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In 2019, the NFL turned its Super Bowl halftime shows over to Jay-Z and his production company, Roc Nation, and something irritatingly predictable has happened ever since. You saw a good example of it Sunday night, when Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny put on a show that has torn the country right down the middle and has set Americans at each other’s throats. More on that in a minute — but what should be remembered is that the Bad Bunny spectacle of this year was nothing compared to the one four years ago, in which an all-star cast of hip-hop superstars headed by Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, Kendrick Lamar, and 50 Cent put on a paean to gangster rap complete with a glorification of the inmates in the Los Angeles County jail. Everybody loves Snoop Dogg, so the outrage was muted, but the NFL is supposed to be an aspirational alternative to prison for lots of underprivileged people. It’s supposed to encourage folks to focus, work hard, apply their talents with discipline and effort, and make something of their lives, and the inmates in that jail generally have done none of those things — and yet the NFL was celebrating street criminals. At halftime of the Super Bowl. And that jailbird symphony was highly acclaimed. It begat the mess on Sunday. As artistic expression, it must be said, Bad Bunny’s show wasn’t bad. The music was reggaeton, which is generally pretty fun stuff. It’s high-energy, it’s pretty listenable, though the fact that Bad Bunny will hardly utter a word of English on stage makes for a bit of a WTF factor, and the short play encompassing the halftime show — which was something like a day in the life of Puerto Rico — was nothing if not creative. (RELATED: The Counterattack on Bad Bunny Half-Time) There was a wedding. There were people chopping sugar cane. Poor folks shopping at a bodega with  “We Accept EBT” in neon in the window. And — and if you know a little about Puerto Rico and its problems, this was amusing — a satirical takedown of the putrid performance of the island’s power grid, complete with line workers dangling from power poles and a transformer explosion. (RELATED: Everyone Watches a Different Super Bowl) If this had been a video promoting tourism in Puerto Rico, or if it were a Netflix special, you’d say it was kinda cool. There are no NFL teams in cities where the majority of people speak Spanish. Now, the fact that it was in Spanish, as I noted above, cast this whole enterprise in a strange light. The NFL’s audience doesn’t speak much Spanish. It’s an English-speaking league. There are no NFL teams in cities where the majority of people speak Spanish. Houston, Miami, and L.A. have large Spanish-speaking populations, yes, but they’re American cities where the schooling and the business and the government work and the culture are all done, chiefly if not exclusively, in English. The Latin citizens in those places, many of whom are big football fans, speak English. But Bad Bunny didn’t. He threw out a few words of English here and there, but the act was in Spanish. Except for the short cameo in which we were subjected to the satanic Lady Gaga. Thanks a lot for that. And the Spanish-language spectacular masked the fact that Bad Bunny’s lyrics were utterly filthy and pornographic, and sexually objectifying in a way that feminists generally would abhor. One of the more hilarious things on Sunday night was to watch woke leftists explode in ecstasy on Facebook and X over the halftime show without having the first clue what they were applauding. Bad Bunny cleaned up the lyrics to the songs he performed Sunday night… a little, but generally speaking, if those had been in English, there would have been a problem. (RELATED: NFL Tries Male Cheerleaders. That’s the Left’s Plan to Win Back Men?) And the show ended with a recitation of all of the countries in the Western Hemisphere, with the U.S. and Canada named last, and an assertion that “we are all America.” Which was a very unmistakable in-your-face to the mainland U.S.A. It was, as some have called it, a humiliation ritual. A Latin-supremacist message. After presenting Latin life, in the person of the mini-Puerto Rico set assembled on the Levi’s Stadium field, as poor and crappy. And the thing is, if that’s Bad Bunny’s act, then fine. He’s Puerto Rican, and he wants to push Puerto Rican culture, no problem. If the NFL thinks it’s so damned important to penetrate the Latin market, then how come it hasn’t started any football leagues in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America? But that culture has nothing to do with the NFL. So far as I know, the NFL has never played a game in Puerto Rico. If there is organized football on that island — American football, I mean, not futbol where you can’t use your hands — it isn’t on a particularly high level. So how is it appropriate to push Latin American culture — exclusionary Latin American culture, at that — on the one remaining American (as in United States of America) cultural event celebrating our own history and heritage? Nothing is more uniquely USA American than the Super Bowl, and yet it has to be taken over by others who don’t speak the language. Yes, I