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Is the Constitution really ‘propaganda’?

Is the U.S. Constitution, signed on Sept. 17, in the year of our Lord 1787, worth preserving? Of course it is. Is it worth defending, even at the cost of life and limb? Of course it is. Is it worth distributing to young and old, including in our schools? Of course it is.

Well, actually, not everybody agrees with that last part. Here is a 2-year-old story that somehow most of us never heard about.

The essence of the story is this: In Texas two Septembers ago, attempts to distribute pocket copies of the U.S. Constitution to public school students were almost thwarted by the liberal school board and district officials because the document was allegedly “propaganda.” Only because of the intervention of a conservative legal group were the copies allowed to be passed out after all.

To me, this is jaw-dropping. It’s as if some of these leftists were saying, “Hey, you can’t distribute the Constitution to school children, that’s unconstitutional!” It reminds me of the scene in the classic film “Dr. Strangelove”: “Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here. This is the War Room!”

I learned of this story from a national group called Citizens Defending Freedom, an organization dedicated to helping modern Americans appreciate what we have in the U.S. Constitution. Former U.S. Rep. Lt. Col. Allen West says of this constitutionally minded group: “Citizens Defending Freedom has put together the organization and strategy to extend liberty to the next generation. Their strategy is spot on, their tactics are solid, their success is astounding.”

Theoretically, in America, as one nation under God, “we the people” are in charge of our own government. But we all know that there are many elites in our culture who are at war with America as founded.

They are at war with the notion of “self-rule under God,” which is the essence of the experiment – from the Pilgrims who wrote up an agreement for self-government, “In the name of God. Amen,” in the Mayflower Compact (1620) to the Declaration of Independence (1787), which declares our rights from the Creator and our government is supposed be by “the consent of the governed” to the U.S. Constitution signed “in the year of our Lord” 1787, which explains how our government is supposed to work.

Here’s a timeline of the 2023 event where pocket editions of the Constitution – with no commentary, no additional quotes – were flagged and almost forbidden. I’m grateful to Robert Goodman, the Florida faith director of Citizens Defending Freedom, for providing the core outline of this story.

In early September 2023, the 917 Society, a group based in Tennessee, with the double goals of “the preservation of our Constitution and fostering a love for our country among our youth,” donated 17,000 pocket Constitutions to Williamson County, Texas, schools. This is an area just north of Austin. Goodman notes, “Citizens Defending Freedom (CDF) and Moms for Liberty helped distribute them.”

But they hit a snag on Sept. 10, when trying to hand out Constitutions to 8th graders at Leander Independent School District (LISD). The website of that educational institution says: “Located in Central Texas, Leander Independent School District serves parts of Austin, Cedar Park, Georgetown, Leander, Jonestown, and surrounding communities.”

I knew Austin was liberal – but that liberal?

On Sept. 14, LISD rejected more than 4,000 copies of the pocket Constitutions, because, allegedly, that would “prevent the District from maintaining a position of neutrality on political or religious issues or would create an appearance of favoritism on political or religious issues.”

We’re talking about the U.S. Constitution, not some evangelistic tract on how to receive the gift of salvation.

On Sept. 15, CDF attorney and the founder of Remnant Law, Jonathan Hullihan, sent a letter to the superintendent, “citing First Amendment and Texas law violations.”

I interviewed Hullihan about this crazy story for a radio segment. He said: “Some of the lower- level folks in the school district called it [the Constitution] ‘propaganda,’ and rejected it outright. That’s when we got involved.”

Thankfully, Hullihan’s letter caused the school board to relent and allow distribution of the constitutions after all. But not after someone called our founding document “propaganda.”

Jonathan Hullihan called this resolution of this case “a huge victory for free speech and civic education.”

As of this writing, America is 277 days away from our nation’s 250th birthday. What is that birthday? July 4, 2026, will be the 250th anniversary of when the Declaration of Independence was adopted by voice vote.

