Only in America Only in America is the unduly elected President of Iran given a podium and interviews on news channels as though he is a legitimate head of state. Of course he doesn’t want to develop a nuclear bomb and is a victim of terrorism, according to his interviews. And only at the UN do people walk out on the only duly elected head of state in the MidEast while sitting in reverence (with the exception of the US) for the Iranian leader responsible the the executions of its own citizens en mass. The Argentinian leader said it best: “The alleged defenders of human rights have sheltered bloodthirsty dictatorships and regimes that stone women in the streets. They have systematically voted against Israel while remaining silent in the face of Islamic terrorism and the genocide of Christians in Africa.”

Unbelievable So Democrats like Abdul El-Sayed have campaigned with Hasan Piker whose most recent rant included: “Because I’m in the United States of America, the most dogshit country on the fucking planet, the absolute worst country on the planet, straight up, bar none. A capitalist shithole. The absolute worst fuckin’ place on the planet, just a horrific, monstrous, awful, dogshit country that I fucking despise.” And so how is it possible that any candidate in 2026 of any party would go within 100 feet of someone so demonstrably anti-American and so hateful towards the very country that gives him a platform.

Osama Bin Laden I remember a call I got at 1 am in 1998 from President Clinton who explained that there was this “really bad dude” named Osama Bin Laden and that they had intelligence on his location. They knew even then of his evil nature and its potential. He decided to launch the missiles but they missed hitting Bin Laden. If only they had taken him out then as the President tried, 9/11 might never have happened. So when I see college Democrats of many colleges inviting Hasan Piker, a celebrity influencer riding a social-media fueled wave of outlandish comments, including how “America deserved 9/11” I wonder how this generation that did not live through these terrible events in which terrorists planned and executed the mass murder of 3000 civilians and almost destroyed the Capitol, can possibly welcome and cheer someone with these views. On this 25th Anniversary of this terrible event, it is a time to honor those who lost their lives that day who in no way deserved their fate and to double down on stopping the next generation of terrorists because stopping them early — if you can — saves lives later.

AES Apology So AES said: My comments may have been misconstrued to justify something I did not mean to justify,” El-Sayed told reporters after he addressed the caucus at a party convention in Lansing. “To anyone who feels like my comments might have been hurtful, I’m really sorry. That was not my intention.” AP credits him with an “apology” to Jewish voters. I read it as “sorry” if you were someone who “misconstrued” his comments. That means his comments —which any rational person would interpret as serving to excuse the synagogue attack by a crazed individual driving a vehicle into a school with 140 kids there — still stand. He is sorry you misconstrued them — a classic non apology, apology.