After all this time, it’s still worth asking the question of Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed: Whose side is he on?

I’m not just asking whether he’s a liberal. I’m asking whether he wants America to win, or if he’s one of those Democrats who only believes in America if it can be fundamentally changed to fit their own strange mold of good and evil.

In his case, the hard-left nominee in one of the oddest Senate races in many a year seems to have trouble distinguishing who’s the good guy in the Iran conflict, or whether the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — a despot who repressed his own people and murdered those who dissented — was worth condemning.

Yet again, on Friday, El-Sayed was asked about leaked audio where he discussed deliberately avoiding the subject while speaking in Dearborn, which is a Shia stronghold.

During the call with staff, El-Sayed noted that “there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad” about Khamenei’s death, and “I just don’t want to comment on Khamenei at all.”

“Like, I don’t think it’s worth even touching that,” he added.

EXCLUSIVE:

Left-wing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed told staffers he wanted to avoid taking a public position on the assassination of Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei because “there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad,” audio from a private campaign strategy meeting obtained by the Free Beacon shows.

— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) March 30, 2026

During his appearance Friday, El-Sayed was asked by a reporter whether he regrets “the private comments you made on a leaked audio of a call, I think it was in early March, where you talked about the death of Ayatollah Khamenei and many people in Dearborn being sad that day.”

El-Sayed’s response was to say that reporters should give him questions he wants to answer.

Abdul El-Sayed gets angry when asked about whether he still mourns the death of Ayatollah Khamenei.

Abdul: “I’m not interested in talking about this, ask about healthcare instead.”

Reporter: “That’s weird, since you talk about foreign policy a lot.” https://t.co/DOXuYXfRYg

— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 9, 2026

“I know your readers will get you clicks, but it’s actually not relevant to people’s lives. I’m just not interested in this dog and pony show,” he said.

“So I’m just gonna tell you: I think if you look at the legacy of this war — if you look at all that’s happened under war, the gas prices, the grocery prices, all that Donald Trump has done to devastate the lives of Michiganders because of this war — I think all of us regret that this war ever happened.”

“And if you — even Mike Rogers, who flip-flopped on this issue, doesn’t even know where he stands. He says the war needs to end,” El-Sayed continued.

“So you should go ask Mike Rogers what he thinks about this ridiculous war. But I don’t do the work of that — justifying illegal, ridiculous wars — because you want to ask me a question about a piece of leaked audio. Like, ask smart questions.”

The reporter then noted that his position on Iran was relevant, given that he frequently talks about foreign policy. But El-Sayed moved on to another reporter — who, presumably, he thought would ask him “smarter questions.”

The problem is that the smartest question is the one he can’t answer. And this shouldn’t be a difficult one to answer, since he’s big on foreign policy but can’t decide whether or not Israel or Iran is a bigger threat to the United States, including when asked by the moderator of his recent debate against Rogers:

Abdul El-Sayed REFUSES to say that Iran is a bigger threat than Israel…

…ON THE DEBATE STAGE. https://t.co/RcNkT3r37h

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) October 8, 2026

“I’m just going to say that that’s a ridiculous hypothetical because here’s what’s happening right now. Our ostensible ally, Israel, has lobbied us to go to war with Iran,” El-Sayed said.

“We have watched as Iran has responded by bombing all kinds of countries in the Middle East and then choking off the world’s energy supply. So this is a situation in which I don’t think we should be a part. I don’t want to be pushed into war by Israel.”

And he won’t even condemn the IRGC absent of Israel being involved in the equation. Here he is at a town hall last month:

This is insane. A young Iranian-American describes how his family has been hunted by the IRGC, cites tens of thousands of protesters reportedly killed by the regime, and asks Abdul one simple question: Will you condemn the IRGC?

Abdul refuses. https://t.co/zJprDlQuXd

— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) September 24, 2026

No answer to the question. Again.

If you can’t say the IRGC is bad — a force that’s condemned as a terror organization, mind you — you’re not on America’s side.

And America shouldn’t let you change it to suit you, Mr. El-Sayed, because it will inarguably be for the worse.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ran to ABC for an interview on Sunday to respond to Trump’s fury toward him and whine about the United States not giving enough support for him to try and win the war. 

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Trump went off on Zelensky yesterday after announcing a deal with Russia to sell diesel to the US. While speaking to reporters on Friday, Trump blasted the Ukrainian President’s refusal to make peace and blamed him for the continuation of the war with Russia after Ukraine’s latest attack on a Russian oil export hub.

“I think it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president,” Trump said, blaming Zelensky for high oil and diesel prices.

