“Graham Platner is a racist, sexist, Nazi-loving domestic abuser who fantasizes about rape and murder, spends his time on a predatory sex app, and disparages American servicemembers. The fact that Democrats have embraced him in service of a radical socialist agenda has placed the final nail in the coffin of their chances to win Maine in November.”
– RNC Chairman Joe Gruters
“A guy (Platner) who has a Nazi tattoo, who locks women in his house so that they’ll keep dating him, who has a weird affinity for porta-potties… It is the weirdest stuff I’ve ever seen.”
– Senator Josh Hawley
“Democracy is two wolves & a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Margaret Thatcher is one of the giants of our century. Her many achievements will be appreciated more and more as time goes on, and history is written. For me, she has been a staunch ally, my political soulmate, a great visionary, and a dear, dear friend.”
– President Ronald Reagan
“Capitalism demands the best of every man—his rationality—and rewards him accordingly. It leaves every man free to choose the work he likes, to specialize in it, to trade his product for the products of others…”
– Ayn Rand
“When your Education limits your Imagination, it is called Indoctrination.”
– Nikola Tesla
“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
– Napoleon
“NATO is not a threat to Russia. Russia is a threat to world peace. We would like nothing more than a peaceful relationship with Russia. We demand that Russia return to respecting international law & withdraw its troops from Ukraine.”
– Elina Valtonen, Foreign Minister of Finland
“Putin invaded a country but gave birth to a nation.”
– Stephen Biegun, former Deputy Secretary of State
Secure America Act Finally Passed & Signed: Per the White House, President Trump signed the Secure America Act, which fully funds ICE and Border Patrol through the President’s term and delivers the critical resources they need to keep our borders secure, combat human trafficking, dismantle the criminal drug networks, and enforce our immigration laws.
Funding includes:
1. Paychecks for the brave men and women of ICE and CBP
2. Border security hardening and continued funding for the President’s border wall
3. Additional funding for Homeland Security Investigations to expand the Administration’s crackdown on human trafficking
4. Additional resources to promptly identify, detain, and deport criminal illegal aliens
5. Body cameras, protective equipment, and uniforms
6. Technological upgrades including drones and detection devices
Millions of Americans have suffered at the hands of extreme defund-the-police Democrats who tried to reverse the historic successes of this administration and prioritize violent illegal aliens and other criminals over the safety of American citizens. President Trump is taking action to ensure our federal law enforcement officers are no longer political pawns in the Democrats’ shutdown games. Democrats’ plans to shirk their responsibilities and defund these critical agencies have backfired.
Nazis & Abusers…Kind Of: So, Democrat Congresswoman AOC states Platner’s “allegations” are “really challenging… hard to stomach,” while Democrat Ro Khanna says Platner’s actions are ‘misogynistic, shameful, wrong’… but still backs him for the ‘revolution.’ Wow!
Talk about standing on principle… anything for power.
So how do the Democrats justify supporting a candidate who has admitted his “sins” after years of demonizing President Trump for unsubstantiated “similar charges” that now seem to be OK?
Well, they start out saying but… but… but… “If you have a Nazi tattoo on your chest, I find that disqualifying. I don’t care what else you’ve done in your life. I don’t care if you’ve cured cancer.”
“On the other hand… it’s important to have a Democratic Senate, for a whole host of reasons, not the least of which is the Supreme Court.” Says Democrat strategist & MeToo activist Julie Roginsky on Platner.
CNN commentator Scott Jennings summarized it well when he said, “Dems have spent a DECADE calling President Trump a ‘Nazi’ & smearing him with false allegations. Today, they can’t find the moral courage to oppose a guy with a literal Nazi tattoo & credible abuse allegations. I want you to pay close attention to everyone who is rushing to Graham Platner’s defense. Realize who and what we’re dealing with here.”
Does character matter? What happened to the ‘me too’ movement? Where are the principled Democrats?
The real irony… now Planter says he wants redemption for things that he denies he did😊
The progressive left is just crazy… out of the mainstream!
This is today’s Democrat party… anything for power… this Is NOT your parent’s Democrat party!
California Scamming – Voting: What we’re witnessing in California is unbelievable. They have literally rigged the electoral process to allow Democrats to buy votes, harvest votes from ANYONE, and hide their voter rolls… all in the name of saving democracy.
No state, no Governor, no other Democrat party better epitomizes what’s wrong with today’s Democrat party than California’s.