Of course, the Constitution is predicated on the Declaration, which says that our rights come from the Creator.

To see some leftist school officials try and block children in even a conservative state from reading the Constitution is mind-numbing. In anticipation of America’s 250th anniversary, we have our work cut out for us.

‘Witchy Wednesday’ shows moral free-fall in public schools

This past week, officials in an Orlando school district canceled a weekly high school video public address program called “Witchy Wednesday.”

Yes, it’s amazing that school officials allowed it in the first place.

Liberty Counsel, a national Christian legal group based in nearby Maitland, contacted West Orange Public Schools, asking them to either allow airing of a biblical response or let Christian students opt out. On Sept. 23, the district canceled the program.

The inaugural “Witchy Wednesday,” which debuted in West Orange High School in Winter Garden on Sept. 10, went like this:

A girl appears with a full moon backdrop, discussing moon cycles, burning incense and casting spells.

She advises her fellow students to “write your intuition down on your paper. Fold it three times. Burn your paper into your white candle. Burn it completely and entirely to have your intention released into the universe. That itself is your ‘Light of Insight’ at work. You then cleanse the space around you once more to finalize your spell.”

She concludes with, “That’s all for today, Warriors. Have a wicked Wednesday.”

If that doesn’t give you the creeps, you aren’t paying attention to the upsurge in occultic practice among teens and its corrosive effect on family life. Why listen to mom or dad when you can conjure a spell to get what you want?

Ever since public schools decades ago jettisoned Christianity in the name of tolerance, courts have established the principle of value neutrality. Maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that school officials in Orlando thought “Witchy Wednesday” was OK.

In a series of Supreme Court rulings, Christians, observant Jews and others have had to rely on claims of “viewpoint discrimination.”

The idea is to keep government instruction morally neutral. Christian and Jewish taxpayers, for example, don’t want to pay for Islamic schooling. But nature and schools abhor a vacuum, so somebody’s values will fill it. In many cases, secular humanists have done so.

Some schools even allow after-school Satan Clubs operated by the Satanic Temple to openly corrupt children. After all, Child Evangelism Fellowship has after-school Good News Clubs, and, well, all viewpoints are valued, aren’t they?

I call it the “equal time for evil” arrangement. The Satanists, who claim to be atheist materialists who don’t believe in the devil, seem far more interested in squelching any Christian outreach than in spreading their “faith” in nothing.

Child Evangelism Fellowship leaders appear confident going up against the Satan Clubs. They’re probably right. Given the choice, would most parents hand their kids over to self-centered Satanism, or would they want their kids to learn that God loves them and wants them to love others? Still, did anyone ever think it would come to this? Satan Clubs?

Every day, in between the Three R’s, millions of American schoolchildren in many schools are exposed to the hollow religion of secular humanism, climate hysteria, sexual anarchy, identity politics and socialist historical revisionism. For the particulars, check out the agenda at conferences held by the nation’s two largest teachers’ unions.

This stuff leaves less room for academics, which may be why the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress shows that schoolchildren’s scores have reached new lows in math, reading and science.

Over the past few years, there’s been a quiet exodus from government schools.

Between 3.7 and 4.3 million school-aged children, or about 7% of the 54 million school-age children, were homeschooled in the United States at various months in 2024, according to the U.S. Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey.

Another 10% attend private schools, so around 17% in total are not in public systems, a trend that was supercharged by the COVID-19 pandemic’s online schooling.

In a Pew Research Survey released on Feb. 20 of homeschooling parents, 75% cited concern over moral instruction as a prime motivator, followed by 72% who cited the quality of academics.

Although there are literally millions of hardworking, dedicated teachers around the country, incidents like “Witchy Wednesday” raise questions about who’s in charge.

So do recent decisions by school boards in five northern Virginia counties to ignore President Donald Trump’s executive order to keep biologically male transgenders out of girls’ restrooms and girls’ sports teams.

