One glaring example of the Democrats' impact is the over-abundance of
homeless bums in big cities, especially on the west coast.
And you would already know all this, except that the so-called news media are now just producing infomercials for big
government.*
America is being destroyed from within (much like Detroit or California) by
left-wing tax-and-spend socialist Democrats, and here are the results:
America
Has Its First Show Trial. Everything the Left touches it destroys. The Justice
Department and the American legal system are only the most immediate examples. Here are
25 other examples:
[#1] Universities.
[#2] High schools.
[#3] Elementary schools.
[#4] Children's innocence.
[#5] Marriage and family.
[#6] Children who say they are the other sex.
[#7] Journalism.
[#8] Women's psychological health.
[#9] Black life.
[#10] Black-white relations.
[#11] Art.
[#12] Music.
[#13] Architecture.
[#14] The military.
[#15] The FBI.
[#16] The CDC and NIH.
[#17] The American Medical Association and most other medical associations.
[#18] Medical schools.
[#19] Free speech.
[#20] Women's sports.
[#21] The border.
[#22] Religion.
[#23] The economy.
[#24] Fighting crime.
[#25] America's major cities.
The Editor says...
That looks like a long list, but #1, #2, and #3 are the same; #11, #12 and #13 are the same; and #24 and #25 are almost the same.
The Editor continues...
The list in the article above is informative, but over the last year or two, I have compiled my own list of things that
have been ruined for everybody by socialist Democrat busybodies:
• Public schools
• Singing the national anthem
[1]
[2]
• The reasonable assumption that everybody in America should speak English • The reasonable assumption that nobody crosses
the internationalborder
with impunity • The reasonable assumption that only U.S. citizens vote in our elections
• The expectation of civility and decorum in public places
• The reasonable assumption that the results of presidential elections will be accepted by all parties
• The circus
[3]
[4]
[5]
• Columbus Day
• The Boy Scouts • Animal crackers
[6]
[7]
• Statues of historical figures
• Aunt Jemima
[8]
[9]
• "Merry Christmas" • Six Flags
[10]
[11] (Not that I care; nor do I care about Bud Light.)
• Public libraries
[12]
[13]
• Harmless depictions of cartoon violence
• Locally-owned radio stations with local announcers
• Television • Restrooms in public places
Others have compiled similar lists:
[14]
[15]
[16]
[17]
[18]
[19]
[20]
[21]
Tyranny
by Any Other Name Still Stinks. One of the peculiarities of our own time is that so
many people remain blind to the totalitarianism growing and spreading around them. Western
governments have seized the authority to tell us what is true and what must be censored as harmful
"disinformation." They openly spy on our phone calls, read our emails, record every Internet
search and keyboard click on our computers, and monitor our social media conversations. They
tell us which "politically correct" words we must use and which words are outlawed for inciting
"hate." They have criminalized reading from parts of the Bible or acting with religious
conviction. They insist on manipulating the value of money and rigging markets in ways that
confiscate the meager savings of the have-nots and further enrich the well-to-do.
Corporations and government ministers work together to spread the same propaganda. Mainstream
news media operate as compliant mouthpieces for the State. Banks discriminate against
customers due to their personal beliefs. Companies fire employees for not being sufficiently
"woke." Prosecutors contort statutes into weapons that can be used to punish innocent people
for their political speech.
The
Bezmenov Plan: Is America now in the Last Stage? [Scroll down] And
it's not hard to recognize the plan being followed is parallel to the blueprint plan revealed forty
years ago by Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov, who explained the four stages of communist subversion:
1) Demoralization, 2) Disorientation, 3) Crisis, and 4) Normalization. The
United States has been under prolonged internal attacks of demoralization for several generations,
through the educational system and the culture which have delivered messaging that disparages the
United States and derides traditional values. The second stage, known as disorientation, is
most successful after a large portion of the population has been demoralized. Covid-19 brought
about disorientation through mask mandates, social distancing, quarantines, lockdowns, and the
abandonment of best medical practices of preventative and therapeutic treatments. Another
important part of disorientation that was inflicted on America at that time was the ginned-up
racism after the death of George Floyd, which triggered rioting, looting, and destruction of
several billion dollars' worth of property and the tearing down of historic statues and memorials
in many cities across the United States.
We
Must Have Courage To Take Back Our Country. Fifty years ago, the seeds of our
destruction were planted with the beginning of the social justice movement, the anti-war movement,
identity politics, and alternatives promoted as equal to or superior to intact nuclear
families. We were told, "Do your thing," without regard for society's needs. A new
version of communism stormed our shores, led by teachers' unions, free love, and blaming whites for
every wrong imaginable. We must scream against this lie at the top of our lungs before,
collectively, we forget who we are. No one will be able to skirt unscathed what's
coming. There's an undeniable feeling among conservatives that we lack the necessary will to
retain our Republic. J6 demonstrated the unrestrained power of government to assert supremacy
over its citizens. Millions have been cowed from speaking out against the gathering darkness,
and our government shows little regard for respecting the Constitution. What's happening to Trump
in Manhattan is breathtaking. Yet, as far as Democrats are concerned, this is only the beginning.
This
is the Stupidest, Most Venal Leadership Class in History. Let's examine the results
of your "work", since your boy, Clinton, Rhodes scholar and corporatist stooge, took power in '92:
[#1] Clinton's blithe handing over of manufacturing to China created homelessness. [...]
[#3] You have allowed the cartels, Asian and Mexican, to take over in every single state.
In Arizona, they own the governor and the government. [...]
[#7] In D.C., where you live, only 19% of high school
graduates can do math and only 35% can write or read English.
[#8] You've made food insanely expensive because of your grovelling to the climate cult
which has made energy prices soar, when we have enough energy to be independent. [...]
[#11] You foisted Obama on us who doubled the debt, more debt than every other President combined.
[#12] Then you inflicted Covid on us, which was deliberate, to destroy Trump. Another
$10 Trillion in debt. Millions of small businesses destroyed.
[#13] Then you lied and cheated and stole 2020, which has been proved many times over, and
foisted a sick, mean, thief on us, (whose corrupt disgusting son sold us out to the worst regimes on earth),
and who added $3 Trillion to the debt in 2023 alone. You then boast of a recovering
economy which is just flat-out stupid.
[#14] And then came Ukraine, a war which you started out of sheer vanity and self-importance,
giving your corrupt associates at NATO something to do and shifted hundreds of billions of dollars into a failed
state, failed because of you.
No,
Supporting Trump Is Not 'Idol Worship'. Do you want to know why Trump-supporters feel
as strongly as they do? Because in their hearts, they believe that if Trump had remained as the 45th
president of the United States through to the present day, the following would not have happened:
[#1] A tragic withdrawal from Afghanistan, with 9,000 Americans reportedly left behind
along with billions of dollars of equipment that appears to have made it to...
[#2] Hamas in Gaza, that then perpetrated a historic massacre and subsequent attacks in Israel with the help of...
[#3] Iran, who recently received billions of dollars via frozen assets thanks to the Biden administration. [...]
[#4] And of course there's the Russian invasion of Ukraine that has so far led to more than
500,000 deaths and, as of September 2023, more than $75 billion in U.S. taxpayer dollars sent to a corrupt regime.
[#5] Let's not forget record-setting opioid deaths in the United States, likely impacted by...
[#6] Uncontrolled immigration (including drug cartels) at America's borders that is contributing to a...
[#7] Rise in crime as millions of illegal aliens are flooding across the U.S.-Mexico border. That also leads to...
[#8] Rising costs for taxpayers, who are already struggling to pay for homes,
health insurance, food, gas, and oil heat in the northeast.
The Editor says...
Moreover, the price of gasoline is twice what it should be, because Joe Biden, from his first day in office, has
choked off the domestic supply of petroleum in every way he can. And the price of Diet Coke
has doubled since Joe Biden was installed in the White House.
Our
Establishment's Alternate Realities. Leftwing journalists and activists, and even
Democratic politicians, who all supported defunding the police, now cannot escape the resulting
street violence and unleashed murderous predations. Everyone knows the culprit is the
post-George Floyd effort — with Biden administration complicity — to defund
the police, end cash bail, institutionalize catch-and-release of criminals, and show more sympathy
toward victimizers than victims. Yet neither state nor local officials nor Joe Biden himself
even admits to a crime wave. The more the public is attacked and avoids major downtowns, the
more it polls furor over the crime wave. The more our officials, in gaslighting style, claim
such alarm is all in our collective heads, the more they themselves are attacked by the very
criminals their policies empowered.
Even
Starbucks Is Failing in Crime-Ridden San Francisco. First, Whole Foods closed and now
Starbucks is shuttering a slew of locations in San Francisco. The Seattle coffee giant
announced Tuesday that it would close seven of its 59 locations in the city, effective Oct. 22.
The city's "doom loop" is speeding up. Starbucks didn't mention crime in its official reason
for leaving the City by the Bay. "There are several factors Starbucks considers when tasked
with the tough decision of closing a store, but it is all part of ensuring a healthy store
portfolio," Jessica Borton, Starbucks' regional vice president for Northern California, said in a
statement to district managers. That corporate-speak doesn't say much, but it's hard not to
think that crime and the city's deteriorating street conditions didn't play a major factor in this
wide-scale shutdown. Starbucks has been known to jump into woke causes, then dodge woke
consequences. It's not surprising to see the coffee chain go mum on the crime issue.
What
the Left Did to Our Country. [Scroll down] What we are witnessing seems to
be utter nihilism. The border is not porous but nonexistent. Mass looting and
carjackings are not poorly punished, but simply exempt from all and any consequences. Our
downtowns are reduced to a Hobbesian "war of all against all," where the strong dictate to the weak
and the latter adjust as they must. The streets of our major cities in just a few years have
become pre-civilizational — there are more human feces on the sidewalks of San Francisco
than were in the gutters of Medieval London. The FBI and DOJ are not simply wayward and
weaponized, but corrupt and renegade. Apparently the perquisite now for an FBI director is
the ability either to lie while under oath or better to mask such lying by claiming amnesia or
ignorance. Immigration is akin to the vast unchecked influxes of the late Roman Empire across
the Danube and Rhine that helped to finish off a millennium-old civilization that had lost all
confidence in its culture and thus had no need for borders. In other words, the revolution is
not so much political as anarchist. Nothing escapes it — not ceiling fans, not
natural gas cooktops, not parents at school board meetings, not Christian bakeries, not champion
female swimmers, not dutiful policemen, not hard-working oil drillers, not privates and corporals
in the armed forces, not teens applying on their merits to college, not anyone, anywhere, anytime.
Who
Will Say No More to the Current Madness? [Scroll down] Like Britain from
1939 to 1940, America is in existential danger. The Biden administration has utterly
destroyed the southern border — and immigration law with it. Biden green lighted
7 million illegal aliens swarming into the U.S. without legal sanction or rudimentary audit.
China spies inside and over the U.S. with impunity. Beijing has never admitted to its
responsibility for the gain-of-function Covid virus that killed a million Americans.
President Biden printed $4 trillion at exactly the wrong time of soaring post-COVID consumer demand
and supply shortages. No wonder he birthed the worst inflation in 40 years. In
response, interest rates tripled, gas prices doubled. Our military is thousands of recruits
short. It lacks sufficient munitions. Following Biden's humiliating pullout from
Afghanistan, vast troves of arms were abandoned in Kabul. Billions more in scarce weapons
were sent to Ukraine. [...] The Biden renegade Department of Justice, CIA and FBI have become
weaponized. Ideology, politics, and race — not the law — more often
guide their investigations, intelligence operations and enforcement. The downtowns of our
once majestic major cities are becoming unlivable. They are mired in refuse and trash,
violent crime and homelessness.
Sorry,
DC — Too Many Americans Remember. [Scroll down] Conversely, we
could boil down all of the various Machiavellian plans being unfurled today by Western governments
seeking our surrender into a single order: forget. Forget your history and
your ancestors' sacrifices. Forget your religious convictions. Forget
your natural rights and freedoms. Forget the importance of personal liberty, property,
and privacy. Forget the sanctified bonds of marriage. Forget the
unbreakable bonds of families. Forget the sacred duties of parents.
Forget that forced experimental medical treatments are crimes against humanity.
Forget that climate cultists were warning about global cooling just years before warning
about global warming. Forget that one-world-government types who wish to control all
farming methods and hydrocarbon energies have depended on climate models that have been
consistently wrong. Forget that race relations had drastically improved during the
last century before the callous race-hustlers re-emerged with new intensity to divide human beings
again. Forget that paper money backed by gold once had value. Forget that
warrantless government surveillance is a sign of tyranny. Forget that J6 election
protesters have been persecuted as "insurrectionists" while Antifa and Black Lives Matter domestic
terrorists have been protected from prosecution. Forget the lies told to justify
earlier wars so that new lies can be told to justify the next. Forget that a
government's legitimacy comes from the people's consent.
The
quiet riot against insanity in America is gaining strength. How have we gone from America's
low-inflation, high tax revenue, full employment economy, with an expanding middle class, energy independence
and rock solid military to the kowtowing disaster of the last two years? The only possible conclusion
is that this is a long-term and well-planned operation to kneecap America. Accepting that the most
prosperous nation on earth is suddenly falling into poverty, crime and wokeness, and our citizens are
happily voting for more, requires a level of insane thinking that is unprecedented, yet we now have...
• Ballot counting machines that can't count ballots
• Judges who refuse to judge
• Anti-American American presidents
• Prosecutors who don't prosecute
• Peaceful protests labeled as domestic terrorism and domestic terrorists labeled as peaceful protestors
• Representatives who don't represent
• Corporations that don't seek profit
• Banks that don't protect their depositors' money
• News reporters who don't report the news [...]
• Teachers who don't teach, advocating graphic books on sex for children too young to understand sex
• Psychologists and physicians encouraging dysphoria insanity in vulnerable children — while keeping parents clueless
• Men playing women's sports and assaulting girls in their locker rooms
• Doctors who don't heal, promoting vaccines that kill
• Groups demanding reparations from people whose ancestors mistreated their ancestors
• Free speech that isn't free
Dissecting
Obama. Not so long ago, America had a great economy, the lowest unemployment ever for
a range of demographic groups, energy independence, an increasingly secure southern border, a
strong international profile, and no new wars. It had freedom. It had national
pride. And all because it had a highly skilled president of unabashed patriotism who was
devoted to the best interests of his people. Now we're being readied to eat bugs while our
overlords dine on steaks. To live in "fifteen-minute cities" while they fly to conferences in
Fiji. To tighten our belts to prevent rising sea levels while they luxuriate in sea-level
mansions in Malibu and Martha's Vineyard. In a direct challenge to parental authority,
common-sense values, and sensible pedagogical priorities, government schools indoctrinate children
in Critical Race Theory and transgender ideology. To shatter our sense of security and
restrict our freedom of movement, Soros prosecutors turn major cities over to violent felons.
Patriots rot in jail for meandering around the Congress for a couple of hours two years ago while
young people are encouraged by their teachers to celebrate Antifa and BLM thugs who have burned
houses down. Blacks who love liberty are smeared as "white supremacists" while Muslims who
love jihad are depicted as virtuous victims. Then there's what happened during the
pandemic. Churchgoing was banned, violent street protests permitted. Small businesses
were forced to close and went bankrupt; giant chain stores stayed open and reaped record profits.
Critically
thinking about what's happening to America. Let's briefly step back and see several examples
of where America's opponents are attacking, and what successes they have had to date.
Target: Standards. Strategy: Promote relativism., where all points of view are equally valid, and that all truth is relative to the individual.
Target: Religion. Strategy: Undermine Judeo-Christian beliefs and morality.
Target: Men. Strategy: Emasculate, feminize and weaken men. Specifically, this is mostly about "de-privileging" white men.
Target: Women. Strategy: Defeminize women, dilute the role of mothers, corrupt the definition of "woman," allow men to compete in sports as women, etc.
Target: Families. Strategy: Redefine what a conventional family is, and undercut its importance. Promote pornography to undermine healthy adult relationships.
Target: Education. Strategy: Propagandize children. Emphasize conformity instead of critical thinking.
Target: Initiative. Strategy: Undermine by awarding participation instead of accomplishment.
Target: Citizens. Strategy: The collective's rights take priority over individual rights. Additionally, the planet's rights supersede those of humans.
Target: Economy. Strategy: Waste enormous sums on foolish political agendas, driven by lobbyists, which are not in the best interest of citizens or the country.
Target: Financial System. Strategy: Undermine the Dollar on a variety of fronts from bitcoin to CBCD.
Target: Industrialization. Strategy: Corrupt the electric grid with unreliable, expensive renewable energy, while opposing fossil fuels and nuclear energy.
Target: Science. Strategy: Use apostate "scientists" or "experts" to misdirect real Science analyses, and to confuse the public about what Science is.
Target: Unity. Strategy: For example, inflame racism to incite discord and distrust among fellow citizens.
Target: Patriotism. Strategy: Inject WOKE, DEI, CRT, etc. ideologies in our education system to sabotage citizen support for their country.
Target: Propaganda. Strategy: Utilize mainstream media as a major source of disinformation on societal topics ranging from COVID to climate change.
Target: Free Thought. Strategy: Trick citizens into questioning their own thoughts by normalizing non-sensical situations (e.g., there are more than two genders, etc.).
Target: Elections. Strategy: Corrupt the election process so that key legislators are not always elected by citizens. Resist meaningful audits to avoid exposing this.
Target: Border Security. Strategy: Allow essentially anyone who chooses, to come into the country — including criminals, spies, etc.
Target: Military. Strategy: Use many of the above tactics to weaken our military.
What's
Next for Wokeism? Twenty-five years ago, I told a friend that we would likely bear witness to the acceptance
and even protection of several abhorrent social or political practices. That came true, but it didn't stop there. [...]
During the 1980s and 1990s, the social norms listed below were largely unacceptable; eventually the practices became
mainstream through the strident promotion by activists and ineffective pushback by traditional institutions:
• Open homosexuality, coupled with the very public promotion of the lifestyle
• Gay Marriage
• Transgenderism
• Sex by consenting children with young adults
• Open Borders
• Anti-Capitalism
• The acceptance of recreational drug use as acceptable behavior
• Rampant crime and reduced punishment
• Society no longer requires work to live
• Single-parent constructs as equal to two-parent families
Take a moment to reread this list. Nothing surprises us anymore. History teaches us that radical
social change usually ends badly, even for progressives. All of the above continues to have a significant
stigma for many Americans. There is general agreement that promoting negative moral or societal values can
and usually will have a deleterious effect on society. With no national debate, the redefinition of our
country has almost been achieved. Today, our ability to be shocked must surpass a very high threshold.
Bidenana Republic.
Readers may believe calling America a banana republic is an exaggeration but think about it. Congress is in the
midst of passing what is laughingly called a budget. Half the money comes from taxpayers. Half the money is
borrowed. All the money goes to special interests. The FBI provides the muscle. In 2016, it
investigated Hillary who sent 33,000 emails to a trucking company in Red China. The FBI granted immunity from
prosecution to her staff and helped destroy key evidence. Jimmy the Weasel Comey said that since she didn't mean
to break the law, he would recommend not prosecuting. He made that recommendation days after his boss, Loretta
Lynch, and Bill Clinton had an impromptu 45-minute talk on an airport tarmac. Clinton said they discussed their
grandchildren. By grandchildren, he meant that vacancy on the Supreme Court. At the same time, the FBI tried
to con a judge into approving wiretapping of Donald Trump. In a rare act of courage, the judge turned them down in
June but in October the judge caved in and the FBI spied. A lot. We do not know if the FBI ever
stopped spying. There sure seem to be a lot of leaks about what The Donald is doing. When the FBI isn't
covering up crimes and spying for Democrats and RINOs, it is entrapping civilians. Democrat Governor Whitmer was
in jeopardy of losing her job when an FBI informant convinced four losers to hatch an asinine plot to kidnap her.
This is why many people believe that the FBI and Capitol Police enticed people to enter the Capitol, which was closed to
the public at the time, on January 6, 2021. This allowed Nancy Pelosi and the rest to recast a rally on the
National Mall as an insurrection. This led to a post-presidency impeachment trial. These people are
nuts. But these people are in power.
The
Democrats' Contempt for the American People. The inflation rate is still hovering around 8-9%, in contrast
with the 1.4% when Donald Trump left office. A record number of people (853) have died at the U.S. southern border
in the past 12 months (and those are only the ones we know about and not including the people, including children, that
were raped, robbed or killed on the trek through central America to the border). Fentanyl pouring across the
Southern border is killing 100,000 Americans a year. Crime is way up in all major cities. North Korea has
resumed firing ballistic missiles over Japanese territory and has restarted its nuclear weapons program, both of which
had been stopped under the Trump administration. China has humiliated the United States on U.S. soil and is
preparing to invade Taiwan. Russia, which, according to the Democrat-media storyline, was supposed to be Trump's
boss, invaded Ukraine soon after Biden's inane remark that a little invasion might not be a big deal, resulting in
hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths and massive economic dislocation around the world, while Trump remains the only
president in the past four presidents that has not presided over Russian aggression against a neighbor. Biden, who
criticized Trump for cozying up to dictators, has gone begging the Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, for oil to bring down
U.S. gas prices. Economic experts are once again talking about a major recession in the near future. Trust
in American institutions, including the media, the FBI, etc., is at an all-time low.
How
Young Americans Unwittingly Voted to Ruin Their Lives. In short, it seems that young Americans voted for
the people who are ruining their lives. It is the Left that is primarily responsible for the unprecedented levels
of depression and despair among young people.
• The Left deprived children of school for nearly two years — for no valid reason.
• The Left ensured that young children would not see anyone's face outside their home for
nearly two years — again, for no valid reason.
• The Left frightens young people about their future — through its hysteria over
global warming — in a way that no group ever before frightened young Americans.
• The Left has destroyed the healthiest beliefs in a citizen's life — especially
in the life of a young citizen: belief in God and belief in one's country. God, religion, patriotism, and
the national flag have all become objects of mockery.
• The Left lies to them about everything — from nonbinary genders
to the founding of America to the extent of white racism in the country to opponents of the Left being fascists.
• The Left works feverishly to prematurely sexualize children by talking about sex and the nihilistic
falsehood of sex being "nonbinary" to children beginning in kindergarten.
• The Left encourages taking children as young as 5 years old to observe and participate in
"Drag Queen Story Hours" featuring men dressed as women reading and dancing for them, often in a sexualized manner, and
then having some of the children do the same.
• The Left works feverishly to diminish the authority and stature of parents, the most important
people in a young person's life.
• The Left has created the unprecedented explosion — not only in America, but in
recorded history — of young people who think they are really a member of the opposite sex.
• The Left corrupts young people's ability to think clearly by suppressing commonsense dissent.
Everyone knows it is grossly unfair for a man to compete in women's sports. But if a man says he is a woman, we are
supposed to believe it and to assert that it becomes fair. And any girl or woman who says it is unfair is threatened
with expulsion from her team, the end of her chances for a sports scholarship to college and social ostracization.
What Is Conservatism?
Before diving into the fundamentals of conservatism, it may be useful to recognize what it is not. What I mean is
that Republicans should remind themselves what they are opposing in today's political climate. Consider what the
left has affected in recent years: It has affected the whole of education, beginning with schoolchildren being
exposed to a radical and aggressive sexual agenda with sexually explicit reading materials and drag queen story hours
all the way up to higher education, where radical ideologies have been normative for decades. It has tainted
confidence in the sciences, with recent years revealing scientific "experts" denying basic biological fact by failing to
define a woman, promoting blatant medical propaganda, and squashing medical freedom by threatening, punishing, firing,
and silencing opposing voices (even when they are respected experts themselves). [...] It has also affected the economy
insofar as it has threatened national energy independence; produced hyperinflation; and, of course, promoted continual
dependence on the Federal Reserve. It long ago infected entertainment via Hollywood, but also more recently
infiltrated other arenas by promoting woke sentiments in sports, music, late-night shows, and comedy. It has
produced a culture of death, devised turbulent foreign policies, fostered corrupt alliances, emboldened criminals,
weaponized technology companies, tarnished intelligence agencies, and more. These recent advancements are the
direct result of leftist ideology concentrated in the Democrat party.
The
Left Were the Mad Scientists, We Were Their Lab Rats. As the midterms approach, one way of looking at
America's current disaster is that we, the American people, were lab rats. And since 2021, the Left were the mad
scientists, eager to try out their crackpot leftist experiments on us. The result is that the housing market is
tottering on the verge of collapse. As interest rates soar, our $31 trillion national debt crowds out
everything else in the budget. Inflation roars at a rate of 8-9 percent per annum, higher than at any time in
40 years. Yet the prices of the stuff of life — food, fuel, shelter, energy — are far
steeper still than the official rate. No one is safe from thugs anymore — whether a commuter on a
New York subway or the Pelosis in Pacific Heights. The country reportedly has a 25-day supply of diesel
fuel — the energy source that runs the nation. Meanwhile, we keep draining the Strategic Petroleum
Reserve of oil — a commodity we have in abundance but refuse to produce fully. We never fixed the
supply-chain crisis of last year, and so still face shortages of key consumer goods. The labor participation rate
is at an all-time low — given fat government COVID subsidies, the Siren-song appeal of staying home after the
lockdowns, fear of COVID, and millions of workers with long COVID.
Our
government's executive branch is deliberately destroying liberty. How are they destroying us? Let me count the ways.
1. Electoral Fraud.
A. 2000 Mules.
B. Electoral Insurrection (treason).
2. Destruction of the Economy
A. Funding COVID development ("gain of function") in the Wuhan Lab; deliberate exaggeration of the COVID crisis; and COVID lockdowns.
B. Elimination of fossil fuels; creation of energy dependency; intentionally driving up gasoline prices; and pushing for electric cars.
C. Deliberately enhancing inflation.
D. Inviting unlimited immigration for cheap labor and Democrat voters.
E. Climate change hoax.
3. Destruction of the Family
A. Promoting abortion
B. Promoting sexual perversion and transgenderism.
C. Using public education as a platform for sexual grooming and turning children against their parent's values.
4. Establishment of Federal Police State
A. FBI persecution of Mama Bears as "domestic terrorists."
B. Property destruction by government brownshirts.
C. COVID lockdown, so the US is becoming "democracy with Chinese characteristics."
D. Corrupting the legal system by mob intimidation of the Supreme Court.
E. Government censorship of speech; classifying truth as "misinformation".
F. Breakdown of law and order.
G. Government efforts to disarm the public.
5. Destruction of the US Military
A. Wokism
B. Seeking war with Russia and China
C. Mandated vaccinations
Imagine the Unimaginable.
Americans are now entering uncharted, revolutionary territory. They may witness things over the next five months that
once would have seemed unimaginable. [...] The traditional bedrocks of the American system — a stable economy,
energy independence, vast surpluses of food, hallowed universities, a professional judiciary, law enforcement, and a credible
criminal justice system — are dissolving. Gas and diesel prices are hitting historic levels. Inflation
is at a 40-year high. New cars and homes are unaffordable. The necessary remedy of high interest and tight money
will be almost as bad as the disease of hyperinflation. There is no southern border. Expect over 1 million
foreign nationals to swarm this summer into the United States without audit, COVID testing, or vaccination. None will
have any worry of consequences for breaking U.S. immigration law. Police are underfunded and increasingly
defunded. District attorneys deliberately release violent criminals without charges. [...] Supermarket shelves are
thinning, and meats are now beyond the budgets of millions of Americans. An American president — in a
first — casually warns of food shortages. Baby formula has disappeared from many shelves.
Biden's
COVID Testing Fail. On Monday, January 10, [...] Joe Biden unilaterally declared that everyone will get up to
eight free at-home COVID tests per month, to be covered at no additional charge by insurance companies. [...] COVID tests are
notoriously unreliable, and in most cases, unnecessary. [...] We are talking about government creating a new mandate that is
actually impossible to either deliver or afford. [...] They didn't acknowledge the fact that this quantity of tests is
unavailable. They didn't provide for the cost; they didn't give the providers, public or private, a chance to research
this deliverable and negotiate with manufacturers or deliverers first to see what might be achievable. The Biden-Harris
regime simply didn't think it through at all. And, for the shrinking percentage of our population who care about the
law, it's worth noting that, in addition to being impossible, this order is completely unconstitutional.
The Editor says...
Here's the gold nugget in the article above: "The Biden-Harris regime simply didn't think it through at all." Exactly!
• That's why they started printing money and handing out "stimulus" payments to everybody.
• That's why they think it's a good idea to defund the police, while letting violent criminals out of jail because they might catch Covid.
• That's why they encourage (or force) businesses to hire marginally-qualified ethnic minorities, just because they're not white,
• That's why they think if they eliminate
failing grades it will improve the quality of the public schools.
• That's why they killed the Keystone XL pipeline regardless of its effect on gas prices.
• That's why they opened up the Mexican border.
• That's why they pay unmarried women to reproduce.
• That's why they want everybody to drive an electric car — but please don't recharge it, because electricity is already in short supply.
• That's why they thought it would be okay to remove religion from the public schools.
• That's why they see nothing wrong with using a cell phone or a TV set as a babysitter.
• That's why they think we can eliminate hydrocarbons and get by on solar panels and windmills.
• That's why they elect politicians who promise to create "green jobs," even though there are no such jobs.
• That's why mail-in voting is allowed.
• That's why school teachers are unionized.
• That's why they insist on everyone wearing a useless face mask.
• That's why they celebrate men competing in women's sports, and transvestite sex perverts reading books to little kids at the public library.
Nobody on the left stops to ask, Where is this going to lead?
The
Cruel Progressive Creed Undoing Civilization. Debt is suffocating us. Our currency is on its way to being
Lebanonized. Most major American cities are broke, dirty, unsafe, and run by either corrupt incumbents, neo-Marxists,
or both. The law is optional, and applied asymmetrically on the basis of race and ideology. The past is found
guilty by the laws of the present and so it is being undone. The military budget is on a trajectory to be the smallest
in terms of GDP allotment since World War II; its careerist officers, for their own short-term interests, are now demonizing
and will soon be driving away the very demographic that has suffered percentage-wise the greatest casualties in recent wars
and was once unquestionably the foundation of the military. There is no U.S. border; it is an abstract construct that
millions will illegally cross in the next few years, ostensibly because they will become future soldiers in the progressive
wars for America to come. The idea of merit that built America is a dirty word, replaced by medieval tribalism of
hiring and promotion by superficial appearance. In just five months, Joe Biden created a desert and called it progress.
The
collective insanity that's rapidly erasing America. Many of us older than half a century no longer recognize the country
we grew up in. We have a hard time reconciling that past America with what we see happening today. America, to our view, was
predominantly a place of light, freedom, and joy. Now, as we witness a massing storm of iniquity, we either don't understand what we're
seeing or we choke back the language to describe it because the words all sound too harsh or politically incorrect. [...] This plague on our
society has pushed us to many forms of mass hysteria:
• We shun those who do not comply with outrageous and unconstitutional mandates.
• We blindly believe government officials and their allies in the media, though they have proven time and again that they lie and should not be trusted.
• We're emptying our jails of violent offenders while imprisoning law-abiding citizens — sometimes for simply exercising their rights.
• We're taking political prisoners like any third-world dictatorship.
• We allow our cities to be torched and looted with few repercussions.
• We're tearing down our history, our culture, and our traditions in the name of progressivism.
• We invite seemingly anyone who wants to enter the country illegally to take our jobs, receive public services, and drag down wages.
• Our national debt reaches into the stratosphere while politicians go whistling past the graveyard.
• We abort the innocent and defenseless while vigorously defending the guiltiest among us.
• We scare our children into radicalism with tales of impending doom due to climate changes that are as old as the earth.
• We're wrecking entire industries to "protect the earth" while propping up those same endeavors for our enemies.
• We deny biological realities and allow men to use women's facilities and participate in women's activities, provided that they "self-identify" as women.
• We subject the military to ideological litmus tests.
• We fraudulently change election results while casting those who push for transparency as "conspiracy advocates" and add their names to a list of domestic terrorists.
• We allow the government to censor those who oppose the lunacy that passes for public policy.
• We teach dependency and hatred at many school districts across the country, and within our colleges and universities.
• We accuse, disarm, and punish the law-abiding while acquitting the guilty.
This is the short list of our collective insanity.
The
Time Has Come for Reasonable Americans to Stand up and Draw a Line in the Sand. In Florida, Governor Ron
DeSantis has been under nonstop attack by corporate media because he has insisted on following the science and good sense
when it comes to keeping his state safe and open for business. CBS News deceptively edited video of DeSantis answering
a question about vaccine rollouts at Publix stores to make it look as if he were dodging a question he answered immediately,
clearly, and honestly. Hollywood productions and Major League Baseball are calling for boycotts of Georgia over their
latest voter laws. Airline companies and Coca-Cola are registering their condemnation. These entities and the
people who run them constantly bemoan the "division" in this country even as they willingly make half of their customer base
into automatic enemies with every new statement of protest they register. They have made what we eat and drink
political. They have made biology political. They have made flying political. They have made our national
pastime political.
I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know
then. Here are some important things that I didn't know five years ago or now.
• There actually is a Deep State, and those who constitute it really do not honor the election results or the will of the people.
• There really appear to be lawless elements within the upper echelons of the FBI, CIA, and NSA who are not accountable for their crimes and are thus above the law.
• The fourth branch of government, the bureaucracy, really is unaccountable to the "unwashed masses."
• Many of our top military command, along with many in the military-industrial complex, don't always hate wars. There's a lot of money and many promotions to be made during a time of war. The last four years saw no new wars and even troops coming home. For some, that is bad for business.
• Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm are no longer works of fiction, but prophecies.
• George Orwell was righter than Nostradamus.
• The news media centers of New York City and Washington, D.C. are not neutral arbitrators of the truth; rather, they uncomfortably resemble TASS and Pravda from the Soviet Union days.
• The old robber barons like Rockefeller, Carnegie, and J.P. Morgan are starting to look a whole lot better compared to the new robber barons like Dorsey, Zuckerberg, and Bezos.
• The United States Supreme Court would actually refuse to hear a legitimate case because it was frightened of violence.
• The left insists on conflating and equating evangelical Christians with White supremacists. This should terrify the Christian community.
• Words such as mom, dad, aunt, uncle, brother, and sister are now not words of love and respect, but considered politically incorrect verbiage in Congress.
• Censorship, the cancel culture, and becoming a nonperson come from the left, not the right.
• The left, not the right, actually is going to try to deny citizens' rights afforded to all in the Bill of Rights.
• Violence from the left is regarded as free speech and noble, while violence from the right is classified as sedition and felonious by powerful institutions.
• It really is not Republicans vs. Democrats, but globalists vs. nationalists.
• The new McCarthyism, blacklists, history re-writers, and re-education camps are coming from the left, not the right.
• Fences and barriers are a good thing for our nation's capital but somehow a bad thing for our nation's borders.
• Our Founding Fathers of yesteryear would be called "domestic terrorists" by some today.
• Presidential elections really can be stolen by corrupting just a handful of precincts in just a handful of states.
• Calling into question the validity of the 2016 presidential election is patriotic, while calling into question the validity of the 2020 presidential election is treasonous.
The Time for
Talking with the Left is Long, Long Past. Conservatives must accept this hard reality and avoid the aforementioned instinctive, very
human but in this case deadly habit: projection. [...] Their no-holds-barred attitude is apparent to all with eyes to see. They have
• continually attacked us traditionalists and fomented unrest at our political events while accusing us of authoring violence;
• visited career and reputational destruction upon those who dare speak unfashionable truths while accusing those truth-tellers of intolerance;
• used government agencies such as the IRS and FBI to persecute us while accusing us of endangering the republic;
• played the identity politics card and demonized whites while accusing conservatives of being divisive, racist and bigoted;
• conspired with foreign powers to undermine our nation while accusing us of treasonous behavior;
• enabled China, an imperialistic foe and a clear and present danger to our country;
• endeavored to steal an election after having wrongly accused conservatives of thus doing in 2016;
• abetted an invasion of our nation in order to raise an alien electoral army that can help them seize power;
• mismanaged a pandemic and caused death while using it as a pretext for stripping our liberties, "locking down" the country and destroying people's livelihoods;
• corrupted our children with perversion and scarred their bodies, minds and souls;
• facilitated the murder of the unborn while accusing us of indifference to the vulnerable;
• prosecuted conservatives on trumped up charges while shielding their co-ideologists from justice;
• called truth "hateful" or "misinformation" and censored it via Big Tech while presenting convenient lies as "fact";
• encouraged violent mobs to create mayhem and attempted to strip the imperiled of the capacity for self-defense while sometimes being protected themselves by armed details;
• attacked our history and heroes and destroyed our cultural heritage while effecting their own "Year Zero," dystopian transformation;
• indoctrinated the young in schools to transform them into foot soldiers in the leftist campaign of civilizational rape;
• attacked our nation's foundational faith, Christianity, while spreading corruptive moral relativism and destructive theologies; and
• degraded society with perverted science while accusing us of scientific obscurantism.
Revolution 2020. [Scroll
down] The Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which outlawed state-directed
segregation, also gave impetus to all manner of efforts to re-form society by legal-administrative force. The decision
itself eliminated any chance that this could be done in a disinterested manner. It was not based on the plain,
unequivocal meaning of the 14th Amendment's "equal protection of the laws." Back in 1896, Justice John Marshall Harlan had
dissented from Plessy, arguing that any state establishment of racial preference whatever, regardless of its character
or intention, violates those words. But Thurgood Marshall based his decision on "science" — that is,
on the variable opinions of the credentialed class. A sociologist by the name of Kenneth Clark claimed he had proven
that Negro children could feel and learn normally only in a racially mixed environment. (The "black is beautiful"
movement began countering this immediately.) Quickly, "scientific" conventional wisdom made "benign" or "remedial
discrimination" by race official U.S. government policy. The Brown decision's reliance on "science" also confused
legally established segregation with the segregation that results from personal choices. This confusion was the basis
for Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed discrimination in "public accommodations" on the basis of
race. Thenceforth, Civil rights law was no longer about removing legal barriers to personal choices. It had begun
forcing personal choices. The Supreme Court's approval of the law as a mere regulation of interstate commerce
was thin pretense. The Act turned out to be the little law that ate the Constitution and poisoned American
society. It was passed primarily by Republican votes. Democrats, seeing the empowerment of a historic Republican
constituency in the South as potential disaster, scrambled to avert it by out-pandering Republicans, while describing any
reticence on their part as racial animosity and ascribing whatever ailed Negroes to the Republicans' racism. Quickly,
the dynamics of politics turned "civil rights" into a ruinous socioeconomic scam.
America
needs a New Declaration of Equal Justice under the Law. What has been allowed to grow in the American cultural
and political petri dish over the last two generations is a mixture whose contagious influence is as harmful as it is riddled
with absurdities. A partial list would include: an unequal two-tiered justice system; open borders; preferential
treatment of illegal aliens over American citizens; the dominance of political correctness and its de facto censorship of
free expression; fake news; rewriting history; the 1619 project; renaming Columbus Day; the abolition of traditions of every
size and shape; destruction of American historical monuments; trampling the American flag and other symbols of democracy; the
eradication of family values while celebrating and elevating relationships counterproductive to procreation — an
imperative for any civilization that wants to survive; election fraud and dismantlement of the electoral process; an
attempted coup that would have nullified the Constitution and the peoples' sovereignty; a baseless and wasteful impeachment;
the disgraceful character assassination of nominees to the Supreme Court; the pervasive infiltration of education with
academics hostile to America; the adoption safe spaces and the prohibition of trigger words on college campuses; union
control and influence on public school educational curricula whose net effect dumbs down students and often paints America as
the great villain.
Resisting
the Totalitarian Power of Politicization. [Scroll down] Consider a schoolteacher who will not bow to the
ugly utilitarian aims of the Common Core, but who teaches great poetry for its own sake. The automatism of her fellow
teachers and her superiors will move to crush her. Consider the secretary who declines to post a rainbow flag on the
wall beside her. The machine lurches into action. Consider the curator of a small museum, who exhibits paintings
he believes are beautiful and powerful, without regard to the sex or the race of the painters. Juggernaut comes
a-rolling. The system is perpetually hungry. It must be so because lies evacuate the soul. The more you
feed, the emptier and hungrier you become. To the totalitarian mind, all things must be politicized; no region of life
may remain untouched, unabsorbed, undevoured. Choirs, knitting groups, groceries, elementary schools, day-care centers,
libraries, the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts, congregations, bowling leagues, fast-food joints, department stores, florist
shops, delicatessens, marriages, flirtation, love poetry — all must go down the vast assimilating gullet of Jabba
the State, who belches up emptiness and rages for more.
The
Democratic Descent into Madness: Super Tuesday Edition. The Democratic Party [...] has pushed some of the
worst ideas and most destructive policies ever seen, including its defense of slavery and the Confederacy during the Civil
War; the creation of the KKK to harass and kill former slaves; the enactment of an intricate web of laws throughout the South
to prevent former slaves and their descendants from exercising their full rights as citizens; calling in armed soldiers to
prevent black kids from attending state college; using "progressive" policies to destroy great cities across the country
(Baltimore, Detroit, Chicago, and San Francisco among them); passing off a serial sexual predator as a champion defender of
women; attempting to destroy the U.S. healthcare industry while lying through their teeth about it; nominating Hillary
Clinton as its candidate for President; using the power of the federal government to spy on the rival party's presidential
candidate; and Chuck Schumer. [...] This is a party that needs to be punished. And the only way to punish a political
party is to take away as much of its power as possible.
Why Are Liberal Cities Such a
Mess? Many major U.S. cities run by liberal Democrats are in rough shape. They are afflicted by the problems of homelessness,
violent crime, gangs, and unemployment to a far greater degree than the country as a whole. Liberal cities are governed by the guiding
tenets of softness, misplaced "compassion," and individual unaccountability. Examples include:
• Hands-off policing style (NYC has long since abandoned the highly successful stop-and-frisk practices of the Giuliani years that led to low street crime).
• Sanctuary cities, which give rise to higher incidents of crime, poverty, unemployment, and the wasting of taxpayer-funded public resources because of the undocumented population's draining effect on the community.
• The inexplicable decision of cities like Boston to no longer prosecute crimes such as shoplifting and breaking and entering, leading to urban stores not being able to remain open and be profitable (thus denying the community of a valuable resource).
• Widespread locally approved abuse of the SNAP/EBT program, allowing its acceptance for alcohol and other nonessential items.
• Explicit sanctioning of sleeping on the street or other common public areas and unrestricted public loitering.
Liberal policies have worked almost perfectly to degrade the quality of inner-city life for their residents to the point of abject unacceptability.
In the age of
leftism: Canada elects a substitute drama teacher for prime minister. Calling someone an "illegal alien" (a
legal term), carries a fine of up to $250,000. Teachers are required to present LGBT content to junior high school
kids. Illegal aliens can obtain driver's licenses. A sharia law Islamist who married her brother to circumvent American
laws is now an American congresswoman. A woman who fabricated a lie to gain entry to Harvard is at the top of the Democratic presidential
candidacy polls. A man who endorsed the American Communist Party is running for president of the United States. In a
time of surging stocks, record employment, record female work participation, and economic prosperity in the most capitalist country in the
world, capitalism is scorned.
Future
Belongs to Those Who Oppose Drag Queen Story Hours. A new kind of debate is now raging inside conservativism. In
times past, we discussed the strategic and tactical options by which we might work toward common goals inside the existing political
framework. Today, the framework itself is in question. What is being discussed is the classical liberal foundation of the
American political system. Indeed, both left and right have worked inside this framework for much of our nation's history.
Rarely have we faced such a challenge to the way America resolves its problems. However, liberalism is in crisis. Our
society is in shambles and drifting steadily leftward. The most outlandish behaviors — political correctness,
transgenderism and Satanism — are being mainstreamed.
Fruits yet to be harvested: Do
You Understand that Democrats will Destroy America? The Green New Deal, renewed regulations, Medicare for All,
free college, as well as the 70-90% tax rates proposed by Democrats, will tank the stock market and US economic growth,
leading to higher unemployment and reduced wage gains. All these programs require higher taxes and not just the soak
the rich fantasy of the 70-90% rates. Most of the Democratic candidates have pledged to roll back the 2017 Republican
tax cuts that fueled the renewal of economic growth in the US. Open borders will flood the US with poverty stricken
immigrants and their competition for jobs will depress wages. The social welfare needs of the immigrants will skyrocket
government expenditures. So while taxes receipts are falling due to slower economic growth rates, expenditures will be
rising, leading to increased government debt and consequently higher interest rates. If the Federal Reserve tries to
keep interest rates low to prevent a deepening recession, then the increase in the money supply and the expanding deficit
will eventually destroy the value of the dollar.
Mayor Pete
and the Crackup of Christianity. Consider what has changed already. In the 19th century, blasphemy was a
crime. In the Roaring '20s the "vices" of booze and gambling were outlawed. Now they are major sources of state
revenue. Divorce was a rarity. Now half of all marriages are dissolved. After the sexual revolution of the
'60s, births out of wedlock rocketed to where 40 percent of all children are born without a father in the home, as are half
of Hispanics and 70 percent of all black children. Pornography, which used to bring a prison term, today dominates
cable TV. Marijuana, once a social scourge, is the hot new product. And Sen. Kamala Harris wants prostitution
legalized. In the lifetime of many Americans, homosexuality and abortion were still scandalous crimes. They are
now cherished constitutional rights. Yet, Mayor Pete's assertion — that God made him gay, and God intended
that he live his life this way, and that this life is moral and good — is another milestone on the road to a new
America.
Why
Do Most People in This Country Work, while Others Never Will? [Scroll down] In President Obama's home
town, the south and west side neighborhoods of Chicago had long been decimated by the long-term effects of a stream of
uninterrupted rule by Democratic mayors. The people left behind in these neighborhoods long ago gave up hope of a
better life and have been inevitably forced to rely on public assistance and making money in the underground economy,
including an unlawful drug trade dominated by violent gangs. The overwhelming loss of high-paying and often unionized
manufacturing jobs previously located in these neighborhoods had devastating and permanently detrimental effects and was the
main reason behind their rapid decline. The Democrats focus on addressing the grievances of their coalition of
constituent interest groups with the unfortunate effect of further dividing the American people by providing these groups
with special privileges and extra attention.
Anarchy
is Swallowing Up the Social Order. [D]espite increased government controls of everyday life in education,
policing and citizen surveillance (don't forget those traffic tickets based on surveillance cameras), and dictation of many
aspects of everyday living, we do not observe increasing order. We observe increasing social anarchy. Let's look
at a somewhat truncated list of what we have endured and are enduring as a society. We have seen horrible onslaughts as
follows: the Fort Hood jihad massacre, the Boston Bombing jihad massacre, the San Bernardino jihad massacre, the Pulse
Nightclub massacre, riots in Berkeley, Ferguson, and Baltimore, cop shootings in Dallas and New York City, the Sandy Hook
massacre, the Las Vegas massacre, the Texas church massacre, the Florida HS massacre, the Chattanooga recruiting station
attack, and the jihad attack in Garland, TX against Pamela Geller. We see anarchy further revealed by regular and
frequent breakdowns of mass transit systems in metropolitan New York City and elsewhere and massive infiltration of our
country by illegals (reminiscent of flooding in of Germanic tribes leading to collapse of the Roman Empire). The anarchy
occasioned by mass illegal immigration is encouraged by sanctuary cities with the avowed policy of protecting illegals, even
those with multiple illegal border crossings, from apprehension by ICE. Also, there is a drug use and abuse health crisis
of epidemic proportions. Further, the family in America is also being ripped to shreds as the number of children born
outside of the marriage bond was 5% in 1960 and is 40% for the last few years.
What
a Socialist Really Wants. Now we have the remarkable spectacle of Venezuela, one of the richest countries in
the world, being reduced to poverty and hunger by a dimwitted socialist junta. The whole thing is a public spectacle,
like botched plastic surgery on a movie star. The socialists in charge have all the answers. They know what you
need better than you do. Unfortunately, that turns out to be every tragic, stupid outcome imaginable. How does
any other country dare to discuss socialism?
It is not Mr. Trump who is dividing
America. When Barack Obama commandeered one seventh of the U.S. economy in the name of making health insurance
available to a small minority of Americans who did not have it, and he did so through political chicanery, with no support
from the Republicans, and against the wishes of the majority of Americans, that was divisive. When Mr. Obama tried
to force schools to allow males who "identified as" females to use women's bathrooms (and vice versa), and he did so with no
public debate of the matter and in the complete absence of credible scientific evidence that a biological male can in any
psychologically healthy sense claim to identify as a female, that was divisive. When white students at our best
colleges (and even recruits to the U.S. Army) are taught that they have enjoyed undeserved advantages because they happen to
have been born white in a nation founded and peopled mostly by whites, that's divisive. And when our political and
economic institutions are vilified as expressions of "white supremacy" because they were developed predominantly by the white
majority, that's divisive.
The
Pitiful Roots of Anti-Americanism. The Progressives' failure is not a failure to enact their agenda. They
have dominated America politically for the past century. FDR gave us really big government, and the federal government
has become a scandal of fraud, waste, and abuse — a scandal that even the Big Government Press cannot keep hidden
from us. LBJ declared War on Poverty — and that war was lost. Instead of eliminating poverty, the War
on Poverty has made poverty more pathological, creating an underclass, often now described as "permanent," living on
government handouts. Even the Progressives' anti-Americanism was given free rein with the election of Barack Obama, who
shared their obsession with "fundamentally transforming" America. Yet wave after wave of electoral victory has not made
American Progressives happy. Whenever the voters put the Progressives in charge, the result is governmental metastasis
and social catastrophe — by necessity. The left is simply wrong about how things work. It is easy to
come up with programs that defy common sense. It is also possible to use governmental power to impose those programs on
society. But the power of government can't make them work.
The
Worst-Run States Have This One Thing In Common. Four of the five worst-run states all have one thing in
common — and it's exactly what you think it is. That's right, states with the worst fiscal condition —
according to the Mercatus Center at George Mason University — are almost universally run by Democrats.
Guns
Aren't the Problem. The Collapse of the Morality You Mock is the Problem. God is not mocked and our
society has been mocking him for some time. From the collapse of the family; to a culture of death that champions
abortion on demand; to a growing hostility towards people of faith; to championing deviancy while normalcy is defined a
deviant; to attacks on the two parent, heterosexual nuclear household; to porn culture, our society is rotten and these
things happen in rotting societies. This has always been under the surface. Now it is boiling out because God has
handed us over to ourselves. [...] We have determined that mothers and fathers are interchangeable or don't even matter.
We have determined that sexual expression is the height of society. We have determined that humanity and personhood are
severable. Frankly, even lax European cultures have less of a culture of death than we do. We stand almost alone
in the West in liberal abortion policy.
Minnesota
Democrats wage war on God, faith and American history. The further we've moved away from God in our schools,
the more he's been replaced by the extreme indoctrination of our kids with teaching and programs that completely undercut
what families teach their children at home. Nobody seems to care that parents are offended that many schools are no
longer interested in partnering with them and instead are undermining them as the primary authority in the lives of their
children. Political correctness has infected schools to the point where priorities are out of whack. Our schools
lack the security they desperately need, teachers are underpaid, and yet politicians ignore these real issues and, instead,
pick fights with people of faith.
How
Americans Got Hoodwinked. [Scroll down] By the 1980s, an entire new generation was disoriented.
School and media had turned young minds toward an ideology at odds with America's founding principles and values.
Americans progressively lost their moral bearings and their identity as Americans. Marxist activists and other
crusaders for a collectivist nation had by now taken positions of leadership in academia, government, and church.
Public schools were beginning to pit students against their parents and filling their heads with ideas calculated to
undermine the core values of their country and heritage. Americans who got all their news from the mainstream press or
TV were unaware that a culture war had broken out across the country. Mainstream media reporters, allegedly on the side
of truth, were either ignorant or complicit.
Socialism's Gateway
Drug. There's open talk of a divorce between individualists and collectivists; i.e., a separation of the US
into at least two separate countries. Can chaos be far behind when so many see the corruption from top to
bottom, and are giving up belief in The Great Experiment? [...] The corruption in government is not just for enrichment or
power. It's to sow the seeds of WHY BOTHER? among the population. [...] The flood of third-world immigrants is
not just for "diversity". It's to sow the seeds of violent civil unrest as the natives of America and Europe finally resist
at the 11th hour. [...] The deficit spending of every Western government is not just to buy votes. It's second-level
intent is to sow the seeds of an inevitable financial collapse, leading to societal chaos. [...] Look around you at what's
happening. Look at everything — every single thing — the Left does, in the context of
trying to precipitate chaos.
Has
Giving Leftists What They Want Made America Better? In 1962, the United States Supreme Court gave leftists what they wanted:
the removal of prayer from public schools. So how has that worked out for us? Since prayer was removed from schools in 1962,
out-of-wedlock births for girls 15-19 years old has tripled. Violent crimes have increased tenfold. Single-parent female-headed
households have grown from 5 million in 1962 to 12 million and growing. Sexually transmitted diseases in kids 10-14 years
old has skyrocketed, increasing 257% since 1962. Fifteen-year-olds having sex since 1962 is up 1,000%. For decades, divorce rates
were declining. Since 1962, divorce rates have increased 117%, making America number one in the world for divorce.
Of
Course Children Prefer Liberalism. Liberals knew well what they were doing as they worked for decades at destroying
the family. As generations of Americans have been raised in broken homes — often by broken people — it makes it
easier to make them wards of the state. After all, if you don't have parents who care much or provide much for you,
why not look to Uncle Sam and his trillions? One of the great lies of modern liberalism — perhaps the great
lie — is that the world owes us something, and it's up to us to do whatever it takes to get it. If one has the "right" to
do whatever one wishes in the sexual realm, why take responsibility for an unplanned pregnancy? And if we don't have to
worry about sex leading to children, why get married at all? And if we want to get married, why can't we define
what is marriage?
Paying
the price for breakdown of the country's bourgeois culture. [Scroll down] This cultural script began to
break down in the late 1960s. A combination of factors — prosperity, the Pill, the expansion of higher
education, and the doubts surrounding the Vietnam War — encouraged an antiauthoritarian, adolescent,
wish-fulfillment ideal — sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll — that was unworthy of, and unworkable for, a
mature, prosperous adult society. This era saw the beginnings of an identity politics that inverted the color-blind
aspirations of civil rights leaders like the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. into an obsession with race,
ethnicity, gender, and now sexual preference. And those adults with influence over the culture, for a variety of
reasons, abandoned their role as advocates for respectability, civility, and adult values. As a consequence, the
counterculture made great headway, particularly among the chattering classes — academics, writers, artists,
actors, and journalists — who relished liberation from conventional constraints and turned condemning America
and reviewing its crimes into a class marker of virtue and sophistication.
Anarchy
Is Swallowing Up the Social Order. [Scroll down] Thus, despite increased government controls of everyday life in
education, policing, and citizen surveillance (don't forget those traffic tickets based on surveillance cameras), we observe increasing
social anarchy. [...] We see regular and frequent breakdowns of mass transit systems in metropolitan New York City and elsewhere, massive
infiltration of our country by illegals (reminiscent of flooding in of Germanic tribes leading to collapse of the Roman Empire), and the drug
use epidemic. We see thirty-one "gender designations" by the City of New York with male and female demoted to being only two of the
thirty-one. Recently the mayor of Oakland, Calif. notified 1,000 illegal alien felons (yes, felons — not just nice men and
women scrambling to make a living) that ICE was coming for them. These developments suggest that anarchy is rife. Thus,
we see that the scope of government has grown and become more intrusive, but at the same time, anarchy seems to be racing forward at
warp speed. The leftists seem to think the anarchy is growing because government, despite its growth, has not been growing big
enough or fast enough. According to their thinking, growth in government power is the answer to anarchy.
Another
Liberal-Created Failure. According to professor William Gronfein at Indiana University-Purdue University
Indianapolis, by 1955 there were nearly 560,000 patients housed in state mental institutions across the nation. By
1977, the population of mental institutions had dropped to about 160,000 patients. Starting in the 1970s, advocates for
closing mental hospitals argued that because of the availability of new psychotropic drugs, people with mental illness could
live among the rest of the population in an unrestrained natural setting. [... But] shutting down mental hospitals didn't
turn out the way advocates promised. Several studies summarized by the Treatment Advocacy Center show that untreated
mentally ill are responsible for 10 percent of homicides (and a higher percentage of the mass killings). They are
20 percent of jail and prison inmates and more than 30 percent of the homeless. [...] Many innocent people have
been assaulted, robbed and murdered by mentally ill people. Businesspeople and their customers have had to cope with
the nuisance created by the mentally ill.
The Left Is Reaping
the Whirlwind of the Culture They Made. [Scroll down] It seems clear to me the sheriff was speaking about
rap music with its hateful, violent and misogynistic lyrics, and video games like Grand Theft Auto, where you can have
sex with a prostitute then strangle her or pull an innocent person out of a car, beat him, then steal his vehicle. I am
a First Amendment purist and don't want to see expression censored in any way. And I don't argue that there's a
straight line between any specific cultural creation and bad acts. But surely, a culture in which those in authority
approve of and argue for things like gangsta rap and GTA — and indeed for the use of violence to silence speech
that offends them — well, such a culture becomes a machine for transforming madness into murder.
A Time for War.
Civil War. It's here. Now. Thankfully this is not yet the blood in the streets kind of war, but war it is.
[...] Examples of the current battles in the war: Racialism, black lives matter, NFL kneeling, and the war
on being white. The new feminism, and the war on being male. The new feminism, and the
war on the unborn. Turning sex into a cesspool. Weinstein, Hollywood, preying on children, rampant
unfaithfulness, broken families, transgenderism. Turning race baiting and sex allegation into weapons of
mass destruction. Environmental catastrophism. Health care control.
Spending our grandchildren's money. Allowing immigration to strangle what's left of our institutions.
Pretending radical Islam is okay, but Judeo-Christian culture is not. Teaching that socialism
is just another form of government and not a failure. Teaching that our country is inherently evil, and
must be changed throughout. There are many others. But the important thing to understand is every one of these major
battles is going on simultaneously.
No, I Am Not a Moron but Half
the Country is Deranged. Of all the crises plaguing the nation, who would ever consider gender identity and
potty access as the most pressing issues yet we now have the unthinkable occurring. Men allowed to enter ladies
bathrooms whenever they like and dogs getting their own bathrooms at JFK airport. Criminals getting their sex change
operations paid for by taxpayers while in prison. Transgender former males winning female sporting events ('quel
surprise') like wrestling or weightlifting. The language we all learned from day one has become weaponized by the
gender militants in our Marxist academia.
The
6 Big Ways Liberals Are Destroying America's Culture. [#1] The Politicization Of Everything: Want to
watch football? There are players protesting the flag. Turn on a Hollywood awards ceremony? There are
actors making political statements. Want to go to the bathroom in peace? Well, first, we need to know if you're
okay with sharing it with someone who feels like the opposite gender today. You're just a regular person telling an
off-color joke you heard? Better be careful; that could turn into a front page scandal if the wrong group gets
offended. Want to buy a Halloween costume for your kid? Well, you better make sure it's someone of the same race
or people will be upset. Want to go on a date? If you date someone of the same race, you may be racist.
Ready to marry your honey? Then you better support gay marriage or you're a homophobe. I can remember a time in
America where you could just live your life without paying attention to politics at all if you wanted and that was a good
thing. Remember that old saying? Never discuss race, religion or politics in polite company? Well, because
of liberals, you don't have a choice anymore.
How
the Left Devalues American Citizenship. In his relentless effort to devalue what it means to be an American,
Obama exempted citizenship applicants from a major part of the Oath of Allegiance. Applicants no longer have to
pledge to defend our country. [...] While illegals are not official citizens, outrageously, they receive benefits unavailable to
citizens — free attorneys, college tuition, checks, abortions, and more. Democrats and fake news media are
working to guilt-trip Americans into gifting illegals the right to vote (some are already voting). So, illegals don't
desire or need no stinkin' U.S. citizenship. Obama's illegals have no desire to assimilate.
Dear
Democrats: Does Trump do anything that's not racist? [Scroll down] When you don't enforce immigration
laws, you will get more illegal immigration. When you don't hold people to account on sexual abuse like Bill Clinton, you will
get more sexual abuse. When you have a secret slush fund to pay off claims for congressmen and no disclosure, you will get more
claims. When you allow people like Clapper, Brennan, Comey, and Holder to lie to Congress with no repercussions, you will get
more liars, and when you have a secretary of state who repeatedly lies and violates securities laws — who enriches her
family and foundation with her political position, who repeatedly lies and not only doesn't get penalized, but gets rewarded with
a presidential nomination — you will get more political corruption.
2024:
Voting by Facts, Not Feelings. When Harris and Biden stepped into office in 2021,
they inherited Trump's 1.4% inflation rate. They quickly exploded the overall inflation rate
to 19.75 by passing the American Rescue Plan Act. Then, in August 2022, the Senate
passed the Inflation Reduction Act because of Kamala's tie-breaking vote. That act authorized
$891 billion in additional spending, massively increasing inflation. Harris's philosophy
of restricting gas and oil production had a substantial detrimental effect on American
consumers. The national average cost of gasoline under Kamala rose 47%. Americans paid $2.28
per gallon under Trump, but that same gallon would cost $3.35 today. Under Kamala, filling up
a 20-gallon gas tank would cost Americans $67; under Trump, it would cost only $45.60, or $21.40
less. The increase in fuel costs put incredible hardships on truckers who ship various goods
across the country. The unnecessary increase had a catastrophic domino effect.
Groceries became more expensive by 20%, electricity went up 28%, and rent went up 21%.
Nearly everything Americans purchased became far more costly.
Our
Current Government Is No Longer Constitutional. A recent Wall Street Journal
editorial tells us that notwithstanding the proven sheer impracticality of it, the new greenhouse
gas emissions rules that the Environmental Protection Agency promulgated require that
battery-powered and plug-in hybrid vehicles constitute 32% of new automobile sales by 2027, and 71%
by 2032. Never mind that EVs are vastly inferior to gasoline-powered vehicles and extremely
dangerous because they catch fire in minor accidents. Still, coal, gas, and nuclear are out,
and wind and solar are in. The hills are alive with solar and wind farms, but what do they
plan for when the sun's not shining and the wind's not blowing? Where can you find a charging
station when you need one, how long will it take to charge your EV, and how far can you drive
before you next charge? Since one terrorist with a .22 rifle can take out a substation, we
might want to contemplate life without electricity.
Drug
Costs Explode As Kamalanomics Massively Backfires. Go to Kamala Harris' campaign
website and among the very short list of alleged achievements is this: "She cast the deciding vote
to lower drug prices and cap insulin prices for our seniors." The only problem is that drug
costs for seniors have skyrocketed since Harris signed that bill. Harris is pointing to the
criminally misnamed "Inflation Reduction Act," which got zero Republican votes, and which was
supposed to lower the cost of prescription drugs by giving, as Harris puts it, "Medicare the power
to negotiate lower drug prices with Big Pharma." When George W. Bush established Medicare
Part D, he let private insurers negotiate with drug companies over prices and then compete for
seniors' business. The result was a program that cost both seniors and taxpayers far less than
government bureaucrats had expected, offered seniors a wide range of options, and had premiums that
barely budged for more than a decade.
"You've
got to take responsibility for what happened in your administration.". Oops!
The above quote may be Kamala Harris's most devastating, grievous error in her sit-down with Bret
Baier last night. We can be sure that those words escaped her mouth before she realized what
she was saying. [...] With that quote, she admitted that she and Biden are indeed responsible for
[#1] The horrific withdrawal from Afghanistan.
[#2] The mind-numbing, tragic consequences of their open border. At least
ten million migrants have entered the country unvetted, thousands of criminals among them.
Sex- and human-trafficking has exploded as a result. So has crime across the board.
[#3] The war in Ukraine — millions lives lost there.
[#4] The Hamas attack on Israel, due to their obvious anti-Israel bias.
[#5] The irresponsible spending that gave us the highest inflation in decades.
[#6] The evisceration of our military with DIE and transgenderism.
[#7] the gift of billions of dollars to Iran that has funded the subsequent terrorism against Israel.
[#8] The lawfare unleashed on Trump, all of it manufactured out of whole cloth to take him off the board.
[#9] The weaponization of the DOJ, the FBI, the CIA, etc. that has led to peaceful protesters being
imprisoned for exercising their First Amendment rights.
[#10] The fact that Joe Biden is owned by the Chinese Communist Party — he owes his wealth to them.
[#11] The administration's disastrous response to the hurricanes. By her standard, Harris
must "take responsibility" for all of the above.
The
U.S. government [is] now effectively a criminal organization. Think of the millions
of illegal aliens, many of them criminals, allowed to cross our border in recent years.
Countless numbers of whom have been given cell phones, pre-loaded credit cards, driver's licenses,
and been transported around the country and put up in nice hotels. Or sent to 'battleground
states.' For some reason. Coincidence, I'm sure. The government doesn't want you to
think about the staggering amount of crime, sex-trafficking, and fentanyl that has come across the
border with them. Mention this, and you will likely be accused of racism, xenophobia ... or
of spreading 'misinformation.'
Communists
Out of the Closet. [An earlier] article described the Cloward-Piven Crisis strategy
that Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, two radical Columbia University professors, dreamed
up. Their first target was the welfare system. They hoped that signing up every person
eligible for every public service would overwhelm the system and cause its collapse. In the
ashes, they would then suggest the solution: a guaranteed annual income for all Americans. (Note
that such proposals have been added to Biden spending bills but were stripped out). They went on to
target voting and were the authors of the National Voter Registration Act (i.e., Motor Voter). That
law made voter roll maintenance much harder while making non-citizen voting much easier.
Since then, the Crisis strategy has expanded into virtually every area of our lives. Almost
everything we are witnessing in our nation today is part of it. From tidal waves of illegal
immigration (don't call them "migrants," which is leftist terminology; they are illegal
aliens), the fentanyl crisis, suicides at record numbers (especially among the young and
members of the military), to the war on energy, the war on morality and sexuality, the War on White
America and the War on Black America (yes there is one of those too) — everywhere you
turn the Left has put our nation at war with itself, with the ultimate goal of overwhelming it to
the point that the entire society degenerates into chaos and civil war. That end goal will
provide the pretext for the powers that be to declare martial law, seize our guns and take over by
force if necessary.
The
2020 Theft Saved This Country. First let's state the obvious:
of course Trump won in 2020. The statistics are overwhelming. Leftists often try to use
statistics to "prove" racial discrimination in all sorts of situations. For some reason, they
don't seem to have the same desires and statistical certitude regarding the overwhelming
statistical evidence that Trump won. Combine this with the truckload of obvious —
and unexplainable — shenanigans across many states and it is clear the rightful winner
was Trump. [...] If Trump's win had been acknowledged he would have been President the last
3.5 years. A whole lot of bad things in this country and across the globe wouldn't have
happened. But they did. But these actions and their results have acted as a catalyst to
real change.
Ideological
Excrement Has Poisoned the West. The West has seen the destruction of marriage, and
now even the destruction of the human being as male or female, promoted as progress, both in the
name of equality. Constant disestablishment of norms recognized by nearly every civilization,
all in the name of "equality," is an attempt to create civilizational sanctification achieved by
ceaseless flagellation deemed necessitated by a radicalized definition of "equality." But the
endless punishment of a given culture's norms only leads to wounding and hardened scarification of
the individual's and society's conscience, their innate sense of moral order. The
never-ending revolution in the name of "equality," the constant wounding and amputation of
foundational principles only leads to sickness and to the great equalizer of death, be it
individual or collective.
How
Biden, Harris and Granholm Made a Looming Grid Crisis Immeasurably Worse. Last May — that's [M]ay
of 2023, not this year — I wrote a story at Forbes about the looming crisis in the US power grid due
to a shortage of high-capacity power transformers and their mucked-up supply chains. At the time,
it was a crisis that had been developing for more than 2 years — since late 2020. It was
a rising issue the U.S. Department of Energy, led by Secretary Jennifer Granholm, was about to make
immensely worse by forcing manufacturers and power companies to comply with new, completely unneeded
efficiency standard imposed on products that already function at well over 99% efficiency.
Republicans in congress were becoming increasingly alarmed by the DOE effort, which would exacerbate
the supply issue by forcing makers of these scarce transformers to retool entire factories and create
entirely new components in order to comply.
Natural
Disasters and Unnatural Expectations. Hurricanes can be predicted; the devastation
they leave behind often cannot. Hurricane Helene left some people on its path alone, while
causing devastating flooding for others. [...] Sure, there are charities, more than ever, in some
places. But charities exist on donations, and many such donations have dried up in recent
years, as DEI/ESG policies have encouraged corporate donors to shift their corporate donations away
from traditional charities toward other, more politically-directed nonprofits. [...] In fact, the
biggest disaster in the country for the past four years hasn't been caused by Mother Nature at all,
it's been caused by the abandonment of our borders by Basement Joe Biden and Border Czar Kamala
Harris. There's been a shift in the way that charities work in the United States; too many of
them now focus on sheltering and feeding the tens of millions of illegal aliens and "refugees" that
clutter our cities, big and small. Many hotels and motels have no vacancies, because they're
full up with Latin Americans, Africans, Haitians, and Asians, who walked here, drove here, or were
flown in by the Biden-Harris regime, over the past four years.
CNN
gets all puppet-y again. It is not fear: [...] To tell the public about how
disastrous it is that Biden and Harris have built up the finances of Russia, Iran, and non-state
terrorists with high energy prices. [¶] To tell the people how much more dangerous
the world has been since they took office. [¶] To tell people how they kept schools
and businesses closed due to the COVID lies of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the CDC, and a host of other
bad actors. [¶] To tell the people that Democrats fired people who chose not to take a
COVID vaccine. [¶] To tell people how Democrats are willing to damage women's sports.
[¶] To tell people that Biden and Harris have weaponized the Justice Department by going
after him, Catholics, parents, pro-life people, Elon Musk, and other Trump supporters.
Progressivism:
An Arrogant and Deadly Worldview. After Lyndon Johnson declared "war on poverty," the
federal government spent trillions of dollars only to make Americans relatively poorer while
greatly increasing wealth inequality. Four decades after the creation of the Department of
Education, American children have never performed so poorly on standardized tests. Barack
Obama and the Democrats insisted on "saving" Americans from high medical costs by nationalizing
health care — only to give us a broken hospital system that is even more costly.
Anything the government touches turns into an inefficient and poorly run enterprise, which is why
so many Americans correctly feared that Obamacare would create the medical equivalent of the U.S.
Postal Service or the local DMV. In turn, "the best boys from the best colleges" have turned
postal employees and Department of Motor Vehicle personnel into essential workers for registering
voters and collecting ballots.
Economic
Collapse In Slow Motion. The commercial real estate market is in the doldrums across
much of the U.S., but it is especially bad in some places. Like Minneapolis. [...] Why are
Minneapolis's problems so acute? Because of crime. Formerly a low-crime city, the
George Floyd riots and accompanying attacks on law enforcement have caused a dramatic increase in
the rate of serious crime. That has caused businesses, as well as individuals, to avoid the
city. With leases continuing to expire, there is no reason to think the downward trends have
bottomed out. The City of Minneapolis, meanwhile, is exploring ways of redeveloping George
Floyd Square in a manner that will, in the mayor's words, "honor the life of George Floyd, and
point toward a more equitable future." Somehow, I don't think that is the focus that the
city needs if it is to recover economically.
Joe
Biden and Kamala Harris owe the world an apology for the perils they've created. If
President Biden had any decency, he'd limit his United Nations speech Tuesday to two words:
I'm sorry. Kamala Harris should echo that. Obama Defense Secretary Robert Gates once
warned (all too rightly) that Biden had been "wrong on nearly every major foreign-policy and
national-security issue over the past four decades." Over the past four years, Joe and Kam have
continued that pattern, leaving the world facing its most perilous threats in decades. Start
with the disastrous bugout from Afghanistan, executed in blatant defiance of every military adviser
and the plan left in place by the Trump team. That bugout enabled the Taliban to triumphantly
retake control of the country, humiliating America and seizing billions in weaponry our forces left
behind — erasing all the progress made in 20 years of fighting. Worse, it
sent the message that Washington can't be trusted as an ally, that aggressors could get away with
almost anything.
The
Grim Specter Haunting America. Many of us have experienced our malaise
firsthand. If we haven't, friends and family have. If they've been spared, it's in
every news report: rampant suicides, addictions, homelessness, unpunished violent crime, a border
clobbered by hordes of criminals and terrorists, towns inundated with illegal immigrants dropped at
their doorsteps and draining their public services, intra-familial murder with parents killing
children and children killing parents, the elderly beaten by hoodlums, children changing their
gender, drag queens enticing our kids. Our streets aren't safe, our schools aren't safe, our
malls aren't safe, and our presidential candidates aren't safe. We send our loving, mentally
intact children off to college only for them to return politically and culturally radicalized,
addicted to drugs, and treated with medications for a long list of entirely new mental conditions.
Kamalism
Will Destroy America. The 2020 riots showed Kamalism in action. The regime's
paramilitary operation, BLM and Antifa among others, sparked the fire that lit the riots; the
regime's intellectuals justified them; corporations and foundations funded them; the media covered
them over; politicians fanned the flames; and the regime's justice apparatus, including Kamala
herself, freed law breakers. Even the military got into the act, denying Trump needed
resources. According to Kamalism, it's fine for boys to compete against girls in school
sports. A child can have an abortion or sex change without parental consent. And it is
somehow impossible to know what a woman is. This is all obviously insane. But it gets
worse — much worse. Under Kamalism we usher in millions of illegal immigrants with
cultures different from our own and then insist on not assimilating them. The regime's
military is increasingly focused on racial and gender quotas at the expense of military
readiness. Kamalism also wants to put an end to the traditional mother/father family.
Kamalism plays Americans for foolish children in need of close supervision, which can only be
provided by their "betters": the destructive Left.
The
Catastrophic Costs of Government-Dictated Green Energy. All the energy related
problems we have experienced in recent years, which have been a lot: high gasoline prices,
higher heating bills, higher electricity bills, and unreliable electricity, which is a huge problem
we need to talk much more about, are the result of government-dictated green energy. And its
very simple. When you shackle the most cost effective and scalable source of energy, fossil
fuels, and you subsidize unreliable solar and wind, that wouldn't otherwise be competitive, energy
necessarily becomes more expensive, less reliable and less secure. So again, it's very
simple. Unfortunately the current administration and many others are engaged in a denial
campaign blaming our energy problems on everything but their own policies.
ABC's
Trump fact check blows up. Those blue cities also tend to harass and prosecute
officers for doing their jobs, while simultaneously denying them necessary and constitutional tools
like stop and frisk, so in self-defense remaining officers tend to do as little as possible, and
particularly avoid contact with black criminals, who tend to commit the most crimes, largely
against honest black people. Citizens quickly learn the police aren't going to respond to
calls for service, even 911 calls, and even if they do, they're not going to solve any crimes, so
they quit making reports. Criminals, knowing the police are pretty much going to ignore them
and people aren't going to report their crimes are delighted, and do things they wouldn't think of
doing in communities with fully functional criminal justice systems. Ending bail and refusing
to prosecute criminals doesn't help. Those same blue cities, knowing crime rates are at
obscene, politically deadly, levels do all they can to cover up, and have long since stopped
reporting to the FBI. The politicians of any city with out-of-control crime rates tend to avoid
talking about them, but blue cities, unable to admit their beliefs and policies are insane and
encourage crime, are particularly unwilling to admit the truth.
Car
Insurance up a Whopping 55% in Biden-Harris Admin's America. Car insurance rates have
skyrocketed under the leadership of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, and
Americans are feeling the squeeze. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that car
insurance prices rose 55 percent from January 2021 — when Biden and Harris
first took office — to July 2024 — the last year of their first term.
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Who's
Ready for World War Three? Americans broadly remain blissfully oblivious regarding
how close to World War Three we are and have been since early 2022. Repeated warnings from U.S.
military and intelligence leaders about this dire state of affairs, which this newsletter reported
in detail, with looming war against Russia, or China, or Iran — or worst of all, Russia,
China and Iran — have fallen on deaf ears. Not to mention that, given the
parlous state of America's military, amid recruiting and retention problems, shortages of weapons
and munitions, plus the anemic condition of our defense industrial base, the Pentagon would be
hard-pressed to prevail in even one major theater war, while it would almost certainly lose,
probably fast, when confronted by three of them at once. This alarming strategic situation
keeps failing to register with the public, even in an election year. Americans seem not to
care that World War Three looms, while the Biden-Harris administration, whoever is actually running
it, is eager to distract the public from the geopolitical catastrophe they've sleepwalked America
into, while allowing our military to further degrade.
Tolerance
is where nations go to die. We are tolerating our kids being indoctrinated instead of
educated in our schools. We are tolerating the mutilation of their genitalia, and the
consequent theft of their sexual health in their adult years[,] often aided and abetted by their
"educators." We tolerated lockdowns and the mandatory introduction of experimental mRNA
vaccines into our bodies. And being told we couldn't attend the weddings or funerals of our
loved ones. And it appears highly likely that we are going to tolerate the ruination of our
economy, as we are tolerating the destruction of our urban areas. It seems a near certainty
that we will tolerate the demise of the nuclear family, as we are halfway there already. In
fact, odds are, we will tolerate the utter dissolution of our society, and the death of America
herself, as we have tolerated an open Southern border.
The
US Is Spiraling Down the Doom-Loop Drain Hole Rapidly Now. First, we hit a level of
debt years ago that seemed astonishing at the time when the national debt topped one-trillion
dollars for the first time in over 200 years of being a nation. Recently, we hit the
insane level where just the deficit that adds to the debt each year hit one-trillion dollars a
year. We, then, soared almost immediately right past that to where we had a trillion-dollar
deficit more than twice a year. And now, today, we finally hit the outer limits where just
the annual interest on the debt is a trillion dollars. If anyone thinks we are not
caught in a debt doom loop, consider this: we can only pay that interest by taking out more debt
just for debt service. So, we're forced to take out a trillion in new debt each year just
to cover the interest on the old debt, and that amount is growing quickly.
New
poll: 81% say cost of food is rising faster than income. According to a new poll from
a D.C-based nonprofit No Kid Hungry, the number of Texans negatively affected by grocery store
prices continues to increase, with a vast majority (81%) reporting that food costs are outpacing
their incomes, and around half (49%) revealing that they've either cut back on meat consumption, or
given it up altogether to remain in budget. The second statistic is exaggerated among
lower-income families making less than $50k, with children in the public school system, where it
goes from around one-out-of-two to almost three-out-of-four (71%). These survey results echo
an earlier poll, conducted this past spring in New York, where almost nine-out-of-ten (85%)
respondents said food prices were accelerating past their incomes; [...]
The
Debate at the Kitchen Table. If the dryer or oven breaks, and costs a couple hundred
to fix, versus two or three times that to replace, that was always a difficult debate, but we knew
how to have it, how to weigh the pros and cons of getting a few more years out of it versus just
getting a new one. But today, with the tyrannical climate hoax — based
restrictions that the federal government has placed on household appliances, whole new issues, and
incredibly higher costs, must be factored in. If your gas furnace or central air unit breaks
today, there's the one price to just repair it, which is higher every year, of course. But
now there's something new: new refrigerant mandates, and the double phase furnace mandate about
to kick in, mean that if you replace it today, it will cost a lot, but if you wait a couple years,
the replacement will cost twice as much as that — because the Biden-Harris regime has
banned the perfectly functional, affordable technologies that have worked well for decades,
and mandated high-end versions instead, for both manufacture and sale.
It
is a joke when journalists claim they care about journalistic integrity. Trump handed
off a rapidly growing economy, not a disaster, with extremely low inflation and a fairly secure
border, yet somehow he must be defeated. Trump did not put out a fictional dossier to destroy
his political opponent. That was Hillary and the DNC. Trump did not use the FBI to spy
on and lie about his political opponent. That was Obama and Biden. Trump did not
illegally spy on and jail journalists. That was Biden and Obama. Biden, Harris took a
rapidly growing economy and low inflation and destroyed the purchasing power of Americans,
especially the poor and middle class. Biden, Harris took a relatively peaceful world and
destroyed it by building up the finances of Iran and Russia. Biden, Harris took a fairly
secure border and opened it up, decimating cities and towns throughout the U.S.
It's
Not the Fed That's Causing Inflation. In their first week in January 2021, Joe
and Kamala cut off every source of oil within their jurisdiction. In the very next month,
three things happened: our domestic production of oil plunged from 13.1 million barrels per
day to 9.7, oil prices doubled from $55 to $110 per barrel, and the monthly inflation rate leaped
from 1.4 percent to 9.6 percent. The red-herring inflation chart they offer shows
inflation peaking six months later, which distracts from the fact that their action was the sole
cause of inflation. It is a "trailing average" chart. It takes the 9.6-percent monthly
rate and averages it with the previous 11 months, which averaged 1.8 percent, and so on.
Thus, the peak of inflation appears to happen six months after it actually peaked. A monthly
chart would show the truth: that the reduction of oil supply was the direct cause of inflation.
A
Harris Victory in 2024 Would Make the U.S. a One-Party State. The election of 2024
will be epochal for the United States. It will be as impactful on the course of the nation as
the election of 1860 and the ensuing Civil War. This November's election will determine
whether the U.S. remains a viable constitutional republic or becomes a one-party state. If
Vice President Kamala Harris wins, the result will be the realization of President Obama's intent,
voiced in his famous 2008 remark, to "fundamentally transform" the United States. Thus, the
election is important for all Americans, particularly the voting public, to be aware that should
Harris win, then 2024 is likely to be the last free, fair, and competitive election in the U.S.
If she does win, then the U.S. by 2028 will be a one-party country, with the Democrats in permanent
control, as California, Illinois, Massachusetts, or Hawaii are at the state level today.
Rising
traffic deaths are the result of woke policies. The number of traffic-related deaths,
adjusted for population growth, remained relatively static for decades until 2014, when that number
jumped by 20% and started a trend upwards. 2014 also marked a change in practice by the IMPD
(Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department) and many law enforcement agencies around the country
following Michael Brown's death in Ferguson, Missouri. Michael Brown was killed while
attacking police officer Darren Wilson. The early narrative was that he was shot while
surrendering to the officer with his hands raised in the air. Despite being counterfactual,
the early narrative was powerful and unrelenting. Subsequent public pressure caused police
agencies to pull back from police initiating traffic stops and other common law enforcement
practices. This rollback of law enforcement was termed "the Ferguson Effect." The
IMPD fell in line.
Kamala
Harris caused America's inflation nightmare; here's how. Two years on, it's time we
rename the Inflation Reduction Act as the Inflation Expansion Act. The Inflation Expansion
Act (IEA), passed two years ago, marks a significant turning point in the economic policy of the
United States. Spearheaded by Kamala Harris, whose decisive vote in the Senate enabled the
bill's passage, it has wreaked havoc on the American economy. Its effects are palpable:
inflation has surged, energy prices have skyrocketed, and the cost of living has become
increasingly unaffordable. The Biden-Harris administration's ironically-titled "Build Back
Better" agenda, which underpins the IEA, has exacerbated these issues. From an economic
standpoint, the IEA's purported goal was to reduce the deficit by $58 billion. Instead,
it has resulted in an alarming deficit increase of over $796 billion.
Here's
The Real Story Of How America's Squatter Epidemic All Began. There's a squatter
epidemic taking place in cities across America. With lax eviction laws and back-logged court
systems, blue cities have empowered a whole cottage industry of housing crime. Professional
squatters use fake leases to turn nice properties into trap houses. Often, they turn to
violence to keep the owners off "their" property. And good luck getting an eviction, which
can take years to rule on let alone enforce. If squatters can show they've resided in a
property for as little as 30 days, it's almost impossible to get them out. From the
smallest apartment to the grandest estate, no one is immune. How did we get here?
The
politics of police defunding. The "defund the police" campaign that started over four
years ago has done catastrophic damage to our country. In the wake of said campaign, a number
of politicians — including President Joe Biden — have pushed for the removal
of funds from police forces, diverting them elsewhere in an effort to "teach a lesson," as it
were. However, the real lesson came in the backfire of the campaign. Thousands of
officers, particularly in New York, have left their posts as a result of the lack of support and
many still believe that, even in the aftermath of this with a massive increase in crime, it's still
the "right move" when it comes to the concerns of their community. Tell that to
Oakland. The California city has seen a massive number of criminal acts over the past few
days, including shootings and a hit-and-run incident, along with robberies and much more.
America:
A Nation Committing Suicide. It is the business of politicians to aspire to power, to
tell us that our problems are because of the other party, and to divert our attention from where it
should be — on ourselves. If we so focus, many I believe will conclude it is hard
to see a future for a nation with fewer and fewer children, greater and greater government and
debt, and less and less economic growth. Per the Congressional Budget Office, growth of the
U.S. population averaged 0.9% per year from 1974 to 2023. It projects from 2024 to 2054 it will
be half that — 0.4% per year. For a population to hold steady, to not shrink, the
average fertility rate must be 2.1 children per woman. We have fallen well below this to
1.67, and CBO projects it will stay there. The implications are an aging population, with
fewer and fewer of working age and an increasing burden of the expenses of an aging
population — greater retirement costs and health care costs.
The Editor says...
Whose fault is that? Which party supports homosexuality, gender confusion, abortion, and feminism?
'Joy'
and 'Hope' in Kamala Harris's America: Car Insurance Prices up 54%. Americans
are having a hard time finding the "joy" and "hope" that Democrat elites touted during their August
convention, as they struggle to pay their bills while the cost of goods skyrockets. This
includes car insurance prices, which, under Vice President Kamala Harris's watch, rose 54 percent.
Do
People Vote on What They Know or How They Feel? As I have written previously, when
liberals govern, things are worse for low-income minority families than elsewhere:
• Nearly half the homeless people in the country now live in California.
• The New York City school system is among the most segregated in the country; and San Francisco ranks up there as well.
• In Washington D.C., black students attend schools with 55 percent higher poverty rates than white students and score an average of 5 grades lower on achievement tests.
The Editor says...
And what about Atlanta
and Chicago
and Baltimore?
More of the same. Electing a black mayor doesn't solve anything.
Economic
prosperity and environmental protection. [T]he Biden-Harris administration's
environmental policies have been defined by regulatory overreach and economic disruption; their
approach to climate change and environmental protection has often been characterized by stringent
regulations and ambitious goals that have led to increased energy costs and economic
uncertainty. These policies have placed undue burdens on businesses and working-class
Americans, who have borne the brunt of higher energy prices and reduced economic
opportunities. Kamala Harris, as the Democrat nominee, will continue these policies,
exacerbating the economic challenges faced by many Americans. The expansion of regulatory
frameworks and the push for aggressive climate agendas threaten to stifle economic growth and job
creation, undermining the progress made during Trump's presidency.
Same
Pig, Different Lipstick: Covid and the Green Revolution. Green Revolution
practices have caused serious environmental harm. Aquifers are being depleted as irrigation
water is pumped from the ground faster than rain recharges it. Unimaginable amounts of
fertile soil have been washed or blown away. Fertilizers and pesticides pollute soil, air,
and water beyond the agricultural lands themselves, including rivers and oceans. Converting
forests, grasslands, and wetlands into farmland has destroyed much wildlife/game habitat and
lessened atmospheric carbon uptake. Consequently, the natural resources needed to produce
food have been degraded, portending eventual, widespread crop failure and food shortages.
Economic and social damage has also been done. Green Revolution inputs were too costly for
small farmers. Therefore, they couldn't compete against larger, well-capitalized, or
debt-leveraged growers, whose higher yields glutted markets and depressed prices.
Here
is an example of what 60 years of Great Society anti-poverty programs can yield.
For the last 60 years, Democrats have claimed that their war on poverty and all their handouts
helped lift people up. Instead, it encouraged single parenthood and single parenthood is the
greatest indicator of who will end up in poverty. The result of these supposedly empathetic
policies is generational poverty. [...] There is nothing compassionate or generous about
encouraging single parenthood. There is nothing compassionate or generous about giving away
subsidies on everything to make people dependent on the government. There is nothing
compassionate or generous about refusing to enforce border laws and flooding towns with more people
who will be dependent on the government. There is nothing compassionate and generous when
Democrats block poor and minority children from opportunities to go to better schools. And
there is nothing compassionate, generous or smart in destroying companies that produce reasonably
priced energy. That destroys the poor and middle class.
Kamala
Harris' Oakland Is a Disaster. [Scroll down] Oakland has every imaginable
advantage of climate and geography. The weather is immaculate [...] and the city has a major
port that is practically a tax gold mine. Yet, Oakland always seems to be on the verge of
full-on implosion. With the departure of the Oakland A's, a Major League Baseball team, at
the end of this season, the city will lose its third and last major sports franchise in a
decade. The loss is symbolic of a city that feels like a collapsing settlement at the edge of
the Roman Empire on the eve of the Dark Ages. It's worth noting that without the last-minute
sale of the dilapidated Oakland Coliseum, the city was looking at a budget shortfall of over
$100 million. The sale hardly solves the long-term problem. Oakland
is pondering doling out reparations to black residents, but a reparations panel said it needed
$5 million just to draw up a plan. This is a city that's used to treating taxpayers like
a piggy bank for grifting. Of course, Oakland has been associated with high crime rates for
decades, but following the mayhem of 2020 the challenge became acute. In 2021, the Oakland
City Council in effect voted to defund its already beleaguered police department. Crime exploded.
The
World Is on Fire Thanks to Biden and Harris. When President Donald Trump left office,
there was peace throughout the world. Today, there are ongoing wars in several regions of the
world and other conflicts could escalate into war at any time. While Trump was President,
Russia did not invade any countries, in contrast to what happened during the George W. Bush and
Barack Obama administrations. [...] In August of 2021, the United States demonstrated tremendous
weakness during the withdrawal of our military forces from Afghanistan. The debacle resulted
in the death of 13 American military heroes and billions of dollars in military equipment left
behind for the use of the Taliban terrorist regime. In addition, Biden and Harris abandoned
the massive Bagram air base in Afghanistan. The base featured a 12,000-foot runway, a 50-room
hospital, and 100 parking spots for fighter jets. In their haste to depart the facility, the United
States military left behind 3.5 million items, including armored vehicles, weapons and ammunition.
Kamala
Harris polling better than Donald Trump? The Biden administration locked up patriots
who strolled through — or near — "The People's House" on Jan. 6, some of
whom are still imprisoned, but has supported legislation that lets hardened criminals go
free. Moreover, it has made deals with countries that sponsor terrorists — and
with terrorists themselves, when it is not actually paying them or gifting them advanced military
equipment. The Biden administration has let illegal aliens in by the umpteen millions and
treats them better than it does American citizens. Biden administration policies have caused
rampant inflation that has eaten up a significant part of Americans' earnings and made home
ownership for many young families virtually impossible. Democrat and Democrat-appointed
judges have thrown the book at Trump for imagined or comparatively trifling "crimes" while treating
much more serious offenses committed by the likes of Hunter Biden and Hillary Clinton with kid gloves.
The
Denigration of America's Great Cities. [Scroll down] Kamala Harris and her
supporters will blame the urban decline on racism, capitalism, white supremacy, historical economic
divide between white persons and minorities, and American republican constitutionalism.
Though there are elements of all these issues affecting the conditions of American cities these are
not the major cause of the decline I have witnessed. The cause is intentional and ideological
and found in communities run by progressive Democrat mayors. The Great Society programs
pushed by President Lyndon Johnson accelerated the growth of urban slums after a period of economic
energy following World War II. Marxist philosophical programs have furthered urban decline during
the past three decades and was given an additional push by the Obama administration. The
Biden administration has furthered this effort through its border policies, excessive targeted
domestic spending, and rhetoric. Defund the police efforts have shrunk these forces of
protection. The chaos these mayors and DAs have created via additional crime, declining
economic opportunity, racial division, fewer prosecutions, and increased taxation allows these
above narratives to appear real.
America's
Lab Rats? Millions feel they are virtual lab rats in some grand research project
conducted by entitled elites who could care less when the experiment blows up.
Consider: Our military turns over $60 billion in state-of-the-art weapons to terrorists
in Kabul and then flees in disgrace? Terrorist flags fly in place of incinerated Old Glory at
the iconic Union Station in Washington as radical students and green card-holding guests deface
statues with threats that "Hamas is coming" while spewing hatred toward Jews — and all
with impunity? A wide-open border with 10 million unaudited illegal immigrants?
Once beautiful downtowns resembling Nairobi or Cairo — as paralyzed mayors spend
billions without a clue how to remedy the self-created disaster? Fast food drive-ins priced
as if they were near-gourmet restaurants? In truth, this apparent rapid cultural, economic,
and political upheaval is well into its third decade.
Deep
State Carnival Barkers Distract Us with Kamala. Pay no attention to the sky-high
interest rates making home ownership unaffordable or the sky-high inflation that has doubled the
cost of basic necessities. So what if the average person's paycheck barely covers monthly gas
and grocery bills? Presidential hopeful Kamala Harris identifies as a female "person of
color." She is a shiny object that should help everyone forget about personal financial
troubles. Don't worry about the fifteen million illegal immigrants that have streamed across
the border in the last three years. Ignore the precipitous rise in violent crime and the
growing homelessness crisis. Diversity remains our strength! And crime statistics can
be easily manipulated to reflect a better reality! Forget about mail-in-ballot fraud and
other voting crimes. Democrat secretaries of state and Democrat attorneys general have vouched
for the security of our elections. Democrat judges have vouched for those Democrats' vouching.
Anybody who objects is simply an "election-denier" who should be imprisoned for "insurrection."
Trump's
Courage and Biden's Failures. One is tempted to become one of those awful conspiracy
theorists who might propose that this presidency has been planned from election day
November 2020 through the Biden Executive Orders reversing most of Trump's Executive Orders
through the Afghan debacle, through the inflation debacle, through the Ukraine v. Russia
debacle, through the deficit debacle, through the Transgender Visibility Day being held on Easter
Sunday debacle, through the campus riots against Israel and Jews debacle (which continues without
real-time censure or comments from the Administration), through the lawfare prosecution and
persecution of J6 defendants (whatever happened to habeas corpus?) debacle, through the decline in
the dollar in international markets debacle, through the illegal mass immigration debacle, and
through the fentanyl death debacle, the shifting away from Medicare to Medicare Advantage debacle,
the computerization of elections debacle, the Balkanization of America into so many sub-ethnicities
and sub-groupings debacle, and now the recommendation of Kamala Harris for President debacle.
A
'Livable America' According to Radical Leftists. A number of celebrities and VIPs of
the radical left, including one who betrayed our Vietnam veterans while they were putting their
lives on the line for this country, have been warning that if President Trump returns to office,
life in America will not be livable, as it presumably is under Biden. Whoever believes this
must also believe, or pretend to believe, that America is more livable when the following
conditions are in place:
• Immigration laws are violated to allow foreigners to enter this country
illegally, disregarding the warnings, official and unofficial, against terrorist infiltrators. [...]
• You can go to prison for disagreeing with the government's policies,
dictatorship style, [regardless of] the Constitution. [...]
• Cities under Democrat mayors make the list of worst in the country to live in. [...]
• Crime is promoted instead of fought, with policies that decriminalize
felony and make the police stand down where it occurs. [...]
• Increasingly less of your income is yours to keep, as taxes keep growing, unabated. [...]
• Small businesses are crushed under excessive regulations, forcing many out of business. [...]
• Big businesses send jobs overseas, leaving American workers and their families struggling to survive. [...]
• Babies that are not wanted are killed before they leave their mother's womb and disposed of like trash. [...]
It is necessary for one to be totally insensitive, brainwashed, and uninformed to permit such conditions,
and to have missed the fact that President Trump acted vigorously to end such barbaric attacks against the
American people.
The Editor says...
This page seems to accumulate bullet lists, but that's the easiest way to list all the poisonous fruits.
When
will Democrats be held responsible for their Trump-hating rhetoric? We tolerate a lot
of things. To wit:
• Democrats and the media falsely accused the Trump campaign of colluding with
the Russians. And no one cared.
• Democrats, the media, and 51 top intelligence officials ludicrously claimed
that the Hunter Biden laptop "had all the earmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign." And
no one cared.
• Antifa, BLM, and assorted thugs burned down parts of our major cities, did
billions of dollars in damage and killed and injured dozens of people. And no one really cared.
• Statues of past heroes and historic figures — even including Washington,
Lincoln, and Churchill — were vandalized or destroyed. And no one cared.
• We were locked down for many months on end and told that we couldn't even
attend the weddings — or funerals — of our loved ones. Our kids were
kept out of school. Many folks were told that their jobs weren't all that important.
Many businesses closed. And no one really cared. [...]
• Hardly a day goes by that we don't hear of an illegal immigrant raping,
assaulting, or murdering someone. And no one truly cares.
• The Biden administration has repeatedly tried to imprison its primary
political opponent — to save our democracy — and no one
truly cares. Least of all spineless RINOs and other Republicans.
Coming
Disaster - Nearly 50% of Small Business Will Not Survive if Biden Gets 2nd Term:
Survey. A survey of small business owners found almost half believe a second term for
President Joe Biden would be the iceberg that would send their enterprise to the bottom.
Forty-nine percent of those who responded to the PublicSquare/RedBalloon poll said their businesses
"definitely" or "probably" would not make it through four more years of Biden. Seven in 10
business owners said they were holding off on adding staff and six in 10 said they
expected stagflation — when prices rise but the economy does not grow.
Another
Biden 'Achievement': Interest Payments [are] Now Second Largest Federal Spending Category.
If you want to know just how dire the federal government's fiscal situation is, consider the fact
that interest on the national debt for the first time now tops every other spending category but
one, according to the latest monthly report from the Treasury. This "achievement" has been
brought to you by President Joe Biden. According to the report, the federal government spent
$682 billion in "net interest" payments so far this fiscal year (which ends Sept. 30).
That's more than all the money spent on "health" ($670 billion), national defense
($644 billion), and income security — which includes payments to the poor
($508 billion).
Americans
Feel The Heat As Bidenflation Climbs Toward 20%. The dark reality of Bidenomics is
the alarming 19.5% inflation under the President's watch, which is 5.7% annually. When he
took office, inflation was at just 1.4%. Since March 2021, inflation has consistently remained
above the Federal Reserve's 2% target for 40 consecutive months. Under Biden, the federal
debt has increased by $6.9 trillion. To finance his spending spree, the Federal Reserve
printed money from nothing. The increased money supply, without a corresponding increase in
goods and services, reduced the value of each dollar, causing prices to rise quickly and leading to
high inflation, effectively acting as a hidden tax on everyone.
Dethroning
Biden. Joe Biden's cognitive decline has been obvious since he launched his
presidential 'run' in 2019. [...] Once he was 'elected', the cognitively impaired Biden was used as
a rubber stamp to push their agenda. [...] The results of the Biden administration's misgovernance
are open borders, out-of-control inflation, rampant crime, targeting of dissenting citizens,
identity politics giving preference over merit, and spending on gratuitous foreign wars and items
such as the Green New Deal.
Can
They Cheat a Dementia Sufferer Back into the White House? Biden is damaged
goods — for reasons discussed and politically. Four years ago, Biden was running
as a challenger. 2020 was a referendum on Trump's performance. This year, the roles are
reversed. Even a healthy Biden would have to defend the indefensible. The cost of
living is killing average wage earners. The border remains wide open. Crime has
skyrocketed in cities. Campuses were roiled with anti-Semitism. Biden's handlers are
edging us closer to war with Russia. Where's the prosperity, where's the peace?
Compounding Biden's troubles is the unique feature of this race: a former president is contesting a
sitting president for the White House. That hasn't happened since the 1892 Cleveland-Harris
contest. Was life better under Trump or is it better under Biden? That's a no-brainer
for most voters.
Too Many Rights?
Our Constitution worked successfully for almost 200 years until a litany of newly perceived
pseudo-rights burst upon the scene, devaluing our core historical rights. How did we
transition from a generally accepted interpretation of the Constitution to where we are today,
where almost anything can be inferred? By corrupting or diminishing core tenets and
understanding of the Constitution, we have created discord and distrust in our court systems that
will deliver you any answer you want if you shop the right court or judge in our court
system. Millions of individuals see what is happening as intentional and contrived, with an
end game of weakening our country and seeding the ground for what's to come.
Bringing in the lawyers won't solve this problem. Joe
Biden Threatens to Send Out Attorneys General to Go After Grocers in Plan to Combat His Food
Inflation Crisis. Grocery prices are soaring thanks to Joe Biden's tax-and-spend
policies. The US economy is in bad shape because of Joe Biden's war on domestic oil and the
'Green New Deal' disguised as the 'Inflation Reduction Act.' Moody's Investors Service
recently cut the US's outlook to negative. Moody's lowered its ratings outlook on the US
government citing high interest rates, government spending, and deficits. Inflation is still
high, grocery prices are up more than 19%, gas prices are still high and more than 15 million
illegal aliens have poured over the border since Biden was installed in January 2021.
Most Americans are struggling to put food on the table thanks to Joe Biden.
What
exactly are Biden's achievements in his first three-and-a-half years? Here are some
things Biden deserves credit for, which may be why he isn't so popular: Mass migration from a
dissolved border, which has made cartels rich, increased drug-, human-, and child-trafficking, is
destroying cities, and putting pressure on schools, police, housing, and health care, and made our
southern border is now the deadliest border in the world; dictatorially and unconstitutionally
paying off hundreds of billions in student loans; making the world much more dangerous, as Biden's
energy policies are essentially funding Russia and Iran (we are funding both sides in the
Ukraine-Russia conflict); and destroying women's sports by making them compete against men.
The
deliberate murder of virtue. For decades, the American Left has been making a
deliberate and successful attempt to kill virtue. Much of what they do demonstrates a
disregard for normal traditional American virtues such as decency, consideration, productivity,
respect, decorum, honor, and moderation. The truly virtuous would never dream of announcing
their sexual preferences in public. [...] The Left have taken a careful and systematic approach to
destroying American virtues such as hard work, modesty, humility, consideration of others, and
planning for the future. In their places, the Left decided that it was virtuous to be
demanding, slothful, narcissistic, godless, and sexually profligate. The Leftist
virtue-killers think the government has its own money to give to them for doing nothing.
Taking what belongs to others and lazing about the house and streets with it is not virtuous.
It is theft; taxpayers pay for the progeny and sloth of these unvirtuous slackers. If the
Left can remove time-honored virtues such as productivity and merit, they create a national
movement where they can be taken care of by others without consideration for those who really
pay. You get a nation of unvirtuous entitled slobs.
An
affront to America. [Scroll down] Ultimately, the Democratic voters are
responsible. But they'll tell you they didn't know. They've been lied to by the
Democratic Party. The fabled and very effective Democratic propaganda machine lies to
Democrats as well as us poor Republicans. You have to think for yourself lest the lying
Wizard behind the Green Curtain leads us all into oblivion.
• Joe Biden doesn't like Donald Trump, so Joe blew away Trump's border control
policies and we now have a disaster.
• Joe Biden doesn't like Donald Trump, so Joe blew away Trump's
energy independence policies and we now face an energy shortage.
• Prices are 20% higher and interest rates more than doubled under Biden than under Trump.
• With the high prices, high interests, and the influx of illegals, there is a housing
crisis under Biden.
• There is war in Europe under Biden, there was peace under Trump.
• There is war in the Middle East under Biden. The Trump
Abraham Accords, which promised Middle East peace, are on life-support and anti-Semitic violence
rages throughout our country under Biden.
Barack
Obama and the Stupidity of the American Voter. Is the American media establishment
fair, balanced, and independent? Do the FBI, CIA, IRS, and Justice Department stand for the
rule of law, judicial fairness, and the American way? Is the GOP a formidable political foe,
working hard to contain the excesses of crazed liberal Democrats? No, not remotely, and you
gotta be kidding. The despicable media spread the lies they're given, enthusiastically and in
unison, often using the exact same language. It's almost as if they've been given a script to
follow. They have. If the current American justice system didn't have two standards,
why, it would have no standards at all! A simple comparison of the judicial treatment
afforded, say, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump makes that abundantly clear. You're free to
burn down a city, if you're BLM, but say prayers across the street from an abortion abattoir, and
you're going to prison. As for the GOP, those pretenders and senders of strongly worded
letters and subpoenas that are thrown into the circular file as soon as they're received, they have
a perfect avatar in former Senate leader Mitch McConnell: a chinless, bespectacled turtle.
IRS:
Illinois loses $10 billion in income from 87,000 people moving out. More
than 87,000 people moved out of Illinois taking with them nearly $10 billion in income,
according to the latest Internal Revenue Service data. For the last six years, the total lost
adjusted gross income is more than $47.5 billion. For nearly a decade, annual population
estimates from the U.S. Census show Illinois losing population. For well over a year,
Gov. J.B. Pritzker has denied the state's population decline, saying the Census is getting it
wrong. In May, he doubled down. "You should take what I'm saying as truth that actually
when we count people, it turns out we're gaining," Pritzker said. The U.S. Census did
recently revise Illinois' population upward from previous estimates, but the state still continues
to lose population. It's not just Census data showing Illinois' loss. Moving companies
routinely show Illinois among the states with the most people moving out year after year.
All
of a Sudden, A Crisis Is Revealed. The first official presidential debate of 2024 was
held on June 27, and the reactions are fascinating. [...] While the Right has been talking
about this issue for years, this is the first time that most such voices of the Left have done
anything but deny the fact of Biden's incapacity. [...] But most importantly, they weren't
embarrassed when mountains of undeniable evidence proved his criminality — and the
criminality of his family — in a pay-for-play pattern that has been going on for
decades. And they weren't embarrassed when he appointed incompetents, criminals and freaks to
be cabinet secretaries and department heads, ranging from an airport kleptomaniac in drag to a man
wearing a plastic nursing chest prosthesis for imitation breastfeeding. And they weren't
embarrassed when his policies caused record deficits, unprecedented inflation, a collapse in the
American standard of living, a flood of illegal aliens, a lethal crime wave, and the destruction of
our standing as a net exporter of energy.
Joe
Biden is not the problem. Watching the CNN roundtable after the debate was comical,
if not tragic. For months (years) Republicans have been asserting that Joe Biden was not
competent, and that it is not he who is running the White House. Today, those assertions are
vindicated. Anyone thinking that Joe Biden is making policy decisions, or setting the
direction of the White House is smoking dope. To say that the CNN "brain-trust" was
apoplectic is an understatement. [...] Here's the problem for Democrats — of the top
concerns of the American people; immigration, inflation, jobs and the economy, Social
Security/Medicare, foreign entanglements, abortion, crime and public safety, it doesn't matter a
hill of beans who takes Joe Biden's place on the ticket — Hillary, Michelle, Whitmer,
Newsom, Pritzker, or Kamala. It is not Joe's policies that have failed the American
people. It is leftism writ large. Interject any of the above-mentioned names onto the
Democrat ticket and the trajectory of Americas destruction continues apace.
America
Is In Shambles Because Of Democrat Policies, Not Just Joe Biden. The jig is up.
Here's what disillusioned Democrats and independents and moderates need to know. What all the
blue-state refugees who now live in Texas and Florida instead of California and New York City need
to admit. What all the fed-up middle-class families and forgotten nonwhite voters in the
suburbs need to remember: These aren't just Joe Biden policies that are disastrous.
They're Democrat policies. Abortion. Economy. Crime. Immigration.
Lawfare. Foreign policy. Health care. It doesn't matter what pet issue has voters
down in the dumps. Democrats are in lockstep on the losing side. And anywhere they
aren't in lockstep — like on whether Israel is a victim of terrorism or a group of
oppressive "colonizers" — they tow the radical line. You think a Democrat
switcheroo is magically going to secure the border and end the unmitigated illegal alien crime
wave? Not a chance. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Biden's expanded asylum,
repeal of Remain in Mexico, outrage over shipping migrants to Martha's Vineyard, support for
ripping down border razor wire, and playing footsie with Mexican cartels are all fruits of the same
poisonous tree: Democrats' antipathy for the U.S. border.
Cast
Away Illusions and Prepare for Struggle. The hour is already very late. We are
ruled by a regime that deeply hates and fears the bulk of its own people, and is demonstrably
willing to do whatever it takes to retain power. A regime that characterizes its political
opposition as "extremists" and "domestic terrorists," and uses its security services to surveil and
intimidate even the most ordinary dissenting citizens, treating them as enemies of the state.
One that wields the law as a weapon, flagrantly showcasing a two-tier legal system as it routinely
seeks to arrest, humiliate, and destroy its political enemies while shielding its friends and foot
soldiers from accountability. A regime that now holds hundreds of political prisoners.
That has turned the tools of its military counterinsurgency apparatus on its own people. That
colludes with the world's most powerful technology and media companies to establish vast systems of
mass censorship, propaganda, and reality distortion. That has successfully corrupted nearly
every public and private institution with a distinctly totalitarian state ideology.
Freight
Train of Regulations Coming to Destroy Small Businesses. The Job Creators Network
said that $1.2 trillion in new regulations is about to hit America and will directly affect
small businesses. That's on top of the $1.9 trillion we already lose to regulations,
$10,000 per household. It comes to $10,000 in new regulations on top of $15,000 in
regulations we already pay. Twenty cents of every dollar you earn is snagged by regulatory
costs that you never see on top of taxes on top of new rules. There are manufacturing
restrictions on pretty much everything in your house, including dishwashers, water heaters, ceiling
fans, lightbulbs, gas stoves, washing machines, and, of course, air conditioners. The new
rules for the climate change hoax will raise the price of a washing machine by $200 and the furnace
by $500. The cost of refilling your air conditioner will increase by over $1000. It
could push some products like gas stoves out of existence altogether.
Searching
for America's Identity. After 171 years without a doctrine of separation of
church and state, the Supreme Court of the USA in 1947 by a mere 5-4 vote declared that this
separation is necessary and sacrosanct. And by 1962 and 1963, both Bible reading and prayer
were declared by the Court forbidden in our public schools. By 1973, a woman's right to an
abortion on demand was declared a constitutional right, and legitimate thereby in every state in
the Union. Only recently did the Supreme Court reverse itself, after 60 million-plus
abortions, to allow each individual state to make its own abortion laws as its voters see
fit. Abortions are not inherently a national, constitutional right.
California's
Minimum Wage Continues to Destroy Restaurants. Would you rather have some jobs
available at $12 an hour or no jobs available at $20 an hour? The answer may vary depending
on whether you're a business owner or job seeker — or politician or bureaucrat.
Regardless, the opening question, which is of the kind late economist Walter E. Williams often
asked, should be pondered with news that California's new $20 minimum wage is continually claiming
victims. The latest is a San Francisco McDonald's franchisee who'd been in business for
30 years. This pales in comparison, though, to one of the new minimum wage's first
victims: Rubio's Coastal Grill. That chain is closing 48 Golden State locations —
more than a third of its 134 remaining restaurants across California, Arizona, and Nevada.
A
Door Closes, A Window Opens. The roster of "Joe Biden's" failures is so deep that all
Mr. Trump has to do is remind the audience what they well-know adds up to an apparently
deliberate effort to wreck the nation: the open border and the growing record of atrocious
crimes committed by illegal aliens plus the immense anxiety about the intentions of jihadists and
other nefarious foreigners ushered in by Homeland Security; the idiocy of our role in the Ukraine
War and how easily the conflict could be concluded by willing negotiation; the cratering
on-the-ground economy of goods and services (minus government hand-outs, bail-outs, subsidies, and
statistical shell games); the out-of-control Deep State intel blob that is eating away at our basic
liberties; the insane race-and-gender hustles aimed at sowing hatred and disordering normal modes
of human relations; and much more that has been done to insult and humiliate the people of this land.
Behold
the Monster You Created. [Scroll down] Well, my friends. You
miscalculated. [...] You supported drug legalization on the farce that you cared about boosting tax
revenues when in reality you just wanted to enjoy your daily edible because apparently your life in
the first world, middle-upper class, most privileged society in recorded history is just too
unbearable without cannabis to ease your omnipotent suffering. But you have since discovered
that they never intended legalization to end with cannabis, and your once-beautiful city is now a
feces-covered open-air fentanyl market.
Biden
EPA Rules Will Cause Blackouts for Millions of Americans, Study Warns. President Joe
Biden's aggressive climate regulations targeting fossil-fuel-fired power plants will create
widespread electric grid instability and lead to mass blackouts impacting millions of Americans,
according to a recent study commissioned by North Dakota's state government. The research,
conducted in May by the firm Always On Energy Research, concluded that the Environmental Protection
Agency's recently finalized regulations are not technologically feasible and will foreseeably lead
to the retirement of coal power generation units. Intermittent and weather-dependent green
energy sources, such as wind and solar, will replace such retired generators, leading to unreliable
conditions, the study found. The study largely echoes concerns that have been voiced by the
U.S. grid watchdog, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation; regional grid operators;
and power utility companies. Four regional grid operators that oversee the infrastructure
supplying power for 154 million Americans warned after the EPA regulations were first proposed
last year that grid reliability would "dwindle to concerning levels" under the regulations.
The
Revolution Will Not Be What You Expect. America today is far removed from the
unreconstructed America that student radicals in the '60s hated. From the boardroom to the
stock room, America is now almost entirely woke, groveling in abject and continual apology.
Diversity and inclusion are enshrined in our national life, despite the constant lectures on
race. Movies and television are full of "people of color." Our national sports heroes are
almost all black. Mixed-race couples dominate our national advertising. (Fortunately, we
have an army of grievance professionals available to interpret the "systemic" racism in our every
word and gesture, which they will do for large sums of money.) In addition, marriage
redefined is the law of the land. Gay pride is celebrated for the entire month of June.
Homosexuality is mainstream. On transgenderism, parents in some states are still trying to
establish their right to stop their minor children from being sexually mutilated without their consent.
Police
demoralized, military demoralized, trains derailing, airplane parts falling, and products
recalled. Why? Police departments around the country are shorthanded, defunded,
demoralized. Many officers have retired, retired at their desks, or walked away, because they
aren't valued — or, worse, are demonized. All for working long hours for not great
pay ... and putting their life on the line for public safety. And, if they do arrest somebody
for even violent behavior, the perps often are sprung the same day, no bail required. This
has led to the majority of American citizens being less safe than perhaps ever before. Our
military is far less capable than it was just a few short years ago. Patriots, Christians,
MAGA types, and conservatives have been deliberately drummed out of the services in favor of more
left-leaning individuals. Competence — let alone excellence — has been
dismissed in favor of diversity, equity, and inclusion. [...] Recruiting goals are not close to
being met. The U.S. Navy, 600 ships strong at the end of Reagan's presidency, is now down to
just 283 mostly functioning vessels. [...] All of this was predictable. In fact, there is
no other possible result of an all-out assault on competence, reason, and productivity.
Joe
Biden's Foreign Policy: A Series of Failures. [Scroll down] The
withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan marked the end of the twenty-year "War on Terror,"
declared by President George W. Bush after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Afghan operation
aimed at destroying the Taliban terrorist group ended completely at the wrong time — the
agreements with official Kabul and the Taliban reached during Trump's presidency were multiplied by
zero. In consequence, the Taliban seized the entire country. The withdrawal of troops
was long overdue. The twenty-year presence in one of the most problematic regions of the
world cost at least $825 billion since 2001 (several experts say that these numbers are
seriously underestimated), and the lives of 2,300 soldiers. Our troops left the country at
the time of a Taliban offensive, removing the last shield protecting Afghan civilians, while also
leaving the Taliban weapons worth billions of dollars, including helicopters, armored vehicles,
artillery systems, rifles, and much more.
Will
New York City Die of Stupidity? Since the 1960s many of America's foremost cities,
notably Detroit, Newark, St. Louis, and Baltimore have exhibited sharp declines in
population, economic vitality, and overall quality of life. Today, other major cities such
Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, and even New York City may soon join this list. Our urban
failures cannot be explained by the usual destructive forces. No foreign invader sacked them
or bombed them into rubble; no earthquakes or plagues made them unlivable nor have economic
depressions rendered them irrelevant. [...] Like carbon monoxide poisoning, urban decline comes
slowly, often barely noticed and decades may pass before a tottering-on-the brink city must be
rescued by Washington. If one word explains this slide toward disaster, it is stupidity
and, particularly, stupidity month after month, year after years and is the barely noticeable
nature of insanity that makes it so difficult to reverse.
The
Left Knows Leftism Doesn't Work. Do not expect the radical left to survey the
wreckage of socialism and communism in history and accept that statism impoverishes people and
erodes their freedoms. There will never be admissions by our elite that progressivism exists
mainly for the acquisition of power by the utopian and virtue-signaling few, who ensure that they
are never subject to the baleful implementation of their ideological agendas on the rest of us.
[Advertisement] Still, leftists look around at what they have done to America in the last four
years and implicitly know that the plan did not work, the people detested it, or both.
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None of the major Biden "achievements" — 10 million illegal aliens across a nonexistent
border, key components of the cost of living 25-30 percent higher than in 2020, wars and chaos
abroad, DEI racial and tribal obsessions, wars on fossil fuels — poll at even
40-45 percent. Biden's own approval ratings, as the nominal architect of the most
left-wing agenda since the Roosevelt administration, hover between 36 and 34 percent.
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Rejecting
the Status Quo Is the Only Way to Survive. For years we've been bouncing around in a
pinball universe designed by Orwell, Huxley, and Bradbury. When the government isn't policing
our language or arresting little old grandmothers for engaging in wrongthink, it's busy
helping Mexican drug-smugglers hook Americans on Chinese fentanyl and encouraging young boys to
chop off their willies. The Gestapo FBI spends most of its time hunting patriots as "domestic
terrorists" and orchestrating elaborate entrapment schemes to justify bloated budgets. The
Josef Mengeles at the CDC work to create new diseases that will require experimental "cures."
The Department of (in)Justice can't stop locking up Americans for their political beliefs while
lecturing the country about the importance of thwarting tyranny. So much insanity now grips
the United States that the great dystopian novels of the last century appear downright tame by
comparison! The easiest way to navigate this Kafkaesque environment is to follow a simple
rule: whatever the government says, believe the opposite.
No
more than spectators? Today we are witnessing the final stages of Western
civilization. The agents of destruction (the Marxist Left) have seized control of all levers
of power, social and institutional. One after another the avenues of redress of grievances
have been shut down. Academia and the press, as well as Hollywood, have reshaped public
opinion. The system of checks and balances, so precious to our freedom, has been dissolved
into an all-powerful executive branch. The legislative branch is mere window dressing much
like the Roman Senate under Caesar while the judicial branch has become another bureaucracy
accountable only to the executive. The Marxist Left feels no need to hide its true intentions
of fundamentally transforming our constitutional republic into a communist welfare state. The
mask has come off because the transformation is complete. Political prisoners are held
without trial while rival politicians are victims of show trials. The FBI, CIA, Justice and
State departments are mere toys in the hand of the executive. The Supreme Court is neutered
by outright physical threats from the unchecked mob.
Nashville
School Shooter's Writings Leak: 'I Hate Everything About My Gender'. This week the
Tennessee Star published a description of previously unseen writings by Audrey Hale.
The Star is one of the papers that is part of a lawsuit trying to force the Metro Nashville PD to
release the documents, but this did not come as a result of their efforts in court.
Apparently someone just leaked several dozen pages, all of which had been left behind by Hale in
her car. One entry about civil rights was written 35 days before the attack. [...]
Audrey Hale considered herself trans and went by Aiden Hale at the time of the shooting which took
place on March 27, 2023. Just 16 days earlier, Hale wrote a diary entry titled "My
Imaginary Penis." [...] Hale also wrote that she would "kill" for puberty blockers but that they
were introduced too late for her as she's already gone through puberty by the time she knew about
them. Later in the same entry, Hale describes how she fantasized about being a man using her
stuffed dolls to simulate intercourse and taking photos of the whole thing.
Will
the United States Become a Third World Nation? What generally defines "Third World"
includes pervasive poverty, dilapidated infrastructure, lack of sanitation, inadequate modern
healthcare, rampant crime, ineffective education, and violent political instability often
reflecting ethnic rivalries, not democratic elections. Law reflects the whim of the powerful;
not following written precepts. Third world governments also have a penchant for crushing
national debt and wild spending. Invariably, a very rich minority governs masses living in
squalor. What separates First World nations like the U.S. from Third World nations like
Nigeria is not vast natural resources. Third World Nigeria abounds in natural wealth
while First World Japan has little. The key difference is human capital, a collection of
multiple traits, especially brain power and a strong work ethic, and absent these traits, a modern
capitalist economy cannot exist. Expats in Third World countries routinely complain "nothing
works," and the corrupt government cannot fix or maintain anything. Countless outward signs
of a typical Third World nation have recently emerged in the United States. Most
visible is the physical decline of major cities: filthy streets, unsanitary homeless encampments,
open drug dealing and use, unpunished crime, burgeoning slums "off limits" to ordinary people, and
a general incivility.
A
Dude Has Just Been Crowned Miss Maryland USA. A man has been crowned Miss Maryland
USA. Transgender male Bailey Anne has beaten dozens of women to win the prestigious women's
pageant title. [Video clip]
The Editor says...
Nobody dares to object.
Remote
tribe gets hooked on internet porn. Teenagers in a remote Brazilian tribe have become
hooked on pornography months after they were given high-speed internet access via Elon Musk's
Starlink. The indigenous Marubo people, who for hundreds of years have existed in small huts
along the Itui River in the Amazon, were connected to the billionaire's satellite network in
September. The community embraced the technology, marvelling at the life-saving ability to
call for immediate help when grappling with venomous snake bites as well as being able to remain in
contact with faraway relatives. But, since a group of men arrived at the camp with antennas
strapped to their backs to connect the remote tribe of 2,000 people to the internet, there
have been some less desirable consequences. Critics warn tribe members have become "lazy", reclining
in hammocks all day glued to their phones to gossip on WhatsApp or chat to strangers on Instagram.
The Editor says...
Where did this isolated tribe of natives get the money for the satellite terminals, the internet
service and the smart phones, or laptops, or other devices? It sounds like they are neglecting
their occupations, but what were those occupations? If they're so isolated and primitive, who
told them how to set up the equipment? And what magnanimous wealthy globalist decided
these guys needed to be on the internet?
The
End of the Nation-State. Indeed, nowadays there are as many as 195 recognized states
in the United Nations, but many of those are known as failed states — Somalia, Haiti,
Syria, and Yemen, for example — and one organization that measures such things, a Fund
for Peace think tank in America, found in 2023 that two dozen others are so fragile that they
cannot provide a full range of basic state functions, plus another 84 that have one or more warning
signs of failure. [...] But we don't have to go traipsing around to find the best example: it
is here. The America of 2024 could no longer be called a nation, in the sense of a common
culture, common loyalties, common beliefs, common religion, common ideology, common vision, common
allegiance, or even common language. It does not have a common agreement on what marriages
should be or how many genders there are (ABC news in 2024 counted 53 in use), or what the
country's history has been or even what year it started, or what constitutes a crime; it does not
have a working system for public education in any state; it does not even have defended borders,
the minimum task that a civil body must fulfill to be a nation.
The
Merchan Scale. [Scroll down] We have a lot of problems with government in
this country, not because the people don't know how to fix them, but because the government has
ceased to give a hoot what the people want. They don't want high electric bills and spotty
service, but everything the EPA and government has done is designed to create just that. They
don't want high food and transportation bills, but the president himself signed executive orders to
create the situation that would cause it. They don't want crimes to go unpunished, but every
major city and many states have engaged in a revolving door policy for criminals. Come in,
get booked and walk out.
One
day in the life of Joe Biden's America. What's this single day's news?
• Joe Biden is spending his Memorial Day weekend honoring George Floyd
• Biden's vaunted Palestine pier to supposedly deliver humanitarian aid has
ripped off from its moorings, been blown out to sea, and has washed up on the shore. [...]
• San Francisco's city government is apparently brimming with criminals according
to a whistleblower report, so by all means let's expand government
• Biden has denied Catholics a permit to hold their Memorial Day Mass at
Arlington cemetery for [the] first time in decades
• Special Counsel Jack Smith has launched a desperate new bid for a
gag order on President Trump for talking about the FBI making plans to use lethal force on him
• New York state Justice Juan Merchan gave his jury in the Trump hush-money
trial bad instructions on unanimity of the premise and legal eagles are complaining
• The Nevada state supreme court ruled unanimously against a Democrat bid
to block voter identification [...]
• Illegals from Chechnya have rolled in through Joe Biden's open border
and are now spying on U.S. military bases
America
the disgusting. The concept of America was and is beautiful. [...] Now we have new
tyrants, we're not getting educated, we're not growing our personal fortunes due to Bidenflation,
we're not engaging in forming traditional nuclear families much anymore, and we're not even having
many babies. We have certainly lost the notion of the "gentleman" or "lady." We have long
ago lost the idea that "children should be seen and not heard." That is a shame.
Children are not developed people with much to offer the country until they are civilized and
educated. Until they are, they should not have an international platform on which to spread
their venom, their bad habits, their Marxist ideas, their silliness, and their hubris. Not to
mention their utterly horrific narcissism. America has become a land where the
DEI-incompetent flourish and get nourished by other incompetents. We have become a nation of
the garish, where otherwise attractive news anchors tart themselves up in drag queen eye and lip
makeup, and where TV commercials unappetizingly serve up bottoms, armpits, and "packs" as they hawk
full-body deodorant for men and women. It's disgusting.
Memorial
Day Weekend in the City. In rabidly anti-gun cities like New York, Chicago, and D.C.,
no matter how many thugs and robbers are heavily armed, the law-abiding citizen is not allowed to
be, and he must walk defenseless if he walks at all. Are they changing that policy this
summer? In the blue states where the so-called progressives have proudly
"eliminated cash bail," even criminals who are caught and prosecuted are still set free to rob,
rape, or brawl again, without so much as requiring a single dollar bond to make sure they ever
return for trial. They are just set free as soon as the documents are filed for the last
crime. Are they changing that policy this summer? Every day, we read or hear the news:
over a hundred thousand unknowns per month cross our intentionally porous border with Mexico,
heading north. They aren't all from Mexico, but that's where they fly, from Asia and
Europe, from Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean. They all come to Mexico so they can
walk across the border and blend effortlessly into these United States, unfollowed and largely
untrackable. Some are decent folks who mean no harm; many are hardened criminals, from more
violent cultures than our own, either lone wolves or members of countless foreign crime syndicates.
What about them, you pompous Democrat governors, mayors, and police chiefs, we ask?
Are you doing anything to close off this dangerous spigot this summer? For generations
now, we have seen judges, governors, legislatures, law schools, and newspapers join
forces to attack standard minimum sentencing guidelines; to attack the concept of capital
punishment, no matter how richly deserved; and to push the spread of alternative punishment like
"community service" in lieu of prison time. Anything and everything they can think of,
to increase the odds that known criminals will be back through the revolving door, infesting our
streets and alleys, our parks and beaches, within the hour. Are they changing this policy,
too, this summer? Hardly.
Study
Finds Teen Marijuana Use Tied To Dramatic Increased Risk Of Psychosis. A study
published Wednesday found that teens who use cannabis are 11 times more likely to be diagnosed
with a psychotic disorder, according to NBC News. The study was led by researchers from the
University of Toronto and examined teenage patients who used cannabis within the last year and
those who did not, according to NBC News. When the study was further limited to teens who
were sent to the emergency room or hospitalized, it showed a 27-fold increase in the likelihood of
being diagnosed with psychotic illness. "I think that there's enough evidence out there for us
to give recommendations that teens probably shouldn't be using cannabis," Andre McDonald, a
postdoctoral research fellow at McMaster University and lead author of the study, said, according
to NBC News. "If we can somehow ask teens to delay their use until their brain has developed
a little further, I think that would be good for public health."
The Editor says...
Somehow? Ask? Delay? I guess self-control is a thing of the past.
So is parental authority.
And
the taxpayers all went out of Massachusetts. Let's add another state to the list of
blues losing people and taxpayers. It's Massachusetts, or one of the original 13, but another
one bites the dust, proving the reality that going blue has consequences. [...] According to the
story, people are leaving because of three reasons: a high tax burden, expensive housing, and
health care costs. There goes Obamacare again! Another reality is that remote work
policies have made it easier for "prime age" workers to leave. Why does that matter?
Prime age workers buy homes and cars, and pay taxes.
Climate
Change 'Solutions' Are Harming the Environment. As whale deaths mount on the East
Coast, The Heartland Institute along with our allies at CFACT and the National Legal and Policy
Center have filed a lawsuit seeking a temporary restraining order on Dominion Energy's plans to
begin pile driving for construction of the base and tower portions of 176 giant offshore wind
turbines it plans to erect at great economic and environmental costs off the coast of Virginia as
part of President Biden's "all of government" approach to fight climate change. CFACT has
established a great resource devoted to the myriad environmental problems — including
the threat to the endangered North Atlantic Right Whale (NARW) from the push for offshore wind
along the East Coast. These turbines are being erected right in the middle of NARW and other
protected marine mammals' habitat and migration routes. In the rush to erect these turbines
quickly, the federal government and Dominion played fast and loose with the rules and permits, in
particular failing to follow the law and proper procedures in accounting for potential
comprehensive, cumulative whale impacts.
U.S.
Intelligence Deserves the Distrust It Is Generating. President Obama sought to change
the demographics and the political complexion of the federal work force, and intelligence leaders
such as CIA director John Brennan (2013-2017) made clear that they intended to change the
organizational cultures of agencies in politically significant ways. They succeeded
brilliantly, with overt activism in defense of Obama/Brennan changes beginning in 2016, when Trump
emerged as a potential threat to the "progress" that Obama's policies allegedly had achieved.
This radical change became glaringly obvious when former CIA deputy director Michael Morell invoked
his CIA credentials in a New York Times op-ed to rationalize endorsing Hillary Clinton for
president while harshly criticizing Trump. Morell then became one of the "talking heads,"
along with Brennan, former director of national intelligence James Clapper, former CIA director
Michael Hayden, and several dozen less-senior people whom the mainstream liberal press promoted as
legitimate observers of everything relevant to their anti-Trump campaign.
New
study finds risk of suicide jumps 12-fold after gender surgery. A new study has found
that people who've undergone transgender surgery boast a much higher risk of committing
suicide. Published last month in Cureus, a medical science journal, the study specifically
found that "[g]ender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated suicide attempt
risks." The researchers reached this conclusion by analyzing the healthcare data of
90 million adults aged 18 to 60. They specifically looked at emergency room treatment
data for those who'd undergone transgender surgery.
Mike
Schmidt destroyed Portland with freed criminals, drug use and empty stores. Mike
Schmidt, the leftist prosecutor in Portland, Ore., is asking voters to give him the opportunity to
serve four more years as head of the Multnomah County District Attorney's Office. In an
interview with local media last October, he graded himself an "A" for his performance. But if
the past four years of record homicides, decriminalized antifa rioting and surging street overdoses
represent Schmidt as his best, Portland may not survive another four years with him at the
helm. Schmidt's re-election is being challenged by his subordinate, Nathan Vasquez, a senior
deputy district attorney and moderate candidate who promises to prosecute crimes and restore the
office's relationship with police, which was broken by Schmidt's open cop hatred.
The
Deep State and Globalism. America's decline from a previous high mark in the quality
of life of its citizens was a topic that was not covered by the mainstream media. Today that
decline needs no reporting, for it stares us all in the face. The pretense of leftist VIPs
that America is a better place than ever and on the right track shows the quickness of leftists to
lie. The drive toward a new world order, since its presidential proclamation in 1991, is
obviously not taking us to a world fit for human habitation. It is a world certain to be run
by men with no real interest in humanity, as the World Economic Forum demonstrates. Such leaders
as these are unfit to govern anyone, let alone everyone. Millions are noticing a
world that is not on the right track and is not headed toward a better place than ever.
A
Landmark on the Road to Decline. Every dimension of our socio-political
order — all three branches of the federal government, and many blue-state governments;
popular entertainment and high-brow culture; mainline churches; corporate boards and C-suites;
national security and defense agencies, and education from K-12 to universities — has
been corrupted by illiberal, if not antihuman ideologies that undercut the foundations both of our
political freedom and equality, and the morality and ethics that nourish both. We've known
for decades that our educational systems have been failing to educate the young, even as politics,
social fads, and culture war propaganda have replaced foundational skills like reading, writing,
basic science, critical thought, and history.
What
has Biden accomplished in his presidency? Devastation. Biden and his sycophants
in the media sing his praises on a daily basis, pretending he has been an effective
president. In fact, all he has accomplished is desecration on every level. [...] Biden
drained our strategic oil reserve to keep gas prices momentarily low through midterms. He has
yet to refill it. The inflation caused by his administration's and Congress' irresponsible
spending is destroying the lives of millions of American working families who now struggle to pay
for groceries, health care, housing, electricity, insurance, as well as gasoline. What was
Biden's answer when asked about his inflation? He replied that "people have the money to
spend." He has no idea of the disaster he has caused or how it affects people. The debt is
now $35 trillion and going up by a trillion dollars every 100 days! The nation is
headed for an economic disaster of epic proportions. By the end of this year, the interest on
that debt will exceed our national defense spending! All the money spent must be borrowed.
Suicide
Risks 1200% Higher After 'Gender Affirming' Surgery. [T]his isn't what we have been
told. At least not what the MSM, the medical establishment, the President of the United
States, every civil rights organization, or anybody in the Establishment has told us. [...] There
is rarely a correlation between what the mainstream media puts out and what is actually true.
Sure, they are perfectly willing to report facts when they don't upset their narrative, but the
goal of their "reporting" is to reinforce a false view of the world that corresponds with their
ideological priors. This is how we get years of propaganda that insists that parents face a
choice between a live daughter or a dead son. Never, ever have the statistics even hinted
that this is the case. There was zero evidence of this assertion, yet it was made every day,
several times a day, to "prove" that children needed to be sterilized and mutilated in the most
horrific ways in order to preserve mental health.
This
Is Not the 1960s. [T]he United States in the 1960's was a far different country than it is today:
• During the 1960s the vast majority of Americans believed the United States was an exceptional
country and were extremely proud to be Americans. By 2023 only 39% were extremely proud to be Americans.
• Seventy-years ago just 15% of Americans wanted the country to go more in the direction
of socialism; in 2019 43% of Americans believed socialism would be good for the country (young adults — 50%)
• This was also a far more religious nation with the vast majority of its population
steeped in an attendant sense of national and individual moral responsibility. In 1965, 70% of Americans
said religion was "very important" to them, by 2024 that number had fallen to 45%. In 1962, nearly 50% of
Americans attended religious services on a weekly basis, in 2021 just 29%.
However, the marches, demonstrations, and unrest of the 1960s do have one thing in common with the current
chaos not only in America's colleges but throughout the nation. That decade planted the seeds for the
Marxists to overwhelmingly dominate America's institutions.
Fast
Food Workers Make $20 Min. Wage in California, Now Everyone Wants It.
California implemented a $20 minimum wage only a month ago, which many workers celebrated.
However, the initial optimism has given way to concerns as massive layoffs sweep various
industries. Who could have predicted that? Also, not every fast food worker is getting
$20 an hour. Now, all want wage increases, and the unions are pushing for more with no end in
sight. Before you know it, more layoffs will follow, and businesses will fold.
Stories
of Young People Whose Bodies Were Sacrificed on Altar of 'Gender Ideology Cult'. The
cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers, and surgeries being prescribed to young people struggling
with their gender identity are "experimental," according to Mary Margaret Olohan. "We don't
actually know what kind of effects that the puberty blockers and hormones are having on these young
people," Olohan says of women and men who attempt to change their bodies to appear as the opposite
sex. In her new book "Detrans: True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult,"
Olohan shares the stories of detransitioners, such as Prisha Mosley. As a young woman, Mosley
took testosterone and had a double mastectomy before she chose to detransition and return to living
as a female. Now an adult, she is expecting a child, but will never be able to breastfeed her
baby. "I'm very happy for her and glad to see that she is able to bring new life into the world,"
Olohan says of Mosley, but added that "we don't know if other people will be able to do the same."
The
Real Reason Pro-Hamas Protesters Wear Masks. Some of the mask-wearers themselves
maintain that they are trying to "stay safe" — in what they believe is the ongoing COVID
"pandemic." Other observers have postulated, however, that this is an effort by the protesters to
hide their identity. [...] The central reality to gauge here is that unisex/desexualized dress
satisfies leftists' morbid pining for enforced sameness. It is crucial, in their world, to
erase physical as well as emotional differences and attractions between people. In the
utopian endgame, humans must all be replicas of one another and be devoted to the cause, the
revolutionary state, and to its all-knowing administering of "equality" and "social justice."
It is no surprise, therefore, that Western leftists were enthralled with the Maoist social
engineering experiment.
Retail
Theft Ring Busts Reveal Some Hard Truths. Los Angeles County Sheriff Department
detectives proudly announced a complex and successful sting this week. A retail theft ring
has been caught red-handed, with millions of dollars' worth of make-up, perfume, pharmaceuticals,
and more, stolen from stores in and around California, much of it still bearing store tags. [...]
Where do these ringleaders get the army of foot soldiers to do the swiping, the smash-and-grabbing,
the flash-mobbing? For the past few decades, the leftist approach to the problem of urban
crime has been to empty the jails and just hire more social workers. They disregard or
statutorily reduce sentencing guidelines for property crimes, so that even after shoplifters,
burglars and other robbers are convicted, they are released back into the community almost
immediately. Should anyone be surprised that crime is rampant, when the government is
knowingly releasing every thief they catch via a revolving door policy?
This
Economy Does Not Look Good. Core inflation rose at a 3.8 percent annual rate in
the first quarter and 2.9 percent in March, the Commerce Department reports. Fearful of
renewed inflation, the Federal Reserve will not ease up on the money supply and will keep interest
rates at their highest level in more than two decades, as Fed Chairman Jerome Powell announced on
Wednesday, which should slow economic growth further. Meanwhile, President Biden is doing his
very best to destroy the economy via regulatory brutality. The American Action Forum reports
that Biden "agencies published $875.3 billion in total costs" on the U.S. economy in just
one week in mid-April, including tighter emission standards for cars, tougher efficiency
requirements for light bulbs, and silica exposure limits clearly meant to end coal mining.
Biden's one-week regulatory bacchanal amounted to "[j]ust $20 billion less than what President
Obama did in two terms!" notes AAF President Douglas Holtz-Eakin. The contrast between Biden
and Trump is ten times as dramatic as that: $1.37 trillion by Biden to $30.1 billion by
Trump by April of year four of their respective administrations.
Communist
Defectors Warn About Four Stages Of Subversion — And America Is On The Last
One. Forty years ago, a KGB defector, Yuri Bezmenov, revealed the systematic plan
Soviet communists used to take down countries and establish a communist-type society and
regime. More recently, a Chinese defector immigrant, Xi Van Fleet, has been on a crusade to
warn Americans about the parallels between what is happening in America today and what Mao did in
the Chinese Cultural Revolution. [...] While America is still in the crisis stage, some subversion
experts argue that the lawfare, censorship, and cancellation regimes that now exist are really part
of the last stage of communist takeover known as normalization — Bezmenov's fourth and
final stage. If America's borders remain open and the American people are denied access to
information, become accustomed to rigged elections, accept limitations on free speech, and
acquiesce to the rewriting of history, the constitutional republic that was the United States will
be gone, and the new world of communist global elite control will be normalized.
It's
the Economy... Again. By this November 5, a high electoral price from the
Democrats may be called in due to a fractured American economy. In the runup, there are
several negative economic indicators flashing red — factors soon to converge in force,
each one predicated on Biden's incompetence. His economic climate tells against the erstwhile
middle class, or the legally voting 'majority,' and its prosperity. The collective, negative
impact of Biden's combined and often unilateral federal actions, the upshots of bad policies and
mismanagement, suggests that we will soon have a new, expanded class of 'the poor' in the United
States — an historical phenomenon that has eventually manifested itself in every country
subsequent to communist/socialist takeover. Biden's policies and directives are coalescing
and advancing in a hushed, cumulative economic effect very quickly.
Moral
Anarchy: An Understatement. Every perversion known to mankind is being embraced
and gradually legalized. The idea that morality is created by each individual as he makes
decisions throughout each day is a step beyond anarchy. Since Lawrence v. Texas
decriminalized homosexuality, we have been in a state of moral anarchy. Crude and licentious
parades with many naked or almost naked men celebrating sodomy are considered by many to be
positive and invigorating. The abrogation of Roe v. Wade in the recent
Dobbs decision does not end abortion, but simply leaves the existence of abortion laws up to
each separate state. There are so many different laws now on when it is legitimate to abort a
baby. Thus, the people have decided that it is legitimate for citizens to decide when a life
is a life. The truth is that a life begins and is a life at conception. That is what
the Holy Bible teaches and has been the basis of the sanctity of life — announced even
in our Declaration of Independence — for thousands of years.
Democrats
Have Deliberately Shattered The Ties Binding America. Two generations of leftist
media, a broken education system, and a corrupt government that protects itself at all costs have
brought us to this day. By and large, our youth have lost their ability to look rationally at
what is required of them to shape their own future. They feel simultaneously entitled and
angry. Ask them, and they'll tell you that the Baby Boomers were the last generation to make
it. They feel justified to malinger and complain about the remaining scraps. Biden told
them they were entitled to abandon their student debt obligations. 15% of Americans want to
leave our country. Never before have so many been so disenchanted that they effectively see
the American Dream as dead. The clock is ticking down our remaining time, however much that
is. There is time left to make a difference.
We
Won't Live By Your Wokeness. A young woman who came to the pregnancy center where I
work shared this story with me. She had a pediatrician appointment for her baby girl last
week. She brought her infant, dressed all in pink, into the doctor's office. After
stating the baby's female name, the doctor asked, "So, have you decided what gender you're
assigning to this child?" She was stunned. She said she just stood there until the word
"female" came out of her mouth. This wasn't the first time I've heard this line of questioning
in a pediatrician's office. A friend told me her daughter was asked the same thing on her
first visit to the doctor's office with their infant son. The question, "gender assigned at
birth" is now on many medical forms. A man I know was at a new doctors' office and the
paperwork included an entire page on "gender identity."
Which
Major City Will Completely Collapse First — Los Angeles, Chicago or New York
City? In 2024, virtually all major U.S. cities have certain things in common.
First of all, if you visit the downtown area of one of our major cities you are likely to see
garbage, human excrement and graffiti all over the place. As you will see below, some of our
core urban areas literally look like they belong in a third world country. Most of our
politicians don't seem too concerned about doing anything to clean up all the filth, and so it
shouldn't be a surprise that rat populations are absolutely exploding all over the country.
In some of our largest cities, the total rat population is numbered in the millions.
Meanwhile, rampant theft, out of control violence, endless migration, predatory gangs and the worst
drug crisis in the entire history of our nation have combined to create a "perfect storm" of social
decay that is unlike anything that any of us have ever seen before. Millions of law-abiding
citizens and countless businesses have been fleeing America's largest cities, and property values
in our core urban areas have been absolutely crashing. We really are in the early stages of a
full-blown societal "collapse", and things just keep getting worse with each passing day.
The
Democrats' Anti-Business Policies Create The Food Deserts They Decry. Riots [...] are
just one way a community can be destroyed. Another, far more insidious, is common
crime. With riots, everyone can point to the damage and clamor for rebuilding, but with
common crime, once the window is replaced or the body chalk is washed away, the neighborhood looks
exactly the same as it did before. But of course, it's not the same. From citizens
being scared to walk down the street to kids having to dodge junkies as they walk to school to
upstanding members of the community not visiting certain neighborhoods — and not
spending money there — the fear of violence has devastating consequences on any
community. Food deserts are one of those consequences. Retailers typically are not
charities. They exist to make money. When violence, security costs, and shoplifting
make it so they can't make money, they usually close. Hence, when all the food stores close,
you have said "food deserts." [...] Why all this matters is because the chickens are coming home to
roost. Across the country, from San Francisco to Seattle to New York to Boston, stores are
closing because of crime.
U.S.
Cities Fall Into A "Doom Loop" As The CRE Crisis Absolutely Explodes. In the entire
history of the United States, we have never witnessed an urban collapse of this magnitude.
During the pandemic, millions of Americans started working from home, and many of them have never
returned to the office. Meanwhile, rapidly rising levels of crime, homelessness and migration
have transformed many of our inner cities into extremely dangerous places. As a result,
thousands upon thousands of businesses have left our core urban areas in search of greener
pastures. So now there is lots and lots of commercial real estate space that is sitting
empty, and commercial real estate prices have absolutely plummeted.In the entire history of the
United States, we have never witnessed an urban collapse of this magnitude. During the
pandemic, millions of Americans started working from home, and many of them have never returned to
the office. Meanwhile, rapidly rising levels of crime, homelessness and migration have
transformed many of our inner cities into extremely dangerous places. As a result, thousands
upon thousands of businesses have left our core urban areas in search of greener pastures. So
now there is lots and lots of commercial real estate space that is sitting empty, and commercial
real estate prices have absolutely plummeted.
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What do all the doomed cities have in common? Socialist government, un-punished
crime, homeless bums in the streets, and illegal immigrants everywhere.
The
Founding Fathers' Fears Are Coming True, and the Damage Is Intentional. The Founding
Fathers, in all their prescience, wrote the Constitution to protect We the People from the
very onslaughts we are seeing today, some two-and-a-half centuries later. Donald Trump
represents a clear and present danger to the pinko-Americans who have infiltrated every institution
in the United States, and we can all see how the Constitution somehow doesn't protect this one man.
[...] Need more evidence that our nation is on life support? Our replacements are being
invited to cascade over the southern border by politicians who were elected to protect us from such
an onslaught. Criminals, many of whom aren't even citizens (yet), operate with impunity
within our borders. Fentanyl, created by China and sent to the Mexican drug cartels for
assembly and distribution, floods over our phantom southern border and kills roughly 80,000
Americans annually while enriching the Chinese and Mexican drug lords, yet nothing changes.
Have you wondered why? Worse, the destruction we see taking place in the United States is
100% intentional.
The
Bargain with Government Is Coming Apart. [Scroll down] Take education, for
example — a paradigmatic service people expect from government. People are openly
challenging public schools, which spend more on racial and sexual ideology than on reading,
writing, and arithmetic. On crime prevention, perhaps the number-one benefit derived from
government, problems abound. Crime is surging. Progressive no-bail policies are
releasing offenders the same day they are arrested. Terrorists and criminals are flooding
across our borders unvetted. At the federal level, we're more vulnerable to attack than we
have been in decades because we redirect defense spending from war-fighting to DIE seminars.
If you are a low-wage worker, open borders allow illegal aliens to pour in and take your job.
The government is not keeping its end of the bargain. Insecurity is the word of the day.
Planet
Fitness Founder Admits the Truth: Company Has Pretty Much Been Destroyed. You
let perverts go into any locker room they want, and it will destroy your company. The Alaska
Planet Fitness isn't the only one that's been having problems with mentally ill individuals going
into the locker room of their choice, regardless of their biological gender. North Carolina and
other states are seeing the same shit. Now, the founder of Planet Fitness is admitting
defeat. [...] You pander to the communist "woke" left, and this is what happens. They will
happen to any company that bends their knee to the communist Democrat agenda.
Democrats
Will Champion Despicable Pedophilia Within Five Years, or Less. Transgenderism is
validated by psychiatric and other medical professions that stopped caring about patient welfare
long ago, and instead, champion woke delusions. The profit motive exerts tremendous
attraction; there are millions to be reaped from hormone treatments and sex-organ
mutilations. To opine that the deviant "road to progress" will lead to pedophilia is not mere
conjecture. Preliminary moves in that direction have already been undertaken.
The
Brainwashing of America. Brainwashing is defined as "the process of pressuring
someone into adopting radically different beliefs by using systematic and often forcible means." In
case you haven't noticed, that is the kind of pressuring presently threatening the "blessings
of liberty." [...] Rather than anger, good people seem to be owning the accusations and in turn
acquiescing to abuse like mistreated pets. Riots are purposely incited by implicit
suggestions that retaliation for things like racism is justified. Police are disrespected,
shot, and killed. Terrorist states are enriched, and foreign wars financed with tax money
siphoned from government coffers. Our border, language, and civilization is being decimated,
and Third World diseases infect our citizens. Meanwhile, everyday Americans are portrayed as
inherently evil. To ensure voters' voices are drowned out at the ballot box, instead of
forbidding illegal entry, our government presses beaten-down taxpayers to feed, clothe, enrich, and
accommodate hordes of illegals that include swindlers, murderers, and rapists. As stunned
citizens lick the wounds inflicted by government, progressives support an invasion of military-aged
men armed with tactical game plans printed in Chinese.
Words Aren't
Enough. The more and better-distributed sources of information that fill the search
engines and radio programs, the harder the truth is to hide. That's an important role in the
ultimate battle for America down the line. The border fiasco is all Biden, the lower wages
are all Biden, the inflation is all a product of Bidenomics, the debt is all Biden, not because he
came in with a clean slate, but because he has increased spending to the point that we now owe over
a trillion dollars a year, just to pay interest on the debt. That's more than we spend on the
Department of Defense. In January of 2021, when he took office, the debt was 21.6 trillion
dollars and that was after the lockdowns and the pandemic. U.S. debt today is 34.6 trillion
dollars and adding a trillion dollars every 100 days. Our tax collections run at about
4.5 trillion dollars a year, with budgets ranging from 6.5 to 7 trillion dollars a
year. The spin is that we need these illegals to help the economy.
99
Reasons I'm In Mourning. High rents and theft are a key reason many dollar stores are
closing in medium and large cities. However, dollar stores in rural locations are
thriving. Dollar General just opened its 20,000th store in Alice, Texas, with plans to open
800 more this year! By focusing on rural locations, they have less competition, lower real
estate expenses, and less chance of retail theft. (At least not at levels seen in larger cities
where culprits walk in, shove items into bags, and walk out knowing there's little chance they will
be arrested and/or prosecuted.) Who knows how long the other dollar chains will last?
Family Dollar, whose parent is Chesapeake, Virginia-based Dollar Tree, Inc., announced it will
close 600 Family Dollar and Dollar Tree stores. The Dollar Tree empire employs nearly 212,000
employees (retail staff, distribution center, and store support). How many will be affected by the
announced Family Dollar and Dollar Tree closures?
St Louis
Is Dying. We all know that prominent coastal Blue cities are in deep trouble, but
this report in the Wall Street Journal reminds us that almost all large cities are run by idiots
driven by Democrat ideology. Democrat ideology is toxic. In cities across America a
doom loop has set in. [Tweet] Saint Louis, it seems, is seeing its central business
district die a slow and painful death. Office buildings have been clearing out, and with them
the businesses that supported the workers have been leaving to set up in greener pastures.
The
Most Important Election in American History? The ideological division in America is
the greatest it has ever been — even during the pre-War Between the States era.
And the contrast between the two candidates (regardless of whom the Democrats finally nominate)
could not be more dramatic: one a decided pro-American patriot, the other an unequivocal
Leftist totalitarian heading a party that gives every indication it hates everything traditional
America stands for and wants to continue to take the country down a determined leftward, morally
decadent path. [...] America isn't anything even close to what it was in 1960. [...] But, until
Obama, and especially Biden, we didn't realize the depth of the anti-Americanism, the full
intention of what the Left was trying to do with and to our country. We noticed the
increasing immorality and growth of government, but the horrific degeneracy, decadence, and
economic recklessness have exploded in our faces the past few years.
Is
The Great Illusion In Ruins? [Scroll down] Now, as we enter the fourth
year of the great experiment, America is $35 trillion in debt, borrowing $1 trillion
every 100 days. Home mortgages are at 7 percent. Key prices for food,
insurance, rent, and fuels are 30-40 percent higher than when Biden entered office. The
nation has been humiliated and emasculated abroad. Racial relations are the worst in a
half-century. The military is in virtual receivership. Biden is polling about
40 percent approval and is behind in key swing states in most of the 2024 polls.
Biden
Administration Environmental Rules Estimated to Cost Americans Almost $1 Trillion.
Mandates, mandates, mandates; subsidy after subsidy. All of these cost money, and we're occasionally
reminded of just how much. The Biden administration seems determined to shatter all the norms when
it comes to unilaterally deciding that they know best what's good for us Americans and are willing to
spend our money to those ends. Now we see the cost; the environmental rules alone implemented by
this administration (without input from Congress) are projected to cost Americans more than
$845 billion. As if the fiat-currency dump fueling inflation wasn't enough already.
99 Cent
Only Stores Shuttering all Locations, Citing Crime and Inflation as Key Factors. One
of the first places I discovered when I moved to California in the late 1980s was the 99 Cents
Only Store. One of my apartments was in walking distance of one, and I could buy a week's
groceries for $20. Those halcyon days are long gone, not just for me and others, but for the
iconic 99 Cents Only Store. When the company had to raise their price point from $0.99
to $1.01 a few years back, you kind of got the sense they weren't going to outrun this. It
was finally the weight of inflation and the COVID pandemic that did them in. [...] The press
release did not mention rampant retail theft as a reason, but you know that factors in as well.
99 Cent Only Stores are extremely soft targets, with very little security presence. In
California, with Prop 47 in place, retail theft of up to $950 won't even be prosecuted.
So, thieves could take out three-quarters of the store and get away scot-free.
Who
Are the Real Conspiracy Theory Nut Jobs? Remember how the left ridiculed us for
predicting disaster once Biden got into the White House? They were quite sincere and
convinced that we were wrong. They said with conviction, "Oh no, you are wrong! Biden
will be a president for all the people. The world will be relieved at his presence.
Peace and security will ensue." Now, Biden is overseeing a vast human tragedy at the border,
soaring gas prices, racial hatred, and the world on the brink of war. Not only were we
right — we were too right. It has degenerated faster than even we imagined.
We emphatically warned that he would rain down calamity after calamity. That he would cause
soaring gas prices, inflation, a spike in murder rates, unrest in the Middle East, and war.
A
GOP Landslide in November. The Biden Democrats have opened the southern border to
about eight million illegal aliens, many of them military-age single males. Assume only half
of those aliens are males and one in a thousand are in terrorist sleeper cells infiltrated by
Al-Qaeda, ISIS, or Iran. That adds up to 4,000 attackers spread all over the country, which
is 200 times greater than the twenty that Al-Qaeda planned for its attack on
September 11, 2001. Instead of thousands of deaths, the casualties could be hundreds of
thousands. That death toll would overshadow the body blow to American cities from millions of
unscreened "migrants" whom Democrat governors and mayors are subsidizing with free housing and free
money. The answer from Biden Democrats to the terrorist threat is to ban the terms "Islamic
terrorist" and "jihadist" from intelligence reports at the Pentagon and the FBI.
The
Democrat party is a Potemkin village. The Democrat party as a democratic institution is a false front.
Our judicial system has been Stalinized; Democrats are free to break all laws, conservatives will be punished severely
for minor infractions. Our law enforcement agencies have been thoroughly weaponized. Rampant
crime is the chaos the Democrat party needs to further its agenda. What has been done to the
people who were present at the Capitol on January 6 is Stalinist in the extreme as is the
lawfare perpetrated against Trump. On top of that, Biden intentionally destroyed the energy
independence we enjoyed under Trump. His open border has forever altered the demography of
the nation and not in a good way. The migrants pouring over the border are not coming to be
productive citizens; they are coming to be taken care of by American taxpayers. They are not
grateful for what they are receiving, and they expect more. That's what we get when other
countries are emptying their prisons and mental institutions and sending their worst our way.
Democrats routinely, endlessly present themselves as the party of democracy while they censor
narratives and opinions they do not like.
Maintain Your
Brain. Generations ago it wasn't uncommon for educated people to memorize chunks of
The Iliad, building up their minds by forcing them to do all the rewarding work associated
with real reading: assembling images, keeping track of plot and character structure, juggling
themes and challenging ideas even as you carried the story along. Then came mass media.
Newspapers shortened attention span, movies arrived and did visual assembly for you, TV mastered
mental junk food, MTV replaced story with montages of interesting nonsensical images, then finally
the Internet came and made it possible to endlessly follow your own random impulses instead of
anyone else's schedule or plot. [...] Inventions like TikTok, which I'm on record saying shouldn't
be banned, are designed to create mentally helpless users, like H addicts. If you stand there
scrolling and thinking Next! enough, your head will sooner or later be fully hollowed out.
You'll lose the ability to remember, focus, and decide for yourself. There's a political
benefit in this for leaders, but more importantly there's a huge commercial boon. The mental
jellyfish is more susceptible to advertising [...]
New
York, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Francisco And Baltimore Were Once Such Beautiful Cities.
If America is heading in the right direction, why have so many of our major cities become cesspools
of violence, drugs, theft, trash and homelessness? Once upon a time, millions of young people
from all over America flocked to our rapidly growing metropolitan areas. Today, there is a
mass exodus out of our largest metropolitan areas due to the absolutely deplorable
conditions. If you are not yet convinced that we are a nation in decline, spend some time
wandering around our core urban areas. The shiny new cities that previous generations of
Americans built for us are degenerating at a pace that is absolutely stunning.
'The
River Is Essentially Dead': How Enviros' Push To Save Salmon Ended Up Killing 'Hundreds Of
Thousands' Of Them. A well-funded environmentalist group played a key role in the
push to remove dams in the Pacific Northwest's Klamath River ahead of premature deaths of thousands
of salmon. American Rivers — an organization that has received millions of dollars
from left-of-center environmentalist grantmaking organizations in recent years — was
"the orchestrator of the Klamath dams removal project," according to Siskiyou News, a local outlet
in Northern California. The drawdowns of several reservoirs pursuant to the scheduled removal
of four dams in the river preceded the deaths of "hundreds of thousands" of young salmon in the
waterway, according to Oregon Public Broadcasting. The push to remove the dams is often
marketed as beneficial for salmon, as proponents of the plan — including American
Rivers — have argued that the dams obstruct the natural movements of salmon as well as
their access to habitat. However, weeks after beginning the process to remove one of the
systems scheduled for deconstruction on the river, a large number of the 830,000 young salmon
released into the river on Feb. 26 had died as of March 2, according to the California
Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW).
The
losers in Biden's America. The future is not bright for most people under 50. You
are seeing (and will see) a continued deterioration of the dollar and a diminishing standard of
living if you vote for Democrats. As Ronald Reagan succinctly stated, "You and I have a
rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on
earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness." Freedom
and (market) opportunity have served prior generations of Americans. Joe Biden and
Democrats have a vision for America, where freedom and opportunity are subverted to the interests
of the state. "You will own nothing and be happy." [...] If you want to buy a home, rent a
home or apartment, eat, or drive, you are getting hammered by Bidenomics. The affordability
of homes for new buyers is all but out of reach for most Americans. Rents are
skyrocketing. The cost to fill up a car or truck is 50% more than it was when Donald Trump
left office. Eating out has gotten expensive, even for fast food, with McDonald's meals
reaching $18. In California, wait until the minimum wage for fast food workers goes
to $20/hr. Your meals will also increase in cost to absorb this expense.
Joe
Biden's winners. The top of Biden's winner list has to be illegal aliens.
As the saying goes, what you promote, you get more of. Joe Biden and his surrogates have
actively promoted the arrival of more than 7 [to] 8 million new illegal aliens since
his inauguration, when he overrode Donald Trump-era policies and instituted new executive orders,
opening the floodgates. Illegal aliens are being housed, fed, given stored value cards, free
medical treatment, and "the promise" of amnesty. A peripheral beneficiary of our open border
is the Mexican cartels, who are making bank, trafficking drugs, adults, and children. [...] On the
heels of illegal aliens are non-governmental organizations and other leftist activist
groups, who are grifting the government to the tune of billions of dollars per year. Woke
Catholic charities, woke Protestant charities, woke attorneys, woke hotel chains and housing
authorities all benefit from the continuation of the border surge. Leftist homeless groups
benefit from the continuation of, not the elimination of, homelessness. If they "solved" the
homeless crisis, they would be out of work. Not the "people" in said sanctuary cities and
states, but leftist Democrats, who benefit from the increased number of congressional seats
afforded them, by the increased counts in the Census, soon to be the right to vote.
We
Should Fight First for the Bill of Rights. [Scroll down] The military
recruiting crisis is so bad that the Army is now seeking retirees to come back in a desperate move
to fill "critical position vacancies." According to the directive, "There is no age limitation,
although personnel older than 70 are not normally recalled." No worries, America.
Everything's fine. We're just looking for a few good men with experience — and
senior citizen cards! [...] I guess all those commercials highlighting a "woke" military culture
and fondness for men in drag didn't quite puff up enlistment figures enough to intimidate global
adversaries. Truth be told, bringing back the Old Dogs might be the only way to save an
otherwise sinking ship — but only if yesterday's soldiers are permitted to turn today's
soldiers into something more than their preferred pronouns. The Armed Forces are in dire need
of an ideological fumigation that can drive the "woke" mind virus out for good. Unless the
branches return to a culture that celebrates honor, strength, and merit, DIE-obsessed Marxists will
continue to transform America's once-intimidating fighting forces into a puny pack of politically
correct toy poodles. Nothing invites aggression so much as perceived weakness.
Domination
Through Chaos and Fear. [Scroll down] What do you imagine the BLM and
Antifa riots are about? Or the "Defund the Police" movement? Eroding trust in rational
systems and behaviors creates radicals and radicalization empowers the worst elements of a
society. Without enforcement of existing rules about civil campus behavior, radical students
and professors overcome the moderates on campuses. Those desirous of honest debate or who
take different non-radical views leave or shut up, and the mission of the institution is corrupted
and destroyed. [...] I think it's safe to say that we can expect more of this drive for power through
manufactured chaos, and you've no real choice except to resist bullying as well as you are able.
Trump's
Third Act has begun. The gears of the machine have become visible. We can all
see the FBI is rotten and the DOJ is weaponized. We know the border is open
intentionally. We know the cartels are working with our government. We know our
elections are DESIGNED to not be auditable and there's only one reason for it. We can see
Biden is not in charge. We know the Ukraine war was always about its energy resources and who
gets to own them. We know our rising debt is ruinous. We know our experts are
liars. We know our pharma and food industries are poisoning us. We know our government
is racist. We know the corporate media is essentially owned by Democrats who are controlled
by intelligence entities and they are actively brainwashing the population.
Biden
and the insurmountable. Black voters seem to have matured a bit. Street
interviews and polls suggest that an increasing number realize that they re-enslaved themselves to
the Democrat party and received little by way of meaningful benefits in return. Yes, they got
welfare, cheesy food stamps, and drug-infested housing, but look what it cost them: their
dignity, a husbandless family, females working two and three jobs to feed their families,
alienation from their churches, more crime, and you know the rest. Biden inflation has eaten
any wage increases workers obtained during the Trump years. The cost of essentials is
devastating for those on the lower-socioeconomic level. Furthermore, competition from Biden
illegals is beginning to create adverse employment opportunities, and it will only worsen.
The military was an employment refuge for many black and white citizens, who gained many social
benefits and positive life experiences as well as post-service education stipends. Now the
military cannot fill its quotas because of what Biden has done by way of sexualization.
Judge
McAfee Ruling Is The Latest Blow to Public Trust in Government. Quite simply, of
late, the unbelievability of the government's positions and actions has escalated significantly:
• We are supposed to believe that the southern border is secure,
the millions of impoverished, military-age males flowing into our country pose no threat to
our economy, culture, or national security, and the only people opposed to this invasion are racists.
• We are supposed to believe America is a fundamentally, systemically racist country.
• We are supposed to believe a new economic principle holding that paying the
same price for a smaller bag of Doritos is intrinsically different from and somehow more sinister than
paying a higher price for the same size bag of Doritos.
• We are supposed to believe that our withdrawal from Afghanistan was a
well-planned and brilliant success, not one of the worst military and foreign relations disasters in our lifetimes.
• We are supposed to believe that DEI is a far better rubric than merit for
making all our institutions — even our military — better.
• We are supposed to believe that it is perfectly fair and right for biological
male athletes to compete against biological females — despite the former being dramatically
overrepresented in winners' circles.
This list could go on for pages, but some of the examples are far weightier than others. The
Russia Hoax, arguably the most corrupt, treasonous scandal ever orchestrated by the cabal of governmental
agencies, opposition party, and media, delivered a massive body blow to government credibility. The
COVID scandals — from identifying origination to lockdowns to the efficacy of the
vaccines — and the Hunter Biden laptop scandal fully exposed in the Twitter Files release
were a one/two punch combination that left government credibility on teetering legs.
Biden's
Bloodbath. The Left is castigating presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump for
warning that there would be a "bloodbath" if he's not elected in November. The dishonest
media wasted no time taking the comment out of context (he was talking about tariffs on foreign auto
imports) and falsely claiming that Trump was cooking up an insurrection — or maybe
even WWIII. [...] While left-wing media parrots are weeping and gnashing their teeth about Trump
using the word "bloodbath," there are very real bloodbaths that the policies of Joe Biden
and the Democrats have caused:
• A million dead babies a year, courtesy of Democrat policies and bolstered
by their evil minions at Planned Parenthood
• 13 troops killed during Biden's botched Afghanistan withdrawal —
13 families who lost mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters.
• 55,000 deaths a year from Fentanyl overdoses thanks, in part, to Biden's
refusal to protect our southern border.
• The highest increase in suicide rates in two decades.
Democrats yapping about bloodbaths are complete and utter hypocrites. Nothing Trump has
done comes close to the ghastly, ongoing genocide of innocents on the tables of abortion clinics.
New
Inflation Numbers Keep Economic Concerns Front and Center. Inflation tickedup in the
latest figures from the U.S. government's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), released March 12.
It's not a huge rise, but enough to keep the eroding value of the dollar in the headlines, feed
Americans' dissatisfaction with the economy, and be received as very bad news by the White
House. The president and his allies work hard to claim credit for what they tout as a
thriving economy, but all they've done is link the Biden brand to rising prices and a general
distaste for the president's management. "The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers
(CPI-U) increased 0.4 percent in February on a seasonally adjusted basis, after rising
0.3 percent in January," according to the BLS. "Over the last 12 months, the all
items index increased 3.2 percent before seasonal adjustment." That's a big
improvement over the 9.1 percent that inflation hit in 2022. But it's still a reminder to
the public that the money in their wallets buys less with each passing day.
The Editor says...
The 9.1 percent inflation from 2022 is not erased or mitigated by the 3.2 percent inflation
the following year. This is a shell game, and if you watch TV news, you lose.
Consequences
Minus Truth. Are you feeling more confident that the US military can competently
defend our country? Probably more like the opposite, because the manipulation of language is
being used deliberately to turn our country inside-out and upside-down. At this point we
probably could not successfully pacify a Caribbean island if we had to, and you've got to wonder
what might happen if we have to contend with countless hostile subversive cadres who have slipped
across the border with the estimated nine-million others ushered in by the government's welcome
wagon. Momentous events await.
Becoming
Haiti: How Biden Is Transforming America Into a Gang-Infested Wasteland. What
is transpiring in Haiti is so post-apocalyptic — so unspeakably brutal — that
it would be impossible to believe were it not for the steady stream of phone videos and
first-person testimonials substantiating the media reports pouring out of the country.
"Millions of Haitians Face Starvation as Gangs Aim for Total Takeover, Free 5,000 Prisoners," reads
one recent headline. "Haiti Gangs Launch Main Airport Seige, Massacring People
'Indiscriminately' Days After Massive Jail Break," reports another. This weekend's
Washington Post report, titled "Haitians shot dead in the streets and there's no one to take
the corpses away," paints a picture of the scene on the ground: [...] The situation is grim, even
by Haitian standards. (And the situation in Haiti has been varying levels of grim for the past
200 years.) Reports suggest that a gang leader named "Barbecue" — a reference to
his enthusiasm for burning people alive in their homes, not to his culinary prowess — is
now "the most powerful man in Haiti." Barbecue's gangs recently stormed two Haitian prisons
and released thousands of prisoners before launching a full-scale attack on Haiti's main airport.
Tyranny
Is Rising as Freedom Falls. The U.S. military is being used to patrol subway stations
and police the U.S.-Mexico border, supposedly in the name of national security. The financial
sector is being used to carry out broad surveillance of Americans' private financial data, while
the entertainment sector is being tapped to inform on video game enthusiasts with a penchant for
violent, potentially extremist content, all in an alleged effort to uncover individuals subscribing
to anti-government sentiments[.] Public and private venues are being equipped with sophisticated
surveillance technologies, including biometric and facial recognition software, to track Americans
wherever they go and whatever they do. Space satellites with powerful overhead surveillance
cameras will render privacy null and void. This is the state of our nation that no is talking
about — not the politicians, not the courts, and not Congress: the government's
power grabs are growing bolder, while the rights of the citizenry continue to be trampled under foot.
Watch
the Destruction of New York City in Real Time. The New York City police are finally
arresting some of the violent migrants. There were two attacks in Times Square, where there
are multiple migrant shelters. Two of the suspects are members of one of Venezuela's most
violent gangs, Tren de Aragua. The gang has a strong and visible presence in New York,
Chicago, LA, Miami, and elsewhere. Venezuela's Communist President Maduro opened the prisons
and sent the criminals to our border. Thank a Democrat. Currently, there is a manhunt
now for 16 other people who stabbed a teen in the back. Cash [Jordan] says the majority
are fleeing extreme poverty. We understand that, but we can't take in the entire world. [...]
Cameras are everywhere, but they don't do much since they don't give clear photos. It also
doesn't matter because the criminals are released immediately. There are mobs of foreign
people here illegally, running around, doing whatever they want. They grab phones and
belongings from tourists while zooming around on e-bikes. Watch what has happened to New York
City under Progressives: [Video clip]
CNN
beclowns itself by confirming the escalating cost-of-living crisis while trying to pin it on
Trump. A recent article from Matt Egan at CNN admits that Americans have a problem
paying for things... but neither he, nor any of the outlet's other employees ever bring up Joe
Biden or his policies as a significant cause of the problem; [...] Egan says the problem has been
building for years instead of admitting that inflation didn't start increasing rapidly until
Biden took office. Despite COVID and supply chain issues, inflation remained below 2%...
until Biden. The economy was growing rapidly pre-Biden, despite the entire country having
come to a screeching halt over a virus, yet he signed the $2 trillion American Rescue
Plan, and fulfilled his campaign promise to destroy affordable energy (oil), which sent prices
skyrocketing. He compounded the inflation problem by issuing executive orders to open the
borders: housing, food, education, healthcare, law enforcement, energy, and other things are
obviously strained when millions of people are suddenly thrown into the mix, bringing no wealth and
anti-American cultures and ethos. The federal budget is around 60% higher than before COVID,
and they are borrowing trillions each year. That obviously puts pressure on prices and forces
an increase in interest rates. Here's how Egan framed it though, to distract from the obvious:
["]From the historically unaffordable housing market and budget-breaking day care rates
to high car prices, the United States has a cost of living problem many years in the making.["]
Is
New York City Really Dead? Far too many edicts coming from Mayor Eric Adams'
administration are simply mind-boggling. The city has been invaded by illegal immigrants from
several countries and the mayor has ordered that they be sheltered in hotels, schools and senior
residencies, displacing senior veterans, and resident citizens. In addition, a pilot program
will be giving them $10,000 prepaid debit cards to buy certain items. What?!!
Needless to say, the recent political judgments against President Donald Trump and his businesses have
induced a "get out of NYC asap rampage." No one wants to do business here if biased judges
can officiate over kangaroo court cases against political enemies. Those families who can move
are relocating to red states but there are many of us without the resources to do so. There
are also many like me who prefer to stay and fight. New York City used to be the greatest city
in the world and as I was born here during its glory years, the very idea that it's doomed is
unacceptable. I believe that everything that is wrong with the city is due to misguided,
progressive politics, primarily instituted by Democrats.
The Editor says...
Just because you know who caused all these problems, that doesn't mean the city isn't doomed.
The damage may already be irreparable.
Why
Americans No Longer Trust the Healthcare System. Trust is foundational in
relationships, whether between individuals or between individuals and institutions. A Gallup
survey from last summer found, "Americans' faith in major societal institutions hasn't improved
over the past year following a slump in public confidence in 2022." Notable other examples
where surprisingly few Americans have "a great deal or quite a lot of confidence" in major
institutions include Congress at 8%, big business and television news at 14%, and the criminal
justice system at only 17%. The medical system fared slight better with 34% of Americans expressing
confidence. But two thirds have lost trust. Doctors, hospitals, and healthcare systems
used to be held in high esteem, but no more. Aren't these the "experts" in white coats? [...]
In terms of one's own healthcare decisions, "35% of American adults believe it's safe to trust
advice from experts" By party however, only 22% of Republicans trust the experts compared to 52% of
Democrats.
50
is the new 20. People who do the shopping for their families know that inflation is
not "under control," as President Biden and his advisers are insinuating. When was the last
time any of them went food-shopping or filled up their own gas tank? "The economy is booming
and everyone knows it — except for the American people," wrote former Treasury secretary
Larry Summers this month in a working paper on inflation and the cost of money. A January
Gallup poll found that 45% of Americans think the state of the economy is "poor," and 63% say it's
getting worse. What's the reason for the disconnect? Well, statistics and politics have
a lot to do with it. The primary measure of inflation, the CPI (Consumer Price
Index), is constantly being manipulated and redefined to achieve the desired results.
Morning
Again, Again. In 1984, the Reagan-Bush campaign aired a political commercial that
helped seal their landslide re-election, winning 49 states and 525 electoral votes. "Morning
in America" is an iconic piece of political history — a video that is fondly nostalgic
for the Boomer generation because the Reagan years were a golden time of peace and prosperity.
[...] Time and again, Biden issues policy directives that are disgustingly immoral. Have we
really reached the point where we are not allowed to say what is a man and what a woman? Are
we required, on penalty of loss of employment or expulsion from school, to refer to "non-binary"
individuals as "they" and "them" instead of he/she and him/her? Do we really wish to allow
repeated shoplifting if it falls below $900 per occurrence? Do we want open borders with tens
of millions of unvetted individuals entering our country? Do we want to see our living
standard cut by 6% or more annually as a result of inflation, driven largely by out-of-control
government spending?
The
Stinking Privilege of the Green New Deal. A few years ago when I was building my
house, [...] I followed the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) platinum template,
contracted the job myself. I wanted to build a healthy house, which meant as little chemical
off-gassing as possible. Despite my savings, which were considerable, it still cost
40 percent more than a traditional stick-frame. The geothermal system cost $35,000 more
than traditional heating and no, I have not "made back that money." Today that cost would be
north of $150,000. We're all in this together, right? The only reason I am not bankrupt is
that where I live is so restricted as to land use, housing prices have skyrocketed. Only the
rich can afford to live here. My property with its "improvements," which is to say my money
and labor, is now worth 30 times my initial investment. This is known as old-fashioned
economics, wherein you restrict supply and prices, via demand, go up. This too is a perfect
micro-illustration of the "Green Economy" or the the "Green New Deal." It is "green" only for
the wealthy or privileged by virtue of education. It is very, very "green" for those who
profit from it. The people who took my extra money, other than the giant suction hose of
government, were mostly those demanded by "green" theology: engineers (5), lawyers (3),
surveyors (2), wildlife consultants (2), and permitting bureaucrats. Those requirements
have doubled in the intervening years.
The
green movement is stripping away life's small luxuries, one by one. Our former
colonial masters, the micro-managing misery merchants of the EU's institutions, have agreed on a
new way to interfere in our lives with a deal banning sauce sachets and regulating the air inside
boxes. When you fly away on holiday in six years, you may need to pack your own ketchup to
address both concerns. If your suitcase is too empty it might be considered wasteful
packaging and be either quarantined as an eco-crime, or stuffed with images of sad-eyed Swedish
children whose future you have stolen. The goal of the snappily titled Revision of the
Packaging and Packing Waste Directive is to reduce packaging waste, which is on the rise. In
2021 each EU citizen generated 189 kg, up about 17 percent over the decade. This raises
questions over the utility of the previous legislation. Self-evidently it failed.
However, the intention is noble, reducing the impact of some materials, deemed polluting, on the
environment, including for example hard to recycle plastics. All packaging on the EU market
will have to be recyclable by 2030. The best way of encouraging such change is inventing better
alternatives. The rise of plastics over the last 100 years is due to their utility.
Klamath
Dams Down: Will Ranches Survive? The largest, most devastating dam removal
experiment in modern history has reached the point of no return. As of January 23,
2024 — despite opposition by a majority of local residents — the four
hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River have been officially breached. Ironically, dam
removal proponents claimed the project would help salmon, but now the Klamath River is being
polluted with millions of cubic yards of decomposed algae, organic deposition, chemicals, and fine
silt that has built up behind the dams. Dead steelhead trout and other species are floating
to the banks. Any salmon spawning beds in the Klamath River were undoubtedly destroyed.
At press time, conditions in the Klamath River were not likely survivable for the salmon juveniles
that were beginning to emerge from the tributary rivers and creeks on their way to the ocean.
There's no way of knowing the survival rate of those juveniles until it's time for them to return
to their natal spawning grounds as adults (fall of 2025 for coho salmon; later for Chinook salmon).
But there is cause for great concern: by one estimate 26 million cubic yards of sediment is
stored behind the dams. No one knows how much of it will slough off into the river, or how long
the river will remain in its turbid state, or how much of the sediment will settle on the river-bottom.
Oregon
Realizes Drug Decriminalization Has Failed Spectacularly. I'm not trying to get
anyone's hopes up here too much, but it's just possible that we are witnessing a turning of the
tide in terms of the progressive fads and policies that have been sweeping the nation over the past
couple of decades. First, we saw the "defund the police" movement turn into a "refund the
police" effort (at least in some places) as voters began to feel the bite of rising crime
levels. Many progressives who formally sympathized with less strict immigration laws have
been changing their tune after witnessing a literal invasion of our country numbering in the
millions. And now, out in Oregon, previous successful efforts to decriminalize hard drugs
have morphed into a push to "recriminalize" those same substances. It's not just talk,
either. The state legislature passed a measure this week that would roll back the previous
decriminalization rules and the Governor has already indicated that she is inclined to sign it.
The
Dark and the Light. The poison killing our country is pervasive untruth. Every
institution we have relied on to run the public interest has become a factory churning out lies,
evasions, and misdirection — not unlike the way mRNA "vaccines" turned the cells in your
bodies into tiny generators of spike proteins destroying your organs. Likewise, half the
population, apparently, thinks this is a good thing, that we need more lawfare — the
perversion of law by attorney perverts — and that we need ever more lies, evasions, and
misdirection (just as the degenerates who run Harvard declare their student body needs more mRNA
boosters to remain in school). Since the doctors have all failed — miserably and
dishonorably — America needs an exorcism. [...] Are you asking yourselves: what
will satisfy these maniacs? Anything short of the ruin of our country? What will their
coveted power be worth in a ruined country? Mr. Trump volunteered to play the role of
exorcist in this grand psychodrama. Whatever else you make of him, he has shown a lot of fortitude.
Radical
Democrats Want The Same Fate For America As Hamas Does For Israel. [Scroll down]
This worldview is institutionally endemic from the campus to the boardroom to the federal
bureaucracy. It — antiracism, progressivism, intersectionality, gay race communism,
et al. — is the basis of our de facto state religion. Those who are
filtered through and direct American institutions cling to this ethos with religious zeal.
That presents a serious threat to the lives and safety of the American people. Observe how
adherents of this worldview embedded within the U.S. government foment chaos and violent crime by
refusing to enforce the law at the southern border. Currently, legions of fighting-age men
from across the globe, including several suspected Islamic terrorists, are illegally flooding
across the shared border with Mexico before finding themselves in the country's heartland, where
they've committed hundreds of thousands of violent crimes. But whole generations of people
are reared to sincerely believe this isn't a problem. They believe the U.S. is an
illegitimate nation whose institutions seek to target and oppress nonwhite residents, such as these
illegals. From their earliest days in the education system, virtually every child in America
is taught to despise the nation and its culture because it is deemed "oppressive" and infringes on
an abstract, ever-expanding notion of "rights."
The
Feminization of America. We are witnessing a new rise of authoritarianism in
opposition to freedom. Men do not want to be ruled. Look at the national submission to
COVID mandates: this was a pure feminine reaction favoring security. We are on the brink
of total submission to authority. "Please, keep me safe! That's all I ask!" We the
People, men pointedly, meekly allowed ourselves to submit to loss of freedom imposed by a vastly
overreaching government. We consented to be so governed. The despair of
men who have lost their role and identity as independent and strong seems to be cheered on in the
guilt-ridden media who see masculinity as a sickness. Their concern is that men are not
adapting as anticipated... some are resisting.
Defeating
Michelle Obama (or any other Democrat). [Scroll down] They've spent the
last three years taking a wrecking ball to our liberty and individual rights while continually
lying that we're doing that — always repeating their big lie to make it the truth.
You can always tell what they've been doing because they accuse us of doing it. They ripped
open the border to an illegal invasion, but somehow, some way, it's the fault of the pro-freedom
right, because we didn't legalize the invasion and funnel more money into its facilitation.
They're causing rampant inflation, printing money to buy votes, but somehow, it's also our fault,
because we noticed. [...] All indications are they are going to wait until the convention to play
the Biden bait-and-switch on the people. That helps them, because if we focus just on him and
the disaster that has been his regime, a fresh face wipes that all away. Hence, we have to
hammer the party instead so the Democrats can't get away with their usual treachery. The far
left is always thinking three or four steps ahead of the game. That's why leftists had Joe
take the fall for the economy with the "Bidenomics" label.
Privacy
Is a Fundamental Value. The administrative class delights in imposing its views on
the rest of us, especially when it involves our private lives. Small businesses are made to
prepare wedding cakes for gays; young children are forced to study sexual practices from which they
ought to be shielded; workers are made to attend classes on DIE in which, if they are white, they
are accused of racism and exploitation, even as they are the ones being exploited by racism.
We live in a world turned upside-down, and it can only end in chaos. For the woke class that
now governs our country, it's not enough that gays and transgenders, now treated as minorities and
thus victims, are granted complete equality and full human rights. What they seem to want,
and what the administrative class imposes on the rest of us, is superiority and oppression of
others who are straight. Everything gays and transgenders demand is granted by administrators,
judges, corporate leaders, and politicians who are afraid to refuse them because of the stigma of
seeming to be "anti"-minority. Even when it imposes harm on the rest of society, the wishes
of gays and transgenders come first.
Federal
Reserve records massive losses, makes up fictitious value called 'deferred assets' to
compensate. When inflation started rising rapidly after Biden took office, the
Federal Reserve and others falsely called it transitional. Biden campaigned on, and has
governed on, policies to intentionally destroy reasonably priced energy. As a result of these
radical policies, energy prices soared, and energy inflates the cost of everything. Crude oil
is used in over 6,000 products, and crude oil is still up over 90% from the day Biden was
inaugurated. Yet I have not seen members of the Federal Reserve call out Biden for his energy
policy as a great cause of inflation. Biden's green policies are forcing car companies to
produce electric cars, which are losing them a massive amount of money, because the public doesn't
want them. Then the car companies jack up the price of gas-powered vehicles so they can cover
the losses, and make profits to cover the cost to manufacture the more expensive E.V.s.
Consumers, especially the poor and middle classes, are hit with huge increases in car
payments. I haven't heard the Fed say how that contributes to inflation. Because
of the increased cost of cars, car repairs and insurance rates are soaring — a
"staggering 23%" increase for repair costs in just one year, and a "26%" increase for insurance
rates, which equates to a $500 per year jump.
I
never thought I'd see. There are days when I wake up in an America I hardly
recognize. Some of that is my age, but much of it is astonishment. A part of me is
thankful that my grandparents are not alive to witness what we all are. They would not have
tolerated what we now take for granted.
The
Absurd Democrat Border Con. In 2021, Joe Biden opened wide an inherited, secure
southern border that had finally stopped mass illegal immigration. When he overturned Donald
Trump's efforts, a planned flood of over 8 million illegal immigrants entered the U.S.
Almost all arrived without background checks, health screening, or vaccination
certificates — but with massive needs for free housing, education, healthcare, and food
entitlements and subsidies. For four years, Donald Trump battled the courts, his Democratic
opposition, and the open-border establishments within his own party to ensure legal-only
immigration. Somehow, he rebuilt some of the old porous border fence. He had begun to
build his long-promised new wall to the Gulf of Mexico. He had ended Obama-era
catch-and-release. Would-be refugees had to apply for asylum in their home country.
Trump leveraged Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to police his own border
and stop cynically transiting millions of illegal aliens into the U.S. There was general
Democratic Party opposition to all of Trump's measures, both through Congress and via the
courts. For the last three years of Biden's mass influx, the left has applauded open
borders. That is, until late last year, when overwhelmed southern border state governors
began busing and flying illegal immigrants en masse to northern sanctuary-city jurisdictions.
Inflation is real, and it is the result of the Democrats' print-money-and-spend-it policies. McDonald's
Shares Tumble After Executives Acknowledge Price Inflation. McDonald's executives
have finally acknowledged that their $18 Big Mac meals and other inflated prices are putting off
lower-income customers. "We certainly know consumers are more wary or weary of pricing," Chief
Financial Officer Ian Borden told investors during a Monday earnings call. [...] A Big Mac burger,
a medium beverage, and a medium fry meal now costs $18 in some locations, up $10 from 2018 when
former President Donald Trump was in office, Breitbart News reported in November 2023.
CBO
report says [the] US deficit [will] skyrocket in [the] next decade. The nonpartisan
Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on Wednesday released a report projecting that federal budget
deficits will skyrocket to well over $2 trillion per year in the next decade. The
baseline in the CBO's annual budget and economic outlook covers the 2024 to 2034 period and
projects that the budget deficit will rise from about $1.6 trillion in 2024 to
$2.6 trillion in 2034, with deficits topping $2 trillion each year after 2031. As a
percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) — or the size of the U.S.
economy — the deficit rises from 5.6% of GDP in 2024 to 6.1% of GDP in 2034. That
comes after the percentage briefly dips in the late 2020s due to the projected expiration of tax
provisions from the 2017 Trump tax cuts resulting in increased tax revenue for the government.
Biden's
'Middle Finger' To Americans. Police say that at least 12 illegal aliens pummeled two
NYPD cops outside a taxpayer- funded shelter in Times Square on January 27. Among five
arrested, four were released without bail, three hours later. Unrepentant, Jhoan Boada, 22,
waved his middle fingers as he left court. [...] "Why aren't they in jail right now?" New York
City Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry demanded Thursday. "They brutally
attacked a New York City police officer and a lieutenant. Our criminal justice system is
upside down. It fails every day." This incident encapsulates life under the Joe Biden
Democrats: BINO — A Border in Name Only, rampant illegal immigration, disdain for
law enforcement, far-Left "prosecutors" who lionize criminals, pushover judges with bleeding
hearts, illegal aliens fueled by entitlement rather than gratitude, and an ever-expanding sense of
chaos. The American people did not vote for this, nor did they ask for the crime explosion
that Biden and his border-hating Democrats have detonated.
A
Tale of Two Canals. The United States chose to give up the Panama Canal during the
Carter administration. With our rigorous processes for major capital projects, it's
inconceivable that a Panama Canal under U.S. control would have undergone its recent expansion
without making proper provision for the necessary additional water sources to prepare for an
extended drought. [...] What we teach in our business schools, how our manufacturers source the
materials they make and sell, which business choices are rewarded or punished by Wall Street
investors — and most of all, who we elect to public office — makes a
difference. Sometimes a very costly difference indeed.
Hell
Must Be Empty. Ever since Obama's presidency, Democrats have demonized police
officers and lionized criminals. They lied about "hands up, don't shoot"; maligned cops as
Klan members with badges; and instigated race riots throughout the country. They excused
criminal behavior, cut bail requirements, reduced felonies to misdemeanors, and celebrated
unethical prosecutors who have used their powers to lock up police officers for spurious charges
while treating violent crime as some kind of race-based civil right. Barack Obama and Eric
Holder (the corrupt attorney general who regularly abused the law to protect friends and target
political enemies) set the country down a dangerous path, where criminal gangs are psychologically
empowered to target law enforcement officers for assassination and municipal politicians are so
desperate to prove their soft-on-crime bona fides that they release violent criminals from jail in
order to make room for unjustly indicted cops.
Culture
crash; thank the liberals. Remember when America's great cities were great? San
Francisco, New York, Chicago and other major cities were centers of art, culture, wealth,
sophistication, and shopping. Now, the cities are overrun with vagrants. Liberal judges
decided that people have a Constitutional right (see, Martin v. Boise) to camp on the
sidewalks and poop in the gutter, because stopping them from doing so constitutes cruel and unusual
punishment for violating the laws that prohibit them from doing so. Crimes such as
shoplifting have been de-criminalized. The outcomes are predictable to anyone but a
liberal: This new retail mode where payment is optional has produced more cases where people
choose not to; Store owners, from small family-owned hardware stores to Walmart, are leaving the
cities because they can't make money if they can't charge for their goods; liberals are shrieking
"racists!" Laws against dangerous drugs have been relaxed. The result is more dangerous
drugs and drug addicts. Duh. Then there are the illegal aliens. Lots of
them. Tens of millions of them. The liberals who preside over the cities virtuously
signaled that these illegal aliens are welcome in their cities. To their surprise, the
illegal aliens took them seriously, and took their cities by storm.
Is
America Already A Dead Country? The Democrat party's open southern border has allowed
millions of able-bodied, unvetted young men into the United States. Is a terrorist
attack coming? The porous border was the number one issue for New Hampshire primary
voters — and New Hampshire is quite a distance from the southern border. It was
also top of mind for Iowa's voters, another state far from Mexico. Let's assume
7 million unvetted illegal alien invaders have waltzed into our country since
January 2021. If just one-quarter of 1 percent have malicious intent to do us harm,
that would be 17,500 people, all of whom are scattered across the United States, with many
receiving free housing, free medical, free education, free driver's licenses, free iPhones and, in
some cases, free ballots. It is estimated that the United States government has so far spent
more than a whopping $450 billion on these illegal invaders. Think what ONE
person can do when they go on a murderous rampage at a school, shopping mall, or Las Vegas hotel,
and then multiply that by the possibility of thousands of terrorists waiting to cause injury,
death, and havoc from sea to shining sea.
Biden
is drowning in three disasters of his own making. Responding to the killing of three
American soldiers by Iranian proxies this weekend, President Joe Biden's Secretary of State Antony
Blinken said the Middle East is now more volatile than at any moment since 1973. At around the
same time, Biden finally admitted that the southern border is in "crisis," just as his Department
of Homeland Security announced 300,000 migrants were arrested for illegally crossing into the U.S.
in December, a number dwarfing all previous records. Again, at the same time, inflation
ticked higher last month, as a record number of people find they cannot pay their rent and
consumers owe more personal debt than ever before. Workers can't afford a home or a car, and
their real wages are lower than when Biden took office. There is upheaval, even chaos, at
home and abroad. Every one of these crises — Iranian aggression in the Middle
East, chaos on our border, and higher prices at home — are all disasters created by
Biden. His policies caused each, which is why, if anything, the president's 40% approval
rating isn't low enough.
Rolling
Blackouts in Hawaii Offer a Case Study For Michigan. Rolling blackouts in the Aloha
State presage things to come in Michigan. Michigan's new net-zero and "100% clean energy"
policies mirror Hawaii's "goal of 100% renewable energy by 2045." These energy plans are
causing both states to rely on more weather-dependent wind and solar, which means that reliability
issues are becoming more pronounced. On Jan. 8 and 9, heavy rains hit much of the island
of Oahu. News releases from Hawaiian Electric, the island's main electric utility, explained
that during the storm two large generating units at the Waiau Power Plant had gone offline.
In an email, company officials said that water damaged a control system at one plant. The
system at a second plant "tripped after a tie-in to the grid was damaged, likely by weather."
That was unfortunate timing, for as the utility noted, it had also recently taken several
generation units offline for scheduled maintenance.
The
Army's 'Recruitment Crisis' Happened When White Recruits Stopped Showing Up. A
DEI-driven 43% drop in white recruits caused the Army's 'recruitment crisis'. The military
recruitment crisis that has crippled our defense capabilities has been talked to death by generals,
politicians and pundits who have blamed everything from rising minimum wages to obesity to Gen Z
culture for the problem. They have raised enlistment bonuses to unprecedented levels, spent
fortunes on ad campaigns that feature lesbian weddings and doubled down on DEI as the answer to the
crisis. And yet the crisis has grown worse. That's because recruitment was a
self-inflicted problem caused by a woke racist military.
Joe
Biden, the demolition man. President Trump worked hard with Central America to close
the border; on day one, Joe Biden worked very hard to open that border back up. Trump worked
very hard to cut off funds from Iran, to stop the sponsorship of terrorism, and Biden turned the
spigot back on, deluging the regime with billions of dollars. Trump gave the world the
Abraham peace accords; Biden gave the world a massive disaster by sparking conflict after conflict
between nations with fragile relations. Trump worked very hard to keep oil prices low and
make America energy independent; Biden told the world we were going to destroy our domestic oil
industry, which jacked up the global price, and allowed Iran to fund the terrorists and Russia to
fund its war. I don't understand why Iran is still sponsoring all these attacks since the
Biden administration has told Iran in strongly-worded terms, many times, to stop sponsoring
terrorism. But, according to the media, other Democrats, Nikki Haley, and many establishment
Republicans, it is Trump who causes chaos.
'This
is Your FBI,' thanks to DEI. [Scroll down] "The FBI does not appear to be
getting experienced, 'mature' candidates, such as the former cop, former military person, the
professional career person, the lawyer, accountant or engineer." Sound familiar? The
U.S. Army has the same problem. The brass can't seem to recruit anybody who can do a
push-up. Who in their right mind wants to risk their life by joining an organization run by
entitled, shiftless incompetents who despise them? "The FBI is now a joke among other law
enforcement agencies because of its apparent investigative failures, political targeting of certain
individuals/groups, and woke adoption... The FBI is considering hiring candidates not accepted by
other law enforcement agencies." The G-men have Diversity Recruitment Events —
"straight white males may not attend." In other words, there's no room for a modern-day
Inspector Lew Erskine. But Dylan Mulvaney or Jussie Smollett — come on down!
A
world war, not a civil war. The de-stabilization of the West goes beyond the
invasions. Western leaders turn their back on the Lord as the devil collects the souls of
nation upon nation. Countries no longer praise the men who freed them but instead shame
today's white people for what are declared past sins. In Canada, Justin Castreau made up a
story about Catholic boarding schools killing Indian students and burying them in shallow
graves — without evidence. Conveniently, they won't dig up the alleged graves
because that might disrespect them. In America, LGBT groomers use child porn in schools to
recruit kids. Public schools have become a poor man's Epstein Island. I won't go into
the transmania today because it sickens me so. Given the attempts at suicide by our society,
how can historians not conclude that the terrorists won 9/11?
Racing
to Death. Today young men and women are more likely to die from drug overdoses,
especially fentanyl, though tomorrow it may be some other trendy drug. Though different from
car racing, the underlying cause of death is the same: the heedlessness and overconfidence of
youth within a society that in nearly every media venue glamorizes speed, drugs, and sex. If
only the young would recognize the dangers of life and their own limits — in other
words, if only they would become conservative and wise beyond their years — then little
of this would happen. But of course, they do not, and in 2022, there were 105,452 deaths from
drug overdoses and 42,795 deaths from car crashes. Altogether, there were 218,064
"unintentional deaths," so approximately 70,000 accidental non-auto deaths unrelated to
drugs. In addition, there were 49,449 suicides in 2022. I suspect that most of those
dying in these careless and destructive ways do not value their lives as they should. The
underlying cause is not just that the young are heedless — the young have always been
so — but that they have become increasingly heedless, and dangerous to others, in
recent years.
The Editor says...
It appears to me that the public schools are teaching nihilism, secular humanism, and recklessness,
instead of teaching civics, ethics, good citizenship, history, and common sense. Public school
kids seem to have little regard for right and wrong, but they're very aware of what they can get away
with at any moment of the day. Teaching philosophy and Christianity, or at least the Golden Rule,
would help. But alas, the Communists have taken over the public schools, directly or indirectly,
thanks to the Socialist Democrats; and the internet has taken the place of fatherly advice, so this is
the fruit. Young people today don't know how to act in church, in a restaurant, in a theater,
or on the highway. We expect them to behave and they won't. The first thing you have to
wonder about teenagers racing their cars (or their mothers' cars) in the street is
where are their fathers?
300,000
Illegal Border Crossings In December. Biden's failed policies have created the crisis
at the southern border. In Biden's first 100 days he took more than 94 executive actions
on immigration, including halting construction of the border wall and ending the successful "Remain
in Mexico" policy. Illegal immigrants have confirmed this: "The border is open... everybody
believes that the border is open. It's open because we enter. We come in, free, no
problem... We came illegally." The Biden administration lost track of at least 150,000
illegal immigrants during the summer of 2021. Joe Biden and "border czar" Kamala Harris are
nowhere to be seen, with each only having visited the border once since taking office. It's
not just Biden; Democrats in Congress have consistently voted for policies that make the border and
country less secure. Democrats aided sanctuary cities and sent stimulus checks to illegal
immigrants, opposed legislation to fund Title 42, and repeatedly voted against funding the border
wall. Democrats voted against hiring more border agents, deporting felons, preventing illegal
immigrants convicted of crimes from becoming permanent residents — and voted against
strengthening the successful Remain in Mexico policy. Democrats voted against funding for
counternarcotic operations and ensuring the enforcement of immigration laws at the border.
Democrats voted against ensuring all local and state law enforcement are permitted to cooperate
with federal immigration officials to track illegal immigrants.
Is
Biden Poison-Pilling Trump? Biden is a disgrace. No other president in history
has done more to cripple a country than the former senator from Delaware: devaluing the dollar,
raising energy prices, forcing people to stay home, firing workers who showed up because they
wouldn't take a government-mandated experimental vaccine, causing massive instability in Ukraine
through failed diplomacy, leaving thousands of men, women, and children behind in Afghanistan, who,
because of his failed policy, now live under tyranny and death. Biden's failure to protect
Israel by doing business with Iran cannot be forgotten. His encouragement of sanctions of
immoral health practices — even encouraging and supporting genital mutilation among
"trans" youth — is criminal. Pandering to every progressive pipe dream, no matter
the cost, including the inefficient desire to be carbon-neutral without any credible science or
benefit to support his goals, is psychotic. All of this adds up to a country that has been
mortally wounded, with blow after blow of egregious and sociopathic leadership. This is the
legacy of the Biden presidency.
The Editor says...
Leaving stink bombs for the next president is exactly what
Obama did. This is just more evidence that Obama is still the acting president in 2024.
2024 —
America's Year of Living Dangerously. During Biden's tenure, the U.S. military has
suffered historic shortfalls in recruitment, the disastrous humiliation in Afghanistan, a new DEI
commissariat that wars on meritocratic promotions and assignments, the politicization of generals
and admirals, the hyped but otherwise inane effort to root out mythical white supremacists and
"domestic terrorist" bogeymen from the ranks, and the expulsion of some of our best soldiers for
their reluctance to be vaccinated, many of them having developed natural immunity from prior
infection. The Pentagon is short on ships and planes. U.S. weapons stocks are
dangerously low, drained by the abandonment of billions of dollars of equipment to the Taliban, the
resupply efforts to Ukraine and Israel, the failure of the Biden administration to fund the
restocking of our munitions and to ramp up resupply production — and a $35 billion
national debt fed by $2 trillion annual deficits.
America's
Healthcare Potemkin Village. A 2020 study compared ten-year (2007-2017) performance
of top healthcare stocks to patients' access to care. The time period extended from before
the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — passed in 2010 and implemented in 2014 — to
after full implementation and thus included effects associated with the ACA on stocks and on
patients. Over the ten years, the seven largest healthcare stocks all increased in share
price, with average gain of 307 percent (range: 157 to 635), while the Standard & Poors Index
gained 80 percent. Over the same time period, the maximum average wait time to see a
primary care physician increased from 99 days to 122 days. As stockholders gained
value, patients lost access to medical care. While this is a statistically significant
(p<0.0001) temporal association, that does not prove cause and effect. One may infer
causation based on how health insurance companies profit.
Bidenflation
strikes: If you waited to buy your 'Forever' stamps, you're out of luck.
[Scroll down] And now you know why every business or every organization is begging you
to switch to online bill delivery and offering you all types of goodies if you do. You also
know why you, an over-30-something, are now paying your bills online, fees included, to avoid
high-priced stamps and questionable delivery resulting in late payment fees. You've even
become accustomed to receiving online wedding and other gala (and not so gala) invitations,
announcements, etc., tucked among the daily multi-platform, multi-multi messages jamming your
computer and/or cell phone. Faster and cheaper can't be beat. Oh, and not so by the
way, for those of you with long memories, which includes 21-year-olds, in 2021, when President Joe
Biden (D) took office, the price for a first-class forever stamp was 55 cents, so today's
first-class stamp price increase comes to 23.5 percent in just three years. A fine
example of Bidenomics in action. Get used to it; more to come.
Minds To
Think. For a lot of us, there is no excuse to be uninformed and unprepared by now,
but there are so many who come across bits and pieces of the picture without the will to put them
together and form a strategy for resistance. [...] They see the pandemic for the fraud that it was,
for how it destroyed whole swaths of American cultural freedoms, but still they complied.
They accepted, they were too timid to just tell people no. They cling to their
current lives, living in the hours before the devastation of the American experiment, holding onto
careers that no longer exist, jobs that will not even be there in a year. They protect their
bank and 401k accounts as if the entire worldwide economic reality hasn't drifted into fantasy,
held aloft only by the belief that debt doesn't matter, that going digital will provide control,
but where is that ability to control without electricity?
National
Populism and the Rise of Donald Trump. Conservatives have lost control over
organizations that have shaped their communities over the years. Many judges and lawyers no
longer respect a settled body of law. Churches no longer preserve our foundational Christian
heritage, and college professors don't enforce firm standards of academic accomplishment.
Globalist progressives have taken over all the vital institutions. Now, even parents are
timid about enforcing discipline and passing on traditional family values to their children.
Conservatives are mocked as people who cling to their Bibles and their guns and are labeled as
fascists, haters, homophobes, and worse. The ruling class has given us $35 trillion in
national debt; an underfunded, politicized, and emasculated military; more than 8 million
illegal aliens; massive police defunding; 100,000 dead each year due to fentanyl; and a highly
partisan DOJ and FBI.
You're
Going To Get Dirty. [Scroll down] If you want freedom, you're going to get
dirty. By all evidence, we are mere steps away from a global war. I believe the Western
powers will lose it, that when it starts the U.S. will have its legs ripped out from under it by
the nearly one million foreign fighters who have been allowed to infiltrate the U.S. through
Biden's traitorous open borders. That's when the internal fighting will begin while the
military is busy getting annihilated overseas. I am less convinced of a nuclear exchange
because I don't think either Russia or China believe they need to resort to it and there is no
one in the United States chain of command who believes enough in the righteousness of America to
use them to defend it.
'Their'
Democracy: Tyranny Comes to the US. I am angered that Americans are being
conditioned to loathe our shared history and the very people who made our modern country
possible. Even our founding documents have been labeled potentially harmful. Make no
mistake: these actions are happening because of unscrupulous politicians, bureaucrats, and others
who are intentionally destroying our nation's heritage to obtain greater power, control, and
wealth. In place of the constitutional republic gifted to us by our founders, these
charlatans promote "their" democracy. Even though our founders rejected direct democracy
because it leads to tyranny through mob rule, our elites have managed to convince Americans
otherwise. As a result, in pursuit of their democracy, our political class has amassed
unsustainable national debt and created an enormous welfare state. While declaring unity, our
democracy cheerleaders encourage racial animosity. One way is by falsely claiming white
supremacy as our country's greatest threat.
The
Hysterical Style in American Politics. The [Covid] lockdown caused untold economic
chaos, suicides, and health crises. One result was the 120 days of looting, arson,
death, destruction, and violence spawned by Antifa and Black Lives Matter in the aftermath of the
tragic death of George Floyd while in police custody in May 2020. Suddenly, a hysterical
lie took hold: American police were waging war against black males. The details around
Floyd's sudden death — he was in the act of committing a felony, resisting arrest,
suffering from coronary artery disease and the after-effects of COVID, and being high on dangerous
drugs — were off limits. The riot toll reached $2 billion in property damage,
over 35 deaths, and 1,500 injured law enforcement officers. A federal courthouse, a police
precinct, and a historic church were torched. Police forces were defunded. Emboldened
left-wing prosecutors nullified existing laws.
Inflation
is around double of what it was when Joe took office. The Biden campaign workers,
posing as journalists, are out in full force: They are telling the poor what great benefit
they are getting now that inflation is now down to less than 4% [...] The analysts are making
month-to-month and year-to-year comparisons, ignoring the rises that have already happened and not
been compensated for with higher salaries. What voters are comparing, though is what prices
were like before Joe Biden took office and what prices are like after Joe Biden took office.
That makes the TIPP CPI Index, which makes that comparison, much more useful. What's their
reading this month? 16.6% higher overall than it was when Joe Biden took office "with no signs of easing."
2024
Promises the Expansion of the Green Energy Scam. Years ago, I wrote a post about how
cheap air travel to Europe was ruining America. My point was that the Americans visiting
Europe were confusing what they experienced as a tourist with the reality of life in Europe.
These progressive American fans of two-hour lunches and 6 months of maternal and paternal
leave didn't have a clue about how average Europeans lived. Indeed, a couple of years later,
the Foundation For Economic Education came out with a study that showed the poorest 20% of
Americans were better off than the average European. Basically, the average European suffers
from high taxes, high prices, tiny homes and cars, and, increasingly, less freedom. But
tourists sipping tea in London or shopping in Paris rarely, if ever, see this, or understand it if
they do. Nonetheless, with little understanding of economics or history, they decide that
America must become Europe. Socialism, Obamacare, and gay marriage are just some of those
European imports that Americans have to deal with today.
DEI,
Airplane Crashes, and Bad Medicine. How safe are you nowadays on commercial
airliners? How safe will you be tomorrow? Are airlines sacrificing safety at the altar
of "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)?" Who do you want piloting the jetliner you're on, the
best, most experienced pilots or box-check hires? Flipping the page, medical schools will
graduate bevvies of DEI doctors as the decade unwinds. What if you need open-heart
surgery? Cancer treatment? Won't you need a sound diagnosis for starters? Will
the most capable physicians attend you? Or will you have to settle for the right color, right
gender, right sexual orientation, pick-your-pronouns person in a white lab coat? The nation
is being plagued by incompetence. Plenty of that is from lax parenting, subpar education,
trophies for just showing up, and a debauched culture that discounts hard work and competence.
Forget excellence. While that's bad enough, DEI adds another corrosive layer. People
are receiving degrees and certifications for superficialities. Merit is shunned.
Standards [a]re being dropped in too many instances and exceptions made. Victimhood is
ginned up and fobbed off as part of progressive social reform.
Joe
Biden's Scary Speech on Jan. 6. Just recently, ahead of the anniversary of
Jan. 6, President Joe Biden gave a speech near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to kick off his
2024 campaign. [...] Politically speaking, the purpose of the speech was clear. Given that
Biden has among the lowest favorability numbers ever recorded for a sitting president, he cannot
make the election about his achievements. Because he has none that warrant his
reelection. In every way, he has made America a worse country. He has terribly damaged
the economy — increased an already unsustainable national debt; changed an
energy-independent and energy-exporting country into an energy dependent and energy-importing
one. He hurt America and the world by withdrawing — and in the way he
withdrew — American troops from Afghanistan. He showed that America cannot be
counted on by those who depend on us. He abandoned $7 billion in weaponry, much of it
now being used by Islamic terror groups. [...] He has created the first large set of political
prisoners in American history — hundreds, soon perhaps thousands, of Americans sentenced
to prison for merely entering the Capitol, or for just being present on the Capitol grounds, on
Jan. 6. He has weaponized the Department of Justice against his political opponents, and
is overseeing the prosecution of an ex-president and political rival for the first time in American
history. From his first day in office, he has stoked racial tension in America. His
inaugural address was the most hate-filled and divisive inaugural address in American history.
He has so demoralized the American military that recruitment levels are at their lowest ever.
Chronicles of
Decline. Internal data reviewed by Military.com show that "the Army's recruiting of
white soldiers has dropped significantly in the last half decade." The "most significant drop"
occurred from 2022 to 2023. Army officials and data experts are baffled by all this. The ones
interviewed by Military.com blamed "partisan scrutiny of the service, a growing obesity epidemic
and an underfunded public education system." It's a bold move to react to a decline in white
recruitment by arguing that white men aren't enlisting anymore because they're dumb, fat, and
stupid. [...] Recall that in 2021, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered a "stand down" to
confront "extremism" in the ranks. In practice, that meant lecturing people about our
perennial bugaboo: "white supremacy." And while troops were reminded of the importance of staying
apolitical, their superiors encouraged them to support Black Lives Matter. People noticed
that discrepancy. Sen. Tom Cotton gathered written complaints from members of the
military who were put off by what seemed to be a double standard about what is and is not
considered "extremism."
Bidenflation
Steady At 16.6%, With No Signs Of Easing. The dark reality of Bidenomics is 16.6%
inflation under the President's watch. When he took office, inflation was at just 1.4%.
Inflation has stayed above the Federal Reserve's 2% target for 35 consecutive months since
March 2021. Average hourly earnings for all employees dropped 2.5% to $11.10 in December
from $11.39 in January 2021 when Biden assumed office. Despite nominal salary increases
at their fastest pace in years, American workers are now worse off than when the President took
office. In summary, the prices have increased by 16.6%, while real wages have declined by
2.5%, meaning Americans have taken a 2.5% pay cut under the current administration. To put it
differently, people now need 19.1% more income than they had in January 2021 to maintain their
living standards. How do Americans make up the shortfall? Many must take up a second
job, tap into their savings, or supplement with credit cards.
Small
Town, USA learns the hard way that welcoming lawbreakers has negative consequences. A
few days back, AT published an essay by contributor C.S. Boddie that highlighted a recent tragedy
in Colorado: an illegal alien, who had been deported four times before, killed a mother and her
16-year-old son, as he drove (allegedly) completely inebriated near a high school. The
illegal had four "alcohol-related driving" convictions under his belt, and just days before, he'd
received probation, community service, and work release from a Colorado judge; Boddie's piece also
included a number of other "chilling" examples underscoring the deadly consequences of admitting
millions of scofflaws. But dead Americans aren't the only casualties — say
adios to Whitewater, Wisconsin, a once-safe and once-quaint midwestern town.
Whitewater recently came into the national spotlight after a letter to the Biden regime got picked
up by conservative media. Local police chief Daniel Meyer, had appealed to Washington to
request help for the influx of illegals that have cropped up since 2022, putting a "strain" on
reasources, and bringing in problems like these: [Tweet]
We
Are in an Abusive Relationship with Our Government. California is now covering the
costs of genital-mutilating surgeries for illegal aliens. Leftism's slippery slope invariably
leads to depraved absurdity. Consider how Governor (receding) Hairdo and the Pyrite State's
other communist saboteurs have greased the shifting ground under Californians' feet:
[#1] There is no illegal immigration crisis.
[#2] There may be a crisis, but California taxpayers won't be paying for it.
[#3] Taxpayers may have to foot the bill for the illegal immigration crisis,
but California will do nothing to incentivize illegal immigration.
[#4] After further review, these aliens aren't "illegal," but rather "undocumented."
[#5] Health care is a human right.
[#6] California must provide "undocumented" aliens healthcare.
[#7] Mutilating the genitals to make them look like the opposite sex is health care.
[#8] California taxpayers must pay for "undocumented" aliens' genital surgery.
[#9] Californians who object to paying for undocumented aliens' genital surgery
may be guilty of "hate" crimes and will be prosecuted.
White
Men Don't Want To Join An Army That Tells Them They Aren't Wanted. The U.S. Army is
experiencing a sharp decline in the number of white recruits it's bringing into the service, a new
report found. According to data analyzed by Military.com, "A total of 44,042 new Army
recruits were categorized by the service as white in 2018, but that number has fallen consistently
each year to a low of 25,070 in 2023, with a 6% dip from 2022 to 2023 being the most significant
drop." The report further noted how "[n]o other demographic group" has experienced such a
downward trend in recent years, and that the "rate at which white recruitment has fallen far
outpaces nationwide demographic shifts." Much like the Navy and Air Force, the Army missed its
recruiting targets for the 2023 fiscal year, with the branch coming up 10,000 recruits short of its
goal of 65,000. When discussing the matter with reporters in October, Army Secretary Christine
Wormuth claimed the Army understood its 2023 target was a "stretch goal" and described the branch's
plans to launch a "new 'talent acquisition' enlisted occupational specialty dedicated to
recruiting" to help stymie the problem.
Army
Recruitment of White Soldiers Plummets, Take a Wild Guess Why. Military recruitment
is in trouble, with the U.S. Army missing its goal by about 10,000 new soldiers in 2023. [...] The
Army is now having to absorb more deployments with fewer deployable soldiers, meaning those who do
sign up are facing more time away from their families. In turn, that incentivizes potential
recruits to look elsewhere. It's a vicious cycle of stretching what is there while creating
the conditions for continued failure to hit recruiting goals. [...] Why are white people looking at
the Army and deciding not to join when they were doing so at nearly double the rate just
five years prior? One only needs to look at the changes within the military over the last
several years to figure that out.
Report:
U.S. Army Sees Massive Decline in White Recruits. Over the last several years, the
U.S. Military has struggled to meet recruitment goals across all branches, perhaps most of all with
the Army. One of the reasons for this has now been explained. White men are no longer
enlisting in the numbers they did in the past. Families which used to encourage young men to
enlist are doing so in far fewer numbers for reasons which are obvious to many. New woke
policies, the vaccine mandates and the embrace of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) policies
mean white recruits are looked over for advancement in the US Military today. All of these
factors have all contributed to this decline in white recruits.
Joe
Biden's Scary Speech on Jan. 6. Last Friday, ahead of the anniversary of
Jan. 6, President Joe Biden gave a speech near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to kick off his
2024 campaign. [...] Politically speaking, the purpose of the speech was clear. Given that
Biden has among the lowest favorability numbers ever recorded for a sitting president, he cannot
make the election about his achievements. Because he has none that warrant his
reelection. In every way, he has made America a worse country. He has terribly damaged
the economy — increased an already unsustainable national debt; changed an
energy-independent and energy-exporting country into an energy dependent and energy-importing one.
[...] He has done terrible damage to the most important freedom — freedom of
speech. Among other things, his administration worked with Big Tech before and since the 2020
election to censor political speech. He has created the first large set of political
prisoners in American history — hundreds, soon perhaps thousands, of Americans sentenced
to prison for merely entering the Capitol, or for just being present on the Capitol grounds, on
Jan. 6. He has weaponized the Department of Justice against his political opponents, and
is overseeing the prosecution of an ex-president and political rival for the first time in American
history. From his first day in office, he has stoked racial tension in America. His
inaugural address was the most hate-filled and divisive inaugural address in American
history. He has so demoralized the American military that recruitment levels are at their
lowest ever.
Electricity
Prices Are Soaring: It's Time to Hold the "Energy Transition" Accountable.
Electricity prices in the United States are skyrocketing, with all-sectors electricity rates
reaching new all-time highs in 2022 and 2023, but wind and solar advocates like to pretend that
these energy sources are not responsible for the rising electricity costs paid by American families
and businesses. However, recent reports from Regulatory Research Associates (RRA), a division
of S&P Global Commodity Insights, evaluating requests from electric companies to raise their prices
(known as rate cases) clearly show that rising electricity prices are largely being driven by
spending billions of dollars on wind turbines, solar panels, natural gas plants, and new
transmission lines in pursuit of the so-called "energy transition." Our deeper-dive into the
eight-largest rate increase requests, as identified by RRA, reaffirms these findings by quoting
directly from rate cases filed with state regulators, debunking the idea that wind and solar aren't
causing electricity rates to rise, once and for all.
A
Culture in Collapse. In the last six months, we have borne witness to many iconic
moments evidencing the collapse of American culture. The signs are everywhere and cover the
gamut of politics, the economy, education, social life, popular culture, foreign policy, and the
military. These symptoms of decay share common themes. Our descent is self-induced; it
is not a symptom of a foreign attack or subterfuge. [...] What is happening to us is not due to an
adherence to a too strict conservative tradition but is almost exclusively the wage of the
progressive project. In short, we are seeing fissures that America has not experienced in our
cultural history since the Civil War. The radical Left apparently feels such chaos, anarchy,
and nihilism are necessary to topple past norms and customs and thereby adhere to a socialist,
equity agenda that no one in normal times would stomach. Some of the decay is existential and
fundamental; some anecdotal and illustrative. But either way, while decline came about
gradually over decades, its sudden and abrupt chaos during the three years of Biden's presidency
has shocked Americans.
Yet
Another Trans Shooter. Once is an event. Twice may be a coincidence.
Three times is a pattern. Four? Five? Six? At what point does it become a
trend? [Tweet] We are now at the "it's a trend" stage. We still don't know much about
the shooting, and early reports are usually unreliable. But the evidence is mounting that the
shooting in Perry, Iowa, was perpetrated by a mentally ill boy who identified as "genderfluid," was
an LGBTQ+ activist, and pushed alphabet ideology. [Tweet] 2023 seemed to be the year for
transgender shooters, and it looks like 2024 may continue the trend. Given that there isn't a
lot of evidence that I am aware of that transgender-identifying people have in the past been
particularly prone to shooting large numbers of people, we have to ask, "What has changed?"
And I think the answer is obvious: a lot of things have changed over the past couple
of years, and they have all been pushed by the Left.
Anti-Intellectualism
and the Left. The smug superiority of many on the progressive Left never ceases to
amaze me. They regard Republicans, especially of the MAGA variety, as knuckle-dragging cave
people with diminished intellectual abilities while they are really the one's with contracted brain
function. Every societal issue, such as unfettered illegal immigration, record unchecked
spending, and disastrous U.S. foreign policy, involves proof of how the Left is incapable of higher
than the most rudimentary thinking.
There
Was a Time When Governments Tried to Make Their People Better. The Biden regime seems
hell-bent on celebrating and subsidizing the worst tendencies of human nature: not only every
conceivable manner of perversion, but resentment, envy, the privilege of protected classes rather
than advancement on the basis of merit, and so much more. It is not hard to suspect that
Biden and his henchmen have some vested interest in encouraging Americans to become worse people,
harder to get along with and more difficult to deal with. What could more effectively justify
an authoritarian crackdown than a population that is as obstreperous as it is immature? One
outcome of all this will be that Americans will become worse people than they used to be. A
government can't expect to celebrate mental illness, demanding that everyone take it as normal on
pain of ostracism, deplatforming and worse, and exalt skin color and gender over competence and
expect that Americans will continue in large numbers to value being rational, competent, and capable.
Nearly
60 Years After Congress Killed Off Mental Hospitals, Complete Breakdown of the System Has
Lawmakers Attempting to Bring Them Back. What people think is compassion sometimes
brings bad results. Fail to confront the slacking employee and other workers have to carry
more of a load. Be a pal to your children and then be frustrated by their disrespect.
Lavish welfare and then wonder why unappreciative people won't work. And then there's the
running away from obligations to protect the mentally ill from themselves and from society.
Perhaps you've had the same thoughts as I — the grand experiment in mental health care
of the past half-century or so has failed. Just witness the aggressiveness of babbling
panhandlers, the general filth of helpless people living on the sidewalks, the destruction of
cities such as San Francisco. Believe it or not, the left-leaning Politico published an
article Monday that gave a nod in the direction of some kind of return to the involuntary
commitment of some mentally ill people.
We
Want Disruption, Not Chaos. Peter Strzok and Lisa Page used their positions in the
FBI to create an "insurance policy" against our electoral choice. Their plan certainly
introduced a bit of chaos into the 2016 election. Leftist groups filed lawsuits against
virtually every action President Trump attempted in office. Those suits caused a great deal
of uncertainty and confusion about America's path forward. The longest shutdown in U.S.
history was brought about by Democrats to avoid funding a border wall. It caused weeks of
political disorder and years of unrestricted national invasion. When the Mueller
investigation spent three years investigating a crime that never happened — based on
fabricated evidence provided by Hillary Clinton — we experienced years of political
upheaval. When General Mark Milley informed his Chinese counterpart that he would inform them
of any surprise attack Trump planned, it introduced chaos into our military chain of command.
Anthony Fauci was responsible for a healthy dose of chaos when he illegally funded "gain of
function" research at the Wuhan lab, creating a virus, which the Chinese "leaked," leading to a
global pandemic. It was a stark demonstration of the chaos men are capable of who have more
ego than wisdom. We also experienced a bit of chaos when San Fran Nan conducted two
impeachments, based on hearsay and disagreements.
Why
Is Everything So Stupid? [Scroll down] This past week, many analysts were
suggesting that the Ivies be shuttered, given the performance of their Vice-Chancellors in
Congress. Academia is lying to us, corporations are lying to us. Every institution is
corrupted. Individual lives are substantially impacted, population growth has collapsed.
We are deliberately refusing growth to Africa and inflicting cruelty far above any colonialism
caused. The shame of this will last a hundred years.
The
Corruption of Everything. Sexuality has been corrupted. Men claim to be women
and vice versa. Drag queens set the kiddie agenda in schools, and transsexuality has become
epidemic, although de-transitioners are becoming more noticeable these days. Meanwhile, young
lives have been ruined because of this fad. In addition, no TV or streaming drama is complete
without the obligatory sex scene. This has made family watching almost impossible and even
non-prudes like me squeamish. Sex scenes are not even necessary to enhance the storylines.
It's just another way the left can degrade something beautiful and sacred.
Markets
and Miracles. Government handouts changed people's thinking. They taught
millions of Americans: You are entitled to a check. No longer was it individuals'
responsibility to help families, neighbors and ourselves; now it was clearly government's
job. The result is that people became dependent on handouts. Government rarely teaches
people to be self-sufficient; handouts encourage you to be helpless. Welfare created something
never seen before in America: a near-permanent "underclass." Welfare told parents:
don't get married; you'll lose benefits. Don't work; your check will be reduced. Above
all, make sure the father isn't home when a welfare worker comes. If he is, your check may be
reduced or eliminated. This changed incentives that motivated parents for generations.
The result has been ruinous for millions of children.
Biden
Dept of Energy Continues War on Consumers. We all know the routine. Water-saving
toilets that don't flush (flush twice), water/energy-saving dishwashers and clothes washers that don't
clean (run two cycles), lightbulbs that don't light, dryers that don't dry (run twice), and all the
ancillary nonsense that comes from the intervention of the regulatory state. What Biden and the
progressive movement call the "green new deal" effort toward "sustainability," including the ban on
gas stoves and internal combustion engines, simply results in a diminished quality of life, a loss in
lifestyle productivity, and the exact opposite outcome from their expressed/intended purpose.
It's an abject mess of stupidity, pushed under the guise of environmentalism. Today the Biden
Dept of Energy (DOE) takes it one step further with rules and regulations on fridges, freezers and
fans. [...] Now we will see air conditioning units that don't cool, fridges that don't chill,
freezers that don't keep things frozen and fans that do not move air.
Crime
Soars As Punishment Vanishes. Portland, Oregon, decriminalized drug use in 2020.
Fentanyl pills — all coming through Mexico with ingredients from China — sell
for only a dollar or two, down from three times that in 2020. (This is one notable area where
"Bidenomics" actually lowered the price of something.) Kevin Dahlgren has worked with the homeless
for 30 years and calls Portland "the largest open-air drug zone in state history." He has
written, "I have found more dead people and seen more overdoses this year than in all the other
years of my working and volunteering, combined." In Washington state, theft up to $750 is only
a misdemeanor, and just like in big California cities, prosecutors often choose not to prosecute
shoplifting. In November, unionized workers went on strike at three Seattle-area Macy's,
saying the chain "is not doing enough to address shoplifting, violent shoppers, and other safety
threats to workers and customers." One worker said that when she called police to report "a repeat
shoplifter that even law enforcement was familiar with," she was suspended without pay.
73
Three and Four-Year Olds, Hundreds of Children Under Six Sent to Disgraced NHS Transgender
Clinic. Children as young as three years old have been referred to Britain's
socialised medicine's 'Gender Identity Development Service' transgender clinic, with hundreds of
young children referred in the past decade. 382 children aged six and under have been
referred to the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) in the Tavistock and Portman Trust,
known commonly as the National Health Service's transgender clinic, in the past ten years new
figures from the Trust reveal. The numbers, published by the Daily Mail, reveal how
even the youngest children have been pushed into interacting with the controversial clinic, and
that the numbers being referred to GIDS have soared in recent years.
Chesterton's
Fence. The lesson of "Chesterton's Fence" tells us to not tear down a fence until we
know the reason it was erected. It may have been built for a good reason of which we are
unaware, and tearing it down would reap horrible consequences. Traditional marriage?
Not important, get rid of it. Traditional roles between the sexes? Oppressive!
Traditional values? Racist and colonialist! The cultural suicide the West is committing
can be explained by viewing the Judeo-Christian institution as a very old, paint-peeling, building
column. The impulse of modern man was to beautify things by chopping them down, without
realizing that this was supporting the entire building of Western civilization. A building
that is now collapsing.
Then why is New York still a "sanctuary city?" Eric
Adams Suggests Migrant Crisis Will Result In Rampant Crime. Democratic New York City
Mayor Eric Adams raised concerns that the city's migrant crisis will create more crime during a
press conference Tuesday. Migrants that are arriving and unable to work in the U.S. legally
have become a challenge for the city, Adams said during the news conference, where he was asked
about rising crime. Out of the more than 100,000 migrants that have arrived to the city, only
2,200 have been approved for work permits, Anne Williams-Isom, the city's deputy mayor for health
and human services, said. "When I talk about the devastation impact that the migrant and asylum
seekers, people only think about the volume of people that are coming in. There are
byproducts to this, cuts to services, like we had to postpone a police class, looking at some of
the budgetary cuts, having a body of people, many young, who can't work," Adams said.
The Editor says...
Those problems were all self-inflicted.
Use the
Colorado Precedent. Americans will not be defended from the antagonistic members of
society by behaving themselves. They want to, they have been taught their whole lives that
there's nothing worth fighting for, that's not the way civil society operates, even while they are
amidst the most uncivil society ever devised in the homeland. They are being shown scenes of
Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, Maoist China on their own streets, in their own courts of law, and
they still refuse to see it. They have endured a biological weapon unleashed on them; seen
young, strong athletes drop dead on football fields across the land and they still don't break free
of the trap into which their mind has been captured. Invasions of illegals from every nation
in the world have descended upon their borders and strolled through with the guidance of border
patrol officers. This is at the behest of a single president, a single department in the
government in violation of the will of the people.
Finally,
Destruction for Destruction's Sake. America's cultural degradation began in the late
1960s. The counterculture was the primary agent. Libertinism has been battling
traditionalism ever since, with traditional America giving ground, sometimes in inches, other times
in feet, proving that it's much easier to destroy than preserve and build. In this quest to
ruin America, institutions, public and private, have been thoroughly infiltrated —
actually, in some ways, ceded by traditionalists. Schools, media, and entertainment have seen
decades of steady retreat by traditionalists who prefer other pursuits. Culture is the
captive of the degenerate elite. Americans are required to swim in the cesspool that
nihilists choose to fashion or shut up and slink away — for the time being. Any
objection deemed a notable threat leads to cancellation, a form of oppression. Government and
private institutions are used to cancel objectors. If not stopped and reversed, the
oppression will only increase.
Secession
Without Secession. [Scroll down] It's a trend that has been taking place
in New York, San Francisco and any other "sanctuary cities" where they separate themselves from
United States laws they don't like, even when they find their separation is a burden too difficult
to bear and seek financial aid from the rest of us to make it bearable. This is the insanity
that has gripped the United States after several internal coups against the rule of law and replace
it with the rule of power that we see playing out everywhere in the US today.
January 6th protesters are charged with insurrection, but leftist/communist/Muslims take over
the capitol during session and a few arrests take place, but nothing like the dragnet set out by
the FBI for J6ers. That's the rule of power. Any attempt to restore the rule of law,
such as vacating the chair when McCarthy betrayed the whole Republican Party, is met with
incredible pressure and the corruption of whoever is finally selected as the Speaker of the
House. But that's just under Republican control. This never happens under Democrat
control, because they are the ones behind the coups, who benefit from the rule of power.
COP
28 is the Codification of Elite Hate, and Lies all the Way Down. [Scroll down]
Such are the fruits of the modern environmental movement. Wherever they go, they destroy. In
Dubai this past week, at Cop 28, they devised a slave system for the world. After their globalist
system is in place, the only people who will make money will be the cartels. It'll take a couple of
decades, but our world will be a slave state run by criminals, just like my gorgeous province that both
sets of paternal great grandparents settled in the 1880's when there were 4,000 people in Vancouver.
They built the water systems, clear cut the neighborhoods, built churches, founded schools and the hospital
and made a welcoming city replete with one hundred years of peace and prosperity. Now, fathers are knifed
in front of their children outside of Starbucks, and people lie on streets dying from fentanyl and native
women are so desperate they prostitute themselves to serial killers, organ harvesters and slavers.
All that goodness extinguished under violence and greed and, above all, the wilful ignorance of the
comfortable. Many, many cities are experiencing the same and under COP28 it will get worse.
Americans
Must Choose Between Civilization or Its Destroyers. When Joe Biden entered office in
January 2021, the U.S. was naturally rebounding from more than a year of Covid-enforced
lockdowns. Overtaxed supply chains were still fragile. Pent-up demand was
soaring. Consumers were flush with government cash. Trillions of dollars had been
printed and infused into the economy to ward off a feared recession. All economists advised
not to increase the deficit, spike further consumer demand, and expand entitlements. Instead,
the Left did just the opposite. Four trillion dollars were printed and distributed. In
no time, Americans, recovering from Covid, next experienced the worst, but entirely preventable,
inflation in 40 years. Three years later, prices on staples remain 30-40 percent
higher than when Biden took office. Mortgage rates tripled.
ESG,
DEI, and the Rise of Fake Reporting. We know that the modern West has developed a
jaw-dropping degree of totalitarianism, wherein the bureaucracies of the state and the corporate
sector coordinate together to cripple humans outside their power networks and media channels.
But what are the mechanics of this coordination? To understand one of the games they play,
consider the rise of measures and standards associated with DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion)
and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) — both occupants of a highly abstract
thought dimension and the latter an especially incomprehensible word salad. ESG as a phrase
was coined in a 2006 United Nations report, gradually gaining adoption by private companies like
BlackRock via the production of annual ESG reports. Governments then started supporting these
voluntary efforts, and eventually began making them mandatory. Since early 2023, corporations
in the EU have been compelled to report on ESG. [...] Bahar Gidwani, co-founder of a company called
CSRHub, a compiler and provider of ESG company ratings, estimates that the collection of ESG data
alone is already costing companies $20 billion worldwide.
Average
Monthly Mortgage Payment Explodes to $3,322 In Biden's America. The average monthly
mortgage payment in Joe Biden's America has soared to $3,322, per analysis from the Wall Street
Journal. That $3,322 is nearly double the average monthly mortgage payment when His
Fraudulency assumed office. When former President Trump left office, the average monthly
mortgage payment was $1,787. [Tweet] "Homeownership has become a pipe dream for more
Americans," writes the WSJ, "even those who could afford to buy just a few years ago."
The
Totalitarian Three-Step. This simple political dance can be done to many types of
"music," for it has only three steps. We have seen its familiar choreography in efforts
against racism and crime, in steps to preserve our national security, in efforts to support
agriculture and education, et al; whatever the tune, the steps are the same:
[#1] Manufacture a "crisis"
[#2] Offer "emergency solutions" people would never accept except for the "crisis"
[#3] Results achieve the hidden goal, unrelated to the supposed problem [...]
We can see how this "dance" played out in the 2008 housing bubble
collapse: Step One, the "Crisis": Bill Clinton manufactured the "crisis," saying poor people
couldn't afford to buy their own homes. Of course, poor people have never been able to afford
their own homes, so why was suddenly a crisis? That situation is actually a motivation for
good behavior: work, save money, defer children until you're more financially secure, use alcohol
(or drugs) only moderately, if at all, etc. But no, to Clinton and the left it was suddenly a
"housing crisis." Step Two, Emergency "Solution": Force banks and mortgage companies to
lower housing loan standards so people who can't afford homes are able to get loans anyway.
This
Is the Age of Regress. It took a long time, and it was a protracted painful process
for Western civilization — white male Western civilization — to achieve
everything we have and take for granted, and are now losing to an invading horde. Today,
Enlightenment values, science, and Western culture have disappeared under the jackboot of "decolonization,"
"indigenous knowledge," "transphobia," and "Islamophobia." Objective knowledge and the concept
of intelligence are now forbidden "white constructs."
Saving
America Starts with Rejecting Digital Currency. The downward spiral of America is
punctuated by: 1) massive corruption of elites inside and outside government who go along with
manipulating the masses through creating and sustaining narratives that benefit them while keeping
citizens largely ignorant about what is really going down, including threats to their health and
their very survival; 2) the loss of confidence in the integrity of U.S. elections, which
demoralizes the public and undermines the legitimacy of government; 3) the erosion of privacy,
property rights, and freedom; 4) the Biden administration's deliberate open-border policy to
facilitate the influx of millions of migrants for political purposes; 5) the politization of the
judiciary and the attendant two-tiered justice system that has undermined the rule of law and
order; and 6) the atomization of American society and the deterioration of family and community
resulting from elite narratives that divide people — primarily around race and gender;
and 7) uncontrollable government profligacy and accompanying kickback corruption — the
continuing trajectory of which is certain to bring insolvency and collapse of the U.S. monetary
system, sooner than later.
Trump's
One Simple Campaign Message for Reelection. Since Biden took office in January 2021,
prices for essential goods and services have risen from 20 to 70 percent without a commensurate
increase in wages. By so many measures, we individually and collectively are worse off than
four years ago. The debt and deficit have exploded, along with interest payments on the
debt. We are at war in Ukraine and the Middle East. Purchasing power is down while
crime and drug overdoses are up. Illegal migration, that which we know about due to millions
of "getaways", is approaching 10 million, more than the population of most U.S. states.
Trump's energy independence has been replaced by much higher fuel and energy costs under
Biden. The question Donald Trump needs to ask voters is simple. Do you like the way
things are now or would you rather things go back to how they were four years ago? Four years
ago isn't some hypothetical walk back in time. Trump was president then and was responsible,
in large part, to the state of America.
Biden
administration is 'spooked' over price complaints. A Five Guys customer's video
complaining about the extremely high prices of the items at the fast-food chain has resurfaced on
multiple social media platforms. Michelle Newell posted the clip to TikTok explaining that
she and her husband had paid $42 for two cheeseburgers, a side of fries and two milkshakes.
The visibly upset patron told viewers that the couple had visited a Five Guys location on a
Saturday afternoon for lunch. Newell shared her anger last year — but a check by
DailyMail.com Friday evening confirmed it remains just as expensive to buy the same meal.
Newell said she ordered a regular cheeseburger for herself, another cheeseburger with mushrooms for
her husband and a side of fries. The couple also got two milkshakes. She said that
'we're absolutely done' and businesses are 'playing with their customers'. According to the
Five Guys current menu, regular-sized cheeseburgers cost $12.09 each, while regular fries are
priced at $6.89. [A]nd milkshakes cost $5.89 each.
The Editor says...
In my opinion, Whataburger makes a better hamburger for one third of the Five Guys' price.
But the word is getting around, which is why there's almost never a crowd at Five Guys.
Even so, the price of everything is going up rapidly, so the prices at Five Guys are not all that extraordinary.
They're just ahead of the curve.
Add
pee to the poop destroying American cities, with Baltimore as Exhibit A. One of the
solid hits that Ron DeSantis landed on Gavin Newsom during their Thursday night debate was his
waving a map graphically illustrating that San Francisco is covered with human fecal matter (aka
poop), something that magically vanished only when a Chinese dictator came to town. San
Francisco may be the worst city for human poop, but it's not the only problem facing urban
America. In Baltimore, the fact that the city has become a giant urinal is destroying the
city's historic buildings. [...] In Baltimore, a Democrat hellhole with gorgeous 19th- and early
20th-century architecture, public urination is eating away at the buildings: ["]Many of
downtown Baltimore's buildings are slowly being washed away. The problem is less flooding and
rain, more golden showers. That's right, pee is eroding thousands of historic buildings
downtown, the exterior bases corroding with every spurt.["]
Inside
the Woke Air Force. The military has always excelled at forming our diverse citizenry
into a unified force — it embraced "E pluribus unum." However, the U.S. Air Force
is currently indoctrinating airmen in neo-Marxist ideology and creating activists thorough its
Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity (DIE) programs. Some will push back and claim that DIE is
simply about being inclusive of diverse viewpoints, and if this were the case, there would be
little controversy. Yet when senior leaders discuss diversity, as in DIE, the word has a
neo-Marxist meaning. Herbert Marcuse in his 1969 "Essay on Liberation" stated the following:
"the familiar (used and abused) vocabulary of freedom, justice, and equality could thus obtain not
only new meaning but also new reality," with a "methodical subversion of the linguistic of the
Establishment."
Bidenomics:
Big Mac Extra Value Meals Selling for $18, Up $10 from 2018. A Big Mac burger, a
medium beverage, and a medium fry meal now costs 18 dollars in some locations, up $10 from 2018
when former President Donald Trump was president. The skyrocketing costs could impact the
2024 election, as the soaring inflation under President Joe Biden reflects poorly on his economic
plan of so-called "Bidenomics." The Big Mac Value Meal's price increase is just one example of
continued inflation, the New York Post's editorial board reported.
The Editor says...
The Big Mac is expensive in the same places that a gallon of gas is expensive, and for the same reasons.
Where's
America's Conor McGregor? [Scroll down] The U.S. is now effectively
bankrupt from these policies, these New Green Deal, industry killing, inefficient policies, thus
putting our national security in the hands of our creditors, or inflating our currency to the point
of worthlessness. They've chosen treason over pursuing policies that would benefit the
American people. They've chosen foreigners as their constituencies, allowing millions of
illegals, some of them with a tactical purpose, to flood our borders and displace the
population. Some of them serve China and some of them serve Islam or the objectives of big
political donors wanting the cheap labor illegals provide. None of them serve America.
The importations have allowed big corporations to use child labor, children with no identity, no
accounting for their time, no true benefactor for their tiny souls. They labor in service to
the global elite in one way or another, something completely illegal, but not out of the reach of
those who daily disregard any law with the aid and assistance of our broken political system.
The
World Is On Fire And Biden's Spineless Foreign Policy Isn't Helping. When we look
around the world, we see a world on fire and tensions at an all time high. Thousands of
innocent civilians murdered in Israel on Oct. 7th by the savage Hamas terrorists. Hundreds of
thousands of pro-Hamas protests in major cities such as London, Paris, Sydney. Thousands of
Americans and foreign nationals inciting violence against Jews with a Cornell student calling on
his fellow students to "slit the throats of Jews" on campus. This is all happening in 2023.
[Other examples omitted for brevity.] So yes, the world is on fire right now and that is
because America has a senile and weak Commander-in-Chief at the helm right now who talks out of
both sides of his mouth when it comes to foreign policy.
Dems
Are Getting Mugged By Reality, Often Literally. Some Democrats are waking up and
noticing that the policies they've been cheerleading have produced violent crime waves, a massive
migrant crisis, and genocidal antisemitism. One would hope the public at large is catching on
as well. Just over the past few weeks, we've seen a spate of headlines about lefty,
soft-on-crime Democrats attacked on the mean streets they've helped create. [Examples omitted
for brevity.] At the same time, Democratic mayors are finding their cities being mugged by the
illegal immigrants that Biden and his open-border cronies have let flood into the country.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams recenty announced plans to cut $4 billion from the city's budget,
including canceling the hiring of new police officers, to pay for the influx of more than 100,000
illegals in the past year.
New
York is now the 'least free' state, thanks to Democratic policies. New York state
once again ranks as the "least free" in America, as a new Cato Institute report nails woes The [New
York] Post has long decried. Cato's libertarians rank the Empire State dead-last, 50th, for
policies impacting economic, social and personal freedoms — and even where it scores
slight gains (for legalizing pot and reforming criminal justice), Albany plainly screwed up.
"Combined, state and local taxes are crushing. Debt is down from years past but is still the
highest in the country at 26.1 percent of income," notes the report. No wonder the state's
seeing a huge exodus to Florida (No. 2 in freedom, behind New Hampshire, and first in economic
freedom), with Miami now looking like a credible threat to displace Gotham as the nation's
financial capital. New York's endless and onerous state regulations also drive away
businesses (and jobs and people) — and its growing green "climate" rules will send power
costs soaring and further degrade the state's livability.
Put
a Chick in it and Make Her Gay. And Lame. There is no peace in the streets,
EVER, your people have started three wars in the last two years. You kill millions of babies
and agitate to kill more babies. You've demanded so much money for social justice, we are
broke ten times over, and risk a Weimar Germany hellscape. Your repulsive politicians have
enabled criminal cartels to loot the public purse. We are being invaded by millions of
military-aged men on the border, and at the border, hundreds of thousands of women and children are
raped and being sold into sex slavery. Women — most women — have zero
consciousness of any of this. Almost one hundred thousand children have vanished into the sex
trade. But they want the border open because COMPASSION. Never mind the sharp uptick of
crime, sooner or later, honey, you are going to want a gun and a man because the world you
created — go girl — is so dangerous. YOU ARE THE STUPIDEST
WOMEN WHO EVER LIVED.
Our
Institutions No Longer Curate Civilization. Schools, by and large have abandoned the
task of inculcating self-restraint and, instead, have adopted the dubious project of boosting
self-esteem. Factor in single-parent households, empty houses of worship, and demoralized and
de-funded police departments, and you can easily see the trouble we're in: Our instruments of
civilization have fallen into disrepair. One result is a major problem that hardly anyone in
or out of government ever discusses; namely, that an enormous number of American youth have not
learned either self-restraint or the difference between right and wrong. These kids' images
appeared in everyone's living room during the George Floyd riots. They continue to make the
evening news when they band together as flashmobs and ransack department stores or commit worse
atrocities.
Americans
now unwilling to fight for their country? A disheartening new poll conducted by the
Echelon Insights research institute purports to show that 72% of American voters would not be
willing to volunteer to fight for their country if the United States faced a major conflict. [...]
So let's take a look at why we won't fight. Here are 21 reasons, some admittedly tied together.
[#1] Nearly all of us have become soft and spoiled by our relative wealth and ease.
[...]
[#16] A lack of familiarity and experience with firearms, vehicles, machinery,
etc., and a desire to largely stay apart from them. (Completely opposite of American youth's
attitude from the Revolutionary War through Vietnam.)
[#17] Helicopter parenting, which prevents kids from experimenting, "inventing," and developing a spirit of adventure.
[#18] The attacks on "toxic masculinity" and the simultaneous feminization and infantilization of society.
[#19] Some too distracted by watching sports, streaming television shows, video games,
gambling, social media, and porn to dedicate the time and energy to much of anything else.
[#20] Too many consumed with "self-medication" via pot, alcohol, fentanyl, opioids, etc.
[#21] Too many overweight and out of shape.
And
Now, a Few Words from Election '24. As it stands today, the Biden administration has
propagated the expansion of divisive and destructive things like open borders; a looming recession;
high gas prices; trillions in debt; funded enemies; fentanyl deaths; unprosecuted crimes and riots;
energy shutdowns; "gender" madness infiltration; a woke and neutered military; indoctrination
instead of education; caliphates enriched with U.S weapons; corporate-targeted censorship; ignored
election integrity laws and more. I could go on, but I don't have all day. And
recently, the FBI has designated Donald Trump and his legion of supporters as "domestic terrorists"
who embody a "persistent, evolving, and deadly threat" to the United States. So, it's not the
FBI — who is actually advancing further division in the American electorate —
who is the bad guy, but the group of traditional Americans who want their freedoms and country
back. Even Hillary Clinton advanced the idea, with respect to Trump supporters, that "at some
point, maybe there needs to be a formal deprogramming of the cult members."
Democrats
finally solved the illegal immigration problem! Here are a few of their actions:
[#1] By turning off the fossil fuel spigot, they made us dependent on marginally effective and costly energy sources.
[#2] By mandating excessively stringent EPA clean air standards and other regulations,
they forced us into buying expensive and inefficient electric vehicles that have few re-charging stations
and depend on Chinese-sourced materials for their batteries.
[#3] By "tweaking" the tax system, they can punish wealthy Americans for their industriousness and innovation.
[#4] By dumbing down our educational system in the elementary through high school levels, they
can create new generations of history-illiterate automatons who will do their bidding at the ballot box.
[#5] By instituting "emergency measures" via executive orders as part of their federal,
state, and local toolbox, they can effectively circumvent existing legislation and give themselves carte blanche
to declare any challenge to their orthodoxy an "emergency."
Ingenious. Martial law without the guns. Liberty infringement by executive fiat.
Misguided
environmentalists have made our cities filthy. If you've visited a big city in recent
years, you've probably noticed that the streets are strewn with trash, litter is scattered all over
the sidewalks, the buildings are covered in graffiti, and off-putting smells seem to emanate from
every corner. Take San Francisco for example, which not that long ago was considered one of
the most beautiful cities in America. Today, the Golden City is one of the filthiest, with a
"dirtiness index of 189.03, ranking 9th among the 40 cities included in the report" and a "litter
index of 210.2," which ranks fifth. San Francisco's streets are riddled with garbage,
needles, and human feces. Its sidewalks are overrun with homeless encampments. And its
public spaces, once enjoyed by tourists, have become open-air drug markets in which vagrants can do
as they please.
The
eclipse of America's greatness. The commencement of our decline probably can be
traced to the Boomers' "God is Dead," "Flower Power" culture of the 1960s. That is the
generation that allowed an entire generation that followed it to be indoctrinated by a
"progressive" secular theology, which incubated in our schools and supplanted the Jewish and
Christian principles upon which this nation was founded. That is the brainwashed generation
that is now coming of age and taking control of our country's levers of power. And yet, the
remaining aging Boomers pretend to be shocked when the new "humanist" religion they enabled
displaces divinely inspired concepts that once undergirded our most unique Constitution —
like the inherent value of human life and the rule of law. That is the presently emergent
ideology now taking hold in our nation, wholeheartedly committed to the advancement of politically
malleable secular concepts like diversity, inclusion, and equity.
If
You Oppose Tyranny, You're on the FBI's AGAAVE List. Isn't it amazing that so many
hippy-dippy teenagers who "fought the man" during the '60s and '70s grew up to be more
authoritarian than anything they experienced in their youth? Isn't it surreal that so many of
them produced children who embrace authoritarianism as a quasi-religion? Just what kind of
counter-culture creates generations of government bureaucrats who instinctively demand that
Americans do exactly as they're told? The same people who once fought to have their voices
heard now insist on silencing all dissent. The same people who used to see mainstream culture
as antithetical to authentic art now demand that only one "politically correct narrative" ever be expressed.
It's
not about Israel: We are the target. Let's apply Occam's Razor to the question,
"what is the motive behind Biden's actions as president?" Biden's first steps were to
systematically dismantle everything Trump had accomplished during his presidency. Using the
"global warming emergency" as his excuse, Biden ended drilling for oil and natural gas and moved us
from energy independence to having to rely on our enemies to obtain dirtier oil. His
appointees to the military focused on wokeness, not readiness, and ended up with weakness.
His support of Ukraine, to the tune of $60 billion, with another $53 billion allocated, has
depleted our military of the supplies and ammunition we need to defend our own country. He
spent money we didn't have for projects we didn't need, and has run up the national debt to
$33.7 trillion -- fueling massive inflation that is ruining the lives of the "average Americans"
he claims to represent. He immediately began ignoring the law and opened our borders to all
comers — terrorists, drug dealers, human traffickers, and common criminals.
Fentanyl is now killing over 110,000 Americans per year, the equivalent of a Boeing 757-300
crashing every single day. Biden has done everything in his power to support Iran.
If
America Does Not Win, Its Enemies Do. In January 2021, Iran was on the verge of
economic asphyxiation, barely able to continue financing Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and
Hamas. [...] Russia had not yet invaded Ukraine. Chinese President Xi Jinping was not
threatening Taiwan. Then came the Biden administration's withdrawal from Afghanistan;
Russia's invasion of Ukraine; China's spy balloon, unstopped until it had finished collecting
information over America's significant military sites for a week; the Biden administration's
cancellation of the China Initiative that had been effectively combating Chinese espionage; failure
to close illegal Chinese police stations throughout the US; no response to roughly 70,000 Americans
each year killed by Chinese fentanyl; a US southern border overrun by seven million migrants, and
reported a known 1.5 million "gotaways" who have presumably evaded announcing themselves for a
reason; around 1,800 young Chinese men, in packs, with simialar clothes, haircuts and tattoos who
pretend not to speak English, some of whom US border guards recognize as members of China's
military; failure to prevent China buying American farmland, possibly either to grow their food or
destroy America's — especially near US military bases; a California laboratory with mice
bio-engineered to carry at least 20 deadly pathogens ready to be released into the US; Confucius
Institutes that had been closed down but were renamed and are now spreading from universities to
high schools; China's subversion of America's children by a "Trojan Horse" named TikTok; financing
Iran's nuclear weapons and terrorism programs by ignoring sanctions on Iran to enable it to profit
by close to $60 billion, funding the Palestinian Authority to the tune of nearly $1 billion,
unconditionally, despite its deadly pay-for-slay "jobs program," and last week, Secretary Janet
Granholm inviting the Chinese and Russian officials to inspect a US nuclear testing facility.
New
York loses 10 billionaires in four years as magnates flee for Florida. New York has
lost 10 billionaires in the last four years — three of whom fled to Florida —
leaving tax coffers lighter by tens of millions of dollars annually. This year 62 New
York-based billionaires appeared on the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans, compared to 72
in 2019 and 65 last year. Investor and Washington Commanders owner Josh Harris, whose net
worth was valued at $5.7 billion last year, has grown his fortune to $6.9 billion —
but he packed his bags for Florida. Other billionaires who have relocated from Gotham to the
Sunshine State in the last four years include hedge funder Daniel Och — whose net worth
now stands at $3.6 billion — and investor Carl Icahn, who's worth $6.9 billion.
The
Nashville shooter's motive was leftist beliefs. It has taken about seven months, but
we now know what was going through the head of the Audrey "Aiden" Hale, the Covenant School mass
murderer. No thanks to politicians, though. They have been delaying the release of the
handwritten "manifesto" for months. While it was expected to show that Hale had mental health
issues (as it can be argued any mass murderer does), it was speculated that the reason for not
releasing the document was because it would have shown the trans-man was targeting the school staff
and students because of their Christian beliefs. [...] In fact, the cover-up probably did more harm
to the trans community than releasing the manifesto would have done. This is because it
caused the trans activists to show their true colors by occupying state capitals. They made
transgenderism part of the motive through their actions, tying their cause to a mass shooting.
The cover-up tends to be worse than what is being hidden because it compounds the original problem.
Leftist
cities: Be careful what you wish for because you're going to get it. A young
friend of mine moved to Portland, Oregon, because, as a nascent hipster, he thought Portland would
be a cool yet affordable place to live. After less than a year there, he can't wait to
leave. The coup de grace to his dreams of a life in the hipster capital of the Pacific
Northwest was the mini tent city that sprang up immediately outside the door of his apartment
building. Apparently, stepping through human feces, needles, and used condoms just isn't hip.
[...] In 2020, Oregon voters decided to decriminalize the possession of hard drugs.
Technically, selling them is still a crime, but the police in Portland don't police that
crime. With a dramatically reduced force, why bother? When your city has gone in a few
years from one of the safest cities in America to one of its murder capitals, policing drug sales
is a low priority. The city has been adding police to its roster again, but it's a case of
too little, too late.
5
Items to Remember for When Disaster Strikes. "We, the People," through the bitter
experiences of the past two decades, no longer trust our major political, financial, medical, and
educational institutions to safeguard our lives, our freedoms, and our property. Our nation
had been invaded by eight million illegal aliens. We have allowed fentanyl to destroy our
inner cities. We have let Marxist-Leninist politicians to empty our prisons and they have
allowed crime and prostitution to flourish. We have let out our illegally elected president
run up the national debt and destroy our energy independence. Our national media, with few
exceptions, have become the yapping lapdogs of the Marxist Democrats. America has crossed the
tipping point. We can clearly see that the inevitable politically caused disasters such as
terrorism, overseas conflicts, and economic downturns will not be met with rational, coherent, and
comprehensive solutions from the current federal or state authorities. Each of us is now
personally responsible for the survival of his family and friends.
American
Jews on the Left Are Just Shocked by Their Fellow Leftists. The Left —
specifically schools of education and teachers unions — has ruined elementary schools
and high schools. And it has destroyed universities as institutions that allow open
dialogue. The Left affirms the lie that men can become women and women can become men, and it
works to crush the lives and careers of anyone who denies that people can become the other
sex. The Left supports the demise of women's sports by fighting to allow any man who says he
is a woman to compete in women's sports. The Left supports putting children who say they are
the other sex on hormone-blocking drugs, and supports allowing girls under the age of 21 (and
sometimes under 18) who say they are boys to have their breasts surgically removed. The Left
has been waging the most successful war against free speech in American history. As a result,
almost half of America's young people say they believe in free speech but not in "hate speech,"
which, of course, means they do not believe in free speech. The Left asserts that the human
fetus at any stage of development is, literally, worthless, certainly worth less than a dog, if the
woman carrying it wants an abortion. The Left has essentially destroyed mainstream
journalism. Mainstream media no longer hold truth as an ideal.
Payback:
Nashville Police Department Suspends 7 Detectives Over Leak of Transgender Shooter's
Manifesto. As RedState's Bonchie reported Monday, at least part of the manifesto of
transgender Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale was leaked to talk show host Steven Crowder, and
the writings revealed a disturbed person who wanted to punish students at the school as well as
privileged white people. Hale killed six people, including three children, in a March
shooting spree at a Nashville Christian school before she was taken out by quick-acting police
officers. The leak also enraged Nashville Democrat Mayor Freddie O'Connell, who demanded an
investigation. After months of deflecting on the issue, officials had refused to release the
writings and have never given a satisfactory explanation. According to a report, revenge came
swiftly, and the Nashville P.D. on Wednesday suspended seven detectives: [...]
Why
Much More Than the Manifesto is Needed on Nashville Shooter Motivations. Following
conservative pundit Steven Crowder's release of three pages of a "manifesto" written by the
Nashville school shooter, controversy erupted over whether Crowder selectively publicized content
to bias the public against leftist dogma. One the pages implicates "white
privilege" — a favorite bogeyman of critical race theorists and the progressive
left — as motivation for the killing rampage. [...] Instead of denouncing Crowder, his
critics should decry the government authorities who arbitrarily kept this killer's writings from
the public. Multiple media outlets requested the shooter's manifesto through public records
only to be denied by the Nashville Police Department and FBI. These outlets, including Star
News Digital Media Inc., are suing for the records in both district and federal court. Even
if all documents authored by the shooter are released, however, insight into the killer's
motivations will remain seriously incomplete. The murderer's medications also need to be
public information.
Audrey's
Manifesto. Audrey Hale is the transgender mass murderer who killed six people,
including three small children, at a Christian school in Nashville. Soon after her murder
spree, it came out that she left behind a "manifesto" that described her motivation. The
authorities have withheld that document from public view, contrary to the usual practice,
presumably because it makes the "trans" movement look bad. Someone leaked three pages of
notebook paper in Hale's handwriting to Steven Crowder. These pages are not the "manifesto,"
although they may come from the same notebook. Rather, they appear to be the notes that
Ms. Hale made on the last days of her life: [Tweet]
As if the political embarrassment is as bad as the shooting: Nashville
Mayor Launches Investigation into How Images from Shooter's Manifesto Were Released.
Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell (D) launched an investigation Monday into how purported images of
the transgender Nashville shooter's writings "could have been released." [...] Metro Law Director
Wally Dietz clarified that he will undertake an investigation at O'Connell's direction. "At the
request of the Mayor, I am initiating a full investigation with multiple law enforcement agencies
to determine exactly what happened," Dietz said. Beyond confirming the beginnings of the
investigation, Dietz walked the same line as the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) and the
Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD), stating, "I cannot confirm or deny the
authenticity of the documents due to the existing lawsuit." Early Monday, Breitbart News
spoke with the TBI and communications director Josh Devine, who said, "We're aware of the images,
yes, but we're not offering confirmation on their authenticity."
Nashville
Mayor Wants Legal On Trans Shooter Manifesto. Since the March 27, 2023, shooting at
the Covenant Christian School, many of us have been clamoring for release of the shooter's
writing. Many journals, a suicide note, and a memoir were left by transgender shooter
Audry/Aiden Hale. Today, three photocopied pages were obtained by a podcast host and the
Nashville Mayor is incensed. Furious. Legal action involving possible local and Federal
authorities is being looked into, according to Mayor Freddie O'Connell. If this is beginning
to sound like more tangling of the woven web, you are so right. Without wasting anytime at
all to mourn the six victims of the Christian School shooter, the media and opinion writers have
blamed various aspects of Tennessee life: Our Governor and open carry and a so called
anti-Drag bill. It couldn't have possibly been a severely mentally ill human. It had to
be the gun culture and hatred in Tennessee. Now, a rational being might think that the dead
sicko's writings might be important for the psychological community to study and for the general
public in spotting signs. A month after the shooting, we were told that the writings would
not be released completely because they were too disturbing. Which might be a reason they
should be released.
The
Nashville school shooter's manifesto reveals the left's favorite message. On March 27,
2023, a woman entered The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, and slaughtered three
nine-year-old children and three adults. It was only because police were nearby that she was
stopped. The woman, who claimed to be a so-called "trans man," left behind a manifesto.
However, while police departments and media outlets are usually quick to release statements from
mass murderers, government officials in this Democrat-run city refused to do so in this case.
Steve Crowder, though, obtained the first three pages of the manifesto, which he released
today. In addition to showing an obsessive level of preparation (this was no spur-of-the-moment
killing), the manifesto shows that the killer was motivated by one of the left's favorite mantras:
"white privilege."
Nashville
Trans Shooter Couldn't Spell White Privilege, But Knew She Hated It. Audrey Elizabeth
Hale, who called herself Aiden Hale in her fantasy life as a male, was a product of what the Left
has done to education. She couldn't spell "white privilege," but she knew it was evil, and
was determined to do her part to eradicate it from the face of the earth. On March 27, 2023,
she took a rifle into Nashville Covenant School, a Christian school in that city, and murdered
three nine-year-old children and three adults, one of whom was black. Audrey Hale epitomizes
what the Left inculcates into America's children: bitter hatred and envy, violence, gender
confusion, and abysmal ignorance of what everyone used to take for granted as necessary to learn in
order to function well in society. Ever since her mass murders, Hale's "manifesto" has been a
closely guarded secret. On Monday, however, political commentator Steven Crowder released
several pages of this manifesto, making it clear that Hale acted out of hatred for Christians,
white people and the wealthy, three groups the Left very much wants us all to hate.
Manifesto
of trans Nashville school shooter [was] leaked, [and is] full of anti-white hate. A
leaked manifesto reveals the Nashville trans school shooter had a violent hatred of the "little
crackers" with "white privilege" that were murdered. First obtained and released by the
Louder with Crowder conservative Rumble show, the three-page handwritten document shows Audrey
"Aiden" Hale meticulously planned their last moments and the mass school shooting at The Covenant
School on March 27. Three young children and three school staff were killed before Hale,
28, was shot dead by responding police. The manifesto, written in a spiral notebook, has
various screeds and thoughts scrawled down by pen.
Macy's
Thanksgiving Day Parade Goes Woke, Gender Non-Conformity Will Be Front and Center. A
treasured national tradition is getting a little less family-friendly this year. Americans
looking forward to the quintessential national holiday are getting a rude awakening with word that
the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in Manhattan is going to showcase more than street
versions of musical numbers and marching bands from around the country. The transgender
agenda will be taking center stage for some of the screen time, and one of Hollywood's biggest
liberals will be the featured performer.
San
Francisco McDonald's Shuts Down After 30 Years amid City's Decline. A McDonald's in
downtown San Francisco, California, has shut down as the city grapples with numerous issues
plaguing businesses in the area. [...] Meanwhile, local bank branches are closing up shop at their
San Francisco locations due to the city's economic decline and numerous other woes, Breitbart News
reported Wednesday. The report added, "some of the closures in San Francisco are related to
the ongoing exodus of retail businesses, many of which were exhausted by the persistent problem of
shoplifting." The Fox Business article also highlighted the fact McDonald's has been
concerned after California said it would institute a minimum wage increase that the business feared
would not be a good thing for its franchisees. Workers' baseline pay will rise to $20 an hour
come April 1.
California's
EV Conundrums. The crude oil industry's time in California is limited, and the
oil-refining industry is behaving as any industry would in comparable circumstances, by
transitioning its operations away from gasoline to activities that will prove to be more profitable
in the long run. [...] Refineries are also shutting down because California has imposed a new
regulation that bans the sale of gas-powered cars and light trucks by 2035 and the State requires
35 percent of new car sales to be zero-emission vehicles by 2026. It makes no economic sense to
invest in new capacity in a state that has de facto outlawed the industry's existence in a few years.
The
DNC Con Job to Come. We watch the news clips, on our televisions or computer screens,
and cringe, as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris stumble over their words, even uttering gibberish when
prepared remarks are on the printed page in front of them. It has been clear from the start
that neither one is up to the intellectual requirements of this (or any) job. When we can
manage a sense of humor, we laugh and attribute it to dementia with Biden, to sheer stupidity with
Harris. When we are not in a mood to laugh, however, we reflect on what it means to our
reputation on the world stage, as our enemies — military, economic, and
cultural — delight in our momentary weakness and move to take advantage while the
getting is good. We watch our nation's suffering as a result — homeownership out
of reach, career advancement opportunities disappearing, the prospect of retirement
evaporating. We watch other nations suffering as a result as well — Russia's
invasion of Ukraine, Europe's energy dependence upon Russia, Iran's attack on Israel through its
pawns in Gaza. We know that all this is happening for one reason: the weakness of
America, caused by the Biden-Harris regime.
Red
Light District Erupts in New York with Influx of Venezuelan Prostitutes. A whole new
red light district has erupted in New York City with a mass influx of Venezuelan migrant women
working as prostitutes. "Roosevelt Avenue in the Corona neighborhood of Queens is filled with
Venezuelan migrants offering sex services in the open-air, so-called 'Market of Sweethearts,"
reported the Daily Mail. Prostitutes have even been seen working in the neighborhood during
the day and sometimes soliciting children as they leave school. New York Mayor Eric Adams,
who previously warned that the migrant crisis would dramatically alter his city, said that the
eruption in prostitution just represents yet another example of its impact.
Joe
Biden Isn't 'Managing' Or Confronting Problems. Joe Biden Is The Problem.
There's a simple pattern that the media follow when covering each new crisis that pops up during
Joe Biden's catastrophic presidency: A calamity occurs either domestically or abroad, and
rather than examining the cause, the media instantly frame Biden as a hero at battle. [...] But
back to Biden. He's not confronting or managing a series of events that happened to
him. He and his party actively created them. Or, at minimum, they created an
environment that anyone could have predicted would lead to them. Russia has long insisted
that NATO stop expanding along its border. The second Biden got into office, he pushed for
Ukraine's membership. Israel had its country under relative control for years right up until
Biden's team gifted Iran, the Jewish state's greatest threat, $6 billion worth of goodies.
We were energy independent until Biden said we couldn't be. The economy was working itself out
until Biden and his party thought it would be a good idea to pump hundreds of billions of dollars
more into Covid-era welfare ("childcare" and "living assistance"). And let's not start on the
electric vehicle scheme, wherein car companies grabbed another round of multi-billion-dollar
taxpayer funds, courtesy of Biden, for a product that barely works (and for which manufacturers are
now rolling back their production of).
They shut down the coal-fired power plants and look what happened. Rollin',
rollin', rollin' blackouts in... Tennessee?! [W]hat has the TVA —
America's largest government-owned utility, by the by — given up and replaced that
brings them to a place where they have to institute rolling blackouts? The first thing to
consider is the influx of people the region is seeing. According to the TVA's own webpage
[...] It sounds like everyone who didn't move to Florida stopped in TN. [...] But if you can't keep
the power on, those gains will be fleeting. The second thing to consider is, again, the fact
that the TVA is owned by the federal government. It puts them under extraordinary pressure to
go along with whatever the latest "thing" is as far as the clean/renewable energy push goes, and it
seems this is where it's starting to trip them up. They're shooting for "net zero" emissions by 2050.
Oakland,
California, is falling apart. Last month, at a small church in East Oakland, Calif.,
hundreds of fed-up city residents gathered outside of a community safety meeting held by Mayor
Sheng Thao and District Attorney Pamela Price. The group was as diverse as it was united, and
despite the reduction in their quality of life over the past year, there was a palpable energy of
hope. Seneca Scott, a community leader, hosted the get-together under the banner of his
Neighbors Together Oakland (NTO) organization. A one-time Oakland mayoral candidate, Scott
formed the group in 2021 as a response to the influx of outside money and special interest groups
that have contributed to his city's decline.
Now
All Americans Can See the Insanity of the Biden Energy Strategy. We've been warning
regularly on these pages that the Biden war on American fossil fuels is not just an economic
calamity, but a national security threat as well. We have known for fifty years that
terrorist organizations like Hamas are primarily financed with petro-dollars. Just as Biden
has aided and abetted the Russian war machine in Ukraine, he has enriched Middle East oil-producing
nations like Iran as well. Our latest CTUP analysis finds that the reduction in US oil output
under Biden from the Trump trend has cost the U.S. roughly $500 million a day. Much of that
money has been transferred week after week from American producers to nations hostile to the U.S.
and Israel.
The
Late Hour of Our Republic. It is my belief, and solely my own, that we, the United
States of America, have been captured by the powerbase of the elite and that our representatives
and senators now respond to that powerbase, that the people, that are the powerbase of America,
have been conquered. It was done in secret, behind our backs, not in a war or through
attrition, but by trickery and now whatever fighting we do for our nation is done for the powerbase
of the elite. [...] I tell you that the disinterestedness of our elected officials in our pleas to
rectify the election process is a symptom of this capitulation to the powerbase of the elite.
They don't care, because they don't have to. Anything that could implicate them in the
fraudulent elections is discarded by those same elite. This is the same with the immigration
laws, with the laws against theft, rape and murder. They don't matter, because we do not live
in a constitutional republic. Our rights have been subsumed by their system of graft and
clout, of power and prestige.
Joe
Biden has blown up the world. On day one of the Biden administration, he canceled the
Keystone Pipeline, putting thousands of skilled workers out of work. Over the ensuing months,
he canceled oil leases, stopped fracking, and drained our strategic oil reserve. All this was
surely intentional; he means to starve the American people of energy, making what is available more
expensive by the day. Like Obama, he means to transform America, and not in a good way.
The most catastrophic stunt Biden pulled was the tragically ill conceived withdrawal from
Afghanistan. He left billions in state-of-the-art military equipment to the Taliban along
with the Bagram Air Base, which sits close to China. Thirteen young American patriots were
killed by the sheer ineptitude of their leaders. This tragic maneuver telegraphed Biden's,
and thus America's, weakness to every leader in the world. Russia thought taking Ukraine's
Russian-speaking border regions would be a cakewalk. Our careless warmongers in the Biden
administration thought their puppet-of-the-oligarchs Zelensky would easily defeat Russia with
billions of U.S. dollars. The military complex wanted that war. All of that went
awry. Here we are a year and a half later; Ukraine has lost half a million people and is
still begging for billions more in aid. None of this would have happened if Trump had been in office.
Over
545,000 New Yorkers left the state in 2022, headed for Florida, Texas and further: census
bureau. Beset by high taxes and quality of life woes, 545,498 New Yorkers left for
other states in 2022, according to US Census data. Top destinations included Florida —
the most popular choice — followed by New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania as well as
more distant states like Texas and California. The exodus was partly offset by more people moving
to the Empire State in 2022 than any year over the last decade, with 301,000 new residents making the
transition. Despite that uptick, New York still suffered a net population loss of 244,000.
Watch
Out, You Might Get What You're After. The crumbling debt sodden American Empire is
being led by an outright moron and anyone expecting Biden to do anything other than make things
worse, has probably been jabbed five times, has a BLM, Israel, and Ukraine flag in their Twitter
profile, and still thinks Hunter Biden's laptop is Russian disinformation. The U.S. provoked
Ukraine conflict has drained the coffers of the U.S. and EU of hundreds of billions, while
depleting their precious armaments, just as WW3 launches. With the Middle East set to explode
in a ball of fire, the world's flow of precious oil, is in danger of being cutoff abruptly.
Luckily, Dementia Joe depleted our Strategic Petroleum Reserve for election purposes, leaving us
with 17 days worth of supply. Maybe Biden's green energy windmill and solar farms will fill
the gap when gasoline prices soar to $6.00 a gallon and 1970s like gas lines become common again.
In
the Mouth of Marxist Madness. Americans [are] under siege from an Orwellian deep
state that manipulates the public by distorting history and undermining the meaning of words.
In a nation that celebrates George Floyd as a hero, clings to the "Hands up, don't shoot" lie as a
sacred "truth," and blames Hillary's election loss on Russian bots, propaganda is king. The
U.S. government fights racism by institutionalizing racial preferences. It supports Black
Lives Matter and Antifa domestic terrorists while locking up American patriots as "domestic
enemies." It replaces impartial justice with "social justice" and equality under the law with
"equitable" special privileges. "Climate change" communism kills property rights.
Meme-makers are imprisoned, but Russia collusion hoaxers are not. Gene-altering serums are
called "vaccines." And generations of judges have replaced the U.S. Constitution with their own
postmodern revisions.
Obama's
Racist Chickens Have Come Home to Roost. Rather than elevate black people, the far
left has created a situation where black crime is legal and white people are racist if they
notice. Shoplifting alone has gutted major cities, and most of the videos we see show black
perps. Some localities have made it illegal to try to stop thieves. Businesses even
fire employees for trying to stop criminals from stealing, to the point that the stores close and
the workers lose their jobs. Hundreds of businesses have left West Coast cities and taken
their jobs with them. Once flourishing cities like Seattle, San Francisco, and Portland are
turning into ghost towns. Crime, drugs, and tent cities have taken over, as planned by the
Marxists looking to enslave us all. [...] This is what happens when lefty politicians convince
black people they are "victims" and then make crime an entitlement. Black crime is now
acceptable. What could go wrong? The truly insidious move here is that someday a
reckoning will occur. Whether a patriotic president wins or globalists take over our nation,
criminals, many of them black, who enjoyed surfing the Democrat-created crime wave will likely end
up in prison, never realizing they were pawns.
Billionaire
suggests that Northeast cities like NYC and Boston are hemorrhaging income due to political
ideology. With a single tweet, Chamath Palihapitiya, the CEO of Social Capital,
recently became the provocative main character of the day on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Palihapitiya sent out a screenshot of a Bloomberg article based on how six southern states
had contributed more to U.S. gross domestic product than the northeast corridor of Washington-New
York-Boston for the first time in history. But it was his accompanying caption that sparked
hot debate: "Go woke, go broke," he said, implying that the ongoing culture war and economic
policies of northeastern states had facilitated the migration of wealth and economic power to the
South. While tweeps weighed in with their own thoughts — including fellow
billionaire Mark Cuban — here's what the numbers show is really going on. [...]
Seattle
lawmaker furiously denies her support for defunding the police is to blame for soaring crime in
city. Council member Kshama Sawant said the city should not add police resources to
the Central District neighborhood after 24 children had to crawl to the bathroom of a daycare
facility following a shooting. The incident happened on Monday outside of the A-4 Apple
Learning Center, with a 47-year-old man being shot on the street. A bullet pierced through
the window of the center, with co-owner Appollonia Washington telling staff and children inside to
'army crawl' to the bathroom and hide. In response, the facility shared a statement slamming
the City Council and its members for allowing violence to 'plague' the area.
Joe
Biden Has Killed the American Dream. If you only paid attention to the mainstream
press, you'd be inundated with a constant stream of articles ensuring you how great the economy is.
"Look at the jobs market," the headlines have blared while promoting the supposed historic
resiliency of our present moment. The full-court press has been so strong that the Biden
administration has even taken to labeling it "Bidenomics," a marketing ploy that has proven less
than ideal. What looks good on paper, though, is often not representative of the real-world
impact. Thus, Joe Biden's current economic malaise, for which Americans are assured they
should be incredibly thankful, is hitting American families far harder than Paul Krugman's latest
cherry-picked bar graph indicates. Shockingly, if you ignore how much things actually cost
across the board, you can spin a rosy picture in which a greatly delayed slowing of the rate of
inflation is actually an incredible accomplishment. But back in the real world, this reality
still remains.
Where
There is No Respect for Life, Evil Flourishes. The loss of respect for life has also
begun to dramatically infiltrate the American ruling elites and the overall society as over the
past two decades the following, previously unthinkable, changes have occurred within the United
States:
• Unfettered abortion up to the point of birth and post-birth
infanticide has become a policy position of the Democrat Party.
• Euthanasia
is openly discussed and supported by an ever-growing (73%) segment of the population.
• Sexually confused teens are being coerced into mutilation and permanent disfigurement
in order to appease the gods of transgenderism, accompanied by an unabashed campaign to legalize
pedophilia.
• A significant plurality of Americans is demanding the
censorship, imprisonment, and persecution of their political adversaries while they, and recent
Islamic immigrants, are openly supporting and justifying the slaughter of Jews by Hamas.
• Tribalism has been mainstreamed and with it the belief that certain ethnicities
or races are inferior to others and also responsible for society's ills, therefore, they are deserving
of disrespect, abuse and discrimination.
The path the United States is presently traveling will inevitably lead to the darkening shadow of
unfettered evil descending upon the land leading to national self-destruction.
"Barry's
Fingerprints Are All Over This". Obama didn't travel to Cairo, Egypt for his first
foreign policy trip accidentally; he did it with great intent and purpose. The layers and
layers of ideologues he and Hillary embedded in the institutions of the State Dept are as deep as
the layers of ideologues Obama embedded in Main Justice and the intelligence community. The
time when Barry needed to give directions is long past. The embeds are self-aware, acting on
purpose, and the outcomes we see today are simply manifestations of that activity. It is also
worth remembering there's an entire new generation of people, who were in their 20's and 30's
comfortably oblivious to what was taking place between 2009 and 2017, when the embeds were
installed. That era of the American people is only now starting to have their own slow
awakening to the damage as it surfaces. When Obama aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood, only
a small percentage of the American people actually saw the big picture and realized the potential
for long term issues.
Due
to Dem-Backed Law, Prostitution Spreads In California. Californians are complaining
about barely-clothed prostitutes roaming the streets in broad daylight, an issue heightened by
Democratic Gov. Newsom signing Senate Bill 357, local officials say. SB 357, which was
authored by Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener and backed by the ACLU, decriminalizes
"loitering with intent to commit prostitution." Critics say the law effectively decriminalizes
prostitution in California. National City Mayor Ron Morrison, an independent, recently
criticized the law, telling Fox News that prostitutes are now "wearing less than what you would
consider a scanty negligee" and "flaunting it in everybody's face."
The Editor says...
There is a very effective way to get scantily-clad whores out of the streets: Stop voting for Socialist Democrats.
Can
We Please Stop Pretending There Aren't Animals Among Us? Political correctness has
been immolated and replaced by its tantrum-throwing progeny, "woke," which decided that ignoring
crimes by minorities is no longer sufficient. One must now cheer on, say, rampant
shoplifting, lest one find oneself the target of a fusillade of Antifa spittle launched by spoiled
demons from spendy neighborhoods who grew up in lavish bedrooms full of participation
trophies. I remember when pedophiles were considered monsters. [...] The next step in the
cultural Marxism playbook is making it a-ok for terrorists to rape Jewish women, mince Jewish
babies, and burn Jewish people to death in the name of Allah. If you ask the rich kids of
Harvard, they'll actually tell you the Israelis are to blame for the recent carnage. I'm not
sure who is responsible for such hatred, the brats themselves or their chardonnay-sucking "cool
moms" who never said "no" to them.
Thanks
to Biden's Open Borders, in Dem Cities it's Black vs. Brown. The last time the
black vs. brown tension was this thick, you could cut a chunk and fry it as the Black Lives Matter
riots were tearing Chicago into pieces. Black protesters led by media-protected white
leftists tore up downtown to hurt Donald Trump's re-election prospects. This was their
insurrection. It took lives and cost billions of dollars in damages in cities across
America. They tore up the downtowns and black neighborhoods and black-owned businesses.
Then Mayor Lori Lightfoot was in literal panic. But in Chicago, the BLM rioters and their
white Democrat Socialist handlers did did not tear up the old and iconic Latino neighborhoods on
18th and 26th street. Why is that? Because Latino street gangs publicly threatened to
shoot Black Lives Matter rioters if they were found in the Hispanic neighborhoods. And so,
BLM backed off. But now? The tension if not the physical damages are high, with
longtime black residents told to step off the corner, to step back and give their place in line to
illegal Latin immigrants who are being courted as new prospective voters by Biden Democrats.
Black voters have been betrayed.
A
Clockwork Orange as Left-wing Politics. Starting with Antifa and BLM riots of
2020 — fully supported by leftist local governments — urban centers in
Democrat-led cities like San Francisco have spiraled into a "doom loop" wherein urban business
flees "flash mob" looting and skyrocketing violent crime. A few examples:
• San Francisco: After flash mobs looted Neiman Marcus and other stores, two dozen
retailers have left. Walgreens closed 12 San Francisco stores, while upscale Nordstrom pulled its two
stores, including its Westfield mall flagship. Australian furniture retailer Coco Republic, which invested
heavily in its showroom off Union Square, abruptly closed the store less than a year after opening across from
Macy's. Once fashionable Union Square is now a ghost town.
• Los Angeles: Even two years ago, 20+ robbers at the popular Grove shopping center
used a sledgehammer and assorted weapons to smash one of a Nordstrom's windows, reportedly taking men's clothing.
That was child's play, however, compared to the recent flash mob of 100+ that looted a 7-Eleven.
• Philadelphia: Even the examples above pale in comparison to the two-night
Philadelphia flash mob spree featuring caravans of hundreds who wrecked dozens of stores, including T-Mobile,
Apple, Lulu and Footlocker outlets. One of the looters, a social influencer calling herself "Meatball,"
gleefully livestreamed the event to 181,000 Instagram followers, rationalizing it by explaining "Everybody
gotta' eat." A tearful "Meatball" seemed less gleeful when charged with six felonies.
Could
Kevin McCarthy's Ouster Be a Tipping Point? [Scroll down] You don't need
me to recount how our country differs from when you grew up. You don't need me to tell you
that we are nearing the end of a social and economic war where we are on the losing end. You
don't need me to tell you that Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and a veritable army of anti-Americans have
taken over our country and are rapidly depleting not only our culture and world standing but are
figuring out how to empty your pockets and turn us into a beggar nation. Like the French, we
watch it happen in real time. The fundamental difference today is that we've had much more
time to assimilate what is happening to us, yet we stand mute and feckless as our world collapses
around us.
Portland
residents [are being] told not to call police for help. Portland officials were proud
of themselves in 2020 when they defunded the Police Bureau by $15 million instead of increasing
it by $3 million as planned. One commissioner was even upset that the council didn't
remove more from the budget. [...] A year later, the council was trying to add funding and retain
the city's police officers. "The added police spending is occurring amid a year of a record number
of homicides, the city's greatest police staffing shortage in decades and reform recommendations
made by the U.S. Department of Justice," PBS reported. It was too little, too late. The
damage was done, and the city has yet to recover. In fact, the city government is telling
residents not to call police unless their lives are at risk. Given how dangerous Portland has
become, it might not affect the volume of calls to police because more residents' lives are at risk
from criminal activity than ever before.
Far
Left San Francisco: Less Than 3% Of Restaurants Have NOT Been Vandalized In Last 30 Days.
As lawlessness in San Francisco shows no signs of abating, local businesses are reeling from the consequences.
A recent survey from the Golden Gate Restaurant Association reveals that a staggering 97% of 74 restaurants
surveyed in the city have fallen victim to graffiti or property crime in the last month. While the liberal
mayor pours money into temporary relief, the persistent problems of crime, homelessness, and open-air drug use
are driving businesses and consumers away.
Dealing
with Consequences. [Scroll down] Consider the crime wave that is currently
ruining cities with Democrat mayors. Far-left Soros funded district attorneys such as Alvin
Bragg and Chelsa Boudin and George Gascón have made the decision to not prosecute
criminals. As a consequence, crime is rampant and 'Criminal Justice Practices to Enhance
Public Trust and Public Safety' are nonexistent. To say that Biden has removed our
opportunity to vote on his decisions concerning his policies would be a major understatement.
But that's only half the story. Biden is trying to create a consequence-free society.
Decisions have consequences in the real world, but not in Biden-world. Making decisions
without consequences is simply not possible. Every decision has consequences, be they
favorable or unfavorable, expected or not, intended or unintended, or some combination thereof.
Unsuited
for the Senate. Prior to Schumer's decree, Fetterman was voting from the Senate's
doorway, but no more. Last week, sporting a G. Gordon Liddy mustache that seemed more suited
for a character in the Far Side, Fetterman presided over the Senate in short-sleeves and
shorts. Fetterman's apparel is fit for the locker room, not Congress. Dressing like an
adolescent is contempt for the office and the people he represents. Schumer has no more
regard for the Senate decorum and dignity than does Fetterman. The Biden administration has
appointed two men in dresses to senior positions, so you could argue Fetterman is just following
suit — minus the suit. Democrats constantly lament about White male privilege but
have changed the protocol for a White male who would be just as comfortable in an orange
jumpsuit. Gone is any pride of appearance. Standards of professionalism and propriety
are disdained. Once upon a time in America, casual dress was for weekends and
tailgating. Now it is everyday wear in the U.S. Senate.
Radical
Democrats' greatest fears are religion, truth, honesty, and integrity. I am confident
that most Americans are worn down by all the chaos that exists in our country, Independent,
Republican, and Democrat voters alike. We have a president who is clearly age-disabled.
We have 2024 presidential elections where both party leaders are accused of corruption. Women
and girls are under attack. Parents are asked to surrender their children to the state.
Children are taught to lie to parents. Religious freedom is considered a terrorist act.
Crime and homelessness are rampant in cities. We can't afford food, gas, or a house.
