Hypocrites rarely acknowledge, let alone repent of, their own hypocrisy.

Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania undoubtedly will prove no different.

According to NBC News, Shapiro said in an interview Tuesday that Vice President J.D. Vance deserves criticism for failing to use the specific words “Jews” and “Nazis” in a Holocaust Remembrance Day post on the social media platform X, prompting X users, including a member of President Donald Trump’s communications team, to remind Shapiro that his own words on the occasion hardly differed from the vice president’s.

“Part of never forgetting is making sure that the facts of what happened are recited, are remembered,” the governor said. “The fact that JD Vance couldn’t bring himself to [acknowledge] that 6 million Jews were killed by Hitler and by the Nazis speaks volumes.”

As it happens, only Shapiro’s hypocritical silliness “speaks volumes.”

“Today we remember the millions of lives lost during the Holocaust, the millions of stories of individual bravery and heroism, and one of the enduring lessons of one of the darkest chapters in human history: that while humans create beautiful things and are full of compassion, we’re also capable of unspeakable brutality. And we promise never again to go down the darkest path,” Vance wrote Tuesday on X.

But the vice president failed to mention Nazis by name? Four pictures of Vance and his wife, Usha, at what remains of Nazi Germany’s Dachau concentration camp accompanied the post. If Shapiro and his ilk wish to interpret that as obscuring the Nazis’ responsibility for the Holocaust, more power to them.

Today we remember the millions of lives lost during the Holocaust, the millions of stories of individual bravery and heroism, and one of the enduring lessons of one of the darkest chapters in human history: that while humans create beautiful things and are full of compassion,… pic.twitter.com/2UwFcy4Kmp

— JD Vance (@JDVance) January 27, 2026

Meanwhile, the governor’s own words made the matter worse. White House Principal Deputy Communications Director Alex Pfeiffer brought receipts.

“Wow,” Pfeiffer wrote on X. “Josh Shapiro must be really offended by his statements issued this year and last year, neither of which mentioned ‘Jews.'”

Accompanying screenshots showed Shapiro’s X posts marking two recent Holocaust Remembrance Days.

On Tuesday, for instance, the governor authored a post that mentioned neither Jews nor Nazis (though it did mention “antisemitism”).

Likewise, on Apr. 24, Shapiro marked Yom HaShoah — Holocaust Remembrance Day on the Hebrew calendar — by mentioning Pennsylvania founder William Penn, but not Jews or Nazis.

William Penn did bring religious liberty to Pennsylvania. But did he merit mentioning ahead of Jews and Nazis on Holocaust Remembrance Day?

Wow. Josh Shapiro must be really offended by his statements issued this year and last year, neither of which mentioned “Jews.” https://t.co/8GULJDhvuO pic.twitter.com/bppKcnZpp6

— Alex Pfeiffer (@AlexPfeiffer) January 29, 2026

Sadly, one cannot escape the impression that all of this amounts to pre-2028 sparring.

“After he faced criticism for not mentioning Jews in his post on Holocaust Remembrance Day, Josh Shapiro desperately tried to shift blame to the Vice President,” a Vance spokesperson told Mary Margaret Olohan of The Daily Wire. “This is next level hypocritical deflection from Shapiro, a misguided plea for attention from a political lightweight.”

Josh Shapiro is suggesting JD Vance is antisemitic for posting about Holocaust Remembrance Day without specifically mentioning the Jews. The thing is…Shapiro did the exact same thing. Two years in a row.

Vance spox tells @realDailyWire: “After he faced criticism for not… https://t.co/daWpAEhxNk

— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) January 29, 2026

Of course, Shapiro’s status as a “political lightweight” remains untested on the national stage.

Nonetheless, if the governor manages to win the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, he will have to do better than this.

For one thing, Shapiro will not defeat Vance — assuming the latter wins the GOP nomination — in a contest of words.

Moreover, presidential politics aside, Shapiro’s comments reeked of a hypocrisy sure to alienate voters.

Above all, let us hope that by 2028, whatever malignant forces have made the Holocaust a modern political issue will lose all relevance.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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A contest to determine the most smug, contemptuous, repellent female Democrat would feature too many entrants to count.

Nonetheless, Dana Barrett, a Democrat serving as commissioner in Fulton County, Georgia, has made a case for herself.

In a video recorded Wednesday outside the Fulton County elections office and then posted to the social media platform X, Barrett tried desperately to evade independent journalist David Khait, who was asking her about cleaning up the state’s corrupted voter rolls.

“We went around Fulton County the last few weeks,” Khait said to the still-stationary commissioner. “And we see that people are currently registered to vote in places like empty lots, homeless shelters that closed 10 years ago. What would you do, if you become secretary of state, to address that?”

Earlier this month, according to the Georgia Recorder, Barrett recently announced her candidacy for Georgia secretary of state. In that position, of course, she would bear responsibility for overseeing the state’s elections.

One would imagine, therefore, that she might take an interest in fraudulent voter registrations.

Remember, though, Barrett is a Democrat.

“Look, I’m not gonna reply to conspiracy theories,” she said even before Khait finished his question.

