🚨 A 6-year-old shot his teacher. Richneck Elementary, Jan 6, 2023. Court unsealed Officer Brian Torrez's bodycam Oct 6, 2026. 🎥 The Virginian-Pilot / Daily Press https://t.co/TPphaycltx

— Patriot (@_Patriot1776Q_) October 7, 2026

It took legal action from The Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press to get the 3-minute footage released. What it shows is a foul-mouthed 6-year-old psycho who’d just shot his first grade teacher in the chest.

The Pilot offers this account:

The boy, identified in court only as J.T., was still in the first-grade classroom. Reading specialist Amy Kovac was holding him.

Body camera footage from Officer Brian Torrez, obtained by The Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press, shows the boy cursing at Kovac and the officers as police entered a classroom adorned with the alphabet and colorful decorations.

The gun is there,” Kovac tells the officers. “He just admitted that he had one … he had one bullet.” (In fact, there were seven more rounds in the jammed handgun at the time).

“I got a weapon,” a sheriff’s deputy says, finding the firearm on the floor 15 to 20 feet from the boy.

“Both y’all want a f—ing piece of me, b—?!” the boy tells the officers.

“Stop!” Kovac says as she holds him from behind in a bear hug.

“F— you, b—,” he says.

“Leave the gun there,” Torrez says of the 9 mm Taurus handgun. The deputy stands guard next to it.

“We have the shooter,” another officer says on the police radio.

“I told the (assistant principal) that there was a threat earlier about it,” Kovac tells the officers.

“That (racial slur) retired last year,” the boy says, though it’s not clear to whom he was referring.

“How old is he?” an officer asks.

“He is 6 years old,” Kovac says. “He has been on a modified schedule. His mother is to pick him up at 2:30. This is his first week without his mother coming to school with him.”

Torrez puts on plastic gloves as he gets on the radio.

“1346, myself, and 2347 — and a sheriff’s deputy — are inside Room 11 with the suspect,” the officer says, referring to officers’ badge numbers. “Gun is secure.”

The 6-year-old says something unintelligible, then says, “F— you, b—,” while flashing a middle finger at Kovac

“We have some small handcuffs?” a police officer asks. Another officer who enters the room asks about the gun and is told it’s on the floor.

“Do you want me to stay?” Kovac asks.

“You can stay for now,” Torrez tells her. “If you feel comfortable … Um, is he OK?”

“He’s fine,” Kovac says. Then she faces the boy and asks: “You fine? Turn around.

When you shot the gun, did anything hurt you?”

“No,” the boy says.

“Let me see your hands,” Kovac says, inspecting them.

“Where is the weapon?” another officer asks.

“It’s on the floor,” Kovac says.

“It’s over there, whore,” the boy adds.

“Stop,” Kovac says. “That’s not how we speak to each other.”

“F— you,” he says as she begins to speak. “F— you. F— you, b—.”

“I mean, he does have the gun residue, looks like,” Kovac says, pointing to a white powdery substance on the boy’s hand.

“OK, let’s just not touch his hands or anything, OK?” Torrez says. Another officer asks the boy’s age, and Kovac again says he is 6.

“My mom had that,” the boy says, gesturing toward the handgun. “I stole that from my mom.”

We don’t know the shooter’s name because the courts shield the identity of juvenile offenders.

We’ll know his name eventually. When he gets arrested for murder - or worse - as an adult.

Seriously, does anyone think this budding thug has a bright future?

In case you’ve forgotten, this pint-sized would-be murderer took his mother’s 9 mm gun to school where he showed it to classmates who reported that he had a gun, but administrators never bothered to see if that was true.

Eventually, he shot his teacher, Abby Zwerner, in the hand and chest, leaving her gravely wounded. After multiple surgeries she still has a bullet lodged in her body and suffers from PTSD.

The bleeding teacher managed to get her other stunned students out of the classroom before 911 was called and she was hospitalized.

The thug’s mother, Deja Taylor, was sentenced to almost four years in prison on combination state child neglect and federal gun charges. She was released last spring.

Zwerner won a $10 million civil lawsuit against Richneck assistant principal, Ebony Parker, which is being appealed.

Listen to the appalling antisocial garbage pouring out of this first-grader’s mouth. Where do you think he learned to talk like that? Where did he learn to shoot a gun?

Who turned a little boy into some kind of gang-banging wannabe machine?

And why were innocent first graders forced to share a classroom with a boy whose behavior problems were so severe that his mother had to accompany him to school? This wasn’t fair to the normal kids.

Each child who witnessed this shooting should have a million-dollar civil case against the school district for failing to protect them from seeing such carnage.

News reports say the now 9-year-old shooter is living with his great-grandfather and thriving.

Color me skeptical.

Intellectual clowns on the left have their panties in a wad as they pretend to believe that President Trump advocated for Iran to take out one of our cities during a speech on Monday.

Not a single politician or media personality on the left actually believes Trump wants Iran to “nuke Los Angeles”. The only reason they are running with that is because they know their base is stupid enough to believe it and will endlessly repeat the lie.

Intelligent people, who listened to what Trump actually said in Nebraska, knew exactly what the president meant.

Trump literally said high gas prices are a small price to pay to keep Iran from having the capability to take out an American city. Yet left-wing news outlets, along with other mid-wits, are mewling about how Trump wants Iran to attack the homeland.

It’s a parlor game with the left. Their fake outrage is tiresome.

Look, Donald Trump’s speeches are full of weaves, ad libs, circuitous reasoning and riffing. If he used a teleprompter he’d be clearer, but then he wouldn’t be Trump.

His manner of speech gives his enemies an opening to deliberately take a sentence, strip away all context and present an inflammatory quote that is the opposite of what he meant. When the blockheads in the media amplify the misinterpretation, it becomes a full-blown fictitious narrative.

Cue the phony outrage.

On Monday, while urging patience about gas prices, Trump declared that it was better to pay more at the pump for a while now, than to let Iran get a nuke and attack San Diego or Loos Angeles.

OMG. Every leftist is going to go nuts with this and it’s because he isn’t speaking clearly. He starts by saying higher prices (presumably gas) are small price to pay for keeping the world safe. Then he pivots to saying (and the phrasing is terrible) “They can take out a city. Let ’em take— let ’em take out Los Angeles. Let ’em take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay, and it’s going to be over very soon.” HE’S NOT SAYING THAT LETTING IRAN TAKE OUT LA OR SAN DIEGO IS A SMALL PRICE TO PAY. He’s saying “(if we) let them do that you’ll see why higher prices are a small price to pay to win (so they can’t do something like that.)” It’s a ramble, but it’s clearly what he means. He’s not advocating for the destruction of American cities, even in California. FFS. Even Grok is arguing with me about this, but you have to speak Trump. I’m 💯 right, and it’s not even up for debate. https://t.co/IlnIHPuOYw

— Steve Skojec (@SteveSkojec) October 6, 2026

Trump said he wanted Iran to attack San Diego or Los Angeles, they squealed in unison!

And just like that, Democrat politicians chorused the same lie.

Shoot, that spectacular idiot, Gavin Newsom, called Trump’s remarks treasonous.

Donald Trump’s remarks were dangerous — if not treasonous — putting a target on two of our biggest cities and one of America’s largest naval hubs. I am directing the State Threat Assessment Center to actively monitor the situation in the event that foreign actors interpret the President’s remarks as an invitation to target California.

— Governor Gavin Newsom (@CAgovernor) October 6, 2026

Naturally, Biden’s loyal sidekick, Chris Murphy had to get in on the act.

Trump's point here is that if he didn't start a war with Iran, then San Diego and LA would be at risk from nuclear war.

