Jerome R. Corsi's Blog, page 22
September 1, 2025
Angels and demons: Watch Tucker Carlson on overwhelming evidence the supernatural world is entirely real
There’s a lot that science can’t explain, including most of what actually matters. Lee Strobel on the overwhelming evidence that the supernatural world is entirely real.
(0:00) Introduction
(3:02) Strobel’s Encounter With an Angel
(8:30) Do We Have a Guardian Angel?
(19:31) What… pic.twitter.com/0WsNeb1sBW
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) September 1, 2025
‘I want the answer, and I want it NOW’: Trump demands drug companies justify success of COVID shots
President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi depart the White House enroute to the U. S. Park Police Anacostia Operations Facility, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Official White House photo by Daniel Torok)President Donald Trump on Monday demanded drug companies justify the success of COVID shots, saying the Centers For Disease Control is “being ripped apart over this question.”
In a lengthy post on Truth Social, the president stated: “It is very important that the Drug Companies justify the success of their various Covid Drugs. Many people think they are a miracle that saved Millions of lives. Others disagree!
“With CDC being ripped apart over this question, I want the answer, and I want it NOW. I have been shown information from Pfizer, and others, that is extraordinary, but they never seem to show those results to the public. Why not???
“They go off to the next ‘hunt’ and let everyone rip themselves apart, including Bobby Kennedy Jr. and CDC, trying to figure out the success or failure of the Drug Companies Covid work.
“They show me GREAT numbers and results, but they don’t seem to be showing them to many others. I want them to show them NOW, to CDC and the public, and clear up this MESS, one way or the other!!!
“I hope OPERATION WARP SPEED was as ‘BRILLIANT’ as many say it was. If not, we all want to know about it, and why??? Thank you for your attention to this very important matter!”
In 2020, during the president’s first term in office, the Trump administration launched Operation Warp Speed, which accelerated testing and approval of COVID jabs as the coronavirus swept across America.
The World Health Organization indicates at least 70% of Americans have gotten both shots of the COVID-19 vaccine as of 2025, with more than 711 million doses having been administered in the U.S.
But the vaccines administered by Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson, came under fierce criticism in 2021 for failing to stop breakthrough infections, as many who got the shots developed COVID-19 nonetheless.
Air Force Staff Sgt. Daniel Monzon-Kazhe holds a box of Moderna COVID-19 vaccines at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Dec. 26, 2020. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Gabrielle Spalding)“This development is a total game changer and is sending shock waves throughout the global establishment,” Alex Jones of Infowars said Monday.
“Trump knows he was set up and knows the truth is coming out so he is getting ahead of it. Mark my words this is over the top good news!”
“The whole thing’s already come down. The whole world is waking up. The majority of people know it’s pure poison. Three percent even take the new, stupid boosters. So Trump understands he was set up.”
“We’ve been all over this,” Jones added. “It’s the shot that kills you, the shot that erases the immune system.”
THIS IS MASSIVE! President Trump Calls For An Investigation into Operation Warp Speed!
In this EXCLUSIVE report I lay out why this development is a total game changer and is sending shock waves throughout the global establishment.
Trump knows he was set up and knows the Truth… pic.twitter.com/2PG0PvlABp
— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) September 1, 2025
Trump rarely mentions the pandemic except for praising the rapid development of COVID vaccines, which he termed a “Christmas miracle” in December 2020.
According to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll in May, only 30% of Republicans now believe the COVID shot is safe, while 55% of independents and 87% of Democrats feel that way.
Trump’s secretary for Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has been grappling with health officials at the CDC after putting a stop to emergency authorization for COVID shots and changing their standards to exclude most children and healthy adults.
Susan Monarez, the CDC director, was fired Wednesday after serving less than a month in that position. The White House told the New York Times she was booted because her opinions on inoculations differed from those of Kennedy, a well-known skeptic of vaccines.
“When CDC Director Susan Monarez refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts, she chose protecting the public over serving a political agenda. For that, she has been targeted,” said Monarez’s lawyers Abbe Lowell and Mark Zaid.
“This is not about one official. It is about the systematic dismantling of public health institutions, the silencing of experts, and the dangerous politicization of science.”
