'Absolute chaos': THOUSANDS of migrants OVERRUN border into Spain from Morocco — at least 9 people dead
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JULY 30, 2026
Friday, July 31, 2026
Jew hatred is an intrinsic belief of Islam
Rotary forgets its own values and history in elevating bigot to leadership
Rotary International is one of the most respected service organizations in the world. So it is disappointing that the organization has chosen someone with a history of bigoted language to lead its “Orange County L.A.” chapter.
Farrah N. Khan is a former Irvine mayor, and was, until recently, a respected member of the community. She is not related to the notorious anti-white and anti-Jewish leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, despite their similar names — but their rhetoric sounds similar of late.
Khan’s bigotry emerged in the wake of the Hamas terror attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. She posted an Al Jazeera article about an alleged “Israeli” attack on a girls’ school in Minab, Iran. She added: “The sick pedophiles/cannibals are doing what they do best.”
It turns out that the airstrike on the Minab school, near an Iranian military base, was carried out by the US, not by Israel. And the phrase “pedophiles/cannibals” appeared to reference Jeffrey Epstein (who happened to be Jewish) while also paying homage to a medieval anti-Jewish blood libel.
Khan later claimed she was referring to the Israeli military and government officials. But it was not her only unhinged post.
Khan made these statements after she left office. And she is entitled to say whatever she wants, under the First Amendment.
But she made them in public, so they are fair game for scrutiny. And Khan’s rhetoric contrasts sharply with what Rotary believes.
As local community leader Julie Heiman wrote at The California Post recently, Rotary is famous for its “Four-Way Test”: “1. Is it the TRUTH? 2. Is it FAIR to all concerned? 3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS? 4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?”
Clearly, Khan’s statements fail that test — as does Rotary’s decision to elevate her.
Rotary has faced criticism in the past. In 1953, a Rotary Club in London hosted a speaker who delivered a lecture on “The Case for Apartheid.”
In Nazi Germany, many Rotary clubs complied with the regime and kicked out Jewish or “free-thinking” members. A few did not. Those expelled included intellectual Thomas Mann and future West German prime minister Konrad Adenauer.
Today, Rotarians study these painful episodes to learn how to avoid the mistakes of the past.
Selecting someone with openly bigoted views suggests that Rotary has yet to take the lessons of history to heart.
A Modest Proposal To Tackle Government Fraud
A Modest Proposal To Tackle Government Fraud
Every day, it seems, brings a new story of government fraud, which raises two questions: Why is fraud so rampant? And why is so little being done to combat it?
An answer to both can be found in the more than 200 programs that the federal government pays for, but the states run. These are programs that spend a total of $1.2 trillion a year, and despite their openness to fraud, the government does little to combat it.
The money to fund these programs passes through several hands, including state and local government agencies, private contractors, and so on, before reaching a beneficiary. And “every level added to the flow of funds creates a new entry point for fraud risks,” according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.
So what systems are in place to detect and prevent fraud in these programs? Almost none.
The GAO looked at 20 of the biggest programs — which includes Medicaid, food stamps, special education grants, infrastructure projects, and others — that account for nearly 90% of that $1.2 trillion. It found that only five have anti-fraud detection measures in place. Ten of them — including biggies like Medicaid, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, and SNAP — had only partial measures. The others have even less.
Worse, legislation requiring agencies to report on their anti-fraud measures lapsed in 2020.
So, it’s not surprising that audits done from 2020 through 2024 found “severe and persistent findings” of fraud risks in 18 of those 20 programs.
As our good friend Mark Tapscott notes at The Washington Stand, this is the ”latest of hundreds of GAO reports identifying hundreds of billions of federal tax dollars lost to waste, fraud, and corruption.”
Trump has been targeting fraud and waste this term, first with DOGE and now his White House Anti-Fraud Task Force, headed by Vice President J.D. Vance. Just last week, the administration withheld more than $1 billion in Medicaid funds intended for California and Minnesota over concerns about widespread fraud in those states.
That’s a start. Now Congress needs to step up and reinstate the fraud reporting requirement that it let lapse. “With this information, Congress would be better positioned to identify gaps in agencies’ fraud risk management practices, benchmark progress over time, and drive accountability,” the GAO notes.
