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Why we should NEVER accept a Peace Treaty with Iran

In 628 AD, the man proclaiming himself the Prophet Mohammed agreed to a ten-year peace treaty with the Quraish tribe of Mecca, known as the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah. At that time, the Muslims were only 1,400 strong and were too weak to conquer Mecca militarily, so Mohammed agreed to the treaty, even though many of his followers were unhappy about its terms.
Two years later, when his movement had grown to 10,000, keeping the treaty was no longer to his advantage, so he attacked Mecca and conquered it. As such, Mohammed set an unfortunate precedent within Islam.
Muslims can agree to a peace treaty (a ‘hudna‘) while they are the weaker party, but if they subsequently gain strength, by their prophet’s own example they are not duty-bound to honour it.

Texas Wannabe Senator’s Problem with God

By now you’ve heard about Texas Democratic Socialist Senate hopeful James Talarico referring to a state educational curriculum as “propaganda” because he alleged it would teach Bible stories as historical fact to 5 million students.

His full quote said to “push propaganda, to push indoctrination on those youngest students is deeply immoral and should trouble all of us.”

First of all, the bulk of the Bible is a historically verified ancient document. Secondly, this Talarico guy is a communist punk and a former public school teacher who told his students, “god is non-binary.” Oh, and he claims to be a Christian at the same time.

Talk about propaganda.

Third, his fellow propagandists mascarading as journalists refuse to tell the whole story of what is really taking place in the Texas schools.

The Texas Board of Education put forth a new list of required titles will include a picture-book adaptation of the David and Goliath story for elementary students. The list also includes, “The Cat in the Hat.”

However, most likely Talarico soiled his whitey-tighties because the list also includes stories about American founders like James Madison, the father of our Constitution.

Additional titles on the Left’s hate list include, “The Necessity of Humility” (based on passages from the New Testament), “Give Me Liberty or Death” by American Patriot Patrick Henry, “What is Capitalism?” by anti-communist Ayn Rand, and “The Definition of Love” taken from the Bible’s book of 1 Corinthians 13, which has nothing to do with the LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ agenda.

But I’m sure the real rub for the Left is that in 2025 Texas schools began posting the Ten Commandments (gasp!) in classrooms.

Talarico and his fellow Democrat’s have a problem with God.

Good luck with that.

God Bless Texas.

Gavin Newsom’s Bullet Train to Nowhere

The bullet train to nowhere. It’s a legislative pipedream created entirely by leftist democrats, serving us as a shining example of liberal stupidity.  For more than a few years, this train scheme provided me with hours of compelling content on my incredibly popular San Francisco morning radio show.

The story begins way back in 1996. Golden State democrats established the California High Speed Rail Authority, declaring that a high-speed rail system would be environmentally, economically, and socially profitable. Their goal was to construct a bullet train, traveling at times close to 200-miles per hour, connecting San Francisco and Los Angeles. Never mind that those cities are already connected by two excellent freeways (I-5 and the 101). No, the democrats insisted we needed nearly four hundred miles of high-speed rail. In 2008, they conducted a study and swore to us they could build it in eight to eleven years, at a cost of $33 billion.

Upon sharing news of their “study” with my radio audience, my sidekick (the beautiful, talented, and hilarious) Katie Green quickly dubbed the plan, “The Bullet Train to nowhere.”

All these years later, the nickname rings truth as the proposed train line ranks up there as possibly the biggest single bureaucratic financial mess in the history of the United States.

I write about this boondoggle extensively in my most recent book, Climate Cult. But allow me to share just a few staggering tidbits of information the democrats don’t want you to know about their choo-choo train.

In 2008, California voters approved a Proposition providing $10 billion to fund a 380-mile high-speed rail line connecting San Francisco and Los Angeles.  It was to be completed by 2020 with a total cost estimate of $33 million. Eventually, other connections would be constructed around the state.  In 2012, federal taxpayers forked over $3.3 billion in Stimulus funding for the Bullet Train project.

Finally, in 2015, with Jerry Brown as governor, a groundbreaking ceremony was held, not in L.A. or San Francisco—but in Fresno. In case you are unaware, Fresno is over two hundred miles away from the originally proposed north-south rail corridor.

Governor Jerry Brown opened his remarks with a proclamation that was every bit as strange as the starting point location for this massive public works project: “…the high-speed rail links us from the past to the future, from the south to Fresno and north; this is truly a California project bringing us together today.”[1]

By the way, no one in the mainstream media asked why the starting point for this fiasco had been moved to Fresno.

Three years later (2018), state Republican legislators pushed for an audit which concluded that flawed decision-making and poor contract management left the rail system 15 years away from completion, with expected costs expected to be $77 billion.

Then, in 2019, newly elected Governor Gavin Newsom (a vocal proponent of the rail line) revealed that the 171-mile section of track planned for the Fresno corridor was now projected to cost $22.8 billion with a completion date of 2030.[2]  Newsom said nothing about the original plan to link San Francisco and L.A.

In February 2023, unintentionally illustrating how this entire train project was fast becoming a communist style public works disaster, with great bravado the California High-Speed Rail Authority claimed to have reached a milestone. Their press release stated,

FRESNO, Calif. – The California High-Speed Rail Authority celebrated a historic milestone today, announcing the creation of more than 10,000 construction jobs since the start of high-speed rail construction.  Most of these jobs have gone to Central Valley residents and men and women from disadvantaged communities.

