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Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Portland Antifa Records Ambush of ICE Officer in Biggest Self-Own Since the Last Time She Did It — *AP Photo/Erin Hooley, File*

What a day of historic immigration firsts: Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.) releases 15,000 criminal illegal aliens into your neighborhood gen pop again after refusing to enforce Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers, and suspected illegal alien Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-Minn.) Washington, D.C. home is raided by the feds to track down the documents her family used to allegedly fraudulently get into the country. But something that's not a first, and should be a last, are the crimes committed by an Oregon woman who has organized ambushes of ICE agents before and who has just done it again.

And she's still unprosecuted by the feds.

Late last month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced an increase in immigration operations in so-called "sanctuary cities" in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Washington, D.C., Illinois, Minnesota, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.

In Oregon, as immigration busts have been quietly conducted, activists and agitators have stepped up their anti-ICE direct actions. They're still following cars coming out of the ICE headquarters near Portland's core; they're doxxing the cars the officers use, and they're again inciting violence and ambushing DHS officers on the job.

Here are two videos from local Antifa and immigrant activist, Kiley Delgado. That's her married name. She is a white "ally" who co-owns The 649, a bar in Beaverton, Ore., with her husband, Karim. More on him in a minute.

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In the first video, Kiley Delgado videos herself (you can't see her, but this is her voice) earlier in October 2026, blockading DHS officers in a car, succeeding in enlisting others to help blockade him, and surrounding the officers. An ambush.

In the video, she reveals she's maneuvering the car to hem him in. She bleats, "we can play, my car's bigger than yours." She turns on her chosen song theme for the video, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," and gets out of her vehicle to record close-up videos to further intimidate the officers.

"Can you pull behind them?" she screeches to people showing up for the ambush.

And then she further incites the collecting mob, three men so far, by coaching them on what to do:

It's ICE! It's ICE! Can you help me record them? If you have a car, please pull up behind them! It's ICE. They're trying to kidnap people! Please pull behind them and park, please? Put your car there they're going to move, please! Hurry! Park your car sideways, please!

The three men, cameras out, begin approaching the DHS car after they succeed in blocking it. They stalk toward the feds' car, and one of them taunts, "You f****d up! You f****d up!"

Back in her vehicle and driving closer to the federal officers, Delgado gloats, "Dumb b*****s, you're not going anywhere!"

Out of her car, Delgado commands her co-conspirators, "Can you block the road so they can't get out?" She notes on her recording, "We have them blocked in but we need more cars."

In post-production of this video, she put in a flash frame of an identifiable federal officer from her October 2025 video. We don't know what happened to him from this video, and there's no record of it on the DHS or DOJ website that I can find so far.

In the second video, she and her husband, Karim, do the same thing. They call out reinforcements via social media and use their cars to force the federal agents into an ambush position. The officers have only one way out — driving through a hedge in someone's yard to escape the ambush by the angry mob.

The two thought it was so funny to ambush the ICE officers that they had to make a desperate getaway that they put it to comedic music.

Besides being a bar owner, Karim Delgado's social media records show that he's a former "combat correspondent" for the U.S. Marines in Afghanistan, a "U.S. Special Forces" videographer in Afghanistan in 2012, a former Army Corps of Engineers public affairs officer, and a "Teach for America" teacher, and a "conflict videographer" in Afghanistan.

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These two, along with Oregon's NGO mob, have emboldened other such attacks. This one last November — days after the Delgado's operation — was portrayed in the media and by non-Mensa member Senator Jeff Merkley as a poor child being bullied by federal law enforcement. It was a case of two U.S. citizens impeding (blocking) federal officers with their pickup trucks and then surrounding them.

After watching those videos, see if you don't agree that this incident has some similarities.

Those two U.S. citizens, one of whom was 17 years old, used his vehicle to "violently ATTACK ICE and Border Patrol agents."

Merkley was spun up because he thought U.S. citizens were being arrested for being illegally in the country. It turns out that U.S. citizens who try to ambush federal agents get arrested too. I told you he wasn't a Mensa member.

