Christiain Culture in Crisis

By Rich Kozlovich

When we see the positions these church ‘leaders’ take you have to wonder what it is they really believe. They clearly don’t believe in the Bible, and one has to wonder if they really believe in God. Their outright heresy should be obvious to the most casual observer.

However, this isn’t anything new. In ancient Israel at one point the priests allowed pagan idols in the Temple, and there were Israelite kings who sacrificed children to pagan idols, and none of that happened overnight. It was progressive and it destroyed Israel.  

And that’s the point! The Christian based culture of western civilization is in crisis, and to such a degree it may not be reversible. The abandonment of the Judaic/Christian principles western civilization was founded on have been abandoned, and that will destroy western civilization.  

One Lutheran Pastor claimed Joseph’s colored coat was a “Pretty Princess Dress” and says that story should make Christians sympathetic to queer and trans people.  So, according to this woman pastor (which is a violation of Biblical admonition) that was a message from God to defend a life style he condemned in the Mosaic Law of Israel?   Did I get that right? 

A priest from the Episcopal church, the "Reverend Flourish Klink, who considers herself a transgender nonbinary individual", claimed Jesus was Trans,"and if you deny this you deny his divinity". She also went on to say: 

“God is non-binary. God is non-binary, but I’m going to go further than that, and I’m going to say God is actually also trans,”....“And now let’s get on the same page here. When we trans people are born, folks assign us a gender based on what they see. Then, when we’re old enough, we realize that that wasn’t right, and we’re not in our deepest selves the gender that everybody thought we were.” 

She also concluded  that Jesus was wrongly assigned “male” at birth.  I guess God made a mistake calling him his 'son'?  

Did I get that right?

Since Prince Charles claims he learned spirituality from Islam, the Archbishop of Canterbury was more than comfortable in "awarding a Pakistani radical Islamist.....for his Reconciliation and Interfaith Cooperation work. He is a big fan of Osama bin Laden and advises Pakistan's government on blasphemy laws." 

"He also described suicide bombings in Afghanistan as lawful, supported Islamic blasphemy laws, which carry the death penalty, and claimed Jewish people and Christians were using the war in Iran to target Iran’s nuclear weapons."

An award for Reconciliation and Interfaith Cooperation?  Ya gotta be kidden me!  He gets this award while Christians in England are being arrested for praying silently in public and and being censored for being skeptical of Islam, Muslim rape gangs are rampant and being "protected by the police and the government."  

It turns out this triggered such outrage she was forced to rescind the award.  It's hard to believe anyone could be this clueless.  I think it's interesting she embraces of all things Woke, and one of them is advancing "women's' rights", but he wouldn't allow the Archbishop to pin the award on him because women are unclean, and this man's wife was so completely covered only her eyes shown.   

Did I get that right?

Pope Leo apparently thinks the Catholicism Church teachings need some secular adjustments, so he appointed a Bishop to a position in Bolivia who's open to Holy Communion for active homosexuals and ordination of women deacons, which are "ordained ministers called to serve the Church", and admonishes Catholics to have “the courage to make a different Church.”

Not all in the Catholics think that's such a good idea:

Catholic Bishops Rebuke Gov. Healey Over Radical Abortion Law - Massachusetts' bishops are slamming their so-called Catholic governor, Maura Healey, over the unrestricted abortion bill she signed into law back on August 10. Last Friday, Healey attached an emergency preamble to that legislation, making the law take effect immediately.......

Catholic schools can’t accept LGBTQ propaganda The mission of schools is to form students in truth, which includes biological reality.........Catholic schools cannot selectively set aside teaching on sexuality while at the same time claiming fidelity to the Church.  Formal affirmation of LGBTQ clubs is incompatible with the approach of forming students in the truth about the human person.  Catholic institutions must preserve their integrity by declining official recognition of such clubs and continue pastoral education rooted in truth and clarity, while distinguishing individuals from acts.

Pope Leo is a Jesuit product of far left Latin America Liberation Theology, who praises the foundation motto of socialism from the French Revolution .... “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"..... which unleashed one of the worst terrors of Europe, and was the fermenting crock that bred Marxism and fascism.  And he's now declared “Islam is not the enemy" in an attempt to justify the massive illegal immigration of Muslims into western civilization, which is being touted by this Catholic priest in Germany who insisted "real" Christians must stand up for Muslim migrants, and now these Muslims are calling in that marker all over Europe with rape, crime, violence, destruction and rioting.    

Justice, social justice, and Catholicism - The controversy arises because the two frameworks can lead to different conclusions. A justice-centered approach asks whether a law is applied fairly to each individual. A social justice-centered approach asks whether the law produces equitable outcomes among different groups. When outcomes differ significantly, social justice advocates may call for corrective measures. Critics respond that such measures risk undermining impartiality by introducing distinctions based on group membership rather than individual conduct.......

If you look at all the main stream religions they’re twisting basic Bible truths like pretzels, and creating “new dogma” out of thin air, all in violation of proven and provable Bible teachings, and it’s endemic.  Which makes one wonder if they merely view their positions as a means of employment and truth is socially inconvenient and must be circumvented.  

Italian Bishops are promoting the Qur’an as the ‘Revealed Word of God, claiming they're “countering the walls of prejudice" needing an “in-depth study” as “a way to counter a clash of civilizations"..... “It is vital to get to know one another, especially when living in close proximity. We often think we know someone, yet in reality, we do not know them at all—or rather, we only ‘know’ them through the lens of prejudice.”

Zuppi called the new fact sheets on Islam “a powerful antidote to violence and ignorance.”…. an “in-depth study” as “a way to counter a clash of civilizations” since  “prejudice builds walls, while knowledge constructs bridges.”….. “It is vital to get to know one another, especially when living in close proximity. We often think we know someone, yet in reality, we do not know them at all—or rather, we only ‘know’ them through the lens of prejudice.”….: “Ignorance should have no place in our schools, yet, unfortunately, it often ends up setting the agenda. As a result, people feel entitled to pass judgment on others without truly knowing them. These fact sheets on Islam, created jointly by Catholics and Muslims, therefore serve as a powerful antidote to both violence and ignorance.”

Okay, so I think it providential to ask .....exactly who is it that’s committing violence between Christians and Muslims?  I guess he missed all that news about Christian genocide around the world.  

Surreptitious Surrender- Vatican diplomacy, religious relativism, and the abandonment of the persecuted Church. The ancient heartlands of Christianity—Anatolia, the Levant, Egypt, and the Maghreb—have been emptied of their Christian populations with a thoroughness rarely matched in history. What survives is a faint echo: beleaguered minorities exposed to systemic discrimination, intermittent massacres, and the steady attrition of emigration. In sub-Saharan Africa, the same pattern repeats under the banner of jihadist expansion. Aid to the Church in Need’s 2024–2026 report records that roughly 220 million Christians live under direct exposure to persecution, while 413 million inhabit states in which religious freedom is already seriously compromised. Conditions deteriorated in 55% of the eighteen countries under sustained observation; nowhere did they improve. 

He must have also missed the fact that Algeria, a country he praised, has pretty much purged their Christian and Jewish population over the last 30 years.  If the “The Qur’an is “the revealed word of God” does that mean they believe it's divine truth that Muhammad’s was divinely appointed as God's prophet? 

