Resistance is Rising

By Rich Kozlovich

In 1960 when the civil rights movement really broke out it resonated, with a lot of whites, many of whom considered themselves "liberal", and especially so if they were part of families who were Democrats.  As the nation tried to fix the squeaky wheels of our society, all we ended up with was more squeaks.   

This Democrat party isn't your grandfather's Democrat party.  Actually, it is, it's just the difference was in those days not all the Democrats were treasonous undercover socialists trying to destroy the Constitution.  

That brand of Democrat is no longer undercover.  They no longer have to hide who and what they are and they're totally in control of the Democrat party, the media, industry, bureaucracies, and a lot of those in the Republican party, and the path of sovereign national destruction they're paving is leading to national disaster.  As Jon Voight notes regarding all the Biden Administration is doing Slams Biden’s ‘Corrupt’ administration":   ‘This Is a Civil War’,..........a war against all of us”.

Here's reality.  Leftists believe in nothing as a result they know nothing, they have no solutions, and all they have to offer is hate, and that hate leaves devastation behind in it's wake, and America's major cities are an example.  

Transgenderism

Canada: Trans Teacher with Large Prosthetic Breasts Returning to Class -Kayla Lemieux, the famous transgender teacher in Canada with large prosthetic breasts, has reportedly returned to the classroom. As Breitbart News reported earlier this year, Lemieux, a man living as a woman, had been placed on paid leave from his job working as a teacher at Oakville-Trafalgar High School in Oakville, Ontario, after the New York Post shared photos of him outside the classroom wherein his large Z-cup prosthetic breasts were nowhere to be seen, calling into question his transgender bona fides..........(Note:  He says they're not fake, imagine that.  RK)

Anthony Furey: The Emerging Parental Rights Movement in Canada - Last year, the Toronto District School Board asked elementary school students to fill out a highly intrusive survey focused on questions of race and sexuality. Among the more than 50 questions posed, the kids were asked to describe their “current gender identity” and whether they were familiar with practices trans-persons use to contort and hide their genitals, such as breast-binding and penis-tucking. There really was no defending the questions, and the board promptly removed the survey following outcry. (My own young boys were given the survey.) ..........

Canada’s Conservatives Begin to Oppose Trudeau’s Transgenderism - Canadian conservative politicians are beginning to roll back Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s pro-transgender policies.On Monday, the right-of-center conservative government in Ontario announced that parents should be told when their children adopt an opposite-sex persona in schools. “We understand though that parents must be fully involved and fully aware of what’s happening in the life of their children,” said Stephen Lecce, the education minister of Ontario, which is Canada’s largest province.......

Women speak out against YMCA 'transgender' bathroom policies - FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Small-town YMCAs in suburban Ohio have launched themselves headfirst into the transgender debate by allowing men who “identify” as women to access women’s locker rooms. And women who have belonged to these supposedly family-friendly YMCAs for years are discovering, to their shock, that management considers their safety and privacy inferior to the feelings of men.................

Judge Refuses to Define ‘Woman,’ Dismisses Lawsuit by Sorority Seeking to Block Man from Joining- A judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by six University of Wyoming Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority sisters seeking to block a trans-identifying male from joining. The sorority sisters will now be forced to accommodate Artemis Langford (whose given name is Dallin), a 6’2″, 260-pound man who believes he is a woman. Wyoming U.S. District Court Judge Alan Johnson, after hearing allegations of sexual deviancy on Langford’s part, ultimately dismissed the case on Friday and stated that redefining “woman” to include males was “Kappa Kappa Gamma’s bedrock right as a private, voluntary organization — and one this Court may not invade.” Johnson notably used Langford’s preferred she/her pronouns in his decision and repeatedly referred to Langford as a “transgender woman.” “The University of Wyoming chapter voted to admit — and, more broadly, a sorority of hundreds of thousands approved — Langford. With its inquiry beginning and ending there, the Court will not define ‘woman’ today,” Johnson wrote...............

Historic University With Christian Background Allows Students to Live in Dorms Based on 'Gender Identity' - On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Evening Edit,” Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-NY) said that New York City’s issues with handling the surge of migrants into the city are demonstrating that New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) had “no plan in place for when this city needed to actually be a sanctuary,” despite touting the city’s sanctuary city policy.  Host Elizabeth MacDonald asked, “How are New York Democrats going to handle this, how is the Democrat Party going to handle this nationwide?”............

Transgender policy at Kaiser shines a light on medical care across America -  Andrea Widburg - I’ve been a Kaiser patient for over forty years and have invariably received superb care. Having said that, I wasn’t the least surprised to learn from a Libs of TikTok exposé that the nation’s oldest and largest HMO is entirely on board with so-called “transgenderism,” right down to bringing it to young children. That’s because it’s just one of many healthcare institutions being led by a young generation of doctors and administrators who fully embrace the madness............Where does all this leftism come from? I’m willing to bet that it comes from academia............ They’re true believers, having been subject to “transgender” propaganda throughout their academic careers, swimming in it at the workplace and viewing it as a sign that they belong to the economic and intellectual elite..............

 

NYC Migrant Crisis: Microcosm of the Nation

Warring leaders fail to see the bigger picture.  

Mark Angelides August 30, 2023 @ Liberty Nation News 

New York City and New York state are on a collision course regarding how to handle the ever-increasing migrant crisis. Mayor Eric Adams appears to have had enough of the growing numbers of homeless migrants encamped on his doorstep and has sent his strongest message yet to Governor Kathy Hochul that she needs to do her part. It seems that what is playing out in the Empire State is really a perfect microcosm of what is happening across the nation, and it is an example that national leaders appear to neither notice nor understand.

Adams vs. Hochul

On Tuesday, August 29, Mayor Adams lashed out at the governor over her stance that incoming migrants should not be shipped out to other parts of the state. “I think the governor’s wrong,” he said. “She’s the governor of the state of New York. New York City is in that state. Every county in this state should be part of this.”

Adams asked Governor Hochul to issue a statewide order that would block counties from passing rules to bar migrants. She responded that migrants should not be forced on other counties, and insisted that the “right to shelter” mandate – a policy dating back to the 80s, which guarantees that accommodation shall be provided to the homeless – does not extend beyond New York City:

“This is an agreement that does not apply to the state’s other 57 counties, which is one of the reasons we cannot and will not force other parts of our state to shelter migrants, nor are we going to be asking these migrants to move to other parts of the state against their will.”

This sentiment echoes her earlier statements on the subject of moving excess migrants out of the Big Apple, in which she noted, “Putting someone in a hotel on a dark, lonely road in Upstate New York and telling them they’re supposed to survive is not compassion.”

Worlds Within Worlds

The NYC leader wants each county in the state to take its “fair share” of illegal migrants in order to ease the increasing burden on the Five Boroughs. It seems he now finds himself in a position endured by southern states for decades. His complaints echo those heard nearer the border and, in fact, this is an issue that certain Republican governors have taken to heart.

Despite verbal beatings from the legacy media and tongue-lashings courtesy of the White House, Governors Ron DeSantis of Florida and Greg Abbott of Texas have been “sharing” their illegal migrant population by flying people to areas of the country that have declared themselves Sanctuary Cities. The reasoning behind the governors’ stance goes something like: You invited them, you said you wanted them, time to take your share.

