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Sunday, September 21, 2025
Paul Harvey: If I were the Devil...
He originally broadcast this on April 3rd, 1965.
We watched it this weekend as we learned about why God must be first in every area of our lives.
DHS Has a Message to the Anti-ICE Crew Protesting Nationwide Ops - and They're Not Going to Like It
The anti-ICE crew was busy trying to get in the way of federal agents at an ICE facility outside of Chicago on Friday as agents were trying to drive vehicles out of the facility. Three people were arrested, and law enforcement had to deploy smoke to control the anti-ICE activists.
The interaction that received the most attention was with Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh. She was moved out of the way of a vehicle after she tried to stand in front of it. She claimed it was a "violent abuse of power."
Speaking with a reporter after the incident, Abughazaleh said, "We have no weapons. We have signs and chants and songs, and they are treating us like it's a war zone."
You don't have the right to block law enforcement in the course of their duties. The anti-ICE people can protest all they want without getting in the way of law enforcement. These folks are ridiculous, yet this person wants to be a member of Congress. This is how far the Democrats have fallen. And they wonder why they are so low in the polls now in terms of their popularity. Normal American voters look at this and think it's nuts. They want the law enforced; that's what they voted for.
Dem Candidate Gets a View of the Pavement After Trying to Block ICE
Now, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is responding to the anti-ICE folks, and they're mincing no words with this cadre of characters. They said these actions will not stop them from doing their job. Looks like the candidate "found out."
Individuals and groups impeding ICE operations are siding with vicious cartels, human traffickers, and violent criminals. You will not stop @ICEgov and DHS law enforcement from enforcing our immigration laws.
No, it's not "fascist" or "racist" to enforce the law to protect the American people.
Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin also decimated Abughazaleh:
McLaughlin told Fox News Digital, "This fame-hungry, cable TV candidate is so desperate for her 15 minutes of fame that she will go so far as to put our law enforcement at risk and obstruct justice."
DHS is right.
These protesters don't care what the illegal aliens did or how they may have hurt the American people. The anti-ICE crew is on the wrong side of history while ICE is doing its job for the country, despite very challenging obstacles.
Notice another problem with their narrative? They complain about ICE/federal agents being masked...while being masked themselves. The irony seems lost on them. ICE has a reason - they're being threatened and doxxed. Why is the anti-ICE crew wearing masks if they think what they are doing is right? Why don't they stand with the courage of their convictions?
They've also been ramping up their resistance theater in New York as well, as we reported. But they're not stopping ICE from doing its job there either.
The radical leftists keep trying, but they keep failing.
Newsom Press Office Referred to Secret Service Over Post About Kristi Noem
A social media post from California Gov. Gavin Newsom's press office has reportedly been referred to the Secret Service, according to Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli.
Essayli posted that the federal government has "zero tolerance for direct or implicit threats against government officials." He reported it to the Secret Sevice, he said in a social media post.
Gov. Newsom’s press account posted: Kristi Noem is going to have a bad day today. You’re welcome, America."
Noem is the Secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security.
Newsom posted that eight days after conservative debater Charlie Kirk was assassinated in Utah on the first stop of his American Comeback Tour by a deranged 22-year-old who was caught and will face the death penalty if convicted.
Newsom condemned that political violence, but then continued targeting politicians on social media.
On September 10, Newsom posted:
"The attack on Charlie Kirk is disgusting, vile, and reprehensible. In the United States of America, we must reject political violence in EVERY form."
Then, 10 days later, Newsom's press office posted an eerily message aimed at another conservative political figure who's speaking at an event in Michigan today.
A top comment on the social media post noted that apparent change of heart for the Democratic governor who wants to run for president.
Others called out Newsom for the post.
Writer Eric Daugherty posted:
Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy condemned the vague post. He called on Newsom to "Do better."
The government's response to the social media post follows heightened political violence over the past few years.
While campaigning for president, Donald Trump was shot in the ear at a rally in Pennsylvania.
