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7/18/23 - COVID Vaccines and the Case Against Technocracy
Technocracy would be great, if it weren’t for the technocrats. Technocracy is the idea that experts working for the government know better than you do how to run your life and are, therefore, entitled to tell you what to do. Nice theory, but the COVID vaccine fiasco shows you just how stupid the theory is when put into practice.
I’ll get to my own court case on the vaccine safety issue in a minute but, first, a lot of other people are working on this issue now and all our combined efforts show you just how bad it was what our government did to us. The experts and apologists keep saying there is no proof the vaccines caused anyone to die, but a review of 325 autopsies by medical professionals found that COVID vaccines were the cause of death in three-quarters of the cases, primarily from vaccine-induced heart trouble. EU technocrats were aware of tens of thousands of adverse events and thousands of deaths after vaccination at the same time they were proclaiming there were no safety signals and the benefits of the vaccines outweighed the risks. Remember that line about benefits and risks, because it’s exactly what U.S. regulators say to this day. Our own CDC admitted this month that it decided not to include diagnostic codes showing COVID vaccines as the cause of death on a number of death certificates, leading to accusations the CDC is hiding vaccine injuries in federal records with the intent to deceive the public about the risks. The FDA ignored the mounting evidence of vaccine-induced deaths and refused to put warnings on COVID vaccine labels, despite pleas from watchdogs. The FDA insists there is insufficient proof of causation, which is funny because federal law only requires some basis to believe there is a problem, not strict proof, before warnings are supposed to go on. Bottom line: people didn’t get the right information because the government withheld it from them.
Now, on to my case in federal court in the District of Columbia. I just filed a motion to compel searches for records from HHS components, including the CDC and FDA, for documents containing or discussing decisions by agency officials - including HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra - to undertake or not undertake causation and other safety studies on the COVID vaccine incident reports in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). I filed my FOIA request more than a year and a half ago and filed suit when it became apparent HHS was stonewalling me. In all that time, HHS has not released to me a single new record not previously released in other FOIA cases - NOT ONE. Nothing that could legitimately be called a search has been performed. HHS has scoffed at the law and the court.
I’ve never seen anything like this in years of FOIA litigation. Usually agencies stonewall by conducting token searches and releasing a few inconsequential records. Not HHS in this case. It is my contention they didn’t search at all, showing contempt for the Freedom of Information Act and the Rule of Law. They didn’t search their databases, their email systems, or even ask employees where relevant records might be.
HHS Secretary Becerra cannot very well claim he is out of the loop when it comes to COVID vaccines when he has repeatedly been in the news pronouncing on COVID vaccine matters, the latest instance being last week when he warned COVID vaccine manufacturers not to price gouge on their next round of vaccines. Anthony Fauci, who worked for HHS, was all over the media during the pandemic. The government spent a billion dollars to push the narrative ‘the vaccines are safe and effective’ in the media. At the same time, Fauci, others at HHS, the White House, and other agencies were engaged in a “massive, sprawling federal 'Censorship Enterprise'" suppressing truthful information about COVID vaccines and other matters in what a federal judge earlier this month called “the most massive attack against free speech in United States history.”
HHS and other government censors tried to keep us from learning about the hazards of the COVID vaccines. They also criticized natural immunity, saying the vaccines were better, which is not true. They lied to us and suppressed truthful information, making informed consent for getting vaccinated impossible. Instead of giving us all the information and relying on people to make decisions that were best for themselves, these technocrats presumed to know what was best for everybody and to make our decisions for us.
These people think they’re in charge and rule over us. They don’t understand their own country. They think this is a technocracy when, in fact, it is a constitutional Republic where We The People are sovereign.
Our government’s line, as in the EU, has consistently been the benefits of the COVID vaccines outweigh the risks. Maybe, but that doesn’t explain why they spent a billion dollars to have the media lie to us about the vaccines, and suppressed information about the dangers of vaccination and the million-plus adverse reaction reports piling up in government databases. They deliberately gave people the wrong information so they could not make informed choices for themselves. These technocrats, for whatever reason, arrogated to themselves the right to make people’s decisions for them. This turns our system of government upside down. As a result, thousands of people took the vaccine and went to their graves trusting their government, a government that betrayed them, usurped their choices, and robbed them of their freedom and their individual sovereignty. A technocratic government that completely disregarded the sovereignty and primacy of the American people in the belief that it knew best.
I cannot tell you how furious all of this has made me. I will never rest until we have justice for the vaccine victims who went to their deaths trusting a government that deliberately betrayed them for its own cynical purposes.
Technocracy would be great, if it weren’t for the technocrats. Technocracy is the idea that experts working for the government know better than you do how to run your life and are, therefore, entitled to tell you what to do. Nice theory, but the COVID vaccine fiasco shows you just how stupid the theory is when put into practice.
I’ll get to my own court case on the vaccine safety issue in a minute but, first, a lot of other people are working on this issue now and all our combined efforts show you just how bad it was what our government did to us. The experts and apologists keep saying there is no proof the vaccines caused anyone to die, but a review of 325 autopsies by medical professionals found that COVID vaccines were the cause of death in three-quarters of the cases, primarily from vaccine-induced heart trouble. EU technocrats were aware of tens of thousands of adverse events and thousands of deaths after vaccination at the same time they were proclaiming there were no safety signals and the benefits of the vaccines outweighed the risks. Remember that line about benefits and risks, because it’s exactly what U.S. regulators say to this day. Our own CDC admitted this month that it decided not to include diagnostic codes showing COVID vaccines as the cause of death on a number of death certificates, leading to accusations the CDC is hiding vaccine injuries in federal records with the intent to deceive the public about the risks. The FDA ignored the mounting evidence of vaccine-induced deaths and refused to put warnings on COVID vaccine labels, despite pleas from watchdogs. The FDA insists there is insufficient proof of causation, which is funny because federal law only requires some basis to believe there is a problem, not strict proof, before warnings are supposed to go on. Bottom line: people didn’t get the right information because the government withheld it from them.
Now, on to my case in federal court in the District of Columbia. I just filed a motion to compel searches for records from HHS components, including the CDC and FDA, for documents containing or discussing decisions by agency officials - including HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra - to undertake or not undertake causation and other safety studies on the COVID vaccine incident reports in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). I filed my FOIA request more than a year and a half ago and filed suit when it became apparent HHS was stonewalling me. In all that time, HHS has not released to me a single new record not previously released in other FOIA cases - NOT ONE. Nothing that could legitimately be called a search has been performed. HHS has scoffed at the law and the court.
I’ve never seen anything like this in years of FOIA litigation. Usually agencies stonewall by conducting token searches and releasing a few inconsequential records. Not HHS in this case. It is my contention they didn’t search at all, showing contempt for the Freedom of Information Act and the Rule of Law. They didn’t search their databases, their email systems, or even ask employees where relevant records might be.
HHS Secretary Becerra cannot very well claim he is out of the loop when it comes to COVID vaccines when he has repeatedly been in the news pronouncing on COVID vaccine matters, the latest instance being last week when he warned COVID vaccine manufacturers not to price gouge on their next round of vaccines. Anthony Fauci, who worked for HHS, was all over the media during the pandemic. The government spent a billion dollars to push the narrative ‘the vaccines are safe and effective’ in the media. At the same time, Fauci, others at HHS, the White House, and other agencies were engaged in a “massive, sprawling federal 'Censorship Enterprise'" suppressing truthful information about COVID vaccines and other matters in what a federal judge earlier this month called “the most massive attack against free speech in United States history.”
HHS and other government censors tried to keep us from learning about the hazards of the COVID vaccines. They also criticized natural immunity, saying the vaccines were better, which is not true. They lied to us and suppressed truthful information, making informed consent for getting vaccinated impossible. Instead of giving us all the information and relying on people to make decisions that were best for themselves, these technocrats presumed to know what was best for everybody and to make our decisions for us.
These people think they’re in charge and rule over us. They don’t understand their own country. They think this is a technocracy when, in fact, it is a constitutional Republic where We The People are sovereign.
Our government’s line, as in the EU, has consistently been the benefits of the COVID vaccines outweigh the risks. Maybe, but that doesn’t explain why they spent a billion dollars to have the media lie to us about the vaccines, and suppressed information about the dangers of vaccination and the million-plus adverse reaction reports piling up in government databases. They deliberately gave people the wrong information so they could not make informed choices for themselves. These technocrats, for whatever reason, arrogated to themselves the right to make people’s decisions for them. This turns our system of government upside down. As a result, thousands of people took the vaccine and went to their graves trusting their government, a government that betrayed them, usurped their choices, and robbed them of their freedom and their individual sovereignty. A technocratic government that completely disregarded the sovereignty and primacy of the American people in the belief that it knew best.
I cannot tell you how furious all of this has made me. I will never rest until we have justice for the vaccine victims who went to their deaths trusting a government that deliberately betrayed them for its own cynical purposes.
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6/27/23 - New Independence Day Video: ‘What My Free Speech Means to Me’
There’s nothing like living under communism to give you an appreciation for the First Amendment right of free speech. My Potomac Tea Party is releasing a new video today entitled ‘What My Free Speech Means to Me’. The video features nationally known figures who have been canceled one way or another, and prevented from speaking. But they persevered, and I am more than happy to help them get their message out. |
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Xi Van Fleet is a refugee from Chinese communism. She has made numerous appearances in the last few years trying to warn Americans about the parallels between today’s ‘Woke’ culture and Mao’s Cultural Revolution in China. The left-wing indoctrinated student government at Whitworth University prevented her from speaking on campus, earlier this year. In our video, she talks about how the right to free speech not only includes speaking your mind, but includes the right to hear other people speak their minds, as well.
Xi is followed in the video by Jim Simpson, a book author and lecturer who has written a history of major communist theorists, entitled Who Was Karl Marx?. One of the theorists in the book is Herbert Marcuse, who propagated the idea of ‘repressive tolerance’ - which is essentially ‘free speech for me, but not for thee.’ Jim discusses in the video how the hard Left enjoys unfettered free speech while working assiduously to take free speech away from the political Right. That’s repressive tolerance in action - the Left will tolerate only hearing its own opinions and repress any contrary opinions. Jim has also written a great deal about the Red-Green Axis, how the Left and sharia supremacists make common cause. He was scheduled to speak on the subject at a Baptist church in Michigan, but the event was cancelled after pressure was brought to bear.
Nationally known Tom Trento of the United West is next up in the video. He has been cancelled and curtailed on social media for his unpopular views about, among other things, moving the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
The last speaker in the video is an Angel Mom, Sabine Durden-Coulter. The term ‘Angel Mom’ means she lost her son to an illegal alien drunk driver, somebody who had no right to be in the country. The Left is a bunch of open borders crazies so, of course, they tried to shut her up and stop her from talking about this.
What the Left doesn’t understand is that Sabine, as well as the other speakers in the video, will never give up. They, as well as I, feel the right of self-expression right down to the marrow of our bones. That’s a more powerful force than any wide-ranging censorship exercise the Biden administration and other outposts of the Left can put together.
If you’re on the Left, here’s my message to you: You may be terrified of the truth, but you will never shut us up. Watch our new video on the Potomac Tea Party channel on YouTube, and begin to get some inkling of what you’re up against. You’ve lost already on this issue, you just don’t know it yet. Free speech now and forever.
Xi is followed in the video by Jim Simpson, a book author and lecturer who has written a history of major communist theorists, entitled Who Was Karl Marx?. One of the theorists in the book is Herbert Marcuse, who propagated the idea of ‘repressive tolerance’ - which is essentially ‘free speech for me, but not for thee.’ Jim discusses in the video how the hard Left enjoys unfettered free speech while working assiduously to take free speech away from the political Right. That’s repressive tolerance in action - the Left will tolerate only hearing its own opinions and repress any contrary opinions. Jim has also written a great deal about the Red-Green Axis, how the Left and sharia supremacists make common cause. He was scheduled to speak on the subject at a Baptist church in Michigan, but the event was cancelled after pressure was brought to bear.
Nationally known Tom Trento of the United West is next up in the video. He has been cancelled and curtailed on social media for his unpopular views about, among other things, moving the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
The last speaker in the video is an Angel Mom, Sabine Durden-Coulter. The term ‘Angel Mom’ means she lost her son to an illegal alien drunk driver, somebody who had no right to be in the country. The Left is a bunch of open borders crazies so, of course, they tried to shut her up and stop her from talking about this.
What the Left doesn’t understand is that Sabine, as well as the other speakers in the video, will never give up. They, as well as I, feel the right of self-expression right down to the marrow of our bones. That’s a more powerful force than any wide-ranging censorship exercise the Biden administration and other outposts of the Left can put together.
If you’re on the Left, here’s my message to you: You may be terrified of the truth, but you will never shut us up. Watch our new video on the Potomac Tea Party channel on YouTube, and begin to get some inkling of what you’re up against. You’ve lost already on this issue, you just don’t know it yet. Free speech now and forever.
