Culture is King, and Corruption is Queen

By Rich Kozlovich

I'm trying to clean up my draft files, and came across this piece with a series of linked articles that demonstrate the seriousness of America's cultural decline and the upsurge of irresponsible thinking and action.   

“Dear Dark Father”: Watch Midwest Town Council Open Meeting With “Hail Satan” Invocation  - The town council in a Midwestern American enclave, Ottumwa, Iowa, has opened its meeting with a petition to “Hail Satan,” and the resulting backlash triggered the council to shut down comments to its posted video.  The invocation included addressing “Dear dark father” as well as a rejection of “arcane doctrines.” It seeks to pursue ‘luciferian impulses to eat of the tree of knowledge.”......

Poll:4 in 10 young adults in U.S. have positive view of Islamic Sharia extremism - Law's penalties include chopping off hands, stoning, being thrown from buildings.   A series of polls has revealed that young adults, those ages 18-24, have a stunning perspective on Islam's Sharia laws, with 43% holding a "positive" view.  This would be the laws that advocate chopping hands off thieves, stoning those involved in adultery and tossing homosexuals off of buildings.....

Cultural appropriation about braided hair is back in the news  By Andrea Widburg| A white woman allegedly getting fired for wearing cornrows raises an important question: who do leftists think has the power to decide these things?

 The Depopulation Race: Why the Globalists Are Killing Us Before We Can Revolt By Mike Adams • Oct. 5, 2026 - I have spent more than two decades documenting the systematic dismantling of human health, wealth and freedom, and what I see now is not a random cascade of crises. It is a race. The globalist class understands that its fiat currency system is terminal, that the debt pyramid cannot stand, and that the bail-ins, asset confiscations and savings wipeouts now being prepared will ignite a fury unlike anything the West has seen. Their solution is as old as tyranny itself: shrink the population before the people can organize and revolt.

America is Driven to Act by Guilt to Our Ruination Kelly O'Connell US Instincts Rooted in Socialist Guilt Trips;  Defending Blessing Illegals: Can America continue to bless overly generous funding for folks not able to apply as citizens that MAGA wants deported instead of rewarded? Today’s Leftist cadre demands stunning levels of generosity for new arrivals which is now progressive’s most common liberal refrain. But such incessant urging to embrace all illegal immigrants by offering them unlimited wealth and enviable govt programs are actually a perversion of the Founder’s vision. That’s why these charitable arguments have an apparently ancient legacy. But yet, despite their seeming old derivation, they offer only insanely modern presumptions and ruinous effects. This is because the argument is all based on guilt trips, which are neither Christian, nor classically American--but sheer Marxism.

College Football’s Friday Night Heist - The college game has Saturdays, bowls, playoffs, and billions. Leave Friday night to the kids.  Once upon a time in America, Friday nights in the fall were the sole domain of high school football.  It was a college game played in front of a crowd you could fit into a high school stadium.........  Some college games now are played on Friday that nobody requested, few attend, and the only beneficiaries are broadcast and streaming networks, which supplement those hefty collegiate athletic budgets.  The college game has hijacked high school football in the pursuit of yet another revenue stream......

College Football’s Latest Chaos: NFL Players Are Coming Back - Court rulings, NIL money, and LSU are testing the limits of eligibility.  College football has seen some recent bizarre plot twists that include the explosion of NIL monies, conference realignments, mega coaching buyouts and now a judge ruling that allows NFL players a path to return to college.......Why would a player even want to return to college? Simple: NIL money, playing time, and a second chance. Some players make more through NIL deals than they would on an NFL practice squad. Others want to rebuild their draft stock after injuries, bad evaluations, or getting buried on a depth chart. And for undrafted players, college can be the only place left to prove they belong.

How Boomers Can Save What’s Left Of America For Younger Generations - The Baby Boomers grew up in a completely different world than their children and grandchildren live in today. They need to know that and respond.......Are millennials and Gen Z better off than their parents?  In their childbearing and prime income years, boomers were born into a more unified culture, with much less competition from foreign markets and migrants, far more plentiful family-wage-earning jobs that didn’t require college degrees, far cheaper college for the minority suited for it, far lower inflation for core survival costs, stronger families with less divorce and working mothers, less crime, higher church attendance, higher rates of volunteering for everything from PTA to Little League, fewer cross-country moves from family to obtain a job, more cultural cohesion, and less-woke public schools where students spoke English.......

Poll: Majority of Young Democrat Women Blame Men for Their Problems - A majority of Democrat women blame men for their problems, a Survey Center poll revealed. The survey gave a glimpse into the perceptions of young Democrat women, and it suggested that third-wave feminism still has quite a stronghold on the younger generation. Overall, 66 percent of Democrat women from the ages of 18 to 29 believe that the challenges women face in American society are “in a great deal due to the behavior or actions of men.” In comparison, only 18 percent of Republican women in the same age range blame men for those problems....

Americans Are Too Brain-Dead To Vote Smart — The GOP Is Too Spineles s to Educate Them - Suppose you, Dear Reader, were in a horrific accident purposely precipitated by a mad motorist high on deadly doses of drugs and alcohol, with a heaping helping of sociopathy on the side. You’ve connected with a conscientious, albeit vexatious, ambulance operator to transport you to the hospital with all deliberate speed. But the demented drunkard reappears in a beat-up jalopy and consciously collides with the emergency transport — first from behind, then from one side, then from the other, until it is practically disabled.  The repeat offender shouts that your diligent driver is a terrible person who was actually breaking the law in speeding you where you wanted to go, and now his vehicle is damaged besides. You should climb into the cray-cray’s clunker to continue to the ER for treatment of the very injuries he occasioned. 

The vanishing anchors of American life By Christian Vezilj| Even as material life in America has improved dramatically over the last century, we’ve lost something far more precious and important to our happiness. 

There Are No Solutions Lars Møller | Thomas Sowell’s Tragic Vision and the Illusions of the Anointed.At 96 years of age, Thomas Sowell is one of the most formidable minds in contemporary American thought. Without any desire to bask in the media spotlight, he personifies integrity as a scholar, a luminary whose body of work combines empirical rigor, historical breadth, and an unyielding commitment to human dignity irrespective of race. His insistence on true meritocracy—judging individuals by their capacities and achievements rather than by collective grievances or engineered outcomes—marks him as a rational defender of the individual against the sentimental collectivism that has come to dominate elite discourse......   

Reading between the lines By J.A. Frascino| An irreverent view of leftspeak. Insurgent leftists disingenuously use language to sway public opinion in support of their narrative, so as to gain populist support for the overthrow of the social order.  It is important that one look beyond the intended impact of their inflammatory rhetoric and unmask the true meaning of their verbal malfeasance. Reparations: Virtue-signaling with other people’s money. Going green: Growing moldy from inadequate electrical energy.  Feminist: A female who rejects femininity. Socialism: A socioeconomic model incompatible with human nature.  Misogyny: How women treat other women. White supremacy: The history of mankind.  Death by A.I.: Fear-mongering for a new apocalypse that needs big government regulation......and More......