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https://www.city-journal.org/article/donald-trump-force-conservatism-doge-deportations-higher-education

Conservatism has two modes: peacetime and wartime. When the social order is stable and healthy, conservatives seek to cultivate and maintain institutions. In times of chaos, a different kind of conservatism emerges, focused not on preservation but reform.

Donald Trump is a wartime conservative. Since his first presidential campaign, he has argued that America is in decline and requires drastic measures to restore its national greatness. In the opening stretch of his second term, he has focused on three policies—mass deportations, cost-cutting through DOGE, and higher education reform—that are aggressive and have caused distress across the political spectrum. Some center-right critics have fretted about the president’s potential “overreach,” while the usual voices on the left have accused him of “fascism” and “authoritarianism.”

Neither analysis is correct, but both gesture at the same thing: Trump is using force. American culture has changed to such a degree that these measures, none of them unprecedented, now appear radical. Elites have become so habituated to highly regulated, feminized environments that any hint of force causes apprehension.

Educated Americans have trouble imagining the use of force, largely because they have isolated themselves from it. Ivy League faculty members cannot fathom, say, putting their hands on an MS-13 gang member and physically ejecting him from the country. The educated classes have become so inured to the physical world that many perceive a pink slip or reduced research funding as an act of genuine violence.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/when-sharia-gets-a-tax-break/

In America, tax-exempt status isn’t a loophole. It’s a privilege—one meant to serve the public good, not undermine it.

Under 26 U.S. Code § 501(c)(3), that privilege is reserved for institutions that are religious, charitable, educational, or scientific in nature. But the law is explicit: these organizations may not promote criminal conduct, engage in substantial political lobbying, or advocate ideologies that undermine the U.S. Constitution.

Yet that’s exactly what many Islamic nonprofits are doing—with the IRS’s blessing, and in some cases, with taxpayer funding.

These groups hide behind “religious freedom.”

What they’re really advancing is Sharia—a totalitarian legal system that stands in direct opposition to American law and values.

They preach that man-made laws are illegitimate.

That Islam’s legal code is supreme.

And American citizens are subsidizing it.

Take Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California. Marketed as America’s first Islamic liberal arts college, it presents itself as an academic institution committed to interfaith dialogue and scholarship.

But behind the polished branding lies a very different reality.

Zaytuna’s curriculum includes Umdat al-Salik (Reliance of the Traveller)—a classical Shafi’i manual of Islamic law that is explicitly anti-Western in its rulings.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/liz-peek-biden-cancer-announcement-has-my-sympathy-my-skepticism

Former President Joe Biden announced over the weekend that he had just recently been diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer. A statement from the former president’s office identified the cancer as “aggressive” but also “hormone sensitive,” indicating the possibility of “effective management.”

The news generated an outpouring of sympathy from friends and foes alike. President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social, “Melania and I are saddened to hear about Joe Biden’s recent medical diagnosis. We extend our warmest and best wishes to Jill and the family, and we wish Joe a fast and successful recovery.” We share that concern and optimism; we hope the former president beats the disease.

But, like much of the public, our initial sympathy has turned skeptical. Doctors say that it is highly unlikely anyone could be “suddenly” diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer. Especially one which, according to Biden’s statement, had metastasized into his bone.

Nearly every man over 50 gets checked regularly for prostate cancer. Certainly, a U.S. president, and especially one under close surveillance for age-related illnesses, would have been examined rigorously for a disease that strikes one in seven men during their lifetime.

Dr. Ezekiel Emmanuel, an oncologist and Democrat policy-maker, told Joe Scarborough on MSNBC, that Biden had certainly had the disease for “more than several years.” “He did not develop it in the last 100, 200 days. He had it while he was president. He probably had it at the start of his presidency in 2021. I don’t think there’s any disagreement about that.”