U.S. Attorney Narrowly Avoids Murder Attempt by Illegal Alien Matt Margolis

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/06/19/us-attorney-narrowly-avoids-murder-attempt-by-illegal-alien-n4940983

When a United States attorney can’t walk the streets of Albany without facing a knife-wielding illegal alien, we’ve officially reached the breaking point. This isn’t just another crime statistic to file away—this is a federal prosecutor being hunted like prey by someone who shouldn’t even be in our country.

United States Attorney John A. Sarcone III of the Northern District of New York learned firsthand about the consequences of Joe Biden’s open borders. On Tuesday evening, as he left his downtown Albany office, Sarcone found himself face-to-face with Saul Morales-Garcia, an illegal alien from El Salvador who had already been deported once before sneaking back across our border in 2021. What followed was a terrifying chase through the streets of New York’s capital city, with Morales-Garcia brandishing a knife and screaming threats in Spanish while making slashing gestures across his throat.

Sarcone’s response reveals everything you need to know about the character gap between law-abiding Americans and the criminals flooding across our border. After initially fleeing to the safety of a nearby Hilton Hotel lobby, the U.S. attorney made a decision that probably saved lives. Rather than staying hidden while his attacker disappeared into the crowd, Sarcone deliberately drew Morales-Garcia’s attention back to himself, knowing full well the maniac might charge him again with that knife.

Court Rules on Trump’s LA National Guard Deployment Catherine Salgado

https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/06/20/breaking-court-lets-trump-keep-natl-guard-in-la-n4940982

An appeals court has once more ruled that the president of the United States does have the authority to keep the National Guard deployed in Los Angeles to put down the dangerous, and even deadly, anti-ICE riots.

A federal appeals court issued the decision in favor of Donald Trump late Thursday, blocking District Judge Charles Breyer’s order to put California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has largely sided with the anti-immigration crazies, back in control of the National Guard in LA. Politico senior legal affairs reporter Kyle Cheney shared screenshots of the decision and noted that it was unanimous, with a Joe Biden appointee joining in with two Trump appointees on the decision.

The decision stated, “We also conclude that the other stay factors — irreparable harm to Defendants, injury to Plaintiffs, and the public interest — weigh in Defendants’ favor. Thus, we grant the motion for a stay pending appeal.”

The judicial panel found Newsom’s claims of the National Guard escalating the situation and interfering with law enforcement were “too speculative.” The lack of proof for the complaints against Trump led the judges to rule in Trump’s favor.

Misunderstanding Trump? There’s a reason why Putin didn’t invade Ukraine during Trump’s first term. Victor Davis Hanson

https://www.frontpagemag.com/misunderstanding-trump/

Many are now demanding that Trump act abroad in the way they think he had promised and campaigned–which can be mostly defined as how closely he should parallel their own version of MAGA.

But Trump’s past shows that he never claimed that he was either an ideological isolationist or an interventionist.

He was and is clearly a populist-nationalist: i.e., what in a cost-to-benefit analysis is in the best interests of the U.S. at home and its own particular agendas abroad?

Trump did not like neo-conservatism because he never felt it was in our interests to spend blood and treasure on those who either did not deserve such largess, or who would never evolve in ways we thought they should, or whose fates were not central to our national interests.

So-called, optional, bad-deal, and forever wars in the Middle East and their multitrillion-dollar costs would come ultimately at the expense of shorting Middle America back home.

However, Trump’s first-term bombing of ISIS, standing down “little rocket man”, warning Putin not to invade Ukraine between 2017-21, and killing off Qasem Soleimani, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and many of the attacking Russian Wagner Group in Syria were certainly not Charles Lindberg isolationism but a sort of Jacksonian—something summed up perhaps as the Gadsen “Don’t tread on me”/ or Lucius Sulla’s “No better friend, no worse enemy” .

Trump’s much critiqued references to Putin—most recently during the G7, and his negotiations with him over Ukraine—were never, as alleged, appeasement (he was harder in his first term on Putin than was either Obama or Biden), but art-of-the-deal/transactional (e.g., you don’t gratuitously insult or ostracize your formidable rival in possible deal-making, but seek simultaneously to praise—and beat—him.)

Similarly, Churchill initially saw the mass-murdering, treacherous Stalin in the way Trump perhaps sees Putin, someone dangerous and evil, but who if handled carefully, occasionally granted his due, and approached with eyes wide open, could be useful in advancing a country’s realist interests—which for Britain in 1941 was for Russia to kill three-quarters of Nazi Germany’s soldiers, and, mutatis mutandis, for the U.S. in 2025 to cease the mass killing near Europe, save most of an autonomous Ukraine, keep Russia back eastward as far as feasible, and in Kissingerian-style derail the developing Chinese and Russian anti-American axis.