Did I get that right?

Finally, the chaplain at James Talarico’s church, which caters to atheists and agnostics, Rev. Babs Miller, a lesbian chaplain, says "that Jesus did not die for the sins of humanity – and is not sure whether God’s Son even really existed in the first place."  So, she's a "Reverend" who doesn't believe in the Bible and she apparently is ignorant about the writings of Josephus who claimed Jesus was alive and performed miracles all over Israel.  Is there anything in the Bible this "church" actually believes in? Do they believe there really is such a thing as sin? For what purpose does her church even exist? Do they pray?  If so, who are they praying to? 

Ya just can't make this stuff up, and I think I got all of this right.   

Points to Ponder

By Rich Kozlovich

Africa

Doctors Without Borders: Hundreds of Millions in Ebola Funds Have Disappeared in Congo — ‘Speechless’ - A report from the international humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Thursday revealed that, despite “hundreds of millions of dollars” from global aid groups being sent to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to fight the ongoing Ebola outbreak there, the situation on the ground remains destitute.

What Happened to All the Aid Money? Somalia Is Reportedly on the Brink of Famine. -The widespread fraud in Minnesota's Somali community is not breaking news. At least $9 billion was stolen from taxpayers via the state's welfare programs including Medicaid, housing, and even the autism programs. Millions were lost to the  "Feeding Our Future" scandal, too. We learned last year that almost $400 million was funneled to Al-Shabaab, the Somali-based Islamic terrorist group, and CBS News reported that millions were spent on luxury cars, lakefront homes, and sent to banks in China and Kenya.......

Black Crime 

Black Male Beats and Kicks White High School Girl on Bus as Driver Refuses to Immediately Pull Over and Intervene – School Didn’t Notify Victim’s Parents - Shocking video posted to social media shows a black male beating and kicking a white high school girl on a bus in Youngstown, Ohio, as the driver refused to pull over and intervene. The Boardman Local School District launched an investigation after a black male brutally beat and appeared to choke a white teen girl on a bus transporting students to Mahoning Valley Community School last Friday. The victim, a 10th grade girl, was taken to a hospital with severe injuries.........(My Take - And where's the outrage over this? Where are the screams about racism? Why isn't anyone demonstrating and marching in the streets?  No buildings are being burned and no one is attacking the police.  Remarkable! Is it possible none of that is spontaneous and only occurs when it's organized?  Just a thought!  RK)  

Economics 

Adam Smith’s Hidden Parable -  The poor man’s son, over several decades, indeed, arrives at wealth.   It’s disappointing. For one thing, “he begins at last to find that wealth and greatness are mere trinkets of frivolous utility.” Throughout TMS, Smith teaches that “what constitutes the real happiness of human life” is not so much one’s material condition as one’s moral condition. For another thing, one’s estate will go sideways if not diligently led and maintained. The gardens of magnificence, the teams of servants, the operations of enterprise are “enormous and operose machines” that “must be kept in order with the most anxious attention, and which in spite of all our care are ready every moment to burst into pieces, and to crush in their ruins their unfortunate possessor.”.......

Staying Off the Road to Serfdom - Gregg admits, in using a term like “civilization” because “the notion that some cultures are more accomplished or advanced does not sit well with our egalitarian instincts.” Thus, he is careful to qualify his terms. As he points out, high culture does not prevent a society from slipping into barbarism, and there have been civilizations that were not especially commercial. For Gregg, “civilization functions as a way of describing an identifiable conglomeration of practices, knowledge, manners, traditions, organizations, and institutions.” Often geographical but not necessarily so, civilization involves the transmission of wisdom across the centuries in the form of the written word and art. Beliefs and traditions are another window into a civilization’s foundational ideas.

And yet we cannot escape making comparisons. After all, some societies are governed well, with a strong rule of law. Others endure arbitrary rule by the powerful. As Gregg points out, “Civilizational growth involves improvements in the social environment that are mirrored in the moral development of individuals.” In the end, Gregg argues we can measure real progress by “opportunities for material, social, and even moral improvement for increasing numbers of people” who escape history’s norm of poverty, ignorance, and oppression. Citing Austrian economist Carl Menger, Gregg identifies the sophisticated division of labor as the hallmark of an advanced civilization, for it allows the increasing accumulation of knowledge and wisdom......(My Take - The reality is these comparisons are essential to overcome the bombast by leftists promoting globalism and multiculturalism..  Much of the world is not civilized, and that's just the fact of the matter. RK)  

Biggest gas price drop in 18 years - Yesterday saw the biggest one-day drop in the price of gasoline in eighteen (18) years. That would have been during the financial collapse of 2008. According to AAA, the national average price for regular stands at 3.94 per gallon, down almost four cents from yesterday. From my local station this morning: The average national price is down more than 18 cents from a week ago and 42 cents from a month ago.  

Maine Required Childless Adults to Work to Get Food Stamps. Here’s What Happened. - One trillion dollars—that’s how much the government spent last year on means-tested welfare aid, providing cash, food, housing, medical care, and social services to poor and low-income individuals. The food stamp program is the nation’s second largest welfare program. The number of food stamp recipients has risen dramatically, from 17.2 million in 2000 to 45.8 million in 2015.  The number of food stamp recipients has risen dramatically, from 17.2 million in 2000 to 45.8 million in 2015. Costs have soared over the same period, from $20.7 billion in 2000 to $83.1 billion in 2014.......In the first three months after Maine’s work policy went into effect, its caseload of able-bodied adults without dependents plummeted by 80 percent, falling from 13,332 recipients in Dec. 2014 to 2,678 in March 2015.........

Immigration 

Illegal Alien Semi-Truck Driver Released Into US By Joe Biden Plows Into Minivan, Kills Mother and Her Two Young Sons in Missouri - An illegal alien semi-truck driver released into the US by Joe Biden in 2023 plowed into a minivan and killed a mother and her two young sons in Kansas City, Missouri, on Monday. According to reports, 39-year-old Eldar Skandar was driving a semi-truck on Highway 71 near downtown Kansas City when he plowed into a Honda Odyssey carrying a family of five and several other cars. Olga Sorbalo, 35, and her two sons, Luis, 8, and Samir, 4, died.......

Trump Warns Mexico as Migrant Caravan Moves Toward US Border Following Democrat Midterm Gains: “There will be no leniency!” - Following the midterm election, The Gateway Pundit reported that a massive migrant caravan busted through the Mexican border en route to the United States. At least 800 migrants busted through Mexico, optimistic after the Democrats took control of the House and the Senate. The latest migrant caravan is mainly comprised of Hondurans. Video posted to social media shows the migrants walking over the Rodolfo Robles International Bridge from Guatemala into Ciudad Hidalgo Chiapas on Friday night.......

Midterm Election/Voter Fraud

What happened in the midterms - As they turned out, the midterms were a near extinction level event for the Republican Party. I urge interested readers to check out Jeff Anderson’s review of relevant exit polls in the American Mind column “What happened in the midterms.” Do take in his support for this conclusion: If this election can be summed up in a single exit-poll question, it might be this one: “Do you think Congress is »

BIG UPDATE….. Can Algorithms Pave the Way to Stealing Elections? – Important 2024 Study by Jerome Corsi Is a Must-Read – Lines Up with 2026 Algorithm! - In this article published in American Thinker, I explained how a political scientist could run a simulation of an election to achieve a desired outcome. The political scientist could then throw away the actual votes in the election, run the simulation as the actual results, and the public would not know the difference. The only way the election fraud could be determined with certainty is if some genius figured out the algorithm the political scientist created to run the simulation........