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‘I messed up’: Rosie O’Donnell apologizes after lying about trans school shooter and smearing Trump supporters
Rosie O’Donnell is now apologizing for falsely claiming last week’s shooter at the Catholic school in Minneapolis was a “Republican, MAGA person” and “white supremacist.”
Her original video in the wake of the horror at the Annunciation Catholic Church and School that killed two children and wounded 18 others has the actress stating: “Saw about the Minnesota shooting, and it brought me right back to Columbine in 1999 when I just could not get it through my head that students in America were shooting each other in schools,” she asserted on TikTok.
“This was a church inside a Catholic school. And what do you know? This was a white guy, Republican, MAGA person, what do you know? White supremacist.”
This Herpe infested Ireland resident is saying the tr*ns school shooter in Minnesota was MAGA, republican, white supremacist – even though one of the magazines said “k*ll Trump”
TDS is strong in this one pic.twitter.com/uve8wfXBf9
— Sara Rose (@saras76) August 29, 2025
Now the fierce critic of President Donald Trump is admitting she “messed up” and did not do her “due diligence.”
“I know a lot of you were very upset about the video I made before I went away for a few days,” O’Donnell began.
“I didn’t go online and haven’t seen them ’til today, but you are right. I did not do my due diligence before I made that emotional statement, and I said things about the shooter that were incorrect.”
Rosie is hitting TikTok to offer an apology for blaming the MN shooting on MAGA.
Hatred messes with ya mentally…
She can’t afford to make many mistakes. pic.twitter.com/JkHGBUm9Ip
— Drunk Cicero (@Drunk_Cicero) August 31, 2025
“I assumed, like most shooters, they followed a standard M.O. and had standard, you know, feelings of … you know, NRA loving kind of gun people,” O’Donnell continued.
“Anyway, the truth is, I messed up, and when you mess up, you fess up. I’m sorry, this is my apology video, and I hope it’s enough.”
In reality, the shooter has been identified as Robert Westman, a transgender who legally changed his name to Robin Westman in 2017 with the support of his mother.
Robin (Robert) WestmanHe was not a Trump-supporting MAGA person, as one of the messages on the magazine of his gun stated, “Kill Donald Trump.”
O’Donnell is now living in Ireland, having fled the U.S. due to her loathing of President Trump.
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‘I am not right’: Catholic school shooter identified as anti-Trump transgender
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‘I should have warned you’: Watch Trey Gowdy apologize for subjecting Fox News viewers to ‘cruel and unusual punishment’
Trey GowdyFox News host Trey Gowdy quipped on Sunday that he should have warned viewers before airing clips of protesters singing on his show.
The clips featured various protests where Democrats and left-wing groups that oppose multiple policies of the Trump administration, including its efforts to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an adjudicated MS-13 member, sang. Gowdy, a former prosecutor and Republican congressman, told viewers that aside from one brief moment in a clip, the compilation might fall under “cruel and unusual punishment.”
“Welcome back to ‘Sunday Night in America,’ I think. I’m sorry, I should have warned you before you had to witness that,” Gowdy said. “AOC does have a little bit of rhythm, but the rest of that constitutes a cruel and unusual punishment. Democrats have tried embracing criminal defendants, socialism, they tried cursing, dancing cursing while dancing. It might be simpler than that.”
WATCH:
In one of the songs, protesters in pink vests sang, “Kilmar is our neighbor, you can’t have him, Trump.” Another song featured singers on a stage saying, “We will not obey.”
Democrats have appeared to struggle with messaging since President Donald Trump defeated then-Vice President Kamala Harris in the Nov. 5, 2024, presidential election, with some turning to profanity.
Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas unleashed two notable instances noted by Politico. On Feb. 25, she told White House senior advisor Elon Musk to “fuck off” during a media interview, before saying someone should “slap” her to “wake me the fuck up” when talking with a reporter after she walked out of Trump’s March 4 address to Congress.
Over 20 Senate Democrats read the same script on a video posted to social media that included the word “bullshit” in March, drawing criticism from Democratic strategist Lis Smith, who reportedly was responsible for an “R” rating for a documentary about former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign due to her facility for salty language, in an interview with Politico.
Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York posted a photo on Instagram on July 7 that appeared to be photoshopped to make him look thinner. The post was later deleted.
