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What’s Happening to U.S. and Chinese Scientists?

Newsweek recently reported that a cluster of U.S. scientists have been killed or died or gone missing. Not just any scientists, like botanists. But scientists with direct connections to national security. Included among the dead and missing are a couple of nonscientists who were administrative personnel at government nuclear and aerospace research or production facilities. They held security clearances.

The U.S. deaths aren’t isolated. Newsweek reported that China has experienced a brain drain, too. Over the last few years, a bunch of Chinese scientists have died – scientists whose work involved military and national security programs.

Declared Newsweek: “[The dead and missing have] prompted a disturbing question among some [unnamed] military analysts: Is there a silent ‘scientist war’ going on?”

In a time when grabbers exaggerate to generate clicks, the temptation is to dismiss such speculation as nonsense. Except for this: Iran’s decades-long efforts to develop nuclear weapons may provide a clue.

The U.S. and Israel have been implicated in the assassinations of Iranian scientists involved in Iran’s now largely defunct atomic weapons program. The assassinations aren’t just recent, however. They’ve happened since the early 2000s. Targeted killings during wartime are a different matter.

As far back as 2012, the Council on Foreign Relations reported:

Driving in rush hour traffic yesterday morning in Tehran, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, chemical engineer and department supervisor at the Natanz uranium enrichment plant, was killed. Reportedly, two men on a motorcycle attached a “sticky bomb” to Ahmadi Roshan’s Peugeot, killing the scientist and his bodyguard.

Although estimates vary, Ahmadi Roshan is the fifth Iranian official or scientist connected to the country’s nuclear or ballistic missile program who has been violently killed since 2007. Another scientist, Fereydoon Abbasi, narrowly escaped a similar “sticky bomb” assassination attempt in November 2010—he now leads Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization.

Back in 2012, Barack Obama was president. Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. The Obama administration denied U.S. involvement. Assassinations of Iranian scientists occurred during the Bush administration, too, which prompted official denials then.

During last year’s “Twelve-Day War” (June 13-24), the Foundation for Defense of Democracies reported (June 14, 2025): “Israel eliminated nine top scientists and experts whose knowledge was critical to Tehran’s [nuclear weapons] initiative.”

The FDD analysis continued:

Tehran has long denied that it ever had a nuclear weapons program, but the evidence clearly shows otherwise. The effort was initially known as the Amad Plan, but amid fear of discovery in 2003, the clerical regime downsized and dispersed the program’s activities to preserve them while allowing the work to progress on a more limited scale. Many became part of the Organization for Defense Innovation and Research, known by its Persian acronym, SPND.

All nine of the scientists killed by Israel this week were involved in the Amad Plan, and some were currently working on weaponization efforts, according to Western government sources who shared information with FDD. Between 2007 and 2012, Israel assassinated five other nuclear scientists who were part of the Amad Plan or subsequent activities.

In a December 3, 2020, article, Voice of America discussed the killing of “Iran’s nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh by unknown assailants last week [as] the latest in a string of targeted killings of figures behind Tehran’s atomic program.”

Israel and the U.S. clearly have motive for eliminating scientists helping develop nuclear weapons for a terror state. There are practical and moral justifications for doing so.

Nonetheless, per the VOA article, “Israeli officials have neither confirmed nor denied the allegations [about the Fakhrizadeh assassination]. U.S. officials have denied playing any role in [any] killings.”

What else would both nations say? Acknowledging peacetime assassinations sets a sticky precedent – assuming such killings weren’t already part of the cloak and dagger world.

Yet, if the Israelis didn’t commit the killings, perhaps (or likely) with the support of U.S. intelligence, who did?

The Gulf Arab states might be culprits, though would they have the sophistication and reach to accomplish the missions?

Has the Times of Israel settled the question? In a September 2, 2022 “inside story,” it reported:

Ever since the Mossad intelligence service embarked on its Operation “Wrath of God” to hunt down senior terrorists it blamed for the Munich bloodbath, it has covertly targeted Israel’s enemies overseas.

