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08/28/2026

U.S. forces have cleared the last Iranian mines from the Strait of Hormuz. That channel moves a huge share of the world’s oil, and Tehran has used mines and threats there for years to jolt energy markets and test American will. The mines are gone. The lane is open. That is a real result for the sailors and crews who did the dangerous work.

Iran’s method never changes: seed chaos in a chokepoint, deny it, then watch prices spike while shippers absorb the risk. Leaving those mines in place was an invitation to the next crisis. Taking them out restores freedom of navigation and tells every hostile actor the strait is not a bargaining chip. Energy security is national security. This operation treated it that way.

The troops who swept those waters earned the credit. Mine clearance is slow, technical, and fatal if one charge is missed. They finished the job. Keep the strait open, keep pressure on the regime that planted the threat, and do not give Iran another chance to mine a global lifeline. Results over rhetoric. That is how American power, and the commerce that depends on it, gets protected.

08/28/2026

Hardworking taxpayers are covering millions in housing, food stamps, and free healthcare for people who entered the country illegally. That policy empties state budgets while working families struggle with groceries and rent under high inflation. Keeping the welfare magnet in place only invites more illegal crossings.

Here is what CNN will not say.

Every dollar spent on non-citizens is a dollar withheld from homeless veterans and seniors living on fixed incomes. Ending taxpayer subsidies and funding immediate deportation flights attacks the problem at its source. Shutting off the benefits pipeline makes clear that border laws will be enforced.

A sovereign government exists first to protect and serve its own legal citizens. Providing flights home is a lawful correction after years of open-border practice. Taxpayer aid should be reserved for citizens, and those here unlawfully should be removed.

08/28/2026

Stand with the President. Abdul El-Sayed’s claim that rejecting Sharia law equals white supremacy is empty noise. American law is grounded in the Constitution, not in imported religious codes that collide with equal rights, free speech, and one system of justice. Opposing a legal order incompatible with liberty is not racism. It is common sense and patriotism.

President Trump’s clear position against treating Sharia as public law protects sovereignty and the civic values this country was built on. No parallel legal system should erode the rights of women, muzzle dissent, or replace the rule of law that every citizen depends on. Strong leadership means putting America first without apology.

I stand with the President. Real Americans will not be shamed for defending the founding framework. Fake credentials and radical talking points do not change the fact: the laws that govern this country must remain American.

08/27/2026

No legal system that elevates religious teachings over the Constitution belongs in the United States. Courts, lawmakers, and the public follow a single body of law created by the people and changeable only through the amendment process the founders designed. Any competing codes that put women’s rights, free speech, or equal protection under another authority undermine that core principle.

Proposals to ban such systems merely state what the Constitution already demands. Foreign legal traditions cannot claim special exemptions or set up independent courts on American territory. Once a group starts imposing its own punishments or family regulations instead of state and federal statutes, the unified rule of law starts to break down.

A country that wants to stay united must require one standard of law for all citizens. Religious and cultural customs remain free as long as they remain personal. They turn dangerous when they seek official power to enforce their rules. Stating this boundary is not prejudice; it is the basic requirement for keeping the existing constitutional order intact.

08/27/2026

Ilhan Omar was not sent to Congress by a broad national consensus. She rose from a concentrated Somali voting bloc in Minneapolis, a community enlarged by refugee admissions that accelerated under Barack Obama. That is not the old story of a neighborhood choosing its own. It is Washington migration policy producing a member who has spent years attacking the country that granted her a seat.

She has minimized Somali crime networks, waved away antisemitism, and treated American interests as negotiable. The district that keeps her in office was remade by federal decisions, not by long-settled communities writing their own future. The House now has a voice that often talks as if the nation paying her salary is the problem.

This is what open-ended refugee pipelines look like when assimilation is optional and political power arrives immediately. Other states should study Minnesota before they copy it. Import large numbers from collapsed states, skip the hard work of integration, and you do not get automatic gratitude. You get Ilhan Omar. America First means closing the pipeline that manufactures more of the same.

08/27/2026

Ayanna Pressley just told a room that MAGA is the Confederacy—still alive, still the same project. That is not a policy argument. It is a sitting member of Congress branding tens of millions of voters as heirs to traitors. When an elected official talks this way, she is not debating ideas. She is writing half the country out of the moral community.

