The murderous, premeditated attack at Bondi Beach in Australia forces us to look at two undeniable patterns.

The first is the pattern of anti-Semitic violence.

The second is the larger pattern of terror tied to immigration and Islam.

This was not just a targeted terrorist attack on Jewish Australians, it was also a dagger thrust in the heart of Western civilization. Freedom of assembly means nothing if citizens are too afraid to assemble.

Some people recoil at the suggestion that immigration and Islamic terrorism had anything to do with this and other recent attacks, but the facts are plain to see. Western civilization now faces a direct threat to both liberty and civilizational survival.

Simply put: The vast majority of Muslims around the world do not want to join the civilizational project of the West, including the national project of the United States—we know it because they say it out loud.

Folks, we need an honest conversation—and we need it now.

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Just after 9/11, there was a good deal of introspection within the Muslim community living in the West—there was even more good will toward the Muslim community from non-Muslim Westerners. The good will has stayed the same, perhaps even accelerated into encouragement; the self-introspection has now become self-expression.

Whether we are talking of the October 7th bloodbath that received countenance all over the West, the recent attack in Bondi Beach, the thwarted upcoming New Year’s Eve bombings, we could not spend enough time detailing the examples. Toleration for all of this and more must end. In his autobiography, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair wrote: “In the mindset that is modern Islam, there is one spectrum, not several…. including too many who buy into bits of their [extremist] world-view.”

If ten percent of the Muslim world population is near this point of view, we who want to preserve the West had better awaken from our lethal slumber. Too much tolerance is already devastating Judeo-Christian values, and Jews, and Christians.

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People of good will around the world were rightfully horrified by the terrorist attack on an outdoor Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Australia. The attackers reportedly pledged allegiance to ISIS, the Islamist extremist group.

For Australia’s Jewish community, open-air, a beachside religious observance may now be a thing of the past.

And this is hardly an isolated case. Across Europe, public celebrations are being cancelled. Many of Germany’s Christmas markets are not opening this year. And Paris has canceled its iconic open-air New Year’s Eve celebration over similar concerns.

The political left has been vocal in opposing President Trump’s immigration policies. But events like these make something increasingly clear: border security is also terrorism security.

A society unwilling to protect its way of life will eventually discover it has no way of life left to protect.

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When pro-Palestinian activists chant “globalize the intifada,” Bondi Beach is what they want. A father-son Islamist terror team has massacred 15 Australian Jews celebrating Hannukah.

Australia’s Prime Minister went on television to address his nation about the lessons of this terrorist attack. He promised to increase gun restrictions in a country that had already effectively disarmed its population. Anthony Albanese also declared that the biggest threat to Australians is “right wing extremism.”

This is utter nonsense. The terrorists had a license to own and carry the weapons they used to slaughter Jews on the beach. At least one of them had come to the attention of Australian counter-terrorism agents for contact with radical Islamist terrorists. The Australians not only chose to do nothing about that, they refused to disarm them.

The greatest threat to Western security is not “right wing extremism.” It is radical Islamist terrorism and the globalized intifada.

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Jamie Dimon—the head of JPMorgan Chase—just announced that he’s leading a $1.5 trillion initiative focused on investing in national security.

Dimon has assembled a council of big names to advise on where to invest the bank’s own money in defense industries, as well as others money and in the hopes to spark others to follow their lead.

We wish him well.

This sort of recognition of the actual threat from the Chinese Communist Party, and their People’s Liberation Army and Navy is great news.

Better news is that a new generation of business titans like Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, Palmer Lucky and of course Elon Musk have been aware of the threat to the freedom of the seas for many years and their initiatives and companies are already about the work of next generation weapons systems we need to overcome the advantage China has built up via sheer numbers and massive war making capacity.

It’s time to get serious and put money where the initiative has to be.

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A billionaire tech executive has just made one of the most strategic philanthropic gifts in American history.

Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell Technologies, and his wife Susan are giving more than six billion dollars to seed saving accounts for 25 million American children 10 and younger. Each child will receive 250 dollars.

This won’t lift families out of poverty. But it will offer 25 million children a concrete reason to master financial literacy—and their own stake in America’s economic system

Generosity is always noble. But too often, giving on the left relies on top down programs that breed dependency. The Dells have taken the opposite approach: a bottom up investment that nurtures ownership, hope, and a sense of belonging.

This is philanthropy with a heart— and a brain. America owes the Dells a true debt of gratitude.

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George Washington Plunkitt was born into poverty in 1842 but rose through the ranks of the Democratic Party machine of New York the famed “Tammany Hall” to become a state legislator who also became quite wealthy along the way.

Now: We have a new sort of Democratic Party machine—with the latest grift exposed in Minnesota.

Boss Plunkitt would admit it brazenly, saying: “I seen my opportunities and I took ‘em.”

And today’s Democrats sure have “taken ’em” as well.

It’s not just Minnesota. California—and other blue states—are drowning in fraud.

The connecting thread are the various schemes associated with COVID—state government “initiatives” that were porous and loaded with fraud funded by the Feds.

The president should create and team and dig deep on all of it. We need a report—and we need it fast.

Give them a deadline: Maybe end of August next year. Voters deserve to know how their state governments worked during COVID—or how they didn’t—before they vote again.

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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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