Education in America Has Become a Snare and a Racket, Part V

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags, Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV

Andrea Widburg published an article in American Thinkers Members Weekly Newsletter entitled, The root of evil in 21st century America, dealing with the destructive impact academia is having on America's youth with this profound picture.  

I knew public education in America, as we now know it, was really organized in the late 19th century, and it was done so by socialists.  So, I decided to do some research about how public education came into being in western civilization.  

As far back as I could tell public education as we know it started in Scotland in the sixteen hundreds in order to create a good Christian society. As Andrea notes it's now being used to teach students to hate Christianity. She went on to say: 

Once, they were places to teach the young in wisdom and logic; now they exist as leftist indoctrination centers. They used to expose young people to a broad panoply of ideas and information, but these were always centered on the virtues of Western values and accomplishments; now they teach one narrow discipline: to hate the West.

She also went on to make what I think is a profound point; that being why they want student debt erased and to make "higher" education free.  That way they can indoctrinate and contaminate an unending number of young minds to destroy western culture at the expense of western culture.  The internet now begs the question:  Do we really need academia?

“You don’t need college to learn stuff. Everything is available basically for free. You can learn anything you want for free.” For a thousand years, universities held one monopoly. Access. You paid the toll or you stayed ignorant. The internet erased that in a decade. Every lecture. Every framework. Every textbook. Free. From any screen on Earth. The six-figure tuition is no longer buying knowledge. It is buying a signal.........

The American university system isn't functioning. It's not focused on producing young adults with marketable skills. It has been co-opted by the far-left, coddled by leftist politicians, and devoted to spewing out a plethora of useless Ethnic Underwater Dog-Polishing Studies degrees. Maybe only the few that are dedicated and focused enough to learn on their own should be employed in fields where they are, in essence, selling their knowledge. That's how the world worked for hundreds, even thousands of years. Now, with all the knowledge in the world at our command, why shouldn't it work that way again?

The system is totally corrupt graduating thousands of students with no job skills and huge debt, but they're being  taught Mao was perhaps the greatest historical figure of the 20th century.  I guess academics think murdering tens of million of people for political purposes is a sign of greatness?  

 Public schools are in a downward spiral as failure to teach starts at the lower levels of education.  At Berkeley 94% of the students they accepted from one school failed math.   Not only are they failing to educate students, they're abusing these young people financially. 

• The biggest problem in higher education It isn’t racial quotas, political ideology or tuition prices: it’s bloated internal costs.  Universities have many problems, and are constantly in the news. They are a major part of public policy.  Higher education is among the largest “industries” in the U.S., and linked to sectors like pharmaceuticals, defense, and technology. Universities also include major labor unions, and are used by political parties to organize voters. But at the end of the day, their most prominent feature is a lack of internal cost control. ......

•  Syracuse student questions ‘value’ of degree as university misses enrollment target amid tuition hike, budget woes -  Syracuse University is increasing investment in what Chancellor Michael Haynie calls an 'outstanding student experience' despite falling short of its enrollment target and projecting a budget deficit for the upcoming academic year.  Syracuse recently approved a 3.9 percent tuition increase for the 2026–27 academic year, raising undergraduate tuition from $66,580 to $69,180........

•  Six-figure price tag: 16 colleges now cost more than $100,000 per year, data show -  When combining tuition, fees, room and board, books, transportation and other expenses, the cost to attend 16 colleges and universities across the nation tops $100,000 per year, according to new data from the Princeton Review. “We just keep going up and it just never stops,” Jeff Selingo, author of “Dream School,” told CNBC, which reported on the data.

“For the 2026-27 academic year, 16 institutions — including Duke, Georgetown, New York University and University of Chicago — have a sticker price of more than $100,000, according to data exclusively provided to CNBC from The Princeton Review’s upcoming ‘The Best 392 Colleges’ list,'” the outlet reported. “Others, like Brown University, Northwestern and Pepperdine, cost more than $99,000.”

Failure to teach is now the standard and that failure is being protected.  Here's an interesting side bar; Lupita Nyong’o, is a black woman who was cast as Helen of Troy in the movie "The Odyssey", says she never heard of the Odyssey before this.  She's a Yale graduate.  Imagine that. 

• A Professor Called His Colleague’s Vacuous Course Proposal “Word Salad” Now he’s being formally charged with harassment.  One of the most sacredly held tenets of academic freedom is the duty of academics to vigorously disagree and critique one another’s work. But when Hofstra University professor Richard Himelfarb made an innocuous comment criticizing his colleague’s course proposals in a faculty meeting, he found himself hauled before Hofstra University’s Harassment Review Board.
• University of Michigan Drops Grades for Freshmen Pilot pass/fail policy will cover half of incoming freshmen for fall semester 2027 - Freshmen at the University of Michigan will soon experience a first semester without a final letter grade or GPA. Starting fall 2027, newcomers in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts—meaning about half of the 8,000 first-years—will see only "pass" or "no credit" on their transcripts. It comes as part of a pilot program the school says is aimed at "curb[ing] the mental health crisis unfolding among college-aged individuals" and helping them "acclimate to the demands of college and allow intrinsic motivations to guide personally meaningful academic journeys." Students will still receive grades during their first-semester courses, just not a final one. Some context:
• What do grades have to do with student mental health?   The University of Michigan, an elite “public ivy,” was highlighted in the New York Times about how it is changing its freshman grading policy from letter grades, to pass-fail.   The reason, Michigan explains, is that it will “improve student mental health.”   They go on to claim that this will “help first-year students acclimate to the demands of college” and that “they can explore a subject that may not come easily to them or take a course in a new field without the fear that a low grade may have long-term consequences.”  ....... See also Andrea Widburg's 'The University of Michigan is now hiding grades from fragile freshmen'

Higher education has been thoroughly infested with leftist ideologues who unendingly screamed about academic freedom, but in reality, university professors are against any academic freedom that dares to stand in opposition to their leftist ideology, or perhaps I should call it their idolatry of leftism. 