know that Puerto Rico is part of the USA. You can put that tired line to bed. The end of that show made it clear Bad Bunny wasn’t just talking about Puerto Rico; he was pushing Bolivia and Cuba and Nicaragua on us as well. Which is, of course, a metaphor for the Latin invasion of our borders that the American people elected Donald Trump to reverse. Now we’re told that the whole hemisphere is “America,” and therefore we aren’t allowed to have a border. If the NFL thinks it’s so damned important to penetrate the Latin market, then how come it hasn’t started any football leagues in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America? You would think that’s the easiest way to develop an audience for NFL football — get people playing the game, and then falling in love with it, and they’d necessarily then want to watch it played at the highest levels. Instead, they spend a hell of a lot more time trying to get girls in the U.S. to play flag football and push that like it’s just as good as the men playing it. Roger Goodell had better not say that having Bad Bunny play the Super Bowl is an outreach to Latin America. That’s bullshit, and everybody knows it. Do some real outreach and then get back to me. (RELATED: Roger Goodell’s Pagan NFL) We’re seeing this kind of thing everywhere, and it’s terribly dishonest. I could have written this column a few days ago, and I almost did, when it came out that Lupita Nyong’o, the Kenyan-Mexican actress who’s been in a number of movies and TV shows, is cast as Helen of Troy in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming The Odyssey feature. I like Lupita fine, and I agree that she’s very pretty, and she certainly has acting talent. But casting her as Helen of Troy is absurd. She isn’t Greek. Yes, I know that neither is Diane Kruger, who played Helen in Troy. Diane Kruger is German. And while I like her a lot as well, that was also lousy casting. The Trojans were Greeks; these stories are from Greek myths, and the cast of movies made about the Iliad and the Odyssey should be, or look, Greek. Or at least Mediterranean. Out of respect to the Greeks, whose culture is being appropriated. Kruger’s Helen is a fit for British adaptations of the original text from Homer, in which she was described as blonde with fair skin. By the standards of modern cultural priggishness, we should reject that just as loudly as the idea that Kenyan-Mexicans are Greeks. And we have to have this debate because Christopher Nolan took it on the chin a few years back when he didn’t cast any black people in Dunkirk. So he gave ‘em Helen of Troy. This isn’t about Lupita, just like it isn’t about Bad Bunny. It’s about the higher-ups making decisions about culture, and deliberately sabotaging and sanding down all of the edges and contours that make Western civilization what it is. The Greeks have to surrender their myths for the world’s participation and consumption. The U.S. has to accede to having the Super Bowl swallowed by the open borders crowd. The Brits could well have a prime minister wearing a hijab by the end of the year. And the Spanish and French are literally importing foreigners in the millions for the purpose of voting. (RELATED: Spain’s Demographic Suicide: A Generational Error Europe Will Not Undo) Is it a surprise that Japan just took the hardest turn to the right since the end of World War II? The Japanese aren’t stupid. They see the world for what it is, and they’ve decided they don’t want any part of it. And they’ll be armed to the teeth in no time flat — and almost certainly Japan’s birth rate will rebound along with their newfound national identity. Turning Point USA saw the Bad Bunny spectacle coming and threw together a halftime show of their own starring Kid Rock. Between TPUSA’s YouTube channel and Charlie Kirk’s channel, that show was sitting at 24 million views in the first 15 hours it was available, and it was on other platforms as well. The NFL’s cultural arsonist defenders are scoffing that the TPUSA show was a “bust.” They’re saying the Bad Bunny halftime show is a massive win because of the controversy it started, and the fact that it “won” the competition with Kid Rock et al validates this debacle. I’m no marketing genius, to my eternal regret, but I do know this — controversy as a marketing tool is something that works when you’re building a brand. When you’re an outsider looking in. Getting the gig as the producer or performer of the NFL halftime show is literally as inside looking out as it’s possible to be. In that scenario, controversy is failure. And those 24 million views for the TPUSA show are people who either openly rejected the NFL’s provocative choices, or at least showed themselves open to alternatives. That’s an indication that a whole lot of people have had it with things that are not appropriate. Though it’s going to be a while before we know if the message is received. 