FACTS EXPOSE SCHUMER’S ‘MEDICAID CUTS’ MYTH: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) claims Trump and Hill GOPers are imposing “the largest cut to Medicaid in history.” Oops, that’s not what the facts say.

GALLUP FINDS MSM TRUST AT HISTORIC LOW: The divide is along generational and partisan lines, but the depth of distrust overall just keeps getting deeper and deeper. S.A. McCarthy lays out the details for The Washington Stand.

JANE GOODALL RIP: Her trail-blazing observations in 1960 on the shared traits of humans and chimpanzees became the “we’re 99 percent alike” conventional evolutionary wisdom in the 1970s. Now, in the year of her passing, new research blows a huge hole in the familiar narrative.

PRO-PALESTINIANS’ MUTED RESPONSE TO TRUMP CEASEFIRE: Israel and the major Middle Eastern Arab/Muslim nations accepted President Donald Trump’s 20-point ceasefire proposal. But did you catch the silence among the Pro-Palestinian radicals here in the states? Richard Pollock certainly did.

YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW HORRIBLE: The “Red Market,” where human organs are bought and sold, that is. Dr. Jon Spiers, writing in The Washington Stand, brings the most disturbing facts to the fore about the harvesting, trading and transplanting of human organs.

FOR THOSE WHO NEVER HEARD: Dr. Voddie Baucham’s passing last week went mostly unnoticed in the secular Right media, but, even for those who don’t share his faith, his was a hugely significant life.

One need not be a Jesus follower on the Right to appreciate the immense significance of  Baucham’s incisive analysis, for example, of the cultural and political impact of the Left’s debilitating shift to personal identity (i.e. group, sexual preference, etc.) as the basis of one’s persuasiveness rather than reasoned logic and verifiable fact in public policy discussion. That begins at the 32:45 mark.

HillFaith normally doesn’t post videos stretching to 55 minutes, but Baucham’s last lecture, delivered September 17 at New Saint Andrews College, is both typical of his scholarship and persona, and worth remembering for years to come,

HOW MUCH YOU WANNA BET ON THAT: You almost never hear about it in the Mainstream Media, but then the MSM makes billions on advertising paid for by sports gambling interests. Maybe that’s why so little is said about the growing economic and social toll of sports gambling?

LOOK WHO SAYS KIMMEL ISN’T FUNNY: Jimmy Kimmel is back on air, thanks to Disney CEO Bob Iger, but a new survey of a segment of a key age group suggests his return may not last very long.

YOU LIVE IN A ‘SUNSHINE’ OR A ‘SINKHOLE’ STATE? Truth-in-Accounting, the invaluable Chicago-based non-profit accounting watchdog, digs into the debt status of each of the 50 states and finds an even 25-25 split. And I’m betting you can guess which class of states are red and which are deep, deep blue.

ON JOHN BROWN, THEN AND NOW: The old abolitionist fanatic who raided the federal armory at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, in 1859 in hopes of inciting a slave rebellion across the South is enjoying something of a revival amid reports of the “John Brown Club” becoming active at Georgetown University and other campuses, according to The Federalist’s John Daniel Davidson.

Davidson’s excellent essay provides a useful introduction to John Brown as analogy to the Tyler Robinsons, Jonathan Jahns and other contemporary Radical Leftists taking up arms against ICE, Trump, the police, and everything else associated with America.

What Davidson misses, though, is that the Brown analogy doesn’t end with merely taking up a bolt-action rifle and killing Charlie Kirk, or an illegal alien sitting in an ICE van in Dallas.

No, as I explained in detail a couple of years ago in this PJ Media column, Brown was a thorough-going revolutionary in search of dictatorial powers he viewed as required to carry out his fundamental remaking of American society.

Man, I wish I had finished that doctoral dissertation entitled “John Brown and Gnostic Millenarianism in the American Political Regime”!

COUNT THE COST FIRST: Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) sees the Democrats writing on the wall – They demand President Trump and Hill GOPers effectively abandon the agenda voters put them in office to carry out, or the Democrats will shut down the federal government come October 1. The Washington Stand reports that Ernst is telling CBO to “score” the actual costs of such a scenario before it comes to be.

TWO CONSERVATISMS: Did you catch the two distinctive approaches to defining the issues by speakers during the Charlie Kirk memorial on Sunday? The Washington Stand’s Joshua Arnold did and it’s deserving of wider discussion.

ONE MONUMENT, TWO WORDS: They cannot be seen from ground-level at the Washington Monument, but on its peak there are two Latin words facing the rising Sun each morning.

ERNST TARGETS DOUBLE DIPPING FEDS: One might think the federal government would be able to uncover employees from getting paychecks from more than one department or agency.

