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A federal judge whose ruling temporarily suspended access to an abortion drug got a message soon afterward through his court system's web page.
It said: "Watch your back."
And now a woman has pleaded guilty and is facing up to five years in prison for sending it.
It is Lifesite News that explains the target of the threat was Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk and his family.
It was Kacsmaryk's ruling that briefly put on hold access to the deadly drug mifepristone because of anomalies in the way the Food and Drug Administration approved it.
Pleading guilty to issuing the threat was Dolly Kay Patterson, a former employee of Stanford University.
The threat came April 2023 and actually warned the judge and his children to "watch [their] backs."
"Tell this antiabortion judge he needs to watch his back—and that of his kids—the rest of his life!" Patterson threatened, according to court documents in the case.
It came through the website for the Northern District of Texas court just days after Kacsmaryk's ruling.
Patterson pleaded guilty under a deal in which one charge was dropped.
Sentencing is scheduled for September 30.
The report explained, "She had previously denied responsibility, but prosecutors said she confessed during a home visit by U.S. Marshals."
The judge actually, in court filings, documented getting a "barrage" of death threats, harassment, and abusive messages after his decision.
"A second woman, Alice Marie Pence of Florida, was sentenced in November to 10 months in prison after threatening Kacsmaryk with sniper violence if he failed to rule in favor of abortion," the report said.
The Supreme Court later reopened access to the death-dealing drug, although the dispute remains far from resolved because that ruling said the plaintiffs lacked standing, an issue that can be addressed in legal disputes by bringing in new plaintiffs.
Patterson entered her plea in Dallas federal court.
Reuters reported, "The case against Patterson was filed amid a surge in threats to judges nationally, prompting the federal judiciary to push Congress for increased security funding to help it ensure the safety of judges and their families. A Reuters investigation this month identified at least 11 federal judges whose families have recently faced threats of violence or harassment after they ruled against the Trump administration. Pizzas have also been sent anonymously to the homes of several judges and their relatives."
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A longtime Democrat who was nominated by President Donald Trump for post in the civil rights division of the Department of Justice, Leo Terrell, has released a cryptic statement about Jill Biden and her liabilities for pushing husband Joe Biden into the presidency, and then into a run for a second term.
"Elder Abuse! Criminal Charges??" Terrell posted on his personal X page, atop a reference from another posting that said, "She knew about President Biden's health problems. But still wanted him to run for president. Evil."
That issue has blown up in just the past few days after Joe Biden made an announcement that he has been diagnosed with advanced stage prostate cancer, a cancer that experts say mostly is detectable early in its development.
This follows the evidence that has become more and more apparent of his mental decline, including the release of his interview with special counsel Robert Hur during that official's investigation of Biden, revealing Biden literally reduced to long silences and erratic answers when asked questions about his own actions.
It was not the only elder abuse comment that has surfaced. Personality Terrence K. Williams joined the conversation.
As did other commentators, including Clay Travis.
A report at the Gateway Pundit pointed out Terrell, senior counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights, "took to social media to express his concerns, reposting a tweet from a conservative commentator and adding his own commentary: 'Elder Abuse! Criminal Charges??'"
"Terrell's implication was unmistakable: Jill Biden may have knowingly concealed her husband's serious health decline during his presidency and subjected him to undue stress by propping him up for another grueling presidential campaign—all for political gain," the report said.
The report noted, "According to presidential historian Douglas Brinkley, Jill Biden is the main reason Joe Biden ran again in 2024. Brinkley appeared on Face the Nation and explained that Jill Biden doesn't want to relinquish the power that the Bidens have spent years trying to gain and even said that she wants some kind of 'revenge' against the people who wronged them or stood in their way."
WND reported nearly a year ago, at the presidential race debate between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden, after which Biden was forced out of the race by his own party, "Joe Biden's performance in the presidential debate this week revealed him to be a senior citizen without a firm grasp on thought, words, or policy. Even facts.And there's one person to blame for the situation that involved a senior American politician becoming a laughingstock. Jill Biden."
That's according to U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., who was quoted in a report by the Cowboy State Daily that, "What Jill Biden and the Biden campaign did to Joe Biden tonight — rolling him out on stage to engage in a battle of wits while unarmed — is elder abuse, plain and simple."
"She explained, "We've seen Biden mumble and misstep his way through three-and-a-half years of this presidency and no amount of lies or distortion of facts will distract voters from sending him permanently back to Delaware on Nov. 5. Joe Biden has failed … for over 50 years. It is time to put him out to pasture so that we can reclaim our country."
