I don’t mention the names of mass shooters. One of the reasons I don’t is because — as with regard to the mass shooter at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis — mass shooters take inspiration from one another. They look for publicity. Social science tends to support this: If you deprive mass shooters of notoriety, if you deprive them of name recognition, it doesn’t spawn as many mass shooters in the future. But I will use the first name of the shooter here because it’s important to the story. The first name of the shooter is purportedly Robin. I say purportedly because the shooter’s original name was not Robin. The shooter’s original name was Robert. This is important to the story because this person was a trans radical who believed — as deeply as it is possible to believe — in what can best be termed the Omnicause: The gigantic aggregation of radical Left-wing beliefs, that if you buy into one, you have to buy into all. When you look at the evidence from the crime, if you look at the actual guns used which had Left-wing radical slogans etched into them or painted on them; if you look at the shooter’s diaries, documents left behind, and videos, what you will see is a massive number of Left-wing propagandistic slogans, which speaks to the radicalization that happens online. It also speaks to the fact that people who are emotionally disturbed buy into a broader worldview that promotes violence. It suggests that you are living in a world where you have no control or that shadowy forces control everything about you and your life. And this means that out of despair and enervation, you’re going to go commit horrific acts of violence. That pattern, repeated across school shooters — and they don’t have to be trans — embodies a deep embeddedness in conspiracy theories about the world; a belief that they themselves are wronged by the world, that the world has done some wrong to them, and they are going to take it out on the world, on the most innocent, in order to gain attention for their particular agenda. WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show  So who was the shooter? In his deranged writings, he gleefully fantasizes about being that scary, horrible monster standing over those powerless kids and speaks of his admiration for the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre. There are many shooters that are mentioned by this shooter in his manifesto, in his videos, painted on the guns themselves, which is the reason I’m not mentioning the full name of the shooter. The shooter applied to change his birth name from Robert to Robin in Dakota County, Minnesota, when he was 17 years-old, according to the court documents. That name change was granted in January 2020. The application happened when he was a minor, which means that his parents had to sign off on it. The petition added that the shooter “identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification.” A perverse ideology that masks true mental illness as simply a result of society’s intolerance promotes serious, depressive, violent mental illness. Ignoring mental illness does not make it go away. Pretending that mental illness is something else — that it’s merely a rebellion against the strictures of a conservative and patriarchal society — is a lie and promotes mental illness, sometimes violent mental illness. Another page of the shooter’s diary stated, “I’m feeling good about Annunciation. It seems like a good combo of easy attack form and devastating tragedy, and I want to do more research. I have concerns about finding a large enough group. I want to avoid any parents but pre and post school drop off. Maybe I could attack an event at the onsite church. I think attacking a large group of kids coming in from recess is my best plan. Then from there I can go inside and kill, going for as long as I can.” When it comes to the politics of the shooter, we should point out he was a trans radical, and this is relevant to the story. There are stereotypes that we jump to when it comes to mass shootings. If there’s a shooting at a synagogue, the immediate mental jump — for good reason — is either a Muslim radical or a white supremacist. That’s because, historically speaking, those are the kinds of people who shoot up a synagogue. If there’s a shooting at a Catholic church, the immediate jump now is either to a Muslim radical or to a trans radical. There’s a reason for that. The list of violent incidents that now indicate trans suspects or self-identified trans suspects include the Covenant school shooting in Nashville, where the police tried to cover the trans issue, even though we knew right away what the likely rationale for the shooting was. But because the media did not want that to fall on the radical trans agenda, which suggests that religious institutions are brutal and evil to trans people and trying to “erase” them — which is the equivalent of killing them — and because the media did not want to open that can of worms, they decided that they were simply going to cover it up for years. But that was, in fact, a trans radical driven crime. Another was the Stem School Highlands Ranch shooting in California. A story that was largely buried is that the suspect who was targeting Justice Brett Kavanaugh identified online as a trans gamer girl. There’s the controversial Club Q shooting in Colorado, where the suspect — who may have been trolling — claimed to be non-binary. There was an attempted school shooting in Maryland in which the alleged suspect identified in this way. There was the burning of a Tesla in Michigan. There was an attempted knife attack on an ICE facility in Portland. The legacy media have no problem trying to identify Right-wing trends in crime. But when the ideology is on the other foot, they run screaming away from it. That’s because the biggest issue they are trying to sell is this: Incidents like this must not redound to the detriment of trans ideology, which is a delusional ideology. Men cannot become women. That idea has no scientific backing. When you spread the propaganda that hormone replacement therapy and surgeries are going to make your depressive, suicidal eyed kid into a wonderful member of the opposite gender, you are not helping your child. You are harming your child. It certainly has consequences when your claim is — as the claim of the trans radical Left is, and much of the mainstream Left — that denying that a man can become a woman is a form of death, that it’s a form of erasure in which you are removing someone’s identity, a form of soul killing. And you shouldn’t be particularly surprised when that rhetoric gets very violent, very quickly. Those were Catholic kids who were murdered for being Catholic by a trans radical. Why is that important? Because the ideology that lies behind trans, language that is routinely used by the trans radical community and now the entire Democratic Party, is an inherently violent ideology. It says that if you personally refuse to acknowledge that a man can become a woman, you have engaged in an act of violence. If you claim that people who oppose your ideology are trying to kill you, that really leaves you very few responses. I’m not saying that everyone trans is going to become a murderer or that everyone who’s promoting trans ideology is spurring people to murder. But as always, when it comes to the connection between rhetoric and ideology and actual action, if you keep raising the temperature on that boiling pot of water, it will bubble over.