Our educational standards have failed. A costly war is in Ukraine. Simply being "white"
makes you racist. Immigration is out of control and destroying communities. The black
community's need for school choice is ignored. Citizens are fearful after defunding the
police. Radicals are destroying American history. Corruption exists with our press and
social media. As an older senior, I ask, how did it get this bad in just three years?
Guess
who's upset now about illegal aliens depressing wages. Karl Marx once wrote of
repeating events in history that they occur "first as tragedy, then as farce." That was my
reaction to an article appearing in the Thursday, September 22 New York Post. The
article focused on complaints of existing illegal aliens in the metropolitan New York City
area. The huge influx of illegal aliens has them occupying 50% of the hotel rooms in the
city. They are sleeping all over the sidewalks in Midtown Manhattan. Mayor Adams has
declared that the costs of dealing with them "will destroy the city." NYC has prided itself on
being a sanctuary city willing to house and feed any and all illegal aliens. Daily television
showed city authorities meeting the arriving buses from the border, shaking hands and greeting the
new illegals. But the large flow from the border has swamped the system. As was posited
in Field of Dreams: "If you build it, they will come." They did, and they did.
Biden
Marches With Autoworkers While Causing Their Problems. The UAW is demanding a 35%
hike in pay and benefits over four years, as well as automatic cost-of-living adjustments, just
like in the 1970s, along with a four-day workweek. The inflationary 1970s are calling Biden,
and they want their benefits back — with a post-COVID-19 four-day twist. According
to news reports, Biden told workers, "You should be doing incredibly well." But he has
singlehandedly, through the power of his executive branch, caused them to face job losses and
higher inflation. By changing his policies, Biden could address some of the fundamental
reasons for their strike; namely, job loss because of mandatory vehicle electrification and higher
inflation resulting from his war on fossil fuels, resulting in higher energy costs. Both were
imposed by the executive branch without support from even the Democratic Congress in place during
Biden's first two years in office.
The
Role of the Smartphone and Digital Content in the Left's Revolution. Christopher
Rufo, Douglas Murray, and Victor Davis Hanson have all pointed out that we are in the middle of a
cultural revolution that is assailing our culture, values, traditions, and institutions, our
national security and sovereignty, our economy, our Constitution and rule of law, and our overall
quality of life. The percentage of Americans saying they are worse off is at its highest
level since 2009. One of the most fascinating aspects of this obvious decline is that
leftists have managed to convince a very large portion (in many cases a majority) of Americans to
support the divisive and corrosive policies producing their own destruction. What arguments
have leftists used to accomplish this? Chiefly, though not exclusively, they have employed a
trifecta of completely nonsensical tropes about race, gender, and climate.
It's
not working. First, I do think that the economy is hurting people big time, from the
price of gasoline to the price of cereal to everything else that you can imagine. I see this
every Sunday when the waiter puts the lunch bill on the table. More than once, my wife has
given me that "I don't believe this" look. Add to this the border crisis which is now a
national problem rather than only El Paso, Texas. For a while, the media could avoid talking
about the border. It's different when New Yorkers see migrants sleeping on their streets or
Texas border cities are screaming for help. Second, more and more Americans do not want to
destroy their country in order to destroy Trump.
I
Bet You We're Not Better Off Now With So Much Gambling. I'm no puritan, I honestly
don't care what you do with your money as long as you don't expect me to subsidize it or make up
for your mismanagement of it. The problem is, we are all being asked, or made, to subsidize
it now. When gambling took some effort, things were different. Yes, there were still
degenerate gamblers, but not that many. Now, in states like Michigan, you can play casino
games for money on your phone with your credit card. What could go... right?
Nothing. I keep citing Michigan because I grew up there, and was back not that long ago and
noticed a lot of television commercials for casino apps. There are three full casinos in the
city of Detroit. The argument for allowing them was the reported million dollars per day
going across the Detroit River to Casino Windsor, with their neon sign glowing its siren song to
people who couldn't resist its call. The city and state want a piece of that action, so they
got their own.
Berkeley Retail Shutting
Down Just Like San Francisco. Rising crime, looting, and tolerance of drug-addled
transients taking over the streets has led to an exodus of retail establishments from San
Francisco. Now another Democrat-controlled California city is enjoying the same exodus of
retail establishments: Berkeley. Here YouTuber Metal Leo looks at streets near Cal
Berkeley University, where store after store after store are closed, boarded up or for lease.
[Video clip] Banks, pharmacies, cinemas, pizza chains: all closed. The only thing
that seems to be open are Starbucks.
Is the
Left Happy That They Got Their Wish? Critical legal theory has now trickled down into
most of our large cities. It insists that criminals are not criminals at all, but rather
victims of prior racial and class oppressions. Thus their victims should blame society for
their injuries, not their predatory victimizers. Critical legal theory is a sort of Marxist
redistribution schema — the middle class almost deserves its equal share of violence
commensurate with that of the inner city. As a result, in Chicago and Oakland and hundreds of
other cities, prosecutors let out criminals without bail or sometimes even indictments —
in part out of spite and hatred of middle- and upper-middle-class America that supposedly deserves
a payback for its bourgeois indifference, in part out of sheer ignorance of the unleashing of human
nature once all deterrence is removed. And the result? Anxious liberal professionals
are fleeing our major cities in the greatest out-of-state migrations since the 1930s. Or they
simply avoid their own downtowns.
All
Over America, Blue Cities Are Facing A Severe Shortage Of Police Officers. Do you
remember a few years ago when blue cities all over the nation wanted to defund the police?
Needless to say, that didn't work out too well. Wherever police budgets were slashed, crime
rates shot up. Today, we are in the midst of a massive crime wave that is sweeping the
country. In fact, it has gotten so bad that even many our most liberal politicians are
desperate to restore law and order. But that won't be so easy, because after everything that
has transpired blue cities are discovering that they are having a really difficult time finding
enough warm bodies to serve in their crime-ridden communities.
The
Destruction of the United States Is Intentional. Here's What Will Happen Next.
The commies began the operation decades ago. As Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov warned, the
college professors and civil rights leaders indoctrinated — or as Bezmenov calls it,
demoralized — generations of Americans and convinced them to hate their nation and,
frequently, themselves. The Soviets successfully infiltrated the black communities, convinced
them they were less than, and let the anger seethe into subsequent generations. That is why
we see highly educated and successful black folks like the Obamas, MSNBC's Joy Reid, and the
deranged Cori Bush screaming about racism, even though they are one-percenters. If systemic
racism were real, how did these poor, indentured serfs get so far?
Why
Do The Poor Countries Always Stay So Poor? It's now more than sixty years since the
independence movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s transformed nearly all of sub-Saharan
Africa into independent countries. Hopes soared for a new era of progress and
prosperity. But six plus decades on, with essentially no exceptions (maybe Botswana?), the 49
countries of sub-Saharan Africa are about as poor as ever. [...] The funny thing about the bad luck
of sub-Saharan Africa is that it seems to afflict all 49 countries at the same time, even as
elsewhere in the world at least a few countries (South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand) are able to find
the magic recipe to rise out of poverty.
The
Feds Sue New York Landlords for Not Allowing a Tenant's Emotional Support Cat.
Federal housing officials are charging a pair of New York landlords with violating fair housing law
for making no exceptions for emotional support animals in their "no pets" policy. On Monday,
the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced it had filed a complaint
against Ronit and Voyl "Tom" Mecham — owners of a two-unit rental property in Jamestown,
New York — for denying a tenant's requests to keep a cat on the premises. The
Mecham's tenant, whose name is redacted in the complaint, had requested in November 2021 that they
be allowed to have the cat as part of the treatment they were receiving for unspecified mental
health issues. The tenant said they would provide a doctor's note justifying the emotional
support cat.
They
Were Too Young to Consent but Now They're Old Enough to Sue. An unnamed woman who
once identified as transgender filed suit last week against the University of Nebraska Medical
Center, Nebraska Medicine, and three doctors for "negligence and lack of informed consent" after
she had a "gender-affirming" double mastectomy at the age of 16 in 2018. Now a young woman,
the plaintiff will never nurse her children, assuming she is still able to bear them after four
years of testosterone treatments that "caused significant mental and physical harm." All
because the medical industry — I used to call it "healthcare" — decided that
surgery and hormones were the answer to a troubled teenager's emotional and mental health issues
and, according to the lawsuit, bulldozed her into their preferred "treatment." That poor kid
doesn't seem to have ever stood a chance against the adults arrayed against her.
To Market,
to Market. Among the factors weighing heavily on public disaffection with Democratic
governance is the downturn occasioned by their policies, which hamper production, raise prices, and
allow widespread retail theft. Robert Barnes has done the math: "Under #Trump, real median
family household incomes rose 15% in just 3 years, the highest rate since after World War 2. Under
#Biden, real median family household incomes fell 5% in just 3 years, the fastest rate of decline
since the Great Depression." To be sure, the bien pensant big thinkers don't see this as a
problem. The New York Times columnist Paul Krugman offers up a defense —
essentially, voters shouldn't believe their lying eyes. "The economic data have been just
surreally good. Even optimists are just stunned," says Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman.
How
Woke Lefties Ruined Aspen. That story begins only 150 years ago with, appropriately
enough, a somewhat crackpot idea called "free silver." For the last quarter of the 19th century,
the idea kicked around that the government should buy large quantities of silver to create an easy
money supply. And for a time, it did just that. Aspen, originally called Ute City, had
some of the largest silver deposits on Earth, and it boomed, reaching a population of more than
12,000. Congress repealed the Sherman Silver Purchase Act in 1893, ending the artificial demand for
the metal, and Aspen became a quasi-ghost town with a population at the dawn of the 20th century of
only a few hundred. After a long downturn, Aspen boomed again immediately after World War II,
with skiing as the new silver. Beaton tells with verve the very human story of Army veterans
and Chicago businessmen coming together to create a ski resort. Aspen's first modern chair
lift was opened in 1947, one of the longest in the world. Aspen became not just a town, but a
brand — now one of the most prestigious in the world. But Aspen then had a second
downfall. The 1960s introduced America to drug abuse and other moral laxness on a widespread scale.
Inflation
accelerated in August to 3.7% as consumer prices heat up again. Inflation accelerated
for a second straight month in August, reversing previous declines as consumers continued to
grapple with the rising cost of everyday goods. The Labor Department said Wednesday that the
consumer price index, a broad measure of the price for everyday goods including gasoline, groceries
and rents, rose 0.6% in August from the previous month, in line with estimates. It marked the
steepest monthly increase this year, underscoring the challenge in taming high inflation.
Prices climbed 3.7% from the same time last year, faster than both the 3.2% reading in July and the
3.6% estimate from Refinitiv economists.
We
Haven't Had a Year This Bad Since Obama Was President. The last time Americans saw a
drop in household income as large as we did last year, Barack Obama was president. The Census
Bureau on Tuesday released its calculations for the change in real median household income for last
year. By its calculations, the median income of U.S. households fell in 2022 by 2.3 percent,
the worst decline since 2010. History may not necessarily repeat or even rhyme, but it certainly
rings a bell on occasion. The last time household income suffered a decline as large as it
did in the second year of Biden's presidency was in the second year of Biden's vice presidency.
That's before taxes. Once you calculate in changes to the taxes paid and subsidies handed out,
household income fell 8.8 percent.
Criminal
Justice is Just Plain Ugly. I think that the crime problem, the mass incarceration
problem, and mental health problem arise out of the liberal cultural beliefs and liberal political
power that our liberal friends have used to impose their beliefs and culture on the rest of
us. And for most people not in the laptop class liberal culture and power make things
worse. But I could be wrong. Earth to liberals: Urban violence and murder rates
are a witch's brew of fatherless homes, welfare, and the separation of sex from marriage and
child-raising. And You Did It. Earth to liberals: Mass incarceration and three
strikes laws are the knee-jerk response of ordinary people to the rise of crime and violence that
amped up in the Sixties with the Great Society.
Are
You Better Off Today Than You Were Four Years Ago? Another metric is food inflation as
all Americans need to purchase and consume food. Food inflation currently sits at 4.9 percent
compared to 1.8 percent four years ago. It has more than doubled in the past four years, with
no sign of slowing down. At a macroeconomic level, is our national debt higher or lower
compared to four years ago? In 2022, the national debt was $30.8 trillion. Four years
ago in 2018 it was $21.4 trillion. In four short years it increased by almost $10 trillion.
It took America until 2008 to even reach $10 trillion in debt and in four short years we added
230 years' worth of debt to our ledger. That's what America owes. How about what
America spends? The annual U.S. budget deficit was $665 billion in 2017, rising to $2,772 [billion]
in 2021. This is more than a fourfold increase in spending money we don't have. Budget deficits
used to be measured in the billions. Under Biden they are in the trillions.
The
'Climate Emergency' Is a Hoax. The Biden administration, however, appears not to be
concerned about the widespread poverty and massive starvation that will be caused by the
unavailability of cheap and reliable energy in underdeveloped countries, or the inflation caused by
the skyrocketing prices that are crushing Americans "barely able to afford one meal a day". [...]
The Biden administration also does not seem concerned that it is killing wildlife, sea life and the
fishing industry by installing offshore wind turbines along the Atlantic seaboard, or that
mandating electric vehicles will throw virtually the entire auto maintenance industry out of work
(EVs do not need routine maintenance), or that lithium batteries not only explode but cost
thousands of dollars to replace. The administration even wants military equipment, such as
tanks, to be electric, as if there were charging stations in the middle of foreign deserts in the
event of a conflict. Moreover, according to NBC News, volcanoes, unimpressed with executive
orders, "Dwarf Humans for CO2 Emissions."
Tom
Cotton: Military Citations Using 'Themself' Instead of 'Himself' or 'Herself'.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Friday sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin demanding he
explain the Pentagon's apparent decision to use the "gender neutral" term "themself" instead of
"himself" or "herself" for decoration and award citations. Cotton, an Army veteran, wrote to
Austin: ["]I write regarding the Department's decision to incorporate 'gender neutral'
language into decoration and award citations. Our military apparently will now use 'themself' —
which is not even a word, I hasten to add — instead of 'himself' or 'herself' to describe
heroic or distinguished actions.["]
Why
San Francisco is the car break-in capital: Low-risk, high reward. In case
you've somehow missed all the news coming out of San Francisco for the past several years, the city
has the highest rate of property crime in the country. The SF Chronicle published a
story today asking the obvious question: "Why is it so bad here — and not elsewhere?"
The answer the article comes to is not entirely satisfying but it does make some amount of sense.
Exploiting
Transgender Kids as Emotional Support Animals. Do y'all remember the time an
emotional support animal was kicked off a United flight for being disruptive? In this
instance, "being disruptive" included a pig defecating and screaming in the cabin. Passengers
were quick to complain about the stink, noise, and awkwardness of it all because, when you pay good
money to fly, doing so without a barnyard experience is a reasonable expectation. Thankfully,
over the last decade, emotional support animals have been kept on a tighter leash since they are
not now, nor were they ever service dogs. Airlines have reeled in their restrictions and put
a muzzle on the idea any animal can fly under the "if it fits, it sits" mantra. Everybody
knows that the owner of that peacock, hamster, boa constrictor, cat, or hedgehog does not rely on
the animal to aid in the performance of specific tasks. Rather, they don't want to leave
their beloved animal behind. Levity, affection, companionship — that's why we have
pets! We also have therapists.
'Prosecute
Them': Dem Who Backed Efforts To 'Dismantle' Police Says She Was Carjacked In Front Of Her
Kids. Shivanthi Sathanandan, the second vice chairwoman of the Minnesota
Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), said in a Facebook post that she was violently attacked and
carjacked Tuesday in front of her two children. Four men allegedly broke Sathanandan's leg
and beat her with their fists and guns in front of her two young children at her Minneapolis home
before stealing her car and fleeing the scene, she said in the post. Sathanandan, who had
previously backed efforts to reduce the police force, urged fellow Minneapolis residents to "take
back" their city and prosecute violent criminals in her post following the incident. "We need
to get illegal guns off of our streets, catch these young people who are running wild creating
chaos across our city and HOLD THEM IN CUSTODY AND PROSECUTE THEM," Sathanandan wrote.
Leftist
Activists Used To Be About Fighting 'The Man.' Now They Are 'The Man'. For decades,
the left defined itself by its opposition to authority, gleefully fighting the old conservative
fuddy-duddys in power. But as a slew of formerly rebellious rockstars have learned, the left
has since become the very thing it used to fight. Alice Cooper, a famously painted-up rock
icon since the '70s, came under fire for a series of benign comments regarding the current
transgender pandamonium. "I'm understanding that there are cases of transgenderism, but I'm
afraid that it's also a fad, and I'm afraid there's a lot of people claiming to be this just
because they want to be that," Cooper said. "I find it wrong when you've got a six-year-old kid who
has no idea. He just wants to play, and you're confusing him telling him, 'Yeah, you're a
boy, but you could be a girl if you want to be.'" For this perfectly innocuous statement,
Cooper lost a brand deal with Vampyre Cosmetics, which accused the musician of transphobia.
Clearly, the LGBT community is so oppressed and powerless that banal criticism of them results in
losing work. Cooper didn't express anything hateful, he simply cautioned of too many people
hopping aboard the current cultural bandwagon and that these procedures have permanent
consequences. For that, Cooper was accused of "spewing debunked bathroom predator myths" and
"leaning on right-wing, anti-trans scare tactics" by Rolling Stone, an outlet that used to be about
covering music but has since moved on to political hackery.
A
'poop' rampage in Wyoming is an important insight into today's homeless. The headline
at the Daily Mail was eye-catching: "Squatters take over Wyoming city: Vagrants leave
millions of dollars worth of damage to motel and 500 lbs of human feces in downtown area — as
Casper fights off a homeless invasion." It was an image at odds with how we think of Wyoming;
that is, a clean, naturally beautifully conservative state. But the homeless plague is everywhere,
and the situation in Casper reminds us that most of today's homeless are not just ordinary people down
on their luck; they are dysfunctional drug addicts who are the inevitable result of 60 years of
leftist drug policies.
Rousseau
and the Collapse of American Constitutionalism. [Scroll down] So today in
America the new social contract proposed by the Democrats provides, for example, that if you decide
to be a man, be a man. If you decide to be a woman, be a woman. If you want even more
personal freedom, be either from time to time. If you are a girl, then America is your
oyster. If you don't want to have a baby, don't have a baby. With immigration, if you
want to be an American, come here and be an American. If you want to join the ruling elite,
just register for college. Someone else will pay your tuition and, presto, without much
effort you will have your passport into the new American elite. If you struggle with illness,
taxpayers will free you from that hardship. But there was a bait-and-switch in Rousseau's
design template. None of us really will have individual authority to live as we might
wish. We must surrender our rights to the collective which has all sovereign power.
The
Decline of American 'Civilization'. The glorification of violence and sex in a
society is uncivilized. These things appeal to the most squalid nature of man, his most
carnal appetites, not his noblest. Uncontrolled lust and violence are characteristics of the
lowest common denominator of humanity. Jungle instincts must be restrained, contained, and
overcome for civilization to exist. Any society that refuses to do so will suffer dire
consequences, as indeed we see in America today.
Report:
90% of Online Content May Be AI-Generated Garbage by 2026. A recent report from
Europol warns that by 2026, as much as 90 percent of online content could be generated by
artificial intelligence, raising concerns that the web might be even more jammed with useless
garbage in a few short years than it is today. Futurism reports that a recent study by
Europol suggests that by 2026, up to 90 percent of online content could be artificially
generated. This staggering figure has sent ripples through various sectors, from journalism
and art to technology and law enforcement. Synthetic media, which refers to content generated
or manipulated using artificial intelligence, is not a new phenomenon. However, its rapid
proliferation has raised eyebrows and concerns alike.
Unsafe
and 'looking like a dump': How Brighton's controversial eco policy went to seed.
Borage, yarrow, knotgrass and ribwort; for the enthusiastic forager there are herbs enough to fill
an apothecary's cabinet. This is no countryside hedgerow, however, but rather the pavement
outside a £1.5 million house in Hove. Five-foot tall horseweed growing up between the
cracks in the paving slabs has become a familiar sight for the residents of Brighton and
Hove. On some streets a tapestry of grass has formed that makes it impossible to walk in a
straight-line down the hilly streets. It is a verdant sight, but not, however, a welcome one
for residents. "My mother is 89 and if she's walking around on these pavements, she can't do
it," says one local who preferred not to be named. "I worry about her falling all the time."
For the past four years nature has been left to its own devices after the then Green Party-led
council in 2019 banned toxic weed killers that include chemicals such as glyphosate following a
petition from residents.
Glyphosate, best known as the active ingredient in the weed killer
Roundup, has been the subject of many studies and legal challenges regarding its potential to cause
cancer, specifically non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Its environmental damage, particularly to soil
quality, is also well documented.
Why
wind and solar power are running out of juice. Alternative energy
madness — and that's what it is — has had its biggest impact in
California. But New York and New Jersey have adopted most of that state's mandates.
Sales of new internal combustion vehicles will be banned beginning in 2035 in the states. All
of the electricity sold to retail consumers will have to be "zero-emissions." Homeowners and
building owners will be forced to replace gas- and oil-burning space and water heaters with
electric heat pumps. And, gas stoves will be regulated out of existence. New York also
will soon implement another California import: a carbon "cap-and-invest" program, which will impose
a tax on fossil fuels sold by wholesalers and utilities. The billions of dollars collected
each year will provide a green slush fund, allowing the governor and legislators to hand out money
to their politically favored cronies, as has so often been the case in the past. Washington
State began its "cap-and-invest" program in January of this year. Modeled after California's,
Governor Jay Inslee promised the program would have "minimal impact, if any. We are talking
about pennies." Instead, the program has raised gasoline prices — almost 50 cents
per gallon so far this year.
Let's
Call It Treason. Millions of people around the world are beginning to figure out that
there is a force, an evil cabal trying to take over the entire planet. [...] National leaders are
going out of their way to destroy their collective countries. These chief executives and
oligarchs, feeling a New World Order is inevitable, are merely vying for high position in what they
think will be a new society. It is not more evident than here in the United States.
These leaders make decisions that no one understands[,] destroying the election system of the
greatest democracy in the world, ignoring the needs of their citizenry, destroying the military and
police departments, with no regard for national security, citizen safety or law and order.
Gone is energy independence, dozens of food processing plants (its become a global phenomena),
hundreds of farms (meat and dairy are bad, but bugs are good). Millions of illegal migrants pour
into our countries without vetting, background or medical checks.
A
compendium of everything wrong with Barack Obama's legacy. President Obama's assault
on Americans' constitutional rights and protections as well as on the nation's constitutionally
defined governmental institutions and their respective authority entailed myriad particulars.
It included undermining of First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech, freedom of the press,
and religious freedom. It extended to usurpation of the legislative authority of Congress and
disregard for the constitutional authority of the Supreme Court. In addition, Obama
compromised the rule of law and protection of rights more broadly. He ignored the findings of
lower federal courts. He subverted federal agencies, including the Department of Justice, the
FBI, the CIA, the IRS, and other departments of the federal government, to illegal politicization
and lawless attacks on perceived political enemies. He promoted federal intrusion in and
subversion of state and local law enforcement, also in the service of political ends. The
collective impact of Obama's abuses of power, the "transformation" of America that he so often
promised, was the creation of a less democratic, post-constitutional, authoritarian nation.
"Nonviolent
Crime" Is a Myth. Five days after sustaining serious injuries, a San Francisco store
clerk named Yowhannes "John" Tewelde has died. He was beaten with a baseball bat by a man
whom he tried to stop from stealing beer from his store. Tewelde's death marks yet another
homicide in the Bay Area, which, between San Francisco and Oakland, has seen an enormous amount of
crime and mayhem in recent years. The nature of Tewelde's death illustrates an important
reality that progressives working to ease up on supposedly nonviolent crimes don't seem to
appreciate: even "minor" offenses like retail theft, open-air drug use, and smoking on subway
platforms are frequently backed by a threat of violence. Had Tewelde not intervened, allowing
the thief to take what he wished, progressive prosecutors like former San Francisco district
attorneys George Gascón and Chesa Boudin probably would have refused to prosecute him, citing
the nonviolent nature of the offense. All we'd have is a lowly shop owner forced to shoulder
the cost of a few cheap beers. No big deal, right? Wrong. The decision to ignore
the theft would allow an individual who was in truth both willing and able to kill over $10 to
remain on the street. It would be only a matter of time before he did something terrible.
Why
anyone who supported COVID fascism has no right to complain about inflation and housing
crisis. Inflation is very simply defined as too much money chasing too few
goods. Our government decided to spend and then print more money (by a mile) than ever before
while shutting down supply chains! Now we are dealing with endless long-term debt and the
expense of servicing it, which is inducing even more inflation, forcing interest rates up, and
creating the housing crisis we are living with today. [...] Regardless of who would be president in
2021, that inflation cake was baked. Obviously, Biden increased spending even more and locked
up our energy supplies, placing more pressure on energy prices. His Ukraine policies made it
even worse. However, the core inflation would be with us today regardless of which party is
in the White House, because, with few exceptions, both parties equally embraced these terrible
policies of loose money.
The
Biggest Environmental Scandal In The World. A dead whale washed ashore on Takanassee
Beach in New Jersey in the early evening yesterday. Police blocked off the area so tractors
could be brought in to remove it. "We were sitting on the beach yesterday, and I noticed it when
people started running up to it," said Soraya Nimaroff, who lives nearby. "I'm very sad. It
is very sad." Yesterday marked the 60th known whale death on the East Coast since Dec 1, 2022.
Whale strandings have increased markedly since 2016. The North Atlantic right whales are headed for
extinction. Their population has dropped to 340. There have been 200 humpback strandings
and 98 strandings of right whales since 2017. "It caused us concern enough to ask, 'What is
happening?'" said Cindy Zipf, executive director of the Long Branch-based nonprofit Clean Ocean
Action (COA). "We looked into what was different about this December and early January." The
only thing she and other researchers found was offshore wind exploration.
The
return of animal sacrifice. We look back with bewilderment at the ritual sacrifice of
animals by our ancestors. Whether it was the Celtic people's sacrifice of livestock to
appease pissed-off deities or the Ancient Romans' slaughter of oxen so that Jupiter might be more
sparing with his stormy weather, it was all a bit mad. We would never be so superstitious, we
tell ourselves. I'm not sure that's true. Consider the proposed slaughter of hundreds
of thousands of cattle in Europe in the holy name of Net Zero. This is the return of pagan
lunacy, surely. Irish farmers are under pressure to 'cull up to 200,000 cows' in order that
Ireland might meet its 'climate goals', reported the Financial Times at the weekend. The
Irish government is considering proposals to bump off that amount of cattle over the next three
years to help it achieve a 25 percent reduction in its agricultural emissions. Cows produce
methane, you see, and methane is bad. It's a greenhouse gas. Farming accounts for 40 percent
of Ireland's greenhouse-gas emissions, so it has become a natural target for the Net Zero zealots.
Every EU member state is under pressure to make strides towards Net Zero, and if that entails the
sacrifice of livestock, so be it. Save the planet, slaughter the cows.
Washington
power company raises rates to cover increased expense due to climate legislation. A
Washington utility company jacked its rates on residents as a result of the Democrat-passed
cap-and-trade program, but was prohibited from informing its customers as to the reason why,
according to a new report. The Center Square reported that the Washington Utilities and
Transportation Commission (UTC) approved a request by Puget Sound Energy earlier this month to
raise its natural gas rates to cover the costs of Washington's cap-and-trade program, part of the
Climate Commitment Act, which was passed by the Democrat-controlled state legislature and signed
into law by Democrat Governor Jay Inslee.
Save the
Rule of Law By Destroying It? Some truths are so staggering in their ramifications
that Americans simply shrug and tune them out as if strangers in a strange land. Is their
current bewilderment because modernist America is unrecognizable — a nonexistent border,
downtown homeless juxtaposed to hipster professional elites, DEI racial essentialism, cities
reverting to precivilizational wastelands, millions exiting blue states to red, an FBI and DOJ gone
rogue, the normalization of violent theft and assault, biologically born men sandbagging women's
sports and their locker room privacy? We are reaching the point where the once unbelievable
has become the banal, as a single generation has done its best to undo the work of a prior 12 generations.
Portland's
Predictable Doom Loop. At one time not so long ago, Portland leaders turned the
sleepy town into a progressive hub for the creative class, spending billions on 19th-century light
rail Choo Choo trains to convey bus riders to their planned utopia. The more the plans
failed, the more the planners planned, as Ronald Reagan once said. Because of the hard hand
of the planner class, a corrupt system of regulatory capture, and the certitude of those who know
better than we do how to run our lives, Portland leaders never really stopped to consider if anyone
wanted what they were selling. They went on blithely singing kumbaya and giddily handed the
match to the activist left, which lit the Molotov cocktail that sparked the city's
self-immolation. Now these leaders have regulated, locked down, and scared away a third of
the downtown office buildings. When San Francisco hit this marker it was called a "doom loop."
Dick's
Sporting Goods Is Learning What the Consequences of Going Woke Are. Go woke, go
broke. That's what conservatives say, and unfortunately, sometimes it's just rhetoric that
doesn't materialize. Still, there are times when the adage proves true. Enter Dick's
Sporting Goods, the woke outdoor company that has prided itself on inserting itself into various
cultural battles. As RedState reported, shareholders were greeted with bad news recently when
it was revealed that Dick's saw a 23 percent drop in profit over the last quarter. That
sent the company into a freefall. On August 21st, the stock price was $141. Two days
later, it was at $108. That's a dramatic drop for a well-known retail brand with so many
years in the game. The question is, what led us here? According to Dick's own
admission, a sharp rise in retail theft has severely hampered profitability.
New
York loses $1 trillion in Wall Street business as firms flee the city: report. A
giant, sucking sound is coming out of Wall Street — and it's siphoning staggering sums
of money out of the Big Apple while handing business to Florida and other states farther
south. Nearly 160 Wall Street firms have moved their headquarters out of New York since the
end of 2019, taking nearly $1 trillion — yes, that's trillion with a "T" —
in assets under management with them, according to data from 17,000 companies compiled by
Bloomberg. Looking to dodge rampant crime, stiff taxes and an increasingly exorbitant cost of
living, 158 fed-up financial firms representing a whopping $993 billion in assets have packed up
and left the Big Apple, taking thousands of high-paid employees with them, the data shows.
Woke
blue cities defund themselves. 'Defund the police!' they yelled in 2020, that famous
summer of love: They did that. Now they're discovering — the hard
way — that they're actually defunding themselves. [...] [New York] businesses are
fleeing for the same reasons that the people are fleeing: Bad government. After all,
the picture is largely the same: Run one of the world's most expensive cities. Tax them
up the wazoo. Demonize corporations. Embrace COVID lockdowns. Defund the cops, or
else incentivize them to retire at their desks. Let the homeless and drug-addicted roam
freely. Let the organized theft rings shut down the retailers and restaurants. Let
every car be subject to smash-and-grab robberies. Let vital city services, such as the
subway, become dangerous no-go zones. Lose an analyst or two every so often to random violent
crime. Ensure that public schools are not worth going to. And most important, mock and
laugh at those who do the logical thing, which is move someplace else where the costs are lower,
the taxes are lower, the bums know they can't camp out in front of someone's headquarters, and the
criminals know that they're headed to jail every time they loot a business.
Historic
LA hotel devolves into housing projects, repairs cost taxpayers more than $11.5
million. Built in 1926, The Mayfair Hotel in downtown Los Angeles was a historical
treasure, a unique marriage between the glamor of Old Hollywood and the elan of the Roaring
Twenties, and then California Democrats got ahold of it. The Mayfair once hosted the first
ever Academy Awards after-party, but now it houses Skid Row. [...] (How could anyone think inviting
drug-addled derelicts into a luxury hotel wouldn't end up this way?) Like
stereotypical crazy bums, the transients housed at the Mayfair "punched through walls," trashed
appliances and bathrooms, smashed windows to throw objects onto the street below, and left
fentanyl-covered tinfoil sheets strewn about. And, in predictable fashion, the idiotic decisions
of the left aren't limited to only affecting leftists, and the havoc spilled out onto the street.
Ukrainian
Corruption Disqualifies Biden From Serving Another Term. In the 30 months since Trump
departed the White House, American cities have been in free fall towards becoming crime-ridden
infestations of homeless public misfits, drug addicts, and violent criminals. Uncountable
millions of illegal aliens have flooded across the southern border and been distributed around the
country at unsustainable cost to America's education system, social service network, and law
enforcement organizations. The country has been commercially strangled by a green terror
which implausibly purports to be saving the planet but is contributing to the reduction of the
disposable income of the great majority of Americans. Public education standards are
crumbling; the academy and media are largely in the hands of anti-American elements.
Democrats'
proposed wealth tax spells doom for entrepreneurs and economic growth. A group of
far-left lawmakers has introduced yet another bill to soak the rich. The new bill is called
the Oppose Limitless Inequality Growth and Reverse Community Harms Act — the OLIGARCH
Act, get it? It would introduce an entirely new tax on wealth above $120 million, starting
at 2% and climbing to 8%. This new tax would be in addition to the income tax.
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) claims the legislation is designed to "tax extreme wealth, reduce
inequality, and combat the threat to democracy posed by aristocracy." But it
would more accurately be described as an economic devastation bill. Indeed, it should alarm
anyone who wants to start a business, build up wealth for retirement, leave an inheritance for
their children, or just see the economy grow for everyone.
Don't
expect the greens' 1,600 percent mistake on ocean plastic to get them to change course.
For climate warriors and enviro-radicals, the science (their science, anyway) is always
"settled." That is, until it isn't. The latest backtrack? Turns out there's
less plastic in the oceans than claimed. Far less. Per a new study in the journal
Nature Geoscience, just 500,000 metric tons of plastic end up in the world's oceans each
year, not the 8 million tons previously bewailed. That's an overestimation of
1,600%! Meanwhile, worries about ocean plastic have fueled restrictions on the use of a
range of products — shopping bags, utensils, straws — no matter the
inconveniences or side effects.
The
Result of Incorporating Saul Alinsky's Eight Marxist Rules for Radicals Into The Governance of The
Republic. In just two years the Biden/Obama administration spent the US Government
into an additional unsustainable and unheard-of increased National Debt "of an additional
$4.9 Trillion in spending". That reckless spending increased the National Debt from
$27.7 Trillion to an unrecoverable National Debt to $32.6 Trillion. That irresponsible and
uncalled-for spending on Climate Change and Social Programs, while terminating the drilling for crude
oil on government land, has created the massive inflation Americans are faced with; it is the worst
inflation in over 40 years. [...] That massive new spending of $4.9 Trillion in just
2 years, by the Biden/Obama administration, is one of the eight recommended ways to change the US
Constitutional Republic into a Socialist State by installing Saul Alinsky's Eight Marxist Rules for
Radicals. The Biden/Obama administration intentionally increased the National Debt to such a
large deficit in a short two years, in order that it will never be able to be repaid by the United
States. The annual interest on that National Debt will have to repaid by a constantly
increasing taxes on the American people, negatively effecting the US economy, and personal wealth.
Biden's
Iranian Hostage Deal. Since January 20, 2021, the Harris-Biden administration has
delivered a relentless cycle of incompetence, ineptitude, incoherence, corruption, subterfuge, and
scandals. The citizen suffers due to inflation, high crime, the open border, crumbling
infrastructure, and a lot more. If they dare to raise their voices they are targeted much
like the regime's foremost political opponent, President Donald Trump. Internationally, the
regime has weakened and demeaned the US. Following its hasty and unplanned withdrawal from
Afghanistan that betrayed allies within the country. It also handed that country back to the
most dangerous terror organizations in the world. The Harris-Biden administration has managed
to make the U.S. appear untrustworthy, dishonorable, and unreliable. The withdrawal
doubtlessly emboldened President Putin to intervene in Ukraine after repeated provocation from
surrounding NATO countries. The war in Ukraine continues to this day and there is no way for
anyone to know what actually is happening because most of the Western media is pushing a narrative
and not covering facts.
Climate
and Capitalism. [Scroll down] In Rhodes, Greece, this week, a resident
published his video of fires being set at night, all at the same time across a ridge of
trees. This is an almost perfect climate psy-op. Fires, and then film the misery of
tourists sleeping in the airport waiting to leave. And then there is this: [Tweet] I'm
starting to think it is a world-wide scam of set fires meant to scare us into more regulation, more
giveaways. In Canada we have arrested dozens of fire-setters, and dozens are still being
sought. Fires and fear promote the idea that "nothing has been done," but in fact, behind the
scenes, everywhere, the Iron Triangle of the movement has installed palettes of regulation on every
town and county, every rangeland, parkland, wilderness, forest and mountain. Wherever you go,
metaphorically or not, there is a sign that says: Do Not Enter. It is killing all
productive activity, it is killing the economy of every nation. "Climate change" is now eating
capitalism. It is a profit center for both government and business. In 2002 Goldman
Sachs built a division that sold "climate solutions" by way of tax and carbon credits. This
zero-sum game is trading in the misery of hundreds of millions.
The
Trump Indictment and 2024. Over the past sixty years while America slept and the
citizenry reveled in unprecedented peace and prosperity, the Marxist/socialist movement, after
decades of living in the shadows, has successfully infiltrated many of the nation's vital
institutions while promoting creeping immorality and societal corruption. The institutions
targeted by the American Marxists were those in the fields of education, entertainment, and the
media. The radical left knew that dominion over of these institutions would be the first step
in achieving their ultimate goals: control of the Democrat Party, hegemony within the federal
bureaucracy, and the domination of the judiciary. Their success to date has been extraordinary.
Today, liberal (socialist) professors on college campuses outnumber conservatives by a ratio of
17 to 1 (in 1968 it was 2.7 to 1). This same imbalance also infects the
nation's K-12 public schools through the radicalized teachers unions. As a result, two generations
of Americans have been subjected to unending socialist indoctrination and revisionist American history.
Anheuser-Busch's
Collapse Continues as It's Forced to Sell Off Some of Its Brands. Anheuser-Busch's
downfall has been a brutal lesson to corporations about how the people have had it with woke
culture engagement. Especially when it comes to being a brand that claimed to represent the
heart of America and its values. Now, A-B is apparently being forced to sell off a few of its
brands in order to stay afloat. These include Shock Top, Breckenridge Brewery, Blue Point
Brewing Company, 10 Barrel Brewing Company, Redhook Brewery, Widmer Brothers Brewing, Square Mile
Cider Company, and Hiball Energy. All of these are craft beers, meaning that A-B is cutting a
solid chunk off of its craft beer portfolio.
Bidenomics
is really just a ploy to destroy American energy. While jetting across the country
trumpeting the supposed success of "Bidenomics," Vice President Kamala Harris had this to say,
"Most Americans are a $400 unexpected expense away from bankruptcy." What's not to love?
The White House must not be seeing the same headlines we are about record inflation, declining
income, and concerning job trends. President Joe Biden's rampant spending has destroyed the
economic comfort and prosperity of the previous administration — something even the most
devout anti-Trumpers are becoming nostalgic about as family budgets grow tighter and tighter.
Biden erroneously claims that his energy policies are a panacea that will offer Americans the best
of both worlds, saving money and protecting the environment. The president has made poor
policy choices about many things — but when it comes to energy, he's never been more
wrong and has weakened our country in the process.
The
Destruction of Common Law. By defunding the police in major cities, and by showering
leftwing district attorney candidates with millions of dollars in campaign funding, the Left
systematically eroded the law as we know it in our major cities. As a result, downtowns are
after-dark, no-go zones, as once great metropolises resemble veritable combat theaters.
Cities are becoming depopulated as consumers and businesses no longer find it safe to conduct
commerce. Criminals and homeless now routinely break the law with impunity. Public
violence, defecation, urination, fornication, and injection do not even rate as misdemeanors.
The Left has redefined violent crime to such an extent that shoplifting is no longer
actionable. Flash mobs that take over streets and swarm to loot stores are rarely if ever
arrested. Security officers who apprehend thieves or intervene to stop violence are more
likely to be prosecuted than criminals themselves. There is no longer any immigration law; it
has been utterly destroyed by Joe Biden. Seven-million illegal entrants flood into the U.S.
and, along with the Mexican government, make demands on their hosts to accommodate their illegality.
America's
Debt Rating Downgrade Shows Washington Is Still Building Back Bankrupt. While the
press and the American people focused on the Justice Department's latest indictment of President
Trump, another no less significant event was taking place on Tuesday afternoon. Specifically,
Fitch Ratings announced it had officially downgraded the United States' credit rating. The
action by Fitch comes a dozen years after Standard and Poor's downgraded the federal government's
debt rating, meaning that two of the three credit rating agencies have stripped Washington of its
vaunted "AAA" status. It is but the latest indication of how presidents and politicians from
both parties have ignored the serious fiscal problems within our nation — and yet
another warning of the reckoning we will ultimately face as a people.
The
High Cost of Crime: Oregon County Loses $1 Billion as Residents Flee Lawless Portland.
Residents who fled Multnomah County, Oregon, in 2020 took over $1 billion in income as they
searched for a better life in other areas. The news is according to an analysis of data from
the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Oregonian reported Sunday. "Numbers gleaned from
annual income tax returns provide the most detailed information available on where Americans are
moving — and taking their money," the outlet said.
The
gas is high. It's hot here and some countries are cutting back on production.
The heat is the heat and I've lived plenty of it in Texas. In fact, I remember when our
second son was baptized back in 1988 that it was 108 around here. That holy water must have
felt great on that baby's head. I remember 1980 when we had a whole 30 days of 100-plus
temperatures. What I don't remember was gasoline going up. So what's the other reason?
Countries cutting back production. Of course, why is that even an issue when Texas and Alaska
could take care of our energy needs? Why are we suddenly depending on countries for one drop of
oil? The answer is the Biden administration listening to the climate-change fanatics who want to
attack the problem by having American families paying more for energy.
And Chicago, and Houston, and Portland, and San Francisco, and St. Louis, and New Orleans, and Baltimore, and Philadelphia. How
the Left's is turning New York into a crime-ravaged, drug-infested nightmare. Give us
pizza or give us death!' So chanted New Yorker Scott LoBaido a few weeks ago in downtown Manhattan
before he started hurling large slices of pizza over the gates of New York's City Hall.
LoBaido, a conservative artist and activist, was staging a lone and eccentric protest against a new
green crackdown on coal and wood-fired ovens. Opponents say it will badly hit the city's
already struggling small businesses — particularly its iconic pizzerias —
which face paying tens of thousands of dollars to install oven filters that must be regularly
inspected. [...] The city is suffering a crime epidemic so bad even ice cream and laundry detergent
are security- tagged in shops, and endless anti-business measures are driving down earnings, but
politicians appear more preoccupied by the culture wars: woke causes and green issues, such as air
pollution. Yet for all the concern about air quality, the authorities have only themselves to
blame for the all-pervasive stench of contraband weed on its streets, a consequence of officials'
disastrous tinkering with cannabis legalisation on the grounds of 'racial equity', which has led to
the proliferation of 1,400 illicit marijuana shops.
In
the Name of Climate Change: Travel Restrictions and the Great Reset. If you
experienced unprecedented delays during air travel this summer, the airlines likely blamed it on
the weather. You might have been surprised, for bad weather wasn't reported in the
news. But here is what should surprise and shock you even more. The real
reason — a shortage of pilots and air traffic controllers (ATCs) — is linked
to the Great Reset, the agenda to control people and restrict freedom conceived by the global elite
and being implemented through leftist groups and their sympathizers. It is now well known
that Klaus Schwab, chief of the elitist World Economic Forum (WEF), set the Great Reset in motion
during the pandemic, calling it an opportunity to "reflect, reimagine, and reset the world."
The COVID lockdown also connects to the story of the recent flight delays, because it was during
the pandemic that travel restrictions were imposed worldwide and pilots and ATCs were laid off.
Liberalism
Is a False Gospel and a Counterfeit Religion. Liberalism is a false and counterfeit
religion that is incompatible with the Judeo-Christian worldview that built the United States and
much of the western world. The year 2023 is the 100-year anniversary of J. Gresham Machen's
prophetic book Christianity and Liberalism. This book is just as accurate today as it
was prophetic when he wrote it. His central thesis 100 years ago was that liberalism is its
own religion, distinct and incompatible with Christianity. It acts as a parasite on
Christianity, and can only be accurately understood as a separate and false religion. Machen
was right, of course, and the past 100 years of decline in American life bear him witness.
Search the past century across the globe and you will find scores of previously Christian nations
that adopted liberalism, declined every meaningful way, and lost their faith. Most of these
Judeo-Christian nations have attempted to accommodate it rather than defeat it.
Our
society's 'top brains' have gone mad — and dysfunctional politics is the
result. There's a lot of craziness in the air these days. But for the most part
it seems to be flowing from the top down, not bubbling up from the bottom. It wasn't farmers
and factory workers who came up with the idiotic COVID responses — nor was it they who
originated the more or less criminal idea of conducting "gain of function" research on making
dangerous viruses more dangerous. It wasn't shopkeepers and bus drivers who thought the way
to deal with burgeoning urban crime was to get rid of police and release criminals without
bail. It hasn't been landscapers and auto mechanics championing the notion that a child in
the single-digit age range can make a lifetime choice about his or her genitalia or maintaining
that even criticizing that idea is itself a species of "violence." Ordinary Americans haven't
been claiming the way to promote free speech is to censor people or the way to end racism is to
classify everyone by race and consequently treat them differently.
The
GOP Death Wish. The American economy is in freefall. Our borders are wide open
to taxpayer-funded freeloaders and criminals, cities are ridden with crime, filth, drugs, and
homelessness. America is needlessly pushing a hot war with the largest nuclear power in the
world. Our children are being trafficked or indoctrinated with woke sexual and gender
deviancy. Republicans are either silent or playing along. There is little difference
between the DNC and GOP on so many core issues, making the GOP increasingly irrelevant as a
political party. Instead, we are ruled by a uniparty, unified in its goal of self-enrichment
and power, with little regard to the well-being of America or the wishes of American voters.
What's the solution?
Toronto
principal killed himself after being singled out during DEI training. This story was
already being cited as cause for concern about corporate DEI training even before last week when it
took an even darker turn. Earlier this month the National Post reported that retired
Toronto principal Richard Bilkszto was suing the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) over the
treatment he received during diversity training sessions. [...] So this training is routine in
Canada but what wasn't routine was Bilkszto's reaction. Instead of going along with it, he
stood up to the trainer. And that quickly resulted in him being told to shut up and sit down
because he was white.
Will
the European Union Devolve into a Group of Third-World Countries? For the past 30
years, politicians throughout the E.U. kowtowed to the green parties and eco-terrorists in their
countries by declaring war on the carbon atom and the hydrocarbon bond based on the fraudulent
man-made global warming hypothesis. Many politicians in Europe joined the global warming
chorus with full-throated support; it assumed the element of noblesse oblige. In 2018,
British prime minister Theresa May stated: "There is a clear moral imperative for developed
economies like the U.K. to help those around the world who stand to lose most from the consequences
of man-made climate change." The implication from the prime minister's remarks: those who
don't support the fraudulent hypothesis are immoral. Today, energy costs in the U.K. have
trebled from just two years ago, and rampant inflation throughout the E.U. is at a level not seen
since the 1970s. The price advantage manufacturers once enjoyed in international markets is
gone, in the process smashing the continent's once-harmonious labor relations as unions throughout
the E.U. in every economic sector from transportation to manufacturing to health care strike for
higher wages to offset higher energy and food costs.
Democrats
whine about Con Ed hikes caused by their own dumb policies. Better sit down before
you open your next Con Ed bill: Rates are set to soar, starting next month — and
double over the next two years. If you're a progressive, you can't complain.
What did you think would happen, based on your anti-fossil-fuel, big-spending, anti-business
agenda? On Thursday, the state's Public Service Commission OK'd hikes of 9.1% for electricity
and 8.4% for gas, starting in August, along with additional jumps though 2025. At that point,
typical bills will have doubled, from about $70 a month to $140 — or an extra $840 a year.
The Editor says...
Maybe electric cars aren't such a great idea after all. Maybe it's not a good idea to eliminate
coal-fired power plants. Maybe your windmills will stop on the hottest day of the summer, or
freeze on the coldest day. Maybe your solar panels won't work at night — oh wait,
that's a certainty.
The
imposition of transgender madness: The bottom-up approach. The astounding speed with
which a delusional fantasy has been imposed on society — that people can become the
opposite sex simply by saying so — requires explanation. This obliteration of
nature's (and God's) most fundamental truth of our lives and the resultant
diminishing of the reproduction of our species clearly vectors toward societal and civilizational
collapse. It destroys fertility when surgical and chemical interventions are used, and this
dooms the society successfully targeted to decline relative to the rest of the world unaffected by
the craze. (Have you heard about transgenderism spreading in Russia and China?) The
indoctrination of young children into the ideology means that even among those whose bodies are not
mutilated or poisoned, the post-adolescent sexual attraction and bonding necessary for the population
to remain stable is diminished. So far, the strategy to impose this on American society has been
top-down in nature. The educational system, from preschool through grad school, has largely been
captured by the left, and their bureaucrats and teachers have often eagerly acted as indoctrinators
and enforcers.
Austin
Is Quickly Turning Into A Blue City [...] With High Levels Of Violence. These are
common scenes particularly over the weekends in Austin Texas with brawls and violence all over the
downtown area as people get drunk at the clubs. The last Republican mayor In Austin was way
back in the mid 80s. [Video clip]
Salesforce
CEO Warns San Francisco's Downtown [is] "Never Going Back To The Way It Was". San
Francisco is a 'hellhole' that epitomizes everything wrong with how progressives govern
cities. That's because Democrats in City Hall believe that most criminals are
victims — don't arrest them — which allows for open-air drug markets,
homelessness, and violent crime to thrive. Due to failed social justice reform policies, the
business conditions in downtown San Francisco have become challenging. Furthermore, the
ongoing structural decline in demand for office space has thwarted any potential economic recovery
in the area. [Tweet with video clip] Marc Benioff, chief executive officer of
Salesforce, the city's largest employer and anchor tenant in its tallest skyscraper, understands
the metro area is in trouble.
How
does the city bounce back from this? One of the enduring mysteries of life is how
people and societies can see disaster coming and do nothing to avoid it. [...] We are seeing this
principle in real time with the collapse of cities like San Francisco and Portland. They have
been liberal bastions for so long that the idea of bucking the Democrat Party is unthinkable, no
matter how bad things get. And they are getting very very bad in both cities. San
Francisco has produced some of the most powerful politicians in California. Off the top of my
head, I can name the current governor, Gavin Newsom, the current VP, Kamala Harris, and of course
Senator Diane Feinstein. Many of the most powerful people in the legislature hail or hailed
from the city, and the tradition of moving up the ladder from SF to the heights of power is ancient
in political terms. When the Democrat Party took its radical Left turn the city moved with
it — led it, in fact — and the results have been disastrous.
The
Classic Psychology Text That Predicted Today's Urban Decay. It's a question that most
Americans who follow the news ask themselves daily: "How can the residents of so many of the
nation's largest cities keep supporting local officials who tolerate the ongoing destruction of
their communities?" Why this May, for example, did the citizens of Chicago — a
city where 21,000 students cannot demonstrate a basic competence in reading, science, and
math — choose the teachers union-backed candidate, Brandon Johnson, for mayor?
Especially when Johnson's chief opponent, Paul Vallas, had promised the electorate sensible school
reforms? Why, a few years earlier, did San Franciscans elect a mayor, London
Breed, whose obvious reluctance to crack down on criminal behavior has since forced the city's
largest mall to close, two of its best hotels to declare bankruptcy, and tens of thousands of
high-earning taxpayers to move away? Why has there been no serious movement to get New York
Gov. Kathy Hochul to initiate proceedings to remove Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district
attorney who refuses prosecute "low-level" crimes, all while promising to downgrade felony charges
and to decriminalize resisting police arrest?
Imploding
Cities Will Drag All of Us Down. First, a quick refresher on the compounding problems
of urban areas. Chief among them is that big cities are dark blue, and thus they've become
crucibles of Left-wing policy failure. Uncontrolled crime, roving drug and mental-illness
zombies, and swarms of sanctuary-recipient asylum scammers are crowding out reasonable people and
businesses. The normals who remain to take advantage of access to cultural events (such as
they are) and restaurant variety are also subject to totalitarian social controls and two-tiered
justice systems that punish them when they fight back against criminals. But no matter how
desperate the situation becomes, city councils can be counted on to double down on woke policies,
then double down again. Businesses are fleeing. In the ones that remain, shopping for
basic goods has become a frustrating exercise in waiting for an associate to unlock the case so you
can grab a razor and some toothpaste. Add in today's high interest rates, which make owning
and running a business prohibitively expensive, and the writing is on the wall.
Blue
City Struggles With Police Officer Recruitment After Droves Of Retirements: Report.
New York City is struggling to recruit more police officers after a mass amount of experienced
officials retired, according to the New York Post. The New York Police Department's (NYPD)
March officer exam far underscored the amount of applicants the department expected, with 1,300
signing up to take the test compared to the 3,000 expected, sources told the NYP. This year's
second exam, which took place on Thursday, didn't meet expectations, once again, despite incentives
given by the NYPD. "The NYPD's best recruiting tool has always been word of mouth," Police
Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry told the NYP. "But right now the word is,
'Stay away.'"
10
Paradigm Shifts that Shatter Establishment Illusions. [#1] Now people understand that
the left's real mission is to reject reality. Castrating boys so that they can pretend to be girls
is not "healthy." Perpetuating racism as social policy is not "justice." Imposing a "woke"
State religion over personal conscience is not "moral." Aiding and abetting child sex-trafficking
and drug-smuggling at our borders is not "compassionate." Stealing property is not "equitable."
Just as with Leninism and Maoism before, today's leftism is evil.
Will
Someone Please Wake Me From This Nightmare? When Joe Biden became president, America
was on a solid footing, inflation was under control, we were energy independent, the price of
gasoline was under $2.00, and things in America were great. Now most of that has been undone,
and nothing is being done about it. [...] While Trump was president, nearly 500 miles of wall were
built and immigration was controlled. Biden has opened the border and invited all to come,
and they are coming by the millions. When Biden became president, America was energy
independent and we were even selling energy abroad. Biden stopped construction of oil
pipelines, stopped drilling on public lands, and began a campaign against fossil fuels, the very
product that has made America great. [...] Under Trump there was little inflation, prices were
fairly stable. Biden has spent billions by just printing the money. This is classic
inflation and is hurting everyone with higher prices for everything from food to hardware.
This is especially true for gasoline, the price of which is also affected by the Biden energy policies.
Is
the 2024 Election the Last Gasp for America? The American economy is in freefall,
Washington, D.C. is spending money we don't have. Our borders are nonexistent with millions
streaming across, many unskilled, illiterate, disease-carrying, criminal, or potential enemy
combatants. We are already engaged in World War III by proxy against the largest nuclear
power in the world, for no discernable U.S. national interest other than enriching the
military-industrial complex and politicians. Social norms and traditions are out the window,
where men can claim to be women just because they say so, in defiance of biology and common sense,
and we must shut up, agree, as well as praise their courage. Government has been weaponized
against political opponents in the manner of the Soviet Union or East Germany, where an elite
ruling class exempts itself from justice and the Constitution, while any opposition is crushed
under the jackboot of a tyrannical government. Elections are rigged, not as a conspiracy
theory, but in the opinion of most Americans.
'60s
Denialism: Affirmative Action's Last Ditch Defense. [Scroll down] Almost
unnoticed, a labyrinth of soul-crushing social programs was taking root and would soon be
institutionalized by the Lyndon Johnson administration under the rubric of "The Great Society."
At the time, the only person brave enough — or crazy enough — to call
attention to the damage done by these programs was Johnson's undersecretary of labor (and later
U.S. senator), Daniel Patrick Moynihan. In his remarkably prescient report, "The Negro
Family: The Case for National Action," Moynihan sounded the alarm in 1965, the same year the Great
Society was launched. "The evidence — not final, but powerfully persuasive —
is that the Negro family in the urban ghettos is crumbling," Moynihan warned. Causing the
dissolution were the sundry social programs that promised women financial security on the real but
rarely spoken condition that there be no married father in the household. Until about 1960, the
income gap between backs and whites was narrowing. After 1960, with the surge in single-parent
households, it began to reverse itself.
A
Third of Seattle Residents Are Considering Leaving, Citing Crime and Costs. One-third
of Seattle residents are considering packing up and moving elsewhere, largely citing home prices
and crime, according to a Seattle Times/Suffolk University poll conducted in June.
Roughly 33 percent of Seattle residents surveyed say they are seriously considering moving out
of the city, while 67 percent say they are not.
The
underlying, uncomfortable, reality at the core of America's malaise. Massive
corruption in government. Lying by public officials. Office holders receiving
bribes. Unjust prosecution of political opponents. Justice meted based on political
affiliation. News and information dissemination based on allegiance to a particular world
view. Parents denied the right to mold and shape their own children and instead being forced
to yield those rights to the state by law. Forced celebration of deviant behavior with a
demand for approval of same, or else. The compromising of a once muscular military into one
which is inundated with self-defeating progressive policies. And we could go on. The
symptoms of decay noted above are occurring virtually unabated in this country right now, and in
the West in general, and are directly linked to the widespread adoption of leftist ideologies.
These have been embraced by many in our institutions, public and private, and have captured the
imagination of our youth. Ironically, they represent policies that only a decade or two ago
would have been scorned and reviled by those same individuals who now accept and promote them.
Energy
Provider Warns of Impending 'Crisis,' 'Blackout Conditions' Driven By Biden Plans.
The U.S. faces an "impending energy crisis" as the Biden administration pursues a transition away
from fossil fuels, an electricity cooperative warned Wednesday. Moon Lake Electric
Association, which serves parts of Utah and Colorado, accused President Joe Biden of being
"unrealistic" in his emissions reductions goals, according to Deseret News. "It's unrealistic
and it's too ambitious," CEO Yankton Johnson reportedly said. "They need to pull back on the
throttle, pump the brake and think about what they're going to do to individuals." Johnson's
comments came after the Biden administration announced billions in investments for green
energy. The president seeks to achieve a carbon pollution-free power sector by 2035, net-zero
emissions in the economy by 2050 and 50 percent of new vehicle sales being electric by 2030,
according to the White House.
Let's
celebrate humility. As I reflect upon the decadence of the last several decades, I
think America would be better served by a Humility Month rather than a Pride Month.
Certainly, there are some very loud voices dominating the culture right now, but no one group has
cornered the market on moral decay. We all bear some responsibility. The shamelessness
and depravity permeating our culture are on a scale far beyond that of previous generations, so we
must have gone wrong somewhere. This depravity is the result of, not the cause of, our
problems. Our misplaced priorities have led us into a snare. One by one, the things we
have given ourselves to instead of God, family, and community have hoisted the banner of pride,
asserting their sovereignty over our lives. Whether it is sports, film, music, shopping, or
dining, the enterprises we have pledged our allegiance to have seized the reigns of the culture and
are driving us like cattle. Over the years, we've been seduced and manipulated to compromise
our values and rationalize selfishness. Pride turns life into a game that coerces us to
abandon the essential and pursue the frivolous. Putting points on the board becomes more
important than relationships with people.
Christians,
It's Time to Learn from Hamtramck, Michigan. Every June, the LGBT movement throws a
tantrum fit that would put any cranky toddler shame. Their goal? Acceptance and
attention. It's as if they were toting a screechy, ear-piercing megaphone for the sole
purpose of shaming Americans for holding traditional values. Of course, they enlist other
mercenaries to help wage their war on god-fearing Americans — Target, Kohl's, Pet Smart,
and even Cracker Barrel. Corporations, in their zeal to be in the "in-crowd," muck up their
logos, apparel, and storefronts with bright, bold, unmissable rainbows. Public institutions
hoist the Pride flag high on their poles, peddle LGBT propaganda, and deck out police cars and
firetrucks in a paint box explosion of kaleidoscope colors. This year, even the White House,
in a move that should make anyone with a sense of decorum cringe, chose to display the Rainbow Flag
sandwiched between two American flags in a shocking violation of the U.S. Flag Code. And
let's not forget the U.S. Airforce, which deemed it fitting to release a picture of a soldier
saluting the Pride flag. It's like we've stepped into a technicolor dream world where the
queering of America is now a national priority.
Corporate
America Doesn't Hear Anybody. Obviously the Democrats don't hear the people. [...]
They are complaining that Biden is not getting enough credit for bringing down inflation, inflation
that he created. Oh, and while inflation may be officially at 4%, that's only because the
government doesn't include all of the things people need in their inflation calculation. And
it's still significantly higher than when Biden took office. Nor do they include the
devaluation of money which is also inflation that people must deal with. And real wages have
declined as well.
Portland Real Estate Nightmare.
[Scroll down] Well, for a lot of people and businesses, it's too late. Such as
Kevin Howard, for whom the City of Portland refused to do anything about the homeless people
breaking into his property and trashing the place. And who then fined him because the place
was trashed. [... How did this happen?] Easy. You let Social Justice Warriors take over
your city. This is the expected outcome.
Summertime
in SoCal, and with green recycling, here come the rats, roaches, flies and maggots.
[H]ere in San Diego, where we are under a state mandate to recycle our green garbage —
food scraps, food-soiled paper, and yard clippings — fresh new environmental problems
are abounding. According to local T.V. station KFMB: ["] [...] Some people said
they're concerned the waste could attract rodents and other animals. "We understand it's
something that people have to get used to and put into practice," said Director of Environmental
Services Department, Renee Robertson.["] Did I hear that right? Did she just say
we need to get used to having rats and roaches around the old middle-America ranch house now going
for a million dollars on the market, with property taxes indexed to it? I think that's what
she's saying, because people are reporting problems because they use the government system.
Living
in a Media World. Our country is now divided into two numerically equivalent
ideological blocs. Not surprisingly, those in the leftist bloc have been generally impervious
to what conservatives and Republicans have exposed as scandals in their camp. And there have
been lots of them. This long train of abuses would include Hunter Biden's acceptance of
bribes from foreign governments, his father's likely involvement in Hunter's influence-peddling,
the Democrats' weaponization of the administrative state against both political opponents and
religious Christians, the witch hunt against Trump carried out on the basis of the discredited
Steele dossier, and Biden's and Hillary Clinton's scandalous treatment of classified
material. Democratic iniquities might also include promoting programs to sexualize children,
the championing of LGBT and CRT indoctrination in public schools and the military, our humiliating
setbacks in foreign affairs, and the sacrifice of American energy independence in pursuit of a
Green New Deal benefiting Communist China.
Transgender
Lawsuits Reveal Horrors of Procedures. Kayla Lovdahl is the perfect test case as a
13-year-old who was approved for "transgender surgery:" She could not conceive, at the time, of the
possibility of suffering a lifetime of disfigurement and chronic pain. Ms. Lovdahl, now
18, has retained an attorney, Charles Limandri, who has employed such emotionally charged words as
"barbaric and cruel" to describe the medical team's actions in causing his client deep physical and
emotional wounds. Essential to his case is the claim that Lovdahl was hopelessly ignorant of
the statistical reality that nearly half of trans surgeries result in serious and life-threatening
complications. How can a 13-year-old grasp what it means to remove perfectly healthy breasts
(in female-to-male transition)? Sanitizing the language, Lovdahl was informed she could opt
for "top" and/or "bottom surgery." She had never heard of the term "double mastectomy" as she was
wheeled into surgery for what the medical team had described as "top surgery." Her harrowing
surgical experience was spared "bottom" mutilation.
Saying
the Quiet Part Out Loud. If Americans cannot trust their government to oversee free
and fair elections, then what exactly can Americans trust their government to do? To guard
the country's borders from invasion? Nope. To enforce the law impartially and safeguard
citizens and their property from violence? Not anymore. To vigorously defend Americans'
constitutionally protected rights? Not when the federal government attacks their free speech,
freedom of religion, right to bear arms, and freedom from warrantless searches. To maintain
the monetary value of the nation's currency? Not with reckless money-printing and
spending. To protect American sovereignty and avoid long-term foreign obligations? Not
when the U.N., WHO, and WEF rule from afar. In every way, the federal government has failed
to fulfill its principal obligations to citizens of the United States.
Biden's
Economic Program is Made in China. As reported by New York Times Magazine at
the time, Joe Biden's goal was to transform the economy from the get-go: "The Biden Team Wants to
Transform the Economy. Really." Nearly two-and-a-half years later, the damage and chaos of
that transformation process are obvious: continuing high inflation (especially energy, food, and
gasoline prices), rising interest rates, recession predictions, a stagnant economy, depleted
individual savings, sky-high credit card debt, and other indications of stagflation and
recession. Who has benefited from the Biden economy? Green new deal grifters benefit
from the gargantuan tax subsidies and federal spending on transitioning the US economy from
hydrocarbon energy sources to "clean" sources, especially solar and wind energy.
The communist Chinese are happy to benefit from Biden economic policies that ultimately mandate
and subsidize green products from Chinese companies at the expense of the US companies who produce
and use hydrocarbons.
Resistance.
In order to get anywhere, begin any sort of resistance to the WEF, UN or WHO, one has to start with
the designation, or belief by a majority of the people, that the current government is presiding
over a failed state. That determination or designation originates from an international
definition. From Britannica, it includes this paragraph: ["]A failed state is
composed of feeble and flawed institutions. Often, the executive barely functions, while the
legislature, judiciary, bureaucracy, and armed forces have lost their capacity and professional
independence. A failed state suffers from crumbling infrastructures, faltering utility
supplies and educational and health facilities, and deteriorating basic human-development
indicators, such as infant mortality and literacy rates. Failed states create an environment
of flourishing corruption and negative growth rates, where honest economic activity cannot flourish.["]
Did
You Breathe Smoke Last Week? This is Why. [Scroll down] Meanwhile,
Canada has arrested dozens of fire-setters in the last few weeks, and Quebec and Alberta are
running full-bore investigations. The new Premier of Alberta was blocked from Facebook for
saying so. Not one pontificator knows what has happened to the forests since Rio and the 92
Earth Summit. Since then the regulatory structure created by the U.N.'s FAO (Food and
Agriculture Organization) has been instituted all over the world. It is a new method of
forest management - "sustainable" - that throws over 1000 years of silvaculture. A forester
takes seven years of wickedly difficult education to be able to manage forests. What the UN
did was send a bunch of heavily indoctrinated, radically-undereducated hysterics into the forests -
which cover one-third of the world - and proceeded to destroy them with a "no-touch" policy.
This
is some of the garbage we can expect with indoctrinated kids and greedy lawyers.
These children say that their lives have been destroyed because of coal and oil so they are suing
Montana. [...] Lawsuits and policies should be based on the truth and scientific facts, not on
easily manipulated computer models and made up predictions which have consistently been wrong, like
this lawsuit and the radical green policies which are being forced on the American people.
Trump's
Indictment and the Collapse of Confidence in Our Institutions. Before turning to the
charges facing Trump, consider their larger political setting, which begins with any democratic
government's most fundamental responsibilities: preserving public order, ensuring its citizens'
safety, and applying the law fairly. The institutions charged with those responsibilities are
crumbling at the local, state, and federal levels, and millions of voters on both sides of our
gaping ideological spectrum know it. Each blames the other and accepts no blame for
themselves. This collapse of public order is painfully obvious in many major cities, where
violent crime, massive organized shoplifting, and homeless encampments have become dangerous facts
of ordinary life. Law-abiding citizens, the backbone of those cities, have found the quality
of their lives declining. They bear much of the blame themselves. They elected the
district attorneys who refuse to prosecute serious crimes and so encourage even more. They
elected the mayors and legislators who justify such rampant disorder under the heart-warming name
of "social justice." How do armed robberies, looting, and gang violence qualify as social justice?
This Is Your City On
Democrats: Philadelphia. Evidently it is the deepest desire of Democratic Party
activists to turn the streets of American cities into needle-strewn wastelands of drug addicts
openly shooting up and [defecating] on the street. Because that's the results that the Democratic
Party drug- and crime-tolerant policies create time and time again. Here's a video of the
Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. [Video clip]
Has
Atlanta Seen the Light? It's no secret that cities take the positives and negatives
of the human experience and multiply them exponentially. Of course, we know that many of the
worst tendencies we're seeing in cities today are the result of Democrats' policies. George
Soros-funded district attorneys are refusing to enforce laws and bring criminals to justice, while
sanctuary city policies are bringing in illegal immigrants at the expense of law-abiding and
tax-paying citizens. Racial and political animosity that groups like Black Lives Matter and
Antifa brought into America's cities, short-sighted approaches to homelessness and drug addiction,
and pandemic-era government intrusion did untold amounts of damage to urban areas. The state
of our cities has suffered tremendously on the heels of Democrat leadership. [...] And people are
fleeing Democrat-run cities in droves. That's a trend that's likely to continue unless the
leadership in cities can get a handle on crime.
How
Bad Does It Have to Get? Murders, street crime, white-collar crime, shoplifting,
trespassing, abuse of power, illegal drugs, legal drugs, illegal immigration and open borders,
election-tampering, institutional decay, homelessness, illiteracy, phony racism, real racism,
corrupt politicians, vengeful district attorneys, child abuse, domestic partner abuse, disregard
for human life, a weakened military, the rise of authoritarianism, expanding ignorance, AI, CRT,
DIE, poverty, inflation, radical environmentalism, gender fluidity, lowered standards and weakened
values, flight from personal responsibility, death of the meritocracy... the list goes on, and
it's getting bigger by the day.
Radio
Free America. [Scroll down] Woke companies like Walmart, CVS, Target, and
even specialty brands like Old Navy were sucked into "doing the right thing" and building in
"underserved" areas of big cities. Now, those very same names are pulling out in droves as
they count their losses in the billions, but won't mouth the reasons why as established
corporations, they can't survive in buzzing districts. The truth is obvious, but wokeism
won't allow you to say that the principal causes are shoplifting, violent crime, weak or unenforced
laws, and courts that return the most profligate and violent offenders for endless rounds of mayhem.
Video
shows Austin's 'crown jewel' trail trashed by hidden homeless camps. Jamie Hammonds
said city policies have pushed homeless into areas where the public can't see them[.] An
Austin, Texas, resident is raising awareness of the city's homeless problem and its unseen impact
on greenbelt areas. Jamie Hammonds, an investigative filmmaker who runs the organization
Documenting Austin's Streets and Homeless, or DASH, shared videos Wednesday on Twitter, showing a
homeless encampment in the Violet Crown Trail after roughly a year of neglect. "It's
destroyed. It will never be the same," Hammonds tweeted. A real-estate agent concurred,
saying the "environmental damage from these camps is immense."
San
Francisco's doom loop accelerates. The owner of 2 major San Francisco Hotels,
including the city's largest hostelry, has announced that it is walking away from its mortgage on
the two properties, surrendering them to the lender. [...] "Concerns over street conditions" is a
delicate way of describing the takeover of much of downtown SF by drug addicts, currently termed
"the unhoused" as if the main problem were high rents, when in fact the thousands of vagrants
ruining the city are attracted from all over the country by the tolerance and active financial and
social services support they receive. They leave feces and urine on the streets, shooting up
in front of the dwindling crowds of passers-by who have learned to avoid what was not very long ago
one of the most attractive and vibrant cities in the world. The high office vacancy rates,
the lower return of workers to offices, and the reduced convention schedule that trouble Park's
management are all closely related to the takeover of downtown (and other neighborhoods) by bums
and junkies.
Dying
San Francisco Sustains Another Massive Blow. Not too long ago, San Francisco was
still a remarkably beautiful city, although even then it could change on a dime. One could be
in the midst of a leisurely stroll down a gorgeous street filled with chic cafes, turn a corner,
and find oneself without warning in the middle of a large crowd of menacing homeless drug
addicts. Now, after decades of far-Left misrule that has picked up speed in the wake of the
COVID hysteria, the city's dirty, degrading, and dangerous areas are growing rapidly and taking the
whole place over, and the city's remaining sane people are fleeing. The end is near for the
Golden Gate City: the day is approaching when its ruins will bear silent witness to the ways in
which Leftism destroys human societies. In anticipation of that day, a luxury hotel chain is
leaving town.
Two
of San Fran's largest hotels are bailing out. Another week and another business is
pulling out of the formerly great city of San Francisco. Well, two businesses actually,
though they are owned by the same parent company. The Hilton San Francisco Union Square Hotel
is the largest in the city. The Parc 55 Hotel is the fourth largest. Both are owned by
Park Hotels & Resorts, which is stopping payments on a massive loan for the two hotels and allowing
them to go into foreclosure. It is simply no longer safe or profitable to operate such an
operation in San Francisco. The CEO of the company described the move as a "very difficult,
but necessary" decision.
Reporter
Confronts KJP On Men In Women's Locker Rooms Possibly Driving Up Suicide Rates. A
White House reporter confronted White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about suicide rates
increasing among young girls as school administrators allow males in women's locker rooms.
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley suggested school administrators allowing males into
women's locker rooms drives up suicide rates during a Sunday CNN town hall with Jake Tapper.
Haley said, "My daughter ran track in high school. I don't even know how I would have that
conversation with her. How are we supposed to get our girls used to the fact that biological
boys are in their locker rooms? And then we wonder why a third of our teenage girls seriously
contemplated suicide last year. We should be growing strong girls, confident girls."
It's Not
About Politics! Too many people still believe what we see on the news is politics as
usual. It is not. Politics departed long ago. What we are witnessing, what we see
demonstrated everyday, is good vs. evil. [...] Normalizing homosexuality, pushing transgenderism,
even celebrating them is not politics. Hospitals operating on children, mutilating them,
removing perfectly normal reproductive organs or creating faux body parts as a poor substitute is
not politics. Observing major corporations getting into politics like never before is not
mere politics. Watching these same corporations changing their wares to heighten the Left's
narrative is not politics. Major store chains selling clothing to hide genitalia to enhance
the cloaking of actual gender or allowing men in women's bathrooms is not politics. Thousands
upon thousands of homeless living on sidewalks in major Democrat cities while allowing hardened
criminals to prey on the innocents is not politics. Authorizing marketing execs to destroy
their brand just to normalize abnormality and then watching other companies follow suit is not
politics. Inviting drag queens to display their deviancy to children in public libraries and
classrooms and then calling it 'promoting imagination' is not politics. Finding thousands of
ballots over and above the number of voters in any precinct or allowing people to vote without
proving who they are is not politics. Opening borders to millions of unvetted, unknown people
from foreign countries the world over is not politics. Giving up energy independence is not
politics. Punishing political rivals with censorship is not politics. Spending
trillions on what no one can identify is not politics. Politicians and Deep Staters
committing treasonous acts for decades without repercussion is not politics. Permitting
people to 'serve' in Congress and the presidency who are mentally incompetent or even dead is not
politics. Using 'climate change' to amass power and money is not politics.
Is
America's collapse inevitable? [Harold] Robertson gives it heft and dimension by discussing
how America began to shift from a meritocracy to a diversity system in the 1960s, with the passage of the
Civil Rights Act. He then explains how it became embedded in American employment culture.
Of course, moving away from a system that discriminated against people based on race is a good thing.
The problem is that, thanks to how "diversity" has been interpreted, we've embraced a whole new style of
discrimination. Now, the most important characteristic a person can bring to a job is skin color,
sex, and sexual orientation or "identity." This metric, when applied across American culture, especially
within the government, but with increased aggression in education and the workplace, practically ensures that the
people responsible for America's public and private systems won't be the "best"; they'll just be the most "diverse."
Complex
Systems Won't Survive the Competence Crisis. At a casual glance, the recent cascades
of American disasters might seem unrelated. In a span of fewer than six months in 2017, three
U.S. Naval warships experienced three separate collisions resulting in 17 deaths. A year
later, powerlines owned by PG&E started a wildfire that killed 85 people. The pipeline
carrying almost half of the East Coast's gasoline shut down due to a ransomware attack.
Almost half a million intermodal containers sat on cargo ships unable to dock at Los Angeles
ports. A train carrying thousands of tons of hazardous and flammable chemicals derailed near
East Palestine, Ohio. Air Traffic Control cleared a FedEx plane to land on a runway occupied
by a Southwest plane preparing to take off. Eye drops contaminated with antibiotic-resistant
bacteria killed four and blinded fourteen. While disasters like these are often front-page
news, the broader connection between the disasters barely elicits any mention.
Is
the Sleeping Conservative Dragon Finally Waking Up? How can America be turned upside
down, as it is, when there is little public support for the things happening around us? They
don't see much backing for the current border policy and illegal immigration, yet it
continues. Conservatives feel that most Americans reject the trend of biological men
dominating female sporting events. They fear American jurisprudence has become now vastly
weaponized and warped. Certainly, former President Donald Trump will be more likely indicted
by a politicized New York City prosecutor for supposedly overvaluing his net worth over a decade
ago than would be a current violent street criminal clubbing a subway commuter. In 2020
torching a federal courthouse or massing at the White House grounds, in efforts to get at the
president, earned either few arrests and little or no jail time. In 2021, if one entered the
Capitol and illegally paraded around like a buffoon, he could get a five-year prison
sentence. Traditionalists feel that sky-high energy prices, out-of-control urban crime, a
depressed economy, high interest rates, and a politicized FBI, CIA, Justice Department, and
Pentagon are all needlessly self-created messes. How then did these extremist policies that
have little popular support become institutionalized?
The Editor says...
The sleeping dragon might wake up, but if the elections are corrupt, will it matter?
The
Party's Over. The red fascists masquerading as our Democrat political party have
obliterated the home of Truman, Kennedy, and LBJ. What remains is a shell, a Trojan Horse packed
full of crazy-eyed warriors prepared at every moment to commit murder and mayhem to advance their
power. There is no polite answer to the armed killer at your door. In too many places,
the police have been depopulated and terrorized. Our prosecutors have been emasculated and
suborned. Even our armed forces are being hollowed out and rendered unfit for combat.
The
Decline and Fall of the American Empire. [Scroll down] Debauchery is an oft-recurring
theme in the demise of empires. Societies develop an abnormally immature obsession with sex. An
obsession that requires increasing deviancy to satiate coupled with concurrent abuse of children and the
marginalization and exploitation of women. Meanwhile, the use of drugs and alcohol expands exponentially.
Debauchery is a symptom of the absence of meaning in people's lives leading to the self-destruction of society and
concomitantly a loss of a sense of duty and patriotism. Other symptoms common among many empires in the last
stages of decline include:
• Massive and growing disparities between rich and poor and an undisciplined and over-extended military.
• An intensification of internal political hatreds and a corresponding inability to reconcile in order to save the empire.
• An ever increasing level of self-serving corruption and patronage among the ruling class.
• A massive influx of unassimilated foreigners whose allegiance and cultural ties are with their native lands and not the host nation and who do not feel obligated to defend the empire.
• Severe financial and economic crises linked to the unending debasement of the currency.
• An ongoing and irreversible decline in monotheistic religions that emphasize self-sacrifice, temperance, a sense of duty as well as honor and integrity.
Additionally, while the decline of empires is precipitated by internal factors, the final collapse is marked by defeat at the hands of powerful external enemies.
America
Is Destined for Dictatorship. Fathers are increasingly nonexistent in the lives of
kids who are routinely abused, sexually, emotionally, and otherwise, in state-run
institutions. Everybody talks about the abuse the Catholic Church has tolerated with respect
to pedophile priests, but the public schools are infinitely worse. Parents who do care enough
to oppose it are tarred as domestic terrorists and targeted by the Justice Department.
Extended families exist as real connections less and less. We're terrible at love and
romance, worse at raising our children. We have to stage organized boycotts of the Disneys
and Targets of the world because organic signals from the market aren't strong enough to dissuade
stupid woke corporations from bombarding us with smut. And those who attempt to uphold
timeless societal standards are derided as "culture warriors" and prudes. The internet is
covered with videos of looting, mob violence, street chaos, murder, beatings, carjackings, and
other mayhem. People break out their phones to document the horrors and earn clicks on social
media rather than act to stop it. There is no confidence in our governing institutions, and
there shouldn't be. They're mercilessly corrupt.
Arrest
of Chicago 'Peacekeeper' police substitute demonstrates the folly of 'defund the
police'. A man wearing the vest of the new "Peacekeeper" corps deployed over the
Memorial Day weekend, to stem the mayhem on a holiday weekend that has become an opportunity for
murder tallies to soar, was arrested for a violent attack. [...] One of the many fantasies of the
progressives is that there is something inherently wrong or dangerous with police. Instead of
armed police capable of using the threat of violence to restrain offenders, unarmed social
worker-like alternatives can reduce violence by sympathizing with offenders and understanding the
root causes of their behavior. The Chicago Police Department's 1,700 vacancies are so
catastrophic that Democrat politicians are desperate to deflect blame for their support of defund
the police and anti-cop measures. Chicago's new mayor, Brandon Johnson, ditched his former
defund-the-police rhetoric during the campaign but still won't commit to adding funds to the police.
The
Consequences of American Meritocracy in the Rearview. While some differences persist
between races or between sexes, the reality is, Americans of all stripes have more opportunity than
virtually any place on the planet. Indeed, black median household income in the United States
($38,800) is higher than that of every country in the world but four, while at the same time, the
poorest 20% of Americans are richer on average than most Europeans. And the "gender wage gap"
is gone, too. What's more, advancement is alive and well, demonstrated by the fact that 20%
of America's richest citizens are self-made, starting their lives in poor households. The
fact that 60% of are self-made from the middle class or below shows exactly how much opportunity
there is in America. But a funny thing happened on the way to leaving stereotypes and its
discrimination behind and focusing on content of character; the nation was hijacked by the party of
the KKK and Jim Crow. Suddenly, at the very moment when America had achieved something very
close to a true meritocracy, the modern Democrat put its only vehicle to power, the Victim
Industrial Complex, into overdrive.
How
to Destroy a People. Wokeness is not about "rights" — it is about
favoritism on a colossal scale. It is about transforming America into a Marxist totalitarian
state based on a coalition of groups antagonistic to traditional American identity. And so,
ultimately, it is about destroying America as we have known it for over 200 years. The
special consideration that these groups demand comes at the expense of ordinary citizens —
those decent, hardworking, family-oriented citizens who now find themselves forced to the back of
the bus. Ordinary Americans pay the higher taxes necessary to fund the privileges that
marginal groups now claim; ordinary folks are expected to nod in agreement as their children
are subjected to woke brainwashing; ordinary people are told they must swallow the idea that
the needs of homosexuals, transgenders, transvestites, criminals, illegal aliens, environmentalist
radicals, communists, atheists, and anarchists come first — in education, hiring,
culture, politics, and the news. There is little space or funding left for everyday
Americans, who are told that they are less important and "outdated" and even "hate-filled" just
because of their noble beliefs in Christianity, self-responsibility, decency, and goodness.
The
Extensive Corruption of Morals in the USA. [Scroll down] Thus, we are not
surprised to learn that the district attorneys of many cities, including New York, do not prosecute
prostitution any longer, but treat it as a form of maladjustment to be treated therapeutically, not
punished as a legal and moral wrong. Lotteries today have invaded millions of bodegas and
grocery stores. Casinos are no longer just to be found in Nevada, as was the case in the
1950s and 1960s, but exist in states throughout the nation. Swearing is common in corporate
offices and boardrooms. The F-word has become commonplace; when this writer worked in a
corporate division of industrial engineers even in the 1990s, it was the expletive of choice.
In our era, instead of cruelty to animals, as existed in the early 19th century, we see the
destruction of millions of babies, many of whom are dissected while alive in order to retrieve
their body parts and sell them.
Let's
Check In And See How The Largest Metropolitian Areas In The United States Are Doing.
Our largest cities are being run by progressive politicians that have been working very hard to
implement extremely ambitious progressive agendas. So how is that working out? In this
article, I am going to check in on the three largest metropolitan areas in the United States to see
how they are doing. Have they been transformed into "liberal utopias" that can serve as
examples to show the rest of the world how they should be doing things? Not exactly.
Instead, conditions have gotten really bad in each one of them and things are getting worse with
each passing day.
Convicted
Murderer Freed By Innocence Project Becomes Drug Dealer And Murders A Man. Shaurn
Thomas, a black man who was freed for murder in Philadelphia by the Innocence Project and given $4
million in restitution by the state, allegedly became a drug dealer upon release, killed a man for
owing him a $1,200 drug debt and told his accomplice it was his "third" homicide. Shaurn
Thomas was a millionaire, but prosecutors say he killed a man over a $1,200 drug debt. Thomas
was paid more than $4 million three years ago after spending 24 years behind bars for a murder
conviction that was later overturned. [Video clip]
A
new whistleblower describes the horrors of "gender-affirming care" at Texas Children's
Hospital. [Scroll down] No. It won't turn out well. There's
absolutely no proof that a transgender surgery will "cure" patients' depression or whatever mental
health issue they're going through, which I believe is real. We have a generation of kids
with mental health problems. It's very sad. And we need to treat those problems
correctly, not by recommending that they change genders to fix their mental health problem.
That's never worked. It never will work. There's no proof that it will work anywhere in
the literature. So yes, we're ruining them. They're going to wake up in ten years and
discover that they're infertile, that they can't have children, that their sexuality is completely
dysfunctional. That they can't function as a normal human being. And ultimately, I
believe that that realization is going to cause them to harm themselves — when they wake
up and realize that they've already been ruined.
Manufacturing
Mental Illness. We must all understand that "transgenderism" is a mental disorder.
But not just any mental disorder. This one is being force-fed into the minds of our children from
the earliest of ages. We are "manufacturing' mental illness. We are creating psychopaths in
the "laboratories" of our modern American culture. There was a time when sexual predators were not
allowed within 1000 yards of a school building. But now, schools — both public and
private — are inviting them in specifically to indoctrinate and groom children of all ages,
even in pre-school. Pity the one who would dare to stand against this evil — they'll
be labeled as "hateful bigots," ostracized from their communities and sometimes even jailed, for daring
to stand in the gap to protect children.
Things
Really Are Looking Up Under Biden. [Scroll down] The problem is that they
are all the wrong things. Inflation, interest payments, debt, illegal immigration, labor
force dropouts. Those are all way up under Biden. To show this, we've put together a
series of charts. [...] During President Donald Trump's entire four years in office, the Consumer
Price Index climbed a total of 7.3%. In less than two-and-half-years under Biden, prices have shot
up 16%. That's not because of Putin's war. It's not because of greedy oil companies.
It's not because cattle farmers don't have enough competition. Nor is it because of any of
the other lame excuses Biden has peddled. The one and only reason prices are skyrocketing is
Biden's $5 trillion spending spree.
The
Union Is Not a Suicide Pact. From my point of view, never have so many Americans been
so consciously aware that things must change. The federal government's response to the 9/11
Islamic terrorist attacks has been endless war and the construction of a national security
surveillance state that now targets Americans as "domestic enemies." Its response to mass
communication through social media has been the implementation of State-sanctioned
censorship. Its response to widespread calls for border security has been mass sponsorship of
illegal immigration. Its response to Americans' rising demands for personal freedom has been
COVID lockdowns, a centrally directed economy, and a declaration of war against "white supremacy."
The
Cataclysm to Come. The United States, ripped apart internally, has become ever less
willing and able to lead internationally. The doctrines that built the United States and
Western civilization, assimilated from ancient cultures over thousands of years, are being
methodically dissolved. America is entering an uncharted, revolutionary time. The
foundation of American life, abundant food, energy autonomy, a sound economy, sound education at
all levels, and enforceable and equal application of the law, are eroding. Our society is
"fundamentally changing," and these changes are not for the better. Hard-left fanatics have
absorbed the Democrat party and are transforming the country with woke and equality-of-result
agendas. Prosperity and leisure have misled a complacent society into thinking the modern age
no longer needs to worry about law and order.
Is
Sanity Returning? I'm referring to the firestorm rejection consumers are giving to
Anheuser-Busch (AB), specifically to buying and drinking Bud Lite. [...] AB's executives, Hollywood
celebs, academia, TV networks, Big Media, Big Tech, most large corporations, and most government
agencies have collectively decided they know what's best for you, know exactly what you need, and
have proceeded to shove it down our throats while forcing their political insanity onto
society. You must hate President Trump — Check; every TV network and celebrity
continually echoes that mantra. We will teach racist ideology to your children, and you'll
learn to love it — Check; Democrat-controlled school boards cram Critical Race Theory
(CRT) into every school curriculum. Demand gun control/gun confiscation — Check;
every mass-shooting is not because the shooter is deranged or mentally ill; no, it's the gun's
fault and Dems demand guns be confiscated. Americans must have and support open borders to
flood the country with illegals and change the voter base — Check; Biden and Dems have
refused to control the border, resulting in five million (but who's counting) illegals in slightly
over two years (thanks, Joe). America needs a weakened military more focused on White rage than
defeating our enemies — Check; all service branches are struggling to recruit new
members. So, given the large numbers of idiotic, woke businesses and lunatic
government/military agendas, Anheuser-Busch managed to outstupid them all. AB used a
girly-man transgender to advertise Bud Lite (BL) to the average working man.
Utility
Scale Solar Kills Jobs. Does it matter that utility scale solar has a negative effect
on the environment — destroying farmland, forests, wetland, recreational land?
Does it matter that property values are driven down? Does it matter that the mining of
cobalt, lithium, rare earths and copper to build solar panels and battery energy storage systems is
done by slave labor in the Congo and China?
When
reality hits, it will hit hard. The work ethic has vanished in large portions of the
population. The military cannot find enough recruits. We are now at the stage of
super-saturation, with corruption, debt, and debauchery leading the list. All this has come
about due to one cause — to keep the government in power, at any cost to the people
being ruled. The impending disturbance that will bring it all crashing down cannot be
precisely foretold, but that is because there are so many possible events that it is inevitable
that one of them will occur. One need only look at the headlines to see it. Black swans
abound. Worse yet, many threats are under-reported, or distorted to conceal their true
magnitude. Is it hopeless? The short answer is yes. Nothing in the short term can
pay off the debt, restore the work ethic, and return public morals to the levels of sanity.
All
This Failure Is Deliberate. I recently had a reader ask, "Why is Joe Biden still
President?" [...] Everything Biden has done has been a disaster. The economy is
teetering. The border is non-existent. The banking system and the dollar are
crumbling. Our enemies are taking advantage of the weakness they perceive in the White
House. Crime is out of control in most of our once-great cities. Traditional morality
and decency are in the toilet. Our children are being butchered and groomed for the
hedonistic pleasure of a cadre of sexual deviants. Women athletes are losing hard-earned
rights because of the "transgender" movement, something that almost no one had heard of five years
ago. Government spending is without restraint and, as a result, inflation has soared, and
America's middle class is being squeezed into near oblivion. The education system continues
to produce semi-literates who will do — what? — in the future. No
patriot wants to join the military anymore. The list of Joe Biden's cataclysms is endless,
but my space in this column isn't, so I mention only a few of the most egregious catastrophes this
man and his ideology have foisted upon the nation. Why is he still President indeed?
The
age of manufactured crises. This week, with the eclipsing of Title 42, the U.S.
southern border has gone from a hot mess to a full-blown emergency. We were pushed into the
conflict with Ukraine and Russia as well. Before that was the debacle in Afghanistan.
Our leaders killed drilling for oil and terminated pipeline projects which led to elevated gas
prices and fueled inflation. If inflation was a concern, you'd never notice it from our
leaders. They pumped trillions of dollars into the economy to make inflation worse (and had
the gall to call it an Inflation Reduction Act.) Even when there isn't a crisis, the current
administration creates one. For example, claiming gun violence and trans-oppression are
national emergencies. You can almost hear them, "Let's make loans easier for people with bad
credit ratings," which is destined to ignite a housing crisis down the road. If that isn't
enough, looming on the horizon is a Taiwan crisis, the Sudan, and perhaps an incident or two with
North Korea. Rather than get in front of an issue and calm it, actions are taken (or not
taken) to ensure that problems are allowed to fester and explode.
Liberals
sure like dead black men. We are a nation led by a party that is bent on
destruction. On the West Coast, Democrats are destroying dams in the name of nature.
Elsewhere, they are destroying nuclear plants in the name of safety. They are destroying coal
plants in the name of global warming. They are destroying sections of interstates in the name
of racism. Black men kill black men by the thousand each year. Liberals ignore those
actual murders. Instead, they turn the media spotlight on the very rare occasion when a black
man dies at the hands of a white person. The murkier the details, the louder liberals
screech. Liberals are playing America. When President Obama said if he had a son he
would look like Trayvon Martin, he created this monster we still grapple nearly a decade later.
Martin was beating George Zimmerman's head against a sidewalk when the victim pulled his gun and
killed his assailant. The death of another teen thug, Michael D. Brown, gave libs an
excuse to destroy Ferguson, Missouri, a quiet suburb that black people used to escape
St. Louis. The list goes on, ending in the overdose death of George Floyd while
in police custody. Liberals used their rationalization to destroy cities.
Never-ending
Daycare as a Way of Life. Teenagers today would not survive in that world where there
were no cellphones, Internet, constant entertainment and "safe spaces." I have never heard the
term "safe" as much as I have heard over the last couple years. The world is not safe
regardless of how anyone perceives it. For those who hold this perception as true, I suggest
going to a foreign country and experiencing how different America truly is. [...] What
happened? We, as a group, decided to get soft. Technology has provided an environment
where one can live an easy and soft life. We subconsciously agreed to not let anything bad
happen to our children. Everyone won and everyone was told they were the best. Even
when they weren't even close. This fiction twisted our American youth with no non-painful
remedy. We sent these kids out into the world with a distorted view that everything was going
to go their way and when it did not it was acceptable to throw a temper tantrum and blame others.
What
Have We Learned? We've learned that white liberals will ignore crime stats and
sacrifice their kids to black bullies simply to show the world how "not racist" they are.
They will take a useless/dangerous shot — and, astonishingly, give it to their
kids — to avoid being called a "conservative." Libs will cheer for an obese,
mentally ill man when he dons a dress and beats their daughter in a "beauty" pageant.
Progressives don't see a problem with turning adult males with Down Syndrome into drag
queens. They will ignore any news that doesn't come from a state-sanctioned news source, lest
they be called a "conspiracy theorist." Liberals will dutifully prove they aren't "transphobic"
by applauding — extra loudly — as a bearded lady steals their daughter's
place on the college swim team. Kids of liberals seem to pay the high price of mommy
signaling her "virtue" to the world.
The
Impending Thermidor Reaction in Jacobin America. [Scroll down] So, the
world became topsy-turvy. Throwing a firebomb into a police-occupied patrol car earned a
light sentence, while protesting illegally at the Capitol won a decade in prison. An American
who did not get vaccinated was to be thrown out of the U.S. military; an illegal alien crossing the
border unlawfully without a vaccination might earn a free phone and free lodging in a big-city
hotel. The more the government printed money it did not have, the more the country was
slandered as cruel and mean to its underclass. The more standards were dropped for admission,
hiring, promotion, and retention, the more employers were deemed unfair and bigoted.
American Despotism.
Democratic long-term rule over cities like Baltimore, Detroit, and Chicago shows the country's
trajectory. Gentrifying cosmopolitans drive out middle-class voters with high rents and plan
tent cities of drug users and street defecators. Homicides in major cities rose 44 percent
from 2019-20, another 5 percent from 2020-21. Nationwide they rose 30 percent, a
60-year high. Even as the homeless filled cities like Los Angeles, the elites welcomed in
millions more illegal immigrants, who bring the Mexican drug cartels' wars with them. As
Houston reported skyrocketing homicides, the Harris County sheriff reminded deputies to share their
personal pronouns in introductions. No longer prosecuting property theft, cities like Dallas
and San Fran- cisco released criminals from prison to terrorize the public and only enforced
violations on citizens who could pay fines. The city of Chicago decided not to prosecute
gangsters involved in a deadly public shoot-out because they were engaged in "mutual combat."
A
Grand Alliance to Overcome the Elite Betrayal of America. For the first time in
history, the ruling class of a powerful nation has abandoned its fellow citizens. What is
happening in America today is more than a return to feudalism, although the new economic model into
which we're being herded is correctly compared to feudalism. The reality is actually much
worse: America's elites view ordinary citizens as no longer necessary. Because of globalism,
they are replaceable. Because of automation, they are superfluous. Because of
environmentalism, they are unsustainable. These factors explain what is otherwise
inexplicable: Constitutional conservatives and Christians, and the values they profess, are now
stigmatized by establishment institutions as often, if not more often, than they are praised.
Nationalism and religious faith empower individuals and communities to resist a ruling class that
has abandoned them. That makes them a threat. They recognize that the ideology of
America's ruling elites is itself leading to disaster. They recognize that America's elites
have decided the nation's middle class is disposable, and this is the real reason they are pushing
an agenda of woke degeneracy and extreme environmentalism, designed to lower birthrates and reduce
standards of living.
Why
do liberals support legislation that obviously harms them? The reality is that the
U.S. economy is hardly growing, inflation is still at more than 5%, and the Chinese are arming
rapidly while America's defense budget shrinks in real terms. Biden's progressive policies
have set us on a course of self-destruction. Everyday life is noticeably worse than it was
when Biden took office, what with lower real wages, supply chain shortages, higher taxes (many of
them hidden from view, like the 1% tax on share buybacks that, in effect, constitute a wealth tax
on investors and retirees), weakness overseas, and a weakening dollar. Every visit to the
grocery reveals the misery spreading across America: there are fewer shoppers, each of them
purchasing less. Even such a successful and well run company as Kroger saw fourth-quarter
2022 results decline from 2021 with EPS of 0.62 vs. 0.75 and gross margins decline.
Layoffs are mounting in the tech sector and other industries, and banks have become more selective
in making and renewing loans. The office rental market is hard pressed, and, on top of declines
in 2022, home builders are "on the verge of a steeper downturn as buyers pull back." America
is headed toward self-destruction, yet almost half of Democrats want Biden to run again.
Your
favorite snacks really ARE shrinking. If you've picked up a bag of Doritos recently
and thought it had less chips in it, you're not going crazy. Some of America's favorite
snacks have shrunk by up to 20 percent in the last 25 years as companies cost-cut amid rising
inflation, a move dubbed 'shrinkflation'. It is not just chips. Fast food, cereals,
soda, ice cream and dressings have all been kept at the same price or even made more expensive
despite shrinking in size.
The
2024 Presidential Election. America is at a tipping point. Will we continue the
downward spiral into a fascist third-world dictatorship? Can we change course back to a
constitutional republic that values the free will of men and women, freedom of speech and assembly,
the rule of law, and equal justice? Already in the descent to an authoritarian state, free
speech is suppressed and thought is censored and replaced by Orwellian New Speak enforced by
the thought police. The free press is transformed into shameless state-run propaganda outlets
that run the approved false narrative of the day. The state takes guns away under the guise of
public safety. The thought enforcers of the state supersede local control of the police.
Scapegoats are created. Yes, the evil of the 1930s is again rising.
Modern
day brown shirts. Goal #15 of the CPUSA, which was read into the Congressional Record in 1963,
stated: "Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States." Some of the other
listed CPUSA goals that have been not-so-coincidentally pursued by radical Democrat Party activists over the
past several decades include:
• Infiltrate the press.
• Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
• Get control of the schools.
• Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity.
• Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity (now to include "transsexualism") as
"normal, natural, healthy."
We have all been sleeping while the radical Left — the militant arm of the Democrat Party — has achieved
most of these objectives over the past 50 years! All of this nonsense has been normalized to our
collective detriment.
The
Disposable Biden. By any national metric, we're all far worse off now than we were
before Biden stumbled through the doors of the Oval Office like a lobotomized polio victim.
His "stiff gait" is an indicator of serious neurological decline which has become a brand of
sorts. It's Biden's version of Trump's rambunctious mane. But, instead of signaling a
raucous virility, Biden's halting and unbalanced gate communicates fundamental weakness and
morbidity. The leader of the free world? How about sock puppet? [...] Our institutions
have been poisoned by feckless, political appointees. But, the watershed moment in deep state
corruption manifested itself when Barack Obama sauntered into the White House, and Karl Marx
followed with him. Every apparatus of deep state power fell under the full control of left
wing radicals, installed by the Obama administration — a phalanx of unelected officials
that still occupy key positions today.
The
truth about morality. The birth-control pill helped to reduce the stigma of losing
one's virginity before marriage. This, in turn, indirectly reduced the stigma of premarital
pregnancy. This, in turn, reduced the perceived need for the birth control pill. Once
the initial phase of these events had occurred, the floodgates were opened, and what quickly
followed was what is called, the sexual revolution. This revolution was supposed to have
freed women from the injustice of sexual repression. Instead, it led to millions of women
becoming pregnant and abandoned, left on their own, to raise their fatherless children. Many
of them were, as a result, raised in poverty and amid crime. The welfare state sought to
correct this mistake by subsidizing single motherhood. This, in turn, predictably increased
what it subsidized. Today, the harm wrought by the abandonment of sexual morality has left us
with a society that cannot even recognize the good and natural differences between the sexes, even
to the point of denying that there are two complementary sexes, and certainly denying that they are
a naturally ordained partnership, one without which, society suffers consequences so pervasive that
many people call them good.
The real surprise here is that New York City still has tourists! New
York City is starting to smell like dirty bong water, disgusting even the tourists.
[Scroll down] The bottom line here is that the failure to enforce pot laws and the
decriminalization of marijuana use inevitably leads to public consumption and a lot of bums whose
lives revolve around pot-smoking as a lifestyle choice, camping out on the streets. The link
between homeless encampments and pot smoking is very strong. The failure to clear those
encampments or enforce any laws against petty crime means lots more pot stench to breathe in.
The other issue is that excessive pot-smoking is linked to a lot of crime. Medical studies
have shown that pot-smoking in young men with genetic vulnerabilities, is connected to the
emergence of schizophrenia. Many schizophreniacs commit hard, impulsive violent crimes.
Virtually all mass shooters are prodigious pot consumers. Pot consumption is a part of this
whole dysfunctional picture.
America's
Transgender Craze. Future historians may look back on 2023 as Peak Trans Women
insanity. [...] Who can forget the mediocre male swimmier Lia Thomas winning swimming championships
as a female? Meanwhile, a trans weightlifter will even compete in the upcoming Olympics and
do so as a woman. A transgendered athlete recently defeated 14,000 female competitors in the
London marathon. Far less publicized is that state prisons now contain 5000 men who identify
as women while some 1300 are inmates of federal prisons. What is going on? Is America
experiencing a mass psychosis where men wake up as "women" and demand to be treated as
females? Has our water supply been massively contaminated by estrogen? Or are we just
experiencing a harmless fad like purple hair? This men-becoming-women trend is the other side
of what occurred decades back as women increasingly moved into traditional male fields.
A
Woman by Any Other Name is Still a Woman. A famous line from Shakespeare's Romeo and
Juliet is, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet", meaning that things are what they are,
regardless of what you choose to name them. This is why modern man uses language to precisely
define people, places, and things, irrespective of how we might feel about said things. The
same can be applied to men and women, or boys and girls. They are what they are, regardless
of how we choose to name them. Such thinking was common sense for centuries, but now in our
post-enlightenment culture, accepted descriptors are somehow verboten, requiring a new language
with cumbersome verbosity replacing simple one or two syllable words.
Feminism's
Strange Trans Fruit. Leaving the fight against the trans movement, specifically the
men who demand that we all play along with their supposedly feminine identities, entirely up to
women would relinquishing to feminists (and their many male allies and puppetmasters) exactly what
they want. They want it to be impossible for the public to see a distinction between feminist
and woman, as if all females are enthusiastic participants in a feminist Borg collective. In
fact, one of the most potent tools of feminism in recent decades has been to say "Women need X"
when the truth is that feminists want X and don't care what the rest of women actually want.
This conceals feminists' actual, far smaller numbers.
It's
Never Been About Tucker, Trump, or Fox News. America is going to hell in a
handbasket. Not in the surreal world created by TV and social media, but in the real
world. A civilizational inferno has engulfed America and the people we've elected to fight it
have done nothing of substance to contain it. We're not dealing with people who merely
disagree on how to put the fire out. We're dealing with political pyromaniacs who set the
fires, watch them burn, and work to stop anyone who tries to put them out. They're facilitating
illegal immigration, weaponizing government, redefining crime and punishment, changing the definition
of inflation to spend more, corrupting our election system, cheering and funding a tyrannical gender
revolution, and butchering history to institutionalize a cultish gospel of black victimhood.
The
Greatest Threat to America. America has recently witnessed an assault on freedom of
speech, watched the White House send condolences to the trans community after one of its members
murdered innocent children at a Christian school, and learned of a proposed tax plan that would
hurt the finances of millions of Americans by adding four trillion dollars in new taxes. But
perhaps most indicative of a threat from within, this administration has ushered in a period of
unprecedented domestic chaos by attempting to forcefully vaccinate citizens, prioritize DEI over
equality and common sense, and crater military enlistment by promoting wokeness. Every
administration presides over some level of disagreement on issues amongst the general public, but
nothing compares to the confusion they are causing young American children to endure, especially
during such a crucial time in life for a child's development. All these problems will have a
devastating impact on America's long-term future if not stopped dead in their tracks.
The
Ruling Class's Stalinist Purge. Whenever human dignity is pushed to the shadows
because agents of the State bully and taunt those with character, evil grows. Whenever
individuals are forced to betray their consciences to save loved ones from wretched fates, evil
grows. Whenever government institutions demand reverence for lies while blaspheming religious
truth, evil grows. Whenever people are punished for their beliefs, ostracized for their
dissent, or purged from the public square, evil grows.
Insanity
is being normalized. Imagine waiting for all the possible information about the food
on your plate and waiting to eat until it is all processed and discovered. You would simply
starve to death and die. So you eat, based upon the experience that broccoli and prime rib
will sustain you. A nice glass of wine (which one day is, one day isn't, and a third day is
supposed to be good for you) is a nice touch as well. We just act because we must, based on
common sense. You work with what you have and what you know and make the best decisions
possible. It's how we must navigate the world. So what happens when you dump something
like "critical theory" into everything? The whole point of critical theory is to take simple
and understood concepts and turn them into a jumble of gobbledygook in which your normal
understanding of what things are and how things work into a total mess. That mess is created,
actually, with a purpose. That purpose is that we are subjected to a tyranny of those who
claim to be in the know about the real state of the world, and the means is destroying your
heuristic. Your understanding of how the world works becomes destroyed. It is paralyzing.
Murders
jumped 10% since 2021 in major Democrat-led US cities thanks to soft-on-crime policies:
study. The murder rates in major US Cities have soared more than 10% in the past two
years — with most homicides occurring in Democratic areas with soft-on-crime
policies. In a study released by WalletHub Wednesday, researchers found that Memphis,
Tennesse; New Orleans, Louisana; Richmond, Virginia; Washington, DC; and Detroit, Michigan are
suffering from the biggest homicide rate problems. All five cities are led by left-wing
mayors. After comparing the rise in murder rates in 45 of the country's most populated cities
between 2021 and 2023, scholars noticed that killings were rising faster in Democrat-led cities
than in their Republican counterparts. Though the Covid-19 pandemic can be blamed for the
initial jump in homicides, scholars theorized that soft-on-crime policing has exacerbated the issue
in progressive cities.
Adolescent
Menopause In Autistic Girls: Is This What We Really Want? When an adolescent girl claims
she is really a boy in the wrong body, these are safe assumptions:
• She is likely to be on the autism spectrum and experiencing difficulties associated with that condition.
• She is likely to have engaged in suicidal or self-harm ideation.
• She is likely suffering from other issues like sexual trauma, anxiety, depression, and eating disorders.
• She is likely already in the throes of puberty — physiologically, mentally, socially, and spiritually — and absolutely miserable.
Puberty blockers will stop bone and breast development, may leave a girl short and stunted for life, and
will put a girl into menopause, adding tortuous suffering on top of everything she's already experiencing with
puberty and her teen years.
Biden's
theme is "finish the job." Have you seen the job thus far? What's happened to the
economy under Biden's policies? Despite the glowing reviews from the White House press
briefing lectern, real wages have gone down, not up. Income levels are down and people have
drained their savings trying to keep up with rising prices. All of that was directly driven
by inflation which has remained at or above 5% for almost all of the Biden presidency. And
that inflation was a direct result of the trillions of dollars in imaginary money that was pumped
into the system in the name of "stimulus." None of this is any sort of partisan politicking
or hyperbole. The figures are all out there for everyone to see. And then there's the
situation that started on the southern border almost immediately after Joe Biden issued his first
executive orders. They don't call it the Biden Border Crisis for nothing. We are now up
to more than 6.3 million illegal immigrants that have invaded the country since January 2021.
The
great sorting that's taking place in America. [Scroll down] Lastly, of
course, there was the leftists' highly political response to COVID, which divided liberty lovers
from those with totalitarian instincts. At this point, many conservatives want nothing to do
with the GOP. All these trends have accelerated under Biden and are exploding at a rate that is
impossible for Americans to ignore, whether in terms of border security, economic policies,
national security, military readiness or, most significantly, the transformation of America's very
fabric (racial, sexual, the family unit, etc.). No wonder, then, that we're experiencing a Great
Sorting. [...] What's also a sea change is the way in which the COVID experience shook Americans'
faith in science and medicine, in public schools, and in academia. That support was normative
in the 20th century. These changes are accelerating.
My
Monday rant on saving civilization. Justice, to the Left, means people destroying
things, stealing things, committing violence, and tossing people out of the public and economic
square. Creating inflation in order to eliminate the middle class. [Tweet] We live in
a society now where killing babies and old people is considered a positive good, and paying people
not to work in the midst of a huge labor shortage is considered just. Where performing
sterilization on children before they even reach puberty is to be celebrated. In Minnesota,
in just one day, the Minnesota Senate passed 3 bills that shock the conscience: banning
so-called conversion therapy for transgender people, which is just giving counseling to troubled
youth and not a cult reprogramming as implied; making Minnesota an abortion sanctuary where
non-custodial parents can take their children for "care;" and the same "sanctuary" law that allows
such parents to get "gender-affirming" care for children despite not having custody rights and
violating court orders. The Democrats cheered and clapped after they passed all 3
bills. This is their vision of a just society. It is, literally, evil. The
intentional destruction of our society.
RFK
Jr. Says Middle Class Was 'Systematically' Wiped Out by COVID-19 Lockdowns.
Democratic 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said COVID-19 lockdowns across the
United States decimated the middle class, suggesting that it has yet to recover. "The strength
of a nation comes from a strong economy and a vibrant middle class," Kennedy told Fox News over the
weekend, "and we have wiped out the middle class in the country systematically." The
69-year-old, who is a prominent skeptic of vaccines, stated that COVID-19-related policies
benefited the elite ruling class at the cost of the middle class. Those lockdowns, he
asserted, shifted $4 trillion in wealth from the middle class to a "new aristocracy of
billionaires." Those lockdowns "created 500 new billionaires," Kennedy stated. "The
Oxfam report, which came out this week, shows that the billionaires that existed at the beginning
of the pandemic, the people like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeffrey Bezos, Bloomberg, etc.,
increased their wealth by 30 percent during the pandemic. From the lockdowns. And
[Bezos's] Amazon got to shut down all of its competitors."
Eric
Adams: New York City Is Being 'Destroyed' by President Joe Biden's Migrant Crisis.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) said New York City is being "destroyed" by President Joe Biden's
migrant crisis during a panel discussion in Washington, DC, hosted by the African American Mayors
Association. "The city is being destroyed by the migrant crisis," Adams bluntly stated. [...]
Adams seemingly took a shot at other New York City officials, accusing them of not fighting hard
enough to get federal resources to the city.
The Editor says...
Does the mayor think New York City is the only place that's being affected? Has he changed
his mind about the wide-open Mexican border? Why is more federal spending the answer
to every problem?
Marijuana:
One Problem After Another. Last month, Oklahoma voters rejected the legalization of
recreational marijuana. Hopefully, this means the word about all the problems associated with
marijuana use is getting around. In New York City, licenses for legal pot shops have been
slow in coming so illegal shops have proliferated, leading to the sale of illegal drugs and
attracting more than 500 violent robberies last year alone. Mayor Eric Adams noted there are
as many as 1,500 of these illegal shops in the City. They open near schools and target kids.
"We are losing our grip," he said. Licensed shops also target kids with candy-flavored
gummies and other cannabis products. It's Joe Camel all over again. Legalized marijuana
is also a factor in Colorado's rising crime rates. It attracted criminals to the state
initially, and now the homeless and others are committing armed robbery and burglary to get the
money to buy marijuana. The same pattern is playing out in other states. Legalizing
marijuana was supposed to reduce crime but, instead, the illegal drug market has mushroomed and
violence has increased.
Austin
Has Turned Into Another Liberal Hellhole. Massive spikes in crime, violence, and
homelessness thanks to the city being run by liberals have put Austin on the fast track to becoming
the next leftist statistic. [Video clip]
A
Lesson in Corporate Wokeness: The Disaster After Making Aunt Jemima a Pariah. In
2020, amid the Black Lives Matter upheaval seen across the country, companies were bending the knee
on a regular basis. Many brands and corporations came out with statements and pledges about
altering their practices and evolving their corporate structures, with "diversity" being thrown
about in their mea culpa. Of course, lost in these self-congratulatory announcements was the
unspoken admission they did not realize they were making: If you are promising to no longer be
"racist," that means you are stating you had previously been a racist company. In the flurry
of these Wall Street struggle sessions was a number of brands eradicating their corporate mascots
that could be interpreted as racially insensitive. Uncle Ben has disappeared from boxes of
rice. Land O'Lakes removed the famed Native American woman from its boxes, leaving the land
and lakes on its packaging. Joining these dispatched designs was the classic breakfast staple
brand Aunt Jemima.
New
York City is Discovering that Legalizing Marijuana Wasn't Really a Great Idea.
Decriminalizing marijuana, we've been told to the point of stupor for years, would simply be a
matter of recognizing the way society has changed and coming to a mature accommodation of a
widespread current practice. It would free up valuable police resources to deal with actual
crimes and real criminals, and end a longstanding injustice in which — you guessed
it! — people of color were, we were told, disproportionately targeted for arrest and
prosecution. So the state of New York has legalized marijuana, and how's it going?
Doritos and Patchouli oil sales through the roof? Maybe. But there have been a lot of
unexpected downsides.
DIE
Means the Death of Military Professionalism. Since 2018, from record highs at the end
of last century and into the post-9/11 era, positive civilian impressions of the military
plummeted. This decreased trust is, in no small measure, due to bipartisan public perceptions
of a politicized military from both the left and right. A 2022 Ronald Reagan Institute survey
noted that half of respondents attributed military politicization to a "woke" agenda. It is a
sentiment certainly shared by some in civilian leadership and many current military members and
veterans. The Reagan Institute polling does not define "woke." Ipsos polling, however,
suggests that the meaning of "woke" can be fluid. Although "woke" may have different
definitions, for many, it is associated prominently with Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity (DIE).
Your
Doctor Asking For Your Pronouns Isn't Just Annoying, It's A Sign Of The Industry's Decline.
Last summer, I went to establish care at a new doctor's office. My beloved pediatrician, one of
the few true family doctors left in the industry, had once kindly offered to keep seeing me until I
have my own children, but I was in the midst of a post-college move, and that was no longer
feasible. So I found myself in a waiting room wading through the moat of new-patient forms
that stand between patients and doctors all across America. As many of those forms now do,
this one wanted to know not only my sexual orientation and sex, but also the so-called gender
I was "assigned at birth," whether I identified as transgender, and my preferred pronouns.
As if that weren't enough, when the nurse walked me back into the doctor's office, she proceeded
to ask me the same questions again. I might have pointed out that I'd already had to endure
this interrogation once — I know I made a face. Looking back, I wish I'd thought
fast enough to remind her that sex is an immutable characteristic that is neither "assigned" nor
"reassigned," but I was just ready to get out of there. Needless to say, I never went
back. A colleague of mine had a similar experience filling out an online form for his
daughter's upcoming medical visit. After spending 20 minutes trying unsuccessfully to
click "submit," he realized that while he'd already selected "female" under the tab for "gender,"
there was a small, separate box he had overlooked labeled "sex" where he had to select "female"
again. Plenty of patients have been forced to jump through hoops like these.
The
War on Pronouns is Really a War on Language. One recent example I noticed was linked
by msn.com and included the headline, "Non-Binary Ex-Biden Staffer Sam Brinton's Family Calls Them
A Liar, Claims Their Abuse Story Never Happened." The headline is incomprehensible by
traditional rules of grammar. The reader would not know who is meant by "Them" and "Their."
Even if we are familiar with Sam Brinton and his story, we would not know what people his family
calls "a liar." The plural words tell us that there are multiple third parties that Brinton's
family accuses. We are misled and distracted by those plural pronouns. An innocent
reader would not have concluded that Brinton, himself, is the real target unless the reader
undertook the process of clicking on the link and reading the article. The reader would then
have to remember the new mandate that requires us to misread plural pronouns as applicable to
single people — as the individual subject's whim dictates. Singular is now
plural. Plural is now singular. Words have no meaning.
Welcome
to the cornfield. [Scroll down] To lift that fog it is crucial that the
language that allows it to occur be fought at every opportunity — and we can start with
refusing to allow a few undeniably false and manipulative terms that have entered the societal
conversation to be used as cudgels for the progressive/woke/equitarian power and manipulation
complex. Misinformation, denialism, disinformation, malinformation, trigger, safe space,
equity, systemic, existential, intersectionality, zero anything, toxic, cis, they, zir,
anything-ist, anything-ism, and on and on and on — all these words and terms are used to
distort meaning, undermine objective facts, and purposefully use a devious combination of
familiarity and confusion to lead society down a path it would never even consider if it could
truly and immediately decipher their impact.
When
Did the U.S. Become East Germany? How long will it be before dissent is criminalized in this country?
Mothers and fathers are being stripped of their parental rights, and children are being told to be the functionaries of
government. The Sanderses and AOCs would love nothing more than to elist them to spy on their families and report
their involvement in disinformation, misinformation, and "anti-government" activities. Wealth redistribution schemes
are disguised as green policies. Our retail shelves have in recent times looked like the bare counters of communist
East Berlin. We're told that we have to make do with less, and fewer choices are in our best interest. Our
economy would be full-on GDR-ed if the Sanderses and Ocasio-Cortezes had their way. The left is unrelenting in
its ambition to take more of the economy out of the private sector and place it in the hands of elected Democrats and
administrative tyrants.
Can
We Do Anything About America's Decline? Twenty-first-century America was on a trajectory
of gradual decline — until it began to implode. Was the accelerant the COVID-19
pandemic and unhinged lockdowns? Or was the catalyst the woke revolution fueled by the
2020 summer of exempted rioting, looting, arson, and violence? Or was it perhaps the
deranged fixation on removing Donald Trump from the presidency and destroying the rule of law in
the process? Or all that and more? Now with the election of Joe Biden, what had been a
fast-tracked decline has accelerated at such an astonishing rate we can scarcely recognize our
country. [...] America is in a similar position to where it was in 1861, 1929, 1941, and
1968 — only perhaps worse, given in all those cases, there was at least a president and
Congress that identified and reacted to the crisis, whereas today our elected government is what
caused the crisis.
The Revenge of Moriarty.
[Scroll down] Unfortunately, the dark spiderweb enveloping America is being woven not
by one isolated fiend but by a multitude of them, disciples of a sick and toxic leftist
ideology. And for far too long, conservatives stood by and let the spiderweb spread, thread
by thread, until we too became caught in it. Now, infamies once thought unfathomable or
unspeakable by a moral society are being more than embraced, in fact mandated. The radical
Democrats doing this have taken power from the docile normal people, aided by their education-brainwashed
acolytes. Hence, the foundations of the country have lost substance while a perverse fantasy
carries governmental — if not yet constitutional — weight.
The
shoplifting blues. Once upon a time, we used to call shoplifting stealing. But
recently, shoplifting has been the latest episode of "No justice no peace." In other words, there
are many blue city district attorneys who don't think that shoplifting is worth arresting
you. Let them steal and let the corporate cats eat their losses. Well, it turns out
that the corporate cats have limits and can't just sit back and let their stores get sacked.
Let's
be blunt — legal weed is turning New York workers into zombies. Not just
because decriminalized marijuana led to proliferating mayhem in the five boroughs. Not just
because stinky smoke hangs everywhere, seeping into subway cars and even Broadway theaters —
the overture to "My Fair Lady" at Lincoln Center was "accompanied by an acrid aroma that wasn't Liza's
flowers," my friend Stephen M. Silverman recently remarked. It's also because of a forbidden-to-utter
truth, in an age where raising the minimum wage ever higher has become mantra — namely, a
license to get high has turned service employees into zombies.
British
Columbia breaks new overdose records one month after decriminalizing all drugs. Seven
years after the province of British Columbia declared the drug epidemic a public health emergency,
and just one month after the decriminalization of all drugs, overdoses continue to skyrocket.
According to the Canadian Press, B.C. tragically set three new overdose records this March,
just the second month after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's federal government allowed the province
to decriminalize all drugs starting February 1, 2023, in an effort to combat the crisis.
The
West Declares War on Itself. For Americans who cherish self-government, free speech,
and personal liberty, the reality of today's America is jolting. How can Hillary Clinton's
campaign, Barack Obama's FBI, and an assortment of sordid Intelligence Community actors conspire to
frame Donald Trump as a Russian spy in a veritable coup d'état without suffering
any legal consequences? How can the IRS target Americans for their political viewpoints and
be rewarded with bigger budgets and more armed agents? How can the FBI illegally spy on a
presidential campaign, target parents concerned over the content of their children's public
education, and label half of America "extremists," and not be disbanded? How can the
Department of (in)Justice seek to punish Americans' speech and religious faith as impermissible
expressions of "hate" and deprive Americans of their Second Amendment protections without being
immediately defunded as a threat to the Bill of Rights?
The
public sector unions can't print money. Chicago, Portland, Milwaukee, etc. are all a
big mess. It goes like this: the taxpayers move out and the public sector unions elect
their man. So what happens now? We will see, but this may be a blessing in disguise
because the finances of these cities are going nowhere. [...] At some point, many of these cities
will run out of money because the check from the state legislature, or COVID, is not in the
mail. The businesses will move out and take their taxes with them. And the schools will
collapse because they can't cover costs. You can strike all you want but the teachers of
Chicago may have to make concessions or lose their jobs. That's not what they voted for but
that's what they will get. So reality is around the corner and it's not pretty.
Oregon
is dealt a blow [by its own socialist policies]. As much as Oregon has to offer, our
housing unaffordability, homelessness, increasing taxation, drug addiction crisis, untreated mental
illness, gun violence, traffic deaths and educational mediocrity are changing the calculus for many
about where to live, raise a family or retire. A year's decline in the state's population
does not spell our doom — at least not yet. But the census provides bracing data
that shows too many people have decided Oregon is no longer where their future lies. The
state depends on population growth to fill jobs, provide tax dollars for public services and inject
the energy and perspectives that build thriving neighborhoods and communities. A stagnant or
declining population instead dictates a future of cuts and diminished opportunities that can lead
to even more people moving out.
Is
It Time to Panic Yet Over the State of America? The economy is a mess with daily news
stories about another country abandoning the U.S. dollar for trade and commerce, favoring the
Russian ruble, Chinese yuan, or gold, but no longer the U.S. dollar. What happens as these
countries, now making up most of the world population, start dumping dollars? Today's current
inflation will look the good old days. As these dollars otherwise held and used by many
countries flood back into the U.S., "too many dollars chasing too few goods" will go into
overdrive, fueling hyperinflation, destroying the savings and pensions of most Americans, leading
to economic misery as we see in Argentina or Venezuela. Politicians are oblivious, those of
both parties continuing to throw money into a losing proxy war in Ukraine, adding to a national
debt that we soon will be unable to even pay the interest on. Is that panic time?
The
common denominator in the recent big problem banks: ESG. Silicon Valley Bank and
Signature Bank both were multi-billion-dollar bank failures. First Republic and Credit Suisse
were multi-billion-dollar banks that's required large cash infusions to avoid failure.
Writing in the Washington Examiner, Paul Tice points out that all four institutions followed PC
prescriptions for enlightened corporate leadership, basically the recipe for ESG (and DEI). [...]
The line connecting ESG policies to the bank failures is indirect, or, if you will, a dotted
line. The proximate cause of the SVB failure was not loans to politically correct
environmental startups, but rather too many long term Treasury securities in its portfolio of
assets. But the fact is clear, at least in the case of SVB with which I am most familiar,
that management took their eyes off the ball of risk management. Risk management roles
remained unfilled for a time, and some risk managers clearly prioritized ESG over actually, you
know, managing risk.
The Trump
Trials: Changing the Subject. Going into a presidential election year, the incumbent
president looks to be facing a difficult reelection campaign. Persistently high inflation
numbers remain a problem. Energy prices are still up. America's southern border is
being overrun with illegal border-crossers and fentanyl. Major bank failures have raised the
specter of a banking crisis. There are multiple House of Representatives investigations
covering Biden family finances, the weaponization of government agencies, China, and the origins of
COVID. For the current administration and its supporters, the answer is as easy as it is
familiar: change the subject to Donald Trump.
The
end of cities. I recently reviewed the results of the mayoral election in Chicago,
which appear to have sounded the death knell for America's third-largest city. The buildings
will remain and the people without the means to escape will still huddle in their homes (at least
those who have homes), hoping to avoid being the next statistic in a crime wave that shows no signs
of abating. Commerce has slowed to a crawl and its once-famous entertainment district is now
too dangerous for most to risk an evening out on the town. At the Washington Examiner,
Stephen Moore takes a similarly dim view of Chicago's prospects, but he notes that the Windy City
is not alone in its downward slide. Many cities across the United States are simply becoming
unlivable. And the real tragedy in all of this is that the decline was completely
avoidable. But an epidemic of suicidally dangerous liberal policies has opened the gates for
the barbarians that were always waiting outside.
Donald
Trump, Tiberius Gracchus, And America's Imminent End. [Scroll down] It has
taken less than 20 years since Barack Obama promised to "fundamentally transform" America for the
country to change from a functioning but imperfect republic into a farce of a country characterized
by a banana-republic-level tyranny. With a complicit bureaucracy, Obama used the IRS to
target political opponents, the Justice Department to coerce banks into blacklisting businesses he
didn't like, and Obamacare to give government unprecedented control over Americans' health
decisions while doubling the cost. He unconstitutionally opened the immigration spigot that
has now become a torrent. Within six months of taking office, Obama would set the tone for an
administration that would set race relations back 50 years. His "evolution" on gay marriage
would give cover to the spineless Supreme Court to impose that travesty on the country and lay the
ground for the fascist LBTQ hellscape America endures today. And finally, he weakened two of
the most foundational elements of American society: The military and residential communities.
What Would a
Real Manchurian Candidate Do Differently than Joe Biden? The Biden regime has taken a
wrecking ball to the economy. In one of his first acts, Biden shut down domestic oil and gas
production, which spiked gasoline prices to stratospheric heights. The Democrats'
Infrastructure Bill, the Orwellian "Inflation Reduction Act", and the bloated Omnibus spending bill
added trillions to the national debt and brought US inflation to 40-year highs. Other
symptoms of the horrible Biden economy include (1) the personal savings rate is near seventeen-year
lows, according to the St. Louis Fed, (2) credit card debt is at record levels, according to
the St. Louis Fed, and (3) real wages in the United States fell, year-over-year from April
2021 to November 2022, according to the Mises Institute. Then there is the relentless push to
transition the US economy to green technology through the implementation of environmental,
societal, and governance standards that led to the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and the
continuing US banking crisis.
Is
America lost? I have been struggling with a near depression this past week regarding
the current state of the country. Objectively speaking, the State of the Union is not
strong. Inflation is out of control, our banking system is teetering on the brink, our legal
system is being turned into a political weapon, our cities are becoming crime-ridden war zones, our
education system is collapsing, and our moral boundaries have eroded. There's more, but that
is enough to make one cry. Everyday Americans are at least peripherally aware that things are
amiss. They tell pollsters that the country is on the wrong track. But when given the
opportunity to actually do something about the rot, enough Americans go to the polls and choose to
continue the policies that have brought us to this point.
Downtown
S.F. on the brink: It's worse than it looks. The downtown area, the city's primary
economic driver, is teetering on the edge, facing challenges greater than previously known, new
data shows. The wounds suffered by the economic core are deep, and city officials have yet to
come up with a plan to make the fundamental changes that some economists and business leaders argue
could make the area thrive again. "A general economic decline is what we're trying to avoid,"
said Wade Rose, president of Advance SF, a business group that advocates on behalf of several major
employers in San Francisco. The group is working with the city on short-term ideas to bring
more people back downtown, but Rose agrees that the problem needs a rethink in the long run.
San
Francisco, RIP? [S]omething like three-quarters of San Franciscans who deserted the
city during covid have not returned. The same phenomenon has been observed in cities like
Portland and Minneapolis, while other cities, like Salt Lake City, have rapidly bounced back.
But Salt Lake City is not run by liberal goofballs. [...] When you go downtown and you don't feel
safe and you see people "using the street as a toilet," you stop going downtown. There is
nothing mysterious about this.
America's
Broken Windows. The U.S. government actively engages in viewpoint discrimination and
political censorship. J6 political prisoners rot in jail. Churches are firebombed for
refusing to redefine the institution of marriage or insisting on protecting the sanctity of every
unborn life. Children are sexually groomed in the classroom for the pleasure of perverted
adults. Medical doctors castrate and mutilate confused minors before they have had a chance
to truly live. News media spread endless waves of State-controlled propaganda while accusing
political dissenters of being propagandists. Intellectuals publish a bloated collection of
narrow groupthink while accusing free thinkers of being too dumb to understand the issues.
Patriotic Americans who love their country are branded "domestic terrorists" while anti-American
zealots who insist America is irredeemably racist are rewarded with prizes. A presidential
candidate who destroyed subpoenaed evidence and fabricated an international Russian conspiracy that
divided the nation suffers no legal consequences, yet an elected president who took no salary while
surviving one Deep State attack after the next is persecuted still today. These are the
rotten fruits of Marxist seeds.
Will
you like what's coming? At the rate things are going, we'd better start preparing for
life under perpetual Democrat or Uniparty governance. Here are just a few points to ponder
about what that life might be like. Feel free to share with Woke family and friends. Do
you like the dark, i.e. living in the dark and carrying flashlights and candles after the sun goes
down? You'd better because there will be lots of opportunity once Uniparty-induced brownouts
and blackouts take hold because of our power grid's inability to supply dependable power as the war
on fossil fuels takes hold. Exaggerated? Read about California in the last 20 years.
Do you like extreme heat in your house in the summer? See above. [...] Do you like
extreme cold in your house in the winter? See above. By the way, don't depend on
firewood. They'll ban it. CO2, you know.
Could
It Happen Here? It Is Happening Here. My field of study in graduate school was
communism. As a fellow at the Russian Institute of Columbia's School of International
Affairs, I was, if I remember correctly, one of seven students in the entire university to major in
what was known at the time as "Communist Affairs." I cite this in order to make this point:
In my wildest dreams, I never imagined what I was studying would ever apply to the United States
of America, the freest country in world history. I assumed that communism was, for various
reasons, something that happened elsewhere — most obviously, Russia, China, Vietnam,
Cuba, Cambodia and North Korea. What were those various reasons? One was the absence of
freedom in the history of those countries. Another was that all those countries were, with
the exception of Cuba, outside of Western civilization.
Top
11 Priorities for America in order to save the Republic. Now that the USA is
experiencing a second communist POTUS (Obama then Beijing Biden), all morals are being
flipped upside down, rights to free speech and press are being flushed down the toilet, and the
infrastructure of functionality is being crippled, on purpose, by the powers that be in Washington
D.C. Somehow Beijing Biden got 80,000,000 votes, even though every campaign event he threw had
fewer people attend than a bad middle school basketball game on a rainy day. Somehow,
peaceful US citizens are in jail (without a trial) for over two years for protesting a crooked
election, while violent criminals from Antifa and Black Lives Matter walk the streets after
destroying property, businesses, and lives protesting staged events. Somehow, US citizens are
supposed to support Ukraine, where the leaders are corrupt Nazi sympathizers, and send them all of
our money and weapons, while the USA crumbles from inflation, supply chain issues, lack of proper
military defense, and a demented leader who molests children at his speaking events.
When
Will This Climate Madness End? What do gas ranges, Dutch farmers, and moose have in
common? In a normal everyday context, very little. But in the world of apocalyptic
climate change, everything. [...] The enlightened climate cult solution is to ban everything that
adds greenhouse gases to the atmosphere and embrace everything that lowers the concentration of
greenhouse gases. For example, gas ranges and ovens are bad because they use fossil fuels
like natural gas and propane to cook food. If gas stoves are banned, electric ranges and
ovens can fill the gap. No worries, right? The same argument can be made for
fossil-fueled vehicles. Ban them, and switch over to electric vehicles. Ditto for
fossil-fueled power generating stations. Ban them, switch to renewable sources, and have a
happy day. This sort of logic extends to another greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide. In the
Netherlands, the Dutch Government is trying to force up to 3,000 farms to close to meet European
Union pollution limits on nitrogen oxides and ammonia. This means that almost no form of
agriculture is safe from climate change diktats.
Why
a desperate America may soon annex its 51st state. US government finances are
appallingly bad. The national debt exceeds 100% of GDP, annual deficits run into the
trillions of dollars with no end in sight, and major trust funds for Social Security and Medicare
will soon run out of money. Political incompetence is mind-blowing; politicians fail to be
able to even identify problems, let alone understand them, let alone reach compromises to solve
them. Ditto for central bank incompetence. These people simply cannot understand how,
by keeping interest rates at zero for nearly a decade and conjuring trillions of dollars out of
thin air, they engineered record high inflation. And they also fail to understand how their
actions to 'fix' inflation are causing widespread havoc in the economy and financial system.
Social divisions across the country are extreme. Censorship and cancel culture prevail, and
corporations now wag their fingers at their own customers to "be better". The education system
is in pitiful shape, with many politicians and school board officials turning classrooms into
activist training camps. The population is terribly unhealthy. Obesity and drug
addiction are epidemics. Plus there's an obvious mental health crisis that drives far too
many people to commit horrific acts of violence on innocent people, including children.
National security is in decline. Military readiness is down, yet top officials seem more
concerned about diversity and inclusion rather than the ability to prevail in war. The rule
of law has been perverted, including for political purposes and self-aggrandizement.
Crisis breeds fascism.
Democrats and RINOs never let a crisis go to waste because a crisis allows them to expand their
powers. 9/11 is just one example. Bush and company used it to add a Cabinet-level
department, make the unpatriotic PATRIOT Act law, and start two wars they later would
abandon. Washington does not wait for a crisis to come along. The deep state turned
President Trump's actually peaceful protest on the National Mall on January 6 into what they
called an insurrection. DC now has the power to jail dissidents. They also beta-tested
their facial recognition apparatus. The border crisis allows Democrats to flood Republican
states with illegal aliens by sending them to Wyoming and other states instead of sending them
home. I don't know where to begin in enumerating the extensions of power under covid.
It was overplayed by DC which jacked up the numbers by giving hospitals cash incentives to label
deaths as being with (not necessarily from) covid.
It
All Began With the Pill. If the Nobel Prize Committee had the category of Most
Influential Invention of the Last Century, one candidate might be the Pill, the contraceptive that
came into widespread use in the 1960s and triggered a chain reaction of one tectonic, societal
earthquake after another. I was a college student at the time and watched it happen. [...]
The Pill's advent ignited a tsunami of fornication, a.k.a. premarital sex and adultery, that led to
a further tsunami of millions of couples divorcing, the invention of no-fault divorce, millions of
tears, and millions of broken families. The Pill produced "Women's Lib" and women like Hillary
"Lady Macbeth" Clinton, who sneered at motherhood and wanted a "career" just like a man.
The green
foods time bomb. Green propagandists continue to inflict lethal damage to our electricity
industry here in Australia — and it has become unreliable and expensive. City food
supplies cannot survive without reliable refrigeration at every level, from farms to retail stores.
Thus, unreliable green power supplies will produce unreliable food supplies. Their intrusive green
energy infrastructure is also nibbling away at our grasslands and farms, thus reducing their capacity to
produce food. Less recognized is the damage green propagandists are doing to our health and our
food supply by attacking animal foods, and promoting grains, vegetables, seeds, and fake foods for humans.
How
Much Longer Can Western Governments Spit on Their People? Ordinary citizens did not
empower central banks to print money and manipulate markets, so as to create a ticking financial
time bomb that will almost certainly unleash the world's worst economic depression —
governments did. Ordinary citizens did not spend taxpayer funds on biological weapons
programs that may or may not have led to the release of COVID from a Chinese lab —
governments did. Ordinary citizens did not choose to throw out common sense, the Scientific
Method, and an elementary school-level understanding of medical ethics to impose draconian
lockdowns, mass surveillance, and coerced experimental injections on a global scale before either
the pathogenic disease or its reputed "vaccine" could be properly studied — governments
did. Ordinary citizens did not choose to have their businesses shut down and livelihoods
destroyed — governments did. Ordinary citizens did not choose to eviscerate
Western economies in the name of "science" — governments did. Ordinary citizens
did not choose the largest welfare and stimulus programs in world history, nor the unprecedented
levels of inflation that were the obvious consequence — governments did. And
ordinary citizens have certainly not chosen to have the World Economic Forum's Western acolytes
scoop up farmland, ban hydrocarbon mining, and impose strict carbon limits that have logically
unleashed runaway food and fuel prices, economic insecurity, and depleted savings — that
self-defeating strategy was the brainchild of Klaus Schwab and his merry band of WEF
arsonists. Yet from COVID to currency collapse, Western powers insist on escaping blame.
The
Federal Reserve shot itself in the foot. By now, most understand that SVB failed due
to an extreme mismatch in maturities between its deposits and its assets. Can you believe
that the Federal Reserve has fallen prey to the same mistake? Further, the Feds' own actions
caused its problems. Ever since the Federal Reserve started printing U.S. dollars in 2008,
called Quantitative Easing (Q.E.), we have expressed grave concern that the Treasury bonds the Fed
was buying were short-term and therefore subject to a rising interest rate environment.
Further, those Treasuries decline in face value as rates rise. That has all come to
pass. The Federal Reserve shot itself in the foot: since the same entity that printed dollars
(Q.E.) invested those dollars (Treasuries), and then raised interest rates (FOMC), which impacted
its income and its balance sheet (the value of the Treasuries also declined when the Fed raised
rates), the Federal Reserve is the instrument of its own demise.
Why
patriotism and hope in America are collapsing. Americans are losing faith and
interest in their country and its future. There is no other way to read the devastating
results of an opinion poll published on Monday [3/27/2023] by the Wall Street Journal.
It finds that only 38% of respondents think patriotism is very important, not much more than half
the number who thought so as recently as 1998, when the poll was first conducted. Likewise,
there has been a massive decline of interest in religion: Thirty-nine percent now say it is very
important compared to 62% 25 years ago. America was founded in large part by people who
wanted the freedom to practice their different faiths unmolested. Thus, a founding purpose of
America is being rapidly discarded by the inhabitants of the current culture. Having children
was regarded as very important by 59% of respondents a generation ago, but by only 30% now,
effectively a halving of concern to perpetuate the nation with succeeding generations.
Overcoming
America's Political Paralysis. Why are some Americans having such a hard time
figuring out what is happening to our country? And for those who do see, why are so few
taking action? One in four Americans say they know someone who died from the COVID vaccine,
and 50% now have less trust in government health experts. Sixty-seven percent say they
"weren't surprised" hearing that COVID came from a Chinese lab. Most voters agree that the
FBI has been weaponized by the current administration, and 61% believe that government agents
helped provoke the J6 riot. Ninety-one percent think bail should be set for criminals who may
be a danger to the community. Fifty-four percent think Biden is lying about his family
connections to China. Fifty-five percent of Arizona voters say issues in Maricopa County
likely affected the 2022 results. Sixty percent think climate change is a false religion, not
scientific fact. Most Americans now have zero trust in their government — the way
it responds to health crises, the fairness of our law enforcement agencies, or its ability to
conduct free and fair elections. We think our president is a puppet of China. So why
does life seem to continue as normal? In other countries, when elections are stolen or Social
Security benefits are taken, it means rioting in the streets. Why do we put up with policies
pushing climate change and wokeism that make zero sense? Who could entertain the idea that
children can be given sex change treatments when just a few years ago, they were expelled from
school for taking an aspirin without permission?
Holding the
right people responsible for the global energy crisis. America's grid is in decline
and about to get far worse due to policies that 1) reward unreliable electricity, 2) prematurely
shut down coal plants, 3) criminalize nuclear, and 4) force electric vehicle use. The root
cause of our grid's reliability problems is simple: America is shutting down too many reliable
power plants — plants that can be controlled to produce electricity when needed in the
exact quantity needed. And it is attempting to replace them with unreliable solar and
wind. Nationally, as demand has increased over the last 10 years we have seen a decline in
reliable capacity (gas, coal, oil, nuclear, hydro, battery storage) by 5%. Will batteries make
unreliable solar/wind reliable? No. Battery storage is expensive and can only provide a
given "capacity" (e.g., 1 GW) for a few hours, and only then if fully charged. Planned
batteries are nowhere near enough to compensate for solar and wind's unreliability.
Warriors
Don't Want to Fight for a Woke, Anti-American Military. The House Armed Services
Subcommittee for Military Personnel held a hearing last week to discuss the growing national
security crisis arising from the military's cratering recruitment numbers. A potpourri of
Pentagon nincompoops all universally lauded the Defense Department's ideological obsession with
"lived experiences" and "diversity for diversity's sake." While championing the Marxist military's
decision to waste over six million man-hours of training on the dangers of "extremism" and "white
privilege" and the seminal importance of "diversity, equity, and inclusion," not one Pentagon
official could muster a real answer as to why recruiting numbers are so disastrous. The
touchy-feely, group hug-loving mandarins proved experts in Critical Race Theory but poor
problem-solvers when tasked with the actual duties of their jobs — building and
maintaining lethal military forces filled with top-notch warriors who will fight to win.
Intentionally dividing Americans against each other and pouring salt in old wounds obliterate
personnel cohesiveness.
There is
a Simple Fix to Economic Chaos. Some of us have been saying this for a very long
time: green will bring down the world. Green creates a vicious circle, a term you may remember
from Economics 101. It is when the serpent eats itself, no wealth is created and collapse
results. That is what we are doing with ESG, with carbon taxes, with the forced adoption of
unreliable vertiginously expensive green energy. It has skewed every single market. No
one is investing in sound enterprise, and anything once sound is a Jenga tower, unstable, rotting
from within. This. This is what threatens to bring down the world. Green is built
on subsidies. And not just government subsidy. Every mutual fund, every hedge fund,
every multinational and every local or national corporation has a green monster within preventing
innovative investments, sucking profits and growth.
The
problem with trying to understand Democrats. As a former member of the Democrat
party, I still stay in touch with many of its members who are my close friends. However, one
thing that strikes me is that my friends are almost universally in denial of what the current
administration has brought upon this once great nation in just two years of being in office.
The reality of a soaring crime rate in our nation's cities, runaway inflation that was once termed
"transitory," our disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan — which served as the catalyst
for Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine, all seem to elude them, as if it never happened. When
presented with any hard evidence or facts, they are not only in denial, but typically push back
with emotion minus facts as if they live in an alternate universe where they can pick and choose
the "facts" that fit their own party's narrative.
Woke-Poisoned
Hollywood Has Doomed the Once-Unbeatable Movie Industry. Hollywood, specifically the
film industry, is going through a legitimate, serious, and potentially fatal phase. No one
likes the movies anymore. The key to a healthy industry — audience goodwill —
is evaporating quickly.
The
ripple effect of Joe Biden's mismanagement. The banking crisis is like a brick thrown
into our economic pond. Busted banks don't just sink silently to the bottom, never to be
heard of again. Their plunge sends ripples out across the entire surface that wash into every
financial inlet of our lives. If you think this has nothing to do with you because you didn't
invest in Silicon Valley Bank or keep an account there, think again. The spreading circles of
its demise will splash you if you merely feel the pinch of high interest rates or buy groceries.
[...] Biden and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen ignored the $250,000 upper limit on secured
deposits and, to "stop the contagion," implicitly guaranteed all $17.6 trillion deposited at U.S.
banks. This put Washington on the hook for twice as much as the Federal Reserve actually
has. It means, as has been noted, that depositors are freed from market discipline —
they can't lose their stash — so they needn't be careful where they put their money.
They'll go to banks that offer big rewards by taking big risks. This is a short-term rescue
at the cost of long-term instability.
Banks
Might Have Stabilized, But The Biden Contagion Is Still Spreading. 'The U.S. banking
system is sound and resilient," Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell said on Wednesday in
an effort to calm depositors worried about more bank failures. That was the same day the Fed
raised interest rates another quarter point to deal with inflation that has been running at
four-decade highs for nearly two years. The two problems, along with so many others that
families are confronting right now, have a common cause: President Joe Biden's disastrous economic
policies. While another banking crisis might have been contained — a reassurance
we take with a grain of salt — the Biden crisis will continue to metastasize as long as
he and his administration are calling the shots.
Government
Isn't the Victim; It's the Perpetrator. Around the country, almost every problem
Americans endure is a result of Big Government action or inaction. Government overspending
and central bank money-printing have crushed the value of ordinary Americans' income and
savings. The Intelligence Community's use of the PATRIOT Act and other unconstitutional tools
to violate Americans' Fourth Amendment rights against warrantless searches has not only eliminated
privacy, but also made every citizen a suspect. The Biden administration's choice to leave
America's borders wide open has exacerbated crime, drug addiction, and identity theft while
breaking city budgets and local communities. Washington, D.C.'s endless bureaucratic
rule-making touches every part of every American's life. What products can be bought and
sold? What can a citizen do on or with his private property? What speech should be
censored because the government judges its content "hateful" or unacceptably contrary to the
bureaucracy's official point of view? While Congress never stops passing laws, agencies never
stop exponentially compounding those laws with new standards, rules, and regulations that
micromanage everything Americans do.
San
Francisco supervisor Hillary Ronen begs for more police in her district after voting to defund in
2020. A San Francisco district supervisor is calling for more policing in the
crime-ridden city — despite advocating to defund the police in 2020. Hillary Ronen,
Democrat, represents District 9 on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. During a Budget
and Appropriations Committee meeting on Wednesday, she made an impassioned plea to add more
officers to the Mission District, which she represents. Ronen was attacking San Francisco's
police chief for spending a large amount of overtime on an anti-retail theft program instead of
prioritizing police presence in her district.
How
to Prevent More Meltdowns like Silicon Valley Bank. The Fed was more aggressive
during the COVID pandemic. When federal and state governments locked down the economy, the
government determined that it should pay the people it put out of work. The Fed became so
aggressive with Q.E. that the presses that printed money had trouble keeping up. Money was so
easy to obtain from the government that billions were fraudulently delivered to criminals.
Some of this easy money found its way into bank deposits, which were used to purchase securities
paying very low interest rates. To the surprise of the Fed and Janet Yellen, inflation
resulted from their policy of free money. They couldn't believe it. They said it was
transitory and then blamed Putin, Trump, oil executives, greed, and a virus. While there are
many reasons for inflation, the primary reason is quantitative easing and the flood of cash the Fed
poured into the economy for a decade. After waffling for months, the Fed decided that inflation
was real and started raising interest rates in an attempt to control the inflation it created.
Geopolitical
Catastrophes Multiply as American Power and Influence Crash to New Postwar Lows. In
only two years, Joe Biden's presidency has produced multiple catastrophes from which recovery will
be difficult, if it is even possible. Domestically, we see the banking system teetering on
insolvency, as the rapid escalation in interest rates has devalued long term Treasury notes that
used to be considered a safe place for banks to park funds in excess of what could be safely
lent. The reason for these Federal Reserve interest rate hikes is the inflation that was
immediately triggered by Biden's jihad against domestica oil, gas, and coal production, that
triggered an inflationary spiral that continues today, devaluing the life savings of thrifty
Americans, and pushing food and energy costs up so fast that many families have had to drastically
reduce their standard of living. Bad as these catastrophes are, the potential for serious
damage to the welfare of the American people from the military and diplomatic policies of the Biden
administration is much worse. Losing a war — or even just fighting a nuclear
war — makes a mere Depression look like a day at the beach.
Really? There was high inflation under Jimmy Carter, and the banks didn't collapse. The
Banking Mess Is Another Consequence of Biden's High Inflation. The complexities
around, and solutions to, the current banking crisis lie well beyond my core competency, so I'll
leave those matters to others. What I will say is that it's indisputable that much of the
upheaval can be traced back to the Biden administration's disastrous inflationary policies, which
have forced the Fed to hike up interest rates as a form an anti-inflation 'chemotherapy' for the
overheated US economy — actions that have, in turn, directly and heavily contributed to
unpleasant externalities like the collapse of Silicon Valley and Signature banks. Biden and
his team were directly warned about the highly risky spending they were jamming through in
partisan, Democrat-passed behemoths, including by respected Democratic economists. They
didn't listen, then pretended the warnings never happened once the resulting "transitory" inflation
was undeniably non-transitory after all.
SVB
loaned millions to useless startups making greenie things no one wanted to buy — WSJ's
Strassel. Is there anything more ... Soviet ... than a bank that lends money to
companies making things no one wants to buy? That's the missing puzzle piece we needed on why
Silicon Valley Bank went belly up, and Kimberly Strassel of the Wall Street Journal has found it,
persuasively arguing that yes, the failure of the bank was indeed premised on ESG, which descended
into wokester lending priorities, creating the abnormal conditions that left the bank ripe for a meltdown.
The
Left's Criminal Abuse Of The Young. Democrats have long portrayed themselves as the
great guardians of the children. In truth, they are destroying the young. The harm
they've done to children, teens and young adults has spiked in recent years, from scaremongering
about global warming to pandemic lockdowns that have unnerved a generation to teaching them a
divisive, politically charged curriculum. According to an online medical journal, the
University of Calgary has determined there was a spike "in emergency department visits for
attempted suicide and suicide ideation among children and adolescents" during the period of "social
isolation" that coincides with the pandemic lockdowns. The university conducted a
meta-analysis of 42 studies representing more than 11 million pediatric emergency department visits
in 18 countries, and compared "the data on visits prior to the pandemic with those that took place
during the pandemic, up to July 2021."
Putting
'diversity' and 'equity' first nearly crashed the economy. Several years back I asked
what it would take to halt the diversity, inclusion, equity obsession in America. What would
it take to get back to excellence and competence as the only criteria for employment? Perhaps
it would require the bridges to start falling down. Though I suspect that if they did then
certain people would claim they'd only fallen because of "structural racism." Still, this week
we had a good reminder of just how over-tolerant we have been of this insane, anti-excellence
agenda. Because although the bridges haven't yet started to collapse, the banks have.
And one reason is that the banks in question prioritized equity over excellence.
Elections
Have Consequences; Stolen Elections Have Catastrophes. "Put the adults back in
charge," they whined. "Donald Trump will break the world," they lied. Well, they
manipulated election rules to certify suspicious vote totals that preposterously portrayed senile
Joe Biden as the most popularly elected president in history; censored and locked up anyone who
complained; and covered up their crimes with J6 show trials drenched in untruths meant to hide from
history the Uniparty's underhanded machinations in outright stealing a presidential election.
The whole mess was so banana-republic-yucky that Biden was inaugurated behind barbed wire
and a show of military force befitting the small junta who attended the successful coup's
celebration. And as a result of the Uniparty's installation of Dementia Joe as White House
marionette, the American people have been plagued with crime, inflation, political persecution,
COVID tyranny, deadly battlefield retreat, open borders, staggering drug deaths, proxy wars,
bankruptcies, bank runs, endless new regulations, a plummeting standard of living, economic panic,
and social volatility.
Failing
Accountability Leads to Chaos. Trust in our institutions is collapsing, according to
a recent Gallup survey. Less than a quarter of the public is confident in:
• The Supreme Court — 25 percent confidence
• The Presidency — 23 percent confidence
• Newspapers — 16 percent confidence
• The criminal justice system — 14 percent confidence
• Big business — 14 percent confidence
• Television news — 11 percent confidence
• Congress — a whopping 7 percent confidence
The only institutions that exceed 50 percent public confidence are the military and small businesses.
[...] [T]hose institutions remain necessary for a civilized society to function. They provide order.
But when they fail:
• Media doesn't inform
• Bureaucrats don't serve
• Commerce doesn't provide prosperity
• Schools don't prepare future citizens
• Law enforcement doesn't protect
• Judges don't ensure fairness
• Politicians don't lead
The
Biden Economy Is Falling Apart. The Biden Economy — hailed Monday morning
by Presidentish Joe Biden as "strong" — seems like it's falling apart, everything,
everywhere all at once. NYSE halted trading of Charles Schwab, whose shares fell by more than
20%, and even a few Etsy sellers have been impacted by the fallout of Silicon Valley Bank's (SVB)
collapse. [...] What went wrong? In a word: Inflation. In a few more words: The
higher interest rates needed to combat inflation smashed the cheap-money expectations that SVB's
bond portfolios required. Other sectors of the economy that have become addicted to historically
low interest rates include high-tech, particularly startup firms, and the housing market.
Biden
blames Trump deregulation for Silicon Valley Bank failure. President Biden said
Monday that the U.S. banking system is "safe and secure" following the failure of Silicon Valley
Bank and closure of Signature Bank last week. "Americans can have confidence that the banking
system is safe. Your deposits will be there when you need them," Biden said in remarks at the
White House before leaving for a three-day visit to California and Nevada. Biden blamed the
bank collapses on former President Trump's 2018 decision to scrap some Obama-era banking rules.
Inflation
was only 'transitory' they said. First off: These collapses did not occur in two
days. The problems have compounded over time and should have been very easy to spot by
regulators and "experts" on Wall Street. The collapses were not caused by too few
regulations. For years, the Federal Reserve kept interest rates artificially low. Those
low rates caused investors to chase up the value of stocks, houses, commercial real estate, crypto
currencies, and other things. But those low rates did not punish the poor and middle class
with rapidly rising prices on food, energy and other necessities. Trump kept inflation low
with energy independence, fewer regulations, and lower taxes. Energy prices affect almost
everything we use and do. In 2020 when we were hit with COVID, we flooded the economy with
money to help businesses the government forcibly closed and individuals who had lost their
jobs. We had supply chain problems. But we still didn't have high inflation because we
still had low energy prices thanks to Trump's policies of domestic energy production. From April
2020 to the end of 2020, jobs grew 16 million (much faster than under Biden); still, no high inflation.
Putting
God's Wisdom Back In The Classroom. Perhaps the single biggest factor contributing to
America's rising crime rate can be traced back to 1962. That was when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled
that a voluntary, non-denominational prayer recited by school kids in New York State classrooms
violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. For the record, the prayer that
ignited that controversy reads as follows: "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon
Thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers and our Country." These
22 words were so repellant to Steven Engel, a founding member of the New York Civil Liberties
Union, that he became the lead plaintiff in the effort to prohibit the recitation of them.
After years of dogged effort, Engel succeeded in preventing children from acknowledging God in
school. What has replaced prayer in schools during the 61 years since the Engel
v. Vitale decision? New York City Mayor Eric Adams knows. Adams, a retired
NYPD captain, told the city's religious leaders during an Interfaith Breakfast in Manhattan earlier
this month, "When we took prayers out of schools, guns came into schools."
Chilling
Contrast in Army Recruitment Ads From Russia, the U.S., China, and Britain Point to Ominous
Future. While "woke" has insidiously metastasized throughout American society, the
rapidly spreading cancer perhaps portends most ominously for its continuing effect on America's
Armed Forces. The Twins of Woke, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, and Joint Chiefs Chairman
Mark Milley have worked tirelessly to transform the greatest fighting force on the planet from "a
few good men" to even fewer self-identified genders with self-assigned pronouns. If it
wasn't the U.S. military we were talking about, the failed social experiment would be somewhat
humorous — instead of a potentially clear and present danger to the security of the
United States. As it stands, I'd have a hard time suggesting enlistment to a loved one or
friend. [Video clip]
You
think crime is out of control in New York City now? Just wait. New York City
cops are resigning at a "record-breaking pace in 2023, and there is no sign that the bleeding will
slow. [Tweet] Bad crime policy leads to more crime. Fewer police to keep the city
safe leads to more crime on top of that. It's not hard to see how this ends.
Ranchers
say their jobs have become "1,000 times harder" in the 2 years Biden has been in
office. The economy is a disaster, as anyone could see. But for ranchers who
have to operate on razor-thin margins, it's unlike anything they've seen in decades. It's
harder than ever to be a man working the land. And besides that, the undue burden of the
Biden administration's draconian rules and regulations is making it impossible.
Oh,
nothing - just the second largest bank failure in U.S. history today. Part of what
happened is explained in [a] series of tweets. SVB, thanks to the COVID emergency rules
adopted by Jerome Powell — who is still in charge of the Federal Reserve —
was no longer required to hold any cash on hand to meet its "reserve requirement." [...] Why
that detail matters is because this bank's problems started with an announcement Wednesday that it
was in the middle of a cash crunch and looking at a possible sale as a way of raising funds.
Conservatives
Point to 'Bidenflation' as Cause of Silicon Valley Bank Closure. Prominent
conservatives throughout politics and media reacted to the sudden closure of the Silicon Valley
Bank (SVB) on Friday. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is already standing firm against bailouts
for the bank, and many are pointing to "Bidenflation" as a driver of the implosion. Gaetz
appeared on Steve Bannon's War Room where Bannon asserted that the closure was "100 percent
because of Biden's policies."
It's
Not Hard to See the Future of America Under this Manchurian President. President
Biden is not only compromised but exemplifies the ultimate Manchurian President. I also see
him as a traitor to our nation — plain and simple. His actions and deeds,
controlled by those we do not yet see, are purposefully destroying our democracy, legal system,
freedoms, independence, and republic. [...][ It's evident that Biden is but a simple puppet, a
marionette. The question is, who exactly are the puppeteer(s) pulling his strings? I
also believe Biden, like his son, is compromised by the Chinese and the Russians. Just look
at the actions he's taken since January 2021. [...] Whomever his puppeteers are, they are
undoubtedly far left, not favorable towards America, view our Constitution with disdain, and look
to change America forever. They pull the strings of their marionette named Biden, the
Manchurian President, from behind the red Marxist and fascist curtains. The strings are
pulled to purposefully change America from a champion of liberty, opportunity, freedom, and
democracy to an autocracy, dictatorship, and tyrannical system.
Cruz:
Biden Enriched Cartels Whose Revenue Increased 26x Since 2018, We Need to Pressure Mexico, Not
Invade It. On Tuesday's broadcast of the Fox News Channel's "Jesse Watters
Primetime," Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) stated that President Joe Biden "is the best thing that ever
happened to the Mexican drug cartels" and cited the massive surge in cartel revenue since 2018 and
argued that the solution to cartel violence isn't to invade Mexico or go to war with it, but
rather, to pressure the country to act against cartel violence. Cruz said, "Well, listen,
those who kill American citizens must be held accountable. And, at the first instance, this
wouldn't happen if we had responsible presidential leadership. Joe Biden created the chaos at
the border. Joe Biden stopped building the wall. He reinstated catch and release.
He pulled out of Remain in Mexico. And what Joe Biden has done is he's turned these vicious
narcoterrorists into multibillionaires. [...]"
Life Among the Ruins.
We are suffering an epidemic of premodern barbarism. The signs unfortunately appear
everywhere. Over half a million homeless people crowd our big-city downtowns. Most know
the result of such Medieval street living is unhealthy, violent, and lethal for all
concerned. Yet no one knows — or even seems to worry about — how to
stop it. So public defecation, urination, fornication, and injection continue unabated.
Progressive urban pedestrians pass by holding their noses, averting their gazes, and accelerating
the pace of their walking. The greenest generation in history allows its sidewalks to become
pre-civilizational sewers. In a very brief time, we all but have destroyed the downtowns of
our major cities — which will increasingly become vacant in a manner like the
6th-century A.D. Roman forum. All accept that defunding the police, no-cash bail,
Soros-funded district attorneys, and radical changes in jurisprudence have destroyed
deterrence. The only dividend is the unleashing of a criminal class to smash-and-grab,
carjack, steal, burglarize, execute, and assault — with de facto
immunity. Instead we are sometimes lectured that looting is not a crime, but lengthy
incarceration is criminally immoral.
Walmart
Closing its Last Two Stores in Portland, Oregon in March. In late March, Walmart is
closing the last two locations it has in Portland, Oregon. The company's official line about
the closings is that it has to do with store performances, customer needs, and other corporate
speak. Does anyone doubt that this probably has a lot to do with theft? Portland is a
hotbed of leftism, and for the last few years, shoplifting has become a norm for the left.
What's
the Real Reason Political Anxiety Is So High? [#1] Governmental power and
control. The only reason we have anxiety, stress, and worry about what happens in government
is because the government is ridiculously, uncomfortably powerful. If our political enemies
(whoever they happen to be) take power, they could exert tremendous control over our lives.
So on some level, a bit of anxiety is reasonable. [#2] It doesn't help that we're in the era of
the 24-hour news cycle. Media companies come in all shapes and sizes, from corporate
juggernauts to independent journalists, and everyone is racing to publish news stories for the
public to consume on a constant basis. There is no more reading the morning paper; we are
constantly bombarded with information. Even if some of this information is positive, it's
easy to become overwhelmed and feel anxious as a result. [#3] Bad media incentives.
It's ironic that the very news organizations publishing stories about high rates of political
anxiety are the same ones (perhaps) intentionally stoking those anxieties. Media companies
aren't necessarily incentivized to tell the truth or commit to quality journalism; instead, they're
incentivized to get clicks and attention.
The
Day Your Doctor Won't Treat You If You Aren't the Right Kind of Patient Is Closer Than You Might
Think. Could the day come when you are denied medical treatment because you're white,
male, or a member of some other group of "oppressors"? Of course it could, and it's coming sooner
than you might think. Even in solidly red Tennessee, where Donald Trump won 60% of the vote
in 2020, a new report has revealed what the Tennessee Star on Friday called "the pervasive
infiltration of woke diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideologies in Tennessee medical school
curricula and programs." Could this have an impact on the quality of your medical treatment?
Injustice of the Court.
I was encouraged to look at sacrifice for my nation as the highest honor. I saluted the flag,
got choked up at the sound of the national anthem. Now, I have to ask what purpose would my
sacrifice serve? Would it be to keep Hunter's diary a secret? Would it be to hide all
the crimes of pedophilia among our representatives, senators, presidents and judges? Would my
sacrifice be to see drag queens in Kindergarten? Would it be to keep political prisoners of
the current regime? Would it be to fund extortion and brutality of parents concerned about
their children and the schools they go to? The problem that has been created is that as a
patriotic son of the founding ideals, I would have to fight against all of that, against the
crooked institutions of today. I could not, in good conscience fight to sustain this
treason. It's a paradox created by their lies and deceit that I could not fight for the
government of my nation, but am forced to try and bring it to heel, to bring it back under control.
Beating the
Balrog. What we are seeing is evil so strong that it's almost bubbling up out of the
ground. The pivotal evidence is the way we are treating children. The Left likes to
talk about "systemic racism," but I argue that what we're truly seeing is systemic, Satanic, child
abuse. If we don't rip children limb-from-limb from the womb (and sell their body parts), we
raise many of them in households where they are ill-fed, ignored by parents too busy to really pay
attention, and too secular to take them to church. We send them off to government schools
that have failed horridly (A third of our children cannot read at grade level, then we lock them
out of their schools, where they at least had friends. Then we have stuck them with an
overload of questionable vaccines, and now we have allowed sexualization at an alarming pace
culminating in the schools getting involved in grooming young children for sex with adults and,
even worse, sexual mutilation without parental consent. This is not just human evil.
We've gone back to the time of Baal and Moloch, idols that demanded human — i.e.
child — sacrifice.
Joe
Biden Puts Liberal Theories to the Test. Theory 2 — Government spending is
good for the economy: Whenever the American economy suffers a downturn, the left defaults to
one government solution. The theory is that sufficient government spending will trigger
economic growth. Leftists tax the population, give a little bit back to the citizens, spend
the rest on liberal causes, and call it stimulus. Joe tested this theory by spending nearly
$5 trillion on various COVID relief, infrastructure, and inflation reduction boondoggles. Did
it help the economy? No. Instead we've gotten: • inflation at a
40-year high; • families spending more to service the national debt than
they do on their home mortgages; • a $7-trillion loss in stock market
value — much of which is our retirement savings; and • a $9,000
drop in personal savings in one year.
Are
You Tired of Having Your Intelligence Insulted Yet? You, most likely being a mere
normal, are probably looking around at the current state of things and wondering just how we
managed to get to this point. Food prices continue to skyrocket, energy prices remain
stubbornly high, and if you were thinking about buying a house, you can forget about it with
current interest rates. Meanwhile, real wages are down, meaning your buying power is
diminished coming and going. That's just a small taste of what Americans are going through,
and you'd expect the nation's leadership to provide some guidance among the malaise. At the
very least, you'd think they could admit there's a problem. Instead, the Biden administration
insults your intelligence. [Tweet]
Crime and No Punishment
in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts state legislature must have failed to pass a
142-strikes-and-you're-out legislation just days earlier. The liberal legislature deems such
legislation too harsh on misunderstood criminals, who deserve just one more chance. The
criminal in question, Derek M. Lindsay, was the berserker dad who made national news in
May 2007 after he got into a fight with parents and police at a McDonald's playground after telling
his kid to push the other kids out of the way to get to Ronald McDonald. But that was among
his least serious offenses. More recently, he had been charged in March of this year with
attempted murder for stabbing someone at a local tattoo parlor. So naturally, the local
judges let this model citizen go free back into society back in March. Thus, his 143rd
arraignment this week. Throughout Massachusetts, but particularly in the City of Taunton,
such events are commonplace.
The
Sudden Dominance of the Diversity Industrial Complex. Little more than a decade ago,
DEI was just another arcane acronym, a clustering of three ideas, each to be weighed and evaluated
against other societal values. The terms diversity, equity, and inclusion weren't yet being
used in the singular, as one all-inclusive, non-negotiable moral imperative. Nor had they
coalesced into a bureaucratic juggernaut running roughshod over every aspect of national
life. They are now. Seemingly in unison, and with almost no debate, nearly every major
American institution — including federal, state, and local governments, universities and
public schools, hospitals, insurance, media and technology companies and major retail
brands — has agreed that the DEI infrastructure is essential to the nation's proper
functioning. From Amazon to Walmart, most major corporations have created and staffed DEI
offices within their human resources bureaucracy. So have sanitation departments, police
departments, physics departments, and the departments of agriculture, commerce, defense, education
and energy. Organizations that once argued against DEI now feel compelled to institute DEI
training and hire DEI officers.
Cloward
& Piven Are Laughing All The Way To The Welfare Agency. Food shortages are
ubiquitous. Baby formula to Brussels sprouts to ground meat to eggs continue to run in short
supply as prices rise. Suspicious fires, bombings, and "accidents" at food processing plants
are blamed without explanation along with droughts, avian flu, and the dreaded (supposed) COVID-19
super-duper "sub-variants." Government regulations reducing the application of certain
fertilizers on farms in Holland, Spain, France are proliferating, forcing crop, flock, and herd
reductions. Results: farms closing, creating more food shortages, unemployment, and
increasing welfare rolls. Public outcry and political pressure have been suppressed through
ignorance caused by the media.
Ultra-Wealthy
Flee the Big Apple as High Crime and Excessive Taxation Chase Them Away. I'm not a
math whiz, but I'm not incapable either, so let's do some calculations... 1,452 residents worth
over $25 million left in 2021, plus a whole bunch before that. That's a lot of
deserters. I plug that into my Excel spreadsheet and it says, "a whole lot of tax revenue
just fled for the hills." You might think, well, New York has plenty of taxpayers, it's not
that big a deal. But consider this: the top one percent of earners in New York account for
close to half of the state's income tax revenue.
Taking Back
America. As I travel, I constantly see tattered American flags blowing in the wind. They are a
metaphor for the state of the Union. It is emblematic of how our country is being hollowed out. We have a
Manchurian leader who is gutting us of our rights. The latest assault is Biden's determination to put us under the
domination of the World Health Organization, who will determine our health care. [...] In fact, the goal of Marxists is
the total annihilation of freedom. No matter how many times the communist dream is proven to result in nothing but
misery, it seems to get resurrected. And historical ignorance is the means by which the next generation gets
sucked in. Consequently, a statue of Teddy Roosevelt that used to invite visitors into the Museum of Natural
History is taken down. On the other hand, a statue of career criminal George Floyd is erected despite the fact
that Floyd committed three armed robberies, three violent home invasions, six burglaries, three car thefts, beat four
victims senseless and held a gun to a very pregnant belly of his robbery victim.
The
'Great Awokening' Is Transforming Science and Medicine. The "great awokening" touches every elite
institution in America, mostly radiating out from our compromised system of higher education. One of the most
disturbing and illuminating aspects of this cultural revolution is how much it is transforming science and
medicine. A video of medical students at Columbia University reciting an updated version of the Hippocratic oath
that injected elements of critical race theory made the rounds on social media recently. As many have noted, this
"student-led initiative" sounds cult-like.
Thanks
to rampant leftism, Austin, Texas, heads for Mad Max territory. I lived in Austin, Texas, in the mid-1980s
and found it a lovable city. It had a vibrant cultural community, beautiful neighborhoods, and a massive campus
that felt surprisingly safe and normal for a girl who had graduated from the degrading madness of UC Berkeley.
Now, though, Austin is a city in thrall to hard leftism, and the only vibrant thing there is the out-of-control
crime. In 2020, Austin moved to the forefront of leftist-run cities that enthusiastically embraced the defund the
police mantra. [...] Leftism promises heaven and invariably delivers hell. Cities with leftist governance have
more crime, more filth, more homelessness, more public urination and defecation, and more underperforming schools than
conservatively run cities. What works to maintain a city is what always works: Policies that encourage
responsibility and discourage crime. Abandon those principles and, suddenly, once-shiny American cities begin to
look like Mad Max outtakes.
The
collapse of civilization on the altar of equity and diversity. The Biden administration has gone stark
raving mad. While they surely know better, they are moving ahead with the false notion that "diversity is our
strength," that forced "equity" will make the country a better place. It began under the Obama administration, the
purposeful ginning up of the most vile racism since slavery; but this time Black against White. Before Obama took
office, there was actually near racial harmony in America. The American left has become so radical now, "diversity
hires" are now a thing. We are following in the footsteps of South Africa and mandating racial quotas. What
has that meant for South Africa? Their economy is in near collapse. Their electric grid is failing because
no one knows how to fix it. The country is wracked by violence. Mandated equity, the primacy of race
over merit, means civilizational failure. Why have there been so many near misses in air traffic? Why so
many railway derailments? Why horrific events like the murder of Tyre Nichols in Memphis? Those cops were
clearly not qualified to be Memphis police. When standards are done away with, this is a predictable consequence.
5
'dirtiest' cities in America run by Democratic mayors, study says. The top five dirtiest cities in the
country are run by Democrat mayors, a new study has found. Among 152 of the biggest cities across the United
States, Houston won the No. 1 spot for dirtiest city, followed by Newark, New Jersey, San Bernardino, California,
Detroit and Jersey City, New Jersey, according to a study released Thursday by LawnStarter. LawnStarter measured
each city across four categories: pollution, which measures things like air quality and greenhouse gas emissions; living
conditions, like the percentage of homes containing mold or rats; infrastructure, which measures waste output and
regulations; and consumer satisfaction, or the percentage of residents who find the city dirty. Houston, which is
run by Democratic Mayor Sylvester Turner, ranked No. 1 in overall score for the dirtiest city. It ranked third
in the nation on pollution, fourth on poor living conditions, 12th on infrastructure and 34th on consumer satisfaction.
LA
Times Asks: 'What's the Matter With Portland?' Answer: Leftist Ideology. "What's the matter with
Portland?" That was the question asked in a lengthy and interesting report in The Los Angeles Times. The
piece was enlightening in the sense that it did capture the mentality that has led to the city's awesome
dysfunction. It highlights how despite that dysfunction — rising crime, rampant open-air drug use, and
many other signs of urban decay — many of the city's residents are simply unwilling to acknowledge how
ideology and bad policy have turned the Oregon city that should be quite pleasant to reside into a shell of its former
self. Some residents, such as Flora Gonzalez, who lives in a blue-collar neighborhood now beset by crime, can see
clearly what the problem is.
What
Kind of Military Does Our Country Need? Much has been said and written about America's increasingly woke,
politicized military and its negative impacts on recruiting and readiness. Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, attracted widespread criticism when he spoke of "white rage" and reportedly hid nuclear codes
from President Trump while telling his Red Chinese counterpart he would provide advance warning of any planned U.S.
attack on China. Even cadets and midshipmen at the nation's military academies are undergoing woke indoctrination
in Critical Race Theory, transgenderism, "toxic masculinity," and so-called Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity, which many
military experts fear will harm unit integrity, morale, and war-fighting capability. And now there is a new
wrinkle at our academies: the Spectrum Club, which "actively bridges the relationship between Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual, Transgender Questioning (LGBTQ) cadets [and midshipmen] and their allies" and "serves as a safe haven for
LGBTQ cadets [and midshipmen] when they need support[.]" Since the introduction of women to our military academies
in 1976, our armed services have struggled mightily with the issue of sexual fraternization among cadets and
midshipmen. Why, then, would these institutions not only permit, but celebrate clubs based solely on sexual
orientation? One doubts whether heterosexual clubs would be approved, nor should they be. And do we really
want future military leaders who are so fragile as to require "safe spaces"?
America Is Becoming a Corrupt
Country. James Q. Wilson and George Kelling introduced the concept of "Broken Windows" in an essay in
1982. In essence, they said that allowing a neighborhood to decay physically will lead to a rise in crime.
The existence of disorder makes more disorder more acceptable. In what may have been the most successful
anti-crime experiment in history, Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton applied this theory in a
stunning reversal of crime in New York. The Big Apple became one of the safest cities in the world. In
recent years, as liberals have rejected the enforcement of the law against small crimes, the rapid decay of communities
has been tragic further proof that "Broken Windows" was right. If you send a signal that crime is acceptable, you
will get more criminals. If you send a signal that corrupt government officials are acceptable, corruption will
become a way of life.
Here's your proof of
a rigged and stolen 2020 election. It's clear the election of 2020 was rigged and fixed. We all know
it. And Kari Lake's stolen election in 2022 was even worse. The theft of Kari Lake's Arizona election makes
Bernie Madoff look like a small-time shoplifter. But I'm not talking about any of that. To me the proof the
2020 election was stolen is the state of the nation. Open your eyes. The consequences of a stolen election
are all around us. The supply chain is crippled. Highways, ports and infrastructure are crumbling.
Blue states are banning trucks from the roads. Grocery prices are skyrocketing. Egg farms are burning to the
ground. Eggs cost $10 per dozen — if you can find them. Over 100 food plants have burned to the
ground in the past year. Trains are derailing. The East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment may be the worst
ecological disaster in U.S. history. Experts are calling it "our Chernobyl." There is a mushroom cloud of
deadly chemicals floating over the farm belt. Animals are dying. Fish are dead. People are sick.
And it just happens to have poisoned hundreds of thousands of acres of prime Midwest farmland. The same exact
thing that's happening to food and farmland is happening to energy. Under former President Donald Trump we had
energy independence and cheap, plentiful energy. Under President Joe Biden we have soaring gas and electricity
prices, energy shortages and depletion of our national fuel reserve. In the middle of this, our government is
desperate to ban gas stoves.
Biden
installed: What could possibly go wrong? Whoever pulled the strings to install Biden should go to
prison. Whoever is really calling the shots and implementing such terrible policy — lockdowns, vax
mandates, restricting the capture of domestic energy, mandating DIE, ESG, CRT, etc. throughout every institution and
corporation in the US — should be sent to prison for treason. Whomever they are, they are traitors to
this nation; they're waging a war against the American citizenry. The vaccines alone have killed thousands;
their pro-criminal policies have killed countless innocents; the open border has caused the deaths of thousands of
migrants, and of law-abiding Americans who fell victim to criminal aliens and/or the fentanyl crisis. The economy
is the worst it's been in four decades. Our national debt is $31 trillion — the interest alone is
$750 billion a year. None of this is sustainable. The "green agenda" is climate communism to control
how we all live. If their "15-minute cities" come to America, there will be a second Civil War. They want to
mandate EVs but there is not enough lithium on the planet to put everyone in an electric vehicle. That is a
fantasy that will never be realized.
Destroying
Meritocracy Is Deadly. After Christmas, Southwest Airlines simply canceled 71 percent of its
flights. It blamed staff shortages due to storms. The airline seemed incapable of ensuring enough of their
pilots, attendants, crews, and airport staff could get to work. The Federal Aviation Administration in January
canceled all flight departures from the United States for two hours due a computer safety system collapse.
Thousands of additional flights were canceled, many for over 24 hours. Something has gone terribly
wrong. Either the Department of Transportation and its Secretary Pete Buttigieg, or the head of the FAA, or the
quality of either ground crews, pilots, or air traffic controllers — or all combined — are putting
American travelers at mortal risk. If not corrected, these near-death airline experiences and the near collapse of
the U.S. commercial aviation system presage catastrophes to come. [...] Many of the major airlines have established
racial and gender quotes for government pilot training programs. United Airlines has set quotas to ensure half of
its trainees will be minorities or women. Since 2013, the FAA has been lowering standards for air traffic control
qualifications to achieve de facto race and gender quotas.
Real and Fake
Worlds: Why the Trains are Failing. In the olden days, you didn't need a college degree to get a real
job. You took an IQ test to get a job. In Griggs v. Duke Power Co, the far left wing Supreme
Court all but outlawed these tests. Employers thus started to required university degrees for jobs that a smart
and ambitious 19 year old could have begun learning via on-the-job training and mentorship. All the smart kids
were forced to attend college. Most of them realized, "If I am going to go through all this hassle, I may as well
sell insurance for State Farm upon graduation." Banning IQ tests for jobs, more than any other policy, hollowed out
the middle. Millions of smart kids got left behind. We should care not for their sake, but our own.
The Libertarian-Socialist
Axis. Policies inspired by socialists make it easier for private corporate and financial interests to form
monopolies, since the regulatory excess inspired by socialist ideals drives smaller potential competitors out of
business. Examples are plentiful. Complying with environmental regulations requires an overhead burden that
will overwhelm the financial capacity of a small company, but can be absorbed easily by large companies. Complying
with union work rules and wage demands is easy for monopolistic companies because they pass the higher labor costs on to
consumers. But similar compliance kills companies too small to have a captive market. Enforced scarcity
caused by mandates designed to combat "climate change" allows vertically integrated companies to raise prices, reap big
profits, and expand, since their underlying costs haven't changed. In short, socialism eliminates competition,
which empowers the biggest corporations on earth to get even bigger.
Why
Biden infringes on the right to bear arms. Advocating that guns are the reason for increasing crime is a
distraction from failing crime-control policies. These policies are the reason crime has steadily risen: 1) a
decrease in prosecuting violent crimes, 2) an increase in catch and release bail, 3) defunding cities' and
towns' police forces, 4) an increase in early prison release, and 5) an increase in little or no jail time
for violent offenders. Those are the real reasons for increased violent gun related crimes, not law-abiding citizens'
gun ownership. The philosophy that the police and prisons are the reason for high crime is wrong and not the belief of
mainstream America. The Left would love for everyone to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens result
in high rates of gun-related crimes.
Those
Abandoning Blue States Should Abandon Democrats, Too. A recent New York Post article declared that, in a
"staggering exodus," in 2022, more residents of New York moved to Florida "than any other year in history." [...] In
what is almost certainly an effort to cover for Democrats, CBS News practically ignores the politics of the Blue State
Exodus and benignly points to "more affordable housing and plentiful jobs" in red states as the main reasons for
citizens fleeing Democrat-dominated states. CBS News brushes off the idea that higher taxes in blue states are
contributing to this mass exodus, and it fails to mention at all crime, COVID-lockdown policies, and the like as reasons
for the growing number of "leftugees." Much, and likely the vast majority, of the population loss in blue states
is due to those fleeing even higher-taxed and more crime-ridden large U.S. cities.
Targeting
kids for addiction. There is no doubt that the well-funded and decades-long push for marijuana
legalization has been successful. Maryland will soon join the sad reality that marijuana is now legal
recreationally in 21 states and D.C., and legal medically in 37 states. Proponents of marijuana legalization tout
that making the drug lawful will decrease arrests. But what is it doing to our communities and why have they
started to target children at younger and younger ages? Addiction-for-profit industries have always targeted young
audiences. The younger the addict, the longer the cycle of addiction, the greater the profit.
Dem-Led City
Reports Highest Violent Crime Rate In 15 Years After Defunding Police. Seattle's violent crime rate rose
to its highest point in 15 years in 2022, with reported homicides surging by about 24% compared to 2021, according
to the Seattle Police Department's (SPD) Year-End Crime Report, more than a year after the city cut its police
budget. Rapes and aggravated assaults increased by about 4% and 5% respectively, contributing to 5,591 total
reported violent offenses, a roughly 4% spike, the report shows. Though arson and burglaries declined, 1,596 more
motor vehicle thefts were reported, and Seattle ended up with an around 4% higher overall crime in 2022 despite a
fourth-quarter reduction. Seattle's City Council reduced SPD funding by almost 17% in its 2021 budget following
the George Floyd protests of summer 2020. The city's 2023 budget funds Democratic Mayor Bruce Harrell's officer
recruitment and retention plan but eliminates 30 unfilled SPD positions, The Seattle Times reported.
The
Mess of an Address. After listening to the State of the Union address, Americans know why the latest
Reuters poll has President Joe Biden at 41 percent approval. Vice President Kamala Harris polls even lower —
despite the obsequious efforts of the most biased media in history that has, in effect, merged with the Democratic
Party. The nation was reminded again why only 37% of Biden's own party want him to run again. Only a quarter
of Americans believe the country is headed in the right direction under his leadership. Given all that, what could
a president possibly tell a nation when he entered office inheriting a 1.4% inflation rate only to spike it to 7%?
How did Americans' 30-year mortgages of 2.7% soar to 6.5% in less than two years? How does a president explain
that eggs climbed to $7 a dozen, or a thin steak hit $15 a pound, or a sheet of plywood reached $95? How does a
president explain to Americans that gas averaged $2.39 a gallon when he took office and, even after draining the
strategic petroleum reserve, it is still $3.50 a gallon — and recently spiked at $5 a gallon in many states. Can
Biden explain why once affordable, or even cheap natural gas more than tripled in price in less than a year? What
can a president say when in his first two years over 5 million foreign nationals poured into the United States — all
illegally across a nonexistent border?
A Century
of Homicides. The revolving door crime wave exploded in the 1960s, putting the criminals back on the
street before the police could fill out the paperwork. Over the last year I talked to a thousand people about
crime and not one, including criminal justice professionals and elected officials, could tell me how this revolving door
started in the 1960s. Some suggested the Great Society, drugs, or the disintegration of the American family, but
these came later. Crime shot up like a Saturn V rocket because it was deliberate policy to open up
the jails and let criminals walk. Supreme Court justices, other top judges, intellectuals, criminologists, and the
U.S. attorney general all proclaimed prison confinement a medieval idea and that behavioral 'scientists' would simply
rehabilitate the criminals. The results were disastrous. Homicides more than doubled and all other
categories of crime quadrupled or more. Progressives refused to reverse course and fought against sentencing
reform for decades.
The
left took over an important cultural institution while you weren't looking. If you were raised in America,
you probably grew up reading books published in the "Little Golden Books" series. It's likely, too, that parents
associate that label with trusted and wholesome products. Well, they're probably still wholesome (no sex,
obscenities, or other nasty things in these books), but recent content has taken both a shallow and a leftward turn,
with the Little Golden Books starting early to turn your kids on to pop culture and to "wokify" them.
Denver:
Rocky Mountain Hellhole. Seven years ago, Business Insider published, "14 reasons why Denver is the best
place to live in America." They recommended everyone consider Denver as "your next hometown" citing a strong job
market, low unemployment, great restaurants, and practical perks such as a low crime rate and good schools. That
was then. How is Denver doing now as "trendy and desirable"? In answering that question, the Glendale Cherry
Creek Chronicle published, "Denver becoming America's crime capital." That's quite the turnaround in less than a
decade, especially when we think of New York City, Baltimore, or Philadelphia as America's crime capitals.
Here's
Everything Biden Won't Tell You About The Disastrous State Of Our Union. The state of our union is a
complete, unmitigated disaster. The economy is in shambles, the border is two years into the worst migrant influx
in U.S. history, taxpayer dollars are flying into the hands of a corrupt Eastern European regime without oversight, and
our No. 1 enemy — Red China — has compromised our president, our politicians, our phones, and our
skies. Much as he did in his lie-riddled speech last year, President Joe Biden will likely try to use his State of
the Union address to Congress this week to credit himself for helping the nation back onto its feet. In reality,
he's done nothing but subject Americans to more crippling crises that prompt historic levels of disapproval. In an
unprecedented "level of sustained pessimism," 71 percent of Americans believe the country is on the wrong track.
Ten Righteous
Men. Typical of a Marxist regime, none of our valued institutions are functioning in a reliable way.
Our children are being abused by the very institutions designed to open the wonders of the world to them. Our
young men, who should be in the prime of their lives, are dropping dead in the midst of the games they love to
play. Our money is no longer worth much, we're finding it harder and harder to fuel our homes and automobiles, and
we're seeing iconic businesses fold all around us. What with Ukraine and woke ideology, the military we have
proudly depended on to protect us is unprepared and poorly supplied.
Canadian
Government Forces Dairy Farmer to Dump 30,000 Liters of Milk Because He Exceeded His Quota. A dairy farmer
from Southern Ontario, Canada has spoken out about how the Canadian government makes farms dump thousands of liters of
fresh milk because they have gone over the quota. In a video shared on TikTok by Travis Huigen and widely shared
by Bushels Per Acre on Twitter, Canadian dairy farmer Jerry Human expresses his outrage at the Canadian government and
the Dairy Farmers of Ontario (DFO) for wasting hundreds of liters of fresh milk despite inflation. "Right now,
during the winter months, you milk quite a bit more milk because the feed is very consistent. And if you do a good
job, you will produce quite a bit of milk. But right now, we're over our quota, and it's regulated by the
government, and [implemented] by the DFO," said Human. "Look at this milk running away. It's the end of the
month [and] I dump 30,000 liters of milk and it breaks my heart. This year Canadian milk is $7 a liter."
The disappearing law-enforcement
presence in San Francisco. Last month a group of business owners in Seattle gathered for a town hall to
discuss persistent crime in the city. All of the owners had experienced break-ins, often several of them in a
year. And the cost to repair broken windows and doors was often more than the value of whatever thieves had
stolen. Several of the owners had been dropped by their insurance because they'd made too many claims. They
wondered why the police never seemed to have time to walk around their neighborhood at night to keep the thieves at
bay. The situation doesn't seem to be much different in San Francisco. When Joe Vernieri, the owner of the
Black Magic Voodoo Lounge, reported his bar had been broken into it took police 15 hours to respond and even then
they responded in the middle of the night when no one was around. [...] So as far as Vernieri is concerned there
are no police in San Francisco. None that will help him.
Democrats'
Trojan horse is taking on a life of its own. Biden was the Democrat left's version of the Trojan
horse. Get the 78-year-old inside the White House pretending to be a gift to the American people, and then let the
real puppet masters emerge and change the nation's demographics, destroy the economy, and transform every social
norm. For two years, Biden did precisely what the Democrat socialists wanted him to do: run to podiums,
mumble, and then wander away. Smile, wave, and lie. And in the process, the southern border became an open
floodgate for illegal aliens and deadly drugs. Inflation halted the buying power of most Americans, and American
streets became crime-infested homeless camps. Uncle Joe: the gift that kept on giving.
Who could not have predicted this? Migrants
turn NYC hotel into violent, drug-infested 'free-for-all': employee. A once-trendy Manhattan hotel has
become a wild "free-for-all" of sex, drugs and violence after the city began housing migrants there, an employee claimed
Tuesday [1/31/2023]. Row NYC worker Felipe Rodriguez — who told The Post earlier this month that
migrants were throwing away "tons" of prepared food at the hotel — said the facility has now descended into
anarchy. "Chaos, total chaos," Rodriguez told "Fox & Friends" when asked to describe conditions at the hotel.
"There's no accountability. There is no daily supervision to show these people that ... 'You don't destroy your
hotel. You are only there temporarily. This is not your home.'
The
root of our problems as a nation. When a six-year-old brought a gun to school and shot his teacher, the
first thought was that it was an accident. When upon further review it was announced that it was intentional and
deliberate, a sort of shock wave went through the population. This was not just another incident, not just another
step along the road to perdition. Society is no longer slouching toward Gomorrah. Like the expanding cosmos,
the headlong race toward the edge of the cliff is actually accelerating. This was a quantum leap, an
order-of-magnitude increase. When one observes the breathtaking increase in moral degeneracy, one is reminded of
the biblical warning that the beast, knowing that his time is short, is seeking to devour whom he may. [...] Society is
becoming more and more disoriented, less structured in terms of norms, and, as an inevitable result, more
dysfunctional. Indeed, the definition of what is "normal" has become so vague as to have lost all practical
meaning. If everything is normal, then nothing is. If everything is a matter of personal opinion, then facts
become irrelevant. If your truth is not my truth, nor mine yours, then there can be no social contract. Dysfunctional
societies must eventually collapse. Whether from internal strife or external invasion, they cannot survive.
Anarchy, American-Style.
The 1960s revolution was both anarchic and nihilist. But it was waged against — not from —
the establishment. Hippies and the Left either attacked institutions or, in Timothy Leary fashion, chose to "turn
on, tune in, drop out" from them. The current revolution is much different — and far more
dangerous — for at least three reasons. The current Left has no intention of "dropping out." Why
would it? It now controls the very institutions of America that it once mocked and attacked — corporate
boardrooms, Wall Street, state and local prosecuting attorneys, most big-city governments, the media, the Pentagon,
network and most of cable news, professional sports, Hollywood, music, television, K-12 education, and academia.
In other words, the greatest levers of influence and power — money, education, entertainment, government, the
news, and popular culture — are in the hands of the Left. They have transformed legitimate debate over
gay marriage into a hate crime. Transgenderism went from a modern manifestation of ancient transvestism or gender
dysphoria to a veritable litmus test of whether one was good or evil.
Whoopi
Goldberg asks if 'we need to see White people get beat up' to see change, then quickly clarifies. "The
View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg wondered on Monday if "we need to see White people get beat up" to see meaningful police
reform before clarifying that she was "not suggesting that" following the death of Tyre Nichols. "Do we need to
see White people also get beat before anybody will do anything? I'm not suggesting that. So don't write us
and tell me what a racist I am. I'm just asking is that what people have to see in order to wake up and realize
this affects us all?" Goldberg asked. She also wondered when this brutality would "finally lead to some police
reform from the ground up."
The Editor says...
There has already been "police reform from the ground up," which is why they only hire black officers,
whether they are fit for service or not.
There
Is Nothing Democrats Won't Destroy. The left has changed the definition of words to help their
division. "Woman" has no meaning now, and men win the awards created expressly to celebrate them. It has to
be weird for the old feminists, most of whom look like men now, to know they've plowed the road for men to dominate as
women. Can't wait till Rachel Levine demands the return of Virginia Slims advertising so he can be on them under
the banner, "You've come a long way, baby." But few words have been bastardized more than "community." It
used to mean your neighborhood and the people in it; from the kids you grew up with to the old guy in the corner
house everyone was slightly afraid of but who was secretly always nice. Now it means people who share your skin
tone or sexual proclivities.
Germans
believe their country is going down the tubes [again]. Fewer and fewer Germans are satisfied with their
state. This is the result of a recent Allensbach survey. Some 80 percent of all Germans are of the
opinion that the state is inhibiting itself in its development through too much bureaucracy. This also means that
fewer and fewer believe in a good economic future. Only 39 percent still think that Germany will still be one
of the leaders in the world economy in 15 years. In the past, this number used to be almost 60 percent.
Some 68 percent of all Germans are dissatisfied with so-called digital progress. Only 14 percent of Germans
believe that Germany has emerged stronger from the crises of recent years. And half believe that many things are
no longer working properly in their country. This is not good for the German government, nor is it an
optimistic assessment of the future.
Warning: The Anti-Police
Movement Is Deadly. In the Bay Area, criminal homicides increased from 295 in 2021 to 309 in
2022 — 50% higher than 2019. Oakland had 120 homicides in 2022, a 60% increase over 2019. And the
share of murder victims who were black rose from 53% in 2019 to 58% in 2021. In other words, in the two years
after millions of Americans promised through their checkbooks, their lawn signs, and their social media updates to do
everything in their power to protect black lives, the killing of African Americans skyrocketed.
This migrant
mess is ruining NYC's Midtown. Why is Mayor Eric Adams destroying Midtown? The pulsing heart of the
city, the theater, restaurant and tourism district, has not fully recovered from the COVID lockdown yet is already full
of homeless hotels with their associated problems. Now the mayor has announced he's going to turn yet another
hotel into a shelter for illegal migrants in the middle of the Theater District. The Paramount Hotel, a 600-room,
Renaissance-style gem opposite the Richard Rodgers Theatre where "Hamilton" has been playing since 2015, is the fifth
Midtown hotel converted to an "emergency" shelter in as many months. Earlier this month, tourists were paying $330
a night to stay there and prices hit as high as $1,000 around New Year's Eve.
Another
Day, Another Walgreens Getting Robbed. No one blinked, they are so used to it because of California's
crazy laws that benefit criminals and punish honest business owners. [Video clip]
America's
Future is Bleak When Only 27% of the Younger Generations are Proud to be American. As recently as 2004,
91% of Americans were extremely or very proud to be American and the United States ranked first in the world in national
pride. However, in less than twenty years there has been a stunning reversal that portends a dire future for the
United States as a precipitous erosion in national pride has undermined societal confidence, self-reliance, optimism,
and cohesion. A recent poll revealed that a record low of just 68% of the citizenry are extremely or very proud to
be American. However, underlying that overall dismal outcome is the reality that among the two youngest
generations only 38% of Millennials and 16% of Gen Z are proud to be American despite being the beneficiaries of
living in a unfathomably prosperous nation that has not known any profound national adversity since the Great
Depression. What we are seeing play out is the reality of demographic change in America as the younger
mal-educated generations account for over half of the populace and are increasingly becoming culturally and politically
influential. Within these generations an overwhelming majority have been indoctrinated by socialist/Marxist
ideologues to believe that a capitalist United States as founded is irredeemable and must be transformed.
You brought your problems upon yourself. Eric
Adams: 'Unfair' for Sanctuary Cities to Carry the Weight of the Border Crisis. New York City Mayor Eric
Adams (D) once again took to the airwaves to say Democratic cities who declared themselves to be a sanctuary for illegal
immigrants are being stretched thin due to the large number of people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. New York
City has had to open a fifth shelter for recent arrivals from the southern border, which is in addition to using hotels
and homeless shelters to house people coming from Latin America and even parts of Asia. "Well, I believe that when I
took the trip to El Paso, you can see firsthand the impact of how it not only harm the foundation of El Paso, but look
at Chicago, Houston, Washington, New York City, this is just unfair for cities to carry the weight of a national
problem," Adams told MSNBC on Wednesday. "We're going to open for more hotels, emergency hotels... This as a
major financial impact on New York City and cities across this country that are receiving the brunt of it." Adams
said the Biden White House claims there is a person who is in charge of helping American cities with the immigration
problem, but he does not who the person is.
Seattle
Is Running Out of Morgue Space Due to the Fentanyl Crisis. When you run a city on the values of (personal)
truth, (social) justice, and the (anti) American way of life, there are bound to be consequences, no matter how hard you
try to ignore them. That may include the spike in violence in New York City, the crime and homelessness throughout
California, or the general collapse of Portland, Ore., on every front. For Seattle, it includes those things and a
fentanyl crisis that is claiming lives at an alarming rate. The rate is so high that the King County Coroner is
running out of places to store the bodies.
The
greenie left is coming for your coffee. It wasn't enough that the greenie left came for our light bulbs,
our flush toilets, our guns, our plastic straws, our gas stoves, or our hamburgers. Now they're coming for our
coffee. [...] What they want, of course, is to take away more stuff from us, the better to control us. It wasn't
enough to target our gas-powered cars and tell us to take the bus. It wasn't enough to take away our electricity
and natural gas in the name of 'going green' and tell consumers to freeze in winter. It wasn't enough to howl for
an end to jet travel while greenie leftists bought carbon indulgences and continued to jet about with their private
planes. It wasn't enough to take away our plastic bags, to ensure that we only use unsanitary bacteria-filled
cloth recycle bags. It wasn't enough to take away our meat and tell us to eat bugs. All these are things
they are — no, really — trying to take away. In some cases, they have succeeded at such
schemes, too, all for a phony and chimerical quest to stop global warming, which somehow never happens.
Black
Lives Matter and the enduring legacy of 'defund the police'. Over at the Free Press, author Leighton
Woodhouse has an excellent article about the ongoing legacy of Black Lives Matter and the "defund the police" movement
they helped usher in to cities across America. Regular readers know this is a particular bugaboo of mine.
That's not just because it was a brutal issue for Democrats who jumped on the bandwagon in 2020. It's mostly because
it's such a shining example of how progressive enthusiasm for fundamental change can often result in complete
disaster. Committing to defunding the police without a plan to replace them with something better is one of the
dumbest things the left has done in my lifetime and as such it should be used as an object lesson of what not to
do for many years to come.
A
Massive Effort at Moral Rebuilding Is Necessary. I think it fair to say that political economy in our time
does not take the home seriously, because it does not take virtue and vice seriously, as the political economists
themselves are mainly content with the withering of religious life — they having been brought up in, and
having accepted, the dissolution of sexual morals that is rendering America a nation of broken homes, amputated
families, fatherless children, and dispirited lovelessness between young men and women, some of whom are condemned to
loneliness because they do not sin, and others condemned to that and worse because they do. [...] In all our rush to
define the essence of marriage out of our consciousness by extending the category to couples who by definition cannot
perform the marital act, we have heard hardly a whisper about all the moral and social questions that bear upon
marriage — no whisper at all about divorce, for example, and none at all about how you can possibly promote
sexual continence, let alone chastity, while countenancing and blessing actions that presume incontinence and unchastity
and that far surpass them in physical and moral harm.
Will
Any of You Leftists Wake Up? The policies being pursued by Democrats at every level of government are
visiting wholesale destruction on our economy, our culture and our future. Whether we're talking about Biden and
the Democrats spending trillions of dollars, drawing us into hyperinflation and unsustainable debt, or the freakish
efforts of the LGBTQ educrats to proselytize, indoctrinate and impose horrific sex change surgeries on our children that
have led to an unprecedented level of child suicide, the devastation is incalculable. I suppose the rationale for
deifying the LGBTQ agenda is to curb population growth? Have Gay, lesbian and transgender people become the modern
heroes of the environment because they are not part of the contemptible "breeders" crowd? Meanwhile, at the same
time, you leftists promote open borders to bring millions into this country precisely because our dwindling population
doesn't provide you with the goods and services you want at prices you want. The rationalizations would be
hilarious were they not so universally destructive.
Shocking! Who could have predicted this? After Seattle Defunded
Its Police, Local Business Owners Say Crime Is Worse Than Ever. Two years after Seattle slashed its police
budget, local business owners say crime has skyrocketed, with police unable to deal with thefts, homelessness and
open-air drug use that plague the city. Seattle and broader King County had more than 13,000 homeless people
within its boundaries in 2022, more than every other similar area except Los Angeles County and New York City, according
to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, while the Seattle Police Department (SPD) lost more than 130
officers, KOMO News reported, as homicides, shootings and motor vehicle thefts increased. Local business owners
say law enforcement is failing to effectively deter the rampant drug use and theft disturbing their livelihoods[.]
Rohan Joseph, owner of Elliot Bay Community Fitness in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood, has been posting videos on
Twitter for months of people doing drugs, trying to sleep or otherwise causing disturbances outside his business.
Does
DC want to be the carjacking capital of the USA? Washington, D.C.'s city council has just provided
incontrovertible proof of the willful incompetence of the gun control movement. The same people who want to outlaw
the possession of firearms by law-abiding people passed legislation to reduce penalties for carjacking, home invasion,
and similar violent crimes. Use of a gun to commit a violent felony in the nation's capital can now be punished by
no more than four years in prison. This makes it clear that the D.C. city council has no real desire to keep
firearms away from violent criminals who really shouldn't have them, and the legislation is so dysfunctional that Mayor
Muriel Bowser, who is certainly no conservative, intends to veto it. It also makes Washington, D.C. the ideal
place for carjackers, robbers, home invaders, and gun felons to ply their trades because, in contrast to almost every
other jurisdiction in the United States, they won't get much prison time. If you want to stick a gun in somebody's
face to demand money, then you should do it in D.C., where you can't get more than four years (unless U.S. attorneys
step in, as discussed below). If you want to force somebody out of a car at gunpoint, then D.C. is the place to do
it. If you do it in Florida, you can get up to life in prison.
First
2023 Murder in Seattle Carried Out by Thug Freed by Bail Fund. Most people have stopped paying attention
to bail funds aside from the time that Kamala Harris tweeted support for the Minnesota Freedom Fund during the BLM race
riots. While MFF's policy of bailing out arrested criminals has proven fatal, it's not the only bail fund with
lethal consequences. The Seattle and Portland bail funds have had their own death toll. Including the first
murder of 2023 in Seattle. [...] There have been a number of cases of bail funds freeing domestic abusers only for it to
end in violence and even murder. And, each time, the bail fund claims that it could never have seen this coming.
Republicans,
Don't Botch the Hearings. Here are the questions Americans have:
What is causing inflation, and why are energy costs so high?
Why is fentanyl killing tens of thousands of Americans?
Why is our southern border wide open?
Can we trust the FBI and DOJ?
What is causing the spike in inner-city crime?
Why are we letting China steal American data, patents, and military secrets?
Where did COVID come from? Do the vaccines work? Are people really "dying suddenly"?
Why is our education system failing our children?
Get Ready
for 'Climate Change Death' Tracking. Anyone following the regime's playbook already understands that when
you disagree with it, you'll be accused of killing someone. Don't take the vaccine, don't lock down, or don't wear
a mask — you're killing grandma. Question voting and balloting procedures, and your words will provoke
a deadly insurrection. Suggest that a man can't get pregnant, and you're guilty of stochastic terrorism. The
regime characterizes conservatives as killers for their opinions, yet its partisans celebrate abortion up to
parturition. It wants to let murderers out of jail, and is now moving to destigmatize the "dignified" culling of
the elderly and infirm. Climate change is the platform from which the regime seeks to achieve power by creating a
rationale for laws and regulations that dictate where and how people can move, live, purchase, and work. So it
makes sense that climate change would re-emerge as a priority just as the world moves on from a pandemic, where the body
count of those dying "from" or "with" Covid was used to justify repressive policies such as lockdowns, shutdowns,
election process changes, and the prevention of the practice of your religious faith.
Like
Paul Revere, a Massachusetts Republican Sends Warning. The fact is that progressives have been actively
working to take over the Democrat party — city by city, and state by state — for years. Even though progressives
are never the majority anywhere, they've gotten their grubby little mitts on all the levers of power, corrupting voting
laws and elections, instituting destructive policies, and securing permanent rule for themselves. Places like
California, New York, Illinois -- and sadly, Massachusetts — might be past saving at this point. No wonder so many
are leaving. Progressives have finally succeeded in taking over the Democrat party at the national level,
too. They've shoved aside all the normal, moderate Democrats, like the kind you used to see. Can you think
of a current Democrat politician who doesn't stick to the progressive narrative, even when it's obviously ridiculous?
The
Scariest Developments to Watch Out For in 2023. In just the past two years, our national government has
spent roughly $13 trillion and authorized spending trillions more. Politicians use words and phrases like
"investments," "long-term savings," "reducing inflation," "protecting Ukraine's sovereignty," etc. to justify
this. Clearly, they are either lying or living in a fantasy world. Most of the money is being used to pay
off campaign contributors and special interest groups, such as the climate change lobby, or to make politicians look
good. Inflation spiked to nine percent in June 2022, so the Federal Open Market Committee began raising interest
rates to fight it. As interest rates rose, the stock market tanked. In 2023, interest rates will likely
increase further, possibly sparking a worldwide recession. Neither is good news for investors.
Latest
Inflation Report Shows How Insane Grocery Costs Have Gotten. Even as fuel oil costs fell 16.6 percent
in December, the cost for the necessary expense to keep homes warm through the winter is still 41.5 percent more
expensive than it was one year ago. Meanwhile, electricity costs for Americans advanced 14.3 percent over the
last 12 months and piped utility gas bills increased 19.3 percent in 2022. The more stable core CPI
number — which excludes food and energy — increased 0.3 percent in December, an acceleration
from November 2022's 0.2 percent increase, for an annual core inflation rate of 5.7 percent as most indexes
continued to see prices rise. Among the indexes that continue to spike is food, up 10.4 percent in the last
12 months.
What Caused the
Political Hysteria? The Left has gone mad over Donald J. Trump — past, present, and
future. The current Democratic Party and NeverTrump "conservatives" assumed that Trump was and remains so
obviously toxic that they do not have to define exactly what his evil entails. Accordingly, they believe that any
means necessary are justified to stop him. And furthermore, these zealots, when out of power, insist such
extraordinary measures should not be emulated and institutionalized by their opponents, much less ever boomeranged back
upon their creators. In this context, the Republicans retaking control of the House of Representatives once again
raises the question whether they should reply in kind. Given the current investigation following the Mar-a-Lago
raid, should there also be a mirror-image special prosecutor to examine President Biden's lost stash of classified
documents in his insecure office following his vice presidency? Can House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) ever
be considered too inflammatory, given that his predecessor, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) tore up the
president's State of the Union address on national television?
In
McCarthy Negotiations, GOP Landed On [the] 'Most Significant Win For Conservatives In A Decade'. Life
expectancy in the United States is at its lowest level since 1996. Teen suicide rates spiked nearly 30 percent
in the last decade. Though drug overdose deaths declined from a record high in 2021, they remain 50 percent
higher than just five years ago. In the second quarter of 2022, the majority of workers lost a median
8.5 percent in real wages — a 25-year high. Marriage and fertility rates are falling. A
heightened nuclear threat looms amidst the invasion of Ukraine. In the last fiscal year, the government recorded
2.76 million illegal crossings at our southern border, as tens of thousands of desperate people stream into the
country every month, trafficked by cartels. American happiness is at a record low. So is institutional
trust. It's in this dismal context that Kevin McCarthy's bid for the House speakership faltered over the course of
four frenzied days last week.
A Rendezvous With Rwanda?
America is an increasingly multiracial society. Despite its early history of slavery and racial segregation, and
ongoing bias and tensions, the United States remains one of the few contemporary multiracial constitutional systems that
have actually worked. Yet recently few have appreciated that achievement. Usually multiracial nations and
empires — Yugoslavia, the former Soviet Union, the Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman empires — require
some level of coercion incompatible with a democratic constitution to force calm. Brazil, India, Lebanon, Nigeria,
and Kenya may be currently multiracial democracies in theory, but in fact they are often sectarian and tribal
cauldrons. In most such places, pride, solidarity — and even safety — are only found through
common religious, ethnic, and racial bonds that become all-encompassing. The individual's primary allegiance to
each particular warring group inevitably becomes incompatible with every other's overriding loyalties. The United
States is insidiously nearing that abyss. It has all but renounced its old commitment to the melting-pot, and a
"content-of-our-character" ideal of assimilation and integration within a common culture. But as we obsess on race
and accordingly separate, do we really know the final consequences of what the diversity/equity/inclusion tribalism
actually entails?
Movie
Attendance Collapses 48% over Four Very Woke Years. Between 2018 and 2022, movie theater attendance
dropped in half, and I do not want to hear any excuses about the pandemic. People will go to the theater to see a
movie that appeals to them. Spider-Man: No Way Home proved this last year. Top Gun: Maverick
proved it this year. Avatar: Way of the Water is proving it right now. And those are just the
blockbusters. [...] In other words, blaming streaming or the China Flu on the collapse of the movie
business is anti-science, so please do shut up.
Nancy
Pelosi calls House Democrats 'The greatest collection of intellect, integrity, and imagination assembled.
Just when one thinks one has heard everything, one is proven wrong. Outgoing speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
recently wrote her last "Dear Colleague" letter to her Democrat co-conspirators/comrades. In this missive, she
stated, "During the 117th Congress, President Biden and Congressional Democrats have put forth a shining vision of
justice for all. Together, we have worked tirelessly to infuse this value into our legislative efforts. We
can all take immense pride in our achievements toward that goal, which is making a real difference in the lives of the
American people." Justice? For all? Tell that to all those still rotting in prison, without
conviction or charge, for strolling through the People's House on January 6, 2021. Tell that to those who
were snatched from their homes in the wee hours of the morning by armed feds when a simple summons to appear would have
sufficed. Tell that to all those whose jobs were considered unessential. Tell that to all those
in the military who were discharged because they wouldn't accept an experimental substance into their
bodies. Tell that to all those who have lost loved ones to violent crime, rates of which skyrocketed in the past
two years due to Democrat policies — or to those who have lost loved ones to fentanyl because Democrats
absolutely refuse to police our southern border. And tell it to America's rapidly dwindling middle class, beset by
historic inflation, supply chain problems, and rising taxes.
Trump
Hatred Is Not Cheap. We have a close family friend who voted for Joe Biden. [...] We'll call her
Pat. She voted for gropey Joe even though she disagrees with almost all the radicalism that he and the Democrats
are pushing. Her reasoning is quite simple. She refused to vote for Donald Trump because he is too
personally offensive to her. [...] It didn't take long to realize that the Trump alternative — Joe
Biden — came with some hidden costs of his own, that Pat didn't know about. Now that we're two years
into his presidency, we can actually quantify some of those costs. Immediately upon assuming office Joe got with
his pals in Congress and went on a spending binge. We shouldn't be surprised. That's what socialists
do — spend other people's money. Joe, San Fran Nan, and little Chucky Schumer had a grand time,
spending almost five trillion bucks and driving the national debt up another three trillion dollars. But Joe never
considered the post-party hangover — a 40-year high inflation level. That ear-popping inflation isn't
going down either, unless there are some serious changes in fiscal behavior. With the recently passed omnibus
spending bill, there's no indication that anybody, in either party, intends to change behavior. The Congressional
Joint Economic Committee has found that inflation alone is costing American families an addition $635 per month.
That's the equivalent of a nice car payment to fund Joe's big spending, energy choking, regulation expanding, experiment
with banana republicism.
The Coup We Never Knew.
Did someone or something seize control of the United States? [...] Was it not against federal law to swarm the homes of
Supreme Court justices, to picket and to intimidate their households in efforts to affect their rulings? How then
with impunity did bullies surround the homes of Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch,
John Roberts, and Clarence Thomas — furious over a court decision on abortion? How could these mobs so
easily throng our justices' homes, with placards declaring "[...]"? Since when did Americans create a government
Ministry of Truth? And on whose orders did the FBI contract private news organizations to censor stories it did
not like and writers whom it feared? How did we wake up one morning to new customs of impeaching a president over
a phone call? Of the speaker of the House tearing up the State of the Union address on national television?
Of barring congressional members from serving on their assigned congressional committees?
8
of the 10 Neediest Cities in America Have Something in Common. A recent study showed that the 10 neediest
cities in the U.S. have a few things in common. The most glaring commonality of this list is that eight out of the
top ten cities had a Democrat at the helm at the time the survey took place. Wallethub.com released the tragic
list showing which cities are starting 2023 with a thud. They used 28 indicators including poverty, hunger,
homelessness, etc. There are not a lot of surprises in this list of 182 towns across the U.S. Detroit
comes in as the neediest town in America. Motor City has been dying for decades. Corruption and plunging car
sales have gutted this once-beautiful town since the 1970s. If you think getting a cab in Hockeytown is hard, try
calling an ambulance. Budget cuts reduced EMS crews to just 15 more than a decade ago. Detroit also scored
third place for "food insecurity" as well as "inadequate plumbing."
The
War On Truckers, Refrigerators, And Your Well-Being. In the same way our "superiors" think that their food
comes from the grocery store rather than a farm or ranch, they must believe that those items magically appear on the
shelves. Otherwise, why would the ruling class, made up of and zealously backed by elites, go to war against
trucks? Just before Christmas, the Biden Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule that it calls a "key
step toward accelerating zero-emissions future," and part of "the historic Clean Truck Plan, which is moving America's
highly polluting heavy-duty trucking fleet towards low-carbon and electric technologies." Enforcement of course
will mean fewer trucks on the road. For many drivers, the cost of working under the new regime will be too
high. "Truckers and manufacturers warn that the rule is too stringent and costly, and that compliance could send
higher prices through the economy that is already suffering from high energy costs and high inflation," says the
Institute for Energy Research.
Rebellion Against the People.
It was not so long ago that competition was the breeding ground for excellence, now any mention of competition is hissed
at with emotional tantrums by those who could not compete on any level and it's drawn the whole nation into an
acceptance of failure. One need look no further than the two institutions of importance, the schools and the
military to see the end result. The majority of our students cannot pass rudimentary tests in the critical
studies, but they can emote. Our military is so confused about its mission that it ranks success as acceptance of
perversion rather than marksmanship. The question thus arises, what is left to support? What is there now
that an American can devote oneself to that is not now decidedly un-American?
The Tyranny
in America. It never ceases to amaze me when I hear media talking heads plaintively ask, "Why won't Biden
or Harris visit the border?" They ask the question genuinely believing that if either the President or the Vice
President saw the looming existential disaster, it would change their minds. Such naiveté confirms
Dr. King's idea that "nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious
stupidity." Daily, we see the dictatorial moves by Biden and his administration. We view the tears of those
at the southern border who fear for their lives and property. As the illegals surge into the country, sexual
exploitation, human trafficking, crime, rampant drug use, violence, disease, death, and soul-searing fear continue to
suffocate Americans. [...] Of course, illegal immigration will continue. In the next two years of Biden's rule,
another five million illegals will enter the country and thus an entrenched dictatorship will take hold.
Only
an economic illiterate could say that Biden's policies are working well. Here is a headline in Yahoo
Finance on December 30th: "This week in Bidenomics: It was a pretty good year." The author is Rick Newman, whose
title is "Senior Columnist. Newman admits that the S & P 500 was down 20% for the year, the Dow
Jones was down 10%, and the Nasdaq was down 34%. Nevertheless, he brags that gas prices are down from their high
to $3.15 per gallon, never acknowledging that gas was $2.17 when Biden won the election. Bragging about prices
that are up 45% in two years does not show any ability to think cognitively. Diesel prices are also down from
their Biden-era high. Still, their Biden-era "low" is $4.53, which is 90% higher than the $2.38 price for diesel
when Biden was elected. Crude oil is around $80 or up 100% from $40 when Biden was elected. That is what
happens when one of your major goals is to destroy industries that provide reasonably priced energy.
We
Must Convince People That The Fascist Far Left Wants To Destroy The US. Events are part of an overall plan
that has a specific purpose that proves it's not just incompetence. Leftists desperately had to suppress the Biden
laptop scandal because it showed that they were under foreign influence. We know now that if the people had been
aware of this, history would have been changed. That influence explains why we are diminishing our energy
capabilities while giving the red Chinese a free pass. The purpose is to weaken us compared to them. That
influence explains why we are diminishing our military capabilities by shoveling cash and weapons into Ukraine.
That influence explains why we are committing national suicide with an open border that not only weakens us to the point
of a Cloward-Piven implosion but also provides all manner of military infiltration opportunities. That open border
also is giving leftists a great opportunity to take a page from the history of the Opium wars and destabilize the US
with a flood of Fentanyl.
Under
Wokeism, Animal Farm Comes to Life. Have you read George Orwell's perennially popular and spookily
prescient book Animal Farm? Written in 1945, it is recognized as one of the most foundational books of the
20th century and the book's satire vs. the reality of today is striking. [...] It takes intellectual rigor to avoid
making the same mistakes repeatedly. It is challenging especially for the young and those who:
a. Did not acquire a good grounding in reason or academic discipline through education
b. Have never experienced real suffering or failure
c. Have been deprived of appropriate role models
Yet, warts and all, since our country was created, we've seen an unbroken string of generally successful adults, until
recently. [...] One reason why we have so many developmental problems now is the pervasiveness of substance abuse such
as the massive amount of fentanyl crossing our borders which has become proof of an undeclared war against us. And
so is the sedition, subversion, and treacherous behavior of those knowingly subverting our young and our institutions.
[...] If you are over 40, remember how we used to live. Put aside the mistakes we made but recall the
successes, achievements, and good our country has been able to accomplish in the past: all that is now a quickly
receding memory. There is no easy way forward, but there is one legitimate way forward. We must stop those
hiding in our midst from continuing to destroy us under the guise of free speech.
Liz
Warren's Disappearing Act. It's been one lie after another from the Democrats in D.C., compounded with
economic policies that could only make matters as bad as possible. When President Trump left office in January
2021, the national average for gasoline was around $2.30/gallon. Biden immediately signed a series of anti-energy
executive orders restricting fracking, oil exploration, and fossil-fuel production. He did this for two
reasons: 1) To counter and negate anything that President Trump had done, simply out of infantile
spite; 2) To curry approval and favorable publicity with the Green New Deal faction and their
supporters. Predictably, retail gasoline pricing spiked. It was soon in the mid-$3.00 range, more than a
dollar over where it was under President Trump. This was well before Russia invaded Ukraine. This was
not "Putin's price increase." This was all Biden. As fuel went up, transportation/delivery costs
increased and pricing for all goods started to go up. This was an absolutely unnecessary tax on the American
public, diluting consumer's buying power and sapping their confidence. The Biden energy policy's effect on overall
consumer pricing would have been bad enough if that's all that there was. But it wasn't, not by a long shot.
Biden's
Unopposed Imposition of Stalinism. The majority of Americans are against open borders. Once again,
what we want doesn't seem to matter. A steady wave of illegal immigration is what Biden wants and no one seems the
least bit interested in putting an end to it. Millions of unvetted migrants are streaming across the border and
being shipped to secret destinations in direct violation of U.S. immigration law. This is nothing short of
treasonous. The import of deadly drugs, violent criminals, terrorists, and COVID spreaders constitutes the worst
public safety issue since World War II. At a time when runaway inflation is driving millions of Americans into the
poorhouse, we are being forced to provide public assistance to millions of freeloading non-citizens. Local
communities are being torn apart by the influx of refugees. [...] None of this is happening by accident. "It is
becoming harder not to conclude that the border crisis is intentional," said Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana.
"Nobody is this incompetent." Of course it is intentional. Biden knows exactly what he is doing. He gets
his stooges, DHS Secretary Mayorkas and Press Secretary Jean-Pierre, to deny that the border is open, but we know they
are lying through their teeth.
The Democrats' war on
the family. It wasn't that long ago when older men dressed as women twerking with children at
city-sponsored parades or schools adopting unisex locker rooms or medical clinics exploiting gender dysphoria to pad
their bottom line all would have been considered child abuse. But today, Joe Biden, the Catholic who once stood by
his religion, tweets, "Transgender equality is the civil rights issue of our time. There is no room for
compromise..." As they say, one thing leads to another. This swift and headlong lurch into androgyny started a
while ago when the revolutionaries realized before you can deconstruct the West you've got to deconstruct Western
notions of the family. The Human Rights Campaign's Welcoming Schools program celebrates transgender youth and
normalizes gender fluidity in kindergarten. Planned Parenthood, when they're not doing their best to eliminate
families, says "no worries," we're sexual beings beginning at birth.
Life
Expectancy Craters in Biden's America of Fentanyl ODs and COVID Jabs. During the two years that President
Joe Biden has occupied the White House, life expectancy in the United States has fallen to its lowest level since 1996
as official figures show that drug overdose deaths reached their highest levels in recorded history last year.
Data from the National Center for Health Statistics reveals that life expectancy in the US declined by more than a year
between 2014 and 2020, from 78.9 years to 77.8 years, the Daily Mail reported. Health authorities blamed a
number of factors for the decline, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the isolation and lockdowns that followed as well as
drug overdoses, suicide, chronic liver disease, cirrhosis and homicide.
Krasner's
Philly: Win your freedom after 25 years on Death Row, get executed on the street. It continually baffles
me why these Democratic bastions go for the most mediocre — sometimes outright malevolent — hands
down worst choices every single time. City residents watch their world dissolve around them, solely through
the actions of the very individuals they return to office time and time again, yet nothing but nothing will shake them
free of their mindless devotion to their own destruction. New York City's a terrific example of that
mindset. So is Philadelphia. [...] In January, the city is due to reassess whether their new community-based
programs to reduce gun violence have produced results. That will depend on what their definition of "results" is
and how lucrative the community found the grants from the programs.
US life
expectancy reaches 25-year low, according to CDC. The life expectancy for the average U.S. citizen has hit
a 25-year low, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Life expectancy for
people born in the U.S. during 2021 stands at 76.4 years, the lowest on record since 1996. Life expectancy
for those born in 2019 was 78.8 years — a drop of 2.4 years, according to CDC data. This
marks a dramatic reversal from the steady growth in expected longevity of U.S. citizens for the past two decades.
CDC officials blamed the drop on two factors — the COVID-19 pandemic and a rapidly growing epidemic of
substance abuse and drug addiction.
The Editor says...
Allow me to translate, embellish or amplify the last sentence in the excerpt above: [#1] Every illness under the sun
was counted as Covid-19, if the patient was in a hospital with a financial incentive to blame Covid, and [#2] "a rapidly
growing epidemic of substance abuse" refers to the tidal wave of fentanyl coming over the unenforced border.
The Swamp strikes
back. The U.S. is currently in the midst of myriad crises due to the Democrats. The border is
unguarded, causing millions to illegally enter the U.S. The Border Patrol says there have been over 5 million
border crossing incidents that were tracked. High inflation is draining savings and placing hardships on citizens
while the crime wave has placed citizens in peril. None of the Biden-backed initiatives such as the Inflation
Reduction Act nor the infrastructure bill nor his climate initiative addresses the citizens' suffering. Beyond
their misgovernance, the tyrannical Democrats have displayed a propensity for totalitarianism. The Democrats have
branded citizens as domestic terrorists for being from another party. Protests are a fundamental right in a
democracy, but the Democrats have seized this right from their political opponents.
What Eddie
Fisher Said. [Scroll down] Many of today's troubles, I believe, are due to malicious intentions
by a powerful few. Everything that is wrong in the world today is totally unnecessary because it has been
engineered deliberately by malicious enemies of our nation. Just four years ago, America was booming. The
stock market was in an unprecedented surge, wages were higher than ever for all, including minority groups, unemployment
was historically low and natural resources were plentiful. Peace was happening in the Middle East; our military
forces were being restored to strength and expanding and we had worldwide respect once again. At the helm of the
administration was a leader despised by the elite GOP and the Left but responsible for all of the benefits
mentioned. So, what happened?
El
Paso's migrant state of emergency is a taste of what nation faces as Biden shrugs at border crisis. Oscar
Leeser, the Democratic mayor of El Paso, has bent over backward not to "embarrass" the head of his party, President Joe
Biden. As migrants poured across the border, unmetered and unvetted, he quietly grappled with the strain on the
city's resources. He provided the shelter and food the federal government wouldn't. Hestruck private deals
with Mayor Eric Adams to alleviate the crush, busing some people to New York. Even as the City Council begged him
to point outwhat was happening, he refused. He insisted he'd been told by the Biden administration that if he was
patient, they would help. This went on for months. On Saturday, Leeser's patience finally broke. He
declared a state of emergency, admitting what had been obvious for nearly two years: The border is out of control,
and President Biden isn't doing anything about it.
10 Steps to Save America.
Most Americans know something has gone terribly wrong — and very abruptly — with the United
States. They are certain that our wounds are almost all self-inflicted. The current pathologies are not a
result of a natural disaster, an exhaustion of natural resources, plagues, or an existential war. Crushing
national debt and annual deficits, spiraling food and fuel costs amid "normal" seven-percent-plus annual inflation,
bread-and-circuses entitlements, a nonexistent border, a resurgence of racial tribalism, pandemic violent criminality,
and humiliation abroad — all these pathologies are easily cited as symptoms of a sick patient. Our
crises are not as the Left maintains — a nine-person Supreme Court, the Electoral College, or the
filibuster — all distractions from existential problems the Left largely created.
Belgium's Energy Suicide?
Belgium's situation is dramatic. While our neighbors have taken and are taking measures to cushion the energy
crisis, maintain their budgetary health and guarantee their energy supply, Belgium is in a situation of clear and
obvious failure on all three counts. I will only deal here with the energy misery, which is entirely avoidable and
caused by the anti-nuclear tendencies of two environmentalist political parties, Ecolo and The Greens. Security of
energy supply seems, for some officials, to be an abstract concept. It is anything but. In practice, when
energy security is not guaranteed, it means load-shedding, blackouts and an explosion in energy costs, as well as, for
many, having to choose between "heat or eat".
Condo
prices in San Francisco plummet as drug abuse and crime soar. Luxury condo prices in the heart of downtown
San Francisco have plummeted as drug abuse and crime have spiraled out control — and as many techies continue
to work remotely. Data analyzed by Compass shows the Golden Gate city — once pegged as the hottest real
estate market globally — has since fallen fast. The median sale price of a two-bedroom condo, for
example, has fallen 16.5% since 2021, while sale prices in surrounding areas have slipped only 7%, according to the
market report.
The
Commercial Impacts of COVID Will Last for Years. Have you noticed that things have changed in our country
over the last three years? In 2019, my truck broke down. I got it into the shop the next day to be
fixed. In 2022, I needed a mechanic to service the brakes on one of our cars. It took three weeks to get the
car into a garage. We also had a fender-bender this year. It took two months to get an appointment for an
estimate — not even to get someone to actually fix the damage. [...] Those are minor annoyances. Things
get a bit more serious when we look at the medical industry. [...] Are you noticing a pattern? Prior to COVID,
everything worked. After COVID, every industry is struggling to meet customer needs.
Our Parasitic Generation.
Are we sure that there is all that much ruin left in the United States? We are $31 trillion in collective
debt. The new normal is $1.5 trillion budget deficits. The military is politicized and short of
recruits. We trade lethal terrorists for woke celebrity athletes as if to confirm our enemies' cynical
stereotypes. Our FBI is corrupt and discredited, collaborating with Silicon Valley contractors to suppress free
speech and warp elections. We practice segregation and racial discrimination and claim we do not because the right
and good people support it and, anyway, the victims deserve it. The country has seen defeat before but never
abject, deliberate humiliation as in Kabul, when we fled and abandoned to the terrorist Taliban a $1 billion
embassy, a huge, remodeled air base, thousands of friends, and tens of billions of dollars in military
hardware — and hard-earned deterrence. We are witnessing the breakdown of basic norms essential for
civilized life, from affordable food and fuel to available key antibiotics and baby formula. Old Cairo seems safer
than an after-hours subway ride or stroll at dusk in many major American cities. Medieval London's roadways were
likely cleaner than Market Street in San Francisco. Speech was freer in 1920s America than it is now.
The
Crumbling States of America. Our union is crumbling, our borders are smashed, and our respect has been
obliterated. No one fears America therefore evil runs wild. And with corruption embedded so deeply into the
ability of the people to elect the persons of their own choice (i.e. Maricopa County, AZ allowing 294k plus votes
to be counted that had no persons attached to the ballot) the outlook seems dire. What the circumstance requires
is a fighter, a builder, and someone who stands up to our enemies and for our way of life. In other words the
exact opposite of what incompetent buffoons currently in charge offer.
NYPD
resignations shoot up by 30% as 1,225 officers ditch the US's biggest police force. Thousands of New York
City police officers have ditched the country's biggest police force and fled to other states for higher salaries.
Police department recruiters from other states, including Florida and Colorado have rushed to the Big Apple to persuade
some of the city's 34,000 officers into relocating in exchange for higher pay and better work environments. The
retention rate among NYPD officers is rocky, especially since 1,225 officers have resigned through November before
reaching five years at the police force, according to the New York Times. About 3,200 total have left this year,
including retirees.
The
terrible consequences of stolen elections and government corruption. [Scroll down] The results of
their treachery? A legitimately life-threatening energy crisis due to Biden's cancelling of pipelines and
drilling which spread and intensified the inflation we are enduring. The catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan
gave the Bagram Air Base to China and billions of dollars' worth of high-tech U.S. military equipment to the
Taliban. Biden threw open the southern border; and well over two million migrants have entered the country.
Where are they now? Who knows? Many of the unaccompanied children are obviously being trafficked.
Biden is absolutely in business with the cartel sex-traffickers. This administration's irresponsible spending has
increased the national debt to $131 trillion, and yet they continue to throw billions we do not have to
Ukraine to protect a border that is irrelevant to Americans; it's part of their scheme to take Putin down but the war
has killed thousands of Ukranian civilians with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's complicity. Where have
the billions of dollars gone? Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene wants an audit; the Democrats say 'no.' [...] Biden
wants to forgive billions in student loans; he wants working taxpayers who could not afford college to pay for those who
did but are slackers. He wants to continue to subsidize millions of illegal migrants he's ushered into the
country. Homeless Americans, nearly all of them mentally ill and/or drug-addicted, are abandoned onto the streets
of Democrat-run cities like detritus but Biden ignores them.
The
Experts Finally Discover Why 'LGBTQ Youth' Are Suicidal. Liberal and tolerant Public Health experts seem
to have finally sussed out, based on hard clinical research, the true sources of LGBTQ+++ youth suicidality. [...] It's
obviously just a major coincidence that suicidality increases when pop culture floods children's corporate media
programming to celebrate "Transgender Day of Visibility" and libbed-out parents encourage their four-year-old children
to "explore their genders." This is clearly not disorienting or confusing for children.
Are
We Living in a 'Post-Truth' Society? The online Cambridge dictionary defines "post-truth" to mean
"relating to a situation in which people are more likely to accept an argument based on their emotions and beliefs,
rather than one based on facts." Given this definition, I personally believe much of the United States has transitioned
to a "post-truth" society, and many of us will become casualties of this new paradigm before harsh reality steers our
nation back to an "objective truth"-based decision-making. [...] What caused our society to reach this tipping
point? I believe that objective truth is dying from a thousand little cuts and these cuts are a purposeful
strategy to destroy our society and groom a population so it can be manipulated through feelings. I will mention a
few below (I am sure the reader can come up with dozens more):
• Participation Trophies (avoid the trauma of losing and starve the intuition of how to win)
• Eliminate Traditional Roles (break down the nuclear family by eliminating mothers and fathers, the distinction between men and women)
• Changing Definitions of Words (causing words to have no objective meaning, crippling our ability to communicate with each other rationally)
• Toxic Masculinity (discourage boys from becoming men who know how to manage the risks needed to provide for and protect a family)
• Teach children how to avoid trauma with trigger warnings and safe spaces (teaches children to avoid facts and data that would promote rational thought leading to objective truth and an informed intuition)
• Censor Speech (so that "my truth" will not be confronted by "the truth")
All these assaults on the truth are carefully planned and promoted by those who want to tear down our country to replace it with a new paradigm.
Extreme Danger: "Boring" Election
Issues. Some of you may have heard that first New York City and now Washington D.C. passed a law allowing
non-citizens to vote in city elections. When I tell people in the real world about this, they don't understand
what I mean at first because it sounds so outlandish because Americans are supposed to be electing American
leaders — not people from the Dominican Republic, or Chinese nationals, and so forth. We filed a
lawsuit. We've got four clients, and we're suing New York City. [...] Some people are trying to fundamentally
transform how our elections are run, who is voting. The reason they have allowed foreigners to vote in New York
City elections, here is the important part, is that they are trying to normalize it. They are trying to normalize
foreigner voting in the United States.
2020:
The Year the Ruling Class Took Control. Is the world really a better place when a major league baseball
and football team got rid of their names, a black woman wearing an apron was removed from bottles of maple syrup, and a
squaw was removed from butter containers all in the name of social justice? It's totally laughable, but these are
all examples of the top-down cancel culture the country has been experiencing since 2020. Every day there are numerous
articles identifying the rotten woke establishment consolidating its control.
Hollowed Out. Most military
experts agree that the U.S. military is no longer capable of achieving its mission as mandated by national defense
doctrines adopted by administrations of both parties. President Biden is exacerbating the situation by focusing
military strategy on progressive politics instead of military preparedness. Even a Democratic controlled Congress
overruled his proposed budget in order to increase spending and partially to fund programs required to reverse the
decline. While the U.S. military remains the world's most powerful military, it also has the broadest mission of
any nation, with global security needs and commitments. Those proud of U.S. capabilities fairly observe that no
other nation could have evacuated 124,000 people in two weeks from Kabul. Nonetheless, insufficient funding, slow
modernization, and woke mandates are hollowing out the military's readiness and capacity to achieve its mission.
Democrats:
Get your cities under control. It cannot be said enough that if you are in a Democratic-run major American
city right now, you should probably be making plans to get out as soon as possible: [...]
Biden
Defends Multi-Trillion Dollar Scam: 'We Did So Much, Nobody Knows the Effects Yet'. Oh, Joe, bless your
clueless heart; you don't even see the irony. [...] Biden, on Tuesday [11/29/2022], defended his ill-fated "American
Rescue Plan" for the zillionth time by arguing that the (at least) $1.9 trillion spending spree helped enable local
governments to keep paying their employees (which does zero to help productivity). He also boasted of his
additional trillions in spending for government-subsidized health care, manufacturing, infrastructure, and so-called
"green energy." Biden's claim was not only nonsensical; it was a direct contradiction of Economics 101:
Injecting trillions of dollars into a struggling economy to chase a relatively limited supply of goods and services
generally leads to an increase in inflation — not a decrease, as Team Biden disingenuously
continues to claim.
Netherlands
to forcefully shut down 3,000 farms. The Great Reset is in full gear in the Netherlands as the country's
government moves to shut down thousands of farms. To comply with the European Union's radical climate laws, the
Dutch government of World Economic Forum acolyte Mark Rutte will force up to 3,000 farms to shut down for good.
Farmers will be made an offer on their farms, which the government claims is "well over" market value. According
to nitrogen minister Christianne van der Wal, the government purchase will be compulsory. "There is no better
offer coming," claimed van der Wal. Recent EU nature preservation rules require member states to reduce
emissions across sectors of the economy. As one of Europe's most prominent farming nations, half of the
Netherlands' emissions come from agricultural activity. Rutte has warned that those who refuse to comply could
face government force.
Joe
Biden caused the diesel supply crisis he is complaining about. During recent public appearances, President
Joe Biden has continued to complain about energy prices as well as the potentially catastrophic shortage of diesel that
has been forecast to hit the United States soon, particularly in the northeast. Of course, he never takes the
blame for any of this himself. He instead tries to blame the "greedy" energy companies or, of course, Vladimir
Putin. He has called for bans on oil and gas exports and even suggested a mandate that diesel stocks be maintained
at a higher level. But a new report from the Institute for Energy Research addresses the actual root of these
problems. What we're facing is a significant loss in refinery capacity in the United States and its various
territories. We've lost more than a million barrels per day in production capacity, but rather than working to
rebuild that capacity, the White House is issuing new edicts that will result in diminishing it further.
Over
70 Percent of Children Aged 7-12 [are] Now Afraid of Climate Change — Survey. More than 70 percent
of children aged 7-12 are now afraid of climate change according to the results of a survey. More than seven
in ten children aged 7-12 are now worried about climate change, research conducted by a UK-based start-up has reportedly
found. It comes amid reports from various experts that children and teenagers of various demographics are
experiencing high rates of mental health difficulties, with one school councillor earlier this year saying that anxiety
rates have hit an all-time high post-lockdown. According to a report by Euronews, the survey — which
polled 1,000 children born between 2010 and 2015 on their views regarding the environment — found that a
total of 71 percent of respondents were now worried about environmental changes, including the changing climate.
The Editor says...
What other "environmental changes" are going on, other than the constantly (but imperceptibly) changing climate?
Shouldn't the public schools teach kids not to be afraid of trivial things that are beyond their control?
Are they teaching kids to worship the Earth and fear it at the same time?
Biden's
Crushing Inflation Spikes Household Credit Card Debt to New Heights. The Biden administration has worked
overtime to gaslight Americans into believing everything is totally fine when, in fact, everything is not fine. As
a matter of fact, it's getting worse by the day. And by "it's," I mean everything is going south. The
latest indication of yet another looming economic crisis — and no, I'm not talking about the developing
housing crisis, the diesel fuel crisis, the home heating oil crisis, the inflation crisis, or the illegal immigration
crisis — was revealed in a startling report this week regarding total household credit card debt, which has
now increased by the most in 20 years, rising a staggering 15% from last year.
What
is behind the rise in girls questioning their gender identity? Earlier this year, a team of NHS
researchers was asked to investigate why there has been such a huge rise in the number of adolescent biological girls
seeking referrals to gender clinics. The figures alone do seem remarkable. According to a study commissioned
by NHS England, 10 years ago there were just under 250 referrals, most of them boys, to the Gender Identity Development
Service (Gids), run by the Tavistock and Portman NHS foundation trust in London. Last year, there were more than
5,000, which was twice the number in the previous year. And the largest group, about two-thirds, now consisted of
"birth-registered females first presenting in adolescence with gender-related distress", the report said. The
review team is looking into the causes behind "the considerable increase in the number of referrals" and the changing
case mix, but is not expected to publish any findings until next year.
Americans
Living under Communism. Did you ever wonder what it would be like to live under communism? Well, now
you know. The last two years have seen a parade of dumb and dumber policies, the kind you expect in totalitarian
dictatorships. The distinguishing traits are as follows: rulers show contempt for their serfs; policy wonks
concoct endless stream of counterproductive ideas; and casual cruelty hurts everyone, day after day. Here are a
dozen examples. Think back to Biden's decision to shut down the pipeline bringing petroleum from Canada.
Could anything be more irrational than shutting down a functioning pipeline, thus causing higher prices for everyone
(and giving Putin the money he needed to invade a neighbor)? Then we had the president wandering around foreign
countries begging for their petroleum. Millions of Americans knew for the first time what a totalitarian society
feels like. The top guy is nuts, and there's nothing you can do about it.
Are
You Freer than You Were Two Years Ago? Children in the 1950s recited the Pledge of Allegiance every
morning, took part in schoolyard flag-raising, learned the evil of communism, respected their parents, were not exposed
to inappropriate material in school or at home, attended church with their (two) parents, worked chores and odd jobs,
and idolized their nation's Founders. In sum, they grew up in an atmosphere of order and respect, and they
were happier and healthier for it. Freedom means the condition of acting and thinking on one's own, without
restriction or regimentation, but if the polls are any indication, a large percentage of Americans now have little idea
of what freedom entails. Otherwise, they would not elect governors and representatives intent on expanding the
size and power of government.
A Report
on What Democrats Are Doing to [the] US Military. At last a little light is shining on the social
engineers who have been using wokeness to debilitate American armed forces. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) have issued a report finding that indoctrinating the US military with Critical Race Theory and
LGBT ideology has significantly weakened it: ["]The report finds that instructors at military academies use
'antiracist' approaches to education that direct soldiers to center their understanding of American society on an
acknowledgment of its racist past and present, the report said.["] "Antiracist" means "racist against
America's core population." ["]Kelisa Wing, the chief diversity equity and inclusivity officer at the
Department of Defense, has tweeted she is 'exhausted with these White folx' and suggested Black people are incapable of
racism.["]
Colorado
Blues, and How to Get the State Back. As of Nov 8, 2022, the Colorado GOP is effectively dead or at least
on life support. What was once a solid red state became purple, post-Watergate. Today, Colorado is solid
blue after the 2022 mid-terms and is the second consecutive election where Democrats control all state-wide offices.
[...] Colorado's lurch left has not improved the lives of the average Coloradoan: Colorado is ranked first in
motor vehicle theft and second in property crimes. From 2019-2022, robbery is up 15%, murder is up 30%, vandalism
up 36%, arson up 56%, and auto theft up 111%. Drug overdoses have doubled over the same period. Colorado
student proficiency test scores have been in steady decline for math and reading at the 4th and 8th grade since
2010. Legalization of marijuana in 2012 didn't help either. Colorado has one of the worst mental health
rankings among states. As Democrats have consolidated power, we are seeing the Californication of Colorado with
new laws that allow for unrestricted abortions, expanded illegal immigration and taxpayer funded benefits, weak
enforcement of gun laws, no cash bail, and significant restrictions on fracking and energy production.
The
Worst Generation of Political Elites Ever. In other words, in one generation America's finances have been
ruined, at every level of government. From a fiscal point of view, this is undoubtedly America's worst generation
ever. In our brief case study: city spending went from $36.3 billion to $101.1 billion; the state
from $79.7 billion to $222 billion; and the federal government from $2.0 trillion to
$6.0 trillion — and the ultimate funding source, U.S. public debt, from $5.7 trillion to
$30.6 trillion. Among economists it was understood, and widely agreed upon, that public debt should never
exceed 70% of GDP. And yet here we are at 121%, higher than at the peak of WWII, rising rapidly, unsustainably, as
far as the eye can see. The Congressional Budget Office forecasts 2052 debt at 185% of GDP. And make no
mistake. No amount of taxation can fix this problem, even leaving aside the ruinous impact of excess taxation on
incentives, growth capital, innovation, personal freedom and prosperity.
The Voting Morons.
We now have two mentally damaged individuals in high office in this country, neither able to function as an independent
adult. How did they get there? By being elected... with the addition of other means. But it was the
votes that created a situation where those "other means" could work. In other words, the moron vote played a large
role. Tens of millions of voters who can't recognize a mentally crippled individual when they see one. Who
witness electoral cheating in front of their eyes as clearly as that of a three-card monte dealer but don't see it for
what it is. Who simply can't make the connection between the close of critical pipelines and gas costing six bucks
at the pump.
Violent
crime comes to previously peaceful and safe Martha's Vineyard. And guess why. Last Thursday,
November 17, minutes after it opened for the day, a small bank in the island town of Vineyard Haven was invaded by
three armed masked men. They threatened, subdued and duct taped the employees and proceeded to make off in a
stolen car with an undetermined amount of cash — after brandishing semiautomatic handguns to intimidate the
bank personnel. Nothing like this crime has ever been seen on Martha's Vineyard. Previously, the crime rate
on the small island off the southern coast of Massachusetts was almost non-existent, confined to things like DUIs and
the occasional passing of a bad check. But now, like many other blue communities that have declared themselves to
be sanctuaries for illegal immigrants, things are changing. [...] This island-wide welcome mat has resulted in the
presence of hundreds if not thousands of migrants who now seem to be close to outnumbering the American
citizens — most of them working- or middle-class — who reside year-round on the island. This
radical and sudden demographic shift has been largely ignored by the island's news media.
Our dangerous
diesel shortage [was] caused by anti-fossil-fuel politicians. Diesel shortages could get worse in the
coming months as European bans on Russian fuel kick in. Because diesel is a global market this will likely mean
even higher prices in the US and Europe, and severe shortages in poorer regions. Because diesel is a global market
there are many contributing causes to diesel shortages. The fundamental global cause is the global
anti-fossil-fuel movement, which has suppressed all the fundamentals of diesel supply: oil investment, oil production,
oil refining, oil transport. [...] Instead of unleashing our diesel potential, clueless anti-fossil-fuel politicians
destroyed it by
[#1] Preventing us from importing Canadian oil well-suited to our refineries
[#2] `Preventing or shutting down diesel-producing capacity in the US
[#3] Threatening new diesel investments
As
Shortages Persist Under Biden, It's Time To Ask: Is This On Purpose? Did the United States suddenly become
a socialist basket case? It's hard not to come to that conclusion after reading about the endless shortages
plaguing the nation. Each of which President Joe Biden either seems clueless to resolve or determined to make
worse. Let's start with the biggest one: the shortage of diesel fuel. While Biden was busy draining the
Strategic Petroleum Reserve to tamp down gas prices before the midterm elections, the real worry was that supplies of
diesel fuel have been running short. Two years after the short-lived COVID lockdowns ended, diesel inventories
continued to trend downward to their lowest levels since 2008. The cost for a gallon of diesel fuel is 46% higher
than it was a year ago, according to AAA, and now costs more than $5 a gallon.
Germany
[is] cutting back meat production to fight global warming. Germany is still caught up in the demands of
the climate change lobby to reduce its carbon footprint drastically in the coming years. One part of this
initiative, similar to calls we've seen from activists in the United States, was a mandate to reduce all livestock on
German farms by 50%. Farmers have been protesting the decision in the same way they recently did in the Netherlands
this summer, but the initiative is moving forward beginning this year. Now, to the great surprise of nobody who
has been paying attention, the German Meat Industry Association has reported that the country will be facing a severe
meat shortage by the time spring arrives and consumers should expect prices to skyrocket, potentially doubling in some
cases. It would appear that some people in the German government have never heard of something called the law of
supply and demand. But at least they're going to defeat global warming, right?
Maybe
denial is the driving factor in the 2022 election outcome. Democrat voters are not a monolithic
bloc. Yes, some are hard-core ideologues who swooned over Bernie Sanders. Some are recipients of public
assistance and dependent on Democrat party largesse. Some are students and recent graduates majoring in
insurrection. But they're not all community organizers, and they don't all hate America. Most are normal,
center-left people who habitually vote Democrat. [...] But consider for a moment what the habitual Democrat would have
had to acknowledge to vote Republican on November 8th: [#1] That the President of the United
States is a doddering mediocrity. [#2] That the person (or persons) responsible for the policies and
decisions emanating from the White House is a matter of conjecture. [#3] That the administration's
policies are blatantly extremist and being implemented with ruinous effect. [#4] That proper
stewardship of the nation's fiscal and energy resources is utterly lacking — to the point of precipitating a
foreseeable crisis. [#5] That large numbers of inner-city youth, trapped in broken homes or broken
schools, are not being taught respect, self-control, or the difference between right and wrong. [#6]
That the freedoms, values, and checks and balances on which this country was founded are being left grossly
unprotected. [#7] That despite mounting challenges we are not presently capable of deterring our
adversaries or defeating them on the battlefield. Perhaps it's all too much to contemplate. The habitual
Democrat voter prefers to remain incongruously oblivious.
Today's
blacklisted American: Half of today's students support the death penalty for some speech. This is no
longer a land of the free: According to a new poll, half of today's college students now believe that the death
penalty is justified for some people should they dare express an opinion that offends. Specifically, the students
were asked if they agreed or disagreed with the statement: ["]Violence in response to offensive speech is
not a new phenomenon. In some cultures, some types of offensive speech even merit the death penalty. Some
speech can be so offensive in certain cases that it merits such harsh punishment.["] [A]cross the board,
43% to 55% of students from private and public schools, from all types of majors, from all levels of income, and from
across the political spectrum, all agreed with this statement. The results were remarkably consistent.
Tolerance was not their watchword, but oppression and dictatorship. If you say something that offends, half of
today's students feel justified in calling for your death.
The Editor says...
I wonder how many of the same "students" oppose the death penalty for murder or treason.
There
Was No Cheating, Peasant! The educated class said they cared about the workers. But they let the
workers price themselves out of the market with labor unions, and now the midwestern industrial heartland is a Rust
Belt. You did it, liberals. The educated class said they cared about the Negroes. But they swaddled
them in welfare so that, by 2010, 72 percent of black babies were born out of wedlock vs. whites at 36 percent.
Eeevil Jim Crow segregationists couldn't have cooked up a better way to wreck black Americans. You did it, liberals.
[...] The educated class decided to help students pay for university education with student debt. So universities hired
a bunch of administrators and cranked up the tuition. Now a whole generation of young people is drowning in debt.
You did it, liberals.
The
2022 Mid-Terms Exposed the Existence of Two Americas and the Overwhelming Importance of the 2024 Election.
The United States is currently plagued with uncontrolled inflation spiraling into a severe recession, crime is rampant
in the nation's cities, the borders are open and uncontrolled, the standard of living is rapidly deteriorating, society
is sinking into a morass of premeditated cultural decline, and an increasingly bleak future awaits the vast majority of
Americans. Yet fifty percent of 2022 voters chose to continue this state of affairs by opting to elect or re-elect
the politicians that have created or abetted this ongoing national devastation. Far too many, particularly the
younger generations who voted overwhelmingly Democrat, dwell in mindless loyalty to a collectivist tribe, its leaders
and its attendant ideology. In their addled thinking this fidelity outweighs the well-being of themselves or the
nation and its citizenry.
In
2022, the GOP had the most favorable political environment ever.
• 80% of Americans say America is on the wrong track.
• 58% do not support President Joe Biden.
• 62% do not support Vice President Kamala Harris.
• Democrats have caused the highest inflation in 40 years.
• Americans said inflation was their number one issue in this election.
• Democrat policies have led to sky-high gas and fuel prices.
• Democrats persist in doubling down in their war on fossil fuels.
• Democrats continue their anti-police rhetoric.
• Democrat efforts to defund the police have contributed to rampant crime and murder in many major cities at epidemic levels.
• Democrat open border policies have led to 100,000+ fentanyl/illegal drug deaths in 2021, [...]
• Since Joe Biden became president, at least 5,000,000 illegal aliens have responded to his open border policy and invaded America.
• Democrats no longer try to hide the extremism of abortion on demand for any reason and up to the moment of birth.
• Democrats now require taxpayers to pay for these abortions.
• President Biden's abrupt withdrawal from Afghanistan led to the worst foreign policy defeat in American history.
• Our enemies in Russia, Iraq, and China see that we have a weak, ineffective, and mentally challenged president.
Three
Primary Factors Stopped That Red Wave. The American public, having been fed a steady diet of leftism and
dumbed-down curricula from nursery school through graduate school, no longer understands civics or economics, and sees
our form of government as somehow inferior to European socialism. European socialism is only made possible by the
U.S. Defense umbrella in the form of NATO, but few understand that distinction. As a result, Americans don't see
the threat to our freedoms that vaccine and mask mandates and lockdowns were and are. They also don't understand
that someone must pay the bill for government handouts, either directly as confiscatory taxes or indirectly as rampant
inflation or hyperinflation. As a result, they tend to vote for the person who promises them something for nothing.
America's Death Wish. Let's get real:
The American people are electing the pols they deserve, demagogues who mirror the woke prejudices of an increasingly
propagandized people. According to the media, "threats to democracy" constituted one of the top concerns of the
people. How lame. Large segments of the American public clearly swallowed Joe Biden's self-serving malarkey
on that subject whole. Never mind that Biden was clearly referring not to authentic threats to democracy but
challenges to regnant liberalism. Biden is not afraid for democracy but afraid of it. He
desires a one-party state. The relative success of the Democrats on Tuesday is a measure not of the public's
rationality but of its submission to wokeness. Those in the 18 [to] 29 demographic voted for the Democrats
overwhelmingly — a tribute not to their wisdom but to their lack of it. These voters entered the booth
after receiving a warped education at colleges and universities swimming in wokeness. It is nearly impossible to
impress upon this generation the dangers of liberalism. They simply shrug at any description of them.
The
Inflation Reduction Election. Inflation is hands down the most important issue on the minds of Americans
on the eve of the midterm elections. An Economist/YouGov poll taken of 1,500 American adults in the first week of
November found that 68 percent say that they will be thinking about inflation "a lot" when casting a vote in
this year's election. [...] The Biden administration has struggled to present a palatable program for fighting
inflation. There was the infamous Inflation Reduction Act, which every reputable economist agreed would do little
or nothing to reduce inflation. According to the Economist/YouGov poll, just 32 percent of Americans say they
approve of President Biden's handling of inflation. Fifty-four percent say they disapprove of Biden on inflation,
with 40 percent saying they strongly disapprove.
Biden
yells 'There is no more drilling!' just months after claiming he never shut down energy production. Is
there any lie that's just too brazen for old Joe Biden? Seems not. [...] Biden has blamed Vladimir Putin, OPEC's
barons, Big Oil, global warming, Republicans, and all other things he could think of for high prices at the pump.
The one thing he won't do is consider what Americans can see with their own eyes: that before President Trump left
office, gas prices were about $2 a gallon. Now they are $5 and $6 a gallon in California, and well above $3 a
gallon in the rest of America. That's "lived experience." The clearest reason for that is Biden's policies
to halt drilling. Back in January 2021, Biden signed off on an executive order dictating a ban of oil and gas
drilling on federal lands. Fox News has a string of other bans and hamperings he's done to stop energy production
and drive pump prices sky-high.
Seriously,
can anyone name a well-run Democratic city? Can anybody in any Democratic-run city honestly say that their
lives — and city — have improved over the last couple of years? That's a slightly easier
question. As New Yorkers go to the polls it is also a slightly devastating one to ask. Because it has a
devastating answer. I dare even the most die-hard, dyed-in-the-wool Democrat to say, "Oh, New York has never been
better. In fact, it's just getting better and better." Does anyone really believe that? Is there a single
person out there who can really say that with a straight face? As they survey the crime in our city, the
homelessness, the waste and rats. And I'm not even talking about the incumbents of City Hall. Does anyone
think that this great city has become greater in the last two years? The stats in New York speak for
themselves. Ignore the nightmare year of 2020, and just look at the increase in crime during the last year.
Between July 2021 and July 2022 shooting incidents in New York increased by almost 14%. The number of murders
increased by almost 35%.
It isn't a "failed presidency" if all this destruction is intentional. Biden
is gaslighting Americans about his failed presidency. The Biden Administration will be known to history
for many things: an open border and its deadly consequences, the abandonment of Afghanistan, weakness that led to
catastrophe in Europe, skyrocketing inflation, and the use of federal law enforcement to target political
opponents. The catalog of infamy goes on. Above all, though, this administration may be remembered for its
duplicity — its continual, shameless "gaslighting" of the American people. Biden, his team, and his
sycophantic media supporters repeatedly tell us that "all is well" where it manifestly is not. No matter how bad
things become in the nation, no matter how many people suffer, reality has no purchase on the ideological bubble of this
White House. That is why, in these midterm elections, the American people must deliver to Joe Biden an unequivocal
message: that they refuse to be gaslit, that they are not buying what he is selling.
Gov.
Hochul's funding, progressive drug policies transform East Harlem into Zombieland. Progressive policies
funded and foisted on the Big Apple by Gov. Hochul and her left-wing allies have caused a legion of drug-addicted
zombies to descend on East Harlem and transform parts of the neighborhood into lawless, open-air shooting galleries,
neighbors and critics told The [New York] Post. The real-life horror show plays out daily in the neighborhood's
gritty streets where The Post witnessed dozens of raving, hunched-over junkies commandeering East 126th
Street — now the home of a controversial public-injection site — as drug dealers hovered nearby
like vultures. Others along Park Avenue down to East 114th Street have been spotted nodding out, splayed on the
sidewalk, and injecting themselves in the neck or through jeans in broad daylight.
The Floyd Effect. Democratic
politicians have been flailing about looking for a way to get off the hook for the historic increase in murder and car
crash mayhem ever since our respectable class' leaders declared "the racial reckoning" was at hand following the
unfortunate expiration of George Floyd on May 25, 2020. For example, New York's Democratic governor, Kathy Hochul,
suddenly finding herself in a tight race with Lee Zeldin largely over the crime surge, kvetched to Zeldin in a debate
about crime, "I don't know why that's so important to you." [...] Before getting to the red state vs. blue state issue
that everybody wants to talk about, let's look at the national murder trend, which has been jaw-dropping. [...] The
argument I find most persuasive for why black-on-black shootings erupted during the anti-cop mania of 2020 is that when
our society's leadership told police to not pull over blacks so often, they obeyed. With reduced fear of being
stopped and searched, blacks then started carrying illegal handguns more and driving worse. Thus, the black car
crash death rate also exploded in June 2020: [Chart]
Why
suburban women are flocking to the GOP: As simple as A,B,C. To hear Democratic candidates, and the party's
media cheerleaders, talk now, nobody ever supported defunding the police. But, of course, Democrats across the
board did just that, and GOP candidates, and honest media, have been replaying the video. In a spasm of
post-George Floyd mass hysteria, the political system, and in particular the governments of Democratic-run cities, made
drastic cutbacks in police protection, installed revolving-door, no-bail arraignment systems and encouraged the
proliferation of homeless encampments and open-air drug markets in many areas. Unsurprisingly, the result was
surging crime. Around America, downtown businesses have closed, and people — especially
women — have felt unsafe in their own neighborhoods. Crime is now a major issue with the electorate,
and even among black voters, the alleged beneficiaries of police defunding, only 17% support defunding the police, per a
recent Grio/Kaiser Family Foundation poll.
Even
Biden Thinks The Economy Is Going To Crash Next Year. David Strom at Hot Air noticed something in the
Democrats' campaign messaging as the midterm elections draw near. Namely, the emergence of a talking point about
how if Republicans win control of Congress they will "crash the economy." There's only one reason to say this.
Democrats know they've set the economy on course to crash and they're hoping to blame Republicans when it does.
Democrats
Declared War on Democracy Through COVID Tyranny. Some of us were sounding the alarms on COVID tyranny when
it was first starting. Lockdown policies were never about saving lives but a test to see how many liberties and
rights the government could take away without much pushback by the population. Fear is the main path tyrants take
in trying to strip freedom from their citizens. Scare citizens enough and they will enslave themselves to whatever
dictates the dear savior will come up with. This is replaying itself as we approach the November 8
election. Democrats destroyed entire families through their COVID lockdown policies which eliminated businesses,
put stress on homes, and harmed the intellectual development of children. Those are years that will be hard to
recover, if at all. COVID tyrants are hoping Americans forget their debacle in handling the pandemic and the
tyranny that so many experienced because of it. Families were unable to visit loved ones. Churches were shut
down, some never to reopen. Businesses, once staples and pillars of the community, suddenly vanished and are now
vacant and rotting with overgrown weeds and mold.
The Blue
City Murder Problem. Those on the Left know that their soft-on-crime policies have wreaked havoc in the
cities where they have implemented those policies. It is not hard to understand why "reforms" such as ending cash
bail, defunding the police, refusing to prosecute entire categories of crimes, letting thousands of convicted felons out
of prison early, significantly cutting the prison population, and other "progressive" ideas have led to massive spikes
in crime — particularly violent crime, including murder — in the communities where those on the
Left have implemented them. Left-wing politicians and their backers recognize that rising crime rates and the lack
of a general sense of safety that follows are a problem for them and their chances for reelection. In fact, recent
polls show that voters care a lot about rising crime — an issue that is second only to rising, rampant
inflation and the lackluster economy. So the Left is engaging in political traditions as old as time: obfuscation,
finger pointing, and blame shifting.
Will
Lucy Move the Football Again? While the meme of "most important election in our lifetimes" is overused,
just a brief review of the past 22 months since the Democrats took control of both houses of Congress and the White
House would lead one to think that it might just be true of these mid-term elections:
• From energy independence (no longer relying on the Arabs who hate us) and even an exporter of
energy, we're now experiencing gas prices two and three times the per gallon price at the end of 2020, plus the prospect
of rolling electrical blackouts this winter and beyond, not to mention the higher costs of food and everything else
due to higher gas prices.
• From the most booming economy in over 50 years, with inflation barely over 1%, we're
now facing near-record high inflation of over 8%, while the Democrats (and many treacherous Republicans) voting to spend
trillions we don't have, exacerbating the problem.
• From a relatively peaceful, safe society, in under two years we have devolved into a crime-ridden
hellscape comparable to the horrors we've witnessed in Third World countries. Democrat district attorneys who will not
enforce the law, releasing violent felons without bail to again prey on innocent citizens, have given criminals free rein,
knowing they won't be held accountable for their crimes.
• While the public schools in the U.S. have long been grievously underperforming, at least they
weren't teaching our kids to hate us, to celebrate "gender diversity" and to believe that boys can be girls and girls can be
boys. Nor were they taught to distrust anyone who doesn't look like them, as Critical Race Theory is now doing. [...]
• Over five million illegal immigrants have crossed our southern border since Biden took office.
Most are receiving health care, housing, food allotments, etc., paid for by us, the taxpayers, because the Democrats want more
voters to ensure they keep political power.
But all these things, and others, are well-documented and reported upon. The question is, "What are the Republicans going
to actually do about it if they regain control of the Congress?"
Don't Cry For Me, America.
We've seen this movie before. The Democrats' populist giveaway plans can't possibly work, because government
bankrupts everything it touches. History teaches us that ObamaCare and the myriad of government's unfunded
entitlement programs will be utter, complete disasters. Today's Democrats are guilty of more than stupidity; they
are enslaving future generations to poverty and misery. And they will be long gone when it all implodes.
They will be as cold and dead as Juan Perón when the piper must ultimately be paid. Throughout history,
Democrats' Marxist templates for wealth redistribution have proven fatal for civilized societies.
America
Is On The Cusp Of A Fundamental Transformation. No matter how bad Obama's actions while in office, nothing
he did compares to Joe Biden. Since being installed as president, Biden has done an insane number of things that
simply make no sense from a rational perspective. Literally the first thing Biden did was reduce the amount
of energy available to Americans. [...] Then, of course, there is the economy. With the American Rescue Plan and
Inflation Reduction Act, Biden poured trillions of dollars into the economy and drove inflation to levels not seen in
40 years. Everything, from energy to housing to food to clothing... virtually every single thing Americans
use has gone up in price since Biden became president, often by giant leaps. As a consequence, Americans are
fighting to stay afloat financially, with 60% worse off than they were a year ago and a staggering 40% of businesses
missing their rent payments in October.
Back to
the Carter economy. The latest edition of "Joe Biden: Bad Ideas" came yesterday when Biden stepped up his
attacks on Big Oil and suggested that unless they lower prices he would push to implement a Windfall Profits Tax on the
companies, essentially seizing their profits as a punishment for making money. Such taxes are notoriously idiotic,
and even the dimwits in the White House must know that. It seems like Biden is trying to ruin the economy, and we
have hit the point where we have to actually consider that to be a possibility. Everything he has done to the
economy has made things worse, and after a while you have to consider whether it is intentional.
The
Cart Before the Horse. We knew from the get go that freedom was the ticket, that government was the enemy,
that God was the foundation on which this nation must be built. A large portion of our citizenry, unfortunately,
has forgotten these things, and the latest generations never learned them in the first place. We've lost track of
the paradoxical fact that you can't have freedom without law. Not only that, but you can't have law without
punishment. We're seeing that right now as defunded police departments and lax district attorneys are allowing
criminals to roam our streets with no fear of retribution. Inner city dwellers are no longer free to leave their
homes and run their businesses.
Every Day is Halloween Now.
Nobody wanted to live in a world in which there's no way to know what is real and what isn't. But that's the world
we live in now. Costumes have become the norm and normalcy is the aberration. Men dress up as women.
An NAACP president turned out to be a white woman who identifies as black. New York State Senator Julia Salazar is
an antisemite who identifies as Jewish. And it's revealed that prominent Indian activist figures, Marlon Brando's
Oscar night princess, a prominent academic, a poet, were just white people even though they took to dressing up as
Indians all year round. Identity politics values what people identify as more than who they are. Magical
thinking leads people to believe that life is just a costume that you can change when you want to. In a world that
is becoming increasingly unreal, it's easy to think of reality as endlessly malleable.
Have
Democrats Lost Interest in the Working Man? The Biden-Harris regime began — Day One — with a
flurry of executive orders, cancelling the contracts in place for ongoing work on the Keystone XL pipeline. Most were
union construction jobs. Thousands of workers were thrown out of work on the spot — no notice, no severance —
just because the incoming regime's green agenda didn't square with the idea of a pipeline moving Canadian fuel southward. In
state after state along the route, materials were left sitting where they were, work unfinished, people fired and forced to move
elsewhere to find new jobs. [...] Drilling, exploration, R&D, everything in the critical oil and gas sector that requires any federal
permit, from drilling on federal lands, to drilling on private lands that require government access or government authorization of
any kind, slowed to a crawl instantly. For all intents and purposes, this development just isn't happening anymore.
And that's why gasoline has more than doubled in price.
America's energy crisis
is mostly US Democrats' fault. [Thread reader] America is experiencing our worst energy crisis since
the 1970s. High oil prices are making driving expensive, while high natural gas prices are making heating and
electricity far more expensive — above all in the Northeast, where some ratepayers might see prices >2X last
winter's. Here's a chart of residential natural gas prices over the last several winters from the US Energy
Information Administration. Notice the massive spike projected for this winter — meaning record heating
bills for many. [Chart] Democrats are claiming there's nothing they could have done about today's oil and natural
gas prices. These prices, they say, are outside America's control because they are largely set by global
markets. In fact, had Ds been pro-oil/gas our prices would be much lower.
The Economic
Disaster of the Pandemic Response. The sick and well alike were quarantined through the use of
stay-at-home orders, domestic capacity limits, and business, school, and church shutdowns. This occurred not only
in the U.S., but worldwide — with the notable exception of perhaps five nations and the state of South
Dakota. Needless to say, the consequences were profound. Coercion can be used to turn off an economy.
But given the resulting trauma, turning an economy back on is not so easy. That is why, 30 months later, we are
experiencing the longest period of declining real income since the end of World War II, a health crisis, an education
crisis, an exploding national debt, 40-year high inflation, continued and seemingly random shortages, dysfunction in
labor markets, a breakdown of international trade, a dramatic collapse in consumer confidence, and a dangerous level of
political division.
New
York, New England Begin Rationing Heating Oil — Before Peak Winter Has Even Hit. Biden's war on
oil has consequences, and now the chickens are coming home to roost. We've already gotten a taste of it nationwide
with persistent, sky-high gas prices. In California, we felt it this summer as our power grid was stretched to
capacity by heat waves and we were subject to rolling brown-outs along with warnings not to use appliances or charge
electric cars. How very First World. [...] Bloomberg is reporting that the rationing of heating oil is already
underway, despite it not even yet being November. The reason: stockpiles are at 30 percent of their normal
levels. [...] The bottom line? Americans will pay almost 30 percent more to heat their homes than last
year — the most in 25 years. Biden will continue to blame Vladimir Putin and the invasion of Ukraine
for our oil woes, and scold Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for refusing to bend the knee and pump more oil, but
it's Joe's own fault we're in this mess.
The
Economy Will Never Prosper Under Biden: Here's Why. The White House has also promised to use "every lever
at its disposal — including regulatory action — to deliver on the president's priorities,
including containing the pandemic, driving a durable economic recovery, advancing equity, and combating climate change."
We are already seeing the fruits of Biden's approach. A recession in the first half of the year. Sky-high
inflation. Widespread despair. What the left can't seem to understand is that when government gets active,
businesses get passive. They become more risk averse. Compliance costs weigh them down. Long-term
investments become problematic if you don't know what the rules will be down the road. This is one big reason
why energy production has never recovered after the pandemic — the oil and gas industry has no idea
what lies ahead. So, as Biden's regulators descend upon the land, the economy will — as it was
throughout Barack Obama's eight years — be on a long and dreary slog. Indeed, Biden's regulatory
zeal will probably ramp up if Republicans win big in November, since his legislative agenda will be caput.
Misplaced
Compassion Puts Lives in Jeopardy. The shooter, Nestor Hernandez, was there to visit his girlfriend, who
had just given birth to his child. Hernandez is a 30-year-old lifelong criminal with a rap sheet going back to his
teens. He had been in and out of the Dallas criminal justice system for such charges as robbery and felony assault
before he was twenty, and he earned his first serious jail time — an eight-year sentence — after a
violent burglary in which he and his accomplice repeatedly beat up a woman to gain access to her apartment and
car. For that one, Nestor Hernandez pled guilty in September 2015 to "aggravated robbery," which could have won
him anywhere from five to 99 years in jail. They gave him eight. Only they didn't. If he'd served the
full eight years, he'd still have been in jail. He wouldn't have been free to acquire a girlfriend, get her
pregnant, visit her at the hospital, beat her up, and kill two hospital employees. So what happened? The
system decided to show "compassion" to this model prisoner with a violent history, a rap sheet going back to his
childhood, and gang tattoos on his face and neck. They didn't even make him stay the full eight years but let him
out of jail on October 20, 2021, after just six years. They installed an ankle bracelet and called it "parole."
It was this choice that enabled him to put this girlfriend in a position where he could visit her hospital room and
start killing innocent bystanders on October 22, just a year after he was freed.
Phoenix,
Atlanta, and Miami Metros See Fastest Inflation. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported
that the consumer price index rose 8.2% in September compared with the year before, but that national average hides the
fact that prices are rising faster and higher in certain parts of the nation. Breaking the country into the same
subregions used by the Census Bureau, the rate of price increases that consumers pay for goods ranges from 7.2% in the
Northeast to 9.6% in the Mountain States. More local measures show an even greater range in price increases, from
5.7% in metropolitan San Francisco to 13% in metropolitan Phoenix.
Now Mired In
Crime, The City That Kicked Off The 'Defund The Police' Movement Is Struggling To Recruit New Officers.
Minneapolis is having a tough time restaffing its police force amid a crime wave after officers left en masse following
the May 2020 killing of George Floyd, according to The Associated Press. Then-Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria
Arradondo said the department lost almost 300 officers by October 2021 to causes including retirement, resignation and
disability leave for claimed post-traumatic stress disorder following Floyd's death and large-scale protests, according
to Newsweek. The department has reportedly seen applicant numbers drop from 292 in 2019 to 57 this year, with its
September graduating recruiting class only featuring six people, according to the AP. "In Minneapolis, with what
we've been through for the last couple years, for you to be here and have an interest in law enforcement ... I'm
impressed with every one of you that's here," training officer Matthew Hobbs told attendees at a March recruitment
information session, the outlet reported.
America's
crime epidemic keeps growing thanks to radical leftist prosecutors and their social experiments. The
United States has a crime epidemic, and it is being further fueled by certain prosecutors who are more interested in
radical leftist ideologies than in enforcing the law. These prosecutors are becoming disturbingly more common in
many states and communities, and they have no reservations about sacrificing the safety and security of their residents
to perform their deeply misguided and ridiculously dangerous social experiments. In many jurisdictions around the
United States, an increasing number of violent criminals are being released from custody as they await their
trials — or given mere slaps on the wrists in plea deals that do nothing to rehabilitate them or to protect
the community. This is a recipe for disaster and anarchy, and cities across the country are paying a catastrophic
price as a result.
Biden's
Destroying the Economy. Is It Intentional? Here are seven Biden administration steps to undermine an
economy and a society from within. [...]
[#1] Dismantle the nation's energy supply
[#2] Don't enforce the border
[#3] Devalue the nation's currency through inflation
[#4] Destroy the nation's finances by running up the debt by multiple trillions of dollars
[#5] Divide rather than unite the nation
[#6] Dumb down and indoctrinate our children with anti-American propaganda in the schools and media
[#7] Decriminalize a lot
Biden
Is 'Buying Votes' Ahead of Midterm Elections With Policy Decisions: Rep. Lauren Boebert.
[Scroll down] In 2021, when green energy policies caused gasoline prices to soar, Biden directed the Department of
Energy to release 50 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), which amounts to about two and a
half days' worth of the nation's consumption. When gas prices continued to climb, Biden dipped into the reserves several
more times. By July 29, the SPR had reached its lowest level since 1985. As of Oct. 14, the SPR had about
405 million barrels, down from 638 million barrels in January 2021 when Biden took office. Congress created the
SPR in 1975 to protect the United States from volatility in oil markets and to ensure an inventory of energy supplies in
emergencies, such as war or natural disasters. The United States just reached the end of peak hurricane season,
and Russian President Vladimir Putin has recently threatened NATO forces with nuclear weapons. Boebert said Biden
and Democrat lawmakers are skirting legislative procedure to buy the votes they haven't earned over the past two years.
Biden's
Next Crisis: Home Heating Oil Rationing Begins in Northeast, and It's Not Even Winter Yet. It looks like
President Joe Biden might get his winter of death after all, and it's not because of the unvaccinated. If you live
in the Northeast, you know that even in normal times, heating oil bills constitute a significant expense because winters
are usually brutal. Unfortunately, this year could be the worst year ever for residents of the region hoping to
adequately heat their homes. Not only are heating oil prices through the roof on anti-fossil fuel President Joe
Biden's watch, but even for those who have the funds to stock up, it doesn't really matter: heating oil rationing is
already taking place. Rationing. Like toilet paper and baby formula rationing. Why is all this rationing
happening on Biden's watch? For the record, we never once worried about rationing under former President Donald Trump.
The
Democrats' Bizarro World. [Scroll down] Is that not what the Democrat Party has created right here in
America, transforming a once prosperous, strong, united, and safe nation into a debt-laden, militarily weak, socially
divided, and increasingly dangerous society? Here are some of the Bizarro policies and beliefs inflicted on us by
the neo-socialist, globalist, anti-American Democrat Party over the past few decades:
Although leftists and atheists may deny it, the writings of the Founders make clear that the Classical Liberalism upon
which this nation was founded stemmed from Judeo-Christian principles. The self-discipline, respect for law and
order, and Protestant work ethic that helped build the U.S. created the most prosperous and militarily mighty nation in
history. But the leftist Democrats can't have that, for Christian principles block their irresponsible and
increasingly perverse demands, so God had to go, leading to the continual erosion of Judeo-Christian principles,
plunging our nation into the current chaos.
Our Enemies Walk Among
Us. All the poverty you see around you, all the lack, the financial pain in the faces you pass, the lost
businesses of the last three years, the titanic risk in the markets, the actual recession, all of it has been
engineered. We all, all of us, every single one of us, should be three times as wealthy, and three times as
creative. The most visible result of their malfeasance is homelessness. Which has been engineered to shame
you. Entirely. 100%. Every time you drive by some poor soul dying on the sidewalk, you are meant to feel
1. Guilt
2. Anger at the system (capitalism) and
3. an urge to vote for the compassionate left who promise to work only for the dispossessed.
It's a psy-op. It is why the homeless population is front and center in the richest, most beautiful city in the world:
San Francisco. This fact is meant to shout that no matter how much money private enterprise generates, capitalism means losers,
addicts, madmen and women, because our system is brutal and must be changed. San Francisco's beauty and reputation mean that its
homeless catastrophe is publicized all over the world.
In
Ukraine, The Democrats Have Locked Us Into A Pointless, Dangerous War. Our southern border is being
overrun by cartels, drugs, and illegal aliens. It is, from almost any perspective, an invasion. Rampant
crime is wreaking havoc on our cities. Inflation is out of control, and the price of gasoline continues to
rise. Is it possible that there are bigger fish to fry than spending untold billions that we don't have to protect
borders that are not ours? How well have our past efforts at policing the world worked out for us? Well,
there was Vietnam. We know how well that worked out. Then there's Afghanistan. That's still an open
wound that will not heal anytime soon. And who could forget Iraq and its WMDs? It's not exactly a stellar
list of accomplishments. It is, however, the very definition of insanity that we would want to try this again with
a country that controls the world's largest stockpile of nuclear weapons. [...] Joe Biden says we will support Ukraine
for "as long as it takes." As long as it takes to do what? What is the objective?
Why
Everything Is a Mess and You're Paying For It. There's a reason inflation and the economy are the most
prominent issues in voters' minds: For almost two years, the cost of every last thing you buy has been going up at a
pace that considerably outstrips the (nominal) growth in wages. What that means is simple: Your standard of living
is going down. And the electorate correctly senses that our real problems have only just begun. The
consensus is that because inflation is continuing at a high if not ruinous rate, the Fed will continue to have to raise
interest rates to suppress business activity and consumer demand. That means we're in for a recession. The
only realistic questions among those willing to face reality are how deep and for how long. Among the MSM, of
course, it's impolite to say "recession," so you don't hear it that much (and won't until after November 8).
The only things it's polite to say are "abortion" and "January 6."
Biden's
Diesel Fuel Supply Crisis Could Soon Cripple America in Ways Never Before Seen. Oil prices and President
Joe Biden's continued draining of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) have dominated the headlines over the past few
weeks, but analysts say a more impactful and serious crisis on the energy front looms: a diesel fuel shortage.
Diesel doesn't get as much of the limelight as oil and gas, but it should because diesel fuel is the industrial
lifeblood of the United States, and the price of diesel alone probably has a more significant impact on inflation and
the prices you're paying at the grocery store over any other factor. Without ample amounts of diesel, semi-trucks
don't move, farms are shut down, and critical manufacturing sectors are crippled.
Top
Democrat Admits 'All of Us Knew' Their Party's Policies Would Cause Inflation. For many, many months, Joe
Biden has blamed everyone else for inflation. He once falsely claimed that "inflation started under Trump" and
that inflation was was caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. More recently, he's tried to blame the Russia war in
Ukraine for inflation, which Biden dubbed "Putin's price hike." Back in June, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen
admitted that she and Biden were wrong about the impact inflation would have. "Well, look, I think I was wrong then
about the path that inflation would take. As I mentioned, there have been unanticipated and large shocks to the
economy that have boosted energy and food prices and supply bottlenecks that have affected our economy badly that I
didn't — at the time didn't fully understand," Yellen told CNN. "But we recognize that now."
The Editor says...
If you don't "fully understand" what could happen before it does happen, you
shouldn't be the Treasury Secretary.
Democrat
Senate Incumbents Refuse Responsibility for Fueling Inflation, Gas Prices. Four embattled Senate Democrat
incumbents have set a pattern of refusing to take responsibility for soaring inflation and gas prices that have occurred
in record-setting fashion under their leadership. [...] On Thursday, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), who is
losing in the polls to Republican Adam Laxalt, claimed gas prices are spiking because oil companies are not producing
enough oil. "Instead of increasing supply, they're taking in profits," she tweeted. Masto did not mention that gas
prices have spiked since Democrats regained control of the executive branch, legislative branch, and administration
state in 2021. Nor did she mention President Joe Biden's campaign promise to reduce oil drilling. In the last two
years, the Biden administration has succeeded in driving up private and public financing costs of oil drilling, halting
drilling on public lands, and canceling the Keystone pipeline.
Fists
of furry. A vigilant group of parents and kids in Jefferson County have been hounding school officials
about the bizarre presence of "furries" in Colorado middle schools and high schools since February 2022. This is not a
"GOP talking point" or an election-season ploy. This is not a joke or satire. It's real, it's disruptive,
and it's sick. [...] Back in February, a parent had informed JeffCo's "chief student success officer" Matt Palaoro about
rabid furries at Wayne Carle Middle School who wore "cat/dog ears, tails, fur gloves, collars, and leashes" while
threatening peers who objected. The parent's son reported that the costumed students would "hiss, bark, scratch,
and meow" at students who objected to the behavior. Another child reported that the herd of furries would "walk on
all 4s in the hallway" and "also eat with their face in their food." Back in March, parents at Drake Middle School
in Jeffco met with principal Melinda Feir to alert her of the classroom disruptions caused by the human pet parade.
CEO
blasts San Francisco as 'city of chaos,' closes store over rampant crime. The CEO of a popular clothing
brand Cotopaxi is closing the company's only San Francisco store due to "organized theft rings" and a lack of safety in
the city, he announced this week. CEO Davis Smith announced the closure in a lengthy post on social media, saying
the location faces regular attacks by thieves with virtually no response from law enforcement. "We are closing the
store due to rampant organized theft and lack of safety for our team. Our store is hit by organized theft rings
several times per week. They brazenly enter the store and grab thousands of dollars of product and walk out,"
Smith wrote. "We started keeping the door locked and opening it only for customers, but even then, they'll have a
woman go to the door, and then hiding individuals rush into the store as soon as the door opens. Our team is
terrified. They feel unsafe. Security guards don't help because these theft rings know that security guards
won't/can't stop them," he added.
Eight
things that killed the Democrat Party. [#8] Crime: Because of the Democrat rule in blue cities, crime is
not being prosecuted in the name of some weird kind of reparations. What the Democrats don't get is that they hurt
their own innocent population by allowing criminals a get-out-jail-free card, and by not prosecuting at all. Their
racist policies hurt the very people they claim to want to help. Why are they doing this? To deliberately
create chaos in the execution of anti-white racism. The one solution to the rising crime rate, the prosecution and
incarceration of criminals, is the one thing blue cities under Democrat rule will not do. Mayor Lightfoot makes
weird and demonic home videos of herself dancing around in what appears to be a drugged stupor. Rather than be a
responsible mayor, she has totally ignored the death-by-violence rate in Chicago. This is another very clear
example of Democrats doing what they do best; destroying things.
New
England facing natural gas shortages, rolling blackouts this winter. Winter is on the way here in the
northeast, as I was reminded when the local weatherman told me that it might snow here this week. In the middle of
October. But the annoyance of potentially having to break out the snow shovels before Halloween has arrived is
small potatoes compared to what may be coming in a couple of months. Power grid operator ISO New England issued a
warning to consumers this week about the effects that a particularly cold winter (as is being projected) could have on
heating and electrical power consumption limits. The northeast relies heavily on natural gas for home and business
heating needs. But many of the power plants in the region also run on natural gas.
The Editor says...
Which political party opposes drilling, fracking, pipelines, and methane emissions? Which political party has been claiming
for the last 30 years that the world is heating up at a dangerous rate? Which political party opposes the use of
petroleum and coal because of an irrational fear of carbon dioxide? When you're freezing this winter, that's the political
party you should blame.
Americans
Make Huge Sacrifices As Bidenflation Rises To 12.8%. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) released by the
government last Thursday showed an 8.2% year-over-year price increase from September 2021 to September 2022. The
CPI has edged down steadily from a 40-year high of 9.1% in June to 8.2% in September. The official CPI does not
tell the whole story of price increases under President Biden. Bidenflation, measured by the TIPP CPI using
the same underlying data, stood at 12.8% in September. It was 12.6% in August and July and 12.7% in June. We
developed the TIPP CPI, a metric that uses February 2021, the month after President Biden's inauguration, as its base.
How
'woke' policies turned Downtown San Francisco into an urban drug-den. Earlier this month, old-fashioned
Xeroxed copies of a newspaper article appeared across the Mid-Market neighborhood in Downtown San Francisco. The
article, from the San Francisco Chronicle, featured the headline: "S.F. D.A. Brooke Jenkins says she'll consider murder
charges for fentanyl dealers." The article was taped to walls on neighborhood corners regularly frequented by drug
dealers. At least one of those Xerox copies had the headline translated into Spanish — all the better
for the dealers in question, most of whom are Honduran nationals, to get the message. The photocopies were
distributed by Matt Dorsey, Supervisor for the district that includes the Mid-Market area, which is adjacent to the
Tenderloin (in San Francisco, which is both a county and a city, Supervisors are the equivalent of City Council members
in other cities). Dorsey's office had organized a neighborhood clean-up and the Supervisor had handed the article for
volunteers to promote. Dorsey is himself a recovering addict and prior to becoming Supervisor, he was the
Communications Director for the San Francisco Police Department. Ridding the neighborhood of drug dealers is his
number one priority — a goal he shares with new District Attorney Jenkins.