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President Donald Trump on Monday said on social media that his hours-call telephone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin went "very well" and the result is that negotiations between Russia and Ukraine are to start "immediately."
The goal will be a ceasefire, and "more importantly, an END to the War."
"Just completed my two hour call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia. I believe it went very well. Russia and Ukraine will immediately start negotiations toward a Ceasefire and, more importantly, an END to the War," Trump explained.
"The conditions for that will be negotiated between the two parties, as it can only be, because they know details of a negotiation that nobody else would be aware of. The tone and spirit of the conversation were excellent. If it wasn't, I would say so now, rather than later.
"Russia wants to do largescale TRADE with the United States when this catastrophic 'bloodbath' is over, and I agree. There is a tremendous opportunity for Russia to create massive amounts of jobs and wealth. Its potential is UNLIMITED. Likewise, Ukraine can be a great beneficiary on Trade, in the process of rebuilding its Country.
"Negotiations between Russia and Ukraine will begin immediately. I have so informed President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, of Ukraine, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, President Emmanuel Macron, of France, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, of Italy, Chancellor Friedrich Merz, of Germany, and President Alexander Stubb, of Finland, during a call with me, immediately after the call with President Putin. The Vatican, as represented by the Pope, has stated that it would be very interested in hosting the negotiations. Let the process begin!"
After the call, Putin said Moscow is ready to work toward ending the fighting.
Trump has been urging peace between the two combatants since before he took office.
The conflict began in early 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine.
White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said Trump's goal for the call with Putin was "to see a ceasefire."
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For years under Joe Biden, illegal aliens could enter the United States, even commit further crimes, with essentially no accountability. They often were given court dates, at which they didn't appear, and sent on their way.
Now, under President Donald Trump, criminal aliens are being tracked down, arrested, and deported.
And that has been causing near-riots when those arrests happen, a circumstance that a key federal prosecutor warns is a "significant public and officer safety risk."
Leah Foley, the U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts, made the comments after a video of a crowd reacting to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in Worcester.
Those "disturbing" people obstructing ICE, and interfering in its law enforcement efforts, should be arrested, she said.
"The interference with ICE operations around Massachusetts has been disturbing, to say the least. This conduct poses significant public and officer safety risks. It is conduct that should be vilified rather than glorified," Foley explained.
"I will not stand idly by if any public official, public safety officer, organization or private citizen acts in a manner that criminally obstructs or impedes ICE operations. The United States Attorney's Office, along with our federal partners, will investigate any violations of federal law and pursue charges that are warranted by such activity."
The video triggering the concern showed a mob of some 25 people creating what police called a "chaotic incident."
"District Councilor for the City of Worcester [Etel] Haxhiaj pulled a political stunt and incited chaos by trying to obstruct law enforcement. ICE officers and local police regained control of the situation and ICE arrested Ferreira de Oliveira," said Tricia McLaughlin, Homeland Security assistant secretary. "The previous administration's open border policies allowed this criminal to illegally enter our country in August of 2022. Thanks to President Trump and Secretary Noem this criminal is off our streets."
Oliveira was described by authorities as a "violent criminal alien" who was arrested for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and assault and battery on a pregnant woman.
The mob in the video, however, was shouting "No warrant!" and "Don't take the mother!"
They also tried physically to block the vehicle, and were screaming at officers.
The incident developed into a "shoving" match at one point, but it was de-escalated after the suspect was removed from the scene.
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Colorado's voting population was a largely Republican majority from 1880 to the early 2000s, with the party sometimes winning with a majority of 65%.
Then, history shows, several leftist billionaires donated heavily to state-level political races, for the state House and state Senate, and even the governor's office. The candidates they funded became the majority.
Since then, leftists have been running the state, with the current Democrat majority in the state House, Senate, governor's office and even the all-Democrat state Supreme Court, which radically even tried – and failed – to bar President Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot.
The result has seen officials in Denver try repeatedly to control and mandate the thoughts and beliefs of business owners, with mandates supporting the LGBT ideology.
After all, Gov. Jared Polis is homosexual and brought his "first husband" to the governor's mansion. But they've been slapped down, hard, twice by the Supreme Court already even as a third similar case is pending at the high court.
What also has happened is that Democrats in charge of state offices and coffers have turned their taxpayer-funded machinery into a weapon against Trump.