Today “Israel is using targeted killings as one of its main weapons in its policy of defending national security interests,” [Ronen Bergman] said. [Bergman is the] author of the book “Rise and Kill First” about Israel’s targeted killings.

What, pray tell, do Iranian scientists’ assassinations have to do with the deaths or disappearances of American and Chinese military, nuclear, and aerospace scientists?

Perhaps killing scientists is now a battlefront in covert operations that the U.S. and China are waging against one another? Making that determination requires details about the deaths and disappearances. Context matters. A cursory review suggests some deaths are explainable. But a deeper dive is happening.

U.S. House Oversight Committee chairman, Republican James Comer, is launching an investigation. The Trump administration is engaging.

Per The Hill, April 17:

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Friday that the Trump administration is looking into whether there may be a link among nearly a dozen American scientists who have reportedly died or gone missing in the past almost three years.

Leavitt wrote in a post on social platform X that the White House is working with the FBI and other relevant agencies “to holistically review all of the cases together and identify any potential commonalities that may exist.”

But if the Chinese are eliminating U.S. scientists, and Uncle Sam is eliminating theirs, how transparent would congressional and executive branch investigations be?

It’s also possible that China’s communist regime is killing its own scientists, those who’ve become inconvenient for whatever reasons. Communist regimes are known to dispose of persons who become hinderances.

The clusters of dead and missing American and Chinese scientists may just be handy for stoking social media traffic. Conspiracies of one stripe or another are routinely featured on social media accounts. Tucker Carlson spins his share.

Much to the chagrin of conspiracy enthusiasts, it’s altogether possible that the deaths and disappearances of U.S. and Chinese scientists are coincidences. Yes, coincidences happen – even colossal ones. Yet, in an era of accelerating distrust of institutions, social upheaval, and aforementioned hype, people are more prone to accept dark, ulterior motives to explain chance events.

Defaulting to conspiracies are a means of making sense when guideposts have been “deconstructed” and long-trusted institutions have been hijacked by self-serving – too often corrupt – and ideologically blinkered elites. Deep political divisions across society contribute to suspicions as well. In every generation, there are people who want to believe that random and improbable events are engineered. Capriciousness is unsettling.

Still, in light of the Iranian assassinations, the question nags: Is Iran the only theater where such operations occur?

The U.S. and China are geopolitical rivals. The day may come when they’re belligerents. The stakes are awfully high. Advancements in science and technology – particularly pertaining to national security – are pivots in the Sino-American contest. Missiles, drones, lasers, nuclear weapons, nanotechnology, AI – you name it – all hinge on the highest caliber scientific research and development. The best minds and talents are required.

Has randomness made for a curious coincidence? Coincidences really do happen. Or is the public learning about a new dimension in the fight for global supremacy?

Is, as Newsweek suggests, “a silent ‘scientist war’ going on?”

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Meanwhile, In NYC and Virginia

By J Robert Smith

March 7, 2026
3-min read

In New York City, Will Serious Crime Rise Soon?

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is a man of his word. Among other pledges, he’s going soft on crime in part by reducing personnel at the New York Police Department (NYPD).

In January and February, NYC saw a drop in serious crime, yet, crimes on the city’s subway system rose by 18.5%. According to Fox News, March 7: “[T]ransit crime jumped 18.5% in February, largely driven by felony assaults and grand larcenies.” Felony assault isn’t petty crime. Don’t attribute the city’s two-month crime drop to Mamdani. He only started his term on January 1.

A spike in subway crime may indicate bigger problems brewing. “Broken Windows” – policing stopping lesser crime has proven to deter criminals from committing bigger crimes. It worked for Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg for many years. Broken Windows policing isn’t Mamdani’s way.

Do You Have to be a Christian Zionist to Support Israel?

