WHAT’S THIS, A BABY BOOM AMONG HILL AIDES? Could very well be, judging from the latest Hill Staff Views post on HillFaith. Given the average age of Hill staffers is 27, could this mean a new Baby Boomer generation is coming into focus?

DID ISRAELI-ARAB PARTY STEAL THE ELECTION? Richard Pollock rounds up substantial evidence that funds channeled from Qatar to the Israeli-Arab party via Muslim terrorist channels turned Tuesday’s voting into a “stolen election.”

WHERE WILL YOU GO: When the flames in France reach the U.S., that is. It’s my latest Substack column and it points to the growing evidence of a very rough road that is quite possibly ahead for this nation. There’s also a revelation concerning Reagan’s “The Speech” of 1964.

THERE’S A LAME DUCK COMING: It’s the last legislative session of the 119th Congress, commencing at some point soon after next Tuesday’s Midterm Elections. As I report today in The Washington Stand, the Senate and House have a bunch of unfinished business to complete and, with 71 Members leaving Congress at the end of the 119th, they could exercise some immense leverage if they were of a mind to do so.

How so? Well, the debt ceiling soon must be either raised higher or suspended altogether if the senators and representatives want to continue spending the nation toward bankruptcy by never balancing the budget and constantly adding to the National Debt.

But what might happen if those 71 departing Members of the 119th — 44 GOPers and 27 Dems —  tell the rest of them “no more deficit spending, you’ve got to balance the budget and start making serious progress on eliminating that nearly $41 Trillion National Debt?” They could be the most powerful voting block ever in the modern history of Congress.

FIRST AMENDMENT STORY: Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story’s “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States” is still read today among constitutional law folks, so his explanation of the purpose of the First Amendment is VIP. Somebody should share this with the ACLU.

A SUNDAY QUESTION: Did Jesus really claim to be God? Bart Erhman, who is perhaps the most widely skeptic on this question, and Wes Huff, a Canadian evangelical who is a rising star in the Christian apologetics field, lay out their arguments in succinct fashion for an informative discussion on HillFaith.

IF YOU STILL THINK TEXAS IS GOING BLUE: Matt Margolis over at PJ Media rounds up a bunch of common sense. Like the survey that on one hand put State Sen. James Talarico two points up on Attorney General Ken Paxton, while on the other showing a majority of surveyed Texans want the GOP to control the Senate. There’s more, go here.

IF YOU LOVE SOUTHERN LIT: Todd Smith’s “Josie: A True Story of Race, Rescue and Resilience” will be a blessing. And I was honored to write the Foreward!

NEVER SPEAK UP AND REMOVE ALL DOUBT That would have been great advice for young Stephanie Attar of New Jersey before she posed a question and delivered an astounding harangue. What she said is a perfect illustration of one of the 7 “Mirages” Matt Towery describes in his new book, “The Honoring of Ignorance.” You’re definitely going to want to read the rest of this instructive story in my latest news analysis for The Washington Stand.

AND THEN THERE ARE THE FACTS: About Medicaid spending, which Democrats claim Trump is slashing, that is. To the contrary, Medicaid spending under Trump is up a bunch. And so I again pose THE question, yet again: When are politicians in both parties going to stop the Talk, Talk, Talk about cutting federal spending and paying off the National Debt?

JAMES MADISON ON WHAT SHAPES U.S. FUTURE: James Madison was the chief author of the U.S. Constitution, thanks to his work at the convention and then subsequently in gaining its approval by the states, a task achieved in great part due to his contributions to “The Federalist Papers.” Oh right, he was also our fourth President.

And, as you can see with the “Faith of the Founders” post on HillFaith today, Madison did not beat around when it came to pointing out what the future of the nation he so crucially helped found and then survive growing pains and the War of 1812. Check it out here. 

The FOFT posts appear every Tuesday.

ABOUT THOSE FRANCE RIOTERS: Their leaders are leading them in tactics and strategies that come straight out of Saul Alinsky and Herbert Marcuse, according to Richard Pollock, former roommate of Rennie Davis of Chicago 7 infamy.

1/3 OF FEDERAL INCOME TAX REVENUES GO TO PAY DEBT INTEREST: With interest on the National Debt reaching $1.05 Trillion in the 2026 federal budget, more than one-third of all tax revenues are being consumed to pay for spending the government couldn’t afford but spent anyway. And don’t miss how that new Washington Post/ABC News/Ipsos re-weighted its survey responses to Democrats’ advantage.

POLITICS IN THE PULPIT: Let’s see, evangelical Christians (EC) make up one of the largest voting blocks in America, so folks with opposing values — think secular liberal Democrats — just might have advice that discourages ECs from voting. Something like this: “Paul never tried to change politics. Peter never tried to change politics. Nope, not even Jesus. The Christian walk is NOT about changing America. Jesus doesn’t want us getting caught up in fruitless endeavors.”

Who benefits if 40 million+ evangelicals heed that admonition and stay home on election day? Secular liberal Democrats, of course. Michael Clary, the Lead Pastor of Christ the King Church in Cinncinnati, offers a decisive Scripture and common sense-based refutation of such theological thinking and five things Christians should expect of their pastors concerning politics.

FIRST ANDRZEJEWSKI SCHOLARSHIP WINNER: How many college kids do you know these days who would recognize the suffocatingly liberal dominance of campuses across the country and decide it’s time to start an independent, conservative school paper that demands transparency and accountability?

Meet Ben Rothove, a senior at the University of Madison-Wisconsin who recognized as a freshman that liberal censorship had to be challenged and he was the man to rally friends and allies to found and run their own independent student newspaper. This ought to give all of us hope for the survival of genuine journalism.

