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Monday, July 6, 2026

Hello and welcome to the day after the big day. It's July 5, 2026. My calendar says it's National Bikini Day, National Graham Cracker Day, National Apple Turnover Day, National Workaholics Day, Algeria Independence Day, and Mechanical Pencil Day — so pick your fighter today: sunbathe in swimwear invented as a nuclear metaphor, eat one-third of a s'more, or finally finish that email you've been "getting to" since Tuesday, but not all three, because even a made-up holiday deserves your undivided attention.

Today in History:

1687: Isaac Newton publishes Principia Mathematica, laying out the laws of motion and universal gravitation.

1775: The Continental Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition, a final appeal to King George III to avoid war. He rejects it and threatens to execute the people who wrote it.

1811: Venezuela declares independence from Spain, launching its war for independence.

1852: Frederick Douglass delivers his landmark speech "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" in Rochester, N.Y.

1865: President Andrew Johnson signs the order confirming the convictions of the conspirators in Abraham Lincoln's assassination.

1911: A deadly heat wave peaks in the northeastern U.S., with temperatures reaching 106°F in Nashua, N.H.

1948: The United Kingdom's National Health Service begins operations, offering universal healthcare funded by taxation.

1954: Elvis Presley records "That's All Right" at Sun Records, a session often cited as the birth of rock and roll.

1962: Algeria gains independence from France after 132 years of colonial rule.

1971: The 26th Amendment is certified, lowering the U.S. voting age to 18.

1975: Cape Verde gains independence from Portugal.

1975: Arthur Ashe defeats Jimmy Connors to become the first black man to win Wimbledon.

1994: Amazon is incorporated, beginning as an online bookstore.

1996: Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell, is born.

Birthdays Today Include: P.T. Barnum (circus entrepreneur, founder of the Barnum & Bailey Circus); Georges Pompidou (former president of France); Jean Cocteau (poet and filmmaker, known for Beauty and the Beast, Orpheus); Robbie Robertson (musician, guitarist for The Band); Huey Lewis (musician, frontman of Huey Lewis and the News); Bill Watterson (cartoonist, creator of Calvin and Hobbes); Edie Falco (actress, known for The Sopranos, Nurse Jackie); Kathryn Erbe (actress, known for Law & Order: Criminal Intent); Katherine Helmond (actress, known for Soap, Who’s the Boss?); RZA (musician and producer, member of Wu-Tang Clan); François Arnaud (actor, known for The Borgias).

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I got to thinking last night after I watched President Donald Trump’s speech at Mount Rushmore, followed by the left's bedwetting response — the kind of reflex a bad meal at the local diner triggers right before it comes back up. And the thought landed with brutal clarity.

Trump said: "The American dream still lives, and the American flag still flies more proudly than ever before over the people who will not quit."

He also said, "The nation that will not fail, the country that will not fall no matter how hard the enemy tries — we cannot be beaten."

The contrast between the president’s speech and the leftist reaction was a stark one.

It's a little early yet for the full picture of the left's response to emerge, but we have New York City's Mayor Zohran Mamdani's. He has been a target of Trump of late, and justifiably so. He gave a competing July 4th-eve speech that didn't name Trump directly but seemed aimed at his rhetoric, invoking the idea that American ideals "are strong enough to endure any authoritarian regime, but only if we reach for them." The point Mamdani misses, of course, is that ever since Marx put pen to paper, socialism has proven itself to be the very definition of authoritarian.

Sure, the left insists it can't stomach the president because of its perception of the yawning gap between what he preaches and what he does. But here's the uglier possibility keeping leftists up at night: maybe they can't stomach him because of themselves — because of the gap between his willingness to act and their willingness to actually confront evil. The evil they themselves have championed.

My take: the left has marinated so long in ambiguity and inaction both on the world stage vis-à-vis Iran, and the socialism that has become so loud recently, that Trump's call for decisive action — and his habit of actually taking action against that evil — doesn't register as leadership. It reads as an insult to their treasured sense of nuance, their preference for negotiating with and capitulating to that evil instead.