— Michael Scherer (@michaelscherer) October 6, 2026

Right on cue, Virginia’s Senator Mark Warner dutifully vomited up the DNC talking points.

What a sad state of affairs when a president can joke about letting Iran “take out” Los Angeles or San Diego and it barely makes news. Can you imagine the outrage if any other president said that? America – we can do better than this.

— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) October 6, 2026

Trump is accustomed to it by now.

Remember, in March of 2024, when he said that if he wasn’t elected there’d be a bloodbath in the car industry and the Greek chorus of the left squawked: He’s threatening a bloodbath if he doesn’t win!

And August of 2017, when Trump said there were “very good people on both sides “ of the debate about a statue of Robert E.Lee and then went on to say he didn’t mean “Nazis or white supremacists”? Didn’t matter, the low-IQ brigade began shouting that Trump thought there were very good white supremacists.

Or how about, during the campaign in 2024 when candidate Trump said when re-elected he would be a dictator on the first day and that he’d immediately close the border and “drill baby drill.”

“After that, I won’t be a dictator,” he joked.

Trump admits he’s going to be a dictator! they bleated.

Bad enough that partisan hacks are spreading misinformation, but when the legacy media joins in, they merely hasten their demise.

Trump suggests letting Iran 'take out' Los Angeles and San Diego at campaign rally https://t.co/2pkkOAR8MR

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) October 6, 2026

You don’t hate the media enough.

CNN's chief fact-checker has even debunked the most recent hoax. Tough day for some of y'all 🙏😭

— Clayton Keirns (@CKeirns) October 6, 2026

Well, whaddya know. CNN’s fact checker tells the truth. Daniel Dale must be a lonely in CNN’s daft newsroom.

Yet some crimes are so depraved, so heinous, so satanic, that justice can only be served with the death penalty. Some murderers also pose a threat to fellow inmates.

And that’s why Christa Pike was sentenced to death 30 years ago in Tennessee. As a jealous 18-year-old, she and two teenaged accomplices lured 19-year-old classmate Colleen Slemmer to a remote location near the University of Tennessee where they tortured the girl for up to an hour before killing her.

According to her own confession, Pike punched the girl she thought was after her boyfriend, slammed her head against concrete, kicked her, cut her with a box cutter and finally bashed in Slemmer’s head with a chunk of asphalt.

Slemmer’s body was so mutilated that when it was discovered it was first believed to be a dead animal.

During the torture session Slemmer begged to be freed. She offered to walk home to Florida and not go back for her belongings if Pike would release her. She had multiple defensive wounds on her arms and knees,.

Oh, and during the murder, a pentagram was carved into Slemmer’s chest

In fact, the medical examiner said there were so many injuries to Slemmer’s corpse that to document every one was impractical.

Pike was so delighted with her handiwork that she had a souvenir of the murder: Pike kept a piece of Slemmer’s skull that she was carrying in her pocket when she was picked up by the police.

This is a sick, dangerous woman.

So dangerous, that five years after she was imprisoned and awaiting execution, Pike attacked a fellow inmate and attempted to kill her, too. Pike was tried and convicted of attempted first degree murder and 25 years were added to her death sentence,

Pike finally had an execution date last week, but as we all know, two attempts at lethal injection failed and the murderer didn’t die.

Here’s where it gets weird. The state was trying to kill her, failed and then sent her to s a hospital where they are keeping her alive.

Why?

Vets euthanize Saint Bernards with no problem and no pain, yet these lethal injections seem tricky. Maybe call a veterinarian next time.

You know what isn't tricky? Firing squads. Quick and relatively painless. Surely less painless than getting one’s head bashed in.

According to reports, Pike is unconscious and may even be on life support.

Pull the damn plug.

Shoot, a few years ago, Gov. Ralph Northam coolly explained how imperfect - but innocent - babies are kept comfortable while they’re allowed to die.

Why all the extreme measures to keep this evil devil-worshipping witch breathing?

In the wake of the botched execution attempts bleeding hearts are rolling out stories about Pike’s lousy childhood and her young age to gin up sympathy for the inmate.

Sorry.

I prefer to think about Slemmer’s family. They’d traveled to Tennessee to see justice carried out and instead they go home knowing the monster who ended their daughter’s life lives on.

Unless Pike just dies in the next few days, this is going to turn into a legal nightmare, with lawyers arguing she’s suffered enough and her death sentence should be commuted.

Sorry, she earned her punishment.

ROAF founder Doug Truax says the new directive will address a structural problem allowing civilian academic norms to dilute the military's core mission.

For years, Restoration of America Foundation (ROAF) has argued that service academies should be run like military institutions, not civilian universities. Now the Secretary of War agrees.

ROAF founder and West Point graduate Doug Truax commends Secretary of War Pete Hegseth for his recent directive to terminate tenured positions for faculty at the nation’s service academies.

Truax told Restoration News, “For decades our service academies have veered away from their sole purpose—to train and prepare the nation’s military officers how to lead their troops into battle and win wars. We’ve seen military professors pushing divisive social justice agendas that have no place in these institutions. They are a danger to our nation and must be terminated.”

Sec. Hegseth gets it. Military academies cannot operate like civilian universities. “We must address the structural mechanisms that have allowed civilian academic norms to dilute our focus on lethality,” said Hegseth.

ROAF highlights the dangers of woke ideologies that have infiltrated the military and its service academies at RestoretheMilitary.com.

Why This Directive Is Necessary

Dr. Morton Ender has been a professor of sociology at the U.S. Military Academy (West Point) for 28 years. Here are some facts about Ender:

• He advocated for transgenders in the military, saying, “Within the military there is still institutional racism, there is institutional sexism, there is institutional homophobia."

• Ender was the point of contact for classes such as "Deconstructing Patriotism" and "The Evolution of Cross-dressing in the Military."

• Research conducted by Ender on West Point cadets about transgenderism concluded that ongoing diversity research and inclusion efforts are needed to avoid silencing sexual and gender minorities.

• He served as co-chair of West Point’s Diversity and Inclusion Studies minor.

Frank Sobchak is the chair of irregular warfare studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point. He is also a professor at the Joint Special Operations University. Here’s some of Sobchack's propaganda:

• In June 2025, Sobchak posted on Facebook that the America First movement is a cult and is "selfish, xenophobic, hateful, cruel."

• In response to a post regarding a day of mourning if President Trump died, Sobchak wrote that he wouldn't be mourning and he has a great bottle of champagne waiting for that day.

• He retweeted a statement calling the Trump White House and RNCC fascists.

• Sobchak wrote an article providing instructions for military members on what-if scenarios if the president were to give unlawful orders, Suggesting he thought Trump would issue unlawful orders.

Lynne Chandler Garcia is an associate professor of political science at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Here are some facts about her:

• She wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post saying she helps her students “identify the structural racism and inequality that has been endemic in American society . . . Racism was ingrained in the system from the beginning, and the military still struggles with these issues.”

• Garcia said, “I teach critical race theories to our nation’s future military leaders because it is vital that cadets understand the history of the racism that has shaped both foreign and domestic policy.”

Why it Matters

These are just small samples of dangerous ideologues that have infiltrated the nation’s military institutions. It’s unclear if Hegseth’s directive covers military war colleges that have also been infected. More on that can be found at RestoretheMilitary.com.

The men and women who enter our service academies are preparing to lead soldiers, sailors, and Marines in the most demanding circumstances imaginable. They deserve an education built around that responsibility. Ending tenure is a meaningful move toward restoring that focus.

Victoria Manning is a Senior Investigative Researcher for Restoration News specializing in education freedom, immigration, and military issues. She is the author of Behind the Wall of Government Schools. Victoria served 8 years as an elected school board member and has a master’s degree in law. She also brings the perspective of a military spouse to her reporting.

