Critical Race Theory Is an Attack on America

On August 28th, 1963, 250,000 Americans travelled to our nation’s capital to hear from some of the foremost civil rights leaders from all corners of these United States. Among other speakers, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered one of the most famous speeches in American history, entitled “I Have a Dream.” In it, King shared his vision that, “my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” 

King’s March on Washington brought about the biggest and most comprehensive piece of civil rights legislation in the history of the United States, and his movement ushered in nothing short of a revolution in the way that most Americans thought about race. King was successful in this endeavor not just because he was well-connected, eloquent, and brilliant, though that certainly did help, he succeeded because he was right. King’s framework for race relations, one in which the importance of arbitrary racial divisions could be cast aside, and individuals would succeed or fail on their own merits, was exactly the solution to the racial divisions America was facing. King was right then, and he is right now. 

When I was serving in the U.S. Army as a Frontline Tank Commander, King’s famous quote was real. I could feel it. The color of my skin didn’t matter when other men and women placed their faith in me to keep them alive; my heart did. When I was elected as the first black Republican lawmaker in the state of Arizona, my race didn’t matter to my colleagues; my mind did. Through an embrace of King’s mantra, America has been able to remain the single most diverse and powerful nation in the world. That accomplishment is one that my friends on the left are increasingly taking for granted through their recent embrace of a neo-Marxist, pedagogical framework, known colloquially as Critical Race Theory. 

Critical Race Theory, despite what some of its defenders on the left would lead you to believe, is not one thing. It is not a bill in Congress to be voted on, or an organization whose events you can attend; it’s a worldview. It’s a worldview that pits Americans against each other by telling them that they exist inside of a rigid power structure, sorted by race, with black Americans like me at the bottom. Put another way, it is entirely antithetical to the very idea of America, and the exact opposite of what Martin Luther King Jr. believed in. Quite literally, the Democratic Party’s embrace of this toxic ideology poses an existential threat to the continued existence of the American experiment. 

Perhaps the most alarming development in this area is the embrace of Critical Race Theory by the Biden administration’s national security leaders, as well as some of the military’s top generals. Implementing this racist ideology in our armed forces would destroy morale and pit our service members against one another instead of against our enemies.

That’s why I’m running for U.S. Congress. I risked life and limb for nearly 22 years in Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan to ensure that we could wake up every morning in the freest, safest, most just country in all of human history. There’s not a chance in hell I’m letting socialist progressives take that from any of us. Not without a fight. Part of that fight is holding those accountable who refuse to take a stand against the racist fringe in the Democratic Party. Chief among these do-nothing career politicians is Tom O’Halleran, the Congressman for Arizona’s 1st Congressional District. 

Despite being in his third and final term, Tom O’Halleran has done nothing and stands for nothing. Despite initially being elected in Arizona as a Republican, O’Halleran receives a $175,000 salary as a Democrat, and he’s all too happy to sit back and let the radical socialists who run his party push ideas like critical race theory and policies like the Green New deal that would actively harm our nation. 

O’Halleran, like too many in American politics today, is content with following the political winds in pursuit of prestige and status. Not me, and not any of the Arizonans I’ve had the privilege of speaking with on the campaign trail. In 2022, and 2024, neither O’Halleran nor I are on the ballot. Our very way of life as we know it is. I know how I’m voting, and I hope you’ll join me.

 

Orwell and the Woke

Epigraph: “Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” George Orwell, “Animal Farm”

What were we to make of multimillionaire Barack Obama’s 60th birthday bash at his Martha’s Vineyard estate, and the throng of the woke wealthy and their masked helot attendants?

Was socialist Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) suffering for the people when she wore a designer dress to the more than $30,000-a-ticket Met gala? Her entourage needs were certainly well-attended to by masked Morlock servants.

Did the leftist celebrities at the recent Emmy awards gather to discuss opening Malibu beaches to the homeless when the (unmasked) stars virtue-signaled their wokeness?

For answers about these hypocritical wokists, always turn first to George Orwell. In his brief allegorical novella, “Animal Farm,” an array of animal characters – led by the thinking pigs of the farm – staged a revolution, driving out their human overseers.

The anti-human animal comrades started out sounding like zealous Russian Bolsheviks (“four legs good, two legs bad”). But soon they ended up conned by a murderous cult of pigs under a Joseph Stalin-like leader. And so, the revolution became what it once had opposed (“four legs good, two legs better”).

Our own woke, year-zero revolution is now in its second year. Yet last year’s four-legged revolutionaries are already strutting on two legs. They are not just hobnobbing with the “white supremacists” and “capitalists,” but outdoing them in their revolutionary zeal for the rarified privileges of the material good life.

The Marxist co-founder of BLM, Patrisse Cullors, is now on her fourth woke home. She has moved on from the barricades to the security fences of her Topanga Canyon digs in a mostly all-white, all-rich rural paradise – the rewards for revolutionary service.

Professor Ibram X. Kendi has evolved from the edgy revolutionary work of flying all over the country, hawking his Orwellian message of “All racism bad! But some racism good!” Now he has mastered the art of zooming the wannabe woke for his $20,000 an hour avant-garde hectoring.

What of Colin Kaepernick, the mediocre second-string quarterback turned sudden firebrand? He refused to stand for the national anthem and spread his “take a knee” kitsch throughout professional sports.

Kaepernick became a boutique revolutionary multimillionaire. For $12 million a year, he pitches Nike sneakers, often made in Chinese forced-labor camps.

Woke NBA star LeBron James, from his $23 million Brentwood mansion, blasts America for its endless unfairness – in service to his totalitarian Chinese paymasters who will ensure his good life with an eventual lifetime $1 billion payout for hawking their goods.

Our other elite wokists navigating around the revolution are even more cynical. The corporate and Wall Street capitalists feel that a little virtue signaling, showy diversity coordinators, and woke advertising will more or less buy off the latest version of Al-Sharpton-like shake-down artists.

Then there are the trimmers and enablers. These are the wealthy, rich, and the professional classes. They feel – in abstract – absolutely terrible about inequality, but hardly enough in the concrete to mix with the unwashed.

For them, wokism is like party membership in the late ethically bankrupt Soviet Union. It is necessary for peace of mind and good income, but otherwise not an obstacle for the continuance of the privileged, comfortable life.

The more TV news hosts rant about “systemic” this and “supremacy” that, and the more college presidents write stern penance memos to their faculty about “that’s not who we are,” the more they feel not just good about themselves, but relieved of any real obligation to live and socialize with the Other.

As for the self-declared non-white Other, wokism is also a top-down revolution of celebrities, intellectuals, actors, activists, academics, grifters, lawyers, and the upper-middle class and rich. And they are not calling for a Marshall Plan to bring classical education to the inner city. They themselves have little desire to move in or spread their wealth. They rarely mentor others on their shrewd capitalist expertise that made themselves rich.

They are far more cynical than that. The regrettable violence of the street, the 120 days of 2020 looting, death and arson, are the levers of the woke professionals. They fight with the various tribes of the same class and mindset over the slices of the same coveted elite pies. But they bring to the scrap the unspoken cudgel that without greater non-white de facto quotas in comic books, TV commercials, Ivy League faculties and students, symphonies, and sit-coms, then “systemic racism” could once again ignite downtown Portland or Seattle or Baltimore.

Orwell would say of the woke Obamas, Nancy Pelosi, AOC, Bernie Sanders, LeBron James, or Ibram Kendi – and their supposedly unwoke, but similarly rich and privileged enemies – “It was impossible to say which was which.”

 

Photographer Who Took Photos of Border Patrol’s Horse Unit Takes a Sledgehammer to ‘Whipping’ Lie

 

The photographer who took pictures of Border Patrol agents on horseback attempting to prevent Haitians from illegally crossing into the United States is speaking out after Democrats and the mainstream media falsely accused the agents of using whips on the Haitians by using his photos.

Speaking with KTSM, Paul Ratje said he and his colleagues never saw agents whipping anyone.

“I’ve never seen them whip anyone. He was swinging it, but it can be misconstrued when you’re looking at the picture,” Ratje said.

Ratje’s eyewitness account dismantles the prevailing narrative conjured up by Democrats and the mainstream media, who have accused the agents of using equipment they are not issued and of being racist.