Here's what Trump's critics won't say out loud: they've convinced themselves and are trying to convince you that opposing him with everything they've got is the defining moral fight of our era. It isn't. He already named the real one, and it was never about him. And keep in mind, it's a little hard to argue from a moral perspective when you’ve spent the last five decades arguing against the very concept of morality.

That's exactly why he's so hard to beat, and why his supporters won't flinch no matter how ugly his approval numbers get. (They haven't budged, by the way — but that's a separate topic.)

Trump’s opponents run on moral certainty that he's the villain: remove him, defeat him, shame him. He runs on moral certainty that the mullahs and the IRGC, Palestinian militant factions, and Communist movements are the villains — and that defeating them is the point. Set those side by side, and it’s clear Trump’s position is driven by conviction. The left’s constant whining sounds like a grudge wearing a suit.

That gap hands ammunition to every conservative who's ever argued that liberals traded real conviction for something cheaper: distaste. Distaste doesn't demand courage. Distaste doesn't require a plan. It just needs someone disliked loudly enough, for long enough, that the dislike starts masquerading as principle. They’ve been doing it so long, it’s all they’ve got left, and it shows. All they have left after so long of it being the core argument is stubbornness and hatred. And that’s never going to sell.

It's one reason I remain confident regarding the mid-terms, assuming the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (also called the SAVE Act or SAVE America Act) is passed.

Maybe someone ought to get John Thune to read this piece.

https://pjmedia.com/eric-florack/2026/07/05/conviction-vs-contempt-why-the-left-cant-match-trumps-moral-clarity-n4954686?utm_source=pjmediavip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm

Trump's Mount Rushmore Speech Outrages the Media Like Nothing Since the Days of Reagan

Trump's Mount Rushmore Speech Outrages the Media Like Nothing Since the Days of Reagan

Robert Spencer

Speaking at Mount Rushmore on Friday to commemorate the 250th anniversary of our nation, President Donald Trump sounded the alarm: “As we approach this magnificent anniversary, we see our American identity under a renewed attack.” He observed that “a generation after we fought and won the Cold War against the menace of communism, there is now a resurgence of the communist menace in our land, including from newcomers to our country who embrace ideas totally opposed to our way of life and our great success.”

There was no doubt whatsoever that what he was saying was true, and that thirty-five years after the end of the Cold War, communism is indeed resurgent in the U.S. The establishment media confirmed this by falling easily back into its old Cold War habit of sneering at foes of communism as if patriots were fabricating the threat entirely, or at very least wildly exaggerating it in order to advance their own agenda.

The New York Times report was dripping with so much contempt that you’d think it was the good old days again, when they were sneering at Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. “Mr. Trump,” sniffed the Gray Lady, “read from an apocalyptic script as the stony faces of Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln looked on. He said the word ‘communism’ so many times, you might’ve thought the Cold War was still on.” You'd think Trump had done something really gauche like ask Mr. Gorbachev to tear down this wall. (Back in 1987, when Ronald Reagan actually called on Soviet top dog Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall, the Times complained that the president was "using this speech to portray Moscow as the villain in the arms race.")

Trump, the rootless cosmopolites continued, was — horror of horrors — “not subtle.” He declared that communism was “‘the enemy of July 4, 1776.’ He called it a bigger threat than Pearl Harbor and even 9/11. He name-checked Karl Marx.”

As well he should, for Marx is the intellectual godfather behind the communist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s petulant 250th anniversary remarks, in which he whined that “the powerful” view America as “an arena of supremacy, where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal.”

Trump didn’t address Mamdani’s remarks directly, but he made it very clear that he knew what they represented: the politics of envy and hatred, which leads to social upheaval, total government control, and the state’s enslavement of its citizens. “These are not mere political disagreements,” Trump said, “like differences over taxes or regulations. Communism is a mortal threat to American liberty. It is the greatest threat to our country.”

Speaking accurately about communism in a way that the New York Times hasn’t done since its Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter Walter Duranty covered up Stalin’s Ukrainian famine, Trump said that it was “the exact opposite of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It’s death, tyranny and the pursuit of evil.” He added: “You can be loyal to Karl Marx, or you can be loyal to America. You can be a communist, or you can be a patriot. You cannot be both.”