The longstanding predicament of border states is all too similar to that now facing Mayor Adams. As resources run dry, and more than 100,000 migrants in need of assistance, the policeman-turned-politician delivered a warning to his state leader: “[W]e are the economic engine of this state. New York goes down. The entire state goes down.”

Little Town Blues Writ Large

In early August – with more than a hint of desperation – Adams explained that his city was at breaking point, saying, “As the number of asylum seekers in our care continues to grow by hundreds every day, stretching our system to its breaking point and beyond, it has become more and more of a Herculean effort to find enough beds every night.” With this tacit declaration of defeat, he announced the creation of a new tent city on Randalls Island.

The city that never sleeps once billed itself as a place that welcomed all comers – indeed, it is even written on a statue in the bay. However, the notion that unlimited immigration is sustainable has been proven wrong. Mayor Adams is late to the game in understanding that resources are finite, actions have consequences, and those in positions of higher power are not going to come to the rescue. Welcome to the rest of America, Mr. Mayor.

Read More From Mark Angelides

 

Racist Mayor: Chicago’s Brandon Johnson

Chicago’s new mayor ran on racism. Now he’s delivering racism.  

Daniel Greenfield August 28, 2023 

“This is about black labor versus white wealth. That’s what this battle is about,” Brandon Johnson framed the mayoral election as a race war at a debate with his opponent. Johnson, a top official at Chicago’s radical teachers’ union, had plenty of money. As a Cook County Commissioner, Johnson was already earning $100,000 a year, another $100,000 from the Chicago Teachers Union, plus $25,000 for his work as a lobbyist. 

He’s also eligible for a $1.1 million pension for teaching for only four years. It wasn’t about wealth, it was about race. Behind in the polls due to his pro-crime stance, Johnson made the campaign into a series of racist taunts, smears and accusations. Johnson charged his opponent with being “dismissive of a black man” and claimed that critics of his pro-crime policies were engaging in “yet another attack on a black man as an elected leader”. 

And racism paid off for Johnson.........However you translate it, Chicago is a disaster. Crime is up 39% as people are being cut up, cut down, shot and beaten by opportunity-starved youths, and a potential budget shortfall is approaching $1 billion. 42% of the city’s budget is going to pensions and interest on debt........... 80,000 people left Chicago in two years. By the time Johnson finishes running it into the ground, there’ll be even less separating Chicago from Detroit................. To Read More...

• Other Parts of the Series: Part I: Chicago’s Lori Lightfoot. Part 2: LA’s Eric Garcetti. Part 3: DC’s Muriel Bowser. Part 4: KC’s Quinton Lucas. Part 5: SF’s London Breed.Part 6: Philly’s Jim Kenney.Part 7: St. Louis’ Tishaura Jones. Part 9: Seattle’s Jenny Durkan. Part 10: Minneapolis’s Jacob Frey. Part 11: Charlottesville’s Nikuyah Walker. Part 12: Portland’s Ted Wheeler.Part 13: Atlanta’s Keisha Lance Bottoms.Part 14: NYC’s Bill de Blasio. Part 15: Enfield’s Mondale Robinson: Part 16: Boston’s Michelle Wu
•  Mayor Adams to Honor 9/11 Anniversary by Unleashing Mosque Loudspeakers Across NYC
•  New York City Allows Mosques to Publicly Broadcast Muslim Call to Prayer without Permits Despite Noise Restrictions in Neighborhoods
•  Iconic retailer permanently closes in Democrat city thanks to rampant crime
•  Major American business with 2,200 locations set to file bankruptcy

 

 

 

Biden’s Terror Funding Killed an Israeli Preschool Teacher

By Daniel Greenfield August 29, 2023 @ Sultan Knish Blog 

Last year, Biden met with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas and boasted that, “I reversed the policies of my predecessor and resumed aid to the Palestinians — more than a half a billion dollars in 2021.”

Batsheva Nigri, a preschool teacher, was riding in a car with her six-year-old daughter when Islamic terrorists from the Palestinian Authority’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade cut them off and riddled the car with 22 bullets. Batsheva’s six-year-old daughter watched her mother die.

The Palestinian Authority’s terror group hailed the murder of a 42-year-old preschool teacher as a “natural response to the crimes of the occupation” and as revenge for Denis Michael Rohan, a non-Jewish Australian tourist, starting a fire in the Al Aqsa occupation mosque in 1969.

Those who knew the preschool teacher described her as a woman with a “heart of gold” to whom “all the children were like her children.” Hamas and Islamic Jihad however claimed that her murder glorifies Allah.

Monday’s murder comes after an Israeli father and son were shot to death on the Sabbath. They’re among a growing list of terror victims this year ranging in age from a 6-year-old boy run down on a Jerusalem street to an 82-year-old woman who was killed while trying to get her disabled husband to safety when a rocket hit their building.

The twenty-six terror victims are a sharp increase from the only 3 deaths in 2020 when the Trump administration’s cutoff of aid to the terrorists occupying parts of Israel took effect.

The number of terror victims fell every year Trump was in office, from 15 in 2017, to 12 in 2018, 10 in 2019 and then only 3 in 2020. And the number of terror victims shot up every year Biden was in office from 17 in 2021, to 31 in 2022, and there is every sign that 2023 will top that.

Twice as many Israelis were killed in one month of Biden than in one year of Trump.

It’s only August and already 26 Israelis have been killed by Islamic terrorists. Last year at this time 18 Israelis had been killed by terrorists making for a 40% increase in 2023.

What made all the difference? As Rep. Ilhan Omar once said, “It’s all about the ‘benjamins’”.

In 2018, Congress passed the Taylor Force Act, named after an Iraq War veteran who was stabbed to death by a terrorist in Jerusalem, which cut off most aid to the Palestinian Authority. In 2019, President Trump went even further with a nearly total cutoff of aid to the Palestinian Authority. Biden not only restored aid, he sharply increased the flow of cash to the terrorists.

Biden’s half a billion dollars helped fuel a massive surge in Islamic terrorism. While the money is officially listed as humanitarian aid, injecting money into terror zones funds terrorism.

The Palestinian Authority maintains a ‘pay-to-slay’ program which pays salaries to terrorists based on the lengths of their prison sentences. That means successful killers can earn $3,000 a month in a part of the world where the average salary is around $700 a month. It’s five times more profitable to be a terrorist than a teacher.

That’s the price of Batsheva’s life and that is what the Biden administration has been paying for.

The Biden administration is well aware that the Palestinian Authority funds terrorism. While Biden and Secretary of State Blinken refused to raise the issue with terror leader Mahmoud Abbas, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf claimed, “we are working to bring pay-to-slay to an end.” Instead the United States is funding pay-to-slay.

And worse.

Recent documents reveal that the State Department applied for an OFAC license which exempts it from Global Terrorist Sanctions Regulations in order to provide foreign aid.

A government sanctions exemption document warned that, “we assess there is a high risk Hamas could potentially derive indirect, unintentional benefit from U.S. assistance to Gaza. There is less but still some risk U.S. assistance would benefit other designated groups.”