Khait then explained that he and his associate had purchased the voter rolls for $45 and visited the locations. He even offered to accompany Barrett to those locations and verify the fraudulent registrations.

“I appreciate what you’re saying,” the smug commissioner replied, “[but] I’m not gonna respond to conspiracy theories.”

“How is that a conspiracy theory?” Khait asked. “It’s on active voter rolls.”

With a contorted face that showed a look of apparent contempt, Barrett then scurried away.

Incredibly, rather than give a simple answer, she signaled to a large man, who then acted as a bodyguard.

Khait maintained a respectful distance, but continued to pepper her with questions as he followed her to a different part of the parking lot.

“You can go there right now and see for yourself,” the journalist said. “Do you not care about that?”

“I think what you’re doing is extremely dangerous,” she finally replied moments later.

“Why is it dangerous?” he asked.

“’Cause you’re spreading conspiracy theories.”

A getaway vehicle then approached, but Barrett seemed discombobulated. First, she turned toward the vehicle, then kept walking, then turned and got into the vehicle.

Fulton County Commissioner, Dana Barrett, who is running for Georgia Secretary of State calls what we uncovered in Fulton County “MAGA conspiracy theories”

This is happening NOW outside the Fulton County elections office pic.twitter.com/Fqnhb5zvBx

— David Khait (@David_Khait) January 28, 2026

All of this transpired on the same day the FBI raided the Fulton County Elections Hub & Operations Center. The raid occurred as part of an investigation into the highly controversial 2020 election.

If readers had a visceral reaction to Barrett’s behavior — her dismissive attitude, the contorted look of disgust on her face, her signaling for a large man to protect her from questions — it is because you cannot imagine anyone you respect behaving the same way.

Imagine, for instance, President Donald Trump’s response to similar questions.

“Well, I don’t know. I hadn’t heard that,” the president might say. “But we’ll look into it.”

But Barrett could not muster even that simple reply. And we know why: She has contempt for the lowly journalist who dared ask her about election integrity.

So she made herself look stupid, much like suspected embezzler Traci Kornak, former treasurer of the Michigan Democratic Party, who gave us all a good laugh at her expense earlier this month when she wandered around a building, in and out of doors, searching in vain for a way to escape reporter Charlie LeDuff.

In the end, most women in the Democratic Party suffer the same fate. They cannot hide their haughty contempt long enough to maintain composure and avoid looking foolish.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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Minnesota’s leading corrupt Democrats will have more than a month to get their stories straight.

In the meantime, conservatives must keep that state’s shocking social services fraud scandal in the headlines.

According to a news release from Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Democratic Gov. Tim Walz and Democratic Attorney General Keith Ellison, both of Minnesota, have agreed to testify before the committee on March 4.

“Americans deserve answers about the rampant misuse of taxpayer dollars in Minnesota’s social services programs that occurred on Governor Walz’s and Attorney General Ellison’s watch,” the release read. “The House Oversight Committee recently heard sworn testimony from Minnesota state lawmakers who stated that Governor Walz and Attorney General Ellison failed to act to stop this widespread fraud and retaliated against whistleblowers who raised concerns.”

Comer added that the questioning would “ensure transparency and accountability for the American people.”

The press release also noted that the two Minnesota Democrats’ testimony will support the committee’s ongoing investigation into “extensive money laundering and fraud in Minnesota’s social services programs,” detailed at length last month on the social media platform X by independent journalist Nick Shirley and “uncovered by the U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota.”

Like other independent journalists, Shirley risked his personal safety to expose the scandal, a large portion of which reportedly involved members of the state’s Somali immigrant community.

The revelation of that scandal triggered a surge into Minneapolis by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

Minnesota anti-ICE activists responded to the surge by doing everything in their power to physically impede ICE operations. One such activist, 37-year-old Renee Good, lost her life on Jan. 7 while trying to ram an ICE agent with her vehicle.

Rather than encourage state residents to respect federal law, however, Walz and Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis adopted bellicose rhetoric, as if they wanted confrontation.

Things got worse.

The next (and arguably most grotesque) anti-ICE incident occurred on Jan. 18, when a group of leftist agitators, including pseudo-journalist Don Lemon, invaded Cities Church in St. Paul, disrupted services, and harassed worshipers.

After that invasion, Ellison appeared on Lemon’s podcast. There, the attorney general spoke approvingly of both the protest and Lemon’s presence.

On Jan. 24, with tensions peaking, 37-year-old anti-ICE activist Alex Pretti died in a scuffle with ICE. Democrats, of course, tried to turn Pretti into their latest peace-loving martyr. Video released this week, however, showed the rage-filled Pretti attacking ICE agents in a prior incident.

One may hope, therefore, that testimony from Walz and Ellison leads to the accountability Comer promised.

After all, one senses that Minnesota has endured month-long violence because Democrat leaders want to distract from the fraud scandal.

With that in mind, we must do everything possible to keep that scandal in the news cycle.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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Through the centuries, many Christians have made the mistake of trying to guess the exact date of the Parousia. I will avoid that error. Christ’s Second Coming will arrive in God’s good time.

I will, however, propose that the Antichrist may already have walked among us for decades.