They've used tax revenues from the now-majority Democrats, as well as from the 43% minority Republicans, to sue the Trump administration 15 times.
The state's political divisions are common to many states: Tens of thousands of square miles of rangeland and mountains are staunchly Republican. City centers, like Boulder, Denver and Fort Collins, are dominated by Democrats.
It is a report in Westword that documented how Phil Weiser, the far-left Democrat attorney general, "has joined or filed over a dozen lawsuits against the Trump administration.
So far in 2025.
Actually, the report confirms, "Weiser has filed 15 lawsuits against the Trump administration in partnership with other attorneys general across the country. Weiser's lawsuits focus on maintaining Colorado's federal funding and protecting the rights of Colorado citizens."
Westword confirms, from April 29 was one in which Weiser opposes a Trump administration order under his program to save taxpayer money to cut back spending on AmeriCorps, a fed-funded program that in Colorado uses staff members to work in wildfire mitigation and trail restoration.
Weiser's 2025 attacks on Trump began the day after the president took office.
On Jan. 21, Weiser sued, with other states, over Trump's birthright citizenship order, a dispute that now has been taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court.
A week later, Weiser was suing over the Trump administration's freeze on federal cash handouts to research groups and nonprofits.
On Feb. 5, Weiser opposed a decision to allowing members of the Department of Government Efficiency to access Treasury's payment system, access that was needed to evaluation possible fraud and other criminal activity in the federal government's disbursement of payments.
On Feb. 10, he opposed Trump's decision to reduce reimbursements at research institutes across the country.
On Feb. 19, Weiser sued to keep federal taxpayer cash flowing to organizations that provided transgender chemicals and body mutilating surgeries to transgender patients, including children.
On March 6 he and others sued to continue handing out taxpayer money to grants that were to address the "shortage" of teachers in the nation.
He also, on the same day, joined an action against the Trump administration for laying off probationary federal employees.
On March 13, Weiser and others sued to keep the U.S. Department of Education, which has been targeted by the Trump administration for shutdown, with plans to give much of its authority to local and state education boards.
Weiser, on April 1, sued Health and Human Services chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over $11 billion in grant funding cuts to various "public health" programs.
On April 3, Weiser demanded in court that President Trump was not allowed to require documentation of citizenship for people to vote in U.S. elections.
On April 4, Weiser and others sued various administration components for delaying cash handouts for various medical research projects.
On that same day, Weiser was in court to keep open federal operations like the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Minority Business Development Agency.
Then on April 23, he sued over the president's tariffs, which are aimed at making the world trade economy fair to U.S. manufacturers, consumers and taxpayers.
And on April 27 there was Weiser's claim that Colorado can keep pushing "diversity, equity and inclusion" social agendas despite the president's ban, because the ban isn't "fully explained," the report said.
Many of the administration's moves would end up reducing funding for special interest programs in Colorado.
The report noted, "It seems Weiser will be going to court a lot in the coming months."
Some of Trump's moves have been blocked by judges at the entry level of the federal court system. And they are on appeal. Some have been affirmed, including a decision by the Supreme Court to allow Trump's ban on transgender patients in the military, for health and deployment reasons, to stand.
The actual results of many of Trump's agenda points will become clear as the Supreme Court weighs in on more and more of the plans.
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A federal judge has claimed that President Donald Trump didn't meet the requirements to cite the Alien Enemies Act to deport members of a violent criminal gang that has been linked to the Venezuelan government.
The judge, Fernando Rodriquez, said, among other things, that Trump did not show that Tren de Aragua members were moving into the U.S. at the behest of the Venezuelan government, a needed condition.
Yet published reports have documented that, "The FBI assesses that some Venezuelan government officials 'likely facilitate' the migration of members of the violent gang Tren de Aragua from Venezuela to the United States to advance the Maduro regime's objective of undermining public safety in the U.S."
The Fox News report confirmed, "A senior administration official exclusively shared with Fox News Digital Wednesday unclassified portions of the FBI's classified intelligence assessment of the Venezuelan government's relationship with Tren de Aragua."
Trump already has designated TdA and other gangs as foreign terrorist organizations.
He cited the AEA in order to start deporting members of that gang.
Fox reported, "Fox News Digital has learned that the FBI assesses that some Venezuelan government officials are likely using Tren de Aragua members as proxies for the Maduro regime in an effort to destabilize Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia and the United States."
