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“Veterans Day 2025,” editorial cartoon by Tom Stiglich for The American Spectator on November 10, 2025.

In an attempt to conceal its true intent and deceive citizens, progressive Illinois lawmakers and their most generous enablers successfully embedded language legalizing assisted suicide into a food sanitation bill last week. Attaching the deadly suicide measure — just days before the legislative deadline — to Senate Bill 1950, an uncontroversial bill that originally focused on food preparation safety,  the death merchants made a calculated decision to block open debate and advance the legislation while shielding the bill’s true nature from public view. Following a circuitous path marked by layers of deception and legislative sleight of hand, the ghoulish bill was narrowly approved by a 30-27 vote at 3 am on Halloween in the Illinois Senate at the conclusion of the fall veto session. Originally promoted last spring by Democrat State Representative Robyn Gabel during an Illinois House Executive Committee hearing, the bill was described as a “trusted and time-tested medical practice that is part of the full spectrum of end of life care options.” Although there was some opposition from Republicans in the House, including a strong statement from Representative Bill Hauter, a practicing physician. Hauter decried the fact that the deadly measure that would be “fundamentally changing the practice of medicine” was being hidden in a “shell bill,” but it was too little, too late, and the shell game advanced to the Senate, where it passed. (RELATED: Delaware Becomes the Latest State to Make Medical Suicide Legal) The bill now awaits a signature from Governor JB Pritzker. As one of the most progressive governors in the country, it is likely he will sign it, but the secret is out — and the pro-life community in Illinois and beyond is mobilizing to confront this serious breach of democratic integrity. Faithful Catholics, led by courageous voices like Bishop Thomas Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield, are sounding the alarm and rallying against what they see as a covert assault on human dignity. (RELATED: The Horrific Assisted Suicide Boom in Canada) In a letter to parishioners last week, Bishop Paprocki condemned the bill as “a grave moral evil” and warned that its passage “strikes at the heart of our shared commitment to protect the vulnerable.” The bishop wrote that “It is quite fitting that the forces of the culture of death in the Illinois General Assembly passed physician-assisted suicide on Oct. 31 — a day that, culturally, has become synonymous with glorifying death and evil. It’s also ironic that these pro-death legislators did it under the cloud of darkness at 2:54 am.” Urging Catholics across Illinois to contact Pritzker and demand a veto, the bishop called this a moment that “requires both courage and clarity.” Unfortunately, the state’s most powerful lawmakers — including its governor — have offered neither courage nor clarity related to this legislation. But, then again, these lawmakers have had plenty of help in their duplicity from a powerful and very generous pro-assisted suicide industry, which fills their campaign coffers. Greed — not compassion — is fueling the assisted suicide movement in the country. The Compassion and Choices “Action Network” — a lobbying organization promoting assisted suicide — openly admits that “To achieve nationwide end-of-life autonomy, strategic support for state legislative candidates who champion our cause is crucial. In collaboration with Democracy Engine, we developed Power Compassion, an online donation platform showcasing state office candidates committed to the end-of-life options movement. By giving to these campaigns, you help us build the political strength needed to pass aid-in-dying legislation around the country.” (RELATED: I Help People Heal. Britain Just Gave Up.) Greed — not compassion — is fueling the assisted suicide movement in the country. Power Compassion openly acknowledges this fact — and promises to help any candidate for office who pledges their support for assisted suicide. Compassion and Choices — formerly known as the Hemlock Society — has continued its commitment to perfecting the art of suicide created by the Hemlock Society’s infamous founder, Derek Humphry. Created in 2005 through the merger of two end-of-life advocacy organizations — Compassion in Dying and End-of-Life Choices, the latter of which evolved from the Hemlock Society. Today, Compassion and Choices is the largest nonprofit in the U.S. advocating for medical aid in dying and expanded end-of-life options. Power Compassion is their advocacy arm — donating freely to the campaigns of those willing to sell their souls to the cause of death. The name change was necessary after the many scandals involving the Hemlock Society’s founder’s involvement in a controversial case in 1986, in which he and his wife Ann Wickett Humphry assisted in the suicides of her parents by impersonating doctors to obtain lethal drugs. The incident raised serious ethical and legal questions about the boundaries of assisted suicide advocacy. Humphrey’s name became somewhat toxic after having helped his first wife, Jean, commit suicide in 1975, and then again when his estranged second wife, Anne, took her own life. That is really the problem with the assisted suicide movement. The movement is populated by purveyors of death who know that even with the promises of a peaceful, painless death, suicide itself remains a hard sell. And although the PACS of progressive politicians are more than happy to accept donations from the assisted suicide industry, these kinds of issues have a way of eventually making us aware of the very real consequences of assisted suicide on everyone it touches. After he assisted in the suicide of his mother, Andrew Solomon wrote in a 1996 New Yorker article entitled “A Death of One’s Own”, that “the comfort of control that his mother exerted gave her solace” but he continued, “the fact is that a suicide is a suicide — over determined, sad and somewhat toxic to everyone it touches.” In his best-selling book, The Noonday Demon, Solomon details the ways in which his family fell apart in the aftermath of the suicide. Solomon writes that he rarely spoke with his father or his brother anymore and details the futile effort to treat his depression through a regimen of sometimes more than a dozen pills each day. Having participated in his mother’s death, Solomon admits that he, too, has viewed suicide as an option to escape his psychic pain. Pro-life advocates have long warned of a growing “culture of death.” Even secular sociologists recognize that suicide can spread through communities as a form of social contagion. Under the cloak of darkness of Halloween night, Illinois lawmakers thought that no one would notice their macabre maneuver. But the disguise has fallen, and the truth is exposed, and now is the time to demand that Governor Pritzker reject this deceptive and dangerous bill. READ MORE from Anne Hendershott: Electing the Image: Mamdani and the Mimetic Turn in Democracy From the Top Down: The Erosion of Faith at Georgetown University Algorithmic Restraint: Artificial Intelligence Refuses to Acknowledge Violent Transgender Perpetrators

