I’ve concluded that the British left would be happy if the entire population of the country were replaced with foreigners. Since these people are so virtuous, I would not be surprised if some of them decided to self-deport and hand their home over to a family of 24 Somali refugees.

It’s not a lie to claim that our chronically inept government has developed an addiction to immigration.

Allow me to state the obvious: There is no need to import drag queens. Unlike nurses and midwives, drag is one field of employment where there is no significant labor shortage.

Both main political parties have been completely incapable of enforcing the borders. Between 2018 and 2024, the Conservative Party oversaw the arrival of more than 150,000 undocumented migrants. Meanwhile, more than 50,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel in small boats since Labour took power in July 2024.

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Aside from jumping on a rubber dinghy or hiding in the back of a truck, one surefire way to enter Britain is with a skilled-worker visa. The Home Office frequently grants these to highly qualified individuals with years of training and experience in a field that this country requires.

So whenever someone argues that immigration is too high, the left always responds: If we had low immigration, we’d run out of doctors and nurses (20% of the NHS is composed of non-U.K. nationals).

It appears that we are not only experiencing a lack of homegrown labor in the medical field. Britain requires radical supply-side reforms in other, more important areas. Apparently, we’re running out of drag queens.

God save the queens

Yes, the Home Office has given five-year Global Talent visas to drag queens from Turkey.

The Global Talent visa program aims to attract some of the world’s top artistic talent to live and work in Britain. Unfortunately, the government’s definition of “skilled” appears to encompass lip-syncing and parading around in high heels.

Recently added to the U.K. talent pool is transgender drag queen Kübra Uzun, known as Q-BRA. His back catalog includes a ditty about searching for casual sex partners as well as a reworking of an aria from Carmen in “Turkish queer slang.”

Another one of these visas was issued to Akis Ka, whose artistic objective is to “leave queer marks on art history.” I’m sure they will both leave a lasting cultural legacy, something the United Kingdom has unfortunately lacked since J.M.W. Turner’s death.

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No drag drain

Allow me to state the obvious: There is no need to import drag queens. Unlike nurses and midwives, drag is one field of employment where there is no significant labor shortage. Besides migrants, one thing we do have a surplus of is native drag queens. I know this because the BBC constantly informs me it is the case.

As of writing, there are currently 24 stories this year on the BBC’s Drag Queen page tag. That’s almost one per week. Recent headlines include “Meet the Deaf Drag Queens Keeping Gay Sign Language Alive,” “How a Former Slave Became the World’s First Drag Queen,” and “As a Female Drag Queen, I Had to Fight for Work.”

I can already hear them now, employing the same low-level racism they frequently attribute to us: “Those damn Turks, coming here and stealing our jobs.”

Exceptionally broken

There is rising concern about the use of Global Talent for artists, as the scheme has witnessed a 178% increase in successful applications over the last five years. Since 2019, Nigeria has emerged as the leading country of origin for application submissions, with a startling 2,225% rise, mostly from self-identifying rappers and poets.

These visas are meant for individuals with “exceptional” talents in music, theater, and dance. Apparently, exceptional is the new norm, as more than 70% of applicants are approved. It allows the recipient — and their dependents — to stay in Britain for at least five years.

With thousands of migrants already working illegally in the U.K. labor market, this is further proof that our immigration system is an absolute joke. We should tell the men risking their lives on the dangerous Calais to Dover journey that it’s a lot easier to put on a pink wig and apply some flamboyant makeup.

There may well be some fields in the U.K. that could benefit from importing foreign talent. But more men in wigs lip-syncing Gloria Gaynor? We will survive with our current supply.

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Iryna Zarutska’s suspected killer wasn’t a productive citizen who just snapped one day — the man had over a dozen prior arrests — yet somehow was still walking the streets freely.

And the crime he is suspected of committing is not an isolated incident.

“I don’t even know his name. I’m not that interested in his name. He’s unimportant individually, but what he represents is very important,” BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock says on “Jason Whitlock Harmony.”

While Whitlock admits it might sound crazy, his major takeaway after watching the video of Zarutska’s horrifying murder is that her killer was “demon possessed.”

