The “No Kings” rally against President Trump on June 14 featured several angry speeches from Democrats. Mediaite had this story: “Eric Swalwell ‘Trump Is America’s Hitler’ Remark at Rally Sparks Viral Outrage.” That gaseous D.C. speech was easily ignored by PolitiFact and those “independent fact-checkers.” Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) says this repeatedly, and Mediaite added it’s a regular line from Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.). A while back, Fox News host Neil Cavuto offered some mild pushback: “So you don’t think that’s a little hyperbolic?” If we compared Clyburn to a mass-murdering dictator, would that be “a little hyperbolic”? Two months ago at a similar “Hands Off” rally, Swalwell offered the same schtick to excite the leftist crowd: “This is what kicking the s—t out of fascism looks like!” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz can rant at a law-school commencement ceremony that ICE is “Trump’s modern-day Gestapo,” and no one pounces on the Nazi smears. You can put “Hitler” in the search engine at PolitiFact and you won’t find them ever doing a fact check that says “Trump is not a carbon copy of Hitler” or “our immigration law enforcement personnel are not the Gestapo.” However, on June 18, PolitiFact’s Madison Czopek was throwing flags on Walz’s behalf after the horrific assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband in their home. The Patriot Oasis X account was ruled “False” that “Governor Tim Walz has DELETED every post he made praising Minnesota (assassin) Vance Boelter.” This built on a June 15 piece where Czopek took after “conservative X accounts” that linked Walz to Boelter:  "We found no evidence that Walz and Boelter were closely acquainted, nor any evidence that Walz was in any way linked to the shootings.” In between those two posts, Czopek threw a “Pants On Fire” flag at Sen. Mike Lee for a “Based Mike Lee” X post that wise-cracked about the Hortman killing: “"This is what happens (w)hen Marxists don’t get their way.” Lee later took this down. Put aside for a second whether everything Czopek checked was “Pants On Fire.” Clearly, her hair was on fire to defend Tim Walz and the Democrats. That wasn’t all. On June 18, PolitiFact threw a “Pants on Fire” rating at “MAGA Michelle S,” under the headline “Image of man wearing a ‘Resist’ shirt is not of Vance Boelter, but a Texas Democrat’s husband.” The shirt had a picture of a gun above “Resist.” You can’t claim Boelter was a Democrat, but you can claim Trump is Hitler! In between these feverish accounts, PolitiFact awarded Gov. Gavin Newsom a “Mostly True” for his statement “California has lower homicide rates than Alabama, Arkansas and Oklahoma.” Louis Jacobson allowed that California’s overall violent crime rate is higher, if you throw in the rapes and assaults – hence the “Mostly” -- but “Newsom’s comparisons are close to accurate, because he worded his assertions carefully to refer to the homicide rate.” In looking at PolitiFact checks on named politicians and appointees from January through May of this year, NewsBusters found PolitiFact tagged Republicans as “Mostly False,” “False,” or “Pants On Fire” on 58 of 68 occasions (85.2 percent). That’s a dramatic contrast with the Democrats, who were rated “Mostly False” or worse in nine of 23 checks (39 percent). Notice the disparity in overall fact checks at 68 to 23. After the Minnesota murders, discussions abounded about toning down the political rhetoric, which sounds nice. But Democrats have no fear that they will be hassled by “fact checkers” when they uncork toxic smears about Republicans. They are neither the civility police or the fact police.