In the world of UFO phenomena and talk of UFO sightings and aliens, the most spectacular of these reports must surely be those in which these crafts, possibly from other stars, have crashed to earth. Here we have landing right in our laps the answer to whether we are alone in the universe, the physical evidence we need to finally prove that aliens are real. Unfortunately, these alleged crashes have a bad habit of being moved in on by the government to be swept under the carpet, or to otherwise fade into the mists of time while frustratingly denying us the proof we would expect to get from such a spectacular incident. Here we are going to take a look at a few of the more bizarre cases of UFO crashes, and the forces that conspired to make them fade into the mists of time. 

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Another couple of leftists just revealed they understand nothing about Christianity. “Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, a Democrat, said Wednesday when addressing the horrific shooting at Annunciation Church. “These kids were literally praying.” WOW — Dem. Mayor of Minneapolis Jacob Frey CONDEMNS praying for the victims of the Catholic mass shooting."Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers…these kids were literally praying!"Cruel and callous. pic.twitter.com/5mVAQAijn1— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) August 27, 2025 That same day, Jen Psaki, former press secretary for President Joe Biden, posted on X, “Enough with the thoughts and prayers.” “Prayer is not freaking enough. Prayers [sic] does not end school shootings. Prayers do not make parents feel safe sending their kids to school. Prayer does not bring these kids back,” added Psaki, who now hosts her own show on MSNBC. Prayer is not freaking enough. Prayers does not end school shootings. prayers do not make parents feel safe sending their kids to school. Prayer does not bring these kids back. Enough with the thoughts and prayers.— Jen Psaki (@jrpsaki) August 27, 2025 Talk about missing the point. Yes, those kids—and their teachers, and some of their parents, and some 80-somethings—were all gathered in a church when bullets pierced through the stained glass windows, a Catholic Mass just having started. And no, sadly, a miracle did not happen that saved everyone’s life. Two children are dead, their lives lost because of a horrifically evil action. Another 18 people, including 15 children, were injured. But that doesn’t mean prayer is useless—and that’s something one of the grieving families understands. According to Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., one of the families who lost a child was present at a Catholic prayer vigil held Wednesday night. “Watching that mom and dad with the little sister there is something I will never forget,” she told the Minnesota Star Tribune. Can Frey and Psaki ever comprehend that family’s actions—their choice to pray on likely the darkest day of their lives? On Facebook Wednesday, Annunciation School shared a message written by the school’s principal, Matthew DeBoer, and the church’s pastor, Fr. Dennis Zehren, stating, “Please lift up these families and these children in prayer and surround them and each other with your love during this difficult time. ” Attached to the image was a photo of lit candles, with this quote, “To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve. To thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.” These lines come from a Catholic prayer, the Hail, Holy Queen. The prayer, directed to the mother of God, is said at the end of the rosary, a popular Catholic devotion, and also sometimes on its own. As a child, I remember being struck often by those lines as my family prayed a daily rosary. I was uneasy about the idea of the world being a “valley of tears.” I knew—and understood, after my great aunt died when I was five—the ideas of “mourning and weeping.” But I was both jarred and comforted by the prayer’s easy acceptance of life’s sorrows. I did not then—or now—want to live in a “valley of tears.” Christianity is full of such sentiments. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted,” Jesus preached during the Sermon on the Mount. “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted,” the psalmist pledges. But it is also a faith that promises that while now, that this time on earth, is full of sorrows, there is another time coming. “’He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away.’” (Revelations 21:4) Such words can be cold comfort in the starkness of tremendous sorrow. Like many Christians, I have seen sorrows I cannot understand—such as the unexpected death of a friend in her 30s who left behind two young children and her husband. Yet those are the moments I find myself turning most to prayer. Not because I believe that God will necessarily provide a miracle (although I always pray for one). But because I trust that God is close to the brokenhearted, because I have faith, even as I do not understand, that He loves the dead and their beloved more than I ever will—or could.   