Republished with permission from Restoration News.

President Trump is delivering on his 2024 agenda, but the leftist media won’t report it.

The legacy media won’t tell you this, but President Donald Trump is delivering on the promises he made in 2024—and the results are already reshaping the country.

When Trump ran in 2024, he laid out a clear agenda. Priorities included: securing the border, restoring public safety, reining in federal spending, and putting parents back in charge of their children's education. The Trump administration, now in its second year, has made significant progress toward fulfilling those campaign promises.

From historic drops in homicides and overdose deaths to sweeping deportation numbers, deregulation, and new tax relief for working families, the results are substantial. Yet, the legacy media won’t report any positive accomplishments of the Trump administration.

President Trump inherited four years of damaging policies compounded by a border invasion that allowed at least 14 million unvetted people into the nation. Democrats don’t want the public to know about the noteworthy progress made by the Trump administration to undo the damage caused by the Biden regime.

Here is a look at the promises made and the promises kept.

Promises Made:

Border Security and Immigration Enforcement

Promises Kept:

• The United States achieved negative net migration in 2025 for the first time in over 50 years. This reversed a long-term trend through enforcement, deterrence, and policy changes.

• In 2025, immigration enforcement removed more than 2.6 million illegal aliens via deportations and self-departures combined—one of the largest enforcement efforts in modern U.S. history.

• The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in 2025, conducted over 600,000 deportations, focusing on the "worst of the worst." In fiscal year 2026 alone, deportations have hit 350,000. Under the new leadership of DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, there have been month-over-month record-breaking numbers, with more than 50,000 in both July and August.

• Border wall construction is funded and is rapidly being built. The final planned completion timeline is 2028.

• The Trump administration has located 146,000 unaccompanied migrant minors illegally smuggled into the United States under the Biden administration. Many were victims of trafficking.

Promises Made: 

Public Safety and Crime Reduction

Promises Kept:

• Fentanyl trafficking across the southern border, in 2025, dropped 56 percent. The Trump administration has disrupted cartel supply chains through enforcement policies and international pressure.

• The enforcement of English-language proficiency for commercial truck drivers has taken over 26,000 non-compliant drivers off the road, improving roadway safety.

• The nation witnessed, in 2025, the largest one-year decline in homicides in its history through targeted federal interventions, reversing prior surges in violent crime.

• An 18 percent decline in drug overdose deaths from January 2025 until April 2026.

• The 2025 launch of the D.C. Safe Task Force: 7,500+ arrests, 735 illegal firearms seized, 80+ encampments cleared, murders down over 60 percent.

• A record number of FBI Most Wanted criminals were captured during the first year, in conjunction with accelerated high-profile apprehensions.

Promises Made: 

Get Rid of Dangerous Ideologies and Racial Discrimination in Schools

Promises Kept:

• The Education Department (ED) ended over $400 million in grant funding for racially discriminatory grant programs.

• ED made a deal with Columbia University to discipline student offenders and eliminate racial preferences in hiring and admissions practices.

• ED entered into a deal with Brown University to combat Antisemitism, enforce Title IX "as intended," and base admission practices "solely" on student merit, "not their race or sex."

• Over 300 colleges and universities have “rooted out” DEI’s "unfair requirements for admission, employment, scholarship awards, and more.”

• The University of Pennsylvania agreed to apologize and restore women’s records and bar males from women’s sports and private spaces.

Promises Made: 

Dismantle the Department of Education and Return Control to Parents

Promises Kept:

• The ED workforce was reduced by 45 percent.

• The ED downsized to a smaller building, which saved $5 million a year in facilities costs.

• Enacted the Working Families Tax Cut Act that revolutionized parental choice in education through the Education Freedom Tax Credit.

Promises Made:

Cancel the Electric Vehicle Mandate and Cut Costly and Burdensome Regulations

Promises Kept:

• Ended government incentives to automakers for the dreaded auto start-stop feature.

• Repealed the Biden administration’s costly greenhouse gas requirements, saving over $310 billion. Rescinded the Endangerment Finding.

• Eliminated the electric vehicle mandate, reversing a Biden "backdoor" regulatory burden that increased automobile costs.

• Ended the electric vehicle tax credit that subsidized the industry at the expense of the taxpayer.

Promises Made:

Strengthen the Economy

Promises Kept:

• In September 2026, the Census Bureau announced that median household income was the highest on record and the poverty rate for children is at a historic low.

• The Trump administration, in 2025, delivered on 'No Tax on Tips," "No Tax on Overtime," and protections for Social Security benefits.

• In 2025, secured a $9 billion rescissions package canceling wasteful spending (including NPR/PBS funding).

• Created Trump Accounts—tax-advantaged savings for newborns (federal $1,000 seed money plus private matching), projected to reach ~$300,000 by age 18.

• Reduced weekly jobless claims to multi-year lows. Strong labor market indicators.

• Reduced the federal workforce to the lowest number in 15 years.

• The 2026 Task Force to Eliminate Fraud has already uncovered at least $245 billion in fraud. That doesn’t include the $215 billion in waste eliminated under the Department of Government Efficiency.

• Unemployment claims in September reached historic lows, and the overall rate remains low, hovering around 4 percent.

Promises Made:

Voter Integrity

Promises Kept:

• The crackdown and prosecution of illegal aliens who’ve voted in U.S. elections.

• The federal government provided the SAVE, or Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, database as a tool of enforcement for states to prevent illegal aliens from voting.

These examples are just a portion of wins delivered by the Trump administration.

Despite the legacy media’s determined silence, the record is clear: Trump is delivering on the agenda the American people voted for in 2024. Border security has been restored, public safety is improving, costly and discriminatory federal policies are being dismantled, and working families are seeing real relief. These results stand in sharp contrast to the damage inflicted over the previous four years. With Trump, promises made are promises kept, and the American people are better off because of it.

Victoria Manning is a Senior Investigative Researcher for Restoration News specializing in education freedom, immigration, and military issues. She is the author of Behind the Wall of Government Schools. Victoria served 8 years as an elected school board member and has a master’s degree in law. She also brings the perspective of a military spouse to her reporting.

Republished with permission from Restoration News.

With news that one of the worst governors in America - Kathy Hochul - had appointed one of the most political prosecutors in the country - Letitia James - to jump into the case of the so-called Cornell 7, it became clear that these two women are out to toss the seven MALE students who took part in a night of debauchery into prison.

This being the eve of the mid-terms there are political implications as well.

Instead of this simply being a case of young people behaving badly, it’s going to become a crime that ruins lives.

For those who haven’t been paying attention, here’s what we have:

Seven young fraternity brothers who are the subject of a civil lawsuit over an orgy they allegedly participated in back in October 2024 are now under criminal investigation for rape.

I’ll spare you most of the details. What transpired inside the Tudor-style frat house two years ago was gross, dehumanizing and sick.

Every single person who took part in the debauched behavior should be ashamed of themselves.

Including the woman.

Pigs. All of them.

When men and women voluntarily swill alcohol and snort drugs, why is the female’s intoxication treated differently from the male’s?

So now the question becomes: Are the males criminals? Is the female a victim?

From what I can gather, no. But a long-standing patronizing attitude toward women may wind up tossing these guys in prison.

I agree with feminist writer Camille Paglia on this one. Here she was some time ago, speaking about how women have agency and don’t need the protection of a double legal standard anymore.

Camille Paglia, essentially, has the last word on the Cornell 7.

Don’t dive into the sea and act surprised when you get wet. pic.twitter.com/Poe3jpxvAZ

— Akhenaten 🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ (@SplendorEternal) September 30, 2026

Two years ago, after the lone Cornell female signed a six-page declaration admitting that she consented to the drinking, drug-taking and sex acts with multiple men in a Cornell fraternity house, the local prosecutor determined that no crime had been committed.