Saudi Arabia 

Saudi Arabia Turns to Syria for Troops as Iran-Backed Houthis Fire Missiles and Drones at Riyadh  - The Iran-backed Houthis said they fired missiles and drones at Riyadh on November 8 as Saudi Arabia sought troops from Syria’s new government. Saudi Arabia’s Energy Ministry said falling shrapnel from an “attempted attack” caused minor damage to a Saudi Aramco administrative building in the King Abdullah Financial District. No casualties were reported. (My Take - Saudi Arabia is a stunningly wealth nation with a stunning lazy inept population and a weak military.  Not a good combination, so they're buying their security.  RK)

UK 

Egypt Places Muslim Association of Britain on Its Terrorist List - An Egyptian court has placed the Muslim Association of Britain on Egypt’s list of terrorist entities for five years, the Egyptian Gazette reported, citing the Middle East News Agency (MENA), Egypt’s official, state-run news agency. The Cairo Criminal Court on Tuesday “ordered the inclusion of 35 entities and 36 individuals on Egypt’s lists of terrorist entities and terrorists for five years,” the Gazette reported.......

The Democrat's Next Two Years

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags, 2026 Election, ,

Over at Townhall.com Terry Paulson published this piece, The New Democrat Congress Will Produce a Disappointing Scorecard, asking readers to view sixteen of the goals and views of the "New Democrat Party" and show their approval or disapproval.   After I read his piece I added ten more making it twenty six, but since I wanted to comment on all these positions I decided it would be better to combine them topically ending up with seven categories. 

Then after reading both commentaries ask yourself this:  Are you really happy that these are the people running this country?  Remember, they had two rants for their platform, affordability, and they hate Trump because he's a tyrant, in spite of the fact none of them have ended up in jail for the many crimes of the Biden cabal.  

1. Energy:  What's their vision for lowering the cost of energy?   The left supports more energy regulations, embraces the New Green Deal that ends the use of fossil fuels, embraces globalist environmentalist schemes as in global warming initiatives, all of which not only will raise the cost of energy, such endeavors will seriously restrict energy availability, devastating the economy.  How does that mesh with their rants about 'affordability"?

2. Lawfair: For two years all we've heard is we will impeach Trump, and now they want to impeach Hegseth, and investigate his family, every member of his administration, and any individual or commercial enterprise that supported Trump.  Is that justice or is it vicious banana nation tyranny out for revenge?  And they called Trump a tyrant? 

3. Crime:  Every Democrat running for office in Democrat strongholds claim they want to abolish the police or seriously restrict their ability to enforce the law.  San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, Portland and other leftist strongholds acted on that and turned their cities into sewers of out of control crime.  They want to abolish ICE and ignore the nation's laws on immigration and deportation, demanding deportation end, and anyone who wants to come into America should be allowed to cross over the border without restrictions and be funded by our system of welfare, and be allowed to vote even if they're not citizens.   

4. Government restructuring:  They want to pack the SCOTUS which ill destroy the Legislative and Executive branches of government as the judges chosen will be on the far left effectually legislating from the bench.  They're even discussing impeaching any Supreme Court justice aren't leftist lackeys.  They will end the Senate filibuster, which should have happened long ago,

5. End the war with Iran no strings attached.  Then what solutions will they offer when Iran resumes their undeclared war on the world via their terrorist proxies, and acquires nuclear bombs?  How they handled the withdrawal from Afghanistan might be a good example. 

6. Economics:  They want to end the tariffs that have actually had a positive impact on the economy, embrace globalism giving more control over America's sovereignty and economy to the United Nations,  End all the  fraud investigations that are costing taxpayers billions and billion of dollars.  Pass a Constitutionally dubious minimum wage income guarantee, even for those not working, including universal health care, all of which will be the vanguard of total bankruptcy.   Impose a wealth tax on the rich that will eventually be expanded to everyone, and impose an unrealized capital gains tax. 

7. Culture: They want to make abortion on demand a national right, force men into women's sports, undermine merit and accomplishment with DEI mandates, and force education all levels to lower their academic standards.    

So, how does any of that address their rants about affordability, and tyranny?   Paulson ends his article with this paragraph:  

With the presidential veto hanging over every change Democrats initiate and an inadequate majority to overcome that veto, significant success on key Democratic promises remains unlikely. They don’t even have agreement on what their agenda ought to be. The most radical socialist candidates will want more and will refuse to settle for any negotiated agreement with Trump. The Democrats may have won the midterm battle, but winning the war on the road to 2028 will be much tougher! Their success is clearly unlikely to produce the results their voters expect. With Trump having time to solidify the country’s economic success and end the war in Iran, Republicans may very well be the answer the 2028 voters will want when Democrats disappoint.

Murder of The Innocents, Part II

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags: Murder of The Innocents, Part I, My Abortion Commentaries

Once a society goes down a path that makes the murder of the innocent acceptable, they've destroyed a foundational moral concept that eventually leads to further degradation to societies moral foundations.  Calling abortion "reproductive rights" is just one more leftist effort at Orwellian double speak intending to:

 "obscure, distort, or reverse the meaning of words to make negative, immoral, or confusing actions sound acceptable without right lying". 

Here's the truth about abortion; murder of the innocent! 

  

This is the picture of the three children murdered by Lindsay Clancy, their mother.  This is the consequence of abandoning the foundational moral principle of the sanctity of life.  How can these pictures not break your heart?    Below is the man the Feminist Cult of Collaboration attempted to put the blame on for her crime of murdering their three children.  

1. Patrick Clancy Reveals Lindsay’s Cold-Blooded Response to Him After He Confronted Her Over Killing Their Three Little Children
2. Patrick Clancy's Riveting Interview 
3.  'Just give me one kid': Watch Patrick Clancy go public with heartbreaking moments after wife Lindsay killed their children - In his first interview since his wife's mistrial, Patrick Clancy spoke with "60 Minutes" Sunday, saying: "I remember that night, I really thought there was a chance that Callan would live.  "And I remember just thinking, 'Just give me one. Just give me one kid, and I would raise him as best I could, and I would give him the best life I possibly could. And I'd tell him about his brother and sister.

I've posted all these pictures because this is what abortion is really all about, permitting the murder of the innocent. The loss the affection that's natural between parents and their children is spreading like a deadly plague.  How can anyone look at these pictures and not be aghast at what's happening.  We're facing a cultural crisis beyond imagining.    

  

"Postpartum illness is real. Postpartum psychosis is real, rare, and a medical emergency. None of that converts three homicides into a protected class of conduct. Depression is not a license. Exhaustion is not a license. Childbirth is not a license. Being a woman is not a license. A defendant who can send her husband out of the house, complete the act three times in succession, and later offer a diagnosis is not automatically a person who could not tell right from wrong. Juries are allowed to tell the difference between a break with reality and a theory offered after the bodies are found."