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Government bureaucracies change very slowly. There is a tendency among governments — call it bureaucratic inertia — to keep doing what you have been doing for decades, even in the face of changed conditions. The United States emerged from the Second World War with a globalist outlook because, alone among the world’s great powers, it escaped the worst consequences of that war and faced a global ideological and geopolitical challenge from the Soviet Union. Those circumstances created in the United States an Atlanticist outlook that prioritized Europe over Asia with the Marshall Plan and the formation of NATO. Much has changed since the early days of the Cold War and since the collapse of the Soviet empire, but only now, with the Trump administration’s recent National Security Strategy and National Defense Strategy, is the United States poised to confront the changed geopolitical landscape. (RELATED: America’s Robust National Security Strategy) Throughout most of the Cold War, U.S. national security strategy prioritized Europe, even when we fought lengthy wars in Korea and Vietnam. Asia was never considered as strategically important as Europe. The great concern among U.S. policymakers was that communist parties would gain power in Europe and Soviet conventional military forces would thrust through the Fulda Gap in Germany and sweep across Western Europe to the English Channel and beyond. We interfered in Europe’s elections to defeat communist parties while we pledged to use nuclear weapons to deter and, if necessary, defeat a Soviet conventional attack in Europe. (RELATED: The European Political Collapse That Never Ended) The NDS is equally explicit in diminishing the importance of Europe to U.S. security. Although we fought to a stalemate in Korea in the early 1950s and lost a war in Vietnam in the early 1970s, our defeats in Asia were offset by the Sino-Soviet split and the Nixon administration’s triangular diplomacy, which, as Henry Kissinger noted, set the stage for the Reagan administration’s policies that won the Cold War in Europe. The Soviet empire’s collapse in 1989-91 manifested itself in the liberation of the satellite nations of central and eastern Europe. Communism, however, survived in Asia — in China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. In Asia, the Cold War was suspended as the U.S. and the West pursued policies designed to bring China into the “liberal international order.” While China was quietly rising economically and militarily, U.S. national security policy continued to focus on Europe (and sometimes the Middle East, especially after the 9/11 attacks). The end of the Soviet threat to Europe changed nothing. NATO not only survived but it grew bigger — much bigger. During the next three decades, NATO doubled in size and pushed geographically closer to Russia, despite prescient warnings from Russia experts like George Kennan, Richard Pipes, Jack Matlock, Jr., Arthur Hartman, Edward Luttwak, and Paul Nitze, among others, that NATO enlargement would lead to trouble with Russia. Now, however, the Atlanticist outlook of our government is changing. It is Trump’s team of realists who recognize that in the 21st century, it is Asia and the Indo-Pacific, not Europe, that must be prioritized in our national security policies. Trump’s realists include Michael Anton, who, from his perch at the State Department’s Policy Planning staff (Anton has since left the administration), oversaw the drafting of the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) and Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby, who oversaw the drafting of the 2026 National Defense Strategy (NDS). Those two important documents make it unmistakably clear that Western Hemisphere security and the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific, not Europe, should be the focus of our national security policies. (RELATED: Michael Anton and the Fate of the Republic) The NSS, when it refers to Europe and NATO, does so in the context of “burden-sharing and burden-shifting.” “The days of the United States propping up the entire world order like Atlas are over,” according to the NSS. Our NATO allies must “assume primary responsibility” for their defense and security. NATO should not be a “perpetually expanding alliance.” The Indo-Pacific, not Europe, the NSS continues, is the 21st century’s “key economic and geopolitical battleground.” (RELATED: Europe Is Thus Illuminated, Exactly As It Is) The NDS is equally explicit in diminishing the importance of Europe to U.S. security. Our NATO allies, the NDS states, must “take primary responsibility for Europe’s conventional defense, with critical but limited U.S. support.” “Europe remains important,” the NDS continues, but “we must — and will — prioritize defending the U.S. Homeland and deterring China.” In his 1969 memoir Present at the Creation, Dean Acheson, an unrequited Atlanticist, recounted the creation of the post-Second World War order that effectively made Western Europe a protectorate of the United States. Today, we are “present at the creation” by President Trump’s team of realists of a new geopolitical order designed to free Europe from its protectorate status and focus U.S. defense and security resources on our own hemisphere and the Indo-Pacific. It has been a long time coming. READ MORE from Francis P. Sempa: Michael Anton and the Fate of the Republic Bleeding Minnesota and Its ‘Fire Eater’ Predecessors The Myth of the ‘Liberal International Order’