WATCH: Trump GOES OFF on Zelensky After Ukrainian Attack on Russian Diesel Hub – “He Better Damn Well Stop… Time for Ukraine to Get a New President!”

Trump later doubled down last night, saying Zelensky "should have an election" and that "Putin would like to see a settlement strongly," but "Zelensky does not want to make a deal."

Zelensky on Sunday told ABC's Jonathan Karl that it's Russia's fault that the war has continued, calling for a ceasefire. "Don't attack us. Don't kill our children. We will stop attacking your diesel. And I think it's fair, fair deal," he said. It should be noted that Zelensky turned down a US-backed ceasefire back in February 2025 when he and Trump had an explosive meeting in the Oval Office.

Zelensky further responded to Trump's calls for an election and new president, claiming "it's up to our people" to choose a leader as he continues to hold the country under martial law, barring an election.

"President Trump said that that we need, Ukraine needs new president. So, first of all, with all due respect to President Trump, it's up to our society, up to our people, to choose one or another leader," he said. "Yes, we are in war, and how to do elections is really difficult. Not only that it goes absolutely not secured and it goes out of our law, out of our constitution, but the main thing is to have security infrastructure for this to give possibility people to vote."

"Of course, it's up to Ukrainians when to vote, how to do it, and to choose one or another person... I know that Putin wanted very much to change the president in Ukraine, I understand it, and if President Trump really wants to have some changes during elections," he continued. "So please tell Putin: give us two months, 60 days of total ceasefire, 60 days, and we will organize elections.

He went on to blame Trump for the rising cost of oil solely on the war with Iran, but said it's easier to blame Ukraine. "These people can't find a key how to stop Putin, because it's more difficult to stop Putin than to pressure others, because it's more simple to speak about the prices and connect it with Ukraine," he said.

WATCH:

He later appeared to become emotional near the end of the interview while calling for US support to keep fighting the war and "stop Putin."

"We count that United States will help us to do this... I think this is the main goal to stop him. This is the main deal to stop this war, and we count on American support," he said.

"We will defend ourselves because otherwise we will lose our life and homes, our freedom, independence, Ukraine. We can't lose it, and the truth is on our side," he added while choking up and appearing to almost cry.

WATCH:

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Oblivious Hollywood dullard Stephen King had the audacity on Thursday to ask folks on social media why a blatantly conservative TV series didn’t get nominated for an Emmy Award this year.

The Paramount+ series, “Landman,” is as right-wing as it gets — it’s pro-oil, anti-woke, and features a plethora of golden rants about green energy, electric vehicles, and other stupid liberal ideas.

The fact that King, a leftist if ever there were one, even likes the show is shocking unto itself. Less shocking is the obliviousness it took for the pompous liberal to wonder why the show was being snubbed.

“I don’t understand why LANDMAN didn’t get nominated for Emmy awards,” King wrote on social media platform X. “Particularly Billy Bob Thornton for best actor and Stephen Kay for best director. Is it politics, or what?”

I don’t understand why LANDMAN didn’t get nominated for Emmy awards. Particularly Billy Bob Thornton for best actor and Stephen Kay for best director. Is it politics, or what?

— Stephen King (@StephenKing) October 9, 2026

Yes, Stephen, it is politics!

As noted by one X user responding to King’s post, it’s the same politics behind the equally conservative series “Yellowstone” never receiving an Emmy nomination.

Zeroing in on the exact politics in question, another X user rightly noted how the show “exposes ‘Green’ initiatives for the lies they are.”

“Yes, it’s political,” the X user added. “Are you really that big of a fool not to see it?”

Yes, actually, he is! I mean, he’s a man with a rich, rich history of ignorant and just plain dumb remarks.

And it really does take an impressive level of ignorance to not see the writing on the wall, especially as it pertains to such a right-wing show:

Those windmills aren’t saving the planet — they’re running on diesel and hypocrisy.

Billy Bob Thornton in *Landman* explaining why we can’t just wish away oil.

This scene is going viral for a reason.

Landman https://t.co/D1fQxOI5hm

— Emmyjay (@Emmy_jay231) June 26, 2026

In one especially popular scene, actor Billy Bob Thornton’s character in the show ranted and raved about the insanity of giant concrete wind turbines.

“Do you have any idea how much diesel they have to burn to mix that much concrete?” Thornton’s character asked. “Or make that steel and haul this s*** out here and put it together with a 450-foot crane? You want to guess how much oil it takes to lubricate that f***ing thing or winterize it?”

“In its 20-year lifespan, it won’t offset the carbon footprint of making it,” he continued.