• Clancy: Case or cause?  If the misguided jurors really wanted to make it better for women, then a conviction would have done that. A female Clancy juror admitted that she and her tyrannical mob saw the case as an opportunity to “make it better for other women.” She viewed her duty as promoting a cause, rather than deliberating a case. That’s not her province.  In her warped mind, a verdict favorable to evil Clancy would “protect future children” because it would set a precedent. She, and it can be deduced the other women (and a couple of men) on the jury, were on a feminist crusade, it would appear.........
• Similar Shares of Republican, Democratic, and Independent Women (One in Seven) Report Having Had an Abortion - A new nationally representative KFF Women’s Health Survey, which explores the extensive implications of Roe v. Wade being overturned by the Supreme Court, reveals that one in seven (14%) women of reproductive age report having had an abortion at some point in their life. Across partisanship, similar shares of Republican women (12%), Democratic women (14%), and independents (15%) report having had an abortion......
•  Maryland Special Ed Teacher Calls for Aborting Boys and Overthrowing U.S. Government - Dana Zentgraf teaches vulnerable students at a Maryland elementary school, yet her Facebook posts advocated aborting male fetuses, condemned men as societal threats, attacked American patriotism, and called overthrowing the United States government the only answer.....
• My Body/My Choice on trial- The female jurists in the Lindsay Clancy trial have reached a conclusion that is aligned with the message that feminists have promulgated for six decades. The message of “My Body/My Choice” tells women explicitly that they have the right to kill their children while they are developing in the womb. By accepting abortion as a woman’s right, it was only a matter of time before feminists would question when that prerogative ended, and some would extend it further than current law permits......

 

Murder of The Innocents, Part I

By Rich Kozlovich 

The judge presiding over the Lindsay Clancy murder case has set a new trial date for March of 2027, with her attorneys insisting this violates the Constitution as being tried twice for the same crime and she should be let go.  That's not gonna happen, but this mess has exposed much about the women's movement in America.

 Olivia Murray published this article, Feminism is rot, even when it’s ‘conservative’ feminism, saying:  

We all know the leftard nutjobs love Clancy, because they love what is evil and hate what is good. That’s old news. But I’ve seen countless politically conservative women also jump to her defense and make the most asinine feminist cases for why she’s not actually guilty of murder—before they then meander off into leftist socialist B.S. for future policy.

I have to ask:  Who picked this jury? Now I have to wonder: Who picked this prosecutor. It turns out the prosecutor was … seemingly…. incompetent, and after all this hullabaloo, there will be a second trial! I’m betting the next prosecutor will have the smart switch in his brain turned on, if there is one. As for the comments by readers about the mental and emotional quality of jurors, I recommend one of my favorite movies… 12 Angry Men. A testament to just how bias, clueless and arrogant so many people are. 

  

There were three men on that jury.... correction.... one man and two invertebrates.... and that man has been doxed by the media and now he and his family can't leave their house.  He noted how the activists on that jury went into that jury with a not guilty agenda from the beginning.  At this point he's had to move to a safe house and has hired an attorney.  

• And, There It Is… Lindsey Clancy Holdout Juror Says He Feels Like He’s Being Targeted Because “He Is a Black Republican” – And the Juror Panel Was Democrats -  This is very troubling… Why is it that only Republicans believe when you strangle to death your three little innocent children, including a baby, that you committed murder and should be punished? What did these babies ever do to deserve such a cruel death at the hands of their mother?

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you....how dare a black man vote against these white lunatics, and it's gets worse....he's a Republican!  Must be race treason.... right?   At least that's what we must conclude when Gayle King finds out he's black saying:

“Whoa,” King says, blinking a couple of times, a look of concern on her face. “I have to sit with that for just a second.”

So, should we reasonable conclude she thinks this is race treason?  Or should we conclude she's as irrational as Oprah has been over this, who clearly is trying to normalize what Lindsay Clancy did, a common thread of all on the left.  Justifying all that is vile in order to make it seem normal.  One young female member of her audience stood her ground calling Clancy a murderer while Oprah tried to turn her into a mental health mascot.

The Female Cult of Collaboration 

• Those Who Hate God Love Death - Somewhere in New England, cloistered away, is the brave, lone holdout from the Lindsay Clancy case. Hated by the left, he is the one who caused a mistrial in the case because his conscience couldn’t approve of a woman getting away with the systematic strangling of her children.
• The Abuse Excuse, Temporary Insanity, and Other Responsibility Cop-Outs - In a matter of days, the nation will find out if triple killer Lindsay Clancy is free from charges via the declared mistrial on September 4, or if she will be tried a second time. Either way, the American jury system has been taking some hard hits.
• Holdout Juror Fights Back After Lindsay Clancy’s Lawyer Seeks His Phone Records — Spokesperson Says OTHER Jurors Were on Phones and Posting During Deliberations -  The lone holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial is pushing back after Clancy’s defense asked a judge to investigate his conduct and obtain cellphone records from the jury’s deliberations. Edward Paltzik, attorney for juror Michael Desronvil, blasted the motion as “Looney Tunes” and a “full-frontal attack on the U.S. Constitution.” He warned that investigating jurors for standing by their views could threaten the independence of jury deliberations, CT Insider reported.
• A double standard for murder By J.R. Dunn| Even the most rabid feminists made no effort, following the Lindsay Clancy trial, to claim a double standard in the way men are treated for the same crime. They didn’t claim that because it would have been too stupid even for them.
• A Discussion About the True Nature of Woman  Christopher Chantrill| In the wake of the Lindsay Clancy Verdict and the Sydney Sweeney Pile-On and the Sophie Cunningham Point-ology it is time for a comprehensive and mandatory discussion of the issue of Women in the Public Square.
• Clancy holdout juror gets doxxed, and subsequently harassed By Olivia Murray |   His cardinal sin? Bucking the white feminists. Well, the name of the holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial is out there because he had the audacity to buck the “white savior” feminists and form his own opinions (based on evidence) while black. They hate when white men rebuff their politics, but when a black man does it? How dare he—doesn’t he know his place?.......
• NBC Hounds Clancy Holdout Juror at Home Even Though Names Were Supposed to Be Sealed - How is this legal, why would anyone want to participate in our judicial process if legacy news outlets are going to try and destroy their lives it they don’t like the outcome?”

The Attorneys

I've always been amazed at the ability of activists to warp language and twist facts and logic to support their ideology. As a society we’ve been pushed to accept the conclusion that crime isn’t really crime, it’s necessity. Abortion isn’t murder, it’s health care. Leftist riots where people are raped, killed, assaulted are mostly peaceful. A legitimately peaceful demonstration by conservatives is an insurrection. So, should it surprise us to find treason isn’t really treason, it’s a justified defense of liberty and justice against tyranny? The scary thing is about 20% of the population absolutely believes that, and another 20% mostly believes that. 

