The Supreme Court heard a case just recently that all conservatives and, and all Christians should be paying very close attention to.

It comes out of New Jersey and First Choice Women’s Resource Center—which is a crisis pregnancy center.

New Jersey’s Attorney General issued a hostile subpoena against First Choice—demanding they give the Attorney General 10 years’ worth of documents, on abortion pill reversal, information it provided to clients and donors, documents identifying personnel, organizations that the pregnancy center works with and information on their donors.

It's chilling stuff—and a horrible precedent.

The details are downright Orwellian.

It is—quite simply—oppression from the state. It’s targeting this Crisis Pregnancy Center.

The center turned to the Alliance Defending Freedom, the ADF—and Erin Hawley from the group argued the case before the Supreme Court.

Justices seemed receptive to the arguments of the Crisis Pregnancy Center. They should be our arguments as well.

We’ll be watching closely.

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"The problem with socialism," Margaret Thatcher famously observed, "is that you eventually run out of other people's money." New data shows that France is on the verge of exhausting this resource – but the US is not far behind.

This week, Michael Arouet published what he calls "probably the scariest chart you'll see today," showing that only one-third of France’s population works in the private sector. “How are they supposed to feed the remaining two-thirds with their taxes?” Arouet wondered.

Well might we wonder, too. The most recent data in the US shows that only 40% of the population works in the private sector. Seven percent work for the government. More than half of the population does not work at all. In fact, the percentage of American adults classified as “not in the labor force” by retirement, disability, or other reasons comes to 37.6% – slightly higher than France.

Arouet highlights the unsustainability of France’s social state as workers dwindle. We need to start talking about that unsustainability in the US as well.

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The man accused of attacking National Guard members last month came here from Afghanistan — arriving without identification. President Trump has how announced a pause on immigration from “third world” countries. The goal is to ensure people from unstable regions can be properly vetted, and to remove those who hate America.

Predictably, critics on the left—like Senator Mark Kelly—are objecting, and just as predictably, they’re crying “racism.”

What nonsense. The issue isn’t race. It’s common sense. No responsible nation knowingly imports people who hate our country, our people and our way of life—whatever color they are.

The first duty of American leaders isn’t to third world migrants. It’s to protect their fellow citizens—the people who elected them—and to safeguard this country’s security, stability, and freedom.

If that means a pause on third-world immigration, then so be it.

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There’s a great debate today about what America First foreign policy means or should mean—and what “no more forever wars” entails. Meanwhile, President Trump is showing a fluidity and flexibility in foreign policy in real time—all under the justifiable notion of keeping America and Americans safe.

He did this in backing Israel against the world’s worst terrorists who also had targeted and killed vast numbers of Americans, including attempts to kill President Trump, himself. He did this in taking out the nuclear capability of the leading state sponsor of such terrorism and threat. And he’s now putting pressure on the Fidel Castro of Latin America, Nicholas Maduro and his outlaw regime, which is also responsible for sending criminal gangs and illegal drugs into the United States.

The Monroe Doctrine is not dead, and neither should be the Roosevelt corollary. What should end is Hezbollah’s and China’s involvement in Venezuela and Maduro’s criminality. Donald Trump took an oath to protect and defend us. That’s America, and Americans, First.

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Last month, six Democrats released a video urging the military to defy orders from the president and secretary of war. They implied that the military was being told to do something illicit. Yet when pressed, none of them could name a single illegal order.

The goal is obvious: sow doubt inside the ranks, then point to the turmoil they’ve created and call it “chaos” under President Trump. It’s a reckless political tactic.

Undermining trust in civilian control of the military isn’t a game. It poisons the heart of a constitutional republic.

And it’s striking: many of the same people who damaged trust in our judicial system by weaponizing it during Trump’s first term are now targeting one of the last institutions most Americans still respect — our military.

If the goal were to destabilize the country, they couldn’t be doing it more effectively.

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The president has been getting plenty of criticism from sitting members of Congress and a bunch of more purported “Con Law experts” on X who worry Trump may escalate to “kinetic actions” against Maduro, cartels and other narco-states. They argue Trump is violating “international law,” but they do not evidence even a basic understanding of the Article II grant of authorities to the president.

Constitution doesn’t change as presidents leave and arrive. Trump has the same authority President Washington’s, Lincoln’s, FDR’s and Ike.

Good presidents and failed presidents alike … their powers are the same.

Very few “X experts” seem to know of the relevant decision in U.S. v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp.—the 1936 decision when the Supreme Court held that a “political society cannot endure without a supreme will somewhere. Sovereignty is never held in suspense.”

If and when Congress directs the president to stop, then the issue would be joined. Until then: That key precedent from 89 years ago holds.

The president has vast power and he’s using it.

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Everyone’s heard of “Minnesota nice” — state residents’ reputation for being polite, mild-mannered, and tolerant.

So it’s hard to believe Minnesota taxpayers have become a major funder of a terrorist group. But it’s true. A massive welfare-fraud scheme took millions meant for Minnesotans — and funneled the money to a Somalian branch of Al Qaeda.

Minnesota has seen the rapid growth of a Somali migrant community over the past three decades. Many send money home — in 2023 alone, transfers to Somalia totaled $1.7 billion dollars, more than Somalia’s national budget.

What’s more, Somali-based gangs in Minnesota have become a serious public-safety threat, deeply involved in violent crime and drug trafficking. In short, a state once known for being “nice” is grappling with some serious problems.

There’s a heavy cost when America encourages immigration but refuses to insist on assimilation.

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It’s been said that gratitude is the mother of all virtue and ingratitude the father of all vice. We do well to reflect on that this Thanksgiving.

We find ourselves in a social and political moment of great self-importance attached to impatience, and an inability to recognize the wisdom of others. We have example after example where ego trumps reason—and “my truth” is preferred over the truth itself. With our political tendencies trending toward the extremes, we diminish the greatest set of social relations ever gifted, as they were by our Founding and Constitution.

This Thanksgiving, on the eve of our nation’s 250th anniversary, let’s consider a prayer at our tables for our country and those who delivered us such a great gift with their lives, fortunes and sacred honor.

Let’s giving thanks for those who gave us so much.

Let’s give thanks to the God who showed His hand behind it all.

On behalf of Salem Media, I’m Seth Leibsohn wishing you a very Happy Thanksgiving!

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