The
Democrats are responsible for the hardships faced by citizens. Inflation is at a 40-year high making
essential commodities expensive. Even the price of candy reached its highest recorded mark which will impact
Halloween celebrations. The price of gasoline continues to rise. The border is open causing over 4.9 million
migrant to enter the US since Biden took over, and the smuggling of illicit narcotics is resulting in numerous drug
overdose deaths. The rate of violent crimes in the U.S. is rising while the murder rate spiked by 30%, the highest
increase since record-keeping began in 1960. Democrats are placing restrictions on firearms, which are the only
affordable means of defense for citizens. The Democrats were responsible for the lockdowns that infringe upon the
right of movement and the right to earn a living. The Democrats impose vaccine mandates that eliminate the right
of choice. The Democrats desperately want to change the topic. Hence the focus on the 'insurrection'.
The goal of the January 6th committee was never to find facts, it was instead to persecute their main political
opponent, Donald Trump.
Mother
Horrified to Learn Son's Death Is Scheduled in Two Weeks After Skimming Through His Email. A mother in
Canada was horrified when she discovered that her son had made an appointment to kill himself with the help of a
doctor. The incident shines a light on how Canada's assisted suicide program has spun entirely out of
control. On Sept. 7, Toronto resident Margaret Marsilla logged in to her 23-year-old son's email account and
discovered that he had applied for permission from the Canadian government to be killed. A doctor had approved the
request and scheduled the murder for Sept. 22, Common Sense reported.
Biden
To Gig Workers: Drop Dead. In essence, the White House wants to outlaw gig work in America. No, it's
not saying so outright. The Biden Labor Department obscures that harsh reality with words meant to deceive.
Labor Secretary Marty Walsh says the department's proposal is needed to safeguard "our nation's most vulnerable
workers," and ensure they are not deprived "of their federal labor protections." Left out is the part that, should
the proposal become policy, millions of Americans will be stripped of their jobs and income. Under its rule, the
Labor Department would be free to "determine whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor under the Fair
Labor Standards Act." And it will determine in every case that the worker in question must be a hired
employee, no longer free to continue his or her job as an independent contractor.
America
today vs. 1950 — what we are missing. There was a time — and it wasn't that
long ago — when kids would leave home on a summer morning and roam free," reports npr.org. [...] Today's
children are not being taught any kind of survival skills," writes Traci Baker at grit.com. "I know adults who can't
count change, who can't write checks, some who can't even pump their own gas or find their way home without help.
We are setting ourselves up for disaster. And no, using computers and cell phones are not considered survival or
even basic skills!" "There are many benefits to unsupervised outdoor play and experiences in nature, including a
reduction in obesity and the symptoms of anxiety, depression and ADHD," reports theconversation.com. "Research has shown
that children learn self-control over their own actions and decisions in this time alone without their parents.
Without time unsupervised, children may not develop a sense of self-control or an ability to judge and manage risk on
their own."
Wasn't
Legalizing Pot Supposed To Reduce Crime? [A]nyone pushing for legalized marijuana should look at what's
going on in California before cheering this on. That state, as have several others, legalized marijuana on the
promise that it would reduce crime, improve public health, increase traffic safety, and stimulate the economy.
Instead of wasting time prosecuting people for possession or for selling pot, states could capture a new revenue source
by taxing it. Legalization would also mean that states could regulate it, presumably making the marijuana safer
and free of adulterants. So far, 19 states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana for nonmedical
use, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
[The]
Army [is] Scrambling to Explain [its] Massive Recruitment Failure. The U.S. Army is scrambling after
missing recruitment numbers in 2022 by wide margins. "The Army plans to increase its investment in marketing and is
expected to expand a new program for struggling recruits, but leaders on Monday offered few new details on how they'll
fill the ranks after falling far short of recruiting goals this year," the Associated Press reports. "Army Secretary
Christine Wormuth told reporters that a new recruiting task force is coming up with ideas. But any new plans would
have to gel quickly in order to reverse the dramatically low enlistment numbers over the past year. For the fiscal
year that ended Sept. 30, the Army enlisted just 75% of its goal — falling 15,000 soldiers short of the
60,000 target. It was the only service to miss its recruiting goal, but all of the others had to dig deep into
their pools of delayed entry applicants, which will put them behind as they begin the next recruiting year on Saturday."
Ex-NYPD
Chief Says Left-Wing DAs are Causing the Spike in Crime. Left-wing district attorneys implementing
policies such as bail reform bear significant responsibility for the nationwide spike in crime, former New York City
police commissioner Bill Bratton argued Monday. Many cities' district attorneys sympathetic to "criminal justice
reform" are releasing criminals who should be in jail, Bratton told NewsNation's Chris Cuomo in an interview aired
Monday. Such cities have borne the brunt of the crime wave thanks to bail reforms and other criminal justice
reforms, he said. [Video clip]
How
Different Would America Be Today if Trump was Still President? Let's start with the obvious. How did
this happen? The 2020 election was stolen. That's how they removed Trump from office and installed a man who
doesn't know who he is, where he is, or what he's doing. A man who can't put 2 sentences together, and who can't
attract more than 20 people in concentric circles to his speeches, yet they want us to suspend reality and believe he
got 81 million votes — the most in history. Bizarre. And look what they did to us after rigging and stealing
the election. They quickly put a plan in place to disassemble America; overwhelm the economy, make America poor,
destroy the middle class, make America unsafe, and to open the borders and make America foreign to Americans. And
as a bonus, they put in place a disastrous foreign policy of liberal weakness, wokeness and appeasement that has set the
entire world on fire.
Yes, New York's
Bail Reform Has Increased Crime. Pre-trial detention in New York State is not supposed to be conditioned
on whether a person is likely to reoffend. Both before and after bail reform, judges must release offenders on
"the least restrictive alternative and condition or conditions that will reasonably assure the principal's return to
court" — that is, minimize his risk of failure to appear. Manhattan Institute scholars have emphasized
time and again that New York State is unique in prohibiting judges from giving any consideration to public safety risk
in remand decisions. But even given that reality, a shift toward less-restrictive pretrial detention conditions on
average seems to have driven up the risk of rearrest following release. Perhaps the increase in crime identified
above will be offset by a reduction in future offending, given the long-run criminogenic effects of jail. On the
other hand, the most relevant study to New York finds that the incapacitating effect of jail pretrial slightly outweighs
its criminogenic effect post-release, at least within the study period. In any case, those effects are
heterogenous. Some detainees are career criminals, for whom the benefits of keeping them behind bars almost
certainly outweigh criminogenic costs; others are not.
Biggest
Food Stamp Hike Ever, Thanks to Bidenflation. Food stamp benefits are increasing by 12.5 percent as
families grapple with grocery prices that have skyrocketed under President Joe Biden. Under the maximum benefit, a
family of four on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will see their payments increase from $835 to
$939 per month.
The
Democrats Wrecked My Retirement. Biden printed billions of dollars to spread around and bribe voters,
calling it "COVID relief," and paid people to stay home and not work. Now, under Biden, we have 8 [to] 9%
inflation and a labor participation rate that is the lowest it's been since the 1970s. Prices are out of
sight. The supply chain has collapsed, and shortages of household staples have become so commonplace that it's
just an accepted way of life in 2022. The administration puts forth an abomination deceitfully labeled the "Inflation
Reduction Act," knowing there is not one single thing in that bill that is intended to reduce inflation. Now the
Fed is raising interest rates to try to calm inflation. In order for that to work, it has to crush consumer demand
so suppliers will reduce their pricing in order to entice a weak and shrinking pool of customers to buy something.
Nice going, Joe. [...] Retirement accounts are in a shambles. Two short years ago, things looked great. Now
there's a financial/investment canyon that will likely take ten years to recover from.
Under
Bidenomics, A 'Soft Landing' For Economy Is No Longer Possible. The Democratic Party's faithful are
whistling past the graveyard, hoping with all their might we'll avoid an economic slide. As a matter of general
economics, we're already in a recession. And it looks like things will soon get worse, not better. "We hope we
can have what they say, 'a soft landing,' a transition to a place where we don't lose the gains that I ran to make in
the first place for middle-class folks, being able to generate good-paying jobs and — expansion," President
Joe Biden told CBS' 60 Minutes last month. Good luck with that, Mr. President. Even members of your own
party think it's hogwash. As economist Larry Summers, who advised both Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama,
said last week, a soft landing is "really quite unlikely." We agree, as do most economists of our acquaintance.
Dems
in Disarray as 'Comeback' Narrative Completely Falls Apart. [Scroll down] The problem for Democrats,
however, is that most elections usually boil down to one thing: the economy. If people generally feel like they're
doing well, the party of the person who occupies the Oval Office tends to do well at the ballot box. If those same
voters are feeling the pinch come election time, though, the outcome for the president's party typically is not
good. The latter has consistently been the case for President Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and
Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer going back for at least a year or so as inflation and a volatile job market
along with the supply chain crisis, rising interest rates and rising food and gas prices hit middle-class Americans hard.
Coal
power plant closure leaves schools underfunded, hundreds unemployed in NM. The clamor of second graders
breaking away from lessons to form lunch lines has gotten quieter in a rural New Mexico community, where families losing
coal jobs have been forced to pack up and leave in search of work. At Judy Nelson Elementary, 1 in 4 students
have left in an exodus spurred by decisions made five years ago to shutter a coal-fired power plant and mine that sit just up
the road from the school in a largely Navajo community. The plant and mine had provided electricity to millions of
people across the southwestern U.S. for nearly a half-century. The San Juan Generating Station burned its last bit
of coal Thursday. The remaining workers will spend the coming weeks draining water from the plant, removing
chemicals and preparing to tear down what has long been fixture on the high-desert horizon.
Why We Will
Never Control Medical Costs. The purposes of medicine are expanding rapidly beyond treating actual
illnesses/injuries and promoting wellness, to also facilitating life fulfillment and making personal dreams come
true. Latest case in point: A gay couple has filed a class-action complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against the City of New York, suing for unlawful workplace discrimination because they
were denied coverage for fertility services. If successful, health insurance nationally may eventually be required
to pay for IVF/surrogacy services for male gay couples.
Stock
Market Tanked 14 Percent Since Biden's Inflationary Boondoggle Passed. The stock market continued its
downward spiral on Thursday as the economy struggles to cope with Democrats' reckless spending adding fuel to runaway
inflation. All three benchmark indexes closed under their opening value with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down
more than 450 points. The NASDAQ dropped nearly 3 percent Thursday and the S&P 500 fell by nearly 80 points.
The Dow's decline marks a continued trend since the signature passage of President Joe Biden's dubiously named "Inflation
Reduction Act" on Aug. 16. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has now fallen nearly 5,000 points, or more than
14 percent, in the aftermath of Biden's bill becoming law.
There's
a major reason why the world in 2022 is like the world in 1939. [Scroll down] At the very moment when
a fragile peace could have been worked out and negotiators begun to solve the differences between Russia and Ukraine,
Joe Biden steps in and does what he does best, mess things up. The timeline here is interesting. Even
though, on March 10, the US promised Ukraine $13 billion and, on March 26, Biden told the world that Putin "cannot
remain in power," the Russian and Ukrainian negotiators were still able to come to an agreement on a peace deal.
And staggeringly, Joe Biden scuttled it. Here we are in September, and much of the world is in recession, prices
for everything are up dramatically, the US has provided Ukraine with upwards of $60 billion in aid, and Europe is facing
energy shortages and skyrocketing prices just as winter approaches. And now nuclear war is in the air. All
of this because Joe Biden wants revenge on Russia for something it didn't even do.
Why
some polls show a dead heat for a generic ballot. The Afghanistan withdrawal was perhaps the most serious
foreign policy mistake in U.S. history. It left the Taliban billions of dollars of state-of-the-art military
equipment and the Bagram air base which is in spitting distance from China. Joe Biden's ill-conceived spending
kicked off the inflation that is currently sullying the lives of millions of Americans. Drunk with power, Biden
gleefully imposed mask and vaccine mandates on millions of Americans — law enforcement, military, federal
employees, etc. Those who were wisely skeptical and refused the experimental jab lost their jobs. As it
turns out, they were the smart ones; the vaccines were ineffective and have caused countless deaths and vaccine injuries
far more devastating than COVID. The mortality rate among young people is up by forty percent. Biden gleefully
put an end to our energy independence that President Trump had won. He cancelled the Keystone XL pipeline from
Canada and ended drilling on most federal lands. He has drained our strategic oil reserves at a most inopportune
time. This can only be a purposeful plan to destroy America as founded.
America
is being attacked from within. The United States' biggest threat isn't foreign nations, it is the
systematic dismantling of the foundations of democracy, it's the woke philosophy of the left and methodical uncoupling
of a nation that poses the biggest risks, according to Number 45. "Where did my America go, seriously? I mean
this wholeheartedly folks," asked One America News Network host Dan Ball at the beginning of the September 26 segment
featuring former President Donald Trump. "Where did the America that I grew up in, the America that millions of
people across this globe are trying to reach and become citizens each and every year? That America. The
America that for decades the entire world looked to for freedom, for liberty, for security? The America that used
to value a hard day's work. That protected our future, our children?" Trump had a solid answer: the
Democrat Party broke that America and we are dangerously close to a point of no return.
Bidenomics:
$9 trillion in private wealth [was] wiped out in stock plunge. [Scroll down] Where does this stock
downturn and its accompanying wealth loss come from? It's brought on by Joe Biden's complete inability to resolve
the energy crisis of his own making by removing his roadblocks to fossil fuel production, and his even worse ability to
rein in government spending. During his short, vacation-laden presidency, he's signed the $1.9 trillion American
Rescue Plan Act of 2021, the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021, the Extending Government
Funding and Delivering Emergency Assistance Act, and the Emergency Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, both of
which could be worth more than a trillion dollars, plus a bill to raise the national debt limit by an extra $2.5 trillion
so he could have lots of extra room for cash to spend. This year, he signed the badly misnamed "Inflation Reduction
Act" of 2022, which tacked on another $732 billion. As if that were not enough, his 530-and-counting executive
orders have cost American taxpayers another $532 billion, with that number set to rise to about $800 billion if
his student loan forgiveness scheme goes through.
Stocks
Have Lost $7.6 Trillion in Value Since Biden Took Office. Joe Biden destroys everything he touches. [...]
The stock market has also taken a brutal beating since Joe Biden was installed. Fox News is now reporting that the
stock market is down $7.6 trillion since Joe Biden took office. [Video clip]
When
do we see President Biden wearing a sweater? You think the price of everything is up? Wait until the
seasons change up north and your electricity bill shows up in the mailbox. Talk about sticker shock. Talk
about people rediscovering their fireplaces to keep their homes warm, not just to share a glass of wine with their
favorite person. [...] The Democrats may get lucky because most of these big bills will get mailed out after
Thanksgiving. Nevertheless, this is a great opportunity to remind the voters that our energy cost crisis was
largely self-inflicted. We have all the energy we need to keep our costs down. We are not Europe, having to
depend on Putin for energy. We have our own and could flood the market with oil and natural gas to keep prices
down. We did it under President Trump. Are you ready for a presidential speech about wearing a sweater and
controlling your thermostat?
SPR
Oil Level Hits 40-Year Low as Hurricane Season Fires Up. Thanks, Brandon. [A]lmost anytime even a
moderate strength hurricane enters the Gulf of Mexico, oil production on the rigs at sea to the refineries that dot the
southern U.S. Gulf Coast tends to shut down or is heavily restricted until the storm passes. For especially
ferocious storms that hit vulnerable areas in the Gulf and trigger longer work stoppages at the refineries or rigs, the
U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) usually makes the news headlines, as the U.S. government relies on the emergency
supply of crude oil to keep the country running and to stave off high prices and panic. That's what it's there
for — emergencies. The U.S. government has tapped the SPR after several hurricanes in the past,
including Ida, Gustaf, and, of course, Katrina. But under the current administration, the SPR is also routinely
used as a political expediency tool. President Joe Biden, in a desperate effort to bring gas prices down after
they skyrocketed thanks mainly to his anti-American energy independence policies, has released and sold off hundreds of
millions of barrels of oil from the SPR.
Trump's
2020 Warning About Biden Comes True. A clip of former President Donald Trump arguing that the election of
President Joe Biden would lead to a plummeting stock market circulated online on Friday after Wall Street saw a
bloodbath. The Federal Reserve increased targets for the federal funds rate by 0.75% on Wednesday afternoon,
sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which tracks 30 of the most prominent companies on American exchanges,
tumbling more than 500 points. After stagnating on Thursday, the index fell another 500 points by early Friday
afternoon to 29,400. On January 20, 2021, the day of Biden's inauguration, the Dow had closed slightly above 30,900.
"They said the stock market will boom if I am elected," Trump said during a 2020 presidential debate. "If he's elected, the
stock market will crash."
[New
York] City kids seeking therapy after unending exposure to vagrants and addicts. New York City school kids
are losing their minds over the zonked-out drug addicts and raving vagrants they encounter every day — and
are flocking to therapists to find ways to cope with the stress, The [New York] Post has learned. In neighborhoods
such as Hell's Kitchen "a lot" of kids are now in therapy, according to mom Katie Hamill, 43, whose 7-year-old daughter
is being treated for anxiety. "My daughter has seen [bad things], you name it, she has seen it. ... consistently and
constantly. She is in this constant state of panic," said Hamill, who works in real estate. The little girl gets
upset when she sees "the dying people" — the junkies who look dead whom she thinks no one is helping, the
mom said. And she sees far too much vile behavior from adults, including one addict trying to rip out his hair after
getting high at a West 42nd Street playground.
Real
estate sales drop 34% in Seattle as crime ravaged West Coast sees prices tumble. Seattle's housing market
is slowing faster than any in the country, a new study has revealed — as cash-strapped buyers increasingly shy away from
home purchases. The study, from real estate firm Redfin, ranked the nation's most populous hubs using metrics such
as prices, price drops, and supply — and found that the real estate market is cooling fastest primarily along the West
Coast. Property prices along West Coast metropolitan areas are understood to be dipping because of a glut of
properties on the market, amid a mass exodus of citizens deterred by rising mortgage rates, crime, and warnings of a
looming recession.
Running
the World into the Ground. Who can claim to be better off under Biden? The economy has tanked,
inflation is at a 40-year high, people can't afford to heat their homes or fill up their cars with gas, crime statistics
are off the charts, and confidence in America is at an all-time low. Biden's open-border policy, which is opposed
by a majority of American citizens, is leading to social unrest and economic chaos. A country without a
functioning border is not a country, yet that is where Biden has taken us. America is marching toward
totalitarianism as Biden empowers the DoJ and FBI to go after his political opponents, i.e., at least half of the
population. His worst offense, however, is following the climate dictates of the World Economic Forum. Biden
is torpedoing the robust U.S. economy in service of a totally false assumption — that human beings are able
to change the planet's climate. He is raising taxes so that billions of your dollars can be wasted on ridiculous
anti-fossil fuel projects. Biden has declared war on the energy industry in the name of global warming. He
wants us to believe that oil, gas, and coal are killing the planet.
The
economic facts demand a Democratic midterm defeat. President Joe Biden last week talked about record-low
unemployment. He explained that the headline inflation number rose only 0.1% month on month. Biden
conveniently ignored comments by Democratic-leaning Harvard University professor Jason Furman that the August consumer
price index report actually suggested an acceleration in inflation. Furman explained that the Cleveland Fed's
median CPI, which excludes all the large changes in either direction and is better predicted by labor market slack,
showed an annual rate of inflation of 9.2% in August, the single highest monthly print in their dataset (which starts in
1983). Furman also suggested that there is a real possibility of stagflation, with an unemployment rate at or above
6% and sustained inflation of 4%-plus.
MAGA's
Real Crime? Spotlighting Government Failure. The midterm elections are only weeks away. The
Democrats are in complete control of the House, Senate, and presidency. Donald Trump's name appears nowhere near a
November ballot. Yet the only things Democrats talk about are the former president and his "Make America Great
Again" voters. It is as if Joe Biden's and Nancy Pelosi's political troops have no interest in touting their
successes in opening the Southern border to endless illegal immigration, promoting divisive lockdowns and "vaccine"
mandates, passing a Green New Deal spending extravaganza, encouraging transgender drag queen shows for
elementary-schoolers, emptying prisons of criminals, eliminating cash bail for felony arrests, leveraging Americans'
pain at the gas pump to push them into expensive electric vehicles, or presiding over the highest rates of inflation in
over forty years.
Sorry Democrats, Abortion
Won't Save You. Contrary to Democratic hopes, November won't be about abortion vs. inflation. The
midterms will be a referendum on Biden's performance, particularly as it affects inflation. This is almost always
true for the first midterm of a president's tenure, but the Supreme Court's Dobbs ruling gave Democrats false
hope that they could defy history. This may have been possible if the Biden administration hadn't committed so
many fiscal blunders. As it is, polls conducted in September clearly indicate that Americans are deeply unhappy
about the sorry state of the economy and that they know who to blame. According to a PBS/NPR/Marist poll, for
example, "Six in ten Americans think the nation's economy is in a recession ... and more than half think President Joe
Biden has weakened the economy." This would not be as lethal for the Democrats if it involved a less visible issue,
but voters are being mugged daily by the grim reality of inflation.
Policing
in Democrat cities: Don't say we didn't warn you. America's big cities are almost exclusively run by
Democrats and have been for decades. America's big cities contain most of America's minority race
population. And America's big cities are suffering from soaring crime caused by failed Democrat social and
economic policies. It is a given that police in these cities will have to use force against a criminal who will be
a member of a minority race. When that happens, it is inevitable that riots, arson, looting, and such will
occur. Democrat leaders of these cities find it easier to throw police under the bus than to admit that the crisis
was caused by their policies. [...] Why would anyone genuinely interested in the true mission of law enforcement go to
work as a police officer in a Democrat-controlled city?
Food
Prices Hit 40-Year High, Keep Breaking Records Every Month. Food prices have increased every month of
2022, with each month since February breaking 40-year records, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
(BLS). The price of food at home increased 13.5% year-over-year in August, the highest it's been since May 1979,
according to the BLS Consumer Price Index (CPI) report. Since February, when the year-over-year cost of food at
home increased by 8.6% — at the time the highest level since 1981 — grocery prices have increased
every month, first breaking a 10% year-on-year increase in March, according to archived CPI reports by the BLS. The
rate of increase blows away the increases over the past two years, with food at home prices increasing 3.5% in 2020 and
2021, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The increases are also well above the USDA's
Aug. 25 estimate of a year-on-year food at home price increase between 10% and 11% in 2022.
'Defund
the police' aftermath means fewer officers on job across US. Police officers across the nation are leaving
their jobs because of the "defund the police" policies in cities, leaving personnel shortages and longer response
times. A survey of several large cities shows a downsizing with fewer applications to fill the vacancies as crime
is on the rise. Los Angeles has even taken the step of offering a rental subsidy in exchange for taking a job at
the Los Angeles Police Department. Dennis Zine has spent 54 years working for the LAPD, currently as a reservist
after retiring as a sergeant. He is a former city councilman and an organizer for a campaign to recall District
Attorney George Gascon. "All these cities with a woke generation mentality like 'defund the police,' 'neuter the
police,' 'we don't need the police' is affecting what we are seeing," Zine told the Washington Examiner.
"Black Lives Matter was instrumental in getting a lot of people out." Law enforcement certainly don't do their jobs
for the pay, so when police feel unappreciated, they leave, he said.
Mortgage
Rates Jump Above Six Percent for First Time Since 2008. Mortgage rates when President Joe Biden took
office? 2.65 percent. Today? 6.28 percent. On Tuesday, Biden held a weird celebration of his
"Inflation Reduction Act" on the lawn of the White House. Why was it weird? Because at the very same time as Democrats
were applauding themselves, the U.S. Labor Department was releasing figures that showed an "unexpected" rise in inflation, with
the cost of rent, food, and other basic necessities continuing to skyrocket. Now we learn that mortgage rates have
climbed above six percent for the first time since 2008.
The Bidenomics
Sham Is Collapsing. With red lights flashing nearly everywhere, the economy's prospects look grim.
Soaring inflation, crashing home sales, plunging GDP, falling real incomes. No question, the economy is a
mess. So why is the Biden administration saying things are going better? It's not just this week's
"unexpected" 8.3% inflation jump. Or the scary plunge in stock prices, destroying trillions of dollars in
household wealth in just days. It's that the ruling party, the Democratic Party, seems utterly oblivious to the
damage it's done. This week, President Joe Biden touted the "progress" made by his administration against
inflation, just a day after the report that prices had risen 8.3% overall, and food prices by 11.4%, the fastest since 1979.
Progressives
are the Cause for American Decline. In the maelstrom of the chaos of 24/7 news, societal decay and
violence, and media and political platitudes, it must be recognized that conservatives are not guilty of American
decline. Conservatives are the ones defending, and conserving, the symbols and story of American unity.
Progressives, on the other hand, have been demolishing these symbols and assaulting the traditional story and opting for
a new one — one that is meant to destroy those symbols which had previously unified American life. At
least since the 1960s, American progressives have been taking a battering ram to the symbols of justice that served as
the unifying force for American society. The Declaration is considered a fraud and the revolution it inspired
equally fraudulent. The Constitution is belittled as "a piece of crap." The American flag is said to be a force
for evil and division. American churches are now assailed as pillars of white supremacy and racism.
Numbers
Really Do Matter. I have always loved math and numbers. I love them because of their certainty,
their preciseness, and my confidence that 'truth is in the numbers.' [...] Here are a few to consider: the day Donald
Trump became president, the Dow Jones Average was at 19,827. The day he left office, it was at 34,005, an increase
of 71.5%. Now two years into the Biden-Harris regime terrible, the market is at 31,216, a nearly 8%
decline. The price of gas on that wonderful January 20, 2017, was $1.97. Today it sits at $3.75, a 90%
increase which is actually down from a high of $5.01. The national rate of inflation the day Donald Trump left
office was 1.36%. Today that rate sits at 8.3%. Read those numbers again if you still don't see the
obvious. While shrinking daily, our ever-dwindling stock portfolios and savings are needed to help supplement our
wages to provide necessities at an ever-higher cost.
A Time of Evil.
What we have seen the last two years, and especially the last few months can only be explained in one word.
Evil. For this is a time of evil. [...] Why would Biden refuse to protect our southern border? Why would
Biden knowingly allow in fentanyl, human trafficking, cartels, and terrorists? Why would Biden allow child
predators and unaccompanied minors to cross our borders? Why would Biden make it very clear to our enemies in
China, Iran, and Russia that we will not fight for our borders and we are not a sovereign country? Why would the
occupier of the White House display our weaknesses to friend and foe? Why would the placeholder of the White House
purposely make America weaker militarily and economically? Why would Biden's FBI and Department of Justice cover
up obvious felony crimes on Hunter Biden's laptop, yet search the bedroom of President Trump's teenage son? Why
would the FBI and DoJ ignore the 4th and 5th Amendments in their illegal raid on President Trump's private home?
Why would the FBI/CIA/NSA disregard all precedents, all laws, all tradition, the Constitution, and all common sense in
their illegal attacks on President Trump since he came down the golden escalators? Why has the FBI/CIA/NSA abused
and misused the Patriot Act in their attack on Biden's political enemies? And why has the ACLU remained totally
silent and mute as these Third Reich tactics have been used on the American people? Why has Biden/FBI/Justice
Department carried out Stasi police state raids on many of President Trump's closest supporters?
The
highest inflation in 40 years is deeply embedded in the economy and spreading. Today's CPI inflation
report shocked Wall Street and the nation with a significantly higher than expected print. Pollyannas everywhere
are painfully learning that there's no magic cure. There's no easy way out. After several years of excessive
federal spending, regulating, taxing and money-printing, the highest inflation in 40 years is deeply embedded in the
economy and it is spreading. The only significant decline came with gasoline prices. Overall, the topline
CPI came in at 8.3% for the year — food up 11.4%, even energy is still up 24%. Electricity is up 16%; natural
gas 33%; new cars 10%. Even with the recent drop, gasoline is still 26% above a year ago. Rent is up 6.5%.
Overall, services are up nearly 7%. Core goods prices are up 7%. Used cars are up nearly 8%. The so-called core
inflation rate, omitting food and energy, has risen 6.5% annually over just the past three months.
Tucker
Carlson: Voters Must Make Democrats Pay For Out Of Control Crime. FNC's Tucker Carlson reviews the record
crime levels in Chicago and other inner cities, saying Democrats need to be held responsible for the collapse of law and
order on city streets. "You think [Chicago district attorney] Kim Foxx cares?" Tucker Carlson asked. "But she
is not the only person who did this, the federal government also played a role." "Over the eight years of Barack Obama
administration, the department of justice forced more than a dozen police departments across the country to enter into what
is called a consent decree. The Obama administration began an investigation into the Chicago police department and
they got a consent decree. They pronounced police departments guilty of racism if they disproportionately interact
with African-Americans, regardless of whether those interactions were legally justified. In other words, the law is
entirely irrelevant to the consent decree."
El Paso looks like
a 'third-world country' after Texas border city is overrun by migrants. Shocking photos show President
Biden's border crisis has hit a new peak in El Paso, Texas — where a historic flood of migrants has turned
the city into what a local pol says resembles "a third-world country." Regional Border Patrol Chief Gloria Chavez
posted snapshots Monday night on Instagram that showed hordes of migrants dumped under an El Paso bridge over the
weekend because the city has no more room to even process them. "We've never seen anything like this," said outraged
US Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas), whose district covers part of the city, as El Paso began grappling with its
highest daily influx ever last month. "It's a scene that you would see in a third-world country, not in the streets
of El Paso." Gonzalez warned, "Everything that I've been told and every indication tells me that we haven't seen
the worst yet.
Blame
Democrats' massive spending spree for our economic crisis. For two years, families have experienced the
dire consequences of massive government spending at the gas pump , the grocery store, and elsewhere. [...] Democrats
began spending as soon as they took the majority, and they have made it clear they don't intend to stop. Their
first major act was passing $1.9 trillion in COVID aid, which was much larger than most economists were saying was
necessary and ultimately was the catalyst to the inflation crisis. Even after months and months of record high
inflation, Democrats refused to change course and continued to spend trillions of more dollars. In fact, Democrats
have added an astounding $2.7 trillion in federal spending over the past two years. President Joe Biden hopes to
add hundreds of billions of dollars more to that number with his student loan debt heist.
Would
You Please Stop Being Stupid? The country is on the verge of being completely taken over by the
Communists. Censorship is rampant. Political indoctrination is taking place throughout every institution,
state or private. The major news outlets are propaganda outlets. Formerly neutral government agencies are
being oriented against dissenters. The economy is being destroyed. There is an invasion on the southern
border. And, of course, you have the (traditional) Democrat election fraud now and then.
If
You're Going to San Francisco... No, stop! Don't even think about going to San Francisco. The
place is a disaster area, possibly as bad as Portland. If you think that is impossible, check out this photo essay
in the Daily Mail. The story is about the city's new "soft touch" approach to drug addiction and homelessness.
"Nobody's going to jail," city officials say. No, they're going straight to the morgue. San Francisco has seen
nearly 1,700 fatal fentanyl overdoses so far in 2022. The text is depressing, but the message is really in the dozens of
photographs that accompany it. Addicts openly shooting up; homeless encampments on the streets; filth everywhere.
America Delira. Travel
abroad and or talk to pro-American foreigners here, and you will be surprised at what they say. [...] They seem
staggered by the very ideas that now emanate from the United States: that nonexistent borders are desirable; that once
rarified institutions like the FBI or CIA now function like the Stasi of old; that the very idea of meritocracy is
considered racist; that one incorrect word can destroy a life-long career; that there are three or more sexes, not two;
that biological men with male genitalia and physiology can compete, and destroy decades of advances, in women's sports;
that race is the sole mode of self-identification; and that half of America dislikes American customs,
history — and the other 50 percent of the population — as much as do its enemies. Onlookers
no longer see American universities as free-wheeling bastions of unfettered research and expression. Rather they
watch dreary (and sometimes scary) places where conformity to the old Soviet-style is enforced — or else.
Obama
[gets] smacked down for gaslighting about Americans being 'better off' under Joe Biden. In comparison to
Joe Biden, Barack Obama appears to be a picture of probity, wisdom, and dignity. But in reality, he's just a more
unflappable liar, and now that Democrats are on the rocks in the polls, he's cribbed a page from Ronald Reagan, a man
he's always had a curious fascination for, claiming that "the country is better off than when you took office. We
should all be deeply grateful for that." If Obama were ask that as a question, the way Reagan once did, the
open-ended answer would not have been to his liking, so Obama supplied the answer, too. He was all gaslighting.
We're
'Better Off' Under Biden? Who Is Obama Kidding? Let's review just how much "better off" we all are
thanks to Biden and his fellow Democrats.
COVID deaths: When Biden took office on the promise that he had a plan that would end COVID, the official
death count was 424,318. Today it is over 1.044 million. In other words, there have been nearly 620,000
COVID deaths on Biden's watch. And that's despite all the interventions Biden claimed would end the pandemic.
Are the families of those 620,000 people better off?
Inflation: Despite the recent decline in pump prices, gasoline costs 91% more than it did on
January 2021, according to the Consumer Price Index. Food prices are up 14%. Overall prices have climbed 13% in
the time Biden has been president. To put that last number in perspective, the overall increase in the CPI during
President Donald Trump's entire four years in office was just 7%.
Real earnings: How about workers, are they better off? While wages have climbed, they haven't nearly
kept pace with Bidenflation. As a result, workers have seen their real wages decline by 5%, which works out to an
effective average pay cut of $2,726 a year. Does that, in Obama's mind, make them better off?
A World on Fire. [Scroll down]
Let's talk about life in a one-bedroom apartment in London. The price of energy for heat has nearly doubled,
seemingly overnight. Truly, it took months but it has felt like one day to the next. [...] This is all running
wildly ahead of consumer prices generally. This is only through June. We are already approaching 100%
inflation in energy. [...] My friends in the UK are truly panicked. They want to come to the U.S. just to get
away. But many of my friends are rebels and did not accept the vaccine because they are healthy and under the age
of 80. They rejected the jab. Now they cannot come to the U.S. because the U.S. is still imposing rules that
forbid travelers from foreign countries who are not vaccinated from getting across the borders.
Jackson
Mississippi: This Is What The Water Looks Like When A Radical Communist Is In Power. Chokwe Antar Lumumba,
Democratic mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, promised to make the capital "the most radical city on the planet" during his
2017 campaign, but so far he's been unable to even solve even the city's basic infrastructure problems and the city's
running water is now unsafe to drink. He campaigned on plans to introduce universal basic income and alternatives
to policing, to replace vacant lots with urban farms, and resolve chronic issues with the city's water and roads in
order to break the "cycles of humiliation" he said black residents experienced in Jackson, the most heavily black large
city in the U.S. Instead, the city's water problems have worsened, and Republican Gov. Tate Reeves declared a
state of emergency Tuesday because running water is not reliably available nor safe for consumption.
Great
Reset: Switzerland Threatens to Jail People Who Heat Their Homes Too Much in the Winter. People who heat
their homes above a certain temperature in Switzerland during the Winter face fines and potentially up to three years in
prison if energy rationing measures are put in place. Under proposed legislation in the home of the World Economic
Forum (WEF), Swiss lawmakers are preparing to set legal limits on the use of heating during the winter should the
country face energy shortages. Under the plans, gas-heated buildings would be capped at 19C (66.2F) and water
heating up to 60C (140F). Saunas and swimming pools would also be forced by government diktat to remain cold.
Biden
took a booming economy without inflation and turned it into a high-inflation bust. There's a growing view
inside the mainstream media that Joe Biden's recent legislative victories and his recent speeches that MAGA Republicans
are a threat to democracy and are "semi-fascists" are going to give the Democrats some midterm momentum and they're
going to overtake the GOP by snatching victory from the jaws of defeat. I'm not buying it and here's why you
shouldn't either. First of all, the new legislation is not popular. By 36% to 12%, an Economist-YouGov poll
shows that voters believe the IRA legislation will actually increase inflation. As for the student loan
cancellation, a poll from another network shows by 59% to 38% that voters believe that too will increase inflation.
By the way, the latest inflation report for July was 8.5% year-on-year and the inflation tracker from the Cleveland Fed
predicts an 8.2% CPI for both August and September.
German
Minister of Economics Under Fire as Energy Driven Reality of Economic Collapse Starts Sinking In. German
Minister of Economics Robert Habeck is under fire after his comments during an interview with an ARD broadcaster on
Tuesday evening. [...] Mr. Habeck responded that businesses can stop operating, but that doesn't mean they will go
insolvent. Just because the business loses most or all of their revenue, doesn't mean they will go bankrupt.
That doesn't make sense, Minister Habeck was pressed to apply commonsense. If businesses close to save money,
workers are not employed. If workers are not employed people do not earn income. If people do not earn
income, the economy worsens. Habeck had no response other than an economically detached "Green Party" perspective
that businesses will not go bankrupt just because they are not operating. However, his facial expressions reflect
that he knows what comes next, total economic collapse. [Video clip]
Return of the
Ice Age. To Europe, anyway. Years of horrible decisions by European leaders have come home to roost,
as Europeans now worry about how to heat their homes this winter. Reliance on a geopolitical enemy for much of
their energy turned out to be a mistake, as Russia has now shut off gas supplies. Who could have predicted
it? Other than anyone with a modicum of common sense? Which Europe's governing class has lacked for many
years. The continent's leaders are panicking and preparing to ration energy: [...] European countries are
voluntarily turning themselves into third-world nations. Will any politicians pay the price for this
disaster? Don't bet on it.
When
Must a Good Citizen Become a Dissident? Is it when the FBI and other Deep State truth-twisters manufacture
crises and manipulate elections? Is it when free speech comes under attack under the guise of State-labeled
"misinformation"? Perhaps it is when the president-in-name-only reads carefully scripted messages (written by those
who control his office from the shadows) attacking half the country's citizens as "fascists." Or when government and
media "elites" falsely frame political protest as "insurrection" in order to justify criminal persecution and
imprisonment of opponents of the ruling regime. Or maybe when the endless declaration of fake "emergencies" is
used to justify the steady imposition of extraordinary State power over each citizen's livelihood. Maybe it's when
the Intelligence Community operates a massive domestic surveillance network targeting Americans who have committed no
crimes. Maybe it's when secretly collected information mined from supposedly independent social media
conglomerates and too-big-to-fail private banks is used to track and trace unsuspecting citizens. Maybe it's when
the value of the U.S. dollar is intentionally chipped away by central bank authorities enabling tax-and-spend
legislators to expand institutional power at current and future Americans' expense. Perhaps it is when the same
federal government that insists on fighting wars all over the world in defense of other nations' borders staunchly
refuses to protect America's own borders from invasion.
I
Feel the Earth Move Under my Feet. We have a nation filled with at least two generations of people who
have not been properly educated, who have no respect for the church, no respect for teachers, no respect for
parents. We have a nation saturated with drugs, many people addicted because of painkillers, many too young to
make sensible decisions about substances they can procure with ease. Things like the flailing economy can be
corrected with the right policy decisions. The border can be fixed with a wall. The crime problem will
settle down when we go back to punishing criminals. Most of this isn't rocket science. It just takes an
honest look at human nature (Newsflash: we're not basically good.) and the application of common sense — and
all that takes time.
Seven
Practical Ways to Make America Great Again. I am guilty, like many of my fellow conservatives, of
complaining about everything that has gone wrong since COVID. That includes massive inflation, the loss of small
businesses because of a messed up COVID response; supply chain problems; gas prices; the border sieve; the swallowing up
of the mainstream media by Great Resetters and [Democrats]; the Afghanistan defeat and weaponry giveaway; the billions
and trillions spent on Ukraine; the paying of people not to work; the Luciferian malignancy of CRT, DEI, and ESG
infecting our institutions, schools, and businesses; and the litany of other complaints MAGA Americans get so
justifiably indignant about. But what can the average American do to actually take down this behemoth of leftism
that is strangling liberty, free speech, and prosperity? It may take a while, but it is doable with small things
to start with.
The
West's Energy Disaster Worsens. There is no excuse for advanced economies to
experience a shortage of electricity, or of energy generally. The world has more than ample
supplies of fossil fuels. And, if you buy the global warming hype, nuclear energy is the
obvious alternative, although that implies universal use of electric vehicles that are devastating
to the environment. Nevertheless, an electricity crisis is upon us. [...] The current crisis
in Western Europe is due in part to the threatened cutoff of Russian natural gas. But
countries like Britain and Germany are vulnerable to such a cutoff because they fecklessly failed
to provide for their own energy self-sufficiency.
It's
Too Late For Corrupt Media To Decide Political Violence Is Bad. The 2020 election was
nothing less than a hostage situation, and everyone who lives in a major city (all of them run by
Democrats) knew it when they saw their shops, offices, and storefronts boarded up. That
wasn't in anticipation of a Biden victory. It was in fear of a Trump victory. The Left
had shown all summer that year what it's capable of when things don't go their way. They will
fabricate a conspiracy to derail a president who was never given a chance. They will hype up
an airborne virus, laying every single death it causes at the feet of their political
opponents. They will perpetuate a lie about race and police to shut down highways,
businesses, and government services. The cost: At least 25 deaths and up to $2 billion
in property damage. And that's just from the George Floyd riots of summer 2020.
There's also the retarded development of an entire generation kept out of school, countless
livelihoods ended via shutdown orders, and the ever-lasting trauma that will be endured by those
who were told they could not tell loved ones goodbye.
New
Jersey banned plastic bags. So, people are stealing grocery store shopping baskets. Grocery store
customers are walking off with those plastic hand baskets you find in the supermarket, an apparent consequence of New
Jersey's plastic bag ban that went into effect this spring. "They are just disappearing," said Louis Scaduto Jr.,
chief executive officer of Middletown-based Food Circus Super Markets, which owns four Super Foodtown stores in Monmouth
County. "I may actually have to just do away with them soon, can't afford to keep replacing them," Scaduto wrote
in a text message. It's not just happening at Super Foodtown. Stop & Shop in Long Branch didn't have any
hand baskets during a recent visit. ShopRite in Freehold Township didn't have any either.
The
True Cost of Student Loans. The cancellation of student debt has echoes of two other
unwise political decisions, one made by a Republican President, the other by a Democrat President.
[...] The second one was the decision of the Clinton administration to allow people to have access
to mortgages they had little chance of actually repaying. Under Clinton's Housing and Urban
Development Secretary, Andrew Cuomo, Community Reinvestment Act regulators gave banks higher
ratings for home loans made in "credit-deprived" areas. In short people with low and poor
credit were still given massive loans for homes, despite the obvious risk to both borrowers and
lenders. The government made clear that it would take the hit for any mortgage default.
As a result, banks realized that the smart money was not in being careful with mortgages, but
instead lay in getting as many people signed up as possible. After all, Uncle Sam would bail
you out. This caused the 2008 economic collapse.
Total
chaos as millions of student loan borrowers rush to get Joe Biden's $10,000 debt
amnesty. They blew out their own website based on the high volume of traffic from
those seeking the $10,000 debt freebie. Seems that Joe took the Obamacare rollout fiasco as a
model, not a warning. They never set up a special website for this matter at all before the
debt forgiveness plan was announced, which might have saved the rest of their website, and still
don't have any plans to do it. Plan? What plan? They have no idea how many people
will apply for the $10,000 freebie. They have no idea what it will cost.
Germany
to Implement Energy Rationing Amid Fears of Gas Riots. As officials in the country
express their fears about future gas riots this winter, the German government has announced a host
of new energy rationing rules that will come into effect [...] next Thursday. In what appears
to be the latest attempt to avoid energy shortages this winter, the German government is to
implement restrictions limiting the use of energy in the country. Ministers appear to be
hoping that the rationing efforts will help reduce the risk of energy shortages this coming winter,
with a number of bigwigs now openly fearful of a future of public unrest and gas riots should
people be left unable to adequately heat their homes.
President
Macron Warns of Public Unrest in France as Energy Crisis Bites. President Emmanuel
Macron has warned that the French public may react poorly to what he calls the "end of abundance"
in France and Europe, as multiple crises brought about largely by political management wreak havoc
on the continent. With a long line of political mismanagement finally coming to a head across
the European continent, France's President Emmanuel Macron has now said that his country faces what
he calls the "end of abundance", something he fears could disrupt the stability of his
nation. Macron's warning comes amid growing political panic in neighbouring Germany, where
many political bigwigs are now fearing that the country faces a future of riots and public
upheavals as people lose the ability to adequately heat their homes over the winter.
What's
Going On in America. When we see adults in leadership who have made it legal for
minors, very young minors, to have permanent, life-altering sex changes, while it would be a crime
to give these very same minors cigarettes, alcohol, or the car keys, we can't believe what's going
on. When China, Russia, and Iran no longer fear us, and Israel, Japan, and South Korea no
longer trust us, we know that leadership is making purposeful mistakes. When kindergarten
students are still being forced to wear masks that do not work, and everyone knows they don't work,
we wonder aloud why. When J-6 political prisoners are still being held in D.C. gulags without
charges being filed against them or bail being afforded to them, we know that this is just not
American. When there is practically no border at all on our southern flank, and we know that
all sovereign nations do in fact have borders, we know that history shows us clearly that this is
suicidal for a people.
Here's
How Unlivable Blue Cities Have Gotten. How bad have things gotten in
Democrat-controlled cities like New Orleans, New York City, Detroit, San Francisco, and
Chicago? So bad that when you think of those cities, it's not the good things about them,
from culture to industry, beautiful shopping districts to stunning city parks, that come to
mind. Rather, what almost every American thinks of when such blue cities as those are brought
up is of the bloodshed, crime, and heartbreak within them, the streams of blood flowing down their
streets thanks to crime that would rival the French Revolution in terms of both volume of blood
shed and the pointlessness of it all. While many might avert their eyes and avoid criticizing
such places and the little being done to combat crime within them out of fear of being called
"racist," or something, Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson went full steam ahead in criticizing the
bloodshed of inner-cities and the violence present in Democrat-controlled areas. In fact,
Tucker even went so far as to say that the horror of those cities shows that our "civilization
is falling apart."
Democrats
Evade Accountability to Avoid Political Fallout. Gasoline now costs on average more than $4 per gallon.
Two years ago, it was less than $2. Americans are suffering the worst inflation in more than 40 years:
9.1 percent in July 2022. Inflation is a hidden and highly regressive tax. It hurts lower income families
more than high earners. Who is accountable for inflation? The Biden administration never admits its policies
are responsible for inflation, such as suppression of domestic oil and gas production and spending several trillion dollars.
Biden claims the following are to blame: greedy meatpackers, venal oil companies, mercenary physicians, Donald Trump,
Putin's war in Ukraine, amongst others. Never, ever blame his Day One executive orders! Federal politicians,
bureaucrats, and their complicit media avoid paying for their egregious acts by dispersing accountability and thus
avoiding feedback.
Wind
Turbines Are Destroying the Planet. New York, along with other states, is moving
forward with massive wind turbine projects. The push for "9,000 megawatts of offshore wind
energy" comes at a high price, not only for families who are left dependent on expensive and
unreliable energy, but for the planet. Wind turbines require massive amounts of rare earths
for their generators and motors. A single wind turbine eats up tons of rare earth
metals. Rare earth mining carried out in China is horrifyingly destructive to people and the
environment. One story described radioactive lakes, high cancer rates and villagers whose
"teeth began to fall out" and "hair turned white at unusually young ages". "Children were
born with soft bones and cancer rates rocketed."
The
Predatory Male Behavior Of So-Called Transgender Women. How do you know so-called
transgender women aren't real women? Because they act just like predatory men who, rather than
having sympathy for women concerned when physically intact men invade their territory, revel in the
ability to impose their will on these women. [...] Women are generally smaller and physically
weaker than most men, so savvy women learn to be careful. Women also rely on the traditional
social contract ensuring single-sex privacy in places in which they may be naked or exposed, such
as dressing rooms, bathrooms, or locker rooms. She expects that, in these spaces, she'll be in the
company of women and free from voyeurs or exhibitionists. Sadly, this social contract has been
broken because mixed-up or opportunistic men claiming to be women are allowed to invade these
private spaces. These men's insensitivity to women's fear and discomfort is additional proof that
they are not women.
'Defund
the police' advocate Ilhan Omar's city experiences sharp increase in majority of crimes, data shows. "Defund
the police" supporter Rep. Ilhan Omar's city is experiencing a sharp increase in most crimes, data shows. The
spike comes just one year after she backed a failed campaign to dismantle and replace the Minneapolis Police
Department. Omar represents Minnesota's 5th Congressional District, which encompasses the city of Minneapolis. So
far this year, citywide crimes have spiked in nine of 14 categories over the same time period last year, according to a Fox
News Digital review of crime statistics.
Democrats
are not learning from their defund-the-police failures. Last week, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) just barely won
renomination in her Democratic primary. Democratic leaders had failed to see it coming — that such a
prominent member of the left-wing "Squad" could come within just 2 percentage points of losing to an opponent whom she had
outspent nearly 3 to 1. Don Samuels, a former city councilman, nearly defeated Omar in the very district where George
Floyd was killed in 2020. Having campaigned previously against disbanding the Minneapolis police, Samuels ran a
law-and-order, anti-crime congressional campaign. It was nearly enough to win a majority of Democratic primary voters
in one of the most liberal cities in America. One would hope that Omar's near-death experience leads Democrats to be a
bit more skeptical about the defund-the-police movement in which she has played such a large role. Alas, nothing else
up to that point, not even the national crime wave resulting from their folly in so many of the nation's major cities, had
convinced them to give it up.
IRS: Gestapo
in the Making. Inflation is skyrocketing. Gas prices, despite Old Joe Biden's crowing about minor
reductions, are still substantially higher than they were before his presidency was inflicted upon us. America's global
standing is drastically diminished by Biden's handlers' catastrophically botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, due to the lack
of preparedness of a politicized military distracted by wokeism. The Southern border is essentially nonexistent, and
due to that as well as to the arrival of tens of thousands of unvetted Afghan migrants, there is an unknowable number of
criminals and terrorists in the country who would have been kept out by remotely sane immigration policies. [...] The people
who run Joe Biden looked around at their dumpster fire of an administration, and the smoking ruin they have wrought, and
decided that what America really needs are tens of thousands of new employees for the IRS.
Time
to Give the Conspiracy Theorists a Break? How many times have you heard, "That sounds like a conspiracy theory
to me"? Was it because you asked if the virus was released from a lab in China? Or did you question the safety and
effectiveness of the "vaccines"? Did you ask why doctors and nurses are not free to treat their patients according to their
best judgment instead of government protocols? Or maybe you asked about the decrease in energy, selling our oil to
China, the problems with supply chains, government deficit spending, censorship on social media, inflation, food shortages,
the rise in racism, the burning of our cities, our unprotected border, and the release of criminals. Did you wonder why
everything is getting worse? Is there is a plan to destroy Western civilization?
Why
We Lost Trust in the Expert Class. For years, European policymakers had assured the world that the relatively
rapid "transition" to "green" energy was the world's preordained future — regardless of the costs.
Accordingly, many European Union governments followed the advice of green experts. They eagerly shut down coal, natural
gas, and nuclear power plants to transition immediately to "renewable energy." Most citizens were afraid to object that
in cloudy, cold Germany solar panels were not viable methods of electrical generation — especially in comparison
to the country's vast coal deposits and its large, model nuclear power industry. As a result, German government
officials warn that this winter, in 19th-century fashion, families will have to burn wood — the dirtiest of modern
fuels — to endure the cold. And there is further talk of "warm rooms," where like pre-civilizational tribal
people, the elderly will bunch together within a designated heated room to keep alive.
The
Point of No Return. This is an election year. But the issues this year are not about Democrats and
Republicans. The big issue is whether this nation has degenerated to a point of no return — a point where we
risk destroying ourselves, before our enemies can destroy us. If there is one moment that symbolized our degeneration,
it was when an enraged mob gathered in front of the Supreme Court and a leader of the United States Senate shouted threats
against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, saying "You won't know what hit you!" There have always been irresponsible
demagogues. But there was once a time when anyone who shouted threats to a Supreme Court Justice would see the end of
his own political career, and could not show his face in decent society again. You either believe in laws or you
believe in mob rule. It doesn't matter whether you agree with the law or agree with the mob on some particular
issue. If threats of violence against judges — and publishing where a judge's children go to
school — is the way to settle issues, then there is not much point in having elections or laws.
Everything
Is Worse and You Are Just Supposed to Take It. You are asking for too much, you terrible person. You want
cheap gas and a functioning supply chain, air conditioning and not to eat bugs. But most of all, you expect the elite
to actually do its job, and for that, you are terrible. And racist. Bums litter our streets figuratively
and — in ghastly form — literally. Criminals run rampant unmolested by the gendarmes, who have
been told — expressly and impliedly — to let the crooks be. Our economy is sensational, groovy,
glorious — except for the inflation and the hollowing out of your 401K. Try to buy a house instead of
renting — just try. The globalist elite has failed in doing what we want, but it seems to be doing what it
wants. It is gathering power and payoffs unto itself, and that is precisely the goal.
Denver —
a 'hellhole' of drugs. Once a cosmopolitan utopia of clean, safe, family-friendly neighborhoods and parks,
Denver now looks and feels like a drug orgy. The stench of marijuana wafts through neighborhoods where a small
percentage of family dwellings have transitioned into pot farms. Walking through much of Denver and other Colorado
cities, one becomes accustomed to stepping over and around growing numbers of full-time drug users living on sidewalks,
parks, medians, and lawns. The broad-based degradation started when voters approved Amendment 64 in 2012, which
established the civilized world's most lenient marijuana law. Critics argue legalization, problematic on its own,
became a "gateway policy" that lowers political resistance to other illicit drugs. Indeed, in 2019, the Colorado
Legislature and Democratic Gov. Jared Polis essentially decriminalized all schedule 1 and 2 drugs —
including fentanyl, the nation's leading killer of people ages 18-45.
Air
Force Includes Drag Show In Woke 'Diversity' Festival At Langley. The U.S. military is hosting a drag show at a
family-friendly festival at Joint Base Langley-Eustis (JBLE) at the end of July. JBLE is hosting its first ever
"Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Summer Festival" on July 30, featuring a series of performances and speeches, including a
poem on "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" and a drag show by Joshua Kelley, who performs under the moniker Harpy Daniels.
Chicago
Mom Forbidden To See Teen Daughter After Refusing To Pretend She's The Opposite Sex. Jeanette Cooper, a mom in
Chicago, has missed her daughter's 13th, 14th, and 15th birthdays. She doesn't get to be there as her daughter is
learning to drive. In fact, she has only seen Sophia for eight and a half hours in the last three years. That's
because Cooper lost custody of her daughter after refusing to go along with Sophia's belief that she is transgender.
When Sophia was 12, Cooper went to pick her up from a custodial visit at her father's house, but her daughter refused to come
home. Cooper learned that Sophia, whom the mother said had always come across as more feminine than Cooper, now
identified as transgender and felt "unsafe" around her mom.
Recidivism
rates for NYC criminals are off the charts. More than two years ago, the new bail reform law in New York went
into effect and the results have been obvious to pretty much everyone who lives in the Big Apple. The law was
ostensibly designed to "combat racism" and focus on "rehabilitation over incarceration." The law's proponents claimed that
most criminals are simply misunderstood and lacking in opportunities. Given the proper motivation and a chance at a
fresh start, most of them would happily take up nine-to-five jobs and turn their backs on gang activity and lives of
crime. But the latest NYPD crime statistics report shows us how that actually worked out. The law basically
alerted criminals that the door to the candy store was unlocked and they were free to ramp up their criminal business model
with abandon. Recidivism rates in Gotham are as much as three times greater for some categories of crime than they were
before the law took effect.
The
last major media holdout still shilling for Joe Biden. By all accounts — by every economic indicator, every
political poll, every overseas interaction, every lie at the presidential podium — Joe Biden is a miserable
failure as president. Inflation brought on by government spending has now tipped the economy into recession and there
is no end in sight. The border lies open, with the Border Patrol converted into a de facto valet and escort service for
literally millions of unvetted illegal border crossers. Crime is out of control. America is a laughingstock
abroad, with Biden's name on the most humiliating military pullout in U.S. history. He's a man utterly unfit for the
office, a man whose very placement in office demonstrates the horrific consequences of electoral fraud.
The
Trans Fiasco: Will There Be Accounting? The "trans" fad has devastated the lives of many people,
especially children. Will there ever be an accounting? In the U.K., there are signs of one: the National Health
Service's Tavistock gender identity clinic for children is being shut down. [...] Basically, Tavistock was run according to a
"trans" activist ideology, and therefore destroyed many lives. So there is at least the glimmer of accountability in
the U.K. How about here in America? Hans Bader sums up where we stand in a long post at Liberty Unyielding.
FDA
warns of brain swelling and permanent vision loss in kids taking puberty blockers. The FDA recently added a
warning to the puberty blockers used by transgender children, reports The Post-Millennial. The warning was added after
the FDA identified "a serious potential side effect" that can "cause cause a dangerous surge of spinal fluid pressure in the
brain," as well as "headaches, nausea, double vision, and even permanent vision loss." "The FDA identified 6 cases in
females ages 5-12 years old who were diagnosed with pseudotumor cerebri" after receiving puberty blockers. Pseudotumor
cerebri "means 'false brain tumor' because the signs and symptoms in affected patients are similar to those of a large brain
tumor." "The agency considered the cases clinically serious... this potential serious risk associated with GnRH agonists
justifies inclusion in product labeling," an FDA spokesperson explained. As the Post-Millennial observes, puberty
blockers are used for gender transitions (formerly known as sex changes) by children.
New
Los Angeles bridge opens, then quickly closes amid chaos. The newest bridge in Los Angeles, a $588-million
architectural marvel with views of the downtown skyline, opened to great fanfare on July 10. It has already been closed,
to great dismay, several times since then amid chaos and collisions. The 6th Street Viaduct — which soars over
the concrete-lined Los Angeles River to connect downtown to the historic Eastside — quickly became a hotspot for
street racing, graffiti and illegal takeovers that draw hundreds of spectators to watch drivers perform dangerous stunts in
their vehicles.
The Editor says...
This is exactly the behavior one should expect in a state that's all crime and no punishment.
Military
Recruiting Numbers Lowest Since the Vietnam War. Recruiting among the nation's military branches is at
historically low numbers as COVID, woke leaders and an anti-military culture are keeping young people away. [...] RedState
has reported on the services' desperate efforts to encourage more volunteers to join, with the Minnesota National Guard
placing a $77,000 ad buy in an LGBTQ magazine, and the Army toying with the idea of dropping its requirement that enlistees
have a high school diploma or GED, but then realizing what a stupid idea that was and backtracking. Military.com went
to press Tuesday with the story of how the Army is giving recruits who fail to meet initial body fat and academic standards a
second chance by launching two pilot programs to help them lose weight and/or improve their aptitude test scores. We've
also covered how the woke silliness currently being peddled by military leaders isn't sitting well with soldiers and
potential soldiers. Alex Parker reported on how the Army will reportedly force female soldiers to shower with
biological males who identify as females, while the Navy will allegedly allow sailors to use whichever locker room suits
their gender identity. There's also a huge emphasis on race: [Tweet]
As
Crime Skyrockets And Democrats Deny Blame, Remember What They Said About Police. There is perhaps no better
example of gaslighting by today's Democratic Party than when it comes to the issue of "Defund the Police." In the aftermath
of the death of George Floyd in the spring of 2020, the mantra was all the rage in leftwing, Democratic circles. Their
media, their spokespeople, their elected officials — all of them — were singing the same song:
Police are evil, the system is racist, and we need to put our tax dollars to use doing something else. The movement
never made any sense. Anyone who is old enough to remember the days of high-crime cities or who has watched movies like
Taxi Driver and French Connection understand that a lack of law enforcement yields lawlessness. And
lawlessness yields more lawlessness. Such a strategy will inevitably result in spiraling crime, and much of that crime
will likely be of the "violent" variety. Now, two years later, that highly predictable outcome has indeed come to
fruition. Since 2020 and their verbal attacks against police, Biden Administration officials have repeatedly tried to
walk back their undeniable support for decimating our police departments.
The
Demise of American Citizenship. American citizenship and its one-of-a-kind written contract with the central
government, the Constitution with its Bill of Rights, is under relentless assault by the nation's governing establishment and
teetering on the edge of meaninglessness. No nation can maintain its status as a nation without secure and identifiable
borders. Citizenship means nothing if untold millions of illegal immigrants openly defy the laws without consequence.
It is estimated that 22 million illegals resided in the United States as of 2018. Responding to an explicit invitation
from the Biden administration, another 2+ million have walked unchallenged across the border in the past 18 months.
These so-called undocumented immigrants are becoming legally indistinguishable from citizens as they openly reside in 500 sanctuary
jurisdictions, receive welfare, education and medical care, are granted drivers licenses, and given tuition breaks at public
universities as they, not legal immigrants or American citizens, are exempt from federal immigration, health and travel laws.
How
Did Democrats Become So Out of Touch With the American People? The republic is not in good shape.
Unforced foreign policy blunders, such as the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, embarrass America on the world stage. Our
homeland territorial integrity has never been more undermined, as a wide-open southern border permits an unprecedented flow
of smugglers, traffickers and other miscreants. Homicide and other violent crime, which skyrocketed in the 2020 "summer
of love" riots, continue to spike; the New York City subway is unsafe, and Chicago is a veritable war zone. Mobocracy
runs amok; a sitting Supreme Court justice just faced a near-assassination attempt. Inflation, now over 9% and smacking
those lower on the economic ladder, is at a four-decade high; the national average for gasoline is well over $4 per gallon.
France
to turn lights off at night. French President Emmanuel Macron [...] is telling French citizens to engage in
energy "sobriety" and to prepare for even higher food prices. Macron added, "From now on, I will ask public bodies, and
all companies that can, to consume less. We will create a program and try to use lighting less in the evenings.
We are launching a load reduction and sobriety program. We have to prepare for a scenario in which we have to give up
Russian gas completely." [...] And France is by no means alone. California, the erstwhile Golden State, the Land of
Milk and Honey — and Hollywood — says it expects periodic blackouts this summer as the power runs
low. In fact, California has struggled to keep the power on the past two summers, due to progressive policies that
range from the nonsensical to the insane. France is not engaged in war with Russia but is using the war as an excuse to
demand energy "sobriety" from her citizens. California is not fighting Russia either.
State
conservation bill from '19 could be to blame for increased shark presence. Great whites and other sharks have
been coming close to Long Island beaches this year to feast on a particular kind of bait fish that has been flourishing in
New York waters ever since the state legislature voted unanimously to preserve it three years ago. With the population
of Atlantic menhaden booming, sharks are swimming into shore like tourists bellying up to a buffet, and in the process, they
are coming close to bathers — with disastrous results, experts told The [New York] Post. "The reason why
people are interacting with sharks more often this year and more than last year is because of conservation efforts over the
years [that] has protected a food source known as the Atlantic menhaden," Frank Quevedo, executive director of the South Fork
Natural History Museum Shark Research and Education Program, told The Post.
How
Did Democrats Become So Out of Touch With the American People? The president of the United States, equal parts
senescent and feckless, garners record-shattering low approval ratings seemingly each week. [...] It is not difficult to
figure out why. The republic is not in good shape. Unforced foreign policy blunders, such as the botched
Afghanistan withdrawal, embarrass America on the world stage. Our homeland territorial integrity has never been more
undermined, as a wide-open southern border permits an unprecedented flow of smugglers, traffickers and other
miscreants. Homicide and other violent crime, which skyrocketed in the 2020 "summer of love" riots, continue to spike;
the New York City subway is unsafe, and Chicago is a veritable war zone. Mobocracy runs amok; a sitting Supreme Court
justice just faced a near-assassination attempt. Inflation, now over 9% and smacking those lower on the economic
ladder, is at a four-decade high; the national average for gasoline is well over $4 per gallon.
The Left Should
Be Happy with Biden. The Left should be ecstatic that Joe Biden has given them everything they wanted.
The Left likes inflation. It reduces the value of old money by printing lots of new money. Those richer who have
it, lose the value of their money; those poorer who don't have any money, suddenly do. When combined with low interest
rates, inflation roars even louder. Not since Jimmy Carter has a Democrat been so insistent on inflating the money supply.
Why
Is Conservative Media Calling a Male Rapist by Feminine Pronouns? It's hard to know whether to laugh or cry
when leftists insist that "men get pregnant" or refer to mothers as "birthing people" and otherwise ignore the material
reality of biological sex. While we've generally understood that this is the latest cause célèbre of the
radical left, we don't really expect conservative media to follow suit. Yet the recent case of a male inmate at a New
Jersey women's prison who impregnated two inmates has shown that conservative media has also been successfully pressured to
kowtow to the transgender cult, the Media Research Center has found.
The Long March to
Nowhere. [Scroll down] Americans harbor a healthy skepticism of intrusive government and an intolerance
for useless, broken institutions. An institution is a tool with which to address a social need. Schools should
teach. Companies should turn a profit. Government agencies should be primarily concerned with the activity stated
in their name (Commerce, Health, Defense, etc...). And so on. The Left has a nasty habit of tool abuse. Any
organization that progressives infest is inevitably subverted to advance their agenda, to the detriment of its official
purpose. And so, schools preach. Companies insult their customers. The Commerce Department destroys
industries. The CDC actively makes people sick. The Department of Defense punishes soldiers who don't bow to the
ideological flavor of the month. Which lately involves cross-dressing. [...] Americans, being practical people, will
sooner or later question the wisdom of supporting or retaining useless tools, or institutions. Some we will abandon and
replace. Disney and the Democratic Party are two that come to mind.
Biden and The
Destruction of Wisdom. There used to be an agreed-on body of wisdom, which both Left and Right, Republicans and
Democrats, generally accepted. Heated arguments and invective centered on implementations and methods of solving
problems, which at least both sides agreed were problems. Both ideologies accepted a common core of wisdom, despite
their radical differences in interpreting it. Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and especially Biden's strange cabinet of loud
Jacobin amateurs, reject the very hallowed knowledge upon which civilization is based. In that sense the public has
begun to recognize them as nihilist and anarchist. Nearly two out of three Americans in some polls hold unfavorable
views of the Biden Administration. They fear that it is decoupled from both the past and reality, and quite capable of
destroying their lives as they have known them.
Transgender
woman who impregnated 2 inmates removed from N.J.'s female prison. A transgender inmate who impregnated two
women while incarcerated at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women has been moved to a new facility, according to the
Department of Corrections. Demi Minor, 27, was transferred to Garden State Youth Correctional Facility, a prison for
young adult offenders in Burlington County, last month, Dan Sperrazza, a Department of Corrections spokesman, said. He
said the DOC moved Minor to the vulnerable unit at the facility and that she is currently the only woman prisoner on the
site. Sperrazza said he could not comment on the DOC's specific housing actions in Minor's case because of policies
around privacy.
After
18 Months of Biden, Have We Hit Bottom Yet? The latest data confirm the destruction that he and his fellow Democrats have wrought:
• Inflation stood at 1.4%, year over year, in January 2021. By June 2022, that figure was 9.1%, the worst such increase in the Consumer Price Index since November 1981.
• Gross domestic product grew 6.4% in 2021's first quarter. In the first quarter of 2022, GDP shrank 1.6%.
• The Dow Jones Industrial Average was 31,188 on Jan. 20, 2021. The Dow closed Wednesday at 30,722. Pension savings, 401(k) plans, and other investment portfolios have shriveled under Biden.
• The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index measures short-term expectations for income, business, and labor markets. That metric has slid from 92.5 in January 2021 to 66.4 last month -- its lowest level since March 2013.
• The National Federation of Independent Business' Small Business Optimism Index has retreated on Biden's watch from 95.0 to 89.5 -- its weakest showing since January 2013 under the Obama-Biden administration. [...]
• West Texas Intermediate crude oil traded for $53.24 per barrel as Biden took over. It sold Wednesday [7/13/2022] for $96.87 -- up 82%. A gallon of regular gasoline cost $2.39 as Biden arrived. It hit $5.01 before easing to $4.63 on Wednesday -- up 93.7% since Trump jetted off to Mar-a-Lago.
• Border Patrol agents apprehended 754,538 illegal aliens during Trump's final 16 months in office (Oct. 1, 2019, through Jan. 31, 2021 -- including Biden's first 11 days). In Biden's first full 16 months in power (Feb. 1, 2021, through May 31), Border Patrol confronted a stunning 2,975,135 illegal aliens -- up a staggering 394%.
The
U.S. Misery Index Worsens as Unchecked Bidenflation Grows. The U.S. government announced Wednesday that June's
federal inflation numbers increased to a staggering 9.06% — a 40-year high. According to the official Bureau
of Labor Statistics (BLS) news release, inflation is being felt keenly and across the board: [...] From the updated BLS data,
economists quantify the economic health of the country. To do so, they add the current U.S. unemployment rate, which is
a stagnant 3.6%, to the current rate of U.S. inflation, which is a jarring 9.06%, to produce a snapshot of the country's
economy. The result is known as the U.S. Misery Index.
Producer
Price Index Hits Peak 11.3 Percent Inflation Driven by Biden Energy Policy — Service Prices Now Indicate
Recession. The "Producer Price Index" (PPI) is essentially the tracking of wholesale prices at three
stages: Origination (commodity), Intermediate (processing), and then Final (to wholesale). Today, the Bureau of
Labor and Statistics (BLS) released June price data showing another 11.3% increase year-over-year in Final Demand products at
the wholesale level. Overall, the wholesale inflation rate is being driven by energy prices. The June calculation
shows exactly that problem with energy prices embedded in goods driving 10% of the price increase.
The Editor says...
Yes, gas and grocery prices have gone up rapidly in the last year or so, but have you bought 9-volt batteries lately?
They used to be 69 cents apiece, and they're now over five dollars each.
Glenn
Beck Asks Five Important Questions About The Tragic Story Of The Ten-Year-Old Ohioan. One of the biggest
stories in national media right now has been, in one form or another, about how a ten-year-old-girl was raped, got
impregnated, and due to her residency in the state of Ohio was forced to travel to Indiana for an abortion. The story
took off after Joe Biden referenced it in the immediate aftermath of leftist outrage over Roe's overturning at the Supreme
Court. Mind you, abortion was not made illegal with that ruling; it was simply returned to the states to decide on a
course of action. After all, nothing in the Constitution lays out a legal framework for federalizing infanticide.
It shouldn't even be an issue, and it certainly shouldn't have been decided in 1973 that rights were magically found in
penumbras, but that's judicial activism for you. Because the corrupt leftist media is in bed with the even
more corrupt Biden Occupation, the story conveniently left out the fact that the alleged victim was raped by a monstruous
illegal alien and pretended that the real problem was that she couldn't attain an abortion in her home state. They said
nothing of the act of rape itself or the fact that it was perpetrated by one of countless illegals welcomed into the country
by the party of open borders.
Eva
Vlaardingerbroek Summarizes all the Merging Food, Energy and Farming Issues with Stark Advice to Americans. Eva
Vlaardingerbroek is a GB News correspondent and conservative voice from Holland. In this interview segment with NTDNews
Ms. Vlaardingerbroek outlines what is happening in the Netherlands with the Dutch farm protests and how it connects to
the larger Agenda 2030 goals. In the last 20 seconds of the segment, Vlaardingerbroek has some solid advice for
Americans. [Video clip]
Cataloguing
Biden's Ineptitude On Inflation. The public would do well to ignore anything Biden says about inflation, given
his horrible track record when it comes to this topic. Since prices started their upward climb in March 2021, Biden has
by turns claimed that it was the result of a booming economy, that it was temporary, that it was the result of supply chain
bottlenecks, and most recently that Vladimir Putin is to blame[.] When not making fact-free claims like those, Biden simply
lies. Take his oft-repeated claim that Europeans have it far worse on inflation. Even Newsweek magazine felt
obliged to conclude in its fact check "that Biden's statement that U.S. inflation is the 'lowest of almost every major
nation' is largely inaccurate." We don't expect readers to simply take our word for it that Biden has been out to lunch
on inflation. So we assembled a handy chart showing the annualized rate of inflation each month since January 2020.
It matches up that record with statements Biden made about inflation.
How to Cure Inflation. The
Bureau of Labor Statistics released two reports Wednesday morning [7/13/2022] that confirm the fiscal incompetence of the
Biden administration and its confederates on Capitol Hill. The BLS reported that the Consumer Price Index rose yet
again in June: "Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 9.1 percent before seasonal adjustment."
The BLS also released its Real Earnings Summary: "Real average hourly earnings decreased 3.6 percent, seasonally
adjusted, from June 2021 to June 2022." In May, President Joe Biden announced, "I want every American to know that I'm
taking inflation very seriously and it's my top domestic priority." Other than blame-shifting and bluster, however, his
plan to fix it has been all but invisible. Consequently, a number of polls indicate that a majority of Americans
believe Biden and the Democrats bear the responsibility for inflation.
Inflation
Hits 9.1 Percent in June, New 40-Year High. The U.S. annual inflation rate climbed to 9.1 percent in June,
reaching its highest level since November 1981 and topping the market estimate of 8.8 percent and May's annual rate of
8.6 percent. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the consumer price index (CPI) rose by 1.3 percent
month-over-month. The monthly inflation also was higher than economists' expectations of 1.1 percent. While the
core inflation rate, which removes the volatile food and energy sectors, eased to 5.9 percent, that was higher than the
forecast of 5.7 percent. On a monthly basis, core inflation rose at a higher-than-expected pace of 0.7 percent.
Food prices soared by 10.4 percent, while the energy index advanced by 41.6 percent.
The
Rise of Black Girly Men. I've noticed that when media represent so-called "transgender" men and highly
effeminate males, they are often black. Perhaps far too many people are desensitized to the pollution in our mass media
to notice the disproportionate number of high-profile effeminate black men showcased in high rotation in all mass
communication media. These "gender-fluid" celebrities all display a common exaggerated and dramatically "flaming"
exhibitionistic effeminate behavior. It is my simple observation that whenever the secular humanist liberal class
desires to impose non-traditional values into the public square, they often employ compromised black individuals or assume
"black causes" to advance their self-serving agenda. These elites care nothing for blacks or America, just their own
pursuits. The elites use blacks as human shields, as window dressing to manipulate, deflect, suppress, and silence any
debate, dissent, or opposition from the majority of Americans who fear airing ideas or opinions that would result in being
labeled as racists, homophobic, fascists, or all three.
Inflation
jumps to 9.1%, highest in four decades. Inflation accelerated to an explosive 9.1% for the 12 months ending in
June, according to the consumer price index, the highest level in four decades. The much-anticipated numbers reported
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Wednesday revealed that inflation is still soaring, despite the Federal Reserve's interest
rate hikes, and is near the worst it has been since the Great Inflation that helped bring President Ronald Reagan to office.
How
Angela Merkel's Green Agenda Caused the Economic Collapse of Germany. Remember how the world, especially the
American media, fawned over former German Chancellor Angela Merkel? The adoration was so over the top that in 2015 Time
magazine named Merkel its "Person of the Year." It described her as the "Chancellor of the Free World." Time owes
whatever readers it has left a solemn apology. Today, Germans are suffering the bitter fruits of nearly every major
economic and geopolitical decision Merkel made as chancellor. Start with the German economy that she attempted to reset
for the 21st century, which is reminiscent of how President Joe Biden explains to inflation-weary voters that we are going
through "an incredible transition." But Merkel's Germany was ahead of us in its "transition." Today, the German
economy is in tatters.
Biden's
Twin Dumpster Fires: Raging Inflation and Open Borders. Faced with several serious domestic and foreign
policy problems all at once, the Biden administration's reaction has been so catastrophically incoherent, it's hard to know
whether to blame leftist ideology or just plain incompetence. Inflation hits all of us right now. [...] Meanwhile, the
effects of rampant illegal immigration are felt insidiously by most of us in crowded schools, the flow of illegal drugs, more
expensive health care, and numerous other social costs, but they are hitting especially fast and hard in border communities.
After 17 months of record illegal immigration, the leaders of several Texas border counties have reached their limit in
responding to the catastrophe. They have just declared that they are under invasion, in an effort to get Homeland Security
Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to enforce immigration law and protect them from an unprecedented, unchecked flood of illegal
entrants — more than 1.5 million apprehended at the border just since October.
When Governments Do Truly STUPID Things.
They tend to collapse spectacularly and the "powers that be" almost-never survive politically — and frequently
physically. Sri Lanka is the latest example; they are literally bankrupt, having bought into the "green" thing and
then... oops. The root causes were many, but chief among them were overspending and a commitment to "green" farming
practices, which decimated crop yields, spiked prices and then of course here comes higher oil costs. The combination
proved fatal to the economy. "The rich" are being literally chased down and slaughtered, with "rich" being defined as
"has something, when we have nothing." The President fled the nation and, at least report, the Presidential home has been
stormed by protestors.
Dear
Democrats, THIS Is What Your Oppressive Global Initiatives Lead To. After suffering from weeks of brutal food
and fuel shortages, as well as crippling inflation, Sri Lankans have had enough. Riots have broken out throughout the
impoverished country. Police have used tear gas and water cannons but to little effect. Shortly after thousands
of angry citizens stormed the presidential palace, even going so far as to swim in his pool, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya
Rajapaksa declared that he will step down. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe agreed to resign as well after his home
was torched. [Tweets with video clips]
'Complete
Collapse': Here's How ESG Destroyed One Nation's Economy. Sri Lanka is in a last-ditch effort to stave off
economic collapse after an allegedly climate-friendly ban on artificial fertilizers devastated one of the country's largest
industries, according to experts. Sri Lanka has been wracked with poverty, inflation and fuel shortages on a massive
scale, with the Prime Minister declaring Tuesday that the country has gone "bankrupt," according to Business Insider. A
ban on chemical fertilizers, implemented April 2021 in an effort to promote organic farming, proved the final straw after a
string of missteps, decimating Sri Lanka's primary source of income and forcing it into bankruptcy, experts told The Daily
Caller News Foundation. "Our economy has faced a complete collapse," Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said on June
23, according to CNN. The government lifted the fertilizer ban in November 2021, but the damage had already been done,
Peter Earle, a former financial markets trader and economist at the American Institute for Economic Research, told The DCNF.
Protesters
Storm Presidential Palace in Sri Lanka After Climate Hysteria Destroys the Nation. Sri Lanka is in the middle
of a full-scale collapse after the president announced the nation is "bankrupt," having run out of both money and
energy. Hundreds of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets, and things have devolved into a dystopian
nightmare. In the last several hours, the presidential palace was taken over by a sea of people, angry at the
government for putting them in such a precarious position. And as I'll explain, Sri Lanka's woes were not only
avoidable but were purposely brought on to please climate change fanatics in faraway lands. [Tweet] Sri Lanka's
government has been implementing ESG policies (environment, social, and governance) for years, following the lead of the
World Economic Forum. That includes banning agrochemicals such as fertilizers in an effort to lower nitrogen
emissions. Flowery tales of "organic" farming and saving the planet have now been replaced with horror, as the island
nation's top exports have been laid to waste. People are starving, they can't get gas or electricity, and none of the
globalists who used Sri Lanka as a testbed for their green fantasies are coming to help.
Where
Science Ends and Morality Begins. Under the Biden administration, we are getting a foretaste of a green
future. The high costs of gasoline, heating oil, and electricity; the consequent high prices of everything else; the
food shortages; and economic recessions will all be permanent features of a green America. Tried flying lately?
Consider the phase-out of air travel to be already underway. Supply chain problems causing empty shelves at the
store? Not to worry; when "buy local" is your only choice, you won't have to worry about supply chains. Don't
like arbitrary government mandates? Don't like what the COVID lockdowns did to your constitutional rights? Don't
like seeing the rule of law abandoned before your eyes — from our open southern border to the homes of our Supreme
Court justices? Consider all this your introduction to socialist governance.
Army
Training Says Soldiers Must Shower with Transgender Persons of Opposite Sex. An Army training slide obtained by
Breitbart News instructs soldiers to shower with transgender members of the opposite sex even if they have not undergone a
surgical transition. The training slide offers a "vignette" instructing soldiers on what to do if they encounter a
female soldier who identifies as male according to the Department of Defense's personnel tracking system known as Defense
Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS), but has not surgically transitioned and still has "female genitalia."
The
Disappearing American? During the nearly two-year-long COVID-19 shutdown and economic downturn, firms cut costs
by laying off millions of employees. As a result, some in their early- or mid-60s simply retired early and never came
back to work. Federal and state governments also vastly expanded financial support to the unemployed. Other
workers figured they would not make all that much more by working and so are staying home on government checks. Still
other former full-time employees became used to the new, more leisurely lifestyle and are loath to return to a full 40-hour
work week. Employers also are now convinced that a hard recession is on the early 2023 horizon when the trillions of
dollars of newly printed money run out. Many are willing to put up with worker shortages now, rather than hire too many
employees only to have them idle when consumer demand soon crashes.
Did
reefer drive the Highland Park parade 'killer' Robert Crimo to madness? Those who knew the 21-year-old suspect,
Robert Crimo III, say he habitually smoked cannabis, a habit he appeared to share with young mass shooters, including at
Uvalde, Dayton, Parkland and Aurora. Obviously weed didn't make them commit their evil acts, but it may have scrambled
their brains enough for empathy to take a holiday. As the country rushes headlong into the embrace of Big Weed, we need
to heed the warning signs, not least in the scientific literature that increasingly shows that cannabis triggers psychosis,
and in the emergency rooms where mentally ill kids are the living proof of its harms. The higher the potency of THC,
the worse it is, especially for the developing adolescent brain.
The greatest threat
to "democracy" is from our elected representatives. Federal policies have caused inflation to hit a 40-year
high of 8.6% (or, using Carter-era calculations, 16%) for this past year, with energy prices rising 34.6%, eggs up 32.2%, and
gas prices up nearly 50%. The cost of meat — ground beef, steaks, pork, poultry — might more than
double next year, as the costs to raise livestock skyrockets. The average national price for gas exceeded $5 for the
first time in history, causing the typical American household to spend "$160 more on gas a month than a year ago."
Overall, "typical US household is spending about $460 more every month than they did last year to purchase the same basket of
goods and services." That's a penalty of at least $5,520 per year for the average American household. But don't
worry, CNN promises "inflation can actually be a good thing for many working-class Americans" and the dumbest person at the
New York Times thinks inflation is no big deal. In reality, for many Americans, this merely adds to the pressure of
significant increases in home and rental prices, and the soaring costs of college and health care. The government has
priced the future out of the American dream.
Netherlands
farmers, fisherman revolt against government greenie impositions. Greenie policies have destroyed Sri Lanka and
Pakistan, and they destroy pretty much any economy wherever they go. The revolt has now hit the Netherlands. [...] The
government passed a greenie law to cut nitrogen and carbon emissions by 50% by 2030 and then blandly declared that, yah, yah,
"the honest message ... is that not all farmers can continue their business." So for the Dutch farmers, who are among the
world's most productive, who feed a continent and beyond from their tiny artificially created landscape, with, yes, cows,
which are all about creating this newly created problem of nitrogen as well as cow-[emission] carbon, are suddenly the
target. They've got to quit producing and die. Pay no attention to the fact that not every nation can sustain
cows but would like to buy beef and leather and gelatin and milk and all the other things cows produce. They all will
now see shortages at the supermarkets and, worse still, shortages of cow "byproducts," which are sold as crop-saving
fertilizer around the world. Pay no attention to the unintended consequences the Dutch farmers are warning about.
The tsentral planners have spoken, and now the cows must die. Too bad about the farms and farmers and consumers.
Yes, You
CAN Blame Biden For High Energy Prices. [O]n May 12, Biden's Interior Department blocked a proposal to open up
more than one million acres of land in Alaska for oil and gas drilling. Two days later, Biden's Environmental
Protection Agency blocked plans to expand an oil refinery in the US Virgin Islands. Biden and his defenders said he had
to block the expansion of the Virgin Islands refinery, given how polluting it was. But had Biden's EPA allowed the
Virgin Island refinery to expand, the owners would have poured nearly $3 billion into retrofitting the plant so it produced
gasoline and other products more cleanly, while significantly increasing production at the same time. Furthermore,
anybody who cares about air pollution and climate change should want more oil and gas drilling, not less. US emissions
declined 22% between 2005 and 2020, mostly because cheap natural gas has replaced coal.
The
Bait Car of History. Sometimes it seems the 2020 presidential elections was history's equivalent of a bait car,
a trap for those who thought it was a prize. "Over the last 18 months, as we have confronted a range of unanticipated
global challenges — from Covid variants to Putin's war", National Economic Council Director Brian Deese told CNN.
"Give us a plan or give us someone to blame," one exasperated House Democrat said. The administration is jinxed and it
would be nicer for the Democrats if the whole catastrophe had befallen Donald Trump instead; but it's too late now.
The Editor says...
Obviously "the whole catastrophe [would never have] befallen Donald Trump," because Joe Biden aggressively un-did everything
Trump had accomplished, whereas Donald Trump would have let the post-Covid recovery continue. Joe Biden — or
whoever makes his decisions — is entirely to blame for five-dollar gasoline, billions wasted in Afghanistan,
vaccine mandates, crime without punishment, dangerously high inflation, the wide-open Mexican border, the baby formula
shortage, and drag queens at the public library.
Immoral
Democrats Make Excuses, Blame Others, and Divide. [Scroll down] America's economy is on the brink of
recession. Inflation is through the roof. Americans are struggling with the worst price increases in their
lifetimes at the gas pump and in the supermarket. Parents are desperate to find baby formula. Could it be that
printing and spending trillions of dollars during the pandemic was shortsighted? Is it possible that out-of-control
U.S. debt and central bank "quantitative easing" devalue the dollar over time? Is it likely that President Biden's
Green New Deal policies have had their intended effect: to make it more difficult for energy companies to drill and refine
hydrocarbon energy in the United States? Is it possible that the administrative state's often-mindless issuance of
regulations and rules for private businesses has inadvertently produced a nationwide infant formula shortage? That
would make too much sense.
The
Coincidence of Crises. COVID-19, Joe Biden, and Russian-Ukrainian 'crises' are pages from the same playbook
written by an international clique that controls both sides. [...] The Keystone Pipeline, French nuclear plants, and German
coal plants have all been intentionally and simultaneously shuttered under the façade of the convenient eternal enemy of
'Climate Change'. A paltry sum of Russian foreign exchange reserves — already recouped by Russia due to the
skyrocketing price of oil instigated by Biden and his cronies — was illegally seized, providing Russia ample
casus belli to demand payment only in rubles. Rather than ceasing to purchase Russian oil altogether, it is
simply sold to Europe through India, further bolstering the oil industry and the Russian economy. [...] Russia, Ukraine, and
Belarus, constituting some of the largest producers of wheat and fertilizer in the world, were 'forced' to shutter their
exports, just as there has been a dramatic and inorganic uptick in farm and food processing plant 'accidents' which
conveniently avoided all of WEF-aligned Bill Gates' agricultural assets. The ruble strengthens every week in tandem
with both the price of oil and the controlled collapse of the dollar through inflationary money-printing.
No
one should be forced to declare their pronouns. Look closely next time you pop into your local bank, department
store or supermarket and you'll notice an addition to the uniforms of put-upon cashiers and clerks: the pronoun badge.
It might be a little rainbow pin displaying 'he/him/his' in bold letters, or, far less often, 'they/them/their'. Or it might
be a small rectangle featuring the company logo alongside the employee's name and pronouns. Pronoun badges have been
around for a few years now, but in that time they have moved from the fringe to the mainstream. They are no longer the
preserve of over-enthusiastic Student Union reps or tie-dyed Labour Party conference attendees. They've migrated on to
the High Street. Pride month is the perfect opportunity for companies lagging behind to catch up, and for those who
have long been on the bandwagon to remind the world of their virtue. Halifax is one of many banks that now expects
employees to declare their pronouns.
Concerned
Graduates of West Point Challenge Leadership of Military Academy: Letter. Three retired U.S. military
officers — LTG Thomas McInerney, USAF; MG Paul Vallely, U.S. Army; and Colonel Andrew O'Meara Jr., U.S.
Army — signed a letter authored by "Concerned Graduates of West Point and The Long Gray Line," protesting against
mandatory vaccinations, CRT classes, sanitary conditions, progressive political activism, and other "woke actions," in the
military academy. "The Long Gray Line" refers to the continuum of graduates United States Military Academy at West
Point, New York. "We wanted to challenge the leadership of the Academy and the Defense Dept on their WOKE actions, CRT,
Diversity training and the other discrepancies in the Academy. We found it pervasive at the Naval and Air Force
Academies so we knew it was directed from the highest levels of our Military Leadership," Vallely told The Epoch Times.
Americans
Are 'Collateral Damage' In Dems' Insane War On Energy. Maybe the Jan. 6 hearings are, as some assert, really
about distracting Americans from the Democrats' shocking policy failures. How else can one explain the refusal of
President Joe Biden and the Democratic Congress to address our ongoing energy crisis? And, no, it's no exaggeration to
call this a crisis. With consumer prices rising at a four-decade-high of 8.6% in the most recent year-over-year
comparison, Americans are watching their standard of living fall fast. A just-released national survey has found that
83% of U.S. households are cutting their personal spending and travel due to soaring inflation. These cutbacks are
being driven almost entirely by energy costs, which have spiked nearly 35% in the past year.
The Invisible
Power Controlling the US Government. I have written extensively on inverted totalitarianism, that being the
once nascent, now entrenched form of government that truly controls the levers of federal power in the United States.
This behemoth has turned the USA into a "managed democracy"; a bureaucracy which cannot be held accountable by the elected
representatives of the people. Sometimes called the 4th estate, this monster is also referred to as the "deep state"
the civil service, or the administrative state. Inverted totalitarianism does not have an authoritarian leader, but
instead is run by a non-transparent group of bureaucrats. This unelected, invisible ruling class runs the country from
within. They are easily influenced by corporate interests due to both the lure of powerful jobs after federal
employment and the capture of our legislative bodies by the lobbyists serving concealed corporate interests.
The Astonishing
Implications of Schedule F. The administrative state for the better part of a century, and really dating back
to the Pendleton Act of 1883, has designed policy, made policy, structured policy, implemented policy, and interpreted policy
while operating outside the control of Congress, the president, and the judiciary. [...] From 2020 and onward, the American
people got to know this administrative state well. They ordered us to wear masks. They deployed their influence
to close small businesses and churches. They limited how many people we could have in our homes. They festooned
our businesses with plexiglass and told everyone to stay six-feet apart. They demanded two weeks of quarantine when
crossing state borders. They decided which medical procedures were elective and non-elective. And they finally
demanded compliance with vaccine mandates at the penalty of job loss. None of this was ordered by legislation. It
was all invented on the spot by the permanent staff of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We had no idea
they had such power. But they do. And that same power which allowed those egregious attacks on rights and
liberties also belongs to the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Labor, the Environmental Protection Agency, the
Department of Agriculture, the Department of Homeland Security, and all the rest.
The
Military Went Woke. Now It Can't Find Recruits. The military is facing the worst recruiting environment
since the end of the Vietnam War. The Army is at only 40% of its recruiting numbers for the fiscal year despite raising
its maximum enlistment bonus from $40,000 to $50,000. It now offers new recruits up to $10,000 for showing up to basic
training in 30 days. And is no longer even asking them for a high school diploma. "We've never offered $50,000 to
join the Army," Maj. Gen. Kevin Vereen, head of U.S. Army Recruiting Command, said. While the Army runs
anime lesbian wedding ads, it's pushing away the recruits it needs, young patriotic men from traditional backgrounds.
When the Biden administration's brass decided to mandate vaccinations, they automatically rejected the 60% of potential
recruits who aren't.
US
Army Drops High School Diploma Requirement as Military Faces Unprecedented Challenges Under Joe Biden. After
completely bending the knee to woke ideology and gutting itself with unconstitutional mandates that forced an experimental
and dangerous vaccine, the US Military is taking the hacksaw to the standards that are used to find and train new recruits as
the Armed Forces struggle through what some officials are calling the "most challenging recruiting year ever." In
addition to lowering almost every single physical qualification for new recruits to pass their initial training, the US Army
has now dropped its requirement that recruits must have a high school diploma or a G.E.D. degree in a desperate effort to
attract new blood into the ranks.
The
degradation of our military. I believe that the Biden Administration, most Democrats, and a good number of
so-called Republicans are dedicated to the destruction of the traditional USA by various means: economic, political,
cultural, immigration, and military. This essay addresses that last listed avenue of destruction — the
military. Napoleon Bonaparte is often quoted as saying that "An army marches on its stomach," meaning that no Army can
move without food. I would submit that, today, in addition to food, an Army cannot march without fossil fuels.
The complicated logistics of modern life and warfare require reliable, consistent, and readily available fuels. The
reduction in our military capabilities is the most frightening, imminent, and insidious threat to our very existence.
LGBTQ
agenda emasculating police in Columbus. Police in Columbus, Ohio, have a new vehicle in their law enforcement
lineup — a shiny white SUV painted in Pride Month glory in glossy rainbow stripes and adorned with the movement's
signature phrase, "Love Is Love." And all the criminals go: Yay. This is worse than "defund the police."
At least defunding means cops exit, stage left, with their dignity intact. But this — this police cruiser
blasting out pro-Pride messages with unicorn and fairy-like, cupcake-frosting fancy — this is emasculating the
police. And that's worse because Columbus can claim that it staffs its police force and that it fully supports law
enforcement — all the while Not.
America
Is More Fragile Than the Left Understands. Our major cities are no longer safe. Somehow, the Left has
nearly wrecked San Francisco in less than a decade. A once beautiful and vibrant city is lawless, dirty, toxic, often
boarded up, and losing population. It has turned into a medieval keep of well-protected knights in secure fiefs while
everyone else is engaged in a bellum omnium contra omnes. We know it is so because California public officials
talk of anything and everything — Roe v Wade, transitions to electric cars, hundreds of millions
of dollars in COVID-19 relief for illegal aliens — to mask their utter impotence to address feces in the street,
the random assaults on the vulnerable, and the inability to park a car and return to it intact. Ditto the Dodge City
downtowns of Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Baltimore, Washington, and a host of others. In just four or five
years, they have given up on fully funding the police, aggressive prosecutors indicting the violent, and ubiquitous civil
servants ensuring the streets are free of trash, vermin, flotsam, jetsam, and human excrement.
Hundreds
of NYC prosecutors [are] quitting [because of] woke bosses and onerous reforms. The number of prosecutors
fleeing the city's district attorneys offices has spiraled in the wake of criminal justice reforms that have created what one
ex-top prosecutor called "insanity." Sixty five assistant district attorneys, or about 12 percent of the staff, have
resigned so far this year from Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's office, up from about 44 through the end of March. During all
of 2021, 97 ADAs quit. The situation is nearly the same in the office of Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez, where 67 of some
500 prosecutors, or about 13 percent, have also called it quits as of June 17. Another three resigned on Thursday, according
to a source. That is compared to 84 who left in all of 2020 and 94 last year. In the Bronx, 59 prosecutors have
walked from January through May. Reps from the Queens and Staten Island DA offices did not respond to requests for data.
We
Are Witnessing What Happens When Unrestrained Youth Gets Power. When most of us think of the worst emperors in
Roman history we think of names like Commodus, Nero, Caligula, and Elagabalus. To a man they were vain, self-centered,
bloodthirsty hedonists who took what they wanted and tortured and killed many thousands of Romans and provincials. [...]
Every day in America we see modern-day Commoduses or Caligulas wreaking havoc on our streets and in our stores, restaurants,
schools, and more. Instead of a single entitled Emperor, America in 2022 is being ravaged by a generation of young
men — many of whom have grown up fatherless — who have been told that they can do and say anything they
want and that, regardless of what they do, there will be no consequences for them. Just as Elagabalus et al
brought nothing but blood, despair, and dysfunction to the Empire, these 21st-century youth are bringing blood, despair, and
destruction to America. A generation of Americans has grown up being given "time outs", "participation trophies," and
grades that have nothing to do with actual academic success, while at the same time they've been told that all inequality is
due to racism, sexism, homophobia, or anything other than individual choices or actions. The consequence of this
indoctrination is that far too many young Americans think they can do anything with impunity. If they want something
they take it.
Tucker
Carlson savages Republican politicians' disrespect for Americans. Despite the media's covering for Biden,
people have noticed raging inflation, a recession, lawlessness, broken borders, a tenderness for Ukraine denied to America,
cultivated race-hatred, efforts to disarm law-abiding citizens, and the arrogance of the LGBTQ+++ crowd — and they
don't like any of it. It turns out that mean tweets aren't so bad when compared to a government that's hostile to its
own citizens. The Democrats' intentional mismanagement is so extreme that the party is losing Hispanics and blacks in
droves. In theory, this should be a golden age for Republicans. It's not, though, and that's the fault of the
Republican political class, few of whom seem to embrace conservatism or Americans.
Six major cities
on pace to pass historic 2021 violent crime totals halfway through 2022. Violent crimes are on the rise in six
of America's major cities and set to outpace the already historic levels of 2021 violent crime. Baltimore, Los Angeles,
Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Atlanta, and New York City are all on pace to break their 2021 levels of violent crime halfway
through this year, with the nation's largest city leading the group, according to crime data reviewed by Fox News. New
York City has seen a 25.8% jump in violent crime at this point in 2022 compared to the same time in 2021, despite seeing a
small decrease in the amount of homicides recorded in the city. Violent crime, which is typically defined as homicide,
rape, assault, and robbery, had already been on the rise since 2020. Homicides have been one of the factors driving up
rates of violent crime, rising 30% from 2019 to 2020 and another 5% between 2020 and 2021.
How
liberal policies have killed black communities. Michael Pack: You have talked a little today about how
life in the black community has not been improved by many well-intentioned social programs. Do you think, in some
sense, it is worse than when you grew up? Clarence Thomas: It's a disaster. When I grew up, you had family,
you didn't have drugs, you didn't have gang-banging. You could walk down the street. There was a change in our
society. I think that these programs certainly had an impact. Just go back to Savannah and take a look around
you. Our worst fears were realized. We didn't want to be right; we wanted to be wrong. It wasn't about
winning an argument. No, we wanted to lose the argument. We did not want the damage to occur; that's why we were
involved. I don't particularly like public life; I never wanted to be in public life. I'd like to go to football
games. I'd like not to make decisions about other people's lives, but what drags you into it is when you see these
principles being undermined, which leads to such destruction. The policies destroy people, and, ultimately, I think,
we're going to destroy the very thing that allows us to have liberty and to have a free society.
Do
Republicans Even Know What Democrats Did to Them With This Anti-Gun Bill? The economy is primed to enter a
recession as the second-quarter report is bound to show another period of economic contraction. The supply chain crisis
is still ongoing. The pain at the gas pump lingers. Inflation is torching the wallets of working Americans.
American mothers still can't find baby formula. The southern border remains a mess. There is not a single crisis
that's being managed in any meaningful way. Biden's crew has done nothing. They can't even get a WNBA star out of
Russia who's supposedly being unlawfully detained.
The
Great Biden Recession of 2022 Is Already Here. Last week, I was invited to testify before a House committee
hearing titled: "How the Biden American Rescue Plan Saved the Economy and Lives." I am not making this up. Can
you imagine taking a victory lap, given our current conditions? I told the Democrats on the committee that the idea
that Congress would hold a hearing like this when the economy is coming unhinged only reinforces the suspicion held by most
people that the Washington swamp is totally out of touch with the lives and hardships of everyday America. The reality
of our predicament is best summarized by JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, who warned investors to "brace yourself" for what he
called a fast-approaching economic "hurricane."
Trans
Suicide Is Not a Response to Bigotry. In 2018, the Heritage Foundation reported suicide rates for individuals
15 years after surgical transition 20 times higher than the that of the population overall. Even in Sweden, with long
availability of transgender medications and surgeries, and social acceptance of transgender individuals, the high suicide
rate is consistent with rates in other locations. Trans activists consistently attribute high suicide rates to
irrational hatred, bullying, and rejection targeted at the individual. However, according to Dr. Paul McHugh,
formerly of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the high numbers of suicides are usually years after surgery.
The trigger, according to Dr. McHugh, is the persistent and undeniable reality that that genital surgery has not
transformed the individual's sex, leading to despair. Perhaps elevated rates of suicides and attempts among
trans-identifying individuals should be no surprise. The whole point of "transition" is that an aspect of an otherwise
healthy body is so unbearable as to justify a lifetime of artificial hormones and multiple irreversible surgeries.
Biden's energy hypocrisy.
Joe Biden promised on the campaign trail in 2020 that he would "transition away from the oil industry," convert to 100 percent
"clean" energy by 2035, and "end fossil fuels." Shortly after taking office, he started to make good on this pledge
by suspending all new gas and oil leases on federal property and ending the Keystone XL pipeline. Now, faced with gas
prices at a record high $5 per gallon and runaway inflation — aka the consequences of his own actions —
Biden is looking for an off-ramp.
The
Coming Economic Storm. Was the Trump presidency, with $2 gas, low unemployment and inflation, peace and
prosperity, the calm before the current economic storm? Did Trump know what lay ahead, teasing out a prediction?
Regardless of what President Trump was alluding to, an economic storm is definitely coming, not just on the horizon but
already taking its toll on hard-working Americans. Inflation is at 8.6 percent, the official government number for the
CPI. This is based on a basket of goods and depending on what is measured and how it is weighted, may misrepresent the
inflation rate facing consumers on a daily basis. For example, the Truflation Dashboard reports inflation at 13.2 percent,
with food costs up 26.5 percent. The producer price index rose 10.8 percent in May, foretelling higher consumer
prices soon reaching store shelves. Small business optimism fell to a new 48 year low. Pessimistic business
owners will not be hiring new employees or expanding their businesses. Many may close up shop instead.
American
decimation: On the front lines of the tearing of our social fabric. When the Hampton Battery was
dedicated here in 1871 to a young Civil War soldier who lost his life protecting the Union at Chancellorsville, Virginia, the
granite monument was a point of pride for residents of this neighborhood. [...] Today, the battery's founder,
Capt. Robert B. Hampton, who was remembered by the men who served under him as a born commander with "the chivalric
nature of an honorable gentleman," is now part of a different carnage in America as he stands watch over an open heroin
market that has taken over the once grand park. Residents say the Civil War statue is literally surrounded by drug
dealers, buyers, and users around the clock. They are getting more aggressive with panhandling, trespassing, and
theft. Just yards away, along the old Pennsylvania canal, a man walks down the street, carrying a brand new patio chair
stolen from the porch of a nearby home, toward the new and growing homeless camp. Last week, there were two tents or
makeshift abodes. Now, there are over a dozen.
To
Fight Marxist Education, We Need a New Kind of School. Those with no understanding of history lack the acumen
to steer the future. Those deprived of great literature remain ill prepared for complex ideas or weighty
emotions. Those who don't first train their minds with the foundations of mathematics and logic lose their potential to
build anything new. To create automatons incapable of dissent or resistance, the Marxists simply destroyed
education. The unsavory result has been that America is now a nation of people with many titles and degrees but
diminished capacity for critical thought and reflection. Just as Congress and the White House work today to disarm
Americans of their constitutionally protected firearms, the successive governments behind the Department of Education's
demolition of public schooling have disarmed too many Americans of their potential for reason and rationality. Anyone
who doubts that unassailable truth need only look around to see a society unable to distinguish men from women, alleviate its
existential angst over ridiculously ludicrous tales of climate apocalypse, or comprehend that the very people who speak
endlessly of "saving democracy" or "fighting fascism" are the same ones destroying democratic institutions and promoting the
State's totalitarian authority.
Buttigieg
Is Angry That Employees Aren't Coming To Work At Airlines. Airlines across the country, like just about every
other industry in America, have been struggling for over a year now to properly staff their operations. They just can't
get enough people to come work for them, and with the employees that they have hired, they're experiencing high levels of
absenteeism. And there are several reasons why. We have the Biden Administration's "American Rescue Plan" which
provided handouts to millions of would-be workers and paid them for doing nothing. Then there was the repeated
extension of unemployment benefits by Mr. Biden, which incentivized workers to just stay home. And of course, we
have the ridiculously high price of gas which makes it much more expensive for an employee to get to work. All these
issues and more have resulted in the wage-price-spiral that we see today. Inflation is skyrocketing because employers
must pay employees more to come work for them. But then that additional money employees have is worth less because of
high prices.
Man
Tries to Give Blood Amid a Shortage, Is Rejected Because He Won't Say Whether He's Pregnant. For any men
wanting to donate blood, make sure you're medically self-aware. For example, you should be adequately informed as to
whether you've been impregnated. Such was a lesson reportedly learned by Leslie Sinclair this month. The central
Scotland resident had hoped to give life-sustaining fluid to others in need. Sadly, the effort encountered
coagulation. According to the Daily Mail, the 66-year-old was handed a form asking if he was currently pregnant.
Furthermore, the facility needed to know if he'd been knocked up within the last half-year. The inquiry left him less
than impressed: ["]When he complained that as a man in his 60s this question did not apply and he should not have
to answer it, Mr Sinclair said staff at the clinic told him they could not accept his blood.["]
How's
that Biden baby formula shortage working out? Remember when Joe Biden "solved" the baby formula shortage by
flying in big Care Package-style shipments in huge jets from Europe? It was embarrassing, given that the U.S. isn't a
typical recipient of foreign aid. But not to Joe Biden, who had the cameras all over it. Turns out the big public
relations show did nothing. It was about as effective as Joe Biden releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
to solve high prices at the pump. Same as the price of oil, the baby formula shortage is worse than ever.
The
Democrats' Capricious Energy Policy Has Been a Disaster. Democrats have spent decades warning that the United
States must stop using the most efficient and affordable energy sources or it will be consumed by heat waves, fireballs and
cataclysmic weather events. Every flood, every hurricane — every natural event, really — is now
blamed on climate change. We have burdened our children with an irrational dread over their future. Then again,
many in The Cult of Malthus won't even have children. So, why, if we're on the precipice of this apocalypse, if saving
the planet trumps every other concern, is President Joe Biden begging everyone to drill? On the days Democrats aren't
blaming Vladimir Putin for rising gas prices (a cost the president not long ago argued was worth paying for "freedom"),
they're blaming oil companies for profiteering. Wednesday, as the national average hit $5.014 (nearly $2 higher than
last year), Biden sent letters to refining companies threatening to once again abuse his executive powers if they do not
immediately alleviate high prices — a political appeal to the imaginary "greedflation."
Wall
Street finishes its worst week since the 2020 pandemic crash. Wall Street has closed out its worst week since
the COVID-19 pandemic crashed markets in 2020, despite a modest bounce on Friday. For the week, the Dow Jones Industrial
average was down 1,504 points, or 4.8 percent. The S&P 500 lost 5.8 percent and the Nasdaq dropped
4.8 percent. It marks the S&P's worst week since March 2020, when stocks were in free-fall as the global economy
suddenly shut down at the onset of the pandemic.
The
Biden Administration's Push to Normalize Drug Use Will Result in More Deaths. We have been covering several
stories related to the escalation of drug deaths across the country, namely due to fentanyl (now the leading cause of death
for young Americans). In a normal world, there would be a push to stem the recreational use of powerful narcotics.
However, the Biden administration and progressives across the country are pressing to normalize drug use. For example,
we reported that Biden's Health and Human Services department provided $30 million in funding to dole out crack
pipes to drug addicts as part of its 'Harm Reduction Plan.' In the same piece, we noted that Biden's Department of Justice says
it might be open to allowing safe injection sites, which are places where people can shoot up heroin and other narcotics.
Rolling
Blackouts [are] on the Way. In the recent past, California and Texas have suffered blackouts due to inadequate
electricity supply. This year, as the summer heats up, it is the midwestern states served by the Midcontinent
Independent Systems Operator (MISO) that are most likely to see their lights go out. [...] Why are blackouts suddenly
occurring after many decades of reliable energy? Because of profiteering by "green" energy hucksters.
["]MISO may simply not have enough reliable power plants on the grid this summer after 3,200 megawatts (MW) of
reliable power plants, mostly coal and nuclear, retired last year.["] This is a scandal. "Green" energy
liberals have demanded, successfully, that reliable coal and nuclear plants be closed so they can be replaced by wind farms
and solar installations. But those unreliable, intermittent sources can never replace power plants that actually work
24/7. Hence the blackouts that are now beginning, and will become more and more widespread if we continue to rely
increasingly on undependable sources of power.
Oregon's drug
decriminalization effort [is] a 'tragedy'. The streets of downtown Portland, Oregon, resemble an open-air drug
market. Heroin, meth and fentanyl use is rampant and often visible on city streets. Portland police officers
drive by homeless addicts buying and using. The signs of drug addiction are actually increasing throughout the state,
according to law enforcement sources. Oregon ranks second-highest among U.S. states for substance abuse with nearly one
in five adults addicted. In November 2020, voters overwhelmingly passed Measure 110. The Drug Addiction Treatment and
Recovery Act secured 58% of the votes and decriminalized possession of small amounts of hard drugs such as heroin, meth,
cocaine and fentanyl.
Biden's
Deathly Presidency. Under Trump, America was in so many senses vibrant and "alive" with pride in our country
and hope for its future. Now we have regular mass shootings in which citizens disarmed by the State have no way to
defend themselves. Overseas, we have a war in Ukraine, the threat of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, and Iran developing
nuclear weapons with the encouragement of the Biden administration. The common thread is death and the fear that goes
with it. And this does not even include Biden's aggressive defense of abortion on demand. [...] Long-term death
rates are more a matter of demographics than policy, and they have been rising ever since Obama took office in 2008.
But murder rates, deaths in war and civil unrest, drug overdose deaths, and accidental deaths are attributable to
policy, and they have been rising under Biden, even during his short time in office. Under Biden, the U.S. murder rate,
which had been declining under President Trump, is the highest in 25 years. [...] As a citizen, it is difficult to watch
my country besieged by violence. Biden's presidency has been deadly in every respect: turning off economic growth and
imposing environmental restrictions, proposing inflation-adjusted cuts in national defense while paying off student loans,
and putting citizens at risk with his anti-police rhetoric. There is little chance of a second Biden term, but just
another two and a half years is painful to imagine. How many thousands will lose their lives because of one incompetent
and wrong-headed leader?
The Fed Created
the Next Recession. The long-term driver of inflation, and the reason we have so much inflation, is the fact
that we printed six and a half trillion dollars in 48 months and grew the money supply by 40%. That is simply what's driving
all of this, and all of the other things are just sort of add-ons to the supply chain. Is Russia's invasion of Ukraine
driving some of it? Yes. Is that the main driver? No. The longer-term structural issue is the fact
that we grew the money supply by six and a half trillion dollars. That's what's driving inflation at the end of the
day. It takes 12 to 18 months for all that government spending to get into the system.
Team
of Fools: Biden's Cabinet Picks Prove He is Unfit to Lead. I have written extensively about Biden's
shortcomings. Nothing exceeds his capacity for choosing the wrong people. [...] Not to be outdone, we have Biden's
Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellin. Listen to the congressional hearings — Yellin sounds like a homeless
person. Since Biden took over, the price of gasoline and other key commodities has doubled. "Not only did Janet
Yellen fail to see any of this coming," said Tucker Carlson, "Yellen more than any single person in America caused it in the
first place. If you're mad about the current state of the economy, Janet Yellin is the first person you should
blame." When asked about inflation, Yellen originally predicted that "Inflation, if it happens, will be
transitory." Now her excuse is that no one could have anticipated the record inflation that is plaguing Biden's
presidency. [...] Why didn't Yellen see it coming? And what is her response? "I do expect inflation to remain
high," Yellen says, "although I very much hope it will be coming down now." "Is that where we are," asks Tucker
Carlson, "very much hoping? In a functioning country, Janet Yellen would be in a retirement home.
White
House says Biden has sparked 'historic economic boom' as Dow plunges into bear market amid record inflation.
The White House defended President Joe Biden's economic record on Monday as the nation experienced historic inflation, gas
prices over $5 a galloon and the stock market dropping. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre argued President
Biden actually made historic economic gains, which would help the American people go through these economic 'challenges.'
She blamed inflation — prices in May were 8.6% higher than a year earlier — the greatest increase since
1981 — on the covid pandemic and on Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in the Ukraine. 'You know, with this
price, high inflation coming, coming out every once in a generation, global pandemic, all of those things play a factor,'
Jean-Pierre said. But, she argued, that America would bounce back under Biden.
Biden
blames Republicans, Russia for soaring inflation. President Joe Biden on Tuesday blamed Republicans and the
Russian invasion of Ukraine for soaring US inflation, in a bid to deflect voter anger over his inability to keep prices
down. Speaking to trade unions in Philadelphia on the eve of the Federal Reserve's likely decision to raise interest
rates again, Biden said inflation is "sapping the strength of a lot of families." Biden said he feels Americans' pain,
having grown up in a family where news that the price of gasoline had gone up "was a conversation at the dinner table.
It mattered." But he rejected arguments that his government's massive spending to stimulate the economy at the tail end
of the Covid-19 pandemic was to blame, instead citing shockwaves from Ukraine and Republican obstruction.
All
Stock Market Gains Erased Since Biden Took Office. The stock market has lost all the gains it made since
President Joe Biden was sworn into office, according to recent data reported by Fortune on Monday [6/13/2022]. The S&P
500 took a sharp downturn, closing on Monday 151 points below where it was in January of 2021. The other two major indexes,
the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq Composite fell by 876 points and 530 points respectively, both below where they
were when Biden took office. Cryptocurrency has also taken a hit. Bitcoin lost 15% of its value, and Ethereum
lost 16%, according to Fortune.
U.S. annualized inflation
just peaked 17 percent for the first time since WW2, the highest rate in 75 years. [Threat reader] The
media are misreporting the real data, and I'll explain why. Inflation is properly defined as an expansion of the money
supply. However in the 20th century, the federal government began a series of steps to expand the money supply to
facilitate more expansive federal spending (removing the gold standard, removing the gold peg, suppressing interest rates as
"stimulus," printing money directly into the Treasury, etc.). All of these are inflationary, and prices rose far more in
the 20th century vs. the largely deflationary 19th century. To cover their tracks, the Fed changed its definition of
inflation from meaning an expansion in the money supply to mean rising prices. (Again, previously, the terms were
basically synonymous as an expanding money supply ALWAYS means higher prices.) The CPI as originally conceived was
intended to track the cost of maintaining a constant standard of living. In 1980, the Fed altered its tool for
calculating inflation such that it was no longer measuring a constant "basket of goods" but rather a "quasi-substitution-based
basket of goods"; now, via "hedonics," the Fed would, for example, use tech improvements to offset rising prices [...]
Joe
Biden Gets Smashed by Resurrected Clip, Karine-Jean Pierre Flails in Response. If you have any money in the
stock market, today was a good day to not look at it. The Dow Jones cratered by nearly 900 points with the other
markets following the same trends. For the first time, the markets are now currently lower under Joe Biden than when he
took office. This is what a full-scale collapse looks like.
New
Charts Reveal Harms of Biden's Budget-Busting Binge. President Joe Biden has been engaging in extra-strength
political spin by repeatedly taking credit for a reduction in the budget deficit. Yet this happened despite Biden's
policies, not because of them: Record-setting deficits during the COVID-19 pandemic were already expected to come back
down to earth as the worst of the pandemic seemed to wane. A more accurate way to see whether Biden has been good for
the nation's financial health is to compare where things stood when he took office with where they stand today. The
comparison in the chart [not shown here] makes it clear: Biden has repeatedly chosen to make things worse.
The
Latest Mask Research Is Bad News For Branch Covidians. Unless you're visiting a medical facility still taken in
by the mask-cult or you live in a big city or some obscure California county run by hypochondriac Democrat whack-jobs, you're
probably generally living your life without being forced to wear a useless, bacteria-laden piece of t-shirt material over
your face. [...] Indeed, the unabashed insistence that masks 'work' has become one of the most insane and evil lies in all of
human history. Not only did it create a false sense of security that doubtless led to more infections than would
otherwise had occurred, it also led to years of speech and developmental delays in children, untold disruptions of societal
cohesion, millions of tons of useless and pointless medical waste in our oceans and landfills, massive psychological issues
in countless people who still mask-up in the absurdest of places and situations to this day, and even actual medical harms
that are just being uncovered. All while doing absolutely nothing towards their intended purpose. If there has
been a worse trade-off, I'd love to see it.
Inflation
spoils the January 6 show. Call it bad timing or Trump luck, but most people today are talking inflation.
This is from Fox News: ["]The Labor Department said Friday that the consumer price index, a broad measure of the
price for everyday goods, including gasoline, groceries and rents, rose 8.6% in May from a year ago. Prices jumped 1%
in the one-month period from April. Those figures were both higher than the 8.3% headline figure and 0.7% monthly gain
forecast by Refinitiv economists. It marks the fastest pace of Inflation since December 1981.["] Well, I
remember 1981 and the recession that followed in 1982. In other words, my memory tells me it's going to get a lot worse
before it gets any better. Wait until companies shut down and lay off people. It's coming because I saw this
movie 40 years ago.
The Editor says...
You joined that movie in progress, sir, because Gerald Ford was desperately trying to "Whip Inflation Now" in 1974.
(And also tried to solve a gasoline shortage by reducing the speed limit to 55 mph nationwide, which created the CB Radio
boom and made Radio Shack stores very popular.) Eventually he turned the inflation problem over to Jimmy Carter, who made matters
worse. But even Carter never dreamed of spending a trillion dollars at a time.
NYPD
exodus: Police on pace to quit, retire in record numbers. More than 1,500 NYPD officers have either
resigned or retired so far this year — on pace to be the biggest exodus of officers since the statistics have been
available, The [New York] Post has learned. Some 524 cops have resigned and 1,072 have retired as of May 31, NYPD
pension stats obtained by The Post show. The 1,596 total is a 38% spike from the same period in 2021, when 1,159 cops
called it a career, and a staggering 46% climb from 2020, when 1,092 left the force by the same date. Anti-cop
hostility, bail reform, and rising crime have fed into frustration among the NYPD rank and file, according to one NYPD
officer who recently fled for greener pastures at a Long Island police department after 6½ years with the New
York's Finest.
The Subordinate Citizen.
There are lots of reasons why the looming November midterms will likely see historic levels of pushback against the Biden
administration, Democratic candidates, and the entire progressive agenda. Take your pick of the many self-induced Biden
disasters, among them hyperinflation, unaffordable gasoline, out-of-control crime, and foreign policy humiliations. But
one reason why voters are furious is rarely expressed. Americans feel that ordinary citizens like themselves who follow
the rules are treated more harshly by their own government than are both noncitizens and our own progressive elites.
And they are right, and they are angry, and we will hear from them very soon.
Biden
Has America on its Knees. There have been a number of books released recently that highlight America's
collective buyer's remorse in electing Joe Biden as President. As we came through a spring of Biden's administration
starting a new Cold War with Russia, skyrocketing inflation, and a baby formula shortage; the opportunities for authors to
highlight the multitude of failures is easy. You know it is dire when no one on the Left is writing a book about the
glowing successes of the Biden administration and its domestic and foreign triumphs.
What
would it take for the White House to commit treason? A number of prior actions by the Biden administration
directly harmed rather than helped the U.S. These injurious executive decisions include suppression of domestic oil and
natural gas production (note current gas prices); opening the southern border to a massive wave of illegal immigration,
deadly drugs, and human-trafficking; fabricating a COVID scam that destroyed public trust in Washington; mandates that
nullified the Bill of Rights; printing trillions of fiat dollars; abrogation of rule of law causing the current crime wave;
and promotion of anti-white racism CRT (Critical Race Theory). While all these actions hurt the American people and are
frankly anti-American, they do not satisfy the definition of treason: "betraying one's country, especially by attempting
to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government." But what the White House is currently planning behind closed doors
may be a different story.
How Progressive
Ideology Transformed America. Most people have now caught on to how progressive ideology has inched its way
into American life through critical race theory and gender ideology. However, few are aware of how America has been
radically transformed over a period of time. People notice the adverse effects but cannot connect the dots back to
progressivism.
Trump's
Right of First Refusal Isn't Enough. [Scroll down] Trump's tiresome tirades about his re-election having
been stolen — while true enough — get in the way of the more important message for 2024: how he
will fix in 2024 all of what the Democrats have destroyed since January 2020. This is not to say election integrity isn't
a big deal, but Trump can't do anything about it now, and needs to stay focused on what matters right now. What really
matters is crippling runaway inflation, the war on energy, the invasion on the southern border, the anarchy, violence, and
dystopia of Dem-run American cities, and the endless catastrophes in foreign policy and national security. Of course,
most Trump-aligned Marys and Joes are annoyed about the stolen 2020 election, but they are terrified by the state of the
nation and how it is affecting them and their families — right now. Trump needs to relentlessly pound away
at the root causes of that raw fear now and every day, and what he would do about it on day one of his second term.
The
dystopian state of our nation. [Scroll down] Fear-mongering is their number-one tool; the media,
electronic and social, are completely on board. Fomenting crime, unnecessary COVID mandates, lockdowns, calculated
supply chain shortages, the doubling of gas prices, etc. — all these are part of their program to disrupt and
destroy what was once the greatest nation on the planet. Despite the seeming randomness of what is happening, it's all
part of their plan: wreck America as founded, and reconstitute it as their oligarchic playground.
Have We Become Amerika?
A 1987 television miniseries that visualized the condition of the U.S. a decade after the country had surrendered to the
Soviet Union was probably not far off the mark. Life in "Amerika" was nothing like life in America before the Soviet
takeover. [...] Unlike the Americans in "Amerika," we didn't surrender to the Soviets. We have simply handed power to
the left. The hard (and unrelenting) left controls most of the media, sets the tone for popular culture, and has
hegemonized most of our institutions and many of our businesses. Consequently, freedoms have been overrun, dissent
forbidden, free speech shredded, and crime allowed to thrive. Our Second Amendment rights are in grave jeopardy.
The price of energy is intentionally being increased. Failure to conform to leftist demands risks ostracization.
The rule of law is being ignored. Our justice system has been corrupted by politics. Both policymakers and
activists want to increase the middle and lower classes' dependency on government. Wealth is not to be created but
redistributed by elected officials and their functionaries in the bureaucracy. Inflation caused by Democratic policies
has wrecked the value of the dollar. Abundance has been replaced by shortages, the worst of which are yet to come.
Seattle
Implodes After Defunding Police. Seattle's efforts to defund its police department and transfer its duties to
other city agencies resulted in $5 million worth of wrongful parking tickets and other administrative dysfunction, according
to The Seattle Times. Seattle is refunding roughly 100,000 parking tickets worth approximately $5 million total after
transferring parking enforcement duties from police to civilian parking enforcement officers in the fall of 2021, finding
that the civilian officers lacked the legal authority to write the tickets, according to The Seattle Times. Parking
officers also conducted more than 10,000 car tows and impounded 1,700 cars without the proper authority during this
period. "What's going to happen here is that we're going to get sued, I can guarantee it," said Chuck Labertew,
president of Lincoln Towing, which has the sole contract for city-initiated towing, according to The Seattle Times.
"And I'm going to forward every one of those lawsuits on over to the city." The decision to remove this responsibility
from police was part of a push in 2020 to reduce police funding and have civilians take on jobs typically handled by police,
according to The Seattle Times.
The
green agenda's role in global inflation. As inflation rises and the prospects for our return to normality
following the pandemic fade ever more into the distant future, criticism is rightly focusing on financial institutions and
regulators. They claim that printing money, which has inevitably caused prices to rise, was necessary to mitigate the
economic chaos of lockdowns. But now they appear to be behind a third act of immense self-harm to help to steer the
world to inflation and deliberately prevent economic recovery. The rise in energy prices the world has seen were not
the result of an unforeseeable supply crisis, but engineered by those charged with managing the economy. [...] It turns out
that the chief regulator of the UK economy (the sixth largest in the world) and his predecessor were far more concerned with
the putative risks from climate change than with developments in geopolitics. The Bank of England's webpages could have
been written by an XR activist. 'Climate change creates financial risks and economic consequences,' it claims.
'These risks and consequences matter for our mission to maintain monetary and financial stability.' Endless volumes
of reports and links to pages after pages make the case, citing equally endless scientific reports that I have always
considered to be suspect.
Guns Are Not the Problem.
[Scroll down] It is considered offensive or stodgy even to suggest that things are not as they should be. We're
living in a male-dominated world, we are told over and over. Men are thriving. But it's the women who are
thriving. They are getting educated more than ever, making more money than ever, and they are finding the pickings of
marriageable men with secure jobs (thanks, globalization) are slim. The result is fewer marriages, or marriages
delayed, and fewer families. Our infertile, androgynous blob-society has destroyed masculinity and femininity both,
leaving the sexes repulsed by one another. Society ridicules masculinity and sets men up to fail with terrible advice:
become docile and vulnerable, and be more like women. While men have softened, femininity is becoming a rare quality in
women. The typical modern "boss b****" talks and acts like a man, is fatter than her predecessors, and has a sense of
entitlement and an inflated sense of what she has to offer. The marriage market is a minefield, and it's not hard to
see why members of both sexes are approaching with caution.
South
Africa: Warmism creates blackouts. South Africa — supposedly one of Africa's advanced
economies — is reeling under severe power shortages and daily rolling blackouts — some for as long as
eight hours. In May, most households, commercial buildings, and industries experienced hours of blackouts. The
South African state-run power utility ESKOM supplied no power between 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. due to a "loss of generation
capacity." Last month, social unrest was reported in parts of the country after frustrated citizens took to the streets
to protest power failures, cable theft, and years of inefficiency at Eskom. The utility has been notorious for
corruption, poor maintenance, and failure to increase generation capacity.
Hurricane
Joe — A Category Five Economic Calamity. Hurricane season is officially underway, beginning June 1,
extending to November 30. Expect the usual stories about hurricanes becoming more frequent and severe due to global
warming, despite contrary evidence. What about a new type of hurricane? Not rain and wind, but an economic
hurricane of stagflation, a toxic combination of high inflation and stagnant economic growth. This hurricane is so
miserable that a term was coined to measure the misery, aptly named the misery index, the sum of the inflation and
unemployment rates. The misery index is currently in double digits, near 12, and if economic malaise continues, expect
this number to creep closer to 20, territory last seen during the Jimmy Carter presidency, the last time both the misery
index and malaise were commonly discussed.
Tucker
Carlson: Biden's Lunatic War Against Putin [is] Crushing The U.S. Economy. Let's say just for the sake of
a mind experiment, that you're the secretary of transportation for the United States of America. That's a big job, but
what would you do all day? Well, [...] your first concern would be the price of diesel fuel. Diesel fuel is what
makes transportation possible in this country. [...] Your second concern, if you were transportation secretary, would be
domestic air travel. This is a huge country. It's far too big a country not to have reliable commercial flights
from one place to another. [...] So, that's what you would be worried about if you were the secretary — diesel and
airlines — and yet, remarkably, in less than a year and a half under Joe Biden, both of these things, fuel costs
and air travel have gone dramatically in the wrong direction. The price of diesel is now hit its highest price ever
recorded in history. [...] Wasn't it just the other day that the United States was energy independent? Yes, but now
we're begging dictatorships to sell us oil, but it won't be enough. Industry officials are predicting shortages very
soon. [Video clip]
The
Cost Of Gas Has More Than Doubled Since The Day Biden Took Office. The average cost of a gallon of gasoline has
officially more than doubled since the day President Joe Biden took office on January 21, 2021. On Saturday [6/4/2022],
AAA reported that the average price of a gallon of gasoline was $4.819. On the day that Biden was inaugurated, gas cost
motorists just $2.393 per gallon on average. [...] On Wednesday, The Daily Wire reported that Biden suggested the high cost
of gasoline is here to stay for quite some time, as he lamented to reporters that it is "not likely" he can simply "click a
switch" to bring down prices. Biden made his remarks regarding gasoline from the White House-crafted fake Oval Office
set — which he reportedly uses so that he can stay on a script from a teleprompter.
Matt
Schlapp says Biden failures prove he's 'simply not up to the job'. The wheels are completely coming off of the
Democratic Party clown car as it spins out of control headed for the brick wall of the November midterm elections and to top
it off, things are even worse inside a White House that has descended into dysfunction and disarray as it becomes more
apparent to voters that the Biden administration is an abject catastrophe. With the nation battered by record gas
prices with no ceiling in sight along with the worst inflation in four decades, food and baby formula shortages, and a regime
that burns through money faster than the proverbial drunken sailor on a foreign conflict where no American interests are at
stake, things are looking increasingly bleak for a Democratic Party that is determined to tear down the nation and its
institutions and which could be only five months away from the mother of all electoral bloodbaths.
State
Officials Admit Drug Decriminalization Has Been a Massive Failure: 'We Have Overdoses Increasing at Drastic
Rates'. A 2020 ballot measure that decriminalized drug use has failed in its purpose of improving lives, Oregon
state officials were told this week. Oregon's House Committee on Behavior Health was told in testimony that the law has
not done what it claimed it would do, according to the Washington Examiner. "When the voters of Oregon passed Measure
110, we did so because it was a change of policy in Oregon to improve the lives of people, to improve our communities,"
Secretary of State Shemia Fagan said.
Our Rulers Have
Lost Their Minds. Have a look at the shock on people's faces as they leave the grocery stores these days, or
the look as they stand filling up their tanks at the gas station. Their jaws drop and they wonder what is happening to
the world. The answer is the policy disasters of the last two years. The bill is coming due and everyone but the
masters of the universe is paying it. The value of the dollar is sinking rapidly, more rapidly than in our
lifetimes. The people who hold power today seem completely clueless about why this is happening. Actually, that's
a charitable interpretation. They might just think it is great. High gas prices are pushing a shift to electric
cars, presumably to manage global climate (I'm a serious doubter that anything like that is possible by policy). Or maybe
there is an impulse here just to redistribute wealth and disorient people to create new levels of dependency. Whatever
the reason, I'm seeing absolutely no signs that anyone at the top has any intention to put a stop to this.
The
Left Despises People of Color. Under the guise of caring and concern, the Left continues its assault on Black
people, aka People of Color. First, it began with substandard education to Black children and the control of the school
systems by the teachers' unions, who shill for the Democrat party. Not surprising, these very children could not
compete academically because they were never given the basic tools to do so. But the seed was planted fostering the
implicit bias that Blacks were simply not capable of doing well. So, the next step was to institute affirmative
action. After 60 years, it has been discovered, for example, that while these very students could have done well in
second tier law schools, far too many could not compete in the elite schools and dropped out. The chaos that now
describes American education has created ignorance of a magnitude that is terrifying. Of course, it has affected the
Caucasian students, but it has only worsened things for the Black students.
Our
Economic Misery Isn't an Accident, It's the Plan. There are predictions that gas will hit $6 a gallon
nationwide by the summer because the Biden administration has worked hard to raise energy prices and create artificial
shortages. Biden's people just got through once again sabotaging oil and gas leases because they want higher energy
prices. $6 a gallon is not the result of political inattentiveness, that is the plan. Inflation isn't an unintentional
accident either. The Left spends like drunken sailors to feed its agenda, but also because spending is an innate good
in the Cloward-Piven sense. Devalue money and you wipe out the middle class. Then you can reboot the economy on
new terms. Biden wasted trillions of dollars and is busy blaming "corporate greed" for high prices. [...] The utterly
blatant goal is to eliminate millions of cars by making it too expensive to drive. And Democrats are working on this on
multiple ends, from environmental and safety regulations, to raising gas prices, to artificial car shortages. Even
those who can afford an electric car or get a government subsidized one will be kept off the road by high power rates.
How
The White House Fumbled The Inflation Football And Lost The Game. Wasn't it not even a year ago we were told
that inflation would, in fact, be a "good" thing? That it was "transitory"? Not a serious threat. Now we're
finding that the media, Wall Street economists, Fed officials, but most of all, the Biden administration, were all
wrong. Does anyone pay a price for gross incompetence anymore? [... Inflation] skews business and personal decisions,
wrecks family budgets, makes millions of low-income families even poorer, destroys personal thrift and wealth, undermines
faith in the economy, distorts financial markets, and discourages investment and innovation. And, eventually, it
destroys real economic growth, undermining the very underpinnings of our prosperity and standard of living. We're on
the way to that now.
The return
of reefer madness? Reefer madness is not a joke, but a real problem. Why do you think George Soros is
investing so much money in legalization? Drugs add to the dystopian scene of our cities: homelessness, crime,
squalor. Our current dilemma is a becoming a dirty and degenerate rendition of Huxley's Brave New World (1932).
Government
Officials Blame Biden For Inflationary Surge Hurting Most Americans. Officials in the Congressional Budget
Office (CBO) have released reports that squarely place the rate of inflation on President Biden's stimulus efforts during the
height of the COVID-19 Pandemic. The CBO notes that President Biden is culpable for the record-high inflation creating
undue pressure on America's workforce in its latest annual report. The nonpartisan CBO report also says that Biden's
preferred fix, increasing taxes, will worsen the economy. The CBO's annual economic outlook squarely blames Biden's
2021 COVID stimulus bill for today's high inflation. The report notes that the stimulus checks sent to Americans in
2021 significantly boosted demand, causing inflationary pressure. The report also notes that Biden's COVID stimulus
artificially "slowed the recovery of labor force participation" by paying workers not to work. The continued lack of
employees has strained supply chains, creating an additional source of upward pressure on consumer prices.
The
Fed Chair Explained How He Flooded the System by Printing Money. President Joe Biden is meeting with Federal
Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell at the White House Tuesday [5/31/2022] for the first time since taking office in January 2021.
The meeting comes as inflation wreaks havoc on American families with prices on essential items continuing to skyrocket.
[Tweet] The meeting marks a new strategy by the White House to focus on the issue, with allies in the media deflecting
blame from Democrats.
America
Today: Liberals Did It. Let's talk money. A century ago, it took about $20 to buy an ounce of
gold. Today it takes about $2,000. So a dollar today is worth one percent of its grandfather a century ago.
Has this been a Good Thing? Or the worst thing since fossil fuels? It's your Keynesian economics that has
done this, liberals, as in: Got a problem on the economic front? A war? A crash? A COVID? No problem,
just print a bunch of dollars.
USDA
Raises Food Price Forecast to Highest Level in 42 Years. Have you ever seen egg prices at $1 per egg range, or
$12/doz? Hold on a few months and perhaps you will. That is the context for the scale of food price increases the
USDA is now starting to predict. The highest predicted change in food costs in well over 40 years, that's the USDA
warning in their revised May "Food Price Outlook". This month the USDA just re-re-revised the forward price outlook, and
things are grim. [...] When the USDA predicts egg prices increasing by 19.5 to 20.5% (from where those prices are now), there
will be regions with much higher retail increases than estimated. Just two months ago, USDA had egg inflation at
2.5%-3.5% range, year over year. Again, that's the scale of change; from a 3.5% forward outlook to a 20.5% forward
outlook effective right now. Food at home (grocery store) prices: up 7% to 8% in this monthly review, versus the April
outlook of a rise of 5% to 6%. That means the USDA is predicting the highest grocery store price rise since 1980 when prices
rose 8.1% (prices rose 7.2% in 1981). There is no reason to think the USDA forecast will not rise again in June.
Why
Team Biden might be purposefully grinding down the middle class. Inflation is running rampant. The
Producer Price Index, the most useful measure of general inflation, is up a whopping 16.3% from April 2021, per the Bureau of
Labor Statistics. That means that roughly $1 out of every $6 that people earn has been lost to inflation in a single
year. [...] Inflation comes when you have too much money chasing too few goods. The spending part provided the excess
money, but the Biden team was right there helping to ensure fewer goods, too. Gas prices going up? Not only was
Biden's spending program stimulating inflation, but at the same time Biden policies were reducing the amount of gasoline,
diesel and heating oil those dollars could buy. Biden went wild canceling pipelines, ending gas and oil leases,
imposing stricter environmental rules and — in cooperation with big institutional investors — choking
off the finances of people trying to produce new fuel supplies.
How
Long Can You Eat if Your Power Goes Out? U.S. fertilizer prices have risen dramatically, in some cases fourfold
in the last few years. This not only creates huge upward price pressures, but impacts usage, potentially impacting
yields. Also Union Pacific has reduced major U.S. fertilizer companies, like CF Industries, one of America's largest,
to shipping about 80% of their potential volumes. This can result in some of America's premier farmlands, the Corn
Belt, not getting adequate fertilizer during the critical spring planting season. Ironically, "Union Pacific has said
it is limiting rail traffic and hiring aggressively as part of a plan to improve service after grain and ethanol shippers
complained about shortcomings." So U.P. is limiting the food supply to further limit the food supply by converting more
corn into ethanol — a devil's twofer. And the Biden administration plans to increase ethanol limits. A
threefer.
Militarizing
The Baby Formula Crisis Is Infantile. America is unique in having this problem because its regulatory state
caused it. The proximate cause of the shortage was the February recall of products made at America's largest
manufacturer of baby formula, Abbott Labs' facility in Michigan. The Food and Drug Administration was concerned about
outbreaks of death and illness among infants fed with the formula but was slow to inspect the facility. Abbott has
indeed announced that it will reopen the facility, as the FDA found no evidence of contamination. As 40% of America's
supply comes from that facility, the shortfall hit supplies hard. Ordinarily, however, the market would respond to such
a shock by two means — raising prices to signal a shortage and importing substitutes from abroad. However,
regulation precludes those two responses. Much of the American market depends on price agreements with the country's
welfare agencies, which are there to stop poor mothers from having to face difficult choices for their pocketbooks.
It's
Not The Guns: America's left-wing culture of death and self-mutilation is a factory that produces mass
shooters. In the wake of the mass shooting yesterday in Uvalde, Texas, we must remember that on the very same
day, over 2,700 human babies were murdered in America via abortion factories, according to reliable abortion estimates.
The same Leftists who demand abolishing the Second Amendment by falsely claiming it will stop shootings also celebrate the
mass slaughter of human babies as they're being born... or even after they're born, via "post-birth abortions" that the Left
celebrates. What they care about is stripping armed Americans of their last remaining line of defense against
tyranny: The Second Amendment. Left-wing Marxists and tyrants know that if they can successfully take away
firearms from the American people, they can then run whatever totalitarian scenarios they want, including rounding up
conservatives and throwing them into concentration camps under the cover of an "outbreak." If Americans give up
their guns, the radical left-wing fascists will treat the American people in the same way Australia's government treats their
citizens: Like prisoners in a giant prison camp.
Cannabis
causes psychosis. Psychosis causes violence. Yep, there it is, the first reference to cannabis use by
Salvador Ramos, the Texas elementary school killer. In the New York Times. Took 24 hours, give or take.
["]And Ms. Rodriguez recalled he would often talk about how much he despised his mother and grandmother, whom he
told her did not let him smoke weed or do what he wanted.["]
[Source]
This is only one case. Except it's not. Nikolas Cruz, the Florida high school shooter, was a heavy user and told the police
detective who interviewed him that he heard voices. Devin Patrick Kelley — who shot up a Texas church and killed
26 people in 2017 before blowing his head off — had THC in his system when he died. (Kelley had anti-anxiety
drugs too; a lot of heavy cannabis users wind up using Xanax or Klonopin to try to tamp down their paranoia.) Darrell
Brooks Jr., last seen allegedly racing through the Waukesha Christmas Parade, is a self-described stoner. Meanwhile, cities
like Portland, Oregon have suffered an explosion in violence following the legalization of cannabis. Portland had 16 murders
in 2013, the year before voters in Oregon approved full legalization. Last year it had 90. It's on pace to have even more
in 2022. It has gone from being one of the safest medium-sized cities in the United States to one of the most dangerous.
Denver has seen a similar trend.
A Dark Age
in America. America has been fundamentally transformed — and not for the better. [...] Racism is
rampant. Not only is racism accepted, but it is celebrated. With Critical Race Theory, schools teach children to
hate anyone who looks different, to feel guilty if they're white or empowered because they are not white. Children
barely out of diapers are being taught to question their sex before they are capable of comprehending what sex is. Our
southern border is nonexistent, and politicians are loath to do anything about it. Illegal aliens pour across and then
demand — as if it were their God-given right — support and acceptance. If they're intercepted by
Border Patrol, they get medical care and free transport to wherever they want to go.
Democrats
are breaking America. AP amused me with its tale, "After 3 months of war, life in Russia has profoundly
changed." [...] With Biden's ignorant economic sanctions, he has brought down two economies. I could not care less
about Russia, but the United States is in deep trouble. Destroying America is the goal. I call it the
Venezuelation of America. The combination of runaway inflation and shortages is astonishing and unprecedented here, but
common throughout the communist world. Along with a rampant rise in violent crime, Democrats are scorching the Earth to
punish Americans for daring to elect Donald John Trump as president. Democrats desperately are speeding up their
fundamental transformation of America into a Union of Soviet States of America. The use of mail-in voting to
accommodate illegal ballot harvesting installed Biden in the White House. Democrats know they have very little time to
make the changes they desire.
We Aren't Raising
Adults. We Are Breeding Very Excellent Sheep. I taught English at Yale University for ten years. I
had some vivid, idiosyncratic students — people who went on to write novels, devote themselves to their church, or
just wander the world for a few years. But mostly I taught what one of them herself called "excellent sheep." These
students were excellent, technically speaking. They were smart, focused, and ferociously hard-working. But they
were also sheep: stunted in their sense of purpose, waiting meekly for direction, frequently anxious and lost. I was so
struck by this — that our "best and brightest" students are so often as helpless as children — that I
wrote a book about it. It came out in 2014, not long before my former colleague Nicholas Christakis was surrounded and
browbeaten by a crowd of undergraduates for failing to make them feel coddled and safe — an early indication of
the rise of what we now call wokeness.
They Want You
to Suffer. In a sentence I've typed way too often over the last year, inflation continues to sit at
astronomical levels, gas prices keep increasing, and the border is in shambles. To make matters worse, over the past
month, the stock market has crashed, eating away at people's retirements and investments. Dreams that people had are
now going to be on hold for years based on the hope that things will recover, and time isn't something you can get
back. The response from the White House in the face of so many of their self-inflicted wounds hasn't been empathy,
though. Not that such would mean much, but it would at least give people peace of mind knowing that their leaders
aren't actively rooting for their destruction. Unfortunately, that's exactly what appears to be happening. These
people want you to suffer.
The
consequences of the stolen 2020 election are increasingly catastrophic. [Scroll down] The elephant in the
room is this: why has no DOJ investigation been mounted, given the overwhelming volumes of evidence of election fraud?
Why have the courts dismissed each case without even looking at the evidence? The only answer is that the DOJ, every
other federal law enforcement agency and the corporate media are corrupt. They are all agents of the Democrat
party. As Dennis Prager often comments, truth is not a left-wing value. Beyond the mules; the illegally harvested
ballots; fake ballots that were never folded, mailed, or signed; the finagling of people like Republican Gov. Kemp and
sec. of state Raffensperger of Georgia and the NeverTrump powers that be in Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin,
Pennsylvania, and Michigan and probably numerous other states, the 2020 election was the most dishonest, the most
unscrupulous in American history. Unable to accept her defeat in 2016, Hillary Clinton fabricated the notion that
Russia facilitated Trump's win, which gave birth to the entirely phony Mueller investigation, the trumped-up impeachments
based on nothing, and the equally fabricated "insurrection" charges about January 6.
My
Biden-Voting Friend Had 'No Idea' Things Could Get This Bad. A friend told me yesterday he voted for Biden
because he was tired of Trump's "drama." He said he "didn't vote for Jared Kushner or Ivanka" and didn't like them "hanging
around" the White House. "Right message, wrong guy," he said of Trump. My buddy considers himself a
"non-Trumping, Democrat-hating conservative." I guess his "non-Trumping" bias trumped (heh-heh) his hatred of
Democrats. He claimed he had "no idea things would get this bad under Biden." My friend also doesn't like the
far-left judge in the Bronx who has a habit of releasing violent criminals from jail. He lives nearby. "She's
causing a one-woman crime wave," my friend lamented. He fears for his family's safety and worries about his 2-year-old
granddaughter's future.
The Collapse
of Trust. Looking at the issues facing our country, there seems to be something pernicious for which we don't
seem to know what to do to correct the downward trajectory that is shaking us to our core. [... For example,] The sky-high
cost of energy: Why do we have a shortage of energy and are we being told the truth? The salient question every
American should ask is, have they been deceived by the President? Old "circle back" Psaki was asked endlessly why we
are producing less energy, even today? Pre-Pandemic, under Trump, the U.S. was producing a record 13 million barrels of
oil per day and we were even exporting it. Production fell 3 million BPD due to slackened demand. Production is
now back up to 11.6 [million] BPD but is not accelerating. Why? Could the underlying reason be the simple truth that
Biden articulated in 2019 "I want you to look at my eyes. I guarantee you. I guarantee you. We're going to end
fossil fuel." Is he just keeping his promise and lying to the rest of us? My take is simple; he wants high prices
and cares not about the damage to the American family and its position in the world to support his Green New Deal initiatives.
It
Sure Looks Like Joe Biden Is Trying to Purposely Destroy the Country. The last several weeks in the United
States have been a wild ride. Everything that could go wrong, short of a full-blown apocalyptic situation, has gone
wrong. The stock market is currently in the midst of a collapse, with the Dow Jones losing nearly 5,000 points over the
last 30 days. Inflation clocked in at 8.3% for April, representing another crushing blow to Americans. Of course,
gas prices continue to break milestones on a daily basis. [...] With all that in mind, you'd expect the current administration
to be scrambling to fix things, or at the very least, soften the blow. Instead, it sure seems like Biden is purposely
trying to destroy the country. For example, in the midst of exploding gas prices and a diesel shortage, which exacerbates
inflation because products have to be transported, the administration decided to cancel more oil and gas leases.
Morgan Stanley analyst
directly blames Biden's 'excessive' fiscal stimulus for surge of inflation. An analysis of the economy by
Morgan Stanley put the blame directly on the "excessive" fiscal stimulus spending by the Biden administration for the surge
of inflation that is hurting so many Americans. Michael Wilson led a team of analysts in the assessment released on
Monday. "In summary, the slack created by the covid recession is being absorbed much faster than usual. While
some of this absorption is due to the supply disruptions created by the lockdowns, we think it was more so due to excessive
fiscal stimulus provided during the pandemic, particularly the last $1.9T package at the end of March 2021 just as the
economy was already emerging from the lockdowns," the analysis read. "In our view, this was what turbocharged
consumption and drove inflation to 40-year-highs," it continued.
How the Left Shuts
Down Talk of Election Fraud. [For instance,] The Law of Merited Impossibility: This is when Leftists tell
you, "Oh, what you're worried about will never happen," and then when it does, tell you, "It will be for the best and
you deserve it, anyway." One example of this, to counter the Right's "slippery slope" concerns, might be, "Oh, just
because men are able to self-identify as women, that doesn't mean they'll be exposing themselves in locker rooms!
Goodness, that will never happen." And then, when it does, they say, "Now it's the way it should be, and if you
have a problem, deal with it because you're homophobic." As I apply this to election fraud, it might start out with them
saying, "Mail-in balloting will never lead to fraud big enough to change elections!" Then, when you suspect it has,
they say, "Hey, the important thing is to make every vote count and not disenfranchise any racial group, you racist."
Put
a Fork in Portland. Portland use to be one of my favorite towns to visit. It had fun bars and groovy
thrift stores. Now it looks like Detroit on a bender. The difference between my hometown, the Motor City, and
Portland is that Portland's death was intentional. Whereas Detroit was murdered by a perfect storm of crotch-kicks from
the auto industry and a racist, corrupt mayor, Portland was killed by its own citizens and the Democratic Party. I
should have seen what the future of Portland would look like. The last time I was there was in 2010. Everything
seemed fine except for the huge homeless population. Note to self: when you have hundreds of drugged-out homeless
people living wherever they want in a town, death is nigh.
The Takeover
of America's Legal System. The adversarial legal system — in which both sides of a dispute are
represented vigorously by attorneys with a vested interest in winning — is at the heart of the American
constitutional order. Since time immemorial, law schools have tried to prepare their students to take part in that
system. Not so much anymore. Now, the politicization and tribalism of campus life have crowded out old-fashioned
expectations about justice and neutrality. The imperatives of race, gender and identity are more important to more and
more law students than due process, the presumption of innocence, and all the norms and values at the foundation of what we
think of as the rule of law. Critics of those values are nothing new, of course, and certainly they are not new at
elite law schools.
What's
Wrong With Price 'Gouging' In Baby Formula Crisis? As night follows day, the shortage of baby formula around
the country has politicians shouting about the evils of "price gouging" and vowing to stop it. But what if "price
gouging" relieves shortages and makes sure parents who need the formula the most can get it? News accounts tell the
story of panicked mothers who've had to drive hours in all directions to find formula. In response, President Joe Biden
is pressing the Federal Trade Commission to "bring all of the Commission's tools to bear" to stop sellers from raising
formula prices. Parents would be better off if the Biden administration had instead focused on boosting supply.
The Food and Drug Administration sat on warnings about contamination at a major plant in Michigan for weeks. And then
dawdled in getting the plant cleared to reopen. It was only after the shortages made headlines that Biden claimed to be
"on top of it."
Democrats
Blame Inflation on 'Greed,' Instead of Their Own Failed Policies. Democrats in Congress and the White House are
reticent to take any responsibility for inflation with their reckless spending and deliberate hampering of getting petroleum
products out of the ground and into cars and homes. After presiding over a more than doubling of gasoline prices during
his first year and a half in office, President Biden is adding fuel to the inflationary fire by canceling offshore oil lease
sales in Alaska and the Gulf Coast. Gas prices hovered around $2 per gallon during most of 2020 only to set records
four days in a row this past week, settling at $4.44 per gallon, hence the ubiquitous Joe Biden "I did that" stickers
peppering gas pumps nationwide. Not only fuel, but also food prices, increasing at the fastest rate in 40 years
according to the US Department of Agriculture. For example, meats, poultry, fish, and eggs are up 14 percent with
fruits and vegetables costing 8 percent more.
Inflation: The
Price You Pay for Biden's Delusions. When the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that inflation had risen at
an annual rate of 8.3 percent in April, the White House and many news outlets made much of the minuscule decrease from the
8.5 percent rate reported for March. President Biden issued a statement, for example, that called the infinitesimal
decline "heartening." CNN ran a story titled, "US inflation slowed last month for the first time since August."
This wasn't terribly comforting, however, considering that the inflation rate has nearly doubled since last April while real
wages declined by 2.6 percent. Nor is it "heartening" to see that Biden is still in denial about the role his
administration's spending has played in igniting inflation.
Lawlessness.
Everybody to the right of Alexandria Ocasio Cortez knows that the root cause of the crisis facing America — the
most serious since the Civil War — is lawlessness. And everybody not under the spell of the Democrat spin
machine understands that the lawlessness begins at the top, with government and the many agencies of the executive branch who
are tasked by our Constitution with enforcing the law. Whether by failing to enforce our immigration statutes, or
failing to prosecute criminals in our streets, or violating our election procedures to favor one party, Democrat
administrations in our nation's capital and our major cities have brazenly supported criminal behavior carried out by Black
Lives Matter rioters, common street thugs, and anti-Supreme Court agitators seeking to extort decisions by fear. The
effect has been to systematically undermine the rule of law, stoke the fires of anarchy, and sow chaos in our
institutions. This trend has been evident since the revival of the radical left on the eve of the 9/11 attacks and its
creation of Sanctuary Cities designed to flout the law and prevent the enforcement of the PATRIOT Act. It escalated
with Obama's illegal, unconstitutional — and self-acknowledged — violation of America's immigration laws.
The November 2022 election is going to be really hard to steal! Baby
formula crisis punctuates steep decline in support for Biden, Dems, with suburban moms. President Biden and his
Democrats were already in trouble with suburban women due to inflation, high gas prices and an agenda these voters say does
not align with their priorities. Then baby formula disappeared from store shelves. Images of empty store shelves
and stories of frantic parents searching for food to feed their infants, coupled with reports that the Biden administration
is shipping pallets of scarce formula to the southern border to feed illegal immigrant children, now threaten to crater the
party's already weakened support among suburban women. "Democrats have seen a double-digit decline among their
strongest groups, especially women who are already struggling to stretch a dollar," Republican strategist Ryan Girdusky told
the Washington Times. "But now they're trying to find food for their children." Women were a pivotal voting bloc
for President Biden and Democrats in 2020. Exit polls show they backed Mr. Biden over Donald Trump 57% to 47%.
But over the past few months, polls show women have soured on Mr. Biden.
Biden's
supply problem isn't just 'treadmills' anymore. It wasn't that long ago that former White House press secretary
Jen Psaki was downplaying the nation's supply chain problems as "the tragedy of the treadmill." Just as she dismissed
the topic of inflation as something that only affects rich people, Psaki spoke of the broken supply chain as if only leisure
purchases for the wealthy were at risk. But even as they put on a brave face, officials in the Biden administration
were aware that the problem went much, much deeper. And they did nothing. The administration's handling of
completely predictable supply chain problems stemming from COVID-19 has been just as appalling as Psaki's earlier insouciance
suggests. And this is how the current baby formula shortage was made possible. Biden and Democrats don't have any
answers to the current inflation crisis, nor the supply-chain crisis that is contributing to it.
Pop Goes the Presidency.
Nice-sounding growth, job, and wage numbers do not count for much when the American standard of living is in decline.
Inflation has outpaced income gains since last year. It remains at a 40-year high. Gas costs more than four
dollars per gallon — sometimes much more — in every state. Americans under 40 years old are
experiencing consumer delays, shortages, and scarce necessities, including baby formula, for the first time in their
lives. According to the Pew Research Center, 70 percent of Americans say that inflation is "a very big problem."
Producer
Price Inflation Continues Surging at 11 Percent, Annualized Processed Food Increases Now 34.8 Percent. The
"Producer Price Index" (PPI) is essentially the tracking of wholesale prices at three stages: Origination (commodity),
Intermediate (processing), and then Final (to wholesale). Today, the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) released April
price data [Available Here] showing another 11.0% increase year-over-year in Final Demand products at the wholesale
level. Last month when looking at internal economic activity that showed a contraction in consumer purchases of goods,
we said pay attention to the service side of the ledger now. Knowing people have stopped buying 'stuff', if people are
starting to run out of money, they will cut back in the service sector (dining out, etc).
Get
ready for more blackouts because of environmentalist policies. People across the United States and in many
other countries are already experiencing sticker shock when they receive their utility bills this year. The price of
energy is continuing to climb along with the price of gasoline. Unfortunately, according to the leader of one energy
industry analysis group, that's not going to be the end of the bad news. There are already places where the electrical
grid is under so much strain that rolling blackouts have been enacted again and we're only going to see more of that going
forward. This issue has little or nothing to do with Russian energy supplies or the war in Ukraine. The reality
is that in many parts of the United States, we're barely producing enough electricity to meet the demand for power, and
thanks to environmentalist policies put in place by the government, we're shutting down coal-fired power plants at a rate far
faster than we can replace all of that juice through other methods.
Biden's
America: The Land Of Plenty Shortages. It's taken President Joe Biden and
his fellow Democrats all of 16 months to turn the land of plenty into one plagued by empty shelves and rationing. Well,
Biden did promise to "transform" America, but how many voters knew that this is what he had in mind? The latest in the
growing list of shortages is the chronic and dangerous scarcity of baby formula that is causing new parents to scramble to
find supplies and stores to ration how much customers can buy. The latest industry data show that 40% of America's baby
formula supplies are out of stock, up from 29% in March and 11% last fall. This is a potentially deadly situation if
parents can't get the food they need for their babies or try to make their own formula. As CNN reports, "Specialized
formula is even harder to locate amid the widespread shortage. Parents are driving to neighboring states to try their
luck, and many are pleading for help on social media, imploring strangers to share or even barter any extra supply they may
have." One industry observer said that "supply chain issues, product recalls and historic inflation" are driving the
baby formula crisis. As it turns out, Biden is at least partially responsible for all of those.
Electric
grid operators warn of potential summer blackouts. While some major cities are already seeing their lights go
off due to electricity use overload, grid operators and energy advocates gave a warning to states closing their coal-fired
power plants even quicker than they can build new ones. "Any plans to remove nuclear plants or coal power plants or
natural gas plants that are slated to be closed, that has to be completely suspended," Power the Future executive director
Daniel Turner told FOX Business' Jeff Flock Tuesday [5/10/2022]. Eighty coal-fired power plants are slated to close
across 14 states in the next six years, Flock mentioned in his report, which poses a threat as some blackouts have already begun
and coal and nuclear power still source 41% of the country's electricity, according to the Energy Information Administration.
HVAC
Company Refuses to Take Downtown Jobs, Citing 'Needles, Human Feces, Vans Getting Broken Into'. A Colorado
heating and air conditioning company is now refusing to provide service to businesses in downtown Denver, Colorado, citing
dangerous conditions in the area. Tony Cirbo, operations manager for AC Mechanical and Engineering, explained why his
business would no longer service the area in an interview with KCNC-TV.
Grocery
Store Prices Up 10.8%, Most in Nearly 42 Years. It got even more difficult in April for American families to
put food on the kitchen table in January. Food prices rose 9.4 [percent] compared with a year earlier, data from the Department
of Labor showed on Wednesday. That is the fastest rate of inflation for food since 1981. Grocery store prices were
up by even more, 10.8 percent. The broader Consumer Price Index rose by 8.3 percent.
Tom
Cotton Torches Woke Military Brass Over Pathetic Standards. One of the more ingenious aspects of our
Constitution is its requirement that our military leaders are accountable to non-military officials. All our generals
and admirals ultimately report to the Secretary of Defense and his underlings at the Pentagon who are part of the Executive
Branch of government. Our Legislative Branch of government, aka Congress, is responsible for, among other things,
funding and monitoring the Executive Branch, aka the White House, which is why we have committees such as the Senate Armed
Services Committee. During hearings run by that committee on Thursday, we saw firsthand how valuable Congressional
oversight of the White House can be, as Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) completely schooled Secretary of the Army, Christine
Wormuth. Watch, and note that the set-up to the video erroneously refers to Wormuth as Secretary of the Navy:
[Video clip]
The
Impending Economic Crash. This week, Donald Trump's favorite Latino food supplier, Bob Unamue, CEO of Goya
Foods, spoke of an impending food shortage that we should all start to see by this summer. As a byproduct of fertilizer
shortages emerging from the Russian/Ukrainian War, food suppliers are tamping down expectations of food availability later
this year. It is yet another indicator of a global economy on the retreat. [...] I'm not an economist and I don't
pretend to be one, though it's debatable that the mainstream discipline has shot straight with us to date. If you were
attuned to the corporate press, you might be led to believe that the growing hardships we are experiencing were
unforeseen. Far from it, much of what we are experiencing we were warned about by economists across the political
spectrum. Some might say that the Biden administration selling the American economy down the river is a matter of
incompetence. I tend to lean toward malice.
Our
Immigration System Isn't Broken, Democrats Are. Our immigration system worked just fine (not perfectly, mind
you, but fine) until a few years ago. What happened then? Democrats decided to stop deportations in any real
way. Yes, Democrats had already screwed it up by introducing the concept of birthright citizenship — meaning
anyone born here to illegal aliens was given citizenship, a concept so incredibly stupid it's only been adopted by third
world hell-holes and the United States, thanks to Democrats. But the stopping of deportations made things exponentially
worse. Sanctuary cities and states made it clear to would-be illegal aliens that the thousands of dollars they were
thinking about dropping on the drug cartels to smuggle them or their children several thousand miles would not be in
vain. The odds of them being returned to wherever they're from if they made it to, say, California were slim to none,
even if they committed heinous crimes, because California changed its laws to protect non-citizens over citizens. Kill
a citizen and you might face deportation after a prison sentence, but rob a liquor store or drive drunk repeatedly, abuse a
child or spouse? Meh, the chances the state bothers to call federal immigration authorities increases only slightly,
but still don't register in any real way.
Inflation Can't Be Censored.
An increasingly disturbing feature of American politics is the routine suppression of major news stories that reflect poorly
on candidates favored by the Fourth Estate. The most egregious example in recent years occurred in October of 2020 when
corporate news outlets and social media platforms colluded to bury a New York Post article on Hunter Biden.
Fortunately, some stories just aren't susceptible to such censorship. Inflation is a case in point. It can't be
hidden from the voters because soaring prices shout the bad news from every grocery store shelf and gas pump in the
nation. And the voters don't like what they're hearing. A new Gallup poll reports: "Americans' confidence
in the economy remains very low, and mentions of economic issues as the most important problem in the U.S. are at their
highest point since 2016." Moreover, when asked to specify the most important economic issue, inflation topped the
list. Not coincidentally, the survey found that Americans identified "the government/poor leadership" as the most
important non-economic problem facing the country.
Things
Are Going Well in the Capital of Police Defunding. Portland was one of the few places to defund the police by
$15 million. The efforts to lynch police officers over battles against violent rioters and left-wing mobs led to
massive resignations and retirements leaving the city with the smallest police force on record in a generation. Violent
crime continues to rise and Portland cops are shorthanded.
A
Government Disinformation Board? You Don't say! Under Biden and as a result of his misbegotten policies,
the price of natural gas is up 192%, diesel 176%, regular gasoline 74%, and foodstuffs 59%. Supply chain problems are
creating shortages of building supplies, fertilizer, food, medicines — you name it. Massive government
giveaways have gotten many people used to the notion that work is unnecessary, and employers are having difficulty staffing
up. While homeowners in many places may feel richer because the value of their homes has increased on paper, fewer
homes are now within reach of buyers, and replacement housing for sellers — obviously — will have risen
as well. The stock market tumbled and, with it, a large chunk of many people's savings as inflation eats up what's left.
Natural
Gas UP 192% Under Biden, Diesel UP 176%, Regular Gasoline UP 74%, Foodstuffs UP 59%. We all know (except for
Biden apparently) that inflation is up 8.5% YoY as measured by the change in the Consumer Price Index (CPI). However, the CPI
change doesn't fully capture what is crushing Americans' pocketbooks. Here is a brief update on where we stand prior to
the upcoming Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meeting on May 4th. Since Biden was installed as President on
January 20, 2021, prices for key commodities have soared. Natural gas futures UP 192%, Regular Gasoline prices UP
73.6%, Commodity Research Bureau Foodstuffs UP 59%, Low sulfur Diesel futures UP 176%.
What
if Joe Biden forgives all student loans? [Scroll down] Let's say we go down that road and the government
forgives all student loans because education is a right. Why stop there? Perhaps home loans could be forgiven too
because every human being deserves to live with dignity under a roof. Why should only students and homeowners be the
beneficiaries? How about forgiving loans of businesses? Small businesses in particular suffered losses during the
COVID-19 lockdowns and they deserve to be bailed out. Why just small, though? Let's help big businesses too,
because they employ thousands of people. What about farmers? They literally are providers of food, why not waive
their loans as well? What about doctors who have set up practices? Quite soon, everybody from the big corporates
houses to the smallest borrowers begins to feign poverty because they know the government will pardon their loans.
Team Biden
finally admits there's a war on cops — which it's inflaming. The Biden Justice Department is finally
acknowledging the war on cops: FBI Director Christopher Wray denounced the 59% increase in cop murders in 2021.
An officer is murdered nearly once every five days, yet violence against law enforcement "doesn't get enough attention," Wray
said Sunday on CBS's "60 Minutes." That is an understatement. Wray's bosses — Attorney General Merrick
Garland and President Joe Biden — have instead focused almost exclusively on alleged white-supremacist criminality,
which they claim is the biggest domestic threat facing the country today. That charge is preposterous. It is
violent street crime — drive-by shootings, sadistic robberies, carjackings — that has been destroying
lives at an increasing rate since the George Floyd race riots. White-supremacist violence played no role in the
record-breaking 29% national homicide increase in 2020 or in the ongoing crime surge since then.
Stagflation
is staring Biden in the face — but he refuses to change course. First we were told inflation was
imaginary. Then we were told it was "transitory," the result of COVID-inflicted supply-chain problems. Then we
were told it was Russian President Vladimir Putin's fault. Now people are starting to admit the massive runaway
spending of the Biden era has something to do with it. But we're also facing stagflation, a mixture of inflation and
slow growth, and the government also plays a role in turning inflation into stagflation. As Milton Friedman famously
warned, inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. When the government pumps the economy up with excess
dollars — something usually referred to as "printing money," though a too-literal USA Today fact-checker hastened
to assure us that much of the money created isn't actually printed on paper — inflation results. When you
have more money in the system than goods, the price of goods goes up. That's inflation, and it's what's happening now.
The
Inflation Draining Your Wallet, Grocery Cart, And Gas Tank Is Far Steeper Than 8 Percent. The Labor
Department's March inflation numbers released this month skyrocketed past February's, hitting a 12-month increase of 8.5 percent
and the steepest annual increase since 1981. [...] According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), in the average U.S. city,
ground beef is up 14.9 percent since last March, boneless stew beef is up 24.3 percent, bacon is up 23.1 percent,
boneless chicken breasts are up 17.6 percent, eggs are up 25.9 percent, milk is up 17 percent, frozen orange juice
concentrate is up 18 percent, and ground coffee is up 15.8 percent. Meanwhile, fuel oil has jumped a whopping
71.5 percent, and utility gas is up 23.3 percent.
The Editor says...
I can report, from my own shopping experiences, that rice pudding has gone up 35 percent in the last year, and Diet Coke
is now holding steady at $1.98 (for two liters), whereas it was $1.38 a year ago, and 98 cents about three years ago.
Democrats:
'It's Not Us, It's You!' Considering we've entered a currency inflation death spiral, violent crime rates are
through the roof, the foreign invasion at the southern border grows exponentially, and the FBI continues to hunt half the
country as "terrorists" not deserving of constitutional protections, I'm not sure how many more Slow Joe "accomplishments" we
can survive. Or perhaps the real quandary is this: who actually benefits from all these magnificent "achievements"?
Certainly not the American people! Most Americans alive today have never been more financially insecure, less safe, or
more uncertain about their futures. Never have so many Americans or their loved ones been struggling with alcohol and
drug addictions. Never have Americans reported feelings of isolation, loneliness, and despondency in such high numbers
across all demographics. Never have more Americans agreed that the nation is following a broken moral compass and
headed in the wrong direction. After years of enduring psychological abuse from governing institutions selling nothing
but fear and invasive bureaucratic mandates, parts of the country look as if they've been rattled into a permanent state of PTSD.
The
terrible unintended consequences of the Biden presidency (unless they were intended). As a result of all the
left's skullduggery, the American people are facing the highest inflation in forty years. The invasion across the
southern border has brought over two million migrants into the country since Biden took office. Many of these people
are being secretly flown to cities throughout the country. Count in it: the Democrats plan to give them all amnesty
so they can vote. They assume they will all vote Democrat, but one has to wonder if that is true; they are all fleeing
crime-ridden totalitarian tyrannies. They just might opt for a law-and-order civil society. On top of this
obvious moonbattery, the Biden administration has eviscerated our once world-class military by weeding out Trump supporters
and those who chose to remain unvaxxed. The damage this progressive cult has done has crippled America in nearly every
way possible.
Fraud
is the Only Issue. From a straight political standpoint, things are not going well for the Democrats.
It's difficult to cite a time in post-World War II America when so many things on so many fronts went this badly this
quickly, and the voting public knows it's their fault:
• Inflation at 40-year highs and spiking energy prices
• Out of control illegal immigration, being encouraged by Democrats to bolster liberal voting rolls
• Weakened military, with an inexplicable emphasis on woke social issues instead of combat readiness
• Crime running rampant, with many big-city DA's refusing to prosecute the offenders
Woke policies and wildly disproportionate attention on gender and diversity issues eroding the once-dependable foundation
of American society These Democrat policies have tangibly and dramatically degraded the quality of daily life in America,
to the point where many people are starting to doubt that things will ever return to normal.
Prepping the Mind. [Scroll
down] Those running the clown show in Washington D.C. are flush with this collectivist resentment toward the success of
a free market and free people. Killing both of them is the goal, not to achieve anything, or cure any ill, but just to
destroy. They think in finally ending the supremacy and wealth of Americans they will achieve some sort of victory for
the cause. In the last few years, they've tried to bankrupt the US, with help of the federal government and the federal
reserve and have largely succeeded. They've tried to poison not only America, but Western civilization. Now,
they're trying to starve us all. Twenty something food distribution centers have gone up in flames recently.
American farmers have been paid to stop planting crops.
Baltimore
has been expunging the criminal records of felons and people are dying. For some time now we have covered the
disappointing and dangerous trends in the courts of Baltimore, Maryland that make it harder to convict criminals of
anything. This has resulted in the same "revolving doors" in the jails and courthouses that we see today in so many
large cities. But in Charm City, they've taken this trend another large step further. In addition to making it
harder to lock anyone up, for the smaller number of people who do manage to be apprehended and prosecuted, they've been
erasing the criminal records of many of them. This makes it impossible for the public to research potential problems
and removes information that prosecutors may need when the individual is arrested again and they have to determine the
charges to be filed. In an editorial at the Baltimore Sun this week, former Deputy State's Prosecutor Page Croyder
describes the damage that these changes have wreaked on the legal system and the impacts they have had on the citizens.
Biden
surpasses Jimmy Carter as the most incompetent steward of the American economy. President Joe Biden has
accomplished in just 14 months what many thought was impossible — surpassing President Jimmy Carter as the most
incompetent steward of the American economy. Biden just broke another record, leaving Americans saddled with 8.5 percent
inflation — energy alone is up 32 percent since last year. [...] President Biden's actions to date appear to be
directly taken from President Carter's playbook. Excessive spending and anti-supply-side policies have contributed to the
worst inflation since the Carter era.
Biden
Economy: Dow Down 981 Points at Close — Worst Day Since June 2020. The Biden economy is doing
bad and getting worse. Inflation is at an all-time high by some measurements and at 50-year highs by other
measurements. With inflation at all-time highs, Biden's economy is a mess. The cost of gasoline has reached
all-time highs. Interest rates are up near 7% now, the highest rates in years and still they are way behind
inflation. This all happened due to Biden's reckless spending.
Politics
Is Downstream from Culture, but What Is Culture Downstream From? The profundity of the nightmare we are living
through is hard to grasp. The tone of our everyday lives as Americans is an anti-civilization controlled by the
government-media-educational megalith that is anti-God, anti-American, and pointedly anti-Christian. American social
process now originates in the bitter energy of left-wing politics as replacement for religion. That element of opinion
maintains an inquisition of judgment of good and evil people based on a false, anti-historical obsession with long gone
oppression by race, sex, and sexuality. Left-wing politics operates as increasingly divisive fanaticism, which can be
called scientistic materialism. Science is prostituted to justify a hollow-eyed, humanity-hating doomsday cult of
climate change. The reverse cycle of civilization originating in godless political opinion has made a sacrament of
disposing of pre-born humans, which idolatry is inexorably expanding to include post-natal infanticide.
Why
Food Prices Are Expected to Skyrocket. According to a recent NPR report, the global food price index hit its
highest recorded level in March 2022, rising 12.6% in a single month. On average, food prices were one-third higher
than in March 2021. In the U.S., food prices rose 9% in 2021, and are predicted to rise another 4.5% to 5% in the next
12 months. But while the Ukraine conflict is cited as the primary cause, it's not the sole reason. Price inflation
was already ramping up well before Russia went into Ukraine, thanks to the uncontrolled printing of fiat currencies that occurred
in response to the COVID pandemic. Governments' COVID response have also wreaked havoc with global supply chains, causing
disruptions that continue to this day.
In
13 months, Biden has just about finished the job of destroying America. It has not taken long at all for fake
"president" Joe Biden to finish the job of collapsing the United States. In just 13 relatively short months, the
Resident-in-Chief helped usher in the highest gas prices on record, along with soaring food costs. Millions of
Americans were also forced to get injected with mystery chemicals from Operation Warp Speed, and all for a manufactured
plandemic that never really was. The country went from a trend towards energy independence to becoming a net importer
of crude oil ever since Geriatric Joe started occupying the White House. Biden's destruction of the Keystone XL
Pipeline project certainly contributed to this. Americans are worse off than they have been for quite some time as
housing prices skyrocket and wages stagnate. Millions of them are now having to work multiple jobs just to barely stay
above the poverty line.
How America Became
La La Land. America was energy independent until the arrival of the Biden Administration. On the orders
of his Green New Deal masters, Biden immediately began canceling federal oil and gas leases. He stopped new
pipelines. He jawboned against the private financing of fossil-fuel production. Biden was hellbent on his way to
fulfilling his campaign promises of eliminating the use of natural gas and oil on his watch. Then prices soared and the
public grew irate. In response, still more incoherence followed. The Biden Administration would not reverse its
destructive energy policies. But as it floundered in desperation, Biden begged American enemies Iran, Russia, and
Venezuela to pump more oil on our behalf. In vain, it beseeched Saudi Arabia to produce more of the hated icky stuff
that we had in abundance but would not fully produce ourselves. Biden tapped the strategic petroleum reserve. Yet
the existential peril was not war or natural catastrophe but Biden himself and his far more dangerous policies.
Massive
increase in Black Americans murdered was result of defund police movement: experts. Support of Black Lives
Matter and calls to defund the police reverberated across America in 2020 following the death of George Floyd, igniting
social justice protests and riots at a time when the coronavirus and lockdowns upended society in unprecedented ways.
What was left in 2020's wake was a massive increase in the number of murders, dealing a disproportionate blow to Black
Americans. "Certainly, the protests and riots mid-2020 after the death of George Floyd followed a pattern of spiking
violence that we've seen following past viral police incidents, such as the deaths of Michael Brown and Freddie Gray.
This pattern has been termed the 'Ferguson Effect': police pull back while violent crime spikes precipitously," Hannah
Meyers, director of the policing and public safety initiative at the Manhattan Institute, told Fox News Digital.
Earth
to Prognosticators: Cool Your Jets. [Scroll down] The question is not to "remember the past" but to
dodge the ruling class's self-serving narrative about the past, for instance that our rulers first freed the slaves, then
protected the workers, then stopped Hitler, then liberated the women, then rolled back Jim Crow, then saved the environment,
then protected gays, then sent transphobes to somewhere where the Florida sun don't shine. My self-serving narrative is
that the rulers have successively led workers, women, blacks, and LGBTs into the wilderness. That's why workers are
"dying of despair," women are less happy than they were in the Fifties, blacks like Frank James have been carefully taught to
hate and to fear whites, and transgenders are humiliating and canceling the feminists. The way I understand the world,
I would expect that, after this unjust rule of the last century, the ordinary people of America would be getting restless.
How
History Will View the Biden Years. [Scroll down] When Biden took office, the first big economic debate
was over his nearly $2 trillion COVID-19 stimulus package, the so-called American Rescue Plan. Coming on the heels of
multiple Trump COVID-19 stimulus policies, many leading experts in both parties warned that Biden's spending was going too
far. Overstimulating the economy in this way, they argued, would come with the risk of high inflation. [...] The "Putin
Price Hike" is only the latest Biden attempt to deflect responsibility. At first, the White House insisted that
inflation was "transitory." This was, of course, repeated throughout the press. Those who dared dissent were even
fact-checked. Inflation was all about COVID-19, they argued. Then it was all about "supply chain disruptions."
All this would come to an end, and everything will be fine, they told us. This was all before Vladimir Putin even began
his war. Now it's Putin's fault. People often don't have the time to study issues at length, but they can smell
pure political spin from a mile away.
LA
Residents got What They Wanted: Criminals Who Aren't Afraid. This is what the people of Los Angeles
wanted. They put their police force on a short leash, blaming the overworked officers for the least amount of violence
against criminals while at the same time absolving the criminals of responsibility. It has led to increasing numbers of
officers leaving the force or retiring early. With fewer officers on the street and those that are being hesitant to
act, the criminals are taking advantage of the situation. The Los Angeles Police Department recently started warning
people not to wear expensive jewelry in public, or they might become the target of thieves. Thieves have become so
brazen that they smashed in the front window of Luxury Jewels, a Beverly Hills jewelry store, in broad daylight and fled with
merchandise estimated to be worth $3 to $5 million dollars.
Two
inmates at all-women's New Jersey prison are pregnant after both had sex with the same transgender inmate
after. Two women at New Jersey's only all-women's prison have both fallen pregnant after having sex with
transgender inmates. The pregnant women, who were not identified, are housed at the embattled Edna Mahan Correctional
Facility, in Clinton, which New Jersey Governor announced plans to close last year. Prison bosses said that in both
instances, the sex was consensual.
Yes,
It's Biden's Inflation. This week, America received news of yet another shocking inflation report: over the
past 12 months, inflation has skyrocketed 8.5%, outpacing wage gains by 2.9%. That inflation has flooded every area of
American life, from gas (up 48%) to airfare (24%) to furniture (16%) to milk (13%). Inflation is costing the average American
family hundreds of dollars per month — and, as we know, inflation is a highly regressive tax, harming those at the
bottom of the income spectrum the most. For its part, the Biden administration blames Russian President Vladimir
Putin's invasion of Ukraine. White House press secretary and incipient MSNBC employee Jen Psaki announced, "we expect
March CPI headline inflation to be extraordinarily elevated due to Putin's price hike," and blamed gas prices alone for the
spike. That, of course, is ludicrous.
Inflation
rises to 11.2% in producer index, highest on record. Producer prices increased a scorching 11.2% for the year
ending in March, according to a report Wednesday from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the highest on record. The
inflation rate in Wednesday's producer price index report was up 1.4 percentage points from the previous month and is the
highest in the gauge's 11-year history. Wednesday's [4/13/2022] news signals more inflationary pain to come for
households. The producer price index gauges the wholesale prices of goods, which are eventually passed down to
consumers. The news came just a day after a report for the month of March found consumer prices increased by
8.5% — the fastest annual rate in more than four decades. The high rate of inflation has wounded President
Joe Biden politically and undercut support for his spending proposals.
Inflation
exposes the arrogance of the Biden Democrats. Of all the Democrats' gestures of contemptuous indifference
toward ordinary people, President Joe Biden's 8.5% inflation rate is the most provocatively insouciant. Bidenflation,
more than any of his many other culpable failures, will prompt voters to respond in November with a gut punch to the party's
solar plexus. One should not minimize the impact of other blows to public morale from outrages such as the cultural
revolution against every traditional norm, the disgrace of U.S. capitulation to a ragtag army of medieval Afghan farmers,
Biden's abandonment of national sovereignty at the Mexican border, or the performative diktats of his tinpot COVID
bureaucrats. All these contribute to our sour national mood. [...] Biden's decision to print money, enthusiastically
backed by congressional Democrats, has produced the sharpest inflation spike in four decades. This was entirely
predictable and frequently predicted.
Inflation
surges 8.5% in March, hitting a new 40-year high. Inflation accelerated to a new four-decade high in March as
supply chain constraints, the Russian war in Ukraine and strong consumer demand fueled rapid price gains that wiped out the
benefits of rising wages for most Americans. The Labor Department said Tuesday [4/12/20222] that the consumer price
index — which measures a bevy of goods including gasoline, health care, groceries and rents — rose 8.5%
in March from a year ago, the fastest pace since December 1981, when inflation hit 8.9%. Prices jumped 1.2% in the one-month
period from February, the largest month-to-month jump since 2005. Economists expected the index to show that prices
surged 8.4% in March from the previous year and 1.2% on a monthly basis. So-called core prices, which exclude more
volatile measurements of food and energy, climbed 6.5% in March from the previous year — up from the 6.4% increase
recorded in February. It was the steepest 12-month increase since August 1982.
Consumer
prices rose 8.5% in March, slightly hotter than expected and the highest since 1981. Prices that consumers pay
for everyday items surged in March to their highest levels since the early days of the Reagan administration, according to
Labor Department data released Tuesday [4/12/2022]. The consumer price index, which measures a wide-ranging basket of
goods and services, jumped 8.5% from a year ago on an unadjusted basis, above even the already elevated Dow Jones estimate
for 8.4%. Excluding food and energy, so-called core CPI increased 6.5% on a 12-month basis, in line with the
expectation. However, there were signs that core inflation appeared to be ebbing, as it rose just 0.3% for the month,
less than the 0.5% estimate. That in turn sparked some hope that inflation overall was easing and that March might
represent the peak.
California
school enrollment drops even more — and somehow, 'experts' don't know why. They think it's a COVID
problem. They call it a 'gentrification' issue. They say it's housing costs. They say it's 'demographics.'
That's the response from the 'experts' to the [bad] news about California's school enrollment. [...] What they don't say is that
mask mandates, vaccine mandates, Zoom classes, wokester critical race theory in the classrooms, drag queen story hour, school
officials working behind parents' backs to promote transgenderism among kids and treat their parents as enemies, state-encouraged
abortion on demand, ending advanced and honors classes in the name of 'equity,' and massive numbers of Californians fleeing the
state for economic and tax reasons have all taken their toll on enrollment. Chase the locals out, don't be surprised to
see fewer kids in school.
MSNBC
Panics About Midterms as Inflation Looks to Get Even Worse. Axios has a scoop on the new inflation number
that's scheduled to drop tomorrow and it's bad. They're citing analysts from FactSet that expect the new number to be
8.4 percent, the highest inflation rate since December 1981. That's up from the rate from last month, which was
7.9 percent. Some of that will be reflecting the high gas prices that have since moderated somewhat.
However, even without counting gas and food, the forecast is 6.6 percent, the highest since August 1982. So while
the Biden team ordered the release of a million barrels of oil a day for 180 days from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
and it might have a tiny effect on the prices, he hasn't done anything to change the general trajectory of
inflation — the cause for the rise to begin with. He's just basically emptying our reserve which is supposed
to be for emergencies — not to avoid doing the right thing for the country to save himself politically before the
midterms. But it's not changing the problem ultimately.
White
House warns of 'extraordinarily elevated' March inflation rate. White House press secretary Jen Psaki admitted
Monday [4/11/2022] that fresh monthly inflation data will be "extraordinarily elevated" when it's released Tuesday[,] after
inflation hit a 40-year high of 7.9 percent last month. "We expect March CPI headline inflation to be extraordinarily
elevated due to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin's price hike, and we expect a large difference between core and headline
inflation reflecting the global disruptions in energy and food markets," Psaki said at her regular press briefing. NPR
reporter Asma Khalid pressed Psaki on the White House's attempt to blame Putin's invasion of Ukraine, saying she had just
returned from a reporting trip to Michigan, where many people told her "they feel that inflation has predated this war."
There
are some things you can question and some things you can't. In today's America, there are some things one can
question... and some things one cannot. You can question the existence of God. [...] You can question your own
gender, but you can't question the LGBTQ agenda in any way, shape or form — for any reason. Nor can
you question the process or results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, in any way, whether on a national, state, or
local level. If you do, you will promptly be cancelled, disappeared, or otherized. Seriously questioning how
COVID-19 was loosed upon the globe is also strictly verboten. As is asking questions about the Biden family's
ties to — and relations with — China or Ukraine. In fact, you can't ask a pertinent question of
Biden at all.
"Green"
Dreams Kill People. Currently, the war between Russia and Ukraine dominates the headlines. We all know
that global petroleum supplies have been disrupted by the war, but perhaps more significant is the war's impact on
agriculture. Ukraine and Russia are two of the top grain-exporting countries in the world. Ukraine has been
selling grain to the West since ancient times. With those supplies disrupted, a global food shortage impends, and many
are predicting that populations in some vulnerable areas that can't produce enough food for themselves will starve. So
where are the environmentalists in all this? They are doing their best to reduce agricultural output. In Sri
Lanka, the government mandated organic farming, with the result that yields declined catastrophically, prices skyrocketed,
and, no doubt, many died.
Speaker
Carl Heastie's 'mercy' leaves a teen girl dead at hands of another teen. Angellyh Yambo had just turned 16 when
she got caught in gangsta crossfire outside a Bronx high school, torn from this world far too soon. Yet her accused
killer, Jeremiah Ryan, might have escaped jail pending trial under New York's insane laws, merely because he himself is a
teen. This is justice according to Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and his all-too-many allies in the Legislature.
Ryan even had a perfect score to qualify for release, according the city Criminal Justice Agency, because he has no priors.
The Leader
Who Never Was. [Scroll down] But the sequential disasters Biden's struggled to manage in the last few
months are not mere accidents of fate; they're cumulative, with progressive policy blunders setting the stage for the next
failure. Appeasing the green new deal fanatics in their war on American fossil fuel production even before his Oval
Office chair was warm, predictably pushed energy prices sharply higher, lighting a fuse to runaway inflation that's won't be
easily stamped out. Opening the human floodgates on our now notional southern border — aside from the exploding crime
and youth-poisoning fentanyl implications — signaled to the world a lack of commitment to the basic defense of the nation
that goes beyond mere incompetence, to near self-immolation. The Taliban quite understandably recognized a propitious
moment, so their offensive operations intensified, leading to our horribly ill-considered, disgracefully botched flight from
Afghanistan — for which no one has as yet been called to account. Such incomprehensible malfeasance was not
lost on the covetous Vladimir Putin, convincing him his time had arrived. And so his bloody grab for Ukraine began. The
"presidential" bearing that was the major selling point of Biden's campaign pitch is decomposing before our eyes.
Fed
Study: Stimulus Checks Worsened Inflation. Four economists at the Federal Reserve say the high rate of
inflation in the United States compared to the rest of the world is due to the COVID-19 stimulus checks given to Americans
during the pandemic. The direct payments to American citizens enlarged the money supply enormously and overheated the
economy. [...] Larry Summers, the Harvard economist and former Treasury Secretary, has been warning about this almost since
Joe Biden took his oath of office. Summers believes that massive government pandemic spending — including
stimulus checks — has put too much cash into circulation while the pent-up demand from the pandemic isn't catching
up to supply. Supply chain bottlenecks don't help. But how bad would they have been if far more modest and
targeted pandemic relief had been proposed? Now we have the war in Ukraine effectively shutting off one-quarter of the
world's supply of grain. Food prices are going to skyrocket, and it's going to hurt everyone.
COVID Stimulus
Checks Worsened Inflation. Inflation has surged across much of the developed world in the past year as COVID-19
lockdowns eased and pent-up demand for goods and services collided with ongoing supply chain snafus. But inflation is
running higher in the United States than just about anywhere else right now. Why's that? According to a new paper
from four economists at the Federal Reserve of San Francisco, it's because the American government was relatively more
generous during the pandemic, borrowing and spending trillions of dollars to not only fund COVID-19 relief efforts but to
line the pockets of Americans with direct payments that enlarged the money supply and overheated the economy.
Has Biden
become expendable? Why are the media suddenly attacking the president when they supported many of his policies
during the 2020 primaries? [...] The corrupt media called President Trump's border fence "racist" while praising Biden's
promise to provide free health care for anyone crossing the southern border illegally. With such a generous and
rewarding immigration policy, the media knew that the southern border would see an explosion of illegal
crossings — and so there was. As illegal entries hit record levels, murder, drug crimes, and sex crimes
skyrocketed in the border states. Suddenly, Biden's border policy was being criticized by the propaganda media.
They were all in until things started collapsing.
Texas
governor's plan to bus illegals to Washington D.C is amusing, but not practical. Homeland Security reported that
more than 2.5 million illegal immigrants crossed the southern border since Biden took over. The Title 42 policy,
that President Trump implemented during the pandemic, empowers border officials quickly to expel migrants on health grounds.
Under Biden, that will be terminated on May 23. The migrant caravans are now massing in Central America and Mexico,
and would-be illegals have told the press they are tightly focused on that day. Once the surge of migrants makes it in the
states, the migrants are then transported to poor and working-class neighborhoods. The result is that working-class
citizens either lose their jobs, or else face depressed wages because the migrants often work off the books for less than
the minimum wage and don't pay taxes. Resources such as hospitals, law enforcement, and fire services that are meager
in working-class areas, are already overburdened. Free spaces such as pavement and parks that are occupied by
migrants are rendered unhygienic.
Babies
Struggle to Understand "Basic Facial Expressions" as a Result of Adults Wearing Masks. Adults wearing masks as
a result of COVID lockdown rules has created a generation of babies who struggle to understand "basic facial expressions" and
have stunted speech and language development. The conclusion os based on an Ofsted report that warns of serious delays
in learning caused by lockdown restrictions. "Children turning two years old will have been surrounded by adults
wearing masks for their whole lives and have therefore been unable to see lip movements or mouth shapes as regularly," states
the report. Despite a highly contentious debate over the effectiveness of face masks, mothers giving birth were forced
to wear face coverings in NHS hospitals.
Mask
Wearing Has Left a Generation of Toddlers Struggling With Speech and Social Skills. Lockdown restrictions,
including adults wearing face masks, has left a generation of babies and toddlers struggling with speech and social skills,
according to an official report. Inspectors working for Ofsted found that infants being surrounded by adults wearing
face masks for significant periods of time over the last two years has damaged their learning and communication
abilities. Those turning two "will have been surrounded by adults wearing masks for their whole lives and have
therefore been unable to see lip movements or mouth shapes as regularly," the report found. "Some providers have
reported that delays to children's speech and language development have led to them not socialising with other children as
readily as they would have expected previously," it added.
Understanding
the Progressive Mind. Everyone in Washington understands the basic causes of inflation. If you print more
money than you have real assets like gold to back it up, you devalue your currency and make everything cost more. If
you declare war on fossil fuels, shut down pipelines, close vast oil fields like Anwar, and don't approve drilling licenses
generally, you cause the price of everything to go up, because virtually everything requires energy to produce. If you
spend vast amounts of government money inducing individuals not to work, employers will raise wages to entice them to work,
and that, too, will cause prices to go up. It's not rocket science. Despite understanding these consequences, the
Biden administration has instituted all these inflationary measures, and avoided taking responsibility for them and the
suffering they cause. They did this to advance their progressive agenda, which is really a reactionary socialist agenda
that has not changed its fundamental premises since 1848, when Marx published what is and has always been the progressive agenda.
Why is a "study" necessary to prove that which is obvious? New
Fed study shows Biden owns our economic disaster. President Joe Biden loves to blame our sky-high inflation on
corporate greed and Vladimir Putin. But a new study from the San Francisco Fed shows it was Biden himself who put
America on this grim trajectory. Specifically, it was the massive $1.9 trillion stimulus dumped into the US economy in
early 2021 by the president's American Rescue Plan. As the nearby chart demonstrates, the nation began heading into the
inflationary stratosphere in early 2021, while other advanced economies, the other countries in the Organization for Economic
Co-operation and Development, haven't seen anything like the soaring prices now punishing workers across
America. Which means that the spike is due to something US-specific, rather than global prevailing conditions.
That policy, was, of course, Biden's signature economic "achievement."
Hillary
Clinton Doesn't Understand Why People Don't Appreciate Everything Democrats Are Doing for Them. [Scroll
down] So, which is it? Is this administration getting nothing done, or are the Democrats accomplishing so much
that we don't understand their greatness? What I'd love to ask Clinton is this: which accomplishment should we peons
appreciate the most? Should we give Biden credit for skyrocketing gas prices? Is a flippant response of "just buy
an electric vehicle" one of those accomplishments? Should we celebrate spiraling inflation, which, by the way, affects
minorities disproportionately? Or should we just combat it with the advice of out-of-touch urban elites? Should
we get excited about the Democrats' ridiculous attempts to gin up racial animus by talking about "voting rights"? Are we
missing something about the administration's efforts to wrest elections from state and local control? What about the
sexualization of everything — including our schoolchildren? Is that something to be thankful to the
Democrats for?
Already
stretched thin, border agents must now use politically correct pronouns under new edict. Battered by COVID-19,
waves of illegal immigrants and fears of even larger surges ahead, Customs and Border Protection officers have a new burden:
they must now be sure to use proper pronouns for LGBTQI+ migrants. The new requirement was included Thursday at the
bottom of a much larger announcement by the Homeland Security Department concerning changes instituted on International Trans
Day of Visibility. "Facilitating effective communication at U.S. ports of entry and beyond: CBP has provided a
job aid and memorandum to all staff that will serve as a guide for facilitating effective communication with the diverse
public CBP serves, including LGBTQI+ individuals," the agency said.
What
the Bible Says About Money Inflation, Debt, and The Fed. It's now common knowledge that the U.S. dollar is in
danger of losing its status as the world reserve currency. This is primarily due to two factors, the first being the
Federal Reserve's inflation of the money supply, which drives price inflation. Money inflation destroys the purchasing
power of the dollar, acting as a crippling tax on the poor, middle class, and retirees on fixed incomes. But the money
inflation also distorts prices, supply and demand structures, and markets. This drives the boom-bust economic bubbles
which blow up into recessions. In addition, the money inflation also funds America's destructive welfare state (which
only incentivizes additional welfare) and America's bankrupting wars of choice, as well as the ever-expanding federal Big
Government. All of the above are as destructive as they are unsustainable. What they amount to is fraud and
violence against the American people.
Democrats
in New York Debate How to Hide Their Radical Proposals on Bail and Incarceration. The debate happening in New
York state over Gov. Kathy Hochul's proposals to show how tough Democrats are on crime mirrors the debate happening
across the country and in Washington, D.C. On the radical left, the debate is over: no bail, light sentences for
everything except violent offenses, and don't send too many black people to prison because ... slavery, or something.
But Hochul is running for election in November after taking over when the serial sexual harasser and rapist, Andrew Cuomo,
was forced to resign. She has to run in the real world where there are an awful lot of people scared witless about
crime. Not everyone in New York is a crazy, left-wing nut. The same holds true elsewhere in the United
States. The facts are that releasing people without bail isn;t leading to more crime and more violent crime.
Democrats like Hochul might recognize that but are still running scared.
LGBTQ+:
Leftism's corruption of God's sacred gift to humankind. [Scroll down] But today's secularism has dropped
society into an intellectual quicksand that repudiates matters of faith and objective reality. It is fitting to define
this neopaganism as "sexolatry," with sexuality warped into a bizarre dark comedy of dysphoria and disorientation. Now
it's "hookup culture," it's a casual "participation sport." The unremitting truth of male and female —
something assigned immutably at conception — yields to a whole zoology of "preferred pronouns," with a spectrum of
genders absurdly more varied than a fat folder of decorator's paint chips. This toxic climate of deranged
permissiveness has desensitized the population to a torrent of coarseness and spawned an epidemic of tragedy. Teen
pregnancy. Human trafficking and sexual slavery. Public school teachers demonically pushing gender manipulation
on students. Pornographic graphic novels in school libraries. Teacher-conducted "Pride" festivals. Jarring
messaging from the entertainment world. Reared in this sexual jungle and drenched with such thought, word, image, and
deed, it seems unsurprising that some, even many, young people emerge, confused and depressed, into adulthood.
A World Gone Mad.
There is no denying it. There is a madness, a type of cancer that has taken hold of our world. Yes, this planet
has never been at peace... mankind is what it is, we go our own way, but we are seeing a craziness at a level never seen
before. Governments everywhere, including here in the USA, have abandoned God, good government, law and order, common
sense, and traditional Judeo-Christian values. They have jumped in with both feet into the dark and shadow without
bothering to look back at seeing what they have already wrought. Absurdity and hypocrisy are everywhere. The Left
insists that we abandon fossil fuels NOW without even the slightest idea of a viable alternative.
Democrats
Have Painted Themselves into a Corner. [Scroll down] The Democrats do not have a single reasonable
leader that is acceptable to any major portion of real America. Whatever moves they make or don't make will have little
effect on the November election. The destruction that Democrats have unleashed on America is mind-boggling. Who
would possibly imagine that doubling gas prices would gain votes? Sanctioning Russia while simultaneously sanctioning
our domestic energy industry is beyond insanity. And it has been done with such rapidity that even voters with short memory
can see it. Inflation around ten percent according to the Everyday Price Index is hitting poor Americans in the wallet.
People
Are Getting Tired of One-Way Tolerance. There was a time not long ago when even the most based conservative was
willing to live and let live with all manner of divergent and bizarre people, but live and let live has become "I live and
you submit" and that's just not going to work out in the long run. The tolerant have been rewarded for their tolerance
with intolerance, and if you look, you can already see the backlash brewing. The breaking point may have been when the
man who won the women's swimming championship and all the smart, moral people of our garbage elite demanded we celebrate
it. Or it might be weirdos trying to chat up our kindergarteners about sex. Or it might be CRT. Regardless,
people are getting fed up. There's a difference between living your life as you wish and making the rest of us live
their lives as you wish too, especially when it's a lie or when it means some freak gets to groom our kids.
America's
Truck Driver Shortage. There is a trucker shortage... and it's worse every year. This is not news; this
national driver shortage is no shock to businessmen or policymakers. Our driver shortage contributes to empty store
shelves, idled assembly lines, retail price inflation, a reduced Gross Domestic Product, and the global supply chain
crisis. This is not just one industry's problem; it's everybody's problem. What is odd, however, is that so many
people believe the trucker shortage is caused entirely by not enough people choosing the profession of truck driving as a
career. While that is certainly a part of it, it's not our real problem. In fact, our truck driver shortage is
caused primarily by a series of destructive government policies at every level.
No
Amount Of Incremental Wind And Solar Power Can Ever Provide Energy Independence. With war raging in Ukraine
following Russia's invasion, there is a renewed concern in many quarters for "energy independence." Until recently, the
sophisticated countries of Europe had thought the whole idea to be passé. They built large numbers of wind
turbines and solar arrays, while simultaneously banning fracking for natural gas and shuttering electricity plants that used
coal and even those that used no-carbon nuclear. Suddenly, at the very worst possible time, they found themselves
completely dependent on Russian gas for heat and reliable electricity.
How
Democrats Made America Dependent on Russian Uranium. Uranium prices have shot up by as much as 40% since
Russia's invasion of Ukraine. With nuclear power providing about a fifth of our energy, this is another blow for
Americans. Unfortunately our nuclear power plants are dependent on uranium imports from Russia and countries in its
sphere of influence because our domestic mining industry was suppressed. In December 2016, on his way out the door,
Barack Obama announced that he was inventing the Bears Ears "National Monument" on over a million acres of land. While
California environmentalists celebrated, tens of thousands of locals bitterly protested the move. Billboards and
stickers reading #RescindBearsEars were plastered across Utah towns in the area that expected catastrophic consequences from
the destruction of their livelihoods. Among these was uranium mining. A uranium mine in the area has the
potential to yield 500,000 pounds of uranium. Miners warned that the Bears Ears monument would force us to rely more
heavily on foreign uranium. But the Democrats, still busy blaming their election defeat on some sort of phantom
Russian-Trump conspiracy, did not see any problem with making America dependent on Russia.
Here
Comes the Food Shortage! Socialist takeovers always progress to the food shortage stage sooner or later.
Remember reading in horror about how Venezuelans were gobbling up their zoo animals in an effort to remain alive? Seems
like it was only yesterday. But since horsemen Pestilence and War have already galloped through, I guess Famine can't
be far behind. [...] But our Democrat leaders, together with their Globalist pals, are here to heap food scarcity on top of
the supply chain crisis, fuel crisis, and violent crime epidemics they've already brought us. And as usual, we'll be
told it's all the fault of our enemy-du-jour, Vladimir Putin. But, hey, when you're trying to stampede everyone into a
war that doesn't affect them, I guess making it affect them is one way to accomplish your goal.
Gas
rationing, food vouchers and hunger are now being normalized for the war phase of the plandemic. As predicted,
Russia's invasion of Ukraine is advancing the next phase of the plandemic, which involves widespread shortages of fuel
and food that lead to mass starvation. Already in Ukraine, residents are running out of food and medicine. And
the economic fallout from this is spilling over into the rest of the world, too. The chance of a U.S. recession in
2023, according to banking giant Goldman Sachs, has risen to 35 percent. Conversely, global growth indicators are
being slashed as everything continues to move downwards amid the conflict.
KBJ Hearings
Typify Our Debased Political Discourse. Since Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was chosen by President Biden to
replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court, we've been encouraged by the White House, congressional Democrats, and
the corporate media to celebrate her as the "first Black woman" nominated to serve on the Court. Yet, when asked during
her confirmation hearing to define the term "woman," she responded, "I can't ... I'm not a biologist." The problem with
this answer isn't just that it was unworthy of a serious SCOTUS nominee. It is symptomatic of a debilitating disease that has
infected our political discourse, rendering substantive policy debate all but impossible and endangering the republic.
Democrat
policies destroy lives. A gruesome crime of murder occurred in New Orleans this week. Four black teens,
ages 15-17, walking down a sidewalk, decided to push a 73-year-old white lady, Linda Frickey, out of her car and go for a
joyride. As one of these teens pushed the pedal to the metal, the lady's arm got caught in her seat belt strap.
While all four teenagers were in the car, this lady was hanging out of her car being dragged in the street, that is until her
body broke off from her arm still entangled in the seat belt. These teens continued to drive approximately ten minutes
longer until they abandoned the car. [...] This murder is a result of Democrat policies. The three main policies pushed
by Democrats affecting crime are: defund the police, critical race theory (best described as hate whitey), and free or
reduced sentences of criminals. All three of these policies have been marketed to our citizens — and our
children have taken notice.
The Editor says...
It is inaccurate and misleading to say, "our children have taken notice." The carjackers in New Orleans, Washington DC,
New York and California are all black, as far as I can tell from the news reports. Not everybody's children act like that.
Consumer
Sentiment Sinks as Hope Crashes and Inflation Expectations Hit Four-Decade High. Everyone has jobs and no one
is happy because prices are rising so sharply. U.S. consumer sentiment fell in March to the lowest since 2011 despite
the level of jobless claims declining to the lowest level in decades and unemployment likely sinking to multi-decade
lows. The University of Michigan's sentiment index dropped to 59.4, from 62.8 in February, data released Friday
showed. This was lower than the mid-month read of 59.7. Economists had projected no further deterioration from the
mid-month reading. "Inflation has been the primary cause of rising pessimism, with an expected year-ahead inflation
rate at 5.4 percent, the highest since November 1981," said Richard Curtin, the surveys chief economist, in a
statement. The sentiment index has taken a severe beating in the first year of Biden's presidency, falling
30 percent compared with March of 2020.
What's
happening to the Marines? Lately, when we think about what's happening to America's military under Biden, we've
been focusing on the Pentagon's obsessions with race, LGBTQ+++ issues (especially transgenderism), women's rights, and
political "wrong think" (i.e., conservativism). That obsession has consistently put progressive social policy ahead of
military cohesion and readiness. However, Jim Webb, who was a Marine infantry officer while in Vietnam, then the Navy
secretary under Ronald Reagan and, lastly, a Virginia senator during the Obama years, has written an op-ed about a different
concern: The potentially damaging, purely operational changes Marine commandment Gen. David Berger intends to
impose on the Corps.
The
pandemic city exodus revealed: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago lost the most residents.
New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and other large cities lost the most residents during the pandemic city exodus
last year as about 75 percent of U.S. counties experienced a loss in population, according to a new report from the U.S.
Census Bureau. The agency revealed on Thursday [3/24/2022] that American's fled metropolitan areas between April 2020
to July 2021 in favor of the South West, with Dallas, Houston, Austin and Phoenix among those to see the largest growth last
year. The Census Bureau said: 'In 2021, fewer births, an aging population and increased mortality — intensified
by the COVID-19 pandemic — contributed to a rise in natural [population] decrease' across the country,' but particular
hitting big cities the hardest.'
The Editor says...
Covid is the all-purpose fig leaf for other problems created by socialist Democrats.
All four of the cities named in the headline above are Democrat-controlled cities where violent homeless people roam the streets,
mobs of looters do whatever they want because leftist prosecutors don't want to incarcerate blacks, and taxes are sky-high.
Covid has little or nothing to do with this mass exodus.
LAPD:
You probably shouldn't wear expensive jewelry anymore. The Los Angeles Police Department has a message for the
denizens of Tinseltown and the rest of the City of Angels. When you go out and about, you should probably avoid wearing
any sort of flashy, expensive jewelry or other expensive possessions. Why would they say that? Because thieves
have continued to become more and more brazen about pulling a weapon on pedestrians or motorists and robbing them of their
belongings. And displays of wealth will just make you more of a target for these types of crimes. At the same
time, gangs are also stepping up attacks on jewelry stores and other outlets selling expensive and easily fenced merchandise,
so you might want to avoid those stores as well. LA is looking more and more like a scene from Escape from New
York these days.
Did
The New York Times Admit Joe Biden Is Corrupt So Democrats Can Get Rid Of Him? Biden of course also has the
advantage of a wildly favorable press and social media monopoly while Trump had the strong headwind of a wildly negative
one. That factor obscured for a great many of American voters actions that easily demonstrated long before his election
that Biden was unfit for the presidency. Now that he's president, however, and very publicly bungling essentially every
major issue all the way up to U.S. national security, Biden's weakness and incompetence have been impossible for the corrupt
media to entirely cover up. Biden's appalling withdrawal from Afghanistan may have been the first major blow to public
confidence in his governing ability, and it's been followed by blow after blow: the repercussions of ending U.S. energy
independence, historic inflation caused by massive government spending, aggression by America's foreign foes, a tacitly open
border with human trafficking of historic proportions, not to mention fueling America's legalized mass killings of unborn
infants and forcing schools to inflict gender dysphoria on the children in their care.
The
Biden Administration Does Not Have a Strategy. The current U.S. administration's blunders are only mounting and
already include the following: a complete lack of strategy for energy security, the chaotic exit from Afghanistan, a
softening on Chinese aggressiveness by abandoning the Department of Justice's "China Initiative," and rising inflation that
is swiftly decreasing the living standards of average Americans. The administration seeks to blame the problem on
Russia or various supply chains issues while refusing to admit that its own reckless government printing and directionless
infusion of capital into the economy, combined with its nonsensical policy of cutting domestic oil production, are to
blame. These issues are the result of an administration that has either a lack of understanding or worse, great
contempt, for realist geopolitical strategy.
UK
Hospital Denies a Victim Was Raped Because the Ward Was for 'Women Only'. There are times when reading about
how we are adapting to a many-gendered world that I have to check to make sure I'm still on good old Planet Earth and have
not been transported to Cloud Cuckoo Land to live with people who deny the reality of existence. The Cloud Cuckoo
Landers who 30 years ago may have been living under lock and key in some insane asylum are now taking their place in
positions of authority and are dictating how the rest of us should view reality. It would be amusing if there weren't
real-life victims of this nonsense. A British woman reported to police that she had been raped during a stay in a
hospital. But the police were told that simply wasn't possible because the ward where the woman claims she was raped
was for "females only." And since there "was no male in the hospital, therefore the rape could not have happened." Emma
Nicholson, the Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, stood before the members of the House of Lords and pointed out that the
rape was caught on CCTV, but it took nearly a year for the hospital to admit there was a transgendered person in the ward who
raped the victim.
Obama's
Lawless Legacy Is The Cancer Consuming America Today. You don't have to be any kind of intellectual savant to
recognize this increasingly hyper-accelerated and precipitous decline our nation has been stricken with now for over a
decade. A deliberate decline, wholly manufactured and implemented with malevolent intentions among the usual suspects
of political ruling class malefactors and their various radical militant acolytes. A calculated decline whose
subversive, accelerated machinations I believe to have been set in motion and implemented throughout the 8 years of Barack
Hussein Obama's dumpster blazing presidency, setting the stage for these subsequent years of successive, surreal and
intensifying social anarchy, civil unrest and unparalleled political corruption. All done for the express purpose of
seeking to subvert and decimate the pillars and foundation of our Republic. To be sure, no one man could accomplish as
much division and social upheaval as Obama managed to do without the help of accomplices and fellow conspirators. How
else can you explain an obscure community organizer whose own past was shrouded with vague content, going from an
unaccomplished Illinois state senator with the sort of radical political associations that would see any of us put on an FBI
terrorist watch list, to a U.S. senator to president of the United States in the span of a decade, void of having any
substantive legislative achievements and possessing no executive experience?
Amazon
Bails Out of Downtown Due to Violent Crime Surge, Dodges the Consequence of Woke Policies. Amazon is getting
out of Dodge. Well, more accurately, Seattle. The massive, mostly online retailer announced recently that it's
relocating 1,800 employees out of a downtown Seattle location due to a huge uptick in violent crime. "Given recent
incidents near 3rd (Ave) and Pine (St), we're providing employees currently at that location with alternative office space
elsewhere," an Amazon spokesman said, according to the New York Post. "We are hopeful that conditions will improve and
that we will be able to bring employees back to this location when it is safe to do so." The Post noted that violent
crime has rocked the city. In just the first week of March around the Amazon offices, a 15-year-old boy was shot and
killed, a homeless man was stabbed, and police had to shoot and kill a man who rammed into a federal building and fired a
rifle. Amazon has been only too eager to hop aboard woke causes, but the company seems a little less enthusiastic about
woke consequences.
Will
Joe Biden Oversee The Collapse Of The U.S. Dollar? Will Joe Biden oversee the collapse of the U.S. dollar as
the world's reserve currency? Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell appears to think it's a possibility, based on his
recent quip: "It's possible to have more than one reserve currency." This is a staggering admission from the one person
who wields the most influence over the dollar. Then again, given the $30 trillion-and-counting federal debt, Powell's
comment should come as no surprise. Distilled, the chances are multiplying daily that the Biden administration is
hurtling towards ringing the death-knell for the dollar as the world's reserve currency.
10
Realities of Ukraine. [#6] The Ukraine war did not cause inflation and record gas prices. Both were
already spiking by early February 2022. The cause was the Biden Administration's year-long radical expansion of the money
supply at a time of post-COVID, pent-up consumer demand. It foolishly continued de facto zero-interest rates. Its
generous COVID subsidies for the unemployed discouraged a return to work, while slashing U.S. oil and gas production and
pipelines. Prior to Putin's invasion, Biden was quite publicly blaming greedy corporations, oil companies, COVID, and
former President Donald Trump for the inflation he had birthed in 2021. And he was claiming undeniable high prices were
only temporary or mostly an obsession of the elite.
First, Do Some Harm.
Until now, the people in full control of the minds of our youth have been the army of 31-year-old TikTok-and-Adderall addicts
with multiple piercings and furry fetishes and baroque multisyllabic pronouns who seem to work at every preschool and
elementary school in the country. I don't know where these weirdos come from, but I want to thank the China-owned
TikTok app for giving them a platform on which to expose themselves. [...] But don't get too comfortable. A new, even
more powerful enemy has entered the game: the pediatric industrial complex. This battle is going to be more
difficult. Why? Because if your school is bad, at least you can switch schools or homeschool. But unless
you went to med school and can write prescriptions, stitch a wound, and reset a dislocated shoulder, you can't
home-doctor. Teaching multiplication is one thing, diagnosing pediatric cancer is quite another.
Why
Don't American Cities Deserve the Same Care as Ukraine? Of course, Russia's "special military action,"
otherwise known as an invasion of Ukraine, is a humanitarian catastrophe. Photo-journo accounts of hospitals suffering
rocket attacks, civilians slaughtered by bomb bursts and sweeps of gunfire, apartment buildings, entire neighborhoods
obliterated, are indeed horrific. Some two million refugees pouring into Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia add to the
despondent emotions. While the spreading incineration in Ukraine is impossible to ignore, neither should be conditions
in American cities. The scenes of ravaged American inner cities, with entire sections of cities burned out, abandoned
and derelict, are no less war zones than what we see in Ukraine. [...] Have you driven through urban battle zones from the
Bronx to Philadelphia, to Baltimore, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, St Louis, Los Angeles, and now Seattle, Portland
and Minneapolis? You could interchange photos of those American cities almost indistinguishable from scenes in Kyiv to
Kharkiv to Mariupol.
Biden
is to blame for inflation and driving America off an economic cliff. Since the first day of his presidency, Joe
Biden has waged all-out war on our domestic energy industry, crippling our nation's ability to provide the needed resources
to sustain our own economy. It was a grievous mistake that has caused prices to soar and left consumers struggling
financially. Americans are smart. They know that Biden is responsible. 70 percent disapprove of his handling
of inflation and gas prices, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll. It is a damning indictment of Biden's policies, if
not his incompetence. Instead of having the fortitude to admit that his misguided green agenda badly damaged the U.S.
economy, Biden blames Putin. And our nation's oil companies. And OPEC. And bankers on Wall Street. And
transportation companies. And COVID. And the kid who kicked the cat. Never once has Biden looked in the mirror
for a moment of self-reflection. He is incapable of recognizing that he was wrong in his decision to reverse our nation's
energy independence.
Atmospheric
carbon dioxide: A little perspective, please. When President Biden was sworn into office, crude oil was
selling for forty dollars a barrel or less. The price was reasonably stable, and gasoline and diesel were affordable
for most drivers. Biden came into office preaching the benefits of clean energy and stopped the new drilling on and
leasing of federal lands to promote it. As a result, the United States went from being an exporter of crude oil and
natural gas to an importer with a large source of imported oil being Russia. As the supply tightened, producers raised
the price and the crude that was selling for forty dollars a barrel when Biden took office has been selling for up to one
hundred and thirty dollars a barrel and the price of fuels has increased proportionately. The cost of shipping goods
has increased to reflect this cost of fuel which has given the United States a problem with inflation. Biden has
said he can't do anything about solving the problem he caused, by stopping drilling on federal land. It is not a
matter of him being unable to do anything. It is a matter of him not wanting to because he believes the carbon
dioxide from the exhaust of vehicles burning gasoline is causing global warming. This is what he has been told, not a
conclusion he has the knowledge to arrive at on his own.
Four
Charts Prove Biden Is Lying About Putin And Inflation. As inflation has continued to climb, so have the number
of President Joe Biden's excuses for why he's not to blame. First, it was a "transitory" effect of the economy
rebounding from COVID lockdowns. Then it was the result of supply chain problems because ports didn't operate 24/7.
Then it was due to a lack of competition among beef suppliers. Then it was greed. Now he's settled on Vladimir
Putin. None of it is true. But the White House is so determined to take advantage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine
it invited TikTok "influencers" to propagandize them. The mainstream press had already fallen in line, delivering
stories about why Biden is not at fault. But Biden is to blame. He set off the current inflationary spiral with
the $2 trillion "rescue plan" he and his fellow Democrats jammed through at the start of 2021. They claimed the money
was desperately needed to get the economy back on track (it wasn't) and dismissed warnings from even liberal economists that
dumping all that money (while paying people not to work) at a time when the economy was rapidly rebounding would spark an
inflationary spiral.
What Did Democrats Deliver?
What have Democrats delivered? How about the worst inflation in four decades thanks to President Joe Biden's American
Rescue Plan and misguided energy policies? They've delivered near-record prices at the pump and at the grocery
store. Delivered endless supply chain woes. Delivered a wobbly economy and equally volatile stock market.
Delivered an open border and growing concerns about the security of the nation. But there's more. Democrats have
delivered prosecutors who are weak on crime, especially in the nation's biggest and bluest cities. They've delivered
more division in an already divided country, more hostility between schools and parents, and a foreign policy record that
gives new meaning to the words "leading from behind."
Get
ready: Here comes the Biden Recession. Yes, just when you thought things could not get worse, along comes
the very real possibility of a downturn, thanks to Bidenomics, the war in Ukraine and an inept Federal Reserve. A year
ago, during a robust recovery, such a forecast would have seemed ludicrous. A top Wall Street economist recently
conducted an informal poll of his firm's clients. To his surprise, 100 percent thought the U.S. would be in a recession
by next year. Why such gloom? It starts with accelerating inflation, caused by out-of-control government spending
and measures taken by the Biden White House that kept workers on the sidelines. Inflation is also being fueled by
soaring energy prices, thanks to lower U.S. production amid reviving growth and now the disruption to Russian oil exports.
Put
a Fork in Seattle. When Detroiters are laughing at your city, you know you've made a mistake. I grew up
in the Motor City and I have no sympathy for what used to be Seattle. Detroit's death was drawn out over years and
involved a perfect storm of nonsense, including foolish decisions by auto execs, stupid import/export laws, and a corrupt
mayor named Coleman A. Young. Detroit languished. Seattle was executed. Hundreds of local Seattle
businesses are leaving, and Seattle residents have no one to blame except voters and the communists they've elected.
Does
Anyone Recognize This Country Anymore? The present has been marred by riots, which are not only condoned but
even encouraged by the insiders, who are at war with those they consider to be deplorable outsiders. This
establishment, which like the revolutionaries of the 1960s is hoping to reshape Western society, has also brought us historic
inflation; a new oil shock; rising food prices and scarcity; orders to give up fossil fuel-powered automobiles in favor of
electric cars or public transportation; greater dependency on expensive and unreliable "green" energy; cruel pandemic
lockdowns; and iron-fisted vaccine and mask mandates. It wants more privilege and power for itself, less autonomy for
the working class and those who aren't on board with its manipulations.
House
Democrats Cancel Looming Embarrassment. Even as post-Covid demand surged in an America and world that still
rely on oil, gas and coal for 80% of their energy, Congressional Democrats, the White House, federal agencies and activist
groups worked in consort to cancel pipelines, impose leasing and drilling moratoriums, slow-walk permits, and pressure
financial institutions to stymie funding for oil and gas operations. As they choked off production and supplies, oil,
natural gas and gasoline prices nearly doubled during Mr. Biden's first year in office. The price of food and
nearly all consumer products and services soared in response.
Larry
Summers Is [the] Second Obama Economic Adviser To Blame Biden For Inflation. This week Obama economic adviser
Steve Rattner said that Biden shouldn't be blaming Russia invading Ukraine for inflation. He said Biden owns
this. Now another Obama economic adviser, Larry Summers, is blaming Biden for inflation. Biden used to work with
these men in the Obama White House.
The
Frictionless Souls Addicted to the Cause. [Scroll down] Replacing religion with politics has made for
more frictionless souls who never grow. The emotional retardation can be seen everywhere as adults behave like teenagers
and teenagers behave like children. No one ever grows up, instead they feign maturity through politics.
Advocating for causes makes them seem like they care about something more than themselves. The right politics bestows
membership in a community based on politics, but behind all the virtue signaling is the fundamental immaturity of people who
only truly care about themselves. That is the dirty secret of leftist politics whose egocentrism is thinly masked as
altruism. Leftism is not an act of conscience, but an escape from conscience. Its causes, legitimate or
illegitimate, are manifold, but what they all have in common is an underlying denial. The only form of liberation that
their politics truly offer is the liberation from moral accountability and personal growth. The more radical the
politics, the more radical of an escapism it represents.
"Bacon
is as expensive as filet mignon used to be.". The New York Times hired Morning Consult, a polling firm usually
associated with Politico, to ask people where inflation hits hardest. It was a pretty good piece of journalism. [...]
From the Times story:
"A car battery costs almost two times as much."
"Bacon is as expensive as filet mignon used to be."
"Cold cereal has gone up, and the box has shrunk."
"Gas. It's painful at the pump."
"Horse feed keeps going up every week."
"I never thought I would ever see eggs at $5 a dozen."
"The cheap brand of hamburger meat is not cheap anymore."
"The price of pet food is hard to even fathom."
Morning Consult asked 2,200 people and those are some of the answers given.
Don't
let Biden lie his way out of the energy crisis he created. President Joe Biden is trying to distance himself
from soaring gas prices by blaming Russia and lying about his restrictive energy policies. Deflection and
dishonesty — the two things at which Biden is best. "It's simply not true that my administration or policies
are holding back domestic energy production," he told reporters Tuesday. "That's simply not true. Even amid the
pandemic, companies in the U.S. pumped more oil during my first year in office than they did during my predecessor's first
year." That last claim from Biden is particularly insidious because it omits two material points. First, domestic
oil production only decreased during former President Donald Trump's last year in office because the COVID-19 pandemic shut
everything down; second, domestic oil production could be higher, but instead, it has been steadily decreasing ever since
Biden's first day in office. The decrease is no coincidence. Contrary to what the White House might say, the
explicit purpose of the climate agenda Biden has spent the last year pushing is to rid us of our dependence on fossil
fuels. To him and to most Democrats, that means less domestic oil and gas production.
From
Massachusetts, 10 talking points to counter Democrat positions. A Democrat vote means you favor:
[#1] No fossil fuel production. Like the price of gasoline, heating oil and natural gas these days?
[#2] Inflation at a 50-year high. The government prints money and hands it out, and it becomes worthless.
[#3] No freedom of speech. Say the "incorrect thing," and you're sued. Or fired. No opinions allowed.
[#4] No civil liberties. Don't think the vaccine is right for you or truly safe? Sorry — you have no say.
[#5] De-funding the police. Smash and grab. No bail for criminals. Policemen being shot. Feel safe?
[#6] A weakened military. Our top generals are more concerned with "equity" than winning wars.
[#7] Higher taxes. You think the government spends your money more wisely than you do, right?
[#8] Unrestricted illegal immigration. Your taxes support their education, health care, and housing.
[#9] Choosing your gender. Do you like 45-year-old men in the girl's room with your daughter?
[#10] Woke corporations. Everything is racist all of a sudden. Color and sex far outweigh qualifications.
As
Financial Markets Crash and Ukraine Burns, There's Nowhere Left to Hide for the Biden Administration. Time,
they say, is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. If that's so, then maybe time has
stopped because all of a sudden everything seems to be happening at once. Three things, actually: 1) a Russian
military operation in Ukraine that a lot of people in America want to turn into World War Three; 2) an epic crack-up
of the world financial system; and 3) the breakdown of the fishy Covid-19 affair and especially the story behind its holy
avatar: the mRNA vaccine. In a sane society, that might be enough to trip the institutional reality-test apparatus, but
we are not a sane society these days, so we plunge ever-deeper into a hurly-burly of wrongful endeavor vectoring toward
self-destruction. The immediate problem is a nation (us) that is powerfully bamboozled, led by a figurehead nobody
believes in, backed by a hidden coterie of actors who appear to hate our country enough to try to sink it.
The
'Hobbes Index' Is Making A Comeback Under Biden. Americans are becoming poorer as the highest inflation rate in
40 years cost the average household $3,500 last year. The erosion of wealth has no end in sight as the annualized
inflation rate hit 7.5% in January. Real wages are declining as prices have risen across the board, with food and fuel
leading the way. In contrast, annualized inflation stood at 1.4% and oil was $55 dollars/barrel in January 2021, when
Biden terminated the Keystone XL pipeline, a mindless infliction of pain reminiscent of Franco's bombing of Guernica during
the Spanish Civil War in its lack of strategic benefit. Coherence not among his strengths, Biden curtailed domestic
energy production while simultaneously imploring OPEC to increase production.
Award-Winning
HIV Researcher Forced Into Re-Education For Dressing Up Like Michael Jackson. A resurfaced blackface photo
wasn't enough to get Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or former Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam fired, but a medical
researcher was forced out of her senior vice president position last month after dressing up as Michael Jackson for Halloween
in 2009. Dr. Julie Overbaugh was an award-winning senior vice president at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
("Fred Hutch") and a faculty member at the University of Washington Medical Center. She's known for her research on HIV
in Kenya. But her career is being ruined over a costume. Nearly 13 years ago, Overbaugh attended the party at a
lab at Fred Hutch. The theme of the party was Jackson's album "Thriller." But after a photo of her costume was
anonymously emailed to senior leadership at the University of Washington, UW Medicine, and Fred Hutch, she's been forced to
undergo "an intensive education process."
This
Invasion Is Brought to You by ... Western Environmentalists. The Democrats came into power in 2021. The
average closing price of oil in 2020 was $39.68 a barrel; the closing price of oil in 2019 was $56.99 a barrel. As of
this writing it is $138.00 a barrel. The extremely high price of energy — a direct result of the
environmentalist policies of the Democratic Party and the liberal and Left parties in Europe — is one of the two
primary reasons for the ever-increasing rate of inflation. (The other reason is the result of another Democrat policy:
the printing of trillions of dollars.) Serious inflation leads to very bad things. The Nazis did not come to power
because of their antisemitism or even because of the Versailles Treaty as much as they did because of the terrible inflation
under the Weimar Republic.
Expect
To Pay $3,000 More This Year For Gas And Food As Prices Skyrocket. Prices at the pump have now soared to $4.173
per gallon for regular gasoline, according to Price Information Service (OPIS). This firm collects and calculates US pump
prices for American Automobile Association (AAA). On Monday evening [3/7/2022], prices surpassed the previous record high
set in 2008 and continue marching higher Tuesday. As gasoline prices increase and inflation reaches the highest levels
in four decades, times are becoming much harder for the average consumer, experiencing a persistent rise in the prices of
many goods and services. Steeper gas and food prices have forced millions of people to rejigger household
budgets. The latest research note from Yardeni Research estimates the average household will spend an additional $2,000
per year in gasoline on top of an extra $1,000 in food expenses. Adding this all up, the typical household will spend
$3,000 less this year on other things.
The
Crude Hypocrisy And Rot Of Green Politics. That gasoline prices are becoming unaffordable to many Americans is
becoming old news. What got us here, though, is a story unheard by much of the public. It starts and ends with
green politics. As gasoline reaches prices that made it a luxury good during President Joe Biden's year in office, the
White House is considering asking the Saudis to produce more oil. At the same time, the administration apparently wants
more oil from Venezuela, which is languishing under a dictatorship that's squarely aligned with Russian President Vladimir
Putin, and Iran, a member in good standing with the axis of evil. "Joe Biden is frantically searching the globe to see
if anyone but Texas might have some spare oil," says a tweet from Bryan Dean Wright, a former CIA officer and Oregon
Democrat, that sums up well the comical blundering as well as the corrupt decision-making of the current White House.
Why
Should Deplorables Fight for Those Who Hate Them? [Scroll down] Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe the wars of
the future will all be fought by politically correct, "detoxified," androgynous know-nothings marching uniformly into battle
because MSNBC, Google, and Teen Vogue tell them doing so will prove they are committed to fighting racism and global
warming. Maybe that gender-confused pipsqueak huddled in a "safe space" because he/she/they/it is afraid of
being "triggered" by words or the carnage of free speech is just what the U.S. military needs when going mano a mano
against the Russians. I'm sure those pink [...] hat-wearing womynx are ready to jump out of a good airplane,
parachute into chaos, and start slitting throats for good Ol' Uncle Sam (or is it non-binary Auxnt Sam now?).
Where are all the climate change warriors when their country needs them? Come on, "gladiators," get to it!
Go find out what it's like to fight something that's fighting back. Let's move, wokesters! Show the mean Russkies
how dangerous you are with your ski masks, bike chains, and fondness for attacking people from behind. All that
burning, looting, and murdering in cities across the USA over the last few years had to prepare Democrats' wannabe soldiers
for something, right?
In
Wisconsin, a fight over whether children belong to the state or the parents. In 1991, the European release of
Zero Wing, a Sega video game, contained a now-classic badly translated phrase: "All your base are belong to us." In the
massive battle shaping up across America, public school districts are metaphorically carrying a banner saying "All your children
are belong to us" in their battle against parents over children's gender (not to mention racial issues). What's happening in
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, exemplifies this battle and can be summed up in a sentence from a staff training session:
"[P]arents are not entitled to know their kids' [gender] identities. That knowledge must be earned." That arrogant message
came from a "professional development facilitator guide" that was used in the school district at a staff development session: [...]
Food
Prices [Have Gone] Up 20% Over the Past Year. If your grocery bills continue to frustrate you, you're not
alone. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) released its report on worldwide food prices
for February, and prices hit a record high last month. The February FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) reached a new high of
140.7 points, which reflects an increase of 3.9% over January and a whopping 20.7% over this time last year.
How
'Social Justice' is Killing the Military. "Some 41 percent of the military identify as members of minority
groups," the Department of Defense (DoD) reported on Feb. 9, 2021. [...] Yet, while admitting that 41 percent of the military
identified as minorities, the DoD reported that diversity, inclusion and equity were military necessities. Diversity, Inclusion,
Equity (DIE) is the language of Critical Race Theory (CRT). Diversity is the promotion of division based on identity quotas or
targets. Inclusion is code for exclusion of specific groups based on race, gender and sexual identity. Equity is CRT's
ambiguous terminology, easily confused with equality. Equity is equality of outcomes (usually quotas), which is reformulated
Marxism. Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services, Inc. ("STARRS") was formed in 2021 to educate the
services and America that our once-capable military has been diverted from its core national defense mission into social justice
warriorship. STARRS has incontrovertible evidence that this divisive threat spans all branches.
7 Major
Failures of the Biden Presidency. [#3] Return to Energy Dependence: In 2018, during Donald Trump's
presidency, the United States became a net exporter of oil for the first time in 75 years. Technological innovations,
alongside the Trump administration's policies to open up more opportunities for drilling while eliminating regulations,
dramatically boosted American energy independence and global influence on energy issues. Not only did this energy
independence benefit Americans economically, it weakened the position of petro states such as Russia. But the Biden
administration shifted away from this strategy. It encouraged an increase in green energy projects at the expense of
fossil fuels and nuclear energy. These renewable energy sources are a long way from meeting global energy needs.
Biden put more regulatory burdens on the oil and natural gas industry, slowing its production considerably. And perhaps
most dramatically, he shut down the Keystone XL pipeline project to move oil from Canada to the U.S. while effectively
greenlighting financing of Russia's Nord Stream 2 pipeline to carry natural gas to Germany.
Biden's war on fossil fuels has strengthened Putin and weakened
America. Russian President Vladimir Putin was emboldened to launch his full-scale invasion of Ukraine because
he believed that President Biden was bluffing when he threatened serious consequences. On Thursday, Biden proved him
right. Not only did the United States and its NATO allies fail to kick Moscow out of the SWIFT banking network used by
almost all major financial institutions to wire money — which would effectively exclude Russia from the global
economy — Biden failed to sanction Putin's two most significant exports: oil and natural gas. To the
contrary, Biden announced that he had specifically designed the sanctions "to allow energy payments to continue." Putin
gambled that Biden was not willing to risk sanctioning his lucrative energy exports, and thus driving up energy prices for
U.S. consumers just months before the midterm elections. The bet paid off. This failure of deterrence shows the
folly of Biden's war on fossil fuels.
Fake
'Environmentalism' Fueled the Ukraine War. The truth is that people like [John] Kerry and many of his
colleagues and predecessors who have been obsessed with the same supposedly imminent ecological disaster literally for
decades now, are to blame as much as anyone — with the exception of Vladimir Putin, of course — for the
carnage in Ukraine. This environmental obsession obviously swept up our current president to such a degree that from
the minute he was inaugurated he worked to reverse the American energy independence achieved under the Trump
administration. He succeeded and then some in less than a year. Result: The United States imports oil to
the tune of millions of dollars a day, including from Russia (even as it invades Ukraine). As Bloomberg reported last year,
Russia provides more oil to the United States than any other country, except Canada. Around 20 million barrels per
month. This makes the so-called sanctions a pathetic sideshow — laughable, really.
The green dream goes
lethal. Britain's capital has been dubbed "Londongrad," because British governments have allowed so many of
Putin's fellow oligarchs to use its infrastructure to launder stolen Russian funds — contributing in the process
so much to Britain's GDP. Then there's the European embrace of pacifism, which has led Britain and other European states
to cut their defence spending and rely instead on America's protective umbrella which they all took for granted. That
parasitic illusion went belly-up with the advent of the Biden administration, whose refusal to defend the free world and its
preference instead to throw in the towel wherever possible — as demonstrated most graphically by America's
disorderly scuttle from Afghanistan — has been duly noted by Putin, along with the regimes in China and Iran, as
evidence that the Biden administration would take no effective action to counter their own aggression. But even more
shocking that all this is that, through their unhinged obsession with "climate change," America, Britain and Europe have
handed Putin his greatest weapon against them.
The
West's fixation on climate change is proving disastrous. The crisis in Ukraine has highlighted, once again, the
foolishness of the Western world's climate change gambit — that is, shackling ourselves with economy-crippling
restrictions that the globe's largest, dirtiest, and most dangerous countries will ignore. [...] Years ago, I shared on the
radio about a scientific study that compared the general scientific knowledge of those who were panicked about the imminent
calamity of man-made climate change to the scientific knowledge of those who were skeptical of such hysteria. Despite
all the routine claims from the former that the latter are little more than knuckle-dragging flat-earthers, it turned out
that the skeptics scored slightly higher.
This
Is Downtown Seattle At Night. If this looks like a scene from an apocalyptic movie set from Hollywood, guess
again. This is a typical night from downtown Seattle, filled with homeless people and junkies tweaking out. The
area of 3rd and Pike is just one of the man areas that keeps getting worse and worse, unsafer and uninvestable.
[Video clip]
What
if San Francisco Does Not Recover? San Francisco looks worse now than I've ever seen it. Like any major
city, San Francisco had bad areas before 2020 — those rough areas you knew to avoid — but you could go
anywhere else, basically unmolested. Today is something entirely different. The streets are dirty. Homeless
encampments, trash, and excrement can be found all over. Car break-ins are so frequent that it has basically become a
non-government-imposed tax for people who come here. Of course, some areas are much worse than others, but almost all
areas of the city suffer from this decay, and it is appalling. Every year, the city seems to find new ways to dig
deeper and deeper toward ruin. But what happens to San Francisco if it really does not recover? What if the
financial woes, homeless encampments, rising crime, and dwindling police force are the new normal for this once great city?
The
Americans Who Voted For Joe Biden Owe The Rest Of Us An Apology. We have an affirmative-action Supreme Court
nominee who will join the leftist wing of the court in attacking the U.S. Constitution for likely another 30 years. We
have Congress contemplating eye-watering spending while the nation's economy is not only extremely weak but also saturated
with the most government debt in all of world history. We have historic levels of price increases especially harming
the poor and working class. [...] We have a southern border that has been opened wide to mass human trafficking by
international drug cartels and a presidential administration flying unknown foreigners all around the country in the dead of
night. The United Nations is even aiding this effort to end U.S. sovereignty, as it has for other manufactured
migration "crises." Don't forget the rising crime, deterioration of infrastructure, the self-destruction of our
K-college education systems, the refusal of historic levels of able-bodied, working-age men to work, governments and
employers doubling down on pitting Americans against each other based on race, the allowance of election systems that befit a
banana republic, forcing predatory males into girls' and women's private areas, and the now-repeated deployment of the U.S.
military against American civilians.
Check
out how beautiful the streets of Seattle are. Yo, huge shoutout to Joe Biden for throwing money toward safe
syringes so the folks on the streets of Seattle can get high. They seem to be putting them to good use. You know
what we should do now? We should get the government out there recycling these bad boys in case the addicts run
out. We wouldn't want them to go without their drugs, now would we? [Video clip]
Before
We Go To War, Let's Take A Look At The Current State Of The U.S. Military. If we are going to have a war with
Russia, perhaps we should determine if our military is actually prepared to fight such a war first. Unfortunately, as I
will detail below, the answer is very clear. At one time, the U.S. possessed the greatest fighting machine ever
assembled, but decades of neglect, incompetence and cultural deterioration have taken a devastating toll. Just look at
what happened in Afghanistan. After nearly two decades of fighting, we couldn't even defeat a ragged bunch of drug
dealers and goat herders known as the Taliban. In fact, the Taliban appears to be even stronger today than when we
first invaded. And now we think that we can take on the Russian military? Sadly, the truth is that we aren't
ready for any sort of a major conflict at this stage.
A New Age of Barbarism.
Political leaders in the US, Canada, Germany, and France — all NATO countries — got back on script
yesterday. [...] The part we do not see is that many of these people — together with media organs and
administrators of many deep-state bureaucracies — are absolutely thrilled to start a new season. Away with
the appalling mismanagement of the pathogen. Away with public anger toward the lockdowns and mandates. Forget the
collapse in children's literacy, the rise in cancer, the waves of depression, the trucker protests, the collapsing polls of
many elected leaders, and forget too the inflation, the federal debt, supply-chain snarls and goods shortages. Forget
all the astonishing botches of everything. Life was never as good in living memory as when we had a solid foreign enemy
named Russia with a leader with a name and a face. Everything wrong with the world could be personalized, and with
storybook thematics: good vs evil, freedom vs despotism, democracy vs dictatorship. This great struggle
was so good for both sides that they made it last 40 years.
Key
inflation gauge hit 6.1% in January, highest since 1982. An inflation gauge that is closely monitored by the
Federal Reserve jumped 6.1% in January compared with a year ago, the latest evidence that Americans are enduring sharp price
increases that will likely worsen after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The figure reported Friday [2/25/2022] by the Commerce
Department was the largest year-over-year rise since 1982. Excluding volatile food and energy prices, core inflation
increased 5.2% in January from a year earlier.
Is
this the end of the climate change scam? Perfectly phrased by John Kerry's nonsensical plaint that the Russian
invasion of Ukraine will increase the combustion rate of fossil fuels is the abject silliness of the whole concept of
anthropogenic global warming (AGW). Particularly recent U.S. policies against fracking, pipelines, coal, and internal
combustion engines have placed us at a severe strategic disadvantage. It has taken only a couple of days for it to
become common knowledge that such policies have seriously enriched Vladimir Putin. The grotesque human price of such a
debacle will continue to mount, as will resentment for the foolish notion that weather can be subject to political influence.
Law
Enforcement Pins Colorado Overdose Spike to Dem-Passed Law. On Sunday [2/20/2022], five people died of fentanyl
overdoses in a suburban Denver apartment, leaving a four-month-old baby parentless as a result. [...] The tragic event has
revived calls from local prosecutors and police to reverse a 2019 law that made the possession of four grams or less of many
hard drugs — including fentanyl — a misdemeanor instead of a felony. That law passed shortly
after Colorado Democrats expanded their majority in the state House and captured control of the state Senate. At the
time, Colorado prosecutors called on lawmakers to exempt fentanyl from the penalty reduction, noting that four grams of
fentanyl is the equivalent of 13,000 deadly doses. But the bill's sponsors refused, and opioid overdose deaths in the
state went on to spike by 54 percent in 2020.
A
Decade of Deceit and Division: What Trayvon Wrought. [Scroll down] Outraged by the [George
Zimmerman] verdict, three Marxists "of color" promptly formed a group called Black Lives Matter. Working their combined
magic in Ferguson a year after George's acquittal, BLM and the media helped reverse an eight-year downward trend in
homicides. As a result of the so-called "Ferguson effect," 3,000 more Americans were murdered in 2016 than in 2014.
BLM was just warming up. The multi-city mania BLM helped generate in 2020 — Minneapolis, Louisville,
Kenosha — triggered a nationwide 30-percent-plus increase in homicides over 2019, the greatest annual spike ever
recorded. Had the media paid any attention to Los Angeles filmmaker Joel Gilbert's brilliantly researched book and
film, The Trayvon Hoax: Unmasking the Witness Fraud that Divided America, released in the fall of 2019, much of
the death and destruction could have been avoided.
US
projected to give up net oil exporter status this year. The United States is projected to lose its status as a
net petroleum exporter this year as refiners and other customers seek out more product from elsewhere amid ballooning
demand. This change in trade dynamics would disrupt what the Energy Information Administration described as the
"historic shift" that took place in 2020, when the U.S. became a net exporter of petroleum products due to its strong
production output and the effects the COVID-19 pandemic had on oil markets.
Biden
misses deadline for reporting how many jobs were lost due to canceled Keystone pipeline. The Biden
administration is flouting a law that requires it to produce a report on the number of jobs lost by canceling the Keystone XL
pipeline, in addition to describing how its action may have affected energy costs. The roughly $1 trillion bipartisan
infrastructure bill passed by Congress and signed into law by President Biden in November included a provision mandating the
Department of Energy to produce a report to Congress detailing the impact to American jobs and energy as a result of
Mr. Biden's decision to end the pipeline. The legislation allowed Energy Department Secretary Jennifer Granholm
90 days to provide the information to Congress. But that Feb. 13 deadline came and went last week with
no response from Ms. Granholm, according to several Republican lawmakers who have since pressed for answers.
Masking
Facial Expression in Children. We humans are social creatures that communicate through complex languages and
facial gestures. Our personalities are ingrained in these unique expressions, which impart visual messages that words
alone cannot convey. Facial expressions provoke a variety of cognitive processes, including emotional gesticulations
that elicit rapid responses and ostensive ones that signal a willingness to communicate. A hidden face deprives us of
one of the most basic aspects of humanity and the ability to constructively interact in social settings. Face masking
children constitutes a sacrifice on a scale that can only be made in response to a danger of proportionate magnitude.
Bidenflation
Runs Hot Sending Rents Soaring Across the Country. First gas, then heating and now rents. Runaway
inflation is driving rents skywards across Joe Biden's America, delivering an average of a 20 percent increase in the U.S.'s
biggest 50 cities over the past 12 months, a study details. At the same time, U.S. Census Bureau statistics show
rental vacancy rates during the fourth quarter of 2021 fell to 5.6 percent, the lowest since 1984 in the the world's largest
economy. The rent spike has stung wallets nowhere more than in the Miami metro area, where the median rent surged to an
eye-watering $2,850, 49.8 percent higher than the previous year.
Fifth-Grade
Parents at California School Discover Men Using 'Non-Male' Pronouns Allowed to Sleep in Girls' Cabins on 3-Night School
Trip. Parents of a California elementary school were shocked to discover recently that their daughters had male
counselors sleeping in their cabin for three nights at an annual science camp organized by the school. One parent of a
student at Weaver Elementary School in Los Alamitos, said she couldn't believe it when her daughter returned from the trip
and said the girls cabins were staffed with adult males who shared their sleeping area for the three-night trip. She
contacted the school to ask if men were actually sleeping in the same room as the young girls, but they could not
confirm. The camp, however, did not hesitate to confirm that men employed with the camp are allowed to stay in the
cabins that suit their preferred pronouns. Men who used "they/them" pronouns are allowed to choose. Apparently
these particular men chose to stay with the girls. That's not creepy at all.
The
Power of the Powerless Is Real. The growing tyranny in the West has not happened overnight. It did not
suddenly arrive at our doorsteps with the Chinese Flu. It has been a nightmare decades in the making. The
difference today is that previously slumbering citizens once sublimely content in the normal humdrum of their lives are
waking up to realize that the enemies from our past have returned with a vengeance. Free speech is treated as
dangerous. Western governments, corporations, and social media platforms engage in rampant censorship. Race and
sexual identity are used as the defining attributes of a person to the exclusion of talent, character, and achievement.
Teachers' unions openly demand the right to indoctrinate children according to the interests of the State. Parents are
threatened for believing that their children belong to them. The criminal justice system is used as a place to punish
political opponents and to protect political friends. Religious expression is outlawed. Leftists' "secularized
religion" is imposed. Freedom is disparaged as "right-wing." Coercion has replaced consent. Victimhood has
replaced virtue. Conformity has replaced individuality. "Correct" thinking has replaced freethinking.
"Social justice" has replaced real justice. And the protection of government has become more important than the
protection of human rights.
Why
are the police we revere doing the tyrants' bidding? The American left has made its contempt of our police
abundantly clear for several years now. Encouraging the BLM riots, excusing the damage done, decreeing no punishment
for those who did billions of dollars in property destruction over the summer of 2020 was their coin of the realm.
Lacking common sense and any skill at predicting the consequences of idiotic policies, they have doubled down on stupid as
cities like N.Y., Chicago, D.C., and L.A. rack up homicides committed by career criminals repeatedly let loose on an
unsuspecting public. On a daily basis, innocent victims are attacked, injured, or killed by violent perpetrators who
have been released by cavalier lefty judges who have become self-appointed social justice warriors. This explains the
parade massacre in Waukesha, Wisconsin and nearly every other violent assault on innocent victims for the last year.
Our American left reveres criminals over law-abiding citizens. There can no longer be any doubt about that fact.
The Democrat party is, quite simply, pro-criminal.
Biden
the Bloodshedder Steals Our Livelihood. [Scroll down] One industry has been especially hard hit, and not
because of the normal business cycle. The decline in the oil and gas industry is almost entirely Joe Biden's fault, and
instead of apologizing for it, he brags about it. The long held dream of the left is to force energy prices high enough
that consumers will turn to wind and solar. With gas prices heading toward five dollars a gallon, electric cars may
seem more attractive. There should have been a huge recovery in U.S. oil production, what with oil prices more than
quadrupling since their COVID low. That has not been the case, and that is why gas prices have remained
high — as have prices for heating oil, natural gas, and other petroleum products. The most recent rig count
figure is 392, down from 900 or more through most of 2019 and 2020. Current drilling is not much improved from the lows of
2021, when economic activity stagnated due to Biden's handling of the epidemic. Drilling is less than expected because
Biden has carried out a war on fossil fuels, including his executive orders halting the Keystone XL pipeline, banning new
drilling on federal lands including ANWR, and strong-arming banks not to lend to energy producers.
Leftist
Nonsense Is Killing Washington DC, And It's Time To Let It Die. [The District of Columbia] has been
[deteriorating] under Democrat leadership for a while. Homicides in D.C. were up 14 percent in 2021 over 2020, which
was up 19 percent from the year before that. Motor vehicle theft was up a whopping 50 percent in 2020 and then another
8 percent in 2021. Last spring, I watched an attempted carjacking right in front of my own car in a "safe" neighborhood at
dusk. The month before that, a Pakistani immigrant and UberEats driver was murdered by two teenage girls when they tased him
and stole his car with the owner still hanging off the side. Long before the vaccine mandate went into effect, the city was
suffering under other heavy-handedness that the government blamed on Covid-19. Isolation exacerbated civil tensions and drove
many restless Americans to the breaking point. The mentally ill became sicker still, and the parts of the city once populated
by excited tourists were overtaken by vagrants and tent burroughs. This skyrocketing crime — thanks to "progressive"
policies, unchecked rioting, and severely understaffed police departments — paired with a government-induced Covid craze,
chased the first wave of D.C. residents out of the District and into the rest of the country. But it's amazing how rapidly the
pointless, month-long vaccine power trip wreaked so much additional havoc on the D.C. residents and businesses that remained,
turning our nation's capital into a bleak and pathetic ghost town.
The Crazy Years.
Precisely who's gone crazy is a matter for debate. But some of the headlines seem to hint at odd behavior by ostensibly
sober statesmen. It is almost as if they've forgotten how to act in their own best interests. After two years of
demonizing "fossil fuels," decommissioning nuclear plants, and shifting energy grids to things like windmills, the West is
suddenly facing an oil shortage crisis that makes it vulnerable to blackmail by Vladimir Putin.
Heritage
Foundation index: U.S. economic freedom at all-time low after Biden's first year. The conservative
Heritage Foundation says economic freedom is at an all-time low under President Biden. The Washington-based think tank
said the U.S. fell 2.7 points from its 2021 Index of Economic Freedom to a record-low score of 72.1 and to its lowest ranking
globally, from 20th last year to 25th, in 2022 as the U.S. struggles with rising inflation and debt. "This year's Index
of Economic Freedom paints a disturbing picture, both at home and abroad," Heritage President Kevin Roberts said in a statement
reported by Fox News. "The decline of American economic freedom is serious cause for alarm and has real and tangible
consequences for all Americans, especially low-income families and the working class."
Joe Biden, Alchemist?
Unlike Joe Biden, even a child knows that too much demand and liquidity and too few available goods and services cause prices
to rise. The rate of inflation is increasing at an annualized rate not seen in 40 years. And the jump already
follows a prior 2021 annual rate of 6.8 percent. The prices of gas, food, and houses — the stuff of
life — are collectively rising far higher than just 7.5 percent. [...] Biden is hunting for the same magic excuses
to fabricate a golden spin on crime. After demagoguing the police, contextualizing the 2020 riots, and supporting
openly or quietly the Soros district attorney revolution, crime has exploded. Carjackings, smash-and-grab robberies,
and violent assaults come to American screens each morning on social media and the news despite the denials of the Biden
filters. Rather than address the crime wave, the FBI prefers to harrass after parents at school board meetings, to
fixate on mythical "white supremacist" conspiracies, or to retrieve lost property of the wayward Biden offspring.
Murder is at all-time highs in 12 major cities.
Biden's
Popularity is Sinking Like the Titanic. Domestically we have inflation hitting a 40-year high, which along with
rising unemployment, is reminding older Americans of a blast from the past called the misery index, a relic of the Jimmy
Carter presidency. Our southern border is wide open to anyone and everyone from around the world, along with rising
crime, homelessness, and squalor in American cities. Biden promised to "Beat COVID," yet more Americans died of COVID
in 2021, during Biden's presidency, compared to 2020 when Trump was in the White House. Foreign affairs are faring no
better. Biden's Afghanistan surrender to the Taliban, a force we have been fighting for 20 years, left China smiling as
we left billions of dollars of weapons and infrastructure behind, along with many Americans which the media are incurious
about. [...] America at home is in a civil war, pitting Americans against each other based on everything from skin color to
vaccination status to mask wearing, destroying families and friendships in the process.
How Biden and
the Democrats Reignited Inflation. As has been widely reported, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released
the latest inflation numbers last Thursday, and they were ugly. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 7.5 percent during
the 12-month period ending in January, its largest one-year spike in 40 years. This dwarfs the inflation rate of
1.4 percent that President Biden and the Democratic Congress inherited in January of 2021. BLS also reported that real
earnings decreased 1.7 percent from January 2021 to January 2022. All of this is directly attributable to the incompetent
economic policies of the Biden administration and wild spending by congressional Democrats in the midst of a supply chain
crisis. Inflation on this scale is new to most Americans. According to the Brookings Institution, more than half
the current U.S. population had not yet been born the last time prices were rising at such an alarming rate.
Biden
issues a completely tone-deaf announcement about electric cars. It's a certainty that Marie Antoinette never
said "Let them eat cake," when she heard about France's peasants starving for lack of bread. However, it's the absolute
truth that, even as 82% of Americans are paying above sticker price for cars, while the last year has seen them struggle with
rising fuel prices, Biden chose to announce that he's going to buy a whole new fleet of cars for federal workers —
600,000 cars, to be precise — all of them electric. The past year has been a tough one for Americans.
Inflation has rocketed, with three primary causes: the government's non-stop money-printing presses; rising fuel prices
that boost the price of everything and hugely increase the cost of driving; and the supply chain shortages, including chips
and other car parts from China. It's no surprise, then, that Edmunds, the market research firm, says that 82% of
Americans who bought a car from a dealership in the past 12 months paid above the sticker price.
Boston
Mayor Michelle Wu lit up on Instagram live by critics over vaccine mandates, COVID restrictions. Boston Mayor
Michelle Wu was lit up with criticism during an Instagram live video over the city's vaccine mandates and other COVID-19
restrictions. Wu started up her Instagram live question-and-answer session this week addressing several coronavirus
mandates in Beantown. The stream did not go as Wu had planned. Angry Bostonians unleashed a torrent of criticism
at Wu over the COVID mandates. "Why do you hate kids? Teachers? Cops? Firemen?" one of the commenters
said, while another accused Wu of "ruining" Boston. Another user said Wu is "ruining our great city!"
My
Latest Groundbreaking Interview with Trump. Trump brought us prosperity, opportunity, mobility, jobs by the
millions, the greatest middle-class income growth in history, a secure border, and peace around the world. President
Joe Biden has brought us massive inflation, supply chain disaster, open borders, a massive crime and murder wave, more
COVID-19 deaths than ever before, vaccine mandates that have ripped this country apart, attempts to ban and censor free
speech, the worst retreat in American military history in Afghanistan, and don't forget the news reports about free crack
pipes to be handed out in minority communities. Yes, I said free crack pipes. Why not? Biden runs the
country like a man hooked on crack.
They're
Coming For You. You Know That, Right? [Scroll down] But the Democrats' destructive war on the
country isn't simply limited to COVID. Last month they tried to take over the way we conduct elections from the states
while threatening some of their own party who wouldn't go along. George Soros-funded Democrat district attorneys refuse
to prosecute theft and violence in major American cities. Homicides are through the roof. Retail and auto theft
is through the roof. Homeless, drug-addicted zombies lay waste to city streets. Worse, the Democrats who run
these cities have gone to war with and called to defund and strip authority from the police officers that remain the single
thin, blue line between anarchy and their residents. Joe Biden's Department of Justice has conspired to frame Americans
for wild, politically motivated schemes. They currently hold many in federal custody without formal charges related to
undefined law breaking on January 6th, 2021. Two Republican members of Congress have accused the DOJ of going
through their constituent mail and interrogating their staff. They've threatened to deploy resources to school board
meetings to keep an eye on parents who get too uppity. Democrats want a peek into your bank accounts if you have $600
bucks or more.
Decoding
the disastrous Bidenflation. Joe Biden has once again led the US into unchartered catastrophes due to his
ignorance about the fundamentals of economics. On Thursday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that inflation in
the US climbed to its highest level in 40 years in January, causing prices to rise by 7.5% from a year ago. When Biden
took up residence in the White House in January 2021, President Trump gifted him an inflation rate of just 1.6%. This
was when Covid-19 restrictions were still imposed, causing businesses to either be closed or operate with restrictions.
The current numbers are more troubling considering restrictions across the US have been eased. To sum it up, in just
one year, Biden managed to increase the overall rate of price increase by almost five times.
The
Jig is up for Transgenderism as Child Abuse. The campaign to convince minors that girls can become boys and
boys can become girls continues unabated. However, the consequences of that campaign are now being exposed and are
proving unacceptable. Critics of the campaign have long known of the dangers and have deemed them to be child
abuse. Federal, state, and local governments have ignored the obvious in a case of willful blindness, but the evidence
that children and adolescents need protection is now so apparent that government must intercede. Some states have
already begun.
America's enemies are delighted to hear this: US
Army goes green, announcing new climate strategy. The U.S. Army unveiled a plan this week to tackle issues
surrounding climate change, including the establishment of an electric vehicle fleet, as well as the reduction of the
branch's greenhouse gas emissions. The plan, outlined by the Army in a document titled "Climate Strategy," calls for
the service to cut its emissions by 50% by 2030 from 2005 levels and reach net-zero emissions by 2050. The strategy
aims to establish an "all-electric light-duty non-tactical vehicle fleet by 2027" and an "all-electric non-tactical vehicle
fleet by 2035."
The
bad inflation numbers are even worse than the government says. You couldn't miss the headlines: The
annual percentage increase in inflation clocked in at 7.5%, making it the worst increase in 40 years. For anyone on a
fixed income, living off of savings, or in a low-paying job, this is a disaster. Rich people don't feel it (much) but
ordinary people do. But here's the kicker: Inflation is almost certainly worse than it was 40 and more years
ago. Moreover, because the government is in thrall to Modern Monetary Theory, it's going to get worse, lots worse.
[...] Certainly, inflation has shot up with incredible speed, as happened in 1982, but real inflation is probably even worse
than the accelerated rate suggests. That's because, in 1990, the government changed how it calculated inflation
(something it also did in 1980).
Biden's oil nightmare.
If you think the highest overall inflation rate in 40 years of 7% is bad, get ready for a real shock coming to a pump near
you. Oil prices are surging so much that, ironically, even the "Green New Deal" president is begging global and
domestic producers alike to ramp up production and pump, pump, pump! And despite his releasing millions of barrels of
crude from the strategic oil reserve and pleading with oil-rich nations to increase their output, prices continue to
climb. In early December, oil was trading at $65 per barrel. Today, it's over $90, which is more than a 50%
increase in little over a couple of months. This past week, the average price of gasoline in the United States hit a
seven-year high at the pump, but there's still much more to come.
Inflation
surges 7.5% on an annual basis, even more than expected and highest since 1982. Consumer prices surged more
than expected over the past 12 months, indicating a worsening outlook for inflation and cementing the likelihood of
substantial interest rate hikes this year. The consumer price index for January, which measures the costs of dozens of
everyday consumer goods, rose 7.5% compared with a year ago, the Labor Department reported Thursday [2/10/2022]. That
compared with Dow Jones estimates of 7.2% for the closely watched inflation gauge. It was the highest reading since
February 1982.
Inflation
hits new 40-year high ... again. [Scroll down] Just yesterday, a Fed board member claimed that a 0.5%
hike in the base rate was unlikely. Well, it looks at least slightly more likely now, and perhaps a whole lot more
necessary. Even the 6% "core" reading is a disaster, but politically speaking, it's almost irrelevant. Voters
experience inflation mainly through food and energy prices, which means the political pressure from this report will skyrocket.
A
Color Map of the Fronts of World War III. Demographic warfare is most evident on our porous southern
border. But it's being waged from many directions and is a massive threat to national security. Last year alone,
two million people — from Haiti, Chile, Somalia, Eritrea, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries of
terrorist concern — breached the U.S. illegally. The campaign for "abortion rights" is also a part of the
plan for demographic disruption. If abortion seems reasonable, you might disabuse yourself of the idea with this
statistic: in 2021, abortion was the leading cause of death globally (43 million), more than from cancer, malaria, HIV/AIDS,
smoking, alcohol, traffic accidents combined. Lawfare — or the legal fight against Western
civilization — is evidenced by the plethora of lawsuits against First Amendment rights. Corporations are
coerced into having 'diverse' boards and workforces at the cost of competence and excellence. University professors are
fired, censured, or cancelled for 'wrongthink.' Businesses face lawsuits for refusing to provide services that run
against their owners' religious beliefs.
Black
History and the Democrats. During the [2020] riots, Democrats adopted an anti-police mantra to secure the
African American vote. Following BLM's leadership, they lined up in lockstep to defund the police and remove qualified
immunity. But it was minority communities who sought more, not less police service. The impact was
devastating. Officers retired or resigned in droves, recruiting was stymied, ambushes of officers reached a fever
pitch, and violent crime, especially in Democrat-run cities, has broken records. Today, as in the past, with the
election behind them, Democrats are backpedaling their "defund or abolish the police" support. In other words, they are
following their predictable historic pattern. Democrats manipulating race for political gain is black history.
Study
finds Biden's climate policies added $1,000 to Americans' energy bills in 2021. President Biden's plan to make
combatting climate change a "whole of government agenda" resulted in Americans shelling out more than $1,000 extra in energy
costs last year, according to a new report by conservative think tank Heartland Institute. Mr. Biden's climate
change policies coupled with rising inflation contributed to the highest single-year increase in energy costs in decades,
found the analysis by the Heartland Institute. "Rapidly rising energy prices are no accident, but instead the
predictable result of Joe Biden's war on energy," said James Taylor, the president of the Heartland Institute.
Accelerated
Buck Passing Ahead. There is not enough space in this column to discuss all the boneheaded decisions that this
President has made since assuming office. [...] There is a reason Brandon has become the least popular name for American baby
boys. Consider energy policy and the negative consequences his bad decisions have had. Terminating the Keystone
XL pipeline was only the beginning. It didn't just affect the 10,000 hardworking people who lost their jobs, it has
affected everyone. Our economy has been compared to a giant ship. It can't stop and turn on a dime. So it
is amazing that in less than a year we went from energy independence (actually exporting oil and gas) to again begging OPEC
to open the spigots. The administration is winning its war on domestic energy production. American consumers are
losing. Gasoline and home heating oil prices have risen over 40% since Inauguration Day.
Germany
to raze a 1,000-year-old forest in the name of 'going green'. Germany, as we well know with its Russian gas
capers, is a highly industrialized society in need of a lot of energy. Fine and dandy. But how they get it
presents increasingly bad options. They got rid of their nuclear power in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear
meltdown after a big earthquake in Japan, (despite Germany not being in a quake zone), driving themselves to dependency on
foreign suppliers. That's presented problems for them what with Russia filling that role, so their other recourse has
been the one Joe Biden is touting for America: Green energy — like wind and solar power. It's costly,
requiring state subsidization, given that Germany is not a big sunshine zone nor particularly windy: But it's costlier
than just the wasted cash. They also are now looking at the loss of their 1,000-year-old Reinhardswald old-growth
forest — known as the Grimm's Fairy Tale forest.
Zero
Clue: Democrats' Quest For Zero Cancer Deaths, Zero Road Deaths, And Zero Covid Deaths. It must be nice
to be a Democrat in 2022. Think about it: You don't have to be constrained by truth, reality, or the consequences
of ignoring them. Isn't postmodernism great?! Nothing — and I mean that literally — that a
Democrat politician says or their clueless voters believe is rooted in objective truth. Pick a position of theirs.
Any position. Jen Psaki recently made a spiteful, idiotic comment that highlights this phenomenon. The soft-on-crime
approach that she scoffed at is resulting in record-breaking carjackings, murders, and retail theft. When Chicago DAs
refuse to prosecute witnessed murders in broad daylight or when California passes legislation to not even bother with retail
theft worth less than $950, what do they expect will happen? Yet somehow we're the ignoramuses?
Covid-era
Americans are using public transit less and having more car crashes. The Covid-19 pandemic has seen two
pernicious trends emerge as to how Americans are getting around their country: public transit is struggling with a reduced
number of paying customers, while there has been a sharp increase in car crash deaths. The shuttering of businesses,
the rise of working from home and a fear of contracting the coronavirus saw public transport use plummet across the US —
commuter rail alone reported a 79% decline in ridership in the year to September 2020. Despite a slight resurgence in 2021,
trips taken on all modes of public transit are still around half of what they were before the pandemic, federal government figures show.
The Editor says...
Maybe it isn't due to Covid. Perhaps the public transit ridership is down because of all the violent crime aboard
the trains and buses, as well as at the bus stops and platforms. Maybe the traffic crashes are due to the "defund the police" people making the cops
more scarce and more reluctant to enforce traffic laws.
The
'Ugly' of Progressive Public Policy. In large part, policies currently implemented in many states show a
profound misunderstanding of human nature. [...] The ideas of defunding police, sending social workers to active crime
scenes, promoting "safe" drug use, and other idealistic remedies of the ugly, have known a flourishing in recent years,
especially in Western society. Moreover, a profound misunderstanding of the complexities of human sexuality has
produced a "remedy" that consists of normalization at all costs, which has spilled over into promoting indiscriminate
conversions from one sex to another in impressionable individuals who may have had mental disturbances that should have been
addressed psychologically, and not surgically.
Austin Thinks
Again. In 2019, the city council of Austin had the bright idea to legalize homeless camps. Unfortunately,
they took the vote in the middle of the night — 2:00 am to be exact — when virtually all citizen
stakeholders were asleep. A year later, the same council voted to defund the city's police budget by more than a
third. These decisions caused wholesale disaster and immediate negative consequences for public safety. Moreover,
they led to even more chaos, violence, and, recently, a backlash from some grassroots groups actively rejecting the council's
dangerous progressive agenda. Like other cities across the nation, Austin residents had the chance to move in favor of
restoring order as they voted on Proposition A to "re-fund" and restaff the police. This ballot measure came a year
after they voted on another referendum to curb the rampant homeless crises created by that first middle-of-the-night council
vote. But unlike other cities, Austin voted down the measure in early November.
Inflation.
Inflation is the worst in 40 years. The price of cars is up 37%. Gas is up 49%. During the last few years, as
politicians spent ever more money, experts told us not to worry. Jerome Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, said
inflation would be "transitory." Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said, "I don't anticipate inflation is going to be a
problem." Now she says, "I'm ready to retire the word transitory."
First
Black Woman Supreme Court Justice Could Be... a Man? President Joe Biden has made clear he will keep his
promise to elect the first black woman to the Supreme Court, following Justice Stephen Breyer's retirement. But in a
curious tweet announcing he will pick someone with excellent qualifications, he said, "And they will be the first black woman
nominated to the United States Supreme Court." They? Yes. Don't be surprised. "Diversity and equity" are
of paramount importance to the Biden administration. He is making sure you remember it as he is making this
announcement. So why would you assume it is a "she"? At least theoretically, the first black woman Supreme Court
justice could be a biological male who self-identifies as a woman. The move would go right along with current White
House practice. Recall that the Biden administration celebrated with great pride the appointment of Dr. Rachel
Levine, a biological male who transitioned in order to appear as a woman, as the "first female four-star admiral of the U.S.
Public Health Service Commissioned Corps."
There
is no such thing as a pregnant man. Science is under attack. Human biology, specifically, is under
attack. The attackers are those who falsely claim that men can have babies. It is a lie — a fiction
that must be challenged every time it is mentioned. No matter how ardently leftists try to propagandize such things,
men have never had babies. They cannot have babies. They will not ever be able to carry children. Any claim
to the contrary is nothing more than a Frankenstein-esque, scientifically altered concoction. The truth demands that
all such radical, toxic, left-wing indoctrination be rejected and repudiated by whatever means are necessary. Such
propaganda occurred late last week when it was revealed that Apple's latest software update, iOS 15.4, included a "pregnant
man" emoji. Obviously, the powers that be at Apple are trying to normalize such lunacy in the hope that there are
enough stupid people willing to be bullied into accepting it. In turn, this acceptance would (someday) lead to a
cultural norm that men can indeed become pregnant — a scientific impossibility.
Biden's
war on American energy made us dependent, again. There are few issues where Trump and President Joe Biden have
differed more broadly on policy than on energy production. Trump went full speed on fossil fuel production. He
lifted drilling restrictions, especially in states such as Alaska and on federal lands in the continental states. He
gave the green light to vitally needed pipelines. He blocked new extreme environmental regulations that were intended
to choke off our oil and gas supplies. He recognized the shale oil and gas revolution as an unparalleled opportunity to
reduce reliance on foreign oil. The Trump energy policy was an astonishing economic success story. By January 2021,
exactly a year ago and Trump's last month in office, for the first time in nearly 50 years, the U.S. was producing more
oil than we were consuming. We imported no net oil from Saudi Arabia and the OPEC cartel nations. We were also
producing more oil and gas than the Russians and the Arabs.
Joe Biden,
enemy of America. From the moment Joe Biden stepped into the Oval Office as president it became clear that he
stole the job in order to destroy America from within. He stopped the construction of the Keystone Pipeline on day one,
costing thousands of good paying jobs. He stopped the construction of the southern border wall, costing more jobs and
leaving millions of dollars' worth of equipment rotting in the desert. Biden would not even let Texas use the
construction materials themselves; any wall would impede the Biden plan to import over two million migrants from around the
world, to be given funds and to spread them throughout the nation into unsuspecting cities. The Democrats voted
unanimously that these illegal invaders would not be required to be vaccinated or even tested for Covid. That should
tell us everything we need to know about how seriously the left really takes this phony pandemic. They know it is phony
because it's wirked for their advantage from the outset. They had to do something to derail President Trump. So,
with a stroke of Biden's pen, the energy independence Trump had achieved was gone.
Yes, Really:
Apple is Adding a Pregnant Man Emoji. Every day under the woke regime, one has to ask "can things really get
more insane from here?" The answer is always "yes," as Apple recently proved when it decided to add a "pregnant man"
emoji to the iMessage emoji options.
NYC
restaurants starved for diners — crime and COVID blamed. Table bookings in Manhattan restaurants are
down 64% in January 2022 compared to pre-pandemic January 2020 — only San Francisco (-66%) and Cambridge, Mass.
(-75%) have fared worse, according to new data released by OpenTable and crunched by celebrity statistician Nate Silver of
FiveThirtyEight.com. Brooklyn boites are starved for diners, too, with reservations down 55%. Data for the other
boroughs were not available. "It's a ghost town out there," one Little Italy restaurant manager told The [New York] Post, citing
the failure of city officials to contain crime and chaos, which drives away both tourists and local diners. "New York City
can't recover unless bars and restaurants are at the core of the recovery," said Andrew Rigie, executive director of the NYC
Hospitality Alliance.
Police
Officers [were] Attacked in Five States in the Last Week: What Gives? At least 10 police officers in five
states — mostly in big cities — have been attacked in the last eight days. What's especially
troubling is that several of the incidents appeared to target police officers specifically. Both criminal justice
reform advocates and police unions blame the same thing: a violent crime crisis. Reformers think the violent crime
spree is the result of inequality and police brutality. The cops think it's due to lax prosecutors and spineless
politicians. Whatever the reason, the number of lives lost is rising.
Supply
chains: Kick them when they're down. I have written previously about societal planners actively working
to disrupt supply chains and devalue currencies in pursuit of a reimagination of global capitalism. They have
advertised their intent in recent years, utilizing corporate finance publications like Forbes and Bloomberg to
sell their vision of a new system with themselves positioned comfortably at the top. Others like The Hill advertised
the Biden administration's devotion to this vision of a new capitalism. There was always going to be a correction after
our ill-advised COVID retreat policies. Locking down supply chains in an attempt to run from viral contagion based on a
high-school experiment was never going to be without consequence. Perhaps our greatest error was allowing these
policies to persist unfettered for as long as we did. Earlier course correction may have saved us from our current
trajectory. Recent reports of economic indicators saw inflation climb to 6.8 percent, the highest rate in forty years,
and 4.5 million people quit their jobs in anticipation of OSHA-enforced vaccination policies, the highest number ever recorded.
Is
the second American Civil War nearing its conclusion? Leftists, through a combination of brilliant
projectionist strategy and callously evil use of their political opponents' naïvité, decency, and tolerance, have
transformed America's institutions. They have weaponized them and used them against their less aggressive fellow
citizens. In the process, they have transformed Americans, their beliefs and expectations, too. Much like the
Chinese Communist Party, they own nearly all the levers of influence and power, exercising an iron grip on the education
establishment, the mass media, Big Tech, Wall Street, corporate boardrooms, the health care industry, and
Hollywood — and now the CIA, FBI, Defense Department, and ironically named Department of Justice (DOJ). This
in addition to effectively controlling all three branches of the U.S. government. They are using this power to
obliterate the democratic representative republic our Founders built, even as they loudly and incessantly claim they are
trying to "save our democracy."
Chickenhawk Joe.
Say what you will about Donald Trump's foreign policies. He didn't start wars. He didn't vaporize a family of 10
in a suburb of Kabul, He did however vaporize actual terrorists. He didn't abandon Americans in Afghanistan in a
disastrous pullout that killed 13 American soldiers. Crimea was abandoned to the predations of Putin during Barack
Obama's watch. Taiwan wasn't buzzed by Chinese fighters on a daily basis while Trump was in the White House.
Daily Chinese provocations are Joe Biden's enduring legacy. The Ukrainian border is filled with a hostile Russian army
and it's due, in no small part, to the fool in the White House. The foreign policy of the former vice president is one
of weakness and stupidity and mismanagement. Joe Biden doesn't know what to do because he didn't bother to look.
He and his inept administration are now engaging in the silly practice of "hash-tag" diplomacy, apparently to frighten Putin
into backing down? Smart move when dealing with a thug.
Democrats
Rushed to 'Reimagine' Policing in Washington State. Now It's Unsafe. Democrats in Washington state rode
the wave of anti-police sentiment after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Their goal was to "reimagine
policing," and it's exactly what they did. Consequently, Washington experienced a surge of violent crime. Now
Republicans, and even some Democrats, are rushing to fix as much as possible. With total control of the state
Legislature, Democrats used the 2021 legislative session to rush through sweeping "reforms" that dramatically changed
policing in the state. These passed bills clamped down on police use of force and detainment, banned departments from
deploying large-caliber weapons, and even prohibited most high-speed chases.
Americans'
trust in science now deeply polarized, poll shows. Republicans' faith in science is falling as Democrats rely
on it even more, with a trust gap in science and medicine widening substantially during the COVID-19 pandemic, new survey
data shows. It's the largest gap in nearly five decades of polling by the General Social Survey, a widely respected
trend survey conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago that has been measuring confidence in institutions since 1972.
That is unsurprising to more than a dozen scientists reached for comment by The Associated Press, but it concerns many of them.
Manhattan
Rite Aid pharmacy closing after rash of thefts, customers and workers say. The days are numbered at Rite Aid's
Eighth Ave. and W. 50th St. location. The 24-hour store and pharmacy is scheduled to fill its last prescription on
Feb. 8, and the Hell's Kitchen community is already mourning its loss. Workers and customers speculated that the store
had been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic and an endless stream of shoplifters who have hurt the store's bottom line.
They say the drug store should step up its security or cut back its hours before throwing in the towel.
The Editor says...
Retail stores exist to make a profit. A pharmacy is not a magnanimous public service. If shoplifting goes unchecked,
theft goes unpunished, and violent crime is laughed off, every retail store will close, and the neighborhood will become even
more insufferable than it already is. In this case, Google Street View is especially useful, since I'll never see
this intersection in person. On the surface, it doesn't look like a terrible place, if you don't mind high-rise apartments
and teeming masses of random strangers. Unchecked crime can ruin any city, and that's what's happening here.
Biden's
regulatory bender is crushing the US economy. By so many measures, Joe Biden's presidential administration
falls at the bottom of the scale. But there is one metric by which Biden is tops — in fact, the very tops in
all of history. That is the regulatory costs his administration has imposed on the nation in a single year. The
American Action Forum, a conservative think tank that tracks government regulation, has tallied up what government agencies
estimate their regulations cost. The Biden administration has now imposed $201 billion in regulation —
more than three times the cost that President Barack Obama's very left-wing administration imposed on families and businesses
in its first year.
DC
Mayor Muriel Bowser Asks Residents to Begin Voluntary Rationing of Food at Grocery Stores. DC Mayor and COVID
Compliance Minister, Muriel Bowser, asks residents in/around her region to enter a phase of voluntary rationing.
What comes after the voluntary phase is the part many have been studiously preparing to avoid. In the bigger picture, I
find it rather revealing that only when leftist policies are followed to their natural conclusion do you see officials in the
leftist economic system they created, a system not coincidentally always based on the outcome of scarcity, asking people not
to engage in economic activity. Chasing socialism always creates an outcome where the expressed intent from government
is NOT to buy stuff, rationing.
Washington,
D.C., slides into Soviet-style conditions. Anyone alive during the Soviet era remembers that one of the
hallmarks of Soviet countries was that there were chronic shortages of goods. Without the profit motive, production
never kept up with demand. Rationing was the order of the day. Now, in Washington, D.C., rationing is also the
order of the day. D.C.'s mayor, Muriel Bowser, has been asking people to ration voluntarily. However, we all know
that, if grocery items continue to be in short supply, mandatory rationing will soon replace that voluntary shtick. [...]
This has a decidedly Soviet feel about it. When governments interfere with the flow of goods and services, those goods
and services cease to exist.
Why
Accepting Child Transgenderism Will Pave The Way For Accepting Pedophilia. The last several years can be viewed
as a testament to the remarkable strategic power the woke left wields. The speed at which absurd ideas have been thrust
into the limelight by vested media and a wide array of well-financed academics and non-profits is both startling and
impressive. Not long ago, it would've been unimaginable that a seven-year-old boy's innocent preference for Polly
Pockets over Power Rangers would find its tragic end in puberty blockers, chemical castration, and 15 minutes of fame on
Snapchat's explore page. Calling this abuse doesn't encapsulate the full extent of the damage. It is a culturally
bolstered, politically incentivized mass grooming campaign with a disturbing history. Even worse, this all may be
eclipsed by a much darker future should it continue unabated.
Biden's
Economy is Setting Records with Some of the Worst Results Ever Seen in US History. President Trump had arguably
the greatest economy in US and world history in 2019. The opposite is true with the Biden economy and Americans are really
suffering as a result. Under President Trump the US saw unemployment at less than 4%, the best in decades. The
stock markets were at all-time highs, real wages were growing and outperforming the increase in the cost of living. The
US GDP was the greatest in US and world history and inflation was near zero. In addition, the US became an energy
producer for the first time in decades and the price of gas was near or less than $2 a gallon.
"Safe
streets worker" (replacing police) gunned down in Baltimore. During the course of the madness that promoted
"defunding" or abolishing the police, there was an emphasis placed on replacing police in some circumstances with "community
safety" workers who would supposedly act as unarmed "violence interrupters" and reduce the number of lethal use of force
incidents by police officers. In Baltimore, Maryland's violent gang territories, an existing organization known as the
"Safe Streets Program" gained a lot of attention and municipal support in this effort. The goal of the program is to
deploy former gang members into areas controlled by the gangs to negotiate nonviolent resolutions to conflicts.
Unfortunately, as we've seen with other proposed "violence interruption" programs in major cities, sending someone with a
clipboard out to resolve a beef between gang members isn't always effective.
Is
America Heading for a Systems Collapse? In modern times, as in ancient Rome, several nations have suffered a
"systems collapse." The term describes the sudden inability of once-prosperous populations to continue with what had ensured
the good life as they knew it. Abruptly, the population cannot buy, or even find, once plentiful necessities.
They feel their streets are unsafe. Laws go unenforced or are enforced inequitably. Every day things stop
working. The government turns from reliable to capricious if not hostile. Consider contemporary Venezuela.
By 2010, the once well-off oil-exporting country was mired in a self-created mess. Food became scarce, crime
ubiquitous. Radical socialism, nationalization, corruption, jailing opponents, and the destruction of constitutional
norms were the culprits.
The
monetary chickens come home to roost. The December 2021 all-item Consumer Price Index rose 7% since December
2021. The companion Producer Price Index was up 9% for the same period. This data should put to rest any suggestion
that inflation was beginning to wither away. What consumers in grocery stores and filling stations have known for
months, politicians must now grudgingly admit: The cost of living is going up and far faster than average wage
increases will cover. It feels a little late in the game to call inflation "transitory." On average, we average
people are getting poorer.
How
to Counter Biden's National Security Incompetence in 2022. From his disastrous withdrawal of U.S troops from
Afghanistan, lack of coherent policies to deal with Russia and China, a stubborn determination to appease Iran to revive the
deeply flawed 2015 nuclear deal, and an obsession with climate change as a national security issue, Biden in just one year
severely undermined America's global reputation as a strong and principled nation. Making this worse is a global
perception that Joe Biden is not mentally competent to be the U.S. commander in chief. America's enemies have been
watching this unprecedented deterioration of American global leadership and are preparing to cash in. This could
include in 2022 China attacking Taiwan, Russia invading Ukraine, and increased provocations by Iran and North Korea,
including possible nuclear tests by both nations. There is also the threat to the United States directly by criminal
and national security threats resulting from Biden's failure to secure our southern border.
Everything
Is Worse Under Biden. Everything. Store shelves are bare, not all the time, but did you ever see that
under The Donald? Did you ever walk into a store, fuming because Trump had been mean to Rosie O'Donnell on Twitter, and
see the aisles bereft of salad and milk? No. Did it cost you $75 bucks to fill up your sedan, like it did me in
LA the other day? No. Did inflation hit 7% under Trump? Did your pay get cut 7% under Trump?
Nah. But no mean tweets, right? That's worth 7% of your dough, right? The pandemic is still here. Who
had more people buy the farm from COVID, Trump or Grandpa Badfinger? I thought the rule was that if they die on your
watch, they're your fault. Looks like now they are going to solve that awkward problem by stopping counting.
Weren't we were informed by all the smart people that the crusty candidate was going to make the bad virus go away? It
has not gone away.
Mediocrity
in power. One can clearly see that today the upper echelons of government are bad managers and inept
businessmen. Everything they touch turns to ashes. During the first year of their direct rule under the
figurehead presidency of Biden, there has been a sharp decline in all economic indicators, and inflation has reached levels
not seen since the failed presidency of Jimmy Carter. The worst thing they have done to the country is the distribution
of freebies — massive "stimulus" payments, even to those who don't need them, a form of universal welfare.
To keep the populace on a short leash, the mediocre have turned on the printing press and now are spending money like a
drunken sailor. The national debt is skyrocketing. Fuel prices have doubled since 2020, everything becoming more
expensive, and a situation unseen in history has arisen: millions have dropped out of the labor force and most businesses
cannot find workers. Apparently, people prefer not to work but to live on handouts. Today, in a country with
millions of idle hands there is an acute shortage of labor. Free cash has destroyed the foundation of Americanism —
the incentive to work and strive for personal success. Why work when your government pays you to stay at home and do nothing?
Bidenomics
cost the average worker nearly two paychecks in 2021. Last year closed out with an annual 7% inflation rate,
the Bureau of Labor Statistics finally announced Wednesday. That price increase, further fueled by a 0.5% increase in
December alone, constitutes the highest inflation rate since 1982 when Paul Volcker had to engage in a recession-inducing
interest-rate-hike campaign just to crack down on the catastrophic stagflation of the 70s. To put this into more
practical terms, the average U.S. worker earns 26 paychecks a year on a biweekly pay schedule. Inflation in 2021
effectively wiped out nearly two of those 26 paychecks. Suffice it to say, the devastation of inflation is not evenly
distributed, and as usual, the data demonstrate the damage is regressive.
US
Woman Tells PA News 'I feel like I live in the Soviet Union'. #BareShelvesBiden is trending on Twitter for the
3rd day in a row as more and more American's are beginning to realize that the Biden admin is the one behind the shortages,
not China or any other nation. The overwhelming majority of food American's buy is actually made right here in America
according to a variety of studies. So empty shelves shouldn't happen in regards to food. But, it is! And
it's happening more and more by the day as regular products are now becoming hard to find. [Video clip]
Who kills the
police? Put "race of people shooting police" into Google and your will get page after page of the opposite
results, the race or ethnicity of people shot by police. This is obviously no accident. The media narrative is
that police shoot people, mostly minorities, without justification. The question of who shoots the police is one that
the larger society is generally afraid to ask. To ask that question might shed a different light on who the police
shoot because it would put the question into a larger context about criminality. For the defund the police crowd and
the progressive minions of distributive and restorative justice, it would undermine an empowering narrative that has enabled
them to shackle the police while letting criminals run free without bail and being rewarded with pleas to lower
offenses. For as long as the police and the "system" can be viewed as victimizing minorities, these minorities can be
viewed as victims and not criminals.
The
Biden Variant — Not Omicron — Is Behind The Shortages Everywhere. Just before the
holiday, White House spokesperson Jen Psaki took to the press room podium to laughably brag about how "we've saved Christmas"
because President Joe Biden supposedly fixed the nation's supply chain crisis. She said that "President Biden
recognized this challenge early, acted as an honest broker to bring key stakeholders together, and focused on addressing
practical problems across the global supply chain." That was good enough for the mainstream media, which had turned a
blind eye to the supply chain problems once Biden claimed he had a plan to fix it. Except, less than three weeks
later, #BareShelvesBiden is trending on Twitter, shoppers are sharing pictures of empty store shelves, and the media are
being forced — however reluctantly — to report that shortages are actually a worsening problem.
Shortages are everywhere. Whether it's goods, food, people, COVID tests, you name it. The CEO of the Gristedes
supermarket chain is warning of meat and egg shortages. The Daily Beast reports that "shortages of glass and other
materials continue, coupled with extensive shipping delays and skyrocketing freight costs." One site asked readers to
send examples of shortages, and cold medicine was in the top five.
Wholesale
inflation hits a record 9.7 percent. Prices at the wholesale level surged by 9.7 percent for all of 2021,
setting an annual record and providing further evidence that inflation is still hammering all levels of the U.S.
economy. The producer price index, which measures inflation at the wholesale level, did slow on a monthly basis, rising
just 0.2 percent in December compared with 1 percent in November, the Labor Department said Thursday. Thursday's
report came a day after the government reported that consumer inflation jumped 7 percent in December from a year earlier,
the highest such inflation rate since 1982.