• Socialist Revival In Academia The recurring nightmare: forced collectivism and the menace of historical amnesia.  In both the lecture halls and quads of America’s elite universities, a disturbing paradox unfolds. The youngest generations of students, beneficiaries of unprecedented material prosperity and intellectual liberty, actively suppress or deny the grim ledger of socialism as it was brutally implemented across the twentieth century. This phenomenon is due partly to ignorance and partly to a cultivated historical amnesia—one that imperils the very freedoms that the West still possesses, however precariously.......
•  From Columbia to UCLA, faculty activists remain in the classroom  By Anna Miller| Professors who supported campus encampments and defended disruptive anti-Israel activism continue to hold positions of authority over students.   As students return to campus, professors who supported the protest movements that disrupted universities after October 7 are returning to the classroom with them. Shayoni Mitra at Barnard College and Nour Joudah at UCLA are two examples.  They teach at different institutions, but their records show a similar pattern: both used their positions to support student organizers, defend encampments, and lend academic credibility to disruptive activism.....
•  When tenure becomes a shield for reckless faculty conduct -  On July 5, 2026, a senior Stony Brook University professor was involved in a heated confrontation at Lulu Kitchen & Bar in Sag Harbor, Long Island. Public reports, video footage, and material posted from his own X account appear to show Dr. Josh Dubnau, a tenured Professor of Neurobiology and Anesthesiology and Director of the Center for Developmental Genetics, engaging in an aggressive public incident that has generated significant concern.......Dubnau is not a marginal activist on the edge of campus politics. He is a senior faculty member at a public university, and within its medical school. That level of authority comes with responsibility, judgment, and trust.......
  
  

It's time to fix this mess.  Right now we have a window of opportunity, but when that window closes, it may never open again.

•  Ivory Tower Rumble: Florida Politicians Battle Professors Have gone past assault on progressivism to challenge idea teachers are 'experts who determine course content'.  Universities across the country are facing unprecedented government scrutiny of everything from the rise of antisemitism to the lack of viewpoint diversity in the left-leaning social sciences. Nowhere is the ideological battle over higher education more contentious and consequential than in Florida, home to the second-largest university system in the country......
• Trump Admin Applies Common Sense Test to Useless College Degrees - College enrollment is booming not because there’s any real need for it or any real value to it (just the opposite) but because there is the perception that college is the only viable path to a career and enough jobs are gated off behind college diplomas to create the pressure for massive student loans to finance a worthless woke degree to get a job that it turns out will pay less than anticipated.......Then come the cries about student loans. The Trump administration is using a common sense test to try and break the cycle.......
• Bye, Bye, Black Studies -  If you’re collecting evidence that wokeness is on its way out, here’s one thrilling new development: the apparent demise of Black Studies.  Of course, Black Studies (sometimes known as African-American Studies or Africana Studies) predates the woke era by decades. It’s a product of the Black Power movement of the 1960s – and of the white guilt that reached unprecedented levels among academic administrators (and others) during that decade. It was founded, and funded, not because university officials around the U.S. suddenly realized that a legitimate field of study was being sorely neglected, but because a small army of semi-literate activists – who, as the distinguished author Shelby Steele (a witness to Black Studies’ birth) told me in an interview for my 2012 book on identity studies, The :Victims’ Revolution, were “obvious hustlers” out to enrich themselves  – successfully shook down those officials and were rewarded with their own brand-new discipline that, academically speaking, had no reason whatsoever for existing......
• Party’s Over for Foreigners at College -  New rules announced by the Trump Administration are addressing the flood of foreign students at American universities. Half a million of them are illegal aliens, while more than a million additional college students are here from foreign countries on student visas.....
• Trump DHS Announces HUGE Change to Student Visa Program That Will Stop the Practice of ‘Endless College’ -  For decades, foreign students have been able to come to the United States on a student visa and stay in the country for decades, as long as they were still enrolled in a class or two. That ends now. Trump’s Department of Homeland Security has announced a new set of rule changes to the student visa program, first and foremost, the amount of time that a foreign student can spend here. They’re limiting it to four years, the amount of time typically needed to obtain a college degree. The changes were made in July, but this is getting noticed now because the new policy goes into effect next month. This system has been abused for years by people who come here and never leave. The changes are long overdue......
• The Trump administration is right to redirect university research - There are better ways to do research, and the White House found it: the private sector.   The White House is emphasizing a new science research model that places emphasis on private American citizens, and private American enterprise. It is right to do so. ......

Foreign governments are corrupting academia with it's funding.  That has to stop.   

• Chinese pipeline inside 83 U.S. colleges. A new report from Defending Education has identified at least 83 universities and 26 K-12 schools across 30 states that exposed their students to Chinese Communist Party propaganda through the Young Envoys Scholarship program. According to the report, titled “Little Red Classrooms: China’s Infiltration of American K-12 Schools,” the program is monitored by the China Education Association for International Exchange, or CEAIE, and serves as an alternative to the Confucius Institutes, which Congress began restricting in 2021. On its Chinese website, the organization states that it is guided by “Marxism-Leninism” and Xi Jinping thought on socialism. It aims to “always adhere to the leadership of the Party and integrate the Party’s work into the entire process of the association’s operation and development.”......
•  Harvard Tops List of American Universities Taking Money From Foreign Countries — Including China - When it comes to accepting cash from foreign countries, including China, Harvard tops the list of American universities.  This is a major concern. Some might even call it a national security issue. China steals millions in intellectual property from the United States every year and higher education gives them direct access.  At the end of Trump’s first term, Senate Republicans began to focus heavily on this issue. Now they are looking at it again and Senator Tom Cotton is leading the charge......
•  Bill to Defund Universities With CCP Ties Gains Momentum in Congress  - Legislation aimed at cutting taxpayer funding to universities with ties to the Chinese Communist Party is gaining traction on Capitol Hill, as lawmakers raise concerns about espionage and national security risks linked to Chinese influence on U.S. campuses. “We have to make sure that our largest geopolitical adversary, the Chinese Communist Party, isn’t infiltrating at will our research institutions and our institutions of higher learning,” Rep. Pat Fallon, R-Texas, told Fox News on Monday.
•  America Doesn’t Need ‘International Students’ - There are over 1 million foreign students in the United States. The largest group by far are Chinese students whose numbers have fluctuated between a third and a quarter of a million. These students are in America to gain training in this country, not only at top universities like Harvard, but at tech companies, before taking their knowledge and skills back to China.   Saudi Arabia, the tenth largest source of foreign students, had the single most famous foreign students of any country who didn’t win any Nobel prizes, but did successfully fly passenger planes into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, but didn’t quite make it to the White House.......

It isn't just China either.  Wealthy Muslim nations have been fueling academia for years to the tune of millions of dollars and that's being reflected in their embrace of Islam and the attacks on Jewish students in America.  