According to the American Institute of Men and Boys, men now account for just 23 percent of all U.S. elementary and secondary school teachers. In elementary schools, the number is far lower. Our boys are growing up in classrooms without men. Meanwhile, the “solutions” for struggling boys sound like bad satire: later start times, more snacks, therapy dogs (I’m not kidding), and “communication of needs,” whatever that means. (RELATED: Reclaiming Education for Boys) There’s one reform that might actually help: clone Major John Reisman from The Dirty Dozen and put him in a classroom. After that, our boys would be saved. Let me explain. If you’ve somehow managed to miss The Dirty Dozen (1967), the film follows Major Reisman — Lee Marvin at his absolute best — ordered to train 12 convicted GIs, some sentenced to death, for a suicide mission behind enemy lines during World War II. The brass despises him, the men fear him, and somehow, through chaos and defiance, he leads them to victory. He didn’t care what his superiors thought and despised the bureaucracy they hid behind. Watching that movie was a master class in leadership. When I was a kid, I must’ve watched that movie 50 or 60 times. I recorded it off TV on our old JVC VCR — Scotch tape over the tab — and played it until the tape warped. Reisman’s swagger, the way he led men, his no-nonsense independence had a lasting effect. He didn’t care what his superiors thought and despised the bureaucracy they hid behind. Watching that movie was a master class in leadership. Even as an 11-year-old boy, I sensed it. Recently, I looked up the “traits of great teachers.” Major Reisman checks every box. If the Department of Education could find a way to put him in front of a classroom, our boys might finally have a fighting chance. First, he built “autonomy and independence.” The Major didn’t impose hierarchy; he let it emerge naturally. When Maggot (Telly Savalas) humiliated Jefferson (Jim Brown) with a racial slur early in the film, Reisman let the fight play out. Maggot got his teeth kicked in, Jefferson earned the men’s respect, and the unit found its order. Not by the book — but it worked. Reisman let the good guys handle the bully. That’s how boys learn justice and hierarchy in the real world. He also made his men “feel safe to be themselves.” He didn’t start with icebreakers or “Two Truths and a Lie.” He knew these convicts wouldn’t survive a suicide mission if they felt like victims. He let them hold onto their rough edges and individuality because he understood something today’s administrators don’t: boys can’t unite unless they’re first free to be themselves. “Belonging” was the core of his unit. When Franco (John Cassavetes) complained about shaving in cold water, the other 11 backed him up. The MPs called it mutiny; Reisman called it progress. His solution? No shaving, no soap, no showers, no hot meals. The men got what they wanted, and Reisman got what he wanted — a dirty dozen. United by rebellion, they became a team. He was also a master of long vision. When an officer asked why the men didn’t hate the Nazis yet, Reisman shrugged and said, “Maybe that’s because the Germans haven’t done anything to them yet.” He knew hatred wasn’t the point — purpose was. His mission was to turn broken men into soldiers. In a classroom, that’s what boys need too: direction, not therapy dogs. “Warmth” might not be the word that comes to mind with Lee Marvin, but Reisman cared in his own way. After jump school, he threw his condemned men a party with local women — a strange, almost tender spring cotillion for the damned. I didn’t get it as a kid, but I do now: he was reminding them they were still human. That they mattered. Reisman’s students wouldn’t be headed into combat, but into work, marriage, and fatherhood — battles of their own. He’d prepare them for the mental wars that come after the physical ones. And he never complained. The whole mission was a bad day, yet the Major never griped. Boys need to see that — teachers who don’t whine. I’ve worked in all-male jobs; we complain plenty. That’s why we’d need Reisman around to keep us in line. No one ever misunderstood the man. He was a “great communicator.” When Jiminez (Trini López) froze on the rope during training, Reisman grabbed his M3 “grease gun” and cut the rope beneath him. Message received. Climb — or else. Brutal? Sure. Effective? Absolutely. Reisman taught me what leadership means: take care of your men, and distrust those who don’t. The Army didn’t value him, but he did the job anyway. He saw through hypocrisy, and that’s why the brass sent him on a suicide mission. They wanted him gone. He lived — and they hated him even more. We’ve still got men like Reisman around, but few of them teach. They look at modern education — its twisted ideologies, its fear of truth, its allergy to masculine energy — and stay away. And who loses? The boys. Teaching boys isn’t a suicide mission. But if we had a few more men like Major Reisman in our classrooms, it might just save them. READ MORE from Pete Connolly: The New York Times Sets a New Low on Israel Getting Back to an ‘Honorable Manhood’ What Graham Platner’s Tattoo Really Reveals

