Pope Leo diagnosed with Lung cancer surgery completed!

Dr. Kengor, what was your reaction to the news that the Pope was to undergo lung surgery and the announcement by the Vatican that his surgery revealed lung cancer?

Dr. Kengor as a Latin Mass Roman Catholic, I have to admit I had so much hope for Leo to begin the healing process for post-Bergoglio. It has actually gotten worse under the Pope; however, I have been praying for him anyway; he is still the Pope.

How do you analyze the most-recent ex-communications against SSPX, when the Pope welcomes those from other religions to the Vatican? Traditional Roman Catholics are NOT welcome.

9:06 · Paul Kengor, PhD, Author: American Pontiff: Pope Leo IV and his plan to heal the Church. Dr. Kengor, is a NY Times Best Selling Author Dr. Kengor is Senior Director and Chief Academic Fellow for The Institute for Faith & Freedom: Professor of… · Panelist · Panelist · Panelist · Guest link 4 · Guest link 5

Trump says military leakers 'should be shot,' claims Iran B-2 bomber mission was compromised:

President Donald Trump lashed out Wednesday at an alleged leaker he accused of revealing the departure and arrival times of U.S. bombers ahead of planned strikes on Iran, saying the disclosure compromised the mission and declaring that "leakers should be shot."

“There were two weeks, and we sent those beautiful B-2 — the wings. You know, the wings that carry very large bombs and are totally stealth.

“And they went there and they were being waited,” Trump said at a rally in Arizona.

“I mean, Iran was waiting for them, and they never got to see him. 1:00 in the morning, they flew over and, you know, somebody leaked, some sleazebag,” he said.

“They ought to go to jail. But they leaked that we were leaving at 1207 from Missouri.

“And it was in the New York Times, CNN they leaked the time we were leaving, the time we were arriving.”

Captain Murphy, who could have leaked this to enemy news outlets such as NY Times and CNN?

How do you determine the leaker and what is the punishment?

Zelensky says Trump betrayed Ukraine with Russian diesel deal: ‘It’s painful.’

You know what else is painful? Knowing that Zelensky has had several opportunities over the past two-years to end the war and he has backed out of those deals and the war is now over five-years old!

Remember how JD Vance called out Zelensky to his face for dismissing all that the United States had done for Ukraine last year?

Elon Musk's SpaceX has faced backlash following new speed restrictions placed on Starlink satellite usage by Ukrainian military units. Musk stated that the U.S. military and President Donald Trump are ultimately responsible for restrictions on the network's military-grade Starshield systems. (Google AI)

9:20 · Captain Morgan Murphy, USNR Captain Murphy is a former White House official and former Pentagon press secretary. · Source 1 · Source 2 · Panelist

A new memo obtained by Fox News Digital alleges that former President Joe Biden’s Justice Department collected information on hundreds of thousands…

The memo is part of an update from Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and his investigation into former special counsel Jack Smith and his Arctic Frost probe, which was launched by Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) in 2022 to investigate efforts to overturn results of the 2020 election.

The latest update found that Smith’s special counsel office and the DOJ "obtained spreadsheets containing Republican campaign donors, supporters, and detailed personal voter information in various formats, totaling over 639,000 individuals, at minimum," Grassley said in the memo.

"Out of those, over 148,000 rows are identified in the spreadsheets as donors," he continued. "The donors generally contributed small-dollar amounts."

The data gathered on the voters and donors included names, dates of birth, physical addresses, emails, whether the person was a registered Republican, their occupation and place of employment — samples on the list included retirees, pool technicians, drivers, loggers, etc. — credit card information, donor analysis data and donation amount, among other details.

If you sold MAGA gear, you were a target.

If you purchased MAGA gear online, your name and personal information is on that database!

Cully, as a former Federal Prosecutor, what was your reaction to learning this? Were you surprised at how dangerous those running the Biden White House found the MAGA movement inside America?

I think it is fair to say that no one is going to be punished for this. No one is going to Federal prison. Based on what happens on August 3rd, we may never learn who was responsible.

Let’s turn our attention to Ilhan Omar. Based on the raid and recent subpoenas issued to members of her family, what is actually going on here?

On the one hand, we have immigration questions about her, which have never been answered? If she married her brother, why hasn’t she been deported.

If her birthdate was altered to permit her to come to the United States, isn’t that fraud?

If we are now hearing the word RICO being thrown around, what does this imply?

We all became suspicious when her financial statements were being updated faster than the numbers on the NYSE. What died that tell you?

Cully, did you add a bottle of wine from Ilhan’s winery to your collection?

If Republicans lose control of Capitol Hill in January, does this investigation go away?

9:35 · Charles “Cully” Stimson: Acting Director, Legal Policy Center and Senior Legal Fellow, National Security Cully is a former federal prosecutor. · Source · Panelist

Dr. Sorens, how did you see the economic numbers released yesterday?

Kevin Hassett, Director of the National Economic Council tried to go; glass half full yesterday and even tried to blame Joe Biden for inflation (which is true). What is the truth here?

Do you agree with the comments by Clay and Buck that (in essence) Americans have inflation fatigue at this point?

Price increases we have seen since 2022 are NOT coming down. Anyone who believes this is not living in reality. The only prices which come down are commodities.

How much damage is the deficit doing to our economy right now? You want inflation to come down, stop voting for those who promise you free stuff!