My question for more than a year now is why the Delgados haven't been busted for the same thing. They've left their own trail of self-incriminating evidence for all to see.

https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2026/10/12/portland-agitator-records-ambush-of-ice-officer-in-biggest-self-own-since-the-last-time-she-did-it-n4958223?utm_source=pjmediavip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm

Democrats Are the Party of Boomers

Democrats Are the Party of Boomers

Derek Hunter Follow @derekahunter

Democrats are the ultimate retread party – a group of washed-up has-beens dining out on the things they accomplished decades ago. For all their talk about “young voters” and their desire and push to reach them, not to mention their embrace of socialism, anti-Americanism and antisemitism to do that, they are just a bunch of boomers and senior citizens trying to appeal to boomers to get their money and their votes.

When was the last time you thought about someone like James Taylor? Odds are, since you’re using the Internet, you’ve never thought about James Taylor. At least not as a musician, maybe as a political activist, since he shows up every four years at the Democratic National Convention, before retreating into Connecticut, Vermont or somewhere up in that area where left-wingers live off royalty checks from accomplishments 50 years ago.

James Taylor recently allowed his name to be used by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to raise money for their attempt to seize the House. “Reaching out to ask personally,” the subject line read. It was so “personal,” in fact, that they couldn’t even have the database insert the recipient’s name and start off simply, “Friend, it’s James Taylor.”

Since most people under 70 have no idea who he is, it included a picture that has to be 40 years old of Taylor playing guitar. “Now I know you may be surprised to see me in your inbox, but aside from my career as a singer and songwriter, I’ve always been proud to be an advocate for causes I care deeply about,” says the crusty hippie. He whined that “the world so many of us grew up in is slipping away.”

I didn’t realize Taylor, 78, has grown up in a country overrun by illegal aliens and socialism. I had no idea the 60s were full of Islamic calls to prayer across the country and Somali enclaves without the ability to communicate with anyone in the language of the United States. Of course, this “man of the people” moved to London, as normal people tend to do, in the late 60s and lived like a hippie, signing with The Beatles’ Apple Records, like normal people did.

Then there’s Carole King, another 60s and 70s washout. She had a very successful career as a songwriter, then a recording artist, then nothing for about 40-50 years. “Hi, it’s Carole King♩♩, and I personally wrote this email,” it opens, complete with the musical notes after her name since most people using email have no idea who King is.

Then there’s Martin Sheen. He signs off on emails for Democrats a lot.

In every email, he manages to work in the fact that he played a fake President in The West Wing back in the late 90s and early 2000s. He made some great movies, probably before you were born, but hasn’t done much anyone noticed lately.

If you aren’t a boomer, you probably only know his kids.

“Hi Derek, it's Martin Sheen. I know seeing my name in your inbox might come as a surprise, but I need to talk to you about the country we both love,” Sheen wrote. The man who, when he was “honorary Mayor of Malibu,” famously declared it to be “a nuclear-free zone, a sanctuary for aliens and the homeless, and a protected environment for all life, wild and tame,” is always asking for money; it seems like once a week.

What you don’t see coming from Democrats is anyone under the age of 78 (Taylor is the youngest “celebrity” I can find signing off on fundraising emails for them) coming out and milking their fame for the party of invasion, child genital mutilation, and the destruction of Israel. Not that young “celebrities” aren’t Democrats; they’re likely unthinking Democrats who simply follow their crowd in their profession in an attempt to blend in and get work.

They really are that fascistic.

Still, Democrats do raise a lot of money from rich boomers – people who spend their time resenting those who made more money in their lives than they did, no matter how much money they made. The party of envy is using their rich, better-known faces to drill into the wallets of fans in retirement while insisting they are the future of the country. How many of them will even be around in 10 years? Don’t let them ruin it on their way out the door.

https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2026/10/12/democrats-are-the-party-of-boomers-n2684493?utm_source=thdailyvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&utm_content=ncl-nVf3dxTS5r&utm_term=&_nlid=nVf3dxTS5r&_nhids=ncZ4xI7LiLXels

French Street Protests: It's Not Many Students, and Lots of Leftists and Islamists

French Street Protests: It's Not Many Students, and Lots of Leftists and Islamists

David Strom

As with many protest movements, the grievances that sparked the ongoing riots rocking France began with a grain of truth.

And as with most protests these days, the issue is never the issue; the Revolution is. As much as rioting has been a national sport in France since at least the French Revolution, the ones we are seeing now are far from organic or just kids doing what French kids do.