Thank God President Trump walked back his misguided order to grant de facto amnesty to illegal alien farm workers. Now he needs to kill the policy for good.Trump won in 2016 — and again in 2024 — on two core promises: lower the cost of living and stop the third-world invasion of the United States. Since he shows no interest in cutting deficits in a way that might restore pre-COVID price levels, immigration remains the battlefield that will define his presidency. And unless he corrects course, he risks failure on that front too.No more half measures or donor-driven compromises. No more weakness. Only total war on the policies, programs, and pipelines that keep America under siege.To his credit, Trump moved quickly to shut off the surge at the southern border during his first week in office. But he did the same in 2017, and the long-term results didn’t last. A future Democrat administration will simply escalate. If Biden brought in 10 million, the next one will aim for 20 million.Temporary border control and modest deportation numbers won’t solve the crisis. Fewer than a million removals over a four-year term won’t reverse the demographic or economic damage — especially while legal immigration, foreign student visas, and guest worker programs continue at record highs.Unforced errorsTrump must go beyond symbolic border enforcement. That means neutralizing judicial interference through must-pass legislation — or ignoring illegitimate court rulings outright. He should authorize maritime deportations using ships, suspend most of the 1.5 million foreign student visas — especially from China and Islamic countries — and permanently empower states to enforce immigration law.Instead, Trump recently unveiled a set of policies that undermine those very goals.He announced continued access for Chinese nationals to U.S. universities — just as a spy ring was uncovered at the University of Michigan. He expanded his support for white-collar visas for Indian nationals and revived his “golden visa” scheme, which allows wealthy Chinese Communist Party elites to buy their way into U.S. citizenship.Worst of all, Trump issued an order halting removals of illegal aliens working in farming and hospitality. He later reversed course — but the damage was done. In pushing for more illegal labor, Trump handed leftists a talking point they had already lost. He lent moral weight to one of their core claims: that America needs illegal immigrants to do the “jobs Americans won’t do.” That argument, long peddled by George W. Bush, John McCain, and the donor-class GOP, was the very reason millions turned to Trump in the first place.Ten years after calling for a moratorium on illegal immigration and a drastic cut to legal migration, Trump now echoes the talking points he once dismantled. If he keeps this up, he won’t just squander his mandate — he’ll cement the invasion he was elected to stop.Five points Trump should heedYou can’t re-onshore manufacturing and offshore the workforce. Trump champions tariffs to bring jobs home — but what good is that if those jobs go to foreign nationals here illegally? Patriotism means putting Americans to work on American soil — not just moving the factory.This isn’t about labor shortages. It’s about labor suppression. Trump wants more white-collar visas even as tech jobs disappear. He supports handing green cards to foreign students. This isn’t policy — it’s donor-class economics wrapped in populist branding.You can’t modernize with AI while subsidizing human labor. Trump wants to “win the AI arms race” with China. Great. Start by automating farm work instead of importing cartel-affiliated field hands. Cheap labor delays innovation — and the status quo keeps us dependent.The welfare state distorts the labor market. Trump refuses to shrink entitlements and yet complains that Americans won’t work. Maybe that’s true — but the welfare state is the push, and illegal labor is the pull. Cut both, and you raise wages and get people off the couch.Illegal labor invites cartel exploitation. Agricultural guest labor provides the perfect cover. In 2019, an exposé by the Louisville Courier Journal revealed how Mexican farm workers served as mules for the Jalisco New Generation cartel. One man, Ciro Macias Martinez, groomed horses by day at Calumet Farm — and ran a $30 million drug ring by night.The cash-based, transient, and legally vulnerable workforce offers a logistical gold mine for transnational criminal organizations. Cartels use job scams to traffic humans, set up safe houses, and move product. Rural communities lack the law enforcement resources to push back. The result: strategic sanctuary zones for America's most dangerous enemies.RELATED: Trump shrugs at immigration law — here’s what he should have said Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty ImagesWhen Trump says these workers are “hardworking” and “not criminals,” he ignores the obvious fact that every illegal alien is a criminal. Amnesty for farm workers isn’t just a policy mistake — it’s an operational gift to America’s foreign adversaries.No room for ambiguityTrump knows immigration is his strongest issue. The polls prove it. But if he wavers, even slightly, on mass deportations or illegal labor, he opens the door for his political enemies to sow doubt — and for cartel operatives to sow chaos.He reversed the farm worker carve-out. Now he must bury it. Then, he needs to go farther. No more half measures. No more donor-driven compromises. No more weakness. Only total war on the policies, programs, and pipelines that keep America under siege.His base expects it. The country needs it. The future depends on it.

