WAITING GAME ON IRAN: Will there be genuine negotiations seeking a new future for the Iranian people or is President Donald Trump about to whack the Ayatollah’s regime that first came to power in 1979? Richard Pollock wants to know and he’s tuned in with some smart people.

4 WAYS CBO TOOL IS BIASED TO GROW SPENDING: It may be an obscure, deep-in-the-woods reality but the federal budget baseline tool routinely used by the Congressional Budget Office to project federal budget trends, tax revenue and economic growth has four flaws that prompt more outlays.

MINNESOTA FRAUD OLDER THAN THOUGHT: An FBI raid on a fraudulently run child care center in 2015 suggests things have been rotten in Minnesota than previously thought. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) has reforms to get a handle on all of the fraud.

CHRISTIANS FALLING FOR WEAPONIZED EMPATHY: Too many professing American Christians are gullible and thus taken in by Leftist ideology masquerading as empathy, claims Michael Clary, Lead Pastor of Cincinnati’s Christ the King Church:

“That’s a big problem in the modern church. Too many people are gullible, and gullible Christians are causing a lot of harm in the church. These people aren’t blue-haired radical leftists we see at ICE protests in Minneapolis. No, they are ordinary Christians who sit next to you in church on Sunday but are led by their emotions. They are the nicest people you’d ever meet. They just don’t have the stomach to face hard realities. They think being ‘Christlike’ is whatever seems ‘nice’ or makes them feel good,” Clary explains.

“But here’s the truth: It isn’t Christlike to be gullible. It isn’t Christlike to believe and share debunked propaganda. It isn’t Christlike to be led by your emotions. It isn’t Christlike to outsource your critical thinking skills to the left-wing activists in the media.”

Clary is in the guest slot for Rod Martin today on Substack.

WHERE THE ANTI-ICERS ARE HEADING: Unfortunately for most, it’s not, as yet, jail. But the logic of their protest demands and actions, as explained by Modern Age Editor Daniel McCarthy, is this: America is irretrievably and utterly fascist, which means it’s not merely justified to resist the regime, but absolutely mandatory to use whatever means necessary to bring it down, including violently and against the cops (and, ultimately, the U.S. military).

ONLY 85 SECONDS TO DOOMSDAY: That’s according to the “Doomsday Clock” maintained by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. Funny thing, though, as explained by Issues & Insights, the clock seems to be opposite reality:

“First, look at the reasons behind why it ticked closer to midnight this year. One of those listed was the bombing of Iran’s nuclear weapons sites last year. So, according to these ‘experts,’ crippling a radical Islamic regime’s ability to build a nuclear bomb is making the world less safe?

“Then there’s the fact that the bulletin includes ‘climate change’ as an indicator of annihilation. What does a supposedly warming planet have to do with launching nuclear bombs? And why does it matter if the Trump administration ‘stripped back’ (to use the New York Times’ words) public health infrastructure?”

There more of this leftist gibberish. Go here.

ANTI-ICERS ARE NEW ‘MASSIVE RESISTANCE’ REBELS: Those anti-ICE protestors in Minneapolis are interposing themselves between federal immigration law enforcement and state/local authorities, much as did the Southern Massive Resistance did against federal civil rights enforcement.

Somewhere Harry Byrd Sr. Orval Faubus and George Wallace wonder why the media that today hails the Anti-ICErs as heroes condemned the Southerners as bigots. One wonders, too, what John C. Calhoun, the South Carolina senator best known for his views on interposition and nullification, would think were he among us today.

TRUMP RIGHT TO DUMP WHO: Dr. Robert Moffit of the Heritage Foundation knows a thing or forty three about government healthcare programs and he lauds President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the World Health Organization (WHO).

TRUMP’S ‘DECAPITATION’ SOLUTION FOR IRAN: Richard Pollock says all the key indicators point to a U.S. strike designed to decapitate the Mullahs, including Khamenei, who is now said to be deep in hiding. Considering the Maduro outcome, Khamenei would likely stand a better chance of survival if he takes the next flight to Moscow. Considering how much help Iran has been to Putin’s war in the Ukraine, that flight ought to be complimentary.

THANK GOD FOR X: Independent journalists have done a huge public service in exposing the reality of the professionally managed and funded anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis and elsewhere. Lord knows, the Mainstream Media has no interest in exposing such facts.

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO CLIMATE CHANGE? Issues & Insights has been watching the weather reports closely and noticed something that doesn’t seem to be prompting comment in all the usual places.

WOULD THAT FEWER CHRISTIANS WERE (WILL BE) PRODIGALS: It’s an experience many professed followers of Jesus go through and typically don’t realize it at the time (myself included). It’s probably cold and dreary outside where you are, so snuggle up in your favorite chair (hopefully by a roaring real or simulated fire in a fireplace), and check out these five signs you may be (or headed to becoming) a prodigal son or daughter.