The agents in question are under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security and the entire unit has been ordered to stop operations in the Del Rio Sector.

A source within Border Patrol previously explained to Townhall what people got wrong about the incident:”Agents use their reins for a lot of reasons. Primarily it’s used to steer the horse, but agents will also spin them sometimes to deter people from getting too close to the horse. If they get too close, the horse can step on them, breaking bones or causing other injuries. Agents also need to maintain control of their reins so they don’t lose control of the horse, which can cause injuries to immigrants, the agents, and the horses.  
“We are not aware of anyone being struck with the reins.”

During his press conference on Friday, President Joe Biden said the agents involved in the incident “will pay” for something we have long known did not happen.

Biden on the lie that border patrol were using whips on illegal immigrants at the border:

“To see people treated like they did? Horses running them over? People being strapped? It’s outrageous. I promise you, those people will pay.” pic.twitter.com/Jx79KoYTy9— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 24, 2021

With the horse unit now not doing patrols at the moment, Jon Anfinsen, president of the Border Patrol’s Local 2366 in Del Rio, said the already open border is now less secure:

“The horse patrol unit is an effective means of apprehending immigrants who illegally cross our borders every day, along with searching for those who are sick or injured and stranded in the brush. 

“Suspending them all for even a brief amount of time takes away one of the few remaining units that have been in the field making arrests and rescues on a regular basis. When the rest of our agents are indoors processing, unable to make arrests and rescues of their own, we should be using all the resources we have to patrol the border.”

In response to Biden’s threat, Anfinsen said, “How can President Biden continue with this false narrative when the photographer who took the photos of the horse patrol unit has already said nobody was whipped? What happened to due process?”

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Grassley leads Democratic challenger Abby Finkenauer by 18-percentage points, according to a recent Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll.

Sen. Chuck Grassley made a political announcement early Friday morning on Twitter, informing his followers that he will be running for an eighth term. 

The 88-year-old Republican, who has been in the Senate since 1981, emphasized his exercise regimen and early wake-up time in the tweet, which shared a brief clip of him running.

“It’s 4 a.m. in Iowa so I’m running. I do that 6 days a week. Before I start the day I want you to know what Barbara and I have decided,” he said. “I’m running for re-election—a lot more to do, for Iowa. We ask and will work for your support. Will you join us? #GrassleyRuns #GrassleyWorks”

It’s 4 a.m. in Iowa so I’m running. I do that 6 days a week. Before I start the day I want you to know what Barbara and I have decided.

I’m running for re-election—a lot more to do, for Iowa. We ask and will work for your support. Will you join us? #GrassleyRuns #GrassleyWorks pic.twitter.com/cwv8yu9wkx— Grassley Works (@GrassleyWorks) September 24, 2021

pic.twitter.com/2r8xKfOgrr— Grassley Works (@GrassleyWorks) September 24, 2021

The announcement means Republicans will likely keep control of his seat in the midterm elections, helping the GOP in its effort to claim a majority in the upper chamber. 

Grassley had been silent for months about whether he would attempt to extend his time in the Senate, the Des Moines Register reported. He told the newspaper that his future plans were one of the topics on his mind during his recent morning exercises.

Grassley has planned a number of events around Iowa for Friday to coincide with his announcement, and will join Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds in Des Moines on Saturday at her Harvest Festival fundraising event, the Register reported. (Fox News)

Grassley leads Democratic challenger Abby Finkenauer by 18-percentage points, according to a recent Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll.

 

Patel and Bannon are expected to appear at depositions on October 14, while Meadows and Scavino are expected to on October 15.

 

Days after word got out that the January 6 select committee was going to issue subpoenas, those subpoenas have indeed come. They’ve come for some pretty key figures, too. 

Subpoenas were issued to:
– Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows
– Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications Daniel Scavino
– Former Defense Department official Kashyap Patel
– Former Trump advisor Stephen Bannon— January 6th Committee (@January6thCmte) September 23, 2021

Those figures, according to Luke Broadwater for the New York Times, include Mark Meadows, chief of staff at the time; Dan Scavino, the White House deputy chief of staff for communications and the White House director of social media at the time; Steve Bannon; and Kash Patel, chief of staff to then Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller.

As Broadwater also wrote:

In letters transmitting the subpoenas, the committee said it was seeking information about Mr. Trump’s actions in the run-up to and during the riot.

Mr. Bannon was present at a meeting at the Willard Hotel the day before the violence, when plans were discussed to try to overturn the results of the election the next day, the committee stated. He was quoted as saying, “All hell is going to break loose tomorrow.”

Mr. Meadows was involved in the planning of efforts to subvert the results of the election, the committee asserted.

Mr. Scavino was in contact with Mr. Trump and others who planned the rallies that preceded the violence of Jan. 6, and Mr. Patel was reportedly in constant contact with Mr. Meadows on the day of the assault, the committee said.

Here are the letters to Meadows, Bannon, Scavino and Patel:https://t.co/7sG4c43hzChttps://t.co/5HxWEUX33Ehttps://t.co/7qPAHdmxuhhttps://t.co/oQ5zPZGbJE— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 23, 2021

The letters for each of the men are available online, via the January 6 committee website. A press release also mentions Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), the chairman of the select committee:

“The Committee is investigating the facts, circumstances, and causes of the January 6th attack and issues relating to the peaceful transfer of power, to identify and evaluate lessons learned and to recommend corrective laws, policies, procedures rules, or regulations,” wrote Chairman Thompson, underscoring the Select Committee’s authority established by House Resolution 503.

Patel and Bannon are expected to appear at depositions on October 14, while Meadows and Scavino are expected to on October 15.

Why Is AOC Sobbing on the House Floor?

 

The House voted overwhelmingly Thursday to replenish Israel’s life-saving Iron Dome despite best efforts by the Democrats’ Hamas caucus to defund the missile defense system. 

JUST IN: House passes $1B bill to replenish Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, two days after a progressive revolt forced the money out of a gov’t funding package.

Vote was 420-9-2.

8 Dems & 1 Republican voted no.

2 Dems voted present.— Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) September 23, 2021

House now voting on bill to reload Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system with $1 billion. Needs a 2/3 vote for passage— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) September 23, 2021

At the last second, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) changed her planned vote against Iron Dome funding to “present.” She then started sobbing and hugging colleagues. 

AOC seems distraught. She is in the middle of the house floor wiping away tears, crying into her colleagues shoulders. https://t.co/ami3Cj44EP— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) September 23, 2021

AOC appears to be sobbing after she voted ‘present’ for funding to replenish Israel’s Iron Dome Defense Systemspic.twitter.com/dItuF0eRM5— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) September 23, 2021

Some have a theory about why she changed her vote. 

Her heart was with her Israel-hating, bigoted friends — but she represents New York City. Tragic stuff. https://t.co/qotcBcoW7v— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) September 23, 2021

AOC’s “present” may be the most concrete sign so far of her Senate ambitions— (((Ron Kampeas))) (@kampeas) September 23, 2021

Poll Now Shows Joe Biden More Unpopular Than Donald Trump

 n the earlier days of Joe Biden’s presidency, as his approval numbers started to dip, though not as catastrophically as they have no, we were constantly reminded that at least he wasn’t polling as badly as his predecessor. Well, that’s no longer the case when it comes to a a Harvard CAPS/Harris poll which was shared with The Hill on Monday.

As Max Greenwood reported for the outlet, 48 percent of respondents have a favorable view of Trump while 46 percent have a favorable view of Biden. Further, 49 percent have an unfavorable view of Biden, while 47 percent have an unfavorable view of Trump. Voters also say the Trump was a better president than Biden has been, by 51 percent to 49 percent. 

The poll was conducted September 15-16 with 1,578 registered voters. 

Greenwood called it “a remarkable shift for Biden,” and sure enough went on to note that the president “repeatedly outperformed Trump’s favorability numbers throughout the early months of his presidency.”

Mark Penn, the co-director of the poll, provided comment for The Hill:

“The mounting issues on all fronts have led to the surprise conclusion that Trump is now seen as good a president as Biden, suggesting the honeymoon is being replaced now with buyer’s remorse,” Mark Penn, the co-director of the Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll survey, said. 

