https://pjmedia.com/richardminiter/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usSat, 03 Oct 2026 19:53:43 -0400<![CDATA[Definitions are tremendously important, and obfuscating language can lead to real-world disaster.]]>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:26:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/10/03/burmawi-islamism-is-simply-islam-practiced-in-freedom-n4957934<![CDATA[Jordan Domingue, a former Marine, was the top security official for Michigan Democratic Party Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed until January 2026, when he resigned due to El-Sayed's dangerous antisemitic views. Then Domingue began to talk.]]>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 17:20:00 -0400<![CDATA[Kevin Downey Jr.]]>https://pjmedia.com/kevindowneyjr/2026/10/03/the-very-real-danger-of-abdul-el-sayed-n4957926<![CDATA[The Trump administration is making a concerted effort right now to provide data so that American voters can quantify the financial impact of socialist policies ahead of the midterm election. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner in particular illustrated how socialism makes it impossible for most people to be homeowners.]]>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 16:58:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/10/03/scott-turner-gives-the-data-on-how-socialism-kills-american-homebuying-dream-n4957928<![CDATA[More than two years have passed since Thomas Matthew Crooks climbed onto a rooftop in Butler, Pa., opened fire on then presidential candidate Donald Trump, killed Corey Comperatore, and wounded Trump and two other men. The FBI investigated the attack extensively, and said it found no evidence that Crooks acted with an accomplice.]]>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 15:44:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Manney]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/10/03/two-years-after-butler-fbi-files-are-still-filling-in-the-crooks-story-n4957929<![CDATA[The actress Selma Blair appeared in Cruel Intentions, Legally Blonde, The Sweetest Thing, and other movies, but on a fateful day in February 2024, she discovered what it was like to be a dissident in a totalitarian state. The totalitarian state in which she lived is known as Hollywood, and it turned its back on her and ended her career after she dared to depart from the party line on the overall wonderfulness of the left’s favorite religion, Islam. She has apologized profusely since then, but her career has not revived. Totalitarian states are not known to be forgiving.]]>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 15:34:00 -0400<![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]>https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2026/10/03/actress-criticizes-islam-loses-her-career-n4957930<![CDATA[Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed officially launched his U.S. Senate campaign on April 17, 2025, promising Michigan voters a government that works for ordinary people. Six days later, Wayne County approved a consulting agreement with his company, worth as much as $72,000.]]>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 15:04:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Manney]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/10/03/el-sayed-launched-his-senate-campaign-six-days-later-wayne-county-hired-him-back-n4957927<![CDATA[The Secretary of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council, Mohsen Rezaei, apparently styles himself something of a historian of American history, or is angling for a plum job as a professor in an Ivy League university, or both. On Friday, Rezaei warmed the hearts of leftist historians all over the U.S. when he proclaimed that President Donald Trump is the "worst" president in U.S. history. Numerous socialist internationalist academics would agree.]]>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:34:00 -0400<![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]>https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2026/10/03/iranian-top-dog-gives-trump-the-best-review-any-president-could-wish-for-n4957925<![CDATA[Police found 91 pounds of meth in Melisa Kyle's vehicle. Nobody has to squint very hard to understand why law enforcement wanted the drugs off the highway.]]>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:20:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Manney]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/10/03/flocks-massive-license-plate-database-just-hit-a-fourth-amendment-wall-n4957924<![CDATA[A human smuggler who killed four people, including a seven-year-old girl, while fleeing Texas law enforcement in 2023 is going to be behind bars for life.]]>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 13:44:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/10/03/human-smuggler-receives-life-in-prison-for-killing-4-including-little-kid-n4957920<![CDATA[President Donald Trump is sending well over 20 million Medicare enrollees $90 apiece, and plenty of recipients will &nbsp;understandably &nbsp;welcome the money. With the standard Medicare Part B premium at $202.90 a month this year, $90 isn't pocket change for someone living on Social Security.]]