In June, a masked gunman shot and killed Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark Hortman. That shooter also shot Minnesota State Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette Hoffman, and the attempted shooting of their daughter Hope Hoffman. Those three survived.
The ‘Study’ You’re Citing About Right-Wing Violence Is Full Of Fake Data
An Antifa-connected researcher with rabid bias against the right is held out as an expert on deciding who is extreme.
After Charlie Kirk was assassinated last week, conservatives noted that most political violence comes from the left. The left bristles at this fact and has responded by dramatically padding the numbers to pretend the reverse is true.
Consider a Sept. 12 piece from The Economist claiming, “extremists on both left and right commit violence, although more incidents appear to come from right-leaning attackers.”
Right up front, the piece admits it used data “largely compiled by researchers whom sceptical (sic) conservatives would probably dismiss as biased.” The disclaimer is meant to inoculate The Economist’s audience to its sloppy reporting, as if challenges from conservatives will somehow prove The Economist’s accuracy.
Yes, readers should be beyond skeptical of the source in that piece, The Prosecution Project. Its website claims to “track[] and provid[e] analysis of felony criminal cases involving illegal political violence, terrorism, and extremism occurring in the United States since 1990.”
The founder and executive director of the Prosecution Project is Michael Loadenthal, although the links naming the website’s leadership were broken Friday, meaning no names were visible. Google had not yet scrubbed Loadenthal’s name from searches.
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Loadenthal is an “openly anarchist Antifa-affiliated … researcher at the University of Cincinnati who, by his own admission, is a far-left violent extremist,” The Federalist reported in 2023.
So we have an Antifa-connected researcher with rabid bias against the right, held out as an expert on deciding who is extreme. It is like using a vegetarian to define which meat eaters are the most humane — none of them, says the vegetarian.
The Prosecution Project lists January 2024 charges against John Reardon of Massachusetts, who made antisemitic threats against synagogues and the Israeli Consulate. It notes, “Influenced by events in Gaza, he also said, ‘you do realize that by supporting genocide that means it’s ok for people to commit genocide against you.’” The Department of Justice never identified Reardon’s political affiliation, but The Prosecution Project’s own account seems to indicate he was a pro-Palestine fanatic, a cause typically associated with Democrats. Yet The Prosecution Project identifies Reardon’s crimes as “rightist” because they’re “identity-focused.”
The group also lists 2022 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act charges against Edmee Chavannes — even though “Chavannes was found not guilty.”
The Prosecution Project even includes the posting of racist stickers in its tracker, as if that’s comparable to terrorism or violence. One wonders if the group will treat Democrats’ desecration of Charlie Kirk memorials with the same seriousness.
Most crimes involving race or abortion businesses are blamed on the right in the data, with nothing to back up those claims. Yet these issues and others often cross over to the left. The Federalist has reported on the progressive anti-abortion movement, for example, and the left’s Marxist oppressor-versus-oppressed framework is manifestly racist.
Comb through the ridiculous data on The Prosecution Project’s website, and you will soon conclude it is worthless to everyone except leftist propagandists trying to downplay Charlie Kirk’s murder and flip the blame for violence in the U.S. to the right.
Similarly, a biased “study” by Alex Nowrasteh at the Cato Institute was debunked this week by Amber Duke at The Daily Caller.
Nowrasteh claims politically motivated violence is rare in the U.S., but that when it happens, “right-wing terrorists” are more often to blame than the left — that is, when you exclude the terrorists who killed 2,977 victims on Sept. 11, 2001, and exclude injuries, property damage, and people who were not killed. Thus, his criteria exclude the two assassination attempts on President Donald Trump, for example. Additionally, Duke found that some of the crimes Nowrasteh blamed on the right were at best questionable and at worst downright wrong.
Duke pointed to another lopsided study by the Anti-Defamation League, which also claims the right is to blame for increased political violence. Ryan James Girdusky unpacked those magic numbers and noted glaring omissions. For example, the ADL left the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson out of its study.