But there’s another option that nobody mentions yet would do much, much more to permanently combat fraud. Stop sending taxpayer money to the states altogether.
It makes no sense to have taxpayers send their hard-earned dollars to Washington, then have those same dollars sent back to their states in the form of program grants, with countless middlemen taking their cuts along the way, legally and illegally.
The Fall of the ACLU
The Fall of the ACLU
https://amgreatness.com/2026/07/31/the-fall-of-the-aclu/
Pop culture can linger longer than many news headlines.
Take the 1981 TV movie Skokie. Danny Kaye starred as a Jewish Holocaust survivor protesting a planned Nazi march in his Chicago suburb. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) played a central role in the fact-based drama, defending the Nazis’ free speech rights despite their abhorrent views.
That’s what the American Civil Liberties Union did for decades—stand tall for the First Amendment. That Kaye drama made it crystal clear, even to those who never read a story tied to the civil rights group.
That ACLU, bold and unrelenting in its quest to preserve free speech, is mostly missing these days. The august body was whisper-quiet as cancel culture ravaged Western culture. The group said little as comedians were censored both on stage and on social media.
The Twitter Files scandal came and went without any major ACLU pushback. Nor did the group weigh in when “sensitivity readers” rose up to censor authors like Agatha Christie, Roald Dahl, and Ian Fleming.
Heck, we all could have used the ACLU when social media giants censored or downplayed the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. The same could be said for YouTube and other platforms censoring disparate views on the recent pandemic, even though naysayers were often right on the money.
More recently, British singer M.I.A. got booted from Kid Cudi’s tour for sharing right-leaning views during a single concert appearance. Did the ACLU rush to her defense? No, but her lawyers did.
What about Jewish artists like Michael Rapaport and singer Matisyahu facing cancellation threats, and worse, for supporting Israel? Or conservative speakers getting harassed, or worse, for daring to speak on college campuses?
The list goes on and on.
Instead, the ACLU made headlines recently for feting Bruce Springsteen. Why honor the 76-year-old rock icon? Could it be because The Boss turned his 2026 tour into a No Kings-themed event complete with nightly Trump-bashing?
You be the judge.
The ACLU honored Springsteen, former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, and three others with the new Ralph Ellison Award for Defenders of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in the Arts, Business, Science, and Sports.
What do Springsteen and Kaepernick have in common? Both aggressively push liberal points of view via their celebrity platforms. Did they speak out against any of the above speech infringements?
No.
Has the ACLU honored Elon Musk, the man who brought freer speech back to Twitter? What about John Cleese, the Monty Python alum who has spent a decade promoting free speech in the arts, especially as wokeness rocked the culture?
No.
A glimpse at the ACLU’s web page tells the rest of the story. The group now hyper-focuses on a variety of issues beyond speech—trans issues, racial justice, reproductive freedom, and “smart justice.” The latter’s goal is to reduce the prison population by 50 percent.
That explains plenty.
The good news? The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) has stepped up to do the ACLU’s job on the speech front. It hits both Democrats and Republicans and doesn’t water down its mission for “justice”-based causes.
Maybe Hollywood should make a movie about FIRE. Call it a spiritual sequel to Skokie.
KBJ is another gift from the Biden madness
Can't Make It Up: SCOTUS Justice KBJ Calls for Impartiality… While Appearing on Michelle O's Podcast
Fighting the Fauci terror
Don't Forget How Florida Defeated Faucism and Vindicated Federalism
Anthony Fauci, the public health bureaucrat who became the face of America's botched COVID-19 response, testified this week on Capitol Hill. Except Fauci actually didn't testify: In an astonishing act of hubris and disdain for the countless Americans who bore the brunt of tyrannical COVID-era "Faucism," the mad doctor invoked the Fifth Amendment well over 100 times.
Freeing the Persians
Trump intensifies attacks on Iran, opening door for potential Iranian revolution
Trump said "They're going to get a beating." The door would open thanks to Trump's fury over the pair of recent attacks on U.S. airbases and outposts in the region. The avenues of freedom for the Iranian people may come from a variety of directions.
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