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Most Americans think of the Civil War as an unambiguous conflict between the North and the South over slavery, and that is generally accurate. It was an insurrection against the federal government committed by 11 states whose Democrat governors and legislators feared that the recently elected Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, would deprive them of their non-citizen labor force. These state officials vowed to resist any attempt by the federal government to put down the insurrection and routinely denounced the new president as an aspiring dictator. Why does this sound familiar? Hochul, Pritzker and Walz are typical of sanctuary state governors. They clearly couldn’t care less about their constituents. Perhaps because 11 states have recently declared themselves “sanctuary jurisdictions” and openly defy federal law in order to “protect” their non-citizen labor force. Not coincidentally, the Democrat governors of these states routinely denounce our current GOP president, Donald Trump, as a dictator. Recently, for example, California Gov. Gavin Newsom accused him of “militarizing cities” and insisted: “These are the acts of a dictator, not a President.” Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has also likened Trump to a dictator. Not to be outdone, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has called him  a “wannabe dictator.” This nonsense has been parroted by nearly all sanctuary state governors. If you are thinking that absurd claims that President Trump is a dictator don’t mean these people are part of some organized confederacy whose raison d’être includes resistance to Trump’s immigration policies and obstructing the enforcement of federal immigration laws, you’re right. But wait. To coin a phrase, there’s more: A document obtained by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project reveals a pact among twenty-two blue states and two sanctuary cities, pledged to collectively prepare “potential litigation” challenging any effort to curtail birthright citizenship. It was ready for signature by November 8, 2024. This agreement, just 3 days after President Trump’s landslide election win, shows that these resistance actors began, as a matter of absolute urgent top priority, plotting their resistance to President Trump’s anticipated actions … Their top priority was not gas, groceries, public safety, or any other matter of concern of their constituents, but instead a raw political calculus to ensure that the future children of the illegal aliens that entered during the Biden Border Crisis could turn into voters. Obviously, in the absence of so-called birthright citizenship, the incentives that drive illegal immigration would be dramatically reduced. Consequently, President Trump issued an executive order limiting birthright citizenship on Jan. 20, 2025. Shortly thereafter, the Birthright Citizenship Act of 2025 was introduced by Rep. Brian Babin (R-Tex.) in the House of Representatives. Both Trump’s executive order and the House legislation would limit birthright citizenship to the children of U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents of the U.S. and lawful immigrants performing active service in the Armed Forces. An army of Democrat lawyers attacked the President’s executive order in court, which inevitably produced nationwide injunctions temporarily halting implementation. The Trump DOJ filed an emergency appeal with SCOTUS, where oral arguments were heard on May 15 concerning the abusive use of nationwide injunctions by district courts. The Trump administration is likely to win on that issue, which will deprive sanctuary states of an important weapon in their legal arsenal. Meanwhile, three sanctuary state governors were dragged before Congress to explain why they have brazenly ignored federal immigration laws: The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a full committee hearing today titled, “A Hearing with Sanctuary State Governors.” At the hearing, Republican members publicly questioned and held accountable Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, and New York Governor Kathy Hochul for their sanctuary policies … the sanctuary governors refused to condemn their states’ reckless policies when confronted with the devastating costs. In one particularly revealing exchange, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) peppered Gov. Hochul about the results of her state’s lethal “Green Light Law.” Rep. Stefanik asked the Empire State’s governor if she was familiar with the name, Sebastian Zapita Khalil and what crime he had committed. Hochul was typically clueless, so Stefanik enlightened her: “He found a sleeping woman on the subway, lit her on fire, and burned her alive … ICE had issued an order to detain this violent criminal, but that was rejected by New York officials, due to sanctuary state laws.” Hochul responded like the proverbial deer in the headlights. Govs. Pritzker and Walz weren’t quite as clueless as Hochul—who could be—but they ducked every question they were asked. Rep. Tom Emmer (R. Minn.) pointed out that Minnesota Gov. Walz signed bills providing free healthcare and college tuition to illegal aliens. Walz shrugged. Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) pointed out to Illinois Gov. Pritzker that his administration funded a local group called “Organized Communities Against Deportations.” Pritzker didn’t say anything, but his expression suggested that he was thinking, “So, what?” Both Walz and Pritzker are reported to have presidential aspirations. Think about that. Hochul, Pritzker and Walz are typical of sanctuary state governors, and the Democrat Party as a whole. They clearly couldn’t care less about their constituents—the vast majority of whom favor Trump’s border policies and deportation of illegal immigrants. Their response to the voters? “Trump is a dictator.” “Non-citizen is a synonym for Democrat voter.” They are no less dangerous than the Democrats who incited a genuine insurrection 165 years ago, and if they are let off their collective leash, they will wreak just as much havoc. READ MORE from David Catron: Trump Is Racking Up Court Victories Tapper and Thompson Continue Dangerous Cover-Up The post The Sanctuary State Confederacy appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