Producer
Price Index Jumps a Full Year Record High 9.7%. Businesses saw the prices of goods they sell rise a record 9.7 percent
in 2021, the fastest full-year increase in prices in records going back to 2010. The Labor Department reported Thursday [1/13/2022]
that its Producer Price Index rose two-tenths of a percentage point in December. That's a slowdown from November, when prices rose
one percent, and October, when prices rose six-tenths of a percentage point.
Bidenflation
sends a stumbling, bumbling Biden desperately searching for distractions. Even as President Joe Biden was
spewing deplorable falsehoods about his political opponents in Atlanta, the chickens of his administration's economy were
coming home to roost. Wednesday's Bureau of Labor Statistics report on inflation, revealing last month's 7% inflation
rate, sets yet another 40-year record, harkening back to the bad old days of double-digit interest rates and Paul Volcker's
bitter medicine for the economy of the early 1980s. With this week's report, it is clear that the Biden economy is in
an inflation crisis. It is a crisis that neither Biden nor his useless Twitter-addicted senior staff has any clue how
to fix. But they have all kinds of ideas about how to make it even worse.
WaPo,
Slate: The grocery shortage isn't just real, it's expanding. As Peter Allen once sang, everything old is
new again ... including grocery shortages. Joe Biden and Democrats initially scoffed at the idea that Americans can't
find their choices at supermarkets, but the empty shelves have become so numerous as to defy denial. The media is
starting to abandon the Democrats' us-or-your-lyin'-eyes credibility test on the grocery-supply shortages. It's going
to get worse before it gets better, largely because of the CDC guidances on isolation over asymptomatic positives in the
Omicron wave, [...]
Bidenflation
conflagration: CPI hits 7% year-on-year, a new 40-year high. Not since mid-1982 have we seen inflation
running this hot in the Consumer Price Index, and not since the late 1970s have we seen an administration less capable of
grasping its sources and consequences. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that inflation hit 7% year-on-year,
higher than the 6.8% annualized inflation rate from November. The news casts a lot more cold water on Joe Biden's
moribund spending plans in Build Back Better, but may do a lot more damage than that to his political standing: [...]
Dangerous Trucker
Problem Coming. Reports of bare shelves are coming from all over the country. The supermarkets on Long
Island are starting to look bare. It seems to be a problem throughout the nation. Joe Biden did nothing to help
the supply chain crisis although he claimed he did. Some of the bare shelves problems are due to COVID and local issues
but we have a much worse problem coming and it seems that Democrats want it to take place. They aren't all mentally
challenged as Biden is so this must be what they want. There are supply chain problems, there's a self-induced energy
crisis, we have soaring inflation, rising crime, anonymous millions pouring across our borders, but then there is the imminent
and very dangerous vaccine mandate coming our way. Tens of thousands of truckers plan to quit rather than get vaccinated.
Democrats
must abandon endless assault on police. Today, on National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day, we honor the
courageous men and women who proudly serve our communities and keep our families safe. Every day, they put their lives
on the line to protect us, despite the rhetoric and policies of anti-police Democrats. We must stand up against the
radical "defund police" movement and show our law enforcement heroes that we have their backs. We must reject the
efforts of the Democrat politicians and liberal city councils who are defunding their police departments and refusing to
prosecute violent criminals. As violent crime surges across the country, most notably in Democrat-run cities, it is
disturbing that liberal and progressive lawmakers do not take responsibility for how their extreme policies have crippled
police departments and allowed violent criminals to run rampant throughout our streets.
What to Do
with Feckless Republicans? Whether it's a matter of gross incompetence or willful intention, nothing the current Democratic
administration is doing is improving the lives of the average American citizen. Nothing. Consider:
• Inflation is raging out of control. Gasoline prices [...] are a constant reminder of how far behind everyone feels like they're falling.
• Month after month, the new jobs data disappoint, missing the so-called experts' projections by a country mile.
• The divisive seeds of racial division are being sown by the Democrats like never before, for the inexcusable reason of political leverage.
• Illegal immigration is not merely out of control. It is being actively encouraged.
• American energy production is intentionally curtailed, while we beg our OPEC rivals for greater production to make up for our shortfall. Try to figure that one out.
• Russia and China — our main global adversaries, both economically and militarily — are gaining on us (if not surpassing us) with nary a whimper of opposition from the Brandon administration.
And there's the Big One: the COVID pandemic. Despite Biden's risible campaign squawking of "I'm not gonna shut down the economy; I'm gonna shut down the virus!," he's managed to do the exact opposite.
Minnesota
Trucking Company CEO Warns About What [a] Vaccine Mandate Will Do to [the] Economy. Here's a solid reference
point for just one of the multitude of aspects related to the mandatory COVID vaccine and overall COVID mitigation rules that
will come together to present an unavoidable outcome within the supply chain. As CEO Eric Lawrence notes, even without
the vaccine mandate, the testing mandate itself becomes an issue. How and where exactly are truckers supposed to get
these weekly, and depending on state, perhaps daily, Covid-19 tests. How are they expected to modify their cross
country routes, to avoid running afoul of the law, without having any idea where this testing is supposed to take
place? [Video clip]
The
Four Horsemen of the Left's Artificial Apocalypse. [#3] Supply chain crises, product shortages, sky-high
energy prices, and runaway inflation — these are the fruits of increasingly communist government agencies
regulating success out of existence and redistributing property in the name of "fairness." What businesses COVID-1984's
stifling edicts haven't yet killed, Green New Deal blunt force will finish off. Why does government work so hard to
impoverish its people? Because a weak and poor populace lacks the will to fight back. Government welfare is
government enslavement. Cradle-to-grave dependence is just another name for indentured servitude.
The
States With The Highest Percentage of Outbound Moves Have Something In Common. [Scroll down] New Jersey,
Illinois, New York, Connecticut, and California all have more people moving OUT than moving in. The CNBC reporter notes
that all these states are "expensive" and have "high taxes," and people want "a less hectic lifestyle." But, as we
discussed in yesterday's article, there are plenty of additional reasons to flee these states. Unreasonable Covid
restrictions and surging crime are two other major factors. Another thing that these states definitely have in common
is leadership. Every single state listed in the top 5 where people are leaving en masse is led by the Democrat Party.
Joe
Biden Has Destroyed Another Great American Institution. I regret to inform you that Joe Biden has destroyed
another American institution. The classic Little Caesars $5 Hot-N-Ready pizza is, and you might want to sit down for
this, no longer $5. [...] But I'm assured this is all a coincidence and that the president actually has nothing to do with
the current inflation spike that the country is suffering under. From the debt-busting $2T COVID "rescue plan" to the
supply chain crisis that has caused raw materials shortages, we are all supposed to believe that Biden is just an innocent
bystander. [... T]his once in a multi-generation inflationary boom just so happened to occur under his presidency, and not
because of anything he did. Of course, we all know that's nonsense, and Little Caesars is hardly the only
example. A few months ago, Dollar Tree, which had priced everything at $1 since its inception, announced that it was
going to have to raise prices as well. Biden is ripping away everything Americans hold dear.
Manhattan's 'progressive'
new DA Alvin Bragg just gave a green light for anarchy. Old: If you can't do the time, don't do the
crime. New: If you can't do the time, Alvin Bragg will be there for you. That much just became clear, as
the newly minted Manhattan DA issued marching orders to his hundreds of assistants and support staff. [...] Specifically,
Bragg says his office "will not seek a carceral sentence" for anything short of murder or deadly assault ("carceral" being
progressive double-speak for prison). Also, he says minor crime won't be prosecuted at all. In other words, jail
is to be reserved for ax murderers and their ilk; armed robbers and heavyweight drug dealers are to be minimally
inconvenienced — and just forget about the quality-of-life law enforcement that was the beating heart of the
Giuliani-era rescue of New York City decades ago.
Far-Left
District Attorneys Have Unleashed Murder In Cities Like Philadelphia. We still debate the reasons that crime
fell in the 1990s. Better policing? Longer jail sentences? An aging population? Removal of lead from
the atmosphere? They all may have played a role, along with other factors we are probably missing. That debate is
now academic. Crime has been rising for several years now. The new concern is why, and how we can get it to
stop. Again, there are many factors, but the rise of leftist prosecutors who are soft on crime must be at the head of
the list. In my hometown of Philadelphia, crime as a general matter has been getting worse for years, and there are
statistics to prove it. Philadelphia, like many big American cities, is experiencing more violent crime than at any
point in its history.
Manhattan
DA to stop seeking prison sentences in [a] slew of criminal cases. Who needs soft-on-crime judges when the
district attorney doesn't even want to lock up the bad guys? Manhattan's new DA has ordered his prosecutors to stop
seeking prison sentences for hordes of criminals and to downgrade felony charges in cases including armed robberies and drug
dealing, according to a set of progressive policies made public Tuesday [1/4/2022]. In his first memo to staff on
Monday, Alvin Bragg said his office "will not seek a carceral sentence" except with homicides and a handful of other cases,
including domestic violence felonies, some sex crimes and public corruption.
How Defund the Police backfired.
Over the last two decades, progressives have established a new consensus on crime. Nonviolent felonies like shoplifting
and drug possession should be reclassified as misdemeanours. Cities should defund the police and spend the money on
nurses, psychologists and social workers instead. Offenders should have minimal involvement with the justice
system — and be kept out of jail wherever possible. But now, rising crime is rapidly undermining the
progressive consensus. Homicides rose 30% in 2020, and over two-thirds of America's largest cities will have had even
more homicides in 2021 than in 2020. At least 13 big cities will set all-time records for homicides, including
Philadelphia, Austin, and Portland. Meanwhile property crimes in California's four largest cities rose 7% between 2020
and 2021. Car break-ins in San Francisco declined temporarily in 2020, because Covid emptied the city of tourists, but
they have since skyrocketed, reaching 3,000 in November. Many residents have stopped bothering to report crime.
The
Woke Mob's Destruction of the English Language. Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, a member of the
progressive "squad," recently accused those who disagree with student debt cancellation of "policy violence." That is, to
disagree with the left now is "violence." This kind of linguistic legislation by the left is now common. Words mean
whatever they want them to mean in order to achieve their far-left goals. Pressley's statement is also an implied
threat. Since violence is justified in response to violence, Pressley is letting American's know what is coming if they
do not get their way. The venomous hatred spewed by the Woke mob in the name of tolerance and inclusivity is
indefensible. That is why they do not defend it. Instead, they generally try to bully people into submitting to
their demands.
U.S.
crude oil production fell by 8% in 2020, largest decrease on record. U.S. crude oil production fell by 8% in
2020, the largest annual decrease on record, the U.S. Energy Information Agency reports. This plunge occurred one year
after the U.S. reached a record annual average high of 12.2 million barrels a day in production in 2019. In January 2020,
U.S. crude oil production reached a peak of 12.8 million b/d. But with federal and state lockdowns halting travel over
coronavirus fears, demand for oil dropped and production became too expensive to maintain. By March 2020, the oil and
gas industry experienced a "bloodbath," and by April, the WTI was negative $40 a barrel for the first time in history.
Prices at the pump also reached historic lows.
Americans
are Fed Up with Blue State Democrats, Fleeing their States In Droves! Lately [the Democrats have] done everything they can
to keep us divided. At times even picking sides against their own groups. Americans are waking up to that en masse and
fleeing the states they control by the hundreds of thousands. [Video clip]
Millions
of Americans Are Getting 'Fresh Starts' in Red States. There is a quiet revolution happening across America and
it could mark the beginning of the biggest spiritual, cultural, and political changes this country has seen since the Civil
War. New data made public earlier this week by the U.S. Census Bureau makes clear that millions of Americans are
leaving Blue high-tax, high-crime, high-COVID-mandate Democratic states and moving to Red Republican states where taxes are
lower, the police aren't being defunded, and churches still thrive. Consider the contrast between Texas and Idaho on
the one hand and New York and the District of Columbia on the other, as described by the Census Bureau [...]
Study:
Forced masking, isolation causes lower IQ in children. A new study links Covid lockdowns and mask mandates to
lowering intelligence in children. According to clinical psychiatrists at Brown University forced isolation and face
masks will create a generation of children with lower IQ's and deficient social skills. Doctors found children
developing during Covid-lockdowns are showing deficient verbal and motor skills as well as reduced cognitive
performance. This compared to childhood development before the lockdowns were in place.
The
Ungracious and Their Demonization of the Past. What will our grandchildren say of us who dumped on them over
$30 trillion in national debt — much of it as borrowing for entitlements for ourselves? What sort of society
snoozes as record numbers of murders continue in 12 of its major cities? What is so civilized about defunding the
police, endemic smash-and-grab thefts, and car-jackings? Was our media more responsible, professional, and learned in
1965 or 2021? Did Hollywood make more sophisticated and enjoyable films in 1954 or 2021? Was there less or more
sportsmanship among professional athletes in 1990 or 2021? Was it actually moral to discard the "content of our
character" and "equal opportunity" principles of the prior Civil Rights movement of 60 years ago? Are their replacement
fixations on the "color of our skin" and "equality of result" superior? Would America have won World War II with the
current labor participation rate of only six Americans in 10 working? Would our generation have brought all American
troops home and quit World War I, in fear of the deadly 1918 Spanish flu pandemic?
Nobody likes Joe.
Inflation, violent crime, job competition from illegals, and the monstrous Afghanistan pullout are taking their toll on old
Joe's president[i]al approval ratings. [...] Joe threw blacks, women, independents, Latinos, suburbanites, and others over
the side in his bid to please the AOC crowd. Gas prices through the roof. Bye-bye energy independence.
Federal drilling halted in the name of 'going green.' A major pipeline shut down at the flick of Joe's pen. No
parental input in education. Critical race theory drummed into the heads of the young. Schools closed. What
teachers' unions want, teachers' union get. Coddle and pay illegals with bottomless funding while border towns pay
extra for the surge, crime, and spreading of COVID. Throw the poor out of their jobs with vax mandates.
Reintroduce inflation, brought on by Federal Reserve money-printing to pay for Joe's big government spending. Whip up
whitey-as-bad-guy rhetoric, defund the police, ignore violent crime even as turns every blue city into another Caracas.
Over
110 Defendants Charged with Capital Murder are Let Loose in Houston, Thanks to Democrat Judges. In Harris
County, Tex., where the city of Houston is located, at least 113 defendants charged with capital murder have been freed and
let loose on the streets thanks to criminal justice reform. Fox 26 Houston reported the shocking news, which they claim
is part of "more than 50,000 accused felons [benefiting] from the "catch and release" philosophy of "criminal justice"
perpetrated by the current crop of democratic "reform" judges."
13
Happenings In 2021 That I Never Would Have Believed 5 Years Ago. If you'd told me five years ago that men would
be treated as women, criminals would not be prosecuted, and censorship would be widespread, I wouldn't have believed
you. What were once considered the most basic, scientific truths (such as that you're born with your sex and can't
change it) have broken down. Governments are no longer serving their primary function of providing security and
protecting borders. There are many more.
Six
Political Predictions For 2022. [Scroll down] As of early-December there were twelve major U.S.
cities — all run by Democrats — which had already set annual records for homicides, at which time there
were still over three weeks left in the year. It's also worth noting that five of those twelve cities "topped records
that were set or tied just last year." The situation is bad, but it's going to get worse. And Democrats only have
themselves to blame. The left has demonized police by falsely accusing them of wrongdoing; please consider the
shootings of Michael Brown and Jacob Blake as examples. They've promoted the idiotic notion of "defund the police," and
in cities like St. Paul they've accomplished that goal only to end up on the aforementioned list of the dozen
cities. They've implemented bail "reform," which simply puts violent criminals back on the street. They've
decriminalized crimes (federal crimes) such as sex work and dealing drugs. And, of course, they embraced last year's
BLM riots that killed 25 Americans. Put these actions all together, and we have a total disregard for the rule of
law... and we have a recipe for disaster.
Here is what confuses me
about San Francisco.. [Thread reader] We have the most liberal, left-wing government & population in the
country. We have a $13B budget. And we have 8,000 people sleeping in the rain this week. [...] Progressives tend to blame
Republicans for almost everything. Yet here we are — not a Republican in sight — and I think we may be
the most deranged city on the planet. Nowhere is there such inequality. I have never seen destitution at this scale.
Heavy
Blue Toll: Law enforcement deaths hit record high in 2021. More police officers have died in 2021 than
any other year in U.S. history, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. The latest occurred
Thursday when a Baltimore officer was ambushed and died. [...] "Ambush-style attacks" were up 126% at the beginning of
December from the previous year, the Fraternal Order of Police reported. Crime rates across the country are
skyrocketing as well. Homicides have risen 30% from 2019 to 2020, according to provisional CDC data. Murders
increased even more in 2021. Twelve cities hit homicide records in December 2021, according to ABC News. "Nobody's
getting arrested anymore," former New York Police Department detective Robert Boyce said. "People are getting picked up
for gun possession, and they're just let out over and over again." Many officers quit following the 2020 summer of riots
associated with Black Lives Matter after the death of George Floyd. One study over the summer found that "Officers
resigned at a 279% increased rate."
These
Stores Are Closing Due To Looting And Lost Profits. As looting continues and lockdowns return, many retail
companies have announced recently that they are shuttering some locations that have become simply too expensive to maintain.
[...] Some of the country's major pharmacy chains have said that they plan to close a number of stores. In November,
CVS announced that it will close around 900 retail locations over the next three years, which amounts to about 9% of its
10,000 stores. CVS locations across the country have been affected by looting over the past year and a half, but the
company cited more customers shopping online in its decision to close stores. Rite Aid said just this week that it is
closing 63 stores in order to reduce costs and boost profitability. In October, Walgreens announced that they would
close five locations in San Francisco, citing rampant shoplifting across the city.
California's
Zero-Bail Policies Have Been A Deadly Failure. California's state lawmakers recently failed to pass bail reform
legislation, creating a case study in how fundamentally poor public policy will self-destruct if it's exposed for what it
is. On the face of it, there is a logic to the continuing argument that cash-based bail is unfair to people who have
little or no money. But that simplistic premise is deeply flawed and has led to a huge increase in violent crime in
California, as well as in other places that implemented the policy. Unfortunately, the grim repercussions are not just
statistical. There is a human face to criminal justice reform gone bad — and ultimately it tripped up the
legislators behind the latest attempt at force-feeding bail reform to the Golden State's citizens.
Lefty
pols get a lesson in what 'defund the police' means. It's pretty amazing when leftists have to live with the
results of their own decisions. Deep-blue San Francisco's descent into violent crime and chaos following its voters'
choices to elect officials on platforms to "defund the police" is Exhibit A. But for the political perpetrators of
these imposed anti-police agendas, it doesn't usually happen. They are, after all, a nomenklatura of sorts, and
membership has its privileges. But for two leftist politicos who unleashed 'defund the police' on the public, the
result was so big they couldn't escape it.
Census:
Americans Flee Left-Wing Lockdown States for Open, Red States. Blue states that have repeatedly imposed mask
mandates, vaccine requirements, and lockdowns over the last year have lost population to red states that have done away with
such policies. Newly released data from the United States Census Bureau reveals that while blue states like California
and New York have increasingly lost population from July 2020 to July 2021, red states such as Texas and Florida have seen
population increases.
California's
Zero-Bail Policies Have Been A Deadly Failure. In 2020, as an emergency measure during the COVID-19 pandemic,
the California Judicial Council, hoping to prevent COVID's spread, had implemented zero-bail schedules to reduce jail
populations. Senate Bill 262 was later introduced in another of a series of attempts to eliminate most monetary
bail. For reasons having nothing to do with protecting health and safety, Senate Bill 262 would have made the schedules
permanent. In effect, if defendants could not afford bail, they would simply be released. The grim reality of
zero-bail policies became increasingly apparent as late summer turned to fall. Dramatic expansions in crime.
Rampant retail theft. Law enforcement and prosecutors unified in their complaint that the zero-bail schedule was a
problem. A big problem. In fact, the Judicial Council had terminated the zero-bail schedule order even
before its emergency authority expired, presumably because these policies failed.
White
Men Are No Longer the Democrats' Most Pressing Electoral Concern. Democrats face a mountain of issues.
They have an inflation crisis that voters seem primed to nail them to the wall over. The supply chain crisis is still
ongoing. The economy is not well despite the endless propaganda peddled by the Biden administration. Russia and
China are flexing their muscles. The southern border is a mess. COVID is still not shut down. And Build
Back Better just got killed by Joe Manchin. Now, moderate Democrats who cast their lot with the progressive wing and
voted for the left-wing action items are saddled with this legislative fumble. Meanwhile, Joe Biden's approval ratings
are sinking faster than the Andrea Doria.
'Bail
reform' costs 25 Chicagoans their lives, so far this year. Another day, another dead person, another
beneficiary of the George Soros chaos masterplan of "bail reform." [...] The woman killed was one of 25 murder victims who
can't speak up about this "bail reform." She's also one of 93 victims who've been victims of such attacks, the non-dead ones
likely recovering in hospitals for gunshot wounds or still taking the flashbacks of terror at what might have happened.
Sixty-one of these thugs have been "beneficiaries" of bail reform, which means no or low cash bail, meaning that they were
permitted to await their trial dates in complete freedom, giving them the time to even the score with their hate targets
ahead of their date with the judge and jury. This fiend was one of them. Bail reform has been a plague for years
now, enabling violent criminals to walk free ahead of their trials. The Soros left and its allies have been calling it
a matter of economic justice, given that many thugs don't have the same kind of money as people with productive jobs[.]
For
Deaf People Like Me, Mask Mandates Impose Never-Ending Isolation. It's not a huge population in our country who
have hearing problems, but to us it is a huge burden. According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other
Communication Disorders (NIDCD), approximately 2-3 babies born in America out of every 1,000 are born with a hearing
disability. Add those with people who lose hearing due to trauma, illness, and age, and approximately 15 percent, or
37 million Americans, over the age of 18 report at least some trouble hearing. [...] Trying to be "normal" and have a normal
life was always my goal. That has been nearly impossible for nearly two years now. In spring 2020, the first face
mask mandate due to Covid-19 went into effect. I knew I was in trouble.
Judge
Rules Anchorage Women's Shelter Is Allowed To Remain A Women's Shelter. A federal court ruled on Monday
[12/20/2021] that a faith-based women's shelter in Anchorage, Alaska, was allowed to remain open exclusively for women after
the city passed an ordinance to mandate otherwise. The Downtown Hope Center sued the city in 2018 when officials sought
legal retribution against the charity over its refusal to allow an inebriated and injured biological man who identified as a
woman to sleep at its facility alongside homeless women. The shelter referred the man to a hospital instead where he
was sent in a taxi paid for by the group. A complaint was later filed with the Anchorage Equal Rights Commission and
pursued by the city before a preliminary injunction in the shelter's favor led to a settlement that forced the municipality
to pay the charity $100,001 in fees. The Anchorage Assembly then opted to change a local ordinance to erase
gender-exclusive shelters, which provoked the ongoing litigation.
Self-imposed term limits are the best kind. Two
More House Dems Make Mad Dash for the Exits as Joe Biden's BBB Agenda Implodes. With voter concerns sitting
squarely on uncertainties about the U.S. economy on issues like worsening inflation, the ongoing supply chain crisis, and the
gloomy jobs outlook, a number of House Democrats have apparently concluded it's best to get out while they can. As of
last week, the number was at 20 with the announcement that five-term Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-Calif.) would be retiring at
the end of his term. But today, barely 24 hours after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) dashed Joe Biden's hopes and
dreams on the BBB bill, two more House Dems said in so many words that they're headed for the exits, too.
Owner
of Seattle's Woodland Coffee frustrated by rising crime. A frustrated Seattle business owner says she's tired
of dealing with break-ins and threats to her customers and workers. She's reaching out to nearby businesses to see if
they want to band together to create a safer environment in their community. Crime statistics from the Seattle Police
Department show a rise in burglaries and thefts at businesses in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood. Businesses in this
area have dealt with countless break-ins and say when they call for help police can't always get there.
The Editor says...
And whose fault is that? The police won't show up because they've been defunded and demoralized by the Democrats.
The criminals know they'll never spend any significant time in jail, because of the Democrats. And yet you can bet the
"Seattle business owner" will vote for Democrats every time.
America
Is Much More than Its Government. [Scroll down] So here's where the scorecard stands: Runaway
inflation; a collapsing currency set in motion by an unconstitutional central bank that manipulates the dollar and destroys
personal savings; a "health emergency" that has been systematically abused to blow up the Bill of Rights; a voting system
that nobody trusts because of its inherent and intentional conduciveness for enabling fraud; schoolchildren who have never
been dumber yet more indoctrinated by communist claptrap; an unprotected border that has helped destroy communities around
the country with crime, division, and drugs; global war against amorphous threats of "terrorism" (which has morphed into a
dangerous domestic war against Americans for their political beliefs); and endless attacks on traditional American culture by
nasty, self-glamorizing moral poseurs intent on despoiling Western civilization, wrecking Judeo-Christian sanctities,
squashing families out of existence, and plundering anything left over to help pay off some Treasury IOUs owed to
China. Let's be clear: The American people built none of these catastrophes; their worthless government did.
The madness
of King Brandon. In August, Biden began a bizarre, ill-advised, and poorly executed withdrawal of U.S. troops
from Afghanistan, which stranded many U.S. civilians and military personnel there and left a reported $85 billion in
taxpayer-funded, top-of-the-line, and completely operational military equipment for our Taliban enemies to plunder, which
they did. Biden decided that it was a great idea to evacuate troops first and let the rest of the area and our
abandoned facilities fall into chaos afterward. Images of people running to catch airplanes out of the war-torn
cesspool flooded the airwaves, which served to underscore the incredibly bone-headed decision to remove the troops who
enforced the rules and prevented the area from descending into chaos for many years. With one stupid decision, Biden
handed Afghanistan back to the savage and repressive regime that held it before. This will be Joe's legacy.
The Elite's obsession with January 6:
Why do the Elite harbor this fevered obsession with Jan 6? [...] It reflects their habitual projection of their own evil onto the seething mass of deplorables.
Precisely what is this evil they are projecting? In a word: treason. The US Constitution defines treason in Article III, Section 3,
Clause 1 this way: "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them
Aid and Comfort." Are the Elite guilty of treason? Let me count the ways[:]
[#1] In Afghanistan, delivery of $85 billion in military supplies and thousands of hostages to the enemy.
[#2] Mass destruction in our cities. Politicians who protect the mobs are accessories after the fact and accomplices to this treason.
[#3] Defunding the police. The primary responsibility of local government is to protect their constituents and keep the streets safe.
But the local Elites in many cities have sided with the criminal element against the law-abiding citizenry.
[#4] Sabotage of the military through wokification, [...]
[#6] Giving aid and comfort to China, not least through the attempted Building Back Better legislation that Sen. Manchin just jettisoned.
[#7] Destroying the economy with the flood of illegal aliens.
[#8] Destroying the economy with the climate hoax.
[#9] Destroying the economy with the war on energy: Shutting down the XL pipeline, bankrupting energy companies,
deliberate depletion of our oil reserves, etc.
[#10] Destroying the economy with the Covid hoax.
Our
political divide is no longer between Democrats and Republicans. I noticed the uptick in the crime in New York
in January 2020 when the "Bail Reform" law went into effect. Slowly on the local news, you heard about someone coming
up the steps from the subway and getting cold-cocked in the face, elderly people getting thrown down and beaten, and other
violent street crimes. It grew from there and, after George Floyd's death in Minneapolis, the kerosene was thrown on
the previously slow-burning fuse. The Marxists tried telling us the crime wave was due to the pandemic but I
knew — and believe others did too — that it started weeks before the first case of COVID was reported
in the United States. Like a cancer, the effects of these policies took a while to spread and then accelerated
quickly. The same pattern was repeated across America as other cities implemented "Bail Reform" and defunded their
police departments. All the while, George Soros and other Marxist billionaires hell-bent on destroying this country
helped install District Attorneys who refuse to prosecute criminals and judges who put repeat violent offenders back on the
streets. Add in governors emptying prisons in the name of Covid and — voila! — instant anarchy.
Here's
the Perfect Example of What a Failure 'Defund the Police' Is. Democrats pushed to defund the police over much
of the past year and a half. You even had people like Kamala Harris applauding the defunding — cutting
millions — from the Los Angeles police. But when some cities caved and started cutting back on the police,
it didn't end well. One of those cities was Burlington, Vermont — not a city that people necessarily think
of as a high crime area. But residents and business owners ended up not feeling safe at night because the police
department took such a hit from the defunding movement.
Awash
in illegal pot farms, Oregon plans millions for relief. A Democratic state senator from southern Oregon said
his region, awash in illegal marijuana farms that are protected by gunmen, is starting to look more like a failed state.
After hearing him and others testify this week, the Oregon Legislature dedicated $25 million to help police, sheriff's
offices and community organizations pay for the ballooning costs of cracking down on the thousands of industrial-scale,
illegal pot farms. Residents said the assistance is welcome but not enough.
California
pot companies warn of impending industry collapse. Leading California cannabis companies warned Gov. Gavin
Newsom on Friday that the state's legal industry was on the verge of collapse and needed immediate tax cuts and a rapid
expansion of retail outlets to steady the shaky marketplace. The letter signed by more than two dozen executives,
industry officials and legalization advocates followed years of complaints that the heavily taxed and regulated industry was
unable to compete with the widespread illegal economy, where consumer prices are far lower and sales are double or triple the
legal business.
Man
Dies Of Heart Attack Because Paramedics Refuses To Enter His Building Due To Commiefornia COVID LAWS.
Paramedics in Southern California refused to enter a post-acute-care facility to treat a man in cardiac arrest last month
because of "some COVID-19 law," according to a Rialto Police Department report. Body camera footage shows an officer
arriving at the Rialto Post Acute Care Center on the evening of Nov. 11 and greeting two paramedics from the Rialto Fire
Department, who were standing outside with their masks on. The first 30 seconds of the footage are muted, which is
standard for many police body cameras, but the officer wrote in his report that the paramedics were there for an unrelated
patient and said the facility was being "problematic." [Video clip]
The Editor says...
If your fear of germs is that intense, you shouldn't be a paramedic.
Probe
launched after medics refuse to care for man in cardiac arrest over dubious COVID rule: police. A third-party
investigation is underway in a California city after two mask-wearing fire department paramedics allegedly refused to enter a
rehab facility to render assistance to a man suffering cardiac arrest. About an hour later, the patient was tragically
pronounced dead at a local hospital after being transported there. An officer responding to the scene in Rialto, California,
said on his bodycam, in footage obtained by Fox 11 Los Angeles through a freedom of information request, that the medics
wouldn't come inside because of some COVID-19-related rule, and that the patient, who reportedly wasn't breathing pursuant
to the 911 call, needed to be brought out to them.
In
San Francisco, People Now Leave Their Trunks Open So Thieves Won't Smash Their Windows. People in California
are reportedly leaving their vehicles' trunks open to deter thieves from breaking their vehicles' windows. Vehicle
break-ins are reportedly on the rise in San Francisco and Oakland. To keep potential thieves from damaging their
property, some people are emptying out everything of value from their vehicle, unlocking their doors, and leaving the trunk
open while they go about their business. [Video clip]
Inflation
Devastation for the Democrats. Most of you whippersnappers were not even Planned Parenthood targets back when
inflation was last a thing. It was the late-seventies, which you people associate with funky clothing and disco
music. Most of us who lived through that miserable decade associate it with economic malaise, notably including massive
inflation and 18% interest rates. Yeah, think about 18% interest, all you folks with an adjustable rate loan.
You're spoiled by cheap money and low inflation. You are about to learn a lesson in economics. See, when Uncle
Sucker prints lots of money and there are fewer things to buy, you get inflation. Prices rise. And your standard
of living falls. Despite the economic insights of Joe Biden and his cast of mutants, there's no changing it. And
no, inflation is not evidence that all is well.
Fed
Chairman Jerome Powell's Presser Should Alarm Everyone on Main Street. The Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome
Powell made statements today akin to saying the emperor is wearing a beautiful coat. I can share examples, but to
really encapsulate the issues, it's actually easier to start by sharing a chart he presented when discussing inflation.
Do you notice anything missing in this chart? [...] The guy is talking about the issue of 2021 inflation and expressing his
empathy that inflation is running "far ahead" of the federal reserve projections. Yet, the graphic Powell uses doesn't
even show the 2021 rate of inflation that he is expressing his concern about. Why wouldn't the graphic show the rate of
inflation for 2021? Well, take one look at what the graph would look like, and you realize immediately why he would not
want to put it in front of people.
America's Unamerican Smash-And-Grab.
[Scroll down] Within the first section of Proposition 47 lies the primary driver of "smash and grabs." Shoplifting
is defined as "entering a commercial establishment with the intent to commit larceny while that establishment is open during
regular business hours" where the value of the property does not exceed $950." That is, according to the California
penal code, if someone enters the store when employees are present (putting them at risk) and loots $950 worth of items (if
not more, as seen in many of the smash-and-grab cases), they should be allowed to walk free without punishment. This
reclassification only allows criminals to get away with crimes instead of reducing crime itself. For instance, on
November 19th, 20 to 40 people organized a burglary at a San Francisco Louis Vuitton store. It was not an act of
opportunity but a raid organized to some extent through social media and messaging apps. With only five officially
arrested in the above case, criminals are growing bolder, leading to more smash and grab events, such as when 90 people
raided a Nordstrom Rack at the Walnut Creek shopping facility on November 20th. An estimated $100,000 worth of goods
were stolen there.
Now
that Build Back Better looks dead in the water, weird things are coming out of the mouths of Delusional Dems.
With the price of gas hitting $7 a gallon and a package of Oscar Meyer bacon hitting $9.59 out in California, you can bet
inflation is on consumers' minds, and 80% of them know who did it. Big government spending, the kind that requires the
Fed to print more money than the economy can handle, is behind it. The U.S. has passed a [...] lot of gargantuan
trillion-plus-dollar spending bills for things such as COVID relief, "infrastructure," bailouts of favored industries,
stimulus payouts, and more in the last few years and the economy is still struggling to digest it. Inflation, according
to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, has now soared 6.8% this year, the highest rise in nearly forty years, back when the U.S.
was crawling out from the rubble of the Carter years. And today's inflation is far from done, according to the Fed,
which expects to initiate three rate hikes in 2022 to fight it.
Someone
Finally Points Out The Obvious. CNBC's Steve Liesman points out what all the financial pundits keep
ignoring. The price of raw material at origination is still climbing, which means the prices of intermediate
manufacturing goods will keep climbing, which means the prices of finished goods (to wholesalers) will keep climbing, which
means consumer prices will keep climbing. [Video clip] Here's the kicker. The rate of raw material
price increases are still higher than the rate of intermediate price increases, which are still higher than the rate of price
increases in finished goods, which are still higher than the rate of price increases in consumer goods (retail). As
long as the rate of price increase for raw material, the very first step in the supply chain, remains higher than the rate of
the price increase for the next step in the process, then you can guarantee future prices will go up.
Wholesale
Prices See Biggest Annual Surge on Record, Adding to Broader Inflation Woes. Wholesale prices rose at their
fastest annual pace on record in November, with the newest inflation-related datapoint adding to broader concerns about the
persistence of elevated prices as higher input costs for producers tend to trickle down to consumers. The Labor
Department said in a Dec. 14 statement that, for the 12 months ending in November, the final demand producer price index
(PPI) jumped by 9.6 percent, the highest number in the history of the series, which goes back to 2010. Consensus forecasts
predicted a slower 9.2 percent rise in the PPI final demand measure. On a month-over-month basis, the final demand PPI
gauge rose 0.8 percent in November. While that's lower than the record high 1.2 percent logged in January, it
represents an acceleration in wholesale prices from the prior month's reading of 0.6 percent and a sign that inflationary
pressures were once again picking up steam.
Former
police chief: America is devolving into a third world, feudal society — and we can thank the left for
it. Most right-thinking Americans, when they watch gangs of hoodlums go into stores and steal property unabated
are horrified by the images. Others — primarily those on the left — see no problem with it.
What recent events have proven is that there are indeed two Americas; one which still believes in the rule of law, the other
which does not. It also shows what happens to a country when secularism or atheism takes over. No longer does the
commandment "Thou shalt not steal" mean anything. In fact for leftists, a good number of the ten commandments no longer
apply. For those of us who are Christians, we could see this coming. For when you remove God from everything,
when you don't think twice about the taking of a human life through the process of abortion and when you justify killing or
stealing to achieve some kind of means, you have truly lost your way.
Even
San Fran residents are getting sick of their liberal reforms. To put it mildly, things haven't been going well
in Nancy Pelosi's home stomping grounds of San Francisco. The homelessness plague is out of control and crime has been
on the rise in ways that even the most liberal and forgiving residents can no longer ignore. The problem was compounded
in multiple ways when Chesa Boudin was elected to be the District Attorney after running on a platform of getting rid of the
police and promising to not prosecute "smaller crimes." (Boudin is now facing a recall election.) The filth and the
property crime are driving some people to look for a way out and flee the city. The Associated Press talked to several
such beleaguered residents recently and heard horror stories that are increasingly familiar.
Key
Inflation Metric Grows at Fastest Pace Ever Recorded. The producer price index jumped 9.6 percent in November
compared to the same month last year, the highest year-over-year increase since record-keeping began in 2010. The PPI
increased by 0.8 percent during the month of November 2021. Prices still climbed 6.9 percent when excluding food and
energy costs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The PPI tracks changes in the sale price of domestically
produced goods, and is a key gauge of inflation.
The
Whitewashing of Black Crime. NYPD has sought the public's help in identifying mob looters caught on security
cameras. Videos and photos unmistakably reveal inconvenient truths to those who ply their trade in racial
obfuscations. From San Francisco to Minneapolis and Chicago to New York City the choreography is the same, rampaging
troupes of mostly young black males plundering in blue cities with do-nothing policies towards crime and mayoral diktats that
prevent cops from interfering with or investigating retail theft.
Black
Lives Clearly Don't Matter to BLM or to Soros-Backed Rogue Prosecutors. Grim news confronts Americans in the
closing days of 2021: as they prepare to gather with loved ones around the Christmas tree, their fellow citizens are being
gunned down in the inner city in ever increasing numbers. And the news is likely to get worse. That is because
America's leaders and talking heads refuse to deal directly with the ongoing effort to gut law enforcement and the entire
criminal justice system. Nor are they willing to address the political violence that has led to the precipitous rise in
homicides since the fateful year of 2020. And the silence continues even though — just as news outlets were
reporting record rises in murders in 12 cities — Black Lives Matter, the organization that led the political
violence, released right on cue a new statement doubling down on its call for "the abolition" not just of police, but also
prisons and the court system.
Democratic
mayors under fire as crime, violence plagues Chicago, New York, Philadelphia. Democratic mayors are raising
eyebrows with their responses to the rising crime plaguing major cities like New York City, Chicago and Philadelphia.
The U.S. murder rate rose 30% between 2019 and 2020, according to FBI data — the largest annual increase on
record, with Chicago topping the list. At least 12 major cities, including New York, have already set historical murder
records in 2021. Robberies and assaults are also on the rise, and retailers in major cities across the country are reporting
an uptick in organized smash-and-grab crimes during the busy holiday shopping season. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot
faced criticism last week after she responded to the recent flood of robberies in her city by blaming retailers for not
better protecting their merchandise.
Forty-year
inflation high will become key midterm election issue. Republicans are blasting President Joe Biden for the
highest inflation increase in nearly 40 years, setting the stage for rising consumer costs to be a key issue in next year's
midterm elections. On Friday, the Labor Department's Consumer Price Index rose by 6.8% without seasonal adjustments
over a 12-month period ending in November, the fastest annual increase since 1982. Rising inflation has plagued Biden in
the first year of his presidency, taking a toll on his approval rating that has dropped across several major polls in recent
weeks. Republicans, seeking to win majorities in the House and Senate in the midterm elections, blamed rising costs on Biden.
Biden
makes shipping crisis worse. Cargo ships are backing up to Hawaii as they await unloading. Having
Paternity Pete running the Department of Transportation was not bad enough. Biden just appointed someone with no cargo
shipping experience as the U.S. Maritime Administrator. The job is one of those little known offices that are important
in times of crisis. You never really think of cargo shipping until someone foolishly shuts down the economy to stop a
virus. The aftermath resulted in inflation and supply shortages. Cargo ships are coming in, but their cargo is
not being unloaded and shipped by truck to stores across America. [...] Trump took shipping seriously. Biden did
not. He appointed Rear Admiral Ann C. Phillips, United States Navy (Retired). She is a highly accomplished and
able sailor. But her experience is in climate change, not shipping. Logistics is a complicated but extremely
important undertaking, as we all are learning at the store.
The
Six Most Disastrous Members Of The Biden Administration. #1: White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain: If
Biden is merely a barely functioning figurehead, which it seems clear that he is, then who is really calling the shots?
Who's the one pulling Biden's marionette strings? We can't know for sure, but for me the most obvious culprit would be
Mr. Klain. As Chief of Staff, we can safely assume no one interacts more with Biden than Ron Klain. No
matter the topic, no matter the crisis, a Chief of Staff is going to have his fingers in everything the president does.
Biden's ridiculous spending plans? There is no doubt that Klain weighed in on each one of them; heavily. The
decision to pull the trigger on the catastrophic Afghanistan withdrawal? Klain absolutely had input there as
well. And while there's no question that Dr. Anthony Fauci and other authoritarian bureaucrats were pushing Biden
to implement vaccine mandates and to acquiesce to teachers' unions with school closings, we can rest assured that it was Ron
Klain who advised Biden and orchestrated the policies. If we also consider the calamitous supply chain crisis, the
Administration's insistence on divisive identity politics, the repeated missteps with China and Russia, and the apparent
strategy to have Biden become Bernie Sanders' political clone, the Biden Administration is in tatters. And Ron Klain
has his fingerprints everywhere we look.
AP:
Huh. Maybe we shouldn't spend $5 trillion with this much inflation. We learned yesterday from the CBO
that Joe Biden's "Build Back Better" spending boondoggle would actually add three trillion dollars more debt to the country
than had been advertised, once all of the budget gimmicks and sleight-of-hand language was stripped out of it. That
news came on the heels of a report that inflation had hit a level not seen in almost forty years. (I lived through that
inflation explosion and I can assure you that it was no fun.) These events have forced even some of Joe Biden's most ardent
cheerleaders in the media to take notice. Last night the Associated Press was compelled to ask what really should have been
an obvious question all along. Is this really the time to be setting another $5 trillion in magical money on fire?
Where
Dems Rule and Police Are Defunded, Blood Coats the Streets. Philadelphia, the nation's sixth largest city,
recorded 523 murders as of Dec. 7, surpassing its formal grim milestone of 500 murders, which was set in 1990, police data
showed. [...] Besides the total control of the cities by Democrats for decades, what could possibly be the other factor in
these cities that accounts for such high murder rates?
Whose
fault is it that America is descending into Third World status? Store theft is now done openly. People
load their arms or shopping carts with stuff they want and simply walk out the door. After closing, mobs of them smash
the storefront and grab what they want. I'm reminded of stores in Mexico where padlocked steel curtains cover the glass
storefronts each night. After closing, the store become a little fortress. The left explains that this isn't
looting because ... reasons. One reason is that it's really a protest for social justice, whatever that is.
Another reason is that stores have insurance, dontcha know, and so stealing from them isn't really stealing. Another
reason is that the looters are jobless due to COVID, and so their theft is excused by their hunger. In other words, the
left contends that stealing a Prada bag to feed their greed is just like Jean Valjean stealing a loaf of bread to feed his
sister's children. Speaking of the jobless, employers are desperately seeking to relieve them of that status while the
jobless are desperately seeking to maintain that status. People have decided they'd rather not work, which is
understandable since we told them they don't need to and we even pay them money not to.
Inflation soars
as prices spike 6.8 percent, most in 39 years. The annual US inflation rate hit 6.8 percent last month, the
feds said Friday — marking a 39-year high and leaving Americans helpless to do anything but watch as prices surge
unabated at a clip not seen since Ronald Reagan was in office. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said the Consumer Price
Index of food, energy, goods and services rose by 0.8 percent in November, pushing yearly inflation above the 6.2 percent
recorded a month earlier. The new level is the highest since 1982 and it also marked the sixth consecutive month in
which annual inflation rates have exceeded 5 percent under President Biden's leadership. In a statement, the BLS said
it saw "broad increases" across "most" of the CPI, which tracks the costs of everything from groceries to gasoline and
haircuts to household rent.
We
have worse inflation than countries with negative interest rates. Despite the Fed keeping U.S. interest rates
near zero during the longest bull market in history, central bankers across the pond have proven even more dovish. Even
so, in Europe, where the European Central Bank has maintained negative interest rates, nations such as France and Portugal
have significantly lower inflation rates than us. (Note: Switzerland and Japan are outliers, as they've maintained
negative or near-zero inflation and interest rates for over a decade now.)
White
House Celebrates Joe Biden Reaching Inflation Milestone Set By Jimmy Carter, 6.8 Percent and Rising. Joe Biden
may be celebrating his historic achievement in reaching an inflationary milestone previously set by Jimmy Carter, but the
working class is paying the price for their economic stupidity. The Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the November
inflation rate today showing another rise in the annualized rate of inflation of 6.8 percent. As you review the data,
ask yourself this question: 'Is there anything in the current economic landscape to indicate this is going to stop?'
The honest answer is no.
Inflation
soars to highest level in 40 years as 'Bidenflation' sees prices jump 6.8% in biggest rise since Reagan admin.
President Joe Biden acknowledged Friday that inflation was a 'bump in the road' — but predicted that prices would
drop from current levels, after a new monthly report showed the highest jump in prices since the early 1980s. 'So I
think it's it really is it's a real bump in the road. It does affect families,' Biden said in response to a question at
a democracy summit held virtually at the White House. 'You walk into a grocery store and you're paying more for whatever
you're purchasing,' he continued, speaking to public concerns after a new report showed a 6.8 percent jump in prices in
November compared to a year ago.
The
'Woke' Got What They Wanted — And Then What? [Scroll down] So, academia, corporate
boardrooms, Hollywood, the media, the Pentagon, professional sports teams, Silicon Valley and Wall Street in near hysterical
fashion all boarded the woke train. All boasted of ferreting out "white rage," and hiring legions of "diversity,
equity, and inclusion" czars. Critical race theory would be mainstreamed to excise racism and discrimination by
embracing racism and discrimination. "Crime" was to be seen now mostly as a construct created by the elite to protect
their own privilege, prerogatives and property. Shoplifting, looting and street thuggery were just part of living in a
normal city. "Social justice warriors" could replace defunded police. Gone would be most bail, incarceration,
mandatory jail time, stop-and-frisk, and broken-windows deterrent policies. Green agendas, the Left hoped, would
fundamentally transform America in putting an immediate stop to man-made "climate change." So, lots of oil and gas
leases were either canceled or their fees vastly increased. Pipelines were stopped. Gas and oil companies were
warned that everything from lack of financing to new regulations would soon put them out of business. The golden age of
wind and batteries was already upon us.
New
Report Shows Push for Electric Cars Is Actually Killing Rainforests. It was buried during the Thanksgiving
weekend, but CNN managed to commit a random act of journalism, detailing some new climate data that was found to show that
the Earth warming actually began many decades earlier than stated. This revelation manages to both throw off climate
modeling, as well as make the claim that mankind's technology was the root cause of... well, everything going wrong.
Joining in the fray now is NBC News, which has also surprised by delivering another inconvenient truth. A new report
shows that the need for more raw nickel ore — driven by the explosive market for lithium batteries — is
causing the eradication of pristine rainforests in the Philippines. This is not a gradual loss of acreage.
Massive swaths of the forests are being shredded as nickel mines are expanding at a rate far greater than the rise in global
temperatures.
Breaking
the Maritime Shipping Impasse. Two new laws in California have degraded the air quality in the Los Angeles
area. One is Assembly Bill 5 and a new California Air Resources Board (CARB) regulation banning older diesel trucks
from operating in the state. Assembly Bill 5 has basically outlawed independent truckers from hauling freight, thereby
reducing the total number of trucks operating in the state. This, combined with the banning of the older diesel trucks,
has created a supply chain backlog. leaving large container vessels either at anchor or steaming in lazy circles off shore
because the anchorages are too crowded to safely anchor there. While at anchor or underway, these ships must run their
engines to turn generators to power and maintain vital shipboard systems and doing so these ships emit huge quantities of
oxides of Nitrogen (NOx), oxides of Sulfur (SOx), particulate pollution, and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC). The
offshore sea breezes carry this polluted air into the Los Angeles basin, adding to an already significantly polluted air shed.
Democrats
don't care about inflation, the poor, the middle class, women, or science. They care about raw power.
Democrats routinely want a high national minimum wage, require additional costly employer-paid benefits, add taxes, and add
regulations that hurt businesses and raise prices...but the solution is more low-paid immigrants? Democrats are trying
to greatly reduce independent contracting, gig jobs, and right-to-work laws as they cater to their political
contributors. All of these things increase costs and inflation. If Democrats cared about inflation and getting
more public projects completed, they would get rid of racist prevailing wage laws, which have oppressed minorities and
taxpayers for ninety years. They clearly care more about catering to unions than the rest of us or inflation.
The
Biden gas pump is killing the family budget. Is President Biden capable of changing course and realizing that
he is on the road to a bad election day in 2022? President Biden could start by reversing the executive orders on the
Keystone Pipeline and oil exploration. It would have a massive impact on producers, who would fill the inventory with
oil. So is Biden capable of doing his version of Palin's "drill, baby, drill"? We are where we are because of
decisions made by this administration. Therefore, they are the only ones who can undo or cancel their orders. If
they do, then maybe those pump prices could come back. If they don't, then pity any Democrat running in a competitive
election in 2022.
Why Looting
Turned San Francisco Into A Ghost Town. Usually at this time of year, San Francisco's luxury stores are decked
with holiday garlands. Instead, they're boarded up after widespread "flash mob" looting turned Union Square —
the city's most fashionable shopping district — into an area resembling a blighted neighborhood in Detroit.
"It's a ghost town," said Michelle Tandler, a San Francisco native and high-tech entrepreneur, whose photos of the stores
barricaded in plywood went viral on social media this week. "Every store has a security guard. People are going
to lose their jobs. And these things have a ripple effect." Two weeks ago, San Francisco was the first of several
progressive cities hit by smash-and-grab mobs of thieves, sometimes as many as 80 in a group. Video from the San Francisco
looting of Louis Vuitton shows criminals walking casually out of the store, goods in hand. Other cities hit include Los Angeles,
Chicago and Minneapolis.
How
Much Longer for COVID Scare Tactics? How much longer will a COVID-weary electorate put up with Vax Now or
Else mandates and concurrent elimination of their daily freedoms? It would be one thing if the Democrats were
delivering a positive, successful improvement in the quality of life in America. But they're not. Their tenure
thus far has been a total disaster, by any measure. Inflation at 30-year highs. Supply-chain shortages, with
container ships inexplicably lined up off the California coast. Racial division, characterized by support of BLM
violence and rioting. Unhinged corporate and educational Wokeness, resulting in blaming Caucasians for being born
Caucasian. Disastrous uncontrolled illegal immigration, unchecked for their COVID status, their presence here
completely supported at taxpayer expense. Government-imposed vax mandates, intended to terminate countless first
responders and military personnel if they attempt to exercise their legal personal medical prerogatives. Quite simply,
life in America has devolved into something approaching a chaotic, miserable mess, where each day the public holds its
collective breath and attempts to steel itself against the next ruinous body blow.
Death by Politics.
The defunding of our cities' police forces and the tragic mayhem it caused have resulted in disorder nationwide and
uncountable deaths. Since the demise of George Floyd, Democrat mayors of our largest cities such as Chicago, Detroit,
Los Angeles, and New York have left these communities open to the most violent elements of our society. Leftist
prosecutors are also to blame. They purposely refused to properly process dangerous criminals, allowing even murderers
to go free. Thousands of Americans have died in our streets, while Democrats yell that guns are the problem.
These deaths are the direct result of the Democratic actions. Travel to any of our largest cities, and you are taking
your life into your hands. Mayors and local officials who participated in movements to defund the police should be
charged with malfeasance in office, as these cockeyed actions surely led to Death by Politics in the thousands.
Smoking
crack sanctioned at NYC 'safe injection sites,' driving business away. Smoking crack cocaine is officially
sanctioned at the "safe injection sites" Mayor Bill de Blasio brought to Manhattan this week in a move that's infuriated the
centers' neighbors — and has at least one business owner packing his bags. "People are allowed to bring the
substance that they prefer to use here and they are permitted to consume the substance in the manner of their choice," East
Harlem site director Kailin See confirmed. "We are there to make sure that no medical emergency occurs and to connect
them into care if they need that," she said, adding that many of her clients use drugs laced with fentanyl including heroin,
cocaine, crack, methamphetamine, amphetamine and K2. The nonprofit is one of two in Upper Manhattan that became the
country's first legal shooting galleries when they opened Tuesday [11/30/2021].
Willie
Horton and the Democratic Party's Greatest Fear. Republicans call for high bail levels for proven violent
repeat offenders and bail-jumpers; Democrats call for an end to bail, and for the virtual elimination of holding even
dangerous prisoners until trial. Republicans call for stiff and certain sentences for convicted violent criminals;
today's Democrats call for never-ending second chances, and even for the elimination of prisons themselves, as in the
meantime, impatient Democrat governors and judges routinely throw open the prison gates on the slightest whim. [...]
Republicans warn against the cultural decline that has children more likely to be raised in a single-parent household than in
a nuclear family unit; Democrats go so far as to champion single motherhood as an objective good, campaigning for ever more
welfare programs to encourage such generational dependence. Is it any wonder that our nation is suffering a massive
crime wave? Is it any wonder that overwhelmed and unsupported police are resigning and retiring in disgust and despair?
Joe
Biden's Dirty Little Secret: He Wants Higher Gasoline Prices. When he announced last week that he would
release more oil from the American Strategic Petroleum Reserve, President Joe Biden told the American people he is doing
everything possible to bring down gas prices at the pump. That's a lie. This administration and the climate
change crazies have declared war on American energy. They want high oil and gas prices. The Biden master
plan is for American oil and gas production and consumption to go to zero over the next 15 to 20 years. How do you
achieve that goal? By making oil and gas so expensive and so unavailable that Americans are forced to use alternatives.
In other words, the fact that gasoline is roughly $1.25 more expensive per gallon today under Biden than it was a year ago under
former President Donald Trump didn't happen by accident. This was not a result of a natural disaster, such as a hurricane,
that could knock out our oil facilities. This was by design.
The Twin Pillars
of Biden's Failure. Everything has gone so terribly wrong for the Biden Administration, and in the ways that
were widely predicted, that it is hard to believe Joe Biden could be perceived as a successful or at least potentially
successful president if only he had avoided being such a tool of the Democratic extreme Left. On the afternoon of his
inauguration, he killed the Keystone XL Pipeline and curtailed fracking and offshore oil and gas exploration, and ordered the
end of construction of the southern border wall. The consequences have been over 200,000 illegal migrants entering the
United States across the southern border most months and the rise in the price of gasoline from approximately $2 a gallon to
$5 a gallon across the country.
All 81 million of them — living or dead. Biden
voters owe the country an apology. President Joe Biden's African travel ban went into effect Monday.
Biden's actions here directly contradict what he said when former President Donald Trump instituted similar travel bans to
stop the spread of the coronavirus. In fact, they lay bare an underlying insincerity about Biden's entire handling of
the pandemic. When Trump did this exact same thing, Biden stoked the flames of racial hatred to get elected. Now,
nearly a full year into his first term, Biden is the dog that caught the car. He duped 81 million people into voting
for him, and he has no clue what he is doing. Biden voters owe the country an apology. They are responsible for
our mess — and every bit the mess that the approval ratings suggest it is. From foreign policy to immigration
to crime to inflation to gas prices, there is absolutely nothing going better right now than on Jan. 19, 2020.
Litany
of Examples that Democrats are Siding with Criminals — Encouraging Criminality. Are Democrats encouraging
criminality in order to say the current system doesn't work and therefor it should be replaced by a new one that allows them
to crack down with much harsher penalities? It appears as if Democrats are following the same techniques used by
dictators throughout history in order to destroy a current system of government, encourage the criminals to scare people into
new laws to give away their own freedom. [Video clip]
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Photos Show Just How Horrible Christmas Is in San Francisco This Year. Thanksgiving has come and gone, and we
have now moved into the time of year when Christmas shopping is in full swing for many Americans. However,
holiday-lovers in San Francisco will face a disturbing picture when they set out to buy their Christmas gifts this
year. On Monday [11/29/2021], San Francisco resident and Life School founder Michelle Tandler posted a thread of images
on Twitter showing downtown businesses boarding up their glass windows to protect from the rampant crime in the city.
American
cities are reverting to primitive, self-destructive behavior. American cities on the Democrats' watch are
drifting away from civilization. The most obvious problem is the rise in crime — everything from murders to
mass retail theft. Just open any Chicago or New York newspaper to see what I mean. [...] I blame what's happening
entirely on the left. Beginning in 2013, with George Zimmerman's self-defense shooting against Trayvon Martin, leftists
have been steadily chipping away at the infrastructure that supports law-abiding middle-class Americans. The war on
police blossomed into Defund the Police, which segued seamlessly into no bail, which resulted in six people dying in
Waukesha, Wisconsin, and a sideshow in what was once the quietest and safest middle-class neighborhood in San
Francisco. Many are describing what's happening in America in a top-down revolution — that is, the political
class, the billionaires, and the affluent professional class, having been marinated in Marxism in college, are imposing a
Cloward-Piven strategy on America. To implement the socialist revolution that these rich people desire and assume
they'll survive, they're systematically destroying all the institutional brakes that keep a society safe and functioning.
Fourth-generation
dairy farmer warns economic woes, climate change regulations could end family farms. A fourth-generation dairy
farmer warned that climate change-related regulations and a slew of economic woes could signal the end for her family's way
of life after nearly a century. "We've been attacked in the dairy industry for a while now," Stephanie Nash told Fox
News. "Instead of educating people through the farmer, we're educating them through people that have never farmed and
we're killing off our family farmers." Rising costs, labor and supply shortages and little support — in
addition to climate change and conservation regulations — are all major obstacles threatening the Nash family,
which has been in the dairy farming business for 92 years.
The Editor says...
Making life more difficult for farmers will inevitably result in food scarcity and higher grocery prices. And the
worst part of this story is that it's all being done in an effort to stop climate change — which is impossible.
There is no climate crisis. Sure, the climate is changing, but the changes are extremely slow and imperceptible; in fact,
if you turn off you television, you'll never worry about climate change again!
Is
there a wholly unexpected benefit from the left's COVID madness? With COVID, leftists got a twofer: Trump
left the White House and they destroyed the benefits of Trump's America, especially for the middle class. With Fauci
leading the charge, large parts of America ground to a halt. People were locked in their homes, schools were closed,
and businesses were shut down. Trump's wonderful economy vanished with a giant sucking sound, all to a Greek chorus of
leftist voices declaiming about Trump's murdering American citizens through his ineptitude. To stir the pot, the left
used the death of a two-bit hoodlum whose diseased heart couldn't withstand all the drugs flooding his system as the starting
gun for race riots. All of this made Trump seem, not like the most effective and beneficial president since Reagan, but
like a failure. Add in the fact that the lockdowns allowed often unconstitutional mail-in voting and secretive vote
counts and, suddenly, you've got a popular president losing the race to a corrupt, incompetent puppet who managed to have
more ballots counted in his favor. With Biden in office, the left has been able to strike major blows at the economy,
the border, national sovereignty, and the military. In addition, it keeps hammering away at the culture, especially in
K-12 schools.
White
House's Border Policies Bring Death and Misery. After entering the country illegally, [24-year-old Yery Noel
Medina] Ulloa was taken in by [46-year-old Francisco Javier] Cuellar, and was given a job at the family business before
allegedly murdering Cuellar. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained Ulloa on Oct. 13, days after he was found
covered in blood following the alleged murder. On the surface, Cuellar's death seemed to have been entirely preventable.
We don't know how Ulloa got from the Texas border to Florida, but we do know that the Biden administration has been flying illegal
aliens to states across the country, including Florida. State and local officials have warned the Biden administration that
its anti-border policies pose a grave danger to the security of their state, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican,
blamed the administration's secretive flights for Cuellar's tragic death.
Wild
Smash-and-Grabs in Dem Cities Now Turn Deadly. We tend to think of Black Friday as the day that we can pick up
some good deals at the stores. But instead, we've been seeing people thinking they could get more than a good
deal — a five-finger discount, in fact. It's happening at expensive stores in Democratic cities,
particularly in California when they know that because of leftist prosecutors there, they will likely not suffer any real
consequences even if they are caught in the act. This is all courtesy of the Democratic policy of being lenient on
crime. When even CNN is recognizing this as a problem in cities like San Francisco and Chicago, then you know Democrats
can't hide the hard reality of what their policies are causing.
Biden's
economy is very successful by the standards Obama set. Never say that Biden is incompetent. His goal is
to bring the country down and he is doing exactly what is necessary to succeed. Still, we can survive and fight
back. Remember when Obama said that his policies would raise the cost of energy substantially and that this would be
good for America? He said this in campaign speeches and was still elected. Biden has successfully followed thru
on these policies. One way to do this is to write down trillions of dollars of fossil fuels in the ground as stranded
assets and kill all the traditional energy companies. Then there's printing money, flooding the market with cheap,
illegal labor, using the vaccine to destroy the middle and working class, etc. The millions of illegal aliens not only
stress the labor market, school systems, and welfare but they are carrying diseases (not just COVID) that will stress our
health system beyond its limit. The CDC's and public health system's silence is criminal.
Bidenflation
Surges Again as Prices Rise at [the] Fastest Pace in 31 Years. The Federal Reserve's go-to barometer of
inflation soared in October to the fastest annual pace of price increases in 31-years, data from the Commerce Department
showed Wednesday. The personal consumption expenditure price index rose five percent compared with October 2020, an
acceleration from the 4.4 percent annual gain recorded in September. Compared with the prior month, prices rose
0.6 percent, the biggest monthly jump since 2008.
Report:
General Mills Will Raise Prices up to 20 Percent in January. General Mills informed its retail customers that
prices would rise on hundreds of its items throughout dozens of its brands in mid-January, according to a report. The
report from CNN Business indicated that the company sent a letter to at least one major regional wholesale supplier
indicating that the company intends on raising its prices and that they "will go up by around 20%" on some brands in
mid-January. The letter was shared with CNN Business "on the condition of anonymity to protect the company's
relationship with its suppliers."
In
police-defunded Minnesota, thousands of people are now just flat out refusing to pull over for cops. According
to reports, thousands of drivers are refusing to stop when police attempt to pull them over, with data showing that it happened
more than 3,100 times in 2020. New research looks into what is behind the uptick in people not following the law.
[Tweet] "Super speeding" is way up in Minnesota, with the Minnesota State Patrol regularly clocking speeds of more
than 100 miles per hour. Fatalities are up too and there is something else that is making the roads even more
risky. Col. Matt Langer said in a statement: "People are fleeing from police at a rate we've never seen
before. This is a huge, huge problem nationwide; it's just not a Minnesota-specific problem."
Pennsylvania
electricity prices will be rising by as much as 50% next week. Energy costs for electric customers are going up
by as much as 50% across Pennsylvania next week, the latest manifestation of across-the-board energy price increases
impacting gasoline, heating oil, propane, and natural gas. Eight Pennsylvania electric utilities are set to increase
their energy prices on Dec. 1, reflecting the higher cost to produce electricity. Peco Energy, which serves
Philadelphia and its suburbs, will boost its energy charge by 6.4% on Dec. 1, from 6.6 cents per kilowatt hour
to about 7 cents per kWh. Energy charges account for about half of a residential bill.
CBO:
Democrats' Spending Spree Will Make Inflation Even Worse For Years. So much for fiscal responsibility.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score of Democrats' "Build Back Bankrupt" spending spree didn't stop the House of
Representatives from passing the legislation last Friday. Ironically, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy,
R-California, did more to delay the vote on the bill, speaking on the House floor for more than eight hours Thursday night
and postponing the vote on House passage until Friday morning. But lawmakers who claim to care about our nation's
rapidly growing pile of debt, like Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.V. and Kyrsten Sinema, D-Arizona, should review the CBO
analysis in detail.
NY
Emergency Room Shuts Down After Workers Forced Out By Vaccine Mandate. An emergency room in Long Beach, New
York, closed down on Monday after state law forced all of its unvaccinated medical workers from their jobs. The Mount
Sinai South Nassau hospital closed its freestanding emergency room in Long Beach and redirected staff to its main campus in
Oceanside, New York, the hospital said in a statement. The "temporary" closure could last up to four weeks and
potentially longer depending on the availability of staff, the hospital said. The New York State Department of Health's
(NYSDOH) vaccine mandate for medical workers does not allow workers to claim a religious exemption for the vaccine. The
policy was tied up in court due to legal challenges. A federal court ruled in favor of the state last month, according
to The New York Times.
Organized
shoplifting exploits 'woke' undermining of law enforcement. Retail stores already under siege from pandemic
restrictions and supply chain hiccups are increasingly facing another threat to their bottom lines: organized theft.
The problem was on vivid display over the weekend when dozens of looters stormed into a Nordstrom department store outside
San Francisco wearing masks and wielding crowbars. As many as 80 suspects snatched armloads of products and sped away
in more than 20 waiting cars on Saturday. Police have so far arrested just three suspects in connection with the
raid. Thieves smashed the windows and looted the high-end goods of a San Francisco Louis Vuitton store over the weekend
as well, creating chaos in a popular area of the city.
A Chipotle
general manager and 4 of his employees quit after a surge of to-go orders drove them to their breaking points.
A group of five Chipotle employees, including a general manager and kitchen manager, quit their jobs at the end of their
shifts on November 14 after working under "impossible" conditions, they told Insider. Peter Guerra, a Chipotle veteran
of five years and general manager for six months, worked at the Scofield Farms Chipotle location in Austin, Texas. "My
store was severely understaffed, we struggled just to keep our heads above water," with less and less support from
management, Guerra said. He said he was regularly scheduled to work 80 hours a week, but often had to work additional
hours to cover for employees who quit and left gaps in staffing. Chipotle stores operate with two food prep lines: one
for customers who order on-site and another for digital orders. Some Chipotle workers have previously told Insider that
it's hard to keep up with the rapid rate at which digital orders stack up.
The Editor says...
In this article, there is no mention of vaccine mandates making it hard to retain employees. No mention of Biden's "stimulus" payouts
making it easier to stay home than to go to work. The system is not unbreakable. Joe Biden (or whoever pulls his strings) is
finding ways to break it.
San
Francisco's Mayor Has a 'Genius' Idea to Stop Looting Over the Holiday. Some people still don't believe this,
but Prop 47 is a law — deceptively titled 'Safe Schools and Neighborhoods Act' — that reduces many
felonies to misdemeanors and provides for the early release of certain violent offenders and sex offenders. One of the
most unbelievable provisions of Prop 47 is one that makes it just a ticketable offense to steal up to $949 worth of goods
from any given retailer on any given visit. That's right — visit. You can clean out the deodorant
section at Walgreens, go back to your drug den, then come back an hour later and hit the diapers and feminine products if
that's your jam. You've seen the videos. People do this. They take what they want and casually walk
away. They know the law. They know law enforcement has no ability to stop any of it. It's not just San
Francisco that is seeing this nonsense growing; it has pretty much permeated every part of the state by this point.
What's worse — the broken windows theory has most definitely applied to the chaos in California. Criminals
have become emboldened by the tacit permission to loot stores at will. Now they are becoming organized and hitting
larger targets.
Best
Buy Crashes As Margins Slide Due To "Organized Retail Theft". Liberal socialist utopias such as California are
a blessing for deadbeat klepto hobos from around the world thanks to the state's lack of prosecution of shoplifting, but the
same policies are becoming a major headache for nationwide retailers such as Best Buy which this morning reported that
despite beating on the top and bottom line (revenues of $11.9 billion vs expectations of $11.7BN, EPS of $2.08, beating est
of $1.96), its margins missed, echoing the same margin crunch theme that emerged recently with big box retailers such as
Walmart. Gross margin fell 0.1% to 23.5%, Best Buy said, missing the 23.6% average of analyst estimates compiled by
Bloomberg, while the decline in the core U.S. operation was steeper. The company also reported a 10% drop in domestic
online revenue as more shoppers returned to stores.
Dollar
Tree hikes prices 25%. Most items will cost $1.25. Dollar Tree will soon be $1.25 tree. The
company — one of America's last remaining true dollar stores — said Tuesday [11/23/2021] it will raise
prices from $1 to $1.25 on the majority of its products by the first quarter of 2022. The change is a sign of the pressures
low-cost retailers face holding down prices during a period of rising inflation. Dollar Tree said in a quarterly earnings
release Tuesday that its decision to raise prices to $1.25 permanently, however, was "not a reaction to short-term or transitory
market conditions." Selling stuff strictly for $1 hampered Dollar Tree, the company said, and forced it stop selling some
"customer favorites." Raising prices will give Dollar Tree more flexibility to reintroduce those items, expand its selection
and bring new products and sizes to its stores.
The Editor says...
Dollar Tree has one thing going for it: No looters!
US
Inflation: Which Categories Have Been Hit Hardest? Prices have been going up in a number of segments of
the economy in recent months, and, as Visual Capitalist's Nick Routley exposes below, the public is taking notice. One
indicator of this is that search interest for the term "inflation" is higher than at any point in the past decade.
Alaska
Gov. Mike Dunleavy Wants A State Coalition To Combat Federal Overreach. Will It Work? Alaska
Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy needs allies. Within 10 months, D.C. Democrats have obstructed logging activity in
the Alaska's southeast Tongasss National Forest, stalled progress on a life-saving road for remote residents to reach an
all-weather airport in Cold Bay, cancelled oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), and suspended
new drilling activity in a state home to 60 percent of federal land. "The phone line's untouched," Dunleavy told The
Federalist of President Joe Biden's outreach 10 months into an administration obstructing nearly every major development
project sought in the nation's largest landmass. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, who has been implementing Biden's
far-left agenda, has also remained mute. "They view Alaska as their own national park to save for mankind," Dunleavy
said in an interview Thursday, frustrated at the relentless intervention of beltway bureaucrats impeding any opportunity for
development. Passage of the Democrats' latest colossal reconciliation bill would make reinstated protections for the
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) permanent.
"Trans"
inmate rapes mentally disabled female prisoner at Washington prison. Caroline Downey at National Review brings
us yet another horror story delivered by the progressive policymakers in Washington state. While still not codified in
official policy, Washington previously began allowing male prisoners to request transfers to the state's only exclusively
women's prison (the Washington Corrections Center for Women) if they claimed that they were transgender. This resulted
in at least six recent cases of transfers, including defendants who had been convicted of sex crimes against female
victims. With that information as a backdrop it's difficult to see how this horrible headline was anything but
inevitable. Present and former guards from the prison have told the media that these transferred prisoners have raped
female inmates, including one inmate who had been convicted of sexually assaulting a minor female. That prisoner was
found to have repeatedly sexually abused a developmentally disabled female prisoner for at least a week before being discovered.
Kyle
Rittenhouse and our Liberal Friends. Now let's review Charles Murray's Coming Apart: The State of
White America 1960-2010. The top 25 percent, the laptop whites, are doing fine with great careers and merger
marriages. The middle 45 percent, the Rittenhouse kids, are doing so-so, what with all the stepparents and all.
In the bottom 30 percent, including the victims of the drug epidemic, the men don't work much and the women don't marry
much. Here's a short history of laptop-white oppression. Back before there were laptops they told the workers:
vote for us and we'll help you screw the evil capitalists. Result: white working class is dying of despair.
Then they told women: we'll give you the vote and you can snub your nose at the patriarchs. Result:
feminists are today marginalized as "TERFs." Then they told blacks: vote for us and we'll lead you to the
Promised Land. Result: blacks are mired in dysfunction and squalor. Hey LGBTs. You're up next.
The New Blue Confederacy.
Why are progressive regions of the country — especially in the old major liberal cities (e.g., Chicago, Los
Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle) — institutionalizing de facto racial quotas
through "proportional representation" based on "disparate impact"? Why are they promoting ethnic and racial chauvinism, such
as allowing college students to select the race of their own roommates, calibrating graduation ceremonies by skin color and
tribe, segregating campus "safe spaces" by race, and banning literature that does not meet commissariat diktats? Why
are they turning into one-party political fiefdoms separating the rich and poor, increasingly resembling feudal societies as
members of the middle class flee or disappear? What does it mean that they are becoming more and more intolerant in
their cancel culture, and quasi-religious intolerance of dissent, on issues from climate change and abortion-on-demand to
critical race theory and wokeness?
Survey
says more than half NYPD wishes they never joined the force. More than half of NYPD cops wish they never joined
the force in the first place, according to [an] internal department survey of 6,000 uniformed officers obtained by The [New
York] Post. The survey is a sobering snapshot of how the Finest feel in an era of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter
riots, the Defund the Police movement, bail-reform laws that keep violent offenders out of jail, and legislative measures
that put the burden of liability on officers while emboldening criminals. "My retirement date is next month," said one
20-year veteran who took the survey. "I can't wait to run out of here." The officer, who would only provide his
first name, Dan, said the job has hit "rock bottom" — and he's even steered his own son away from a calling that
was once proudly passed down from generation to generation.
Build Back Badly. It's increasingly
apparent that the specter of inflation is haunting the pocketbooks of most Americans. According to a new
Economist/YouGov poll, 76 percent of Americans reported that the price of gas had "gone up a lot" during the past
year. The survey also found that 65 percent had experienced significant price increases for food. Moreover, when
likely voters are asked about how Build Back Better would affect the nation's economy, it gets a thumbs down.
Don't
Ask About Empty Shelves, Our Leaders are Too Busy Saving the World. Like the Soviet Union and other Communist
countries, we have become a nation of moral crusaders and misery where goods shortages are papered over with wars against
intangible social problems. Public officials no longer solve problems, like ivory tower academics they delve into root
causes and produce theories explaining why the problems can't be solved without changing society and humanity. It's as
if you invited a plumber to fix your toilet only to lectured about the history of plumbing in ancient Egypt, gender roles,
and social expectation while your toilet goes on flooding the floor. While Democrats go down the rabbit hole of root
causes, their cities are overrun with crime and human waste, prices for everything skyrocket, and some goods can no longer be
had at any price. Confronted with this reality, they build walls of words, seizing on talking points to convince the
public that the problems don't exist or that they're actually symptoms of deep social problems going back centuries even
though they only date back to last week. Either approach frees them from having to solve them.
Transitory
Inflation? Not With Joe in Charge. Americans are now facing the highest inflation in 30 years.
People are even starting to talk about the "misery index" again — and I haven't heard that term since the Carter
administration. Unfortunately, inflation hits low and middle-income Americans the hardest. You can bet that
Speaker Antoinette and President Asterisk aren't feeling the pinch. Maybe that's why they're not acting very interested
in the problem. But the rest of us are sure interested. Inflation isn't a simple matter to control. It is a
complex issue that is affected by many factors. Whenever the government lowers the value of our money, inflation goes
up. When our geniuses in Washington put more money into circulation by either borrowing it or printing it, the value
(buying power) of the money goes down. It is simple supply and demand economics. The more there is of something,
the less valuable it becomes. Venezuela has tons of money — and it takes a ton of it to buy bread. The
Venezuelan currency is the Bolivar, and they're issuing it in 50,000 Bolivar notes now — because that's what it
takes to buy anything. Venezuela proves that you can't print your way out of inflation.
Washington's
Newest Parlor Game: "Joe, Kamala, Nancy, or Chuck?" Who Will Still Be in Office One Year From Now? In the
wake of what can only be characterized as a historic (and perhaps even unprecedented) first-year failure, and with glaring
individual shortcomings compounding their mismanagement of the government, Washington has a new parlor game. It's
called "Joe, Kamala, Nancy, or Chuck?" And the game is to guess which — if any — will still
be in office one year from now. As astonishing as it sounds, the most vulnerable Democratic leader may be the sitting
President of the United States who doesn't face reelection for another three years. Since taking office, Biden has
overseen a disastrous American defeat in Afghanistan, record high inflation, a border crisis of unprecedented scope, crime
waves in cities throughout the United States, ransomware attacks on the country's most critical infrastructure, and surging
numbers of COVID-19 deaths despite being handed three vaccines by the Trump administration, among other crises either caused
or directly worsened by his administration's policies. For a president who campaigned on putting "the adults" back in
charge, it's hardly been a rousing success, and Americans are noticing.
Barrasso:
Russian Oil Tankers Will Deliver in Boston Harbor This Winter as Result of Biden Policies. Tuesday [11/16/2021]
on Fox Business Network's "Varney & Company," Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) warned that because of President Joe Biden's
energy policy, Russian oil tankers would be "making delivery in the Boston Harbor this winter." According to Barrasso,
"the American people are paying the price" for the Biden administration being "wrong" on energy. "John Kerry and Joe
Biden, these two merry men who seem to think the United States can power ourselves on windmills and solar panels are just
wrong, and the American people are paying the price," Barrasso lamented. "That is the real problem we have."
5 reasons why Kamala
Harris' presidential dreams probably won't come true. [#5] America and Kamala Harris will continue to suffer
from bad policy decisions in the next 3 years. [...] There are good reasons for those low ratings, including the worsening
state of the economy, the disastrous pullout from Afghanistan in August, the out-of-control border crisis, COVID policy
dissatisfaction and policies mandated by the heavy hand of an out-of-control federal government. The problem for the
Harris is that there is no end in sight to those policies. Yes, Afghanistan is fading from view but the poor state of
the economy will not. Rather than deal with inflation, which is getting out of hand, Democrats are pushing another
spending bill (which Harris supports) that will only make things worse. And, rather than working to fix our supply
chain problems, the harmful effects green energy regulations and COVID mandates imposed by the Biden administration are only
making things worse.
Only
the Rich and Powerful Can Thrive in Lawless San Francisco. In "progressive" San Francisco, safety is for the
rich. That's the reality of what's happening in the San Francisco Bay Area as bad policy and anti-police attitudes have
created a haven for criminality. Like many other urban parts of America, the Bay Area has been hit with a historic
surge in violent crime in the last few years. However, unlike many other parts of the country, the Bay Area has also
been hit by a huge uptick in car theft, property crimes, and shoplifting. One would think that this would necessitate a
massive response by city leaders and the police department to counter the crime surge. Instead, San Francisco attempted
to defund the police following the death of George Floyd in May of last year. Unsurprisingly, it now has a major
deficit of police personnel and can't find replacements for a department where over a third of its officers have
retired. I wonder why? Truly, a mystery. On top of that, San Francisco has a district attorney, Chesa
Boudin, whose plan for "radical change" and equality has been mostly to release criminals and not prosecute repeat offenders
of serious crimes.
Joe
Biden's big cookbook for inflation. Joe Biden says we must pass his huge slush-fund social-spending package now
in the works in Congress in order to reduce inflation. Since when does throwing money at anything reduce
inflation? Did Obamacare reduce health care costs? Did all the cash thrown at higher education, such as federal
student loans, reduce college tuition? If they pass free daycare and pre-K education, then as sure as the sun rises,
those prices will skyrocket because the providers will have a captive audience. Treasury secretary Janet Yellen says
inflation will drop magically to 2% next year. We know that earlier this year, she and others said the current
inflation in the system is just transitory. White House chief of staff Ron Klain and others say that since these slush
funds are "paid for," they aren't inflationary. They claim these slush funds are "paid for" by pretending that the new
entitlements will last a few years and then be paid with all the revenues from tax hikes on "the rich" over ten years.
Of course, that's a lie, too.
This
Democrat Criminal Prosecution System is Deeply Immoral. Rachel Rollins is Biden's nominee to be the next U.S.
Attorney for Massachusetts. while serving as District Attorney for Suffolk County, where she declined to prosecute certain
dangerous crimes and pushed for 'reallocating' police funding. [...] We have all seen endless videos of looters barging into
stores and walking out with bags full of free stuff. This will no longer constitute a criminal activity. It is
amazing to see that you can enter a store in America and the cost of every item is zero. This isn't good for store
owners but what does this tell you about a society in which others take off shelves for free and that person is protected by
your law officials while you feel like a sucker for paying for them? What does that tell you about a society gone
wrong? Under Rachel Rollins, larceny is not a crime. Neither is disorderly conduct, and disturbing the
police. Receiving stolen goods will not be a crime in Massachusetts under Rollins. So the person who walks into a
store, or a home, and walks out with all sorts of stuff and gives them to his fence to sell, all this is not illegal and not
punishable because those we consider criminal will not be arrested, charged, or brought to court. What world are they
creating in America? It is one that favors the criminal and leave the citizen defenseless.
US
Marines Go All-In On Diversity-Equity-Inclusion Training. Last week, the US Marine Corps marked its 246th
birthday. And while there are many reasons to celebrate this milestone, last we also saw a group Iran-backed of Houthi
rebels stormed the U.S. Embassy compound in Yemen's capital San'a. [...] Also during the week, Chinese military forces held
exercises near Taiwan in response to a visit by a US congressional delegation to the island. [...] Given these developments,
sensible planners would consider making military preparedness, defense preparation, and troop recruitment and training top
priorities. Instead, the Biden administration's priorities have nothing to do with actual military readiness. It
intends to force march the US Marines toward diversity, equity and inclusion as the solution to make the Marine's "reflect America".
Is Joe Biden the
second coming of Herbert Hoover? Fuel oil prices soared 12.3 percent and are up a staggering 59 percent
in a year. Meat, poultry, fish and eggs rose 1.7 percent for the month and 11.9 percent year over year.
Those are punishing numbers, and a separate report underscored that workers are falling further behind. After inflation,
real wages fell 0.5 percent because, while wages are rising, the cost of nearly everything is rising faster. But if
stemming this destruction is "a top priority," Biden has an odd way of showing it. In a head-scratcher, he again urged
quick passage of his signature legislation, Build Back Better, which is still being written and fought over by his party.
It has an announced price tag of nearly $2 trillion, and a real one that is much higher, leading most economists to argue
the bill would almost certainly push prices even higher, especially in the short term. On what planet is that a solution
to inflation?
The
real villains in the Rittenhouse trial. The real villains in this case are the public authorities who allowed
rioters to wreak havoc unopposed for three nights in Kenosha in response to the shooting of Jacob Blake, a police action that
was ultimately deemed justifiable. While watching the video of the destruction, one has to wonder: why weren't police
and firemen there protecting Kenosha? This pattern of abdicating authority to violent activists has been repeated in
cities around the country, including Seattle, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Baltimore, Chicago, D.C., New York, Los Angeles,
Oakland, and especially Portland, to name just a few. Out of a fear of creating an incident where rioters incur
injuries, police response is limited to lining up across a street and slowly moving forward while the rioters are permitted
to bombard them with bricks and Molotov cocktails. Woke politicians have been enabling chaos through such actions as no
bail rules; release of violent felons due to COVID-19; reducing property crimes from felonies to misdemeanors; giving free
rein to homeless people to defecate on the street, openly inject drugs, and intimidate passersby; raising bail for violent
rioters; and handing the justice system to radical prosecutors who care more about the criminals than the victims.
Are
Animal Rights Extremists Transforming Agriculture in America's Heartland? Cattle ranchers and other meat
producers have been under fire by animal rights and environmental groups for years. It's nothing new. But under
the current Biden administration, the agenda to halt meat production under the premise of a climate crisis has accelerated to
a mind-numbing pace. With food prices already increasing due to high fuel costs, the never-ending nudge by animal
rights organizations to increase extraneous animal welfare regulations has taken on a new foothold and strategy to advance
animal rights organizations' vegan agenda. While these regulations may seem reasonable on the surface, the agenda
behind them lies within the organizations pushing these deceptive bills, cloaked in emotionally charged propaganda used to
advance these proposed regulations into law. [...] People are finally waking up to the deceptive policies driven by animal
rights groups mandating extraneous regulatory changes to animal agriculture such as California Proposition 12, which has
produced a pork shortage in the Golden State.
US
Inflation more horrible than Washington admits. The US Consumer Inflation Report for October was horrible,
showing a 12% annualized rate of price change. But it's even worse than it looks. The shelter component of the
index lags the more reliable private gauges of rent inflation. That means worse is to come. Three US companies
publish national rent indexes — CoreLogic, Zillow and Apartmentlist.com — and their readings of
year-on-year rent inflation range from 9% to 16%. But the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a year-on-year rise in
the rents of just 3.4%. Shelter represents a third of household expenditures according to the Consumer Price Index.
Economically
incomprehensible Biden regime says printing more fake fiat money will reduce inflation. In a shocking (but not
really) display of economic illiteracy, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has stated that the only way to stop runaway
inflation is to print more fake fiat "funny money" currency from the Federal Reserve. Yellen told fake financial news
outlet CNBC that passing the Biden regime's new multi-trillion-dollar "infrastructure" package is the only way to lower
prices at a time when the impact of previous spending bills is already moving the country towards a hyperinflationary
collapse. "What this package will do is lower some of the most important costs, what they pay for health care, for
child care," Yellen stated, "they" referring to the peons below her who are suffering because of she and the regime's
existing monetary policies. "It's anti-inflationary in that sense as well," she added with a straight face.
The
Left's Bungled Revolution. The supply chain debacle has been portrayed by media as one of those inexplicable
black swans that come out of nowhere and are beyond human comprehension. This is nonsense. The sole cause of this
"crisis" is a demented diktat from Gavin Newsom forbidding trucks more than three years old from loading at California
ports. The logic behind this is unknown, but presumably has something to do with Gaia being angry. The end result
is what we see: ships backed up off LA, containers piling up in the ports (or even dumped in hapless LA neighborhoods), and
shortages as far as the eye can see. Lost amid all the uproar are the nation's truckers, who must be boiling over with
fury. (Try to find a single quote from one in the legacy media.) Florida governor Ron DeSantis has immediately leapt
in to offer his state's ports to all comers, and will presumably be followed by other governors, so long-term, the situation will
right itself, as tends to happen in capitalist economies. But the wounds inflicted will last a long time —
and California slides ever closer to the precipice.
Americans
Want This President Out. No one should be puzzled by the poll's results. Americans are weary of Biden's
inflation, his border crisis and unforced foreign policy errors, a supply chain and a COVID promise that have both been
broken, his failed energy policies, his undermining of policing and law and order across the country, his divisiveness and
hard-left swerve, his "woke" military, a shaky economy, and his vaccine mandate, to name but a handful of his more notable
failures. Count us as being among those who wish to see Biden leave the White House as soon as possible. But his
replacement would be no better. There's a reason Vice President Kamala Harris has an approval rating of 28, 10 points
lower than the approval rating of her boss, the man Americans want to be rid of.
Biden's cobra
presidency. Have you noticed how Joe Biden says he wants to lower gas prices, so he cancels the Keystone
pipeline? He wants to lower unemployment, so he pays people not to work? He wants to beat inflation, so the Fed
prints more money? Biden is President Perverse. The Cobra Effect is economics slang for "perverse incentives."
If you give your kid money every time the kid misbehaves, that's a perverse incentive. [...] The resident of 1600 Pennsylvania
Ave isn't just failing; he does the opposite of a competent president. He's perverse. Most of us are beginning to
get that. The Afghan withdrawal was a classic lesson in how not to conduct a competent military withdrawal. This is
perverse. You tell Americans you support the military, and you make the military look like bumbling fools. It's
like the fat hippie admiral the left just created. Look at the photo, and you see perversity, the opposite of honor.
A Deeper Divide. Don't let
anyone tell you the Bagel is worse off than Kabul, where three people were recently shot dead by Islamic gunmen for playing
music at a wedding. No sirree, people over here are shot every day and night, but not for playing music at a
wedding. Give New York credit where it's due. The city is a bloody horror if you're living way uptown, way
downtown, or in the Bronx, while the rest of Gotham is experiencing a new story of street savagery not seen in decades.
The rich continue to leave, taking their tax revenue with them down south; the huddled masses arrive with outstretched palms
expecting social justice. Street crime is rampant, Times Square is no longer a tourist trap because one can get killed
there, yet the media continue to write and report on the evils of... Donald Trump. The perpetually offended, however,
blame all this on racism by whites, ignoring that black-on-black crime is responsible for 95 percent and more of murders.
Democrats
Have Only Themselves to Blame for the Inflation Fiasco. It's been quite a spectacle watching people who credit
Democrats with every job created and every percentage point gained in economic growth suddenly arguing that the White House
is completely powerless in the face of our current economic predicament. Presidents generally get far too much credit
and/or blame for our fortunes, but they can certainly exacerbate existing problems. And our political class has
certainly aggravated them with unbridled spending and support for policies that disincentivize work and inhibit energy
production. Wholesale prices rose 8.6% from a year ago in October, another record annual gain and the biggest spike in
more than a decade. Inflation hit 6.2%, the highest rate of annualized inflation since the 1990s. Whereas once
voters were promised "transitory" inflation, today, economists warn that we'll be in this for a while.
Crime-ravaged
Seattle is now so dangerous it can no longer protect its own workers. Seattle has become so dangerous that the
city can no longer protect its own employees, with security guards now escorting them after they finish work. King
County's new 'walking bus' will debut on November 15, and see council workers based in Downtown Seattle and nearby Pioneer
Square escorted to a nearby train station and ferry terminal each evening before being left to continue their commute
home. An announcement on King County's official website says: 'King County is launching a 'Walking Bus' pilot program
where county employees can join their colleagues and a Facilities Management Division (FMD) Security Escort each evening
walking to the King Street Station and the Coleman Dock from the downtown campus.'
Your
Money Is Now Losing Close to 1 Percent of Its Value Every 30 Days, According to Labor Bureau Data. The U.S.
dollar is now losing close to 1 percent of its value every 30 days, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data
released on Wednesday [11/10/2021]. Currently, inflation of the U.S. dollar is at its highest level since 1990.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI), a measure of the average monthly change in the price for goods and services paid by urban
consumers, increased 0.9 percent last month, more than doubling September's 0.4 percent increase. Overall,
prices rose 6.2 percent from one year ago, representing the largest year-on-year increase in more than 30 years as
inflation persists across sectors, according to the Bureau. The cost of food also increased by 5.3 percent during
the month of October, riding on the back of unprecedented supply chain issues.
Manchin
says DC can 'no longer ignore inflation' and Americans' 'economic pain'. The White House on Wednesday
[11/10/2021] was forced to contend with a new report showing a jump in inflation on a range of consumer goods used by
ordinary Americans — while Sen. Joe Manchin warned inflation was 'getting worse' at a time when President Joe
Biden needs his vote on a key social spending bill. Biden said in a statement Wednesday morning that 'inflation hurts'
as he blamed a sharp increase in October compared to last year on an increase in the cost of energy. The president made
the statement amid a new government figure revealing a 6.2 percent jump in the Consumer Price Index in October compared
to a year ago.
The Sissy
Generation. Just 70-80 years ago we had what was dubbed "The Greatest Generation" — the people who
had fought and won World War II. Now, just a couple of generations down the road, we have unconditionally surrendered to
a disease with miniscule mortality (for the vast majority of population), and which is to a large degree treatable. [...]
The word that we heard the most during this time was 'safety'. Coming to work is declared unsafe — sure, we
can stop working, no big deal. Going to school is unsafe — cheer up, kids, you are staying home
today — and next week, and then month after month after month. Wear your mask everywhere and stay at least
6 feet away (better 20) from everybody. Safety is king! How did we end up here? As very often happens the
course happened first gradually, then suddenly. The worship of safety began long ago and now it's everywhere.
Everything we buy and use, from lawn mowers to toasters to toothbrushes, undergoes the elaborate safety checks and is
accompanied by instructions for safe operation. And not only is it a legal requirement, but for many people safety
became the most important feature of any device.
AMA
Becomes a Shill of the Left. [Scroll down] As is always the case in any despotic grab for power, language
is the first victim. Thus, the AMA recommends the recently published guidance from the CDC, in its "Health Equity
Guiding Principles for Unbiased, Inclusive Communication," which lays out five key principles: 1. Avoid use of adjectives
such as 'vulnerable' and 'high-risk.' 2. Avoid dehumanizing language. Use person-first language instead.
3. Remember that there are many types of subpopulations. 4. Avoid saying 'target,' 'tackle,' 'combat' or other terms
with violent connotation when referring to people, groups or communities. 5. Avoid unintentional blaming. Thus, an
overweight individual with Type 2 diabetes is not at high risk when going in for surgery. In fact, "doctors are being warned
not to tell a morbidly obese heart attack patient to eat less." Ignore personal responsibility. Don't use empirical
knowledge to truly assist a population. The convolutions and gobbledygook used by the Left are always meant to distract
people from seeing through the Left's ulterior motives.
October
Prices Jump 6.2 Percent Creating Biggest Inflation Increase In 30 Years. Consumer prices in October increased
by a historic 6.2 percent over the year prior making it the biggest inflation jump in 30 years. According to data
released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Americans also paid 0.9 percent more on daily goods and other items than
they did in September. "Along with shelter, used cars and trucks, and new vehicles, the indexes for medical care, for
household furnishing and operations, and for recreation all increased in October," the report noted. These rising
prices come on the heels of a massive supply-chain crisis fueled by the Biden administration's lack of action and a nation
still recovering from months of shutdowns mandated by politicians who sacrificed economic stability and viability to keep
people at home. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki recently joked that the supply-chain issues facing a majority of
American families are simply "the tragedy of the treadmill that's delayed," and White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain also
downplayed the crisis in a retweet mischaracterizing the historic inflation and backup of goods as "high class problems."
Used
Vehicle Prices Hyperinflate as Inflation Begins to Spiral Out ff Control All Over America. It turns out that
all of the "doom and gloomers" that were warning that we would eventually experience nightmarish inflation were right after
all. In particular, vehicle prices have become exceedingly painful in recent months. Due to a crippling global
shortage of computer chips, production of new vehicles is way down, and a lot of that demand has shifted into the used
vehicle market. Over the past year, used vehicle prices have escalated at a pace that we have never seen before in our
entire history, and things reached a crescendo during the month of October. If you can believe it, used vehicle prices
increased by 9.2 percent last month. If used vehicle prices rose by 9.2 percent for an entire year, that would
be really bad. For that to happen in just one month is simply breathtaking.
Where
is surging inflation hitting Americans the hardest? American households are coping with the fastest price
increases in more than three decades, with the cost of everything from cars to gasoline to food surging in October, the Labor
Department reported Wednesday [11/10/2021]. The consumer price index, which measures a bevy of goods ranging from
gasoline and health care to groceries and rents, jumped 6.2% from the year-ago period — the highest since December
1990. It toppled the previous month's high of 5.4%. From September to October, prices climbed 0.9%.
"I expect lots of eyeballs were bulging out of their sockets when they saw the number come in," said Seema Shah, chief strategist
at Principal Global Investors. "Inflation is clearly getting worse before it gets better, while the significant rise in
shelter prices is adding to concerning evidence of a broadening in inflation pressures."
Producer
Prices Rose 8.6 Percent in October, Massive Inflation Continues With No Signs of Slowing Down. This might be
somewhat preaching to the choir, but it's the only way I know to help Treepers prepare their families according to very
visible economic signals happening just over the horizon. Back in August, when we discussed the massive inflation that
was climbing straight up, I warned everyone to look behind the finished good prices, into the prices of origination and
intermediate goods. The "producer price index" is essentially the tracking of wholesale prices at three stages:
Origination (commodity), Intermediate and Final. The final product inflation rate in July (reported in August) was
alarming at 7.8%. However, we warned of much higher flowing into the supply chain. Today, The Bureau of Labor and
Statistics (BLS) released stunning price data for October, showing a dramatic 8.6% price increase in Final Demand products at
the wholesale level. As expected prices are still going up, and there's no end in sight, because the raw material
inflation is still higher than current.
What
I Saw At Our Southern Border. Those in charge of our country are not interested in you or your
grievances. They're interested in one thing: fundamentally transforming this country and all but guaranteeing the
demise of western civilization. The shifting demographic of this nation will ensure that the United States of America
as we know it will disappear. Millions have invaded our country, possessing no allegiance to this nation or its history
and as people with little in common are forced to live together, not even speaking the same language, cultural clashes will
ensue. Our government has ceased to perform its most basic function and we have simply been too lazy to notice or even
care. The total stand down at our border is symbolic of what is happening in the rest of the country. The border,
our nation's debt, the fracturing of our culture, and the decline in living standards are all tied together. One trip to the
border and you understand that the defund the police movement is simply an extension of the policy implemented at our borders.
Annual
inflation hits 30-year high, 6.2 percent in past year. Consumer prices grew far faster than expected in October,
according to data released Wednesday [11/10/2021] by the Labor Department. The consumer price index (CPI), which tracks
inflation for a range of staple goods and services, rose 0.9 percent last month and 6.2 percent in the 12-month period
ending in October, the highest rate in the U.S. in 30 years. Analysts broadly expected the CPI to rise by 0.5 percent
last month, up from a gain of 0.4 percent in August, and 5.8 percent over the past year. The sharp jump in the inflation
rate is a dismal sign for President Biden and Democrats as they face growing pressure over rising prices. Despite strength across
the economy, the president's approval rating has fallen steadily since spring due in part to growing political backlash over higher
food and gas prices.
Inflation
Increases At a Record Rate For the Second Month In A Row. The Producer Price Index (PPI), which measures
inflation at the wholesale level, rose 8.6% year-over-year as of October, growing at a record rate for a second straight
month, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced Thursday. BLS reported Thursday that the PPI, which measures
inflation before it hits consumers, grew 0.6% in October, in line with Dow Jones estimates, highlighting that inflationary
pressure is still strong.
Purposeful
Crisis Keeps Unfolding as Biden's Irrelevant Polling Keeps Collapsing. We are witnessing a very specific type
of electoral frustration caused by officials within a system attempting to stop a communist style fundamental change by
taking action within the same system simultaneously collapsing through the actions of the communists. [...] The Obama plan to
use Biden as a disposable figure was designed for one specific four year term of maximum damage. The polling is
irrelevant. Evidence of this purpose is found in the White House telling businesses to continue operating as if the
vaccine mandate is legally authorized, despite a court ordered injunction against it. We are in a post-constitutional
system now where the traditional checks and balances are ignored. This is a very Machiavellian approach being deployed
against the American people.
How
did we get here? Can this mess be fixed? Today's polarization, some say, can be solved by
compromise. Beware of solutions that are worse than the problem. We have reached our woke relativistic condition
precisely thanks to compromise. It's a compromise only if something is surrendered. When a person who holds a
truthful belief compromises with someone who believes a lie, the result is a truth-believer agreeing to recognize partial
truth. The more compromises, the farther one moves away from truth. This is how truth has been progressively
undermined in our land, leading to the approval of baby-murder by the child's own mother in the place the kid should be most
safe, and a political "leader" who dictates what people must do "for their own good," whether they want to or not.
Trickle-Down Bidenism.
Out in the California foothills and Central Valley, relatively "cheap" propane now has more than doubled to a rate of $3.91 a
gallon. At about the same time that I got the propane bill, I filled up the truck with diesel fuel. It was $4.87
a gallon with a credit card, up in price almost $2 a gallon from over a year ago. I thought myself lucky since the week
prior in Palo Alto it was about $5.29 a gallon. I spoke not long ago in Bakersfield to an oil man. He described
impending California new rules on the horizon concerning almost every aspect of horizontal drilling and fracking —
as part of his own larger fears that the entire industry is shrinking even as demands and profits soar, and consumers need
more natural gas and gasoline than ever. Has anyone ever heard of liberal Americans deliberately not pumping oil and
gas, but still needing so much more output that they beg the illiberal Saudis and Russians to bail us out? At other
times in our history, we have suffered plenty of fossil fuel scarcities due to war, embargoes, and declining reserves.
But never has America deliberately created shortages amid a sea of our own gas and oil.
Granholm's
'Shock' Aside, US Energy Dominance Is Exactly Where Biden Wants It — Weakened. When U.S. Energy
Secretary Jennifer Granholm was asked a direct question about skyrocketing gas prices, her response was as telling as it was
disappointing. Instead of offering middle-class Americans an explanation or an apology or a sliver of hope, she let out
a hearty laugh. "Oh my... that is hilarious! As you know, oil is a global market. It is controlled by a
cartel, that cartel is called OPEC, and they made a decision yesterday that they were not going to increase [production]
beyond what they were already planning." How did America fall so far, so fast on the topic of energy? How, in less
than a calendar year, did we go from energy independence to begging foreign cartels like OPEC for more supply? We went
from net-exporting our oil to hoping that someone will help fill gaps in our energy supply.
Incompetent and Ideological Energy
Secretary Says You Will Pay Historic Rates For Home Heating, and There is Nothing They Can Do About It. A
comprehensively incompetent U.S. Energy Secretary, Jennifer Granholm, has the audacity to say that Biden's administration
has no responsibility for gas prices likely to reach $4/gal, and Americans this year are almost certain to pay historic amounts
for home heating oil and natural gas. Everything in this soundbite from her interview with CNN is stunningly false,
manipulative and misleading. The U.S. has an abundant amount of energy resources, likely more oil than all other OPEC
countries combined in Alaska alone. The issue is a current administration that refuses to extract oil and natural gas
because they are purposefully and intentionally intent on destroying the U.S. economy under the guise of climate change.
Granholm admits that gasoline is likely to go beyond $4/gal in the national average, and home heating costs are almost certain
to crush Americans this year. Infuriating to see such willful stupidity go unchallenged. [Video clip]
Sen.
Barrasso: At Climate Conference Biden 'Pledged Allegiance To The Flag Of The United Nations' Not The United
States. Republican Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso said Sunday [11/7/2021] that President Joe Biden embarrassed
Americans at the recent climate conference in Glasgow by pledging "allegiance to the flag of the United Nations," not the
United States. [...] The senator claimed that energy prices are increasing because Biden on "day number one killed the
Keystone XL pipeline" while inhibiting oil and gas exploration and blocking "leasing opportunities" in the Rocky
Mountains. Barrasso also said that Biden has "shut down" Alaskan energy so much that the U.S. is now buying more oil
from Russia. He said to add insult to injury the Biden administration is composed of "climate hypocrites," creating a
carbon footprint at the conference that was "so much larger than Vladimir Putin's or President Xi's of China —
because they stayed home."
Ten-dollar
gas? Midwest freeze? Joe Biden might just bring that to America next. So what other catastrophes
does Joe Biden have in store for us, now that he's shut down the Keystone XL pipeline, halted drilling on federal lands,
opened the border, brought back Jimmy Carter-style inflation, and abandoned Afghanistan in shambles? Looks like a good
bet is even higher energy prices. [...] Apparently [Biden] has no idea what shutting a vital energy pipeline down does, how
energy gets important was winter approaches, or what a Michigan winter is like. What's more, he seems to have no
recollection of the Texas winter of last year with its heating and electricity emergencies which ought to have been a
warning. His energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm, does. [...] Whatever she may have in mind, Biden's scheme to shut
down the Michigan pipeline in response to environmental activist demands, is going make it worse.
Food
Prices Vault to Highest Level in a Decade. Food prices across the world have risen to their highest levels in a
decade on the back of tightening supply conditions coupled with robust demand, according to the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The FAO's food price index, which measures world food commodity prices, surged
31.3 percent in the 12 months through October, coming in at a reading of 133.2 points, a level not seen since July 2011.
On a month-over-month basis, the index rose by 3.9 points, or 3.0 percent, with the October rise representing the third
consecutive month of increases. Accounting for the bulk of the rise in the index were higher prices of most cereals and
vegetable oils.
Joe
Biden Mocks The American People — "They Don't Understand Supply Chains" — The People are Rubes to Be
Ruled, Not Listened To. I'm not sure what is more blood boiling: that Joe Biden thinks it is okay to mock the
American electorate, or that he actually believes the [stuff] that comes out of his twisted, stupid brain. The question
was a perfectly well presented inquiry about the Biden administration's incompetence to put policies in place to streamline
the supply chain chaos that he has created. His response is disconnected, absent of anything even remotely accurate,
and entirely disconnected from factual substance. This guy is a complete and utter failure of staggering and stunning
incompetence. [Video clip] [...] COVID didn't do squat to disrupt supply chains, impact prices or create massive
shortages and inflation — people did. Specifically, the people in the background of this administration who
intentionally trashed the U.S. economy, because they are ideologically aligned with that destruction. The current
economic team is devoid of any real world experience that would shape their outlooks on how to solve problems.
Example: Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttigieg.
GOP
betrays its base — again!. It has been almost a year since Biden occupied the White House, and his
record has been a disaster. Inflation is out of control; gasoline prices have risen; the supply chain crisis means that
essential items may not reach shopping centers; the IRS wants to monitor bank transactions; and the border is open, leading
to a historic surge of illegal aliens. They are considering $450,000 payments to illegal migrants separated from their
families at the border. Vaccine mandates are hampering essential services and causing unemployment. Afghanistan
was a total disaster of chaos, defeat, and instability, while China is emboldened. Hunter Biden brokered shady deals in
Ukraine and China that earned him millions when Joe was vice president, and now, when he is president, Hunter's paintings
fetch a price higher than works of Claude Monet and Edgar Degas at anonymous art auctions, pointing to likely bribery and
influence-peddling. This merits the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the conflict of interest and to
know if Biden is compromised or is susceptible to blackmail. How do the Republicans react? A majority remain
silent. The Senate and House minority leaders are missing.
Trucking
Groups Could Lose 37% Of Drivers Over Biden Vaccine Mandate, Worsening Supply Chain Crisis. Dozens of industry
groups warned President Biden that his vaccine mandate would intensify rampant supply chain bottlenecks. On Thursday
[11/4/2021], the Biden administration revealed its COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandate for employees at businesses with 100
or more workers. Noncompliant companies may be fined roughly $14,000 per violation. In their open letter to
President Biden, the industry groups — which included the American Trucking Associations, National Private Truck
Council, and Truckload Carriers Association — predicted that trucking companies may lose nearly four in ten
drivers due to the mandate.
One
Minute Before Midnight. Democrats know that time favors them and their unending quest for more power and
control. Demographic change, brought on in large part by their open borders policy, is perhaps their biggest trump (and
anti-Trump) card. In addition, their control of academia, the mainstream media, social media, entertainment,
professional sports leagues, Big Tech, and Big Business boardrooms grants them a stranglehold on the flow of information with
which most people will come in contact. Leftists have successfully completed their "long march through the
institutions" on which they embarked in the late 1960s. Moreover, Democrats, in control of all branches of the federal
government, have enacted new laws with the sole intention of enhancing their power.
In
2022, the Democrats Biggest Enemy is Voter Revulsion. Democrats haven't grasped this yet, but it's too late for
them. The die is cast. An electoral bloodbath awaits next year, akin to or surpassing what happened to their
party in 2010. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's and the Squad's anti-American leftist politics drive their party, and that's
beginning to register at a gut-level with voters. What voters — critically, that big, pivotal segment known
as independents — now feel is revulsion for Democrats in not just one way but many. The intensity of that
revulsion is bound to grow in the coming months. How do we know that? In the first 10 months of the Biden
presidency, we went from a functioning country recovering from needless Covid lockdowns to a nation suddenly skidding
downhill.
The
Great Biden Slowdown — here's how he stifled growth, discouraged consumers in just 9 month. Joe
Biden has pulled off the incredible: inherit a booming economy and bring it to a near-standstill in just nine months.
When the president took office, the country was enjoying a robust V-shaped recovery, growing at better than 6%. The Federal
Reserve was puffing up the money supply by $120 billion per month, consumers were sitting atop $2.5 trillion in excess
savings, prices were stable and unemployment was falling fast. [...] In the last quarter, notwithstanding continued monetary
largesse (some would say recklessness) from the Fed and an ongoing gusher of aid money flowing from the government, growth slowed
to an anemic 2%, while the "price deflator," a.k.a. inflation, rose to 5.7%. More worrisome, Americans are discouraged.
San
Francisco grocery store closing earlier due to shoplifting. A 24-hour San Francisco grocery store will now be
closing early due to excessive thefts at night, joining other retailers that have been forced to alter their hours due to
rampant stealing. The Safeway grocery in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco has moved from operating 24 hours a
day to closing from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., KPIX reported. The news station reported that customers were surprised
by this decision. [...] This decision by the Castro Safeway comes less than a month after pharmacy retail giant Walgreens
announced it would be closing some locations in San Francisco due to organized retail theft. One San Francisco
Walgreens that was closed last year was reportedly losing $1,000 to theft a day.
Trash
Piles Up, and Fire Stations Shut Down in NYC As De Blasio's Vaccine Mandate Goes into Effect. Trash is piling
up, and fire stations are shutting down in New York City, as thousands of municipal workers defy Mayor Bill de Blasio's
unconstitutional vaccine mandate. After the mandate went into effect on Monday [11/1/2021], massive piles of garbage
appeared in numerous spots around the city, as 17 percent of sanitation workers refuse to get the experimental
injections. [Tweet] On Saturday, the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) reportedly shuttered 26 fire companies
due to staff shortages caused by the COVID-19 vaccination mandate.
The
Great Resignation [is] Due to Biden. Americans have long been among the hardest-working in the world. But
Biden's mishandling of Covid has caused millions of our best workers to quit their jobs each month. The "Great
Resignation," as it's being called, should be by the occupant of the White House who lacks the mental capacity to do his
job. Instead, top workers in every field are the ones resigning, which leaves America without the manpower necessary to
keep our great country running. Americans expect good service, and do not tolerate long waiting lines and shortages
that are familiar to people in many other countries. When hundreds of thousands are stranded at our airports, as
happened when pilots did not show up for work, millions of Americans were outraged by the disruption. More than pilots
are deciding not to show up at their jobs. Amid a substantial loss in uniformed officers in Los Angeles county,
homicides are up by 44% and aggravated assaults have increased by 23%.
Blame
Public Schools for Transgender Bathroom Rapes. In Loudoun County in Virginia, Scott Smith was dragged out of a
school board meeting and arrested because he claimed that his daughter had been sodomized in the girls' restroom by a male
wearing a skirt. He was angry because the school had tried to conceal it, despite there being medical tests as
proof. Nearly two months after Smith's arrest, the school board voted to approve its transgender rights policy, which
requires that teachers use students' preferred pronouns. From six states in 2019, today, only four have laws that
forbid instruction of LGBT propaganda in public schools: Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Alabama
repealed its law, and South Carolina's was overturned. Despite Texas law, schools actively promote
transgenderism. The library at the elementary Blackshear Fine Arts Academy in Austin hosted a drag queen convicted of
prostitution charges. A few weeks later, the Austin ISD School Board of Trustees adopted a radical sex
curriculum. Despite heavy parent opposition, the Austin school district continues to promote a radical sex
curriculum.
This Can't Be
True. Just when you think it couldn't get any worse, that they can't be serious, that it seems as if the
"Biden" administration's sole goal is to make each person's life as wretchedly painful as possible, BAM! — another
incredible misery warhead detonates on our reality. With their excessive government spending and totally-over-the-top
COVID unemployment assistance (to the point that far too many people are completely disincentivized from going back to work),
inflation has roared back with a vengeance not seen in decades. The economy is reeling, household budgets are
upside-down, and everyone's purchasing power is melting away before our eyes. The government stutters and yammers about
it being "transitory," but everyone can see that's simply not true.
Portland
Travel Group Says City Is Too Scary For Tourists. Travel Portland is the name of group that promotes tourism to the city. It
describes itself as "a promoter and steward of this evolving city and its progressive values, which have the power to transform the travelers who
visit us." But Wednesday [10/27/2021] the group presented a report to the Portland City Council with some bad news. The evolving city
and its progressive values have become a big turn off to tourists.
Biden
and his nitwit advisors urge foreign producers to pump more oil. Joe Biden, his spokeswoman Jen Psaki[,] and
others in their orbit want foreign producers to drill more fossil fuels because for some reason we don't have enough energy
over here. [...] It's as if Biden didn't shut down drilling and pipelines over here. That couldn't have caused the
problems. It is probably Trump's fault. That is who they always blame. It's as if Democrats aren't shooting
for carbon zero by 2030 and trying to destroy anyone who produces and uses oil, natural gas, and coal. It's as if the
Democrats didn't have a theatrical hearing to destroy and bankrupt the oil producers, with no evidence, that they cause
temperatures to rise and climate change.
Rep
Donalds Explains Why Biden's Energy Policies will Drive CO2 Emissions Up. Rep Donalds (R-FL) ripping into
Congressional attempts to intimidate energy producers and violate their First Amendment rights, and explaining that China and
Russia are not attending COP26 because they want to "build an economy". [Video clip] Rep Donalds
demonstrates an impressive grasp of the issues, explaining that if Democrats punish gas production, energy producers will go
back to burning coal, and emissions will rise — because gas or coal are the only options. A lot of
power plants these days which burn coal actually turn the coal into a gas before burning it, so it is surprisingly
straightforward to flip a modern gas generator back to burning coal, or vice versa, once the appropriate gassifier equipment
is installed. No doubt utility companies are already preparing for the switch. If Biden's democrats shut down the
US gas industry, because of the climate methane scare or continued harassment of fracking, coal use will surge almost overnight.
Border
crisis hits classrooms as unaccompanied minors flood NY schools. America's crisis at the border is now a crisis
in New York public schools. The Biden Administration is flooding New York City and Long Island communities with
thousands of unaccompanied immigrant minors captured crossing the Mexico-US border, often arriving here, as The Post recently
reported, via clandestine flights in the middle of the night. The arrival of these children, mostly teenage boys, in
local schools is creating a classroom crisis that is strapping educational resources, costing taxpayers millions in
un-budgeted dollars, and aiding gang-recruiting efforts, argue parents, teachers and immigration experts. "We're at
maxed capacity for kids with special needs, but they'll keep sending them," lamented one high school teacher in Queens, among
the communities hardest hit by the illegal-immigrant student dump.
Los
Angeles County sheriff blasts vaccine mandate causing 'mass exodus'. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's
Department is warning of an "imminent threat to public safety" and a "pandemic of chaos" because of staffing shortages caused
by the city's vaccine mandate. Sheriff Alex Villanueva, who has said he won't enforce the county's order that took effect
Oct. 1, said Thursday that up to 30 percent of the department's 18,000 employees are "no longer available" to provide
service following the Board of Supervisors mandate for all 110,000 employees. "We are experiencing an increase in unscheduled
retirements, worker compensation claims, employees quitting, and a reduction in qualified applicants," Villanueva said in a statement
obtained by The [New York] Post. "As a result, homicide rates will continue to rise, response times will increase, solve rates
will diminish, arrests will decline, patrol services will significantly decline, and patrol stations will close."
Anarchy Reigns in
Portland. Anarchy reigns in the City of Roses. Over the weekend, police were called to 19 shootings.
One of which is likely to be ruled a double homicide, bringing the total number of murders in Portland this year to 71,
surpassing the 1987 record of 70. Homicides are only part of a larger problem in Portland. Earlier in October,
a mob of around 100 anarchists tore up the downtown part of the city while police looked on. They went on a
rampage, spraying slogans like "kill cops" on the buildings they vandalized, and did at least $500,000 worth of damage,
according to Fox Business. The Portland Police Bureau said that no arrests were made because of the destruction.
But that wasn't the fault of the police. Instead, the problem is the politicians who govern the state and local
officials, who have intentionally tied the hands of law enforcement. They are the reason why it is impossible to stop
criminals and mobs from doing what they wish to the city.
The
deadly word games that brought us 'Gain of Function'. Washington, D.C. is the biggest home of lies and word
games in the known cosmos. In D.C., a seven-trillion-dollar punch in your wallet costs you absolutely nothing,
according to the president of the United States himself. In Washington, D.C. a fat, aging hippie man becomes the first
"female" four-star admiral of the United States, and nobody is allowed to laugh. In fairytale D.C., a tricked out flu
virus is the biggest, scariest pandemic since the Black Death, and they will cancel you if you deny it. In Washington,
D.C., Dr. Fauci is a hometown hero, because he is the slickest liar of them all, ever since he rocketed to fame on the
tail of the AIDS disaster.
Will
Governments Survive the Coming Peasant Revolt? Let's talk big picture here. Why has the world been
turned on its head these last few years? Why does it seem as if everything true is labeled false and everything false
is labeled true? [...] If post-WWII Western governance had a creed, it is this: increased taxation and
increased regulation increases both asset wealth and inequality. By taxing labor, the value of hard work
has plummeted. By regulating anything and everything, the entry costs for any new entrepreneur have skyrocketed.
And because the Industrial Revolution's trends toward producing more and varied innovations at cheaper costs have hit the
roadblock of government interference, fewer innovations, less competition, and increased monopoly ownership have logically
resulted. Instead of assets going down in value over time as more are produced, they actually increase in value as it
becomes harder to produce them. While people with assets see gains in wealth, people depending on income to survive
have experienced more difficulty affording what is produced. This is why inequality has surged in the United States,
when America was not long ago the nation with the greatest intragenerational social mobility in the world.
On
Campuses, Secularism Breeds Suicide. It's no coincidence that mental illness among America's younger generation
is at an all-time high, while their religious practice is at an all-time low. Last month (Oct. 12), the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill cancelled classes for a day for its 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students, who were urged
to consider it a "wellness day" in the wake of two on-campus suicides and an attempted suicide. Colleges and
universities are in the midst of a full-blown mental health crisis. UNC Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz said as much during
his announcement. In a 2019 survey, an unbelievable 45 percent of undergraduate and graduate students "felt so
depressed that it was difficult to function" at least once during the previous 12 months, according to the American College
Health Association.
Biden
Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy Pours Gasoline on Rising Gas Prices With Ridiculous Announcement. Amid soaring
gas prices, White House National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy on Thursday [10/28/2021] announced that the Biden
administration is going to increase regulations on the oil industry: "There's a place for" regulation and "We're
going to use it," McCarthy said during an appearance on MSNBC's "Hallie Jackson Reports."
Scandal-hit
Loudoun County rocked by another sexual assault case. The embattled school district in Virginia's Loudoun
County has another problem on its hands to add to the notorious 'boy in a skirt' rape case. Cops in the county are now
investigating 'multiple' incidents of a middle school boy groping other boys, the county's sheriff's office confirmed
exclusively to DailyMail.com. The alleged assaults all happened at Harmony Middle School in Hamilton, Virginia,
sheriff's spokesman Kraig Troxell revealed.
Loudoun
County Sheriff Investigating Multiple Incidents of 'Inappropriate Touching' in Middle School. An investigation
is underway in Loudoun County by the sheriff's office after multiple reported incidents of a male student touching other
students inappropriately at a district middle school. The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office (LCSO) reported Thursday its
school resource office learned from school personnel that on Wednesday a male student had been inappropriately touched over
his clothing by another male student in a hallway of Harmony Middle School.
America Gone Mad.
After three weeks in Europe and extensive discussions with dozens of well-informed and highly placed individuals from most of
the principal Western European countries, including leading members of the British government, I have the unpleasant duty of
reporting complete incomprehension and incredulity at what Joe Biden and his collaborators encapsulate in the peppy but
misleading phrase, "We're back." As one eminent elected British government official put it, "They are not back in any
conventional sense of that word. We have worked closely with the Americans for many decades and we have never seen such
a shambles of incompetent administration, diplomatic incoherence, and complete military ineptitude as we have seen in these
nine months. We were startled by Trump, but he clearly knew what he was doing, whatever we or anyone else thought about
it. This is just a disintegration of the authority of a great nation for no apparent reason."
Former
Soros Activist Explains How Progressive Policies Ruined San Francisco. There's a crisis in San Francisco.
Homelessness has skyrocketed and drug use is rampant. Michael Shellenberger moved to San Francisco in 1993 to work on
liberal causes, and even spent time working for George Soros' foundation. He advocated the decriminalization of drugs
and promoted drug treatment programs. But, Shellenberger says, he began to worry when he saw the number of drug
overdose deaths in America rise from 17,000 in 2000 to more than 70,000 by 2017. "Clearly, we are in the midst of a
massive drug crisis," Shellenberger says, "and it felt like nobody was offering a particularly clear explanation of it or
offering very good solutions." Out of frustration over the problems he was seeing in San Francisco and other liberal
cities, Shellenberger became determined to diagnose the problems driving the homeless crisis and find solutions. He
presents the result of his research and investigation in his new book "San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities."
Loudoun
County Father Who Was Slandered, Beaten, and Arrested Speaks Out. The horror that has occurred in Loudoun County, VA
has gone mainstream over the last several months, and the area is now ground zero in the nation's fight against far-left, degenerate
school boards. Multiple scandals have transpired, with the biggest being the attempted cover-up of multiple sexual assaults,
one of which appears to have happened as a result of the school board's "transgender bathroom" policy.
Ilhan
Omar blames 'dysfunctional' police for Minneapolis violent crime spike. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., blamed
police for the recent rise in crime in Minneapolis, accusing the city's officers of not fulfilling their oath of office.
"What we must also recognize is that the reduction in policing currently in our city and the lawlessness that is happening is
due to two things," Omar said during a town hall event Saturday in Minneapolis. One of them, she said, is that "the
police have chosen to not fulfill their oath of office and to provide the public safety they are owed to the citizens they
serve." The lawmaker's comments come as violent crime has surged in Minnesota over the last year, rising 17% in total
while setting records for murders. Omar's approach to crime includes backing a Nov. 2 ballot measure to replace
the entire Minneapolis police department with a "Department of Public Safety." The measure would remove the requirement
that the city have a minimum number of officers based on the city's population.
California
Drove Truckers Out of Business. Now Store Shelves Are Empty. 2019 was described as a "bloodbath" for the
trucking industry with 640 trucking companies across the country filing for bankruptcy in just the first half of the
year. Thousands of truck drivers were left unemployed. Many went into the expanding last mile delivery business,
some as contractors for Amazon. But California truckers and businesses had their own special woes. Two years ago,
Governor Newsom signed the Democrat supermajority's Assembly Bill 5 into law. While AB5 was billed as a crackdown
on Uber and Lyft, forcing the companies to treat l freelance contractors as employees, the gig economy companies pushed
Proposition 22 so that they were the only ones exempt from the law. (A Democrat judge has since illegally blocked
the approved ballot measure while falsely claiming that it was unconstitutional.) AB5 however was less about Uber than
it was about outlawing freelance employees in order to force them into unions. The union power grab inconvenienced Uber
and Lyft, but crushed freelance workers in a variety of fields including journalism. One of the fields was trucking.
The
California Version of The Green New Deal is What's Creating The Container Shipping Backlog. Hundreds of
requests for details on the specifics of the container shipping backlog. So, I spent 3 days calling sources, digging
for details and gathering information on the substantive issue at hand. The epicenter of the problem is not what is
being outlined by financial media, corporate media and politicians who have a specific interest in distracting from the
issues at hand. This has nothing to do with COVID-19. The issues being discussed today relate to events that
happened a long time ago. As a matter of fact, it was so predictable that Amazon, Walmart, UPS, FedEx, Samsung, The
Home Depot and Target all had taken actions years ago — long before COVID — because they knew this day
would come. It was not accidental that those companies showed up at the White House to discuss the issue, because
there's now a full court press to hide it.
Another
man in dress and wig arrested filming young girls in bathrooms. Are we seeing more of this type of horrific
behavior these days, or was it always out there but the press didn't pay as much attention to it? The subject is once
again the periodic arrests of perverse pedophiles who violate the privacy of women and young girls in public spaces and even
in their homes. The alleged cretin in today's story allegedly managed to pull off both types of activity over a lengthy
period of time before finally being apprehended. Jacob M. Guerrero of Woonsocket, Rhode Island was arrested on Tuesday
for activities he allegedly undertook in the women's restrooms at a mall in Wrentham, Massachusetts. Guerrero was seen
(and photographed) by the mother of a young girl who became suspicious when she saw him dressed in a dress and a wig and
hanging around outside the ladies' room at the mall, following a group of girls inside.
The Editor says...
Whose idea was it to allow transvestites to use the women's restrooms? It was the left-wing push-the-envelope
Democrats. And now we see the inevitable results.
Higher
prices are the cost of Biden's war on fossil fuels. On the 2020 campaign trail, Joe Biden promised to create
for America a green economy. And he specifically mentioned that the way to do this is to denigrate fossil fuels.
And now that this mentally addled man has been installed as president, he and his like-minded administration of leftists have
been focused towards this objective. And behold what they've accomplished just on the energy front in just nine short
months. In January of this year until the end of September, the price of crude oil has jumped from $49.73/bbl to $70.15.
This is a 41 percent increase, and this trend is not stopping. The current price of oil as of this writing is more than
$80 a barrel. Oil is, of course, the main driver of gasoline prices. Accordingly the average retail price of gasoline
year-to-date has risen from $2.42 to $3.27 — a 35 percent rise. It's a simple calculation to figure out how much
extra that costs you based on how many vehicles your household drives, their fuel efficiencies (mpg), and the number of miles driven.
Our Purgatory Is
Their Nirvana. Sheer chaos and anarchy on the border? Afghanistan — the most humiliating
defeat in recent U.S. military history? A labor-starved supply chain in shambles and holiday shelves emptying
out? The worst inflation in 30 years that seems soon ready to match Carter-era levels? Gas hitting $5 a gallon
with winter heating fuels soaring? Free-for-all looting in the major cities without consequences? Joe Biden's
policies and Biden himself diving in the polls? Never in recent American history has any administration birthed such
disasters in its first nine months.
Voters
[are] already blaming government spending for rising prices. We're still a long ways away from the double-digit
inflation of the early 1980s. However, while prices of specific things like healthcare, college, or gas have been
political hot-buttons from time to time, the issue of inflation writ-large has barely registered as a major issue during my
lifetime. This makes it notable that inflation is emerging as a key worry for voters and that many are tying the
inflation specifically to Democratic policies. The Biden administration is struggling with voters as of late, and
disappointment in the state of the economy is a major piece of this dynamic.
The
California Supply Crisis Was Entirely Predictable: Just Ask Hayek. In short, [Friedrich] Hayek and the
"Chicago school" argue no central planning is adequate in anticipating and distributing economic resources in a
society. No individual despot or group of central planners have enough knowledge to act prudently and with
foresight. It will, instead, always result in inefficiencies, supply and demand distortions, and lowered economic
growth. In addition, because central planners, by definition, must take control away from individuals, it reduces the
people to a form of "serfdom." The people in a socialist system are coerced to comply. We do not yet have a
socialist political system in this country, though California may be as close as we've come with its governmental overreach
in economic, employment, educational and social matters.
United
Airlines CEO says airfare prices are set to soar by Christmas as jet fuel prices rise. Air fares are set to
soar just in time for the holiday season, as jet fuel pries rise to pre-pandemic levels, the United Airlines CEO warned on
Wednesday [10/20/2021]. Jet fuel prices are already up more than 100 percent compared to just one year ago, CNBC
reports, with the price per gallon set at $2.3282 on Tuesday. But Scott Kirby, the CEO of United Airlines, said that
the prices may go up even further. He forecasted an average fuel cost of $2.39 a gallon in the fourth quarter of the
year, as United expects a surge in bookings for the holiday season.
The
California Version of The Green New Deal is What's Creating The Container Shipping Backlog. Hundreds of
requests for details on the specifics of the container shipping backlog. So, I spent 3 days calling sources, digging
for details and gathering information on the substantive issue at hand. The epicenter of the problem is not what is
being outlined by financial media, corporate media and politicians who have a specific interest in distracting from the
issues at hand. This has nothing to do with COVID-19. The issues being discussed today relate to events that
happened a long time ago. As a matter of fact, it was so predictable that Amazon, Walmart, UPS, FedEx, Samsung, The
Home Depot and Target all had taken actions years ago -long before COVID- because they knew this day would come. It was
not accidental that those companies showed up at the White House to discuss the issue, because there's now a full court press
to hide it. There is one very specific regional issue driving the problem. [...]
Reports:
California crackdown on truckers hurts supply chains. New reports revealed a supply glut in the Port of Los Angeles
is a direct result of regulatory crackdown on the trucking industry by California's ruling Democrats. According to
Forbes, a shortage of truckers and trucks in California is contributing to supply chain disruptions. Truckers say a new
California law mandates that all trucks must be made in 2011 or newer, eroding competitiveness of independent truckers.
California also plans to retire all diesel trucks by 2035, which makes trucking companies reluctant to invest in their
fleets. Another law, AB5, effectively outlaws truck owners operators to preserve union monopoly on land deliveries.
Biden's
Supply Chain Crisis Is Short 80,000 Truck Drivers. President Biden's supply chain crisis is short 80,000 truck
drivers, President and CEO of the American Trucking Association told CNN on Tuesday [10/19/2021]. Before the pandemic,
the trucking industry was reportedly in need of 61,500 drivers, 30 percent less than in October. "That's a pretty big
spike," Chris Spear said, noting that some drivers are leaving the industry and retiring while shipping ports remain filled
to capacity with containers. The buildup of freight at the ports is likely due to a labor shortage spurred on by
far-left policies of paying people not to work via large unemployment benefits.
After
trashing supply chain, White House official mocks consumers. After wrecking the supply chain, the White House
should be begging for mercy from consumers. After all, it was Democrats, including some in the White House who created
the supply chain mess, leaving mass numbers of ships stranded at ports. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg went on
extended family leave without appointing a deputy or telling much of anyone. California's ruling Democrats put into
place laws that prohibit independent truckers or trucks more than three years old from collecting containerized merchandise
from port offloads. California Democrat union allies kept port labor at banker's hours, unlike their globally
competitive rivals. Joe Biden's Fed printed money to stimulate demand. Joe himself drove up energy and transport
prices by halting drilling. All of this, and more, add up to a supply chain breakdown, courtesy of Democrats.
Under
Biden, We've Gone From 'Make America Great' To 'Lower Your Expectations'. As the economy falters in the wake of
rising inflation, chronic worker shortages, and a deepening supply chain crisis, the rhetoric from the Biden administration
and its defenders has shifted from "we've got this" to "stop your whining." Is this what Americans bargained for when they
ditched Mr. Mean Tweets for Joe "Nexnelsrent" Biden? A perfect example of this shift is an op-ed by a contributing
columnist to the Washington Post — Micheline Maynard — who says that the real problem we face today
isn't skyrocketing prices, bottlenecks at the ports, and empty shelves. It is us spoiled brats. "American
consumers, their expectations pampered and catered to for decades, are not accustomed to inconvenience," she writes.
"Time for some new, more realistic expectations." Maynard's op-ed, and the Washington Post, took plenty of flak for
blaming the victim. But the truth is that it is increasingly the way the White House is talking as well.
Why
I'm Betting Biden Goes the 4-Year Distance. There is not one single aspect of daily life in America that is
better under "President" Biden than it was under President Trump. In every meaningful, measurable, tangible way, the
quality of life in this country has deteriorated precipitously. Consider: Inflation is out of control, we've gone
from energy independent to begging OPEC for oil, crime is running rampant, the country is up in arms over the arbitrary
un-Constitutional mask and vaccine mandates, the Afghanistan exit was a tragic debacle (and Americans are still trapped
there, in spite of the liberal media trying to cover that up), illegal immigration is actually being welcomed by the
administration in order to change the country's voting demographics and scores of container ships are unable to offload in
California, so store shelves are becoming empty.
Chicago's
Magnificent Mile is dying from an increasingly familiar cause. The "Magnificent Mile" in downtown Chicago has
long been a popular tourist destination and a prime source of revenue for the city, featuring nearly all of the major chain
outlets as well as exclusive boutiques. Or at least it used to be, anyway. By the time the BLM protests/riots
were finished, the places that weren't burned down and/or looted were boarded up. The problem is that the famed
shopping district still hasn't made a comeback more than a year later. As CBS Chicago reports this week, many of the
biggest, high-profile stores like Disney and Macy's have left permanently and no new employers have attempted to move in and
replace them. The reason is the same that we've seen in other cities since the riots began. Decriminalization of
"smaller" crimes like theft, lax enforcement, and bail reform laws have led to an endless series of organized shoplifting and
robbery sprees.
Biden
Touts Police Reform While Mobs Run Wild in Portland. Joe Biden commemorated police officers who had lost their
lives in the line of duty in 2019 and 2020 in a speech at the Capitol building on Saturday. "There's too much
pain. There's too much loss. There's too much at stake for your safety and the safety of those you serve," Biden
said at the National Peace Officers' annual memorial service. There's also too much interference by politicians for the
police to do an effective job. And there's too little support by Democratic politicians of the police forces that keep
their cities from blowing up. There's a clear disconnect between what Biden was saying about the heroism of police and
the fact that he and other politicians have abandoned them.
Portland
police don't stop chaos. A crowd of 100 people wreaked havoc in downtown Portland, Oregon, this
week — smashing storefront windows, lighting dumpsters on fire and causing at least $500,000 in
damage — but police officers didn't stop them. Portland Police Bureau officials say that's because of
legislation passed by Oregon lawmakers this year, which restricts the tools they can use to confront people vandalizing
buildings and causing mayhem. "The reason that we did not intervene goes back to what we talked about last month with
House Bill 2928 and the restrictions placed on us in a crowd control environment," KOIN reports that Portland Police
Lt. Jake Jensen said in a neighborhood meeting Thursday. Residents frustrated by the latest round of destructive
demonstrations Tuesday questioned whether that meant anything goes now in Portland.
Food
prices will go up 'tremendously': Billionaire supermarket owner. Americans will see food costs rise
"tremendously" in the coming weeks, according to billionaire supermarket owner John Catsimatidis. Catsimatidis, who is
the president of Gristedes and D'Agostino Foods, discussed his concerns about inflation and supply chain issues on FOX
Business' "Mornings with Maria," and warned companies like Nabisco, Pepsi and Coke will begin to prioritize products and
raise prices in order to get ahead. "I see food prices going up tremendously," he told Maria Bartiromo. "[CEOs]
want to be ahead of the curve and the way they're doing it is they're dropping all promotions. They are dropping
low-moving items."
Where is the
outrage? Where is our outrage? A duly elected president has been illegally surveilled, slandered,
libeled, and undermined. False witness has been brought against him, yet the guilty remain free, in power, and
unapologetically above the laws to which their constituents are beholden. Where is our outrage? A Presidential
election has been stolen. Incontrovertible proof of massive, organized, election fraud has been uncovered and put
before legislative bodies, most of which have responded by vilifying the investigators and threatening them with
prosecution. Where is our outrage? An unremarkable pathogen with a 99.7% survivability rate has been fashioned
into a cudgel with which overreaching federal and state governments have beaten down freedom, imprisoned Americans in their
homes and forced a demonstrably dangerous drug upon them — a drug that has killed thousands, harmed millions, and
earned pharmaceutical companies and their investors billions.
You
will never guess what's topping iTune's hip-hop chart. In just a few months in office, this utterly incompetent
man [Joe Biden] has already managed to harm America very badly. He has opened the southern border to millions of
immigrants, instituted "green" policies that have sent the price of gas skyrocketing, and presided over policies boosting
inflation is at levels not seen in decades (and promising to rise higher). Worse even than these practical steps towards
damaging America, Biden is in the process of outlawing half the nation over both factual and ideological ideology about
vaccines. He is effectively overseeing America's balkanization. Then, to top this all off, he has presided over
the destruction of the supply chain so that shelves will probably be bare for Christmas. Moreover, given that the
supply chain is an immensely complicated, interconnected entity that stretches around the world and across the length and
breadth of America, there's no reason to believe that shelves will be any fuller after Christmas.
Democrats
Call Gov. Larry Hogan's Plan To 'Refund' Police 'Divisive Rhetoric' Amid Baltimore Crime Spike. Democrats
criticized Republican Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan's plan for "refunding police" Friday, calling it "misguided" and
"divisive rhetoric." Hogan announced a $150 million plan to provide additional support to Maryland's law enforcement
agencies and victims of violent crime across the state at a press conference Friday. The initiative directs tens of
millions of dollars to local police aid, neighborhood safety grants, body camera and other accountability measures for
officers and other programs. "Our $150 million refund the police initiative will provide a desperately needed shot in
the arm to our state and local police agencies. But there is far more work to be done," Hogan said from a news
conference in Annapolis. "Trying to reduce crime by defunding police is dangerous, radical, far-left lunacy.
Thinking that you can improve law enforcement by defunding the police is like saying you want to improve education by
defunding the schools."
Gov.
Hochul's drug-war surrender will be the death of NY neighborhoods. Oct. 7, 2021, will go down in history as the
day that New York surrendered in the war on drugs. Not a shot was fired, except for the heroin or meth shot into the vein of
a drug addict on the streets of Midtown, the South Bronx or Harlem. Gov. Hochul last week signed into law a bill pushed
by state Sen. Gustavo Rivera (D-Bronx) and backed overwhelmingly by the city's Democratic delegation to the Legislature.
It decriminalizes the possession or sale of hypodermic needles and syringes by addicts to inject drugs. Touted as a move to
reduce overdose deaths, it will instead be the death of downtowns and residential neighborhoods across the Empire State.
NYPD
orders cops to stand down, allow junkies to shoot up in streets after decriminalization measure passes. NYPD
officials have ordered patrol and beat officers to stop rolling up suspects who are seen shooting drugs on the streets after
legislation in the state legislature passed decriminalizing the purchase and sale of hypodermic needles commonly used to
inject heroin and other hard drugs. "Effective immediately, members of the service should not take any enforcement
action against any individual who possesses a hypodermic needle, even when it contains residue of a controlled substance,"
says a directive to New York Police Department commanders issued last Friday and obtained by the New York Post. The
order to NYPD officers referenced Senate Bill 2523 which outlines the decriminalization.
Father
is suing woke Loudoun County after his 15-year-old daughter was 'raped' in 'gender-fluid' girls' bathroom. The
furious parents of a 15-year-old high schooler are suing Loudon County in Virginia after their daughter was allegedly raped
by a 'skirt-wearing male student' in a 'gender fluid' school bathroom. Jess and Scott Smith allege that the district
attempted to cover up the alleged assault. They claim that Superintendent Scott Ziegler alleged there was no record of
the May 28 incident at Stonebridge High School in Leesburg, Virginia, despite Loudoun County Sheriff's office conducting a
two-month long investigation into the allegations. On June 22, Scott Smith was filmed exploding with anger about
the assault at a school board meeting, and was later convicted over the disturbance. He only revealed the alleged sex
attack that had sparked his fury earlier this week.
Virginia
Democrats Voted to Allow Schools to Refrain from Reporting Sexual Battery in 2020. Democrats in the Virginia
General Assembly voted for — and Governor Ralph Northam signed — a law allowing schools to refrain from
reporting instances of sexual battery, stalking, violation of a protective order, and violent threats occurring on school
property in 2020. § 22.1-279.3:1 of Virginia code had required that these, among a number of other major crimes, be
reported to law enforcement if they occurred on campus. Democrats insisted that misdemeanors be extirpated from
reporting requirements in House Bill 257, replacing the word "criminal" with "felony" in the code.
Portland
and other 'defund' cities are destroying their own livability. Portland, Oregon, chose to jump on the
politically correct bandwagon in 2020 and defund its police force. A rash of murders has since swept over the Rose
City, which was once a pleasant place to live. Until recently, Portland only had a quirky reputation reflected in the
comedy show Portlandia. It was amusingly wacky and liberal — a place where the dream of the 1990s was
still alive. Today, Portland is looking a lot more like it did in the late 1980s, at the height of the crack
epidemic. The city is about to set a new annual record for murders, and it's only October. By the time this
editorial is published, it may have already hit its highest annual homicide total since 1987. Between the violent
insurrection that leftist protesters waged against its federal courthouse, which lasted for weeks last summer, and the
violence that petty criminals are inflicting on innocent citizens, the Rose City just isn't a nice place to be anymore.
Theft-plagued
Walgreens shuts down five more stores in San Francisco: At least 17 have already closed due to 'legalized
shoplifting'. Walgreens is shuttering another five of its stores in crime-ridden San Francisco because of
rampant shoplifting by thieves who waltz past security guards and sell the items outside the drugstore chain's doors.
The national chain has closed 17 of its 70 San Francisco locations in the past two years because of the shelf raiders, who
have swiped everything not behind lock and key. Thefts in the chain's 53 remaining stores are five times the average
for their stores elsewhere in the country, according to company officials.
Bidenflation
Shock: Kids Shoe Prices Up 11.9%. It's not just getting more expensive to feed your family in the U.S.
It's getting more expensive to keep shoes on your children's feet. The price of boys' and girls' footwear jumped 3.3 percent
in September from August, a huge one-month increase. Compared with a year ago, the prices of kids shoes are up 11.9 percent,
the Department of Labor's Consumer Price Index showed Wednesday [10/13/2021].
Vaccine
Mandates Aren't Biden's Only Job-Killing Scheme. Despite $9 trillion in fiscal and monetary stimulus from the
federal government, America has an employment problem. The Labor Department estimates that 10.4 million jobs remained
unfilled in August, the most recent month for which figures are available, including 1.5 million in health care and
social services. That same month, a record-high 4.3 million people quit their jobs. [...] The good news is that
President Joe Biden has a plan. The bad news is that his plan could result in the loss of millions of additional
workers. Start with vaccine mandates. The president announced in August that he planned to impose a vaccine
mandate on nursing home staffs. Nursing homes lost nearly 38,000 staffers in September alone, among the steepest
one-month drops since the pandemic began. The Washington Post reported late last month that vaccine mandates imposed by
hospitals have led many unvaccinated workers to leave or be terminated, exacerbating a shortage in skilled nursing and
bedside care. The potential employment effect of vaccine mandates is not confined to the health care sector.
Other professions where vaccine requirements are common also reported job losses. In August alone, 25,000 state and
local education workers quit their jobs.
The
average new car price hit a record $45,000 in September. A new study from Kelly Blue Book found that the
average price paid for a vehicle in September it an all-time record of $45,031 as discounts dwindle and buyers in the market
gravitate toward high-end models. "The record-high prices in September are mostly a result of the mix of vehicles
sold," Cox Automotive analyst Kayla Reynolds said. "Midsize SUV sales jumped in September compared to August and
full-size pickup share moved up as well. Sales of lower-priced compact and midsize cars, which had been commanding more
share during the summer, faded in September. As long as new-vehicle inventory remains tight, we believe prices will
remain elevated." It was the sixth-straight record month, according to KBB's data.
Biden
White House Spreads Lie that Inflation Is 'High Class Problem'. White House chief of staff Ron Klain is
spreading the lie that inflation and the supply chain snarl are "high class problems," which means we're lucky to have
them. On Wednesday [10/13/2021], some Harvard idiot (excuse me for repeating myself) named Jason Furman tweeted, "Most
of the economic problems we're facing (inflation, supply chains, etc.) are high class problems. We wouldn't have had
them if the unemployment rate was still 10 percent."
Thanks
to Biden's policies, prepare for a cold, expensive winter. Upon entering the Oval Office, Biden immediately
shut down the Keystone Pipeline and ended new drilling on federal lands. While Trump had brought America to energy
independence and affordable energy, Biden reduced America to a vassal of oil-producing countries. Thanks to this
policy, gasoline prices keep climbing. In my neighborhood, they've increased by almost 78% in just nine months.
The same is true everywhere. Like all Biden policies, this is devastating for the middle and working classes, for it
doesn't just make commuting more expensive; it increases the price of every single item in America. Fuel is needed for
farming, manufacturing, shipping, wholesaling, and retailing. Every aspect of life becomes more expensive when fuel
prices rise, with the middle and working classes bearing the ultimate burden. All of this is in the name of fighting
alleged climate change. That is a faith, not a science. We humans can pollute, and I believe we have a moral
obligation to keep our environment clean and healthy, but the whole climate change theory is a joke and a bad one at that.
For
Consumers, 'Build Back Better' Is Going to Start Getting Replaced by These Three Words Soon. Consumers were
promised "build back better" under Biden, and all they see is high inflation, gas prices through the roof, and 'out of stock'
signs everywhere. Stop blaming COVID as well. Grocery stores are open. Big box retailers have never
closed. We have three vaccines readily available. As for the labor shortages, I mean, how can you be shocked
given Biden's unemployment benefits extravaganza. Crises are everywhere, and Joe is taking naps.
Inflation up 5.4% from year ago, matching
13-year high, Labor Department. Consumer prices in September increased U.S. inflation to 5.4% compared to a
year ago, according to the Labor Department monthly consumer price index report, released Wednesday [10/13/2021]. The
number matches the highest such rate since 2008, amid global supply chain issues. The Consumer Price Index rose 0.4% in
September from August, with the costs of new cars, food, gas, and restaurant meals all increasing. The annual increase
in the consumer price index matched readings in June and July as the highest in 13 years, the department's Bureau of Labor
Statistics also reported. The costs of food and shelter in September together together contributed to more than half of
the monthly, seasonally adjusted increase, the bureau also reported.
Gas
prices at 7-year high and rising as Biden wages offensive against domestic energy producers. [Scroll
down] There isn't enough oil and gas supply to meet U.S. demand, due to a combination of factors, including the Biden
administration halting new leases on federal land, halting the Keystone Pipeline, increasing regulatory burdens, and other
measures that will take years to correct, those in the industry argue. In one of his first acts in office, President
Joe Biden, through executive order, halted the issuance of new oil and gas leases on federal lands, effectively stopping much
production for existing operations. He also eliminated low-cost Canadian crude from being processed by mid-continent
and Gulf Coast and U.S. refiners by prohibiting the Keystone pipeline from opening. If Biden had not severely hampered
domestic production, the U.S. would have an ample supply of oil and gas and commensurately lower costs at the pump, industry
experts argue. The $6 billion in additional costs imposed on the industry included in the budget reconciliation bill
include new methane fees, inspection fees, severance fees, and bonding requirements, as well as additional requirements for
operating on federal lands.
Very likely because of media-induced fear of Covid-19... BLS
Report: 4.3 Million US Workers Voluntarily Quit Their Jobs in August. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
released the job openings and labor report for August today [10/12/2021]. The data shows that 4.3 million U.S. workers
voluntarily quit their jobs in the month of August. This is a significant jump from prior.
Looks
Like Stagflation Is Already Here. On the same day the International Monetary Fund cut its growth forecast for
the U.S. economy, Atlanta Federal Reserve President Raphael Bostic warned that the "transitory" bout of inflation "won't be
brief." How do you spell stagflation? B-i-d-e-n-o-m-i-c-s. The IMF report, released Tuesday, has the international
organization lowering growth globally by a 10th of a percentage point and for the U.S. by a full percentage point.
More
Bad Policies and Government Spending Will Worsen Labor Shortage. The September employment report released on
Oct. 8 showed a modest employment gain, with 194,000 new jobs added, and a drop in unemployment from 5.2% in August to 4.8%.
What appears to be good news in the report — a 0.4 percentage point drop in the unemployment rate to 4.8% — is
not all positive news. The decline is due in part to 183,000 people dropping out of the labor force as opposed to unemployed
workers finding new jobs. This is also the second month in a row of lackluster job gains that have fallen about 700,000 below
expectations. Normally, these last two subpar job reports would be bad news for unemployed workers. But with a record
high 10.9 million job openings in the U.S., the poor job gains are perhaps most troubling for employers and consumers.
Without enough willing workers, employers are struggling to get the workers they need to recover from the pandemic and to meet
customers' demands. Americans across the country also continue to experience long waits, shortages of goods and services,
and rising prices.
The
Green Agenda or How This Energy Crisis is Different from All Others. The price of energy from all sources
conventional is exploding globally. Far from accidental, it is a well-orchestrated plan to collapse the industrial
world economy that has already been weakened dramatically by almost two years of ridiculous covid quarantine and related
measures. What we are seeing is a price explosion in key oil, coal and now especially, natural gas energy. What
makes this different from the energy shocks of the 1970s is that this time, it is developing as the corporate investment
world, using the fraudulent ESG green investment model, is dis-investing in future oil, gas and coal while OECD governments
embrace horrendously inefficient, unreliable solar and wind that will insure the collapse of industrial society perhaps as
early as the next months. Barring a dramatic rethinking, the EU and other industrial economies are willfully committing
economic suicide.
Heating
costs in NY expected to spike for many customers this winter. A new forecast on energy costs for heating in New
York state calls for a spike in those expenses this coming winter. During an annual presentation by the state of the NY
State Public Service Commission last week, staffers said that on average, statewide, consumers will be hit with about a 21%
increase in heating costs over the entire winter compared to last year. Rochester Gas and Electric is forecasting about
a 33% average increase over the winter for natural gas customers.
The Editor says...
Which political party opposes fracking, pipelines, offshore exploration, internal combustion engines, nuclear power, and the use
of coal? Those are the people to blame when energy prices inflate overnight.
Food
Prices Hit Highest Level in a Decade. Food prices across the world have risen to their highest levels in a
decade on the back of tightening supply conditions coupled with robust demand, according to the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The FAO's food price index, which measures world food commodity prices, has
surged by 32.8 percent in the 12 months through September, coming in at a reading of 130 points, a level not
seen since 2011. On a month-over-month basis, the index rose 1.2 percent. Accounting for the bulk of the rise
in the index were higher prices of most cereals and vegetable oils. The FAO vegetable oil price index was up 60 percent
in September from a year earlier, and 1.7 percent higher than in August. The cereal price measure was up 27.3 percent
over the year last month, and 2 percent from August.
British
Airways tells pilots and cabin crew not to refer to passengers as 'ladies and gentlemen' in favour of gender-neutral
terms. British Airways has instructed pilots and cabin crew not to refer to passengers as 'ladies and
gentlemen' in an effort to celebrate 'diversity and inclusion'. Britain's flagship carrier has abandoned the greeting
in favour of more gender-neutral terms, reportedly to respect wider social norms and make children feel included. Other
major airlines, including Lufthansa, easyJet and Air Canada, have already adopted gender-neutral language.
The Editor says...
Air Canada did the same
thing two
years ago.
The Left
Got What It Wanted — So Now What? [Scroll down] What did all that madness achieve?
Mostly, the first election in U.S. history in which over 100 million ballots were not cast on Election Day. Strangely,
with such an avalanche of ballots, the usual error rate of absentee balloting dived from around 2-4 percent to
0.2-0.4 percent. You see, when we suddenly must count tens of millions more paper ballots then it becomes easier,
not harder, to spot errors. So, the Left won its Pyrrhic victory. The nation was done with the demonized Trump and
now the Left controlled the presidency, and both houses of Congress. [...] What followed was a concerted effort to destroy the
Trump record: the greatest level of combined annual natural gas and oil production in any nation's history, record low minority
unemployment and near record peacetime, general unemployment, a border secure and illegal immigration finally under control, and a
New Middle East in which Israel and its Arab enemies concluded neutrality pacts. China was put on notice for its past mockery
of global norms. Inflation was low, growth was good. "Stagflation" was still a rarely remembered word from the past.
Life
in Seattle is about to get very interesting (and that's not good). Seattle, more than many American cities,
vigorously embraced the "Defund the Police" movement. Last year, the Seattle City Council began the process of
defunding the police and it's been continuing ever since, relentlessly slicing away at the city's police budget. Crime
has risen accordingly and people are making noises about getting the police back. However, the radicals have a new
arrow in their quiver to reduce the number of police in their city. An October 18 deadline is looming to fire those
police who have refused the vaccination and, with only a week to go, roughly 40% of the police force is still unvaccinated.
Since George Floyd's diseased heart gave out thanks to overdosing on meds and fighting the police, Seattle has been one of those
cities that has most enthusiastically sought to rid itself of its police force. Even the fact that the little autonomous
zone known as CHAZ instantly turned into warlord hell didn't deter the council from its mission.
Lumber
Prices Rose 50 Percent Since August and May Climb Higher. The price tag on lumber, after declining since its
all-time high in May, could climb higher through the early months of the coming year, experts recently told Insider. [...] In
addition, global food prices have hit a decade high and grew for the second month in a row in September, according to a
report from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). A reason behind the price growth regarding lumber was a small
increase in renovation demand once "price-sensitive" buyers moved forward with home improvement projects since wood prices
experienced a substantial correction, according to Justin Jalbert, a senior economist for Fastmarkets.
The Editor says...
I don't often buy lumber, but I do know that the price of Diet Coke (at Wal-Mart) has gone up 60 percent since Biden took over.
"Shortages"
Aren't Causing Inflation. Money Creation Is. For central bankers and mainstream analysts the recent
inflation outburst is only a transitory phenomenon which has nothing or very little to do with the massive monetary and
fiscal stimuli unleashed during the pandemic. Although the Fed has recently conceded that price pressures are
persisting longer than expected, the surge of inflation is allegedly due to supply bottlenecks caused by the pandemic.
This superficial diagnosis serves as a convenient excuse for politicians to keep in place damaging growth stimuli and
draconian public health measures. Mainstream economists define inflation as an increase in consumer prices which occurs
when the growth of money supply outpaces economic growth. In other words, too much money is chasing too few
goods. If the recent surge in inflation were driven by a shortage of goods rather than an increase in the money supply,
then aggregate output would be shrinking. But this is not the case, because global economic output is projected by the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to grow by 5.7 percent in 2021 after having dropped by
3.4 percent in 2020.
Who
is Really Running the Destroy-America Biden Regime? In less time than a normal human pregnancy, putative president Biden
managed to accomplish the following:
• Crashed our booming economy,
• Destroyed our energy independence,
• Opened our southern border to hundreds of thousands of illegals — many of them diseased, drug- and sex-traffickers, career criminals, jihadists, et al,
• Accelerated Iran's production of nukes,
• Promised the disaster of hyperinflation,
• Expressed "great confidence in" the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, after the General [...] conspired with China against President Trump and told military officials not to take orders from him.
• Orchestrated the disastrous pullout from Afghanistan — another Milley debacle — leaving behind, to this day, hundreds of stranded Americans and Afghan allies, billions of dollars of U.S. armaments and Black Hawk helicopters and airplanes, massive troves of the rare-earth mineral lithium ("the new oil," as Dave Hodges reports), as well as Taliban-Isis-Al Qaeda terrorists in charge, and 13 heroic but dead U.S. service members.
[...] We also have:
• Draconian mandates in cities like New York and other blue states that prevent people from entering restaurants, theaters, gyms, et al, without proof of having had a Covid jab,
• Dire threats that all benefits to Marines (and other military, including Navy SEALS, will be revoked if they decline the Covid jabs.
• Actual life-threatening shortages of nurses, doctors, and other hospital personnel — as well as first responders — who refuse the experimental vaccine.
• Threats to police forces that guarantee a horrific rise in crime.
• Mandatory Covid jabs for travelers on all domestic airline flights in the U.S., already enacted by several major U.S. airlines.
• And here's the kicker: NO requirements for illegal immigrants to get tested or receive the vaccine!
• Then there are the parents who revile the toxic, far-left, so-called "woke" propaganda being crammed down their children's throats being labeled "domestic terrorists" — the idea of Attorney General Merrick Garland, who forgot to mention that his son-in-law makes millions selling those toxic materials.
Smaller
Products, Rising Prices: Shrinkflation Hitting Grocery Store Shelves. Shrinking products and rising
prices. From cereal to soap, paper towels to pretzels, you might have noticed you're not getting as much as you used to
at the grocery store. Consumer blogs pointed WCCO to products like oatmeal packets of 10 cut to eight for some
varieties, tuna cans from seven to five ounces, and some family size cereals slimming down from 19.3 ounces to
18.8 ounces, all evidence of what's known as shrinkflation.
Real
cost of inflation to average American household: An extra $175 a month. Over the past couple of months,
Allison, a wife and mother of a toddler and teenager in Chicago, says she's been spending about $50 more each week on
groceries to feed her family — and that's at a discount supermarket chain, Aldi's. "I used to spend $70 a
week, but all of sudden this summer, I noticed that I couldn't leave the store without spending at least $120," said Allison,
who works in education. Like millions of Americans whose income has not kept pace with inflation — up
5.3 percent in August compared with a year ago — Allison and her family are feeling the pinch of the rising
cost of living and giving up some things just to make ends meet.
Trump
Is Not the Cause of the Crimes Threatening America. The Biden Administration is crumbling the more the
Bidenization of America advances. The country is plunging into disillusioned alarm amid rising rates of inflation and
violent crime, an oceanic tide of illegal and unskilled immigration, incomprehensible flailing over COVID, and horrifying
foreign policy disasters. [...] The Democratic leaders in the Congress today are also reckless and often unethical, and the
senior officer corps is politicized, incompetent, and routinely take liberties for which they should be court martialed.
[...] As the full horror of Bidenization sinks in — the open southern border, skyrocketing rates of inflation and
violent crime, and a foreign policy of cap-in-hand submission to America's enemies becomes clearer — there will be
a resurrection of American national self-confidence.
Magnet!
Joe Biden's $3.5 trillion bill hands cash to illegals worth more than per capita income of 74 countries.
Imagine you are a Honduran. If you make the average Honduran per capita income of $2,405.70 a year, and suddenly learn
from a relative up in el norte that Joe Biden is handing out $3,600 a year to anyone in the U.S., legally present or not, for
nothing more than having kids, what would you do? [...] You'd weigh your options, and decide what your best ones were.
One, you could be breaking your back to earn the $2,405.70 a year back in Tegucigalpa, assuming you were earning the average
(and at least half the country earns less). Or two, you could go to the states illegally, get a federal tax I.D. and the
$3,600 would be yours. And as a bonus, you'd qualify it the minute you broke into the country illegally, and you
wouldn't have to lift a finger to work for it. All you'd have to do is bring the kids. You'd also be get free
health care, free education, other cash benefits for the kids, and this doesn't even include the benefits handed out by
states such as California, such as free housing and cash transfers. You'd also free to earn more if you wanted, legally
or illegally, since under Biden, there'd be no possibility of deportation once you break in. What would you do?
Consumers
facing high energy costs as winter quickly approaches. Homeowners in the United States might be in for a costly
winter. Oil and natural gas prices continue to climb higher as supply struggles to keep up with demand, which will only
increase as the temperatures begin to drop across the country and heaters begin to be switched on in houses. The price
of natural gas used to heat homes across the country and produce electricity has skyrocketed over the past year, growing by
about 180%. The oil price has also significantly risen, with the cost of crude more than doubling since this time last
year. As September comes to a close and fall gets into full swing, many consumers will start to feel the pinch.
The Editor says...
Shutting off pipelines to appease the environmentalists is a short-sighted action with real-world consequences.
Defunding
Disaster: Austin Police no longer to responding to 'non-life threatening' 911 calls. Starting Friday
[10/1/2021], Austin's sworn police officers will no longer be responding in person to non-emergency calls because of severe
staffing shortages, APD announced. The announcement comes after the Harris County Sheriff's Deputies Organization in
Houston warned residents that if they were "robbed, raped or shot" to "hold their breath and pray" because they might not
have the personnel to respond. The Austin no-response announcement includes vehicle collisions with no injuries and
burglaries no longer in progress or where the suspect has fled the scene. Instead of calling 911, residents are being
told to call 311 to file a non-emergency police report.
Key
Inflation Measure Soars to 30-Year High. The Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge, the core personal
consumption expenditures price index, which excludes food and energy costs, soared to a 30-year high in August. The
measure increased 0.3 percent for the month and was up 3.6 percent from last year in its steepest climb since May
1991, a trend suggesting that the pandemic's inflationary pressures, catalyzed by massive government spending, supply chain
bottlenecks and surging demand, are not correcting as quickly as some economists anticipated.
Austin
City Council member sounds alarm on 'disastrous consequences' of defunding police. The Austin Police Department
announced it will no longer respond to calls for "non-emergencies" after a cut to the police budget in 2020 led to staffing
shortages. Mackenzie Kelly, an Austin City Council member, said the decision to defund the police has led to
"disastrous consequences" in the city. The Austin City Council voted in August 2020 to cut up to $150 million —
roughly 34% — from the police budget. By the end of July, Austin reported that the number of homicides in 2021 had
already matched the total homicides in all of 2020. "A lot of what we're seeing happening starting today is coming home
to roost from that decision," Kelly said. "And it's disastrous."
More
Evidence That Defunding Police Wasn't a Good Idea. The surge in violent crime over the past year —
murders in particular — has been astounding and historic. The numbers back this up and paint a grim
picture. Property crime is generally down, but violent crime is way, way up. The murder rate rose by nearly 30%
in 2020, more than any other time in the last half-century. This is according to recently released statistics compiled
by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in its annual report on crime. The report shows that there were 4,901 more
murders committed in 2020 than in 2019. It's the largest single-year increase — by a wide margin —
in murder rate since the FBI began compiling these statistics in 1960.
Biden
Democrats have declared war on American small businesses. Thousands of America's small businesses are teetering
on the edge of permanent closure, and Democrats in Washington are about to give them one final shove. The result will
be the further fraying of our social fabric and the permanent loss of working-class jobs. Over the last several months,
small businesses persevered the best they could, holding on until "temporary" welfare programs driving people away from work
expired. But if there were any doubt left that Dems' ultimate goal wasn't a temporary boost to Americans most impacted
by lockdowns, but rather a calculated step toward government control and socialism, their proposed $4.3 trillion
tax-and-spend bill removes it all. Walk down any main street or city avenue in America today, and you will see sign
after sign with help-wanted pleas, hiring incentives or apologies in advance for shortened hours and delayed service due to
staff shortages. There are nearly 11 million job openings nationwide, and our small businesses are trying to get back
on their feet after the crushing lockdowns.
Brazen
Shoplifters Rob Chicago Department Store In Broad Daylight. This is the new trend in all progressive cities
now. Cities that have decriminalized most 'soft' crimes such as shoplifting. Watch as these two shoplifters fill
bags with expensive perfumes in broad daylight and leave while people film. This was at the Ulta in Norridge at 4115 N
Harlem near the 16th district in Chicago. [Video clip]
Shoplifters
casually rob California Marshalls as people watch, employees do not report crime. Multiple shoplifters in
California were seen brazenly stealing from a Marshalls location as the crime continues in the state. "People shopping
there were just kind of standing there watching. The only thing I figured I could do was get their identities and their
license plates and give them to somebody who will do something with them," witness Lindsey Rodriguez, a resident of Hemet who
recorded the suspects, told NBC4. Rodriguez said she saw one man stroll out of the store with his arms full of clothing
on Saturday evening [9/25/2021] in Hemet, and said one woman used wire cutters to sever security tags on expensive purses.
Liberal
Parents Raise Young Child Without A Gender, Make HIM Wear Girl Clothes, Play With Girl Toys. This is
Zoomer. Zoomer was born a boy. How do we know? Because he was born a boy, that's how. Zoomer was also
born with two liberal leeches attached to him. These liberals were Zoomer's parents and refused to acknowledge Zoomer's
born gender identity and instead called HIM they and them. They also made Zoomer play with both boy and girl toys as
well as wear dresses and male clothing, just in case Zoomer was a born drag queen or something. At age 4, Zoomer
figured out he was a boy and this was a big moment for his not-so-bright parents. [Video clip]
Stolen
Elections Have Consequences. Progressives seem completely committed to the Cloward-Piven strategy, even those
who have no idea what it is. So here we are, stuck in the midst of a government induced labor shortage. A
completely man-made crisis either by design or stupidity or a lethal combination of the two. Fast food joints can't
hire burger flippers and fry droppers even at $16/hour, never mind the truly vital jobs of dock workers and long-haul
truckers. And still, Joey is "losing patience" with you dolts who refuse to get jabbed so he's going to mandate that
you do if you want to keep your job. That should help everything. The evil geniuses in charge are starting to look
less genius and a great deal more evil. They have no idea how to turn things around much less fix what they broke.
Climate
change panic is the next big thing (again). Biden's woke trail of destruction is difficult to dismiss.
Our nation has strived for energy independence for decades. We finally accomplished that goal during the Trump years
only to watch it all be flushed away in Biden's first month in office, along with tens of thousands of high-paying American
jobs. Biden then moved on to the border where he reversed most Trump-era policies, threw out American laws, and started
the open border crisis we're witnessing today. Hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens have already been relocated to
various places around the country. [...] Next, there is COVID, which sees the left whipping the American people into
submission for a disease that is highly lethal only to the very elderly with multiple comorbidities. The rest of the
population suffers, to various degrees, on a par with the seasonal flu. [...] They've now initiated a new form of illegal,
despicable, and useless discrimination based on vaccination status. All of it is unconstitutional.
We're
coming up on the bad part of the 'cycle of democracy'. As we witness tens of thousands of illegal aliens
bum-rushing our southern border, we should be acutely aware that a quid pro quo is in the making — aliens expect
the grab-bag of goodies (largess), and Democrats expect future support for their electoral endeavors. Leftism is
vile. It is premised on power and control, disguised as compassion. Leftists' ideas always bring decline and
despair. Their path to utopia is through your dystopia. We see it with climate change; inflation;
immigration; foreign affairs; voting rights; abortion; race, sex, and class division; and ultimately Marxism. Their
ideas range from bad to horrible.
Disturbing
photos show rampant drug use in broad daylight among the homeless around Penn Station as crime spikes 41%.
Disturbing photos show homeless people in New York City's storied Garment District near Penn Station shooting up and dealing
drugs in broad daylight as the crime in the area has spiked 41 percent since last year. Homelessness in the area has
been a years-long issue but has become more rampant in recent months, with people not even trying to hide their drug
use. Photos taken by DailyMail.com show one man with what appears to be drug paraphernalia in his hand, and another
slumped over in a wheelchair.
Every
Tragedy Caused by Government Is Done with the Best of Intentions. President Johnson's "war on poverty" caused
more poverty, deepened the dependence upon government welfare of those most economically vulnerable, and initiated a collapse
in marriage rates and two-parent families that continues to this day.
What a lovely city. 'City
of the Walking Dead:' Junkies shoot up in broad daylight in Midtown. The outgoing de Blasio administration
appears unwilling or unable to address the crisis, as the quality-of-life disaster unfolds just steps from high-profile
Midtown landmarks such as Macy's, Madison Square Garden and the sparkling new Moynihan Train Hall. The block bordered
by 35th and 36th streets, and Seventh and Eighth Avenues, is "littered with used needles, broken glass crack pipes, trash,
urine, and feces" as junkies shoot up and dealers brazenly sell drugs, lamented one neighbor on social media. "I've
personally seen dozens of deals go down. I've seen a person OD and nearly die." During a single walk around the
block last week, The Post witnessed three different people injecting needles in their wrists or fingers in the middle of the
afternoon. Each addict sat on the sidewalk or in empty storefronts. Dozens of other junkies sat or lay nearly
comatose, many of the men shirtless, on the same block.
Leftists
force mass Third World immigration by deceiving us into feeling guilty. Instead of a "melting pot" culture
based on careful assimilation, we are deliberately creating a "tribal pot" of diverse and warring identity groups. And
to get the majority to go along with such a scheme, those constructing their own reality just invent history out of whole
cloth — and teach it to the non-thinking — that creates guilt trips in the majority. This begins
in preschool so that, by the end of the day, the self-loathing is so elevated that the white majority is thankful they have
been replaced.
Civilization requires
deterrence. The current crime wave of murder and violent assault in our major cities is the wage of loud
efforts to defund the police and contextualize crimes as somehow society's rather than the criminal's fault. As a
result, lawbreakers now believe there is a good chance that robbing people or hurting or killing them might result in
monetary gain or at least bloody satisfaction. They no longer fear a likely sentence of 30 years in prison.
So, they see little risk in hurting people. And innocents suffer.
National Sabotage
by Immigration. Beneath the surface of Biden's genial Uncle Joe schtick is an executive branch controlled by
some of the most dogmatic left-wing apparatchiks ever seen in American politics. Among their witch's brew of radical
ideas, they have seized upon immigration as one of the quickest and most effective ways to transform the country to their
vision. It is becoming increasingly difficult to give this administration the benefit of the doubt on anything.
That became nearly impossible after independent journalist John Solomon broke the news of a letter from recently departed
Border Patrol chief Rodney Scott to Democratic and Republican leaders of the Senate and its homeland security and
governmental affairs committee. In his letter, Scott described a culture in the current administration where
inexperienced political appointees routinely ignore or reject common-sense recommendations from career immigration
enforcement professionals.
'Wrong
Way' Biden Flies The Nation Into Yet Another Crisis. If President Joe Biden's navigating skills were any good,
the southern border would be calm, inflation under control, every American safely out of Afghanistan, and COVID
defeated. Instead, we are left to wonder how it is that his sense of direction can be so fabulously wrong. [...] In
May, he said that the "experts" he talked to "do not see signs of persistent dislocation or long-term inflation." In
July, he said that "our experts believe and the data show that most of the price increases we've seen were expected and are
expected to be temporary. The reality is you can't flip the global economics light back and not expect this to happen."
Look at the chart [at left] and see just how wrong Biden's heading has been. Inflation has remained unusually high, even as
the months stretch on and the alleged transitory effects should have long since passed.
The
Looming Economic Bubble. There has been considerable discussion in the past couple of months about the rate of
inflation in the United States, and polls now show that 85 percent of Americans are concerned about inflation. This is
a demonstration once again of the wisdom of the average person. While the United States, and to a lesser extent the
West generally, is being subjected to a variety of threats and disappointments, and there is a natural aversion to
highlighting additional negative developments that could be looming, it would be comforting if we heard anything from the
secretary of the Treasury or the chairman of the Federal Reserve about the current apparition of a gigantic financial bubble
over the United States. In the past year, the United States has had a money supply increase of 25 percent, an
unprecedented event. What was originally billed as slight and self-correcting inflation increases are now gathering
into a continuing and growing storm cloud, only thinly disguised by the unrepresentative composition of the official consumer
price index. Year over year, hourly pay scales have risen by 7.5 percent, new cars cost 10 percent more, used
cars and new homes are 20 percent more expensive, and rental accommodations are 12 percent more costly. These
increases all fall short of the money supply increase, and they all appear to be stoking up rather than settling down.
What's Behind
Runaway Inflation? The Federal Reserve and Congress both created this excess aggregate demand situation.
Fed leaders have poured over $4 trillion into the U.S. economy since February 2020. Congress has been busy shoveling over $5
trillion dollars out the U.S. Treasury door to nearly all households and many businesses since the March 2020 shutdown.
The result is a hot U.S. economy, and the out-of-control Fed continues their QE purchases of $120 billion of securities each
month into an already pricey equity market amid widespread inflation pressures. Apparently "woke" Fed leaders think a
faster rate of inflation will draw more lower-skilled people into the labor force. That nonsensical concept was pushed
into the ditch in the 1960s and 1970s.
Biden
Administration Warns States Federal Debt Crisis Could Trigger Recession. The Biden administration has issued a
warning that the pending federal debt crisis might trigger an economic recession that would affect economic growth and
trigger job losses across the United States. "Hitting the debt ceiling could cause a recession. Economic growth
would falter, unemployment would rise, and the labor market could lose millions of jobs," the White House said in a letter
to state and local governments that was released Sept. 17. Arguing that Congress needs to raise or suspend the
U.S. debt ceiling, the administration said the debt crisis may affect the country's recovery after the CCP (Chinese Communist
Party) virus pandemic. In July, Congress missed its deadline to suspend or raise the debt limit, prompting several
recent warnings from Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen that her agency will exhaust its cash reserves.
The
Left seeks to remove any and all controls on asylum. One might assume that even the most radical fringes of the
American Left would be fairly content about the state of things in this country today, particularly on immigration.
After all, the Biden administration has given them pretty much everything they wanted to erode our borders and the rule of
law. Any such assumption would be incorrect, as anti-borders forces are pushing like never before for even more
extremist policies to transform this country into a place most people would not recognize or desire to live. The most
recent example of this is took place in the U.S. District Court of Southern California. An Obama-appointed judge ruled
that the government's "metering" policy of turning back asylum-seekers to points of entry in Mexico to be unconstitutional.
While this may sound like another garden-variety immigration case in federal court, it represents a sharp detour from both
policy and the government's approach to immigration.
A
pandemic of the incompetent, not the unvaccinated. First, the CDC and NIH watched the virus ravage China and
did nothing. Next, they told President Trump that it was xenophobic to stop travel from China. Next, they told us
the virus was not transmitting human to human. Next, they changed, without reasoning, the reporting requirements for
potential deaths associated with the virus to guarantee a higher death total in the U.S. Next, they misrepresented the
data for the projected death toll in America with a completely incorrect model. Next, they told us to shut down the
country for two weeks to slow the spread. Next, they told us a vaccine in less than a year was impossible. Next,
they pushed mask mandates with no science to back them up. [...] Next, they supported crazy items like mandatory masking
outdoors, no swimming in public pools, and wearing a mask in your own home. Next, they continued to keep businesses
closed past the two-month mark, and they fail to provide evidence that closing any business helped slow the spread.
Next, they started paying people extra unemployment benefits while removing all incentives to look for work.
The
Greatest Existential Threat to America. Our Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin — a leader who presided over the
worst, most incompetent, most [humiliating] military defeat in the history of our nation — is black. Of course, he's
black. He was appointed by Biden to display the wonderful diversity of the most progressive president in history.
He wasn't chosen because he was a brilliant military leader (obviously). He was chosen because he was a political hack
ready and willing to embrace even the most suicidal left-wing policies. (Note: Left-wing policies are by their
very nature suicidal because the defining characteristic of the left is that it hates America and wants to "dismantle" it and
replace it with the left-wing fantasy of a socially just future.) In February 2021 — with the deadline for withdrawal in
Afghanistan a bare three months away — General Austin was not ordering a military alert to prepare for what was going to be a
major humanitarian and military reckoning. Instead, he was ordering a military "stand down" to indoctrinate all
America's troops in Black Lives Matter hate white people and hate America propaganda.
Crime
soars in Minneapolis as cops fear being unfairly targeted in woke viral videos. Proactive policing in
Minneapolis plunged dramatically following the murder of George Floyd last year, even as violent crime soared, a new analysis
reveals as the city prepares to vote on a ballot initiative to abolish the police department. In the year following
Floyd's death, traffic stops in Minneapolis plunged 74 percent, patrols of known problem areas were down
76 percent, and stops of suspicious people plunged 75 percent, according to a Reuters investigation.
Confidential police sources said that part of the slowdown was due to a staffing shortage amid an exodus from the department,
but that much of the reduction in policing was due to a fear of being caught up in an incident that could go viral in a
climate of anti-cop sentiment.
American
Consumers Believe Inflation Is Here to Stay, NY Fed Survey Finds. A survey by the New York Federal Reserve
released on Monday shows that American households expect the recent spike in inflation won't go away anytime soon, despite
the Biden administration's continued insistence that the surge in consumer prices will be fleeting. The median
expectation for the inflation rate over the next year increased to 5.2 percent in August, the New York Fed's Survey of
Consumer Expectations found. That level is the highest median expected inflation rate recorded since surveys began in
2013. Respondents also said they expected inflation to be up by 4 percent in three years.
Hospital
to stop delivering babies as maternity workers resign over vaccine mandate. Lewis County General Hospital will
stop delivering babies after September 24 because too many maternity unit workers have resigned over COVID vaccination
mandates. That's according to Lewis County Health System Chief Executive Officer Gerald Cayer, who held a news
conference Friday in Lowville. He said 6 employees in the maternity unit resigned rather than get a COVID shot and
another 7 are undecided.
Grocery
prices could rise another 3% before the end of year, Kroger warns. Grocery prices will rise by another three
percent before the end of the year, according to one of America's biggest supermarkets. Cincinnati-based Kroger
generated $132 billion in sales last year, but the company said inflation is running longer than management previously
anticipated, altering their expectations for prices. Bosses now say they predict prices will rise 2 to 3 percent
over the second half of this year.
The Years We Wasted.
The war is lost, at home and abroad. On the domestic front, we doubled the rate of Muslim immigration to the west and
began assimilating ourselves with Islam's strictures on freedom of expression and the like. [...] In the broader society, our
rulers quickly determined that it was easier to punish us than our enemies. The post-9/11 security state surely helped
soften up western populations for the Chi-Com-19 lockdowns, in which entire nations have been reduced to TSA-administered
airports. As for the war overseas, it ended with a military that can do everything except win handing the keys to
Afghanistan back to the guys who pulled off 9/11 — and apologizing for the two-decade inconvenience by gifting the
mullahs with some of the most expensive infrastructure on the planet plus an air force, approximately five assault rifles for
every Taliban fighter, and express check-in for the forty-seven per cent of the Afghan population that apparently served as
US translators. The position of the United States is far weaker than it was twenty years ago. Around the planet,
the assumption of friends and enemies alike is that the American moment is over and the future belongs elsewhere.
An ENTIRE
police department in Missouri just resigned. The Hill reports the entire police department of Kimberling,
Missouri, has resigned "without immediate authority" to replace them. Police Chief Craig Alexander resigned on Aug. 23.
After that, the floodgates opened. The rest of the officers started resigning until there were none left.
US
producer prices jump an unprecedented 8.3% in August. Inflation at the wholesale level climbed 8.3% last month
from August 2020, the biggest annual gain since the Labor Department started calculating the 12-month number in 2010. The
Labor Department reported Friday that its producer price index — which measures inflationary pressures before they
reach consumers — rose 0.7% last month from July after increasing 1% in both June and July.
Producer
inflation accelerated in August, as wholesale prices rose record 8.3% from a year ago. Prices that producers
get for final demand goods and services surged in August at their highest annual rate since at least 2010, the Labor
Department reported Friday [9/10/2021]. The producer price index rose 0.7% for the month, above the 0.6% Dow Jones
estimate, though below the 1% increase in July. On a year-over-year basis, the gauge rose 8.3%, which is the biggest
annual increase since records have been kept going back to November 2010. That came following a 7.8% move higher in
July, which also set a record. The data comes amid heightened inflation fears fed by supply chain issues, a shortage of
various consumer and producer goods and heightened demand related to the Covid-19 pandemic. Federal Reserve officials
expect inflationary pressures to ease through the year, but they have remained stubbornly persistent, with Friday's numbers
indicating that the trend likely will continue.
Republicans
tear into Biden administration's plans to crack down on beef, poultry and pork to combat rising grocery prices.
Republicans are ripping the Biden administration on Thursday [9/9/2021] over its plan to crack down on big meatpacking
companies and for blaming a sharp increase in grocery prices under President Biden's watch on beef, pork and poultry.
It comes after the Biden administration announced plans to take a tougher stance toward meatpacking companies it says are
causing sticker shock at grocery stores. Four companies control much of the US meat processing market, and White House
officials blamed those companies for rising food prices.
Joe Biden Is a Total
Failure. The shortfall of 500,000 in the expected net new job figures for August shows that stagflation is upon
us: employers are afraid to hire employees as they normally would coming out of the COVID recession because they don't know
if they will be able to afford them. Hourly pay scales are increasing at 7.5 percent, new car prices at 10 percent,
rental accommodation at 12 percent, and new homes at 20 percent, all well ahead of the official rate of inflation, contrary
to the smug assurances of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and even some Federal Reserve spokespeople, that inflation was a
mere bubble. Historically, the only sustainable way of fighting stagflation has been to counter inflation with increased supply
and achieve that goal and the corresponding non-inflationary increase in demand through the encouragement of demand in the tax
system. The present administration is committed to raising taxes and to colossal spending increases, which will exacerbate
both stagnation and inflation.
The
glaring truth about Biden and his masters. Joe Biden, the so-called president, is nothing more than a marionette controlled
by a gaggle of career bureaucrats and academics, none of whom has ever contributed anything substantial to our once vibrant society.
Indeed, they are nothing more than destroyers, power-mad ideologues who use a demented old grifter as a mouthpiece while they dismantle,
piece by piece, our once great Republic. Globalism is their ultimate goal, and the nightmare we're experiencing brings us ever
closer to that frightening reality. Biden is a figurehead for the Marxist madness that's corrupting our schools, destroying small
business, and slowly but surely eliminating our nation's sovereignty. The current push to force Americans to "register" their
firearms under a United Nations gun-grabbing scheme is just one example of the ongoing attack on our cherished freedoms. Another
glaring example is the fascist collaboration between the ruling elites and Big Tech to silence dissent, a clear violation of the First
Amendment. If the Marxist drive continues, it will go on and on until the Bill of Rights is little more than a footnote in a long
forgotten history.
Kamala Harris has blood
on her hands. Not in connection with Afghanistan — I doubt that she has had any influence on events
there — but as a result of her support for violent crime in Minnesota. In the wake of the George Floyd
riots, Harris contributed to the Minnesota Freedom Fund and encouraged others to do so as well. She did so on the
pretext that the Freedom Fund was bailing out "demonstrators" arrested in Minnesota, but of course no one was arrested for
demonstrating. Those bailed out were arsonists, aggravated assaulters and other serious criminals. Moreover, the
Minnesota Freedom Fund didn't restrict itself to bailing out those arrested in the summer of 2020. Rather, its efforts
to inflict violent crime on Minnesotans have continued to the present day. Last Sunday, an innocent man was murdered by
a criminal who had been charged with domestic assault but was sprung by Kamala Harris's Minnesota Freedom Fund just days earlier.
As
US Schools Prioritize Diversity Over Merit, China Is Becoming the World's STEM Leader. The United States has
been dominant in the mathematical sciences since the mass exodus of European scientists in the 1930s. Because
mathematics is the basis of science — as well as virtually all major technological advances, including scientific
computing, climate modelling, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and robotics — US leadership in math has
supplied our country with an enormous strategic advantage. But for various reasons, three of which we set out below,
the United States is now at risk of losing that dominant position. First, and most obvious, is the deplorable state of
our K-12 math education system. Far too few American public-school children are prepared for careers in science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This leaves us increasingly dependent on a constant inflow of foreign
talent, especially from mainland China, Taiwan, South Korea, and India. In a 2015 survey conducted by the Council of
Graduate Schools and the Graduate Record Examinations Board, about 55 percent of all participating graduate students in
mathematics, computer sciences, and engineering at US schools were found to be foreign nationals. In 2017, the National
Foundation for American Policy estimated that international students accounted for 81 percent of full-time graduate students
in electrical engineering at U.S. universities; and 79 percent of full-time graduate students in computer science.
That report also concluded that many programs in these fields couldn't even be maintained without international students.
The Masked Ball
of Cowardice. [Scroll down] Likewise, in October 2020, the WHO's peer-reviewed bulletin showed COVID-19's
overall IFR across all age groups to be about 0.23%. John Ioannidis, the world's most-cited physician, believes the IFR
(infection fatality rate) to be lower and published his own peer-reviewed study showing the overall IFR to be about 0.15%.
But in a poll conducted by the Menzies Research Centre, by June 2021 Australians on average estimated their chance of dying if
they contracted the virus to be 38%, an overestimation of more than 160-fold. For the public to be so egregiously
misinformed about their actual risk from COVID-19 renders democratic accountability for lockdown measures impossible.
Even more so because, as a study by Cardiff University demonstrated, the primary factor by which citizens judge the threat of
COVID-19 is their own government's decision to employ drastic lockdown measures. "We found that people judge the
severity of the COVID-19 threat based on the fact the government imposed a lockdown — in other words, they thought,
'it must be bad if government's taking such drastic measures.' We also found that the more they judged the risk in this
way, the more they supported lockdown." The policies thus create a feedback loop in which the measures themselves sow
the fear that makes citizens to believe their risk of dying from COVID-19 is hundreds of times greater than it really is,
which in turn causes them to support more lockdown measures.
The
Federal Reserve Is the Monetary Equivalent of the Kabul Airport. Speaking to the virtual Jackson Hole
conference of the Federal Reserve System, Fed Chair Jerome Powell says that inflation will go away soon. [...] The Fed is the
monetary equivalent of the Kabul airport. After dumping $5 trillion of helicopter money into the U.S. economy and
overstretching supply chains in almost every industry, the Fed is faced with the worst inflation since the Carter era.
And the worst is yet to come, [...]. The rent on a new lease has jumped 10% year-on-year according to the search site
Zillow, but rent inflation according to the government is just 2%. That's because it takes a year or two for leases to
expire and the new, higher rents to kick in. A huge jump in inflation driven by higher rents is baked into the cake for
2022. That's the elephant in the parlor, and Powell didn't mention it.
US
rent hikes will explode consumer inflation in 2022. How come the shelter component of the US Consumer Price
Index is rising at just 2% a year while all the private-sector gauges of rent inflation show rent hikes of close to 10%?
Shown in the Chart of the Day [left] is a comparison of the Zillow Rent Index with the Consumer Price Index rent component.
Shelter is two-fifths of the total index, so the question of whether inflation is "transitory" or not depends on rents.
This question has a simple answer: It takes the Bureau of Labor Statistics about a year to catch up with rent
inflation. What the government reported as rent inflation in July reflects the economy of a year ago and more.
That's because renters' leases take a year or two to expire. The Zillow, Apartmentlist.com and CoreLogic reports
reflect the average rent on a new lease, not the rent on leases signed in the past. As old leases expire and renters
have to pay the higher market rate, rent inflation will surge.
Key
Inflation Gauge Posts Fastest Annual Price Gain in 30 Years. The Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge,
the so-called core personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index, vaulted in the 12 months through July to levels not
seen in 30 years. The Commerce Department said in a release Friday that core PCE rose 3.6 percent over the year in
July, matching last month's level, which was an increase from 3.5 percent in May and 3.1 percent in April. The last
time the core PCE inflation gauge saw a similar year-over-year vault was in July 1991, while the highest level the measure
has hit is 10.2 percent in February 1975, when the economy was gripped in a troubling upwards wage-price spiral fueled by
rising inflation expectations on the part of consumers. The Fed looks to core PCE as a key inflation measure that
informs its monetary policy, which has an inflation target of a longer-run average of 2 percent.
America
Is Now Actually the Mess Dems Pretended It Was Under Trump. Long before Donald Trump even had the chance to
take office, we were constantly assured by Democrats and their flying monkeys in the mainstream media that the United States
as we knew it was pretty much toast. It began on election night 2016. I stayed up until about six in the morning
on the west coast watching both CNN and MSNBC (one on my television and one on my phone) melting down over Trump's
victory. In no uncertain terms, the talking heads at each network repeated the dire warning that a Trump victory meant
certain doom for the American stock market. It was the first of about a million things they got wrong. Trump's
economy was humming along in overdrive until the Wuhan lab let the bat go free. Objectively, the first three years of
the Trump era were [very] good ones for the republic. Unfortunately, American Democrats all live on a subjective moon
that orbits a navel-gazing planet. Rather than just sit back and enjoy all of the peace and prosperity that President
Trump helped bring about, all they could do was rend their garments over the fact that he had dared to defeat the least
likable presidential candidate in history fairly and squarely.
The Drossy Touch of
Joe Biden. Almost everything Joe Biden has touched since entering office has turned to dross. None of his
blame-gaming, none of his distortions, none of his fantasies and unreality can mask that truth. [...] In January, Biden
inherited a rebounding economy that was fueled by $1 trillion in stimulatory federal red ink. Given natural pent-up
consumer demand, why did Biden need to print yet another $1 trillion, seek to green-light another $2 trillion for
"infrastructure," and raise even higher unemployment compensation to the point of discouraging employees from returning to
work? At the same time, he has alarmed employers with braggadocio threats that higher capital gains, income, payroll,
and estate taxes are all on the way. More lockdowns only further eroded small businesses. The result was price
inflation of all the stuff of life — homes, lumber, gas, food, appliances — as well as historic
shortages of everything from cars and houses to the work of contractors and electricians.
Everything
Is Not All Right. Currently, the situation at our southern border is a nightmare with record numbers of
migrants overwhelming infrastructure and bringing new variants of COVID along with cartels smuggling drugs and human capital
across. The current administration seems to have no response, and what's more, no concern. The swift
deterioration of conditions and withdrawal in Afghanistan has enabled U.S. persons, weapons, and intelligence to fall into
the hands of the Taliban, undoing 20 years of stalemate in a month's time. The push for COVID vaccines and rejection of
natural immunity is driving a record silent super-spreader event across the country. Inflation is running rampant as
supply shortages are met with an overabundance of stimulus dollars injected into the bank accounts of American taxpayers.
Just eighteen months ago we touted energy independence, and now the Biden Administration is begging OPEC to make up for
artificial shortfalls in supply that are driving exorbitant fuel prices. Meanwhile, local school boards, government
agencies, and corporations continue to double down on racist and divisive social policy designed to drive a wedge down the
spine of society. This is not business as usual.
A Call to Action.
[Scroll down] Independents and moderates don't like this any more than we do. They understand that Democrats
destabilize our democracy when they flout the law, disregard the Constitution, or defund the police. They see the
hypocrisy in opening the border with no restrictions for COVID, criminality, or skills, yet closing it to Cubans or Afghans
escaping real persecution. They fear being silenced by the Army of the Woke or petty authoritarians using COVID to
curtail their freedoms. They're revolted by demands to end racism with racism and nullify all of education and history,
achievement and progress in the name of white supremacy and privilege. They justifiably recoil when activists co-opt
their children's mental health with fanciful notions that something humankind has always taken for granted, is a choice along
an ever-changing gender continuum.
We've come a long way baby.
From the Obama-Biden Peter Principle presidential ticket which delivered a commie leader and his feckless sidekick, determined to fundamentally transform America.
That woke enough people up to give us President Trump for 4 years. But as he was too dangerous to the deep state's agenda he had to go. So *censor me
if you can find me* they rigged the election and fraudulently delivered the election to the selected team of Biden/Harris, arguably the two stupidest American
leaders ever "elected." [...] So now come the consequences of the fraudulent election:
• Out of control inflation
• Out of control spending
• Out of control crime
• Out of control illegal alien invasion/child trafficking
• Crippled American energy independence
• Iran is back!
• The pandemic is back!
• Our foreign policy is a shambles.
Are
We in a Revolution and Don't Even Know It? The collective madness that ensued from the pandemic, the
quarantine, the self-induced recession, the George Floyd killing and subsequent months of exempted riots, the election year,
and the resurgence of variants of the Chinese-engineered coronavirus, all ignited the fuse of formerly inert socialist
dynamite. And the ensuing explosion of revolutionary fervor in just a few months has made America almost
unrecognizable. [...] Inflation and the devaluation of the currency are now seemingly a good thing; printing dollars erodes
the savings of the thrifty and money spreads to those who allegedly need and deserve it. Note we owe nearly
$30 trillion in national debt. Yet as the Biden Administration runs a $2 trillion annual deficit, it pushes
an "infrastructure" bill that will mean additionally somewhere between $2 to $4 trillion of more printed cash.
The
Dystopia Of Progressivism. Welcome to the new America — the United States of Dystopia: open
borders, massive increases in government, reckless spending, crushing debt, demonized and defunded police, coddled criminals,
cancel culture, identity politics, censorship, and socialism. America is becoming unhinged. Who should we
blame? One immediate candidate is the progressive wing of the Democrat Party, which now controls the beltway
bureaucracy, the White House, most of Congress, and the mayors and councils of our urban ghettos. [...] And now the
progressives want to change America by opening borders, defunding police, emptying jails, increasing debt, suppressing
speech, and revising history. Already, too many potential Democrats are crossing the border, irrespective of COVID,
trafficking and, the fentanyl accompanying them. But Cubans, unlike Central Americans, are not welcome since they tend
to vote Republican. Our cities burn and innocent citizens are shot, but the police who serve and protect must be
demonized and jails emptied, because disorder is preferable to order whose maintenance is the first duty of sound
government. Suppressing speech is not progress. Yet Leftists routinely defame their opponents as 'racist,'
'sexist,' 'misogynistic,' 'homophobic,' 'xenophobic,' 'fascist,' or 'deplorable,' using demagoguery reminiscent of Senator
Joseph McCarthy to drown out speech with which they disagree.
How
Did We Go From Energy Dominance To Energy Begging In Just 8 Months? [U]nlike Jimmy Carter, who blundered his
way into gasoline shortages, Biden is intentionally creating the current situation to pay homage to climate "crisis"
environmentalists. During his presidential campaign, Biden promised to "get rid of fossil fuels." Since taking
office, he's been busy trying to carry out that pledge. One of the first things he did in office was to call a halt on
oil and gas leases on federal lands and off our coastlines, and has yet to resume allowing them even after a federal judge
ordered the administration to do so. He shut down construction of the Keystone Pipeline. He blocked energy
development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. He directed federal agencies to "eliminate fossil fuel subsidies as
consistent with applicable law." He's promised to add some $90 billion to the industry's tax burden by eliminating what
he calls tax "subsidies."
Our
Military Is A Woke Joke. Ignore those pictures of the Afghan army that our military senior leader geniuses
spent 20 years and zillions of dollars on disintegrating in the face of a pack of glorified mountain banditos from the
Seventh Century — the real story is that, finally, America's fighting men and women are fully aware of the urgency
of accepting and validating the trans experience. And it's even better if said trans people are BIPOC. Plus
differently abled. [...] Yes, it is a joke, a sick one. Fire all the generals. Invite a few back, maybe a
dozen. Clean out the Pentagon. Can all the "Diversity Consultants," "Equal Opportunity Officers," "Climate Change
Mitigation Specialists," and every other strap-hanging oxygen thief who doesn't contribute to the only thing the military
should be focusing on right now — putting Chi Coms in graves. Yeah, there's been a strategic failure of epic
proportions by our civilian establishment. We need to fix that at the ballot box by tossing out every Democrat and
every Liz Cheney-esque combat tourist who delights in sending our young people overseas to get ground up in idiotic wars
designed to enrich their cronies. Hardest hit at the end of Afghanistan: Haliburton, Raytheon, KBR, and a hundred
other contractors you never heard of.
Is
there anything less green than the left's beloved cannabis? Marijuana is one of the least "green," most
energy-intensive crops there is. That is the dirty little secret that no "woke" groups or climate terrorists wish to
acknowledge. The recent surge in its acceptance, legality, and use, is, therefore, making it a rapidly growing source
of greenhouse gases. Since pot is grown mostly indoors and requires special lighting and environmental controls that
consume up to 2,000 watts of electricity per square meter, it is responsible for inordinately high levels of energy
consumption... like 40 times that needed to produce leafy greens such as lettuce. [...] A research report titled, "Energy Use
by the Indoor Cannabis Industry: Inconvenient Truths for Producers, Consumers, and Policymakers," introduces readers to
the fact that the ever-growing pot-growing industry is already responsible for over 1% of all electricity consumption in
the United States. If true, that is a mind-blowing statistic. Think about it. Of all the myriad energy
uses in existence, from air-conditioning and heating to televisions and refrigerators, to massive sports stadiums and concert
halls, to 24-hour-a-day big-box grocery stores and downtown skyscrapers, to the military-industrial complex, etc., etc.,
growing pot uses one one-hundredth of all the electricity consumption in the U.S.?!!
An American
apocalypse — why people of all classes, races are filled with fear. [Scroll down] The crime
wave likewise is not accidental. It is the logical result of deliberate nihilistic policies of releasing thousands of
criminals from jails and prisons, defunding and defaming the police, and empowering woke mayors and prosecutors to contextualize
crime as the fault of society, not of the criminal. In response, millions of Americans now simply avoid the mayhem and
chaos of blue-state big cities. Race relations have regressed 50 years. Under the fad of critical race theory,
the color of our skins is now deemed essential to who we are. Most Americans still integrate, assimilate, and intermarry.
But the current woke revolution is an elite, top-down effort to smear a self-critical and always improving nation, as some sort of
contemporary racist hellhole.
Inflation
keeps growing, but Dems won't stop spending. President Joe Biden and Democrats keep telling Americans not to
worry about inflation, that it's only temporary. Yet the record price hikes keep getting worse. On Thursday
[8/12/2021], the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported yet another jump, a full 1 percent, in the producer price index (which
measures prices before they reach consumers) for the month of July. Wholesale prices are now up 7.8 percent over the
past year, the fastest annual surge since such record-keeping began in 2010. On Wednesday, the BLS reported consumer
prices rose 0.5 percent in July, or 5.4 percent over the past year — maintaining June's yearly pace, the
largest in 13 years. Biden actually bragged that it wasn't even higher, yet wages are up only 4 percent from
a year ago, so Americans have lost ground.
Dear
Media: You got what you wanted and what you worked for. Happy now? Our despicable mainstream media
did everything in its vast and coercive power to see Joe Biden elected president. [...] In seven months, Biden has pretty
much destroyed America! The open border has welcomed what will be a million migrants from around the world by the end
of the year, many of them sick with a panoply of diseases long ago eradicated in America, and bringing in new variants of
COVID. While Americans are ordered to mask up and be vaxxed, these people arriving at our southern border, welcomed by the
Biden regime that has tied the hands of ICE and the Border Patrol, are mask- and vax-free. Eleven Democrat senators
just voted against mandating that they be screened, tested, masked and vaxxed before being allowed in to roam about the
country. How's that for hypocrisy? Biden is purposefully altering the demographics of the U.S. with the
single-minded goal of making the Democrat party the ruling party in perpetuity. He and his partners in crime care not a
bit about the American people. They care only about cementing their control over the 330 million citizens who call his
nation our home.
Storm Clouds
For Biden. For the first time in quite a few years, prices for staple items are rising rapidly, and with the
federal government borrowing and spending at a record pace that trend can only accelerate. People aren't happy about
it: this Fox News poll finds that 70 percent of respondents consider grocery and gasoline prices to be a hardship for their
families, with 29 percent considering them a serious hardship. Further, 79% say "the federal government's economic
policies" are responsible for rising prices, with 49 percent considering them "very responsible." To be fair, respondents
also blame the coronavirus — not sure how that works — and "the regular ups and downs of the economy."
But as prices continue to rise over the next year, more and more fingers will be pointed at Joe Biden and the Democrats.
Reality
Bites Biden's Policies. The Democrats' idiotic anti-fossil fuel campaign took a hit this week when Biden begged
the Saudis to up production after shutting down as much of domestic production as he could. (Apparently, he believes that oil
from the Middle East doesn't affect the climate as much as fossil fuel from Canada and the U.S. Or, if it does affect the
climate by warming it, that's now a good thing.) Dane Bjorn Lomborg who, unlike AOC and Greta, knows what he's talking about,
explains that more people (166,000 of them) each year die from cold than die from heat. In like manner to Biden's
begging OPEC for more oil, California's loony decarbonization program hit a snag as it is forced to rely on carbon fuels to
prevent widespread blackouts.
Academy
of Breastfeeding Medicine suggests 'chestfeeding,' 'father's milk' in new guidelines. The Academy of
Breastfeeding Medicine has issued guidelines that suggest employing such terms as "chestfeeding," "human milk feeding," and
"parent's milk" to promote what it calls "gender-inclusive language." The ABM position statement on "infant feeding and
lactation-related language and gender," co-authored by eight doctors and the academy, said that "the use of de-sexed or
gender-inclusive language is appropriate in many settings." "ABM recognizes that not all people who give birth and
lactate identify as female, and that some of these individuals identify as neither female nor male," said the four-page
document posted July 29.
The Editor says...
Do you really want to live in a world where there are no facts?
The
Four Horsemen of the Biden Apocalypse. Across America, our cities are on fire as crime is exploding. An
increasing number of innocent Americans are being victimized each day. Incredibly, liberal politicians have used the
opportunity to demand the defunding of police departments. This has only increased the number of police officers
resigning and retiring. As a result, police departments are understaffed, and recruitment is becoming extremely
difficult in urban areas that are viewed as being anti-police. The answer, according to Biden and the Democrats, is
always more gun control and never more criminal control. Citizens are unsafe on the streets of our cities, and our
children are unsafe in our public-school classrooms.
Producer
Price Index Records Highest Inflation Rate in History Since Tracking Began. The "producer price index" is
essentially the tracking of wholesale prices at three stages: Origination (commodity), Intermediate and Final.
The Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) released stunning price data showing a dramatic 7.8% price increase in Final Demand
products at the wholesale level. When you see the wholesale level of prices almost double the increase in consumer
level inflation rate, you can predict that consumer prices will likely go even higher. The future finished goods at a
retail level will carry the current wholesale price increase. Stuff costs a lot now, and stuff is about to cost even
more pretty soon. Food products are fast-turn consumable goods, and the inflation in the food sector is jaw-dropping
already. However, fresh and processed foods turn at different inventory levels.
American Armageddon.
Americans are growing angrier by the day in a way different from prior sagebrush revolts such as the 1960s Silent Majority or
Tea Party furor of over a decade ago. The rage at the current status quo this time is not just fueled by
conservatives. For the first time in their lives, all Americans of all classes and races are starting to fear a
self-created apocalypse that threatens their families' safety and the American way of life. The border is not just
porous as in the pre-Trump past. It is nonexistent. Some 2 million people may cross illegally in the current
fiscal year — with complete impunity. There is zero effort to stop them. Officials daily hector
Americans to get vaccinated and tested for COVID. But they are mute about illegal entrants, some of them infected with
the virus. Have we ever had a president who made no pretense about destroying federal immigration law and asking of
Americans what he does not of illegal aliens?
Inflation
Continues to Crush Middle Class, July Inflation 5.4 Percent, Milk 8 Percent, Energy 23 Percent, Gasoline 43
Percent. The Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) releases the inflation numbers for July showing massive U.S.
inflation continues to crush the working class. Massive increases in domestic food staples (+10%), energy (+23%) and
regular unleaded gasoline (+43%) are hitting the middle-class exceptionally hard. No middle-class Americans are having
their wages increase even close to the scale of price increases for basic purchases. This outcome results in massive
drops in "real wages" (wages minus inflation), and eliminates disposable income entirely. These outcomes are not due to
COVID-19 or any recovery therein. These outcomes are a direct result of Joe Biden economic and monetary policy.
The White House responds to inflation by saying the Biden administration is attempting to directly subsidize the middle-class
inflation they are creating by giving Americans money to pay for higher prices through COVID bailouts. Yes, the
administration admits they are exploding the dependency state.
Inflation
remains at 13-year high at 5.4%, despite Biden insisting soaring prices are temporary. A key measure of
inflation remained unchanged in July from its June level, spurring fears that price increases will continue to hit Americans
in the wallet. Federal data released on Wednesday showed that for the 12 months through July, the consumer price index
rose 5.4 percent, unchanged from June and at the highest level since the Great Recession in 2008. On a monthly basis,
consumer prices jumped 0.5 percent from June to July, down from the previous monthly increase of 0.9 percent.
For
Six Months Biden Has Shut Down U.S. Oil Production, Today Biden Asks OPEC to Pump More Oil. There's hypocrisy,
there's double speak, there's stupid decisions based on politics, and then there's this level of Biden hypocrisy and
stupidity that cannot be adequately encapsulated. President Trump's energy production policy made the U.S.A. energy
independent. We were actually exporting oil and gas to other nations. However, in the previous six months Joe
Biden has: (1) Shut down oil and energy development in ANWAR which would increase use of the Alaska pipeline[,]
(2) Blocked the Keystone Pipeline from completion[,] (3) Banned energy development on federal lands[,]
(4) Shut down the sale of energy leases in the Gulf of Mexico[,] and (5) Blocked energy development in Texas,
Louisiana, New Mexico and Alabama. As a direct and immediate consequence, gas and fuel prices have skyrocketed.
The price of Unleaded Regular Gasoline is now up over 60% from 2020.
Too
bad about those worker wage gains, Biden's inflation has already wolfed them down. Joe Biden, who plays
Mr. Everyman on TV, in real life has an amazing history of stiffing the little guy. He touts a federal $15-an-hour
minimum wage and raves about wage gains during his administration: [...] Biden's inflation ate them. How exactly does
that happen? Simple: It's government spending, with all the government debt that comes of it. With Biden's
monster $1.2-trillion infrastructure stimulus package in the works, and its even bigger $3.5-trillion "Bernie" budget
resolution now in the pipeline, it's set to get even worse. And Biden has spent [...] a lot already. [...] Where does
the money come from? It's certainly not in some bank account now. It's coming the Hugo Chávez way, which is
to say through the money-printing press.
American
Express tells its workers capitalism is racist. American Express, which made a $2.3 billion profit last
quarter, invited the great-grandson of the Nation of Islam's founder to tell its employees that capitalism is evil. It
was part of the credit card giant's critical race theory training program, which asks workers to deconstruct their racial and
sexual identities, then rank themselves on a hierarchy of "privilege." According to a trove of documents I've reviewed,
AmEx executives created an internal "Anti-Racism Initiative" after George Floyd's death last year, subjecting employees to a
training program based on the core CRT tenets, including intersectionality, which reduces individuals to a tangle of racial,
gender and sexual identities that determine whether he is an "oppressor" or "oppressed" in a given situation.
Impeach Joe
Biden. In just about seven months in office, Biden is surpassing what it took James Buchanan and Jimmy
Carter — two of the most wretched presidents in U.S. history — to achieve in four years. [...] Biden is
dissolving our southern border. Isn't that grounds for impeachment? Isn't it a president's duty to "protect and
defend" the nation by preventing hordes of illegals from entering the country? But dereliction is Biden's lesser
offense. His southern border policy flouts his duty as chief executive. Biden's defiance isn't the result of
misplaced compassion or incompetence. Very naïve Americans persist in characterizing the border crisis as due to
the Biden administration's bungling mismanagement. That's simply not true. As Tucker Carlson repeatedly points
out, the southern border breakdown is premeditated. The White House and congressional Democrats know what they're doing
and why.
The
Rage Orchestrating the Transformation of America. The unfortunate events of Jan. 6 were immediately pounced
upon by the Left and transmogrified into the worst attack on the Capitol ever — conveniently forgetting that the
British burned Washington in 1812, Puerto Rican terrorists (later pardoned by Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama) shot up the
House in 1954, and the Weather Underground (led in part by Obama buddy Bill Ayers) bombed the Capitol and other federal
buildings in the 1970s. [...] The various COVID vaccines, whose readiness was concealed by the drug companies until after the
election, are now being used as yet another crowd-control measure, restricting international travel (and, soon enough,
domestic travel as well) as well as entry into shops, restaurants, and other public spaces — all in the name of
"health" and "safety," of course. Political disagreement settled peaceably, good will, personal autonomy, bodily
integrity — these are now all things of the past. Meanwhile, our economy is in tatters, welfare is a way of
life, our constitutional freedoms have been willingly surrendered, our language has been mangled, and we are all at each
other's throats.
Biden's
Six Months In Office Have Us On The Road To Communism. America's southern border is open. According to
the US Customs and Border Patrol, close to 190,000 people crossed into the United States in June alone, and that number has
been accelerating in the six months since the Biden administration reversed all the Trump-era policies and refused to enforce
existing immigration law. At this rate, it's not inconceivable that we'll have absorbed another 30 million illegal
immigrants, or about 10 percent of the current U.S. population if Joe Biden serves two terms. That is an
invasion. The US military should be lined up virtually shoulder to shoulder along the entire length of the southern
border. But then who would vote for Democrats? The only immigrants crossing into this country from the south who
would not eventually vote for Democrats in large numbers are Cuban refugees. They are also, by and large, the only
group with legitimate asylum claims — and they are the only group Biden's government is turning away. Their
fate is something you probably don't want to think about, but it serves the purposes of the Biden administration, whose goal
is to import as many future Democrat voters as humanly possible. The Canadian border is now closed due to COVID but
illegal immigrants streaming across our southern border with their ten percent covid infection rate are being transported at
taxpayer expense into the U.S. interior. If this doesn't qualify as senseless, pointless, lunacy, I don't know what would.
The
Bad Path of Relativizing the Rule of Law. Progressive leaders have tacitly permitted criminals to run life off
the tracks and ruin it by relativizing the rule of law and behaving as if it applies to everyone else but them.
Conceptually, enforcing the law is the solution, but progressives don't see it that way. America's cities are
testaments to the abject failures of these policies because violent crime has escalated, especially murder. Yet
progressive district attorneys adamantly refuse to prosecute them. Moreover, the movement to eliminate cash bail
steadily gained traction as it has in New York, which attenuates accountability. It is incumbent upon district
attorneys to prosecute all those who commit violent crimes. But district attorneys Larry Krasner in Philadelphia and
Cyrus Vance, Jr. in New York don't see it that way. According to Niall McCarthy, a data journalist for Statista, the
world's leading statistical database, murder rates have risen 52% and 32%, respectively, in those jurisdictions during the
first half of 2020 when compared to the same period in 2019.
A
grandiose Rep. Cori Bush says the quiet part out loud. We've all known about this quiet part: It's
the one that says that high-level leftists, the ones who want to take our cars, air conditioners, heating, health care,
travel rights, and money, do not have to abide by their own rules. Rules are for the little people and, when it comes
to Bush's need for personal security guards while she's defunding your police, Bush is happy to explain why she's special.
[...] Cori Bush is the first-term congresswoman from Missouri's first congressional district (St. Louis, mostly).
She is an RN, a pastor and, most importantly, a hard-left activist who came to political prominence following the Ferguson
riots that followed after Michael Brown robbed a store, tried to steal a police officer's weapon, and was killed in the
resulting struggle. The BLM lie was that he had his hands up and said, "Don't shoot." Bush rode that lie into
Congress and has been one of the loudest advocates for defunding police all over America. Thanks to the effects of this
policy, poor and middle-class people have been slaughtered in Democrat-run American cities in unprecedented numbers.
Many parts of cities such as Chicago and New York are like war zones, only scarier.
When
Life Imitates A Terrifying Science Fiction Thriller. [Scroll down] Our Skynet is called Silicon Valley
and it is comrade to the American left. Unlike Skynet, which gained self-awareness, Silicon Valley is full of people
who seem to have no self-awareness at all. They proffer ideas that normal people recognize as ludicrous —
e.g., men can give birth, America is systemically racist, and defunding police leads to safer streets — yet they
think they are correct about everything. Just look at the world they exist in. The Bay Area is overrun with
homelessness, with drug addicts literally sprawled out on the sidewalks; the streets are covered with human feces and
hypodermic needles; violence is raging out of control; and so many criminals shoplift with impunity in full view of employees
and cameras that national chains and Mom & Pop shops alike are having to close their doors because they're losing so much
money. What's more, their calls for defunding the police persist, despite extraordinary spikes in violence.
Large
Democrat-Run Cities Lag Nation In Job Recovery. A new report reveals that large, Democrat-run cities are
lagging the nation — including other municipalities — in labor market recovery. Personal finance
company WalletHub combined three statistics — change in unemployment in June 2021 versus June 2019, June 2021
versus January 2020, and June 2021 versus June 2020 — to evaluate the cities with the fastest rebounds from high
unemployment rates caused by COVID-19 and the lockdown-induced recession. [...] The ten worst cities for labor market
recovery include the three largest metropolitan areas in the United States — New York City, Los Angeles, and
Chicago, led by Democratic mayors Bill de Blasio, Eric Garcetti, and Lori Lightfoot.
You've made your bed, now lie in it. Portland
wants to walk back defunding the police but officers don't want the jobs. Last June Portland's Mayor Ted
Wheeler, who is also the police commissioner, decided to put an end to the Gun Violence Reduction Team (GVRT) as part of an
effort to reimagine policing. The $6 million that would have gone to the team was redirected " toward communities of
color." Even at the time the assistant chief of police warned their could be serious consequences. [...][ Daryl Turner,
the head of Portland's Police Union issued a similar warning. "That is going to cripple us in our ability to be able to
stop violence in the streets of the city of Portland," he said. After the GVRT was cut, the number of shootings and
murders in Portland skyrocketed. Last September there were 110 shootings in Portland, a 243% jump compared to a year
earlier. At the end of the year, Portland had more than 900 shootings, double the previous year. The spike in
violence continued into 2021.
Joe Biden's failing
first crisis. It's difficult to find many Americans who aren't frustrated with Biden. A solid majority,
55 percent, told pollsters from ABC News they are pessimistic about the direction of the country in the next 12 months, with
only 45 percent saying they are optimistic. The survey represented a dramatic swing of 20 points since May, when
two-thirds said they were optimistic. The findings are stunning given that much of the media, especially the Times, has
treated Biden with kid gloves for the first six months of his presidency. But the protection racket can't hide what
people see with their own eyes. The inflation tax at the checkout line and gas station is inescapable, as is the
two-year crime and murder surge around the nation. On those two bedrock issues and so many others, the White House
seems either incompetent or impotent.
Our
Nation's Theme Parks Are The Real Dystopian American Vision. From Disney World and Universal Studios to Cedar
Point and Six Flags, America's theme parks may offer charm and exciting thrill rides, but they also offer a stark dystopian
vision of how far America is from the great country it once was. [...] As any miserable member of the decaying American
middle class knows, everything of real importance in their overcrowded, declining country costs more. Single-family
homes, university degrees, childcare, and health insurance have all surged in price. Often, as the price has exploded,
quality has fallen. A college degree is essential for most career paths, yet actual colleges teach less than ever, and
entire fields like English and anthropology have become embarrassing jokes. In cities like San Francisco, enormously
expensive housing is paired with the need to pay for a private school to avoid a calamitous public system. For millions
of Americans, the struggle to maintain the middle class trappings they grew up with has become a path to financial destruction.
Bacon
in California May Soon Be More Hard to Find as Pig Rules Take Effect. Thanks to a reworked menu and long hours,
Jeannie Kim managed to keep her San Francisco restaurant alive during the coronavirus pandemic. That makes it all the
more frustrating that she fears her breakfast-focused diner could be ruined within months by new rules that could make one of
her top menu items — bacon — hard to get in California. [...] Animal welfare organizations for years
have been pushing for more humane treatment of farm animals but the California rules could be a rare case of consumers
clearly paying a price for their beliefs.
Whitlock:
Simone Biles and the celebration of quitting are latest signs America has been hacked. The pace of change in
American culture is too rapid. A contemplative and reflective nation has turned rash and emotional. Feelings
drive the mood and attention span of the citizenry. Fear fuels our decision-making. With irrational children
punching in the data and interpreting the printouts, America is being forced to operate at the speed and with the precision
of a computer. Silicon Valley social media companies download information into our smartphones, and we instantly spit
out conclusions and solutions. It's unsustainable. Societies can't process information at warp speed.
Plagued by malware and viruses, we're malfunctioning. George Floyd is more revered than George Washington. "Three
Men and a Baby" is no longer a Hollywood movie featuring Tom Selleck, Ted Danson, and Steve Guttenberg. It's the ideal
family, according to the BLMLGBTQIA+ Alphabet Mafia. The same group says "gay is the new black." Jesus and Christianity
are more polarizing than Allah and Islam. But nothing has changed more rapidly than our position on quitting. In
48 hours, Olympic gymnast Simone Biles transformed the felonious act of quitting into a deed of breathtaking heroism.
Joe
Biden Moves to Bankrupt More Americans and You Can Thank Brett Kavanaugh. The economic illiteracy of the left
never ceases to amaze, and that's certainly true regarding Joe Biden's latest push. The president is now moving to
pressure Congress into extending the so-called "eviction moratorium" that has crippled the housing market and crushed
landlords across the country. This comes after some property owners have not gotten paid rent in over a year while they
still have to pay their mortgages. As you can see, this is really caring and compassionate stuff coming from Joe Biden.
[Tweet] The absurdity isn't just that this is coming under the guise of an "emergency," but that it's been allowed to
happen at all. On what planet does the CDC or Congress have the constitutional authority to literally steal people's
property with no reimbursement? Yet, that's exactly what's been happening. In fact, you can find multitudes of
left-wing ideologues willing to defend it as a right and just move, citing the supposed evils of landlords.
Do
We Have to Watch Their Wretched Movie All Over Again? The consumer price index for June rose on an annual basis
before seasonal adjustment by 5.4%. That's higher than May, which suggests that inflation is accelerating. And it's
far above the 2% annual rate, which is the professed goal of the Federal Reserve. Treasury Secretary and former Fed
Chair Janet Yellen insisted that the jumps in prices are just temporary adjustments to the COVID-19 economy, although she's
extended the period for adjustments. Current Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said he's not worried and will keep interest
rates low. They've got the bond market on their side. But those expressing alarm include not only the Wall Street
Journal editorial page but also Harvard economist and Clinton administration Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers. He's
been arguing for months that President Joe Biden's administration is pumping too much money into the economy.
Biden's
'Accomplishments' So Far: A Troubling Tale In 8 Charts. Months after President Joe Biden supposedly
"rescued" the country from the COVID-19 pandemic and promised that he'd bring the country together, how is the nation
doing? Well, there are several indicators on the rise. Unfortunately, they are all indicators of trouble.
The news Thursday [7/29/2021] that the GDP gained 6.5% in the second quarter (the first full quarter since Biden signed his
American Rescue Plan) is good. But it is well below economists' forecasts. The Blue Chip Consensus forecast was
above 9%, and other surveys pegged Q2 growth at 8.5%. It was also just barely above the gain in Q1 — which was
before any of Biden's policies had taken effect. Still, other things are on the rise under Biden, too, many of them
well above expectations. The misery index is up, for example, so is inflation, pessimism, and financial stress.
Illegal border crossings are up and murders are way up. Oh, and cases of COVID-19 — the disease Biden said
he would slay — are increasing again. Naturally, while taking credit for the good GDP number, the Biden
administration is trying to pin the blame for all these other things on President Donald Trump. But how convincing can
that be, when Biden ostentatiously broke with just about every one of Trump's policies and did so in ways that had an
immediate effect?
Irony,
Absurdity, and Dishonesty — The Democrat Party's Playbook. Amid the turmoil and trauma in the
aftermath of George Floyd dying in police custody (for which Officer Derrick Chauvin was convicted and sentenced for murder),
the outpouring of emotion and outrage became a call to "Defund the Police." [...] Nature abhors a vacuum, and human nature is
just the same. It is a sad fact that we live in a fallen world and when lawful authority exits or is diminished,
criminals will enter and increase. It was entirely predictable and has happened as predicted. There is a crime
wave sweeping the nation in those cities and municipalities run by liberal, "woke" Democrat politicians. Minorities and
the poor have suffered the most. This has not helped but has added immeasurable suffering, misery, and
devastation. Do these elected Democrats display any sense of accountability or responsibility for such a poorly
conceived policy? NO! They trot out talking points and try to blame Republicans for the mess they made.
Killer Biden Inflation Is His
Main 'Gift' To America. Excessive taxes, spending, and government regulation have once again gripped America thanks to the policies of Biden,
Harris, and the progressives. The predictable result is higher prices for everything and a repeat of the Carter Misery Index from which President Reagan
rescued us beginning in 1981. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and as confirmed by Americans for Tax Reform, since January 2021:
• Gasoline prices have increased by 45% and other energy prices by 24.5%
• The price of bacon has increased by 8.4% and seafood prices by more than 6%
• The price of fresh milk has increased by 7.5% and fresh fruits by 8.4%
• Prices for major appliances are up 14% and furniture and bedding have increased 8.5%
• Airfares have increased by nearly 25%
The root of inflation is too much money chasing too few goods, as our economist friend Milton Friedman frequently observed.
The New York Times warns that inflation also results in long-lasting damage if wages don't keep up.
The
closest you can get to mind control is speech control. Why has the United States been transmogrified in little
more than half a century from a Christian nation that joyously displayed Christmas trees and crèches in public spaces
into a secular nation that bans prayers at public school graduation ceremonies, allows men who "identify" as women to invade
female dressing rooms, and even celebrates a woman's constitutional "right" to snuff out the life in her womb? These
are a few of the transformations in American society that Michael Knowles analyzes in his recent work Speechless:
Controlling Words, Controlling Minds — transformations broadly attributed to "political correctness" and
Marxism.
Furious
restaurant owners vent at Biden for telling them to raise wages which they say will lead to MORE inflation.
Restaurant owners are lashing out at President Biden for telling them they have to raise wages in order to attract staff, a
move they say will drive inflation, put them out of business and shows how little he understands about the country's labor
crisis. There are still more than 12 million people in America claiming some kind of unemployment (5.9 percent) and
first-time claims rose to 419,000 last week, the highest in nearly two months. At the end of 2019, the number of
unemployed was 5.8 million (3.5 percent). The states with the highest unemployment rates (over 7 percent,
2 percent more than the national average), are California, Connecticut, DC, Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey,
New Mexico and New York, all of which are Democrat states.
Inflation
[is] Something to Be Concerned About Now. Inflation has been accelerating this year, and it isn't hard to see
why. Government spending has been so overwhelming that even former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, a
Democrat, said recently: ["]We are printing money. We are creating government bonds. We are borrowing
on unprecedented scales. Those are things that surely create more of a risk of a sharp dollar decline than we had
before. And sharp dollar declines are much more likely to translate themselves into inflation than they were
historically.["] Summers foresees the rise in inflation harming the poor the most. Others at risk include
savers and people on fixed incomes. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, which keeps track of inflation, reported July
13 that inflation was 5.4% in June, the highest percentage jump since 2008.
'Their
Hands Are Tied': San Francisco Locals Demand Change To Stop Brazen Crime. San Francisco local businesses and
employees are calling for change as they describe increasingly brazen shoplifting and car break-ins. Many residents
told Fox News they believe changing California law Proposition 47 is the solution. "The police are actually wonderful,
their hands are tied, that's what's going on out here." Gianni, a local who works in Fisherman's Wharf, told Fox News.
San Francisco Police Department's Public Information Officer, Robert Rueca explained "There's a threshold of 950 dollars that
needs to be met in order for a misdemeanor to turn into a felony when it comes to theft."
License
to shoplift: Two thieves brazenly stroll out of TJ Maxx with armfuls of clothes. Two men casually walked
out of a Los Angeles area TJ Maxx with their arms full of what appears to be stolen goods as brazen shoplifters continue to
rampage through California retail stores. Viral video posted earlier this week shows two men carrying armfuls of jeans,
jackets and other apparel as they casually saunter out of a TJ Maxx in the Granada Hills section of the San Fernando Valley
north of Los Angeles. 'That looks great,' one man is heard saying in the video as the two men head toward the door with
the stolen loot, making no haste as they leave.
Here's
Joe Biden's report card after six months in the White House. The first marking period is over and President
Biden's grades are coming in. [...] Government spending to ease the impact of the pandemic, coupled with mass vaccinations,
led the country's gross domestic product to surge 6.4 percent during the first quarter of 2021, with some economists saying
the growth is likely to continue throughout the year. But last week's unemployment figures showed 3.2 million workers
remained out of work even as new claims for jobless benefits dipped to a new pandemic low. And a poll last week showed
that more than 1.8 million jobless people turned down work during the pandemic due to hefty unemployment benefits.
This
Shocking Video Shows Just How Brazen Crime In California Has Become. California's slide into chaos has not been
an accident. A huge reason for the striking rise in homelessness and both petty and violent crime is Prop 47, a bill
deceptively titled the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act. The actual bill couldn't be further from the title. It
reduces the penalties for felony crimes, allows for early release of violent criminals, changes some violent felonies to
misdemeanors, and allows criminals to steal up to $950 dollars per day in property without prosecution. As a result,
police officers are less and less likely to respond to calls reporting petty theft, as there isn't much they can do with a suspect.
Radical
Travis County DA Garza Drops Indictment Against Cop, Claims 'New Evidence'. There may be a movie's worth of
drama going on inside the Travis County (Texas) District Attorney's Office. Jose Garza won that office on a platform
of, basically, letting criminals go free and indicting cops. Voters should pay more attention to what local
office-seekers are saying. Sometimes they actually mean it, and Garza did. If Austin had a dashboard, all the
lights would be blinking red. Austin, the capital of Texas and the heart and seat of Travis County, has suffered at
least 47 homicides in 2021. Violent crime is spiking. Police officers are leaving in droves, leaving the streets
much less defended from crime than before. That wasn't Garza's doing, Austin Mayor Steve Adler led the defunding of APD
in August 2020 (and has proceeded to gaslight the city that he didn't), but that together with Garza's pro-release priorities
are putting convicted felons back on the streets, where they are emboldened, while police officers face hostility from the
Austin government, forced critical race theory indoctrination (more on that in due time), and the demoralizing prospect of
facing an indictment from Garza, even if their cases have already been adjudicated.
The American Descent
into Madness. [Scroll down] We used to know what inflation was, its pernicious role in past
civilizations, and how to combat it. The danger of worthless currency is a staple of classical literature from
Aristophanes to Procopius. The scary fact is not just that we are destroying the value of our money — the
exploding price of gas, food, appliances, lumber, power, and housing are overwhelming even Joe Biden's entitlement
machine — but that we are constructing pseudoeconomics to justify the nihilism. Right now, we witness a
multitrillion-dollar fight over borrowing beyond our $30 trillion debt to build "infrastructure," a word that has been
expanded to include mostly anything but roads and bridges. What exactly is so liberal about the farmworker paying $5 a
gallon for gas to commute to the fields, the small contractor doing a remodeling job with plywood at $80 a sheet, or the
young couple whose loan qualification is always a month behind the soaring price of a new home? [...] America went from the
freest country in the world in December 2019 to a repressive, and frightening place by July 2021. It went not so much
hard-Left, as stark-raving mad.
The American Descent
into Madness. Nations have often gone mad in a matter of months. The French abandoned their supposedly
idealistic revolutionary project and turned it into a monstrous hell for a year between July 1793 and 1794. After the
election of November 1860, in a matter of weeks, Americans went from thinking secession was taboo to visions of killing the
greatest number of their fellow citizens on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. Mao's China went from a failed
communist state to the ninth circle of Dante's Inferno, when he unleashed the Cultural Revolution in 1966. In the last
six months, we have seen absurdities never quite witnessed in modern America. Madness, not politics, defines it.
There are three characteristics of all these upheavals. One, the events are unsustainable. They will either cease
or they will destroy the nation, at least as we know it. Two, the law has largely been rendered meaningless.
Three, left-wing political agendas justify any means necessary to achieve them.
Democrats
and the Tyranny of the Mob. If Target or Facebook or Coke or Nike or Disney want to beclown themselves by
genuflecting at the altar of wokeness that's their business and citizens have the option of shunning their products or
services. With government, however, there is no such freedom. Government, by its very nature, applies to all
citizens equally, or at least that's the theory. As such, when government bows to the mob and acquiesces to its
demands, the rule of law suffers. The last few years have been a virtual tour de force of government acquiescence to
the mob. One of the early examples of this was Baltimore's mayor and its previous mayor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake,
following the death of Freddie Gray in police custody. As the chaos erupted across the city, the mayor not only
acquiesced to the mob, she literally gave them permission to wreak havoc: "We also gave those wished to destroy space
as well." That is literally the definition of mob rule, and the mayor of a major American city let it happen. As
is usual with Democrat treachery, little thought was given to the rights of innocent citizens whose property was destroyed,
whose lives were put in jeopardy, or whose freedoms were quashed as they hunkered down in their homes hoping to survive the
chaos and violence.
NYC
sex workers rampant in open-air prostitution market amid lax enforcement. [Scroll down] When the police
ride through — in both marked and unmarked cars — business mostly carries on without
interruption. While cruising down the block one night, a cop flashed the lights of their unmarked car in an apparent
attempt at deterrence but took no other action. Current and former vice cops told The [New York] Post that there's little
incentive to make arrests, with the office of Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez moving away from prosecuting
prostitution cases, a shift that began in mid-2019. In January, Gonzalez's office moved to vacate some 262 warrants
stemming from prostitution cases dating back to 2012.
Leftists
can't connect the dots. What do they think the end scenario will be from teaching racist CRT doctrine to
children from pre-school through high school? What about the outcome of canceling fossil fuels to rely mainly on
renewable energy? Are they connecting any dots to see the outcome of passing trillion-dollar budgets when the economy
is already facing inflation? Are they following the sequence to see the endgame of allowing seemingly endless numbers
of illegal aliens into our country?
The
Dreaded Misery Index Is On The Rise Under Biden. The misery index spiked at the start of the COVID-19
lockdowns, jumping from 5.94 to over 15 in one month with the surge in unemployment. But then it quickly dissipated, as
the economy under Trump rebounded faster than the so-called experts had predicted. By the time Trump left office, the
misery index was back down to 7.7. A funny thing has happened since. The misery index has climbed each and
every month that Joe Biden has been president. In February, it ticked up to 7.9, then rose to 8.6 in March.
Last month, the misery index hit 11.3, as the monthly inflation rate climbed to 5.4% while the unemployment rate edged up to 5.9%.
Inflation
Nation: Biden Admin "There Will Be Several More Months Of Rapid Inflation". The Biden administration
announced there will be "several more months of rapid inflation" as inflation levels have repeatedly broken long-held
records. "We will have several more months of rapid inflation," Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said. "So I'm not
saying that this is a one-month phenomenon. But I think over the medium term, we'll see inflation decline back toward
normal levels. But, of course, we have to keep a careful eye on it." However, many economists are predicting the
high levels of inflation will persist for multiple years. "Americans should brace themselves for several years of
higher inflation than they've seen in decades, according to economists who expect the robust post-pandemic economic recovery
to fuel brisk price increases for a while," The Wall Street Journal reported. "The respondents on average now expect a
widely followed measure of inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy components, to be up 3.2% in the fourth quarter
of 2021 from a year before. They forecast the annual rise to recede to slightly less than 2.3% a year in 2022 and
2023. That would mean an average annual increase of 2.58% from 2021 through 2023, putting inflation at levels last seen
in 1993."
Media
Narrative Wrecked! Poll Shows 1.8 Million Turned Down Jobs Because of Government Handouts. A new poll
delivers a devastating blow to the latest lie from the mainstream media about unemployment. According to a poll from
Morning Consult, a whopping 1.8 million Americans turned down jobs because the government extended unemployment benefits and
it discouraged work. The outlet stated that 14.1 million Americans who were receiving unemployment insurance for the
week ending June 19 that "benefits reduced the number of accepted job offers by an estimated 1.84 million over the
course of the pandemic." The 1.84 million Americans turned down jobs likely because of government handouts.
Morning Consult's survey found that "most workers receiving unemployment insurance know that their benefits are about to expire,
signaling that job acceptance and search practices are likely to change even before benefits actually expire."
Bidenflation:
Cost of Gas, Used Cars Up 45%, Car Rentals 88%. Nearly all Americans expect the inflation under Joe Biden's presidency
will worsen still, even as the cost of gas and used cars is already up by 45 percent, and bacon up by 8.4 percent,
the Washington Examiner reported Thursday [7/15/2021]. "The hashtag #Bidenflation has been trending recently,"
wrote Washington Secrets columnist Paul Bedard, noting a new survey from Skynova, an online invoicing firm that found 88 percent
of people in the United States believe the current inflation is "here to stay and will soar more."
Explosive
Inflation Leads To Record Collapse In Home, Car Purchase Plans. For the past several months we have warned
about the pernicious effects soaring prices are having on both corporations ("Buckle Up! Inflation Is Here!") and
consumers ("This Is Not Transitory: Hyperinflation Fears Are Soaring Across America"), prompting even otherwise boring
sellside research to get (hyper) exciting, with Deutsche Bank (which warned this week that "Inflation Is About To Explode
"Leaving Global Economies Sitting On A Time Bomb") and Bank of America (which "Just Threw Up All Over The Fed's 'Transitory'
Argument") now openly claiming that the Fed is wrong, and the US is facing an unprecedented period of far higher,
non-transitory inflation, with DB going so far as to warn "policymakers will face the most challenging years since the
Volcker/Reagan period in the 1980s." But none of this has spooked the Fed into conceding — or
believing — that inflation is anything more than transitory. And maybe just this once, the Fed has a point
because all else equal, by which we mean lack of rising wages, the best cure to higher prices is, well, higher prices.
The Democrats'
Topsy-Turvy Spin Machine. The oceanic influx of unskilled labor at the southern border cannot fail to aggravate
unemployment and depress the incomes for the vulnerable sectors of what, under President Trump, was a fully employed
workforce. The administration has reduced domestic oil production and squandered the country's status as an energy
self-sufficient state. [...] This regime has embraced the most hair-raising, unproven, terroristic versions of the climate
change issue, and it's only answer to surging increases in violent crime is the tired Democratic mantra about gun
control. The firearms don't discharge themselves and are now mainly used for self-defense and deterrence. It is
legally and politically impossible to reduce significantly the immense number of firearms in the country and the sophistry
about what constitutes an "assault weapon" will not achieve anything.
Bidenflation
is so bad, even Wolf Blitzer noticed. Inflation can be curbed. Under President Donald John Trump, the USA
was a net producer of oil and natural gas for the first time in 50 years. Unemployment fell to 3.5%. Biden
reversed that by opposing the Keystone XL pipeline and blocking drilling. Unemployment is now 5.9% and inflation 5.4%
for a misery index of 11.3. The Federal Reserve has kept the interest rates at ridiculous lows for decades. It is
time to raise those interest rates to reduce inflation. Finally, the USA needs to make its own computer chips.
Red China's shortage of these chips has led to a shutdown of the auto industry, which has pushed prices higher as people turn
to buying used cars, pushing those prices higher.
Once
Beautiful Portland is Now A Progressive Nightmare. After years of progressive rule, Portland has fallen!
Antifa rules the streets, the homeless rule the parks and criminals rule everything in between. After more than a year
of allowing most homeless camps to remain intact so as not to displace people during the pandemic, cities across the country
are now beginning to confront another public health crisis unfolding on their streets. The number of Americans who are
homeless has increased in each of the past five years, according to government data, and for the first time more than half of
homeless adults are living not in shelters but in tents or sleeping bags outside. There has yet to be a nationwide
homelessness count since the start of the pandemic, but a quarter of Americans now report being at "imminent risk" of losing
their homes, and cities up and down the West Coast say they are overwhelmed by an unprecedented rise in homeless people,
hazardous encampments and related trash. [Video clip]
In
Many Cities In America, The Criminals Are Starting To Gain Firm Control Of The Streets. Every week the
horrendous crime wave that is sweeping across America seems to get even worse. In some of our largest cities, looting,
murder and violence are becoming a way of life, and authorities seem powerless to do anything about it. Is this what we
can expect life in the United States to look like moving forward? All over the globe, people are watching us, and they
are stunned by what they have been witnessing. Criminals are wildly out of control, and many of our largest cities are
being transformed into extremely violent war zones.
North
Dakota Gov.: Biden Oil and Gas Lease Halt Has Already Cost over $100 Million in Lost Revenue, Could Cost Billions if It
Continues. On Friday's [7/9/2021] broadcast of the Fox Business Network's "Varney & Co.," North Dakota
Gov. Doug Burgum (R) discussed his state's lawsuit against the Biden administration's halt on oil and gas leases on
public lands and said the suspension of the leases has already cost state, county, and local governments over $100 million
in lost revenue, and "going forward, the cost could easily run into the hundreds of millions of dollars, and if it went on
permanently, it could be billions of dollars."
The
Nation That Wouldn't Get Out Of Bed And Go To Work. A country of roughly 330 million has more than 9 million
job openings, and 9.5 million unemployed. This is a disgrace, a clear indication that our American character and work
ethic are slipping, a rolling tragedy that's been authored by the Democrats. [...] According to the Labor Department, there
was a record high of 9.2 million job openings in May, and 9.5 million jobless in June. ZipRecruiter reckons as many
as 15 million jobs need to be filled. Either way, millions are ignoring what MarketWatch describes "an insatiable demand
for labor as the economy fully reopens and businesses scramble to keep up with soaring sales for their goods and services."
We have arrived at this point in history because the Democrats have made sitting at home collecting a government check a better
financial decision than working. We covered this in May, when we said "as part of Biden's 'American Rescue Plan,' the Democrats
included a $300 weekly bonus to those on unemployment that runs until September. The plan included various other handouts that
are letting the jobless live comfortable lives at the moment." In some cases, taxpayer-funded benefits are higher than the
wages recipients would receive in return for their labor.
The
'Minneapolis Effect' Caused Last Year's Spike in Violent Crime. The spike in violent crime last year was a
serious departure from recent crime patterns over the last several decades. In fact, 2020 was likely the deadliest year
for gun-related homicides since 1999. According to the Gun Violence Archive, more than 19,000 people died of gun
violence in 2020. This spike was particularly acute in major cities across the country. For example, Minneapolis saw a
95% year-over-year increase in homicides between May and Aug. 1. In Chicago, homicides more than doubled in July 2020,
compared to 2019. And New York experienced a 50% increase in homicides and a 112% increase in shootings. Sadly, that is
only the tip of the iceberg of cities that experienced this surge. What caused that sudden spike? Paul Cassell, a law
professor at the University of Utah and a former federal judge, persuasively answers that question in a recent law review article.
The Unlivable
City. People are fleeing California in general, and San Francisco in particular, in droves. As to San
Francisco, the fundamental problem is lawlessness. Which means not just violent crime, which the city has in abundance,
but a breakdown in the fundamental norms of civilization that make urban living possible. The main problem is that San
Francisco's far-left city administration has decided not to prosecute theft. The result, naturally, is an epidemic of
theft. Thus Target, for example, is now closing its San Francisco stores at 6 p.m. [...] How low has San Francisco
sunk? Check out this video of thieves openly stealing handbags and similar products from a Neiman Marcus store:
[Video clip]
Colorado:
America's Leftist Laboratory. In just a few brief years, Colorado has been transformed from a symbol of
independence and self-determination into the liberal Left's laboratory for social experimentation. Its citizens have
become caged lab rats made to endure unrelenting torturous socialist/Marxist research procedures that are subsequently
exported to and replicated by fellow travelers in other liberal states. Put simply, Colorado is the nation's
leftist-lab for social engineering. This state is now the political equivalent of the Nevada and Marshall Islands
nuclear testing sites of the 1940s. Colorado is now politically radioactive.
The
Genesis of Our American Collective Meltdown. Within the space of about 6 months in 2021, the costs of the
essentials of life have skyrocketed — food, gasoline, housing, appliances, cars and trucks, and building
materials. Non-ending streams of stimulus money, huge deficits, and pent-up demand so far have ensured that Americans
would pay such spiking prices. And soon radical inflation may trigger 1970s stagflation and then recession, as the
"why-go-to-work?" checks and consumer zeal finally cease, but the government printing machine keeps going. What good is
free government money if spiraling prices eat away the entitlement?
It's
Independence, not In Dependence, Day. Two hundred and forty-five years ago, the brave Founders of this nation
declared their independence from the rule of George III, the monarch of Great Britain. In so doing they
declared — and put at risk — their lives, liberty, and fortunes — to stand for freedom and
self-determination. Looking at the week's news it's easy to see why many of us feel the liberty they fought for and
enshrined in the Constitution that followed is slipping away at the hands of vocal minorities who have captured the media,
Big Tech, the education establishment, the federal executive branch, and even the military. By way of example, we
learned that in San Diego one unit of the Navy — a military branch in recent years rife with incompetence just as
it looks that we will most need it — was forced to take a mandatory diversity hike for Pride Month waving LGBT
flags. This is not the first time members of this unit were forced to support this stuff against their free speech rights.
On
A Collision Course With National Disaster. If I were leading President Joe Biden's central committee and my
goal were to destroy America as founded and ensure that it lose its distinction as the world's freest and most powerful
nation, I doubt I could concoct a superior strategy than adopting the Biden administration's message and policy agenda.
The administration is creating total societal chaos, fomenting disorder and undermining the rule of law at every turn.
As the first duty of government is to protect and defend its citizens, we might be alarmed to consider that the
administration is engaged in a multipronged strategy to do the opposite. It is shrinking our military, which defends
against foreign threats. It is at war with law enforcement, which ensures domestic tranquility, and it is destroying
our southern border. It is systematically destroying our liberty and prosperity.
Target
Will Close San Francisco Stores Early Due To Rising Thefts. Retail chain Target will be closing its stores in
San Francisco, California, early due to increases in shoplifting in the city. ABC 7 reported that Target acknowledged
San Francisco's high retail crime by closing its stores earlier in the day in an attempt to cut down on shoplifting.
"For more than a month, we've been experiencing a significant and alarming rise in theft and security incidents at our San
Francisco stores, similar to reports from other retailers in the area," a Target spokesperson told NBC Bay Area in a
statement Friday night. "Target is engaging local law enforcement, elected officials and community partners to address
our concerns. With the safety of our guests, team members and communities as our top priority, we've temporarily
reduced our operating hours in six San Francisco stores."
The
Woke Learn What Consequences Are. After years of unpunished retail theft, Target has decided to close six of
its area stores early. [Tweet] Of course, the outcry is that this is racist — because these stores are in
predominantly poor, minority neighborhoods. So, while the woke are learning what consequences are, they certainly
aren't willing to accept and learn from them. The reality is that Target, no matter how much money they give to Black
Lives Matter or how many rainbow stripes they put on their logo during the month of June, is still a business. They can
act as woke as they want in their advertisements, but if they can't make money doing something, they aren't going to keep
doing it. When local DAs and city councils bless the idea that petty theft is not a crime, allowing people to walk in
and steal hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise without even being arrested, this is what you get.
Biden
polls horribly on his handling of rising crime. Americans are giving President Biden dismal ratings on his
handling of rising crime, a new poll found. The ABC News/Washington Post poll released Friday morning revealed that
just 38 percent of Americans approve of the 46th commander-in-chief's response to recent crime spikes nationwide. On
the other side, 48 percent said they disapproved. As crime rates have continued to surge, lawmakers have been quick
to point fingers to avoid their party taking blame. Republicans have largely argued that Democrats' efforts to defund the
police, remove qualified immunity for police officers and introduce cashless bail have all contributed to the budding crisis.
The
Real Reason They Blame Heat Deaths, Blackouts, and Forest Fires on Climate Change Is Because They're Causing
Them. [Scroll down] [W]hat determines whether or not there is enough electricity is whether there are
sufficient "baseload," reliable power plants and fuels, not marginally higher use of air conditioners. The people who
manage electricity grids knew perfectly well that it could be hot last summer, hot this summer, and that a cold snap like the
one that occurred in Texas in February was likely, since worse cold snaps had occurred in the past. The main reason
there aren't enough reliable power plants is because progressive activists, scientists, and journalists successfully
persuaded policymakers to shut them down, not build them, or not operate them. [...] Hundreds of people have died in North
America over the last few days from lack of air conditioning. But for years activist analysts, scientists, and
journalists have claimed we have too much of it.
Dan
Crenshaw: Troops at Fort Bliss Forced to Wear IDs with Race and Social Class During Diversity Training.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) this week revealed several instances where service members were forced to classify themselves
by race and socio-economic status during diversity and inclusion training. In one instance, Crenshaw said soldiers were
forced to wear personal identification badges that listed their race, ethnicity, social class, and other things, during at
training at Fort Bliss in Texas. Crenshaw said the badges reduced soldiers to a list of characteristics that have
"nothing to do with their service or their training or the content of their character."
This
Independence Day, Historic American Nation Facing "State Conquest" — By Anti-America And The Minority Occupation
Government. [Scroll down] General Robert E. Lee and General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson were once honored
by Americans as model Christian leaders, regardless of their Civil War difference. Today, the Southern Baptist
Convention, once the redoubt of Southern Christian conservatism, is trembling before Critical Race Theory. The
desecration of Christian morality and symbols is so common it barely attracts notice. In contrast, putting skidmarks on
a rainbow flag on a road can lead to felony charges. Let's not kid ourselves that blasphemy charges are only to be
found in the Muslim world, or that we don't have a state religion of our own.
There's no point in trying to politely address a crowd any more. Disney
World has removed the 'Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls' greeting from its Magic Kingdom fireworks show.
Disney World has made another change at its Orlando, Florida, theme park as part of the company's initiative to become more
inclusive. Employees were invited to a "cast member" preview of the "Happily Ever After" fireworks show at Magic
Kingdom on Wednesday. The event was the first fireworks showing hosted at Disney World since the nightly shows were
halted at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the fireworks show seemingly remains unchanged, the preshow
recording is now different. As heard in videos shared by employees, Disney World has replaced the "Ladies and
Gentlemen, Boys and Girls" greeting with one that says "Good evening, dreamers of all ages!"
The
truly scary China Virus variant. The symptoms vary but are becoming increasingly recognizable:
uncontrollable cackling at questions that aren't funny; sleeping with Chinese spies; incoherently babbling to a national TV
audience; identifying boys as girls and girls as boys; silently watching as criminals destroy our cities, while ordering the
police to stand down; and, in the name of anti-racism, teaching people to hate an entire race based on the color of their
skin. There are countless more examples, but you get the general idea. This horrible disease is most evident in
career politicians (usually, but not always, Democrats), bureaucrats, newscasters, and Silicon Valley tycoons. Sadly,
the virus has now infected the military, as evidenced by the recent "woke" ramblings of an ignorant tool who sits as chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. But the biggest threat to the general public comes from academics, who use the education
system to infect youngsters from kindergarten through college. Students learn to hate their country and respect
socialism, the slightly weaker variant of the real virus that threatens our Republic. The China Virus to which
I'm referring is Communism.
And
Now Prices Are Really Soaring: June Rent Jump Is Biggest On Record. With BofA predicting that the US is facing a
period of "transitory hyperinflation", one which could last up to 4 years, as a result of soaring commodity prices in everything from
metals to food and beyond, in what increasingly more warn is a stagflationary burst right out of the 1970s playbook.
Cops
Quit in Droves as Crime Skyrockets and 'Defund' Movement Grows. Police retirements and resignations rose
significantly over the course of the last year amid widespread riots and coinciding calls to defund the police, according to
a survey of about 200 police departments nationwide. The survey of roughly 200 police departments revealed that
retirements were "up 45 percent and resignations rose by 18 percent in the year from April 2020 to April 2021 when compared
with the previous 12 months, according to the Police Executive Research Forum, a Washington policy institute," as reported by
the New York Times.
Election
Integrity: The Firewall That Keeps America Free. There is no denying that the COVID-19 viral invasion was
a catalyst for so much of the disruption of 2020, culminating in election irregularity in November. By spring 2020,
normal activities and businesses were largely shut down nationwide by federal and local governments' response to COVID-19.
Antifa and BLM protests and riots in May and June brought the costliest manmade damage to American property in history.
Then the cancel culture, already ensconced and in control of college and university campuses, came to the streets and parks of
America in the tearing down historic monuments — all the while law enforcement was coming under severe attack with
numerous police departments facing prospects of defunding. This lockdown-crisis environment gave Democrats an opportunity
to push for change in state election rules to their advantage, such as allowing wholesale distribution of mail-in ballots,
extension of deadlines for counting those ballots, and legal challenges to voter ID and signature verification laws.
And we all now know the result: the November 3rd election was characterized by unprecedented election
irregularities and charges of vote fraud in more states than any prior election.
Austin's
Homicide Number Passes 40 As Defunding the Police Takes Its Toll. Austin Mayor Steve Adler and Council Member
Greg Casar defunded the city's police in the name of racial justice and equity. Did they anticipate that their decision
would result in a skyrocketing murder rate that disproportionately impacts the city's minorities? That's what's
happening. Austin suffered 47 homicides in all of 2020, which was the worst year for homicides in a decade. 2021, the
year in which defunding the police kicked in, will surely surpass 2020's total. Two fatal shootings in Givens Park on
the city's east side this week push the 2021 homicide total to 41 so far.
Portland
Police Limit Traffic Stops, Searches in [Pursuit] of "Racial Equity". Police in Portland, Oregon's largest
city, are being advised to no longer pursue low-level traffic infractions — including expired plates and broken
headlights — unless related to an immediate safety threat, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and Police Chief Chuck
Lovell announced Tuesday [6/22/2021]. According to the changes to the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) protocols, officers
will no longer prioritize making traffic stops for the enforcement of low-level traffic infractions, such as expired tags or
minor equipment issues, that aren't immediate public safety threats. Also, officers will follow new consent search
protocols that will "help ensure residents are aware of their Fourth Amendment rights." If police do stop a driver, they
must receive recorded consent before searching the vehicle and clearly inform the person they have the right to refuse.
Police Chief Lovell has instructed his officers to not pull citizens over for "less serious, non-moving violations" and
instead focus on those who are making the road unsafe for others, including anyone driving under the influence and reckless
drivers.
Are You
Living by Lies? [Rod] Dreher was inspired to write his book by heroic dissidents who refused to bend the knee
to communist tyrants and saw a similar tyranny becoming ensconced in the United States. These moral giants are
astonished that the primary beacon of freedom during their years of oppression has become a society where speech and actions
disapproved by secular elites are regularly squelched and punished. Religious freedom, for example, is being reduced to
the freedom to gather in congregations where (at least for now) marriage is affirmed by a priest, rabbi, or minister, a
freedom that doesn't extend beyond meeting walls to how a baker runs his business. [...] Under this soft totalitarianism,
Americans are now compelled "to engage in doublethink every day. Men have periods. The woman standing in front of
you is to be called 'he.' Diversity and inclusion means excluding those who object to ideological uniformity.
Equity means treating persons unequally, regardless of their skills and achievements, to achieve an ideologically correct
result." I might add to that short summary the lie that America is a racist country, that law enforcement and our
judicial system are institutionally racist, and that America was founded in 1619 upon the bedrock principle of white racism.
What
Is to Be Done? A Blueprint for Taking the Country Back. As we sit here, six months into the disastrous
Biden administration, the question is finally becoming evident to even the most politically disinterested American. The
quality of life in the big blue cities has deteriorated markedly. The cost of gasoline has seemingly doubled
overnight. The petty restrictions imposed unconstitutionally on the electorate are still insisted upon in many
places — proof once more that tyranny is not primarily about rounding up folks and shipping them off to camps, but
insisting that they conform to the most picayune and counter-factual ukases, just to illustrate their powerlessness.
The very fact that you still must wear a slave muzzle to enter a federal building is a visible sign of your continuing
humiliation and subjugation. And the manic insistence that everyone in the United States be forced to undergo the
largest unsupervised medical experiment in history ought to tell you all you need to know about the "vaccines."
My body, my choice? Forget about it, comrade.
Our
National Delusion Won't Stop with Book-Burning. [Scroll down] It's just a little censorship, Google,
Facebook, and Twitter say. So we put you in virtual time-out or purge your voice from the internet for "spreading
hate" — what's the harm? It's just a little citizen designation, Attorney General Garland says. What
could possibly go wrong with legally defining half of the American populace as "domestic violent extremists" because they
voted for Donald Trump or as "white supremacists" because they have the wrong color skin? Conservatives are just too
"touchy" these days. Nothing bad ever happens when a certain class of people are designated as enemies of the State for
supporting the "wrong" ideas — nope, nothing to see here. Except, it never, ever ends with just
censorship or labeling. What starts with burning words — whether on paper or in digital space —
always ends with burning people.
US
Reliance on Russian Oil Surges to Record High Amid Tensions. Russian oil imports have set a new record in the
United States despite the strained relationship between Washington and Moscow. Industry experts believe the Biden
administration's climate policies will make the country more dependent on foreign oil producers. The United States
imported record levels of crude oil from Russia in March and is expected to continue importing at high levels in coming
months, according to the Western Energy Alliance, a trade association that represents 200 independent natural gas and oil
producers in the United States. Imports of crude oil and petroleum products from Russia reached 22.9 million barrels in
March, the highest level since August of 2010, according to International Energy Agency (IEA). Of the total amount, crude oil
imports from Russia stood at 6.1 million barrels. Russia has become the third-largest oil exporter to the United States.
The
US Government as a Sleazy Salesman. [Scroll down] Two trillion, three trillion, four. Why stop
there? People are hurting. You know — COVID. Everything is "infrastructure," which everyone uses,
right? Even the huge deficits some states ran up over a period of years spending money on heaven knows what are now
being underwritten by federal "stimulus." Government is making it rain. Its largesse is so great that many
employers can't staff daily operations. Their former employees still need grocery money, but they no longer need to
clock in to earn it. They're finding it elsewhere. Nice work if you can get it — and many millions
can, apparently. Who can blame them? Work is hard. Wake up early, make the commute, and spend eight hours
doing something you wouldn't otherwise do. Most jobs aren't all that rewarding. Even a relatively small amount of
well timed government money is an acceptable substitute, especially when a chunk of it is tax-exempt. The problem is
that direct payments to individuals are hideously expensive when those many millions of citizens, plus an unknown number of
illegals, may be eligible.
Tucker Carlson, Buckhead, and
Why Our Cities Fail. The rich know better than to kick up much of a fuss about bad government. They don't
need to. Most of what they need they pay for out of pocket, like private security in their neighborhoods and private
schools for their children. [...] The poor can be bought off cheaply with crumbs from the table. They don't expect much
and are given even less than that. So the schools are a disaster — because if they aren't, the poor might
become middle-class, and that won't do at all. And the roads are a mess. And the criminals rule the streets with
the tacit approval of the politicians. After all, a long time ago, urban Democrats realized there are more votes
throwing in with the street criminals and the lowest common denominator than the law-abiding in those terrible neighborhoods;
the law-abiding, after all, want nothing more than to get out and move up. They're ruling over a ruin, but they
rule. And the ruin pays well. Every bit of lost revenue from the disappearance of a city's tax base gets made up
with federal grant money, virtually none of which is controlled very tightly by purse strings. It's eminently
stealable, and it's eminently stolen. The worse things get, the more money is thrown at the problem.
Wholesale
prices jump 6.6% in the fastest rise on record as soaring inflation threatens economic recovery. Wholesale
prices in the U.S. increased at their fastest annual rate ever in May, driven by rising food prices, as soaring inflation
threatens to derail the post-pandemic economic recovery. The producer price index, which measures inflation pressure before
it reaches consumers, rose 0.8 percent in May for an annual gain of 6.6 percent, the biggest jump since annual data
was first compiled in 2010, the Labor Department said Tuesday [6/15/2021]. The annual gain is somewhat skewed by a 'base
effect' from last year's data, when prices plunged early in the pandemic, but nevertheless offers another worrying signal to
consumers that their dollars won't stretch as far as they used to.
Police
retirements have soared 45 Percent since BLM protests erupted. Police retirements have risen by 45 percent in
the past year, with officers opting out of forces across the country amid Black Lives Matter demonstrations that fueled
anti-cop rhetoric. The alarming statistic was revealed by the Police Executive Research Forum on Sunday, with the
organization also revealing that resignations rose by 18 percent during the same twelve month period. 'It is an
evolving crisis,' Chuck Wexler, the organization's executive director, told The New York Times, adding that police forces
are also struggling to attract new recruits.
Kevin
McCarthy Sends Letter To Members Outlining America's Declining Condition Under Biden, Democrats. House Minority
Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) unloaded on Democrat President Joe Biden in a letter sent to Republican lawmakers on Sunday [6/13/2021],
warning that the Democrats' policies were doing significant harm to the country. McCarthy's letter started off by noting that
the Trump administration's Operation Warp Speed was paying off big time as communities across the country come back to life
following the coronavirus pandemic, which killed hundreds of thousands of Americans and devastated the economies of many
states. However, beneath the surface, the policies of the Biden administration and of Democrats in general are
causing a variety of problems, McCarthy argues.
[The]
Biden Administration [is] Turning [the] Military Into [a] Left-Wing Force. No institution in
America — from government offices to schoolrooms to corporate boardrooms and beyond — is safe today
from the poisonous racism of Critical Race Theory and the "1619 Project" which posit that United States history is rooted in
slavery and white supremacy, and that "whiteness" is an incurable disease. The institution whose subversion poses the
greatest threat to our national security is the military, now overseen by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, a determined
advocate of these repulsive anti-American views. Austin has required both Critical Race Theory and the 1619 Project as
core elements of the Pentagon's military training programs — concealing their sinister agendas under the
innocuous-sounding "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" label. He has ordered a purging of the military ranks of what he
calls "extremists," defined as opponents of these noxious views and supporters of Donald Trump and the Capitol protest of
January 6th.
Inflation's
Here, Getting Worse, And Could Last Longer Than COVID-19 Pandemic. Both the out-of-touch Biden administration
and our betters at the Federal Reserve Board continue to assert that inflation's no big thing. They're right.
It's not, unless you work for a living. Then it's a very big thing indeed. We were told by all the best "experts"
that inflation is ephemeral, a mere blip. The Fed keeps telling us the recent jump in prices is "transient."
Democrats and many of their media friends continue to insist it's not an issue. Just keep spending, they say.
Stimulus! But calling the recent burst in inflation "transient" or any other such euphemism to suggest it's like a
brief summer cold is not exactly accurate. In fact, it's wrong. The recent surge in inflation isn't likely to go
away anytime soon. Indeed, it's even worse than the numbers now indicate.
Stolen elections have consequences: Federal
Reserve tells employees to avoid 'biased terms' like 'Founding Fathers'. The Federal Reserve has instructed
employees to adopt "bias-free language" and avoid using biased terms like "Founding Fathers," according to an internal
webpage obtained by Fox News. The Federal Reserve's Board of Governors issued the guidance for all employees nationwide
on April 29, a former Fed staffer with knowledge of the matter told Fox News. "Bias-free language recognizes diversity
and avoids stereotyping, demeaning, or excluding people on the basis of gender, race, ethnic group, religion, age,
ability/disability, or sexual orientation," the guidance states. "Try to avoid words and phrases that may be considered
offensive, pejorative, or prejudiced (whether consciously or unconsciously), as these can distract your audience from the
ideas/information you're trying to convey," it continues.
Federal
Reserves Instructs Employees To Avoid 'Biased' Terms Like "Founding Fathers". And the absurdity just keeps
coming. The latest organization to act as the speech police for its employees is the Federal Reserve. The Fed's
employees are reportedly being trained to "avoid bias" in their language, including avoidance of terms like "Founding
Fathers" and "grandfathered."
Understanding
the Deliberate Agenda of Our Ruling Class. If you pay attention to recent discussions of social and economic
change, much of the rhetoric attempts to normalize what used to be considered unmistakable marks of poverty. Rather
than living in a home with a family, you are supposed to embrace the child-free life and see the benefits of a pod or a tiny
home. Instead of meat, which is now scarce and expensive, you are going to eat the bugs and enjoy them.
Electricity itself may prove scarce, but this is the price of reducing global warming. Video games and
travel — ephemeral things that do not last — are offered as substitutes for the old fruits of a free
market economy: a job, a home, and economic independence. Culture makers and political leaders have moved away from
talk about the American Dream and towards preparing us for privation. Biden's speeches often have this quality.
While he's bragging now about gains in jobs, he also speaks in very dark terms about the need for collective sacrifice and
the country's uncertain future.
Bidenomics
is proving a total disaster that could send America back to stagnant '70s. Bidenomics is proving an utter
disaster for American workers and consumers, and don't bet on it to end soon. With the pandemic all but
over — more than half of American adults are fully vaccinated, and transmissions have fallen through the
floor — the economy wants to roar back to life. Job openings climbed to 9.3 million in April, the highest
number since the Labor Department started collecting the stats in 2000 and a million more than in March, the feds announced
last week. But businesses are having trouble filling those spots: 3.5 million Americans are still on unemployment
benefits, the feds also revealed. It's a big drop from 19.2 million at COVID's height, but still twice the pre-COVID
level, even though nearly all the job-killing restrictions are no more.
Biggest
Core Inflation Rise in 30 Years as Biden Economy Crushes American Dreams. The American Dream is moving further
and further out of reach under the Biden regime whose disastrous economic policies are crushing the country. While the
Democrats spend as much money as they can, most of it going to political pork for their donors and backers, the cost of
living is becoming impossible for millions of Americans who can't afford a house or a car, and as inflation rises, much of
anything at all.
The
Hangover Arrives: Explosive Inflation Leads To Record Collapse In Home, Car Purchase Plans. For the past
several months we have warned about the pernicious effects soaring prices are having on both corporations and consumers,
prompting even otherwise boring sellside research to get (hyper) exciting, with Deutsche Bank and Bank of America now openly
claiming that the Fed is wrong, and the US is facing an unprecedented period of far higher, non-transitory inflation, with DB
going so far as to warn "policymakers will face the most challenging years since the Volcker/Reagan period in the 1980s."
But none of this has spooked the Fed into conceding — or believing — that inflation is anything more
than transitory. And maybe just this once, the Fed has a point because all else equal, by which we mean lack of rising
wages, the best cure to higher prices is, well... higher prices. Presenting Exhibit A: two weeks ago, we observed
that anticipating an end to Biden's stimmy bonanza end and that soon they will have to live again within their means, Americans'
buying intentions (6 months from today) as measured by the Conference Board, had cratered across the 3 major spending categories:
homes, automobiles and major household appliances.
We're
Not Going Back to a 1970s Economy. It's Worse than That. We may be returning to the economy of the 1970s,
but that poor economic period had its roots in the 1960s. If we are witnessing what has been compared to the 1970s,
what does our future have in store for us? What roots are we planting now? The bill proposed at this time by the
Biden administration and the Democrats in Congress is for six trillion dollars in spending. This alone is more than 25%
of the amount the Great Society spent in its first fifty years. While that is unadjusted for inflation, the point
remains. That doesn't include the trillions spent in the previous year due to the COVID pandemic. Are we
witnessing the Great Society on steroids?
Everything
was better with President Trump in the White House. Incredibly, only four months have passed since Joseph
Robinette Biden, Jr. was installed as president and in that brief time, he has done more damage than anyone could have
thought possible. On day one Biden stopped work on the Keystone pipeline, now truly defunct, which cost thousands of
jobs. [...] President Trump made us energy independent. Now we are again importing oil, even from Iran. He
removed sanctions that prevented Russia from completing their Nordstream pipeline that will enrich that country
fabulously. He has stopped drilling on federal lands including ANWR and put an end to nearly all drilling for our own
oil on federal lands. He is intentionally strangling the US oil industry without regard for the hardships this will
bring to all Americans.
Another
jump in prices tightens the squeeze on US consumers. American consumers absorbed another surge in prices in
May — a 0.6% increase over April and 5% over the past year, the biggest 12-month inflation spike since 2008.
The May rise in consumer prices that the Labor Department reported Thursday reflected a range of goods and services now in
growing demand as people increasingly shop, travel, dine out and attend entertainment events in a rapidly reopening
economy. The increased consumer appetite is bumping up against a shortage of components, from lumber and steel to
chemicals and semiconductors, that supply such key products as autos and computer equipment, all of which has forced up
prices. And as consumers increasingly venture away from home, demand has spread from manufactured goods to
services — airline fares, for example, along with restaurant meals and hotel prices — raising inflation
in those areas, too.
Inflation
surges as consumer prices leap 5%, biggest jump since 2008. Inflation continued to surge in May, with consumer
prices accelerating at the fastest pace in more than 12 years as the economy emerges from the pandemic, the feds said
Thursday [6/10/2021]. The Labor Department's Consumer Price Index, which measures a basket of goods and services as well
as energy and food costs, jumped 5 percent in May from a year earlier. That's higher than April's 4.2 percent
year-over-year rise in prices, and the biggest 12-month rise since August 2008, just before the financial crisis sent the US
into the worst recession it had seen since the Great Depression. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones expected a 4.7 percent
spike in May.
This
Isn't Your Father's Left-Wing Revolution. Sixties protestors mainlined divorce, abortion on demand,
promiscuity, drug use, and one-parent homes. But in the end, most veteran cultural revolutionaries by the late 1970s
and 1980s had gotten married, were raising families, bought homes, got jobs, and made money. But this time around,
their offspring's left-wing assault is different — and far more ominous. The woke grandchildren of the
former outsiders are now more ruthless, systematic insiders. The woke and wired new establishment knows how to use
their money and power to rebirth America as something the founders and most current Americans never envisioned. Name
one mainline institution that the woke Left does not now control — and warp. The media? The
campuses? Silicon Valley? Professional sports? The corporate boardroom? Foundations? The K-12
educational establishment? The military hierarchy? The administrative state? The FBI top echelon?
The
Amazon driver's attack on an older woman is an important warning. On Friday [6/4/2021], a disturbing video
emerged and instantly went viral. It showed a young Amazon driver viciously punch an older woman who had been unhappy
with a slow delivery. While the video is shocking on its own, it's also a loudly clanging warning about the dangers of
Critical Race Theory (CRT), especially when allied with other leftist doctrines commonly taught to the young, including the
claim that words are violence. As CRT expands throughout America, expect more attacks like this one.
Stephen
Moore: Biden's $6T spending plan [is] a danger to [the] economy. Former economic advisor to President
Donald Trump, Stephen Moore, is criticizing Joe Biden's $6 trillion spending plan. In an interview on Sunday, Moore
said the economy is continuing to recover after COVID-19 lockdowns and yet another round of fiscal stimulus is not necessary.
He added the biggest danger to the economy is raising taxes, which Biden claimed is necessary to fund his spending proposals.
Moore also criticized Biden's proposals to extend higher unemployment benefits, saying it prevents Americans from seeking
jobs. He continued on to say it hurts small and medium businesses.
Is
Anyone Else Noticing a Pattern With the Increase in 'Random' Attacks on White People? A 350-pound,
large-breasted man pummeled a diminutive woman (actually two women) in Gardena, Calif., over the weekend. Fortunately,
the second beating was caught on video, leading to the suspect's arrest. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
released surveillance photos and video showing the shirtless "man" coolly walk up to a woman and brutally pound her. He
then continued to hit her as she was on the ground. [...] Mystery motive? Random? No reason? How's
this: the Democrats and the lefty media demonize white people 24/7. Biden has black people believing gangs of
white supremacists are patrolling in pick-ups looking to lynch their kids. The left tells black people, "You are a
victim. Systemic racism and oppression are keeping you down and white people are to blame." What happens when you
tell people they are helpless victims? They lash out.
Republicans
tear into Biden's 'lackluster' jobs report they say is fueled by his $300-a-week unemployment benefits. Top
Congressional Republicans took to Twitter Friday to grumble about May's 'lackluster' job numbers, holding Democratic
President Joe Biden's policies responsible. Both House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Minority Whip Steve Scalise
pointed a finger at the $300-a-week unemployment benefit that conservatives believe have motivated Americans to stay home.
'Washington needs to stop paying people NOT to work,' McCarthy said, while Scalise's tweet offered, 'This is what happens
when you pay people not to work.'
'Woke'
medicine is coming to a hospital near you. According to Katie Herzog, writing at Bari Weiss's Substack blog,
Critical Race Theory is aggressively intruding on physicians' ability to treat patients, do research, or train the next
generation of doctors. Katie Herzog's "What Happens When Doctors Can't Tell the Truth?" examines a world in which
doctors are silenced for fear that they will be destroyed professionally should they run afoul of the Critical Race Theory
infecting medical care across America and in which young doctors, imbued with "anti-racist" zeal have the whip hand. [...]
The only way to stand up to what's happening is through collective action. Woke people, drunk with power and the urge
to avenge wrongs that predate their births, quickly form mobs that surround and destroy anyone who offends them.
What Happens When
Doctors Can't Tell the Truth? They meet once a month on Zoom: a dozen doctors from around the country with
distinguished careers in different specialities. They vary in ethnicity, age and sexual orientation. Some work
for the best hospitals in the U.S. or teach at top medical schools. Others are dedicated to serving the most vulnerable
populations in their communities. The meetings are largely a support group. The members share their concerns
about what's going on in their hospitals and universities, and strategize about what to do. What is happening, they
say, is the rapid spread of a deeply illiberal ideology in the country's most important medical institutions. This
dogma goes by many imperfect names — wokeness, social justice, critical race theory, anti-racism — but
whatever it's called, the doctors say this ideology is stifling critical thinking and dissent in the name of progress.
When Police Get Woke,
Society Gets Broke. [Scroll down] I'm ashamed to admit it took some years to accept that my parents
weren't wrong about absolutely everything, and that the "authorities" I had so enthusiastically questioned and rejected had
achieved that status for the simple virtue of having been correct. And I became a cog in the authority machine itself
when I joined the Los Angeles Police Department after graduating from college, but even then it was only after a few years of
patrolling the streets of L.A. that the scales fell from my eyes and I came to realize the liberalism I had embraced, far
from improving the lives of those it purported to help, made them worse. I spent the greater part of my police career
working in South Los Angeles, where I was confronted daily with the grim harvest of liberal policies that, however well
intentioned in their origins, resulted in the dissolution of families and sent forth thousands of fatherless young men who,
lacking guidance in the home, found it on the streets though membership in gangs like the Crips and the Bloods, both of which
originated in Los Angeles and have since spread like cancer across the country.
Building
a home now much more difficult due to skyrocketing lumber costs under Biden. The $6 trillion budget proposal
from the Biden administration has to come from somewhere. Recent reporting suggests that the White House is set to
heavily tariff imports on lumber. According to Reason, the Biden administration's Commerce Department might
retroactively hike up "anti-dumping tariffs" for American importers of Canadian lumber from their 8.99% rate in 2018
to a whopping 18.32% for 2019. Since it's the year 2021, those companies are going to have to pay up back-taxes on
lumber. According to the Cato Institute, the US government can actually do that.
Did
Pandemic Signal The Demise Of Modernity? Daniel Hannan — Lord Hannan of Kingsclere — is
today among Britain's wisest and most articulate champions of classical liberalism. He's also today very pessimistic
about the future of liberalism. This pessimism is on full display in this recent video. Hannan predicts that the
post-Covid-19 world "will be poorer, colder, grayer, more pitched, more authoritarian." I ardently wish that I found his
stated reasons for pessimism to be unpersuasive, but this wish is not granted. Hannan's pessimism, to me, seems
warranted. [Video clip]
The
Great Conservative Migration. In fact, my wife and I were part of the migration. We lived for 36 years in
American Siberia — otherwise known as Minnesota. Politics in Minnesota has always been dominated by the
Democrats. However, in recent years it has taken a decidedly radical turn. When Keith Ellison — former
supporter of the Nation of Islam and attorney to cop killers — was elected attorney general, we knew it was time
to leave. This anti-Semite, race baiter, and woman abuser was now the state's top law enforcement official. What
could possibly go wrong? One year after we left, the George Floyd riots happened. That's what could go wrong.
Seattle
Police expected to lose 300 officers by the end of the month, 'that's a third of the agency'. In a
heartbreaking and revealing interview on The Ari Hoffman Show on [...] KVI, President of the Seattle Police Officer's
Guild Mike Solan said regarding police officers leaving the department, "At the end of this month... we will be close to 300
officers (leaving), that's a third of the agency." Solan told Hoffman that the loss of officers was from last year to
date and could range from 288 officers to 300. Solan described the departing officers as "great human beings that do
the job. They just want to serve." Some of the officers opted for early retirement, while others took law
enforcement jobs in other cities or switched to alternate careers. Sources told The Post Millennial that morale on the
force is at an all-time low. Last month, a Seattle police officer and trainee were refused service at a local chocolate
shop. The incident revealed a pattern of behavior by employees of the chain at other locations.
Ignorant
Liberals Pushing Vaccine Passports Don't Get Who That Would Really Hurt and Discriminate Against. We saw after
BLM/Antifa rioting and demanding to "defund the police," that the cities that moved in that direction saw a big spike in
crime, shootings and murders. Among the people being adversely affected by this, black people. So the very people
BLM claims they're fighting for with all this are some of the people being harmed by the defunding as well as the rioting.
The
Democrat party in Congress is a Marxist cult. Democrats in and out of Congress and every leftist propagandist
in the media are now a committed Marxists. They no longer even pretend to respect or value the Constitution. They
are now pushing Critical Race Theory as if their lives depend on promoting outright racism as the essence of America.
CRT teaches hatred and victimhood; it is the antithesis of our founding principles. Our Marxist left supports BLM and
Antifa as well, anarchist groups to whom they've given free rein to riot, loot and burn down countless cities and
businesses. The Marxist left is on board with the campaign to defund our police. The cities that have done so are
in worse shape than ever, crime and murder rates are soaring. They support the invasion occurring on the southern
border. Tens of thousands of migrants have been ushered into the US at the rate of about six thousand a day! The
Biden administration then secretly buses or flies these "children," (adult young men) into the interior, preferably red
states who then must bear the cost of feeding and housing them and the criminal element among them.
American
Division Is Now a Strategic Weakness: Three Perilous Trends. Three perilous trends accelerate in the
United States as we speak. They weaken us, and that weakness is now sensed and tested by foreign powers, threatening to
plunge the United States into a major foreign conflict in the very years that the consensus for our federal union is at a
historically low ebb. The first perilous trend is that our division is now so prominent it's a thing our enemies can
plan to. When Russia encircled Ukraine in a traditional blockade posture and tested out de facto control of
international waters in a notable percentage of the Black Sea, how did we respond? The U.S. responded with only
strongly worded statements and actually cancelled two scheduled naval deployments there. For all the realism we
celebrated over the past decade, on the horizon now is the end of the era where the bipartisan U.S. strategy of generally
looking away as rising powers change borders and create new territory is consequence free.
The
Dark Democratic Motives Behind The Government-Induced Labor Shortage. As businesses continue to struggle to
find willing employees in the wake of governments continuing to pay them in many cases MORE than they would make working to
stay at home, many states are pushing back by preemptively ending the extra federal unemployment cash. The first
two-dozen or so states to opt-out, however, are not surprisingly ALL led by Republican governors. Which means that
Democrats overwhelmingly are behind the ongoing federal and state effort to destroy small and medium-sized businesses by
purposefully denying them the labor help they need to get back on their feet and serve their customers. But why? [...]
Do they not understand that any normal, reasonable person, if given the choice, would choose free cash and the ability to
either sit on the couch and watch Netflix or earn some extra tax-free money under the table over having to log 40+ hours
a week for what they're now getting for free?
The
great restaurant price hike. A New Hampshire restaurateur has apologized to customers for putting prices up
after the cost of basic items like oil, meat and gloves rose by as much as 300%. Alan Natkiel, the owner of Georgia's
Northside in Concord, says the price of brisket has gone up 185%, chicken breast is up 70%, and fryer oil costs have doubled
in the past three months, while plastic gloves were three times as expensive as pre-pandemic prices. The price of
disposable gloves have [sic] soared by 300%. Natkiel says the surge in prices has even forced him to stop serving chicken
wings as a national shortage has made them so pricey they were no longer commercially viable. He shared his frustration
in a Facebook post at having to put meal prices up, as inflation reaches its highest level since 2008.
Biden's
Budget is One More Biden Blunder. The economy is growing very well, and we are near the level that we were
prior to the virus. There is no problem with growth. But inflation is a problem. Despite the
administration's position, inflation is right now a serious problem that will get worse the longer we wait to react to
it. Biden's budget proposal will make the inflation problem much worse. The inflation data is presented in a
number of ways to consumers. Sometimes a monthly price index is given, which compares consumer prices to the prior
month. Sometimes the index is compared to the same month last year. The critical and most valuable information
tells us what is happening now. From January to April of this year, the monthly Consumer Price Index went from .3% to
.4% to .6% to .8%. That means since January inflation is running at about a 6% annual rate and it is increasing.
Woke in the City
that Never Sleeps. The Big Bagel is getting so bad, even the baddies are demanding the fuzz do something.
As the body count rises, it is obvious that the victims of violence are predominantly poor and minority. [...] One hears and
reads about the daily gunplay, and compares the statistics to those of forty years ago. Robbery is up close to 30%,
grand larceny 66%, and shootings 166.1%. Murder is up 32% from 2019. One wonders when the useless mayor will declare
an emergency as the place is starting to resemble a war zone, and after the Covid crisis more and more New Yorkers believe
the city is ungovernable and unlivable. Still, two of the numerous candidates running for mayor rant in their speeches
about defunding the police. Violent criminals no longer have any fears, according to Pat Lynch, president of the Police
Benevolent Association, and having done away with bail laws, criminals get booked and walk, free to continue shooting and
robbing people. Cuomo and de Blasio, architects of these new laws, shamelessly go about their business, which is
appearing on television and patting themselves on the back.
The
'Fourth Turning Crisis' Has Arrived. Sweeping social transformations occur during times of crisis. [...] What
crisis are we in, you ask? Well, consider the staggering debt and economic collapse that is looming.
Confrontation and possible war with China is looming as well. The pandemic has and is still wreaking havoc on our way
of life. Big Tech and Big Media are restricting free speech and fixing elections with the compliance of the
administrative state in Washington. The border is being overrun. Schools no longer teach our history or what it
is to be an American. At the head of it all is Joe Biden and his merry band of race-baiting socialists purposely
driving this runaway train off the tracks. And in the end, societal collapse and a great reset into a Marxist world
government await our demise. So yes, we are in a crisis where the future of our way of life hangs in the balance.
The Rise of
'Blow Off Steam' Policing. Authorities frequently met last summer's riots with a diffident response.
National Guard troops remained in their barracks, and police often stood by as looting, arson, and property destruction took
place in cities ranging from New York and Chicago to Seattle and Minneapolis. [...] Such responses by police and authorities
are rooted in the fear that a heavy-handed response will cause more violence. This might be called the "blow off steam"
approach to controlling civil disturbances. Under this theory, a heavy-handed police response to community
violence — with armored vehicles, riot shields, tear gas, and the like — makes matters worse, playing
into the larger narrative of police brutality. This approach is also rooted in the idea that the rioters have
legitimate grievances, that ordinary free speech is inadequate for their concerns, and that riots are an expression of
understandable anger and emotion. In other words, if you let protesters cathartically break a few things and burn down
a few stores, their passions will burn out and things will return to normal.
Post-pandemic
New York City is laid bare as homelessness, mental illness and crime escalate. 'New Yorkers don't feel safe and
they don't feel safe because the crime rate is up. It's not that they are being neurotic or overly sensitive —
they are right,' Governor Andrew Cuomo declared on Wednesday [5/26/2021]. 'We have a major crime problem in New York
City. Everything we just talked about, with the economy coming back, you know what the first step is? People
have to feel safe.'
Why
260 Cops Have Fled Seattle. There hasn't been a police department more brutalized in recent memory. In
Seattle, cops have been pummeled by a psycho city council. It's not shocking. Seattle is left-wing. The
residents are left-wing. They're all nuts. The mayor allowed armed leftists to seize portions of the city.
The 'summer of love' came crashing down when — shocker — people started to get shot and killed inside
the autonomous zone. They have hamstrung the police and spit in their faces. After a summer of riots and not
being allowed to restore order, along with an overall anti-police atmosphere, are we shocked that scores of cops have fled
Seattle? Around 20 percent of the police force has left.
Refund
The Police? Major Cities Are Backtracking On Police Cuts After Explosion Of Violent Crime. A year after
the death of George Floyd, elected officials of major cities are walking back commitments to cut police funding amid spiking
crime rates. Elected leaders in places such a Minneapolis, New York City, and Los Angeles are now pushing to increase
funding to police departments after months of budget cuts and low morale have gutted law enforcement ranks. At the same
time, major cities across the U.S. are suffering spikes in violent crime. "The violence needs to stop, it[']s
unacceptable. People deserve to feel safe in their neighborhood, they deserve to be able to send their kids out to the
sidewalk to play and to recreate without bullets flying by. That's unacceptable. We should be holding these
perpetrators accountable," Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, a Democrat, said at a May 7 news conference addressing a spate of
violence that ripped through the city.
Feet-of-Clay Icons.
Americans mostly have given up on familiar institutions for entertainment, guidance, or reassurance. What now do
Hollywood, network news, the media in general, Silicon Valley, the NBA, NFL, MLB, or higher education all have in
common? A propensity to lecture Americans on their moral inferiorities, a general ethical decline in their own
disciplines, and a strange obsession to acquire great wealth while living in contrast to what they advocate for others.
Add also incompetence. Movies are mostly bad now. The network news is blow-dried groupthink. There is no
"paper of record" anywhere. Twitter and Facebook no longer even try to hide their politicized contortions of warped
rules and twisted protocols. Professional athletes are now reminders of why no one ever wants to be "enlightened" by
multimillionaire quarter-educated narcissists. The public a half-century ago lost faith in academia. It wasn't
just that most new bad ideas could be traced to the campus or that hothouse professors increasingly seemed both ignorant and
arrogant, but rather their product — educating students — was defective. No one believes
anymore a BA is synonymous with knowledge. More likely, it is a euphemism for incurring $100,000 in debt.
Democrat Policies Have
Created a Blue-State Exodus. Americans can't escape from blue states fast enough. Even before the COVID
pandemic, they were fleeing Democrat-led states for red ones in droves. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, between
2010 and 2019, California, New York, New Jersey, Michigan, and Illinois lost a combined four million residents.
Meanwhile, the top five states that saw the greatest influx of new residents were the Republican-led states of Florida,
Texas, Tennessee, Ohio, and Arizona. It does not hurt that Florida, Texas, and Tennessee also have no income tax.
But the pandemic, in conjunction with disastrous Democrat policies, has only accelerated the blue-state exodus. It
turns out that draconian lockdowns in the form of school, restaurant, and business closures; massive spikes in violent crime;
few entertainment options; higher taxes; and scarce job opportunities do not make for a desirable living environment or a
suitable place to raise a family.
To
Fight Back, Question Everything. In terms of safety, health, opportunity, and prosperity, there has never been
a better time in human history, but hardly anyone living anywhere is celebrating. [...] In a world saturated with
information, the "key" to distinguishing between truth and falsehood is one question, one word: "why?" Why
should schools and companies discriminate based on skin color? Why should my race say more about me than my
brain? Why is it okay for federal immigration law to be ignored while federal tax laws must be obeyed?
Why are Americans who defend the Constitution treated as domestic terrorists? Why are Americans who burn
down cities treated as heroes? Why does every "solution" to climate change involve the expansion of government
powers and the contraction of personal liberties? Why must the government police speech in order to keep it free?
Why must government disarm citizens in order to keep them safe? Why is the government so afraid of the people
that it must spy on them at all times? Why is it no longer "our government," but rather the government?
Two-thirds
of Americans say beef, chicken prices have skyrocketed. The steaks are too high! About two-thirds of US
shoppers say the prices of red meat and chicken have soared since the start of the year, according to a new poll. Meat
lovers have been hit hardest by rising food costs out of the 2,000 grocery shoppers surveyed between May 17 and May 19,
Bloomberg reported. The poll, which was conducted by Morning Consult, found that around 65 percent said that red meat
is more expensive now, while about 59 percent said that chicken has become pricier. Meanwhile, more than half of the
shoppers said that fruit, toilet paper, milk and prepared foods also cost more.
'The
Wheels Are Coming Off.' Deeper Cuts to Austin Police Are on the Way in Mayor Adler's 'Reimagining'. The Austin
Police Department is in a state of crisis. More cuts to specialized APD units are coming this year, thanks to the
"reimagining" of police led by Mayor Steve Adler and Councilmember Greg Casar. Travis County, meanwhile, steps up
targeting police officers for prosecution. According to an internal document provided to PJ Media, several units face
deep cuts or outright elimination by summer's end. The Sex Offender Apprehension and Registration (SOAR) unit is losing
its officer positions, according to the APD document. Local Fox 7 TV has previously reported some of the cuts.
PJ Media's source, who wishes to remain off the record, said: "As more units are cut, work conditions for those who
stay will continue to deteriorate, causing more folks to leave, causing more units to be cut, and so on. It is basically
a death spiral."
A
young leftist is shocked to find herself on the receiving end of cancel culture. Emily Wilder graduated from
Stanford last year. At the beginning of May, she landed a job working for Associated Press. Two weeks later, she
found herself fired because conservatives discovered her wildly pro-Palestinian social media activity while in college.