“And because we have become so secular, we don’t even understand demons and the wickedness, the evilness that we’re seeing. We don’t interpret things the way that we used to interpret things previously … when our worldview was much more Christian, much more biblical, much more rooted in the spiritual nature of this world,” he explains.

“Now everything is very secular, and so we don’t think this way,” he adds.

Many Americans have responded to the tragedy by pointing to the need for mental institutions or fixing the justice system that let a violent criminal out to do what he pleased, but Whitlock notes that the solution is much deeper than that.

The entire “culture” that the alleged killer was created by is “demonic” in itself — and needs to be completely changed.

Whitlock notes that rap music has long glorified murder within the black community, saying, “It flirts with all this demonic, devil worshipping, all of this stuff.”

“And then we look out and see someone like Decarlos Brown Jr., who clearly to me, if he were trying to rob this woman, and kill her, I think we’d all sit back and say, ‘Oh man, this is a terrible tragedy, lock this dude up for life, give him the death penalty’ … but just killing a young woman that got on a train and sat in front of you, and then saying something about ‘I got that white girl,’ this is demonic,” Whitlock says.

“And it’s the fruit of a demonic culture,” he adds.

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Turning Point USA announced that it plans to hold a massive public memorial service in honor of founder Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated on Wednesday while speaking to students at Utah Valley University.

‘Show up patriots! Let’s fill it up!’

“Join us in celebrating the remarkable life and enduring legacy of Charlie Kirk, an American legend,” TPUSA wrote in a social media post announcing the event.

The memorial, “Building a Legacy,” will be held at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on September 21. The door opens at 8:00 a.m. and the program will begin at 11:00 a.m. The stadium, home to the Arizona Cardinals, can be expanded to hold up to 73,000 people. Details of the event can be found at FightForCharlie.com.

“Charlie Kirk’s life was a testament to faith, courage, and conviction,” the website read. “From his earliest days, he believed America was worth fighting for, and he dedicated every moment of his 31 years to that cause. He lived with eyes fixed on eternity, grounded in the truth of God’s Word, and driven by a calling bigger than himself.”

RedWave Press responded to the memorial announcement, stating, “Show up patriots! Let’s fill it up!”

“This is a Turning Point for our country,” Martin Walsh, the editor in chief of the Conservative Brief, wrote.

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Many individuals reacted to TPUSA’s memorial post by expressing their intention to attend the event.

“Hope to see you there!” wrote investigative reporter Nick Sortor.

Former Cardinal kicker, Jay Feely, who is running for Arizona’s 5th Congressional District, called for patriots to “fill State Farm stadium.”

“Spread this far and wide. I want that stadium packed like a NFC championship game. We need to honor Charlie Kirk in his home state,” Feely said.

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Vigils and other local memorial events honoring Kirk’s life have been held all over the country.

President Donald Trump told reporters on Thursday that he plans to attend Kirk’s funeral in Phoenix.

“They’ve asked me to go and I think I have an obligation to do that,” Trump stated. “Whenever it is, I’ll be going.”

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Thirty-seven years ago, an executive at Monsanto named Harold Corbett delivered a speech titled “Chemical risk: Living up to public expectations.” The 1988 speech called out an industry that delivered miracles and devastating mistakes.

Corbett described two chemical industries. One was responsible for safe drinking water, higher crop yields, medicines, and a better standard of living. The other was responsible for contamination, waste, and health crises: “The public doesn’t care how far we’ve come. They care how far we still have to go.”

MAHA is about returning to a Republican Party that answers to voters, not corporate boards, and that means telling the truth about the harm caused when Big Health dictates our policies.

It still rings true today. Harold Corbett was my grandfather.

Lost trust

To turn a profit, pharmaceutical companies suppress unfavorable data and mislead consumers with predatory advertising. Food manufacturers sell metabolic dysfunction; hospital systems consolidate care; and chemical conglomerates litigate instead of innovate.

Now, a growing number of Americans are speaking out decisively against the quartet of Big Pharma, Big Ag, Big Food, and Big Health. This coalition of “Make America Healthy Again” voters is targeting a crisis of institutional credibility and a growing unease with an industry that is no longer trusted and seems more focused on profits than on people’s health.

