Rip’s Newsletter
October 1, 2026
Compiled and Edited
by
Jim Reynolds
Articles in This Issue
Victor Davis Hanson - Genocide Hypocrites
Kevin McCullough - Every Single One
Roger Stone - When the Mob Came for Nixon: Courage Under Fire in Caracas
Allan J Feifer - To Way To Defeat The West: Turn Us Against Ourselves
Overview
The Senate just proved again that Congress will not police itself, even on a bill as basic as banning insider trading by members and their families.
That failure sits in the same ugly pattern as the left’s habit of hurling “genocide” and “apartheid” at Israel while excusing real bloodshed when it suits their politics.
The deeper fight here is the same one running through the West: our enemies know they do not have to beat us from the outside if they can turn our own institutions, language, and guilt against us.
And the Caracas story is a reminder that when the mob turns, courage matters more than the polished lies that usually get rewarded.
Genocide Hypocrites
By: Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness
Date: 2026-10-01 · Words: 743
Victor Davis Hanson argues that accusations of “genocide,” “apartheid,” and “settler-colonialism” against Israel are often deployed by prominent left-wing commentators with immigrant backgrounds who ignore or minimize atrocities tied to their own homelands. He frames the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack as an attempted genocide against Jews, noting the mass killings, hostage-taking, and subsequent rocket fire, and says the anti-Israel backlash began almost immediately. Hanson singles out Hasan Piker, Ilhan Omar, and Zohran Mamdani as examples of figures who condemn Israel and America while remaining silent about Turkish, Somali, or Ugandan historical abuses. He argues that their rhetoric reflects projection and hypocrisy rather than principled human-rights concern, and he urges them to examine their own countries’ histories before attacking Israel or the United States.
The story matters because it links today’s anti-Israel rhetoric to broader questions of hypocrisy, identity politics, and the selective use of human-rights language in American public debate.
🅱️ Hanson isn’t just arguing; he’s handing out a history lesson with a side of cold reality. He catches the hypocrisy in the act, pointing out that those screaming loudest about ‘settler-colonialism’ often have the dirtiest family trees. It’s a sharp, necessary reminder that the loudest voices in the room often have the shortest memories.
Read the full original article here
Every Single One
By: Kevin McCullough Townhall
Date: 2026-10-01 · Words: 847
The Senate rejected the Stop Insider Trading Act 53-47, falling short of the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster even though the House had already passed the bill in July. The measure would have barred members of Congress, their spouses, and dependent children from buying new individual stocks while in office, but Senate Democrats voted unanimously against it. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer argued the bill was incomplete because it still allowed ownership and sales, and he also criticized a House GOP voter ID provision attached to the legislation as a poison pill. The column counters that Democrats could have supported the partial reform and kept pressing for a stronger version, especially given polling showing 86% of Americans want congressional stock trading banned outright. It frames the vote as another example of Washington protecting a system that lets lawmakers profit from information unavailable to the public.
This story matters because it shows how bipartisan public outrage over congressional stock trading still collides with partisan tactics that keep meaningful reform from becoming law.
🅱️ McCullough just handed the opposition a receipt they can’t shred. It’s a clean look at how ‘principled opposition’ is often just a polite way to protect the loot. Sharp, necessary, and leaves the reader holding the smoking gun.
Read the full original article here
When the Mob Came for Nixon: Courage Under Fire in Caracas
By: Roger Stone www.stonecoldtruth.com
Date: 2026-10-01 · Words: 2,360
Richard Nixon’s 1958 stop in Caracas, meant to be the final leg of a South American goodwill tour, turned into one of the most dangerous attacks ever faced by a sitting U.S. vice president abroad. After arriving in a Venezuela still destabilized by the fall of Marcos Pérez Jiménez, Nixon and Pat were met by hostile crowds that spat on them, hurled stones, smashed vehicles, and destroyed the wreath intended for Simón Bolívar’s tomb. The violence escalated in the Catia district, where rioters battered Nixon’s limousine with clubs and rocks, shattered its safety glass, injured Nixon and others inside, and tried to rock the car over while the motorcade was trapped. Inside the vehicle, Lt. Col. Vernon Walters later said Nixon “never lost his cool,” and Nixon reportedly restrained his security detail from firing into the crowd, helping prevent a diplomatic disaster. U.S. officials at the time judged the unrest to be communist-organized, and Washington even prepared Marines for possible deployment if Nixon could not be extracted safely.
The story shows Nixon under genuine physical threat acting with unusual composure and restraint, a defining test of leadership that complicates his public legacy.
🅱️ A sharp reminder that history isn’t just a collection of scandals; it’s built on moments where men actually stood their ground. It pulls the focus away from the courtroom and back to the street, where the real stakes live. Good stuff—reminds us that character is tested by stones, not just polls.
Read the full original article here
To Way To Defeat The West: Turn Us Against Ourselves
By: Allan J Feifer American Thinker
Date: 2026-10-01 · Words: 1,132
The article argues that the West’s greatest vulnerability is not military inferiority but internal paralysis caused by forcing its own principles into conflict. It says adversaries increasingly exploit this by turning legitimate debates into moral traps, where defending one value appears to betray another. Israel, Ukraine, and Iran are presented as recurring examples: support for self-defense collides with humanitarian concerns, escalation fears, alliance obligations, and antiwar sentiment. The author contends that propaganda and selective amplification deepen polarization until compromise itself is treated as weakness, making Western legitimacy the battlefield. The strategic goal of adversaries, he argues, is not outright surrender but to make decisive action politically and morally intolerable.
This matters because a civilization that cannot reconcile its own principles can be neutralized without ever being defeated in open conflict.
🅱️ It’s a solid map of the minefield we’re walking through. The author nails the trap, but it reads a bit like a briefing paper—needs more teeth to make the paralysis feel as heavy as it actually is.
Read the full original article here
You may also be interested in the following selected stories:
Everything Has Tolerances — Michael Smith Contributor, The Patriot Post
The Person Behind the Poll — The Freeman, thefreemanmag.substack.com
What El-Sayed Won’t Say About Iran Tells Michigan Everything — David Harsanyi, FrontPage Magazine
One last thought on the GLP-1s (Ozempic and Mounjaro)... for now — Alex Berenson, alexberenson.substack.com
Growth Up, Core Inflation Down: The Fed’s Rate-Hike Case Just Got Harder — Peter Navarro, peternavarro.substack.com
U.S. Unshackles Its Power Plants; Poor Nations Must Do the Same — Vijay Jayaraj, American Greatness