However, the judge claimed, "Allowing the president to unilaterally define the conditions when he may invoke the AEA and then summarily declare that those conditions exist, would remove all limitations to the Executive Branch's authority under the AEA, and would strip the courts of their traditional role of interpreting congressional statutes to determine whether a government official has exceeded the statute's scope."
The Washington Examiner reported that the judge's ruling likely will be appealed, and likely will be overturned.
It may be of little import, ultimately, however.
It's because the judge ruled, "Trump could still deport Venezuelan migrants detained in southern Texas using other, more routine authorities."
The Trump administration has explained that the courts actually don't have the authority to weigh in on the president's decision to use the AEA.
The ruling came in a lawsuit from three Venezuelan nationals who are being protected by the American Civil Liberties Union, which said the three were wrongly accused of being gang members.
The fight is one of several that leftists have brought against Trump in his agenda to secure the nation's borders and remove illegal aliens, especially criminal illegal aliens, from within its borders.
The Examiner reported Art Arthur, resident fellow in law and policy at the Center for Immigration Studies, noted courts generally have given deference to executive decisions "when an invasion or threat exists."
"Most American press outlets don't really understand Tren de Aragua, or they put it in the same bucket as MS-13," Arthur said, noting the gang already has established strongholds in Colombia, Chile, and Brazil.
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Can the state legislature's Democrat majority in Maine simply remove the representation rights of thousands of residents by voting to banish their representative from voting and speaking?
Further, can they punish that lawmaker personally over her opinions and thoughts?
The Supreme Court will be asked to decide.
It is Maine Rep. Laurel Libby who was suspended from participating in the legislature, to which she was elected, because, Democrats say, she posted the name and image of a juvenile online.
However, Democrats earlier refused to punish one of their own party for doing essentially the same thing, so that argument holds little water.
So the fight is reduced to the fact that Libby objects to the transgender ideology of having boys say they are girls, and then compete in girls' sports events, and that belief is what the Democrats won't tolerate.
A report at Fox revealed Libby has confirmed she'll appeal her case to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking for emergency intervention after Democrats censured her.
A federal appeals court earlier sided with the censorship of her opinions and thoughts.
"For over 100 days, my constituents have had no say in any actions taken by their government, actions that directly impact their lives," Libby said. "Every vote taken on the floor of the legislature is a vote my constituents cannot get back. The good people of our district have been silenced and disenfranchised.
"We are hopeful the court will act swiftly to halt the Democrats' ongoing violation of the Constitution and suppression of dissenting voices, even as the broader case continues through the appeals process."
House Speaker Ryan Fecteau orchestrated the censorship of Libby, and Judge Melissa DeBose, and the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals declined to move the case forward.
"Our appeal asks the court to correct this abuse of power and reaffirm that legislative leadership cannot use procedural maneuvers and sweeping assertions of immunity to sideline dissenting voices and disenfranchise entire communities," Libby told Fox News Digital.
"I remain optimistic that the court will recognize what is plainly at stake: the integrity of representative government and the foundational principle that no elected official, no legislative leader, and no partisan majority is above the Constitution. The people of House District 90 deserve full representation, and we intend to see that right restored."
WND reported only days ago that, in the case, Democrats claimed they can decide which lawmakers can vote in the legislature.
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President Donald Trump has ordered dozens of strikes where terrorist leaders have been confirmed to be during his first few weeks in office, and those missions have taken out at least 74 threats to America, according to a report.
Already.
It was National Security Adviser Mike Waltz who told Just the News during an interview of the success the administration has had so far in killing terror organization leaders plotting to strike Western assets and the U.S. homeland.
"I can tell you, from ISIS to al-Qaida, to groups like Al-Shabaab, all have plots and plans to hit the homeland once again, and if you look under the Biden administration, with a wide-open border, that was incredibly dangerous," Waltz confirmed.
"President Trump has eliminated 74 named terrorist leaders that the Biden administration wasn't going after. You add to that 45 Americans who are being held hostage by various regimes and groups around the world that he's brought home, and that is just an incredible achievement in just a couple of months."
He said, "Americans should sleep better at night. We're only three months in, and look at the results President Trump is getting. The mainstream media doesn't want to talk about those."
Waltz told Just the News the strikes have reached far beyond the Houthi rebels in Yemen, who recently have garnered media attention, and have targeted organizations like al-Qaida and ISIS in the Middle East and Al-Shabaab in Africa.
