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President Trump just gave all federal employees two more days off, ensuring they can enjoy five consecutive days to celebrate Christmas. Here’s the news: WASHINGTON TIMES – President Trump, who has long . . .

In Nigeria, Christians living in the country’s Middle Belt region are under constant threat of attack from Fulani militants and Islamic terrorist groups. Unfortunately, the risk of attack only increases around major Christian holidays, as militants time their attacks to inflict maximum terror and make known their message that Christians are not welcome in the region. Two years ago, at least 140 Christians were massacred by Fulani militants wielding guns on Christmas Eve in Nigeria’s Plateau state. Timothy Nuwan, the vice president of Church of Christ in Nations, told AFP, “Many people were killed, slaughtered like animals in cold blood.” The militants torched people’s homes and burnt down eight churches, again demonstrating the religious motive behind the attack. (RELATED: Defending Nigeria’s Christians from Islamist Genocide) “I ask myself, why is it always during Christian festive periods that these killings take place?” And this year, 72 people were killed during the Easter Triduum in Benue state. Following the attack, Father Moses Aondoanenge Igba, a Catholic priest in the area, noted to Catholic New Agency’s Africa division the reason why the attack was timed to the most sacred period of the Christian liturgical year. “I ask myself, why is it always during Christian festive periods that these killings take place?” Igba said. “Either Christmas or Easter, they come to disrupt our celebrations. It points to a conquest ideology. It is more than just terrorism; it is about land occupation and Islamization.” For Nigerian Christians in the Middle Belt region, the upcoming Christmas holiday is putting them on high alert. According to Judd Saul, the founder of Equipping the Persecuted, an organization that aids Christians facing persecution, Fulani terrorists are preparing to attack a number of villages on Christmas Day. “We got very reliable information that they are weaponizing for a Christmas Day massacre,” Judd said at a meeting convened by the International Committee on Nigeria and the African Jewish Alliance last week. “I am imploring the Nigerian government and President Donald Trump to do something so we don’t have a bunch of dead Christians in Nigeria.” (RELATED: What Is America’s Role in Africa?) Judd went into specifics on what he says is being planned by Fulani militants. “We have intelligence right now, as of today, before this meeting, I’ve talked to my contacts,” Judd said at the Emergency Summit on Crimes Against Christians last week on Capitol Hill, also last week. “The Fulani are gathering on the border of Nasarawa and Plateau. They’re gathering up on the border of Nasarawa and Benue. They’re gathering up on the border of Nasarawa and Kaduna. They plan on hitting these villages. They plan on hitting Bokkos in Plateau. They plan on hitting Barkin Ladi. They plan on hitting Riyom in Plateau. They plan on hitting the community of Agatu in Benue, and they plan on hitting Kafanchan in Kaduna, all on Christmas.” Judd founded a media organization, Truth Nigeria, which maintains a staff of journalists who report on violence against Christians in the country. (RELATED: Media Denies Christian Genocide in Response to