With the statute of limitations about to run on civil damages, however, the female - who has so far managed to keep her identity secret - is suing her own sorority house for not stopping her binge drinking, a local Ithaca bar for serving her liquor and the fraternity brothers for dishing up sex, booze and drugs.

They’re rapists, she says now. She was a “victim.”

Here are some of the facts as gleaned from her own signed statements: She walked over a mile to get to the house where she hoped to see a particular guy. During some “flirty” dancing, he asked if she’d want to take part in a threesome with him and another guy.

She eagerly acquiesced.

The threesome turned into a series of encounters with other guys who were enjoying her willingness to put out. According to her account, when she declined certain acts the guys backed off. When she said she was tired they let her rest.

At one point she snorted drugs off one fellow’s erect penis and then allowed other guys to snort drugs off her naked body.

She was inebriated, but able to recall many details of her night at the Chi Phi house. It’s worth noting that several guys were drunker than she was, passing out and dry heaving. She claimed she attended to them.

Sort of like a naked night nurse.

The whole scene - as described allegedly by her - is stomach-turning.

Initially, she told no one about her degrading encounters. But from text messages, it appears that when she was uninvited to a party at the same fraternity house weeks later, she went to the authorities.

If she’d been raped there, why would she want to go back?

The DA did not bring charges.

A grand jury is now reviewing the two-year old evidence to determine if there was a rape and if so, who committed it. That wasn’t enough for Kathy Hochul who saw the opportunity to turn the case into a full-blown woke circus by appointing James to prosecute.

Frankly, this case makes many of us as uneasy much as the Duke Lacrosse and the UVA Rolling Stone cases did.

Just because a woman is filled with remorse after behaving badly and just because her reputation is in tatters, doesn’t mean she gets to toss her sex partners in prison for decades.

Several of the men -whose identities are public - have already lost their jobs. At least one of them claims that the female assaulted HIM by performing oral sex on him while he was nearly passed out.

Finally, you can always count on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to get the facts wrong and throw kerosene on a fire.

Here she is, shooting off her mouth in front of an audience of 1,200 students.

Not a single word of this is true. https://t.co/bbuHdeSotR

— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) October 1, 2026

If the Cornell 7 are exonerated, AOC just served up a juicy defamation case that could bankrupt her.

That’s one case that will be just and delicious.

Thank God for a brave, Indian pilot who saved 174 mostly Israeli passengers during an attempted hijacking yesterday. The flight left Dubai and was bound for Tel Aviv when the pilot was attacked by his Arab co-pilot.

(Twenty seven of those on board were Israeli children, by the way.)

Thank God for a brave Israeli man who saw the hijacking underway and without hesitation ripped the Islamic maniac copilot - who had repeatedly stabbed the pilot - out of his seat.

Thank God for the quick-thinking passengers who helped secure the terrorist with wires from headsets.

Thank God for the person who righted the aircraft, which was plunging toward the ground at a high rate of speed.

Thank God for an Israeli dentist who administered emergency care to the gravely wounded pilot.

Thank God there was another flight crew deadheading on Flight FZ1073 who were able to land the jet safely in Saudi Arabia.

Thank God for all of it.

Had it not been for the bravery of the pilot and the passengers we’d likely be talking today about a horrible plane crash. When some of us would speculate that a jihadi was likely responsible for the carnage we’d be accused of being Islamophobic.

The question today is, was this a lone Islamic terrorist or is he part of a terrorist cell? Are other acts of terror in the pipeline?

I don’t care what happens to this terrorist, but the civilized world needs answers.  Make this murderous dirtbag talk.

Those of us who use independent journalism as our main source of information were following this unfolding story from early yesterday morning. We knew it was likely an attempted hijacking immediately because the pilot had communicated the code 7500 to air traffic controllers, a signal that the plane had been illegally interfered with or was being hijacked.

The mainstream media, always reticent to report on acts of savagery by Muslims, merely reported an “altercation” between pilots and that the plane had been diverted.

Muslim co-pilot stabs pilot and tries to take down plane with 180 passengers

Media: pic.twitter.com/2sfYv2nI2M

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 30, 2026

I say it often, I’ll say it again: You don’t hate the media enough,

While normal people were offering up prayers of gratitude for the lives that were saved, at 4:16 in the afternoon, Sen. Mark Warner, craven political animal suffering from terminal TDS that he is, posted this on X.

Trump’s war is a total disaster. It’s left us weaker and poorer… and instilled a more extreme and emboldened Iranian regime.

— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) September 30, 2026

It’s unclear if Warner was coyly blaming the president for the attempted hijacking or the incident at the RAF Fairford base on Sunday. Or was Warner simply basking in the endorsement of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps that released a 25-page letter to the American people on behalf of the mullahs urging them to vote for Democrats?

Whatever.

A quick search of Warner’s Wednesday social media rants included no mention of the attempted hijacking.

Color me unsurprised.

Where did that whacky prediction originate? Polls, of course.

Another example, closer to home: In 2016 I was a metro columnist for The Virginian-Pilot. Besides it being a presidential year, a big issue on the ballot that November was a referendum on light rail. Would Virginia Beach voters approve a measure to extend Norfolk’s failed light rail system into the Resort City at a cost of close to $100 million a mile.

This was a developer- driven project. Fat cats at the beach wanted the train, despite studies that showed it would do nothing to reduce traffic congestion.

The Pilot’s editorial board was cheerleading for the project.

Shortly before Election Day, the newspaper that had laid off scores of workers and was clearly in deep financial trouble, nevertheless jointly commissioned a Christopher Newport University light rail poll with a local TV station. It showed an almost even split between those who were for and those against the boondoggle.

I asked the editors why they did the polling. Why not simply wait till Election Day?

News, they said. This was news.

No, it was not news. It was a news outlet paid-for poll.

I never believed the results. I live in Virginia Beach and it was clear to me that the people weren’t fooled. Opposition to the wasteful project led by former City Treasurer John Atkinson was strong.

The final results: Light rail lost 58% to 42%. That was a shellacking.

Did the poll rile up the opposition and get them to come out and give a big middle finger to the powerful lobby behind the project? Or did the poll stifle some of the nay votes?

We’ll never know.

We should be skeptical about polls and acknowledge that they are not news. They’re soothsaying wrapped in pseudo-science. Sometimes they get it right, often they don’t.

Candidates definitely need to do polling. But they rarely share their internal polls with the public.

It’s clear why news outlets like them. Especially in the current climate.

With dire predictions of a “blue tsunami” from North Carolina to Alaska it’s worth asking what effect the polls will have on voters. Will Republicans stay home, figuring they’re going to lose the midterms? Or will pollsters have egg on their faces November 3rd?

I have no idea.

But it’s hard for me to believe that people who are angry about gas prices are going to vote for the party that killed the Keystone XL pipeline, drained our Strategic Petroleum Reserves and halted all offshore drilling and exploration.

It’s also hard to believe that people who are worried about 3.4% inflation are going to vote for the party that brought 9.1% inflation just a couple of years ago.

And it’s counterintuitive to believe that those who are upset about the cost of the war in Iran are going to support the party that wants to throw unlimited money at Ukraine.

And why would anyone vote for the party that embraces antisemitism, coddles criminals, opens the border, allows boys in girls’ sports and wants to cut off the genitals of confused children? Oh, and let’s not forget, the Dems are now in bed with communists who masquerade as Democrat Socialists.

While it’s true the Republicans haven’t delivered on all of their promises in Trump’s first two years, it’s worth remembering that Trump was re-elected precisely because the Biden presidency was a disaster.

