armed Forces, and of the complex bureaucracy that exists to support them, is a massive and solemn responsibility. At the gravest moments, under the weight of this public trust, even the most capable and well-qualified leaders to set foot in the Pentagon have done so with great humility – from George Marshall harnessing American enterprise and Atlantic allies for the Cold War, to Caspar Weinberger orchestrating the Reagan build-up, to Bob Gates earning the wartime trust of two Commanders-in-Chief, of both parties. 

“Mere desire to be a ‘change agent’ is not enough to fill these shoes. And ‘dust on boots’ fails even to distinguish this nominee from multiple predecessors of the last decade. Nor is it a precondition for success. Secretaries with distinguished combat experience and time in the trenches have failed at the job.

“Effective management of nearly 3 million military and civilian personnel, an annual budget of nearly $1 trillion, and alliances and partnerships around the world is a daily test with staggering consequences for the security of the American people and our global interests. 

“Mr. Hegseth has failed, as yet, to demonstrate that he will pass this test. But as he assumes office, the consequences of failure are as high as they have ever been. 

“The United States faces coordinated aggression from adversaries bent on shattering the order underpinning American security and prosperity. In public comments and testimony before the Armed Services Committee, Mr. Hegseth did not reckon with this reality. 

“President Trump has rightly called on NATO allies to spend more on our collective defense. But the nominee who would have been responsible for leading that effort wouldn’t even commit to growing America’s defense investment beyond the low bar set by the Biden Administration’s budget requests. 

“In his testimony before the Committee, Mr. Hegseth provided no substantial observations on how to defend Taiwan or the Philippines against a Chinese attack, or even whether he believes the United States should do so. He failed, for that matter, to articulate in any detail a strategic vision for dealing with the gravest long-term threat emanating from the PRC. 

“Absent, too, was any substantive discussion of countering our adversaries’ alignment with deeper alliance relationships and more extensive defense industrial cooperation of our own. 

“This, of course, is due to change. As the 29th Secretary of Defense, Mr. Hegseth will be immediately tested by ongoing conflicts caused by Russian aggression in Europe and Iranian-backed terror in the Middle East. He will have to grapple with an unfinished FY25 appropriations process that – without his intervention – risks further harming the readiness of our forces. 

“By all accounts, brave young men and women join the military with the understanding that it is a meritocracy. This precious trust endures only as long as lawful civilian leadership upholds what must be a firewall between servicemembers and politics. The Biden Administration failed at this fundamental task. But the restoration of ‘warrior culture’ will not come from trading one set of culture warriors for another.

“The single most important way for Secretary Hegseth to demonstrate his professed devotion to America’s warfighters will be to equip them – urgently – to deter aggression… and rebuild the defense industrial capacity to restock the depleted arsenal of democracy. In this cause, he will find willing partners on the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, which will expect and receive his candid testimony. 

“I wish Secretary Hegseth great success, and I look forward to working closely with him to restore American hard power. Every member of the uniformed services will be looking to him for decisive, principled, and nonpartisan leadership.”