“Since Trump lost the popular vote by 5 points, Trump getting 51 percent as a better president is actually an improvement from Election Day.”

Voters are longing for other members of the Trump administration as well:

Other members of Biden’s administration aren’t faring any better than Biden in the public eye, according to the poll. 

Fifty-five percent of those surveyed say that Mike Pence was a better vice president than his successor, current Vice President Harris. Secretary of State Antony Blinken performs even worse, with 63 percent of respondents saying that his predecessor, Mike Pompeo, was the better secretary of State.

Penn said that for Blinken, in particular, the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan has proved particularly tough.

“People see Pence as a better VP by 10 points and overwhelmingly see Pompeo as far better than Blinken, who has been out front on Afghanistan,” Penn said.

This is hardly the only poll where Biden has performed poorly in lately. He’s been continuously performing record low in other polls, including in Gallup, another headline grabber.

On Wednesday, Gallup released the results of their poll, which was conducted September 1-17, with 1,005 adults and a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

According to the poll, 43 percent of respondents approve of Biden’s job performance, while 53 percent disapprove. Then President Trump saw 37 percent approval at this point of his presidency. 

In her write-up for Gallup, Megan Brenan highlights not only that “For the first time, a majority, 53%, now disapproves of Biden’s performance,” but how poorly Biden is performing with independents, a crucial voting bloc when it came to electing the president in 2020. We’ve highlighted how Biden has been performing poorly with Independents as of late.

As Brenan wrote:

Independents have shown the greatest variation in their opinions of how Biden is doing. Biden’s current 37% approval rating among independents is his lowest to date and 24 points below his personal high of 61%. Two-thirds of Biden’s slide among independents since he took office has occurred in the past three months.

Harris has been faring poorly as well, though Biden is so underwater that the vice president is surpassing him.

this is the first poll I have ever seen that Kamala Harris has a higher approval than Biden— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) September 22, 2021

Brenan also wrote:

Harris enjoys nearly unanimous approval from Democrats (92%) while receiving very low approval from Republicans (4%). Her overall approval rating is higher than Biden’s primarily because independents rate her performance better than they rate Biden’s, 46% versus 37%, respectively.

In addition to her high approval rating among Democrats, Harris receives majority-level approval from Democratic-leaning groups, including women, young adults, college graduates and those with annual household incomes under $100,000.

…

Although Vice President Harris’ approval rating is slightly higher than the president’s, she is also underwater with independents. Americans continue to rate Congress’ job negatively and to express general dissatisfaction with the way the nation is being governed.

And the polls keep coming in. A Pew Research poll released on Thursday shows Biden with similar approval ratings, in that 44 percent approve while 53 percent disapprove. It’s also worth noting that 56 percent say he is not “mentally sharp” compared to the 43 percent who do. Sixty six percent are not confident Biden can “bring the country closer together.” 

Ryan Girdusky highlighted how Biden is underwater with key demographics. 

Among the demographics that mostly disapprove of Biden:

Men: 55%
Women: 51%
Whites: 61%
18-29 year olds: 57%
Republicans: 90% pic.twitter.com/h56pqj79dF— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) September 23, 2021

“Biden’s job approval ratings today are higher than Trump’s were at a similar point, but lower compared with other previous presidents,” the deep dive report notes. Trump had 38 percent approval rating. 

The poll was conducted September 13-19, with 10,371 panelists responding and a margin of error of plus or minus 1.6 percentage points.

Half agree: Jan. 6 suspects are ‘political prisoners’

 

According to the latest Rasmussen Reports survey, 49% said that those jailed for violence and other charges are being held as “political prisoners.” Some 30% “strongly” agree.

Just 42% disagree, said the survey.

Notably, 45% of Democrats agree that the more than 500 arrested are political prisoners.

Rasmussen also found more agree that the FBI’s Jan. 6 dragnet is targeting “patriots.”

Well.

It certainly doesn’t look to Insanity Wrap like that fake “insurrection” narrative carries much weight with the American public.

But there is something very scary and very real going on.

The term “political prisoners” used to be something of an unfunny joke in this country, applied by the Left to some justly convicted killer and/or terrorist.

Insanity Wrap is thinking now of Mumia Abu-Jamal, celebrated by the Left precisely because he’s a cop killer who said all the right things and joined all the right fringe groups before murdering — in the first degree — Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.

Abu-Jamal is not a political prisoner. He’s a killer doing life. Period.

The flip side is what happened on and after January 6, 2021.

There were two events that day. One was a peaceful protest by a great number of people outside the Capitol. The other was a riot, at least partly instigated by the FBI, by a small number of loons, well-meaning fools, and hangers-on inside the Capitol.

The only person killed on January 6 was an unarmed woman, Ashli Babbitt, shot dead by a police officer who was allowed to skate.

Many arrests were made. Many people still languish in jail awaiting trial, some in solitary confinement.

Not one has been charged with insurrection or anything like it.

Yet they languish still. It’s not at all far-fetched to conclude that they are being held for political reasons, to add some small luster to the tarnished “insurrection” narrative.

So the term “political prisoner” has taken on a very real meaning for tens of millions of Americans.

We’ve reached a point where it’s also not at all far-fetched to conclude that if it can happen to them, it can happen to us.

To anyone. For almost any reason.

That’s a very dangerous place for a supposedly liberty-based constitutional republic to be, and the Left brought us here.

The Radical Communist Takeover of Our Country: America is Finished ... Unless We Move Quickly

'm one of the few people in America who can explain exactly what's happening to America. This is a full-scale assault. A radical communist takeover of our country: our government agencies; our justice system; our borders; our schools and colleges; our police and military; and our economy.

And don't forget our voting system. It's now completely rigged by Democrat-coordinated voter fraud – build around a foundation of mail-in ballots with no voter ID; printing your own ballots at home; ballot harvesting; no signature verification; counting ballots for days after the election; and millions of noncitizens voting with the driver's licenses Democrats demanded they get from the Department of Motor Vehicles.

Exhibit A is the California recall election that just ended last week. It was rigged from the get-go. Larry Elder never had a chance. California Democrats just conducted a test run of the expanded plan. It worked to perfection.

Before I get to the details of the why this is happening, I have some good news: I have the solution.

I have formulated a multipronged action plan that puts us (conservatives, Christians, patriots and Trump warriors) on offense. It's time to play offense. It's time to counterattack.

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This book transforms 80 million Trump voters and patriots into the LOUD MAJORITY. The days of being silent while our money is looted, our quality of life destroyed, our civil rights stolen, are over. We can't afford to be silent any longer.

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With protests, boycotts and nonstop phone calls and emails, 80 million Trump voters, Christians and patriots can change corporate behavior. Democrats like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and various union bosses have used these exact tactics for decades, with great success. Now it's our turn. Two can play at this game.

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It's time for us to start hitting back -- HARD. It's time for civil disobedience and guerilla tactics. It's time to play offense. It all starts with "The Great Patriot Protest & Boycott Book." But that's just one small step. There is much more to come.

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GOP Rep Slams Biden Administration’s Pro-Abortion Agenda: Our Laws Must Uphold the Value of Each Person’s Life

 

On Tuesday, House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA) delivered remarks defending the Hyde Amendment and addressing the government’s responsibility to uphold the dignity of life.

Rodgers opened up her remarks by posing the question “should taxpayer money be used to fund abortions?” She noted that the majority of Americans believe taxpayer dollars should not be used to fund abortion or subsidize insurance plans that cover abortions. But, as we reported, President Biden omitted the longstanding Hyde Amendment from the 2022 budget, which opens the door for taxpayer-funded elective abortions.

“As a pro-life woman, I want to share with you my story. I’ve never had an abortion but I have thought in my younger years of what I would do if I found myself pregnant and alone. It would have been a desperate situation. I can imagine an abortion seeming like an easy solution,” Rodgers said. “It breaks my heart to think anyone would consider abortion as their only option or their best option.”

In her remarks, Rodgers detailed her journey to becoming a mom and raising a child diagnosed with Down syndrome, as Down syndrome has long been a component of the abortion argument. 