If the polls are right, Americans are suffering from a widespread amnesiac event.

Not buying it.

By Bill Bolling

September 25, 2026

Last week I talked about Virginia Democrats misguided efforts to amend the Constitution of Virginia to give every convicted fellow – violent or nonviolent – the ability to vote immediately upon completion of their sentence.

No requirement for the completion of a probationary period for violent felons, even though 66% of them will commit another crime within two years of their release; and no requirement that they make restitution to the victims of their crimes.

That amendment deserves a solid NO vote.

Today, I want to address another of the Democrats misguided constitutional amendments, which they refer to as the Right To Reproductive Freedom amendment. This proposed amendment deserves another solid NO vote. Here’s why.

Abortion is a very divisive public policy question. While many Americans describe themselves as pro-choice, many other Americans describe themselves as pro-life. Enshrining a position on such a controversial issue in the Constitution of Virginia is never a good idea.

But even then, many Virginians who describe themselves as pro-choice also believe that reasonable restrictions should be placed on abortion services, such as requirements for parental notification and parental consent, and a ban on the barbaric practice of partial birth abortion.

However, if this constitutional amendment is approved by voters it will give every individual the “fundamental right” to “reproductive freedom”, which includes the right to make their own, unfettered decisions regarding abortion.

The proposed amendment further states that the Commonwealth can only regulate the provision of abortion care if there is a “compelling state interest” in doing so. What might constitute a “compelling state interest” would largely be left up to the courts to decide.

Here’s the problem.

The passage of this amendment will quickly call into question the validity of current Virginia law regarding parental notification and parental consent, which says that no person under the age of 18 can have an abortion without their parents being notified and agreeing to the procedure. (There are available judicial safeguards that can be applied in some cases.)

These laws were passed in the 1990s to prevent anyone from facilitating an abortion for a minor without their parent’s being notified and agreeing to the performance of the procedure.

Whether you consider yourself to be pro-life or pro-choice, we should all agree that minors should not be undergoing an abortion without their parents’ knowledge and consent.

But if this proposed constitutional amendment is approved, Virginia’s parental notification and consent requirements will undoubtedly be challenged, and likely overturned. I’m simply not willing to take that chance. I supported those laws when they were passed in the 1990s and I still support them today.

Once again, with this amendment we see Virginia Democrats, who are among the most liberal in the nation, doing what they always do – they are simply trying to go too far.

For the most part Virginia’s current laws regarding abortion access are working, and there is no good reason to run the risk of turning Virginia into the wild, wild, west when it comes to such an important and divisive issue.

Vote NO on the Pro-Abortion Amendment.

BILL BOLLING served as the 39th lieutenant governor for Virginia.

Republished with permission from Virginia Free Press.

ICE presses ahead with enforcement partnerships despite sanctuary policies.

Congressional Democrats who have organized protests outside of a federal immigration detention center in New Jersey have not provided the public with any details about the violent nature of those who are incarcerated. They also have not commented on the taxpayer-funded benefits the illegal aliens have received.

But House and Senate members have leveled several accusations against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) and its Delaney Hall facility in Newark that do not square with the facts. They have also joined with Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) to advance sanctuary policies that obstruct law enforcement efforts.

ICE has made a concerted effort to keep the public informed about its operations while also releasing detailed information about the criminal history of detained illegal aliens. But there appears to be a media blackout imposed against any coverage of successful law enforcement efforts.

Most recently, for instance, ICE arrested two illegal aliens in New Jersey as part of a nationwide effort to root out fraudulent commercial driver’s license (CDL) activity. ICE arrested Zokhid Zakhidov, 37, in Woodbridge and Khayrullo Payzullaev, 30, in Hamilton on August 23. Both men are Uzbek citizens. Both men are, moreover, a menace to public safety.

Zakhido possessed a New York commercial learner permit when he was arrested. He has been convicted for driving while intoxicated and has pending charges for “assault with intent to cause physical injury and harassment,” according to an ICE press release. Payzullaev held a “non-domiciled Pennsylvania commercial driver’s license” when he was arrested, the release said.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Transportation (DOT) formed a partnership in July for the purpose of cracking down on fraudulent and illegal practices in CDL schools. This is precisely the kind of cooperative effort between government agencies that Sherrill and other Democrats have opposed in blue states. In March, Sherrill signed a bill that prevents state and local authorities from participating in the 287(g) program, which enables local officials to enforce federal immigration laws. New Jersey has never looked back.

In June, Attorney General Jennifer Davenport filed a lawsuit against the GEO Group Inc., which operates the Delaney Hall immigration detention center. The suit asks the court to allow the New Jersey Department of Health (DOH) access to the facility, which the attorney general claims “is the focus of well-documented concerns about inhumane and unsanitary conditions for detainees.” But is that true?

U.S. Sens. Cory Booker and Andrew Kim are among those Democrats who have put out social media posts criticizing the conditions at Delaney Hall. Booker described the conditions as “deplorable,” and Kim has said the facility “must be shut down immediately.” Other New Jersey political figures who have chimed in against the ICE facility include Rep. Rob Menendez, Rep. Nellie Pou, Rep. LaMonica McIver, Rep. Frank Pallone, and Rep. Analilia Majia. New York congressional Democrats, including Rep. Adriano Espaillat, Rep. Jerry Nadler, and Rep. Dan Goldman, have also joined in the protests outside Delany Hall.

But what far-left elected officials do not tell their constituents is that they are footing the bill as taxpayers to fund free legal defense for illegal aliens at the facility to the tune of about $20 million. Those same taxpayers are also paying more than $71 million a year for the meals illegal aliens receive at Delany Hall.

ICE directly took on its critics in a press release that commented on the quality of care illegal aliens receive in Newark.

The facts are all detainees are provided with 3 meals a day, clean water, clothing, bedding, showers, soap, and toiletries. Illegal aliens also have access to phones to communicate with their family members and lawyers. Certified dieticians evaluate meals. In fact, ICE has higher detention standards than most U.S. prisons that hold actual U.S. citizens.

It is a longstanding practice to provide comprehensive medical care from the moment an alien enters ICE custody. This includes medical, dental, and mental health services as available, and access to medical appointments and 24-hour emergency care. For many illegal aliens, this is the best healthcare they have received their entire lives.

But it is the criminal records of the illegal aliens in Delany Hall whom Democrats would like to see released that should most concern legal citizens in New Jersey and around the country.

Here’s a partial list of the “worst of the worst”:

• Jose De La O Lainez, a criminal illegal alien from El Salvador, arrested in Plainfield, New Jersey. His criminal history includes homicide.

• Steven McKenzie, a criminal illegal alien from Jamaica, arrested in Rahway, New Jersey. His criminal history includes carrying a prohibited weapon, homicide, aggravated assault, robbery, and assault.

• Juan Vazquez Reyes, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, arrested in Bridgeton, New Jersey. His criminal history includes homicide.

• Jhan Martinez-Valverde, a criminal illegal alien from Peru, arrested in Elizabeth, New Jersey. His criminal history includes a sex offense against a child.

A complete list is available here.

Reality may be catching up with Democrats who favor open borders and higher crime rates. In early September, an illegal alien attempting to escape from an ICE operation in New Jersey ran through a stoplight in his vehicle and collided with a Tesla, injuring the wife of East Brunswick Mayor Brad Broden, a Democrat.

Evidentially, illegal aliens who remain on the loose in New Jersey continue to pose a threat to legal citizens. During the Labor Day weekend, an illegal alien released under the Biden administration kidnapped and sexually assaulted a 6-year-old girl.