California is the poster child for the Save America Act. We need some ‘standards’ that qualify every voter and set some minimums for every election. Requiring voter ID to prove who you are and being a U.S. citizen is nothing but reasonable… and common sense.
International Calendar of Events: The 60 Plus International Institute is putting together the first consolidated calendar aggregator for conservative and libertarian foundations’ conferences and events worldwide.
If you’re looking for something interesting around the world to attend… check it out.
If you know of events that center-right activists would be interested in, please let us know.
Feel free to share… and your intel worldwide would be helpful.
Iran & Russia: They are the bad guys. They are the ones who fund terror around the world, encourage civil unrest, and shamelessly manipulate and interfere in the foreign affairs of other countries.
They openly share their disgust of the West.
Their leaders are dictators who oppress their own people for their own selfish political and financial gain.
These two bad actors have caused more suffering around the world than most can imagine.
This isn’t about the Russian or Iranian people, who unfortunately are being abused by their own dictators. It’s about the dictators who make this happen.
They should NOT be rewarded for their bad deeds. The west should NOT be blackmailed into accepting a “gentler/softer” version of these regimes.
We should continue to help free the people from their bondage. Support their reform movements. Diminish their military capacity to harm their neighbors and hold the bad guys accountable for the damage they have done.
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–Saul Anuzis
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This Week: Senior homeowners could get big tax break, Global War on Terrorism memorial unveiled, and President Trump proposes new renovation project!
WH Warns Hospitals: Provide More Pricing Info or Face Fines
The Trump administration has warned more than 500 hospitals that they are failing to provide the public with basic pricing information — arguing that the lack of disclosure is keeping healthcare costs higher than they should be.
The Associated Press obtained exclusively the list of hospitals that since April have either received letters of warning or requests to submit plans to provide transparent pricing. Failing to comply with the warnings comes with penalties as high as $2 million annually for each recipient that doesn’t create a plan to post clear pricing data.
The letters are meant to fix a fundamental problem that patients, employers, and insurers might not know ahead of time the cost of blood work, an imaging test, or another form of treatment, and as a result pay more than they should have.
A senior administration official who requested anonymity to provide the list said that President Donald Trump plans to tighten enforcement of price transparency standards made possible by his own 2019 executive order. More hospitals are likely to receive letters regarding the absence of pricing data, the official said.
The warnings are the latest example of Trump leaning into the message that his administration is fixing the problem of healthcare expenses that can drain a family budget.
It’s a calculated pitch ahead of the November midterms at a time when affordability is a top concern for voters.
But Trump is also vulnerable on this particular issue, as his administration allowed subsidies to lapse for people buying insurance through the 2010 Affordable Care Act, widely known as Obamacare.
Social Security insolvency now projected for 2032, putting benefits at risk of a 22% cut
Social Security’s trustees report said the program is on track to become insolvent by the end of 2032, when the program’s beneficiaries will get a 22% cut in their monthly checks.
Social Security guarantees income to over 70 million Americans. Across-the-board benefit cuts would significantly impact retirees, disabled workers and survivors, especially amid rising living costs.
Social Security keeps more Americans out of poverty than any other program in the U.S., according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a left-leaning think tank.
In last year’s report, the program’s trustees projected that the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance fund, which pays benefits to retirees and survivors of deceased workers, would be depleted in 2033. In August, the agency moved the insolvency date to the end of 2032, citing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s effect on taxation of benefits.
On Tuesday, the Social Security Administration said the agency would pay 78% of benefits upon insolvency.
Senior Homeowners Could Get $1 Million Tax Break Under New GOP Bill
Millions of older homeowners could receive a temporary tax break when selling their homes under a new Republican proposal designed to encourage seniors to downsize and free up housing inventory for younger buyers.
Representative Nicole Malliotakis of New York has introduced legislation that would double the capital gains tax exclusion available to qualifying homeowners over 65, allowing some to avoid taxes on up to $1 million in home-sale profits.
Supporters say the measure could help unlock housing inventory at a time when many older Americans remain in homes they might otherwise sell, while critics could question whether the proposal primarily benefits households sitting on substantial housing wealth.
From 1976 to 2026: Two dramatic megatrends shaping America’s future
Wave both hands if you are celebrating America’s 250th anniversary. I am, but with one hand behind my back.