That is undeniable, both because communism is an internationalist system that rejects all nationalism, and because it considers allegiance to anything but the international working class (which is in reality the bosses of whatever communist system is at hand) to be an unacceptable attachment to bourgeois capitalism.

Continuing in his classic Trumpian fashion, the president said that “the Communist Party is made up of illegal immigrants, criminals, and everybody that doesn’t want to work. Communism is a loser. It always was, and it is. Right now, it’s a big loser. Look at the people that are promoting it.” Trump has called a lot of people losers over the years, and in this case his usage may seem odd, given the fact that Democratic Socialists of America candidates have just won some impressive victories, and the Marxists appear to be on the march in America.

Trump is, however, entirely correct. Communism is an ideology for losers, as it punishes the productive for their productivity and rewards the thugs who manage to seize and hold power, all while presenting itself as the triumph of social justice and equality of rights for all. Only losers would fall for that lie, and only slaves would submit to it, and Trump doesn’t want to see America become the land of either one.

“Tonight,” the president said, “we gather on the eve of one of the most extraordinary days in the history of the world. Tomorrow we mark 250 years of glorious independence and 250 years of majestic American freedom – nothing like it.” Indeed there isn’t. And now that we have come this far, it would be a world-historical tragedy to lose it all to the most obviously failed ideology in the history of the world.

https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2026/07/04/trumps-mount-rushmore-speech-outrages-the-media-like-nothing-since-the-days-of-reagan-n4954672?utm_source=rsmorningbriefingvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Sunday, July 5, 2026

Wind and Solar Finally Meet the Taxpayer’s Breaking Point

Wind and Solar Finally Meet the Taxpayer’s Breaking Point

David Manney

A family paying the electric bill doesn't care how noble a subsidy sounds in Washington. They care whether the lights stay on, the furnace runs, the air conditioner works, and the bill leaves enough money for groceries.

President Donald Trump's tax law set July 4, 2026, as the deadline ending federal tax credit subsidies for new wind and solar projects not already under construction. U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright called the deadline the end of roughly 35 years of federal support for wind and solar, and he noted that in 2025 they comprised about 3% of total U.S. primary energy consumption. From Just the News:

The Working Families Tax Cuts, a signature piece of President Trump's tax legislation signed a year ago, set Saturday as the deadline for federal tax credit subsidies on any new solar or wind projects not currently under construction.

U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright touted the subsidy deadline and criticized solar and wind energy projects in a video posted to social media Thursday.

"The wind doesn’t always blow, and the sun doesn’t always shine," Wright said. "They drive up the system costs and increase Americans' electricity prices."

From 2010 to 2023, solar and wind energy projects received more than $141 billion in government subsidies combined, according to an analysis by the Texas Public Policy Foundation. The projects received more in government subsidies than any other energy source in the United States, the group reported.

"Beyond their direct costs, subsidies are causing artificially low or negative wholesale prices, scarcity prices during periods of high demand and low wind and solar generation, inefficient use of existing assets, and increased transmission costs," Brent Bennett, a researcher at the Texas foundation wrote.

The original argument for subsidies was patience. Give the industry help, let technology improve, then let the market decide. After decades of federal support, taxpayers were still being asked to finance energy sources that need backup, transmission buildouts, land, materials, and favorable rules to compete.

Patience became a policy shift; policy drift becomes a bill the public never really got to vote on.

The White House executive order signed July 7, 2025, said federal policy would rapidly eliminate market distortions and taxpayer costs tied to green energy subsidies. The order directed the Treasury Department to strictly enforce the termination of clean electricity production and investment tax credits under sections 45Y and 48E for wind and solar facilities.

It also directed the Interior Department to review policies that favor wind and solar over dispatchable energy sources.

A Just the News report placed the cost in plain sight. Wind and solar subsidies were estimated at more than $141 billion from 2010 to 2023, more than any other energy source. Before the cuts, the Congressional Budget Office estimated the two programs would increase the federal deficit by $308 billion from 2026 through 2035.