“The motivated reader can slice and dice these numbers in different ways, count marginal hate crimes as politically motivated terrorist attacks, assign different ideological motivations to the individual attacker, and must still conclude that the threat to human life from these types of attacks is relatively small,” Nowrasteh writes.
He is so wrong. Every crime sends ripples of consequences into the victims’ communities. At least half the nation feels victimized by the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and we are not counted in these studies.
Too many have seen or will see the video of that senseless moment when Kirk was silenced, and they will be changed by what they see. If you measure by ripple effect — if you measure by how many members of Congress refuse to condemn the assassination — the left is killing it at killing us.
Attack on New Hampshire Country Club, Shooter Reportedly Shouted 'Free Palestine'
The plague of left-wing violence continued on Saturday evening after a gunman opened fire at a New Hampshire country club. According to reports, at least one person was shot and killed, while others were injured due to the attendees stampeding in panic.
The shooter allegedly yelled "Free Palestine" during the attack.
NASHUA, NH — Nashua police have one person in custody after a shooting at the Sky Meadow Country Club in Nashua on Saturday night.
Multiple law enforcement agencies and first responders were sent to the scene. At least three people were taken to Southern New Hampshire Medical Center by a Bearcat. One man was reportedly shot in the face. The country club was hosting a function and people were also eating at Prime Restaurant when the gunmen entered the facility and began shooting people. A witness reported one of the men yelled, “Free Palestine,” before firing upon the guests.
A triage area was set up for the shooting victims at the Spit Brook Fire Station and East Dunstable Road. At least nine ambulances were called to the scene — several Mass. State Police troopers also arrived to assist, since part of the country club is in Massachusetts.
Astonishingly, a bystander took a chair and smashed it over the head of the killer, greatly limiting the carnage. Shortly after, police made an arrest and announced there was no longer a danger to the public.
We are still waiting on more details as far as narrowing down who exactly was targeted. The location seems oddly specific. A country club isn't the type of place a shooter wanders into randomly. It seems probable that the location was selected with intent. What we don't know is if there was a specific target at the country club, or if the shooting was meant to target whoever was in the way at that point. Some have speculated that a Jewish wedding was occurring, which would make sense given the antisemitic connotations of shouting, "Free Palestine," but that has not been confirmed.
A press conference is scheduled to happen within minutes of this article's publication. Hopefully, more information will be shared at that point that sheds more light on the situation.
This is a developing story. Provide updates in the comments.
Dems Warn Someday Conservatives Will Find Out What It’s Like To Be Canceled
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Prominent Democrats issued an ominous warning to conservatives in light of Jimmy Kimmel's sudden cancellation, vowing that someday, conservatives would find out what it's like to be canceled.
ABC cut ties with Kimmel, placing his late-night program on indefinite hold this week, due to low ratings and alleged pressure from the FCC, leading to the Democrats calling it an unprecedented move of censorship.
"We have never before seen anything like this in America," Senator Chuck Schumer told reporters at a press conference. "We lived in perfect harmony with Republicans before, never once encouraging mobs of people to complain, harass, dox, or cancel conservatives because we didn't like what they said. But be warned — someday they'll know exactly how it feels."
"You've taken this poor man and ruined his life over one comment he made," Congressional Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said, admonishing Republicans on the House floor. "We have never done any such thing to you, but you just wait and see. Someday the tables will turn, and we will see who cancels who."
According to Democrats, studios firing Rosanne Barr and Gina Carano due to social media posts, President Trump being banned from Twitter, and calls to boycott Chris Pratt, Joe Rogan, and J.K. Rowling did not count.
"Those were different," said Democrat Ted Lieu, who previously praised the cancellation of Dr. Seuss books. "We're nothing like Republicans. For example, 'Democrat' starts with a 'D.'"
At publishing time, Democrats threatened to dox Republican constituents who disagreed with their threats to someday retaliate by canceling conservatives.