The Biden administration knows that it’s funding terrorism. It is not only aware of it but it actually applied for an exemption in order to be able to continue funding terrorists… including Hamas.

Batsheva’s murder, like that of the 74 terror victims killed under Biden, was paid for directly and indirectly through foreign aid to terrorists and sanctions relief on Iran’s terror regime. These policies were not undertaken in ignorance, the OFAC documents provide clear evidence that the Biden administration had been warned that it was funding terrorism and that people would die.

That’s why the number of Israelis continues to climb every year that Biden has been in office.

After 7 Israelis, including a 14-year-old boy, were killed in a Sabbath terrorist attack outside a synagogue in January 2023, Secretary of State Blinken met with Mahmoud Abbas and promised another $50 million to UNRWA which acts as the employment agency for Hamas. Earlier that same month, the Biden administration warned Israel to turn over $39 million in tax revenues to terrorists rather than providing that money to help terror victims rebuild their lives.

In August, with 4 Israelis already murdered, the Biden administration demanded that Republicans stop blocking $75 million in “humanitarian aid” to the UN agency. Sen. Jim Risch and Rep. Michael McCaul are determined to block that aid until Secretary of State Blinken certifies that UNRWA “is not affiliated with U.S. designated foreign terrorist organizations”. And yet the Biden administration can’t seem to even manage to clear that lowest of legal bars.

In Batsheva’s hometown of Efrat, which the Biden administration considers an “illegal settlement” despite being referenced numerous times in the bible, the children have lost a teacher and a friend.

The murdered preschool teacher had been on the way to “prepare the kindergarten for the start of the year.” A woman who worked with her described how “every time I entered the kindergarten, she welcomed me with a beaming smile that always accompanied her. The children were everything to her, she always hugged them and gave what she could to the children, the staff, the parents.”

Batsheva did not have to die. None of the 26 already killed this year did. The 3 dead in 2020 show what’s possible. The Biden administration is knowingly funding the murder of the innocent. Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. 

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Here's a Shocker For Ya: Francis Suarez Gives Up Presidential Race

By Rich Kozlovich 

Yesterday Hannah Bleau ran this piece, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez Suspends Presidential Campaign, and I'm betting the vast majority of Americans are going say....Who?  And the majority of those who know who he is will say:  Who cares?  But I have to give this man an "A" for class, as he's going out with class. 

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez has suspended his presidential campaign two months after its initial launch.........after failing to meet the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) criteria, despite expressing confidence in doing so less than a week away from the debate.............If you can’t meet the minimum thresholds, you shouldn’t be trying to take time and volume away from people that do,” ..........“I don’t think candidates should just sort of linger around if they don’t have a credible path,” he added.

In my Runners, Joggers, and Vocal Spectators: Election 2024, Part III article I reported about him and former Representative Will Hurd of Texas, neither of whom I'd heard of before this.  Hurd had a pro-pro-Trump voting record while in the House, but he seems to be running on a "I hate Trump" platform now.   Suarez doesn't seem to have a platform, but has held views conservatives won't like, and never supported Trump in 2016 or 2020, and from interviews it's clear he's not that knowledgeable about world events, so why did he run?  Hurd views himself as a moderate and Suarez views himself as a conservative.  Imagine that. Trump really does have the ability to draw out the real character in people. 

So Hurd didn't make it to the debate, and it's clear Hurd is done, will he have enough class to walk away?  Will other's also take the high road?  I like Larry Elder, but he's out of it, I hope he goes out with class.  Eventually this will become an issue for those who were part of the debate, like Chris Christie. Now, it's clear Christie has a ton of class, but it's all low, so it really doesn't matter what he does. He owns the Ick Factor outright.

The Great Game of Let’s Pretend

Jeffrey A. Tucker @ Epoch Times

Last Wednesday, August 23, was supposed to be a night of reckoning and truth. The intrepid and independent journalist Tucker Carlson was to grill Donald Trump, who skipped the GOP debates because he is already the hands-down frontrunner and doesn’t want anything to do with conventional politics.

Tucker had spent the last three years on Fox correctly denouncing lockdowns, censorship, vaccine mandates, and medical segregation, plus the attacks on American liberty. He certainly knows what’s what. One might have supposed that the issues that tanked the Trump presidency and nearly the whole of American society and liberty would be front and center. Now was the time!

Oddly, none of it came up in his interview with Trump. The interview answered none of our questions about why Trump did what he did, which not only wrecked the American economy but arguably lost him the election. Even if you think the election was stolen, it was only through the mail-in ballots that the COVID controls unleashed. Tucker drilled down into none of this. It was as if 2020 did not happen at all.

The simultaneous GOP debate was even worse. Ron DeSantis started with a bang and spoke about lockdowns but the topic fizzled quickly. Following a flurry of pharma ads—indeed the entire event was funded by FDA-approved drug sales—the moderators briefly asked former vice president Mike Pence if he thought his administration bore any responsibility for learning loss because the Trump administration urged school closures.

Pence—who spent 2020 running cover for Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx—wholly ignored the question and said something else. The topic was never revisited again.

There was not one word said about tech censorship, the millions displaced and harmed by vaccine mandates, the dictatorial reach of the administrative state, the vast flurry of litigation against everything and everybody, the mass loss of trust in government and media, the foundational attack on the Bill of Rights, or the very real threat that it could happen again.

On the same day as the debate, we already saw mask mandates being reimposed. But no one spoke about it.

You surely see what’s going on here. The biggest issues in American life, which everyone experienced with vast tragedy and death all around, and about which everyone knows, are suddenly too sensitive to bring up. It’s something of which multitudes are aware but because all official institutions were involved, all official institutions are quiet about it. As a result, the great reckoning we need for renewal is farther off than ever.

Meanwhile, we’ve got Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., out there on countless public interviews, as a presidential candidate, saying remarkable things like 1) the CIA in 1963 killed his uncle who was president, 2) the intelligence community works with Big Pharma on gain-of-function research to create and cure new killer viruses, 3) they germ-gamed the lockdowns since 2001, 4) the lockdowns of March 2020 was a coup d’état against representative democracy, 5) right now we have industry-captured Deep-State agencies that are ruling America who have no regard whatsoever for the U.S. Constitution or the idea of freedom.

He says all of this without any shyness and with a great deal of knowledge and detail. He provides the receipts. Indeed, he has written several books on these themes. People listen and think “Oh that’s very interesting” and go hear him speak, without any presumption that he stands any chance to be President despite his wild popularity because, essentially, the fix is in.

Biden has already been selected to get the nomination, which rather demonstrates RFK’s point. Meanwhile, I’ve never once heard any reporter or read any article that challenges him on any of the facts. It’s as if everyone knows that what he is saying is true but we cannot do anything about it anyway. So he is tolerated as a wayward eccentric from a noble lineage but best ignored if we know what’s good for us.

It’s a very strange time in American political history, no doubt. We have one line of thinking sweeping through the population—which is based on mass incredulity and fury—and then another which is a veneer of normalcy that is slathered on top of our anger by all official institutions, which work hard to keep all these topics out of respectable conversations. Meanwhile, the whole of academic, mainstream social media, major mainstream media, and all of government seems to agree that all these obvious topics are too incendiary to be raised in polite company.