Carrie Prejen Boller was kicked off President Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission last week. “I am a Catholic, and Catholics don’t embrace Zionism,” [Boller] said. That’s not accurate. It misrepresents Catholics. Per NBC News, Boller defends Candace Owens, who has been accused of flagrant antisemitism.

In fact, the Vatican recognizes Israel and maintains diplomatic relations. Israel has a right to exist is the Vatican’s position. 1.4 billion Catholics across the globe are in general agreement. There’s a forever misconception that the Roman Catholic Church is rigidly hierarchical. It isn’t. There is a diversity of opinions, though core teachings are inviolate. Catholics – and that includes clerics – are bound by those teachings.

Perhaps Boller – a recent convert to Catholicism – in a ham-handed way was attempting to express that Catholic teaching doesn’t comport with evangelical Protestants’ belief that Israel – per evangelicals’ interpretation of the Old Testament – is God’s promise to the Jewish people fulfilled. Evangelicals also hold that the establishment of the Jewish homeland (Israel) is tied to End Times prophecy. Such evangelicals claim that Israel’s rise is a sign that the End Times have begun.

Shawn Carney, president and CEO of 40 Days for Life, a pro-life organization, who denounced Boller’s assertion, provided a smart summary of Catholic teaching, which contrasts with the Christian Zionist sensibility.

From Fox News, February 13:

“For centuries, Catholics have understood that Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the Davidic kingdom and that our faith comes from the Jews. Catholic teaching holds that the Church is the fulfillment of the promises of the Old Covenant. To suddenly claim that Catholics are against Jews is absurd — it is a modern, internet-based error.”

In other words, goes Catholic belief, God’s covenant with the Jews is fulfilled in the divinity of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the messiah, and the New Testament is God’s truth revealed through His Son. Catholic understanding is that one day Jews will reconcile themselves to Jesus Christ as savior.

Hence, Catholics aren’t likely to fashion themselves as “Christian Zionists” in the same manner that evangelical Protestants do. Most Catholics support Israel’s right to exist. Many would say they support Zionism – a longtime Jewish national movement – which, per Grok, traditionally asserts that Jews are a people, not just a religious body; they have a right to “self-determination and national sovereignty”; and, finally importantly, “this sovereignty should be realized in their ancestral home – the Land of Israel.”

Roman Catholics can and do support Israel’s right to exist, but diverge from the evangelical Protestant interpretations. I’ll leave it to others to debate the finer points of Catholic and evangelical belief in regard to Israel.

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We Do Not Get to Choose
What Laws We Obey

By Rob Meyne

February 4, 2026
3-min read

All of 49 states and their big city mayors are currently not encouraging demonstrators to interfere with police officers. They are the same states without deaths attributable to ICE encounters with protestors.

Texas and Florida, to name two, have had many more arrests and deportations of illegal immigrants with criminal records than Minnesota. In those states, there have been zero related violent encounters.

How can this be so? Simple: Texas and Florida are enforcing the law, working hand in hand with federal authorities, while Minnesota is not. Minnesota has anointed itself as a sanctuary state, and Minneapolis a sanctuary city. They have unilaterally decided they, and their citizens, don’t have to follow the law. Being a “sanctuary” from federal law is most notable because it is a thing that does not exist.

States and cities do not have the Constitutional authority to determine which laws they will follow. They might as well announce they are two-headed manatees as sanctuaries. It is just as true and just as legally binding.

“Sanctuary” is a made-up term, in the legal sense, and doesn’t exist in the U. S. You do not get to decide which laws you will obey. It doesn’t work that way.

Our federal laws are not the Golden Corral of politics; you don’t get to pick and choose. Calling a city a “sanctuary” tells us a lot about their priorities, but it doesn’t mean a thing in regard to the law.

Any time a person seeks out confrontation with law enforcement, harasses them, spits on them, damages their vehicles, swears at them, or otherwise interferes, bad things can happen. It is not a smart or legal thing to do.

There is no reasonable person, adult, parent, etc., who would advise a child in their care to interfere with police. Ever. Why is it reasonable for a governor or mayor to do?