The report explained, "U.S. military and intelligence officials confirmed to Just the News on Tuesday the numbers Waltz provided and offered details about some of the top targets who have been eliminated by strikes carried out by U.S. Central Command."
For example, an airstrike in Al Anbar Province, Iraq, on March 13 killed the Global ISIS #2 leader Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rifai, also known as Abu Khadijah, who was the emir of ISIS' governing body.
And on March 2, there was a joint operation with Somalian military forces that killed three dozen leaders and fighters of Africa's Al-Shabaab, a violent Islamic terror group.
In Syria, in February, a strike killed Muhammed Yusuf Ziya Talay, a leader of an al-Qaida affiliate called Hurras al-Din.
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In the much-heralded nuclear negotiations between Iran and the U.S., the Omani foreign minister has told the world the Islamic Republic has seemingly been granted approval to continue enriching uranium up to 3.67%. In addition, the New York Times reports that Iran has offered to allow the United States and certain other countries to monitor its enrichment activities at nuclear facilities.
However, the fundamental question remains: Even if such a deal is reached and Iran agrees to strict and permanent oversight, can this truly be considered a successful negotiation?
Claiming that enrichment serves "peaceful purposes" is difficult to believe when billions of dollars have been spent by Iran at the expense of a population plunged into poverty. No country, especially one as oil-rich as Iran, invests such enormous sums for a purely civilian nuclear energy program.
Under the 2015 nuclear agreement, Iran was supposed to limit enrichment to no more than 3.67%. In practice, however, the regime broke its promise and advanced enrichment to 60%, turning its nuclear progress into a tool for blackmailing the international community.
Furthermore, $150 billion in frozen assets were released to Iran, yet instead of improving the lives of ordinary Iranians, poverty worsened. By 2017, a nationwide uprising rooted in economic despair broke out.
Meanwhile, the regime redirected the newly available funds to strengthen its proxy forces across the region, turning the Middle East into a battleground of militias and deadly conflict – with Iran playing a central role. One of the bitterest consequences of this policy was the Gaza war, which left tens of thousands dead or wounded, and a whole region destabilized.
Iran's entry into negotiations today should therefore be seen not as a sign of reform or transformation, but as an expression of total weakness – at least for the time being.
The Islamic Republic deeply fears military confrontation with the United States, especially targeted attacks on its nuclear facilities. According to sources within Tehran, in a high-level meeting of IRGC commanders and senior officials, the regime's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was reportedly advised that any military conflict could break the regime's foundation and trigger a massive popular uprising.
Tellingly, in the most recent presidential election, only about 8% of eligible voters – most under pressure and intimidation – participated. Under such conditions, with skyrocketing inflation, 80% of the population below the poverty line and other mega-crises, another uprising could easily bring the regime to its knees.
Indeed, thousands of organized resistance units advancing objectives in the plan for a democratic Iran – put forward by the main opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran, or NCRI – are now active across the country, capable of turning any spark of protest into a nationwide uprising.
Given this, it is not surprising that the regime would temporarily retreat from enrichment and bomb development to avoid imminent collapse. Yet, just as in 2015, it is preserving all the infrastructure needed to resume nuclear weapon development – should political circumstances change, for instance with a different U.S. administration, or other favorable international shifts.
The need to avoid repeating past mistakes has never been more urgent.
In 2015, as now, the Islamic Republic insisted nuclear negotiations focus solely on the nuclear issue. Western powers accepted this framework and the result was a deal that appeared to limit Iran's nuclear program, but in reality gave the nation the resources to intensify its destabilizing regional activities.
The "bitter fruit" of that agreement was a series of proxy wars – including the devastating Gaza conflict with thousands of casualties.
This is precisely the regime's strategy: to restrict negotiations to the nuclear file so that its other dangerous pursuits – terror sponsorship, proxy warfare and regional aggression – remain unchecked.
The fatal mistake of the 2015 negotiators was to assume that the nuclear threat was the only danger, while ignoring the even more deadly consequences of Iran's regional militarism and expansionism.
Has the world learned anything from the war in Gaza, the hijacking of Lebanon's independence, its transformation into a failed state, or the destabilization of international waterways?
The regime's strategy for survival
The Islamic Republic – an archaic construct rooted in medieval religious dogma – was thrust upon the 21st century through a historical accident. It cannot survive without continually fomenting external warfare and internal repression.
