There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. —Soren Kierkegaard. "…truth is true even if nobody believes it, and falsehood is false even if everybody believes it. That is why truth does not yield to opinion, fashion, numbers, office, or sincerity–it is simply true and that is the end of it" – Os Guinness, Time for Truth, pg.39. “He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.” – Blaise Pascal. "There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily" – George Washington letter to Edmund Randolph — 1795. We live in a “post-truth” world. According to the dictionary, “post-truth” means, “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Simply put, we now live in a culture that seems to value experience and emotion more than truth. Truth will never go away no matter how hard one might wish. Going beyond the MSM idealogical opinion/bias and their low information tabloid reality show news with a distractional superficial focus on entertainment, sensationalism, emotionalism and activist reporting – this blogs goal is to, in some small way, put a plug in the broken dam of truth and save as many as possible from the consequences—temporal and eternal. "The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." – George Orwell “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ― Soren Kierkegaard
If there is one thing our world has never been lacking in, it would have to be men of great thinking capacity. Names such as Darwin, Freud, Einstein, Marx, Plato, Aristotle and Lincoln can all be acknowledged as men whose viewpoints and ideas have had a great influence on our world. While many have had a positive impact on our lives, even long after they spoke and penned their wisdom, many have equally left a legacy of distortion and despair.
In the latter category the name of Sigmund Freud would have to be placed. Freud was the founder of psychoanalysis. This form of psychotherapy tries to treat people suffering from nervous disorders by asking the individual to recall painful experiences from the past that somehow are lodged in unconscious and subconscious thoughts. While this form of treatment is losing support today, the Freudian ethic, which Freud popularized has shown little sign of releasing its hold on America.
What did Freud believe? Hal Lindsey summed up the Freudian view of man as follows:“The human race is motivated chiefly by pleasure; everything starts and ends with sex. Man is repressed by society in the fulfillment of his unconscious drive for gratification of his erotic desires; this repression makes him unhappy. The consequence of the conflict between our pleasure-seeking instincts and the repression exerted by our society is neurosis.” Lindsey further stated that: “Freud firmly laid the groundwork for extreme permissiveness.”1
Our sexually liberated society today can directly trace its roots back to Freud. The Bible views sex as a most beautiful experience that is reserved only for the marriage bed. If this boundary is ignored then sex no longer becomes a special union of two souls but a commodity bartered between two fleshes.
The result is an inevitable progression into the world of perversion and disease. Premarital and extramarital sex, homosexuality and lesbianism, incest, prostitution, sodomy, pornography, V.D., AIDS, sadomasochism, abortion and countless millions of destroyed families totally shatter the beauty that could have been.
Just what can we thank Freud for? Freud has become the father of a fractured fairy tale of fiction, where fast and free living have served only to foster a lifestyle of fatal attractions. Permissiveness has led to perversion. Peace of mind has been sacrificed in return for pleasure seeking. Finally, the stage has been set for danger in the years ahead.
False Freedoms
False systems, false movements and false thinkers all seem to offer the same thing to their followers, namely, false freedoms. As we have seen, communism talks equality but denies true freedom. Humanism offers us so much freedom that we turn it into a noose. Freud offers us freedom that perverts the soul.
Counterfeit freedoms are always a product of darkness. They masquerade as light but soon reveal their true nature as darkness. But there is still hope amidst all this darkness, for there still can be light at the end of the tunnel. True freedom is obtainable and our old friend the Bible has a few thoughts on how to find it. For we read in (John 8:32): “…and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
A Final Thought
Nature, more appropriately called “the creation,” is full of beauty, wonder and surprises and it is a very positive force. Every facet of our natural world speaks of a purpose, and asks us to ponder just how such magnificence could have come into being. The Bible casts its vote in favor of divine design. It states that this great universe of ours is the product of a divine, omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient Creator.
The forces of darkness, which we have discussed, have filled the ballot boxes with the names of a host of different candidates. Each of these candidates in the last analysis has brought with it despair, repression and depression. Darkness by its very nature can never lead us into the light.
Exodus 23:14 — Keep track of the feasts – these will be the key points of the Hebrew Calendar. Unleavened Bread/Passover (Exodus 23:15), Firstfruits/Pentecost (Exodus 23:16), and Ingathering/Tabernacles (Exodus 23:16).
Exodus 23:20-22 — Who is this Angel that is to be obeyed? His voice is equivalent to God speaking.
Exodus 23:28 — This is the first of three times hornets are mentioned in the Bible (the other two places are Deuteronomy 7:20 & Joshua 24:12). All of these references refer to God driving out the Canaanites. BTW have you heard the Hornet Song?
Exodus 25 — What did the Tabernacle look like? Perhaps something like this?
Matthew 24:34 — What generation shall not pass? Some say the generation that saw Israel become a nation in 1948. Commentaries will give you many options. One hypothesis is that the generation that sees the start of the Olivet Discourse will also see the end of the Olivet Discourse. Jimmy DeYoung concurs with that interpretation.
Psalm 30:5 — The great promise: “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.”
Then shalt thou walk in thy way of safety, and thy foot shall not stumble. (Proverbs 3:23)
That is to say, if we follow the ways of wisdom and holiness we shall be preserved in them. He who travels by daylight along the highway is under some protection. There is a way for every man, namely, his own proper calling in life, and if we devoutly walk therein in the fear of God He will preserve us from evil. We may not travel luxuriously, but we shall walk safely. We may not be able to run like young men, but we shall be able to walk like good men.
Our greatest danger lies in ourselves: our feeble foot is so sadly apt to stumble. Let us ask for more moral strength that our tendency to slip may be overcome. Some stumble because they do not see the stone in the way: divine grace enables us to perceive sin and so to avoid it. Let us plead this promise and trust in Him who upholds His chosen.
Alas! Our worst peril is our own carelessness, but against this the Lord Jesus has put us on our guard, saying, “Watch and pray.”
Oh, for grace to walk this day without a single stumble! It is not enough that we do not actually fall; our cry should be that we may not make the smallest slip with out feet but may at the last adore Him “who is able to keep us from stumbling.”
“Now the LORD had said to Abram: Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land I will show you…So Abram departed as the LORD had spoken to him…” –Genesis 12:1, 4
By the time Abram and Sarai had moved as directed by the LORD (Genesis 11:27to 13:1), they had covered over 1500 miles. That’s about the distance between New York and Dallas. Yet the distance of religious reality they covered was far greater. As Joshua is reviewing covenant history, he retells that Abram and his father Terah had worshiped false gods in their ancient city of Ur. Ur was home to the moon god, Nanna (or, Sin). Since Ur was a wealthy city on a major trade route, the people there probably considered the proper worship of the moon god very important to their financial strength. ‘Long live Nanna of the Ur-ites!’