Walz and Frey have openly encouraged people to interfere with law enforcement. And hundreds of thousands of dollars from far-left groups has been spent to equip and encourage the protestors. The resultant blood is on their hands. Not exclusively, but inarguably.

No reasonable person defends the killing of Pretti and Good. Their deaths were tragic and avoidable. That doesn’t make ICE agents hateful or the victims blameless.

None of us can put ourselves in the position of the officers on the front line. They take daily, consistent abuse and threats from citizens and politicians who call them the Gestapo and Nazis.

The issue in Minnesota is not free speech. No one is challenging the free speech rights of Minnesotans. They have a right to appear, to march, to chant, carry signs, and protest. I actually kind of like it when people protest. That is what freedom looks like. However, they do not have the right to physically confront police. Any rational person understands that.

People have said Pretti died because he was exercising his free speech. That is a lie, and the people who say that know they are lying.

This much is reasonable and ought to be ground on which we can unite:

The deaths in Minnesota are tragedies. We should all tone down our rhetoric, and all sides should work to prevent more deaths.

Free speech is our most important right and we must protect it.

No one has the right to interfere with law enforcement.

Citizens and public officials all have a duty to obey, respect, and support the law.

Anyone who can’t agree with those sensible principles has lost their right to a place at the table of rational debate.

The shootings in Minnesota are being investigated, as they should be. Looking ahead, we need reason and accountability from the protestors, the police, public officials, and everyone else. As long as Minnesota’s leaders continue to pretend they are above the law this situation will remain dangerous.

It is notable that the Trump Administration, and federal law enforcement, support all the above positions. The state of Minnesota, city of Minneapolis, anti-ICE protestors and their wealthy enablers do not. Who is being more reasonable?

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The Feds Closing In on George Soros’ Operations

By J Robert Smith

February 1, 2026
2- min read

Clarice Feldman says this in her weekly roundup (February 1) of news at American Thinker.

In the U.S., attention to deportation protests, the search and seizure of the Fulton County, Georgia, election records, and the release of the thousands of documents in what are called the Epstein files are probably the key items of the week.

Minneapolis police (and now Los Angeles police) are cooperating with federal HHS officials as deportations continue.

Interestingly, the government signals it is going after the funders of the ICE riots. The U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia announced the planned move:

“If money is quietly moving crowds in the streets, Jeanine Pirro says it’s time to treat it like organized crime.”– Jeanine Pirro moves to block George Soros from allegedly secretly bankrolling protests across America — by introducing a new bill that could classify such funding as organized crime under the RICO Act. If enacted, Soros-linked accounts could reportedly be frozen overnight, triggering a massive political shockwave nationwide and igniting fierce debate over protest financing, free speech, and national security. Soros should be behind bars!!

It is a key tactic of the administration to go after those who fund evil. They’ve done it internationally, by blocking the narco trade, the oil shipments from Iran and Venezuela, cutting off funds for the UN and the USAID slush fund. Domestic NGOs are also under scrutiny:

Kristi Noem goes nuclear as DHS chief, exposing how DEMS CREATED A SHADOW GOVERNMENT to sabotage the nation!

She says Democrats built a massive NGO web at home and overseas designed to weaken and overthrow America’s constitutional system.

It’s probably no coincidence that with the cutoff of funds to USAID and the increased scrutiny on NGOs, the DNC is in the red, and it will be even more starved for funds as the smurfing operation Act Blue is increasingly scrutinized.

We know the FBI searched and seized the Fulton County election materials, and we already knew before that the 315 thousand ballots in Georgia were illegally counted. There’s an FBI forensic lab on site reviewing the seized materials, and I think they will probably find a great deal to support the necessity of the SAVE Act pending in Congress, which is designed to limit the shenanigans that clearly occurred in Georgia and elsewhere in 2020.