It also hasn’t helped the case for public education that some teachers around the country are using social media to celebrate Charlie Kirk’s killing.

If they share such twisted messages in easily accessible public forums, what are they telling children day after day?

To be fair, “Witchy Wednesday” might just be an oddity, the work of a couple of bad apples. Or it could be the tip of an iceberg.

Liberty Counsel reminded school officials in its letter that Christian students follow the Bible, which warns against witchcraft, occultism, astrology and worship of the sun, moon and stars. Thus, pushing this stuff on Christian kids violates their First Amendment rights.

The letter also includes this spiritual antidote: In John 8:12, Jesus says, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

This column was first published at the Washington Times.

What do you think about Trump’s Gaza deal?

As Prime Minister Netanyahu arrived in New York to speak at the U.N. last week, and in advance of his meeting with President Trump on Monday, countless rumors and details were leaked and speculation made over the plan being proposed to end the war against Hamas in Gaza. I lost count of how many people reached out to ask, “What do you think about Trump’s Gaza deal?”

Now that the rumors have been resolved with the presentation of President Trump’s 20-point plan and Israel’s acceptance of it, it’s important to ask questions and analyze what might be.

Israel has accepted the terms under which Hamas (which has not accepted) must release all the remaining 48 hostages – dead and alive – within 72 hours. This is the first condition that has to be met. Did the clock already start, and will Hamas even agree? Will it make up excuses as it already has that they have lost track of some of the hostages, and will these be accepted? Will the Red Cross send in a search team?

There are many terms and clauses that seem impossible for Hamas to accept or fulfill even if they utter words of acceptance. What if Hamas does not accept, or fulfill them? Technically, the terms allow for IDF freedom of action if that happens. However, if that happens, will the world leaders who have been singularly critical of Israel, uttering cries of “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing,” withdraw their objections and be on Israel’s side, or will it be more of the same, or worse, that Israel does not have the right to defend itself and eliminate the Hamas threat?

President Trump has said if this happens, Israel will have the green light to act in Gaza as it sees fit, to “finish the job.” But are those just hollow words? Too many times he’s spoken about “all hell breaking lose” if Hamas did not meet certain demands. They have not, and all hell has not broken loose. This has emboldened Hamas, thinking that it can get away with anything and there will be no consequences.

If Qatar says it can get Hamas to agree now, why couldn’t they do that over the past two years? Why wouldn’t they? Qatar may host the U.S.’ largest military base in the region, but it is not an ally by any measure. Why were they not pressured to make this happen before?

While roundly criticized for the operation, one has to wonder if Israel’s attack on Hamas leaders in Qatar actually had a positive influence on moving Qatar in this direction. The same can be asked about Israel’s current operation to eliminate Hamas strongholds in Gaza City and elsewhere.

What if Hamas does agree? Anyway, you can’t trust them. As radical Islamic terrorists, they are more likely to follow the Islamic principle of taqiyah, which not only allows but encourages lying to infidels to achieve victory rather than abandoning or muting its jihadi beliefs.

Many have cited the abandonment of Israel annexing Judea and Samaria (aka the “West Bank”), specifically in light of Western countries’ recent recognition of “Palestine,” something considered contrary to, and even illegal, according to the Oslo Accords. While true, it is also likely part of a bigger deal to expand the Abraham Accords, preventing hurdles for countries like Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and others to establish full diplomatic relations with Israel.

Financially, this could be a big windfall for Israel that alleviates the vast economic impact of the war Israelis have only begun to feel. Peaceful relations could usher in vast business deals and investments, not just in Israel but Gaza as well, where Israel would also be the beneficiary. Indirectly at least, this would mean Arab and Islamic states will pay for the outcome of the war (which many of them funded in supporting Hamas).

However, practically, the deal relates to Hamas in Gaza. The issue of Judea and Samaria is relevant in Hamas’ continued presence there among Jewish communities and in Jerusalem, where terror attacks are still a threat and may increase now as a reflexive response to the deal.