5/24/23 - Transgenderism on Trial
I routinely ask people in social gatherings ‘how do we win - how do we defeat the Left?’ One answer that’s come back is lawfare, tying up our opponents in court. Transgenderism is one area where lawfare could actually work. Legal action has the potential to bring down the entire Transgender-Industrial Complex.
To that end, I have created a new section on my website - Transgenderism on Trial - to foment more litigation against doctors, psychologists, school administrators, teachers, and other instrumentalities of the Transgender-Industrial Complex who are either out to make a buck or to make America a communist country.
I don’t throw around the word ‘communism’ lightly, only when I have the goods and here I most definitely do. The first thing you will see in my new transgenderism section is a video showing four transgender activists openly and explicitly discussing how the purpose of transgenderism is to usher communism into the United States. If you think communism is cute, we’ll see how cute you think it is when communism arrives here and you get the midnight knock on the door from the secret police to haul you off to the gulag for thought crimes.
Transgenderism on Trial starts with a news feed. I am the only one collecting all the stories from all around the country about litigation against health care providers and school districts pushing life-altering drugs and irreversible mutilating surgery on defenseless kids. The news out of Missouri is amazing. A trans whistleblower documented enough corrupt practices at a gender clinic in St. Louis to bring a whole-of-government investigation down on the clinic that may result in civil enforcement actions and criminal charges. The practices include pushing transitioning on kids without psychological assessments in individual cases, prescribing drugs without parental consent or after consent was revoked, lack of full disclosure of the adverse and long-term consequences of sex change drugs and surgery, false claims children would commit suicide if not allowed to transition, and other high pressure sales tactics. The investigation will determine whether school officials conspired with clinicians to form a school-to-clinic pipeline of steady business for the clinic.
That’s just one case. My news feeds chronicles other cases where doctors are being sued for botched surgeries, medical experimentation with unstudied or unapproved drugs, and pushing transgender drugs and surgery instead of providing counseling. Cases are also sprouting up against school districts for transitioning kids without parental knowledge or consent, violating teachers’ religious beliefs, and firing teachers who refuse to lie to parents or otherwise get with the transgender program.
Transgenderism on Trial provides a list of law firms and legal foundations around the country bringing these types of cases or expressing a desire to enter the field. These are the courtroom warriors who vindicating parental rights, pursuing medical malpractice claims, and taking action against so-called transgender sanctuary states that lure kids from other parts of the country.
Using my collection of parental resources, parents can arm themselves with the facts and learn how to deal with gender-questioning children and high-pressure sales tactics from clinicians and school administrators. In addition to books and parental guides, the list of resources tells parents how to find support groups and objective counselors who will give parents unbiased information about the subject.
Finally, there’s a page on the most despicable high-pressure sales tactic of all - telling parents their children will commit suicide if not allowed to transition. A second set of researchers reexamined the raw data from the original study making this claim and found that the data did not support the study’s conclusions. When confronted with this information, the University of Washington which participated in the original study tried to cover it up. Other early studies making similar claims were later found to be flawed for, among other things, failing to track outcomes long enough to draw reliable conclusions and hiding raw data from other researchers. Finally, the page describes two other studies showing people who transition are MORE likely - not less likely - to commit suicide. Lies, misrepresentations, hiding data, ignoring later studies - there’s enough on the page to completely debunk the high pressure sales tactics the snake-oil salesmen are using on parents.
Plaintiffs of the World, Unite! Let’s bring down the communist transgender activists who are trying to destroy the country and the doctors, school administrators, and other financially self-interested useful idiots who are getting paid handsomely for doing their bidding. There’s nothing like legal liability and a blizzard of court cases to focus the mind. Let’s swarm them and put them out of business.
5/12/23 - de Tocqueville Was Right: Swarms of Busy-Bee Bureaucrats Buzzing About
The American Idea is that We the People are sovereign and the purpose of government is to protect our rights. [Instant Graduate Degree in Political Science] But the authoritarian Left doesn’t believe in the American Idea. It wants to misuse government to rule over us and take away our rights. Here are just some of the ways the authoritarian Left has overreached, recently:
Washington’s Governor just signed a new law allowing the state to take children away from parents if parents refuse to consent to a child’s gender transitioning or abortion. Refusing to allow these things is now considered child abuse and your children become state property. Things have been trending in this direction for some time, with child protective service officials in California and Arizona admitting they take children away without seeking court orders. That’s illegal and a complete overreach. A Democrat bill in California would allow mental health professionals to take children away without parental knowledge or consent and without accusation, evidence, or trial. Children would be placed in LGBT facilities in what critics call ‘state-sanctioned kidnapping’. Just wait until militant gay and transgender crusader bureaucrats get ahold of this power. In their view, every child should be gay or transgender and this bill would be a dream come true.
Our rogue out-of-control left-wing FBI is still engaged in tens of thousands of unconstitutional warrantless searches of American citizens’ electronic communications. People who support this activity point to the fact that the number of warrantless searches declined from over 3 million in 2021 to 119,000 in 2022. But that’s still over a hundred thousand searches without court approval under a power that will expire by the end of this year unless Congress renews it. This is the same FBI that has “purchased internet metadata, which can reveal the websites Americans visit, as well as sensitive information such as what doctor a person sees, their religion or what dating sites they use.” Not content with snooping around your life, the FBI also wants to take your money. In 2021, the FBI seized the contents of 1,400 safe deposit boxes in California without telling the owners why or ever charging them with a crime. It amounted to $86 million in cash and tens of millions more in gold, jewelry, and other valuables. Maybe the FBI spent too much money trying to pin Russia collusion on Trump and needed the cash to go after ordinary Catholics for praying in church and ordinary parents for speaking out against government overreach at school board meetings. And you want to tell me the FBI is not the face of the authoritarian Left? You’re out of your mind.
Let’s look at some other ways you, your children, and your valuables have become state property lately:
5/11/23 - Border Flood: How Did We Get to This Point?
The end of Title 42 COVID restrictions today is expected to bring a flood of illegal aliens trying to cross the southern border. Illegal border crossings have been exceeding 10,000 a day in anticipation. How did we get to this point?
To hear the Biden administration tell it, the border is secure and a new rule will make people crossing illegally at other than approved entry points ineligible for asylum. This nod to border enforcement is just for show and completely meaningless, as I will demonstrate in a minute.
But to answer the question how we got to this point, the answer is the Biden administration’s open borders policies and unconstitutional refusal to enforce the nation’s immigration laws. In previous commentaries, I’ve documented more than three dozen policy changes the Biden administration has made to open the border. Today, I add a dozen more:
Now back to Joe Biden’s new asylum rules: Excuse me, if I view Biden’s new asylum policy with a jaundiced eye, given the dozen new open borders policies I just mentioned. First, illegal aliens have to be caught to lose their right to claim asylum, but everybody knows most illegal aliens get away and are never apprehended. Second, the new rule is “riddled with exceptions”, 22 Republican state attorneys general have said. One exception big enough to drive a truck through is the fact the rule does not apply to designated legal pathways for illegal aliens to enter the country. So the rule won’t apply to illegal aliens coming through one of the more than 100 processing centers the Biden administration is building in other countries throughout the Western hemisphere. So, many more will be flown in, asylum claims intact. Same goes for approved border crossing points. The rule also doesn’t apply to unaccompanied minors, claimed medical emergencies, illegal aliens scheduling an appointment through the mobile phone app, or those aliens arguing ‘other circumstances’ if they can talk fast enough. Overall, the new policy is a shell game and the Biden administration’s orientation remains one of accommodation, not enforcement. Do not be deceived.
5/10/23 - Public Health Tyrants Need to Be Quarantined
I’m going to keep pounding away at the fact our public health authorities were wrong about everything regarding COVID. I’m doing so because they assumed an awful lot of power over our lives and ultimately proved to be destructive. This should never be allowed to happen again.
They were wrong about masks. A review of 78 studies shows there is no evidence masks are effective in a pandemic. There is also no evidence removal of mask mandates caused COVID deaths to go up. In fact, in Kansas, counties with a mask mandate experienced significantly higher case fatality rates than counties that did not. So, masks not only did not help, they hurt. But what did the public health industrial complex do? Suppress the truth, that’s what.
Public health authorities were wrong about the lab leak theory. It remains a perfectly good theory, now found credible by the Energy Department and the FBI. But what did Fauci do? Government records show he dismissed the lab leak hypothesis as a “conspiracy theory”, gave government grants to proponents of the theory to shut them up, and commissioned a report to publicly discredit the theory. Fauci rules? I don’t think so. CNN and Facebook helped Fauci cover up the truth.
Public health officials were wrong about ivermectin. The aggregate of studies continues to weigh in favor of ivermectin’s efficacy in COVID cases on mortality and lesser questions. But public officials deliberately trashed ivermectin - calling it just a ‘horse de-wormer’ - and conspired to keep it from being prescribed. A group of doctors is now suing to hold officials at the FDA and HHS accountable for their actions. I hope all the hospitals that threw doctors out for prescribing or advocating for the use of ivermectin get sued, too.
The public health industrial complex was also wrong about the impact of COVID on kids, falsely claiming it was a leading cause of death among young people. Accidents, drug overdoses, and drownings were far more prevalent. The truth is only one out of a 100,000 kids and teens died from COVID. The numbers were never high enough to justify school lockdowns and the self-inflicted ravages of learning loss from closing school doors are now common knowledge.
Public health authorities were also wrong about natural immunity, falsely claiming COVID vaccine immunity was better, as late as in March in congressional testimony. Fauci is in this story, too, meeting in secret with other U.S. health officials, to get their story straight about how natural immunity was no good despite the scientific evidence showing it was. Their effort was ultimately futile, though, because evidence keeps piling up that natural immunity is better.
Evidence is also piling up the vaccines were not very effective. A recent study shows the immune system gets tired and doesn’t produce much of a response after a third dose. Another study shows the effect of bivalent boosters wears off after two months. These studies are in addition to the pile of other studies I mentioned in previous commentaries casting doubt on COVID vaccine efficacy.
So many lies, so many cover-ups. We deserve better from our government officials and politicians. They’re supposed to be working for us, not lording over us. I, for one, will never trust them again. But the Moral of the Story is we need to put up more of a fight when public health authorities and politicians try to steal our liberty for no good reason. One of the very first things I read about pandemic legal theory is that public health authorities have to make their case in court before taking emergency measures. That never happened. They were never put to their proof under oath and cross-examination. Let’s make sure a full examination of their argument happens the next time these political animals go off the rails.
5/9/23 - ‘Death with Dignity’ - Ha!
The Left loves its phony narratives and I’ve taken aim at several of them. Today I take aim at ‘death with dignity’, the phony narrative the Left uses to sell assisted suicide and euthanasia.
I start with the spectacular story out of the Netherlands in 2019 where a court upheld the actions of a doctor who euthanized a woman with dementia against her wishes. The doctor put sedatives in the woman’s coffee and had the family hold her down for the lethal injection. The woman put up a fight. Doesn’t sound like a very dignified death to me.
And it wasn’t very dignified what happened to the brother of a friend of mine. The brother had his third stroke and was sedated. His wife violated his written instructions by stopping all treatment and withdrawing all food and water. The wife was heard to say she was tired of dealing with the situation and it’s also true the sooner he died, the more she stood to inherit. A financial motive - how dignified is that?
To these two ugly stories, we can now add a third. A palliative care nurse recently published the story you are about to hear so “eyes will be opened to the horrifying reality of euthanasia”:
Welcome to the wacky world of the Left, where ‘death with dignity’ means people being killed against their wishes, for unsavory motives like money. Where the vendors selling assisted suicide are not killers. Where the real cause of death - assisted suicide - is kept off death certificates. Where death is considered ‘medical treatment‘ and medicine means a ‘substance to cause death’. Where doctors push assisted suicide on vulnerable patients, elder abuse is common, agonizing deaths routinely occur from lethal drugs that don’t work as advertised, destructive social contagion takes over, and people are taught all of this is good when it could not be more evil.
If this is ‘death with dignity’, you can keep it.
5/8/23 - Climate Change: A Fairy-Tale Wrapped In Falsehoods Inside Fictions
The phony climate change narrative has had a rough time on Capitol Hill, lately.
David Turk, deputy secretary of the Energy Department, made a complete fool of himself in congressional testimony when he would not say how much it would cost to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. He admitted it would cost trillions of dollars, but would not affirm credible estimates it would cost $50 trillion. All he did was dance around the question and filibuster. And what do we get for spending $50 trillion? He was asked point-blank how much achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 would lower world temperatures and he NEVER ANSWERED THE QUESTION. He went on and on about how it’s a global problem and the U.S. is 13 percent of it, blah blah blah, but he would not be pinned down on the effect of carbon neutrality on temperatures. He didn’t even offer to provide the information later, as congressional witnesses commonly do. He just sat there all smug, repeating his platitudes about how “this is a global problem” and how we need ‘fundamental transformation’. No, what we need is to stop government by phony narratives and get rid of tyrants like Turk who invoke those narratives to rule over us. According to this guy, we’re just supposed to spend trillions of dollars without asking any questions to reach climate goals he won’t specify because, one may reasonably conclude from his evasiveness, spending trillions of dollars won’t make any difference at all to climate change.