God had a different plan for Abram and Sarai. Grace leads. By moving dad, Terah, to Haran and then Abram and Sarai into the region that Israel would later inherit, God was showing how He can deliver His people. The travelogue of these two was a journey by grace. God commanded Abram in the way he needed to go to depart out of idolatry. And as we probably know, God was at work to bring Abraham into a covenant relationship of grace with Himself. Through Abraham and Sarah, God would create a nation for His glory. Through their Heir, Jesus Christ, God would make a people for Himself, for His glory.
Suggestions for prayer
Ask the Lord to remind you how He brought you to Himself.
Rev. Harold Miller graduated from Mid-America Reformed Seminary in 2001 and has served churches in Wellsburg, Iowa and Kansas City, Missouri before arriving at Oak Lawn, Illinois in 2020. Get this devotional delivered directly to your phone each day via our RP App. It is also available in print, for purchase, at NTGDevotional.com.
She wept as she told me of the difficulties in their marriage.
They were pulling in different directions and it was destroying them. We talked long into the night.
Jesus talked about this very thing. He said…
“Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined and every city or household divided against itself will not stand. Matthew 12:25
This is a serious thought. Stop for a moment and consider if you are a part of any division that is pulling your home, your church, your relationships or even your workplace apart.
If something comes to mind as you read this, ask God to show you new ways in which you can be oil, rather than sandpaper, in that particular situation.
God calls us as believers to respond differently than the world around us. Sometimes we don’t want to be the first one to make the move toward unity. Sometimes our pride gets in the way. Pulling in different directions while in the same home, church or workplace is a sure recipe for ruin.
Today ask the Lord to help you in the situations that threaten to divide and destroy in your circle. Invite Him in to give you wisdom and humility. Lead by example and work toward unity. Ask Him to help you influence divisive situations around you in a way that will build up and not tear down. Ask Him for creative solutions to issues that are unresolved. His desire for you is wholeness and unity and His Holy Spirit can guide you to that. Trust Him today with the divisions in your life. Don’t be a contributor to “a kingdom divided against itself”.
Prayer & reflection:
Father God, Thank you that You have warned us about division. Thank you that today You are reminding me that my house won’t stand if we are divided against one another. Please help me to be part of the solutions and not just part of the problems. Give me Your wisdom and humility and resourcefulness to help us pull in the same direction. Let me model Your way to the world around me. I trust You today to help me work toward unity where I walk. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.
What Are We Waiting For to Finally Take Out the Iranian Nuclear Threat? America has had many opportunities to deal with the Iranian threat, but President Biden continues to act like Neville Chamberlain and to appease the mullahs. America rightfully as the leader of the free world should finally bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities. After more than 150 strikes by Iranian proxies against American troops since mid-October 2023, the shutting down of Red Sea shipping by Houthi attacks, and the drone strike against American troops in Jordan, America has total justification to take on Iran directly. We are running out of time. Iran has been allowed to plague the world for far too long.
Elon Musk Says He Knows Why the Biden Border Crisis Exists He went on to state what many border security hawks say – the Biden border crisis is intentional and it’s all about the votes. Joe Biden has a goal of giving about 11 million illegal aliens already in the United States a pathway to citizenship. Then they can vote and most likely vote Democrat. Viola! A one-party political system is created in America.
Dark Money Group Plows Millions Into Biden Campaign Biden will be supported by numerous campaign committees and funds. One of the most significant will be FF PAC, also known as Future Forward. FF PAC has collected and will likely continue to collect millions from a nonprofit group, Future Forward Action USA, that shares leadership and a name with FF PAC.
Tucker Carlson Spotted In Moscow As Neocons Melt Down Over Potential Putin Interview former Fox News host Tucker Carlson was seen at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow in recent days. On the social media platform X, there’s enormous interest in Carlson’s trip and speculation about whether he plans to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin. The U.S. government spied on Tucker Carlson to stop him from interviewing Vladamir Putin. pic.twitter.com/6VTQpJhBUf
Greene moves to censure Omar over Somalia remarks Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) introduced a resolution on Feb. 1 to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) for allegedly pledging her allegiance to Somalia in a recent speech, although the initial translation of the speech has been disputed. The resolution, a copy of which was obtained by The Epoch Times, would also kick Ms. Omar off the House Budget Committee and the Education and Workforce Committee.
Biden’s spokesman denies | Report: Biden cursed Netanyahu in closed talks Biden fears that Netanyahu is eager to drag the US into a wider war in the Middle East, a conflict that would ensure American weapons keep flowing to the region, troops soon follow and international pressure on him to agree to a Gaza ceasefire and his domestic political difficulties both dissipate.
Swarm of locusts fill the skies of Mexico; Residents fear the end of the World Miles-long clouds of locusts have been blanketing the skies above the state of Yucatán this week, flying through shopping plazas, smacking into the windows of apartment complexes, and gobbling up anything green in local parks. Social media users and the Mexican press both asked the same question: Is this a sign the world is coming to an end?
American Bases Attacked Within Hours of Retaliatory Strikes in Iraq American bases once again came under attack by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and missiles, according to Shahab news agency, just a few hours after extensive retaliatory strikes by the United States against Iranian-backed militias in Syria and Iraq.
IDF takes control of Hamas’s Khan Yunis HQ used by Sinwar’s brother The IDF announced on Sunday that it has taken control of the Hamas brigade headquarters in southern Gaza, which was also used by Muhammad Sinwar, brother and top lieutenant to Gaza Chief Yahya Sinwar. Full operational control of Khan Yunis is expected in the coming week
Hamas denies rejection of hostage, ceasefire deal, says will deliver answer soon The official claimed that the earlier report from the Saudi outlet Al-Arabiya claiming that Hamas was set to reject the deal was incorrect. “We are in the final stage of internal consultations with the factions regarding the proposal that we received, and we will respond to it soon,” the official reportedly said.
Sanhedrin Calls on Israeli Government to Reject International Court of Justice “The Sanhedrin strongly urges the Israeli government to flee the court in The Hague as long for as long as it exists. The Sanhedrin asks the Israeli government to end the farcical testimony before the court in The Hague. (a) Morality should be based in the Torah, as the people of Israel received from God at Mount Sinai, and not from the court in The Hague. (b) Everyone knows who the judges are: countries that have violated many laws of honesty and justice towards their neighbors and their citizens.
Prayers for Rain that Began on Oct 7 Being Answered as Precursor to Ressurection of the Dead Precisely the hour when Jews in Israel began praying for rain, Hamas terrorists poured across the border, murdering every Jew they encountered. Rabbi Yosef Berger, a descendant of King David and former member of the Sanhedrin, emphasized that beginning that day, Jews were united in crying out to God. “When Jews are united in prayer, it is like Mount Sinai,” Rabbi Berger said. “This is how Jews were meant to pray; as a united and unified nation.”