I am a patriot. As a Baby Boomer, I appreciated growing up in the world’s greatest country that positively impacted the planet. However, because of two megatrends — namely national debt and unprecedented population shifts since 1976 — I fear for our nation’s future and what lies ahead in the next 50 years.
National pessimism is also shared by 59 percent of adults — the share telling the Pew Research Center in December that “America’s best years have passed.” Furthermore, when asked to think about “what things will be like in the U.S. 50 years from now,” 44 percent of adults are pessimistic, 28 percent optimistic, and 27 percent neutral.
What follows is comparative data from 1976 to 2026, both eye-popping and worrisome.
First, how will our nation manage its impending, unstoppable financial death spiral? Uncontrolled national debt is straining the U.S. government’s budget, with an increasing share of your tax dollars going toward interest payments.
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s long-running scam is getting even shadier
It turns out the most generous funder of white supremacist groups in the United States was likely the Southern Poverty Law Center.
At least that’s what the Justice Department’s superseding indictment against the SPLC alleges.
The organization secretly paid informants to engage in actively promoting and funding racist groups, while denouncing and “fighting” the very same groups in public.
The SPLC purportedly created fictitious entities to hide funding from their donors.
It’s accused, for instance, of bankrolling the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally, paying a leader nearly $300,000 to post racist messages, organize, and even transport people to the infamous Charlottesville protest, where one person was killed.
Bombshell photo unveils damning Nithya Raman link with homeless voters — as fury erupts over LA ballot count
Thousands of homeless voters were registered to vote at LA shelters — despite many not living there or the facilities not having any beds.
And as Spencer Pratt was eliminated by Nithya Raman in the mayor’s race on Monday night, it can be revealed that one drop-in center that received $600,000 from the socialist candidate had 185 registered voters at the address but offers no accommodations.
The revelations have prompted US Attorney Bill Essayli to say he will investigate the concerns uncovered by The Post and “follow the evidence” to see if the law has been broken.
A review of records shows 7,600 voters tied to homeless shelters and service providers.
Among them was St. Joseph Center in Venice, a homeless services drop-in center with 185 registered voters tied to its address. The organization received a $600,000 taxpayer-funded grant awarded by Raman while she chaired the City Council’s Housing and Homelessness Committee.
Last week, The Post contacted her campaign and the center seeking comment regarding the relationship between the councilmember and the organization but has not heard back. However, a photograph showing Raman presenting a check was taken down from its website following our inquiries.
Martin Rowe, a homeless man living in Venice, told The Post he was registered to vote during an outreach effort outside a Ralphs grocery store.
“They asked you all the questions,” Rowe said. “They gave you a paper.”
The Skid Row vote cries out for investigation
Nearly 1,200 people registered to vote at a homeless shelter on Skid Row with 132 beds.
185 people registered at a homeless drop-in center — with no beds at all.
That is likely illegal, and it is likely a key to the story of how socialist City Councilmember Nithya Raman overtook Palisades Fire victim Spencer Pratt for second place in the LA mayoral race.
Under California law, homeless people can register to vote, even though they do not have a fixed residence. They can use their last fixed address as their voting domicile; they can even specify a geographic location, as long as it is where they live, or where they intend to return.
If they do not return there within a year, it is no longer their voting domicile. If they move to another location without the intent to return to the first one, they have to re-register — unless it is already within 14 days of the next election.
They can use a business address — like a homeless shelter — as their address, but only as long as they also intend to reside there.
But there is almost no way 1,200 people can claim a small shelter as a voting domicile. Or that 185 can claim to reside at a center without beds.
Inside secret DSA playbook for securing votes from the vulnerable
A Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America openly promotes it’s guide to instructing volunteers about how to pressure voters to cast ballots on the spot and hand them over for delivery.
The practice, commonly known as ballot harvesting, is legal in California, but remains highly controversial.
The guide, titled “How To: Ballot Delivery,” was published by the Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America in May 2022, where it has remained ever since.
The instructions walk volunteers through a step-by-step process for collecting completed mail ballots from voters and delivering them on their behalf.
The directions include instructions for volunteers asking voters whether they will cast their ballot immediately and, if they hesitate, to keep pressing.
There Is Nothing ‘Populist’ About Graham Platner’s Rise To Democrat Party Prominence
The notion that Platner is a ‘working-class populist’ with humble beginnings rings as true as assertions that men can become women and vice versa.
he rise of U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner has been an interesting phenomenon in American politics. Seemingly from out of nowhere, the troubled Maine leftist — who now faces allegations of mistreatment and (in one case) physical abuse from ex-girlfriends — became the presumptive Democrat frontrunner to take on longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins in what will be one of the most-watched Senate races this fall.