She's figured out that she was "canceled" but cannot grasp that this happened because conservatives have finally adopted
leftist tactics.
An aspiring
congressional candidate unveils novel campaign slogan: 'Make crime illegal again'. Washington state
congressional candidate Matt Larkin is running on a tough-on-crime platform based on supporting law enforcement in an effort
to "make crime illegal again" amid skyrocketing crime and failed liberal leadership in Seattle. Larkin, a Republican
who lost his bid for Washington state attorney general to the incumbent Democrat in 2020, plans to challenge sitting
Democratic Rep. Kim Schrier for the seat representing the 8th District of Washington. In an exclusive interview
with Fox News, Larkin said that skyrocketing violent crime, rising homelessness and the growing number of assaults on police
officers motivated him to jump into the race.
If
it's not enhanced unemployment benefits, why are people turning down jobs? Employers say they're having
difficulty filling jobs. Jobless Americans say they want to work. So what's going on? Businesses reported a
record 8.1 million jobs to fill last month, up from 8 million in March, according to data from the Labor Department.
There were 7.5 million open jobs in February. And yet the unemployment rate ticked up to 6.1% in April from 6% the
month before. Many employers say that enhanced government unemployment benefits have actually given people less reason
to take a job. The Biden administration approved $300 in extra federal benefits each week to unemployed workers last
March as part of a $1.9 trillion stimulus bill.
Texas
legislators ban homeless 'camping' statewide. Across the blue cities of America, city officials have turned
their public spaces into vast and expanding homeless camps. That leaves such cities without public spaces, and puts the
quality of life at zero. Portland, San Francisco, Orange County, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and New York, all
spring to mind. In such places, we have seen whole stretches of places like Venice Beach become a freakish third world
tent shantytown, with the camping homeless blocking roads, scaring children, giving cash to drug dealers, getting
intoxicated, throwing trash, boosting cars, theatening those who don't want to give them spare change, and doing their bodily
functions in public places, if not on private property. The same is true in Los Angeles, New York, and the rest.
When the homeless take over, the public has no choice but to stay away.
San
Fran Legalized Shoplifting. Now Seniors Have No Pharmacies. Actions have consequences. Pro-crime
policies work. And electing leftists who call themselves progressives and promise to protect criminals from being
locked up in the name of criminal justice reform while regulating and taxing the businesses they prey on more than ever has
inevitable consequences. [Video clip]
Labor
Union's Endorsement for Biden Comes Back to Bite Them. I have no sympathy. You voted for this, guys. This is the
country you wanted. You wanted Joe Biden to overhaul the economic agenda. No more mean tweets, but now there's rising inflation,
anemic jobs growth, a border crisis, and a war brewing in the Middle East. Russia has become aggressive again, and China is getting
more handsy with Taiwan. But there are no more mean tweets. For those in the steel industry, they're pleading with Biden to
keep the tariffs established under Donald Trump intact.
Walgreens
Closes 17 San Francisco Stores Due To "Out Of Control" Shoplifting. The effects of allowing chaos to prevail in
Democrat-controlled cities across America might not be evident to liberals and social justice warriors now, but when
businesses close up, it's going to be very transparent then. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Walgreens
Pharmacy locations have shuttered their doors in San Francisco during the past five years. At least ten of the stores
in the city have closed since 2019. [...] [Video clip] The cost of business and shoplifting is staggering
for Walgreens. Despite closing 17 stores, the company still has 53 open in the metro area but could close more by the
end of the year. Thefts at Walgreens' in the city are four times the average for other stores across the country.
The pharmacy chain spends 35 times more on security guards in the city than elsewhere, said Jason Cunningham, regional vice
president for pharmacy and retail operations in California and Hawaii.
Biden's
'Inflation Tax' Targets the Poor and Middle Class. President Biden has repeatedly promised that he won't raise
taxes on American families earning less than $400,000 per year. Yet widespread and growing inflation due to his
policies is — at least indirectly — breaking that promise. Call it the Biden inflation tax.
Consumer prices have increased at an accelerated rate every month this year. In April, core inflation rose at its
fastest month-over-month pace since 1981. The producer price index grew by the largest amount on record last month.
Commodity prices are skyrocketing, with corn rising by more than 50% this year, lumber elevating to four times its
traditional rate, and copper hitting a record high.
Media in Full Spin Mode to Cover
for Biden's Failures. Joe Biden's presidency is spiraling out of control. By any reasonable metric he has
failed as a commander in chief. He has failed on immigration, he has failed on the economy, he has failed to create
jobs, he has failed on foreign policy, he has failed on handling the pandemic, he has failed to unite the country, and he has
failed as a leader. But that's not what the mainstream media would have us believe. [...] [A]lthough there are
currently 8.1 million job openings in the U.S., we somehow only managed to add 266,000 jobs in April, or nearly
three-quarters of a million less than the one million that Wall Street economists were projecting. This after the March
job numbers were already revised down another 140,000. Might it have something to do with Biden's insistence that
Americans receive a $300 weekly bonus check to stay home? Even those making $32,000 a year would see a raise by going
on unemployment.
States
are wise to turn down Biden's poison unemployment money. At this point, the fact is unavoidable: The
Biden administration's foolish decision to extend increased unemployment benefits through the summer is clearly retarding the
job market's recovery. It made sense to pay out something to workers in exchange for government restrictions on their
livelihood. But the long-term extension of extra-generous benefits has turned all the incentives on their head.
For too many workers, the increased benefit makes it at least as profitable not to work as it is to work. And how can
you blame anyone for not working if it actually costs them money? Don't blame the workers. Do blame the
White House that chose to frame their choice for them so irrationally.
Portland
Has Turned Into Such A Dystopian Hellhole, Homeless Men Chase People Around With Knives. According to a video
by journalist Andy Ngo, a man with knives chased another man on Sunday in downtown Portland, Oregon, near the Justice Center
and Central Police Station. Ngo said the police did not respond to the attempted sting. The area in the video has
homeless tents on the sidewalk. The victim and the attacker both appear to be white. The attacker, who seems to
come from the tent area, repeatedly used the n-word while chasing the victim. The victim was able to flee from his
attacker without being stabbed as the attacker had to stop to put on his pants. [Video clip]
Inflation
could spike to 20% in the next few years as the US money supply explodes, says Wharton professor Jeremy Siegel.
Wharton professor Jeremy Siegel said inflation could spike to 20% in the next two or three years due to "unprecedented"
fiscal and monetary stimulus and an explosion of the US money supply. "I'm predicting here that over the next two,
three years, we could easily have 20% inflation with this increase in the money supply," Siegel said in a recent interview
with CNBC. Siegel went on to criticize Fed chair Jerome Powell for not acting to quell inflation in the near term.
The Wharton professor called Powell the "most dovish chairman" that he's ever seen and said that the Fed chair's stance could
"be a problem down the road." In the meantime, Siegel said he is bullish on stocks because fiscal and monetary support
is going to keep flowing in.
The city is paying the price for his bad judgment and lack of foresight. Minneapolis
Mayor Admits Anti-Police Rhetoric has Led to Crime Spike. The mayor of Minneapolis, who himself has bashed
police in order to placate the Black Lives Matter mob, now says that calls to "defund the police" have led to a spike in
crime in the city. "The violence needs to stop, it's unacceptable. People deserve to feel safe in their
neighborhood, they deserve to be able to send their kids out to the sidewalk to play and to recreate without bullets flying
by. That's unacceptable. We should be holding these perpetrators accountable," Mayor Jacob Frey (D) said.
Star News Education Foundation Journalism ProjectBut that is a strikingly different tune from Frey's message last summer,
when Minneapolis was engulfed in riots after the death of George Floyd at the hands of former Minneapolis police officer
Derek Chauvin. At that time, he went on a tirade against police after a Black Lives Matter rally, calling them
"racist," among other unfounded accusations.
Biden
is the New Jimmy Carter, But He's Even Worse. Empires rise and fall, leaders come and go, and every now and
then a president wins election only to find himself in over his head with the burden of the Oval Office. It's happened
twice now in my lifetime, first with Jimmy Carter and now with Joseph R. Biden. There has been a lot of discussion
recently comparing the failed presidency of Jimmy Carter with the failing presidency of Joe Biden, but I will clue you in on
something. Biden's presidency is worse, and Biden is worse as a man and human being. We're five months into
Biden's presidency, and already he seems determined to outdo all four years of Carter's incompetence by Christmas.
Inflation is rising, the southern border practically doesn't exist, the Middle East is in turmoil, and we recently
experienced a gas shortage thanks to hackers easily breaching our digital infrastructure.
Biden [is]
beset by crises following reversals of Trump policies. According to the most recent figures, the Customs and Border Patrol agency encountered more
than 178,000 illegal migrants crossing into the United States via the southern border in April. That figure is up slightly from the already-high 172,000
recorded in March. Nearly half a million illegal crossers have been shuttled through the immigration system and released into the U.S. since Biden assumed
office, and countless thousands more have come in undetected. Within a few days of arrival most migrants "have legal documents, and are sent on their way
to all four corners of the United States," according to Todd Bensman, a fellow with the Center for Immigration Studies who is stationed at the Texas-Mexico border.
On his first day in office, Biden took major steps to reverse Trump border policies, including:
• Funding to complete the border wall was halted
• The Migrant Protection Protocols — also known as the Remain in Mexico policy — was repealed
• The U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 was sent to Congress.
Welcome
Back, Carter. Except Add Dementia. [Scroll down] Joe Biden, on the other hand, is a puppet with
dementia. It's clear he's not even the president. He's just the front man doing the bidding of evil people who
want to destroy America and capitalism. The amazing thing is Biden's done it all in just a little over 100 days.
He's practically just set the Guinness World Record for fastest destruction of a great country. Look around.
America is a dumpster fire. Let us count the ways Biden has wrecked America from sea to shining sea and across the
globe. The borders are open, and immigrants pour in by the thousands per day. Many of them bring crime and
disease. They bring bankruptcy and insolvency for America and our formerly great middle class. So far in fiscal
2021, we've managed to bring in the most tax money ever while still spending an unimaginable 90% more than we
collected. Then there's dreaded inflation. A massive wave of stagflation is clearly coming because of madman
Biden's insane levels of spending.
Bidenomics
Looks Like a Ticking Time Bomb for Democrats (and the Economy). Ever since Joe Biden floated his $1.9 trillion
COVID-relief bill, worrywarts like yours truly have been warning about the possibility of inflation. In case you
weren't alive in the 1970s, inflation erodes the value of money. Simply put, your paycheck is worth less today than it
was last week or last month. This demoralizing and frustrating decline in purchasing power can have the psychological
effect of causing consumers to spend money quickly, for fear that prices will rise. There is also increased pressure on
welfare and wages to keep pace with the rising cost of living. Once this cycle gets going, it's hard to unwind.
Lines
at gas stations are a feature, not a bug, of Biden's green future. Biden ran for president advocating, or at
least paying lip service to, long-standing environmentalist plans designed to create gasoline shortages. They never put
it that way, of course, but that has always been their goal in shutting down pipelines and banning new fracking and oil
exploration. The whole point has been to stop fossil fuels from being extracted from the ground and burnt to run our
economy, in the naive hope that this will cause global temperature patterns to change. This plan, however, has just
been preempted by a criminal plot to do much the same thing by other means. The DarkSide hacking group's ransomware
attack on Colonial Pipeline put gasoline pipelines out of commission all up and down the East Coast. This has not only
sent the price of gasoline skyrocketing but has actually caused gas stations on the Eastern Seaboard to run dry. This
simply never happens under normal circumstances. And — surprise, surprise — the public does not
like it.
Democrats
refuse to prioritize Real infrastructure — like Colonial Pipeline. Child care is infrastructure,
according to Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Health-care aides for seniors are infrastructure, say Democratic
activists. "Anti-racism" is infrastructure, we're told. But these things aren't infrastructure; they're just
things Democrats want funded with taxpayer money. You know what's actually infrastructure? Bridges and
pipelines. On that front, we're not doing so well. The shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline this week demonstrated
that our actual infrastructure is vulnerable and that our lives can be disrupted quickly when it fails. Hackers,
undeterred by the FBI and Homeland Security officials who are supposed to be protecting critical infrastructure, managed to
lock down the pipeline controls with ransomware. Fuel deliveries stopped, gas lines formed (shades of the Jimmy Carter
era), and prices went up, all within a couple of days. Fresh from blocking construction of another major pipeline (the
Keystone XL), the Biden administration flailed, while a nation that just a year or so ago became a net oil exporter found
itself facing fuel shortages. That's infrastructure.
Psaki
calls inflation surge a sign of Biden's 'successful economic strategy'. The Biden administration seems to be
proud of its inflation surge, brought on by low interest rates and monster government spending. [...] They seem to think they
can command prices down with all that communication, much as Hugo Chavez used to do, creating shortages to accompany their
runaway inflation as their big comforting answer. Or perhaps more in their style, they're going Brezhnev or Chernenko
again, telling us that all the bad things happening aren't happening, never mind the evidence of our own eyes. Pay no
attention to those soaring lumber prices, those high vegetable prices, those now-costly airline tickets, those leaps in price
at the pump. They're all irrelevant because Joe Biden is a ... self-declared success.
Waking Up in the
Wrong Movie. The remarkable thing about the multiple crises facing Joe Biden is how quickly they've multiplied and worsened.
These include, in no particular order:
[#1] the Mexican border problem;
[#2] the expanding war between Israel, Hamas, and possibly with Iran;
[#3] the gasoline supply disruption stemming from the cyberattack on the Colonial fuel pipeline;
[#4] economic trouble and warnings of impending inflation.
These sprung up in the first days of his term with an abruptness and progression that has taken pundits by surprise.
The administration must have anticipated eventual problems would arise but not so soon nor from so many directions.
Biden's
Blast from the Past — The Return of the Misery Index. This week has the distinct smell of Democrats
in charge. We have gas lines again, more cars waiting to fill up their gas tanks than ever waiting to hear candidate
Joe Biden speak at his sparsely attended campaign car rallies. War is breaking out in the Middle East with Palestinian
militants lobbing missiles at Israel, and Israel appropriately responding to attacks on its homeland. I wonder if
Obama's "pallets of cash" paid for any Hamas missiles? Or if the planned restoration of $235 million in US aid to the
Palestinians has freed up cash for missiles? Inflation and unemployment are both rising. It's like traveling back
in time to the late 1970s, dancing to the Bee Gees' "Stayin Alive" under a mirror disco ball. But now it's 2021 and we
are dancing to Biden's fiddle.
Consumer
Prices Increase 4.2% To The Highest Level Since 2008. The consumer price index has jumped 4.2% over the last 12
months, the fastest pace of inflation since 2008, according to a Department of Labor report. The consumer price index
(CPI) increased 0.8% between March and April, according to the Labor Department report released Wednesday morning.
Economists projected that the CPI increased by 0.2% last month and 3.6% over the 12-month period ending in April, according
to The Wall Street Journal.
Unleaded
Regular Gasoline Up 52 Percent, Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Rising Fast. As expected the high-turn consumable
goods are starting to rise in price rapidly. The Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) has released the consumer price
analysis from April (remember there's a big lag). The trend is rapid inflation continuing with no end in sight.
CORE inflation just jumped the most since 1982. Overall prices are up 4.2 percent year-over-year, which is three
times the rate of inflation under Joe Biden than under President Trump. Inflation hurts the lower and middle economic
class much harder; and the specific inflation sectors show massive increases on the goods and services that blue collar
workers use most. It is specifically the Biden economic policies that are to blame for the scale of these increased
prices. Inflation of this scale is an outcome of policy.
NYPD
union boss blames 'feckless' Bill de Blasio and his 'imbecilic' police reform laws for the Times Square
shooting. The weekend shooting of three people in New York City's Times Square tells you all you must know
about life in the Big Apple under the stewardship of Mayor Bill de Blasio and the legions of feckless elected officials and
enablers dangerously masquerading as leaders. [...] The 31-year-old suspect in the latter shooting has been identified.
He, too, is a career criminal who was walking the streets despite being arrested last year for the random attack of a
stranger. In this incident, he was trying to kill his brother over a personal dispute. There is little doubt that
he will soon be arrested and indicted for the shooting of three innocent people. Hopefully, he will be held on high
bail because his offenses are some of the few crimes that are still eligible for bail in de Blasio's dystopian New York.
Biden Mocks Ancient Wisdom.
The United States has borrowed about $29 trillion in debt — about 130 percent of its annual gross domestic
product. The government will run up a $2.3 trillion annual budget deficit in 2021 — after a $3.1 trillion
deficit the year before. The Biden Administration still wants to borrow more — another $2 trillion in new
social programs and "infrastructure." In the crazy last 100 days, the price of everything from lumber, food, and gas to
cars and houses has soared. Yet many interest rates are still stuck at or below three percent. Jobs are
plentiful; workers are not. Is that a surprise when government cash handouts discourage the unemployed from taking a
pay cut to go back to work? After being freed from 13 months of quarantine, Americans are splurging. But meeting
their huge pent-up demand is causing shortages.
Here's
How Biden's Spending Could Become A Hidden Tax On Everything You Purchase. As the U.S. climbs out of a
once-in-a-century pandemic, rising prices have led to increasing worry that rapid inflation could be just over the
horizon. Americans have already witnessed higher prices in the past few months, with everything from gasoline to lumber
to basic home items jumping in cost. The increases, partially fueled by non-existent interest rates and record
government spending, could lead to inflation that the U.S. has not seen in decades, experts say. "In the short term,
consumers can expect to see rising prices across the board," Henry Olsen, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy
Center and a columnist at The Washington Post, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. "I expect in the next few months
people will be getting sticker shocked in virtually all aspects of their life."
The
Inflation Numbers Are out and We Are in Trouble. The government report on inflation has been released, and it's
not good. Inflation hit 4.2% in April, a crushing blow to the poor and middle class especially. This followed on
the heels of stagnating hiring shown by last week's jobs report. Remember, the consumer price index doesn't even
include things like lumber so this number is likely lower than reality despite still showing an out-of-control rise.
That rise is directly timed with Biden passing his COVID "relief" act that printed trillions of largely unnecessary
dollars. That stimmy check was nice and all, but people are about to pay for it over and above what they received via
inflation. Gas prices are up 50%, used vehicle prices are up over 20%, and home energy costs are up over 35%.
Meanwhile, with or without this number, anyone who has been to a grocery store or hardware store lately can see the inflation
with their own eyes.
Minneapolis
Mayor: You know, this "defund the police" thing may have increased crime. It's been another week in
Minneapolis that looks more like the wild west than a modern, midwestern city. On Sunday night, seven people were shot
in multiple incidents, with one victim being killed. Another person was killed on Monday night. Meanwhile,
arrests and prosecutions are lagging far behind these reported incidents. People have been noticing and they are
bringing their complaints directly to Mayor Jacob Frey when he ventures out to address the public. One pastor named
Dale Hume came forward to say that the city's efforts to defund the police haven't worked and "you can obviously see that
is not the solution." Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, Mayor Frey came out this week and said that he agrees with the Pastor.
Welcome Back,
Carter. Anyone want to party like it's 1979? Okay, at least in 1979 we weren't locked down, masked up, and
socially distanced. But, other than that, there wasn't much to celebrate. The economy was in the tank, inflation
was rampant, gas lines were long, daubers were down, and no one in the White House knew what to do about any of it. A
new term had to be coined for something thought impossible/oxymoronic... "stagflation." Yes, even as the economy was
slowing down, inflation was rampant, an unprecedented pairing of economic indicators. And today? The economy is
in the tank, inflation is rampant, gas lines are getting long in some areas, daubers are down, and no one in the White House
knows what to do about any of it. It may be worse than that. It may be possible that no one in the White House
wants to do anything about any of it because it is part of the plan, the Great Reset, the elite's desire to take the
U.S. down a peg while/by reducing greenhouse gases — and increasing intersectionality, multiculturalism, critical
race theory, and other noxious forms of political correctness.
Gas
Lines Return as Woke Deep State Fails to Stop Cyber Attack. Welcome to Jimmy Carter 2.0, to an America saddled
with a failed president and a failed Deep State whose minions worry about everything except what actually matters. The
[...] FBI and the [...] CIA have one [...] job, and that's to protect our way of life. Period. And the fastest
way to unravel our way of life — the most effective, deadly, and destructive way — is to interrupt the
free flow of oil. Therefore, outside of physical threats to American persons and property, the FBI and the CIA should
be focused almost exclusively on ensuring the energy that keeps our way of life alive is not interrupted. Well, once
again, these feckless Deep Staters have failed. Instead of being focused on stopping a VERY successful cyber-attack on
a crucial oil pipeline, these useless idiots have been focused on using the correct pronouns.
'Things
Fall Apart' With No End in Sight. The American birthrate has now fallen for six years in a row, to a record-low
1.64 babies per woman. Some blame this on the dreaded COVID, but it would make more sense for births to rise, given
that couples have had more than a year of snuggle time while riding out the "pandemic" and collecting government
checks. A more likely reason is the non-stop barrage of propaganda from the anti-human Left, whose refrain has long
been "how can you bring a child into this world?" — a world, by the way, they've been doing their best to ruin for
more than half a century with abortion, divorce, and latterly, child sex-change operations.
White
House Occupant Reads Teleprompter, Desperately Attempting to Spin Horrific Policy Outcomes. The White House
occupant appeared today [5/10/2021] to deliver remarks on some key issues that are catastrophic to the long-term goals of the
leftist administration. First, let's be clear; there's no-way the Chicago control agents would allow the installed
occupant to speak on any issue, publicly, that was not a direct and measurable threat to their long-term goals. The
remarks today by Joe Biden are carefully scripted to diffuse political damage that is pending as a direct outcome of the
executed policies. [...] The bottom line is simple: The Democrats can see a political backlash coming that is going to
overwhelm them. No amount of spin or manipulative talking points will change the outcome of the reality people are
feeling. Massive increases in gas prices combined with massive inflation is the exact policy outcome from Jimmy Carter.
Corn Is
the Latest Commodity to Soar. America's biggest cash crop has rarely been more expensive. Corn prices
have risen roughly 50% in 2021 and a bushel costs more than twice what it did a year ago. Corn has been one of the
sharpest risers in the broad rally in raw materials that is prompting companies to boost prices for goods and fueling concern
among investors that inflation could hobble the post-pandemic economic recovery. Lumber prices have shot to more than
four times what is typical, pushing up home prices and obliterating renovation budgets. Copper, a cog of industry found
throughout the home and in electronics, hit record prices Friday. Crude oil hasn't cost so much since 2018 and soybeans
are trading at their loftiest level since 2012.
The Fossil Fuels Must Go
Through. There is something surrealistically ironic about Joe Biden's Emergency Order to mobilize tanker
trucks — anything — to keep the fossil fuels going. On the one hand it is a backhanded admission
of how vital the products transported by the Colonial Pipeline are. On the other it is a reminder of how policy errors
can progressively cascade through the system, one mistake compounding the others. Why is there a shortage of tanker
truck drivers? One reason is the Covid-19 lockdown. "We've been dealing with a driver shortage for a while, but
the pandemic took that issue and metastasized it," said Ryan Streblow, the executive vice president of the National Tank
Truck Carriers. "It certainly has grown exponentially." More fundamentally truck driving has become an
unattractive lifestyle choice for young people.
The Editor says...
Any kind of work that requires leaving the apartment (or Mom's basement) is unattractive to lazy millennials.
Jobs
disappointment traces back to Joe Biden's stimulus. "The government," wrote Frederic Bastiat, "is that great
fiction by which everyone endeavors to live at the expense of everyone else." This incisive, tongue-in-cheek definition of
the state, beloved by libertarians everywhere, is especially appropriate this week. Big COVID-era government, the data
now demonstrate, has put millions of workers in a position in which their incentive is not to report to work and produce
something of value in exchange for a wage, but rather to stay home and collect money from taxpayers for not working. In
short, poor decisions by Democrats have created a larger-than-life version of what Bastiat described, at least for people at
lower income levels. On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released devastating employment numbers, showing
dramatic underperformance for job creation in April. Although the ranks of the employed did increase by 266,000, that
number was expected to increase by four times as much.
'Dude, Where's My Workforce?'
It must be a nasty surprise for companies that have slavishly repeated Woke mantras and imposed overtly racist policies on
workers and even customers in the name of "racial equality" to now find themselves short of the one thing they need to thrive
and grow: workers. They can thank Joe Biden and the Woke Democrats for that. No question, right now companies
are sucking for air, finding it impossible to ramp up fast enough as workers stay home in droves rather than return to
work. People are said to be "scratching their heads" over why, after a year of pandemic-forced business closings,
workers aren't desperate to work and earn. After all, just a few months ago the concern was whether they'd have jobs to
go back to.
Biden's
Woke Military Will Embarrass America. Something is happening in the halls of the Pentagon, and it bodes ill for
America's future military. Wokeness is crawling out of the shadows to neuter America's fighting power. This is a
dangerous move because of the criteria likely to be used to identify "extremists." These will not only further divide the
military ranks, but also diminish our fighting readiness and make us the laughingstock of modern militaries, prominently
including existential enemies in Russia and China. Evidently, secretary of defense Lloyd Austin's military-wide
stand-down wasn't enough for the Biden leftists in the White House and Congress, along with appointees now walking the
Pentagon's E-ring. No, they are trending full-rudder left like other federal agencies such as the Central Intelligence
Agency. The aim is to make our bloated federal government more "woke" — a slang term meaning alert to
so-called injustice in society and especially racism — regarding so-called "extremists."
Philadelphia's
Fall: A Microcosm of Democrat Devastation. Large American cities, the vast majority of which are run
entirely by Democrats, are deteriorating before our eyes; and the phenomenon is not due to the COVID pandemic. New York
City is in rapid decay, reverting to its pre-Rudolph Giuliani condition as Mayor Bill DeBlasio is more concerned about
wokeness and virtue-signaling than he is about effectively running the city's government. In San Francisco and Los
Angeles, homelessness is out of control, their treasuries are effectively broke, and residents have been fleeing in record
numbers. And in Portland, Mayor Ted Wheeler has stood by as riots have been ravaging the city for almost a year now,
with empty hotels across the city as tourists stay away in droves. There are dozens of cities we could examine to
illustrate the failure of Democrat policies, but Philadelphia may be the most fascinating to consider. [...] Democratic
Philadelphia voters outnumber Republican voters almost 7:1. The last time the city had a mayor that wasn't a Democrat
was in 1952.
Biden
and 'elitist environmentalists' lost at least 1,000 steel jobs in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania State Senate
Majority Leader Kim Ward argued on "Fox & Friends" on Thursday that Scranton native Joe Biden and his administration are
"partially responsible" for the cancelation of a $1.5 billion steel project, which would cost "at least 1,000 blue collar
jobs" because "of their focus on only green energy." Late last month, Pittsburgh-based United States Steel Corp. said
that it is canceling the project to bring a state-of-the-art improvement to its Mon Valley Works operations in western
Pennsylvania, citing the fact that the landscape has changed in the two years since the company announced its intentions.
According to the company, project permits initially stalled by the coronavirus pandemic never materialized, U.S. Steel has
added capacity elsewhere and now it must shift its focus to its goal of getting rid of greenhouse gas emissions from its facilities
by 2050. [Video clip]
Red
Pills Are Falling Down All Over the Golden State. Californians are realizing how deeply deluded they have been
about the condition of their state. [...] A deliberately created housing shortage and voilà, higher property tax
revenue, and better returns for wealthy real estate investors. Ditto for water and energy. Cram it all down in
the name of being "green," and let the "renewables" manufacturers make a killing selling surveillance gadgets into every
appliance to "help manage" consumption. Meanwhile, the corrupt public utilities, with earnings capped at a percentage
of costs, watch profits soar on the exploding cost for renewables. Perennial forest fires were another wake-up call,
and here as well, a red pill moment is at hand for Californians. All Californians have to do is let the timber
companies go back to work, thinning the overgrown forests, to restore a balance to nature. But what do the politicians
do? Cope with the latest super fires by announcing that by 2035, only electric cars can be sold in California.
Because that will somehow stop the next round of fires this summer.
Why
no one needs to work in Biden's America: Experts project anyone who earned $32,000 before COVID could now earn MORE in
benefits staying at home. People who lost their jobs in the pandemic are now earning more in benefits than they
did in wages, creating a nightmare economic situation that is stopping people from returning to work and in turn, driving up
inflation. In March 2019, the average weekly payment to an unemployed person was $348 when combining federal and state
unemployment payments. That nearly tripled to $938 in April 2020, when Trump passed COBRA — a temporary economic plan
that boosted weekly unemployment payments by $600 and also gave employed people one-off stimulus checks. COBRA expired
in July and the unemployment boost was halved to $300-a-week. Now, they are $638-a-week on average and they'll stay
that way until September 6 at least.
After
the Riots: Kenosha police claim they've been unfairly villainized. For a while, it seemed as though
anybody who wanted to speak poorly of the police was given a national platform. Cable news outlets clamored for sound
bites that tore into law enforcement and stoked racial resentment. "It's incredibly frustrating to be vilified in the
national media," Kenosha Police Lt. Joseph Nosalik told the Washington Examiner, adding that police officers have
not been given a fair shake in the press. He believes that police departments are up against an "instant gratification
society" that allows people to trash them without knowing the facts. Police are also not allowed to comment on active
investigations, which prevents them from speaking out or standing up for themselves or their actions in real-time.
It
Got Serious In A Hurry. [Scroll down] The current crop of corruptocrats have introduced yet another
inversion in the military, the woke inversion. The military will now be graded on its commitment to combat-irrelevant
factors: the racial, ethnic, gender, sexual preferences and political creeds of its forces, and their professed fealty to
regnant political dogma. In other words, "diversity" in everything but thought. This inversion is huge and given
the distance squared corollary, it will soon render the armed forces incapable of fighting even a war for the protection of
the United States proper. Given its ineptitude fighting offensive wars, the military will be completely useless.
The defense budget, however, will grow ever more bloated.
'Alarming
rate': Demoralized cops flee police departments in record numbers. Police officers nationwide are turning in
their badges at record rates amid budget cuts, policy changes and anti-brutality protests. An estimated 5,300 officers
quit or retired from the New York Police Department last year, 200 or more cops have left the Seattle force, and in the
nation's capital, the union reports that the 3,700-strong Metropolitan Police Department is down 300 badges since the D.C.
Council enacted sweeping police reforms last summer. "Officers are leaving at an alarming rate, and crime is spiking in
a lot of different areas," police union chairman Gregg Pemberton told The Washington Times on Tuesday [5/4/2021].
Democrats
Blamed After U.S. Steel Cancels $1.5B Project in Pennsylvania. Executives with the U.S. Steel Corp. announced
days ago that they are canceling a $1.5 billion project in western Pennsylvania that was set to bring thousands of
middle-class union jobs to the region, a move that many are now blaming on Democrats and environmental groups. On April
30, U.S. Steel President David Burritt announced that a $1.5 billion project to majorly improve its Mon Valley Works
operation with state-of-the-art steel casting, rolling technology, and a cogeneration plant is being canceled.
Coming
up next from the Democrats: Fort Apache, Fear City. Joe Biden, the press, the Democrats, and the
activists have long touted the rent moratoriums in the age of COVID as just the thing, keeping their victims of lockdowns and
lost jobs from being thrown out of their homes. One problem: Someone is not getting paid. The Washington
Post has a long, balanced, authentic report on the assorted COVID-linked rent moratoriums and what that's done for the
housing stock. The subhead gets it right: ["]As landlords and tenants go broke across the U.S., the next
crisis point of the pandemic approaches["]
Austin
voters approve proposition aimed at reinstating public camping ban. Austin voters have approved Proposition B,
which aims to reinstate the public camping ban that was reversed in July 2019. The results were 57% to 43%, with the majority
voting to approve the proposition. The camping ban makes it illegal to camp in any public area not designated by the
Parks and Recreation Department; to sit or lie on a public sidewalk or sleep outdoors in and near the downtown area and the
area around the University of Texas campus; and to panhandle at specific hours and locations.
Austin,
TX voters overwhelmingly reject propositions pushed by progressives. There are signs that the left has created
a backlash by overplaying its hand. Even in a stronghold of the left like Austin, Texas, where in 2019 homeless people
were allowed to erect their tents on city-owned land, including parks and sidewalks, thanks to the progressive-dominated city
council. All the problems any sane person would predict started happening immediately. And that led to a voter
initiative to reinstate the camping ban, Proposition B.
"The
Staffing Shortage Is Real" - Manhattan Restaurants Struggle To Hire As Millions [are being] Paid Not To Work.
Long-suffer NYC restauranteurs may have been tempted to celebrate when Mayor Bill de Blasio announced yesterday that the Big
Apple would "fully reopen" on July 1. But just as the problem of COVID-19 restrictions fades away, restaurant owners are
facing the same problem that has prompted Royal Farms to offer $500 signing bonuses while some McDonald's franchisees offer
prospective workers $50 just to come to an interview: that is, President Biden's massive $1.9 trillion stimulus
is paying too many American workers to stay home.
More
than 200 Seattle police officers quit over the last year, many citing anti-police climate. More than 200
Seattle police officers quit their jobs in the last year amid months of frequent anti-law enforcement, racial injustice
protests and riots in the city. Many of the officers cited an anti-police climate in the city — including in
the City Council — and disagreements with police management in their reasons for moving on, leaving the department
with what Police Chief Adrian Diaz called a "staffing crisis" on Tuesday [4/27/2021]. He said 180 police officers quit
last year and another 66 officers so far this year.
Woke
Democrats Broke American Cities. Almost all of the largest cities in the United States are governed by
hard-left Democrats. In fact, there is only one Republican mayor among the top 15 cities in the country and only three
among the 30 largest cities. All of the problems in our urban areas today are almost exclusively the result of the
failed Democratic Party leadership. While previous generations of Democrats might have tried to find bipartisan
solutions to longstanding problems, the party's leaders in 2021 are woke leftists interested only in pushing their radical
agenda. The result has been outmigration, soaring crime rates, a drug epidemic, broken families, failing public
schools, an increasing number of blighted properties, high poverty and unemployment rates, an obsession with a race-based
agenda, and rising antipathy toward law enforcement officers. No wonder people are fleeing our cities in hopes of
finding safety and a better quality of life.
The
Gender Non-Reveal: How Gender-Neutral Parenting Harms Kids. The newest generation, the children of
Millennials, has been dubbed Generation Alpha — and they're coming up fast. What ideas are they bringing
with them? For starters, they are "estimated to be the most gender-fluid and anti-sexist generation yet," according to
gender studies professor Dr. Kyl Myers. Myers and her husband, Brent, represent a small but growing group of
parents who are seeking to hasten this upcoming "gender revolution" by raising their own kids as gender-neutral. Their
child, Zoomer, is an example of what some are calling theybies — a combination of "they" and "babies,"
referring to children whose parents refuse to tell them what their sex is.
The
left's war on language continues unabated. The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TRREB) is removing the term
"master" bedroom from all of its databases and listing services and replacing it with the politically correct phrase
"primary" bedroom. According to a TRREB news release, the change was suggested by the organization's Diversity and
Inclusion Task Force (DITV) to better align it with Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) practices. The release
promised that the change "will also address the negative connotations surrounding 'master' bedroom, which many Members,
others in the industry, and the public at large associate with terminology rooted in slavery and/or sexism. We also
heard some of your concerns about the offensive undertones associated with this term. We know that words matter, and
this is a step forward in rethinking outdated terms and modernizing the language used in the real estate industry." Note
to the TRREB and wokesters everywhere: Banning (or bastardizing) language is not progressive; it is regressive: a
step backward. When you try to ban words, you are saying one of two things about them: 1) either the word
doesn't matter at all or 2) the word is so powerful that it can overwhelm your ability to rationally process
it. In a sane world and to a sane person, neither should be the case.
Safe
Spaces Are Creating a Generation of 'Snowflake Tyrants': Dr. Everett Piper. Dr. Everett Piper, author
of "Grow Up: Life Isn't Safe But It's Good," told Epoch TV's "Crossroads" Program that cancel culture's relentless
demand for safe spaces is making America's youth emotionally fragile, less able to cope with hardship, and more prone to
advocating for an ever bigger government role in allaying insecurity and providing safety at the expense of liberty.
Piper, who served as president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University for 17 years, said that his earlier warnings, that coddling
America's youth by acquiescing to demands for "safe spaces" and "trigger warnings" would lead to a sad and dangerous infantilization
of the American spirit, are increasingly coming to pass. "The 'snowflakes' have graduated," Piper said. "And they now
have jobs at Google and Amazon and Apple and Twitter and even Major League Baseball, where they're carrying their cancel culture,
their demands for safety, into our country at large, and they're silencing everyone who disagrees with them. This is
ideological fascism, it is not intellectual freedom."
Transgender
Child Commits Suicide, Feuding Parents Hold One Funeral for the Boy and Another for the Girl. A teen in Western
Australia's capital has been given two funerals. The 15-year-old female — who identified as a
boy — died tragically by suicide. The child's mother and father are estranged. Given the terrible
situation, they had to decide: Would she be interred as female? Or would the identity of a boy be reflected by
the burial? Mom and dad couldn't come to a consensus. The mother insisted her child — born a
girl — find a final resting place as a guy. In fact, as reported by 7News, she vowed to employ the full
power of the court system if necessary.
Believe
It or Not, a New Level of Corruption and Depravity for New York City. The district attorney of Manhattan in NYC
has announced that his office will no longer prosecute any unlicensed "massage" parlor workers (about 900 cases), nor
loitering for the purposes of prostitution (about 5,000 cases). Abigail Swenstein, a staff attorney with the Legal Aid
Society's Exploitation Intervention Project, which works with sex workers, said that while the policy doesn't preclude the
New York Police Department making arrests, she hopes officers will choose not to, knowing that prosecutors would not bring
charges. Laws against these behaviors are still on the books but will not be prosecuted. The citizenry has not
repealed these laws, but the ever wise and dictatorial district attorney will spit in the face of the citizenry (and God) by
deeming these activities unworthy of punishment. This writer could find reference to only one person, New York
Assemblyman Mike Reilly, a Republican, who said Manhattan's new prostitution policy sets a dangerous precedent. "It
flies in the face of law and order," he timidly said. To me, the fact that there is not an outcry of opposition is as
grievous as the decision itself.
Woke
Democrats Broke American Cities. Almost all of the largest cities in the United States are governed by
hard-left Democrats. In fact, there is only one Republican Mayor among the top 15 cities in the country and only three
among the 30 largest cities. All of the problems in our urban areas today are almost exclusively the result of the
failed Democratic Party leadership. While previous generations of Democrats might have tried to find bi-partisan
solutions to long standing problems, the party's leaders in 2021 are woke leftists interested only in pushing their radical
agenda. The result has been outmigration, soaring crime rates, a drug epidemic, broken families, failing public
schools, an increasing number of blighted properties, high poverty and unemployment rates, an obsession with a race-based
agenda and rising antipathy toward law enforcement officers. No wonder people are fleeing our cities in hopes of
finding safety and a better quality of life.
Broken
Arrow: America has been overrun. The public school and universities are undermining traditional values
everyday. This has been going on for years. Now, however, the effort is in overdrive where things like
transgenderism and the hateful Critical Race Theory are taking the pride of place in the classrooms. And perhaps worse
of all is illegal immigration, The country is being flooded with illegal immigrants whose numbers will change the nature of
the country in short order as has already been done in California. And the frustrating thing is that this is happening
despite it being against the will of the people and immigration laws, both of which are treated as jokes by the political
establishment. With Donald Trump out of the presidency, the American working class stands naked before the forces
intent on breaking it. The Republic is still alive, but on life support.
Are
NYPD officers rushing to retire amid city's anti-cop climate? More than 5,300 NYPD uniformed officers retired
or put in their papers to leave in 2020 — a 75 percent spike from the year before, department data show. The
exodus — amid the pandemic, anti-cop hostility, riots and a skyrocketing number of NYC shootings — saw
2,600 officers say goodbye to the job and another 2,746 file for retirement, a combined 5,346. In 2019, the NYPD had
1,509 uniformed officers leave and 1,544 file for retirement, for a total of 3,053. The departures and planned departures
of 5,300 officers represents about 15 percent of the force. Already, as of April 5, the NYPD headcount of uniformed
officers has dropped to 34,974 from 36,900 in 2019.
It's
Biden's 'First 100 Days' Week. Biden is trying to pack the Supreme Court. Even though Biden had said on
multiple occasions that he would not try to, that is exactly what he and his handlers are trying to do. Can you imagine
if President Trump had tried to pack the Court? The Supreme Court is historically the guardrail in stopping those who
lust for power and seek total control. If a packed Supreme Court becomes nothing more than a rubber stamp to
progressive ideology there will be no separation of powers nor checks and balances. Biden has enacted more executive
orders in his first 100 days of office than any other president during the same time period. Biden has put Kamala
Harris in charge of the border crisis illegal immigrants pour into America, and Harris has been down to the southern border
zero times. Zero times. [...] If someone is in the country legally, they are presumed by Biden to have Covid, urged or
even commanded to wear a mask in public. If someone tries to come into the country illegally, they are assumed
not to have Covid and transported to the destination of their choice.
We
are witnessing the Democrats' final revenge for losing the Civil War. Since the start of LBJ's "Great Society"
and the welfare state, Democrats have been breaking American Blacks in the same way Petruchio broke Katherine. If one
were to pay attention solely to the rhetoric, there can be no greater love than that which leftists in politics, the media,
academia, and the corporate world have for Blacks. The results of this abundant affection have been devastating.
"Hands up, don't shoot." "I can't breathe." "I'm a crazy white lady screaming at cops on behalf of Black
people." "Math is racist." "Ambition is racist." "The English language is racist." "Whites are born
racist." "Melanin makes people superior." (That last is a paraphrase of Kristen Clarke, Biden's nominee to head
the equal rights division of the Justice Department.) Lower academic standards. Separate dorms. Separate
dining halls. Critical Race Theory. White privilege. Ibram X. Kendi bestsellers. BLM.
Defund the police. ACAB. [...]
Fools' overture.
It hasn't taken long: gas prices are rising — as are the prices of other durable and consumer goods, such as
timber. Crime is soaring. China is making threatening gestures, and Russia is massing troops on the border of
Ukraine. There is a crisis on our own southern border, which even President and Lid-Caller-in-Chief Biden accidentally
admitted recently, causing White House press secretary Jen Psaki to claim that's not what he really meant to say. This
was all eminently predictable because, as any rational human being knows, actions have consequences. Banning the
Keystone Pipeline, printing and spending trillions upon trillions of dollars, and threatening to implement preposterous
environmental policies, defunding the police, and coddling criminals have had the effects that similar actions have always
had. They are the only possible results of actions such as these.
Kroger
Closing Ralphs And Food 4 Less In Long Beach Saturday Over Hero Pay Law. Kroger is closing two of its stores,
Ralphs and Food 4 Less, on Saturday after the City of Long Beach mandated that the company pay employees $4 extra an hour in
"hero pay" amid the coronavirus pandemic. As customers came by the store on Saturday [4/17/2021], there wasn't much
left to buy and the shelves were visibly empty, but people in the neighborhood said they wanted to shop there one more time.
Americans
Exiled within America. [Scroll down] A corrupt voting process has deprived millions of meaningful
participation within their republic. Meanwhile, integrity of citizenship itself is imperiled by the erasure of the
nation's boundaries and the granting of privileges to non-citizens. Second, Americans have been deprived of their
property, which has essentially been confiscated by the State in the interest of public "health." Businesses have been
shut down and, when partly opened, managed by bureaucrats who dictate how a business such as a restaurant may be run. [...]
But most importantly, like individuals who are removed from their country, exiled Americans have experienced loss of
community and communication. The forced isolation of Americans and the shutdown of nearly all institutions have
deprived Americans of supportive communities. Churches, schools, museums, concert halls, political groups, and even
family gatherings such as funerals and weddings have become tightly regulated. Many communities have either disappeared
altogether or retreated into cyberspace.
Despite
Reports to the Contrary, When It Comes to Destroying American Norms Trump Had Nothing on Team Biden. Here's an
interesting exercise: plug the search term "Trump destroying norms" into Google and see what happens. Or you can just
trust me: you'll get story after story, some dating back to 2015, about how Donald Trump, with his quick tongue, profligate
use of social media, and derision for the press, was sure to destroy American norms and the republic as a consequence.
Now, three months into the Biden administration, those precious norms that are definitely still around post-Trump are being
seriously and actually threatened from all sides by the same progressive legislators who worked with their fans in the media
to sell the idea that Trump was going to undo the fabric of American life.
Poll
Shows 69 Percent of Americans Favor Legal Weed, a New Record High. According to pollsters at Quinnipiac
University, 69 percent of all Americans and clear majorities in every demographic group now favor the legalization of
marijuana. That's up from 51 percent of Americans who said they favored legalization in 2012, the first year Quinnipiac
included questions about marijuana in their national surveys, and up from 60 percent who backed legalization in 2019.
The trend is unmistakable. Support isn't just growing, it is broadening. The Quinnipiac poll found that 78 percent
of self-identified Democrats, 62 percent of self-identified Republicans, and 67 percent of self-identified
independents favor legalization. The only age demographic where support for legalization falls short of 70 percent is
for respondents who are 65 and older — though even that cohort supports legalization by a slim margin (51 percent).
The Invisible Asylum:
Olympia, Washington, is a microcosm of the problems created by the emptying of mental hospitals. The story of
American deinstitutionalization has become familiar. In a long arc — from President Kennedy's Community
Mental Health Act of 1963 to the present — federal and state governments dismantled mental asylums and released
the psychiatrically disturbed into the world. Though there were sometimes brutal abuses in the state mental hospitals
of the early twentieth century, the closure of the asylums did not put an end to mental illness. If anything, with the
proliferation on the streets of psychosis-inducing drugs such as methamphetamine, the United States has more cases of serious
mental illness than ever before — and less capacity to treat and manage them. The question now is not, "What
happened to the asylums?" but "What replaced them?" Following the mass closure of state hospitals and the establishment of a
legal regime that dramatically restricted involuntary commitments, we have created an "invisible asylum" composed of three
primary institutions: the street, the jail, and the emergency room.
NYC
Teacher: Yes, 'Critical Race Theory' 'Training' Is Harmful 'Indoctrination' of Our Kids. Ever feel like
we've reached the point where daily life consists primarily of playing a never-ending game of "liberal insanity
whack-a-mole"? We smack one here insane narrative here, another one immediately pops up, there, then another one,
here? Me too. From border-swarms of illegal alien-wannabes dressed in Biden campaign T-shirts demanding the
aforementioned honor his campaign promises and "Let us in!", to "racial justice" and "abolish the police" riots —
er "peaceful protests — to defiant teachers unions who continue refuse to send to their members back to their
classrooms, and on and on. The never-ending story of the grip the left has on America is a sobering reality.
New
Yorker who wants to marry [his or her] adult biological child sues to overturn laws banning incest. A New York
parent who wants to marry their [sic] adult biological child is suing to overturn laws banning incest, saying marriage is a
matter of 'individual autonomy'. The parent filed the lawsuit in Manhattan federal court on April 1 asking a judge to
declare incest laws 'unconstitutional' and unenforceable so that they can wed their [sic] offspring in a ceremony in New York
City. The identities of both the parent and the child are not known, with the gender, ages, hometowns and nature of
their relationship not detailed in the suit, seen by the New York Post.
Rural
Trump Voters Already Live in the Safe, Tolerant Utopia Leftists Claim to Want. If I had to boil down the
political wisdom I've learned over four decades of observing, studying, writing, and debating, it would be this: Life
in Rural America (which is where Republican Trump voters live and govern), is clean, safe and racially tolerant. Most
places in America where life is dirty, polluted, dangerous, violent, and plagued with racial hate and race riots, are cities
that are almost exclusively populated by and governed by Democrats.
Andy
Ngo: U.S. Unsafe Due To Far-Left Terror, Erosion Of Police. A prominent Asian-American reporter commented
on his decision to flee the U.S. due to threats by Antifa. Journalist and author Andy Ngo said he fled the U.S. due to
an escalation of safety concerns. In an interview Monday [4/5/2021], Ngo of Portland, Oregon said it's not safe for him
to remain in the U.S. due to his past reporting on Antifa. Ngo stressed he left the U.S. due to the weakening of law
enforcement and a rise in popularity of far-left violence.
Americans
slouching toward Gomorrah. For the first time ever, the percentage of Americans who belong to a house of
worship such as a church or synagogue has fallen below 50%, according to a new Gallup survey. [...] Violent — and
other — crime is rising in virtually all major American cities. Rates of addiction, depression and suicide
are also rising dramatically. Syringes and human feces line the streets and sidewalks of formerly paradisical cities
such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle and Portland. A growing number of us find it difficult to figure out what
gender we may be. Pot, 'shrooms and even hard drugs are being legalized in many locales. Criminals are being let
out of jail, while hard working small business owners are being ushered into jail. Police departments are being
demonized and defunded. There is a growing push to legalize polygamy. Yet it is a crime to say "All Lives Matter."
The First AOC Administration.
In less than three months, Biden has managed to erase the United States' southern border in order to accelerate the northward
flow of undocumented Democrats. He's having more success than he should in pushing for the higher taxes and onerous
regulations that held down the economy when he was Barack Obama's dogsbody, both of which Biden's predecessor lowered,
thereby causing the economy to take off. Biden has reinstated Obama's invertebrate foreign policy, giving the world's
bad guys the rope they need, and he's pledged to spend trillions we don't have in order to pursue the fool's errand of carbon-free
energy (aka very little energy, and at mini-bar prices). He's blessed the corrupt HR 1, which if the Senate falls for
it would federalize all elections, installing voting rules so lax as to hang a "STEAL ME!" sign on all future elections.
The cherry on top of the sundae is Biden foisting critical race theory onto federal employees, including the military, which
Democrats seem determined to declaw.
If it
ain't broke, Joe Biden will break it. The president is on a tear, as in tearing up arrangements that were
achieving their objectives. His early results are disastrous. In an act of astonishing foolishness, Biden created
a humanitarian and public safety crisis on our southern border by dismantling a successful policy structure that took years
to achieve. In the Mideast, he looks determined to undo the Arab-Israeli alliance Donald Trump forged by returning to
the failed policies Biden helped to implement in the Obama-Biden administration. If that were all, it would be more
than enough. But it's not all. Biden also wants to end the Senate filibuster and took the first step toward
packing the Supreme Court. Those two moves are so destructive that even Sen. Mitt Romney, who usually saves his
criticism for fellow Republicans, drew the line.
Biden's Chamber
of Confected Hatreds. Destructive, mindless wokeness and charges and confessions of "white privilege" are
everywhere, and the United States government is complicit with the vicious drug and slave gangs of Mexico in the importation
of large numbers of illegal migrants, up to 80 percent of whom are sexually violated on their way to the southern U.S.
border. It emerges that virtually the entire state school system and almost all of the university academy are peddling
the lie that the United States was established as a slaveholding enterprise as its raison d'être,
effectively up until Black Lives Matter exposed this heinous state of affairs and promised to "burn America down" if it were
not changed. We have also recently learned that the U.S. armed forces are systematically propagating within their ranks
critical race theory, which is a complete and dangerous fiction and just more mud-slinging and myth-making about the nature
of the country. And now Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is trying to recruit the entire world to pledge to raise
corporate taxes — an insane and fatuous concept.
Over
250 Male California Prison Inmates Request Transfer to Women's Facilities. Since January, 261 California prison
inmates have requested transfers to prisons aligning with their gender identity, 255 of them biological males who say they
identify as women, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
In January, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, signed into law a bill requiring the California Department of
Corrections and Rehabilitation to ask every individual entering its custody to specify personal pronouns and gender identity,
including transgender, nonbinary, or intersex. The California law, known as SB 132, prevents Corrections and
Rehabilitation from disciplining the individual for refusing to give this information, allows for the information to be
updated later, and requires staff to use the gender pronouns that the individual requested.
Quality
of life plummets, taxes rocket — and New York City faces doom. "No man's life, liberty or property
are safe while the Legislature is in session." That's how Gideon Tucker put it back in 1866, a New Yorker who knew
Albany as a former legislator, secretary of state and judge. His wisdom, as demonstrated repeatedly over the ages, is
timeless. Yet there is something different, and especially troubling, about this time. The possibility of
permanent decline and the ultimate destruction of the New York we know is unmatched in modern memory. With Republicans
reduced to hecklers, Albany Democrats, oblivious or reckless or both, are marching toward the cliff in an Alfred E. Neuman,
What, Me Worry? Way. The rising chorus of "Stop!" goes unheeded. Washington is sending train loads of money
to blue states to bail out their high tax, high spend habits.
Exclusive:
Exodus Underway as Record-Shattering Surge of Austin Police Officers Leave the Force. After the Austin city
council voted unanimously to defund its police department by about one-third of its budget, in August 2020, many predicted
that once the cuts kicked in a flood of officers would leave the force as soon as they could. The new district
attorney's policy of re-investigating police officers for closed cases is also expected to cause officers to resign or
retire. The city council's cuts officially kicked in and have been in place for a few months. PJ Media reports
exclusively that APD is now suffering a huge surge of officer departures putting it on pace to shatter 2020's record.
America's creation
of the transgender child. As a cynical Brit, I admire the US can-do attitude. The American dream, the
idea that people can be anything they want, is liberating and wonderful. But it has a downside. The idea of the
self-made man or woman is taken very literally in the US, and accordingly a lucrative market for those who wish to change sex
is booming. This is no-longer just the preserve of adults; over the past decade a linguistic shift from "transexual" to
"transgender" has de-sexed what had previously been considered an adult psychosexual disorder. The modification of
bodies to fit a stated sense of "gender identity" now extends to children. Thus, with sleight of language, a puff of
glitter and injection of hormones, unto the US the "transgender child" was born. [...] One might imagine the locus of concern
would be the ethics of medicating and operating on children physically to alleviate mental distress, but it is the impact on
sport which has captured the public imagination.
How
the Transgender Movement is Destroying Feminism. In 2005, I published a book with the title The Death of
Feminism. I saw it all coming. But I did not foresee the rise of a transgender movement. On March 31st,
an allegedly feminist Open Letter Supporting Trans Women and Girls, was circulated. Among other things, it stated that
"We acknowledge with clarity and strength that transgender women are women and that transgender girls are girls. And we
believe that honoring the diversity of women's experiences is a strength, not a detriment to the feminist cause."
Interestingly, there is absolutely no mention of trans men — those who were born female but who have or want to
become male. As we now know, there is an alarming spike among teenage girls in America who hope to solve their teenage
sorrows such as low self-esteem, body image discomfort, trauma based on sexual violence, eating disorders, psychiatric
suffering, etc., by cutting off their breasts, surgically removing their uteri and ovaries, and taking potentially lethal
hormones to prevent puberty, and to grow facial hair and muscle.
Society
Pays When Prosecutors Fail to Punish Crime. Imagine a society where prostitutes could solicit johns for sex
just yards from police officers who did little more than wave them on their way. Picture yourself walking through a
park with your children as a homeless person is free to urinate and defecate beside the park bench where he is stashing the
illegal drugs he bought from a dope dealer operating openly without fear of the police. Does that make you feel
safe? Welcome to the new Baltimore, where law enforcement will no longer be prosecuting what it calls "low-level
offenses." These include possessing drugs or drug paraphernalia, trespassing, minor traffic offenses, prostitution, open
container violations, and defecating or urinating in public. The city announced the initiative last week after a
year-long experiment to slow the spread of COVID-19 in the jails and prisons.
Georgia
Democrats stare down a mob of their own making. Leftist activists are busy whipping up a national boycott of
Georgia-based businesses over the state's new election integrity law. The boycott has the support of Hollywood and the
White House, with President Joe Biden saying this week that he would support moving the MLB's All-Star Game out of the state
as a sign of protest. Georgia Democrats are now left trying to talk the mob down. "I absolutely oppose and reject
any notion of boycotting Georgia," Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff said in a statement on Thursday [4/1/2021]. "Georgia
welcomes business, investment, jobs, opportunity, and events. In fact, economic growth is driving much of the political
progress we have seen here." Stacey Abrams, who, having lost Georgia's governorship in 2018, rebranded herself as a voting
rights activist, agreed and reminded Democrats that economic boycotts would hurt the very communities they claim to represent.
Mass
Shootings: Another Consequence of Democrat Majorities. When most Democrats learned of the Boulder, CO
shooting last week, they salivatingly checked social media to see if the alleged murderer was a white, male Donald Trump
voter. Most Republicans scoured story after story to see if he was black or a Democrat (close to redundant, I know).
I, however, did what I always do when I hear of a shooting: I checked who lives in the area, and who's in charge.
What do you think I discovered about Boulder County? [...] In Boulder County, since 2004, the Democrat nominee for U.S.
president has received a minimum of 66% of the vote; Biden got 77% last year. In the county, there are 96,319 active
registered Democrats and 36,302 active registered Republicans. The mayor, and all eight council members of the city of
Boulder, are "nonpartisan," but the Rorschach Test of the Homo sapiens species — social media —
revealed that all are Democrats.
Major cities
feeling the loss of police funding as murders, other crimes soar. Cities in parts of the U.S. that slashed
their police department funding last year, in part as a result of police-involved shootings, have seen an uptick in certain
crimes over the past year, according to data analyzed by Fox News. Cities such as Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York
City, Portland, Ore., and Austin, Texas, have shifted funds from police departments to social services programs. Such
cuts have led some departments to lay off officers, cancel recruiting classes or retreat from hiring goals. As police
departments were left to make do with shrunken budgets and less support, some big cities have seen sometimes drastic upticks
in murders and other violent crimes, a Fox News crime analysis found.
'The
cruelty is the point'. [Scroll down] At one particularly overcrowded U.S. Border Patrol facility in
Donna, Texas, an official told reporters: "The capacity for this location for COVID purposes is 250. Previous to
COVID, the total capacity was one thousand. Now, we're holding over 4,100 subjects in this location alone. So you
do the math. We're way over capacity." The short version: Families are separated and there are thousands of
young people jammed into holding pens awaiting processing. There is no doubt that President Biden's policy is behind
the latest surge. The president and his administration have made clear that the U.S. will accept unaccompanied children
but not family units, and not individual adults. At his news conference last week, Biden said, "We're sending back the
vast majority of the families that are coming." Even though that is not entirely true, the U.S. message to would-be
migrants, from the mouth of the president himself, is: If you come as a family, we will turn you away. If you
send your children by themselves, we will take them. Biden's policy has given those families a clear incentive to
self-separate in the interest of at least getting their children inside the United States.
Biden
issues first presidential proclamation on Trans Day of Visibility. President Joe Biden on Wednesday [3/31/2021]
issued the first presidential proclamation recognizing Transgender Day of Visibility. The day is dedicated to
celebrating transgender people and bringing awareness to the discrimination and violence they face everyday. In his
proclamation, Biden said Trans Day of Visibility recognizes the generations of activism by transgender and nonbinary people.
The
10 Radical New Rules That Are Changing America. [#3] Racialism is now acceptable. We are defined first by
our ethnicity or religion, and only secondarily — if at all — by an American commonality. The
explicit exclusion of whites from college dorms, safe spaces, and federal aid programs is now noncontroversial. It is
unspoken payback for perceived past sins, or a type of "good" racism. Falsely being called a racist makes one more
guilty than falsely calling someone else a racist.
Australian
Journalist: Biden Making World 'More Dangerous,' Destroying Military With 'Wokesters'. Sky News host
James Morrow said during a recent broadcast that the world has become a "more dangerous place" under Democratic President Joe
Biden, noting that America's enemies have started to become more aggressive around the world while Biden is focusing on
making the U.S. Military "woke." "On Friday, Chinese forces committed their largest ever incursion into Taiwanese
airspace, as worries grow by the day of a Chinese invasion of the Democratic island republic. Meanwhile, in the Middle
East, Iran is on the march with its rebel militias, now attacking Saudi oil fields and building up a stockpile of missiles
that has Israeli planners increasingly nervous about a potentially devastating conflict happening sooner rather than later."
America
at the End of Empire. [Scroll down] Ascendant China is hell-bent on world domination and makes no
apology for it. America, meanwhile, is suffering from decades of accelerated, corrosive, Marxist subversion that has
saddled us with a power-lusting leftist regime, aided and abetted by an unofficial state news media; a school system that has
jettisoned rigorous education in favor of identity politics indoctrination; a woke corporate culture showering hundreds of
millions of dollars on support for Critical Race training and on the communist revolutionaries of Black Lives Matter; an
obscenely decadent entertainment industry (itself in thrall to Chinese influence) that peddles anti-Americanism,
anti-Christianity, anti-capitalism, and anti-white racism; and a politicized military establishment prioritizing "gender
equity" over warrior readiness. In short, America (and the Western world more generally), once the most prosperous and
powerful civilization in history, is no longer operating "from a position of strength." It is, in fact, bleeding out
from self-inflicted wounds, and our enemies foreign and domestic smell the blood in the water.
On
gender madness, don't let Canada be the future. Jordan Peterson became world-famous in 2016 because he stood up
to Canada's human rights law, which made it a crime to "misgender" someone. Since then, Canada has slid even further
into gender totalitarianism. The latest example is a Canadian man who was sent to prison for refusing to adopt his
teenage daughter's new masculine pronouns. The father and mother were not raising the child together, so it was only
when his daughter was 13 that the father learned that the girl's public school and his ex-wife had been working with the
child to turn her into a boy. This included pushing the child to take hormones to mimic male sexual attributes such as
facial hair and a deep voice. The father (who cannot be identified under Canadian law because doing so would also
identify his daughter) went to court, saying that he needed to give parental consent before his child was permanently
mutilated. Not only did a British Columbia court rule against him, saying the father's consent wasn't necessary, but
the appellate judges also lectured him to understand gender dysphoria better.
You're
Racist, whether You Like It or Not. "In my mind... this was an anti-Asian hate crime." So declared
Congresswoman Judy Chu regarding the Atlanta shooting, in which eight women died, six of whom happened to be Asian. [...]
There is no point denying that the left, at this moment, controls all the major avenues of power in America — from
the media to academia, from education to entertainment, from government to business, the left has entrenched itself, giving
it unprecedented power over our lives. We see this in the nationwide spread of "drag queen story time," the unveiling
of a "gay Captain America," and the continual pledges of "diversity" and "equity" from companies as prestigious as Bank of
America and Nabisco. But this narrative around the Atlanta shooting marks a graduation of the left's power. It
has, in essence, declared that it can divine our actions better than we can.
How
[the] 'Minneapolis Effect' Explains [the] Surge of Violent Crime in American Cities. This past year, "defund
the police" has been a frequent call from activists seeking systemic reform of the American criminal justice system. It
became a popular rallying cry after the May 25 death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis. And Minneapolis
is among cities that partially defunded police departments and proactive crime prevention programs in response to the
incident. However, the months since brought a massive surge in violent crime, a phenomenon called the "Minneapolis
Effect" by two legal experts who spoke at a virtual event held March 16 by The Heritage Foundation. Paul Cassell, a law
professor at the University of Utah, and Lawrence Rosenthal, a law professor at Chapman University in Orange, California,
laid out the case that the serious, protracted rise in crime is tied to rhetoric and actions after Floyd's death and the
ensuing protests.
I have
lived in New York City my whole life — and I fear it will never recover. This year has been a
tremendously difficult year. Covid-19 was — and remains — scary and awful. For so many New
Yorkers, what has also been awful over the last year has been watching the destruction of New York City —
undoubtedly in large part because of a pair of egomaniac buffoons: Mayor Bill De Blasio and Governor Andrew
Cuomo. New York City is a fragment of itself — abandoned stores and empty streets. The city that used
to never sleep is in a slumber. After a year in which the city permitted looting and rioting, in which kids remain
largely out of school, in which crime is rising rapidly and so many of us are afraid to walk in the streets, the city is
largely shuttered and in disarray. Streets are filled with crime, the homeless are everywhere — and so many
New Yorkers have left.
Climate
change is the perfect tool to justify complete control. Replacing internal combustion-powered automobiles with
E.V.s is policy. Eventually, they will acknowledge the inherent pollution in battery manufacture, the production of the
electricity needed to charge the batteries, and eventual battery disposal. The goal is to eliminate private
transportation in its entirety. In major cities, roadwork now entails reducing on-street parking while narrowing
thoroughfares to increase traffic. This is a prelude to charging a yearly fee for the privilege of city parking.
Several thousand dollars a year should modify behavior and increase revenues. The implementation of license fees (also
several thousand dollars per annum) for car ownership will come to fruition. Limiting the right to own a car for people
who allow their "social credit score" to decline by saying something untoward about government or authorities on social
media, or in public, will also be a tactic. Next will be restricted usage and a fee per mile driven with driving
limited to odd and even days for portions of the population. Social scores will dictate who is allowed to fly on
commercial airliners, with ticket prices including a "carbon fee" commensurate to the seat's percentage of the flight's total
carbon cost. In addition to forcing the price of gasoline to $20 a gallon, the "price of all energy will necessarily
have to skyrocket" (Barack Obama). They will triple or quadruple the price of all energy, whether it be electricity, natural
gas, or home heating oil.
Culture
change is far more devastating than climate change. In the Golden Era of Sports (1920s) through the following
decades, until sometime in the late 1960s or early 1970s, it was traditional for people to dress up whenever they stepped
outside or went to an event. Pictures of hockey arenas and baseball stadiums show the ladies, of which there were far
fewer than today, dressed in their finery and the men in suits and even dressy hats. The hats eventually went away and
the suits... followed suit, replaced by more casual but still nice outfits. In recent years the nicer casual outfits
have often been supplanted by ripped shorts, "message" tee shirts or sweatpants and sweatshirts, frequently far from
fresh. Similarly, people were instructed to stand silently and at attention for the national anthem, remove their hats
and place their hands over their hearts. This level of community spirit and respect survived for many years.
Eventually, however, as apparel standards flagged, fewer and fewer people bothered to put their hand over their hearts, or
remove their headgear. Or stand at attention. Or stay silent. Finally, in the last few years, as players
routinely took a knee in "protest" during the anthem, others did, too. And some fans in the stands were no longer moved
to stand in honor of the flag, their country, veterans' sacrifices, or anything.
The
American Police State Is Now Forming. SAT exams originally established to foster equality and
non-discrimination in college admissions are now being abandoned as — imagine — discriminatory, giving
advantage to Asians and whites over Latinos and people of color. Even a few short years ago, Howard Gardner's idea of
multiple intelligences was being used to challenge the idea of the mind's executive function, measured by I.Q. tests, as
invalid. Because learning is supposedly based on "multiple intelligences," emphasis in classrooms was increasingly on
group work, simple tasks like pasting pictures on colored paper to make booklets, or learning via computer "at one's own
pace" with the teacher present in the classroom to promote student engagement. Teachers are increasingly referred to as
facilitators rather than as teachers. Even without the so-called Equality Act, this writer knows an elementary school
teacher whose school issued the rule that teachers could no longer say, "Girls line up here, and boys line up here."
A girls' line and a boys' line were no longer allowed.
Couple
buys Riverside dream home, but seller refuses to move out in eviction moratorium loophole. When Tracie and
Myles Albert purchased a beautiful four bedroom house in Riverside, California they never realized that at the end of escrow
the seller would suddenly refuse to give up the keys and leave. "It's just draining, emotionally and financially," says
Tracie. On January 31, 2020, the couple purchased the home. More than a year later, they still haven't been able
get inside their property.
Biden's
Illegal Immigration Agenda Creates Another Child Smuggling Crisis. Those in government know full well the
tragic consequences of opening our borders. Rather than being motivated by compassion, they seek to gain power, and
they're willing to sacrifice some of the most vulnerable people to do it. The Biden administration's recent
open-borders immigration policy and talk of potential amnesty has predictably resulted in a dramatic rise in unaccompanied
children risking their lives to enter the United States across our southern border. The number of children coming
without parents is now more than 430 a day, with immigration experts predicting an influx of more than 100,000 unaccompanied
children by the end of 2021. Parents are paying murderous drug cartels thousands of dollars to smuggle their children
across the border. Some children are traveling across two or three countries to get here.
Monopoly
scraps outdated Community Chest cards to appeal to woke folks. After 85 years of cheap hospital bills, moderate
stock earnings and maturing "Christmas funds" (whatever that means), Hasbro now plans to bring Monopoly into the increasingly
"woke" 21st century. The game-maker has decided to update its 16 Community Chest cards, which featured outdated prompts
such as winning a "beauty contest," actually receiving a "tax refund" or the now-rarely seen "bank error in your favor."
In their place are more contemporary cards that evoke community service and social awareness. Swaps could include a
reward for "shopping local all week," rescuing a shelter pet or helping tend the community garden. But Hasbro wants
players to decide which to include via voting.
The Culture
Curators Want To Think For You. The corporations, much of the media, the entertainment industry, major league
sports organizations, academia and Silicon Valley all demand that we fall in line with how they think. They want to
approve of how we speak, what books we read, what movies we watch, what words we use, who we support politically, how we
educate our children and what parts of history are acceptable to teach. [...] When one of them deems something unacceptable
in its version of the world, many others follow suit, often crumbling to their younger employees' demands. The latter
has been given enough power in this age of corporate social justice to destroy the very place they work if that corporation
does not bend to their demands. The decision no longer to publish six Dr. Seuss books was made internally. So was
Disney's decision to prevent young viewers from watching "Dumbo," "Peter Pan," "Swiss Family Robinson" and "The Aristocats."
Poison, Mutilate, and
Sterilize. Before the smartphone and the Great Awokening helped make transgenderism the latest craze among
adolescent girls (partly displacing older teen fads such as anorexia, cutting, and recovered memories), psychological science
knew of only two main types of gender dysphoria (when an individual is dissatisfied with the sex of his or her body):
Childhood-onset gender dysphoria [... and] Late-onset gender dysphoria[.] [...] Only a vanishingly small number of American
teenage girls thought they were boys until the media started hyping transgenderism around 2013. Unhappy pubescent girls
shopped online for some explanation of their discontent and found en masse that the hot new one was transgenderism.
For
US, Gradual Ruin Is About to Become Sudden. [Scroll down] For a moment, during President Donald Trump's
tenure, it seemed as though we'd returned to the sunlit uplands. Leave aside his partisan successes, the judges, and
tax cuts, for example. Concentrate instead on what he did to secure the borders, to upgrade the military, to make
America energy independent. It's only mid-March 2021. In just six weeks, and with 60-odd executive orders behind him,
Biden has largely unraveled all that and more. This is the reality: Biden has set us on a collision course with
tyranny at home and armed conflict abroad. He has denominated his political opponents "domestic terrorists" and
directed the FBI to harass and arrest them. He has done everything in his considerable power to surrender the country
to the woke mob. Meanwhile, the rest of the world isn't standing still. Look for a kinetic clash with Russia,
China, or Iran soon. It's coming to a theater near you by the end of this summer, and I do not mean a movie theater.
Portland
cut police funding and got a 2,000% surge in murders. Last June, the city of Portland, Oregon, hopped on the
"defund the police" bandwagon. Now, it is flooded with gun violence, and the mayor is already backtracking from his
support for the cuts. Mayor Ted Wheeler has requested $2 million in emergency funding for the police department,
pointing directly to the surge in gun violence. At this point last year, Portland had seen just one homicide.
This year, that number is 20, with 208 shootings in the city so far. Wheeler backed the Portland City Council's
decision to cut $15 million from the police budget last June, which included disbanding police units that investigate gun
violence. Predictably, that move backfired in a city that saw 100 consecutive days of violent rioting last year.
Riots are back once again in the city, thanks to Wheeler's spinelessness. Rioters have once again targeted a federal
courthouse in the city, a reprise of the violent storming of the courthouse last July. In June, it was reported that
the city lost around $24 million due to the riots. Damage to federal buildings totals roughly $2.3 million.
US
Military: Social Justice Warriors. A pastor I know personally told me that one of his congregation is in
a service academy, and sends him photographs of assignments and readings they are given. The young person asks the
pastor for advice on how to navigate all this as a Christian. The pastor said he — the pastor —
is a conservative, but the things that the new woke military is putting into the heads of our young people are
shocking. Let me be clear: the pastor is not hearing about this second-hand; he's seeing photos of the actual
documents. I have asked him to share them with me so I can pass them on to you. I'm waiting to hear back.
Conservatives:
Stop Whining and Take Action. We must now regard our open borders as a funnel for new COVID infestation,
legislative threats to our Second Amendment rights, an educational system that from kindergarten through graduate and
professional schools is fully committed to indoctrinating students with woke socialism instead of teaching job-earning
skills. They have institutionalized racism with the white fragility doctrine and promoted wholesale abortion not only
in the United States, but around the world with U.S. taxpayer dollars.
The
Top 1% Are Not Causing the USA's Problems. [Scroll down] In today's world, unlike the USA at the turn of
the 20th century, there are hundreds of thousands of big city residents who want their kids to be in "daycare" until 9:00 p.m.
(many people who work in daycare centers encounter many parents who complain that they have to pick up their kids at 6:30 pm or
7:00 pm when they would prefer more downtime by themselves). So, we may be moving towards a system of compulsory
education to age 20 or 22, or perhaps a Spartan model where children are raised by the state 24/7 from the age of 6 onwards.
The
Pentagon's Fight With Tucker Carlson Proves It Doesn't Even Exist To Win Wars Anymore. Tucker Carlson may have
never served in the armed forces, but he's still decisively winning a PR war against the U.S. military. That shouldn't
surprise anyone, of course. The U.S. military loses most of the wars it fights these days. During America's long
golden age as a country, the military typically abstained from politics and won wars. But in the decaying Globalist
American Empire, the military plays a very different role. Protecting America and winning conflicts isn't the
military's goal at all. Instead, the armed forces have become a skinsuit. This once-great institution has been
repurposed into a vehicle for globalist and left-wing domestic political goals.
Landlord
homeless, unable to evict deadbeat' tenant thanks to COVID law. A Brooklyn homeowner unable to evict an
allegedly deadbeat tenant because of new state housing laws claims she has been forced to live in her car for weeks.
Shawna Eccles, 30, says in court papers she sleeps on the couches of friends and relatives whenever she can, and in her
four-door Toyota when she can't, after fighting and failing for months to evict Sharita Patterson, 33, from the two-family
home in Carnarsie. "There is no one I can stay with until I am able to evict, and all of my money covers the mortgage,
water bill and property taxes," Eccles told The [New York] Post. "If anything gets cut off, it will be considered an
illegal eviction. I have no additional funds to rent an apartment."
My
Democrat Friends are Getting Very Embarrassed. They bought into the propaganda that all the turmoil in
Washington was created by the erratic and immoral behavior of Donald Trump. Their vote for Harris/Biden was a vote to
return to normal. They didn't realize that the Democrats weren't offering a return to normal, they were offering the
establishment of a "new normal." The "new normal" includes restricted energy exploration and cancellation of the
Keystone XL pipeline. This has caused a loss of well-paying union jobs, damaged relations with Canada, and triggered
skyrocketing gasoline prices. It also threatens to return us to dependence on the most unstable region in the
world. To those who would like us to leave the Middle East to resolve its own problems — we can't now.
We've implemented more "humane" immigration policies, creating a flood of illegal immigrants across the border —
wearing "Biden" t-shirts. Our humane policy has given us men, women, and children sacrificing their lives pursuing the
dream promised them by the Democrats. Thankfully, we're no longer keeping illegal immigrant children in cages.
Now we're keeping them in Conex boxes.
Leftists'
inconsistencies are catching up with them. The most obvious ideological clash within the Democrat party
involves biological women and fake women (i.e., "transgender women"). Since the 1960s, the Democrats have owned the women's
liberation movement and a significant part of the women's vote. Democrats support abortion, "woymn's" and "womxn's"
studies, free birth control and sanitary products, compulsory equal representation of women on corporate boards, and so much
more. Democrats were going to elect the first woman president (Hillary) and will soon sneak in a woman into the Oval
Office via the back door (Harris). And of course, Democrats are the party of "believe all women." However, Democrats are
proving to be a radically anti-women party with their Equality Act. This Act explicitly "prohibits an individual from
being denied access to a shared facility, including a restroom, a locker room, and a dressing room, that is in accordance
with the individual's gender identity." It also mandates that "gender identity" is not a barrier to "public accommodations
and facilities, education, federal funding, employment, [and] housing...." In other words, biological men, simply by
saying they are women, will have full access to women's restrooms, locker rooms, prisons, battered women's shelters, athletic
competitions, women-only business opportunities, athletic scholarships, etc. The bill is an invitation for rape and
other physical abuse.
Biden's
Border Brouhaha is Just the Start. [Scroll down] Do you Dems not understand that unlimited immigration
hurts the undereducated and underskilled PoCs the most? Do you Dems not understand that the minimum wage prices
undereducated and underskilled PoCs onto the unemployment line? [...] And do you Dems not understand that wokery like
"decolonizing math" means that white Beckys go buy homeschool math books for their children and PoC children get screwed?
Cops
defunded, de Blasio's wife urges New Yorkers to do their own policing. Did it occur to any of the leftist
politicians boostering for the 'Defund the Police' far-left trope that they might just be left holding the bag? Seems
not. And sure enough, it's slowly starting to dawn on them that were played for fools. Because in the wake of the
media-vaunted 'defund police' movement, every last blue city in America kowtowing to this has, surprise, found itself in the
middle of a crime wave. Crime-plagued blue cities are now becoming unliveable, and citizens who form their tax bases
are fleeing, That presents some problems for these pols. Caracas-ization is not for the faint of heart. But
remaining fools, they don't exactly know what to do about it. Crime in New York City is out of control, so Chirlaine
McCray, the scandal-plagued wife of far-left Mayor Bill de Blasio, is now offering a bizarre new solution to resolve the
problem: Every citizen his own policeman.
The Editor says...
Sounds a lot like the Wild West. We don't need no stinking badges!
Jill
Biden, the Meghan Markle in the WH, is egregiously guilty of elder abuse. [Scroll down] After just eight
weeks in office, Biden has been a one-man wrecking ball to American jobs, energy independence and border security.
Under Trump, the Border Patrol and ICE were allowed to do their jobs which, like all law enforcement, was and is to protect
this nation and its legal citizens. And we are to believe that Americans chose Biden to undo the tremendous successes
of the Trump administration? No chance. Every poll, even those rigged by leftists, shows that Americans do not
support the violence perpetrated by Antifa and BLM. They do not support defunding the police in any state or city.
Sure, those anti-White racists do support those groups and policies, but they are a minority. Ask any Black mother trying
to keep her sons alive beyond the age of fifteen in Chicago or Baltimore. [...] And then there is the border. Whoever is
calling the shots for all the Biden executive orders are having a grand old time at our expense. They are destroying the
America we once knew faster than anyone could have thought possible.
Gay
poly throuple makes history, lists 3 dads on a birth certificate. A gay, polyamorous California throuple made
history in 2017 when they became the first family in the state to list three parents on a birth certificate. Their
reproductive journey and legal battle to become fathers to Piper, now 3, is detailed in "Three Dads and a Baby" (out March 9,
Cleis Press), written by one of her dads, Dr. Ian Jenkins. Jenkins and his partners, Jeremy Hodges and Dr. Alan
Mayfield, don't see their family — which now also includes their son, Parker, 1 — as unusual.
Trump Reloaded.
Former president Donald Trump emerged from 38 days of self-enforced silence for a lengthy speech at the Conservative
Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, that was frequently interrupted with boisterous applause and chants
from an adoring, mostly white and older crowd. [...] Conservatives will not disagree with Trump when it comes to the issues
he mentioned. These issues included Biden allowing more immigrants to unlawfully cross our southern border and resuming
a so-called "catch-and-release" policy Trump ended, the killing of the Keystone XL pipeline, which has led to lost jobs and
higher energy prices, rejoining the Paris climate agreement and withdrawing Trump's restoration of UN sanctions on Iran, and
the reversal of his energy policies, which Trump claims caused gasoline prices to soar by "30 percent" since he left
office. He predicted a gallon of gas could eventually cost "$5 $6 $7" dollars unless those policies are reversed.
This
Administration Is Already a Failure. Obama's administration was a policy disaster, but it was at least a
competently implemented disaster. The Zombie Administration is a disaster in both form and substance. What has
this desiccated, old weirdo achieved in his six weeks of semiconsciousness in the Oval Office? Well, there's putting
tens of thousands of Americans out of jobs, including union guys who voted for him. There's telling the American people
that their kids can't go to school because public school teachers take priority over children because of science or
something. There's another war in the Middle East. Those are kind of accomplishments, but not really good
ones. His administration had someone named "Ducklo" who was mean to women. He had another who wants to be a woman
and who wants to let your little boys be surgically turned into women. And Neera Tanden's confirmation was blocked
because she was a woman and totally not because she was an inept loudmouth. If this is normalcy, what's a freak show
look like?
Now's
Our Chance To Create Public School Alternatives. Throughout parts of the United States, children have not been
in school for a year. Instead, they are expected to daily attend zoom classes. What that means in practical terms
is that many kids sit somewhere at home, log in to class, turn off the camera, and go back to bed or play games on their
phone throughout the "school" day. One young man I know is one of only two students in his entire middle school class
whose face appears in the zoom classroom — and that is because he is a disabled student whose mother sits with
him. The school district cannot force children to turn the camera on. In my work counseling children, numerous
children have complained to me of isolation, severe loneliness, and anger. One formerly school-loving boy asserted that
teachers don't care about their students and it makes no difference if he does his work or not. He will carry that
sentiment back into the classroom, should they ever open up.
California
Bill Would Give $1,000 Fines to Retailers With Separate 'Girls' and 'Boys' Toy Sections. Retail stores in most
of California are only allowed to operate at 25 percent capacity. A new bill in the state legislature would ensure that
whatever part of their shop is allowed to be open is as inclusive as possible. Last week, Assembly Members Evan Low
(D-Cupertino) and Cristina Garcia (D-Los Angeles) introduced a bill that would require retailers to offer their toys and
childcare products in a gender-neutral format. Brick-and-mortar shops would have to display the majority of their
products and clothing aimed at children in one undivided, unisex area on the sales floor. They'd also be barred from
putting up signage that would indicate whether a product was intended for a boy or girl.
Is
this the dumbest state legislature in the country? No state in the United States has had single-party political
rule at the state level longer than this state. The ruling party has held a majority in both houses of the state legislature
for 81 of the last 91 years (thus eliminating Nebraska). The last time the minority party held a majority on the state
supreme court was in the 1920's. The state has the worst ranked K-12 public education system in the country. It has
7 state universities that grant four-year degrees but only one is ranked academically in the top 500 in the U.S. (#484).
It is estimated that an astounding 46% of the adults in the state are functional illiterates. This state is ranked as having
the highest property crime rate and the second highest violent crime rate in the country. It has the 5th highest unemployment rate
in the country and an incredible 43% of the population is on Medicaid. It is ranked as the 5th worst-run state in the country.
We
Are Living in the Ruins of Our Civilization. It is evening, very late evening. I am walking in the
remains of what once was New York City. Broken trash bags and discarded clothing, furniture and debris line the
sidewalks, spilling out onto the streets, the bags' black plastic jerking and lurching as though some near-suffocated life
within were struggling to break free of confinement. But I know it is only rats, still moving quickly and fearfully out
of habitual wariness of the humans no longer around to challenge them. I traverse blocks of shuttered and abandoned
storefronts, their housing-code-violating neon displays gone dark, the "For Rent" signs in the windows already faded and
frayed. The first higher species of being I come across is only a shadow of any such description — a
teetering, drooling zombie barely maintaining the accustomed vertical orientation of humanity — its head, neck,
and back doubling over further and further, heavy eyelids drooping down time and again on the remaining vestiges of any
consciousness to which it only weakly clings. I hear a dead moan as I pass. Others around have already given up
the fight. In piles of rags and filth and the stench of their own excrement, they are laid out in corners and
crevices. I navigate around one such specimen transecting the middle of the sidewalk, with the telltale final bottle
capping off its drunken stupor still clasped in its gnarled fingers.
The
Chinese Communist Takeover of America Is Well Underway. [Scroll down] Popular culture has become a useful
tool for the Communist Chinese to use. Much of our society revolves around what we see on television, in movies, and
what we listen to. Sadly far too many people, especially young people, take at face value anything they see on the
Internet, in social media, or the pronouncements of popular entertainment figures. Unions have been infiltrated as well
to the point that they no longer exist to protect the rights of and benefit American trades and workers, but to support a
leftist political agenda instead. The Communist Chinese have been subtlety indoctrinating young impressionable minds
here on school campuses all across America with their Marxist ideology. An effort that's been underway for years.
And an effort that has had a great deal of success, considering the level of self-loathing about America that they have been
able to instill in a great many of America's youth for a couple of generations now.
The
Great Reset Rubric: Making Sense of Our Present Dystopia. The Great Reset represents the best rubric we
might find for grasping much of what's going on in the world today: the prevalence of woke ideology and cancel culture; the
draconian COVID responses; the seemingly endless Antifa/BLM riots; the supposed Biden presidential victory; Big Tech censorship;
and the endless stream of propaganda, double think, and gaslighting propagated by mainstream and social media. Even if not
by design, as I will show, all of these seemingly disparate elements interlock in a way that support Great Reset objectives, and
the Great Re-setters favor all of these developments. Likewise, once we are able to grasp the contours of the Great Reset,
we will be poised to understand the reason for the prevalence of these elements and how they all interconnect and function together
to produce our present dystopia.
Warning
for America: The Four Steps of Marxist Takeover Were Activated in 2020. Back in July 2020 Scott McKay at
American Spectator wrote an amazing piece on the Four Stages of Marxist Takeover. McKay's report is based on the words
and warnings of Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov. It's been seven months since the report was published and the situation
today is even more dire than predicted. Even McKay would never have predicted the antics of the Marxist left during the
2020 elections. The Marxist takeover of America is well on its way.
By
Offering Amnesty Now, Democrats Are Setting Up A Massive Immigration Crisis. Perhaps Democrats could have
picked a worse time to unveil their expansive immigration bill that would grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants,
but not much worse. The legislation, introduced Thursday by congressional Democrats with the full support of the Biden
administration, dubbed the "U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021," comes as President Biden is rolling back border security measures
implemented under Trump and the number of illegal border crossings is surging. Combined with the ongoing pandemic and
shortages of food and water in Texas after freezing temperatures left millions of Texans without power last week, a perfect
storm is brewing on the border. Earlier this month, Mexico stopped accepting Central American children and families
apprehended at the border. They had previously been quickly "expelled" under emergency pandemic protocols. Now,
U.S. border officials are releasing them into communities across South Texas, often without conducting COVID-19 tests.
Mark
Zuckerberg Worked to Free Criminals in Oklahoma. A Monster Freed Early Ate a Woman's Heart and Killed a 4-Year-Old
Girl. Criminal justice reform is a euphemism for a horrifying nightmare in which criminals were set loose under
pressure from billionaire activist donors to commit horrifying crimes, terrorizing cities, destroying communities, and taking
lives. [...] Anderson's sentence was apparently commuted in June. Oklahoma was a major target of an alliance between
lefties and "conservatives" on criminal justice reform that predated the coronavirus mass jailbreak. [...] Anderson should
have been kept locked up. He was yet another obvious example of a monster who should never have been loose. But
he was. And now a girl lies dead, stabbed in the eye, and a woman lies dead, her heart torn out. The only
question is how soon Anderson will be released this time.
Save
the Rhino! Today's environmental activists are so hostile to capitalism that they end up killing animals they
want to protect. Like the African rhinoceros. Poachers kill them to get their horns, which can sell for as much
as $300,000. [...] South Africa, home to the largest number of rhinos, once tried something similar. For 20 years,
they allowed people to own rhinos and sell their horns. Rhino farmers put the rhinos to sleep with tranquilizer darts,
sawed off their horns (the horns grow back) and sold the horn. Farmers had an incentive to protect rhinos. South
Africa's rhino population quadrupled. But in 2009, under pressure from "environmental" groups, South Africa banned
sales of horn again. The sad result: Poaching increased sharply. Poachers also killed park rangers who
tried to protect rhinos.
Feudalism
Is Coming to America, and You're the Serf. Society is becoming more stratified, with decreasing chances of
upward mobility for most of the population, whose well-being has been exacerbated by economic restrictions imposed as a
response to COVID-19 pandemic, and which is to getting hit even harder with Biden's "progressive" policies.
Simultaneous with the new "aristocratic" ruling class rises a class of new clerisy that provides intellectual support of the
emerging system — the media, academia, and celebrity influencers (pop culture). The model of liberal capitalism
is losing appeal around the globe for different reasons, and new doctrines are arising in its place, including ones that lend
support to a kind of autocracy, elitism, and socialism that drastically curtail the capitalist methods and
achievements. They do not offer reform; they insist on a complete demolition. The first structure of
the "old" system to go is democracy.
A Word About The Biden Return To 'Normalcy'.
Less than a month into Biden's term, let's take a look at America's return to "normal":
• Is it our standard-operating procedure to call, without evidence, those we disagree with racists and white supremacists?
• Is being obsessed with, and bowing down before, identity politics who we are?
• Is letting males compete with female athletes playing it straight in the U.S.?
• Is a militarized zone around the U.S. Capitol a long-standing American custom? What about a political witch hunt disguised as an effort to root out domestic terrorists?
• Is it normal for an administration to snub Israel, America's only natural and traditional ally in the Middle East?
• Is it routine for the president's family to conduct "corrupt business dealings in foreign countries"?
• Is it normal for public schools to be closed across the country because the teachers unions in a real sense own the party in power in Washington?
• Is it a time-honored American practice for the media to snuggle up to that party in power and treat the president as a celebrity, even a savior, and refuse to sufficiently fact-check him?
A
Fifty-Year History of Anti-Patriotism in the United States. Patriotism is under attack. The idea of the
cultural Marxists on the left is to replace traditional patriotism with a different vision of the meaning of American
nationalism from the vision that has obtained since 1776, although that traditional understanding and vision of the USA has
gone through modifications over decades. Unwillingness to say the Pledge of Allegiance or even to stand for the Pledge
is not a first step in that direction, but part of an endgame toward a revised understanding of what America is and what its
role is in history. The readers of this article should not be surprised if legislation for a revised American flag is
offered in the halls of Congress in the near future.
An
Insider Explains Why Texans Lost Their Power. [Scroll down] If this sounds outlandish, here's the head of
the Electric Reliability Council of Texas: ["]The fundamental decision made in the middle of the night on Monday to
have outages imposed was a wise decision by the operators we have here, Magness said. If we had waited and not done
those outages ... we could have drifted to blackout. That's not just outages, but we could lose all electricity on
system, and it could take months or longer to repair that.["] With a total ERCOT system failure, as many as
12 million customers and possibly 20 million Texans could be in the cold, in the dark, in their cars with nowhere
to go — for months. Wind power did this to Texas. Be very afraid of the Green New Deal.
Texans
Froze To Death Because Biden Admin Ordered ERCOT To Throttle Energy Output By Forcing It To Comply With Environmental Green
Energy Standards. The White House said on Thursday [2/18/2021] a severe winter storm engulfing Texas and nearby
states was the type of extreme weather event that climate change is triggering, rejecting assertions by Texas officials that
"green energy" caused widespread power outages. The crisis in the largest U.S. oil- and gas-producing state has put
Democratic President Joe Biden's White House squarely at odds with Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who initially did
not acknowledge Biden's 2020 election win. [...] But Biden's "America last" agenda was again on full display. After
Texas Gov Abbott declared a state of emergency back on Feb 12 Biden administration ordered ERCOT to throttle energy output
by forcing it to comply with environmental green energy standards, knowing full well Texans could freeze to death in their homes
with zero electricity as temperatures plunged into the single digits. Going into effect Sunday, Feb. 14, Emergency
Order 202-21-1 shows the Energy Dept. was aware of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's statewide disaster declaration and that
ERCOT was readying gas utilities in preparation for a demand surge.
Texas
Gov Abbott Declared A State Of Disaster On Feb 12, Biden's Team Ordered Restrictions That Sent Texans Freezing In The
Dark. Governor Greg Abbott has issued a disaster declaration for all 254 counties in Texas on Feb 12 as a
winter storm struck the state. [...] Texas is the only one of the contiguous 48 states with its own stand-alone electricity
grid, one of the three main grids in the U.S.: the Eastern Interconnection, Western Interconnection, and Texas
Interconnection. The Texas Interconnection, which covers 213 of the 254 Texas counties, is managed by the Electric
Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT. Portions of Texas near the state's borders are covered by the eastern and western
grids. Texas produces more electricity than it consumes and maintains a buffer referred to as the "state's reserve
margin." This margin ensures that we should never have to suffer from rolling blackouts like California. Then why
are so [many] millions of Texans without power right now? Why are we dealing with rolling blackouts? The answer is
all-too-familiar: our relationship with the federal government.
Kroger
says Seattle's hazard pay law has raised labor costs and is forcing it to close 2 more grocery stores. Kroger
has criticized Seattle's city's hazard pay law that requires grocers to temporarily pay workers an additional $4 per hour,
saying the mandate is forcing the company to close two QFC stores in the city. The QFC stores will remain operational
until April 24, QFC said Friday in an emailed statement to Insider. The company said that it will help workers with
the transition and consider any transfer requests. "City officials need to consider that grocery stores — in a
pandemic — operate on razor-thin profit margins," Kroger said in a statement. "The mandated extra pay makes
it impossible to continue operating underperforming stores."
Minnesota
Nasty. Crime, homeless encampments, riots, crime, loopy left-wing government, crime, litter, violent protests,
imperious left-wing activists seeing off mainstream liberal Democrats, boarded-up shops downtown, a vicious
social-media-driven politics of personal destruction, crime, crime, and crime, to say nothing of the crime —
today's Minneapolis is where Minnesota Nice turns into Minnesota Nasty. Let's talk about the crime first.
Everybody does. "We're moving," says one longtime resident of downtown Minneapolis. "Prior to COVID, I walked to
work every day and walked home. You couldn't pay me enough to do that now — and it's only a mile. It's
a changed city."
Cadbury
under fire for same-sex kiss in new Creme Egg commercial. Cadbury is getting creamed by critics on social
media, who say the British candy company is "selling sex to children." [...] "By choosing to feature a same-sex couple,
Cadbury's are clearly hoping to cause controversy and escape criticism," the petitioner alleges, "by claiming that any
objections must be rooted in 'homophobia,' but members of the LGBT community have also expressed their dislike of this
campaign." The author goes on to accuse the Cadbury campaign of using sexually explicit content to provoke viewers
while "seeking to hide under cover of LGBT rights."
Conservatives Must
Read Marx. When Tucker Carlson defended Trump's Wall, his antagonists didn't collect evidence against his
words. No, they threatened his advertisers with boycotts. When Jordan Peterson refused an Ontario law mandating
pronoun usage, his critics didn't mount arguments against him. They demanded the University of Toronto fire him.
Money, jobs, resources, access — that's the target now. Academia requires that all job candidates compose a
"diversity statement," essentially a loyalty oath that imposes leftist ideology onto the hiring process. An honest
conservative doesn't survive, and that's the point.
The Compound Fractures of
Identity Politics. Every citizen fatality in the custody of a government official — like George
Floyd's excruciating death in Minneapolis — deserves a solemn response and ultimate accounting, including both
criminal investigation and broader assessment. The fear and fury flowing from recent law-enforcement casualties,
however, have been inflamed and manipulated by opportunists to produce something much more sweeping. Hard facts and
data about our systems of law and policing are being ignored. Emotional hysteria is increasingly substituted for
reasoned problem-solving. There is enormous pressure to conform to approved ideological assertions, and people
expressing alternate views are often railroaded. Broad attacks on social order, widespread destruction of
public and private property, and new waves of street crime have unfolded. There is open hostility toward the
fundamentals of American justice and governance. It is now routinely claimed that "the United States government was
founded on racist intellectual premises and economic practices that institutionalized oppression of people of color that
continues to the present day" (to quote the Seattle Public Schools). U.S. society as a whole is characterized as a "system of
oppression." In consequence, our classical liberal traditions of fierce competition of ideas, mutual tolerance, political
compromise, and individual freedom are visibly withering. Yet there is scant resistance to any of this among elites.
Journalists, social leaders, academics, clergy, businesspeople, and many politicians show little awareness that essential American
principles are being washed away.
Are you
feeling safer yet? A New York Post editorial quotes New York City police commissioner Dermot Shea: "We
have made staggering numbers of gun arrests, taking guns off the streets from felons, but when you look, three days later,
four days later, those individuals are back on the street committing more gun violence." The editorial continues by
saying that years of often ill conceived criminal justice reform has set up a revolving door that frees even repeat offenders
almost instantly. And "[w]orse, because everyone knows the perp will be back in the neighborhood again — and
the no-bail law lets the defense know right away who has talked — witnesses are ever-harder to come by." Well,
that's in one Democrat-run state. What about California? According to Hotair.com: "Through a series of
measures starting back in 2014, the state of California has made it increasingly easy for people to commit property theft and
get away with it[.] ... Even in cases where they do manage to catch somebody stealing, it's too often not worth the trouble
of taking them down to the station because they'll just be released immediately without bail anyway." One result of this
is that California businesses are shutting down for good.
The
Dirty Little Secret of Cancel Culture. Cancel culture isn't a singular thing. It's a collection of
strategies and tactics, each designed to use the power of the collective against the individual. Typically, the cancel
mob starts with some attacks on Twitter or Facebook. [...] Sooner or later, and this is the goal, the news media gets
involved, validating those attacks by taking them as legitimate. The end result is someone gets fired, loses a
contract, or a company has its products removed from shelves. People get deplatformed from social media or lose their
mass media platforms. It's a 2021 village shunning with real consequences. The medieval village mob is now a
virtual mob but the hysteria is the same. In today's cancel culture, the triggers for the cancel mob are often
unpopular statements, actions, or decisions, but it doesn't stop there. The cancel mob can put a target on your back
for not speaking up. For doing business with their primary target.
Gas
Prices Have Already Spiked Under Biden (And They Could Go Much Higher). After four years of stable gas prices
under President Donald J. Trump, Americans may have to get used to some pain at the pump. Former Vice President Joe
Biden hasn't even been in the White House for a month and gas prices are already up a whopping 18 percent with at least
one analyst predicting that they could hit $4 per gallon in the near future. Biden's ideologically-driven decision to
cancel the Keystone XL pipeline and the expectation that his Green New Deal policies will place onerous regulatory burdens on
domestic energy producers in the fossil fuel industry is already hitting Americans in their pocketbooks. Sadly, the worst
may be yet to come.
The Editor says... Of course the worst is yet to come. With Biden cutting off oil exploration anywhere he can, blocking pipeline
projects, and dreaming of a world without carbon dioxide, the price of gasoline will only increase. Biden and his minions,
who oppose every practical source of energy, are responsible for this mess.
More
businesses flee Seattle because of crime and violence. TR International, a global chemical distributor, is
moving from its home of more than two decades in downtown Seattle, crossing the county line to neighboring Edmonds. The
company is one of at least 160 businesses that have left Seattle since last March. While some of the companies that
have left Seattle is due to the coronavirus pandemic, business leaders have said that much of it could be traced back to a
sense that no one is minding the store in Seattle anymore, and a lack of accountability from city leaders.
Oregon promotes teacher
program that seeks to undo 'racism in mathematics'. The Oregon Department of Education (ODE) recently encouraged teachers
to register for training that encourages "ethnomathematics" and argues, among other things, that White supremacy manifests itself in the
focus on finding the right answer. An ODE newsletter sent last week advertises a Feb. 21 "Pathway to Math Equity Micro-Course,"
which is designed for middle school teachers to make use of a toolkit for "dismantling racism in mathematics." The event website
identifies the event as a partnership between California's San Mateo County Office of Education, The Education Trust-West and others.
Part of the toolkit includes a list of ways "white supremacy culture" allegedly "infiltrates math classrooms." Those include "the
focus is on getting the 'right' answer," students being "required to 'show their work,'" and other alleged manifestations.
Discouraged?
Remember: Truth Always Prevails. In 2008, presidential candidate Obama promised to fundamentally
transform America. Well, "mission accomplished." Perhaps I give the former president too much credit, as he didn't
build that, but his philosophy and policies directed our culture onto a path such that now everything has become
political. It's infected our education, science, businesses, and even health care system. Like attending a movie
in 3-D, everyone uses a political lens in which to view the world. Sadly, it is to the destruction of us all.
Politics is a zero-sum game of winners and losers — us versus them. If politics is our governing mindset and
prevailing worldview, then we will never have unity. A divided house falls.
Oil
rigs relocate from New Mexico to Texas over Biden's permitting freeze. New Mexico is already paying the price
for the Biden administration's freeze on agency-level approvals for permits on federal lands as oil rigs relocate to private
property in Texas. Sarah Cottrell Propst, New Mexico secretary of Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources, said operators
are moving rigs out of state over the "confusion" surrounding the Interior Department's Jan. 20 order requiring top
political appointees, instead of career staff, to approve permits for 60 days. The order has had little impact on
states such as Texas, where only 1.8% of the land is federally owned, but could prove devastating to New Mexico, which leads
the nation in oil production on federal lands and depends heavily on oil-and-gas tax revenue to fund its budget.
Biden's Misery
Index. Stagflation and the resulting high misery index could return if Biden's stated economic policies are
fully enacted. The reason will be very simple: business will not be able to respond to market conditions by expanding
output. Business will be forced to respond by raising prices. In other words, Biden's push to give people free
goods and services creates a greater demand in the market. He wants to pay for those giveaways by eliminating the 2018
tax cuts and by further raising taxes on the highest income earners and on the wealthiest Americans. Biden's policies
will also result in much higher energy prices. Energy is used in the entire business process meaning the increased cost
will put upward pressure on all prices. He wants to raise the top income tax bracket to at least 40%. And he wants to
raise the capital gains tax rate to 40%. Biden says the wealthy should pay their fair share. But the higher tax rates
will force business to an undesired response to market conditions.
The Editor says...
If everyone should "pay their fair share," that's what percentages are for. If everyone pays X percent
of their income in the form of taxes, and that's a fair percentage, then fairness extends across the board. When the
percentage goes up and up, depending on one's income, that is patently unfair. When the percentage goes below zero,
as in the case of refundable tax credits, that's really unfair.
Our
Tarnished Institutions and the Boy Who Cried Wolf. Over the past few decades, a group of people with a
particular political outlook have infested most of our cultural institutions with the goal of using those institutions to
advance their cause(s). Inherent in this effort is ignoring the nominal purposes of the institutions in favor of the
overarching goal(s). As a result, news outlets no longer worry about facts. Judges no longer follow the law.
And, most surprisingly of all, sports leagues don't concern themselves primarily with playing sports. There are numerous
other examples, but you get the idea. Beyond the obvious problems which arise from this situation, there is a longer-term
issue. These institutions are, in effect, lying to the public. We can't trust the news media, the legal system,
entertainment, sports, etc., anymore. They have cried wolf too many times, and the wise move is just to ignore them.
The
Science-Denying Woke War on Women and Girls Is Speeding up. The war on men and boys has been underway for
nearly two decades, and now the woke Left is waging war on women and girls. The woke activists are determined to erase
the lines that biology draws between men and women. Decades of research documents physical, biological, genetic, and
biochemical differences between the sexes, but woke activists expect us to ignore this evidence in service of the concept of
gender. Gender used to be a linguistic device to denote biological sex. In several foreign languages, such as
Spanish, the article for "the" has feminine and masculine versions. "La" and "el" mean something. Perhaps the
woke will cancel the Spanish language next. They have already tried with "Latinx," which only 4% of Hispanic Americans
prefer. Only 3% use it, and less than 25% are even aware of it.
Midwives told
to stop using terms such as 'breastfeeding' and 'breastmilk'. Midwives have been told to stop using terms
including "breastfeeding" and "breastmilk" as part of a new trans-friendly policy at an NHS trust. Brighton and Sussex
University Hospitals (BSUH) NHS Trust is the first in the country to formally implement a gender inclusive language policy
for its maternity services department — which will now be known as "perinatal services". Staff have been told
to avoid using the word "mothers" on its own and have been given a list of alternative terms to use when addressing patients
including "mothers or birthing parents", "breast/chestfeeding" and "maternal and parental".
To
Be Inclusive of Non-Binary Parents, Hospitals Nix the Terms 'Breast Milk' and 'Father'. We're living in the age
of inclusion. To that end, nurses are being asked to think before speaking — about nursing. As
reported by the New York Post, on Monday [2/8/2021], two UK hospitals put the kibosh on "breast milk." Words
matter, and the wrong ones hurt. Hence, medical workers are being asked to reference "human milk" — in order
to include transgender and non-binary parents. In the prenatal units of Sussex and Brighton University Hospitals NHS
Trust, staff should eliminate words such as "breastfeeding."
Our
Illiberal Moment. To be adequately maintained, classical liberalism demands three key virtues. Humility,
so that each of society's competing factions might comprehend that it will not always hold power. Tolerance, so that
the habitual reaction to a difference of opinion is the shrug rather than the bayonet. And forbearance, so that the
immediate rush of victory can be subordinated to longer-term ambition. Little by little, we are losing all three and,
as they go, forgetting the good practices that have built, sustained, and improved our remarkable society for generations.
Jake Tapper and Chris Hayes
Lose Their Minds 'Inciting' Against GOP And Reveal Next Step to Control the Narrative. [Scroll down] The
GOP got "hundred of thousands of Americans" killed? When did that happen? "Then helped a deadly attack on the
Capitol." No, as far as I know, the GOP denounced any violence and were themselves threatened with a bomb at the RNC.
No, actually there wasn't "unprecedented death" for a pandemic. Unfortunately, there are deaths in a pandemic as
there have been all over the world. Had Trump not been in power, if Biden had been there, it would have been far
worse. Biden wouldn't have cut off travel with China and it would have been exponentially worse. "Destruction and
misery and mourning." Yes, there was a lot of that from mostly Democratic lockdowns, where Democrats denied aid, as
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi proved, until after the election, exacting the most harm to the economy believing it could
adversely affect President Donald Trump. There was also a lot of that during the BLM/Antifa riots that the Democrats
not only failed to condemn, but actually embraced by donating to a rioter bail fund, supporting violent rioters over the
people and the police being harmed, and attacking efforts to curtail the riots by law enforcement and the federal government.
The
Betrayal of the American People by Biden and the Ruling Oligarchy. The Biden Administration is willfully and
permanently undermining the economy and the future well-being of the citizenry as well as trampling on the Constitution with
an unprecedented avalanche of executive orders, proposed legislation and untenable regulations. The current leader of
the United States, safe in his plush bunker, is without a clue as he and his confederates in the ruling oligarchy are more
interested in consolidating power and enriching themselves than they are in the long-term welfare of the nation and its
citizenry. In their mad and childish dash to purge the nation of all things associated with Donald Trump, this cabal is
deliberately being oblivious to the fact that there is but one major responsibility of the leaders of a Constitutional
Republic. That is to be certain their country is capable, in the both the short and long-term, of successfully
weathering a worst-case scenario such as global war, a massive economic downturn, or a catastrophic natural disaster.
Those currently entrenched in the ruling oligarchy are pursuing policies that will leave no margin for error in the event of
an apocalyptic natural or man-made disaster.
Millions
of Americans Projected to Remain Jobless as Biden Packs U.S. Labor Force with Foreign Workers. Millions of
Americans are projected to remain jobless for the next three to four years, according to the Congressional Budget Office
(CBO), though President Joe Biden is looking to fill American jobs with foreign workers. In a report released this
month, CBO analysts said the number of jobless Americans — all of whom want full-time jobs — will not
return to pre-coronavirus levels until around 2024. [...] Before then, millions of Americans are projected to remain jobless
though that has not kept the Biden administration from pursuing a labor policy that floods the United States labor market
with millions of illegal aliens, foreign visa workers, and green card-holders.
California
politicians demand grocery stores pay workers more; groceries close instead. Every business operates at a risk,
and the risk-reward ratio was obviously closed to the point that it didn't make sense to put effort into a store with
declining profits. Is this so hard to understand? Apparently, it is, because an emotionally driven, fact-bereft
city councilperson going by the name of Mary Zendejas, who sponsored the bill, said that "it really saddens me that they'd
rather take away 200 jobs instead of doing the right thing, which is paying hazard pay for these local grocery store workers
who risk their lives everyday they come in and who are putting their lives on the line every second they're working."
There is so much wrong with this sentiment. In Zendejas's world, there is now a moral obligation of private companies
to pay whatever rate is deemed appropriate by leftists on a given day. Today it's a $4-an-hour boost because everyone
is a hero. Tomorrow it's a national $15-an-hour increase. These are entirely arbitrary numbers, and by Biden's
logic, if there is no evidence that they upset the balance of supply and demand, then why stop there?
Democratic
Governors Have Devastated Their States. Over the past year, there has been a pretty clear divide between
liberal governors, who almost without exception imposed irrationally harsh covid lockdown measures, and conservative
governors, who generally took a more nuanced and pro-freedom approach. The data are now in, courtesy of the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, and they tell a story that cannot be misinterpreted. My colleague Martha Njolomole created these
charts. First, job losses in December 2020. She focused on the fact that Minnesota, shut down once more by feckless
Governor Tim Walz, lost nearly 50,000 jobs in December alone, trailing only Michigan and California. By contrast, Wisconsin,
about as similar to Minnesota as a state can be, is on the way to recovery, adding 15,000 jobs in that month. What state
added the most jobs in December? Texas, by far.
Former
CBP Head: Biden Has Decimated Border Protections With 'Stroke Of A Pen'. Former Acting U.S. Customs and
Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan slammed the Biden administration Tuesday [2/2/2021] for undoing significant border
protections put into place by President Trump. Morgan first took aim at White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki for
trashing Trump's efforts to secure the border, and attributing the infamous Obama/Biden 'kids in cages' and family separation
policy to Trump. After Psaki had spoken, calling Trump's border policies "horrific", Morgan stated that "There isn't
enough time to address all the spin and misinformation that the Press Secretary just sent out." Morgan outlined that
agencies within the Trump administration have been "working tirelessly" to reunite families separated at the border.
Landlords
in New York suffering from lack of rent payments amid pandemic. 78-year-old Donna Szucs says she has lost
thousands in unpaid rent from the tenant of a home she owns in Wyoming County. "It's very frustrating because I have to
provide him with water, heat, and everything else even though he pays me nothing," Szucs said. Szucs has no legal
recourse. The New York State moratorium on rent, aimed at helping those who lost jobs due to the pandemic, allows for
people to miss rent payments and not face eviction. For Szucs, that's meant almost 12 months of lost wages.
Governing
Elites Are Destroying the Nation They're Supposed to Run. Consider these facts: [#1] Before Ted Kennedy's
1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, nine tenths of all new immigrants to America came from Europe; after the act's passage,
nine tenths of new immigrants have come from Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. [#2] Since the 1965 Act's
passage, over sixty million new immigrants have arrived in the United States, and over a hundred million more are expected
over the next half century. [#3] In 1970, 4.7% of the American population was born outside of the United States; in 2017,
13.7% of the national population was born in a foreign country. [...] [#4] Eighty-four percent of Americans born between 1928
and 1945 identify as Christians, and 50% of them still attend religious services at least once a week. In contrast, less
than half of millennial Americans today identify as Christian, and 64% rarely, if at all, attend any kind of religious service.
Is This the Normal You Voted For?
We are being bombarded by a triangulation of disinformation from the Left's political hacks, complicit media, and crony corporations. This deceitful
trifecta is a psychological operation against Republicans, populists, and conservatives -- the sane coalition that alone can and must save our republic from
the tyranny of "[their] democracy." Through this diaphanous prism of realization, one can starkly comprehend the Left's game and aims:
• The reckless misuse and mistreatment of National Guard troops to paint a false narrative that anyone, not a leftist is a white supremacist and terrorist; and the re-weaponization of the federal government against the Left's opponents for partisan advantage.
• The Democratic Congress' vindictive impeachment of a former president to decapitate a populist movement of over 74 million
Americans; corrosive partisan lust to expand and pack the federal courts with judicial activists, including the Supreme Court; and angling to give the District
of Columbia statehood to secure more Leftist senators and a representative.
• Our current executive sock puppet's record-breaking torrent of job-crushing, science-denying, citizenry dividing executive orders;
his pretending there was no plan for distributing the COVID-19 vaccine, while cynically plagiarizing his predecessors' plan.
• And, lest we forget, Mr. Biden's mendacious invitations to "unity" — the rank hypocrisy of which gnaws at the
fraying bonds of the elementary fairness that is one of the last shards of civic comity.
It's
Not Just 'Gender Dysphoria.' It's Now 'Rapid Onset Marxism.' The U.S. House of Representatives passed a new
rules package that explicitly strikes "gendered language" from the official House rules. The rules prohibit the use of
terms that designate the gender of familial relationships — father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, and so
on — and replace them with gender-neutral terms. Commentator Tammy Bruce, a radio and Fox Nation host, says
this move Jan. 4 is "obscenely Marxist" because it "deconstructs what it means to be female." She went on to say: "It
reduces all of us, it eliminates the value of the individual and our uniqueness as individuals." The goal of social
policing of our language is thought control, which epitomizes the Marxist agenda.
Biden's
climate executive orders devastated these US workers in a day. On the morning of Jan. 20, every room of the
two-story Stroppel Hotel in Midland, SD, was filled with men and women who work on the Keystone XL pipeline. Most of
these union laborers, welders and pipefitters started their day over a cup of coffee in the hotel's common room before heading
out to their jobs. By 4 p.m., the entire place was cleared out, leaving the historic hotel silent for the first time
since owners Laurie and Wally Cox took it over six months ago. "Our whole world turned upside down with the stroke of a
pen," Laurie said. She is speaking of President Biden's executive order, signed on his first day in office, that halted
work on the Keystone XL pipeline in South Dakota and immediately eliminated 1,000 union jobs. TC Energy, the company
that was developing the project, predicts that more than 10,000 jobs will be lost in 2021 due to the order.
One
week in, Biden administration shows its exquisite cruelty. [Scroll down] So along with Biden's
dictatorial executive orders comes Schumer's plan to further constrain our freedoms due to the "climate emergency." But
there is no climate emergency. It's just another hoax, a fear-mongering ruse to create a global government. The
planet has survived all manner of climate changes. We humans can no more affect the climate here than we can on
Mars. And even if we could, we are not responsible for the irresponsibility of nations like China and India re: filthy
air. The Paris Climate Accord is only about making U.S. taxpayers pay billions of dollars to those nations to equalize
the quality of life on the planet. Not a single prediction of the Gorist climate alarmists has come true. Snow
still falls from the sky; there are no more hurricanes than normal; polar bears are alive and thriving; droughts occur here
and there as they have throughout the millennia. But the Biden administration is going to use climate alarmism to
continue restricting the American population from living their lives. President Trump energized our economy, made us
energy independent. Biden has in the span of a week tanked it in order to make us dependent on Saudi Arabia
again. He is about to ban coal-mining, too. What will happen to those miners?
Biden's normal
is abnormal. The media is peddling the narrative that Chairman Xiden is bringing back normalcy. Well, let
us see what the media and the rest of the Democrats consider normal. The new normalcy is impeaching a president and
trying him after his term ends and he has gone home to Mar-A-Lago. The new normalcy is arresting and prosecuting a man
for making memes on Twitter. The new normalcy is 25,000 National Guard troops in Washington on Inauguration Day.
The new normalcy is replacing a viewing audience for the occasion with 100,000 American flags. The new normalcy is
cries of deprogramming political opponents. The new normalcy is banning reporters who ask tough questions at press
conferences. The new normalcy is not deporting criminals. The new normalcy is making women shower with men in the
military. The new normalcy is attempts to expel duly elected opponents from the Senate.
Environmental
Extremism Is Creeping Into Every Domain of Public Policy. Many on the left continue to place their ideology of
environmental extremism above all other considerations, including economic growth, individual freedom, and the welfare of
low-income Americans. This worldview ignores critical tradeoffs and places environmental interests above even basic
principles that have long served as a foundation of this nation. Further, this extreme environmental movement has crept
into almost every issue area imaginable. There are certainly environmental issues that need attention, but sensible
environmental policy doesn't address those issues in a vacuum without regard for other important concerns. Yet, this
extreme movement acts in such a manner.
Biden's
Climate Orders Will Flip America's National Security on Its Head. On Wednesday [1/27/2021], President Joe Biden
signed two executive orders and issued a memorandum pushing the climate alarmist narrative and boosting the
climate-industrial complex. Biden claimed that his administration's climate boondoggle will create more jobs, but his
first climate move — nixing the Keystone XL pipeline — cost 1,000 jobs right away, and an estimated
10,000 more. His climate orders will upend America's national security as well as its economy. "Today is 'climate
day' at the White House, which means that today is 'jobs day' at the White House," Biden said as he introduced his new
climate agenda. The president repeated the canard that his transition to green technologies would create more jobs than
it eliminates, without mentioning that creating this climate-industrial complex requires massive amounts of taxpayer money
and more government intrusion into the economy. Naturally, vocal criticism came quickly.
Federal
Reserve Warns Joe Biden Policies are Weakening US Economy. The Federal Reserve panel sent a warning about the
U.S. economy starting to suffer as the JoeBama administration starts to institute "America Last" policies. The
financial media will not directly point to the Biden policy agenda as the primary source of the issue, but the background
context of a new administration is exactly the difference. Even during the worst aspects of the 2020 COVID-19 impact
during the Donald Trump administration, the underpinning of the U.S. economy remained strong. However, now that JoeBama
has taken office the 2021 COVID-19 impact is being used as an excuse.
The Editor says...
This might be Biden's goal. Barack H. Obama had the same goal, and
Biden is doing exactly what Obama would do, but with a heavier emphasis on China's benefit.
US Media Makes Heroes of Teens
Who Betray Their Family Members and GoFundMe Makes It Profitable. One of the elements in the Communist
Manifesto, right before the abolition of the nation-state, is the abolition of the family. We've seen a gradual
chipping away at the health of the family under the guise of good intentions. We've created a society where
out-of-wedlock births are the norm rather than the exception. Where state provided daycare and before- and after-school
programs act in place of parents. We have a school system that actually believes it knows best, and so you, the parent,
can't send your kid to school with aspirin without the royal assent of school administrators, but school officials can
arrange for your child to have access to birth control devices. The hostility of the public school mafia to
homeschooling is often packaged as one of competition for resources. It isn't. It is about control of what your
child learns and what they imprint as values.
The
push to decriminalize 'streetwalking' follows a deadly run of NYC 'reforms'. Think Bill de Blasio's dumpster
fire of a mayoralty can't get worse? Think again: Albany is planning to send him more street hookers.
Whoopee. State Sen. Brad Hoylman, a Manhattan Democrat now running for borough president, considers the notice
police pay to transsexual streetwalkers to be a pressing civil-rights issue — and so he's pushing legislation that
effectively would make street-walking of all sorts legal. The bill appears fated to pass — and what could go
wrong with that? Plenty. Blame for much of what makes New York City so difficult to navigate these days rests
squarely with the normalization — and outright legalization — of anti-social, often dangerously
aberrant, public personal behavior.
Why
the Left has to suppress free speech. Let us begin with this fact: The left always suppresses speech.
Since Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917, there has been no example of the left in control and not
crushing dissent. That is one of the important differences between liberal and left: Liberalism and liberals believe
in free speech. (The present leftist threat to freedom in America, the greatest threat to freedom in American history, is
made possible because liberals think they have more to fear from conservatives than from the left. Liberals do not
understand that the left regards liberals as their useful idiots.) The left controls universities. There is little
or no dissent allowed at universities. The left controls nearly every "news" medium. There is little or no dissent
in the mainstream media — not in the "news" sections and not in the opinion sections. The left controls
Hollywood. No dissent is allowed in Hollywood. That is why we have "cancel culture" — the silencing
and firing of anyone who publicly dissents from the left, and even "publicly" is no longer necessary.
Obey,
America, for Your Own Good! So, just to be clear about where we now stand: The Constitution's out sick
because of Chinese Flu. You still get to say and print what you want so long as what you have to say conforms to
whatever CNN has to say. If you stick up for the Founding Fathers who fought for our freedoms, you're likely a "white
supremacist," but if you destroy monuments to the Founding Fathers, you're a freedom fighter. It's patriotic to inform
on your neighbors for violating government health decrees but unpatriotic to pray with your neighbors in church.
Rioters who destroy cities are protesting for democracy, but Americans protesting for free and fair elections are threatening
democracy. It's good and noble to burn down buildings around the White House when members of Congress promise to pay
for arsonists' bail, but breaching the Capitol perimeter is no less tragic than Pearl Harbor. Social media protect
speech by silencing it. News corporations protect freedom of the press by urging the censorship of points of
view. Americans can no longer be trusted with guns because they might use them to protect their natural rights.
The only person ever to receive more votes than Donald Trump is Joe Biden, but Americans are supposed to remember at all
times that Donald Trump is immensely unpopular while Joe Biden is historically loved. And so many Americans support the
incoming president that he requires a standing army to ensure his safe installation.
Clarity in Trump's Wake.
In 2021, the laws, customs, and habits of the heart that had defined the American republic since the 18th century are things
of the past. Americans' movements and interactions are under strictures for which no one ever voted. Government
disarticulated society by penalizing ordinary social intercourse and precluding the rise of spontaneous opinion
therefrom. Together with corporate America, it smothers minds through the mass and social media with relentless,
pervasive, identical, and ever-evolving directives. In that way, these oligarchs have proclaimed themselves the
arbiters of truth, entitled and obliged to censor whoever disagrees with them as systemically racist, adepts of conspiracy
theories. Corporations, and the government itself, require employees to attend meetings personally to acknowledge their
guilt. They solicit mutual accusations. While violent felons are released from prison, anyone may be fired or
otherwise have his life wrecked for questioning government/corporate sentiment. Today's rulers don't try to
convince. They demand obedience, and they punish.
San
Francisco's "Progressive" Drug Policies Kill Hundreds Annually. Last year, 621 people died of drug overdoses in
San Francisco. To put this in perspective, 173 people died from COVID-19, which is identified as the primary public
health crisis in the Bay Area. For years, San Francisco has tacitly encouraged drug abuse with remarkably lenient
policies, and those policies are now inadvertently killing hundreds of people annually. San Francisco uses a policy
approach called "harm reduction," which stresses "culturally competent, non-judgmental treatment that demonstrates respect
and dignity for the individual." But this approach, as it is practiced within San Francisco, is inhumane and
cruel. It is destroying the dignity of the lives that some could have with more sensible policies. In addition to
overdose deaths skyrocketing, drug abuse has increased in San Francisco, and it is becoming more difficult for addicts to
affect positive change.
Everything Is
Broken. For seven decades, the country's intellectual and cultural life was produced and protected by a set of
institutions — universities, newspapers, magazines, record companies, professional associations, cultural venues,
publishing houses, Hollywood studios, think tanks, etc. Collectively, these institutions reflected a diversity of
experiences and then stamped them all as "American" — conjuring coherence out of the chaos of a big and unwieldy
country. This wasn't a set of factories pumping out identical widgets, but rather a broad and messy jazz band of
disparate elements that together produced something legible, clear, and at times even beautiful when each did their
part. But, beginning in the 1970s, the economic ground underneath this landscape began to come apart.
Welcome
to Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer's new abnormal. It is an article of faith for many Americans that the Donald
Trump years were an aberration and that Joe Biden will usher in something close to normalcy. I'll take the other side
of that bet. I believe the coming years are going to be at least as tumultuous as the Trump presidency. Although
Biden will not directly cause that tumult, his weakness as a leader, of his own party and the nation, will help fuel discord
and make it impossible for him to forge anything resembling normalcy. Most of those who think Biden can wave a magic
wand blame Trump alone for the deep polarization gripping America. They're wrong — Trump was elected
precisely because the country already was deeply polarized. Moreover, while Trump's personality is highly unorthodox,
to say the least, he did not single-handedly set in motion the dangerous levels of strife engulfing our nation. His
successful policies on immigration, taxes and the Mideast were fairly conventional by Republican standards.
Bye,
Bye, Miss American Pie. [Scroll down] The idea is almost too big for the mind to contain: a political
class that has betrayed its country; a Supreme Court that effectively accepted and thus contributed to an unprecedented
catastrophe by refusing to hear a suit filed by Texas and 17 other states alleging election law tampering; an education
system that bears a disquieting resemblance to the German academy of the 1930s; a "free press" that is not a free press but a
state propaganda network; a dedicated and effective president who has been discredited and attacked, including through
incitement of political violence against him and his family; organizations like the Trump Accountability Project and the
Lincoln Project compiling a "database of all Republicans who worked for President Donald Trump with the aim of ensuring they
never land jobs in the private sector," a measure associated with Fascist and Communist dictatorships; and a nation
demonstrably in the throes of destabilizing turmoil.
A
message to RINOs — it's time to choose. The Democrats and their fellow travelers on the left have
some very disturbing aspirations. Just a year ago, discussion of tyranny in America would have been considered crazy
talk. Not now. The temperature on this pot has been turned up slowly, and now we're at the boiling point.
Just look at everything our ruling class has done in the past year. Lockdowns have restricted our movement, commerce,
and assembly. Our rulers are not making us carry papers yet. That would be an inconvenience for illegal
aliens. They are however, making us wear masks to demonstrate our obedience. Big tech oligarchs are using
censorship and deplatforming to censor dissenting views. Conservative commentators such as Dan Bongino and The
Conservative Treehouse have been evicted from their web servers or had their advertising revenue restricted.
Donald Trump and his followers have been banned from Twitter. Conservative postings mysteriously disappear from
Facebook.
The worst
run cities in America. The state of cities around the country is rapidly declining, leading to the greatest
rates of emigration since the days of disorder and distress in the 1970s. Eight cities stand out as the worst run in
the country, when ranked with markers like costs of living, education, poverty, and crime. These are New York, Los
Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Washington, Portland, Oakland and Chicago. Despite billions of dollars doled out
annually, every one of these cities has dire mismanagement issues. Cities that use the most dollars per capita are some
of the worst run cities. Washington spends some $15,600 per citizen annually, over 12 times that of cities such as
Miami. New York has a budget hole of over $540 million. Debt in many cities is driven mostly by pensions and
public payrolls, with New York ranked first with its glaring $64,100 in debt per citizen, Chicago second with $36,000,
Philadelphia third with $27,900, San Francisco fifth with $22,600, and Oakland in seventh with $21,100.
Here's
a Perfect Explanation of Why the Capitol Hill Riot Happened. In truth, it's been made clear to some Americans
that attempting to talk it out and even take their grievances to the voting booth isn't working. However, they flip on
the news and see riots happening as those involved scream things like "black lives matter" or "defund the police." They
see this and then see politicians, media, and "experts" heap praise on these violent radicals, and politicians both defend
and even encourage them. For some Americans, they see violence get results and a dangerous idea begins to formulate in
their head.
A Daring Left and
a Cowed Center. The first fact of sociopolitical life in America today is this: liberals in elite positions are
frightened of the Left. A college president may direct an institution with a $900 million endowment, meet with
legislators and business heads, and boast a 30-year record of academic honors, but the sight of eight African American
undergrads marching toward his office with scowls on their faces alarms him like nothing else. A CEO may draw a $3 million
salary and manage 1,300 workers, but the threat of a boycott coming from a few networked Millennials with ties to Sleeping Giant
calls for immediate emergency action. They know what they're up against. Leftists form digital mobs, shut down events,
block access, cancel, and dox. They show up at people's homes, harass employers, and ruin businesses. They're
ruthless, they're irrational, but the tantrums they throw muck up the works and clog the pipes. That's the advantage they
press — they will tear the system down if the people in power don't comply.
Indianapolis
Has Fallen: A Red State Capital City Degrades Itself to Blue City Levels. I had known this mid-size
metropolis since the seventies when I lived here as a medical student, attending the Indiana University School of
Medicine. Then, Indianapolis was referred to as India-no-place or Naptown. [...] This year, Monument Circle swarmed not
with tourists and patrons but with a succession of homeless encampments, bedecked with tents, sleeping bags, blankets,
cardboard shelters, and, of course, hundreds of vagrants sleeping or milling about. What had been one of the cleanest,
most scenic, and safe downtown centers in the country had deteriorated into a third-world, garbage-strewn, threatening urban
nightmare. The entrances to the Hilbert Circle Theater and the nearby Indiana Repertory Theater were boarded up and
crammed with itinerants, trash, and debris. It was demoralizing and disgusting, an urban cesspool of dystopia and vagrancy.
Radical
Democrats Are Turning Minneapolis Into A Violent Wasteland. The world witnessed in the streets of Minneapolis
this spring and summer the feature presentation after many increasingly violent coming attractions, created, produced, and
distributed by a one-party, radical left government. If you want to know what the real-time self-destruction of a city
looks like, Minneapolis offers the perfect model. [...] Downtown's ghost-town feel is taking a dystopian turn as empty
streets are being taken over by a resurging homeless population openly using drugs and increasingly aggressive. The
mentally ill are left to similar fates, often found huddled in bus shelters. A decline in police and mental health
resources compounds the impending disaster as winter deepens and shelters fill.
We
Don't Need To Accept The 'New Normal' The Left Is Forcing On Us. All of us have seen and heard things during
this past year that would have been unimaginable in 2019, but which today are almost a daily occurrence. We call these
transformative events "the new normal." Examples of the new normal are all around us and affect all aspects of our
lives. Defunding the police while crime skyrockets is the new normal. Prisoners being released back on the
streets, while hairdressers and restaurant owners are fined and sometimes jailed, is the new normal. Big tech and
mainstream media shutting down all voices opposing their agenda, while extolling the virtues of democracy and free speech, is
the new normal. A CNN reporter describing demonstrators as "peaceful protesters," while behind him the skyline burns,
is the new normal. Closing down all restaurants, houses of worship, and small businesses while allowing protesters to
burn, riot, and loot in the name of "social justice" is the new normal. Prisoners in certain states receiving the COVID
vaccine while vulnerable seniors must wait is the new normal. The latest COVID Relief bill, which included only a
paltry sum in relief for tens of millions of desperate Americans, while granting billions in foreign aid, is the new normal.
Note: All material below was once located on an overflow page, but has now been rejoined with the main page.
Hey,
GOP: This is Your Do or Die Moment. If Democrats, the corporate media, and foreign interests can steal a
presidential election, they can steal any congressional or gubernatorial election, easily. If a thief can rob Fort Knox
with ease, any bank on Main Street will be child's play. If they can weaponize the CIA, FBI, IRS, and DOJ to target
their political enemies, without punishment, why won't they double down next time? For the left, crime does pay.
There has been no reckoning or accountability for the stolen 2020 presidential election. What's to stop every
subsequent election from being stolen in the same way? [...] Does anyone seriously believe that the Biden FBI or DOJ will
lift a finger to investigate voter fraud?
You're It. If the communists gain
control, it won't be long before you will not be able to travel as you always have. Checkpoints will ensure that you
are permitted to travel, especially to other states and the conditions of travel in those states might vary wildly. In
some, you might have to quarantine for a period of time upon arrival. This rules out a lot of civilian transcontinental
travel. This is part of the Green New Deal imposed through other means. It also gives the government the right to
restrict travel for purposes of political demonstration. Private property will be eliminated. That sounds
ridiculous as I write it, but then so did the idea of shutting down the powerful American economy all because of a virus
based on intentionally inaccurate death rates and wildly speculative ideas of how the virus spread. The communists
don't want private property or a middle class. Those are means of self-sufficiency they cannot tolerate. It sets
a bad example and encourages people to live outside of their control. They need a population that is reliant on them,
in close quarters where they can be monitored by other citizens; citizens who will inform on them for any violation.
Biden's
'Dark Winter' Is A Warning About His Economy, Not The Virus. Should President Donald Trump's election
challenges fail to keep Joe Biden out of the White House, it's a certainty that bleak days will be ahead. We're staring
into the barrel of at least four years of sclerotic economic growth. Six days after the election, Biden, employing the
Democratic Party strategy of sowing fear whenever possible, warned that the country is facing a long night. "Before the
surge in COVID cases we predicted, many predicted, and the deaths rise that we've seen in December ... we head into a very
dark winter ahead," he said. [...] Apparently it never occurred to Biden and his handlers that government intervention, not
the virus, caused 2020's downturn. Nor have they even begun to understand that Democrats' economic policies, filled
with steep, punitive taxes, and impossible-to-jump regulatory hurdles, are a slow-motion march of the economic lockdowns that
almost instantly paralyzed the economy this year.
The
Democrats' Road to Hell. The ruling political class in Washington D.C. is always making matters worse through
what appear to be appropriate solutions for serious problems facing the country. Then when they don't work out as
advertised many years after they've been implemented, they tell us that they've got the solutions for the newer, more serious
problems that to the unsuspecting and unknowing public seem as if they came out of nowhere, and who are clueless as to how
they began in the first place. [...] Government assistance has morphed from safety net to entitlement where there is no
accountability for the failures of the ruling political class that perpetually creates problems, as well as government
incentives to "right social wrongs" that do the same by distorting the marketplace in ways that are not good for anyone.
How
Democrats are sneakily destroying the Electoral College. Add the Electoral College to the list of American
institutions that the Democrats have destroyed (along with education, media, entertainment, Silicon Valley, sports, big
cities, the justice system, the family, the FBI-CIA, the Supreme Court, etc.). By manufacturing massive fraudulent vote
counts in the big cities they control, Democrats invalidate suburban and rural votes in key battleground states like Georgia,
Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Arizona. Elections simply become who can produce the most votes, which
is most easily accomplished in large Democrat-run cities like Atlanta, Philadelphia, Detroit, and Milwaukee. The
Democrat machines that control those cities can effortlessly run up large vote counts for Democrats without fear of being
found out by manipulating the voting rules and by manufacturing ballots. Local Democrat judges "on the payroll" look
the other way, while Big Media leads in the cover-up with information blackouts. Large Democrat donors, Silicon Valley
bigwigs, and geopolitical rivals like China bankroll the operation. By relying on big city votes to swing the national
elections, our electoral system degenerates into a de facto direct voting structure, thus invalidating the Electoral College
and violating the Constitution.
November 2020: The Good Points:
The Presidential election of November 2020 was an unmitigated disaster to any sane-thinking person concerned with the good of America.
While unintellectual, style-obsessed political simpletons cheer the outcome based strictly on emotional rooting interests, intelligent
individuals who are more concerned with full employment, energy independence, military readiness and border security than identity politics,
racial/gender quotas and the microaggression du jour realize that a "Biden" administration will set American economic prosperity
and social progress back by decades. If the Democrats come into power, the government will pick the winners and losers and the country
will devolve from a meritocracy to a selectocracy. [...] Under a progressive administration:
• Crime will increase as the police are defunded and bail/sentencing standards are relaxed and eliminated
• We'll get higher taxes, and have less disposable income
• Energy costs will increase as exploration and production are intentionally curtailed, leading to higher consumer prices across the board
• Progressives will refuse to "allow" life to return to normal, even after widespread dispensation of the COVID vaccines
Voters will see this all quite clearly and that's good.
Christmas
Message for a Broken Republic. The left has done its utmost to air-brush God out of the Constitution, ban the
Ten Commandments from every public square, and ostracize Christ from all public discourse, while at the same time
expropriating Christ's words for their conceited, bewitching subterfuge, preached from every "progressive" altar and chanted
as they burn restaurants and beat Trump supporters to a pulp. All these acts of eradication were merely rehearsals for
the final ransack and rapine of the electorate now taking place.
Portland
police [officers are] resigning for jobs elsewhere making less money and it's not hard to see why. Portland
police officers are resigning from the force in unusually high numbers in the middle of their careers. Many are seeking
jobs in other cities where they will be paid less money and also lose some of their time toward retirement. According
to the Portland Tribune, it's unusual for the number of resignations to exceed the number of retirements but that's what's
happening right now.
Nullification
Isn't Just for Democrats, Anymore. Since the 2016 election, Democrats have made all kinds of nullification
standard fare, but more pernicious than displaying a disagreeable temperament, or contrary opinion; more than First
Amendment-protected civil disobedience. Instead, making that which is legitimate, illegitimate; making what is
illegitimate, legitimate. Making what is decent, abhorrent; making what is grotesque, glorious — all
enjoying approbation from a fawning media. Any and all tactics, now including election fraud, and covering up bribery
of a president to-be, are used unapologetically, with no subterfuge, and with impunity. Truth now is subjective,
conditioned on identity and whether it will be canceled by the mob, or approved by the neo-aristocracy.
The
reimagined police as servants of the left. We back the blue, but will they back us? Like most conservatives, I
support the police and the vital role they serve in a civilized society. But like many conservatives, watching them stand down
on orders from blue-state mayors during months of riots was jarring. (They even stood down during a Back the Blue rally in Denver
when speakers were attacked.) Many of us asked how the police could obey such orders and allow criminals to have free rein in
our streets — criminals whose victims, I might add, included over 2,000 police officers. Don't police officers swear
an oath to protect and defend the Constitution? Well, yes, they do. In fact, that is their paramount responsibility.
Perhaps this year, it seems we witnessed the rule and not the exception — the rule being that most people, including the police,
will be cowards in the face of tyrants.
What's
happening in Minnesota bodes ill for Democrats. Across America, the Wuhan virus has allowed Democrats to
implement some of their long desired plans for "reforming" America in a properly Marxist mold. One of the most hallowed
plans, which academia promotes, is "de-incarceration" (i.e., ending prisons). The other one, although it's kept
hush-hush, is to end that pesky, morality-driven, hardworking, freedom-loving middle class. Minnesota's Governor Tim
Walz is working on both issues, with disastrous results for good people. That's why this arrogant societal manipulation
could soon prove to be the Democrats' downfall. [...] For the crime of feeding her family, Walz, through the Minnesota
attorney general's office, is filing documents to imprison [Larvita] McFarquhar for trying to stay afloat.
U.S.
City May Pass "Duress Legislation" to Give Criminals "Poverty Defense". Elected officials in a major U.S. city
plan to pass a law that will allow thieves to sell items they steal if they do it to earn money for basic needs and
trespassers to set up camp on private property when it is to obtain adequate shelter. Dozens of other crimes —
including assault and harassment — will be excused under the preposterous measure if suspects are poor, mentally ill
or addicted to drugs. It is being crafted as a poverty defense and will allow municipal court judges to dismiss a multitude
of crimes if poverty, mental illness or a substance-abuse disorder drove the perpetrator to commit them. Even for a famously
liberal left coast city like Seattle it seems like a bit much. The proposal was first introduced during the Seattle City
Council's budget deliberations weeks ago, according to a local news report. It was put on hold over a budget process
bureaucracy but has gained incredible steam and appears to have enough support to alter the city code early next year.
"The idea could enormously impact the city — and set Seattle apart from the rest of the country in its approach to
misdemeanor crimes," according to the news story, which includes the concerns of frustrated public safety advocates who say
the law will essentially legalize most crimes in Seattle.
If
the Media Doesn't Report on Crime, It Won't Exist. The Nieman Foundation for Journalism was set up at
Harvard. Like everything touching old foundations and journalism, it's a toxic disaster. And this one is right up
there with In Defense of Looting. [...] No this stuff isn't marginal. Nieman is influential and it's part of the
larger pro-crime push. And the reshaping of the legacy media. Even at this late date, one of the few things the
local news does anymore is sports, weather, and crime. Lefty virtue signaling destroyed sports. The push to make
every weather report about global warmunism while firing any weatherman who doesn't go along has been underway for years.
Republican
Mackenzie Kelly Wins Austin City Council Runoff. Local Paper Declines to Cover It. In a stunning upset,
Republican Mackenzie Kelly defeated Democrat incumbent Jimmy Flannigan in Austin's District 6 runoff Tuesday. Kelly ran
on a platform that includes restoring police department funding and ending the city's permissive homeless camping
ordinance. She won with 52% to Flannigan's 48%, a margin of just about 700 votes overall. Kelly's win, and
Republican Jennifer Virden's near-win in District 10, may signal a major shift in Austin voters' thinking. The
Democrat-dominated city was already up in arms over the homeless camping ordinance, which allows homeless people to camp just
about anywhere they want all over the city (except city hall) since the council passed it unanimously in the summer of 2019.
That has led to encampments under overpasses and even on the fringes of neighborhoods all over Austin.
The
'kraken' is the sleeping giant now awakened within the GOP. [Scroll down] We're censored by big tech, smeared
in the media, mocked in popular culture, and endure malicious political prosecution, as in the cases of Michael Flynn and Kyle
Rittenhouse. On the other side, Hillary Clinton destroyed 30,000 emails, federal bureaucrats broke countless laws in the
Russian Collusion hoax, leftist radicals burned cities and attacked police, Obama weaponized the IRS against Republicans, and
illegally imposed DACA. The rules are clear: Democrats can break the law whenever they want. [...] Can you imagine
a country where Democrats can commit blatantly unconstitutional actions to enable voter fraud while simultaneously using the
same Constitution to insist Republicans have no legal grounds to challenge them? This is the America we're living in.
Can
We Survive the Coming Socialism? It's looking pretty grim right now regarding President Trump's chances of
getting the four more years he deserves, and that he almost certainly would have received had the Democrats' cheating game
not gone to all time high levels. It's also looking like justice and honesty are going to play a diminishing role in
the United States for the foreseeable future, as evidently about forty or so percent of the country is perfectly comfortable
with massive voter fraud and willing to participate in it, all because they wanted to have their own way. With that, it
also looks like we are on our way towards a pretty heavy dose of socialism as the Left is now emboldened by their brazen acts
of fraud and encouraged by the fact that even SCOTUS does not seem willing to challenge their crimes.
Republicans
[are] Pushing Themselves Off the Cliff. [Scroll down] If Democrats can steal one presidential election,
they can certainly steal another one, and enough Congressional elections for a permanent Democrat majority in the Executive
and Legislative branches of the federal government. Elections will no longer matter as the winner will be preordained
by the ruling class. Democrats can add states to the union, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, and a split California,
giving them a solid Senate majority. Eliminating the filibuster, as promised, will make Republican objections to any
bill or nomination irrelevant. A stacked Supreme Court, as also promised, will allow the left to rewrite the
Constitution to suit Bernie, AOC, and George Soros, rather than Hamilton, Jefferson, and Madison. Medicare-for-all and
the Green New Deal will soon be the law of the land, as will open borders and tens of millions of new Democrat
constituents. Expect a carbon tax as we sign on to the Paris Climate Accord. Iran will be back to building nukes
and China will control of most of corporate America.
Seattle
is considering making it legal to steal, as long as you're poor and plan on selling the items. Remember over
the summer when AOC blamed the spike in crime in New York City on parents stealing food to feed their families? [Tweet]
She was roundly ridiculed for that, of course, but now Seattle hopes to make AOC's fantasy a reality by creating an
affirmative defense for theft if you intended to sell the stolen items for "basic needs" like food or rent. It's called
"the poverty defense," and would not only make stealing legal, but apparently fencing items as well, and would cover over 100
misdemeanor crimes.
Judge
to California's 3rd Largest County: On Account of COVID, Release Half Your Convicts. How do you empty a
large county's jail system by half? That's a question currently demanding an answer, as a West Coast judge has ordered
that very thing. As reported by The Daily Wire, on Friday, Superior Court Judge Peter Wilson dictated Sheriff Don
Barnes must liquidate Orange County's jail system by 50%. The decision comes following the American Civil Liberties
Union's April lawsuit demanding the release of disabled and vulnerable inmates in light of the pandemic.
America's
Two Plagues. [Scroll down] And I say, the inmates have taken over the asylum. There is a madness
loose in the society stemming from the collapse of classical, Biblical, sexual morality. The US has become Sodom and
Gomorrah and evidence of this is this latest lunacy. In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association removed
homosexuality from its list of mental disorders, and the rest is history. It led to the AIDS epidemic and to the
tolerance of such low life millionaires such as Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein and his pedophilia, with Bill Clinton
their soulmate in sexual predation. It led to this sexual degenerate in the Oval Office engaged in perverse sex games
with a woman young enough to be his daughter. Clinton's historic legacy will be a semen-stained dress. Joe Biden
may be supportive of so-called "transgenderism," but there is no such thing because there is no such thing as "gender," as
the "Woke" misuse that word today. The existence of "gender" as they understand it is nothing less than magical, not
scientific, thinking. No source for this sensation is known in the body or brain.
Our
political opponents are vicious, but they're also crazy. Leftists live in a world of racial hatred, gender
confusion, white self-loathing, religious loathing, American loathing, anti-Christian and anti-Semitic feelings, misogyny,
misandry, homophobia, transphobia, and so much more. Everything is defined by hatred for others. It's impossible
to live in a world imbued with hate and still be happy. These -isms and -phobias get pushed onto young people in public
schools and in institutions of higher leftist learning. Many of these people, when they leave college or university,
continue to bathe in this fetid broth of self-loathing and paranoia.
Minneapolis
delivers on its George Floyd promise to defund police and wipes $8m from force's budget. Minneapolis City
Council on Thursday [12/10/2020] approved a controversial budget which is set to move $8 million of funding from the
police — despite record crime rates since the May death of George Floyd. Mayor Jacob Frey, who had
threatened to veto the entire budget if the council went ahead with a plan to cap police staffing, said the vote was a
defining moment for the city which was the first to be hit by anti-police protests following the death of Floyd. The
city has been plagued by soaring violent crime since then — with homicide, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary,
theft and arson all up on last year's figures.
Alternate headline: Democrats Abandon the War on Drugs Drugs Declare Victory in War on
Drugs. The 2020 elections delivered a resounding victory for drug policy reformers, who won everywhere their proposals
were put to a vote. Across the country, in red and blue states, on both coasts and in between, in the Midwest and the Deep South,
voters passed ballot initiatives that not only continued to reverse marijuana prohibition but also broke new ground in making drug laws
less punitive and more tolerant. New Jersey's approval of marijuana legalization was expected. Preelection surveys consistently
put public support above 60 percent, although the actual margin of victory was a few points bigger than the polls suggested.
Where's
the Kraken? Where's the Storm? If Democrats control the federal government, there is zero chance any
electoral fraud will be investigated. The only investigations will be of Trump and his supporters. Democrats will
use the 2020 election as a pilot project, refining their ability to steal enough future elections to keep themselves in
permanent majority. Democrats will change the rules so that Republicans never have control of either branch of
government again. Added states will insure Democrat control of the Senate. Institutionalized electoral fraud will
make future elections as irrelevant as the outcome when the Harlem Globetrotters play the Washington Generals. A good
show with a predetermined result, banana republic style. How do those countries end up? A stacked Supreme Court
will rewrite the Constitution and Bill of Rights to suit Bernie, AOC, and George Soros. Masks, lockdowns, and censorship
will become the norm. The Mitt Romney's of the GOP will be yapping chihuahuas in cages, annoying but irrelevant.
If
vote fraud wins in 2020, prepare for life to get ugly. What kind of changes will we have to endure? We
will wear masks forever. There will always be a medical crisis mandating them. There will be a war on
combustion. We will be forced to drive electric cars or no car at all. Barack Obama began this effort in 2009
with his "cash for clunkers" program. Thanks to new regulations, we will pay much higher prices for technology and
medical care. We will have medical death panels. It is already starting. The first to receive the COVID-19
vaccine will be health care workers and nursing home residents. So far, the choice is palatable, but who will be the
next one to be deemed worthy of survival? [...] The war on combustion means there will be no fossil fuel to heat our
homes. We will have to use heat pumps exclusively. Heat pumps require refrigerant. There is already a high
price for refrigerant because of previous regulations. Expect the price to go higher. All of this will lead to
rationing of electricity. There will be either rolling blackouts or central control of the thermostat.
Car Jackings
In Minneapolis Up 537 Percent. Honestly, who with a functional brain didn't see this coming? As I've
noted before, even if you take every dime you remove from the police budget and put it toward crime prevention measures,
it'll take years before any of them show any potential results. Defunding law enforcement now is idiotic, and now we
can quantify just how idiotic. I mean, a 537 percent increase? That's insane, but also think about how few
carjackings there were during the lockdown. For months, few people went anywhere, which meant fewer opportunities to
jack someone's car. It was also more difficult to mill about on foot while waiting for a potential target. That
means it's very likely these numbers have skyrocketed in just the last half of the year, making it even more insane. It
looks from here like the whole "defund the police" thing has turned into the trainwreck we all expected it to become.
Where We Are.
[Scroll down] You cannot create a world of perfect equality because people are not equal, and the attempt to make them
so requires taking away the freedom of most for the benefit of what turns out to be a few. You cannot create a
government that is socially "just" because the people who will run it are the same people whose lies, bigotries, selfishness
and greed created the unjust world you are attempting to leave behind. The new rulers, corrupt as ever, will have more
power than ever. You can only make things worse. Much worse. I learned these truths first in my work with
the Black Panther Party, a murderous street gang whom we regarded as "the vanguard of the revolution." We did so because
the Panthers were the only leftists with guns who were willing to use them. The Panthers preyed mainly on vulnerable
blacks but also murdered a friend of mine who was white. My second awakening came with the success of the New Left's
"antiwar movement," which forced America out of Vietnam. The New Left's claims to be "anti-war" in behalf of the
Vietnamese were actually two dangerous lies. When the movement succeeded in forcing America's withdrawal from
Indo-China, the Communists proceeded to slaughter two and a half million peasants in Cambodia and Vietnam. There wasn't
a single demonstration against the slaughter. Not one. I realized then that it was never an "anti-war"
movement. It was an anti-American movement. The Left wanted the Communists to win and didn't care how many
innocent Asians were murdered in the process.
Seattle
homicides [are the] highest in over a decade as council cuts police budget. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan plans to sign a
new city budget that will reduce the police budget by 18% despite homicides reaching record highs not seen in a decade.
Council members overwhelmingly voted last week to cut funds for police training and overtime and to eliminate dozens of
vacant positions within the Seattle Police Department after months of contentious talks. The reductions fall short of
the 50% that local activists demanded amid nationwide protests against police brutality and racial injustice. The
council also decided to transfer parking enforcement officers, mental health workers and 911 dispatchers out of the police
department.
How
Liberals Can Destroy Football with COVID, and Why They'd Want To. Football has always been reviled by the
left. It is quintessentially American: invented in this country; played by high-testosterone, masculine men; and
operating almost entirely as a super-competitive meritocracy — i.e., the test of whether someone gets to play in
the NFL is whether he can play, and play better than the other guy. In the NFL in 2020, there's no time to humor
racism or any other "ism" in fielding a winning team; there's only the all-defining imperative priority to put the best
players on the field and "coach 'em up" to play the game well. All of those attributes of the sport are precisely why
it has been so popular in America; it has been aligned with American cultural norms and preferences for decades. The
sport's popularity is in fact proof that America as a whole is not racist — systemically or otherwise.
Americans don't root for their team or watch the NFL in huge numbers based on a team's compliance with racial hiring quotas;
they root and watch because they appreciate the best playing the best using talents that most of us don't have, and deciding
on a level playing field who wins a competitive game and who loses.
Seven
Quotes to Lay Out a Totalitarian America. [Scroll down] We have lived through the decades of gradual
transition of socialist sentiments and actions in our country, becoming more socialist every day through the
transition. We have seen universities, K-12 school systems, the media, large companies, philanthropic organizations,
and other entities transition from idealistic to socialist, largely unnoticed — until now. Would Biden's
administration be a massive socialist revolution into a totalitarian state? No. But given what has happened
already, it could be the straw that breaks democracy's back. Our transformation to a totalitarian state must be
resisted. Buckle up and stand tall. Do not fear Black Lives Matter, Antifa, social media, the press, your
school's curricula, your employer, or any of these forces.
Racism is alive and well in America.
Leftism destroys everything — absolutely everything — that it touches:
• It took first and second wave feminism (right to vote, equal pay for equal work) and turned it into third wave man-hating feminism.
• It took the Great Society and welfare, and turned them into the destruction of the black family in America, with all the pathologies that follow.
• It took the concept of avoiding cruel and unusual punishment when dealing with criminals, and turned it into no punishment at all,
which increases crime, destroys societal trust, and puts criminals at grave risk of vigilantism.
• It took the idea that the state cannot promote or interfere with religion and turned it into a state hostile to religion.
• It took the Civil Rights movement, one premised on the fact that we are all equal before God and the law, and turned it into a
foundation for dangerous, divisive, and tragic anti-white hatred.
By Every Legal Means
Necessary. The Democrats began a comprehensive assault on the electoral system several years ago in many
states; they consecrated great resources to electing the secretaries of state who effectively administer federal elections
within their states; they agitated and litigated in many states to change voting practices and to facilitate ballot
harvesting through unsolicited mass mailings to the entirety of the voter rolls and the collection and delivery of ballots
with increasingly dubious verification that they represent the will of the voters ostensibly casting them. Many of
these processes were challenged and proved unsuccessful. But the movement to alter the election process decisively in
favor of those who could exploit mass mailings to the whole voters' lists, which inevitably include a great many people who
have died or moved, was greatly strengthened by the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.
The War on Thanksgiving.
[Scroll down] Here we see the fruits of a generation raised on [Howard] Zinn. While it is likely pointless to
convince the vandals who attack statues and businesses that their views are misguided, we need to take the propaganda that
has undermined our country and driven fellow citizens to lunacy and extremism seriously. Thanksgiving is in the
beginning stages of receiving the Columbus Day treatment. We can't underestimate the threat of a few militant voices
amplified by America's elite culture-shaping institutions. Columbus was once nearly universally admired in America, his
holiday only questioned by an odd collection of left-wing radicals and, at an even early date, white nationalists who
resented the celebration of a Catholic and Italian-born hero. Now, the holiday has nearly collapsed. Even his
statues are going undefended by the descendants of Italian immigrants who helped construct them.
"Burn
It Down". American cities are entering a period of chaos. Protests and riots have dominated headlines,
but beneath the surface, activists are launching an unprecedented campaign to overthrow the traditional justice system and
replace it with a new model based on a radical conception of social justice. In Seattle, where this campaign may be
most advanced, activists have crafted a narrative about police brutality, mass incarceration, and punitive justice that leads
to a natural sequence of solutions: "abolish the police," "divest from prisons," and "defund the courts." Over the
past three decades, the city's radical-progressives have seized control of municipal government — with the notable
exception of the criminal-justice system, which they see as the final obstacle to total control. If they can dismantle
it, activists believe, they can bring about their transformation of society.
Redfin
says 30% want to live 'somewhere else' because of protests. In a new study, Seattle-based real estate service
Redfin really gets to the heart of the matter of the summer's Capitol Hill occupied protest zone — condo
prices: "Seattle's condo market has really struggled in general during the pandemic, but the units that are closest to
the CHOP have typically been selling even more slowly than other condos in Capitol Hill," said local Redfin real estate agent
Forrest Moody. "I had one listing that was a block away from the CHOP and across the street from a Ferrari dealership
that had its windows smashed," Moody goes on to say. "The condo actually sold within five days, but that's likely
because we listed it for $25,000 less than we had planned to back in February."
A
warning from the future: The US may soon look like New Mexico. If you don't believe that the United
States can become very radical, very quickly under a Biden administration, you haven't been paying attention to New
Mexico. I know what you're thinking: When it comes to radical liberal policies, California is the gold
standard. Yet, for the past two years, New Mexico has embarked on an unfortunate mission to become just like
California, but faster. The disastrous results speak for themselves. [...] Millions of people are justifiably worried
about California's radical policies spreading nationwide, but don't sleep on New Mexico. In less than two years, we've
gone from a budget surplus and low unemployment to the disaster you see today.
Seattle's downward
spiral — these city actions are driving the decline. The city of Seattle may legalize most
misdemeanor crimes. This isn't an exaggeration. It's arguably not even the most radical idea introduced by the
Seattle City Council. Rather, it's the latest move by politicians growing increasingly dangerous and aloof to concerns
in a city spiraling dangerously out of control. In the final week of October, the Council used the 2021 budget process
to forward an updated plan installing heroin injection sites, replace a specialized police unit tackling homelessness, and
lay off more Seattle police, which already has record low staffing. Seeing the writing on the wall, some of the city's
best paid residents are fleeing.
The
California Elections Pandemic. The once Golden State, renowned for creating and exporting much of what
constitutes American popular culture, now exports a vote-fraud rich, elections-stealing contagion across the nation. [...] A
consequence of Californizing elections will be rampant cynicism. Sullen distrust will take hold. Voters, in
droves, may elect not to vote. Yet nonparticipation may be the best case. In time, the nation may devolve into
warring political factions, who thuggishly vie to control the levers of power. Does that seem surreal?
Investigate Latin America, where countries are colored with rigged elections and associated violence.
Looking
to Solzhenitsyn for clues about the present. Solzhenitsyn warned America and the West time and time again that abandoning its
religious foundations and embracing secularism would in turn lead to total chaos, followed by a complete loss of freedom. America and
the rest of the West are already in chaos. What follows is the people's determination and destiny.
The Chump Effect.
We all know the feeling: when you're inching forward in the freeway exit lane, say, and another driver flies past and swerves
onto the ramp at the last second; when your child has to complete her college-entrance exams within a designated time period,
but your neighbor's child gets twice as long because of a suddenly diagnosed "learning disability"; when you pay extra to
have your pet travel in the airplane's cargo hold but the yipping poodle across the aisle, an "emotional-support animal,"
gets to ride on its owner's lap for free. You didn't know that you could get an emotional-support card just by claiming
an anxiety disorder and paying a fee to an online agency? What are you — a chump? What makes these
indignities so infuriating isn't just that a few people game the system. It's that their selfish gambits work only
because the rest of us follow the rules. If every driver mobbed the freeway exit from the passing lanes, traffic would
come to a halt. The student who fraudulently obtains extra test time gets a leg up only if most other students stick to
the original time limit. And if every pet were designated an emotional-support animal, airplanes and restaurants would
become full-time menageries. (Some airlines have begun tightening rules on support animals for just this reason.)
Conspiracy
Theory, Or Stolen Election? I have no opinion on whether the election was stolen by the Biden campaign or
not. I don't think there is any way to know, on the current evidence, whether, if only legal votes were counted, and
each voter voted only once, Donald Trump or Joe Biden actually won the election. I do know that if the United States is
to avoid banana republic status, we need to institute more secure and reliable election procedures. No more ballot
harvesting, no more millions of mail-in votes, and some reasonable attention paid to the machines and software that
ultimately count the votes. [...] One more thing: liberals are quick to dub anything they don't like a conspiracy
theory. But four years ago, I wouldn't have imagined that top officials of the FBI and the CIA would collaborate with
Hillary Clinton's campaign to propagate lies in order to try to swing the election to her, or failing that, to disable the
incoming administration of the candidate that they didn't favor. That scandal has greatly expanded my, and our,
understanding of what may be possible. This isn't your grandfather's United States of America.
It's a
Coup. Just Say It! Political science types have a word for every happening. One is the Overton
Window. Like lots of these terms, it is not too scientific, but it well describes things observed every day. For
instance, the idea that an eight-year-old boy decides to be a girl, because he feels like it, and is then medicated with
hormone therapy to look as close to a girl as science enables was once a preposterous idea. Then it was possible, then
probable, and now, voilà! A boy is now a girl, and if you use the wrong pronoun, you lose your job! Meet the
Overton Window: that period of time when something seemingly quite impossible becomes mainstream.
Washington State is a worrisome window into the future.
[Scroll down] Completing our state's social-engineering trifecta is the law originally passed in 2008, and subsequently
endorsed by referendum, that allows physicians to write prescriptions for lethal doses of drugs for individuals who in their
opinion have less than six months to live. The measure applies to any patient over the age of 18 who can produce an
accepted form of ID, which, thanks to the largesse of our state's SB 5023, specifically excuses the applicant from providing
'Proof of citizenship, a Social Security number, or command of the English language.' If you happen to find yourself
here in Washington, are aged 17 or over, can pass the not-demanding traffic safety test and sign your form with an X, the
state will happily issue you with a driver's permit valid as photo ID, and you're good to go. It may fail to surprise
readers that Washington was also in the vanguard of the same-sex marriage crusade, or that the last local politician to
openly question the ethics of providing publicly-funded abortions, a Republican assemblyman named John Koster, was roundly
mocked for admitting that he was guided in such matters by his reading of the Bible. This is what 'political debate'
has come to in my state.
Minneapolis
authorizes $500k to hire cops from OTHER forces after officers leave in wake of BLM protests. The Minneapolis
city council has authorized $500,000 in funding for the police department to hire cops from other forces, after several
officers have quit and crime has soared since the start of the year. Council members on Friday narrowly voted 7 to 6
in favor of approving $496,800 in extra funds for Minneapolis Police Department (MPD). The money will be used to bring in
20 to 40 cops from the Hennepin County Sheriff's Department and Metropolitan Council/Metro Transit Police to help the
department tackle the recent crime wave across the city.
The Biden Threat to Law
Enforcement. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were unambiguous throughout their presidential campaign: they believe
that racism pervades policing and all other aspects of the criminal-justice system. [...] Biden's plan for "strengthening
America's commitment to justice" reads like a Black Lives Matter wish list; there is no reason to think that a Biden-Harris
Justice Department will not implement it. Among its most consequential proposals, it calls for a return to the practice
of imposing weakly-justified consent decrees on police departments. During the Obama years, career attorneys in the
Justice Department regularly opened civil rights investigations into police departments (called "pattern or practice"
investigations) without credible evidence that an agency was systematically violating citizens' constitutional rights.
Those investigations almost invariably resulted in settlements (called consent decrees) that placed police departments under
the control of a nonelected federal monitor and a federal judge; monitors collected millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded
fees while they held police departments to draconian deadlines and mindless paper-pushing mandates for years on end.
Refund
The Police? Minneapolis Starts Begging For Outside Resources. Old and busted: We don't need our
police in our city! New hotness: We need your police in our city! Minneapolis' city council, which spent
most of the summer and fall demanding the ability to dismantle its police force, has now started begging for police officers
from neighboring jurisdictions to help them deal with skyrocketing crime.
The Editor says...
Let the city of Minneapolis rot! Let the miserable residents contend with the fallout from their left-wing politicians' actions.
Let's Take Stock
of Where We Are. The 2020 election in particular, and our electoral process in general, have been badly
compromised. First there have been the successful efforts by Democrats to loosen electoral administration standards and
practices by legalizing ballot harvesting (where partisan "volunteers" go out and collect ballots as well as "assist" voters
in filling out their ballots), allowing same-day voter registration, mass mail-in voting, and the like. On the flipside
we have Democrats tenaciously fighting any efforts to shore up the integrity of the system, such as requiring ID and proof of
citizenship to vote. Couple all of this with unprecedented last minute rule changes on the eve of what was sure to be the
most contested election in generations, if not in American history: all changes designed to favor one side over the other.
A House Divided Along
New Lines. Americans used to agree on certain things. They believed in God. They believed that
America was a force for good in the world. They believed in the individual. They believed in protecting the
innocent. They believed in the rule of law. They believed that all men are created equal but are not guaranteed
equal outcomes. They believed in charity rather than subservience to government. They hated communism and
socialism, loved the challenge of innovating, and took delight in the market's response to their gifts. They hunted and
fished and went to church and minded their own business and helped their neighbors. In the current political
realignment, these beliefs are no longer universal. Half the country holds them. These citizens are derisively
referred to national populists, but really they're the same old people who consider themselves patriotic Americans.
It's the other half of the country that has changed. The Oligarchy of America is guided by New Age spirituality.
God is mutable, as is truth. Abortion is a sacrament. Individuality has given way to conformity of thought and ideas.
Why Shouldn't Black America Walk Away From
The Democratic Party? For years, Black America's absolute fidelity to the Democratic Party has been one of the
bedrock assumptions of political calculations in the United States, with Democratic Presidential candidates regularly
receiving some 90% of the black vote every four years. The pattern was so pronounced that neither Republicans nor
Democrats felt the need to aim campaign pitches at black Americans, Republicans because they felt it was useless and
Democrats because they felt it was unnecessary. During the same period, cities across American enjoyed uninterrupted
Democratic Party control and uninterrupted decay. Detroit, Baltimore, Philadelphia: None has had a Republican
mayor in the last half century. Black Americans voted for Democrats in near-monolithic numbers since 1964 only to see
the cities they lived in continue to get worse. Now, thanks to President Donald Trump, that may all be changing.
Supporting
Systemic Victimhood Is Not Caring. Socialism has never worked. It spreads misery wherever it has been
tried. Under the guise of caring, Biden's platform calls for new entitlements designed to meet all needs —
healthcare, college tuition, guaranteed income, and the list goes on. It's clear that those on the Left have no
confidence in the minorities they claim to help. To the left, minorities need a political Robin Hood ready to steal
from their neighbor to give them what they deserve but can't earn. What an affront to those they claim to help.
Unfortunately, the reality is that once a citizen is locked into government programs and funding, it's hard to get out.
They live too well. To actually work and start at the bottom and work their way up in a real job means a cut in
income. They call it "The Cliff!" Why work when being dependent can meet my needs. Why be married
when not having a husband or wife increases my benefits?
Last-Minute
Voting Advice. [Scroll down] For me, the top issue is religious freedom/freedom of speech. Far too
many people are seemingly unaware of the threats undermining religious freedom and freedom of speech in this country.
Even with the riots and looting that have decimated many American cities this spring and summer, too many are not connecting
the dots and are falling for the "mostly peaceful protests" line the media and the Democrats are promoting. The
political correctness movement has declared that people cannot speak truth about current events; only certain approved
perceptions can be spoken. Facts are irrelevant; there is "your truth" and "my truth." The perceptions of an
event or incident become the "fact" regardless of further investigation or other information that shows that distortion has
occurred, such as when a person with a history of violent actions charges the police with a knife in hand and commits
"suicide by cop."
Austin
sees spikes in violent crime, officer retirements after defund police vote. Austin has seen a spike in violent
crime and officer retirements after the city council voted over the summer to immediately slash $20 million from the police
department budget, becoming the first major Texas city to do so. In August, Austin City Council members voted
unanimously to cut about $150 million, or roughly one-third, from its police department and allocate those funds to areas
like violence prevention, housing and mental health services. Only about $21.5 million was immediately removed from the
department's funding in part by canceling three upcoming cadet classes and slashing overtime expenses. "It is
demoralizing for the officers. It is angering for the citizens because they're having to wait longer for officers to
get the calls. And it's unsafe for citizens and officers," Austin Police Association President Bill Cassidy told Fox News.
Will
anti-lockdown sentiments spur the next populist revolt? As the nation frets over the possibility of the "dark
winter" that Joe Biden recently predicted, we're already seeing signs of renewed authoritarian lockdowns in many parts of the
nation. Curfews are being put back in place in a number of cities. Orders forbidding gatherings of more than a
certain number of people have accompanied them. Far too many schools are still either closed or holding "virtual
classes" that have been failing spectacularly. There have already been signs of growing resentment toward yet another
round of crippling restrictions on the activities of private citizens and businesses, along with the mounting damage these
policies have done to what was one of the most thriving economies our nation has experienced prior to the arrival of the
novel coronavirus. So how much of this will people stand for before enough is declared to be enough?
Logically indisputable reasons why President Trump should
be reelected. [Scroll down] The Democrats are tainted by their intimate dependence upon their corrupt
urban political machines, personified by the grossly incompetent Democratic mayors of New York (de Blasio), Chicago
(Lightfoot), Los Angeles (Garcetti), Washington (Bowser), Seattle (Durkan), and Portland, Ore. (Wheeler). The Democrats are
also severely compromised by having maintained total silence all summer as the worst rioting in America in over 50 years
raged across the country and white-hating urban guerrillas and white hooligans burned and stole and vandalized billions of
dollars of property and tried to destroy statues and monuments of inoffensive people such as Columbus, and of some America's
greatest leaders, including those most dedicated to the advancement of African Americans: Frederick Douglass, Abraham
Lincoln, and Ulysses S. Grant.
Anarchy in New York?
One late summer Sunday morning, Demetrius Harvard, a 30-year old Bronx man, stood on a subway platform in Greenwich Village
and methodically threw construction material onto the tracks. Bystanders tried to stop him, and someone even went into
the train well to remove the debris, but Harvard persisted in his sabotage. Eventually, he succeeded in derailing an
uptown A train, injuring several passengers. You had to read to the end of tabloid news reports to get the real
story. Two weeks earlier, in the same neighborhood, Harvard had tossed a steel bench through a bus window. He was
arrested, charged with criminal mischief, and immediately "ROR'd" — released on his recognizance — with
no bail. This cycle is now all too common in New York, where public order and safety have been buffeted by chaotic
forces. Criminal-justice reform at the state level removed bail as an option for all but the most heinous charges.
China's
Communist Party is backing the left's revolution, seeking our downfall and subjugation. The demonization of
U.S. police as racists killing black people, is a tactic designed to defang the police and give free rein to marauding
mobs. A breakdown of order serves the left's attempts to gain power. It provides a crisis, something that must
not be wasted according to Obama's former chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel. Disorder scares [...] normal people and makes
them vulnerable to accepting radical changes like abolishing the police, a move that would result in rule by leftist
mobs. It's pathetic how privileged youth fall for this lie about the police. They are products of our educational
system, one of the institutions that the left has been marching through for decades. The Italian communist Antonio
Gramsci and the German communist Rudi Dutschike are both credited with the idea of the left marching through institutions,
like the schools and courts, as a means of stealthily imposing communism, probably renamed true democracy.
Exposing
Liberals' 'Tiny Fraction' Lie. [Scroll down] [T]he threats from the left are anything but tiny
fractions. The cancel culture is not a tiny fraction. The radicalized faculty at the university is not a tiny
fraction. The indoctrination of socialist ideas and identity politics and white privilege in schools is not a tiny
fraction. The falsehoods and half-truths spread by the media are not a tiny fraction. The high-tech crackdown on
dissenting speech is not a tiny fraction. The division created by falsely accusing and demonizing one part of the
population while exaggerating the malice and damage to provoke the rage of another heavily indoctrinated, hyper-sensitized
part of the population is not a tiny fraction. And it is self-perpetuating, since the isolated outlier incident serves
as the basis for rioting and the bottomless pit of grievance and recrimination, which in turn continue to be dismissed by
adversaries as tiny fractions.
San
Francisco: A string of drug stores close after shoplifters strip the shelves bare. You'll be shocked to
learn there are some serious problems in San Francisco with petty crime. This week the San Francisco Chronicle reported
on the seventh Walgreens drug store to announce it is closing in the city since last year. The problem is a wave of
shoplifting from retail locations that can add up to millions of dollars in lost merchandise. [...] The Walgreens clerks
can't do anything about the theft because the company has a policy preventing them from interfering in shoplifting.
Allegedly this is for their safety but I suspect it's really because if they didn't have this policy and anyone got hurt,
they would be sued.
Unemployment
Figures Dramatically Favor Republican-Led States. August's unemployment figures, just released by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, paint a remarkably consistent picture that correlates — almost uncannily — between
low unemployment rates in states led by Republican governors and high unemployment rates in states led by Democratic
governors. Drawing national conclusions from the unemployment statistics for all fifty states, those Republican-led
states that have tried to follow President Trump's lead in reopening America are doing much better in terms of unemployment
than are states likely to support Biden in November. Former Vice President Biden, while repeatedly complaining about
President Trump's actions in fighting COVID, has yet to articulate a coherent COVID policy. Remarkably, these
early-opening Republican-led states do not have a statistically-valid comparative rate of increase in COVID deaths, as
presented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, though the three states with the lowest death per 100,000
population are led by Republican governors.
Uptown
Apple store in Minneapolis closes permanently. The Apple store in Uptown will close permanently, the latest in
a growing list of shops and restaurants that have recently abandoned the beleaguered south Minneapolis retail center.
Apple has had a presence near the bustling corner of Hennepin Avenue and Lake Street for the past decade. It informed
its approximately 60 employees Wednesday [10/21/2020] that the store would close. The store had yet to reopen since March
when the state's stay-at-home orders to stem the spread of the coronavirus pandemic forced many retail establishments to temporarily
shutter. Following the killing of George Floyd in May, the Apple store was one of nearly 40 businesses near the corner
that was damaged by rioters.
The
City is Killing America. Welfare states don't create jobs. They're what happens when there are too many
people and no jobs. We might be able to build our way out of this dead end, but we have to begin by questioning the
urban model which is at the root of all of our national problems. America doesn't need an expanding population.
Urban political machines do. [...] There is no shortage of cheap labor in America. We don't need more of it.
Every major city is already choking on the unemployed cheap labor forces they have. And unless we have a massive
manufacturing boom, the only employment opportunities for them are in the gig economy where they can deliver pad thai and
give rides to environmental consultants. The urban model hasn't worked for America in sixty years. The pandemic
has put it on the verge of collapse as the wealthy industries that made cities their base flee into virtual workspaces.
It's time to rethink and defund cities as the hubs of our economy and our nation.
Houston
Police Sgt. Killed By Repeat Offender After Soros-Funded D.A. Refused to Press Charges. A police sergeant
in Houston, Texas was shot dead Tuesday morning [10/20/2020] by a suspect who was in police custody just two days earlier,
but was allowed to go free when the Democrat district attorney refused to press charges. HPD Sergeant Harold Preston
had been with the Houston Police Department for 41-years and was due to retire at the end of the year, according to the
Montgomery County Police Reporter. The local pro-police paper is urging voters to oust the D.A., whose campaign for
office was bankrolled by left-wing billionaire George Soros.
My week with the baying antifa
mob. As one long-term [Portland] resident said to me last week: 'This used to be a very civil town.' Not
any more. Of course, like every city in the West, the madnesses that already existed here have been exacerbated by the
coronavirus and the ensuing decision to lock down the population and shutter the economy. The businesses here are
mainly closed, many for good. Some were able to get through one lockdown but very few can get through multiple
lockdowns or the depression to come. As a result, downtown Portland is a desolate, dangerous place, populated by
homeless people who flooded into the area over recent decades, incentivized by left-wing administrations that allowed them to
pitch their tents wherever they liked. In the main squares, unattended tables of food and drink are set out for them to
pick at. But it isn't just the virus or the reaction of the authorities that led to this wasteland. The giveaway
is the status of the few shops that are still open. Almost all have hardboard affixed to their remaining windows.
Some have bullet-holes in them, not fired by the police. The businesses that do still operate do so as in a city
under siege.
"We
want law and order": Minneapolis residents sue over shrinking police resources. Who didn't see this
moment coming for the Minneapolis city council and Mayor Jacob Frey? The council's police-abolition posturing prompted
an abrupt and widespread drain of sworn officers from the Minneapolis Police Department, through retirements, disability
claims, and just plain old resignations. The MPD canceled recruiting classes as well, while waiting to see whether
their would be a force to expand or even maintain. As police retreated, crime exploded. And the people who have
been paying the price for the city council's empty posturing ever since now want some accountability. A group led by a
former council member has launched a lawsuit against the council and Frey, essentially for dereliction of duty.
CHOP
Zone Businesses Pursue Lawsuit Against Seattle. The 21 plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed against the city of
Seattle for not enforcing the law against the Capitol Hill Organized Protest, or CHOP, will get their day in court, though
the city's liability in such matters remains in question. U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Zilly of the Western
District of Washington issued an opinion on Friday stating, "Plaintiffs plausibly allege that the City's actions —
encouraging CHOP participants to wall off the area and agreeing to a 'no response' zone within and near CHOP's
borders — foreseeably placed Plaintiffs in a worse position." Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes did not
respond to inquiries from The Daily Signal. The plaintiffs are 21 businesses in the area of the city that protesters
declared an "autonomous zone" from June 8 to July 1 and used barriers to block off. "Inhabitants" even
declared the area was no longer part of the United States.
The Terrible
Ten. As of September 18, 2020, these are the 10 states with the lowest unemployment rates in the country:
NE; UT; ID; SD; VT; ND; AL; GA; MT and OK. The 10 states with the highest unemployment rates, all in excess of 10%,
are: PA; NJ; IL; MA; NM; CA; HI; NY; RI and NV. See a pattern? Of the 10 states with the lowest unemployment
rates, only Montana has a Democrat governor. Of the 10 states with the highest unemployment rates, only one,
Massachusetts, has a Republican governor. Additionally, of the 10 states with the highest unemployment rates, all have
Democrat control of both houses of the state legislature except for Pennsylvania, with Republican control of both
houses. I live in deep blue New Mexico, one of the terrible ten with unemployment rates in excess of ten percent.
NM has had single-party Dem rule at the state level for most of the last 90 years. In the state legislature, the last
time Republicans held a majority in both houses at the same time was 1930.
'Banana
Republic of America'. We are living in times in which our leaders have intentionally cast doubt on the
court. Members of Congress have managed to earn the doubt of nearly 90% of America simply through childish partisan
behavior. They have intentionally cast doubt on the presidency through the abuse of the impeachment process.
Elected officials and the media have both cast doubt on law enforcement. It seems nearly everyone even tangentially
involved in politics now says or does whatever they think can win the moment regardless of the long-term consequences.
Bureaucrats in the state of Virginia have decided to ignore the law on the books regarding ballot postmarks. The state
legislature didn't change the law. No. Virginia administrative officials have simply made the choice to do
something different. On whose authority? No one has that authority under the law, yet they insist anyway. [...]
Stability no longer exists. The rules change day to day. The laws only apply sometimes and only to certain
people. Election results, the courts, the police and elected officials themselves are under a constant shadow of doubt.
Research
Shows Critical Race Theory Is Actually Making People More Racist. President Donald Trump announced on Sept. 5
an end to critical race theory training in federal agencies. As explained by Russ Vought, the director of the Office of
Management and Budget, the policy change targets "training or propaganda" pertaining to "white privilege" and efforts to
advance the claim that "the United States is an inherently racist or evil country or ... that any race or ethnicity is
inherently racist or evil." On Sept. 22, the president extended this ban to companies doing business with the federal
government. He was right on both counts. Critical race theory and similar academic left perspectives over the
last decade stormed the political mainstream through a surge in news and popular media attention. As a result, today
politicians, celebrities, and corporations employ "critical," or woke, rhetoric. Even comic books push critical themes
despite hostile reactions from their readers.
There's
Never Been a More Important Time to Choose Wisely. This critical election is a choice between progressive
government and its collective baggage and representative government and its free enterprise. [...] So-called "progressives"
brought us such societal horrors as the War on Poverty. Progressives are rooted in the intellectual arrogance of
self-anointed "experts." Not only are their theories proven 180 degrees wrong, but they never pay the price for their
failures. They just move on to "solve" the next problem, leaving their mess behind. Exhibit 1 is the War on
Poverty. Contrary to good intentions, it devastated minority communities for generations and created fatherless homes
for 70% of blacks without making a dent in actual poverty. Progressives applaud "reducing" poverty from 19% of the
population in 1964 to 14.8% in 2014. But they ignore that much "improvement" simply moved people onto public support,
building a dependency on welfare, food stamps, "free" lunches, and other subsidies.
Orwell Rears His Head.
On Monday of last week, to use the phrase "sexual preference" was completely acceptable. As recently as last month,
multiple gay rights publications used the phrase. Leon Panetta had used the phrase in the past couple of years.
Joe Biden has used the phrase this year. Merriam-Webster considered "sexual preference" to be just another version of
"sexual orientation." But then Tuesday happened. On Tuesday, the village idiot from Hawaii masquerading as a
senator, Mazie Hirono, attacked Amy Coney Barrett for using "sexual preference" instead of "sexual orientation." By
Tuesday evening, the employees of Merriam-Webster had changed the phrase in their online dictionary to note it was
offensive. No, I am not making that up. The dictionary company literally changed it after Barrett's exchange with
Hirono. Steve Krakauer, a former CNN producer who now produces Megyn Kelly's podcast, documented the change on his
social media feed. Gay rights publications such as The Advocate went on the attack as well. In just 18 days,
"sexual preference" went from acceptable to a hate crime.
The
Chinese Virus — Why We Panicked and Why We've Got to End the Panic Now. [Scroll down] The
programmers have been busy making us, or enough of us, believe not that truth is optional, but that there is no truth, in the
manner Pilate iterated. There is only the convenience of the moment. Who can doubt that we are being taught the
truth no longer exists? Examples are legion. Let's take one. A president denounces white supremacy dozens
of times. But the "truth" — the fake truth de jour — is that he has not. How
convenient! Another beauty: many American cities were recently devastated by riots. But the "truth" is that the
rioters were "mostly peaceful." How convenient! It's not that the collective "we" are dumb. "We" have been
made to be dumb. And they are trying to make us ever more dumb. They require that we believe their fake "truth."
If we don't, we are deplorables. At best. Some now call for our physical destruction. In other countries,
similar things have occurred. Perhaps even worse. They are actively jailing people who express incorrect feelings.
Seattle mayor
who praised CHOP, supported police cuts, is now 'deeply concerned' as more than 100 officers have left the force.
Democratic Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan — who once called the police-free autonomous zone in her city a "block party"
amid a "summer of love" — is now "deeply concerned" over the mass exodus taking place within the city's police
department. KING-TV reported early Friday morning that a record number of officers had left the department in September,
according to a new Seattle Budget Office report. The report noted that 39 officers and officers-in-training "separated"
from the department while an additional 14 officers extended their leaves. The exodus is part of a continuing trend
that has resulted in at least 118 officers leaving the force this year, KTTH-TV reporter Jason Rant said. He added
that "even this number is misleading" because "many officers are using their accrued sick time as they begin their escape to
other agencies or wait for retirement."
The
literally deadly results of "bail reform". Last week, a 43-year-old Long Island man named William Farnum was
being pursued in his vehicle by the NYPD. The suspect eventually crashed into a utility pole. When the police arrived
on the scene and approached to investigate they discovered that Farnum had slit his own throat in the driver's seat of his
car and was dead. The bad news didn't end there, however. When officers attempted to notify his next of kin they
discovered two dead bodies in his home. They are believed to be the remains of Farnum's father and sister, reportedly
killed by Farnum. What's really got the local police and Republican lawmakers up in arms about this situation is the
fact that Farnum never should have been out on the streets when all of this was taking place. Scrolling through the
man's recent history of engagements with law enforcement and the totality of his criminal record, he should have been behind
bars. But new bail reform laws in New York have tied the hands of judges and it was virtually impossible to keep Farnum
locked up for more than a few hours at a time.
If Republican Senators Were Like
Crazy Mazie. [A] fair-minded observer cannot avoid recognizing that the poison and vitriol in American politics
long preceded Donald Trump. It was the Democrats who changed the landscape by murdering Judge Robert Bork's name and
reputation for a generation. While Republicans repeatedly treated Democrat Supreme Court nominees with kid gloves, the
Democrats just assassinated one human being's character after another. They destroyed Bork. They came up with the
most racist, stereotypical garbage imaginable against Clarence Thomas. They lied about Brett Kavanaugh, defaming that
very extraordinary man, a man who reflects so elegantly the Divine spirit that reposes within all of us. In the
presence of his dignified wife and innocent children, and before the eyes and ears of hundreds of millions of Americans, they
proffered false accusations of rapes, attacks that never happened, fantasies of truly sick minds. [...] And then the
Democrats pontificate and hypocritically ask why our democracy is no longer civilly bipartisan as it once was.
Destroying
the Institutions We Inherited. The annual Academy Awards were once among the most watched events in
America. In 2020, however, Oscar viewership crashed to its lowest level in history, due in large part to backlash
against the left-wing politicking, sermonizing, and virtue-signaling of award winners. Recently, the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences, which oversees the Oscars, announced that it will adopt racial, gender, and sexual identity quotas
for nominees — refuting the ancient idea of "art for art's sake[.]" Such ideology has also infected, and thus
tarnished, the Grammy and Emmy awards, and left-wing virtue-signaling has also become part of the NFL and the NBA.
Conservative
Answers for Poverty. It is an unfortunate fluke of history that in the 1960s, the time when the civil rights
movement crystalized and black Americans achieved equal treatment politically — what should have long before been
achieved morally — was a time of moral unraveling of the country. Religion and moral principles were
increasingly seen as a barrier to freedom, rather than its source. Prayer was banished from school, abortion on demand
legalized. But the choice of man is not whether to believe. The only choice is what to believe. As religion
was pushed out of the public square, the new religion became government. Government programs were increasingly seen to
be the path to salvation, rather than personal commitment to eternal truths.
Hawaii
"Has Committed Suicide" — Local Rages "Hardly Anyone Is Sick, But We're All Broke". While we have
grown used to the people (well, at least those who are capable for thinking for themselves) of Michigan and California
complaining that the tyrannical COVID lockdown rules imposed by Governors Whitmer and Newsom are arbitrary and capricious (if
not downright unconstitutional), it is less often we hear from those living on the beautiful islands of Hawaii. [...]
["]The new travel requirements will trap Hawaii residents here as securely than if they were slaves.["]
Slaughter in the Cities.
Establishment voices are finally, grudgingly admitting that murders and shootings are up spectacularly in 2020. But the
reasons, they all agree, are immensely complicated and rather boring. Perhaps, they muse, it has something to do with
lockdowns? Or there could be any number of other subtly interacting factors. Who can tell? In any case,
this mysterious rise in violence is beyond the comprehension, much less the control, of politicians. [...] Did anything
happen in late May that encouraged criminals and discouraged cops? The data journalists appear stumped when they try to
think back that far. But, as you may recall (it was in the news at the time), George Floyd died in police custody on
May 25, and three days later the Democratic mayor of Minneapolis let rioters burn down a police station. From there,
looting and rioting spread nationwide as the press and universities extolled the Mostly Peaceful Protesters.
Pay
Attention To Local Elections, Because Whoever Wins Can Make Your Life Miserable. This year, more than any other
in recent memory, we got a bitter taste of the power of local officials to enable, and even promote, rioting and mayhem in
America. Many of us have watched aghast as mayors of blue cities like Portland, Seattle, Chicago, and New York turned a
blind eye or even encouraged mob rule that resulted in wide-scale violence, vandalism, looting, injury, and, yes,
murder. They have flatly rejected all offers by President Trump to bring it under control by calling in the National
Guard. Let's not forget that these mayors — along with the many other officials close to them —
were elected locally. Recall, it's local elected prosecutors, district attorneys, state's attorneys, and attorneys
general that have the power to allow violent criminals to roam free after an arrest. We see this happening repeatedly
in Democratic Party-run cities like Seattle and Portland where Antifa thugs caught on camera assaulting officers and citizens
are immediately set free without bail.
Media
Vs. The People: The War Over Pedophilia. The media has been working to normalize pedophilia, but
the American people keep rejecting it. Until recently, the pedophilia pushers suffered no serious consequences for
their relentless campaign to sexualize children and groom them for adult exploitation. But the recent indictment of
Netflix for distribution of child pornography has changed the dynamics. A grand jury in Texas has indicted Netflix, a
streaming giant with $20 billion in annual revenue, for allegedly promoting "lewd visual material" of a child. [...] Almost
unanimously, the major film critics adored the award-winning "Cuties," lavishing praise on it as "extraordinary," "inspired,"
and "empathetic and analytical." These arbiters of cultural standards dismissed criticism of the film's sexualization of
children as closed-minded tripe from right-wing "pearl-clutchers." But the American people despised "Cuties" and
launched a campaign to cancel Netflix subscriptions.
Why
Some People Take Q-Anon's Pedophilia Allegations Seriously. [Scroll down] If charges of organized
pedophilia at the highest ranks of society are so delusional, then why is Obama-connected Netflix doubling down on its
support of child porn? Why has California created a legal loophole for twenty-four year-olds to engage in "consensual"
sodomy and oral sex with fourteen-year-olds in the name of LGBT equality? [...] When these issues were raised during the
debates about gay adoption, the constant response we heard from the left was that "children don't need to be raised by their
mother and father; they only need to be loved." If you unpack that logic, you'll see the underlying evil. Q-Anon has
figured out that terrible things happen when adults think all children want their "love" all the time. Stalking,
molestation, grooming, trafficking, and harassment of underage people quickly become normalized when the left reserves the
right to say the child wanted whatever strange treatment the adults believed they were entitled to force or press upon the child.
Protesters
want to defund police. Homicides and violence are spiking. The homicide rate is spiking, a troubled
police department is reeling from street demonstrations seeking racial justice and accountability, and the city budget is
ravaged by the coronavirus economy. The push to reshape police departments is occurring in cities across the country,
but it is perhaps nowhere more evident than here in Oakland, where veteran activists want to sharply reduce the police budget
but much of the broader community is struggling with what that could mean.
NYC: The example America
should not follow. New York City is becoming an economic basket case. "'We're at war': New York City Faces
a Financial Abyss," screams a New York Times headline. New York City's unemployment rate stands at 16%, double the
nation's average. Yet, even in the midst of a "financial abyss," the animosity of New York's liberal elite remains
undeterred in its hostility toward free enterprise and entrepreneurship, the pillars of job creation and economic
recovery. In a latest example, commercial real estate development firms have pulled out of a proposed project, Industry
City, that was estimated to bring 20,000 jobs and $100 million in tax revenue to New York City. After several years of
fighting opposition to get approval for rezoning that would have made the project possible, they threw in the towel.
The Art of Propaganda.
An ally of BLM posted a video of herself three months ago. The young lady ("I'm gonna stab you" to the next person with
the "Caucasity" to say "all lives matter") may well represent the majority attitude of our Ivy League — she is a
Harvard grad — and of much of the left. How did this come to pass? Her intelligence is not
small. It's in the incessant propaganda, coming not only from academia and the schools, but from the mass
media — especially television and film. It's not just the overt message, it's in the subtext. See a
villain on the screen, there's a good chance you'll see an American flag in the background. Propaganda is exponentially
more potent than it was in 1922, when Mein Kampf was written. The electronic media are pervasive, and their
product, entertainment, almost always has a political message. To a large extent it's not merely the art of propaganda
but the propaganda of art. As for the Harvard grad, even Hitler youth did not exhibit such ice-cold hatred. She
is no longer a free agent. Her values are "fixed" — they will not change. Nor will the politics and
values of much, if not most, of her generation. She is the future.
Red
states are outperforming blue states economically. Overall, Democratic-run states, particularly those in the
Northeast and Midwest, had larger contractions in gross domestic product than Republican-run states in the Plains and the
South, according to the latest state GDP data for the second quarter of 2020, released by the Commerce Department on
Friday. Of the 20 states with the smallest decrease in state GDP, 13 were run by Republican governors, while the bottom
25 states with the highest decrease in state GDP were predominantly Democratic-run states.
The
Language of Privilege: I can speak fluent wokese. [Scroll down] Or maybe you have by now read about
the now-infamous wokese imposition of "Latinx" (pronounced Latin-ex) to name a group of people first designated by a Nixon
administration-era census as an ethnicity, and whose members either haven't heard or don't want to be termed by that label
rather than the supposedly problematic "Latino" or "Hispanic." A recent New York Times essay by progressive
strategists Ian Haney López and Tory Gavito found that, "Progressives commonly categorize Latinos as people of color, no
doubt partly because progressive Latinos see the group that way and encourage others to do so as well. Certainly, we
both once took that perspective for granted. Yet in our survey, only one in four Hispanics saw the group as people of
color." But pretend you don't know that. Keep calling Hispanics people of color. Use the phrase "people of
color" often enough that you are inclined to shorten it to "POC."
Left
Wing Governor Of Washington State Freaks Out As Boeing Moves Production To South Carolina. Jay Inslee, the left
wing governor of Washington State, is freaking out because Boeing has decided to move production of its 787 airplane to the
more conservative and business friendly South Carolina. Who can blame Boeing for making such a move, especially if it benefits
them financially? Besides, in Seattle, leaders have shown that they will allow mobs of left wingers to destroy businesses.
A
Case Study in Punitive Liberalism. Never mind small business and retail shops. Big business in Seattle
isn't very happy either. Boeing announced today [10/1/2020] that it plans to discontinue manufacturing its 787
Dreamliner plane in Washington state and consolidate 787 production in (nonunion) South Carolina. This shouldn't be a
huge surprise to Seattle, given that Boeing already moved its corporate headquarters from Seattle to Chicago a few years
ago. Let that sink in a moment: although Boeing said they wanted an HQ location closer to their global customer base,
you really have to wonder that Chicago would be preferable to Seattle, given the parlous state (and higher taxes) of
Illinois. In other words, this should have been a wake up call for Seattle's political class. Well, Boeing
pulling its 787 production out of Washington isn't sitting well with Washington's dimwit Governor Jay Inslee.
Garbage In Garbage
Out. What is wrong with New York City? Their streets are lined with garbage from Wall Street to Midtown
Manhattan. [Photos] Garbage everywhere even though businesses remain closed and half the people normally working
there haven't stepped foot in the city for months.
Formerly known as the Ferguson Effect: US
sees 710 additional homicides and 2,800 more shootings, attributed to 'Minneapolis effect'. With police
departments across America under siege, pushed back on their heels by the oft-violent Black Lives Matter movement, the
Democratic Party and their media allies, violent crime is "skyrocketing." That's the assessment of Paul Cassell, a
professor at S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah, who has dubbed the explosion of violence the "Minneapolis
effect." The professor is the author of a recent research paper titled, "Explaining the Recent Homicide Spikes in U.S.
Cities: The 'Minneapolis Effect' and the Decline in Proactive Policing." "I think what Minneapolis is seeing is
the same thing we're seeing all over the country," Cassell told Fox 9. "We're seeing a reduction in proactive policing,
and as a result of that homicide and shootings are skyrocketing all over the country."
Colonizing Trump
country. 90 minutes away from the maddened crowd in DC, the farmers of Rappahannock County and their neighbors
live a bucolic life amid rolling hills and mountains. The 7,252 residents face an invasion as DC residents, who having
fouled their nests, seek new territory to destroy. They are trouble makers who seek to turn the rural county into what
they left behind. [...] [Mike] Massie didn't talk to the [Washington] Post. I don't blame him. Never talk to a
cop without a lawyer, and never talk to a reporter at all. But the Post reported, "For many who have been here, the
objections to the hay bales were the breaking point. They could tolerate the new wine bar — and the corner
store that offers seven kinds of kombucha. But they would not allow a farmer to be told what kind of sign he could
erect on his land."
The Way to
Perdition. Encountering a certain segment of our society's acceptance of burning, looting, and execution of the
police, not to mention the outrage prevalent when criminals or simple bad actors get their just desserts when police exercise
their duty, I have been challenged to find any rhyme or reason to excuse such actions, not only in the permissiveness our
leaders attach to such activity, but the actual encouragement they offer. Indeed, you can find many who are so
completely invested in this mindset to the point they cannot cope emotionally with any pushback or appeal to traditional law,
justice, or morality. Simply put, the traditional moral parameters of good behavior no longer apply. [...] This is
simply the cost of doing business in a "woke" society. Inevitably the chaos will submit to someone's organization, for
good or ill. Possibly, it will lead to even greater oppression and tyranny from a more pervasive, more powerful
entity. And where power alone regulates activity, perdition is the inevitable outcome. This is the fate of a
society that embraces such thinking in the first place.
The Progressive Medusa.
Large swaths of the downtowns of America's large cities — New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco,
Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland — are becoming unhygienic, unsafe, and uninhabitable. Substantial corridors
swarm with the homeless. Crime is increasing but commensurately redefined as a sort of cry of the heart, no-bail social
activism. The cities are broke and yet demand more bailouts to spend more money that will ensure things get worse.
[...] Stepping over human excrement, accepting that if mugged the assailant will either rarely be caught or if so, released
shortly without bail, and resigned that "brick and mortar property" is not properly one's own are all no way to go through life.
Zimmerman
woman paralyzed after missing window for urgent medical care during riots. A 59-year-old Zimmerman woman told 5
Eyewitness News she had an extreme medical emergency May 29 but was delayed getting specialized treatment during Twin Cities
riots and is now paralyzed from the waist down. Retired Minnesota National Guard Master Sgt. Launette Figliuzzi
said she had a spinal stroke and needed to be airlifted to a metro hospital that specializes in emergency stroke care, but
airspace over the metropolitan area was restricted at the time and major highways were closed as well due to the rioting.
Civilization
Requires Collective Common Sense. Without common sense in government, civilization cannot continue. After
the summer protests and rioting in many large cities, activists demanded a defunding, or at least radical pullbacks, of the
police. So-called crime experts often concurred. So some city governments ignored public warnings and diminished
their police presence despite a sharp rise in crime in many cities. Looting and arson were often ignored. If you
call 911 in a large American city, there is no guarantee that anyone will answer promptly and send out police to aid the
endangered. So gun sales have soared. Some people who never before owned weapons, or even opposed the use of
firearms, are now terrified to remain unarmed. Self-protection often outweighs abstract ideology. According to a
recent Gallup poll, most black Americans favor maintaining or increasing police presence. Often, city officials who
support cutting back on law enforcement still expect their own homes and property to be constantly policed. The same is
often true of activist elites who live far from the inner city.
The War of All
Men Against All Men. [Scroll down] With few exceptions, our culture has murdered the idea of objective
truth, leaving us unable to agree on what is good, right, or true, even as regards fundamental issues. Most of us, for
example, oppose child abuse, but some critics have applauded the lewd film "Cuties" with its sexualized adolescents, and we
tell children who are too young to vote, drive a car, or drink a beer that they can decide to change their gender.
Facts have also taken a nosedive in our society. Look, for instance, at COVID-19. Were the lockdowns necessary?
What is the actual death rate from the virus? Why are we still wearing masks? Has the fallout from this policy
been more deadly than the virus? It's almost impossible to answer such questions objectively, because instead of
sticking to facts, we made the virus a political and emotional tennis ball. Oppose closing schools, for example, and
you risk being called a murderer.
America
[is] in peril if RBG's SCOTUS seat is not filled before the election. [Scroll down] SCOTUS confirmation
hearings used to be boring even by C-Span standards. Senator Bob Dole once remarked that the toughest part of a
confirmation hearing was for the Senate committee chairman to be able to "stare straight ahead at the witness while
sleeping." Presidents of both parties were given broad latitude to appoint whoever they liked to the courts and to
their cabinet. Unless a nominee had been guilty of serious malfeasance, they were easily confirmed. Ideology was
never a factor since it was expected that nominees shared the ideology of the president who nominated them. This all
changed in 1987. Judge Robert Bork would have been the fifth vote to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision that
legalized abortion. Democrats decided that the ends justified the means. Bork had to be personally
destroyed. Leading the charge against Bork were Senators Ted Kennedy and Joe Biden. Ideology alone became grounds
for disqualification. Democrats declared every liberal nominee to be mainstream and every conservative nominee to be
extreme. After torpedoing Bork, Democrats almost derailed Clarence Thomas.
Minneapolis'
Guilty Whites Think BLM Lawn Signs Will Save Them When the Mob Comes. It's a strange time to be staying in
Downtown Minneapolis. [...] If I lacked purpose, I could go for days without seeing a soul, and even chance meetings near
elevators or stairwells make people scurry away like frightened rats. No one comes here anymore. As I walked back
from NoGo Minneapolis yesterday, a man rose from his little group of thieves to follow me as I passed, putting a scarf across
his face as he approached to take whatever I had. He was different from other men in other cities who have done the
same, and knew in a heartbeat my reactions mattered in this moment, if I was to walk away unharmed. This man had
nothing to lose. The streets are eerily empty too. Its like the day after some kind of apocalypse where shocked
survivors venture out to find water, only to quickly scurry away, hugging the outline of buildings in the shadows with their
faces down to the curb. Minneapolis is lost.
Shootings
soar in Portland after mayor disbands police gun unit. Shootings in Portland, Oregon, nearly tripled over the
summer after Mayor Ted Wheeler disbanded the city's police gun crimes unit, according to new police data. The city
recorded 223 shootings in July and August, up from 77 over the same period in 2019. And a little more than halfway through
September the city already had 64 shootings, or double the shootings from the same month last year. The numbers were
released last week.
Minneapolis
city councilors: Residents are feeling 'terrorized,' say police 'nowhere to be seen'. Minneapolis city
councilors told the city police chief Tuesday [9/15/2020] that their residents are feeling "terrorized" and say police are
"nowhere to be seen" months after the police killing of George Floyd set off protests against police brutality. The
Minneapolis City Council called on Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo to address constituents' reports of increased
street racing, carjacking, robberies, assaults and shootings. The meeting this week came months after the city council
unanimously voted to amend the city's charter to allow the city police department to be dismantled. The proposal, which
would need to be voted on as a ballot measure, would replace the police department with a Department of Community Safety and
Violence Prevention, "which will have responsibility for public safety services prioritizing a holistic, public
health-oriented approach."
San
Francisco's Deathly Compassion. San Francisco has a serious drug problem, particularly among its homeless
population. Roughly 8,000 people live on the city's sidewalks or in its alleyways, public parks, and playgrounds.
People with needles in their arms and legs, holding glass pipes and lighters, are a regular sight. Users go limp in
doorways and tents, or they career about, dazed and distraught, or angry and violent. Dealers selling heroin, Fentanyl,
methamphetamine, and crack are ubiquitous. So, too, are the advocates for "harm reduction," which holds that widespread
drug use should be accepted but its worst effects mitigated. Organizations such as the San Francisco AIDS Foundation,
the Harm Reduction Coalition, the Drug Users Union, and even the Department of Public Health, in partnership with The DOPE
Project, focus almost exclusively on "safe drug use." In fact, the Drug Users Union's goal is "to create a safe
environment where people can use & enjoy drugs as well as receive services." This attitude led to today's humanitarian
crisis: thousands of people living on San Francisco's streets, languishing in an endless cycle of homelessness and addiction.
Blue
States Slammed with Multiple Interlocking Crises. Black lives (along with all other lives) are now more
endangered by increased crime than they were before. Violent crime is on the rise in the cities that rallied the
hardest demanding racial justice — Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Portland, D.C., Baltimore,
Minneapolis, and Seattle. These processes are superimposed on economic recession caused by the unnecessary shutdowns of
businesses and schools. The economy — President Trump's greatest achievement — has been hit hard
and mercilessly. [...] While all Democrats-run states went to lockdown, almost half of the Republic states remained
opened, with closed states imposing fewer restrictions. Still, the blue states got hit harder.
'Enter
At Your Own Risk!': Texas Police Group Puts Up Billboards Warning Those Entering Austin That City Defunded
Police. People entering Austin, Texas, from Interstate 35 will see two billboards warning them that the city
defunded police. One billboard says, "Warning! Austin defunded police. Enter at your own risk!" CBS News
reported. The board is referring to the Austin city council's vote last month to cut the police budget. The
second billboard reads, "Limited support next 20 miles," the outlet reported. The billboards were put up by the
Texas Municipal Police Association, which announced its campaign Wednesday [9/9/2020] on Facebook.
Never-Trumpers
Need A Lesson In Basic Math. [Scroll down] But a Joe Biden win? That will harm the entire
country. And the damage will last a lifetime. If you don't think so, look at the legacy of past Democrats who
were able to shove their agendas through. Now in place for 55 years, Lyndon Johnson's Medicare, Medicaid, and "Great
Society" programs account for a third of the federal budget. (And their fiercest defenders are often Republicans.)
ObamaCare costs close to $100 billion a year (after Republicans betrayed voters and failed to repeal it). Welfare
dependency — another of Johnson's legacies — is the main cause of the disintegration of families and
the perpetuation of poverty, despite Republican efforts to mitigate the damage. For 40 years the Jimmy Carter-created
Department of Education has been pouring taxpayer dollars into schools, achieving nothing on standardized tests while
massively fueling college tuition inflation. Liberal judges with lifetime appointments make a mockery of the separation
of powers. The list goes on.
Oscars'
woke quota will backfire on Hollywood spectacularly. According to last February's ratings, 93 percent of us are
already not watching the Academy Awards. Now Oscar is wondering: How do I whittle down that last 7 percent?
Answer: woke quotas. That thunk you heard coming out of La-La Land on Tuesday [9/8/2020] was the sound of the Academy
grandly planting its face in the sidewalk by announcing it was formally rejecting the pursuit of artistic quality in favor of
a byzantine quota system. Starting with 2024 films, your project can't even be considered for a Best Picture Oscar
unless it meets a set of diversity targets of the kind you'd normally expect to see credited to the Oberlin Freshperson Student
Social-Justice Initiative & Sustainable Vegan Hemp Co-Operative. Good news, whoever staged that Rob-Lowe-meets-Snow-White
dance number: You're now the second-most embarrassing thing ever associated with the Academy Awards.
Oscars'
Orwellian diversity quota throws out merit. In the latest act of craven capitulation to the BLM-Antifa mob, the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decreed Tuesday [9/8/2020] that no movie can win the top award unless it
satisfies a set of genetically and sexually diverse quotas. For example, lead actors must be from an "underrepresented
racial or ethnic group ... Asian, Latinx, Black, Native American, Middle Eastern, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander."
At least 30 percent of the rest of the cast otherwise must be chosen from at least two of the following victim
identities: women, underrepresented racial or ethnic group, "LGBTQ+" and the disabled. Or the Academy gets to
dictate the content of the movie so that the "main storyline, theme or narrative of the film" must satisfy the same
intersectionality requirements on gender, race, sexuality and disability. And that is just Standard A, one of four
labyrinthine prescriptions for creating Academy-sanctioned art. They all read like satire. You have to pinch
yourself to make sure you're not having some dystopian dream.
Oscars
announce that films will have to meet 'representation and inclusion' requirements if they are eligible to win Best
Picture. Actress Kirstie Alley raged at the Oscars' 'dictatorial' new diversity rules last night [9/8/2020] — claiming
they were akin to 'telling Picasso what had to be in his [...] paintings'. The Academy Awards shake-up means films hoping to win
Best Picture from 2024 will have to hire more black, female, LGBT or disabled cast and crew or address themes that affect those communities.
Academy chiefs say the rules are intended to 'better reflect the diversity of the movie-going audience', but critics accused 'Woke Hollywood'
bosses of turning the Oscars into a 'weapon against anyone who disagreed with their politics'.
Liberals
figure out a way to make the Oscars even worse. I realize that many of you will read the title of this column
and assume that it's just more fake news. How could anyone possibly make the Oscars worse than they've been in recent
years? [...] From now on, it won't be enough to simply make a good movie, or at least "good" as defined by the Hollywood
elite. Now the prospective nominees for the Best Picture Award will be judged on whether or not the people involved in
every aspect of the production are "diverse" enough. This is apparently Hollywood's latest nod to the Black Lives
Matter movement, though we might at least hope that it will include Hispanics, Asians and Indigenous Americans as well.
Insufferable San Francisco.
Where I live, in the San Francisco Bay Area, the American city hardly exists at all. [...] I had figured I could stick around
forever. Then I took my daughter to see The Nutcracker. The two blocks we had to walk from the train
station to War Memorial Opera House made a greater impression on my nine-year-old than any magical offering from the SF
Ballet. The city greeted her with the army of cracked nuts, the ubiquitous 'zombies' who aimlessly roam our
streets. The need to be hyperaware of their presence while pirouetting to avoid discarded syringes and human excrement
left her depressed and terrified for days. My daughter refuses to go to the ballet at the War Zone Opera House ever again.
The True
Cost of Riots. A striking case against riots is clearly expressed in the findings of Professor Mary C. King
whose research demonstrates "little relationship between regional progress for African Americans and relatively proximate
race riots." Riotous behavior often results in businesses fleeing minority communities, thus depriving residents of
employment and income. Racism is an extremely sensitive matter; however, sensitivity must be tempered by logic.
African Americans have experienced substantial progress over the past century. Eroding these gains is a possibility if
rational adults refrain from correcting misguided activists. Such was the impact of the race riots of the 1960s.
Examining the effects of civil disorder on small businesses in inner cities, sociologists Howard Aldrich and Albert Reiss
found that riots not only inflicted serious property damages but in the long term they made it prohibitive to operate in
inner cities, hence driving up insurance costs. As a result, businesses migrated to nurturing environments.
Low-income residents are the major beneficiaries of entrepreneurship in the inner city, so when emotions trump logic and
businesses exit these communities, the losers are poor black people.
New York
Had It Coming. NYC's streets are now too dangerous and too disturbing for normal folks to tolerate. If
they're not being attacked, beset, robbed, or murdered, they're being disgusted. The streets are the problem that must
be fixed before we can consider a resurrection for NYC. The psychotics, thugs, panhandlers, loiterers, tent campers, muggers,
and everyone else making life in the city a trial need to be removed and never tolerated again. New York City was
America's premier metropolis. It should be reserved for "movers and shakers," ne'er-do-wells should reside
elsewhere. Last year when hoodlums started dousing NYC cops with buckets of water and little was done about it, NYC's
fate was sealed. Giuliani would never have allowed the streets of NYC to descend into the chaos that de Blasio has let
happen; Rudy would have stopped it cold. If New York is to be revived, then a new policy of zero tolerance for bad
behavior must be instituted. Panhandling, public urination and defecation, nudity, sex in the streets, loitering,
malingering, tent encampments, etc. should no longer be tolerated. If New Yorkers aren't willing to forbid such things,
forget about the city coming back.
Don't
Be a Victim of Democrat Abuse and Voter Endangerment. If you have been surviving in a pocket of America where
Democrats have forced you into unemployment over a virus that is proving less lethal by the day, robbed your kids of an
education while using teachers' unions as political weapons, turned your elderly parents' nursing home into a death camp for
disease transmission, fire-bombed your favorite restaurant or neighborhood drugstore because you've been deemed
insufficiently "woke" and irredeemably racist, and now deprived you of any sports or entertainment shows that don't first
take a moment to tell you how awful and evil you are, then you are a victim of Democrat abuse and voter endangerment.
American cities didn't kill themselves, after all. Democrats did that. All this mayhem and violence in the
streets — the Democrats built that, too. Democrats have had an absolute monopoly on the way most American
cities are governed for fifty to a hundred years. They run those cities' police departments. They control the
national news media housed in those cities. They sit on the boards of all the "woke" corporations that fuel their
wealth. They've taken over the sports leagues and replaced entertainment with sermons from the perpetually
aggrieved. They have the backing of the Chamber of Commerce, an organization that prefers Wall Street to Main Street
and cashing checks from Chinese communists to aiding American workers. And the Democrats are Hollywood.
Seattle
Police Chief Carmen Best steps down, claims cuts left her 'destined to fail'. Carmen Best, the first Black
police chief in Seattle's history, left her post Wednesday, saying on her way out that the city council's police budget cuts
had put her in a "position destined to fail," according to a report. Best, 55, announced her resignation Aug 10, after
the council made good on its promise to approve sweeping proposals that would slash the police department budget by $4
million and cut as many as 100 officers from the force. "I believe 100% that they were putting me in a position
destined to fail. Cutting a police department that already had low staffing numbers, that was already struggling to keep up
with the demand," Best told NPR on Wednesday. "How are we going to provide for adequate public safety in that environment?"
The
coming blue-city exodus. While the election isn't until November 3, it looks like lots of people and businesses
are, in a sense, "voting" early — with their feet. In pre-pandemic January, I wrote here about the blue-state
exodus in which thousands of blue-state residents, fed up with high taxes, heavy regulations and "woker-than-thou" policies, are
fleeing the sinking blue ships and moving to red states. Now it appears we are seeing a blue-city exodus as well.
Begin with the fact that virtually every large city in the country is run by liberals. World Population Review lists the
20 most liberal U.S. cities, with San Francisco leading the way, followed by Washington, DC, Seattle, Oakland, Boston,
Minneapolis, Detroit and New York City. Chicago comes in at 11 and Portland at 12.
Must
See Video Shows Democrats Continually Called for Uprisings and Violence. Democrats and the media have made a
sudden turn the last few days. After months of excusing the riots and even actively encouraging them, the new narrative
is that it's all Trump's fault. They ignore that Trump has offered assistance to Portland, for example, and has been
viciously rebuffed even as the city continues to suffer chaos. They also ignore that when Gov. Evers did accept
Trump's help in Kenosha, the violence dwindled almost immediately. No matter, though. The media believe they are
the vanguards of information and the Democrats know they have them in their pocket. So you get insanity like this
must-see video which succinctly shows just who has really been stoking the flames. [Video clip]
Cultural Suicide Is
Painless. It is not all that hard to blow up a culture. You can do it in a summer if you haven't much
worry about others. When you loot and burn a Target in an hour, it takes months to realize there are no more
neighborhood Target-stocked groceries, toilet paper, and Advil to buy this winter. You can in a night assault the
police, spit at them, hope to infect them with the coronavirus, and even burn them alive. But when you call 911 in a
few weeks after your car is vandalized, your wallet is stolen, and your spouse is violent, and no one
comes, only then do you sense that you earlier were voting for a pre-civilized wilderness. You can burn down a Burger King
in half an hour. But it will take years to find anyone at Burger King, Inc., who would ever be dumb enough to rebuild atop
the charred ruins — to prepare for the next round of arson in 2021 or 2023.
Eviction Moratoriums Cause Big Problems for Mom-and-Pop Landlords.
Mom-and-pop landlords across the United States are coming under increasing pressure as a patchwork of regulations and
eviction moratoriums passed by the federal government, states, counties, and municipalities in the wake of the CCP (Chinese
Communist Party) virus crisis have strongly curtailed their ability to enforce their property rights. In addition, The
Epoch Times has received reports that a small number of tenants are abusing moratoriums by choosing to withhold payment of
their rent — and in some cases without claiming coronavirus-related hardship.
Portland
mayor piously turns down Trump's offer of police aid, finds his apartment's lobby overrun by protestors.
Portland's mayor, Ted Wheeler, has already made his city a punchline internationally, vacuously mouthing the platitudes of
Black Lives Matter, and watching mobs riot and burn his city for 92 days straight, with no effort to contain it.
Democrats bristle at Republican efforts to pin rioting on poor Democrat rule, but are cut off at the pass when Portland is
brought up. Nobody can argue about the incompetence there. Even the people in Minneapolis console themselves with
the thought that as bad as their city is, at least it's not Portland.
New Yorkers keep moving
out of the city to suburbs, other states. The move is on — to leave New York City. The exodus
that began at the start of the coronavirus outbreak, with many New Yorkers departing to their beach and country homes, has
continued unabated as more leave for good, according to city moving companies overwhelmed by the avalanche of would-be
expats. "People are fleeing the city in droves," says Moon Salahie, owner of Elite Moving & Storing in Yonkers, who has
been working nonstop since the city began Phase 1 of its reopening in June. Salahie said 90 percent of the moves
are to the suburbs and mostly families with kids worried about the school year. He's packed people out of neighborhoods all
over Manhattan.
California Apocalypto.
Note the synergism of the California postmodern apocalypse: The hotter it gets, the more fires burn on ecological fuel
and hillside natural "compost," the smokier the air becomes, the less efficiently California's solar pathway to the future
generates, the more power outages ensue, the more real people are put in danger from either being incinerated by fire or
suffocated by smoke or boiled inside without air conditioning. Last week, I asked an elderly patient at the allergy
clinic whether, in the 108-degree heat, he preferred to stay outside to breathe smoke and haze, or stay inside his uncooled
apartment. He gave a novel answer: He didn't care about the power outages since he couldn't pay the exorbitant
electricity charges anyway to turn on his air conditioner. And he added that, in California these days, you can't tell
whether mask wearers are fighting the virus, the smoke, or the police.
Portlanders
in Need Had to Fend for Themselves, and You Won't Believe Just One Night's Crime. You've seen the violence in
Portland. You've witnessed the chaos caught on tape. The cops have their hands full. So what happens, then,
when people outside the chaos need police? It turns out they have to go it alone. As reported by The Daily
Caller, on Sunday night, 35 officers had to abandon patrol duty after a riot was declared. That led to 80 other
emergency calls being put on hold. [Video clip] On Monday [8/24/2020], the Portland Police Bureau issued a
statement detailing the night's insanity. Twenty-three people ages 19 [to] 44 were arrested, for crimes
including assaulting a public safety officer, interfering with a peace officer, and escape in the third degree.
Why
I Am No Longer a Social Worker. A social worker who wants to continue working had better understand that he or
she has to support all aspects of LGBT platforms, has to facilitate partial-birth abortions, and has to eliminate any and all
references to God — no matter what he or she believes. Alternative therapies are acceptable so long as they
are goddess-driven and support mandatory vaccination. All therapies have to pass their "ethical" (i.e. political) means
testing... and they all revolve around the exaltation of the Self, even when that "self" has the emotional stability of
packing peanuts. The essential problem is this: the Self can only be exalted in this manner once the Creator Himself
has been ejected. And that is precisely what has happened... slowly and cunningly, but steadily.
Reclaiming
Our Culture from the Left. [Scroll down] But the education most of the rioters have received has made
them abjectly incapable of thinking rationally and evaluating claims on the basis of their logical coherence and supporting
evidence. No amount of careful reasoning, no amount of evidence is going to convince most of the rioters that their
rage is based on false premises, because they have been carefully educated throughout their lives to feel rather than think,
and to believe that America is a nation of deep injustice with a shameful history and an equally condemnable present.
It doesn't matter that the claims that the rioters and their defenders are making are false. It doesn't matter that
police brutality affects people of all races. It doesn't matter that thoroughgoing civil rights legislation has made
"systemic racism" a thing of the distant past. The rioters know America is evil because they have been taught it all
their lives by virtually every authority they have encountered, and those authorities have also taught them that those who
tell them otherwise are stupid, contemptible, and operating out of ulterior motives. This is true of the establishment
media as well as the educational system — not to mention the corporate culture, the entertainment industry, and more.
Multiple
Portland companies plan to move out of downtown office spaces because ongoing BLM protests have made the area 'unsafe'. A
number of companies based in downtown Portland are set to vacate or sell their offices because on-going protests in the city against
police brutality have led to 'unsafe' conditions in the area, reports suggest. Activists have taken to the city streets for the
last 82 consecutive nights to demonstrate under the banner of Black Lives Matter, but some of the rallies have descended into chaos,
resulting in violent clashes with police or widespread acts of vandalism.
The
Thin Veneer of American Civilization. Nine months ago, New York was a thriving, though poorly governed,
metropolis. It was coasting on the more or less good governance of its prior two mayors and on its ancestral role as
the global nexus of finance and capital. The city is now something out of a postmodern apocalyptic movie, reeling from
the effects of a neutron bomb. Ditto in varying degrees Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle, and San Francisco —
the anti-broken-windows metropolises of America. Walking in San Francisco today reminds me of visiting Old Cairo in
1973, although the latter lacked the needles and feces of the former. At the present increasing rate of police
defunding, homeless encampments, the emptying of jails and prisons, the green-lighting of rioting and vandalism, the flight
of the wealthy, the revolutionary change to Skype/Zoom tele-working, and the exodus of upper-middle-class liberal families to
safe houses in the New York and New England countryside, once beautiful New York City is in danger of becoming the nation's
aneurysm. That is, after the "recovery," it and other blue cities may be seen as permanent weak veins and arteries
prone to sudden fatal hemorrhaging that could implode at any moment, and thus may become metaphorically tied off, as the
country reroutes around them.
New
York City is 'dead forever,' according to this proud New Yorker. Will the city that never sleeps ever wake
up? Not according to James Altucher, a best-selling author and former hedge-fund manager (and a former MarketWatch
columnist), who says that New York City is "dead forever" as its residents come to grips with the reality of the coronavirus
pandemic and what it means for the fate of the Big Apple. "I love NYC. When I first moved to NYC, it was a dream
come true. Every corner was like a theater production happening right in front of me. So much personality, so
many stories," he wrote in a blog post explaining why his temporary relocation might become more permanent.
How Race Politics Burns
Out. [Scroll down] The kind of racialized violence now taking place reflects what historian Fred Siegel
called "the riot ideology", which has been deleterious to the progress of African Americans. The rioting in the 1960s
weakened urban economies and led to devastating losses for minority property owners and businesses. Even today many
areas burned down in the 1960s in Chicago, St. Louis and Detroit have never recovered. Indeed despite massive
expenditures to redress huge past inequities, high-poverty areas in cities have grown steadily, doubling in population
between 1980 and 2018. Looting and mayhem, long-term, don't work. After the 1992 riots, there were pledges of massive
corporate and government support for south Los Angeles. Now, almost three decades later, the area, site of two of the
worst riots in American history, has experienced a growing gap with the rest of the county in terms of homeownership, income
and educational attainment. The more recent disorders also are unlikely to spark much long-term inner-city investment.
Hollywood
Apocalypse. Gold's Gym has become synonymous with the Hollywood Dream. [...] Yet today Gold's sits amid
post-apocalyptic scenes which have consumed much of LA, turning the City of Dreams into an urban nightmare from which people
are fleeing in droves. A makeshift tent city made up of flapping tarpaulins and cardboard boxes surrounds the gym on
all sides. Junkies and the homeless, many of whom are clearly mentally ill, walk the palm-lined streets like
zombies — all just three blocks from multi-million-dollar homes overlooking the Pacific. Stolen bicycles are
piled high on pavements littered with broken syringes. TV bulletins are filled with horror stories from across the
city; of women being attacked during their morning jog or residents returning home to find strangers defecating in their
front gardens.
The State of Our Cities That Our Media Is Hiding
From You. [Quoting Mike Doran:] I've been exchanging messages with friends about what what's happening in
our cities: NY, Philadelphia and LA especially. A lot of disturbing things are not making the news. Even
Republicans aren't drawing attention to it. Here's a message from a friend about life in NY today: "Here's my
neighborhood, Mike: An elderly man, enjoying dinner w/his wife at an outdoor restaurant, punched in the face. A
woman waiting for the subway to come stabbed in the back. An older neighbor pausing to catch his breath told to pay two
dollars in protection money or get [...] off that particular street corner. This is just the ten block radius from
where I live in the last six days." Other friends from NY talk about shattered business districts, drugstores with locked
shelves, and hundreds of homeless people and parolees, including sex offenders, being moved into hotels on the Upper West
Side adjacent to schools and playgrounds, which are filled with needles again like in the 1970s. Friends in Philadelphia
report large homeless encampments in the city center and being robbed at gunpoint. Friends in LA talk about squatters
taking over empty homes in professional class neighborhoods whose residents fantasize about emigrating to Canada.
Retail
and Restaurants Flee Democrat-Run New York Forever. Crime, taxes, disease, and an anti-science approach to
social distancing have chased a number of big retailers and restaurateurs out of New York forever, reports the far-left
New York Times. "In the heart of Manhattan, national chains including J.C. Penney, Kate Spade, Subway and
Le Pain Quotidien have shuttered branches for good," per the Times, which adds other big box retailers, like
Victoria's Secret and the Gap, have chosen to reopen in other states while their Manhattan locations remain shuttered.
New York City's
Downward Spiral. On a return visit this weekend to the Upper West Side neighborhood where I've lived for more
than a quarter of a century, the fear in the air was palpable. The population seemed to be reduced by about half.
New Yorkers steer around each other on the sidewalks, some of them walking in the street to avoid passing near a
stranger. A lady declined to ride the elevator with me and my children. People are especially terrified of the
subway, whose ridership is down 80 percent from normal levels. Friday night, at a time when there would ordinarily be
50 or more people riding on any given car of the 1 train, there were about seven. Downtown was morose, grim,
broken. Graffiti was much in evidence.
A
mad rush for the exits as New York City goes down the tubes. It's not just a few Upper West Siders who are
fleeing New York: Moving companies say they're swamped with calls from residents looking to ditch the city —
even though the COVID crisis has waned. One likely reason: The virus was but the last straw; New Yorkers are fed
up with the shootings and lootings, homelessness on the streets, sub-par online schools, sky-high taxes and the sheer
obliviousness of pols like Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo. On Sunday [8/9/2020], The [New York] Post
highlighted families who've given up on the Upper West Side — now teeming with junkies, the homeless, convicts and
others — and are headed for greener pastures outside Gotham.
In Colorado,
the police are canceling themselves. The state of Colorado has been experiencing the same twin dilemmas that
have been plaguing much of the country for the past several months and this has had a rather drastic impact on police forces
across the board. They're dealing with the pandemic like everyone else, and police officers have jobs that put them in
constant contact with the public. At the same time, protests and demonstrations blaming the police for many of
society's ills have led the state to eliminate qualified immunity for law enforcement officers. This puts them a
greater personal risk of civil suits or criminal charges if an arrest of an uncooperative suspect goes awry. What's the
upshot of all of this been? Far fewer interactions with the public and a significant increase in police officers
retiring early or simply quitting and seeking new types of employment.
When
Government Encourages Victimhood, You Have an Alternative. According to a report from the Minneapolis Star
Tribune, the number of officers in the Minneapolis Police Department has been reduced 10 percent since May and the department
"could lose as much as a third of its workforce by the end of the year." Some on the city council have sought to abolish the
police department. With this development, there has been a corresponding spike in violent crime. Minnesota Public
Radio reported that as of August 4 Minneapolis had experienced more than twice as many homicides in 2020 as during the same
period in 2019. Local CBS affiliate WCCO reported that through July 26 robberies in 2020 were up 36 percent over
the same time period in 2019.
Insurance
payouts fall far short of what's needed to rebuild Twin Cities. Though Gov. Tim Walz has estimated that
total losses will exceed $500 million, insurance companies have informed the Minnesota Department of Commerce that they will
be covering a maximum of $240 million in riot-related damage. In the 5-mile stretch of Minneapolis that sustained the
heaviest destruction, uninsured losses among local small-business owners are at least $200 million, according to the Lake
Street Council.
How
Therapists Became Gods. [Scroll down] The youth suicide rate — 14.6 per 100,000 —
appears to be the highest it's been since the government began collecting such statistics in 1960. How can that be
when we are surrounded with opportunities for self-gratification and encouraged by countless "authorities" to avail ourselves
of them? Why are we so sad, so lonely and isolated when there are so many socialization programs in our schools and
everyone is so "connected" over social media? Why the misery when you can even choose a new gender? Or even marry
your own pet? (Truly, in California "whatever" has taken on a fantastical new meaning.) If there is no longer a God,
if His moral code is irrelevant, and if self-esteem boosting therapy is the answer (and the self-actualized therapist the oracle),
why do so many people feel so empty even after years and years on the couch?
De
Blasio's plan to destroy New York City is working wonderfully. It's no longer news that, once the Wuhan virus
descended on New York City, the rich did what rich people always have down when plague appears: they packed up their goods
and their money and left for comfortable country homes where they could wait out the disease. The New Yorkers who
remained in the city ranged from the upper-middle-class down to the homeless. Mayor Bill de Blasio then had the bright
idea to bring these two classes together, something that's working out about as well as you would expect. It's also a
preview of coming attractions for the rest of America should Biden win the White House and Democrats take full control of
Congress.
Democrats
Are Destroying Their Own Cities, and it all Makes Perfect Sense. America's cities are dying, and no one in the
Democrat Party seems to want to do anything to stop it from happening. In fact, it is Democrats who are actively managing the
chaos and destruction. Ask yourselves why that is the case. After all, the big cities represent almost the entire base
of power for the Democrat Party. That's why the county-by-county presidential election maps always look like a sea of red
with little blue islands sprinkled onto it. Most of those islands are the counties where the big cities are. The sea
of red is where they aren't. This isn't complicated. Yet, right now, as we sit isolated in our homes today thinking
about which useless, virtue-signaling mask we will wear when we venture out to the grocery store, Democrat mayors and city councils
all over the country are willingly presiding over the complete destruction of their centers of power.
Trucking
Company Owner: Cities That Defund Police Are in for a Big Surprise. Cities that decide to cut their
police funding could be cutting their own supply lines, too. That was the message a trucking executive carried to "Fox
& Friends First" on Wednesday [8/5/2020], and it's something urban politicians — in the thrall of Black Lives
Matter rioters and antifa anarchists — should be seriously considering unless they think citizens can start
growing their own food. Because if it's not safe for truckers to carry goods — they just might not do
it. And trucking companies won't be willing to risk the business.
Minneapolis
Downtown Council says up to 10,000 jobs could be lost over 'public safety concerns'. Steve Cramer, president
and CEO of the Minneapolis Downtown Council, told [KSTP] concerns over public safety and the future of the city's
police department have some companies looking to leave downtown. "Almost overnight the brakes went on in downtown,"
Cramer said. "The point where it all started to change was the day the City Council announced it supported defunding
the police department." Cramer said in a six-week period from that day there were 45 companies that indicated they were
either moving out of downtown or were a business that was no longer moving downtown, and there were 13 companies
in that group with 100 or more employees and one with 600.
Dozens
Of Minneapolis Businesses Consider Leaving, Cite Possibility Of Police Being Dismantled. Dozens of Minneapolis
businesses are considering leaving downtown, citing concerns about the possibility of the police department being dismantled,
CBS Minnesota reported. A survey by the Downtown Council shows 45 business owners say they are considering leaving
downtown Minneapolis because of the lack of people working and socializing in the area and also the idea that the police
department could be dismantled, CBS reported. One of the surveyed businesses that is considering leaving employs 600
people, deepening fears that the city could take another major blow to employment, which was hit by the coronavirus
pandemic. The Council did not divulge which businesses are considering leaving.
How the
Media Could Get the Election Story Wrong. I spoke last week to executives, TV hosts and election analysts
across leading American newsrooms, and I was struck by the blithe confidence among some top managers and hosts, who generally
said they've handled complicated elections before and can do so again. And I was alarmed by the near panic among some
of the people paying the closest attention — the analysts and producers trying, and often failing, to get answers
from state election officials about how and when they will count the ballots and report results. "The nerds are
freaking out," said Brandon Finnigan, the founder of Decision Desk HQ, which delivers election results to media
outlets. "I don't think it's penetrated enough in the average viewer's mind that there's not going to be an election
night. The usual razzmatazz of a panel sitting around discussing election results — that's dead," he said.
Woke
Mobs Demand You Must Now Explain Why You Stand For The Anthem. Kneeling for the national anthem at sporting
events used to be the occasional episode of player activism protesting the United States as an evil racist empire. Amid
the new 21st century woke revolution however, kneeling has become a key signifier for players and teams to declare which side
of the culture wars one sits on. It's those who love America versus those who hate it, the latter of which despises the
American flag and all that it represents as a relic of white supremacy that must be condemned. Those who still stand
out of respect for the nation's ideals and the uniformed men and women who protect it are now the outliers forced to defend
themselves in a new age of no dissent, because dissent is racist, racism is oppression, oppression is violence, and violence
is not to be tolerated, even if it isn't real.
Antifa
Is the Natural Product of Our Educational System. [Scroll down] For decades, our schools have been
self-replicating machines, preaching to college students, directly or indirectly, the left-wing gospel according to Howard
Zinn (and the Frankfurt School and so forth) and sending them out in turn to preach this junior varsity, critical theory
Marxism themselves as teachers at whatever level at all manner of institutions throughout the country. The youngest of
those levels is perhaps the most dangerous because it's the most impressionable. Antifa members are therefore only
doing what they have been taught all along, getting rid of a cancer called the United States. This connection between
Antifa and the teaching profession is so profound that some insist the majority of those hidden behind the black masks are
indeed teachers. Others, needless to say including the liberal media, have denied this. It's impossible to know
for certain. Antifa, like some Islamic terror groups, doesn't have a formal leadership structure; why would they need
it? They also don't keep records. This, however, is probably a case where the cliché about smoke and fire
applies. Whether Antifa is 50 percent teachers or 20 percent teachers, it's a lot of teachers.
The Bus Never Stops.
First they told us that homosexuality was normal and that there was no need for anyone to be afraid of the ramifications of
treating them as normal, even though only about 2 percent of the population are homosexual — giving new meaning to
the word "normal." About 1 percent of babies are born with a heart defect, but we don't call that normal. Doubters
said that treating as normal people as different as homosexuals would have consequences. First thing — or maybe
second thing — they would want to get "married" and have their "marriages" treated as normal. [...] What's
next? What's wrong, really, with having children watch pornography? It's everywhere, and there's essentially no
effort to eliminate it. How do we know that? Because there is no serious effort by Republicans to stop it.
And if children can watch it, why shouldn't they do it? What's the effective difference? And what's wrong,
really, with sex with children, so long as there's an adult in the room? "Don't be absurd," you say. But you said
that years ago when homosexuality was normalized. And again when homosexual marriage was normalized. Now when
polyamorous relationships are normalized, are you saying that we have reached the terminus: that the bus stops
here? Please. The bus never stops. Unless someone stops it.
This did
not happen to America overnight. These days, one of the most frequent laments of conservatives is that so much
damage has been inflicted on our nation in such a short amount of time. With the economy humming along and the nation
brimming with optimism as recently as the spring of this year, it seems that our world has been transformed almost overnight
into an unrecognizable cauldron of chaos, despair, and even death. However, while the Wuhan virus, the riots, and the
raging lawlessness of the last five months are a major calamity, they are really only the inevitable culmination of attacks
being waged against America for several decades. The level of these attacks has been increasing in intensity and
audacity the entire time. But although Americans found it too easy to retreat from the mayhem for much of that period,
the boldness and extent of the leftist onslaught have increased to the point that no more room for surrender exists.
The
Trans Cult. A few years ago, three things happened in the course of a single week in my life. First, a
friend told me about a letter her daughter, then 11, had received from her closest summer-camp friend. The girl had
some big news: She was now a boy. Then, another mother told me she and her daughter were sitting at a synagogue
lunch when they were joined by a man who "presented" as a woman. And I received a lengthy email from my daughter's swim
coach at the local YWCA — a man whose missives had never included anything besides practice times and requests for
volunteer timers — explaining that someone on the team had come out as transgender; the coach attached an entire
Washington Post article explaining how we should treat the child and the proper pronouns we should use to refer to "them."
Nearly half of 258 surveyed
police agencies' budgets [have been] cut: report. A soon to be released survey of 258 police departments
nationwide shows almost half have had their budgets cut amid calls for police to be defunded despite increases in gun
violence and otherwise violent crime in some parts of the country, according to USA Today. The outlet was first to
report that the Police Executive Research Forum publication, which is expected to be released in the coming days, shows cuts
in the police budgets are largely being made to training, equipment. Protesters are pushing to "defund the police" over
the death of George Floyd and other Black Americans killed by law enforcement.
Let Portland and
Seattle burn. [Scroll down] My theory regarding this flight from reality in Portland and Seattle (where I
lived for a couple of years) is that those cities have long suffered from an inferiority complex vis-a-vis San
Francisco. The big city to the south makes Portland and Seattle feel like a timber mill and a fishing harbor.
Every policy decision is consequently animated with the unspoken sentiment, "What would San Fran do? Let's outdo that!"
Congratulations, Portland and Seattle, you've managed to outdo even San Francisco in violence, vagrancy and anarchy. Now you
can live in the festering filth and feces of sociopaths who have nothing but cynical contempt for your self-indulgent
self-righteousness. But at least you feel really good about yourselves.
We're at War. Attacking Trump's
Tweet in the NYT While the Democrats Foment Riots & Ruin to Defeat Him is Treason. [Scroll down] The
people trying to destroy us stopped caring about the rules ages ago. They faked Russian cyber-espionage against the
Clinton Campaign to discredit WikiLeaks revelations about her corruption and incompetence. They tried to frame Trump as
part of their phony Russian plot. They used the FBI to illegally spy on Trump's campaign. They gave Robert
Mueller power and an unlimited budget to destroy Trump and as many of his allies as possible. They organized and
promoted Christine Blasey Ford's perjurous hoax. They tried to remove Trump from office for his patently reasonable
attempt to get Ukrainian authorities to investigate Joe Biden's obvious corruption. They've caused an economic
catastrophe that could very well wind up being worse than the Great Depression, gaslit the entire nation into months of
debilitating fear and panic, and caused the deaths of countless Americans by lying and withholding information about a virus
that all the data literally says is less harmful than the flu. They've fomented riots across the nation and caused the
murder of American police officers and ordinary citizens alike by promoting the poisonous false narrative that American cops
start their day fervently hoping they'll get a chance to kill someone who isn't white. And that's just the egregious,
defamatory and destructive mass deceptions the Democrats and their allies in the corporate press have perpetrated.
The
Implosion of the Left's Language Circus. Right now, the left's power consists mostly of power over the English
language. The left has sway over education, the media, law, arts, and entertainment, especially in English-speaking
countries: the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand. Liberal-dominated industries
shape the understanding and use of words. Since the English-speaking world defines discourse for the whole world and
the English-speaking left defines English words, the left now has global hegemony. For two reasons, I believe that this
will not last very long. First, the history of Spanish, French, and German shows that language communities reach their
downfall when one party's prevalence distorts communication. Second, the three most prominent left-wing slogans in
recent history — "it gets better," "me too," and "black lives matter" — cancel each other.
Eventually, skeptics will notice, or the folly will cause a social disaster.
Seattle
police chief: New limits on anti-protest gear will mean 'adjusted' law enforcement. Seattle's police
officers will now respond to protests and rioting through "adjusted deployment" methods because of a new city law that bans
them from using some crowd-control tools, the city's police chief said Friday [7/24/2020]. The new law, which takes
effect Sunday, "bans Seattle Police officers the use of less lethal tools, including pepper spray that is commonly used to
disperse crowds that have turned violent," police Chief Carmen Best said in a statement. "Simply put," Best added, "the
legislation gives officers NO ability to safely intercede to preserve property in the midst of a large, violent crowd."
Downtown
Portland businesses, derailed by pandemic, say protests present a new challenge. Restaurants and retailers
throughout Oregon have struggled to stay afloat amid the coronavirus pandemic. Some businesses have already closed
permanently. Others say their futures are uncertain. But downtown Portland business owners say they are facing
unique challenges as they try to recover from the economic devastation brought on by the pandemic. Many point to the
raucous protests downtown and the controversial federal response, which have put the city atop national headlines.
While most of downtown is tranquil, and nearly all confrontations between protestors and police take place late at night, the
nightly protests have given Portland a reputation for upheaval that businesses say is keeping shoppers away. Office
buildings remain empty because of the pandemic and tourists have yet to return, taking away a large customer base for many
downtown businesses.
The Editor says...
The tourism industry in Portland and Seattle is finished, for at least a decade. The governors and the mayors should
have thought of that possibility before letting rioters have their way in the streets, night after night, week after week.
These
are the innocuous words progressives want to ban you from using. Trying desperately not to get canceled, bosses
are trying to think ahead about what words might create a fake Duraflame firestorm of anger, and preemptively ruling ordinary
words out of bounds. At the Los Angeles Times, for instance, an editor has said the word "looters," which has been used
many times in the paper, now has "a pejorative and racist connotation" and that anyone who is inclined to use the word should
"talk to your immediate supervisor." Translation: Best not use the word at all, if you want to stay employed.
So what to call looters? Non-paying shoppers? That doesn't quite tell the story: Ordinary shoplifters don't
usually bust up all the windows. How about self-appointed retail-justice-commandos? Revolutionary mass
goods-redistribution agents?
Cancel
Culture's Dual Meaning Is a War for America's Soul. The rabid Left is actively rewriting American history as
being inherently bad from the start, as it has no excuse to change our culture if there is anything arguably good about
it. Therefore, our values, historical narrative, monuments, and anything that makes us uniquely American must be
disparaged and destroyed. Tyrants throughout history have practiced cancel culture by forcibly suppressing opposition
to their authoritarianism with methods similar to what the American Left is using today. In 2001, Americans were
horrified when the Taliban destroyed ancient Buddha statues along Afghanistan's silk road despite objections from 54 Islamic
countries. Equal outrage occurred in 2015 when ISIS destroyed statues and other irreplaceable artifacts dating back to
Iraq's seventh-century BC culture. Nazis stole countless billions in art, historical, and religious treasures from
Jewish families to eliminate Jewish culture.
The cleanup from the riots in Denver isn't going quickly,
or cheaply. We've spent plenty of time over the past month or two looking at the seemingly endless series of
riots consuming many of the nation's larger cities. While the violence, injuries, assaults and even deaths capture many
of the headlines, the staggering amount of property damage taking place is also a part of the equation. The question
is, what do these cities do in the aftermath when downtown storefront windows have all been replaced with graffiti-covered
plywood sheets, walls and roads are festooned with paint and lights, statues and other public property has been
destroyed? That's a problem that the City of Denver has been wrestling with for quite a while now. When the worst
of the riots first broke out in the Mile High City, the community and the government teamed up to try to keep up with
repairs. They no doubt hoped that the worst of the rioting would fade quickly and order would be restored. That
hasn't happened, however. Cleanup efforts have been stymied by repeating offenses and the costs have been spiraling out
of control.
Goodbye, Washington DC.
[Scroll down] I did my part, too. My role in the fabric of urban society, overlooked but essential, was to spend
my money. Eat, drink, shop, spend, tip, pay. And man, did I pay: taxes, rents, then a mortgage and HOA
fees. I paid taxes on things the government deemed "bad" for me, like alcohol and cigarettes; taxes on services which
organized labor deemed "bad" for them, like rideshare. I paid gas tax, cable tax, cell phone tax, and, of course,
income tax. Lots of income tax. All I asked in return was relative safety and to be left alone to enjoy the
city. City-living in America, for decades, meant tolerating mild inconveniences so that you could be left alone,
alongside millions of others. That was the tacit pact. And DC broke it.
Why This
Revolution Isn't Like the '60s. The '60s revolution introduced to the country everything from hippies,
communes, free love, mass tattooing, commonplace profanity, rampant drug use, rock music, and high divorce rates to the war
on poverty, massive government growth, feminism, affirmative action, and race/gender/ethnic college curricula. [...] A
half-century after the earlier revolution, today's cultural revolution is vastly different — and far more
dangerous. Government and debt have grown. Social activism is already institutionalized in hundreds of newer
federal programs. The "Great Society" inaugurated a multitrillion-dollar investment in the welfare state. Divorce
rates soared. The nuclear family waned. Immigration, both legal and illegal, skyrocketed. Thus, America is
far less resilient, and a far more divided, indebted, and vulnerable target than it was in 1965.
The accelerating
collapse of St. Louis, the most violent city in America. St. Louis, famously known as the Gateway to
the West, has become America's reigning murder capital and a symbol of urban decay — trends accelerated in recent
years by a soft-on-crime mayor and a social justice-minded prosecutor. Last month, the images of Mark and Patricia
McCloskey, both armed, confronting protesters in front of their restored mansion in the historic Central West End district of
downtown St. Louis previewed what a defund-the-police era may look like. In the aftermath of George Floyd's death
in police custody in Minneapolis, St. Louis, like other American cities, faced a crisis of public order.
Businesses were burned to the ground, and looters roamed freely. Four St. Louis police officers were shot in one
night. Civic unrest was so widespread that first responders took nearly 30 minutes to reach a 7-Eleven set aflame
by rioters. The city's elected leaders have seemingly abandoned the police. St. Louis's current condition
reflects a decades-long tumble from growth and prosperity to decline and disorder.
Harris
Faulkner presses Marie Harf to name a single GOP-run city in chaos: 'It's a yes or no question'. Fox News'
Harris Faulkner challenged network contributor Marie Harf to name a Republican-run city that is currently under siege by
rioters during an "Outnumbered" segment on Thursday [7/23/2020]. The discussion began with co-host Dagen McDowell
ticking off a list of shootings in Chicago, long a Democratic stronghold, just in the past few days as the panel discussed
Mayor Lori Lightfoot's decision to accept federal assistance in bringing order to chaotic parts of the city, a reversal of
her earlier position. "What if it works in Chicago? What if the police in that city can stop the daily murders?"
McDowell said before ticking off a list of shootings and killings in just the past few days. "What if this partnership
actually works?" she added, decrying the use by some so-called "peaceful protesters" who "carry Molotov cocktails, metal
pipes and hammers — is that where we are in this nation?"
One Nation Under Anarcho-Tyranny.
The America you grew up in is not the America we live in now. [...] It's not "socialism" or "communism" under which we
suffer. Our dangerously chaotic, selectively oppressive predicament is more accurately described as "anarcho-tyranny."
The late conservative columnist Sam Francis first coined the term in 1992 to diagnose a condition of "both anarchy (the
failure of the state to enforce the laws) and, at the same time, tyranny — the enforcement of laws by the state
for oppressive purposes." The "criminalization of the law-abiding and innocent," Francis expounded, is achieved in such
a state through: "exorbitant taxation, bureaucratic regulation; the invasion of privacy, and the engineering of social
institutions, such as the family and local schools; the imposition of thought control through 'sensitivity training' and
multiculturalist curricula; 'hate crime' laws; gun-control laws that punish or disarm otherwise law-abiding citizens but have
no impact on violent criminals who get guns illegally; and a vast labyrinth of other measures."
Chicago
Police Statistics Destroy Black Lives Matter Narrative. Last week in Chicago, a protest of sorts obediently
marched to the tune of hackneyed charges of systemic injustice. The tired narrative droned on about bad policing,
police targeting of the black community, and too much jail or prison time. This kept the crowd from considering
alternatives to their afternoon work, such as offering a token of gratitude to thankless peacekeepers in their own backyard,
the murder capital of America. One wonders if they know that out of the 560 homicides, 475 victims were black, killed
not by the police or whites, but by other blacks. By all means, protest. But when people complain about the
system being rigged, they need to remember they voted for their system, and they've been voting for the same system for quite
a while. The mayoral offices have been run by Democrats since before the Great Depression, which means only about 2
million out of 350 million total Americans were alive the last time the city voted for a Republican. Most recently,
Obama acolyte Rahm Emanuel helmed the city between 2011 and 2019, and currently a woman by the name of Lori Lightfoot, whose
sole victory in the role comes from being the first openly gay, black mayor of the town, presides over the carnage.
Trump
Has Already Won the 2020 Election. Given the polls, you would think anyone positing Donald Trump has already
won the 2020 election was some kind of blithering idiot — and maybe I am. (I've been called worse.) But I
can't help but think that in current conditions the polls are not only not worth the paper they're printed on, digital or
otherwise, they're about as accurate as a thermometer run over by a six-wheeler. No one sensible is talking about their
political allegiance these days in public — especially to an anonymous pollster. Instead, they're buying
guns, in record numbers. Why wouldn't they? Calling 911 has become about as useful as calling tech support for a
transistor radio run over by the same six-wheeler. The destroyed statues are the least of it. They're
inanimate. The actual people of Seattle, Portland, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia and on and on
are living a nightmare. Violence stalks the streets of all our major cities whose murder rates are going up
stratospherically. (As I type this, the news is reporting 9 more shot in D.C.) Have there ever been remotely as many
stores and businesses smashed, many still not operating, from the Atlantic to the Pacific? America isn't in the midst
of a civil war. It's in the midst of a national meltdown with the banana-brained neo-Marxists of Black Lives Matter and
Antifa, stoned like sophomores (if that) on Foucault or some other self-important "critical theorist," leading the way to
oblivion and mutual hatred (actually a return to tribalism).
Portland
Goes To Hell: The Death Of An American City. Portland, Oregon, was once known as the quintessentially
nice Northwestern city. Its nickname, "The Rose City," was given to it by a Baptist group that held a convention there
over a century ago. Sadly, today, riot-riven Portland smells like anything but roses. The city has been the locus
of nonstop violent protests for 51 days and counting. And really, calling them protests is incorrect: They are
acts of outright rebellion, with many participants openly calling for the dismantling of the United States. [...] Who's
behind all this? Antifa and Black Lives Matter, of course. But they aren't the only ones. There are lots of
other leftists of various affiliations agitating the crowds. [...] This is part of a pattern of how the left works:
Destroy the rule of law, the backbone of our free republic. Intimidate ordinary citizens into silence. Then
support and elevate rule by power of unelected street thugs in Antifa and BLM.
Here's what I saw in the first half of
2020. [Scroll down]
8. Liberals worked hard to manufacture "social unrest," report on it as if it were
spontaneous, and "defund the police." Libs think the solution to a breakdown in law & order is less law & order.
9. Liberals evidently figured out this "social unrest" they were manufacturing from nothing, had an effect on the election in
their favor. They may have figured this out before they started manufacturing it. At any rate, the places run by
liberals began to make silly concessions to the protestor-terrorists, that the protestor-terrorists never even
requested. Statues, dairy company emblems, rice brands, syrup brands, etc. Evidently these apologies, changes and
removals were supposed to deter the protestor-terrorists from protesting and terrorizing. They did not.
10. Places run by liberals also had more violence, more COVID infections, more COVID casualties, more deaths and injuries from
protests, and more unemployment. These places run by liberals also had less freedom. Their lockdowns were more stringent
and the harm done to their business communities were much greater.
11. While all this was going on, our mainstream media, run by liberals, began hemorrhaging its credibility even faster than it had been
hemorrhaging it in recent years... which is really saying a lot. They began to use the phrase "mostly peaceful protests" to
excess, applying it in places where it clearly didn't apply. One anchorman even waxed lyrically about these "peaceful protests"
in front of a burning liquor store. This proves the media thinks we're all stupid. Well who can blame them.
12. Liberals don't have a clue what all this looks like to grown ups because they never have doubts about anything and can't be told anything.
Can
a Whole Country Go Mad? This is what happens when God has been evicted from a culture. It is indeed a
strange thing that is happening to western civilization. In the earlier stages of our culture, the existence of things
unseen was hardly questioned. Today, if you don't see it, it doesn't exist at all. The locus of control
has moved from a universe of the Divine to the essential singularity: One's Self. As a result of this tectonic
shift, there are things happening in our culture that are truly insane. Period. As a result of this increasing
insanity I have resigned from the National Association of Social Workers. I am taking down the shingle that used to
stand for compassion and righteousness, but now stands for nothing more than social indoctrination and lunacy, an
organization that protests against the death penalty for serial killers but rallies in favor of partial birth abortion.
The
Big Apple Is Being Destroyed, and Billy De Blasio Is More Concerned About a BLM Mural. Like the Dallas
Cowboys, you just need to give it time; they'll disappoint. [...] In politics, the same mindset can be applied to Democrats;
give it time — they'll destroy whatever they takeover. The Left took over the cities, and nothing has
changed for residents, especially black Americans. These cities are now nothing more than Democratic powerbases that
lie, cheat, and steal from residents who keep voting leftists into power. In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio
is doing his part in destroying the city. [Paywall]
It's
not just police: Public servants of all stripes are now under assault. 'Is it just me, or is it getting
crazier out there?" So asks Joaquin Phoenix's Joker while meeting his social worker, motioning to Gotham outside the
window. It isn't just you or the stuff of superhero thrillers. Gotham — the real Gotham —
is in chaos, and disrespect for authority, and not just police authority, is sinking it deeper. New York is suffering a
serious slide in livability. Those who can have already fled the city, and it's a big question mark whether they are
coming back. Each day brings a new barrage of online-message-board pleas, from people wondering if they can get out.
Are
We In The First Days Of A Lawless Era? A nation founded on the rule of law appears to be yielding to the rule
of the mob. Not everyone has surrendered. The trend, though, is worrisome. Too many of our "leaders" and
institutions are failing us. In 2020, law enforcement officers in this country are being treated not just with
disrespect but in many instances are being abused verbally and physically. Rioters and looters are going unpunished,
not because they can't be identified or the cases against them are weak but because prosecutors (several of them backed by
George Soros) refuse to uphold the law and charge the offenders. Violent gangs have been allowed, almost encouraged, to
take over city streets, sidewalks, and private property; shut down the free movement of others; and topple public monuments.
Death of a Nation.
America and Britain are under attack by anarchists and thugs, while media pimps and opportunistic politicians are excusing
the mobs. Worse, the media is in cahoots with those who say that words are a form of violence that has to be
regulated. Who would have thought it would come to this? Our First Amendment, our most precious freedom of
speech, challenged by smear artists who lust for power and control. Unlike what Hollywood depicts as wartime Berlin,
Germans bitched to high heaven over the bombing and lack of food, as did Russians during Stalin's time. But just try to
not kneel nowadays and watch your career fly out the window quicker than you can say "BLM." Is this why we fought the
wars, to not to be able to say out loud what we believe? To be silenced by unelected street thugs, dandruff-covered
academics, and spittle-flecked media leftists?
Descending
into Chaos. [Scroll down] We have remarked the gradual, now accelerated encroachment of the socialist
nightmare on the American dream, the rapid breakdown of public order following the COVID pandemic so egregiously mismanaged
by our political and medical classes, the destructive riots of various groups of domestic terrorists joined by the
unproductive elements of society, and the racist hysteria leading to the eruption of social violence and hatred of
whites. We have watched good people being "cancelled" by their moral inferiors. And we have seen our political
authorities either foment the mayhem or retreat into their bunkers of silence and inactivity. These are the people
descending the chain of being into the terrain occupied by the rabble, sinking from the realm of communal order into the
realm of turbid misrule.
Why
It [is Bad] to be a Democrat in 2020. The Democratic Party is the oldest voter-based political party globally
and the longest existing one in the United States. You'd think wisdom would come with time. Instead, look at
them. All you see is negativity. [...] Democrats destroy everything they touch. Consider their
accomplishments: They banned school prayer, legalized abortion and support infanticide. They've secularized
society, replaced God with government and personal charity with social justice. They've substituted religion for
reason, blurred the lines between males and females and destroyed the nuclear family. They've lorded over the
destruction of America's youth, brainwashing kids to the point they hate America, their parents and themselves. Look at
their cities: Democrats' cities burn as the stench of human feces fills the air. During the pandemic, pot shops
thrive while businesses and churches stay closed. Lawlessness prevails as mobs mete out a perverted form of justice
where good people get punished and criminals get rewarded. Black-on-black murders rise. Babies get shot without a
whisper, while anarchists decimate whole city blocks because of the murder of one man.
Nightmare in
New York. This Nightmare in New York is brought to you courtesy of Gov. Andrew Cuomo; Mayor Bill de
Blasio; and a cast of thousands of Black Lives Matter protesters, anarchists, and street thugs. The once vibrant city
is turning into a virtual no-go zone of looted shops, shuttered store windows, and skyrocketing murder rates. The
number of shooting victims is up 51% this year so far, and that tragic trend is accelerating. In June of this year,
there were 250 shootings, as opposed to 97 in June of 2019. New York was already reeling from the highest coronavirus
death toll in the (formerly) United States, due in large part to Gov. Cuomo approving the transfer of thousands of
recovering COVID-19 patients to nursing homes at the height of the pandemic. Then the rioting began, and Mayor de
Blasio's response was to shame cops and propose cutting his city's police department budget by more than one billion
dollars.
NYPD
limits retirement applications amid 400 percent surge this week. New York's Finest are putting in for
retirement faster than the NYPD can handle — while citing a lack of respect and the loss of overtime pay, The [New
York] Post has learned. A surge of city cops filing papers during the past week more than quadrupled last year's
number — as the city grapples with a surge of shootings — and the stampede caused a bottleneck that's
forcing others to delay putting in their papers, officials and sources said. The NYPD said Wednesday that 179 cops
filed for retirement between June 29 and Monday, an astounding 411-percent increase over the 35 who filed during the same
time period in 2019.
Lawlessness,
the Murder of Our Children, and the Soul of America. BLM, Inc., Joe Biden and the DNC own the death and
destruction of this past weekend, in cities like, Atlanta, New York and Cleveland! Joe Biden and the Democratic
National Committee (DNC) have surrendered to the Radical Left (Black Lives Matter, Inc., Antifa, etc.). The Democratic
Party(DNC) has had decades to fulfill its promises to black Americans, but all it's delivered is crime-ridden cities bereft
of economic opportunity. It's time to shake things up, show the extent of DNC failure and expose BLM, Inc. for the
fraud it is. For weeks Americans have watched radical leftist anarchists and Antifa thugs engage in extreme violence
and murder that will haunt many people for the rest of their lives. Dozens of innocent civilians and police officers
have been killed, hundreds of civilians brutally beaten, and more than 700 police officers were injured nationwide.
Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of property was destroyed as businesses and communities in more than 42 states
were devastated by arson, looting, and mayhem that activists quickly followed with a call to defund the police.
BLM's
Violence & the Death of America's Cities. The police-hating rhetoric of the openly and proudly Marxist "Black
Lives Matter" (BLM) movement is doing exactly what it did five years ago — creating a massive increase in violent
crime and homicide throughout urban America. You may recall that back in 2015-16, BLM's anti-police protests and
riots — particularly in the aftermath of the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson,
Missouri — intimidated officers nationwide into becoming much less proactive in dealing with criminal
suspects. A Pew Research Center report titled "Behind the Badge" — which tabulated the results of a
questionnaire that was sent to thousands of officers — confirmed that 85 to 95 percent of law-enforcement officers
in large police departments became highly reluctant to engage criminals except where absolutely necessary. The
consequences of the new timidity of law-enforcement were monumental: • In 2015, America's 56 largest
cities experienced a 17% rise in homicides. • Twelve cities with large black populations saw their
murder totals spike even more dramatically — e.g., by 54% in D.C., 60% in Newark, 72% in Milwaukee, 83% in
Nashville, and 90% in Cleveland. • Robberies surged in America's 81 largest cities during the 12
months that followed the shooting of Michael Brown. • During the first quarter of 2016, homicides in
America's 63 largest cities increased by 9%, while nonfatal shootings were up 21%.
Could IT
Happen Here? [Scroll down] One reason Hitler wasn't taken seriously during the early 1930s was because
the world media presented Hitler (and Mussolini) as caricatures to be laughed at more than feared. [...] Most law-abiding
Americans shake their heads in disgust at what is happening. Some view anarchist antics as more comical than
threatening. For instance: • Weirdly designed pink [...] hats that look like props from a 1950s
sci-fi movie. • Garage door pull that had been used for months suddenly seen as a KKK noose.
• Bizarrely named autonomous zones that are declared separate countries. • Young
white girls yelling at older black cops that the black cops do not understand racism.
Six
Weeks, Six Cities, 600 Murders. The single most important issue, affecting some of the largest swaths of
populations in America, is the scandal the media ignores even as it explodes in our faces. In only six weeks, city
after city operated by entrenched Democrats have seen a massive expansion in lawlessness, violence, and murder.
Stunningly, many news outlets seem gobsmacked and mystified at how or why such an explosion of lawlessness has occurred.
[...] So why did all of these cities take such violent turns? Is it because their leadership capitulated to the anger
of the mobs as opposed to thinking clearly and strategically about an effective response? Or do these Democrat-run
towns literally operate with denial in good and evil? How else can you explain that in the city of Minneapolis (where a
nation watched in horror and subsequently responded to the murder of an innocent man) that within 30 days they would record
1,600 shots fired? But then respond by voting to dismantle its police operations all together?
The
Devil's Pitchfork: Seeking the Origin of Our Present Troubles. The progressivist campaign to destroy
America is three-pronged, the tines of the devil's pitchfork, namely: de-individuation, de-historicizing,
and what I'm tempted to call pre-eminent domain (the power of the state to take more than one's physical property).
In other words, it is a war against three intimately related phenomena: self-governing personhood, historical memory,
and the possession of property, whether intellectual or private property as understood by John Locke. Thus our ideas
are no longer our own but state-injected bromides, history has been co-opted in the service of a political fantasy, and
ownership is the prerogative of the state. It is clear that the entire sensibility of the age, and certainly of the
coming era, has changed dramatically, not only as the result of the onslaught of lethal political and cultural viruses like
democratic socialism, "social justice," postmodern relativism and radical feminism, but of the "Information Revolution" and
its carrier, the Internet, in particular the social media platforms run by a cabal of corporate oligarchs.
Saving
America From the Mob. In just six weeks, violence has increased in many cities throughout the nation.
This is the result of police officers either resigning, taking sick days, or showing less interest in challenging the
criminal element. It is an exceedingly difficult time for anyone to be a police officer today. Police recruitment
has become extremely challenging in an environment where violence toward police is increasing and police are not supported by
weak politicians following the orders from the mob. It is not only police that activists are trying to destroy.
In the past six weeks, movies have been removed, police shows have been cancelled, even cartoons have been adjusted. In
addition, countless monuments have been toppled, flags have been changed, amusement rides have been altered, product packages
are undergoing a politically correct overhaul. Other products are changing their supposedly offensive names, all to
satisfy the mob.
Covid-19,
BLM protests and a liberal mayor are turning the city into a no-go zone as murders skyrocket, shops are looted.
Two bullet-ridden bodies lay sprawled on bloodstained concrete steps. Alongside, relatives of the victims are wailing
and collapse to the ground. In another part of the city, a gang of youths use spray paint to disable security cameras
before robbing a corner store. Later, video footage captures police officers sitting helplessly in their patrol car as
a baying crowd hurls glass bottles at them. This is lawless New York — a city that was once America's
glittering crown jewel but which risks descending into mob rule. Murder figures have skyrocketed and a combination of
the coronavirus pandemic, Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests and weak political leadership is in danger of achieving what
Osama Bin Laden never could: bringing the Big Apple to its knees.
CNN:
Shootings, Murder Surge in Democrat-Controlled Cities. Shootings and murder are surging in Chicago, Los
Angeles, Milwaukee, New York City, and Philadelphia, all of which are Democrat-controlled cities. CNN reports murders
in Milwaukee are up 95 percent this year. They note murders in Philadelphia rose 24 percent as shootings rose
57 percent, and Los Angeles witnessed a 250 percent increase in murders during the first week of June alone. Shootings
have surged by 44 percent in NYC, compared to the number of shootings at this same point in time last year, and murder is up
23 percent.
Yoga
studio implodes in brutal, yet classic case of 'progressives' eating their own. Yoga is officially
canceled. Or at least it is at Kindness Yoga, a set of yoga studios in Denver that had striven so diligently to cater
to left-wing extremists but has since been eaten alive by those same zealots. Prior to its cancellation, owner Patrick
Harrington's Kindness Yoga had offered far-left zealots a utopia of so-called "progressive" ideals, according to The Colorado
Sun. "Kindness Yoga, which began in 2001 with one Cherry Creek studio called Yoga Energi, had an outward reputation of
inclusivity — with its earthy studios in Capitol Hill and Hilltop, gender-neutral bathrooms and person-of-color
yoga nights where 'white friends and allies' were asked to 'respectfully refrain from attending.' Kindness held an LGBTQ yoga
workshop just weeks before the pandemic forced the studios to close," the Sun reported Monday. [...] Yet despite all the
hoops that Harrington had jumped through to build and maintain his rep with left-wing extremists, it wasn't enough for yoga
teachers Jordan Smiley, who's reportedly indigenous and transgender, and Davidia Turner, who's black. According to
them, Harrington still wasn't doing enough to bring about so-called meaningful racial "change."
Calling
Racism a Public Health Crisis Can Kill Black People. Baltimore, Cleveland, Denver, Milwaukee, and Pittsburgh
are among the cities that have officially declared that racism is a public health crisis. A number of states are also
moving in that direction. Senator Sherrod Brown intends to push a similar resolution in the Senate. The
medicalization of racism has been backed by the American Medical Association, whose heads have called on "health institutions
and physician organizations to explicitly denounce police violence" and urged "clinics, hospital and healthcare providers to
review and reconsider their policies and relationships with law enforcement". Considering the already fraught state of
emergency rooms in urban areas where the victims and perpetrators of gang violence show up every weekend, that would be
catastrophic. It would lead to fewer doctors, fewer ERs, and worse outcomes for black patients in urban areas.
Dilbert
creator Scott Adams: Republicans will be hunted if Biden is elected. Comic strip creator Scott Adams said
there's a "good chance" Republicans will be killed if former Vice President Joe Biden is elected. Adams, who created
Dilbert in 1989, sent out tweets Wednesday claiming conservatives would be targeted with violence should the presumptive
Democratic nominee win the 2020 election. "If Biden is elected, there's a good chance you will be dead within the
year," Adams warned in a tweet. "Police will stand down. Republicans will be hunted," he added. Police will
stand down. [Tweets] After some social media users questioned his claim, Adams said he spoke with a woman who told
him she was fired from her job because her colleagues suspected she supported President Trump. "Just interviewed a woman
who was fired for suspicion of liking President Trump. Suspicion. Fired," Adams wrote.
The
Coming Collapse of the Republic. [Scroll down] As I warned in 2012, there no longer is a culture
war. "What is occurring now is a pacification effort." Its progress is why corporate America, including the
now-absorbed Chick-fil-A and NASCAR, has turned decidedly to the dark side (shifted "left"). It's why prominent people,
including Republicans such as Indiana senator Mike Braun, are bowing before terrorist group Black Lives Matter. It's
why mobs are enabled and good people hobbled for defending themselves from the mobs. It's why we're seeing a complete
cultural collapse — portending a political collapse. This is partially due to a new "woke" generation having
entered the corporate sphere and others of influence. But what did you expect? The apocryphal saying (no, it's
not Lincoln's) informs, "The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the
next." Did you really think the Left could completely control academia for generations and that, somehow, it all would
"stay in college"?
Breakdown. [Scroll
down] To be sure, the first manifestation of the Black Lives Matter movement had a mouthpiece in the Oval Office,
lacking now. It doesn't matter. Presidential imprimatur or no, the reborn Black Lives Matter has gained billions
of dollars in corporate support, more billions in free round-the-clock media promotion, and a ruthless power to crush dissent
from the now-universal narrative about murderous police bigots. During the two weeks of national anarchy that followed
the death of George Floyd, cops were shot, slashed, and assaulted; their vehicles and station houses were firebombed and
destroyed. American elites stayed silent. Since then, police have continued to be shot at and attacked; the
elites remain silent. Monuments to America's greatest leaders are being defaced with impunity; anarchists took over a
significant swathe of a major American city, including a police precinct, without resistance from the authorities. And
a push to defund the police gains traction by the day.
Get Ready
to Be Canceled. If you thought you could evade the tentacles of political correctness by avoiding a campus or
classroom, steering clear of political protests, or self-censoring your Facebook posts, think again. [...] The label of
"white privilege" is currently used by leftists and progressives to discount or deny speech and data that contradict the
narrative of whatever movement they seek to justify. Recently, it has been used to dispel the criticism of the violent
looting and riots that followed peaceful protests decrying the murder of George Floyd. One Minneapolis councilwoman
used it to justify dismantling the police, even when private homes are broken into. It is now a basis for dismantling
statues and desecrating historical monuments. Whether seeking to silence whites or even hurt successful communities as
a means to balance or make reparations for perceived injustices, this social weapon is gaining strength and credibility.
Apocalyptic
science: How the West is destroying itself. The most serious threat to the West is not China or Russia
but its visceral disgust with itself. A growing proportion of people — in universities, the media, politics
and corporate structures — now reject the premises upon which their own thriving societies are built.
Critical Theory opposes everything that makes the West work. Unlike traditional academic inquiry, which seeks to
explain and understand with logic, analysis and the scientific method, these doctrines are less theories than programs.
Their purpose is to condemn cultural norms, tear down existing orders and transform society. It all starts with Marx.
Violence rises in Minneapolis, as debate over role of police
rages. Minneapolis officials have described an unprecedented burst of violence following George Floyd's
Memorial Day death, after an officer held him down with a knee to his neck, sparking worldwide fury and massive
protests. At least 113 people have been shot since May 25, eight fatally, according to Minneapolis police, with
hundreds of reports of gunfire across the city, including several shootings in broad daylight. The spike in violence
has come amid a raging debate over the role the Minneapolis Police Department should play in addressing crime in this
city. Public confidence has so deteriorated that a majority of the City Council has pledged to dismantle the
agency. Some residents have accused officers of purposefully curbing response to crime, which police deny. Others
have decided to stop using the agency's services altogether.
Nearly
300 NYPD Officers File for Retirement as Violent Crime Surges. Close to 300 New York City Police Department
(NYPD) officers have filed for retirement over the last month amid riots against the police and as violent crime keeps
surging. According to figures released to the New York Post, about 272 NYPD uniformed officers have filed for
retirement since riots over the death of Minneapolis resident George Floyd began in late May. At the same time last
year, about 183 officers had filed for retirement, indicating a nearly 50 percent spike in retirements this year.
Conservatives
Are Treated like Second-Class Citizens, and That's Dangerous. What use is a federal government that refuses to
protect our basic constitutional rights? [...] Democrat mayors and governors are bankrupting American citizens by preventing
them from engaging in simple commerce, and they're getting away with it. Street mobs across America are causing
millions of dollars in property damage, destroying priceless historical monuments; killing police officers; and targeting
random, unlucky citizens based on the color of their skin, and the press cheerlead the madness and defend the murderers and
arsonists as heroes. John Kerry just the other day threatened the United States by declaring that if Democrats don't
win the election in November, they will insist on "revolution." Revolution? How else can you describe this
incendiary cocktail of mob violence and flagrant denial of conservatives' constitutional rights, aided and abetted and kept
volatile by Democrat mayors who applaud the mayhem, Democrat prosecutors who refuse to enforce the law, and Democrat-aligned
corporations who happily treat conservatives as second-class citizens?
De
Blasio's performance grows worse by the day, making NYC unlivable. The New York that survived 9/11 and bounced
back stronger than ever is now being brought to its knees. The coronavirus, the economic shutdowns and the frequent
street protests, mixed with pillaging and vandalism, are no ordinary hurdles, but they are surmountable — with
courageous leadership. Tragically, that's exactly what New York doesn't have. The crises pile up like dead
leaves, but leadership is nowhere to be found. Without it, the city is fast becoming unlivable. The slow exodus
of recent years has quickened in recent months, with natives, long-timers and recent arrivals clogging the exits.
NYPD
retirement filings surged 49 percent amid protests. The New York City Police Department has experienced a
significant surge in the number of officers looking to retire following the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minnesota that
sparked national protests and calls for police reform. The NYPD told Fox News that 272 of New York's finest have filed
for retirement during the period between Floyd's death and June 23, a number that the outlet said represents a 49 percent
jump compared to the same timeframe in 2019. While retirements so far this year have been about the same —
135 in 2020 compared to 131 over the same timespan in 2019 — the department indicated to Fox that the recent
cluster of retirement filings still awaits processing.
272
uniformed NYPD cops file for retirement after George Floyd death. Cops are hanging up their handcuffs in huge
numbers. The flurry of Finest farewells began after the police-involved killing of George Floyd on May 25, with 272
uniformed cops putting in retirement papers from then through June 24, the NYPD says. That's a 49 percent spike
from the 183 officers who filed during the same period last year, according to the department. An NYPD source suggested the
recent departures could signal a coming crisis for the 36,000-member department, which also faces a $1 billion budget
reduction amid the "defund the police" furor.
Washington
Post: It doesn't matter that the most violent cities in America are run by Democrats. Usually, we elect
mayors to do the job of running things and one of the most important parts of their job is public safety. Especially in
cities with higher crime rates, crime reduction is often a major point of discussion during election season. For
instance, Memphis, Tennessee is at the top of the per capita crime list. [...] Why would the fact that the winner is almost
always going to be a Democrat not matter? Don't Democrats tend to have certain specific views about crime, policing,
mass incarceration, etc.? Don't Republicans have a reputation for being tougher on crime, more friendly to police and
prosecutors, etc.? How can this not matter?
Anarchists
and Trump's Reelection. I love my country. America is the greatest land of opportunity on the planet for
all who choose to pursue their dreams. The BLM movement has nothing, I repeat nothing, to do with empowering
blacks. Leftists are exploiting blacks as useful idiots to implement their transformation of America away from the
divinely inspired vision of our Founding Fathers. For decades, public education, Hollywood, Democrats and fake news
media have infected youths with a poisonous lie that America is a hellhole of racism and the greatest source of evil on the
planet. Our passivity allowed leftists to transform our kids into their social-justice army of anarchists.
2020
Election Will Be a Contest of the Angry. For nearly a month, the nation has been consumed by massive protests
and chronic riots, looting, and arson. The catalyst for the demonstrations — the violent and wrongful death
of African American George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police — is itself fading from connections
with the ensuing upheavals. Statues are toppled. Names are abruptly changed. Careers canceled. Police
are both reviled — and walking off the job. Retired generals are no longer seen as conservative
traditionalists but radicals themselves who dare to take on the commander-in-chief. Downtown Seattle is no longer in
the control of the city government. The internet is aflame with self-appointed sleuths. They scour hours of video
and millions of words, searching for an indiscreet past remark — as fodder to take out a political opponent, a
rival for a job, or a personal enemy.
Liberalism
is dangerous to your wallet and your health. The most recent jobs report found that nine of the 10 states with
unemployment rates above 14% are in liberal blue states. Ranked from highest to lowest, they are Nevada (25.3%), Hawaii
(22.6%), Michigan (21.2%), California (16.3%), Rhode Island (16.3%), Massachusetts (16.3%), Delaware (15.8%), Illinois
(15.2%), New Jersey (15.2%), and Washington state (15.1%). I call this the "blue state jobs depression." [...] It is hardly
shocking news. Liberals are anti-business, and their policies are especially hostile to small businesses.
Why
Are We Letting Democrats Steal from Us? Brainwashed, radicalized liberals have been using Trump's election as a
reason to take over our streets, college campuses, corporate America, and other traditional American institutions in ways we
could not have imagined. Putting aside the Resistance movement, which began the day Trump won, these frustrated
anarchists are now acting like rabid dogs let loose on innocent populations who wish to live and prosper in peace. They
have stolen livelihoods from the same people they purportedly care so much about. They have stolen the lives of
officers and individuals who seek only to instill law and order in the midst of chaos. They are pilfering much of what
has made America unique and special — including our glorious history and traditions. From Aunt Jemima,
Mrs. Butterworth's, Uncle Ben's, Cream of Wheat, and Eskimo Pie to Land O'Lakes, corporate logos that existed for over a
century are now gone or soon to be removed from grocery store shelves. When leftists see racism in Snap, Crackle and
Pop, where does the insanity end?
RNC
ad puts a spotlight on Dem tactics that bolster 'Marxist' attack on America. The Republican National Committee
released a new ad this Tuesday designed to highlight how "left-wing anarchists are using chaos to destroy America" as
Democrats watch sometimes with tacit approval and other times with beaming support. [...] [T]he video links the ongoing
madness being perpetrated across the country by Black Lives Matter extremists — think police cruisers being burnt,
police officers being run down, statues being toppled, etc. — with the incendiary rhetoric of Democrat political
figures ranging from Nancy Pelosi to Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.
The Movement to Destroy
a Nation. Nation-wide protests weeks after George Floyd's murder turned into a movement to destroy a
nation. Parading as an attack on racial injustice, the movement has turned into an obliteration of history. This
week that devastation set its eyes on faith. Less than one week ago, protesters rekindled the call for removing
confederate statues. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, in a show of solidarity with the protest mob, removed two
portraits of former House speakers who were part of the Confederacy. From there, the momentum quickly shifted to anyone
whose statue is seen as offensive, who may have held racist or politically incorrect views of another era, or who may (or may
not) have owned slaves or supported slavery at any time. Never mind that the qualifiers of what constitutes "offensive"
is blurred; the momentum of eradicating history is ruled by emotion, not reason.
2020
Election Will Be a Contest of the Angry. For nearly a month, the nation has been consumed by massive protests
and chronic riots, looting and arson. The catalyst for the demonstrations — the violent and wrongful death
of an African American man, George Floyd, while in the custody of Minneapolis police — is itself fading from
connections with the ensuing upheavals. Statues are toppled. Names are abruptly changed. Careers are
canceled. Police are both reviled — and walking off the job. Retired generals are no longer seen as
conservative traditionalists but radicals themselves who dare to take on the commander-in-chief. Downtown Seattle is no
longer in the control of the city government. The internet is aflame with self-appointed sleuths. They scour
hours of video and millions of words, searching for an indiscreet past remark — as fodder to take out a political
opponent, a rival for a job or a personal enemy. The people's energy, tranquilized by a two-month national quarantine
and the terror of the coronavirus, has suddenly exploded in both massive protests and silent seething at the
lawlessness. The result is that for good or evil, the 2020 election is no longer really about Biden and Trump,
Democratic or Republican policies, or progressive and conservative agendas.
Minneapolis
Police Department Reports Increased Hostility Toward Officers. The Minneapolis Police Department says officers
are routinely walking into hostile situations and crime scenes where they are not welcome. It happened at least twice
last night [6/21/2020] alone. Now, police officers are pleading for cooperation, as others double down asking for
systematic change. When Minneapolis police were called to a shooting near the George Floyd memorial Friday night,
officers were met with resistance, and had trouble getting to the man who needed help. And police say this is not an
isolated incident.
America's
Jews and Christians Are Failing the Test of Their Lives. America is being taken over by violent mobs; a vast
amount of destruction and stealing has taken place (with little police intervention and the apathy of our political leaders).
Why aren't all clergy delivering thundering sermons about the Seventh Commandment, "Thou shalt not steal"? Does it now come
with an asterisk? A central part of a major American city has been seized and occupied by people who hate America and
its values, including its Judeo-Christian values. Heard any clergy (aside from some evangelical Christians) speaking
out against it? And most ominous by far, for the first time in American history, free speech — the mother of
all freedoms — is being widely suppressed, not by the government but by the press, the universities, the high
schools, the elementary schools, all the giant internet media, Hollywood and virtually every major business in America.
Christians and Jews place repentance at the center of their theologies, yet there is no place for repentance if you did or
said one insensitive thing — real or alleged — even if it was 20 or more years ago. Yet all we
get from American religious leaders on this matter is ... silence.
Obeying
The Law Is For Suckers. If you watch the news, national or local, there is a disturbing percentage of our
fellow Americans doing whatever [...] they want to do with little or no concern for the law. And the law has little
or no concern for itself, at least when it comes to those charged with enforcing it. Across the country, charges are
being dropped against rioters and looters. Why? Many of those people in position to prosecute the guilty have no
interest in doing so. [Indeed], many of them ran on the idea of not prosecuting people. What kind of idiot would vote
for a district attorney who promised to let people get away with more? Well, from San Francisco to St. Louis,
they did just that.
NYC sees staggering shooting
numbers; top cops warn of 'storm on the horizon'. The New York Police Department has reported a staggering
increase in shooting numbers, and injuries, as officials warn there's "a storm on the horizon" — and say changes
must be made. An estimated 72 people were wounded in 53 shootings citywide from June 15 through Sunday night, an NYPD
spokesperson said Monday morning. The department saw 14 shooting victims in 12 shootings for the same time period last
year, data shows.
What Happens
When the Madness Ends? At some point, tonight's hero on YouTube torching Wendy's or kicking a downed policeman
on CNN, becomes tomorrow's commonplace, unnoticed felon — with a new warrant issued out on his head, and about
whose fate and lengthy CV no one other than his parents much cares. Governors and mayors can demand masks and all sorts
of social distancing measures. But once they declared that only those not demonstrating — the non-looting
and nonviolent — were subject to their rules, while millions both peacefully protesting and violently looting were
exempt, then their words meant nothing. It will be impossible for them ever to be seen as credible again. Virus or no
virus, crowded freeways, and busy malls will soon be referenda on the bond of governors like Gavin Newsom and Gretchen Whitmer.
Thoughtcrimes
Now Prosecuted in the Land of the Free. [Scroll down] Practically anything, any piece of fact,
statistics, sentiments like "all lives matter," any picture, any opinion expressed as civilly as possible, may cost you your
job, reputation, and even life. "Social justice warriors" are torching traditional liberal beliefs about free speech
and tolerance with ideas so toxic and destructive that they shut the debate down, moving straight to shaming, threats, and
intimidation — all while calling for a "discussion" about race. Evidently, only unarguable support is
allowed. [...] We're witnessing organization after organization being bullied into searching out thoughtcrime. We're
talking about not some KKK proclamations, but cases where people were punished for common sense that was found
offensive. Even a UCLA professor may be placed under investigation for reading Martin Luther King's "Letter from a
Birmingham Jail" to his students, or his colleague could be suspended from his job after refusing a student's request to
effectively cancel final exams for black students amid protests over the death of George Floyd. There's a data
scientist who once worked for President Obama's re-election campaign who was fired from a research firm for retweeting an
academic study suggesting that nonviolent protests may be more politically effective than violent ones. We're seeing
conservative media — Zero Hedge and the Federalist — being pressed by Google to censor their content by
barring them from Google's ad platform. We're seeing corporations changing logos of their products dubbed racist on Twitter.
The City They
Voted For. Thousands of kids awaken in Crown Heights terrified & traumatized from 2 weeks of nonstop fireworks
at night. Seniors haven't slept in weeks. Residents don't walk Eastern Parkway past 10pm to avoid being hit by
fireworks. [Video clip]
The 'cancel'
crew will come for you someday soon. A moral panic is sweeping the nation. How we react to the pitchfork
hordes will determine the fate of our country for a generation or longer. We call what the hordes do to our fellow
citizens "cancel culture," but the term is far too cute to capture the cruel, mindless and life-destroying process taking
place all around us in the name of "fighting racism." The tendency has been with us for some time, but the current,
extra-crazed moment has accelerated its malignant energies: Locked in for months due to COVID-19, we re-emerged into a
society more enraged and at war with itself than ever before. Then the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis took the
ideological madness to the next level. The great majority of Americans agreed that Floyd's death was horrific and that
the police officers responsible for it must be held to account. But that sane consensus wasn't enough, as far as the
cancel left was concerned: Enemies had to be found and eradicated. And if there weren't enough racist enemies,
then more of them had to be invented.
Flyers
call for NYPD strike on July 4 so cops can show city what 'independence' from police looks like. The chasm
between the NYPD and a mayor and city who have sided with Black Lives Matter and other Left-wing groups seeking to "defund"
or "disband" them has grown wider since the death of George Floyd, as police officers around the country suddenly feel under
siege like never before. Cops in New York may be planning a department-wide strike on July 4 to give the city and its
pandering Democratic leaders a look at what it's like to have their 'independence' from police, as many have said they want,
according to the New York Post. The news outlet reports that cops have said flyers that are being circulated among NYPD
rank-and-file officers are urging them to call in sick en masse on Independence Day as pushback against Mayor Bill de Blasio's
pledge to scale back police funding amid a growing anti-law enforcement environment both in the city and around the country.
The Silent
Majority can be silent no more. This year has been one body blow after another to the nation we love.
First, there was the coronavirus, and we thought, "How can this get any worse?" Then came the economic shutdown and the
incalculable pain and suffering it brought. Next were the riots, the radicals' unopposed seizure of a section of
Seattle and the maniacal efforts throughout the country to defund the police. Now a series of rulings from the
"conservative" Supreme Court are wreaking untold havoc on the Constitution and the rule of law. It wouldn't take a
Christian fanatic or an excitable conspiracist to conclude that America is now the target of an intense spiritual
onslaught — brought on by its own rampant descent into decadence. The left has been at war with America as
founded for decades, and it has made great progress in transforming our culture and institutions.
Democrats
Have Failed the Black Community for Too Long. In recent weeks, Americans have watched radical leftist
anarchists and Antifa thugs engage in extreme violence and murder that will haunt many people for the rest of their
lives. Fifteen innocent civilians and two police officers were shot and killed, hundreds of civilians were savagely and
brutally beaten, and more than 700 police officers were injured nationwide. Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of
property was destroyed as businesses and communities in more than 42 states were devastated by arson, looting, and mayhem
that activists quickly followed with a call to defund the police. With each passing day, both of us asked ourselves the
same question: where are the governors and mayors of these cities who took an oath of office to uphold the Constitution of
the United States and keep residents safe from harm? Instead of upholding law and order — also known as
doing their jobs — they turned a blind eye to the violence while praising the demonstrations that the radicals
were using as cover.