So everyone in the top layer of this manufactured consent is glad to play along with this great game of pretend. Meanwhile, people are fully aware now that the intelligence community is deeply involved in areas of life we previously thought were independent. And we suspect this is true even of organizations and publications we once thought were more-or-less trustworthy. How else to explain their silence and/or lies on all the crucial issues of our time?

As regards all the institutions that locked down the population just a few years ago, nothing has changed. Sure, there are a few court decisions extant that said they went too far but those are all being challenged and await appeals to the Supreme Court. But while these grueling processes play themselves out, Google, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, and all the rest of our formerly free social-media platforms are more brutally censorial than ever. YouTube even announced that it will tolerate no content that contradicts the World Health Organization (WHO), which only three years ago recommended to the entire world the lockdowns pioneered by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Wuhan.

In the last few days, my own phone has blown up with people terrified of a new lockdown. They worry about leaving the country for fear of new travel restrictions. They worry about new vaccine mandates for their kids in school. They are thinking of moving to Florida and away from the big cities on the coasts where crime worsens by the day and skyscrapers are still mostly empty because workers won’t come back. And the #1 song in the world wails about the cruelty of this new world and how it is sending people to an early death.

Who would have imagined that a collapse on this level would happen in plain sight and everyone would see it and yet the entirety of the culture planners would in effect impose a fatwa on anyone who speaks about it?

Certainly I never imagined this scenario. Our whole lives we’ve sung about the “land of the free and the home of the brave” but here we are unfree and not brave. Because of facial-recognition technology, we cannot even hit the streets anymore. That was the real point of the post-January 6 crackdown: to serve as a lesson that if we resist in person, we will be recognized and dealt with severely.

The silence about the truth is utterly deafening. It’s not just that we aren’t getting answers to our questions; we aren’t even getting questions outside a handful of venues including this one.

Meanwhile, the highest hopes for saving the country from ruin are being placed in the hands of the very chief executive under whom all this began. And why? Because people believe that he was tricked and betrayed into greenlighting this wreckage even though he has never actually said anything like this. It’s the only hope people have. It’s a thin hope indeed.

When I first read Orwell’s “1984,” it seemed like a dark and implausible fantasy and warning. I never imagined that it was really a reductio ad absurdum of a reality that he saw unfolding before him in the rising totalitarianism of his time. It turns out that he was a prophet of just how corrupt a highly politicized society with overweening bureaucracy can be in practice when careerism trumps courage and the cash nexus spreads the coercive mindset throughout all the commanding heights of the social order.

We are finding out now. The soundtrack of the end times is not Mahler or Wagner. It is gaming music with dance numbers on TikTok, with darkly distant echoes of a simple country singer in Virginia decrying the rich men north of Richmond.

From the Brownstone Institute

Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute, and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of The Best of Mises. He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture.

Biden Allowed Major Donor to Hand Advanced Military Tech to China

By Daniel Greenfield August 27, 2023 @ Sultan Knish Blog 

 “When I was in another State they would slip and say ‘now I want to introduce the Senator from DuPont–I mean Delaware’”, Joe Biden had joked at a Senate Subcommittee on Crime session.

There’s a certain truth to the joke. DuPont is the corporation that defines Biden’s career. His first Senate bid was staffed with DuPont employees, including future chief-of-staff and senator Ted Kaufman, who was conveniently allowed to take a “leave of absence” from DuPont to help elect Biden. Biden celebrated his victory at the Hotel DuPont and bought a former DuPont mansion.

DuPont figures in a lot of Biden’s stories. He even claims to have gotten on board with gay marriage when his father showed him a gay couple kissing at DuPont. And Biden figures in the latest DuPont story which involves handing over advanced military technology to China.

Last year, DuPont sold off its biomaterials unit to the Huafon Group of China. Huafon, a massive chemical and finance organization,

Biden’s own defense secretary warned that the sale would put technology that could be used for advanced explosives in China’s hands. Those concerns were not unreasonable. DuPont had been born as a gunpowder firm that came to dominate the American defense industry in the 19th century. DuPont was there handling plutonium on the ground floor of the Manhattan Project even though its former president, Irénée du Pont, had admired Hitler. DuPont has since tried to avoid associations with weapons, but its biomaterials had potential military applications.

Houfan, a massive Chinese chemical and finance organization, which dominates the spandex market (spandex was originally developed by DuPont), boasts in its own spandex division that its commitment to “social responsibility” derives from Communist leadership within the company.

The deputy secretary of the Communist Party branch within Houfan was quoted as emphasizing the role of “Communist Party members and youth league members”.

America has been falling behind Communist China in the explosives race. The Ukraine war had demonstrated all too clearly the limitations of our military production capabilities and our reliance on outdated technologies. In 2021, a factory in Louisiana responsible for making all the Pentagon’s black powder blew up. The factory was originally part of DuPont.

China dominates mass production of CL-20, the deadliest non-nuclear explosive, and America has struggled to catch up. A report during the Trump administration had warned that, “China is also the sole source or a primary supplier for a number of critical energetic materials used in munitions and missiles.” Austin and the Pentagon warned about the deadly consequences of handing over DuPont’s technology which, like CL-20, was developed in America, but would be appropriated by China leading to a grave risk of American deaths in possible future conflicts.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has generally been a loyal political soldier. He had previously toed the line on nearly every Biden initiative. But on DuPont, he broke ranks. National security officials tried to meet with Biden to warn him that the DuPont deal might be good for the Delaware company, but was bad for America. Biden however refused to meet with them.

And the deal went through. Despite the supposed safeguards which were supposed to prevent Covation Biomaterials, the name of the new Chinese-controlled company, from getting its hands on the production process, it happened anyway. And the FBI launched an investigation.

Nothing is expected to come of that.

This is far from the first time that advanced American technology has fallen into the hands of our enemies in China, but it’s particularly outrageous because top defense officials, including the secretary of defense, had warned of the consequences, and it happened anyway.

And because there is no company closer to Joe Biden than DuPont.

The Biden family had already been involved in the intersection of China and DuPont when Hunter Biden introduced George Duko, a DuPont executive, to a Chinese businessman who had founded a Communist linked firm. While Hunter has been sidelined, there’s a history there.

DuPont has been kind to Biden, donating $250,000 to his inauguration committee alone, and the Biden family has been kind to DuPont. When Robert H. Richards IV, a DuPont heir, admitted to raping his 3-year-old daughter, Attorney General Beau Biden defended the judge who refused to lock him up because he has “strong family support” and “will not fare well in prison.”

Beau Biden went on to die (of cancer in the United States, not in Iraq, as Joe Biden has repeatedly lied) and the Biden clan decided that the best way to memorialize the man who let a child rapist walk was to set up the Beau Biden Foundation for the Protection of Children. The foundation, currently holding its ‘Child Protection Classic’ at the DuPont Country Club, became famous when laptops bearing its sticker turned up filled with pornographic materials featuring its chairman, Hunter, including allegations of supposed inappropriate behavior with underage girls.