…Today is an opportunity to celebrate jobs and what these jobs are creating.  High-speed rail will revolutionize travel in California and contribute to a greener future, resulting in less congestion on our roads and at our airports.”[3]

Keep in mind, at the time of that press release not a single mile of track had been constructed, anywhere. Even more astoundingly, as of this writing, there remains no track laid!

Meantime, two months later an update from the High Speed Rail Authority quietly reported that the cost of the 171-mile segment (serving Fresno, Bakersfield, and Chowchilla) had shot up to $35 billion. That, of course, is even more expensive than the original proposed rail line between Los Angeles and San Francisco.  But even worse, the Authority stated the entire project—including the line from San Francisco to L.A.—was now estimated at $128 billion. As such, a new sucker had to be brought in to fund all these thousands of jobs. Enter Joe Biden, congressional democrats, and the federal taxpayer, who coughed up billions.

Several weeks ago, President Donald Trump stepped in to essentially say, “You’re fired,” as he cut off the federal money pipeline for train to nowhere. Democrats immediately threw a temper tantrum. As if to save face and appear fiscally responsible, Newsome has just signed a bill (AB 377) requiring the state’s High-Speed Rail Authority to create a funding plan which will update cost estimates, risk assessments and service initiation options.

Trust me. AB 377 is like putting lipstick on a pig’s snout. And the pig’s snout is California’s bullet train to nowhere.

 

[1]“California High-Speed Rail Authority Hosts Groundbreaking Ceremony,” Metropolitan Transportation Committee, January 27, 2015, (Governor Brown’s quote is verbatim), https://mtc.ca.gov/news/california-high-speed-rail-authority-hosts-official-groundbreaking-ceremony.

[2]Ralph Vartabedian, “New cost estimate for high-speed rail puts California bullet train $100 billion in the red,” Cal Matters, March 7, 2023, https://calmatters.org/economy/2023/03/california-high-speed-rail/.

[3]California High-Speed Rail Authority, “PHOTO RELEASE: California High-Speed Rail Celebrates Creating 10,000 Construction Jobs,” February 14, 2023, https://hsr.ca.gov/2023/02/14/photo-release-california-high-speed-rail-celebrates-creating-10000-construction-jobs/.

California’s Planned Parenthood Loses Federal Funding!

Ultra-liberal California, America’s most populous state, has experienced nothing short of a miracle. This week, Planned Parenthood, the state’s largest abortion provider, lost all its federal funding.

The Monday night ruling, by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, translates to Planned Parenthood of California losing roughly $300 million per year. The loss greatly jeopardizes the organization’s ability to keep its doors open throughout the state. The only Planned Parenthood clinics that may continue to receive federal funds are those that do not provide abortions.

However, it must be noted; this is temporary restraining order put in place while a larger legal dispute plays out.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America sued the Trump Administration on behalf of its members earlier in July over provision in the Congressional Reconciliation Bill that prohibited federal Medicaid reimbursements for large nonprofit health clinics that provide abortions. The lawsuit argues that the law defunds Planned Parenthood’s services in violation of multiple constitutional amendments.

Planned Parenthood operates 114 clinics in California, serving more than one million patients each year.

In their lawsuit, Planned Parenthood argues that the funding ban enacted by Congress violates the organization’s First Amendment rights and the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment by allowing smaller, independent abortion providers to continue receiving federal funds.

While Planned Parenthood is the state’s largest abortion provider, they argue that abortions make up a relatively small amount of the services they provide, less than 10 precent annually. The bulk of patient visits are for contraceptive care, sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment, cancer screenings and other primary care checkups.

However, despite their service figures, I would argue that if Planned Parenthood of California sees more than one million patients annually, that translates to over 100,000 babies murdered in the Golden State each year.

Given that in 2022, two-thirds of California voters approved adding abortion rights to their state constitution, I hope you will join me in praying this temporary ruling becomes permanent law!

And, a friendly word to those Christians who dislike Donald Trump: we are witnessing the most pro-life Presidential administration in American history.

Facts In, Fear Out

For decades, federal environmental policy has been driven by a spirit of exaggerated fear put forth by radicals desiring to reshape the United States into some sort of fashionable Marxist society.

Their efforts often reminded me of an important life principal found in the Bible:  For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline (2 Timothy 1:6).

The new Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Lee Zeldin, has announced major changes in environmental policy that will move us away from destructive alarmism and into solid science. For example, the EPA seeks to:

  • End the federal policies mandating subsidized electric vehicles, which were set to cost the taxpayer over $1 Trillion.
  • Eliminate the do-nothing Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program which costs us hundreds of millions of dollars each year and does nothing to improve air quality.
  • Prevent catastrophic wildfires by allowing prescribed burns to reduce the amount of fuel in the forests that can allow a small fire to become monstrous.
  • Revise ridiculous rules that interpret small rural ditches and seasonal backyard ponds as sensitive eco-systems that must be protected from use or disturbance.

These four examples are just the start of a scientific sanity campaign put forth by a White House administration that applies facts, not fear, and returns Power to the People.

And, speaking of the facts, please purchase a copy of my latest book, “Climate Cult: Exposing and Defeating Their War on Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”