Meanwhile, Sherrill and congressional Democrats continue to press ahead with sanctuary policies. By contrast, red states working in partnership with ICE agents are lowering crime rates and improving public safety. Tennessee, for example, is expanding its existing 287(g) programs. ICE is also continuing to report on the success it has had with 287(g) despite an ongoing media blackout of these reports.

Kevin Mooney is a Senior Investigative Researcher for Restoration News specializing in energy policy, environmentalist groups, and dark money. He writes regularly for the American Spectator, Washington Examiner, Daily Caller, Daily Signal, and National Review. Kevin is the author of the new book, Climate Porn: How and Why Anti-Population Zealots Fabricate Science, while Targeting American Capitalism, Freedom, and Independence.

Republished with permission from Restoration News.

The American Federation of Teachers joins a lawsuit to block stricter commercial driver's license rules—putting social justice ideology ahead of child safety.

Teachers' unions should want the best interests of children. So why is the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) suing to keep drivers who can't read English behind the wheel of school buses?

Leftist groups are fighting to keep dangerous alien commercial drivers on the road. The AFT, one of the nation's largest teachers' unions, just joined a lawsuit aimed at blocking the Trump administration's efforts to remove them.

The Transportation Department's (DOT) rules require that "non-citizens will not be eligible for a non-domiciled CDL unless they meet a much stricter set of rules, including an employment-based visa and undergoing a mandatory federal immigration status check using the SAVE system."

The Trump administration is cracking down on non-compliant training centers that provide instruction for commercial driver's licenses (CDL). In February, the DOT discovered more than 500 sham CDL training schools including one that specialized in teaching school bus drivers.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said, "If you can't be properly trained, read our road signs, or communicate with law enforcement, you have no business driving a bus."

Teachers' unions nevertheless want to put these drivers behind the wheel of school buses carrying American children.

Why It Matters

• In 2025, illegal immigrants driving commercial trucks were involved in fatal crashes that killed at least 30 Americans; similar incidents have continued in 2026.

• In May 2026, a non-English speaking naturalized citizen from China, caused a fatal crash in Virginia that killed five people. His bus slammed into an SUV on Interstate 95. He required an interpreter to communicate in court.

• In July 2026, a Haitian man operating a semi struck a Pennsylvania State Police vehicle during a roadside inspection, killing Trooper Michael Pahira.

• Not only are aliens committing crimes by crossing the border illegally, but many could also have criminal records in their own countries that wouldn't show up in a standard background check. Since 2021, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol has arrested over 70,000 aliens with a past criminal history.

• When the DOT reviewed CDL compliance in California they found that more than 25 percent of non-domiciled CDLs were improperly issued. One driver from Brazil was given endorsements to drive a school bus that was valid after his legal presence expired.

The Bottom Line

Activist teachers' unions put their social justice anti-law enforcement agendas before student safety. Regarding the stricter rules for CDLs, AFT president Randi Weingarten said, "This is a spiteful and illegal rule issued with no justification except to hurt hundreds of thousands of lawful immigrants . . . Their American Dream will be dashed or deferred, all because of the pettiness of the president and his advisers."

America's highways—and especially its school buses—are no place for Russian roulette.

When teachers' unions fight to keep non-citizens who cannot speak English, lack proper work authorization, and may carry unvetted criminal records behind the wheel of vehicles carrying our children, they reveal that ideology matters more to them than safety. The Trump administration's stricter CDL rules are not "spiteful"; they are the bare minimum required to stop preventable deaths. Every parent, every community, and every responsible official should demand that those rules stand—and that the people who put politics ahead of children's lives be held to account.

Victoria Manning is a Senior Investigative Researcher for Restoration News specializing in education freedom, immigration, and military issues. She is the author of Behind the Wall of Government Schools. Victoria served 8 years as an elected school board member and has a master’s degree in law. She also brings the perspective of a military spouse to her reporting.

Republished with permission from Restoration News.

Here he was in all his obsequiousness at Salem State University this week:

Obama: "If you put women in charge of every government for two years... I have a strong belief that things would be better. I'm confident about that." pic.twitter.com/H6hs5ZjZFV

— TheBlaze (@theblaze) September 24, 2026

“I sometimes fantasized about if you put women in charge of every government for like two years…I have a strong feeling that things would be better. I believe that. I’m confident.”

Is he nuts? Or just blathering? Or is he simply sucking up to historian Doris Kearns Goodwin who was on the panel with him?

Is he unfamiliar with Angela Merkel who opened Germany’s borders and created a migrant crisis? How about Jacinda Arden who turned New Zealand into a covid concentration camp during the pandemic?

Putting aside just how cloying, condescending and patronizing the former president sounds, it’s worth remembering that he belongs to a political party that stubbornly refuses to even acknowledge what a woman is.

In a colossal blunder, Democrats in 2022 actually put a justice on the Supreme Court who was flummoxed when asked to define the word “woman.”

“I’m not a biologist,” Ketanji Brown Jackson whimpered in reply to a question from Sen. Marsha Blackburn just before Democrats elevated the mid-wit to the highest court.

That answer alone should have been disqualifying. Especially considering the only reason Jackson was elevated to the court was because she checked not one, but two boxes: black and female.

In a roundtable campaign appearance featuring Abdul el Sayed and Kamala Harris this week, the discussion revolved around “black birthing persons.”

I’ve never seen a party more dedicated to erasing women.

Worse, earlier this month, a gaggle of Massachusetts women on a jury tried to bully the others into letting a mother who strangled her three children escape a murder charge. When their efforts were thwarted by the one normal juror who wanted to convict the killer of first degree murder, the women unleashed a repulsive attack on the black man who’d stood in their way.

So, no thanks, Obama. If a woman can get away with murder because her hormones are out of whack, we should think twice before ever putting a female in charge of a country.

Oh, and by the way, if women would make splendid leaders, why do you suppose Barack Obama chose to run against one on his way to the White House?

Using Obama’s logic, Hillary - “you’re likeable enough” - would have been a better choice in 2008.

Anyone agree?

As bad as Obama was, I don’t think so.

Every leftie running for office is talking about it.

Social media is suddenly saturated with sad stories of folks barely making ends meet and blaming it all on - who else - Donald Trump.

What these seemingly sincere posters don’t tell you is that they’re being paid to make these videos. In other words, they’re actors.

Don’t take my word for it. Here’s The New York Times with a piece headlined “An Army of Paid Creators Is Carpeting the Web With Political Content. Unlike celebrity influencers with large followings, these creators produce a blizzard of videos for a fraction of the cost of traditional online campaigns and, in the process, shift public conversation.

Early this year, Project Bullhorn, a Democratic-aligned venture that has said it wants to combat right-wing dominance on social media, turned to SideShift to seek out “U.G.C. creators to speak on the rising crisis of affordability around the United States ahead of the 2026 midterms,” according to a job posting on the site. 

Initially, it offered $30 per video, but the affordability crisis apparently hit Project Bullhorn as well: That rate recently dropped to $25, the job listing showed.

The Times identified more than 100 social media accounts that took part in Project Bullhorn’s campaign by analyzing the activity of thousands of content creators who signed up with SideShift.

The videos they produced featured creators talking about the high cost of food, fuel and housing around the country; few disclosed they were paid for their posts.

What Project Bullhorn and other shadowy groups that pay for content know, is that when a Greek chorus “organically” rises up on social media, it influences how people think.

And vote.

It’s also dishonest as hell. None of these creators point out that inflation hit 9.5% during the Biden years and today’s more modest inflation is merely piling on already-high prices.

They certainly don’t point out that, according to September 2026 data from the U.S. Census Bureau, inflation-adjusted median household income reached a record high of $87,460 in 2025. A 2.6% increase over 2024. Oh, and the U.S, poverty rate dropped to a historic low of 10.2% in 2025.