What happened on Wednesday was unbelievably evil. Yet in that church, people who had just been praying also did extraordinary things. “Our teachers were heroes,” DeBoer said. “Children were ducked down. Adults were protecting children. Older children were protecting younger children, and … it could have been significantly worse without their heroic action.” Weston Halsne, a fifth grade student, told WCCO, a Minnesota CBS affiliate, that a friend, presumably another child, had intervened to protect him. Halsne said he was close to the windows. “It was like, shots fired, and then we kind of like got under pews. They shot through the stained glass windows, I think, and it was really scary,” said the 10-year-old, who believed he felt gunpowder on his neck. “My friend Victor like saved me though. Because he laid on top of me. But he got hit,” the boy added. “I was super scared for him. But I think now he’s OK.” What is his message to his friend Victor? “I hope you’re OK and I’m praying for you.” None of this means that actions shouldn’t be taken to help prevent another shooting. “There’s an African proverb that says, ‘When you pray, move your feet.’ So I beg you, I ask you, to please pray, but don’t stop with your words. Let’s make a difference and support this community, these children, these families, these teachers. Never again can we let this happen,” said the school principal. The Daily Wire’s Mary Margaret Olohan reported that a Catholic school leader and a private school leader had asked Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, back in 2023 to help secure nonpublic schools. “We need to ensure that all [our] schools have the resources to respond to and prevent these attacks from happening to our schools,” wrote Tim Benz, the president of MINNDEPENDENT, and Jason Adkins, the executive director of the Minnesota Catholic Conference. No funding ever materialized for private schools’ safety, according to Adkins, who added, “I would note that Minnesota had an $18 billion dollar [sic] budget surplus in the 2023-24 session, and this was not funded.” We are also still learning details about the shooter, but it appears probable that mental illness—which we continue to poorly treat in the U.S.—may well have been a factor. But prayer is perfectly compatible with action. It’s an absurdly false dichotomy to say it must be one or the other. (And perhaps, in the spirit of charity, Psaki and Frey intended to convey a sentiment more along the lines of the African proverb than a criticism of prayer.) We pray because our hearts are broken. We pray because we know God listens. We pray because we know that God works in mysterious ways, and can inspire us to further action. Why do you feel the need to attack other people for praying when kids were just killed praying? https://t.co/KfTJ71Hcjf— JD Vance (@JDVance) August 28, 2025 “We pray because our hearts are broken. We pray because we know God listens. We pray because we know that God works in mysterious ways and can inspire us to further action. Why do you feel the need to attack other people for praying when kids were just killed praying?” Vice President JD Vance posted in response to Psaki’s X post. Why, indeed? That is a question Psaki and Frey, and the leftists who applauded them, would do well to contemplate. Because when they criticize prayer as a response to tremendous evil, to unimaginable suffering, they’re not making some brilliant point. They’re just showing that they’ve reduced Christianity to some kind of parody “prosperity gospel” theological claptrap. They’ve just shown that they cannot comprehend a religion that includes the resurrection and the crucifixion. Fortunately, they are not representative of most Americans, many of whom value prayer. Two thirds of Americans pray daily or at least a few times a month, according to the Pew Research Center. In Minneapolis, members of various faith communities prayed for the Annunciation School community, according to the local Catholic bishop. “I was very moved to see how many churches were having prayer services this evening, how many of our Protestant brothers and sisters,” Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda told attendees of the prayer vigil, reported Minneapolis Star Tribune. “I received messages today from the Jewish community, from the Muslim community. I know there are representatives from both of those groups who are here.” That’s