1.  Lindsay Clancy's Attorney Blows Up in Court After Being Pressed on His Attacks on Lone Juror
2.  ‘Zero Doubt’: Clancy Trial Holdout Juror Attorney Says Client Had ‘Mountain of Evidence’ to Back Position
3. Lindsay Clancy’s Attorney Makes Ludicrous Argument in Court for Finding Her Not Guilty [VIDEO]
4. .Lindsay Clancy’s Attorney Argues in Court There’s ‘No Evidence’ She’s Responsible for Deaths (My Take - So... I guess her admitting she murdered them falls under the category of "No Evidence"? RK)
5. Lindsay Clancy’s attorney asks judge to investigate the lone juror who wanted to convict her
6. Reddington Faces Bar Discipline
7.  It's the Legal System That's Insane
8. Clancy Attorney Calls on Trump to Pardon Client 
9. Mistrial On Hold: Defense Seeks to Boot Hold-Out Juror in Clancy Case
10.  Nancy Grace: Lindsay Clancy Defense Attorney ‘Should Have Been Held in Contempt’
11.  What Lindsay Clancy's Attorney Did on the Courthouse Steps Was Abhorrent 
12. 'Lone male juror': Mistrial declared in Lindsay Clancy case, after unsuccessful trip to appeals court
13.  Guess Who Helped Doxx the Holdout Juror in the Lindsay Clancy Case

Observations From the Back Row

By Rich Kozlovich

From American Thinker

Yesterday I posted this Observations From the Back Row discussing Republicans and the American culture, both in crisis.  The culture is in even greater danger with the Democrats in control of the Congress.  But Democrat control of the Congress happened in the past, and America went on for decades, so what's the big deal now?  This Democrat party is beyond radical.  

It turns out far left loons like Jeffries' and Schumer's leadership of the Democrats wasn't far left enough for the new Democrats. Chuck Schumer faces a revolt and Bernie Sanders says it's time for a change and won’t support Schumer for Senate Democratic leader.  Will they be ousted? It appears they may still win leadership roles, but they may very well regret it as now the party that's marched in lockstep to defeat Trump will start to diverge in their priorities creating a lot of disruption in the internal party dynamics, and at a level that may well make the internal conflict among the Republicans seem tame.  

Two False Gospels Have Joined Hands Against the Christian West - We must understand what binds an otherwise inexplicable alliance. Something that should never make sense is happening right before our eyes. It’s a true existential threat that goes beyond voter fraud or social media gaslighting. We’re in a spiritual war. We need to be fighting it at a spiritual level. The Democratic Socialists of America now claim more than 120,000 members, the largest socialist organization in American history, bigger than Eugene Debs’ Socialist Party at its 1912 peak. More than 250 of them already hold elected office. And they are marching arm in arm with political Islamists who reject nearly everything the socialists claim to believe about sex, gender, family, and free speech.......

The Democrat party is a toxic witches brew of radicals with different agendas.... agendas they're devoted to, and when they have the power they'll refuse to compromise.  To paraphrase William Shakespeare: "Heaven has no rage, nor hell a fury like an Islamo-leftist scorned."   

It's already started with DSA-backed Angie Nixon who ran for the Senate in Florida and is now accusing her own party of racism.  It couldn't be her inability to sell Floridians on socialism.  Oh no...not that....so...it must be racism.... and from her own party.  Expect to see more outrageous lies, charges, claims, demands and exhortations in the coming weeks and months. 

This is the party that chose up to ten Muslim candidates who will be seated in Congress that want to impose Sharia law and dump the Constitution; eight men who claim they’re women; six more DSA members making that eight DSA members now.  They even elected a woman who will probably end up in jail for failing to return a rental car... six years ago.  She claims this was just her opponent "taking unfair advantage implying she's a felon".  Imagine that.  

It's a party that supports policies that create higher taxes, intrusive regulations, unemployment, mass amnesty for illegals, race reparations, no voter identification, more spending, greater national debt, globalism, the embrace of green energy and global warming, censorship of any media platform that disagrees with their agenda.  It's also the party that's going to have to live up to their rants about affordability and fix inflation and keep energy costs low.  All of which will be impossible with their stated goals and agenda.  Remarkable, and no one noticed this before?

• Mamdani Grins With Glee as NY Governor Signals More Tax Hikes to Fund His Childcare Program

It's also the party that's facing the potential that socialism is just temporarily in vogue.  Why?  What we may actually be seeing is a nation of unhappy capitalists.  While leftists were getting elected in this midterm, their proposals were getting trashed.

"But make no mistake, they are getting beaten when their proposals are isolated and put on the ballot. Capitalism still trumps socialism, and if you call it free enterprise, it soars another 15 points."

•  Republican Ballot Measures Were Victorious Across the Country. What Does That Mean for Republicans?

Who really is this Democrat party?  

1. Is it the party of those who think it would be just hilarious to dig up Charlie Kirk's body and re-enact his murder?  
2. The party that promises to be the gayest Congress in history?
3. The party of third worldists who are enemies of civilization?
4. The pro-crime party that commutes the death sentences of 548 people on death row? (More Here.)
5. The party that will have the police arresting ICE agents for arresting illegal aliens?
6. The party that wants to bring back deported DACA recipients and pay them damages?
7. The party that will force kids back into the public school plantations by ending school voucher programs?
8. The party that wants to dump Home Land Security?
9. The party of antisemitism?
10. The real party of racism, calling all white people oppressors?
11. The party of Islam?  (here, here, here, here, here, and here.)
12. The party that wants to destroy the Constitution and throw out the Electoral College, and going about it with an unconstitutional scheme that doesn't bother to change the Constitution?
13. The party that will eliminate the Second Amendment?
14. The party that has zero interest in working with the Trump administration, calling them racists? 
15. The DEI party that forces religious organizations to admit non believing members with it's  "anti-discrimination" laws and regulations and rules that discriminate against Christians?

It turns out atheists are now claiming Christian churches are violating their rights by excluding them from church membership.  

Vanderbilt University has denied "on campus recognition" to more than a dozen Christian groups for disallowing membership and/or leadership positions to non-Christians.   And what possible governmental interest could be served by requiring Orthodox Jews, for example, to admit non-Jews to their leadership, unless the goal is destruction of the religious group? 

Yet this is precisely what government “anti-discrimination” requirements are imposing on Christian ministries, particularly at our universities. At bottom, requiring that non-adherents be permitted to lead or vote for leadership sets the stage for their complete loss of identity and utter destruction.   

Atheists of whatever stripe certainly have a right to be treated fairly under the law, but they don’t have a special right to invade and destroy religious organizations with which they disagree.

That was fourteen years ago, and once again, DEI will be thrust onto society by the Democrats, and we know that because they've said that's what they'll do, as Ro Khanna screams, ‘DEI is back!’ 

Or perhaps this is what the Democrat party really is:  A radical mentally deranged party of terror, revenge and destruction!