Simply, Hamas cannot be trusted. Actual democratic elections may risk ushering in a popular Hamas victory as poll after poll among Palestinian Arabs show widespread support for Hamas and their massacre. While the terms says Hamas cannot be involved in future governance (in Gaza), some will cite their possible acceptance of a deal as needed reform, and acceptance of Israel, which will whitewash their Islamic genocidal intent and make them “legitimate” partners and participants to those who seek to undermine Israel.

This is not conjecture. During the Trump-Netanyahu remarks I saw where this was going and posted that we were going to see a spike in terror attacks. That’s the protocol any time peace is discussed, or pressuring the terrorists. Or if it’s just a weekday. The very next day, a terror attack took place 5 minutes from my home. I hope I am mistaken, but we do not have many examples of good things coming out of attempts at peace.

Israelis want peace and always have. It’s why Israel made flawed deals in the past such as Oslo, offered the Arabs up to 97% of the land on which they claim their state, even shared authority in Jerusalem, and unilaterally withdrew from Lebanon (2000) and Gaza (2005), only to see these blow up into war and terror.

That’s why there have been so many civil and political protests engaging hundreds of thousands of Israelis on a regular basis. It’s also one of the reasons that the October 7 massacre was so horrific: it laid bare that there was no peace to be negotiated with Hamas and other Islamists who have been indoctrinated for generations to hate and delegitimize Israel, only striving to eradicate Israel and the Jewish people.

It’s one of the reasons that supporting this deal is so difficult because we do want peace and are still prepared to attempt impossible ways to achieve it, with the hope and expectation that our Arab neighbors will have a change of heart. Unfortunately, for decades, too many hopes have been dashed by reality. More than hope, prayers are needed.

Will there be Arab protests in Gaza, Ramallah, Cairo, Amman, or Doha or anywhere else demanding Hamas acceptance? Indeed, if there were truly famine and genocide taking place as Israel has been accused, one would think that every Palestinian Arab loving person everywhere in the world would be begging for this plan to be fulfilled immediately. We have seen none of that.

To explore this further, join a panel of experts on Saturday Oct. 4, at 2 p.m. Eastern/11 a.m. Pacific for a deep conversation and analysis about these and other issues on the second anniversary of the Hamas attack and massacre of Oct. 7, 2023.

What do you think of Trump’s Gaza plan?

Democrats shout fascist while behaving like Brownshirts

Louisiana Gov. Huey Long, Democrat and Depression-era populist, predicted in 1935, “When fascism comes to America, it will come under the guise of anti-fascism.” This prophecy is coming true before our eyes.

This year, Democrats are calling everyone who disagrees with them a Nazi or a fascist while facilitating evil.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz charges that President Trump is “a fascist to his core.” Former Vice President Kamala Harris agrees. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the silver-tongued Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who calls Mr. Trump a “Temu Hitler,” are among the Democrats who have twisted reality to reach the preposterous conclusion that the twice-elected president of the United States is Der Fuhrer.

Not just Mr. Trump but also his supporters are smeared in this ugly fashion.

President Biden warned that “MAGA Republicans” are “a threat to democracy,” during a 2022 Independence Hall extravaganza eerily reminiscent of the 1930s Nuremberg rallies, with its lurid lighting.

Charlie Kirk’s assassin wrote on one of his bullet casings: “Hey fascist! Catch!” Like Kirk, fascists were famous for their eagerness to debate critics.

As a clone of Adolf Hitler, Mr. Trump fails miserably. The president never tried to sabotage the democratic process, unlike Democrats, who worked to keep his name off the ballot in several states in 2024 and used lawfare to keep him off the campaign trail. Mr. Trump doesn’t ignore the courts, unlike his predecessor, who proceeded with student loan forgiveness after the Supreme Court told him it was unconstitutional.

Unlike so many other of our recent presidents, Mr. Trump kept his oath of office by securing the border, after 6.7 million entered illegally under Mr. Biden.