But make no mistake: the ruling over us has already begun. The Biden administration has issued an avalanche of new rules in the name of climate change raising the cost of washing machines, dishwashers, microwaves, toothbrush chargers, and other household appliances, as well as degrading their performance. Climate change is YOUR fault, you see, and you must be made to suffer. Only if you submit and bow down to your new masters will we keep the planet from burning up. What a crock!
Back to Capitol Hill, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland was asked, "Are you aware that China controls, by proxy production, the supply chain of critical minerals that are critical to both the [electric vehicle] world and defense? ... Are you aware, by multiple studies, that in order to satisfy the present requirements of [electric vehicles] and critical minerals to defense, it would take an increase of 2,000% of mining for 20 years?" She was tongue-tied. She had no idea how to respond. She had never heard this before, despite years of warnings from western land rights activists the federal government is locking up our minerals in national monument designations and making us completely dependent on China for our critical defense needs. In addition, Haaland’s interior Department has been blocking critical mining projects in Minnesota and elsewhere that would reduce our dependence on China.
A recent World Bank study showed the world cannot possibly produce enough lithium, cobalt, copper, nickel, or other minerals necessary to support a world green energy transition.
So what we have here is government by phony narrative, implemented by ignorant know-nothing fools who have no idea what they’re talking about and are totally out of touch with reality. All these self-promoters can see is that they’ve made their careers pushing absolute nonsense and the path to further power and riches for themselves is to keep right on doing so, regardless of the consequences to others.
But, as economists like to say, things will continue until they can’t. Someday, hopefully in the not-too-far distant future, it will become apparent to all the green energy transition is a pipedream completely impossible to achieve. It will become apparent too many other important values like national security, expense, performance, and living standards are being sacrificed on the altar of climate change for no good reason - green energy regulations are all pain for no gain. And when that day comes, the charlatans of climate change who want to rule over us will be exposed for what they are. That day can’t come soon enough.
I routinely ask people in social gatherings ‘how do we win - how do we defeat the Left?’ One answer that’s come back is lawfare, tying up our opponents in court. Transgenderism is one area where lawfare could actually work. Legal action has the potential to bring down the entire Transgender-Industrial Complex.
To that end, I have created a new section on my website - Transgenderism on Trial - to foment more litigation against doctors, psychologists, school administrators, teachers, and other instrumentalities of the Transgender-Industrial Complex who are either out to make a buck or to make America a communist country.
I don’t throw around the word ‘communism’ lightly, only when I have the goods and here I most definitely do. The first thing you will see in my new transgenderism section is a video showing four transgender activists openly and explicitly discussing how the purpose of transgenderism is to usher communism into the United States. If you think communism is cute, we’ll see how cute you think it is when communism arrives here and you get the midnight knock on the door from the secret police to haul you off to the gulag for thought crimes.
Transgenderism on Trial starts with a news feed. I am the only one collecting all the stories from all around the country about litigation against health care providers and school districts pushing life-altering drugs and irreversible mutilating surgery on defenseless kids. The news out of Missouri is amazing. A trans whistleblower documented enough corrupt practices at a gender clinic in St. Louis to bring a whole-of-government investigation down on the clinic that may result in civil enforcement actions and criminal charges. The practices include pushing transitioning on kids without psychological assessments in individual cases, prescribing drugs without parental consent or after consent was revoked, lack of full disclosure of the adverse and long-term consequences of sex change drugs and surgery, false claims children would commit suicide if not allowed to transition, and other high pressure sales tactics. The investigation will determine whether school officials conspired with clinicians to form a school-to-clinic pipeline of steady business for the clinic.
That’s just one case. My news feeds chronicles other cases where doctors are being sued for botched surgeries, medical experimentation with unstudied or unapproved drugs, and pushing transgender drugs and surgery instead of providing counseling. Cases are also sprouting up against school districts for transitioning kids without parental knowledge or consent, violating teachers’ religious beliefs, and firing teachers who refuse to lie to parents or otherwise get with the transgender program.
Transgenderism on Trial provides a list of law firms and legal foundations around the country bringing these types of cases or expressing a desire to enter the field. These are the courtroom warriors who vindicating parental rights, pursuing medical malpractice claims, and taking action against so-called transgender sanctuary states that lure kids from other parts of the country.
Using my collection of parental resources, parents can arm themselves with the facts and learn how to deal with gender-questioning children and high-pressure sales tactics from clinicians and school administrators. In addition to books and parental guides, the list of resources tells parents how to find support groups and objective counselors who will give parents unbiased information about the subject.
Finally, there’s a page on the most despicable high-pressure sales tactic of all - telling parents their children will commit suicide if not allowed to transition. A second set of researchers reexamined the raw data from the original study making this claim and found that the data did not support the study’s conclusions. When confronted with this information, the University of Washington which participated in the original study tried to cover it up. Other early studies making similar claims were later found to be flawed for, among other things, failing to track outcomes long enough to draw reliable conclusions and hiding raw data from other researchers. Finally, the page describes two other studies showing people who transition are MORE likely - not less likely - to commit suicide. Lies, misrepresentations, hiding data, ignoring later studies - there’s enough on the page to completely debunk the high pressure sales tactics the snake-oil salesmen are using on parents.
Plaintiffs of the World, Unite! Let’s bring down the communist transgender activists who are trying to destroy the country and the doctors, school administrators, and other financially self-interested useful idiots who are getting paid handsomely for doing their bidding. There’s nothing like legal liability and a blizzard of court cases to focus the mind. Let’s swarm them and put them out of business.
5/12/23 - de Tocqueville Was Right: Swarms of Busy-Bee Bureaucrats Buzzing About
The American Idea is that We the People are sovereign and the purpose of government is to protect our rights. [Instant Graduate Degree in Political Science] But the authoritarian Left doesn’t believe in the American Idea. It wants to misuse government to rule over us and take away our rights. Here are just some of the ways the authoritarian Left has overreached, recently:
Washington’s Governor just signed a new law allowing the state to take children away from parents if parents refuse to consent to a child’s gender transitioning or abortion. Refusing to allow these things is now considered child abuse and your children become state property. Things have been trending in this direction for some time, with child protective service officials in California and Arizona admitting they take children away without seeking court orders. That’s illegal and a complete overreach. A Democrat bill in California would allow mental health professionals to take children away without parental knowledge or consent and without accusation, evidence, or trial. Children would be placed in LGBT facilities in what critics call ‘state-sanctioned kidnapping’. Just wait until militant gay and transgender crusader bureaucrats get ahold of this power. In their view, every child should be gay or transgender and this bill would be a dream come true.
Our rogue out-of-control left-wing FBI is still engaged in tens of thousands of unconstitutional warrantless searches of American citizens’ electronic communications. People who support this activity point to the fact that the number of warrantless searches declined from over 3 million in 2021 to 119,000 in 2022. But that’s still over a hundred thousand searches without court approval under a power that will expire by the end of this year unless Congress renews it. This is the same FBI that has “purchased internet metadata, which can reveal the websites Americans visit, as well as sensitive information such as what doctor a person sees, their religion or what dating sites they use.” Not content with snooping around your life, the FBI also wants to take your money. In 2021, the FBI seized the contents of 1,400 safe deposit boxes in California without telling the owners why or ever charging them with a crime. It amounted to $86 million in cash and tens of millions more in gold, jewelry, and other valuables. Maybe the FBI spent too much money trying to pin Russia collusion on Trump and needed the cash to go after ordinary Catholics for praying in church and ordinary parents for speaking out against government overreach at school board meetings. And you want to tell me the FBI is not the face of the authoritarian Left? You’re out of your mind.
Let’s look at some other ways you, your children, and your valuables have become state property lately:
- Our corrupt FBI and Justice Department are hiding, destroying, and tampering with evidence and spying on defense teams in the January 6th trials
- New York City sent the fingerprints of employees who refused COVID vaccination to the FBI so the employees could be tracked, causing them to have trouble getting other jobs
- the CDC created a database to track unvaccinated Americans at the behest of the overreaching World Health Organization which is now demanding the U.S. and other countries give up their sovereignty so the WHO can commandeer public health policy in the next pandemic
- a federal judge ruled that the 18 colleges that don’t take federal money are still subject to federal regulation by virtue of their tax exemptions. That’s a stretch.
- school meal programs keep expanding and the authoritarian Left won’t stop until everyone is dependent on government for everything. It’s not supposed to be this way.
- the EPA’s controversial ‘Waters of the United States’ rule proclaimed jurisdiction over every ditch and puddle in the country, but was knocked down by a court. Now the EPA is back in court defending another overreach, an updated virtually identical rule that asserts federal authority over ditches and puddles where none exists.
- HHS tried to tell a Catholic hospital in Oklahoma not to burn candles in the chapel, but was forced to back down, thanks to people who still care about religious liberty, a founding principle of this country.
5/11/23 - Border Flood: How Did We Get to This Point?
The end of Title 42 COVID restrictions today is expected to bring a flood of illegal aliens trying to cross the southern border. Illegal border crossings have been exceeding 10,000 a day in anticipation. How did we get to this point?
To hear the Biden administration tell it, the border is secure and a new rule will make people crossing illegally at other than approved entry points ineligible for asylum. This nod to border enforcement is just for show and completely meaningless, as I will demonstrate in a minute.
But to answer the question how we got to this point, the answer is the Biden administration’s open borders policies and unconstitutional refusal to enforce the nation’s immigration laws. In previous commentaries, I’ve documented more than three dozen policy changes the Biden administration has made to open the border. Today, I add a dozen more:
- Joe Biden said he would veto the House Republican border security bill that would end catch-and-release and build the wall so, right off the bat, you know he isn’t serious about securing the border
- a federal judge ruled Joe Biden’s ‘catch and release’ policy is unlawful and rebuked Biden for policies that have reduced the border into a “meaningless line in the sand”
- White House domestic policy advisor Susan Rice was aware the administration was releasing thousands of unaccompanied migrant children into the country, but deliberately failed to act despite calls to do so
- Biden’s policy has been one of accommodation, not enforcement. Biden’s DHS gave $332 million to left-wing nonprofits and Democrat-run cities to resettle illegal aliens
- DHS released hundreds of illegal aliens from detention to accommodate the flood of new arrivals expected with the end of Title 42 COVID restrictions
- the phony baloney sending of 1,500 troops to the border is not for enforcement, but to roll out the ‘welcome wagon’ and process new arrivals into the country more quickly
- the flood of illegal aliens is now being accommodated further as the Biden administration is releasing illegal aliens into the interior without court dates or tracking
- DHS ran out the clock on Trump’s border wall, leaving billions of dollars in construction money unspent
- the administration undermined an enforcement action in El Paso by publicly announcing the raids, first
- the administration restricted the use of surveillance balloons at the border
- the annual ICE report shows significant cuts to immigration enforcement in the interior compared to the Trump years. This is part of ICE’s ‘sanctuary country’ policy that protects illegal aliens from deportation. Deportation numbers are way down.
- and last, but not least, Joe Biden announced plans to expand Obamacare to accommodate DACA recipient DREAMERs.
Now back to Joe Biden’s new asylum rules: Excuse me, if I view Biden’s new asylum policy with a jaundiced eye, given the dozen new open borders policies I just mentioned. First, illegal aliens have to be caught to lose their right to claim asylum, but everybody knows most illegal aliens get away and are never apprehended. Second, the new rule is “riddled with exceptions”, 22 Republican state attorneys general have said. One exception big enough to drive a truck through is the fact the rule does not apply to designated legal pathways for illegal aliens to enter the country. So the rule won’t apply to illegal aliens coming through one of the more than 100 processing centers the Biden administration is building in other countries throughout the Western hemisphere. So, many more will be flown in, asylum claims intact. Same goes for approved border crossing points. The rule also doesn’t apply to unaccompanied minors, claimed medical emergencies, illegal aliens scheduling an appointment through the mobile phone app, or those aliens arguing ‘other circumstances’ if they can talk fast enough. Overall, the new policy is a shell game and the Biden administration’s orientation remains one of accommodation, not enforcement. Do not be deceived.
5/10/23 - Public Health Tyrants Need to Be Quarantined
I’m going to keep pounding away at the fact our public health authorities were wrong about everything regarding COVID. I’m doing so because they assumed an awful lot of power over our lives and ultimately proved to be destructive. This should never be allowed to happen again.