The recent rapid advance of the Right in the Culture War can be ascribed to numerous factors — liberal insanity, oppressive wokeness, indoctrinating yet ignorant entertainment, the rescue of free speech by Elon Musk, and a dynamic, unstoppable Republican leader. The Left hit Trump with everything it had — volley after volley from its political, media, and (unfunny) comedic champions, and finally a bullet to the head. When the smoke cleared, Trump was still standing with fist raised, and conservatives took the cultural battleground. For they had a secret weapon against the batshite crazy women in charge of the other side — smarter normal women, who not only drove progressives of “all genders” back, but off the deep end. But last week, Rowling utterly lacerated her fellow British artist, Boy George, in a long, lethal tweet. The most dramatic evidence of this was the phony liberal uproar over the forcible ejection of California Senator (party ID redundant) Alex Padilla from a press conference with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Noem is everything the feminist mind hates — a beautiful, intelligent, tough yet glamorous MAGA leader, who’s doing serious damage to the master plan of a permanent Dem majority via the overwhelming immigrant vote. The hard-to-recognize, physically large Padilla started shouting questions at Noem, and was shoved out of the chamber by Secret Service. Professional Democratic wailers immediately tried to make a big production out of the event (“This is a horrifying moment in our nation’s history,” tweeted Elizabeth Warren), indicating they’ve even lost the field they once dominated — showmanship. And the inadvertent comedy continued, further evincing the madness of Democrats. After a Homeland Security X post formally analyzed the disruption (“Senator Padilla chose disrespectful political theatre and interrupted a live press conference without identifying himself … as he lunged toward Secretary Noem.”), the ridiculous Alexander Vindman went hysterically berserk. “How about this for disrespect. F___k off! @Sec_Noem@KristiNoem f___k off you fascist bitch!!” he tweeted. Yes, a pretty, strong conservative girl like Noem would have that effect on feminists, and their beta men like Vindman. Across the Pond in England, the original transgender icon, Boy George (Karma Chameleon), suffered a sound thrashing from the most successful writer, male or female, of all time, J. K. Rowling. I never read the Harry Potter books but loved the fact they got millions of young people to read and stimulated their imagination. I do thoroughly enjoy Rowling’s adult Cormoran Strike mysteries about a hardboiled private eye and his lovely partner, and their perennial missed opportunities for romance. Though the latest book, The Running Grave, ended with a great romantic cliffhanger that made me preorder the next one. Yet as good as Rowling’s fiction is, her writings on X skewering transgender pathology are a master class in rapier-like wit and effectiveness. Relentlessly attacked for defending real women from fake women — including by Harry Potter movie actors Daniel Radcliffe (“Transgender women are women.”) and Emma Watson (“Trans people are who they say they are”), who owe her their career — Rowling never loses her class or mind like the Left does. To someone who threatened to burn her books in protest, she replied, “I get the same royalties whether you read them or burn them. Enjoy your marshmallows!” But last week, Rowling utterly lacerated her fellow British artist, Boy George, in a long, lethal tweet. George was responding to her rhetorical question on the trans issue, “Which rights have been taken away from trans people?” “The right to be left alone by a rich bored bully,” tweeted George, in what could be the last tweet he’ll ever send after Rowling finished with him. There are many differences between us, George … You’re a man and I’m a woman. You’ve been wealthy and famous since your early 20s. I didn’t become well known until I was well over 30. I’ve never been given 15 months for handcuffing a man to a wall and beating him with a chain. I believe in freedom of speech and belief. For more than half my life I was a regular anonymous person. Some of those years were spent in poverty. That’s why I understand the importance of single-sex spaces for women who’re reliant on state-funded services. That’s why I have a problem with men ‘identifying’ into women’s rape crisis centres, domestic abuse and homeless shelters that are supposed to be single sex. I don’t stand against gender identity ideology because I personally still need those services, but because my life has taught me exactly how vulnerable women are when they don’t have the money/influence I have now. You yourself have been convicted of violent assault. The overwhelming number of people who commit crimes of violence are male, just like you. That’s why I don’t want to see men identifying into women’s prison cells or any of the spaces mentioned above … Lastly, I’m a writer who believes in freedom of speech and belief. As we both know the safe, fashionable thing in the arts world right now is to do exactly what you’re doing: … sneer at the unenlightened plebs who think sex is important and matters. For a man who was once all about nonconformity, George, you couldn’t have become more predictably or more tediously conformist. Another brilliant woman impressed me last week — my conversative rising star friend Natalie Jean Beisner, who identifies on X as “former Democrat turned sane person.” Natalie posited an intriguing idea about the madwomen of the Left. “I’d gladly give up my vote if it meant liberal women not voting. I only vote now because you guys