“A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.”

Roman Statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero

Greetings. Sadly, Americans awoke last week to what was not exactly a Happy New Year, but it should serve to remind us of something very serious. A deadly terrorist attack took the lives of some fifteen Americans and injured double that number in New Orleans. Many of us have been concerned about and warned about the possibility of such an attack with the continuous dismissal of securing our border, along with the coddling of pro-Hamas supporters. It is obvious that the outgoing Biden-Harris leftist administration has had a deranged definition of what security means. And what happened in New Orleans is an indicator of exactly that.

Let us not forget how many times Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told us that the border was secure. How many resources were expended by the FBI to track down people who were in Washington, DC, on January 6th, 2021? We were told that parents who wanted education, not indoctrination, for their children were domestic terrorists, right along with those who did not agree with dismembering unborn babies. Both groups had raids conducted against them and were arrested. Yet, how many times have........

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