Cry, the Beloved Country was a book deploring the apartheid era in South Africa. The phrase came to mind this morning when I opened Fox News to find out whether we were at war with Iran yet — only to discover that the lead story was that a local sheriff in Arizona had been spotted at a basketball game! No lie. Check it out here. Truth really is stranger than fiction. In fairness to the editors of Fox New digital, the Arizona sheriff in question is supposedly in charge of the investigation into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, an 84-year old woman who was apparently kidnapped from her home and whose story has dominated the national “news” for the last week. I guess we are supposed to be shocked and alarmed that the sheriff in question is not spending 24/7 working on the investigation and took a little personal time off to go to a basketball game. The lead story in newspapers used to be the most important news of the day, in the editor’s opinion. At least that’s what I was taught in my high school journalism class, and it seemed to be so for most of my life, but no longer. The so-called “news” media can’t be troubled by paying much attention to boring but important stories. Today, the lead story is “clickbait,” “something [sensational] designed to make readers want to click on a hyperlink especially when the link leads to content of dubious value or interest.” In today’s highly competitive digital marketplace for online content, the so-called “news” media can’t be troubled by paying much attention to boring but important stories. (RELATED: The New York Times, Kristof, and the Ethics of War Reporting) But as often happens with what I like to call “epiphanies,” moments when a deeper truth becomes manifest through a particular incident, the breathless wall to wall coverage of the Nancy Guthrie abduction — despite the fact that there have been no real developments to report to date — exemplifies a troubling trend by which trivial but sensational “human interest” stories, especially about the personal foibles of public figures, crowd out more important events in the collective public mind. Who knew Jeffrey Epstein? How tall will the arch be that Trump wants to build in Washington? What will Bad Bunny say during the halftime show at the Super Bowl? Will Taylor Swift finally marry her football player friend, Travis Kelce? Let’s call that disturbing trend “the triumph of personality over substance.” Donald J. Trump is a transformative president, right up there with Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, and FDR, according to Newt Gingrich, who is one smart cookie in my experience. (I once had the privilege of moderating a public debate between Gingrich and Akhil Amar, my Yale Law colleague who is the most thoughtful constitutional lawyer of his generation. I thought Gingrich won.) Meanwhile, the media seems appalled and obsessed with Trump’s design for a new ballroom in the White House, which they consider tasteless. (RELATED: The White House East Wing Renovations: Exorcizing the Daemons of Modernism) Another wise man, Victor Davis Hanson, notes the current parallels to the run-up to the American Civil War as the state of Minnesota claims the “sovereign” right to declare itself independent of federal immigration laws and demand the removal of federal law enforcement agents. That hubbub is almost certainly designed to distract attention from the developing scandal in which many billions of dollars appropriated by the federal government to help needy children and for other sympathetic causes have been siphoned off by fraudsters, allegedly with the knowledge of local politicians who turned a blind eye to the fraud. Those events bring to mind a great line by Eric Hoffer, “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” But the important point for the moment is that almost no one is talking about the things that matter (to borrow the title of Charles Krauthammer’s book); it is all about personality and style issues, and substance is pushed aside. About one person a day is kidnapped in the United States, many of them children. Of course, this is awful and a terrible tragedy for the families involved, but why does the Nancy Guthrie incident dominate the national news and crowd out discussion of more important topics? Elsewhere, I have argued that the obligation to cover both sides of important public issues fairly ought to be a matter of journalistic ethics, rather than government regulation. However, the problem I am describing isn’t just a criticism of the editorial judgments of the national media; they are responding to what they see as the preferences of the public in the highly competitive market on the internet. The public, aka voters, apparently would rather read racy speculation about what Prince Andrew did or didn’t do with underage girls on Epstein’s island than read dry and uninteresting but important discussions of policy issues like tariffs or the expiration of the treaties limiting nuclear arsenals. Greek tragedy teaches that every hero has an “Achilles heel,” a fatal flaw, that is his or her weakness.  