Those figures should settle the basic question. Taxpayers shouldn't be forced to bankroll electricity that still struggles when demand peaks and weather refuses to cooperate. America needs power that can run steel mills, hospitals, data centers, farms, factories, and homes without asking families to pray for sunshine or a breeze.

Wind and solar have a role where they make sense. Let them compete; let investors risk their own money; let customers decide what they want to buy.

A market can handle that, but a rigged market can't keep asking the waitress, welder, truck driver, and retiree to carry favored industries on their backs while Washington calls the burden “progress.”

The next honest fight should include ethanol. The Renewable Fuel Standard isn't the same kind of tax credit, but it still uses federal power to force a market.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin finalized 2026 and 2027 Renewable Fuel Standard volumes at the highest levels in history. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said the rule is expected to create a $3 billion to $4 billion increase in net farm income, while the EPA said it would maintain the 15 billion gallon conventional biofuel level for 2026 and 2027.

Today at the White House Great American Agriculture Celebration, President Trump announced that U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized the historic Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) “Set 2” final rule. The final rule realigns the program with Congress’ original intent—increasing the use of homegrown American biofuels—putting American farmers first and promoting American energy independence. In the 20th year of the RFS program, “Set 2” establishes the renewable fuel volume requirements for 2026 and 2027 at the highest levels in program history. EPA’s final rule demonstrates the Trump administration’s ongoing commitment to America’s farmers and unleashing American energy by reducing America’s reliance on foreign oil, delivering long-term certainty and stability for America’s farmers and biofuel producers, and ultimately creating a path for rural economies to boom.

“President Trump promised a Golden Age of American agriculture. Once again, his administration is delivering. Overall, ‘Set 2’ creates a larger, more stable, and more reliable domestic market for U.S. crops, strengthening farm income and rural economies,” said EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. “For 20 years, this program has diversified our nation’s energy supply and advanced American energy independence. EPA is proud to deliver on this mission and to do so at historic levels.”

“Today’s announcement is truly historic for our nation’s farmers and energy producers. These numbers represent the highest levels of biofuels ever required to be blended into our fuel supply,” said U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins. “With President Trump and Administrator Zeldin’s leadership, these historically high volumes are expected to create a $3 to $4 billion dollar increase in net farm income. The Renewable Fuel Standard Set 2 Rule will create a $31 billion dollar value for American corn and soybean oil for biofuel production in 2026, which is $2 billion more than in 2025. Our farmers are stepping up to grow American energy dominance.”

Under Administrator Zeldin’s leadership, the agency has been working tirelessly to further America’s energy independence and future, and these new requirements are another major step in that direction.

Farmers deserve respect; corn growers aren't villains; rural America has been battered by fuel prices, fertilizer costs, interest rates, and years of policy chaos. Respecting farmers doesn't require pretending every mandate is wise forever.

If Washington is finally willing to question subsidies for wind and solar, it should also question every energy mandate that hides costs inside fuel prices, compliance credits, and political favors.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration said higher blending targets drove Renewable Identification Number prices close to record highs in 2026. It also forecast record-high production of fuel ethanol and renewable diesel because of high blend mandates, high gasoline and diesel prices, and rising production capacity.

America doesn't need an energy policy built around sacred cows. Wind, solar, ethanol, oil, gas, coal, nuclear, and hydropower should all face the same hard test: can they deliver reliable, affordable energy without turning taxpayers into unwilling investors?

Trump's July 4 deadline is a good start because it treats taxpayers like citizens with rights instead of wallets with legs.

Now keep going.

https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/07/04/wind-and-solar-finally-meet-the-taxpayers-breaking-point-n4954653?utm_source=pjmediavip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm

The FBI’s Georgia Probe Asks the Question 2020 Critics Tried to Bury

The FBI’s Georgia Probe Asks the Question 2020 Critics Tried to Bury

David Manney

AP Photo/Brynn Anderson

The FBI just put hundreds of people on a question much of Washington has spent five years trying to shame out of existence. If Georgia's 2020 presidential election was clean, a full review should prove it. If something went wrong, America needs to know that, too.