“Growing up, I was not much of a ‘baby person.’ I was 35 and single when I was elected to Congress and I didn’t know if becoming a mom would even happen for me. Today, I can testify that bringing a new life into the world is the most amazing thing. Being a mom to three beautiful children is the best part of life,” Rodgers attested. “Our oldest, Cole, now 14, was born with an extra 21st chromosome. It’s the most common chromosomal abnormality – Down syndrome. In this debate over abortion, Down syndrome has been at the forefront.” She recalled disability advocate Frank Stephens’ speech at a congressional hearing in 2017, where he stated “I’m a man with Down syndrome and my life is worth living.”

Rodgers added on, explaining how over time, people have recognized certain (sometimes, common) medical practices and procedures as inhumane and have ceased performing them. She hopes that abortion follows suit. 

“We learned from science, research, and technology. My hope is that we learn again and reject abortion because it is inhumane. As Pope Francis calls it, we have adopted a ‘throwaway’ culture for the weak, disabled, and disposable,” Rodgers said. “My challenge before us all is to be warriors of human dignity and win the future. Let’s focus on the very foundation of our laws – that they must uphold the value and potential of every person’s life. I urge my colleagues to join me and save the Hyde Amendment.”

Previously, Biden supported the Hyde Amendment up until 2019 when he announced his candidacy for the 2020 presidential election. Originally signed into law by President Carter, the Hyde Amendment was reenacted every year by every president – Republican and Democrat – for more than 40 years. This is the first instance in decades that the amendment is excluded altogether.

Watch Rodgers’ remarks below.

My hope is that we learn from the science, research, and technology that allows us to see the development of a baby day-by-day in the womb — and reject abortion because it’s inhumane. pic.twitter.com/BM2LDpwZ2n— CathyMcMorrisRodgers (@cathymcmorris) September 15, 2021

Minn. Supreme Court Approves Ballot Question to Eliminate Minneapolis Police Department

 

After weeks of legal challenges and disagreements over the wording to be printed on ballots, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled Thursday evening that votes cast by residents of the state’s largest city on a ballot question — whether the Minneapolis Police Department should be eliminated and replaced with a public safety agency — could be counted. 

Pushed by the group Yes 4 Minneapolis, the ballot question would amend the city’s charter to remove requirements for a police department staffed by a certain number of officers and instead develop “a comprehensive public health approach to safety.”

The question will appear on Minneapolis voters’ ballots as:

Department of Public Safety

Shall the Minneapolis City Charter be amended to remove the Police Department and replace it with a Department of Public Safety that employs a comprehensive public health approach to the delivery of functions by the Department of Public Safety, with those specific functions to be determined by the Mayor and City Council by ordinance; which will not be subject to exclusive mayoral power over its establishment, maintenance, and command; and which could include licensed peace officers (police officers), if necessary, to fulfill its responsibilities for public safety, with the general nature of the amendments being briefly indicated in the explanatory note below, which is made a part of this ballot?

Explanatory Note:

This amendment would create a Department of Public Safety combining public safety functions through a comprehensive public health approach to be determined by the Mayor and Council. The department would be led by a Commissioner nominated by the Mayor and appointed by the Council. The Police Department, and its chief, would be removed from the City Charter. The Public Safety Department could include police officers, but the minimum funding requirement would be eliminated.

On Tuesday, a judge in Hennepin County, Minnesota, sided with those challenging the elimination of police, calling the question’s wording “unreasonable and misleading.” 

“The Court finds that the New Ballot Question does not ensure that voters are able to understand the essential purpose of the proposed amendment,” Judge Jamie Anderson wrote in her decision.

Anderson’s ruling came just three days before early voting began in Minneapolis, triggering a quick appeal by Yes 4 Minneapolis to the Minnesota Supreme Court. Chief Justice Lorie Skjerven Gildea issued a short decision Thursday reversing Judge Anderson’s ruling on the grounds that opponents’ legal challenge “does not meet the high standard” to keep votes on the question from being counted. The Chief Justice said a longer explanation would follow, but that the quick reversal was necessary “so as not to impair the orderly process of voting.”

Don Samuels, a Minneapolis resident and former city council member who challenged the ballot question in court, said after the Supreme Court decision that his “was not an attempt to keep the question off the ballot; it was to enlighten the voters by forcing the City Council to clean up the language and be honest about what it will do.”

As early voting gets underway in Minneapolis on Friday, the group All of Mpls released its first ad urging residents to vote “no” on eliminating their city’s police department and instead pursue reform.

“The ad features Teto Wilson, a North Minneapolis resident, barbershop owner, and community leader,” a release from All of Mpls explains. “The ad focuses on the need to reform the police, not eliminate them. If passed, Ballot Question 2 would amend the city charter to eliminate the police department, the position of police chief, the minimum funding and staffing requirement for police, and replace it with a Department of Public Safety with no requirement for police and no defined structure, function, or plan.”

Are Americans Becoming Sovietized?

 

What ultimately ended the nihilist Soviet system?

Was it not that Russians finally tired of the Kremlin’s lies and hypocrisies that permeated every facet of their falsified lives?

Here are 10 symptoms of Sovietism. Ask yourself whether we are headed down this same road to perdition.

1. There was no escape from ideological indoctrination — anywhere. A job in the bureaucracy or a military assignment hinged not so much on merit, expertise or past achievement. What mattered was loud enthusiasm for the Soviet system.

Wokeness is becoming our new Soviet-like state religion. Careerists assert that America was always and still is a systemically racist country, without ever producing proof or a sustained argument.

2. The Soviets fused their press with the government. Pravda, or “Truth,” was the official megaphone of state-sanctioned lies. Journalists simply regurgitated the talking points of their Communist Party partners.

In 2017, a Harvard study found that over 90% of the major TV news networks’ coverage of the Trump administration’s first 100 days was negative.

3. The Soviet surveillance state enlisted apparatchiks and lackeys to ferret out ideological dissidents.

Recently, we learned that the Department of Defense is reviewing its rosters to spot extremist sentiments. The U.S.  Postal Service recently admitted it uses tracking programs to monitor the social media postings of Americans.

CNN recently alleged that the Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security is considering partnering with private surveillance firms to get around government prohibitions on scrutinizing Americans’ online activity.

4. The Soviet educational system sought not to enlighten but to indoctrinate young minds in proper government-approved thought.

Currently, cash-strapped universities nationwide are hiring thousands of diversity, equity and inclusion staffers and administrators. Their chief task is to scan the admissions, hiring, curriculum and administration at universities. Like good commissars, our diversity czars oversee compliance with the official narrative that a flawed America must confess, apologize for and renounce its evil foundations.

5. The Soviet Union was run by a pampered elite, exempt from the ramifications of their own radical ideologies.

Now, woke Silicon Valley billionaires talk socialistically but live royally. Coke and Delta Airlines CEOs who hector Americans about their illiberality make millions of dollars a year.

What unites current woke activists such as Oprah Winfrey, LeBron James Mark Zuckerberg and the Obamas are their huge estates and their multimillion-dollar wealth. Just as the select few of the old Soviet nomenklatura had their Black Sea dachas, America’s loudest top-down revolutionaries prefer living in Martha’s Vineyard, Beverly Hills, Montecito and Malibu.

6. The Soviets mastered Trotskyization, or the rewriting and airbrushing away of history to fabricate present reality.

Are Americans any different when they indulge in a frenzy of name-changing, statue-toppling, monument-defacing, book-banning and cancel-culturing?

7. The Soviets created a climate of fear and rewarded stool pigeons for rooting out all potential enemies of the people.

Since when did Americans encourage co-workers to turn in others for an ill-considered word in a private conversation? Why do thousands now scour the internet to find any past incorrect expression of a rival? Why are there now new thought criminals supposedly guilty of climate racism, immigration racism or vaccination racism?

8. Soviet prosecutors and courts were weaponized according to ideology.

In America, where and for what reason you riot determines whether you face any legal consequences. Politically correct sanctuary cities defy the law with impunity. Jury members are terrified of being doxxed and hunted down for an incorrect verdict. The CIA and FBI are becoming as ideological as the old KGB.

9. The Soviets doled out prizes on the basis of correct Soviet thought.

In modern America, the Pulitzer Prizes and the Emmys, Grammys, Tonys and Oscars don’t necessarily reflect the year’s best work, but often the most politically correct work from the most woke.

