The tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk has sparked a wave of engagement from conservative shareholders of MasterCard, alphabet, PayPal, Salesforce, meta, Amazon, Texas Instrument, Starbucks, and others.

Kirk's organization, Turning Point USA has been listed on the Southern Poverty Law Center's hate map and the SPLC's rhetoric has now been linked to multiple acts of violence.

Conservative investors are pushing back.

The Heritage Foundation and portfolio manager David Monson are leading these proposals, demanding that these companies stop using SPLC data to guide policy.

The message is clear: The vague and politicized narrative is bad business. If you own stock in or use these companies: Speak up, vote your shares, the SPLC doesn't speak for corporate America or its shareholders.

Political neutrality isn't just fair, it's smart business.

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America has a huge illegal drug poisoning problem. From 2021 to 2024 the American drug poisoning death toll was six times the number of deaths from Vietnam, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined. Six times the number of Americans died from drugs in four years compared to Americans who died in those combined wars that lasted decades. In those four years, nary a peep was heard from the White House—and neither the President nor Vice-President gave a single speech on it.

Help is on the way.

A dynamic communicator in Sara Carter has been nominated Drug Czar; we have sealed the border, stopping much of the flow of fentanyl; we are arresting cartelized gangs; and taking out drug boats in international waters. These are huge gains in addressing the supply side of the drug problem and, combined with demand side prevention messaging, we could be on the cusp of turning around this too-undiscussed pandemic of death.

Kudos to the Trump administration for taking on this neglected, but deadly serious, issue. Lives will be saved.

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As we look at the New York City mayor’s race and the prospects of their actually electing Zohran Mamdani, the questions are emerging:

How bad could he be?

And:

How bad could it get?

The answers are "very" and "very much worse than it is right now, which isn’t great to begin with."

Many Cuomo voters are throwing in with Cuomo for the most practical of reasons: 300,000 people work for New York City and Comrade Mamdani has no idea how to run a city of that size.

Whatever your ideology, no one wants to live through a disaster in governance. That’s what a vote for Mamdani is: A vote for chaos.

New York City is no place for a rookie mayor. Pray that a surge of usually indifferent voters turns up by Tuesday, that they vote for Cuomo and resist the temptation to throw away their vote on Curtis Sliwa. The stakes are just too high.

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Twenty-four years ago it would have seemed unimaginable. Americans stood in horror watching the World Trade Center collapse—2,753 innocent people murdered by Islamist terrorists. Now, incredibly, a radical Muslim is poised to become New York City’s mayor.

Zohran Mamdani’s rise could be an American success story—proof our country isn’t the racist place the Left claims it is. But his politics make that impossible.

He’s refused to condemn the antisemitic chant “globalize the intifada.”

He’s been photographed with a potential co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. And one of his associates claimed America deserved 9/11.

When critics raise concerns, Mamdani and his allies cry “Islamophobia.” But it’s not bigotry to reject hatred and extremism—or to remember the lives lost on 9/11.

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Thirteen times. Republicans have offered Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats that many opportunities to reopen the government with a clean continuing resolution. Thirteen times … and Schumer and his caucus chose again and again times to keep the federal government closed—all in an attempt to force Donald Trump and the GOP to repudiate their reconciliation bill reforms.

This game of chicken only gets worse for Democrats. Federal workers will miss another paycheck at the end of the week. Their largest union demanded that Senate Democrats pass the CR—but to no avail.

Worse yet, payments for food stamps will halt on Saturday unless the Senate can restore its funding. That will impact some 30 million Americans—and what’s on their kitchen tables--immediately.

Senate Majority Leader Thune told reporters several Democrats want to end the standoff, but they fear retribution from the radical Left if they end the filibuster. Perhaps they should fear the hard-working, working class American voters they’re throwing under the bus instead.

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For too long universities here have operated as islands, separate from their country, promoting junk thought and radical ideology. Thus, the Trump administration has proposed a funding compact for universities to receive federal dollars. This includes universities that host organizations supporting terrorist networks. Universities hosting organizations that fight for the total eradication of Western civilization—and give admission to students from other countries who lead those organizations.

The Compact is commonsense: calling for admissions based on objective criteria, support for a vibrant marketplace of ideas, civil discourse, non-discrimination in hiring, and institutional neutrality (like other non-profits). A number of universities are refusing.

Why? They believe they should be entitled to your money, even as they are contemptuous of your values, American values. Universities promoting and teaching ideas alien to the best human civilization can offer, and using criteria alien to any notion of civil rights, should end. Now.

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Germany has given the world many of the West’s most cherished Christmas traditions, including its famous Christmas markets. For centuries, these festive fairs drew visitors from across the world, and filled town squares with lights, music, and laughter.

But no longer. This year, most of Germany’s Christmas markets won’t open at all. After Islamist terror attacks in Berlin and Magdeburg security costs have skyrocketed, and many organizers simply can’t afford to operate. Police and authorities now admit they’re “overwhelmed” and unable to prevent new terrorist attacks. And so a centuries-old celebration of faith and tradition is simply fading away.

This is how a country and a civilization collapses: when capitulation replaces conviction, and leaders no longer believe their own culture is worth defending and therefore surrender their heritage without a fight.

Shame on German’s cowardly, failed leadership.

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Senate Democrats keeping the government shut down are playing checkers—and forcing Senate Republicans to play chess.

This week, Chuck Schumer followed up “No Kings” weekend by claiming that voters blame the GOP for the shutdown. Democrats leaked internal polling to that effect, except that the data actually showed a virtual tie on the question. And in the end, it’s not even the correct question.

Schumer initiated the shutdown to appease his radical fringe, who want total obstruction rather than reasoned governance. Most voters, however, want normal operation of both Congress and government. Regardless of what internal polls tell Schumer, Democrats have lost ground on polling on next year’s midterms, and the GOP has almost closed the gap in the three weeks of the shutdown.

In their haste to appease the radical Left, Democrats have opposed common-sense policies on immigration, crime, the Israel-Hamas conflict, DEI practices, transgender policies, and more.

Republicans have won this chess game by default. They should let Schumer keep playing checkers … and doing so badly.

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