The bureau has directed 260 investigative analysts and staff operations specialists from field offices across the country to help review records tied to the 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga.

Each is expected to check about 708 records by July 17, and the work has been described inside the FBI as a “priority investigation.” From the Associated Press:

FBI agents in January seized hundreds of boxes containing ballots and other documents related to the 2020 election in Georgia’s most populous county, which is heavily Democratic and includes most of the city of Atlanta. A Fulton County spokesperson declined to comment citing a pending investigation. The contents of the memo were first reported by MS NOW.
President Donald Trump and his allies have made false claims that widespread election fraud cost him the 2020 election. Georgia’s votes in the 2020 presidential race were counted three times, including once by hand, and each count affirmed Democrat Joe Biden’s win.
The Justice Department has previously said it is investigating “irregularities that occurred during the 2020 presidential election in the County.”

President Donald Trump has long argued that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud. His critics have spent just as long insisting the subject is closed, settled, buried, sealed, and morally off-limits.

They don't merely disagree; they often demand a loyalty oath: say there was no fraud, say it clearly, and say it before you're allowed back into polite conversation.

But questions don't become dangerous because someone powerful dislikes them. They become dangerous when the system refuses to answer them. The country was told Georgia counted the presidential vote three times, including once by hand, and each count showed Joe Biden ahead.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said the 2020 hand audit reaffirmed the machine count and showed Biden leading Trump.

Those facts should be included; so should another fact: audits and recounts don't automatically answer every question about chain of custody, ballot handling, election procedures, memory cards, recordkeeping, or whether any illegal conduct occurred around the process.

A tally can confirm a number, while an investigation asks how the system operated around that number.

That's why the FBI's move matters. It doesn't prove fraud, doesn't overturn anything, and doesn't rewrite history by itself. It asks whether federal investigators believe there's enough unresolved material in Fulton County to justify a major manpower surge.

In a free country, that shouldn't terrify anyone who says the records are sound.

The court record from 2020 also deserves more honesty than the public usually gets. Many election lawsuits turned on timing, standing, certification, jurisdiction, or requested remedies.

Some claims were rejected because courts found them unsupportive. Other cases never became full public trials on every factual allegation. The popular claim that “the courts reviewed all the fraud evidence and settled everything” flattens a much messier record.

Trump critics will point to Georgia's recounts, audits, certification, and recertification. They have every right to do so; those are part of the record.

Trump supporters will point to unanswered questions, sudden resistance to deeper reviews, and the strange rage that erupts whenever anyone asks for another look.

They have every right to do that, too.

The healthiest answer is daylight, not slogans, gag rules, social punishment, or pretending that half the country should simply swallow doubts because institutional voices sound impatient.

Elections are the machinery of consent. If people believe the machinery is clean, they accept defeat more readily. If they believe questions are being buried, suspicion grows.

The answer isn't less scrutiny; it's more.

Fulton County has been at the center of America's 2020 argument for years. Now the FBI, led by Director Kash Patel, is putting hundreds of analysts on the records. The DOJ has already acknowledged an investigation into “irregularities” tied to the county's 2020 presidential election.

If the probe finds nothing, say so clearly and release as much as the law allows. If it finds misconduct, clearly name it and follow the evidence wherever it leads. Either result is better than a country where election questions are treated as heresy.

Our country can survive hard answers, but it can't survive a ruling class that tells people to stop asking.

https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/07/02/the-fbis-georgia-probe-asks-the-question-2020-critics-tried-to-bury-n4954615?utm_source=rsmorningbriefingvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Saturday, July 4, 2026

What One Secret Service Agent Was Really Doing (Googling) As Trump’s Would-Be Assassin Opened Fire

What One Secret Service Agent Was Really Doing (Googling) As Trump’s Would-Be Assassin Opened Fire

By Rusty Weiss

A new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) inspector general report reveals that a Secret Service counter-drone operator was actively Googling the location of the rooftop where would-be assassin Thomas Crooks was perched at the exact moment he opened fire on Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Instead of quickly coordinating with officers on the scene, the operator resorted to an internet search while the gunman took aim from just 155 yards away, one of several catastrophic failures detailed in the blistering report.