Montana CPS takes 14-year-old girl to Wyoming for gender ‘transition’ against parents’ will In a controversial and heart-wrenching case, Montana’s Child Protective Services has been accused of forcibly transporting a 14-year-old girl from her family in Montana to Wyoming for gender transition treatment, leading to a complete revocation of her parents’ custody. The family’s media representative, Mattie Watkins, has disclosed a distressing account to The Gateway Pundit involving the Kolstad family of Montana.
They killed your children: IDF distributes a newspaper in Gaza attacking Hamas This is the first issue of the “The Reality” newspaper, which includes three articles on the following topics: the sanctions imposed by the European Union on Yahya Sinwar, the increase in humanitarian aid, and the refutation of the claims of Abu Obaida, the spokesman for the Hamas military wing.
Christians in Norway stand for Israel against antisemitism in historic rally outside parliament in Oslo The Norwegian branch of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ) organized the rally, which was hailed as a historic event for the Scandinavian country where there has typically been strong support for Palestinian organizations, such as the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) and later the Palestinian Authority (PA). Several Christian denominations joined the demonstration, including members of the Lutheran, Catholic and Pentecostal churches.
Sun news: 2 sunspot regions turn up the heat the unnumbered sunspot region on the sun’s southeast limb – and a newly emerged region in the sun’s southwest – promised action. Now, both are humming along and might be poised to give us some strong flares. The unnumbered region, now labeled AR3576, released 20 of the past day’s 23 C flares. Around the same time, sunspot AR3575 in the southwest, exploded in size from nothing to nearly twice the area of Earth!
The End Game: The World As One Jan Markell talks to Gary Kah for the hour. The world’s governments are rushing toward a one-world system that will be short lived. They may employ “polycrises”—multiple global crises such as the new “Disease X.” This year’s global summit at Davos revealed many of their plans. They see the world as one.
Widespread floods and landslides in southern Philippines claim 14 lives The death toll from landslides and floods caused by torrential rain in the southern Philippines has reached 14, as reported on Saturday, February 3, 2024. The severe weather has affected parts of Mindanao, the country’s second-largest island, leading to tens of thousands seeking refuge in emergency shelters. Davao de Oro, a province known for its gold mining, has been particularly hard-hit, with 10 fatalities in recent days due to relentless rain.
Raging wildfires claim more than 59 lives, destroy more than 1,500 homes in central Chile Intense wildfires in central Chile have resulted in at least 59 fatalities and the destruction of more than 1,500 homes as of early Sunday, February 4, 2024. A state of emergency has been declared in response to the crisis, with fires continuing to spread through densely populated areas. Chilean President Gabriel Boric and Interior Minister Carolina Tohá highlighted the severity of the situation, noting the challenges posed by 92 active fires amid unusually high temperatures and the impact of the El Niño weather pattern.
San Francisco exceeds seasonal rain totals, another atmospheric river and extremely dangerous winds approaching California, U.S. Severe storms swept through California on Thursday, February 1, 2024, causing widespread flooding, power outages, and fallen trees. The first of two storms, part of strong atmospheric river systems, hit the San Francisco Bay Area before moving south towards Los Angeles, delivering over 100 mm (4 inches) of rain in some areas. Officials warn of a “significant threat” from an even larger storm expected over the weekend, with the potential for excessive rain, heavy snow, and strong winds across the state through Tuesday, February 7.
Pope Francis Rebellion Grows as 90 Catholic Figures Sign Scathing Letter A group of 90 Catholic clergymen, scholars and authors have published a joint letter to “all Cardinals and Bishops of the Catholic Church,” urging them to oppose a Vatican document approved by Pope Francis that allows priests to bless same-sex unions for the first time.
First UK patients receive experimental messenger RNA cancer therapy A revolutionary new cancer treatment known as mRNA therapy has been administered to patients at Hammersmith hospital in west London. The trial has been set up to evaluate the therapy’s safety and effectiveness in treating melanoma, lung cancer, and other solid tumors.
Retaliation Begins As U.S Strikes 85 Targets in Iraq and Syria Retaliatory airstrikes by the United States have begun. So far, the U.S. has hit 85 targets in Iraq and Syria after Iran-based proxies were said to be responsible for the killing of three American soldiers in Jordan last weekend, officials in the ruling class have said.
European farmers’ protests: The fight back against the war on farming Representatives from European farming groups went to Brussels last Wednesday to make their voices heard and show solidarity in the fight back against the EU’s war on farming. As the farmer’ protests spread, blockading ports and border entry points, President of the Farmers Defense Force Belgium, Bart Dickens, explains how it all began.
Explosive Investigation Uncovers a Global Shadow Government’s Secret Control Over “Elected” Governments & Public Health Bodies, Forging a Global Vaccine Regime The same organizations that have an interest in vaccinations today also had a lot of influence in laying the groundwork decades ago. People tend to think of these large and well-known organizations – such as the Rockefeller Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UNICEF; CDC, GAVI, USAID, and the World Bank – as independent of each other, but they are not. They are part of a vaccine infrastructure – a global vaccine regime. Or, as Nations in Action describes it, the vaccine shadow government architecture.
“If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war.” —George Washington (1793)
Fellow Patriots, on this day in 1918, First Lieutenant Stephen W. Thompson of the 1st Aero Squadron shot down a German plane, making him the first American military aviator to record a victory over an enemy aircraft. American aircraft have dominated the skies for most of the last century. —Mark Alexander
Three Americans were killed because of Biden’s weakness, so he talked about his son and telegraphed some missile strikes.
Nate Jackson
The blood of three American soldiers is on Joe Biden’s hands. So what did he do? He made it all about himself by telling a grieving family about his own son’s death, and then he lobbed a few missiles and facilities tied to proxies of Iran. What a swell guy.
We’d be inclined to give Biden some grace for his advanced stage of dementia, as well as sympathy for losing his son Beau to cancer after losing his first wife and daughter Naomi in a car accident 50 years ago. That grief no doubt changed and haunts him.
But Joe Biden has been telling lies about himself for his entire adult life, including those deaths. He has repeatedly lied about losing his son Beau “in Iraq,” sometimes to the grieving families of American service personnel. He even did so in remembering 9/11 last year.
To tell his lie to Gold Star Families when he is responsible for the deaths of their loved ones piles disgrace upon disgrace.
Beau Biden was 46 when he died of brain cancer in 2015 at Walter Reed Medical Center rather than having “lost his life in Iraq,” where he’d served from 2008-09 with the Delaware Army National Guard. There is no evidence that Beau’s time in Iraq was the cause of his death. It would both honor Beau’s service and make Joe a sympathetic father if he’d just tell the truth in appropriate contexts.
Regarding the recent Iranian drone attack in Jordan that killed three Americans and wounded dozens more, according to the Department of Defense:
The three soldiers killed are Sgt. William Jerome Rivers of Carrollton, Georgia; Spc. Kennedy Ladon Sanders of Waycross, Georgia; and Spc. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett of Savannah, Georgia. All three were assigned to the 718th Engineer Company, 926th Engineer Battalion, 926th Engineer Brigade, Fort Moore, Georgia.