There is no understanding the Bidens without understanding Delaware and DuPont. The decline of DuPont was a pivotal moment for Joe Biden’s political career. The Bidens have never been national figures and though Joe, his brother, and his son crisscrossed the world, they were always local grifters. DuPont’s troubles caused them to turn to China.

Joe and Hunter Biden are far more interested in what’s good for DuPont than what’s good for America. Biden’s decision is likely to increase China’s military edge and weaken our own.

China didn’t have to buy the President of the United States, just the “Senator from DuPont”.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation. Thank you for reading.

First GOP Debate for Election 2024 and What's Being Said

By Rich Kozlovich 

Okay, for transparency's sake, I almost never watch these "gong show" debates, including this one. The last debate I watched in full was the New City mayoral debate which included Weiner and DeBlasio, and believe it or not, Weiner was the sanest of the all, except DeBlasio won.  Why?  He won by answering every question and saying nothing.  

However, I do read all the commentaries afterward, and it's a bit amazing how so many people can see the same thing and come away with such different views.  And whether I agree or disagree with them, I really do have to congratulate them for their fortitude.

As far as I can tell, there wasn't one question regarding the fraudulent election of 2020, why?  The answer to that question is in my view the shibboleth for a conservative candidate.  And as far as I can tell, there was  only one question about these banana republic indictments, and that was:

“If former President Trump is convicted in a court of law, would you still support him as your party’s choice? Please raise your hand if you would?”  

Four candidates immediately raised their hands, DeSantis and Pence hesitated, and Hutchinson refused.  Vivek Ramaswamy made big points with that audience, saying “President Trump, I believe, was the best president of the 21st century. It’s a fact." Which makes one wonder why he's running against Trump if he believes that.  During the debate both Pence and Christie were booed.  

I've searched out and gathered as much information as I can, linking those articles for my benefit as well as that of my readers. Invariably I find a pattern emerges from such a collective effort, and I get a clear vision of what actually transpired. 

Andrea Widburg thought the questions were shallow, and compared it to a  junior high school debate , complete with the cool kids asking stupid questions and the geeks fighting on the stage", and was even less impressed with Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum.

I've decided Monica Showalter, who is a consistently conservative writer, must be among the kindest people in the world.  She loved it all, "intelligent, lively, not too destructively argumentative, and well-controlled in content. Bret Baier and Martha McCallum at Fox News did a terrific job".  Really?  That must be why Bret Baier had to tell the audience to stop booing Christie. 

Newt Gingrich thought everyone was wonderful, the candidates and the moderators.  Of course this is the same guy who sat down with Nancy Pelosi and touted all this climate change nonsense, later claiming that was the biggest mistake in his life.  Really?  If he believed it, why was it a mistake?  If he didn't believe it, why did he promote it?  If you look up integrity in the dictionary, Newt's picture won't be beside the definition.  He has zero credibility with me.  

Jack Hellner claimed, and I think this is all one needs to take away from this dog and pony show, no one matched the man who wasn't there, Donald Trump. He does go on to say:

Republicans should first stop giving in to the media and other Democrats by calling limits on abortion a "ban" on abortion. Six-, 13-, 15-, or 20-week limits on abortions are not bans any more than moving pornographic books out of children’s sections in libraries is a "ban."  It appears that many people are giving Nikki Haley high marks for the debate because she appeared moderate and reasonable and willing to work with Democrats.

Hellner wasn't impressed. He felt Haley is a Vichy Republican, weak on abortion and will break under leftist pressure. No guts, no brains.  Chris Christie fails in logic, history, values, and integrity, and continues to look like a fool, which I predicted.  He's a class act, only it's all low class.  

Many found Vivek Ramaswamy impressive with his views on climate and social dysfunction.  DeSantis came off well, but Pence has nothing to offer different than Trump, and that he's not Trump. All the while trying to take credit for what Trump initiated, and it seems Carlson Tucker's claim he's "creepy" may be coming to the fore.  

One of the problems with Republicans who claim to be conservative is they seem to have problem defining conservatism.  With the exception of Vivek, they all took a position big government has its place if only "it's done right".  That was Ted Kennedy, and Bernie Sanders position.  Which shouldn't surprise us, since even DeSantis has been waffling on this kind of thinking willing to be more "moderate".    

Haley was a shrill harridan, and for a former UN Ambassador, it appears she's a clueless globalist militarist, kind of like John Bolton.  As for Christie, it's clear he has the Ick Factor down pat.  Hutchinson wants Trump in prison, and Burgum did passingly well, but who cares?

On global warming, only Ramaswamy got it right.  Haley is as slippery as an eel.  She hedged on climate change, weak on abortion and has claimed, we have to humanize abortion, and stop demonizing it.  In a recent interview she states:

I mean, Ainsley, that’s the answer from my heart,”........ You know, I am surrounded by blessings, and God has blessed me with an amazing husband and two wonderful children. But having said that, I think it’s really important that all of us remember everybody has a personal story. So while I’m unapologetically pro-life, I don’t judge anyone for being pro-choice. I think that we have to humanize this issue. We’ve got to stop demonizing this issue.

What kind of answer is that?  It's simple, it isn't an answer, it's a logical fallacy evasion.  Like DeBlasio, she talks a lot and says nothing, so let me help her.  Calling the murder of the innocent unborn murder isn't demonization, it's the truth.   She wants to humanize this issue? Fine, then call it what it is: Infanticide!

Clearly, she's not a conservative, and you have to wonder why these GOP political hacks are so cripplingly desirous of playing this game of appeasement to the left.  Do they really think anyone on the left is going to vote for them? Maybe they do it because they're gutless losers?  Yet, one commentator thought Haley came off as classy and presidential, and would be a great VP for Trump.  Given her backstabbing history, just how cognitively dissonant is that?  

Tim Scott did very well, and his "disdain for Wokedom" is very real, but he's not going anywhere.   Pence again offers nothing, except to say he's not Trump, yet attempting to take credit for what Trump initiated.  And he thinks that's really gonna work?  Sure, with MSNBC. It seems Carlson Tucker's claim he's "creepy" may be coming to the fore.  And again, Christie now owns the Ick Factor, and his "rule of law rants" ring hollow given he's famous for his bridge closure to get back at a political rival.  

There's been some resentment that Larry Elder wasn't allowed in on the debate, and while I've always felt he was a good man with a good mind, the fact is he simply didn't have sufficient support to qualify.  

 

But that brings up what I think is an important point.  

 

Why is it a well know writer and thinker like Larry Elder, who's widely respected, wasn't able to get sufficient support to be in on the debate, and yet a virtual unknown, Vivek Ramaswamy, come out of nowhere, soar in the polls and met the qualifications to be on that stage?

Based on how they all attacked him, he's the one they're all really afraid of, even implying the rest of the candidates are bought and paid for.  He didn't win any friends, but that may be the pot calling the kettle black, and their fear may not be justified.

His presentation at the debate was impressive, and he's adept at saying all the things conservatives want to hear:  End the war, secure the order, drain the swamp, even vowing to release Jeffery Epstein’s client list if he's elected, and he's been saying all this stuff all over the media.  Why hasn't he been banned or blocked?  Given how everyone else is censored when spouting anything the establishment doesn't like, you must wonder why he isn't censored?     

