THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF MOSSAD IN IRAN: The most unappreciated aspect of Israel’s remarkable success against Iran is the reality that for months before the current hostilities began, Mossad agents were roaming inside the former Persian empire.

Richard Pollock talked to somebody who knows a great deal of how this happened and continues happening today. Here’s a small sample:

“One who is talking about this omission and is dialed into this extraordinary military campaign is John Spencer. He currently serves as the Chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point and is Co-Director of the Urban Warfare Project,

“Spencer told me that, indeed, Mossad is continuing to aggressively and freely operate throughout Iran. ‘Most mainstream media treat Mossad’s presence in Iran as something that happened in the past. That is a fundamental misunderstanding of the current reality,’ he said.

“’Mossad has a long track record of building deep operational infrastructure inside enemy territory. There is every indication that those networks are still in place and active. They are likely supporting real-time targeting of regime leadership, missile systems, and mobile launchers, while also disrupting Iranian internal security from within,’ he told me.”

There is more, much more. Joshua and Caleb, veterans of a previous notable Israeli spy operation, are grinning ear to ear.

AND SPEAKING OF THE WASHINGTON STAND: California officials have shoveled tens of millions of tax dollars to five key Far Left non-profit activist groups that are supporting the violent and continuing anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles and elsewhere across the nation.

KERSHAW REMINDS MLB WHO CREATED THE RAINBOW: You may have seen one of the several Major League Baseball team “celebrations” of Pride Month. Los Angeles Dodgers’ star pitcher Clayton Kershaw’s response to the LGBQTetc.etc.etc. tyrants reintroduced them to a hugely significant fact, as The Washington Stand’s Suzanne Bowdey explains.

WANT TO MAKE BEAUCOUP BUCKS? Set up shop with a moving company to help the millions of Americans who are waving bye-bye to the 10 states, plus the District of Columbia, that top the list of Sanctuary jurisdictions. That is, those jurisdictions that refuse to allow local and state law enforcement work with federal immigration authorities against illegal immigrant criminals.

Data featured by Issues & Insights pegs the number of movers from those areas since 2020 at 3.1 million. Here’s a partial breakdown:

“New York alone saw 966,209 leave. Illinois lost 418,056, and Minnesota lost 47,930. California is the all-time leader – it suffered a net loss of more than 1.2 million over those years. In fact, the top five population losers are all sanctuary states.

“Just two sanctuary states – Vermont and Colorado – eked out population gains … a mere 37,000 in total. In contrast, of the 12 states ranked by the Immigrant Legal Resource Center as having the least friendly to illegal immigrants, 10 had huge net gains in population from 2020 to 2024 – totaling 2.9 million.”

CBO REFORM PUSH GATHERS STEAM: Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wisc.) and a bipartisan coalition of House colleagues are sponsoring the “Stop the Baseline Bloat Act of 2025.” The measure focuses on an admittedly obscure problem — the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) considering emergency spending as permanent — about which most people couldn’t care less.

But that obscurity doesn’t negate the importance of what the Grothman proposal does – banning CBO from including temporary spending in long-term projections. The reason its important is fatter baselines help the legions of congressional sufferers from Federal Spending Addiction (FSA) keep increasing their fixes.

The fact there are co-sponsors from both parties on this one is an encouraging sign that perhaps sanity is mounting a comeback on the House floor.

MAGA-TIME IN VACCINE LAND: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. just demonstrated that the familiar complaint that nobody in Washington ever gets fired is not always accurate.

The Heritage Foundation’s Robert Moffit makes the casein The Daily Signal that RFK’s firing all 17 Biden-appointed members of the Advisory Committee on Vaccination Practices is illustrative of exactly what is needed and what the public health lobby most fears

THE LEFT’S RIOTS ARE JUST GETTING STARTED: Richard Pollock knows a thing or three about how and why the Left so often seeks to spark riots such as have been going on for a week now in Los Angeles. Richard once was one of those on Left who sparked riots.

In his latest Substack column, he looks at the LA violence and observes how familiar the present riots appear in the context of Saul Alinsky’s handbook for political violence, “Rules for Radicals:”

Alinsky explained how radical activists can and must create political chaos in modern Western societies. His first main observation is that truth really doesn’t matter. Alinsky openly counseled his minions, ‘To begin with, he (the revolutionary) does not have a fixed truth – truth to him is relative and changing; everything to him is relative and changing.’ (italics is in original)

“Just as distressing, Alinsky’s revolutionary radicals have a particularly nasty point of view about ethics. ‘The rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war, the end justifies almost any means,’ Alinsky wrote in his book. ‘Ethical standards must be elastic to stretch with the times.’

“’Generally, success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics,’ Alinsky counseled. He told activists, ‘you do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral garments.’