As a psychiatric nurse practitioner, I see these problems firsthand. With the MAHA coalition powering Republican victories up and down the ballot, we as Republicans have a generational opportunity to take back our health system. We can make changes and save American lives, but we need to agree on the problems to start.

More than two-thirds of all Missouri adults are overweight. Synthetic opioid overdoses claimed nearly 850 lives last year, with local St. Louis and St. Charles Counties ranking at or near the worst in the state. And should we forget the COVID mandates that caused overdoses to spike, caused childhood anxiety and depression to rise, and kept healthy toddlers in masks? Such measures stunted their development for years, as dissenting scientists and members of the public were told to “trust the experts” and shut up.

Dismissing people is the quickest way to continue to diminish what little trust remains. In my practice, I encounter this lack of trust in our medical establishment every day with my patients. After years of being told to trust “the science” — meaning “don’t question us” — many people no longer trust anything the medical establishment has to say.

A prescription for healing

This is where the MAHA movement can help heal our nation. The Trump administration and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have been making significant strides to regain public trust, both through the MAHA Commission and through medical reforms in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that President Trump signed in July.

Republicans need to get on board, and Congress needs to act, to do much more on this crucial issue.

On food transparency and clean labels, Americans deserve full disclosure of the chemicals, additives, and pesticides that are going into our foods, particularly those banned in Europe and Canada. This includes food dyes and glyphosate, a pesticide and carcinogen that is found throughout our food system.

RELATED: It’s been a year since Kennedy and Trump joined forces. Here are MAHA’s top 3 wins.

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On preventive care and lowering costs, we have made great strides by prioritizing direct primary care in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. We should work to expand choice even more so that individuals and families have direct access outside our bloated and opaque insurance system.

Finally, our country needs a national plan for longevity and health: a real approach to wellness beyond relief for chronic symptoms, focusing instead on treatment of root causes. This must include protecting our kids from harmful food additives, encouraging beneficial physical and social activities, and stopping the grasp of powerful social media companies that are harming their health.

Until the scientific community admits past failures and entanglements, trust won’t return. Our public officials must lead as well, instead of following whatever Big Pharma and special interest groups have to say. Liberty thrives when truth is public and trust is earned.

Making health care thrive again

The same problems facing Americans are the problems facing our government. We keep swapping out treatments — new politicians, new leaders, new promises — but the patient keeps getting worse. The solution is not to throw the baby out with the bathwater, but to improve the system so that it works for regular people. That is how we restore faith in our institutions and return to responsible, trusted capitalism.

I don’t want to dismantle the health care industry. We need it to thrive. MAHA is about returning to a Republican Party that answers to voters, not corporate boards, and that means telling the truth about the harm caused when Big Health dictates our policies.

This movement can and will win broadly if we deliver on these promises.

In his speech, my grandfather quoted Mark Twain: “When in doubt, tell the truth.” To that, I would add: When the truth is clear, act. The restoration of trust and survival of these industries, our government, and our people depend on it.

Editor’s note: This article was originally published by RealClearPolitics and made available via RealClearWire.

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I am the Turning Point USA faculty adviser at Arizona State University. As a philosophy professor, what Charlie Kirk was doing stood out to me immediately. It also stood out to the ideologue professors who didn’t like being questioned. That’s why they tried to stop him.

Charlie did something no one thought possible. He walked into the heart of the modern university — where the left claims to hold the keys to knowledge — and did what their professors should have been doing all along: He asked questions. He challenged assumptions. He demanded clarity. He gave logical arguments.

Charlie wasn’t there to score points or win applause. He cared about students’ souls.

He was the American Socrates.

Modeling the Socratic dialogue

Like the Athenian philosopher, Charlie confronted those who claimed to be wise. He took questions — hundreds of them — on camera for all to see. Students asked about gender, economics, faith, and politics. He asked if they could rationally defend their views.

Again and again, Charlie turned the tables, and we saw that the content of the leftist classroom is irrational.

