White guilt museum ghosts "White Guilt" documentary. In August, my father, Shelby Steele, and I asked the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture (@NMAAHC) to host a public screening of our new documentary, "White Guilt," followed by a conversation with the two of us. The museum has done this for other films like "13th" and "I Am Not Your Negro." Instead of an answer about a public screening, we were sent an event rental application. Unsure of what to do, we filled it out. Then we were told our dates were unavailable, even though the museum's public calendar showed nothing on those dates. When we asked about other dates for a public screening, we were offered a private rental for $35,000. We clarified that this is not what we had asked for. We wanted a public screening and said we were flexible on dates. The museum then stopped answering us. @FoxNews asked the museum for comment. It didn't answer them either. My father was born into segregation in Chicago and marched for civil rights. He has spent decades writing about how white guilt transformed America and the West after the civil rights movement. That is why we believed our documentary belongs at this museum. Doesn't this museum belong to all Americans? @RobertSchmad of @FoxNews interviewed @jasonrileywsj, @GlennLoury and @carolmswain. Loury watched the film and said that screening it "would certainly be an appropriate use of the platform" of the museum. Our request remains the same: a screening at this museum. We would appreciate an answer. foxnews.com/politics/smithso…

Just fyi, Miranda is referring to Anton "Tony" Lazarro, who was convicted on child sex trafficking charges in federal court and sentenced to 21 years in prison. justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/anton…

Scott Johnson, co-founder of Power Line, has been reporting on Ilhan Omar since she first ran for office in 2016. Federal agents asked him to meet in January 2026, 8 months before they raided her DC home. He said they were focused immigration and naturalization, and their focus went beyond Ilhan— to her siblings and father. For context, Johnson was among the first to report on the Somali daycare fraud in Minnesota in 2018, YEARS before the fraud became a story in national media. @scottwjohnson

Shocker…but Preya Samsundar was number 2 on the case before @realDSteinberg jumped in.

“Have you seen the Muslims with their turbans and their djellabas? You can see they are not French. Try to integrate oil and vinegar. Shake the bottle. After a moment they separate again. The Arabs are Arabs, the French are French. Do you think that the French can absorb ten million Muslims who will tomorrow be twenty million and after tomorrow forty? … My village would no longer be called Colombey-les-deux-Eglises but Colombey-the-two-Mosques.” Charles de Gaulle, March 1959 nitter.siddz.com/shaig/status/211152173…

My favorite Sunday story of hypocrisy: the Obama Presidential Center’s cost has hit $1 billion, nearly triple its original $300–350 million estimate, and it opened five years behind its original 2021 target. For a foundation built on lectures about fairness and accountability, the numbers inside tell a different story. Start with pay: nearly half the Obama Foundation’s employees (172 of 342) earn six-figure salaries. That includes former Senior Advisor to the President Valerie Jarrett at $771,000; Michael Strautmanis (her White House Chief of Staff in the Office of Public Engagement) at $404,000; and Laura Lucas Magnuson (former White House spokesperson and NSC Director of Strategic Communications) at $396,000, along with other former Obama aides in the high six figures. Then look at the rank and file: they’re organizing as Obama Workers United (with AFSCME), citing rolled-back benefits, mounting workloads, minimal leadership support, and colleagues leaving. You’d think a former Democratic president who has spoken so often about inequality would try harder to avoid a wealth gap inside his own foundation. Thanks to @FoxNewsDigital for digging out the public information from the Foundation’s most recent full-year 990 filing.

Kristallnacht

“Think about that. The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president.” Think about the utter gall of the man behind the Russian collusion hoax, and who, along with his henchmen and hitmen, helped bloom a million poisonous “probes” and persecutions whereby the “full weight of the federal government” was “brought down” on the ENTIRETY OF THE OPPOSING POLITICAL PARTY.

Obama cites the importance of “the facts of the case,” but he has no idea what they are because he doesn’t know what the case is.