They were wrong about masks. A review of 78 studies shows there is no evidence masks are effective in a pandemic. There is also no evidence removal of mask mandates caused COVID deaths to go up. In fact, in Kansas, counties with a mask mandate experienced significantly higher case fatality rates than counties that did not. So, masks not only did not help, they hurt. But what did the public health industrial complex do? Suppress the truth, that’s what.
Public health authorities were wrong about the lab leak theory. It remains a perfectly good theory, now found credible by the Energy Department and the FBI. But what did Fauci do? Government records show he dismissed the lab leak hypothesis as a “conspiracy theory”, gave government grants to proponents of the theory to shut them up, and commissioned a report to publicly discredit the theory. Fauci rules? I don’t think so. CNN and Facebook helped Fauci cover up the truth.
Public health officials were wrong about ivermectin. The aggregate of studies continues to weigh in favor of ivermectin’s efficacy in COVID cases on mortality and lesser questions. But public officials deliberately trashed ivermectin - calling it just a ‘horse de-wormer’ - and conspired to keep it from being prescribed. A group of doctors is now suing to hold officials at the FDA and HHS accountable for their actions. I hope all the hospitals that threw doctors out for prescribing or advocating for the use of ivermectin get sued, too.
The public health industrial complex was also wrong about the impact of COVID on kids, falsely claiming it was a leading cause of death among young people. Accidents, drug overdoses, and drownings were far more prevalent. The truth is only one out of a 100,000 kids and teens died from COVID. The numbers were never high enough to justify school lockdowns and the self-inflicted ravages of learning loss from closing school doors are now common knowledge.
Public health authorities were also wrong about natural immunity, falsely claiming COVID vaccine immunity was better, as late as in March in congressional testimony. Fauci is in this story, too, meeting in secret with other U.S. health officials, to get their story straight about how natural immunity was no good despite the scientific evidence showing it was. Their effort was ultimately futile, though, because evidence keeps piling up that natural immunity is better.
Evidence is also piling up the vaccines were not very effective. A recent study shows the immune system gets tired and doesn’t produce much of a response after a third dose. Another study shows the effect of bivalent boosters wears off after two months. These studies are in addition to the pile of other studies I mentioned in previous commentaries casting doubt on COVID vaccine efficacy.
So many lies, so many cover-ups. We deserve better from our government officials and politicians. They’re supposed to be working for us, not lording over us. I, for one, will never trust them again. But the Moral of the Story is we need to put up more of a fight when public health authorities and politicians try to steal our liberty for no good reason. One of the very first things I read about pandemic legal theory is that public health authorities have to make their case in court before taking emergency measures. That never happened. They were never put to their proof under oath and cross-examination. Let’s make sure a full examination of their argument happens the next time these political animals go off the rails.
5/9/23 - ‘Death with Dignity’ - Ha!
The Left loves its phony narratives and I’ve taken aim at several of them. Today I take aim at ‘death with dignity’, the phony narrative the Left uses to sell assisted suicide and euthanasia.
I start with the spectacular story out of the Netherlands in 2019 where a court upheld the actions of a doctor who euthanized a woman with dementia against her wishes. The doctor put sedatives in the woman’s coffee and had the family hold her down for the lethal injection. The woman put up a fight. Doesn’t sound like a very dignified death to me.
And it wasn’t very dignified what happened to the brother of a friend of mine. The brother had his third stroke and was sedated. His wife violated his written instructions by stopping all treatment and withdrawing all food and water. The wife was heard to say she was tired of dealing with the situation and it’s also true the sooner he died, the more she stood to inherit. A financial motive - how dignified is that?
To these two ugly stories, we can now add a third. A palliative care nurse recently published the story you are about to hear so “eyes will be opened to the horrifying reality of euthanasia”:
- They say euthanasia is a compassionate, dignified way to die. They say everyone should have the option, and that a life with suffering is not a life worth living. But that's not what I've seen. I know Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) to be messier and more distressing than anyone cares to talk about.
- Laura had picked out music to play in the background while she died, and had chosen which loved ones she wanted by her side. It was planned for 6 pm. She was alert and oriented, and had signed a waiver saying that if for whatever reason she was no longer judged to be of sound mind at the time of the MAID provision, she could be euthanized anyways. She thought she had complete control. Just a few hours before 6 pm Laura had a completely unexpected grand mal seizure. She wouldn't stop seizing and required large doses of a sedating anticonvulsant. The time of the provision came, and she was confused and groggy from the sedating medication, and unable to properly confirm she wanted the euthanasia, or say goodbye to her family members. She tried to speak but no one could understand what she was saying. Laura was euthanized at 6 pm, according to the waiver she had signed. This was what she had requested, but the family came out of her room shaking, with eyes wide. They cried, and kept saying it should have never happened that way. They had no closure. There was no dignified, peaceful ending. Just their loved one, killed in the middle of trying to say something.... (H)er death was sudden, and traumatic, and the family went home right after without anyone to support them through the process.... (A) coworker sped out of the room shaking and crying,
- I know multiple other nurses who have been through the same experience. Although they had no religious or moral objections to MAID, after witnessing it first hand they swore to never be in the room again while it happened. They were deeply unsettled, and their conscience told them what they couldn't admit to themselves: the intentional ending of a life is wrong, no matter the circumstances.
- Patients may think that choosing MAID relieves their family of the burden of waiting for their death, or seeing suffering. But in reality it steals time and closure, and replaces a natural process with an unsettling ending. From what I have seen, loved ones of euthanized patients appear to struggle more in their grief than loved ones of patients who die naturally.
Welcome to the wacky world of the Left, where ‘death with dignity’ means people being killed against their wishes, for unsavory motives like money. Where the vendors selling assisted suicide are not killers. Where the real cause of death - assisted suicide - is kept off death certificates. Where death is considered ‘medical treatment‘ and medicine means a ‘substance to cause death’. Where doctors push assisted suicide on vulnerable patients, elder abuse is common, agonizing deaths routinely occur from lethal drugs that don’t work as advertised, destructive social contagion takes over, and people are taught all of this is good when it could not be more evil.
If this is ‘death with dignity’, you can keep it.
5/8/23 - Climate Change: A Fairy-Tale Wrapped In Falsehoods Inside Fictions
The phony climate change narrative has had a rough time on Capitol Hill, lately.
David Turk, deputy secretary of the Energy Department, made a complete fool of himself in congressional testimony when he would not say how much it would cost to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. He admitted it would cost trillions of dollars, but would not affirm credible estimates it would cost $50 trillion. All he did was dance around the question and filibuster. And what do we get for spending $50 trillion? He was asked point-blank how much achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 would lower world temperatures and he NEVER ANSWERED THE QUESTION. He went on and on about how it’s a global problem and the U.S. is 13 percent of it, blah blah blah, but he would not be pinned down on the effect of carbon neutrality on temperatures. He didn’t even offer to provide the information later, as congressional witnesses commonly do. He just sat there all smug, repeating his platitudes about how “this is a global problem” and how we need ‘fundamental transformation’. No, what we need is to stop government by phony narratives and get rid of tyrants like Turk who invoke those narratives to rule over us. According to this guy, we’re just supposed to spend trillions of dollars without asking any questions to reach climate goals he won’t specify because, one may reasonably conclude from his evasiveness, spending trillions of dollars won’t make any difference at all to climate change.
But make no mistake: the ruling over us has already begun. The Biden administration has issued an avalanche of new rules in the name of climate change raising the cost of washing machines, dishwashers, microwaves, toothbrush chargers, and other household appliances, as well as degrading their performance. Climate change is YOUR fault, you see, and you must be made to suffer. Only if you submit and bow down to your new masters will we keep the planet from burning up. What a crock!
Back to Capitol Hill, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland was asked, "Are you aware that China controls, by proxy production, the supply chain of critical minerals that are critical to both the [electric vehicle] world and defense? ... Are you aware, by multiple studies, that in order to satisfy the present requirements of [electric vehicles] and critical minerals to defense, it would take an increase of 2,000% of mining for 20 years?" She was tongue-tied. She had no idea how to respond. She had never heard this before, despite years of warnings from western land rights activists the federal government is locking up our minerals in national monument designations and making us completely dependent on China for our critical defense needs. In addition, Haaland’s interior Department has been blocking critical mining projects in Minnesota and elsewhere that would reduce our dependence on China.
A recent World Bank study showed the world cannot possibly produce enough lithium, cobalt, copper, nickel, or other minerals necessary to support a world green energy transition.
So what we have here is government by phony narrative, implemented by ignorant know-nothing fools who have no idea what they’re talking about and are totally out of touch with reality. All these self-promoters can see is that they’ve made their careers pushing absolute nonsense and the path to further power and riches for themselves is to keep right on doing so, regardless of the consequences to others.
But, as economists like to say, things will continue until they can’t. Someday, hopefully in the not-too-far distant future, it will become apparent to all the green energy transition is a pipedream completely impossible to achieve. It will become apparent too many other important values like national security, expense, performance, and living standards are being sacrificed on the altar of climate change for no good reason - green energy regulations are all pain for no gain. And when that day comes, the charlatans of climate change who want to rule over us will be exposed for what they are. That day can’t come soon enough.
4/28/23 - Corrupt Congress Critter Chronicles
There’s been no shortage of news lately about lawmakers in Washington taking ethical short-cuts and bordering on corruption. We start with the usual, and end with the unusual.
There’s always a steady stream of stories about congressional representatives using campaign cash for personal purposes or to benefit their family and friends:
Another familiar unethical practice on Capitol Hill is using public resources for campaign purposes. Ilhan Omar and North Carolina Democrat Jeff Jackson have been using their TikTok accounts for both campaign and official activities
The recurring problem of lawmakers skirting residency requirements came up again, recently. Adam Schiff represents California in the House, is running for U.S. Senate from California, and votes in California. But he has listed his home in Maryland as his “primary residence” several times.
Then there are the usual conflicts of interest, corruption, and revolving door stories involving Congress:
It’s also distressingly common for some politicians to monetize their office - to cash in. Raphael Warnock excels at that, making half a million dollars in book deals, outside employment, and speaking fees in 2021 after joining the Senate. He voted for a COVID relief bill that sent $75,000 in taxpayer funds to a social justice group he created that is run by the church that still pays him outside income as lead pastor.
Now for the unusual: Gigi Sohn, who ultimately withdrew her nomination for a seat on the Federal Communications Commission, made 12 political contributions to senators running for office while her nomination was pending. When asked if she thought this was poor judgment, she said “no”. A watchdog group sent a letter to the senators who received her donations stating, “Ms. Sohn’s donations to your campaigns and your acceptance of her contributions during the pendency of her confirmation have irrevocably corrupted the decision-making process and made an objective vote on her confirmation impossible.”
Pretty brazen. Ms. Sohn may not be troubled by what she did, but it troubles me and it should trouble you.
4/27/23 - Bloated Voter Rolls Make It Easy to Cheat in Elections
Here’s how election fraud is committed. First, you bloat the voter rolls, like keeping dead people on them. Next, you create a bunch of loose ballots floating around out there, like through universal mail-in balloting. Then, bad actors get ahold of loose ballots and vote them in the name of people who won’t vote because, for example, they’re dead or moved out of state. The last step is to match up illicitly cast ballots with registered voters in the election computer system to make it all look kosher, and you’re done.
Now do you understand why the Democrats ferociously resist cleaning the voter rolls at every turn, which is just common sense? Bloated voter rolls make it easy for the Democrats to cheat.
But people who care about election integrity are starting to get a handle on things:
A lawsuit by a watchdog group forced Colorado to start cleaning up its voter rolls as required by the National Voter Registration Act. The state settled a lawsuit by agreeing to report its progress in removing ineligible voters to the group for six years. The number of ineligible voters removed per reporting period has already gone up. The watchdog group has achieved similar results in other states.
Virginia elections officials discovered 19,000 dead people were left on the rolls, supposedly because of a computer coding error. This will be corrected when the state’s new voter registration system is finished. Meanwhile, local elections officials are being given the authority to remove dead people from the rolls on the basis of an obituary or family notification, instead of requiring an official death certificate.
Wisconsin Senate Republicans have introduced a bill to start examining 3.8 million voter registrations in the state that are believed to be voters who are deceased, inactive, noncitizens, felons, or declared incompetent. The Governor is likely to veto the bill, but an override is a decent possibility.
A bill in the Texas Senate would suspend voters if they haven’t cast a ballot in more than two years. They’d be sent a notice and, if they fail to respond, they would be removed from the rolls after another two years. The U.S. Supreme Court approved a similar Ohio law in 2018.
Iowa follows a similar process, but with a twist. It moved half a million voters to inactive status after they didn’t vote in the election last fall. They’ll still get to vote through 2026, but the state no longer waits for voters to miss two consecutive general elections before starting the process of potentially removing them from the rolls.