On gender ideology, he exposed what I call the “transsexual heresy,” showing students that reality — not ideology — defines what it means to be a man or a woman. He warned against letting confusion dictate truth. Objective reality matters, and he ensured that students knew it. The mentally ill should not be able to dictate to the rest of us what reality is. And anyone who doesn’t know basic things, such as the difference between a man and a woman, isn’t ready to teach students.

On economics, he dismantled Marxist clichés students had absorbed from their professors, showing that personal responsibility — not socialism — is the bedrock of human flourishing. They came at him with Rousseau, stating that private property and “the system” force the “oppressed” to live lives of crime. In one video, a student told him the poor and marginalized have to become criminals, and Charlie demolished this by simply asking if they have free will. It was brilliant, and everyone watching knew it.

On Christianity, he confronted the narrative that faith is merely patriarchy and white supremacy in disguise. The background narrative is that these professors hate the Bible. Professors had planted these lies in the minds of students to prevent them from reading it.

An untold multitude of students had their faith shipwrecked by such professors while their parents paid the tuition. The unbelieving profs thought they had sufficiently salted the ground and planted tares in the field. Charlie tore them out, root and branch, preparing the ground for the gospel itself to be heard.

The professors’ ire

And that’s why the professors despised him.

I’ve been in those faculty meetings. I’ve heard professors laugh about “deconstructing” the faith of Christian students. I’ve watched them assign books praising witchcraft while condemning Christianity as “oppressive.” I’ve seen them try to ban Charlie Kirk from speaking on campus by declaring him a “white supremacist.”

ASU “honors faculty” successfully prevented him from speaking at the honor college even while they held events on the benefits of witchcraft — while the outlet Jezebel bragged about hiring “Etsy witches” to hex him. If the witches hated him this much, it tells the good guys he was on to something.

The spiritual battle lines could not be clearer.

Charlie wasn’t there to score points or win applause. He cared about students’ souls. He stood in the breach against professors who see students not as young men and women searching for truth, but as recruits for their ideological crusades. He laughed at the degree programs that promised jobs for students such as “radical advocate.” He was there because he believed those students were worth saving from the godless ideologies peddled in classrooms.

Blatant hypocrisy

When Charlie was murdered, some on the left rushed to say, “Let’s all calm down.” There is no moral equivalency here between the right and the left. Yet the left is the one who heated it up by calling him a white supremacist. The left controls the American university, where conservatives and Christians are called “fascist white supremacist patriarchs worse than Hitler” all day and night.

Where was that call for calm after George Floyd’s fentanyl overdose? Violence erupted. Cities burned. Professors excused it all. They used class time to tout Black Lives Matter.

But you won’t see TPUSA students burning cities BLM-style. They will do what Charlie taught them: Use logic and reason to expose falsehoods. Like the students of Athens after Socrates’ death, they will remember the example of the man who confronted their professors — and won.

And those professors will live knowing they were weighed in the balance and found wanting. They are the baddies.

Socrates’ prediction still stands

Before his execution, Socrates told his accusers they would face a heavier judgment than the one they inflicted on him. They killed him to silence him. But his death only proved their ignorance and wickedness. They were unable to give an account to explain themselves and were exposed as living the unexamined life.

The same is true here.

Charlie’s death will not silence him. It will amplify his example. Students will keep questioning. They will expose the foolishness of professors who despised Charlie’s example. And those radical professors will carry the shame of knowing they tried to cover ignorance with hatred.

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As a Christian pastor, I know Charlie saw that souls were at stake. Charlie publicly professed Christ to be his savior, and the ideological professors know it also. They saw students giving their souls in faith to Christ rather than John Money and hated it.

Now those professors think Charlie is silenced, but they must live with their own darkness. They can repent — or they will live in that darkness forever and face the judgment of God. The blood of martyrs has always been the seed of revival.

May the Lord use Charlie’s life — and yes, even his death — to raise up a generation of students who love truth, pursue wisdom, and refuse to bow to the false gods of the modern university. Let’s question godless professors to reveal to everyone watching that they don’t know clear truths about God and what is good.

Charlie Kirk was the American Socrates. The leftist professors hated him for it. And they will never escape the questions he taught a generation to ask.

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