A Fox News Digital investigation traces how France's student protests over education cuts are being hijacked by a sprawling network of communist activists, labor unions and far-left political parties — all amplified by a transnational propaganda machine funded by Neville Roy Singham, an American-born tech tycoon based in China who supports the Chinese Communist Party.
Fox News Digital's senior editor of investigations @AsraNomani tracked 50 groups in a 'red-green alliance' involved in a transnational network organizing, promoting and amplifying the student protests in France.
– Only 15 groups, or 1 of 3, is a youth student group
The 35 other groups for adults are all left-leaning.
– 12 labor groups
– 8 communist or socialist organizations
– 5 civil-rights and human-rights groups
– 5 groups focused on issues from taxes to media
– 4 political parties, including La France insoumise and French Communist Party
– 1 Palestinian advocacy group
On the ground in Paris, the hammer and sickle flies alongside Palestinian flags. The French Communist Party's national secretary poses with protesters. Far-left politicians from La France Insoumise pose for photos with students.
Groups like the Young Communists Movement of France march behind bright red banners reading "Class War" and demanding an end to "Imperialist Wars."
"What we're seeing here is the same Red-Green ecosystem that disrupts infrastructure chokeholds in our country such as the Brooklyn Bridge, college campuses and congressional hearings," says Heritage Foundation senior fellow Mike Gonzalez @Gundisalvus.
In the U.S., BreakThrough News — a pro-communist outlet in the Singham network — pushes the protests to a global audience, racking up hundreds of thousands of likes, including from influencer Hasan Piker, on dramatic anti-police clips while laying the groundwork for the next student explosion, this time in India.

Even the audience the protests are meant to move is not primarily French; what is happening is designed to force change in that country, but the organizers' goal in keeping the "movement" going is global, with the ultimate aim of further destabilizing Western countries worldwide.

The Singham network's reach goes far beyond France. BreakThrough News publishes a dramatic video from the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis showing a far-left mayor "protecting" students from police — it racks up 346,000 likes in one day. From Brazil, teleSUR shared clash footage with a dramatic soundtrack. Self-described Marxist Twitch influencer Hasan Piker, who traveled to Cuba earlier this year and met Singham's wife Jodie Evans of CodePink, likes the content.

Behind it all is the Neville Roy Singham network and its tentacles reaching into the left-wing political and NGO complex. The protests are nominally about school conditions, but the actions certainly are not designed to make schools a better place to be.

Too few teachers? The solution isn't to attack teachers and beat them up.

Poor school infrastructure? Burning the schools down hardly makes them more pleasant to attend. You can't attend a school in ruins.

Kids being kids, the thrill of being part of a "movement" and "doing something" is too exciting to pass up, so they become the frontline troops. But the Captains, Majors, Colonels, and Generals running the show are directly tied to the ideologically communist worldwide network that ultimately leads back to China and Cuba.

On the ground, the protests become a clearinghouse for far-left causes. Activists march behind hammer-and-sickle banners reading "Class War." The French Communist Party pushes "Stop arming the Palestinian genocide." A student union announces it's launching "Democratic and Antifascist Vigilance Committees." The Party of the Indigenous of the Republic shares photos of students waving Palestinian flags outside a school that became a symbol of the unrest.

In some ways, it's like a Monty Python script, with all the fractured revolutionary group names, but in others it's more like a Joe McCarthy fever dream, with a communist plotter pulling the strings in the background. It's really all coordinated and modeled on the color revolutions, but with a Red-Green tint rather than a Red, White, and Blue one.

The connections runs deep. In January 2023, the People's Forum — a Singham-funded group in New York — co-sponsored an anti-NATO event with a little-known outfit called Indian Alliance Paris, representing pro-communist students and researchers in France. That same Indian Alliance Paris is now connecting the French student protests to demonstrations in India, posting messages of solidarity to "Gen Z: In France. In India."

Angry students protesting dirty hallways and large class sizes don't have connections in Palestine, India, Cuba, and China, and they don't generally connect directly with American communist billionaires based in Shanghai. But just as many American "protests" are coordinated by Code Pink in alliance with radical leftist groups and, increasingly, the Democrat Party, the Code Pink/Singham connections are everywhere in the French protests, and they look set to spread from France to other countries.

“What we’re seeing here is the same Red-Green ecosystem that disrupts infrastructure chokeholds in our country such as the Brooklyn Bridge, college campuses and congressional hearings… The communist Red and the Islamist Greens have nothing in common but a common enemy, the Judeo-Christian, capitalist, free West, led by the U.S.”

Unfortunately, by now most readers here understand that so much of what appears on the news as organic protests are actually highly coordinated, with enormous foreign resources on top of the domestic supporters contributing; the ordinary Westerner has little idea that he or she are watching a performance.

