JOHN GUANDOLO: What is going on is the intentional outcome of a 100+ year communist movement and a 60+ year Islamic movement in the United States. Not much more complicated than that.

What is going on is the intentional outcome of a 100+ year communist movement and a 60+ year Islamic movement in the United States. Not much more complicated than that. pic.twitter.com/tWDc9IXwBO

— John Guandolo (@JGuandolo54271) June 24, 2026

Melanie Phillips.  

TREASURY SECRETARY, SCOTT BESSENT: "I think we're going to have a strong dollar because our economy is pulling away from the rest of the world."

Yes. Deregulation and revamped taxation at every level along with investment is long term dollar positive but more importantly overwhelmingly positive for PEOPLE Not OLIGARCHS https://t.co/yXn4l2xbtV

— Tom Luongo (@TFL1728) June 24, 2026

TREASURY SECRETARY, SCOTT BESSENT: We have rediscovered at great cost what America’s first @USTreasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton taught us: the nation that depends on its adversaries for critical inputs is neither truly sovereign nor truly prosperous.

Hamilton you say? https://t.co/PomYmKy72l

— Tom Luongo (@TFL1728) June 24, 2026

from Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent,

We have rediscovered at great cost what America’s first

@USTreasury

Secretary Alexander Hamilton taught us: the nation that depends on its adversaries for critical inputs is neither truly sovereign nor truly prosperous.

As we approach 250 years of American independence, we would do well to remember that our founders left us more than a Republic—they bequeathed a roadmap powerful enough to sustain it for two and a half centuries and beyond.

 

ANNA D. WEST: The finale for Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio, 1782), as the captive protagonists are finally freed from their captivity as slaves of the Islamic Barbary trade.

The Islamic slave trade was such a common theme in the arts that this isn't even the only opera to focus on the topic. From the fiction of Cervantes and Voltaire to the poetry of Lord Byron (who died aiding the Greeks on their fight for freedom from Islamic occupation) to the captivity narratives and more, the ever present threat of being enslaved by Muslims left its mark on the arts. --Anna D. West

The finale for Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio, 1782), as the captive protagonists are finally freed from their captivity as slaves of the Islamic Barbary trade.

The real tales, over 1.25 million Western Europeans, didn't generally end… pic.twitter.com/Iwunf2ij5C

— Anna D. West 🇺🇸 (@SlimWiggy) June 24, 2026

The finale for Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio, 1782), as the captive protagonists are finally freed from their captivity as slaves of the Islamic Barbary trade.

Mozart--The Abduction from the Seraglio [harem], Overture.

The real tales, over 1.25 million Western Europeans, didn't generally end so happily. Freedom was only possible if the slaves were ransomed and their owners willing to sell, and often they weren't. The Islamic slave trade was such a common theme in the arts that this isn't even the only opera to focus on the topic. From the fiction of Cervantes and Voltaire to the poetry of Lord Byron (who died aiding the Greeks on their fight for freedom from Islamic occupation) to the captivity narratives and more, the ever present threat of being enslaved by Muslims left its mark on the arts. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen famously said that moderns want Christ without His cross; too often, having abandoned Christ many want culture without discomfort. They want the truth edited out, and if we don't fight it soon will be.

So, for posterity, Konstanze, Belmonte & Co. making their grand escape in an opera premiered in Vienna within 100 years of the Ottoman siege of that very city. We cannot forget our past, it's already repeating. 

Tucker & Guest Caught Lying Again

This is a total lie. In reality, the jizya tax was the Ottoman Empire’s chief source of income in its heyday. The jizya is a tax that the Qur’an says (9:29) should be collected from “the people of the book” (mainly Jews and Christians) as a sign of their subjugation and… https://t.co/tw0e1xw3eS

— Robert Spencer (@jihadwatchRS) June 23, 2026