This tsunami of videos flooding TikTok, Instagram, and X share a single goal: to get angry voters to the polls to take out their rage on the party in control: Republicans.

Here’s a NYT example:

Judging from his TikTok feed, Drew was struggling to get by as a young man living near Dallas. Grocery bills were skyrocketing, he said, and he was looking for thrift stores to help keep costs down.

In reality, according to his LinkedIn profile, Drew was a man from Utah named Alex Forrester, who said he was now in Florida. “All of it was paid for,” he said in a video posted in late June, which was later deleted. “I don’t even live in Texas,” adding an expletive.

While everyone is wringing their hands over AI, America is getting played by leftist social media creators with iPhones, scripts and cold cash.

We have commenters who bring Trump into every debate. Test scores are down? Trump’s fault. Heat wave in August? Trump. Giant’s quarterback down with an injury? That’s can probably be traced to the president too.

Yet who knew that a sizable number of Trump-loathing Democrats favor a military coup to end a Trump presidency? Better yet, a successful assassination?

I did. Did you?

A shocking - to some, not to me - survey conducted by the Center for Strategic Politics (a left-leaning organization) found that 59% of Democrats now regard a military coup as a favorable way to end Trump’s term.

This is the party that supposedly cares about democracy. What a joke.

Here, see it for yourselves.

A political party that supports domestic coups and wishing death upon their U.S. political adversaries shouldn’t be called a Democratic Party. https://t.co/yqY2aB8w1i

— Lee Zeldin (@LeeMZeldin) September 22, 2026

No surprise, almost all Democrats - 87% - favor impeachment.

Buckle up, America. If Democrats win the mid-terms the performative impeachment investigation, hearings and proceedings will commence.

Who wants to tell them what happens after a president is removed from office?

Why would leftists would prefer a President Vance to Trump?

According to the pollsters, 84% are dreaming of Trump’s cabinet using the 25th Amendment to remove him from office. Laughable, when you consider that Biden’s cabinet - which he ghosted during his term - left that decrepit, drooling husk of a man in office. They never considered removing Biden from office, which would have been an act of mercy to an old man, too tired and foggy to do his job.

The majority of Democrats - 55% - want Trump to die in his sleep. Again, apparently they’re itching for a Vance presidency.

Most disturbing, but not surprising, is that 32% of Democrats would like to see the president’s head blown off on live TV by a successful assassin.

I am not surprised by this.

In fact, anecdotally, I believe a secret desire for assassination is much higher than 32% among Democrats. On the night of Butler, PA, a friend of mine was with some local Democrat Party stalwarts. When it was clear Trump had just been nicked by the bullet, one said it was a pity the shooter had missed. They all had a great chuckle over it.

I could name names. But I won’t.

What happened to our shared humanity? I, and many conservatives, loathed Joe Biden. I thought there was a case for a 25th Amedment removal, but I didn‘t then - and don’t now - wish him dead. Worse yet, shot to death.

That may be the starkest difference between America’s left and right. The right doesn’t have the same blood lust as the left.

In recent years, the Democrat Party has become a death cult. Enthusiasm for abortion has replaced Bill Clinton’s “safe, legal and RARE.” Democrats celebrate ripping children from their mother’s womb. Last week leftie actress Cynthia Nixon was photographed sporting an “Make Abortion Great Again” ball cap.

Affection for abortion has become a Democrat Party litmus test.

Medically assisted suicide is increasingly popular with these ghouls.

Worse, sympathy for murdering mothers has been gaining steam on the left, as witnessed by the love affair with Lindsay Clancy. Oh, and the legion of fans of Luigi Mangione who took out a health care executive in broad daylight appear to be exclusively made up of leftists.

This poll isn’t shocking. It’s another sad indictment of the left.

nder current Virginia law, anyone convicted of committing a felony criminal offense is prohibited from voting unless their ability to vote is restored by the Governor. This is one of the most significant restrictions on felons voting rights in the nation.

In recent years, Governors of both political parties have made the restoration of felon voting rights a priority:

Governor Bob McDonnell (2010–2014) began automatic restoration of voting rights for nonviolent felonies.

Governor Terry McAuliffe (2014–2018) extended automatic restoration to all felonies, but included a probation requirement for violent felons.

Governor Ralph Northam (2018–2022) removed the probation requirement for violent felons.

Governor Glenn Youngkin ended the proactive process, requiring individual applications for the restoration of voting rights.

Governor Abigail Spanberger (2026 to present) reinstated the proactive system, and combined with a January 2026 federal court ruling that expanded eligibility, has restored voting rights to 66,085 felons since taking office in January of this year!

But this year, Democrats want to take this a step farther. They are proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Virginia that would automatically restore the voting rights of all convicted felons immediately upon completion of their term of confinement.

This is a bad idea, and it should be rejected by the people of Virginia.

I have no problem making the restoration of voting rights automatic for a certain class of convicted felons – nonviolent felons – although there may be some categories of nonviolent felonies that should be exempt from automatic restoration.

However, I have a big problem with the automatic restoration of voting rights for persons who have been convicted of violent felonies, the most serious criminal offenses against their fellow citizens.

In my opinion, people who have been convicted and incarcerated for violent felonies (crimes involving the application of threats of force or the actual use of force to harm victims or put them in a position where they fear for their safety) should not have their voting rights automatically restored when their period of incarceration has ended.

Rather, I would suggest that more should be expected of these types of violent felons before their rights are restored, including the successful completion of a period of post incarceration probation (after all, studies show that 63.8% of these felons will be rearrested within two years of their release), and restitution to the victims of their crimes.

With this proposal, Virginia Democrats have done what they always do – they have gone way too far in their effort to protect those people who have chosen to violent the laws we live under.

Unfortunately, my guess is that this misguided constitutional amendment will pass. Why? Because no organized group with the resources to effectively oppose it has arisen, and because like it or not, more Virginia voters are buying into this type of liberal Democratic nonsense.

But at least do your part. Vote NO on the automatic restoration of rights amendment, which should more appropriately be called the Empowering Violent Felons Act.

BILL BOLLING served as the 39th lieutenant governor for Virginia.

Republished with permission from the Virginia Free Press.

I’ll weigh in on Virginia’s Catholic bishops urging the faithful to defeat two of the three garbage constitutional amendments on this year’s ballot. (Hint: I applaud the fact that the bishops finally grew a pair. Make that two pairs.) I’ll also opine on Sydney Sweeney and Greenland.

But not today.

Today we’re talking football.

Travel, actually. Travel TO football.

Every football fan has a game they’ll never forget because they were there.

I was in the stands in Charlottesville in 1990 when the ‘Hoos beat Clemson for the first time. I was in Oxford in October 2014 when Ole Miss knocked off Nick Saban’s Crimson Tide. (Still have the ticket.)

And this weekend, I was in the stands when Ole Miss beat LSU.

Rebel fans had September 19 circled on the calendar ever since Coach Lane Kiffin - that two-faced, narcissistic rat - absconded to Baton Rouge.

Payback was on the menu.

It was hot as Hades in Oxford on Saturday. Temperatures were pushing 100 even at kickoff and the stadium was packed.

Nobody cared.

The atmosphere was electric. The game was thrilling. Ole Miss won 32-24, sealing the deal with an interception in the end zone.

And Lane slunk back to Louisiana to lick his wounds.

Or lick something.

Getting to that game was a little less thrilling.

All I wanted for my birthday was for the family to go with me to Mississippi for the big game. So I made all the arrangements: tickets, a sweet Airbnb, airline reservations, car rental. We left Thursday evening.
Three adults. Two kids. Ages 4 and 18 months.

What could possibly go wrong?

Everything, apparently.

To get to Memphis, we had to fly through Midway in Chicago.