Donald J. Trump’s is his deaf ear for issues of personal style. Examples abound: an alleged affair with a porn star; late-night posts on social media that portray former President Obama and his wife as apes; renaming the Kennedy Center after himself. Didn’t this guy have a mother or a kindergarten teacher? (RELATED: Guess What the New Yorker Thinks of the Kennedy Center’s New Name?) If the Republicans lose their narrow working majority in Congress in the upcoming mid-term elections, which now seems likely, President Trump will be unable to get much accomplished in the second half of his current term and instead will have to spend most of his time fending off impeachment and numerous investigations. And worse yet, if his successor — who now appears likely to be my former student JD Vance — loses the 2028 presidential election, many of the Trump administration’s accomplishments will be undone by its successors. Those deeply unfortunate outcomes for the country will occur, if they do, as a result of the toxic combination of Trump’s lack of taste and the so-called “news” media’s obsession with clickbait rather than issues of substance. Trump may not be the kind of guy you’d like your sister to marry, as I once put it in these pages, but that doesn’t mean he can’t be an excellent president, a point that goes back to Machiavelli’s The Prince. Many of the most successful national leaders have had unseemly personal lives. Nevertheless, Trump’s personal peccadillos are turning off many voters, particularly women, despite his success on larger, more important issues, such as closing the border; cutting off drug traffic into the U.S.; mediating an end to eight wars; reviving our economy while cutting the rate of inflation by two-thirds; reducing prescription drug prices and oh yes, setting back Iraq’s development of nuclear weapons by years etc. But no one seems to be talking about the things that matter anymore. The public conversation is mostly about the Nancy Guthries of the world. Ah, yes, cry, the beloved country. READ MORE from E. Donald Elliott: Why I Support Zohran Is America Really in a Constitutional Crisis? 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It’s Sep. 23, 2025, and it is anything but a slow news day.  Kathmandu, Nepal, is reeling from a governance crisis following bloody Gen Z riots over government-imposed internet restrictions. Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip killed over 40 Palestinians, injuring 200 others. France, Belgium, Monaco, Luxembourg, and Malta formally recognize a Palestinian state. The U.S. Supreme Court allows President Trump to fire Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, the last remaining Democrat FTC commissioner. The White House announced bold new actions to confront the nation’s burgeoning Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) epidemic. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced that more than two-thirds of the 1,800 illegal aliens held at the so-called Alligator Alcatraz had been deported. The U.S. State Department raises H-1B visa application fees to $100,000, and President Trump is due to address the opening sessions of the 80th U.N. General Assembly in New York City. Yep. Anything but a slow news day. But suddenly, all the shrieking headlines, all the “if it bleeds it leads” narratives, and all the doom and gloom talking points were dialed down to all-but inaudible.  The U.S. Secret Service stole the show, announcing raids on a massive clandestine telecom network scattered across greater New York City. A spiderweb of rental properties, warehouses, and “electronic safe houses” were stuffed with hundreds of thousands of cell phones, servers, and SIM cards capable of crippling 911 call centers and cell towers across the Eastern Seaboard. Over 80 grams of cocaine and an unspecified number of “illegal firearms” were also confiscated, along with stacks of cell phones and computers. (RELATED: The Ever-Evolving Terrorist Threat) The cyber warfare centers were dismantled before they were activated, but still. The proximity to the U.N. General Assembly reeked of sabotage, blackmail, espionage, and even first-strike disruption.  Following the initial shock, competing headlines pimped along the periphery of the rapacious 24-hour news cycle only to be condensed, thumbnailed, or entirely shut out. The Thai/Cambodian border scuffle threatened to erupt again into all-out war. President Trump shifted his stance on U.S.–Ukraine policy, suggesting that Ukraine reclaim occupied territory, and calling Russia’s campaign weak. Israel intensified airstrikes in Gaza City, killing over 50 Palestinians and closing the Allenby border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan. Democrat Adelita Grijalva won a special election in Arizona’s 7th Congressional District, and the DOJ sought an indictment against former FBI Director James Comey. Syria and Ukraine restored diplomatic relations. Storm Regassa caused 15 deaths in Taiwan. China supported a $125 billion Brazilian tropical forest fund and increased trade ties with the U.S. But you’d barely know it from the headlines. All eyes were still on NYC and the clandestine SIM Farm.  