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.

MADURO FALL IS CRISIS FOR IRAN, HEZBOLLAH: Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based Islamic terrorist outfit funded and armed by Iran, has been active in Venezuela for years. But, as Richard Pollock explains, the fall of Maduro and President Donald Trump’s determination to free the Western Hemisphere from such malignant forces, represents a huge crisis for Hezbollah and Iran.

DON’T FORGET DRUG DEMAND: Family Research Council President Tony Perkins reserves judgement about the Maduro operation but reminds everybody that the drug problem is two-fold. Capturing Maduro strikes a blow on the supply side, but don’t forget the reality that there is a huge demand in the U.S.

NOT A WORD IN THE MSM ON THE IRAN PROTESTS: Richard Pollock, who knows the MSM from the inside as a former “Good Morning America” producer, notes the total silence of the Establishment “media” on the growing protests in Iran.

POWERLINE, OTHER INDIES REPORTED MINNESOTA SCANDAL YEARS AGO: When you dig into the past decade of coverage by independent media like the Powerline blog and multiple other Minnesota-based operations, it becomes clear the Mainstream Media purposely ignored the Somali benefits fraud scandal the costs of which are now estimated at $9 billion.

TRUMP  IS MR DEREGULATOR: Rod Martin turns over his Substack column space for a day to Americans for Tax Reform founder and chief Grover Norquist, who provides a comprehensive cataloguing of the many ways President Donald Trump is draining the regulatory swamp in Washington, D.C.

WILL AMERICA’S SPIRITUAL RENEWAL ENDURE: That’s one of the questions raised by the surge in 2025 in church attendance and interest in Jesus Christ, particularly among Gen Z males. It could prove to be historic if it follows the model of the Great Awakening’s role in fostering the American Revolution, or it could turn out as nothing more than another temporary fad.

TERRORISTS POSING AS JOURNALISTS: Richard Pollock exposes the hypocrisy of a recent award ceremony honoring “Gaza journalists” at the National Press Club in the nation’s capital.

STOP BLAMING REAGAN: That’s the title of a column on the American Spectator by Donald Devine regarding the factional eruptions on the Right. Devine, for whom I worked as a Reagan political appointee at the Office of Personnel Management, makes a VIP point about Reagan:

“But blaming today’s problems on Ronald Reagan, as many New Rightists do, does not make sense. This old academic agrees that Republicans and many conservative organizations became part of the problem. But for Reagan himself, his prosperity lasted well beyond his two terms so that a following Democratic president conceded that the ‘era of big government was over.’ This lasted 40 years, with Reagan-type conservative opposition remaining through this period. But it was not primarily by politicians but by popular media leaders like Rush Limbaugh and Robert Novak, in think tanks and activist organizations, and even by some intellectuals.”

The two Bush presidencies are the real villains in this story because there is a mostly straight line from them to Barack Obama, according to Devine:

“If a scapegoat is necessary, it is the presidents Bush. First, George H.W., who in accepting his presidential nomination, promised a government ‘more compassionate’ than his predecessor’s. Then George W. Bush, who responded to the Great Recession with a plan called ‘Market Stabilization’ and years of almost zero interest rates, rather than market capitalism. George W. also adopted a new entitlement program, waged losing wars, and domestic policies that led to Barack Obama, all of which led to the institutionalization of today’s failures.”

One element Devine doesn’t address is the rise of anti-semitism on the Right. Even so, Devine — who by the way is that rare person who combines proficiencies as a professor, campaign strategist and political manager of bureaucracy — is somebody who could serve effectively as a bridge among key factions, including perhaps those entirely unexpected murmurs of a revival of something like classical liberalism.