Bold and Blunt

Summer's at an end and the college campuses are starting to fill with students again. But they're not all there to learn. Many have been taking a page from last spring's pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel, anti-semitic protesters on college campuses around the nation, and vowing more of the same this year. Yes, they've been organizing over the summer months to double down efforts for more protests this fall. Get ready for the mayhem. Ken Tashjy with Campus Reform weighs in on what's going on and why and more importantly, perhaps, what can be done to stop the insanity.

Success is such a funny thing because a) people define it differently and b) much of what seems to lead to success is actually counterintuitive to success. So what if you knew some of the key traits that typically bring success, no matter how you defined it -- and no matter how the tides shifted and times changed? Bob Harward has a book, "The Gouge," that talks of some of the keys to success and teaches how to rise above even the most difficult of situations. 

If you want to know how to cut crime in America, then the real solution won't be found in the political realm -- but rather the spiritual. Crime is a condition of a sick soul; a sign of moral decay. And government, no matter how hard it tries, can never, never, never fix a moral compass of society. That's God's domain. Dale Sutherland is a former police officer turned pastor who spent much of his undercover narcotics officer work on the streets of Washington, D.C., helping those he arrested come to Christ and become productive members of society.

It's bad enough having to work, work, work to eke out a living. But imagine having to fight government bureaucrats for the right to work -- for the right to actually make money to provide for self and family and live independently. Well, think back to the COVID years and that's exactly what so many Americans had to do. They were ordered to stay home, stay off the streets, stay out of work and wait for the stimulus money. But just because COVID's gone doesn't mean Big Government isn't trying to dictate how and whether people can work. Melony Armstrong wanted to keep open her hair braiding business in Mississippi. Government tried to tell her she couldn't, unless she abided by certain ridiculous and costly mandates of the State Board of Cosmetology. So Melony turned to a legal group, the Institute for Justice, to sue. And seven or so years of legal fighting later -- she won. Now imagine that happening to you. Is this America, land of the free? Or not?

American freedoms are being threatened by a force from within, and it's called cultural Marxism. If we don't see the threat, we can't fight the threat. And if we can't fight the threat, America is a blink away from crumbling. Elections are important, but putting God back at the helm of America is even more important. Tony Shaffer discusses politics and the perils of Marxism destroying the country.

Politicians love to point with alarm and outrage at the homeless problem in America as the fault of business -- for not paying fair salaries -- but it's more to truth that government is the source of the crisis. If government didn't have such burdensome restrictions on building, based on zoning policies, or environmental regulation, or other costly permitting requirements, then free market builders would be freed to build and potential homeowners would be in better financial positions to buy. Jim Burling, with Pacific Legal Foundation, has conducted in-depth research on the homeless crisis in America and has found, in his new "Nowhere to Live," that government is to blame for almost all that ails those living in the streets and in tents.

If you want to vote for one single issue that matters the most this November, it's the foreign policy fight between America and China. America, based on a culture and creed of individualism, is losing to the communists and collectivists of China because American politicians have failed to see the danger, speak the danger and subsequently stop the danger. The communists are selling their communism around the world and America is rapidly being replaced on the international stage. Guy Taylor, editor of Threat Status at The Washington Times, lays out the many ways America needs to stand up and fight back -- else face a loss of epic proportions to the CCP.

The Democrats of today are hardly the same Democrats of yesteryear and rather than do what's best for America, seem more bent on destroying this nation. One way they do that? Weaponizing government against the people. It's gotten to the point Congress is holding hearings about all the ways the leftists have used government to go after citizens. Peter Navarro, one of the Democrats' latest victims, emerged from four months behind bars to give a tremendous speech on the Republican convention stage in Milwaukee. He's also certain Donald Trump will win in November, and he has a new book detailing what policies the next MAGA administration needs to implement within 100 days of taking over the White House.

Democrats are in an uproar over the latest Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity. And they've turned vicious claws toward the justices in hopes of taking them down somehow. They want to impeach; they want to pack the court; they want to pass a constitutional amendment unraveling SCOTUS's immunity decision. But good luck with any and all of that. The immunity ruling was really just an underscore of what's common sense: that is, presidents in the White House must be freed to make decisions on behalf of America and Americans without having to worry about being sued for the rest of their lives by political enemies. Jim Gilmore, former governor of Virginia, discusses why this case is one of the most important SCOTUS rulings in court history.

Journalists already aren't very well regarded in America when it comes to trust. Now, it's about to get even worse. State governments are actually proposing to budget millions of dollars for local media outlets as a means of saving journalists' jobs. That's a recipe for disaster. There goes the last of media integrity. Roger Ream, president of the Fund for American Studies, says we have to fight states that are budgeting for this, else journalism will lose even more respect and trust.