If RICO laws prove applicable, Soros’ left-wing operations will grind to a halt. Drying up the money to left-wing street and other disruption operations is a killer. It’s been a shrewd under-the-radar play by the Trump administration to go after the money. This also means criminal prosecutions. Stay tuned.

To read Clarice Feldman’s article in full, click on this link.

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In Minnesota, Are Democrats Flirting with Insurrection?

By J Robert Smith

Jan. 16, 2026
3-min read

Minnesota governor Tim Walz made a speech the other night claiming that ICE was brutalizing Minnesotans and occupying Minneapolis. He said he wants both to end. Democrats are all about narratives. In other words, concocting self-serving versions of events for highly personal or partisan reasons.

Walz has plenty to worry about. Not only is the massive Somali fraud that’s resulted in billions of federal taxpayer money stolen costing him his reelection bid, but the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating Walz and other Minnesota Democrat officials to determine if they’re culpable in any way.

Walz is trying to distract from his troubles. Moreover, immigrant populations – illegal or legal – have become the lifeblood of the Democrat Party. Though Minnesota is a Democrat state, it’s lighter blue. Republicans control the state house. A capable GOP candidate for statewide office can usually count on a vote tally in the high 40-percent range. That makes Republicans competitive. Democrats need the Somali voting bloc to help keep their grip on statewide offices. Walz is protecting an important bloc in his party’s voting base. He’s happy to overlook crime among Somalis.

Then there’s Jacob Frey, the mayor of Minneapolis, who famously told ICE to get the f**k out of Minneapolis. Understand that ICE isn’t causing any problems in Frey’s city. They’re rooting out and arresting Somali criminals, among others.

In Florida, for example, ICE is working closely with state and local law enforcement to quietly and successfully roundup hardcore criminals among illegals – and, yes, arrest and deport those who are in the U.S. illegally. Florida governor Ron DeSantis is seeing to it.

Per a Grok (X platform) search and analysis:

ICE’s Operation Metro Surge, launched in late 2025 in Minneapolis, has resulted in over 2,000 arrests nationwide, with a focus on the Twin Cities area due to its sanctuary policies. Among those arrested are individuals from various countries, including Somalia, prioritized for criminal convictions or outstanding deportation orders. DHS and ICE have publicly highlighted the “worst of the worst” cases, emphasizing arrests of those convicted of serious crimes like homicide, sexual assault, child abuse, drug trafficking, and fraud. Of the 212 individuals classified as the most dangerous in Minnesota operations, 20 are from Somalia (about 10%), behind Mexico (91) and Honduras (22). Nationwide, 117 people with Somali citizenship were arrested in the initial phase, with 28 in Minnesota.

Walz, Frey, and Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison have been careful about not calling for outright resistance to federal law enforcement. That would be insurrection. Though they couch their words, their actions indicate attempts at public incitement. They’ve withheld not only state and local law enforcement cooperation with ICE, but have allowed rabble to run Minneapolis’ streets – as in individuals who are committing acts of violence toward federal law enforcement and property destruction. We’re not talking about peaceful, lawful protests, which are a 1st Amendment right.

President Trump is walking a tightrope. Lately, polling suggests that independent voters and moderates are backing off supporting his immigration enforcement efforts. Republicans aren’t, however. The midterm elections are critically important. Republicans holding Congress matters to the final two years of Trump’s term. If enough independents are motivated to vote against Republican House and Senate candidates this autumn, that makes Trump a 24-month lame duck.

Yet, upholding the law matters greatly. Somalis shouldn’t be given passes, having committed fraud on an historic scale. Drug dealers, gangbangers, rapists, child sex traffickers, fraudsters, and thieves, among others, need to be brought to justice. Those here illegally need to be deported.

Perhaps Trump’s solution is to pursue justice and work like hell to get Republicans to the polls this autumn? Perhaps, leadership, resolve, and fighting for a safer America and justice wins votes?

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Our Civilization is At Risk. Are You Up for the Fight?

