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End Of Day - 10-2-26 - Christians Targeted On Virginia Campus, Turn Off Ms. Rachel, Trump Takes Action

Friday, October 2, 2026

Christians Targeted On Virginia Campus

Virginia State University (VSU) tried to treat Christians on campus as second-class citizens. Now the university is being sued in federal court. Women of Victory and Bethel Campus Fellowship allege that VSU has imposed onerous restrictions on their activities while specifically exempting Muslim and non-Christian groups from the same restrictions.

 

Our friends at the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) are representing the Christian students. The Christian groups report they were forced to submit to the oversight of the university’s campus minister and his advisory board.

 

The Christian students have doctrinal differences with the campus minister. He and his board are also claiming they get to tell the Christian student when they can meet and what speakers they are allowed to hear.

 

In other words, the Christian students are being deprived of control over their own organizations while non-Christian students and Muslim students can do whatever they want. That is clearly unconstitutional religious discrimination.

 

This is also another example of how Virginia—the birthplace of many of America’s Founding Fathers and where the constitutional framework for religious freedom was developed—has gone off the rails. When Virginia State University loses this lawsuit, part of their punishment should be to take a constitutional law course.

 

This discrimination is not isolated to just one Virginia university. Christian students have been forced to sue all over the country. Time and time again, they win suits when they get to the Supreme Court. But the Left never gives up, and it doesn’t care what the Supreme Court says.

 

The first time they regain power, Democrats have promised to pack the court with left-wing activists to create a liberal majority that will reverse everything the current conservative majority has done to defend religious liberty.

 

That issue alone should drive Christian citizens to the polls this November. Our religious freedom is on the ballot. Use your vote to ensure the Left never gets the chance to pack the Supreme Court!

 

 

 

Turn Off Ms. Rachel

 

We have warned several times over the years that you must not park your children or grandchildren in front of the TV to watch Ms. Rachel. She smiles and reminds you of a female version of Mr. Rogers. But her message is poison.

 

Rachel Accurso (Ms. Rachel) is not just a liberal. She is a far-left anti-Israel, open-borders, pro-transgender radical. She uses her platform to indoctrinate children in LGBTQ ideology and frequently parrots pro-Hamas talking points.

 

She has also become increasingly political, donating tens of thousands of dollars to fringe Democrat candidates, including America-hating communist Darializa Avila Chevalier and antisemite Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed.

 

I know parents have a lot on their plates. But the Left is going after our kids. It isn’t just the college anymore. The indoctrination goes all the way down from college to kindergarten. And it starts with our preschool-aged children. We must be alert and fight back.

 

 

 

Speaking Of Indoctrination. . .

 

There’s no question now that what happened on the FlyDubai plane this week was an attempted jihadist terror attack. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Fox News that while the investigation is ongoing, “We know that he [the co-pilot] underwent Islamist radical indoctrination.”

 

Shocking! Who could have guessed? I thought for sure he was a Southern Baptist.

 

Sarcasm aside, other Israeli officials also report that his social media activity “showed signs of jihadist radicalization, including discussion of killing Jews.”

 

Presumably, the opportunity to take out 166 Israelis at once was just “too good” to pass up. He would have been celebrated as a “hero” in Iran, Gaza and much of the Islamic world. The media probably would have blamed the attack on Trump!

 

 

 

Trump Takes Action

Record diesel prices are straining many industries across America. In recent days, some politicians have called on President Trump to ban diesel exports, which Russia did this summer. Europe got half of its diesel from Russia, and that lack of supply has contributed to higher prices here in America.

 

President Trump used the threat of an American diesel export ban to force the Europeans to tap their large strategic diesel reserves, which they have just been sitting on. That will relieve some pressure on the U.S. market.

 

The problem with diesel isn’t a lack of oil but a lack of refining capacity. We haven’t built a new refinery in decades. Existing refineries can barely keep up with the demand for gasoline and diesel, especially with Russian diesel off the market and limited exports from the Persian Gulf. Thankfully, under President Trump’s leadership, construction on the first new refinery in 50 years just began.

 

But for all their talk about “affordability,” Democrats are responsible for the high price of diesel. Ever since they fell in love with mythical global warming, they have relentlessly waged war on fossil fuels.

 

Just look at the Democrat-dominated California. The national average price for a gallon of diesel is about $6.40 a gallon. In California, the average price of diesel is $8.40 a gallon. How can that be? Because leftists in California have declared war on their own state’s energy industry. It turns out that windmills and solar panels don’t make diesel! 

 

 

 

About That Report. . .

 

At first glance, the Labor Department’s September jobs report seems to be a bit of a disappointment. But a deeper dive beyond the headline figure of 29,000 new jobs shows there is much more to be excited about.

 

For starters, the labor force participation rate went up. That means more people are working or looking for work. And it wasn’t just a small increase. The labor force expanded by 485,000 people last month. That’s why the unemployment rate went up slightly—not from a loss of jobs, but from more people looking for work.

 

For years, the labor force has been shrinking as the population ages and men have dropped out of the workforce. Now, they’re coming back because there is a huge demand for workers in blue-collar trades and President Trump’s immigration policies are getting illegal aliens out of the country and opening up jobs for Americans.

 

Today’s jobs report also makes it highly unlikely that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates again in October. That is good news for borrowers and businesses looking to expand.

 

 

 

France In Freefall

I have commented before on the growing potential for serious civil unrest across a number of Western European countries. The explosive combination of poor economic growth caused by socialism and mass migration from mostly Third World Islamic countries is threatening civil society.

 

The American media are grossly underreporting what is happening in France right now. A few days ago, high school students started protesting against poor conditions in their schools. The protests were quickly taken over by the radical Left and turned violent. 

 

The high school students have been joined by college students and now rioters dressed all in black with masks. Multiple schools have been burned. In one school, the principal and other officials were doused with gasoline. Images of a female police officer being chased down and beaten by a mob have horrified the nation.

 

The worst violence appears to be in areas where the population shift from native-born Frenchmen to Muslim migrants is highest. More than one French commentator notes that the scenes across France look like the kind of scenes you used to see in Beirut, Damascus and Baghdad. There have been more than 2,000 arrests, and hundreds of police officers have been injured.

 

The worship at the altar of diversity is going to destroy Western Civilization if we don’t wake up.

 

 

 

Reaching For The Stars

 

The left-wing media just can’t stand good news. They are so invested in American decline that when good things happen, they refuse to tell you. For example, there were three major space launches yesterday in less than 13 hours. Did you know that? Two SpaceX rockets took off from Florida and one from California.

 

One of the rockets involved a classified intelligence mission. One rocket carried several experiments that may one day lead to the construction of data centers and energy production in space!

 

But the first launch of the day carried four astronauts to the International Space Station. They got there in record time—under eight hours from launch to docking. I had a commute here in the metro Washington, D.C., area during a snowstorm that approached 8 hours, and I was only going 26 miles!

 

Americans on the space station have been conducting research for 28 years, making our lives better in ways we will never know because almost no one bothers to connect the dots.

 

 

 

Chag Sameach

 

Carol and I wish all of our Jewish friends and supporters celebrating Simchat Torah a happy and joyous holiday!