• Haverford College’s Honor Code Divided Students Into “Privileged” and “Marginalized” Groups.  -  Haverford College is in the news this month after reaching a settlement with the Deborah Project, a public interest law firm that sued the College on behalf of Jewish students who reported horrific abuse and harassment which was repeatedly ignored by campus administrators.  The small liberal arts college located in Pennsylvania never received the same degree of public scrutiny for its failure to protect Jewish students as did larger Ivy League institutions such as Columbia and Harvard, but the physical and verbal abuse those students suffered was just as extreme........

Academia has been a purveyor of racial disharmony for decades.  It's called DIE now, but in days gone by they used different euphemisms, but the goals were the same.  Force unqualified personnel into jobs, classrooms, positions of power and authority working to dismantle merit and undermine the nation's stability, which is the real goal of leftism; promoting social unrest.

• California Professor Wins Permanent Victory Against DIE Policies at Bakersfield College -  A federal judge in California has issued a permanent order protecting Bakersfield College History Professor Daymon Johnson from punishment for refusing to endorse “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility” and “anti-racism” ideologies in a Tuesday ruling. “Professor Johnson’s speech regarding political and social issues, including his speech about Bakersfield College and its preferred ideologies, criticism of other faculty and administrators, and his advocacy and expression related to [Renegade Institute for Liberty], all constitutes speech on matters of public concern and petition protected by the First Amendment from viewpoint discrimination,” the settlement states.......
•  The Worst Academic Scandal in 817 Years! The Jason Arday Story - This is, quite likely, the worst academic scandal of all time. There have been other academic scandals over the centuries, but nothing quite like this one. It’s the worst academic scandal not only because it indicts one of the greatest universities in the world, but because it indicts all higher education in the English-speaking world! The Arday case is the symbol and culmination of the kind of intellectual and moral rot that has been seeping into higher education for sixty-plus years.
• Facts, Jason Arday, Western civilization, and the Overton window - The left sees the truth about Arday as a mortal threat not just to their goals but also to their very existence, and that it must be crushed. They are right.  Objective facts are not racist, nor are they ideological. They are neutral. Yet today, the public revelation of the facts about “Professor” Jason Arday causes a furor, with many on the left claiming that merely noticing objective facts is an -ism worthy of punishment. Objective facts show, beyond any doubt, that Arday, late of Cambridge University, was a plagiarist and a fabulist, on his own merits, should never have held any academic position:......
• Academia: How Corrupt Can It Get? More corrupt, I suspect, than we can imagine. This is a big topic, but for now let’s take the case of Cambridge University professor Jason Arday. Arday’s story, as related by himself, is almost miraculous. And, it turns out, almost entirely false. Greeted as a hero just a few years ago–Cambridge’s youngest black professor!–his career is now on the rocks.  The story can be told in a chronological series of London Times articles:......
• The Decline Of Academia A defense of Western meritocracy against the academically destructive DEI incursion. In The Decline of the West (1918–1922), Oswald Spengler introduces a biological metaphor, comparing Western civilization to a living organism. Within this concept, Judeo-Christian ethics forms the pulsating heart—the wellspring of compassion, human dignity, and the moral imperative to see the face of the other. Yet it is the brain—cold, discerning, hierarchical, and relentlessly oriented towards truth—that has propelled the West to unparalleled heights of inquiry, innovation, and ordered liberty. That brain is the academy, predicated on uncompromising meritocracy. When this cerebral faculty falters, the body politic convulses into senescence......

Is academia doomed?  

• University Indoctrination Centers Are Being Abandoned —As I wrote last week, public schools are depopulating on a large scale for a variety of reasons, including a declining birth rate, the fact that many of them don’t offer a worthy product, the advancement of school choice, and others. Colleges are faring even worse for many of the same reasons. In January, Arthur Levine, president of Brandeis University, asserted that 20 percent to 25 percent of colleges will close in the coming years.
• The University As We Know It Is Finished —When University of California President Clark Kerr delivered the Godkin Lectures at Harvard in 1963, published shortly thereafter as The Uses of the University, he was doing something unusual for an academic administrator: he was offering a sophisticated social theory, and doing so with wit. In these lectures, Kerr coined the term “multiversity” to describe what the postwar American research university had become. In Kerr’s account, the modern university was no longer to be understood as a community of scholars united by a shared ideal of learning, but rather as a sprawling institutional conglomerate serving at once as a research engine, a job-training facility, a credentialing mechanism, a coming-of-age experience, and an incubator of the national technical elite. The University of California, which Kerr had just finished steering through a near-decade of explosive growth, was his exemplar........
• Academic Armageddon Advances Even at top schools, leaders must cut needless costs.  Robert Kelchen of the University of Tennessee, writing in the Chronicle of Higher Education recently, described the most dire problem facing higher education today: “The list of institutions trimming academic programs, implementing furloughs, and laying off employees is long and growing…”  A massive financial crunch has hit many schools because of sagging tuition revenue growth (reflecting falling enrollment or more aggressive discounting of tuition fees) and reduced public financial support in the form of federal and/or state aid and stagnant private philanthropy, all occurring in an environment of heightened inflationary pressures increasing the dollars needed to operate.  .....

If we're really sincere about fixing education, then we need to defund it.  I think it's possible these insane increases in education might be the best thing that has ever happened to higher education. I know that may sound insane, but in the real world it's the cost of things that re-focuses people’s attention, and we really need to get rid of the idea education is a Golden Calf, irrespective of it's failures.  Success in life is about persistence and hard work, and that success can be achieved with or without graduating with a degree! As , who I think was the finest President of the 20th century noted:

 

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On!' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” 

 

At some point someone will stand up and force this issue of funding for higher education by the government and the demands the Department of Education imposes on the institutions, and that's where the problem lies entirely.  Furthermore, these universities deliberately raise tuition costs in order to make it possible for more students to qualify for government loans or funding of some kind, many of whom shouldn't be there in the first place. Another good reason to get rid of the Department of Education, and to end this student loan fiasco.  

Is Democrat Antisemitism Driving Jews to the Republican Party?

By Rich Kozlovich

I have a very conservative Jewish friend who is upset at J.D. Vance due to his unwillingness to denounce Tucker Carlson and other former conservative antisemites, and says she won't vote for him as a result.   I get that.  What I don't get are how overall Jews in America continue to vote for candidates who are, along with their party as a whole, blatantly antisemitic.  The Democrats! 

It turns out according to the Jewish Electorate Institute concern over Democrat antisemitism has "not caused a mass shift of Jewish voters to the Republican Party."

