The story of health insurance in the United States begins not with Wall Street sharks circling for profits, but with a modest act of community solidarity during the Great Depression.

In 1929, at Baylor University Hospital in Texas, administrators faced empty beds and unpaid bills as economic collapse kept patients away. So, they devised a prepaid plan: for a small monthly fee, teachers could secure hospital care without fear of ruinous costs. This became the blueprint for Blue Cross, a nonprofit model that spread rapidly across the country in the 1930s. Soon after, Blue Shield plans emerged to cover physician services. These were explicitly nonprofit entities, often granted tax-exempt status and special regulatory privileges in exchange for serving the public good—community rating (charging everyone the same premium regardless of health status), acting as insurers of last resort, and prioritizing access over profit.

During World War II, wage freezes pushed employers to offer health benefits as a perk, cementing employer-sponsored insurance as the dominant model. By the 1950s, enrollment exploded from millions to over 140 million. The Blues dominated, focusing on broad coverage and affordability. Commercial for-profit insurers existed but only on the fringes; they couldn’t compete with the Blues’ nonprofit advantages until they adopted “experience rating”—charging higher premiums to sicker groups—allowing them to cherry-pick healthy customers and undercut the Blues in certain markets.

This nonprofit era wasn’t perfect, but it kept costs relatively contained. Patients and providers dealt directly, with insurance stepping in as a safety net rather than a profit extractor. Medical loss ratios—the share of premiums spent on actual care—hovered around 95%, meaning nearly every dollar went to healthcare rather than overhead or dividends.

The enactment of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, while a landmark social safety net achievement in expanding access to the elderly and poor, tragically hyper-intensified the demise of nonprofit health insurance and healthcare. By injecting massive third-party government payments into the system—reimbursing hospitals and physicians on a cost-plus or fee-for-service basis—these programs severed the direct link between patients and providers, unleashing unchecked cost inflation. Providers, shielded from price sensitivity, charged whatever they wanted, knowing the government check would arrive. This “third-party payment problem” flooded the system with money, rewarding volume over value and creating irresistible profit opportunities. Nonprofit hospitals and insurers, once focused on community service, faced mounting pressure to expand bureaucracies, raise charges, and compete in an escalating arms race of costs. For-profit entrants exploited the gusher of funds, accelerating the shift toward shareholder-driven models that prioritized extraction over care.

The devastating turning point came in the 1970s and 1980s, when greed began to infiltrate. The Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973, signed by Richard Nixon, provided federal subsidies and loosened restrictions to promote HMOs. Early HMOs were nonprofit, emphasizing preventive care. But the law unleashed a wave of for-profit HMOs, which quickly dominated the space by prioritizing cost-cutting over quality and skimming healthy enrollees.

The real betrayal occurred in 1994, when the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association—under pressure from competitive threats—abandoned its nonprofit mandate, allowing member plans to convert to for-profit status. What followed was a feeding frenzy. Blue Cross of California aggressively acquired plans in other states, rebranding as WellPoint (now part of Anthem, the second-largest insurer). Conversions swept through states: Georgia to Cerulean, Missouri to RightChoice, Virginia, and more. By the 2000s, many iconic Blues had morphed into shareholder-driven behemoths, with assets often transferred to foundations as a deceptive fig leaf for public benefit.

This shift to profiteering transformed health insurance from a public service into a rapacious industry. For-profit insurers face relentless pressure to deliver shareholder returns, leading to skyrocketing administrative costs—marketing blitzes, executive bonanzas, lobbying armies, and denial machines designed to avoid payouts. Studies show that for-profit plans have higher administrative overhead (often 6 percentage points more than nonprofits) and lower medical loss ratios, meaning less money reaches patients and providers.

The result? Exploding prices. US healthcare now consumes nearly 20% of GDP, double what most developed nations spend, with worse outcomes like lower life expectancy and higher infant mortality. For-profit dominance incentivizes higher provider payments because insurers can simply pass costs to premiums—especially under rules like the Affordable Care Act’s medical loss ratio requirements, which paradoxically reward spending growth as long as it’s on “care.” Consolidated insurers negotiate aggressively but often acquiesce to provider price hikes, knowing they can raise premiums accordingly and pocket the difference in profits.

Big Pharma thrives in this ecosystem, jacking up drug prices knowing insurers will pay (or shift costs to patients via deductibles). The corporatized hospital industrial complex—chains like HCA—mirrors this, buying up facilities, cutting nursing staff for “efficiency,” and inflating charges. All while denying claims, imposing prior authorizations that delay care (and sometimes outrightly deny care), and narrowing networks to squeeze providers.

Critics of nonprofits claim they lack innovation or efficiency. This is propagandistic profiteer-driven nonsense. Nonprofit executives still earn substantial wages—often seven figures at large plans like Kaiser Permanente—providing ample incentive without the obscene shareholder mandates. Nonprofits historically delivered higher medical loss ratios (up to 95% pre-conversion) and broader community benefits, serving as insurers of last resort without cherry-picking.

The American people are paying the price—literally—for this profiteering orgy that is for-profit health insurance. Families face crushing premiums, deductibles that deter care, and medical debt that bankrupts millions annually. Meanwhile, for-profit giants like UnitedHealth rake in billions while CEOs are compensated like royalty.

It’s time to reclaim healthcare from these vultures. The United States would be far better served by returning to a nonprofit model for health insurance, where patient care is the focus, not stock prices. This isn’t the anti-capitalism of government-controlled or hyper-regulated health insurance and healthcare—far from it. Multiple nonprofit entities would still compete vigorously for enrollees, driving down premiums through market forces, innovating in service quality, network breadth, and preventive programs to attract customers and establish efficient pricing. Historical Blue Cross plans competed successfully as nonprofits, proving that competition thrives without shareholder extraction.

Moreover, mandating nonprofit status aligns with the US Constitution’s mandate to “provide for the...general Welfare of the United States.” Healthcare access is fundamental to the nation’s welfare, and profiteering has corrupted this common good by inflating costs and erecting barriers to care. Returning to nonprofit health insurance would expunge the bloated bureaucracy of denial appeals, prior authorizations, and profit-driven overhead—freeing resources for actual medicine—while purging the corruption that prioritizes profiteering over human lives.

Intelligent federal legislation is urgently needed: mandate nonprofit status for all insurers and hospitals, prohibit conversions and shareholder payouts, cap administrative overhead, redirect surpluses to expanded coverage and community health, and foster robust competition among nonprofits. Pair this with reforms to dismantle provider monopolies and rein in BigPharma’s gouging, and you have a winning solution to the problem at hand.

Only then can we build a system that serves people, not predators. Congress must act—before another generation is sacrificed on the altar of corporate greed.

When we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL, AM860 and FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida.

In Closing…

It’s time to dismantle the corrupt grip of corporate profiteers on American healthcare. Government subsidies, favorable regulations, and laws rigged to benefit for-profit insurers and hospital chains have fueled skyrocketing costs, rampant claim denials, and obscene executive payouts—turning a public necessity into a private windfall.

We must return to proven nonprofit models that prioritize patients over shareholders.

Demand bold federal legislation: mandate nonprofit status for insurers and hospitals, eliminate shareholder extraction, cap overhead, and restore genuine competition. This isn’t anti-capitalism, and it’s not pro-government takeover of healthcare. It’s the re-institution of nonprofits as the driving cause in our American health system—it’s expunging corruption and going back to the future.

Contact your representatives now. Insist they champion this reform. Truthfully, lives depend on it.

Until next time…

The modern Democrat Party no longer trusts elections to deliver power; it trusts Marc Elias, Norm Eisen, Mary McCord, and Andrew Weissmann—along with their K Street lawfare factories—to manufacture it through deception. These are not mere attorneys; they are political arsonists in $3,000 suits who have turned the First Amendment into a loaded weapon.

From the marble lobbies of Perkins Coie to the revolving doors of WilmerHale and Covington & Burling, the Lawfare Democrat class—led by Elias (the architect of the 2016 Clinton-funded Steele dossier), Eisen (author of the “how-to” impeachment playbook), Mary McCord (the DOJ official who helped launch Crossfire Hurricane and later became the legal face of every anti-Trump “resistance” group), and Weissmann (Mueller’s pit bull)—has perfected the false-flag media operation. They invent a scandal, launder it through “anonymous sources,” and watch their stenographers at CNN, NPR, and The Atlantic detonate it across the country. The goal is never truth; it is always partisan domination by any means necessary.

The formula is brutally simple: a Lawfare operative drafts a lurid claim, feeds it to a cooperative reporter as coming from “a senior official familiar with the matter,” and the story is published without a single named source or piece of verifiable evidence. Retractions, when they finally crawl out weeks later, are printed on page 19 in 8-point font. By then, the damage is done—polls have moved, donors have panicked, and another chunk of the republic’s faith in institutions has been hollowed out.

Four recent examples expose the playbook in crystalline detail.