This video is profound.  A video by a man who says he's not a financial analysis, nor an investigative reporter, yet found all this publicly available information in a few hours.    He notes that all these media outlets are in fact mouthpieces of the establishment, so why aren't they censoring Vivek?  How can someone be anti-establishment when they’re being supported by the establishment media?

His business expertise must be seriously questioned, including where he got the money for his campaign.  According to the video, his company has never been profitable and never produced a single product.  So, why did Blackrock, Vanguard and State Street investment companies, all ESG promoting firms, the most powerful cartel in history pour millions into a company that lost a billion dollars making Vivek very rich.  In fact it's been claimed he made a billion dollars by tricking investors pushing an Alzheimer drug that didn’t work.

He says he’s going after the teacher's unions, yet the California teachers union was one of the investors in this losing company.  Why?   His connection with Soros and the covid mandates are truly troubling, and this business about being named a young global leader by the WEF didn't bother him for two years as he used that to generate investment money,  then claimed he never agreed to that and sued WEF and got them to remove him from the list and sent him a letter of apology, all in three months. 

He claims he will challenge China, and yet he has business ties to China.  He's even open to pardoning Biden family for all these crimes they've committed, claiming they're nothing more than 'politically motivated persecution'.  Amazing!  He claims to be anti-establishment but is he really, or is he a mole for the establishment?

There's talk he isn't a "natural born" citizen as required by the Constitution, but those who say this use the "three legged" stool argument.  Either the father is an American citizen, or the mother is an American citizen when born in the USA.  But the Constitution doesn't define what a natural born citizen is, and the Supreme Court has declared anyone born in the United States is a natural born citizen, irrespective of the citizenship of their parents.   

So, as far as I can tell, by law, this argument against Ramaswamy isn't going to go anywhere, but neither is he.  He soared after the debate, but now I think as more information comes out about him, his numbers have dropped to less than double digits, and DeSantis is now in the double digits.  the others have come up also, but no one really cares.  

It would appear the real winner of those on the stage turned out to be DeSantis, not Ramaswamy, and while Trump dropped six points, he's still 38 points ahead of DeSantis, and after the "mug shot seen around the world" appeared, contributions to Trump's campaign soared.  Trump drew  200 million,....that's ...200 million viewers in his Trucker Carlson interview, and Steve Bannon claims the The Old Republican Party ended in Milwaukee that night.   

Final real conclusion?  In spite of all the blather from the talking heads like Sununu, here and here, Sen. Cassidy insisting Trump should drop out of the race, Al Sharpton's keen understanding of history, and Karl Rove's whine:  Trump won!

Free Speech Suppressed Everywhere You Turn

Francis Menton August 27, 2023 @ Manhattan Contrarian

Free speech today is under assault from the Left everywhere and all the time. You already know about the federal government’s pervasive Censorship Industrial Complex, pressuring all the big social media companies to suppress what they deem “misinformation” about any subject important to the current dominant political narrative (Covid-19, climate change, etc.). And you already know about ex-President Trump getting indicted by both federal and Georgia prosecutors for saying the same things about the 2020 election that Al Gore said about the 2000 election and Hillary Clinton said about the 2016 election and Stacey Abrams said about the 2018 election.

But how about the Left using its widespread control of social institutions to silence dissent. Today, this is literally everywhere. Here are a couple of notable examples for today — both, as it happens, from outside the U.S.:

Alimonte, et al., paper in European Physical Journal Plus

If you wonder why the climate alarm narrative seems so completely to dominate public discussion (even though it is utter nonsense), then you need to understand that there is an orthodoxy enforcement police operating behind the scenes. Most of the time the operation of this orthodoxy enforcement mechanism is invisible to the general public. Climate skeptics can’t get jobs in academia, and go into other careers; when skeptics write papers, they get rejected, and are never heard from again. But every once in a while something happens to bring aspects of the orthodoxy enforcement mechanism momentarily into the open. That has recently occurred with respect to a paper published in a European scientific journal in early 2022.

In January 2022 the European science journal called European Physical Journal Plus (part of the Springer Nature collection of journals) published a paper by Gianluca Alimonte and colleagues with the title “A critical assessment of extreme events trends in times of global warming.” The paper is essentially a review of trends in various sorts of extreme weather events since the early 20th century, including hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, droughts, and so forth. The bottom line from the article is that there are no noticeable trends in the frequency or severity of these extreme weather events during recent years. For example, the summary as to hurricanes is “To date, global observations do not show any significant trends in both the number and the energy accumulated by hurricanes.” Here is the graph as to numbers of hurricanes and tropical storms and accumulated energy of same:

Surely no trends are visible there. And here are the key concluding sentences from the abstract:

None of these response indicators show a clear positive trend of extreme events. In conclusion on the basis of observational data, the climate crisis that, according to many sources, we are experiencing today, is not evident yet.

That last observation seems to be the one that just could not be allowed. It appears that a group of orthodoxy enforcers from academia and journalism ganged up to go to Springer Nature to demand retraction of the Alimonte, et al. paper. There followed a lengthy back and forth, which ended with the paper being retracted on August 23, 2023. A whistleblower at Springer Nature leaked the back and forth to Roger Pielke, Jr., who has published two pieces about it on his Substack, the first on July 17, and the second on August 26. You can read those two lengthy pieces for all the details.

From the Pielke July 17 piece, the pile-on began about a year ago:

[E]ight months [after publication of Alimonte, et al.], following some discussion of the paper in the Australian media, The Guardian wrote an article severely criticizing the paper. The Guardian quoted four scientists critical of the paper: Greg Holland, Lisa Alexander, Steve Sherwood, and Michael Mann.

As an example of the nature of the criticisms, Pielke quotes the execrable Michael Mann, whose comments Pielke describes as “scathing and personal.” They are also notably non-substantive, appealing to consensus without disputing the accuracy of any of the data:

[This is] another example of scientists from totally unrelated fields coming in and naively applying inappropriate methods to data they don’t understand. Either the consensus of the world’s climate experts that climate change is causing a very clear increase in many types of weather extremes is wrong, or a couple of nuclear physics dudes in Italy are wrong.

As Pielke documents, there was no allegation of scientific fraud or misconduct of any sort. This was purely a case of Mann and his henchmen demanding a retraction over a matter of disagreement with the conclusion. Alimonte, et al. stood behind their work and declined to retract. And Springer then bowed to Mann’s bullying and retracted the article on August 23.

Meanwhile, go to the (now-retracted) Alimonte, et al., paper, and look at the graphs. It is obvious that there is no trend in extreme weather events. There is no getting around this. But it is not allowed to be said in “prestigious” publications like the Springer science journals.

Or, by the way, you can go to Joe D’Aleo’s excellent website, icecap.us, where there is a frequently updated section headed “Climate Alarmist Claim Fact Checks” with the latest data on trends in all extreme weather events.

Pielke mildly criticizes Alimonte, et al., for their “editorializing” about the lack of any climate crisis discernible in the data. Meanwhile, he notes that he did a Google search that turned up some 300,000 papers asserting the existence of a climate crisis. A few hundred billion dollars of government money can buy a lot of fake climate alarmism.

