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Mott Street, New York — Walking this iconic street that runs through the Little Italy section of New York City on a recent Sunday afternoon, I was struck by an array of images and ironies, some of them beautiful, others not so. Our morning began with Mass at the historic Old Saint Patrick’s Cathedral. The church’s address is 263 Mulberry Street, between Prince and Houston, with the primary entrance on Mott (where there’s an inspiring sculpture of Padre Pio in the confessional). The church has a remarkable history. It’s the original Cathedral Church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, founded in the early 1800s, at a time when Catholics were not welcome in the city and faced severe discrimination. At one point in the 1830s, Protestant agitators surrounded the edifice. It was quite a clash. To this day, the church is surrounded by a high brick wall once erected as a barricade to protect parishioners from invasion during a time of virulent, violent anti-Catholicism. By the mid-20th century, the parish became increasingly Italian, as did its pastors. The names of the deceased priests on the wall inside the entry way attest to that, as they started changing from names like “O’Reilly” to “Martino.” I didn’t catch the name of the Italian priest at the Mass we attended at noon, but to say that the place had an Italian vibe would be insufficient. In fact, it was an Italian Mass, fully done in Italian. We were fortunate enough to be there on the day of a baptism. The place was teeming with noisy Italian children buzzing about in little suits and pretty dresses and riding scooters outside. A testimony to the Italian-ness of the parish is the fact that an altar boy named Martin Scorsese served here in the  late 1940s. Scorsese would grow to make this area still more iconic when as a filmmaker he made movies like Mean Streets, Goodfellas, Gangs of New York, and The Irishman. Indeed, just a few blocks from the entrance of Old St. Patrick’s is the illuminated entrance to Little Italy. This is, of course, home to the New York Mafia. Walking through here, one’s mind races to images from the extraordinary trilogy of The Godfather movies and celebrations like the annual San Gennaro Festival. One’s attention also is quickly taken by the wall-to-wall restaurants, gelatos stands, espresso bars. We hopped into one of the oldest cafes. The cappuccino was superb, as were the pistachio cannoli. It’s hard not to be happy walking around New York’s Little Italy on a perfect afternoon like this. But I was about to be even happier. As we left Little Italy and headed up the street, I took a right onto historic Bleecker Street. I knew what was around the corner. For years, I shuddered every time I walked by it. I was always particularly appalled because the “it” was attached (in a cruel irony) to the Fulton Sheen Center, where I had spoken and stayed on several occasions. When I did, I never ceased to marvel that the “it” abutted this center named after the greatest figure in American Catholicism. The only solace that I took was that perhaps the folks visiting the Sheen Center would pause to pray for the end of the “it” next door. The unspoken “it” was the infamous original Planned Parenthood “clinic” founded by none other than Margaret Sanger herself. In fact, it sat on a corner that bore the name Margaret Sanger Square. It was here that the racial eugenicist pondered her craft of “breeding a race of thoroughbreds,” of “race improvement,” and ridding the gene pool of its “human weeds” and other “defectives,” “morons,” “imbeciles,” and “idiots” that she strove to ensure never left their mothers’ wombs. Sanger died several years before Roe v. Wade was passed on Jan. 22, 1973. Once that landmark court case was issued, Maggie’s heirs got to work. Truly only God knows how many unborn babies were killed inside that building that became a haunt of demons. We know only that it was a ghastly, unholy number. I’ve written about my face-to-face encounters with that building several times before. Those encounters were always one on one, man versus bricks. I would stand in silent, solemn prayer that the place would be shut down one day. I got some dirty looks, especially from the abortion “escorts” who wanted no one like me in their way as they grabbed the arms of mostly black women to hastily shepherd them inside to kill their unborn children. Of course, the dirty looks that I received were nothing compared to the torrent of hate — invectives, shouts, curses, spitting — heaped upon pro-lifers who bravely gathered outside the Sanger “clinic” on Saturday mornings to pray for the women and their children who ventured inside. Personally, I’ve prayed with such groups outside the abortion clinic on Liberty Avenue in Pittsburgh. I can tell you that prayer verses in the “Hail Mary”/Rosary, such as “blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb,” elicit shrieks and howls from “pro-choicers.” And oh yes, we’ve heard howls. If you ever have any doubts that spiritual warfare exists and abounds, then simply go outside an abortion clinic on a Saturday morning and watch the spectacle before you. The evil is palpable. It’s chilling.  