The commander-in-chief called those families, telling the parents of Spc. Sanders: “I know there’s nothing anybody can say or do to ease the pain. I’ve been there. … My son spent a year in Iraq. That’s how I lost him.”
As for the attack and response, Team Biden initially released a statement saying the assault “was carried out by radical Iran-backed militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq” and promising to “hold all those responsible to account at a time and in a manner of our choosing.”
Iran is responsible. Rather than keep his promise, however, Biden warned that retaliation was coming, just not against Iran. U.S. Central Command reported late Friday afternoon that “U.S. military forces struck more than 85 targets,” including “command and control operations centers, intelligence centers, rockets, and missiles, and unmanned aerial vehicle storages, and logistics and munition supply chain facilities of militia groups and their IRGC [Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps] sponsors.”
That’s all well and good, as is the promise of more attacks. “That is not the end of it,” National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said on Sunday.
Unfortunately, the Iraqi government said 16 people were killed Friday, including civilians. If any jihadis were vaporized, they’d have to be incredibly foolish (or just really itching for those 72 virgins) given all the advanced warning Team Biden gave. The administration signaled from the start that it was not looking to “escalate” anything with Iran, that the strikes would be “proportional” and against militias, and that the U.S. was even waiting for better weather.
Virtually the same thing happened last month when Biden belatedly hit back at the Iranian-backed Houthis for repeated attacks on U.S. forces.
Not only did Biden telegraph his punches, but he forgot the immortal advice of Sean Connery’s Jim Malone in the 1987 film “The Untouchables.” Talking about the strategy to get gangster Al Capone, Malone said: “They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue.”
Malone called that “the Chicago way,” but in foreign policy, it ought to be the American way. We should make our enemies too afraid to attack America. Instead, Biden clearly fears escalation more than Iran does, which sends an unmistakable message of weakness to the entire Middle East — and to Russia and China. Iran said it has no plans to retaliate, but that’s also a lie. Its sponsored militias will do the dirty work in hopes that Biden will remain too afraid to strike Iran.
As historian Victor Davis Hanson astutely observes, “When serially attacked, loudly responding that we will only proportionally strike back and wish no wider war will only ensure a big, ugly one.”
At least if anymore Americans are killed, Biden will be able to sympathize by once again making their families’ grief all about himself.
Border bill is as bad as we thought, former Trump official dies after carjacking, NYC putting migrants on welfare, and more.
Douglas Andrews, Thomas Gallatin, & Jordan Candler
Cross-Examination
The border bill is as bad as we thought: Details of the highly secretive Senate border bill finally became public yesterday. The legislation, which checks in at 370 pages and which might more accurately be called The Joe Biden Reelection Lifeline bill, is as bad as expected. Among the bill’s deceptive ingredients: $20 billion for border security, the end of Biden’s disastrous “catch and release” policy, an expansion of detention capacity for families, a raising of asylum standards and fast-tracking of asylum claims, 50,000 new visas over five years, and $650 million to expand the border wall. Oh, and $60 billion for Ukraine, $14 billion for Israel, and $10 billion for Gaza. We can’t make this stuff up. James Lankford, who ostensibly led Republican efforts to craft the bill but who talks about it as if he’s the subject of a hostage video, tried to pitch the bill on Fox News this morning: “Some people are thinking that this is somehow like counting 5,000 people in every day and releasing them,” he said of the bill’s most objectionable components. “That’s absurd. We changed the asylum laws, we increased detention beds, we doubled the deportation flights, we added ankle monitors. … There’s all the things that we build into this to make this a much stronger system.” Uh-huh. All of this, of course, assumes that the Biden administration will actually live up to its end of the bargain. And if history is any guide, it won’t. Just ask Ronald Reagan how Democrats do immigration deals. “I’ve seen enough,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson on X last night. “This bill is even worse than we expected, and won’t come close to ending the border catastrophe the President has created. … If this bill reaches the House, it will be dead on arrival.” On top of all this, a House impeachment vote on Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas might come as soon as tomorrow.
Biden wins South Carolina: Joe Biden won the South Carolina Democrat primary “bigly,” as he hauled in 96% of the votes. Based on the percentage of the vote, it’s a resounding victory. However, as the saying goes, the devil is in the details. Voter turnout was abysmal, with just 4% of voters statewide bothering to cast just 131,870 ballots. That’s the lowest Democrat turnout in the past three primaries. Back in 2020, when Biden won the Palmetto State’s Democrat primary and revived his moribund campaign, 16% of voters turned out to cast a ballot. Clearly, Democrat voter enthusiasm for Biden has significantly diminished.
Former Trump official dies five days after DC carjacking: Last week, we reported on the critical wounding of Mike Gill, a married father of three and a former Trump administration official who was left fighting for his life after having been shot in the head during an attempted carjacking. Also shot during the crime spree was 35-year-old Alberto Vasquez Jr., himself a father of two. Vasquez died of his wounds, and now Gill has succumbed as well. That the alleged murderer, 28-year-old Artell Cunningham, was later shot and killed during a confrontation with DC cops is surely of little consolation to the families of Gill and Vasquez. Last week’s statement from the Gill family was heart-wrenching: “Mike is a catalyst for unity and friendship. The most important thing about Mike that all of his friends know is how much he loves his family and how proud he is of his three children.” On Saturday, his widow Kristina added, “His sudden departure has left a void in our lives that can never be filled.” The nation’s capital has seen carjackings more than double from 2022 to 2023 to 950 incidents. As Just the News reports, “The incident comes after the Justice Department earlier this month announced it would send more resources to combat violent crime in Washington, D.C.” To little, too late for this soft-on-crime administration.
NYC putting illegal migrants on welfare: A $53 million pilot program is being launched in New York City specifically for illegal migrant families establishing a food welfare program, similar to the state’s food stamp program. Illegal alien families who sign up will be given pre-paid cards that can only be used to buy goods at bodegas, grocery stores, and supermarkets. The program would give a migrant family of four upwards of $1,000 a month or roughly $35 a day. The city’s current program, which this new one will replace, gives migrants roughly $11 daily for meals. So, on the one hand, NYC Mayor Eric Adams is complaining that the city will be “destroyed” if the influx of illegal aliens continues into the self-appointed “sanctuary city,” but on the other hand, his office is touting this costly migrant welfare program that will surely attract even more illegals. And they wonder why Democrat leadership is failing.