"Democratic Support: Roughly two-thirds (65% to 70%) of American Jewish voters continue to support and vote for Democratic candidates. Historical Trend: Since the 1930s, the majority of Jewish Americans have consistently aligned with the Democratic Party. The Republican Share: Around 22% to 25% of Jewish voters back Republicans, though support is significantly higher among Orthodox Jewish communities."  

 

While Jews are concerned about all the very real anti-Semitic and anti-Israel rhetoric, much of it appearing on college campuses and promoted by the far left members of the Democrat party, they don't like Donald Trump, and don't trust the Republican party fearing "far right extremism".... however they may define that .... and resent conservatives views on abortion, healthcare and welfare.  While they feel conflicted over all this, according to the Pew Research Center Jews continue to trust Democrats over Republicans to "handle the issue of anti-antisemitism."  How can arguably the smartest people on the planet be so dumb?  

 

Recently Democrat candidate Shelly Headon went to the Nazi concentration camp Dachau and stood in front of the ovens.... and smiled..... claiming this is where all the "stupid people" who vote for Trump belong.  How could any sane person stand in front of the ovens where thousands of Jews were cremated.... and smile?  

 

 

 

Sloan Rachmuth an investigative journalist,  Zionist, terrorism survivor who defends Judeo-Christian values was quoted on X saying; 

 

Shelly Headen Stood Where My Grandparents’ Generation Was Burned and She Smiled.  There's a unique pain only Jews know: standing at a death camp and watching an evil POS treat ovens like a funny political prop  Democratic House candidate Shelly Headen smiled in front of Dachau’s ovens and wrote that this is where Trump supporters belong.  Then she said America’s “only hope” was a t*rror attack on U.S. soil — preferably Alabama and Louisiana, “where the stupid people live.”

Her comments have caused outrage across North Carolina - as they should.  NEVER AGAIN is not a punchline.

 

So, back to my basic question:  Is Democrat antisemitism driving Jews to the Republican party?  The short answer is NO!

Update:

• More Evidence that Leftism is Today's Nazism - The left is a bottomless pit of hatred and inhuman depravity. People who applaud them reveal something about themselves.  When I say that today’s leftist Democrats are capable of greater evil than any movement yet in history, this is an example of what I mean:.......
• Democrats: Totalitarians Without Boundaries  - El-Sayed is the voice of today’s Democratic Party. It’s a voice of undiluted hatred of the good, of barely contained savagery and brutality. It’s not marginal. Any Democratic voter you know will vote for this barbarian over ANY Republican, and feel smug and self-righteous while doing so..........

Cartoon Picks of the Day

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Points to Ponder

By Rich Kozlovich

As I do my daily searches I often come across some pithy thoughts and decided to share them along with some of my own observations on reality. 

"We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful." C.S. Lewis

"Can you name anything a prominent leftist has said or done in the last 25 years that has made America safer, stronger, more prosperous, and more united?"

"Someone should tell Art Garfunkel the Great Barrier Reef is doing just fine", and if he really is going to leave America, I would like to recommend Iran. I'm sure they'll appreciate any derogatory views he may wish to share with the public.

The lone juror who refused to accept the pseudoscience psychobabble about Lindsay Clancy was criticized by a female jurors who said he just couldn't get over the fact she murdered her three children. Imagine that. And as it turned out he was black to boot, and leftists are shocked, shocked I tell you! 

Can anyone explain to me why his morally firm stance and his being black was such a shock to the left? Maybe they think a black jury member should only have 3/5ths of a vote?   How about this; maybe, just maybe, the radicalism of the left is turning off black America? Just a thought. 

Democrats were the party of slavery and the party of segregation.  Democrats who wanted to destroy the United States in order to keep their black slaves said that was okay since they weren't people.  Now, they're saying abortion is just fine because these unborn babies aren't people.  

Since abortion isn't murder, then maybe murder isn't murder either?  They can't define what a woman is, and now they can't define what murder is.  If that's true, and it is, so if Lindsay Clancy murdering her three children was just mental illness, then can we argue Jeffrey Dahmer was just hungry?   I wonder how would these dingle berries react if Lindsay Clancy killed three illegal? 

Leftists have testified under oath before Congress that men can get pregnant.  But when it comes to a woman murdering her children they claim men have no say because they can't get pregnant.  And leftists say conservatives have something wrong with them.  

If hormones make women crazy enough to murder their children, then why are leftists promoting hormones in children to change their gender

Democrats demand blacks be given preferences in redistricting in order to increase black representation in Congress.  Then a white former DNC Chairman, Wassermann Schultz, changed districts to increase her chances of staying in Congress over black candidates in a majority black district. Is anyone shocked?

What do Los Angeles, New York City, and Havana have in common? They're run by communists, and they want the entire nation to embrace communism.  But they may have a problem.  The younger generation lacks the work ethnic needed to build the necessary gulags.  

Ask a Muslim which of these is morally wrong: (1) Beating your wife; (2) Marrying a child; (3) Eating bacon.  This cartoon came from American thinker.   

"There have been over 65,000 Islam terror attacks since 9/11 across 70 countries.  The world’s 4 other major religions, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism and Buddhism make up 2% of all religiously motivated terror attacks, Muslims are responsible for the other 98%."  Well, I guess we should we ignore that as its racial profiling?  Right?  Or perhaps we should take this view.  "This is what we need to remember on September 11th. The world doesn’t really have a terrorist problem, the world has a Muslim problem. The problem is Islam." 

"There is the growing talk of repealing the 19th Amendment—getting rid of the mad, blue-haired females who are distinguished by being irrational, emotional, and often psychotic."

Wisdom is the application of knowledge and understanding. Age limits on voting? Raise it to age 30. Depending on who you read, up to the age of 10 or 12, the brain is structured to understand language. After that the brain restructures itself to the task of gaining knowledge. After 30 the brain restructures itself again developing understanding by applying that knowledge.

Mamdani has been taking a beating over 911, and one commenter snarkily noted: "For all of my life I've been waiting for a Muslim from Ugandan to tell me what it means to be an American."  

If the sun burns out in one billion years that means California will have to finish their high speed rail in the dark.  

Fitness is a sign of white supremacy.   

"It's a tough time to be a conspiracy theorist.  The only things they have left are dragons and a flat Earth.  Everything else has turned out to be true."   So, what's the difference between a conspiracy theorist and a person who believes in conspiracies?  A conspiracy theorist is someone who needs conspiracies to explain a world he doesn't understand.  A person who believes in conspiracies actually read a history book.   

The Swedish word for speed is fartkontrol.  It really is.   