As my wife and daughter and son-in-law turned right on Bleecker Street on Sunday morning, I prepared myself for the site to come. How ironic it was, I thought. I was in New York that weekend with my wife visiting our daughter’s newborn, premature baby in a NICU. Just a few hours earlier, my wife and I were awed at the beauty of our three-and-a-half-pound grandson, giving thanks not only to the heavens but to the excellent hospital staff providing such splendid care and keeping him alive. The whole wonderful staff of nurses and doctors were doing such amazing work to make sure that precious little boy lived. It was the very best of life at work. And yet, right around that corner was another staff of “nurses” and “doctors” dedicated to the opposite goal. They were fully focused on terminating unborn babies. Their objective was not to keep them alive but to ensure their deaths. But lo and behold, I was about to be greeted by a glorious surprise this Sunday afternoon: Sanger’s Planned Parenthood Clinic was gone. The doors were closed, literally boarded. Margaret Sanger Square was no more. The street sign had been changed to “Mott Street.” It actually was shut down several months prior. This was my first time personally witnessing its glorious closure. The reasons for the clinic shutting are many. Unfortunately, one reason for the closing of many of these clinics is that young women are now doing abortions themselves, at home, with pills and do-it-yourself kits. They need not to get on the subway to have an abortionist do the dirty deed for them. (READ MORE: The Nation Must Face the Abortion Pill Legal Monster) Moreover, a few years ago, even pro-choice liberals finally, at long last, under enormous pressure for their hypocrisy, conceded that Margaret Sanger — racial eugenicist — was not someone they should celebrate, especially during the days of Black Lives Matter and critical race theory embraced by liberals. Thus, they finally, in July 2020, disavowed and lifted Maggie’s sordid name from the clinic. Even then, the doors remained open for “business.” Until last spring, when this den of evil shut down. “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great!” states the Book of Revelation 18:2. “She has become a dwelling place for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast.” Isaiah 13:20 declares: “Babylon will never rise again.” Let us hope that Margaret Sanger’s “clinic” on 26 Bleecker Street likewise never rises again. Image licensed under CC BY 4.0.

In my day-to-day life, I do my best to avoid angering large groups of people. Sometimes, though, this needs to be done. In those rare cases, there must be an overwhelmingly compelling reason for doing so. No such reason exists when it comes to the U.S. acquiring Greenland, peacefully or otherwise. President Trump’s latest push to acquire the world’s largest island has caused a storm on both sides of the aisle and the Atlantic. Whatever one’s stance is on the administration’s economic policies, the case that the president has made for acquiring Greenland just doesn’t add up. The Economic Case With a population of about 57,000 people, Greenland is tiny. To put this in perspective, Texas A&M University, as of fall 2025, is educating 81,354 students. They’re not the only college campus with more people than Greenland: The University of Central Florida, the University of Michigan, Ohio State University, the University of Florida, Arizona State University, and plenty more college campuses across the country all boast more students than Greenland has people. The latest figures we have on Greenland’s economy put its GDP at about $3.3 billion. That’s not a typo; it really is in “billions.” With a B, not the T for trillions that we in the US are so accustomed to seeing. The last time the U.S. GDP was below a trillion dollars was in 1969. Last September, Forbes calculated President Trump’s net worth to be $7.3 billion. In other words, President Trump’s personal net worth is more than double that of the entire island of Greenland. Even more troubling is the economic makeup of Greenland. Its economy “depends largely upon the fishing industry as well as Danish subsidies,” with the fishing industry comprising 23 percent of its economy and the Danish government providing another 20 percent of its economy through subsidies. If we were to acquire Greenland, would American taxpayers be willing to take on that obligation? The economic argument for acquiring Greenland is nonexistent. National Security However, the president has frequently pointed to another argument for why we “need” Greenland: national security. With its location, it sits in a near-perfect position for the U.S. to intercept any type of long-range missile or attack coming from, for example, Russia and China. From this standpoint, there exists a clear and present need for the U.S. to have the ability to place critical defense equipment on the island in order to keep America safe from attack. Interestingly enough, this year marks the 75th anniversary of the 1951 Defense of Greenland Agreement between the United States and Denmark. This agreement was just reaffirmed in 2004 and expanded upon in 2023. The treaty, which is still in effect today and has been reaffirmed since, gives us incredibly broad latitude to establish, operate, and expand military bases on the island for purposes of national defense. The agreement allows American military personnel unrestricted