“Alinsky further argues that morality of using certain tactics shouldn’t be a primary factor. ‘The morality of a means depends upon whether the means is being employed at a time of imminent defeat or victory,’ he wrote. ‘In short, ethics are determined by whether one is losing or winning.'”

Just keep scrolling, as Glenn would say, because Richard sees a long, hot, destructive summer ahead.

AMERICANS FED UP WITH PRIDE LIES: Major corporations like IBM and Coke are abandoning their support for Pride Month activities. A recent poll finds a 14 point decline in support for such activities among Republican voters. So little public support appeared that a Boise Pride Festival was cancelled.

Is something significant happening? Looks like it, according to Family Research Council (FRC) Senior Fellow Joseph Backholm, who writing in World Magazine further suggests the reason why:

“We were told redefining marriage was a matter of fairness and decency, and a lot of people fell for it. People with moral objections to same-sex marriage supported it because they thought it was the kind and fair thing to do.

“But the sexual revolutionaries did not offer the tolerance they demanded. The moment they felt a sense of cultural dominance, they responded with speech codes, lawsuits against churches, and attempts to ruin the lives and businesses of anyone who expressed a contrary view.”

THE WAY WE STILL ARE: Remember that 1973 classic flick starring Robert Redford and Barbara Streisand? They were total opposites, but somehow managed to find love, get married, ignore their irreconcilable differences for a stretch of years, but it all ended when her Marxist “principles” were more important than love, companionship, loyalty, etc.

There is a vitally important lesson in that movie, one that the conventional wisdom of the Left will never acknowledge, as I explain in my latest Substack column.

ABOUT THE AURORAS: Regardless your view of their origin, the Northern and Southern lights are amazing, and awesomely beautiful, as this short Illustra Media video on HillFaith this morning masterfully illustrates.  You know where I am on the God question, but don’t let that prevent from you enjoying a calmly elegant pause for your Sunday.

STOP BRO-FEUDING, TELL US HOW BAD SOCIAL SECURITY REALLY IS: Remember all those headlines earlier this year about millions of Social Security recipients on the rolls despite being 120, 130, even 150 years old? President Donald Trump and former DOGE driver Elon Musk appeared to be pushing differing data.

But a new analysis by OpenTheBooks points to an obvious reconciliation — of the conflicting data, not the conflicting super egos. Even so, as I explain in my latest PJMedia column, the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) laughable response to OpenTheBooks’ FOIA request suggests things are far more seriously wrong in America’s oldest entitlement benefits program than even the most extreme DOGE deductions.

WHAT PORN TOOK FROM US: For Gen Z and, especially, Gen Alpha, the harm inflicted by the porn explosion in American society is so much worse than is commonly assumed. Freya India of the Free Press has the stark facts.

MEET THE COMPANIES HELPING TRANS YOUR KIDS AND HIDE IT FROM YOU: The Washington Stand’s Suzanne Bowdey digs into the Trevor Group and its corporate backers and finds a sink pit of ugly:

“And while The Trevor Project claims to be harmlessly dedicated to ‘advocacy, education, and crisis support for LGBTQ+ young people,’ it’s the nature of that advocacy and education that should disturb Americans.

“For starters, this is a group that, just three years ago, was exposed for stealthily grooming children online. A suspicious mom, whose daughter struggled with gender dysphoria, logged onto the organization’s TrevorSpace chat room to see what kind of advice she was getting — and was horrified at the graphic and disturbing nature of the site.”

FORGET 3D CHESS: What if Trump and Musk are playing 5D chess? Has your head exploded yet?

MRNA AND LEUKEMIA: More evidence of COVID’s man-made lethalities.

DO WE HAVE THIS KIND OF COURAGE TODAY?  This passage written by Thomas Jefferson and John Dickinson in the “Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms” was published a year before Declaration of Independence.

THE LEFT’S WORST NIGHTMARE: America is on the mend, economy is growing, business investment is headed upward, things are getting better — unless you are an illegal immigrant with a criminal record, an illegal immigrant intent on murdering Jews, a player in the biggest coverup in American history, etc. etc. That’s the worst possible result of Americans sending Donald Trump back to the White House, according to Issues & Insights. No disagreement from this corner.

CBO HEADED FOR A DOGE AUDIT? – Won’t literally be done by the DOGE corps of waste and fraud killers in the executive branch, but there is a movement that is gaining some traction on the Hill for a DOGE-like top-to-bottom audit of the Congressional Budget Office. My exclusive report is on The Washington Stand this morning.

ANOTHER HIDEOUS HERO FROM HELL: Elias Rodriquez, murderer in cold blood in public of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgren, is not somebody who deserves a one-way trip to the electric chair.

