I served as the FBI's senior official -- Acting Legal Attache -- in Mexico City between 2013 and 2014. I cannot begin to tell you how consequentially Snowden's espionage and Assange's illegal dump of sensitive and classified information contributed to the damaging of relationships between the United States and our allies--to include the Mexican Government. Pardoning these two would be a colossal mistake and would reward them for criminal, and arguably, treasonous misconduct.
I was beyond incensed when President Obama commuted PFC Bradley (Chelsea) Manning's sentence in 2017, and I'd be equally incensed if it occurred here with Assange and Snowden under President Trump. Rewarding bad behavior encourages more of same. These three traitors did incalculable damage to our country and undermined U.S. efforts worldwide.
Besides funding emergency healthcare and schooling for all, a number of sanctuary States go farther and choose to provide Medicaid, subsidized health insurance, nutrition assistance, housing, and much more. Illegal immigrants use these welfare programs in large numbers. My organization has found that over 60% of illegal alien headed households are using at least one form of welfare program and usually more than one, at a cost of tens of billions of dollars to taxpayers.
>A Catholic Bishop gets put on prime-time national television in the 1950s >No script, no teleprompter, no celebrity guests, just him, a chalkboard, and the Gospel >Hollywood completely writes him off as boring religious programming >Proceeds to absolutely dominate the TV… pic.twitter.com/9wjFEBIT1M
>A Catholic Bishop gets put on prime-time national television in the 1950s.
>No script, no teleprompter, no celebrity guests, just him, a chalkboard, and the Gospel.
>Hollywood completely writes him off as boring religious programming.
>Proceeds to absolutely dominate the TV ratings, drawing 30 million viewers every single week.
Fulton Sheen had multiple television series, including "Life Is Worth Living," which aired for three seasons from 1952 to 1957, and "The Fulton Sheen Program," which ran for another three seasons from 1961 to 1968. In total, he was on television for six seasons across these shows.
>Crushes the biggest secular comedians in the country to win the Emmy Award.
>Accepts the Emmy on live TV by thanking his four writers: "Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John."
>Converted countless communists, atheists, and Hollywood executives to the Catholic faith.
>About to be beatified in 2026.
We need more men like this. Archbishop Fulton Sheen pray for us!
This is a massive wakeup call about the dangerous to America posed by California.
Former Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf: "In California, again the birthplace of the sanctuary movement, local politicians released 4,641 criminal aliens from local jails in 2025, rather than… pic.twitter.com/YLIPONXvAI
Tragically Sanctuary policies are unleashing devastating consequences for the American people, particularly for those that live in those jurisdictions. In California, again the birthplace of the sanctuary movement, local politicians released 4,641 criminal aliens from local jails in 2025, rather than handing them over to ICE for removal. Those criminals included aliens that had committed homicide, assault, sexual predatory offenses, and burglary. And just weeks ago as the Chairman indicated in Fairfax County, just miles from where we are today, a criminal illegal alien with more than 30 arrests fatally stabbed a woman in the neck. In that county, Fairfax County, has been a sanctuary for almost a decade and this is a tragic result.
The French Revolution and the Decapitation of the Carmelites July 17, 1794.
Sixteen Carmelite nuns from the Compiègne convent were accused and tried, without due legal process, of religious fanaticism and conspiracy against the Republic.
When they were arrested, they made a vow of martyrdom, swearing to sacrifice themselves with joy, in the name of God, so that the madness of the Revolution might cease.
The nuns were placed in carts, and the revolutionaries in the square cheered with the arrival of each one. But when they realized they were religious sisters, the crowd began to fall silent until an absolute silence was established.
The revolutionaries hired women to “rouse” the others to shout and celebrate the deaths at the guillotine, but even they fell silent.
The only sound heard in the square was that of the sisters singing *Veni Creator Spiritus*.
Watching this I can smell the incense.
In their executions, they were the only ones, among all the condemned, to walk upright, without needing to be dragged from their mobile cells. Mother Teresa of Saint Augustine, the eldest of them all, asked the executioner to leave her for last, so that she could thus give her final counsel to her flock.
The people could not believe what they were seeing. Then a voice arose from the midst of the crowd, crying out:
“Si ces femmes ne vont pas tout droit au paradis, alors il n’y a pas de paradis.”
“If these women do not go straight to paradise, then there is no paradise.”
They were angels, as the eyewitnesses described them.
The Carmelites wore a serene smile on their faces at the moment of meeting death, and the silence in the square only grew.
The eldest Mother needed the executioners’ help to climb the steps. They were weeping, and she said to them,
My friends, I forgive you with all my heart, just as I desire God to forgive me.
The last guillotined silenced the angelic song of the Mother, and the square remained in profound silence.
The Fruits of Martyrdom Ten days later, with the fall of Robespierre, the Reign of Terror came to an end.
Long live Christ the King.
Many records were found of the impact they had on those who witnessed the faith of these martyrs as they refused to deny Christ. Some returned to the practice of the Church, others became religious, and some fled the revolutionary madness.