Arlington Cemetery “Desecration” Hoax

Days after Trump visited Section 60 to honor the 13 service members killed in Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal, NPR—citing only anonymous “Army officials”—accused Trump’s team of shoving cemetery staff and illegally filming a campaign ad on sacred ground. The story was immediately weaponized by Kamala Harris and every blue-check pundit on X. Within 48 hours, the Gold Star families themselves released statements and video proving they had personally invited Trump and thanked him for being there. The “anonymous officials”? Almost certainly coordinated through Marc Elias’s network, whose firm has specialized in weaponizing military families against Republicans since the Russiagate era. NPR’s half-hearted correction came only after the families threatened legal action.

The Atlantic’s “Hitler Praised Generals” Revival

Jeffrey Goldberg, still nursing wounds from his debunked 2020 “suckers and losers” fantasy, dropped another anonymously sourced bombshell weeks before the election: Trump, according to “sources close to the former president,” had repeatedly praised Hitler’s generals and complained about the cost of a slain soldier’s funeral. The timing was surgical—maximum panic, minimum time for fact-checking. John Kelly, the supposed primary source, refused to go on the record. No one else ever did. Yet the story dominated the final stretch of the campaign. Behind the curtain: Norm Eisen and Mary McCord were openly coordinating anti-Trump messaging with Atlantic writers during this exact period, according to leaked Signal chats later published by independent journalists.

The “Astronauts Aren’t Stranded” Gaslighting

When Trump and Elon Musk moved aggressively to bring home NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore—left orbiting for ten months because of Boeing’s Starliner debacle under Biden—NPR ran an extraordinary piece insisting the astronauts were “not stranded at all,” citing only anonymous “agency sources.” This directly contradicted NPR’s own reporting from the previous nine months, in which the word “stranded” had appeared dozens of times. The sudden reversal came just as Trump was scoring political points for decisive action. The fingerprints of Andrew Weissmann’s network were all over it; former Obama-Biden holdovers inside NASA and the White House comms shop, still taking marching orders from the Lawfare clique, fed the line to friendly reporters to blunt the president’s momentum.

The Cabinet Purge Whispers:Firing Kash Patel & Kristi Noem

As whispers of a post-midterm reshuffle gained traction, outlets like MS NOW and The Daily Beast unleashed a barrage of anonymously sourced speculation that Trump was plotting to axe two of his most loyal lieutenants: FBI Director Kash Patel and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

In late November, MS NOW cited “three people with knowledge of the situation who requested anonymity” to claim Trump was “weighing” Patel’s ouster over alleged missteps, including using a government jet for a date with his girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, and assigning FBI resources to her security detail. The story painted Patel as “on thin ice,” with Co-Deputy Director Andrew Bailey floated as a replacement—ignoring Patel’s successes in ramping up arrests of violent felons.

Just days later, similar anonymous “sources” fueled reports of Noem’s impending firing, tied to her hiring of Corey Lewandowski amid rumors of an affair, with CNN and OK! Magazine amplifying claims that White House frustration was boiling over. By early December, The Daily Beast bundled both into a “borrowed time” narrative, suggesting a 2026 purge of Patel, Noem, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to “clean house.”

The White House detonated the hoax in real time: Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt recounted reading the Patel headline to Trump mid-meeting with the FBI chief, prompting laughter and a photo-op thumbs-up to debunk it as “Fake News.” Noem’s team dismissed the smears as baseless gossip. Yet the timing—coinciding with Patel’s aggressive probes into Deep State holdovers and Noem’s mass deportation push—reeks of sabotage. K Street’s hand? Undeniable: Mary McCord’s “Protect Democracy” network and Weissmann’s alumni have been spotted in DC salons bragging about “destabilizing” Trump’s enforcers through precisely these leaks, turning loyalists into liabilities overnight.

The Epstein Redacted Photos Smear

In a brazen partisan stunt just days ago, on December 13, 2025, House Oversight Committee Democrats selectively released 19 redacted photos from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate out of over 95,000 received, prominently featuring images of Trump with women’s faces blacked out to imply sinister ties and possible knowledge of Epstein’s abuses. Freshman Rep. Yassamin Ansari posted the images on X, calling them “vile, disturbing new photos of Donald Trump that raise even more question about knowledge of abuses at Epstein’s estate.”

The selective redactions fueled immediate media frenzy, reviving long-debunked Epstein-Trump guilt-by-association narratives at a moment when Trump’s DOJ was pushing full file transparency.

But the hoax collapsed swiftly: unredacted versions revealed the women as adult Hawaiian Tropic suntan lotion models at a 1990s Mar-a-Lago promotional event tied to Trump’s Miss Universe ownership—one even praising him in interviews as a “gentleman.” Faces were redacted at the individuals’ own request, per Epstein estate lawyers, yet Democrats cherry-picked and presented them to manufacture innuendo.

The White House blasted it as another “Democrat hoax,” with Trump dismissing the recycled smears. This Lawfare-orchestrated leak—echoing Mary McCord’s “resistance” networks coordinating with congressional Democrats—aimed to distract from embarrassing Epstein ties to figures like Bill Clinton while tarring Trump anew.

These are not mistakes. They are deliberate acts of political warfare executed by a permanent class of Democrat lawyers—Elias, Eisen, McCord, Weissmann, and their junior associates—who have openly boasted on podcasts and at Georgetown salons about using “democracy-protecting” lawfare and media manipulation to neutralize populist threats. Each hoax chips away at Trump’s mandate, forcing defensive firefights that distract from draining the swamp.

The American voter must learn to see through this theater of deception. Every time we reward anonymous smears with outrage, retweets, or shifted votes, we hand these disgusting, deceitful operatives another link in the chains they are forging for all of us.

If we continue to let miscreants like Marc Elias, Mary McCord, and their shadowy, greasy ilk substitute fabricated narratives for earned political victories, we will not wake up in the America our founders envisioned—we will wake up in politically manufactured chains, governed by whoever controls the last leak to The Atlantic.

The choice is ours, but the hour is late.

When we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL, AM860 and FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida.

In Closing…

The Lawfare Democrats—Elias, Eisen, McCord, Weissmann—don’t debate you at the ballot box anymore. They invent anonymous scandals, leak them to their media stooges, and watch the Republic bleed trust.

The lies at Arlington, Goldberg’s Hitler fantasies, gaslighting about astronauts, the latest fake purge bullshit, and false-flag photos: same playbook, same liars, same goal—power without permission.

If we keep swallowing these poison pills disguised as “breaking news,” the chains they’re forging won’t be metaphorical. Wake up! Question every unsourced story, and remember: the people who scream loudest about protecting democracy are usually the ones trying to kill it.

Until next time…

Let’s cut the bullshit, and this is going to be a little harsh, so strap in: the Republican Party, from its bumbling state chapters to the bloated national machine, has once again proven itself utterly incompetent at the one job that matters—getting its voters to the polls in off-year elections.

On December 9, 2025, in Miami, a measly 21.3% turnout handed the mayor’s office to Democrat Eileen Higgins, who crushed Trump-endorsed Republican Emilio González 59% to 41%. That’s right—only 37,496 out of 175,692 registered voters bothered to show up in a city that’s supposed to be a conservative stronghold in Hispanic-heavy Florida. This isn’t just a loss; it’s a humiliating surrender, ending nearly 30 years of GOP control in a place where Republicans have preached family values and border security for generations.

Higgins, a 61-year-old former county commissioner with a resume padded by Peace Corps stints in Belize, didn’t just win—she signed on explicitly to Democratic Socialism, campaigning with a platform that reeked of equity-driven policies, environmental hand-wringing over Biscayne Bay, and streamlined services that sound an awful lot like government overreach dressed in feel-good drag. Her victory amplified a realignment among Hispanic voters battered by economic squeezes and federal policy whiplash, as noted in sharp election coverage.

And it’s not an isolated fuck-up. Across the country, from Seattle’s socialist strongholds to New York’s progressive playgrounds, Democratic Socialists are racking up wins in these low-stakes races, turning city halls into petri dishes for equity experiments and wealth redistribution schemes. The GOP? They’re asleep at the wheel, too busy circle-jerking over presidential fantasies to notice the ground crumbling beneath them.

Miami’s debacle is the poster child for this electoral malpractice. Higgins waltzed into office by hammering affordable housing and falsely slamming Republican immigration crackdowns as heartless attacks on Cuban, Venezuelan, and Haitian families right in Little Havana. González, the ex-city manager who ran USCIS under Bush and pushed for axing property taxes while toughening borders, had the dream team of endorsements: Trump, DeSantis, Rick Scott, Ted Cruz. What did it get him? A 41% ass-kicking in a nonpartisan race where national Dem groups poured in cash to flip the script.

Turnout at 21.3% is unacceptable at every level—city, county, state, national. It’s not bad luck; it’s a symptom of a party that’s forgotten how to fight when the cameras aren’t rolling. Republicans whine about “low-turnout protests” fueling these losses, as if that’s an excuse rather than a confession of their own laziness.