BreakThrough News is already promoting the next flashpoint: "Indian students and opposition parties call for national mobilization on October 10 against election commissioner." The Communist Youth of Greece has declared solidarity with French students, with BreakThrough News calling it a sign "foreshadowing more student struggles to follow."

Even many of the students don't realize that they are cannon fodder, as disposable to the leaders as the average Russian soldier Putin sends out to die by drone in Ukraine.

As one far-left environmental group, Les Soulèvements de la Terre, or "Earth Uprisings," declared in the midst of the riots, "Glory to the rebellious high school students."
The statement invoked a call for broader political subversion: "Pour un soulèvement antifasciste" – "For an antifascist uprising."
The network's amplification of France's protests illustrates how a local confrontation can be presented to international audiences as part of a broader struggle against Western governments and institutions.
"The communist Red and the Islamist Greens have nothing in common but a common enemy, the Judeo-Christian, capitalist, free West, led by the U.S.," Gonzalez said. "Their goal is to dismantle us."
The situation in France is potentially even more dangerous, according to Gonzalez, who cited the European nation's well-established and active communist parties and a history of government changing by street violence. He noted the fall of the Fourth Republic in 1958 after large protests over Algeria, and that the government nearly fell in 1968 over student protests.
"And of course, there was the blood-drenched violence of the 1789 French Revolution," Gonzalez added.

On the one hand, once you see all the evidence, it doesn't take a coffee- and nicotine-fueled night at the corkboard to draw the connections. They are all out in the open. But the media rarely take the time, or even have the inclination, to show the full picture, and most of us are trained to see worldwide plots as something out of fiction.

That's generally a healthy thing — if you start looking for plots, you start seeing them everywhere.

But in this case, the plot is no more hidden than the World Economic Forum's agenda. Most of it is quite open. It's not like Singham or the various communist parties are secretive about their desire to destroy the West. They have livestreamed conferences about it, and much of Singham's funding is easy to trace.

But Americans just don't think like that. Our social trust is too well developed to automatically suspect evil, even when it is exposed. We look for more benign explanations.

There's nothing benign here. The tinder was student discontent, married to a French inclination to riot. But the fuel for the spreading fire is being poured on by outsiders.

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/10/10/french-street-protests-its-not-many-students-and-lots-of-leftists-and-islamists-n3819808?utm_source=pjmediavip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

We've Forgotten What Made Us Great

We've Forgotten What Made Us Great

Alan Joseph Bauer

What is normal in societies that have gone mad?

When I was at Harvard so long ago, I tried to imagine life at the university 300 years earlier. Let’s imagine that a contemporary student of my day studied three hours each night. He was busy with classes, sports, extracurricular activities, and a little bit of a social life. Now let’s have Scotty beam him up and drop him off on campus 300 years earlier. He notes that the average student studied outside of class eight hours each day — until his candle burned out and he fell into bed. So which one of our “students” is normal? If the fellow from before the foundation of the US came forward to our class, he would be bewildered at how little we actually studied and how busy we were with things that had nothing to do with academic progress.

The violent protests in France were not born overnight. The collapse of Europe occurred over decades. I wouldn’t say that it started the day World War II ended, but there seem to be many things that we simply have forgotten, even in the US. For example:

With the all-volunteer army, we no longer believe that we have obligations to our country beyond paying obligatory taxes and not throwing a Coke can behind a tree in Yellowstone Park.
With the demise of religion, we have lost the connection between the rights we enjoy and their Source, namely God above. The US cannot abrogate unalienable rights, while other Western countries give rights and take them away.
We lost love for our country, partly through a demented education system. Nobody would allow people to overrun his home, and in the past the same was true for our country. But if one is absolutely convinced that his country is evil and based on slavery and racism, then why not let in millions in order to get better lives and maybe help us atone for a supposedly evil past.
We forgot to marry and procreate. This point is definitely related to the weakening religious ethos in the US and the rest of the West. In the past, it was simple that a major part of life revolved around raising the next generation and helping them to get pointed towards success. Today, it’s me, me, me.

I once had a baseball coach whose mantra was, “Basics, basics, basics.” A grand slam was less interesting to him than his shortstop getting his butt down to field a grounder. We used to know basics. Through the elder Bush administration, it was routine to see the President of the United States leave church with his wife on Sunday morning. It didn’t matter if it was Jimmy Carter, who "lust" in his heart, or divorced and remarried Ronald Reagan. Religion was a pillar of America and church attendance or its equivalent was standard fare. We went to synagogue almost every Saturday.

