Monthly Archives: February 2026

Do You Have to be a Christian Zionist to Support Israel?

Carrie Prejen Boller was kicked off President Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission last week. “I am a Catholic, and Catholics don’t embrace Zionism,” [Boller] said. That’s not accurate. It misrepresents Catholics. Per NBC News, Boller defends Candace Owens, who has been accused of flagrant antisemitism.

In fact, the Vatican recognizes Israel and maintains diplomatic relations. Israel has a right to exist is the Vatican’s position. 1.4 billion Catholics across the globe are in general agreement. There’s a forever misconception that the Roman Catholic Church is rigidly hierarchical. It isn’t. There is a diversity of opinions, though core teachings are inviolate. Catholics – and that includes clerics – are bound by those teachings.

Perhaps Boller – a recent convert to Catholicism – in a ham-handed way was attempting to express that Catholic teaching doesn’t comport with evangelical Protestants’ belief that Israel – per evangelicals’ interpretation of the Old Testament – is God’s promise to the Jewish people fulfilled. Evangelicals also hold that the establishment of the Jewish homeland (Israel) is tied to End Times prophecy. Such evangelicals claim that Israel’s rise is a sign that the End Times have begun.

Shawn Carney, president and CEO of 40 Days for Life, a pro-life organization, who denounced Boller’s assertion, provided a smart summary of Catholic teaching, which contrasts with the Christian Zionist sensibility.

From Fox News, February 13:

“For centuries, Catholics have understood that Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the Davidic kingdom and that our faith comes from the Jews. Catholic teaching holds that the Church is the fulfillment of the promises of the Old Covenant. To suddenly claim that Catholics are against Jews is absurd — it is a modern, internet-based error.”

In other words, goes Catholic belief, God’s covenant with the Jews is fulfilled in the divinity of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the messiah, and the New Testament is God’s truth revealed through His Son. Catholic understanding is that one day Jews will reconcile themselves to Jesus Christ as savior.

Hence, Catholics aren’t likely to fashion themselves as “Christian Zionists” in the same manner that evangelical Protestants do. Most Catholics support Israel’s right to exist. Many would say they support Zionism – a longtime Jewish national movement – which, per Grok, traditionally asserts that Jews are a people, not just a religious body; they have a right to “self-determination and national sovereignty”; and, finally importantly, “this sovereignty should be realized in their ancestral home – the Land of Israel.”

Roman Catholics can and do support Israel’s right to exist, but diverge from the evangelical Protestant interpretations. I’ll leave it to others to debate the finer points of Catholic and evangelical belief in regard to Israel.

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We Do Not Get to Choose
What Laws We Obey

By Rob Meyne

  • February 4, 2026
  • 3-min read

All of 49 states and their big city mayors are currently not encouraging demonstrators to interfere with police officers. They are the same states without deaths attributable to ICE encounters with protestors.

Texas and Florida, to name two, have had many more arrests and deportations of illegal immigrants with criminal records than Minnesota. In those states, there have been zero related violent encounters.

How can this be so? Simple: Texas and Florida are enforcing the law, working hand in hand with federal authorities, while Minnesota is not. Minnesota has anointed itself as a sanctuary state, and Minneapolis a sanctuary city. They have unilaterally decided they, and their citizens, don’t have to follow the law. Being a “sanctuary” from federal law is most notable because it is a thing that does not exist.

States and cities do not have the Constitutional authority to determine which laws they will follow. They might as well announce they are two-headed manatees as sanctuaries. It is just as true and just as legally binding.

“Sanctuary” is a made-up term, in the legal sense, and doesn’t exist in the U. S. You do not get to decide which laws you will obey. It doesn’t work that way.

Our federal laws are not the Golden Corral of politics; you don’t get to pick and choose. Calling a city a “sanctuary” tells us a lot about their priorities, but it doesn’t mean a thing in regard to the law.

Any time a person seeks out confrontation with law enforcement, harasses them, spits on them, damages their vehicles, swears at them, or otherwise interferes, bad things can happen. It is not a smart or legal thing to do.

There is no reasonable person, adult, parent, etc., who would advise a child in their care to interfere with police. Ever. Why is it reasonable for a governor or mayor to do?