Thank you -- digging since August 2016. Now celebrating 10 years on the curious case. freebeacon.com/democrats/yes…

By Douglas Murray: Some things never change. In 1973, when Israel was facing a war of annihilation waged upon it by all of its neighbors, the U.S. was supplying weapons to its beleaguered ally. But there was a hitch. No European country would allow American planes to even stop and refuel on European soil. When Israel won the 1973 war, it did so in spite of the European powers. Throughout the current century, European nations have been united in their calls to stop the revolutionary government in Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. They have convened conferences, colloquiums, negotiations, and even issued some strongly worded statements. But they have never done anything practical to prevent the ayatollahs from going nuclear. This year, when American bombers joined the Israeli Air Force in pounding the Iranian nuclear program into the dust, they asked the UK, among other allies, whether they could use Royal Air Force (RAF) bases there to refuel. The Labour government of Keir Starmer bravely denied the U.S. request. Eventually, and on the quiet, the UK did allow some American bombers to make pit stops on the way to destroy the Iranian nuclear program. But last week, those bombers took off for a final mission. Not toward Iran—but away from the UK. This followed an incident that is still shrouded in fog. At the end of September, a local woman who lived near the air base RAF Fairford alerted the authorities to suspicious behavior by a number of people in the vicinity. When the police finally arrived, they arrested five men in their 20s. Another man was arrested a few days later, and yet another was nabbed this week. President Donald Trump announced that a major terrorist attack had been foiled and that the U.S. and its ally had been following the terror cell for some time. UK authorities were quieter. They were quieter still within 24 hours of the arrests, when the suspects were all released on bail. The UK government seemed unwilling to say why a group of black-clad men—apparently foreign nationals—should have been heading toward a base housing American aircraft. The court media in the UK insisted—as they always do when an uncomfortable issue is at stake—that any speculation on the issue risked prejudicing any forthcoming trial. And so there seems to be a glitch in the narrative. In the days since the Fairford incident, Trump and others have said that an Iranian cell appeared to be targeting U.S. military infrastructure in the UK. Meanwhile, the UK government initially tried to pretend that nothing happened before eventually suggesting that Iran may be involved. But this week, the Americans made their attitude clear in the plainest possible way: The U.S. aircraft left RAF Fairford. There are several conundrums that now surround the incident. Were the events early on September 27 a foiled attack? Was it a dry run for a later attack? Was it a diversion, or some way to test the defenses at the base? One thing is clear: The U.S. views the United Kingdom as an unreliable ally. And it is right to do so. At the same time that the RAF Fairford incident came to light, a number of other stories emerged. There was the revelation that Britain had given sanctuary to one of the right-hand men of the dead Hamas commander Ismail Haniyeh. The man—whose name has not been released, although he was arrested last year—had been given “refugee status” and citizenship by the UK and was caught allegedly plotting terror attacks on German and Austrian soil. Then came the revelation that two Iranians who had recently entered the UK illegally via the small-boats smuggling route across the English Channel had been arrested after allegedly plotting a terrorist attack in Manchester. The target is believed to have been the Jewish community, which was attacked exactly one year earlier on Yom Kippur in a ramming assault by a Syrian native, leaving two dead. At the same time, a Kuwaiti man who had also entered the UK illegally was sentenced for an attempted knife attack on the Israeli embassy in London. U.S. officials have watched all of this—from the sometimes bloody consequences of mass migration into Europe, to the mothballing of the continent’s armies, to the paralysis and anti-Israel bias of its diplomats. And the Trump administration is moving to downgrade the transatlantic alliance unless Europe steps up. Secretary of State Marco Rubio made a pointed intervention during remarks in Athens on Wednesday. “We believe that Europe can awaken from its long slumber and rekindle the fire that was here millennia ago,” he said atop the Pnyx Hill, with the ancient Acropolis in the backdrop. Great nations must have “the ability to wield force when prudence and diplomacy fail.” But he must know that he is speaking to a continent that has lost sight of all of those things. Today, Britain and Europe still slumber. And worse than slumber, they are busily engaged in submitting to their enemies. One thing is clear: The U.S. views the United Kingdom as an unreliable ally. And it is right to do so. At the United Nations General Assembly last month, the UK’s foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, made sure to have a meeting with the highest representative from what remains of the terrorist government in Tehran. The UK’s domestic security service, MI5, said last year—in a highly unusual public statement—that the UK has foiled several Iranian terrorist plots in Britain in a short period of time. But Miliband mentioned none of this. As he shook hands with the Iranian terrorist representative, he condemned attacks and attempted attacks on British soil, but did not suggest that the UK would retaliate. Meanwhile, Miliband declared that preventing violence in the West Bank—only when directed against Palestinians by Israelis, and not the other way around—is a priority for the UK government. He later declared himself “humbled” by the presence of a Palestinian Authority representative in the UK. It seems to be the attitude of the UK government that terror is caused by Israel and brought to the United Kingdom by the U.S. The reality is that terror has been repeatedly brought to the UK by Iran and its various terror proxies, and that they have been allowed to operate there effectively unpunished. They are allowed to enter the UK illegally. They are allowed to plan attacks that are thwarted at great expense of time and money, and they are not even berated by the UK government. The bombers that flew out of RAF Fairford this week will find other bases from which to fly. But they have left a country unwilling to face up to the international or domestic situations in which it finds itself. America and Israel are winning their war against the mullahs. Their victory is one of the least bloody, shortest, and most effective campaigns in military history. However, it is being achieved—once more—not thanks to any help from the Europeans but in spite of them.