By Rob Meyne

Jan. 2, 2026
5-min read

Every generation, back to the days when we celebrated holidays with families over a slice of roasted mammoth, had concerns about the future of our families, friends, and communities. It is human nature to be concerned, even when communities consisted of only a dozen people.

It is also normal to think the problems we are facing are the worst ever. Every generation has faced its challenges, and they were all important, immediate, and impactful.

It is nonetheless true that the problems and opportunities we face are unprecedented or, at best, more pervasive and potentially impactful than ever before.

If mankind survives another couple of centuries (not a certainty) it will be largely because we figured out how to handle bigger challenges. Only the most optimistic of use think we are on track to do so.

Some of the issues that will determine our future, and which we still have a chance to affect, include:

• Education – Our system is failing, despite some good people and good intentions. It would not be an overreaction to scrap the whole thing and start from scratch, emphasizing basics until they are mastered. There is no evidence we have the will to do that.

• Freedom – Free speech, capitalism (which has lifted billions out of poverty in the past half century) and self-government are under attack. The last administration had extensive efforts to censor legacy and social media. President Trump has ended the biggest digital censorship programs from Obama and Biden, and our law enforcement agencies are no longer pressuring social and legacy media to spike stories that go against the “narrative.”

Astonishingly, millions of average voters and Dem leaders think we have too much free speech. Freedom is being restricted in much of Europe, too, especially Germany and the U. K. Donald Trump is constantly accused of being a fascist. Yet the evidence proves otherwise. He has pushed to enforce immigration laws – federal law – and that is offered as proof he is a dictator. A president supporting the law is the opposite of dictatorship. A president ignoring law, as did Biden, is more fascist by far. Bottom line: President Trump publicly advocates for more freedom. Not a single leading Democrat does. Just the facts, ma’am!

• Political Parties – Both major parties have evolved, but the Democrats have changed more than the Republicans. Although a lot of former GOPs don’t like Trump, his policies are generally conservative with some being surprisingly moderate. For the Democrats, the nascent cohort is socialist/communist candidates, elected officials, party leaders, and a majority of their actual voters, who favor socialism over capitalism, according to their own responses to national surveys.

• AI – Artificial Intelligence has gotten so good that it is now very difficult to determine whether a picture or video is real. And it controls a lot of our basic organizational and governmental processes.

AI makes us question every story or message from the media. And, rather than being objective, we have seen that AI bears the same prejudices and political leanings as the people and information that inform it. AI is also, sadly, the go-to way for students to get through school, getting passing grades without earning them. A famous article the past year, written by a student, outlined how most Yale Undergrads relied on AI to do most of their work. And their average grade is an A. We are in trouble.

• Demographics – Our population is growing older, and we are not having children at even a replacement rate. Younger women are abstaining from marriage or being mothers, while a ton of young men are sequestered in their parent’s home or behind a video game console in their own place.

Astounding numbers of people don’t even have social lives, and perhaps most surprising, are giving up entirely on sex. This is not a positive comment on our nation or our future. Our founders expected us to be informed, engaged, social, collegial, and active in politics. Manifestly, today, we are not.

• Media – Mainstream media continue to be overwhelmingly leftist, as do our major universities. Perfectly factual stories like Hunter’s laptop got intentionally killed, or spiked, by a combination of pressure from the FBI and other governmental agencies. There are a handful of moderate or conservative outlets, but most corporate media don’t even pretend to be objective anymore.

• Illegal Immigration – We have also seen an unimaginable influx of foreigners into our nation, which creates pressure on housing, jobs, social services, schools, and more. This was the result of a conscious decision by the previous president to ignore our laws. For today, President Trump has secured our borders, but many others support the influx of non-citizens. Either way, it will have an impact on our nation for centuries to come.

So, what is the path forward? It is up to us.

The people who define our future will be the ones who make the effort to be well—informed, care enough to do something about it, and realize we are in a fight for our civilization. If you don’t get that, by now, you probably never will. As for me? I’m going down swinging. If we lose the fight for freedom, self-government, and western values it will not be because I sat this one out. How about you?