European Nationalism is a Delusion

By Rich Kozlovich

I just watched this podcast by George Friedman regarding Germany the AdF and European unity, and for the most part I agree with much of what he's said in that there will never be a “unified” Europe.  Europe is a continent of competing nations speaking over 200 languages and having their own cultural peculiarities, and the new generation believes it has the right to determine their own fate and not be bound by the restrictions imposed by the events of WWII.  That's especially true in Germany. 

The EU is an illusion, and a destructive one.  NATO was the only thing that held them together.  However, I do think this election victory by the AfD  in Germany is big; much bigger than many may think. We're coming into the final stages of this historical cycle, and it's been my view for years somewhere in the political movements of these nations there's a Hitler or Mussolini style character with the rhetorical charisma to charm the populace into a massive political upset, including violence.

The difference is they're not going to be concerned with conquering the world. Their focus will be on saving ethnic Europeans and the European culture, and that's going be a binding force among these like movements emerging in Europe. It's already taking shape in Ireland, the UK, France, and now Spain after this Ceuta disaster. 

The difference between the mass migration from Europe to the US was all those people who came to America wanted to become Americans. Not Serbs, Hungarians, Poles, etc, who just happened to live in America, but Americans who just happened to be of different ethnic origins. Muslims don't want to be Germans, French, Brits or Spanish, they want Europeans to abandon European culture and become Muslims....or else.

You have to wonder what in the world possesses these European “leaders” to hate their nation, their culture, and their people so much, and the people are going to rebel. While this is being debated as to how big this election was, I think this is huge, and I think will spread throughout Germany and the rest of Europe. The outrages perpetrated by Muslims all over Europe has taken it's toll, and those politicians who've supported all this immigration and covered over the facts are going to pay, and I also believe the transition will involve massive levels of violence, and Russia will be the least of their concerns. Europe is in a downward swirling vortex of economic destruction, and nothing's going to stop it.

September 11, 2001 Started as an Ordinary Day

By Robin M. Itzler 

"The enemy is inside the wire and they will use all means by which to subvert Western civilization into yet one more dhimmitude frontier. This must be made clear to all the potential dhimmis before their fate is made irreversible by their lack of awareness or lack of action. Recalling Trump’s call for the people to “Fight, fight, fight”, this is the most poignant battle which faces the world today, and to the victor will go the spoils of nothing less than the future fate of the world."

September 11, 2001, was just an ordinary Tuesday. That morning at around 8:30 a.m. on the east coast, most people were either at work or on their commute. Kids were settling in at school. On the west coast, folks were likely getting ready to do the same. 

Whether the TV or radio news was background chatter or the focus, suddenly there were interruptions announcing that at 8:46 a.m. an American Airlines Boeing 767 (with 20,000 gallons of jet fuel) had crashed into New York City’s World Trade Center’s North Tower. The jet hit between the 93rd and 99th floors of the 110-story skyscraper. Hundreds of people were instantly killed, and others were trapped on the higher floors with no way to escape.

Most people immediately assumed it was a terrible accident, and they continued along with their day while listening for news updates.

However, 17 minutes later at 9:03 a.m. United Airlines Flight 175 hit the South Tower between the 77th and 85th floors.

Americans immediately knew that the United States was under attack, with many correctly guessing WHO had attacked us.

This was not the first time the World Trade Center had been attacked by Muslim terrorists. On February 26, 1993, Islamist terrorists targeted the World Trade Center. A truck bomb exploded in the North Tower’s underground parking structure, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000.

(In October 2025, then mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani visited Masjid At-Taqwa, a mosque in Brooklyn. The smiling Mamdani had his photo taken with Imam Siraj Wahhaj, whom federal prosecutors once named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Is anyone surprised?)

While the world focused on the World Trade Center in Manhattan, American Airlines Flight 77 was circling Arlington, Virginia, which is near Washington, D.C. At 9:37 a.m. the jet crashed into the west side of the Pentagon.

A few minutes later at 9:45 a.m., the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officially ordered a complete shutdown of U.S. airspace and commanded all airborne planes to land immediately at the nearest airport.

At 9:59 a.m. the South Tower collapsed.

By this time passengers on United Airlines Flight 93 were aware that their plane was not experiencing a “regular” hijacking. They had been calling family and friends who told them about the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. Knowing they were going to die, their goal was to divert the plane away from wherever it planned to go. (Later it was revealed that the fourth plane was intended to hit the heart of America’s republic – the U.S. Capitol.) At 10:02 a.m., at a speed of 500 miles per hour, Flight 93 crashed in a rural field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The passengers and crew were heroes for diverting the plane away from D.C.

At  10:28 a.m., the North Tower collapsed. A small group (14 to 18 people) miraculously survived. They were with several New York firefighters in the North Tower’s Stairwell B, which somehow remained intact when the tower fell. Hours later, everyone was pulled from the debris.

Most of the world was glued to their television, radio, social media and phones. For the United States of America, there will always be a ‘before 9-11’ and ‘after 9-11’ view of the world.

President George Bush, who was in Florida when the strikes started, had been shuttled to various locations for protection while in contact with government agents about the unfolding events. By 7 p.m., he was back at the White House. At 8:30 p.m., President Bush addressed the American people and the entire world from the Oval Office. Sitting at the Resolute Desk, he said:

“Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.”

In the days and weeks following the attack, New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (since called “America’s Mayor” for his outstanding post 9-11 leadership) told the American people:

“The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead, we have emerged stronger and more unified. We feel renewed devotion to the principles of political, economic and religious freedom, the rule of law and respect for human life. We are more determined than ever to live our lives in freedom.”

On September 11, 2026, Americans will commemorate the horrific day when Muslims attacked the United States of America killing 2,977 innocent people of all races and faiths. Thousands more who had spent weeks digging out the remains of the World Trade Center in the aftermath (and trying to find pieces of bodies) developed illnesses related to 9-11. Many lived with chronic respiratory diseases and died prematurely. More than 100 search and rescue dogs that were deployed to help find survivors in the rubble of the towers also suffered from medical ailments in the years following their service.

About 40 percent of the World Trade Center victims have been identified. It might have been from jewelry or body parts. Only 261 intact bodies were found. While workers were going through the debris, they found 65,000 items, including 437 watches and 144 wedding rings.

Twenty-five years later, there are many people, organizations and governments (including many in our own country) that refuse to speak the truth as to WHO committed the terrorist acts on September 11, 2001. As communist Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar once said, “Some people did something.”

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) asked that the word “terrorist” not be used in conjunction with the 9-11 MUSLIM TERRORIST attacks. Former Governor George E. Pataki responded on X to that request:

“I was Governor of New York on September 11, 2001.