West Point maintains its race-based discrimination: Last year, in what was heralded as a landmark Supreme Court decision but which we ultimately assessed as a mixed bag for racial discrimination, the justices declared that race-based admissions programs at Harvard College and the University of North Carolina were unconstitutional. Sadly, that ruling hasn’t deterred our nation’s race-obsessed bean counters — at least not where Joe Biden’s woke U.S. military is concerned. As The Washington Times reports, the Supreme Court “has denied a request to halt West Point from considering race as a factor in its admissions process — at least for now.” The Times added: “The court signaled Friday in its order denying a requested injunction that it isn’t weighing in on the merits at this early stage. ‘The record before this Court is underdeveloped, and this order should not be construed as expressing any view on the merits of the constitutional question,’ the order stated.” Whatever that means. Apparently, when Chief Justice John Roberts said last June, “Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it,” he meant except for the most patriotic among us: those who volunteer to defend our nation.
UPenn: still anti-Semitic: It’s as if the University of Pennsylvania has no shame. In the wake of the resignation of its former president, Liz Magill, whose indefensible defense of anti-Semitism on campus during House testimony in December was roundly rebuked, we find that the university’s penchant for Jew-hatred is alive and well — at least among UPenn faculty. As The Washington Free Beacon reports: “A lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School of Communication has published several anti-Semitic cartoons since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, including one that depicts Zionists sipping Gazan blood from wine glasses, a version of the ancient blood libel employed in anti-Semitic propaganda that accused Jews of using the blood of Christian children for baking matzah and other rituals.” This is some really crude, really tasteless work, and its author, Dwayne Booth, has been with Penn since 2015. Booth, as the Free Beacon notes, “publishes political cartoons under the pen name ‘Mr. Fish,’” adding that his works include a photo of emaciated Jews “in a Nazi concentration camp holding signs bearing slogans such as ‘Free Palestine,’” and another showing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “a bloodied, red-eyed butcher holding a long knife and a crumpled Palestinian flag.” We can only hope that UPenn’s wealthy benefactors remain disgusted by what they see and hear.
China to move on Taiwan soon: Last Thursday, Admiral Samuel J. Paparo was asked during his Senate confirmation hearing for taking over the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command about the threat level China poses toward Taiwan. Paparo noted that China’s military threat has been increasing, and he sees the potential of an attack coming before 2027, the date Beijing has set for its military to be ready to take control of the island nation. However, he observed that the 2027 date has more to do with it being “the 100th anniversary of the People’s Liberation Army.” He added: “In fact, I think they’re working to be ready every day, and they could go, and we’ve got to be constantly vigilant. There’s no holiday between now and when they may go.” The U.S. military must “be ready now, next week, next month, and in the decades to come” to deter any attack, Paparo advised.
A hate crime: The FBI and the ATF are investigating a case of arson that happened a week ago when two fires were set in a building that houses the offices of the conservative organization Center of the American Experiment. John Hinderaker, the center’s president and prominent blogger at Power Line, explained, “They targeted conservative organizations, they didn’t firebomb the chiropractors or psychologists or the Manufacturers Alliance.” Minnesota Democrat Governor Tim Walz was quick to recognize the motive for the arson as political and condemn it. “Political violence and intimidation have no place in Minnesota,” he said on social media. “I’m confident that local, state, and federal law enforcement will get to the bottom of this unacceptable act.” A security camera has apparently captured footage of two suspects engaged in the arson. Hopefully, these arsonists are quickly arrested and tried for this anti-conservative hate crime.
Headlines
House Freedom Caucus lashes out at Senate border deal: “Dumpster fire” (Fox News)
Republican governors back Texas at border: We’re “doing the job of the federal government” (Daily Wire)
Update: Oklahoma principal who moonlights as drag queen has resigned (Not the Bee)
UNRWA nominated for Nobel Peace Prize amid allegations workers took part in October 7 (AFP)
Canada hits pause on assisted suicide program for mentally ill because they don’t have enough doctors (Not the Bee)
Boeing flags potential delays after supplier finds another problem with some 737 fuselages (AP)
Washington’s double standard of justice is exposed by a refusal to prosecute a homosexual who recorded himself having sex in a Senate hearing room.
Thomas Gallatin
The Left dogmatically preaches about such things as “white privilege” and “the patriarchy” as if these are undeniable facts of life on par with water being wet and the sun being bright. But the Left also imbues these phony dogmas with moral absolutes. In other words, it’s not enough just to acknowledge these views; instead, one must fully acquiesce and be committed to fighting against these “evils” or be deemed morally evil. Or worse, be “on the wrong side of history,” as Barack Obama loved to assert.
This is one of the reasons that some folks view wokeness as more religious than political. And yet at the same time, this wokeness, this neo-Marxist ideology, has almost completely taken over the Democrat Party so as to be nearly indistinguishable from the party’s political platform, which could be likened to a theocratic treatise with wokeness as its god.
This may seem a stretch, as Democrats are always warning against some ill-defined or totally undefined bogeyman of “Christian nationalism” on the Right. But as is so often the case, they are engaged in projection. They are the party most ardently seeking the compliance of the American public to their worldview, their woke religion.
So, what does all this have to do with the recent decision by the Capitol Police to avoid criminally charging Aidan Maese-Czeropski, the former staffer of Democrat Senator Ben Cardin? Recall that Maese-Czeropski resigned after it came to light that he had filmed himself having sex with another man in a hearing room of the Hart Senate Office Building after hours. His deviant act was discovered on an Internet site for gay men. Hmm … how might it have ended up there?
As constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley observed, Maese-Czeropski likely violated a number of DC criminal laws, not to mention code of conduct rules within the Senate. Just one example would be Section 22-1312 for lewd, indecent, or obscene acts, which states in part, “It is unlawful for a person, in public, to make an obscene or indecent exposure of his or her genitalia or anus, to engage in masturbation, or to engage in a sexual act as defined in § 22-3001(8).”
The crux of the issue there would be the question of “in public,” which the Capitol Police noted as part of their rationale for refusing to issue any charges. “Although the hearing room was not open to the public at the time,” said the Capitol Police, “the congressional staffer involved had access to the room.” So, the argument is that it was only part-time public. But he shared the video of the act on the Internet, which is a public forum. Otherwise, the public would likely have never known this incident took place.
Furthermore, if he wasn’t in a public place, wouldn’t he be guilty of trespassing? As Turley notes, “Under 18 U.S.C. 1752, trespass covers anyone who ‘knowingly enters or remains in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority to do so.’” Indeed, trespassing was one of the primary charges leveled against the hundreds of individuals involved in the January 6 Capitol building riot.
It’s hard not to see yet another instance of a double standard being applied by Democrats to their privileged class: members of the LGBTQ community.
The reason this story is so shameful — beyond the now-public sexual deviancy of a Senate staffer — is the blatant undermining of the foundational principles of our legal system. Treating any identity group as a privileged group for which the laws of the land are not enforced equally and without prejudice is to do injustice. Furthermore, arguing that because these groups may have suffered past injustices, they now deserve special treatment makes a mockery of the equal application of the law and further erodes confidence in our justice system.