DOD CLUELESS ON REMOTE WORKERS: New Inspector-General audit of Department of Defense explains why Pentagon had no clue how many remote workers it actually had after Biden told everybody to come back to the office.

PARTISAN BIAS AT CENSUS BUREAU: It’s no secret that the vast majority of federal workers are Democrats, but the results of this review by The Washington Stand of contributions by U.S. Census Bureau workers are stark.

ODD TASTE IN YOUR CITY WATER? Might be from the fetal tissue that was flushed down the toilet and into the local municipal waste water system. Or maybe not. Bottom line is, we don’t know.

What we do know is that 60 percent of all abortions are now the result of Mifepristone used at home by pregnant women who are often advised to flush the chemically tainted aborted tissue.

Is that a public health threat? The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is being pressured by a group of Hill GOPers to undertake a comprehensive analysis to answer that question. The EPA workforce has successfully resisted doing it for more than a year.

THIS SADDENS ME: Things are not right at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Foundation.

FLORIDA SHERIFF EXPLAINS ANTI-ICE CHAOS: Florida’s Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd lays out the simple facts that explain why riots erupted in Los Angeles, Chicago and Minneapolis. And the villains don’t wear ICE uniforms.

ARCHEOLOGY DOCUMENTS BIBLICAL EXODUS ACCOUNT: A cuneiform from 1210 BC includes a Pharoah’s boasting about having “laid waste” to “Israel.” Other cuneiforms document Canannite rulers begging Pharoah to send help to defeat an invading “Apiru,” which meant somebody who was a sort of stateless person. Harvard Emeritus Professor Frank Moore Cross contends “apiru” is the root for the more recent term, Hebrew.

But wait! There more’s on HillFaith this morning.

HOW WE LOST NUKE POWER AND WHY IT’S COMING BACK: Rod Martin lays out the whole story of how America led the world in developing safe, reliable, cheap peacetime nuclear power, but then allowed the Deep State to kill it. Here’s just a sample:

“It typical Deep State fashion, the NRC’s bureaucrats weaponized their political biases. They used fear to create demands for ‘safety’, and then turned ‘safety’ into a weapon against the very thing they were supposedly regulating.

“You can see it in the rules. Take the infamous Linear No-Threshold (LNT) model and its bastard child, ALARA — ‘As Low As Reasonably Achievable.’ In English, LNT says any amount of radiation is harmful; ALARA says regulators must drive that risk as close to zero as possible, no matter what that costs.

“Never mind that background radiation varies wildly around the planet with no corresponding cancer spike. Never mind that you get more radiation on a flight from New York to L.A. — or from eating a banana, or from shopping in New York’s Grand Central Station — than from living next to a nuclear plant for a year. Once LNT and ALARA hardened into doctrine, the NRC effectively gave itself a ‘zero bananas allowed’ mandate.”

But America’s nuke renaissance is at hand. There’s much more, just keep scrolling.

WHO FUNDS ANTI-ICE GROUPS: The Washington Free Beacon has the scoop.

WHAT IF DRUG BOATS CARRIED MIFEPRISTONE? President Donald Trump has ordered the destruction of at least 35 Cartel-linked boats on the high seas carrying deadly drugs like Fentanyl destined for America. But thousands of unborn American children are killed every month using a lethal drug — Mifepristone — that is routinely delivered by the U.S. Postal Service to anybody.

Pro-lifers on Capitol Hill wonder if Trump would destroy such boats if they were known to be hauling Mifepristone?

IMMIGRANT RIGHTS GROUP THUMBS NOSE AT HOUSE JUDICIARY: A spokesman for the House Judiciary Committee told The Washington Stand that officials with the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) has never responded to the panel’s June 2025 demand for multiple documents.

The House panel’s demand followed media reports that CHIRLA was helping fund the violent anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles. “All options are on the table,” a  committee spokesman told the Washington Stand when asked how the judiciary panel will respond.

NY TIMES’ FINE ART OF CENSORSHIP: Richard Pollock sat down with a recent New York Times front page and analyzed all the ways it demonstrates just how selective the Gray Lady’s editors and reporters are in reporting on Trump foreign policy and Israel’s self-defense against Islamic/Palestinian fanaticism.

WIKIPEDIA CO-FOUNDER FOUND FAITH: Dr. Larry Sanger was an atheist and a former Professor of Philosophy at the time he was a co-founder of Wikipedia. He’s still the famous website’s founder and a former prof, but he’s no longer an atheist. He explains why this morning on HillFaith.

FBI SURVEILLED WOMAN BASED ON UNVERIFIED TIP: FBI officials surveilled a Texas Catholic school teacher for two years despite having no verification of information provided by the woman’s former friend.