Trump was never anti-Ukraine, but rather against a seemingly endless Verdun-like war in which after three years neither side had found a pathway to strategic resolution—a war from the distance fought between two like peoples, one with nuclear weapons, and on the doorstep of Europe.

Trump’s Careful, America First Approach to Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program Trump’s MAGA base trusts his judgment—even if stopping Iran’s nuclear threat means a one-time strike, not a new war. By Fred Fleitz

https://amgreatness.com/2025/06/20/trumps-careful-america-first-approach-to-irans-nuclear-weapons-program/

he mainstream media has been in overdrive this week, claiming that President Trump’s MAGA base is prepared to revolt if the president decides to drop bunker-buster bombs on Iran’s Fordow uranium enrichment site because this would violate his America First principles to keep America out of new and unnecessary wars.

President Trump answered these criticisms decisively when he told The Atlantic staff writer Michael Scherer that, since he originated the America First concept, he alone decides what it means. Trump also told the reporter that stopping Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon aligns with America First principles:

“For those people who say they want peace—you can’t have peace if Iran has a nuclear weapon. So for all of those wonderful people who don’t want to do anything about Iran having a nuclear weapon—that’s not peace.”

Trump’s statement did not come as a surprise to those of us who have studied his America First approach to U.S. national security and why this groundbreaking approach to foreign affairs was so successful during Trump’s first term. (Full disclosure: I edited a book on this topic published in May 2024 titled An America First Approach to U.S. National Security.)

There is no question that the America First approach repudiates the failed foreign policies of prior Republican and Democratic presidents who embroiled our nation in endless wars and doomed nation-building efforts in areas of the world where there were no U.S. strategic interests. This approach is also a backlash to efforts by Democratic presidents to enmesh America in globalist trade agreements and treaties that were favored by the liberal elite but harmed U.S. security and the American worker.

This led to Trump’s America First approach to U.S. national security. A primary requirement of this approach is a competent and decisive president who exercises strong leadership, appoints exemplary national security officials, and implements a coherent and effective foreign policy to protect America from foreign threats and promote its interests abroad. The America First approach requires a strong military, the prudent use of U.S. military force, and keeping U.S. troops out of unnecessary and unending wars.

The America First approach is not America alone. It means working in alliances and with partners to promote regional security while requiring alliance members and allies to carry their full weight in defending security in their regions.

The West Stands With Israel – Except for Norway Yet again, Oslo breaks with the pack when it comes to the “Jewish question.” by Bruce Bawer

https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-west-stands-with-israel-except-for-norway/

Writing the other day in the Jerusalem Post, Mette Johanne Follestad – who is associated with both Palestine Media Watch and the Norwegian organization With Israel for Peace (Med Israel for Fred) – noted that the most powerful Western countries, after spending months criticizing Israel for its military actions in Gaza, had “finally acknowledged the existential threats Israel faces” and consequently “lined up in defense of Israel’s war to destroy Iran’s nuclear weapons program.” The German Chancellor, for example, acknowledged Israel’s “right to defend its existence.” So did the French Foreign Minister. Britain’s Industry Minister said it might help defend Israel. And U.S. President Trump was the most supportive of all.

Arrayed on the pro-Iran side were countries like Qatar, Oman, Turkey, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the United Arab Emirates – all of them autocracies, most of them Islamic. Joining this pack, observed Follestad, was the one major Western democracy to refuse to stand with Israel: namely, her own country, Norway.

She wasn’t surprised. As a longtime resident of Norway, I wasn’t either.

Part of the reason is Norway’s distinctive approach to international relations. In the hours after Israel’s June 13 attack on Iran, I saw both the Norwegian Prime Minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, and the Foreign Minister, Espen Barth Eide, rush to issue condemnations on camera. Both of them cited international law, which, explained Støre, permits the use of military force in two cases: in self-defense after an attack, or in accordance with a UN Security Council resolution. Israel, pronounced Eide, had no right to bomb Iran as a pre-emptive measure because Iran didn’t yet have atomic weapons. By doing so, charged Eide, Israel had “violated international law.”

Norwegian leaders, you see, tend to be very big on international law. They love the global order, and love obeying commands from above.