By declaring Antifa a major terrorist organization, Mr. Trump is moving decisively against a gang that poses the same threat to America that the Brownshirts did to Weimar Germany.

Antifa goons attack police and immigration officials, beat opponents and turn our cities into war zones. Another leftist insurrection was the 2020 riots (20 dead, $2 billion in property damage), which the president’s critics either ignored or applauded.

The left is following a script that was written in the 1930s, when communists started calling their opponents fascists and presenting themselves as the only alternative to fascism.

In reality, the two ideologies are first cousins. Both reject capitalism for a planned economy. (Not for nothing were the Nazis called the National Socialists.) Each believed the interests of the individual must be subordinated to the collective.

Italy’s fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, declared: “Everything within the state. Nothing outside the state. Nothing against the state.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a liberal icon, admired Il Duce until Mussolini became an ally of Hitler.

Mr. Trump wants to reduce the size and scope of government. He wants less taxes and regulation and more private control of the economy, the very opposite of fascism.

So, the MAGA crowd are Nazis, huh? Nazis who support private ownership of firearms? On coming to power, Hitler confiscated guns from his enemies. Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (“Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15”) would have made a great Gauleiter.

I’m afraid the left has us dead to rights.

We’re Nazis who want less government, Nazis who believe parents should control their children’s education and Nazis who support Israel and abhor antisemitism. Hitler would have had us expelled from the National Socialist Party.

The Nazis and communists weren’t polar opposites but rather rival gangs that started from the same premises.

Democrats think conservatives are fascists because they don’t understand fascism and never understood us.

We are the true heirs of Democrats such as Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and Harry Truman. The most visible Democrat in America today is socialist candidate for New York mayor Zohram Mamdani, a Marxist who wants to “globalize the intifada.”

Democrats have become the party of statism, group rights and lawlessness, while conservatives remain true to the principles of the Founding Fathers.

At a memorial for Charlie Kirk, Erika Kirk said she forgave her husband’s killer. Fascists are all about forgiveness.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says immigration enforcement agents act like the Gestapo. Last week, a gunman shot up a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas, killing one detainee and wounding two others. Assaults on ICE agents are up more than 1,000% over the same period last year.

If they had any decency, Democrats would stop the insane name-calling. Loose accusations of fascism are getting people killed.

This column was first published at the Washington Times.

‘F— the Mormons’: Students’ chant against football opponent triggers $50,000 fine for school

Students attending a football game for the University of Colorado, well known as a party school at least partly because its location in far-left Boulder, Colorado, and its proximity to ski resorts for students to reach during winter months, chanted a slogan.

It was highly critical of CU’s opponent in the game, Brigham Young University.

In fact, they said, “F— the Mormons.”

And that display of hate and religious bigotry is costing the school $50,000.

The students will be punished, the school said, if they can be identified.

BREAKING: The Big 12 Conference has reprimanded & fined Colorado $50,000 for the “inappropriate chants” that were heard during the BYU-Colorado game Saturday. #BYUfootball #BYU #Big12 pic.twitter.com/UkAIoQhuqK

— Jake Hatch (Yawk) (@JacobCHatch) September 30, 2025

Channel 7, a Denver broadcast outlet, said the Big 12 Conference announced not just the fine but a “public reprimand” for the school.

Shortly after the chant, CU officials condemned the words and called the behavior “deeply disappointing,” and then conference commissioner Brett Yormak announced the punishment.

He said “hateful and discriminatory language” has no home in the league.

CU’s coach claimed the derogatory slurs are “not indicative of who we are, our student body. Our kids are phenomenal, so don’t indict us just based on a group of young kids that probably was intoxicated and high simultaneously.”