Alongside the clips of the singing, a video that influencer Sulhee Jessica Woo posted on Instagram on March 5 featuring Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Lauren Underwood of Illinois, Katherine Clark of Massachusetts, Judy Chu of California, Jasmine Crockett of Texas and Susie Lee of Nevada was also shown. Woo’s 18-second video was similar to the character selection screens of the arcade and console franchise “Street Fighter.”
A similar video of singing protesters was posted in March, showing former National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins leading a crowd of protesters in a song during an anti-Trump rally.
“You got that, so it’s all the good people, but the second line, part of this family, the last line, we’re joined together by this noble dream. Do that with me,” Collins said before breaking into the song.
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When evidence is branded as hate
On today’s campuses, evidence itself is too often branded as hostility. Research that once sparked debate now risks being dismissed as “harm.” At Sarah Lawrence College, that reflex has escalated further: a faculty member joined students in a federal lawsuit, mischaracterizing scholarship as an “attack.” That isn’t mentoring or teaching. It is indoctrination in grievance tactics, and it represents a dangerous turning point for higher education.
I know this firsthand. In a complaint just filed in the Southern District of New York (Case 1:25-cv-06442, filed August 5, 2025), a group of students and a faculty member sued Sarah Lawrence College and Congress over the potential release of material related to campus protests and violent building occupation. Though the case is not about me or my writing, the filing made use of well-known anti-Semitic tropes against me as a Jewish and Zionist professor – the filing invoked the “myth of Jewish greed” and posited that I am a “mouthpiece for…deep-pocketed benefactors” – and then made note of my co-authored article in Real Clear Investigations, The Rise of the Single Woke (and Young, Democratic) Female, mislabeling it as an “attack” on “politically active women.”
The claim about my article is false and irresponsible and was presumably uttered, in part, in response to my Jewish faith and Zionist heritage. Unsurprisingly, the claim was made by fiat and declared as an “attack” without further commentary or data. The article, in reality, is not a polemic but an empirical exploration of how unmarried, childless Millennials and Gen Z women have emerged as a decisive Democratic voting bloc.
The demographic shifts we highlighted are profound. In the 2022 midterms, CNN exit polls showed that 68 percent of unmarried women voted Democratic, while married men, married women, and unmarried men leaned Republican, according to exit polling data. That stark divide reflects decades of change. In 1950, only about one in five women had never married; today it is more than one in three. Over the same period, the share of married women fell from nearly 70 percent to under half, and the percentage of households anchored by married couples with children dropped from 37 percent in 1976 to just 21 percent today. Attitudes have shifted alongside these patterns: nearly two-thirds of women under 30 now say what happens to other women directly affects them, compared with fewer than half of women over 50.
These are not opinions; they are empirical realities. And they raise many pressing questions: What happens when partisan identity increasingly maps onto marital status? What does it mean for civic institutions when family formation diverges so sharply along ideological lines? How should policymakers adapt to an electorate in which marriage and childbearing arrive later—or never?
These are precisely the kinds of questions collegiate environments should welcome – especially at Sarah Lawrence College, which was a pioneer in women’s history. Instead, the data was labeled as an “attack.”
Making such serious claims about ideas and written work isn’t laziness. It is an active assault on scholarly norms.
The proper role of faculty is always the same: challenge, publish counter-analysis, invite debate. That is how disciplines evolve, and how students learn the habits of democratic citizenship. What professors may never do, without betraying their profession, is collaborate with students to suppress data and ideas because it makes some uncomfortable. Colleges should be centers where students are occasionally uncomfortable because they encounter questions and ideas that unsettle them, their norms, biases, and prejudices. A solid liberal arts education will ensure that students “learn to work through differences in opinion, cultures, and worldviews.”
The consequences of seeing a professor model the behavior in this complaint are profound. When students are taught and see in legal cases that disagreement equals hostility and analysis equals harm, they don’t learn how to debate, govern, or compromise. They learn fragility, not resilience; smears, not study. They carry these habits into civic life, where compromise and persuasion are essential.
The chilling effect is obvious. An inconvenient demographic finding could be caricatured as “hate,” and that impulse could silence generations of scholars whose work asks hard questions about family, inequality, or political behavior. Scholarship would wither not because it was wrong but because it was risky.