freedom of movement throughout all of Greenland’s territory, including the waters surrounding the island. It permits the construction of new defense installations if NATO agrees that such steps are necessary. And, importantly, we can do all of this without paying rent to Denmark (or Greenland) for the land that our military bases occupy. Mikkel Runge Olesen, a senior research fellow at the Danish Institute for International Studies in Copenhagen, put it best by saying, “This agreement is very generous, it’s very open… The U.S. would be able to achieve almost any security goal that you can imagine under that agreement.” At present, the U.S. operates Pituffik Space Base, formerly known as Thule Air Base, located in northern Greenland and perfectly positioned to monitor potential Russian or Chinese missile threats coming over the Arctic. We can already expand that, including adding radar installations, building new facilities, and stationing more troops, if we want to under the existing treaty without owning the island. Acquiring the island for national defense purposes would be like acquiring a 24-hour fitness center that already charges you no membership dues in case you want to walk on the treadmill at 2:00 in the morning. You can already do that. Why acquire the gym, taking on all the immense responsibilities that come with that, when you can already use the gym for free whenever you want? Mineral Rights? But perhaps this is more about rights to minerals, particularly the crucial rare-earth minerals, which will prove essential toward maintaining national security in the future. Here, too, the argument fails the sniff test. Consider the fact that most of Greenland’s rare-earth minerals are located north of the Arctic Circle. As such, they are buried not just underground, but under a polar ice sheet that is one mile thick. Then, we need to realize that because they are north of the Arctic Circle, the location is one that is plunged into the dark of night for most of the year. Finally, it must be pointed out that because there are so few people on the island, its infrastructure is almost nonexistent. According to a 2022 report from the Wilson Center, there are 96 miles of roads in all of Greenland, 56 of which are paved. No two communities in Greenland are connected by a road, and the only two stoplights on the entire island are located in the capital. Even pouring concrete and asphalt can be difficult because of the harsh weather, and that’s in the southern part of the island, where most people live and where it is warmer. In the northern part, the challenge becomes borderline impossible. Indeed, as Malte Humpert, the founder and senior fellow at the Arctic Institute, said, “The idea of turning Greenland into America’s rare-earth factory is science fiction. It’s just completely bonkers… You might as well mine on the moon. In some respects, it’s worse than the moon.” The simple fact is that Greenland’s minerals exist there now because it is far too expensive to extract them from the earth. If it weren’t, private companies would be doing so already, and Greenland’s economy would reflect this. That it does not is evidence that the costs are just too great to make mining worthwhile. It would be far easier and more cost-effective to increase our efforts at mining these minerals domestically, which the president has already started exploring and is expected to continue doing in 2026. Who Actually Wants This? Finally, as the United States gets ready to celebrate its 250th birthday, we must reflect on our founding and why our forefathers fought for independence from Britain. Our very own Declaration of Independence should serve as a lodestar: the legitimacy of any government exercising dominion is contingent upon the “consent of the governed.” Greenland is not merely some piece of land — it is home to 57,000 people, each of which have thoughts, feelings, and values. They have established their own government that lets them determine their own policies and how to handle collective concerns. Last year, Verian polled Greenlanders on whether they wished to become part of the United States. Eighty-five percent said no, with only 6 percent saying “yes.” Their poll went further and asked, “Do you want Greenland to be independent?” Fifty-six percent said they do. In other words, Greenlanders don’t really want to be Danish, but it’s very clear that they do not want to be American, either. When Americans were polled on whether to acquire Greenland, the results were similarly clear. A Reuters/Ipsos poll finds that just 17 percent of Americans approve of acquiring Greenland. Quinnipiac University finds that 86 percent of Americans oppose acquiring Greenland through military means. The case for acquiring Greenland fails on every metric that should matter to a free society. The economics do not work. The security benefits are already there and have been for 75 years. The minerals remain inaccessible under a mile of ice and for good reason. Finally, neither Americans nor Greenlanders actually want this. Our nation was founded on the principle that a legitimate government requires the consent of the governed. Americans in 1776 were not attempting to “go viral” or “start trending” with this phrase. It was the animating idea that distinguished the American experiment from the empires