1. NY Democrat Rep.-Elect Brad Lander In Favor of Impeaching Hegseth, RFK Jr., Kash Patel - Rep.-elect Brad Lander (D-NY) came out in favor of impeaching Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel..... 
2. You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet When It Comes to Democrat Revenge Tour - One of the more striking things about my liberal friends is how they keep fantasizing about how Trump is an authoritarian who is upending the Constitutional order (He will cancel the midterms and put the military outside voting stations!) as they fantasize about seizing companies, jailing or killing their political opponents, and "Trump-proofing" America by permanently changing the Constitution. .....
3. The Coming Persecution The midterm “mandate” is all about revenge. In the wake of the November 3 midterm elections in which the Republican Party suffered major losses, the emboldened Democrats have already begun making it explicitly clear that their first order of business will be to target Donald Trump and his administration for retribution for perceived crimes, corruption, and abuses of the Constitution and the American people......
4. The Democrats’ Reign Of Terror Is Nigh It’s sickening and disheartening to know that people have become so deeply disturbed and lost their humanity. How did a major portion of our citizenry become so mentally deranged?
5.  Trump: Report Dem Threats to Republican Party Members, Donors to DOJ – or Him Directly - Political threats and outright violence seem these days to be almost exclusively the province of the Left. President Trump, though, even after the Republican Party's midterm losses, isn't having any of it. On Saturday, the president took to his Truth Social platform to draw a big, beautiful line in the sand: Any threats of violence against Republican donors or party members won't be tolerated....
6. 'A traitor to the West': Watch leftist demand execution of Trump supporter Elon Musk - 'This is where the minds of leftists are right now. With this blue wave midterm, they will become even worse. They are salivating about the idea of going after their perceived enemies'....
7. GOP Rep. Luna: ‘The Radical Left Is Embracing Assassination Culture’ - Thursday on FNC’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) warned about the sentiments held by the left-wing base, declaring that it has infiltrated the Democratic Party. Luna said the radical left of that movement was “embracing assassination culture.” “All right, well, congratulations,” host Jesse Watters said. “I’m glad you survived the tsunami. The Democrats seems like the base wants executions. Will they be seeing those?”.......Lawfare is the Democrats' real post-election priority - Claim to care about 'affordability,' but base 'cares more about stopping Trump than advancing policy goals'.......Lest we forget, the Obama-era IRS subjected conservative nonprofits to intense scrutiny, delaying applications for tax-exempt status while demanding private donor and volunteer information. More recently, the Arctic Frost investigation targeted more than 160 people in Trump's circle, including many who were never accused of crimes. Conservative groups like Turning Point USA and the Conservative Partnership Institute came under scrutiny.......
8. 'This is going to be a bit of a train wreck': Constitutional expert looks askance at Dems' lawfare plans - Democrats running for, and now elected to, Congress have been promising for months already that their agenda is going to be investigations, impeachments, prosecutions, and harassment of anyone in the Trump administration. Essentially a weaponization of the entirety of federal government against their political enemies..........."That's the reason they'll turn to investigations and impeachments. … People are gonna realize they didn't offer any actual, constructive ideas about how to improve the economy.".....
9. Democrats signal oversight blitz as Trump officials lawyer up —Democrats made clear after Tuesday’s stunning midterm victories that they will use their historic gains in Congress to flex their investigative muscles, swiftly issuing warnings to Trump administration officials they say have thus far dodged their oversight.  “Lawyer up,” was the two-word statement issued by incoming House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), whose side of the panel has already lobbed a number of inquiries at Trump administration officials.......
10. Democrats Explode, Pledge Lawfare Against Stephen Miller After Promotion - Several Democrats exploded after President Donald Trump announced that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller would be taking over as White House chief of staff, and they vowed lawfare against Miller.....
11. There It Is: Democrat Rep. Robert Garcia is Unable to Name a Single Crime Stephen Miller Committed as He Threatens Trump’s Top Advisor - Congressman Robert Garcia (CA) on Sunday was unable to name one crime that Stephen Miller committed as he threatened Trump’s top advisor with lawfare. Congressman Garcia, a gay man, was born in Lima, Peru, and came to the United States at age 5 with his mother on visas that later expired. Garcia lived in the United States as an illegal alien until he became a US citizen in his 20s.  The incoming Democrat Oversight Chairman last week threatened Stephen Miller after he was announced as President Trump’s next White House Chief of Staff.......
12. Dem Rep. Olszewski: I'd Like to Focus on Costs, But Have to Impeach Hegseth - On Friday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” Rep. Johnny Olszewski (D-MD) said that he “would much rather be focused on lowering the cost of living, addressing those pocketbook issues”, but they’ll take up articles of impeachment against Secretary Pete Hegseth if he doesn’t resign or get fired.
13.  House Dem Won’t Say Legislating Is Priority #1: ‘We Are Focused on Accountability’ — ‘Whole Cabinet Should Get Ready’ - During an interview with CNN on Thursday, Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-IL) responded to a question on whether she thinks impeachments and investigations should be secondary to legislating by stating that “Without a doubt, we are focused on accountability.” She also stated that both legislation on affordability and accountability should be pursued and “I think the whole Cabinet should get ready.”.........
14.  Left Wing Influencer Followed by Abdul El-Sayed Calls for Execution of Republicans - The left is out for blood, folks. Democrats may have run on lowering gas and food prices, but their supporters have other priorities. Nick Pringle is a left wing influencer and he recently put out a video demanding Nuremberg Trials for Trump officials and other Republicans. He says he wants Elon Musk executed before Christmas. Years ago, this could be laughed off as crazy. Now, who can be sure? The left killed Charlie Kirk and tried to kill Trump. Repeatedly. Abdul El-Sayed follows this person on social media.............
15. Democrat lawyers preparing impeachment articles already. - “Donald John Trump thus warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States.” That sentence appears at the end of all seven articles in a 17-page Trump impeachment draft published by Biazzo Law for the incoming 120th Congress. The charges were available on election night. .................
16.  They want blood: U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin travels to Europe to learn 'Gestapo tactics' to punish Republicans, admits it on hidden camera - Democrat U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin, the junior senator from Michigan, recently was caught threatening young Americans with investigations and prosecutions if they decided they wanted to work in the administration of a Republican president.  She said prosecuting some people will provide a "deterrent" message to others......

Are all the investigations these radicals are wanting to pursue even legal?  Quite possibly not, as a "White House lawyer warns of "blatant criminality" in the Democrat's "investigations push" saying: 

......that investigations into the Trump administration that lawmakers plan to pursue in the next Congress "may cross the line into blatant criminality".... and .... congressional subpoenas could prompt probes from the executive branch...... a letter to Garcia..... reminding him that investigative acts by Congress must be backed by a "legitimate legislative purpose"....."Beyond being inconsistent with the clear, well-recognized constitutional limitations on your investigative functions, threats to executive branch officials designed to deter them from public service, or process designed merely to abuse or instill fear in the recipient may cross the line into blatant criminality,"..... "And issuing unlawful subpoenas with the intention of depriving citizens of their constitutional rights and privileges may warrant further investigation."

That sounds impressive, but will that stop them? No!  They're going to go peddle to the metal on this and they will allow nothing legal or illegal to prevent them from venting their spleens to get Trump, his family, his allies, his supporters, and members of his administration.  Truth be told, based on history, nothing will happen to them either. 

What we're seeing is a stark choice between national suicide or national renaissance in 2026 and beyond, and what the Democrat Congress with deliver will be an very real affordability crisis, which Ron DeSantis likens to "throwing gas to the fire", as did Joe Biden.  

The actual fix for America is, among other things, "lower taxes, more U.S. energy production and affordable health care without a big government takeover" and that is in no way part and parcel of what socialists will embrace. As Ed Koch said when he lost his re-election bid:  "The people have spoken, and now they must be punished".  Progressives may eventually get what they voted for -- good and hard.