Next year, Social Security recipients will receive a COLA of 3.6% or about an additional $75 per month from their monthly payment. How long can we sustain this?

10:08 · Jason Sorens, PhD: Economist, American Institute for Economic Research · Source · Panelist

We’re 20 days from the midterm elections, and Dems suddenly can’t stop talking about sky-high gas prices.

Wait a minute, aren’t they the ones who have deliberately been driving up the cost of fossil fuels?

Who killed Keystone?

Who prevented oil exploration on Federal lands?

They blame the Iran war as the sole driver of higher energy costs, but energy expert and spokesman for energy advocacy group Power The Future Larry Behrens argues that the Dems chirping the loudest about high gas prices also enforce climate mandates on top of ordinary fuel taxes in their states. Which drives up energy costs…

In his latest op-ed at The Blaze, Larry points out the hypocrisy and says Dems should explain why raising fuel costs to meet climate targets is defensible but paying more to confront a regime that arms terrorist proxies and refuses to account for highly enriched uranium is beyond the pale.

Just in time for election season, climate leftists have discovered the price of gasoline. On cable news, in Congress, and across social media, Democrats are eager to remind drivers what they're paying at the pump. Their outrage stops where their climate agenda begins.

On October 5, the national average for regular gasoline stood near $4.37, according to AAA, after the most expensive September on record. Compare state averages by the governor's party, and Democrats have a problem.

Across the 26 Republican-governed states, regular gas averaged about $4.24 a gallon. Across the 24 Democrat-governed states, it averaged $4.53 — nearly 7% more. Diesel showed a similar gap: about $6.15 versus $6.50. Those are unweighted averages of state prices, not the entire explanation for the difference. But state policy adds to the bill.

California's cap-and-trade program and Low Carbon Fuel Standard added about 42 cents per gallon in January 2026, according to the state’s Energy Commission. Washington’s Climate Commitment Act requires covered fuel suppliers to buy emissions allowances. Oregon’s Climate Protection Program caps emissions from fossil fuels, including gasoline and diesel.

These policies don’t account for every cent at the pump. Refining constraints, geography, and global crude prices count too. But Democratic officials chose to make fossil fuels more expensive to advance their climate goals.

The early October prices tell the story: California, $6.38 a gallon; Washington, $5.48; Oregon, $5.04. Those Democrat-run states enforce climate mandates on top of ordinary fuel taxes. Their leaders should answer for the costs they have chosen to impose.

10:33 · Larry Behrens: Communications Director at Power The Future, a national nonprofit organization that advocates for American energy jobs. · Panelist

The plan to rig America’s judicial system has its roots in the Peoples Republic of California!

A bombshell investigation found George Soros money helping to (not only put communist DA’s and prosecutors in office), but to pack benches with communist judges!

Los Angeles County is the seat of the revolution. Across two recent election cycles, hard-left activists spent nearly $1 million on a slate of judicial candidates, electing three judges committed to remaking the county’s criminal-justice system. For the ideologues behind the campaign, this is the opening move in what they hope will be a national takeover of the judiciary.

One architect of the takeover is La Defensa, a “femme-led” advocacy organization whose founders want to end incarceration in Los Angeles County. The group says that it “belong[s] to” several “communities,” namely “Chicanx, queer, immigrant, undocumented, working class people with incarcerated loved ones.”

La Defensa was founded in 2020 by current L.A. council member Eunisses Hernandez and Ivette Alé-Ferlito, both of whom want to abolish prisons.

“Electing progressive judges serves as a harm-reduction measure that disrupts power, it can only be effective as part of a broader abolitionist strategy,” Alé-Ferlito wrote in 2023. “It will take collective action to end incarceration in all its forms.”

The group is becoming a powerhouse. Its political arm, Justice PAC, has received high-dollar donations from Liz Simons, heiress to Renaissance Technology founder Jim Simons’s fortune, and Patty Quillin, the wife of Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings. La Defensa is linked to the Soros-funded Tides Advocacy network.

Many judges are former prosecutors who believe in punishing criminals. La Defensa wants to change that. As part of its “Defenders of Justice” slate, the group funded the judicial campaigns of six former defense attorneys and one civil rights lawyer across the 2022 and 2024 election cycles. Multiple candidates on the slate seemed to sympathize more with criminals than with their victims.

La Defensa’s PAC spent at least $910,000 on judicial candidates from 2022 through 2024. Their donations helped elect three former public defenders: George Turner Jr., Ericka Wiley, and Holly Hancock. The new judges’ backgrounds and ideologies open a window onto La Defensa’s vision for the future of L.A. County’s justice system and beyond.

11:06 · Austen Hufford, Senior Investigative Reporter, City Journal communications@manhattan.institute · Source

Italians have always felt prejudice in America. Was it because of their connection to organized crime or their being Roman Catholic?

The fact is that Italians continue to be targeted by way of canceling their history and culture!

However, on this Columbus Day, the existence of the Columbus statue in Syracuse and other American cities remains threatened; some places have discontinued local observances of the federal holiday.

However, on this Columbus Day, the existence of the Columbus statue in Syracuse and other American cities remains threatened; some places have discontinued local observances of the federal holiday.

Italians are once-again, forced to fight back!

11:33 · Janice Hisle mainly writes in-depth reports based on U.S. political news and cultural trends, following a two-year stint covering President Donald Trump’s 2024 reelection campaign. Before joining The Epoch Times in 2022, she worked more than two…