The draft meant that American men went to the armed forces. It meant that a person was going to give some period of his life to the country that gave him a great deal. I, on the other hand, was asked to stand in line at the post office and “register for the draft”, which I dutifully did when I turned eighteen. Serving and registering to serve are not the same thing. Thanks to all the readers who have served in our armed forces.

When I think about the things I have just written, I begin to wonder if Israel is in some ways "normal". Everyone except ultraorthodox and Arabs is expected to serve. I believe that in a year, it will be reduced to everyone except Arabs — approaching elections are intimately tied up with the question of “giyus charedim” — calling up ultraorthodox men. Many Israelis pray, eat kosher, and keep the holidays. The recent Yom Kippur supposedly had 60 percent of Israeli Jews fasting and 50 percent going to synagogue. One can definitely see the empty streets, even in generally secular Tel Aviv. Israelis love their country and fight for its borders and its safety. Nobody is interested in having endless streams of foreigners coming in and claiming domicile and benefits. So again, is Israel normal like the US circa 1960? Israel’s birthrate of 2.9 is the highest in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

I am writing this article on October 7, three years after the pogrom in southern Israel. Hamas terrorists made it 14 miles into the country at their furthest incursion. This year is different than the previous two years, when the war was hot, and hostages were still in Gaza. There has been more reflection and added information and videos of what happened on that horrific day. The attack itself was planned well, with Hamas murderers crossing into Israel under a barrage of thousands of missiles and rockets. The IDF took hours to respond, and there still has been no final report or acceptance of responsibility from the highest echelons of the IDF and government. Demonic Hamas terrorists and their friends had hours to rape, torture, burn, mutilate and ultimately murder 1,200 people — including around 300 IDF personnel as well as foreigners (46 Americans included, though Tucker says that they don’t count). Israel’s response against Hamas and others has shown the resilience of the Israeli people and the desire to live. Israel has no interest in giving up and Israelis have zero interest in dropping dead in order to please keffiyeh-wearing losers in the West. Israel has the spunk, and with American equipment, support, and joint fighting, it has been punishing the murderers and their regional friends.

One problem the Muslims have is that they so much enjoy murdering Jews that they have little strategic thinking. Did Hamas really believe that it could hold a big chunk of Israel for a long period of time? Did it think that Hezbollah would enter Israel or that Iran would fling missiles at Israel in order to finish off the Jewish state? Egypt’s Nasser in 1967 also thought that he had won the jackpot and that he, Syria’s Assad, and Jordan’s Hussein would end Israel. He lost Sinai, which Israel unfortunately returned to Egypt. Assad lost the Golan, which Israel has added for security, and King Jordan was warned to stay out, came in under Egyptian pressure, and lost Jerusalem and everything up to the Jordan River. They are like their hero Hitler, who had some battlefield success and mistook it for military genius. Hamas was so enamored with killing sooooo many Jews and dragging back another 251 that it did not notice that the old rules no longer applied. Israel fought like it meant it and destroyed Hamas’ ability to make war. Someone noted that there has not been a single rocket out of Gaza in the past year. Over 60 percent of what was Gaza is now in IDF hands.

When you walk around Jerusalem, you often see stickers with the faces, names and oftentimes a favorite saying of soldiers who were killed in the Gaza War. In the open-market shuk, there are dozens of such reminders, beyond graffiti from the actual time of the attack. Israel accomplishes two tasks, just as the US does: it mourns its dead and continues to move forward. There is no way to bring those killed back to life; at the same time, there is no mitzvah for life to stop completely for those still alive and functioning. There is probably nobody in the country who did not go to a funeral in the past three years; some unfortunately attended far more than one. This is not some tragedy “way over there” but something felt by everyone in a relatively small country.

Am Yisrael Chai — the Jewish people live. Am America Chai — the American people live!

https://townhall.com/columnists/alanjosephbauer/2026/10/09/we-forgot-what-made-us-great-n2684364?utm_source=thdailyvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&utm_content=ncl-QTMTSxEFmf&utm_term=&_nlid=QTMTSxEFmf&_nhids=ncrzZswGFNqDls

We’ve Handed Government Our Work, and We’re Paying the Price

We’ve Handed Government Our Work, and We’re Paying the Price

Mark Lewis

“Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.” – James Madison

“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.” – James Madison, the main author of the American Constitution

Our Founding Fathers, as Mr. Madison said in the quotation above, did not put “charity” in the Constitution as a responsibility — power — of Congress or the national government. Thus, the entire American welfare system is unconstitutional, and if anyone disagrees, please “lay [your] finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents” and point it out to me. And prove to me that you know more about the Constitution than the man who wrote it.