that preceded it. It motivated “a bunch of farmers” to take on the most powerful military in the world in a fight for independence… and win. As we look to celebrate our semiquincentennial, that principle still matters and is worth preserving. READ MORE from David Hebert: Washington’s Reverse Midas Touch The New H-1B Tax: An Exercise in Crony Capitalism Tariffs Have Created the Monster We Feared Image licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Davos gathering used to be a long litany of lamentations. The apostles of climate doom would arrive in their private jets, dine well, do those things they do when their wives aren’t traveling with them, mount the Davos altar, and deliver their apocalyptic prophecies of the type: “The end of the world is near. Ask ‘Pachamama’ for forgiveness, pay more taxes, sell your diesel car, buy an electric scooter, and believe in the gospel of Al Gore.” One after another, they performed the same ritual. Businessmen agreed in agreement while conducting deals behind the scenes, politicians gave their most dramatic performances, and heads of international organizations sold their influence for a hefty price in the tea rooms. To the outside world, in front of the media, it was all the tedious repetition of the Woke Catechism and the Gospel of the End Times. Now things are different. And it sounds better. Everyone grabs a mountain of popcorn to watch Javier Milei speak, who, whenever he gets the chance to address the world’s leaders, makes them sink into their chairs wishing they could become invisible. Then there’s Trump, who didn’t even wait to arrive in Davos to start throwing punches, having spent days mocking the corrupt EU political class and suggesting that NATO without the United States is like a Caribbean beach without bikini-clad women. Macron, Von der Leyen, Merz, and the rest of the European bureaucrats are completely clueless. Milei, on the other hand, seems to have a clear understanding of where we are in 2026: “America will be the beacon that reignites the West.” Trump, however, believes Merz is actually updating his policies. “Here in Europe, we’ve seen the fate the radical left tried to impose on the United States,” he remarked in his criticism of windmills. “It’s not the current chancellor’s [Merz’s] fault. He is fixing the problem. He will do a great job, but look at what they did before he arrived.” My favorite moment of Trump’s speech came when he once again exposed the great lie of the EU. He claimed that there are cities that are no longer even recognizable, following Brussels’ disastrous immigration policies and suicidal economic strategy. “I love Europe, and I want it to succeed, but it’s not on the right track,” he declared. I understand that any European bureaucrat who has made a fortune selling hair-growth politics in Brussels might feel offended, but I doubt there is one capable of refuting him. I am writing this from Europe. From Spain. Let me give you an example of how things work here: the Socialist government of Spain, in line with the EU, has been waging open war on cars and road travel for seven years. They have raised taxes, banned combustion-engine cars — 98 percent of all vehicles in Spain — from many cities, increased revenue from fines, and completely neglected highway and road maintenance. Meanwhile, they have spent enormous sums promoting train travel, subsidizing it, creating special passes and discounts, and repeatedly selling it as the sustainable mode of transportation that will save the planet. As a result, Spanish high-speed rail passengers have increased by 77 percent in five years, train frequencies have soared, and the government leaves travelers with no other choice. However, although investment in construction and maintenance has increased, it is lower per kilometer than in past years, because there are now 800 more kilometers of track than 10 years ago, with much greater wear and tear, not to mention that inflation has risen 26 percent since then, driving up the cost of repairs and materials. The Socialist idea of emptying Spanish roads and filling trains has resulted in an endless string of delays, incidents, and complaints on social media, detailing alarming train behavior — shaking, sudden braking, and more mishaps. And this colossal disaster was crowned by last Sunday’s accident, when a high-speed train derailed and collided with another, leaving more than 40 dead and over 150 injured — the worst tragedy in the history of Spanish high-speed rail. Train drivers had been requesting maintenance on that line since summer. The Sánchez government must have been very busy saving the world from CO2 emissions. When I hear European leaders in Davos babbling nonsense about sustainable economics, climate change, green transport, and other leftist fetishes, I no longer laugh. Now I see the misery in the countryside and in agriculture, the dangerous number of potholes on highways that were perfect just a decade ago, and the faces of the innocents who die, are injured, or suffer due to the chaos of Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist trains — which, before this globalist idiot arrived, were a national pride and something Spaniards could boast about to the world. The EU no longer exists. The farce has been exposed. 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