NewsMax reports Democrats crowing about these Florida and Georgia off-year victories as “momentum” for 2026, with the Democrat Legislative Campaign Committee dropping $50 million on an expanded war chest targeting 42 state chambers. In Georgia, Dems snagged a state House special election to replace a Republican rep, narrowing the GOP edge while holding onto a runoff in suburban Atlanta. These aren’t flukes; they’re the bleeding edge of a socialist creep that’s already colonized blue cities but now eyes red-state underbellies.

This wave of Democratic Socialist triumphs isn’t confined to Miami’s humid sprawl. Zoom out, and you’ll see the pattern: from Seattle, where eco-socialists have locked down city council seats with mandates for rent control and “just transition” green boondoggles, to New York, where Mamdani and AOC-style firebrands have turned boroughs into laboratories for universal basic income pilots and defund-the-police reruns. Miami’s just the latest notch, a gateway drug for Marxism-lite in the Sunshine State, complete with Higgins’ full-throated embrace of the ideology.

These wins thrive in the shadows of off-year apathy, where ideologues on the Left mobilize like it’s D-Day, door-knocking and meme-warrioring while conservatives treat local races like optional Netflix binges. The GOP apparatuses—those sclerotic state parties and the national RNC clown car—deserve a lion’s share of the blame for this abstract failure to manufacture turnout. They’ve got the data, the donor lists, the algorithms, but zero fucking aptitude to use them. Instead of blanketing airwaves with ads exposing how “Democratic Socialism” is just Stalinism with pronouns, they let narratives fester unchecked.

Deep-pocket Republicans and conservatives, those Wall Street fat cats and Silicon Valley turncoats, too busy golfing and comfortable in their self-importance, who fund the party like it’s a vanity project, are the worst offenders. Clueless doesn’t begin to cover it—they’re willfully blind, dumping billions into presidential PACs and TV blitzes while starving the grassroots organizations that actually do effective work at the local level. Preserving Trump’s reform movement? Forget it. Without recapturing county commissions, school boards, and state legislatures—and maintaining majorities in the US House, that “movement” is just a tweetstorm waiting to die.

But here’s the ugly truth, and I’m sure you’re not going to like it: the Republican voter base owns this mess too. You—yes, you, the self-proclaimed patriot scrolling this on your phone—consistently ignore off-year elections like they’re someone else’s problem.

These off-year and midterm elections aren’t sideshows; they’re the demolition derby where mandated governments get torched before they metastasize. While you’re too busy watching little Portnoy’s soccer game or lying to yourself that everyone else will show up to the polls, ignoring that special election for city council or state rep (a true mark of apathetic laziness, I might add), the Marxist left’s activists—those tattooed, nose-riged baristas and arrogant adjunct profesors high on their own propaganda—don’t rest. They bus in voters, litigate every ballot, and whisper sweet nothings about “systemic inequities” to flip precincts one by one.

Off-year races are where the real power consolidates: zoning laws that greenlight homeless encampments, curricula that indoctrinate kids with critical race theory, budgets that balloon welfare rolls. By sitting it out and/or absolving yourself from your civic responsibility to vote, conservatives and Libertarians aren’t abstaining; they’re abdicating, handing the keys to the very radicals who view your values—our values—as obstacles to their Marxist utopia.

The national GOP’s response? Pathetic deflections.

President Trump, rallying in Pennsylvania, sniped at Democrats as “Bonnie and Clyde preaching public safety” and the “enemy of the working class,” urging focus on prices, borders, and growth. Fair enough, but that’s 2026 talk. Where’s the machine to make it stick in 2025’s election battles? State parties in Florida and Georgia mumble about “media-fueled protests” and low turnout favoring “ideologically motivated” Dems, as if building motivation is optional.

Bullshit!

The deep-pocket crowd needs to wake up: invest in the future, or watch it burn. Fund those scrappy organizations that spearhead county initiatives that reclaim the narrative—town halls blasting the dangers of socialism and Marxism masquerading as “progressive equity.” Educate the base, not with useless TED Talks, but with billboards and mailers screaming how Democratic Socialism guts small businesses, spikes crime, and erodes freedoms.

Grassroots isn’t a buzzword; it’s the firewall against this creep.

No reform movement—not Trump’s, not whatever MAGA 2.0 or libertarian fever dream follows—can succeed if Republican, conservative, and Libertarian voters stay unengaged and apathetic to off-year and midterm elections, and no grassroots movement to save the nation can succeed id the deep-pockets of the Right ignore their responsibility to the nation that provided them the opportunity to be successful in the fucking first place.

The activists, financiers, and voters of the Marxist and arrogantly ignorant Left don’t rest. They plot, they agitate, they vote; their commissars depend on it. We simply cannot be apathetic and unengaged anymore. Get off your ass, GOP, and consolidate your slates so there’s not thirteen people running at the same fucking time! Take your hands out of your pockets, money people, and start funding the local, county, and state movements. Politics trickles up, not down!

And this must all start yesterday—or we need to get used to toasting victories from the opposition’s banquet.

When we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL, AM860 and FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida.

In Closing…

Miami just handed its mayor’s office to an open Democratic Socialist because only 21.3% of voters showed up. Seattle, New York, Georgia, New Jersey, Virginia: the same pattern, the same apathy.

The GOP machine has proved itself useless too many times, the big donors are, evidently, either clueless or too self-absorbed, and too many of us treat off-year elections like optional chores.

Here’s the brutal truth: no Trump movement, no conservative comeback, no libertarian revival survives if we keep sleeping through the fights that actually build power. The Marxist left never rests. Starting now, neither can we.

Wake up, show up, or watch every city fall—watch our Republic fall, one pathetic turnout at a time.

Until next time…

In the shadowed corridors of modern warfare, where drones swarm like locusts and missiles arc across borders with impersonal precision, a quiet revolution is unfolding. Israel’s Iron Beam, a high-powered laser defense system, stands poised to redefine the rules of engagement.

As we stand on the precipice of its full deployment by December 30, 2025, this technology—born from urgency and ingenuity—offers not just a shield against immediate threats, but a beacon of hope for a world long haunted by the specter of nuclear annihilation. Developed over more than a decade by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Elbit Systems, Iron Beam represents Israel’s audacious leap into directed-energy weapons, transforming science fiction into frontline reality.

The system’s journey has been one of relentless iteration, spurred by the brutal lessons of conflict. Unveiled in conceptual form years ago, Iron Beam accelerated after the October 7, 2023, Hamas assault, which unleashed thousands of rockets and drones, overwhelming traditional defenses. By September 2025, prototypes had already proven their mettle in combat, intercepting at least 40 Hezbollah drones in October 2024— a feat that saved civilian lives and safeguarded critical infrastructure without firing a single costly missile.

Brig. Gen. (res.) Danny Gold, head of the Israel Defense Ministry’s Directorate of Defense Research & Development (MAFAT), proclaimed, “Israel is the first country in the world to present a massive operational laser capability for intercepting threats.”

At its core, Iron Beam is a ground-based, 100-kilowatt fiber laser, capable of zapping rockets, mortars, and UAVs at ranges up to 10 kilometers—at the speed of light, no less. Each interception costs a mere half-dollar, akin to “turning on the lights,” as Defense Ministry Director-General Amir Baram aptly put it. This contrasts starkly with the $50,000 price tag of an Iron Dome interceptor, addressing the ammunition shortages exposed during the 12-day Iran-Israel War in June 2025, when nearly 600 Iranian missiles and over 1,000 drones tested Israel’s multilayered defenses to their limits.

What elevates Iron Beam beyond tactical brilliance is its seamless integration into Israel’s existing arsenal. It doesn’t replace Iron Dome, David’s Sling, or Arrow; it augments them.

Upon detecting an incoming threat, shared radar and command systems decide in seconds whether to deploy a laser zap or a kinetic missile, optimizing for cost and efficacy. Variants like Lite Beam (10 kW for vehicle mounting) and Iron Beam M (50 kW for trucks) promise mobile protection, extending this “unlimited magazine” to ground forces.

Of course, challenges remain—lasers falter in adverse weather, and are untested in full-spectrum barrages like October 7—but comprehensive trials, including those validated in 2025, affirm its reliability. As Gold noted at a Tel Aviv defense summit, “The Iron Beam laser system is expected to fundamentally change the rules of engagement on the battlefield.”

For Israel, besieged on multiple fronts, this isn’t just defense; it’s survival elevated to strategic supremacy.

Across the Atlantic, the United States mirrors this ambition with its own directed-energy pursuits, underscoring a transatlantic synergy vital to global security. The US Army’s Indirect Fire Protection Capability-High Energy Laser (IFPC-HEL) prototype program, overseen by the Rapid Capabilities & Critical Technologies Office, is the closest analog to Iron Beam. Awarded a $221 million contract to Lockheed Martin in 2023, IFPC-HEL aims to neutralize rockets, artillery, mortars, and drones with a 300 kW-class laser, offering near-unlimited shots at pennies per engagement. By late 2025, prototypes will be in advanced testing and integration phases, with initial fielding targeted for fiscal year 2026.

