HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NEWS with Don Surber
Don Surber performs his aerial surveillance of the news this week. His findings, as always, will leave you better informed than if you had actually watch the mainstream media.
Politics
Repairing The Damage Is A Massive Job
Historian Steve Putney ponders what China’s President Xi meant when he asked President Trump “are we going to avoid the Thucydides Trap?” It describes a severe structural stress that occurs when a rising power threatens to displace a ruling power.
Stop the Hatred, by Walt Tollefson
America, we need to remember how to disagree without hating one another. When I was growing up, many of my neighbors and friends were Democrats. My family was conservative and Republican. We disagreed. Sometimes we argued politics at the dinner table. But when the weekend came, we still went swimming together, canoeing together, watching movies together, eating together, and living as neighbors. Political disagreement did not require hatred. It did not require destroying friendships. It did not require treating half the country as enemies.
Why Democrats embrace Graham “Cracker” Platner
“Vote for the Nazi: It’s important” isn’t a sane campaign slogan.
Democrats Jim-Crowed Blacks Out Of Congress
Because Republicans freed the slave, because Republicans continued, long after the Civil War, promoting civil rights for blacks and because Democrats continued to suppress blacks, all black voters & politicians were Republicans. Then, Democrats created Jim Crow laws to oppress black Americans.
Democrats are blowing it: Taking back the House should be a gimme. It isn’t.
History says it would take a miracle for Republicans to hold onto the House. Presidential parties lose seats in the House at midterms. There are a few exceptions. Backlash from the Lewinsky impeachment gained seats for Democrats and 4 years later, tough action on 9/11 earned Bush’s party extra seats.
American Politics And The Amnesia Express: Playing Forgetful Or Hide The Potato Does Not Forestall The Reckoning
Modern political pundits prefer the term “retribution” when the attack dog is at leash wielded by their political enemies, with both sides of the political coin alternatively convinced of their tale of victory or woe, employing the tried and true-but trite-phrase that “nobody is above the law.” Often employed akin to the last bastion of the scoundrel, “Patriotism.”
Lie Detector
The polygraph (lie detector) test does not determine truth – it reveals what one believes to be the truth. Even when confronted with conclusive evidence, eyewitnesses ofttimes believe what they’ve subconsciously convinced themselves to believe. Test-takers can pass this truth/belief test if they truly believe – not merely wish, deem or imagine – what they claim is the truth. In other words, if a person believes that two plus two equals five, a polygraph test will confirm they are being truthful.
‘THIS WAR IS NOT YET OVER’: Ari Fleischer has a warning for Iran…
Former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer joins ‘America Reports’ to analyze the political and economic hurdles of the Iran war as gas prices continue to rise. He emphasizes the need to ‘finish the job.’
The Democrat Oligarchy
I would agree with Senator Bernie Sanders on one thing – we must oppose the oligarchy! But what, or who, exactly is that? And does Bernie even know what he is talking about?
Let us start by defining an oligarchy – which is a small elite group, usually very well-off (wealthy), who use their positions to serve themselves (note – not serve the people)…This is not politics; the democrat oligarchy is undertaking a Blood Revolution to subvert and destroy America. That is why AOC said she is not interested in titles, her goal is to change the country. Believe her, Bernie, Mamdani and other democrat oligarch, as they all want to change our country forever.
With (Gun) Rights, Come Responsibilities
The Second Amendment guarantees the right to bear arms, but unfortunately not all those who bear arms today are responsible.
America’s Birthday Leading Us Out of the Darkness Into the Light!
Out of the darkness and into the light is a metaphorical phrase that means moving from despair, sadness, or negativity to a state of happiness, peace and positivity. It often describes a personal journey of overcoming challenges and finding renewal.
Trump In China, Dems Busy Creating Chaos
The“Get Real” host, George, started this podcast by asking Steve about Virginia’s recent gerrymandering, and Democrats subsequent plans to fire all seven members of the Virginia Supreme Court in order to pack it with Leftist activists who will ignore the Virginia Constitution. Since Democrats can’t win through good policies and debate, they must rig the election system and …
Empire in Denial: How the United States Is Quietly Losing Its Strategic Edge
Empires don’t collapse in a blaze of cinematic glory—they erode, quietly, while insisting everything is fine. The United States still fields the most powerful military on Earth, still prints the world’s reserve currency, still lectures the planet on order and stability. But beneath the polished surface, the math is getting ugly, the cohesion is cracking, and the strategic margin is shrinking. This is what decline actually looks like—not defeat, but drift. Not surrender, but overextension wrapped in denial. The dangerous part isn’t that America is weakening; it’s that it hasn’t fully realized it yet.
Thoughts on the Racial and Ethnic Transformation of America
Writing about race and the rapidly shifting racial complexion and composition of America is a dangerous exercise. No matter how you discuss it or describe it, if you are white, you are almost certain to be called a racist by easily triggered leftists who prefer that you keep silent
Barack Hussein Obama Continues To Race Bait, Lie, Politically Organize & Rabble Rouse
Other than perhaps President Clinton, no president has cashed in post presidency like Obama. Unlike most of his predecessors who stepped aside from the spotlight to pursue charitable activity and giving back, Obama has not only remained very active in the political arena but settled initially in Washington DC after his presidency to stay close by the political scene to help guide the undermining of his successor
This is Democrats’ ‘ULTIMATE POWER PLAY’: Guy Benson
Fox News political analyst Guy Benson analyzes South Carolina’s redistricting battle as Republicans’ proposed maps face Democratic criticism on ‘The Bottom Line.’
Importing Third-World Diseases Into USA
It is not coincidental that this is happening in California. As historian Victor Davis Hanson put it in 2019, our first “Third World State.” It’s the Third World people, illegal aliens, who’ve brought the disease back to California. And the state’s rampant vagrancy likely facilitates its spread.
K Street Dominates DC – So a K-Shaped Economy Dominates the US
Intelligence (AI) down our throats.
But three decades of Internet later? Big Gov still hasn’t passed a digital privacy law – limiting even a little Big Tech’s multi-trillion-dollar-per-annum data harvesting business model.
It’s all such a mystery.
From Tolerance to Tyranny
“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will live as one.”
– John Lennon, final chorus from the song Imagine