Statement from Colorado following the Big 12’s decision to fine the university for profane chants directed at BYU this past weekend. pic.twitter.com/41D2xkGxuZ

— Jackson Payne (@jackson5payne) September 30, 2025

Evacuated: Explosion heard on Utah school campus ahead of Turning Point USA event

Charlie Kirk

Many details remain missing, but there are initial reports that a suspicious device was found – and detonated – just before a Turning Point USA event scheduled at a Utah school.

It was just three weeks ago when TPUSA co-founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated at a free speech event at another Utah school.

The video reveals a shout of “Fire in the hole!” and then a “Bang!’

NOW – Authorities detonate suspicious device at Utah University ahead of TPUSA campus event tonight. pic.twitter.com/d5mfNNo91D

— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) September 30, 2025

Reports reveal that one Utah State University building was evacuated just ahead of the TPUSA event.

KSLTV said there were reports of a potential bomb, and there was the video of an explosion being heard.

It was unclear how close the evacuated building was to the location of the scheduled event.

 

Infamous climate scientist Michael Mann resigns Penn role after Charlie Kirk ‘Hitler’ posts

Climate scientist Michael Mann has resigned from the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) after fallout from controversial comments he posted following the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.

Mann went on a social media spree in the wake of the murder, sarcastically describing the assassination as “white on white violence” and reposting multiple inflammatory remarks about the conservative leader, including one that referred to Kirk as the “head of Trump’s Hitler Youth.” Despite later attempting to backtrack, Mann has now resigned from his role as Vice Provost for Climate Science, Policy, and Action.

“I have reluctantly come to the position that the science policy advocacy work I am doing … at times feels in conflict with the nonpartisan role demanded of me as an administrator at a university with an established institutional neutrality policy,” Mann wrote in a statement on his personal website. “Particularly at this moment in time, I don’t feel that I can forsake the public scholarship and advocacy that I am doing and have thus decided to step down from the VPC role.”

Mann and UPenn did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

Mann later deleted several of the reposts and attempted to explain himself, saying he “overlooked” the implications.

“I was simply agreeing w/ the (widespread) criticism of Ezra Klein’s claim that Kirk was ‘practicing politics the right way,’” Mann said in an X post explaining one of the comments he reposted. “I do NOT approve of the inappropriate & inflammatory language used to describe Kirk (which I’d overlooked). Have deleted.”

Michael Mann

Mann was previously sanctioned by a judge for knowingly providing misleading information to a jury in a defamation case against his conservative critics.

Kirk — who was known for taking to college campuses to have civilized debates with students on controversial topics — was murdered during his Sept. 10 event at Utah Valley University. His alleged killer was discovered to have been “indoctrinated with leftist ideology” and fixated on gay furry porn.

Mann joins a long list of teachers and administrators who have lost their jobs over their comments celebrating Kirk’s death.

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Police stop car for road rule infraction, find there’s no driver at all

(Photo by Kenny Eliason on Unsplash)

Police in one California city were conducting a DUI sting operation, and watched in disbelief as a car pulled a U-turn right in front of them.

An illegal U-turn.

So they pulled it over, and gave the driver … nothing.

There wasn’t a driver.

Think autonomous cars are programmed to follow traffic laws? Think again. San Bruno police officers pulled over a Waymo car with no driver while conducting a DUI crackdown.

Story here: https://t.co/gTeIvceowb pic.twitter.com/ecIgKSgoB2

— ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) September 30, 2025

It happened in San Bruno where police released a statement about DUI enforcement … “with a plot twist.”

“During a grant-funded DUI enforcement operation, our officers observed something unusual: an autonomous vehicle made an illegal U-turn right in front of them at a light.

“That’s right … no driver, no hands, no clue,” police said.

Police stopped the vehicle and contacted Waymo, which was operating it.

A ticket couldn’t be issued because there was no driver, and a state law allowing for those tickets still is in the future.

“Hopefully the reprogramming will keep it from making any more illegal moves,” officers wrote on social media.

At Not the Bee a report explained officials at Waymo claimed the autonomous driving system was “designed to respect the rules of the road.”

The company was investigating.

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