Free
Speech is Under Full Assault. Increasingly, we see people holding unpopular views being attacked and refused a
forum in which to speak. Through the threat of force and censorship to control people's speech, free speech is under
full assault. History is replete with others using similar tactics. As in the times before the Nazi rise to
power, the Soviet gulag era, and Mao's revolution, similar trends are prevalent today. Freedom of speech is engaging in
unrestricted speaking of one's mind without fear of retaliation or censorship. It is the freedom to use one's natural
rights to engage in complex thought and speech. This is not a new concept. Freedom of speech has a history
centuries old, long predating the founding of this country. Some want to control these natural abilities. This is
where the dispute lies. One does not have to look far to find multiple examples of the threat of violence and
censorship. This ranges from online mobs to technology company and media censorship and peer attacks. Those with
differing opinions are blackballed, blacklisted, attacked, and censored out of existence.
What Type
of Fool Shoots a Cop With a Taser or Wrestles Him for His Gun? [Scroll down] Something is very wrong and
broken in America. It is not "systemic racism" because the System is not racist. But it is Systemic Left
Propaganda. That systemic plague endangers our culture, our values, and our civilization — and it endangers
Black lives, too. Any leftist narrative that makes heroes and icons of people who break loose from peacefully arresting
cops and then shoot tasers at them, or that idolizes thugs who wrestle police officers for their guns, endangers
impressionable people who believe the lies and falsehoods so propagated. Forty-two years ago The Deerhunter, a
movie set in the era of the Vietnam War, contributed to scores of accidental suicides caused by idiots playing Russian
roulette after watching the film. Today the Left media advances a new insanity, inspiring fools and idiots to shoot at
cops and wrestle them for their guns, offering instant fame and martyrdom.
We Must Stop the Great Unraveling. Across the
United States, a great unraveling is in progress. A rolling crime wave, under the guise of social activism, has left
city after American city shattered and smoldering. [...] Social-justice mobs have taken aim at freedom of expression,
inventing new heresies daily and ruining the lives of those who unwittingly give voice to them. Forced confessions and
language proscriptions are the order of the day. Poetry, fiction, movies, and television shows — including
children's cartoons — are canceled and excised from history. Indeed, all art and opinion are now subject to
the chopping block lest they prove insufficiently propagandistic. To rewrite the present, the mob has rewritten the
past. They have forced upon us a distorted and grotesque version of American history. With the support of
corporations and education boards, school textbooks and curricula tell of an unredeemable America founded not on the promise
of human liberty but human bondage. What's more, this history discounts the transformative progress on racial equality
for which Americans — black and white — have given their lives.
The
Democrats' Corruption of America's Inner Cities. What are the real problems in America's inner cities? Is
it all about racism, or could it be a combination of several factors? According to a survey of Chicago parents by the
Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, poverty, violence, and crime are also some of the biggest concerns in
their neighborhoods. Good jobs and capitalism could solve the poverty part of the problem, but if cities make it hard
for businesses to come into town or for a local person to start a small business, citizens with little mobility stay
poor. Why wouldn't these cities want the freest, most business-friendly laws and policies imaginable for their
citizens? The answer is often that politicians care very little about their constituents but care deeply about their
own power and money. High taxes, crony capitalism (meaning favors for politicians and others who have the power to give
the "right" companies the contracts), excessive regulations, and a culture of "it's who you know" combine to crush
entrepreneurs and small business owners who are not among those favored by the powers that be.
At
Least 7 Minneapolis Police Officers Resign — 7 More in Process of Resigning. Leftists rioted and
looted over 270 businesses in Minneapolis in the last three weeks following the death of George Floyd during an arrest in the
city last month. The Minneapolis City Council voted to replace the police department last week with a "community-led
public safety system." The Minneapolis police have been abused by city officials and violent protesters. So it
should come as no surprise that seven police officers have resigned and several more are in the process of leaving.
Detroit's recent move
to defund police had serious consequences, reporter finds: 'Children are dying'. Over the last week, following
the May 25 police custody killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, communities nationwide have faced calls from critics to
disband police agencies or redirect funding from law enforcement operations to community development programs. Detroit,
according to a report, has seen this decade an uptick in crime because of defunding the city's police department. The
city cut back its police force and funding during a historic bankruptcy in 2014. Funding for the police department has fallen
20 percent in the last six years. Starting salary is $40,000 a year. Wages for cops were cut 10 percent and have
never recovered, accounting for inflation. Health benefits for retired cops were stopped and pension payments postponed.
The
Summer of our Discontent. We are entering the summer of our discontent. The season promises to be a long,
hot struggle to maintain the integrity of our founding principles that are increasingly compromised with the best and worst
of intentions. The worst intentions are those of the rabble whose objectives we shouldn't underestimate. They
will instigate and inflame chaos and anarchy to achieve what a former president promised: "to fundamentally transform
America." They will opportunistically take advantage of the nation's weakened status from overreaction by government to
COVID-19, compounded by the well-intentioned but ultimately destructive flood of trillions of dollars in "temporary" cash
benefits. The street scenes of Minneapolis and Seattle promise to play out across the country all summer, leading to
November's election.
Baltimore
Residents Blame Record-High Murder Rate On Lower Police Presence. For the third year in a row, Baltimore, Md.,
has had more than 300 murders, reaching a new record of murders per number of residents in 2017. Some residents
attribute the high murder rate to relaxed police patrols in the city following high-profile cases of police brutality.
Officers have backed off in neighborhoods, like the one where Freddie Gray was arrested. The Rev. Kinji Scott, a
pastor in Baltimore who's held positions in local city government, says the opposite needs to happen. "We wanted the
police there," Scott says.
Atlanta
riot shows the left's downhill in slide in racializing police incidents. As tragic as officer-involved
shootings of anyone is, not all of them are worth burning down a Wendy's for. For radical activists and their enablers,
this act is getting old fast. [...] [I]n contrast to the George Floyd case, where the victim died pleading to breathe on
video with a bad cop's knee on his neck for 8 minutes, we now have someone who was driving while intoxicated (hello, MADD),
sleeping on the grounds of a fast food joint, grabbing an officer's taser while under arrest, and using the taser against
police. And Wendy's is the bad guy? Police are the bad guys? This looks like the sort of nonsense that goes
on at every fast food joint in inner cities every week. Transients and drug users are often found at these
establishments because of the low-cost food and availability of public restrooms. Just read the Yelp! reviews of any
inner-city McDonald's or In-N-Out burger, there will always be mentions of homeless as part of the user experience.
Anarchy, Seattle, and All That
CHAZ. Three cities, all supremely liberal, represent an American descent into anarchy against which no one is
standing. After New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said he wanted to slash the police budget, the New York City Council is
going about cutting $1 billion from that budget, about 16%. That will inevitably cause a reduction of police presence around
the city and, with equal inevitability, result in an increase in crime. President Trump has said that if Washington
Gov. Jay Inslee and Mayor Durkan didn't restore order in Seattle, he would. But he has done precisely
nothing. In Minneapolis, where George Floyd was killed in police custody on May 25, the city council plans to disband
its police force entirely. On Friday, the city council voted to replace the police with a "community-led public safety
system." What [...] is a "community-led public safety system"? And then there's Seattle.
The
Protests May Have Started Out Legitimate, but They've Been Hijacked. This mayhem has thus far taken the lives
of at least 11 people, many of whom are black Americans. Hundreds of others have been injured in the chaos, with police
officers getting shot and protesters struck with rubber bullets. As the carnage, looting, arson, and assaults have been
allowed to continue in Democrat-controlled states and municipalities, it has become undeniably evident that the wrongful
death of George Floyd has morphed into anarchism. As lives, businesses, and personal property have been driven asunder,
the criminal perpetrators are buoyed by pusillanimous Democrat politicians too timid to take back their own streets.
Whether it be Crown Heights, August 1991; Rodney King, May 1992; Ferguson Missouri, August 2014; Baltimore, April 2015; or
one of many others, the script has remained the same. In concordance with fawning state and local officials, a
legitimate protest is hijacked by a throng of anarchists.
Where
Black Lives Don't Matter. Milwaukee and every other big blue city in America have been marked by a decades-long
murder merry-go-round that has nothing to do with the police. The overwhelming majority of the murdered —
and the murderers — in America's cities are young black men who were cheated out of a decent education by the
inexcusably substandard Democrat-run public schools they had no choice but to attend. Because many were functionally
illiterate and afflicted with arrested psychological development, they lacked the skills to hold down even the most basic
entry-level job. So what did these frustrated and angry young men do? Most turned to a life of drugs and crime,
with many ending up dead or in prison before reaching their 20th birthdays. For generations on end, black-on-black
homicides in Democrat-run cities have been an ongoing calamity for the black community. On May 31, Chicago experienced
a record 18 homicides in a single day. Year to date, the city has chalked up 264 murders, with young black men a solid
majority of the victims, which raises the question: are those black lives any less important than George Floyd's, any less
deserving of our outrage? Chicago is the poster child for urban carnage, but every big blue city in America has
overseen a breeding ground for black-on-black havoc, and they've done it for the last half-century.
The
True Plight of Black Americans. While it might not be popular to say in the wake of the recent social disorder,
the true plight of black people has little or nothing to do with the police or what has been called "systemic racism."
Instead, we need to look at the responsibilities of those running our big cities. Some of the most dangerous big cities
are: St. Louis, Detroit, Baltimore, Oakland, Chicago, Memphis, Atlanta, Birmingham, Newark, Buffalo and
Philadelphia. The most common characteristic of these cities is that for decades, all of them have been run by liberal
Democrats. Some cities — such as Detroit, Buffalo, Newark and Philadelphia — haven't elected a
Republican mayor for more than a half-century. On top of this, in many of these cities, blacks are mayors, often they
dominate city councils, and they are chiefs of police and superintendents of schools. [...] The bottom line is that today's
black Americans have significant political power at all levels of government. Yet, what has that meant for a large
segment of the black population? Democratic-controlled cities have the poorest-quality public education despite their
large, and growing, school budgets. Consider Baltimore, Maryland. In 2016, in 13 of Baltimore's 39 high schools,
not a single student scored proficient on the state's math exam. In six other high schools, only 1% tested proficient
in math. Only 15% of Baltimore students passed the state's English test. [...] It's the same story of academic disaster
in other cities run by Democrats.
Communism
Is Reborn with a New Name in America. Do some people really think that the impeachment, the corona-gulag, and
the pogroms all occurred in America one after another in a completely random pattern of events? Why did pre-planned and
synchronized riots and looting suddenly arise? Because the adventure with the coronavirus hysteria failed. Why
did the coronavirus hysteria suddenly lead to a corona-gulag being created? Because the impeachment failed. Why
did impeachment suddenly arise? Because "Russiagate" (or, rather, Obamagate) failed. Why did "Russiagate"
arise? Because leftism was defeated in the 2016 elections.
Obama to the Rescue.
For three years, Resistance Media and a set of political operatives who tag-team with their allies inside the federal
bureaucracy have laid siege to the American public through their proxy war against the president they hate — and
the country elected. What the resistance yearned for was the kind of imagery that galvanizes resistance movements from
Latin America to the Middle East: a spectacular act of martyrdom that would crown their campaign of new age political
warfare, which began with the Russiagate conspiracy theory, which was followed by a fraudulent impeachment process staged by
the same political operatives, CIA officers, and media personalities who pushed "collusion" into the public sphere, to the
three-month-long coronavirus lockdowns that were portrayed as matters of life and death only to be magically lifted to combat
racism, after leaving nearly 20 million Americans jobless. The successive failures of the campaign to destroy
Donald Trump and undo the 2016 election have only made the American left angrier and more willing to take desperate measures[.]
Why You
No Longer Recognize Your Country. Mass looting throughout the nation. Police precincts burned to the
ground. Murdered cops. An historic church in Lafayette Park set on fire. Video after horrifying video of
innocent Americans being beaten senseless by gangs of thugs, as one political party demands: "DEFUND THE POLICE!"
Everyone is saying it: I no longer recognize my country. You don't recognize your country because it's
not the same country. What you're seeing is the third-world hellhole the left has been quietly assembling for us since 1970.
Minnesota, the crucible of the riots, has gone from having 2.6% foreign-born in 1990 to nearly 10% foreign-born today — and
that's not including their children or illegals. Instead of liberal but non-rioting Scandinavians and Germans, the new immigrants
are overwhelmingly African, Asian and Hispanic. In fact, Minnesota now has a much larger proportion of Asian and African
immigrants than the nation as a whole. Although the state has always leaned Democratic, thanks to its German and Scandinavian
immigrants (Ben Franklin was right about them), the Norsemen elected Walter Mondale. Recent immigrants elected Rep. Ilhan
Omar. Hey, Republicans! Tell me again that immigration is just a "single issue."
Democrat
Cities: Fourth-World Scourges. When the terrorists become bored and cease terrorizing, when the flames
are extinguished, when those who died in the riots are buried and cremated, when the shards of glass from storefronts are
disposed of, and when livelihoods are permanently lost, Democrats will still run the vast majority of the deadliest and most
dangerous cities in the U.S. Death and destruction always follow Democrat policies and culture. Stagnant local
economies. Unsafe streets for children. Gun crime. Failing schools. Breathtaking corruption.
Problems with the police. Property crime. Poverty. Poor public health. Single- or no-parent
homes. All are found in abundance in Democrat-run cities, and found overwhelmingly in majority-black neighborhoods.
So who are the true "racists"? By every objective measure and metric, Democrat-run cities are the unequivocal worst
places in America to live.
Shaun
King: Democrats Run The Cities With [the] Worst Police Brutality. As debates about police brutality and
systemic racism rock the country in the wake of George Floyd's horrific death at the hands of a police officer in
Minneapolis, Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King let himself utter an uncomfortable truth that other activists have been
ignoring: Democrats control all the major cities where black people are experiencing the most police brutality and
systemic racism. In a tweet on Friday [6/5/2020], the activist scolded those who tell black Americans to affect change
through voting, asserting that such blind thinking may not exactly be the panacea people are talking about.
What
Do They Really Want? [Scroll down] The New York Times reports that Minneapolis, like all the other places
on fire, is one of the most liberal cities in the nation. Surpassing even Seattle, Minneapolis has black people on the
City Council. Two of these black council members are transgender. None of them is a Republican. Juneteenth
gets a yearly parade, and the police chief, until this week, was a black man. They're so devoted to fighting racism
that you can't zone for single-family housing anymore — ostensibly to make the housing cheaper for blacks and to
keep richer whites from having better neighborhoods to move to. This means that Minneapolis and all the other left-wing
cities on fire already do everything they can to police the police — and if they go any farther, they'll have to
get rid of them altogether.
Democrats Want to
Abolish the Police and Confiscate Our Guns. [T]o those of you who think this idea of abolishing the police and the Second Amendment is
insane and can therefore never happen, you need to remove your head from the sand. Here are some more facts:
• We went from zero to gay marriage in less than ten years.
• We went from zero to drag queen story hour in about ten seconds.
• The left is blacklisting us for referring to biological men as "he."
• The corporate media are now describing the burning and looting of cities as "political speech."
• This same media are describing peaceful protests by Tea Partiers and those ravaged by anti-science lockdowns as "dangerous" and "violent."
• Lego is blacklisting its own toys.
• The NFL just committed suicide.
• Drew Brees is now on his third 1984-ish public confession, a full-blown grovel tour, for the sin of expressing respect for the American flag.
• Legions of white people are kneeling to ask forgiveness for something they had no part of.
• Healthcare "experts" are telling us the coronavirus is lethal if you want to go to work, school, or your grandmother's funeral, but not so lethal if you are out en masse to support "approved" causes.
The Democrat Party has been completely radicalized, emboldened, and is currently eating itself alive in the kind of cultish moral panic we have not seen since McCarthyism or the McMartin preschool scandal.
Minneapolis
Mayor Asks Trump For Aid After Riots Cause At Least $55 million In Damage. The Minneapolis mayor is asking for
federal help cleaning up and rebuilding his city after rioters caused at least $55 million worth of damage through looting,
burning, and defacing public and private property. That cost estimate is likely to increase in the coming days as
government officials continue to tally the damage done in the wake of George Floyd's death, Mayor Jacob Frey said according
to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and the state's congressional delegation are also pushing
the Trump administration and Congress for funding.
The Editor says...
If the mayor had done everything in his power to quench the riots and incarcerate the perpetrators, he might have a case.
Instead, he is asking the federal government to clean up his mess. Let the city of Minneapolis rot!
Minneapolis
Mayor Now Asking Trump for Relief Money After He Let His City Burn. You've gotta admire the brazenness someone
has to operate with to not protect their own city from riots, trash the President in the process, and then go running to the
federal government for money. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who bears a striking resemblance to Canada's Justin
Trudeau, has managed it though. According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the damages are already at $55 million and
climbing. [...] Yeah, that's not what FEMA is for, as evidenced by the fact that Maryland was denied such assistance by the
Obama administration in 2015 after the Baltimore riots. These politicians sat idly by and let their cities be
destroyed. They need to be the ones to pay for it. These people had ample opporutnity, including usage of the
National Guard, to stop the rioting, burning of buildings, and looting. They instead chose to appease the mob for
purely political reasons. That's on them.
Liberal
Mayors, Racial Politics, and Fake News. There are three things you need to know about the unrest associated
with the killing of George Floyd. First, almost all major cities these days are governed by Democrats, usually liberal
Democrats. Second, black Americans have suffered because of the public policies these cities have adopted. Third,
the reason why city governments adopt policies harmful to black families is not because they are racists; it's because they
are liberal. In city after city, all too often black families are forced to send their children to the worst schools;
they are forced to live in the worst housing; they receive the worst city services (including policing); and they are subject
to the worst environmental harms. The politicians who run these cities are Democrats. Many of them are black
themselves. Minneapolis, where George Floyd was killed, is an example.
During
This Spate of Racial Outrage, Here Are Some Deeply Uncomfortable Facts for the Press, the Activists, and Even Ben &
Jerry's. [Scroll down] This is the language we normally see attached to the messaging of "Systemic
racism". The problem, however, is one of location. While it sounds great to attribute Floyd's death to the racism
built into the culture, what few are willing to do is analyze that culture. So why don't we look into the system where
this crime took place? To start, you have as the city Mayor, Jacob Frey, an avowed leftist who follows a string of
Democratic liberal leaders. The last time a Republican was elected to run the city was 1957. The police chief of
Minneapolis is Medaria Arradondo, a black police official. The federal representative for the city, in Washington, is
the famed female POC Ilhan Omar, and the top cop for the state is another POC and former head of the DNC, Attorney General
Keith Ellison. Are these the leaders perpetuating the culture of white supremacy? Just to add to the list, you
have Minnesota headed by Democrat Tim Walz, the state is served by two Democrat senators, including Amy Klobuchar who spent
years as an acting state attorney in a few offices, and even the sister city of Saint Paul has as its Mayor, Melvin Carter,
another POC leader. These would be the people operating the "racist and prejudicial system and culture".
Bill
De Blasio Is A Cowardly Tyrant Fueling New York's Demise. The grave injustice inflicted upon one person is now
being compounded into a grave injustice for millions of New Yorkers. It took decades to bring New York City back from
the brink — facing crime, squalor, and bankruptcy — to the peace and prosperity that has marked it
since Mayor Rudy Giuliani's tenure. Today, Mayor Bill de Blasio seems intent on sending the city back to the bad old
days, threatening to undo decades of progress while operating under the banner of "progressivism." The twin crises of
the Chinese coronavirus and the present rioting and looting have created the perfect storm for the city's demise.
Riots,
Brought To You By District Attorneys Who Won't Prosecute. adicalized district attorneys in cities across
America are putting violent rioters and looters back on the streets, and letting other hardened criminals walk. More
than anyone, one man is responsible for this outrage: Billionaire socialist George Soros. St. Louis is a
case in point. There, prosecutor Kim Gardner let 36 people arrested for looting and rioting go scot-free, according to
the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Gardner's office used the pathetic excuse that it needed "essential evidence" from
the police, implying it had none. One wonders how people caught in flagrante delicto could simply be
released. The answer is, Gardner is a far-left acolyte of Soros, having been the recipient during her 2016 election of
no fewer than three separate donations from a Soros-backed political-action committee.
The
Bloodletting and Wilding Is Part of An Agenda To Tear Down The Country. I haven't had much time to reflect on
the looting and riots that swept mostly (but not exclusively) large Democrat cities. It was a wilding on a scale we've
never seen. It was a bloodletting and release of criminal fury. We should be clear what is happening. It is
not protest over the death of George Floyd. That is the spark, but not the fire. This has been a long time
coming. At least a generation, maybe two. The left methodically has taken control of key institutions to
implement an anti-American, anti-Capitalist agenda. You send your kids to public schools and college, where they are
taught from their earliest years that America and capitalism are the sources of evil in the world, that we are a systemically
racist society that consumes 'black and brown bodies,' while socialist and communist systems are more equal and fair.
It's all a lie, but it's a lie told by the teachers, professors, and administrators with power. The real racists are
the people who obsess about race, and who judge people based on the color of their skin. When your kids emerge from the
social justice warfare meat grinder, you don't recognize them anymore.
NYC
Arsonists to Be Instantly Freed from Jail Thanks to 'Bail Reform' Law. Arsonists who set fires in New York
City, New York, during multiple nights of riots will be instantly freed from jail if ever arrested thanks to Gov. Andrew
Cuomo's (D-NY) bail reform law. For many nights now, arsonists have set ablaze New York City Police Department (NYPD)
vehicles, city dumpsters, and rubble on the streets of New York City. Those arrested for arson, if arrests are made,
will spend less than 24 hours in jail.
Nearly
All Rioters Freed from Jail in D.C., Most Avoid Felony Riot Charges. Nearly all rioters have been freed from
jail in Washington, D.C. and most have had felony riot charges dropped against them, and now they are only facing burglary,
destruction of property, and curfew violation charges. Arrest records obtained by WUSA 9 reveal that hundreds of
rioters have been arrested over the last week in riots and looting sprees across the nation's capital.
Riots,
looting and America burning — the end of the progressive dream. There is a big debate about
designating Antifa a terrorist group and what if any steps the federal government can take to stop the rioting. But we
all know who the real culprits are for turning America's streets into a war zone: progressives and liberals. They
have filled the mind of America's youth with ideological nitroglycerine that is now exploding in our streets, while also
setting the conditions that make it almost impossible to stop it. The terrible events that have unfolded in the wake of
the death of George Floyd represent the systematic failure of five decades of progressivism and liberalism. The end of
the progressive dream has now brought us all to the brink in three ways. [...]
How to destroy civilization. The violence that is
exploding across the country now has almost nothing to doing with the killing of George Floyd, a black man, by Derek Chauvin,
a white policeman. That was merely the catalyst for a process that has deep roots in American culture. The moral
is: ideas matter. For decades now, our colleges and universities (and increasingly our grades schools) have been
preaching a gospel of cultural self-hatred. America, according to this gospel, is evil. The country is
inextricably racist and beholden to an irredeemably exploitative economic system. The latest retelling of this creation
myth is the Pulitzer-Prize-winning '1619 Project' whose fundamental message is that America was started as a 'slavocracy.'
According to this malignant fantasy, the Revolutionary War was fought primarily 'to protect the institution of slavery.'
At last count, elements of this disgusting bit of historical revisionism were being adopted in the curricula of some 4,000
school districts.
Democrats'
Chickens Come Home to Roost. Conservatives have been warning about the dangers of Antifa and other left-wing
groups for years. No one in the Democrat media listened. More than that, they cheered them on; defended
them. Why not? After all, they were chanting the right things and targeting the right people, from the left's
perspective. No progressive group would condemn them: Black Lives Matter didn't, the Women's March didn't, CNN
didn't. They were helpful in beefing up numbers and energy at protests and marches Democrats deemed helpful. What
did it matter if they threw a few rocks or Molotov cocktails? They were throwing them at police, a group those silent
partner groups had declared the enemy[.]
How
do we explain the many thousands of Americans who believe they are entitled to steal? Night after night, we
have watched thieving thugs break windows of small and large businesses, charge into them, and run out with as much
merchandise as they can carry. They stuff their booty into large SUVs, many of which have the license plates
removed. They are wearing masks so [they] do not fear facial recognition software. These riots seem to prove
that, despite our protestations to the contrary, we do live in something of a third-world nation. When that many people
in as many cities that are under siege right now feel no allegiance to the law, to their families, to their neighbors, to
civil society, we are indeed a nation in need of a reboot. Fifty-plus years of the left's smearing of American values,
their opposition to the nuclear family, the promotion of the idea that out-of-wedlock births are just another lifestyle
choice have, as we see now, made for a population sullied by the acceptance of abject criminality. That is what we are
all seeing on our TV screens. This is not about race; it is all about respect or the lack of it and values.
What's
Trump Got To Do With The George Floyd Riots? Almost everything connected George Floyd's tragic death and the
subsequent riots involve Democratic leaders. So naturally, President Donald Trump is taking the blame. Start at
the beginning. George Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis, a liberal city (the New York Times calls it "one of
America's most liberal cities") in a liberal state (that hasn't voted for a Republican for president since 1972). In
2017, Larry Jacobs, a professor at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs, observed that "In
Minneapolis, we have one of the most liberal activist agendas in the U.S. They are seeking to accomplish at the
municipal level what isn't being done at the federal level." Even that wasn't liberal enough for city dwellers, who
booted out a liberal mayor in November 2017 for an even more leftist mayor, Jacob Frey. He ran promising more
affordable housing and, if you can believe it, improved police-community relations.
Who
is recruiting, moving and paying the professional anarcho-rioters? [Scroll down] Is it really the
citizens of Minneapolis who have set the city on fire, burning down small businesses as well as the police precinct building,
libraries, etc.? Who are those masked men in black with secret-service quality ear-pieces, military grade gas masks and
backpacks full of Molotov cocktails? They are very likely professional rioters, recruited, transported and paid by the
likes of some George Soros front group or other anonymous Cloward-Piven devotees who share Soros' hatred of America and want
to see this nation bought to its knees. [...] These are not protests. What we are seeing is mass thievery under color
of protest. Chances are if the looters in Los Angeles were asked "who was George Floyd," they would not have a clue nor
would they care. Democrat-run cities have long valued "social justice" (different standards for different groups) and
identity politics over lawfulness and basic values. This is what you get when deviancy has been defined down so
egregiously that we have citizens behaving like animals.
This
is a Result of Democrat Governance. The outrage we are seeing manifested over the past few days, is focused on
the wrong target(s). We are getting wall to wall coverage of the aftermath of the in-custody death of George Floyd.
Riots in major cities, property damage and even a few deaths are just part of that aftermath. Innocent people are being
harmed, while at the same time, some are attempting to affix cause and blame for Mr. Floyd's death on the wrong
parties. As usual, using admittedly disturbing video, there are some who in a rush to judgement and to take advantage
of this terrible tragedy for their own political ends, cannot seem to wait for the facts to come out. Instead, they
instigate violence and property damage and actually harm the very folks they purport to care about. Also as usual, the
more time that passes, the more information comes out that increases our knowledge and subsequently alters our perception of
exactly what happened. Two critical pieces of such information have just come to light.
Big
City Schools: Where America's Most Vulnerable Kids Languish. In 2010-2011, public schools in the nation's
capital spent $29,345 per pupil — nearly $600,000 per each classroom of 20 students — yet the
District's 8th graders finished dead last in a nationwide proficiency test in math and reading. According to a 2015
report by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, 96 percent of 8th graders in Detroit's public schools tested not
proficient in math, and 93 percent tested not proficient in reading. According to a 2017 investigation by Project
Baltimore, 13 of the city's 39 public high schools had zero students who tested proficient in math. Zero! Of the
3,841 students in the remaining 26 high schools, only 14 tested at or above proficiency in math, less than one-third of one
percent. For a half-century running, Democrat-run urban schools have robbed minority children of a realistic chance for
a decent education.
California's Budget
Bust-Up. Every state and municipal budget in America will take a big hit because of the coronavirus lockdowns,
but no public purse is in as much trouble as California's. Its Department of Finance recently estimated that the Golden
State could face a $54 billion shortfall in the fiscal year beginning July 1, which surely must be the largest deficit any
state has ever accumulated, surpassing the $40 billion hole that nearly swallowed Sacramento in 2008. Still, though Governor
Gavin Newsome said last weekend that the staggering deficit was "a direct result of Covid-19," that's clearly not true.
Critics have long warned that the state's tax base is volatile, being increasingly reliant on wealthy residents and
vulnerable to sharp contraction in the next recession. Combine that with California's spending spree —
including expenditures to fix problems that the state's own bad policies have worsened — and the swing from
prosperity to penury isn't hard to understand.
Nurses
give inside look at 'nightmare' NYC-run adult-care center. Out-of-state nurses brought to Manhattan to fight
the coronavirus say they found hellish conditions at the city-run adult-care center on Roosevelt Island — from
patients with horrific bed sores to feces-smeared walls. "It was just heartbreaking," said one of the RNs, a mom of
four from Wisconsin who spent about 17 days at the Coler Rehabilitation and Nursing Care Center. "Patients were in
deplorable conditions — very, very dirty, bed sores, terrible odors," the FEMA-contracted nurse, 38, told The
[New York] Post.
A tale of
two governors. Alas, the early "science," the early facts and analysis of COVID-19 suggests that those states
controlled by the urban left are flunking by any fair mark up. A New York (D) versus Florida (R) comparison, blue
versus red, provides an early template for judging who gets high marks for crisis management. By any measure New York
is not just the national Covid hot spot, it is an international disaster area. Andrew Cuomo's (D) state leads the
nation in all statistical categories from infection to morbidity rates. New York City (D) is now the toxic nexus for
the nation. The Big Apple is hands down the necrotic 2020 spoiler in the larger American barrel. Badgering
Washington for more of everything from the start, it turns out that team Mario miscalculated the need for damn near
everything, including beds, hospitals, rescue ships, and respirators. Mario Cuomo pushed city mayor de Blasio (D) aside
and seized control of metro policy with hype and bombast, if not hysteria. Incredibly, Cuomo was lionized by the media
as "the only adult" in the room as he presided over the worst state or city medical crisis in America, if not the world.
Common
Sense and Self-Evident Truth in a Post-Truth World. Many Americans today go far beyond simply rejecting the
ideas of the American founders, the claims of the Declaration, and the Constitution. They reject the very idea of
truth. These Americans were taught in American universities that there is no such thing as truth, that truth is an
outmoded concept, that we now live in a post-truth reality. The belief that the concept of truth is outmoded is no
longer confined to academia. It has invaded the world outside academia and won a great victory there; the Oxford
Dictionaries selected "post-truth" as the Word of the Year for 2016. And a great victory it is. Convincing
Americans that there is no such thing as truth defeats the very foundation of the American idea.
Democrats
seem to be enjoying this authoritarian moment. Various Democrat politicians are competing to be the most
proactive in enforcing social distancing in their communities, so the internet is awash with stories of decidedly
anti-American government behavior. This post will bring you up to date on some of the more egregious things that are
happening in Democrat-run communities across America. For sheer shock value, there's really nothing to equal a short
video that's come out of Philadelphia. The video, which has been viewed almost five million times, shows a rider being
forcibly torn from a bus in Philadelphia, although not arrested, because he was not wearing a mask [...] The Daily Caller
notes the irony that this violent attack "comes after Philadelphia police announced that due to coronavirus, they would stop
arresting people for 'non-violent' crimes including burglary and drug offenses." Within a short while of the video going
viral, Philadelphia's Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority announced that it was no longer enforcing its
short-lived mask policy. Philadelphia is a Democrat-run city.
Did
Trump Ruin Our Economy for Nothing? Except for foreign travel, Trump didn't shut down anything. Where
did this economic halt come from? It started in states and cities with Democratic elected officials. Perhaps they
were influenced by the fake news media during "Trump is ignoring the crisis" and overreacted themselves, or perhaps they
wanted to show up Trump by taking action. Either way, they used their favorite tool, the power of government, without
any regard as to what it might do to their people. It should be obvious from their focus on Trump, but Democrats care
only about power, and so they focus on those in power.
Bet
Your Life — Vote for Democrats. New York City and California's loony politicos are hooked on
identity politics and see racism everywhere, ignoring objective science. The consequences of ignoring reality:
overwhelmed medical facilities, lack of proper medical equipment, and soaring death rates. [...] In brief, Mayor de Blasio's
City Health Commissioner, Oxiris Barbot, is a radical who previously served as Health Commissioner of Baltimore where she
"had given the city's race rioters 'space to destroy.'" Space which continues after her move to New York to result in a
soaring murder rate. She boasted of seeing health policy through a "racial equity lens," a lens so fogged that she
concentrated on discouraging those arriving from Wuhan from going into self-quarantine and encouraging New Yorkers to attend
the Lunar New Year celebrations in the city.
What
the left is destroying goes far beyond politics and the economy. It is clear that reconciliation with the left
is a pipedream! They reject reciprocal respect, based on a mutual agreement about human nature. They can't have
it both ways. They can't demand our politeness while we are insulted by them. They can't fabricate "crimes",
knock together "evidence" and call it "justice", as Sidney Powell exposes. [...] They can't butcher the record to fit in with
their slanted ideology and pretend it's "history". They can't stake out adolescent absurdity as the correct response to
the world, and expect us not to interrogate their wisdom. If honorableness in communication is the shining standard we
aim for between human beings, it has suffered the same fate as every other aspect of culture the left touches. It's
been destroyed.
Another
Pandemic Known as Social Justice. To achieve their aims, universities are watering down requirements in order
to attract more women and minorities. This portends "disastrous [repercussions] for scientific innovation and American
competitiveness" not to mention the care of sick people. Consequently, [a recent National Association of Scholars]
report asserts that "social justice movement's political goals include increased federal and state taxation; increased
minimum wage; increased environmental regulation; increased government health care spending and regulation; restrictions on
free speech; restrictions on due process protections; maximizing the number of legislative districts that will elect racial
minorities; support for the Black Lives Matter movement; mass release of criminals from prison; decriminalizing drugs; ending
enforcement of our immigration laws; amnesty for illegal aliens; open borders; race and sex preferences in education and
employment..." to name only a few. Support for the anti-Israeli Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement is also part of
their movement and mob violence is advocated to enforce any and all of these objectives. The traditional mode of
teaching students how to think has been replaced with teaching them what to think.
Not
enough hospital beds in New Hampshire? Blame needless regulations. One regulation forces anyone who wants
to open a hospital to have a 24 hour per day, seven day per week emergency department. Given that emergency departments
are the most expensive and toughest to staff part of any hospital, this is a huge barrier to opening a new facility.
And, like most cronyism, existing hospitals made sure this requirement doesn't apply to any hospital that had its license
before the law was passed. Another regulation forces any new hospital to take reimbursement from all payers, regardless
of whether doing so makes sense for that hospital's business model. Across the country, cash-only facilities are
thriving, providing lower cost alternatives to patients. But, under state law, they can't operate in the Granite
State. Finally, one state regulation provides for a 15-mile radius monopoly zone around smaller hospitals in more rural
areas. This guarantees that anyone outside of the southeastern part of New Hampshire will never see another hospital
being built in their community, or anywhere near them.
Life
in the Time of Wuhan. [Scroll down] Mayors who let thousands of homeless people tent out on their streets
where they relieved themselves daily amid piles of rat-ridden heaps of trash and drug paraphernalia, will learn some lessons
about public health. Nancy Pelosi, who for three and a half years accused the president of treason and exceeding his
constitutional powers, now begs him to assume dictatorial powers. The mainstream media is almost entirely discounted as
a source of reliable news and is reduced to posing ignorantly framed gotcha questions at the conclusions of transparent
first-class White House briefings. The notion that cities like Baltimore, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco,
whose leaders have undermined the rule of law and law enforcement, will suddenly be able to get the will and manpower to
enforce lockdown of the residents defies all probability.
Left's
Pet Issues Like Mass Transit, Reusable Bags Prove Deadly During Coronavirus Crisis. With some experts
predicting, at a minimum, anywhere from 480,000 to 1.6 million American deaths from the coronavirus over the next three to 18
months, how smart does urban living, mass transit, open borders, reusable straws, reusable grocery bags, reusable water
bottles, gun restrictions, over-regulated housing, using the Centers for Disease Control to fight gun violence, and
outsourcing to China look now?
Greening Our Way
to Infection. The COVID-19 outbreak is giving new meaning to those "sustainable" shopping bags that politicians
and environmentalists have been so eager to impose on the public. These reusable tote bags can sustain the COVID-19 and
flu viruses — and spread the viruses throughout the store. Researchers have been warning for years about the
risks of these bags spreading deadly viral and bacterial diseases, but public officials have ignored their concerns,
determined to eliminate single-use bags and other plastic products despite their obvious advantages in reducing the spread of
pathogens. In New York State, a new law took effect this month banning single-use plastic bags in most retail
businesses, and this week Democratic state legislators advanced a bill that would force coffee shops to accept consumers'
reusable cups — a practice that Starbucks and other chains have wisely suspended to avoid spreading the COVID-19 virus.
Major
crimes in NYC unexpectedly surge after bail reform law. We recently looked at some new proposals for
fixing New York's disastrous new "bail reform" law or at least mitigating some of the damage it's causing. They may
want to get off the stick and start looking at those suggestions in a hurry because a newly released report shows that major
crimes in New York City took a very sharp turn upward in February as compared to the same period of time last year. And
the police have the data to show that the bail reform policies are playing a significant role in this very bad development.
America's
Declining Sexual Morality. Today's "sexual revolution" is expressed by our being told by the highest court in
the land that homosexual marriage can and must be married and by women being encouraged to abort children as a "right." In
today's society, drag queens reading to little children in libraries is considered delightful by many. Further, vast
numbers of people consider one's sex designation psychological and not biological, and, increasingly, parents encourage their
little children to "choose" which sex/gender they want to be. As additional evidence of the "sexual revolution," the
overall percentage of children born out of wedlock has risen from 5% in 1960 to about 40% the last three or four years
(albeit much higher among black and Hispanic persons).
The Law That Ate
the Constitution. The Civil Rights Act passed under President Lyndon Johnson was meant to address an emergency
situation that most Americans, even most white Americans, recognized as a national disgrace. Over the following
decades, those emergency measures would be revealed as a permanent apparatus combining "surveillance by volunteers,
litigation by lawyers, and enforcement by bureaucrats." Civil rights offered "new grounds for overruling and overriding
legislatures and voters on any question that could be cast as a matter of discrimination. That was coming to mean all
questions." If you doubt the infinite adaptability of civil rights to any subject under the sun, consider the multifarious
uses to which it has been put. [...] There are pavilion-sized homeless encampments on the streets of Los Angeles, employers
can hire illegal immigrants with relative impunity, gay marriage is the law of the land — all because of civil
rights law, directly or indirectly.
California's Gig Law Comes For
the Scooters, Destroys Independent "Juicers". California's "gig economy" law — AB5 —
continues to have disastrous consequences across the state. The list of jobs affected or outright destroyed is huge and
growing every day. The wedding industry is collapsing. Festivals are closing. Theaters and music venues are
closing. A nursing shortage is now upon us because qualified nurses can no longer pick up extra side-jobs in areas like
hospice care. The law has even killed Christmas: mall Santas can no longer contract their services.
Progressive
Big Lies. These days, fake news is the first draft of fake history. Worse yet, today's progressives
believe lies to be true despite their egregious falsehood. Then progressive state governments act on beliefs that
biological sex can be changed by choice, that an aborted human being isn't a human being, that infants surviving abortion can
still be killed, that the modern industrial world can run on solar panels and windmills, that money can be endlessly
appropriated and redistributed, that a region like California should dump precious water to protect a bait fish, that hordes
of bums and hobos polluting public spaces require no action, and that our enemies can be mollified by soothing words and
foreign aid rather than by mind-concentrating deeds. These lies and their dangers have been worsened over the last few
decades by the degeneration of education from grammar school to university.
As
Trump wins praise for effective coronavirus response, blue cities do opposite, threatening its spread it through homelessness. The
left's blue cities do all they can to encourage and reward homelessness, amounting to the country's great enabler of homelessness as a
lifestyle. Blue cities employ and are expanding gargantuan bureaucracies dedicated to "servicing" the homelessness, which encourages
a hunt for more "clients." San Francisco alone spends $77,000 per homeless "client." They also refuse to enforce quality of life
laws, such as those against vagrancy, public camping, drug use, public alcohol consumption, prostitution, and public urination and defecation,
promoting homelessness even more. Some are encouraging squatting on private property. Others are permitting the homeless to take over
public parks and spaces. Some, such as Bill de Blasio's New York, are secretly busing the homeless to other cities to keep them from creating
problems in their own cities. It's a massive tax on those who own the overpriced homes in those cities, but taxes are the left's bread and
butter. It's a money merry-go-round, all done in the name of "compassion."
Black-on-Jewish
attacks in NY, black-on-Asian attacks in SF: Same progressive rule. [Scroll down] The second thing we see is that
this person has no fear of the police, no fear of the feds, and no fear of punishment, no matter what he does. That's the work of
leftist politics that in San Francisco now requires a dollar value of $951 in thievery before any police action can take place.
Thieves know they get the first $950 free in that city. Cash bail has been eliminated, and San Francisco's district attorney has
a pinned tweet praising Bernie Sanders for praising that. That crazed leftist "serving" as district attorney, one Chesa Boudin,
is the son of a terrorist killer, raised by Bill Ayers, last seen "serving" as Hugo Chávez's translator, whose big selling point
is "decarceration," and ending "mass incarceration," and who refuses to prosecute quality-of-life crimes such as public urination.
The cops in that city are throwing up their hands at having this creep at the prosecutorial helm, effectively making all street crimes
get-out-of-jail-free cards.
Sorry,
Democrats: Party's Over. It makes me smile to know that fewer people are watching CNN than have fled from
California in the last few years. These days even Jed Clampett wouldn't be convinced that Californy is the place he
ought to be. He would have the sense to take his money to Texas where the taxes are reasonable and you won't be
flash-mobbed by SJWs chanting that you're an eco-criminal for striking it rich in the energy sector. Modest as Jed's
education may have been, I think he would have understood that energy is a good thing and letting junkies poop in the aisle
at Costco is a bad thing. Even cousin Jethro would have winced at the mountain of filth that Pelosi and her party have made.
Canada: A Dead
Country Walking. Canada is presently in the throes of social and political disintegration. A left-leaning
electorate has once again empowered a socialist government promoting all the lunatic ideological shibboleths of the day:
global warming or "climate change," radical feminism, indigenous sovereignty, expansionary government, environmental
strangulation of energy production, and the presumed efficiency of totalitarian legislation. Industry and manufacturing
are abandoning the country in droves and heading south. Canada is now reaping the whirlwind. The Red-Green Axis
consisting of social justice warriors, hereditary band chiefs, renewable energy cronies, cultural Marxists, and their
political and media enablers have effectively shut down the country. The economy is at a standstill, legislatures and
City Halls have been barricaded, blockades dot the landscape, roads and bridges have been sabotaged, trains have been
derailed (three crude-by-rail spillages in the last two months), goods are rotting in warehouses, heating supplies remain
undelivered, violent protests and demonstrations continue to wreak havoc — and the hapless Prime Minister, who
spent a week swanning around Africa as the crisis unfolded, is clearly out of his depth and has no idea how to control the mayhem.
On Leaving
the Golden State. [Scroll down] Let us talk about the authorities for a moment. What exactly are
they doing to help? First, they threw open the borders and created sanctuary cities so that people that do not belong
here can not be molested by law enforcement. Next, they decriminalized camping in public. People camping in
public need something to do to while away the hours so they decriminalized drugs even going so far as to give away free
needles. If that were not enough, they decriminalized theft up to $950 per day. This way any homeless person can
walk into any business and brazenly steal whatever they wish without any fear of being sent to jail. Finally, they've
arranged things such that the police will no longer respond to 911 calls pertaining to vandalism or burglary. You can
watch from your bedroom window as a homeless person smashes your car windshield with a rock so as to ransack your car and if
you call 911 it will be YOU that is in trouble for tying up their emergency line as someone vandalizing and robbing your car
is a non-emergency and not worthy of any kind of response.
Bright Lights,
Blighted City. [Scroll down] New Yorkers didn't bargain for what they're seeing these days. They
don't want the subways to break down so often or to spot a rat scurrying along with a pizza crust or to get slugged on the
platform or shoved on the tracks by some mumbling paranoid nut. They don't want to hurry under the construction
platforms that leave the sidewalks permanently in gloom, and they don't want pieces of buildings to fall on them or their
grandchildren. They don't want to be confronted by a phalanx of panhandlers on the prime shopping blocks of Fifth
Avenue or groped by a moocher costumed as Captain America in Times Square. Or see men peeing on the sidewalk. [...]
Other cities have bigger problems. Homelessness is now endemic in Los Angeles and, especially, San Francisco.
Violent crime rates in St. Louis, Detroit, Memphis, and other places dwarf New York's.
Heightening
the Contradictions. How often does the Left come up with ideas that, on the face of it, appear absurd,
irrational, or utterly insane? The answer, is, of course, all the time. The general response is bewilderment or
incomprehension — a shrug and an assertion that "those lefties are crazy." But in truth, they're no such
thing. There's nothing irrational about it. It's all part of the program. [...] The same is true of any other
"senseless" or "irrational" leftist program. None of them, whether they involve introducing transsexualism to schools
or placing jihadis in Congress, occurred by accident. They were meant to happen exactly the way they did, to heighten
the contradictions.
As
the media focuses on Democrat candidates, Democrats are looking at Trump. Democrats will no doubt be distressed
to learn that the progressive habit of politicizing absolutely everything is giving new weight to the law of unintended
consequences. A New Hampshire woman, horrified by the uproar in the knitting world a few months ago when woke knitters
went on a rampage, found herself at the Trump rally in New Hampshire and went public about the pleasant surprises she found
there. [...] People who were enjoying their craft were suddenly lambasted as racist cultural appropriators and worse.
Conservative knitters fled the knitting sites, and they were joined by Independent and Democrat knitters who found it
offensive to have politics invade their peaceful, creative hobby.
Decriminalization
of drugs fueling meth and homelessness in California. The same people who demand that Congress and state
governments spend even more money to "combat" the twin drug and homelessness crises never seem to connect the dots back to
their decriminalization policies or admit that they are causing a rise in crime. One journalist in California is not
scared to pin the tail on the donkey — in the case of the Golden State, the infamous Prop 47. Right around
2014-2015 is when the drug crisis exploded nationwide, including in California, roughly around the same time homelessness
soared, particularly in the Golden State, along with the rise in theft and other crimes. What else happened around the
same time? California passed Prop 47, which downgraded drug and theft crimes. The result was a logical
consequence to an illogical policy. Bill Lamb, VP and general manager of Fox 11 in Los Angeles, delivered a TV
commentary last week pinning the blame for the homeless and drug problems squarely on Prop 47.
Trump's
Presidency Reveals 7 Undeniable Facts About The Swamp. [#6] Identity politics and the legislation of social
justice policies have stifled the rights of free speech and freedom of association throughout the democratic nations of the
western world. And they materialized as the result of language manipulation. Remember when gender used to
represent male or female? Yet, in that example, the word "identity" was added after "gender" thus opening a verifiable
Pandora's Box of Orwellian Newspeak. Today in formerly free societies, men and women are forced to navigate Genderqueer
and Non-Binary Identities, consisting of an entirely new lexicon including neo-designations such as Agender,
Cisgender, Ceterosexual, Ceteroromantic, Demigender, Enby, and Epicene; just to
name a few. Political Correctness is a means of thought control in the bubble, designed to protect imaginary
victims from the societal sins of xenophobia, sexism, homophobism, and racism.
Number
of THC positive drivers in fatal crashes has doubled in Wash. state. A new study shows the number of Washington
state drivers involved in deadly crashes who tested positive for THC has doubled. According to research by AAA between
2008 and 2012, an estimated eight percent of Washington drivers involved in fatal crashes were positive for THC. That rate
now is more than double since weed became legal in Washington. In the five years before legislation, an average of 56
Washington drivers involved in fatal crashes each year were THC positive. In the five years after legislation, that
average jumped to 130.
Democrats
Don't Care About American Lives. Democrats' vision for the perfect America includes transforming her into a
wild, wild west of sex, a society in which every perversion is legalized and citizens are forced to celebrate. A memo
exposed Obama's DoJ plan to legalize 12 perversions including pedophilia and bestiality. Colleges are laying the
groundwork by scolding us about our bigoted intolerance of pedophiles. Democrats are sexualizing children beginning in
pre-k with a mandatory LGBTQ curriculum. I Am Jazz, a book about a boy whose parents began his so-called sex change at
age three, is required reading. Once you realize that Democrats only care about furthering their agenda and American
lives do-not- matter, you understand their behavior. U.S. students are sick with strange diseases due to untested
illegal alien children being sent to public schools. Transsexuals who regret having sex change surgery are blocked
from media.
Guess
the State: Democrat-Run Fiasco Edition. The last time Republicans held a majority on this state's Supreme
Court was in the 1920s. Its Court of Appeals has never had a Republican majority. The last time Republicans held
a majority in both houses of the state Legislature at the same time was 1930. In the 89 years from 1931 to the present,
Democrats have held a majority of both houses of the state Legislature for 79 of the 89 years. Since 1931, Democrats
have held the governor's office for 69 of the 89 years. Even when a Republican has been governor, his powers have been
greatly limited because he has never held a majority in both houses of the state legislature while in office. What state
am I? If you guessed CA, IL, NY, NJ, or MA, you're wrong. If you guessed NM, go to the head of the class.
Since 1931, no other state has had single-party Dem rule at the state level as long as New Mexico. And how has New Mexico
fared under the stewardship of single party Democrat rule? As we shall see, not so well.
Liberalism
Causes Achievement Gaps. This report by Chris Stewart of Brightbeam is a blockbuster. It is titled:
"The Secret Shame: How America's Most Progressive Cities Betray Their Commitment to Educational Opportunity For All."
Stewart is a liberal activist from Minnesota who undertook to find out why the Twin Cities' left-wing public schools have some of
the country's worst achievement gaps between white and minority (black and Indian) students. Stewart compared achievement
by race in a number of cities that he classified as progressive or conservative. The results didn't surprise me, but they
shocked Stewart. Conservative cities (as ranked by political scientists used as a reference for the study) consistently
did a better job of closing student achievement gaps — sometimes, to zero — than progressive cities.
A
Peek at America before 1950 and the Assault by the Left. Picture a neighborhood composed of low and middle
income families, each with two parents, no homeless people, no street drugs, safe to walk the streets at night. Is this
the figment of an overactive imagination? [...] This typical school of 1940s New York City had higher standards and grade
profile than any counterpart today and operated on a budget far smaller in equivalent dollars than any current public school
budget. In these "backward" times, the schools were free of substance abuse problems, sexual promiscuity, and identity
problems. There was an abiding respect for the authority of teachers and parents and for the dignity of every person
regardless of race, religion, or ethnicity. There were clubs in my school for religion, for foreign languages
(including Latin). A Reporters' Club recorded significant events for the school paper. There were toy drives
for a local hospital... The list of extracurricular engagements was long.
We
Have Miseducated Boys and Girls Alike. [Scroll down] Why wouldn't a culture that worships promiscuous sex
send the message to young men that their entire value revolves around sex? And consider the stated — and
hidden — messages that young men get every day: Women should be able to sleep with as many men as possible.
(Your girlfriend won't be faithful to you.) Divorce should be easy. (If your own father left and you're hurt by
that, who cares? Men won't stay in a marriage. You shouldn't expect to stay in a marriage.) Dads are "deadbeats"
or buffoons. (Mothers are more important than fathers.) Abortion is a constitutional right, and men should have no
say. (Your children shouldn't mean anything to you. They can be destroyed whether you want that or not. You
don't matter.) It isn't that every negative, oppressive trend affecting American boys is an after-effect of the sexual
revolution. Some problems Orenstein mentions — difficulty expressing emotions; fear of failure; "jock culture,"
with its bullying and vicious coaches — have been around much longer.
San
Francisco, solid blue city of — empty storefronts and missing young people. San Francisco is getting
to be a hellhole and not just because crooks are having a field day, or a vast homeless army has prompted new tech
'innovations' in poop-map apps. It's actually becoming a city with a hollowed out look, redolent of some place like
Steubenville, Ohio or maybe Utica, New York, during the bad years, empty storefronts and missing young people. So much
for the trope that leftwing cities, with their walkable boulevards full of food trucks, handmade crafts, knitting shops,
bookstores, artisan cheese shops, gourmet restaurants, and cafes are more lively and liveable than rightwing places.
For awhile, that did seem to be the story. But it's coming to an end. Sure, there's vast wealth. But
despite California being in an economic boom, the place is starting to look like Venezuela.
The
Left's Endless Commercial Has Weaponized Popular Culture. American consumers understand that most forms of
popular culture have become nothing more than commercials for the Democrat party. Movies, television, and music focus
less on entertainment than on influencing the next election. They have gone beyond mere leftist bias. Artists,
writers, and musicians subordinate their craft in order to present one endless Democrat commercial. This trend is
equally egregious in the case of books. In modern bookstores, the Democrat commercial spreads far beyond the "politics"
shelf. "The gardening books advocate hiring illegal aliens. The sports books reminisce about Vietnam." A telling
example of this trend appears in a 2018 book about the design of General Motors automobiles from the 1920s through the 1950s.
Fins, by William Knoedelseder, appears to be credible, informative, and interesting until it reaches Chapter 9.
In Chapter 9, the author apparently loses interest in classic cars and decides, instead, to tell the reader that President
Trump is just like Hitler.
Democrats
Have Become a Disfigured Reflection of the Party They Once Were. [Scroll down] We see in their contempt
for federal marijuana laws, the institution of sanctuary cities, and their hostility to border enforcement a deranged lack of
perspective regarding the health of our citizens, many of whom are struggling with or dying from drug usage. The opioid
epidemic we face is clearly connected to the opioid supply, and that, in turn, is clearly a border issue. Yet they put
aside the well-being of so many poor souls caught by the hook of addiction into ignoring border enforcement in order to score
political hate points against the president. Instead of looking at border issues in terms of law and national health,
they turn enforcement into an ugly, defamatory argument about American and Trumpian racism. Only 14 years ago, they
were able to agree with Republicans on the need for stronger border enforcement, whereas now they try to block every Trump
attempt — mandated by the American people — to bring order out of chaos on our southern border.
Chile's Collapse
Foreshadows America's If Dems Win. America's economic growth under Barack Obama was anemic, and the economy
would have been even worse had the Democrats enjoyed control over Congress during his two terms. Were the Democrats to
return to the White House in 2020, all the economic gains under Trump would vanish. All of the potential Democratic
presidential nominees favor flirtations with economy-sapping socialism of one kind or another. In a recent Wall
Street Journal op-ed, Axel Kaiser, a scholar at Adolfo Ibañez University in Santiago, warned Americans that Chile's
collapse could be theirs if they too consume socialism's poisonous cocktail of high taxes, increased government spending, and
excessive regulation.
Guess
Who Runs the Rudest Cities in America. Recently, an oft-cited Business Insider survey ranked the rudest cities
in America. The top 10 are all bastions of misguided liberalism. They are sanctuaries to illegal aliens and often
hostile towards law-abiding citizens by imposing oppressive taxes and silly regulations and by encouraging lawlessness by
handcuffing law enforcement.
Mayhem
on the Streets of NY. Beginning on the first of this year, New York's "no bail no jail" law, enacted by the
Democratic legislature and put into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo went into effect. [...] It may be true that some low-level
crimes for which poorer arrestees cannot afford bail, means they languish in jail until trial, but this law is so poorly
crafted that it includes crimes for which bail is warranted no matter what the economic condition of the person arrested, for
otherwise there is no penalty for immediately repeating the criminal acts. Criminals learn there are no consequences
for their actions. Of course, it won't much affect the rich, who glide about in chauffeured cars and live in gated
communities or buildings guarded by doormen, but the middle class surely are impacted. Once, again these misguided
efforts to coddle the underclass have the effect of remaking our cities and states on a feudal model where the rich are
protected and serfs who work and pay taxes are in constant danger from brigands and murderers.
Man
accused of driving drunk, killing pedestrian freed due to new criminal justice reforms. A man who allegedly hit
and killed a pedestrian while driving drunk in East Harlem is back on the streets for now — thanks to the state's
new criminal justice reforms, authorities said Thursday [1/2/2020]. Farkell Hopkins, 23, was arrested on charges of vehicular
manslaughter and DWI at the scene of the deadly New Year's Eve collision, but was cut loose before he was even arraigned.
The Manhattan District Attorney's office said prosecutors still intend to pursue the case, but they now have to ensure they're
able to turn over all their evidence to Hopkins' defense team within a tight 15-day time-frame, thanks to new soft-on-crime
laws that went into effect Jan. 1.
Topics We Aren't
Allowed to Talk About. Baltimore may be the most depressing big city on the eastern seaboard. Have you
been there? Everyone in Washington has. If you want to take a train from Washington to New York, you have to pass
through Baltimore. This summer, the president told the rest of the world what it's like. Baltimore, he said, is
"rodent infested, not to mention a corrupt mess." Why is Baltimore so bad? How did it get so poor and hopeless?
Part of the answer is 50 years of uninterrupted Democratic Party rule. But saying that would be embarrassing to the
Democratic Party, so the party's apologists don't want to have the conversation.
Back
to the pre-Giuliani era: Serious crime up 31% in NYC's Central Park this year. NYPD crime stats recently
reported by the New York Post show that violent crime incidents in Central Park, Manhattan, have spiked 31 percent in 2018.
[...] The cleanup of Central Park was one of the milestones of the era of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani in New York that jump-started
a two-decade decline in crime throughout the city. Those gains are now being reduced due to the abolishing of pretrial bail,
reduced sentencing, early release, and almost no deterrent against juvenile criminals. The subways have already returned to
pre-Giuliani-era crime levels. According to NYPD data, there were 1,185 transit misdemeanor assaults citywide from Jan. 1
to Nov. 17, which reflects a 10.9 percent increase from the same time last year.
American
Society and the Stretched Rubber Band. [Scroll down] Regressives have been successful in fostering a
censored, politically correct environment in politics and entertainment. They've accomplished this by resorting to
character assassinations, engaging in identity politics on the basis of one's external traits, deplatforming media and
entertainment personalities, and rioting in the streets in order to enforce their new code of ethics and engrain their
postmodern ideology into the fabric of American culture. Naturally, this oppressive behavior has led to a
counterculture that rejects what Regressives laud and embraces what they hate. This includes distrust of the media
elite, which is intentionally dishonest, self-censoring, and heavily biased; a desire to promote patriotism and protect
national heritage; and, most importantly, a yearning for politicians to fire from the hip and not worry about the laws of
political correctness that devalue freedom of speech. This brings us to President Trump, who may appear like a buffoon
whose presidency is a fluke. However, his ascendency is no accident — Trump correctly identified this
counterculture as a sleeping giant waiting to be riled up.
A
Liberal Order That Seeks To Shut Down Christian Charities Doesn't Deserve To Survive. Even without full control
over the government, the left has been aggressive in its use of government power against Christians who believe traditional
teachings on human sexuality. The left seems to target particularly those engaged in charitable work, rather than
protecting them on account of their good works. The left's legal wing is trying to compel Christian hospitals to
perform abortions and sex-change surgeries, Christian schools to affirm same-sex relationships, and Christian charities such
as women's shelters to pretend men can be women. A purportedly serious Democratic presidential candidate wanted to tax
dissenting Christian organizations, including churches, into oblivion. The left won't even spare elderly nuns.
When the Trump administration ended Barack Obama's legal campaign against the Little Sisters of the Poor, various Democratic
attorneys general made a point of continuing that unholy effort.
The
Destructiveness of the Liberal Child Mind. The Left's takeover of our schools and media has brainwashed a whole
generation. We've got millions of befuddled biological adults walking about with the minds of kids, cheering on the
likes of foolish teen Greta, who should be at home practicing for her soccer meet or piano recital. Give any of these
kinderlings or their kind the reins of adult power, and what you get is an utter economic and societal wreckage. You
get the squalor, poverty, and degradation of the socialism of the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, North Korea, and now Venezuela.
You do get nice slogans and cool tee-shirts emblazoned with "Health Care Is a Human Right" and "Medicare for All," but such
things won't put food, let alone an MRI scanner or anti-cancer drug, on the table.
How
Social Work Became the Pit of Despair It Is Today. [Scroll down] Without a "fundamental transformation"
of the mass media's constant condemnation of personal moral judgments — without a drastic change in its lionizing
of hedonistic pursuits that "push the envelope" beyond every prior boundary of decency — without a rejection of
its reflexive division of society into privileged and victim groups — without a massive intellectual and moral
shift on the part of educators, the entertainment industry, prominent intellectuals, and folks in electronic communications, the
prospect for significant improvement in the culture at large, including its ever expanding social services arena, seems bleak.
Cook
County Christmas shopping, Kim Foxx style. When state's attorney Kim Foxx announced no prosecution for
shoplifting under a thousand dollars, the results were fully predictable. Chicago and Cook County, Illinois are leading
the headlong American rush toward lawlessness and the loss of civil order. The election of Kim Foxx as Cook County
state's attorney, with hundreds of thousands of dollars in backing by George Soros, has been a further disaster —
with not just the scandalously lenient treatment of Jussie Smollett after convulsing Chicago and the entire country with a
fake hate crime caper, but the virtual abolition of laws against felony shoplifting under one thousand dollars.
Operation
Mockingbird's Racial Destructive Lies. In a recent article, I explained that Operation Mockingbird is a program
founded by the CIA in the 1950s to use journalists and front groups to spread propaganda. Today's version of Operation
Mockingbird uses intelligence agencies, academia, Hollywood, and the Democratic party to spread hatred for Christians,
traditional values, law-abiding gun owners, straight white men, pro-lifers, police and the 63 million who voted for
Trump. I am encouraged that a growing number of young Americans realize they are being propagandized 24/7. Young
people are fed up with SJWs (social justice warriors) demonizing whites, anyone who is happy, successful, thin, and enjoying
life. Youths are angry for being branded an "ist" or "phobe" for everything they say or do. These three Operation
Mockingbird lies continue to wreak havoc, igniting racial hatred, division and violence.
Will Dems Leave Their Irreligious
Party? The average Democrat I know does not believe that infanticide is a right nor do they accept the nonsense
that there are more than two genders. They do not believe that open borders that allow drugs and murderous gangs into
our country should be our policy. Those that have jobs do not approve of their wages taxed to give benefits to those
who are here unlawfully. They are also outraged that children are being subjected to progressive stunts like having
drag queens read to them in public while exposing their crotches. (Don't believe this? Google it). They
do not approve of grown men being allowed to use women's bathrooms especially when they are being occupied by young
girls. Yet all of that is being pushed by the Democrats running for president in 2020.
America's
real disease is toxic ignorance. Many factors have combined over the last 50 years to remove the moral
scaffolding into which we fit incoming information and prioritize it. Judeo-Christian values have been demonized and
replaced with relativism. Relativism implies that nothing is all good or all bad, all wrong or all right. There
are no justified priorities. Live and let live. Once this took hold, toxic education stepped into the breach and
indoctrinated students with substitutes for what used to be "right" and "wrong." The only truth is your own personal
well-being. So teachers set about redefining history and interpreting ideas with which the left disagrees as harm to
one's person. This makes it a small step to say "speech is violence."
New
York Times puts bad light on murdered Barnard teen and exculpates the city. The disturbingly horrible stabbing
murder of Barnard freshman Tessa Majors over a cheap robbery by one-to-three thugs is an awful story. The victim was an
18 year old female freshman, a very young-looking teenager, walking to campus around 7 or 8 p.m. when it would have been
dark. [...] Unpopular Mayor Bill de Blasio, who's excused these kinds of crimes in the past has made the right noises, but it
remains to be seen if he's serious. But the Times seems to be eager to minimize the crime, cast a negative light on the
victim, and exculpate the now-socialist city. [...] In any case, the Times has a big problem now that the reality of
blue-city politics has hit New York in a dramatic turnaround from the Giuliani era — kids are now being murdered.
That's why they're doing their best within decency to put the victim down and insist that the city remains safe even with
crime now a free for all in New York.
A
Safe Space Society Is A Totalitarian Nightmare. As the undisputed star of the new film No Safe
Spaces — the hit documentary on academia's descent into Orwellian tyranny features a quick shot of a lawyer
letter I wrote to some collegiate gulag apparatchiks — I wholeheartedly recommend that you go see it. Adam
Carolla and Dennis Prager take you on a guided tour of the insanity and evil that has gripped academia, and it's utterly
terrifying. You need to see it not merely to gape at the freak show but to learn what's coming for society as a
whole. The dreary conformity factories that pretend to be providing our next generation of leaders with a higher
education have instead embarked on a campaign of indoctrination designed to manufacture a generation of goose-stepping creeps
who use their bizarre collection of buzzwords and fetishes as weapons to suppress any kind of dissent. And the problem
is that this PC Nazism is not just limited to academia. Eventually, these daddy-issue cadres are going to get out into
the world and contaminate all of our institutions even worse than they are contaminated now.
Why
Is Our Society Degrading So Badly, So Fast? On a local level in many cities and communities, Democrats in power
are by their actions undermining the rule of law. For example, expected compliance with the law in several of our
leading cities run by Democratic Party leaders, including most notably New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle, is
now often based on a person's economic and immigration status, race, sex, sexual orientation, and increasingly an indication
of a person's political and religious affiliations. The reason for these exemptions being granted is based on the dual
ideologies of identity politics and social justice. The creation of an implied multi-tier justice system expressly
violates our fundamental value of the law applying equally to citizens from all walks of life and most importantly results in
the increasingly intolerable and dangerous conditions existing on the streets of these cities and an overall perception of
communities in decline.
Republicans
Will Live to Regret Joining Climate Alarmists. [Scroll down] The data are overwhelming that implementing
the proposals of climate alarmists — i.e., drastically cutting down or eliminating fossil fuels — will
devastate Western economies. According to a recent report by the conservative American Action Forum, the Green New Deal
will cost up to $93 trillion. Canada has instituted policies that severely constricted the ability of Western Canada to
market its oil and gas. Eric Denhoff, a former deputy minister of Alberta wrote: "With more than 150,000
unemployed in a persistent, unbelievably long-running recession, Alberta has faced thousands of bankruptcies, a huge increase
in suicides, and a tremendous loss of long-term capital investment that scares the bejesus out of the business community."
Kevin O'Leary, founder of the O'Leary financial group, said Alberta and the West "don't have their engine of growth anymore"
because "Trudeau hates energy." Canada, he notes, has been the the poorest place of all the G7 countries to invest your
money over the last four years.
Millennials
Are Fleeing Cities For Refuge From Democrats' Disasters. [Scroll down] My home city of Philadelphia is a
prime example. Here, 60,000 residents leave per year, and half of them are 18 to 34 years old. The reason?
Urban centers like Philadelphia are bent on destroying the very conveniences that drew millennials to the city in the first
place. Here, the combined effect of sky-high taxes and outdated regulations add up to an all-out war on millennials.
Or at least a war on the things they love the most. Brunch, for example. In Pennsylvania, where I live, the number
of available liquor licenses is restricted by our state liquor monopoly. These restrictions and the fact that licenses are sold
at auction (seriously!) make selling booze way too expensive for business owners.
The
obsessive, intolerant, despicable do-nothing-but-obstruct Democrats. It is the Left that has undone the tenets
of Martin Luther King. It is the Left that has branded any words they don't like as hate speech and destroyed higher
education in America with trigger warnings and safe spaces. Universities have infantilized college students for a
couple of decades now. Our pseudo-professorial class has indoctrinated its students and taught them nothing but
intolerance for the slightest word of opposition to their prescribed, permitted speech with which they've been
inculcated. They have severely handicapped many thousands of young people. Ask one of them who Mao was?
Stalin? The Holocaust? Socialism? About America's founding? They know nothing, by design and what
they think they know is so wrong. But ask them about transgenderism, institutional racism, homosexuality, white
privilege, etc. They will wax rhapsodic with their infinite knowledge of those topics, each of which is relatively
meaningless in the grand scheme of this once great nation.
Revolution
as a Mental Disease. Illegal immigration has a negative impact on the labor market, especially low-income
Americans, by keeping wages down. Nevertheless, half of our fellow citizens believe that any action taken against
illegals is tantamount to sending them to concentration camps. Medicare for all would lead to long waiting times, with
the problem being compound by the coverage provided to an undetermined number of illegals. In a country where 85% of
people have access to quality health care, this would represent a major downgrade. Socialism is another major electoral
theme, and rejecting it in an affluent society would normally be a matter of common sense. However, part of the secular
pietist mission is to fight inequality, even if that leads to worse living conditions for the majority, provided that the
object of their envy is also harmed.
After the
Impeachment. [I]f the Democrats win this sham of an impeachment proceeding and the 2020 election, we should be
very frightened, because a victory will usher in an era of governance that will lead to a timeline similar to what happened
to Venezuela. [...] Many of today's advocates for socialism have no recollection of Venezuela in 1992 as the third-richest
country in the world. Nor do they understand that Venezuela's socialist president ran on "income inequality" in 2001
and shortly afterward put into place the same list of "reforms" as the ones now being advocated by today's Democratic
candidates and some of their more radical allies — healthcare under government control, free higher education,
guns confiscated, opposition leaders imprisoned, elections suspended, etc.
Trump
is 100% on His Game. I thank God that President Trump is not like other Republicans. [...] If Trump is not
reelected in 2020, Democrats will kill healthy babies even after they are born. Sixteen-year-old girls will have double
mastectomies without parental consent or knowledge in absurd attempts to become men. Democrats will roll out the red
carpet to drug dealing, murderous illegals along with illegal alien children carrying strange diseases being admitted into
our schools. The Democrats' Green New Deal promises to stop air travel, kill the fossil fuel industry, and implement a
long list of insane job-killing and economy crushing initiatives. You cannot imagine the huge number of jobs Democrats
will kill or force overseas. Trump has our economy booming. Black unemployment has hit a new historic low.
All of Trump's unprecedented remarkable successes for America will be flushed down the toilet if Democrats take the White House.
Liberals
and the Moral Compass. [Scroll down] All of this wandering around the darkened moral landscape is simply
an inevitable consequence of tying one's values to one fashionably righteous cause after another. In the early part of
the 20th century, the progenitors of today's progressives were all for eugenics and forced sterilization. Now they like
androgyny and political censorship. Tomorrow, perhaps pedophilia and concentration camps will be all the rage. It
depends on what novelty proves the most expedient. Ultimately, the essence of the Left is a cynical and unaccountable
leadership leading people around by their desire to feel good about themselves — as cheaply and as painlessly as
possible. It thrives on intellectual laziness and low standards of integrity. While it is nothing really new, and
these people have always been with us, there are more of them now than any healthy society can possibly support.
Report:
Hollywood Adds More LGBT Characters to TV, Cable, Streaming — Now 488 Total. GLAAD, an organization
that seeks to accelerate "acceptance of the LGBT community" in American culture, released its 2019 report, Where We Are on
TV, and applauded the TV and cable entertainment industries for adding more LGBT characters to their programs. "Of the
879 regular characters scheduled to appear on broadcast scripted primetime television this season, 90 (10.2 percent) are
LGBTQ," states the report. There are also some 30 recurring LGBTQ characters, making a total of 120. That's up
from last year's 113 regular and recurring LGBTQ roles.
The Editor says...
If you haven't done so already, you should take all of the television sets out of your house and leave them at the curb for the next garbage truck.
When I got rid of my last TV in 1980, it was the programming was boring, shallow, insipid, and a waste of time. Now, almost 40 years later,
the programming is offensive, demeaning, pernicious, blasphemous, and destructive. The commercials are nearly as bad, and the so-called
"local news" is nothing but an infomercial for big government.
Feeding the Fat Green
Pigs. Land that once fed horses is now used to produce biodiesel and ethanol for cars, so food prices must go
up. Forests are felled to burn in green power stations and for green-tick buildings while grasslands are invaded by
feral pests and woody weeds from the ever-growing parks and Kyoto Protocol Forests. Birds and bats are being sliced by
wind turbines, flatlands are being smothered by solar panels, access roads and transmission lines. But electricity
costs soar, supply is rationed while reliability crashes. Behind every one of these modern maladies are troughs of Big
Green Pigs getting fatter on market mandates, subsidies from consumers or tax payers, and special tax treatments. In
the background, governments fund an academic/media industry promoting climate alarmism, energy rationing and intermittent
energy. Electric cars and penny farthings were pushed off the roads by Henry Ford's petrol engines, but politicians are
trying to put them back — a Tesla for the rich and a bicycle for the poor. Consumers and industry don't
count and taxpayers are there to be milked. In this Greentopia no one needs miners, farmers or fishermen. All are
lost for a fake global warming Emergency.
Why
Trump is the Black Voters' Clear Choice in 2020. Tragically, blacks have voted monolithically for Democrats for
60 years with nothing to show for it. Baltimore, Washington D.C., Chicago, and every other city controlled by Democrats
are hellholes of black misery; black-on-black homicides, out-of-wedlock births (fatherless households), high incarceration,
genocidal numbers of abortions, and school dropouts. And yet, Democrats are still deceiving blacks with their tired old
lie that every issue plaguing black Americans is the result of white racism. My stomach turned upon hearing Democratic
presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren promising to end environmental racism. I thought, "Here we go again with another
Democrat attempting to fill blacks with more victim nonsense while trashing America, claiming that even the weather in the
U.S. victimizes blacks."
No
Safe Spaces: What Happens When Common Sense and Values Disappear. The new documentary No Safe Spaces, starring
conservative thinker, radio host, and writer Dennis Prager and liberal, comedian, and podcast host Adam Carolla, is a must-see for anyone
concerned with the long-term viability of the First Amendment's free speech protections. While primarily focusing on the hostility
to free speech laying siege to America's college campuses, vividly illustrated with compelling clips of violent protests and civil unrest by
students from Berkeley to Yale, No Safe Spaces powerfully illustrates how the movement to limit speech has moved into mainstream arenas
as well. Prager and Carolla recognize that "common sense and values" are disappearing for the first time since our country's founding.
The
Source of the Media's Post-Truth Analysis. The source of the left-liberal bias in journalism is no
mystery. You need look no further than the faculty of any journalism or communications department at any American
university. But what really needs to be understood is how the people in the fake news business came to be liberated
from feeling any obligation to tell the truth. [...] For some time now, something called postmodernism has ruled on American
campuses, and a core idea of the postmodernists is that claims to truth are meaningless.
Reclaiming
Common Sense. How has it come to pass that in America, a man can identify as a woman, and his linguistic
affirmation by itself, at least in New York City, obligates others to refer to him as "her"? And why is it increasingly
considered mandatory to declare that men taking female hormones can compete against women in sporting events? What
aberrant philosophical doctrine, you may ask, is behind the assertion that there are sixty-three genders or that marriage
must no longer be considered the union of a man and a woman? The answer to these and other absurdities can be found in
Robert Curry's new book, Reclaiming Common Sense: Finding Truth in a Post-Truth World.
A Great
Awakening to the Fight is Upon Us. [Scroll down] No more compromise, no more calls for
bipartisanship. Republicans have been outfoxed on that score every time. [...] The old liberal promises of compromise
and conciliation were and are false (remember the pledge that when we get same-sex marriage we'll be done with sex and gender
issues?). Barack Obama's reasonableness was a disguise, Joe Biden's Scranton liberalism a pose. Obergefell
was but a step in the never-ending reduction of traditional sex roles. The inclusion of minority literature and history
in the curriculum during the 1970s and '80s wasn't to serve the ideals of diversity. It was to redefine America as a
racist creation from 1619 to the present. The Left has been making war by other means for 50 years, changing history
textbooks, peddling films that mock fatherhood and faith, designing bogus studies that show pay gaps and systemic racism.
But it's been a war nonetheless, and a successful one because conservative leaders and intellectuals have failed to assess the
other side.
Lies catch
up with Democrats. For years, Democrats brushed aside concerns that by giving them an inch they would seek a
mile. But Obamacare did lead to a demand for Government Health Care For All. Gay civil unions did lead to gay
marriage and now transgendering (castrating) boys. Beto O'Rourke wants to use gay marriage to regulate religions via
the tax code. His call for gun confiscation drew calls to shut up and not give the store away. Democrats lie
about their goals.
Fairfax
County, Virginia Presents Dire Warning to America. Fairfax's descent into its current state started with a wave
immigration, much of it illegal, into the area which washed away Republican political viability. Fairfax County became
a nullification (sanctuary) county in 2018 and now puts a significant chunk of money into its budget to defend noncitizens
from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, although the problem started long before that. By 2015, 30% of the
county was foreign-born. MI-13, [sic] a brutal criminal gang, is now more active than ever, and the once marquee
schools have started what will be a long slide through mediocrity to abysmal. Fairfax just ranked seventh among the
highest-crime sanctuary jurisdictions, ranking just below Chicago and tied with a nearby Maryland county that has had at
least nine illegal alien sexual assaults since its sanctuary policy was declared in late July. That's staggering.
Fairfax County now is on a list of shame with Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, and San Francisco.
We
need to fight for the values that made America great. The left railed against our soldiers during the Vietnam
War. The left calls those who believe in a supreme being or the commitment of marriage uninformed and
anachronistic. They're now openly saying that churches that hold traditional values should lose their tax-exempt
status. The Left doesn't care about our enormous debt, pushes for socialism, and criticizes the Boy Scouts. The
Left thinks it's OK that our schools don't teach about the founding fathers or free markets. They want you to think
America was never great. To a degree, the pressure from the Left is working. Americans under 30 are less
interested in joining the military. Church attendance is at an all-time-low, participation in the Boy Scouts, even
after allowing girls in, has shrunk, and many are choosing not to have families. Socialism, the single most discredited
idea of the last century, an idea that led millions into poverty and tyranny around the globe, has gained a foothold in one
of our two political parties.
How
to Bring Down the Ideology of the Left. The ideology of the Left is integral to the Left's power.
Democrats seek to codify political correctness into legislation as settled verities admitting no further debate. This
is despite the abject failure of their policies to solve the problems they contend need fixing. The welfare state has
spawned intergenerational dependence and misery as well as national debt. Their self-appointed victims have not been
healed by un-gendered bathrooms.
Trickle-Down
Bureaucracy Is Destroying Vermont. So much money is spent on reports, studies, and employment for state workers
that Vermont's property tax rates are some of the highest in the nation. To the extent that any of the money does come
back down, it is indeed a mere trickle. Vermont demonstrates the government bloat that plagues many states, and the
effects are becoming apparent. Vermont now has fewer than 700 conventional dairy farms — but the Vermont
Department of Agriculture and the UVM Extension Service steadily increase employees, and salaries. This is quite
typical of the virus-like quality of the Vermont bureaucracy — it grows, and citizens lose wealth or leave.
Vermont has nearly twice as many full-time state employees per 10,000 residents as New Hampshire, yet Vermonters are
struggling much more than their thriving neighbors. There is no growth, and the governor has infamously offered $10,000
bribes to out-of-state earners to reside in Vermont.
Eco
madness may be reason for disastrous Boeing 737 MAX safety issues. Air travel, which accounts for 2 percent of
global emissions, has become the great bogeyman for climate alarmists, sparking a backlash against airlines. Punitive
eco-taxes, aviation regulations, activist investors, green NGOs and climate-aware passengers conspire to force airlines and
manufacturers to lower CO2 emissions by using less fuel, which accounts for 99 percent of aviation's carbon footprint.
No one has said it explicitly yet, but this relentless pressure to reduce emissions appears to have been a significant factor
in the disastrous safety failures of the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, which resulted in two fatal crashes in the past year,
claiming 346 lives. The warning from Boeing's catastrophes is that climate ideology can have fatal consequences.
The Derangement
Syndromes of Our Time. Who doesn't feel compassion? Who wouldn't do whatever they can to help someone in
need? But there are intractable problems with compassion gone wild. In practice, misguided compassion breeds
debauchery and dependence. Anyone wishing to see the former is invited to drive the streets of San Francisco, where
they may smell human excrement, tons of which are deposited each week on the sidewalks and gutters by the city's nearly
10,000 homeless. They may witness thousands of intravenous drug addicts buying and injecting this poison in
state-sanctioned acts of slow-motion suicide. Anyone wishing to see the latter is invited to tour pretty much any
legacy housing project in America, where welfare checks and free rent made the presence of a father not merely unnecessary
but economically disadvantageous.
NYC
is 'Spiraling Down to Chaos' Following Attack on 20-Year-Old EMT Worker. A union boss representing First
Responders across New York City slammed Big Apple Mayor Bill de Blasio Wednesday [10/23/2019]; saying his policies have led
to "chaos" that is nearing "the point of no return." "Mayor Bill de Blasio is being asked to do more to protect first
responders in the wake of an attack on a 20-year-old emergency medical technician as he was transporting an emotional
disturbed person to the hospital," reports CBS New York.
Moral
Relativism Taking Over Everything: Sports, Politics, Libraries. Portland liberals are so far removed from
the truth that they've decided to ban urinals in their $195-million remodel of the Portland Building, which houses the city's
administrative offices. In an email to city employees explaining this ignorant decision, Portland chief administrative
officer Tom Rinehart said, "I am convinced that this is the right way to ensure success as your employer, remove arbitrary
barriers in our community, and provide leadership that is reflective of our shared values." Similar perverse
"leadership" and "values" recently led insurance giant Kaiser Permanente to promote the evil "Drag Queen Story Time." The
television ad shows a grown man dressed as a woman laughing and dancing with small children. As Tyler O'Neil rightly
notes, this is a "clear attempt to normalize Drag Queen Story Hour. The smiling, laughing children are a subliminal
message that full-grown men dressing up like women and acting sexual around children is fun, not disturbing."
Of Electricity and Ideology.
[Scroll down] "For decades," [Kay] Grimes wrote, "traditional forest management was scientific and successful — that is
until ideological, preservationist zealots wormed their way into government and began the overhaul of sound federal forest management through
abuse of the Endangered Species Act and the 're-wilding, no-use movement.'" U.S. Representative Tom McClintock, whose Northern California
district includes the Yosemite Valley and the Tahoe National Forest, told Grimes that the U.S. Forest Service 40 years ago departed from
"well-established and time-tested forest management practices." "We replaced these sound management practices with what can only be
described as a doctrine of benign neglect," McClintock explained. "Ponderous, byzantine laws and regulations administered by a growing
cadre of ideological zealots in our land management agencies promised to 'save the environment.' The advocates of this doctrine have
dominated our law, our policies, our courts, and our federal agencies ever since."
Political
correctness versus common sense. Not long ago, everyone understood the unchanging commonsense reality that
human beings are either male or female. Today in New York City, the rules have been changed — and failure to
keep up can have dire consequences. New York City's special 31 genders are surrounded by special legal protections.
Businesses can now be fined as much as $250,000 for refusing to address someone by his preferred pronoun. As we have seen
in the news, even in cities that have not yet have caught up with New York City in terms of imposing legal penalties, failing a
test of political correctness about genders can result in public shaming or the loss of a job. [...] The important thing to
understand is that the masters of political correctness are not done yet. They have given us a glimpse of the future they
have planned for us. If they continue to have their way, more and more will be required of us, and the penalties will
eventually go beyond mere fines and public humiliation.
Social
and Political Disintegration Is Accelerating. In 1960, 5% of the nation's children were born out of wedlock;
but in the last few years, the percentage is hovering around 40%. Sexual immorality is further intensified by promotion of
sexual activity in our public schools. Free condoms are regularly distributed in our educational institutions.
Some states have clinics where, after a ten-minute interview, young girls are given referrals to get an abortion (no parental
or caregiver consent, for example, is needed in New York State as well as other states). In many states, at least one
parent must be informed, but consent is not required. Little children are sitting on the laps of drag queens in library
"readings" and some of those drag queens have records of pedophilia. Homosexual marriage is now the law of the land.
Trashy exhibitionists are singing on youtube.com and throughout the media. A million babies are aborted a year, not for
"women's health" in 90+% of the cases, but because of women's priorities. These changes in our sexual mores have led to
the disintegration of the family.
Air
Canada to stop announcing 'ladies and gentlemen' in recognition of gender fluidity. Employees aboard Air Canada
flights will no longer greet guests by referring to them as "ladies and gentlemen" or "mesdames et messieurs," which has been
typical protocol for years, in an effort to be conscious of gender fluidity. Flight attendants and other staff will not
use the language in boarding announcements, and the company instead plans to replace the standard greetings with neutral
words, such as "everybody" or "tout le monde."
Crazy
and Woke on the Western Front of Progressive Insanity. Thanks to progressive ideology as expressed in laws and court rulings,
in California today you cannot arrest and hold vagrants for petty theft or possession of hard drugs; you cannot move them out of public
spaces unless you can provide them with free and "permanent supportive housing;" you cannot commit demonstrably insane people to asylums;
and publicly funded shelters must offer food and urgent care without any preconditions whatsoever. Testimonials from residents of
Venice Beach provide ample evidence of what happens when you impose these progressive policies on an urban area bordered on the west by
some of the most inviting beaches and agreeable weather in the world. An estimated 1,200 homeless people have set up permanent
encampments in this three square mile beach town. They almost never use actual toilets.
Disposable
Humans and the Downfall of Civilization. How has the progressive movement made evil a common occurrence?
Lack of morality, ethics, and the inability to determine what is a valued life; and what is viewed a mere inconvenience, to
be removed, much like a dermatological imperfection. Over the years I have watched the erosion of society, and the
uprising of "wokeness." Nothing has prepared me for the utter lack of regard for life as we currently see in today's
world. Serial abortion as a form of birth control, and in some cases an appalling sexual fetish is being seen more as
society degrades and crumbles, before our very eyes, each passing day.
Imagining Chelsea
Clinton's America. [Scroll down] In city after city, draconian ordinances overrode zoning laws with
decades of precedence. Investors could demolish single family homes and erect fourplexes, or more units, where one
household had previously stood. Rent control laws, combined with mandated conservation retrofits (to prevent climate
change), made it hard for anyone apart from large institutional investors to maintain rental properties. Single family
homes became worth more to buyers if they were demolished and replaced with apartments. New laws made it obligatory to
accept Section 8 renters whose rent would be paid by taxpayers. Corporate behemoths busted block after block, in city
after city, turning communities into government housing projects. Those who objected were branded as racists, deniers,
xenophobes, and NIMBYs. They were silenced. Chelsea Clinton, of course, along with all the politically connected,
well fed animals in this new Animal Farm called America, resided in a gated community.
Can
we keep our Republic? Starting with Woodrow Wilson, and continuing through FDR's New Deal, LBJ's Great Society
programs, and Barack Obama's further expansion of entitlement programs and take-over of the health care industry, the country
has been moving relentlessly toward more and more centralization of federal power, expansion of the federal regulatory
regime, and encroachment on the freedom of states, civil society, families, and individuals. And don't forget, along
the way Republican elites have supported and abetted this weakening of the Republic. They have created or expanded
intrusive regulatory agencies like the EPA and the Department of Education, illiberal programs like race-conscious
set-asides, and increased the number and scope of redistributionist programs like Medicaid and Social Security. More
recently they have joined forces with the identity-politics left to support amnesty for illegal aliens and laxer immigration
protocols. Worse yet, they have frequently endorsed and legitimized the politicized, illiberal ideology of race,
"gender," ethnicity, and sexual identity that provides Democrats with tools for leveraging political power and influence in
order to achieve "social justice."
Dismaying
Dumbed-down Discourse. I see the crowds cheering the 2020 Democrat candidates and wonder if they're being paid
to appear, or are they really, really ignorant about what this party had become? It is now the party of open borders,
socialism, atheism, infanticide and is offering lots of free stuff that's being paid by taxpayers. It is also the party
that is completely committed to everything the "alphabet people" espouse. The LGBQT, aka the alphabet people (dubbed
by the brave comedian Dave Chapelle), has the Left convinced that there are more than two genders and thus it is perfectly
fine that men claiming to be women can now compete against women in sports events and can use women's toilets —
where little girls can no longer feel safe. This is pure insanity but if the progressive left certifies it, the
mentally deficient will accept it.
Progressing
toward Extinction. [Scroll down] Many young people live in random little groups — making a
semi-permanent lifestyle of the arrangements one finds in college dorms. In our particular brave new world, people are
free to lavish their attention either on themselves or, if they have some nagging concerns about posterity, on the latest
attempt to save the planet. Banning of plastic straws is both easier and apparently more noble than nurturing new human
beings. Though still shackled to some semblance of their animal desires through myriad and faddish varieties of sex,
today's young people are, at least, unshackled from the animal consequences. This is what is now called progress.
People can hope to binge-watch some anesthetic pablum to the end of their days, uninterrupted by the squeal of their
progenies' voices or the irritating patter of their tiny unshod feet. Children are an inconvenience, and grandchildren
are worse.
The
Left to America's Children: Your Past Is Terrible, and Your Future Is Terrible. A rule of life is that
everything the left touches it ruins: art, music, Christianity, Judaism, race relations, male-female relations, universities,
high schools, elementary schools, late-night comedy, sports, liberty, journalism, the Boy Scouts, national economies,
language and everything else it influences. [...] To this list, we can now add childhood and children.
Portland
Bans Urinals In $195M 'Gender-Neutral' Remodel of Government Building. The City of Portland has banned urinals
in the $195 million remodel of the Portland Building, which houses administrative offices for the city. While urinals
use less water than toilets, they are a relic of a bygone era when men and women were recognized as biologically different.
A spokeswoman told NBC affiliate KGW News that she could not estimate how much it will cost to remove the urinals, which have been
a feature of the building since its construction in 1982. Chief Administrative Officer Tom Rinehart explained the urinal ban
in an email to employees last February.
'The
Leprosy of Unreality' and the Demise of the Left. Evidence of the splintering social fabric is already apparent.
Rumors of crimes at the hands of the Democrat-controlled Deep State abound and undermine public trust. Snowflakes demand places
safe from the real world. Children are recruited into the fairy tale of rescuing the planet from an imaginary dragon. Through
childish games of dressing up as boys when they are women and wearing lipstick despite being men, our youths are indoctrinated into insanity.
The
50 most miserable cities in America. Not the worst, just the most miserable. We've identified the 50 most
miserable cities in the US, using census data from 1,000 cities across the country, taking into consideration population
change (because if people are leaving it's usually for a good reason), the percentage of people working, median household
incomes, the percentage of people without healthcare, median commute times, and the number of people living in poverty.
Often, these cities have been devastated by natural disasters. They've had to deal with blight, and with high crime
rates. Economies have struggled after industry has collapsed. These cities also tend to have high rates of
addiction. The state with the most miserable cities was California, with 10 in the top 50. New Jersey
was second with nine, and Florida had six.
California
Shocked To Find Bill Decriminalizing Retail Theft Resulted In... More Retail Theft. A few years ago, California
passed one in a series of bills aimed at emptying the jails and prisons. Proposition 47 carried the disingenuous name
of "the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act and its stated purpose was to keep non-violent offenders out of jail. To
achieve this goal, the state decriminalized a number of lesser offenses, including retail theft. The law raised the
value of the amount of merchandise someone could steal while still only being charged with a misdemeanor to nearly one
thousand dollars. To the great surprise of the government, people noticed this change and began taking advantage of
it. They have now recorded multiple years of steadily increasing, organized robbery. These plots are known as
"mass grab and dash" thefts and they generally involve large numbers of young people all entering a store at the same time,
grabbing armfuls of merchandise and dashing back out to their vehicles and hitting the highway. Not only are robberies
on the rise, but arrests and prosecutions are down. Who could possibly have predicted this?
Gun
Control: Wrong Solution to the Wrong Problem. When liberals spend years telling people that life isn't
sacred, should they really be surprised that more people treat life as not being sacred? There have been more than 61
million abortions since Roe v. Wade in 1973. Every single Democrat candidate in contention is applying the Pete
Buttigieg "breath" standard, meaning they all support abortion up to, and perhaps beyond, birth. When you make an
effort to devalue life in the interest of political expedience, people will be affected in tragic, horrible, and surprising
ways. Mother Teresa once said "the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the
child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill
even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?" That's a mighty good question.
The
American Left Is Completely Insane. It isn't just elected Democrats at the national level. Cities like
Chicago, Baltimore, Los Angeles and San Francisco — run by Democratic mayors and city councils — have
high rates of crime and homelessness. San Francisco and Los Angeles have growing cases of typhoid fever, tuberculosis
and other diseases borne by fleas and human feces, piles of which coat the streets. California's legislature has not
been able to solve those grave problems. But it has banned plastic straws in restaurants.
The
Broken Promise of American Cities. Hope for a better future in California is rapidly becoming a stillborn
dream, as the connection between decay and the politics of progressivism becomes painfully clear. The proponents of
this secular theology may be getting a wakeup call soon, as the Golden State's cities teeter on the edge of bubonic oblivion,
with rats teeming through the streets of Los Angeles, even forcing temporary, partial closures of City Hall. Skid Row
has unfurled its filthy tendrils into the halls of the Los Angeles Police Department's Central Division station, with
officers falling ill as vermin lay siege to their precinct. But the explosion of the rat population, catalyzed by the
feculence of homeless encampments across the state, has not deterred lawmakers from advancing a bill to ban rat poison in the
name of human health and environmental concerns. In the progressive mind, even mentioning the risk of disease caused by
these policies is somehow tantamount to racist dog-whistling. San Francisco, the rainbow flagship of our brave new
world, even has a "no-kill, catch-and-release" policy for rodents.
Bill
would require gender 'X' option on all state documents. Advocates for a gender "X" designation on state documentation say
making people chose male or female is akin to making them lie, while opponents argue that a person's sex is a biological fact.
"If you look at your Massachusetts driver's license, it lists 'sex,' not 'gender,'" Andrew Beckwith of Massachusetts Family Institute
told the Herald. "The concept of 'gender identity' is based on internal feelings, but sex is binary (male or female) and grounded
in biology, and we believe that a state ID should reflect that objective fact." A bill that would require an "X" option on
all state documents that ask for gender identification, including driver's licenses, birth certificates and voter registration,
went before the Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight on Tuesday [9/10/2019].
On Destroying America.
We are lied to, deceived, and manipulated constantly to believe what isn't so. [...] I can remember several generations back
when common sense was common. No longer. Criminals are treated as victims. White people are labeled as
oppressors and must apologize for it. Deranged people who need help are ignored, treated as normal, or just doing their
thing. And they are everywhere, creating chaos, as designed and expected.
The
Left's determination to destroy us from within. [Governor Newsom of California], and the rest of the Democrat
governors and mayors that destroyed their own states and cities, have not only ruined the municipalities that they control,
but have destroyed countless lives — namely, of those who barely subsist on the streets of these cities: Los
Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, Seattle, Baltimore, Chicago. (Chicago and Baltimore are the murder capitals of the
nation. Both have among the strictest gun control laws in the nation.) They willingly promulgate the drug use of their
homeless (they pass out free syringes) and seem to tolerate the vast homeless encampments and all they entail: discarded
needles, public defecation, crime, disease — in short, the destruction of the cities they've been allowed to take
over and ruin.
Criminologists Mislead
Us. There is significant bias among criminologists. The reason for that bias is that political leanings
of academic criminologists are liberal. Liberal criminologists outnumber their conservative counterparts by a ratio of
30-to-1. Ideology almost perfectly predicts the position of criminologists on issues from gun control to capital punishment
to harsh sentencing. Liberal criminologists march in step for gun control, oppose punitive prison sentences, and are
vehemently against the death penalty. In 2012, the National Academy of Sciences commissioned a study on the growth of
incarceration. It showed that from 1928 until 1960, crime rates rose slowly each year. After the 1960s, crime
rates exploded to unprecedented levels of violence until the 1990s.
Countering Progressive
Nihilism. America's homeless epidemic, along with a shocking rise in deaths from drug overdoses, stem from the
same root cause: liberal progressive ideology. The seductive power of this ideology, which brims in equal measure
with overwrought compassion for the less fortunate alongside fuming resentment towards the "privileged," has earned it a
dominant position in American culture. [...] While countless critical issues are being ignored or made worse thanks to the
influence of progressives, two of them, homelessness and drug related deaths, stand out.
25
common sense truths that you're no longer supposed to say. [#14] Just because a white person
criticizes or gets into a conflict with a minority doesn't mean it has anything to do with race. In fact, the vast
majority of the time it doesn't. [#15] Drag queens are deviants and shouldn't be allowed near children,
much less allowed to be part of story times for kids. [#16] There are only two genders. [#17]
If America were oppressive for minorities, they'd be leaving the country, not coming here in droves.
The Left's
Neverland. Now, over 150 years after the Civil War, we find ourselves living in a world that has tucked reality
away in a locked cupboard and our schools, our media, and many of our churches don't want it to get out. We live in a
TV-Internet-Smartphone world where our music is mostly canned, our connections with people are at least once-removed, and our
children never look up. The virtual has taken over to a point where people actually think we can alter history by
removing statues and painting over murals, and they have to change history because Neverland has to have its own annals, its
own chronicles. Neverland is not America. This explains why both Obama and Hillary could talk with such disdain
about half of the population. We aren't their people. They were running to be president of Neverland, not of
traditional America.
Vermont
Is Going Insane. Will the Rest of America Follow? [Scroll down] Thirty-plus years later, our youths
have been corrupted by unhealthy food, limitless violence in television and pornography, phone and internet obsession that
leaves them anxious and stressed, and Facebook that feeds toxicity. [...] Studies have found that 30% of college students
don't know how to boil an egg; 52% of high school students don't know how to change a tire; 70% of young people have no clue
how to sew on a button. Yet we grown-up adolescents are yoking them with responsibility to "lead" us to solve our social
ills while they can't find jobs, many require psychiatric medications, and the national deficit has exceeded the capacity of
the human mind to comprehend.
Transgender
insanity: Another big battle in the war on common sense. A women's shelter is being sued for turning away
a man dressed in a nightgown. Really. According to the reports, a very large and very inebriated man dressed in a
nightgown showed up at a women's shelter in downtown Anchorage, Alaska seeking entry. He was not admitted to stay the
night. As a result, the shelter is now embroiled in a legal battle. The Anchorage Equal Rights Commission (AERC),
an administrative agency within the municipality of Anchorage, has brought a discrimination case against the shelter.
War on cops in
Philadelphia. Many people across the nation watched the hours-long standoff and shooting of Philadelphia Police
Officers on TV. Nine officers were injured and six were wounded by gunfire. Thankfully, no officers were killed,
and the gunman finally surrendered. The following day I spoke to a Philly cop who had been on the scene. He
scoffed at the idea of Philadelphia Mayor James Kenny and Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner arriving at the
hospital to visit the injured cops. He called the two "anti-cop liberals."
Terror without trust.
Already it has proved impossible to cap the number of genders. The epithets "racist" and "Nazi" are applied to an
ever-growing number of people who find themselves guilty of offenses that didn't even exist until recently. It is so
powerful it even knocks over the woke.
Missing
the Point of Gun Ownership. If there were ever a survey asking gun owners why they buy guns, I'd wager the
majority of them would say that it basically is for protection. The Second Amendment was not written for hunters but
for the people's self-protection, including protection from tyranny. The first thing smart dictators do is remove guns
from registered owners. [...] There have always been guns in the country but mass shootings of innocents were rare until the
1960's. [...] Would there have been a Columbine massacre if God had not been removed from the schools? Most of the mass
shooters fit the same profile. Most are single males and come from broken homes. Nearly all have been under the
influence of marijuana or psych drugs. Not sure if any of these murderers were regular church goers but I doubt it.
U.S.
Attorney Blasts Soros-Backed Philly D.A. For Putting Police in Danger With 'Culture of Disrespect'. In a
blistering statement Thursday [8/15/2019], United States Attorney William M. McSwain lashed out at the District Attorney of
Philadelphia, saying his "vile rhetoric" and lax law enforcement policies were putting police in danger. Larry Krasner,
the Philly D.A., is a far-left former civil rights defense attorney who has sued police more than 75 times, and has defended
far-left Occupy Philly activists and Black Lives Matter agitators. Left-wing hedge fund billionaire George Soros helped
put Krasner in office by donating an overwhelming $1.45 million to an independent political action committee backing his
campaign in 2017.
Leaving
the Democrats. I have had a great life in the greatest country on earth. All along the way, the Democrats
have stepped on me, taxed me more, lied to me, called me names, and demand I give up my rights. Democrats were the ones
pushing environmental causes at the expense of humans and government takeover of healthcare. They have mismanaged
everything they get their hands on, and then blame others for their own deeds. I watch them lie and cheat and twist
words. Democrats have alienated their own base to the point they have to argue for foreigners to come into this country
illegally in order to vote for Democrats, mainly by calling those of us opposed to this "racist." [...] I am now called
racist, homophobic, misogynist, and Islamaphobic. A gun-toting, Bible-believing bitter clinger. A deplorable.
A white nationalist. Nazi. I can't remember all of my Democrat party subtitles.
This
Is What LGBTQ Organizations Are Doing to Society. Virtually every week, there seems to be another issue that
preoccupies the country. But while our attention is focused on President Donald Trump, Google, Charlottesville, Russia,
impeachment, Jeffrey Epstein, the next elections, racism, a trade war with China, the #MeToo movement or something else,
LGBTQ organizations are quietly going about their work dismantling ethical norms, making a mockery of education, ruining
innocent people's lives and destroying children's innocence.
Twilight
Zone Nation. How in the world did we get to this Rod Serling place where drag queens are reading to our
children in our libraries? How, in a rational universe, did four ignorant, left-wing, lunatic women attain breathtaking
power in less than a year? When did sex trafficking become such a huge crisis? How is it that facts and evidence
and law have no pull at all anymore? We find ourselves, apparently all of a sudden, in a place where telling bald-faced
lies about anyone we want to slander is acceptable behavior, where billions of dollars of government money is unaccountably
missing and no one seems really upset by that malfeasance, where pedophilia is working its way into appropriate behavior.
Will
Any Single Intervention Eliminate Mass Shootings? [Scroll down] The next part of this puzzle is the very
definition of "mental illness." The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychiatry has been modified many times.
The most recent revision has removed most of the "gender dysphoria" diagnoses, normalizing the alphabet soup of sexual
preferences. This is done in the face of the fact that LGBTQ-whatever "gender preferences" are associated with higher
mortality than binary male/female identities. Doctors are supposed to "first do no harm." Normalizing a health risk
creates harm. This means that the DSM changes are not medical, they are political.
Where
does politics meet the divide? Does Rashida Tlaib's rhetoric inspire the protestors outside Mitch McConnell's
home? Is Elizabeth Warren responsible for the shooting in Dayton that left nine people dead? Does Ilhan Omar own
the anger of American's when she says that white men should be profiled?. [...] Is Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and her baseless
environmental screeds responsible for El Paso? The shooter's manifesto "An Inconvenient Truth" not echoing the President,
but liberals, AOC, and Al Gore's claims that we will be dead as a result of dwindling resources within 12 years? Does
Joe Biden's latest gaffe comment mean he is a White Supremacist, believing that while he might work on behalf of the poor brown
and black kids, white children are superior?
Trump
administration seeks to juice dishwashers by scrubbing energy regulations. For years, consumers have complained
about slower, noisier dishwashers that produce dirtier dishes, the result of tighter federal efficiency regulations that the
Trump administration is now seeking to unload. The Energy Department last month proposed a rule to create a new
dishwasher product class that would finish a normal cycle in an hour or less by using less stringent energy standards than
permitted under the current rules. Sam Kazman, general counsel of the free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute,
which led the charge for the regulatory clean-up, said the ever-tighter restrictions on energy and water have produced
machines that take twice as long without getting dishes as scrubbed as earlier models.
Researchers:
Crumbling family structures are contributing to mass shootings. A study by the Family Research Council says
that crumbling traditional family structures are contributing to a wave of mental health issues that often lead people to
commit mass shootings and other violence. "The fact that we have an epidemic of absentee fathers in the home and that
we have a disintegrating family structure in America, which is brought about by a variety of things, is a major issue and a
major cause for what we see happening in these mass shootings," Ret. Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, Vice
President of the FRC, told The Epoch Times.
El
Paso Shooting: Latest Atrocity Exploited by Democrats. The deranged gunman's views are all over the
ideological map. However, his environmental views are clearly the result of progressives dominating public education
and fake news media. This quote from the manifesto exposes his insane progressive environmental views.
The
link between pot and mass shootings may be closer than we think. You can't walk through the streets of
Manhattan these days without smelling weed. Even as evidence mounts of the health problems associated with marijuana,
New York has insisted on joining other greedy states scrambling to legalize this deceptively dangerous drug. It makes
no sense at a time when American youth is suffering from an unprecedented mental health crisis. And, in all honesty, we
cannot rule out a connection between increasing marijuana use, mental illness and the recent spate of mass shootings by
disturbed young males.
The
surprise isn't that we had two mass shootings in 24 hours, it's that we don't have many more. After the El Paso
and Dayton shootings at the end of last week, a friend of mine was asking how we can "pull young men out of the 4chan/8chan
toxic cesspool." [...] The problem with this kind of thinking is that there are certainly toxic forums out there, but they're
just toxic pools down river from our toxic culture. I challenge you to listen to the kind of common rhetoric coming out
of college campuses ("Hearing words I don't agree with is violence"), places like Twitter ("It sure would be a shame if
something happened to your kids") and our standard political discourse ("You're a Nazi" for wearing that hat.) and
tell me that they're not toxic as well.
El
Paso proves we live in a mean culture. Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick went on a one-of-a-kind rant
Sunday on Fox television: "What do we expect," he asked, "when kids play video games instead of going to church?"
One of the shooters reportedly was acting out in real life a violent video game character. Children just entering grade
school today are being exposed to a boatload of vile and venom. To gratuitous killing. To music that celebrates
it. "Garbage in, garbage out." American children are being programmed in a culture that is vengeful, covetous,
and mean. When they put it all together and make it a reality, why are we so surprised? They are simply doing
what they've been taught.
An Open
Letter to Democrats Who Insist Politicians "Just Do Something". Thousands can die in America's impoverished
inner cities every year — with illegally acquired guns — and Democrats are silent. Perhaps it's
because they're the ones running those cities, like Chicago, Baltimore and Destroyt. And decades of Democrat leadership
have enabled the worst breed of gangsters by criminalizing gun ownership by law-abiding citizens.
Social
Media's Transition from Novelty to Malignancy. [Scroll down] The most recent and troubling development in
social media is the mob mentality. Often the sharing of an opinion elicits a storm of response, and vastly wider
distribution, via a person's now-expanded network of friends and followers. Far from sharing ideas and feelings frankly
and spontaneously, many people now assiduously avoid triggers, anything remotely resembling judgments of others, and even
witticisms that might offend. [...] We now have a kind of Online Stockholm Syndrome. You tread lightly with your social
media audience or risk caustic online retribution and even real-world consequences like shunning, loss of a job, having your
business boycotted, or worse.
President
Trump Shatters Left-Wing Myths. President Trump is boldly providing much-needed relief to the American people.
[...] And now he has pinpointed what we have all seen, namely: decades of liberal-run major cities, whose liberal
policies, corruption, and mismanagement have degraded these urban centers and harmed their inhabitants. The liberal
"icons" that have controlled these areas for decades have allowed them, through their enforced and sanctimonious liberalism,
to degenerate from once great cities to districts akin to hellholes. No, it is not about the race of the leaders, but
their liberal policies: witness what Bill DeBlasio is doing to New York. Untouchable liberal icons such as Elijah
Cummings are to blame, grandstanding about the U.S. southern border while remaining indifferent to what is happening within
their own district, unless as an excuse to demand that more funds be channeled their way.
The Voters
Do Deserve to be Neglected. One hears pundits on the Republican conservative side of the discussion bewailing
the misfortunes of the people of Baltimore in Elijah Cummings's rat-infested district. They say, "The people of Baltimore
deserve better. The American People deserve better." No, they don't. They deserve exactly what they have.
They deserve their rats and their crime rate. America still is, for now, a republic that operates on democratic principles
of voting. The people of Baltimore, Detroit, Chicago, Memphis, and St. Louis all have elected one Democrat after
another to lead them. St. Louis has not had a Republican mayor since 1949. Detroit since 1962. Chicago
since 1931. Baltimore since 1967. When people in a two-party country continue for more than half a century, without
interruption, electing candidates from the same party to lead them, even as their once-great cities fade into rat-infested murder
centers, then those voters do indeed deserve exactly, precisely what they have. They do not deserve a whit better than
they have chosen for themselves.
Baltimore
Is Worse than Trump Thinks. Democrats have gotten away with too much for too long in the cities they've
super-majority controlled: Baltimore, St. Louis, Philadelphia; Detroit; Chicago; New Orleans; Newark; Oakland, on
and on. Children become permanently entangled in inter-generational familial poverty, squalor, drugs, guns, failing
schools, juvenile violent crime, and lack of economic mobility. The end results of Democrat dominance are more shocking
and horrifying than most realize. It's high time for reasonable Americans to accept an uncomfortable and deadly
truth: Democrats destroy everything and everywhere they attach their tentacles to. The utter, abject failures of
Democrat-run cities are the most egregious cover-up by the DMIC in American history.
Trump
Speaks the Politically Incorrect Truth. These majority-minority districts frequently elect useless demagogues,
who deliver little, other than the rhetoric of flattery and blame. Cummings and his colleagues Maxine Waters (D-Calif.)
and Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Texas) are all archetypal cases. Not infrequently, extensive corruption is the handmaiden of
these politicians — Detroit's Kwame Kilpatrick comes to mind. Trump's message in recent weeks is
straightforward: those who purport to represent these poor and desperate people provide little in the way of good government
or service to them. The state of America's lost cities — Detroit, Baltimore, Birmingham — is
familiar to anyone with eyes to see. One boarded-up building after another. Crime rates that rival
Venezuela's. Police insulted and attacked by shameless young people.
The Democratic Washing
Machine. The Democratic washing machine is so named because it was Democrats who decided to ruin a durable
product in a mature industry. In the name of saving electricity and saving water, they couldn't save just a little
electricity and a little water. No, they had to force manufacturers to create a product that used almost no
water. And to save electricity, they turned the control panel on the washing machine into something resembling the
bridge of a starship, with so many options you have to study a detailed manual even to figure out how to turn on the device.
A failure
to assimilate. Decent Americans of all colors have silently watched out-of-control black criminals destroy
city after city because raising any questions, doubts or objections bring down storms of career-destroying, job-ending
accusations of white racism or Uncle Tomism. This is the race conversation America has needed for so long, a
conversation where black destructiveness and visceral hatred of anything not black gets called out and held to account rather
than excused and let go. For decades in the inner-city thugs have murdered, raped, and destroyed with impunity as
beleaguered police come under attack for doing their jobs.
Why
Do Democrats Run All of the Dangerous and Rodent Infested Cities? Rep. Cummings, while being very obsessed
with Russia, seems utterly bewildered with the idea that anyone could dare question why so many billions of federal dollars
flow to places like West Baltimore when they are obviously doing no good. Look at other cities in similar dilapidation
and there holds a unique truth: Democrats run them all. How long will sewage run down the streets of San
Francisco? How long will St. Louis, Detroit, and Baltimore, continue to rotate as the nation's most dangerous
crime infested metros?
A
Spirit of Lawlessness Has Descended Upon America. We have raised an entire generation of Americans who have no
respect for the law, and now we are reaping what we have sown. I cannot even begin to tell you how alarmed I am by some
of the videos I have been watching lately. As you will see below, all over the nation, young people are brazenly
flouting the law, obstructing and assaulting law enforcement officers and committing criminal acts in large groups. I
think "lawlessness" is perhaps the best word to describe what is happening, and many believe that what we have witnessed so
far is just the beginning.
The
Co-Conspirators in the American Left's Takeover of the Democratic Party. Using the cudgel of the mainstream
media, the entertainment complex and the education establishment combined with the apathy and cowardice of the Republican
Establishment, the American Left had successfully, within 25 years after the Reagan landslides, inculcated into a plurality
of the American people a belief that there are no moral absolutes and that the state, not God, is the source of the inalienable
rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and thus the state can deny those rights to whomever it chooses. They
are creating the belief that this country's founding documents are arcane, racially insensitive and unsuitable for today.
They teach they young that this nation is and always has been racist and oppressive, that religious liberty, the right to bear
arms, and unfettered freedom of speech are subject to the whims of the state.
Immorality
Embraced by So-Called Christian Love. Situation ethics — introduced in 1966 by Joseph F.
Fletcher — came into vogue as a way to excuse pre-marital fornication by Christians, and anything that could be
considered Christian judgmentalism was muted by the liberal churches. In the name of love, increasing numbers of
churches became tolerant of sin. In the contemporary church world, tolerance of sin is no longer considered kind enough
or loving enough. Now, as seen by Joel Osteen's recent appearance at an LGBTQ event, celebration of sin is the step
beyond tolerance. A "woman's right to choose" is openly embraced by many members of the National Council of
Churches. Likewise, homosexuality among the clergy is acceptable.
The
Left is following Communism's playbook for revolution. This process continues and is manifested in the
widespread antipathy for sexual propriety, faith, and all that is great and good — and in the lust for perversion,
socialism, feminism, multiculturalism, "transgenderism," and anti-Americanism in general. We see it in the tearing down
of statues; removal of long present Christian symbols; leftist propaganda and decadence in schools and entertainment;,
prioritizing of illegal aliens over citizens; revising of American history and impugning of whites; and in attacks on the
Constitution, the Founding Fathers, and all things traditional. This destabilization of the American mind and moral
compass now has begotten, as it must, societal destabilization. This is reflected in, most obviously, the flooding of
our nation with unassimilable foreigners via a purposely porous border. This serves the Cloward-Piven goal of
overloading the system to cause breakdown, necessitating replacement of it with, the theory goes, a socialist one.
Of course, this human flood strains schools, hospitals, and services and resources in general.
How
Washington Has Helped Destroy American Civil Society and Family Life. The welfare state is another significant
driver of the decline of the nuclear family. Unsurprisingly, the black family is massively impacted. In 1965,
25 percent of all black children were born out of wedlock. In 2016, that rate had increased to 70 percent and
even topped 80 percent in certain urban areas. In the 1940s, this number was five percent, which was comparable to
that of white children. The Hispanic out-of-wedlock birth rate in 2016 was 52 percent, while for whites it was
30 percent. The rise in children born out of wedlock cannot be separated from the massive expansion of the welfare
state under Johnson's Great Society.
The
American Left Is Racist, Not President Trump. The problem with silencing an entire generation of white people
in the name of fighting racism is that while they have been silent, extreme environmentalism, anti-white racism, and creeping
socialism have swept across American culture, taking over our schools, universities, entertainment and media industries, our
corporations, and government at all levels. Unchecked, this will destroy the country.
Trump
is not a racist; he's pushing the Overton window to normal. For the past 60 years, Leftists have been pushing
the Overton window steadily (duh) left. From the manic colors of the LGBTQRSTUV+ rainbow, to contending that people can
magically use hormones and surgery to "change" their gender, to "shouting your abortion," Leftists are introducing entirely new
(and frequently insane) ideas into the realm of acceptable public conversation. [...] Think of ideas that were normal just a
decade ago: using pronouns consistent with biological sex, worrying about Muslim-inspired terrorism, admiring the Founding
Fathers, believing that a traditional male-female marriage is optimal for raising children, mentioning the Judeo-Christian God in
public, questioning anthropogenic climate change, or being anything but mindlessly positive about a member of a "Progressive
protected victim class." Nowadays, thanks to relentless media, entertainment, political, and educational pressure, voicing
those ideas creates the risk that the speaker will be shouted down, humiliated, fired, or even physically attacked.
How
Bureaucrats Ruin Everything From Dishwashers To Gas Cans To Cars. Have you ever wondered why dishwashers today
take twice as long to do a worse job of cleaning dishes? Or why it's so much harder to get gasoline out of a new gas
can? Or why cars made decades ago always turn heads, while today's are drab in the same way? There's a simple
answer to these modern-day mysteries: Government regulators. Take the dishwasher. Earlier this month, the
Department of Energy announced that it would revise its rules regarding dishwasher efficiency. Why? Because the
existing rules — which set limits on how much electricity and water a dishwasher may use — are forcing
manufacturers to build machines that are worse than ever.
Dallas Drag
Queen Show Promoted to Infants. The City of Dallas Public Library is currently advertising a controversial and
divisive drag queen show to be held at the Grauwyler Park Branch location and that the show is appropriate for age groups
from infants to 11 years old. The drag queen performers for this public library event during the day are employees of
an adult night club venue where children of this age are not permitted to enter. The drag queen event is scheduled to
take place at a public library Saturday [7/13/2019] at 1 pm where children will be able to "hear stories, sing, dance, and
interact with these fabulous ladies" according to the library event page. This Dallas event follows on the heels of a
similar and controversial drag queen event that was canceled by the city government of Leander, and in Houston where two
drag queens involved with these shows were discovered to be registered sex offenders.
Pelosi vs.
AOC: It's a Beautiful Thing. Everything about modern leftist ideology is extreme. It is extreme in
substance, and its practitioners are self-absorbed, sanctimonious, uncompromising and often irrational.
Intersectionality zealots are disciplining white feminists for their selfish advocacy. Biological males are dominating
female athletic events courtesy of the transgender movement. Leftists of color and female gender are dissing old white
men despite the men's long records of dedication to the sacred cause of progressivism. Some women of color are being
told they are not black enough to lead the cause.
Democrats
are Officially the Party of Derangement. If any of the 20 Democrats win in 2020, we can officially say goodbye
to our democracy as we know it. College campuses have already been destroyed. The two left coasts are a disaster
and demographic changes are leading to several purple states turning blue as the Democrats' refusal to address the
immigration crisis proves successful in their quest for power. More ignorant, arrogant, and bigoted representatives
will be elected to Congress in the manner of AOC, Omar and Tlaib and Republicans will find themselves more and more
marginalized. We can only hope that the majority of Americans watching this disaster unfold wake up and realize that
intolerance for thee ultimately leads to intolerance for me. Democrats do not care about Americans' rights —
they seek totalitarian power. They need to be stopped.
Julian
Castro Pounds the Table, Demanding Abortion for Men, Too. [Scroll down] In this case, I guess
Julián Castro's support for transgender abortion contains some semblance of warped logic. Not that this highly
implausible and as yet scientifically impossible scenario is worth mentioning in a presidential debate when you are already
limited by time and must choose your words wisely. And not that there are other more practical, more pressing issues to
be dealt with. But that's what you get from a political party that wants to fund the kinds of procedures that could put
babies inside men's bodies, while simultaneously fighting for laws that would allow these same babies to get ripped out again.
The Editor says...
Identity theft is one thing, but this opens the door to fraud, most of all. One cannot take advantage of credit
if the customer, the merchant, and the bank can't even agree on the customer's name. Anyone who is so confused and so mercurial
about his or her own name should have a credit rating of zero. Pay in cash or be gone.
Woman's
'Hail Satan' invocation prompts walkout from Alaska town meeting. Several government officials and attendees
walked out of an Alaska government meeting south of Anchorage this week when an official who's also a member of the Satanic
Temple ended the opening prayer with "Hail Satan." The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly's previous policy stated that
those delivering the invocation must be a member of a recognized church, but the rules were changed last October when
Alaska's Supreme Court decided in favor of the ACLU that the policy was unconstitutional, according to Alaskan Public
Media. Iris Fontana, the Satanic Temple member, was one of the plaintiffs in the case. An atheist and a Jewish
woman were also involved in the lawsuit.
'Hail
Satan' opening prayer at Alaska government meeting prompts walkouts, protest. Several attendees at a government
meeting open to the public in Alaska walked out in protest after an opening prayer praised Satan. The Associated Press
reports the prayer, where a woman declared "Hail Satan," was given by Satanic Temple member Iris Fontana, who won the right
to open the meeting with an invocation of her choice.
Student
Gets Kicked Out of Class For Saying There's Only Male and Female. This is just an amazing video to watch.
Hat tip to Rod Dreher for covering it. The student, Murray, tells the teacher that there are only two genders, male and
female. The teacher tells him that the national authority says otherwise. [Video clip]
Progressives
Seek To Make Segregation Great Again. The progressive left touts segregation on college campuses. You
have probably already heard of minority students requesting separate dorm facilities and safe spaces. But there is
another aspect of college life that the left wants to segregate: Graduations. Virginia Tech University recently
started offering ten segregated graduation ceremonies that are separated by race, sexuality, and other identity groups.
Students are allowed to participate in the graduation of their choosing. The ceremonies are open to anyone who wishes
to attend, but the participants must fall into the right category.
Marijuana
damages adolescent brains, health professionals write in op-ed. Two health professionals penned an op-ed in The
New York Times on Sunday that despite society's shift on marijuana use, it does not change the fact that the drug is not safe
for high school and college students. Kenneth L. Davis, the president and chief executive of the Mount Sinai Health
System, and Mary Jeanne Kreek, the head of Laboratory of the Biology of Addictive Diseases at Rockefeller University, cited
studies that show a "deleterious impact on cognitive development in adolescents."
San
Francisco and Los Angeles. If you are planning a visit to San Francisco or Los Angeles, may we ask why?
On a casual walk in downtown San Francisco or Los Angeles, tourists will encounter streets and sidewalks strewn with drug
needles, garbage, and feces. Gang activity is high in both cities. Both cities find themselves saddled with
liberal/progressive governmental policies. As one serious result, living conditions for low-income residents of San
Francisco and Los Angeles routinely reach toxic levels.
Reality
is Not an Option. What is "equality before the law" when some people are entitled to extra protections under
hate crime laws? What is "basic human decency" when, to be a victim, one must identify a group of people as oppressors
and revile them publicly as a class? [...] There isn't the slightest evidence that illiterate third-worlders or a tattoo-defaced
generation of the sexually confused are inclined to be either tolerant or productive citizens. There is plenty of
evidence that many of these disorderly creatures have good old-fashioned tribal axes to grind.
Texas
town overrun with crime and disease. The mayor has had enough. Uvalde is a small town of 17,000 inhabitants,
and they are now overrun by illegal immigrants and an international cartel smuggling operation. Uvalde is 40-60 miles
from the border, but it might as well be right at the border. "We are in no man's land. The state is not doing anything;
the federal government is not doing anything," the mayor, who is begging the politicians to get involved, said. "We are getting
nothing. I've lived here all my life and have never seen anything like this. The people in the communities are getting
scared. What is coming that we don't see? Who knows? People up north and in D.C. have no clue what is
going on here. They don't realize that these people are not being screened for diseases. We're fed up."
Situated at the crossroads of major highways coming up from border towns in the Laredo and Del Rio border sectors, Uvalde has
now become a dumping ground for migrants coming north. And they are not just coming from Central America.
Venezuela:
hyperinflation leads to new banknotes for second time in a year. Venezuela is releasing new banknotes for the
second time in less than a year, the central bank said on Wednesday, after hyperinflation eroded the effects of an August
2018 monetary overhaul meant to improve availability of cash. Venezuela's president, Nicolás Maduro, last year cut
five zeroes off the currency and prices. The move was supposed to ease shortages of cash that pushed most of the
economy toward debit and credit card operations and put heavy strain on digital commerce platforms. Banknotes of
10,000, 20,000 and 50,000 bolivar denominations will begin circulating on Thursday [6/13/2019] to "make the payment
system more efficient and facilitate commercial transactions", the central bank said in statement.
Minneapolis' Sacred Stupidity.
[T]oday's generation of Democrat machine politicians in charge of our cities don't bother trying to sell themselves as
capable administrators anymore. How can they, when Los Angeles' trash piles rival those of Kinshasa, homeless bums
micturate on passing taxicabs on New York streets, it's recommended that one wear galoshes on the streets of San Francisco so
as to avoid ruining one's Ferragamos by stepping in freshly-lain human feculence, and New Orleans is inundated each time
there's a hard rain because the city's pumps and drainage infrastructure are virtually untouched by improvement despite
billions in spending for just that purpose?
Deep
Blue Connecticut Is A Model For How Not To Run An Economy. Connecticut is currently facing a $3.7 billion-plus
deficit, but the problem is much worse than it looks. Research found that Connecticut has the worst-funded pension
system in the country for the second year in a row. Unfunded pension liabilities amount to $117.7 billion and unfunded
liabilities for other post-employment benefits (OPEB) amount to $36.7 billion. While the 6.35 percent general sales
tax rate isn't raised, the new budget expands the sales tax base to include more goods and services. The sales tax would
expand to include parking, dry cleaning, laundry, interior design services and safety apparel.
Brown and Out in Beverly
Hills. Leftists advance incrementally. Their template is as simple as it is predictable: Ask for a
little, and swear that the demands will end there. Most regular folks will give in because decent people generally seek
compromise. But to leftists, compromise is merely a temporary step, a strategy. "We don't want gay marriage, we
just want equal partner benefits! Civil unions will shut us up." "Don't Ask, Don't Tell is fine. It's not
like we want the military to pay for tranny surgeries!" "Gender discrimination laws will not lead to the
government forcing women to let men use their bathrooms."
Life
In the Socialist Paradise of Bernie Sanders and AOC. Venezuela is the latest chapter in the long story of
socialist crimes against humanity. Venezuela reminds us how long a country can circle the drain, destroyed by socialism
but still hanging on by its fingernails. Reuters, a liberal news source, has the latest on Venezuela's long goodbye,
but never mentions the fact that it is socialism that destroyed what once was one of the world's richest countries.
Who Are the Big Babies
Now. This is the mediocracy at work. They revile greatness to mask their own inadequacies. Hence,
contrived hate crimes, fat shaming, participation medals, identity politics, demand for rights already accrued, for lopsided
equality, for affirmative action, resentment politics, no-platforming, and other corrosions of democratic health.
The decline of the
family has unleashed an epidemic of loneliness. Americans are suffering from a bad case of loneliness.
The number of people in the United States living alone has gone through the studio-apartment roof. A study released by
the insurance company Cigna last spring made headlines with its announcement: "Only around half of Americans say they have
meaningful, daily face-to-face social interactions." Loneliness, public-health experts tell us, is killing as many
people as obesity and smoking.
California
Is The Future The Liberal Elite Wants For You. [Scroll down] Already, petty crime has been effectively
legalized. Crooks get a free pass on the first $950 a day they steal. [...] And now pot's effectively legal here, which
is spectacular. Just what Cali needed — more people on a drug that makes them dumber and lazier. Take
a walk down the street and see the sights! Look, there's a schizo with his cargo shorts around his ankles baying at the
billboard informing you about how no human being is illegal! Oh, and there's another homeless druggie muttering to
himself about alien carrots stealing his vital essences as he pushes along his stolen shopping cart heaped with refuse.
If you're appalled or distressed by this, you're the bad guy. Caring means letting lunatics and addicts wallow in the
elements enslaved by their insanity and/or sickness. Shame on you for wanting your kids to be able to play
outside. Hypodermic needles and piles of human waste on the sidewalk are just part of the price you must pay to dwell
in the sun.
Law
enforcement, media changed standards for Trump. One of the more unfortunate effects of the Trump-Russia
investigation — and there have been many — is the weakening of traditional standards of argument and
proof in the public debate over allegations that the Trump campaign conspired with Russia to fix the 2016 election.
(Just for the record: It didn't.) In particular, angry disputes about the president have done terrible harm to
the principle that an investigator, be it a journalist or a prosecutor, should meet at least some standard of proof before
leveling an accusation.
Perfect
storm brews in Portland Maine as Mayor, Council welcome illegals. Currently, there are three major factors leading up
to the storm in Portland. All three involve illegal immigration: [#1] Portland has had an incredible influx of illegal
immigrants over the last few years. [#2] Immigrants are supported by a heavily strained, taxpayer-funded city welfare system.
[#3] City officials are encouraging the situation while being unable to provide satisfactory solutions to the problems they have created.
Green
Policies Turned California A Charred Black. More than half of California's roughly 105 million acres are owned
by the federal and state governments. It is on these sprawling parcels that the wildfires tend to rage before devouring
private land, homes, and businesses. Public lands "have proved far more vulnerable to forest fires than properties
owned by private groups," Hoover Institution scholar Richard Epstein wrote in California's Forest Fire Tragedy. [...]
The loudest voices assign blame for the fires to man-made climate change. But the human activity primarily responsible
for the destructive spread of wildfires is public policy favoring burned timber over harvested timber. While maybe
well-intended, laws inspired by the 1970s environmentalist movement, which is determined to make sure saw blades and trees
never meet, have stoked the furnaces.
San
Francisco: The Radical Left in Charge. In America's largest coastal metropolises, Democrats rule.
For all intents and purposes, there are no Republicans. Today, for instance, the New York City school commissioner is
hard at work trying to destroy the city's public schools. He is firing white administrators. He is telling school
principals to give special privileges to minority children. He wants to dumb down New York's premier high schools, in
the name of diversity. And yet, New York is not quite in the league of San Francisco, now become America's urban basket
case. It is worth noting that the city is home to House Speaker Pelosi, who is hard at work slandering the president of the
United States.
Leftist Heartbreak in San
Francisco. Like most big cities, San Francisco is poorly run, stridently progressive, and overly regulated.
Unlike many other big U.S. cities, it's located on one of the most scenic spots on Earth and has delightful year-round
weather. I take no pleasure in seeing such a glorious place run into the ground by bad leaders (and voters), even if
I occasionally struggle with Schadenfreude. But oddly enough, San Francisco's harshest critics these days
are not on the Right. To many progressives, San Francisco has turned from a source of their love and affection into a
painful disappointment.
'Sky-High'
Trash Piles Found In Los Angeles, Raising Concerns About Typhus. Apparently, problems with waste are not
limited to San Francisco. NBC4 reported Monday [5/20/2019] that "sky-high" piles of rotting trash were found around Los
Angeles, leading some to worry about a new typhus outbreak. "Even the city's most notorious trash pile, located between
downtown LA's busy Fashion and Produce districts, continues to be a magnet for rats after it was cleaned up months ago.
The rodents can carry typhus-infected fleas, which can spread the disease to humans through bacteria rubbed into the eyes or
cuts and scrapes on the skin, resulting in severe flu-like symptoms," the outlet reported. [Video clip]
San Francisco's Quality-of-Life Toll.
San Francisco is the nation's leader in property crime. Burglary, larceny, shoplifting, and vandalism are included
under this ugly umbrella. The rate of car break-ins is particularly striking: in 2017 over 30,000 reports were filed,
and the current average is 51 per day. Other low-level offenses, including drug dealing, street harassment,
encampments, indecent exposure, public intoxication, simple assault, and disorderly conduct are also rampant. Many in
law enforcement blame the crime wave on Proposition 47, which in 2014 downgraded possession of illegal narcotics for personal
use and theft of anything under $950 in value from felonies to misdemeanors. Anti-incarceration advocates disagree with
that argument, but theft is indisputably booming, and narcotics activity is exploding on sidewalks, parks, and playgrounds.
When compounded with other troubles for which the city is now infamous (human feces, filth, and homelessness, which is up
17 percent since 2017), San Franciscans find themselves surrounded by squalor and disorder.
Surprise!
Learning about Cotton in School Is Racist Now. I currently live in Arlington, Va., and do not vote in local elections.
It's not that I don't want to vote, but there is literally no one [...] on the ballots who could even
pretend to be anywhere close to being a conservative. The problem isn't my lack of desire, it's that I don't have anyone to vote
for. As one of the most progressively leftist communities in this country, my local government is completely devoid of any
representation of my beliefs and values. So, I was not surprised to read ARLNow's article about an Arlington elementary school
teacher who has found herself in hot water for having her students study cotton.
Planting
of Cotton at Arlington Elementary School Prompts Discussion. A cotton plant growing at Campbell Elementary
School drew criticism online today, but Arlington Public Schools said allegations that staff were going to make kids "pick
cotton" was a misunderstanding. "At no time, never, was the school going to have students pick cotton," said APS
spokesman Frank Bellavia.
NY
Times: Venezuela's Economic Devastation Comparable To Countries Destroyed By War. Democratic socialism is
working in Venezuela. It's working to make everyone miserable and hungry. The sign in the photo [left]
reads: "Maduro is hunger." The NY Times reports the economic decline Venezuelans are now experiencing
is unsurpassed in the past 45 years outside of countries in the midst of war.
The Editor says...
Socialism doesn't work in Venezuela. It also doesn't work
in Zimbabwe or Cuba.
Death
Always Follows Democrat Policies. In my upcoming first book, 10 Warning Signs Your Child is Becoming a
Democrat, I avoid policy and hone in on parenting. I believe that if my playbook is followed, we can ensure that
future generations of our youth don't grow up to be Democrats. Substantive health care fixes, cures for cancer and
AIDS, and the first man and woman on Mars will be as useless as a Willard Romney endorsement if we don't win the youth battle
within the four walls of our homes. I'd be remiss if I failed to mention the abhorrently increasing zeal for abortions
during any stage of pregnancy. The residual effects of Democrat polices, in addition to producing killer kids, also
kill our unborn. All of it is by design; nothing in politics is coincidental.
America's largest
cities drowning in debt, with Chicago leading the way, study finds. America's 10 largest cities, largely
Democrat strongholds, are drowning in municipal debt, according to a new report from government watchdog Truth in
Accounting. The report sought out "to determine what ... overlapping financial entities mean for taxpayers' bottom
line." Truth in Accounting said its purpose was to "calculate the various bills (and surpluses, when available) at the city
government level and divide them out to determine a per-Taxpayer Burden." The two cities with the highest burden: Chicago
and New York City; Chicago's combined taxpayer burden: $119,110; New York City's combined taxpayer burden: $85,600.
Life
if the Democrats take control. Democrats back in power would continue to appoint Leftist Judges who would
continue to limit Conservative speech in the open forum or on public media such as the Radio. These same judges would
continue to tear away our basic foundations where they find Religion an enemy of their goals. Consider what life would
be like if the face book options for gender become law. Facebook gives its members the choice of 58 types of
gender identification. Are you ready to deal with that if the Democrats continue to push such that concept.
Marriage continues to be under assault. TV shows are now glorifying the 3 person marriage. Do not
believe me? Watch SWAT on CBS.
Why
Have Department of Defense Suicides Spiked? The Department of Defense has a suicide problem. Thank Presidents Clinton
and Obama[.] Prior to 1993, the Department of Defense (DOD) used to screen recruits, officer candidates, and service academy entrants
for mental, personality, and suicide behavior disorders. Now they don't. [...] When men and women had enlistment physicals, they were
evaluated by a physician for obvious physical defects and to also see if they had an apparent mental or personality disorder. Any
potential recruit screened with mental, personality, and suicide (and a range of other) behavior disorders were considered unfit for service.
Then President Clinton signed the Don't Ask, Don't Tell law. DOD's policy that screened for personality disorders and mental illnesses
during the pre-enlistment physical was terminated as a function of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell law. The law removed all screening for
DSM categories of homosexuality, sexual and personality disorders and mental illnesses.
The
Destructive Equality Act of 2019. My dictionary defines psychosis as "a severe mental disorder in which thought
and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality." We now have a majority of members of Congress
who are prepared to pass into law that the sex individuals are born with — their chromosomal and physical
reality — will take a back seat to how those individuals choose to define their own sexual identity.
Henceforth, we'll be done with the idea that there is some objective reality independent of what of any particular individual
decides it is. I once complained that our society was denying morality — right and wrong. Now we're
beyond this. We're denying reality in its entirety.
Why
are so many Democrats so reprehensible in exactly the same way? For the past fifty years, the imposition of multiculturalism and
all that it has entailed, two generations have been taught that tolerance of all things must supersede all other values. Ergo, we've arrived
at a place in which the bulk of one of our two political parties has, if inadvertently, embraced evil in the name of tolerance — radical
Islam, all variations of sexual orientation including pedophilia, the absolutist notion that all minorities are victims, all women are victims.
We must now accept the trope that all white men are bad, a blight on civilized society. How destructive is this to our country? It is
devastating, and they do it purposefully, these Democrats. They have become the embodiment of Cloward-Piven and Saul Alinsky.
New
York Blocked A New Pipeline And Guess What They Just Found Out. The "Keep it in the ground" crowd has a lot of
influence with the Democrats who control the government. That why, back in 2013, when the new Constitution Pipeline was
proposed to carry natural gas from Pennsylvania's rich shale oil fields to New York, activists were able to block the
construction despite it already having been approved by federal regulators. Similarly, when National Grid (the local
energy consortium) requested an extension to the Williams Co. Transco pipeline, they were also tied up because of the
outcry from environmental activists. Here comes the surprise that nobody could have possibly seen coming. The
city and its surrounding downstate region are still expanding with new construction projects, but their energy suppliers have
told them that they will not be able to supply natural gas to any new customers because they're already at capacity.
A World Without Morality. If the
theoretical end point of liberal democracy is a world without boundaries, physical or cultural, then it is a world without
morality. After all, morality is a world of fences and gates that control human behavior within the closed social
system. In order for there to be a moral order, there must be order and that must include boundaries. Once the
boundaries lose their purpose, the fences and gates are simply gravestones in a cemetery of a long forgotten people. No
one cares if the kids knock over the grave stones. In fact, in a world without form, the hunt for something to level
becomes increasingly urgent as there is less and less to knock over. Once the statues of the great men of the past are
removed, their names must be removed. Once the basics of family life have been destroyed through divorce and feminism,
the innocence of childhood is attacked via the degeneracy of transgenderism.
Sanctuary
Laws and the Death of E Pluribus Unum. "Sanctuary" laws that shield illegal aliens may have the veneer of
compassion, but their implementation is setting the stage for confrontations between federal and local law enforcement
officers with conflicting orders. The short-term result could be dead or wounded officers. In a broader context,
these laws raise the specter of a constitutional crisis and a breakdown of social order. Sanctuary laws are an
existential threat to America and need to end. [...] Sanctuary laws are a gateway to chaos. If such rebellion is
allowed to stand, are there any limits at all?
'MeToo'
Hysteria: Handshakes In The Workplace Could Be Next On Chopping Block. Employers seeking to avoid
lawsuits in the hypersensitive age of the #MeToo movement are looking to ban even the most innocuous professional courtesies,
including handshakes. Last week, Kate Palmer, associate director of advisory at human resources consultancy Peninsula
and an alleged "expert" on the matter, said that employers may soon seek to ban "all forms of physical contact to avoid
confusion about what kind of touch is appropriate," according to The Sun of Britain.
Here's
how many square feet you can afford to rent on a median income in these popular US cities. You may make the big
bucks in the big city, but that doesn't necessarily mean your pad is going to reflect that. When it comes to finding
the perfect spacious apartment, you have to take into account both your location and annual salary. And in some cities,
such as New York City, Boston or Los Angeles, you may just have to accept that you'll always feel a little cramped.
Watch
Former Fed Prosecutor Smash Anti-Trump Commentator's Biased Version Of "Truth". The facts are undeniable
regarding the Mueller investigation. After nearly two years and tens of millions of dollars wasted, there was no
collusion and no obstruction — period. The media is now working double-time to try and spin that
reality into something else. If they are allowed to do so this is no longer America because if a president isn't free
to do his job then none of us are. If you support attacking President Trump then you support attacking everything this
country once stood for — namely freedom, liberty, and the right to self-expression. And it has been the
Democrat Party and the media who have created this very real division that is now tearing the nation apart.
A
mysterious condition makes marijuana users violently ill. Before the meal began, Moon joked with Jagger that it
would be her last supper. A few hours later, she was at home vomiting uncontrollably. She'd spend the next few
days in the hospital. Moon had previously been diagnosed with a condition called cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, or
CHS. Very little is known about CHS, which was first identified in the early 2000s. The recognized hallmarks of the
condition are heavy, consistent marijuana use, violent vomiting and nausea, and a tendency to use extremely hot baths or
showers for relief.
Transgender
Rights: Judge Warns Girls Have No Right to 'Visual Bodily Privacy'. A federal judge is allowing a lawsuit
against transgender facilities in a school district to proceed, but warned the student-plaintiffs that, if the government
allows boys who claim to be female to use the girls' bathrooms and locker rooms, then the girls have no right to "visual
bodily privacy." Judge Jorge Alonso of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division is
allowing a lawsuit to proceed against the school district that adopted the Obama-era transgender policy permitting boys
claiming to be female to use the girls' bathrooms, showers, and locker rooms.
San
Francisco's Slow-Motion Suicide. The city's current concentration of wealth likely doesn't represent the
beginning of a golden-if-sinful era, but the end. Magnificent in the distance, San Francisco is now shockingly ugly
up close. In the decade I have lived here, the city has achieved the seemingly impossible: It has combined
the expensive and the bland and the appalling into a new form of decadence.
West
Virginia Leads Nation in Homeownership Rate; New York and California Rank Last. West Virginia ranked No. 1
among the 50 states for its homeownership rate in 2018, which was 74.7 percent, according to new housing data released by the
U.S. Census Bureau. New York and California ranked 50th and 49th with homeownership rates of 51.0 and 55.1, according
to Table 15 in the Census Bureau's Annual Statistics on Housing Vacancies and Homeownership. The Census Bureau
calculates the homeownership rate by dividing the number of owner occupied housing units by the total number of occupied
housing units.
How
Chicago Democrats Created Trump's Border Wall Problem. After World War II outmigration became a concern for all
big northern Democrat-controlled cities since the growth of suburbs and the baby boom prompted young couples to leave big
cities and seek more space for their families. But this outmigration created a huge problem for the big Democratic
cities from Boston to Los Angeles: how to restore and stabilize their city's population and keep control of Congress.
The solution was to allow illegal immigration and support them with benefits. Providing illegal immigrants with
benefits such as food stamps and housing were crucial, since illegal immigrants were not well educated and did not earn
enough income to be self-sufficient. This concern prompted President Lyndon Baines Johnson to establish the Great
Society welfare programs, and he himself admitted the programs were intended to strengthen America's big cities. LBJ
stopped the agricultural guest worker program, called the Bracero program, just at the time he started the Great Society.
This allowed illegal immigrants to come to Chicago and not worry about being educated well enough to support themselves.
The lack of income was made up through free benefits.
Doctors
Are Now Giving 8-Year-Old Girls Testosterone, Claiming They're 'Transgender'. According to medical doctors and
a parent of a gender non-conforming child speaking on a panel for the Heritage Foundation, their quest to stop dangerous
transgender treatments on minors has exposed that "government-funded research now allows wrong sex hormones such as
testosterone to be given to girls as young as 8," reported The Christian Post on Tuesday [4/2/2019].
I have my
'Trump 2020' cap! Without fear of punishment for their crimes, the enraged Deep State is now trying to remove
Trump by absurdly claiming he obstructed justice. These people are relentless and evil. If Trump is not
re-elected, Democrats will pass a law to kill babies after they are born. Sharia law will gain more strongholds in our
culture. Our economy will tank due to job-killing crazy green policies. Single-payer health care will empower
Democrats to dictate who lives and who dies. The LGBTQ agenda will be forced down our throats. Reading and
quoting the Bible will be illegal. These are not exaggerations, folks. All of these anti-freedom and
anti-Christian initiatives are being pushed right now by Democrats. President Trump is the main obstacle, courageously
standing in their way. The Democrats have become the party of full-blown lawlessness. Democrat-controlled sanctuary
cities boldly break our immigration laws. Democrats encourage illegals to break our immigration laws at the border.
One Bad Apple. Globalism,
multiculturalism, and socialism have done the trick: destabilized traditional family values with all these new mores like
same-sex marriage, gender-neutral bathrooms, and prepubescent transgender rights. But basically people feel mocked and
set aside by the elite who run this town, those in City Hall, the media, and the hatchet-faced women of glossy magazines.
Pseudo-lefty-trendy magazines like The New Yorker fail to address the fact that Hispanic, Chinese, Korean, even
African-American societies are conservative by nature. These phonies pretend to speak for the underdog, but converse
only with each other.
'Seattle
Is Dying' because Liberalism Is Killing It. If you haven't seen the KOMO News special Seattle Is Dying,
you need to. The hour-long show does a sound job of depicting the ugly decline of one of the most beautiful places in
America. However, the piece misses the forest for the nasty, dirty, twisted trees. Part of the root of the
problem in Seattle is political, but Seattle Is Dying virtually ignores the liberal politics behind Seattle's foul
decline. As John Sexton at Hot Air put it, "[t]here's really no escaping the fact that the current situation is the
result of political decisions."
Look
at the science and stop the march toward legalized marijuana. Despite myths to the contrary, marijuana is a
serious health risk. It does indeed result in unhealthy dependence among nearly one-third of users. It is a
definite risk (perhaps deadly) for lung health, and it is especially dangerous for heart health. Some studies also show
that it substantially increases risk for a form of testicular cancer. To be specific on heart risks, the National
Institute on Drug Abuse reports: "Limited evidence suggests that a person's risk of heart attack during the first hour
after smoking marijuana is nearly five times his or her usual risk." Meanwhile, the measurable consequences for states
that have legalized recreational marijuana have been bracing.
Green
Insanity Is Flooding Towns and Destroying Lives. Having written extensively in these pages on the catastrophic
flooding of the Missouri River basin in 2011, I believe that the occasion of this present flood disaster plaguing Nebraska,
Iowa, and South Dakota has given rise to many questions. Foremost, I have been asked if there is an environmentalist
element, as there was in 2011, when the Corps of Engineers intentionally permitted the flooding of eight states in order to
further their highest priority (as per the Master Water Control Manual) of "habitat restoration for riverine wildlife" at the
expense of the original top priority, flood control, and the preservation of human life and property.
Leftists
Have Turned San Francisco Into A Nightmare Of Drugs And Homelessness. There's no denying that San Francisco is
one of America's most beautiful and recognizable cities, but it has been racked with problems thanks to leftist policies that
have driven drug addiction and homelessness through the roof. The Daily Wire's Kassy Dillon and Colton Haas traveled to
the city by the bay and spoke to experts and homeless people about the conditions that have encouraged the spread of drugs,
disease, and more. During their trip, they could see the awful condition the city is currently in.
More
than a third of New Yorkers say they can't afford to live here. More than a third of all city residents say
they can't afford to live anywhere in the state — much less the Big Apple — and believe economic
hardship will send them packing in five years or less, according to a dismal new poll. That's 41 percent of city
dwellers who say they can't cope with New York's high cost of living, according to a Quinnipiac poll published Wednesday
[3/20/2019]. Separately, 41 percent fear they'll be "forced" to pull up stakes and seek greener pastures
where the economic climate is more welcoming.
Changing the Rules.
The news cycle is so unnaturally shrill as if it was the status quo itself was screaming. From unenacted policies to
the automatic assignment of blame to Western civilization the news cycle has become one continuous rant. Referring to
the root causes of the Christchurch mosque massacre a Slate article argued: "we are a nation born of shame. A
white-majority Australia exists only as the result of a genocidal invasion." Speech has never been more dangerous nor
points of view more opposed. When the demand isn't "why didn't you denounce this" or "why didn't you apologize for
that" it is may be "why did you misgender me?" You can go to jail for saying "he" instead of "she".
Major Science
Journal Embraces 'Nature Rights' Movement. Nature rights" is a hard-leftwing and anti-free market
movement — once on the fringe but now growing increasingly mainstream within environmentalism — that
doesn't seek tighter legal regulations over our use of the natural world, but rather, advocates personalizing nature toward
the end of granting flora, fauna, ecosystems, and geological features human-type rights. In a saner era, the idea of
granting rights to "nature" would be laughed off the public stage. But it's not funny. The nature rights movement
is serious, it is growing in power and influence, and it becoming alarmingly successful. Indeed, the movement has made
important strides in the last few years: four rivers have been granted enforceable rights, including the Amazon and
Ganges. So too have glaciers. An orangutan was declared a "non-human person" in Argentina and granted a writ of
habeas corpus to be released from a zoo to a sanctuary. Most recently, a special election in Toledo, Ohio passed that
granted "rights" to Lake Erie.
President
Trump Saves Thousands of Lives. So what happened in 2015 and 2016 to cause the violent crime rate, including
the homicide rate, to rise after decades of decline? I can't think of any explanation other than the Black Lives Matter
movement and the relentless attacks on law enforcement that it engendered, which were supported by the Obama administration.
But what happened when Donald Trump took over in the White House? The homicide and violent crime rates began to fall again.
If the New York Times's projection is correct, the second year of the Trump administration saw a steeper decline in the homicide
rate. Again, what could possibly have caused this change? I can't think of a plausible theory other than the Trump
administration's renewed support for law enforcement and the waning of the anti-police Black Lives Matter movement.
Something happened beginning in 2017 that has saved thousands of lives. If it wasn't the new administration in
Washington, what was it?
The
financial collapse of the Democratic mayors. Recently, non-government organization Truth in Accounting
published a report about the financial condition of the 75 largest cities of America. As it turns out, 63 out of
75 cities in America were not able to pay bills at the end of the fiscal year of 2017. The final result of this study was
the calculation of the burden borne by taxpayers in these American cities. The formula is simple: the financial balance
of the city (positive or negative) is divided by the number of inhabitants. The result is a good assessment of how effectively
the city authorities work, depending on the positive or negative financial balance of the city per capita.
KOMO News' Special:
Seattle Is Dying. "People didn't use to use the word embarrassing about Seattle, but they use it a lot now,"
the narrator to a new KOMO News special titled "Seattle is Dying" says. The focus of the special is homelessness and
the ways in which it has changed the city. There's a section featuring angry residents of one area of the city who are
screaming at their representatives for action. They want the tent cities managed and they're tired of calling the police
only to find out the police can arrest people but those same people will be back on the street, sometimes within hours.
7 Reasons Why the
Equality Act Is Anything But. [#1] It would penalize Americans who don't affirm new sexual norms or gender ideology. Jack
Phillips' case went all the way to the Supreme Court after the Colorado Civil Rights Commission accused the bakery owner of discriminating on
the basis of sexual orientation when the self-described cake artist declined to create a custom cake to celebrate a same-sex wedding.
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, but le the law in question, the Colorado Anti-Discrimination
Act, intact. Until last week, Phillips was in court again defending himself against the same agency under the same law. The day after
the Supreme Court ruled in Phillips' case, Autumn Scardina, a lawyer who identifies as transgender, requested that he create a "gender
transition cake." After Phillips declined, the state Civil Rights Commission found probable cause under the law that the baker had
discriminated on the basis of gender identity. Thankfully, the commission last week dropped the case, and Phillips agreed to drop
his own lawsuit accusing the state agency of harassing him for his Christian beliefs.
Antifa-Controlled
Portland Police Bureau Faces Mass 'Exodus' As 50+ Officers Quit Over Insane and Dangerous Far Left Policies. As
Portland trends further and further from Democrat to Marxist, the rank-and-file officers of the Portland Police Bureau have
been put in the unenviable position of being ordered by the mayor to cater to the far left protesters and rioters like
Antifa. At the same time the officers also face a more and more irate public, angry at the police bureau's propensity
for ceding the city to the protesters on a regular basis.
From
Democratic Socialism to Total Destruction in Venezuela. During the 1970s, Venezuela's per capita income was
higher than the sum of all other Andean nations, including Chile. The country had the lowest taxes in the region,
coupled with a stable democracy. Since the US left the gold standard, only the Swiss franc and the Venezuelan bolivar
managed to maintain their value. In 1980 the Venezuelan bolivar was worth more against the U.S. dollar than in 1880.
It remained that way until the 1973 elections when both the legislative and executive branches came under the power of a single
democratic socialist party, Acción Democrática, while simultaneously the Arab oil embargo that year produced a huge
increase in oil prices. [A]s a result government revenues increased by a factor of 4. The government than embarked
in "democratic socialism", systematically applying the same theories supported now in the USA by Senator Bernie Sanders and
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Democrat
Lawmaker and Teamster President: 'Chaos' in Schools Since Obama-Era Discipline Policy. A Democrat state senator
and a Teamsters president said the dramatic drop in school suspensions in New York City since the Obama-era policy urging
more lenient forms of discipline for minority students has led to "chaos" and a lack of "accountability" for dangerous
behavior. New York state Sen. Leroy Comrie told CBS New York that schools in his Queens district are losing the
confidence of parents. "They're taking their children to other schools even if they have to pay for private schools,"
he said. "They don't want to have to have their children in an environment where they're assaulted and there's no
accountability."
Marxism,
the Frankfurt School, and the Leftist Takeover of the College Campus. When one observes the modern-day college
campus, one observes nothing but the Marxist-leftist indoctrination of America's youth. [...] One has to look no farther than
Boston University to find courses with titles such as "Dismantling White Privilege, Power, and Supremacy." Any course
that attempts to induce guilt for one's ethnicity is undeniably subjective in nature. Consider the debates on sex,
sexuality, and human physiology. There is arguably mainstream societal acceptance that there are more than two
"genders" and that sex and sexuality are in no way linked. Furthermore, if one even questions the eligibility of male
athletes in female-only sports, he will often be labeled a bigot, or at the very least old-fashioned. No empirical
research is needed to realize that much of American history is now scrutinized rather than honored. American military
involvement is commonly preached as oppression rather than liberation. Everything from the nuclear family to supporting
ICE is under scrutiny. There is a systematic dismantling of American values that were once accepted as objectively good
and now maligned as evil. When objective truth and reality no longer exist, the Left can rewrite the rules to
society — and it has. Where do all of these ideas come from? Primarily college campuses.
Blacks
and the Democrats. What has been the payoff to the black community for religiously voting for Democratic leadership? To start,
although blacks make up 13% of the U.S. population, they account for nearly 50% of the homicides. According to the National Council for Home
Safety and Security, the top 10 most dangerous cities in the United States for 2018 had Democrats as mayors, and according to the 2019 American
Community Survey, 9 out of the top 10 poorest cities also have Democrats as mayors. Many of these cities have the largest
population of African-Americans in the country.
The
Problem Is Legislative Overreach, Not Executive. In 1975, two years after Richard Nixon negotiated the Paris Accords
and ended the war in the Vietnam, the Communist North Vietnamese reneged and invaded South Vietnam. Instead of defending the
South as Nixon promised we would do in this event, President Gerald Ford looked on helplessly as the Democratic Congress would not
permit it. At the same time, the Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia and turned the country into a death camp. Because the
Democrats hated Nixon and Republicans, and saw no political advantage to intervening, they permitted our allies to be slaughtered
and enslaved. A year later, in 1976, Ford signed the National Emergency Powers Act, which would allow special powers for the
president should this kind of emergency arise and the legislature decides to play politics as people die or great injustices occur.
Trump Is Right on the Law and the Merits President Trump's recent decision to invoke this act and fund a border wall was in response
to the Democrats in Congress refusing to cooperate.
Students
Across US Now Majoring In Marijuana At Colleges. Colleges are now adding cannabis to their curriculum.
Grace DeNoya is used to getting snickers when people learn she's majoring in marijuana. "My friends make good-natured
jokes about getting a degree in weed," said DeNoya, one of the first students in a new four-year degree program in medicinal
plant chemistry at Northern Michigan University. "I say, 'No, it's a serious degree, a chemistry degree first and
foremost. It's hard work. Organic chemistry is a bear.'"
Socialism
destroys prom: School officials ban kids from riding in limos because everyone can't afford it. Socialism
invariably destroys everything it touches, including even proms. Back in the day, some kids used to enjoy saving up
enough money through the semester so they could rent a lavish limo for their year-end senior prom. But thanks to the
socialist mindset of one New Jersey school's officials, this tradition is no more. According to Trenton radio station
WKXW, officials at Lakeland Regional High School made a decision this year to ban students from driving to their prom or
renting a limo. Instead, every student must pay $15 to be driven to the prom at Rockleigh Country Club on a chaperoned bus.
Male
Christian Wrestler Forfeits State Championship Spot Rather Than Wrestle Girls. An 18-year-old high school
wrestler in Colorado has given up a potential spot in the Colorado high school state championships because he chooses not to
wrestle two young ladies saying it violates how he was raised to treat women. Brendan Johnston of The Classical Academy
in Colorado says those values — despite some light complaints from at least one of the young ladies he would have
faced — are informed by his Christianity and, after a discussion with his coach and some deep thought on the
subject, he's decided to stand behind his principles despite knowing it would mean a shortened competition.
Girls'
sports being decimated by biological males claiming to be females. There are only two genders in this world of
ours, male and female, and it doesn't matter how someone "identifies," that biological fact is established and unalterable.
[...] With that being said, the Left is nevertheless hard at work trying to convince us that gender is a 'fluid' thing and in
some cases, an outright choice, so old societal constructs like "male" and "female" sports are no longer necessary or
relevant. That's why they go along with allowing biological males to participate in (and dominate) all-female events
simply because they 'identify' as a girl, claiming — remarkably and unbelievably — that there are no
physical differences between the sexes.
From
Roy Rogers to Infanticide. America has moved on. Democrats, Hollywood, and fake news media say America no
longer wants white guys like Roy Rogers on TV, infecting our kids with Christian morals and family values. America has
moved on from the biblical teaching that there are only two genders. NYC recognizes 31 different genders.
Facebook gives customers 56 gender options. Leftists believe they are far more sophisticated and intelligent than Bible
believers and Americans living in flyover country. Leftists say determining a baby's gender by its genitalia at birth
is idiotic. They say we must allow the child to evolve into the gender it wants to be. This insane child abuse
has led to hundreds of kids as young as four years old identifying as transgender and changing their sex.
If
There's a Hair in Your Soup, Thank New York's Commission on Human Rights. [Scroll down] New York City had
long ago rolled through the usual spectrum of legal protections for everyone from ex-cons to transgender men. And the
Commission has been desperately concocting new legal protections. Its latest initiative declares that employers,
including in the health care and food service industries, may not prevent employees, regardless of race, from wearing
dreadlocks because that's racial discrimination. The Commission's new guidelines insist that employees have "the right
to keep hair in an uncut or untrimmed state." Schools, public and private, are also forbidden from banning dreadlocks.
Emotional
support pit bull mauled 5-year-old girl: suit. A woman has filed a $1.1 million negligence lawsuit after her
5-year-old daughter was mauled by a pit bull — which was being used as an emotional support animal — at
Portland International Airport when she petted it. Mirna Gonzalez and her children were waiting for an Alaska Airlines
flight to Texas on Dec. 18, 2017, when she stepped away to grab a coffee, the Washington Post reported. While she
was away, Gabriella asked if she could pet the dog, which suddenly bit her in the face and left her bloodied.
The Editor says...
The whole concept of "emotional support animals" came from the far left fringe. Those whose only god is the government,
and whose primary concern is their own feelings and emotions, must depend on warm and fuzzy animals to cope with situations
that the rest of us consider routine.
Disarming Law Enforcement
in Portland. Portland today is much changed from the city that I grew up in. Signs of urban decay and
degradation are everywhere. Streets are littered with trash, human feces, and drug needles. Transient camps and
villages dot the city. Vagrants roam the streets and threaten pedestrians and businesses owners. A Portland
resident calls the police every 15 minutes to report an incident involving a homeless person. Still, the city's
progressive politicians and activists would like residents to believe that law-enforcement officials pose a greater threat
than public anarchy. Portland's attitude toward law enforcement has become so negative, in fact, that neighboring
Washington County will no longer offer coordination or support to the Portland Police Bureau.
Based
On 'Discrimination' Law, Iowa Jury Awards Trans Woman $120,000, Access To Male Prison Facilities. A jury in
Iowa has concluded that the state discriminated against a former Iowa Department of Corrections nurse because the employer
wouldn't let her use the bathrooms with male employees. The jury also said the Iowa Department of Corrections denied
Jesse Vreogh health care coverage for "medically necessary surgery" — i.e. a double mastectomy to look more like a
man. The jury awarded Vreogh $120,000 for the "emotional distress" of both instances based on Iowa's sexual orientation
and gender identity law, which was introduced in 2007 and signed by Democrat Gov. Chet Culver.
Venezuela
Isn't Just a Failed State. It's a Failure of the Left. If we look at government spending as a percentage
of GDP, Venezuela seems far from socialism. In recent years government spending in Venezuela has been measured at about
40 percent of GDP, with the caveat that these statistics are not fully reliable. For the U.S., the corresponding figure
is about 37 percent. Yet emerging economies typically cannot afford the same government programs as wealthier
countries, and they cannot run them with the same efficacy. Poorer countries that try to expand their governments to
size of wealthier countries, such as Brazil and Venezuela, typically encounter sub-par economic performance. These are
indeed stories of big government run amok, as some of conservatives are suggesting.
The
5 Biggest Widely Accepted Lies in Politics. [#5] Diversity is a strength: While you might be able to make
the argument that diversity of thought is a strength, diversity itself is a weakness. In fact, much of the political
infighting, hatred, and disagreement in modern American politics centers around diversity. Every disagreement between a
liberal minority and non-liberal white American is summed up as racism. Every failing of a woman or female disagreement
with a man is summed up as sexism. We can't have a sane immigration policy because it's declared as racism against
Hispanics. Accusations of racism and sexism have almost completely replaced arguments and rational thought on the Left
because who needs to have good ideas if you can just argue that your opponents' arguments are invalid because they're bad people?
[...] All across the planet, the more diversity you see in culture, the more strife, bloodshed and, problems you see.
Venezuela
was my home, and socialism destroyed it. Slowly, it will destroy America, too. The first time I couldn't
buy food at the grocery store, I was 15 years old. It was 2014 in Caracas, Venezuela, and I had spent more than an hour
in line waiting. When I got to the register I noticed I'd forgotten my ID that day. Without the ID, the
government rationing system would let the supermarket sell my family the full quota of food we needed. It was four days
until the government allowed me to buy more. This was fairly normal for me. All my life I lived under socialism
in Venezuela until I left and came to the U.S. as a student in 2016. Since the regime in charge imposed price controls and
nationalized the most important private industries, production plummeted. No wonder I had to wait hours in lines to buy
simple products such as toothpaste or flour. And the shortages went far beyond the supermarket. My family and I
suffered from blackouts and lack of water. The regime nationalized electricity in 2007 in an effort to make electricity
"free." Unsurprisingly, this resulted in underinvestment in the electrical grid. By 2016, my home lost power roughly
once a week.
Major
League Baseball Ditches 'Disabled List' Over Social Justice Concerns. Major League Baseball will replace the
"disabled list" with the "injured list" for the 2019 season amid concerns that the term "disabled" was insensitive. The
"disabled list" has been part of professional baseball since the mid-1960s (though there are records of some teams using a
"disabled list" as far back as the early 20th century), and it's become second nature to refer to an injured or exhausted
player as "on the DL," but MLB has been reportedly playing around with the idea of renaming the injured roster in order to
better reflect the condition of players who skip games for medical or physical reasons, according to ESPN.
Unisex
toilets in schools are leaving girl pupils 'too afraid to use the loo'. Schoolgirls are too afraid to use
unisex toilets over fears of 'period shaming' from boys and sexual harassment, campaigners warn. A growing number of
schools are ditching separate-sex loos claiming they are not inclusive to transgender children and are a breeding ground for
bullying. But some girls are avoiding going to the toilet during school hours because of cruel taunts from boys and a
lack of privacy, according to the Daily Express.
LGBT
Activists Teaching Judges To Yank Kids From Parents Who Won't Transgender Them. On Thursday [2/7/2019], the Health and
Human Services committee of the South Dakota House killed a bill that would have protected the right of parents to refuse to consent
to medical or psychological treatment for a child suffering from gender dysphoria if the treatment "would induce, confirm, or promote
the child's belief that the child's sex or gender identity is different from the child's sex presented at birth." Proposed House
Bill 1205 also provided that "no public authority or official of this state may take any adverse action against a parent for exercising
this right." That such a simple affirmation of parental rights could not clear a committee in this solidly red state should
terrify parents, as it lays bare transgender activists' plan: use the government to force parents to affirm a false sex for
their child, agree to hormone blockers, and accept a transition to their son or daughter's preferred gender. If parents
refuse? Removal of the child from the family, due to alleged medical neglect.
Transgender
Man Awarded $120,000 in Discrimination Case at Iowa Prison. In 2015, Jesse Vroegh, a registered nurse working
in an Iowa prison, asked his employers at the state Department of Corrections to allow him to use the men's restrooms and
locker rooms at work because he was transitioning from female to male. But the department denied his requests, citing
its concerns about the "rights of the male officers" and saying that transgender issues were "too controversial," according
to a lawsuit.
A Transgender Hero Breaks
Ranks. Even though it's still young, the transgender movement has occasioned many bizarre and horrific
stories. But even in that company, the saga of Jamie Shupe stands out. Born in 1963, Shupe has been married to
his wife, Sandy, for three decades; they have a daughter. He spent eighteen years (1982-2000) in the U.S. Army.
In 2013 he began identifying as a transgender woman, claiming that he had struggled for years with a deep sense of being
different and had been harassed in the military because he was perceived as gay. After declaring that he was a woman,
he "lived for a year in Pittsburgh, got hormone treatments and a name change," but never had a sex-change operation.
Finding Pittsburgh inhospitable for a trans woman, he relocated to Portland, Oregon, where he continued living as a woman for
another two years. In 2015, the New York Times profiled Shupe as part of a splashy, upbeat series celebrating
"transgender lives."
Another
Gift from Socialism in San Fran! Syringes Everywhere. San Francisco has more drug addicts than it has
students enrolled in its public high schools, the city Health Department's latest estimates conclude, the SFChronicle
reports. There are about 24,500 injection drug users in San Francisco — that's about 8,500 more people than
the nearly 16,000 students enrolled in San Francisco Unified School District's 15 high schools and illustrates the scope of
the problem on the city's streets. It represents an increase of 2,000 serious drug users, the article says, but doesn't
mention how many non-serious drug users there are and what the definition entails.
San
Francisco Has More Drug Users Than High School Students. Most of the people shooting heroin in BART stations
are doing it there because they have nowhere else to go. Last year there were local news reports about the extent of
drug use at BART stations. Those reports embarrassed the city and led to some effort to clean up the public areas, but
it remains an uphill battle. Over time, the addicts wind up collapsed in a stupor inside the stations, on the streets,
or on the trains themselves.
Typhus
Is Spreading in Liberal, Rat-Infested LA County. There are a lot of rats in LA, and, NO, for once we don't mean the
politicians although many qualify. We mean the little furry creatures who live in squalor and spread diseases. Last
September, a documentary called 'Rats' was screened as a Landmark Theatres Exclusive Midnight Event. It was frightening
because it's real. Infestations of rats are seen in major cities and elsewhere, and when garbage is left to rot in homeless
areas, they become a more serious threat to life.
The
Ruling Class and an Undeclared Civil War. Unlike any other period in the nation's history, one stratum of society, the
American elites of the past half-century, by their control of education, entertainment, the media and politics, have totally dominated
and overwhelmingly and negatively influenced the culture and national character. They are chiefly responsible for what it is today.
This American aristocracy is now entirely made up of those who have no recall or firsthand experience of the years of adversity prior
to 1940. Their entire point of reference is never-ending affluence and the pursuit of pleasure within an overall framework of
world peace. Yet this assemblage is dominated by a comparatively few committed ideologues and so-called intellectuals who are
dedicated to permanently altering the economy and American culture. Nonetheless, they have been very successful in attracting many
others by appealing to their vanity and avarice. Thus entrance into this class is not entirely a factor of birth or wealth but
rather that of developing a mindset of superiority similar to the evolution of cliques within a high school setting.
The
Mayors of the Worst Cities in America are Running for President. Newark is the most dangerous city in New Jersey,
Tallahassee is the most dangerous city in Florida, and South Bend is the most dangerous city in Indiana. But instead
of fixing their failed cities, the current mayor of South Bend, and the former mayors of Newark and Tallahassee want to run
for president. Mayor Peter Buttigieg has announced that he's forming an exploratory committee for a 2020 run. Media
reports have focused on the possibility that he might become America's first gay millennial president, instead of on the fact that
he's headed a city since 2011 which has double the national and statewide violent crime rates. And a city where Hispanic
poverty rates are 10% higher than the national average, African-American households have double the poverty rate, and Asian-American
incomes are halved. South Bend was recently rated one of the "worst cities" to live in. The unemployment rates are
higher than average, the property values are lower, and even the water quality is below average. Gushing media reports about
the gay millennial mayor, a Harvard grad and a Rhodes scholar, overlook South Bend's poverty rate of 24.7% and that 45% of
households are living near the poverty level.
Levin:
The Left is discouraging assimilation. LevinTV host Mark Levin began his radio show Monday evening reacting to
Tom Brokaw's comments on Meet the Press over the weekend, in which he said Hispanic immigrants should assimilate and learn
English. [...] "They don't want assimilation on the Left. It's not about Hispanics or any other group," Levin
explained. "They play to groups. They require groups. The progressive mindset requires groups."
Who
Benefits From Democratic Control? What cities are the deadliest for blacks? The Trace, an independent
nonprofit news organization, answers that question. Using 2017 data from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program, The
Trace listed the 20 major U.S. cities with the highest homicide rates — factoring in both the number of people
murdered in cities and their populations. Chicago, with 589 murders in 2018 — one murder every
15 hours — is often called the nation's murder capital. But that's dead wrong. In 2017,
St. Louis had the nation's highest murder rate, at 66.1 homicides per 100,000 residents. Baltimore came in second,
with 55.8 murders per 100,000 people. Detroit was third, with 39.8 murders per 100,000 people. Other cities with
high murder rates included New Orleans; Kansas City, Missouri; Cleveland; Memphis, Tennessee; and Newark, New Jersey.
With 24.1 murders per 100,000 residents, Chicago ranked ninth in the nation. It was followed by Cincinnati and
Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., was 17th. Now here's the kicker. Of the 20 most dangerous major cities, all
but one had a Democratic mayor. In many of these cities, the Democratic Party has ruled for a half-century or more.
I
Have a Dream for Black History Month. Democrats and fake news media do not view Black History Month as an
opportunity to celebrate black achievements. Instead, they exploit the holiday with old racial injustices experienced
by few blacks alive today. Their evil purpose is to make young blacks who have never experienced an ounce of racism
hate our country, hate whites, and continue voting for Democrats to save them. This great Democrat deception continues
to devastate black communities. Cities like Chicago; Washington, D.C.; and Baltimore, controlled by Democrats for
decades, are plagued with high black poverty and addictive government dependency, high black school dropouts, high black
fatherless households, high black incarceration, and high black-on-black homicides.
Holes in the Map.
One more part of America has been allocated to another alien population — squatters who have been brought here to
feed on us and to drive us out. But where do we have left to go? This isn't progress — though it is
progressive. This situation did not occur by accident. It is the product of a premeditated and deliberate
social policy. When immigration is talked about on what sneeringly masquerades as news, it is always painted in
fatalistic phrases that make it sound like an unstoppable force of nature — as though the people surging into
America were a swarm of Mexican butterflies or a herd of East African wildebeests that had somehow overwhelmed the TSA.
This invasion is portrayed as if there were no plan involved at all — just some primal urge that arises spontaneously
in third-worlders that can't be stopped. This is the narrative fashioned for the convenience of the unaffected. That
they might feel good about themselves while enjoying a little schadenfreude at our expense. They do not see the
consequences. They see the dream.
Britain's
'First Transgender Family' Now Transitioning Their 5-Year-Old Son To Female. A family dubbed Britain's "first
transgender family" has announced that they are encouraging the gender transition of their five-year-old son, Jayden.
According to the family, Jayden, a biological male, likes dresses and hates "everything about being a boy." The little
boy's "step-dad," Greg Rogers, is a 27-year-old biological female who now identifies as a male. The child's mother is a
21-year-old woman named Jody. Both Jodi and Greg are furious that concerned citizens (referred to as "trolls" by many
U.K.-based outlets) have reported them to social services for apparent child abuse. The couple, however, maintain
Jayden — who is on track to medically "transition" in a few years — is properly cared for.
Pelosi's
Equality Act Could Lead to More Parents Losing Custody of Kids Who Want 'Gender Transition'. Americans have
long understood that children are best cared for by their parents. The state can only intervene in the family when
there is demonstrable evidence of abuse and neglect. This has long been established in our laws. But now,
transgender ideology is silencing doctors and challenging the way courts define parental abuse and neglect. Last year
in Ohio, a judge removed a biological girl from her parents' custody after they declined to help her "transition" to male
with testosterone supplements. The Cincinnati Children's gender clinic recommended these treatments for gender
dysphoria (the condition of being distressed with one's biological sex).
The
devil is using the Democratic Party to destroy America. The brutal reality is that the Democratic Party is not
the one of even a generation ago. It has become radicalized; hostile to biblical values and religious freedoms;
disrespectful to individuals and institutions; unashamed in using profanities and employing intimidation in the media and
public square; increasingly irrational, lawless, dishonest, hypocritical, corrupt and mean-spirited (remember the Brett
Kavanaugh hearing?); and finally, flippant in dismissing "due process" and our two foundational societal pillars of the
sanctity of human life alongside the sanctity of man-woman marriage. Here's the deal: as we've watched the
difficult-to-believe destruction of the 108-year-old Boy Scouts of America because they capitulated to forces the Democratic
Party championed, let us consecrate ourselves at this defining time to intercession, gospel proclamation, "salt and light"
activism and courageous, uncompromising obedience to God.
On
January 1, I became a criminal in my hometown of Boulder. It's not the intolerance of progressives that is so
insulting. It is the denial of their intolerance that is so abusive. When I was growing up it was the liberals
who more often held the moral high-ground. Those of us raised in the 1970's heard it all the time — "the end
doesn't justify the means." [...] Progressives have not just rejected that proud tradition, they have remade it into the ugly
opposite — the end justifies all: Coercing speech with speech codes and forcing cake bakers to create
statements against their core religious beliefs; social justice warfare and identity politics; the nanny state banning
everything from plastic straws to tobacco products; and forcing private health insurance products at gun-point.
Political Correctness
Is Ruining Sports. For the second consecutive year, Mack Beggs, an 18-year-old transgender wrestler, has won
the Texas girls' Class 6A 110-pound division. Born a female, Beggs is in the process of transitioning to a male, or so
she thinks. Beggs, who takes a low dose of testosterone, had wanted to compete against boys, but Texas public high
schools, which have yet to get with the progressive times, require athletes to compete under the gender on their birth
certificate. Last year two girls, not wanting to risk being injured by her, forfeited against Beggs. So did a
girl this year. Whether they were compelled to undergo empathy training I don't know. [...] Transgenderism is a problem
in the Olympics, too. Per the latest rules, transgender "women" must test below a specified level of testosterone for
more than one year in order to compete. But while this is doubtless somewhat effective, aren't these athletes, with
their still bigger, still stronger, and still more durable bodies, out of place even so?
The
Worst Enemy of Black People. Malcolm X was absolutely right about our finding solutions to our own
problems. The most devastating problems that black people face today have absolutely nothing to do with our history of
slavery and discrimination. Chief among them is the breakdown of the black family, wherein 75 percent of blacks
are born to single, often young, mothers. In some cities and neighborhoods, the percentage of out-of-wedlock births is
over 80. Actually, "breakdown" is the wrong term; the black family doesn't form in the first place. This is
entirely new among blacks.
Wealth,
Poverty, and Flight: The Same Old State of California. [B]oth legal and illegal immigration have also
radically changed the demography of the state. It is not just that about 40 percent of the nation's 11 [to]
20 million immigrants live in California, a state in which now one in four residents was not born in the United
States. Rather, it is the result of two or three generations of mass influxes of impoverished residents who on average
arrive without a high-school diploma, English proficiency, capital, or often legality. California now hosts one of
three Americans who are on some sort of federal, state, or local welfare supplement. About a fifth of the state lives
below the poverty level. Half of all births in California were paid for by the state-run Medi-Cal program, and
30 percent of Medi-Cal births were to mothers of undocumented immigration status. The San Ysidro border crossing
between Tijuana and San Diego is the world's busiest, where some 70 million people cross on foot and in cars into and
out of California each year.
Transgender
Man Goes Full Roid Rage after Being 'Misgendered' in GameStop. It's an amazing time to be alive, full of wonder
and terror and confusion all mixed together in a soup of "what could possibly happen next?" that keeps us all on our toes.
Today's dose of insanity comes from a viral video of a transgender man who had a testosterone-fueled meltdown because someone called
him "sir" in a GameStop in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The minimum-wage employee who took the brunt of the all-male rage-a-thon
should win Employee of the Year for trying his hardest to diffuse the situation.
The
ILL-inois exodus continues. Meanwhile, every state in the Midwest, including longtime laggards Kansas and South
Dakota, are gaining population. What does ILL-inois have that these other states don't? One-party Democratic rule
by state party boss and the state House speaker for over 30 years, Michael Madigan of Chicago, who will remain the most powerful
politician in Illinois even though the Land of Mary Todd Lincoln Spending will have a Democrat governor in a few weeks.
Stand
by for a wave of male prison inmates claiming to be transgender females. Two federal judges now have ruled,
setting the precedent of transferring a male prison inmate to a female prison because he claims to feel that he is a woman
and poses as one, and, in the current instance, has undergone surgical mutilation of his reproductive organs. The
"transgender female" is referred to as a "woman" and "she" in the following report from the Associated Press: ["]A
transgender woman serving a 10-year sentence in Illinois for burglary has been moved from a men's to a women's prison in what
could be a first for the state, her lawyers announced today.["] The transfer was forced by a federal judge whom
the AP does not wish to identify. (Why?) That judge evidently accepts the politically correct line that, contrary
to settled science, sex is not determined by chromosomes.
Five
homeless vagrants face no charges in attack on cop seen in viral video, says Manhattan DA. Attacking a cop has
joined fare beating and public urination on the list of subway misbehavior Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance won't bother
prosecuting. Officer Syed Ali — an Army combat vet who served in Iraq and Afghanistan — had no
trouble fending off five homeless vagrants with his baton and his feet as they came at him one by one on Sunday night.
The attack, captured on video, was viewed 4 million times on Twitter.
NYPD
officer fights off aggressive drunks in the subway but none of the attackers are charged. While most of us were
getting ready for Christmas, NYPD officer Syed Ali was working a transit beat in the NY subways Sunday night [12/23/2018].
This particular night, five intoxicated men were harassing a woman on the platform of the East Broadway station. [...] Officer
Ali, who is a combat veteran, was praised by the Mayor and various NY authorities for dealing with the drunks without
escalating the situation. [...] But some were upset that the men who harassed the subway rider and tried to fight a police
officer were released and won't be charged with anything.
Seattle Under Siege.
Seattle is under siege. Over the past five years, the Emerald City has seen an explosion of homelessness, crime, and
addiction. In its 2017 point-in-time count of the homeless, King County social-services agency All Home found 11,643
people sleeping in tents, cars, and emergency shelters. Property crime has risen to a rate two and a half times higher
than Los Angeles's and four times higher than New York City's. Cleanup crews pick up tens of thousands of dirty
needles from city streets and parks every year.
Remembering
a Farm Christmas. I realize today that we kids were what we now call "free-ranged," in the sense that we had no
locks on any of the doors of our farmhouses. Even at seven in the morning we simply took off into the orchard and vineyard
and by late afternoon might end up anywhere we pleased on the farm, without much worry about checking in with our parents.
Everyone was a guardian of everyone else. Certainly, there then were few of the problems — with gangs, chop shops,
and meth labs — that characterize the Central Valley of today.
The
exodus of New York City's endangered middle class. New York City's shrinking middle class is now in full
retreat, as masses of our most endangered population depart the city in numbers not seen since the Depression, according to
analysts. After decades of sharp income erosion in the face of relentless taxes, escalating living costs and wage
reductions through technological changes, the full extent of this shocking exodus is laid bare in the latest US Census
data. That shows the city is losing 100 residents each day — with departures exceeding new arrivals.
New
York leads nation in population loss. New York State leads the country in an undesirable category. New
data from the U.S. Census Bureau says New York tops the nation in population loss. The report says nine states saw a
drop in population between July 1, 2017, and July 1, 2018. New York led the way at a loss of 48,510 people.
Texas
city featured in Al Gore film lost millions in green energy investments. A green energy scheme to supply a small
town in Texas with 100% of its electrical needs via cheap solar and wind power is, instead, costing the city almost $7 million.
Georgetown, Texas was featured in the sequel to Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth as the "future" of American power
generation. But falling fossil fuel prices are making the scheme ruinously expensive for the town.
Least-Educated
State: California No. 1 in Percentage of Residents 25 and Older Who Never Finished 9th Grade; No. 50 in High School
Graduates. California ranks No. 1 among the 50 states for the percentage of its residents 25 and
older who have never completed ninth grade and 50th for the percentage who have graduated from high school, according to new
data from the Census Bureau. Texas ranks No. 2 for the percentage of its residents 25 and older who have never completed
[the] ninth grade and 49th for the percentage who have graduated from high school. 9.7 percent of California residents
25 and older, the Census Bureau says, never completed ninth grade. Only 82.5 percent graduated from high school.
'Let
Them Come To Venezuela' And See Socialism For Themselves. Venezuela was once the most prosperous country in
Latin America, but today almost 90% of its population lives in poverty. Venezuela's economy is in shambles.
Recently, Venezuela's own government released a report showing that its annual inflation rate accelerated to a whopping
833,000% in October alone. In practical terms, Venezuela's misery means that it is not uncommon to see children
rummaging through the garbage for food. And as basic medical supplies and medicine run dangerously low, newborns
and the elderly die unattended in Venezuelan hospitals.
As for
Me and My House... New York City has legalized a "third gender" on birth certificates. Not that long
ago, over 40 states passed resolutions supporting God's definition of marriage — between one man and one
woman. According to the Public Religious Research Institute, a majority of Democrats, Republicans, blacks, whites,
Latinos, Catholics, and white mainline Protestant denominations support so-called "marriage" between people of the same
sex. The majority of evangelical Millennials support redefining marriage. Years ago, LGBTQ activists claimed that
openly homosexual leaders admitted into the Boy Scouts had no intention to change the organization from its founding on
Christian principles. As it turned out, first on the LGBTQ agenda was to remove "morally straight" from the Scout
Oath. We are living in a pretty sick time when "morally straight" is deemed hateful and offensive.
The Editor says...
Where are the "zero tolerance" anti-bullying enforcers? On the other hand, why wasn't he
known by his father's name in the first place?
James
Comey, Menace to Society. The intolerant progressives have virtually criminalized Christianity and Judaism
while protecting Islam. Even left-wing Jews are now openly anti-Semitic. Progressives have been largely
successful in outlawing the scientific notion of gender to embrace the sheer moonbattery of the "fluid gender" crowd.
So besieged with the desperate plight of LGBT persons, millennials actually think they make up 40% of our population
when they are only about 4.5%. For an even tinier percentage of people, elementary school bathrooms must be open to
anyone and everyone, even men pretending to be women.
Does
Freedom of Religion Mean Satanic Displays in State Capitols? In the Illinois Capitol Rotunda this month, several traditions
are being celebrated. We find a nativity scene for Christmas; a menorah for Hanukkah; and, alongside these displays, an arm holding
an apple, with a snake coiled around it. This snake sculpture is a gift from the Chicago branch of The Satanic Temple. Called
"Snaketivity," the work also has a sign that reads, "Knowledge Is The Greatest Gift." This revolting travesty is a result of decades
of decisions pertaining to the non-establishment of religion asserted in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Starbucks sidebar:
Starbucks is a company that is apparently doing everything it can to go out of business.
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Survey
Shows 1 in 5 Millennials Sees U.S. Flag as 'Sign of Intolerance and Hatred'. A survey released on Nov. 27 found
that one in five millennials views the American flag as "a sign of intolerance and hatred," and two in five think it is okay to
burn Old Glory. The "State of American Patriotism Report," which was designed to assess the patriotism and historical
knowledge of young Americans, also revealed that six in 10 millennials (ages 22-37) believe the United States is racist and sexist.
Jared: The Birdbrain
of Alcatraz. As anyone with an amoeba's understanding of recent history knows, beginning in the early '60s,
assorted [...] liberals jettisoned logic, common sense and a basic understanding of human nature by releasing criminals from
the prisons where they belonged. Instead of punishing criminals, we would give them social services, education and job
training — with the implied understanding that they wouldn't move next door to any of the reformers. The
experts assured a disbelieving public that these policies would reduce crime. As Thomas Sowell writes in The Vision
of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy, the stage was set. Liberal criminologists'
soft-on-crime policies were in place. We only needed empirical evidence. "THE RESULTS: Crime rates
skyrocketed. Murder rates suddenly shot up until the murder rate in 1974 was more than twice as high as in 1961.
Between 1960 and 1976, a citizen's chances of becoming a victim of a major violent crime tripled." Prior to this period,
crime had been declining for three decades.
Why Are
So Many Millennials Ignorant Anti-Americans? A new YouGov poll asked more than 1,000 people aged 14 and up
about their knowledge of the country's history and institutions, and their patriotic feelings toward the U.S. The nationwide
survey, sponsored by the Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness, produced some alarming results. Basically, it
found younger generations — millennials (age 22-27) and Gen Z (age 14-21) — are less
likely to love and respect the country. And they're less informed about American history, and way more likely to embrace
socialism. Is that just evidence of youthful ignorance? Or is it the result of a school system that indoctrinates
children in leftist ideology?
Even
California Cannot Defy Nature Forever. [Scroll down] Last year, we saw near-normal levels of precipitation.
If our life-giving reservoirs of the state's vast California Water Project and federal Central Valley Project are currently not full,
it is mostly because millions of acre-feet of stored water were released to flow into the San Francisco Bay estuaries and the
delta — contradicting most of the original mandates of the water projects of providing flood control, power generation,
lake recreation, and irrigation for California residents. [...] Left unsaid is that more than 130 million trees died throughout
the state's foothills and mountain ranges during the drought of 2011-2016 and were not removed from the forest floor, providing an
immensity of natural kindling for fires. To walk in a Sierra Nevada forest during summers requires navigating not just over
fallen limbs and branches, but also rotting trees — all amid dead brush and dead but still-towering brown pines.
Gone are the periodic meadows and open spaces of the 1960s and 1970s, when logging companies harvested trees, thinned out the forests,
replanted what was cut, and cleaned up the forest floor. Yet given California's stringent anti-logging regulations of the last
20 years, there is no real California timber industry left, at least as it once was. And scavenging even dead trees
prompts a great debate, as environmentalists lecture on the advantages of letting the dead wood be. Or, as Sierra Club
organizer Daniel Barad put it in a January 2018 Sacramento Bee op-ed: "Dead trees are vital components of the forest
ecosystem and should be removed only when necessary."
Why
is violent crime on BART on the rise? San Fran is not a safe place to visit — tens of thousands of
car break ins each year, and a 1.7% arrest rate. The city gives out 4.4 million syringes for drug users —
how do you think the druggies get the money for the drugs? BART is a guaranteed crime zone. You go on the system
knowing you will be a crime victim.
Even Astronauts Fear
the Left. There are many reasons I pity today's younger generation of Americans. Among them are:
• The unconscionable debt we are leaving them. • The obliteration of male and
female as separate and distinct categories — and the sexual confusion that is left in its wake. •
The emasculation of men and the de-feminization of women. • The undermining of the value of
marriage. • The lack of God and religion in their lives — and the consequent search for
meaning in the wrong places. • The receiving of indoctrination, rather than education, in most schools
from elementary through graduate. • The inability to celebrate being American. Tragically and
ironically, each one of these was brought on by the very group many young people identify with: the left.
The
lowdown on the miscreant who got us into this mess: Woodrow Wilson. Claremont Review of Books, the
brainiest and best publication in the conservative world, published my review of a new biography of America's first
progressive president, Woodrow Wilson. It's an honor to write for CRB, which kindly unlocked the paywall for my piece,
entitled "The Great Resenter." CRB is the only only political-intellectual journal that I read cover to cover. If you
don't subscribe, you should. Progressive historians present Wilson as a paper saint, but the man was a monster.
He was an unreconstructed defender of slavery and a rancorous apologist for the Confederacy. His whole academic and
political life was devoted to tearing up the Constitution and replacing it with a progressive dictatorship. This
resentment against a Union that had crushed his native south in the Civil War drove his obsession with a world government
with power to issue orders to the United States of America.
Democrats
favor improving infrastructure as long as it takes longer and costs more. Why can't the United States build or
repair infrastructure on a par with countries in Europe or Asia? Why can't we have all the nifty new airports, bridges,
and trains that seem to spring up overnight in other parts of the world? The answer, in one word, is Democrats.
Two groups that are virtually owned-and-operated subsidiaries of the Democratic party retard infrastructure progress
here. One is labor unions, and the other is environmental activists.
Colorado
Will Soon Allow People To Select "Gender X" On Driver's Licenses. Colorado residents who don't identify as a
male or female will soon be able to select "Gender X" on their driver's licenses, thanks to recent court decisions.
The change will go into effect on Nov. 30 and comes from an emergency rule made by judges overseeing legal cases in which
transgender individuals fought to change the sex listed on their driver's licenses from their biological sex to their preferred
one. "This is an important step for the state of Colorado that the state documents reflect our values," Colorado Department
of Revenue executive director Michael Hartman told the Denver Post. "People are people no matter their sex identification."
The Editor says...
I wonder how the judges decided this was an emergency. But aside from that, I guess that means those Gender X
people who get arrested can't complain about which jail they're sent to. Until they make the state build special facilities
just for them.
More
People Are Leaving California. But Still Not Enough. California's Democrats have long held a stranglehold
on the state's government. Dianne Feinstein, who was born during the Great Depression and still doesn't have a single
gray hair, is the one who unsuccessfully tried to screw up the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation. She just won
another Senate term over a Bernie Democrat who wanted to spend even more. Gavin Newsom, another ex-San Francisco mayor,
just got elected governor to replace another Democrat, Jerry Brown, who was term-limited twice. So, voters are can
expect to reap their reward. California's governing party has never encountered any problem it couldn't let fester into
a full-blown crisis. For instance, the absence of reservoirs adequate for the growing population. But, by golly,
it's right on top of the high-cost, high-speed railroad to connect two minor cities in a state built around cars. The
government will then throw gobs of other people's money at any problem.
Why
won't liberals admit their homeless policies don't work? It's appropriate that the UN special rapporteur
devoted to adequate housing has visited encampments in Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Mumbai — and San Francisco,
Oakland and Berkeley. The homeless situation in those cities and others around the country is positively Third World, a
blight that shows the persistence of human folly, and misery, despite what we take to be our steady progress to greater
enlightenment and prosperity. San Francisco is a crown jewel of the new economy, and a sink of vagrancy.
Movie review: Roger & Me [Rated R]:
Michael Moore blames capitalism for the downfall of Flint, Michigan instead of the trade unions that bullied businesses &
forced them to ship jobs overseas (due to excessive taxation) or the fact that Flint has been under Democratic leadership
since 1973.
How Progressives Killed
Birthright Citizenship. Progressives may very well have set the table for the end of birthright citizenship by executive order
or legislation during the 1990s. This was not their intention, of course, but in their unprincipled pursuit of political power, they
unwittingly might have choked off all attempts to cover birthright citizenship in a constitutional mantle.
More
than half of movies have been R-rated in the past 50 years. The MPAA is marking the 50th anniversary of its
film ratings by releasing data on how movies have been rated over the last half-century. The R rating has been placed
on by far and away the majority of the movies since then, more than half of the almost 30,000 titles that have been given
classifications. The breakdown: Since 1968, the first year of the rating classifications, there have been 17,202
movies rated R, 5,578 rated M/GP/PG, 4,913 rated PG-13 and 1,574 rated G. Just 524 movies have been rated X
or NC-17, reflecting the reluctance of exhibitors to carry those titles.
California
Ranks as Poorest State, One of the Worst for Income Inequality. Despite all the wealth in the state and the
Democrat control of state government, California actually ranks as the poorest state in the country after costs of living are
factored in. A whopping 19 percent of Californians live below the poverty line. While California represents just
12 percent of the nation's population, Californians represent a third of all Americans on welfare. The average monthly
cost of rent in the state is 43 percent higher than the national average. Nearly a third of Californians spend more
than half of their earnings on housing. The situation is made worse by skyrocketing energy costs. "Residents who
can afford rent or a mortgage are on the hook for electricity rates burdened by green initiatives and regulation that grew
500 percent faster than the national average from 2011 to 2017."
The direct result of 1.6 gallon toilet mandates: Exploding
toilets force recall of pressure-assisted flushing system. A pressure-assisted flushing system is being
recalled because it can burst and cause the toilet tank to shatter. According to the Consumer Product Safety
Commission, the recall affects the Flushmate II 501-B pressure-assisted flushing system that was installed in 1.4 million
toilet tanks between 1996 and 2013. The system can burst at or near the vessel weld seam releasing stored pressure.
This pressure can lift the tank lid and shatter the tank, posing impact and laceration hazards to consumers and property damage.
San
Francisco: Now so bad, it'll make you cry. Twentieth-century San Francisco, Herb Caen's beloved Baghdad by the
Bay, has ceased to exist. It has been replaced by a city where the sidewalks around Market Street are, in places, caked in
feces, urine, and vomit. The stink as you emerge from the BART batters you like frozen sleet, shocking and overwhelming.
The hordes of homeless, sprawled in doorways and sleeping on the sidewalks, are a bitterly eclectic mixture of the mentally deranged;
burnt out druggies; dead-eyed hippies; con artists; pickpockets; and hundreds of simply lost, forgotten souls. [...] As I walked
the three blocks back to the BART, I was panhandled four times, plus two clumsy pickpocket attempts. I didn't see a single
cop in a car or on foot. What could they do? What finally broke my heart were the kids and women, also lying in the
streets, drugged, shell-shocked, begging for food.
Legalized
marijuana linked to a sharp rise in car crashes. There has been an increase by up to 6 percent in the number of
highway crashes in four of the states where the recreational use of marijuana has been legalized, according to a pair of new
studies. The new reports do not prove there's a direct risk caused by the use of marijuana among motorists, but they
raise caution flags, especially since there is no easy way to test drivers to be sure if they are, in fact, under the
influence of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, said David Harkey, president of the Insurance Institute for Highway
Safety's Highway Loss Data Institute.
Driving
And Smoking Pot Not Safe Combination; States With Legal Marijuana Have More Crashes. Crashes are up in states
that have legalized marijuana for recreational use compared to neighboring states that haven't, according to two new studies
that examined data reported to insurers and police. An analysis of collision insurance claims indicated that crashes
rose by as much as 6% in Colorado, Nevada, Oregon and Washington, the first states to legalize retail sales of recreational
marijuana. A separate study of police-reported crashes found a 5.2% increase in the rate of crashes in Colorado, Oregon
and Washington compared to nearby control states that didn't legalize marijuana sales.
Pedophile Arrests
Soar Under Trump: Media Silent. Democrats love to talk about helping children. That should scare
most Americans, given that Democrats live in "Opposite World". Sadly, most of the Democrat's policies hurt children in
America. The ideas seem good on paper. However, they fail miserably in practice. So America has a problem
with children, as far too many fall prey to bad people. For some, those bad people are their parents. And when
the parents fail, the government puts the children with foster parents who many times are just as bad. Add to this the
pressures of an over-sexualized society, and you have a recipe for disaster.
Fabricating
Hate Crimes Is a Byproduct of Victimhood Ideology on College Campuses. [Scroll down] Incidents like this have become a strikingly common trend
in the past few years, especially on college campuses. While most alleged hate crimes on campus go unsolved, it is hard to ignore the fact
that so many hoaxes have occurred. A variety of motivations may prompt a student to make up a hate crime, but one thing is for certain:
The overwhelmingly dominant ideology on college campuses celebrates victimhood, even above achievement, and achievement itself is worthless without
victimhood. If one doesn't maintain some kind of victimhood status, your opinion is worth less, your accomplishments are dismissed, and your
success is written off as the product of privilege.
100
ISIS Terrorists Caught in Guatemala as Central American Caravan Heads to U.S. In a startling revelation, Guatemala's president
announced in the country's largest newspaper that nearly 100 ISIS terrorists have been apprehended in the impoverished Central American nation.
Why should Americans care about this? A caravan of Central American migrants is making its way north. Let's not forget that Guatemala
is one of the countries that bombarded the U.S. with illegal immigrant minors under Barack Obama's open border free-for-all. They came in
droves from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala through the Mexican border and for years Uncle Sam rolled out the welcome mat offering housing,
food, medical treatment and a free education[.] A terrorist could have easily slipped in considering the minors, coined Unaccompanied Alien
Children (UAC), were not properly vetted and some turned out to be violent gangbangers who went on to commit heinous crimes in their adopted land
of opportunity. In fact, the nation's most violent street gang, Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), was energized by the barrage of UACs.
One-party
rule has left New York in a sorry state. When it comes to businesses, the impacts of monopolies are well
documented. Lacking any of the benefits that flow from competition, customers can count on paying higher prices for the
privilege of getting inferior service. Alas, the same is true of government. New Yorkers know too well that a
political monopoly — one-party rule — yields some of America's highest taxes while services and results
are mediocre at best. Think public education and mass transit.
It's
time to end women's sports. It's time to end women's sports — especially since they're not just
"women's" sports anymore. A case in point is "Rachel" McKinnon, Ph.D., a man masquerading as a woman (MMW), or a
"transgender," as the enlighteners say, who just won a women's masters cycling event. As The Gateway Pundit's Jim Hoft
(almost) put it, he "whooped them little girls." McKinnon isn't alone, as many MMW have won women's sporting events
during the last decade. To name just a few, a 55-year-old MMW won a women's long-drive competition (golf) in 2008.
Last year, a 39-year-old MMW won a women's weightlifting event. Then there were the Connecticut's State Open track and
field championships in June; the top two finishers in the 100-meter dash were both MMW (okay, being boys, they were BMG),
with one of them setting the girls' state record in both the 100- and 200-meter runs. Hey, you go...uh...girl.
Rage
when you disagree: How 'safe spaces' led to today's political mobs. What's behind the recent spread of
outraged mobs on US streets, wild-eyed and throwing violent fits because their favored political outcome didn't happen?
How did so many Americans give up on resolving disagreements through discussion and turn the fact that a disagreement exists
into an excuse for a tantrum? Campuses started setting up "safe spaces" well before 2015, when the news hit our media
in earnest: College students were literally taking shelter from the possibility of hearing opinions they might disagree
with. For all the mockery the idea received, we're seeing that principle extended to the real world. The recent
outbursts on our streets have their root in the idea that only one opinion is the correct one and all others must be shut down.
Female
Transgender Says He's a Human Puppy. According to the DailyMail, Tony McGinn, known as 'Tony Bark' to friends,
has been into animal role-play all his entire life. The 30-year old is s female transgender who calls himself a 'human
pup'. This has brought him closer to his husband, he says.
The Editor says...
In the good old days, seriously delusional sex perverts were institutionalized for the benefit and safety of the general public.
Today there is a world-wide contest underway to see who's the most outlandish freak, and monthly prizes are awarded by the news media
in the form of (hopefully) temporary fame.
5-Year-Old
Girl Allegedly Assaulted in School Bathroom, Transgender Policy Being Investigated. A five-year-old girl
allegedly was sexually assaulted at school in the girls' bathroom by a boy who identifies as gender-fluid, sparking an
investigation by the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) into the Decatur, Georgia school's
transgender bathroom policy. According to a legal complaint by Roger G. Brooks of the Alliance Defending Freedom
(ADF) and Vernadette R. Broyles of Georgia Adoption & Family Law Practice, the boy, who was also five years old, reportedly
assaulted the girl as she was leaving a bathroom stall at Oakhurst Elementary School in November 2017.
'Emotional
support' squirrel gets passenger removed from Frontier flight. A woman was removed from a Frontier Airlines
flight Tuesday night [10/9/2018] after the airline refused to let her fly with her emotional support squirrel. The
airline said the woman noted in her reservation for Flight 1612 from Orlando, Fla., to Cleveland that she would be boarding
with an emotional support animal, FOX8 Cleveland reported.
The Editor says...
If you need the constant presence of a squirrel to maintain your enotional stability in public places, you really should either stay home
or have yourself locked up in a mental hospital.
Woman
removed from flight bound for Cleveland due to 'emotional support' squirrel. Frontier Airlines said a woman had
to be escorted off a flight bound for Cleveland Tuesday night due to a squirrel. Frontier said a passenger boarded
Flight 1612 in Orlando, saying the squirrel was an emotional support animal. The airline said the passenger noted in
her reservation that she was bringing an emotional support animal, but it was not indicated the animal was a squirrel.
Frontier said "rodents, including squirrels are not allowed" on its flights.
The Editor continues...
Next time I fly, I should bring along a little box of my emotional support bedbugs.
San
Francisco: Land of the Living Dead. Effectively, there's nothing in this news story that you don't know
already. Anyone who has followed the news and who reads this blog knows full well that downtown San Francisco has been
given over to drug addicts and the homeless. In the most liberal blue city in America, Nancy Pelosi's home town, you
cannot walk the streets in many neighborhoods. What's news is the place it appeared: The New York Times.
The paper of record sent a reporter and a photographer out to document the nightmare that is the streets of San
Francisco. They did not pull any punches. They told it like it is.
California's
Socialist Oligarchy: Making the State Unaffordable. Nowhere are the consequences of California's
oligarchical socialism more evident than in the cost of housing. State legislation has made it nearly impossible for
developers to construct new housing outside the so-called "urban growth boundary." Instead, development is redirected into
the footprint of existing urban areas. While there is a natural tendency as population increases to see higher density
redevelopment in urban cores, by restricting outward expansion of urban areas, the value of the limited remaining eligible
land becomes artificially inflated. But established landowners and large development firms benefit from these
restrictions. They are able to withstand years, if not decades, of expensive permitting delays and endless
litigation. They are able to afford millions in permit fees because these costs are offset by their ability to sell
residence units — from high-rise condos to detached single family dwellings — at prices far beyond what
they would cost in a normal market. These billionaire business interests get richer, while ordinary Californians who
want to own or develop land cannot afford to go through the permit process.
The
One-Party State. The state [of California] has the most liberal environmental laws and regulations in the
country, which hamper the development of affordable housing. A San Francisco Chronicle investigation in 2017
showed rising housing costs driving lower-income Californians out of their homes and into the streets. Homelessness has
skyrocketed in both the cities and the rural areas of the state. While 12 percent of the U.S. population is in
California, 25 percent of the country's homeless live there. From Sacramento to San Diego, you can't help but notice
the multitudes of people living on the street. Look at the housing shortage and homelessness, the decline of manufacturing
and other blue-collar jobs, and the growth of a tech economy that rewards disruption over predictability, and you see why some
are suspicious of the California way.
Obama's
Social Experiments Are Wreaking Havoc on America Today. Democrats seem to be operating on the basis of "guilty until
proven innocent," believing the accuser without any corroborating evidence. This kind of sexual assault witch hunt actually
began under former president Barack Obama — as did some of the other key social issues America is wrestling with today.
While the Left's advocacy on social issues and identity politics long predated Obama, the former president's policies supercharged
many of the issues dividing America in 2018. His administration helped launch the current liberal cultural wave that wreaks
havoc on American politics — and extends far beyond politics.
Venezuela: Socialism
in Action. [Scroll down] Beyond increasing outflows, Venezuela's fundamental demographic balance sheet is
worsening too. Once-eradicated diseases, including diphtheria and malaria, are returning with a vengeance because of
the collapse of Venezuela's health-care system alongside the flight of many people away from urban areas into ad hoc rural
squatter communities. Other diseases may crop up as well. Partly as a result of this degraded health situation,
the death rate appears to be rising. Official data from 2017 reported 181,000 deaths, up from 170,000 two years
earlier. Since there were fewer people in the country in 2017, this means the death rate rose by even more. While
deaths are rising, births are falling. In 2015 about 600,000 babies were born in Venezuela. In 2017 it was just
561,000. The decline has almost certainly continued into 2018.
Doctors
Performing Mastectomies On Teen "Transgender" Girls. This story never seems to end. There are,
apparently, doctors accepting cases of underage female children who "identify" as males and performing double mastectomies on
them to avoid the trauma of developing breasts.
New
York City Passes Bill Allowing Parents To Choose 'X' For Their Children's Gender. New York's City Council
passed a bill Wednesday allowing parents to choose "X" on their newborn babies' birth certificates. The bill, passed in
a 41-6 vote, also allows any adult living in the city to change his or her gender to "X" on their birth certificate.
Enemies Within.
Young corporate executives believe and pander to the left's negative view of America. This is why we see corporate
advertising supportive of lies such as that America is destroying the planet and that cops routinely murder blacks.
Leftists have instilled in our youths the lie that people around the world have too little because evil, greedy, and selfish
Americans have too much. This is why many youths believe that it is only fair that we open our borders to whoever
wishes to enter. And how dare we expect immigrants to assimilate, speak English, and embrace capitalism? Youths
believe that defending our borders against the invasion of illegals is racist and hateful. Our kids have also been
taught the lie that Christians, conservatives, and Republicans are haters obsessed with suppressing women and minorities.
Corporate executive operatives of the young enemies within movement believe that a majority of Americans share leftist disdain
for their country. This is why the NFL originally rallied behind [Colin] Kaepernick, leading the charge of pro football
players taking a knee in protest against our National Anthem.
Is
Your Library Inviting Drag Queens to Talk to Children? Texas Values has been tracking a disturbing trend across
the country which recently occurred in Houston as well. Known as "Drag Queen Story Hour," public libraries are allowing
men dressed as women, or drag queens, to read stories to young children.
Tourism
Still Suffering After the Red Hen Denied Sanders. A small town in Virginia is trying to recover its image after
The Red Hen restaurant famously refused to serve President Donald Trump's spokeswoman, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
STDs
continue rapid rise in U.S., setting new record, CDC says. Sexually transmitted diseases are on the rise in
America, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In fact, nearly 2.3 million cases
of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis were diagnosed in the U.S. in 2017, surpassing the record set in 2016 by more than
200,000, CDC scientists reported Tuesday [8/28/2018].
California's
Devastating Fires Are Man-Caused — But Not In The Way They Tell Us. In 2005 while a freshman
California Assemblyman, I had the chance to visit Northern California and meet with the forest product industry professionals
who grew, managed, and harvested trees on private and public lands. They told me of a worrisome trend started years
earlier where both federal and state regulators were making it more and more difficult for them to do their jobs. As a
result, timber industry employment gradually collapsed, falling in 2017 to half of what it was 20 years earlier, with imports
from Canada, China, and other nations filling domestic need. As timber harvesting permit fees went up and environmental
challenges multiplied, the people who earned a living felling and planting trees looked for other lines of work. The
combustible fuel load in the forest predictably soared. No longer were forest management professionals clearing brush
and thinning trees. But, fire suppression efforts continued. The result was accurately forecast by my forest
management industry hosts in Siskiyou County in 2005: larger, more devastating fires — fires so hot that they
sterilized the soil, making regrowth difficult and altering the landscape. More importantly, fires that increasingly
threatened lives and homes as they became hotter and more difficult to bring under control.
Liberals
are a Danger to All of Us. Venezuela was the richest country in Latin America only 20 years ago. That's when they practiced
capitalism. Then socialist Hugo Chavez took over. He modeled Venezuela after the Cuban model. Today there is no food on shelves,
very little water, no gas available in an oil-rich country, no toilet paper. The proud people of Venezuela are eating out of dumpsters and
garbage cans. Days ago, it got much worse. The socialist president of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro devalued the currency overnight by
96 percent. This is one of the largest currency devaluations in world history. Inflation is now officially 1 million percent
in Venezuela. But have no fear. Venezuela's socialist leader introduced bold new policies to save the country. His solutions to
the unfolding disaster? Higher taxes, subsidized gas prices and a massive minimum wage increase. Do you recognize those solutions?
Those are the exact prescriptions of Democrat politicians in America.
Venezuela's
great socialist experiment has brought a country to its knees. Imagine if Theresa May suddenly announced that
her government was going to devalue the pound by 96 percent; increase the minimum wage by 6,000 percent; pay the wage
increases for millions of businesses for three months; tie the pound to a mythical cryptocurrency; prepared for petrol rationing;
and impose a 0.7 percent tax on big financial transactions. It would be seen either as an act of lunacy, of a
collapsing country — or both. For the long-suffering people of Venezuela, it's just the latest stage of
their country's grand socialist experiment. President Nicolás Maduro has just issued a new currency, called
'sovereign bolivars'. The original idea was that the currency would be like the old one, but with three zeros lopped
off. But then hyperinflation got so out of hand that the government decided on five zeros.
A
Perfect Storm Threatens America's Survival. [V]iolent crime increased in many of the nation's largest cities in 2016 as
metro areas saw jumps in homicide, robberies, and aggravated assaults. Chicago shooting deaths are approaching war-like proportions,
with 664 people killed in 2017. So far in 2018, 360 homicides have been reported, most of them from gunfire.
The Democrats who run these cities, many of them sanctuary cities, have no clue how to deal with the situation other than to spend
more money of taxpayers dumb enough to stay behind. Democrat policies are leading to financial and social disaster.
Got Income Inequality?
Least Affordable Cities Are Also the Bluest. This week the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
released a report of the cities with the highest housing burden, that is to say, those who have to spend the most of their
income just to live, which of course forces them to stretch their budgets on everything else. Some are describing
housing affordability as a crisis that is squeezing middle-class Americans out of what has historically been the standard of
middle-class life (home ownership). Of the 20 cities highlighted as the worst, 18 of them are in blue states and all of
them picked Clinton over Trump. Cities in the Bay Area — San Francisco and San Jose — top the
list of housing burden (55.9 and 54.7 percent respectively) and also top the list for the highest
share of Clinton voters (76.7 and 72.9 percent).
San
Francisco creates 'Poop Patrol' to clean up city's feces-ridden sidewalks. San Francisco's decrepit,
feces-ridden sidewalks are the residents' No. 1 complaint — so the city's newly elected mayor is creating a new
clean up patrol to deal with "No. 2." The California city, which has been battling increasing homelessness over the
last couple of years, launched a new pilot program called the "Poop Patrol," which is set to scour targeted neighborhoods looking
for human waste. The city's 311 service has received nearly 14,600 calls about piles of poop, other human waste and dog
feces since the beginning of the year.
A Tale
of Three Cities. Detroit, in 1960, was the richest per capita city in America. Fifty-some years later, in
2013, Detroit filed for bankruptcy. Now it's a squatter's paradise. Homes once owned by residents, then lost to
foreclosure, are now owned by the Detroit Land Bank Authority. Today, it's first come, first served as to who lives in
these abandoned homes. The Detroit Free Press notes "[d]ead bodies, wild dogs, squatters in government-owned Detroit
houses."
California
Fires: Government Policies, Not Global Warming. As large swaths of California are yet again on fire,
environmentalist groups, the leftist media, and Democratic California Governor Jerry Brown are quick to blame climate
change. But the burning in California has more to do with misguided and short-sighted environmental regulations than
with weather or climate. [...] The Endangered Species Act has made it nearly impossible for private-property owners to clear
dead brush from their own land because it may destroy habitats of protected species. From 1993 until 2003, residents of
Riverside County were prohibited from removing brush from their properties because such brush had become a habitat for the
endangered kangaroo rat. When a wildfire broke out there in 2003, the dry, dead brush served as kindling as the blaze
destroyed 2,700 homes and killed 27 people. The rat's habitat was also destroyed. So, in what can charitably
be described as a misguided attempt to save the environment from the ravages of human activities, government regulations have
made the fires worse.
Death to the Rule of Law.
[Scroll down] [Lyndon B.] Johnson quickly veered to the left at home, creating the Great Society, a grandiose welfare
state that still hangs like an albatross around the necks of black people, women and other minorities. His foreign
policy, ostensibly anti-communist, led to having nearly half a million troops in the little country of Vietnam, and yet,
ultimately losing the lives of 58,000 young Americans and the war. Instead of trying to actually win, Johnson let
civilians, not the military, run the war, and allowed the military/industrial complex that Eisenhower had warned about, to
grow into an overwhelming behind-the-scenes power.
Anarchy Breaks Out in Portland, With the Mayor's Blessing.
Along the trolley tracks behind the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office, a biohazard cleanup crew works
under police protection. It finds used needles and buckets of human waste simmering in nearly 100-degree heat.
The smell of urine and feces fills the block. For more than five weeks, as many as 200 people had occupied the site to
demand ICE's immediate abolition. They're gone now, but a community is left reeling. Thirty-eight days of
government-sanctioned anarchy will do that.
K-12:
Parallels with Venezuela. Such a marvelous country. Venezuela is twice the size of California, with a mix
of tropical and temperate climates, with 1,500 miles of oceanfront and, guess what, more oil reserves than any other country
in the world. What could go wrong? Venezuela has everything, unfortunately including a socialist government.
[...] Venezuela has everything but is a basket case. The American public school system has everything but, for most
students, is a basket case. Arguably, these two systems are fraternal twins battered into their present deformities by
socialist deception and distraction.
How
far can Venezuela go in raising price of world's cheapest gas? In Venezuela's inflation-hit economy, a single
US dollar can buy 3.5 million liters of gasoline — an absurdity that the government says it will tackle with a hike
in the cost of state-subsidized fuel. But just how far can President Nicolas Maduro go without getting his fingers burned?
It's
time to hold Democrats responsible for Chicago's violence. Most Americans are appalled to read that 63 people
were shot in Chicago over the weekend, with 10 fatalities. The numbers are huge, downright massacre-level. News
coverage says Chicago's hospital and emergency rooms are now crowd scenes. Here in California, we are appalled at the
death toll among firemen and other public workers in California's massive wildfires, brought about by eco-wackos and their
environmental mismanagement, which have killed 7. In Chicago, seven dead would be a good day. What's going on?
All of these attacks are gang-related, according to this report, and are happening in the 6th, 10th, and 11th Districts, all
led by Democrats. What a massive sludge of corruption and thuggery rests behind that.
In
silly San Francisco disease-ridden needles are A-OK but a plastic cocktail stirrer will soon be illegal. San
Francisco has long been a bastion of the far left — and now it's paying a high price for its extreme progressive
policies, including once-beautiful streets filled with dangerous syringes and human waste, resembling Third World back
alleys. The city has embraced an open drug culture at the same time it spends hundreds of millions of dollars to combat
a growing homelessness problem. But no matter what the city does, it seems to have the opposite effect and make things
worse. Each year, San Francisco hands out millions of syringes to drug users — 4.45 million to be
exact. San Francisco officials do this because they believe this is cheaper than the medical costs associated with
injectable drug users getting diseases from sharing needles. Yet as always, politically correct progressive politicians
never think about the law of unintended consequences.
The
Republican Party: Not Much of a Horse But the Only One in the Corral. All over urban America, parents
struggle to scrape together the money to buy a house in a neighborhood where the public schools have not been
destroyed. In small town America, parents warn their kids about drug pushers from South of the Border who have
discovered and targeted the once-safe American countryside. Illegal immigrants commit crimes at rates hugely in excess
of those legally present. For 2014 the Sentencing Commission of the US Justice Department reported that of all crimes
for which convictions were obtained and sentences imposed, illegals made up 13% (if the 11.2 million figure for US illegals
is correct, illegals constitute slightly more than 3% of the population)[.] And on and on. None of this reaches the
neighborhoods of those who brought it to us.
Wise
Giants and Arrogant Dwarves. Marxism, of course, remains the premier example of the hubris of scientism and the
belief that the imagined "laws" of history can be understood like the laws of physics, and that humans and society can then
be improved by the skilled application of coercive power. The toll of that arrogance was 100 million murdered not
in wars, but in political violence sparked by the attempt to reengineer human nature. Yet despite that instructive and
monitory example, despite the more recent evidence, in Cuba and Venezuela, of collectivism's penchant for murder, misery, and
tyranny, our sophisticated "bright" dwarves today are still touting the social and economic superiority of socialism,
communism's offspring. Of course, murderous tyranny has been a constant of human history, for it reflects the
unalienable destructive flaws of humanity.
San
Francisco Learns That There's No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. This July, the city's minimum wage climbed to $15,
up from $14, the result of a four-year series of hikes imposed by San Francisco voters in 2014. The minimum wage will now be
indexed to the Consumer Price Index. Not surprisingly, the rapid increase in wages has hurt the city's businesses, particularly
its restaurants. As the San Francisco Chronicle pointed out recently, "Despite the anticipation for what has finally arrived,
many (restaurateurs) continue to struggle with finding a balance, because tactics such as adjusting service models, cutting staff
and raising prices can only go so far." The paper quotes one restaurant owner saying "you can only charge so much for
a burger ... before people are leaving to go find a better value. It's the same challenge we've been facing for a while."
Which is why many restaurants have shut their doors.
The
10 Most Destructive Americans of My 8 Decades. [#3] Lyndon Johnson: Johnson turned the Vietnam conflict
into a major war for America. It could have ended early if he had listened to the generals instead of automaker Robert
McNamara. The ultimate result was: 1) 58,000 American military deaths and collaterally tens of thousands of
American lives damaged; and 2) a war that badly divided America and created left wing groups that evaded the draft
and eventually gained control of our education system. Even worse, his so-called War on Poverty led to the destruction
of American black families with a significant escalation of welfare and policies designed to keep poor families dependent on
the government (and voting Democrat) for their well-being. He deliberately created a racial holocaust that is still
burning today. A strong case could be made for putting him at the top of this list.
The Top 50 Liberal
Media Bias Examples. [#44] Comic Book Bias: No I don't mean that the media is demeaning comic books, I
mean that comic books are demeaning conservatives in yet another example of the media attacking the right. For just a
very few examples, we had the Captain America comic that portrayed the Tea Party movement as dangerous and anti-American, the
Batman comic that portrayed Muslims as heroes, and the Archie Comic that introduced a gay character to the series.
Unfortunately, comic books have for a long time been filled with anti-conservative themes.
"Occupy ICE" Finally Ejected
from Portland, But They Left a Nasty Surprise Behind. Occupy ICE did have a clear goal: they wanted Immigration
and Customs Enforcement abolished. There's just one problem: that's never going to happen. Even the Democrats who
drafted a bill to abolish the agency voted no. It was simply a stunt to get the liberal media riled up. Occupy
ICE was yet another waste of time and money. Not to mention a massive burden on the city of Portland (and every other
city in which they gathered). Finally, after a month of nothing, Portland police have had enough. The Occupy ICE
encampment has become such a danger, police are forcing them to leave. But, as in the case of the Dakota pipeline
occupation and Zuccotti Park, these liberal "heroes" left behind a massive amount of waste.
Income
Inequality is Much Worse in Blue States than Red States. One reason Democrat politicians talk a lot about
inequality may be that Democrat-dominated states have much higher levels income disparity. Income inequality is higher
in states that voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 when measured by the average income of the top one percent against the
average income of the bottom 99 percent, according to data from a new report by the Economic Policy Institute. For
Clinton states, the top incomes were on average 23.6 times the average income for the other 99 percent.
New
SF mayor will try asking homeless to be nice, instead of penalizing them for pooping on the streets. San
Francisco has a brand new mayor, Ms. London Breed, the result of the untimely death of Mayor Ed Lee, and it does not
look good for the city coming to grips with a crisis on its streets. The accumulation of human waste and contaminated
drug needles posing a severe threat to the health of its residents and visitors is also a challenge to the survival if the
city's biggest industry in terms of employment: tourism. A huge medical convention has announced that it will
no longer visit San Francisco owing to the health and safety hazards the streets now pose.
The
Left-wing Paradise of San Francisco. Represented in Congress by Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and run for
years by almost all Democrats, San Francisco should be a mecca for the left. But the city is fast becoming one of the
worst places in the U.S. to live. The homeless problem is out of control. Experts say it "could exceed some of
the dirtiest slums in the world." There are around 7,500 homeless people in the city. Human feces is strewn across
public areas. The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit examined over 150 blocks of downtown San Francisco and found
96 blocks littered with feces. San Francisco's new mayor, London Breed, observed, "there are more feces on the sidewalks
than I've ever seen growing up here." She says that a cleaning crew will clean up an area, but "right after they leave, maybe
an hour or two later, the place is filled with trash again."
Turning
Luddite eco-imperialism into a virtue. Banks and other carbon colonialists glorify limited wind and solar
energy for poor villages, while denying financial support for fossil fuel electricity generation. Anti-chemical
fanatics promote bed nets and narrowly defined "integrated pest management," but bitterly oppose chemical pesticides and the
spatial repellant DDT to kill mosquitoes, keep them out of homes and prevent deadly malaria. Radical organic food
groups battle any use of genetically engineered crops that multiply crop yields, survive droughts and slash pesticide
spraying by 75% or more. They even vilify Golden Rice, which enables malnourished children to avoid Vitamin A
Deficiency, blindness and death. Now their struggles are getting worse, as a coalition of well-financed malcontents,
agitators and pressure groups once again prove the adage that power politics makes strange bedfellows. Coalition
members share a deep distaste for fossil fuels, petrochemicals (including chemical pesticides and fertilizers), modern
agriculture, biotechnology, corporations and capitalism.
SF Mayor Says Her City
is Drowning in Poop: 'There's More Feces - Than I've Ever Seen'. San Francisco Mayor London Breed said the
streets of her city are flooded with the excrement of the homeless in an interview Friday [7/13/2018]. Breed, a Democrat
who was inaugurated as San Francisco's mayor Wednesday [7/11/2018], urged homeless advocacy groups that receive money from the
city to teach homeless people to "clean up after themselves." "There is more feces on the sidewalks than I've ever seen
growing up here," Breed told KNTV. "That is a huge problem and we are not just talking about from dogs —
we're talking about from humans."
San
Francisco Is Absolutely Covered in Fecal Matter. Recently elected San Francisco Mayor London Breed says that
the city she loves is absolutely covered in fecal matter and "we are not just talking about from dogs — we're
talking about from humans." Talking about human feces, folks! Particularly, feces from humans experiencing
homelessness right now. Apparently, the city is so overrun by poverty that people are using virtually all public spaces
as their toilet because they cannot afford proper lavatories. To this extent, Mayor Breed is asking that homelessness
advocacy groups and non-profit encourage those they are helping to clean up after themselves.
San
Francisco's crisis looks like New York's future. What happened in San Francisco is obvious. It stopped
prosecuting quality-of-life offenses and, unsurprisingly, the quality of life for the city's residents and visitors decreased
sharply. In 2015, San Francisco courts stopped enforcing bench warrants for such offenses. Police continued
writing up tickets for public drunkenness or sleeping in parks, but when the accused failed to show up to their court
appearance a judge simply dismissed the outstanding warrant. New York started following San Francisco's lead in 2016
when Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. announced his office would no longer be prosecuting offenses such as public urination.
Both cities have accepted that they'll continue to have a large number of people living on their streets and inevitably using
their sidewalks as a toilet.
These states
have the highest gas prices. The national average this July 4 is $2.86 per gallon, according to AAA. However,
travelers on the West Coast could see prices well above that. In California, drivers will pay $3.66 per gallon on Wednesday
[7/4/2018]. In Washington, prices are only slightly lower, at $3.43 per gallon. Meanwhile, gas in Oregon is averaging
$3.32 per gallon.
San Francisco:
Poster-Child For The Failure Of U.S. Cities' Blue Model. By any standard, San Francisco is one of the most
beautiful cities in the world. So why has it suddenly become an unappealing place to visit and to live? [...] San
Francisco proudly calls itself a "progressive" city. It follows what writer and scholar Walter Russell Mead calls the
progressive "Blue Model" of governance. Yet, the policies it follows — high taxes, inane regulations, petty
nanny-state authoritarianism, tolerance for rising lawlessness and disorder on its streets in the name of "compassion" —
are the very ones that have driven middle-class and working-class citizens out. Only the rich and the so-called homeless,
who have been welcomed into the city and are a growing issue, can afford to live in the city.
San
Francisco Logs Over 16,000 Feces Complaints in One Week. A website and related app that allows local residents
to request maintenance or non-emergency services from the city has received 16,015 complaints with the keyword 'feces' in the
last week at the time of this writing, and many pertain to human waste in public places. Additionally, words and
phrases synonymous with 'feces' are found in thousands more grievances. Many of the complaints also connect the fecal
matter to vagrants and homeless encampments — a sight all too common now across California.
20
Pounds Of Human Feces Left On San Francisco Sidewalk. According to the Fresno Bee, a trash bag filled with
roughly 20 pounds of human feces was left sitting on the sidewalk over the weekend in downtown San Francisco. "It's the
latest — and perhaps most alarming — sign of the increased filthiness of one of the most popular cities
in the United States," reports FB. "The bags of human poop were said to be left in San Francisco's Tenderloin district."
Increasingly Putrid City by the
Bay. [Scroll down] I love the city [of San Francisco] and find its decrepit situation depressing.
At least everyone is noticing its tawdriness. "Trash bags full of approximately 20 pounds of human poop were
left on the sidewalk over the weekend in downtown San Francisco," the Fresno Bee reported on Wednesday [7/4/2018].
"It's the latest — and perhaps most alarming — sign of the increased filthiness of one of the most popular
cities in the United States." Those smelly, possibly leaking bags were left in the downscale Tenderloin, but large swaths
of upscale areas now resemble an outdoor sewer with human feces, open-air drug use, and other signs of the breakdown of civic
order. The problem of homelessness and drug abuse isn't confined to San Francisco, of course. [...] In fairness, I've seen
similar situations throughout the country. But in San Francisco the disorder isn't confined to alleys and bushes. The
encampments are in plain view and spreading. The panhandlers can be frighteningly aggressive.
San
Francisco Has Received Over 20,000 Feces Complaints in Last 7 Days. In the last week, the city has received
over 20,000 complaints of human waste needing cleanup trough its SF311 site. [...] There are 6705 complaints for the term
"human waste" which pushes the total to well over 20,000 with additional complaints for [slang synonyms for] fecal matter
and other related terms.
SF's
appalling street life repels residents — now it's driven away a convention. In a move that is
alarming San Francisco's biggest industry, a major medical association is pulling its annual convention out of the
city — saying its members no longer feel safe. "It's the first time that we have had an out-and-out
cancellation over the issue, and this is a group that has been coming here every three or four years since the 1980s," said
Joe D'Alessandro, president and CEO of S.F. Travel, the city's convention bureau. D'Alessandro declined to name
the medical association, saying the bureau still hopes to bring the group back in the future.
The Editor says...
The Editor and Mrs. Editor went to San Antonio in mid-June for the Republican state convention, and it was surprisingly enjoyable.
It was rather hot outside, and there were some Austin-style eccentrics on the streets, but the area around the convention center is
constantly patrolled by the police as well as a bunch of street-cleaning custodians like you'd see in an amusement park.
Forget California, people. Bring your convention to Texas.
Left Coast Lawlessness.
Seattle's predicament is emblematic of the broader crises faced by many progressive West Coast cities, where local leaders
have forced law enforcement to take a hands-off approach to policing unsanctioned tent cities and vagrancy at the expense of
public safety and health. San Francisco, long considered a model of progressive urban policy, is plagued by filth,
chaos, and public-safety hazards. Local leaders plan to spend an incredible $305 million on combatting homelessness
for the current fiscal year alone, but disorder spreads as the city fails to enforce the rule of law and basic sanitary
measures. Block-by-block surveillance reveals the deterioration of downtown San Francisco. Of 153 city blocks
surveyed, 41 contained used drug needles and 96 had human feces present. Tourists are dismayed to leave their downtown
hotels, to be confronted by mentally ill and aggressive homeless people who are taking control of the streets.
University of California Berkeley professor Lee Riley, an expert on infectious disease, observes that some of San Francisco's
streets are dirtier than Third World slums.
Seattle
cops flee the force in 'mass exodus' due to frustrations with city's politics, report says. At least 41 cops
have left the Seattle Police Department this year, many of them reportedly citing frustration with the city's politics and a
perceived lack of support from local officials. [...] "I've been here since 1980, I've never seen the city in the condition
it is in. It's because it's been allowed on many levels," [Seattle Police Officers Guild Vice President Richard]
O'Neill said.
Anti-cop
leftist politics spur Seattle police 'mass exodus'. A "mass exodus" of 41 officers from the Seattle Police
Department (SPD) has occurred in the first five months of this year, with union leaders blaming the city's ultra-left
politics and anti-police policies. Seattle Police Guild Vice President Rich O'Neill said the exodus from the
Northwest's most populous city is unprecedented. "I have never seen the number of officers who are leaving —
and the way they are leaving," O'Neill asserted, according to Seattle's Q13 Fox News (KCPQ-TV).
Bill
adding third gender choice for licenses, IDs nears passage. A bill directing the Registry of Motor Vehicles to
let people choose "X" for a gender instead of male or female passed the Senate nearly unanimously and could bring the change
to state-issued IDs as soon as November. The option — already available in Oregon, California, Maine and
Washington, D.C. — addresses concerns by people who don't identify as solely male or female and consider
themselves non-binary, meaning neither one nor the other gender.
Mad
Max and Nancy Pelosi: The twin faces of the Democratic Party. It can be lost on no one that the Democrats
care not one bit for American citizens. Thousands of them have been murdered by criminal illegals, who are most often
given a pass by the courts for numerous DUIs, drug crimes, and gun crimes for which Americans would be imprisoned. The
crimes of members of MS13 are not at all different from those of ISIS — vicious beyond imagination. And yet
the left defends them, seeks to embrace their arrival here. The senseless murders of innocents like Kate Steinle mean
nothing to Nancy Pelosi, and that murder happened on her watch, in her district. Her city has been ravaged by her
ruinous progressive policies. Like Los Angeles, it is overrun with homeless people, drug addicts who urinate, defecate,
and cast off their dirty needles anywhere they please, all over the city. No one goes to San Francisco as a tourist
anymore. It's blighted and dangerous. This is what the policies of our left hath wrought.
The Left
and Children. Tens of millions of U.S. children who are stuck in government schools are not only being taught
that homosexuality and same-sex "marriage" are normal, but that biology doesn't determine a person's sex. Because of
liberalism, children are being read to by drag queens, "entertained" by drag queens, and even turned into drag queens!
Because of liberalism, children in government schools are being provided with a study guide on transgenderism that instructs
kids that a gender-deluded lifestyle is just another choice for a young person to make. Because of liberalism, children
in government schools are being provided with a George Soros-funded "sexual health toolkit" that, among other immoralities,
and in spite of the significant health disparities suffered by homosexual teens, instructs them on homosexual behavior,
including sodomy. Because of liberalism, those who wish to flee the immoral and unhealthy homosexual lifestyle are
being hindered from doing so, and in this backwards process, liberals have banned the Bible. Because of liberalism, in
addition to invading girls' locker rooms and bathrooms, and as I warned would be the case, boys are taking trophies from girls.
Left Coast Lawlessness.
The anarchy and disorder dominating progressive cities across the West Coast recently hit a new low in Seattle. King
County officials are looking to roll out a "safe injection van," a legal venue at which addicts could shoot up illegal drugs
unhindered and "safely." The first of its kind in the United States, the van would manage to undermine further the rule
of law while also doing little to help addicts. Seattle's urban decay goes deeper, though, with skyrocketing rates of
homelessness, an explosion in opioid usage and deaths, and spikes in violent crime.
Government
removal of children from their parents didn't start with Trump. The government has routinely taken children
from their parents for the past 50 years; not in increments of 2,000 as indicated in the tabloid, but by the millions.
It began with the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which included sex on it its list of categories to receive
discrimination protection. This law neutered the American male in general, but the African-American community
experienced its immediate implementation. The government fostered unwed motherhood through financial inducements made
possible by the welfare system, which gave women incentives to have children if they weren't married. Even well-meaning
young couples who planned to get married opted for the welfare system because it meant tens of thousands of dollars in
increased income over the life of the young family. Fathers lived with parents, other family members and friends, for
if welfare workers found even a pair of pants hanging in the closet of the mother, she would lose her welfare payments.
This was the first step in separating children from parents. The father was removed from the home.
Going Fatherless on Father's
Day. Gay Pride Month, if you somehow haven't noticed, is this June. It happens to coincide with the
Obergefell decision, June 26, 2015, when Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and a handful of robed liberals
rendered unto themselves the ability to redefine the multi-millennial, Western, Judeo-Christian, human, Biblical, biological,
natural conception of marriage between a man and a woman. Obergefell is celebrated at the website of the official Gay
Pride Calendar by the unforgettable image of President Barack Obama's White House illuminated in rainbow colors. It's
ironic that liberals at Google and the Obama White House would, without any sense of contradiction, celebrate both things;
that is, Father's Day and Obergefell. What's the irony? The irony is that by redefining marriage in
America, and forcibly imposing that redefinition upon all 50 states via judicial fiat, leftists from Barack Obama to Google's
anonymous powers have pioneered a form of family that is, flatly, fatherless. Think about it: a family of two
married women is a family without a father. Why purposely create fatherless families?
Report: Netflix
Bans Employees from Looking at Each Other for More Than Five Seconds. Netflix has reportedly banned workers
from looking at each other for more than five seconds as part of its new anti-harassment rules. The new policy also
bans the company's film crews from asking their colleagues for their phone numbers, according to an article in the Sun.
"Senior staff went to a harassment meeting to learn what is and isn't appropriate," an on-set runner told the Sun. "Looking at
anyone longer than five seconds is considered creepy."
Black
America Walking Off the Cliff. The pre-welfare black society understood the necessity for respect and
responsibility. From slavery until LBJ's War on Poverty programs, intact black American families were the norm.
The church was the glue that sealed biblical bindings in the hearts and minds of the family. Fathers governed their
households, and young men were less likely to become criminals. Fornicators and adulterers were unwelcomed
parasites. Premarital pregnancies were a rarity, as they were a cause for shame and reproach. In 1950,
eighty-five years after slavery, the two-parent black household was 78%. By the mid-sixties, black lives started to matter
much less under LBJ's Great Society. Now, just fifty-three years after the War on Poverty began, the once stable
two-parent black household has disintegrated to an abysmal 27%, and the black church is all but silent! The roots of
this catastrophe were sown the minute the black church started trusting in government instead of God.
Bourdain:
Casualty of Leftist Mindset. In 1798, founding father John Adams said, "Our Constitution was made only for a
moral and religious people." Today, Christian politicians are branded "dangerous" by leftist-dominated mainstream
media. The Democrat party hijacked by leftists removed God from their platform. When Democrats voted God back
into their platform the convention floor erupted with angry boos. Can you imagine a political party so wicked that they
boo God? Leftists laugh at Christians. Leftists erroneously believe man is the ultimate power, capable of
regulating equal outcomes. They foolishly believe man can save or destroy the planet. Michael Crichton
brilliantly articulates leftist folly in his novel Jurassic Park. Believing themselves to be wiser than God, leftists
always fight to change God's original intent regarding biology, marriage, and gender.
McGowan
and Argento inadvertantly [sic] explain Bourdain's suicide. It was love, love unencumbered by borders, and free
as a bird, so actress Rose McGowan would have us think. What could be worse than borders, after all? So don't go
blaming actress Asia Argento for her lover Anthony Bourdain's suicide because the pair was involved in some kind of
open-marriage-without-the-marriage hook-up, you see. That's what's been reported as straight news lately, and what this
Hollywood denizen would have you think in her bid to defend her friend Argento from criticism over the suicide of her
lover. In one way, she is right. Obviously, both Argento and Bourdain bought into the idea that love was the same
as sex, and sex, even in an exclusive relationship, shouldn't be exclusive to one person. It wasn't just Argento, it
was both of them.
Past
Versus Present American. Try this question to any one of [the] 50 million Americans who are 65 or older:
Do you recall any discussions about the need to hire armed guards to protect students and teachers against school shootings?
Do you remember school policemen patrolling the hallways? How many students were shot to death during the time you were in
school? For me and those other Americans 65 or older, when we were in school, a conversation about hiring armed guards and
having police patrol hallways would have been seen as lunacy. There was no reason. What's the difference between
yesteryear and today? The logic of the argument for those calling for stricter gun control laws, in the wake of recent
school shootings, is that something has happened to guns. Guns have behaved more poorly and become evil.
America's King of Poverty.
I know it is not a pleasant topic but let's take just a moment and think about poverty in this country. Which state do
you think has the highest poverty rate? Must be Mississippi or Alabama or one of those Southern states. No it
ain't. The state with the highest poverty rate is... wait for it, CALIFORNIA!!! Yep, our progressive, income
redistributing state which accounts for 12% of the country's population is home to about 1 in 3 of all U.S. welfare
recipients. Our poverty rate exceeds 20% when the national average is around 15%. It is not as though California policy
makers have neglected to wage their assault on poverty. Since 1992 California has spent nearly $1 trillion on
benefit programs. Clearly it hasn't worked. Then again paying poor people to be poor never does.
The
lawless, porn-respecting, MS-13-loving, humorless American left. [Nancy] Pelosi says the low unemployment is meaningless, the tax cuts
are "crumbs," and that consumer confidence is low despite it being at an 18-year high. They see, hear, think, and propagate what they want
to be true, not what is true. Even California voters made a tiny dent in the left's socialist grasp on the state. No one
expected Republican John Cox to come in second. All Californians should be horrified by what has become of their once golden state.
Thanks to the polices of Gov. Brown, ex-senator Boxer, Feinstein, Kamala Harris, A.G. Becerra, etc. (it is a one-party Marxist
state), California is a disaster of incalculable proportions, drowning in the homeless, the illegal migrants, traffic, and the highest gas prices
in the country.
Today's
Two Main Political Camps Are Pro-Thought Versus Anti-Thought. The war on speech is basically a war on thought. Let's review
just a few examples that confirm power elites' interest in abolishing freedom of thought: • On college campuses:
Administrators increasingly permit and expect students to disrupt and even riot at talks by invited speakers and scholars some deem politically
incorrect. • At Google: Software engineer James Damore was summarily fired for expressing a politically incorrect opinion,
despite his copious citations of facts to back up his thesis. • At The Atlantic Monthly: Writer Kevin Williamson
was quickly fired for publicly expressing a politically incorrect opinion despite the fact that his opinion was well known before his firing, and
that he was actually hired in part for his reputation as a talented provocateur. • At Mozilla: Activists forced the
resignation of CEO Brendan Eich when they discovered that he privately donated to a politically incorrect cause — California's
Proposition 8, which in 2008 confirmed the legal definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Eich chose to resign
rather than recant his thoughts. • In New York City: Fines of up to $250,000 if you "misgender" a person.
Violent
crime and poverty place Detroit, Flint, St. Louis and Las Vegas as the Worst cities in America to live in. Detroit,
Michigan holds the dubious title of being the country's worst city to live in, according to a new report ranking America's 50 most
unappealing places to call home. Detroit has just the right combination of poverty, unemployment, crime and other factors to
hold its first-place position, followed by Flint, Michigan and St. Louis, Missouri. The rest of the cities that made the
list span from New England to the Pacific Ocean and everywhere in between, 24/7 Wall Street reported.
The
end of the swimsuit competition is part of the war on heterosexual men. For years, feminists have battled heterosexual men on numerous fronts:
[#1] To label any attraction men show for women as "creepy." Men being attracted to dangerous sexual activity with other men is
never labeled as "creepy." Neither is the idea of boys in girls' bathrooms. But men showing attraction to women is called "creepy."
[#2] The "Me Too" movement includes criticism of men showing attraction to women. [...] [#3] The rape "epidemic" on college campuses.
[...] And now we have the Miss America Pageant, which will no longer have a swimsuit competition (and no longer be called a pageant).
The
end of the swimsuit competition is part of the war on heterosexual men.
[Scroll down] Yet women spend billions of dollars on products and magazines to look attractive. Millions of women have no problem with such
a competition. The problem lies with feminists, who are looking for new ways to attack the bond between men and women. The Miss America Pageant
no doubt believes that it is not dooming itself by canceling the swimsuit competition and making the event purely a virtue-signaling event.
Liberals are like that — so deluded by how they want the world to be that they are totally ignorant of human nature.
Erotic
Manias and Disappearing Fathers. Schools in NYC and elsewhere may not lead students in prayer, but they are
allowed to lead students into paths of sexual expression such as ten-minute counseling before sending them for an abortion,
lessons on how to put a condom on a cucumber or a banana, and the need to prevent STDs rather than uphold the sex, marriage,
and love unity. Divorce has skyrocketed during the post-WWII years; sexually transmitted disease has become rampant;
cohabitation is becoming more popular with each passing year; the porno industry has captured the time, money, and
imaginations of tens of millions of men on the internet; and there is a gossip feeding frenzy regarding the immoral habits of
celebrities. Pedophilia is being publicly defended as a legitimate activity, and being HIV-positive is something,
according to signs on NYC subways, that can be handled by partnering with one's doctor and various city agencies.
Scenes of
surrender against public drug use. Junkies dump 5,000 used needles a week in Bronx parks — at
St. Mary's, they shoot up in broad daylight. In Manhattan's Washington Square Park, crack is back. In
Brooklyn, scores of people have OD'd on K2. Now Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to end arrests for public pot smoking.
Huh? Is his goal to hand the city's public spaces to druggies of every kind? On Thursday [5/24/2018], The
[New York] Post reported that a Bronx economic-development project has turned into an outdoor shooting gallery. The
site's not far from St. Mary's Park, where on Tuesday the paper filmed two men getting set to inject drugs —
right across from an elementary school.
Leftists
[are] Slowly Turning Off the Faucet of Free Speech. [D]id you ever think a day would come when leftists would demand that we do not
state the truth that there are only two sexes? College student Lake Ingle was kicked out of class for saying biologists officially say there
are only two sexes. Leftists have decreed that there are 71 different "genders," including no-gender and gender-fluid. Anyone caught
publicly stating otherwise will suffer public humiliation and dire social, economic, and even physical consequences. And yet leftists are
praised as paragons of tolerance.
Liberalism's
Impact on Abhorrent Behavior. As a governing ideology, liberalism has mainstreamed all behavior no matter how
bizarre it might be. This enables crazy conduct that has no limitations — an era best described as "anything
goes." The reality is that conduct must have well defined and established borders. We have become unmoored from
community standards of decency and acceptable behavior. This, in part, stems from cultural and political
liberalism — where nothing is too extreme and no conduct or lifestyle can be judged in terms of acceptable
societal norms. Unbridled liberalism waged and won a culture war. This has eroded societal norms in regard to
behavior. Cultural rot and degradation, liberalism tells us, has some redeeming quality that should be embraced by
all. Therefore, no consequences exist for unwanted behavior. We are now paying the price for not having won this
warped culture change, one that is playing out in mass shootings.
Parents
Furious As Australia Seeks To Ban Use Of "Boy" Or "Girl" In Books. The Herald Sun reports that the local
government's justice warriors were inspired by research from the Australian National University that showed children were
influenced by gender stereotyping, and urged a ban on the terms 'boy' and 'girl'. The research suggests educators should
"minimise the extent to which gender is labelled" and avoid telling children what girls and boys should do.
The Editor says...
This assumes that all stereotypes are harmful, and that raising children properly involves something better than
"telling children what girls and boys should do."
Junkies
are filling Bronx parks with over 5,000 used needles a week. Junkies have been dumping some 5,000 used needles
a week in parks across the Bronx — prompting desperate city officials to install dozens of syringe-disposal kiosks
in hopes of cleaning up the dangerous mess. There has been a dramatic gain in the number of syringes found in parks in
the Bronx in recent years because of the ongoing opioid epidemic, city Health Department officials say. The 60 kiosks,
which will be locked trash boxes placed in the hardest-hit Bronx parks, are part of a $60 million HealingNYC program to
combat the drug plague, announced Monday [5/21/2018].
Evergreen
State College students host 'No Whites Allowed' event for second year in a row, but at what cost? One year ago, members of the
Evergreen State College community asked white people to leave the campus in a "day of absence." Those who refused to give into such demands
sparked uncontrollable outrage from event planners and a chain of events led to mass chaos, national media coverage, and the exit of a few faculty
and staff. You'll remember students stormed a faculty meeting, disrupted classes, roamed the campus with baseball bats, blocked students and
staff from leaving the library, and successfully demanded that campus police give up their guns. Eventually, the chief of police resigned,
explaining that she had been given all of the responsibility, but none of the authority to keep people safe on campus. Professors Bret
Weinstein and Heather Heying, who were endlessly stalked and harassed, resigned from their tenured positions and sued the school.
At least four others followed.
Report finds cases of STDs reach all-time
high in California. The number of cases of sexually transmitted diseases in California reached a record high
last year and officials are particularly concerned by a spike in stillbirths due to congenital syphilis, state health
authorities said Monday [5/14/2018].
Florida
Paper Torches Broward Officials For Allowing Nikolas Cruz To 'Slide' Thanks to Obama-Era Disciplinary Program.
Well, the Sun-Sentinel did not hold back in their piece about the Broward County school officials and their PROMISE
program that shuns disciplinary actions for students that possibly commit felonious acts. The program was enacted under
the Obama era. In 2011, the Obama White House wanted to keep more kids in schools, Broward Schools Superintendent
Robert W. Runcie endorsed it and in 2013, PROMISE went into effect. Paul Sperry wrote in RealClearInvestigations about
how the program has created a climate of chaos in school districts, where discipline has become non-existent to the point where
students know they can't be expelled, leading to assaults on teachers: [...]
California's
Self-Inflicted Housing Disaster Couldn't Get Worse — Or Could It? California is a virtual one-party
state, and suffers for it. A case in point: At the final forum for gubernatorial candidates before the June 5
state primary, lavish promises were made by Democratic candidates to build "millions" of new homes to end the state's housing
crisis. But the fact is, California's far-left politicians created the problem, and don't have a clue about how to
solve it. As the headlines above show, the same politicians that vow to build "millions" of new homes to keep state
citizens from leaving will now require solar panels on new houses. They claim that'll add just $9,500 per house, but of
course that's way low. Making homes less affordable is no way to end a housing shortage.
Used
Needles Littering San Francisco Streets As Heroin Crisis Grips NorCal. San Francisco residents are complaining
about a record number of used and discarded syringes littering the streets, as a growing heroin epidemic grips Northern
California. The city distributes nearly 5 million needles each year through various programs aimed at reducing HIV and
other health risks for drug users who might otherwise share needles.
Let's
Help Vagrants, Not Use And Enable Them. Alcoholics go to Alcoholics Anonymous, and they can only leave on the
wagon. Obese people often go to camps where their caloric use and intake are closely monitored. So why do we
encourage vagrants with drug problems to visit "shoot-up parks" to descend deeper into their sewer of dangerous and addicting
drugs? For that matter, why do we encourage their vagrancy? This isn't just a big city problem. Here in the
beautiful Roaring Fork Valley, we have vagrants. The Glenwood Springs Post Independent recently reported that many
vagrants illegally camp on private and public lands on the outskirts of town. They litter the area, defecate and
urinate on the ground, often start illegal campfires and frequently panhandle and worse.
About
those needles littering the streets of San Francisco... The city gave them out. For all of City Hall's tough
talk of late about getting needles off the streets, the city itself is responsible for helping fuel the problem —
handing out millions of syringes a year with little or no controls over their return. And while the easy access to
clean syringes is intended to protect public health, the city's residents are not happy with the situation.
Before
and After Welfare Handouts. There is virtually no material poverty in the U.S. Eighty percent of households the Census Bureau
labels as poor have air conditioning; nearly three-quarters have a car or truck, and 31 percent have two or more. Two-thirds have cable
or satellite TV. Half have at least one computer. Forty-two percent own their homes. What we have in our nation is not material
poverty but dependency and poverty of the spirit, with people making unwise choices and leading pathological lives, aided and abetted by the
welfare state.
The Semantic Whoredom of the
Left. [Scroll down] I realized it wasn't just their etymology that was faulty but that these people had in fact built
themselves an entirely new language, with words that are in common use [...] voided of their signification and filled with meanings they
were never meant to have, meanings that can only be understood if you share the basic assumptions of leftist liberals. [...] There are
a few hundred other words that have similarly been beaten until they lose all self-respect and now are passed from mouth to mouth in
leftist circles as a sad parody of the words they used to be. Possibly the most common of those is "racist."
Minneapolis
City Council Approves Dockless Bike Pilot Program. On Friday morning [5/11/2018], the Minneapolis City Council approved a
contract amendment with Nice Ride to operate the dockless bike pilot program. "One of the biggest concerns that I have
is how are we going to be able to keep the public right of way clear of bikes just laying all around the city," Councilmember
Andrea Jenkins asked. Seattle, San Diego, and Dallas have similar programs. Each city has had to deal with bikes
that are destroyed, piled up or end up in a river.
Look
how the liberal drug culture has destroyed Eureka, California. In normal circumstances, Eureka, California,
would be a paradise. It's situated in northern California on the Pacific Coast and is simply beautiful, sandwiched
between rugged redwood forests and an implacable open sea. The weather is perfect, constantly between 50 and 75 degrees
year round. It's isolated from other major cities, but some find value in the quiet of a more secluded lifestyle.
Unfortunately, Eureka, in Humboldt County, is in the center of a narco-state where marijuana is grown industrial-scale and
drug use is rampant. The situation has gotten so bad that even tourists avoid it.
Why
the Media Are Mum About Comedy Central's 2011 Trump Roast. In March 2011, the cable channel Comedy Central
staged a celebrity roast of Donald Trump. Hosted by Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, the show featured a crew
of B- and C-list entertainers mocking each other and, of course, Trump, the subject of the roast. [...] In the not too
distant past, celebrity roasts relied on sexual innuendo and double-entendre. By 2011, the DMC had deeply undermined
the culture and the celebrity roast with it.
The
diseased streets of San Francisco spread to rest of California. We recently took a look at the diseased streets
of San Francisco, after local reporters revealed a dangerous mix of drug needles, garbage, and feces spread throughout the
city's downtown area. Now, as the number of homeless camps across the state skyrocket, union officials for highway
maintenance workers are demanding health and safety protections for state employees who are exposed to the biological
detritus while cleaning up roadside encampments.
They Keep Telling Us Who
They Are. No Bible, no self-defense, no right to hold a dissenting opinion — only the right to say
and do whatever our masters tell us we can say and do. That's who they are, that's where they're coming from, and
what's where they want to take the rest of us. Please don't forget that the 2016 Democrat platform included a plank
authorizing the Attorney General to "investigate" the newly-created crime of Climate Change Denial. This is why
liberals must never, never, ever again be allowed to take power in our country. Because if they do, it won't be our
country anymore.
Disneyland
and Infantile Culture. Disneyland appears to be more and more co-opted by untraditional, non-family values.
Gay Day (I'm not sure if it's called that) has been picking up momentum over the past few years, taking over the park and
giving Tinker Bell a run for her money. Eventually, I can only assume as Disneyland becomes more of a Dave & Buster's adult
theme park instead of something for children, then Tinker Bell will be a fat male stripper wearing a dog collar scooping up
fivers scattered along the cobblestone road. The culture has been so steeped in the corrosive, acidic LBGTQ agenda for years
now that the electrical anode posts no longer conduct further shock, even as the left adorably tries to connect the wires.
NYC
restaurants propose surcharges for all diners. Big Apple restaurants are at a tipping point. With record
hikes in wages over the past couple of years — on top of rising rent, food and other costs — restaurant
owners pressed City Hall lawmakers to allow them to levy a surcharge on all diners to cover their bloated expenses. Without
the surcharge, which could range from 3 percent to 5 percent, or more, many owners said they will go out of business.
Broward
Student Lays Out Devastating Case Against School Board For Neglecting School Safety. On Thursday [4/26/2018],
Broward County student Kenneth Preston, 19, published the findings of an in-depth investigation he has conducted over the
last two months that has uncovered some alarming details about how the Broward County School Board neglected school safety
leading up to the Parkland massacre. Preston confronted the school board two weeks ago and gave his account of what
he'd learned to The Hill. In his initial findings, Preston said that he believed that since 2014, the school has only
spent around 5% of the over $100 million available to it specifically for school safety. In his new report, he
details ways that the failure to invest in school safety may have led to the deaths of some of the students in the Marjory
Stoneman Douglas shooting. The school board's embrace of progressive programs, including The Promise Program and the
Behavior Intervention Program, Preston maintains, has protected problem students — like the student who eventually
slaughtered 17 people in February — shielding them from effective disciplinary measures and thus allowing
them to remain threats to their peers.
The
great exodus out of America's blue cities. Am I the only one in my spinning class at Equinox in Manhattan who's
fed up paying $200 every month for a gym with clean showers, $3,000 in rent every month for an apartment without cockroaches
and $8 every morning for a cup of coffee? Am I the only one moving through the greater part of New York City boroughs
and seeing an inexorable march of urban decay matched with the discomfort of crowding and inexplicable costs? I know I
am not. New York is the most expensive city in America. Its lower-cost neighborhoods are riddled with crime and
homelessness. Its public schools, some of which are among the worst in the nation, look more like prisons than places
of learning.
Are
There Any Adults Left in Washington, D.C.? As America approaches her 250th birthday, her instruction manual, the U.S.
Constitution, is under assault as never before. The First Amendment is under attack by campus speech police and social media,
censoring and deciding which political statements are welcomed and which are verboten. The Second Amendment is threatened by
leftist elitists happy to ban guns for the law-abiding as long as they can have armed guards protecting themselves and their families
from the criminals who don't give a whit about whatever gun laws the left proposes. It's not only the Bill of Rights under
assault, but also Article Two of the Constitution — specifically, the first section, detailing how a president is elected to a
four-year term.
Project Freedom.
Society, the new orthodoxy claimed, was to blame for the supposed lack of opportunity that discouraged black Americans from working and
learning, for the rage and resentment that fueled disproportionate black criminality, and for the despair that heroin and crack served
to dull. Moreover, once out-of-wedlock sex lost its shame in the elite worldview, so did out-of-wedlock childbearing, widespread
enough among black Americans a century ago to trouble W. E. B. Du Bois deeply, but astronomically higher after the
cultural changes of the 1960s.
7 Forces Driving
America Toward Civil War. [#4] Moral Decline: A large number of Americans have lost their principles,
manners and virtue and it shows through from the sort of politicians they elect, to their rudeness online, to the sort of
shallow hedonism and fame whoring they find appealing. Americans are increasingly becoming a soft and decadent people
which is problematic because the challenges may change, but we can be certain that Americans will face future challenges
every bit as difficult as the ones past generations had to tackle. This is frightening because if you look at the
"principles, manners and virtue" of Americans today, they don't seem capable of dealing with monumental events like the War
of 1812, the Civil War, the Depression or World War II. Most people in their twenties probably couldn't tell you why all
those events were such challenges in the first place. When America faces a challenge bigger than we can handle because
of ineffective politicians and our "amusing ourselves to death" population, there are no guarantees our republic will survive.
College Professor
'Happy To Be Retired' After Dealing With SJWs. I was talking with an ex-university professor recently who told
me that he was very happy to be retired. He said he was glad to be out of the hornets' nest, away from a world so
filled with political correctness that it was difficult to get through the day. Life on campus, he said, is rife with
so many non-issue "issues" that it's like walking barefoot on sidewalks littered with broken glass. He related how he
once told a fellow professor that she "looked very nice today," meaning that she had selected a particularly nice outfit.
Rather than thank him for the compliment, the professor took him to task for being sexist and going out of his way to objectify
her as an object (a piece of meat) to be admired. "You wouldn't say the same thing to a male colleague," she scolded.
California
Has Highest Poverty Rate In America. California under Democratic rule has seen a rapid decline in both its
ability to sustain itself and the quality of life for most of their residents. Their population of poverty stricken is
vastly disproportionate to their overall population. Policies which continue to flood the state with parasitic foreign
nationals while continuing to raise taxes on the contributing population will only push more people out of the state,
evaporating their tax base.
Broward
School Violence: Cruz's Massacre Is Far From the Whole Story. Broward County, Fla., school officials
portray as a great success their Obama administration-inspired program offering counseling to students who break the law,
instead of having them arrested or expelled. They insist that it played no role in February's school massacre by
Nikolas Cruz. They also claim that in fact juvenile recidivism rates are down and school safety is up, thanks to the
program. The evidence tells a far different story. Broward County juvenile justice division records, federal
studies of Broward school district safety and the district's own internal reporting show that years of "intensive" counseling
didn't just fail to reform repeat offender Cruz, who allegedly went on to shoot and kill 17 people at his high school.
Records show such policies have failed to curtail other campus violence and its effects now on the rise in district
schools — including fighting, weapons use, bullying and related suicides.
The
Norming of the Perverted. Once a person's sexual proclivities were private to that person and those in their
life that shared them or those friends one decided to tell. Now one is required to declare their sexual tastes upon
showing up at a hospital. Somewhere there are teams of state-employed perverts who, every day, come to work in their
state-furnished offices, hold meetings, create [things] like this, make them "mandatory," and then just spray them
out [...]. It is said to be, by these sub-human and un-fireable office holders, because being sensitive to people
of all kinds is "who we are as a people." But it is not that. It may once have been that but no more.
Now, with the arrival of sheets like the one [pictured], we can see the program as it really is: The Norming of
the Perverted.
The
Surreal World of Teaching. [D]id you know that in the inverted world of education today, if a student has a
baby, then more financial aid is available? Indeed! Consequently, students are being told by their college
advisers that they should get pregnant. Even some of the students are appalled at this suggestion. But then there
are those who proclaim that "the money comes from the government," implying that it is not really problematic.
Deliberately unschooled in how things actually work, and already the recipients of financial assistance, these students see
government as the ultimate security blanket. There is no connection to the idea that government comprises taxpayers.
What a wonderful idea — to have a money tree somewhere pumping out financial aid ad infinitum!
Study: Lesbians, bisexual girls at 'higher
risk' of getting suspended, expelled from school. A new study out of Princeton University says that "same-sex
attracted teens" have a greater chance of being disciplined at school, with lesbians and bisexual females facing the biggest
odds. According to a Princeton press release, sociology PhD candidate Josh Mittleman's paper "Sexual Orientation and
School Discipline: New Evidence from a Population-Based Sample" (abstract only; subscription required for full paper)
claims LGB teens have a "29 percent higher [chance] of experiencing exclusionary discipline," but girls' chances are a
whopping 95% greater. Mittleman utilized information from the "Fragile Families and Childhood Wellbeing Study" which
studied kids born in the US between 1998 and 2000 — "roughly three-quarters of whom were born to unmarried
parents" (emphasis added).
Did
Lax Obama-Era School-Discipline Policies Enable the Parkland Shooter? The closer you look at the school
shooting in Parkland, Fla., the more you realize that it might have been one of the most preventable significant crimes in
recent American history. We're familiar by now with the government's sins of omission — how it failed to act
time and again in the face of evidence that the shooter presented a clear and present danger to the public. But how
about a sin of commission? Did an Obama-era policy designed to reduce the "school-to-prison pipeline" prevent police
from using available tools that could have stopped the shooting? One of the greatest challenges in American public life
is to end mass incarceration without endangering the public. How can reform efforts keep violent offenders off the
streets while still decreasing America's extraordinarily high prison population?
The Four Terrible Things
That Are Destroying Boys In Our Culture. Let's imagine the world the average 13-year-old boy inhabits. [...] The
boy cannot escape sex. It is all over his computer. All over his phone. All over social media. All
over the TV. All over the music he listens to. He goes to school and his female classmates are dressed like
strippers. He goes anywhere and that's how the women are dressed. It seems that everyone is doing everything
they can to make a degenerate and a creep out of him, even as they demand that he control himself.
When
this playground opened, no one told the parents about the sex predator on staff. When a new playground popped
up in the backyard of a storied LGBTQ community center in Wilton Manors, its directors hailed it as the first of its
kind. Backed by corporate sponsors JetBlue and Kaboom!, it was designed to be a "safe space" for same-sex couples and
their children to play free from judgment or harassment, a statement to South Florida that "our families matter," as one
board member told the Miami Herald in 2015. But The Pride Center at Equality Park had a secret known only to the director
and his confidants: The janitor was a convicted sex predator.
The Battle of Woke Island. [Scroll down]
Here, then, is yet another example of how the politics and rhetoric of the university have slowly colonized America's economic, cultural, and
political institutions, how recent graduates are carrying with them into the workforce all the bad ideas they learned from their humanities
courses, independent research, and campus programming. I am talking about the modes and categories of identity politics, of viewing all
human phenomena through the prism of race and gender (and sometimes, though rarely, of class), of robbing individual human beings of their
moral agency and reducing them to membership in a group, and of organizing these groups into a hierarchy of victimization and grievance.
Perv
Exposes Himself to Little Girl in Target Restroom in Chicago. According to Chicago police, a mother entered the
bathroom with her young daughter. A man, insisting that he needed to use the restroom too, went into the women's room
soon afterward. The sicko pushed into the stall where the little girl was, exposed his genitals, used the facility, and
then fled the scene, police said. He was able to do this because of Target's "inclusive" policy of allowing biological
men to enter the women's restroom if they self-identify as a woman, and vice versa.
Man
Exposes Himself to Girl in Target Restroom. Remember a couple of years ago how the left overflowed with rage
when conservatives wanted to keep men in men's potties, women in women's potties? The newest forefront in civil rights
in 2016 was where one did their number twos. I called it "the flush heard round the world." Anyway, those of us who
wanted to keep bathroom assignments the way they were, got called bigoted jackasses and the like, for daring to suggest some
creepy guys might peep on little girls. Because some creepy guys like peeping on little girls. That was then.
Last week a creepy guy burst into a women's restroom in Target, and whipped out his mini-me for a little show and tell.
To a little girl.
Can America Survive
the Latest Plague? A mob of foreigners planning to march across the United States border knowing in advance that numerous sanctuary
cities will break federal law and welcome them in. Unidentified individuals being allowed to vote in U.S. elections, riots at universities
with the intention of preventing any discussion that does not agree with theirs. These realities are all happening now and are all symptoms
of a political plague that has been visited upon America and most of Europe. [...] The primary vehicles used to spread this insidious cognitive
disorder at alarming rates consist of a leftist propaganda network known as the mainstream media, and indoctrination to leftist ideals via an
overpriced monopolized leftist education system.
Americans
Grapple With Evil Amid Decline in Religious Faith. Blaise Pascal once described a "God-shaped vacuum in the
heart of each man." But in modern-day America, few statements can raise eyebrows more swiftly than expressing faith in the
transcendent. From Joy Behar mocking Vice President Mike Pence as mentally ill for believing that God guides him, to
former President Barack Obama ridiculing "bitter" people who cling to guns or religion, the "enlightened" claim to have
progressed past the simplistic explanations of those who still believe in the existence of good and evil.
Fake
Crime Statistics Lead to 17 Murdered in Parkland. It seems that every day more revelations come out about the
collapse of the system in Parkland that failed to stop the murderer from roaming the halls of a high school with a gun he
should never have had an opportunity to legally acquire. Yet the tale of failure starts way before the fated day he
entered the school. This starts with the Superintendent of Broward County, Robert Runcie, who arrived in his position
from Chicago where he worked with Arne Duncan. Mr. Duncan went from there to serve as President Obama's Secretary
of Education for seven years. Runcie stated, in October 2011, "I arrived in the district and, shortly after that, began
to dive into the data on student performance in the district. We quickly recognized that Broward had a high number of
arrests, suspensions and expulsions. In fact, the highest number in the state. We realized we were not going to
be able to create equitable opportunities for success in our school system if our students are not in school."
Canada
Legalizes Sex With Animals. The west is becoming sicker and sicker. The Canadian legislature process
recently made international news after the Liberal Party, led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, introduced a new bill seeking
to establish two year prison terms for people found guilty of transgender discrimination.
America
doesn't have a gun violence epidemic. Democrat cities do. America does not have a gun crime
epidemic. There are, however, epidemics in many locales and cities. Who do you think runs the vast majority of
those cities? NRA-funded Republicans? No. Lobbyists for firearm manufacturers? No. The vast
majority of those cities have been run by Democrats for decades upon decades. Here are the top 20 cities with the
highest gun murder rates in the U.S. per capita. [...]
San
Francisco Is Suffering From The Excesses Of Its Own Liberalism. In November of 2017 alone, 6,211 needles were collected while via
the 311 App, 1,498 requests were made to clean up human feces. The public defecation problem has become so intolerable in San Francisco
that private citizens have built an online map to track the concentrations of poop in the city, so that pedestrians may know to avoid certain areas.
And it's not just poop. The overwhelming smell of urine on parts of Mission Street and Market Street would make your nose bleed. I
recall the first time I rode BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit, San Francisco's subway system) and was nearly knocked over by the sheer stench of the
station. I was surprised to learn that exiting the station supplied little to no relief — the urine smell hangs heavy in the more
populated areas of the city and is nearly inescapable. In a dark twist of humor, the city has had to replace numerous different street poles
due to urine eroding the foundation. What drives a large part of the human waste issue is San Francisco's homeless population. The
homeless epidemic in San Francisco is tragic and frightening — in a 47-square mile city, we have around 7,500 homeless people, meaning
there are approximately 160 homeless people per square mile.
Leftism
and Degeneracy: A Beautiful Thing. The left's illegal sanctuary cities like San Francisco call themselves
compassionate havens for angelic illegals — a beautiful thing. The reality is that rejecting federal
immigration law is destroying California. In San Francisco, a map was created to help people avoid mounds of feces left
by the homeless. Sanctuary cites turn a blind eye to gangs of illegals terrorizing U.S. citizens by means of murders,
rape, and robberies. The San Francisco Bay area is experiencing a massive exodus due to crime, skyrocketing taxes,
insanely high housing costs, and welfare benefits for illegals. California is the poorest state in the USA. Still,
leftists tell us sanctuary cities are saintly, beautiful things.
Here's What Your Children Are
Learning Today. Why on earth should kindergarten curricula include lessons on gender reassignments or anything
to do with sex education? Have you watched what children are watching on television today? I remember when
Saturday mornings would show cartoons on the local networks but cartoons are only available now on cable stations and
are more inclined to represent liberal humor and social engineering rather than what appeals to children. The very
young child watching the series "Back at the Barnyard" will assume male bulls have udders like cows. Although the
character Lincoln on Nickelodeon's Loud family has ten sisters to watch over, his best friend also has two fathers. [...]
Dora the Explorer is a big moneymaker for its creators but I've always thought that what we needed was Hispanic children
learning English rather than the other way around plus is it really wise to encourage children that it's okay to befriend
wild animals in the jungles?
California
Has Become a Disgraceful State. At one time, California was the envy of America, attracting people from around
the nation to move to a state offering opportunity and the chance to pursue ambitious dreams. With scenic beauty, the
Pacific Ocean coastline, the major cities of San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco, California recruited entrepreneurs
looking for economic growth. As the home of Hollywood and multitudes of celebrities, California presented an enticing
potential to enjoy "lifestyles of the rich and famous." Today, California has become an economic and cultural
disaster. The state is home to over 114,000 homeless people, one quarter of the total in the nation. In San
Francisco, a health crisis has developed as the homeless have created a mess in the downtown area, littering it with fecal
matter, spent needles and piles of trash.
Needles,
debris, human waste tallied after cleanup of California homeless camp. Gritty details from the cleanup of a
homeless encampment in Southern California were revealed Thursday [3/8/2018] — and the numbers were stunning.
According to the figures, public works crews in Orange County collected 404 tons of debris, 13,950 needles, and 5,279 pounds
of human waste during a massive overhaul between Jan. 22 and March 3, the Orange County Register reported. The specter
of the ever-increasing homeless encampment along the Santa Ana River Trail had drawn the ire of local residents, prompting city
officials to take action.
Giving
Government and Criminals a Monopoly on Violence. Around 60% of gunmen in mass shootings in the United States [from] 1900
through 2017 have had documented mental problems. In the United States, mental health has a serious treatment gap. Also not
discussed is that virtually all the perpetrators of the mass shootings are men. But there are more issues as well, like state-backed
policies, such as the destruction of the family as the key unit in our society. We could also mention the disregard for life evinced
by policies like abortion and euthanasia. The continued campaign for drug liberalization without considering the consequences,
particularly if someone with a mental disorder abuses them, adds yet another factor. Addressing the "gun problem" without addressing
these other issues that may provide an explanation for the rise in mass shootings is a huge mistake. Examining all the data relating
to mass shootings reveals a considerable spike during the sexual revolution years, so this is not a "gun only" problem.
U.S.
Civil Rights Commissioners: Obama-Era School Leniency Policy Brings 'Fear' and 'Danger'. Two members of
the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights say the Obama-era school leniency policy that discourages reports of threatening behavior
by minority students to law enforcement is dangerous. "Many schools that have adopted lenient disciplinary policies —
i.e., defining offenses down so that blacks and Hispanics aren't suspended or expelled at significantly higher rates than whites and
Asians — have seen marked increases in the number and severity of offenses," attorney Peter Kirsanow, a Republican member
of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, tells Breitbart News. "St. Paul is just one example, but numerous districts across
the country have reported spikes in violence against teachers and students, as well as other forms of disruptive behavior."
The
Broward County Superintendent's Corrupt and Dangerous Agenda. There's little doubt Broward County Public Schools
superintendent Robert Runcie's rabid implementation of his "no arrest" policy in 2011 helped Nikolas Cruz to stay "in the
classroom and out of the courtroom," a phrase Runcie often repeated when touting his signature PROMISE program. Runcie's plan
served as an exemplary model for 50 participating school districts across the country, affecting 6.35 million children.
In a July 2015 White House conference attended by Runcie and his former boss in Chicago, education secretary Arne Duncan, the
superintendent received high praise for leading the nation in reducing student arrests. But according to many outside
reports, by 2015, the Obama-directed school discipline guidelines were creating chaos in the country's classrooms.
Political Correctness
Is to Blame for Parkland. Before the blood had dried at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland,
Florida, the left started its familiar blame game. They moved fast to try gun culture, especially the AR-15 and the
National Rifle Association, in the court of public opinion, for they understood well that true understanding of a tragedy
takes time. And the more time that passed, the more the facts would throw cold water on their anti-gun hysteria and
attempts to circumvent the law of the land. Now, some three weeks later, it's quite clear that the blame for the
massacre in Parkland lay not primarily with the AR-15 or those that advocate for its existence, but rather with the left's
dangerous obsession with political correctness. And few shoulder the blame as does Sheriff Scott Israel, who was seemingly
more interested in consecrating his reputation as a progressive than fulfilling his law enforcement duty to taxpayers.
9/11
and Parkland: When Systems Fail. Everyone paying attention knows now that the Parkland massacre by a
severely troubled and dangerous young man was the result of a failure of a host of government institutions. The FBI
received several specific warnings and ignored them. The Broward County sheriff's department also ignored countless
notifications, as did the local police. Much of the inefficiency was probably due to sheer incompetence, people not
doing the jobs they were meant to do. But much was the result of a truly ridiculous program invented by the Obama
administration, the Promise policy.
Parkland school
shooting is your government at rest. It's becoming obvious as the investigation continues that rather than a
random killing spree, the death toll is collateral damage resulting from Democrat efforts to introduce protected categories
into the criminal justice system by ending the school to prison pipeline. Instead of the NRA with blood on its hands,
we find Broward County School Superintendent Robert Runcie and Sheriff Israel directly responsible for the death of 17
innocents. Real Clear Investigations reports in 2013 — the year before the shooter entered high school —
the Sheriff of Noddingham voluntarily signed a "collaborative agreement on school discipline." This preemptive amnesty
listed a series of misdemeanors that would no longer result in arrest. The freebie offenses included vandalism, disorderly
conduct, fighting, trespassing, criminal mischief, harassment, threats, alcohol infractions and possession of drug
paraphernalia — all violations common to future valedictorians.
The
Cascading Failures of Government. As Judicial Watch has demonstrated countless times through its work, the operations of the
government — at the federal, state, and local levels — and its failures are a direct threat to American lives, as we've ceded personal
control to this growing monolith. [...] In the case of the Parkland high school shooting, the cascade of failures began at the very top of
government, with Barack Obama and his push to reduce the number of disruptive students sent into the "school-to-prison pipeline."
Like so many feel-good leftist initiatives, the unintended consequences of this Obama policy contributed to disaster.
An Open Letter to David
Hogg. The ability of our citizens to keep the guns that our Federal law have given them without question are now under
attack by many who are fearful of guns. The progressive socialists and leftists quaintly call it "Gun Safety" with the full intent on
working even further to confiscate the firearms that the citizens hold. We find ourselves after another school shooting that the
progressive socialists once again raise voices over the bidies of the victims. Not mentioned is the total breakdown of federal
and local enforcement that could have kept [the shooter] from getting any firearms. We now have children who will be traumatized
for the rest of their lives for something that could have been prevented. It was the PROMISE ACT implemented by Obama and
his contempt of court Attorney General that set this massacre in motion. Because they were concerned about what they called a
disproportionate number of blacks in prison they started the Promise Act to break the classroom to prison train. All it did was
require that schools in the country allow violent and mentally ill students to harass the other students without fear of arrest.
[The shooter] was one of those students. All of this was done so that schools could get more federal funds.
Sperm Donors,
Lesbians And Law Suits, Oh My! In a report published at the Daily Beast you can read about a lesbian couple
who made use of a sperm donation from a mutual friend to conceive a child. This isn't all that unusual in the United
States these days, including for traditional, heterosexual couples. So the happy spouses were set for a bright future
and a growing family, right? Yeah... not really. Things didn't work out very well at all. The donor (and
biological father) decided approximately seven months after the child was born that he wanted to be "more involved" in the
baby girl's life. With that, he went to court and sued for visitation rights. This has dragged on for more than
two years in the courts and now a judge has ruled against the biological father, saying that he can't even demand a paternity
test to prove that he's the one who did the deed.
6 Points to
Consider in the Debate About Homelessness. Homelessness isn't just an Orange County problem, of course. It's
a growing mess throughout California and the nation. I've seen communities of all sizes and political dispositions wrestle
unsuccessfully with it for decades. Cities such as San Francisco that throw money at the problem become magnets for
homelessness, with sections of the city resembling an outdoor sewer. Other communities, including Los Angeles, have
tried to more aggressively roust the people sleeping under freeways, along riverbeds and in public parks.
'National
disgrace': Community fights back as California overrun by homelessness, human waste, needles. The specter of
homeless encampments steadily expanding across the downtown streets of San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco —
bringing with them a public health crisis — has one southern California community taking tough action to dismantle
a two-mile-long camp just a short drive from Disneyland. In a departure from the approach taken by other local
governments in the state, officials in Orange County, Calif., have started to clear out the camp — by moving
occupants and hauling away literally tons of trash and hazardous waste.
The
Politics of San Francisco's Homelessness Problem. About a year ago, in January 2017, Leilani Farha visited the
city of San Francisco and was appalled at the extent of the substandard housing conditions suffered by San Francisco's
homeless population. [...] This is particularly disturbing when one considers that California is the most populous and the
wealthiest state in the wealthiest country in the world. San Francisco has made some effort to deal with
homelessness. The city spent $275 million on homelessness in the fiscal year that ended in June 2017 and is expanding
that to $305 million for the year that ends in June 2018. But that is not enough, since there is a long waiting list
for nighttime shelters. Visitors to San Francisco are appalled to see persons on sidewalks committing drug crimes such as
injecting themselves with needles. And the city has areas now fouled by the smell of human waste.
The
Broward Sheriff's Juvenile Arrest Conspiracy Might Actually Be True. If you're active on social media this
month, you may have seen several articles and tweets touting a conspiracy theory related to the February 14 shooting at
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The essence of these claims is that the Broward Sheriff's
Office (BSO), in collaboration with the Broward County School District (BCSD), had ordered their deputies not to arrest
juveniles for a variety of crimes in order to artificially reduce their statistics and qualify for lucrative state and
federal grants. Both BSO and BCSD are controlled by Democrats, and this policy, the conspiracy believers claim,
explains why the dozens of complaints about the Parkland school shooter [...] were ignored. Here's the wild part:
there may be some truth to this conspiracy theory.
Broward
County Likely 'Inspiration' for Obama School Discipline Policy to Report Fewer Arrests, Suspensions. The
Broward County school district's adoption of a school discipline policy that was praised by the Obama administration for
seeking to reduce the reported number of school suspensions, expulsions, and arrests may have played a role in the fact that [the
shooter] remained under the radar until his shooting rampage in Parkland, Florida, on February 14. "The facts pattern
that has emerged strongly suggests it played a role," Manhattan Institute senior fellow Max Eden tells Breitbart News.
"It's not actually accurate to say that what Broward County did was the result of the Obama policy. It might be more
accurate to say that what Broward County did was in some way the inspiration for Obama's policy."
Jack
Cashill: "Incompetence Wasn't The Problem in Broward County". In April of 2012 Jesse Jackson began to promote
the principle: "we must stop suspending our students". Three months later, in July of 2012, President Obama signed an
executive order establishing the basic outline of what later came to be known in Broward County as "The Promise Program".
President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder created the financial carrots. In 2013 Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel
and a hired Chicago transplant, School Superintendent Robert Runcie, simply formalized and executed the policy.
28
Years Of School Shootings? Thank Democrats and Thank Joe Biden. The fact is that there has been a sharp
spike in school shootings since Joe Biden sponsored the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990. [...] School shootings are
preventable. As much as Americans are reluctant to turn their schools into what critics might call armed camps, it
would be a better situation than the free-fire zones that exist today. Would allowing guns in school be
dangerous? We allow guns in schools right now by not having secure entrances; by not heeding warnings from those who
did see something and did say something; and by not having adequate armed security on campus, including armed teachers.
Exposing
the Deep Rot in the Deep State. In fact, there were four armed deputies at the Parkland, Florida high school,
none of whom entered to intervene when the shooting occurred. Heroes like the JROTC students and the coach gave up
their lives to protect others, while four armed cops did nothing to end the carnage. [...] After Columbine, the FBI training
and tactical advice to local law enforcement officials was not to wait for a SWAT or tactical team to show up, but to
immediately engage and disarm the shooter.
Policy
and Consequence. Last night [2/23/2018] Broward County Sheriff Union President Jeff Bell appeared on Laura
Ingraham's Fox News show to discuss the Broward County deputy response to the Parkland Florida school shooting. Within
the conversation Mr. Bell points to the 2013 Broward County School Board policy known as the "Promise Program". The
Promise Program is the collaborative policy between all county officials the school superintendent, school board and law
enforcement that instructs officers to not arrest high school students. This policy sits at the center of understanding
why [the shooter] was not intercepted by law enforcement.
Broward
County Sheriff's Office Did Not "Miss Warning Signs" or Make "Mistakes". The Broward County Sheriff's Office
(BSO) didn't "miss warning signs" or make "mistakes" in not writing up reports. The Sheriff's office did
exactly what their internal policies, procedures and official training required them to do, they intentionally ignored the
signs, and intentionally didn't generate documents. [...] It is important to understand the policy here. Broward County
law enforcement (Sheriff Israel), in conjunction with Broward County School Officials (Superintendent Runcie and School
Board), have a standing policy to ignore any criminal engagement with High School students. When the police are hiding
current, actual and ongoing unlawful conduct as a matter of standard procedure on a regular basis, what do we expect the
police would do with reports of potential unlawful conduct? Of course they would ignore them.
Did
the Progressive 'Broward County Solution' Cost 17 Student Lives? "We're not compromising school safety.
We're really saving the lives of kids," boasted Michaelle Valbrun-Pope, executive director of Student Support Initiatives for
Broward County Public Schools, in August 2017. Valbrun-Pope was referring to what an article by Jeffrey Benzing in
Public Source calls the "Broward County Solution." As Benzing relates, Broward County used to lead the state of Florida in
sending students to the state's juvenile justice system. County leaders responded with a perfectly progressive
solution: "lower arrests by not making arrests." Authorities agreed to treat twelve different misdemeanor offenses as
school-related issues, not criminal ones. The results impressed the people who initiated the program. Arrests
dropped from more than a thousand in 2011-2012 to less than four hundred just four years later. One particular
motivation behind programs like Broward County's was the pressure from multiple sources to reduce the statistical disparity
between black and Hispanic student arrests on one hand and white and Asian student arrests on the other.
It's
Too Late — Broward County School Board Beginning to Admit Their Mistakes? Broward County schools
intentionally created polices from 2011 through 2015 that culminated in the 2018 mass school shooting in Parkland. We
know this with great specificity because five years ago we warned Broward County Florida school board members this could
happen. In 2012 and 2013 while doing research into the Trayvon Martin shooting we discovered an alarming set of school
policies being enacted in Miami-Dade and Broward County Florida. The policies were called "diversionary programs" and
were essentially about stopping High School students from being arrested. Law enforcement was instructed to avoid
arrests and defer criminal conduct to school administrators. Students who engaged in violence, drug sales, robberies,
burglaries, theft and other various crimes were intentionally kept out of the criminal justice system. County
administrators and School Superintendents told local and county law enforcement officers to stop arresting students.
Professor Amy Wax and the Brownshirts
on Campus. Recently a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in league with a professor at the University of
San Diego Law School made bold to write an essay for the Philadelphia Inquirer. [...] She began by cataloguing the leading ills
afflicting America: "Too few Americans are qualified for the jobs available. Male working-age labor-force participation is at
Depression-era lows. Opioid abuse is widespread. Homicidal violence plagues inner cities. Almost half of all children are
born out of wedlock, and even more are raised by single mothers. Many college students lack basic skills, and high school students
rank below those from two dozen other countries."
Stop
Mistaking Evil for Mental Illness. As our culture grows more and more secularized, it has become a common practice to
describe those who commit widespread acts of violence — especially if such violence involves the death of multiple human
beings — as "crazy." Some of this is tongue-in-cheek, but much of it is sincere. I believe that this is the
direct result of the psychiatric community attempting to redefine what is moral. For decades, we have witnessed the psychiatric
community taking acts long considered evil, or at least immoral and illegal, and deeming them a "psychological disorder" that needs
to be cured. It's good for business, I suppose. However, it's a disaster for the culture.
A Weak and Crumbling
Foundation. It takes no moral courage to blame a thing, but it takes massive internal fortitude to look in the mirror and
blame the unsustainable ideas we've held dear now for several generations. It's hard to look at the slaughter of our children in a
schoolyard, but we are still willing to kill them by the thousands in an abortion facility. It's horrifying to see the damage wrought
by social media, but we don't have the stomach to face down our spoiled children and deny them access. It makes us sick to see the
sexualization of our young children, but we're too spoiled ourselves to limit our own indulgence in nearly pornographic television.
We don't seem to have the national backbone to admit our part in the destruction of our offspring. So we demand the banning of guns.
Diseased Streets.
How dirty is San Francisco? An NBC Bay Area Investigation reveals a dangerous mix of drug needles, garbage, and feces
throughout downtown San Francisco.
America's
Problem is a Contempt for Life, Not a Love of Guns. In a society that reveres human life, gun ownership isn't a chronic
problem. People who genuinely believe in the sanctity of human life won't take another life — by gun or any other
means — unless it is absolutely necessary. Not so in a society that views human life as subjective and revocable.