The US Navy’s HELIOS system, tested successfully in 2024 aboard the USS Preble against UAVs, complements this, while a 2024 congressional appropriation of $1.2 billion funneled directly to Israel’s Iron Beam procurement signals deep collaboration. Lockheed Martin’s 2022 partnership with Rafael to adapt Iron Beam for American needs hints at potential US adoption, should Israeli field trials—slated for imminent rollout—exceed expectations.

Yet, as a National Defense Industrial Association report laments, the US lacks a mature laser supply chain, positioning Israel’s breakthrough as a potential catalyst for accelerated deployment. This parallel path isn’t mere duplication; it’s a promise of shared resilience, where American scale meets Israeli innovation.

At its heart, Iron Beam’s promise transcends borders, whispering a profound possibility: the obsolescence of nuclear war. Directed-energy systems like this stand on the cusp of rendering nuclear arsenals relics, not through disarmament decrees, but through unassailable defense. Nuclear weapons derive their terror from assured penetration—mutually assured destruction hinges on missiles evading interception to deliver city-obliterating payloads. Iron Beam disrupts this calculus. Operating at light speed with pinpoint accuracy, lasers can engage intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) during boost phase, vaporizing warheads before separation, or midcourse, piercing decoys that confound kinetic interceptors like the US Ground-Based Midcourse Defense.

Cost barriers vanish, too: a single ICBM interception via a missile might run into the millions, but lasers scale infinitely with electricity alone. In the 2025 Iran-Israel clash, Iranian barrages strained stockpiles; imagine scaling that to nuclear salvos. Coupled with space-based relays or hypersonic countermeasures, these beams could create impenetrable shields, deterring launches outright. As Baram envisions, battlefields will teem with affordable lasers, neutralizing swarms before they coalesce into existential threats. This isn’t utopian fancy—it’s physics: energy directed with precision outpaces brute force.

Nuclear war, that 20th-century sword of Damocles, fades into history’s shadow, supplanted by a defensive web that renders aggression futile. Hope lies here, in the hum of fiber optics, promising a world where deterrence evolves from fear to fortitude.

Yet, this dawn carries shadows.

As Iron Beam and its kin mature, the West—Israel and the United States foremost—must vigilantly fortify against espionage from the 21st-century axis of adversaries: China, Russia, and to lesser degrees, Iran and North Korea. These regimes, through state-linked corporations, have honed corporate infiltration into an art of subversion. Chinese firms like Huawei have been implicated in pilfering dual-use tech, while Russian hackers target defense supply chains with impunity. Iran’s cyber units and North Korea’s illicit networks lurk as opportunistic vectors.

Full-spectrum countermeasures—zero-trust architectures, AI-driven anomaly detection, and draconian export controls—are imperative. The US CHIPS Act’s safeguards and Israel’s elite Unit 8200 must expand, auditing partners ruthlessly. To let this technology slip would arm tyrants with the means to pierce free-world defenses, inverting hope into peril. Vicious guardianship isn’t paranoia; it’s stewardship of humanity’s safeguard.

In weaving this future, the West confronts an internal foe: the creeping tolerance of antisemitism, especially in the United States. This venomous undercurrent erodes the very collaboration birthing Iron Beam—Jews and Israelis, engines of this innovation, face vilification that chills partnerships and stifles talent.

From campus protests to online vitriol, it fractures the trust essential for joint ventures like Lockheed-Rafael. Such bigotry is anathema to progress; it severs the intellectual arteries feeding directed-energy breakthroughs.

To protect the free world, America and its allies must excise this poison with unyielding resolve—through education and cultural recommitment, recalling the genocidal horrors that this sick ideology foments.

Only then can we harness Iron Beam’s light—and the light of similar, more potent projects—to illuminate, not just defend.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus…and the probability of a secure tomorrow.

When we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL, AM860 and FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida.

In Closing…

Iron Beam isn’t just another weapon; it’s the first real crack in the nuclear nightmare we’ve lived under since 1945. Light-speed, near-limitless, penny-per-shot defense is finally here, and it can turn ICBMs into expensive fireworks before they leave the atmosphere.

Israel is lighting the way, America is racing to catch up, and together they’re writing the obituary for mutually assured destruction.

But none of this survives if the technology leaks to Beijing or Moscow, and none of it flourishes while antisemitism is shrugged off as acceptable opinion. Guard the secrets, and guard the people who built them. The free world’s future is literally riding on a beam of light—don’t let anyone dim it.

Now that’s one hell of a Christmas present…to the world.

Until next time…

As we prepare, once again, to celebrate Christmas, a time of year where we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, peace on Earth, and goodwill towards all men, a dark alliance is crystallizing before our eyes both in the United States and across the West. Islamism, militant Marxism, and anti-Christian progressivism have coalesced in their shared disdain of the Christian foundations of Western civilization and are now openly synthesizing to dismantle them.

What binds these three ideologies is not mere tactical convenience; it’s a visceral, existential loathing of the Cross; of individual conscience and of any authority higher than the totalitarian collective or theocratic caliphate. Each detests Christianity because Christianity birthed the very concepts of human dignity, free will, and limited government that now stand in their way.

Islamism assaults Christianity in the public square with ever-bolder demands for supremacy. In the United States, we see Muslim-majority school boards in places like Michigan pushing to remove Easter and Christmas references while aggressively inserting Ramadan celebrations. Dearborn public schools now broadcast the Islamic call to prayer over loudspeakers, an act unthinkable for any Christian prayer.

Mosques across the country, funded by Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood, openly distribute literature calling for the eventual subjugation of “disbelievers.” The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an organization with documented Hamas ties, sues any locale that dares reject the construction of mega-mosques and intimidates critics with accusations of “Islamophobia” until Christian symbols are stripped from public view.

The goal is simple: dhimmi status for Christians, second-class citizenship under expanding sharia zones.

Marxism, reborn as “Democratic Socialism” and “anti-racism,” wages war on Christianity through the capture of institutions. The Biden administration’s FBI memo labeling traditionalist Catholics “potential domestic terrorists” for attending Latin Mass was not an aberration; it was policy.

Public-school curricula now teach children that Christian ethics are inherently bigoted and that the nuclear family, rooted in Christian anthropology, is a tool of White supremacy. And Corporate HR departments force employees to recite land acknowledgments and DEI pledges that implicitly condemn the Christian missionary past as genocide.

The Marxist demand for total politicization of life leaves no room for the Christian distinction between the City of God and the City of Man; everything must be subordinated to the revolution.

Anti-Christian progressivism, the most insidious of the three because it masquerades as “compassion,” completes the pincer movement. Drag Queen Story Hours in public libraries, funded by taxpayer dollars, are deliberate cultural norm destroyers designed to sexualize children and mock the Christian view of innocence.

Laws in Canada and proposed in California threaten priests with imprisonment for refusing to use “preferred pronouns” or for teaching biblical morality in private. And the Eucharist itself is now mocked in “art” exhibits and “inclusive” church services that celebrate abortion as a sacrament.

Progressivism’s core dogma—that the autonomous, transgressive self is the only god—cannot coexist with a faith that proclaims “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself.”

Each of these ideologies is fundamentally incompatible with freedom, liberty, individualism, and Western culture:

* Islamism demands submission (that is the literal meaning of “Islam”). There is no private conscience exempt from the ummah, no separation of mosque and state, no equality before the law between Muslim and non-Muslim. Apostasy is punishable by death, women are legally worth half a man, and the endgame is a global caliphate.

* Marxism requires the abolition of private property, the destruction of the family, and the erasure of all non-class-based identity, especially religious identity. The individual is nothing; the collective is everything. Every Marxist regime in history has moved swiftly to crush the Church because Christianity teaches that man’s ultimate loyalty belongs to God, not the Party.

* Anti-Christian progressivism replaces the imago Dei with the sovereign, sexually liberated consumer. It cannot tolerate a religion that speaks of sin, judgment, and objective truth. Its therapeutic-totalitarian impulse demands that every knee bow to the latest sexual orthodoxy, enforced by cancellation, deplatforming, and, increasingly, state power.

History is unambiguous about where such alliances lead.

Islam conquered the Christian Middle East and North Africa in the 7th–8th centuries, turning the cradle of Christianity into a wasteland of dhimmitude and demolishing churches. Spain required eight centuries of Reconquista to reclaim its Christian soul. The Balkans still bleed from five centuries of Ottoman rule.

Marxism murdered over 100 million people in the 20th century. The Bolsheviks dynamited cathedrals, shot priests in the back of the head, and sent nuns to the Gulag. Mao’s Cultural Revolution saw Red Guards desecrate churches and force Christians to bow before his portrait. Every Marxist experiment ends the same way: the Church in the catacombs or the cemetery.

Anti-Christian progressivism has its own bloody résumé. The French Revolution’s dechristianization campaign guillotined thousands of priests and nuns and turned Notre-Dame into a “Temple of Reason.” The Spanish Republic’s Red Terror in 1936 saw 6,800 clergy murdered in six months, their bodies mutilated and displayed. Today’s soft totalitarianism simply uses social credit scores, bank deplatforming, and child-protective services instead of firing squads.