10. The Soviets offered no apologies for extinguishing freedom. Instead, they boasted that they were advocates for equity, champions of the underclass, enemies of privilege — and therefore could terminate anyone or anything they pleased.

Our wokists are similarly defending their thought-control efforts, forced re-education sessions, scripted confessionals, mandatory apologies and cancel culture on the pretense that we need long-overdue “fundamental transformation.”

So if they destroy people in the name of equity, their nihilism is justified.

What Is American Wokeness Really About?

 

Most Americans were as indifferent to the U.S. women’s soccer team’s recent loss to Sweden in the Olympics as they were excited about the team’s World Cup win in 2019. In between was the team’s nonstop politicking, from whining about compensation to virtue-signaling their disrespect for the United States. The celebrity face of the team, perennial scold Megan Rapinoe, is going the way of teenage grouch Greta Thunberg, becoming more pinched the more she is tuned out.

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Marie Khan-Cullors Brignac used her corporate grifting to buy four homes. The one she bought in California’s Topanga Canyon is surrounded by a new $35,000 security fence.

Critical race theory guru Ibram X. Kendi offers virtual, one-hour workshops for $20,000 a pop. He is franchising woke re-education kits — in between bouts of damning capitalism as a catalyst of racism.

The woke movement is a slicker, more sophisticated and far more grandiose version of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson’s shakedowns of the 1990s. Those, at least, were far more honest in leveraging cash with charges of racism — and came without the academic gobbledygook of critical race theory.

Our freeways are jammed. Airports are crammed. Labor is short. Huge pent-up consumer demand for essentials and entertainment outpaces supply. Yet Major League Baseball’s recent All-Star Game saw record low television viewership — about a quarter of the audience of 40 years ago, when there were 100 million fewer Americans.

The Summer Olympic Games are getting anemic TV ratings. The NBA’s crashing TV ratings have followed the downward trajectory of the NFL’s ratings. Woke sports earn the same public disgust as the accusatory and boring Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards.

Cable news networks CNN and MSNBC fueled the story that former President Donald Trump allegedly colluded with Russia. They contextualized (to excuse) the summer looting and rioting of 2020. And they cheered on two impeachments as a prelude to their 24/7 woke drumbeat. Their ratings, too, have now dived.

Never has TV been more politicized. Sitcoms, dramas and commercials are designed more to resonate woke messaging than to entertain. So naturally, dismal TV ratings reflect the expected public boredom that ensues when art serves politics.

How many times will disingenuous Dr. Anthony Fauci swear that he never sent federal money to the Wuhan virology lab for gain-of-function research, or blame his critics for pointing out his gyrating advice on masks, or offer yet another noble lie on herd immunity?

In short, Americans are worn out from elite virtue-signaling and woke performance art from critical race theory capitalists, multimillionaire CEOs, revolving-door Pentagon brass, Malibu celebrities and credentialed elite.

The problem is not just that most of America is exhausted from being smeared as racists, or hearing that a wonderful country — the most free, just, equitable, affluent and leisured in civilization’s history —  must continually pay penance for its past and present. The public is more tired of projectionist hypocrisy. Those who scream the loudest are usually the most guilty of woke crimes.

The woke madness coincides with an epidemic of crises that go largely ignored as a distracted America cannibalizes itself.

The border is being breached at a time of pandemic. Migrants barge in without either COVID-19 testing or vaccinations — during a coronavirus spike that has government officials talking about going door to door to roust out American citizens to get vaccinated.

Whiteness is supposedly the cause of America’s problems. But our inner cities are suffering historic levels of violent crime. Couldn’t our critical race theory accusers take time out from their merchandising to address the soaring violence?

The Biden administration denies that huge deficit spending and generous cash payments to workers fueled inflation. But America hasn’t seen anything like the current price hikes and labor shortages in the last 40 years.

The military, CIA and FBI have lost the confidence of the public — and not just because of their woke politicking. They are perceived as distracted and ignoring their primary missions of winning wars, catching terrorists before they strike, and offering superb intelligence about our enemies.

Wokeness is many things. But increasingly it seems a cover for careerism, profiteering and utter incompetence.

Does America Still Work?

 

For nearly two years, Americans have engaged in a great woke experiment of cannibalizing themselves. American civilization has invested massive labor, capital and time in an effort to constantly flagellate itself for not being perfect.

Yet America’s resilience and its resources are not infinite. We are now beginning to see the consequences of what happens when premodern tribalism absorbs Americans.

There are repercussions when ideology governs policy or when we take for granted the basics of life to pursue its trappings.

Who cares whether the blow-dried media is woke if it cannot report the truth and keep politicians honest? Once journalists became progressive poodles rather than the watchdogs of government, the Biden administration had no fear of audit. It took for granted that its disasters, from the southern border to the chaos in Afghanistan, would be excused by toady reporters.

Government-engineered “equity” has replaced the goal of equal opportunity. But such utopianism births popular anger when personal initiative, excellence and performance do not count as much as virtue-signaling groupthink.

The United States just suffered a terrible and shameful defeat in Afghanistan. The catastrophe reminds us that the Biden administration had its politicized military and bureaucracy mostly fixate on diversity, equity and inclusion, and to root out supposed internal enemies.

So, our top brass and functionaries talked of redirecting the military to every possible woke agenda — except ensuring military superiority and the safety of the United States.

The result is the horrific mess of a premodern Taliban army routing the most sophisticated military in the history of civilization. We shudder when America begs premodern tribes not to murder our citizens whom we abandoned in full retreat.

Airline CEOs virtue-signal their wokeness by damning voter ID laws — though such identification is required to board their airplanes. The new normal for U.S. airlines is woke delays, woke cancellations, and woke anarchy in the skies.

Some universities now subject their admissions, their hiring and their research to race and gender directives. There is less concern about the collective student debt of $1.7 trillion. College students may graduate woke, but they do so with far less impressive reading and writing skills than their less politically correct predecessors a half-century ago.

Are college administrators really so virtuous when they boast of improving diversity, equity and inclusion? Why, then, do they ignore indebted and poorly educated graduates — veritable serfs who cannot afford homes, put off raising families and prolong their adolescence rather than becoming autonomous citizens?

We know from centuries past which policies ensure public safety and which guarantee crime. All laws must be enforced equally. Yet now, suicidal legal and critical race theories sometimes govern which laws are enforced and which are ignored.

If a state attorney prosecutes crimes — or chooses not to prosecute them — on the basis of ideology and race rather than on questions of impartial law, then who would obey, much less honor any of them?

The police must not just be monitored, but respected and supported. Today they are defamed and defunded. If those who commit crimes do not expect to be arrested and punished, then crime pays. And so we get more of it.

Cries to empty the jails and prisons and pull back on police might sound neat on Twitter. But lots of innocent Americans will suffer the deadly consequences of someone else’s virtue-signaling.

Before a country can conduct cancer research, explore outer space or defeat its enemies thousands of miles away, its citizens must have access to affordable fuel, food and shelter.

But ideologues now restrict irrigation water, gasoline supplies, power generation and timber production. They may seem woke and enlightened to each other, but they are indifferent to the exorbitant cost of living, the growing shortages of necessities, and the hundreds of thousands of homeless living amid filth, excrement and disease on the nation’s urban sidewalks.

Social media fights, the cancel culture wars between celebrities and elites, the virtue-signaling of academics and actors — all of it means nothing if Americans do not have safe roads; viable travel; affordable gas, food and housing; and safety in their homes.

Increasingly, they do not have these things. Woke leaders are losing the ability to do the hard and essential work of civilization, largely because they are obsessed with the dispensable.

We live in a world of cellphones, Skype and Zoom. But high tech has become a mere veneer pasted over medieval urban streets and Depression-era highways. It is more dangerous to walk the nighttime streets of Chicago than those of war-torn Kabul.

Until our officials can ensure a humane and sustainable standard of living, we have no business lecturing others abroad, much less conducting endless witch hunts of our own at home.

There’s a Problem in the Upper Reaches of Our Military

 

It is the beginning of a never-ending bad dream. Joe Biden and the Pentagon have managed to birth a new terrorist haven, destroy much of U.S. strategic deterrence, and alienate our allies and much of the country.