Count on citizen and legal groups to keep banging away on cleaning up the voter rolls until the problem is cut down to size. Maine lost in court after it tried to restrict researchers from obtaining and using voter roll data to look for ineligible voters by comparing it to data from other states. Maine’s law originally restricted access to voter data to certain entities like political parties, but was amended to frustrate the lawsuit with, among other things, the state line restriction. The new restrictions were cooked up by Democrat lawmakers, staffers, lobbyists, and ERIC, a left-wing voter data nonprofit. But the court blew them all away, ruling the new restrictions thwarted Congress’ intent to achieve transparency under the National Voter Registration Act.
A group in Michigan has figured out how to give access to Michigan voter data to approved citizen researchers working at home on their own computers. Researchers can now see whether someone voted in past elections, uncover an impossible number of voters registered at the same address, and determine whether registrations belong to actual living persons at addresses of record.
Cleaning the voter rolls will be a never-ending process. For example, hundreds of noncitizens are on the voter rolls in Maricopa County Arizona. Some of them vote even though they are ineligible. The problem stems from the federal Motor Voter law, which requires states to allow people to register to vote at their local motor vehicle bureau when getting a driver’s license. Not an easy problem to solve, but the status quo is unacceptable, and people who care about election integrity will eventually get around to working on it.
4/26/23 - Joe Biden’s Border Policies Will Blow Up in Our Face
A leaked classified Pentagon assessment warns Afghanistan has again become a staging ground for Islamic jihad attacks in Europe, Asia, and the United States.
You might recall that a lot of the Afghans brought to the U.S. after Joe Biden’s disastrous botched withdrawal were unvetted. We have no idea who they are. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told Congress 84 percent are not U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, or holders of vetted Special Immigrant Visas. Worse, some are known explosives experts, according to congressional testimony from a former Trump defense official. Separately, a Defense Department whistleblower has alleged 324 Afghans now in the U.S. were on a Pentagon watch list.
In all, almost 300 known or suspected terrorists have been apprehended at the U.S. border in the current fiscal year as of last month, compared to 54 in all of fiscal 2021. The number has grown exponentially since the first quarter of this fiscal year, and that doesn’t even count the number of got-aways. Surprisingly, most of the apprehensions have been at the northern border.
One case shows you how loose things have gotten under Biden. An al Qaeda fighter named Shihab Ahmed Shihab Shihab recently pled guilty to plotting to smuggle four Iraqis over the southern border to assassinate former President George W. Bush. The plot was disrupted, but what’s important is to know how Shihab got into the United States. He flew into an airport on a tourist visa and, like so many others, overstayed his visa, then began to plot. So many aliens are entering the U.S. from countries of terrorism concern in the Middle East, South Asia, and North Africa, a Muslim-only shelter opened for them in Tijuana two blocks from the border. As I mentioned in a previous commentary, U.S. authorities have not gone to the shelter or asked the proprietors any questions. There are other known suspected terrorists U.S. officials have caught but released into the U.S.
The Biden administration’s instinct is to cover all this up and pretend it isn’t happening. In 2021, two Yemenis on the FBI Terrorism Watchlist were apprehended trying to enter the U.S. The government’s press release about it mysteriously disappeared the day it was posted, but was retrieved through a Freedom of Information Act request and is now online. Other records released show Biden administration officials conspiring to cover up the press release and to silence the border patrol from discussing the arrests.
So, once again, we have government by phony narrative - ‘the border is secure and terrorists are not coming across.’ Feel better now?
Muslim jihadists are not the only group to be concerned about. A China expert warns single Chinese males of military age without families are coming across the border in increasing numbers, suggesting they are either People’s Liberation Army or state security operatives. They are here, the expert says, to detonate bombs, cut water and power, and otherwise wreak havoc the first day China moves on Taiwan or elsewhere in Asia.
The Biden administration has rendered us vulnerable by exposing our underbelly to those who would slice it, but we are not helpless. We need to elect officials who will reinstate Trump’s tight immigration policies and build the wall.
4/25/23 - Joe Biden Escalates War on Parents
Joe Biden announced in a campaign video he is running for reelection in 2024. The video talked a lot about ‘rights’, but parental rights were not mentioned. There’s a reason for that. Joe Biden doesn’t believe in parental rights. He thinks children are state property.
He said this week, "There's no such thing as someone else's child.... Our nation's children are all our children." It was as revealing a moment as when Terry McAuliffe, failed Democrat candidate for governor in Virginia in 2020, said in a debate, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” It cost him the election and rightly so.
Joe Biden’s words are backed up by action. Just recently:
For those of you who are cool with all this, ask yourself this question: How did the War on Parents work out in the Soviet Union? There, children were definitely state property, completely indoctrinated in school, and encouraged to inform on and denounce their parents. The Soviet Union went kaput after 75 years. If the government becomes the parent and children become state property in the U.S., we can expect to last no longer.
Joe Biden was right about one thing in his campaign video. This is, indeed, a ‘battle for the soul of the nation’.
4/24/23 - The Globalists Will End All Human Suffering - Ha!
Some call them the globalists. I call them the international authoritarian Left. Whatever you call them, they are increasingly explicit about their aims and it’s easy to see they’re up to no good.
They suffer from the gnostic fantasy - the ancient notion they possess some kind of special knowledge the rest of us are too stupid to understand. They are willing to pursue any means - however despicable - to end all human suffering on earth. So let’s take a look at the world they want to create and see if human suffering will truly come to an end:
Devotees of the World Economic Forum want to reduce meat and rice production and consumption to fight so-called climate change. Won’t this hurt meat and rice producers? Why do you think Dutch farmers are fighting their insane government’s policies designed to put them out of business in the name of climate change? I’ll give you another example. Sri Lanka implemented the same disastrous policies previously, only to have food prices skyrocket and the entire country crash and burn as a result. Sounds like suffering to me. But don’t worry, there are plenty of bugs to go around. Yummy!
The U.N., the source of several child sex abuse scandals, called for the decriminalization of sex between adults and minors all over the world. What about those vulnerable children who will fall victim to predatory adults? What about their suffering? Some kids who are sexualized early just can’t handle it. I remember reading a story about a 15-year old boy in Annapolis who met with an older man for sex for several months, but ended up stabbing the man in the stomach with a knife. The boy was conflicted and in distress. There are reasons age-of-consent laws exist. The suffering of children would just be beginning under the globalist plan.
There is more the globalists want to do to you in the name of climate change. JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon also worships at the altar of climate change. He wants the government to seize land under eminent domain to build solar and wind farms. Eminent domain sounds just, but my experience as an attorney tells me landowners get screwed - they never get fair compensation from the government for their land. What about their suffering?
The World Economic Forum praises ‘15-minute cities’ as a good way to fight climate change. Everything you need - work, home, shopping - is just a 15-minute walk, bike ride, or public transit trip away. Leftists scoff at the idea this could ever lead to lockdowns and taking residents’ freedom to travel away, but Oxfordshire in England has already approved plans to put electronic gates on key roads out of the city to fight climate change. You have to ask permission to leave and, if you’re lucky, the city might say yes. Too bad if a family member in another location is sick, your family is just out of luck. Suffering all around.
But travel generally assumes you have a car. The globalists don’t want you to have a car, or they want you to share cars with strangers. This is because there aren’t enough critical minerals for a green energy transition as they admit, so we have to take everybody’s freedom away to make it all work. Anybody who likes being free is going to suffer.
And that is the key point - freedom. The globalists want to take your freedom away in order to run your life and save you from yourself. They want to employ new technologies, like brain implants to monitor your thoughts, and those who master those technologies will become the Masters of the World. You can count on them to control you through your healthcare and your social credit score. From each according to their ability, to each according to their obedience. Disobey your masters and your digital currency will be cut off, not to mention your life-saving drugs.
They admit you will suffer in the short-term. There will have to be a shock to get through to the other side where the New World Order transformation awaits - kind of like the dictatorship of the proletariat in communist theory that never seems to end in the real world. But don’t worry, just over the rainbow lies the model type of society we will all live under - China. China, with its one thousand concentration camps for political prisoners, its forced organ harvesting, and its thought control starting with no access to the world Internet. Yah, that China. These are “tremendous achievements”, Klaus Schwab the head of the World Economic Forum says.
But look on the bright side: After your masters are done telling you what to eat and what to do, done limiting your travel and tracking your every move, done controlling your thoughts, taking your freedom away, and crushing the human spirit, there will be no human suffering left. It will have been completely eradicated. But let me suggest to you the end of all human suffering will become the suffering. As George Orwell put it, people who pursue noble ends with despicable means will never reach those ends because they will become despicable themselves in the process.
4/21/23 - Marijuana: One Problem After Another
Last month, Oklahoma voters rejected the legalization of recreational marijuana. Hopefully, this means the word about all the problems associated with marijuana use is getting around.
In New York City, licenses for legal pot shops have been slow in coming so illegal shops have proliferated, leading to the sale of illegal drugs and attracting more than 500 violent robberies last year alone. Mayor Eric Adams noted there are as many as 1,500 of these illegal shops in the City. They open near schools and target kids. “We are losing our grip,” he said. Licensed shops also target kids with candy-flavored gummies and other cannabis products. It’s Joe Camel all over again.
Legalized marijuana is also a factor in Colorado’s rising crime rates. It attracted criminals to the state initially, and now the homeless and others are committing armed robbery and burglary to get the money to buy marijuana. The same pattern is playing out in other states. Legalizing marijuana was supposed to reduce crime but, instead, the illegal drug market has mushroomed and violence has increased.
There’s no end to the problems marijuana is causing:
Legalizing recreational marijuana was supposed to be harmless. It wasn’t. It was supposed to reduce crime. It didn’t. It was supposed to keep marijuana out of the hands of young people. The problem got worse. It was supposed to fatten public coffers, but it drains public resources instead. It costs more than four times as much money to fix the problems than marijuana brings in.
No wonder the pendulum is starting to swing, with some now calling for tighter regulations of various kinds. That’s a good thing, no matter how much it might upset the progressive Democrats and the financially self-interested merchants of chaos who urged us into this mess.
4/20/23 - How to Create the Largest Voter Fraud Operation in History
Dominion Voting Systems may have won a big settlement in its suit against Fox News, but new concerns about election technology have popped up.
But before we leave the subject of vote-counting machines, I must point out that the simultaneous stopping of vote counting in six swing states in the 2020 presidential election with Donald Trump ahead, then with Joe Biden ahead when counting resumed has never been explained. Until it is, don’t ask me to believe U.S. elections can’t be stolen. Don’t forget: the guy sitting in the Oval Office is the guy who said he created the largest voter fraud operation in history. Slip of the tongue, as his defenders say? You bet.
But on with the show. There are machines that count votes and there are other election-related technologies that perform other functions and can make our elections less secure. It’s amazing how the Left has wrapped its tentacles around all of it, but more is being challenged after being brought out into the light.
Concerns are mounting about “Albert Sensors”, installed in most states’ election systems by the Center for Internet Security (CIS) supposedly to detect network intrusions. But CIS is a left-wing private nonprofit, partnered with DHS, that is a major player in the federal government’s censorship scheme to suppress supposed ‘misinformation’ about the 2020 presidential election, a scheme now fully documented both through the Twitter Files and the Missouri-Louisiana censorship case in federal court. Unfortunately for CIS, there is no evidence the Albert Sensors have ever detected a single election network intrusion, but they have failed to detect some that did occur, leading some counties to cancel their contracts with CIS. So what are Albert Sensors really doing? Critics say the answer is: giving the federal government real-time data about the status of election results so results can be manipulated to get favored candidates installed in office fraudulently. It is said most elections officials aren’t even aware Albert Sensors are in use, much less what they can be used for.
There is also fresh news about Konnech, the Chinese-tied election administration software vendor suspected of shipping data about U.S. election workers to China. A recent whistleblower lawsuit makes detailed allegations about such data ending up in China. Another whistleblower stepped forward this month saying he personally witnessed U.S. election worker data being made available to people in China. Konnech is apparently making a show of dismissing its Chinese employees, but quietly rehiring them as independent contractors to perform the exact same duties. The whistleblower says the company told him to tell customers data was not being stored in China, where the Chinese Communist Party has access to it. Konnech’s CEO Eugene Yu was arrested in October for storing election worker data on Chinese servers in violation of its contract with Los Angeles County, but the charges were dropped for supposed ‘bias’ in the investigation. The County said it would assemble a more expert team to assess whether charges should be re-brought, but not a peep since.
Election integrity advocates are also concerned about software installed in 36 states that handles election management, election night reporting, and voter registration. It goes by various names, but it all ultimately traces back to one owner, a company called KowINK. Critics say the software is not certified and connects to the Internet where it can be hacked. An audit in New Mexico where the software is used found manipulation in voter rolls and election night reporting. Backdated entries were found in Hawaii’s voter registration database, suggesting the entries were fabricated. That apparently happened in North Carolina where there were unexplained entries appearing in current voter rolls that should have been in the publicly available historical copies, but weren’t.