America, not leftists ranting about prayer. And thank God for that. The post What Psaki and Frey Don’t Understand About Prayer appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Democrat leaders in Congress invited their Republican counterparts to government funding negotiations in a Thursday letter, albeit one brimming with partisan accusations of legislative malfeasance. The hostile letter sets the stage for tense spending negotiations with little more than a month left to fund the government before the end of fiscal 2025 at the end of September and to avert a shutdown. “The September 30th funding deadline will be upon us shortly,” reads the letter from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, both D-N.Y., to their Republican counterparts, Senate Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson of Louisiana. But by the second sentence of the invitation, the Democrats level an accusation, making it clear these are unlikely to be equanimous negotiations. “It is therefore imperative that we immediately meet upon our return to Congress next week to discuss the need to avert a painful, unnecessary lapse in government funding and to address the health care crisis Republicans have triggered in America,” it reads. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., (left) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images) Democrats have often accused Republicans of cutting Medicaid in the “big, beautiful” budget reconciliation bill passed in July. Medicaid spending will continue to rise over the next 10 years under the bill’s provisions, albeit at a slower rate than before the bill’s passage. Both of the New York Democrats are in a tricky position. In March, Democrats in the Senate helped pass a Republican-backed continuing resolution, drawing harsh criticisms of party leadership from the party’s base and some members of Congress seeking a fight with the new administration. As a legislative strategist, Schumer is in a stronger position than Jeffries, since his Democrat colleagues will have to contribute votes to end debate on appropriations bills for them to pass the Senate. In the House, the Republicans need only a simple majority vote and thus do not require Jeffries’ assistance. Both Democrats will have to appear tough in negotiations, even though bearing responsibility for a government shutdown could be harmful for the party’s political optics. Dem leaders in Congress re-up their request for a Big Four meeting on govt. funding."It is past time you reveal your plans to meet the needs of the American people. Otherwise, it is clear that you have abandoned bipartisanship altogether and are preparing to shut down the… https://t.co/8lnJ3R2OhP pic.twitter.com/5VGrCtZzpl— Sam Lisker (@slisker) August 28, 2025 In the Democrats’ letter, they propose discussing “plans to address the looming health care crisis caused by Republican policies.” Additionally, Schumer and Jeffries seek an answer to whether or not the White House “will submit another rescissions package.” A rescissions package is a special form of legislation sent by the White House to Congress in order to withdraw unspent funds that were appropriated in the previous fiscal year. In July, Congress passed $9 billion in cuts to foreign aid and public broadcasting. Senate Minority Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. (left), and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images) Democrats such as Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., have argued that rescissions packages harm the appropriations process by showing that Republicans can undo parts of bipartisan funding deals. “They stabbed us in the back, and if they commit to us that they won’t do that again, then we might be able to write bills,” Murphy said in July. “The vibe today is, ‘We’re going to trade baseball cards with you, and then we’re going to sneak into your house later today and take our cards back.’”  That the Democrat leaders invited Republicans to negotiations with a letter replete with accusations of wrongdoing likely foreshadows a partisan showdown to take place in the few weeks before the shutdown deadline. If Republicans and Democrats do not come to an agreement, another stopgap funding bill to extend current spending levels could be in the works. As they close the letter, Schumer and Jeffries preemptively place the blame on Republicans should negotiations fail. “It is past time you reveal your plans to meet the needs of the American people,” it reads. “Otherwise, it is clear that you have abandoned bipartisanship altogether and are preparing to shut down the government.” The post Partisan Rancor Pervades Democrat Leaders’ Letter to GOP Seeking Budget Talks appeared first on The Daily Signal.