This is not the first time America has seen research suppressed by outrage. In the late 1960s, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s report on the Black family identified troubling demographic trends. The data were real, but the backlash was immediate. Critics denounced the report as racist, and for years it was sidelined. Only later did scholars and policymakers acknowledge how prescient some of the findings had been. The lesson is clear: dismissing evidence because it is uncomfortable does not erase problems; it only makes society less prepared to address them.
This matters beyond the ivory tower. Parents who send their children to college expect them to encounter ideas, wrestle with evidence, and emerge more capable of handling life in a pluralistic democracy. Taxpayers fund public research with the expectation that truth-seeking, not political theater, will guide universities. When faculty instead model fragility and teach students to weaponize institutions against inquiry, it is not just the academy that suffers: it is every citizen who depends on universities to cultivate knowledge, resilience, and civic competence.
The same mistake is being repeated now. The proper response to papers that challenge norms has always been more evidence, sharper arguments, deeper debate. If professors think my work is flawed, they should marshal counter-data, publish alternative analyses, and invite open discussion. That is how students learn what genuine intellectual engagement looks like.
Our article asked questions; it did not pass judgment. Our piece ends with a question:
“Ultimately, the question remains what kind of society Americans want to have. Historically, here in the U.S. and elsewhere, the family perspective has generally been prevalent and tied intimately to the sense of a common polity. But as the country changes and becomes ever more single and female-influenced, the historical pattern is likely to be challenged and significantly modified.”
There is a difference between inquiry, which seeks understanding, and ideology, which demands conformity. Our piece is about inquiry. But when faculty collapse that distinction, they abandon their professional and ethical core.
In short, the irony here is stark. Labeling empirical analysis and demographic data as an “attack” does not protect students: it impoverishes them. It is not an act of solidarity: it is an abdication of responsibility to truth. A university that cannot engage demographic evidence without moral panic is not preparing citizens for democracy—it is training partisans in outrage.
The trends we documented are real and consequential. They will shape party coalitions, civic institutions, and American life for decades to come. Ignoring them or recasting them as hostility will not erase them. It will only leave us unprepared for the change already underway.
Professors are stewards of intellectual life. Their task is not to amplify outrage but to cultivate argument. When they fail, they betray both their students and their profession. When professors trade evidence for indignation, they do not teach citizens; they train partisans. And parents, students, and citizens alike have no reason to trust them.
This article was originally published by RealClearEducation and made available via RealClearWire.Don’t delay recommitting to Pacific security plan
A U.S. Marine Corps AH-1Z Viper attached to 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit dispenses flares while conducting threat counter tactics training over the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. (U.S. Marine Corps photo)September 15 marks the fourth anniversary of the Australia-United Kingdom-United States (AUKUS) partnership established to develop an Australian nuclear submarine enterprise. Achieving this objective was never going to be easy or cheap, but all three parties are honoring their commitments and making progress.
The upside of AUKUS for America is twofold. It supports our goal to deter China from a war this decade, and it’s invigorating domestic American submarine construction with Australian money: over $800 million so far.
However, amid nagging concerns that American shipbuilders may be unable to meet the increased shipbuilding demand, the Department of Defense has initiated a review of AUKUS. The results are anticipated this fall, which the Australian Deputy Prime Minister, while at the recent Submarine Institute of Australia conference, welcomed as something that can bring added focus and improvement to the AUKUS enterprise.
For the time being, the question hangs in the air: Will leadership in the Pentagon recommend cancellation, modification, or maintaining the current course of action? The longer uncertainty clouds Washington’s commitment to AUKUS, the more progress and investments may stall. A prompt conclusion is needed to prevent costly second guessing.
Why Nuclear Submarines for Australia?
Since the peak of the Cold War, Australian naval leaders recognized their reliance on distant sea lanes necessitated the endurance and speed of nuclear submarines. But with the end of the Cold War, a compromise was made for the development of the conventionally powered Collins-class and its successor, the failed Attack-class program.
Until the advent of AUKUS, China did not exhibit significant concern over U.S. military presence in Australia. Beijing’s perception shifted with the prospect of an increased number of nuclear submarines nearby that it could not counter.