PEEK AT IRANIAN DAILY LIFE: Actually, it would probably be more accurate to say Roger Simon’s latest Substack column is a peek into Iranian daily misery. Without fundamental regime change, the Iranian people, most of whom hate the oppressively cruel Mullahs and their protectors, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), will continue to suffer.

FREEDOM LESSONS IN THE TESLA ROCKET CAR: Yes, Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster Rocket (TRR) was only airborne in controlled flight a few seconds, but that’s just the barest of hints of what could be coming in the transportation field in the near future, thanks to the freedom that enables innovators to take risks, develop new ideas, test them, then be rewarded when market success arrives.

Check out my new Substack column today on Mark Tapscott’s Copy Desk concerning the long list of technological innovations encouraged and enabled through individual freedom and free enterprise.

REMINDER: Palestinian Authority (PA) is a Dictatorship, as in the harsh reality that individual freedom is nowhere to be found under its rule. Richard Pollock wonders why the West is doing nothing in response to 90-year dictator Mahmoud Abbas totally predictable cancellation, yet again, of legislative elections he’s promised for this year.

“Yet, so far Western countries haven’t imposed any sanctions on the PA. It’s unlikely they will do so. Since the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, the European Union alone has poured an estimated $30 billion into a territory called “Palestine.”

“And the United States has bestowed $11 billion to Palestinian territory including the $6 billion given to the widely discredited United Nations Relief and Works Agency.

“Where did this money go? To Abbas and his cronies. In 2018, news organizations then estimated Abbas’ net worth – not including the lucrative government contracts he has awarded his sons – at $110 million.”

Uh, Mr. President? Secretary Rubio?

ME AND MY AI HAD A CHAT THIS MORNING: And I invite you to join my conversation on Substack this morning in which I quiz ChatGPT — which I find extremely useful as a supplement to my own research — about it’s “consciousness” and how it “thinks.”

SILVER WAVE COMING FOR GOP? There is growing evidence as the 2026 Midterm election campaign enters its closing phase that senior voters, 65+, are likely to vote Republican in significantly greater numbers than is the norm. Among the main reasons why, according to pollster Matt Towery, is such voters know all about socialism. Check it out on The Washington Stand.

BET YOU DIDN’T KNOW: The five financially healthiest states are all dominated at all levels of their governments by Republicans. Can you guess which party dominates in the five financially sickest states?

AI SUPPORT THIN AMONG HILL AIDES: There is a slim majority, 51 percent, of responding congressional aides who told a recent CNCT Capitol Pulse survey they “trust AI companies to police themselves.” More surprising is the partisan makeup of that majority and there are some other puzzlers in the results, as reported on HillFaith.

TRUMP NOT SERIOUS ABOUT NATIONAL DEBT: Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent insist economic growth is the solution to the National Debt that just hit $40.3 Trillion. But, as I report in my Substack column this morning, a new Fiscal Lab on Capitol Hill report makes it clear that depending on growth isn’t going to hack it.

WHY THE WORLD MUST SEE ‘BEARING WITNESS:’ For those not familiar with it, “Bearing Witness” is the 47-minute documentary compiled by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) of the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7, 2023.

To date, only selected public officials, including diplomats and legislators, and a few journalists have been allowed to view it. Their reactions are telling, as reported by Richard Pollock in his Substack column on the issue (Note especially the Blinken and Schumer responses):

“After viewing the film, former Biden Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters on November 3, 2023, ‘It remains almost beyond human capacity to process, to digest…It is shocking that the brutality of the slaughter has receded so quickly in the memories of so many.’

“About 40 U.S. Senators viewed the film in late November 2023 in a special Capitol Hill private screening. Marc Rod, a senior congressional correspondent for the Jewish Insider chronicled some of their reactions after seeing the film.

“Then Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida told reporters, ‘I think it’s really important not to sanitize this. Over time these horrifying incidents sort of lose their impact,’ he told reporters. ‘The one thing that struck me is how proud and gleeful these people were [about] what they were doing to civilians, unarmed children, people sitting around at home having breakfast, kids out at a rave party. It gives you insight into what human beings are capable of.’

“Senator Ted Cruz, the Republican Senator from Texas said after seeing it: ‘It’s the face of evil.’ Rod reported that ‘the usually voluble Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said, clearly struggling with what he’d seen.’

“Cruz added, ‘There is a level of evil and hate and depravity that defies words. And it is astonishing that there are still some in America and across the globe who deny these atrocities occurred. This was not combat. This was the slaughter of innocent civilians. And the joy and celebration among those terrorists as they were murdering children — it simply defies words.’

“Senator Chuck Schumer, who then was the Senate Majority Leader said after seeing the film, ‘It was jarring and harrowing. It shook all of us up in the room. I had to go sit in my office for a half hour alone after seeing it.’”

Pollock’s report is for the purpose of encouraging the public release of the full documentary. Yes, it is horribly graphic, but so were the many films made of the German Holocaust and released to the public within days of the liberation by the Allies of the concentration camps.

I absolutely agree with Pollock. What do you think?

IRAN ISN’T VIETNAM, YET: A new national survey — the Issues & Insights/TIPP Poll — found there are still significant numbers of Americans who support military action against Iran to ensure it never has a nuclear weapon.

“The first question the October poll asked was a straightforward one: ‘Do you support or oppose U.S. military action against Iran?’ Overall, 44% say they support the action (with 23% saying they strongly support it), while 42% oppose (28% strongly). Fourteen percent say they’re ‘not sure.’

“Not surprisingly, there’s a strong partisan split, with support solid among self-identified Republicans (71%), much weaker among independents (30%), and weakest among Democrats (26%),” I&I reports.