In an op-ed titled “MAGA’s War on Empathy,” published Thursday by The Atlantic, former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton — yes, Hillary Clinton, of all people — opined on what she regarded as the abandonment of Christian principles by Christian leaders, only to discover that those same Christian leaders regard her disapproval as a badge of honor, including one Christian leader’s friend who, on the social media platform X, declared, “I’ve never been more proud of my guy.”

Anyone who suffers through Clinton’s op-ed will come away deeply impressed by its lack of substance. At its core lies a tired liberal refrain: we (liberals) are good, and they — President Donald Trump and his supporters — are not. Clinton has done little more than echo that refrain by using her (misapplied) concept of empathy.

Citing recent violent protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minneapolis, Minnesota — in the first paragraph, she even mentioned 37-year-old anti-ICE activist Alex Pretti, killed on Saturday during a confrontation with federal agents — Clinton built a particularly weak straw man (MAGA hates empathy) to compose a piece littered with ad hominem attacks.

“This crisis also reveals a deeper moral rot at the heart of Trump’s MAGA movement,” she wrote. “Whatever you think about immigration policy, how can a person of conscience justify the lack of compassion and empathy for the victims in Minnesota, and for the families torn apart or hiding in fear, for the children separated from their parents or afraid to go to school?”

Trump, of course, has done exactly the opposite. In fact, he has shown compassion both for Pretti and for 37-year-old Renee Good, who also lost her life earlier this month after attempting to obstruct an ICE operation.

Those facts, however, did not stop Clinton from attacking the president and his supporters, including prominent Christian voices.

First, she attacked pastor Ben Garrett for failing to endorse open borders and affirm LGBT lifestyles.

Then, she took Christian podcaster and author Allie Beth Stuckey to task for Stuckey’s concept of “toxic empathy.” Stuckey even wrote a 2024 book by that title: “Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion.”

“Leadership and the Sin of Empathy,” a book by “extremist pastor” Joe Rigney, also incurred Clinton’s wrath. Rigney, too, has committed the sin — in Clinton’s eyes — of being “an ally of the influential Christian nationalist Douglas Wilson.”

Stuckey, Rigney, and Wilson responded directly on X. Stuckey and Rigney expressed gratitude that someone as vile as Clinton had singled them out for disapprobation.

When Hillary Clinton is writing 6,000 word op-eds in the Atlantic attacking warnings against toxic empathy… you know you’re over the target. Keep. Going.

— Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) January 29, 2026

Hey @canonpress, I’m going to need you to reprint the cover of Leadership and the Sin of Empathy with @HillaryClinton‘s enthusiastic endorsement. pic.twitter.com/fkKA4QUMYr

— Joe Rigney (@joe_rigney) January 30, 2026

Meanwhile, Wilson joked about the number of people in Clinton’s orbit who have died mysterious deaths.

As it now appears that Hillary is aware of my existence, and is not exactly a fan, I wanted to state on the record that I am feeling upbeat, and am not downcast or depressed in any way.

— Douglas Wilson (@douglaswils) January 30, 2026

Brian Sauvé, a self-described friend of Ben Garrett, wrote that he has “never been more proud of my guy.”

Hillary Clinton wrote a hit piece that included my friend @tompawnbadil in her list of villains.

I’ve never been more proud of my guy.

— Brian Sauvé (@Brian_Sauve) January 30, 2026

In other words, those Christian leaders would think of themselves as lost souls if they ever earned Clinton’s approval.

What lessons, therefore, might we draw from Clinton’s eyebrow-raising op-ed?

First, her premise has already fallen into obsolescence. A new video, released this week, has exposed Pretti not as an innocent victim but as a raging anti-ICE lunatic.

Second, Stuckey and Rigney had it right — and Clinton wrong — about the nature of empathy. Compassion, of course, is a good thing. But liberals always direct their concerns toward inappropriate objects. They show empathy for criminals, not victims, for illegal immigrants, not American citizens. And they work their foot soldiers into a frenzy so as to foment riots on behalf of the unworthy. What Clinton calls “empathy,” we call “emotional manipulation.”

Finally, and above all, the sight of Clinton opining on the meaning of Christianity convinces me that there is at least a five percent chance that she is the Antichrist (Readers may read into that comment whatever degree of hyperbole they deem accurate).

For one thing, one always cringes when an abortion supporter presumes to lecture others about the Word of Life.

But one may detect Clinton’s actual hostility to Christianity in multiple sources. She has, for instance, said derogatory things about it in interviews as recently as last year.

The strongest piece of evidence pointing to Clinton as a phony Christian, however, comes from her endorsement of Eric Hoffer’s “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements.”

In that book, Hoffer argued that the substance or purpose of mass movements makes no difference. What matters is that the “true believer,” often for psychological or socio-economic reasons, wishes to lose himself or herself in a transcendent cause. To support his thesis, Hoffer analyzed fascism, communism, and … early Christianity.

During the 2016 campaign, according to the Washington Post, Clinton recommended “The True Believer” to her senior staff. She thought it would help them understand Trump’s appeal.

In the end, of course, only God knows our hearts. But Clinton posing as an authority on Christianity sure does give the impression of supernatural deception.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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