Christians—especially Catholics, who remain the largest and most visible target—and Jews, who are next on the list after the Church is broken, must wake up. This is not a culture war; it is a war of conquest with three armies marching under different banners toward the same goal: the extinction of the Christian memory of the West.

Push back intelligently. Build parallel institutions. Homeschool ruthlessly. Support politicians who still fear God more than The New York Times. Refuse to fund the regime’s propaganda mills disguised as universities. Most of all, stop pretending “dialogue” and “coexistence” are possible with ideologies that have openly declared war on your faith, your family, and your freedom.

Because if this nexus is not stopped, the West will suffer the same fate as Constantinople in 1453, as Russia in 1918, as Spain in 1936: the bells will fall silent, the cathedrals will become museums or mosques, and liberty will be a forgotten word.

Ask yourself this question as we head into the yule tide: When we wish others peace on Earth and goodwill toward men, is everyone wishing the same thing for you and yours?

The totalitarians are counting on our naïveté and our niceness.

Do not oblige them.

When we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL, AM860 and FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida.

In Closing…

The bells are already cracking. Islamism, Marxism, and woke progressivism have dropped the mask and formed an open alliance against the Cross that built the free West. Their endgame is the same: submission, collectivization, and the corruption of every soul.

History screams the warning: Constantinople, Moscow, Madrid; churches burned, priests slaughtered, liberty extinguished. Christians, especially Catholics, and our Jewish elder brothers must choose now: polite dialogue with totalitarians or fierce, intelligent resistance.

Build the arks, teach your children, fund no enemies, vote like your freedom depends on it; because it does. The night falls fast. Do not go gently. Stand.

Until next time…

In the wake of the November 4, 2025, off-year elections, conservatives, Libertarians, and Republicans must confront a brutal reality: the ground is shifting faster than the establishment wants to admit. Democrats and their radical Democratic Socialist allies didn’t just notch victories—they steamrolled through key races, from New York City’s mayoral upset to sweeping school board takeovers nationwide.

Zohran Mamdani, that self-avowed socialist jihadi, clinched the NYC mayor’s office with 50.4% of the vote, trouncing establishment hacks like Andrew Cuomo and the hapless Curtis Sliwa. At 34, this Marxist sympathizer becomes the city’s youngest mayor in over a century and its first Muslim leader, peddling rent freezes, free buses, and wealth taxes that will bleed New York City dry.

Meanwhile, Democrats flipped governorships in Virginia and New Jersey, locked down Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court seats, and rammed through California’s Proposition 50 to gerrymander five extra House seats their way.

But the real gut punch? Dozens of local school board races tumbling to progressive extremists, from Douglas County, Colorado, where union-backed radicals ousted a conservative majority, to Pennsylvania’s Central Bucks County, where pro-NEA slates swept all four seats, dismantling Moms for Liberty’s hard-fought gains.

These aren’t flukes; they’re flare-ups of a Leftist inferno that’s already licking at the heels of our slim majorities in the US House, Senate, and state legislatures. If Republicans and their complacent enablers don’t snap awake, 2026 midterms will be a bloodbath, and 2028 a funeral dirge for limited government.

The Left’s get-out-the-vote (GOTV) machine is a juggernaut, oiled by dark money NGO cash and socialist zealotry, and it exposed Republican vulnerabilities like a scalpel. Mamdani’s win wasn’t luck—it was a masterclass in mobilization. His campaign unleashed tens of thousands of volunteers, turbocharged by digital savvy that targeted young, immigrant, and renter blocs with viral TikToks on affordability and anti-corporate rage. Turnout shattered records: over 2 million ballots, the highest for a NYC mayoral race since 1969, driven by first-time voters under 45 who backed him by 43 points.

The Democratic Socialists of America crowed about municipal triumphs in Detroit, Atlanta, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, too—proof that their grassroots army doesn’t sleep. And school boards? Forget “nonpartisan” pretense. In Colorado’s Woodland Park and Mesa County, progressive coalitions, flush with teachers’ union dollars (the Denver Classroom Teachers Association alone dumped $76,809 on races), flipped conservative strongholds by promising “transparency” while plotting to indoctrinate kids with climate hysteria and gender ideology. The National Education Association boasted 77% win rates in Iowa and Colorado, turning sleepy local contests into socialist beachheads. Republicans? We showed up with limp flyers and donor luncheons. This isn’t complacency—it’s suicide. The Left’s apparatus turned out voters who see Trump as the devil, and we let them.

Compounding this disaster is the mainstream media’s venomous bias, a full-throated war on anything red. Outlets like NPR and PBS framed these wins as a “Democratic cruise” and “historic night,” gushing over Mamdani’s “charisma” while sneering at Trump’s “chaotic tenure.” Their core agenda? Smear conservatives as extremists, amplify every Democrat sob story, and bury GOP successes.

This hatred peaks with President Trump: Al Jazeera and CBS reveled in his failed endorsements, like backing Cuomo (whom he called a “thug”) only to watch Mamdani surge. Trump warned of a “communist” takeover—correctly—and the press twisted it into “bigotry.”

Meanwhile, Republican messaging? A joke. The establishment’s tin-eared consultants peddle focus-group pabulum, ignoring how Democrats flood airwaves with affordability fairy tales. Exit polls showed Latinos breaking 2-to-1 for “moderates” like Abigail Spanberger in Virginia, but that’s code for Leftist enablers who’ll greenlight open borders and woke curricula. Without countering this narrative firehose, Republicans hand Democrats and their socialist puppeteers an unearned edge. The media isn’t neutral—it’s a Democrat super PAC, and our side’s too busy golfing with donors to fight back.

Enough finger-pointing at the elites; the real indictment falls on the Republican and conservative establishments that have failed us spectacularly. These country-club consultants and beltway hacks—think McConnell’s whisper network or RNC’s fossilized strategists—have squandered Trump’s 2024 mandate with infighting and half-measures. They botched school board defenses, letting Pipeline Fund liberals pour dark money into flipping two dozen Pennsylvania seats. Complacent doesn’t cover it; it’s betrayal.

Rank-and-file conservatives and Republicans—you, me, the PTA dads and chamber volunteers—must seize the reins where these failures flail. We’re the ones who know the stakes: preserving the America-first agenda that delivered booming growth, slashed taxes, fortified borders, crushed crime, and revived businesses from the Biden-Harris intentional wreckage.

Trump’s administration isn’t perfect, but let’s message the wins unapologetically: Unemployment at historic lows, energy independence roaring back, illegals deported by the millions, urban crime plunging 20% in red cities. We hammered inflation from 9% to under 2%, putting groceries back in reach for working families.

But the job’s half-done, and it demands ironclad Republican majorities in the House and Senate.

Hammer this: Eliminate the income tax—a Libertarian dream that starves the welfare beast and empowers individuals. Codify every Trump executive order into unbreakable law: wall funding, energy deregulation, Second Amendment safeguards. Without these, socialists like Mamdani will tax us into oblivion, open borders to chaos, and teach kids to hate America.

State houses too—Georgia’s utility commission flip and Pennsylvania’s court lock-in show the Left’s playbook; we can’t cede ground. Door-knock, tweet, rally: Tout achievements, torch failures, tie it to 2026 survival.

Bottom line: We cannot outsource victory to the Republican apparatus. They’ve proven they’re allergic to wins beyond donor checks. Midterms? 2028? Forget relying on them—it’s “If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.”

Rank-and-file warriors, build your own GOTV machines: Neighborhood barbecues over consultant spreadsheets, X threads over MSNBC rebuttals. Channel Trump’s energy, not McCain’s milquetoast. That means advancing achievements and facts, not childish memes. These local routs—Mamdani’s socialist throne, school boards gone rogue—scream that complacency kills.

Conservatives, Libertarians, Republicans: Rise up! Message ruthlessly! Vote like your Republic depends on it, because it does.

The clarion call is here—answer it, or bury the dream.

Catholics and Christians, reclaim your pulpits—lest Marxism’s shadow eclipse the Light.

When we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL, AM860 and FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida.

In Closing…

These local victories by Democrats and Democratic Socialists (let’s be honest, Marxists) aren’t isolated upsets; they’re the warning shot. The Left’s turnout machine is ruthless, the media is their unpaid propaganda arm, and the GOP establishment is still asleep at the wheel.

Slim majorities in Congress and statehouses won’t save themselves.

Rank-and-file conservatives, Libertarians, Republicans: the professionals have failed us too many times. If we want the income tax killed, Trump’s orders codified, borders sealed, and America put first, we have to deliver the message and the votes ourselves.

The clarion call is blaring. Answer it, or lose everything.

Until next time…

In an era where deceptive ideologies masquerade as compassion, it’s crucial for Catholics and Christians to discern the profound chasm between true religious charity and the insidious trap of socialism.