It defines its survival in terms of regional expansion. For over three decades, the regime has implemented a deterrence strategy – or more frankly, a strategy of warmongering – built on three pillars:
These three pillars have functioned as an interconnected system, operating within a framework of hatred and hostility, fueled by slogans like "Death to America" and "Death to Israel." Their purpose has been to continually generate conflict and confrontation.
Through its proxy forces, the regime has expanded its regional presence, creating crises and bloodshed across the Middle East – effectively diverting global attention from its unparalleled repression at home.
Therefore, any negotiations aimed at achieving peace in the region must address the entire ideological and operational structure of this regime. A complete and verifiable dismantling of Iran's malevolent regional influence must be firmly guaranteed.
Otherwise, a few years from now, the world will witness yet another cycle of bloodshed in a different corner of the Middle East, and once again – thanks to the radical regime in Tehran – it will be another nation that pays the price.
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New technologies will 'make more with less, and drive us further into the endless frontier'
The Gateway Pundit reassured readers they had "read that right" in response to a report that Michael Kratsios, the tech chief for the White House, had stated, "Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space."
"We are capable of so much more," he said, according to a White House posting. The nation's tech, he said, "leave distance annihilated, cause things to grow, and improve productivity. As Vice President Vance said in a recent speech, the tradition of American innovation has been one of increasing the capacities of America's workers, of extending human ability so that more people can do more, and, more meaningful work. But unrestricted immigration, and reliance on cheap labor both domestically and offshore, has been a substitute for improving productivity with technology.
"It is the choices of individuals that will make the new American Golden Age possible: the choice of individuals to master the sclerosis of the state, and the choice of individuals to craft new technologies and give themselves to scientific discoveries that will bend time and space, make more with less, and drive us further into the endless frontier."
The "cryptic" statement about manipulating time and space, however, was left with no elaboration.
But the report noted that was "no surprise given the likely classified nature of such tech."
The remark followed only by days President Donald Trump's own comment about America's capabilities, when he said, "We have weaponry that nobody has any idea what it is. And it is the most powerful in the world … not even close."
He, too, didn't provide specifics.
Kratsios, at the Endless Frontiers Retreat in Austin, Texas, noted America's accomplishments, the Atomic Age, the Space Race, the internet, and more.
"Today we fight to restore that inheritance. As the failure of the Biden administration's 'small yard, high fence' approach makes clear, it is not enough to seek to protect America's technological lead. We also have a duty to promote American technological leadership."
He said the nation now is losing ground on nuclear power, life expectancy, passenger planes and trains and "our cars do not fly."
"Stagnation was a choice," he said. "We have weighed down our builders and innovators. The well-intentioned regulatory regime of the 1970s became an ever-tightening ratchet, first hampering America's ability to become a net-energy exporter and then making it harder and harder to build. We seem to have lost focus and vision, to have lowered our sights and let systems and structures and bureaucracies muddle us along."
But that's not required.
"We can build in new ways that let us do more with less, or we can borrow from the future. We have chosen to borrow from the future again and again. Our choice as a civilization is technology or debt. And we have chosen debt. Today we choose a better way."
He said going forward America must make "smart" choices, must make the "right" choices, and then the "easy" choice "to adopt the incredible products and tools made by American builders and to enable their export abroad."
"Whether in AI, quantum, biotech, or next-generation semiconductors, in partnership with the private sector and academia, it is the duty of government to enable scientists to create new theories and empower engineers to put them into practice. Prizes, advance market commitments, and other novel funding mechanisms, like fast and flexible grants, can multiply the impact of government-funded research. At a time defined by the desire to build in America again, we have to throw off the burden of bad regulations that weigh down our innovators, and use federal resources to test, to deploy, and to mature emerging technologies."
He said the current rules must be evaluated for what they prohibit, and what they cost.
"Our innovators make incredible breakthroughs, but consumers, government included, require products that meet their needs, not just the wide-open country of frontier technology. Our industrial might, unleashed at home, and our technical achievements from AI to aerospace, successfully commercialized, can also be powerful instruments of diplomacy abroad and key components of our international alliances."
The Gateway Pundit noted, "This kind of talk isn't without precedent. Since its inception in 1958, DARPA—the Pentagon's secretive research arm—has been quietly developing breakthrough technologies decades ahead of their time. From stealth aircraft and GPS to early internet infrastructure, DARPA's track record shows that by the time the public hears about these programs, they're already old news in classified circles. It's not a stretch to believe that far more advanced systems, possibly even those capable of 'bending time and space,' are already deep in the pipeline."