Maese-Czeropski broke the law — likely several laws — but has gotten off scot-free because he is a member of a leftist special “victim” group. Maese-Czeropski’s “rainbow privilege” is why he has suffered no legal consequences for his illegal actions. Of course, he is an even bigger “victim” now because he lost his job, but, they say, that’s only because of “homophobia.”
The crooked Fulton County DA was beset by an array of allegations from defense attorneys, whistleblowers, and House Republicans.
Douglas Andrews
There’s nothing to see here, says Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Move along.
And perhaps she has a point. Willis, of course, is in charge of the Georgia election interference “racketeering” case against former President Donald Trump. And on Friday, she admitted via a 176-page court filing to having a “personal relationship” with Nathan Wade, the newly divorced guy whom she appointed in November 2021 to assist in her investigation of Trump. But just because Wade has exactly zero experience prosecuting cases of this sort, and just because Willis’s office nonetheless funneled him some $654,000 in legal fees in 2022 and 2023, and just because Willis paid Wade $250 an hour while at the same time paying one of the state’s top racketeering experts a miserly $150 an hour, and just because these two lovebirds took lavish tropical vacations together on the taxpayer dime doesn’t mean there’s something amiss here.
In fact, as The Washington Post reports, Willis called the accusations of impropriety “meritless,” “distasteful,” and “malicious,” adding that they’re “irrelevant to the case and that there is no basis in Georgia law for removing her from the prosecution or dismissing the charges.” Willis further whined that the efforts to dig into her personal life amounted to a “ticket to the circus” designed to “garner more breathless headlines” rather than focusing on the case itself.
Hey, at least she didn’t play the race card. Oh, wait.
In her filing, Willis asked Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee to cancel an evidentiary hearing on the accusations against her, insisting that her relationship with Wade doesn’t create a conflict of interest and that she didn’t benefit financially from it. It’ll be interesting to see whether Judge McAfee, who was appointed by Republican Governor Brian Kemp, buys any of this.
Unfortunately for Willis, the forced admission of her affair with Wade isn’t the only bad news that visited her this past week. In addition, she was hit with allegations that she’d fired a whistleblower, Amanda Timpson, in an act of retaliation — allegations that she, of course, denied. Instead, said Willis, she fired the whistleblower for poor performance — a claim that seemed to be at odds with her on-the-record assessments of Timpson. As The Washington Free Beacon reports, “Willis sang Timpson’s praises in a staff-wide email on Sept. 9, 2021, saying the whistleblower had a ‘dynamic’ skill set that would serve her well in her new role as a liaison between two departments in the office.”
Other emails leaked to the Free Beacon indicate that Willis selected Timpson for her executive leadership team in December 2020, “saying she had bested 400 applicants to secure a role in the select group.”
Timpson’s troubles with Willis began in March 2021, she says, when she “stopped one of the district attorney’s top aides, Michael Cuffee, from dipping into a $488,000 federal grant earmarked for the creation of a Center for Youth Empowerment and Gang Prevention to pay for ‘swag,’ computers, and travel.”
We’re shocked — SHOCKED — to hear that a government employee would attempt to misappropriate taxpayer funds in such a shameful way.
“I respect that is your assessment,” said Willis in response to Timpson’s charges. “And I’m not saying that your assessment is wrong.” But less than two months later, she fired Timpson and arranged for seven armed investigators to escort her out of the building.
We’ll let you decide if the recorded conversation between Willis and Timpson — and Willis’s subsequent firing of Timpson — are worthy of a whistleblower retaliation investigation.
If you thought Willis’s week couldn’t get any worse, you’d be wrong. As Fox News reports, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan has subpoenaed Willis for information on how her office has been spending its federal funds — especially the funds discussed in Timpson’s whistleblower allegations above. Willis has already ignored three prior subpoenas from Jordan’s committee, and we have to wonder if she’ll ever be held accountable for it.
Speaking of accountability, we’ll watch to see whether the pressure for Willis to step down becomes too great, or whether Georgia Democrats will circle the wagons around their scummy colleague. And if that happens, we’ll keep an eye on Georgia’s attorney general, Christopher Carr, to see if he has the guts to pursue criminal charges against Willis.
Most ridiculously, Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush voted against a bill to block Hamas terrorists from entering the country.
Emmy Griffin
“He lends himself to the gibe that he is ‘so very liberal, that he cannot bring himself to take his own side in a quarrel.’” —William Ernest Hocking
“The Squad” is a group of “progressive” House representatives that is intersectional and hard left. And recently, each of Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Cori Bush (D-MO), Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) has stepped in it politically.
Ilhan Omar started off the Squad’s recent embarrassments by telling constituents in Minnesota: “The U.S. government will only do what Somalians in the U.S. tell them to do. They will do what we want and nothing else. They must follow our orders, and that is how we will safeguard the interest of Somalia. We Somalians must have the confidence in ourselves that we call the shots in the U.S. … As Somalis, one day, we will go after our missing territories.” Omar’s anti-American rhetoric has prompted calls for her expulsion from Congress.
Cori Bush is under investigation for allegedly using taxpayer funds to finance her private security team.
Ayanna Pressley called Walgreens racist for closing stores in Boston due to high crime.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has only gotten in trouble for saying her usual bout of ignorant idiocies, so she was the only one who has kept her nose relatively clean.
The most ridiculous story goes to Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush. Last week, they were the only two congressional members to vote against a bill that should have been a no-brainer. The bill in question, HR 6679, also known as the No Immigration Benefits for Hamas Terrorists Act, states that any Gazan who had anything to do with the October 7 attack on Israel would not be eligible for sanctuary in or immigration to the U.S. The language of the bill reads, “Any alien who carried out, participated in, planned, financed, afforded material support to, or otherwise facilitated any of the attacks against Israel initiated by Hamas beginning on October 7, 2023 be inadmissible for citizenship and be ineligible for any relief under immigration law.”
In other words, don’t let known Hamas terrorists come to the U.S. It should have been an easy “Yes” vote. However, Tlaib and Bush claimed that this bill is not only redundant, but it makes people have negative feelings toward Palestinians, Arabs, and/or Muslims and is “harmful.”
Tlaib is the lone Palestinian-American member of Congress and has been particularly incendiary on this particular issue. She forwarded the Hamas-spread lie that Israel was responsible for a rocket that destroyed a hospital and killed 500. In reality, it was a Hamas rocket that destroyed a parking lot and few were killed. She also infamously smirked when questioned about the brutal killings of Israeli babies through the act of beheading. She was even officially censured by the House for parroting the genocidal chant “from the river to the sea” in regards to eradicating Israel.
Bush, on the other hand, doesn’t want police in her constituents’ neighborhoods, but she herself needs protection because her work is more important than yours. Thus, she is now under DOJ investigation for misappropriation of funds. Earlier last week, Bush also kicked off her reelection campaign by claiming the Israel-Hamas war was about “white supremacy.” It’s no wonder she voted “No” to banning Hamas-associated Palestinians from entering the country.