Religious-based charity, as exemplified in Scripture, is a voluntary act of love rooted in free will—think of the Good Samaritan’s selfless aid (Luke 10:25-37) or the early Church’s sharing of goods out of genuine fellowship (Acts 2:44-45). It’s personal, driven by the Holy Spirit, and honors God’s command to love our neighbor as ourselves (Mark 12:31). Socialism, by contrast, is a coercive system where the state seizes resources through force, redistributes them via bureaucratic fiat, and erodes individual dignity.

This Marxist spawn inevitably breeds totalitarianism, as history screams from the graves of millions under Stalin, Mao, and Castro. Socialism isn’t benevolence; it’s theft disguised as equality, antithetical to Christianity because it supplants God’s sovereignty with the state’s idolatry, crushing the soul’s freedom to choose virtue.

At its core, socialism contradicts Christianity by denying the divine gift of free will and personal responsibility. The Bible teaches that each person is accountable before God (Romans 14:12), rewarded or judged by individual actions—not collective mandates. Socialism, with its roots in atheistic Marxism, views humans as mere cogs in a machine, promoting envy and class warfare over forgiveness and grace. It fosters dependency on government rather than reliance on Providence, turning charity into entitlement and compassion into compulsion.

Totalitarianism thrives here, as the state becomes the false messiah, demanding worship through obedience. Christians must reject this poison, for it mocks the Cross by promising earthly utopia while delivering spiritual bondage. The United States, born as a Judeo-Christian nation, stands as a beacon against such tyrannies.

From its genesis, America’s foundations were steeped in biblical principles. The Declaration of Independence affirms that rights are “endowed by their Creator,” echoing Genesis and the imago Dei. Signers like Samuel Adams invoked “the God of armies” in revolutionary calls, while the Constitution’s framing drew from Mosaic law and Protestant ethics. Even the motto “In God We Trust” and the Pledge’s “under God” underscore this heritage.

Examples abound: Puritan covenants shaped early colonies, with John Winthrop’s “city upon a hill” from Matthew 5:14 inspiring national identity. The Founding Fathers, influenced by Locke and Montesquieu’s Christian worldview, crafted a Republic where liberty—rooted in God’s moral order—trumps state control. This Judeo-Christian ethos birthed capitalism’s fruits: innovation, prosperity, a middle class, and voluntary giving, far surpassing socialism’s famines and gulags.

Yet, the siren song of globalism lures many astray, peddling a disingenuous call to communalism that inevitably slides into Marxist communism and socialism. Globalism isn’t about unity; it’s a facade for centralizing power in unelected elites, eroding national sovereignty and personal faith. It preaches “one world” benevolence but delivers totalitarian control, where borders dissolve, cultures homogenize, and the individual bows to the collective. This extends naturally to socialism’s forced equality, as seen in the UN’s agendas or the EU’s bureaucratic overreach—echoes of Babel’s hubris (Genesis 11). Christians, beware: globalism veils Marxism as “shared humanity,” but it antithesizes the Gospel’s call to personal salvation, not state-engineered paradise.

Alarmingly, this deception has infiltrated the Church. A recent survey reveals that one-third of regular churchgoers favor socialism over capitalism. Specifically, among 1,003 American adults attending Christian services at least monthly, 32% prefer socialism, 46% support capitalism, and 22% remain undecided—figures unchanged since 2023. Conducted in July 2025 by the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University under George Barna and commissioned by the Family Research Council, the poll highlights stronger socialist sympathies among younger attendees, higher-income households, African Americans, and those without a biblical worldview.

Meanwhile, ideological moderates in churches have surged from 19% to 29% in two years, signaling an erosion of Scripture’s free-will principles. This infiltration reflects pulpit propaganda, where globalist messages twist charity into collectivism, betraying Christ’s teachings.

When such venom—globalism, socialism, communism—emanates from the pulpit, Christians must remember: God granted us free will (Genesis 2:16-17), empowering us to discern truth. We have the absolute right to disagree with clergy, demanding homilies free from Marxist indoctrination veiled as globalist benevolence. The priesthood isn’t infallible on politics; recall Peter’s denial or historical Church errors. Faithful laity, as Vatican II affirms, share in Christ’s prophetic office—speak up! Challenge sermons that echo Das Kapital over Deuteronomy’s jubilee, which was voluntary and God-centered, not state-mandated.

The American ideal of individualism, fused with e pluribus unum—out of many, one—emerged from an unlikely alliance: churches and public house taverns. Morality was honed in houses of worship, where sermons instilled biblical virtues like honesty and stewardship (Proverbs 22:1). Community, meanwhile, forged in taverns like Boston’s Green Dragon, where revolutionaries debated liberty over ale, blending faith with fraternity. This duality nurtured a society where individuals pursued God-given potential, united not by force but shared values—an antidote to socialism’s hive-mind tyranny.

It’s time Christian clergy cease in their promotion of socialism and communism’s destructive tenets, even if it is couched as globalist benevolence. These ideologies have slaughtered innocents, starved souls, and mocked God.

Instead, America’s Christian clergy must reinforce doctrine elevating individual morality: the parable of the talents (Matthew 25:14-30) praises personal initiative, not redistribution. Preach self-reliance under God, voluntary charity, and resistance to totalitarianism.

Catholics and Christians, reclaim your pulpits—lest Marxism’s shadow eclipse the Light.

When we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL, AM860 and FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida.

In Closing…

Socialism isn’t charity—it’s theft wrapped in false compassion, a Marxist poison that crushes free will, exalts the state above God, and drags souls into totalitarian darkness. America was founded on Judeo-Christian truth, not globalist lies. Yet, stunningly, one-third of churchgoers now flirt with this evil.

Demand your pulpits preach Christ, not communism. Reject the comrade’s whisper of “global benevolence.” Embrace biblical individualism, voluntary love, and the Cross alone. Stand firm, speak boldly, defend the faith.

This is our watch. God bless you, and God bless the United States of America, the land of the free He created.

Until next time…

In a stunning display of partisan desperation, six Democrat lawmakers with military or intelligence backgrounds—Senators Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ), along with Representatives Jason Crow (D-CO), Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA), Chris Deluzio (D-PA), and Maggie Goodlander (D-NH)—released a video entitled “Don’t Give Up the Ship” on November 18th. In it, they directly addressed active-duty service members and intelligence personnel, reminding them of their oath to the Constitution and their duty to refuse “unlawful orders.”

This came amid President Trump’s deployment of National Guard forces to quell violent crime in Democrat-run cities like Los Angeles, Portland, Chicago, and potentially others. President Trump rightly condemned this as “seditious behavior at the highest level,” labeling the lawmakers “traitors” whose actions endanger the chain of command and national stability.

To wit: those who cloak their political opposition in faux concern for the Constitution while actively undermining civilian control of the military are the real threat to the Republic.

To understand why this intervention is so pernicious, one must first grasp what constitutes a truly “unlawful order” under US military law. The Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and longstanding precedent make clear that service members are obligated to disobey orders that are manifestly illegal—that is, orders that clearly violate the Constitution, federal law, or the laws of war, where no reasonable person could believe them lawful. The Department of Defense Law of War Manual and court-martial precedents emphasize that the illegality must be patent and palpable. Classic examples include orders to commit war crimes, such as murdering unarmed civilians or prisoners.

History provides sobering illustrations. The most infamous US case is the 1968 My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War, where Lieutenant William Calley ordered and participated in the slaughter of hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese villagers. Calley’s defense—“I was only following orders”—was rejected; he was convicted of premeditated murder because the order to kill non-combatants was manifestly unlawful. The courts-martial of Calley and Captain Ernest Medina reaffirmed that “superior orders” is no defense to obvious crimes.

Similarly, post-World War II Nuremberg Trials established that Nazi officers could not hide behind Hitler’s directives to exterminate Jews or execute prisoners—such orders were void ab initio. In American jurisprudence, cases like United States v. Keenan (1969) further solidified that an order to commit a serious crime against civilians carries no legitimacy. These are not gray-area policy disputes; they are blatant criminal acts.

Sedition, by contrast, strikes at the heart of governmental authority without necessarily involving overt violence. Under 18 USC § 2384, seditious conspiracy occurs when two or more persons conspire to oppose by force the authority of the United States, to prevent or delay the execution of any law, or to seize federal property. Historical examples include the 1861 convictions of Confederate sympathizers who plotted to disrupt Union operations, the Puerto Rican nationalist attack on Blair House in 1950, and more contemporary instances where state and local officials in “sanctuary” jurisdictions have systematically refused to honor ICE detainers or cooperate with federal immigration enforcement, deliberately obstructing the execution of duly enacted immigration laws and releasing dangerous criminal aliens back into communities—actions that federal authorities have repeatedly condemned as endangering public safety and defying the Supremacy Clause.

Treason is the gravest offense, narrowly defined in Article III, Section 3 of the Constitution: “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.” The Framers deliberately made it difficult to prove, requiring two witnesses to the same overt act or a confession in open court.