Consequently, there have been persistent reports of heightened Chinese naval presence in nearby waters and investments in the greater Perth area and HMAS Stirling, the naval base where AUKUS nuclear submarines will be stationed. As in other circumstances, such presence can facilitate intelligence gathering and provide a platform for United Front efforts to undermine local support for the AUKUS initiative. This isn’t a supposition; a 2019 scandal broke when elected officials were found to have connections to the Chinese Communist Party.
The overarching strategy for AUKUS, referred to as the “optimum pathway,” encompasses the deployment of increased American and British nuclear submarines to Stirling to sensitize the local community and build-up local infrastructure. A pivotal milestone is approaching, and substantial progress has been made, yet concerns remain.
In 2027, the inaugural U.S. and British nuclear submarines will establish a permanent presence at Stirling. Following a recent visit by this author, the base appears ready given success of several recent nuclear submarine visits, including an apparent unplanned repair stop. However, the establishment of a permanent base entails an additional challenge beyond hosting crews and submarine replenishment capabilities.
The proximity of nearby shipyards and the presence of a diverse range of local and foreign firms present a challenge. When the first nuclear submarine makes Stirling home, substantial shipyard capacity, particularly for a dry dock, will be required. Currently, this capacity is lacking and interfering commercial activity, necessitates a significant reorganization in and around the so-called Henderson Defence Precinct – the likely interim disruption this will cause can be mitigated with a floating dry dock.
For example, Henderson’s and Stirling’s facilities must simultaneously support the existing Collins submarine fleet, host an expanding fleet of surface warships, and potentially accommodate domestic production for Australia of Japan’s Mogami-class frigates. Consequently, relocating commercial activities from the naval shipyard and conducting planned naval maintenance and shipbuilding necessitates the immediate addition of shipyard capacity.
During a recent week-long visit by this author to the greater Perth region, it became evident that there is ample political support, 67% popular support, and substantial Australian resources dedicated. Nevertheless, it’s critical the intricate waterfront reorganization be resolved within a timely manner so that the arrival of the first nuclear submarine to Stirling isn’t compromised.
All told, the challenges ahead for AUKUS are well within Western Australia’s capacity to overcome, should Canberra and Washington stay the course. The only logical conclusion for the review in Washington is recommitting to AUKUS and making any needed adjustment, since an AUKUS success is a win for Americans.
Brent Sadler is a Senior Research Fellow for Naval Warfare and Advanced Technology at The Heritage Foundation’s Allison Center for National Security.
This article was originally published by RealClearDefense and made available via RealClearWire.‘Hurting them in the pocketbook’: Border crackdown has cost Mexican cartels over $1 billion
People hide in a truck bed uncovered by Operation Lone Star Task Force in Kinney County, Texas. (Kinney County Sheriff’s Office)EL PASO, Texas—Since the start of 2025, border security measures have cost the Mexican cartels more than $1 billion, according to estimates by the El Paso Sector of the Border Patrol in Texas.
“We’re hurting them in the pocketbook,” interim Border Patrol Chief for the El Paso Sector Walter Slosar tells The Daily Signal.
In recent years, Slosar says he can recall days when as many as 2,700 illegal aliens were arriving at the border daily, but now, Border Patrol is encountering about 40 illegal aliens a day in the El Paso Sector, which includes the two westernmost counties in Texas—Hudspeth and El Paso—and all of New Mexico.
The criminal cartels control much of the Mexican side of the southern border and force illegal aliens to pay them to either be guided to the border or smuggled across. In 2021, a House Homeland Security Committee report found that the cartels made an estimated $13 billion on human smuggling alone.
The cartels charge migrants varying amounts, based upon factors such as where they are from, if they have family in the U.S. with financial means, or if they have a criminal record.
Border Crackdown Has Cost Mexican Cartels Over $1 Billion | @Virginia_Allen5
Since the start of 2025, border security measures have cost the Mexican cartels more than $1 billion, according to estimates by the El Paso Sector of the Border Patrol in Texas.
“We’re hurting them in… pic.twitter.com/9N437EEnbK
— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) August 29, 2025
With the change in border policies under the Trump administration, “smuggling fees are going through the roof,” Slosar says. “They used to get two or three attempts per smuggling payments. Now they’re getting one. If they get returned, they’ve got to pay again, so it’s really slowing down that volume.”