The planes did not simply crash into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. They were hijacked and deliberately flown into those buildings by Islamist terrorists.

The CBC’s refusal to call September 11 a terrorist attack is political correctness masquerading as journalism. Fear of being accused of Islamophobia cannot become an excuse for denying the plain truth. This is a shameful failure of moral courage.

Truth matters in a free society. Sanitizing September 11 dishonors the nearly 3,000 people who were murdered, the first responders who ran toward danger, and every family that still carries the pain of that day.

No institution should be afraid to tell the truth.”

At this year’s 25th anniversary Memorial Ceremony in Manhattan, families of the victims will gather on the plaza at the Memorial & Museum. They will read aloud the names of the 2,983 people killed in the 2001 attacks and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

A quarter of a century ago, the United States was attacked by Islamist terrorists who used planes as their weapons. Today many believe Islamist attacks are attacking the United States with ballots. What do YOU think?

Robin M. Itzler is the founder and editor of Patriot Neighbors, a free weekly national newsletter. Robin can be reached at RobinItzler@yahoo.com.

James Talarico and His Church

 By Rich Kozlovich

Talarico is alleged to be a devout church going Christian, claiming his "Christian faith as a justification for far left policies", but his theological views can hardly be viewed as an embrace of traditionally foundational Christian thinking or values.  It seems to me he's a heretic of the first order.  Others are more specific saying his views are a "perversion, of Christianity.”  Let's take a quick look.

1.  He insists the Bible requires the government to provide health care.  It appears he and John Kasich apparently went to the same Bible classes.  
2. He claims the Bible is silent on abortion, 
3. Supported a gay pride event alongside an 11 YEAR-OLD child drag queen. 
4. Believed.... at least until he backtracked... there are six biological sexes. 
5. Believes and any effort to prevent  “gender-affirming healthcare to trans children as Christofascism.
6. Accuses Christianity of being the “most violent” religion that has done “more damage” to Islam."
7. Defends convicted murderer Karmelo Anthony.
8. Wants to redefine faith and God Is Not a Christian’. 
9. God is non binary 
10. He's convinced Jesus is not the only way to truth and that Islam leads to the "same" truth.

For some time I've watched Talarico's theological views playing out and I wondered how the membership of his church felt about those views.  Now I know.  They're just as strange as Talarico. 

He and his "Woke Church harbored illegal aliens to hide them from ICE, and it turns out members of his church wishes the Trump shooter in Butler, PA ‘had been more successful".  

What kind of members belong to this "church"?  Well, if we're to believe the female pastor of this church, most the members of the congregation are agnostic or atheist.  Make sure to scroll down to see the video of this pastor. 

What I find incredible about these people is why they bother to go to church at all.  If they're atheists what value do they receive from attending, it certainly can't be of a spiritual nature?  Also,  I assume they must pray during their services but if they're atheists or agnostics, who exactly are they praying to and why?  I think there are two words that define these type of people.  Like all members of the Church of Wokeness, they're strange and sick. 

Update, 9/17/26:

• CAUGHT ON TAPE: Talarico’s Own Church Minister Says His Sudden “Moderation” Is A Con – “Once He Gets Elected, He’ll Change His Tune Back to Where He Was” - An undercover video obtained by The Daily Wire has blown a hole in Texas Democrat James Talarico’s latest campaign makeover. Rev. Babs Miller, the “Minister to the Parish” at Talarico’s longtime Austin congregation, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, was recorded telling an undercover journalist that the Senate candidate’s new talking points on transgender ideology are political theater, and that the old Talarico will be back the minute the votes are counted.  “I can guarantee you that once he gets elected, he’ll change his tune back to where he was,” Miller said.  That is not a Republican talking point. That is Talarico’s own minister.......

Update, 9/18/26:

• Exclusive: Undercover Video Shows James Talarico’s Pastor Supporting Atheists, if You ‘Hate Religion We’re on the Same Team’ - Undercover video obtained by Breitbart News shows Texas Democrat U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico’s pastor and mentor, Rev. Jim Rigby, saying he welcomes atheists to join his church and “if you love humanity and love nature and that’s why you hate religion then we’re on the same team.”.....

What I'm Reading: Europe

By Rich Kozlovich 

You have to wonder what in the world possesses these European “leaders” to hate their nation, their culture, and their people so much?  Whether it's agricultural practices, energy production, taxes, regulations, or immigration Europe is in a downward swirling vortex of destruction.  And worse yet, what in the world possesses the citizens of the UK and the rest of Europe to vote for them?

Well, not only is Europe facing a maelstrom of demographic and social disaster, they’re all headed into the economic toilet of massive debt they can’t repay. When they default their little worlds will come tumbling down, then we’re going to see civil disobedience and violence in Europe unlike anything the world has seen since WWII.

It’s called Stage Six of this historical cycle, and it's all coming home to roost, and it's been my view for years somewhere in the political movements of these nations there's a Hitler or Mussolini style character with the rhetorical charisma to charm the populace into a massive political upset, including violence.  The difference is they're not going to be concerned with conquering the world.  Their focus will be on saving ethnic Europeans and European culture, and it's my view the violence that will ensue will leave Europe devastated turning Europe into a third rate mess.  

Europe is Doomed 

1. Europe is suicidally complacent about the Islamist threat 
2. What Was the European Dream? 
3. Freedom of Speech Dying a Slow Death in Europe 
4. The European Free Speech Crisis 
5. As Europe Becomes Increasingly Militarized, Norway Expands New Arctic Brigade, Strengthening NATO’s Northern Border
6. Can Europe be saved from itself?
7.  How Europe Grows Gas Tax Revenues Gas prices are rising again in Germany. The main culprit is the state with its towering levies. 
8. Will Illegal Immigration Be The Death Of Europe?
9.  Part II: Demographics + Entitlements = Europe’s Doom August 3, 2026 by Dan Mitchel
10. The EU and the Iron Law of Oligarchy The EU is an oligarchy governed by a small self-perpetuating ruling class that sees “the people” as impediments to its technocratic program.
11.  EU Mulls Letting Farm Drones Spray Pesticides Widely

France

Let's not be delusional.  There is no conservative movement in France as we understand conservatism.  Whether it's Canada, France, England, Germany or any other western nation their "conservatives" are more like our RINO's.   