Riding on a message of left-wing “economic populism,” Platner and his media allies have sought to cast him as an average “working-class” oyster farmer who “has never been close to money and power” and is willing to take on the establishment in Bernie Sanders-esque fashion. In doing so, it seems the left is trying to frame the Marine veteran as the “picture-perfect” candidate needed to bring disaffected white male voters into the Democrat fold.
But like many Democrat Party claims these days, the problem with this messaging is that it’s entirely contrived out of thin air. The notion that Platner is a “working-class populist” with humble beginnings rings as true as assertions that men can become women and vice versa.
As even The New York Times has admitted, the “working-class” Platner comes from the very wealthy elite he now rails against on the campaign trail.
On the Kavanaugh Anniversary, Democratic Leaders Swap ‘Me Too’ for Maine
“It’s clear the fix is in.” Those words from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). came with her vote against confirming Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Warren was outraged that her fellow senators refused to believe a woman who came forward with a decades-old allegation against Kavanaugh that lacked any corroboration.
It now appears that Kavanaugh’s former accusers are making the case that he was treated unjustly at their hands. At least they are now willing to swap “Me Too” for Maine.
Warren’s words were part of a mantra from Democratic members that either you believe women about sexual harassment and assault, or you are enabling abusers.
It was almost exactly eight years ago, in July 2018, that President Trump nominated Kavanaugh to fill the seat of retiring Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy. Kavanaugh, who was at first a very uncontroversial nominee, suddenly became the target of a well-financed, well-orchestrated campaign that would continue to resonate in that fall’s election campaigns. At the time, your failure to accept the word of Christine Blasey Ford that Kavanaugh had assaulted her in high school was just proof that you and the system were sexist.
Long after the Senate confirmed Kavanaugh, the left continued to claim that his presence on the Supreme Court “rests on a mountain of misogyny.” In Ms. Magazine, actress Kathleen Turner reminded people that not believing women was furthering misogyny: “Survivors who come forward break the rules of silence a sexist society demands, and society expects them to pay a price.”
If you recall, the lack of evidence led to the Senate Judiciary Committee combing through Kavanaugh’s personal calendars. Denials that such a thing had ever happened, coming from childhood friends, were treated as still more evidence of sexism.
Democrats are demonizing the Supreme Court now to justify packing it later
It would be so easy to say the U.S. Supreme Court is a right-wing organization.
It would be even easier to point to the court’s response to Virginia’s redrawn congressional map, which favored Democrats, and Alabama’s redrawn map, which favors Republicans, as proof that the court’s conservative majority is bought and paid for by Republican donors.
But to say either would require a profound lack of critical thinking skills, ignorance of the law and intellectual dishonesty.
The Supreme Court last week stayed a district court order that had blocked Alabama from using its 2023 congressional map in the upcoming midterm elections. Earlier, in a completely different situation, the U.S. Supreme Court had declined to intervene after Virginia’s Supreme Court rejected a new and heavily gerrymandered Virginia map that would have given the state’s Democrats a 10-to-1 advantage in Virginia’s 11-seat House delegation.
As a result of the former action, Alabama’s old map is back for the 2026 election. As a result of the latter omission, Virginia’s districts will remain unchanged for the midterms.
The End of the World War II Era
I just finished two days of briefing at the United States Army European Command in Wiesbaden, Germany. It was a remarkably educational experience.
Gen. Christopher Donahue has done an amazing job studying the emerging world of drones, ground-based robots, real-time information flow, and the integration of different activities into a coherent, synergistic, self-reinforcing pattern.
The development of all domain warfare, which combines space-based capabilities, manned aircraft, drones, ground-based robots, and ground-based actions into one campaign, is the beginning of a new world.
The realization that he was describing the present rather than the future was sobering. The universality of the emerging new world of integrated warfare is clear in Iran, Lebanon, and around the world.
Lt. Gen. Curtis Buzzard heads up the Security Assistance Group Ukraine and NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine. Sitting in their offices watching live video from the war was a mind-blowing experience. They produce a magazine, “Ukraine Insights,” which seeks to communicate the lessons being learned in the Ukraine-Russia War.
Final Thoughts