In fiscal year 2021, Customs and Border Protection encountered more than 1.5 million illegal aliens at the southern border, compared with fewer than 450,000 so far in fiscal year 2025, which ends Sept. 30.
Because Border Patrol only has so many agents, the volume of illegal aliens arriving at the border is “always our Achilles heel,” Slosar said.
In recent years, criminal organizations used mass migration numbers as a tool to occupy agents and keep them away from areas of the border where cartels might be smuggling people or drugs.
“But the policies that take illegal immigration, illegal border crossing … seriously as a crime [have] been what’s really supported us,” he said of the recent changes.
The illegal aliens who are still crossing the border into the El Paso Sector are largely single adults from Mexico, Guatemala, and Ecuador, Slosar says, and are “attempting to enter with a nefarious purpose.”
The difference at the border now compared with what it was in recent years, Slosar explained, is that illegal aliens “are running from the Border Patrol” and agents are “chasing them down, whereas [during] the previous three, four years, they were looking for us. They knew they were going to be able to come in. They knew they were going to be able to stay. The criminal organizations made sure that they were able to come across, use the asylum laws as a way to stay here, [and] have a court date years in advance. But right now, catch-and-release—it’s over.”
The current border is the “most secure border we’ve ever had,” Slosar says.
There are hundreds of ports of entry across the U.S. and opportunity to come to country the legal way, Slosar says, adding that criminal organizations and foreign terrorist organizations continue “to solicit and entice persons to attempt to enter the country illegally.”
The Trump administration has made border security one of its top priorities. On his first day back in office, President Donald Trump acted to stop the flow of illegal immigration through ending “catch and release,” designating some criminal cartels as terrorist organizations and declaring a national emergency at the southern border.
In July, Trump signed into law the so-called Big, Beautiful Bill, which allocates $165 billion for the Department of Homeland Security, including $46.5 billion to complete border wall construction, $3.2 billion for “new technology,” and $2.7 billion for “new cutting-edge border surveillance,” according to the DHS.
Slosar says his goal for his agents is “to be able to come in, do their job every day with the right equipment, with the right technology, and be able to put bad people in jail and protect the American public.”
[Editor’s note: This story originally was published by The Daily Signal.]
When Washington gets out of the way, energy workers deliver results
This Labor Day feels different.
After years of paying too much at the pump and hearing politicians in Washington tell us it was all Putin’s fault, American families are finally getting relief. The reason is simple: our energy workers have an administration that lets them do their jobs. The results are undeniable.
This weekend, gas prices are the lowest they’ve been since 2020. According to GasBuddy, the national average for Labor Day 2025 is $3.15 a gallon. Compare that to Labor Day 2022, when drivers were shelling out an average of $3.83. That’s a 68-cent difference, and for families packing up the minivan for one last summer road trip, it means real savings. When Washington gets out of the way, energy workers deliver.
And deliver they have. America is now producing nearly 13.5 million barrels of oil a day, the highest level in our nation’s history. That production doesn’t happen in some ivory tower or Washington think tank—it happens in oil fields, on rigs, and in refineries where American workers put in long hours to keep our nation fueled. Thanks to their work, the United States is the largest oil-producing country in the world, outpacing even Saudi Arabia and Russia.
But it’s not just oil. The U.S. is also the world’s largest producer of natural gas liquids, critical fuels that heat our homes, power our factories, and keep energy affordable. Together, oil and natural gas account for more than 10 million American jobs and contribute nearly $2 trillion to the U.S. economy. Those numbers aren’t just statistics—they represent livelihoods, small businesses, and communities that depend on a strong energy sector.
Contrast that with the policies from just a few short years ago. Labor Day 2022 came on the heels of massive inflation and record energy costs. Prices were high not because American workers weren’t willing to deliver, but because Washington was actively standing in the way. Permits delayed, pipelines blocked, and a green political agenda superseded paychecks and prices at the pump.
Today, the change is obvious. With President Trump’s America First Energy policy, Washington is finally working with—not against—the men and women who power our nation. The results speak louder than any speech: lower prices for families, record production for workers, and a stronger America on the global stage. Energy dominance is no longer a campaign slogan—it’s happening in real time.