Meanwhile, concerns continue to swirl around tabulators, the electronic voting machines that count votes. It was recently discovered the federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC) investigated ES&S machines right before the 2020 election for leaving touch-screen voting systems in as many as 19 states vulnerable to the installation of malicious or unapproved software. The Connecticut Secretary of State wants to replace ten-year-old tabulators that have become unreliable and can no longer be serviced because the company that made them went out of business.
If I wanted to create the largest voter fraud operation in history, I would certainly hand over large chunks of the electoral process to left-wing nonprofits whose actions leave no doubt whose side they’re on, and to the Chinese who are so contemptuous of elections they don’t even have them.
4/19/23 - Hunter Biden: More Shoes to Drop
The House Oversight Committee is now investigating six additional members of the Biden family for illicitly profiting off of Joe Biden’s political career, bringing the total to nine. "The Biden family enterprise is centered on Joe Biden’s political career and connections, and it has generated an exorbitant amount of money for the Biden family," Committee chair James Comer said. He said the Committee now has “thousands of pages of financial records” that “confirm the importance of this investigation." Committee member Marjorie Taylor Greene alleged the evidence shows, “The Biden crime family participated in human trafficking by soliciting prostitutes from the United States and abroad in countries like Russia and Ukraine.”
Also, we learned yesterday the House Judiciary Committee has found evidence of a link between the letter from current and former intelligence officials dismissing the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation and the Biden presidential campaign. The laptop was later proven to be authentic, showing the real Hunter Biden and his activities. Republicans are calling the letter a substantial interference in the 2020 presidential election. The Committee is expected to release its evidence in a report later this month.
The House Oversight Committee has been following the trail of suspicious activity reports, bank records reluctantly but finally given up by the Treasury Department. U.S. banks generated such reports on more than 150 business transactions involving Hunter and James Biden.
Recent stories chronicle other evidence coming in against the Biden crime family:
4/18/23 - What’s In Your Wallet: The Inescapable Nagging Left
Some Woke corporations are getting their comeuppance. Bud Light adopted a transgender spokesperson and was stung by conservatives boycotting the brand. The CEO issued a non-apology saying he never intended to divide people, then pivoted to a new wrapped-in-the-flag ad campaign featuring the time-treasured Clydesdale horses.
Bed Bath & Beyond removed MyPillow products from its shelves and is now scrambling to stave off bankruptcy. I stopped shopping there and I know others who have stopped, as well. I’m not sorry in the least.
Disney lost a quarter billion dollars on two animated films - Strange World and Lightyear - that promoted the gay agenda, just like the Disney executive said she was going to do. To “add queerness”, in her words, wherever she could. The problem is lots of people don’t want the radical gay agenda in their living rooms infecting their kids.
The SEC just allowed a shareholder resolution to go forward to investigate PayPal’s systematic political and religious discrimination against conservatives. The group bringing the resolution argued companies offering financial services to the public cannot discriminate.
Hershey started a campaign featuring a biological transgender male - a political activist, no less - to celebrate Women’s History Month and was promptly boycotted. They called their campaign “meaningful”. More meaningful than their bottom line, apparently. You might recall another candy company - Mars - replaced its lesbian M&M ‘spokescandies’ back in January after consumers revolted.
Nothing against transgenders and gay people - they’re just pawns in the Left’s game - but why do I have to be confronted with the Left’s radical sexual agenda when I’m in the candy aisle? But that’s the Left for you - not a single corner of life can be free from politicization. You will be assimilated. The Left is literally shoving its agenda down your throat any way it can. The only question to them is whether you will take it in liquid or candy form.
All this Wokitude blowing up in some companies’ faces hasn’t stopped others from trying:
The Left is in your face and in your wallet. This is why the political Right and anyone who doesn’t want the Left in their face 24/7 must keep fighting the culture rot the Left is inducing. Here are some ways to help you do that: The 1792 Exchange is a new database where you can look up corporate bias ratings on a thousand companies to see if they’ve gone Woke. Consumers’ Research just introduced company ‘Woke Alerts’ for your phone. 2nd Vote continues to soldier on, as it has for years, allowing consumers to align their purchases with their values. An important mission, in a world where the Left turns even horses into hectoring nags.
4/17/23 - Punching the Shark in the Nose
Sometimes it may seem like the jaws of the authoritarian Left are snapping shut, but the political Right is finding new and better ways to fight back. One involves ridicule, which I’ll tell you about near the end of today’s commentary.
The family of a donor to the University of Richmond is asking for its money back plus $3 billion in interest after the donor’s name - T.C. Williams - was stripped from the University’s law school because the donor owned slaves. One of the donor’s descendants said ‘if the family name is no longer good enough for the university, neither are the family’s financial contributions.’
A pro-life group fed up with the FBI’s favoritism toward abortion clinics and recalcitrance in investigating attacks on pro-life centers hired its own private investigators to find out who firebombed its Buffalo office last summer.
Following the creation of a bank and a shaving supplies company, a new online marketplace offers patriotic Americans sick of giving their money to Woke corporations and their transgender mascots a shopping platform for goods and services from thousands of businesses that share patriotic values. Also, if a parallel patriot economy sounds good to you, check out Patriot Mobile. I pay a little more for my service, but part of my money goes to a cause I support, Students for Life.
I love it when conservatives get back into power. Just look at the House Judiciary Committee, firing back on all fronts - the weaponization of government against the Right, progressive DAs who have turned their offices into crime factories, the rogue FBI attacking ordinary parents and Catholics, and more. In Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis is probing diversity, equity, and inclusion spending by public universities. He also appointed conservatives to the board of the left-leaning public New College of Florida to rein it back in. The conservatives newly in charge of a county commission in Michigan dismantled the county’s social justice programs and appointed a new health expert who is taking direct aim at the federal government’s phony COVID narratives.
Others on the Right are fighting back in court:
The Smithsonian agreed to a court order prohibiting it from discriminating against visitors based on the content of pro-life or other political messages on their clothing.
A waiter shot by a man who was released from jail after a nonprofit put up bail money sued the nonprofit out of existence.
A Catholic group is suing the FBI under the Freedom of Information Act for failing to release records regarding the FBI’s infiltration of churches to spy on Catholics.
A California doctor is suing the Stanford University health system for suspending him for speaking out against the government’s overreaching COVID policies. He is one of a group of doctors who succeeded in getting an injunction against California’s COVID ‘misinformation’ law which attempted blatant censorship of the truth. The Christian humor site Babylon Bee is suing California over another state censorship law.
A public library in Arizona backed down after being threatened with a lawsuit for banning a Christian story hour. A soccer player at Virginia Tech won a $100,000 settlement after her coach benched her for refusing to kneel during the national anthem at games. A court upheld sanctions against two left-wing professors in Tennessee who falsely accused a colleague of racism and falsely labeled a student conservative organization a “national hate group”. That’s what you get for believing your own propaganda.
But here’s my favorite: a man took his dog to the vet asking for a gender transition. The dog is male but was dressed in a pink tutu for the occasion, which you can watch on video. Like Saint Saul Alinsky of the Left said, ridicule is a very effective weapon.
I will soon be announcing my own project to hit the Transgender-Industrial Complex right where it hurts - the pocketbook. Stay tuned.
4/14/23 - Taking America for Granted
Shame on all the people who take America for granted. Like the silly 21-year-old who leaked secret American military documents to video gamers online. And shame on everyone else who fails to appreciate the magnificence of the Founders’ ideals - popular sovereignty, representative limited government, and individual rights. Where would we be without those ideals? Under the boot of a Putin or a Xi Jinping, that’s where.
Speaking of silly, shame on the Tennessee Democrats who proposed replacing the federal Columbus Day holiday with Super Bowl Monday.
Shame on Nancy Pelosi for saying Donald Trump has to prove his innocence, in complete contradiction to the constitutional principle people are innocent until proven guilty.
Shame on the Democrats who are trying to remove a statue of Lincoln who kept the Union together and freed the slaves.
Shame on Whoopi Goldberg who objected to House members saying the Pledge of Allegiance.
Shame on the California teacher who removed the American flag from her classroom and had her students pledge allegiance to the gay pride flag instead.
Shame on Tim Kaine’s wife for saying the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution enshrined slavery without mentioning amendments to the Constitution that got rid of the vestiges of slavery and perfected the Founders’ vision of liberty and justice for all.
Shame on the Florida Democrat who said exercising your Second Amendment right to bear arms is “fascism”.
And shame on the woman who trashed American citizenship as ‘racialized’, really just a white thing.
So, to all these people I say you better get a grip. You don’t know what you have until it’s gone. This is the best country on earth and lots of serious people before you have spent their time improving it for everyone instead of running their mouths. Stop making fools of yourselves and showing us your ignorance when you have no idea what you would replace America with.
Our founding documents are based on classical liberalism, the most coherent, sustainable, and humane idea in the entire history of political thought. You don’t have anything that can compete with it. If you’re as mindless as I think you are, you don’t have anything at all in that empty head of yours. Leave governance to serious people who have bothered to inform themselves on the principles of good governance and who have studied what happens when tyrants, mobs, and utopians succeed in taking over - blood flowing in the streets, that’s what.
You’re enabling them with your mindlessness and it’s gotta stop. This is no video game.
4/13/23 - Attack of the Computer-Generated Donation Mules
Today I show you we have a long way to go to clean up our elections.
The story making news is unemployed donors somehow being able to make scads of donations to Democrat political campaigns. This sprawling network of ‘donation harvesters and mules’, as they’ve come to be called, operates in several states. In Georgia, hundreds of unemployed donors gave over $24 million in 358,000 separate donations to Raphael Warnock’s campaign. In Washington state, an unemployed man made over 6,000 donations to ActBlue, the Democrat fundraising site. In one Washington county, there were almost 20 times as many donations as there are residents. Experts suggest computer algorithms are actually laundering large donations through lots of individuals who have no idea their names are being used. Why would this be done? Perhaps to cover up money Democrats are getting from drug cartels and foreign countries, like China. If you don’t like those explanations, then you explain it to me.
Democrat funny money is not the only problem besetting our elections. Recent stories show:
Six hundred voters were allowed to vote absentee after the polls closed in Ann Arbor in violation of state law. Some whose votes were counted had registered the day AFTER the election.
Also in Michigan, when people move from one county to another, their voter history is changed to show voting activity in the new county which actually took place in the old county. This makes it impossible to “know exactly who voted where, when, and in what manner – absentee or in-person....” Seems kind of screwy to me. Citizen activists suggest this craziness is deliberate.
Noncitizens are automatically registered to vote in Washington state when they go for driver’s licenses, even though some protest they are not eligible. State officials say state law prevents them from verifying citizenship. Well, that’s quite a machine - automatic registration followed by ‘our hands are tied’. How about untying them, Washington state? The same or similar problems have been reported in other places, including California, if memory serves.
A whistleblower, a Democrat who worked in a Florida county elections office, said the creation, printing, and storage of ballots is not secure despite state regulations. For example, there are no security cameras in storage areas and the areas are easily accessible. In addition, chain of custody forms for mail-in ballots received are often missing.
A citizens group in Maricopa County Arizona found, based on sampling, over a hundred thousand ballot envelope signatures were completely different from the signatures on file. The group also found affidavits unsigned or signed by someone other than the voter. In addition, there were dead voters, people who voted more than once, and voter registration forms with incorrect signatures.
California, which now mails ballots to all active registered voters could not account for 10 million ballots that went missing in the 2022 midterms. That’s a lot of ballots out there to be scooped up by unscrupulous post office workers, and from apartment building lobbies and elsewhere that could be used to commit election fraud. Not exactly a tight process, is it? But it’s the way the Democrats want the whole country to go.
Lots of citizen activists across the country are working very hard to make sure that doesn’t happen and to tighten elections processes back up to the point where we can have confidence in our elections again.
4/12/23 - Alvin Bragg’s Warped Priorities
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The House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing in New York City next week to highlight Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s deliberate choice not to prosecute serious crime while at the same time deciding to go after Donald Trump. Let’s take a closer look at Alvin Bragg:
More than a dozen prosecutors in Manhattan have quit because Bragg is soft on crime. “They didn’t want to work in this kind of office. They wanted to continue prosecuting the law,” a source told the New York Post.
Bragg is bought and paid for. George Soros donated $1 million to get Bragg elected. Soros denies it, but it’s undisputed he donated $1 million to the Color of Change group only days after Color of Change pledged to donate $1 million to Braggs’ campaign. That’s quite a coincidence, don’t you think?
When he was installed in office, Bragg issued a “day one” memo to staff directing them not to prosecute armed robberies. After a raft of criticism, he tried to weasel out of it, saying he only meant armed robberies where something other than a gun was used, but a plain reading of the memo shows it did instruct prosecutors not to bring felony charges in some instances for armed robberies with guns, but to downgrade the charges to misdemeanors, instead. Any way you slice it, it’s still an insane policy coming out of the same Woke school of thought that says abolish all prisons and courts. This is normalizing serious criminal behavior, something Bragg said he will not do when it comes to Donald Trump.