This is the same Pressley who has spent years selling soft-on-crime politics, open-border rhetoric, and identity fights that sort Americans by tribe. Faced with the results, she reaches for the ugliest historical smear on the shelf. It is what people do when they cannot defend a record on the merits.

Voters who still believe in one citizenship under one flag do not have to accept being called Confederates by a representative who represents only a sliver of the country. The language is the tell. Reject the smear. Reject the agenda that needs the smear. And send home the officials who treat disagreement as treason. America is not a Confederate remnant. It is a republic of citizens—and they still get the last word.

08/27/2026

Girl Scouts of the USA is facing a backlash after reports that girls can earn Islamic awards for studying the Five Pillars, visiting mosques, and joining Ramadan programs.

The medals — Bismillah, In the Name of Allah, Quratula’in, Muslimeen — and patches such as Hajj and “Share Ramadan With a Friend” come from the National Islamic Committee on Girl Scouting, not from GSUSA headquarters. The national group has long let outside faith bodies issue emblems worn on the uniform. Christian, Jewish, Hindu, and other programs exist on the same list. Participation is optional and is not required for rank.

What set parents off is the outreach. Some mosque-based troops and events in California, Illinois, New York, and Virginia have invited non-Muslim girls to tour prayer halls, try on hijabs, and watch salah. Critics call that recruitment wearing a sash. GSUSA says it “does not teach religion” and that the coverage is “misinformation.”

The dispute is not whether other faiths get patches. It is whether an organization built on camping, first aid, and self-reliance should lend its brand to one religion’s classroom. Families can keep buying cookies — or they can walk.

08/27/2026

Girl Scouts of the USA is under fire this week after reports that troops can earn Islamic religious awards for studying the Five Pillars of Islam, visiting mosques, and taking part in Ramadan activities.

The medals and patches — Bismillah, In the Name of Allah, Quratula’in, Muslimeen, plus Hajj and “Share Ramadan With a Friend” programs — are run by the National Islamic Committee on Girl Scouting, not designed at GSUSA headquarters. The national organization has long allowed Christian, Jewish, Hindu, and other faith groups to issue similar emblems that girls may wear on the uniform. Participation is optional.

That distinction has not quieted parents. Mosque-hosted troops and events in Sacramento, Naperville, Long Island, Virginia, and elsewhere have invited girls to tour prayer halls, try on hijabs, and observe salah. Critics say a once-secular American institution is now lending its brand to religious instruction and outreach while traditional Christian culture is treated as an afterthought.

GSUSA calls the coverage “misinformation” and says it “does not teach religion.” Families who disagree can withhold cookie money, switch troops, or walk. The argument is no longer whether the patches exist. It is whether parents still trust the organization that lets them sit on the sash.

08/26/2026

There is currently no federal rule that prevents a member of Congress from holding citizenship in another country. None exists. Representative Fine’s bill would establish one, and it would apply uniformly to every member—those already serving and those elected in the future. He has been direct about the underlying principle: an oath of office is meant to be exclusive by its nature.

This is the sort of restriction most citizens simply assume is already on the books. Put the question to a room of voters—can a sitting member of Congress also hold citizenship in a foreign government?—and the usual response is confusion. The idea feels so basic that people are surprised to learn it is not already prohibited.

Legislation that makes incumbents uncomfortable has a well-established pattern of quietly expiring in committee, never forcing an on-the-record vote. That quiet procedural death is the outcome worth watching in this case. The bill’s fate will reveal whether the institution is prepared to treat dual citizenship as incompatible with the exclusive loyalty an oath of office is supposed to require, or whether the status quo of silence will once again prevail.

08/26/2026

Sophie Cunningham has spent her entire adult life inside professional women’s basketball. That long immersion gives her a direct view of the competitions she plays in and of the question of who those competitions are designed to serve. When she stated publicly what a large number of players will only discuss in private, the expected backlash arrived on schedule.

The Vice President responded in public, encouraged her to continue, and described her courage as inspiring. The episode highlights a familiar pattern: athletes are routinely told to stick to sports until they voice an opinion the press finds congenial, at which point the same athletes are suddenly praised as brave.

Cunningham understood the professional price her comments would exact inside her own league and spoke anyway. That willingness to accept real consequences is what genuine risk looks like. It is considerably rarer than the casual application of the word “brave” would suggest, and it stands apart from safer forms of public posturing that carry little personal cost.

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