Perhaps more alarming, local law enforcement had identified Crooks on the roof two minutes before the first shots rang out — yet the then-presidential candidate's protective detail was never alerted.

President Trump was the target at the Butler campaign rally where he was shot and wounded. The assassin's bullet would strike Trump's ear, leaving him bloodied. Corey Comperatore, a retired volunteer fire chief, was killed in the assassination attempt as he protected his wife and daughter, and two other men were seriously wounded.

Multiple agents were suspended without pay in connection with their response to the attempted assassination.

Trump Attempted Assassination Photos, Including One Showing a Streaking Bullet, Win Pulitzer Prize

The new DHS IG report, released on Thursday, shows the counter-drone operator was still Googling the location of the American Glass Research (AGR) building when Crooks opened fire.

You know, as opposed to asking someone about his location or where he had been spotted.

Local law enforcement at 6:09 p.m. called Secret Service and the Pennsylvania State Police communications room, “warning them of a suspicious person on the AGR complex’s roof."

“Instead of asking local law enforcement personnel for the AGR complex’s location, the counter drone operator searched online for it, and was still searching when Crooks fired his first shots,” the report states.

As a result, the president’s team remained completely unaware of the armed gunman just 155 yards away until bullets were already flying.

Just two minutes later, at 6:11 p.m., Crooks opened fire with eight shots. Despite that narrow window, the president’s own protective detail was never warned that an armed gunman had a clear line of sight to the stage.

Furthermore, a Secret Service site agent proposed using trucks already on location at the Butler Farm Show grounds to block the line of sight from the AGR building to the stage, but campaign staff rejected the idea because the vehicles would be “too close to [President Trump’s] press shot.”

However, the agreed-upon alternative placement was never implemented, and supervisors failed to follow up after being told that local law enforcement would handle the AGR complex. That miscommunication left Crooks with an unobstructed 155-yard view of the podium.

The IG report also highlighted that the lead agent at the event, Miyo Perez, was relatively inexperienced, while the two supervisors overseeing her planning faced no discipline and later received promotions from Sean Curran, the agent ultimately responsible for signing off on the Butler site security plan. Curran is presently the Director of the United States Secret Service.

Law enforcement was eventually able to neutralize Crooks, shooting and killing him on the rooftop after he opened fire.

"The Secret Service’s overall lack of policy and processes, coupled with limited intelligence sharing and poor collaboration and communication with protectee staff and state and local law enforcement, set the conditions that led to missing opportunities to prevent and detect the attempted assassination," the report reveals.

It was a cascade of inexcusable failures. A man died in this attack, two others were severely wounded, the future President was almost killed, and the nation would have almost surely been plunged into absolute chaos.

How Did Britain’s Grooming Gangs Ever Get Started?

How Did Britain’s Grooming Gangs Ever Get Started?

Robert Spencer

AP Photo/Alastair Grant

The scope of Britain’s grooming gang scandal is breathtaking. As many as 250,000 British girls, and possibly even more were raped, tortured, trafficked, and more. The perpetrators were overwhelmingly Muslim males, mostly migrants from Pakistan, who looked to Islamic texts and teachings to justify these heinous crimes. Because they believed that Allah himself had sanctioned the seizure and use of infidel women as sex slaves, they didn’t think there was anything shameful about their behavior, and sometimes fathers, uncles, brothers and sons would all participate in a rape gang together.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for Western non-Muslims to comprehend this kind of thinking, but it must be done if Britain or any other Western country is ever going to take serious steps to prevent this sort of thing from continuing to happening. And so it is useful to explore the teachings of an Egyptian Muslim cleric, Abu Ishaq al-Huwayni, who in May 2011 offered an elaborate Islamic theological justification of the sexual enslavement of non-Muslim women. It was, he explained, all part of the jihad against the infidels.