The Secret Service, Homeland Security, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, DOJ, and the NYPD, along with other state and local law enforcement partners, confiscated more than 300 Subscriber Identity Model (SIM) servers, 300,000 SIM cards from at least six locations, including abandoned apartments and vacant offices. All sites were within a 35-mile radius of the U.N. headquarters in Manhattan. The network was capable of sending 30 million text messages per minute, overwhelming cell towers in a denial-of-service (DDoS) style attack, crippling 911 services and emergency response communications. (RELATED: Spy Balloons, Exploding Pagers, Robot Wolves, and SIM Farms Redefine Warfare) Who were they, really? What were their motives? Who were their backers? It got worse, as preliminary analysis suggested involvement of nation-state actors likely linked to China, as well as drug cartels (Venezuelan?) and human trafficking rings.  China, Venezuelan cartels, and human trafficking rings? An odd marriage and a volatile cocktail — if true. And then? Coverage of the UNGA/NYC SIM Farm faded. The shock, outrage, and disbelief lasted barely three days before dropping down below the fold. Alternative headlines took center stage. A deadly drone strike against Haitian gang leaders in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, killed women and children. Protests over statehood in Ladakh, Pakistan, turned deadly. A deranged killer opened fire on an ICE detention center in Dallas, killing two detainees and wounding another. Denmark closed its Aalborg and Billund airports following suspected Russian drone incursions. Israeli soldiers killed 85 Palestinian leaders across the Gaza Strip. It was like the NYC cyberattack plot against the U.N. General Assembly never happened. The federal government has not volunteered any follow-up information, and apparently, “mainstream media” hasn’t asked. But here’s what we know — and pretty much all that we know — based upon the single Sep. 23 U.S. Secret Service press release and a few terse “communiques” to selected media sources from early October: The takedown, styled by some analysts as  Operation Silent Signal, was triggered by anonymous “telephonic threats,” made in early 2025 against Biden White House officials and the Secret Service itself, and the network was already being used to harass or surveil top U.S. leadership.  The months of planning and millions of dollars invested in hardware and housing for the UNGA cyberattack operation were driven by “nation-state threat actors” from at least one foreign nation, likely Red China. The network was being used to facilitate communication between this foreign government and Venezuelan (possibly Mexican) drug cartels and terrorist organizations. But we haven’t received progress reports, updates, or definitive answers. Who were they, really? What were their motives? Who were their backers? Where are the sanctions, grand juries, indictments, arrest warrants, or arrests? Perhaps most importantly, what have we done/are we doing to prevent future attacks? Somebody rented the apartments, scouted out, and “secured” the abandoned warehouses and storage facilities. Somebody arranged and paid for the electricity to power the clandestine cyberattack platforms. Someone purchased, transported, and cached the weapons. Somebody acquired, transported, and assembled the SIM servers, and placed SIM box racks and boxes. Somebody acquired over 300,000 SIM cards and patiently inserted each and every card in their respective slots. Somebody bought, acquired, handled, and presumably used the cocaine. Someone acquired, handled, and stored illegal weapons. The forensic trail is miles wide. Receipts, bills, payments, electronic signatures, cell tower tracking, fingerprints, DNA, video surveillance,  The DOJ is silent, the FBI is silent, and the U.S. Secret Service? As late as this week, the best I could get out of the U.S. Secret Service Office of Communications and Media Relations’ Alexi Worley was: “This is an ongoing investigation. Out of concern for operational security, we cannot share any additional information at this time.”  Seriously?  After four months? The good/bad news is that we are back to mainstream “breaking news” chatter: Former First Lady Jill Biden’s former husband was arrested, charged with murdering his “current” wife. Former President Bill Clinton and wife, Hillary, will testify at Epstein hearings to avoid criminal charges. President Trump paddles Colombian President Maduro in the Oval Office. News personality kidnappers of Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Nancy Guthrie, are demanding $6 million in ransom. Ryan Routh is sentenced to life in prison for attempting to murder President Trump. Japan’s conservative prime minister Sanae Takaichi won in a landslide victory after gambling on a snap high-stakes election. Oh, and the Washington Post fires one-third of its staff. READ MORE from Mike Howard: Spy Balloons, Exploding Pagers, Robot Wolves, and SIM Farms Redefine Warfare From Alligator Alleys to Fallout Shelters Bloody Battle and Senseless Violence Threaten Thai Tourism

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by Geoffrey Grinder, Now The End Begins: The opening ceremony for the 2026 Winter Olympics was ripped right from the pages of end times events laid out in the book of Revelation The world just can’t help themselves, can they? At the opening ceremony to the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy last night, what was intended […]