The Founders didn’t put “charity” in the Constitution for a quite obvious reason — if the government starts giving out free money, the lazy, shiftless, and selfish (which is far too many of mankind) will line up for miles to get as much of it as possible. And, worse, it might encourage those who are on the fence — in other words, would take care of themselves if necessity dictated, but tempted not to if free money is available — to slide over into the bum class and become unproductive. Don’t put temptation in front of people. That’s just common sense that we have completely forgotten in our secular, selfish, godless age.

In other words, to the brilliant and wise men who wrote our Constitution, government “charity” would produce the exact situation we see in America today: waste, fraud, abuse, and an inflationary monetary system that hurts the hard-working, diligent American — the kind of people a country should want and seek to produce. But rather, we now have a huge parasitic class that drains much-needed resources from society and adds nothing to its production. To our Founders, people, first and foremost, are to take care of themselves and their families, and not look to government to do it.

But times have changed, and we simply live in an age when so many expect government to solve all our problems (New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said it should), so we give it massive amounts of our money. That’s just the “zeitgeist” we’ve been trained to believe; thus it is the accepted, and unquestioned, norm today. Any mention, for example, that people should be allowed to privatize their Social Security or Medicare is immediately met with horrified, cacophonous shrieks of protest by government lovers — and parasites — and never even gets out of the batter’s box, much less to first base. Government is supposed to take care of the “poor”; that’s just accepted “wisdom” today.

But it shouldn’t be government’s responsibility to do our work for us. There are some things government can do very well (like oppress and kill people), but charity is best left in the hands of individuals who are close enough to situations to direct it where it truly needs to go. It isn’t in the least surprising that America’s government “benevolence” is in such a catastrophic mess; that institution (government) is wholly unequipped to prudently handle it. And, of course, it’s also purely political now.

For example, the American government has priced the greatest healthcare system in the world almost beyond reach of average citizens — with concomitant massive waste and fraud — and the more power over that system government gains, the worse it will become. But government has made healthcare, through laws, regulations, strangulation, etc., so expensive that it is about the only entity now that can afford the costs. That’s exactly what totalitarians want — you dependent upon them, not free to make your own choices and pay for them yourself.

The Democrats love it. If the government is to do all the work, it must have as much of the money, and hence, power as possible. And the Left is about nothing if not about government power. It is also why the Left has done, and is doing, everything it can to destroy the nuclear family. If there is no family to take care of a person, then it has devolved upon government to do it. That isn’t the way it should be, but that’s the way we’ve been taught to think. And too many churches, which should be involved in benevolence, are too busy pleasuring themselves with their multi-million-dollar cathedrals and playpens to do the true work Christianity enjoins upon them. If government is going to do it, why should churches bother with it?

But we’ve ignored Mr. Madison; we’ve rejected our Constitution, common sense, and history, and so we have the bloated, fraudulent disaster that our welfare state has become. Not to mention that millions of people, from all over the world, have come to America to benefit from it. Our Founders knew this would happen if we put charity in the hands of government. Free money is one of the greatest attractions in the world to anybody, but especially to a sub-class of sloths and societal riff-raff with no virtue and who only wish to parasite off others. Nearly every human society in history has had them; current American government policy simply makes it easy for them to exist and expand. And it will eventually bankrupt and destroy the nation. We reap the ignorance we’ve sown.

The genuinely “needy poor” do exist, of course; they always have and they always will, and every religion in the world tells its individual adherents to take care of them, not the government. Jesus never told us to perform our Christian responsibilities through government. We, individually, are to do it.

But, individually, we tend to fall short of this great duty because government inflation has made it increasingly difficult to even provide for ourselves, much less help others. Just what the totalitarian left ordered.

https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2026/10/10/weve-handed-government-our-work-and-were-paying-the-price-n2684447?utm_source=thdailyvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&utm_content=ncl-MPDPFscRmD&utm_term=&_nlid=MPDPFscRmD&_nhids=ncrzZswGFNqDls