Call it the unintentional self-outing of an American far-Left winger. That would be the realization of Nick Fuentes, the self-professed admirer of Stalin who also thinks Hitler was “cool.” Over there at The Bulwark was this reportage of Fuentes talking to Tucker Carlson: Nick Fuentes: “It was December 18…That’s Joseph Stalin’s birthday. I’m a fan.” Tucker Carlson: “You’re a fan of Stalin?” Nick Fuentes: “Always an admirer.” Tucker Carlson: “Well that’s uh…Okay. We’ll circle back to that.” Spoiler: Tucker never circles back. pic.twitter.com/ZRBIVjFb7a — The Bulwark (@BulwarkOnline) October 28, 2025   And his thoughts on Hitler: “This guy’s awesome, this guy’s cool.” Message full stop. Doubtless unintentionally, here is the self-revelation that, far from being a conservative of any kind, Fuentes is a full-blown Leftist. Hitler was “cool”? Recall the full name of the political party Hitler headed, bold print for emphasis supplied. That would be the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. Say again, the keyword is “Socialist.” Nothing conservative or right-leaning about that, as all those denizens of New York City are about to learn with the election of a full-blown, proud socialist as their new mayor. Stalin? Fuentes, admires Stalin? Hello? Joseph Stalin was the proud leader of Russia’s Communist Party. The personal heir of Communist Party founder Vladimir Lenin. And not to mention: According to historians who studied Soviet archives before and after the fall of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin likely killed between six million and 20 million people. However, given the widespread and often unrecorded deaths of the Stalin years, it’s certainly possible that that number is even higher. Which is to say, Stalin, whom Fuentes professes to admire, was not a conservative, to say the least. All of which is to say, the sudden effort to paint Fuentes as a right-winger is a laughable untruth. Only a lefty could possibly admire Stalin and his murderous reign. Another example? Here’s this bold fairy tale right there in The New York Times, which just the other day described the Nazi loving Fuentes as “right-wing pundit Nick Fuentes.” Got that? The guy who idolizes one of the worst socialists, decidedly far-Left dictators in history — Hitler no less!! — is “right-wing”. Again, this is decidedly, laughably, not true. Fuentes is not “right-wing” … and most certainly neither was Hitler, he was the leader of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. So what’s going on here with this effort to paint Fuentes as “right-wing”? What this is really about, in part, one can easily suspect, is the media trying to escape the reality that the American Left has a long, very serious bent for outright violence. As if to underline the point, just two months ago, on September 10, it was a leftist, most decidedly not a conservative, who assassinated conservative leader Charlie Kirk. And not to mention, no conservative would be an admirer of Hitler, the founder of Germany’s “Socialist Workers’ Party.” Or of Communist Party leader Stalin. But going further back in American history to the 1960s, as the GovFacts site correctly notes of the Left in America (and a reminder for those of us who lived through the period and remember it vividly!): The 1960s were not simply violent; they were a period of sustained, multifaceted civil conflict that surpassed that of nearly all other Western democracies. The decade’s turmoil was not a single phenomenon but a convergence of several distinct, yet overlapping, struggles that played out in the streets, on college campuses, and in American cities. The violence emanated from those demanding fundamental change to the nation’s social and political order and from those, including the state itself, who violently resisted that change. Exactly. Which is to say the 1960s in America were overflowing with Left-wing violence. Again, there was nothing remotely conservative about that. To sum up? The effort to paint Fuentes as some sort of “conservative” will not go anywhere. By his own admission to Tucker Carlson, Fuentes talks of his fondness for two of the most vivid personifications of far-Left wing radicalism in all of history — Hitler and Stalin. It would be hard to get further Left than that. Although, as history records, from Mao to Ho Chi Minh to Castro and more, there is no lack of others trying to do so. READ MORE from Jeffrey Lord: The GOP Loss Is Not a Big Deal Three Cheers for Mark Levin Newsom, Not Trump, Is Code Red for America

High Point University proclaims itself to be a “premier life skills university” that helps students obtain a job while providing a luxurious experience with amenities that only the wealthy elite could afford. In this episode of The Spectator P.M. Podcast, hosts Ellie Gardey Holmes and Lyrah Margo discuss the extravagant offerings from the university. Ellie and Lyrah also talk about the lack of academic rigor in higher education and stress its importance. (RELATED: Universities Must End DEI and Implement DEI) Tune in to hear their discussion! Read Ellie and Lyrah’s writing here and here. Listen to the Spectator P.M. Podcast on Spotify. Watch the Spectator P.M. Podcast on Rumble.

How do they get away with this?

After 41 days, the longest shutdown in government history, the Senate has approved a long-awaited funding package, advancing the legislation to the House of Representatives for final approval.