“And don’t get me started on solar panels and the lithium in your Tesla battery. And never mind the fact that if the whole world decided to go electric tomorrow, we don’t have the transmission lines to get the electricity to the cities. It’d take 30 years if we started tomorrow.”

One X user argued that this rant was the exact reason why the show has been snubbed:

@StephenKing Remember that monologue he did about the green energy scam. There’s your answer.

— Ray Salomone (@RaySalomone) October 9, 2026

King isn’t the only one to notice the snubbing.

Complex, a mostly left-wing magazine, noted in a July report that the show “walked away from the 2026 Emmy nominations without a single major nomination, extending one of television’s strangest streaks.”

“Billy Bob Thornton, Sam Elliott, and the series itself were all shut out, even after Landman entered awards season with momentum from SAG recognition, Critics’ Choice attention, Golden Globe buzz, and its first major industry win at the ACM Honors,” the magazine added.

Again, the reason why is so obvious to anyone with the slightest awareness of Hollywood’s gross far-left political activism — activism that King himself has repeatedly participated in.

@StephenKing Find a mirror in your house. Stare into it. You are complicit in the reason and you damn well know it. The show expressed conservative ideas. That is not allowed in Hollywood, if you want to be accepted and get awards.

— Dan Rader (@HeavyDelta2) October 9, 2026

@StephenKing Yes it is political, mainly because dipshits like yourself in Hollywood can’t get over themselves long enough to recognize and acknowledge how good it is because some of the content is contrary to your idiotic, emotional and insubstantial narratives.

— HonSCrollo (@HonScrollo) October 9, 2026

If King had an iota of awareness, he’d understand what’s happening and not need to ask questions like these. But as usual, he doesn’t have a clue.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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In the summer of 1969, a woman leaned out of a tenement window in Boston’s Italian North End and called, “Anthony! Anthony!” A 12-year-old boy who had immigrated from Italy three years earlier raced through the busy streets and burst into his apartment, where his loving family was setting dinner on the table. “Most days, Anthony takes his time going home,” the narrator says. But not today, because “Wednesday is Prince Spaghetti Day.”

The boy was Anthony Martignetti, a real North End kid, and the woman calling him was a neighbor, Mary Fiumara. Neither was a professional actor. Martignetti was discovered when three men asking for directions to Commercial Street turned out to be scouting the neighborhood for a Prince ad. Part of the commercial’s charm was that authenticity.

For reasons no one could have predicted, this TV commercial for a Boston pasta company became a symbol of Italian American pride and part of the fabric of American culture. It ran for 13 years. No matter where your family came from, if you grew up in the Northeast Corridor in the 1970s, you probably remember little Anthony.

The one-minute commercial captured the shared childhood experience of city children playing outside until they heard their names called down the block. Irish, Polish, Jewish, Black, and Hispanic working-class families in Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, and Pittsburgh could recognize their own neighborhoods in that footage.

And while we Italian Americans believe we invented the family dinner and, on some level, the mamma, most people grow up with nostalgic memories of large family meals centered around traditional food. Although Anthony was Italian, a similar scene played out in the surrounding ethnic neighborhoods, with kielbasa, matzo ball soup, or Irish pot roast and potatoes on the dinner table.

For Italian American kids, it was comforting to see our neighborhoods and our families on TV. In our house, Sunday was pasta night, but Wednesday was Prince Spaghetti Theater night, when we would all watch the movie sponsored by Prince Spaghetti. Of course, the commercial ran multiple times during the evening.

It was also one of the few positive portrayals of Italian Americans on television. Unlike many other groups that file lawsuits or get triggered by stereotypes, Italian Americans generally have a love-hate relationship with Hollywood’s images of mafia, pistols, pasta, “fuhgeddaboudit,” and “gabagool.” With exceptions such as the movie Moonstruck, mob-themed portrayals dominate.

Another stereotype, less common today but familiar for decades, was the Italian American young man portrayed as a ladies’ man: impossibly good-looking but dumb. This image recurred from John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever to Vinnie Barbarino on Welcome Back, Kotter, Joey Tribbiani on Friends, and pretty much any character ever played by Tony Danza. Even Fonzie, the most iconic Italian American figure of the 1970s, was a girl magnet who, despite being the epitome of cool, didn’t finish high school.

Little Anthony gave the rest of the country a rare look into what our lives were really like, and we were grateful. Part of the reason Prince Spaghetti knew how to portray an ethnic family was that the company itself was an immigrant success story.

