The Very Model of a Modern Attorney General

Every president deserves an attorney general as learned, prudent, and loyal as Ed Meese proved to be to Ronald Reagan. As such, I urge Pam Bondi, President-elect Trump’s nominee for AG, Trump’s Deputy Attorney-designate Todd Blanche, and every other new appointee to the Department of Justice to read The Meese Revolution by Professors Steven Gow […]

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Cosmic justice: Trump’s transition moves to restore order amid chaos



That feeling you have right now about Donald Trump’s appointment of Jay Bhattacharya to direct the National Institutes of Health is important for reasons that go way beyond health care. It also speaks to how you’ve likely changed in terms of your expectations for governance and citizenship overall. Enough screwing around, right? Get busy living or get busy dying.

To that end, Bhattacharya and Tom Homan, Trump’s would-be border czar, are clearly very different sorts of people. But both have very clear missions to reform that which is utterly broken, and you must remember that when things get hard along the way. The excitement you have right now can’t merely be an emotion. It must be a promise.

What began as people coming to pick berries and shingle roofs to access the American dream has devolved into an unsustainable culture of criminal entitlement.

We will not quit until we are done restoring truth and righteousness to our cause.

To that end, let’s sweep away some of the chaff and head off some nonsense when it comes to immigration. For example, are any mass deportations and wall-building used in the Bible to secure a country’s borders? The answer is yes. But a lot of you who grew up in the era of Hawaiian shirts, pleated khakis, and sweater vests haven’t been taught about that by your pastor.

Thus, loving your neighbors as you love yourself probably doesn’t mean what you think it means. Don’t feel too bad, though. Much of Latin America, for example, where the current pope comes from, was hoodwinked by something called “liberation theology,” which is neo-Marxism in the name of the Lord.

When Ronald Reagan endorsed amnesty for illegal aliens in 1986, many of the people coming to the United States shared a common value system with Americans. They sought to escape hardship and build better lives. What followed, however, was a series of waves of immigration that increasingly rejected the idea of borders as a guarantee of freedom and security. Instead, many began to see borders as something between negotiable and irrelevant, diverging from the values sought by earlier generations of immigrants.

Today, this generational and motivational clash has reached a tipping point. It fueled Trump’s successful presidential campaign, in which he ran on a platform of mass deportations and secured the largest percentage of the Latino vote of any Republican in history.

Why did this happen? Initially, many Hispanic immigrants lacked strong alignment with Democratic values but voted for Democrats out of fear of deportation or losing the chance to reunite their families in the United States. Over time, however, those fears gave way to more immediate concerns. Communities faced the devastating impact of unchecked immigration, including Venezuelan gangs raping women and taking over apartment complexes.

These harsh realities forced a shift in both electoral and existential priorities, fundamentally altering the political landscape in what many see as a moment of cosmic justice.

Earlier this year, the trajectory of the Republican presidential race shifted dramatically with Alvin Bragg’s indictment of Donald Trump. Yet as the year progressed, one of Bragg’s own attorneys witnessed a member of a Venezuelan gang masturbating in public. The irony is staggering. This is the kind of situation that evokes “vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord” energy, and we must respond by allowing someone like Tom Homan to take decisive action.

Do not be deceived — God will not be mocked. We inevitably reap what we sow. What began as people coming to pick berries, make beds, mow lawns, and shingle roofs to access the American dream has devolved into an unsustainable culture of criminal entitlement. This decline has been fueled by unchecked globalism and the misplaced guilt of woke white suburbanites. It’s the worst version of the “We Are the World” sentiment — one born from ignoring or dismantling the fundamental plumb line of civilization.

That plumb line is the true gospel. No, continuing in sin does not cause grace to abound. No, good does not come from committing evil. Hunger does not justify theft. And it certainly doesn’t justify welfare fraud while real Americans in places like Western North Carolina endure ignored suffering, or while parents like Laken Riley’s in Georgia are left to bury their daughter.