In a society that condones, funds, and promotes abortion and excuses euthanasia, human life is cheap. When a woman has a right
to kill an unwanted child growing inside her simply because it suits her to do so, life is robbed of its value. In a society
that believes that a woman has the power to change the child growing inside her into an inanimate blob of tissue simply by decreeing
that it is so, human life is something that can be dismissed by mere whim.
Hero
Aaron Feis, the Disarmed School Guard. Aaron Feis was the right man in the right place at the right time, but
he was legally prevented from using the right, constitutionally protected tool to do the job. [...] This raises the question
of why only one person was trained and armed to fight back against an assailant. One reason is that the "Gun-Free
School Zones Act of 1990," originally passed as part of the Budget Control Act of 1990, bars school personnel from arming
themselves. 18 USC § 922(q)(2)(A) states: ["]It shall be unlawful for any individual
knowingly to possess a firearm that has moved in or that otherwise affects interstate or foreign commerce at a place that the
individual knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, is a school zone.["] [...] Supposedly, these laws are to protect
us from ourselves while assuring us that the government will do its job.
What
causes mass shootings and how we stop them. From 1940 to 1962, the top complaints from school teachers were:
students talking in class, chewing gum and running in the halls. Since 1963 to the present, school officials have dealt
with rape, robbery, assault and shootings. So what happened in 1963? "One can argue, and some have, that the
decision by the U.S. Supreme Court — in a series of three decisions back in 1962 and 1963 — to remove
Bible and prayer from our public schools, may be the most spiritually significant event in our nation's history over the
course of the last 55 years," said William Jeynes, a professor of education at California State University, Long Beach,
and senior fellow at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, N.J.
Our
society's tragic sickness can't be fixed with a Band-Aid. [Scroll down] Here's what we did in our
all-too-finite wisdom: • Ended school prayer and took the Bible out of schools: [...]
• Legalized abortion: [...] • Celebrated divorce and diluted marriage: [...]
• Legalized street drugs and put legal drugs on the street: [...] • Promoted the
trivialization of sex and violence in our culture through popular culture: [...] The common thread in all of these
destructive changes is that they are defended as increasing our "freedom."
This
Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things. Maybe someday we'll return to a time when simply getting attention required
actually doing something, where people don't eat poison as part of a "challenge," where segregation is bad, where no one
cares about the gender of animal beauty pageant winners, you can just go to the movies because you want to see the movie, and
the government isn't wasting our money chasing down myths to discredit a president. And maybe, one day, we'll all look
back at this and laugh. It's more likely, however, that none of that will happen; that things will only get worse.
That people like this are this country's future.
California East.
One thing I have noticed is that blue states are more expensive than red states. From housing, taxes, and electricity to a slice
of pizza, you are going to pay more for pretty much everything in a blue state. The reason is that the cost of everything the
government does is added to the price of everything you buy. This explains a lot.
T-Mobile and Leftism.
Tabula rasa, or the mind as a blank slate, is central to the progressive creation mythos. This fallacy asserts that everything
human beings think, say, and do derives from what they learn in the environment, as controlled by society. For example, an application
of tabula rasa trending now is that male babies become boys and female babies become girls mainly because society tells them they
have to, and requires they be given "gendered" clothes and toys. This thesis is so at odds with natural phenomena it must be
deemed insane. Tabula rasa is dear to the left because it minimizes individuality and personal responsibility, while emphasizing
the differences among groups rather than within groups. [...] Of course, "love who you want" is a dog whistle for the "LGBT" entitlement,
and especially for same-sex marriage.
ICE confirms that deadly CA fires
were set by illegal alien arrested & released 5 times by sanctuary city cops. Liberalism kills! The
insane immigration policies of the sanctuary state of California have turned tragic once again. The acting director of
ICE has confirmed that not only is the individual responsible for setting many of the fires consuming California an illegal
alien, he has been arrested by local Sonoma County police at least five times. ICE submitted detainer requests to
arrest and deport the individual, Jesus Fabian Gonzalez, all five times. All five times the detainer requests were
ignored by local police, Gonzalez being released to set more fires and kill more people without so much as a phone call to
ICE to honor its detainer requests.
Vacant
lots, empty homes and dying orchards on bullet train route attract squatters, vandals and thieves. Charlene
Hook cherished her home of 30 years north of Corcoran, where pomegranate and pistachio orchards stretched for miles.
So choosing to burn it down last year was a difficult decision. She and her husband had no plans to leave their 2½ acres
until the day the state bullet train authority said its rails would go through their bedroom. Not long after the couple moved out,
thieves broke into the house and stripped almost everything of value — even taking the doors off her husband's shop where he
restored classic cars. Soon her former longtime neighbor's homes were being burglarized and vandalized.
The
Real Gender Gap: Family Breakdown and Black Males. Data from the state of Virginia shows a strong association between single
parent households and violent crime. [...] According to the Heritage Foundation, black illegitimacy rose exponentially halfway through the
1960s. This is precisely when the perverse incentives of Johnson's "War on Poverty" were being implemented.
Delusional
Illinois Democratic gubernatorial candidates promising the moon to citizens. The state of Illinois is in the
worst financial mess of any state in the union. The state owes billions in unpaid bills to vendors — most of them
small businesses. The pension system is underfunded and is a ticking time bomb getting ready to explode. The state
income tax is among the highest in the nation, the recently "reformed" school funding formula heavily favors the Chicago
public schools while shortchanging suburban and rural schools, and the state legislature proceeds as if nothing was
wrong. Democrats refused to enact any of Republican Governor Bruce Rauner's reforms, which included pension reform, tax
cuts for the middle class, and property tax reform. Rauner, looking to change the "pay to play" culture in Springfield,
stood firm for his reforms. But Democrats refused to vote a state budget for two years. In the end, Democrats got
their way and passed a budget with a hefty increase in taxes. In short, the state is broke.
To
Protect Illegals from Deportation, Denver Decriminalizes Pooping on the Pavement. What's confusing for those
who regularly use restrooms is that a better life was supposed to be the excuse undocumented travelers gave for coming to
America, to begin with. How does permitting people to leave human excrement on the sidewalk cultivate an environment
unlike the one migrants came from? And if the culture illegals left behind ends up being foisted upon
America — how does that improve anyone's life? Yet pro-illegal immigrant activist-types seem to believe it
is "soft bigotry" to insist illegals assimilate by finding their way to a restroom like the rest of the civilized
world. Ironically, by allowing in Denver what is common for 40-million people in Pakistan, the left not only encourages
unsanitary conditions, they also tacitly insinuate that people from certain countries are incapable of learning to use the
bathroom. And who's the bigot?
Seattle
Tax Killing local Business so Let's Make it Statewide! It's amusing to watch Seattle tell us that this tax is designed
to get people to drink less sugary drinks, that is, to change their eating behavior, while at the same time saying that it won't change
people's shopping behavior when it comes to shopping. However that's not what local businesses are reporting.
Pizza
shop owner says Seattle's soda tax is costing him business. It hasn't been a full month since Seattle
implemented its soda and sugary beverages tax, and one Seattle business owner has said that the tax is costing him his
business. Businesses and consumers saw sticker shock immediately when the tax went into effect in early January.
New
York City, Chicago Top List of Cities with Worst Fiscal Health. Spoiler alert: almost none of the 75 most
populous cities in America have enough money to pay their bills. Overall, those cities have racked up an astounding
$335.4 billion in unfunded liabilities. Of that, over $210 billion consists of unfunded pension commitments.
That's the conclusion reached by Truth in Accounting, a non-partisan think tank that advocates for transparent and honest accounting
in public finances. They examined the finances of the top 75 most populous cities in the U.S. and found that 64 of them
balanced their budgets only because "elected officials have not included the true costs of the government in their budget
calculations and have pushed costs onto future taxpayers."
Trump saves lives
in Alaska. Jimmy Carter signed legislation in 1980 creating the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. This
was to help save the black brant, a subspecies of the brant goose. In the first 14 years of this refuge, 12 Alaskans
died because the refuge reduced the access of King Cove, population 989, to the neighboring community of Cold Bay, where
Medevac aircraft land. We overdo saving species to the point where we are willing to let an Alaskan die every year
because a few geese might be upset. President Reagan could not undo this mess, nor could either President Bush.
Clinton and Obama could not care less about the people of Alaska.
Playgrounds for Elites.
Homelessness has been on the rise in virtually all large cities, including Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco, even as
it declines elsewhere. Despite numerous exposés on the growth of suburban poverty, the poverty rate in core
cities remains twice as high; according to the 2010 census, more than 80 percent of all urban-core population growth in
the previous decade was among the poor. For all the talk about inner-city gentrification, concentrated urban poverty
remains a persistent problem, with 75 percent of high-poverty neighborhoods in 1970 still classified that way four decades
later. Clearly, then, the urban renaissance has not lifted all, or even most, boats.
Accused
of assaulting 3 young girls, man says he's boy trapped in adult's body. A Chicago man accused of sexually
assaulting three young girls told prosecutors he considered himself a boy in a man's body, according to Cook County court
documents. Joseph Roman, 38, is charged with predatory criminal sexual assault stemming from repeated attacks on three
girls who were 6 to 8 years old at the time, according to prosecutors.
The Editor says...
If a man can self-identify as a woman, who's gonna tell this pervert that he can't self-identify as a boy? Thanks, liberals!
Eek! A man! In
the case of San Francisco city policy, it isn't so much how many heroin needles should be distributed outside the quinoa
cafes, or what punishment to exact upon sippers of straws. It isn't about what to do with car break-ins, which have
spiked to fever proportions and are growing at 26% annually. Nor is the debate about housing, where vibrantly
successful Democrat policy has caused "inflation adjusted construction costs [to] increase in San Francisco over the last
16 years by 60% not including changes in land values." All of these policies are right on the mark.
The trouble is the skin color and sex of the people in city hall.
Letting
an 8-year-old be a drag queen isn't progressive, it's child abuse. Move over transgender kids, there is a new
trend in town. Drag kids — kids dressed in full garb of their biologically opposite gender — are
now joining the scene with transgender kids. The parents, guardians, and advocates of transgender or drag kids are not
only supportive, but seem to be encouraging the child's experience and publicity. There's nothing politically correct
about this new frontier; it's abuse, merely distorted and cloaked in progressivism.
Soda Tax Sticker Shock Grips
Seattle. On January 1, Seattle had several new progressive laws go into effect. Along with mandatory paid sick
leave, mandates for employers to post work schedules 14 days in advance, and severe restrictions on short-term rental platforms
(Airbnb, VRBO, etc.), Seattle imposed a massive new soda tax — 1.75 cents per OUNCE on sugary drinks. In
response, at least one major retailer advertised in detail the reason for the significant increase in prices.
San
Francisco Requires Poop Maps To Help Pedestrians Avoid Human Waste. For those who have maintained that San
Francisco is full of ... whatever, there is now living proof. How much poop is there on the streets of the City by
the Bay? Would you believe there is an online map to track human feces on the city's streets? There is.
According to Fox News, one area of the city reported a 140% rise in feces. As Jay Caruso of RedState noted, "Public
urination is so widespread it has damaged subway elevators and escalators, building walls and power poles." When did the
gleaming jewel that was San Francisco become a repository for poop? Mayor Willie Brown terminated ordinances; city
district Attorney Terence Hallinan would not prosecute "victimless" crimes involving drugs and prostitution.
Why
California is the 'poverty capital of the America'. An excellent op-ed in the L.A. Times today by Kerry Jackson
is on why California — with its liberal politics and generous welfare system — is the "poverty capital
of America." According to the Census Bureau, one out of five California residents is poor. This despite the state's
per capita GDP rising twice as fast in the last five years as the national average. From 1992 to 2015, state and local
governments spent nearly $1 trillion to help the poor. The state, with 12% of the American population, is home today
to about one in three of the nation's welfare recipients. Jackson then reaches the not so astonishing conclusion:
"The generous spending, then, has not only failed to decrease poverty; it actually seems to have made it worse."
Why
is liberal California the poverty capital of America? Guess which state has the highest poverty rate in the
country? Not Mississippi, New Mexico, or West Virginia, but California, where nearly one out of five residents is
poor. That's according to the Census Bureau's Supplemental Poverty Measure, which factors in the cost of housing, food,
utilities and clothing, and which includes noncash government assistance as a form of income. Given robust job growth
and the prosperity generated by several industries, it's worth asking why California has fallen behind, especially when the
state's per-capita GDP increased approximately twice as much as the U.S. average over the five years ending in 2016 (12.5%,
compared with 6.27%).
Illinois,
New Jersey, and New York Are Top States For Outbound Moves in 2017. Illinois, New Jersey, and New York were the
top states in the nation for outbound moves in 2017, according to data from United Van Lines. United Van Lines, which
tracks state-to-state migration patterns, found that Illinois was the top state for outbound migration with 63 percent of
moves going out of state. "The Northeast continues to experience a moving deficit with New Jersey (63 percent
outbound), New York (61 percent) and Connecticut (57 percent) making the list of top outbound states for the third
consecutive year," the report states. "Massachusetts (56 percent) also joined the top outbound list this year."
The other states that led the nation for the highest outbound migration were Kansas, Ohio, Kentucky, Utah, and Wisconsin.
The
pathetic results of the NFL kneeling spree. What, exactly, did the NFL "take-a-knee" protests by wealthy black
football players protesting racial injustice accomplish? [...] [T]he protests show that the black community of today is profoundly
lacking in leadership. That might be attributed to black leaders buying into the entire Democratic Party package in large
numbers, leaving the black community with failed, corrupt one-party cities such as Detroit; lousy schools due to teachers unions'
grip on power; abortion targeting and hitting black communities hardest, weakening the family structure; and the absence of a
significant black business community due to the massive regulations imposed from Democratic rule.
U-Haul
Names Texas Leader for U.S. Growth. U-Haul named Texas the nation's number one growth state for 2017, marking
the second consecutive year the Lone Star State nabbed the top spot in the truck rental company's annual migration trends
report which analyzes domestic relocation patterns. According to U-Haul, the number of incoming truck rentals accounted
for 50.3 percent of all one-way traffic into Texas last year. The report noted that year-over-year arrivals of one-way
truck rentals into the state only rose by one percent while departures climbed three percent compared to 2016's data.
U-Haul attributed some of 2017's outbound flow to Hurricane Harvey, which pounded the Houston area and the Texas Gulf
Coast. Despite these minor fluctuations, Texas remained the nation's top net-gain state, as it also was in 2016.
Doctor
Questions Wisdom, Timing of Legalizing Marijuana. The legalization of marijuana became a hot topic in the past
week. First, recreational use of the drug became legal in California at the start of 2018. Next, Attorney General Jeff
Sessions announced he would allow U.S. attorneys to decide whether to enforce federal laws outlawing the use and sale of pot
in states that have legalized the drug. Sessions ended an Obama administration policy that discouraged federal
prosecutors from enforcing federal marijuana laws in states that allow the drug's medical or recreational use. It's not
clear yet what impact the attorney general's action will have.
Americans
Are Voting With Their Feet For Low Taxes, Less Regulation. The latest bit of evidence comes from North American
Moving Services, which annually reports where people are moving to, and from, within the U.S. Its findings show that
between 2011 and 2017, 10 states saw a net influx of people from other states in one or more of those years, while 9 suffered
losses. The rest of the states saw no net change in any of those years. South Carolina, Arizona, Florida and North
Carolina were net winners in most of those years. New Jersey, Illinois, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Michigan were
consistent losers.
Red
Robin will offset minimum wage hikes by canning busboys. Restaurant busboys, in line to earn a little more
dough this year as minimum wage hikes hit across the country, are instead losing their jobs as chains look to cut costs.
One chain axing jobs is Red Robin, which hopes to save about $8 million this year by eliminating busboys at each of its
570 restaurants, the company said Monday. Red Robin restaurants are located mostly in Western states, where the minimum
wage has risen more quickly.
Pot
is dangerous, not funny — a doctor tells us why. As a physician, my doctoring knowledge tells me
that making marijuana legally available is a bad idea, except perhaps for certain medical conditions. Marijuana is a
potent mind-altering drug that can cause serious harm, as I explain below. It will be just one more substance we have
to warn our children to stay away from. As we all know, many people use marijuana even where it remains illegal.
But legalization will lead to increased use and make many people believe it is not all that dangerous. The growing
acceptance of legalized pot is an alarming trend. It has quickly spread in the past few years and today seven states
and Washington, D.C., allow recreational marijuana. A total of 29 states and the District of Columbia allow some
form of medical marijuana.
Illinois
city runs out of other people's money. Elected officials in the City of Harvey, Illinois are going to be
missing their paychecks, as the decades of over-spending and over-taxing finally come home for the politicians responsible
for the crisis.
Settled science
hates pot. My psychotic friend Mike from high school calls me every now and then to say hello. Mike was the
smartest kid I ever knew — and also the most pot-smoking, acid-dropping, high-all-the-time kid. Vulnerable boys usually
have their first psychotic breaks around age 20, and Mike has had about one hospitalization every year. He's incurable
and can't hold a job or have a family, and his friendly phone calls are always the same weird word salad.
The
Whore of Babylon Dances the Night Away. I spent a restless night last night — thoughts of how far
down the sewage tank this nation has gone — thinking of how polluted this nation has become and how the
perverts — the Sodomites — the Lesbians — the child molesters — have infected
this nation and so many in it How wicked — vile — deceitful — degenerate —
depraved — Like Nineveh, like Rome — sin fills the air and open rebellion against God is everywhere.
[...] They not only protect and defend sin as being how to live but they pound it into the faces of everyone day in and day
out. They have used the public school system to make sure that our children find nothing wrong in two mommies or two
daddies or grade schoolers learning how to put on condoms or how to have anal sex or how to get an abortion. Look at
the media attention to the perverts and out of wedlock children by those whose only claim to fame is being able to read
scripts and ACT.
Six
Insane California Laws That Will Be Implemented On Monday. [#5] You can make up your gender on official state IDs:
California will abolish its requirement that a person must go "clinically appropriate treatment for the purpose of gender transition"
if they want to change the sex on their birth certicate, which means that men can say they're women, and vice-versa, on state IDs like
driver's licenses. Beginning in 2019, driver's licenses will have three options for sex: male, female, and nonbinary.
Depictions
of Moms in Traditional Roles Banned in Ads. Cooking, cleaning mums will be banned in advertisements across the
UK from next year, following a study which claimed traditional gender roles are "harmful and outdated". The decision to
tighten regulation was announced by the Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP) this week, after a report published in
summer identified gender stereotypes in adverts as a driver of inequality between men and women. "Wherever they appear
or are reinforced, gender stereotypes can lead to mental, physical and social harm which can limit the potential of groups
and individuals," the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) alleged in its study.
The Editor says...
A depiction of traditional gender roles, the way normal people live their customary lives and the way things are supposed to be
is not a stereotype. It may be ordinary, dull and routine, but it is not misleading. Those who are constantly "pushing the
envelope" to sell a product, a book, or a TV show are the only ones who find traditional behavior offensive. Permit me to
elaborate: Advertising is constantly being used as propaganda. In every TV commercial, the women are smart and the men
are dumb. The women are the problem solvers, and the men are the ones who brought the problem into the house. The women
are the savvy shoppers, and the men are helpless buffoons. In some commercials, life is wonderful for Mom and the kids, because
there's no man in sight. Nearly everything you see in television advertising depicts an inversion of the truth.
Liberals
Wrote the Book on Sexual Immorality. Perhaps the most guarded tenet of all of modern liberalism is the idea
that people should be able to do whatever they wish in the sexual realm. Whether killing children in the womb;
redefining the oldest institution in the history of humanity; fighting for the "right" of men to use women's
restrooms — and for women to cheat at sports, and for men to take trophies from women — celebrating the
sexualization of children; everything else in the perverse LGBT agenda; and so on, much of what modern liberals hold dear
hinges on sexual hedonism. [...] Hollywood productions are now filled with graphic nudity and sex — what used to
be called "pornography." Adultery, fornication, pornography, prostitution, homosexuality, and virtually every other
example sexual immorality imaginable have long been promoted and celebrated by the modern left. Along with the
entertainment, news, and political arenas, schools, corporations, and even churches are filled with, and being led by, those
who are dangerously, and often tragically, sexually deceived. Thus, if not directly debasing themselves by being
personally involved in these wicked sexual activities, blind to the notion that some things don't even deserve a debate,
millions of Americans have at least been misled into thinking that such behavior must be "tolerated."
'Christ'
Purged from Christmas and the Left Rejoices. Decades ago, Christians, conservatives and anyone against the
insanity of political correctness ceded the three major megaphones of our nation to the far-left. Those megaphones
being the media, entertainment, and academia. Once the far-left was essentially given absolute control of the
megaphones of our nation, they made sure they kept control via a brutal and ongoing process of discrimination in
hiring. If you were conservative, Republican, Christian or simply someone who would dare to question the dogma of
liberalism, you were not only looked down upon as unenlightened, but had your name permanently carved into a granite
"Do Not Hire Ever" list.
Moral
Values and Customs vs. Laws. It has always been considered a good idea to refrain from sexual intercourse
until marriage or at least adulthood. During the sexual revolution of the 1960s, lessons of abstinence were ridiculed,
considered passe and replaced with lessons about condoms, birth control pills and abortion. Out-of-wedlock childbirths
are no longer seen as shameful and a disgrace. As a result, the rate of illegitimate births among whites is over 30 percent,
and among blacks, it's over 70 percent. For over a half-century, the nation's liberals — along with the
education establishment, pseudo-intellectuals and the courts — have waged war on traditions, customs and moral
values. Many in today's generation have been counseled to believe that there are no moral absolutes. Instead,
what's moral or immoral, right or wrong, is a matter of convenience, personal opinion or what is or is not criminal.
Portland's
Disgraceful Anarchy. The disorder that has long dominated the streets of Portland, Oregon reached a new low
earlier this month, when Columbia Sportswear, a major retailer headquartered just outside of nearby Beaverton, had to close
its flagship store downtown for a day after protestors blocked shoppers from entering. The protestors were reacting to
an op-ed by Tim Boyle, Columbia's CEO, in which he confessed that relocating his company to downtown Portland may have been a
mistake, citing the crimes and indecencies his employees have endured, including "daily defecation" by transients in the
store's lobby. Certain repeat offenders of the city's vagrant population, along with other agitators, have issued death
threats and broken into cars; one Columbia employee had to run into moving traffic after a stranger followed her and
threatened to kill her. Boyle, who is considering closing his store permanently, was right to call these events
"outrageous and unacceptable," yet Portland mayor Ted Wheeler has offered excuses rather than confronting the issue. On
Thursday [12/14/2017], Wheeler blamed his city's wave of homelessness on the federal Department of Housing and Urban
Development, attacking Secretary Ben Carson for failing to "provide solutions." Meanwhile, the city has been reluctant
to deploy the crime-prevention resources that it already has at its disposal to address the homelessness wave.
A
Homeless Camp Sparked The Fire That Ravaged LA's Wealthiest Zip Code. An illegal cooking fire at a homeless
camp started the blaze that engulfed more than 400 acres in Bel Air and the surrounding area, according to the Los Angeles
Fire Department. LAFD investigators said the Skirball Fire started at a homeless camp just north of Bel Air, which is
ranked as Los Angeles' wealthiest zip code. The blaze engulfed 422 acres and destroyed six structures, damaging
12 more since it began about six days ago.
Cooking
fire at a homeless encampment sparked Bel-Air blaze that destroyed homes, officials say. The blaze that swept
through the hills of Bel-Air last week, destroying six homes and damaging a dozen others, was sparked by a cooking fire at a
homeless encampment in a nearby ravine, Los Angeles officials said Tuesday. The encampment was nestled in a canyon
several hundred feet from Sepulveda Boulevard and the 405 Freeway, hidden from passing cars. For several years, it had
been home to an unknown number of people, officials said. Investigators said the fire had not been set deliberately and
they have not found any of the people who lived there. The camp — one of scores of makeshift communities
that have grown along freeways, rivers and open space across Los Angeles — was largely destroyed in the fire,
leaving authorities with little evidence.
Christian
Teacher Suspended for 'Misgendering' Trans Pupil Sues School. A Christian teacher is suing his secondary school
after being suspended for referring to a biologically female pupil as a "girl". Joshua Sutcliffe, 27, from Oxford, argues
that he was not trained in the new, quickly evolving, gender politics and should not be forced to accept transgender ideology
as a Christian. He says he was investigated and suspended after he said, "well done, girls" to a group of female pupils,
including a pupil who "identified" as a boy.
Liberals
Have Turned The FBI Into A Disgrace. Add this infamy to all the other crimes of the liberal establishment — its
poisonous influence has converted the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in the eyes of the American people, from a proud institution dedicated
to upholding the law into just another suppurating bureaucratic pustule. Where once we saw FBI agents as heroes — many of us
ancients grew up watching Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., every Sunday night — now we see careerist hacks looking to suck-up to the Democrat
elite while bending the law and subverting justice to do it. Truly, everything liberals touch dies.
The
Impending Death of Multiculturalism. We are all familiar with the Democratic Party gambit of packing the
electorate with poor, third-world immigrants, all but guaranteed to vote for the party who offers them a living on the
taxpayers' largesse. While progressives still roll their eyes at the suggestion that this is why third-world
immigration has been encouraged — the point is no longer even worth arguing. The fact that this immigration
policy has, for many decades, had the effect of moving the country to the left is uncontestable.
LAPD
Swamped by Sexual Harassment Investigations in Entertainment Industry. The Los Angeles Police Department says
it is swamped with the sheer volume of ever-growing sexual harassment and assault allegations and complaints against powerful
men in the entertainment industry. "It's an international phenomenon," NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce told
Southern California Public Radio (SCPR) when asked about investigations into mogul Harvey Weinstein and others. "These
ladies were sexually assaulted, harassed, and they acquired psychological damage, so we have to move very cautiously with
anyone who comes in — and that's what we're doing."
The Wages of Inversion. We live
in an age in which things are no longer what they are supposed to be. Words have come to denote the opposite of what they signify. [...]
Thus a blood-saturated religion is rinsed for public consumption as the "religion of peace." An insurgent army of fascist brownshirts
calls itself Antifa. "Inclusion" has come to mean the exclusion of those who do not conform to a prescribed ideology.
"Diversity" is an antonymic synonym for monolithic groupthink. "Affirmative action" arms racism in the guise of anti-racism.
Sex, Uranium & Rock & Roll.
The collapse is underway, and it is awesome. Liberalism is imploding everywhere. But it is not without cost:
liberalism has destroyed so many institutions that were 'net positives' for America, and now they're just hollowed-out
carcasses of their former 'family-friendly' selves: Hollywood, the broadcast media, NFL and so on. It's because
liberalism always takes the low road, the easy road, the free stuff road — the road without
morals or responsibility, and your Professional Liberals place political agenda above everything else.
Everything. Truth isn't even on the list. Even now, as they pretend to to take responsibility for the
tsunami of liberal perverts being exposed, they're not.
Homeless
Crisis in Los Angeles Worst Since Great Depression. The number of homeless people living on Los Angeles's Skid
Row is the worst the city has seen since the Great Depression. This year, nearly 2,500 homeless and near-homeless men,
women and children were served Thanksgiving lunch on Skid Row and in Pasadena and Canoga Park. "We haven't seen numbers
like this since the Great Depression," Georgia Berkovich, the director of The Midnight Mission's public affairs department,
told the Los Angeles Times.
Homeless
people defecating on LA streets fuels horror hepatitis outbreak, as city faulted. An outbreak of hepatitis A is
spreading through Los Angeles County after leaping from a large homeless contingent in San Diego, threatening thousands of people
and fueling criticism that local officials have not done enough to contain the deadly liver disease. Hundreds of cases have
turned up in southern California as well as Michigan — but conditions in Los Angeles, where roughly 50,000 people
live on the streets, have prompted deeper concerns. Reports compiled by volunteer organizations have faulted city officials
for not providing enough accessible toilets as the homeless population sharply increased by 23 percent this year.
Why
The Left Hates Thanksgiving. Why is it so hard for the left to be thankful? The answer is as easy as
pumpkin pie. The left is a movement built on resentment. And resentment and gratitude are opposing emotions.
That is why the left really hates Thanksgiving. The revisionist autopsies of American history and the guides to
sensitively calling your uncle a racist are about substituting resentment for thankfulness. Whether it's a family
getting together once a year, the Pilgrims and the Indian tribesmen breaking bread or the White House press corps being
asked to talk about the good things in their lives, a moment of thankfulness has to be ruined with resentment.
Resentment is the force that gives the left meaning.
Filmmaker
Visits UC Berkeley With Huge American And ISIS Flags. Guess The Students' Reaction. In a disturbing video which he made
on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, filmmaker Ami Horowitz reveals how sick the leftists are on the campus with their
fervent anti-Americanism. Horowitz stood on the campus holding a huge American flag while calling out paeans to American greatness.
That elicited some shocking responses from some of the students, including: [...]
Church
Tells Clergy To Stop Referring To 'The Lord' And 'He' Because God Is Gender Neutral. In Sweden, Lutherans are
imploring their clergy to use gender-neutral terms in reference to God, and using terms like "the Lord" and "He" aren't going
to cut it anymore. [...] For those who are in the know, The Lord's Prayer commonly refers to God as "Our Father." Apparently,
Swedish Lutherans are being led away from such language, and are now encouraged to say "Our Parent who art in Heaven."
The
Sultans of America and Their Harems. Americans have been buried in the last six weeks by a blizzard of reports
of sexual harassment, assault, misconduct and malfeasance from our politicians, journalists and Hollywood glitterati.
In the last week alone, we've seen a picture of Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., during his pre-senatorial days placing his
hands over a sleeping woman's breasts; the suspension of New York Times journalist Glenn Thrush for allegedly harassing young
female journalists; and eight women telling the Washington Post that fabled television host Charlie Rose had made unwanted
sexual advances ranging from groping to lewd phone calls. That follows on the heels of allegations of child molestation
against Alabama Senate Republican nominee Roy Moore, confirmed accusations of unwanted exposure from comedian Louis C.K.
and allegations of sexual assault against Russell Simmons. Every day, it seems, a new member of the cultural aristocracy
comes tumbling down. What's behind all of it?
Does
your gas and electricity cost too much? You can thank liberals for that. Looking at both gasoline and
electric prices for the 48-contiguous states and weighting each the same shows that Louisiana and Oklahoma have the nation's
lowest prices for these two essential energy staples. Louisiana's combined gasoline and electricity prices were
37 percent below the national average while Oklahoma enjoyed a discount of 33 percent below the national average.
Paying the most for electricity and gasoline were Connecticut and California, at 76 percent and 75 percent above the
national average, respectively.
The Failure to Launch.
For better or worse modern "helicopter parents" now frown on tree climbing, unsupervised river swims or risky activity.
Perhaps as a consequence a Scientific American article says "that since around 2000, teens have become considerably less
likely to drive, have an after-school job and date. [...] But few seem to connect the Failure to Launch with the projects of
the 20th century. Nobody sees it as something we created or linked it with the dubious achievements of the progressive
movement; specifically that ongoing endeavor of the late 20th and early 21st centuries: the war on youth. Look at
the numbers. Today's young people are the survivors of a long and murderous campaign of abortion and birth control
which have decimated their ranks. In Europe and in China the youth are simply gone, vanished, decimated.
Confused
NYPD cops afraid of 'stopping anyone' under new stop-and-frisk policies. NYPD cops are terrified of "stopping
anyone" under new stop-and-frisk policies, fearing that the brass "won't have our backs," a court-appointed monitor
reported. Attorney Peter Zimroth, who is tasked with implementing court-ordered reforms to the NYPD's controversial
stop-and-frisk program, said officers have been telling trainers that they are unsure "what's expected" of them.
"Officers have said, 'The law is confusing. I don't know what's expected of me anymore,'" Zimroth wrote in a memo to
Manhattan federal Judge Analisa Torres, outlining focus-group feedback ahead of new training procedures.
Survey
Shows How Many Democrats Believe Your Gender Can Be Different Than Biological Sex. Most of us didn't need a
poll to show us that liberals have lost their grip on reality. But Pew Research Center is providing one anyway.
In a survey that will probably leave you speechless about the radical bent of President Barack Obama's party, Pew asked
Americans what they really think about gender identity. If the results don't surprise you, check your pulse.
First, the good news. A majority of Americans (though far less than one might guess, 54 percent) still believe that a
person's gender is "determined at birth." Fewer, 44 percent, think someone "can be a man or woman even if that is different
than the sex they were assigned at birth." That's right. Only a 10 percent gap separates Americans on what, a decade
ago, would have been a consensus issue.
Who Are the
Real Fascists in American Politics? [Scroll down] [T]he Nazis wanted government ownership of all industry. Is there anyone on the face
of the earth who thinks that Trump wants that? Rather, if anyone would opt for nationalization, it would be Democrats who insist on more
and more regulations of industry, and more and more forms and accountability to government by individual citizens. As regulation keeps
growing and becomes excessive, it morphs into control. Even if there is, technically-speaking, private ownership, the freedom that
ownership normally implies is negated by the tight controls imposed and the accountability to governmental offices. For example,
technology now exists which would enable the regulation in private homes and businesses of heat and air conditioning from a remote
location. [...] Under the guise of environmental concerns, stopping discrimination against "protected classes," paying a fair share,
getting funds for dubious public programs, buying peace by attempting to bribe barbarous enemies like Iran and North Korea through
various "deals," and enlarging public support of the supposed indigent to the point where 48% of Americans do not pay any tax
at all, the tentacles of government growth keep expanding.
K-12:
The Math You Need Is Not the Math You Get. Common Core wants you to "to reason abstractly and quantitatively." What could
that mean? Public schools do not teach fundamental skills, so students, after years in the classroom, can't do life's simple problems.
Instead, they can "use appropriate tools strategically." Does anybody know what that would be? Oh, maybe they mean a calculator.
That's pretty much the way all the kids end up: calculator-dependent. [...] It's a total bait-and-switch, just like sight-word reading.
School officials promise to teach you superior methods that turn out to be vastly inferior. Then you realize you've wasted years; at the end
of it, you can't do simple arithmetic (just as you can't read). Focus on the tsunami of waste for a few minutes, and you'll start to scorn
our professors of education.
'Transracial'
man born white feels like he is Filipino. Riding in a flamboyant purple vehicle, Ja Du shows up to a coffee
shop to open up about his new identity. Ja Du, born a white male named Adam, now considers himself a Filipino.
Turns out the purple ride he drives around in is called a Tuk Tuk, an Asian-derived vehicle used for public transit in the
Philippines he says. Ja Du is part of a small, but growing community of people who considers themselves transracial.
It refers to someone born one race, but identifies with another. Sound weird? Not to them.
The Editor says...
I think the primary goal of the liberal agenda is to de-normalize everything, remove all traditions, and desensitize
everyone, so nothing is ever considered abnormal or perverse, and nobody is ever suspected of being insane.
NYC
Transit Is Waging A Politically Correct War Against Gender. Imagine you're taking a ride on the bus or subway
in New York City, and you hear an announcement that begins, "Ladies and gentleman." Do you react in horror? No, you
do not. Because such terminology is biologically correct and therefore, inoffensive. For those who prefer gender-neutral
language, though, these regular terms are the height of shocking, Because that's where we are in 2017. We live in a world
where Facebook has fifty-six custom gender options for the confused among us. Forget biology and all that. Feelings
are what matter most. It is out of this vein that the New York City transit system's new rule came about.
Endless Accusations Cloud the
Truth. [Scroll down] I blame feminists and the media for this cloud of confusion, mostly because I hate feminists and the media,
but also because they do bear some of the blame. For instance, the New York Times, a former newspaper, now has a tip
line where you can complain about something sexual someone famous did to you back in the day. How is that not going to lead to
abuse? Liars will flock to it. And if someone calls up and complains about Barack Obama, and someone else calls up
and complains about Rush Limbaugh — which one do you think the Times will follow up on?
Delaware
to Let Children Pick Their Own Gender and Race. Now that objective biological reality has been subordinated to
liberal ideology, children are whatever gender and race they say they are, according to the moonbats running Delaware.
Night
of change for Minneapolis City Council as first transgender candidate wins. The Minneapolis City Council was
poised for historic change Tuesday as voters elected the city's first transgender council member, on a night that saw a
handful of veteran council members from across the city struggling to hold on against strong challenges. "I'm feeling
elated. Ecstatic. Extraordinarily happy right now," Andrea Jenkins, who becomes the first transgender woman of
color elected to public office in a major U.S. city, said from her election night party at Curran's Restaurant. "I'm
really, really deeply proud of my community."
Palm
Springs City Council now entirely queer after election of transgender, bisexual women. The Palm Springs, Calif.,
City Council is entirely LGBT or queer after two new members were elected to the council Tuesday [11/7/2017]. Lisa
Middleton made history Tuesday as the first openly transgender candidate elected to a nonjudicial office in California.
Christy Holstege, who identifies as bisexual, won the second open seat on the city council. They beat out four other
candidates in Tuesday's election, the Desert Sun reported. Middleton won about 31% of the vote while Holstege won with
30% of the vote in her favor, the Desert Sun reports. Their election means that the council is now 100% LGBT or queer,
according to Equality California, which endorsed both candidates, and contributed to their campaigns.
First
openly transgender state legislator elected in Virginia. Virginia House of Delegates candidate Danica Roem (D)
has defeated longtime Del. Robert Marshall (R), becoming Virginia's first openly transgender elected official, according
to The Washington Post. Roem's win in Virginia's 13th District also means she is poised to become the first openly
transgender person to be elected and seated in a state legislature, advocates say.
The Fatal Folly of
Diversity. Diversity refers not to a variety of ideas, as any conservative speaker trying to deliver a lecture on a college
campus can attest, but instead to identity markers of skin color, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual preference, traits which most Americans
see through without discrimination. As Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of judging people by the content of their character, not the
color of their skin. Diversity apparently applies to immigration too, specifically the Diversity Visa Lottery. Something most
Americans didn't even realize existed until last week's Manhattan terrorist attack. The terrorist entering the U.S. from Uzbekistan
via this so-called lottery. Seeing how this played out suggests that this isn't a lottery, instead a game of Russian roulette.
Spin the cylinder and take your chances as to whether a law-abiding, productive citizen comes out of the gun or a radical Islamic terrorist.
No One Glorifies 'Gun Violence' More Than Hollywood.
How influential is Hollywood in promoting violence? A December 2013 study published in the American Academy of Pediatrics revealed
gun violence in PG-13-rated films more than tripled since the PG-13 rating's 1985 introduction. Moreover, three-quarters of
the same celebrities who signed or supported a letter saying they'd had enough of "unnecessary gun violence" following the terrorist attack
in San Bernardino have no problem promoting violence in their own movies. Celebrities like Jamie Foxx, who starred in "Law Abiding
Citizen," described by IMDb as a movie with "strong bloody brutal violence and torture, a scene of rape, and pervasive language," as well
as "Django Unchained," another highly violent movie directed by cop-basher Quentin Tarantino, whose entire career has been dedicated
to the production of ultra-violent movies. Celebrities like Jessica Alba, who stars in "Machete Kills," and Liam Neeson, who starred
in the extremely violent "Taken" — and its two equally violent sequels, "Taken 2" and "Taken 3." The same Liam
Neeson [who Jimmy] Kimmel welcomed as a guest on his Sept. 27 show. Or perhaps we could note Anthony Anderson, who played a role
in the incredibly violent movie "The Departed." Anderson was Kimmel's guest on Oct. 2 — the night Kimmel preached
about "gun violence" after Las Vegas.
A Foundation of Nonsense. It seems today that Western societies are
painfully re-learning things that were common knowledge a few generations ago. The old axiom, fences make good neighbors, was replaced with "diversity
is our strength." Every time a swarthy fellow blows up in the public square, we inch a bit closer to the realization that diversity is a
nightmare. That's the part we see. The part we don't see, at least not yet, is the crumbling of the foundation stones of the modern West.
Do We Live in a Diseased Culture?
An article earlier this week discussing a recent Center for Disease Control report warns of "record high" numbers of sexually
transmitted diseases. Over two million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and primary and secondary syphilis were reported
in 2016 — "the highest number ever" — with dramatic increases in each disease over the previous
one-year period. While most of these new infections (1.6 million) were cases of chlamydia — which continues
to affect more women than men — the most significant uptick in gonorrhea infection rates was in gay and bisexual
men, as were most new syphilis cases. The CDC also reports that half of the men diagnosed with syphilis between 2015
and 2016 were already living with HIV. CDC physicians expressed particular concern about the health implications for
babies born with STDs, and about newer, antibiotic-resistant strains of gonorrhea.
Poll: Millennials would prefer to live in a socialist
country. A new survey reveals that more millennials would prefer to live under a socialist regime than a capitalist one, though
only about 1/3 of respondents were able to successfully define the term "socialism." Only 36%, meanwhile, expressed a "very unfavorable"
view of communism, and most said they wouldn't even be "insulted" to be called a communist.
A nation settles into depravity and madness.
In 2008, voters signed up for an untested junior Illinois senator who promised them racial harmony and a post-racial nation. They got
Black Lives Matter and a war on cops instead. [...] Middle America brushes daily against madness at the 7-Eleven or Wal-Mart. Free
spirits in 21st century America might include breakdancing Afro-crazies on the L train, your neighbor, or the school principal.
In trailer parks, beaten-down shacks, high-rise projects, and section 8 warrens, depravity and craziness have a field day. Hollywood-Las Vegas
style seediness is the beau ideal. Tattooed, obese, shacked up, unemployed, possibly high and armed, deranged or completely unable to
cope, this lumpen rabble has no incentive or capacity to change its ways. Those most afflicted by the squalor are the striving
native-born poor — often non-white — who live among them. The influx of immigrants-with-no-intention-to-assimilate adds to social tension,
as neighborhoods, jobs, schools, language, and signage go foreign. [...] The welfare state now manages a rainbow of human dysfunction, compounded
by widespread drug addiction, waning industrial jobs, single-parent "families," and steep immigrant costs.
Has
Promoting Mother Absence Spawned Campus Crybabies? The reflective Mary Eberstadt has the latest Weekly
Standard cover story, asserting that the late rise of identity politics especially among the young descends from the
decline in family, despite myriad other theories. [...] She touches on some of the research that has become well-known among
child psychologists and sociologists, referencing the dramatic increase in, for example, mental health problems, at a high
point now on campuses and in the public at large. Mental health problems are linked with family instability, as are
reductions in the resources that can help alleviate them, such as church attendance and deeper, broader community
relationships. Divorce and failure to marry before bearing children also harm nearby families that do not
themselves experience these maladies. Private choices are in fact not private choices, after all.
Poll:
71% of Americans Say Political Correctness Has Silenced Discussions Society Needs to Have. The Cato 2017 Free
Speech and Tolerance Survey, a new national poll of 2,300 U.S. adults, finds that 71% Americans believe that political
correctness has silenced important discussions our society needs to have. The consequences are personal —
58% of Americans believe the political climate prevents them from sharing their own political beliefs. Democrats are
unique, however, in that a slim majority (53%) do not feel the need to self-censor. Conversely, strong majorities of
Republicans (73%) and independents (58%) say they keep some political beliefs to themselves.
Still
waiting for a liberal media epiphany. We voters outside the seaboard citadels of snobbery are still waiting for
the Press to return from their celebrated cerebral safari and come to an obvious conclusion; the Democratic Party is the
sleazebag party. The liars, the liars by omission, the sexual abusers, the Russian conspirators, and the cheaters are
almost exclusively from the left. This makes them contented fellow travelers with our sketchy mainstream media
types. The press has long been in bed with anyone or anything liberal. [...] For fifty years the Democrats have
incapacitated minorities — see any ghetto in America. The Democrats have abused women — see
Harvey and Bill. The Democrats have battered laws, rules, and procedures — see illegal immigrants and the
AHCA. And of course, all the while they have strung along an eager press.
The Lib Enablers of
Perv Photographer. If you wonder why Hollywood stayed so quiet so long about casting couch abuse behind closed
doors, just look at how the entertainment industry enabled perverted sexual exploitation of women in front of the camera.
[...] While they now rush to condemn backroom sexual harassment and the corporate "rape culture," they've capitalized on
explicit sexual degradation to sell magazines, clothes and cosmetics. They've commodified and normalized pedophilia,
adultery, promiscuity and prostitution. They are the culture.
DNC
is Broke: Donors Have Abandoned the Democrats. Wherever you find Democrats in concentration, pestilence
lies in the midst. Look at the cities run by Democrats, and what do you have? Rampant violent crime, poverty,
unemployment, and corruption. Do we really need another article showcase the Top 10, no 50, no 100 Worst Places
to Live? There won't be a Republican-run city among them. The investment in Leftism failed. Trillions spent on
meaningless programs, that have made the country more divided than ever.
Saving
the nation from the left's bullies. As we've all been understandably focused on Hollywood's Weinstein dumpster
fire, a number of stories have emerged exposing the left's continuing culture war, despite its meltdown in the film
industry. The Harvey Weinstein saga is but one symptom of a dangerous and destructive, yet smug and sanctimonious,
liberal establishment. While they butcher American culture, civil society and history, how better to keep us normals
from interfering than by blaming their victims for society's ills?
Transgender
Person Convicted Of Sexually Abusing 10-Year-Old Girl In Bathroom. A biological man who identifies as a
transgender woman has been convicted of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old Wyoming girl in a bathroom. Miguel Martinez,
who goes by the name Michelle, was found guilty of first-degree and second-degree sexual abuse of a minor, the Casper Star
Tribune reported. Martinez faces up to 70 years in prison, according to the Tribune.
Transgender
Man Was Arrested for Sexually Assaulting a 10-Year-Old Girl in the Bathroom. A Wyoming man who identifies as a
transgender woman is on trial for allegedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl in a bathroom. The trial for Miguel
Martinez, who goes by the name Michelle, began on Monday [10/16/2017], the Billings Gazette reported. Martinez allegedly
invited the young girl into the bathroom with him where he allegedly fondled the girl's breasts and genitalia, before penetrating
her. The girl told police that "it hurt inside" and she started to cry, the Casper Star Tribune reported.
When
Truth Becomes Obscene. The most appalling and troubling spectacle of the American Left's bag of tricks is their
refusal to simply tell the truth. [...] The American Left's entire political discourse is built on false language.
Lies. Trickery. Fallacies. Where words do not mean what they actually mean. Where one cannot actually
state the nature of an issue, in plain and common language, without being called a racist, white supremacist, fascist,
homophobic, misogynist knuckle-dragger that deserves to have their head bashed with a threaded lead pipe. Even though
they are uncomfortable, facts are what we must have to survive as a country.
California
first state to legally recognize third gender option. California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) on Sunday [10/15/2017]
signed new legislation that will allow state residents to choose a gender option other than male or female on official documents.
The legislation, a top priority of civil rights groups, also makes it easier for transgender people to change their gender
identification on birth certificates or driver's licenses.
The
Beginning Of The End Of Progressive Domination? The two terms of Barack Obama seemed to be the crowning
validation of the left's victory. Despite Obama's "no blue state, no red state" campaign rhetoric, he governed as the
most leftist — and ineffectual — president in history. Deficits exploded, taxes were raised, new
entitlements created, and government expanded far beyond the dreams of center-left Democrats. Marriage and sex
identities were redefined. The narrative of permanent white racism was endorsed and promoted. Tradition-minded
Americans were scorned as "bitter clingers to guns and religion." Hollywood and Silicon Valley became even more powerful
cultural arbiters and left-wing publicists. And cosmopolitan internationalism was privileged over patriotic
nationalism, while American exceptionalism was reduced to an irrational parochial prejudice.
Study:
Legal Cannabis Linked to 66% Rise in Traffic Deaths in Colorado. There has been a huge push to legalize marijuana in
states across the country, with Colorado frequently seen as the bellwether for the rest of the country, having already legalized
cannabis. But has the experiment in Colorado been a success? Statistics show that legalization of cannabis in Colorado
has been followed with an increase in traffic fatalities, emergency room stays, and crime. Others have argued that the
legalized marijuana in Colorado has made it easier for drug traffickers to ship it across the rest of the nation. And the
number of cannabis users has increased by 12%.
The
Left's Sirens Are Already Hinting Our Culture Wars Will End In Another Civil War. Is there anything left in American public life that
isn't an occasion for political rancor and division? NFL games are now nothing more than crude pieces of political theater. On Sunday
[10/8/2017] even Vice President Mike Pence got in on the act, showing up to a Colts-49ers game then leaving after a few players knelt during
the national anthem. Next day was Columbus Day, which the cities of Los Angeles and Austin decided this year to replace with "Indigenous
Peoples' Day," because Christopher Columbus is apparently the new Robert E. Lee. And it's only Tuesday. It should be obvious by
now that our culture wars will henceforth be constant and unending; the next battle could be triggered by almost anything.
Hollywood
Homicide: 108 Automatic Weapons Blaze Away in 4 Top Movies. Last week Stephen Paddock killed at least 59 Las
Vegas concert-goers using automatic weapons. Reportedly aided by "bump stocks" that made his semi-automatic rifles into
automatic weapons, his killing spree was the worst in U.S. history. People were understandably horrified that he was
able to fire what amounted to machine guns into a crowd. Yet similar weapons were being fired in movie theaters around
the country. Three of the top five movies at the box office featured characters blasting away with automatic
weapons. Two — Kingsman: Golden Circle and American Assassin — included so many examples of
such violence that the numbers were difficult even to count. An analysis of the top five movies in theaters the week
before the attack (Sept. 22-28) showed incredible big-screen carnage, including characters firing handguns and employing a
wide range of other forms of violence.
Contradictions and
Condescension. [Scroll down] Institutions fundamental to the nation-state, such as citizenship, have to
be rendered meaningless — so that what matters in any immigration debate is not the citizens but the invaders, to the point
where Nancy Pelosi thanks the parents of "Dreamers" for breaking American law and bringing them here, as a precious gift to a
nation crying out for even more low-skilled immigrants. As for institutions that pre-date the nation-state — institutions
almost as old as humanity — they're as easy to redefine, so that marriage can no longer be confined to those of opposite
sexes. Speaking of the sexes, human biology can be vaporized, so that two sexes become 57 genders, and grade-school
boys more interested in Barbie than GI Joe get to be pumped full of puberty blockers and directed to the girls' bathroom.
And after all that, religion has to be put on the back foot, so that any recalcitrant mom'n'pop bakery for whom two men atop a
wedding cake is an abomination, must be hunted down, dragged into court and financially ruined pour encourager les autres.
Is
prostitution about to become honest business in the District? D.C. Councilmember David Grosso is behind a bill
that would decriminalize prostitution, arguing it's in keeping with his advocacy for human rights and marginalized
communities. "We basically criminalize too many activities," Grosso argued in a recent news conference. "It is
time for the District of Columbia to reconsider the framework in which we handle commercial sex work, and move from one of
criminalization to a focus on human rights, health and safety." Grosso says he worked with the Sex Worker Advocates Coalition,
and followed recommendations from a variety of human rights organizations from around the world as he drafted the bill.
New
California law allows jail time for using wrong gender pronoun, sponsor denies that would happen. California
health care workers who "willfully and repeatedly" decline to use a senior transgender patient's "preferred name or pronouns"
could face punishments ranging from a fine to jail time under a newly signed law. [...] The bill itself is aimed at
protecting transgender and other LGBT individuals in hospitals, retirement homes and assisted living facilities. The
bill would ensure those facilities accommodate transgender people and their needs, including letting them decide which
gender-specific bathroom they prefer to use. "It shall be unlawful for a long-term care facility or facility staff to
take any of the following actions wholly or partially on the basis of a person's actual or perceived sexual orientation,
gender identity, gender expression, or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) status," the bill reads.
Harvey
Weinstein and the Slow-Motion Theft of American Culture. [Scroll down] "Saturday Night Live," which
debuted in 1975, sprang more or less from the side of the National Lampoon, which, if anything, skewed right.
The show had a 1990s revival whose cast was arguably better than the original, and the show remained largely apolitical, at
least until the emergence of Barack Obama/Sarah Palin. For eight years the Obama humor was tepid and unfunny.
Today, the Trump humor is venomous and unfunny. In comedy, only "South Park" maintains a niche on the anarchic right,
but it is sufficiently vulgar the left doesn't notice. On radio, Howard Stern has, if anything, upped the vulgarity.
Hugh
Hefner's Real Legacy: Disease, Despair, and Death. Among many other tragic outcomes, the rampant rate of
STDs in America is the real legacy of notorious sexual provocateur, Hugh Hefner. Thanks to the desire to make our own
rules when it comes to sex, following the lead of Hefner and his like-minded moral deviants, we find ourselves with STD rates
in the U.S. at an all-time high. According to the CDC, there are more than 20 million new cases of STDs in the United
States every year.
Conrad
Black: What Protesting NFL Players Don't Get. This controversy is the logical and nasty result of the
long pursuit of identity politics, mainly by Democrats. The country has been atomized into smaller and smaller
constituencies, pandering to each in the approximate order of the militancy of their grievances. This process, after a
point, operates at the expense of the spirit of national unity and a common cause for all to make America better. It is
understandable that the president sees these acts of rank disrespect to the country and all who believe in the country
despite its faults, as offensive. He and all of civilized America are in common cause with Kaepernick and his followers
in deploring racist oppression, but protesting it by slagging off the anthem and flag alienates the majority of Americans who
would otherwise be on Kaepernick's side. It is not surprising or unreasonable that Trump and millions of others find
the spectacle of a few people with huge incomes for very short work-years, putting on the airs, not only of martyrs, but of
martyrs claiming they represent the only wronged people in the country.
The
bitter fruit of Hefner's life's work has helped poison American families. Hugh Hefner didn't invent
pornography, and it would no doubt be thriving today even if he hadn't founded Playboy magazine those many years ago.
After all, man is fallen, and somebody would have filled that depraved niche in American life. Hefner, however, played
his part, and the part he played was immensely destructive to our nation's cultural, moral, and spiritual fabric.
Hefner mainstreamed porn, he put it in millions of homes, and he even glamorized it — recasting one of America's
most pathetic industries as the playground of the sophisticated rich. He then grew to a ripe old age, consorting with
women young enough to be his granddaughters. He was America's most famous dirty old man.
Transsexual
Allegedly Has First Amendment Right to Defecate in Other People's Yards. If it is the constitutional right of
knuckle-dragging Black Lives Matter types in the NFL to make public pageants of their hatred of America while they are on the
job, as David French avers, then it could be the First Amendment right of a guy who calls himself "Shirley" to take a dump in
your front yard.
Colorado's
'Mad Pooper' sorry, spokesman says. A man claiming to be the "spokesman" of a jogger dubbed the "Mad Pooper" —
who reportedly has been defecating on the lawns of Colorado homes — says the woman is struggling after gender reassignment
surgery and as she battles a traumatic brain injury. The unidentified man made the comments in a YouTube video that has since
been removed, KRDO reported. He said he was speaking on the behalf of Colorado Springs jogger "Shirley" and said she is sorry
for her actions. The man also said "Shirley" can no longer control herself after undergoing the reassignment surgery.
Judge
Roy Moore: We Removed God from Schools, Shootings and Death Filled the Void. CNN is lamenting the fact
that GOP frontrunner for the U.S. Senate in Alabama Judge Roy Moore told pastors and Christians in a speech last month that
shootings and killings in American society are the result of removing God from schools. Andrew Kaczynski's KFile on CNN
dug up a video of Moore from late August speaking at Citizen Impact USA, making the comments that have CNN and the GOP
establishment in Washington similarly freaked out.
NFL
picked sides in the culture war, now it has to live with the consequences. This is not an issue of freedom of
speech. These are private industries which, like other private industries, regulate the speech that is permitted to
take place on the job. That regulation takes place both officially through guidelines for employment conduct, and
unofficially, as expressing a particular political opinion can result in social media and internal attacks leading to job
loss. Just ask Brendan Eich and James Damore. I can't tell you how many times readers and potential/actual
authors have told me they fear loss of job and career damage if they express non-liberal opinions at work or in a way that
people at work could find out. There is a reign of terror ongoing in this country, but it's not from the government, it's
from social-media-empowered leftists who seek to impose the most intrusive political litmus tests in every aspect of our lives.
The Spreading Cloud.
Without anybody quite being aware of it identity politics has taken on a life of its own. The campaign against Confederate statues
has moved like a pullulating cloud of nanoparticles to the national anthem protest in the NFL. One arm of the cloud has spread to
major league baseball. A tendril may soon make the jump to NASCAR racing. There's no escape from the spreading
politicization any more, not in the theater, stadium, school or social media.
The
Destruction of the Individual. The American Left makes a show of disapproving any but the most denatured,
toothless and universalist religious beliefs. They are suffused with a sexual ethos that is amoral and libertine by the
standards of the recent past. Their intellectual post-modernism specifically prevents any moral judgement or ethical
framework. In fact they pride themselves on the ability to"deconstruct" the traditions and values that under-pin our
civilization. Yet, they seem able to put aside their fractious identity politics in order to be unaccountably
tolerant — even supportive of Radical Islam That political religion commits terror against the rest of the world and
has spawned despotisms of religious elites of some degree in the entire Muslim world. They also demand the killing
of apostates, the torture and murder of homosexuals, the subjugation, rape and "honor" murder of women and children:
This begs for explanation.
Sucking
the Joy Out of Everything. Remember when people used to let things go? When people would just get along,
not hunt for secret meanings behind actions and ways to be offended for the sake of being offended? Thanks to the
progressive left that day is done. These guys suck the joy out of everything. The simple things, the complex
things — everything is now fertile ground for being offended, for outrage, for an opportunity to attack
Republicans, especially President Trump. Being a victim is now a coveted status on the political left, so liberals
aspire to it by creating asinine things such as "microaggressions." A microaggression, for the sane among you who haven't
heard of this form of self-martyrdom, is an affront (racist, sexist, homophobic, pick your liberal trope) so small neither the
person committing it, nor the person on the receiving end of it, can notice it.
Military
Career Destroyed After Reprimand of Lesbians Showing 'Inappropriate Behavior'. On Monday, September 11, 2017,
the Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, filed a Petition for Writ of
Certiorari asking the United States Supreme Court to correct the injustice done to Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Downey
after the United States Army violated its own regulations, effectively ending his stellar career.
The Thought Police Strike Again.
Every revolution needs to master a new "language" to achieve uniformity of expression and thought. George Orwell, in
1984, called the replacement language "Newspeak". Cardiff Metropolitan University, one of the largest in Britain,
compiled a list of 34 words that it "encouraged" teachers and students to stop using, and replaced them with "gender-neutral"
terms. "Fireman" should be replaced by "firefighter"; "mankind" should be replaced by banned "humanity", and so on.
Princeton University also expunged the word "man" in its various uses, in favor of supposedly more "inclusive" expressions.
City University of New York decided to ban "Mr." and "Mrs." California State University replaced commercial terms such as
"businessman", "mailman", "manpower" and "salesman" to avoid that horrendous, forbidden word. While at it, why not
also purge Christianity's religious language? Some of the most famous theological universities, such as Duke and
Vanderbilt, invited professors and staff to use "inclusive" language even when they are referring to God, because the
masculine pronouns are "a cornerstone of patriarchy". This politically correct nonsense highlights even further
the infantilization of our culture — such as the demand for "safe spaces" and "trigger warnings".
Hurricane
Irma And How The Left Has Politicized Even The Weather. A number of years ago, I sat down with the general
manager of a major television news station. He told me that in their own survey, viewers tuned in for "weather first,
sports second, and news last." Therefore he stressed, weather forecasters were the "cash cow" of the station. He
further explained that much of television weather forecasting was a "sham." He said that decades ago, they would give a
"one-day" forecast. But then Station B across town went to a "two-day" forecast. So then they countered with a
"three-day" forecast," until everyone went to the "useless seven-day" forecasts. He emphasized that it was all done for
reasons of competition and ratings and that with a "seven-day" forecast, the station and the networks were playing viewers
for "fools," because they normally "couldn't even get the forecast for tomorrow correct."
Your
Beliefs Are No Longer Allowed. American progressives have fnally gone all the way to a totalitarian vision,
demanding control over not just your behavior, but your thoughts and beliefs. This as the price of simply living
without being attacked. [...] Do you believe in traditional marriage but don't care that gays marry? Think it's OK
teenagers take hormonal injections to swap genders but it's not right for your kids? Don't really give a hoot about
someone who identifies as "xe"? Well, too bad, sucker. The new dispensation doesn't care for your waffling.
Going forward, your private beliefs must align with your public stance. No exceptions made or allowed.
The
problem with DACA was President Obama. President Obama's governing by executive pen was wrong and rather
cynical for a couple of reasons. First, President Obama knew that his "pen" would eventually be broken by a court
decision. Second, President Obama had to know that he'd be leaving a bunch of "DREAMers" stranded whenever his order
was reversed. Obama's DACA was the political equivalent of giving someone a check and knowing that there are no funds
in the bank to cover it. Super-cynical, to say the least. The executive order was President Obama reacting to the
2014 midterm elections and hoping to energize Hispanics behind a Clinton candidacy.
California
Crime Wave Follows Criminal Justice Reform. In November 2014, California voters approved Proposition 47, which
downgraded drug possession and many property crimes from a felony to a misdemeanor. As Debra Saunders reminds us,
proponents argued that lesser punishment for low-level offenders would enhance public safety. Unfortunately, this
utterly counterintuitive notion has not panned out. In San Francisco, according to a police spokesman, theft from cars
is up 47 percent this year over the same period in 2014. Auto theft is up by 17 percent. Robberies are up
23 percent. And aggravated assaults are up 2 percent. (To be fair, burglaries are down 5 percent).
How about Los Angeles? It has seen a 12.7 percent increase in the overall crime this year, according to the
Los Angeles Times. Violent offenses are up 20.6 percent; property crimes by 11 percent.
First
Grade Student Punished for 'Misgendering' Another Student. If a child is dressed in pink dress with pigtails,
you're probably going to assume they are a girl. If the child is dressed in jeans and a t-shirt, with short hair and
possibly a ball cap, you will assume he is a boy. First graders are no exception to that rule. If they see
someone acting in the manner of a certain gender, then thats the gender they will thank the person is. It is a
no-brainer to them. A California charter school is confusing the children though, and then punishing them for the
confusion. In what is being considered a "pronoun mishap," a first grader allegedly "misgendered" another student.
California
Could Start Jailing People Who Don't Use Transgender Pronouns. A bill that passed the California state senate
and is now moving through the Assembly could threaten jail time for anyone who refuses to use a transgender person's
preferred pronoun. The law is currently limited in its effects to nursing homes and intermediate-care facilities, but
if passed, those who "willfully and repeatedly" refuse "to use a transgender resident's preferred name or pronouns" could be
slapped with a $1,000 fine and up to one year in prison, according to the California Heath and Safety code. The state
senate passed the bill 26-12 at the end of May. Since then, the Assembly Judiciary committee recommended the bill
unanimously and the General Assembly held its first hearing on the legislation Wednesday [8/23/2017].
Starvation:
It's a Small Price to Pay for Socialism! This video is pretty entertaining. Ami Horowitz interviewed New
York millennials, asking about their views on the all-important question of income equality. Actually, anyone who
thinks about the subject for two minutes should be able to figure out that a society without income inequality would scarcely
be worth living in. But these people are without a clue. Horowitz continues with questions about Venezuela, where
starving people are fighting over dead rats. New York millennials (the ones in the video, anyway) claim to believe that
poverty is a small price to pay for socialism. My guess, though, is that a few days of eating dead rats for dinner —
if they're lucky — would change their views on socialism. [Video clip]
Women
Push Back Against Crossdressing Men in Female Prisons. Surprise, surprise. Women, whose interests
liberals loudly claim to represent, don't like it that perverted men who dress in women's clothes have been forced upon them
in prisons in order to advance the liberal agenda.
The Leftwing Media's Dangerous
and Divisive Lie. Something ugly is happening in America. Something dangerous, divisive, and
destructive. And every day, the leftwing media help fan the flames of division, hatred and strife. We must
recognize and repudiate this before our nation is torn apart. Certainly, we're feeling the effects of eight years of
identity politics under the Obama administration. During that time racial strife greatly increased in our land.
And there's no doubt that the campaign and presidency of Donald Trump have further exacerbated the divisions in our
country. But the leftwing media is adding fuel to this fire by peddling a very dangerous lie. The lie equates the
vast majority of Trump supporters with Nazis and white supremacists. Liberal campuses are doing their part as well,
declaring war on whiteness itself.
ACLU
Apologizes For Tweeting Photo Of White Baby With U.S. Flag. The American Civil Liberties Union is doing damage
control after Twitter leftists denounced the group for sharing a picture of a white baby holding an American flag. In a tweet
sent Wednesday afternoon [8/23/2017], the ACLU captioned a photo of a Caucasian, blonde-haired child wearing a free speech onesie
and waving a flag, "This is the future that ACLU members want." Leftists were furious over the post because they believed
it endorsed white supremacy.
ESPN
Exec on Robert Lee Controversy: 'No Biggie Until Someone Leaked it to Embarrass Us and Him'. ESPN is now in
full blown damage control mode over what would seem to be one of the more ridiculous self-made controversies in recent
times — the decision to pull a broadcaster from a University of Virginia football game telecast because his name
happens to be Robert Lee. With cable news and social media reaction nearly universal in their criticism of ESPN, the
Worldwide Leader is looking to calm the outcry from those on the left and the right over the decision.
ESPN
pulls announcer Robert Lee from covering a Virginia football game because his name is Robert Lee. An announcer
by any other name would announce just as sweet. In what is sure to be a controversial decision, ESPN has decided to
pull college football announcer Robert Lee from covering a Virginia football game this season due to the simple fact his name
is Robert Lee, the network announced on Tuesday. Outkick the Coverage's Clay Travis was the first to report the
questionable decision.
ESPN
Just Took Political Correctness Way Too Far. In the wake of the events in Charlottesville, Virginia, ESPN
decided to pull one of its announcers from calling a University of Virginia football game — because his name is
Robert Lee. Lee, an Asian-American sportscaster who started with the network in 2016, was moved to a different game
"simply because of the coincidence of his name," ESPN said, referencing the Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
The
Name/Statue Game Has Barely Begun! One of my daughters asks, are Robert Lees across the country scrambling to
change their names, lest they be discriminated against by their employers? Is Robert the new Adolf? I say,
Yes! And it's only right. But why stop there? Think how many Thomas Jacksons and James Stuarts there are in
the U.S. Why shouldn't they be discriminated against, too?
ESPN,
the worldwide leader in liberal idiocy. So let me ask, "what if I told you that ESPN decided to pull an
Asian-American announcer from calling a University of Virginia football game because his name is Robert Lee?" Your answer
would probably be, "you're making it up." But I'm not. It is reliably reported that Robert Lee was slated to call
Virginia's game on September 2 against William and Mary, but because of events in Charlottesville, which originated with
a dispute over removing a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee, he has been reassigned.
ESPN
Pulls Game Announcer Robert Lee Because His Name Is Too "Triggering". If ever you doubted that ESPN was the
sporting epicenter of liberalism, well, consider this the day you can put those doubts to rest. In what can only be
considered the most ridiculous, over-the-top, example of political correctness running amok ESPN has pulled a college
football announcer from the game between William & Mary vs the University of Virginia because his name is Robert Lee.
Seriously, you just can't make this stuff up. Oh, and Robert Lee is Asian (pictured left) but even his ethnicity
couldn't save him from the executive level stupidity and delicate sensibilities of ESPN.
Gathering
Storms And Threats to Liberty. We're living in a very dangerous time. Several things are coming together
that pose a serious threat to the liberty of anyone who is right-of-center. While there are many factors at work, I've
been focused in recent days on three: (1) Antifa becoming a part of the anti-Trump Resistance; (2) politically-motivated
denial of access to the internet at the gatekeeper level; and (3) attempts to weaken free speech protections in the name of
social justice.
All in: The
left is through messing around. More and more, Charlottesville looks like a setup. Jason Kessler, who organized the "Unite
the Right" event, seems to have a history with the left. Aside from his Occupy Wall Street past, it is convenient that he we went Alt-Right
as soon as Donald Trump was elected. When the Democrat mayor of Charlottesville and governor of Virginia directed law enforcement to
actually funnel together the opposing sides of paid protesters and drooling mouth-breathers, a confrontation was inevitable. Along with
the tiki-torch parade (exactly what happened in Ukraine) and great photos of Nazi flags, Hollywood could not have done better.
California Can't Fix
Its Housing Problems. Even California's liberal Democrats are starting to understand that the state's housing
crisis is fundamentally a supply-and-demand problem. Home prices have soared to astronomical levels, with a median
price above $750,000 in the nine-county Bay Area and nearly $700,000 in Orange County. Years of growth controls and
local regulations have restricted housing supply and added as much as 40 percent to the price of every new home
that's built. Housing is the key reason California has a 24 percent poverty rate (using the U.S. Census Bureau's
new cost-of-living-adjusted index), the highest in the nation.
Functional
Illiterates Trying to Erase History. [Scroll down] Why stop only in our country? The Egyptian
pyramids were built by slaves. Should we tear those down? If these are symbols of hatred and racism that must be
destroyed, why do we never hear calls from the left for the destruction of the Nazi death camps. Talk about symbols of
hate. Why would we want to remember the holocaust? It couldn't be that it doesn't fit the left's narrative.
This Confederate monument narrative is designed by the left to provoke a backlash from whites who are tired of being scorned,
ridiculed, belittled and called racists, rednecks and deplorables by so called open minded progressives. It's
working. The cold race war is beginning to turn hot. The president has no intention of trying to bring the two
sides together because it's impossible at this point. That's how Fourth Turnings roll. The mood of the country
will continue to darken. Reactions to these types of events will intensify. More blood will be shed. It's
too bad these functional illiterates didn't pay attention in history class or ever read a book. They are going to learn
some harsh lessons over the next decade.
Philly's Soda-Tax
Fiasco. So-called sin taxes, intended to make people pay extra for their unhealthy or socially undesirable
habits, have always been popular. Since people often feel guilty about their bad or unhealthful habits, it's often easy
to tax them more for their "sins." It was in this spirit that Philadelphia raised the tax on soda sky-high. What
taxpayers got was a lesson in unintended consequences.
How
the Liberal Media Created Charlottesville. To begin with, the liberal media is almost entirely responsible for
growing the Alt-Right merger of hate groups and internet trolls. Most people are well aware of the stifling political
correctness that reached an apex under Barack Obama. People are sick and tired of being attacked and scolded by the
humorless left-wing thought police every time they stray from the latest liberal doctrine. That created a large group
of people who enjoyed tweaking social justice warriors and some of them realized the easiest way to do that was with racial
slurs. Every time some doofus leaves a noose on a college campus or says the N-word, it's treated like a national
crisis. If you're an anonymous troll who enjoys getting people to react to everything you say, that's a FEATURE, not a
bug. All you have to do is say something racially offensive and all these people who studiously try to ignore you will
go out of their minds.
Delighted with
Trump. [Scroll down] The sheer entitled misery of losing with Hillary has ruined [the Democrats']
year. Well, they deserve it, because they are responsible for just about all the chronic troubles in the world.
Yes, including Kim Jong-un and his whole family, who have been suckering the world with Democratic collusion for maybe thirty
years. Madeleine Albright was sent to that hellhole to "negotiate" with Kim II, waltzed with him like two cartoon
hippos on the balcony of his palace while thousands of starving cadres marched by on the street below. Then she came
back flaunting a "treaty" with the Norks, promising they wouldn't build a plutonium bomb, because they were really planning
on old-fashioned uranium. They knew it, Bill and Maddy knew it, and the New York Times knew it, but they lied, lied,
lied to us. The American people were infinitely stupid, and the media celebrated Bill's big victory.
Let's
Not Forget How the North Korea Crisis Originated. Liberals are criticizing President Trump for belligerent
language directed toward North Korea. They think he should be more diplomatic, like other presidents have been for the
last 25 years. Because that worked so well, apparently. This short video clip of President Clinton announcing the
1994 deal under which North Korea agreed not to develop nuclear weapons in return for a great deal of money is a great reminder of
how we got where we are now. The deal was incredibly incompetent, if you think Clinton was actually trying to prevent the
North Koreans from obtaining nukes, as opposed to sweeping the problem under the rug for later presidents to handle:
[Video clip]
Socialists
create youth shortages in California. Socialism has long been associated with shortages, and nowhere is that
more evident than in California, land of surf, sun, skiing, skateboarding, and other youth-oriented pursuits. The
socialists have managed to chase out the youth.
'Freedom of the Press' Doesn't Mean What You Think.
Progressive propaganda, relying on misdirection, misinterpretation, and outright falsehoods, permeates American life and touches or taints every
topic. The corporations that produce mass entertainment and news, the government bureaucracies that shape and fund education, the schools from
kindergarten to college, and the tech firms that control the flow of information and ideas, are all subject to a groupthink that, for all intents and
purposes, brooks absolutely no dissent from Leftist dogma.
Murders
Continue to Escalate in Liberal Cities. Cities around the country are breaking records. Oh, it's not for
job growth, graduation rates or anything hopeful like that. They're breaking records for documented homicides and
shootings. It's gotten so bad that cities like Baltimore, in a desperate and dimwitted attempt to slow the number, have
turned to calling for ceasefires. [...] Baltimore community leaders had called for a 72 hour ceasefire this past weekend
using the hashtag #BaltimoreCeasefire on social media. They received no affirmation of cooperation from anyone.
Yet this they hoped would do the trick.
Seattle
set to prevent landlords from considering applicants' criminal records. Seattle landlords would be almost
completely prohibited from screening prospective tenants based on their criminal histories, under a proposed ordinance
approved by a City Council committee Tuesday [8/8/2017]. The only people who could be denied housing based on their
criminal histories would be those listed on sex-offender registries because of adult convictions. And landlords denying
housing to such sex offenders would still need to state a legitimate business reason for doing so.
Broke
Chicago Public School System Lays Off 356 Teachers. Officials with the perpetually insolvent Chicago Public School system
laid off 356 teachers and nearly 600 school support staffers this week. The teachers and other employees received their pink slips
from the taxpayer-funded school district on Monday [8/7/2017], reports the Chicago Sun-Times. Chicago's elementary schools will have
240 fewer teachers this fall. Second City high schools will have 116 fewer teachers. In addition to the 356 teachers,
Chicago Public School officials also sacked 362 classroom aides and 221 employees who were security guards and special education aides.
Study:
Philadelphia Tax Makes Soda More Expensive Than Beer. Philadelphia's tax on sugary drinks has made soda more
expensive than beer in the city. The Tax Foundation released a new study on the excise tax last week, finding that the
1.5-cent per ounce tax has fallen short of revenue projections, cost jobs, and has forced some Philadelphians to drive outside
the city to buy groceries. The study finds that the tax is 24 times higher than the Pennsylvania tax rate on beer.
Transgender
day camp among first to include 4-year-olds. The camp in the San Francisco Bay Area city of El Cerrito caters to transgender and
"gender fluid" children, ages 4 to 12, making it one of the only camps of its kind in the world open to preschoolers, experts say.
Illinois
Has 63,000 Government Workers Making Over $100K. Illinoisans are struggling under the highest property taxes in
the nation, a declining population and the nation's worst income growth, but one group is still doing pretty well —
government workers. According to OpenTheBooks.com, Illinois has 63,000 public employees making more than $100,000, costing
taxpayers $10 billion. These government workers range from auto pound supervisors to corrections nurses to junior
college presidents and more. One of the most lucrative government fields is that of village and city managers, many of
whom out-earn every U.S. governor.
Toxic
waste from U.S. pot farms alarms experts. Pollution from illegal marijuana farms deep in California's national
forests is far worse than previously thought, and has turned thousands of acres into waste dumps so toxic that simply
touching plants has landed law enforcement officers in the hospital. The volume of banned or restricted pesticides and
illegally applied fertilizers in the woods dwarfs estimates by the U.S. Forest Service in 2014, when a top enforcement
official testified that the pollution was threatening forest land in California and other states.
Refuse
to Accept the Lies — Before It Is Too Late. A woman gave birth the other day, and the liberal media
squeed in delight, which is weird — usually the media only cares about babies in the context of waxing them
in the womb. [...] But this particular birth was celebrated because the mother was pretending to be a man, and her delusion
was so intense that she apparently partook of surgical mutilation and chemical intervention to (not really) conform her body
to her delusion. I guess we're supposed to marvel at her physical transformation, but that would be a lie too.
She looks like a woman with some surgery and a scraggly goatee. It's not beautiful. It's sad. But we're not
supposed to tell that obvious truth. We're supposed to join in the lie and praise the Emperor's New Secondary Sex
Characteristics.
Slow Economic
Growth Directly Tied to Health Care Mess. Last year, the U.S. economy expanded by under two percent. Over
the last seven decades, gross domestic product (GDP) in the U.S. averaged 3.4 percent growth. In the 21st century,
annual GDP growth met or exceeded that average just once. The president, not without reason, celebrated the 2.6 [percent]
growth rate for 2017's second quarter. Economists once regarded the figure we welcome now as a sign of underperformance.
The sclerotic new normal directly relates to the new normal of one in five dollars directed toward health care.
Cook County Continues
to Tax Itself Into Oblivion. The leftists who dominate Chicago have been spending the entire state of Illinois
into insolvency. But for true believers in liberalism, all is not lost so long as the moonbats responsible can still
find new things to tax: [...] Liberals sell soda taxes with sugar hysteria. The gullible dutifully believe that sugar
is a drug and even a poison. Note that the tax applies even to drinks that contain no sugar. The taxes will
remain, long after sugar hysteria has gone the way of fretting about global cooling and the hole in the ozone.
Resisting the
Tranny State. It's absolutely none of my business how any adult decides to express him/her/itself sexually. But
the thing is, these days trannies are not content to just go be trannies; they insist that we become accomplices to their fantasy.
We have to pretend to see what they see. We have to use pronouns that we know are misapplied. We have to allow dudes [...]
to shower, change, and go to the bathroom alongside our daughters. We have to foot the bill for sex change surgeries. To
even suggest that sex change operations are elective and not a "medical necessity" is to challenge the tranny illusion.
Naked
illegal alien panhandlers turning Times Square into shocking anti-family zone. A word of caution for folks planning a family-friendly
vacation to New York City — we've been overrun by a horde of naked street performers. The New York Post reports topless females and
filthy costumed characters have turned Times Square into a haven for seedy shakedown artists. The bare-naked broads are lewd and crude —
harassing unsuspecting tourists — especially families.
Can New York City Be Saved?
Fortunately, the city made a huge comeback with Republican Rudy Giuliani's administration and New York City became one of the safest
large cities in the country. Mayor DeBlasio has whittled away at his quality-of-life law enforcement programs by now allowing
public urination and other previous offenses to be reduced to meaningless incidents. The squeegee wipers are back, the homeless
and illegal immigrants are attacking innocent citizens; subway crime is at an all time high and our Marxist Mayor trots off to Germany
to join anti-US protesters the day after an NYPD cop is assassinated sitting in her patrol car. When a reporter confronted him
about news that the homeless were cleared off the subway for a photo op with the mayor, he had the audacity to say, "Read my
lips. I don't care."
Horrific
Crime by Dreamer in a Sanctuary City Leads To Backlash. The crime by a so-called DREAMer in a Washington state
sanctuary city was horrific. The teen girl suffered a broken orbital bone, a broken jaw, her ear was dangling off, her
lip was damaged, she had head injuries, she lost teeth, her nose was broken, she couldn't talk and she was raped.
Salvador Diaz-Garcia, 23 years of age, is charged with second-degree assault, second-degree rape and third-degree child
molestation for perverted acts that occurred on June 25 at a kid's pool. The woman's mother called police about
10 p.m. that night, reporting that her daughter came home with a bloody head, missing teeth and wearing only a tank top.
Costs
of green electricity driving Aussies off the grid and into poverty. When greenies get their way, poor people
suffer. Global warming hysteria tends to be an affliction of the affluent, who don't have to worry about where their
next meal is coming from or how they will keep the lights on at night. But for those lacking the leisure to hypothesize
a crisis that keeps getting stuck on pause, the costs of green energy can wreck lives. It is happening in Australia, in
the State of Queensland, ironcally rich in coal deposits.
Connecticut
Is Circling The Drain Financially. This is one of those situations where we might be able to take two seemingly
incongruous facts and put them together to find a deeper meaning. Ready? Fact number one: Connecticut is
one of the richest states in the nation depending how you measure such things. Fact number two: Connecticut has
managed to run up nearly $75B in debt and is teetering on the edge of being in worse financial shape than Puerto Rico.
The
Left's War on the First Amendment. [Scroll down] This isn't just a media phenomenon. It's what happened across the
social spectrum when the people we used to call liberals became illiberal leftists. It's why colleges censor controversial
speakers and punish dissenting faculty. It's why the environmental debate went from scientific discussions to calls to
punish, fine and even jail those who question the left's Luddite alarmism on Global Warming. It's why the debate over
gay marriage shifted to punishing Christian bakers and florists, the arguments about Israel tilted to preventing musicians
from performing in Tel Aviv and civil rights turned into a call to create "safe spaces" that ban everyone else.
Diversity is no longer dressed up as an expansion, but is now explicitly a contraction. Don't read books
by white authors. Don't hire more men. Kick Jews out of the gay rights rally. Send the IRS after
conservative groups. Punch a Trump supporter in the face. Nearly every leftist cause these days is expressed
by punishing someone. Arguments are won by force.
In a police state, everything that isn't mandatory is prohibited. De
Blasio: Restaurants should be fined for electric bikes. Business owners are the "people with the money"
so they're the ones who should get fined for illegal electric bikes — and "not necessarily" the workers who ride
them, Mayor de Blasio said Friday. "You see a bunch of [e-bikes] outside a restaurant; it seems like there is a
enforcement potential there — whether it's NYPD or [the Department of] Consumer Affairs or whatever, so I am
intrigued to say the least," the mayor said on WNYC radio. De Blasio was responding to a plea from Upper Upper West
Side activist Matthew Shefler, who said the city "needs more leadership" to crack down on electric bikes that routinely break
traffic laws. He suggested targeting restaurant owners who rely on them for profit rather than their delivery people.
California
Lesbian Couple Chemically Alter Their 11-Yr-Old Boy As Prep For Sex-Change Surgery. I'm extremely disturbed by
the fact that two women would adopt a little boy and begin forcing him to become a little girl via hormone therapy at the
tender age of 11. The fact that this is something that human beings would even consider is bothersome to me. I don't
think children at that age are equipped to make life-altering decisions such as this. They don't have the capacity to
understand the ramifications of their actions, which leads me to believe this is something that these ladies wanted for this
young boy, potentially before they even adopted him.
Why
people are getting [...] out of the Northeast. Last year, three states in the Northeast — New
Jersey, New York and Connecticut — landed in the top five places people were moving out of fastest, according to
2017 data from United Van Lines. And data from Pew Charitable Trusts found that while people are all about moving to the
South (their population grew by nearly 1.4 million people from 2014 to 2015) and the West (866,000 more people), the
population growth in the Northeast is "sluggish." The Northeastern exodus is particularly acute in many big cities
like New York City.
The
Islamophobia Industry Killed Justine Damond. It is a cherished fiction on the Left that there exists an
"Islamophobia Industry," a well-funded group of propagandists who spread hatred of Muslims solely to line their
pockets. This is as ridiculous as it is libelous, but there really is an Islamophobia Industry, and it is a group of
well-funded propagandists. In reality, however, it is not in the business of spreading "anti-Muslim bigotry." Instead,
it propagates the idea that Muslims in the U.S. are the recipients of widespread discrimination and harassment, and so must
be accorded special accommodation and consideration. That idea has just taken the life of Justine Ruszczyk Damond.
Statism's Violent Wages.
The distance between the government — state and local, but especially federal — and the people, as well
as ordinary people's distrust and enmity toward one another, are the necessary, inescapable, result of 1) government having
taken on, not to say usurped, outsized powers over individuals' lives; 2) having divided the people into groups to which
politicians offer the favors they think these groups want, not least among which is the denigration of other groups.
Government nowadays tells you how your children will be educated. You have almost no way of objecting. Object too
hard, and you're in trouble. That goes for any number of regulations, including how much water you can have in your
shower, what health care you may have at what cost. Your business, or the one for which you work, must function by
rules you can't do anything about. Will you be able to retire? That depends on the government. Which party
controls the White House, Congress, or the State House may or may not make a difference.
At
this Indy library story hour, drag queens read to kids. Forget pajamas and cartoons. For Halle Pino, Ida
Kay and Blair St. Clair, Saturday morning meant story time for a room of young kids — and dress-up story
time at that. The occasion? Drag Queen Storytime at the Indianapolis Central Library. The trio read tales
with superhero themes to the kids who sprawled out on the floor, in the seats and on parents' laps in Clowes Auditorium.
On the program were "Ten Rules of Being a Superhero," "Princess Super Kitty," "My Mom Has X-ray Vision" and crafts that
included mask-making and coloring. The trio took turns reading the books, sprinkling color commentary throughout
that appealed to the few dozen kids and adults.
Justine
Damond: Killed By "Islamophobia". Mohamed Noor is a Somali Muslim. He was the first Somali Muslim
on the Minneapolis police force. In 2016, Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges expressed her excitement about that fact:
[...] Hodges wasn't excited because Mohamed Noor had the skills necessary to become a fine police officer. She was only
excited because he represented a religious and ethnic that she was anxious to court. And it is increasingly clear, as
we learn about Mohamed Noor's nervousness and jumpiness and lack of respect for women, and from his own account of events
that he relayed to friends (that he was "startled" and reacted by opening fire), that Mohamed Noor was not cut out to be a
policeman. He did not have the temperament for it, and if he hadn't killed Justine Damond, he would likely have done
something similar at some point. So why was he on the force at all? Because he was the first Somali Muslim on the
Minneapolis police force. He was a symbol of our glorious multicultural mosaic. He was a rebuke to "Islamophobes"
and proof that what they say is false. Minneapolis authorities placed a great deal of faith in Mohamed Noor. He
was for them the triumph of diversity, the victory of their worldview.
California
is working to avoid a shortage of legalized marijuana, state pot czar says. With Nevada suffering a shortage of
legalized marijuana, California's state pot czar said Wednesday [7/19/2017] that efforts are being made in her state to make sure
sufficient licenses go to farmers, testers and distributors to supply retailers. Providing temporary, four-month licenses
to support some businesses including growers is planned "so we don't have a break in the supply chain," Lori Ajax, chief of the
Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation, said in testimony at a legislative hearing. Legal sales began July 1 in Nevada,
but it immediately became clear there was not enough supply to meet demand, in part because unique rules provide alcohol
wholesalers exclusive distributor rights. California does not have the same limits on who can distribute cannabis.
How
the Left Hijacked the American Psychiatric Association and Normalized Personality Disorders. The evidence is
clear — the American Left succeeded in lobbying the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to eliminate some of
the sexual identity disorders from their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). [...] With
transvestitism finally voted out of the DSM, in June 2015 LGBT rights groups had one urgent agenda item for President Barack
Obama: End the ban on transgender people serving in the military. It wasn't that transgender people were
straining red rope barriers, lining up at recruiting stations to serve in the military in a rush of abject patriotism;
no, acceptance into the military allowed transgenders free government-paid sexual reassignment surgery. No longer was
transvestitism considered a mental disorder, it was now considered a medically correctable condition, like a cleft lip and
palate. Medically-correctable conditions like cleft lip and palate correct physical birth defects. Sexual
identity disorders are not physical birth defects but mental defects.
The
Left is Already Preparing Tomorrow's Fake News. The American Left has relied on its mastery of the
media — enthusiastically aided and abetted by the 90% of national political journalists today that are
progressives of one stripe or another — for its political power for decades. Ever since the 1950s, the left
has been deliberately creating events in order to attract media attention that pushes a narrative confirming the justice of
their demands. It learned that the new medium of television was perfect for creating artificial dramas that would sway
support its way. [...] It has worked on issue after issue. And here we are today with transgender bathrooms and other
ornaments of the progressive worldview imposed on the public.
Everyday Snowflakes.
The demand for recognition and nonrecognition at the same time is surely one of the reasons for the outbreak of mass self-mutilation in
the Western world in an age of celebrity. A person who treats his face and body like an ironmongery store can hardly desire or
expect that you fail to notice it, but at the same time demands that you make no comment about it, draw no conclusions from it, express
no aversion toward it, and treat him no differently because of it. You must accept him as he is, however he is, because he has an
inalienable right to such acceptance. As a professional burglar once asked me, how could I expect him to give up burgling
when he was a burglar and burglary was what he did? I think the same dynamic (if I may call it such) is at work in the current
vogue for transsexualism: "You must recognize me and not recognize me at the same time." In this way, people can
simultaneously enjoy the fruits of being normal and very different. To be merely the same as others is a wound to the ego
in an age of celebrity, and yet we are herd animals who do not want to wander too far from the herd.
Colorado
tries to fight homeless problem that may have been triggered by pot law. The City of Denver is grappling with a growing homeless problem,
and some people blame marijuana legalization for attracting a growing number of drug users now living on the street. Colorado's homeless population
jumped 13 percent from 2015 to 2016, despite that nationally, homelessness declined by 3 percent during the same time period, according the
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Alfred Kinsey:
The American Lysenko. Kinsey's admirers already regularly compare him to Darwin and Einstein. With Liam
Neeson in the film's starring role, we will doubtless soon be hearing that Kinsey was also a sexual Oskar Schindler, selflessly
risking life and reputation to save us from evil Victorian forces. A new PBS documentary on Kinsey also premiered this month.
[...] What's obvious to anyone who examines Kinsey's life and work dispassionately — indeed, obvious to anyone who watches the
documentary itself and sifts the facts it reports from the breathless hagiography — isn't conceded for a moment: that
Kinsey was a fraud whose work did absolutely nothing to provide a genuinely scientific or rational justification for the revolution
in morals he nevertheless helped foster.
Mental
health sick days [are] a sign of America's wussification. There's this story that's been going around the media
for a few days now that paints a picture of a sympathetic boss gently cheering on his absent employee for letting him know
she's missing work due to "focus" on her "mental health." Let's just nip this crazy in the bud. This is a mark of
America's wussification — nothing to cheer. Taking a day off because you're feeling depressed or anxious or
otherwise unhappy and distressed is the stuff of Millennial Madness.
Board
urges more training after cop ID'd transgender woman as male on traffic ticket. The entire Fort Lauderdale Police Department
should undergo extra training on how to properly treat transgender people, a city panel has decided. The suggestion came Monday
[7/10/2017] during a Citizens Police Review Board hearing for a police officer who categorized a transgender woman as male on a
citation. The board, which serves as a watchdog group over police, also decided the officer should receive a written reprimand
for the incident.
The Editor says...
The person who will not accept what he is (and act like it) is entirely responsible for any subsequent misidentification, including the
use of "incorrect" pronouns. One cannot claim to be the victim of the circumstances he or she has created.
33
Percent of American Welfare Recipients Live in California. The liberal state of California is a prime example
of why liberal policies must not be adopted anywhere around the country as one-third of America's welfare recipients reside
in the state.
America's
Long March toward a Secular Socialist Democracy. Property rights are the bedrock of the American political
system; without that foundation, there is no freedom. The Founders held that property rights encompass not just
physical property but also one's life, labor and livelihood, as individuals own their own lives; therefore, they must own the
products of that life that can be traded in free exchange with others. They further believed that the primary role of
government is to guarantee and protect these property rights, and further, that these property rights are natural, or God
given rights. [...] Nonetheless, since the 1930's the Progressives have been extraordinarily successful in gradually
transforming the country into what the Founders feared: a nation dominated by an all-powerful central government
running roughshod over man's inalienable rights.
Nevada Just Issued A 'Statement
of Emergency' over Marijuana Shortage. Between July 1 and 4, dispensaries made roughly $3 million in sales and
generated as much as $1 million in tax revenue. But the green rush has come with a shortage — one almost
certainly created because of the way the law was written and, as a result, the government's willingness to grant liquor
vendors an 18-month monopoly on distribution.
Best-Run
States Are Low-Tax Republican, Worst-Run Are High-Tax Democratic, Study Finds. According to the latest ranking
of states by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, the most fiscally sound states in the nation are all low-tax,
GOP strongholds, while the 10 least-solvent states are almost all high-tax and heavily Democratic. The rankings in the
fourth-annual "Ranking of the States by Fiscal Condition" report, which was released this morning, are based on a review of
audited financial statements for 2015 covering five measures that gauge the states' ability to pay bills, avoid budget
deficits, and meet long-term spending needs and cover pension liabilities.
Will
California Ever Thrive Again? The basket of California state taxes — sales, income and
gasoline — rates among the highest in the U.S. Yet California roads and K-12 education rank near the bottom.
After years of drought, California has not built a single new reservoir. Instead, scarce fresh aqueduct water is still
being diverted to sea. Thousands of rural central California homes, in Dust Bowl fashion, have been abandoned due to a
sinking aquifer and dry wells. One in three American welfare recipients resides in California. Almost a quarter
of the state population lives below or near the poverty line. Yet the state's gas and electricity prices are among the
nation's highest. One in four state residents was not born in the U.S.
The Left's Breaking Point? The Left is still firmly in
control of the institutions which shape American culture despite the hard-to-deny truth that very few if any men or women of the Left are any good at
anything they do. This is why Hollywood makes mostly brainless, propagandistic and under-performing movies, it's why journalism has reached its
nadir, it's why American public (and higher) education is descending into quicksand, and it's why the Democratic Party presides over the ruin of every
jurisdiction it controls. They control the culture and they destroy it.
WHO warns of imminent
spread of untreatable superbug gonorrhoea. At least three people worldwide are infected with totally
untreatable "superbug" strains of gonorrhoea which they are likely to be spreading to others through sex, the World Health
Organization (WHO) said on Friday [7/7/2017]. Giving details of studies showing a "very serious situation" with regard to
highly drug-resistant forms of the sexually-transmitted disease (STD), WHO experts said it was "only a matter of time" before
last-resort gonorrhoea antibiotics would be of no use. "Gonorrhoea is a very smart bug," said Teodora Wi, a human
reproduction specialist at the Geneva-based U.N. health agency. "Every time you introduce a new type of antibiotic to
treat it, this bug develops resistance to it."
France
to 'ban all petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040'. France will outlaw the sale of all petrol and diesel vehicles
by 2040, its new environment minister, Nicolas Hulot, has announced. It will also ban any "new project to use petrol,
gas or coal", as well as shale oil, by that date. The radical measures were unveiled at a press conference as part of
French president Emmanuel Macron's pledge to "make the planet great again". Mr Hulot, a former star wildlife TV
presenter, announced "the end of the sale of petrol or vehicles between now and 2040" and a pledge to make France carbon
neutral by 2050. "The carbon neutral objective will force us to make the necessary investments," he added.
The Editor says...
"The carbon neutral objective" will not fix anything. Much of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere comes from
natural sources, like volcanos, cows, and termites. If all industrial activity stopped today, those natural sources
would continue to pump CO2 into the air.
How
Transgender Ideology Has Infiltrated the Field of Pediatrics and Produced Large-Scale Child Abuse. Transgender
politics have taken Americans by surprise, and caught some lawmakers off guard. Just a few short years ago, not many
could have imagined a high-profile showdown over transgender men and women's access to single-sex bathrooms in North Carolina.
But transgender ideology is not just infecting our laws. It is intruding into the lives of the most innocent among
us — children — and with the apparent growing support of the professional medical community.
Global
elites celebrate divorce of birth records from biology. What is it about "gender issues" that drives the
media/political elites mad? The government of Canada handed gender activists the crucial precedent they need. [...] So
serious are the issues of child abuse here that I must put them aside, possibly for another time. I want to confine myself
to the manner in which what has to be called fantasy has permeated the ruling class when it comes to the denial of biology.
Now, it must be kept in mind is that this is an identity card, not a birth certificate. That struggle is coming.
Congressional
Staffer Could have Stopped Baseball Field Attack, but Second Amendment Rights were Chilled by D.C. law. In the
aftermath of the baseball field assassination attempt on several Republican Congressmen and their staff, we are finding that
District of Columbia infringements on the Second Amendment played a significant role in hampering defense against the attack.
[...] Several Congressmen have said that having personal weapons at the ball field could have mitigated or shortened the
attack. Representative Mo Brooks from Alabama said that he could have mounted an effective defensive action.
It's
okay to decorate a police car with rainbow flags, but not Bible verses. It's permissible in the United States to decorate police cars with rainbow
flags to celebrate gay pride, but it's not permissible to decorate police cars with Bible verses honoring law enforcement officers. The Houston Police
Dept. is debuting a "Pride Car" for the city's gay pride parade, the Houston Chronicle reports. Police Chief Art Acevedo is downright giddy about the
new rainbow cruiser and the parade.
Doctors
Back NHS-Funded 'Womb Transplants' for Transgender People. Leading doctors have said they back NHS-funded womb
transplants for biological males who identify as women, a procedure which experts say will be possible within 10 years.
It is believed that medical funding and advances will make the procedure possible within a decade, after pioneering
operations at the University of Gothenburg on womb-less women have seen at least five children born as a result of a
procedure similar to the one doctors are working towards.
Government
hostility to religion spiked under Obama, new report finds. It's hard to believe American teenagers could be arrested for delivering a prayer, but
that's the kind of nation we live in — a nation that was fundamentally transformed by the previous presidential administration. In 2011, the class
president at Hampton High School in Tennessee wanted to deliver a pray at graduation. The principal issued an edict that any child who attempted to pray
would be stopped, escorted from the building by police and arrested. That incident was one of dozens included in a stunning new Family Research Council
report documenting a significant upsurge in government hostility to religion.
Obamacare Is Killing People. Opiate deaths have been
on the steady increase, with fatal drug overdoses tripling since 1999. Much of that growth has come in the last few years. From 2010 to 2015,
the opiate death rate in the U.S. increased from 12.3 per 100,000 population in 2010 to 16.3 in 2015, according to a study by the Centers for Disease
Control. Of the 52,404 fatal US drug overdoses in 2015, 63 percent of them involved an opioid. Obamacare's Medicaid expansion and
individual insurance exchanges both went into effect in 2014. In just the next year, the fatal opioid overdose rate increased by 15.6 percent,
CDC found. Correlation, of course, is not causation, but the pattern is persistent. The increase isn't uniform. It's clearly happening
in 30 states, most of which accepted the Medicaid expansion. But overdose deaths have remained steady in 19 other states, according to the CDC.
Rights
of Conscience Besieged by Sexual Activists. Mississippi's House Bill 1523 establishes badly needed protections
for those Americans whose faith forbids them to participate in same-sex wedding ceremonies or to treat a person's gender as a
matter of preference rather than an immutable, God-given characteristic. The law precludes the state from taking
discriminatory actions against those who reject the latest fruits of the sexual revolution — who choose instead to
live in light of the knowledge that God created people "male" or "female," and to abide by the timeless moral law reserving
sexual intimacy for the permanent, exclusive bond of marriage between a man and a woman. The statute also creates a
legal defense for citizens who refuse to violate these core beliefs. The plaintiffs who challenged the statute argued
that they are "stigmatized" by the very existence of these religious tenets. I wonder if they've stopped to consider
the "stigma" experienced by devout individuals who have, due to a sickening erosion of First Amendment principles, actually
been prosecuted for refusing to forfeit their faith to someone else's ideas about human sexuality.
Are Illinois and
Puerto Rico Our Future? If Gov. Bruce Rauner and his legislature in Springfield do not put a budget
together by Friday [6/30/2017], the Land of Lincoln will be the first state in the Union to see its debt plunge into
junk-bond status. Illinois has $14.5 billion in overdue bills, $130 billion in unfunded pension obligations
and no budget. "We can't manage our money," says Rauner. "We're like a banana republic." [...] According to
the New York Times, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Northern Marianas and Guam are in the same boat.
The Culture Police. Recently
at Evergreen College in Washington state, students demanded that white people leave the campus on a "Day of Absence." One liberal white professor
protested. His classroom was stormed as he was teaching. He was shouted down with "F" bombs and accusations of racism by the mob that
invaded his lecture. In public schools, a single complaint about the "Pledge of Allegiance" in class or the recitation of a prayer
at a sports event is enough to overcome the majority who value these American traditions. The mere hint of disagreement with gay marriage or
abortion in any government, corporate, or professional setting will probably cost you your livelihood. Questioning climate change gets you
labeled a "denier," associating you with those who deny the Holocaust. Nor is it enough to accept the scientific data; you must interpret it
in line with the prescribed hysteria or you are an enemy of the environment. What we are witnessing is not state dictatorship but a new
phenomenon — the rise of a totalitarian culture which seeks to control everything and everybody.
The
Banana Republic of Illinois. Last week, Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan endorsed a $5 billion annual income
tax hike. This would be the largest tax increase of any state in years. Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner has blocked new
taxes for three years but is now under intense pressure from the Springfield political machine to agree to the revenue heist.
Anyone who thinks this soak-the-rich scheme will solve Illinois' long-term budget crisis should have their head examined.
Illinois already ranks in the top three among the 50 states in state-local tax burden, so if raising taxes were any kind of solution
here, the Land of Lincoln would be a Garden of Eden.
Auto
crashes are on the rise in marijuana states. A new study finds an increase in accident insurance claims in
three states that have approved the sale of marijuana for recreational use. According the Highway Loss Data Institute,
the number of vehicle collisions reported to insurance companies in Colorado, Oregon and Washington is 3 percent higher
than what would have been expected if those states had not made it legal to buy pot. "We're concerned about what we're
seeing," said Matt Moore, the institute's senior vice president. "We see strong evidence of an increased crash risk in
states that have approved recreational marijuana sales."
What
to do with a broken Illinois: Dissolve the Land of Lincoln. [L]et's finally admit that after decade upon
decade of taxing and spending and borrowing, Illinois has finally run out of other people's money. Those "other people"
include taxpayers who've abandoned the state. And now Illinois faces doomsday.
Illinois'
Unpaid Bill Backlog Grows to more than $15 Billion. At some point Illinois' unpaid bills will have to be
refinanced to save money, but that can't happen until the state gets its spending problem under control —
otherwise lawmakers will continue recklessly wasting tax dollars.
The Left Is Rotting
From Within. The Democrat Party has no substantive platform any longer other than obstruction, "resist,"
foul-mouthed vulgarity, violence, anger, and excessive whining. This rot is manifesting itself in some very public
displays: Campus snowflakes are working overtime at colleges and universities across the country to shut down
speech. They are rioting, destroying property, and openly fighting professors whose curriculum offends their sense
of social justice. If that isn't enough scurrilous behavior, these pathetic snowflakes are now demanding racially
segregated graduation ceremonies, dormitories, and white students and professors are told to leave campuses for a "day
without whites."
Why
you might see more people peeing on the streets of NYC this summer. New Yorkers should prepare for a loud,
smelly summer. As of Tuesday, scofflaws who commit certain quality-of-life violations — including urinating,
boozing or blasting loud music in public — will get little more than a slap on the wrist. The change is the
result of the City Council's controversial Criminal Justice Reform Act, which allows law breakers who've been cited for those
and other low-level offenses to face justice in administrative hearings rather than in criminal court.
What
Would Happen If Liberals Got the World They Wanted Here on Earth? I sometimes wonder how the mainstream media,
judicial system, sanctuary cities and liberal politicians would fare in the kind of world they are trying to bring about: a
world without borders, a world without morals, a socialist society ruled by an all-powerful, central government that would
control the distribution and quality of health care, the parameters of abortion, the length of people's lives through
euthanasia and the population's practice of religion. Probably the first thing to go, as is always the case in
totalitarian regimes, would be freedom of the press. Then most of the rest of our personal freedoms would follow:
abolition of privately owned firearms, the caliber and content of education, the outlawing of homeschooling, restrictions on
what can be said from the pulpits of the nation and close control of academic curriculum.
Thanks to Barack H. Obama: Report:
Global Terrorism Has Tripled Since 2011, Now at an All-Time High. This is quite a turnaround from this time
last year during the presidential campaign — when the media was trumpeting supposed major declines in
terrorism: [...] Going back to April 2013, senior Obama State Department officials had been telling us that the "War on
Terror" was over, and the primary reason was that Obama's "Arab Spring" had unleashed the forces of democracy. In
reality, it encouraged hardcore Islamists like the Muslim Brotherhood to take power in several critical countries in the
Middle East.
A
Week Of Surfing On A Sea Of Liberal Tears. [L]iberals' misery is an important teaching aid that might succeed
in instructing them in the folly of their poisonous, ridiculous ideology, since reason doesn't work. And they had
better learn and change their dangerous course before we all end up here.
Federal
Court Sides with Transgender Student in High School Bathroom Case. Ash Whitaker, a transgender high school
senior, sued his school district for not allowing him to use the boys' restroom at school because he was born female.
Whitaker claimed that the school violated Title IX regulations against gender discrimination, as well as the Equal Protection
Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. On Tuesday [5/30/2017], the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Whitaker, upholding
a preliminary injunction that allowed him to keep using his preferred facilities. Whitaker, who according to court documents
first identified publicly as a boy going into his freshman year, claims that the school's bathroom policy, which was not written in
any codified guidelines or regulations, was harmful to him both physically, in the sense that he would get dehydrated (and faint) as
a result of limiting water in trying to avoid using the bathroom, and emotionally, to the extent that he had suicidal thoughts.
The Editor says...
Title IX regulations may guard against gender discrimination, but I doubt if the authors of Title IX gave any thought
to the prevention of discrimination based on "gender identity" issues or any other self-induced gender problems.
We may have reached the point at which any new law should now include a disclaimer exempting the enforcement of the law
from "rights" yet to be invented by activist judges.
How Obama's 'smart power'
helped seed the Manchester attack. South Manchester is home to one of the world's largest Libyan expatriate communities, which
in recent years has become a prime recruiting ground for young jihadists. And Libya itself is the base for an ISIS external-operations
wing tasked with plotting terrorist attacks in Europe. Indeed, since the fall of Moammar Khadafy, Libya has become a haven for Islamist
terrorist groups. Such is the result of Barack Obama's failed policy — which he so confidently announced would prove smarter
than his predecessor's mistakes in Iraq, only to be proved horribly wrong.
The Democrats'
Second Secession & America's New Civil War. [Scroll down] The left has created a term of art — "people of color" — to promote
its collectivist views on ethnicity and race. "People of color" is not grammatical English — we do not refer to "crayons of
color" or "televisions of color." It is a French construction, reflecting the way French people speak. "People of color" is an
invention of ideologues to serve an ideological purpose, which is to organize the world into the categories of cultural Marxism — into
oppressors and oppressed. [...] The whole world is people of color except white people — the designated oppressors.
The Left's Road Leads To
Manchester. I hadn't heard of Salman Abedi before he murdered all those little girls and their friends and family members at the
Ariana Grande concert, but when I recently spoke at Truman State University in Missouri, the University at Buffalo, and Gettysburg College, and
then at an event in Iceland, I discussed the belief system that incites people such as Salman Abedi to violence. I explored the ways in
which jihad terrorists use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and make recruits among peaceful Muslims, and the texts of the
Qur'an and Islamic law that call upon Muslims to wage war against those who do not believe in Islam. For this, the three universities and
the Icelandic press treated my presence in the country as if Josef Goebbels had stopped by for a visit.
What Happens
to an Economy When Forced to Use Renewable Energy? Some of America's most prominent politicians want national
mandates for renewable electricity. In addition, over the past seven months, three states — California, New
York, and Oregon — have instituted plans that will require utilities to produce 50 percent of the electricity that
they sell to customers from renewables. The politicians backing these measures claim that such mandates will help
reduce customers' bills and create jobs. Had these politicians considered the surge in electricity costs that have
occurred in Europe in recent years, they might have been less eager to push such mandates. Indeed, the three EU
countries that have been the most aggressive in pursuit of renewable energy — Germany, Spain, and the U.K. —
have all seen their electricity rates increase more than other EU countries. Further, Germany and the U.K. are seeing job
losses due to high energy prices.
It's a Coup!
Not a day goes by without an accusation by Democrats in search of a crime. When President Trump used an Executive Order
to initiate his travel ban from countries known to be hotbeds of Islamic terrorism, the Left used the courts to stop his ban
from taking effect. Although President Trump had the statutory authority to execute the ban pursuant to section 1182(f)
and 1185(a) of Title 8, they succeeded in halting the ban by filing their lawsuits in Federal District Court within the far
left 9th Circuit (the most overturned court in the country), dominated by Clinton and Obama appointed judges, well known for
its judicial activism and disregard of Constitutional principles. Consequently, Muslim refugees who cannot be vetted
for lack of documentation continue to stream onto our shores and increase the risk of terror attacks on the mainland.
Overdoses
and crime skyrocket at downtown library. [Denver]'s main library has become a centralized hub for crime and
drug abuse, resulting in significant spikes in emergency calls for overdoses, fights and sexual assaults, a 9Wants to Know
investigation found. A review of city records revealed that in the first four months of this year, emergency dispatchers
received 44 calls for overdoses at the Denver Public Library's central branch, located at 10 W. 14th Ave.
There were no such calls in that category during the same time frame last year.
Legalized
marijuana turns Colorado resort town into homeless magnet. From his sidewalk vantage point in front of an
outdoor equipment store in downtown Durango, Colo., Matthew Marinseck has seen a transformation in this mountain resort
town. The picturesque town near the New Mexico border, once a vibrant, upscale community dotted with luxury hotels, is
being overrun by panhandlers — thanks, in part, to the legalization of marijuana. The town suddenly became a
haven for recreational pot users, drawing in transients, panhandlers and a large number of homeless drug addicts, according
to officials and business owners. Many are coming from New Mexico, Arizona and even New York.
Sponsored
Links by Black and Muslim Women Are Invisible to the Feminist Movement. From its beginnings in the 1970s, the
feminist movement has been dominated by professional women. As a result, it has focused on sexual liberation and glass
ceilings while the majority of black and white women alike reject abortion on demand and favor traditional marriage.
This schism continues today: The Women's March on Washington excluded feminists who support abortion restrictions, and
subsequently, the Democratic leadership announced it would support only pro-choice candidates. In the movement's early
years, feminist activism on violence against women was roadblocked by black activists who feared it would be used as an
attack on black men. As a result, there was a virtual silence on the disproportionately high rates of domestic violence
experienced by black women.
Library brings drag queens,
kids together for story hour. It takes a certain something to be a good storyteller: enthusiasm, timing and a
flair for the dramatic. Performers at a children's story hour at a New York City library have all that and then
some — they're drag queens.
The Left
Might Be Literally Crazy. Given the tendencies of these people, it starts to become obvious why the country is
in the shape it's in (increasing national security threats, unemployment rate at 4.7% as of May 2016, underemployment rate at
13.7%, internal civil discord resembling the 1960s) after 8 years of their intellectual leader, Barack Obama. These
people exhibit not only bad leadership skills but their behavior is tinged with what appears to be clinical mania. They
are having a seriously hard time holding it together. So much so, that the election of a one-time reality TV star
begins to look sane and reasonable by comparison.
Minnesota
Dept of Health needs $5 million to fight infectious diseases in immigrant population. Hey, since many of the
refugees and other immigrants now causing expensive infectious diseases to spread in the state are a result of Obama's
migration policy, maybe he could contribute his $3 million speaking fee to Minnesota as a partial payment to handle the
crisis! Here is the latest news generated by the recent Measles epidemic in Minnesota. As of Tuesday there were
50 diagnosed cases, most (45) are in the 'Somali community.' And, we are told that refugees don't cost state and local
taxpayers a dime!
How
Leftism and the U.S. Government Corrupted American Art. In the last century, few crafts have changed as
radically as the visual arts. Painting and sculpture was transformed by a radical shift in style. Traditionalism
and aestheticism disappeared, replaced by abstract expressionism and postmodernity. But this didn't happen by accident,
or even organically: it was, at least in part, the deliberate product of social engineering. In 1947, the U.S. State
Department organised an international modern art exhibition titled, "Advancing American Art." The purpose was to disprove
Soviet claims that America was culturally inferior. One such Soviet claim was the phrase, "Загнивающий запад" which
meant, "rotting West" and was used to describe the moral and social decline of the United States in particular.
America's Islam Trance.
This inversion of Americans' traditional core values, which causes us, for example, to glorify and celebrate immorality,
perversion and mental illness (like troubled people amputating healthy body parts and pretending to be the opposite sex)
while reviling and punishing virtue (like the Christian county clerk jailed for conscientiously objecting to signing a
marriage license for two homosexuals) is the same inversion of values that inspires us to enthusiastically import into our
country as many people as possible who are steeped in a religious and political ideology dedicated to crushing our own. It's
as though we're living in a hypnotic trance, in a dream state, wherein we are moving in slow motion toward certain destruction.
What
Ever Happened to the Civil Rights Movement? If Obama saw in school-discipline data "evidence of black boys
being suspended at substantially higher rates than white boys for the same behavior," as he claimed while mandating fewer
suspensions, he obviously was not examining the numbers as clear-sightedly as City Journal's Heather Mac Donald.
No, the behavior is not the same. If black boys aged 14 through 17 commit murder at ten times the rate of Hispanic and
white boys combined, Mac Donald reasonably asks, is it likely that their classroom behavior is any less disproportionately
unruly? Since the Obama administration's anti-discipline edicts, student assaults on St. Paul, Minnesota,
teachers have tripled. Seattle, which, in compliance with administration diktats, has cut school expulsions by 77
percent from 2013 through 2016, now has seen several students murdered, plus an alleged gang rape. Teachers from Gotham
to Des Moines to Fresno are up in arms over Washington's anti-discipline push, which their unions say has produced classroom anarchy.
Baltimore
Has Become A Rotting, Decaying War Zone. It is hard to believe that Baltimore was once one of the greatest
cities in the entire world. Unlike nearby Washington D.C., Baltimore is a blue collar city that is home to some of the
hardest working people in America. When I was in high school, my brother and I were huge fans of the Baltimore Orioles,
and once in a while our parents would drive us from our home in Virginia all the way up to Baltimore to see them play.
As an adult, I spent a number of years living near D.C., and I would take frequent trips up to Baltimore. To say that
the city is in a state of decline would be a major understatement. Everywhere you look there are abandoned buildings
and homes, and as you drive through some of the worst areas you can actually see drug addicts just lying in the
streets. Just like so many other communities all over this country, decades of liberal policies have taken a brutal
toll, and now the city is just a rotting, decaying shell of the glorious metropolis that it once was.
You Gotta
Lie. Red/blue, conservative/liberal, and Republican/Democrat mark traditional American divides. But one fault line is not
so 50/50 — that of the contemporary hard progressive movement versus traditional politics, values, and customs. The entire menu of race,
class, and gender identity politics, lead-from-behind foreign policy, political correctness, and radical environmentalism so far have not
won over most Americans. Proof of that fact are the serial reliance of their supporters on deception, and the erosion of language on campus
and in politics and the media. The progressive movement requires both deceit and euphemism to mask its apparently unpopular agenda.
Darkness at the Heart of
Liberal Progressivism. The Constitution excluded mention of God, not because the Founders were irreligious, but quite to the contrary, they were
all members of various and sundry religious establishments, and wished to keep it that way. They reasonably feared that if the government were allowed
to define God, then religious freedom would be lost. This is why the Establishment clause of the First Amendment is balanced against the Free Exercise
clause. Both are necessary, not for the exclusion of religion, but for its protection. The Founders rightly insisted upon both principles.
Each of them protects the other. That history has been turned on its head. Liberal Progressives now interpret the Establishment clause so expansively
that, in their view, it crowds out Free Exercise so completely as to render it of no effect.
ALEC:
Mostly Democratic-run States Are A Total Disaster, Have The Worst Economies. The American Legislative Exchange
Council released their "Rich States, Poor States" report last week and shocker — mostly Democratic-run states are
a disaster concerning economic performance and competitiveness. ALEC included the top and bottom ten states in the
press release announcing the 10th edition of the report. NTK Network broke down who controls what in the respective
state legislatures of these low performing states as well.
The Greatest Threat to America Isn't
Islam — It's the Left. For more than a century, the left has waged a relentless jihad on the West. In the 19th century,
Karl Marx saw Christianity as the cultural carrier and defender of capitalism and launched an intentional attack on religion in general, and Christianity
in particular. He believed that, if Christian values could be undermined, it would be much easier to replace capitalism with utopian socialism.
As an articulate intellectual, Karl Marx attracted many academics to his cause, and gradually left-wing radicals took over western universities.
From this position of intellectual power, they were slowly able to poison the minds of most young people by feeding them lies that effectually turned them
into enemies of their own civilization. The left has been insidious in accomplishing this feat by subtly rewriting academic history textbooks.
The
Ugly Face of Socialism. Recall how so many entertainment elites flocked to Venezuela
when the tyrant and socialist dictator Hugo Chavez came to power. Folks like Sean Penn, Oliver
Stone, Harry Belafonte, and others celebrated and dreamed of this utopia. However, if these
individuals had taken the time to read and study political philosophy they would have realized that
socialism is rooted in five basic principles, tenets — wealth redistribution, nationalizing of
production, expansion of the welfare state, social egalitarianism, and secular humanism.
In my estimation, these are principles not to be admired but feared.
Glamorization
of Transsexual Derangement Ruins Young Lives. Gender confusion is normally temporary; the damage inflicted by hormone blockers is
not. Many chemically deformed children go on to receive horrific sex-change surgery. Unsurprisingly, the attempted suicide rate among
transgenders is not far short of 50% — and no, this is not due to "discrimination," liberal dogma notwithstanding.
The
American Dream Hinges on Family. The American family has undergone a dramatic transformation in the last 50 years. The number
of single parents in America has increased threefold since 1960. Nearly one-third of households are now headed by single parents, most of whom
are mothers, although the number of single fathers is on the rise.
Australia's
green delusions: A diesel in the shed. Today, after Aussies have enjoyed decades of abundant reliable cheap electricity from
coal, green energy gambling has taken Australia back to the era that kept a diesel in the shed. Tasmania is the greenest state in Australia.
It once had a vibrant economy that created mines, sawmills, farms, orchards, oil and metal refineries, dams, hydro-power, and railways. It is
now a green no-go land. Greens have stopped new hydro developments, opposed mining, crippled the timber industry, prevented new wood chip
developments, and will probably celebrate when the last refinery closes.
Could sodomy be to blame? Could promiscuity be to blame? Syphilis
surges in Philadelphia. Could mobile apps be to blame? Syphilis, on the rise across the United States for
more than a decade, surged in Philadelphia last year, a worrisome signal that yet-to-be reported national numbers might
reflect a similar pattern. Infections rose 36 percent in 2016, the Philadelphia Department of Public Health reported
Wednesday, driven largely by men who have sex with men. National numbers lag a year behind, but other big cities are
experiencing similar spikes, said Caroline Johnson, acting deputy commissioner, who oversees disease control. "It's
going on all over," she said.
State
of Modern Sports: Boy Identifies as Girl, Boy Competes as Girl, Boy Wins Everything. A high school in
Connecticut has accepted a new boy on their track team. Except, he won't be going to the boys track team, he'll be
going to the girls team. Andraya Yearwood, a freshman and biological male from Cromwell High School in Connecticut,
identifies as a girl and recently received permission to join the girls track team after competing as a boy in middle
school. Not surprisingly, Yearwood has been extremely successful as a male competing against females.
Animal
Rights Radicals Wreck Ringling Brothers Circus. By ending the elephants in the show in 2016, Feld Entertainment abandoned the
signature Ringling Brothers act. Whenever the circus train rolled into a town in the 20th century, the elephants would parade from the
railyard to the venue. Some towns would shut down entirely, and thousands would line the streets for the Ringling elephant parade.
After the elephants left the show last year, so did many customers. Ringling Brothers without elephants is like the Indianapolis 500
without cars.
Forcing
Political Correctness On Employees And Characters Is Killing Marvel Comics. [Scroll down] Over a period of two weeks, I dug through the Twitter
accounts of every current Marvel writer listed on marvel.com's new releases page, to see where they stood on politics. What I found would have
been shocking, if I hadn't already seen the extreme left-wing preaching posing as superhero adventures from their products. Even with that, the
sheer lockstep and groupthink that these social media profiles display is unthinkable. Out of 30 writers, every single one made bitter posts
attacking President Trump and conservatives. There were no dissenters. Not one had a difference of opinion, not one even saw
the sense in refraining from posting about politics.
Why
Do Leftists Hate America? Leftists put untested illegals in public schools, infecting our kids with old
eradicated diseases. Leftists advocate totally opening our borders to any and all who wish to come here to get on
welfare. Leftists celebrate extreme environmental restrictions on America while giving the world a pass. Leftists
approved of Obama gifting Iran, our enemy and a chief sponsor of terrorism, $150 billion. Anything beneficial to
America or that portrays America in a good light is despised and shouted down by leftists.
A
Federal Court Rewrites the Civil Rights Act. At what point do we declare that the judiciary is facing a credibility crisis? When do we
finally decide that laws passed by Congress have no meaning and that judges are able to rewrite them at will, often using the most laughably specious
reasoning? Yesterday [4/4/2017], the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals unilaterally revised that the Civil Rights Act's ban on employment discrimination
on the basis of "race, color, religion, sex, or national origin" so that it now includes a ban on sexual-orientation discrimination as well. Never mind
the actual words on the page. Never mind the common meaning of the words then or now. All that matters is the right result — the triumph of the
social-justice "super clause" that is hidden in every law, regulation, or constitutional provision.
Obergefell's
Toxic Judicial Legacy. The cultural, legal, and political consequences of establishing a right to same-sex
marriage have dominated discussions regarding Justice Kennedy's Obergefell decision. Will religious institutions
that oppose same-sex marriage lose their tax-exempt status? What will happen to vendors whose consciences prohibit them
from participating in same-sex weddings? How and when will schools address same-sex marriage? Those consequences
are important and merit serious discussion. However, another aspect of the case — Justice Kennedy's
instructions regarding judges' authority to create new "rights" — will prove equally important in the long
run. In Obergefell, Justice Kennedy did far more than merely discover a constitutional right to same-sex
marriage. He wrote that judges have an ongoing "duty" to identify and protect new "fundamental rights." He
maintained that judges should institute new rights whenever their "reasoned judgment" suggests that it is appropriate
to do so.
Socialist indoctrination in the public schools is paying off: Poll:
Most young people say gov't should pay for health care. A GenForward poll says a majority of people ages 18 to
30 think the federal government should be responsible for making sure Americans have health insurance. [...] The most popular
element of the law is allowing young adults to stay on their parents' insurance until age 26, which is favored by 75 percent
of 18-30 year olds.
Gender
Educator: It's Offensive to Ask Pregnant Women Whether They're Having a Boy or Girl. A gender
educator-turned-blogger is aghast that people would dare ask pregnant women about their baby's gender. Writing on the
progressive parenting website Romper, Reaca Pearl bemoans how even strangers are nosy about her pregnancy. That's a
common enough complaint, but the gender question especially sticks in her craw. She doesn't just consider it just
obnoxious; it's "actually a hurtful, damaging question," as well as an "archaic and misogynist" one, she writes.
The Editor says...
Why does the world need "gender educators," and how does one make a living as such?
Self-Busting Myths. The
American Left's myth-making and invention of useful narratives starting in the middle of the 20th century and running to
about 2010 will go down as one of the more successful efforts at shaping culture, both political and otherwise, in human
history. Controlling the discussion, amid abject failure in government, education, and business (Detroit, for example,
or Solyndra, or what they've done to Yale or the motion picture industry), has been a feat defying proper explanation.
They're to be congratulated for their skill in masking, if not weaponizing, their failure through narrative. Democrats
can't run an inner city? Accuse everyone else of racism — including the middle class, white and black, who run
screaming to the suburbs to escape the failing public schools, rampant crime, cratering infrastructure, and naked
corruption. Can't compete in business? Inflate a "green energy" bubble by concocting the global warming crisis
and demonizing fossil fuels as bringing on the apocalypse — and then pump billions of taxpayer dollars into absurdly
unsustainable business models manufactured by major political donors as little more than payoffs.
Santa
Claus to appear as gay black man in new children's book. Santa Claus will be depicted in a forthcoming children's book as a
gay black man in an interracial relationship, its publisher confirmed. Harper Design said the picture book, "Santa's Husband," will
go on sale Oct. 10 just in time for Christmas, Time reported Tuesday [3/28/2017]. The book will tell "the true story of a Black
Santa and his White husband (who often fills in for him at malls)," according to a preview shared on Twitter this week by its author,
Daniel Kibblesmith.
People
are fleeing New York at an alarming rate. More people are leaving the New York region than any other major
metropolitan area in the country. More than 1 million people moved out of the New York area to other parts of the
country since 2010, a rate of 4.4 percent — the highest negative net migration rate among the nation's large
population centers, US Census records show.
These
are the 30 posh hotels where NYC places its homeless. The city has used 30 Manhattan hotels to house the
homeless, including the iconic New Yorker, the upscale Excelsior and the tourist-friendly The Manhattan at Times
Square. The city's use of Manhattan hotels shot up 58 percent in the last year as bookings expanded from the outer
boroughs to prime tourist destinations in Midtown and Soho. And the homeless lodging has reached beyond fleabag
flophouses to boutique hotels and brand names sought by visitors who don't necessarily want to mingle with the down-and-out.
"We rode the elevator up to our room with homeless people who were barefoot," one guest at the Art Deco New Yorker hotel
griped on the site Trip Advisor in August.
Berkeley
killing renews debate over gender pronouns. Pablo Gomez Jr. was a University of California, Berkeley, senior
majoring in Latino studies and a prominent campus activist when authorities say he stabbed to death a popular elementary-school
teacher. Soon, the crime that police described as "very brutal and unusual" in a city that reported just two homicides
last year was sucked up into the debate over gender identity when it was reported that Gomez preferred to be called "they"
rather than "he."
Bumblebee
Halts SW Metro Road Project. The Rusty Patched Bumblebee was just put on the endangered species list.
Experts say their numbers have been dropping over the years. And that decision has halted work on a busy stretch of
Flying Cloud Drive near Highway 101 in Eden Prairie and Chanhassen. Project managers said that while the bee hasn't
been spotted in the work area, the lay of the land makes it prime habitat for the pollinator.
The Civil War
Is Here. This civil war is very different than the last one. There are no cannons or cavalry charges.
The left doesn't want to secede. It wants to rule. Political conflicts become civil wars when one side refuses to
accept the existing authority. The left has rejected all forms of authority that it doesn't control. The left has
rejected the outcome of the last two presidential elections won by Republicans. It has rejected the judicial authority of
the Supreme Court when it decisions don't accord with its agenda. It rejects the legislative authority of Congress when
it is not dominated by the left. It rejected the Constitution so long ago that it hardly bears mentioning. It was for
total unilateral executive authority under Obama. And now it's for states unilaterally deciding what laws they will follow.
Judge
OK's Petition for America's First 'Genderless' Person. A Portland student has become the first American to gain
legal designation as "genderless", following a ruling by a Multnomah County judge. The March 10 decision, reported for
the first time on Thursday, involved a 27-year-old who was born male but claimed to identify with no gender whatsoever.
Judge Amy Holmes, who approved the petition, also last year approved a "non-binary" gender designation for another Portland resident.
What
does it take to be a librarian in San Francisco? 1) You have to know how to shelve books. 2) You have to know
how to check out books. and 3) You have to know how to inject heroin addicts with anti-narcotics drugs.
Today's Riot-Prone Mobs
Are A Product Of America's Cult-Like Education System. Today's street theater is the culmination of decades of radical education revision.
The radical Left's systematic attack on the study of Western Civilization has essentially been an attack against the study of any and all civil societies.
It is an attack on the features that make a society civil and free. Those features include freedom of expression, civil discourse, the Socratic method of
figuring out truth, value of the individual, and a common knowledge of the classics of history and literature that help us understand what's universal in the
human experience. All of that had to go. Now, as we see students marching to demonize as "fascists" proponents of free speech, their ignorance is
in full view. This is really a full frontal attack on the rule of law, the Constitution, and a system of checks and balances that guards against the
consolidation of centralized power. That's the whole point of the education these students have been fed.
Transgenderism and
Cancer: Every cell in the human body has a sexual fingerprint in the sex chromosome (allosome) pairs. The born
male has a XY pair. The born female an XX. These chromosomes do serve a function beyond mere reproduction. [...] Protein
synthesis, so necessary for life, is controlled by these chromosomes. We would be foolish not to conjecture that Y chromosomes
were not designed to act properly in cell floating in a bath of female hormones; neither an XX pair in cell floating under a bath
of male hormones. Since these hormones might conceivably cause cells to go awry in protein production, as well as in cell
reproduction, we should not be surprised to see unusual problems of transgenders with cancers. Add in that transgenders, even
after surgery, will retain residue tissue unique to one gender, and noting that those specific tissues will be subjected to hormone
levels they were not designed to process, and the possible outcomes become frightening.
After
School Satan Club' Gets Tax Exempt Status in 10 Days. The Internal Revenue Service granted an "After School
Satan Club" their tax exempt status. The approval process for the group's non-profit status took only 10 days,
according to records obtained by Judicial Watch on Friday [3/17/2017]. The satanic club was started by Reason Alliance, a
Somerville, Mass. based non-profit organization that operates the Satanic Temple of Seattle. The director of Reason
Alliance, Lilith X. Starr, founded the club at Point Defiance Elementary in Tacoma, Wash. The Point Defiance Elementary
Satanic club is run by adults that have been cleared by the "Executive Ministry" of the Seattle Satanic Temple. The group is
focused on children from 5-12 and is intended to develop character, problem solving, critical reasoning, and other qualities.
How
did Illinois finances get this bad? It wasn't by Chance. I don't have the space to write a comprehensive
history, but Illinois' troubles began over 100 years ago. A 1917 study concluded that state pension systems were
essentially insolvent. Instead of fixing the problem, the government allowed it to fester. More than 50 years
later, delegates to the state's constitutional convention were so alarmed that they borrowed a scare tactic from New York:
Lock in promised pension benefits with an ironclad lifetime guarantee to force the state's leaders to finally put a lid on costs and
provide enough money to sustain the pension funds. It didn't work. Benefits kept being added, funding kept being
shorted. Meanwhile, our courts decided that another new constitutional provision declaring the state had the "primary
responsibility" for funding education didn't mean the state was actually required to provide over half of all funding. The
state's share plummeted while local property taxes rose, and rose, and rose, putting the squeeze on homeowners and businesses alike.
Another
American City Destroyed by the Democrats. [As Peter Collier] points out, the vast majority of America's voiceless, powerless,
and impoverished people are concentrated in cities that have been run exclusively by Democrats for decades — even generations —
without interruption. These are cities where stratospheric rates of crime, poverty, unemployment, out-of-wedlock births, homes without fathers
and failed school systems have become a way of life — along with oppressive and confiscatory taxes whose only discernible achievement is to
keep the leaky ship of city government afloat for as long as possible before it is inevitably capsized by economic and social calamity.
Minneapolis, Minnesota is perhaps the least likely case in point. Camouflaged by the state as a whole, a synonym for plainspoken stability,
it is just one of the many American cities that were once thriving centers of industry, prosperity and optimism — until Democrats
took them over.
Judge gives
custody of child to 1 dad and 2 moms. An unconventional family produced a child before becoming tangled in a
lengthy custody battle that ended last week when a New York judge awarded shared custody of the boy to his dad and two
mothers. The boy in the case is the biological child of a man and one of his neighbors. Both the man and his
wife had a longstanding, intimate relationship with the birth mother, according to court documents.
Parents, quit caring
more about the White House than your own house. Right now in America our greatest strength and weakness is the family unit.
What happens in the American cornerstone, our house, will be the foremost factor that determines our nation's ascent or decline. Divorce
rates hover around 50 percent. The United States pornography industry brings in more money than the NFL, NBA and MLB combined and has
infiltrated the institution of marriage, morality and adolescent minds. Children raised in single-parent homes are on the rise. Many
of our inner cities are becoming the dens of crime due to lack of discipline and leadership from parents. Absentee fathers are the norm.
Disregard for law and public servants is not only commonplace but also celebrated. Racism, on both sides of the fence, has become rampant.
Twitter
Photo of Drag Queen and Niqab-Wearing Muslim Woman Hailed by Liberals as 'What We Want'. A photo has been
making the rounds of gay-left-twitter this week that is being praised as perfectly encapsulating "what liberals want" and I
agree 100% with that claim, though it doesn't prove the same point the liberals think it proves. The photo was taken of
two riders on a New York subway car, one a drag queen in full glam and the other a Muslim woman hidden behind a full niqab,
only her eyes seen behind the slit in her head covering. The caption of the Tweet reads, "This is the future that
liberals want."
40% of households in Philadelphia
can't pay their water bill. America is in the midst of an "invisible water crisis" as the post-war water
infrastructure reaches the end of its duty-cycle and cash-strapped public utilities struggle to find the money to rebuild
it. In cities like Philadelphia, Atlanta, Seattle, and Detroit, families increasingly find themselves in water debt,
and in Detroit, 50,000 households have had their running water cut off because of delinquency. The estimated bill for
upgrading the end-of-lifed American urban water infrastructure is $1 trillion. Cities that have tried privatization
as a means of pushing the bill onto investors have been shocked by the bills: in Atlanta, the private water provider
charges $325.52 a month, which only qualifies as "affordable" if your household income tops $87K.
United
Nations Pushes "HeforShe" Dolls for Boys. There certainly have to be some intermediate steps between your son's
birth and his ingestion of puberty-blocking drugs and subsequent "gender-reassignment surgery," and the United Nations is on
the case. It has joined forces with a new company to push dolls for boys so your child can get in touch with his "feminine
side." Writes PR Newswire, "HeForShe, UN Women's global solidarity movement for gender equality has teamed up with
start-up company ... Boy Story to launch two special edition action dolls named Billy and Mason. The action dolls challenges
[sic] current prejudice surrounding boys playing with dolls, and promotes the notion that both boys and girls should have the
same opportunity to bond with a special playmate, and that all children, regardless of their gender, need to learn nurturing,
emotional intelligence, and empathy."
Air
Force says words like 'boy' and 'girl' could be offensive. The Air Force fears that words like boy, girl,
colonial and blacklist might offend people, according to an email sent to Airmen at Joint Base San Antonio. An outraged
Airman sent me a copy of the email — as evidence the military is still infected with Obama-era political
correctness. The email included an attachment that listed a number of words and phrases that might be construed as
offensive. Now, to be fair there were some legitimately offensive and racially charged words and phrases on the
list. But also included on the list were the words boy and girl.
School
changes name of 'Father-Daughter' dance to be more inclusive. It's wasn't until recently the PTA president
heard concerns the Crocker/Riverside Elementary School's Father-Daughter Dance and Mother-Son Hike aren't traditions everyone
cherishes. "We got a request from a couple parents to be more inclusive and change the name," said Kuske. The
school now wants to redefine the PTA fundraising events. The Father-Daughter dance will be promoted as a family dance.
How
the Media Create the Culture. In the February 2017 issue of Family Circle, the advertisement right after
opening the cover of the magazine shows two interracial men resting together on a couch. One sports a tattoo on his arm
and they are in a home setting with the words "All homes are created equal." The advertisement comes from IKEA and, clearly,
the ad is about much more than the listed $399 price tag for the Hennes glass-door-cabinet. It involves the acceptance
of tattoos, a wholehearted acceptance of gay relationships, the distinct possibility of a same-sex marital status, the
importance of saving the environment through sustainability, making dreams come true in all arenas of life, and, ultimately,
love and affection.
Coca-Cola serves up
gay-friendly ad for all genders, generations. Soft drinks maker Coca-Cola Co has launched a gay-friendly ad
featuring a brother and sister vying for the attention of a handsome pool boy in the campaign that has won praise for
diversity and inclusion. "Sibling rivalry never looked more inclusive," Out Magazine said of the commercial that
debuted last week. Marketing Week also approved. While gay-themed movies and television shows are commonplace,
advertising has been slower to embrace same-sex couples, especially among marquee brands.
The Left's Romance
with Violence. Modern liberal culture has built an educational system politicizing every study of nature and
human value, a system of intellectual slavery that is good only for the master. The system binds generations of
students to an ideological post; and their ability to reason effectively extends no further than the length of their chains,
for their instruction is the only truth they need to know. It is the same for every cultish belief, whether religious
or secular, and followers of the liberal faith exhibit their knowledge of that "truth" by memorizing and repeating the
catechism in the protected spaces of university campuses and social media ghettos where no one may question his received wisdom.
Deployed
US Navy Has A Pregnancy Problem, And It's Getting Worse. A record 16 out of 100 Navy women are reassigned from
ships to shore duty due to pregnancy, according to data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by The Daily Caller
News Foundation's Investigative Group. That number is up 2 percent from 2015, representing hundreds more who have to
cut their deployments short, taxing both their unit's manpower, military budgets and combat readiness. Further, such
increases cast a shadow over the lofty gender integration goals set by former President Barack Obama. Overall, women
unexpectedly leave their stations on Navy ships as much as 50% more frequently to return to land duty, according to documents
obtained from the Navy.
Socialism Revisited.
[Scroll down] I do not think Venezuela has an immigration problem. It is a modern demonstration of what happens
in a socialist country when the coffers eventually run dry, when the lower middle classes can no longer be milked. That
and huge oil reserves to boot. How long before the coffers run dry in Sweden? Whilst the right kind of immigrant
can bring financial benefits, the wrong kind can be a financial disaster. The religious (all are equal) side of
socialism cannot see the difference of course, and justifies the bringing in of financial parasites by quoting historical
data about bona fide immigrants.
I
Told You Testosterone Would Make Women's Sports More Interesting. As has been widely reported recently, a
female wrestler in Texas — Mack Beggs — has won the state championship in her division largely due to
the fact that she has a significant competitive advantage: she's taking steroids (testosterone). Once upon a time, such
behavior was widely considered cheating. In fact, some of the biggest scandals in sports history involve behavior virtually
identical to that of Mack Beggs. (Alex Rodriguez took testosterone.) In fact, due to the widespread problem of "doping"
(taking performance-enhancing drugs) in the world of athletics, in 1999, the World Anti-Doping Agency was created. Clearly
(and always) on the list of banned substances: testosterone. In spite of being an endogenous (naturally occurring)
anabolic androgenic (promotes male characteristics) steroid, testosterone use among athletes is prohibited if administered from
outside the body.
Philly's
soda tax is crushing the city's beverage business. If you live in Philadelphia, that bloated feeling you get
from consuming carbonated beverages may be coming from the soda price itself. Last summer, the city passed a Bloomberg-esque
1.5 cent per ounce tax on soda and other sweetened and diet beverages, a move opposed by beverage distributors and
retailers. Since this tax has gone into effect on Jan. 1, consumption of the sweet drinks is off by as much as
50 percent, according to retailers, and companies involved in getting these drinks to consumers are reporting huge
losses and announcing layoffs.
Soda
companies, supermarkets report 30-50 pct. sales drop from soda tax. Two months into the city's sweetened-beverage tax, supermarkets and
distributors are reporting a 30 percent to 50 percent drop in beverage sales and are planning for layoffs. One of the city's largest
distributors says it will cut 20 percent of its workforce in March, and an owner of six ShopRite stores in Philadelphia says he expects to shed
300 workers this spring. "People are seeing sales decline larger than anything they've seen up to this point in the city," said Alex Baloga,
vice president of external relations at the Pennsylvania Food Merchants Association.
This
Is How Free Speech Slowly Dies. [Scroll down] The result is a world like many Americans live in today,
where they keep their mouths shut at work, they keep a tight rein on their social-media feeds, and they confine their true
opinions to the most private forms of communication. This culture isn't everywhere, of course, but ask conservative
employees in entire areas of public- and private-sector employment if they're as free to speak as their progressive
colleagues, and the answer is a resounding "No." How free are they to disagree with their diversity trainer? Can they
argue against same-sex marriage with the same vehemence that their colleagues ask for "marriage equality"? Are they as free
to discuss, say, the border wall or Trump's executive order on immigration as their progressive friends? One thing I can say
for certain, I have conservative friends who are afraid to test the proposition. They have mortgages to pay.
Billionaire
Pritzker Tells Men to Use Women's Bathrooms to Protest Trump. A billionaire Democratic megadonor, who is
exploring a run for governor, encouraged men to use women's bathrooms on Wednesday sparking criticism from transgender
advocates and politicians. J.B. Pritzker, the billionaire heir whose father co-founded Hyatt hotels, floated the idea
of switching bathrooms in the wake of President Donald Trump's executive order reversing an Obama policy that could have stripped
federal funds from schools that maintain separate bathroom facilities based on sex.
Venezuelans
Now On A Forced Starvation Diet — Thanks, Socialism! A new study of Venezuela's stunning decline
under Hugo Chavez's socialist model, still followed faithfully by his lap dog successor, Nicolas Maduro, reports that the
average Venezuelan lost 19 pounds in the last year. Today, the 2016 Living Conditions Survey finds, 32.5% of
Venezuelans eat only once or twice a day, up from 11.3% just one year ago. And 93.3% of all people don't earn enough
to buy sufficient food.
Oregon's
Euthanasia Bill Is Intentionally Ambiguous. Oregon, which in 1997 became the first state in the U.S. to legalize assisted suicide, is considering
tweaking the laws surrounding advance directives, the legal documents by means of which a person can dictate ahead of time his desires for end-of-life care.
The innocuous-seeming changes that Senate Bill 494 proposes would permit the state to starve certain patients to death. Under current state law,
"artificially administered nutrition and hydration" — intravenous feeding by tubes — does not include food administered normally: "by cup, hand, bottle,
drinking straw or eating utensil." The latter category, unlike the former, is considered part of the basic provision of care required for the sick, and
required by law as long as the patient is mentally incompetent to say otherwise.
Publishers
now hiring 'sensitivity readers' to ensure political correctness. If you ever worried about what the student snowflakes at
American universities would be qualified to do after graduation, this is the perfect job for them. Publishers are hiring
"sensitivity readers" to check book manuscripts to make sure they adhere to politically correct standards.
Democrats'
Real Global Warming Fraud Revealed.
• Europe overpays for Russian gas, and so is burning more coal than ever. London's new smog is created by burning wood
pellets instead of natural gas, because gas prices have tripled to pay "renewable" subsidies.
• South Australia has suffered five recent electrical black-outs because it closed its last coal-fired power plant. (Their wind
turbines don't turn when the wind dies.) One blackout caused $1 billion in losses; molten steel hardened in the suddenly-dead furnaces.
• Millions of Third World women die from tending open fires in their huts, for lack of kerosene or electricity. Their
governments are denied financing for urgently needed coal-fired power plants when the world has ample coal.
Freedom or Football? The
National Football League has officially put the State of Texas on notice: if that state persists in denying men with peculiar sexual proclivities
access to public rooms full of young girls with their pants down, then Texas may be denied the privilege of hosting any more Super Bowls. To
be precise, as you probably know, Texas lawmakers are proposing a law similar to North Carolina's, restricting access to public bathrooms and
changing rooms to people of the actual biological sex for which those facilities were designed. [...] Why is this controversial? Because
it is "inconsistent with [the NFL's] values." Really? And when was this great table of NFL values etched in stone? Would the
NFL have taken up this issue as a matter of principle at any time prior to, say, five years ago?
Today's
Riot-Prone Mobs Are A Product Of America's Cult-Like Education System. Today's street theater is the
culmination of decades of radical education revision. The radical Left's systematic attack on the study of Western
Civilization has essentially been an attack against the study of any and all civil societies. It is an attack on the
features that make a society civil and free. Those features include freedom of expression, civil discourse, the
Socratic method of figuring out truth, value of the individual, and a common knowledge of the classics of history and
literature that help us understand what's universal in the human experience. All of that had to go. Now, as
we see students marching to demonize as "fascists" proponents of free speech, their ignorance is in full view.
Rescind
the Executive Order — And Replace It With Many Tougher Ones. The president cannot lose here. We must protect our
borders; keep out the terrorists and rein in out-of-control immigration. It is the signal issue that got him elected. It is also the
signal action needed to save this country from the Left's malevolent intentions. The Left is attempting to subvert our country by simply
replacing its population with a more malleable, sympathetic one. Unlike the immigrants of yesteryear, today's are largely illiterate,
welfare-dependent, unwilling to learn our language and definitely hostile to American culture and traditions. And while they are in many cases
fleeing conditions created by their countries' socialist policies, they nonetheless bring socialist ideas with them. As our country has become
more "multi-cultural", it has drifted ever leftward.
California
Goes Confederate. "Calexit" supporters brag that they will have enough signatures to qualify for a ballot measure calling for California's secession
from the United States. [...] [California] hosts the largest numbers of impoverished and the greatest number of rich people of any state in the country. Eager
for cheap service labor, California has welcomed in nearly a quarter of the nation's undocumented immigrants. California has more residents living in poverty
than any other state. It is home to one third of all the nation's welfare recipients. The income of California's wealthy seems to make them immune from
the effects of the highest basket of sales, income, and gas taxes in the nation. The poor look to subsidies and social services to get by. Over the last
30 years, California's middle classes have increasingly fled the state.
Sanitation
Crews Search for Dead Bodies Amid Piles of Pipeline Protester Trash. Authorities in North Dakota are working to
prevent an environmental catastrophe caused by the massive amounts of trash left behind by anti-oil pipeline protesters,
local media report. State and tribal sanitation crews are rushing to remove piles of waste and debris left over from
the protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline before weather warms and the mountains of trash turn toxic. According
to cleaning crews, they're worried they might even find dead bodies among the piles of refuse that now pollute areas where
anti-pipeline protesters camped out for months.
De
Blasio's carefree spending is coming back to bite him — and NYC. Since becoming mayor, he has grown
the budget 18 percent (i.e., more than three times inflation) — handing out fat pay hikes to the municipal unions
and taking the head count of city employees to an all-time high. He's been able to do that only because a robust local
economy has thrown off enough tax revenue to keep City Hall afloat. Those days may now be over.
Philadelphia
Goes Over the Tax Cliff. Starting January 1st, Philadelphia implemented the first ever tax on all sweetened beverages, including those
sweetened with artificial sweeteners. The $0.015 tax is being levied on distributors of these beverages, even if the distributor is outside the
city of Philadelphia. [...] To put this in context, if you buy a 12 pack of 12-ounce sodas you will be paying an additional $2.16 for the
privilege — even if it's diet soda and contains no sugar. Most of these beverages have an additional Pennsylvania Sales Tax of 6%. If
you are lucky enough to find a 12 pack of soda on sale for $3.00, your total cost will be $5.34. Protein shakes which many seniors on
fixed incomes drink to supplement their diet also contain sugar and will include this onerous tax.
The
Left Holds Itself to Lower Standards of Behavior. The nation's most dangerous big cities in 2012 were Detroit,
Oakland, St. Louis, Memphis, Stockton, Birmingham, Baltimore, Cleveland, Atlanta, and Milwaukee. The most common
characteristic of these cities is that for decades, all of them have been run by Democratic and presumably liberal
administrations. Some cities — such as Detroit, Buffalo, Newark, and Philadelphia — haven't
elected a Republican mayor for more than a half-century. It's not just personal safety. These Democratic-controlled
cities have the poorest-quality public education despite the fact that they have large and growing school budgets.
California
Democrats propose adding third, nonbinary gender option for driver's licenses and other official documents.
California driver's licenses and birth certificates could have a third option for gender in addition to male or female under
legislation unveiled Thursday [1/26/2017] by Democratic lawmakers. The bill by state Sens. Toni Atkins (D-San
Diego) and Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) would establish a new nonbinary gender marker for official state documents.
Lawmakers framed the measure as an expansion of rights for transgender, intersex and other people who do not identify as male
or female.
Godless, hateful, and poorly educated simpletons have limited vocabularies and must express themselves with profanity. Study: New Jersey curses a lot.
Ah the Garden State. Where four-letter words flow like the cheese on a ripper at Rutt's Hut. No one curses quite
like a New Jerseyan. In many ways cursing is New Jersey, like Springsteen or full-service gas. In fact, a study out of
the Netherlands looked at Facebook convos and asked hundreds of people how often they curse. New Jerseyans have the some of the
highest cursing rates in the nation, second only to Delaware, according to researchers.
Deprogramming Snowflakes
During Trump. Somewhere along the line, most of us learn that if we do not behave as law-abiding citizens, the
court system will intervene. Failing that, thieves or other criminals continue to have an overwhelming sense of
entitlement, and often, but not always, end up in jail. But to many, as long as they are following the law, the old
tried and true method of whining to others for their capricious wants is still the way to go. To make things even more
complicated for the spoiled brat, they may not have any means of determining right from wrong beyond Hollywood themes, or
whatever is convenient for them. Whether or not the young person becomes a functioning law-abiding citizen, they may
have never been taught any spiritual responsibility through religious guidance. Consequently, they are left with the
Godless public education worldview of Darwinian survival of the fittest, and go off to journalism school to supposedly become
an objective news reporter; so they can change the world to fit their own opinions. The whining model of procurement,
when applied to politics, is manifest in liberalism, and have-not community organization. Their socialist sense of
entitlement tells the liberal they have a right to dip into whoever's wallet that is necessary for "equality".
Transgender
man tries to join a sorority at Northwestern. As a transgender freshman trying to find his place at
Northwestern University, Adam Davies thought joining a sorority would make his transition to college life a smoother
one. But the 18-year-old Wisconsin native — who said he was drawn to Greek life values of friendship,
service and leadership — found out this month that he didn't get a bid from any sorority at the private university
in Evanston, Ill., the Chicago Tribune reports.
Presidential
protestors don't understand America. It's time that Americans demand that their schools once again teach
American history (so students know that the popular vote winner does not always win the presidential election), American
government (so they know we are a republic and not a democracy), the Constitution (so they understand our bicameral federal
and election system), and absolute truth (that personal opinion must submit to truth and reality). If we don't make these
changes, we will not want to imagine, much less experience, the horrifying results from Abraham Lincoln's warning that "the
philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next."
Obama's
last press conference: What a victory lap. What a mess. Obama leaves office as an unrepentant progressive, unapologetic for
much of anything, from unprecedented domestic divisions and disrespect for law enforcement to a shattered foreign policy, adversaries and allies
doubting us. From his decision to reject Israel at the United Nations to glibly upending traditional family values, from politicizing the Justice
Department to commuting a 35-year sentence for treason, the president sees not what he has wrought. This is why his Party has sent packing,
why they have shed more than 1000 combined legislative, gubernatorial and congressional seats since Obama took office.
Before
and After Obama: 10 Signs of a Diminished America. No amount of Democrat spin can conceal the breathtaking disaster of ObamaCare, which
spent $2 trillion to achieve the goose egg of net improvement in Gallup's poll. Remember when the liars who foisted the Affordable Care
Act on us claimed it would be revenue-neutral? The same Democrats who spent the past six years resolutely ignoring the victims of ObamaCare — the
millions who lost good health care plans, paid wildly inflated premiums and deductibles, or paid a hefty tax for the privilege of not buying a lousy
product they didn't want — will now line up human shields and scream about how they'll lose coverage under any repeal plan. Never has a more
callous group of people pretended to be "compassionate" less convincingly. ObamaCare is imploding, with so many insurers fleeing its mismanaged
markets that many Americans are dealing with functional monopolies. Nothing close to this desperate situation existed before Obama seized control
of the health insurance industry.
Saul Alinsky Leaves the White
House. The very day after Obama was elected in 2008, I predicted in this space that his team would steal the
Senate by hook and crook (see: Al Franken); nuke the filibuster at least for judicial nominees; liberalize voting laws
(or enforcement thereof) to make fraud easier while charging opponents with "vote suppression"; drum up spurious allegations
of civil rights violations; punish anti-abortion protesters; enact "copious new regulations, especially environmental, to be used
selectively to ensnare other conservative malcontents"; invasively use the IRS to harass conservative organizations; and tacitly
encourage civil unrest in furtherance of Obamite goals. All those predictions of course came true.
You'll
never guess which political party leads in poverty and crime. I'd be more a lot more snarky if the human toll
wasn't so devastating. The sad fact remains: progressives don't get it and never will. Their policies are based
on emotion, not facts. Feelings, not human experience. Their policies are those of a cult, not a real political party.
Why Term-Limiting
People Like John Lewis Would be Good for the Nation. John Lewis has been a Representative for Georgia's 5th
district for 28 years. The 5th district of Georgia, which is mostly the city of Atlanta, has seen 5,203 commissions of
violent crime in 2015, with 94 murders, 170 rapes, almost 2,000 robberies, almost 3,000 aggravated assaults and 25,556 total
property crimes according to the FBI. Trump is right, Atlanta is crime-ridden. But not only is Atlanta a pretty
dangerous city, it has become more dangerous since it has become a major drug-trafficking hub for Mexican drug cartels.
Want
to Know Why Trump Won? Just Ask His Supporters. [Scroll down] Half of Buffalo has moved out of the city since the 1950s? A wave
of suicide is decimating middle-aged white men? Meth has taken over life in a small Wisconsin river town? Divorced veterans are
languishing in soup kitchens and homeless shelters across Tennessee? Political correctness has no answers to these problems. In
fact, P.C. forbids answers to those problems, because acknowledging them as problems would take away from the focus on "hate." Only
"hate" matters, and none of those tribulations can be credibly attributed to hate.
Look at these mugs!. Only
twenty-four hours left in which to tell us how many gallons of water per minute the shower in our bathroom at home can pump, tell us what our
eight-year-old can and cannot learn in third grade, who is allowed in what women's or men's room, the food our child has to eat for lunch, what
doctor we can use, what religious conviction will be tolerated, and how many aliens will be dumped in our town square whom we have to pay for.
Dear
Liberals: Here Is Some Magnanimous Advice. [Scroll down] Do you notice the common denominator of
these three groups? All three are, or have been, the little darlings of the left. Follow us, the left said to the
workers, and we will bring you justice. Follow us, the left said to African Americans, and we will defeat racism.
Follow us, the left said to women, and we will defeat sexism and the patriarchy. And liberals and lefties have been
doing nothing but protesting and marching and legislating on these three fronts for the last 150 years. So why are
your little darlings so demoralized, liberals? Why is the working-class dying of despair despite your welfare state?
Why are blacks killing cops and burning cities again, 50 years after the Civil Rights Acts? Why are women suffering
sexual harassment on campus and huddling in safe spaces fifty years after the sexual revolution?
War
of Words. Obituaries used to employ the euphemism "longtime companion"; now they regularly say "partner." [...]
As I've mentioned in these pages before, I grew up in one of the most politically correct places in America, Ann Arbor,
Mich. — and at a very, very politically correct time. This was a time when people were (seriously) saying
"person-hole cover," instead of "manhole cover." We got to replacing "man" with "person" automatically.
The
American Indian Word for Woman Now Deemed "Offensive". You may remember the term "squaw". It's the
Narragansett (American Indian) word for "woman" dating back to at least the 17th century. Algonquian dialects
also employed the word. But now, your PC betters have deemed the term Offensive.
Why pay high ticket prices to see a circus with no elephants? Ringling
Bros. circus plans to shut down 'Greatest Show on Earth' after 146 years. After 146 years, the curtain is coming down on "The
Greatest Show on Earth." The owner of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus told The Associated Press that the show will close
forever in May.
Famed Ringling
Bros. circus closing. The Ringling Bros. circus is closing down after more than 100 years in operation,
according to a press release from Feld Entertainment, which has owned the circus for the last 50 years. "I have made
the difficult business decision that Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey® will hold its final performances in May of this
year," CEO Kenneth Feld said. High operating costs and the decline of ticket sales "made the circus an unsustainable
business for the company," Feld said.
Animal
rights activists claim major win in Ringling Bros. closing. Animal rights activists claimed a major victory
Sunday after Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus said it would halt its show in May after 146 years. The move
came as circuses and animal-performance shows across the country have struggled with declining attendance and shifting social
pressure brought to bear by activists who argued the animals were sometimes poorly treated. Ringling Bros. and Barnum &
Bailey Circus removed elephants from its performances last May, and the company said ticket sales then dropped drastically.
Lesbian
couple hired to co-pastor D.C. church. A historic church in the heart of the nation's capital has hired a
married lesbian couple as co-pastors. Calvary Baptist Church in northwest D.C. announced the hiring of Sally Sarratt
and Maria Swearingen on Jan. 8 during morning worship, where they were approved by the congregation. "We have found it so
easy to fall in love with Calvary and its longstanding commitment to be a voice of justice and compassion for those who perpetually
find the wholeness of their humanity disregarded and maligned," the pastors said in a press release issued by the church.
Jersey City is 'Queerest City in America'.
Step aside New York, San Francisco and Miami: Jersey City, New Jersey, has been given the title of the "Queerest City in America."
Campaign's municipal equality index, according to "The Advocate," the oldest and largest LGBT publication in the nation.
Chicago
hate crime a microcosm of 'collapsing of civil society' under President Community Organizer. Thursday evening [1/5/2017]
on "The Mark Levin Show," Conservative Review's editor in chief addressed the "absolute, horrific inhumanity" of the racist torture
attack on a developmentally disabled man in Chicago, stating it is but the latest example of the "collapsing of the civil society" in
Chicago and other communities under Democratic policies.
Left's
Mission Accomplished: Blacks Torturing Whites. While some on the left claim to be upset, this is exactly the hate and violence
they hope to generate throughout Trump's entire presidency. A farmer does not plant corn and then act surprised when stalks of corn begin to
grow. The left has been planting seeds of racial hate and division ever since white America elected Obama. Why? Because the left
needed to be able to scream "racism" whenever anyone opposed Obama (their Trojan Horse) implementing their far-left-radical socialist/progressive
agenda.
It's
Still a Mad, Mad California. Abstract idealism on behalf of the distant is a powerful psychological narcotic that allows caring progressives
to dull the guilt they feel about their own privilege and riches. Nowhere is this paradox truer than in California, a dysfunctional natural paradise
in which a group of coastal and governing magnificoes virtue-signal from the world's most exclusive and beautiful enclaves. The state is
currently experiencing another perfect storm of increased crime, decreased incarceration, still ongoing illegal immigration, and record poverty.
All that is energized by a strapped middle class that is still fleeing the overregulated and overtaxed state, while the arriving poor take their places
in hopes of generous entitlements, jobs servicing the elite, and government employment.
Liberals Awake From an 8-Year
Moral Coma. For eight years, the voices of what passes for morality on the left were utterly silent as the values of generations of Americans
were flushed down the drain. Those Americans whose desires, experiences and values differed from the leftist elite were treated as worthless garbage,
no longer necessary to the imminent liberal utopia, except as a source of revenue. Christianity was treated like a virus to be extinguished, or
revised and controlled to accommodate leftist ideology. Speech that offended the shameless was branded as hateful, and those daring to openly
object to the onslaught of vice and immorality were falsely smeared with every vile epithet the liberals could conjure.
Giving
Driver's Licenses to Illegal Aliens Makes Illegal Voting a Real Possibility. A December 28 report in San Jose's Mercury News noted
that two years after the implementation of AB 60, a controversial law allowing illegal aliens to obtain driver's licenses in California, an estimated 806,000
illegal residents have received driver's licenses, according to the latest Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) statistics. However, the fallout from that law
is even worse than allowing more than four-fifths of a million illegal aliens on the road. On October 10, 2015, Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill
1461, the New Motor Voter Act, which will automatically register people to vote through the DMV, and could result in illegal aliens voting.
Publishing's
Latest Desperate Fad: Dropping F-Bombs. The other day, I happened to click on to Amazon and read their
top 100 best-selling books for that hour. As I read the list, I was shocked to note — fully understanding
that as a conservative, time has passed me by — that 5 of the top 100 books had the f-word in the title. [...]
Book publishing is a business, and I get that as much as anyone. Unfortunately, it's also a bit of a dying business in
search of a new business model or fad which will sell copies or downloads while preventing bankruptcies.
Mysterious
illness tied to marijuana use on the rise in states with legal weed. For more than two years, Lance Crowder was
having severe abdominal pain and vomiting, and no local doctor could figure out why. Finally, an emergency room
physician in Indianapolis had an idea. "The first question he asked was if I was taking hot showers to find relief.
When he asked me that question, I basically fell into tears because I knew he had an answer," Crowder said. The answer
was cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, or CHS. It's caused by heavy, long-term use of various forms of marijuana.
The
Vast Cognitive Gulf between the Left and the Right. Everyone knows it is the self-appointed morally superior Left that is behind the
tyrannies of multiculturalism, political correctness, a genderless society, man-made global warming, the promotion of homosexuality and gay marriage,
the crusade against all religions but Isalm, the most violent and intolerant faith on the planet.
Warning
to Democrats: The rules have changed. After decades of indoctrination in the public schools and
universities, a population of newly minted liberals has filled the big cities and the coasts, feeling entitled to win
elections, even when they don't vote. Merely disagreeing with them incites them to anger, sometimes to violence.
Thus, they rarely if ever hear what we conservatives have to say. They vilify middle America. If you respect
unborn life, they label you a woman-hater. If you weary of your child's school being overcrowded with illegal (and
illiterate) aliens, they call you a hater. If you lose your job to a foreigner, they regard you as an angry white bigot.
Keywords: tantrum, petty, paroxysm, huffy. Free therapy because Trump won?
According to the New York Post, Mayor Bill de Blasio is creating a citywide safe space for New York City's municipal workers and offering them psychotherapy
sessions to deal with the results of the presidential election. Taken literally (and we should), the mayor is telling citizens of New York City that
they should indulge any potential weakness inside them that makes them believe they can't deal with the results of American democracy when the results
don't go their way — that they're easily injured, inherently weak and don't have the personal fortitude to keep fighting for what they believe in.
See, there are politicians who will use any occasion to coax people into dependency on the state — whether for food, shelter, the raising of their
children or hand-holding — when anything in life doesn't go their way.
Illinois
has the Highest Black Unemployment Rate in the Country. Illinois has maintained the horrible distinction of
having the nation's highest black unemployment rate for the 15th month in a row, according to a new analysis from the
Economic Policy Institute, or EPI. Illinois' black unemployment rate is 14.2 percent, compared to the next highest state,
Pennsylvania, at 11.8 percent. Illinois' slow economic growth and weak industrial job creation, along with heavy
regulations on occupational licensing and poor school options for many minority children have had a pronounced effect on
black job opportunities. Ironically, for almost the same duration of time that Illinois has had the highest black
unemployment rate, Illinois' Democratic legislative leaders have insisted economic reforms are unnecessary for Illinois'
economy, putting them at odds with Gov. Bruce Rauner.
Trump
Election Saves Us From the Evil Party. When health care and higher education and food and housing are "free"
for so many, the cost borne by those who have the misfortune to be productive members of society (or, even more immorally, by
our children), the economy struggles along with little growth or opportunity. Indeed, Barack Obama will likely be the
first president since the Great Depression not to preside over a single year with at least 3 percent GDP growth.
Broke
and violent Chicago removes remaining Trump street signs. Chicago's bonds are rated as junk. So far over
700 people have been murdered this year — far more than in Los Angeles and New York, which are much more
populous. Last year Chicago taxpayers were punished with the city's largest tax hike in history — to pay
for underfunded municipal worker pensions. But city officials are have other priorities.
Why
the Democrats Can't Stop Calling the GOP Racists. Democrats don't debate Trump on the issues, because their
agenda is a turn-off. Under the leadership of Alinskyite Barack Obama, the Democratic Party has degenerated from
liberalism to progressivism. It has not been pretty. A focus on preferential treatment for blacks has given way
to a war on cops. Caring about Hispanic Americans suddenly means America shouldn't have borders and should have
sanctuary for rapists and killers — as long as they are here illegally. Browbeating college kids by
empowerring feminists and black activists with Title IX money has turned college campuses against freedom of thought and
speech. Women's issues have bizarrely turned into a war on masculinity. Gay rights has morphed into men in
women's bathrooms. Pro-choice turned into third-trimester infanticide and lawsuits against the Little Sisters of the
Poor. Physical violence against Republicans is encouraged by President Obama and Clinton under the euphemism 'protest.'
Facts
Trump the Left's National Tantrum. The left's national tantrum over the Trump victory, evidenced by freeway blockages,
street riots, internet rants, harassment of members of the Electoral College, and tasteless displays of moral superiority from the
Hollywood elite, is appalling. In traditional America, such petulant conduct does not find itself bleeding out so profusely
among grown people because it is trained out of youngsters by parents who discipline their kids for throwing fits in the candy store
after Mommy hasn't bought them an extra gumball. Unfortunately, the modern left is populated with legions of adult brats who
were raised without such disciplinary boundaries while concurrently having been coddled with participation trophies, self-esteem
awards, and Ritalin.
Trump's
Chance to Fix American Higher Education. The culture on college campuses has descended to the point that some now refer to them
as institutions of lower learning. Hook-up culture, rape, STDs, drugs, and alcohol abuse are just the tip of this disastrous iceberg.
Below that lies a rejection of widely accepted moral values, dismissal of the noble traditions of Western Civilization and regular, unrepentant
violation of the standard rules of human discourse, logic, and reasonable disagreement. Wreckage is the result. The refusal of
academics to tolerate different points of view (or even recognize that there are other points of view) undermines their own professed
obsession with "inclusion" and "diversity" to the point of absurd hypocrisy.
Bureaucratic
Tyranny in Trump's Crosshairs. We have a VA that purposely lets vets die without medical care. We have an
EPA at war with the energy industry. The Department of Education threatens public schools with loss of federal funds
and mandates progressive lies about American history, teaching generations of schoolchildren to be ashamed of America and
ignorant of our Constitution and our forefathers. Universities are forced by the DOJ to hire feminist and racialist
thought police under an Obama bureaucrat's interpretation of the Civil Rights Act. We have an IRS that has a political
enemies list its employees punish at the behest of Democrats. Homeland Security and FBI are under a gag order that
forbids them to use the term jihad or Islamic extremism. Everywhere we look, regulations are strangling
business, intruding into the personal lives and property rights of ordinary citizens.
Christmastime
Filth, Courtesy of Hollywood. The corruption of American culture is evident in many ways, but few markers are
more telling than the way Hollywood entertains us at Christmastime. It was 70 years ago when "It's a Wonderful Life"
was released. NBC describes it as "a holiday classic and remains the movie people associate with Christmas more than
any other. Frank Capra's definitive film is a tearjerker that proves that, even in our darkest hours, the human spirit
can and will rise triumphant." Today, we are being treated to obscene lyrics, raw sex, misogyny, and violence. Not
one of the four Christmas-themed films released this season is worthy of being described as a family movie. There are
no guardian angels directing the lead characters to consider how the world would be without them; no triumph of self-sacrifice;
no statement against greed; no childhood sweetheart to marry; no inspiration of any sort. Just filth.
Blacks and Politicians.
Using 2012 data from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Law Street Media offers some sobering statistics in an article
titled "Crime in America: Top 10 Most Dangerous Cities Over 200,000". The nation's most dangerous big cities are
Detroit, Oakland, St. Louis, Memphis, Stockton, Birmingham, Baltimore, Cleveland, Atlanta and Milwaukee. The most
common characteristic of these cities is that they have predominantly black populations. Another common characteristic
is that for decades, all of them have been run by Democratic and presumably liberal administrations. Some
cities — such as Detroit, Buffalo, Newark and Philadelphia — haven't elected a Republican mayor
for more than a half-century.
The Obama
Era Is Over. Obama and his supporters loved talking about history. His victory was historic. They
were on the right side of history. History was an inevitable arc that bent their way. The tidal force of
demographics had made the old America irrelevant. Any progressive policy agenda was now possible because we were no
longer America. We Were Obamerica. A hip, happening place full of smiling gay couples, Muslim women in hijabs and
transgender actors. We were all going to live in a New York City coffee house and work at Green Jobs and live in the
post-national future. The past was gone. We were falling into the gorgeous wonderful future of dot com instant
deliveries and outsourced everything. We would become more tolerant and guilty. The future was Amazon and
Disney. It was hot and cold running social justice. The Bill of Rights was done. Ending the First and
Second Amendments was just a clever campaign away. Narratives on news sites drove everything. Presidents were
elected by Saturday Night Live skits.
Murder of Cops Via
Ambush Up 167% This Year. This won't get any better while the media continues to refer to rioters as
protesters, or said rioters aren't arrested for fear of of a public outcry. If cops remain skittish about doing their
jobs when dealing with criminals (which rioters most definitely are) where does that leave the law abiding citizens?
How long before everyone is at the mercy of the lawless?
All the Queen's Men. [Scroll
down] Lest we forget: It was at a Manhattan LGBT Gala in September where Hillary Clinton proclaimed half of her opponent's supporters
to be a basket of deplorables — a declaration met with resounding cheers from those whose lives stand for anti-complementary, anti-conjugal
marriage. Beyond that, these are the urbane pro-motherlessness and pro-fatherlessness elites. Progressive elites — especially the males
among them — are untroubled by motherlessness and fatherlessness. This would have been horrifying ten years ago. Today it is a badge of
sophistication. More troubling, it is an act of compliance with our new laws. In the religion of the sexual revolution, adult access to
sexual pleasure trumps everything else, including the best interests of children. And leading the charge to destroy the American family and
faith — dragging us deeper into the dark pit of chaos of the sexual revolution — are all the Queen's men. Why are we deplorable to them?
Because we strive to maintain a degree of self control over our appetites. And more than that, we have a conscience, especially concerning the
loving care of children, and they have none. They cannot bear our presence.
Hillary's
Bright Shining Lies. We conservatives and Alt-Right deplorables are acutely aware of the appalling corruption
of the Clintons, from the pay-to-play Clinton Foundation money laundering scheme to the tens of thousands of deleted emails,
and from the anti-Islam video as pretext for a riot in Benghazi, Libya to the trail of mysterious deaths of dozens of people
who ran afoul of the Clintons. But the most effective lies in Hillary's arsenal, the ones that could get her over the
top and into the White House, may be the most conventional ones that are hiding in plain sight, the ones that are not
criminally prosecutable; the platitudes and pejoratives that simply capitalize on the economic ignorance of the American
people, thanks to fifty or more years of progressive dominance of our education system, and the transformation of our
society away from business ownership and toward corporate or government employment.
A
Baby With 3 Parents Has Been Born. These Are the Dangers. The first baby with three parents has been born
this year, raising troubling questions about our culture's dedication to human dignity. The U.S. Constitution is
predicated on the principle of the inherent worth and dignity of the human individual. Fundamental rights do not depend
on any other fact than that each of us is a unique human being. Thus, any proposed legal action or scientific endeavor
is subordinate to those rights. Often, however, we find that proposed scientific "advances" — particularly
in areas like genetic engineering — trample on the rights and dignity of the individual.
The
Dangers of Hillary Clinton. The dangers of a Hillary Clinton presidency are more familiar than Trump's
authoritarian unknowns, because we live with them in our politics already. They're the dangers of elite groupthink, of
Beltway power worship, of a cult of presidential action in the service of dubious ideals. They're the dangers of a
recklessness and radicalism that doesn't recognize itself as either, because it's convinced that if an idea is mainstream and
commonplace among the great and good then it cannot possibly be folly. Almost every crisis that has come upon the West
in the last 15 years has its roots in this establishmentarian type of folly.
An Establishment in Panic. [Scroll down]
Establishment panic is traceable to another fear: Its ideology, its political religion, is seen by growing millions as a golden calf, a
20th-century god that has failed. Trump is "talking down our democracy," said a shocked Clinton. After having expunged Christianity
from our public life and public square, our establishment installed "democracy" as the new deity, at whose altars we should all worship.
And so our schools began to teach.
Hillary
and the fundamental legal premise of tyranny. [Scroll down] "Disappointing" is a word we use to describe a result that might realistically
have turned out otherwise. Watching your favorite baseball team being eliminated from the playoffs is disappointing. Finding out the new
owners of your favorite restaurant have changed the recipes is disappointing. But watching a glorious seven-hundred-year historical arc
exhausting itself at last; seeing the immense intellectual achievements of philosophers and artists from Aquinas and Dante to Locke and Swift
being snuffed out in favor of neo-Marxist critical theory and the nihilistic, infantilizing vulgarity of our popular entertainment; and observing
in real time the final outcome of the civilized world's two-hundred-year submersion in the moral quicksand of government-controlled child-rearing
(i.e., public school), is not "disappointing." It is revelatory. What has been revealed is that this age has tempted fate too long.
Limbaugh:
'Ironic That The Democrat Party Wants to Throw Down the Morality Card'. The release of an 11-year-old videotape
in which Donald Trump speaks in vulgar terms about trying to seduce women has prompted outrage among Democrats, some
Republicans, and the liberal media, but it's hard to believe they're really offended, Rush Limbaugh said on Monday
[10/10/2016]. "You know, I find it ironic that the Democrat Party wants to throw down the morality card. The
Democrat Party, which is responsible for the dissolution of morality in this country. The Democrat Party, which is for
all these progressive new attitudes in our culture, and now all of a sudden acting like a bunch of prudes, [...]"
Trumped-Up Outrage.
The sudden onset of Victorian vapors among the liberal intelligentsia and political class at the revelation of Trump's
locker-room talk is part and parcel of the Left's hypocrisy when it comes to feminism and sexual liberation. [...] But the
feminists can't have it both ways: declaring that women should be equal to men in all things and then still demand a
chivalric deference to female's delicate sensibilities. Either women are the same as men or they're not. It is
particularly galling to see the selective resurrection of Victorian values from the same crowd that has been pushing
transgender locker rooms on the world, in an effort to destroy the last shred of girls' innate sexual modesty.
Common
Core Update: Feelings are More Important than Accuracy in Math Answers. "Any emotion, feeling, statement, or catchphrase is an acceptable answer
to most of the problems in the new mathematics standards," a Common Core representative informed interested media outlets. "As long as students are being sincere,
genuine, authentic, and true to themselves at the time they are answering the question, that's all we can ask as educators." "Who are we to tell anyone that their
own mathematical truth is wrong?" the Common Core representative added. The Babylon Bee reports that these same touch-feely standards will be added into the Common
Core standards set for history, biology, and chemistry. English literature teachers apparently are already able to take the students' feelings into account when it comes
to filling out report cards.
Columbus
Day and what Native Americans really need. The two million Indians in this country are the poorest racial
group. They have higher rates of gang violence than blacks or Hispanics. Indian women are raped at 2.5 times the
national average. Indian children are abused at twice the national average. And suicide is the leading cause of
death for American Indian boys aged 10-14. [... But] the reason that American Indians are where they are today is not because
of events that occurred 500 years ago or even a century ago. It is because of policies perpetrated in Washington
today. American Indians are poor because people who live on reservation don't have property rights. Their land is
held in trust by the federal government — which means they cannot buy it or sell it or develop it as they wish.
They can't even get a mortgage to buy a home, which is why reservations that have hundreds of millions of acres also have housing
shortages and why people are stuffed into overcrowded trailers. Indian reservations contain almost 30 percent of the
nation's coal reserves west of the Mississippi, 50 percent of potential uranium reserves, and 20 percent of known oil
and gas reserves. Those resources are estimated to be worth nearly $1.5 trillion. But the vast majority of
Indian lands with natural resources remain undeveloped because of federal regulations. In fact, just about every aspect
of the lives of people on reservations is micromanaged by the 9,000 employees at the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Dunbar
High School After 100 Years. In 1899, when it was called "the M Street School," a test was given in Washington's
four academic public high schools, three white and one black. The black high school scored higher than two of the three white
high schools. Today, it would be considered Utopian even to set that as a goal, much less expect to see it happen. The
M Street School had neither of two so-called "prerequisites" for quality education. There was no "diversity." It
was an all-black school from its beginning, and on through its life as a high quality institution under the name Dunbar High School.
But its days as a high quality institution ended abruptly in the middle of the 1950s. After that, it became just another failing
ghetto school.
The
Sun Is Setting on America as Founded. The authoritarian/socialist mindset most often identified with the Left
is now overwhelmingly dominant in the United States of 2016. The acceptance of a powerful central government and its
attendant governing class dictating to all Americans what they can and cannot do has become the norm. Beginning in the
1930's, but in earnest over the past five decades, a socialist Democratic Party, media/entertainment complex, and education
establishment has effectively conditioned a majority of Americans to look to the government as the source of salvation, opportunity
and rescue in times of difficulty. Thus, there now exists a permanent ruling class or oligarchy in charge of all the levers
of power in the government, including the Judiciary, and in a majority of all societal and educational institutions.
East
Carolina University: Future protests of national anthem 'will not be tolerated'. East Carolina University
said members of its marching band will not be allowed to kneel during the national anthem moving forward, after a protest
during Saturday's [10/1/2016] game against the University of Central Florida was met with boos. At least 19 members of
the Marching Pirates took a knee while playing "The Star-Spangled Banner" in Greenville Saturday night.
The Editor says...
Public school students are pumped full of anti-American propaganda in class,
so the protests could have been anticipated. If the schools teach anything at all, they should teach young people to
do their jobs without offering any unsolicited opinions. In this case, just play the clarinet and march in sync with everybody
else. After you graduate with a worthless degree, just bring my lunch out to table 17 without spitting in it.
Hillary
sneers at cowboys. Is that allowed in America? Was there ever a politician with a worse tin ear than
Hillary Clinton? [...] "It is outrageous," Clinton incanted [10/3/2016], "that eight years after a cowboy culture on Wall
Street wrecked our economy, we are still seeing powerful bankers playing fast and loose with the law." Actually, wasn't
the economy wrecked by government busybodies such as former Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., insisting that people with no
money, no credit and no chance of repaying loans should become homeowners?
Potheads
and Potty-mouths in Paradise. Studies mentioned in my first column show that pot is a good recipe for poverty,
poor education, brain abnormalities, pot-related traffic accidents and emergency room visits for toddlers who've accidentally
ingested pot.
Socialist
Venezuela New Food Police Unit Targeting People For Waiting In Supermarket Lines. Venezuelans continue to fight
for survival, as the nation's socialist experiment has all but collapsed. Looting is commonplace. Hunger is
rampant, with Venezuelans of every economic class eating out of garbage cans for sustenance. And a medical system that
is so starved of supplies, like soap and gloves, that newborns are reportedly being put in cardboard boxes in maternity
wards. That's coupled with the spikes in infant deaths that began when the country started to falter. The energy
shortages haven't helped either. The rapid inflation has rendered the nation's currency worthless, there's no real
domestic food production, and all of this has led to empty shelves at supermarkets.
Cultural Marxism
Is Destroying America. How is it that eight years after Obama promised a post-racial America and fifty-two
years after the Civil Rights Act was passed, Americans are more divided by race than ever before? It is certainly not
for lack of resources being thrown at the problem. American universities have Black Studies Departments, corporations
have diversity trainers and racial staffing quotas and the mainstream media covers race issues constantly. Despite all
of this, the divisions keep worsening. This trend is not being driven by white prejudice. It is being driven by
ideology. The reason race relations in America continue to deteriorate is the cultural Marxist philosophies being
taught relentlessly in schools and colleges across the nation.
Lester
"Candy" Holt Moderates a Completely Useless Debate. Nobody Won. America Lost. [Scroll down]
And the 1972 Justice Department suit against hundreds of Apartment owners was the beginnings of the whole "redlining" debacle
that actually caused the housing crisis that crashed the economy in 2008. And guess who played a big role in that crisis in
the 1980's? Tim Kaine, Hillary's running mate. And while Hillary blamed Reagan's "Trickle Down" economics for the
housing market crash (???) it was actually people like Tim Kaine. Redlining, in case you don't know, was the term used
to "prove" banks were practicing racial discrimination in lending by comparing the number of declined mortgage applications
in poor areas to those in wealthy areas. It seems that poor people were turned down more often than more affluent
individuals. And since the population in poor areas was heavily black and in wealthy areas heavily white, it must be
racism. Because poor people are just as good a borrower as wealthy, if you don't consider income. This was nothing
more than a case of banks turning down poor credit risks and loaning to good credit risks. There was no racism involved.
Government
Meddling Is Killing Affordable Housing In Seattle. A few years ago, Seattle saw a boom in what is called
"congregate housing." Basically, this is the modern-day equivalent of boardinghouses, with tiny rooms — as small
as 175 square feet — that include a bathroom and kitchenette, plus some common areas for residents to gather.
This is part of the trend in Seattle and elsewhere toward micro-housing: very small but affordable living spaces in trendy
neighborhoods that appeal mainly to young people.
Socialism's
left Venezuela a 'walking dead' nation. Here's socialism at its finest: Venezuela is now forced to import
oil from the United States, the devil in the eyes of the regime. Yes, the South American energy powerhouse is still
pumping 2.4 million barrels a day on its own — but that's a million barrels below the level before Hugo Chavez
took over in 1999, and down 350,000 barrels from just last year. Worse, production in key fields has reduced the state
to buying 50,000 barrels a day of US light crude to blend with the domestic petroleum for a product fit for export.
Under Chavez and his successor, Nicolás Maduro, the government nationalized key petro companies — then
failed to invest in basic maintenance, instead spending the cash on buying popularity.
Racial Issues.
Many things that are supposed to help blacks actually have a track record of making things worse. Minimum
wage laws have had a devastating effect in making black teenage unemployment several times higher than it once was.
12
Hours of Terror: Just Another Weekend in Leftist-run America. We live in a country run by people who tell
us that if a man puts on a dress and says he's a woman we are supposed to take him at his word. But, if a man goes on a
murderous rampage in the name of Allah, and ISIS claims responsibility, we shouldn't draw conclusions. The weak and
ridiculous position in which we find ourselves did not happen on its own. Americans elected this band of leftist fools
who have zero aptitude for dealing with terrorism.
Trump:
'Now, the Cars are Made in Mexico and You Can't Drink the Water in Flint'. During Donald Trump's visit to
Flint, Michigan on Wednesday [9/14/2016], the Republican nominee commented on how the automobile manufacturing industry has
moved to Mexico — impacting trade — and how people in Flint can't drink the water, much like the water
in Mexico.
What Can Discrimination
Explain? According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, sometimes referred to as The Nation's
Report Card, nationally, the average black 12th-grader's test scores are either basic or below basic in reading, writing,
math and science. "Below basic" is the score received when a student is unable to demonstrate even partial mastery of
knowledge and skills fundamental for proficient work at his grade level. "Basic" indicates only partial mastery.
Put another way, the average black 12th-grader has the academic achievement level of the average white seventh- or
eighth-grader. In some cities, there's even a larger achievement gap. Is this a result of racial discrimination?
Hardly. The cities where black academic achievement is the lowest are the very cities where Democrats have been in charge
for decades and where blacks have been mayors, city councilors, superintendents, school principals and teachers. Plus,
these cities have large educational budgets.
Taxpayers are
fleeing New York in droves. Taxpaying New Yorkers are leaving in droves for other states, according to a new
study. In 2014, 126,000 New York tax filers fled to other places in the United States — more than from any
other state, according to the study posted on newgeography.com by two demographers. The Empire State also lost the most
"high earners," who reported incomes of more than $200,000 a year.
The
Dragon Comes With a Suitcase. The Era of Hope and Change has been one prolonged act of suicide. If anyone
had said that Obama would manage to alienate Israel and the Philippines, lose Turkey, pay Iran a hundred billion dollars,
preside over the loss of a won war in Afghanistan, lose billions of dollars in military equipment to ISIS, watch a consulate
burn, restart the Cold War with Russia, cause Japan to re-arm and go the knife's edge with China would you have believed it?
If someone had told you in 2008 millions of refugees would be heading for Europe and that the UK would leave the EU after
Obama went there to campaign for them to remain would you not have laughed? He promised "smart diplomacy" and the
restoration of American prestige in the world. How did it come to this?
Dems
laboring under delusions. [Scroll down] Four years ago, Democrats passed legislation allowing home day
care centers — mainly women-owned — to join a union if they accepted one child on a state
voucher. Large day care centers have lobbyists, so they were exempt from this thuggery. The Democrats insisted
the union could negotiate a better reimbursement rate for state vouchers. But the Legislature could have just voted to
increase the voucher amounts instead of this forced unionization. Is that pro-worker? Is that pro-women? A
strong economy creates a demand for employees which naturally increases wages and benefits. Democrats have to turn to
artificial, harmful means because their policies naturally dampen the economy.
The
Democrats Own the Ills of the Inner Cities. [Scroll down] In her eight years in the U.S. House of
Representatives Ms. [Marcia] Fudge has not improved the situation of her District-11 constituents. Incredibly, it is
possible that she does not recognize what is important to the people she represents. On July 15, 2015 Fudge was quoted
by Sabrina Eaton, Northeast Ohio Media Group Washington Correspondent, as saying that the issues that "matter to people in my
district... [are] income equality, women's rights and universal voter registration." The anecdotal evidence and the
statistics collected by Dr. Goldstein tell a completely different story: the issues that matter to the people in her
and Fudge's district are a lack of jobs, leading to poverty and the inability to feed their families, along with the whole
litany of social ills outlined above. They are also concerned about providing a quality education for their children,
and are overwhelmingly in favor of school choice.
Least
affordable US cities revealed. A report has revealed the wildly varying salaries needed to buy a home in
different parts of the US. Loan site HSH.com analyzed what salary families would require to snap up a property across 27
metro areas in the country. The report assumed a buyer's down payment was 20 percent and used the lending standard
that a monthly home payment should not be more than 28 percent of income.
Semi-Literate
Mayor Of Bankrupt City Denounces Critics As Racists. The Democratic mayor of Petersburg, Va., has denounced all
critics of his leadership as racist Republicans in a bizarre email replete with many grammatical errors. Petersburg, a
city of just 32,000 people, is battling severe budgetary issues. It has an expected budget deficit of $12 million and
over $19 million in unpaid bills. The city is even in danger of losing its garbage pick-up service because of missed
payments to the Central Virginia Waste Management Authority.
The
Worst Cities For Poverty All Have One Thing In Common. Each of these places has been Democratic for many
decades, some even longer. And what do each of these places have in common? That's right, they're all run by
Democrats. Big government, high taxes, lots of regulation, and plenty of welfare and poverty. Yep, that's
Democratville for ya.
How
The Democrats Turned Milwaukee Into a Cesspool. [Scroll down] And indeed, wherever we look —
Atlanta, Camden, Newark, St. Louis, Chicago, Flint, Detroit, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington — we see
one-party cities that are crumbling testaments to the awesome power of bad ideas. Specifically, Trump referenced "the
situation right here in Milwaukee, a city run by Democrats for decade after decade," citing its high rates of homicide,
joblessness, poverty, and educational failure. But Milwaukee wasn't always like this. It was once a prosperous
metropolis with a host of thriving industries, particularly renowned for its breweries and manufacturing. Modern-day
Democrats and their leftist allies, however, snuffed out those good-ol'-days like a jackboot on a cigarette butt. Every mayor
of Milwaukee since 1960 has been a Democrat, and the one who served just prior to 1960 was Frank Paul Zeidler, an open Socialist.
Obama,
the Worst President Ever, Except Maybe for Hillary. [Scroll down] Liberals scoff at our supposed sensationalism in depicting
Obama's record, but they are the ones in fantasyland — not us. Their judgment is so skewed that they wouldn't
recognize a disastrous, perennially sluggish economy if it hit them in the face — because it has. They wouldn't see
it if Islamists were waging war on the United States, because they are and they don't. They wouldn't be alarmed if the
Constitution and rule of law were under ongoing assault, because they are and they aren't. They don't care that the
nuclear family is in peril, because they favor diluting traditional and gender distinctions. And they wouldn't care
if the federal government were deliberately fostering dependency addiction among its citizenry and demonizing work, the work
ethic, productivity and business, because it is and they enable it.
Manufactured
Grievance: The Engine of Progressivism. Secular humanism takes a political form that regularly exploits the personal dissatisfaction
that flows from its own broken philosophy. That political form is called liberalism or progressivism — its "arc of history" set always promising
better days, delivering worse and profiting from the manufactured villains it wrongly blames. Given liberalism's elite, self-designated managerial
class is on average no more competent than the rest of us, the policy failures are unsurprising. However, the opportunistic blame shifting that
follows and its resulting strife are appalling threats to the common good. [...] We've seen this before. Communist regimes used fear to turn
citizens against each other, consolidating control by dehumanizing people. The goal was never the promised post-revolution utopia; it was just
continued revolution, for the elite who benefitted from it.
Lamont
Hill: Just Because Poor Cities Are Run by Democrats, Doesn't Mean Democrats Are to Blame. On Wednesday's
[8/17/2016] CNN New Day, Chris Cuomo brought on CNN commentator, author and host of BET News Marc Lamont Hill and
former Secret Service agent and current candidate for congress in Florida Dan Bongino, to discuss Trump polling poorly with
African-Americans. While Bongino argued that democrat run cities have failed black communities, Lamont Hill claimed
that poverty and Democrat machines are connected, but that "doesn't mean" being a Democrat makes you poor. After Cuomo
brought up a new ABC News/WSJ poll that predicted only one percent of blacks would vote for Trump, he asked Bongino why Trump
was unable to make the case to blacks that their Democrat-run communities would only keep them in poverty.
Milwaukee
County Sheriff explains the cause of Milwaukee riots: Failed Liberal Policies. Milwaukee County Sheriff
David Clarke explained on Fox Business that these riots, like we saw in Milwaukee over the weekend, are the result of "failed
liberal urban policies" that have left many of these ghettos with inescapable poverty and terrible school systems: [Video clip]
The Misinformation Age. Consumers of mass media are not seeking to be informed,
because they assume it is all nonsense. They just want to be entertained. It's probably why Trump is one nominee and Clinton is the other.
Everyone is looking forward to the brash bully tearing into the corrupt old cow. It may be awful for the country, but it will make good TV.
Venezuela
Reaches the End of the Road to Serfdom. A lefty correspondent who believes that I have been unfair to Senator
Bernie Sanders — specifically, that I have given insufficient attention to the "democratic" part of his so-called
democratic socialism — writes: "You should write about those millions of souls trapped in the Canadian,
Icelandic, Danish, and other democratic-socialist gulags." But, of course, there are no Canadian and Danish gulags.
Then again, Canada and Denmark are not socialist countries. This is a truth the Left, and some of the Right, insists on
refusing to learn.
Obama's
news conference: Everything wrong with Democrats, encapsulated. In President Obama's news conference [8/4/2016], he was correct that so
many young people going to prison has devastated communities, but he fails to recognize that many of the policies that he and the Democrats advocate contribute
greatly to the problem. The anti-poverty Great Society programs from the 1960s contributed greatly to the breakup of families, especially minority
families. The majority of minority children are born out of wedlock, and single parenthood is the greatest indicator of who will end up in poverty
and dependent on government. Democrats generally want to expand these programs, even with their terrible results. It helps greatly to have two
parents as role models. Also, it is generally Democrats who block big box stores from building in inner cities. This takes away opportunities
for inner-city youth to start moving up the economic ladder. This causes teens and young adults to be on the street more or join gangs, and this
causes more young people to commit crimes and end up in prison. Now Democrats want to massively increase the minimum wage which, along with other
costly regulations like Obamacare, further takes away opportunities.
This is where socialism eventually leads: Venezuelan
Government: You Are To Leave Your Jobs For 60 Days To Work In the Fields. We all know that Venezuelan
socialism has been a total disaster. People were reportedly eating dogs, cats, and birds for sustenance. Crime
was spiking. Inflation is out of control — and there is what could only be described as gladiatorial battles
to get the most basic supplies at the supermarkets. Energy shortages have led to rolling blackouts. Toilet paper
is now a luxury item. Access to medicine has been a nightmare, with the country's entire hospital system operating in
deplorable conditions. It's so bad that some places don't have gloves or soap. Of course, many Venezuelans have
resorted to looting to survive. As for food, hunger has gripped the nation, with shocking footage of people eating from
the trash.
Bernie Is a Mainstream
Democrat. At this point, people who are willing, even eager, to support a full-blown Commie are legion — and growing.
This is not surprising, given the daily onslaught of left-wing propaganda from Hollywood and the media and the relentless indoctrination in our
public schools and universities.
Massachusetts
Voters Could Have Egg on Their Faces. Ballot measure will decide in November whether to impose unwise, harmful,
costly, and unconstitutional standards for raising a host of livestock animals.
Colorado
town's water tainted by marijuana chemical, authorities say. Residents of a small Colorado town were told
Thursday not to drink, shower in or cook with their water because of evidence of THC, the intoxicating ingredient in
marijuana. The Lincoln County sheriff's office tweeted that bottled water was being brought to the community of Hugo,
about 100 miles southeast of Denver. Authorities added that there were no reports of any unusual symptoms. The
sheriff's office added that the contamination was discovered after testing brought about by "complaints", but did not
elaborate further.
THC
found in water of small Colorado town. The water supply for a small Colorado town in Lincoln County is tainted
with THC and residents are warned not to use it. Residents in the town of Hugo are being told to not drink, cook or
shower in it at this time, according to a tweet sent by a Lincoln County Sheriff's Office official.
Islamism Rises from
Europe's Secularism. In France, the Socialist government imposed a "secularism charter" in every school,
banning Christianity from the educational system. Municipalities have already changed the enrollment form for
schoolchildren by eliminating the words "father" and "mother", replacing them with "legal manager 1" and "legal manager 2".
It is George Orwell's "Newspeak". After two major terror attacks in 2015, France, instead of promoting a cultural "jihad" based on
Western values, responded to Islamic fundamentalism with a ridiculous "Day of Secularism" to be celebrated every 9th of
December. This narrow secularism has also prevented France from openly supporting Eastern Christians under Islamist oppression.
The Anti-Cop President.
[The 1960s] sexual revolution removed the stigma from out-of-wedlock pregnancy. An explosion of inner-city illegitimacy
ensued, with between 70 and 90 percent of black children born to single mothers, depending on the city. [...] So by the early
1990s, murders in New York, for example — mostly by young black men killing other blacks — were occurring on
average every four hours, every day. The same spirit of elite racial contrition made generous welfare payments, with virtually
no questions asked, seem like appropriate reparations for the long mistreatment of African Americans. In this way, government
ended up enabling the spread of out-of-wedlock childbearing, which the culture had legitimated. But those fatherless
welfare families proved far from ideal for raising successful, law-abiding children. What came to be called the cycle of
poverty — single parenthood, school dropout, drug use, crime, non-work, welfare dependency — went into overdrive.
Bringing
Down the Left. After nearly a century, with the tacit abetting by a feckless Republican Party over the past 30
years, the Left has succeeded in breaking nearly everything in the political china shop. American society is
calculatingly in shambles as race relations, ethnic assimilation and religious freedom have been the target of exploitation
and condemnation. The economy is mired in a permanent state of malaise as capitalism has been attacked, relentlessly
vilified and hamstrung, resulting in a declining standard of living for the vast majority of citizens. A preponderance
of two generations of Americans, in an attempt to convert them into foot soldiers for the cause, have been defrauded and
deluded as they know nothing of their country's history and expect as their birthright guaranteed income and a life
without adversity.
America's Worst
President? [Scroll down] Believing that welfare payments constituted well-deserved reparations for 300
years of slavery and oppression, we New Yorkers created a come-and-get-it dole that ended up with one in eight of our
neighbors on the welfare rolls — paid for by the rest of us and resulting in a multi-generational
underclass. We entertained the foolish notion that black crime was a manly revolt against oppression — that
black criminals were only protesting against the closure of all avenues of honest advancement for their race, as well as
against the daily humiliation heaped on African-Americans. The resulting depolicing of black neighborhoods and
unwillingness of courts to punish black criminals drove crime to Hobbesian levels and turned minority neighborhoods into
killing fields, where mothers put their kids to bed in the bathtub, trying to keep them safe from stray bullets. They
would never send them out for a bottle of milk or take them into the street to learn to ride a bike.
Comey
and the Will to Power. [Scroll down] That is how vile these people are. So determined to protect their own power,
influence and affluence, they will lie, cheat, steal and blame innocent people for their own crimes. They appoint
and confirm people like James Comey and Loretta Lynch who know they must do their bidding to keep their jobs.
There is no honor in our government anymore. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is where we find ourselves at this
moment in time. We are a crippled America; crippled by the success of the Marxist left and their mission to inculcate
our youth with their doctrine of moral relativism, entitlement and antiAmericanism. Two generations of our youth
know little or nothing about the Constitution or the men and women who brought it to fruition.
Will
California Ever Thrive Again? There was more of the same-old, same-old California news recently. Some 62 percent of
state roads have been rated poor or mediocre. There were more predications of huge cost overruns and yearly losses on high-speed
rail — before the first mile of track has been laid. One-third of Bay Area residents were polled as hoping to leave the
area soon. Such pessimism is daily fare, and for good reason. The basket of California state taxes — sales, income,
and gasoline — rates among the highest in the U.S. Yet California roads and K-12 education rank near the bottom.
After years of drought, California has not built a single new reservoir. Instead, scarce fresh aqueduct water is still being diverted
to sea. Thousands of rural central-California homes, in Dust Bowl fashion, have been abandoned because of a sinking aquifer and dry
wells. One in three American welfare recipients resides in California. Almost a quarter of the state population lives below
or near the poverty line. Yet the state's gas and electricity prices are among the nation's highest.
Denial Dies in
Dallas. The crime wave in Chicago illustrates how politicians trapped themselves in a vise of conflicting
expectations from which there is no escape. It has proved impossible to do something and its opposite simultaneously,
in this case withdraw the police and protect the community. It may prove just as impossible to require transgender
bathrooms and guarantee no sexual harassment takes place or open the borders while promising there will be no terror attacks.
High
School Girls Angry After Boy Is Crowned Prom Queen. Teenage girls at one New York high school are upset after
an 18-year-old boy who identifies as "nonbinary" — neither male nor female — was crowned prom queen
earlier this month. After Matthew Crisson was named prom queen of Manhattan's La Guardia High School, some of his
female classmates took to social media to complain about the fact that both the prom king and queen were boys.
The Editor says...
Take it easy, boys and girls, as the case may be. A prom queen is not really a man and probably will never be a man. A culture
that allows men to go into women's restrooms (and vice versa) can't be expected to ensure that the Prom Queen will always be a female.
City
workers being trained on correct transgender pronouns. Firefighters and medics will take their first "Trans 101"
course on Tuesday [6/28/2016], learning the correct way to interact with transgender people — and even getting a lesson
in what LGTBQI actually stands for, a city official said. (It stands for lesbian gay trans bisexual queer/questioning and
intersex.) The two-hour sensitivity training was launched in March by the city Commission for Human Rights after Mayor de Blasio
signed an executive order allowing people to use any public bathroom or locker room they identified with, regardless of their sexual
anatomy. The training at FDNY headquarters in Downtown Brooklyn will go over correct terminology and even how to ask for a
person's preferred pronoun.
The Editor says...
If you're trapped upside down in a wrecked car, do you want to have a conversation about pronouns before any action is taken on your behalf?
Majority
of Country's Most Lead Poisoned Cities Are Controlled by Democrats. A majority of the cities with widespread
lead poisoning in young children are run by Democrats, according to a new study published in the Journal of Pediatrics.
The six-year study, which took place from 2009 to 2015, was based on more than 5 million blood samples of children under the
age of six across the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The study found that 3 percent of children tested across
the nation had blood lead levels categorized as "high." It singled out six cities — Syracuse, Buffalo, and Poughkeepsie
in New York, York and Oil City in Pennsylvania, and Cincinnati, Ohio — as especially troubled communities where more than
14 percent of children had high levels of lead in their blood. Two thirds of those municipalities are controlled by
Democrats and have been for some time.
Progressive
Outlet Accidentally Proves Blue States Have 42 Percent More Mass Shootings. Blue states have 42 percent more
mass shootings than red states after adjusting for population, according to data published by Vox, a progressive media
outlet, and examined by The Daily Caller News Foundation. Vox published its data after the Orlando terror attack last
Sunday, and it suggests that blue states, which tend to have extremely strict gun laws, are ironically much more likely to
have mass shootings than red states with less strict gun laws.
30 Blocks
of Dog [Poop] and Sugar Taxes. As I have documented in dozens of previous articles, the depravity, decay and
degradation of West Philly cannot be overstated. It has to be seen to be believed. A once thriving neighborhood
in the 1950s now looks worse than downtown Baghdad after shock and awe. The picture below is representative of 75% of
the houses along this stretch of squalor. The occupied houses are crumbling hovels, with collapsing porch stoops,
broken windows, leaking roofs, and a generally dilapidated state of repair. The sidewalks and streets are in a similar
state of disrepair, as the City of Philadelphia doesn't [care] about this part of Philly either. The corrupt Democrat
politicians spend their dwindling cash horde on union pensions and keeping the white people in Center City and Society Hill
safe from the dregs in West Philly. The funniest part is this section of West Philly has been declared an Obama
Keystone Zone. I guess I'm missing the revitalized part.
De
Blasio approves bills making it easier to pee and drink in the street. Mayor de Blasio signed off Monday [6/13/2016] on
eight bills that make several quality-of-life crimes — including urinating, boozing and blasting music in public —
civil rather than criminal offenses. The new laws — known collectively as the "Criminal Justice Reform Act" —
mean people cited for the offenses will face justice in administrative hearings rather than in criminal court. Advocates claim
that will divert 100,000 cases a year from the criminal-justice system.
The Editor says...
That's one way to put it. Another way to put it is, it will let 100,000 misdemeanor offenses go unpunished every year,
which will encourage even more uncivilized behavior.
Keynesian
Triumph: Americans Are Broke. [Scroll down] So, we are left with a huge irony. We have low
interest rates, but clearly the kind of long-term capital investment is not common in the US economy at the present
time. Firms and entrepreneurs are investing in long-term capital overseas, but not here, given that even while
politicians such as Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, and Hillary Clinton are decrying that fact. Of course, given the
hostility of the American Political Class to private investment and given the fact that Sanders is running a campaign based
on attacking and ultimately destroying private enterprise in the USA (with Clinton not far behind), investors are reading the
tea leaves and taking their money elsewhere, something that infuriates the Political Class.
The Wages
of Non-Judgmentalism. There is a fundamental contradiction at the heart of daily American life. It's one
that undermines the role that citizen sentinels are obliged to serve in the collective effort to combat low-tech aspiring
terrorists who may be operating independent of a foreign or domestic extremist network. At once, Americans are supposed
to be vigilant and unafraid to express to authorities their fears when they believe someone is behaving abnormally and may
represent a threat. At the same time, however, society frowns on those who are perceived as judgmental. Since
social pressures to avoid being seen as hypercritical, paranoid, or — worst of all — bigoted are acute,
and the rewards for keeping an eye out for the next terrorist plot are virtually non-existent, the vigilant are often
inclined to keep their concerns to themselves.
Left
Has Blood On Its Hands For 3 Worst Terror Attacks Since 9/11. Three of the worst terrorist attacks on American
soil since 9/11 have been overtly caused by political correctness. • In 2009, Nidal Hassan killed 13 people
(as well as an unborn child) in an attack on Fort Hood. CBS reported that "despite significant warning signs that he was an
Islamic extremist bent on killing civilians," the FBI "was too concerned about political correctness and did not launch an
investigation" into Hassan. • Up until this weekend, the San Bernardino attack ranked as the deadliest
display of terrorism on U.S. soil since 9/11, killing 14 people and wounding another 17. Neighbors of the
shooters in this case reported that they failed to notify authorities of suspicious activity because they didn't want to be
branded racists. The Daily Mail reported neighbors noticed the San Bernardino terrorists 'acting suspiciously but did
NOT report them for fear of racial profiling.' • Omar Mateen, who killed 50 and wounded another 53 at
the recent shooting at an Orlando nightclub, was reported by a co-worker for 'unhinged' behavior. But their employer,
GS4 Security, "did nothing because he (Mateen) was Muslim."
'Hope
and change' hard for women to find under Dems. Under President Obama's watch, over 2 million women have fallen
into poverty, according to U.S. Census data released in the fall. With an abysmal record like that, can women afford to
give the president a proverbial "third term" by electing another lefty like Clinton? The hard truth is, women have
suffered the most under progressive policies, despite being spoon fed by the DNC and compliant media that progressives are
the "party of women." The sobering facts are after 7½ years of Democrats in power, there are
57 million women over the age of 16 out of work while median income and wages have declined. The poverty rate
among single mothers (39.8 percent) is nearly double that of single fathers (22 percent).
Oregon judge allows
person to change gender from female to 'non-binary'. An Oregon judge ruled Friday [6/10/2016] that a transgender individual can legally
change their sex to "non-binary" rather than male or female in what is believed to be an unprecedented ruling. The Oregonian reported that
Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Amy Holmes Hehn legally changed Jamie Shupe's, 52, sex from female to non-binary. [...] Shupe is an Army
veteran who retired in 2000 a sergeant first class. She began transitioning in 2013 while living in Pittsburg and knew that neither the
male or female gender label fit.
First-of-kind
ruling changes Army vet's gender from female to nonbinary. Oregon residents can now legally identify as having
a nonbinary gender identity, according to a recent court ruling that legal experts say is the first of its kind in the
US. On Friday [6/10/2016], Judge Amy Holmes Hehn legally changed the sex of Army veteran Jamie Shupe from female to
nonbinary. Judge Hehn wrote in the ruling that Mx. Shupe's "sexual reassignment has been completed," therefore
complying with Oregon's law allowing for the change of a person's sex if a judge determines they have had surgical, hormonal,
or other treatment related to gender transition. "Oregon law has allowed for people to petition a court for a gender
change for years, but the law doesn't specify that it has to be either male or female," said civil rights attorney Lake J.
Perriguey, who filed Shupe's petition for gender change in April, to CNN. "The law just says, 'change.' Historically, people
have asked for a gender change from male to female and the other way around, but Jamie is the first to ask for the gender of 'nonbinary.'"
The
Rise of the New Patriarchy and Title IX. A teen boy runs, and wins, against teen girls in a high school level
competition. The winning part is not surprising. Men have some biological reasons for being physically superior
to women. Testosterone increases their muscle mass, lung capacity, and upper body strength. [...] Put this boy with
other boys and he wouldn't be competitive. He would lose — not just in state-level competitions, but in
local meets. He's slow for a boy. He runs with unfair physiological advantages against girls. The playing
field is grossly unequal.
Cowpoke
in hot pants stirs transgender uproar at Texas BBQ joint. When it comes to eating at a barbecue joint there's
an unspoken code of conduct. You don't order salad, you don't use a fork and if you're a cross-dressing cowboy with an
affinity for stiletto heels — you don't use the ladies room. And that brings me to a story from the pages of
the Fort Worth Star-Telegram about a small-town barbecue joint that inadvertently found itself right smack in the middle of
the big debate over transgender bathrooms.
Cross-Dressing
Cowboy Told to Stay Out of Ladies' Bathroom at Texas BBQ Joint. A Texas BBQ restaurant has made their
transgender bathroom policy abundantly clear — "No Men Allowed in Women's Bathroom." A cross-dressing cowboy truck
driver has been stirring-up trouble in the Texas BBQ joint. The trucker likes to come in dressed in a skirt or hot pants and a
blouse and six-inch stilettos. The sign in the small Texas town restaurant now politely warns, "No men allowed in the women's
bathroom please." The restaurant shares the building with a Texaco service station.
A New Transvaluation.
[Scroll down] Today, the great muddled thought processes of the indoctrinated are presented with a multiplicity of
genders before them like some sumptuous buffet: a veritable feast wherein an emancipated humanity might pick and choose their
erotic flavor of the day. Mood and inclination will now trump nature as we become sexual flies of a season, owing no
quarter to God or man as our sexual identities spin like a carnival wheel — alighting on a moment's temporal
fancy. The only problem with this elitist idyll is that any man possessing a modicum of good sense knows this is a
sham. Those 31 hypothesized New York City genders are merely homosexuality's obfuscationist window dressing, and it
makes little substantial difference whether an aging decathlete parades about in a push-up bra or a pathetic wretch submits
his flesh to the horrors of surgical mutilation.
'It's
Not Fair': Transgender Student's Success in Girls Track Causes Backlash. An Alaska transgender student's
success against female runners — including capturing all-state honors — is causing a backlash among parents and her
rivals. Haines High School senior Nattaphon Wangyot, who was born male and identifies as female, took fifth place in
the Alaska high school girls 100-meter finals and third place in the 200-meter race on May 27.
The Editor says...
Of course he did well. He's not a girl. But what can the school do about the unfair competition between males and females when
they've been trying for decades to teach the kids to think of gender as an imaginary "social construct"?
When Heroes Are Villains.
We have reached peak topsy-turvy. Whatever is up is down, whatever is good is bad, and whatever you should be proud of
should bring shame. Heroes are villains in this day and age and shooting an ape that's about to kill a child needs an
explanation. If you rescue your wife from being raped, you will be arrested. If you set aside a day to
memorialize the fallen soldiers who fought for our freedom, we're going to use it to make you feel guilty about
slavery. Conversely, pedophiles deserve some respect. Archaic cultures that abuse women and gays enrich our
lives. We get mentally ill drag queens in our bathrooms and Muslims are allowed to have "women-only" time in the pool
where they wear so much burqa it changes the color of the water. If you notice this pattern and speak out you're likely
to lose your job, but the evidence is impossible to avoid. Anything straight white male is villainous and anything
non-straight white male is heroic. In the case of the husband who beat the rapist to death, he's black. However,
he was behaving in a manner that mimics the white male patriarchy of yore so he needs to be punished as such.
The
Message Of The San Jose Violence. Politics is now a maelstrom of baying mobs with burning tires, shattered
bottles, eggs hurled, shot-out tires, smashed in windshields, rocks hurled as cops stand around doing nothing. Nor, if
you are a Democrat, do you have a right to have your vote counted fairly — the establishment above you has named some pigs
more equal than others and created a superdelegate system that makes a mockery of voter sentiment, and enforces the status
quo. What does it add up to? A realization that democracy itself is under assault, far weaker than anyone realized.
Liberals
Enable Sexual Predators to Hunt Women. A recent Daily Signal article explained why a CNN poll about letting men
use women's restrooms was flawed: the reality is, most people oppose letting men use women's restrooms. While it's an
excellent article, it implicitly buys into the liberal framing of the whole issue. While "transgender" men who are
attracted to women — as Bruce Jenner is — are a valid concern, the biggest problem with this liberal
policy is that it allows any registered sex offender to use the women's bathroom with impunity. The vast majority of
the opposition to "gender-neutral" restrooms is based on the fact that liberals believe that since gender is fluid, a man
could consider himself a woman any time he wanted to molest women. Liberals don't require a man who uses a women's
restroom to have a doctor's note; his word that at that moment he's feeling like a woman is enough.
Best-Run
States Are Heavily Republican, Study Finds. The ten most financially sound states in the country are all
heavily Republican, while all but one of the ten worst states are heavily Democratic. That's according to a ranking of
states in a new report from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University[.] The report — "Ranking the States
by Fiscal Condition" — used official government data to measure the states' ability to pay short-term bills and
meet longer-term obligations, such as public pensions or health care costs, using five separate measures.
8 Lessons
We Can Learn From the Epic Economic Meltdown In Venezuela. We are watching an entire nation collapse right in
front of our eyes. As you read this article, there are severe shortages of just about anything you can imagine in
Venezuela. That includes food, toilet paper, medicine, electricity and even Coca-Cola. All over the country,
people are standing in extremely long lines for hours on end just hoping that they will be able to purchase some provisions
for their hungry families. At times when there hasn't been anything for the people that have waited in those long
lines, full-blown riots have broken out. All of this is happening even though Venezuela has not been hit by a war, a
major natural disaster, a terror attack, an EMP burst or any other type of significant "black swan" event. When debt
spirals out of control, currency manipulation goes too far and government interference reaches ridiculous extremes, this is
what can happen to an economy.
How
the Democratic Party Ruined Atlanta. Atlanta, Georgia has not been governed by a Republican mayor since 1879.
Most significant is the fact that the city has been led exclusively by Democrats since the 1960s and early '70s, the period when
the Democratic Party emphatically broke away from centrist liberals and fell predominantly under the sway of its far left wing,
a course which it still follows to this day. [...] Atlanta is merely one of many Democrat-run cities whose economies, school
systems, and quality-of-life indicators have been run into the ground by their political leadership. And yet, for decade
upon decade, Atlanta voters have never questioned their blind devotion to the Democratic Party.
Trans-thinking:
When 98 Percent of Students Would Let Men in Women's Sports. Imagine a fairly muscular, athletic young man,
acting like a man and dressed as a man, tells you he identifies as a woman and asks you to sign a petition supporting his
effort to play on his college's women's basketball team. Your response? If you're like 49 out of 50 students
approached at the University of Maryland recently, you may sign and say "You go, (girl?)!" And, no, according to Campus
Reform's Cabot Phillips, who masqueraded as the aspiring woman, he didn't show just the eyebrow-raising responses. He
says that he asked only 50 students for support, and 49 offered it.
Venezuela's
Crisis Is the Latest Example of Why Socialism Doesn't Work. It seems the "Socialism of the 21th Century" is
really no different from socialism from the past. Venezuela's current tragedy, simultaneously culminating in food
shortages, a crime epidemic, and an energy collapse, is the latest example of why centralized planning economy does not
work — and how it is indistinguishable from tyranny. In the South American country, even the most basic
services and products are becoming inaccessible as a result cronyism, interventionism, and a controlled prices policy.
The government now works only two days a week in order to diminish the constant electricity blackouts. The inflation
rate is the highest in the world: it is expected to be at 720 percent by the end of 2016.
Socialism
for the Uninformed. While throngs of young people are cheering loudly for avowed socialist Bernie Sanders,
socialism has turned oil-rich Venezuela into a place where there are shortages of everything from toilet paper to beer, where
electricity keeps shutting down, and where there are long lines of people hoping to get food, people complaining that they
cannot feed their families. With national income going down, and prices going up under triple-digit inflation in
Venezuela, these complaints are by no means frivolous. But it is doubtful if the young people cheering for Bernie
Sanders have even heard of such things, whether in Venezuela or in other countries around the world that have turned their
economies over to politicians and bureaucrats to run.
New
York City decriminalizes peeing in the street, drinking alcohol out of a bag and littering. Peeing in the
street, loitering, littering, drinking alcohol out of a bagged bottle and other quality of life crimes are to be decriminalized
in New York City. Under bills expected to be signed by Mayor Bill de Blasio soon, police will no longer automatically treat
such crimes as criminal offenses, but instead serve civil summonses to pay a fine in court. But not everyone is happy.
Who is Paying for Diversity?
Two emerging professions servicing the academic community are Title IX advisors and diversity consultants. The former
show university employees how not to run afoul of the federal law which was originally intended to bar discrimination by gender
that has morphed into a cover for sexual harassment policies, whether or not evidence exists to support the charges. The
latter group of diverse professionals provides advice for university administrators wishing to remain politically correct,
and most do.
Hillary Clinton's Village.
[Scroll down] At the bottom of the barrel, public schools provide warm classrooms and decent food in the cafeteria. They are
shelters from chaotic, rough Section 8 warrens and ramshackle trailer parks. The waifs and punks come in black, white, and every other
shade, all disconnected from an economy that rewards academic skills and hard work, and few possessed of any promising attitudes or abilities.
Troublemakers flourish. The custodial village that Hillary and the Village People tirelessly defend seems to breed sloths and sociopaths,
and educational cesspools seem to be a major incubator. Clinton's Village People are foundational to the Democratic Party. They
represent liberal assumptions, policies, and programs in place for decades that have proved incorrect, futile, or worse, and that are now
complicated by rising race-based sensitivities about discipline, learning disabilities, and evaluation.
A
nation of Peter Pans. We have created a nation filled with too many perpetual children — Peter and Patty Pans — who were brought up
getting trophies for participating in sports, instead of winning, protected from the supposed horrors of being ranked by grades and scores and sold
corrosive message by the likes of Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton that everyone deserves every kind of support, regardless of the level of education
they have or the work they put forward. We have hobbled a generation, or two. These Peter and Patty Pans are so addicted to drugs like
Facebook and Twitter that blow up their egos and make them into fake celebrities that they can feel pretty good for a long time, even when their
lives are going pretty badly. They can live at home with their parents in Neverland and use Tinder to "hook up" sexually with a different
partner every week, or, sometimes, a different partner every night. They can watch the Kardashians and delude themselves into thinking everyone
is content to vamp for cameras, taking lots of selfies and sleepwalking through life.
New
York City Lets You Choose From 31 Different Gender Identities. Individuals living in New York City can choose
from a minimum of 31 different gender identities, many of which allow them to fluctuate between some version or combination
of male or female identities. Businesses that don't respect and accommodate an individual's chosen gender identity risk
incurring six-figure fines under rules implemented by the city's Commission on Human Rights.
While
in Detroit Hillary says Trump's policies will bankrupt America. While pandering to union members in Detroit
yesterday, Hillary Rodham Clinton claimed that the economic policies of Donald Trump will "bankrupt America." Well,
shortly after Detroit's last Republican mayor left office in 1962, liberal Democrat Jerome Cavanagh signed into law a
commuter tax and a municipal income tax. Detroit's first black mayor, Coleman Young, not only was a race-baiter he was
a onetime member of the Communist Party. His economic record made Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev look like a Yankee
capitalist. As for Clinton's old boss, Barack Obama, federal debt has doubled since he took office.
Burlington College. [Scroll down]
Slightly north and east of the Windy City is a final example of leftist perfidy and incompetence for our list, which we would caution is anything but
exhaustive. You've undoubtedly heard about the Flint water crisis, which is a great example of how the Left is able to weaponized its failure in
governance; somehow Flint is Republican governor Rick Snyder's fault despite the fact every single individual responsible for subjecting the residents
to a poisoned water supply is a Democrat.
Hiring
Hurdle: Finding Workers Who Can Pass a Drug Test. All over the country, employers say they see a
disturbing downside of tighter labor markets as they try to rebuild from the worst recession since the Depression: They
are struggling to find workers who can pass a pre-employment drug test. That hurdle partly stems from the growing
ubiquity of drug testing, at corporations with big human resources departments, in industries like trucking where testing is
mandated by federal law for safety reasons, and increasingly at smaller companies. But data suggest employers'
difficulties also reflect an increase in the use of drugs, especially marijuana — employers' main
gripe — and also heroin and other opioid drugs much in the news.
Fatal accidents
involving stoned drivers soared in Washington since pot was legalized. Stoned driving can be as serious a
problem as drunk driving. Fatal accidents involving stoned drivers have soared in the state of Washington since
marijuana was legalized there, according to a study from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. But it's difficult to
determine whether a high-on-pot driver is too impaired to drive, according to a separate study from the same group.
It
Wasn't Supposed to Work This Way. Local authorities in Pueblo, just 40 miles south of Colorado Springs, were
recently alerted by a vigilant resident to a possible illegal marijuana grow operation. Within days, on March 31,
sheriff's deputies from the Special Investigations Narcotics Section raided a single-family home that was in the process of
being converted into a "grow house." Authorities discovered 127 marijuana plants, over $100,000 in growing equipment, and two
Cuban nationals. At first, no one seemed to take particular note of the individuals, Adriel Trujillo Daniel, 28, and
Leosbel Ledesma Quintana, 41, who had recently moved to Colorado from Florida. They were arrested on felony drug charges but
local authorities initially believed it was an isolated event. But in the span of the next week and a half, local authorities
would arrest at least four more individuals in the Pueblo area in similar cases, with similar backgrounds.
Legal
pot industry descends on Florida as voters consider medical marijuana. Three thousand members of the nation's
budding legal pot industry are visiting Florida this week — and not for the beaches. "It has nothing to do
with the climate or the attractions," said Chris Walsh, editorial director of Marijuana Business Daily, a trade publication
that sponsors the twice-annual Marijuana Business Conference. "There's a lot of excitement about the Florida market."
Medical cannabis in the nation's third-largest state could open up one of the biggest markets in the world, a potential cash
cow for companies looking for innovative ways to produce the drug and a massive patient base for researchers.
The Editor says...
So-called "medical marijuana" is the key to legalizing recreational marijuana. It has little or nothing to do with
helping patients. It is about legitimizing an industry in which a lot of people will
already make a lot of money.
Stoned
Drivers Are Killing More and More Innocent Victims. Blake Gaston, 23, killed while riding his motorcycle in
Seattle. He played the piano, guitar, drums, wrote music, and developed websites. Elizabeth Kemble, 46, was
killed by a car while walking across the street in Portland, Ore. She previously survived three kidney transplants, and
dedicated her life to helping dialysis patients and hungry seniors. Debra Majkut, 34, mother of two, killed while
sitting on her couch with three children when a car smashed into her house. And the list goes on and on. Each
person was killed by a person high on marijuana. And it is only going to get worse, given the trend towards increased
legalization and liberalization of marijuana laws in the United States.
I Identify
as Barack Obama. [Scroll down] And be warned, we trans-statuses and transgenders will have many allies in
our bonfire of the insanities. Psychologists also define something called "species dysphoria," which is when an
individual identifies as a different kind of creature. Examples of people brave enough to live as their true animal
selves may be Texas resident Wolfie Blackheart, who insists "I am a canine"; and a Norwegian woman called "Nano" who says
she's a cat. Note also, there's every bit as much scientific evidence of trans-status' and transgender's validity as
there is of trans-species' validity.
Widespread
Mental Illness Taking Over America, One Bathroom at a Time. I feel as if the world around me is suffering from
some undiagnosed, contagious mental illness, and the few of us trying not to contract it are being screamed at for not
wanting to suffer, too. Yes, I'm talking about the transgender bathroom hysteria. Let's get this out of the way
right now: This is NOT about transgendered people using the restroom of their choice. To my knowledge, they've
been doing just that for years and years with no problems. The number of transgendered people is so low that the
chances that I've actually been in the bathroom at the same time as one of them are astronomically low. But if I was,
I had no idea and it doesn't bother me to think that I may have, at some point, shared a bathroom with a transgendered
person. That's not why America's mothers and fathers are up in arms.
Yellow
fever: World on brink of global emergency over deadly outbreak, academics warn. Urgent action is needed
to combat a yellow fever epidemic in Africa amid signs it is turning into a global health emergency and a severe shortage of
the vaccine, academics have warned. Africa and Latin America and the danger of an outbreak in Asia, immunologist
Professor Daniel Lucey and Lawrence Gostin, a professor in global health law, called on the World Health Organisation (WHO)
to declare an emergency saying delays over Ebola had "cost lives". And they also said that because of the surge in new
infectious diseases in recent years — thought to be driven in part by climate change — the world should
now set up a permanent committee to decide how to respond as new threats emerge.
How is yellow fever transmitted? Mosquitoes.
Why are mosquitoes still around? Liberal environmentalists got DDT banned.
Gender Chaos in an XX-XY
World. We live in a country where people think it's okay for has-been rock stars to cancel concerts because of
their beliefs but it's not okay for bakers, florists and photographers to do the same. We also live in a nation
controlled by very confused people who believe it's good to reinforce the abnormal behavior of a few by altering the normal
behavior of the majority. If you ever needed a definition of insanity, well, there you go. So how did we get
here? It's pretty simple. We no longer live in a society that filters the world through the Biblical prism of
"right and wrong" or "good and evil." In the absence of moral absolutes, people tend to make issues over non-issues
and create wars defending non-victims.
Congratulations
To Bolivarian Socialism: Venezuela Is Now The Country With No Beer. It seems that the economic management
of Venezuela has just been able to chalk up another milestone. We might have to give them a prize of some kind for this
one: in a week or so the country is going to run out of beer. This isn't because no one wants beer, not at all.
There's been no mass outbreak of Islam or Mormonism to turn the population away from the locally highly popular drink.
It's not because people don't have the money to buy it: Polar, the local manufacturer, can sell all it is able to
make. It's not because Polar can't make money doing so either: the company makes a good profit making and selling
beer. Nope, it's purely and only because Maduro and the other Chavistas are entirely incompetent at the management of
an economy.
City
Council finalizes bills easing penalty for peeing in the street. The City Council wants to slash maximum
sentences for littering, drinking and peeing in public as part of a plan to go easy on quality-of-life violations —
while trying to keep offenders out of criminal court altogether, The [New York] Post has learned. A series of bills quietly
finalized earlier this week calls for several city code violations to be prosecuted primarily as civil offenses, punishable by
no more than monetary fines. "We're creating a hybrid where the default will be a civil penalty," said Councilman Rory
Lancman (D-Queens), who chairs the Courts and Legal Services Committee.
The fruits of national socialism: Venezuela
declares a 2-day workweek because of dire energy shortages. In a desperate attempt to save electricity,
drought-stricken Venezuela has introduced a new concept to the workplace calendar: the five-day weekend. President
Nicolás Maduro will furlough the country's public employees — who account for a third of the labor
force — for the bulk of the week, so they can sit through rolling blackouts at home rather than in the
office. "The public sector will work Monday and Tuesday, while we go through these critical and extreme weeks,"
he said on his regular presidential broadcast.
The
official Venezuelan work-week is now only two days long. Venezuela's government has announced enforced leave
for public sector employees three workdays a week, in a bid to tackle an electricity shortage that is causing power cuts and
protests. "There will be no work in the public sector on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, except for fundamental and
necessary tasks," Vice President Aristobulo Isturiz said on television Tuesday [4/26/2016]. It is the latest drastic
measure by the government as it grapples with an economic crisis that has left Venezuelans queuing for hours in shops to buy
scarce supplies.
UnAmerican ESPN.
What a joy it must be to be a leftist knucklehead. There's your opinion — and then there's hate. [...] You
never have to prove your point, you only have to bask in the glow of your own unassailable virtue. You never have to
explain how it is that, after decades of pure left-wing governance, Detroit is in ruins and Chicago is following after.
You never have to try to understand why, after living under your wonderful non-racist left-wing policies, black people are
deserting your cities in droves. You never have to confront the fact that after years of Feminism Triumphant, women are
killing themselves in record numbers.
Minnesota
Parents Sue To Get Trans Classes In Kindergarten. Parents of a 5-year-old "transgender child" have filed a
complaint against a St. Paul charter school, alleging it failed to protect him from bullying and refused to teach all
the students their preferred transgender-awareness curriculum. David and Hannah Edwards, whose child was born a boy but
now thinks he's a girl, has filed with the city's Department of Human Rights, claiming their child "wasn't able to take full
advantage of Nova's educational opportunities because of her gender identity and expression. This violated her rights."
America in
Wonderland. In 2016 the American people are seriously discussing, and acquiescing to, the wisdom of allowing
men to freely use, under the guise of transgenderism, women's bathrooms and locker rooms. Yet at the same time much of
society is railing against a supposed rape and patriarchal culture. [...] If a Christian owner of a bakery refuses, due to
religious convictions, to participate in a gay wedding, that person is subject to fines, jail time and political
intimidation. On the other hand, if a Muslim owner of a bakery refuses to do the same that person is left alone and
afforded the right to do so solely based on their religious beliefs.
Hands Off the Ladies' Rooms.
If it concerns sex in any way, you can be sure that our culture will fixate on it and manage to defy common sense with
hyperventilating indignation. Same-sex marriage roiled the waters for decades, but now that the Supreme Court has
big-footed that question, culture warriors are prowling for new realms of transgression to embrace. So, coming soon
to a bathroom near you: transgenderism.
How
the Democrats Destroyed Camden. A century ago, Camden, New Jersey was a thriving model of prosperity.
Indeed, the city was home to 365 active industries that employed scores of thousands of people in companies like RCA Victor,
Campbell's Soup, and the New York Shipbuilding Company. But today, Camden is an economic and social basket case.
Virtually wherever one looks, one can readily see evidence of its decline: abandoned houses with collapsing roofs,
crumbling facades, missing or boarded-up windows, and "lawns" choked with several years worth of weeds and brambles; churches
with bullet holes in their stained glass windows; walls of buildings defaced by all manner of graffiti; the stench of sewage
pervading run-down streets and avenues; and small, melancholy shrines (often adorned with empty liquor bottles) marking the
spots where someone was once murdered. Camden has not had a Republican mayor since 1936.
Federal
Court: Schools May Not Provide Separate Bathrooms Based on Biology. On Tuesday [4/19/2016], the Fourth
Circuit Court ruled against a Virginia school district that sought to accommodate a transgender student while also protecting
the privacy rights of other students. The court concluded that Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 —
which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex — should be interpreted as prohibiting discrimination on the
basis of gender identity, as a Department of Education letter suggested in 2015. The ruling allows a lawsuit brought
by a transgender student to proceed.
Appeals
Court Favors Transgender Student in Virginia Restroom Case. Weeks after a new North Carolina law put transgender bathroom access
at the heart of the nation's culture wars, a federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled on Tuesday [4/19/2016] in favor of a transgender student
who was born female and wishes to use the boys' restroom at his rural Virginia high school. Advocates for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
people note that the ruling from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit applies to North Carolina, where the controversial law
approved last month limits transgender people to bathrooms in government buildings, including public schools, that correspond with the gender listed
on their birth certificates.
You
Will Be Compelled to Agree. The rules of bigotry according to the left represent a constantly shifting
kaleidoscope of nonsense. This week, we learned that if you don't want your small daughter peeing next to a giant man
who thinks he is a woman, you are a bigot; if you are a woman who is uncomfortable with a man who thinks he is a woman
whipping out his male genitalia to urinate in front of you, you are a bigot; if you are a religious person who doesn't want
to participate in an activity you consider sinful, you are a bigot.
In
the Market for Fetal Body Parts, a Baby's Brain Sells for $3,340. Republicans on the special House panel
investigating the transfer of fetal tissue from aborted babies will present evidence in a hearing today that breaks down the
price per body part. With release of this evidence, Republicans say, they have enough documentation to show that
several abortion clinics and middleman procurement businesses may have violated federal law. "It is just horrifying,"
Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., who leads the House's investigation of the fetal tissue industry, told The Daily
Signal. "They are putting a dollar value on these organs from these children — unborn children that have
been aborted. It is just beyond belief."
Turning
American Law Upside Down for the Transgendered. Our nation's centuries-old commitment to free speech and
religious liberty was already under threat. But it took men wanting to use women's bathrooms and vice versa for the
Left to truly show its hand, plainly and unequivocally declaring that American legal traditions should be set ablaze.
Yesterday [4/18/2016], the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights published a "Statement Condemning Recent State Laws and Pending
Proposals Targeting the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community" — a statement motivated by new
Mississippi laws protecting religious freedom and by North Carolina's much-discussed "bathroom law. The Commission
claims that any law requiring men and women to use bathrooms that correspond to their biological sex "jeopardizes not only
the dignity, but also the actual physical safety, of transgender people whose appearances may not match societal expectations
of the sex specified on their identification documents."
A
Murder Provides a Lesson in Evil at the University of Texas. The evil responsible for [Haruka] Weiser's death
at 18 years old is brutal and ugly — right out of what might be called inner-city ghetto subculture with all its
violence, dysfunction, and its many children who grow up without fathers. And it is embodied in Weiser's alleged
killer: a troubled black 17-year-old named Meechaiel Criner — a ticking time bomb, as some described
him — who was the youngest of five siblings of a drug addict mother. Criner never knew his father. [...]
Criner had recently been in foster care and was attending high school, but he ran away; and like many in Texas who are
homeless (or who embrace the homeless lifestyle) he gravitated to politically liberal Austin, a Democratic mecca well-known
for its tolerant attitudes and reputation for providing easy pickings for panhandlers, drifters, and illegal immigrants.
Salon:
Democrat-Run Education System Responsible for Our "Disgraceful State Of Politics". Salon is one of the main
websites to head to when you want to see what the nutter Democratic Party base really thinks. Er, feels. Every
once in a while, they unintentionally land on a real truth. In this case, how bad the education system is.
Obviously, they fail to assign blame, which lands almost entirely upon the Democratic Party. Poll after poll after
poll, article after article, protest after protest, they all show that the vast majority of teachers vote Democrat.
Sure, not all of them are the nutters creating songs about Obama and forcing students to do exercises that make them
"understand radical Islam", and aren't freaking out about water pistols and finger pistols, but, they vote Democrat.
Their unions are chock full of the more hardcore Progressives, which vote Democrat.
God
Determines Sex, Not Legislators. There is no doubt in my mind and I am totally convinced that our society has
gone completely mad. The lack of common sense these days just boggles my mind. When someone is born they are
either a male or a female, God decides what we are, now it seems the politicians are trying to tell us what a persons
physical sex actually is. We now have states around the country trying to pass legislation to allow restrooms to be
used by people who say they" identify" with a different biological sex then they were born to. Which means that your
10 year old daughter or granddaughter will be using the same restroom as a 40 year old man, just because
that man feels like a woman that day? Is there a person out there with half a brain that thinks that is right?
Sexual
predators take advantage of transgender laws. It may not have been intended, but it was predictable. This
video spells out case after case of sexual predators entering women's locker rooms and dressing rooms and other private
places that are speedily becoming "unprivate," demanding to shower and change with them. [Video clip]
America
Is In The Age Of Stupidity. For me America stopped being America with the passage of Obama-Care. The
thought that the federal government can force people to buy a product would have been incomprehensible to our founders.
What will they force us to buy next? Just look at the news everyday, we see things like; laws being passed that allows
men and women to use the same restrooms and shower facilities, that's stupidity. In Colorado they hand out satanic and
atheist literature without parental consent to middle school children, that's stupidity. We have schools that will not
suspend students of color no matter what they do, because people of color get suspended more than whites. Instead of
teaching students of color how to behave, they just ignore it, that's stupidity. We have a president who believes that
global warming is a bigger threat than Muslim Terrorists, that's stupidity.
Tax Happy Vermont
Becoming A State Where Only The Rich Can Afford To Live. High taxes, heavy regulations and other policies that
depress economic growth have made Bernie Sanders' home state of Vermont a difficult place to create jobs, earn a living and
raise a family. Underscoring this is the fact that Vermont saw a net outmigration of more than 5,000 residents over the
last decade. Now Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) and state lawmakers are looking to double down on their anti-growth
policies with the state house's approval last week of another round of tax hikes of individuals, families and employers in
the Green Mountain State. The Vermont House of Representatives recently approved $48 million in higher taxes and
fees. Levies were raised on home heating oil, mutual funds, banks, drivers, and the Employer Health Assessment Tax on
businesses who don't provide health insurance for employees was hiked.
The Editor says...
I challenge you to find "outmigration" in a dictionary — meaning a big heavy book that contains every valid English
word. The online dictionaries have it, but even there the word is hyphenated.
Progressives
Muscle into the Restroom. [Scroll down] These misleading actions, words, and ideas are how the marginal
have managed to gain despotic dominance over the majority. A prime example of how the minority dominates the majority
happens when liberals foster the idea that gender fluidity determines which public restroom members of the LGBTQQIAP2S
community should have permission to use. In other words, if liberals have their way, a new level of tolerance will be
realized by sharing a public bathroom with every manner of sexually confused individual. Despite a handful of
open-minded heterosexuals, who wouldn't mind sharing a urinal cake with Chaz Bono, or tinkling while Caitlyn Jenner
eavesdrops, the goal to establish gender-neutral bathrooms will likely have to be accomplished under public duress.
America 1956
vs. America 2016. Is America a better place today than it was back in 1956? Of course many Americans
living right now couldn't even imagine a world without cell phones, Facebook or cable television, but was life really so bad
back then? 60 years ago, families would actually spend time on their front porches and people would actually have
dinner with their neighbors. 60 years ago, cars were still cars, football was still football and it still meant
something to be an American. In our country today, it is considered odd to greet someone as they are walking down the
street, and if someone tries to be helpful it is usually because they want something from you. But things were very different
in the middle of the last century. Men aspired to be gentlemen and women aspired to be ladies, and nobody had ever heard of
"bling", "sexting" or "twerking". Of course life was far from perfect, but people actually had standards and they tried to
live up to them. So how did it all go so wrong?
DEA
to decide within months whether to change federal status of marijuana. The Drug Enforcement Administration says
it plans to decide within the next several months whether to change the federal status of marijuana, according to a letter
sent to lawmakers this week. Marijuana is currently classified as a Schedule I drug, alongside the likes of LSD and
heroin, which means it is deemed to have a high potential for abuse and no current accepted medical use. Rescheduling
of marijuana could open the floodgates for research on potential medical uses of the drug, a move that would be cheered by
medical marijuana advocates.
When
Did It Become Controversial To Keep Men Out Of The Women's Bathroom? Determining what percentage of the
population is actually transgender is very difficult. For example, would Bruce Jenner have counted before he started
dressing in women's clothes or not? But, the best estimate puts transgenders at about .3% of the population.
However, if you're talking about people who've had hormones and surgery and also dress in the opposite gender's clothes as
opposed to simply "feeling like a woman," it's most certainly lower. On the other hand, roughly 50.4% of Americans
really are women. That means there are 168 women for every transgender person in America. Even if we accept
that a transgender man dressed like a woman would be embarrassed to go into a men's bathroom, doesn't it make more sense
for him to be uncomfortable than all those women?
Words
'illegal' and 'alien' banished from public libraries. Pro-immigration groups have successfully pressured the
United States Library of Congress to remove the words "illegal" and "alien" from materials because the words are considered
"pejorative" to people who enter the country illegally. The move will affect all U.S. libraries. Fusion
reported that the change was made in response to a group of illegal alien students at Dartmouth College: "If you visit your
local library today to research undocumented immigrants, you'll probably find the books are housed in a section with the subject
heading "illegal aliens" — a term that immigrant-rights groups say is racially charged and dehumanizing. The
nation's leading news organizations, including this one, have banned the phrase unless it's used in a quote. But soon
that's going to change, thanks to a group of undocumented students at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire."
Colorado
Comes Down on Fake Service Dogs. Service animal fraud is a growing problem in dog-friendly Colorado, says [Angela]
Eaton, who has been training service dogs for 35 years. State legislators agree; the Colorado House unanimously passed
a bill on Monday that would make it a crime to misrepresent a pet as a service animal in the state. But vague service dog
guidelines and a growing acceptance of "emotional support dogs" have blurred the line between pet and working animal.
Killing
Christianity in America. The radical fringe of the sexual revolution that began in the 1960s coincided and was
parallel with the Civil Rights movement, gradually poisoning and then determining to kill outright the Christian religious
conscience that was and still is the backbone of reform in America. The radicals behind the sexual revolution substituted
in the place of Christian conscience answerable to God a militant view of self-determination that held to no god but the inner
god of human will and power. In an astonishing perversion of the Quaker idea of the inner voice of conscience answerable
to God, the inner voice of the individual human being was determined to be infallible in matters of sex and practice —
"If it feels good; do it." What any individual believed to be his or her inner voice granted unqualified authority to remold
the world according to the latest revolutionary fatwa concerning sexual freedom.
The
Questions Liberals Never Have to Answer. [Question #3] Why do you support legally persecuting millions of
Christians who quite correctly believe that they cannot live in accordance with their faith if they participate in a gay
wedding? Who's a worse person, a Christian cake maker who happily serves gay customers, but believes it's wrong for
her to cater a gay wedding or a gay couple that deliberately searches out a Christian cake maker who can't participate in
their wedding so they can sue her? Why should little girls be forced to share a bathroom with grown men who claim
they "feel like" women? What about their safety? What about the fact that many of them don't feel comfortable
sharing a bathroom with someone with male genitalia? Are you helping people or hurting them by falsely telling them
they can change their sex and encouraging them to mutilate themselves through surgery instead of encouraging them to get
psychiatric treatment?
Stop
Subsidizing Terrorists. All along, liberals have been playing with fire. Their conceit has been that they could
control the tribalism in the latest immigrant wave in the same way that firefighters think they can fight wildfires with
controlled burns. But the liberal record isn't so great. Liberals legislated monopoly rights for unions, and the unions
burned down big steel and big auto. How did that help the workers? Liberals encouraged African Americans with race quotas
and tolerance for gangs, and blacks burned down their ghettos. Liberals vowed to smash the patriarchy by devaluing marriage and
made a generation of women angry and desperate. Hey, why not encourage Muslims in their religious ghettos and no-go areas!
What could go wrong?
Michigan
Schools To Let Students Choose Gender, Name And Bathroom. Michigan's State Board of Education has drafted a guidance that would
push the state's schools to allow all students, regardless of parental or doctoral input, to choose their gender, name, pronouns, and bathrooms.
Spearheaded by board president John C. Austin and signed by state superintendent Brian Whiston, the guidance informs Michigan public schools
that only the students themselves — i.e. not their parents or doctors — can determine what their individual gender identities
are. "The responsibility for determining a student's gender identity rests with the student. Outside confirmation from medical or mental
health professionals, or documentation of legal changes, is not needed," the guidance states.
President
Obama's collateral damage. Mr. Obama's stubborn devotion to his agenda of change reveals a closed mind with lethal
consequences. There are more than a hundred Americans who should be alive but are not, along with thousands of surviving
victims of lesser crimes, the grim result of the president's determination to keep the nation's southern border porous. He
may consider that a small price to pay for reshaping the nation to match his vision, but he's not the one who must pay.
De
Blasio orders city workers to allow people use NYC restrooms based on their gender identity. Mayor de Blasio
signed an executive order Monday [3/7/2016] requiring workers in city-owned buildings to let people use bathrooms based on
their gender identity, regardless of their anatomy. The executive order, which seeks to clarify existing rules issued
by the city's Commission on Human Rights, also mandates training for municipal workers on the policy, which is designed to
help 25,000 transgender New Yorkers.
Learning
from New Jersey's Bad Tax Policy. Just fifty years ago, New Jersey was like New Hampshire with no income tax and no sales
tax. It was a fast-growing and prosperous refuge for people escaping high tax burdens in New York and elsewhere. But then
a state sales tax was adopted in 1966, followed by the enactment of a state income tax in 1976. Not surprisingly, politicians used
those revenue sources to finance an orgy of new spending, to such an extent that New Jersey is now in last place in a ranking of state
fiscal conditions. And ever since new taxes were adopted, politicians have routinely and repeatedly increased the rates, diverting
ever-greater amounts of money from the state's private sector.
Obamanism
Is the Real Enemy. Fact 1. Obama and the hard left are deadly foreign toxins imported into the American body
politic, pumped into us by the remnants of the hard left that seemed to be defeated after 1990 due to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
[...] Fact 2. Obama, Hillary, Bernie, and their kind show us that the virus has survived in the shadows, while we have
dropped our guard. The hard left now dominates the Democrats and their one-party media. Fact 3. The hard left
here and in Europe has built a malignant power axis with jihad, which rose to global prominence with OPEC around 1970. [...]
Fact 4. Obama, Hillary, and Jarrett are in close alliance with our enemies, jihad and the hard left, after penetrating
the Democratic Party and therefore the one-party media.
Get
out of NYC while you can. New York City is one of the worst most populous places to live in America, barely edging
out dusty hellholes like Fresno, a study of the nation's choicest urban enclaves revealed Wednesday [3/2/2016]. US News &
World Report analyzed 100 cities from the nation's largest metro areas, basing evaluations on the local job market,
affordability and quality-of-life measures that included crime, education and transit measures. New York was ranked
No. 96 — just ahead of Fresno, Stockton, Modesto and No. 100 San Juan, Puerto Rico —
largely because of the city's sky high housing prices.
Franklin
Graham rips 'wicked and filthy' transgender ordinance. A state lawmaker in North Carolina is warning that the
city of Charlotte has blown privacy to "smithereens" and the speaker of the state House says there's support for a special
legislative session to correct that. The fight is over the recent vote by council members in Charlotte, where the Billy
Graham Evangelistic Association is headquartered, that will allow "people to use the bathroom of their choice." The issue
has played out in several other major venues across the U.S., most recently in Houston, where voters rejected out of hand a
lesbian mayor's imposition of the same transgender protection plan.
Grown
Man Pervs On Girls In Changing Room Because 'He's Allowed To Be There'. According to [a recent news report], a
grown man walked into a women's changing room at a public swimming pool in Seattle where a girls' swim team was
changing. Their mothers and other women in the locker room asked the man to leave, but he refused, saying that he was
allowed to be there. He didn't claim to be a trans-woman or anything like that. He just sat there and watched the
women change — though eventually he did finally leave.
Flint
Has A Chance To Improve More Than Its Water. As we drove through the north side of this flat, sprawling city,
Monica Villarreal, the pastor at Salem Lutheran Church, pointed out landmarks. There was the Lawrence E. Moon
Funeral Home, where online obituaries included a 24-year-old man who was recently gunned down in a restaurant parking
lot. There was D&H, a liquor store that neighbors only half-jokingly refer to as "death and homicide." There was
the house less than half a block from the church with the porch caving in. After a conversation in her office back at
Salem Lutheran, Villarreal handed me a parting gift: a plastic bottle filled with rust-colored water freshly drawn from the
church's bathroom.
30
Blocks of Ya Gotta See It to Believe It. I got frustrated Monday morning [2/29/2016] on the Schuylkill
Expressway when traffic ground to a halt just before City Line Avenue. I impulsively got off at City Line Avenue and traveled
up to Belmont Ave. I took Belmont through Fairmount Park (where dead bodies are found on a regular basis) to Girard Avenue.
After making the left on Girard, you enter a land time forgot, along with hammers, brooms, paint brushes, trash cans, marriage licenses,
school books or condoms. This stretch of West Philly makes the area around the zoo seem like paradise. The vacant, trash strewn,
weed infested lots along this decaying stretch of squalor are the highlight of the trip. There are a couple bars, nail salons, and
daycare centers (can you imagine the "care" the children receive). But for the most part it's unadulterated ghetto, with garbage
blowing along the ancient trolley tracks like sage brush in the old west.
America
is on the Road to Declinistan. Several years ago I began accumulating data to support the thesis that we are
living through America's decline. My premise was initially based upon my distress over the degradation and corruption of our
moral fiber. I watched Miley Cyrus twerk on stage, Janet Jackson expose her breast on national television, and near-naked
panhandlers run rampant through Times Square. On the heels of a philandering POTUS who swore to the nation, "I did not have
sexual relations with that woman" before being impeached for lying under oath and spending his retirement years with rumors of
untold numbers of affairs, I have to remind myself that I'm not living in France. Hillary standing by her man in Mao-style
pantsuits makes it easy. The legalization of marijuana and footage of people smoking across Denver made this mother of three
sick. Bob Dylan's "Everybody must get stoned" was a song from the 60's, not the law of the land. Speaking of the law,
with a Supreme Court that legislated out of thin air constitutional rights to abortion and gay marriage, we shouldn't be surprised
that our current president ignores constitutional restraints imposing everything from the destruction of the coal industry to
socialized medicine.
Gratuitous Hatred Is Destroying
Republicans — Just as It Did the Ancient Israelites. Most Republicans view this election as the last chance to save America
from becoming the opposite of what it was founded to be. The Left has been eating away at America's foundational values for nearly a
century, and it has been largely successful. Two examples: Seventy percent of college students do not believe in freedom of speech if
the speech might hurt someone's feelings, and many young Americans support a socialist for president.
Report:
N.J. had record $153.5 billion in outstanding debt last July. New Jersey faced $153.5 billion in outstanding debt obligations last
July, hitting a new record, according to a report released by state officials Friday [2/26/2016]. The cost of public employee benefits, school
construction and transportation projects drove the 6.9 percent, or $9.9 billion, increase for fiscal 2015.
30 Blocks of Democrat Governance. I've
written dozens of articles about the 30 Blocks of Squalor over the years. The 30 blocks are essentially from 69th Street to 39th Street
encompassing the wretched potholed route from unsafe Upper Darby through the killing fields of West Philly. The fine union government workers in the Streets
Department have consistently maintained Chestnut Street in a constant state of disrepair. Not that drivers notice. When there is an accident on the
Schuylkill Expressway in the morning I'm forced to run the 30 Blocks gauntlet down Chestnut Street. I've had to do it a few times in recent days.
The expletives flowed in waves as I hit four unmarked craters in the center lane.
De
Blasio administration mixing a toxic brew of class and racial warfare. The prospect of unanticipated destructive consequences
from a de Blasio mayoralty emerges through recent developments. They include a new campaign to close Rikers Island and a push to extend
municipal voting rights to noncitizens, including illegal immigrants. Coming on top of City Hall's efforts to handcuff police and
decriminalize low-level infractions, to incentivize welfare and homelessness, to dumb down schools and impose burdensome wage and benefit
packages on private businesses, the latest measures amount to another round of body blows against the city's social and economic fabric.
San
Francisco homeless crisis sparks bitter debate over the tents lining its streets. "A city of tents" — that is how a local government
official chose to describe San Francisco, fuelling a bitter divide in a city that is dealing with a mounting number of homeless people. Scott
Wiener, who is on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, is determined to close down the tents for homeless people on the city pavements.
Homeless charities, however, say these inhabitants have nowhere else to go. In a Medium blog, Mr Wiener said: "Permitting these
encampments is neither humane nor progressive."
Mayor
wants to open supervised injection facility for heroin in NY city. One upstate New York city is planning an
unconventional approach to combating a growing heroin epidemic: Letting addicts shoot up on government property under the
supervision of medical professionals. Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick unveiled his controversial proposal to open a supervised
injection facility during an interview with The Associated Press released Monday [2/22/2016]. The facility would provide a
space for users to inject pre-purchased drugs with clean needles under the watchful eye of healthcare professionals who could, in
theory, keep them safe and direct them to addiction services.
The Editor asks...
Who provides the heroin? Is this facility strictly BYOH? If the state is providing heroin to addicts, why isn't it also
providing whiskey to drunks, or cigarettes to smokers who can't quit? If the state is providing supervisory medical professionals, why
aren't the professionals administering the dope? If somebody injects something other than heroin, and subsequently dies on the spot,
is the state liable?
Man Undressing in Women's Room Cites
Transgender Rule. The Seattle Parks and Recreation department is facing an obstacle regarding gender bathroom rules. According to
KING-TV, a man undressed in a women's locker room on February 8, citing a new state rule that allows people to choose a bathroom based on gender
identity. Seattle Parks and Recreation says a man wearing shorts entered the women's locker room at Evans Pool and took off his shirt.
Women alerted staff, who told the man to leave, but he said, "the law has changed and I have a right to be here."
Emails:
Despite knowing of lead in water, EPA planned to let Flint keep drinking it into 2016. Four months after being notified about high lead levels in a
Flint home, the Environmental Protection Agency was prepared to let the city continue giving lead-contaminated water to customers until at least 2016, emails
released Friday [2/12/2016] show. Jennifer Crooks, the Michigan program manager for the EPA's Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, sent out an agenda on
June 8, 2015, for a planned call with Michigan Department of Environmental Quality officials.
Indenturing Students. Young voters should be
very cautious in accepting Bernie Sanders' idea that college should be free. Anybody who thinks this socialist-spun fantasy is a responsible plan should look at
the rising student loan debt. It is now at $1.3 trillion and is stifling the finances of young people who want to get married, buy a house, buy a car, or
pursue any other financial goals. Socialism is a millstone around the necks of America's middle class and poor. Anyone who disagrees with this should
look at how the cost of a college education has risen much faster than wages. This was only possible because student loans became a substitute for incomes.
They seemed to make college more affordable but that was not only an illusion: it was a hurtful, intentional fraud.
The
United States at the Point of No Return. Beginning in the late 1980's, the cognoscenti declared that expansive government
spending, globalization and free trade, combined with a comprehensive and overarching regulatory regime determined to root out so-called
corruption and inequality as well as save the planet from the over blown evils of global warming, would be the course the nation should
pursue. The result of this foolhardy and myopic scheme: [#1] In 1988 the national debt of the United States stood at
$2.6 Trillion, today it is over $19.0 Trillion — an increase of 635% (and projected to reach $29.0 Trillion
by 2026). [...] [#2] Since November of 2008 the working age population has increased by over 18 million. However, the
number of those employed has increased just 5.5 million. Meanwhile those unemployed or no longer in the work force has
ballooned by 12.4 million to a staggering total of 102 million or 40.4% of the working age population. [#3] Another
factor impacting on the economic health of the American people is immigration. In 1988 there were 16 million immigrants
(including less than a million illegal aliens) living in the United States. Today that number has skyrocketed to 42.4 million
(including an estimated 12 million illegal aliens).
City
workers in San Diego barred from uttering 'biased' term 'Founding Fathers'. The traditional reference to America's patriotic patriarchs is
considered gender biased, and a city manual banning the term was reinforced this week with verbal orders, according to legal watchdog group, Pacific Justice
Institute. "At a time set aside to honor American icons to whom we owe our constitutional freedoms, it is offensive and indefensible that the City of
San Diego is directing employees not to even mention the Founding Fathers," Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute, said in a statement
provided to FoxNews.com. The warning against referring to Washington, Jefferson, Adams and company as "Founding Fathers" first appeared in a section
of a city-issued manual titled, "Bias-Free Language."
The
Peasant King of Crass Leads the Field. [Scroll down] It is the vulgarization of American politics. The
GOP's open embrace of Trump, much like the Left's continued infatuation with Bill Clinton, is clear evidence that many, if not
perhaps most, Americans no longer hold the Office of President as above the lowest common denominator. These men do not
represent the very best of American ideals, but closer to the very worst; that it is okay to engage in perverted sex acts in
the Oval Office, it's okay to lie, it's okay to insult people individually and as a group, it's okay to brag about buying-off
politicians for personal gain, it's okay to use vulgar language in public because — to these people and to their
enablers among the voting population and the media — such conduct sells and, after all, simply reflects the "people's
culture." Vulgarity and baseness has become the New Normal.
New York is
falling down. Tonight I walked onto the subway and saw the car was half-empty because a stinking bum was lying
on a seat, and no one wanted to smell him. Rome fell. New York is falling down. It is filled with illegalities and
filth as a result of the good intentions and failed ideas of liberals. Politicians pretend to want the best while they deliver the
worst. De Blasio and New York City Council speaker Melissa Mark-Mark-Vivirito have decriminalized public urination and quality-of-life
offenses. Are they kidding? De-civilizing a beautiful city is not a positive. It is a fall from grace.
Donald
Trump's foul mouth is just a cover for his ignorance. We are a culture conditioned by cable television, which has made the language of sailors,
mobsters and New York real estate developers available to any digitally literate 11-year-old. Even the cable channels you don't pay for have taken to
constant, blindingly obvious bleeping, in a wink and nod to their perception of modern usage. This, after all, is the way "real life" sounds.
Let us hope not. In real life, expletives are often used as a form of aggression or cruelty. A co-worker who tells you to Trump yourself
is usually being unpleasant. A co-worker who does this every day is often creating a hostile or demeaning work environment. Language suitable for
decent company is a form of politeness, which is a species of respect, which is an expression of morality.
Lessons from Flint.
Flint, Michigan is the poster child of one-party, generational Democratic rule. Flint, Michigan's City Council is all Democratic.
A generation of Flint's mayors have been Democratic. Rick Snyder's immediate predecessor as governor was Obama darling Jennifer
Granholm — a Democrat. The federal bureaucratic agencies — including the EPA — are all Democratic.
Bad Water and Wedgies. It's
hard to get the truth on anything from anybody anymore. Take the Flint, Michigan water crisis: now we know the rest of the story.
Here is the Cliff notes version: The Flint water crisis is the result of a Keynesian stimulus project gone wrong. Who could have
figured that switching to a parallel water pipeline being built by a private company might actually cost more than staying with the Detroit
water system?
Amid
denials, state workers in Flint got clean water. In January of 2015, when state officials were telling worried
Flint residents their water was safe to drink, they also were arranging for coolers of purified water in Flint's State Office
Building so employees wouldn't have to drink from the taps, according to state government e-mails released Thursday [1/28/2016]
by the liberal group Progress Michigan. A Jan. 7, 2015, notice from the state Department of Technology, Management
and Budget, which oversees state office buildings, references a notice about a violation of drinking water standards that had
recently been sent out by the City of Flint.
Obama's
Hug-A-Thug Policies Backfire In NYC, St. Paul Schools. New York public schools are dealing with escalating classroom chaos after
adopting minority-friendly discipline policies that the Education Department pushed to close so-called "racial disparities" in suspensions and
expulsions. Educrats have been threatening school districts with lawsuits and funding cuts wherever if finds disparities. High-school
kids are getting "warning cards" for offenses that normally would result in a criminal summons and suspension, such as drug possession and disorderly
conduct. Liberal New York Mayor Bill de Blasio says crime is down in the schools, but it's not. It's just that schools are ignoring it.
The only thing that's down is suspensions.
The Flint water crisis is
the result of a stimulus project gone wrong. [Scroll down] All of this shows two things: One, the Flint water
crisis is the result of a Keynesian stimulus project gone wrong. Two, emergency managers are not always a panacea for fiscally
mismanaged cities. The assumption behind handing them control of city finances is that they are grown-ups who, unlike politicians,
are immune from special interest pressure and therefore more capable of making tough cuts. In reality, they can have their own
political grand plans that don't always overlap with the city's fiscal interest. But to add insult to Flint's injury, while the
rest of the Genesee County continued to be served by DWSA before the new system became operational, Flint was switched to its old,
moribund facility. That's not because Detroit refused to cut off Flint, as the governor's office and local authorities have
suggested. It's because Kurtz and the then Flint mayor, Dayne Walling, sources say, believed that this facility was an
underutilized asset that ought to be put to good use to save money.
Drug
traffickers secretly shipping mass quantities of weed out of Colorado. Seeking a safe haven in Colorado's legal
marijuana marketplace, illegal drug traffickers are growing weed among the state's sanctioned pot warehouses and farms, then
covertly shipping it elsewhere and pocketing millions of dollars from the sale, according to law enforcement officials and
court records consulted by The Associated Press.
The Contempt That Poisoned Flint's Water. Even before the drinking
water in Flint, Michigan, was found to be tainted with lead — before water from some areas tested at more than twice the level considered to be toxic waste, and
public-health officials said that every last child in the city should be treated as if the child had been poisoned — the governor's office knew that the water was
discolored, tasted bad, smelled strange, and was rife with "organic matter." They knew, as one memo sent to Governor Rick Snyder in February, 2015, noted, that "residents
have attended meetings with jugs of brownish water."
Hope —
and clean water — remains elusive for the people of Flint. The residents of this battered city have
lived for years under some of the worst conditions in urban America: soaring levels of violent crime, poverty, unemployment
and blight. Now, for many, the catastrophe of a water supply that may be poisoned indefinitely appears to be the final
insult. Many are desperate to escape the city, but some don't have the means to do so. The old and poor,
especially, are stuck.
Michigan
officials poisoned Flint's drinking water and the EPA covered it up. The latest indignity to plague this city
of nearly 100,000 is lead poisoning via their drinking water, a man-made disaster created by the arrogance and incompetence
of government officials in Flint, Lansing, and Washington — Democrats as well as Republicans. Anybody angry
enough to call for GOP Gov. Rick Snyder's resignation should also want the scalp of an Obama appointee at the Environmental
Protection Agency who sat on lead test results. "The EPA buried this," said Virginia Tech researcher Marc Edwards, whose
water analysis in 2015 helped expose Flint's contamination.
First
City in America to be Muslim-majority; can Sharia law be far behind? In November, the blue-collar city that has
been home to Polish Catholic immigrants and their descendents for more than a century became what demographers think is the
first jurisdiction in the nation to elect a majority-Muslim council. It's the second tipping for Hamtramck, which in 2013
earned the distinction of becoming what appears to be the first majority-Muslim city in the United States following the arrival
of thousands of immigrants from Yemen, Bangladesh and Bosnia over a decade. The once-thriving factory town now struggles
with one of the highest poverty rates in Michigan.
Flint
Water Crisis Caused by Toxic Levels of Bureaucracy. The Environmental Protection Agency has found itself at the center of
another environmental crisis. The epicenter of this particular disaster is Flint, Michigan. It's [sic] drinking water has been
contaminated with elevated levels of lead, a fact known to several regulatory agencies for many months. Tragically, instead of
protecting people, these officials opted to wring their hands and kick the can down the bureaucratic road.
Pictures
of drinking water Flint, MI residents were told was safe to drink. Flint, Michigan is one of many blue hell-holes
infamous for forced unionism, easy access to welfare, and outrageously expensive benefits for public sector workers. Its
economy imploded decades ago and the pain still continues for the dazed retinue unable to move away. The latest debacle?
To save money, the bankrupt city government switched its water supply from Detroit's system to one sourced by the Flint River.
The Flint River water was found to contain lead that had leached from ancient plumbing systems.
Political
Poison. Flint, Mich., has been poisoning its residents. The city, in an attempt to save money, planned to stop
buying water from Detroit and sign up with a regional water system; in the interim, it was getting its municipal water from
the Flint River, which is as much a garbage dump as it is a body of water. Residents complained that the water smells of
chemicals, that it isn't the right color, etc. Children's lead levels are dangerously high, and an outbreak of Legionnaires'
disease may also be linked to city water. The city knew about this, and did approximately nothing in response until the
problem was well advanced. A word that is curiously scarce in coverage of this disaster: Democrat.
Flint, like big brother Detroit down the way, has a long history of political dominance by the Democratic party.
Why
Liberals Are Foaming At The Mouth Over 'New York Values'. Senator Cruz was talking about cultural and political
values. Duck Dynasty values versus Bill de Blasio values. He was referring to the permissive New York values
celebrating public debauchery that would make the citizens of Sodom and Gomorrah blush. Just ask the families from the
Heartland who've been accosted by topless women in Times Square. Remember Occupy Wall Street — turning public
parks into human cesspools — people defecating on police cars? He was talking about those values, too.
Along with the values that propelled citizens into the streets to justify violence against police officers.
Is
the Left Even on America's Side Anymore? [Scroll down] The Left is blind to the responsibility of
inner-city populations for their off-the-charts violent-crime rates. The failure to embrace the responsibilities of
parenthood is as characteristic of the progressive attitude as is its blindness to the betrayal of inner-city communities by
Democrats, responsible almost entirely for the disgraceful condition of America's cities. Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore,
St. Louis, and numerous other centers of out-of-control black poverty, failed public-school systems, and black-on-black violence
are 100 percent controlled by the Democratic party and have been so for 50 to 100 years. Yet 95 percent
of the black vote and 100 percent of the progressive vote continues to go to Democrats who oppress African Americans.
Out of (gun) control.
As noted by many other commentators, American states and cities with the most restrictive laws are also places with some of
the highest levels of crimes involving firearms. A side note: these jurisdictions are run by Democratic politicians,
though the major media rarely note the connection. And the police, who feel under constant attack, have pulled back in
some cities, like Baltimore, contributing to the upsurge in gun crimes by thugs who don't think they will be caught.
Obama
and the Insanity of the Liberal Mind. History will look back at an America that won the Cold War under Reagan only to
reignite it under Obama. Our descendants will ponder how their ancestors abandoned American supremacy, ingenuity, and civility due
to ignorance, idealism, and an irrational obsession with politically correct progressivism that led to the transformation —
and decline — of this once great nation.
The
American Left and the Death of Political Discourse. The majority of the American people, asleep during the past
sixty years of overwhelming peace and prosperity, are gradually waking up to the massive deception that has been perpetrated
by the Left and their inability to solve the almost insolvable problems they, in large part, have created. Thus the tone
and nature of political discourse has become more strident as the Left, in an effort to protect their gains, status and
self-image, will do or say anything regardless of the damage it may inflict on the country including demanding the
de facto repeal of the First Amendment.
America
Doesn't Have a Gun Problem, It Has a Democrat Problem. America's mass shooting capital isn't somewhere out west
where you can get a gun at the corner store. It's in Obama's own hometown. Chicago is America's mass shooting capital.
There were over 400 shootings with more than one victim. In 95 of those shootings, 3 or more people were shot. 2,995 people
were shot in Chicago last year. Shootings were up, way up, in Baltimore. With an assist from Al Sharpton and #BlackLivesMatter,
Baltimore beat out Detroit. But Detroit is still in the running. Chicago, Baltimore and Detroit all have something in common,
they're all run by the party of gun control which somehow can't seem to manage to control the criminals who have the guns.
Rahm Emanuel's Cuban Vacation.
No doubt you, too, spent the holidays relishing the humiliation of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the overrated and obnoxious Democratic Party
hack who, finally, is teetering on the brink of political oblivion. [...] How bad is Rahm Emanuel? He makes Bill De Blasio look good.
He was forced into an unprecedented runoff before winning a second term last spring. In early December his approval rating was
18 percent. Protestors, including Democratic powerbroker Al Sharpton, want him to resign for the city's withholding of video in
the case of Laquan McDonald, a black teenager killed by a police officer in 2014. Gang violence is pervasive. Municipal finances
are a wreck. Normally one might be inclined to sympathize, however faintly, with a city manager out of his depth and at the mercy of
events. Not in this case.
The Fall of Chicago. What our
Marxist friends call "internal contradictions" are bringing down Chicago, as they have already bankrupted Detroit. [...] There are some exceptions
(San Francisco being the most prominent, with Oakland close behind — where the tech boom has led to in-migration of affluent techies),
but most large Democrat-run cities are following this path to disaster, with a shrinking base of taxpayers supporting a growing population of
dependents, as municipal employees consume ever greater portions of tax revenue for their retirements and health care benefits. The money
runs out, services decline, and the dependents get angry and unruly. Even more taxpayers flee, until the bills cannot be paid.
Homelessness Is the Fault of Liberals. Every
major city in the country has seen a dramatic uptick in homelessness and the common denominator are always leftists. Whether it is at the federal, state or local
level, liberals in government are the cause of the homeless disaster. In downtown Los Angeles, the famous homeless area known as Skid Row now spans 50 city blocks.
Reverend Andy Bales is the chief executive of the Union Rescue Mission, who help those on Skid Row. He says what is happening there is, "the worst man-made disaster
in the U.S." The Reverend is indeed correct. Rampant homelessness is entirely man-made.
The
Left's Retreat to Fantasy. The left's slide into irrationality in recent years should come as no surprise.
There is no way the ideology — in particular regarding its record — can be rationally defended any longer.
[...] The UK, Sweden, France, and all other social democratic states have been forced to admit defeat. The same occurred
in the U.S. with the Great Society and its underpinning programs — federal welfare, urban renewal, the War on Poverty.
All were based on the most rigorous rationality, and all were abject failures. Which doesn't mean that leftists have given up.
True believers don't. Instead, the collapse of the liberal/leftist program following the 60s led to a retreat into romantic
fatuity — evanescent claims of "compassion" and decency that were considered to be beyond debate. But these are
no longer tenable either, after 65 million abortions, mass murder and outrage in the inner cities, and the piles of dead
generated by the left-supported "Arab Spring," to mention only three outcomes of leftist policy.
NYC
Will Fine You $250,000 For 'Misgendering' A Transsexual. Did you call a transsexual person "he" or "she" when
they preferred to be called "zhe?" According to a newly updated anti-discrimination law in New York City, you could be fined
an eye-watering $250,000. In the latest, astonishing act of draconian political correctness, the NYC Commission on Human
Rights have updated a law on "Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Expression" to threaten staggering financial
penalties against property owners who "misgender" employees or tenants.
The
Liberal Christmas from Hell. [Scroll down] Look, it all makes sense. Everything that liberals built is
broken. The economy is a mess; health care is a mess; the universities are broken; K-12 education is wrecked; welfare is out
of control; the Middle East has been torched. And liberals did it. Then there is the wife of my 60ish friend who's
wondering about all that women's liberation of which she'd heard tell back when she was young. Or the college women screaming
for safe spaces, not from the so-called "rape culture" but really from the anti-woman squalor of the hook-up culture. Or the
"mismatched" African American college students protesting on campus in a rage of disappointed hope.
Chicago's
police scandal fueled by decades of one-party rule. Monopolistic political machines breed contempt for voters,
animosity toward policy innovation and even minimal notions of transparency. Ending one-party rule in Chicago and other big
cities won't solve all of their problems, but it can force a more honest conversation about what those problems are.
The
Gay Agenda and the Real World. There's just one problem with the gay agenda: it's based on a lie. Homosexuals
are not like heterosexuals, nor is the practice of homosexuality innocuous. The single largest problem for the gay agenda is
medical science. In 2014, the CDC found that men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM), about 1 percent of the population, accounted
for 83 percent of syphilis cases in the U.S. Syphilis, a disease that was once on the verge of eradication, is spreading like
wildfire. According to the CDC, syphilis rates "are increasing at an alarming rate." The statistics for AIDS are similar.
In 2010, MSM were responsible for 63 percent of new AIDS cases in the US. The rate of anal cancer among MSM is seventeen times
higher than among heterosexuals. It is alarming that the gay community exhibits no restraint and cannot be self-policing.
Even school children know about condoms, yet venereal diseases rage unchecked through the population of gay men. A recent report
in the medical literature found that infection rates for both gonorrhea and chlamydia are increasing among MSM. The fact that
about two-thirds of syphilis and AIDS cases occur amongst one percent of the population tells us something that is immediate and
unambiguous: that homosexuality is not an innocuous choice. What gay men do behind closed doors is fundamentally different
from what heterosexuals usually do in their bedrooms. It's also more dangerous.
If not overnight, when?
President Obama has done great damage to to the rule of law, to American national security, to race relations, and to our health care system.
We are mired in an era of pitiful economic growth that feels like stagnation. He has vastly expanded government dependency, but he counts this
an accomplishment. Obamacare is a Rube Goldberg contraption of untold destruction. It's hard to assess where Obama has done the most
damage. The damage may not be irreparable, but it won't be repaired any time soon.
San
Bernardino: The American left has reached a point where everything is politicized. Islamic radicals, including
a husband and wife, shot up a Christmas party. On CNN, an analyst of some sort actually suggested that perhaps the Muslim
man was upset that it was a holiday party. The American political left has reached a point where everything is politicized.
Shows get awards based on how faithful they are to the LGBTQ community. Bruce Jenner gets applauded as a hero for becoming a
woman. Christians get mocked for praying. Republicans get attacked because Islamists shoot up a holiday party. When
shootings happen in America, conservatives immediately conclude it must be a mentally unstable person or an Islamic terrorist.
For the American political left, they always conclude it was a white, Christian, Republican. It is the default of normal
Americans to assume the best about their neighbor and fellow American. It is the default of the political left to assume any
bad act is the result of conservatives, including the awful tragedy in California.
Democrats
Empower Citizens to Restrict Constitutional Rights. The contempt President Obama has for established order in Federal government, particularly
in the manner in which he has ignored Congress, is well known. He has also stated that if he doesn't like a law written by Congress, such as any law
dealing with immigration, he will just ignore their proposed bills and declare his own by Executive Order. Democrats have now empowered citizens to
decide when and where other citizens may exercise their constitutional rights. This is most clearly illustrated in how government treats the
rights of storeowners with regard to same sex marriage and concealed carry laws. Examples abound. In Colorado when a bakery refused to bake a
cake for a same sex wedding, the state court ruled against the baker. The government has made sure that no bakery, florist or pizza place may refuse
to serve a same sex couple.
Neuter
Employee Sues Company for $518,682 for Not Acknowledging its Lack of Gender. It's not gay rights. It's not even LGBT which
includes men who dress up like women. It's actually LGBTQIA which includes a bunch of people who don't know what they are, including
"Queer" and "Asexual". [...] The supervisors chose not to waste everyone's time with the insanity of a crazy person. And here comes the
lawsuit because the catering company chose not to manufacture a single new gender consisting entirely of "Jones". This whole thing
[disproves] the notion that you can just sign on to gay marriage and be done with it.
Planned
Parenthood Killer Was a Deranged Pothead. The liberals were quick to blame conservative Christians, Republicans,
and others on the right for the carnage in the Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic. It turns out the killer was a
paranoid pothead who probably moved to Colorado because it offered him plenty of legal weed. The murders were just the
latest example of President Obama's pro-pot policies causing "active shooter" cases in which innocent people get maimed and
killed. While "progressives" hope to capitalize on the killings by stopping investigations into Planned Parenthood, the
case of Robert Lewis Dear has backfired on them in more ways than one. Dear, who looks stoned out of his mind in his
mugshot, looks like another case of a cold-blooded killer whose actions may be attributed to his heavy use of a substance
that many progressives deem harmless and safe. It's time for the major media to quit making jokes about marijuana
and instead examine its harmful and deadly effects.
Crazy People Are Dangerous, Part 7. How many
times do I have to explain this? You let enough kooks run around loose — as has been the policy in this country since we
de-institutionalized the mentally ill in the 1970s — and people adjust their expectations. People become accustomed to encountering
weirdos, freaks and lunatics, jabbering madness to themselves on street corners or posting deranged nonsense on Tumblr blogs. You're not even
supposed to notice there is anything strange about these wild-eyed nutjobs roaming around with facial piercings, tattoos and purple hair.
There
Is No Bigger Threat to Millennials Than Liberalism. From raising the minimum wage, to Obamacare, to the negative emotional and
intellectual effects of "political correctness" on college campuses, liberalism is harming the young and decreasing their chances of rising
in the world. According to Salon's Amanda Marcotte, "Young people are under assault from reactionary forces and most of their
grievances are not about imagined slights, but about very serious problems they are facing, on and off campus." Ironically, Marcotte
is right — but the "reactionary forces" truly at fault are those of the left, not of the right.
The
Surging Anti-American Sentiment of the Left. As one of the former leaders of the New Left who has now turned
into a fierce proponent for conservatism, David Horowitz, explains that the Democratic "party apparatus feeds off the
entitlements of the welfare state: social workers, university intellectuals, trial lawyers, bureaucrats, and government
unions are all clients of the big-government programs the party promotes". The more the individual is given entitlements, the
longer the individual is kept dependent upon the program in which the party promotes. Today it has resulted in more than
23 percent of Americans being dependent on some form of welfare while the American workforce has become demoralized as
millions have given up searching for jobs. Moreover, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the percent of Americans
in the workforce — either working or seeking work under the Obama presidency has plummeted from 65.7 percent the
month he took office in January 2009 to just 62.8 percent in November of 2014. That translates to more than
7 million fewer workers in the workforce.
California's
Carbon Restrictions Hurt Poor, Minorities. Jonathan A. Lesser, in his paper, "Less Carbon, Higher Prices: How California's Climate
Policies Affect Lower-Income Residents," examines a number of California's environmental policies and how they impact electricity prices at the
county and household level. Lesser finds three significant economic results from the state's renewable-energy mandates and carbon cap-and-trade
program: Rising prices, a hidden regressive tax, and increasing energy poverty. California's renewable-energy mandates and carbon
cap-and-trade program have caused household electricity prices to rise, and Lesser estimates they will likely continue to rise at an even faster
rate in coming years.
Chicago
Deserves Riots Over The Laquan McDonald Shooting And Coverup. Chicago suffers from the classic big-city dysfunction that
results when the police view themselves as alien from a hostile population: the callous and excessive use of force, yet without any
actual benefit in the reduction of crime. So if there are any people who have a right to be lividly angry at their city government,
it's the people of Chicago — even more so because they have voted lockstep for the Democrats for 50 years, and this is
the thanks they get. Ah, but there's the rub. If the city is about to get the riots it deserves, the protesters have to admit
they have gotten the city government they asked for. It's not just that they have voted for politicians from the Democratic Party.
It's that they have uncritically embraced that party's ideology. As they have suffered under the yoke of a big, intrusive, corrupt,
callous, and indifferent government, they have clamored for more of it.
Yesterday's
Communist Is Today's Progressive. The new American morning shadowed with trepidation; what new crisis will
emerge wholly created by this administration that pits one group of Americans against each other? New morals, values, laws
and rights are established at the benefit of a few to the detriment of the majority. All the while this is happening we
meaninglessly drift away from the norms established in the past as our own history fades away from popular discourse. In
the blink of an eye, or in a generation, society itself unravels as it seems today to have lost the ability to retain the
qualities that once made America exceptional. Liberty, freedom, truth, and the Constitution have given way to ideology,
entitlement, and moral relativism. What we are left with is a pervasive atmosphere of decadence and moral bankruptcy that
stands no chance in fighting an ideology that is consuming us.
America's Toxic Brew:
"Diversity". Logic evidently does not exist among the "diverse" crowd. Parents are being urged by various
PC groups to raise their children in a "gender-neutral" way so the child may "select" which gender they feel "comfortable"
with. This "select-your-own-gender" idiocy has led to schools dealing with "select-your-own-restroom" students who
evidently are finding legal support from the Justice Department. The real tragedy is that childhood can be confusing
enough for children trying to understand themselves and the realities of growing up, without a bunch of politically correct
manufactured "choices" being thrust upon them in the process. Ultimately, these children will suffer, as will society.
Terrorism Deaths Quadruple Under
Obama. The worldwide number of annual terrorist deaths has more than quadrupled since President Barack Obama was inaugurated
in January 2009. Deaths from terrorism increased 80 percent last year to an all-time-record of 32,658 people killed, compared
to 18,111 in 2013. The number is up about 426 percent from the 7,654 killed by terrorists in 2008 under President Bush,
according to the latest report from 'Vision of Humanity.'
Pew:
65% say the news media has a 'negative effect' on America. An extensive new Pew Research Center survey finds that 65 percent
believe that the news media "has a negative effect on the way things are going in the country." Some 56 percent said the entertainment
industry has a negative effect. For comparison, 51 percent believe that the Obama administration has a negative effect and
40 percent say labor unions do too.
The Chickens of Communism Have Come Home to Roost. The
urban dictionary defines cultural Marxism as "The gradual process of destroying all traditions, languages, religions,
individuality, government, family, law and order in order to re-assemble society in the future as a communist utopia.
This utopia will have no notion of gender, traditions, morality, God or even family or the state." There is no shortage
of Lenin's "useful idiots" with brains addled by drugs and agitated by paid Alinsky-style community organizers. "Useful
idiots" are easily manipulated individuals without a compass, without a country, with allegiance to global citizenship and
Mother Gaia, humans ruled by emotion and devoid of rational thinking. They are used skillfully to implement cultural
Marxism, to disseminate poisonous ideas, chaos, decadence, and worthless entertainment parading as art.
N.J.
has worst business tax climate in U.S.: study. New Jersey's high property and income taxes contribute to its
standing as the nation's least attractive tax climate for businesses, according to a Washington tax policy group's annual
ranking of the 50 states. The Tax Foundation, a public policy group that has two former Republican lawmakers on its board
of directors, considered five metrics, including corporate, individual income, sales, unemployment and property taxes to arrive
at an overall rank. New Jersey ranks dead last — a distinction the Garden State has had since at least 2013.
Half
of New Yorkers Say They Are Barely or Not Getting By, Poll Shows. Half of New York City residents say they are struggling economically,
making ends meet just barely, if at all, and most feel sharp uncertainty about the future of the city's next generation, a new poll shows. The
poll, conducted by The New York Times and Siena College, shows great disparities in quality of life among the city's five boroughs. The stresses
weighing on New Yorkers vary widely, from the Bronx, where residents feel acute concern about access to jobs and educational opportunity, to Staten
Island, where one in five report recently experiencing vandalism or theft.
Coming Next? Men as Mothers. There has long
been a subversive "anything goes" streak in bioethics. [...] Biologically male mothers would be unethical and immoral from every angle one looks at the issue;
whether the potential fatal harm to the man, treating new life as a mere experiment, and the obliteration of the concept of societal norms.
A ruined generation (or two). Neil Cavuto
interviewed Keely Mullen this week. Mullen is the organizer of the Million Student March, which she described as "a movement for a more
equitable and fair system of education as opposed to the really corporate model that we have right now." They have three core demands:
(1) free public college, (2) cancelation of student debt, and (3) a $15/hr minimum wage for students who work on campus.
Cavuto asked her how all of that would be paid for. Her answer (wait for it): the top 1% of people who are hoarding all the wealth!
The White Working Class
is in Trouble. In the TV sitcom, "All in the Family", with Archie Bunker, liberals gave themselves permission to hate on the white
working class and stigmatize Archie and the millions like him as racists, sexists, and bigots. This dovetailed with the liberal agenda because,
with the cultural Marxist turn to race politics and gender politics, somebody was going to have to pay the price of Affirmative Action for blacks and
women in the government bureaucracies, and it wasn't going to be educated and evolved white liberals. Ditto when it came time to create sanctuary
cities for illegal immigrant Hispanics and bake wedding cakes for gays or else.
Years of socialist indoctrination in the public schools are now paying off: Million
Student March aims to fight for free college tuition and cancellation of student debt. On a recent Tuesday at
the City College of New York in Manhattan, a handful of students, activists and professors sat in a small circle casually
planning a revolution. Surrounded by other students typing on their laptops in a basement lounge a few escalator rides
down from street level, the group's conversation flowed easily from the mundane — how many fliers each could hand
out in 15 minutes — to their lofty goals: The cancellation of all student debt, free tuition at public
colleges and universities, and getting campus workers a minimum wage of $15 an hour.
Christian
Daycare Workers Fired for Refusing to Call a Little Girl a Boy. Two daycare workers have been fired for
refusing to go along with the center's transgender agenda. Madeline Kirksey, one of the workers who is an author of a
Christian book, says her religious liberty rights have been violated. The two were fired after refusing to call a little
girl a boy.
Christian
Daycare Workers Fighting Back After Being Fired For Refusing to Call a Girl a Boy. Two Christian daycare
workers fired for refusing to call a six-year-old girl a boy are fighting back. They have hired legal counsel and are going
to sue. One of the workers was fired from a Houston area school the day the Houston "bathroom ordinance" was soundly defeated
by voters. The other worker was fired the Thursday before.
Mayors
Of Eighteen U.S. Cities Tell Obama They Are Ready To Take More Syrian Refugees. Mayors from eighteen U.S. cities signed a letter to
President Obama saying they are willing to take even more refugees than what has been proposed by the administration. "We will welcome the Syrian
families to make homes and new lives in our cities," wrote the mayors, all of whom are part of the Cities United for Immigration Action coalition.
Proof that the big game is a political lever: 'Rumblings'
of Super Bowl Boycott After Houston Equal Rights Measure Rejected. The controversial measure would have established nondiscrimination protections
for LGBTQ people in the city, among other groups. "I fear that this will have stained Houston's reputation as a tolerant, welcoming, global city," Houston
Mayor Annise Parker said at an election night watch part in downtown Houston. "I absolutely fear that there will be a direct economic backlash as a result
of this ordinance going into defeat and that's sad for Houston."
The Editor says...
Quite the reverse is true: Tourists aren't going to visit any city where there is no difference between the men's restroom and the ladies' restroom.
Conservatives
win on election night as voters elect GOP governors, reject 'bathroom bill,' pot. With 30 percent of precincts counted, The
Associated Press declared that Houston's Proposition 1 had gone down to defeat. [...] The vote capped a pitched 18-month battle between
Houston pastors and Mayor Annise Parker, the first openly lesbian mayor of a major city, who had championed the ordinance allowing people
to use restrooms, showers and other public accommodations based on their gender identity, not their biological sex.
HERO
fails by wide margin. Houston's controversial equal rights ordinance failed by a wide margin Tuesday
[11/3/2015], with voters opting to repeal the law that offered broad non-discrimination protections, according to incomplete
and unofficial returns. The hotly contested election has spurred national attention, drawing comment from the White House
and the state's top officials. Largely conservative opponents of the law allege that it would allow men dressed as women,
including sexual predators, to enter women's restrooms. Supporters of the law, including Mayor Annise Parker, argue that it
extends an important local recourse for a range of protected classes to respond to discrimination.
