An alien ideology is entering American politics, and its threat cannot be dismissed. While our Constitution guarantees us a republican form of government, the tools of democracy can be exploited to render that asunder.

Two major cities—New York and Minneapolis—now have candidates for Mayor running as avowed socialists under the Democratic party. They have every likelihood of success. That they call themselves Democratic Socialists is of no comfort. The Venezuelan, Cuban, and China constitutions also speak of their governments as democratic socialist.

These candidates are, indeed, Marxists, and the attempted effort to separate Marxism from socialism is folly—Marx and Engels thanked designated socialist newspapers for spreading their Manifesto and the famous democratic socialist Michael Harrington has written: “Karl Marx was a democratic socialist in the most profound sense of the phrase.”

That no major Democrats are denouncing these candidacies and this ideology should be of major concern. For those shrugging this off as no big deal, just remember: you may not care about Marxism, but it cares about you.

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About thirteen hundred workers were recently laid off from the State Department. X was full of emotional videos, recording diplomats gathered in the lobby to applaud, hug, and weep with their departing colleagues.

Americans might wonder where similar coverage was for private sector workers when Joe Biden shut down construction of the Keystone Pipeline. Or why no tears were shed for small businesses destroyed by covid lockdowns

The State Department’s hysteria is even more ridiculous in context. According to State Department documents, the department grew from 57,000 employees in 2007 to 80,000 in 2024. After growing by twenty-three thousand, only a meager one thousand, three hundred jobs were cut.

It’s just another example of the grotesque entitlement of the government class.

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He was the towering preacher of his age. John Fullerton MacArthur, Jr., known to so many as “Pastor John,” has died, after more than a half-century of faithful preaching. John McArthur was the son and grandson of preachers. He became pastor of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California just as the state was exploding.

John was a master expositor of Scripture, and his straightforward preaching built his church, then built a larger preaching ministry, then a vast reach by radio, and then a movement to encourage and train preachers from all over the world. He was president of The Master’s University and The Master’s Seminary and the founder of Grace to You—which now makes tens of thousands of hours of John’s preaching available 24/7. He completed preaching the entire New Testament, verse-by-verse, in 2011—and kept preaching.

He was a man of courage and Christian character. He was my dear friend.

I thank God for the life and legacy of John MacArthur.

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Did Joe Biden decide who received pardons and commutations? The New York Times cast fresh doubt on the legitimacy of thousands of clemency actions this week.

Biden refuted allegations that he didn’t authorize the auto-pen for every pardon issued at the end of his term. However, the Times reviewed e-mails during the post-election period, and discovered that aides compiled the pardon lists and then affixed Biden’s signature to most of them with the mechanical device. It included a controversial pre-emptive pardon to Anthony Fauci, among other administration officials, as well as thousands of others in blanket pardons.

This obviously calls into question the validity of these clemency actions.

The real issue is Biden’s competency. Put simply, we need to know who exercised authority granted exclusively to the elected president. The pardons are the entrée to accountability. We need to focus on the most important question – who was the real president in the Biden administration?

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Elon Musk is starting a third party evidently, seemingly out of pique with Donald Trump. About this, a few things. Good luck with it having any traction whatsoever. When a strong conservative’s picking up the pieces and cobbling together a new coalition of conservatives and former Democrats, one John Anderson tried to run against him with a message of social liberalism and economic austerity Just Like Musk. We remember Ronald Reagan, John Anderson is a distant memory, if of any memory.

Second, to quote the polling expert at CNN last week, “Republicans love Donald Trump the way that Americans love Disney World.” In fact, no Republican president has had higher approval from within his own party to date. So where is Musk going to garner activists and voters? From the Democratic party that has been lambasting him and protesting him like few they’ve ever attacked before?

Independents? The No Labels movement has been around for fifteen years and has won exactly nothing. Same for Andrew Yang’s Forward Party. We shouldn’t be too worried about this new windmill Elon Musk is charging.

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For nine years, the people who put together a grand hoax based on a campaign dirty trick, have never been held accountable. A new CIA review concludes that American intelligence knew that the Steele Dossier was baseless, and yet then Director John Brennan insisted on using it to conclude that Russia had interfered with the 2016 election to benefit Donald Trump.

However, Brennan directly contradicted that finding in testimony before Congress. He claimed that “it was not in any way used as a basis for that conclusion.” Now, however, analysts involved say Brennan insisted on using the Steele Dossier and also pressured analysts to ratify his own conclusion rather than allow them to independently assess the intelligence.

After eight years, it may be too late to hold Brennan legally accountable for his alleged perjury. We need a full investigation, however, for long-overdue political accountability for the attempt to hijack intelligence data to undermine a duly elected president.

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After Texas floods claimed the lives of Americans including seven- and eight-year-old girls, discourse on social media illuminated something about the state of our nation. And it’s not heartening.

Some on the left jumped to politicize the tragedy. Commentators like Obama advisor David Axelrod linked the disaster to Trump administration government cuts.

The claims were false. The National Weather Service office had extra staff on duty and issued warnings well in advance. But that’s not the point.

The bodies of some of these little girls haven’t even been found yet. It’s indecent to play politics so quickly at a time like this. It’s a hallmark of a society that’s lost its way. But it’s what happens when your deity is political power, rather than God Himself.

Whatever our politics, let’s try to do better. Our fellow Americans, mourning their dead, deserve that much.

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“Let your “yes” be yes and your “no” be no,” the apostle James wrote to the church in Jerusalem. Too often, politicians forget this simple wisdom.

Donald Trump is not among them.

The lesson of Trump’s second term is that he rarely bluffs when it counts, and we have seen results in recent weeks in every arena. He warned Academia that he would enforce the law and Supreme Court decisions on civil rights and DEI, and Harvard has learned the hard way that he was serious.

Trump ran for a second term on a promise to seal the border and take care of the problem of illegal immigration. He’s made terrific progress on doing just that.

And, most explosively, he told Iran they could not have nuclear weapons. He said—and I quote: We can “blow them up nicely or blow them up brutally.”

They should have listened.

The secret of Trump’s appeal is clear to see. Voters elected Trump to do what he promised.

And that’s exactly what Trump does.

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