There have been fewer than 40 treason prosecutions in US history and even fewer convictions. Aaron Burr was acquitted in 1807 despite allegations of plotting to detach western territories. During World War II, the Rosenberg spy ring was convicted of espionage (not treason) for passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, while Tokyo Rose (Iva Toguri) was controversially convicted of treason for wartime broadcasts but later pardoned. The narrow definition exists precisely to prevent its weaponization in partisan fights.

Herein lies the outrage: partisan political and ideological differences cannot form the basis for claiming an order is unlawful. Deploying federal forces to restore order in crime-ravaged cities—authorized under the Insurrection Act and other statutes—is a quintessential executive prerogative, not a war crime. Encouraging uniformed personnel to second-guess the Commander-in-Chief based on Democrat talking points about “threats to the Constitution originating domestically” is not principled oath-keeping; it is a veiled call for insubordination.

When elected officials with security clearances use their former service as a bully pulpit to tell troops and spooks they may ignore presidential directives they dislike, they come perilously close to both sedition (opposing lawful authority by force or coercion) and treason (undermining the government they swore to defend). This is not “reminding” anyone of their duty—it is politicizing the military and intelligence communities, risking the very chain of command that has kept America strong for 250 years.

The hypocrisy of the activist Left is breathtaking. These same voices who spent years shrieking about “stochastic terrorism” and demanding that conservatives “tone down the caustic political rhetoric” after every tragedy now openly incite refusal of lawful presidential orders. They cheered when generals penned op-eds against Trump in 2020, celebrated “resistance” inside the bureaucracy, and remained silent when Antifa and BLM rioters burned cities while Democrats called them “mostly peaceful.”

Yet the moment a Republican president uses constitutional tools to enforce the law, they cry fascism and urge mutiny. They demand their opponents stay silent and “accept the results” only when it suits them, but never adhere to their own preached civility. If any faction is flirting with a second US Civil War through relentless institutional subversion, erosion of norms, and now direct appeals to the military and clandestine services to defy civilian leadership, it is the ideological activist Left. Their actions are not patriotic dissent—they are the behavior of sore losers, color revolutionaries, and anarchists willing to fracture the Republic rather than accept electoral defeat.

America’s military swears an oath to the Constitution, not to any party or politician. When lawmakers abuse that oath to wage partisan warfare, they betray everything they claim to protect.

President Trump is right: such conduct demands accountability, lest we descend into the banana-republic chaos the Left falsely accuses others of wanting but which, I suspect, they secretly desire.

When we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL, AM860 and FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida.

In Closing…

In the end, urging America’s warriors and intelligence personnel to defy their Commander-in-Chief’s orders over mere policy disagreements isn’t noble oath-keeping—it’s textbook sedition dressed in patriotic drag.

When Democrat lawmakers weaponize the uniform they once wore to sow mutiny, they don’t defend the Constitution; they assault it. Their selective outrage—silent on sanctuary cities sabotaging immigration law, deafening when a Republican president restores order—reeks of hypocrisy so thick it could choke Lady Liberty herself.

If anyone is stoking division toward a second Civil War, it’s the activist Left that preaches “tone it down” while lighting rhetorical fuses. True patriots obey lawful orders and settle scores at the ballot box, not by fracturing the chain of command and attempting to fracture the Republic.

Until next time…

In the dim corridors of American democracy, where the fluorescent hum of complacency once drowned out the whispers of subversion, a crimson specter now stirs. The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), that self-anointed vanguard of “progress,” gleefully tout their latest electoral conquests as harbingers of a benevolent new dawn.

Zohran Mamdani’s seismic victory in New York City, part of a coast-to-coast socialist surge that netted DSA-endorsed candidates a staggering 12 wins in the 2025 cycle—four in New York alone—has the far-Left champagne corks popping. Municipal upsets in Connecticut, where DSA acolytes like Hamden’s Abdul Osmanu clung to their council seats under the Democratic banner, only underscore the rot. Nationwide, these “sweeping victories” have ignited feverish op-eds hailing a “red sun rising” over the body politic.

But peel back the veneer of these so-called triumphs, and what emerges is no mere ideological shift—it’s the meticulously orchestrated creep of a slow-motion color revolution, engineered by Marxist-Progressives hell-bent on dismantling the Republic from within. Forget the street theater of molotovs and barricades; this is revolution by ballot box and backroom deal, a Trojan horse of equity-speak and grievance politics that the complicit Democrat establishment—and let’s throw in the political opportunist RINOs—has not only failed to quarantine but actively abetted. The DSA isn’t reforming America; it’s recolonizing it, one “democratic” concession at a time.

To grasp this insidious ploy, one must first demystify the Democratic Socialist facade. Deceptively couched as a “big tent” for millennials disillusioned with corporate greed, the DSA is little more than Marxism’s millennial makeover—Karl with a kale smoothie, Lenin lite for the latte-sipping set.

Founded in 1982 amid the ashes of Cold War socialism’s global humiliations, it has ballooned to over 90,000 members by cynically co-opting the language of justice while peddling the same collectivist poison that starved millions in the 20th century. Their “successes”? A grotesque parody of electoral legitimacy.

Recall Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s 2018 upset in New York’s 14th District, where she ousted a 10-term incumbent not on policy merit but through viral TikTok posts and astroturf outrage. Fast-forward to 2025, and Mamdani’s win is hailed as a masterclass in mobilizing “non-voters.” This was less about voter empowerment than demographic demagoguery—courting immigrant blocs—many enabled to vote illegally courtesy of New York State’s ridiculous voter registration laws—with promises of open borders and rent control that would bankrupt urban cores.

In blue strongholds, DSA insurgents routinely knife moderate Democrats in primaries, turning safe seats into socialist beachheads. The Squad—Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and their rotating cast of Marxist radicals—now boasts a stranglehold on congressional committees, where they sabotage bipartisan deals with performative filibusters on “climate justice” and “reparations.”

This isn’t organic populism; it’s the classic playbook of a color revolution, adapted for the American exceptionalism it despises. Traditional color uprisings, from Serbia’s Bulldozer Revolution to Ukraine’s Orange tide, relied on NGO- and government-agency-fueled youth mobilization and media psyops to topple autocrats.

Here, the Marxist-Progressives have inverted the script: instead of foreign meddlers like George Soros (though his Open Society fingerprints are everywhere), it’s domestic infiltration via academia, unions, and Big Tech. Universities, bloated with tenure-track Trotskyites, churn out DSA foot soldiers—think the Young Democratic Socialists of America, whose ranks swelled post-2024 amid Trump’s shadow, registering “disenfranchised” youth to flood polls with anti-capitalist fervor.

State-level wins, like DSA-backed legislators in California pushing for “universal basic income” that masks wealth redistribution as welfare, erode property rights under the guise of equity. Nationally, Bernie Sanders’ twice-failed presidential bids weren’t defeats but Trojan horses, injecting “Medicare for All” into the Democrat bloodstream and priming the pump for 2025’s municipal muggings.

The complicity of the Democrat old guard—and the politically opportunistic apathy of the establishment Republican apparatus, so mired in their set ways they couldn’t recognize a color revolution if they were face-painted in it—is the revolution’s secret sauce; treacherous enablers who trade principles for power.

Nancy Pelosi’s once-iron grip on the House frayed as she greenlit DSA firebrands into leadership roles, muttering platitudes about “diversity” while they gutted the party’s centrist soul. Joe Biden’s 2020 “Build Back Better” was less infrastructure than ideological surrender, laced with Green New Deal fever dreams that ballooned deficits and empowered socialist caucuses. Even as DSA radicals like Cori Bush face primary purges (a rare self-inflicted wound), the establishment Democrats nod along, terrified of being branded “corporate shills” in the Twitter trenches. And don’t get me started on unmitigated assholes like Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski, three of the far-Left’s biggest enablers for their selfishness and stupidity.

This is the color revolution’s genius: co-opt the opposition, then consume it. In New York, where Mamdani’s triumph has already spawned a litter of DSA successors eyeing his assembly seat, the party’s moderates and milquetoast “loyal opposition” are mere speed bumps on the road to one-party red rule.

Lest we romanticize this as mere political Darwinism, consider the endgame: a hollowed-out America, where free markets yield to state serfdom, speech to sensitivity commissars, and borders to balkanization. DSA’s “wins” aren’t victories for the working class, but rather vindication and re-ascendance for the vanguard elite—professors and podcasters who lecture from air-conditioned ivory towers while preaching austerity for thee but not for me. Their economic prescriptions? A buffet of fiscal suicide: nationalized healthcare that rations care like Soviet bread lines, “just transition” green policies that torch fossil fuel jobs without viable alternatives, and student debt forgiveness that inflates currency while excusing indoctrination mills. In 2025’s runoffs, with two more DSA hopefuls poised to pounce, the slow boil accelerates—two runoffs that could entrench this cabal further.

Critics will scoff, branding this accurate observation as McCarthyite paranoia. But history whispers otherwise: every Marxist ascent began with “democratic” footholds—Allende in Chile, Corbyn in Britain, Castro in Cuba—before the masks slipped. The far-Left’s advocates, from campus Deans to MSNBC mouthpieces, amplify this mirage, gaslighting the public with narratives of non-existent “systemic oppression” to justify systemic overthrow. Complicit Democrats and their stooge Republicans, drunk on donor dollars and delusions of control, fiddle as the Republic burns.