God shows no partiality. He demands justice. To address the question: Does the Bible support mass deportations? Do God’s people build walls to secure their borders? Absolutely. The book of Nehemiah chronicles such an effort. After enduring exile and learning a harsh lesson, the Jews mass-deported those who did not belong in their country, including women and children.

That is what it looks like when a people consumed with repentance returns to God’s path. Remember that when Homan commences that which the American people have now rightly given him a mandate to do. For it never should have been otherwise.

Delusion, Hypocrisy, and the Threat to Democracy

"Ungoverning" is a term invented by Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum, political scientists respectively at Dartmouth and Harvard, to describe the project of "deconstructing the administrative state [conducted] by a reactionary movement." This would include elected Republican officials and Supreme Court justices, aimed at depriving government of ability to govern. The individual they hold most responsible for this is Donald Trump, who brought decades of preexisting "hostility toward government to a crescendo."

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Sixty Years Later, Reagan’s ‘A Time For Choosing’ Speech Casts Enduring Vision Of Conservatism And Freedom

Ronald Reagan's 'A Time for Choosing' envisions a principled conservatism that triumphs over tyranny and undergirds a lasting freedom.

‘Peace through strength’: SDI and the genius of Ronald Reagan



Mark Levin had the privilege of serving in Ronald Reagan’s administration as a chief of staff, so he knows what he’s talking about when he says that Reagan, who he calls “a genius,” was the brain behind the idea of peace through strength.

“He wanted to bring the most brilliant scientists in the United States together to figure out how to build a missile shield system,” which he called “the Strategic Defense Initiative — SDI,” says Levin, adding that Reagan was “mocked” and “attacked” for these ideas.

The Democrats accused him of “wasting money.” They said “it was an excuse not to reduce nuclear arms.” They called him “a dunce” and “a cowboy” and joked that the program was playing a game of “Star Wars.” They even “made every budgetary movement they possibly could to try and block it.”

One person took Reagan’s SDI program seriously — Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union before it was dismantled.

Even Gorbachev himself admitted that “SDI was a game changer because the Soviets could never keep up with our technological knowhow, our scientific capabilities, and they certainly wouldn't have the money to build this system,” Levin recounts.

Israel also saw the program’s merit.

It “took the idea” and “refined it” to suit its unique needs — an adoption that has been hugely beneficial for the country.

“Like no other country on the face of the Earth, the Israelis have a strategic defense missile defense system, and thank God they do,” says Levin.

America, on the other hand, is “laying naked,” he warns.

To hear more of Levin’s analysis, watch the clip above.

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Max Boot’s Reagan Biography Boosts Communism And Trashes America

Boot downgrades Reagan to an almost cartoonish bystander to history.

Tim Walz Brags About Passing Laws That Restrict Speech

Tim Walz knows better, and if he doesn’t, one might suggest a quiet evening re-reading the American Constitution.

‘Reagan’ Is A Love Letter Not Just To The 40th President But To America

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The Art of Mixing Business and Politics

Prolific author, historian, and former senior government official Tevi Troy is out with a new book about politics. This one takes a close look at 18 iconic CEOs—men like Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, Bill Gates, Lee Iacocca, and Elon Musk—and their interactions with multiple presidents.

Troy (a friend) is the author of several insightful presidential books, including "Shall We Wake the President?", "Fight House," and "What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched, and Obama Tweeted." His latest effort, "The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry," carries on the tradition of excellence while introducing new characters (business leaders) into his oeuvre.

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‘Reagan’ Biopic Reminds Us Of The Moral Clarity It Took To Defeat The Soviet Union

[rebelmouse-proxy-image https://thefederalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-03-at-12.01.39 PM-1200x675.png crop_info="%7B%22image%22%3A%20%22https%3A//thefederalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-03-at-12.01.39%5Cu202fPM-1200x675.png%22%7D" expand=1]The genius of 'Reagan,' the film and the man, is that both grasp the nature of evil and the courage and clarity required to confront it.