The Editor says...
When you choose to do your business in the men's room or the ladies' room, as appropriate, is that an act of malicious discrimination, or is it just plain common sense, such as we have all experienced for
as long as public restrooms have existed? And why does "a range of protected classes" exist in this country? It is because socialist Democrats categorize everyone. Republicans (theoretically)
are in Washington to protect and defend traditional conservative ideas and values (individual liberty, capitalism, freedom), while the Democrats are there to protect and defend
classes and categories of voters (homosexuals, baby killers, illegal aliens, welfare addicts).
Couple
seeks right to marry. The hitch? They're legally father and son. The legalization of same-sex marriage has
given way to a new problem for a Pennsylvania couple, who technically are father and son. Before states across the
country began striking down bans on same-sex marriage and the Supreme Court ultimately decided the issue nationwide, some gay
couples used adoption laws as a way to gain legal recognition as a family, and the related benefits such as inheritance and
hospital visitation rights.
The
DOE is now in the High School Girl's Shower. The Civil Rights Division of the DoE declared a new cultural
battleground when it sent a letter to Dr. Daniel Cates, Superintendent of the Township High School District 211, a school
district near Palentine, Illinois, accusing the district violating anti-discrimination laws when it did not allow a
transgender student who identifies as a girl to change and shower with the girls in the girls' locker room without
restrictions. The DoE gave the district 30 days to accommodate the transgender student or lose its
Title IX funding. The problem began when the transgender student's family filed a complaint with the
U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights (OCR), because the student was not allowed to shower with
the female students. The student filing the complaint is biologically male, but self-identifies as female.
The school made arrangements to accommodate transgender students by providing separate, private facilities for the
student to use to use. This was not satisfactory for this student.
Office
of Civil Rights says disguised boy has right to shower with girls. The Department of Education's office of civil rights says that a
disguised boy has been discriminated against because he is not allowed to shower naked with girls. [...] This is an enormous opening for Republicans.
Who is waging the "war on women" now? It is radical Democrats pushing for girls to be exposed to naked men. Now Hillary Clinton has
become a born-again transvestite supporter. Would it really be hard for a Republican in a debate to turn to her and say, "Mrs. Clinton, do
you really want girls to be forced to expose themselves to boys in locker rooms?" It's indefensible.
Could America Elect a Mentally Ill
President? Political taboos, campaign dealbreakers and electoral glass ceilings are crumbling. Members of Congress
are openly gay and bisexual, there's a black man in the White House, and a woman may be next. Voters have accepted all sorts of
behavioral warts and missteps in their political candidates, too. DUIs? A mistake of their youth. Draft dodgers?
There's a long list. Womanizers? A much longer list. Illegal drugs? In just a few short elections, we've gone
from a president who "didn't inhale" to one who openly admits using cocaine in his youth.
Feds back transgender
teenager in school restroom dispute. Schools can't prevent transgender students from using the restrooms that
correspond with their gender identities without violating federal law, the Obama administration says.
It is Liberalism that killed
NYPD Officer Randolph Holder. It takes a Liberal mindset the ability to think giving a drug diversion program for a career criminal instead
of jail a good idea. This how Liberals think, stupidly! Unfortunately, for NYPD Officer Randolph Holder, a piece of filth was allowed to walk
the streets of New York City free to commit more crimes thanks to the Liberal mindset that knows better. He had easier access to guns, again thanks
to the Liberal mindset that declared Stop and Frisk was an ineffective crime tactic. Do you see a pattern of dumb thinking here?
Five Myths
About Marijuana and You. [C]laiming or implying that smoking or eating only marijuana can relieve suffering, the legalizers
also manipulate people's natural compassion on those who suffer with diseases and pain. But here again science does not support
their claims. Of course any substance that tweaks the brain is bound to provide some relief, but smoking or eating it is not a
wise and safe delivery system. Therefore, states that have legalized marijuana for recreational or medical purposes must reverse
their course. And states contemplating doing so must not go down this smoky path.
Five
myths about marijuana and society. Myth 1: Tax revenues from marijuana sales will benefit government budgets
[...] Nationally, by taxing tobacco and alcohol, we collect $40 billion annually, but we about lose $400 billion annually
from lost productivity, premature illness, accidents and death. So it is true that Colorado has collected an estimated
$12 million to $21 million from January to July 2014, from marijuana sales (the figures vary). But it is not
difficult to predict, from the numbers for alcohol and tobacco, that the social monetary costs will far exceed the taxes.
Hawaii
Declares State of Emergency for Homelessness — Guess What Their Solution Is. Hawaii [...] now has
the worst homeless problem in the country. What do you suppose causes that? With the highest cost of living in the
nation, it is small wonder that if someone falls on hard times that they wind up on the street. It's also a magnet,
climate wise, for those who know they will be on the streets. The Hawaiian government is notoriously controlled by
Democrats. Their progressive policies have created this mess. But, never fear, they've come up with a solution!
Hawaii
declares state of emergency for homelessness crisis. Hawaii Gov. David Ige has declared a state of emergency to
deal with the state's homelessness crisis just days after city and state officials cleared one of the nation's largest
homeless encampments.
Obama's
Tragic Legacy for Black Americans. At the urging of labor unions, President Obama has pushed for higher minimum
wages that price a disproportionate percentage of blacks out of the labor force. At the urging of teachers unions, he has
fought voucher programs that give ghetto children access to better schools. Both policies have a lengthy track record of
keeping millions of blacks ill-educated and unemployed.
100
Facts About The Moral Collapse Of America That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe:
[#1] Approximately one-third of the entire population of the United States (110 million people)
currently has a sexually transmitted disease according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[#2] Every single year, there are 20 million new STD cases in America.
[#3] America has the highest STD infection rate in the entire industrialized world.
[#4] Americans in the 15 to 24-year-old age group account for about 50 percent of all new STD cases each year.
[#5] It costs our nation approximately 16 billion dollars a year to treat our sexually transmitted diseases.
[#6] According to one survey, 24 percent of all U.S. teens that have STDs say that they still have unprotected sex.
[#7] In Chicago, public school kindergarten teachers are now required to set aside 30 minutes a month for sex education.
[#8] The United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the entire industrialized world.
[#10] At this point, one out of every four teen girls in the U.S. has at least one sexually transmitted disease.
[#11] According to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, there are 747,408 registered sex offenders in the United States.
[#12] There are 106,216 registered sex offenders in the state of California alone.
How Dr. Spock Destroyed America. In the last 50 years, our nation has
taken a moral nosedive. Since 1960, the rate of violent crimes has more than tripled. Every day there are news reports of
heinous crimes unheard of in America a generation ago. Children murder their playmates, their teachers and their parents.
Teenage mothers abandon their newborn babies in trashcans, and every year students commit carnage on their classmates. Our culture
has sunk so low that children are no longer safe with their teachers in school or at church — scores of men and women are
arrested every year for preying on the children under their care.
Americans
Are Devoid of Critical Thinking Skills. Never has there been a time in history requiring that an individual be
equipped with critical thinking skills more than now. The biggest problem that America is facing today is the inability of
the vast majority of the citizenry to think critically. Matt Drudge went so far as to say that Americans are sick.
Lack of the ability to think critically is a mental symptom that affects all people regardless of their level of education,
economic status, age, race, ethnicity, sex, or political party (although it appears that liberals are more likely to lack such
skills). If we are to ever bring America back to the point where she is great again, the majority of the citizens are
going to have to acquire and hone critical thinking skills.
Bay
State Dems: Let Transgender Men Into Ladies' Rooms. The leader of a group calling itself the Mass. Transgender Political
Coalition told a reporter that "advocates would not stand" for any attempts to deny men full access to toilets and locker rooms that have
always been restricted to females. Transgenders are already protected by a 2011 state law against discrimination in housing, employment,
public education and lending. Now they are pushing what is known as "the bathroom bill" — allowing males who at that moment
claim to be female total access to areas traditionally reserved for females.
Houston
bathroom bill debate centers on differing definitions of 'men'. The noisy debate over this city's Proposition 1
has centered on whether it would allow men to use women's public restrooms, which boils down to how you define "men" and "women."
In a battle that has ranged from bathroom etiquette to gender rights to constitutional debates over religious freedom, a key skirmish
broke out after former Houston Astros baseball all-star Lance Berkman appeared in an ad saying that the Nov. 3 ballot measure
would "allow troubled men who claim to be women to enter women's bathrooms, showers and locker rooms," and the Yes on 1
campaign fired back.
The Center Holds. While the Republicans will
not nominate an extremist, the Democrats will. Like Wilson before him, Obama has taken his party far to the left, too far. [...] Gay marriage
is the tip of the iceberg of the homosexual agenda. They will always want more. They want their lifestyle celebrated, and the D's will
gladly comply. Forcing little girls to share a bathroom with some confused little boy will not win many votes.
How
7 years of Obama brought the world from Kumbaya to chaos. [S]even years into Obama's presidency, the promised
worldwide Kumbaya is instead global chaos — caused in large measure by his willful retreat from America's position of
leadership. Washington's traditional allies increasingly feel abandoned, its enemies emboldened. The United States
isn't even leading from behind — it's cowering in weakness.
California
mom claims retailer booted her for complaining about man in girls' restroom. A California mom who says she was
recently kicked out of a sporting goods store after alerting a manager that man had frightened her young daughter in the
women's restroom is demanding answers — and a policy change — from the Washington-based chain.
The woman, who spoke to FoxNews.com but asked not to be identified, said she was shopping with her 12-year-old daughter and
the girl's younger friend when her daughter told her what had happened moments earlier at an REI sporting goods store during
a shopping trip in late August.
Group
gets judge's OK to parade nude in S.F. It's illegal to go naked in public in San Francisco, unless you're part
of an event with a city permit, like a parade. And that's what 50 to 100 nudists plan to do on city streets Saturday [9/26/2015],
with an assist from a federal judge.
Sex
Reassignment Is Latest Company Benefit in Equality Push. U.S. companies are swiftly adding health insurance
benefits for employees who want to transition to another gender, a fairly inexpensive way to show they're serious about a
diverse workforce because so few people actually use them. More than 415 of about 780 firms surveyed for their
friendliness toward lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender workers now cover related procedures, including hormone therapy
and sex-reassignment surgeries, according to the Human Rights Campaign. That's more than double the number in 2012, and
up from just 49 in 2009.
Left-wingers
swear more, Twitter study claims. Left-wingers are more likely to use swear words than their right-leaning counterparts,
a study of thousands of Twitter accounts has suggested. While conservative-leaning individuals are, perhaps unsuprisingly, more
likely to use religious terms such as "God" and "psalm", those on the liberal end of the political spectrum are heavy users of "f***"
and "s***" online. Researchers at Queen Mary University in London analysed more than 10,000 Twitter users who follow either the
Republican or Democrat party Twitter accounts.
The Editor says...
It should come as no surprise that profanity naturally flows from the hearts and mouths of hopeless, godless humanists.
Anatomy
of a failed liberal state. [Scroll down] Why should residents of other states care about this financial
meltdown in Chicago and Springfield Illinois[?] The answer is that Chicago is the canary in the coal mine when it comes to
the government pension crisis. Pensions to retired teachers and state employees are bleeding the state dry. Since 2006,
annual pension payments have grown tenfold, from $60 million to over $650 million. A state budget office spokesman
tells me that "nearly one of three state tax dollars now goes to paying pensions for retired municipal and state employees."
Meanwhile tax increases on the rich under the previous governor failed to raise much money, but did accelerate an exodus of money
and talent out of the state.
Those Yellow-Stain Blues.
It's a lucky thing the driver wasn't crushed when a three-story-tall lamp post fell on top of a car stopped on the corner of
Pine and Taylor Streets in San Francisco on a Monday evening last month. The base of the lamp post had been corroded
after countless soakings with urine from San Francisco's ubiquitous homeless, prompting a spokesman for the city's Public
Utilities Commission to encourage people and dogs alike to water fire hydrants rather than light poles because the fire
hydrants are made of stronger cast iron. That collapsing lamp post is a perfect metaphor for urban Democrat governance.
If you want to know what inevitably results from allowing the Far Left to run cities cleared of middle-class voters over decades,
picture vast armies of homeless bums gleefully micturating on public infrastructure, while public officials merely beg for more
clichéd choices amid terror of alienating a prominent, if noisome and not quite sane, constituency, until that
piddle-drenched infrastructure inevitably topples. That is, after all, what Democrat cities ultimately put on display.
Everything
Wrong with California in One Photo. Nationwide gasoline prices are below $3 a gallon. But here in California it
is not unusual to see prices still over $4 a gallon. So what do liberals here want to do? Pass a law that mandates
reducing gasoline consumption by 50 percent by the year 2030 — just 15 years from now. This proved
too much even for some Democrats — the ones who represent actual poor and (previously) working people in the Central
Valley, unlike the West LA and Silicon Valley and San Francisco Democrats who represent smug rich people who drive Teslas.
These old-style Democrats said they would not vote for the bill.
How Grown-Ups Deal With
'Microaggressions'. Whenever I first heard the word "microaggression," sometime in the last five years, I'm sure I was
unaware how big "micro" could get. The accusation of a microaggression was about to become a pervasive feature of the Internet,
and particularly social media. An offense most of us didn't even know existed, suddenly we were all afraid of being accused of.
We used to call this "rudeness," "slights" or "ignorant remarks." Mostly, people ignored them. The elevation of
microaggressions into a social phenomenon with a specific name and increasingly public redress marks a dramatic social change, and two
sociologists, Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning, have a fascinating paper exploring what this shift looks like, and what it means.
The Progressive Crime Wave
Grows. Murder rates are skyrocketing in large U.S. cities, but President Obama's progressive pro-crime policies
and endless racial provocations have nothing to do with it, the New York Times predictably declared in a recent article.
Nowadays Americans are being killed and maimed explicitly because of their race. Execution-style cop killings are becoming
distressingly common. Killings and vicious assaults based on the skin color of the civilian victim are also becoming common.
That any of this is happening shouldn't surprise anyone who follows public events. For years media outlets have acted as
uncompensated publicists for the Obama administration's ongoing campaign to turn America into the progressive paradise that is
Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe. And they're still doing it today.
Nine Signs of
the Impending American Collapse. Gender has come increasingly to be regarded not as a biological fact but as a
social construct, and ultimately as an expression of one's "inner feelings" (as if there were any other kind) and
affect-laden sense of sexual or personal identity. A man is a woman is a trans is a tiger is a wolf — in other
words, an idiosyncratic caricature of a normal human being. [...] Such aberrations follow from and go hand in hand with a
longstanding, aggressive and doctrinaire feminism that has infected every important social and professional institution,
leading to the legal and societal deprivileging and even the feminization of men, who must not only endure institutional
inequities but must continually apologize for their existence — another recipe for social and cultural catastrophe.
President Obama's Peculiarity. A
year after President Obama vacates the White House almost any Republican president working with the Republican Congress will have
cleaned up the mess — except for the debt. That will take longer. In foreign policy things may be even
worse. A nuclear Iran will have to be dealt with. When the President without a shadow leaves office after withdrawing
American power from every corner of the world, Americans will see how dangerous a community activist can be in the White House.
Fighting Back Against the Social
Justice Warriors. [Scroll down] And now, after a century of their rule, we all live under the boot of their
compulsory administrative government programs. What are taxes at 33 percent of GDP but exploitation? What is the
vast apparatus of government entitlements but a vast coercive patriarchy? What is the cruel politics of identity and diversity
but racism? Was there ever a government so oppressive and unjust?
Bums Bury San Francisco in Feces. San
Francisco is also a center of leftism. The liberals running the city have laid out a red carpet for dysfunctional street people,
who come from all over the country to collect their freebies and crap on the sidewalk. Combined with the policy of no longer
incarcerating any but the most obviously violent lunatics, this has reduced the city to a cross between a mental institution and a sewer.
The modern malleability of gender and
race. In the present postmodern world, we are told that there is no such thing as a biologically distinct gender.
Instead, gender is now socially constructed. It can be defined by the individual in almost any way he or she sees fit.
Here ze comes.
Glenn Reynolds links to a Daily Mail article highlighting usage notes issued by a gay rights official at the University of
Tennessee, where Glenn teaches. The university official has advised staff and students to stop using "he" and
"she" — and switch to "xe," "zir" and "xyr" instead. The idea is to avoid any implication that mankind is
divided into men and women. This is discouraged as "binary" thinking. In the brave new world, gender neutral
pronouns are preferred to make the university "welcoming and inclusive" and to prevent feelings of marginalization.
I feel marginalized, however, when men can't recognize women and rules of grammar are destroyed.
The ridiculousness of
'Parent 1' and 'Parent 2'. It is political correctness run amok. That the courts would hold up the preference
of the two-percent gay community in place of the zeitgeist of the majority-heterosexual society is an assault on democracy. It is
a linguistic trick to distort the gestalt of the majority. It is political correctness leading to language perversion.
Communal, communist societies try to destroy the family structure. Family values are against big bureaucracy and the left
coddles big government. Leftists are afraid of mothers and fathers. They want robotic parents. They want
"Parent 1" and "Parent 2."
New
York State cops descend upon Times Square in attempt to crackdown on naked painted panhandlers. State Police
descended on Times Square Saturday as the topless painted ladies and their male managers who have been preying on tourists
for tips were questioned on whether their basic business practices are on the up and up. One state officer
was armed with a clipboard and grilled the women, trying perhaps to find a way to kick them out of the Crossroads of the
World once and for all.
Derelicts
Now Demanding To Live on the Streets As Matter of Right. America's homeless are lawyering up to fight for a
"right" to live on the street — your neighborhood and personal safety [notwithstanding]. From Fort Lauderdale
to Los Angeles, cities are struggling with a surge in people living in cardboard boxes and doorways. Local lawmakers are
trying to ban "camping out" in public and ordering police to clear the fetid encampments. Now lawyers for the homeless
are pushing back. They're demanding that "sleeping rough" be legally protected. In Denver, where living on the
street is outlawed, lawyers for the homeless want to guarantee vagrants "the right to use and move freely in public spaces
without discrimination."
Chicago
Politicians Double Down on Dangerous 'Sanctuary City' Policies. Chicago politicians and advocates of mass immigration are
pushing "sanctuary city" policies that allow criminal aliens to run rampant and resulted in the high-profile death of one city resident
in 2011, according to Progress Illinois. Many want to shield illegal aliens from immigration authorities. Illegals with
pending criminal cases should not have their information given to U.S. Immigration and Customers Enforcement (ICE) if they're stopped
again by police, says one advocate.
Trickle
of Companies Leaving Illinois Turning Into a Flood. On Thursday [8/13/2015], Hoist Liftruck's announcement that
it was moving more than 500 manufacturing jobs to Indiana was just the latest in a long and almost fevered list of other
companies seeking to escape Illinois' outrageous workers compensation costs and high taxes. On July 14 machine-maker
DE-STA-CO said it was moving 100 jobs to Tennessee. The next day energy processor Bunge North America said it was shutting
down its plant in Bradley, Illinois, and laying off 210 workers. The day after that General Mills pulled the plug on its
manufacturing plant in West Chicago, terminating 500 workers.
Minimum-wage
offensive could speed arrival of robot-powered restaurants. [Scroll down] The industry could be ready for
another jolt as a ballot initiative to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour nears in the District and as other campaigns to
boost wages gain traction around the country. About 30 percent of the restaurant industry's costs come from salaries, so
burger-flipping robots — or at least super-fast ovens that expedite the process — become that much more
cost-competitive if the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour is doubled. "The problem with the minimum-wage
offensive is that it throws the accounting of the restaurant industry totally upside down," said Harold Miller, vice
president of franchise development for Persona Pizzeria, who also consults for other chains.
Yes,
Target, I Do Want My Daughter To Conform To Her Gender. You've likely heard by now that Target will be ending
the segregated, Apartheid-like conditions in their stores, getting rid of gender labels on toys, games, and most other
products. They'll also ban the colors pink and blue, and tear down the barbed wire fence that separated the two areas, which
apparently made it previously impossible for a girl to enter the boy's section or vice versa. For the time being, there will
still be girl and boy aisles in the clothing department, but they assure us they're keeping the labels because of "fitting
and sizing differences," not because they would presume to insinuate that only girls should wear dresses.
What
every parent knows (and Target doesn't) about boys and girls. The girls' and boys' section of any store is rudimentary:
it caters to the majority of consumers who frequent the stores. Parent whose children fall outside the norm are perfectly capable of
buying their children whatever it is they're interested in. They don't need Target to hold their hand and lead the way. Target's
new policy has nothing to do with making children feel better about themselves. It looks like it's about the company making sure it
doesn't get sued by parents who see injustice everywhere.
Mayor Wants to Make Seattle More
Sharia-Friendly. Edward B. Murray, the mayor of one of the most politically progressive cities in
America — Seattle — wants to make it easier for the 30,000 practicing Muslims in his city to
get home mortgages without violating religious Sharia law. It is part of his plan to ease what he says is a
"housing crisis." A new company in Seattle wants to help that happen, along with allowing Muslims to invest
in retirement plans without violating Sharia law. But conservatives have been warning for years that doing
business with Islam is the same as doing business with terrorists, and a Seattle radio talk show host wonders why
progressives favor Muslims over Christians.
Where's
The Beef? $15 Wage Means 36% Smaller Burger. Would you pay the same price for a Mini Mac instead of a Big Mac?
Raising the average fast-food wage to $15 an hour could force restaurants to hike prices by 11% — or shrink the size
of burgers by 36%, according to an IBD analysis of data from a recent Purdue University study. Higher prices and smaller
burgers are just two of the unappetizing menu of options facing fast-food chains and their customers as cities such as Los Angeles,
Seattle and New York raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
Why
Liberals are Dangerous. People in positions of power who place feelings above common sense, responsibility and
reasoned thinking are dangerous. They (liberals) must never be in charge. Take sanctuary cities. These are
liberal-governed U.S. cities that have officially decided to disobey federal law by sheltering illegal aliens. Liberalism
has been described as a "mental disease." For whatever reasons, liberals who run sanctuary cities feel it is unfair that we
in America have so much. Consequently, they roll out the red carpet to illegals; gifting them welfare, college tuition, and
benefits unavailable to legal American citizens.
Reaction to the death
of Cecil the lion is further proof of secular society's moral confusion. In Western
Europe and North America, we live in the first godless and religion-less generation in Western (and
probably world) history, and without Judeo-Christian values, there is no compelling reason to hold
human worth above animal worth. Judeo-Christian values are based on the Bible, which asserts the
fundamental principle that human beings, not animals, are created in God's image. Therefore, human
life is sacred; animal life is not.
Rabid job-killing environmentalism: In
coal-mining Kentucky, shock and dismay over Clean Power Plan's new targets. It is a
tense time in Kentucky. The Environmental Protection Agency has just come out with its final rule on
reducing carbon emissions — the strongest step ever taken to counter climate change in
the United States — and this coal state is reeling. Kentucky's energy secretary was
in talks with EPA officials all afternoon on Tuesday [8/4/2015], trying to figure out what the rule
means — and trying to understand how it was that the agency boosted the target that it had
proposed for Kentucky last year. A target that the state was on track to meet.
A
want of sentiment. This diminution of empathy may be why some younger people are
committing crimes not seen in past centuries, and why there has been a notable absence of affect
while doing them, or even while being sentenced. Horror films, and their popularity, ought by now
not to exist, since they artfully craft cruelty, ways to ingeniously make humans bleed and die. Why
would the genre not be done with by now? Is the empathy button now on Off, replaced with "entertain
me"? The shrinkage augurs poorly for the development of solid relationships, it would seem. Are
the adolescents and millennials going into careers not necessitating empathy, such as medicine and rescue,
emergency and fire squads, baby care, nursing, and therapy?
Guilt as Power.
[Scroll down] In our modern, post-religious age society needs to know what ethical taboos, if
any, remain. What won't we do? Now that we have resolved to live without God and must perforce live
under men that is all the more reason to know what those men believe. Sigmund Freud believed that the
secular motives of "educated people and brain-workers" would be a reliable substitute for what was formerly
regarded as natural law. Can these educated people spare a moment then to explain what their secular
motives are? Besides money that is.
The
Twitter Mob: Society's New Mechanism for Enforcing Morality. [Scroll down]
Indeed, there's a tendency on the right to bemoan the fact that traditional morality is breaking
down — and that's obviously true. But the conclusion many take from it is that nothing is
taking traditional morality's place. I've been writing for years that this isn't true. Society,
like nature, abhors a vacuum; if you remove one moral dogma, another will rush in to take its place.
That's what much of political correctness is — an attempt to replace one system of customs,
mores, values, and ethics with another.
This is satire, I hope. I
am royalty born in a commoner's body, and society is discriminating against me. I was
born in the body of a regular person, but in my mind, I feel I am royalty. I can't help this
feeling; it's just the way I am. And it upsets me when people don't treat me according to my royal
identity. When men talk to me, they do not bend the knee; women do not bow or even curtsy. And
no one calls me "m'lord" or even apologizes for retreating from my royal presence without leave. I
didn't ask to be born this way; it's just the way I am. And I feel very discriminated against by society,
which treats me like a commoner. When I go into a bathroom, everyone should leave so I can use it, but
no one does. That makes me very uncomfortable. All I want to do is to go to the bathroom in
peace! I think every business should either make everyone leave when I enter the bathroom or have a
bathroom that can be used only by royalty.
California
college will now ask students to pick from 6 genders. Beginning this fall, students at UC Irvine will have
the option to self-identify about their sexual orientation on all university admissions forms, reports CBS Los Angeles.
The new form will ask students to pick one gender from six different choices.
The Editor says...
Why must an applicant select only one gender? That sounds inflexible and exclusionary!
Guilt as Power.
The people who in the videos merrily describe the prices they can obtain for this or that body part
may one day be old and as helpless as the infants they have dismembered. Then they will be in the
care of men like themselves. And on that far day these young — then old — may
want water. On what grounds will they demand it? On what basis will they ask for care, love or
compassion?
Obama Carbon
Regulations could leave Manatees out in the cold. It's no secret the President's carbon
regulations will force the premature retirement of coal-fired power plants across the U.S. In
fact the President seems wholly indifferent to the thousands of jobs and livelihoods he's destroying.
However what the President and EPA did not count on is that some of the power plants that will be shuttered
are integral to the survival of hundreds of Florida manatees. The issue stems from the fact that the
warm-water discharge from some Florida coal-fired power plants, such as Florida's Big Bend Power Station,
has become home to hundreds of West Indian manatees. The manatees are drawn to the warm-water
discharge for a nearly six-month period in the winter.
What's
the Matter With San Francisco? I moved to San Francisco for its radical politics. Lots
of people did, for generations. Maybe it was like moving to Los Angeles if you wanted to be a movie
star: If you wanted to be part of the grand project of reconstructing the American Left in the petri dish
of a single city, San Francisco beckoned. The quirky, counter-cultural San Francisco so many of us fell
in love with is almost gone now, destroyed by high housing costs. We've lost not only the politics, but
all kinds of cultural experimentation that just doesn't thrive in places that are expensive. We are
watching the old San Francisco slip away before our eyes. Every time a housing unit becomes vacant, it
goes on the market at a price so high that no organizer, writer, teacher, activist or artist could dream of
affording it. Trying things that don't have monetary potential just isn't possible anymore.
Seattle
sees fallout from $15 minimum wage, as other cities follow suit. Seattle's $15 minimum
wage law is supposed to lift workers out of poverty and move them off public assistance. But there
may be a hitch in the plan. Evidence is surfacing that some workers are asking their bosses for
fewer hours as their wages rise — in a bid to keep overall income down so they don't lose
public subsidies for things like food, child care and rent. Full Life Care, a home nursing
nonprofit, told KIRO-TV in Seattle that several workers want to work less.
Disastrous
Consequences of Lib Indoctrination from the 60s to Obama. Churchill said, "If you're
not a socialist when you're 20, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're
40, you have no brain." Churchill's point is youths are idealistic. Liberals (Leftists) have been
allowed to exploit the idealistic nature of our youths from kindergarten through college, making everything
about fairness and not offending. High school grads who cannot read their diplomas are well-schooled
in guilt and anger over "White Privilege" and "Social Justice."
Thousands
Of Violent Felons To Be Released In November Under New Sentencing Guidelines.
Thousands of dangerous federal prison inmates will be released in November as a result of the U.S.
Sentencing Commission's decision to lower federal sentencing for all drug trafficking and
distribution crimes. According to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte and Senate
Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, the release will include inmates with violent criminal
histories who committed crimes involving assault, firearms, and even murder.
The
Dept. Of Energy's War Against Common Sense Continues. Toilets that don't flush;
washing machines that don't wash; light bulbs that don't illuminate; electric cars that don't
drive; exploding windmills; useless solar panels, and now...
Appliance
industry warns federal dishwasher regs would lead to dirty dishes. The recent proposal
from the Department of Energy is meant to boost dishwasher efficiency by setting stricter limits on
the amount of water each dishwasher can use, among other changes. Under the plan, washers could use
only 3.1 gallons of water for a single load. But an appliance industry group says the new
measures would be counterproductive — as they'd force users to run their dishwashers more,
and hand-wash, just to get the same results, in turn using more water. "[The regulations] would
result in dishwasher performance that is unacceptable to consumers, essentially turning back the clock
to the days of hand-washing dishes," the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM) said in
a statement.
Trace
terrorists to Ted Kennedy. Every time another foreign terrorist murders Americans in
cold blood, I think of Ted Kennedy. It's still unclear how this latest Middle East monster
infiltrated the United States. But you can bet it involved his family taking advantage of one of Ted
Kennedy's "landmark" laws — the Immigration Reform Act of 1965, perhaps, or the Refugee Act of
1980. Or maybe his father utilized one of the "terrorist visas" enshrined by the Immigration Act of
1990. That catastrophe, by the way, was signed into law by Juan Ellis Bush's father, Bush 41.
Teddy's fingerprints are all over each of these disastrous laws — as well as so many others.
The Editor says...
Mary Jo Kopechne is currently unable to offer any comment about murdering Americans in cold blood.
Updating
the cliche that it's better to let '10 guilty men go free'. The old liberal cliché that it's "better 10 guilty persons
escape than one innocent suffer" has been upended in recent years — at least when it comes to accusations of sexual assault.
The cliché has been replaced by: "It's better 10 innocent persons suffer than one guilty escape." The push to reduce campus
sexual assault has bred this new sentiment, as policies purporting to make colleges and universities safer actually increase the likelihood that
innocent students will be accused and punished. The new policies broaden the definition of sexual assault while narrowing the definition
of consent, and remove due process protections for accused students while severely limiting what constitutes "evidence" in their defense.
How's that Great Society working out? For first
time, black kids in poverty outnumber white. The number of black children living in
poverty in the U.S. has surpassed the number of poor white children for the first time since U.S.
Census has tracked such numbers in 1974, according to an analysis by the Pew Research Center.
Overall, 20% of children in the U.S., or 14.7 million, lived in poverty in 2013 — down
from 22%. Of that, black children make up 4.2 million while white children account for
4.1 million. Children make up 38.4% of all black people living in poverty; children make up
21.8% of all white people in poverty; children make up 42.5% of Hispanics in poverty; and children make up
20.6% of Asians in poverty, according to the Pew Research Center. Poverty is classified as a family
of four with a household income below $23,624.
The
Democrats' doctrine of 'government is the solution' is in tatters. People have lost
faith in our politics and government. The next president needs to work tirelessly to restore voters'
faith in our government's ability to function. What part of the federal government is working better
than it did six years ago?
Seven
Things the Left Should Apologize For. At the macro level, the Left should apologize to
America for their continued allegiance to European-style welfare statism. At the micro level, they
should apologize for their ongoing use of hateful division politics. These two guiding ideologies
of the Left have caused immeasurable poverty, misery and grief. Their intent to divide us is leading
to concertina-wire-reinforced borders among the individual race, gender, and religious silos that they
have chosen for us.
DeBlasio
presiding over rapid decline in NY city quality of life. New York City has never been
a paradise, but for 20 years previous to the election of Mayor Bill de Blasio, quality of life had
risen dramatically as a result of what's known as "broken windows" policing — enforcing minor crimes
to take people off the streets and prevent them from committing major offenses. But now, with
the far left wing mayor leading the charge, more and more minor crimes are not being enforced.
Predictably, this has led to a surge in violent crime and an invasion by vagrants and homeless
people that hasn't been seen since the pre-Guiliana days.
Taxpayer-Funded
Planned Parenthood Sells Baby Parts. Planned Parenthood thinks it can put a price on a
baby: $30 to $100 per part. An undercover investigative video released July 14 showed a Planned
Parenthood executive confess that her taxpayer-funded organization sells the body parts of aborted babies
by using the partial-birth abortion procedure to ensure the baby parts stay intact. Pro-life leaders
challenged the abortion giant after the Center for Medical Progress, a citizen journalist group focused on
medical ethics, caught the scene on camera.
WashPost
Hails Women's Clothes on Men: 'The End of Gender Is Near'. Friday's [7/10/2015] Washington Post hyped a
new trend in fashion on the front of the Style section. The headline was "His. Hers. Theirs. Whoever's. In an
increasingly genderless fashion industry, if the blouse fits, wear it." Fashion writer Robin Givhan championed designers
who are asking "Why are clothes assigned a gender at all?"
The Editor says...
A few years further down this slippery slope, leftists will normalize nudity.
Oregon
allowing 15-year-olds to get state-subsidized sex-change operations. The list of
things 15-year-olds are not legally allowed to do in Oregon is long: Drive, smoke, donate blood, get
a tattoo — even go to a tanning bed. But, under a first-in-the-nation policy quietly
enacted in January that many parents are only now finding out about, 15-year-olds are now allowed to
get a sex-change operation. Many residents are stunned to learn they can do it without parental
notification — and the state will even pay for it through its Medicaid program, the Oregon
Health Plan. "It is trespassing on the hearts, the minds, the bodies of our children," said Lori
Porter of Parents' Rights in Education. "They're our children. And for a decision, a
life-altering decision like that to be done unbeknownst to a parent or guardian, it's mindboggling."
The Coming Confrontation.
We now have a Democrat party that spreads half-truths, propaganda, and tells outright lies to its
citizens. In our schools, our children are being turned into good little Marxists with
indoctrination into such areas as lifestyle, climate change, and immigration. Together, with our
media, they have slowly inculcated all aspects of our lives, both moral and political. They
further these ideas by encouraging a vast populace in this country to become dependent on government,
and looking to one political party to bail them out, turning a challenging time into a hammock of
irresponsibility where people can relax in Marxist splendor, while others work to pay for them.
Red
States Outperform Blue In Managing Taxpayer Money. A new report from George Mason
University's Mercatus Center ranks all 50 states based on 14 measures designed to determine whether
states can pay their short-term bills and meet their long-term obligations — debt, pension liabilities
and such. The data go through 2013. The best-run states have enough cash to pay [their] current bills,
enough revenue coming in to meet its fiscal year needs, a cushion for economic shocks, and management long-term
liabilities. The worst states, in contrast, have "tens, if not hundreds, of billions of dollars in unfunded
liabilities — constituting a significant risk to taxpayers in both the short and the long term."
What Obama Has Taught Us.
[Scroll down] Try a thought experiment about changes in government. Say "the ______ under Obama" and then fill in
the blank with what follows: IRS, VA, NSA, GSA, EPA, TSA, DHS, ICE, Secret Service, NASA. Have these
agencies "changed" and do we have more "hope" because of their evolution? Are any of these bureaucracies more
transparent or efficient than in 2008? Do we associate their directors with skilled and honest leadership? Or
do we see these alphabet soups corrupted by cronyism and politics, immune from audit and accountability, led by
incompetents, and now mostly social-welfare organizations bent on patronage and redistributive engineering?
Fiddling Away
the Future. Forty-three years ago, there were roughly 1,500 black elected officials
nationwide. According to the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, by 2011 there were
roughly 10,500 black elected officials, including a black president. But what were the fruits?
By most any measure, the problems are worse. There is the greatest black poverty, poorest education,
highest crime and greatest family instability in cities such as: Detroit, St. Louis, Oakland, Calif.,
Memphis, Tenn., Birmingham, Ala., Atlanta, Baltimore, Cleveland, Philadelphia and Buffalo, N.Y. The
most common characteristic of these predominantly black cities is that, for decades, all of them have been
run by Democratic and presumably liberal administrations. What's more is that in most of these cities,
blacks have been mayors, chiefs of police, school superintendents and principals and have dominated city councils.
The
Penumbra School of Law. I was watching in horror a series of Mark Dice videos of
interviews in which passersby signed petitions to repeal the First Amendment to shut down criticism
of Obama because it was all clearly racist[,] petitioned to repeal the Bill of Rights; revealed they
didn't know when and why we celebrate the Fourth of July; signed up to ban the American flag and
replace it with a New World Order one. I wanted to believe the people responding were
outliers — just ignorant San Diego beachgoers. Unfortunately there are too many
indications they are not, and that this disregard for the Constitution and its protections, this
lack of knowledge of our history and how it shaped the Constitution, and why it is important to us,
are rife in both the states and the federal government.
The
Progressive Policies That Murdered Kate Steinle. [Scroll down] Although this
violent thug pulled the trigger, progressives, through the laws they have enacted, put this man on
the streets which allowed him to murder. Federal authorities had Lopez-Sanchez in custody in
March after he was set free from a federal prison. They transferred him to San Francisco authorities
because he was wanted by them on drug-related charges. The feds filed what's called an "immigration
detainer" requesting that the local authorities notify them before releasing the man. But San
Francisco, home of the most militant leftists in America, refused the request because local policy
forbids it. The prisoner in effect got a "get out of jail free card" from the left-wing open-borders
movement which argues that keeping illegals in jail violates their constitutional rights.
Kate
Steinle was Murdered by a Sanctuary City. In San Francisco, city employees are barred
from aiding ICE in raids, arrests or investigations unless "required by federal or state law, or a
warrant." Among those political figures who could feel the heat is the pro-sanctuary Kamala
Harris, California's Democratic attorney general and possible replacement for retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer.
Kate
Steinle Died Because of Democrat Policies. The family of a California woman who was
allegedly shot dead by an illegal Mexican immigrant have criticized officials who didn't hand him
over after he was jailed just months before the attack. Grieving relatives of Kathryn Steinle,
32, who was shot dead on San Francisco's Pier 14 Thursday night [7/2/2015], made the comments in light of
revelations that alleged killer Francisco Sanchez, 45, had already been sent back over the border five times.
Obama,
Brown, Harris Allowed S.F. Murderer To Stalk The Streets. The senseless, random murder
of 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle last week, allegedly by illegal alien Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez,
has shocked the city of San Francisco and outraged the nation. The alleged murderer was free
because of a local policy and state law that prevent cooperation with federal immigration
detainers — and because of a federal government that encourages such disobedience.
War
on The Truth: It's a Progressive Disease. You'd better think twice before you tell the truth about the emperor's new
clothes. Progressives are using the power of government to force society to go along with the insanity. This goes on
wherever progressives hold power. Politically correct speech codes have been enforced on American college campuses for decades,
where conservative and Christian students and faculty are routinely discriminated against and decried as "haters." Now that
progressives have taken over broad swaths of federal and state government, they have greatly enhanced power to enforce their will.
Bakers and florists who refuse to participate in same-sex ceremonies are driven out of business, despite the First Amendment's
guarantee of free exercise of religion. Religious liberty is under assault in America. People who espouse Judeo-Christian
values are being denied entry into graduate schools and driven from their jobs. Just ask Wes Modder, the chaplain who recently
was kicked out of the Navy for telling counselees the truth about what the Bible teaches about sexuality, including homosexual behavior.
No Truce With the Left. Republicans
are still trying to figure out a truce on gay marriage. They retreated to civil unions, then
accepted a full defeat on gay marriage and then acted baffled when Christian bakery owners were
dragged into court for refusing to participate in gay weddings. When the left insisted that gay
marriage was a civil rights issue, they refused to take them at their word. Now they're
wondering how an accommodation can be made with tranny rights. A brief look back at gay rights will
show that the only possible accommodation is one in which men in dresses have a legal right to use
the ladies room and every single closed female space and event. And yes, that means your business
will be shut down if you object to Steve using the female locker room.
Polygamous
Montana trio applies for wedding license. A Montana man said Wednesday [7/1/2015] that
he was inspired by last week's U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage to apply for a
marriage license so that he can legally wed his second wife.
America's
Destiny in the Balance. [Scroll down] After nearly six and half years of the
Obama administration and the ongoing rampage of the Left, it is clear for all to see what future
lies in store for the United States under the long term reign of this cabal: [A]
The Supreme Court is one justice away from being dominated by politically motivated leftists, four
of whom are already in place, bent on relegating the Constitution to the dustbin of history and
replacing it with the Left's agenda. [B] In due course, freedom of speech, religion
and the press will be what the central government and courts, controlled by one party, allow it to
be. [C] All macro-economic activity will be determined by Washington D.C., and in
order to continue to operate major corporations, their managements will have to be subservient to
the central government per the basic tenets of fascism. Small business formation will be severely
curtailed as the federal regulatory state determines who and what business can be formed. [...]
[H] Eventually this nation as we know it will cease to exist as a violent reaction to all
the above will eventuate in a revolution and split the country into three or four independent nations.
The
Hidden Message of Same-Sex Marriage. The road to gay marriage began with feminism.
Feminists argued that there were no important differences between the sexes. Thus, mothering and
fathering were interchangeable. The word "parent" became a verb. If mothers and fathers bring
nothing unique or complementary to their roles, then it logically follows that two mothers or two fathers
should be just as good. Talk of three or more parents misses the mark. The relevant number
is one. If fathers are no different from mothers, then single women needn't pause before embarking
on "parenthood" solo — and they aren't. Along with feminism, the past few decades have
featured a widespread retreat from the idea of family duty. [...] Marriage today is treated as optional
by many parents, just one of many available paths. As Alito noted in his dissent, fully 40 percent
of American births are now to unmarried women. Additionally, more than half of all children will
spend some part of their childhoods in a non-nuclear family.
The Progressive Timeline. Detroit
collapses in on itself and Progressive are out in the streets protesting as if the city was run by a
secret cabal of Free Masons. They demand change and the implementation of their preferred solutions.
Left out is the fact they were the ones in charge for fifty odd years and they had implemented all
of their preferred polices, causing the collapse. Race is the most obvious big social issue which
has been totally controlled by Progressives. Since the 1950's, the Left has had a free hand in
trying to[ ]make the races get along. They even control the definition of "getting along."
Politico:
Has not the time come for polygamy, social liberals? Faster than one can say "slippery
slope," quicker than the echoes of Chief Justice John Roberts' warnings on the subject could dissipate,
Politico Magazine published a rather lengthy appeal to the leaders of social liberalism to use the
Obergefell decision to push for a constitutionally-recognized right for plural marriage.
You're What You Say You
Are. [Scroll down] The bottom line is that modernity permits liberties previously
unknown or unrecognized. Today we're not held to reality. For example, one does not have to
accept the limitations of biology. [...] For example, Bruce Jenner, Olympic decathlon champion and reality
show personality, has recently become Caitlyn Jenner. People now are required to address him as her.
There is a condition known as species dysphoria, similar to gender dysphoria. It is a condition in which
people think they are animals trapped in human bodies. I've been giving this option some serious
thought. I've been thinking of calling myself a springbok trapped in a human body.
LGBT
Leaders: Gay Marriage Is Not Enough. [Scroll down] Poverty, contraception, and abortion might
not seem like inherently LGBT issues but they are certainly intertwined with them. According to the Center
for American Progress, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender women are more likely to live in poverty than their
heterosexual and non-transgender counterparts. They are also at increased risk of sexual assault, as the
National Center for Lesbian Rights notes, which makes abortion access essential for lesbians and bisexual women.
Polygamy
Attorney On Gay Marriage Decision: SCOTUS Opinion 'Resonates With Our Arguments'. [Scroll down] Academic Frederick deBoer
writes in Politico Magazine how the Supreme Court's decision opens the doors for legal polygamous marriages. "The marriage equality movement
has been both the best and worst thing that could happen for legally sanctioned polygamy. The best, because that movement has required a
sustained and effective assault on 'traditional marriage' arguments that reflected no particular point of view other than that marriage should
stay the same because it's always been the same."
American
Transgender Student Forces Cambridge University To Alter 500 Year Old Dress Code. St.
Catherine's College at Cambridge University has decreed that men can wear skirts at formal dinners,
following a campaign by a transgender-rights activist student. The 542-year-old college has
broken down its long-standing traditional dress code which Pink News claims said that men had to
wear suits, whilst women had to wear dresses or a blouse and skirt to the events.
In
Oregon, 15-Year-Olds Can Get Taxpayer-Funded Sex Changes Without Parental Consent. The New York Times has an alarming
article today [6/17/2015] about the movement to push sex change operations at earlier and earlier ages. [...] If Oregon's political leadership thinks
that 15-year-olds are so capable of making monumental decisions like getting sex reassignment surgery all on their own that they're
willing make taxpayers pay for it regardless of what parents or guardians think, why do the myriad of other age related restrictions
remain in place?
Rachel
Dolezal, America's Newest "Victim". If you peruse the exhaustive press coverage since [Rachel] Dolezal was "outed,"
you'll enjoy various stuffy and serious-faced speculations on the social constructs surrounding race, the complex intersections of
biology and modern identity, the similarities between Dolezal's "transracial" experiment and Caitlyn Jenner's transgender gambit, and
the insistence that any comparison between the two is so offensive that we might all suddenly implode like a box of half-baked Chinese
fireworks naively purchased from a backwoods Indiana roadside shed. It is, to put it mildly, a lot to digest. It's almost
like auditing a class at Oberlin, but without the half-hearted drum circles, pilfered Xanax, and crippling piles of denial and student
loan debt.
Lies about Sex. Jesse Jackson said
that we couldn't say "black" anymore. All at once, university presidents, network anchors, United States congressmen and senators,
corporate executives, even Republican politicians, said "African-American." I think the last people to stop saying "black" were
the black people themselves, who had not been consulted. I don't know who the Jesse Jackson it was that stopped us from saying
that men and women are equal and made us say that they are alike, but alike it is. So we forgot about equality and pretended not
to notice the differences, and, lo, now we can't figure out who is a man and who is a woman.
Progressive
Academics Shocked That Their Creatures Turn on Them. Recently several progressive professors have
publicly complained that their students are hounding them for failing to consider their tender sensibilities by
straying beyond the p.c. orthodoxy on sexual assault, sex identity, linguistic correctness, and a whole host of
other progressive shibboleths. [...] These incidents follow the complaints of other progressives like Kirsten
Powers and Jonathan Chait that the intolerant ideology at the heart of progressivism is now getting out of
hand — something that many of us have been writing about for nearly 3 decades. That
these progressives should now be shocked at such intolerance and persecution after decades of speech codes,
disruptions of conservative speakers, campus inquisitions which ignore Constitutional rights, cancellations of
commencement speakers, and ideological litmus tests imposed on new hires and curricula, bespeaks not principle,
but rather indignation that now they are on the receiving end of the bullying and harassment long inflicted on
conservatives and people of faith.
Daniel
Patrick Moynihan and the triumph of deviancy. Former Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan,
writing in his 1993 article "Defining Deviancy Down" posits "... over the past generation, the amount
of deviant behavior in American society has increased beyond the levels the community can 'afford to
recognize' and that, accordingly, we have been redefining deviancy so as to exempt much conduct
previously stigmatized, and also quietly raising the 'normal' level in categories where behavior is
now abnormal by any earlier standard." I think we've reached the point where we can say without
fear of contradiction that Moynihan was both correct and, at the same time, crippled by a lack of
imagination.
Our Nightmare
of Reason. Today an American conservative might well feel like a Kafkaesque protagonist, as the
country appears to be drifting increasingly into absurdist territory under the leadership of Barack Obama, the
Democratic Party, and leftist elites in the media and entertainment industries. The lionization of Bruce
Jenner's makeover into a pseudo-woman is but a symptom of this slide into mass irrationality. [...] The idea
that some men, despite the obvious biological evidence, are in fact women, and vice versa, has become generally
accepted by a large percentage of the country, and endorsed by none other than the president himself.
Rather than society sympathetically tolerating Jenner, or offering him mental health treatment, he and other
so-called transsexuals (like convicted Army private Bradley Manning) can now medically mutilate themselves at
public expense. They can compel girls to use public bathrooms and showers with biological boys who
claim to be female.
Feds:
Transgender Bathroom Choice a Matter of 'Health and Safety'. The Department of Labor
(DOL) issued instructions for how private businesses should address a transgender individual who
wants to use a different bathroom, arguing that allowing transwomen to use the ladies bathroom is a
matter of "health and safety." "The core belief underlying these policies is that all employees
should be permitted to use the facilities that correspond with their gender identity," according to
the guidance, issued by the DOL's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). "For
example, a person who identifies as a man should be permitted to use men's restrooms, and a person
who identifies as a woman should be permitted to use women's restrooms." "The employee should
determine the most appropriate and safest option for him- or herself," the document said.
States
with the Highest Minimum Wage. Hourly earnings in the U.S. rose 0.3% in May to $24.96 a jump of
2.3% from the year-ago period. However, those earning the minimum wage are still getting paid a lot less
even in the 29 states paying above the federal minimum wage.
OSHA
safety agency says women's bathrooms safer with creepy men in them. OSHA is concerned
with safety — i.e., chemical, biological, and physical hazards in the workplace, and
everything from the dangers of toxic chemicals to dangerous machinery that can hurt workers. That's
why speaking out on the issue of letting men into women's bathrooms is clearly central to OSHA's mission.
Calling
Bruce Jenner a Woman Is an Insult to Women. Parents, be aware: soon the magazine rack
in the checkout line at the supermarket will feature this profoundly disturbing image of Bruce Jenner.
The picture is plastered right on the cover of the next Vanity Fair issue, and it shows Bruce dolled up
in makeup and hair extensions, posing in a corset, with parts of his face, forehead, and throat shaved off
for cosmetic reasons, and his chest enhanced by hormone pills, Photoshop, and silicone. The idea is
to make the 65-year-old grandfather look like a college girl, but the effect is that he looks like a distorted
version of neither. What he most closely resembles is a mentally disordered man who is being manipulated
by disingenuous liberals and self-obsessed gay activists. Far from having the appearance of a genuine
woman, he reminds me of someone who is being abandoned to his delusions by a culture of narcissistic imbeciles.
Why Is
America Moving Left? Statistics from the most recent Gallup poll indicate that Americans'
moral views have become increasingly liberal over the past 14 years, with U.S. citizens tending to approve
of behavior they would have deemed immoral or sinful just a generation ago. The biggest change
percentage-wise has been in Americans' positive moral evaluation of polygamy and human cloning, both of
which more than doubled since first measured by Gallup in the early 2000s. In 2003, a mere 7%
thought that polygamy was morally acceptable, whereas in 2015, the figure has grown to 16%.
Similarly, the recent poll found that 15% of Americans now accept human cloning, up from just 7% of
the population in 2001.
'Ferguson
Effect': America's New Crime Wave Is All Part of the Plan. The Wall Street Journal is
calling the dramatic end of America's two-decade-long drop in crime "The Ferguson Effect." Led
behind the scenes by President Obama, America's fraudulent civil rights leaders (Al Sharpton) and
the mainstream media (especially CNN), worked together — starting with their lies in
Ferguson — to launch hate campaigns against the police. The result is an empowered
criminal element and by extension a horrific increase in murders, shootings, and other violent crimes.
Pro-Crime Policies
Work. 108 people were shot in New York, Baltimore and Chicago over the weekend. Many
of the casualties were saved from that terrible "school-to-prison pipeline" that bedevils promising
young crack dealers and instead went straight to the morgue. 56 people were shot in Chicago
including a 4-year-old girl. That's quite a step up from last year in which only 17 people were
shot. It might actually be the most violent Chicago weekend in a while. And that's saying something.
Blue state
infrastructure. A month ago, we spent a spring break week in southern California. The
weather was glorious, and we had a wonderful time. But we were appalled by the third-world condition
of California's roads and highways. California's highways are not just decrepit and pocked with
potholes, they are downright dangerous. Billions of dollars would be required to bring California's
roads, bridges, cloverleafs and related infrastructure up to the level that is taken for granted in,
say, South Dakota. But California's Democrats have higher priorities, whether it is doling out
dollars to the party's supporters, funding environmental projects that will never see the light of
day, or finding new ways to attract illegal immigrants.
God isn't making Transsexual children,
lib-left politics is. It's a politically correct fueled pop culture behind the sudden
rush to Transsexual Transformation. Within weeks of Bruce Jenner revealing 'SheHood' complete
with an ABC Television announced Reality TV series about to show how it's done, it seems the whole
world — including the Girls Scouts of America — is going Tranny. In the U.S.
boys wearing skirts will be welcome in the Girl Scouts tent. In Britain, boarding schools have been
told to adopt gender neutral uniform policies in order to avoid discrimination against lesbian, gay,
bisexual and transgender (LGBT) pupils.
Police
officer deaths in the line of duty double as morale sinks to new low. Law enforcement
morale is at an all-time low as uniformed officers endure increased pushback from the communities
and politicians they're risking their lives to protect, and a new report released Monday [5/11/2015]
shows on-duty law enforcement deaths in 2014 occurring at nearly twice the previous year's rate.
"One of the things that we've seen just lately, that we've never seen before, is police officers are
telling their own families, and their own children, 'Don't go into this line of duty, this line of
work, because it's not worth it any more,'" said Bill Johnson, executive director of the National
Association of Police Organizations.
Law
enforcement deaths double in 2014. The atmosphere of hate being ginned up against the
police has resulted in double the number of deaths in 2014 compared to 2013, according to a preliminary FBI
report. Bill Johnson, executive director of the National Association of Police Organizations, says
that the campaign of demonizing police has taken a toll on morale as well.
Homelessness
up 12% in L.A. city and county. The homeless population jumped 12% in the last two
years in both the city and county of Los Angeles, driven by soaring rents, low wages and stubbornly
high unemployment, according to a report released Monday [5/11/2015]. In one of the most striking
findings, the number of tents, makeshift encampments and vehicles occupied by homeless people soared
85%, to 9,535, according to biennial figures from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.
The Editor says...
High rent and low wages can be blamed on illegal aliens who should have been stopped at the Mexican border instead of being welcomed in.
High unemployment can be blamed on Obamacare and other red tape and regulations imposed by Barack H. Obama and his minions.
In other words, left-wing liberals are entirely to blame.
How
Liberals Have Ruined College. The root of nearly every free-speech infringement on campuses
across the country is that someone — almost always a liberal — has been offended or
has sniffed out a potential offense in the making. Then, the silencing campaign begins. The
offender must be punished, not just for justice's sake, but also to send the message to anyone else on
campus that should he or she stray off the leftist script, they too might find themselves investigated,
harassed, ostracized, or even expelled. If the illiberal left can preemptively silence opposing
speakers or opposing groups — such as getting a speech or event canceled, or denying campus
recognition for a group — even better.
Obama's Legacy:
Urban Pathologies on Display. President Obama is concerned with burnishing his legacy
during this second term of his presidency. One major part of his legacy will be the way his "divider
and conqueror" political tactics have highlighted the many pathologies plaguing black urban culture
in this country, and have brought about a massive deterioration in "race relations." These
pathologies did not originate with Obama. They have been half a century in the making, and may be
traced to the mid-1960s when the legitimate civil rights movement was co-opted by the Left under the
twin rubrics of the "War on Poverty" and the "Great Society." If indeed we have been engaged
in a "war on poverty," it is long past time for us to acknowledge that poverty has been winning.
The Chains They Revere.
Why are so many of the young "misguided youth" in Baltimore so badly educated that they can
barely speak English? [...] Believe it or not, in 2011, the public education system in Baltimore
spent $15,483 per pupil... which was only second to NYC, which spent an incredible $19,770 to
basically produce the same wretched results. Of course, spending $15,483 per pupil is a total
waste of money when most of those receiving it drop out of school because they place no value on
it[,] just as the shattered "families" they come from see no value in it either, except to use it as
an excuse for their failure to make anything out of it. So there you have it, a complete Democrat
run city (for decades) spending a huge amount of money on a public educational system that is totally
controlled at every level by a key Democrat base group (the Teachers Union) which has instituted
every single "educational reform" advocated by the academic left for the last
40 years[,] and all it has produced is yet another generation of semi-literate and illiterate,
violent, utterly un-employable, lumpen-proletariat street thugs who only know how to make incoherent
complaints for the cameras about a society they live in, but in which they have no idea how to succeed.
Prospects for Black America.
[Scroll down] America has made no real, concerted effort to promote fatherhood, and part of
the problem is feminism, with its refrain that "strong women" can rear children without men.
"Fathers," [Heather Mac Donald] said, "should not be seen as an optional add-on or frill."
Illegitimacy, she added, is such a disadvantage to children that we should come to grips with the
idea that "it is not true that everybody has the right have a child." [John] McWhorter agreed that
it would be marvelous if blacks would marry each other, but noted that "after 50 years, there is no
way to create a movement in black America to rebuild the family." If even half the black leaders and
columnists and preachers came out with a strong endorsement of fatherhood, the other half would call them
vicious names for letting "institutional racism" off the hook.
Democrat:
My party didn't cause the problems in Baltimore. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) on
Wednesday [5/6/2015] rejected the idea that Democratic political leaders were responsible for
problems in Baltimore. [...] Some conservatives have suggested that Baltimore, where riots broke out
last week over police mistreatment of minorities, is the result of failed liberal policies.
Baltimore last had a Republican mayor in 1967.
Federal
Workplace Safety Agency Takes On Transgender Restroom Access. The Occupational Safety
and Health Administration (OSHA) isn't just about hard hats and safer machinery anymore. The federal
government agency charged with regulating workplace conditions has formed an "alliance" with a "national
social justice advocacy organization for transgender people" primarily to promote gender-appropriate
restroom access. The agreement, signed on April 27, is part of a larger OSHA program to partner
with groups "committed to worker safety and health to prevent workplace fatalities, injuries, and illnesses."
Feds
Forcing Public Schools to Adopt 'Nondiscrimination' for Transgender Teachers and Students. The
U.S. Department of Education is demanding that the Fairfax County Public Schools, in the Virginia suburbs just
outside Washington, D.C., "revise their non-discrimination policies to include gender identity" or risk losing
the federal funds they receive for their schools. The "nondiscrimination" would apply to transgender
students and teachers. The Fairfax County School Board is scheduled to vote on the new policy, a revision
of its existing non-discrimination rule, Policy 1450, on Thursday, May 7.
Liberals'
petri dish laid bare in Baltimore. All the mayhem unfolding in Baltimore is nothing
short of an unspeakable American tragedy. Laid bare are the failures of cradle-to-grave social
policies held so dear by politicians in both parties, but embraced and celebrated most lustily by
Democrats. These self-proclaimed Robin Hoods and do-gooders have issued open and unashamed
invitations to the most vulnerable in society to become completely dependent upon government for
everything from food to cellphones to home heating oil. Left in the wake is the utter
annihilation of families and the destruction of cohesive neighborhoods. Complete dependency
comes at such a high and bitter cost. All in return for what really amounts to a sad
pittance of welfare payments. It is a twisted mockery of the American dream.
Baltimore's
Self-Immolation: Democrats, You Built That. It's really a tale of two cities, depending on who's
telling the tale. The borderline-Jacobins at Slate, who believe spanking is child abuse, and personal
responsibility is out of fashion, try to explain looting away as a social phenomenon: "Why would anyone
burn down the only CVS in their neighborhood?"
Of
Course Democrats Deserve the Blame for Baltimore. If a person happens to point out
that Baltimore's criminally inept government has been run exclusively by Democrats since 1967 (with
one Republican mayor since 1947) and features not a single city councilor who isn't a liberal, he
may be called a lazy apparatchik. Because not everything, you see, is reducible to mere party
politics. Now, if an economic renaissance sparked by the progressive policies of Stephanie
Rawlings-Blake had lifted Baltimore from poverty, I imagine Democrats would be eager to claim credit
for the accomplishment.
The Left's
Burning Cities. Are the riots caused by the Baltimore Police Department's "documented
history" of abuse? Which party has run Baltimore and allowed its police officers to allegedly run
amok? Going deeper, which American political movement lionizes public-employee unions, fiercely protecting
them from even the most basic reform? Public-employee unions render employee discipline difficult
and often impossible. Jobs are functionally guaranteed for life, and rogue officers can count on
the best representation money can buy — courtesy of Blue America.
Riot-Plagued
Baltimore Is a Catastrophe Entirely of the Democratic Party's Own Making. St. Louis
has not had a Republican mayor since the 1940s, and in its most recent elections for the board of
aldermen there was no Republican in the majority of the contests; the city is overwhelmingly
Democratic, effectively a single-party political monopoly from its schools to its police department.
Baltimore has seen two Republicans sit in the mayor's office since the 1920s — and none since
the 1960s. Like St. Louis, it is effectively a single-party political monopoly from its schools
to its police department. Philadelphia has not elected a Republican mayor since 1948. The last
Republican to be elected mayor of Detroit was congratulated on his victory by President Eisenhower.
Atlanta, a city so corrupt that its public schools are organized as a criminal conspiracy against its
children, last had a Republican mayor in the 19th century. Its municipal elections are officially
nonpartisan, but the last Republican to run in Atlanta's 13th congressional district did not manage to
secure even 30 percent of the vote; Atlanta is effectively a single-party political monopoly from
its schools to its police department.
Baltimore
Violence [is] the Fruit of Collectivism. Granted, the violent faction achieved their presumed goal
by garnering plenty of attention, but they created far more enemies than friends with their escapades.
In letting off steam in such a manner, they reinforced negative stereotypes, marred a legitimate protest,
made people fear them, and necessitated a police crackdown, including 35 arrests. Worst of all,
they themselves acted on and perpetuated the conceptual root of racism: collectivism. Collectivism,
both in its political and philosophical manifestations, places the importance of groups (collectives) above
the rights of each individual. Stemming from the fallacy that groups act, rather than individuals,
collectivism also assigns responsibility to one's "people" — whatever group that may be —
and fosters prejudices and division.
How Long Does America
Have? The riots followed a weekend in which GoFundMe shut down a fundraising page for
a Christian-owned bakery that was hit with a huge fine for refusing to serve a gay wedding. GoFundMe
has said its policy precludes raising money "in defense of formal charges of heinous crimes, including
violent, hateful, or sexual acts." The key word here is "hateful": if you can expand or
contract that word at will — which many people in this country can and do —
you can accomplish anything. Every week this country is consumed in a new distended orgy of
polarized, mutual hatred, set against the backdrop of outrage mobs, race riots, shuttered businesses,
scandals, Twitter-induced career ruination, gleeful smear parties, and partisan hackery.
Liberals
against Perversion? President Obama says that we are not at war with Islam but with
those who have perverted Islam. Since when have liberals been against perversion? Name one other
perversion they are against. [...] Liberals have ruined education. They have turned civil rights into
uncivil wrongs. They have spoken power to truth. They have politicized the churches. They
slaughter millions of birds with their [...] wind turbines. They have turned reporters into propagandists.
They trick people into wearing ugly clothes and bizarre hairstyles. They call noise music. They design
ugly buildings. They even like weird furniture. They don't mind perverting education, rights, truth, God's
creatures, news, clothes, hair, music, architecture, furniture, anything, anything, anything, anything but Islam.
America's
Decay Is Speeding Up. There are no moral truths because there is no longer a religious
basis for morality. More than the Enlightenment, it was the Bible — especially the Hebrew
Bible (which was one reason America's Christians were different from most European Christians) that
guided the Founders' and other Americans' values. Not anymore. Instead of being guided by a code
higher than themselves, Americans are taught to rely on their feelings to determine how to behave.
Instead of being given moral guidance, children are asked, "How do you feel about it?"
How the Baltimore Mayor's office
explains her infamous 'space to destroy' remark. With massive violence spreading in
Baltimore on Monday, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is under fire for a statement she made over the
weekend indicating that she ordered the city's police to give people the "space" to destroy
property. "I've made it very clear that I work with the police and instructed them to do
everything that they could to make sure that the protesters were able to exercise their right to
free speech," Rawlings-Blake said in a press conference.
Baltimore
mayor's 'balancing act' gave protestors permission to turn violent. "I wanted to give
space to those who wished to destroy," that is how Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake described
her policy Saturday [4/25/2015] at a press conference. Her words, which effectively told police to
stand down as those gathered to protest the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray smashed store windows,
looted 7-Elevens and forced attendees at a Baltimore Oriole-Boston Red Sox baseball game to remain in
the stadium because it wasn't safe outside.
Baltimore
Is a Democrat Problem, Not America's Problem. Contrary to the emotional blackmail some
leftists are attempting to peddle, Baltimore is not America's problem or shame. That failed city is
solely and completely a Democrat problem. Like many failed cities, Detroit comes to mind, and every
city besieged recently by rioting, Democrats and their union pals have had carte blanche to inflict their
ideas and policies on Baltimore since 1967, the last time there was a Republican Mayor.
Colorado
businessman blames 'stoned' workers for move to SC. When workers at his Colorado
business went to pot, Mark Brawner said it was enough for him to roll out of the Rockies and head
for South Carolina. Brawner, who ran Little Spider Creations out of an old Denver warehouse for
years until this month, told KUSA-TV Thursday he moved because pot was hurting his company. He said
employees started to come to work stoned after the state legalized the drug for recreational use in 2012.
For
the Left, Society's Death is Victory. What can the left achieve when it no longer has
to worry about a conservative opposition, budgets, democracy or any other obstacle to its great
dreams? Cities filled with old men and women who never had children. Cities filled with
young men and women who will never marry, who are still working on their fourth degree without ever
having held a job. Cities filled with multi-generational welfare recipients who are also the
only ones having children. Cities owned by foreign nations from their historic buildings to
their imported booming populations. That was the great accomplishment of a united Europe.
No children, no jobs and no future. No great works, no civilizational progress and no golden age.
America's
Soft Police State. Even before 9-11, the Drug Enforcement Administration used judge-less
warrants to harvest phone records. How can this be? Apologists for the federal administrative
police state may cite the sometimes-inconsistent application of search and seizure practices at common law
before the American Constitution was written. Institutionalized bureaucratic violations of the Fourth
Amendment, however, can be directly traced to the expansion of the administrative state under the New Deal.
This was unthinkable 50 years ago. Thanks, liberals! CA
ballot initiative would keep boys out of girls' bathrooms. A group called Privacy for
All is trying to get enough signatures to create a ballot initiative in California that would
prevent boys from going into girls' bathrooms and locker rooms, even if the boys wiggle when they
walk and talk in high-pitched feminine voices.
When children are raised in godless, fatherless households, and morality is no longer taught in schools, stuff like this happens: Defense
Secretary: 10,400 Male Troops Subjected to 'Unwanted Sexual Contact' Last Year. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter told
a group of ROTC cadets on Wednesday [4/22/2015] that sexual assault is a "particular challenge and a particular disgrace" to the U.S.
military. He noted that last year, far more men (10,400) than women (8,500) "experienced unwanted sexual contact." "We've
made some progress," Carter said. "We seem to have seen some decrease in the estimated number of assaults, and we seem to have
seen some increase in those reporting an assault.
CPS'
$228 million time bomb. Even as it confronts a federal investigation that's embroiled
its chief executive, Chicago's public school system is facing the prospect of having to make
payments to four financial institutions that would largely wipe out its cash reserves. And they
could demand those payments with just 48 hours' notice, records examined by the Chicago Sun-Times show.
Chicago:
Economic Death Spiral After 84 Years of Democratic Control. Run by Democrats for more than eight decades,
Chicago should serve as a showplace that reflects the wonderful world of "progressive policies." Public schools are a
mess, and the city's finances place their bonds at near junk level. In 2013, the city averaged 36 homicides a month,
with the majority of them unsolved. [...] Nationwide, 10 percent of all parents have their kids in private schools.
In Chicago, 39 percent of public school teachers with school-age children have their kids in private school.
Critics
say California drought caused by misguided environment policies. In an average year,
California gets enough snow and rain to put 200 million acres under a foot of water, but
environmental opposition to dams over the last several decades has allowed the majority of the
freshwater to flow into the ocean, even as the state's population exploded to nearly 40 million
people. The current drought has left farms parched and residents under strict water consumption
orders, but some say it didn't have to be that way.
Liberals
blamed for California drought. For California Gov. Jerry Brown to crack down on shower-taking and toilet-flushing
to save precious quarts of water as millions of gallons flow into the Pacific Ocean doesn't make a lot of sense to Travis
Allen. [...] With everyday Californians now on the hook for drastic conservation measures, Republicans say the time has
come to focus on the real culprit: a state and federal regulatory framework, fueled by environmental litigation,
that requires a certain aquatic environment for at-risk fish while making it nearly impossible to build dams and other
water-storage projects.
How
the Environmentalists are Destroying California. In 2007, they mobilized around saving
the Delta Smelt, a three-inch baitfish, as an outgrowth of a policy that for decades put animal life
and vegetation ahead of drinking water and food. The Delta Smelt requires a rare and somewhat
precise mixture of fresh and salt water. It is by any measure a fragile species. In
August 2007, Federal Judge Oliver Wanger ruled that the fresh water pumped into the Central Valley,
the lifeblood of its economic base, threatened the survival of the Delta Smelt. He ordered a
severe reduction in the water directed to Central Valley agriculture. The ruling (subsequently
reversed for sloppy science and then upheld) resulted in a loss of thousands of jobs and acres of
farmland. [...] The fight over the Delta Smelt [...] is a fight between people who value a
baitfish over productive farmland and America's food resources.
Transgenderism:
A Return to Pagan Mythology. Declaring one's self to be other than what one is created
is an assault on material and human reality — an exercise in magical thinking that is
bound to run up against the reality of the created order, including the reality of humankind created
as male and female. Yet a recent article in the Daily Beast contains a complete glossary of
gender options. The glossary is currently comprised of 51 genders, among them an option to be
"gender fluid," that is, having the ability to flit from one gender to another according to what the
individual would like to be. The idea is that though biologically one may be born with male or
female parts, gender is a choice, not a fixed category. Instead, gender is determined by how
an individual feels about his or her self.
An Engineered Drought.
We're suffering the ramifications of the "small is beautiful," "spaceship earth" ideology of our
cocooned elites. Californians have adopted the ancient peasant mentality of a limited good, in which
various interests must fight it out for the always scarce scraps. Long ago we jettisoned the can-do
visions of our agrarian forebears, who knew California far better than we do and trusted nature far less.
Now, like good peasants, we are at one another's throats for the last drops of a finite supply.
Moral
Bullies and the Laws That Enable Them. I think it's time to consider whether, in an
effort to undo state mandated discrimination against blacks, we have gone too far afield and should
scale back the push to regulate discrimination against a variety of protected groups in the private sphere.
Hash
explosions prompt proposed changes in legal pot states. Alarmed by a rash of
explosions and injuries caused when amateurs make hash, lawmakers in Colorado and Washington are
considering spelling out what's allowed when it comes to making the concentrated marijuana at home.
Stand
Up for Indiana! In what has been called the "Catholic moment" in America, in the late
1940s and 1950s, Catholics were admonished from pulpits to "live the faith" and "set an example" for
others. Public lives were to reflect moral beliefs. Christians were to avoid those "living in
sin." Christians who operated motels and hotels did not rent rooms to unmarried couples. Fast
forward to 21st-century America. Indiana just enacted a law, as have 19 other states, to protect
the rights of religious people to practice their beliefs in how they live their lives and conduct their
businesses. And the reaction? Nearly hysterical.
The things
professors say. Colleges have been able to raise tuition at three times the rate of
inflation for about half a century, thanks to massive subsidies and credit financed by the federal
government, and their gatekeeper role as certifiers of intelligence for prospective employers.
Intelligence tests have been forbidden as a means of screening applicants, so as a means of screening,
employers have had to rely on the certification provided by a college degree. This has enabled
prestigious colleges to act as the gatekeepers to high paying careers, and thereby extract crippling
levels of tuition from parents desperate to launch their children on high-paying and prestigious
careers. Occidental College, for example, currently charges $47,522 a year for tuition.
Add in room and board, textbooks, travel and incidentals, and a parent must cough up a quarter
million bucks or so to certify a child with an Oxy diploma.
Safety first.
Academia has given us so much for which not to be grateful — identity politics,
race/gender studies and sundry unpleasantries. But it has topped itself now with one even
better — the right to be treated as something quite fragile, always endangered and almost
too precious to live. Last December, the Boston Globe informed us that "students at Harvard Law
School, joining their counterparts at a pair of other leading universities, have asked that final
exams be postponed for students who have been 'traumatized' by recent grand jury decisions" in New York and
Missouri, explaining "we cannot walk away from our pain." In England, some female students suggested
we move from clapping to hand waving to signal approval, as the sound of applause could be threatening.
Where
God Loves Abortion and Hates Israel. The Presbyterian Church (USA) is the Radio Shack
of church denominations. It's been in free fall for so long that it's sometimes difficult to believe
the church is still around. It makes news only when it makes bad news. This is a church that has
long embraced a culture of death by accepting abortion on demand. Indeed, church materials have
declared that abortion can even be "an act of faithfulness before God," and church policy states:
"The considered decision of a woman to terminate a pregnancy can be a morally acceptable, though certainly
not the only or required, decision."
The fruits of multiculturalism: British Girls
Raped by Muslim Gangs on "Industrial Scale". Nearly 400 British girls as young as
eleven are believed to have been sexually exploited by Muslim rape gangs in Oxfordshire over the
past 15 years, according to a chilling new report. It charges local officials with repeatedly
ignoring the abuse due to a "culture of denial." The scale of the abuse in Oxfordshire, a county
in southeast England, mirrors similarly shocking accounts of the sexual exploitation of white British
girls by Muslim gangs in Bristol, Derby, Rochdale, Rotherham and Telford, and implies that the problem
is not isolated, but endemic.
30
Blocks of Racism, Incompetence and Collapse. Philadelphia's mayor is black. Its
previous mayor was black. Its City Council is overwhelmingly black, with a few Hispanics and liberal
union loving whites sprinkled in. Its police chief is black. Its fire commissioner is black.
Its school district is run by blacks. The population of West Philly is 76% black. And you
know who is racist? The black leadership of Philadelphia is racist. Last week we had two
ice/snowstorms that struck the Philadelphia area. By the morning all of the roads in my northern
suburban area were plowed and easily drivable. When I got off the Schuylkill Expressway at
Girard Avenue and entered West Philly, the land where snowplows and salt evidently don't exist,
it was like I had arrived in a third world country where government services were nothing but a dream.
How
liberal discipline policies are making schools less safe. New York public-school
students caught stealing, doing drugs or even attacking someone can avoid suspension under new
"progressive" discipline rules adopted this month. Most likely, they will be sent to a talking
circle instead, where they can discuss their feelings. Convinced traditional discipline is racist
because blacks are suspended at higher rates than whites, New York City's Department of Education
has in all but the most serious and dangerous offenses replaced out-of-school suspensions with a
touchy-feely alternative punishment called "restorative justice," which isn't really punishment
at all. It's therapy.
Judges
Order Sheriff to Remove American Flag From Courthouse. By now you've all heard about
the flag controversy at the University of California-Irvine, where the student government voted to
ban flags, including the American flag, in student government offices. While a higher student body
vetoed that measure, the debate on the university's campus is not over. Now, on the East Coast,
we're seeing a similar controversy brewing at a courthouse in Virginia.
The
Left's Destruction of Inner-City Communities. Progressives and Democrats control every
major city of any size and every major inner city of any size in America, as you've heard me say
before. Everything's that's wrong with the inner cities of America, that policy can affect
progressives, leftists, Democrats are responsible for. They have monopoly control in all these
cities: Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, St. Louis. There's not a Republican in
sight. Progressive welfare policies destroyed the black family beginning in the 1960s.
Seventy-five percent of African American children were born to two parents at that time. Now,
80 percent in the inner cities are born out of wedlock. The absence of a father and
authority figure in the home, often complicated when the mother works as well as raising her
children, has produced a series of pathologies which we summarize as the underclass, which were
predicted by Daniel Moynihan in 1965, of violence, drug abuse, and criminality.
Ruinous
'Compassion': New Minimum Wage Laws Kick In. It is fascinating to see brilliant people
belatedly discover the obvious — and to see an even larger number of brilliant people
never discover the obvious. A recent story in a San Francisco newspaper says that some
restaurants and grocery stores in Oakland's Chinatown have closed after the city's minimum wage was
raised. Other small businesses there are not sure they are going to survive, since many depend on a
thin profit margin and a high volume of sales.
Seattle's
New $15 Minimum Wage Law Causing Restaurants to Close All Over the City. Since Seattle
forced a raise in its minimum wage to $15 small businesses, especially restaurants, have been
closing all across the city because they just can't afford the new wage and stay open. Higher
minimum wages always seem like a great idea to people as a general idea. Unfortunately, in
real life forced higher minimum wages are disastrous for all small businesses and Seattle is a
perfect example of why it is a bad, bad idea.
Seattle
restaurants going dark as $15 an hour minimum wage goes into effect. Seattle is about
to embark on a civic experiment that most experts predict will be an economic disaster; a $15 an
hour minimum wage is set to go into effect on April 1st. And some restuarants in the city have
already shuttered their doors and are either going out of business or moving to friendlier climes.
This was entirely predictable — and was predicted when the measure passed the Seattle city council.
Decades of "self esteem" building in the public schools are paying off! The
Parenting Style That Turns Kids Into Narcissists. Rearing kids to become adult
narcissists seems easier today than at any other point in human history. Just give them a
smartphone, a few social media accounts, and a trophy for participation. Right? It's a reasonable
presumption, but researchers at the University of Amsterdam took a more methodical approach to determine what
kind of parenting yields narcissistic kids — those who "feel superior to others, fantasize about
personal success, and believe they deserve special treatment." The team studied 565 kids and
705 parents over two years and tested two hypotheses for what makes kids narcissists: parental
worship or a lack of parental warmth.
Whaddya
Know: The Participation Trophy Era is Producing Kids Who Are Raging Narcissists. When
childhood is spent being rewarded for nothing, adulthood can be a bit difficult to navigate. There
seems to be no balance between avoiding damage to children's psyches and coddling them to the point of
inducing neuroses. Yes, psychotic, screaming parents at sporting events are awful, but last
Saturday I saw pre-season parade for a Little League, celebrating merely getting through the registration
process, I guess. Narcissism is at the core of progressivism. The sense of entitlement inherent
in leftist ideology is being nurtured in public schools that decades ago began prioritizing feelings over
achievement.
Planet
Fitness cancels woman's membership after her complaints of transgender woman in locker room. Yvette
Cormier said the incident occurred Saturday, Feb. 28, when she entered the women's locker room at the Planet
Fitness location at 701 Joe Mann Boulevard in Midland. "I was blocked, because a man was standing
there," Cormier said. "It freaked me out because, why is a man in here?" Cormier said an employee at
the front desk told her that the individual identifies as a woman. After taking her complaints to Planet
Fitness' corporate office, Cormier said she was told that the gym was a "no judgement zone" and they would not tell
the individual in question to stay out of the women's locker room. The person has not been identified.
The Editor says...
A disgusting sex pervert shows up at the health club, and if you complain, you're the troublemaker.
No
judging allowed: Planet Fitness drops member after gender identity complaint. [Scroll
down] "I was stunned and shocked. He looked like a man. He did not look like a woman," says
Cormier. Cormier is talking about a person who walked into the woman's locker room while she was getting
undressed. She says she couldn't believe her eyes. "This is very unprofessional. This is
very scary," continues Cormier. Cormier says she immediately complained to the front desk and
eventually to corporate offices. "They told me the same thing, that he was allowed in there
because that's the sex he wants to be," says Cormier.
Michigan
gym reportedly bans woman over gender identity complaint. A Michigan gym reportedly
canceled a woman's membership after she refused to stop telling other members that "a man" was using
the women's locker room. Yvette Cormier told MLive.com that the incident occurred at a Planet
Fitness on Feb. 28 when she walked into the woman's locker room and was "freaked out" because there
was "a man" in there. When Cormier told the front desk, employees told her that the person
identifies as a woman. Cormier took her case to the gym's corporate office, but was told that they
would not tell the person to stay out of the women's locker room because the gym is a "no judgment zone."
The Editor says...
A normal person would reasonably surmise that a "no judgment zone" is a place where the gym rats won't
make fun of a beginner because he can only bench-press 40 pounds, because at least he's trying
to get in better shape. Instead, this is a "no judgment zone" in liberal dystopia, where you no
longer have the right to object to perversion, and you can no longer assume that only women are in
the women's showers.
You Will Be Made To Accept.
[Scroll down] Planet Fitness cancelled her membership because of this event... not because
she didn't want a man in the women's locker room, but because of the way she expressed her feelings.
Planet Fitness, in other words, gets to play thought police. There is, of course, a difference in
what a private business does and what a government does — you have alternatives to Planet Fitness
(and you really should choose them, not just because of this story) — but it is still an issue for
those in the world who are not transgendered or believe that you can use whichever bathroom/dressing
room/locker room you want based on how you feel. The vocal minority wins the game because
businesses are so afraid of the PR hit of being seen as bullies. As a result, they cave to those
vocal minorities and completely ignore the silent majorities that aren't comfortable with the change.
Facebook
Now Allows Users to Create Their Own Gender Identity. Facebook is now allowing users
who find it hard to express their sex with the 58 existing field options to create their own gender
identity by making the option fill-in-the-blank. While the network's form originally offered two
options, male or female, in February of 2014 it was updated to include alternatives for agender,
androgenous, bigender, cisgender, non-binary, and many more.
Indian
Country looks to marijuana as new moneymaker. After making hundreds of billions of
dollars running casinos, American Indian tribes are getting a good whiff of another potential
moneymaker: marijuana. The first Tribal Marijuana Conference is set for Friday [2/27/2015] on the Tulalip
Indian Reservation in Washington state as Indian Country gets ready to capitalize on the nation's expanding pot
industry. Organizers said representatives from more than 50 tribes in at least 20 states have
registered, with total attendance expected to surpass 300.
36
Million Americans Lack Basic Work Skills. A report conducted by the OECD and commissioned by the
U.S. Department of Education entitled Time for the U.S. to Reskill? has found that a staggering 36 million
adults in the U.S. are "low-skilled." That is, they lack the most basic skills in literacy, numeracy and
problem-solving deemed minimally necessary for meaningful employment in a high-tech global economy.
According to the OECD, black and Hispanics are "three to four times more likely to have low skills than whites."
The Liberal Circus.
The liberal left got what it wanted in 2009 with a supermajority in the Senate and large majority in
the House, a subservient mainstream media, the good will of the American people, and the most
liberal president in American history. It only took that liberal hierarchy six years to erode the
Democratic Party to levels that we have not seen since the 1920s. Almost every policy initiative we
have seen — whether climate change, foreign policy, health care, or race relations —
has imploded. The answer to these failures has not been introspection, humility, or reevaluation
why the liberal agenda proved unpopular and unworkable, but in paranoid fashion to double-down on it,
convinced that its exalted aims must allow any means necessary — however farcical —
to achieve them. The logical result is the present circus.
Britain
becomes first to allow babies with 3 genetic parents. Britain has became the first
country in the world to allow babies to be created with the DNA of three parents. The House of Lords
voted Tuesday to approve the use of a groundbreaking and controversial in-vitro fertilization technique
known as three-parent IVF. That followed a similar vote in the House of Commons earlier this month.
The technique would likely only be used in about a dozen cases a year in the U.K. involving women with faulty
mitochondria, the energy-producing structures outside a cell's nucleus.
Yes, at first it's only for cancer patients and those with genetic abnormalities. But then when you
get accustomed to the idea of three-parent kids, the idea will be hip and trendy.
The Scorching of California
by the Green Radical Left. In the 1970s, coastal elites squelched California's
near-century-long commitment to building dams, reservoirs, and canals, even as the Golden State's
population ballooned. Court-ordered drainage of man-made lakes, meant to restore fish to the
1,100-square-mile Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, partly caused central California's reservoir
water to dry up. Not content with preventing construction of new water infrastructure,
environmentalists reverse-engineered existing projects to divert precious water away from agriculture,
privileging the needs of fish over the needs of people. Then they alleged that global warming,
not their own foolish policies, had caused the current crisis.
More Obamacare victims noticing
that they're on the hook to the IRS. [W]hen these people realize that they have to
give back money (around 53%, according to the above link and the Jackson Hewitt company), they are
not going to react positively to the Democratic message of You should have known better.
Yes, perhaps they should have known better than to vote for Democratic politicians that pushed the policies
that are now forcing taxpayers to pay out to the IRS... what, that's not what the Democrats meant?
Obama,
Jon Stewart and Progressivism's Bodyguard of Lies. The traditional courtroom oath used
to require the witness to state "I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the
truth, so help me God." To emphasize God's role in this oath, the witness would place his
hand on the Bible. When a witness took that oath, even if he was only a moderately religious
person, he could not escape the knowledge that he had put his soul on the line. If he got creative
in his testimony, he wasn't just lying to the court, he was lying to his Maker. That's serious
stuff. For the past many years, though, the oath has been abbreviated in American courtrooms.
Now, witnesses about to testify keep their hands in their laps and state only "I swear to tell the
truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth." The end.
If
Marijuana Causes Lots Of Crashes, Why Are They So Hard To Count? Last year, during a
congressional hearing on the threat posed by stoned drivers, a representative of the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) was asked how many crash fatalities are caused by
marijuana each year. "That's difficult to say," replied Jeff Michael, NHTSA's associate
administrator for research and program development. "We don't have a precise estimate."
The most he was willing to affirm was that the number is "probably not" zero.
More
Cities Following D.C.-Area Lead, Debating Non-Citizen Voting Rights. More cities are
trying to follow in the footsteps of D.C.-area jurisdictions to give non-citizens the right to vote
in municipal elections. Though many of these proposals have failed, the Washington Post notes
that activists in Amherst, Massachusetts, Madison, Wisconsin, and Burlington, Vermont are also
clamoring to give voting rights to non-citizens.
Hard
work of fixing the Deadbeat State begins with confronting unions. Thanks to years of
poor and corrupt rule and an equally corrupt judicial branch, Illinois has become nearly
ungovernable. Its revenues are now insufficient to cover its operating expenses, and so the state
was forced last year to pay $7 billion in IOUs instead of cash to its vendors. Yet Illinois tax
rates — ratcheted up in 2011 in a futile effort to end the state's status as a deadbeat —
are already so high that businesses are fleeing to neighboring Indiana and Wisconsin.
LensCrafters
Offers Nine Marital Status Choices. If you list your marital status as "Interlocutory," LensCrafters
wants you to feel included. Polygamists, too. Today at LensCrafters I was handed an iPad and instructed
to "update my medical history" prior to my eye exam. Purportedly for the sake of greater efficiency and accuracy,
I was confronted with screen after screen of repetitive requests for information, most of which should have already
been in their database. [...] In addition to the repetitive requests for my address and phone number(s!!) were more
intrusive demographic questions, including an inquisition about my race and ethnic background. And right there
on the very first screen was a mini-interrogation about the intimate details of my marital status. Am I married?
Divorced? Widowed? Never Married? Interlocutory?
Minimum
Wage Hike Closes San Francisco Bookstore. An independent San Francisco bookstore says
it will be closing its doors by March 31, despite having its best year ever in 2014. And
it's pointing at San Francisco's newly enacted minimum wage law as the reason.
Minimum
Wage Hike Hits Home in SF. This is a bookstore that has survived the doubling of rent
in San Francisco, the impact of Amazon and other online retailers on book sales, and the recession.
But despite all of that, it is the city's new $15 an hour minimum wage that will finally put them
over the edge.
Only
one in 10 pupils at east London primary speaks English as first language. A
fly-on-the-wall television documentary reveals that in 1997 at Gascoigne Primary School in Barking,
East London, 90 percent of pupils spoke English as their first language. That figure has now fallen
to ten percent. More than 60 different languages are spoken by the youngsters, according to the
four-part series. The documentary shows foreign children struggling to cope because they do not
speak English, while teachers and even other pupils devote time during lessons to helping them.
The Editor says...
The scattering of the nations, imposed as punishment at the Tower of Babel,
is now being reversed by multiculturalism, and this is the result.
N.J.
property taxes top $8,000 per home after rising 2.2 percent last year. New Jersey's sky-high
property taxes rose to new heights last year, from an average $7,988 in 2013 to $8,161 in 2014, according to
data from the Department of Community Affairs. The nearly 2.2 percent increase breaks down to an extra
$173 for the average property taxpayer, on top of what were already the highest property taxes in the country.
Colorado
considers ban on welfare cards at pot shops. Welfare money or food stamps for marijuana?
It's an urban legend that won't go away in Colorado, and state lawmakers this year are poised to pass a law
clarifying that public benefit cards can't be used at dispensary ATMs.
The
Left Realizes Too Late that Political Correctness Is a Virus. It is enormous fun for
conservatives to write long essays that rail against and mock the scourge of "political correctness,"
and yet, as I am coming to learn, it is also a monumental waste of our time. As a genuine "liberal" in
the classical sense of the word, I have no particular objections if people wish to descend into surrealism
and intolerance. But I am under no obligation to indulge them either.
This is a byproduct of rabid environmentalism: Seattle
government now going through citizens' trash for public shaming, revenue. Sure, the
incentive to compost is the putative reason for this regulation, but exactly how is it
enforced? In order for city officials and trash collectors to know you have committed the civic
sin of disposing of leftover food in your trashcan, they have to examine the contents of your
trashcan. Let's hope the citizens of Seattle and trash collectors can come to some kind of
silent truce over this.
This is a byproduct of same-sex marriage: Houston
woman marries herself in elaborate ceremony. A woman who vowed that if she didn't find
love by the time she turned 40 married herself earlier this month in a lavish ceremony here in
Houston, according to reports. Yasmin Eleby married herself at the Houston Museum of African
American Culture on January 3 in a lavish ceremony with 10 bridesmaids in attendance, plus family and
other guests on hand to celebrate the event. For this ceremony, Eleby's minister sister
performed the spiritual service, as it's not legal to marry yourself.
The Editor says...
What does that mean? It isn't legal, unless your sister officiates?
Pennsylvania's
new physician general brings an LGBT point of view. Rachel Levine stood tall in the
doorway, offered a polite handshake, and took a seat at the L-shaped desk in her drab, blank slate
of an office. The room, with its empty bookshelves, dual computer screens, and not much else,
seemed appropriately open to possibility as the headquarters for a woman about to chart new territory.
Levine, who has just been named Pennsylvania's physician general, spent most of her 57 years — at
least outwardly — as a man.
Transsexual Weirdo Rachel Levine Nominated to Be Pennsylvania
Physician General. No, Tiny Tim did not come back from the dead with a bleach job.
That's actually a woman — or at least, the media expects us to regard him as a woman.
[...] Governor Wolf says that Levine was chosen not because he shows up for work in women's clothes,
but in part because of his "extensive background" in "behavioral health."
Liberals
Exploit Race & Gender. The growth and impoverishment of the black underclass in cities governed for decades
by Democrats is our greatest domestic tragedy. Blaming it on mostly mythical white racism obscures the real causes,
prevents solutions. But if liberals acknowledged the progress that's been made, more blacks might wonder why all
the "help" they've gotten from Democrats has done them so little good. So they pretend every year is 1963.
Governor:
Legalizing pot was bad idea. Colorado's decision to legalize marijuana was a bad idea,
the state's governor said Friday [1/23/2015]. Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat who opposed the
2012 decision by voters to make pot legal, said the state still doesn't fully know what the unintended
consequences of the move will be.
Colorado
governor explains why legalizing marijuana in the state was a bad idea. Speaking on CBNC's 'Squawk Box',
the 62-year-old Democrat said: 'If I could've waved a wand the day after the election, I would've reversed the
election and said, "This was a bad idea".' Gov Hickenlooper, who opposed the 55 percent 'yes' decision by
voters to make marijuana legal, warned the state still does not fully know what the unintended consequences of the
ruling will be.
Odd
Byproduct of Legal Marijuana: Homes That Blow Up. When Colorado legalized marijuana two years ago,
nobody was quite ready for the problem of exploding houses. But that is exactly what firefighters, courts
and lawmakers across the state are confronting these days: amateur marijuana alchemists who are turning
their kitchens and basements into "Breaking Bad"-style laboratories, using flammable chemicals to extract potent
drops of a marijuana concentrate commonly called hash oil, and sometimes accidentally blowing up their
homes and lighting themselves on fire in the process.
People
are fleeing N.J. faster than any other state, moving company says. Nearly two of every
three families making an interstate move involving New Jersey last year were leaving the Garden
State, the highest rate in the country. New Jersey had the greatest percentage of outbound moves
of any state nationally last year with almost 65 percent departing, according to a company which
bills itself as the largest transporter of household goods in the country. The Garden State has
led the nation in outward migration for the fourth time in five years. In all, United said it
tracked 4,003 moves out of New Jersey in 2014 compared to 2,169 inbound.
15
Statistics That Destroy Liberal Narratives. [#13] The more progressive the city, the
worse a place it is to be poor and/or black. The most pronounced economic inequality in the United
States is not in some Republican redoubt in Texas but in San Francisco, an extraordinarily expensive
city in which half of all black households make do with less than $25,000 a year. Blacks in San
Francisco are arrested on drug felonies at ten times their share of the general population. At
6 percent of the population, they represent 40 percent of those arrested for homicides.
Whether you believe that that is the result of a racially biased criminal-justice system or the result
of higher crime incidence related to socioeconomic conditions within black communities (or some combination
of those factors) what is undeniable is that results for black Americans are far worse in our most
progressive, Democrat-dominated cities than they are elsewhere. The progressives have had the
run of things for a generation in these cities, and the results are precisely what you see.
The
fruits of cowardice and appeasement. Aside from murderous attacks primarily directed
against Jews in Europe over recent months, there have been ongoing massacres and atrocities
committed by Islamic terrorists throughout the world. To name a few: the butchering of 2,000
Nigerians in the wake of the Boko Haram enslavement of 300 schoolgirls; the murder of 130 schoolchildren
in Peshawar, Pakistan, by the Taliban; the barbaric videos broadcast of hostages being decapitated; ongoing
mass murder in Syria and Iraq; oppression of women; and gruesome persecution, expulsion and murder of Christians
in the Middle East. Today, as the global impact of Islamic fundamentalism grows exponentially, with
increasing manifestations of brutal terrorism, Western leaders lack the courage to even identify the enemy.
The
Obama Economic Record is Even Worse than You Realize. Six years ago this month,
America cast its lot toward a young, first-term U.S. Senator from Illinois to lead the greatest
nation in the world. His mesmerizing words and bold promises drew folks in by the millions.
However, unless you're a bleeding heart liberal, you realize the social experiment of electing an
unqualified, former professional antagonizer has been an economic disaster. The quantitative
evidence, and it abundant, is overwhelming and ever-growing.
Youth
Misery Index Grows More Than 50% Under Obama Adminstration. Young America's Foundation
has released its Youth Misery Index (YMI) numbers for 2014, and it's a record high of 106.5. The
Youth Misery Index (YMI) is calculated by adding youth unemployment, student loan debt, and national
debt (per capita) numbers. Young people are experiencing hardships like never before under the
Obama administration, and this generation is especially suffering the consequences of this administration's
leftist policies.
'Walking
Dead,' the Constitution and the Roman Empire. Thanks in part to President Barack Obama
and his pledge to fundamentally transform the United States, and in even larger measure to the
lethargic indifference of the citizens of the country to what is being done to them, the
constitutional republic founded in 1787 has more or less ceased to exist. [...] This disaster did
not happen overnight like the one on the TV series. It's been under way for more than 50 years,
maybe ever since 1914 when Woodrow Wilson was president and the progressives started to make "minor"
adjustments in how the Constitution was interpreted.
America
Is Being Transformed Into Brazil. Our dishwasher broke just after Christmas. The
timer stopped working, and a new one costs about $100. My wife suggested that since the dishwasher
is nineteen years old, we should buy a new one. Up until now it was working very quietly and
efficiently, washing and drying a full load in about an hour. We visited the appliance shop where
we had recently purchased a new clothes washing machine a few months earlier. I mentioned to the
salesman that our new washer was very slow, taking nearly two hours to finish a large load compared to
our old one, which took about 35 minutes. With a bright smile, he explained that that was
because of the new federal energy efficiency standards for clothes washers enacted by the Obama
administration's Department of Energy in May 2012.
N.J.
is a terrible place for small businesses, analysis finds. Less than two months after a
report was released that declared New Jersey has the worst tax climate for business owners, the
state received more unwanted recognition. The Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council recently
released rankings of how friendly each state is for the organization's constituents. Not
surprisingly, the Garden State fared poorly. In fact, only California finished with a worse
score in the rankings the SBE&C compiled.
Colorado
voters may allow pot smokers to carry concealed firearms. Colorado was the first state to legalize
recreational marijuana sales. Now the state's voters may consider a ballot measure to allow pot smokers to
carry a concealed firearm. The Colorado Campaign for Equal Gun Rights is working to put a question on the
November 2016 ballot to have Colorado ignore guidelines from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives about firearms and pot. The measure would change state law to prevent sheriffs from denying
concealed-carry permits because of marijuana use.
The
Race Card's Steep Cost. The cold-blooded murder of two New York City policemen as they
sat in their car is not only an outrage but also a wake-up call. It shows, in the most painful way,
the high cost of having demagogues, politicians, mobs, and the media constantly taking cheap shots at
the police. Those cheap shots are in fact very expensive shots, not only to the police
themselves but to the whole society. Someone once said that civilization is a thin crust
over a volcano. The police are part of that thin crust.
Sheriff
Clarke: Obama, Holder, Blasio Made 'Pathway That Contributes to Unjustifiable Hatred' of Police.
President Barack Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio have fueled
animosity towards the police through political rhetoric and "created a pathway that contributes to an
unjustifiable hatred of law enforcement officers across the country," said Milwaukee County Sheriff
David Clarke Jr., now in his 37th year of law enforcement and who was named the 2013 Sheriff of the Year.
As
Police Die, Racism Narrative Unravels. After four months of non-stop condemnations of
the police and the justice system for both racism and deliberately targeting African Americans for
violence, it is time for the race hucksters and their political enablers such as President Obama,
Attorney General Eric Holder, and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to stop the campaign of
incitement against the police.
Neighboring
States Sue Colorado Over Marijuana Legalization. The Attorneys General of two
neighboring states, Nebraska and Oklahoma, are suing Colorado in order to have their marijuana
legalization policy declared unconstitutional. Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt said in a
statement that Colorado's policy has "injured Oklahoma's ability to enforce our policies against marijuana."
Transgender
Student Files Federal Complaint Against School District For Banning Him From The Boys Restroom. A
transgender teenager in rural Virginia is taking his case to the U.S. Department of Justice, arguing in a complaint
that the Gloucester County School Board violated his rights by approving a policy this month prohibiting students
from using restrooms that do not correspond to their "biological genders." The complaint, sent Thursday,
argues the school board ran afoul of Title IX, a 1972 law that bans gender-based discrimination, which has
been interpreted recently to protect students from discrimination based on their gender identify.
DOJ:
Employers Can't Discriminate Against Transgendered. On Thursday, US Attorney General
Eric Holder announced a new interpretation of the Civil Rights Act meant to prevent employers from
discriminating against people who claim the status of a transgendered person. Holder announced in
a memo that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars discrimination on the basis of
sex, also applies to the transgendered. "This important shift will ensure that the protections of
the Civil Rights Act of 1964 are extended to those who suffer discrimination based on gender identity,
including transgender status," Holder said in the announcement.
Holder
Decrees Crossdressing Protected Under Federal Law. Attorney General Eric Holder has issued an edict, through a
memorandum, that cross dressing and transsexualism is now protected under federal civil rights laws which were designed to
protect women from sex discrimination. Existing federal law provides no statutory support for treating cross-dressers
and transsexuals as the law treats female victims of discrimination. This means that the Justice Department could now,
for example, consider the decision by a school or church to not hire a transvestite as a violation of federal law.
Income
Inequality Is Greatest In the Most Liberal States. The list of worst-run states — compiled by
the news site 24/7 Wall St. using things like pension funding, credit ratings, unemployment, poverty, crime and high
school graduation rates — shows that three of the bottom five are liberal. Illinois ranks dead last,
followed by New Mexico, with Rhode Island coming in at No. 5. At the other end of the spectrum, only one
of the top 5 best-run states — Minnesota — is liberal. North Dakota comes in first,
followed by Wyoming, Nebraska and Iowa. Liberal states also show up, amazingly enough, as having the greatest
levels of income inequality.
This is what "inclusion" and "multiculturalism" and unrestricted immigration will bring: Muhammad
is [the] Most Popular Name in Britain for New-born Boys. Muhammad is the most popular name for boys in
Britain, pushing the traditional British names of Oliver and Jack into second and third place respectively, according
to the website BabyCentre. There is a surge in Arabic names generally, with Nur a new entry in the girls' top 100,
jumping straight to number 29, and Maryam rising 59 places to number 35. Omar, Ali, and Ibrahim
are new to the boys' top 100.
Not
working for the working class. [Scroll down] So if Democrats want to win back
the white working class — and they kind of need to, if they want to win elections,
because it's an enormous demographic — maybe they need to start thinking about honoring
and encouraging work, rather than talking about race or class. One person who has some ideas in this
direction is Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who suggests that the government invest heavily in infrastructure,
which would create a lot of blue-collar jobs. That was actually an original part of Barack Obama's
stimulus plan, but it was derailed by feminists within the Obama coalition who thought it would produce
too many jobs for men.
EPA's
goofy green-energy rules. The EPA's proposed Clean Power Plan regulations are the most
expansive and economically disruptive rules in four decades from an agency that is notorious for its
reckless disregard for the financial consequences of regulation under the Clean Air Act. The
EPA's rule aims to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions from U.S. power plants by 30 percent. That's an
enormous and costly burden on our power generating utilities. According to Energy Ventures Analysis,
an energy research firm, the annual costs for residential, commercial and industrial energy customers in
America would be about $173 billion higher in 2020 — a 37 percent increase.
Average annual household gas and power bills would increase by $680 or 35 percent.
Minnesota churches go gluten-free
for communion. The communion host, the centerpiece of Christian religious services, is
undergoing a 21st-century transformation to match the growing food sensitivities of folks in the
pews. Alongside the white and whole wheat bread, gluten-free wafers are making their way into
churches across Minnesota.
The Editor says...
If the gluten content of a communion wafer is your foremost thought at church, you are wasting your time there.
Airline: 'Emotional
support' pig kicked off flight for being 'disruptive'. A woman was kicked off a US
Airways flight after the pig she brought for "emotional support" became disruptive, an airline
spokeswoman told CNN. The passenger and her large pig were booted from the flight before it left
Connecticut's Bradley International Airport on Wednesday, spokeswoman Laura Masvidal said. "After
the animal became disruptive, the passenger was asked to deplane," she said. How disruptive?
Fellow passengers told the Hartford Courant that the pig stank up the cabin of the tiny DC-bound aircraft.
The Editor says...
There's not one person in a million who would complain about a guide dog for a blind passenger, even if the dog smelled bad.
This business of taking a pig everywhere (as a sidekick for the emotionally disturbed) is a very recent development. I
suspect the idea must have originated on one of the many TV talk shows that specialize in hypochondria, and now the animal
rights and "special needs" activists are seeing how much the public will tolerate. It's one thing to sit in the park and
mumble to yourself, but if you are so close to a breakdown that you need to cradle a pig on a commercial airline flight, you
should be locked away in a rubber room.
GA:"We is
teenagers, don't shoot me". Has the use of the word "teenager" by the old media given
criminal teens a sense of immunity? You see it again and again. Trayvon Martin is constantly
referred to as a teenager, as though that somehow absolved him of his crimes. Most male children,
who are brought up in intact families, do not become predatory creatures in their teens. But for
those who do not have strong, moral, male role models in their lives, especially if this is the default
position in their community, predation is a common role. [...] The "progressive" position seems to be that
"children" are inherently good. That is not true. Children are inherently selfish and amoral.
In Christianity, this is recognized as original sin. Each child is a wild animal that must be
civilized and taught moral virtues. This is much harder to do in a single parent home.
Descriptive
versus Prescriptive: Another Left-Wing Scam. Teaching is typically prescriptive, and
that's how it should be. Schools should teach the right ways to do things. (This approach has got
to be far more efficient than what many public schools are now doing: teach no ways at all, or teach
all the ways as if none is preferable.) Bottom line, what newspapers call Standard English should
be taught first. That seems to be what our left-wing professors are eager to stop.
Obama
Shreds Constitution. [Scroll down] Nothing was done to stem the tide of the
Democrat Party's Sanctuary Movement, and other cities in the U.S. followed Chicago's example.
A few months later New York's mayor Ed Koch distributed a "memo" to city agencies specifically stating
that all city benefits and privileges be given to residents regardless of citizenship status.
What has followed has been an avalanche of illegal immigrant entries into the U.S. From 1990 to
2000 the U.S. grew by 30 million persons, the most ever in a ten-year period, and the majority of
these persons are illegal immigrants and their children. Illegal immigration is the greatest
scheme of political corruption in history and is already the most expensive.
It's Time to Save the American Family;
A Joyless Experiment Strained to the Limit. While it's true that a Conservative wave
just swept the USA in the 2014 elections, the accumulated damage of progressive theory upon the
American culture has been nothing short of devastating. The list of areas where Americans are now
struggling because of the importation of foreign ideas against American ideals is staggering. The
family is probably the most endangered because of the incursion against traditional, biblical and
common sense practice. Anti-Americanism has been institutionalized for decades, as a result of
creeping Marxism affecting our teachers, instructional materials, and in the minds of the mandarin
elites, daily spewing their contempt for tradition into the media, academia, and Hollywood.
Marijuana
Patient Sues After Firm Won't Hire Her. A graduate student has sued a textile company
for refusing to hire her for a two-month internship because she uses medical marijuana to treat
frequent and debilitating migraine headaches, a decision her lawyer calls discrimination.
Trouble
In Transtopia: Murmurs Of Sex Change Regret. Everyone has regrets. Some of us have big
regrets. Most everyone has some place to go to get help dealing with them. Except for, say, a guy
who had sex-change surgery and now would like to have his penis back. (The one God gave him.) Our
culture seems pretty much "to each his own" when it comes to elective bodily mutilation and the regret thereof.
And there's a lot of regret out there.
Schools
propose: Let boys into girls locker rooms. If you live in Minnesota, your high-school
daughter might soon be showering next to a male after athletic practice if a "transgender" policy
being considered by the Minnesota State High School League is approved next month. And beyond
Minnesota? Such a policy could be coming to other states, too, if there is not already one in place.
National
Cathedral to Host First Muslim Prayer. Washington National Cathedral is hosting a
Muslim prayer service for the first time on Friday [11/14/2014]. Planners say they hope Friday's
service at the historic cathedral will foster more understanding and acceptance between Christians
and Muslims around the world.
Gay
Activists on Transgender 8-Year-Old 'Coming Out': 'Pint-Size Hero'. Gay activists are hailing an eight-year-old
girl for "coming out" to her mother as transgender in a video filmed at Camp Aranu'tiq, a camp for "transgender and gender
variant youth." In the video, the girl — dressed like a boy — tells her mother that she is her
son. "It looks like we just found our new pint-size hero," an article posted on Huffington Post's Gay Voices section
stated. "Alex hasn't even left elementary school but he already has a firm grasp on his identity and what it means
to be transgender."
"It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck,
and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones."
Minneapolis
School District Announces "Raced Based Discipline" — Whites Will Be Suspended, Blacks and
Minorities Will Be "Reviewed". We have tracked this intent for 5 years as it evolved from
theory, to hidden practice, to policy discussion, then presidential executive order, and now into full blown
implementation. Both Miami-Dade and Maryland Schools did it secretly. At least the Minneapolis School
District is being open about their intentions, all former districts have done it without telling the public.
Minneapolis will now institute a policy of disciplinary suspension for white students, but blacks and other minorities
will not be suspended and allowed intolerant behavior to correct the disparate impact.
The Editor says...
Would you (or do you) send your child to a school where the blacks face no consequences for their actions,
just because they're black?
Couple
fined for refusing to host same-sex wedding on their farm. Cynthia and Robert Gifford
are caught in a same-sex nightmare. They've been forced to defend themselves against claims that
they're lesbian-hating homophobes. "We respect and care for everyone!" Cynthia Gifford told me.
"We had an openly gay man working for us this past season," she said. "We've had a woman who's
transitioning to be a man. We don't discriminate against anyone." But the government of
the state of New York sees things differently.
Cleveland's
'bathroom bill' puts women, children in danger. The Cleveland (Ohio) City Council is
conducting a public hearing Wednesday afternoon [11/12/2014] to discuss a proposal that would permit men and
women to enter public restrooms, locker rooms, and showers of their choice — including restrooms
located in businesses. Local news media report the ordinance is being considered "in an effort to help
transgendered people feel more comfortable" using those public facilities.
4 charts
that expose the invisible side of homelessness. New York City and Massachusetts are
legally obligated to provide shelter to all homeless residents year-round, while Washington, DC must
do so when temperatures fall below freezing. In all three places, family homelessness increased by
roughly 40% since 2011 in the midst a national decrease of 8%. Major cities such as Philadelphia,
Atlanta, Houston, Seattle and San Francisco saw no change or even a decrease in family homelessness.
It's the Socialist Democrat Party
on Tuesday's ballot. [Scroll down] For the truth is, in all but name, the Democrat
Party is the Socialist Democrat Party that is giddily well on its way to completion of the Fundamental
Transformation of America. Even though half the country did not vote for him, this is what millions
of Americans, promised Hope & Change by Obama back in 2008 got to date: a vulnerable borderless country,
an all-but-gutted military, increased threats of Islamic terrorism and an Ebola pandemic. But the
biggest change notwithstanding all of the above in Obama's promise of change is that millions of
Americans no longer have jobs and little hope of ever finding a new one.
Which
Cities Have the Least Bad Unemployment Rates? In March 2009, Provo, Utah saw the nation's lowest unemployment
rate at 5.1% and Modesto, California had the highest at 17.5%. Moreover, five of the six worst unemployment rates are
located in California. Similarly, from March 2008 to March 2009, ten of the 15 areas with the largest change in
the unemployment rate were located in California and Florida.
New
Jersey ranks last in business tax climate, again. For the second year in a row, New
Jersey's tax climate for business is the worst in the nation, according to a report released
Wednesday [10/29/2014]. [...] In the latest report, New Jersey earned its best ranking in the
individual category for unemployment insurance tax rank, at 32. But the Garden State continues to
suffer from high property taxes (50), high sales tax (48), high income tax (48) and a high corporate
tax (41), according to the report.
Obama
Administration Allows Fertility Clinics To Sell US Citizenship. President Barack Obama's administration has
decided to let the surrogate birth industry sell U.S. citizenship — and access to the U.S. welfare system —
to foreign parents who never even set foot in the United States. The fertility clinics will be able to pocket the
profits, after granting access to American education, health, welfare and retirement services to the foreign children
and the foreign parents.
What
I Have Learned From Debating Young Liberals. How can a person go through life parroting talking
points? What is going to happen to the individual when he or she is faced with reality? Most
importantly, what is going to happen to America with these individuals as future leaders?
Electricity
Prices Soaring In Top Wind Power States. From 2008-2013 electricity prices rose an
average of 20.7 percent in the top 10 wind power states, which is seven-fold higher than the
national electricity price increase of merely 2.8 percent.
City
Threatens to Arrest Ministers Who Refuse to Perform Same-Sex Weddings. Two Christian
ministers who own an Idaho wedding chapel were told they had to either perform same-sex weddings or
face jail time and up to $1,000 in daily fines, according to a lawsuit filed Friday [10/17/2014] in federal
court. Alliance Defending Freedom is representing Donald and Evelyn Knapp, two ordained ministers
who own the Hitching Post Wedding Chapel in Coeur d'Alene. "Right now they are at risk of being
prosecuted," attorney Jeremy Tedesco told me. "The threat of enforcement is more than just credible."
Obama's
Enablers in the Senate. Barack Obama isn't running merely the worst American
presidency since James Buchanan's, but the worst imaginable presidency in this day and age.
And every single Senate Democrat is thoroughly complicit in Obama's horrendous record. Is there a
single Obama initiative that has actually worked as advertised, or even one that has improved the
lives of most Americans or improved the U.S.'s standing in the world?
Pets Allowed.
[A]n increasing number of your neighbors have been keeping company with their pets in human-only
establishments, cohabiting with them in animal-unfriendly apartment buildings and dormitories, and
taking them (free!) onto airplanes — simply by claiming that the creatures are their
licensed companion animals and are necessary to their mental well-being. No government agency keeps
track of such figures, but in 2011 the National Service Animal Registry, a commercial enterprise
that sells certificates, vests, and badges for helper animals, signed up twenty-four hundred
emotional-support animals. Last year, it registered eleven thousand.
'LGBT': The 'T' is for Tyranny.
Washington state, dateline 2012: Colleen is just like the girl next door. Well, sort of.
Colleen has a penis. So, I guess, unless the girl next door has a penis, Coleen really isn't much like
her at all. But that's beside the point. In Washington you must, under penalty of law, pretend, along
with Colleen and Democrats that, in the face of both reality and sanity, Colleen really is like the girl next door.
This includes letting Colleen, who is actually a 47-year-old dude named Clay Scott Francis, lay naked and "sprawled out
in a sauna exposing himself" to girls as young as 6 years old. This really happened in the ladies locker room
at Evergreen State College. It's only fair, you see, because, as Clay, er, "Colleen," complained, and as police
agreed, this sick bastard was "discriminated against" when he was asked to leave on behalf of a terrorized 17-year-old girl.
Liberals
Wage War on the Truth. In the history of our nation, only the pro-slavery Democrats of
the 19th century rival the political deception employed by today's liberals that lead the modern
Democrat Party. Support of everything from abortion, to gender perversions, homosexuality,
pornography, a redefinition of marriage, wicked climate policies, and an enslaving welfare state
have made today's Democrat Party little more than a modern-day Mephistopheles. Instead of magic to
lure their Faustian targets, today's Democrats employ, among other things, bribery, class warfare,
fear, greed, lust, propaganda, scientism, vengeance, and violence. This is really unsurprising.
When your politics regularly conflict with absolute truth, constant deception is required.
The Power of Perversity.
Last week I heard a young woman speak to Rush Limbaugh about the paradigm under which the younger
generations operate. Her thesis was that the young have been so trained to feel bad about being
white, about being well-fed, about being American, about being "oppressors," that they make both
their personal and political decisions from a stance of abject repentance. Whenever they have to
make a decision — a buying choice, a voting choice — they choose that which
would present the least benefit for themselves. They vote and buy penitently, painfully. They seek
primarily self-flagellation. They seek that which they know will be bad — for them and
for the country, which they think is the fount of all misery and unfairness. I really tuned into
this call because I've been aware for quite some time of the perverse nature of most liberal positions.
Any behavior, purchase, or political decision that we would traditionally consider either morally good or
monetarily beneficial, the younger generations categorically reject.
Expert's
devastating 20-year study finally demolishes claims that smoking pot is harmless. A
definitive 20-year study into the effects of long-term cannabis use has demolished the argument that
the drug is safe. Cannabis is highly addictive, causes mental health problems and opens the door
to hard drugs, the study found. The paper by Professor Wayne Hall, a drugs advisor to the World
Health Organisation, builds a compelling case against those who deny the devastation cannabis wreaks
on the brain.
Harvard
Divinity School Introduces 'All Gender' Restroom. The Twitter account for Harvard
Divinity School published a photograph of a sign outside a campus restroom. The restroom is labeled
an "all gender restroom" and the sign adds that "anyone can use this restroom, regardless of gender
identity or expression."
Toll
Worker: Boss Told Me Not to Say 'God bless you'. A former New Jersey toll booth worker
said she was told by her supervisor to stop saying "God bless you," because it might offend
motorists. Cynthia Fernandez has filed a lawsuit against the Garden State Parkway claiming her
former boss violated her First Amendment rights. "I was so upset, I was crying" the mother of
three told me. "There's nothing wrong with saying 'God bless you.'"
Victory!
Boys born as boys can shower with girls in Kentucky school. I probably would have
missed this story were it not for Maggie Gallagher at The Corner. It seems that the good people on
the appeal board considering a case at Atherton High School (part of the Jefferson County public
school system) have determined that you can use the girls' bathrooms, locker room and showers if you
say you're a girl. No physical required.
Transgenderism
Is A Mental Illness, Not A Civil Rights Issue. If someone came to a doctor and asked
him to cut off a perfectly healthy arm because it just felt "wrong" for the arm to be there, should
the doctor do it? This isn't an idle question because this does happen with a mental illness called
Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID). People who have it feel as if they're not supposed to have
a certain body part, like an arm or leg. As a general rule, doctors won't remove a healthy body
part; so some of these poor deluded people crush, mangle, burn, or otherwise deliberately destroy
their own arms or legs in order to get a surgeon to slice them off. This raises a question: Are
surgeons who refuse to remove healthy limbs from people with BIID doing them a service because they're
mentally ill or are they denying them their civil rights?
The
clean fuels' program is a hidden tax on gas. Many politicians on the West Coast have
fallen in love with untested policies and programs they say will help solve global warming. Many of
these policies are mind-bogglingly complicated. What, after all, is a low carbon fuel standard
(LCFS), or clean fuels program? And how exactly do programs like "cap and trade" work? And, perhaps
most importantly, how do these policies impact you, the consumer? Here's the dirty little secret the
politicians don't want to talk about: All of these policies are going to make it more costly to
produce gasoline and diesel.
Consequences
From Disparate Impact Rules In School — High School Senior Rapes Teacher On Campus. A Florida high school
senior confessed to raping a teacher on campus and fleeing the scene of the crime in her stolen car. Homestead Police arrested
18-year-old Victor Marshall Nash after the Friday [9/19/2014] attack. He made his first court appearance Monday, where a judge
set the South Dade Senior High School student's bond at $62,500. Police said Nash attacked two hours after the final bell
Friday [9/26/2014].
Unprovoked
machete attack by illegal aliens caught on camera in Chicago. A horrific machete
attack by an illegal alien gang on two innocent young men waiting on a platform for a Chicago El
train has been caught on surveillance camera, and is making big news in Chicago. Chicago is, of
course, a sanctuary city for illegal aliens under the policies of Democratic Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
D.C.
Ranks in Top 10 for Households Receiving Public Assistance in 2012. In 2012, the
District of Columbia, the home of the federal government, ranked in the top 10 in the United States
for having the highest percentage of households receiving public assistance, according to data from
the Census Bureau. According to the report, Public Assistance Receipt: 2000 to 2012,
3.9 percent of households in D.C. received public assistance in 2012, or about 10,456 households,
which was up from the 3.7 percent in 2011. The District came in seventh in the ranking, behind
1) Alaska, 2) Maine, 3) Vermont, 4) Oregon, 5) California, and 6) Washington.
The Editor says...
Hmmm... What do all those states have in common?
Marijuana's
Hazy Contribution to Highway Deaths. As states liberalize their marijuana laws, public officials and
safety advocates worry there will be more drivers high on pot and a big increase in traffic deaths.
Time
to Stock Up on Styrofoam and Plastic Dishes and Utensils. Because our anti-human
tyrannical overlords have decreed that Americans must not have the ability to get our reusable
dishes clean enough to eat off of. They already took away our good detergent and forced useless junk
on us that leaves the dishes far from spotless, and now they want to make it impossible for us to get
dish-washing machines altogether unless we are rich politically connected leftist elites who are exempt
from moonbat rules and regulations.
South
Carolina teen sues DMV over license photo. The family of a South Carolina teenager who
was ordered to remove his makeup before taking a driver's license photo this year has filed a
federal lawsuit against the state Department of Motor Vehicles, according to court records. Chase
Culpepper, a 16-year-old who identifies as male but wears makeup and women's clothing on a regular
basis, was ordered to remove his makeup by DMV officials when he tried to obtain his driver's license in March.
The Streets of San Francisco.
If you want to film a zombie movie on the cheap, San Francisco offers a ready-made location overflowing with extras.
The mentally ill, addicted, and homeless find a home in the City by the Bay as they do nowhere else in North America.
In this walkable Western metropolis, one walks a gauntlet of down-and-outers betraying that unmistakable drug gait and
displaying lights out upstairs through their windows' 100-watt stares.
The Editor says...
The article above gives a fairly good description of Hell. Unfortunately the writer is describing San Francisco.
LGBT
Movement forces Child Welfare Services, run by Churches, to Close. In recent years, some religious child welfare
providers who believe that children deserve to be placed with married mothers and fathers have lost government funding and have
shut down because of laws requiring them to serve the lesbian, gay, bi and transsexual (LGBT) communities, despite their contradicting
religious convictions. In Illinois, unmarried heterosexual couples and homosexuals may legally adopt children and become foster
parents, leading to the discontinuation of the Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Rockford's adoption services. In
Washington D.C. a similar adoption program was shut down due to another law that requires religious organizations serving the
general public to provide services to homosexuals regardless of religious beliefs. Comparable cases are found in California,
Massachusetts, and all across the nation — cases which offer a choice between sincere religious beliefs and punishment under law,
or compliance and the forsaking of religious conscience.
The ultimate end product of liberalism is evenly-distributed poverty. Amid
Rationing, Venezuela Takes The Misery Crown. [S]ocialism has made Venezuela the most
miserable place on earth. But don't take our word for it. That's the result of objective research by
Johns Hopkins University economist Steve Hanke. He has created a "Global Misery Index" based on the original
inflation-unemployment misery index of the late economist Arthur Okun and the interest rate and GDP per capita
additions of Harvard economist Robert Barro. Put them all together and Venezuela tops the globe in misery with
a figure of 79.9. The misery in this case, as in so many others, is the product of socialism implemented in
another purported but misguided effort to help the poor.
California
Is About To Pass A Bizarre Law Making Sex A Legalistic Nightmare For College Males.
The bill, which is based on guidance from the Obama administration, requires an "affirmative consent
standard" that school administrators would use to determine whether a sexual assault has occurred.
The standard would define every sexual encounter as an "an affirmative, unambiguous and conscious
decision" by everyone involved. Under the law, a person who communicates nothing would not
consent to sex. A person who is asleep or drugged cannot consent, but such people already
can't consent under current law. At the same time, communication of consent can be vague and
muddled — a nod of the head, say, or perhaps some kind of lean-in movement. The
bill says consensual make-out sessions leading to sex must be "ongoing" and "can be revoked at any time."
Colorado
aims to sell more legal pot. Seven months after Colorado legalized recreational pot,
the state has an unexpected problem. It needs to grow more. Because even though sales have surged,
only about 60% of the marijuana sold is the legal variety. The rest is either illegal or grown
unregulated in the so-called gray market, where unlicensed citizens can grow for their own use.
5
Reasons Not to Trust the 'What Me Worry' Media About Ebola. [#1] The Mainstream Media
Love to Lord Their Superiority Over Us[.] Accusing the hoi polloi of panicking and then
calling for calm is the first knee-jerk reaction of anyone who gets off on puffing themselves up as
Our Betters. And that is our media personified.
Is America Too Far Gone? The
reason that we are in this mess in the first place is due to a dumbed-down electorate coupled with a lying media. I will
concede (although I will never understand it) that some people were persuaded [by Obama] in 2008 by all his slick talk.
However, it is depressing to witness grown people not being able to discern the dangers of this president's and the Democrat
party's policies.
Automation [is] the
Joker in the Deck. At the same time that the political Left is agitating for the minimum wage
increase, it is seeking legalization, or normalization, of millions of illegal aliens, most of whom fall into
the low-skilled category. In effect, they are promoting one measure that would reduce low-skilled
employment while at the same time increasing the number of people seeking those jobs.
Average
Price of Electricity Climbs to All-Time Record. For the first time ever, the average price for a kilowatthour
(KWH) of electricity in the United States has broken through the 14-cent mark, climbing to a record 14.3 cents in
June, according to data released last week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Before this June, the highest the
average price for a KWH had ever gone was 13.7 cents, the level it hit in June, July, August and September of last
year. The 14.3-cents average price for a KWH recorded this June is about 4.4 percent higher than that previous record.
1000
Children Fleeing Violent Honduras Heading to Violent Chicago. A thousand children said
to be fleeing the violence in Central America will be welcomed to Chicago, where local children are
routinely in the cross-fire of gang-related grudges. Mayor Rahm Emanuel, at the request of the
Obama administration in which he formerly served, says he is working with local organizations to
make room for up to one thousand additional unaccompanied children "traveling" from Central America
to the U.S.-Mexico border in the coming year.
Legalization
of Marijuana Increases Homeless Population. Officials at some Denver homeless shelters
say the legalization of marijuana has contributed to an increase in the number of younger people
living on the city's streets. [...] The Salvation Army's Men's shelter in Denver has seen an
increase in the number of 18- to 25-year-olds. An informal survey found that about a quarter of the
increase was related to marijuana, including some who moved hoping to find work in the marijuana industry.
Get Ready for
the New England Power Shortage. In 1980, under the first administration of Governor Jerry
Brown, California decided it wasn't going to build any more power plants but would follow Amory Lovins' "soft
path," opting instead for conservation and renewable energy. By 2000, with the new digital economy
sucking up electricity, a drought in the Pacific Northwest cut hydropower output and the state found
itself facing the Great California Electrical Shortage. You know what happened next. For weeks the
Golden State struggled to find enough electricity to power its traffic lights. Brownouts and blackouts
cascaded across the state while businesses fired up smoke-belching diesel generators to keep the lights on.
Truth
Telling and the Abuse of Language. If you were a member of an elitist group trying to get
complete control of a logical and stiff-necked people, what would you have to accomplish first? The
citizens of that country would have to stop thinking, and since you can't just pass a law against thought,
their basic ability to think would have to be destroyed — gradually before they noticed. The process
is simple:
Lower standards for both teacher and student.
Fill both teachers and texts with propaganda.
Give awards to everyone.
Fill entertainment with the same messages.
Encourage pot-smoking — make it more and more available and acceptable.
But the most effective tool is one Orwell could see coming in 1948 — the erasure of our language.
DIA
Rental Car Agencies Now Dumping Grounds For Pot. Rental car workers at Denver
International Airport say pot tourists are regularly leaving them with marijuana that travelers
don't want to try to carry through DIA. "It happens quite often," a rental car employee at a
national chain told a CBS4 employee. "Every couple of days. I just throw it in the trash."
Rhode
Island Shows Blue-State Model Of Activist Government Is Built To Fail. Progressives
say the blue-state model works. After all, states like California, Massachusetts and New York have
some of the nation's wealthiest and best-educated populations. But many are also basket cases,
reeling from problems ranging from high costs of living and widening income inequality to chronic
fiscal crises. And leading blue states often possess unique assets that protect them, at least for a
time, from the full economic consequences of their public policies.
Non-Citizen
Driver's Licenses Bogging Down Colorado DMV. A new kind of driver's license for
non-citizens will soon be available but even before the Department of Motor Vehicles can issue them,
advance requests are clogging up the system. Tens of thousands of drivers in Colorado are calling
the DMV to register for the new ID which is clogging the system.
Another harmless incremental step. Next: government subsidies. Later: Marijuana "access" is a right. Berkeley
Dispensaries to Provide Free Marijuana to Low-Income Members. Medical marijuana dispensaries in Berkeley will
likely soon be required to provide free pot to low-income members and homeless people, according to an ordinance
approved by the city council on Tuesday [7/1/2014]. The city is also looking to approve a fourth dispensary,
raising the current limit of three locations.
Thousands
turn out for Trans March in S.F. Thousands of people descended on Dolores Park on
Friday afternoon [6/27/2014] for the nation's biggest transgender pride event, the 11th annual
Trans March, before moving the celebration to the site of the Compton's Cafeteria Riot at Turk and
Taylor streets in San Francisco. Once at the site of the one of the most important transgender
riots in U.S. history, city officials unveiled a street sign honoring the late Vicki Marlane, one
of San Francisco's legendary performers. The Board of Supervisors in April approved a resolution
to recognize the pioneer, who died of an AIDS-related illness in 2011.
16 Reasons Why the United
States is Going to Hell in a Handbasket. [#2] America has turned from a nation
promoting morality and a belief in God to a nation where anything goes, with the most perverse and
ungodly acts being accepted, promoted and even glorified. And if anyone disagrees, or speaks
out against this immorality they are quickly labeled as promoting hate, bigotry or of being a racist.
This quickly shuts most opponents up while simultaneously, implanting the message in everyone's mind,
that those acts in-question are to be accepted and are somehow cool.
The
Establishment's Conspiracy to Silence Conservatives Could Destroy Our Country. The
key to any democratic republic is legitimacy. If the system allows a full and fair airing of
different views before a decision is made, groups that lose the debate will accept the decision.
You are disappointed if the other side won fair and square. But you are furious if the other side
cheated. And all the other side does today is cheat. Worse, it does so with a mindless cynicism,
having discovered that if other elements of the establishment play along — like a mainstream
media that refuses to perform its accountability function — then there are no immediate
consequences. Over time, this risks of alienating nearly half of our citizens.
How
The Trans-Agenda Seeks To Redefine Everyone. In November, the U.S. Senate voted in favor of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act
(ENDA). The law is based on the assumption that one's perceived "gender identity" does not always
"match" your sex "assigned" or "designated" at birth. So, the thinking goes, the law should allow a
more ambiguous array of gender identities: male, female, both, neither, or something else entirely.
It's not an overstatement to say that ENDA is a huge step, mostly under the radar, to codify a new
definition of humanity.
Is
this what would happen if cannabis was legal in Britain? In the U.S., Barack
Obama — who liked to get stoned as a teenager — recently gave his support to
the Colorado initiative even though it meant contradicting his own drugs advisers. But as I
discovered in Denver this week, five months in, this shoddily handled experiment should give serious
pause for thought to those in Britain who want a cannabis joint to be as freely available as a pint of beer.
Sex Change Regrets.
While some might find the story laughable, I personally find it tragic: Don Ennis, an experienced TV news producer was fired
from his job, allegedly for performance-related issues, after reappearing as Dawn Stacey Ennis, marking his third gender change since
last year. [...] It would appear that Ennis is quite troubled and in need of serious help, but even to suggest such a thing is to be
branded transphobic and hateful.
Iraq
Civil War Is Exactly What Democrats Wanted. The chaos that is unfolding in Iraq is
being portrayed in the media as an unexpected development. It certainly is an unnecessary fate for
a country that had, until recently, a chance of survival. Yet it is not only the predictable, but
in fact the desirable, outcome in Iraq for Democrats, who in 2006 were pushing for as quick a withdrawal
from Iraq as possible — never mind the foreseeable consequences, including genocide and a
terrorist takeover.
The Bluest State. "Rhode Island is in the midst of an
especially grim economic meltdown," a 2009 New York Times story began, "and no one can pinpoint exactly why." Five years later,
the state continues to suffer from most of the same problems the Times story described: high unemployment, a crippling tax structure,
dangerously underfunded state pension systems. But contrary to the Times's claims, Rhode Island's predicament is easy to explain.
With no special economic advantages, the state has maintained an entitlement mentality inherited from an age of colonial and industrial grandeur.
The War on Social Science. In editorials,
sound bites, social media, and floor debate, the Left continues to insist that state and local tax burdens have no effect on economic growth,
that higher state spending on Medicaid and unemployment insurance creates jobs, that teacher assistants boost student achievement, and that
offering teachers bonuses to obtain graduate degrees makes them more effective in the classroom. None of these claims has empirical
support. For decades now, social scientists have examined each and found them wanting.
Let's Move,
But Not in Denver Parks. In an ironic but typical example of government logic, the
City of Denver imposed rules limiting group exercise in city parks and open spaces. Specifically
the decree is for no commercial activity without a permit. And of course a fee that accompanies the
permit. Two thousand miles away from Denver, the New York Times took notice. They reported that a
group called Stroller Strides, new mothers working out while pushing their strollers, received a
cease and desist order from Denver Parks and Recreation.
Liberal
Austin homeowners surprised to find they have to pay all the taxes they voted for.
Voting and paying are different endeavors entirely. Often, when one has to pay for the things one
has voted to fund, that decision becomes less flippant. This is a comment, less on the specifics of
Texas' or Austin's tax system than the blaring disconnect between liberals in Austin who are voting
for higher taxes and the actual paying of the taxes. Which, as it turns out, is painful,
discouraging, and can be a detriment to the fabric of the city.
Barack
Obama and His Urban Parasites Declare War on the Constitution. A key element of supply chain value
analysis is, in fact, the identification of waste in your supply chain. If your supplier is in Manhattan,
you are paying Bill de Blasio's inflated taxes, and the city's inherently exorbitant rents and costs of living,
as well as for the goods or, more likely, services you are actually receiving. When enough productive
people and employers figure this out, the last worker to leave New York City will hopefully remember to turn
out the lights, the way he did when he left Detroit.
It
will cost almost $2 billion to rid Detroit of urban blight. The Detroit Blight Removal Task
Force, convened by President Obama last fall, based its report on a massive, detailed survey of Detroit's
377,000 parcels of land, concluding that the city should quickly demolish about 40,000 of them and consider
scrapping or restoring more than 30,000 more. That will cost up to $850 million, the report
estimates, and it will cost up to $1 billion more to save or dismantle the city's almost 600 giant
factories.
Houston
Mayor Forces All to Open Girls Rooms to Men. Houston's bathrooms, showers, and dressing facilities will now be
open to all, regardless of gender, gender identity, gender expression, or other predilection of gender behavior. By
an 11-6 vote of the Houston City Council, Mayor Annise Parker achieved this as the crowning jewel of her tenure as mayor.
Mayor Parker, Houston's first openly gay mayor, said passing this ordinance was not the most important thing she has done in office,
according to an article in the Fairfield Citizen, but it is the "most personally meaningful thing I will ever do as mayor."
With Abortions
& Crime At All Time High, Detroit Approaches Third World Status. Detroit is often
heralded by small government proponents as a perfect example of an over-involved government pushing
themselves into the culture of a successful city and creating a state of dependence which
eventually collapses in on itself. In other words, a great example of why big government fails.
But this is really only a partial explanation of the issue. The real issue in America and the
problem that is bankrupting cities just as much as the U.S. treasury, is the problem of cronyism.
This, above all other factors, is the legacy of Detroit.
VA Fast-Tracks Sex Change for Manning While Vets Die on Waiting
Lists. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has formally approved the request of Pvt.
Bradley Manning, convicted for leaking classified documents to Wikileaks, to be temporarily
transferred out of military custody in order to undergo expensive hormone therapy and surgery to
become a woman. Manning, whose taxpayer-funded request to change his name from Bradley to Chelsea
was approved last month by a Kansas court, has been able to obtain repeated diagnoses from military
doctors that he suffers from "gender dysphobia"; a condition of someone 'discontented' with the sex
they were 'assigned with' at birth. It was first listed as a medical condition in 2007 by the
authoritative Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Clearing
neighborhood blight could cost $2B, Detroit group finds. The most comprehensive
effort yet to catalog Detroit's empty, dangerous properties and trashy lots has found that 84,641
properties are blighted or vacant and it will cost $850 million to eliminate them. It
could take five years and $2 billion to get rid of them all — including blighted
commercial properties, according to results released Tuesday of the Detroit Blight Removal Task
Force, an effort of private and public sector leaders that was convened last fall by the Obama
administration.
More
Colorado drivers in fatal crashes positive for pot, study says. Two new University
of Colorado studies paint an ominous picture of the direction of the state since marijuana
commercialization, but neither provides conclusive evidence that legal pot is causing harm.
One study shows more drivers involved in fatal car accidents in Colorado are testing positive for
marijuana — and that Colorado has a higher percentage of such drivers testing positive for pot
than other states even when controlled for several variables. But the data the researchers use does
not reveal whether those drivers were impaired at the time of the crash or whether they were at fault.
North
Dakota U. Bans Something Truly Ridiculous from Campus. Fencing is not only an Olympic sport; it is
sponsored by more than 30 NCAA colleges and universities. However, that didn't stop a North Dakota university
from banning its fencing club from practicing on campus. The reason? Fencing violates the school's "weapons
policy."
Five Things
You Can Do About Climate Change. [#4] Reduce Emissions In Transit: The key thing here is to avoid electric
cars. Even before it rolls off the production line, an electric car has created far more CO2 than a conventional one.
That's because the manufacturing process — notably the energy used to create its battery and mine the lithium — is
so un-eco-friendly. Avoid also using bio-fuels, one of the most environmentally damaging forms of energy available.
In Asia and Africa, the demand in the West for mandated bio-fuels has led to the replacement of rainforest with plantations of
industrial palm oil; it has also driven up food prices by diverting agricultural land for food production, thus harming the
world's poor who are especially vulnerable to starvation.
Protecting
a Bay While Treading on Truth. For reasons known best to themselves — because they've mostly
eschewed reasoned argument for slogans, fabrications, and junk science — the federal government and environmental
groups have waged a crusade against a family-owned oyster farm in the waters off Marin County, Calif. So far, the
oyster farm owners and employees are losing: Their last hope is a pending appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The law does not appear to be in the oyster farmers' favor, but it's still the kind of thing that gives liberal activists
and their bureaucratic enablers a bad name.
The absence of fathers
matters. We have evolved a society wherein we pretend the opposite is true. The disappearance of fathers
is now nearly the norm. Almost one in four American children lives in a household without their biological dads.
For brown kids, that number stands at about 28 percent. For black kids, it's a little better than half.
Mass incarceration and the War on Drugs have certainly played a role in this. But just as surely, a role is also
played by the new social more which says it's okay for a man or a woman to be feckless, for him to wander away because he is
immature, selfish and young, for her to have a baby on her own because the clock is ticking and really, she doesn't need
a man for anything more than sperm. This is the new morality, the new American mindset.
A
front-row seat at the culture war. It appears that the goal of pro-tolerance agenda being promoted by
the leftists is to stamp out diversity. In other words, a "tolerant" society makes room for (or actually
glorifies) illegal aliens, oppressive dictators, homosexual marriage, abortion rights, convicted killers, sharia law,
unrestricted pornography, teen-age sex and redistribution of wealth, so anyone opposed to these is not just intolerant
and outside of the mainstream, but actually subject to shunning and possibly incarceration. Moreover, the left
is intent on co-opting traditional defenders of values such as the Boy Scouts, the Catholic Church, the Southern Baptist
Convention and the Republican Party, and turning them into mouthpieces for a form of "tolerance" that not coincidentally
turns their own tradition-upholding members into purported agents of hate.
Report:
Pentagon Paid $150 Per Gallon for Green Jet Fuel. The Department of Defense (DOD) paid $150 per
gallon for alternative jet fuel made from algae, more than 64 times the current market price for standard
carbon-based fuels, according to a report released on Wednesday [5/7/2014]. The Government Accountability
Office (GAO) noted in its report that a Pentagon official reported paying "about $150 per gallon for
1,500 gallons of alternative jet fuel derived from algal oil."
Poll: Half of Illinois residents would move from the state if they
could. Half of Illinois residents would move to another state if they could — the highest
percentage for any state, according to a poll released by Gallup this week. Nearly half of those polled in
Connecticut and Maryland said they would move. Some 19 percent of Illinoisans surveyed said they plan
to move in the next 12 months, a rate that trailed only Nevada.
[The]
District of Columbia [is] the Nation's Most Expensive Place to Live. Elevated housing costs helped
to make the District of Columbia more expensive to live in than any state in 2012, according to data released
Thursday [4/24/2014] by the Commerce Department. Regional prices for goods and services in D.C. were 18% higher
than the national average in 2012, Commerce said in a new report that compares income levels and costs of living
across 50 states and the district. It also gives a breakdown for big cities. The metropolitan
area with the highest cost of living in 2012 was Honolulu, followed by New York-Newark-Jersey City.
The
Left's Advice Would Bring A Second Great Depression. One oddity of the current economic debate is
that the more Barack Obama's incompetent income-redistribution policies have failed, the more the left calls for
more government-intervention policies to correct for the deficiencies of the earlier rounds. American
middle-income families have lost nearly $3,000 in purchasing power since 2007, and the left's only solution
to get us out of the rut is more debt, more social-welfare spending, more income redistribution and higher
taxes on the rich and big business.
Having learned nothing from Colorado's experience... Lawmakers
want task force to push pot legalization. Citing strains on the criminal justice
system and the economic costs of enforcing anti-marijuana laws, a group of Democratic lawmakers
called Monday [4/28/2014] for the creation of a task force to pursue legalizing and regulating the
drug in Illinois. Cook County Commissioner John Fritchey said he will introduce a resolution at
the May 21 County Board meeting asking the General Assembly to put together such a task force.
If passed, the resolution would go to the speaker of the House and the Senate president for consideration.
Rocky
Mountain High and Unintended Consequences. Within two weeks of marijuana legalization
in Colorado, a stoned motorist plowed into two State Police vehicles in metro Denver. And a
69-year-old driver was pulled over in Idaho, detained, and his vehicle searched. He was profiled
over his Colorado license plate and Washington driver's license. Tragically, a 19-year-old Wyoming
college student jumped to his death from a Denver hotel balcony after eating a marijuana cookie.
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man
soweth, that shall he also reap.* Kids
caught distributing pot in school. Several Montfort Elementary School students were suspended
Tuesday [4/22/2014] after school officials discovered they were selling and trading stolen, loose-leaf
marijuana and edible forms of the drug at school. "Over the past two days, we have had two separate
incidents of students bringing marijuana into our school, both in the form of loose-leaf marijuana and an
edible form of the drug," Principal Jennifer Sheldon wrote in a letter to parents. On Monday, a
fourth-grade student brought loose-leaf marijuana to school and sold it to three other students.
'420'
Revelers Leave Golden Gate Park with 10,000 Pounds of Garbage. The mellow, "peace now,"
countercultural, environmentally conscious "420" celebration deposited 10,000 pounds of garbage on what
is known as Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park, leaving volunteers and park workers to clean up the
mess. According to the San Francisco Chronicle's website SF Gate, this year's celebration
drew a massive amount of revelers estimated at between 10,000 and 15,000. The pot smokers'
untidiness will cost the city more than $10,000 in cleanup costs.
Safety
concerns about legal marijuana edibles. Two recent deaths and increased emergency room visits in
Colorado have highlighted concerns about the safety of legal marijuana edibles. [...] "The edibles industry is
huge," points out Colorado state representative Jonathan Singer. "About 40 percent of the marijuana
industry is in edibles." "Edibles are a huge part of our business," agrees Jamie Perino, owner of Euflora,
situated on Denver's 16th Street Mall and a popular tourist destination.
America's
power grid at the limit: The road to electrical blackouts. Americans take electricity for granted.
It powers our lights, our computers, our offices, and our industries. But misguided environmental policies are
eroding the reliability of our power system. Last winter, bitterly cold weather placed massive stress on the US
electrical system — and the system almost broke. [...] Eight of the top ten of PJM's all-time
winter peaks occurred in January 2014. Heroic efforts by grid operators saved large parts of the nation's
heartland from blackouts during record-cold temperature days.
The Editor says...
What would alleviate this problem? Increased production of electricity, of course, but that is exactly
what environmentalists oppose when they campaign against coal,
because coal is no longer used to power factories, propel ships and heat large buildings — it is used
almost exclusively in the generation of electricity. When the lights go out on the coldest (or hottest) day
of the year, you can blame left-wing tree-hugging environmentalist hippies (and their socialist Democrat congressmen)
who think they are "saving the earth" by eliminating the use of coal.
Why Everything Is Dirtier. [Scroll
down] My needs are for clean clothes, same as the laundry needs of the whole of humanity since the beginning of
time. The whole purpose of laundries is to meet that need. Here's the problem, however. The goal of
the regulators who regulate the laundry is not to improve your life. It is to wreck your life a bit at a time by
pressing increasing numbers of restrictions and mandates upon private producers. One of these mandates has removed
TSP from detergent — and with catastrophic results. No one wants to talk about this.
There is a major hush-hush culture here because business, understandably, doesn't want to face a consumer backlash,
and government doesn't want to acquire the reputation for being the civilization wrecker that it truly is.
Bulletproof
Subways A Sign Of Violent Times? The store was clean and looked just like any other well-run Subway
restaurant, except for the bullet-proof protection for the employees and lack of a bathroom for customers.
In fact, a few patrons asked for hand sanitizer because they couldn't wash their hands.
Watters Goes to
Colorado Pot Rally. The O'Reilly Factor sent Jesse Watters to Denver, Colo., for the popular 4/20
celebration. The annual marijuana holiday coincided with Easter weekend this year and tens of thousands
attended. By late afternoon, authorities had issued 47 citations for public marijuana consumption
and made 16 arrests. Denver Health Medical Center paramedics treated 14 people, including
three that were taken to detox.
Oklahoma
will charge homeowners who generate their own power. [R]afts of new regulations from
Barack Obama's EPA and pressure from eco-warriors is moving us toward potentially crippling
shortages of energy on the grid. If enough coal fired plants are shut down prematurely, you may
not be able to simply take it for granted that the lights will come on when you throw the switch some
morning. People willing to make the investment in producing their own energy — as well
as spreading the extra around — should be encouraged, not subjected to discouraging fees.
This is where Obamacare is headed. Dems want government health
care for all — no matter the cost. With little fanfare, Vermont is preparing to become the first
state to implement a single-payer, government-run health-care system. The Vermont plan, if implemented, would abolish
private health insurance in the state and replace it with a taxpayer-funded system under which the state government directly
pays doctors and hospitals. Of course the state is having a bit of trouble figuring out how to pay for the program's
estimated $2 billion price tag, considering that the entire state government's operating budget is currently just
$2.7 billion. Currently under consideration is an increase in the state sales tax from 6.9% to 29%.
Casual
marijuana use linked with brain abnormalities, study finds. Casual marijuana use may come with
some not-so-casual side effects. For the first time, researchers at Northwestern University have analyzed
the relationship between casual use of marijuana and brain changes — and found that young adults who
used cannabis just once or twice a week showed significant abnormalities in two important brain structures.
Detroit
bailout plans just paper over the problem with more money. In Detroit's unfolding saga, the only innocent
victims are city residents. So if there is any case for a Motown bailout, it is to make the city more livable for
them. However, that seems to be the main goal of neither the Democratic White House nor the state's Republican
governor — both of whom have come up with nifty new schemes to shovel taxpayer largesse to city retirees.
Just two weeks ago, Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr had been threatening to put a buzzsaw to the city's $3.5 billion
unfunded pension liabilities to lop off savings to "invest" in city services.
Stoned
mom avoids jail after driving 12 miles with baby on roof. An Arizona mother will avoid
jail time after she got high and drove nearly 12 miles with her 2-month-old baby on the roof of her
car. Maricopa County Superior Judge Cynthia Bailey sentenced 21-year-old Catalina Mariah Clouser on
Wednesday to 16 years of supervised probation. [...] Miss Clouser pleaded guilty in February to
child abuse and driving under the influence of marijuana after her infant son was found miraculously
unhurt in the middle of a Phoenix highway in June 2012, still strapped into his car seat, Reuters
reported.
CBO
Dire Debt Warnings Show Nation's Democrat Future. Andrew Jackson, who in 1835 succeeded in
paying off the national debt, was famous for considering debt slavery. The current fiscal path the
U.S. is on does indeed lead to slavery, but the slave masters of the future will be well-heeled politicians
and federal bureaucrats, not plantation owners. The CBO's new budget projections contain an eerie
warning that we are on path from today's already unfathomable $17.7 trillion in gross federal government
debt to more than $27 trillion in 2024. This in spite of finger-crossing projections of tax
revenue over the next decade exceeding its 40-year average as a share of GDP. Debt will reach 78% of
GDP by 2024, CBO warns, which is double the 39% average of the past 40 years.
Black Lives,
Democrat Lies. A fascinating article by Francis Wilkinson appeared in Bloomberg View
last week (h/t Instapundit). Wilkinson detailed the fact that income inequality between whites and
blacks is worse in leftist cities: [...] Now to someone like me — a former liberal who became a
conservative, in part, because I saw the devastation wrought on poor black neighborhoods by leftist
policies — this is no surprise, not even all that interesting. What I did find riveting though
were the desperate attempts by presumably left-leaning social scientists to explain the discrepancy away.
Probe finds 104
school staff-student flings since 2009. More than 100 city teachers, administrators and other school
staffers have been caught in the last five years engaging in sexual or "inappropriate" relationships with students,
The [New York] Post has learned. The special commissioner of investigation for city schools, Richard Condon,
has fielded 593 complaints about such illicit relationships since April 2009. His office substantiated 104 cases,
it revealed Friday [4/11/2014]. "I'm absolutely stunned at that number," said Laura Timoney, a Community
Education Council member whose 15-year-old daughter attends a city high school on Staten Island. "It's shocking,
but what do you do to stop this?"
Cigarette machines are unthinkable,
but a vending machine for marijuana cookies is okay. Marijuana
Vending Machine Unveiled In Colorado. You may be picturing a vending machine on a sidewalk, ready to
dispense pot brownies to anyone with correct change. That's not quite what backers of the machine have in mind.
For now, at least, the ZaZZZ is aimed for use only by medical marijuana patients. And it'll be in licensed stores,
where it will serve a purpose like that of an automated checkout line at a grocery, they say.
Vermont's
Single-Payer Dream Is Taxpayer Nightmare. Of the plans that states have hatched for the Affordable Care Act, none
has been bolder than that of Vermont, which wants to implement a single-payer health-care system, along the lines of what you
might find in Britain or Canada. [...] Just two small issues need to be resolved before the state gets to all systems go:
First, it needs the federal government to grant waivers allowing Vermont to divert Medicaid and other health-care funding into
the single-payer system. And second, Vermont needs to find some way to pay for it. Although Act 48 required Vermont to
create a single-payer system by 2017, the state hasn't drafted a bill spelling out how to raise the additional $1.6 billion
a year (based on the state's estimate) the system needs.
Before
1993, there were no mass shootings on U.S. military bases. In 1993, most soldiers were stripped
of their right to carry a weapon onto United States military bases, effectively turning them into gun free zones.
While the directive was composed under big government progressive George H.W. Bush, it was implemented shortly
after big government progressive Bill Clinton assumed office.
More
about gun-free zones. Thanks for nothing, liberals!
Female
transgender student suspended for using women's bathroom. Central Piedmont Community College officials say
they suspended Andraya Williams, 22, for not handing security officers her student identification and said she couldn't
come back unless she used a gender-neutral bathroom.
Maryland's bathroom bill
benefits few transgenders, puts all girls at risk from pedophiles. Maryland moms and dads will now have to
be more vigilant when their children use public bathrooms. It will soon be legal for a man who simply says he
identifies as a woman to use the ladies' room. This serious risk for sexual assaults of women and little girls
is all in the name of political correctness. And this is just the latest in a string of successes by the transgender
lobby. On Friday, the Maryland House passed legislation that prohibits discrimination based on "gender identity"
in employment, housing, credit and public accommodations — which, most disturbingly, includes restrooms.
Official
Policy: Male Federal Workers Can Use Women's Restrooms, Locker Rooms. When an expectant mother visits
her doctor for an ultrasound, the doctor invariably asks: Do you want to know the sex of your child? The
Obama administration, however, does not believe an unborn child has a sex — even when a doctor sees
indisputable physical evidence. Obama's Office of Personnel Management has published what it calls "Guidance
Regarding the Employment of Transgender Individuals in the Workplace." This document speaks of "sex" as
something a person has "assigned" to them only after they make it through the birth canal.
Obama's 'children' on a rampage.
[Scroll down] The mainstream media, ever-supportive of Obama, neglects to publicize any such event and only
local newspapers are reporting the increasing meaningless and violent attacks against white victims. [...] It is
undeniable that once those wrong doers in the black community (which represent a very small minority) realized they
could essentially get away with murder, it was inevitable that racial anarchy would ensue. America might have
been a post racial nation before but after 2008, it has become anything thanks to the constant class warfare promoted
by the Democrat Party for its own preservation of power.
The Decline of the
African-American family. In reaction and repentance sparked by Dr. King's nonviolent civil disobedience
and the systemic introspection of social norms by whites, Americans overcompensated with sweeping entitlement programs
under President Johnson's "War on Poverty," and by turning a blind eye to accountability on longstanding values and
principled behavior within the African American community. While affirmative action and desegregation jump-started
social change, the unintended consequences of shifting the cultural incentives upside down were ignored. [...] And with
Civil Rights Act of 1964 giving legal credence to making any sort of behavioral judgment toxic, the cultural glue that
held together the African-American family was fundamentally changed.
The
states with the most segregated public schools are epicenters of liberalism. The state with the
most segregated public schools is New York. Other states with exceptionally segregated schools
include California, Illinois and Michigan. These findings come from a longitudinal study of enrollment
figures conducted by the Civil Rights Project at the University of California at Los Angeles, The Associated Press
reports. The period studied was 1998 through 2010.
Report:
NY Schools Are Most Racially Segregated. New York state has the most segregated public schools
in the nation, with many black and Latino students attending schools with virtually no white classmates,
according to a report released Wednesday [3/26/2014].
What U.S. states have the highest
and lowest taxes? If you hate paying taxes, pay attention to where you live. Residents of the nation's
lowest-tax states pay less than one-quarter of the levies contributed by those in the highest-tax states. And that's
even when they earn the same amount and spend the same amount on everything from housing to beer, according to an analysis
by personal finance site WalletHub. The site looked at 10 different taxes, from property and state and local income
taxes to those on vehicles, food, alcohol, fuel, telecommunications and sales.
A convoluted insanity defense: Transgender
Woman Claims Former Male Self a Murderer. Authorities in Washington State believe that a series of murders of prostitutes
in 1990 were committed by Washington resident Douglas Perry. Now Perry has been captured and charged with the murders, but
Douglas has become "Donna," a transgender woman who claims that she is not responsible for the murders because Douglas no longer exists.
Red
state residents pay fewer taxes than blue state residents. The average American family pays nearly $7,000 in
state and local taxes in a given year, but the actual amounts vary wildly. A Californian who lives on the western
side of Lake Tahoe pays almost three times more in state taxes than their neighbor on the Nevada side of the lake. Someone
living in Portland, Ore., pays more than twice as much as a neighbor living across the Columbia River in Vancouver, Wash.
Dereliction of Duty in Detroit.
I've had my eye on Detroit's bankruptcy proceedings because it is indicative of what's to come for a lot of cities. How Detroit
deals with its bankruptcy could also set a precedent for other cities forced to deal with the decisions of bankruptcy, satisfying
pensions and debtors.
Corruption in the City of Brotherly
Love. Philadelphia Daily News reporters Wendy Ruderman and Barbara Laker have written two powerful series of articles
on abuse, corruption, and intimidation within the city, state, and federal government. These stories read like something out of a
political thriller. [...] The authors found that some police were as corrupt as the criminals they targeted. These detectives
terrorized hardworking legal immigrant shop owners, sexually assaulted women, and fabricated search warrants.
Insurers in the nation's capital
must cover sex-change surgery. New laws in Washington, D.C., compel health insurance carriers to provide payment for sex-change
treatment and surgery. Mayor Vincent Gray says the regulations will prevent discrimination against the transgender population.
When 'leave us alone' became 'bake us a cake!'
Sexual orientation is not race — and permitting what would most definitely be a very small number of observant Christians to exercise their right
of conscience is vastly different from pervasive and state-sponsored racism. [...] We have reached a point in the gay rights debate where all the low-hanging
fruit has been picked. We are now entering into the zero-sum game phase of the debate, where gay rights and religious liberty must collide.
Enough with the Gay Mania. It's one thing to be
tolerant of what once were known as "alternative lifestyles." It's another thing to be asked to celebrate them, as the exuberant mythologizers of
Michael Sam and Johnny Weir ask us to do. And it is way beyond the pale to hold forth on any sort of sex life — perhaps apart from
self-restraint — as if it's a form of heroism. Yet the culture of the professional Left, enthusiastically aided by the establishment
media, is going bonkers in pushing active homosexuality (or any one of several exotic variants thereof) as an absolute virtue.
Venezuela:
the Left's favourite 'socialist paradise' is sliding into poverty and dictatorship. How are things coming along in Venezuela, that
paradise of democratic socialism? [...] Well, tens of thousands of protesters are in the streets, the army's been sent to crush revolt, an opposition
leader has been arrested and supporters of the government just shot dead a former beauty queen.
Assisted suicide and shallow, superficial vanity are two of liberalism's fruits. Italian woman pays
$14G to commit suicide at euthanasia clinic due to being 'sad about losing her looks'. A perfectly healthy Italian woman paid
$14,000 to commit suicide at a Swiss euthanasia clinic because she was "sad about losing her looks." Oriella Cazzanello, 85, reportedly
took her own life at the right-to-die center in Basel after getting "weighed down by ageing and the inevitable loss of the looks of which she
was proud."
Germany's Energy Goals Backfire. Germany's
radical initiative to subsidize renewable electricity generation has resulted in higher carbon dioxide emissions and the most expensive electricity in
Europe, with the poor disproportionately bearing the burden.
The Costs of the Environmentalism
Cult. California is in the third year of a drought, but the problem isn't a lack of water. The snowfall in the Sierra
provides enough to help us ride out the years of drought. All we need to do is store it. But California hasn't built a new dam
in 35 years. Worse than that, every year we dump 1.6 million acre-feet of water — about enough to serve 3.2 million
families for a year — into the Pacific Ocean in order to protect an allegedly "endangered" 3-inch bait-fish called the Delta smelt.
Obama's Fate. [Scroll down] This is what the
Democrats have in mind for the rest of the country. The prospect we're facing is not 1984, or Nazi Germany, or even Suharto's Indonesia.
It is contemporary Argentina, controlled by elites, bouncing from one political extreme to the other, run by an ever more bizarre train of
lunatics, with a government that relates to the people in much the same way that a parasite relates to its host. Can this be stopped?
Only if we begin acting like citizens of a republic, which may well be too much to ask.
Obama Twerks America. No... you cannot keep your
insurance, no matter how much you like it. You also can't keep your doctor, or your full-time job. Twenty-nine hours a week or less
of gainful employment will have to suffice going forward. And that's a good thing. Just ask any Democrat — it's freedom
from job-lock. Americans, thanks to Barack Obama, now have the right to be unemployed. [...] Besides, stop your whining, are there not
food stamps, acquirable in an instant? How much does he have to do for you people?
If You Like Your Light Bulb,
You Can't Keep Your Light Bulb. A recent study found only 28 percent of the public was aware of the 2007 law that unrealistically
raised the minimum efficiency standards for light bulbs to the point where it effectively turned the 25 cent light bulb into contraband.
"In its place," reports CNS News, "alternative, costly and mercury-filled CFLs are manufactured in China, and incandescent factories in the US have
been shuttered." The last U.S. incandescent light bulb factory, in Winchester, Virginia, closed in September 2010, leaving 200 well-paid
employees feeling they'd been "sold out by the government."
Do Liberals Care if
Third World Illnesses Infect Americans? The Biblical scourge of leprosy, a "slow-growing bacillus... parasite with a tropism
for peripheral nerves, skin, and mucous membranes... upper respiratory tract, anterior chamber of the eye, and the testes," is also within
our borders. In 2002, there were only 900 total cases of leprosy in the US. In the next three years there were 9,000, mostly in
states with the largest immigrant populations. [...] So, a word to the wise: the next time a French fry falls on the table in the food
court or the handle of a shopping cart is grabbed, remember that along with open borders and liberal politicians come diseases and various
deadly pathogens either formerly eradicated or never endemic to the US in the first place, are waiting for a new host, and you are nominated.
'Aid in Dying' Movement Takes Hold in Some
States. Helping the terminally ill end their lives, condemned for decades as immoral, is gaining traction. Banned everywhere but
Oregon until 2008, it is now legal in five states. Its advocates, who have learned to shun the term "assisted suicide," believe that as baby
boomers watch frail parents suffer, support for what they call the "aid in dying" movement will grow further. In January, a district court in
New Mexico authorized doctors to provide lethal prescriptions and declared a constitutional right for "a competent, terminally ill patient to choose
aid in dying."
The Most Corrupt Village in America.
Alorton, an African-American village run by Democrats, may actually be the most corrupt village in Illinois and the United States. Alorton's
violent crime rate has been as high as ten times the national average. Its biggest employers are health care, fast food, welfare and education.
The unemployment rate for black men is at 31%. Half the people in Alorton live below the poverty line. 70% of poor households consist of
single mothers. The village has the fourth highest poverty rate of any place in Illinois. Its corruption and misery are examples of what
happens when the Democratic Party's power goes unchallenged.
Study: Fatal Car Crashes
Involving Marijuana Have Tripled. According to a recent study, fatal car crashes involving pot use have tripled in the U.S.
"Currently, one of nine drivers involved in fatal crashes would test positive for marijuana," Dr. Guohua Li, director of the Center for Injury
Epidemiology and Prevention at Columbia, and co-author of the study told HealthDay News.
Illinois Loses 80,000 Workers in One
Year. President Barack Obama's home state, which has been governed by Democrats throughout his national political career, has slipped
in the rankings and now has the third-worst unemployment rate in the nation. Though the jobless rate was the same in December 2013 (8.6%) as
in December 2012, the state's labor force declined by a staggering 80,000 workers, according to Michael Lucci of the Illinois Policy Institute.
Progressivism Kills.
Detroit has the highest child-mortality rate of any American city, exceeding that of many parts of what we used to call the Third World.
The rate of death before the age of 18 in Detroit is nearly three times New York City's, and its infant-mortality rate exceeds that of Botswana.
The main cause of premature death among the children of Detroit is premature birth — the second is murder.
Study: Liberals drink more alcohol than
conservatives. A sobering new study published by the Journal of Wine Economics — yes, there is a Journal of Wine
Economics — finds that alcohol consumption in American states rises as the population's politics becomes more liberal.
The Poison of Postmodern
Lying. All presidents have, at one time or another, fudged on the truth. Most politicians pad their résumés and
airbrush away their sins. But what is new about political lying is the present notion that lies are not necessarily lies anymore — a
reflection of the relativism that infects our entire culture. Postmodernism (the cultural fad "after modernism") went well beyond questioning
norms and rules. It attacked the very idea of having any rules at all. Postmodernist relativists claimed that things like "truth"
were mere fictions to preserve elite privilege. Unfortunately, bad ideas like that have a habit of poisoning an entire society — and
now they have.
Guns Don't Kill People, Democrats Kill
People. Even a casual reader of local news headlines should not be shocked to learn that firearm-related homicides are more prevalent
in some neighborhoods than others. However, what may be shocking is the near exclusivity of firearm-related homicides to a small subset of
neighborhoods; neighborhoods that vote predominately for Democrat candidates.
Fact-Free Liberals: Part
II. Words seem to carry far more weight than facts among those liberals who argue as if rent control laws actually
control rents and gun control laws actually control guns. It does no good to point out to them that the two American cities
where rent control laws have existed longest and strongest — New York and San Francisco — are also the two cities
with the highest average rents. Nor does it make a dent on them when you point out evidence, from both sides of the Atlantic,
that tightening gun control laws does not reduce gun crimes, including murder. It is not uncommon for gun crimes to rise when
gun control laws are tightened. Apparently armed criminals prefer unarmed victims.
Most
and Least Bible-Minded Cities in the United States. After interviewing more than 46,000 adults nationwide over a seven-year period, the
American Bible Society, in conjunction with Barna, ranks Chattanooga as the number one most Bible-minded city in the United States. Providence,
Rhode Island, and New Bedford, Massachusetts, share the dubious distinction of being the least most-Bible minded cities in America.
Pushing The Pink Police State.
The Human Rights Campaign, the gay rights lobby, is denouncing Gene Schaerr, the Utah attorney defending Utah's stand on traditional marriage
because of his religious convictions. The idea is that his religious beliefs have no place in this discussion. The HRC is trying
to drive religious people out of the public square.
Kiddie Porn Does Not Count as "Moral
Turpitude" to S.F. Govt. A former high-ranking San Francisco government employee convicted of felony possession of child pornography
will continue to receive his government pension because, according to city regulations, evidence of "moral turpitude" is required to revoke a pension
yet viewing violent kiddie porn does not qualify as moral turpitude.
7
Lies Liberals Tell Young Americans. [Scroll down] You want a society with no moral code, where no one is ever
made to feel bad about doing disgusting things? Well, then you should expect school shootings, welfare fraud, a
deterioration of marriage, women having five children out of wedlock with four different men, perverted politicians,
etc., etc., etc. When you say morality isn't welcome, you don't get to pick and choose which dearly held precepts
are trampled into the dirt in the public square. If you want your kids growing up in a modern day Sodom and
Gomorrah, buy into the idea that morals don't matter and you'll be doing your part to make it a reality.
Court affirms Mass. murderer's
right to get sex change in prison. A federal appeals court on Friday [1/17/2014] upheld a judge's ruling granting a taxpayer-funded
sex change operation for a transgender inmate serving a life sentence for a murder conviction, saying receiving medically necessary treatment is a
constitutional right that must be protected "even if that treatment strikes some as odd or unorthodox."
The Left's Reordering of Human Desire.
Human desires are frequently cited, accurately or not, as the basis for human rights. Want publically funded birth control?
Then argue that it's a human right. The same goes for SSM or assisted suicide. If you love someone, then it's your human right
to marry them; if you no longer want to live, then it's your right to die. If you don't want a child, then abort it. But if
that same baby dies in a car accident on the way to the abortion clinic, the death becomes homicide. By making human desires
indistinguishable from human rights, the Left fundamentally recreates the historic Western category of the human.
Big government
exacerbates inequality, economist argues. When liberals start talking about inequality, it's nearly always in pursuit
of more government. They take for granted that a free market makes inequality worse and Big Government programs are needed to
mitigate it. This argument appears flawed in many ways. For one thing, inequality in and of itself — as separated
from the problems of poverty and immobility — might be harmful only when that inequality is created by cronyism.
Also, the Left's economic policies can exacerbate inequality as often as they can shrink it.
All wrong — in
California, girls can use urinals in the boys' restroom. As of January 1, students in California public schools have been
able to choose whether to use the boys' rest room or girls' rest room, as well as the girls' locker room or boys' locker room, based on whether
they feel female or male, not whether they are anatomically female or male. That's right: Governor Jerry Brown, of
California, signed a bill that took effect January 1 that tells kids from kindergarten on that they should decide whether
they believe their gender identity is and act, accordingly.
The Idol of Equality. Most
initiatives that Obama has embraced are characterized by going after a suspect group or tradition — targeting particular
businesses deemed not sufficiently socially sensitive to workers, focusing on legal gun owners, eroding the military tradition in
infantry service of restricting women to non-combat roles, coercing schools that would discipline trouble-makers in class, promoting
the suppression of interest rates by the Federal Reserve to reward the many who owe money and punish the fewer who saved some —
all on the notion of helping the proverbial "people." Such a thoroughgoing effort at enforcing ideas of fairness covers both the
important and the trivial: The government renames terrorism "man-caused disasters"; the fight against it is merely "overseas
contingency operations." The Muslim Brotherhood is "largely secular." If need be, we can jail an obscure video maker on
trumped-up charges of parole violation to serve the larger need not to show bias against anyone.
Driver who hit 2 state troopers was
high on pot. State troopers say the man who drove his car into two patrol cars this weekend was under the influence of marijuana.
[...] Troopers say they arrested Keith Kilbey, 23. He is charged with driving under the influence of drugs.
The Editor says...
Of course this might have happened anyway, even if marijuana hadn't been legalized days earlier. But the State of Colorado
has now made fatalities like this more likely.
Louisiana
Named Most Pro-Life State; Washington The Least. Americans United for Life released their annual "Life List" report on the
most and least pro-life states in the US. This year, Louisiana came out on top for the fifth straight year, followed by Oklahoma,
Arkansas, Arizona, and Pennsylvania. Nos. 46. Connecticut, 47. New York, 48. Vermont, 49. California, and 50. Washington
state brought up the rear, with Washington placing last for the fifth straight year.
CDC
releases updated STD data; syphilis, gonorrhea cases are up, chlamydia numbers are stable. Wyoming had the lowest rate, at 7.7 per 100,000 people.
The District of Columbia was the highest at 388.7 per 100,000. Ohio's rate was 142.9 per 100,000. The number of cases reported in Ohio in 2012 was 16,493,
down slightly from 2011. More than 15,000 primary and secondary syphilis cases were reported in 2012, a rate of 5 per 100,000 people. The rate increase was
solely among men, especially gay and bisexual men who represent an estimated 75 percent of cases.
Gonorrhea, Syphilis Regain Traction in U.S., CDC
Reports. While all three diseases [gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia] are curable with antibiotics, many people don't get tested as recommended, said Gail
Bolan, the director of the CDC's STD prevention division. That's especially the case for syphilis, where the rise is entirely attributable to men, particularly
those who are gay or bisexual.
Signature
Count Begins For Calif. Law That Lets Boys Play on Girls' Sports Team, Use Girls' Bathroom. The California Secretary of State's
press office confirmed on Wednesday [1/8/2014] that Secretary Debra Bowen has given all 58 counties in the state until Feb. 24 to count
and verify every signature in a petition campaign to let voters decide whether a law that gives students the right to use facilities and take
part in sports and other activities based on their "gender identity" and not their biological sex stands. Assembly Bill 1266, the School
Success and Opportunity Act, was passed by the state legislature and signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown in August 2013.
The Denaturalization of America. Homosexual
marriage, a passing joke at parties until a few years ago, is now legal in much of the U.S., as in many other Western progressive countries.
Meanwhile, in decisions soon to be upheld by the Supreme Court no doubt, various U.S. jurisdictions have declared that schoolboys who decide they
feel more like schoolgirls will be permitted by law to use the girls' locker room, while the actual girls, unprotected by any new laws of their own,
will apparently just have to get used to undressing in the company of boys.
Pot Opponents Predict
'Hogwild' Colorado Trainwreck. Colorado will make history Wednesday [1/1/2014] as the first American state allowing stores to
sell marijuana for recreational use — eliciting fear and predictions of doom from anti-drug campaigners. On a Tuesday [12/31/2013]
conference call hosted by Smart Approaches to Marijuana, former Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., said Colorado and Washington state —
where stores will open later in 2014 — are "canaries in the coal mine."
Colorado
Predicts More Than $500 Million in Marijuana Sales in 2014. A Bloomberg report on the eve that marijuana legalization takes effect
in Colorado notes that the state also expects $67 million in tax revenue alone from those nearly $600 million in profits. The
profits will go in part to funding schools, and only those over the age of 21 can buy marijuana at legally licensed stores. The stores
opening tomorrow morning were already in existence, selling their product medically to those with a prescription. No new shops may legally
open until July.
The Editor says...
Notice that (1) medical marijuana was just an introduction: after we all got accustomed to it, then recreational marijuana arrived;
and (2) marijuana is being taxed, and the proceeds go to education, so recreational marijuana is "for the children" after all. This
emotional ploy helps to deflect opposition.
Mass Shootings and the Left. A
return towards traditional social structures and values would perhaps help more than politically motivated, lobbyist driven, misdirected
legislation touted by the left as "gun control." It would seem that what we need is people control. While unbounded freedom of
personal expression might lead to Utopia, it can also lead to anarchy, a lesson liberals have yet to learn.
Good news from Chicago: Only
413 murdered Americans this year. Good news from Chicago: The catastrophic murder rate in the Democratic-controlled city was
slightly less catastrophic in 2013 than in 2012. Only 413 Americans were shot, stabbed or bludgeoned to death in the city, where all
50 aldermen are Democrats. Most of the victims in the blue-voting city were African-Americans or Hispanic, and very few were white.
Still, the city's Democratic leaders cautiously cheered the deaths of the 413 Americans, more than one victim per day, which included one young
woman who marched in President Barack Obama's 2013 inauguration parade.
The Straight Dope on Homosexuality.
Disease rates are one of the few undisputed facts about homosexuals. The Centers for Disease Control says that in 2008 "men who have sex
with men" accounted for 63% of new syphilis cases. If men are half the population and 3.3% of them are homosexual, it means that 1.65%
of Americans account for 63% of the country's syphilis cases. It's even worse for AIDS. In 2010, homosexuals were about 200 times
more likely than everyone else to be diagnosed with HIV. However, the CDC says they are only 15 times more likely than everyone else to get
Hepatitis B and about 17 times more likely to have anal cancer.
TSA Offers 'Transgender
Travelers' an Advice Page. The TSA is well-known for being too aggressive in its body searches, so it shouldn't be surprising
in the Obama years that the TSA has a web page titled "Transgender Travelers: Special Considerations." "TSA recognizes the concerns
members of the transgender community may have with undergoing the security screening process at our Nation's airports and is committed to
conducting screening in a dignified and respectful manner," they promise. First, they reasonably suggest that your birth date, name,
and gender on your reservation match your government ID. [...] Then there are those pat-downs that can go wrong.
The Great Race Hoax. When Barack Obama rose
to national prominence following his 2004 keynote address at the Democratic National Convention, his African-American heritage was a
footnote to the fawning reception he received from the media and from most Americans. [...] Fast forward to today. President Obama's
race is no longer a footnote. It is central to his presidency. It is arguably his defining characteristic. Unity and
bipartisanship are nowhere to be found. Who is responsible for this? The blame rests squarely with the American Left, and
specifically, with the racialists.
Electricity
Prices Rise Dramatically Under Ohio Renewable Mandates. Electricity prices in Ohio have risen approximately triple the national average
since Ohio enacted renewable power mandates in 2008. The sharp rise in electricity prices occurred despite promises during 2008 legislative hearings
that renewable power mandates would have little or no impact on electricity prices. In 2008 the Ohio legislature passed legislation creating
the state's renewable power mandates. Under the mandates, Ohioans must purchase 25 percent of their electricity from designated renewable sources
by the year 2025.
Electricity Prices Soar
As Government Regulation Surges. In November, the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Electricity Price Index hit 202.284, an all-time record and
nearly 20% higher than just six years ago. This might strike some as strange, given the private-sector shale-fracking boom going on in the Midwest,
Northeast and Texas, which has led to soaring new domestic supplies of natural gas and oil. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration,
as recently as 2008 the U.S. produced 2.1 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day. Today, it's 12.3 billion cubic feet and growing
fast — truly astounding growth.
Anarchy in Detroit. Detroit's future, to put it mildly, looks bleak.
About one-third of its 138 square miles are deserted, it has no tax base, and its schools are horrendous. Last year, one in every 1,800 residents
was murdered. In July, the city filed for bankruptcy, and politicians, unions, and investors are currently slugging it out in court, grasping for
whatever little cash remains in the Motor City's coffers.
What to Do When ObamaCare Unravels. This
fall's website fiasco and policy cancellations are only the beginning. Next spring the individual mandate is likely to unravel when we see how sick
the people are who signed up on exchanges, and if our government really is going to penalize voters for not buying health insurance. The
employer mandate and "accountable care organizations" will take their turns in the news. There will be scandals. There will be fraud.
This will go on for years.
The next Detroit?
Atlantic City and Las Vegas facing catastrophic collapse. With the closure of the recent Atlantic Club Casino Hotel, rumors of the
bankrupt Revel being sold to Hard Rock, more than half of the mortgages in Las Vegas under water, casinos opening up all around the country and
online gambling legislation underway in various states, it seems as if the reasons for the very existence of Atlantic City and Las Vegas are in
serious jeopardy.
The Decline and Fall of Political Discourse.
The majority of the American people, asleep during the past sixty years of overwhelming peace and prosperity, are gradually waking up to the massive deception
that has been perpetrated by the Left and their inability to solve the almost insolvable problems they, in large part, created. Unfortunately it has taken
the election of Barack Obama and the imposition of ObamaCare, among other policies aimed at concentrating power in the hands of the American Left, to achieve
this epiphany.
Polygamy and the Left. With the ruling of a federal
judge last week that declared part of Utah's anti-polygamy law unconstitutional, the left finds itself torn. Of course, with their ever-wavering
consciences that are willing to go along with whatever seems the latest fad that tests our moral boundaries (especially in the sexual realm), some
liberals say that it is time that we take a closer look at plural marriage. After all, if consenting adults want to enter into such relationships,
what is the problem? In other words, as I asked over five years ago, what's wrong with polygamy?
Polygamy and the Marriage Free-fall.
Marriage in America is in a state of free-fall, and it's the confluence of American attitudes and legal rulings that are responsible for helping push it
off the cliff. On Friday night, a George W. Bush judicial appointee, Judge Clark Waddoups, struck down a part of Utah's law against polygamy
in a 91-page ruling. [...] Waddoups's ruling can't be viewed in isolation from the events that preceded it, especially the debate over same-sex marriage
and the larger effort to undo the norms of family life. Social change, for good or ill, rarely happens at a single moment in time, but over time as
the sum total of a thousand smaller events. This Friday night in Utah was one such event.
Judge Cites Same-Sex
Marriage in Declaring Polygamy Ban Unconstitutional. In a game-changer for the legal fight over same-sex marriage that gives credence
to opponents' "slippery slope" arguments, a federal judge has now ruled that the legal reasoning for same-sex marriage means that laws against
polygamy are likewise unconstitutional. In his 91-page opinion in Brown v. Buhman, on Dec. 13, U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups struck
down Utah's law making polygamy a crime. In so doing, he may have opened Pandora's Box.
Pajama Boy: The Obama Machine's Id.
The Obama administration isn't doing very well with putting an empathetic face on its calamitous health-insurance law, is it? First, we had Julia, the
creepy, eyeless, vision-of-horror from Brave New World whose life was run from cradle to grave by the federal government. Then, we had Adriana, the
painfully neutral and carefully ambi-racial stock-model-from-everywhere whose face became so synonymous with HealthCare.gov's hilarious launch that she had
to be replaced with a graphic plugging an 800 number.
The Editor says...
Advertising very often includes actors and actresses who are chosen for their indistinct ethnicity, such as the "painfully neutral and carefully
ambi-racial stock-model-from-everywhere" mentioned above. This is because liberals insist on multiculturalism, diversity, and the inclusion
of everyone who isn't lily white; and if there is only one role to be played in an advertisement, the actor or actress must resemble everybody
and, at the same time, nobody.
What Does A Satanic Monument Look Like? I read
at Breitbart that the Satan-worshipping group Satanic Temple wants its very own statue outside the Oklahoma Statehouse in Oklahoma City
alongside a Ten Commandments monument. [...] This all got me thinking: What would be an appropriate Satanic marker for the Oklahoma
Statehouse?
Festivus pole to go up in Florida Capitol
rotunda. A nearly 6-foot-tall "Festivus" pole made from empty beer cans will be put up in the Florida Capitol this week as a
not-so-subtle protest to the recent placement of a Christmas nativity scene.
The Editor says...
The Satanist and Festivus monuments would never have received a moment's consideration 50 years ago, but now such requests must be
entertained because of the "inclusion" and "diversity" dictated by liberal PC. Otherwise, a Christmas display or a Ten Commandments
monument wouldn't be "fair," and a handful of troublemakers from left-wing fringe would be "victims." This incremental manipulation
of public buildings and public spaces will only get worse. Not suddenly worse, just a little this year and a little next year,
until sensible Americans grow tired of defending centuries of tradition.
Obama's home town by the numbers. Chicago,
which has some of the toughest gun control laws in America, had a rough November. Despite the cold weather, it was a popular month for shooting.
Hate Crime Tip-hoaxing. Two recent
incidents have caused many people, including blogger Elizabeth Scalia, to suggest that people stop tipping with cash, in order to prevent
being falsely accused of a hate crime. [...] So, if you want to avoid being falsely accused of stiffing on a tip and committing a hate crime,
always put the tip on your credit card. And save your receipts and credit card bills.
Knock Out Black Self-Hatred. The
"knockout game" is a prime example of the demise of black families across America. The goal of the "knockout game" is to catch someone
off guard and try to knock him or her out in one punch. Many media outlets initially highlighted youth as the common denominator among
the attackers. Other media outlets reported that the majority of the perpetrators were Black males. [...] How does an individual
come to think it's fun to harm another human being, capture the attack on film, and share it with the world through social media?
One has to wonder what is (or is not) going on in the households of the attackers.
America Is One Step Closer to a
One-Party Tyranny. November 21, 2013, may be another date that will live in infamy. Instead of conventional bombs and
aerial torpedoes exploding at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the "nuclear option" went off in the U.S. Senate at Washington, D.C. By a
52-48 vote, the Senate voted to change the institution's regulations related to the filibuster, thereby emasculating a political
minority's ability to thwart, or at least delay, majoritarian dictatorship. A Senate minority can no longer thwart the president's
nominations of judges to lesser federal courts or of executive department officials.
Bad managers ruined
Obamacare. All appearances to the contrary, the managers involved in this debacle aren't dumb. But they come from a
background — law and politics — where arguments often take the place of reality, and plausibility can be as good as,
or better than, truth.
Keywords: necessarily skyrocket. Price of Electricity Hit
Record for October; Up 42% in Decade. The price of electricity hit a record for the month of October, according to data
released Wednesday [11/20/2013] by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That made October the eleventh straight month when the average
price of electricity hit or matched the record level for that month. The average price of electricity in October was 13.2 cents
per kilowatt hour (KWH), up from 12.8 cents per KWH in October 2012 — and up from 9.3 cents per KWH in October 2003.
Americans now pay 42 percent more for electricity than they did a decade ago.
Allen
West: Amnesty, Govt Dependence Create Conditions That Lead to 'Knockout Game'. Col. Allen West, former GOP U.S. Congressman
from Florida, said at a Thursday morning [11/21/2013] panel focused on the devastating economic impacts of amnesty that economic policies
that displace black youths from jobs — like President Barack Obama's immigration policies — have led to fads like
the "knockout game."
Climate Scientists Murder World's Oldest Creature. A
group of "climate change experts" that discovered a 507-year-old clam that was the world's oldest known creature killed it in the process of
determining its age. The scientists, determined to count the rings on the inside of the clam's shell, killed the creature instantly
when they opened it up.
ObamaCare Breaks Obama's Middle
Class Tax Pledge, Too. Matthew Fleischer, a freelance writer in Los Angeles, recently learned ObamaCare will force him off a plan he likes,
and a comparable policy will cost him nearly $800 more next year. "Most young, middle-class Americans I know are happy that millions of previously
uninsured people will receive free or heavily subsidized insurance under the Affordable Care Act," he wrote in a Los Angeles Times op-ed. "We just
didn't realize that, unless we had health insurance at work, we'd be the ones paying for it." Adam Weldzius, a nurse practitioner in Illinois,
came to the same realization after finding that his premiums will go up nearly $3,000 a year.
ObamaCare,
Central Planning, and the Truth. Looking at what was promised under ObamaCare and there is no wonder
why people were dazzled by what it offered. Of course when you talk in ideals everyone would love to have universal
healthcare. People might even believe it is possible. After all, if it can be envisioned, why can't it come to
fruition? Unfortunately for you, ObamaCare, as it's affectionately called, is by all means of empirical evaluation
not only a disaster, but the quintessential example of why central planning does not work.
Does Environmentalism Cause Amnesia?.
[Scroll down] What does hurt people is bad public policy. Exhibit A is the U.S. ethanol mandate — justified in
part as a response to global warming — which diverted the corn crop to fuel production and sent global food prices soaring in 2008.
Exhibit B is the cult of organic farming and knee-jerk opposition to [genetically modified crops], which risk depriving farmers in poor countries
of high-yield, nutrient-rich crops. Exhibit C was the effort to ban DDT without adequate substitutes to stop the spread of malaria, which
kills nearly 900,000 people, mostly children, in sub-Saharan Africa alone with each passing year. The list goes on and on.
Sixteen tons to sixteen cents. The bankruptcy of
Detroit, America's most African American major city, raises the question of how safe those Blue Model public pensions really are. This was
dramatically heightened by a report that the city could only pay sixteen cents on every pension dollar.
A Shocking Number. So far, the LBJ plan seems to
be working perfectly. Black Americans did not leave the party of Lincoln for the party of Joe Biden; they left the party of Herbert Hoover for the party
of Franklin Roosevelt. Or at least they thought they did. What they got instead was the party of sky-high crime, dangerous and dysfunctional schools,
a joblessness rate for black men that is more than twice the rate for white men at 14 percent and rising. Twice the unemployment, twice the
high-school dropouts, four times the abortions, four times the HIV, seven times the prison sentences, twelve times the babies born with congenital syphilis,
fourteen times the murder victims, and nineteen times the gonorrhea.
How to Break an American City. [When Detroit] filed for Chapter 9
this July, it was actually behind the curve of civic bankruptcy. Stockton, San Bernardino, and Mammoth Lakes in California all declared bankruptcy in 2012.
Central Falls, Rhode Island, did so the year before that. Around the country, from Maine to California, Alabama to Illinois, local governments are seeing their tax
revenues decline or simply fail to keep pace with politicians' ever-expanding promises of how to spend them.
A Way to Deal With Public Unions.
The average BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) worker makes over $76,000 per year, plus huge benefits. Janitors make as much as $82,752. But the unions want
more. And they are willing to bankrupt the region to get more. In my opinion, San Francisco is already bankrupt due to pension obligations that
cannot possibly be met (but the city may not realize that yet). Oakland is without a doubt bankrupt due to public union pension obligations.
Oakland city officials likely realize that (but they just do not want to admit the obvious). In due time, both Bay Area cities will follow Vallejo,
Stockton, and San Bernardino into bankruptcy. In the meantime, unions are hell bent on driving cities right over the bankruptcy cliff.
Reuters asks
staff if they are 'intersex,' 'transsexual,' 'genderqueer,' male-to-female. The 60,000-strong Thomson Reuters media empire, in an effort to
determine its diversity success, is asking its staff of reporters, researchers, marketers and others to pick their sex from nine choices, including
"genderqueer," a category for identities other than man or woman. According to the company's annual employee survey, choosing a sexual identity
doesn't have to be based on a worker's actual sex, but instead "a person's innate, deeply felt psychological identification."
Lessons in Liberal Projection:
Conservatism Is 'Mean'? Typically, liberal/Democrat policies and programs are ill-conceived, emotion-driven, and void of reality.
For example: decades of liberals/Democrats lowering standards and morals have destroyed the black family. Now we see over 70% fatherless
households, with epidemic high school dropouts. Blacks are aborting themselves out of existence. Then there is the liberals' irrational
obsession with gun control, also known as disarming the good guys (law-abiding citizens). Bad guys — that is, criminals —
do not obey gun laws.
Oakland robberies surge as investigations
sputter. No city had more robberies per capita than Oakland in 2012. According to new federal statistics, Oakland had 10.9 robberies
per 1,000 residents. And 2013 is shaping up to be even worse.
This story has it all: Gender confusion, assisted suicide, psycho-babble and expendable human life. Belgian
killed by euthanasia after a botched sex change operation. Nathan, born Nancy, Verhelst, 44, was given legal euthanasia, most likely by lethal
injection, on the grounds of "unbearable psychological suffering" on Monday afternoon [9/30/2013]. Wim Distelmans, a cancer specialist who carried out
the euthanasia, is the same doctor who late last year gave lethal injections to congenitally deaf twins who were frightened they were also going blind.
You are now paying to clean up the Democrats' mess. Detroit to Receive "Not-Bailout" from Federal Government.
Detroit is going to receive an infusion of cash, courtesy of the federal government. The municipality declared bankruptcy this summer and is trying
to avoid having to pay the $18 billion in liabilities it has accrued, with court battles and protests raging all the while. Final details will
be worked out in Detroit by an Obama administration delegation led by Gene Sperling, head of the White House National Economic Council, which sounds like
something out of an Ayn Rand novel. [...] The ostensible purpose of the meeting is not to talk about bailouts (which aren't happening, everyone insists)
but rather to discuss plans to "lift up" Detroit, "to expand opportunity and renew this world-class city."
Obama administration plans
$320 million to aid Detroit recovery. Top Obama administration officials will head to Detroit on Friday [9/27/2013] to announce
nearly $320 million in federal and private aid as the city grapples with the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history.
Meet the slush funds Obama used to bail
out Detroit. According to the Detroit Free Press, [Gene] Sperling "wasn't immediately able to break down" exactly how much of the money
awarded represents "new funding" for Detroit, but he did say "much of it represented an effort by administration officials to scour their departments
for funding that Detroit could access." In other words, this is all the cash Obama could scrape together after looking for spare change in between
the couch cushions of the federal government.
Liberalism and Mass Shootings. It's often
pointed out that without the top four American cities for homicide — Washington, Chicago (newly crowned murder capital of the USA), Detroit, and
New Orleans, the U.S. would have one of the lowest murder rates in the industrialized world. All these cities suffer from the liberal curse.
As I demonstrated in my book Death by Liberalism, liberal "judicial reform" triggered the "Great Crime Explosion" of 1964-1994, with a death
toll in the hundreds of thousands. The current plague of insane gunmen is simply a back eddy of that colossal act of hubris.
There They Go Again. Obama recounted in his
September 22 remarks, "As president I have now grieved with five American communities ripped apart by mass violence: Fort Hood,
Tucson, Aurora, Sandy Hook, and now the Washington Navy Yard. And these mass shootings occur against a backdrop of daily tragedies
as an epidemic of gun violence tears apart communities across America, from the streets of Chicago to neighborhoods not far from here." [...] When
was the last time a Republican served as Mayor of Chicago? Or of Detroit? Or governed the "neighborhoods not far from here"?
On guns, why won't Obama lead?
Where gun violence is up in recent months, it's in gun-free towns like Chicago and New York. And whether it's the tragedy at Sandy Hook
Elementary School, the Aurora, Colo. movie theater, the Washington Navy Yard or earlier, Virginia Tech, Fort Hood or Columbine High School, it's
clear that gun-free zones don't prevent the mentally unstable from wreaking havoc on innocent victims. In the case of Aaron Alexis, he
bought a shotgun legally and then reportedly stole handguns inside the facility to perpetrate his crimes. The laws of the
facility — and the District of Columbia — didn't stop him.
Same Lies, Different Day. When the left focuses on the gun as
the common element, they don't have to focus on the depravity they have engendered as that common thread. They don't have to answer for the lies they have
told to keep the poor compliant, and tethered financially, to the politicians who endlessly promise to someday save them. They don't have to answer for
their utter failure and refusal to address the root causes of the violence: the fatherless homes, the drug-addicted parents, the high crime rate, the
welfare addiction, the rampant poverty, the joblessness, or the propaganda that others are to blame for their situation, all of which are products of the mess the
left has made of those lives. They evade accountability for the pervasive hopelessness of victimhood that is so necessary to the left's political power.
Defenselessly 'sheltered' as anti-gun fortress
is breached. As any decent American knows, there is no feeling more powerless than to realize that a couple of mass murderers are loose in your
neighborhood and you are denied the right to keep a gun to defend yourself, your family or your home. A sickening knot tightens in your gut. [...] Then
came the latest Orwellian phrase in the "homeland security" lexicon: "Shelter in place!" So, not only are you not allowed to defend yourself against
mass murderers, you are not supposed to run from them, either. This, my fellow countrymen, is pure insanity.
Flashback:
US Military Bases are 'Gun Free Zones' Because Democrats Decreed Them To Be. After Nidal Hasan killed 13 and wounded more than 30 in
November 2009, John R. Lott wrote about one of the craziest policies to come out of the Clinton era: making military bases "gun free zones."
Yes, that's correct. In 1993, President Bill Clinton decreed that US military personnel were to surrender the Second Amendment rights that they
swear an oath to support and defend.
Lesson of Navy Yard Shooting Echoes Lessons of Camp Liberty, Ft. Hood.
Yesterday's [9/16/2013] shooting spree at Washington's Navy Yard reminds us that disarmed military personnel are made-to-order victims for spree shooters.
[...] The lesson of the Camp Liberty and Fort Hood shootings was that disarmed soldiers are just as vulnerable as anyone else to a spree shooter exploiting
the fish-in-a-barrel opportunity of a "gun free zone." More details will emerge from the Navy Yard shooting, but we already know everything we need to
know. The criminal justice system had the shooter in its control, but for whatever liberal impulses were at play that day, this dangerous man was released.
FBI: Chicago passes New York as
murder capital of U.S. The city of Chicago registered more homicides than any city in the nation in 2012, surpassing even New York —
despite the fact that the Second City has only one third as many residents as the Big Apple. In new crime statistics released Monday, the Federal Bureau
of Investigation reported 500 murders in Chicago in 2012, up sharply from the 431 recorded in 2011. New York reported 419 murders last year,
compared with 515 in 2011.
Tax and spend socialism has been tried, and it does not work. How Detroit went broke.
An in-depth Free Press analysis of the city's financial history back to the 1950s shows that its elected officials and others charged with managing its finances
repeatedly failed — or refused — to make the tough economic and political decisions that might have saved the city from financial ruin.
The cities with the most restrictive gun laws have the most murders. Young Fatherless Elephants. Thanks to the cold-blooded
murders in Oklahoma and Washington, black teenage thugs have been much in the news lately. But they've been newsworthy for quite a while
now. [...] What's easy to forget, especially if you're a liberal, is that it's all an inevitable consequence of Lyndon Johnson's policies.
It was he and his stooges in Congress that made welfare to black women conditional on there not being a man on the premises. With a swipe
of his presidential pen, Johnson ended black families, as America had known them. Until he put his welfare policy in place, the rate of
marriages was higher among blacks than among whites.
Eight Killed,
More than 25 Shot in Chicago Holiday Weekend Bloodbath. At least eight people are dead and more than 25 others were wounded in
shootings over Labor Day weekend in Rahm Emanuel's Chicago. [...] At lease one shooting occurred in one of the city's newly created "Safe Passage"
routes, designated to provide a gun-free zone for Chicago students to get to school. In the midst of Chicago's bloody holiday, Police
Superintendent Garry McCarthy continued to tout the city's overall decline in murders from 2012 and push for "stronger gun laws."
The Editor says...
Nobody guarantees the "safe passage" routes to be safe on a long holiday weekend when the schools are closed. On the other hand,
nobody with any sense believes that more gun restrictions will have any effect, since it's apparently very easy for criminals to find
guns. People who are intent on homicide don't care about gun laws. Neither do people who have been to prison already and
didn't find prison life all that rough.
Dietz &
Watson warehouse blaze: solar panels hampered firefighting, officials say. More than 7,000 solar panels on the roof of a burning warehouse in
Burlington County proved too much of a hazard for firefighters, local officials said today. "We may very well not be able to save buildings that have
alternative energy," William Kramer, New Jersey's acting fire marshall, said after Delanco Fire Chief Ron Holt refused to send his firefighters onto the roof
of the 300,000-square foot Dietz & Watson facility, ablaze since Sunday afternoon. Solar panels are particularly hazardous to firefighters for a number
of reasons, according to Ken Willette, a division manager with the National Fire Protection Association.
Unintended Consequences. One of the many unintended
consequences of the political crusade for increased homeownership among minorities, and low-income people in general, has been a housing boom and
bust that left many foreclosed homes that had to be rented, because there were no longer enough qualified buyers. The repercussions did not
stop there. Many homeowners have discovered that when renters replace homeowners as their neighbors, the neighborhood as a whole can suffer.
Is this Martin Luther King's
legacy? National Mall covered in garbage. The day after thousands rallied to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King
Jr.'s March on Washington, the National Mall looks like a trash dump. The grass from the Lincoln Memorial to the World War II Memorial is
covered Sunday [8/25/2013] with empty soda cans, water bottles, boxed lunches, newspapers, a broken chair and rally signs. The Reflecting
Pool also was filled with trash.
Illinois v. Texas: Ballotpedia
analysis should have us all packing our bags. Internet encyclopedia of all things electoral, Ballotpedia, has published a study analyzing both the
partisan makeup of a state based on new criteria — the "Trifecta" of control — as well as the state's quality of life (the "SQLI"). [...]
The SQLI uses 19 factors to assess quality of life. [...] The three states that experienced the greatest improvement from 1992 to 2012 were Texas, North
Carolina and North Dakota. The three states that saw the biggest decline in their rankings from start to finish were Nevada, Connecticut and Illinois.
The Editor says...
Hmmm... What do Nevada, Connecticut, and Illinois have in common?
Tolerance, Health and Fascism.
In the name of tolerance, girls' high school teams in California and elsewhere must now accept male players who feel female. In the name of tolerance,
businesses cannot fire a man who one day shows up on the sales floor dressed as a woman. For the left, tolerance does not mean tolerance.
It means first, acceptance. And second, celebration. That is totalitarianism: You not only have to live with what you may differ with,
dear citizen, you have to celebrate it or pay a steep price.
Abandoned Dogs Roam Detroit in Packs as Humans
Dwindle. As many as 50,000 stray dogs roam the streets and vacant homes of bankrupt Detroit, replacing residents, menacing humans who remain and
overwhelming the city's ability to find them homes or peaceful deaths. [...] One officer in the Police Department's skeleton animal-control unit recalled a pack
splashing away in a basement that flooded when thieves ripped out water pipes.
Bankrupt Detroit: As many as 50,000 stray dogs
roam city streets in packs. As many as 50,000 stray dogs roam the streets and vacant homes of bankrupt Detroit, as many residents flee the once-booming
metropolis. The city has shrank [sic] from 1.8 million to about 700,000 and packs of as many as 20 dogs have been found in boarded-up buildings of
former residents, Bloomberg reported. There are as many as 70,000 abandoned buildings for dogs and other animals to make their home.
The Editor says...
I suppose it would be impossible to declare "open season" on wild dogs, since only outlaws have guns in a liberal Utopia. And since it's a
liberal Utopia, the dogs have rights, too!
Welfare Can Make
More Sense than Work. In Connecticut, a mother with two children participating in seven major welfare programs (Temporary Assistance
for Needy Families, Medicaid, food stamps, WIC, housing assistance, utility assistance and free commodities) could receive a package of benefits
worth $38,761, the fourth highest in the nation. Only Hawaii, Massachusetts and the District of Columbia provided more generous benefits.
When it comes to gauging the value of welfare benefits, it is important to remember that they are not taxed, while wages are.
Government Graft, Corruption,
and Retaliation in Democrat-Run Virginia. All across America, billions of taxpayer dollars are wasted or mismanaged by local governments because of little
to no government transparency or accountability. Alexandria, Virginia, provides an example of why. Ironically, local government, which is arguably the
"closest to the people," is in many ways shielded and protected from public scrutiny and questioning. Only a select few who either work in local government or
watch the actions of their local representatives closely catch these cases of waste, fraud, and abuse. Their stories are often ignored because the media is more
drawn to high-profile cases at the state and federal levels.
The Tales of Three Bankrupt Cities. Why did so many
people move out of Detroit? The quick answer: crime abetted by welfare. During the decade from 1965 to 1975, crime and welfare dependency roughly
tripled in the United States and rose even more in Detroit. There was a connection between the two trends. Welfare encouraged single parenthood; fatherless
boys often grew up to commit violent crimes. Most violent crimes were and are committed by (and against) blacks, whose numbers in Detroit during the great northward
migration rose from 149,000 in 1940 to 660,000 in 1970.
Food-Stamp Use Rises; Some 15% Get Benefits.
Food-stamp use rose 2.4% in the U.S. in May from a year earlier, with more than 15% of the U.S. population receiving benefits. [...] Mississippi was the state with the
largest share of its population relying on food stamps — 22% — though Washington, DC was a bit higher overall at 23%. One in five residents in
Oregon, New Mexico, Louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia and Kentucky also were food-stamp recipients.
Newark is named the world's least
friendly city. The 'winner' of the competition for the least friendly global city was Newark, which is known more for its airport than any other attractions. [...] Other
American cities in the top 10 included Oakland, California, New Haven, Connecticut and Detroit, Michigan — as well as New Jersey's Atlantic City, which despite being a
casino resort was denounced as 'a pale shadow of Las Vegas'.
Emanuel's Chicago Is On Path To Be The Next
Detroit. Chicago appears to be following Detroit's lead to financial disaster, perhaps the latest victim of decades of one-party rule by
Democrats eager to redistribute wealth while driving real wealth creators out of cities.
Black Politicians Mostly to Blame
for Detroit's Demise. [Scroll down] The way it works is fiendishly simple. Black politicians pass laws that extort
wealth by gunpoint from those better off (the so-called rich) and give it to those less so (the poor) — in this case, poor blacks.
Over time, made dependent on government largess for survival, an ever-growing number of poor blacks vote for the black politician, who promises
to shower them with the most free goodies paid for by the "evil rich."
L.A., Chicago Rank 1 and 2 for Gun Murders;
N.O. Has Highest Rate. The Los Angeles and Chicago metropolitan areas had the most gun murders among the nation's fifty most-populous
metropolitan areas in 2009 and 2010 (the latest years for which data is available), according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention. During those two years, 1,141 people were gunned to death in the Los Angeles metropolitan area and 1,139 were
gunned to death in the Chicago metropolitan area. The New York metropolitan area ranked third with 1,101 gun homicides.
The Editor says...
I read a lot of news articles, and this is the first time I've ever seen a firearm-related homicide described as someone having
been "gunned to death."
Detroit
Shows How ObamaCare Will Bankrupt the Country. Looks like Detroit might get a federal bailout after all, by offloading its retiree
health costs onto federal taxpayers via ObamaCare. It's a window into why Obama-Care costs will quickly spiral out of control.
Saving Detroit From Itself. The
AFL-CIO and its friends are mourning Detroit as a victim of capitalism, claiming the government has a moral obligation to rescue the bankrupt
city. This is a nice political fable, but the hard truth is that Motown is a victim of its own political vices and a bailout would merely
forestall the necessary rehab.
Defeat
socialism and save Detroit, all in one move. Detroit is the poster child for failed liberal social experiments. Detroit was at
one time the fourth largest city in America. Instead of being the poster child for failed liberalism, it was the poster child for the success
of the American free market. [...] The left wants Detroit bailed out so their fiscal sins can be covered and forgiven. But there is a problem:
Detroit is not the only city teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. Many major cities, run by Democrats for decades are now facing fiscal Armageddon.
Chicago and New York are facing the same issues that drove Detroit to bankruptcy.
Detroit Ran Into The Inviolable
Rule Of Economics. [Detroit's] Cause of death? Corruption, both legal and illegal, plus a classic case of reactionary liberalism in which
the governing Democrats — there's been no Republican mayor in half a century — simply refused to adapt to the straitened economic
circumstances that followed the post-World War II auto boom. Corruption of the criminal sort was legendary. The former mayor currently serving
time engaged in a breathtaking range of fraud, extortion and racketeering. And he didn't act alone. The legal corruption was the cozy symbiosis
of Democratic politicians and powerful unions, especially the public-sector unions that gave money to elect the politicians who negotiated their
contracts — with wildly unsustainable health and pension benefits.
Unions ask Obama for Detroit
bailout. Union leaders are calling on Congress and President Obama to provide a federal bailout to the city of Detroit. The
executive council of the AFL-CIO, the nation's largest labor federation, called for an "immediate infusion of federal assistance for Detroit" to be
matched by Michigan, which they say has not done enough to keep the city from going through bankruptcy.
No Taxpayer Bailout
For Detroit. Having dug itself into an $18 billion hole, bankrupt Detroit now has allies in Washington calling for a federal
bailout. This isn't going to help the city recover.
Detroit's Got Nowhere to Run and Nowhere to Hide.
There were over 1,849,000 people living in Detroit mid-decade in the '50s due to the automobile boom post-World War II. [...] Private enterprise is the
straw that stirs the drink of any flourishing city, state or nation. Not the other way around with the public sector leading the way as the sad case
of Detroit's current bankruptcy and demise as a great American city is going to prove once and for all. Today, Detroit is down to around 770,000
people.
What Detroit's Demise Says About
America. On race and other issues, Detroit should be a warning to the country. It was — and in many ways,
still is — a great city, but poor leadership and an ambivalent citizenry allowed Detroit's problems to fester, grow, and
eventually overwhelm it. A nation can make the same mistake.
It was suicide by
government. The city [of Detroit] undertook a controlled experiment in what happens if you are governed by a toxic combination
of Great Society big spenders, race hustlers, crooks, public-sector unions and ineffectual reformers. It spent and misgoverned itself
into the ground.
The Detroit Detox. In a letter authorizing Detroit's bankruptcy
filing, Governor Rick Snyder, a Republican, noted a few problems that have contributed to Detroit's dilemma:
• The city's unemployment rate has nearly tripled since 2000 and is more than double the national average.
• The homicide rate is at historically high levels, and the city has been named among America's most dangerous
for more than 20 years.
• Roughly 78,000 city structures have been abandoned.
If Obama Had A City, It Would
Look like Detroit. Consider the following regarding the city of Detroit:
• 40% of its street lamps don't work.
• 210 of its 317 public parks have been closed.
• It takes an hour for police to respond to a 911 call.
• Only a third of its ambulances are drivable.
• One-third of the city has been abandoned.
• Forty-seven percent of adults are functionally illiterate.
Evidently 50 years of governance by compassionate Obama community organizer types have driven out the business class and now there is
no one left to rail against. To top it off, Judge Rosemarie Aquilina declared Detroit's bankruptcy "unconstitutional."
The Downfall of Detroit.
[Scroll down] Forty-seven percent of adults are functionally illiterate, which is about the same rate as the Central African
Republic, which at least has the excuse that it was ruled throughout the Seventies by a cannibal emperor. Why would any genuine
innovator open a business in a Detroit "innovation hub"? Whom would you employ? The illiterates include a recent
president of the school board, Otis Mathis, which doesn't bode well for the potential work force a decade hence.
Government Motors Is Alive
and Detroit Is Dead. Last Oct. 13, President Obama boasted in a weekly address about the bailed-out auto industry that, "We refused to
throw in the towel and do nothing. We refused to let Detroit go bankrupt. I bet on American workers and American ingenuity, and three
years later that bet is paying off in a big way." Less than a year later, the American auto industry is indeed surviving, bolstered largely
by a Ford that refused government assistance and foreign transplants located in right-to-work states. Even General Motors has been forced
to pay the free market some lip service, lest its customers go elsewhere, even as it accepts Chevy Volt subsidies. Detroit, however, is
dead, and unions and government killed it.
Detroit
bankruptcy — this is what happens if you vote Democrat for 51 years. I've been to Detroit and I won't be hurrying back.
I've never been surrounded by such appalling poverty in a Western country — rows and rows of public housing, every window broken, every door
barred. I was advised to take a cab everywhere and to avoid the sidewalk at all costs. The gas station near my motel was a notorious hangout
for crack dealers. The only way to get any food was to order it in, and the pizza guy refused to enter the motel itself. I had to come out
to the freeway and nervously exchange money for food in the middle of the road.
Detroit's
foreseeable bankruptcy: Coming to a nation near you? Get out your cellphone. Set the alarm for 58 minutes from now. [...] When
it goes off, you'll know how long it takes Detroit police to respond to an emergency 911-call, on average. More than five times longer than
nationally. As one result, that once prosperous, bustling city has the highest violent crime rate of major American urban centers.
Criminals know they can do their thing and be miles away before help arrives. Detroit has about 700,000 people now, more than 80% black.
The Editor says...
Is Detroit an example of what happens when Democrats rule for 50 years? Or is Detroit an example of what an 80 percent black
city with no firearms looks like? Or is it a city populated by people who thought they would be able to make $50 an hour putting
floor mats in Cadillacs — forever? Answer D: All of the above.
Leftists
Just Can't Help But Ruin the World. From the 1960s well into the 1980s, laws regarding criminal justice and self-defense were stacked
heavily against law-abiding Americans. Liberal judges routinely handed down minimal sentences after criminals had been convicted of heinous
crimes. Americans who had defended themselves against criminals using force, often in their own homes, faced severe prosecution for exercising
their natural right to defend their loved ones, their homes and their property. Crime rates soared and outrage built up as the legal system
allowed criminal after criminal to walk free while acting in self-defense could ruin a law-abiding American's life. Liberals did all of this in the
name of "social justice," on a theory that the system is inherently racist, poverty causes crime, and society is ultimately to blame for criminals.
Detroit files for Chapter 9
bankruptcy amid staggering debts. Detroit on Thursday [7/18/2013] became the largest American city to file for bankruptcy, a historic
move sure to ignite complex battles in coming months with creditors, pensioners and unions who stand to lose significantly as the state tries to
rescue a city whose failure Gov. Rick Snyder said was 60 years in the making.
Detroit
Emergency Manager Calls for 'Complete Restructuring' of City Operations. "No one should underestimate the severity of the financial
crisis," [Kevyn] Orr said in a statement. "The path Detroit has followed for more than 40 years is unsustainable and only a complete
restructuring of the city's finances and operations will allow Detroit to regain its footing and return to a path of prosperity."
Top 10 priciest U.S. cities to rent an
apartment. Of the 10 cities on the list, six are located on the West Coast, while the other four are on the opposite side of the
country on the East Coast. Of the six out west, five are located in California, with three of those clustered in the northern end of the state.
13 Cook
County Municipalities In Worse Shape than Bankrupt Stockton, Calif. The 518 taxing districts in Cook County, Illinois have debts
that impose a combined "financial burden" of almost $34 billion — an average of $17,147 per Cook County household — according to a study
by The Heartland Institute and the Institute for Truth in Accounting. With a population of 5.2 million persons, Cook County is
the nation's second-most populous county and includes the City of Chicago.
The echo of gunfire.
Six months into the year, more than 1,000 people have been wounded or killed by gunfire in Chicago. And this is an improvement.
NHS hospitals asked to generate their
own power amid blackouts fears. According to one energy company, four hospitals have already signed up to a deal under which
they will reduce demand at peak times by using diesel-fired generators. KiWi Power, which is a commercial partner of National Grid,
says it has started to approach every NHS trust in the country about undertaking similar plans after winning a government contract to
encourage power saving.
The Editor says...
There is no longer enough centralized generating capacity in England to serve all customers during periods of peak demand. This is
because England's energy policy is dictated by environmentalists who are opposed to the use of coal. So the hospitals — and
presumably any other large consumers of electric power — are being asked to switch to diesel-powered backup systems during peak
demand hours. How big is the "carbon footprint" of a megawatt diesel-powered generator — or a dozen of them? What if the
generator runs out of diesel fuel, and the (centralized) utility power fails, due to transformer overload, falling trees, lightning,
or something else? What will this increased demand do to the price of diesel fuel? Any guesses?
America's top 10 snobbiest cities
revealed. Travel + Leisure has revealed America's top 10 most pretentious cities, with San Francisco topping the list and New York City
and Boston not far behind.
Calif. lawmakers pass K-12 transgender-rights
bill. California lawmakers approved a bill Wednesday [7/3/2013] that would require public K-12 schools to let transgender students choose which
restrooms they use and which school teams they join based on their gender identity instead of their chromosomes.
The Editor says...
Whenever schools allow the kids to make decisions about their rules, trouble is inevitable in the chort term, and chaos in the long run. The
same would be true if the inmates were allowed to make policy decisions in prisons. Where liberals rule, common sense does not.
California
is about to pass a law requiring bathroom, locker room access regardless of gender. Mere ownership of a penis or a vagina will no longer limit
California students in their decisions concerning which bathrooms and locker rooms to use, or which sports teams to join. Under a proposed law that has
passed the state legislature and now awaits the signature of Gov. Jerry Brown, students in California will be able to make such choices based on their
perceived gender identities, CNN reports. Assembly Bill 1266 aims to extend the rights of transgender students.
Is Obama a Victim of Self-Esteem
Education? I never understood Barack Obama — or even some of my friends — until I read The
Amateur by Edward Klein. But first you also need to remember the plague of "self-esteem" based education. And
finally it all makes sense. The self-esteem movement hurt our public schools and degraded the curriculum. The
self-esteem time bomb is now coming full circle, as the victims of our schools, colleges, and universities have moved into
leadership of our country.
Obama's Perversity.
Chicago is basically a one-party regime. How can you tell if you're living under one-party rule? Your media aren't
going to tell you. Your government isn't either. Your schools are part of the mob monopoly. But there are
signs: the biggest one is that open scandals and crimes have no consequences. We all know Holder is a perverse
attorney general, that the EPA is run by scientific know-nothings, that Wall Street has high-level lines running into this
administration, that "green technology" contradicts the known facts of physics, and that "catastrophic climate change" is a
self-serving farce.
Rise
in gay homeless people threatens San Francisco's name as gay-friendly mecca. Thanks to the equality rights work of pioneers
such as the politician and activist Harvey Milk, San Francisco has a reputation as the gay capital of the world. But as the city
recovers from its 43rd gay Pride festival at the weekend, attended by more than 1.5 million people, it must confront an uncomfortable
issue.
Risk of
UK blackouts has increased, Government admits. Ofgem warned there could be energy shortages in the middle of this decade as the UK
has failed to build enough new wind farms and nuclear powers stations to replace old fossil fuel plants. It also believes demand for energy
may not fall as much as originally expected, as fewer households are insulating their lofts and switching to green appliances than predicted.
The Editor says...
Conservation, insulation and rolling blackouts are not energy sources. The only solution to an energy shortage is increased energy production.
As a practical reality, the most reliable, cost-effective fuels for the generation of electric power are coal and natural gas.
This was all common knowledge 50 years ago, and then the tree-hugging earth-worshiping environmentalists acquired political power.
Now, even the sensible population in England is reaping what the greens have sown, and the same thing can happen here.
Democrats put Blacks in the Back of the Bus.
Currently the unemployment rate for black Americans is 13.5%, vs. 6.7% for whites, but the rate for black teens is 42.6%, vs. 21.6% for whites. It's clear
that the Obama economy has had a very disparate impact on blacks. This is in large part due to the much lower skill levels of blacks than whites.
While 94.4% of whites finish High School only 88.1% of blacks do. Similarly while 39.2% of whites have at least a Bachelors degree only 20.1% of blacks do.
There are many theories as to why this gap exists but a likely cause is the horrible state of public education in the inner cities where Democrat politicians and
teachers unions work together with little concern for the children they're supposed to serve.
Shape-shifters are Changing America. Mostly
unbeknownst to most of us mortals, a modern day shape-shifter can become the opposite of the sex he or she was born as, transforming into a man or woman in
an instant. It doesn't matter if the biological assignment given at birth remains. Proclamation of one's sexual identity is enough. One's
gender can be established by fiat. Even children may change sex just by proclamation, as the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary School
guidelines affirm, stating that even if a child physiologically resembles a boy in every respect, but decides to be a girl, his new identity is to be
acknowledged as the "real" one. Just to be perfectly clear, lest anyone accuse the district of discrimination, it is not necessary to declare one's self
male or female at all. A student can essentially check the box "Neither."
As
goes Detroit. Urban America has a much-needed new truth-teller, and his name is Kevyn Orr. Mr. Orr is emergency manager for Detroit —
a Democrat tasked by Michigan's Republican governor, Rick Snyder, with arresting the financial death spiral in that state's largest city. On June 14,
Mr. Orr issued a 128-page report that cut through years of official obfuscation and delivered the grim facts about the city's plight.
The Consequences of Liberalism.
It's misleading to say that the social consequences of the welfare state are "unintended." We know what the liberal welfare state
does to people. I occasionally rile up my liberal friends by noting that a century ago the rich were fat and the poor were thin,
but today the rich are thin and the poor are fat. Same with work. Back then the poor worked all the time; today the rich work
all the time. Liberals don't like to hear stuff like that. [...] We know full well the consequences of liberalism. They are
manifesting themselves before our eyes in Chicago's bloodbath and Detroit's bankruptcy.
Other countries are further down the same road. Brazil's Woes Are The Wages Of
Socialism. Brazil's rulers have been taken aback by the millions of countrymen surging up against them, venting their fury. What we have
here is a fresh example of why socialism fails. [...] What started as a protest against a 9-cent fare hike on public transport fireballed into a gigantic public
protest against political corruption, high taxes and lousy public services — and the government itself.
Rotting,
Decaying And Bankrupt: Detrot and America. Much of America was shocked when the city of Detroit defaulted on a $39.7 million
debt payment and announced that it was suspending payments on $2.5 billion of unsecured debt, but those who visit my site on a regular
basis were probably not too surprised. Anyone with half a brain and a calculator could see this coming from a mile away. But
people kept foolishly lending money to the city of Detroit, and now many of them are going to get hit really hard.
Emergency Manager: Detroit Won't Pay $2.5B it Owes. A
team led by a state-appointed emergency manager said Friday [6/14/2013] that Detroit is defaulting on about $2.5 billion in unsecured debt
and is asking creditors to take about 10 cents on the dollar of what the city owes them.
New Republic Contributor Compares
Sex-segregated Bathrooms to Jim Crow Racial Segregation. Having a strict "girls' room" and "boys' room" is just as
bad as keeping black and white bathrooms separate, claimed UCLA law professor Adam Winkler. In a New Republic article called
"Bathrooms Are Not Separate-But-Equal," Winkler sympathized with Maine high school student Nicole Maines, a 15-year-old "transgender
girl" who was denied access to the girls' restroom, since Maines is biologically a boy who wears female clothing and makeup.
Winkler decried the "intolerance" of the "insensitive" schools officials who aren't comfortable letting the male Maines use the girls'
bathroom, and complained that these are "strict and outdated rules that discriminate in who can use which restroom." He
insisted that such standards are "acts of discrimination no different from those that prohibited black people from entering
white bathrooms until the 1960s."
Restaurant
Tells Woman who Ran into Cross-Dresser in Ladies Room to Try Men's Room. A Nashville woman who found herself
face-to-face with a "big, burly" cross-dresser in the ladies room of a family restaurant felt her horror turn to anger after
a restaurant manager suggested she try the men's room. Transgendered people in several states have been fighting for
the right to use public restrooms that correspond with whatever sex they consider themselves, with lawmakers in California
and Massachusetts providing support for the idea.
Government
overreach? Are you really surprised? [Scroll down] Benghazi is a natural outcome of a policy of appeasement
in the Middle East. Fast and Furious is a natural outcome of a policy of willful blindness to the dangers of a porous border.
But it's about more than just scandals. It's about consequences. Almost everything going wrong these days could have been, and
was, predicted to follow from the votes of Congress and the policies of the president just as night follows day.
Student Suspended For Toy Gun The Size Of A
Quarter. When you add liberalism, political correctness, and gun control monomania, you'll get a toxic combination of absurdity.
In the very blue state of Massachusetts, one six-year-old was suspended over a toy gun about the size of a quarter. Do you hear that?
It's common sense going down the drain.
Four Chicago Neighborhoods Named on List of 25 Most Dangerous. NeighborhoodScout, a real
estate blog, has compiled FBI data from 17,000 local law enforcement agencies to rank America's 25 most dangerous neighborhoods.
Chicago has four neighborhoods on the list, tied with Detroit for the city with the most neighborhoods listed.
Signature Shortages Of
Socialism — Here In America. Shortages of 300 drugs, vitamins and trace elements have reached the highest levels ever recorded
in the U.S., according to a report by Alexandra Robbins in the Washingtonian, "leading to complications usually only seen in the developing world."
It's a direct result of the Food and Drug Administration's stepped-up harassment of makers of some of these lifesaving compounds — which has
shut down 30% of U.S. manufacturing capacity in some specialties.
Europe's anti-carbon agenda is adverse to
human health and welfare. The hostile regulatory environment toward carbon, especially coal, is leading to business closures,
higher prices, stagnation, unemployment, fuel poverty and an increase in the death rate. In their fascination with computer models
based on untested hypotheses, European Union policymakers have put their countries so far behind the economic curve that it will take
decades to catch up to more competitive nations.
Europe
is becoming a green-energy basket case. For years, European leaders have flaunted their unwavering commitment to fighting
climate change — and chastised the United States for lagging behind. But last week brought yet more confirmation that
the continent has become a green-energy basket case. Instead of a model for the world to emulate, Europe has become a model of what
not to do.
European power plants are burning firewood from U.S. forests because of "global warming" restrictions. Europe's Green-Fuel Search Turns to America's
Forests. Loggers [in Windsor, NC] are clear-cutting a wetland forest with decades-old trees. Behind the move: an
environmental push. The push isn't in North Carolina but in Europe, where governments are trying to reduce fossil-fuel use and carbon-dioxide
emissions. Under pressure, some of the Continent's coal-burning power plants are switching to wood. But Europe doesn't have enough
forests to chop for fuel, and in those it does have, many restrictions apply. So Europe's power plants are devouring wood from the U.S.,
where forests are bigger and restrictions fewer.
Europe importing U.S. trees to keep the lights
on. Environmentalists in the United Kingdom are outraged by what has become a growing trend in Europe — countries are
importing more wood from the United States in order to meet the EU's strict renewable energy mandates. The BBC reports that millions of tons
of wood pellets will be shipped into Europe to help keep the lights on in a more environmentally friendly fashion. Environmentalists argue
that burning wood pellets wrecks U.S. forests and does nothing to address global warming in the short term.
The Editor says...
The environmentalists who are so alarmed by this latest development should have asked (years ago) where their energy was going to come from
after coal was outlawed. I'm pretty sure they didn't see this coming. And what does Europe gain by burning down the forests, if
global warming has already stopped?
Texas, Red States Beat
Blue States On Jobs, Growth. Texas outperformed every other state in the nation on jobs and growth over the past
decade, according to the latest annual report on state economic performance released Thursday [5/23/2013] by the American
Legislative Exchange Council. Michigan came in dead last. The rankings are based on state GDP growth, population
shifts, and changes in non-farm payroll jobs between 2001 and 2011. The ALEC report also finds that Utah has the best
economic outlook this year, and Vermont the worst.
Barack Obama's America.
Barack Obama's America is a place where felons can vote but soldiers can't. It's where elderly people are arrested for peacefully
protesting against abortion, but where paramilitary-dressed black radicals can't be prosecuted for threatening voters. It's where
children can't shape breakfast pastries into the vague shape of a gun, but where children can procure abortions without even informing
their parents.
Report: Detroit's finances crumbling;
future bleak. The first report by Detroit's emergency manager declares that the city is broke and at risk of running
completely out of money — a financial meltdown that could mean employees don't receive paychecks, retirees lose their
pensions and residents endure even deeper cuts in municipal services.
Barack Obama and the End of an Era.
The essential civil rights movement and the tragically successful Viet Nam protests spawned numerous causes, among them: feminism,
environmentalism, global warming, and gay rights. For each generation born after 1940 it has been a rite of passage to take up the
mantle of protest concurrent with mindless dedication to oftentimes absurd and erroneous beliefs, which have, in nearly all cases, resulted in
disastrous societal and economic consequences.
There's a shooting every six hours in America's gun control utopia. America's urban gun control
utopia, Chicago, is a bastion of strict gun control laws. So far this year, the city is averaging a shooting every 6 hours and roughly a homicide a
day. And the weather hasn't even warmed up to 80 degrees yet! Does this sound like a place you should be visiting from business or pleasure?
Not if you're a reasonable person who makes prudent choices with regard to your personal safety.
California Group Mails Condoms to 12-Year-Olds.
The CFHC [California Family Health Council], a non-profit organization, has set up a website advertising its "Condom Access Project," where teens as young
as 12 years old can receive free condoms in the mail.
Jihad Blows Up the Liberal Utopia.
The Liberal Utopia is a land where the War on Poverty was supposed to end poverty — and instead winds up sending violent crime
skyrocketing, and, in the words of Thomas Sowell, setting up the American black family for rapid disintegration in the liberal welfare
state "that subsidized unwed pregnancy and changed welfare from an emergency rescue to a way of life."
America's
most dishonest neighborhoods revealed. America's top tax dodging hotspots have been revealed with about a third of fraudsters
in California. Neighborhoods including Beverly Hills and Newport Beach in California, New Carrollton, Maryland and College Park,
Georgia, were among the potential tax evasion clusters targeted for auditing, according to confidential IRS data. They were
identified by the National Taxpayer Advocate using the IRS's confidential tax return data. In all, researchers identified areas of
possible tax cheats in more than 350 communities in 24 states.
They Lied to us Then About
Immigration; They are Lying Now. It is impossible to quantify how much the last two decades of illegal immigration —
a direct result of the '86 amnesty — has cost us in education, healthcare, welfare, refundable tax credits, and criminal
justice. It is impossible to quantify how much the 1965 Kennedy bill has upset the balance of the country, ballooned the welfare
state, and created a permanent Democrat majority in many parts of the country. Now, instead of being ashamed of his past failures and
lies, Chuck Schumer is back pushing amnesty for the people who were never supposed to come here as a result of his original amnesty.
1984 + 29. Imagine if, during
the campaign of 2008, someone had written the following: "If Barack Obama is elected president, then each year from now on the
federal budget will be a trillion dollars in the red. He will pile up in two terms more debt than all previous presidents
combined. Interest rates will stay at near zero; 7.6 percent unemployment will be proof of progress in creating jobs.
Record use of food stamps, unemployment, and disability insurance will be hallmarks of recovery. The government will take over
health care, and the costs will skyrocket. During Obama's second term, ammunition will vanish from America's store shelves in
panic buying. Gay marriage will become uncontroversial. Women will be eligible for infantry combat. [...]" Obviously,
such a conspiracist would have been dismissed as an unhinged nut.
"Obama Will Let Me Go".
Linda Vickers, who owns a ranch in Brooks County, which is Ground Zero for the immigration debate, pins the blame directly on talk of 'amnesty' and
a 'path to citizenship' for people who entered the U.S. illegally. She recalls one man being arrested on her ranch not long ago.
"The Border Patrol agent was loading one man up, and he told the officer in Spanish, 'Obama's gonna let me go'." Border Patrol agents
report that immigrants are crossing the border, and in some cases surrendering while asking, "Where do I go for my amnesty?"
CA Crime Skyrockets in Wake of Brown's Prison Release Plan.
In 2011, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law California Assembly Bill 109, a piece of legislation designed to relieve overcrowded prisons in
accordance with a Supreme Court decision. AB 109 enshrined "realignment" into law — a plan to place supposedly "non-violent,
non-serious, and non-sex offenders" in county jails rather than state prisons. In other words, local governments were handed the problem of
prisoners the state didn't want to hold.
Why the United States is a Dying Country.
[Scroll down] [Over the past 40 years] the American people have sanctioned, through legal abortions, the death of over 54.5 million
children. Once this disregard of human life took hold, the citizens of this nation were susceptible to wholesale changes within society.
Far too many of the American people, flush with prosperity, willfully ignored the infiltration of the education, media and entertainment establishments
by the 1960's radicals, the most narcissistic and radical legion of socialist true-believers on the face of the earth. Through the control of
these media of indoctrination, an ever increasing percentage of the population has been conditioned to believe there are no moral absolutes and
there is a limitless list of rights as granted by the government.
Jesus
Portrait Removed From Ohio School. A Jesus portrait that has hung in a southern Ohio school district's buildings since
1947 has been taken down, because of concerns about the costs of a federal lawsuit.
Don't Buy an Electric Car.
I live in California, home to all sorts of environmental nonsense. We couldn't build our house where we wanted to because of a
tiny plant you can hardly see and a grasshopper that might — just might — live there. It cost a fortune to
replace our perfectly good septic system with a more environmentally friendly one to meet new codes.
41% in Bankrupt
Stockton Don't Speak English at Home; 21% Can't Speak It Very Well. In Stockton, Calif., which has just entered into
Chapter 9 bankruptcy, 41 percent of the people do not speak English at home and 21 percent cannot speak it very well,
according to the U.S. Census Bureau. [...] Looking at the subset of Stockton's population that was five years old or older (264,713), the
Census Bureau estimated there were 119,991 people who did not speak English at home.
Americans Are Migrating
To More Free Republican States. The "Freedom in the 50 States" study measured economic and personal freedom using a wide
range of criteria, including tax rates, government spending and debt, regulatory burdens, and state laws covering land use, union
organizing, gun control, education choice and more. It found that the freest states tended to be conservative "red" states, while the
least free were liberal "blue" states. The freest state overall, the researchers concluded, was North Dakota, followed by South Dakota,
Tennessee, New Hampshire and Oklahoma. The least free state by far was New York, followed by California, New Jersey, Hawaii and
Rhode Island.
And the least free
state in America, is... George Mason University's Mercatus Center just released the third edition
of their comprehensive "Freedom in the Fifty States" study, ranking "the American states based on how their policies
promote freedom in the fiscal, regulatory, and personal realms." The researchers calculated in factors ranging
from the states' levels of government spending and debt, tax burden, property rights protection, and health insurance
freedom all the way to their policies on alcohol, tobacco, gambling, marriage, and firearms.
New York is the Nanny State with the least freedoms:
national study. New York's big government — with its hands deep in taxpayers' pockets and regulations controlling
everyone's lives — has made the Empire State the worst in the nation for personal liberty, a new study shows. A war on
sugary drinks is the least of freedom-loving New Yorkers' worries, according a report by George Mason University, which rated the state
No. 50 for the level of freedom its residents enjoy.
CDC:
110,197,000 Venereal Infections in U.S. According to new data released by the federal Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, there were 19.7 million new venereal infections in the United States in 2008, bringing the total number of existing
sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the U.S. at that time to 110,197,000. The 19.7 million new STIs in 2008 vastly
outpaced the new jobs and college graduates created in the United States that year or any other year on record, according to government
data.
America's
Sharp Left Turn Began With Education Takeover. A better-educated citizenry surely would have been less likely to
vote for continued progress toward national bankruptcy, strangulation of our energy resources leading to higher gas prices, destruction
of the greatest health care system in the world (rated #1 in outcomes by the World Health Organization, despite what you've heard),
and weakened national defense while our adversaries are building up. But how did we get to this point?
Could Illinois be run any worse?
We're still in a jobs depression in many parts of Illinois. New business activity has slowed considerably thanks to sky-high taxes
and a state government so incompetently run, they still owe bills from 3 years ago. But the talk today is about a pension bomb
that threatens disaster and the settlement the state made with the SEC for misleading investors about the billions in shortfalls the
pension system was operating under.
Relativism: America's new 'religion'.
It is unlikely that many Americans would consciously choose a culture of coarseness, so why is American culture — TV, radio,
films, books and advertising — so immersed in violence, indiscriminate sex, superficiality, pornography and ugliness?
There is much talk about our freedom to choose, but we rarely hear that we can't choose the consequences of our choices. When
relativism is adopted by a society, it does not produce beauty, but coarseness, if not as the desired outcome, then as an unintended
consequence. One can see this occurring in America, in a descent to the lowest common denominator when it comes to art, music,
literature, public discourse and entertainment.
Socialism
Is Why Greece, Italy And Detroit Suffer. From Greece to Portugal to Detroit, it would seem some alien being called
"austerity" has descended on their bankrupt economies. In reality, it's the consequences of socialism itself.
Taxes are highest in states run by Democrats. States With the Lowest
and Highest Tax Burdens: The average American paid 9.9% of their income on state and local taxes during 2010, according to
data from The Tax Foundation. The state of New York ranked highest, with residents paying 12.8% of their income on state and
local taxes. The lowest: Alaska at 7.0%.
Detroit- Most Miserable City in
the US. The criteria: "Forbes looked at 200 of the country's largest urban areas and ranked them on factors
including crime rates, foreclosures, taxes, home prices, commute times, weather and decreasing populations." Detroit has
been run by Democrat mayors since 1964.
Detroit
protesters vow 'civil disobedience' in opposition to city's emergency manager. On Thursday [3/14/2013], [Gov. Rick] Snyder
appointees on a three-person panel confirmed African-American lawyer Kevyn Orr as the city's "emergency manager," a powerful position
that gives him authority to restructure the city's finances and change labor contracts while the all-black elected city council sits on the
sidelines. The move, facilitated by Snyder, has sparked charges of racial animus and "anti-democracy" against the governor.
Copper Thieves Plunge Detroit
Freeways into Darkness. In other news from the city that came out 98 percent for Obama, the freeways, which have no lights
anyway, are closed due to weather-related accidents. There's a backlog of 11,000 untested rape kits and the governor is looking for an
emergency financial manager to take over its finances as it appears to be on the verge of bankruptcy with an $8.2 billion debt that would
make it the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history.
The Decline of America.
In August 1945, Hiroshima was in shambles, while Detroit was among the most innovative and wealthiest cities in the world.
Contemporary Hiroshima now resembles a prosperous Detroit of 1945; parts of Detroit look like they were bombed decades ago.
History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new
sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.
America's Suicidal Cities.
Some major American cities are dying, and the worst part is that these grievously ill patients often are refusing to take even the mildest
medicine that would make things better. Take Detroit, a city that has become a synonym for urban failure. The murder rate of
one per 1,719 people last year was more than eleven times the rate in New York City. One contributing factor may be that
two-thirds of Detroit's streetlights are broken.
Evidence
Mounts of Mass Shooting Causes: Sociopathic Progressivism & Drugs. It seems the root causes of this twisted behavior
include, at least by affinity, the ideological motivations of, or even pathological drives for, political or sociological causes
shared by the progressive "left" — mixed with psychotropic drugs — and that, especially among but not limited
to adolescent men. I am not joking; deadly serious. This brief compilation may serve as an introduction. I have
seen sound reports on numerous of these instances.
America Needs a New Birth
of Freedom. It was under [President] Johnson, who championed the "Great Society" in the 1960s, that a good portion of the runaway
government spending we are trying to get under control today originated. Johnson signed into law Medicare, Medicaid, the War on Poverty
programs, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. [...] So the Johnson administration years marked not just the beginning of many huge
government programs that we can't pay for today, but they also marked a major cultural change where government began displacing family and
personal responsibility. It is no accident that as the American welfare state grew, the American family collapsed.
Van
Lines Data Show People Fleeing States With Big Fiscal Problems. Citizens and businesses are fleeing states with fiscal
problems — that is one apparent message from the latest annual report from United Van Lines. The company's study of 2012
interstate shipments, released in December, showed significant continuing flight from states with high state government debt loads as
measured by the Institute for Truth in Accounting (IFTA). For example, the top five states for the share of outbound interstate
shipments in the latest UVL survey were, in order from one to five — New Jersey, Illinois, West Virginia, New York, and
New Mexico.
Gun Violence
is Not a Republican Problem, It's a Democratic Problem. 67% of firearm murders took place in the country's 50 largest
metro areas. The 62 cities in those metro areas have a firearm murder rate of 9.7, more than twice the national average.
Among teenagers the firearm murder rate is 14.6 or almost three times the national average. Those are the crowded cities of
Obamerica. Those are the places with the most restrictive gun control laws and the highest crime rates. And many of them
have been run by Democrats and their political machines for almost as long as they have been broken.
The Missouri 'Rat Your
Kid Out or Rat Yourself Out' Act. A state legislator in St. Louis County has sponsored gun legislation for the State of
Missouri. Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal, D-University City, is sponsoring SB 124, the Rat Your Kid Out or Rat Yourself Out
Act. [...] Notice there is no specificity in the bill. That is not by accident; this is intended to be as broad as possible, to
open the door for more and stricter regulations down the road. Were Chappelle-Nadal putting forth a serious bill she would have
specific definitions and a very circumscribed legal requirement. It is open-ended for a reason.
Bed bugs were all but eliminated years ago — and then the liberals banned DDT. And the most bedbug-infested U.S. city
is ... The exact cause is not known, but experts associate the resurgence with increased resistance of bed bugs to available
pesticides, greater international and domestic travel, lack of knowledge regarding control of bed bugs due to their prolonged absence, and
the continuing decline or elimination of effective pest control programs at state and local public health agencies.
Detroit Betrayed: The
Radical Wrecking Of An Iconic City. [Scroll down] Coleman Young, the mayor of Detroit from 1974 to 1993, was able to "move
forward as he did" thanks in part to training he got from the "party" — that is, the Communist Party. [...] Young had a woeful impact on
Detroit. If there is any wonder why Detroit often resembles an Eastern Bloc municipality (minus the police state, since Mayor Young made
it a routine to attack and neglect the city's police forces, ensuring that the 1967 riots picked up where they left off), consider that
for 19 years the mayor who ran the city economically and socially was a closet Marxist. Carl Levin, senator from Michigan, was
Young's right-hand man as Detroit City Council president during the most destructive years of Young's reign.
Moving Company Reports
People Fleeing Illinois & New Jersey. The St. Louis based moving company United Van Lines is reporting that Illinois leads the nation
alongside New Jersey with the nations highest move out rates. United Van Lines spokeswoman, Melissa Sullivan told CBS affiliate KMOX in
St. Louis, 60.5% of their business comes from individuals and businesses leaving Illinois. She also said, "Illinois has seen more
outbound movement every year since" they have been keeping track, beginning in 1977.
Rahm Emanuel Out of Excuses for Chicago's Murder Rate.
In 2012, Chicago recorded 505 murders. That may not sound all that bad, since in some years in the past two decades the city had over
900 murders (1991, 1992, and 1994). But it looks like a terribly high number when compared to New York (which recorded 414 murders
in 2012) or any of the other ten largest cities in America, because Chicago is not only the murder capital of America in terms of experiencing the
most murders. It also has, by far, the highest murder rate among America's ten largest cities.
20 Ways
America Has Begun to Reap What It Has Sown. [#7] Our first priority when it comes to schools is catering to the teachers'
unions, not educating our kids; then we're surprised at the poor quality of public education in our country. [...] [#16] We worry more about
children's self-esteem than their performance; then we're surprised when college kids aren't ready for the working world.
Hobby Lobby and
the Loss of America's Soul. In America, established rights such as religious liberty and the right to
bear arms are currently under attack. Liberals are in charge and they seem to feel that straightforward Constitutional
precepts require alteration or eradication. Take for instance the "right to privacy" — the left has had no
problem broadening the meaning of "privacy" to include the right to kill an unborn child. As for religious liberty,
unless you're a Muslim demanding a Ramadan meal, liberals like Supreme Court judge Sonia Sotomayor, rather than uphold
religious liberty, facilitate Barack Obama's effort to redefine the free exercise clause of the First Amendment.
This isn't America Right Now. The nation is more
divided than ever in history. The nation is more immoral and unethical than at any time in history. The nation is more fiscally broke than
at any time in history. The nation is more hate-filled than at any time in history. It is more violent than at any time in history and it
is in fact, more racist than at any time in history.
446 school age children shot in Chicago so far this year with
strongest gun laws in country — media silent. The cesspool known as Chicago probably has the toughest gun laws in the country, yet despite
all the shootings, murders, and bloodshed, you never hear a peep about this from the corrupt state run media. In Chicago, there have been 446 school age
children shot in leftist utopia run by Rahm Emanuel and that produced Obama, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, etc. 62 school aged children have actually
been killed by crazed nuts in Chicago so far this year with almost two weeks to go. So why isn't this news worthy?
Obama administration, Congress quietly let school security funds lapse.
Government officials told the Washington Guardian on Friday night [12/14/2012] that two Justice Department programs that had provided more than $200 million
to schools for training, security equipment and police resources over the last decade weren't renewed in 2011 and 2012, and that a separate program that provided
$800 million to put police officers inside the schools was ended a few years earlier. Meanwhile, the administration eliminated funding in 2011-12 for a
separate Education Department program that gave money to schools to prepare for mass tragedies, the officials said.
The right states of mind. The writing is on the
wall. Between 2000 and 2010, the population in the eight states without income taxes grew by 18 percent, while all others grew by 8 percent; the
(then) 22 states with right-to-work laws grew by 15 percent; the others grew by 6 percent. Population flowed from north to south, with warm sun
and friendly Republican governors. Florida grew by 17.6 percent, Texas by 20.6 percent ... and New York by 2.1 percent.
"White flight" happens for a reason. Detroit's
Tragic Decline Is Largely Due To Its Own Race-Based Policies. In 1960, Detroit's population was 1.6 million. Blacks were
29 percent, and whites were 70 percent. Today, Detroit's population has fallen precipitously to 707,000, of which blacks are 84 percent
and whites 8 percent. Much of the city's decline began with the election of Coleman Young, Detroit's first black mayor and mayor for five terms,
who engaged in political favoritism to blacks and tax policies against higher income mostly white people. Young's successors, Dennis Archer and Kwame
Kilpatrick, followed his Third World tyrant policies, but neither had his verbal vulgarity.
If you lock up the lunatics before they commit a crime, who will run
the government? Apparently far left groups (the ACLU filing against the law) defeated a Connecticut mental health protections law just months before the
Newtown shootings. Their primary concern being that the proposed law would "severely curtail the privacy rights and liberty issues of people with psychiatric
disabilities." "Disabilities?" That's a nice politically correct term. Unfortunately nobody on the ACLU staff addressed the severe curtailment of
the privacy rights and liberties of the victims of a person suffering from one of these "dangerous disabilities."
How much wealth do the poor in America have?
[Scroll down] In America, poverty is self-inflicted. But that doesn't mean that the Democrats don't help the poor to stay poor. Democrats wants [sic]
to raise minimum wage, which promotes higher unemployment among younger workers — and more dependence on government programs. They want to subsidize
single motherhood and enact no-fault divorce laws, to destroy marriage. And they want to push gay history and green propaganda in the public schools, to diminish
the economic value of a high school education. They don't want the poor to lift themselves out of poverty so that they are independent of government.
Progressive Policies Are to Blame for the
Mass Shooting in Sandy Hook. [Scroll down] What is clear, is that decades of failed liberal policy have made it difficult to force people with
severe mental diseases to be treated or institutionalized. And, then we are all shocked when these same dysfunctional individuals go on a shooting rampage
like we witnessed today [12/14/2012] in Newtown.
Recently
Defeated Connecticut Mental Health Bill [Could] Have Stopped Friday's Shooter. In February 2012, Connecticut Senate Bill 452 (SB452) was put
forward to remedy the fact that Connecticut was one of less than ten states in the U.S. to lack an "assisted outpatient treatment" (AOT) law. But the bill
was passed to Connecticut's Joint Committee on Judiciary in March, where it quietly faded away because of opposition by those who viewed it as "egregious" and
"outrageously discriminatory."
Months Before Shooting, "Civil Liberties" Groups Defeated Conn. Law Aimed at the Violent Mentally
Ill. Connecticut is one of only SIX states in the U.S. that doesn't have a type of "assisted outpatient treatment" (AOT) law (sometimes referred to
as "involuntary outpatient treatment"). There's no one standard for these types of laws, but (roughly speaking) these are laws that allow for people with
mental illness to be forcibly treated before they commit a serious crime.
$822,000 Worker Shows California
Leads U.S. Pay Giveaway. Nine years ago, California Democrat Gray Davis became the first U.S. governor in 82 years to be recalled by
voters. The state's 20 million taxpayers still bear the cost of his four years and 10 months on the job. Davis escalated salaries
and benefits for 164,000 state workers, including a 34 percent raise for prison guards, the first of a series of steps in which he and successors
saddled California with a legacy of dysfunction.
Caesarism in the USA. Under Woodrow Wilson,
government gained the ability to manipulate the wealth and productivity of the whole country through taxation, changing the value of the
currency, and debt manipulation. And finally, Caesarism was openly installed by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Congress has never
been able to regain the power the Founders expected it to have. Instead, Congress has been content to "go along to get along" with the
commander in chief and to compromise just as long as congressmen and senators were left free to reward their political supporters.
The 11 Death Spiral States. Eleven states made Forbes' list
of danger spots for investors including California, New York, Illinois, and Ohio. They warned (and with the cliff it is even more critical), if
you have muni bonds in these states — clean up your portfolio; if your career takes you there — rent, don't buy!
Day
1 of Legal Pot Marred by Deaths at Alleged Wash. Growing Center. The first day of legal marijuana use in Washington State
was marred by an attempted robbery ending with two deaths at an alleged pot-growing facility just south of Seattle. The
possession of pot became legal in the state Thursday [12/6/2012] after voters passed a measure decriminalizing it in November.
Celebrations as pot use becomes
legal in Washington state. The crowds of happy people lighting joints under Seattle's Space Needle early this morning
with nary a police officer in sight bespoke the new reality: Marijuana is legal under Washington state law. Hundreds gathered
at Seattle Center for a New Year's Eve-style countdown to 12 a.m., when the legalization measure passed by voters last month took
effect. When the clock struck, they cheered and sparked up in unison.
Tax and tell.
Illinois has a reputation for being an expensive and difficult place to do business, a big reason why the state has the ninth-highest
unemployment rate in the country, higher than every state that borders it.
Time to Break Apart the United States? What the liberals have done to Detroit they
do most everywhere that they go. The only reason that each and every liberal enclave has not imploded under the weight of liberal stupidity, greed, and cupidity
is the constant influx of revenue from the more conservative and responsible (and yes, honest) citizens in America.
Ten Little-Known Consequences of a Second Obama Term.
Believing in activist government means your work is never finished. You pass a new law that you think combats injustice and inefficiency.
Then human nature kicks in and, with great disapprobation, you discover that injustice and inefficiency still exist. So you pass another law,
then another.
The exhibitionist as a civil
rights hero. [Scroll down] The offender is "Colleen" Francis, whom I wrote about in a previous column.
Francis is 45 years old, white and a so-called transgender person. That is to say, Francis was born a male and has male
genitalia but chooses to identify himself as, and live as, a woman. Francis's anatomical maleness did not prevent Evergreen
State College in Washington from giving him permission to use the women's locker room on the campus.
Transgender Student in Women's Locker Room Raises Uproar. The decision to allow a transgender
45-year-old college student who identifies as a woman but has male genitalia to use the women's locker room has raised a fracas among parents and
faith-based organizations, who say children as young as 6 years old use the locker room. The locker room at Evergreen College in Olympia, Wash.,
is shared with the Capital High School swim club and a children's swim academy, along with the students at Evergreen.
The economy is in the worst shape in the states that are run by liberals. N.J. unemployment rate rises to 9.9 percent, highest
in 3 decades. In a mixed bag of economic news that was challenged by the Christie administration, New Jersey's unemployment rate inched
closer to 10 percent even as it added 5,300 jobs in August, according to figures released today [9/20/2012] by the state Labor Department.
The unemployment rate rose to 9.9 percent last month, up slightly from 9.8 percent in July and nearly two percentage points higher than the
national average of 8.1 percent.
Pelosi's Divine Comedy. At the core of the Obama
campaign is the insistent message that his failures should be discounted because of the overwhelming economic mess he inherited from
George W. Bush. It is befuddling that so many Republicans (including Mitt Romney, it seems) are so quick to concede a point that is
demonstrably untrue. Track the ebb and flow of our economy through the years, and it is stunning how frequently the bad times coincide with
Democrat control of Congress, the White House, or both.
Criminals thrive in cities run by liberals. Enter Detroit at your
own risk! Police issue shocking warning to baseball fans. Police officers in Detroit greeted football fans attending Saturday night's
Tigers game with a shock warning: 'Enter Detroit at Your Own Risk.' To protest against plans to cut their pay and increase their hours,
an estimated 400 off-duty police officers handed out fliers to fans as they entered the Tigers' Comerica Park stadium.
Poverty abounds in cities run by liberals. New Census statistics paint grim picture of Camden.
The recently released Census figures paint a grim picture of Camden. One that is worse than the year before. According to the new estimates,
Camden is the poorest city in the country with a poverty rate of 42.5 percent. The rate for children living in poverty in Camden was even higher
with a rate of 56.7 percent.
The poor people Obama left behind.
Four years after Barack Obama's historic election as president, little seems to have changed for the African-American communities on Chicago's South Side.
The lack of change — or the sense that these neighborhoods are getting worse — is eroding the president's standing among African-Americans
in his hometown. In 2011, Chicago suffered the third-highest black jobless rate among the nation's major metropolitan areas, at 19 percent,
according to the liberal Economic Policy Institute.
Obama's Perverse Middle
East Policy Bears Fruit. It would not be fair to blame yesterday's disasters in Egypt and Libya entirely on Barack Obama's
failed Middle East policies. The Muslim extremists who attacked our embassy and consulate are alone responsible for their actions;
they are, as a former president memorably put it, evildoers. Nothing we say about American foreign policy excuses them to the
slightest degree. It is nevertheless true that what happened yesterday in Egypt and Libya is directly related to the perverse
policies that the Obama administration has followed for the past four years.
Consequences of Obama weakness.
The murder of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens in Libya on Wednesday is the direct consequence of President Obama's weakness as a leader.
[...] These are not isolated incidents but the predictable result of four years of Mr. Obama meekly trying to "lead from behind."
Dithering Obama too dangerous for U.S.
This past week's deadly violence in the Mideast and North Africa rolled a storm cloud over President Obama's sunny landscape of Arab Spring.
It rained blood on the seeds of weakness that Obama had planted with his "lead from behind" foreign policy of feel-good apologies, bows,
empty words, mixed messages and appeasement.
Deadliest
city in America plans to disband its entire police force. The deadliest city in America is disbanding its entire police force
and firing 270 cops in an effort to deal with a massive budget crunch. There have been a staggering 41 homicides in Camden,
New Jersey, already this year but the Camden Police Department will be replaced with a force run by the county, which supporters say will
cost significantly less and allow more officers on the streets. Some citizens worry, though that the new officers, many of them from
the county police force, won't be prepared for the tough, violent work of patrolling a dense urban city.
In Baltimore, Illegal
Immigrants Welcomed with Open Arms. The mayor of Baltimore, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (D), deliberately wants the city compete
to become the nation's largest sanctuary city. Baltimore's unemployment rate is at 10 percent. For blacks in Baltimore, the
unemployment rate is over 20 percent. People are fleeing Maryland — and its major cities like Baltimore — to
states like Virginia and North Carolina that have better conditions for economic growth. But none of that seems to matter to
Rawlings-Blake, who thinks opening up Baltimore to illegal immigrants (her goal is to attract at least 10,000 immigrants to Baltimore) will
solve — and will not exacerbate — the city's economic woes and counteract population decline.
Democrats'
Ideal Voter: Illegal Alien, Single Mother, Convicted Felon. How can a country that elected Ronald Reagan have Obama
tied in the polls with Mitt Romney? The answer is: It's not the same country. [...] The same process that has already
destroyed California is working its way through the entire country. While conservatives have been formulating carefully
constructed arguments, liberals have been playing a long-term game to change the demographics of America to get an electorate
more to their liking.
Progressive
City Learns Big Government Perils The Hard Way. How did the mayor of Joe Biden's hometown of Scranton, Pa., end up
slashing every city worker's pay to minimum wage? Try big government, a tax squeeze on business and too many free riders.
New Yorkers
Leave Like East Germans Fled Communism. New York thinks of itself as the place to be, but its high taxes have made
it a place to flee. Those who have escaped the Empire State tax man could fill a major city.
Detroit,
North Korea, The City Of Broken Lights. Detroit, the buckle on the Rust Belt that as recently as the
1970s had 1.8 million people, now has only 713,000 in an area of 139 square miles. It fell victim to
one-party Democratic rule and labor unions that made its key industry — auto manufacturing —
uncompetitive and financially unstable. Before there was Greece, there was General Motors. Now Detroit
has announced plans to reorganize that could have come right out of Pyongyang.
Illinois Had Nation's Worst
Jobs Record in 2011. Over the past year, Illinois has been dogged by numerous news stories about the state's
poor jobs climate and negative economic outlook. The latest employment numbers indicate the trend won't end anytime
soon. In 2011, Illinois experienced the largest increase in unemployment rate of any state in the nation, according
to a new report by the Illinois Policy Institute.
Taxpayers Flee Illinois
with $26 Bil. of Taxable Income. "One taxpayer moved out of Illinois every 10 minutes between 1995 and 2009,"
according to the Illinois Policy Institute, and it appears taxes and tax policies are to blame for many of the losses.
Researchers at the institute examined IRS and other data and found over the past 15 years, more people have moved out
of Illinois than moved in.
Sex and the city leads to
this. Last week it was revealed that a staggering one in four adults in New York has the virus that causes
genital herpes, with the rate climbing to a colossal one in two for African-Americans. Far more women carry the virus
than men — 36% vs. 19%. This makes New York the national capital for genital herpes, something
which will surely grace the state's licence plates in years to come.
Political rope-a-dope. According to an
American Community Survey, by the U.S. Census Bureau, the top 10 poorest cities with populations more than
250,000 are Detroit, with 33 percent of its residents below the poverty line; Buffalo, N.Y., 30 percent;
Cincinnati, 28 percent; Cleveland, 27 percent; Miami, 27 percent; St. Louis, 27 percent; El Paso,
Texas, 26 percent; Milwaukee, 26 percent; Philadelphia, 25 percent; and Newark, N.J., 24 percent.
The most common characteristic of these cities is that for decades, all of them have been run by Democratic and presumably
liberal administrations.
Carbondale in top 100 for
most dangerous cities. Carbondale ranks as the 95th most dangerous city in the U.S. according to
NeighborhoodScout.com. The website says it bases it's rankings off of mathematical algorithms and crime
data from the FBI to rank the cities. People that live in the city, have mixed feelings about the results.
No-Labels Movement: Another Liberal
Trick. After twenty years of mentoring athletic children, my brother is not coaching a little league football team this
year. He said things have changed. He ranted, "The kids run the show. They do not fear or respect anyone.
Parents cuss you out or worse for verbally disciplining their child. Some teams have banned keeping score, and every kid gets
a trophy — pure politically correct namby-pamby feel-good garbage."
The New American Divide.
Changes in social policy during the 1960s made it economically more feasible to have a child without having a husband
if you were a woman or to get along without a job if you were a man; safer to commit crimes without suffering
consequences; and easier to let the government deal with problems in your community that you and your neighbors
formerly had to take care of. But, for practical purposes, understanding why the new lower class got started
isn't especially important. Once the deterioration was under way, a self-reinforcing loop took hold as
traditionally powerful social norms broke down.
How
the Left is Sucking the Life out of the Private Economy. [Scroll down] The left will,
besides denying any responsibility for this devastation to the American economy, claim that their policies
have helped the poor and downtrodden. However, in 1965, the poverty rate in America was 15.4% (today
it is 15.1%). Not only has the income of Americans stagnated, but the disparity has widened —
not because of the so-called greed of the rich, but because there is now minimal upward income mobility
compared to the past, as high-paying jobs are no longer being created. The U.S. is not competitive
in the world market, as the manufacturing sector has been forced to wither on the vine. And
America has joined the list of countries facing insolvency due to out-of-control spending and borrowing.
The Blew It states: MSNBC listed
Ten States That Cannot Pay Their Bills. Nine of them were among the 28 states that Barack Obama carried
in 2008. Only 1 of them was among the 22 states that John McCain carried. In other words, the
Blew It states are Blue states, with the exception of Arizona. Now for the kicker, Real Clear Politics
lists 7 of those deadbeat states as going for Obama again in 2012.
Death by Liberalism.
The soft lethality of liberalism is a result of that saddest of English phrases: "unintended consequences."
Liberal politicians, academics, and operatives want to do good. They want to benefit Americans and the
country as a whole. They want to do it their way, through large-scale governmental policy. They
know exactly how it is to be done, and they will brook no interference. So they set out on their grand
schemes, and it ends, always and without exception, in disaster. Some of those disasters go over the
line into something resembling mass negligent homicide: the legal procedural revolution, the DDT ban,
CAFE fuel standards, federalized child protection, deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill, and gun-free
zones, to mention only a few.
The Schools in the District of Columbia are notoriously bad.
Obamas
Pick Sidwell Friends For Kids' School. "A number of great schools were considered. In the
end, the Obamas selected the school that was the best fit for what their daughters need right now," said
Katie McCormick Lelyveld, a spokeswoman for Michelle Obama. ... Lelyveld said that while public schools
were considered, the Obamas felt that a private school was in the best interest of their children.
The Editor says...
No kidding. That's a polite way of saying that the kids would not get an education at a public
school in Washington, DC.
Eventually he came right out and said it. Obama:
D.C. schools don't measure up to his daughters' private school. President Obama said Monday [9/27/2010]
that his daughters could not get the same level of education from D.C. public schools that they receive at the
elite private school they attend.
D.C.
Being Made to Hire Back Fired Teachers. An independent arbitrator recently ruled that D.C. Public
Schools will be required to hire back 75 teachers fired during Michelle Rhee's tenure. On top of
this, D.C. will also be required to pay two years in back wages, costing the city approximately $7.5 million.
Although the dismissed teachers were still in their probationary period, arbitrator Charles Feigenbaum claims
that they were improperly let go because the district failed to comply with proper dismissal procedures.
'No
Child' Data on Violence Skewed. At Anacostia Senior High School last school year, private
security guards working under D.C. police recorded 61 violent offenses, including three sexual assaults
and one assault with a deadly weapon. There were 21 other nonviolent cases in which
students were caught bringing knives and guns to school. [And yet] Anacostia is not
considered a persistently dangerous school.
D.C.
Graduation Rates Down. The on-time graduation rate for D.C. public schools has fallen
below 50 percent, according to a new study, while the rates for Maryland and Virginia have not
improved since the mid-1990s. The study, released today by researchers affiliated with the trade
publication Education Week, examined data from 1996 to 2006, the latest available federal figures, to
calculate the percentage of students who graduate from high school within four years of starting ninth
grade. In 2006, the study found, the D.C. graduation rate fell to 48.8 percent, down
8.8 percentage points from the previous year. The figure did not include public
charter schools.
Senator:
Parents worrisome about D.C. schools system. "Parents tell us, they know in many cases, in D.C., if
they're sending their kids off to the public schools the chances are very good they're going to end up in a
gang rather than graduating high school," Sen. Jim DeMint, South Carolina Republican, said during a news
conference Thursday [3/5/2009].
Special Speech.
[Scroll down] Witness the District of Columbia, which spends more per public-school student than any other school
system in the country. In terms of academic outcome, school discipline, and almost every other conceivable
measure, the D.C. schools are a notorious disaster, and for children with special needs they are an absolute
scandal. The idea that throwing more federal dollars into this sinkhole is a solution of some sort is
laughable.
School Choice Is Change You Can Believe In.
Just how rotten are the D.C. public schools? In a recent survey by Education Week, the D.C. public schools
ranked fourth from the bottom in terms of graduation rates. Test scores for basics like math and reading
are also near the bottom. It's not for lack of money: A recent U.S. Census Bureau report says the
district school spending clocks in at more than $13,400 per child — third highest in the nation.
It takes a lot of money to run a school system as lousy as D.C.'s.
The Union War on the No Child Left Behind Act:
Spending per pupil has skyrocketed over the last three decades — going from just over $3,000 a year to more than $8,194 a year.
In our nation's biggest districts, such as Washington, D.C., that number has reached more than $16,000 a year. Yet,
despite this increased spending, fewer than one-third of our fourth graders (and an equivalent proportion of our eighth
graders) read proficiently. Reading performance has improved only slightly over the past fifteen years among fourth
graders and has not improved at all among eighth graders.
Public School System, Not Vouchers, Is What's
Unfair. The District of Columbia is widely cited as having one of the worst public school
systems in the country, with reported graduation rates at a mere 57 percent and politicians crying foul
over an alleged lack of funding. But as Andrew Coulson of the Cato Institute noted in the Washington
Post, public funding of DC schools is commonly claimed to be $8,322 per pupil, which is higher than the
tuition for many private schools in the area. And when Coulson accounted for all education expenditures
in the district, he found actual public school spending was about $24,600 per child! You could send your
kids to the toniest of private schools for that kind of money, yet the DC schools are a disaster.
Congress putting
D.C. kids in danger. The D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program saves lives. The fate of the nonprofit
outfit, which takes poor children out of failing schools and gives them scholarships to private institutions, is currently
up in the air — in the hands of Congress and, ultimately, the president. Supporters of the program cite
its strong record of academic improvement, but its value goes beyond grades. It quite literally saves lives.
Children enrolled in the DCOSP, now in its fifth year, are physically safer than they were in District public schools,
some of the most violent in the nation.
Black Education.
The education establishment and politicians tell us that we need to spend more for higher teacher pay and smaller
class size. The fact of business is higher teacher salaries and smaller class sizes mean little or nothing
in terms of academic achievement. Washington, D.C., for example spends over $15,000 per student, has
class sizes smaller than the nation's average, and with an average annual salary of $61,195, its teachers are
the most highly paid in the nation.
A
Teaching Moment From the District of Columbia. The District of Columbia … is proving that spending
more on public schools is a waste of money. That was the unintended lesson of the press conference District
Mayor Adrian Fenty called this week to announce that half the District's public schools would not have proper
textbooks for opening day and half the school buildings would not have air conditioning. This is not
because the District has been frugal. Its public schools wallow in cash.
Higher Grades Contradict
Test Scores. Forty-three percent of white students scored at or above proficient levels on the
reading test, compared with 20 percent of Hispanic students and 16 percent of black students.
On the math test, 29 percent of white students reached the proficient level, compared with 8 percent of
Hispanics and 6 percent of blacks. The gap in reading scores between whites and minorities was
relatively unchanged since 2002. One of the stated goals of the federal No Child Left Behind law is to
reduce the gaps in achievement between whites and minorities.
Can D.C.
Schools Be Fixed? The schools spent $25 million on a computer system to manage personnel that
had to be discarded because there was no accurate list of employees to use as a starting point. The school
system relies on paper records stacked in 200 cardboard boxes to keep track of its employees, and in some cases
is five years behind in processing staff paperwork. It also lacks an accurate list of its 55,000-plus
students, although it pays $900,000 to a consultant each year to keep count.
To
Live and Take in D.C.: The Santa Clausiness of the D.C. government is almost beyond
comprehension. It seems that all you have to do is work there and money just falls into your
lap. For instance, The [Washington] Post reported just last week on how a former principal requested
a grant to train teachers and the school system authorized $3 million in a single day. And when she went
to pick up the first $1 million, the school system just handed over the money — no silly,
fussy contract or anything like that.
This article includes a state-by-state chart of spending per student. D.C.'s Distinction: $16,344 Per Student,
But Only 12% Read Proficiently: The District of Columbia spends far more money per student in
its public elementary and secondary schools each year than the tuition costs at many private elementary
schools, or even college-preparatory secondary schools. Yet, District 8th-graders ranked dead last
in 2005 in national reading and math tests.
Study finds one-third
in D.C. are illiterate. About one-third of the people living in the national's
capital are functionally illiterate, compared with about one-fifth nationally, according to a
report on the District of Columbia. Adults are considered functionally illiterate if they
have trouble doing such things as comprehending bus schedules, reading maps and filling out
job applications.
The 65 percent solution:
Nationally, 61.5 percent of education operational budgets reach the classrooms. Why make a fuss about
3.5 percent? Because it amounts to $13 billion. Only four states (Utah, Tennessee, New
York, Maine) spend at least 65 percent of their budgets in classrooms. Fifteen states spend less
than 60 percent. The worst jurisdiction — Washington, D.C., of course — spends
less than 50 percent.
The Rise of a Judicial Dictatorship:
[In Washington DC,] integration seems to have proven a false promise and a colossal failure. While per-pupil
expenditures are among the highest in the nation, the test scores of children in these D.C. schools are among
the lowest. In too many, the kids are learning at levels three and four grades below the national norm.
District fails to check
students. D.C. school officials did not verify residency requirements for more than 200 students
at schools and facilities receiving city funding during the past two years, violations that potentially cost
the District nearly $3 million, according to a report by the D.C. inspector general.
Do Away
With Public Schools. Consider Washington, home of the nation's most devoted government-lovers
and, ironically, the city with arguably the worst public schools in the country. Out of the 100 largest
school districts, according to the Washington Post, D.C. ranks third in spending for each pupil ($12,979) but
last in spending on instruction. Fifty-six cents out of every dollar go to administrators who, it's no
secret, do a miserable job administrating, even though D.C. schools have been in a state of "reform" for nearly
40 years.
End Them, Don't Mend
Them. [Scroll down] The District of Columbia's per-pupil outlay is claimed to be $17,542.
The real number is an astonishing $28,170 — 155 percent more than the average tuition at the
famously pricey private academies of the capital region. ... And the extraordinary expense of the D.C. public
school system produced a 2007 class of eighth graders in which, according to the NAEP, 12 percent of the
students were at or above proficiency in reading and 8 percent were at or above proficiency in math.
Many of these young people are now entering the work force. Count your change in D.C.
D.C.
Council set to tighten school-truancy standards. The pending legislation, introduced by council
member Tommy Wells, would replace rules made just last year by the Board of Education, which allow students
to accrue as many as 25 unexcused absences before child welfare and judicial authorities intervene.
Mr. Wells' legislation cuts the number of days to 10.
The Editor says...
When I was in the public schools, I think that number was two or three at the most — not ten, and certainly
not 25. But you know, if the fools would prefer to flip burgers, join the Army, or go straight to prison
instead of graduating from high school, why not let them make that decision for themselves?
Obama states the obvious: DC schools stink! Obama:
D.C. schools don't suit daughters. In a rare and blunt criticism of education in the nation's
capital, President Obama on Monday [9/27/2010] called D.C. Public Schools a "struggling" system that doesn't
measure up to the needs of first daughters Sasha and Malia.
The Urban Plantation.
The blight in the District of Columbia infects higher education, too. The University of the District of
Columbia is ever in danger of losing accreditation and has one of the worst graduation rates in the country.
D.C. public options are so bad that residents receive subsidies to pursue degrees in other states. Again,
the taxpayer pays twice: for a sub-par college, and for subsidies that take serious students elsewhere.
If public school teachers and administrators could be sued for malpractice, the schoolhouse might improve overnight.
Violent
crimes of all kinds are on the rise in D.C. A violent weekend in Washington, D.C., in which
five people were shot, one fatally, in one incident and another person was killed in a separate shooting
capped off a 30-day period in which all categories of violent crime in the nation's capital increased over the
past year. Internal department documents obtained by The Washington Times contain preliminary police
statistics that say 11 homicides were recorded in the past 30 days compared with nine over the same
period last year.
DC Schools 'Cheating'
Scandal Heats Up. The story involves possible cheating on tests by "erasure corrections," bonuses
handed out to those teachers and principals overseeing the testing, and [Michelle] Rhee's feigned innocence about
the matter. ... If Rhee's "double-digit growth" numbers sound too good to be true they probably are. A
March 2011 report in USA Today investigated an abnormal amount of erasures occurring on standardized tests in
103 public schools for the 3 years Rhee was at the helm.
It Strikes Me As Odd.
One of the hardy perennials of American politics is an insatiable demand for more educational spending.
Outlays for education have been steadily and massively growing year by year, while the academic achievements
of American kids have been dropping. If it were only about money, schools in Washington, D.C. would be
the best, not the last, in the nation.
School Reform In
the Wrong Hands. There's more bad news coming out of the DC Public Schools this week.
Already under investigation for a major cheating scandal beginning in 2008, the DC Comprehensive Assessment
System reported a double-digit plunge in math and reading scores for the 2011 school year. Some of
the same schools that were flagged for a high number of erasures on standardized tests from 2008-2010 showed
the sharpest decreases.
Obama's War on Black Education.
Notorious for being violent, under-performing laggards, D.C. public schools have among the highest dropout and lowest graduation rates
in the country. In 2007, D.C.'s 4th and 8th grade students scored lower than children from all 50 states on the National
Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP). Fewer than half of children in D.C, public schools rated "proficient"!
In the District of Columbia, guns are under control, but crime is not.
Gun
free in D.C.: This is life in "gun free" Washington, D.C. No one is
safe. Marion Barry's a victim of a home invasion. Supreme Court Justice David
Souter was assaulted while jogging last year. Teresa Heinz was mugged outside her
Georgetown home. Wanda Alston, the head of the mayor's Office of Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual & Transgender Affairs was murdered in a home invasion robbery. You are
not safe in Washington, D.C. No one is.
Fables, Myths & Other Tall
Tales: Washington, D.C.'s ban on handgun sales took effect in 1977 and
by the 1990s the city's murder rate had tripled. During the years following the
ban, most murders — and all firearm murders — in the city were committed with
handguns. Chicago imposed handgun registration in 1968, and murders with
handguns continued to rise. Its registration system in place, Chicago
imposed a D.C.-style handgun ban in 1982, and over the next decade the annual
number of handgun-related murders doubled. [This list also goes on and on.]
More Gun Control,
Please! Why does Washington, D.C., a district whose laws make it illegal to buy, possess,
transport or acquire a handgun, experience the highest per capita murder rates in the nation?
"Gun Control" Failures:
The federal Gun Control Act was imposed in 1968, yet violent crime increased until 1991.
Washington, D.C., banned handguns in 1976 and by 1991 its homicide rate had tripled, while the U.S. rate
had risen only 12%. Chicago, the only other city to ban handguns, has had more murders than any city for
the last two years. Despite having some of the most restrictive gun laws, Maryland's robbery rate remains
highest among the states, and Baltimore's murder rate has nearly overtaken D.C.'s.
D.C. cleans up its
gun ban. The nation's capital is home to some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country.
Washington city leaders intentionally crafted convoluted regulations to make it difficult for citizens to own
firearms legally. Now that these obstructionist rules are in the spotlight, the D.C. Council realizes it
needs to clean up its act.
Statehood, or the equivalent, for the District of Columbia:
A look at Pelosi's voting
record. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi would bring to the office a level of left-wing
liberalism that will be unprecedented. … Until she received a 95 percent liberal rating in 2005 from
the Americans for Democratic Action (the nation's pre-eminent liberal organization), Mrs. Pelosi had
racked up five consecutive years (2000-04) of 100 percent ratings. Her lifetime ADA rating
is 96 percent. Last year, the American Conservative Union gave her a zero rating.
Senate Vote Reveals Who's in Bed With MoveOn.org.
The MoveOn.org Party was at it again, flexing its muscle in the U.S. Senate. The issue was a completely
symbolic sense of the Senate vote supporting Gen. David Petraeus. It didn't mention the MoveOn.org attack
ad against Petraeus but the resolution didn't have to. Everybody knew what it was about.
Democrat-Sponsored
Bills Tell a Liberal Story. Various amendments to the Constitution, recently proposed by
Democrats, would create a constitutional right to equal public education, a constitutional right to equal
health care, a constitutional right to housing, and a constitutional right to full employment.
Power struggle: The
past as prologue if the Democrats win. Voters seemingly poised to hand control of the House of
Representatives and perhaps the Senate to Democrats should be thinking hard about the consequences on an array
of defining issues. The most reliable guide to those consequences is not what Democrats are saying on the
campaign stump — or mostly not saying, witness the suddenly missing Nancy Pelosi — but how they
have actually voted in Congress again and again on core issues.
The Trouble with Democrats. The
Democrats have become, more and more, largely a coalition of minorities, each with its own special agenda.
The first of these was the African-Americans, who regularly cast about 90 percent of their votes for the
Democrats. Also early on the scene was a large, disaffected segment of the intelligentsia, dominant in
the universities and angry at the failure of the country to recognize its superiority and its right to
rule. Then came the ultra-feminists, the abortion supporters, the gay lobby, the environmental
extremists and a newly vocal pack of secularists, openly hostile to religion and furious at the alleged
efforts of the "religious right" to impose a "theocracy" on society. These are the groups that
dominate the national Democratic Party today.
Fool's
Goldwater: Of course, when liberals say government should stay out of our hair, they mean
Uncle Sam should offer an open bar on abortions and gay-marriage licenses. Beyond that, everything's
fair game. How else to explain the fact that Ms. Goldwater interviews … people who support
nationalized health care, smoking bans, gun control, hate-crime laws, and other libertarian
wolfsbane — to testify about Goldwater's libertarian enlightenment.
Fifty Years of Fidel.
Castro never stopped hating America: He just transferred his nominal allegiances when the Axis lost. This
made him the perfect hero to the Far Left. There is no real "ideology" to the Left. It is simply a vast,
noxious stew of hatreds. The meat of this hatred is hatred of America, individual liberty that works. We
are honored by the enemies we make, like Fidel Castro, the man who ruined Cuba.
The Cult of Soros: Has
the Democratic Party become a cult? And is leftwing billionaire George Soros its guru? The chorus
of hosannas with which leftwing bloggers now greet Mr. Soros' silliest utterances — and the
faithfulness with which Democratic leaders repeat them — suggests that the answer to both questions
is yes.
The Religious Quest of
George Soros: Tivadar Schwartz, George Soros' father, rejected his own Judaism in youth, but
found another "religion" at some point in the First World War. During his years as a Russian POW,
Tivadar became enthralled with the obscure, synthetic language, Esperanto. … Esperanto was devised by a
Jewish physician in Warsaw during the 1880's. But it wasn't (and still isn't) just a made-up language;
it served as the embodiment of a cult formed around the ideas of "internationalism, anti-sectarianism and
cosmopolitanism," in the words of Soros biographer Michael Kaufman. Esperantists believe that a new world
order of harmony and cooperation will be ushered in through the adoption of their made-up, one-world language.
The Democratic Secular Socialist Revolution:
Secular socialists like Lenin and Marx failed to force socialism upon the west. But plan B, the slow
drip of misinformation that would one day cause average American voters to vote themselves into tyranny, is
almost complete. They are five lies from victory and today's Democratic Party is working around the clock
to gain general acceptance of all five.
Historical tidbits: Karl
Marx is the hero of some labor union leaders and civil rights organizations, including those who organized the
recent protest against proposed immigration legislation. It's easy to be a Marxist if you haven't read his
writings. Most people agree that Marx's predictions about capitalism turned out to be dead wrong.
What most people don't know is that Marx was an out and out racist and anti-Semite.
All Evil is on the Left. Nazis,
Bolsheviks, American "progressives," and Fascists have all held the same positions. They have suspicion
or contempt for Jews, Christians and the Judeo-Christian moral traditions. … They seek violence and
propaganda (violence against truth) as the primary instruments of their power.
The Constitution, Nazis, and the Corpse Man:
[Scroll down] To understand the roots of Nazism is simplicity itself. NAZI is an acronym (in German) for
Adolph Hitler's political party, the "National Socialist German Workers Party." Take out the words "National,"
and "German," and you're left with the "Socialist Workers Party." The "Socialist Workers Party." Hello?
That is unequivocally NOT a conservative outfit, folks — that's as Far Left as you can get.
A Liberal's
Definition of Liberalism: Liberalism has become synonymous with any action or doctrine that
tends to destroy existing standards of morality and decency. … New Deal liberalism transformed the media,
by default, into the the creator and shaper of public morality. Whatever "wrong" the media chooses to
publicize and whatever "remedy" it chooses to support tends to become public opinion.
The Loony
Liberal Chronicles: Chapter 1. Instead of addressing hard problems with real solutions,
today's Liberals spew forth a stream of self-serving, high-minded platitudes and slogans designed to make them
appear loving, caring, generous (with other people's money), and above all enlightened. It's better to be
seen as Progressive in the face of a failed policy than support a program that actually works, but diverges
from Liberal orthodoxy.
No Terrorism To See Here.
Critics of President Bush's conduct in the War on Terror get testy when they are accused of not taking the
threat of terrorism seriously, but with increasing prominence, they are making their true feelings known.
Quite simply, they don't think terrorism is a big deal.
The Sky Is Not
Falling. It's fun to say that the Democrats offer us no solutions on any of the major domestic or
foreign policy issues. The fact is, they have plenty of solutions, and their solutions are exactly what
you should expect from liberals — more government control over your wallet and your life, a less
secure America that does not want to offend Islamic terrorists and a permanent erosion of our individual
freedoms and liberties.
Witch Hunter in
Chief. Other than reducing entire forests to pulp for the paper to print his reports, the
American people, in whose name all this is being done, have precious little to show for his tireless work.
Notwithstanding [Rep. Henry] Waxman's billing as a legislator who loves to "write laws, and he has been
extraordinarily good at it," only three of the 95 bills he has sponsored in the past decade have been
enacted.
A Dialogue with a Liberal. Job
training and welfare are demonstrable failures. I think that treating a national community like a
family is a grave intellectual error. A national unit is an institution that creates a legal framework
for a large group of strangers to interact. A family is a small group that interacts on the basis of
personal bonds. Strengthening government serves to weaken families and other vital civic institutions.
Don't
experiment with 'none of the above' Democrats. Do we really want Congressman Alcee L. Hastings,
who was impeached as a federal judge and removed from the bench due to charges of accepting bribes, put in
charge of a committee handling top secret national intelligence? Do we really want far-left Congressman
Dennis Kucinich to be chairman of the subcommittee on national security? … Do we really want Detroit
Congressman John Conyers to become chairman of the House Judiciary Committee...?
The Platform
Democrats Don't Want You to See. There's a reason the Kerry Democrats are the
political equivalent of a general anesthetic. They can't risk leveling with us. If
they told the electorate what they really want, voters would run screaming into the night.
Which party supports your
values? Compare the basic principles and values of the two
major political parties and decide for yourself.
Are Americans stupid?
How can 59,054,087 people be so dumb?" That was the headline in the British tabloid Daily Mirror
announcing the reelection of President Bush. American liberals are asking the same question, concluding
that the 51 percent of the public that voted against their man is just not smart enough to appreciate the
liberal agenda.
The Welfare Debate We're Not
Having: It turns out — apparently to the surprise of many on the left — that
working for a living is better than subsisting as a parasite on government handouts.
What transition costs?
The Democratic Party establishment is appalled at the thought of private Social Security accounts turning ordinary
Americans into owners of stocks and bonds and, therefore, potential Republicans. The argument by Democrats
that private accounts are too risky fails the test of history. Nobody can find a 20-year period in
America when investments have not gained.
Bankrupt: Why
the Democrats are the party of moral and intellectual bankruptcy. Sean Hannity says, "Don't
ever, ever be tempted to vote for a liberal, even as a protest vote. David Limbaugh shows you
why, in the most devastating critique I've ever seen of just how intellectually and morally bankrupt the
Democratic Party has become."
Kerry's scarlet letter:
It seems like a lifetime since July 1991 when Sen. Kerry declared: "I'm a liberal, and proud of it."
Thirteen years later, the L-word is forbidden language for Kerry. He is attempting what only Bill Clinton
among recent Democratic candidates has accomplished: covering left-of-center policies with a facade of
moderation. Kerry, less skilled than Clinton as a political dancer, is burdened with a 30-year record of
nearly unbroken liberal votes.
It's The L Word, Stupid.
Kerry is the most liberal Senator, against tough competition, the proof of which is that he has a 92% lifetime
rating by the Americans for Democratic Action. Remember, these are the liberals who give the ratings; they
think it's a good thing. They've been rating all members of Congress for more than half a century. Which
leads to the second measure of Kerry's extreme liberalism: he's the most liberal candidate the Democrats have
ever run, with a higher lifetime ADA rating than Al Gore, Walter Mondale or George McGovern (Since Carter, Dukakis
and Clinton never served in Congress, they don't have ratings.)
I survived the
Democratic National Convention. For four days, the Democratic Party put on its
quadrennial scare-old-people-and-minorities party. Democrats, of course, rely on the 90-plus
percent monolithic black vote. Thus, a black "non-liberal" poses a direct threat to the
party's national prospects.
The
vision thing: Kerry and Edwards are both liberal … in a political
sense, which today manifests itself in reactionary policies, such as wealth redistribution,
anti-entrepreneur laws and regulations, protectionism and refusing to fundamentally reform
Social Security for the 21st century, which is imperative.
"Socialism is the
philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy."
— Winston Churchill, 1948.
Where Do the Candidates Stand
on Abortion? President George W. Bush promoted and signed the Partial Birth
Abortion Ban Act into law. Senator John Kerry voted against the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban
Act every chance he got — six times. Dick Cheney has taken a strong pro-life
position. During his 10 years in Congress, he compiled a 100% pro-life voting
record. He opposes partial-birth abortion and he voted against tax funding of
abortion. John Edwards, in his six years in the Senate, has compiled a 0% pro-life
voting record. He voted to keep partial-birth abortions legal and he supports tax
funding of abortion.
Top 10 Democrat Sex Scandals in
Congress: [For example, #8] Rep. Barney Frank. The outspoken Massachusetts
Democrat hired a male prostitute who ran a prostitution service from Frank's residence in
the 1980s. Only two Democrats in the House of Representatives voted to censure him in 1990.
An Enigmatic Kerry-Edwards Energy
Plan. The eight-page Kerry-Edwards energy plan reads more like a new age feel good tome than a
policy program. Its specific proposals are either self-contradictory or depend on passing unusual
legislation that would repeal the laws of economics, chemistry and thermodynamics.
A Vote For John Kerry Is Like A
Vote For Ted Kennedy. One of the first names that comes to mind, perhaps the first
name that comes to mind, when you talk about liberals in the United State Senate, is Teddy Kennedy. And
largely because of that liberalism — although leaving Mary Jo Kopechne to die certainly doesn't
help — Ted Kennedy would be defeated as badly as Michael Dukakis and Walter Mondale if he were
running for President this year.
The Kerry-Edwards Postal Plan Won't
Deliver. In an effort to win the support of America's Postal workers, John Edwards recently
announced that if elected, he would "never privatize the U.S. Postal Service." He further declared that
he and John Kerry would defend the current "no-layoff status" of America's Postal employees. Although the
Kerry-Edwards stance may score points with the Postal Service's entrenched unions, it completely ignores the
reality of USPS ledgers. Any serious assessment of the organization's finances shows that it is in
desperate need of an overhaul.
Kerry, candidate
of the left. [At the Democratic convention, Senator Hillary Clinton] made clear
what she and John Kerry are about by defining the solution to our problems in education as
putting more money into the government public school monopoly and opposing vouchers and other
attempts to give parents options in finding the best education alternatives for their
children. One has to wonder if Senator Clinton has ever taken note that the inexorable
rise in postal rates inevitably means that we simply pay more and more for the same mediocre
product. Monopolies exist to defend the status quo, not to find ways to improve.
Kerry's
liberalism prospers in his positions, his votes and the company he keeps. Ever
since he rose to the top of the pile of Democratic contenders for his party's presidential
nomination, John Kerry has sought to "introduce" himself to the American electorate — to flesh
out his political profile, to present as a dedicated, balanced, evenhanded centrist floating
along in the political mainstream. Evidently it didn't work.
Dead Catsup Bounce. Omitted from mention
in the platform itself were Democratic staples such as partial-birth abortion, gay marriage, capital punishment
and the Kyoto Treaty. Such is the desperation to beat Bush that even hardcore lefties coalesced around
this vision of the one (or is it two?) Americas so embraced by their ticket. This may explain the
confusion that seems to be reflected in the poor poll numbers so far. Voters don't seem to recognize
this new flag-waving version of the party and the time to re-re-introduce their candidate is
running out.
The strange disappearance of the
"L" word: When did Democrats stop calling themselves "liberal"? Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.,
when asked whether he considered himself a liberal, treated the questioner as if she belonged to the House
Committee on Un-American Activities during the McCarthy years.
Liberals believe that the availability of guns causes violent crime.
Conservatives believe that violent crime reflects a lack of values.
Liberals believe that society is responsible for protecting people.
Conservatives believe that a man is responsible for protecting his own family.
Liberals believe that government should be more powerful than the citizens.
Conservatives believe that the citizens should be more powerful than the
government.*