This Labor Day, as we enjoy the barbecues and road trips that mark the unofficial end of summer, we should take a moment to celebrate the American energy worker. They are the reason gas is cheaper, the reason America leads the world in production, and the reason our economy is stronger today.
And here’s the best news: if we stay the course with President Trump’s America First Energy policy, there will be even more to celebrate in the years ahead. Lower prices, stronger jobs, and a nation that relies on its own workers—not foreign cartels—for energy security.
This Labor Day feels different, but with America First Energy it could simply become the new normal.
Larry Behrens is an energy expert and the Communications Director for Power The Future. He has appeared on Fox News, ZeroHedge, and NewsMax speaking in defense of American energy workers. You can follow him on X/Twitter @larrybehrens
This article was originally published by RealClearEnergy and made available via RealClearWire.‘Wasteful’: Trump deals big blow to Biden’s offshore wind dreams
The Department of Transportation (DOT) announced Friday that it either withdrew or terminated funding for 12 offshore wind projects in a move that continues the Trump administration’s crackdown on the green energy technology former President Joe Biden favored.
The DOT stated that the project funding amounted to $679 million taxpayer dollars, labeled the funding as “wasteful” and noted that the administration is focused on revitalizing the maritime industry over “fantasy wind projects.” The Trump administration has recently halted or moved to kill massive wind projects in addition to these, with the Department of the Interior (DOI) targeting three major Biden-era wind farms recently.
“Wasteful, wind projects are using resources that could otherwise go towards revitalizing America’s maritime industry,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on Friday. “Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg bent over backwards to use transportation dollars for their Green New Scam agenda while ignoring the dire needs of our shipbuilding industry. Thanks to President Trump, we are prioritizing real infrastructure improvements over fantasy wind projects that cost much and offer little.”
The DOT noted that under the Trump administration, it will prioritize building more American ships and boosting reliable forms of energy. The agency may “recompete” the funds to “critical port upgrades” or other relevant infrastructure projects, the DOT said.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to “restore maritime dominance” on April 9 and has continually bashed and vowed to end Biden’s energy policies that he’s termed the “green new scam.” Biden routed billions into solar, wind and offshore wind initiatives during his presidency and greenlit a huge wind farm over resident protests during his final weeks in the Oval Office that Trump has since moved to scrap approval for.
The Trump administration has critiqued the intermittent energy technology Biden preferred, with the DOI labeling wind and solar as “unreliable,” “foreign-controlled” and ended any “preferable treatment” for the technologies on federal lands on July 30. Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act is also phasing out green energy tax credits that the Biden administration championed.
Notably, offshore wind has also been criticized by some environmentalists, fishermen and the Trump administration for posing dangers to wildlife. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation that the Biden administration did not adequately review the environmental impacts of some offshore wind projects before approval.
“The actions taken by the Biden Administration show a complete lack of regard for the decades of rigorous scientific research and expertise that formed NOAA’s environmental protection recommendations for offshore wind projects,” a spokesperson for the NOAA told the DCNF. “Internal records kept by NOAA scientists show that the Biden Administration ignored NOAA’s guidelines meant to safeguard the ecosystem, rubber-stamping these greenwashed projects and ignoring the negative impacts of offshore wind on the marine environment.”
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Abortion-coercion concerns surrounding mail-order pill mount with new reports
Readily available mail-order abortion pills have reportedly been used to trick women into ending the lives of their unborn children in multiple recent coercion cases, sparking concerns about forced abortions.
At least four alleged incidents of coerced abortions using the pill have already been reported across the country in 2025 alone, including cases in Texas, Illinois and Louisiana.
An Illinois man was charged Aug. 23 and charged with two counts of intentional homicide of an unborn child for giving mifepristone to his seven-week pregnant girlfriend without her knowledge, according to local reports.
Police reportedly found his girlfriend crying in a bathroom and with a fetus in the toilet, 25News Now reported. The man said he obtained the mifepristone from a “girl on campus” for $50 and claimed to believe his girlfriend knew he was giving her the pills.
Sarah Zagorski, senior director of public relations and communication at Americans United for Life, told the Daily Caller News Foundation her organization is “concerned about the growing number of forced abortions resulting from the FDA dangerously stripping commonsense safety measures from its approval of mifepristone.”