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Yes, the 2020 Election Was Corrupt, but No One Seems to Care

By Rob Meyne

Dec. 29, 2025
3-min read

Last week, Fulton Country, GA, admitted that more than 300,000 illegal ballots were counted there in 2020. More than enough to have changed the outcome, and there is no reason to think it only happened in GA.

The careful observer will recall that the entire post-election period in 2020 was a discussion between people who thought the results were inaccurate and corrupt, mostly Trump supporters, and those who thought you were insane if you even asked questions about it.

Notably, even the key players in Georgia, including Governor Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensburger, protested non-stop that there were no irregularities in Georgia, the count was accurate, and suggesting anything else was tantamount to treason. They supported the anti-Trumpers from day one, and still seem to.

Four years later, Georgia authorities have finally admitted they were wrong, people like me were right (pardon the attitude there), and of course so was Trump.

Four years hence, there is nothing we can do about it. Almost none of the people who think questioning the election was wrong will acknowledge “we” were right, apologize for it, or suggest ways to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

In other words, the anti-Trumpers were wrong, Trump was right, and no one will let it change the way they spew hatred against the people they disagree with.

It is sad that proof of corruption in the election is not enough to unify us around a commitment to do better next time. Not one Democrat leader is advocating for more secure elections. Not. One. They claim any effort to secure our elections is rooted in racism or other inaccurate claims.

Why? Because corruption benefits them. There is no other explanation. Why else would a person oppose making elections secure?

The 2020 election, which Biden is said to have won, was corrupt. Votes were counted that were not legally cast and processed. Period. We know that. It is not an opinion. Secretary of State Raffensburger can claim it doesn’t matter, the law shouldn’t be enforced, or that he is from the planet Neptune, for that matter. None of those things is true.

It is an embarrassment when elected officials of either/both parties push back against making sure votes are cast and counted legally. If we lose that, there is no hope for our future.

A constitutional republic, and democratic values, require our citizens and officials to be informed, reasonable, and open to different opinions. Yet we no longer meet those criteria.

Logical thinking, reasoning, and civil debate REQUIRES us to learn, examine, and improve. We need facts, not opinions. And no one in authority has objectively looked at the legal issues from the 2020 election. No one has even investigated it. In the meantime, we are supposed to think a man who didn’t leave his basement to campaign got 81 million votes, about six million more than the previous record. Impossible.

The paucity of leaders who are willing to discuss this issue is not a minor problem. It threatens the very future of our nation.

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AI Reflects the Bias of Its Creators

By Rob Meyne

Dec. 6, 2025
3-min read

As Artificial Intelligence controls more of our lives every day, it is disturbing to realize it is being developed to reflect certain prejudices and biases.

You cannot trust it, and I am not sure ultimately there is anything we can do about it. Figuring out what is true will get even harder in the future. It is tough enough already. But in days to come, we will have to be even more dedicated to discerning fact from opinion.

Recently I have been using, and experimenting with, Grok. Not Gronk. He was the tight end. Grok.

I was curious to see if it is biased, politically, and of course found that it is.

I asked it to give me a list of the payments members of the Biden family have received from foreign governments, individuals, and companies. Just a list. Just the facts, ma’am. 😊

Grok responded with a document under the banner of “… alleged payments…” they have received. Then when on to list them. For those watching at home, it was in the ten of millions.

Yet, the question, and the bias it reveals: why did it call them “alleged” when the payments are clearly and carefully documented, by the banks themselves, who reported them to the Treasury?

Following me? A list of proven payments (in exchange for no work, by the way) to Joe’s family. Even grandkids and in-laws. Fully documented. But Grok called them “alleged,” suggesting it isn’t true and creating doubt.

When queried further, Grok told me they use the word “alleged” not to question the payments themselves but to address the accusations of criminality that usually accompany it. But they called the payments themselves alleged.

