This week, Democrats utterly conceded the issue of crime. Before Trump deployed the National Guard in DC, mayors and governors in blue states shrugged crime off as inevitable. Illinois Governor Pritzker did so in a national interview last month.

When crime dropped dramatically in DC, the situation changed. Voters in high-crime areas run by Democrats now see what’s possible, and want their communities cleaned up too.

The high-profile murder in North Carolina escalated the contrast. A young Ukrainian woman got stabbed to death by a repeat felon who had no business being out of prison. Trump demanded justice for the victim and action to prevent more crime. In response, Democrats and the media defended the perpetrator and his “mental illness” against the “pouncing” of Trump and Republicans.

Democrats’ obsession with Trump keeps blinding them to the reality of voters’ lives. Democrats keep trying to outsmart Donald Trump. Instead, they keep painting themselves further into radical corners.

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It is with profound sorrow that we mourn the tragic passing of Charlie Kirk following the horrific assassination attack at Utah Valley University. It was a cowardly and vile act of violence, carried out to silence one of America’s boldest Christian conservative voices.

Our hearts are shattered for Charlie’s wife, family, friends, colleagues and the countless people whose lives he touched through his words, his work, and his unwavering commitment to faith and country.

Charlie was more than a broadcaster—he was a fearless defender of truth and a faithful servant of God. This assassination was not just an attack on Charlie, it was an attack on free speech and on the values Charlie championed every day.

Salem Media extends its most heartfelt condolences to the Kirk family, Charlie’s friends, and the millions of Americans and people across the world who are grieving this senseless loss.

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DOGE has done a lot for American taxpayers. One of its chief benefits has been highlighting the government fraud and corruption eating up Americans’ tax money.

Investigators at the Senate DOGE caucus are reporting examples of abuse that should light taxpayers’ hair on fire. At the Department of Agriculture, a supposed anti-fraud investigator allegedly used her position to steal $36 million dollars in federal SNAP benefits intended for the needy.

The report says thousands of government workers are collecting paychecks — and taking unemployment benefits at the same time. Investigators reported that yet others made up fake children’s names to pocket illegal survivor benefits, using the names of actual dead adults.

Perhaps it’s no wonder the government employee unions resist when DOGE seeks agency information.

But American taxpayers deserve honest, accountable government.

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The General Assembly of the UN meets this week and will take up the issue of Palestinian Statehood.

It’s a bad idea.

The UN Charter states that “Membership in the UN is open to all other peace-loving states.” The cause for Palestinian statehood is not one of peace, but violence—current polling of the local population there showing far more support for Hamas than the current PLO leadership in the West Bank, whose President was elected to one four-year term, twenty years ago. Some democracy!

Our world is surfeited quite enough with rogue regimes. The idea that an institution dedicated to peace and human rights would create yet another Libya, Yemen, or Syria is madness that will lead to more of what the Palestinian cause has given the world without the force and power of legitimacy: hijackings, assassinations, and massacres of the innocent. Legitimizing and empowering that will only guarantee more of it.

Middle East peace may be elusive, Palestinian statehood would render it impossible.

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It’s the stuff of nightmares. The Biden administration’s open borders resulted in a scandal that should keep every American awake at night. Between 2019 and 2023, four hundred and forty-eight thousand unaccompanied minors came into the country.

ICE was required to hand them over to the Office of Refugee Resettlement within 72 hours. From there, NGO’s were to deliver them to the “sponsors” on their paperwork.

But many little ones were handed over without anyone confirming the identity of those taking them. Some addresses were storage units or strip clubs. It’s very clear: Thousands of children — some as young as five — have been sex trafficked.

The Trump administration is working to find these children. But for the left, it seems they were just “collateral damage” from opening the border to import a new group of voters.

Prison is too good for the people who victimized these children.

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President Trump’s tariffs are legal, strategically necessary and crucial for preventing an economic crisis in America.

Under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) crafted by Congress in 1977, the President holds clear authority to declare a national emergency against any unusual or extraordinary foreign threat to America's security, foreign policy, or economy. This empowers decisive regulation of international commerce—including targeted tariffs—to neutralize the danger.

And the impact is undeniable: the Trump tariffs have flood the Treasury with billions in revenue, essential to taming our exploding $37 trillion debt. Social Security and Medicare barrel toward insolvency by 2034 or earlier, while interest payments alone devour over $1 trillion yearly. Without these tariffs, bankruptcy is inevitable. They’ve proven to be a lifeline reversing this fiscal catastrophe.

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Ronald Reagan, one of our greatest presidents, once quipped that “The closest thing to eternal life on earth is a government program.” But when it comes to government employment, the Trump Administration is turning that truism on its head.

Thanks to DOGE, the US government will have three hundred thousand fewer people working for it. That’s the largest single-year cut in civilian federal employment since World War II.

The total reduction amounts to a 12-and-a-half percent decrease in the federal workforce. Such a rapid cut is virtually unheard of.

Twenty percent of the departing bureaucrats were fired. But the rest — eighty percent — took advantage of buyouts or other programs that pay them while they look for another job.

For once, our government has shrunk in real terms. All Americans save a little tax money — and are just a little more free — as a result.

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Tom Wolfe once postulated there are times it seems we go back to the Year Zero—where we unlearn everything we have learned about life, health, civilization. For years now, major cities and so-called health professionals have been doing under the euphemism of “harm reduction” what actually should be called “enabling” when it comes to illegal drug use and addiction.

A recent New York Times article lamented that some cities are rethinking these efforts, precisely because they woke up to what they were doing, they won’t use the word, but it was enabling. For too long, too many major cities thought the best way to help drug addicts, particularly homeless, was to give them paraphernalia to make their drug use easier and theoretically safer: clean needles for heroin injection, fentanyl test strips to make sure their cocaine didn’t have fentanyl in it. Their measurement of success? How many people took these instruments of destruction, never how many went into treatment.

The serious would call this enabling, not helping. Thank goodness it’s being rethought.

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