1. Marine Le Pen Vows to ‘Combat Islamist Ideologies,’ Will Fine the Muslim Veiling of Women...
2.  France Going Right? All across Europe, anti-immigration parties are gaining ground. By convention, they are deemed “far right” by the press, regardless of what other policy positions they may hold. In several countries, legal efforts have been made to keep anti-immigration parties off the ballot, lest they win. One of those countries is France, where Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Rally, was charged along with her party with a crime; namely, using European Union funding for political rather than EU parliamentary duties. Among other penalties, Le Pen was barred from running for office for five years, meaning that she was preventing from running in the 2027 race for President.  But Le Pen’s sentence was reduced on appeal, and she is the National Rally’s presidential candidate. The most recent polling has her with a commanding lead:

Germany 

According to one subscription site:

 "Germany's Merz Under Pressure as AfD Heads for Record Showing in Crucial State Elections With the AfD leading by a wide margin in polls for two upcoming state elections, the parties making up the national government face heavy losses that could paralyze its reform agenda."

And the ruling class doesn't like it and is going to do all it can to prevent them from taking power.  How's that for democracy.  The peasants just don't get it so in some way the ruling elite have to correct their wrong thinking, even if it means being underhanded and corrupt.  After all, since it's done in the name of saving democracy, so that makes it okay.

1.  Bombshell Germany Election Could Mean Left-Right Populist Coalition……Berlin Vows to Use State ‘Instruments’ to ‘Defend’ Against Result Germany’s embattled Chancellor has vowed to use the “instruments” of the security state to “defend” against a potential anti-mass-migration state government after Sunday night’s bombshell election results in Saxony-Anhalt.
2.  40% of Berlin Police Applicants Can’t Speak German
3.  Diversity German Style: Berlin Pool Advertised ‘Black Only’ Swimming Hour
4.  Germany's AfD won a state election in a landslide, sounding an alarm for centrist politics
5.  The Election That Shook Germany's Political Establishment to Its Core 
6.  Europe wrestles with impact of historic regional gains for Germany’s AfD - "Seismic", "a socio-political earthquake", "a watershed moment for Germany".  This was how political analysts and many media outlets described the stunning victory of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in local elections in Germany on Sunday. Is that an exaggeration?.......

Spain

Leftism is a secular religion, and has their own Kyrie Eleison   When failure eventually strikes the chant starts: 

It's not my fault, it's not my fault, it's not my fault, it's not my fault. Amen! 

Whose fault is it then? It's the Jews, it's Russia, it's Trump, it's the fault of the rest of Europe because they're prejudiced about not wanting more Muslim invaders in their countries.  Image that.  After all,  they don't have nearly enough rapist criminal Muslim immigrants of their own, so they should take Spain's.  Right?  

Considering who the Spanish voted in as their leaders this shouldn't have surprised anyone. Schadenfreude! 

1. Migrants in Ceuta catch an infant dolphin and beat it to death—because it’s fun for them Environmental conservation and third-worldism are diametrically opposed interests.
2. 70,000 in Spain Protest PM Sanchez Invasion Cover-Up Last week, I warned that the Sanchez government in Spain had been lying about managing the Muslim invasion of Ceuta and lying that it was under control. Instead, the Sanchez government is preparing to move thousands of Muslim migrants into mainland Spain.......Spain’s Ministry of Health is sending 45,000 doses of vaccines to deal with the migrant outbreaks including 10,000 polio, chickenpox, and diphtheria-tetanus vaccines and 15,000 MMR vaccines suggesting that the true number may be between 10,000 and 15,000. What the vaccine regime reveals even more than the numbers is the fact that they’re staying........People in occupied Ceuta have been protesting for a while, but now there are massive rallies in Spain against Sanchez’s invasion.
3. Ceuta Was an Invasion [Updated] If a group of people consisting mostly of women and children enter a country, it is a migration. If a group consisting overwhelmingly of young men enter a country, it is an invasion. An explosive new report by Spain’s National Police suggests that what happened a month ago in Ceuta, and still continues, was an invasion organized by the government of Morocco: The National Police has informed Judge María Tardón
4.  Ceuta’s once gorgeous beach is now a gigantic migrant slum… — Revolver
5. Women Flee Ceuta, Spain After 15 Rapes Recorded Since End Of July, 10-Year-Old Sexually Assaulted By 3 Moroccans
6. The Fog is Lifting Italy’s Giorgia Meloni is using the Ceuta disaster to strengthen the national-conservative front within the EU. Returns 
7. Ceuta invasion another step toward a Muslim Europe, And Americans Can Ill Afford To Be Smug 
8. Ceuta Struggles to Protect Migrant Girls as Hordes of Men Abuse Them on the Streets
9. Ceuta's Migration Crisis Spain's Interior Ministry Dismisses Police Warnings of Jihadis Among Ceuta Migrants
10.  Bishop of Ceuta: “Migrants are Missionaries of Hope that Widen Our Hearts”  “Typical African songs and dances filled the cathedral.”
11. ‘Enough’ — Ceuta’s Religious Communities Demand End to Migrant Invasions
12. Top Islamist Theologian Accuses Zionists of Orchestrating Spain’s Migrant Crisis
13.  ‘We Are Spanish, We Are Locked in Our Homes’ — Ceuta 2026: The Manufactured Invasion...
14. Spain’s Socialist Government Allocates €25 Million to Immigrant Minors Who Invaded Ceuta as One in Three Spanish Children Lives at Risk of Poverty
15. The Bizarre Efforts to Blame Morocco Migrant Invasion of Spain on US and Israel 
16. Italy’s Meloni Denounces Spanish ‘Regularizing’ of 500,000 Irregular Migrants
17.  Narrative-Crafting Socialist Spain Pushes ‘International Reactionary Forces’ Conspiracy Theory After Ceuta Invasion…
18. VIDEO: Moroccan Men Hide out in Ceuta’s Woods to Escape Deportation from Spain
19. Is Washington Abandoning Spain? How U.S. Policy, Israel’s Alliance with Morocco, and Pedro Sánchez’s Immigration Agenda Are Reshaping the Western Mediterranean
20. Watch: Spanish Woman’s ‘Suicidal Empathy’ on Full Display as Africans Invade City
21. SPAIN INVASION: Failing Socialist PM Sánchez Jets Out for Holiday as Authorities in Ceuta Are Still Chasing Migrants To Deport and Recovering Dead Bodies From the Sea
22.  Dune’ Star Javier Bardem Blames Israel for the Illegal Migrant Invasion of Spanish Ceuta
23.  Ceuta questions The incident in Spanish Cueta last week is quickly being memory-holed before even basic questions are answered. In the span of less than 24 hours, somewhere between 50,000 and 60,000 “migrants” stormed the border from Morocco into the tiny North African enclave, which itself has a population of only 80,000 or so. And just like that, they were immediately expelled. We were told by “authorities” that the invaders were almost
24.   Ceuta to Defy Illegal Migrant Invasion and Hold Traditional Catholic Celebration
25.  Spanish PM Accuses Europe of Prejudice for Not Wanting to be Invaded by Migrants
26.   How Spain Invited the Invasion

UK

This is coming to a head in the UK and the new Prime Minister may be even worse than Starmer.  The UK is a mess, and the PM position has become a revolving door of failure with five Prime Ministers in the last five years and seven in the last ten years.  