However, J.R. Dunn has an interesting view on "how Democrat party members intend to exploit the opportunity that the midterms have given them:

"They’re going to soak themselves with gasoline, set themselves ablaze, and race toward the nearest high place – cliff, suspension bridge, tenth-story window -- and leap out while howling dementedly all the way down.  That conclusion is impossible to escape after listening to statements from three of their leading “influencers”: Jennifer Welch, veteran lefty podcaster and nag, Scott Galloway, notable intellectual crank, and James Carville… well, ya’ll know who he is."

Stay tuned, more to come. 

Woodrow Wilson and WWI: History and Consequences!

By Rich Kozlovich

Today is May 11, Veterans Day, originally called Armistice Day, which became a federal holiday in 1938 to celebrate the armistice ending hostilities of WWI "on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918".

Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, was created in 1868 to honor the Federal soldiers who died in the Civil War, and then was adopted by every state by 1890. So many have served and so many died since then, so in 1954 Armistice Day was renamed Veterans Day in order to recognize all veterans for all time and all wars and by law it's now always celebrated on November 11th.

I've linked and written a lot about  who laid the ground work for the administrative state and our unending intrusion in the affairs of foreign nations where we have no skin in the game, which is what America's entry into WWI really was. I usually list Teddy Roosevelt as the worst President because he gave personality to the progressive movement. He laid the intellectual, emotional and psychological groundwork for the fascist policies later imposed by Woodrow Wilson, using America's unnecessary involvement in WWI as a justification, or the excuse if you like.

Both Teddy and Woodrow believed the Constitution was an impediment to human progress. But it was Wilson who actually imposed and applied those fascist principles during WWI, and for that, he's the worst President in American history, hands down.

WWI was a “calculated and condoned slaughter of human beings,” and that “war isn’t worth one life". That generation of soldiers suffered so horribly at the hands of incompetent leaders are gone now. Another reason I posted this is because I'm quite emotional about these wars and the terrible suffering these men endured, during the war and after "peace" was attained, at such a terrible price. I wish more people read The Guns of August.

Neither the Zimmerman Telegram nor the sinking of the Lusitania justified America entering that slaughter house where generals tried to wear out German machine guns with young men's bodies.

Wilson used both of these examples as an excuse to enter the war, America had no skin in that game.  There was no need for America to enter this war over the sinking of the Lusitania. The Lusitania was a British ship and there's more than enough evidence it wasn't just a passenger ship - it was in reality a munitions carrier disguised as a passenger ship, and naturally the disguise required passengers. This wasn't an act demonstrating German brutality as much as it was English disdain for civilian life, and that was especially true of Winston Churchill who - as Lord of the Admiralty - ordered English shipping to fly flags of other countries, especially American flags in hopes of Germany sinking legitimately flagged American ships to draw America into this war.

They knew this could, and eventually would happen, and used this for propaganda purposes to draw Americans into the war. As for Wilson - he was a well know anglophile and privately wanted to enter the war on England's side - all the while lying to the American public proclaiming how he was a devoted isolationist. And going to war over Americans who died on a foreign flag ship in time of war was a standard created by Wilson to justify the unjustifiable.  

As for the Zimmerman Telegram where Germany invited Mexico to form a military alliance and attack America if the United States entered the war, promising financial and military support; that outraged the America public, but how did the public know? Wilson made sure they knew in spite of the fact Wilson had to know Germany was in no way capable of aiding Mexico in any way, and Mexico was in no way capable of invading the United States, a situation that Wilson could have easily resolved with a nasty diplomatic letter to the President of Mexico.  But the Anglophile Wilson wanted America in the war, and the world has paid a massive price ever since.  

There have been a few articles about WWI that I think are worth viewing: 

The stupid ending of a stupid war - What started the First World War?  Answer: the public murder of a member of the Habsburg dynasty and his wife.  That’s it.  Because of that, an estimated 15–22 million people died, mostly soldiers.  So many men were killed that thereafter, many European women would never be able to find husbands....... To further set the stage at the war’s outset, France and Switzerland were the only nations in all of Europe that were not monarchies.  Britain’s Queen Victoria had assiduously married off her daughters so that Kaiser Wihelm, Tsar Nicholas of Russia, and Britain’s King George V were all first cousins.......

The machine gun was also a major new factor.  As mentioned in The Social History of the Machine Gun by John Ellis (Johns Hopkins University Press), an initial tactic for dealing with a machine gun was to overwhelm the position so it would eventually run out of bullets......

Perhaps the greatest bungle was the establishment of financial reparations against Germany, denominated in German marks.  The Weimar government soon fired up its printing presses and churned out tons of “legal tender” in order to fulfill the obligation.  Such inflationary distress set the stage for the rise of National Socialism and the eventual deaths of several millions more, this time including many more civilians, partially due to the advent of aerial bombing of population centers as a tactic........

Making sense of the Great War - As a student of history, it is not exactly clear to me why we were involved.......It is not only U.S. involvement in that war that is hard to fathom. The reason for British involvement in a continental conflict in 1914 is difficult to understand. Up until that point, England had been wary of getting itself involved in a European land war. 

Traditionally, it did not possess a large standing army, and its ambitions on the European continent were limited. Its preference was to remain an isolated island nation with global maritime trading ambitions rather than one directly involved in the struggle for European continental hegemony. The war to depose Napoleon, one hundred years earlier, had been a rare exception. In that instance, the English people had found themselves in league with the illiberal, conservative land powers of Prussia, Austria, and Russia, a rather odd arrangement for a liberal democracy with a global maritime outlook.......

Veterans Day Began With An Unnecessary War  - Those who led us into WWI were not thinking strategically.......   President Woodrow Wilson declared war on Germany on April 16, 1917, just six weeks after his second inauguration, after spending a year campaigning for re-election on the slogan that he had “kept us out of the war.”  In the 19 months of war that followed, 53,402 Americans died in combat, with tens of thousands of others dying from influenza and other diseases.  These losses were minor compared to the total estimated 9 to 15 million overall who died in WWI, but they still make WWI the third deadliest war in our own history.......

Had we stayed out of WWI, the U.S. would have secured it place as the long-term dominant power in the world, greatly overshadowing the threats that came later from Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.  Indeed, had we focused on the development of our own economy, including military research, WWII and the Cold War, and the current rivalry with China, might have been avoided or lessened.  It is also very likely that the Great Depression would have been less severe, since in part it was triggered by overhanging war debt........

Woodrow Wilson laid the psychological and intellectual foundation for all the disastrous issues the world is facing right now.  The least we can do is make sure the history being taught in America's educational institutions is not the leftist swill and propaganda we're seeing regularly touted by the left and their myrmidons of the Pravda media. 

 

Observations From the Back Row

By Rich Kozlovich 

As a result of his travels to many different cultures 2500 years ago Herodotus noted that “culture was king’, and the results of this midterm election shows America’s culture has a serious problem.

California elected a governor who can reasonably be held responsible for the exploitation of children; there will be up to ten Muslims in Congress who want to impose Sharia law and dump the Constitution; there will be eight men who claim they’re women, six more DSA members making that eight members now, and any number of Members of Congress that openly demand Republicans not only be prosecuted, some want them shot for daring to oppose them.