“Anyone, including abusers and predators can and have obtained these pills with nefarious intent,” she said. “States must pass laws similar to those in Louisiana, Texas and West Virginia that protect women and girls and instate penalties for abortion pill traffickers.”
In Texas, reports indicate there have been at least three women forced into abortions unknowingly, along with one pressured into taking the pills, since 2024.
A Texas woman alleged in a lawsuit filed Aug. 11 that a man killed her unborn child by secretly dissolving abortion pills into her hot chocolate. Aid Access, a popular online abortion pill provider that sent pills to the man, is named as a defendant in the case.
The lawsuit alleges Aid Access and its founder, Dr. Rebecca Gompert, along with the man, are “guilty of felony murder.”
Jerry Rodriguez, a father whose two unborn children were killed using abortion pills, sued the California doctor who prescribed the drugs in July. While the mother initially wanted to give birth to the babies, her husband, who she had been separated from for years, ordered abortion pills from Dr. Remy Coeytaux online and pressured her to take them, accordingto the lawsuit.
A federal Bureau of Prisons employee was arrested June in Texas for allegedly spiking his girlfriend’s drink with abortion drugs. A Texas attorney, Mason Herring, was sentenced in February 2024 to 180 days in jail after secretly giving abortion drugs to his pregnant wife, according to The New York Times.
“I believe this was a flagrant and profound injustice,” his wife, who believed the sentence was not enough, told the NYT.
Attorney General Ken Paxton sent cease-and-desist letters Aug. 20 to three entities shipping abortion drugs to Texas, including Aid Access and Coeytaux.
Paxton also sued in December 2024 a New York doctor who founded the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine, Dr. Margaret Daley Carpenter, for shipping pills to Texas. Citing the state’s recently enacted shield law, a New York county clerk refused in March to enforce the $100,000 judgement against Carpenter, prompting Paxton to sue the clerk in July.
A Louisiana grand jury indicted Carpenter on Jan. 31 for sending pills to a mother who gave the drugs to her minor daughter, even though the teen did not want an abortion.
“The allegations in this case have nothing to do with reproductive health care,” Republican Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill told the NYT. “This is about coercion. This is about forcing somebody to have an abortion who didn’t want one.”
Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has vowed not to turn Carpenter over to Louisiana.
“No state, no matter how pro-life, is currently safe from a flood of unregulated mail-order abortion drugs,” Katie Daniel, director of legal affairs and policy counsel for Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, said in a statement. “Blue-state ‘shield laws’ protect abortionists and activists who break the laws of other states – fueling domestic violence, putting women in the ER, taking the lives of their children against their will.”
Five online abortion providers supplied pills for “future use” without a doctor verifying key eligibility requirements during a DCNF investigation in June. At least one organization that supplied pills allegedly used to coerce a woman, Aid Access, also sent pills to the DCNF.
These kinds of cases have continued to arise across the country in recent years.
A nurse practitioner in Washington pleaded guilty in July after secretly giving abortion pills, which he had prescribed to himself, to his girlfriend, The News Tribune reported. His medical licenses were suspended in 2024 after he was charged.
In Massachusetts, a man who allegedly told his girlfriend abortion drugs were “iron pills or other vitamins” was chargedin May 2024.
In Florida, a woman was charged in 2023 for trying to get the mother of her ex-boyfriend’s unborn child to take the abortion pill, according to the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office.
A Wisconsin man was sentenced to five years in prison in April 2022 for “Attempted First Degree Homicide of an Unborn Child” after he placed crushed mifepristone in his girlfriend’s water bottle.
One California man held his girlfriend at gunpoint in 2019 to force her to take pills that ended her pregnancy, per localnews reports. He was sentenced to a year in jail in 2022.
Some states have passed laws specifically targeting coercion. Republican Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee signed a law in April that makes tricking someone into taking an abortion-inducing drug a felony.
The pill has also been used to force women into abortions outside of the U.S.
In the U.K., a man was convicted in October 2024 for spiking a woman’s orange juice with the abortion pill, according to local authorities. Another man was sentenced to 10 years in prison in July 2025 for secretly giving a woman the pill.
Of more than 200 women who reported abortions in a 2023 survey by the Charlotte Lozier Institute, one in four women described their abortions as “unwanted or coerced.”
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