In 1912, three men from the same village in Sicily opened a small spaghetti shop at 92 Prince Street in the North End. Gaetano LaMarca ran the administration, Giuseppe Seminara handled sales, and Michele Cantella made the pasta. The business outgrew its storefront and moved to Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1939, where its plant became the biggest pasta mill in the country. A sign at the city line welcomed visitors to “Spaghettiville.” The Pellegrino family owned Prince until 1987, when it was sold to Borden.

The Prince story repeated itself across America because the New World offered immigrants the freedom to build and the rule of law to protect what they built. Ettore Boiardi arrived in 1914 from Piacenza, worked his way up in New York kitchens, and in 1928 launched the company that put Chef Boyardee on shelves nationwide. Amedeo Obici left Oderzo at age 11, sold roasted peanuts in Pennsylvania, and in 1906 founded Planters with fellow Italian immigrant Mario Peruzzi.

Domenico Ghirardelli, born in Rapallo, came to California during the Gold Rush and opened his San Francisco chocolate business in 1852. It remains in operation today. The Jacuzzi brothers, from Casarsa in northern Italy, worked in California orange groves while speaking only basic English before opening a Berkeley machine shop in 1915. Their surname became synonymous with whirlpool baths.

The children of immigrants carried the story forward. Amadeo Peter Giannini, born in San Jose to Italian immigrant parents, opened the Bank of Italy in San Francisco in 1904 to lend to immigrants whom larger banks refused to serve. Renamed Bank of America in 1930, it was the largest bank in the world by 1945.

For Italian Americans, Columbus Day is a celebration of pride and heritage, an occasion to honor these accomplishments and commemorate our history. New York’s Columbus Day Parade is the world’s largest celebration of Italian American culture and heritage. It is a day to mark that climb from tenement to boardroom and remember what it cost.

The Italian American connection to Columbus Day was born in violence. On March 14, 1891, a mob stormed the Orleans Parish Prison and murdered 11 Italian prisoners held in connection with the killing of New Orleans Police Chief David Hennessy. It was the largest mass lynching in U.S. history.

In April 1892, the United States paid Italy about $25,000 for the victims’ families. Three months later, on July 21, 1892, President Benjamin Harrison issued Proclamation 335, declaring October 21, 1892, the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s voyage, a general holiday and calling Columbus “the pioneer of progress and enlightenment.”

Congress made the observance annual through a joint resolution of April 30, 1934, and in 1971 it moved to the second Monday in October. This year, President Trump signed the Columbus Day proclamation on October 7, setting the holiday for October 12.

The proclamation states that Columbus Day “holds special significance for our incredible Italian-American citizens,” and notes that a replica of Baltimore’s Columbus statue, which rioters tore down and threw into Baltimore Harbor on July 4, 2020, now stands on the White House grounds.

Little Anthony most likely didn’t realize it, but he was carrying all of this history, heritage, and culture on his shoulders as he raced home in 1969 to eat Prince Spaghetti.

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President Trump on Saturday told reporters that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “does not want to make a deal” with Russia, blasting him again for allowing the war to continue and calling for an election to be held. 

“He could have settled this thing many times,” Trump said, again calling for a new leader in Ukraine. Ukraine has not held an election since Zelensky was first elected in 2019.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Trump went off on Zelensky yesterday after announcing a deal with Russia to sell diesel to the US. While speaking to reporters on Friday, Trump blasted the Ukrainian President’s refusal to make peace and blamed him for the continuation of the war with Russia.

He further slammed him for attacking Russian oil refineries, blaming him for high US diesel prices. “I think it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president,” Trump said.

WATCH: Trump GOES OFF on Zelensky After Ukrainian Attack on Russian Diesel Hub – “He Better Damn Well Stop… Time for Ukraine to Get a New President!”

Trump was asked on Saturday night if Zelensky is delaying peace so that he can stay in power without holding an election.

"I think he should have an election, and he could have settled this thing many times," the President said.

"This is a war that should have never happened. Ukraine, Russia should have never happened. If I were president, it never would have happened. But President Zelensky could have solved this war, or he could have could have made a deal many times."

WATCH:

When asked another question about a potential upcoming meeting between US envoys and Putin, Trump again blamed Zelensky for the war, stating, "I think that Russia would like to make a deal."

"But as I said, this is something that could have been solved many times, but for whatever reason, Zelensky does not want to make a deal," he continued.

"I think it would have been smart. If he would have made a deal two years ago, he would have been a lot better off... He could have made a much better deal two years ago."

Of his recent phone call with Putin, Trump said, "President Putin would like to see a settlement strongly."

"And look, he's freeing up a lot of oil for the world, okay? That’s a good thing," he added. "And by the way, at a very low price."

WATCH:

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