This didn’t happen overnight.  For 237 years this effort to destroy the West’s Judaic/Christian culture was the long game in Europe and in America it’s been the game plan since the late 19th century, we can reasonably say almost 150 years. We’re not going to overturn that with court cases or even single elections.   As it is now; culture is king, and corruption is queen, and the battle has to begin in the schools and the churches/synagogues which need to be seriously purged of their corrupt and heretical Woke leaders. That will take time, and we may not have the time, the demographics or the societal consensus necessary to accomplish that.

Once western civilization abandoned it’s Judaic/Christian foundation, with support from church leaders, this became as predictable as night follows day. For over 20 years I’ve said the EU is doomed. Now… that prediction is on the verge of becoming a reality and when it’s all done, there will be three Islamic nations with nuclear bombs. Pakistan, France, and England.

Thune and company have smugly and arrogantly squandered their time in “power”. Where a 60 vote requirement is necessary the Democrats will filibuster. Where 60 votes aren’t required the RINO’s will not support a majority vote. The Republican party is heading to an accounting with the base and if there’s not a purge of it’s leadership before 2028, all is lost.

Thune ran for the job as the minority leader of the Senate Republicans, and he's did so because he says he's done a magnificent job with his “strong record of accomplishment", like failing to end the "blue slip" tradition that allows home state Senators to approve or object to judicial and U.S. attorney nominees, which is not a Constitutional requirement it's a Senate rule.  Or how he prevented the confirmation of federal judges and even prevented recess appointments by scheduling very brief pro forma sessions every couple of days when the Senate was in recess.  For the President to be able to make recess appointments the Senate must be in total recess for ten days, and how he didn't end the filibuster when it mattered.   He refused allow Senators to vote on the SAVE Act for secure elections, which probably played a major role in the Republican midterm route. Since that's clearly what the Democrats wanted, one must ask:  Who has he working for? 

Well, his view of what he deems as accomplishments isn't accepted across the board and there was a bit of a revolt to oust him as leader.  The Republican Senate wasted two years under his watch, and electing him as Senate Minority Leader is a reward for failure on a massive scale.

What I really find puzzling is Trump's take on this. He claims Thune is a “very fine man” and he likes John Thune.  That's just nuts, and now the Republicans have less than sixty days left in power, and the House Freedom Caucus is demanding passage of Voter ID, border crackdown, and one trillion dollars in spending cuts before the Democrats take over and there will be no leaving until it's done. 

• Call an Emergency Session Now. Keep Every Republican in Their Seat Until January 3.  

Do I think that will happen? No, I don't.  The problem with the Republican party is … it’s not a party…. it’s a conglomeration of know nothing, do-nothing, self-serving incompetents with no shared vision or goals.  They talk the talk, but fail…. unendingly …. to walk the talk.   Just like clueless Bush the first…., it’s “that vision thing”.  On the other hand, the Democrats really are a party.  While they’re even a worse party of no nothing incompetents, they’re a party with a shared vision marching in lock step to attain power in any way possible no matter how many lies they have to tell, or how many promises they have to make to attain that power.  The Republicans wasted two years eating each other, and now they're going to go home on recess, defeated like whipped dogs with no fight in them.

Well, the issue of who will lead the Republicans has been resolved.  First, this breaking news article appeared generating a glimmer of hope when it was announced that Jim Jordan was chosen to be the next Republican House leader.  But any hope that may have generated was dashed to the pavement with the Senate Republicans choosing John Thune to continue leading them down the drain.  

So much for Senate rules over delaying the vote.  It turns out the swamp won, and the delay Senator Johnson wanted in order to have a "robust, robust soul-searching discussions within our conference" will not happen.  Will this accomplish creating a united Republican Senate?  No. There won't be a united Republican Senate, and I think it will become even more disunited than in the past.  Senator Johnson has said he's chosen a side, while remaining a Republican he's chosen the side of the Tea Party, and I'm inclined to think he'll be joined by more than just a few. 

As for the public's view of reality.  Here's an analysis I found interesting regarding this midterm election.  What was the role religion played in this election?

1. First, and this is hardly a surprise, it was the non religious who supported this Democrat victory. 
2. Secondly, half of the evangelicals stayed home.  
3. Third, and this is the should be the biggest surprise, 50% of Catholics voted for the Democrats and only 49% voted for the Republicans.  

Over 50% of Catholics (the percentage was especially high among younger Catholics) voted for the party that demands the right to murder the innocent unborn, even right up until birth, a mortal sin in the Catholic faith, and for people who hate Christians and want to overturn the Constitution.   

•  Why Are So Many Christians Voting Socialist?

I don’t think it can be questioned we have serious cultural problems.  Problems so profound they may be insurmountable. As I watch this playing out, I fear we’re driving head long… peddle to the metal…. toward societal collapse with extreme levels of violence erupting.  All it would take is economic collapse, and with the left retaking power, all that seems inevitable.  Paris is burning, is America next?

Update, 11/11/26:

1. Exclusive — RINO Poaching: Cornyn’s Top Policy Adviser Applying for Job with Talarico - Sen. John Cornyn’s (R-TX) top policy adviser is interviewing for a position with radical Democrat Senator-elect James Talarico, who defeated Trump-endorsed Republican Ken Paxton in last week’s Texas Senate election......
2.  Report: Bessent Moved to Military Base Iran Assassination Fears  - Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has relocated with his family from his private residence to a military base after Iranian threats against his life escalated beyond an “advanced stage,” according to reports Tuesday......
3. Iran Demands U.S. ‘Surrender’ to All Its Demands - Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Gen. Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, on Monday insisted the United States “surrender” to Iran’s demands for unconditional concessions to allow for peace negotiations to begin. (My Take - They must not have heard they're militarily bankrupt. Or perhaps they're playing to their Democrat allies who were elected this midterm? RK) 
4.  Trump Meets with Qatari Mediators as Iran Pushes ‘Two-Day Peace Plan’ - President Donald Trump met with Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani at the White House on Monday to discuss ongoing diplomatic efforts to conclude the Iran war..... (My Take - You can't negotiate with people with an agenda.  You either surrender or win. RK)
5.  Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney Labels United States More of a Security Threat than China - Far-left Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said the United States is more of a security threat than communist China in comments on Tuesday, showing how captured his government is by Trump Derangement Syndrome.
6. (Editor's Note: It's been claimed the issue of where AI date centers are being located impacted the midterm election negatively against Republicans. So, this is worth noting.  RK):  Another False Claim About AI Data Centers Just Fell Apart - Earlier this year, CNN reported on a study suggesting that data centers were creating “heat islands,” with increases in surrounding land surface temperatures reaching as high as 16 degrees Fahrenheit. The study, by two University of Cambridge professors, had not been peer-reviewed. According to the researchers, in Mexico’s Bajío region and Aragon, Spain, two areas becoming hubs for hyper-scale AI data centers, the researchers examined two decades of temperature data and reported unexplained increases of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit after accounting for other factors. The researchers also warned that warming could extend more than six miles from the facilities, potentially increasing temperatures for hundreds of millions of people worldwide, harming them and surrounding wildlife.

   The findings have since been used to bolster opposition to AI data centers and support claims that their environmental costs are disproportionate to their benefits. But, of course, there’s a problem. Newer, peer-reviewed research points in the opposite direction, suggesting that once again, another aspect of the debate over AI data centers has been shaped by premature, unverified information.