Jordan Peterson license to practice psychology in Ontario

On August 23 judges of something called the Ontario Divisional Court upheld a ruling of the College of Psychologists of Ontario, which had ordered Jordan Peterson to undergo what Peterson calls “social media retraining” to punish him for various tweets and a Joe Rogan podcast interview that the College found unacceptable. In a podcast on August 25, watchable at the Neo Neocon website here, Peterson goes through the tweets and statements that the College of Psychologists finds so unacceptable. Here are a couple discussed on the podcast:

• In a tweet on February 19, 2022, Peterson called Ottawa City Councillor Catherine McKenney, who uses “they/them” pronouns, an “appalling, self-righteous moralizing thing.”
• Speaking on a Joe Rogan podcast about air pollution and child deaths, Peterson said: “It’s just poor children, and the world has too many people on it anyways.”
• And here are few more from a piece in the Daily Mail:
• 2016: Slammed proposed Canadian legislation that would ban discrimination based on ‘gender identity or gender expression’, claiming it would threaten free speech
• 2017: Claimed that ‘the idea of white privilege is absolutely reprehensible’ because ‘most people have all sorts of privilege’
• 2018: Told British TV network Channel 4 that men need to ‘grow the hell up’ and ‘adopt responsibility’ while discussing the crisis of masculinity. Also claimed that the gender pay gap was not ‘only due to sex’

You can see how very nefarious this guy is. Clearly he must be silenced.

The punishment for Peterson is that he must undergo re-education until his re-educators are satisfied that he is sufficiently compliant.

The good news is that Peterson has the resources to continue the fight. Perhaps he will take it to the Supreme Court of Canada.

The Biden Clan’s Con Is Coming to an End

Hunter is still out of control, and could take the family down with him

By Victor Davis Hanson August 24, 2023 @ American Greatness

Despite years of Biden family and media disinformation, we are finally learning that Joe Biden really did fire Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin for looking into state corruption involving the oil company Burisma and Hunter Biden—and ultimately Joe Biden himself.

In contrast, a combative and boisterous Trump fought openly and constantly with federal archivists over which of his papers at his Mar-a-Lago estate were truly classified.

As Vice President, Biden, in his own words, bragged that he had threatened to cancel the deliverance of American foreign aid to Ukraine unless Shokin was dismissed.

So what is the Congress to do now—un-impeach and exonerate an innocent impeached Donald Trump, and instead impeach a guilty Biden for essentially the same allegations?

After all, the Left redefined the impeachment bar in 2019 as leveraging foreign aid to Ukraine to benefit one’s political career.

And that is exactly what Joe Biden did to ensure his son could continue to raise millions for the Biden family with foreign governments, while being shielded from political consequences.

An impeached Trump also was accused of using the power of government to go after his likely 2020 presidential rival by suggesting that Joe Biden and his family were corrupt, and should be investigated by Ukrainian officials for fraud and bribery.

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So Trump in 2019 had good reasons to ensure that none of the Bidens were still burrowed deeply into the Ukrainian payoff machine.

In contrast, Joe Biden had far less grounds to unleash the full powers of government against his probable 2024 rival ex-president Trump.

Special Prosecutor Jack Smith is not charging Trump with bribery of the Biden sort. He does not allege that Trump gave special foreign policy preferences for those foreigners who paid his family for such services.

Instead, Smith argues that Trump unlawfully took out classified presidential papers—although Joe Biden did nearly the same.

Biden kept quiet about his vast removal of classified documents for over a decade. Not until Trump was being investigated did Biden suddenly notify the government of his illegal removals.

Prosecutorial leaks floated all sorts of unproven nefarious agendas that had prompted Trump’s disputes over his presidential papers.

But no one to this day has seriously asked why senator and then Vice President Biden secretly and weirdly removed and kept such sensitive material for years.

Recent reports allege that Hunter Biden may have been treated with kid gloves by prosecutors, partly because Hunter’s lawyers had threatened otherwise to call Joe Biden to the stand as a favorable witness.

Government prosecutors under pressure from the White House apparently balked at  the nightmare of a befuddled president of the United States testifying under oath about the supposed innocence of the very guilty Hunter Biden.

In truth, the former drug addict Hunter has played lots of such strange games with his own family.

In his laptop communications, Hunter whined that no one in the family appreciated his hard work at family grifting.

He sounded petulant that his father forced him to fork over half his income to the Joe and Jill Biden household.

At time of universal scrutiny of Hunter, the last thing any sane first son might do would be to hawk his own childish paintings at exorbitant prices to those wishing to buy influence with his father the president.

In effect, Hunter was almost daring the White House to stop his blatant grifting artistry.

Instead, the Bidens moved Hunter into the White House, apparently to keep him under closer watch.

Hunter is still out of control. He could take the family down with him unless President Biden continues to shield him from prosecution.

Ironically, the double standard used by Biden and the media to hound Trump has only raised new questions of fairness.

Why had the Biden family—with its far greater legal exposure—never faced such serial indictments?

A Republican House of Representatives had ended prior Democratic protection given the Bidens.

And the Ukraine war has again turned attention to the Biden-Burisma connection and Hunter’s shaking down of Ukrainian officials.

Finally, Joe Biden can no longer work a full day. He mutters. He stumbles. He serially lies.

He hijacks solemn occasions commemorating national tragedies by trying to one up the grieving with his own self-absorbed stories—most of them irrelevant and narcissistic half-truths.

If a cognitively and criminally challenged Biden cannot finish his term, we will finally learn the full story of 15 years of Biden family corruption.

The Bidens will lose the only impediment—Joe Biden’s political machinations—left in the way of an honest, full-blown felony investigation into what is likely the most corrupt presidential family in American history.

Race Baiting is a Two Way Street

By Rich Kozlovich

On August 26, 2023 Andrea Widburg published this article, In Georgia, the lone black male defendant in the Trump case rots in jail saying:

If only Harrison Floyd’s first name were George. If only he’d been a convicted felon who passed a counterfeit bill, filled himself with illegal drugs, and resisted arrest. If that were the case, he’d have had millions of dollars flowing to him from Hollywood and Democrat politicians, and he’d have been a media hero. However, Harrison Floyd isn’t a thug of color. Instead, he’s a retired Marine vet, living with his family and getting by on his pension. And he’s also a black Trump supporter, which is why he’s rotting in a Fulton County jail.

She goes on to note all this lawfare by these corrupt Democrat prosecutors has one goal.  Bankrupt Trump supporters, and then goes on to demonstrate just how expensive this is, and notes no one is "going to volunteer their services for someone who dared to support Trump", and Harrison Ford is one of them.  A black, disabled veteran.  

It's claimed this disabled veteran “yelled at, pushed and struck an agent who was serving a subpoena at his Maryland home…Floyd was charged with assaulting an FBI agent." Andrea goes on to say:  "Raise your hand if you trust the FBI’s version of events."  We need to take a very serious look at what the FBI is doing, and it's not pretty. 

He's denied bail as "he's a flight risk" in spite of the fact he flew there to turn himself in.  Wow, now what could be more convincing that he's a flight risk....right? And the judge chastised him for saying he can't afford an attorney so he's representing himself to avoid placing such a financial burden on his family.