No, according to an obviously astroturfed response to Rodriquez’ arrest, the man is a hero and a sign of worse things to come in America. As Richard Pollock explains in his latest Substack column, the hero movement’s origins are suspect:

“The Tariq El-Tahrir Youth and Student Network, an obscure Middle Eastern-based group created the ‘Free Elias Rodriguez Organizing Committee’ and sought American and international co-sponsors. Twenty-nine groups publicly signed onto its manifesto.

“Tariq El-Tahrir hails Elias Rodriguez as a ‘resistance’ fighter. And they warn of more killings to come. The ‘student’ group clearly is a creation of Middle Eastern terrorist organizations and sold to America as a homegrown organization. There is no actual physical address listed for the group.

“But that didn’t deter 29 groups, a number of them American, who enthusiastically signed on to the shameful manifesto. One of the most prominent signatories was the Maoist wing of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Forty-six unnamed individuals also allegedly signed onto the document, according to their site. Quite a few of the signatories were from the Middle East.”

IF YOU READ NOTHING ELSE TODAY: I strongly encourage you to read Rod Martin’s The Counterrevolution, which is an excerpt from his forthcoming book on what must be done and who must do it to save the Republic. Here’s a sample:

“This is the moment when FDR’s long counterrevolution reaches its own reckoning. The Deep State is rotting. Its courts have become legislatures, its agencies have become sovereigns, its laws unread, its processes unknowable. Its schools no longer educate, its currency no longer holds value, its borders no longer exist. It cannot win wars, balance budgets, or tell a man from a woman. The revolution is eating itself. And its answer, in typical Marxist fashion, is to demand ever-increasing control.”

And next steps?

“It is the road of decentralization and rebirth: of a people taking back responsibility from the state, of institutions rooted once more in families, churches, communities, covenants, and crucially, elections. It is the digital reformation of a constitutional republic: where blockchain and AI are used to limit power, not entrench it; where space and energy abundance free man from the Malthusian lies of managed scarcity; where education is reclaimed from indoctrinators and returned to disciplers of truth. (emphasis added)

“And it is theological. All revolutions are religious. The American Revolution certainly was, its theological convictions the foundation of our liberty. The left’s deifies the state for the benefit of those who rule it, and abides no other God before it.

“The tide is turning. The façade of inevitability is cracking. Courts are rediscovering the separation of powers and the nondelegation doctrine. States are reclaiming their constitutional jurisdiction. Parents are standing. Young men and women, born into the ruins of postmodernity, are looking not for self-expression, but for meaning, duty, and roots. They are beginning again to build.”

Saddle up, folks.

EXPOSING THE LEFT’S MEDICAID CUTS LIES: If you’ve heard it once, you heard a million times in the Mainstream Media how Orange Man Bad and those evil congressional Republicans are cutting more than $800 billion out of Medicaid spending, which will leave millions of starving, suffering women and children wandering the streets.

As usual, there is more to the story, thanks to the smart folks at the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) and it demonstrates just how the claim has little connection to reality. And I lay it all out in straight-forward, common-sense language on The Washington Stand.

MURDERED ISRAELI EMBASSY COUPLE WERE CHRISTIANS: Richard Pollock notes that the accused killer of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn at a Washington, D.C. American Jewish Committee function likely thought he was killing practicing Jews. Nope.

MORE ON STOP ‘CENSORSHIP WITHOUT DUE PROCESS’: Here’s what it’s all about, as I explain in my latest PJ Media column:

“It doesn’t take a medical science genius or ace demographer to figure out that a one-third reduction in the human birth rate around the world could be catastrophic for all of us. And if that’s the case, shouldn’t everybody be able to read the studies and reach their own conclusions about their credibility?

“Not according to LinkedIn, which censored that post as ‘false or misleading.’ I was told I could appeal the decision of the LinkedIn censors. I did so and specifically requested that the particular offending passage in the post be identified to me and an explanation provided in writing for why it was deemed so offensive to justify censoring it.”

Any bets on the odds Linkedin stays mum? Happy Memorial Day!

TIME TO STOP ‘CENSORSHIP WITHOUT DUE PROCESS:’ Like the old news anchor said in that movie, I am mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore. Find out why here in my latest Substack column.

SHOULD DOJ BE ABLE TO SPY ON CONGRESS? Let’s do an experiment here. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) is pushing legislation requiring that senators be informed whenever the Department of Justice (DOJ) asks a judge to approve listening to telephone calls by senators and staffers. This happens with Democratic and Republican Chief Executives.

As things presently stand, according to Daniel Schuman, editor of First Branch Forecast, there is essentially no limit on how much DOJ can spy on Members and staff of both chambers of Congress. Do you approve of this reality or would you support efforts by Wyden or others on the Hill to limit the ability of the executive branch to spy on legislators and staffers?