I know. I know.

Our flight out of Norfolk was late. Fortunately, our flight from Chicago was also delayed.

And delayed.

And delayed again.

Instead of landing in Memphis at around 10:30 p.m., we rolled in around 1 a.m.

I was worried about our Budget rental car but their automated 800-number recording had assured me that if I’d given them my flight number - and I had - they stay open and hold cars when flights are delayed.

Of course, Budget was closed when I sprinted up to the counter at 1 a.m.

Avis was still open.

But Avis was fresh out of cars.

No big deal, right? Get an Uber, grab a hotel, come back in the morning.

Did I mention we were traveling with two kids under the age of 5?

Turned out we couldn’t find an Uber or cab big enough for three adults, two children, bags and two car seats. It was 2 a.m.

Eventually, we took separate cabs to an airport hotel.

By then, the expenses were piling up and I had begun hate-Tweeting Budget. That’s a surprisingly effective customer-service strategy, by the way. Companies really don’t like being publicly exposed for lousy customer service.

Sure enough, before long I was talking to someone in Mumbai or somewhere, who assured me this was highly unusual and promised I’d be reimbursed for the hotel and taxis once I get my receipts organized.

I’ll let you know how that works out.

If that was an inauspicious beginning to a long-anticipated weekend, Saturday more than made up for it.

The kids were with a sitter and we joined more than 70,000 of our best friends in Vaught-Hemingway Stadium for one of the most electric college football games I’ve ever experienced.

The frustration. The airport hotel. The taxis. The 2:30 a.m. crackly conversation with India. The 100-degree heat.

Worth it.

Every bit of it.

Because there are some moments you can’t stream, replay or put a price on.

You have to be there.

And I was.

#LSU’s last chance.

This energy for these fans felt more like defeating Voldemort than a winning a football game. pic.twitter.com/nhtjJ6cQUI

— Preston Guy (@PGuy77) September 20, 2026

Twenty minutes after the game ended the stands were still packed. No one wanted to leave.

I was wearing red. See me?

National and international cooperation boost immigration enforcement efforts.

Federal immigration agents working in partnership with the FBI have determined that a foreign national of Bosnia and Herzegovina attempted to fraudulently obtain U.S. citizenship.

During his application process, Miran Kostic, 66, of Boise, Idaho, failed to disclose the fact that war crime charges has been filed against him in Bosnia and Herzegovina, according to a press release from the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. 

Kostic is charged with attempted naturalization fraud and making false statements to law enforcement agents. He faces a maximum penalty of ten years in prison for each charge of attempted naturalization fraud, and five years in prison for the false statements charge.

During his time as a high ranking official in the Autonomous Zone of Western Bosnia, the release says Kostic allegedly "pistol-whipped prisoners; beat them with wooden clubs, stakes and his fists; and kicked them, causing them to lose consciousness."

Kostic's indictment is the latest in a series of aggressive immigration enforcement actions. On Tuesday, ICE also announced the arrest of two illegal aliens in New Jersey. 

Zokhid Zakhidov, 37, was arrested in Woodbridge and Khayrullo Payzullaev, 30, was in Hamilton Aug. 23. Both men are Uzbek citizens. The New Jersey arrests fit into a larger nationwide effort to crack down on fraudulent commercial driver's license (CDL) practices that put legal American citizens in danger. 

Why It Matters

• The Trump White House has reported on a huge drop in violent crime tied with stricter immigration enforcement. The public needs to be aware of the progress being made. 

• As Homeland Security Investigations Seattle acting Special Agent in Charge April Miller said in the press release, "Citizenship is a privilege that must be earned with honesty and integrity. HSI will not allow the naturalization process to be undermined by fraud. We remain steadfast in our commitment to investigate and prosecute those who conceal their criminal backgrounds to illegally obtain status."

• Lax enforcement of the federal immigration law under the Biden administration put legal citizens in jeopardy. The nationwide crackdown on illegal alien CDL operators will make the roads safer. 

How We Fix It

• Interagency cooperation is essential to effective law enforcement. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations Seattle partnered with the FBI to uncover Kostic's alleged fraud. 

• International cooperation is equally important. The Justice Department's Office of International Affairs secured evidence to prosecute Kostic from the Ministry of Justice of Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

• A new partnership between the Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has proven highly effective. The DOT has certified ICE officers in New Jersey to recognize fraudulent CDL operators. 

The Bottom Line

President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin are saving lives and making the country safer. Strict enforcement of immigration law goes in hand with national security. 

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Governor Youngkin tried to protect girls’ sports and private spaces. Spanberger has pulled the plug and fully embraced the extremist trans agenda.

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger tried hard to sell herself as a moderate on the campaign trail in 2025, and voters bought it. Now she’s proving to the world that moderate Democrats no longer exist. She refused to tell voters her stance on men in women’s sports and private spaces, and now that she’s in office, she has come out of the closet to embrace a pro-trans extremist agenda.

In 2025, former Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R), initiated a Virginia Board of Health regulation to prevent "biological males from participating in organized female-only athletic teams and competitions in Virginia, and to prevent biological males from using designated female spaces where females are likely to be in any state of undress."

In late July 2026, Spanberger quietly directed the Board of Health to remove this regulatory action.

Spanberger no longer hides her pro-trans activist agenda that, as a candidate, she had kept hidden. She fully embraces it, smut and all.

Spanberger Out of the Closet

• On September 13th, Spanberger spoke at Virginia Pridefest where she proudly announced her decision to rescind Youngkin’s protections on girls’ sports and private spaces.

• At the event, Spanberger appeared in a photo with drag performer "Grace Wetpants" who refers to his shows as the "sluttiest sluts Richmond has to offer." When asked how he came up with his stage name, he said it’s a play on “grey sweatpants” and further explained, "'Wetpants' is funny on its own, but then you put Grace in front of it, and it’s 'Grey Sweatpants,' and you just think about a man’s bulge swinging around in a pair of grey sweatpants. And it gets you all wet."

• Spanberger told the Pridefest crowd how much the story of one trans-girl had moved her, saying, “I burst into tears because of the fact that I want to make members of the LGBTQ+ community know that you have a governor that values your community.”

• In March, Spanberger posted on social media celebrating Trans Day of Visibility, proclaiming, “We will continue to recognize and protect the rights of trans Virginians who contribute to our communities. In Virginia, we recognize the bravery it can take to be yourself.”

Virginia is a welcoming home for all people who make our Commonwealth stronger.

We will continue to recognize and protect the rights of trans Virginians who contribute to our communities. In Virginia, we recognize the bravery it can take to be yourself. #TransDayofVisibility

— Governor Abigail Spanberger (@GovernorVA) March 31, 2026

What’s Next

The Youngkin administration also adopted model policies in 2023 requiring Virginia public schools to keep boys out of girls’ locker rooms and bathrooms. The same policies protect students and employees from being forced to use pronouns that do not match biological sex, and they stop schools from hiding gender-identity issues from parents.

A Spanberger-appointed Department of Education can change those rules. Because the issue is so divisive, she will likely wait until after the November election before pushing a more trans-affirming agenda in schools.

Spanberger's Pridefest remarks underline that the moderate persona she ran on in 2025 was a campaign strategy, not a governing philosophy. Virginia parents and voters who believed her promises of centrism now have a clearer picture of where she actually stands on parental rights and protecting girls’ sports and private spaces. Parents beware—after November, Spanberger will likely pull more out of her closet.

Victoria Manning is a Senior Investigative Researcher for Restoration News specializing in education freedom, immigration, and military issues. She is the author of Behind the Wall of Government Schools. Victoria served 8 years as an elected school board member and has a master’s degree in law. She also brings the perspective of a military spouse to her reporting.

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