let the retarded ones (of both genders) vote, so I have to try to cancel that out.” After giving it much thought, I decided to endorse the Voteress Subtraction Movement. READ MORE from Lou Aguilar: Trump Encounters the Mr. Hyde Virus … And So Did I Revenge of the Real Men The post Women Who Are Culture War Heroines appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Israel announced on Saturday that it has achieved air superiority over Iran from its western border to Tehran while Iranian government-backed demonstrators are still chanting “death to America.” It’s what some would describe as Iran’s “FAFO” moment. But this war is, as I’ve written elsewhere, is too serious to be referred to that way. It is a fight to the finish which Israel must win. There can be no deal with Iran that doesn’t include the destruction of all its nuclear facilities and regime change in Tehran. U.S. forces are already engaged in protecting Israel from Iranian missiles. Our two destroyers there can add a bit to Israel’s “Iron Dome” protections. If Israel needs our further engagement, we cannot hesitate to give it. To win the war, the Israelis have to not only destroy Iran’s nuclear capabilities, they have to end the ayatollahs’ regime. Without the latter, there can be no lasting peace in the Middle East or anywhere else. The Israeli attacks on Thursday came on the 61st day of President Trump’s 60-day deadline for Iran to reach an agreement with the U.S. to block it from obtaining nuclear weapons. Which means, of course, that the Israelis had intelligence that Iran was about to produce and deploy one or more nuclear weapons. As the Wall Street Journal described in a superb editorial on Saturday, the Israeli attacks were the culmination of a number of massive Iranian miscalculations. They thought they could stall and bluff their way past Trump’s demands for an agreement. They were wrong. The Israelis have already reportedly destroyed much of Iran’s nuclear capability and many of their ballistic missiles. Hundreds of other missiles — including ballistic missiles — have been launched on Israel, attempting to kill Israeli civilians. This is typical of Iran and its proxies, Hamas, Hizballah, and the Houthis. They are dedicated to terrorizing civilians, not hitting military targets. The Israeli government has kept its people in their bomb shelters and may continue to do so. The biggest problem that the Israeli’s have is the essential destruction of Iran’s nuclear weapons site at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. The penetrator bombs that Trump has gladly supplied the Israelis may be able to reach Isfahan and Natanz. But Fordow, because it is buried some 200-300 meters deep, is beyond the range of even our 30,000-pound “Massive Ordnance Penetrator” (MOP), which can be delivered only by our B-2 bombers. The MOP can penetrate only 200 feet, not the 600+ feet that the Fordow facility is so deeply buried. We know that the Israeli strikes have hit Fordow, Isfahan, and Natanz. The damage to all three may be significant but unless all three are destroyed Israel can only delay Iran’s march to nuclear weapons. Israel cannot afford a partial win in this war. From publicly available information, we know that Israel can destroy the entrances to the Fordow facility but they can’t destroy the facility itself except, perhaps, by a raid that would force entry into Fordow and destroy the nuclear equipment there. We must hope that such a raid succeeds because if Fordow isn’t destroyed — and the ayatollah’s regime isn’t ended — the Israelis would have only done half of what is necessary. As Trump is fond of saying about Ukrainian President Zelensky, Iran doesn’t have any cards left to play. Iran’s “supreme leader” Ayatollah Khameini reportedly fears that the Israeli attack will cause the fall of his regime. He must be well-hidden, but Israeli intelligence, which is far better than ours, should result in his death. There are some, such as French President Macron, who are urging de-escalation of the war. (That is what former president Biden would have done.) They can and will be ignored. Russian President Putin told Trump that he’d be glad to mediate a peace agreement between Israel and Iran. He’d be just as good at that as he is in making peace with Ukraine. There are even some, such as former Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, who are stupid enough to say that only China has the “moral authority” to bring about peace between Iran and Israel. Walz has redundantly proved himself to be an idiot. China, of course, imports 90 percent of Iranian oil despite U.S. sanctions. It is Iran’s ally and no “moral authority” in the Middle East or anywhere else. The Israelis cannot let up on their attacks and they won’t. With satellite imagery they can even destroy Iran’s mobile missile launchers. Nevertheless, their concentration must be on Fordow, Isfahan, Natanz, and the ayatollahs themselves. Another target is begging for the Israelis to bomb it: Kharg Island. The island is Iran’s principal oil export facility. Bombing it would both cripple the Iranian economy and hurt China. That target should be high on Israel’s list. Trump still is offering Iran a deal. At this point, the deal would have to include the verified destruction of Fordow, Isfahan, and Natanz, which Khameini would obviously refuse. There can be no deal with Iran that doesn’t include the destruction of all its nuclear facilities and regime change in Tehran. In the 1990s, Iran was careful of its actions. They were calibrated to not cause Israel or the U.S. to undertake military actions. Those days are over. Because of their arrogance and because Trump and Netanyahu are not people who will fall for their maneuvering the ayatollahs are doomed. They, and their nuclear facilities, must be destroyed. READ MORE from Jed Babbin: There Should Be Consequences for the Signal Blunder Israel Back to War The post Iran Miscalculated. The Ayatollahs Must be Removed. appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.