His office has unleashed another insane policy on the City. His lead prosecutor, Meg Reis, believes in ‘restorative justice’ - attempting to rehabilitate criminals by arranging kumbaya meetings between victims and offenders. She believes “incarceration doesn’t really solve any problems” and criminals are not really “bad dudes”. The victims of crime would beg to differ. This policy allowed a murderer to escape jail time. Moreover, this is the “default” position of the office, even for violent felons, and she works with a left-wing nonprofit called Common Justice to screen cases and divert them away from incarceration. Diversion is not a new concept in criminal justice but, until the Woke crowd came along, it was reserved for minor cases like shoplifting. But murderers and violent felons? Kumbaya!
One consequence of all this is that New York City police officers are leaving the department in record numbers. They’re fed up with being told they’re the enemy and with watching the thugs they arrest go right back out on the streets due to the state’s cashless bail law. Overtime costs for the officers who are left are through the roof, double the City’s extra-duty budget.
The City is dealing with an explosion of youth and gang violence. High rates of assault, car theft, and shoplifting continue to plague the City. Jim Jordan is right to throw a spotlight on all this and to question Alvin Bragg’s priorities in going after Trump.
The indictment fails to specify the underlying crime necessary to prosecute Trump. Thus, it fails to inform Trump of the charges against him, thereby violating his Due Process rights. Maybe Alvin Bragg should stick to prosecuting crimes we can see instead of obsessing on ones we cannot.
4/11/23 - All the News That’s Fit to Pimp
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Don’t believe everything you read. Major media outlets have been caught over the years taking money to print propaganda and slant stories a certain way. Among the paymasters are the Chinese Communist Party, left-wing foundations, super-rich Leftist George Soros, and the U.S. government.
The U.S. government has paid journalists to shill for Obamacare, green jobs, and, most recently, COVID vaccines. Now comes news the Biden administration paid the left-wing Poynter Institute another $23,500 to train journalists how to create supposedly “balanced and bias-free” journalism. Or at least that’s the cover story. The U.S. Agency for Global Media has previously paid Poynter for such training in the past. In addition, the State Department has paid Poynter $360,000 over the years for this training.
Poynter is funded by big Democrat donors like George Soros and Bill Gates. They get their money’s worth. Poynter started a “blacklist” of conservative news outlets it deemed “unreliable”. Poynter was forced to retract the list after fierce criticism. Poynter runs PolitiFact, the supposed fact-checking site that routinely attacks Republicans and conservatives. It has had to retract numerous fact-checks, including one that called the now widely accepted lab leak coronavirus origin theory “ridiculous”. So don’t believe everything you read in PolitiFact, either.
Poynter has urged social media platforms to censor what it deems to be ‘misinformation’. It parlayed that campaign into a $13.2 million grant from Google to Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network to help fight so-called “misinformation”. There’s also PolitiFact’s arrangement to censor information on Facebook.
All of this is uncomfortably close to the wide-ranging government censorship exercise - carried on with social media and left-wing advocacy group partners - now documented in multiple releases of the Twitter files and in the ongoing case Missouri and Louisiana brought against the Biden administration for censorship. You can be assured whenever any of these people talk about ‘misinformation’, what they’re really talking about is their desire to censor all views they don’t like and to vanquish their political enemies.
The Poynter Institute is not the only journalistic enterprise shown in recent days to be pushing its political views. To push the transgender narrative, NPR ridiculously claimed there is "limited scientific evidence" that men have a "physical advantage" over women in sports. But biological transgender males have been trouncing real women in swimming, cycling, weight lifting, and track & field, and everybody knows it. Moreover, females are getting hurt going up against males. This injustice will not stand forever, NPR’s political views notwithstanding.
Untrustworthy mainstream media outlets have been so bad on other stories recently, they have been forced to issue retractions. NPR wrongly reported Joe Biden’s son Beau died from injuries received in the military. The New York Times and Rolling Stone - also left-wing outlets like NPR - issued corrections to stories they ran about FBI whistleblowers. The Washington Post has issued a number of retractions recently, including the use of the terms ‘debunk’ and ‘conspiracy theory’ in a story criticizing Senator Tom Cotton for repeating the COVID lab leak theory, a theory now found credible by the Energy Department and the FBI. MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell had to admit she was less than precise when she claimed Ron DeSantis didn’t want slavery taught in schools.
These people are so invested in getting their political enemies, they cut corners and misrepresent the facts. Unfortunately, the media has been trending this way for years. CNN kept running stories for two and a half years about the Trump/Russia collusion hoax when it knew there was nothing there. And don’t forget Dan Rather, the CBS news anchor who was forced to resign in disgrace after running fake news about George W. Bush’s Air National Guard service. Left-wing partisan hacks, all. Just like Google News which skews its news curation to favor left-wing outlets, a recent study showed.
American journalism has gone from claiming it is objective, to admitting its liberal bias, to conspiring with leftist-controlled government agencies and left-wing billionaires to weaponize its coverage and wage jihad against its political enemies. Welcome to fascism, the combination of Big Government and Big Business. If you still believe anything they write, all I can say is, ‘there’s a sucker born every minute.’
4/10/23 - Abortionistas’ Dirty Tricks Kill the Innocent
Democrat abortion supporters will say and do anything to keep the party going. They’ll even throw the Rule of Law out the window.
HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez suggested the Biden administration ignore the court ruling invalidating the FDA’s approval of the abortion drug mifepristone.
But that’s just for starters. Here are some of the other things discovered recently abortionistas are doing to promote the radical abortion agenda:
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is stalling media inquiries about the investigation into the suspicious deaths of five babies at a D.C. abortion clinic a year ago - including Baby Boy 1 - some of whom might have been left to die after being born alive. D.C. police won’t comment. Once again, I defy anyone to look at the iconic photo of Baby Boy 1 and tell me he was not a human being. If you support his killing, you’re despicable.
There’s been no shortage of news lately about lawmakers in Washington taking ethical short-cuts and bordering on corruption. We start with the usual, and end with the unusual.
There’s always a steady stream of stories about congressional representatives using campaign cash for personal purposes or to benefit their family and friends:
- Democrat Maxine Waters paid her daughter another $200,000 in campaign funds for advertising services in the 2022 election cycle, bringing the total to over $1.2 million in the last 20 years.
- Four House Democrats - including Squad members AOC and Cori Bush - face ethics questions for accepting impermissible gifts, improper solicitation of campaign funds, and spending campaign donations for personal use. Bush and Squad member Ilhan Omar funneled campaign cash to men they later married.
- Democrat Barbara Lee spent $20,000 in campaign funds on chauffeured cars and limousines.
- Texas Democrat Vicente Gonzalez has paid his own company $33,000 in campaign cash for office rent since 2018.
Another familiar unethical practice on Capitol Hill is using public resources for campaign purposes. Ilhan Omar and North Carolina Democrat Jeff Jackson have been using their TikTok accounts for both campaign and official activities
The recurring problem of lawmakers skirting residency requirements came up again, recently. Adam Schiff represents California in the House, is running for U.S. Senate from California, and votes in California. But he has listed his home in Maryland as his “primary residence” several times.
Then there are the usual conflicts of interest, corruption, and revolving door stories involving Congress:
- New Jersey Democrat Senator Bob Menendez and his wife are being investigated for allegations they trade impermissible gifts and services for political favors.
- Arizona Democrat Ruben Gallego is married to a lobbyist for the National Association of Realtors who explicitly “targets House Democrats” on housing issues.
- New York Democrat Sean Patrick Maloney gave a taxpayer-funded job to a family friend who is working full-time elsewhere.
- Indiana Republican Trey Hollingsworth who works on banking regulation publicly thanked Bank of America’s CEO for hiring his top aide.
It’s also distressingly common for some politicians to monetize their office - to cash in. Raphael Warnock excels at that, making half a million dollars in book deals, outside employment, and speaking fees in 2021 after joining the Senate. He voted for a COVID relief bill that sent $75,000 in taxpayer funds to a social justice group he created that is run by the church that still pays him outside income as lead pastor.
Now for the unusual: Gigi Sohn, who ultimately withdrew her nomination for a seat on the Federal Communications Commission, made 12 political contributions to senators running for office while her nomination was pending. When asked if she thought this was poor judgment, she said “no”. A watchdog group sent a letter to the senators who received her donations stating, “Ms. Sohn’s donations to your campaigns and your acceptance of her contributions during the pendency of her confirmation have irrevocably corrupted the decision-making process and made an objective vote on her confirmation impossible.”
Pretty brazen. Ms. Sohn may not be troubled by what she did, but it troubles me and it should trouble you.
4/27/23 - Bloated Voter Rolls Make It Easy to Cheat in Elections
Here’s how election fraud is committed. First, you bloat the voter rolls, like keeping dead people on them. Next, you create a bunch of loose ballots floating around out there, like through universal mail-in balloting. Then, bad actors get ahold of loose ballots and vote them in the name of people who won’t vote because, for example, they’re dead or moved out of state. The last step is to match up illicitly cast ballots with registered voters in the election computer system to make it all look kosher, and you’re done.
Now do you understand why the Democrats ferociously resist cleaning the voter rolls at every turn, which is just common sense? Bloated voter rolls make it easy for the Democrats to cheat.
But people who care about election integrity are starting to get a handle on things:
A lawsuit by a watchdog group forced Colorado to start cleaning up its voter rolls as required by the National Voter Registration Act. The state settled a lawsuit by agreeing to report its progress in removing ineligible voters to the group for six years. The number of ineligible voters removed per reporting period has already gone up. The watchdog group has achieved similar results in other states.
Virginia elections officials discovered 19,000 dead people were left on the rolls, supposedly because of a computer coding error. This will be corrected when the state’s new voter registration system is finished. Meanwhile, local elections officials are being given the authority to remove dead people from the rolls on the basis of an obituary or family notification, instead of requiring an official death certificate.
Wisconsin Senate Republicans have introduced a bill to start examining 3.8 million voter registrations in the state that are believed to be voters who are deceased, inactive, noncitizens, felons, or declared incompetent. The Governor is likely to veto the bill, but an override is a decent possibility.
A bill in the Texas Senate would suspend voters if they haven’t cast a ballot in more than two years. They’d be sent a notice and, if they fail to respond, they would be removed from the rolls after another two years. The U.S. Supreme Court approved a similar Ohio law in 2018.
Iowa follows a similar process, but with a twist. It moved half a million voters to inactive status after they didn’t vote in the election last fall. They’ll still get to vote through 2026, but the state no longer waits for voters to miss two consecutive general elections before starting the process of potentially removing them from the rolls.
Count on citizen and legal groups to keep banging away on cleaning up the voter rolls until the problem is cut down to size. Maine lost in court after it tried to restrict researchers from obtaining and using voter roll data to look for ineligible voters by comparing it to data from other states. Maine’s law originally restricted access to voter data to certain entities like political parties, but was amended to frustrate the lawsuit with, among other things, the state line restriction. The new restrictions were cooked up by Democrat lawmakers, staffers, lobbyists, and ERIC, a left-wing voter data nonprofit. But the court blew them all away, ruling the new restrictions thwarted Congress’ intent to achieve transparency under the National Voter Registration Act.
A group in Michigan has figured out how to give access to Michigan voter data to approved citizen researchers working at home on their own computers. Researchers can now see whether someone voted in past elections, uncover an impossible number of voters registered at the same address, and determine whether registrations belong to actual living persons at addresses of record.
Cleaning the voter rolls will be a never-ending process. For example, hundreds of noncitizens are on the voter rolls in Maricopa County Arizona. Some of them vote even though they are ineligible. The problem stems from the federal Motor Voter law, which requires states to allow people to register to vote at their local motor vehicle bureau when getting a driver’s license. Not an easy problem to solve, but the status quo is unacceptable, and people who care about election integrity will eventually get around to working on it.
4/26/23 - Joe Biden’s Border Policies Will Blow Up in Our Face
A leaked classified Pentagon assessment warns Afghanistan has again become a staging ground for Islamic jihad attacks in Europe, Asia, and the United States.
You might recall that a lot of the Afghans brought to the U.S. after Joe Biden’s disastrous botched withdrawal were unvetted. We have no idea who they are. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told Congress 84 percent are not U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, or holders of vetted Special Immigrant Visas. Worse, some are known explosives experts, according to congressional testimony from a former Trump defense official. Separately, a Defense Department whistleblower has alleged 324 Afghans now in the U.S. were on a Pentagon watch list.
In all, almost 300 known or suspected terrorists have been apprehended at the U.S. border in the current fiscal year as of last month, compared to 54 in all of fiscal 2021. The number has grown exponentially since the first quarter of this fiscal year, and that doesn’t even count the number of got-aways. Surprisingly, most of the apprehensions have been at the northern border.