A group of LGBTQ advocacy organizations asked the Supreme Court Tuesday to uphold a Colorado law that bans conversion therapy for minors. In a “friend of the court” brief, the organizations said Colorado’s law “promotes supportive parent-child relationships.” According to the groups, conversion therapy “divides youth from their families and promotes parental rejection of LGBTQ children,” causing “a host of individual and social harms for LGBTQ youth.”  By banning conversion therapy, they said, Colorado reduces “the likelihood that youth will leave their homes and require services to address the multiple harms resulting from family rejection and separation.” The organizations, including PFLAG, the National Center for LGBTQ Rights, and One Colorado—which describes itself as the state’s leading LGBTQ advocacy organization—filed their argument as an amicus brief in Chiles v. Salazar. That case was brought by Kaley Chiles, a Colorado-based counselor who says Colorado’s law violates her right to free speech by favoring “the expression of some views over others.” Chiles, a Christian, says the Colorado law only bans what it considers anti-LGBTQ speech. According to Alliance Defending Freedom, which filed the case on Chiles’ behalf, “When Chiles counsels young people with gender dysphoria, Colorado allows her to speak if she helps them embrace a transgender identity.”  “But if those clients choose to align their sense of identity with their sex by growing comfortable with their bodies,” ADF wrote in its brief, “Chiles must remain silent or risk losing her license, her livelihood, and the career she loves.” However, Colorado argues its law simply bans one specific treatment that is “unsafe and ineffective.”  “The First Amendment allows states to prohibit treatment that violates the standard of care,” Colorado wrote, “and the fact that substandard treatment often involves words does not change this constitutional analysis.” Chiles’ Supreme Court appeal follows a Tenth Circuit decision rejecting her claim because it said her counseling was “professional conduct,” not speech. Now, she asks the Supreme Court to reverse that decision and overturn Colorado’s law as unconstitutional. Oral arguments in the case are set for Oct. 7. The post LGBTQ Groups: Banning Conversion Therapy Promotes ‘Supportive Parent-Child Relationships’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. We’re hearing a lot about Europe in the news, primarily because of the Ukraine-Russian war and the trade wars or tariff disagreements with the United States. But the more we see contemporary Europe, the more we have grounds for deep concern. There are mass demonstrations in Britain against illegal immigration and crime that’s not treated in the way it is with citizens. There’s a perception that immigrants, many of them in Britain illegally, are not treated equally. And I mean equally in the system, that they’re not treated severely as they should be, according to the law. In Germany, there are massive defections in support for illegal migration. Remember, former Chancellor Angela Merkel said, “Yes, we can let in people from the Middle East.” Mostly Muslims. She let in 1 million into Germany. It’s got 15% to 16% of the population are aliens. They’re not German citizens. They weren’t born in Germany. We have the same type of unrest appearing in the Netherlands and, to a lesser degree, in France. Unfortunately, illegal immigration and unsecured borders are not Europe’s only problems. They made a conscientious decision—that is, most European countries—to lessen their carbon footprint, on the idea that they were going to go to zero-net emissions. Meaning, they would disavow all use of fossil fuels. The result, in a country like Germany, they shut down nuclear power plants, they shut down gas- and oil-fed plants. And the same is in true Britain. And we’re seeing, across the board in Europe, energy prices spiking. And average citizens can’t turn on the heat in the winter or air conditioning—to the extent they have it—in the summer. But more importantly even, their businesses are not competitive globally now because the price per kilowatt-hour is more expensive than even here, the failed state of California, which has the highest electricity cost in the United States. Again, because of similar policies of Europe. But that’s not the only problem. The postwar order of 80 years is over with. Remember, the United States rebuilt Europe, or helped to try to rebuilt Europe, through the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO, the Bretton Woods Accords that had the World Bank, International Monetary Fund. The idea was that in the shambles of World War II, we needed to get the European powerhouse economies back on their feet. And with them, the global economy. So, the United States really had two or three principal agendas. They were going to allow free entry into the U.S. market, from a recovering Europe, while allowing them, Europe, to have high tariffs against American exports. We were gonna subsidize the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Not so much during the Cold War. Europe stepped up to the plate. But after the Cold War, in the last 30 or so years, we have been subsidizing 16% to 18% of the budget and much more to keep global communications—sea lanes, travel—safe from terrorists and belligerence. That’s over with now. There is now a war, not in Chechnya, not in Georgia, but right on their doorstep with Russia and Ukraine. And the Europeans had not all made their promises, when Donald Trump came into office in 2017, to invest 2% of their gross domestic product on military affairs. Trump was severely criticized for badgering them. Now, almost 22 or 23 of the 32 nations have met their NATO requirements. And now they promise to go up to 5%. But recently, the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said, “We can’t afford the welfare state anymore.” And I think his subtext was: “We can’t afford to subsidize 15% of our population who came here, for the most part, illegally, and are on entitlements.“ But in a wider sense, the whole socialist paradigm is not producing goods and service that allow such general entitlements. The borders are insecure. Illegal immigrants are not assimilated, acculturated, integrated into the German, French, European body politic. And they’re gonna have a terrible time spending 5% of GDP to defend themselves. This is in addition to having to lower their $200 billion surplus with the United States. In conclusion, we know what Europe has to do. It has to return to commonsense energy policies; use their natural gas, use oil, to the extent they have it; build nuclear plants; be competitive on the world market, in terms of energy cost. They need to secure their borders. They need to have legal-only immigration. They need to prune back the state, the socialist state. Can they do it? It’s gonna be very difficult because many in Europe feel, as the American Left, that the medicine is worse than the disease. And if that’s true, Europe, our partner in the West, is going to be looking at some pretty tough times ahead. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Europe Is Unravelling From a Self-Inflicted Crisis appeared first on The Daily Signal.