Bush doesn’t care if these potential immigrants helped murder 1,200 Israelis and kidnap hundreds more. She believes that Hamas must be correct in its actions because Israel represents a “whiter” race and is a staunch supporter of Western values. It’s an absurd and evil way of thinking, but again, when one holds Racial Marxism as the standard with which to measure morality, one is left with no morality at all.
The fact that the Squad has had such a disastrous few days wasn’t lost even on leftist outlets such as Politico, which hinted that these progressives are going to be hard-pressed to win their reelection campaigns.
We seriously doubt that, but electoral trouble couldn’t happen to a more worthy group.
The U.S. Navy is an example of what leftist social engineering can do to a military service branch.
Brent Ramsey
Navy Mission: “The United States is a maritime nation, and the U.S. Navy protects America at sea. Alongside our allies and partners, we defend freedom, preserve economic prosperity, and keep the seas open and free. Our nation is engaged in long-term competition. To defend American interests around the globe, the U.S. Navy must remain prepared to execute our timeless role, as directed by Congress and the President.”
The Navy is a very large, complex, and dynamic organization and culture — more complex, more dynamic, and more tightly focused on mission than any on earth. It is impossibly complex in terms of warfighting skill sets and technologies. What is true about the Navy is also true about all the armed services.
Small Unit Dynamics/Small Unit Success
The Navy is huge, but the mission is conducted using small unit dynamics in teams. Whether it is a bridge watch section, a damage control party, an aircraft crew, a gun mount crew, or any one of the hundreds of different small teams within much larger weapons platforms or units, the effectiveness of those small teams wins or loses the war. Teamwork, unit cohesion, trust, camaraderie, and, yes, even love for those with us in combat — in a SEAL team, in an aircraft, and in myriad other delivery platforms of death that we use — is absolute. My personal experience at the conn of a nuclear-capable destroyer during the Cold War, actively pinging a submerged Soviet Ballistic Missile submarine for five straight days, 24 hours a day, was that the pucker factor was extraordinary and exhilarating. My bridge team was an exquisite, well-oiled, united, focused machine, with absolute unity on one thing and one thing only: staying on that sub’s track. Unity, cohesion, common values, and purpose were the reasons we executed our mission. That sailor unity won the Cold War.
What is today’s Navy doing to promote the values just described above? It recruits based on skin color and gender. It promotes and assigns based on skin color and gender. There are 16 affinity groups at the Naval Academy separating the midshipmen by race, gender, or sexual preference. The Navy is promoting the noxious ideology of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) up and down the chain of command, at the academies, in recruit training, and at the War Colleges. Every unit is swamped with DEI indoctrination. DEI zealots, in their own separate chain of command, enforce DEI goals. All the services are on the same DEI path as the Navy.
What are the impacts of promoting DEI?
Catastrophic recruiting shortfalls across all services over two years (-41,000).
The Navy is now recruiting low-aptitude recruits with no high school diploma. Project 100,000 did the same from 1966 to 1971 and was an abject failure. The impact of enlisting uneducated, low-IQ sailors was a disaster.
The Air Force offers up to $600K in bonuses to retain pilots, double the previous rate.
Navy readiness and mission capabilities have declined over the period 2017-2021, according to the GAO and The Heritage Foundation.
Students for Fair Admissions, who won cases in June at the Supreme Court banning racial discrimination at colleges and universities, have now sued West Point and Annapolis for racial discrimination.
Trust in the military has plummeted 25% since 2018, according to the Reagan Foundation, with only 46% of people expressing great confidence in our military.
Dozens of patriot groups are sounding the alarm, including STARRS, Calvert Group, Center for Military Readiness, Veterans for Fairness and Merit, Flag Officers 4 America, Heritage Foundation, Judicial Watch, Hillsdale College, and Restore Liberty.
FOIA requests have been filed with service academies by STARRS, Judicial Watch, and others. Why is the military hiding its practices from the public?
The Navy is short 22,000 sailors for deploying ships. The policy for deploying ships is 100% manning. Anything less is dangerous to the ship and crew.
Leadership failures are endemic: Fat Leonard, Red Hill, Bonhomme Richard, BLM promotion at USNA, collisions at sea, grounding of the USS Connecticut, and failures of entire ship classes such as the Zumwalt class and the Littoral Combat Ship.
Transgenders serve and receive medical treatment to transition, creating undue stress due to no replacements for those under treatment.
Gay Price is celebrated, which is offensive to religious members.
Biological men are allowed to berth and shower with women.
American youth do not want to serve, in part because many have been taught in our schools to hate America. Gen Z is generally not willing to risk life in the military and is not qualified due to drugs, mental illness, tattoos, criminal records, and obesity.
DEI is having a severe recruiting impact as white, male, southern Christians, a traditional bulwark of recruiting, are staying away.
Serving members and veterans are telling youth to avoid service. These groups formerly encouraged young people to serve.
We are on the verge of war with hot spots in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and the South China Sea. The military ought to focus its attention on getting ready to defend our nation from our enemies. Politics has no place in the military. Anything less than a laser focus on core mission, unity, cohesion, and readiness is a recipe for defeat in war.
Is Biden’s Brain Disease Contagious? — Sleepy Joe is not alone. Kamala Harris, Karine Jean-Pierre, and other members of the president’s staff are exhibiting symptoms of severe cognitive decline.
Morgan Freeman on Black History Month — Back in 2005 on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” actor Morgan Freeman explained why he finds Black History Month “ridiculous.”
‘Guilty’ Pro-Life Activists Facing Federal Prison — Biden’s DOJ charged pro-life activists for protesting outside an abortion clinic in Tennessee. They were subsequently convicted and now face a decade-plus in federal prison.
Sunshine State Says ‘No’ to Defamatory Smears — The Florida legislature is looking to make it defamatory to level accusations of “homophobia,” “transphobia,” racism, or sexism without evidence.