And I hadn’t shown any interest in criminal charges or theories. Grok just assumed if I was asking about payments to the Bidens what I was really after is fodder for criminal accusations. Just looking for numbers and sources resulted in politically biased outputs.

They called the payments “alleged” even though they admitted in a later exchange there is no doubt the payments occurred.

It also recommended, unsolicited, that I ask for a list of Trump family business connections to other nations. I also didn’t ask about this.

Got it? They are doing everything they can to make it look like the Biden activities are basically the same as those of the Trump family.

Except, one, no one asked. (I also didn’t ask about the life cycle of the common shrew.)

And, two, the Trump family has a BUSINESS that involves real work, real property, employees, and sales worldwide. Grok suggests an equivalency between the Trump businesses and the Biden payoffs. But the Bidens have no actual businesses, investments, employees, products, services, or sales. They just have a series of LLCs, shell companies that take payments but have to real business.

There is a reason the name Trump appears on buildings, and the name Biden does not.

Artificial Intelligence reflects the biases of the people who develop it and the information from which they learn. It should not surprise us that AI output is flawed.

You may recall that Biden’s proposed regulations on AI mandated that it promote equity, which is the opposite of equality of opportunity. Equity benefits certain races and disadvantages others. Biden’s team built their own ideological and political prejudices into their AI regulations.

Many tech companies, their leaders, and their funders do the same. Finding the truth is getting harder as a result.

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Senate Republicans Better End the Filibuster

The nation just experienced an historically long federal government shutdown. It cost Americans billions of dollars, disrupted services, and ended without any tangible results for the Democrats, who forced it.

President Trump has called repeatedly for Senate Majority Leader John Thune and the GOP caucus to end the filibuster. The president wants his agenda acted on swiftly, and for the sake of the nation, he’s right. Yet, a dozen-plus Republicans have balked. They’ve balked because they’re living with the old politics – the old ways of operating the Senate. But the old politics are dead.

When Democrats had a majority in 2021, they came within a hair of ending the filibuster. But for the efforts of former Democrat senators Joe Manchin (WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (AZ), they would have opened the dam to radical changes impacting our election system, economy, and much else. Manchin and Sinema were practically run out of their offices by their fellow Democrats. The next time Democrats control the Senate – and that could be as soon as 2027, following the midterm elections – they’ll move to abolish the filibuster. They’ll push a far more radical agenda because the energy is on the left.

Then what? Then they’ll renew the push to enact their 2021 agenda and worse. Back then, House Democrats passed the “For the People Act.” Had this radical measure passed the Senate, it would have “expanded early voting, automatic voter registration, restored voting rights to felons, limited gerrymandering, and imposed new disclosure rules on campaign donations.”

That was for starters. One more example. The “Build Back Better Act” was a gargantuan $3.5 trillion spending measure that “included universal pre-K, expanded Medicare benefits (dental, vision, hearing), paid family leave, child tax credit expansion, housing aid, and clean energy investments. A full version required filibuster elimination, as it exceeded reconciliation limits; a scaled-back iteration passed in 2022 as the Inflation Reduction Act.” Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act spent money on an economic stimulus that wasn’t needed. It caused the inflation that stripped Americans of their buying power. It was a disaster enough.

This nation is at a crossroads. President Trump has a small window to reset the country’s course. We have a chance to be a more prosperous, freer, and decent society or we can spin off into the dystopian world that Democrats and the left are striving to create. Open borders will return, police will be prevented from doing their jobs, and Uncle Sam will spend us into a bona fide fiscal crisis. And expect limits on free speech the likes we’ve never seen on these shores.

Is all that an exaggeration? Not a bit, unless like Senate Republicans, you want to deny that only two maverick Senate Democrats in 2021 staved off ending the filibuster, thereby protecting the country from woes most of us can’t imagine. Republicans need to end the filibuster before the Democrats do to enact measures that set the nation on a healthier course.

President Trump is right. The next time, Senate Democrats won’t fire and miss.

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