But, as Sen, Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) points out this morning in The Washington Stand, there are more than a few such double-dippers in the federal workforce but it’s unclear if the government has the tools needed to prevent such criminal activity.

HOUSING TO NOWHERE EARMARK: Buried in that lengthy list of nearly 14,000 earmarks sought by senators is one for Alaska’s Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski for $2 million in housing project funding. Nothing unusual about that, so far.

Then we learn that the South Naknek housing project is for a village with 67 residents. The place is so remote that the few kids living there must use an airplane to get to and from school! Chuck Schumer has an earmark that will make the New York Met Opera sing, and Hawaii’s two Democrat senators, Hirono and Schattz, want nearly $7 million for a bike path. Details here in The Washington Stand.  

NO, HIGHER TEACHER PAY DOESN’T INCREASE STUDENT LEARNING: A new analysis by Open the Books comparing student academic performance between 2019 and 2024 with school payrolls finds an inverse relationship. You will not read or see this story in the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, USA Today, CBS, etc. etc.

CHARLIE KIRK, IN HIS OWN WORDS: There have been so many tributes to Charlie Kirk since his assassination. But this one — prepared by cross-examined.org — depends solely on what he said in countless situations on campuses across America.

You want to see him at his gentlest, it’s here. You want to see him confront a Satanist, it’s here. You want to hear him on the relationship between Grace and Truth, it’s here, too. This is Charlie, in his own words.

PRITZKER’S ‘FULLY FUNDED’ PENSION PLOY: Illinois has the worst state pension funding of the 50 states in great part due to the word games GOP and Dem officials alike have routinely played. Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker continues the games, which won’t be helpful to his presidential hopes in 2028.

HOW THE RADICAL LEFT REALLY SEES CHARLIE KIRKS: Richard Pollock, who knows the American Left from the inside, reminds us from Saul Alinsky that being a solid church-going, tax-paying citizen-leader is no guarantee of security against political violence.

“[Charlie] Kirk is widely known as a good person, a follower of Christ, a man who openly espoused debate and the free flow of ideas. Therefore, some say, he is beyond attack, especially a murderous attack. Not so, says Alinsky. He says the ‘good person’ label is a ruse and ‘political idiocy.’

“’Can you imagine in the arena of conflict charging that so-and-so is a racist bastard and then diluting the impact of the attack with qualifying remarks such as He is a good churchgoing man, generous to charity, and a good husband? This becomes political idiocy,’ Alinksy argued.”

And in the context of the post-October 7, 2023 Hamas attack in Israel the Kirk assassination should be understood as an escalation from the subsequent surge in anti-Jewish violence in the U.S. In other words, more such violence could be right around the corner.

TURNS OUT I WAS RIGHT ABOUT CHARLIE KIRK: His pastor, Mark Driscoll, explains that Charlie Kirk was preparing to become a full-time evangelist and apologist for Christianity, just as I suggested might well have been the case had he lived.

WHAT IF CHARLIE KIRK LIVED? Yes, Charlie Kirk was an amazing force in conservative politics, but what if he was still with us? Might he have become the next Billy Graham? Check out my latest PJMedia column.

HOW THE LEFT ENCOURAGES, LEGITIMIZES POLITICAL VIOLENCE: Now-former MSNBC Analyst Matthew Dowd got himself fired but not before providing the public with a concise illustration of how the Left does it.

ACT BLUE INDICTMENTS AHEAD? Rod Martin’s status report on the revelations thus far regarding the federal probe of political fund-raising behemoth of the Left suggests some other shoes are about to drop. Money laundering, foreign contributions are involved and 19 states are investigating in addition to the Feds.

THE ORCS ARE COMING FOR RFK JR: That tumultuous Senate Finance Committee hearing last week in which HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. was subjected to an unprecedented series of insults, misrepresentations, outright lies, and character assassination is just the opening of Sauron’s massive assault. The goal is to do whatever is necessary to either persuade President Donald Trump to fire Kennedy, or to render Kennedy so bloodied and distracted that he resigns.

THEY PRAISED IKE FOR SENDING IN THE NATIONAL GUARD: Liberals profusely praised President Dwight Eisenhower in 1957 when he federalized the Arkansas National Guard and sent the 101st Airborne to Little Rock, Arkansas, to escort nine students to ensure the safe enrollment and begin the process of desegregation of that state’s public school system.

Rod Martin wonders why is it the Left goes apocalyptic in angry protests against President Donald Trump for sending in the troops to help local law enforcement protect Chicago’s 2.7 million inhabitants against the murderers, rapists, car-jackers, gangs and drug dealers who will ultimately destroy the Windy City if they aren’t stopped now?