1.  Warning: Britain on Brink of ‘Serious Civil Disturbance’ over Migrant Crisis
2. UK Woman Working to Help Afghan Refugees… Murdered by Afghan Refugee
3. U.K. government condemns anti-immigrant demonstrators at port city

Thought For the Day

 By Rich Kozlovich

Recently a young boy told his mother when he grew up to be a man he wanted to be a Democrat. His mother told him he could be one or the other.  

There are two diametrically opposing views in America.  

There are those who believe in God, know what restroom to use, believe equal rights is not equity, believe in law and order, believe criminals need to be arrested tried for their crimes and put in jail, and have the most guns.  

And those who don't.

The Democrat party has shown an amazing ability for adaptability and transition.  In 1860 they were represented by the Confederate States of America attempting to destroy the United States, and now they're represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, with the goal of destroying the United States.  

No matter what your views are on life, there are some things that are absolutely foundational.  First, life is about patterns and circles. Patterns of behavior, and the social circles prompting that behavior, and those the patterns of life repeat over and over again.  

If we go through life expecting the best behavior out of humanity, we will live lives of eternal disappointment, because people will always be people, culture is king, and corruption is queen.  That's "the basics" and everything is "the basics".  See things at their foundational level because the more complicated we perceive reality, the less clarity we will possess. 

If you pay close attention to what people say and do, they will eventually tell you who and what they really want and who they really are, because time, reality and history are on the same side; truth! 

One final thought.  Does everyone wonder why people who left nations that are disasters came to America and have worked to turn America into the disasters they left?  

 

The Obscene Imprisonment of Tuo Thao

Chauvin Partner Speaks Out, Blames Obama, Walz, enemies “inside the gates”

By Jack Cashill @ Jack's Substack

Editor's Note:  I stopped publishing the works of others some time ago, with exceptions.  This is one of those exceptions.  RK 

After spending nearly three years in prison, Tuo Thao is prepared to speak out. When asked why, Thao told American Reformer’s Daniel Strand, “If I know the truth and allow an innocent man to languish in prison, what good am I to God?” The innocent man in question was his partner on the night of May 25, 2020, Derek Chauvin, now serving a 22-year prison sentence.

In the Federal court, Thao was sentenced to 42 months in prison for violating George Floyd’s civil rights. The State of Minnesota sentenced him to 57 months for aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter. With “good time,” Thao served a little more than three years.

Thao has often been asked, “How someone who was doing crowd control and never touched Floyd could have been charged.” The reason, he believes: was that “I would not bend the knee to the mob and could not be bribed as a witness.”

Thao protects officers from growing mob

Thao had particular value to the prosecution as a racial minority. His people, the Hmong of Laos, were persecuted for having sided with the Americans in their shared struggle against the Communists. The son of grateful refugees, Thao was not willing to collaborate with the crypto-commies who run Minnesota. “It was only by the grace of God and His mighty hand,” explains Thao, “that I was able to stand up to evil and call it out as such, knowing that it would cost me much pain.”

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The prosecutors hoped Thao would turn on Chauvin. He refused. “I knew Derek personally. As a minority officer, if he were racist, why would I want to work with him?” says Thao. “I have never heard of anyone complaining that he was racist. That racial narrative was purely manufactured to stoke racial tension within the country.”

Thao knows his history. “I think we can also trace some of the racial tensions back to when President Barack Obama was in the White House,” said Thao. “You really see this oppressor and oppressed ideology being employed during election years. It’s kind of ironic because President Obama was elected as the first black president.”

Police Chief Medaria Arradondo lied under oath about Chauvin’s restraint

The case against Chauvin, elaborates Thao, was “absolutely unfair.” Knowing the case as well as he does, he cites the specifics. The restraint Chauvin used was “taught by the police department.” The original prosecutors, when “pressured to charge us and/or add charges,” removed themselves from the case.

The medical examiner, Andrew Baker, was “pressured professionally by an outside colleague, Dr. Roger Mitchell,” to add neck compression to the diagnosis or face public rebuke. The prosecutors schemed “to avoid any illicit drug discussions.”

These corruptions in the Chauvin case went unchecked because the powers that be had pre-positioned their thumbs on the scale of justice. Thao does not shy from naming names, citing “Tim Walz, Keith Ellison, Jacob Frey, Minneapolis Police Department Chief Medaria Arradondo…and Judge Peter Cahill,” not to mention “the Biden Department of Justice” and the “mainstream media.” Under these circumstances, says Thao, “It is impossible to defend yourself.”

Daddy comes home after 3 years in prison

Prison was not easy. On day one, he narrowly avoided an assassination attempt. For the duration, he desperately missed his wife and three children. What sustained him was his faith in Jesus. Says Thao, “As we know, Jesus says that in this life we will have trials and tribulations, but he has overcome the world. That is a promise those who are suffering can hold on to.”

For further education on this subject, Thao recommends The Fall of Minneapolis and Minnesota Mao, both films by Liz Collin and Dr. J.C. Chaix. “The enemies of our nation are not at the gates,” he concludes, “but inside the gates now, infiltrating all our institutions.”

Not without hope, Thao adds, “I believe it is our responsibility to ensure fertile ground for the faith of our children to be practiced and matured in this nation.” Thao’s valiant story undermines every virtue our friends on the left attribute to themselves. Please share.

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Thought For the Day

By Rich Kazlovich  (Cartoon source American Thinker)

If this cartoon reflects reality, then of the 193 members of the UN less than half are considered free.   If these other countries aren't free, or only mostly free, then they're violating the UN Charter. Right?   This bodes well three questions. 

1. We're they ever free? If not, why were they allowed UN membership? 
2. What does mostly free mean exactly? 
3. If they were free and then turned tyrannical, why hasn't their UN membership been revoked? 

The answer is simple.  The UN is the most corrupt and incompetent organization the world has ever known.