In the hours after the horrific deaths of 13 service members, we have been reassured by our military that our partnership with the Taliban to provide security for our flights was wise. We were told that the terrorist victors share similar goals to ours in a hasty American retreat from Kabul. We were reminded that Afghan refugees (unlike U.S. soldiers) will not be forced to be vaccinated on arrival. Such statements are either untrue or absurd.

On the very day of the attack that killed American troops, the sergeant major of the U.S. Army reminded us in a tweet that diversity is our strength, commemorating not the dead, but Women’s Equality Day. If so, then is the opposite of diversity — unity — our weakness? Will such wokeness ensure that we do not abandon the Bagram air base in the middle of the night without opposition?

The chief of staff at the Office of Naval Intelligence warned the ONI’s active duty and retired service members that they must not criticize Biden, their commander in chief, over the Afghanistan fiasco. The office correctly cited prohibitions found in the Uniform Code of Military Justice barring any disrespect shown to senior government leadership.

Indeed, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps was relieved of his command for posting a video accurately blaming military and civilian leadership for the Afghanistan nightmare.

Yet until Jan. 20, retired top brass had constantly smeared their elected commander in chief with impunity.

Recently retired Gen. Michael Hayden retweeted a horrific suggestion that unvaccinated Trump supporters should be put on planes back to Afghanistan, where they presumably would be left to die. Hayden earlier had compared Trump’s border facilities to Nazi death camps.

Other retired high-profile military officials variously called their president an emulator of Nazi tactics, a veritable Mussolini, a liar, and deserving of removal from office sooner than later. None of these retired four-stars faced the sort of repercussions that the Office of Naval Intelligence just warned about.

More than 50 former intelligence officials on the eve of the November election signed a letter suggesting that incriminating emails found on Hunter Biden’s missing laptop might be “Russian disinformation.” They used their stature for political purposes to convince the American people that the story was a lie.

Retired Gen. Joseph Dunford and retired Adm. Mike Mullen recently blasted retired brass who had questioned Biden’s cognitive ability. OK. But they should have issued a similar warning earlier, when the violations of fellow retired officers were even more egregious in election year 2020.

Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, apologized for doing a photo op with Trump, erroneously buying into the narrative that Trump had ordered rioters cleared from Lafayette Square for the staged picture. Worse, he leaked to journalists that he was so angry with Trump that he “considered” resigning.

Think of the irony. If Milley considered a politicized resignation to rebuke Trump over the false charge, then surely he could consider a real resignation after overseeing the worst military disaster of the last half-century in Kabul.

Milley had promised to root out white supremacy from the ranks while recommending that his soldiers read Ibram X. Kendi’s racialist diatribes.

Something is terribly wrong in the ranks of America’s top commanders that reflects something wrong with the country.

The Pentagon needs to stop virtue-signaling about diversity days and culturally sensitive food for Afghan refugees. Instead, can it just explain why the Bagram air base was abandoned by night, or why Taliban terrorists are our supposed “partners” in organizing our surrender and escape?

Which general allowed more than $85 billion in American weapons to fall to the Taliban — a sum equal to the price of seven new U.S. aircraft carriers?

Who turned over to the Taliban the lists of Americans and allied Afghans to be evacuated?

Who left behind biometric devices that the Taliban are now using to hunt down our former Afghan friends?

Somehow our new woke Pentagon is hell-bent on losing the trust of the American people — along with the wars it fights abroad

It's Not Hard to Figure Out Why You Didn't Hear About Fauci Being Exposed As a Liar Yet

 

I mean, you probably figured it out just by reading the headline. Dr. Anthony Fauci was testy when asked about Wuhan funding from the National Institutes of Health. He couldn’t dissuade any scrutiny either, admitting that he couldn’t say for sure that the grant money was used for other things, like gain of function research. In fact, his testimony before Congress on the matter was so sloppy that more than a few people, including Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), felt that Fauci lied to Congress. Some even alleged perjury. RedState unraveled this story months ago, though The Intercept, which also did good work on this despite doing a hack job against our own Julio Rosas for reporting on urban rioting last summer got the credit. Scott Hounsell at RedState filed FOIAs and followed the money but was stonewalled. The Intercept sued after their FOIA got bogged down. Yet, the 900 pages show that Fauci might be a huge liar (I know he already is on other stuff) regarding the coronavirus, the research, and its creation. It only brings more credibility that this pandemic was due to a lab leak. Yet, no one will know about it because major publications are reportedly running away from the COVID lab leak theory because it makes liberals look bad. And now major news networks also suffocated this development with a pillow (via Newsbusters):

  

Instead of reporting on Fauci lies about funding research that ultimately unleashed a pandemic on the world and killed hundreds of thousands of Americans, ABC’s World News Tonight, the CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News were peddling lies and stoking hatred of Texas’s new election integrity law.

And while CBS and NBC were aware enough to exclude any mention of Fauci from their reports, ABC chose to hoist Fauci up as he bashed college students for going to football games and enjoying their lives over the Labor Day weekend.

“Dr. Anthony Fauci tonight on the crowds this Labor Day weekend, saying, ‘I don't think it's smart.’ And what he's now saying about booster shots, that third shot,” touted anchor David Muir during his opening tease.

'Anthony Fauci lied to Congress': Investigation by The Intercept reveals U.S. funding for gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology https://t.co/Wr08jQstw0

— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 7, 2021

And this isn’t the only time this has happened obviously. Fauci’s emails revealed many things, including how store-bought masks don’t do much if anything concerning curbing the spread of the virus. Fauci is adrift like Joe Biden, albeit he can string sentences together. Yet, this man’s credibility died eons ago and if the media did their jobs—he wouldn’t be on television spewing science fiction. Alas, the media protect their own—always.

Military Removes Crosses After Soldiers Allegedly Complain

 

The commander of Fort Dix in New Jersey personally removed a cross from a memorial honoring fallen service members after nearly two dozen troops allegedly got triggered.

The cross had been part of a display that was posted outside a training complex at the New Jersey military base.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation, a far-left organization that gets easily triggered by Nativities and prayers to Jesus, fired off an angry letter to Col. Jon Brierton, the base commander.

“The only appropriate place on a military base for this garden gnome-like Christian sculpture grouping is the chapel grounds. Its placement in the main entrance of the Mission Command Complex is a blatantly impermissible promotion of religion,” the MRFF said.

The MRFF, led by Mikey Weinstein, claimed that at least 17 soldiers suffered some sort of adverse mental reaction to the presence of the cross on military property.

“To the soldiers, this sculpture, at the main entrance of a command building, was a completely unacceptable and in-your-face promotion of Christian supremacy by the command. One MRFF client, who encountered the display on a visit to Fort Dix and sent the below photo to MRFF, described it as ‘quite jarring,'” the MRFF said.

In response, the base commander waved the white flag of surrender.

“It is my priority and responsibility to ensure that every service member, civilian and family member on the joint base feels welcomed and safe on the installation,” Brierton wrote in an email to Weinstein. “Our goal is to embrace and foster a diverse and inclusive environment where people from all backgrounds feel empowered to conduct their military duty and live their life with pride and dignity and that we treat each other with respect.”

So, in the spirit of inclusion, diversity, pride and respect President Biden’s Army gave the cross the heave-ho.

“As leaders, it is our responsibility to provide training and resources that enables our force to accomplish their mission, builds resiliency and enriches the fabric of our force. We must ensure service members from all religions/faiths and backgrounds feel supported and included in our community,” the base commander said.

I’ve covered the angst-filled mutterings of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation for well over a decade now and I noticed some rather glaring similarities in all of the cases.

The aggrieved “Christian” service members are always anonymous — always. And all of the complaint letters bear the same adjective-laden ramblings that Mr. Weinstein is notorious for sending to the Pentagon. It does make one wonder about the authenticity of the complaints.

I find it very hard to believe that soldiers on the battlefield would renounce their faith in God and instead cry out to Mikey Weinstein and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation for salvation.

As they say, there are no atheists in foxholes.