America stands at the precipice. The DSA’s electoral mirage must be shattered—not with censorship, but clarity through the advancement of accurate information voters can consume. Expose the color revolution for what it is: a predatory ploy to paint the Stars & Stripes in hammer-and-sickle hues. Rally the silent majority, fortify institutions against infiltration, and reclaim the Democrat Party from its socialist squatters.

For in this slow siege, vigilance is not vice—it’s victory. The red tide may lap at our shores, but it will not drown the land of the free. Not if we fight.

When we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL, AM860 and FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida.

In Closing…

As the echoes of Democratic Socialists of America’s electoral mirages fade, remember: this isn’t progress—it’s predation. The Marxist-Progressives’ slow-burning color revolution creeps through ballot boxes stained with grievance ink, co-opting Democrats and their stooge Republicans into unwitting accomplices.

From Mamdani’s urban conquests to the Squad’s congressional stranglehold, they’re not uplifting the forgotten; they’re forging chains of state serfdom, rationed rights, and red-tinted ruin.

America must awaken from this crimson complacency. Shatter the facade before the free market falls and the Republic’s fire dims to socialist ash.

Stand vigilant and reclaim your voice—because in this siege, surrender is suicide. Until next time, let’s all keep fighting the red tide…

In an era where the West sleepwalks toward its own undoing, it’s high time we peel back the veneer of “progressive” idealism and “spiritual” piety to reveal the grotesque underbelly of two ideologies that have poisoned the 20th Century and now conspire to devour the 21st. Marxism and Islamism—those seductive sirens of collectivist utopia and divine absolutism—aren’t distant cousins; they’re identical twins, suckled on the same venomous teat of authoritarianism and totalitarianism. Both promise paradise on earth (or in the afterlife, for the theocratic flavor), but deliver only chains, gulags, and graveyards. To ignore their eerie parallels is not just naive; it’s suicidal.

Let’s dissect this unholy symbiosis, layer by bloody layer, and arm ourselves with the unflinching truth before it’s too late.

At their core, both ideologies are rotten with the delusion of infallibility, a god-complex that brooks no contradiction. Marxism, that bastard child of Hegelian dialectics and proletarian envy, posits history as an inexorable march toward communist bliss, where the vanguard party—self-appointed shepherds of the masses—holds the divine right to purge dissenters. Karl Marx himself, in his fevered scribblings, envisioned a classless society forged in the fires of revolution, but what emerged was the iron fist of Lenin and Stalin, who understood that utopia demands uniformity.

Dissent? A counter-revolutionary sin, punishable by Siberian exile or a bullet to the brain. Fast-forward to Mao’s Cultural Revolution, where millions were “re-educated” through terror, their thoughts dissected like lab rats to ensure alignment with the Party line.

Islamism, the politicized perversion of a faith that once sparked enlightenment, mirrors this with chilling precision. Drawing from the Quran’s unyielding commands and Muhammad’s Medina playbook—where opposition meant exile or execution—modern Islamists like the Muslim Brotherhood’s Sayyid Qutb recast jihad as a total societal overhaul. Sharia isn’t mere law; it’s a totalitarian blueprint, infiltrating every crevice of life from diet to doctrine.

Apostasy? Blasphemy? These are Marxism’s “bourgeois deviations” rebranded as kufr, warranting fatwas, floggings, or beheadings. Iran’s ayatollahs, those smirking mullahs in saffron robes, enforce this with the same zeal as Soviet commissars, jailing poets for “insulting Islam” while their youth rot in Evin Prison’s digital panopticon.

Both systems worship the collective over the soul: the ummah for Islamists, the proletariat for Marxists. Individual rights? Laughable relics of bourgeois decadence, to be trampled under the boot of “greater good.”

Economically, their authoritarian strangleholds are Frankenstein’s monsters stitched from control and coercion. Marxism’s central planning—those five-year mirages of abundance—starved Ukraine in the Holodomor and choked China’s Great Leap Forward into a famine that devoured 45 million lives. Private property is the opiate of the exploiters, seized by the state to “liberate” the workers, who end up serfs on collective farms. Islamism, no less rapacious, invokes zakat and usury bans not for charity but to funnel wealth into clerical and jihadist coffers. Saudi Wahhabism funds madrasas that churn out suicide bombers, while Hamas’s Gaza fiefdom diverts aid into tunnel-building ant-farms of terror.

Both disdain free markets as satanic temptations: Marxism decries capitalism’s “alienation,” Islamism rails against riba-fueled “decadence.” The result? Stagnant economies where innovation withers under fat bureaucratic thumbs, and the masses subsist on propaganda rations of resentment.

Propaganda, ah, the lifeblood of these leviathans. Both wield narrative as a weapon sharper than any scimitar or sickle. Marxist regimes mastered the art with Pravda’s fairy tales and Hollywood’s unwitting echoes in “progressive” agitprop, rewriting history to saint Stalin while airbrushing Trotsky from photos. Islamism counters with dawah’s honeyed lies and Al Jazeera’s slick spins, portraying burqa-clad oppression as “empowerment” and suicide bombings as “resistance.”

Taqiyya—deceptive piety—dovetails with Marxist “united fronts,” where Islamists cozy up to Western Leftists, feigning victimhood to mask their supremacist snarls. Schools in both spheres indoctrinate from cradle to caliphate: Soviet youth pledged allegiance to Lenin, while Islamist hafezs memorize surahs that glorify conquest. Critical thinking? A virus to be vaccinated against with mindless recitations and reified rage.

Their totalitarian tentacles extend to the family, the arts, even the bedroom—nothing escapes the gaze of the Great Leader or the All-Seeing Allah-as-enforced-by-man. Marxism’s “new socialist man” demanded gender quotas that masked the erasure of womanhood, as seen in East Germany’s Stasi-monitored nurseries. Islamism’s honor codes castrates critics and stones adulteresses—and women who bear that label because they couldn’t find four male witnesses to a rape to prove they were raped, enforcing hijab as a uniform of submission.

Both glorify martyrdom: the red flag over martyrs’ graves, the green banner over shahid’s paradise. Violence isn’t aberration; it’s sacrament. From the Khmer Rouge’s killing fields to ISIS’s Yazidi slave markets, the body count screams a shared DNA of dehumanization.

Yet, for all their mirrored monstrosities, the true horror unfolds in their coalescence—a “red-green” hydra slithering toward Western gates.

Picture it: Antifa militants chanting “from the river to the sea” alongside Hamas apologists at campus quad-insurrections; “Chomskynistas” platforming Hezbollah hacks; Western academics peddling “decolonization” that launders Islamist theocracy as anti-imperialism. This isn’t coincidence; it’s convergence.

Marxism’s anti-capitalist ire finds a zealous bedfellow in Islamism’s anti-Western jihad, united against the Enlightenment’s bastard heirs: liberal democracy, representative government, freedom, and individualism. They’ve infiltrated NGOs, unions, and Silicon Valley echo chambers, where “inclusivity” means silencing Islamophobia critiques while excusing Marxist-Leninist “struggles.” Europe’s no-go zones and America’s DEI dogmas are canaries in the coal mine—precursors to “sharia soviets.”

We must awaken to this assault, not with hand-wringing platitudes, but with a counter-revolution of clarity. Realize, first, that these aren’t “religions” or “philosophies” deserving kid-gloves; they’re ideologies of conquest, as predatory as Nazism ever was.

To confront them, we must capture the narrative: flood discourse with unvarnished history—show the Holodomor reels beside beheading videos, juxtapose Gulag memoirs with Rushdie fatwas. Educate the ignorant, those TikTok-addled millennials and Zoomer activists who’ve swallowed the oppressor-oppressed binary whole. Arm them with books like Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago and Ibn Warraq’s Why I Am Not a Muslim, not to hate, but to liberate minds from disingenuous utopian traps.

This is existential. The West’s fortress—built on reason, rights, and irreverence—crumbles if we let these twins entwine.

Rise, then: debate fiercely, vote vigilantly, build alliances of the unbowed. For in naming the beast, we starve it. In enlightening the duped, we dismantle it. The hour is late, but the pen—and the truth—remains mightier than their scythes and swords. Let us wield it without mercy.

When we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL, AM860 and FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida.

In Closing…

As we wrap up this dive into the mirrored monstrosities of Marxism and Islamism, remember: these aren’t abstract threats—they’re a red-green alliance slithering through our institutions, eroding the West’s soul with every unchallenged lie. Their shared hunger for control, from thought police to sharia squads, demands we stop whispering and start roaring.

Capture the narrative now: flood feeds with raw history, arm the misled with unfiltered truths. Educate relentlessly, debate without apology. The Enlightenment’s fire flickers—fan it before the twins snuff it out. Stand unbowed. The fight isn’t coming; it’s here. Join it.

Until next time…