Walz and Frey have openly encouraged people to interfere with law enforcement. And hundreds of thousands of dollars from far-left groups has been spent to equip and encourage the protestors. The resultant blood is on their hands. Not exclusively, but inarguably.

No reasonable person defends the killing of Pretti and Good. Their deaths were tragic and avoidable. That doesn’t make ICE agents hateful or the victims blameless.

None of us can put ourselves in the position of the officers on the front line. They take daily, consistent abuse and threats from citizens and politicians who call them the Gestapo and Nazis.

The issue in Minnesota is not free speech. No one is challenging the free speech rights of Minnesotans. They have a right to appear, to march, to chant, carry signs, and protest. I actually kind of like it when people protest. That is what freedom looks like. However, they do not have the right to physically confront police. Any rational person understands that.

People have said Pretti died because he was exercising his free speech. That is a lie, and the people who say that know they are lying.

This much is reasonable and ought to be ground on which we can unite:

  • The deaths in Minnesota are tragedies. We should all tone down our rhetoric, and all sides should work to prevent more deaths.

Free speech is our most important right and we must protect it.

No one has the right to interfere with law enforcement.

Citizens and public officials all have a duty to obey, respect, and support the law.

Anyone who can’t agree with those sensible principles has lost their right to a place at the table of rational debate.

The shootings in Minnesota are being investigated, as they should be. Looking ahead, we need reason and accountability from the protestors, the police, public officials, and everyone else. As long as Minnesota’s leaders continue to pretend they are above the law this situation will remain dangerous.

It is notable that the Trump Administration, and federal law enforcement, support all the above positions. The state of Minnesota, city of Minneapolis, anti-ICE protestors and their wealthy enablers do not. Who is being more reasonable?

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The Feds Closing In on George Soros’ Operations

By J Robert Smith

  • February 1, 2026
  • 2- min read

Clarice Feldman says this in her weekly roundup (February 1) of news at American Thinker.

In the U.S., attention to deportation protests, the search and seizure of the Fulton County, Georgia, election records, and the release of the thousands of documents in what are called the Epstein files are probably the key items of the week.

Minneapolis police (and now Los Angeles police) are cooperating with federal HHS officials as deportations continue.

Interestingly, the government signals it is going after the funders of the ICE riots. The U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia announced the planned move:

“If money is quietly moving crowds in the streets, Jeanine Pirro says it’s time to treat it like organized crime.”– Jeanine Pirro moves to block George Soros from allegedly secretly bankrolling protests across America — by introducing a new bill that could classify such funding as organized crime under the RICO Act. If enacted, Soros-linked accounts could reportedly be frozen overnight, triggering a massive political shockwave nationwide and igniting fierce debate over protest financing, free speech, and national security. Soros should be behind bars!!

It is a key tactic of the administration to go after those who fund evil. They’ve done it internationally, by blocking the narco trade, the oil shipments from Iran and Venezuela, cutting off funds for the UN and the USAID slush fund. Domestic NGOs are also under scrutiny:

Kristi Noem goes nuclear as DHS chief, exposing how DEMS CREATED A SHADOW GOVERNMENT to sabotage the nation!

She says Democrats built a massive NGO web at home and overseas designed to weaken and overthrow America’s constitutional system.

It’s probably no coincidence that with the cutoff of funds to USAID and the increased scrutiny on NGOs, the DNC is in the red, and it will be even more starved for funds as the smurfing operation Act Blue is increasingly scrutinized.

We know the FBI searched and seized the Fulton County election materials, and we already knew before that the 315 thousand ballots in Georgia were illegally counted. There’s an FBI forensic lab on site reviewing the seized materials, and I think they will probably find a great deal to support the necessity of the SAVE Act pending in Congress, which is designed to limit the shenanigans that clearly occurred in Georgia and elsewhere in 2020.

If RICO laws prove applicable, Soros’ left-wing operations will grind to a halt. Drying up the money to left-wing street and other disruption operations is a killer. It’s been a shrewd under-the-radar play by the Trump administration to go after the money. This also means criminal prosecutions. Stay tuned.

To read Clarice Feldman’s article in full, click on this link.

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