In the Twin Cities where I reside, we have been lectured regularly by federal judges about the "rule of law" as a form of resistance to the Trump admin's enforcement of the immigration statutes. Bill Shipley takes a close look at an egregious episode in the First Circuit.

Two winners.

Minnesotans may well choose woke fraudsters again over competent governance. They cannot pretend they didn't have better options, however. 'Sell It to Someone Else': @Michele_Tafoya Blows Up Flanagan Over Massive Fraud hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026…

JUST IN: The man who stopped the school shooting in Bend, Oregon, has been identified as 36-year-old Kalub Giamanco. Giamanco, a carpenter, was reportedly driving home for lunch when he heard gunshots. After hearing the gunshots, Giamanco, who has a concealed carry permit, followed the suspect into the school. He then shot and killed 16-year-old John J Griffin moments after the teen opened fire into a special education classroom. Giamanco, who has two children of his own who attend the school, is family friends with one of the victims, a 7-year-old who uses a wheelchair and was shot in the face. The 7-year-old survived and is in the hospital. Three children at Silver Rail Elementary School were killed. Their ages are 5, 8, and 11. According to Giamanco's brother, Giamanco doesn't feel like a hero because he feels guilty for not being able to save more children. You are a hero, Kalub.

Abdul El-Sayed in Unearthed Synagogue Speech: Hamas Is 'the Same' as the Israeli Military, via @ChuckRossDC @freebeacon -- freebeacon.com/democrats/abd…

"Sell it to someone else." Good Gawd what a smackdown from Tafoya.

The Washington Post just reported that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, Ilhan Omar's alleged brother, and ex-husband, once filed a petition to have his marriage-based green card shifted from condition to permanent status. Elmi apparently pulled that petition when immigration authorities came back to him asking for more information, given signs that it was a sham marriage. That document is almost certainly an I-751. Leaving aside WaPo's incuriosity about why the feds were skeptical of the application, and why Elmi withdrew it, they also fail to connect the I-751 dot to Ilhan Omar. In the 2018-2019 period, then-State Rep. Ilhan Omar was found to have violated campaign finance rules for improperly spending $3,400 in campaign money. Part of that improper spending centered on legal fees, including to immigration lawyers. Omar hired those attorneys to help her in August-September 2016 as rumors swirled that she had married Elmi -- a fellow Muslim, who is flamboyant, in a ceremony conducted by a Christian minister incidentally -- her alleged brother, as part of a marriage/immigration fraud scandal. Documents presented in that ethics probe indicate her lawyers FOIA'd for documents from immigration authorities in connection with rumors that they had issued her a summons or were investigating her -- which her lawyers thought would be unlikely "unless someone submitted very concrete evidence of fraud to them...proving her legal husband was a biological brother or something like that." What documents did the lawyers seek out? Well, according to timesheets produced in the probe, they were looking at an I-130 -- a petition for an alien relative to obtain a green card -- and none other than an I-751. Months later, in March 2017, Omar's attorneys received the FOIA response. What did those documents indicate? Who possesses them today? To what extent do they implicate Rep. Omar in wrongdoing? What did federal investigators know about this request and Elmi's I-751 process, when did they know it, and what did they do about it?

Yet another clue in the curious case of Ilhan Omar.

I seem to have become a clue in the curious case of Ilhan Omar.