But now a fund has been created to support Floyd's defense, and "within 24 hours, that fund had met the original $100,000 goal. Now, the fund has raised the goal to $200,000.  Andrea goes on to note:  

This isn’t greed. Given the Democrat goal of breaking people economically with lawfare, in a case of this magnitude, the money can easily be gone in two months.

The question arises, if he was white would this be happening?  I have no idea.  Could this effort to support him be considered reverse race baiting?  Maybe, and truthfully, I don't care if it is.  If that's what it takes to challenge all this blatantly irresponsible, and I think criminal behavior, then I'm for it.  

There's one huge difference between race baiting by leftists and what's happening here.  This man isn't a thug, and he isn't a criminal.  All these riots that occurred over the killing of thugs and criminals is nothing more than real efforts at insurrection by race baiting thugs, criminals, and left wing insurrectionists attempting to destroy America, and truthfully, the demise of these black thugs and criminals has made the world a better place to live. 

The flip side of 'I, Pencil'

August 28, 2023 By John F. Di Leo

In December, 1958, economist Leonard Read, the founder of the Foundation for Economic Education, published a short essay in FEE’s periodical, The Freeman.........“I, Pencil” was conceived as a fanciful anthropomorphism, the genealogy of that most common of household tools, the lead pencil.  In those few pages, Leonard Read demonstrated the magic woven by the Invisible Hand of the free market.  In the generations since, millions of us have learned to respect how countless different industries, countless people, all over the world, unknowingly come together to contribute the necessary components to make it possible for someone to manufacture a pencil (or in fact, any other product).

These farmers, chemical companies, lumber mills, miners, and metalworkers do their daily jobs, often unaware that somewhere, half a world away, someone will be using their paint, their graphite, their wood, their metal, their rubber, to manufacture the millions of pencils we all depend on for school, work, crafts and art.  It’s an amazing story, brilliantly told. It’s likely that every reader of this publication could recite some lines from it by heart; it’s that familiar to the modern conservative mind................The message is one of education and optimism. We don’t need five-year-plans like the communists dream up abroad; we don’t need a national industrial plan like American Democrats propose here at home.  There will always be pencils because the free market enables it to happen.  Isn’t it glorious?............

The primary lesson of “I, Pencil” was that we don’t need a government to mandate the manufacture of a pencil, because the market will provide it without such a mandate.  The public demand – the choice of the consumer – is an infinitely more effective mandate.

But there is secondary lesson, buried just beneath the surface: Government must not meddle with all those contributing industries.  The magic of the Invisible Hand depends upon the government behaving itself.  It depends on the government leaving well enough alone.............To Read More....

Reality: Starting Place of Progress

Whoever swerves from the path of reality is irrevocably lost in the emptiness of illusions. – Zoltan Kodaly

By Anthony J. DeBlasi 

Radical progressives – not all of them are leftists – can’t admit, even to themselves, that beneath their professed ambition to improve the world is a passionate loathing of reality and grudge against nature. How, according to an argument they would agree with, can anyone tolerate such a cruel and unpredictable master as nature, doling out pain and pleasure with equal indifference and treating health, the means of livelihood, life itself, as playthings? The answer becomes clear when it is discovered and acknowledged that the givens of reality, including nature, are in fact the beginning of any journey toward progress, a beginning that triggers a release of freedom of action and of creative ener­gy that swings open doors of possibility perhaps never dreamed of.

For if life were free of friction, conflict, risk, constant challenge (conditions laid down by utopians), people would not be fully human but in a sense synthetic copies of humanhood - in other words, fake. Overcoming adversity makes people grow in strength and in health of body and mind. How can being committed to “a perfect future” – undeniably a good motivation for progress – help that goal by ignoring the world we actually live in? How can making mind and muscle grow flabby ever serve a good and noble purpose?.............To Read More....

 

Unvaccinated Alberta Woman Denied Organ Transplant Passes Away

 By Matthew Horwood 8/24/2023

Alberta resident Sheila Annette Lewis. (Courtesy of Sheila A. Lewis)

An Alberta woman who was removed from a high-priority organ transplant list for not receiving a COVID-19 vaccine has passed away. Sheila Annette Lewis was diagnosed with a terminal illness in 2018 and was told she would not survive without an organ transplant. She was placed on an organ waiting list in 2020, but despite having all her previous vaccinations, was informed in 2021 that a COVID-19 vaccine was required to receive the organ transplant..............To Read More.....

Mice Lobby Against the Better Mousetrap

Rick Manning Aug 27, 2023 

Standing up against a government that will crush the dreams of everyday Americans just to assert its power was the inspiration for my coming to Washington, D.C., many years ago.........The issue seems trivial, but it is a pure example of the federal government squashing someone just because they can. The FAA requires tail identification numbers on aircraft at a cost of $10, with about a million separate combinations available......... He then set up the apparatus to auction those numbers that he believed would have higher demand to those who were willing to pay for the vanity numbers...............But the inevitable occurred, and the mice decided that the entrepreneur should not be allowed to exist and whined to their trade association and members of Congress.......To Read More...

Why the heck do we have an alcohol czar? August 27, 2023  By Monica Showalter - Taking after our good friends across the border in Canada, the U.S. alcohol czar has decided that we are now to have just two beers a week.m According to the Daily Mail: Americans could be urged by officials to drink no more than two beers a week as part of strict new alcohol guidelines. Biden's health czar told DailyMail.com the USDA could revise its alcohol advice to match Canada's, where people are advised to have just two drinks per week. Dr George Koob — who admits enjoying a couple of glasses of Chardonnay a week — said he was watching Canada's 'big experiment' with interest. What kind of nonsense is this? It's sure as heck not 'science' given that some people can handle and enjoy quite a bit more of that, and some people cannot. Some people have cultures that thrive on it, and others do not. The point here is that people are the best judges of what's good for them and if beer is their thing, that's their "pursuit of happiness" as the Constitution guarantees.............To Read More

A Disarmed Man Goes into Battle,

August 26, 2023 By Max D. Dublin

Why do people commit suicide? Volumes have been written on the subject and in many cases, we know, or like to think we know, what motivated them to do so. But some cases, even after ready explanations, still remain rather mysterious.

A little over a month ago Richard Bilkszto, a middle-aged Toronto high school principal, jumped to his death from the sixteenth floor of his condo building. His suicide briefly made a stir in the legacy media because it was said that he had taken his life because of a nasty encounter he had had with a DEI indoctrinator. 

During a diversity training session, he had had the temerity to open his mouth and make a mild comment about the narrative that was being shoved down the throats of the attendees, that Canada is an irredeemably white supremacist racist country, worse even than the United States. His exact words were, “Is there room for improvement -- absolutely! 

Are we racist and everything -- absolutely!” This mild deviation from the narrative was all it took for Kike Ojo-Thompson, the race-hustler that was doing the brainwashing, to mercilessly lash out at him giving him a severe dressing-down in front of everyone present followed by another such harangue at the next session. Though an ensuing investigation by the Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board found that he had been bullied he received no support from the administration. Indeed, there followed a pile-on by some of the fully-woke attendees. Directly after Ojo-Thompson thus shamed him he took a seven-week sickness leave ostensibly due to depression and on July 17 killed himself............. To Read More....