Send the Incompetent Brass a Message: Don’t Enlist

 

Sometimes they need to learn by pain. There are only two ways we patriots can force our failed military leadership to learn its lesson until 2024, when we get a real president in office who is not bedazzled by medals and impressed by a bunch of guys who had two decades to exterminate a crew of fanatical banditos and failed. We can starve the brass of treasure, but expecting the Republicans to impose that penalty in the wake of the Afghanistan debacle is – to evoke another famous failure of planning and arrogance – a bridge too far. Or we can starve them of blood – our kids’ blood, which for too long has been put at unnecessary risk by unserious military senior leaders consumed by unserious elite fetishes like “white rage” and “climate change” at the same time the Chi Coms are seriously prepping a slaughter of our troops that you can barely conceive of.

Don’t enlist or recommend others enlist, not until there is a real change in the collective mind of the military leadership that indicates that they have learned their lesson. But words cannot be enough – we need to see the same kind of massive convulsion and reform that we saw after the last Democrat/Pentagon betrayal in Vietnam. My generation of officers learned from the guys who rebuilt a ruined military, torn by careerism, lethargy, internal dissension, and the incorporation of society’s low standards in an effort to entice recruits with bribes instead of offering the rigors of service. During the Gulf War, I watched those reformers move a half million Americans (including me and my heavily armed carwash platoon) halfway around the world to the middle of a desert and then sweep an entire national army off the battlefield in 100 hours. But that was 30 years ago. This year, I watched our military bumble our way out of a disaster of our own making, leaving behind our citizens and our credibility while bringing home 13 heroes in metal cases.

The brass, insulated and utterly unaccountable, won’t learn until they see the steady stream of patriots dry up and stop, not because the next generation of warriors is unpatriotic but precisely because they love their country and will sacrifice their dreams of serving her in order to force this desperately-needed change.

We need to go on strike. We need to go on strike against a failed establishment that concerns itself with trendy nonsense, fails in spectacular fashion by making mistakes (like giving up Bagram) that a E1 recruit or a precocious third-grader could anticipate, and that eschews any accountability.

Who has been fired for this fiasco? Well, there was that Marine lieutenant colonel fired for pointing out no one had been held accountable. No one else. Enough. If Milley and Austin are in, keep your kids out. They need to learn. 

The alternative is for our Republican reps to force change by cutting the military budget, which is a disaster in and of itself. But that’s not going to happen anytime soon, despite being one of the rare times the party out of power has some leverage, here by working with progressives who want to cut the budget because they hate the military since it defends America. But, again, that is not going to happen anytime soon – it was hard enough for even a critical mass of our reps in the GOP to get past their forever war mindset. I know how hard it was to stop being a reflexive hawk – I was one of them, and even after two deployments it was still a major 180 to get my head around the idea that maybe we don’t need to be everywhere all the time.

We, the slice of America that supplies the critical mass of the men and women who make up our military, have got to do this ourselves. After all, the military is, largely, us. You don’t see recruiting stations in Beverly Hills – you see them in places the swells don’t go lest they be soiled by contact with those Jesus gun people who like flags and believe there are only two genders. The military is us, and if we go on strike, the brass has to take notice. There aren’t enough gender studies princesses and other cultural detritus to fill the ranks. We need a strike. We need it now, not to destroy the military but to save it.

Now, the strike is already underway from the inside. Those of us vets with a high profile have been inundated with communications from all levels of the military about how morale is at the rock bottom due to the total absence of real leadership at the top. Careerism is rampant. Wokeism has replaced warfighting. And the idiotic vaccine mandate – for a healthy population whose real risks come from suicide and terrorism enabled by inept planning – is going to lead to a flood of trained, experienced troops leaving and taking their training and experience with them. That talent and skill will take years to replace; the generals and admirals have squandered it. 

In the next war with China, if this decline continues, the first day will see a bloodbath that will stagger your imagination. The Chinese are serious. They are not playing, and they have no time for frivolous nonsense about trans soldiers and the scary, scary weather. They will sweep the seas of our ships, wipe out our land installations, and plant their flag over the whole western Pacific.

I am sure, though, that the mainstream media will dutifully pass on the excuses du jour and that it will all be attributed to Trump, patriarchy, and anti-vaxxers.

Don’t play. Don’t sign up. Not until this nonsense stops.

I’m not alone. Vets across the country are recommending that young people put off or forgo service altogether and not be cannon fodder for bemedaled clowns. Brace for the backlash – the trash response will be that we’re unpatriotic, that we hate America. Whatever. We are utterly indifferent to what these incompetents think. They need to go.

This is not what we wanted. We loved the military we served in, and are proud of being a part of it. For decades I recommended enlistment, wholeheartedly and eagerly. I still hear from folks I swore in. So, calling for a strike breaks our hearts. 

Now, there will be some that hear what I say and enlist anyway. To them, I say that I am bursting with pride. We patriots will always support our troops – always. But their current leadership? They need to be overseeing a snow cone operation at some radar station outside Nome, Alaska.

Only a strike has a chance to break this paradigm of failure prior to the inauguration of a new and competent commander in chief. If it does, it is worth it. And the military can come back. It seemed to become a joke overnight because, as a hierarchical organization, the troops do what the commander checks. Our commanders decided their priority was currying favor with their civilian masters and reading Ibram X. Kendi rather than building war-winning forces and reading Sun Tzu. Change the mindset, start checking warfighting capability, and the military will shape up. I just hope it can do it before the Chinese pounce on America.

Joe Biden's Culture of Death

 

On Sunday morning at the Dallas area’s respected Prestonwood Baptist Church, Pastor Jack Graham delivered two strong—really electrifying—messages before he preached this week’s sermon.

First, he asked that the lights be brought up in Prestonwood’s cavernous auditorium so that churchgoers on hand and those watching online could see and pray over 13 large American flags draped over rows of pews all over the main floor and in the balcony, honoring the 13 fallen heroes killed in the humiliating military defeat engineered by President Joe Biden. It was a heartbreaking and powerful reminder that we owe so very much to young people who enlist in our Armed Forces, fulfilling the Scripture (John 15:13) that “There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”

Second,  Pastor Graham took a few moments to single out members of the Texas legislature who this week finalized SB8—Texas’s “Heartbeat Bill”—the law banning abortions six weeks into a pregnancy anywhere in the Lone Star State and which lets any citizen bring a lawsuit against abortion providers who violate the ban and provides cash bounties of at least $10,000 (plus legal fees and costs) to encourage such litigation.

Praising the bill which was signed by Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX), Jack Graham observed that the implications of this landmark legislation will be felt far beyond Texas.

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“We’re going to turn America from a culture of death into a culture of life,” he declared.

Of course, Pastor Graham’s words stood in stark contrast to Joe Biden… who flatly declared the Texas Heartbeat Law to be “un-American” and he ordered—think about this for a hot minute—his Gender Policy Counsel (???) to “launch a whole-of-government effort to take action to counteract the Texas law.”  When was the last time in American history that there was a “whole-of-government effort” on anything apart from World War II?

I’m no theologian, so far be it for me to question Biden’s oft-professed Catholicism which he says took root in parishes and parochial schools in Pennsylvania and Delaware. He even crowed about his faith on the very first page of his 2007 memoir Promises to Keep…noting it was his working class Irish Catholic family that shaped him as a man.  If so, the nuns and priests at those parochial schools must have not noticed that Joe was out battling his imaginary foe Corn Pop at the swimming pool the day they taught the lessons about the Catholic church’s reverence for life.

Why is Biden—only the second Catholic besides John F. Kennedy ever to serve as President of the United States—now the de facto poster child for the culture of death in America? Why is he refusing to answer hard questions about his traitorous, unforgivable disaster in Afghanistan that led to the deaths of those 13 heroes honored Sunday at Prestonwood Baptist Church? Tone-deaf Biden says it was “tough” meeting with the families of the 13 dead servicemen and women. Apparently not quite as tough as what the families themselves endured at Dover Air Force Base as Biden offered his “condolences” by reminding each of them that his son Beau “also died.”  (Earth to Joe: Beau Biden served in Iraq, returned home safely, was elected Attorney General of Delaware and then, tragically, succumbed after a battle with cancer. He wasn’t needlessly killed by a suicide bomber as some jerk in the White House tried to engineer a photo-op-moment on the upcoming 20^th Anniversary of 9/11.)