On June 15, Christian author Owen Strachan tweeted, “As an evangelical Christian, I stand with Israel without shame or apology.” This is, of course, an expression of support for the nation of Israel in its current conflict with Iran. Since Strachan tied his support of Israel to his identity as an “evangelical Christian,” he apparently sees a theological connection between Christianity and support for Israel (though he did not explain his reasoning here).I quoted Strachan’s statement with my own tweet, which read, “As an American Christian, I stand with America.”Christians should desire (and pray for) the good of all nations, especially their own. They should seek the good of their people.I intended this statement to distance myself from support for Israel. But I did not mean that I support Iran. Rather, I meant that I do not desire to publicly stand for a foreign nation, and I do not want my home nation getting involved in unnecessary international conflicts.I especially do not want Americans fighting in more wars.As a Presbyterian minister, I affirm a doctrine known as the spirituality of the church. This means that the church’s mission is primarily spiritual. It follows that the church as an institution should not make political statements, except on occasions when the church is asked by the civil magistrate or when the church petitions the magistrate in extraordinary cases (see Westminster Confession of Faith 31.4).I also seek to avoid preaching politics from the pulpit, unless by that we mean preaching Christian duties relating to the civil government. Though I am a minister (serving in the Presbyterian Church in America), I speak to this issue as a citizen and not from my office as a pastor.However, my theological knowledge informs my opinion on this matter, and I hope it is helpful for guiding other Christians.Israel and the BibleThere are two theological issues that arise from the question of support for the nation of Israel. The first is the relationship of Israel to the Bible.Since I hold to Reformed theology, I understand the church to be “the Israel of God” (Galatians 6:16). It is not that the church replaced Israel, but that the church is the new Israel. Those who believe in Jesus Christ are the true spiritual sons of Abraham.As the apostle Paul wrote, “If you are of Christ, then you are the seed of Abraham, heirs according to the promise” (Galatians 3:29, my translation). As such, Christians inherit all the promises made to Abraham in the Old Testament.Jews who have rejected Christ have been cut off from the covenant with God, and Gentiles (non-Jews) who have believed in Christ have been “grafted in” to God’s “olive tree,” which is His covenant (Romans 11:17). There is debate even among Reformed Christians as to the future of the Jews (Romans 11:25-26).Regardless, I believe the modern nation of Israel will bow before King Jesus as part of His inheriting all nations (Psalm 2:8).Reformed theology differs from the popular “dispensationalist” theology, which affirms that there are two peoples of God and that the promises in the Old Testament are for ethnic Israel (a view most famous for the pre-tribulation rapture).While there are many variations of dispensationalism today, all proponents see strong discontinuity between the Old and New Testaments and thus discontinuity between Old Testament Israel and the church. As such, they believe that many of the promises in the Old Testament, including the land promise (e.g., Genesis 15:18-21), continue for modern Jews.This explains why dispensationalists often express widespread support for modern Israel.On the contrary, Reformed theology understands the land promise to be spiritually fulfilled in Christ, who has dominion over all nations (Matthew 28:18-20). This is how Paul understood the land promise, as he spoke of “the promise to Abraham [and] to his seed that he would be heir of the world” (Romans 4:13, my translation).All of that is to say that as a Christian, I have no special relationship to the modern nation-state of Israel. I do not wish Israelis harm but hope they become Christian, which is my hope and prayer for all nations. That is also my prayer for all of Israel’s enemies.Christians and AmericaThis raises a second theological issue arising from the question of support for Israel, which is how Christians should relate to their own country.I see a lot of errors on this topic, exemplified by many comments on my tweet that basically communicated, “As a Christian, I stand with Christ and no earthly nation.” But I believe this is a completely unbiblical approach to the subject.It is not that a Christian should endorse everything his or her nation’s government does. Of course not. But we should support our nation.It is true, as Paul says, that as Christians “our citizenship is in heaven” (Philippians 3:20). But that is not our only citizenship. While believers are united to Christ, who reigns in heaven — and that is our destination upon death — we are still earthly citizens while we remain in the body. This is why Paul also commands us to “be subject” to our civil authorities (Romans 13:1; cf. 1 Peter 2:13).God instituted civil government for our good. If a nation’s government is following God’s design, it will also protect the church and uphold righteousness in the nation. So Christians should have a healthy loyalty to their earthly nations, especially if that nation has a rich Christian history (as America does).Ordo amoris appliedChristians are dual citizens, and their earthly citizenship is good. This is part of the Reformed doctrine of the two kingdoms. We must not over-spiritualize this world by rejecting the goodness of God’s creation, including nations.Nations and civil government are good, although corrupted by sin.Yet even though nations are corrupted, Christians should still support their earthly nations. Christians should desire (and pray for) the good of all nations, especially their own. They should seek the good of their people. As an American, this is why I support America first and foremost. My loyalty is not to Israel or Iran or any other foreign nation. My earthly loyalty is to the United States of America. And as long as that does not conflict with my ultimate loyalty to Jesus Christ, then I will support America.This is part of the Christian tradition’s teaching on the ordo amoris, cited recently by Vice President JD Vance. There is an order of love that starts with one’s own family, and it prioritizes one’s nation before that of other nations. This is part of how Christians fulfill our Lord’s teaching to “love your neighbor” (Matthew 22:39).America’s first and greatest president, George Washington, warned against entangling “alliances” in his 1796 farewell address. Yet too often America has been dragged into foreign wars because we did not listen to the father of our nation.Our people pay taxes and die for the interests of other nations, including Israel.I say no more. I wish Israel and Iran well, and I pray for peace between them. But I want what’s best for my people. And involvement in foreign wars is bad for my fellow Americans.

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