Trump’s Threat of Military Action in Nigeria) Reporters on the ground for Truth Nigeria have documented movements by Fulani terrorists as well as a buildup of weapons that suggest a preparation for violence over the Christmas season. Judd says that the organization has an 89 percent accuracy rate for its terrorist alerts. The Nigerian government has dismissed Judd’s predictions. A special assistant to Nigeria’s president told a Nigerian news outlet, “We should be very careful how we digest and process some of these doubtful reports by external organizations who are setting a stage for internal crisis in our country. We should not be providing oxygen for reports that heighten a sense of insecurity in our country.” The assistant added, “What is the motive and agenda of this organization in raising this kind of alarm about a likely terror attack in the three states and on Christmas Day?” This member of Nigeria’s government is far removed from the reality on the ground. Over 7,000 Christians have already been targeted and killed this year in Nigeria alone, according to Franc Utu, a researcher at the University of Central Oklahoma. And over 100,000 Christians have been killed in Nigeria over the past decade, according to Stephen Enada, who leads the International Committee of Nigeria. (RELATED: Ted Cruz and the Specter of ‘Roland, the Headless Thompson Gunner’) Judd’s warnings, therefore, are hardly heightening “a sense of insecurity” in Nigeria, not when Christians are being systematically killed by the thousands. “[A] culture of denial persists to this very moment,” said New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith at the International Committee on Nigeria last week. Despite the death toll, Nigeria’s media still largely maintains that there is no persecution of Christians in the country. Instead, the narrative is that there is merely a conflict between farmers and herdsmen that is exacerbated by climate change. But there are some signs that this widespread attitude of denial, particularly among Nigeria’s media and government classes, has begun to abate following President Donald Trump’s threat of an American military response in reaction to the crisis. According to Truth Nigeria, a senior editor at a major Nigerian newspaper recently said, “We used words to soften reality: ‘bandits,’ ‘unknown gunmen,’ ‘farmer-herder clashes.’ But after Congress called it ‘religious cleansing,’ we cannot unsee the data.” The Nov. 21 mass kidnapping of 253 children from St. Mary’s Catholic School, which made major national headlines, has forced some Nigerians to see the persecution of Christians that is so endemic in the country. In Kogi state, authorities have already ordered an early curfew as a response to the Christmas threat. And Christians in the area are already wavering on whether they will attend Christmas church services, fearing that they will lose their lives by doing so. Pressure on the U.S. to do something is increasing, and certainly will all the more so if even some of what Judd is predicting befalls Nigeria’s Christians. Stephen Enada said last week, in a meeting that gathered several U.S. congressmen: “If the United States does nothing — God forbid — millions will be killed by jihadists.” READ MORE from Ellie Gardey Holmes: Gavin Newsom’s Democrat Fangirls Pope Leo Named to Vogue’s Best-Dressed List Kamala Harris’s Sad Book Tour Will Now Be Longer Than Her Campaign

