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Lawlessness, Big Government and Its Enablers
By Robert Knight
What are we up to now, four attempts on President Donald Trump’s life? And possibly one on Vice President JD Vance?
This comes amid constant Democratic vilification of Mr. Trump, his staff, and conservative Supreme Court justices, who have had to increase their security.
Several Cabinet members and other top staff have left their homes and moved to military bases to protect their families from crazies.
On May 5, Arlington County, Virginia, prosecutor Parissa Dehghani-Tafti basically declared it was open season for harassing Trump administration officials and their families.
One of many Democrat district attorneys elected with aid from leftist financier George Soros, Ms. Dehghani-Tafti dropped criminal charges against a woman who had gone to Trump adviser Stephen Miller’s Arlington County neighborhood to scare him and his family.
On Sept. 11, 2025, the day after Charlie Kirk’s murder on a Utah campus, activist Barbara Wein and her husband Robert Wein handed out flyers with Miller’s photograph with a red line through it.
“Wanted for crimes against humanity,” the flyer said, along with the Millers’ home address and “No Nazis in NOVA (northern Virginia).”
Upon spotting Miller’s wife Katie on the Millers’ front porch, Wein, a “retired peace studies professor” made a gesture to indicate “I’m watching you,” the Washington Post reported.
You know, just free speech stuff. Nothing to worry about. Especially if you have kids. The Millers have three young children with one on the way.
A Virginia statute provides that, “It shall be unlawful for any person, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass another person, to publish the person's name or photograph along with identifying information … or identification of the person's primary residence address.”
The Class 1 misdemeanor carries a maximum sentence of 12 years and a $2,500 fine.
But wait. It was only a Trump official and his family who were being targeted.
Plus, Ms. Wein said she didn’t know who made the flyer and denied knowing that the Millers’ address was on it. Right.
Ms. Dehghani-Tafti said that pursuing the charge would “risk having a chilling effect on others wishing to engage in peaceful, political protest.”
Not feeling the warmth after being doxed in their own neighborhood, the Millers moved to military housing.
When shots were fired outside the White House Correspondents dinner on April 25 at the Washington Hilton, Miller instantly shielded Katie, who is pregnant, with his own body, an act of chivalry that has gone viral on social media.
Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of California, was arrested and charged with attempting to assassinate the president.
On May 4, a gunman who had been tracking Vice President Vance’s motorcade a block from the White House exchanged fire with Secret Service agents. A child was struck and briefly hospitalized. Michael Marx, 45, of Texas, was arrested.
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said Marx exclaimed, “F the White House” after being taken into custody.
We’re constantly being told that “both sides” are responsible for the rise in violence and that “both sides” should turn down the rhetoric. But that’s a lie propounded by the legacy media, which sees no enemies to the left, even as the left grows more violent.
You might think that the shooting near the White House, which occurred around 3:30 p.m., would be front page news the next day, especially following the attempted assassination of the president only days before.
But the Washington Post buried it in the second section, on page B-20. It was, in fact, the very last story in the entire publication.
Out on the front page, however, the Post gaily celebrated its latest Pulitzer prizes. The paper won for feature photography and for the big one: the Public Service Award.
They got the latter largely for siccing hard-left reporter Hannah Natanson to crusade against the Trump administration’s attempts to rein in the federal bureaucracy through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
The best argument for freedom of the press is that it’s there to keep government honest and in check. The Post news staff appears to feel otherwise. Instead, they go after any attempt whatsoever to impose accountability on the ever-growing permanent state.
It may have helped Ms. Natanson’s case for a Pulitzer that the FBI had executed a search warrant at her home in January looking for leaked classified information from a federal contractor who was charged under the Espionage Act. The agents told her that she wasn’t a target of their investigation. But what a feather in her cap.
In its glory days, the Post brought down a sitting president, Richard Nixon, by regurgitating leads fed to them by FBI Deputy Director Mark Felt, whose cover was “Deep Throat.”
During the Obama and Biden administrations, the Post was incurious about any number of reportable scandals, from mass illegal immigration to lies about COVID-19 and the Russian collusion hoax.
The latter netted Pulitzers for both the Post and the New York Times, which played key roles in manipulating the public.
That itself should be a major news story. But it doesn’t fit the narrative, so don’t hold your breath.
When the New York Post broke the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020, the legacy media pointedly ignored it while leftist-controlled social media crushed it.
Dave Burge, who writes at Iowahawkblog, put it best when he observed, "Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving."
Illustration by Alexander Hunter / The Washington Times.
Beware of the Wolves in Sheep's Clothing
By Robert Knight
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear appears to be readying for a presidential run in 2028.
The telegenic Democrat was on a speaking tour last year in early primary state South Carolina. In September, he has a book coming out entitled, “Go and Do Likewise: How We Heal a Broken Country,” a reference to Jesus’s parable of the Good Samaritan.