>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 13:31:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Manney]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/10/03/trumps-90-medicare-checks-raise-a-question-nobody-seems-to-be-asking-n4957921<![CDATA[Dear DSA:]]>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:51:00 -0400<![CDATA[Scott Pinsker]]>https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2026/10/03/dear-dsa-how-to-destroy-the-5-democrats-who-want-to-be-president-n4957919<![CDATA[Authorities have finally released the name of the Omani terrorist who unsuccessfully tried to hijack and crash a plane full of Israelis this week.]]>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:50:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/10/03/identity-of-flydubai-hijacker-revealed-possible-911-tie-n4957918<![CDATA[In June, on the last day of opinion releases for the term, NPR published a story claiming that Justice Samuel Alito was stepping down. The report was false, and it lasted roughly ten minutes before it vanished. Then, in August, Alito&nbsp;put weeks of speculation to rest himself. "Obviously I'm here for another term," he told The Wall Street Journal.]]>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:45:18 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/10/03/justice-alito-to-retire-next-year-n4957917<![CDATA[Hello, all, and welcome to Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026 — the weekend has arrived, and with luck, so has the coffee.]]>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Eric Florack]]>https://pjmedia.com/eric-florack/2026/10/03/paris-is-a-hellhole-swap-in-any-american-city-and-nobody-notices-n4957916<![CDATA[Two weeks ago, students in the impoverished Seine-Saint-Denis area of northern Paris decided they were fed up with the conditions they had to endure to get an education in France. The buildings were dilapidated and infested with rats and roaches. The kids had to share textbooks because there weren't enough to go around.&nbsp; There weren't enough chairs for kids to sit.]]>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 09:19:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rick Moran]]>https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/10/03/we-can-stop-calling-them-student-protests-in-france-the-radical-left-has-hijacked-them-n4957913<![CDATA[Democrats have had their fair share of disappointments in Texas. Every Senate or presidential cycle, the party tells itself, "this is the year” that Texas finally turns blue. Every time, it ends in disappointment, but only after Democrats have thrown all kinds of money and resources into the state that they could have spent somewhere winnable.]]>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 08:10:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/10/03/is-talarico-hitting-the-panic-button-in-texas-n4957914<![CDATA[The one sport I follow and pay the most attention to is baseball. Football is boring to me, and I think far too much attention is lavished on it, especially at the college level. Basketball is decent, but it doesn’t keep my attention. I don’t understand soccer. But baseball, that’s my sport. Since moving to Houston in 1981, my team is the Houston Astros. They have won the World Series twice, in &nbsp;2017 and 2022; the American League pennant four times, in 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2022; and the American League West Division eight times, in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2026. And that was after they switched from the National League to the American League.&nbsp;]]>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 07:28:00 -0400<![CDATA[Amy Denton]]>https://pjmedia.com/amy-denton/2026/10/03/when-baseball-becomes-more-than-a-game-n4957911<![CDATA[India’s External Affairs Minister, Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, used the U.N. General Assembly gathering to say something that climate scaremongers like Al Gore and John Kerry have spent three decades excluding from the conversation: “Energy security is at the heart of development. Availability and prices should not be manipulated for political ends.”]]>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 23:38:00 -0400<![CDATA[Vijay Jayaraj]]>https://pjmedia.com/vijay-jayaraj/2026/10/02/india-rejects-un-climate-politics-in-favor-of-industrialization-n4957881<![CDATA[Isn’t it wonderful? Britain has flung open its doors to multitudes of poor, besieged refugees from all over our weary world. British taxpayers are happy — indeed, honored — to forego a few luxuries here and there in order to provide for these new arrivals, and to let them know that they have finally found a true place of refuge, a place where they can finally find rest, and see their travails as a thing of the past. And now two of these refugees, positively overflowing with gratitude for their gracious, unselfish and remarkably generous hosts, have found a novel way to express that gratitude.]]>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 20:45:00 -0400<![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]>https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2026/10/02/two-small-boat-migrants-to-the-uk-find-a-way-to-show-their-gratitude-n4957909<![CDATA[FlyDubai has major questions to answer, because the anti-Israel terrorist who tried to hijack an airplane and crash it this week while acting as a FlyDubai copilot had a ban from his home country on flying because of his beliefs.]]>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:18:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/10/02/oman-banned-flydubai-hijacker-from-flying-so-why-was-he-n4957905