The Big Lie: ‘Stolen Land’ Welcome to the bastardization of history. by Bruce Thornton

https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-big-lie-stolen-land/

Mob violence recently took place in L.A. and hundreds of other cities over Donald Trump’s efforts to obey the Constitution and “faithfully execute” the duties of the president, and carry out the laws by deporting illegal aliens. At the same time, Israel began a massive attack on Iran’s weapons and leaders in order to prevent that regime from acquiring nuclear weapons––which Iran now has a “zero- breakout-time” for achieving–– and fulfill the jihadists’ genocidal oath to “wipe Israel off the map,” as Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in 2003.

What links these events is the “big lie” of “stolen land,” indulged by the leftist Democrats in L.A., and Israel’s enemies everywhere. Leftists and jihadists both adhere to the precept “any means necessary,” which validates violence. But as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has said, the “big lie” is codependent with violence, “since it can conceal itself with nothing except the lie, and the lie has nothing to uphold it save violence.” Marxism is famous for both.

From the beginning, Karl Marx boasted of Marxists’ embrace of violence. In 1843 he threatened the Prussian government, “We are ruthless and ask no quarter from you. When our turn comes, we shall not disguise our terrorism.” The next year he publicized his “plan of action,” and stated, “Far from opposing the so-called excesses, those examples of popular vengeance against hated individuals and buildings which have acquired hateful memories, we must not only condone these examples but lend them a helping hand.” This, of course, foreshadows today’s leftist Dem politicians who support violent protests and riots, and those governors and congressmen who encourage and support the rioters.

True to Solzhenitsyn’s observation, Marxists have employed propaganda and “big lies” to legitimize their violence. This affinity for lying, which George Orwell’s phrase from 1984, “2+2= 5,” epitomized, was endemic among the Bolsheviks and their propaganda that penetrated every dimension of society and politics. Pierre Pascal, an apostate from Soviet communism, in 1924 wrote in his journal, No regime has ever been a regime of lies to this extent.”

Another repentant true believer, Boris Souvarine––anticipating Orwell––wrote of the Bolshevik’s public discourse, “Not one fact, not one quotation, not one idea, not one argument: only impudent affirmations with a half-dozen interchangeable words come from the ‘heights.’” We who have witnessed during the last decade the regime media repeating endlessly the same preposterous talking points, often word for word, know what Souvarine is talking about.

Israel’s Attack Restores the Credibility of the West A blow for the good guys in Cold War II. Co-authored with Harry Halem and Marcus Solarz Hendriks.

https://niallferguson.substack.com/p/israels-attack-restores-the-credibility

Early Friday morning, Israel launched a historic wave of attacks against Iran—the latest phase of the Israel-Iran war that effectively began on October 7, 2023.

Israel’s Operation Rising Lion included both air strikes and a wave of Mossad-run assassinations across Iran that effectively decapitated the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. The Israel Defense Forces claim to have executed hundreds of strikes spread over five waves in the first phase of the operation, targeting Iran’s military infrastructure, its nuclear sites, and its command structure. As many as 200 fighter jets were involved. The Israelis built a drone base inside Iran to strike the enemy from within, as if to say: Anything Ukraine can do, we can do better.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei declared that Israel would receive a “bitter, painful” response and that has now begun. As of this writing, Israelis were in their bomb shelters. At least one missile has exploded in downtown Tel Aviv.

How to interpret this seismic event—and unfolding war?

The alarmists are already penning their op-eds prophesying World War III. The BBC and most European media will doubtless portray Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a callous warmonger—as opposed to his nation’s Bismarck. The professional Middle East experts will churn out the usual pablum about avoiding a wider conflagration, despite the fact that those experts almost all failed to foresee the beginning of that conflagration on October 7.

Ignore all of them.

No Kings, Except In California

https://issuesinsights.com/2025/06/20/no-kings-except-in-california/

Last weekend’s No Kings rallies were yet another real-time illustration of psychological projection by the political left. Meanwhile, a West Coast governor who wants to be president so badly that his hair hurts continues to act as if he’s a sovereign accountable to no one.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is a pen-and-phone chief executive. In 2020, while Californians were suffocating under his cruel COVID restrictions, the politician groomed by the San Francisco political syndicate issued an executive order outlawing internal-combustion engine automobiles in the state. Beginning in 2035, all new cars sold in California will have to be of the zero emission variety, which means battery-powered electrics since there are no realistic alternatives.