The issue of high rents contributed significantly to Zohran Mamdani’s recent election as New York City mayor. His promise to freeze the rent for two million New Yorkers in stabilized units sounded great to those who would benefit. If implemented, though, this solution would make the situation worse — as socialist solutions always do. (RELATED: Gooder and Harder, New York) Far from helping working people secure stable homes, Mamdani’s rent control scheme would choke the supply of housing and leave existing units in disrepair. Landlords would have less incentive to spend to upkeep their stock, never mind improving it, and developers would have no incentive to build more housing. (RELATED: No, Mayor-Elect Mamdani, the Homeless Are Not an Apartment Away From a Good Life) In a free market, if there is an influx of residents into an area, temporary overcrowding and homelessness are inevitable. But it won’t take long for developers to invest in new housing to meet demand. (RELATED: Why Is Congress Importing New York’s Housing Failures? ) When landlords can’t raise rents to market rate, however, they will stop maintaining. Why bother fixing a leaky roof or updating plumbing if you can’t raise the rent above the rate of inflation — or, as Mamdani wants — at all? (RELATED: LA Is Destroying Its Housing Market) Existing tenants enjoy short-term savings in rent-stabilized apartments, but this often leads to their living in crumbling structures with peeling paint, faulty elevators—if they exist at all—and unreliable heat. (RELATED: Saving Us From Scheming Landlords? Biden DOJ Sues Real Estate Tech Company RealPage) Developers also aren’t running charities. They build where they can turn a profit. If rents are likely to become artificially suppressed, the math doesn’t make it worth it. This creates a shrinking pool of available rental housing and fiercer competition for what’s left. Landlords also use above-market rents for unregulated units to subsidize the sunk costs of their regulated units. This is one of the many issues where most liberals agree with conservatives, leaving socialists out in the cold. A study by the liberal Urban Institute found that rent stabilization comes with a reduction in the total number of rental units in cities like San Francisco and New York City itself, which already implement it. Mamdani’s plan to freeze stabilized units’ rent would most hurt the three million renters in market-rate apartments. Tenants in rent-stabilized units already have a turnover rate 2.5 times lower than tenants in market-rate units. Convincing more of the former to stay put would further decrease unit supply and increase the upward rent pressure on everyone else. Mamdani Offers a Socialist Solution to Problems Socialism Caused Mamdani correctly addresses the housing shortage that causes an unrealistic rent burden on the city’s working poor and lower-middle class. But just as socialists want to replace private health insurance with socialist medicine rather than fix the problems the government caused, Mamdani’s solution to lagging housing supply is to build 200,000 more government-owned units. (RELATED: Washington’s Reverse Midas Touch) The market incentives of government housing are little better than those of homeless shelters. Both are built and maintained through charity. If conditions are not unbearable enough to warrant media attention, and bare minimal safety standards are met, there is little reason to maintain or improve either. But if greed caused market discrepancies, cell phones would be unaffordable for the working poor. From a political standpoint, it seems natural for struggling people to lash out at corporations and multi-millionaires who raise rents. But if greed caused market discrepancies, cell phones would be unaffordable for the working poor. Overpricing is the result of a glitch in the free market. Fixing that glitch by adding another glitch — having the government itself enter the market — will only make things worse for more people in the long run. Freeing the Market Would Fix Rent Affordability Phasing out rent stabilization would solve a large part of the problem with rental housing in New York City. Turnover rates in current stabilized complexes would normalize to market levels. This would cause rents to rise in these units, but it would bring down the rent at formerly non-stabilized market units. Removing the threat of rent stabilization and freezes would also encourage developers to build additional rental housing at every price point, further reducing rent prices overall by increasing the supply. As economist Raymond Niles noted in a recent podcast interview, New York City has its own example of this — tenement housing at the turn of the 20th century. That was the only time in history when immigration levels matched former President Joe Biden’s open borders influx. Yet it was worse back then because, rather than coming through dozens of entry points, most immigrants were flooding through Ellis Island. Despite the muckrakers’ sob stories, tenement housing offered these newcomers far better conditions than the peasant hovels and ghetto shacks they left behind in their homelands. Politicians are free to promise whatever they want, and voters are free to believe them. But neither can bend the laws of economics to implement those promises. Housing supply and demand work like any other good. Suppliers, incentivized by the profit motive, respond to demand. When conniving politicians like Mamdani tap into class envy to create an imbalance in the rental market, it causes the quality and quantity of lower-income housing to fall, exacerbating the gap between the rich and the poor as developers cater to the former. The solution is to eliminate all price controls and allow the rental market to fluctuate freely. This would create the appropriate quantity of housing at price points people of every income level can afford. READ MORE from Jacob Grandstaff: America Is a Real Country, Not the World’s All-Star Team The Anti-Colonial Shadow Over Mamdani’s Socialism SCOTUS Just Missed a Big Opportunity to Stop Election Meddling Jacob Grandstaff is an investigative researcher for Restoration News.

“Letters to Santa,” editorial cartoon by Yogi Love for The American Spectator on Dec. 18, 2025.

from Sputnik News: MOSCOW (Sputnik) – China opposes any unilateral acts of intimidation and supports Venezuela’s request to convene an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council in response to US actions, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiakun stated at a press briefing on Thursday. TRUTH LIVES on at https://sgtreport.tv/ “China opposes all acts of […]

from The National Pulse: WHAT HAPPENED: Comet 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object, is accelerating as it nears its closest approach to Earth. ?WHO WAS INVOLVED: NASA and Harvard physicist Avi Loeb. ?WHEN & WHERE: Closest approach to Earth expected on December 19, following its discovery in July by NASA’s ATLAS telescope in Chile. ?KEY QUOTE: “If 3I/ATLAS is not enshrouded in […]