“My son spent a year in Iraq. That’s how I lost him.” —Joe Biden
The BIG Lie II
“[Republicans] created this. … [Biden] has done everything Republicans have asked him to do. And now they keep moving the goalpost … because they realize they don’t really want to solve this. They like the chaos that it’s created.” —New York Governor Kathy Hochul regarding record illegal immigration
Useful Idiot
“The fact that this word [genocide] is even in play, the fact that this word is even in our discourse, I think demonstrates the mass inhumanity that Gazans are facing.” —Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)
Baghdad Bobs
“Easing inflation, rising real pay is finally reaching families and they’re feeling it.” —Council of Economic Advisers Chair Jared Bernstein
“Bidenomics is working. … He’s going to continue lowering costs. … It takes a long time to make that connection.” —White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre
Lack of Self-Awareness
“I have long believed we have to look at each other even in our most challenging times not as enemies but as fellow Americans. … My prayer, my hope is … that as a nation we continue to believe in honesty, decency, dignity, and respect.” —Joe Biden
For the Record
“The State Department is reportedly fast-tracking recognition of an ‘independent’ Arab state. … If Israel can’t stop weapons from infiltrating Gaza now, what does the situation look like when it is dealing with an ‘independent’ state? What does it look like when Iran becomes a nuclear power? What does it look like when the Islamic Jihad — or whatever group pops up to take its place — begins lobbing rockets at civilians? Israel will be compelled to act. Next time, it would be invading a territory recognized as a sovereign state by the U.S.” —David Harsanyi
“There is nothing ‘America First’ about mindlessly toppling foreign autocracies and seeking to transmogrify Islamist hellholes into shining Madisonian democracies. But there is also nothing ‘America First’ about shirking our solemn duty to protect and defend our own citizens and soldiers overseas. … Caring about the fate of our citizens taken hostage overseas and seeking retaliation for our soldiers murdered by an evil adversary regime overseas … is about the lowest-hanging fruit imaginable for any American who calls himself a patriot.” —Josh Hammer
“I don’t care if you’re a neocon, an isolationist or anything in between; there needs to be repercussions for murdering Americans. Tehran should be terrified of what comes next. I doubt they are.” —David Harsanyi
“When serially attacked, loudly responding that we will only proportionally strike back and wish no wider war will only ensure a big, ugly one.” —Victor Davis Hanson
Insight
“Socialism is, in its essence, an attack upon the right of the ordinary man or woman to breathe freely without having a harsh, clumsy tyrannical hand clapped across their mouths and nostrils.” —Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
A peer-reviewed study suggests “the estimated harms of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines greatly outweigh the rewards,” calculating that “for every life saved, there were nearly 14 times more deaths caused by the modified mRNA injections.”
The study , published in the Cureus digital journal, part of the mainstream Springer Nature journal, says the effectiveness of mRNA vaccines in preventing COVID deaths was much lower than initially reported, estimating it took around 52,000 vaccinations to prevent just one fatality.
The study authors noted that this works out to roughly two lives saved per 100,000 vaccinations, contrasting with an estimated 27 deaths due to adverse effects per 100,000 doses of BNT162b2, the Pfizer vaccine.
“Thus… the estimated harms of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines greatly outweigh the rewards: for every life saved, there were nearly 14 times more deaths caused by the modified mRNA injections,” the study stated.“Given the well-documented SAEs (serious adverse events) and […]
The Grammy’s continued to promote Satan again this year.
In 2022 the Grammy’s went full Satanic ritual when Lil Nas paraded on stage with demonic photos on the screen and men dressed in black robes for effect. The crowd loved it.
In 2023 singer Sam Smith headlined the Grammy Awards with another edgy Satanic performance. Smith and Kim Petras performed their song “Unholy” at the Grammy Awards, in a Satanic-themed spectacle that was later confirmed to be public worship of Satan.
This is the filth the left is pushing on America.
Last night at the 2024 Grammy Awards singer Olivia Rodrigo performed another satanic themed song to the delight of the crowd.
Olivia started off by rubbing blood all over herself including her face while singing about a demon vampire sucking her blood. Then the walls started to bleed.
This is what the left calls art these days.
God help us.
This is what the music industry has become…
A young woman performed a satanic ritual at the Grammys this evening.
She began rubbing blood all over herself while singing about a demon vampire sucking her blood, while blood pours out from the walls…
US political commentator Tucker Carlson came to Moscow on February 3, amid speculation that the goal of the visit is to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin, boosting the ex-Fox News host’s popularity in the country. Sputnik explores why.
Iran has enough weapons-grade uranium to produce its first nuclear weapon within a week and a total of six bombs within a month, a scenario that is increasingly likely to unfold as conflict in the Middle East reaches critical levels, according to a report from a watchdog group.
Secrecy, lies, and broken promises by Senate Republican leadership – resulting in a historical pro-migration border surrender – are irredeemable, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) said Sunday in calling Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to be replaced.
Fox News’ Trey Yingst reports on U.S. retaliatory strikes against Iran-backed proxy groups as concerns mount over a wider conflict in the Middle East. #foxnews
Today’s 20-min NEWSMAX top headline news brief includes:
[1:42] – NEWSMAX host Lidia Curanaj breaks down Biden’s highly telegraphed and woefully insufficient response to the death of U.S. soldiers. [Sunday Agenda]
[7:18] -Former Deputy National Security Advisor Victoria Coates: “The Biden Administration has emboldened Iran.” [Saturday Report]
[10:55] -Arizona congressional candidate and Army vet Abe Hamadeh, “First we must look at how we got here.” [Greg Kelly Reports]
[13:09] -Senate introduces a $118 billion border and aid package. One of the authors, Sen. James Lankford speaks exclusively to NEWSMAX. [Wake Up America]
[17:44] -Democrat Presidential Candidate Dean Phillips says, “Democrats need to wake up and move on from Biden.”
FOX News contributor Ret. Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg weighs in on more airstrikes in the Middle East and border crossings’ impact on national security. #FOXBusiness
[Original airdate: 9/1/23] Due to some interesting tech issues from our last visit with John Haller, we decided not to pre-promote today’s guest and topic, so here we go!
John and Mary discuss a variety of hot spots on the current scene: the Israeli/Lebanon flash point, Saudi Arabia and China mischief, and then the Saudi/Palestinian meddling. With so many fronts active, players are getting in place but the final configuration of so many scenarios is impossible to nail down. John will give us some insights into how this Fall could shake out in the Middle East. Then there is the BRICS economic bloc which seems to be headed for a greater economic impact in the world than previously designed for. As they consider expanding past the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa configuration, what kind of reshuffle might we end up with among the nations, and what will happen to the dollar? All this and more with John’s quick mind and wealth of information.
It’s one of the most infamous misquotes of all time: Aristotle’s supposed assertion that, “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
One blogger notes that the misquote appears to have first surfaced in Lowell Bennion’s 1959 book “Religion and the Pursuit of Truth” and that he “can only assume it is a rather radical paraphrase of the actual sentence that appears in Aristotle’s ‘Nicomachean Ethics.'”
Nevertheless, the thought itself — even if it is a “radical paraphrase” and doesn’t capture Aristotle’s real meaning — is not a bad one. It’s certainly a heck of a better sentiment than this anonymous quote about what happened to Vice President Kamala Harris when she was exposed to media where she wasn’t portrayed in a favorable light: “It got in her head and caused high anxiety.”
That quote comes from an Axios article published Friday, titled “Inside Biden’s obsession with ‘Morning Joe.'” Apparently, the president just can’t get enough of the MSNBC weekday morning show that generally praises his administration and the Democrats so effusively Biden literally couldn’t do a better job if he were doing it himself.
And I don’t mean that as in “figuratively, but in bolded italics” literally, but literally literally — considering this is what happens when America’s leader tries to sing his own praises:
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