Newsom caught a bit of flak from legislators who felt that his “law” should have gone through the legitmate policymaking process. But the complaints soon faded because, after all, his order was perfectly in line with the Democrats’ eco-militant agenda. A one-man diktat is no vice in the pursuit of progressive rule.

Two years after Newsom single-handedly enshrined his EV mandate, the California Air Resources Board tried to provide him cover. It voted unanimously to approve his executive order, regarding the mandate “codified” by its endorsement. That’s a cheeky claim from a board that is not elected but appointed – chiefly by the governor.

Newsom’s excess was recently restrained by Congress and President Donald Trump through the proper lawmaking process. Trump signed a bill that he said “will kill, totally kill” California’s EV mandate “forever.”

Newsom’s response was not only to sue, which is certainly within the scope of his position, but to also behave as if, again, he is accountable to no one. He defiantly shot back on June 12 with an order that “reaffirms” the state’s “commitment to accelerate the deployment of zero-emission technologies, including passenger, medium and heavy-duty vehicles.” He recognizes no one’s authority but his own.

Pro-Palestine thugs are becoming a threat to democracy by Michael Deacon

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/pro-palestine-thugs-are-becoming-a-threat-to-de

If you want to understand the mentality of 21st-century Leftists, you need to read a writer who died decades before they were born. Aldous Huxley is best known as the author of the dystopian novel Brave New World. But, in my view, his most chillingly brilliant lines are to be found in a foreword he supplied for an edition of Samuel Butler’s Erewhon, in 1933.

“The surest way to work up a crusade in favour of some good cause,” wrote Huxley, “is to promise people that they will have a chance of maltreating someone… To be able to destroy with a good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behaviour ‘righteous indignation’ – this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.”

I remember those words every time I read about the gleeful cruelty of modern progressive “activists”. Such as the anti-Israel protesters who have taken to targeting Luke Charters, the Labour MP for York Outer.

Last week, Mr Charters has revealed, a group of masked thugs flung a tin of baked beans at him in the street, while chanting, “Labour, Labour, genocide.” Then, on Saturday, around 20 of them tried to block the entrance to his constituency surgery, while bellowing, “Luke Charters, you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide.” As a result, he says, several constituents were too scared to attend meetings they’d arranged with him.

What on earth could possess someone to think it’s acceptable to hurl a tin at an MP (or, indeed, anyone?). Huxley knew. These foaming narcissists clearly believe that their cause is so unimpeachably righteous, they’re entitled to bully anyone who doesn’t share their fanaticism. And they do it with the most jubilant relish.

Of course, Mr Charters isn’t the only MP to be plagued by such people. One night in February last year, a mob of anti-Israel protesters angrily demonstrated outside the family home of the then Tory MP Tobias Ellwood.

‘When the Judges Ruled, There Was Famine’: Bible by Alan M. Dershowitz

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21691/rule-by-judges

Under Article 3 of the United States Constitution, judges are supposed to play a critical role in checking and balancing the excesses of the other branches. Their central responsibility is to enforce the procedural safeguards of the Bill of Rights, most particularly those assuring due process, equal protection and the right of dissent. They have no legitimate business interfering with the substantive policies of the executive or legislative branches.

Judges look harder to find procedural objections to policies and actions of which they disapprove.

[Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis] consistently voted to uphold laws and practices with which he had strong substantive disagreements, so long as they did not clearly violate express provisions of the Constitution. That is the proper role of unelected judges in a democracy.

The people — not the judges — should rule the land.

The Book of Ruth begins with an ominous warning: “In the days when the judges ruled, there was famine in the land.”

History shows that judges make poor leaders. Thomas Jefferson understood this when he tried to limit the influence of the “midnight judges” appointed by John Adams. Andrew Jackson refused to implement a Supreme Court decision that he believed undercut his policy toward Native American tribes. Abraham Lincoln responded to what he regarded as the overreaching of judges by suspending the writ of habeas corpus. Franklin Roosevelt threatened to pack the Supreme Court when the justices tried to dismantle his congressionally-enacted New Deal.

Now, many district court judges are determined to thwart the policies of President Donald Trump. Judicial efforts to thwart executive and legislative actions have occurred frequently in our history, as have executive and legislative responses to such judicial activism.

Under Article 3 of the United States Constitution, judges are supposed to play a critical role in checking and balancing the excesses of the other branches. Their central responsibility is to enforce the procedural safeguards of the Bill of Rights, most particularly those assuring due process, equal protection and the right of dissent. They have no legitimate business interfering with the substantive policies of the executive or legislative branches.