His publisher summarizes it this way: “By regrounding faith in compassion and kindness, he believes we can start to heal as a country.”
Compassion and kindness are God-given, but I thought we were in the midst of healing from the nightmare of the Biden years, with its promotion of atheism, illegal immigration, sexual anarchy, and attacks on Catholics and pro-lifers.
Mr. Beshear, like Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger, identifies as a Christian and a moderate and gets priceless media cover while supporting the Democratic Party’s radical social and economic agenda.
In 2023, for instance, he tried to block a state bill protecting minors from “gender affirming care.”
The law prohibits doctors from subjecting gender-confused teens to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and irreversible, disfiguring surgeries.
The law also bans males from competing on girls’ sports teams. Most people think this makes sense.
Beshear insisted that such a law “would hurt kids and their families” and violate “parental rights.”
He claimed there was no evidence of widespread harm. To which I would say one butchered child is too many and that evidence of harm is voluminous, including the growing number of suicides and trans-related violence.
On the same day of Mr. Beshear’s veto, both houses of Kentucky’s Republican-controlled legislature overrode it. Naturally, a federal judge, Rebecca Grady Jennings, issued an immediate injunction halting enforcement. The case is still in litigation.
A year earlier, Ms. Jennings, one of President Donald Trump’s few clunker appointees, struck down a Kentucky law prohibiting abortions after 15 weeks and requiring medical oversight for abortion pills.
Gov. Beshear also vetoed that bill, and the legislature overrode him.
In South Carolina, which went for Mr. Trump by 30 points, Mr. Beshear emphasized his Christian faith while boasting that he was “a proud, pro-LGBTQ+ governor.”
This is a stance that ignores Jesus Christ’s clear restating of God’s creation of male and female and God’s marriage-based sexual morality from Genesis.
According to the Washington Post, Mr. Beshear said, “My faith teaches me that all children are children of God, and I didn’t want people picking on those kids.” How about protecting them from quacks who sterilize them and turn them into lifetime medical cases?
By the way, politicians love to haul out the term “children of God” like a magic amulet. The Bible says we’re all created in the image of God, but that we’re not children of God unless we believe in Him and submit to God’s authority. Until then, we’re on the other team, and I don’t mean the New Jersey Devils.
“But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name,” John 1:12 says. If we’re automatically children of God, we wouldn’t need to be, as Jesus said, born again.
Anyway, Mr. Beshear is not the only wolf in sheep’s clothing. Democrats have become quite adept at using Christianese and buzzwords to fool people. President Barack Obama often gave biblical scholars heartburn over his misappropriating Jesus’s words to justify sexual sin and confiscatory redistribution of wealth.
In Texas, state Rep. James Talarico is battling hard-left U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett for the Democratic nomination for U.S. senator. Like Mr. Beshear, Mr. Talarico touts his Christian faith while cleaving to a radical agenda.
“He delivers left-wing orthodoxy in centrist packaging and fights Christian nationalism with Scripture,” the Wall Street Journal explains.
If you’re a patriotic Christian, he’s talking about you and your family as a threat to America.
Much of his rhetoric revolves around Marxist class envy, such as, “Make billionaires pay their fair share in taxes.”
During remarks opposing a bill protecting kids from transgender treatments, he said, “Jesus never once condemned transgender people.”
Well, Jesus didn’t need to, and He welcomed all repentant sinners. The Hebrew Scriptures are crystal clear on sexual morality. Sexual confusion is the province of paganism, which historically often involved child sacrifice as well.
Any comparison to the pro-abortion, pro-LGBTQ Democratic Party inferred by readers at this juncture may not be coincidental.
In a 2024 interview with MSNBC, Mr. Talarico said, “Christian nationalism is dangerous. … When politicians use the Bible to push division and hate, they’re not following Jesus; they’re using His name for their own agenda.”
This is classic projection, accusing your opponents of exactly what you’re doing.
At the University of Texas on Feb. 6, Mr. Talarico said, “I’m a Christian progressive. I believe the Gospel is inherently radical—it challenges the powerful, lifts up the poor, and calls for justice in every sphere of life.”
When progressives talk about “justice” they mean “social justice.” This is envy, disguised as compassion and politicized to enable governments to redistribute income and rewrite society’s moral code.
In the first six weeks of 2026, Mr. Talarico raised $7.5 million to Ms. Crockett’s $2 million, even though she still has a lead in polls. He has raised $20 million since September.
Will Texas, like Mr. Beshear’s Kentucky, fall for a wolf in sheep’s clothing?
Gov. Andy Beshear (D-Ky.) in Frankfort, Ky. on June 8, 2025. (AP photo in The Washington Times.