Which brings us back to the Texas Heartbeat Law. Biden, virtually all Democrats, and their accomplices in mainstream media are now up-in-arms because the split U.S. Supreme Court—on a 5-4 ruling—refused to “block” the Texas law from going into effect. Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) are all in favor of the rule of law until a decision they don’t like occurs. Then they roll out everything from hysterical rantings about “coat hanger abortions in back alleys” to renewing calls to pack the Supreme Court with extra Justices until it votes their way. (Google “FDR Court Packing” to see how well that worked out for President Roosevelt.)

But to Biden, Planned Parenthood, nutters like Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin and MSNBC’S Nicole Wallace—who clumsily pretends not to know who South Dakota governor Krist Noem is while reading a news item about Noem proposing a “copycat” of the Texas Heartbeat Law in her state—abortion trumps everything else. And they love parroting the line that restricting the right to kill the unborn in Texas “will disproportionately disadvantage black women who have most abortion in the state,” while failing to acknowledge the obvious corollary that SB8 will be a huge advantage to unborn black babies who now will have a real opportunity to experience the wonder of life rather than be sacrificed to Joe Biden’s culture of death.

I try not to spend a lot of time on social media, because so much of it is fringe material to verify or simply moronic opinions by simpletons. But one image caught my eye in the furor following enactment of the Texas Heartbeat Law.  It was a photo of a woman protesting the legislation, waving her arms while wearing a t-shirt which read: “I’ve had 21 abortions!”  

My immediate thought was that Kamala Harris better watch her back before Biden dumps her and adds that sad kook wearing the t-shirt as his new Veep.

Woke Companies Must Wake Up on ESG

 

Growing numbers of companies, banks, universities and investment houses are adopting Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) standards and disclosure rules. They’re pressured to do so by activists, legislators and regulators. Many expect to get rich via taxpayer-subsidized “renewable” energy projects.

Nearly all hope to “greenwash” their reputations, by claiming they’ll “make the world a better place,” by reducing fossil fuel emissions, and thus planetary temperatures and extreme weather events.

They recently got a boost from the US House of Representatives. It voted 215-214 party-line to pass a bill supporting Securities and Exchange Commission plans to impose new ESG rules requiring publicly traded companies to disclose “climate risks” caused by oil, gas and coal production and use. Some think ESG climate claims and misconduct could receive greater SEC scrutiny, though that seems unlikely.

Woke organizations need to wake up to climate, ESG and renewable energy realities.

The ever-more-hysterical climate and weather claims have been roundly debunked by Dr. Roy Spencer, Gregory Wrightstone, Marc Morano, Steven Koonin and others. But what’s truly outrageous about ESG is the way it studiously ignores the massive, widespread damage inflicted by pseudo-renewable energy.

Wind and sunlight certainly are clean, renewable and sustainable. But harnessing their highly dispersed, unpredictable, weather-dependent energy to meet humanity’s huge and growing energy needs absolutely is not.That requires lands and raw materials that are anything but renewable– using fuels and processes that are absolutely not clean, green, ecological or sustainable. Because they fail to recognize this, ESG programs are dishonest, even fraudulent – and must be reformed or scrapped.

Wind, solar and battery land and raw material requirements are astronomical. Onshore wind turbines require nine times more metals and minerals per megawatt than a modern combined-cycle gas power plant. One onshore 3-MW turbine foundation needs 600 cubic yards (1,500 tons) of concrete, plus rebar.

Offshore wind requires 14 times more materials per MW. Just the 2,100 850-foot-tall offshore turbines (30,000 megawatts) that President Biden wants to install by 2030 would require110,000 tons of copper, plus millions of tons of steel, aluminum, fiberglass, cobalt, rare earth metals and other materials.

At an average of 0.44% copper in ore deposits worldwide, the copper alone would require mining and processing25 million tons of ore, after removing 40 million tons of overburden to reach the ore bodies!

Add in materials for solar panels, more onshore and offshore wind turbines, backup battery systems, electric vehicles, transmission lines, and all-electric home heating and cooking systems – to run the entire USA, Europe and world – and the “green energy transformation” would require hundreds of billions of tons of metals, minerals and plastics, trillions of tons of ores, trillions of tons of overburden, and thousands of mines, processing plants and factories. Nearly all these operations employ fossil fuels.

America’s laws and attitudes make mining in the United States nearly impossible, even to support ESG-certified “green” energy facilities. That means most mining and processing will be done in Africa, Asia and Latin America, increasingly by Chinese companies. The manufacturing is done increasingly in China, which is why that country is building more coal-fired power plants every month.

Pseudo-clean-energy activities utilize hazardous chemicals and release toxic pollutants. They require vast volumes of water, often in the world’s most water-deprived regions. They cause acid mine drainage, create mountains of waste rock, and often result in vast “lakes” of toxic chemicals from refining the ores. Most are conducted under almost nonexistent pollution control, mined-land reclamation, endangered species, workplace safety, child and slave labor, and fair wage rules.

Cobalt mining already involves 40,000 African children, as young as four! Many Chinese solar panels are made with Uighur forced labor. ESG “green” aspirations would multiply this slavery many times over.

These travesties occur overseas – out of sight and out of mind – letting ESG activists and profiteers make incessant false claims that fossil fuel replacement energy is clean and virtuous. But when wind, solar and battery facilities are installed, adverse consequences will reverberate across the United States.

Hundreds of millions of acres of scenic, wildlife habitat and coastal areas would be impacted; millions of birds, bats, tortoises and other wildlife displaced, maimed and killed. And when their short productive lives are finished, billions of turbine blades, solar panels and batteries will be sent to gigantic landfills, because they cannot be recycled; their toxic metals and chemicals could leach out into soils, streams and groundwater. The same will happen in Europe, Canada, Australia and elsewhere.

Even on windy days, Mr. Biden’s 2,100 monstrous offshore turbines won’t meet New York State peak summertime electricity needs. Meeting just US coastal city needs would require tens of thousands of turbines. Dredge-and-fill operations associated with installing them would smother mollusks and other benthic species. Vibration noises would harm whale and porpoise navigation and communication. Their mere presence would create major safety issues for aircraft and fishing, naval and commercial vessels.

A single industrial solar facility near Fredericksburg, Virginia required clearcutting thousands of acres of forest habitat. Solar installations proposed for the American Southwest would blanket millions of acres of desert habitats. Dominion Energy is planning solar facilities on Virginia acreage totaling one-fourth of Delaware. Wind and solar operations would threaten or eradicate dozens of bird and other species that environmentalists have utilized for decades to stop drilling, fracking and pipeline projects.

Connecting far-flung wind, solar and battery installations to industrial centers and urban areas would require thousands of miles of new transmission lines – and still more steel, copper and concrete. Battery fires have already destroyed electric vehicles and homes. Imagine huge warehouses filled with thousands of battery modules erupting into enormous, uncontrollable conflagrations.

Biodiesel projects have already destroyed important orangutan habitats, and thousands of acres of US hardwood forests have been turned into wood pellets for Britain’s Drax Power Plant.

Threatened, endangered, migratory and marine species must be protected –wherever mining, processing and manufacturing take place, and wherever “renewable” energy installations are contemplated. Human health impacts from infrasound and light flicker must guide decisions on how close to homes and businesses wind turbines may be installed.

Reformed ESG rules – call them Environment and Human Rights (EHR) principles – must require that all these issues are addressed for every wind, solar, battery, transmission and biofuel proposal.

People must know in advance how many turbines, panels, batteries and power lines are contemplated; how many tons of metals, minerals, concrete and plastics they will require; where those materials will come from; under what environmental, pollution, safety, wage and child labor standards. Companies and government agencies must certify that supply chains are free from child or slave labor.

Project-specific, comprehensive and cumulative US and global environmental studies must be conducted before any projects are approved, and must include regular, independent reviews of bird, bat, reptile, whale, porpoise and other wildlife displacements, injuries and deaths. Project studies must fully assess all environmental, human health, human rights and other impacts worldwide, and must not be fast-tracked.

These reality-based EHR principles will help ensure that any “green future” is founded on ethical standards that address all human and ecological consequences, and actually do make the world a better place. They can also help guide SEC investigations and prosecutions for ESG misconduct and fraud – and help spur much-needed mining in the United States, to reduce our reliance on China, Russia, Taliban Afghanistan and other adversarial countries for critical and strategic minerals.