Al-Huwayni asserted that Muslims and non-Muslims were actually in a state of war, and that this was good. “We are,” he said, “in the era of jihad. The era of jihad has come over us, and jihad in the path of Allah is a pleasure. It is a real pleasure. The companions (of the Prophet) used to compete to (perform jihad).” It was a pleasure, sure, but it also had a practical effect: the Muslims would seize the property of non-Muslims and thereby alleviate their own poverty: “The poverty that we’re in—is it not due to our abandonment of jihad? But if we could conduct one, two, or three jihadist operations every year, many people throughout the earth would become Muslims.”

Part of what made waging jihad a pleasure was that Muslims would be able to take captives, including attractive young women: “If Muslims returned to waging jihad, they would be able to take captives, and profit from doing so.”

First the Muslims would invite the non-Muslims to accept Islam. This proselytizing, or da’wa, would precede jihad. Then would come the fighting: “And whoever rejected this da’wa, or stood in our way, we would fight against him and take him prisoner, and confiscate his wealth, his children, and his women—all of this means money.”

The women would simply be more spoils of war: “Every mujahid who returned from jihad, his pockets would be full. He would return with three or four slaves, three or four women, and three or four children. Multiply each head by 300 dirhams, or 300 dinar, and you have a good amount of profit. If he were to go to the West and work on a commercial deal, he would not make that much money. Whenever things became difficult (financially), he could take the head (i.e. the prisoner) and sell it, and ease his (financial) crisis. He would sell it like groceries.”

Al-Huwayni emphasized that Muslim warriors could legitimately seize non-Muslim women as sex slaves: “Do you understand what I’m saying? Spoils, slaves, and prisoners are only to be taken in war between Muslims and infidels. Muslims in the past conquered, invaded, and took over countries. This is agreed to by all scholars — there is no disagreement on this from any of them, from the smallest to the largest, on the issue of taking spoils and prisoners. The prisoners and spoils are distributed among the fighters, which includes men, women, children, wealth, and so on.”

Then al-Huwayni invoked Qur’an passages on “those whom your right hands possess” to justify this teaching: “When a slave market is erected, which is a market in which are sold slaves and sex-slaves, which are called in the Qur’an by the name milk al-yamin, ‘that which your right hands possess’ [Qur’an 4:24]. This is a verse from the Qur’an which is still in force, and has not been abrogated. The milk al-yamin are the sex-slaves.” He added: “When I want a sex slave, I just go to the market and choose the woman I like and purchase her.”

This may seem to be a long way off from rape gangs victimizing girls on the streets of Britain, but it isn’t. The Qur’an tells women to veil themselves so that they will not be molested (33:59); the corollary to that is that unveiled women are fair game. There is no hot war in Britain between Muslims and non-Muslims, but the Qur’an’s exhortation to fight unbelievers “until religion is all for Allah” (8:39) is open-ended. What better way to humiliate the enemy than to demonstrate that he cannot or will not protect the most vulnerable members of society? And that mission has been abundantly accomplished.

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Friday, July 3, 2026

Unhinged Lib: Trump Supporters Make Me Want to Burn the American Flag

Unhinged Lib: Trump Supporters Make Me Want to Burn the American Flag

Matt Vespa

Unhinged Lib: Trump Supporters Make Me Want to Burn the American Flag — *monkeybusinessimages/iStock/Getty Images Plus*

Again, these people just hate America. It’s funny that in 2020, they were all saying ‘you must love your country even when your candidate loses’ or something, and now they act like this. The Left is still in knots over patriots being in control. It’s to the point where they’re now backing those with Nazi tattoos for Senate, and folks who think we deserved the 9/11 attacks. It’s madness.

And leave it to Bravo star, podcaster, and nutjob extraordinaire Jennifer Welch to say that she feels like burning American flags because of Trump supporters. That’s right, honey. Throw a temper tantrum because there are people with differing opinions. Oh, and we’re the majority in case you didn’t notice, so guzzle down that white wine and scream into the microphone. Because when you’re done with all of that, we’re still going to be here.

There really isn't much to add here. What a lunatic.

Happy Independence Day, patriots. Don’t be like Jenny.

Also, Trump derangement syndrome should be classified as a real medical condition at this point.