One case shows you how loose things have gotten under Biden. An al Qaeda fighter named Shihab Ahmed Shihab Shihab recently pled guilty to plotting to smuggle four Iraqis over the southern border to assassinate former President George W. Bush. The plot was disrupted, but what’s important is to know how Shihab got into the United States. He flew into an airport on a tourist visa and, like so many others, overstayed his visa, then began to plot. So many aliens are entering the U.S. from countries of terrorism concern in the Middle East, South Asia, and North Africa, a Muslim-only shelter opened for them in Tijuana two blocks from the border. As I mentioned in a previous commentary, U.S. authorities have not gone to the shelter or asked the proprietors any questions. There are other known suspected terrorists U.S. officials have caught but released into the U.S.
The Biden administration’s instinct is to cover all this up and pretend it isn’t happening. In 2021, two Yemenis on the FBI Terrorism Watchlist were apprehended trying to enter the U.S. The government’s press release about it mysteriously disappeared the day it was posted, but was retrieved through a Freedom of Information Act request and is now online. Other records released show Biden administration officials conspiring to cover up the press release and to silence the border patrol from discussing the arrests.
So, once again, we have government by phony narrative - ‘the border is secure and terrorists are not coming across.’ Feel better now?
Muslim jihadists are not the only group to be concerned about. A China expert warns single Chinese males of military age without families are coming across the border in increasing numbers, suggesting they are either People’s Liberation Army or state security operatives. They are here, the expert says, to detonate bombs, cut water and power, and otherwise wreak havoc the first day China moves on Taiwan or elsewhere in Asia.
The Biden administration has rendered us vulnerable by exposing our underbelly to those who would slice it, but we are not helpless. We need to elect officials who will reinstate Trump’s tight immigration policies and build the wall.
4/25/23 - Joe Biden Escalates War on Parents
Joe Biden announced in a campaign video he is running for reelection in 2024. The video talked a lot about ‘rights’, but parental rights were not mentioned. There’s a reason for that. Joe Biden doesn’t believe in parental rights. He thinks children are state property.
He said this week, "There's no such thing as someone else's child.... Our nation's children are all our children." It was as revealing a moment as when Terry McAuliffe, failed Democrat candidate for governor in Virginia in 2020, said in a debate, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” It cost him the election and rightly so.
Joe Biden’s words are backed up by action. Just recently:
- he announced a plan in his State of the Union address to provide universal pre-K education for 3- and 4-year-olds. Apparently, 12 years of public school isn’t enough to indoctrinate kids and alienate them from their parents.
- his Education Department went after a school superintendent in Texas who removed sexually explicit books from school libraries. It kills me how the Left pushes pornography on school kids, then turns around and accuses anyone who objects of being against free speech or, as Biden put it in his campaign video, engaging in “banning books”.
- Biden’s Justice Department put a father who objected to sexually explicit books in his children’s school library in Chicago on a terrorist watch list, which he only discovered when he tried to board a flight.
- Biden’s CDC is pushing LGBT indoctrination in schools and providing professional development tools to teachers on how best to do it.
- Biden’s "HHS, under the guise of 'gender affirming care,' now promotes medical interventions such as drugs designed to block puberty, opposite-sex hormones to transition children — both of which do not have FDA approval for use in children's gender care — and even surgical interventions to remove or alter the gender specific anatomy," a letter from a congresswoman said. The letter seeks more information about the use of federal funds to push this agenda and to pay for gender transitioning surgery for children.
- HHS Assistant Secretary Rachel Levine, a biological male transgender, said gender transitioning children through drugs and surgery will soon be considered normal and this has the “highest support” of the Biden administration. A critic points out sex changes had always been an adult topic and the idea of the ‘transgender child’ had to be invented for the agenda to be launched. I can’t think of a better way to separate children from their parents than for schools to deliberately induce gender confusion in kids, then keep gender transitioning secret from parents.
- The White House showed its support for the juvenile transgender agenda by planning a “Roundtable on Affirming Transgender Kids” on the “Transgender Day of Visibility” last month.
- Biden’s Justice Department celebrated “Transgender Visibility Day” with a webinar, a warning to state attorneys general not to interfere with the rights of transgender youth, and opposition to state legislation seeking to ban transgender drugs and surgery for minors.
For those of you who are cool with all this, ask yourself this question: How did the War on Parents work out in the Soviet Union? There, children were definitely state property, completely indoctrinated in school, and encouraged to inform on and denounce their parents. The Soviet Union went kaput after 75 years. If the government becomes the parent and children become state property in the U.S., we can expect to last no longer.
Joe Biden was right about one thing in his campaign video. This is, indeed, a ‘battle for the soul of the nation’.
4/24/23 - The Globalists Will End All Human Suffering - Ha!
Some call them the globalists. I call them the international authoritarian Left. Whatever you call them, they are increasingly explicit about their aims and it’s easy to see they’re up to no good.
They suffer from the gnostic fantasy - the ancient notion they possess some kind of special knowledge the rest of us are too stupid to understand. They are willing to pursue any means - however despicable - to end all human suffering on earth. So let’s take a look at the world they want to create and see if human suffering will truly come to an end:
Devotees of the World Economic Forum want to reduce meat and rice production and consumption to fight so-called climate change. Won’t this hurt meat and rice producers? Why do you think Dutch farmers are fighting their insane government’s policies designed to put them out of business in the name of climate change? I’ll give you another example. Sri Lanka implemented the same disastrous policies previously, only to have food prices skyrocket and the entire country crash and burn as a result. Sounds like suffering to me. But don’t worry, there are plenty of bugs to go around. Yummy!
The U.N., the source of several child sex abuse scandals, called for the decriminalization of sex between adults and minors all over the world. What about those vulnerable children who will fall victim to predatory adults? What about their suffering? Some kids who are sexualized early just can’t handle it. I remember reading a story about a 15-year old boy in Annapolis who met with an older man for sex for several months, but ended up stabbing the man in the stomach with a knife. The boy was conflicted and in distress. There are reasons age-of-consent laws exist. The suffering of children would just be beginning under the globalist plan.
There is more the globalists want to do to you in the name of climate change. JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon also worships at the altar of climate change. He wants the government to seize land under eminent domain to build solar and wind farms. Eminent domain sounds just, but my experience as an attorney tells me landowners get screwed - they never get fair compensation from the government for their land. What about their suffering?
The World Economic Forum praises ‘15-minute cities’ as a good way to fight climate change. Everything you need - work, home, shopping - is just a 15-minute walk, bike ride, or public transit trip away. Leftists scoff at the idea this could ever lead to lockdowns and taking residents’ freedom to travel away, but Oxfordshire in England has already approved plans to put electronic gates on key roads out of the city to fight climate change. You have to ask permission to leave and, if you’re lucky, the city might say yes. Too bad if a family member in another location is sick, your family is just out of luck. Suffering all around.
But travel generally assumes you have a car. The globalists don’t want you to have a car, or they want you to share cars with strangers. This is because there aren’t enough critical minerals for a green energy transition as they admit, so we have to take everybody’s freedom away to make it all work. Anybody who likes being free is going to suffer.
And that is the key point - freedom. The globalists want to take your freedom away in order to run your life and save you from yourself. They want to employ new technologies, like brain implants to monitor your thoughts, and those who master those technologies will become the Masters of the World. You can count on them to control you through your healthcare and your social credit score. From each according to their ability, to each according to their obedience. Disobey your masters and your digital currency will be cut off, not to mention your life-saving drugs.
They admit you will suffer in the short-term. There will have to be a shock to get through to the other side where the New World Order transformation awaits - kind of like the dictatorship of the proletariat in communist theory that never seems to end in the real world. But don’t worry, just over the rainbow lies the model type of society we will all live under - China. China, with its one thousand concentration camps for political prisoners, its forced organ harvesting, and its thought control starting with no access to the world Internet. Yah, that China. These are “tremendous achievements”, Klaus Schwab the head of the World Economic Forum says.
But look on the bright side: After your masters are done telling you what to eat and what to do, done limiting your travel and tracking your every move, done controlling your thoughts, taking your freedom away, and crushing the human spirit, there will be no human suffering left. It will have been completely eradicated. But let me suggest to you the end of all human suffering will become the suffering. As George Orwell put it, people who pursue noble ends with despicable means will never reach those ends because they will become despicable themselves in the process.
4/21/23 - Marijuana: One Problem After Another
Last month, Oklahoma voters rejected the legalization of recreational marijuana. Hopefully, this means the word about all the problems associated with marijuana use is getting around.
In New York City, licenses for legal pot shops have been slow in coming so illegal shops have proliferated, leading to the sale of illegal drugs and attracting more than 500 violent robberies last year alone. Mayor Eric Adams noted there are as many as 1,500 of these illegal shops in the City. They open near schools and target kids. “We are losing our grip,” he said. Licensed shops also target kids with candy-flavored gummies and other cannabis products. It’s Joe Camel all over again.
Legalized marijuana is also a factor in Colorado’s rising crime rates. It attracted criminals to the state initially, and now the homeless and others are committing armed robbery and burglary to get the money to buy marijuana. The same pattern is playing out in other states. Legalizing marijuana was supposed to reduce crime but, instead, the illegal drug market has mushroomed and violence has increased.
There’s no end to the problems marijuana is causing:
- the number of young children ingesting marijuana in Colorado is rising despite regulations meant to prevent it
- suicide attempts linked to marijuana overdoses are up. Remember, the drug is 10 times more powerful than it was a generation ago.
- marijuana sent more than 800,000 people to the emergency room in 2021 with prolonged vomiting, psychotic episodes, and other problems, almost double as in 2011
- the number of seniors hospitalized for a bong-gone-wrong in California increased 1,800 percent between 2005 and 2019
- marijuana can lead to depression and worsen underlying mental problems
- regular marijuana users may need more anesthesia during surgery, leading to more cognitive problems associated with anesthesia
- marijuana is associated with a raft of other problems including emphysema, learning delays, and driving deaths
Legalizing recreational marijuana was supposed to be harmless. It wasn’t. It was supposed to reduce crime. It didn’t. It was supposed to keep marijuana out of the hands of young people. The problem got worse. It was supposed to fatten public coffers, but it drains public resources instead. It costs more than four times as much money to fix the problems than marijuana brings in.
No wonder the pendulum is starting to swing, with some now calling for tighter regulations of various kinds. That’s a good thing, no matter how much it might upset the progressive Democrats and the financially self-interested merchants of chaos who urged us into this mess.
4/20/23 - How to Create the Largest Voter Fraud Operation in History
Dominion Voting Systems may have won a big settlement in its suit against Fox News, but new concerns about election technology have popped up.
But before we leave the subject of vote-counting machines, I must point out that the simultaneous stopping of vote counting in six swing states in the 2020 presidential election with Donald Trump ahead, then with Joe Biden ahead when counting resumed has never been explained. Until it is, don’t ask me to believe U.S. elections can’t be stolen. Don’t forget: the guy sitting in the Oval Office is the guy who said he created the largest voter fraud operation in history. Slip of the tongue, as his defenders say? You bet.
But on with the show. There are machines that count votes and there are other election-related technologies that perform other functions and can make our elections less secure. It’s amazing how the Left has wrapped its tentacles around all of it, but more is being challenged after being brought out into the light.
Concerns are mounting about “Albert Sensors”, installed in most states’ election systems by the Center for Internet Security (CIS) supposedly to detect network intrusions. But CIS is a left-wing private nonprofit, partnered with DHS, that is a major player in the federal government’s censorship scheme to suppress supposed ‘misinformation’ about the 2020 presidential election, a scheme now fully documented both through the Twitter Files and the Missouri-Louisiana censorship case in federal court. Unfortunately for CIS, there is no evidence the Albert Sensors have ever detected a single election network intrusion, but they have failed to detect some that did occur, leading some counties to cancel their contracts with CIS. So what are Albert Sensors really doing? Critics say the answer is: giving the federal government real-time data about the status of election results so results can be manipulated to get favored candidates installed in office fraudulently. It is said most elections officials aren’t even aware Albert Sensors are in use, much less what they can be used for.
There is also fresh news about Konnech, the Chinese-tied election administration software vendor suspected of shipping data about U.S. election workers to China. A recent whistleblower lawsuit makes detailed allegations about such data ending up in China. Another whistleblower stepped forward this month saying he personally witnessed U.S. election worker data being made available to people in China. Konnech is apparently making a show of dismissing its Chinese employees, but quietly rehiring them as independent contractors to perform the exact same duties. The whistleblower says the company told him to tell customers data was not being stored in China, where the Chinese Communist Party has access to it. Konnech’s CEO Eugene Yu was arrested in October for storing election worker data on Chinese servers in violation of its contract with Los Angeles County, but the charges were dropped for supposed ‘bias’ in the investigation. The County said it would assemble a more expert team to assess whether charges should be re-brought, but not a peep since.
Election integrity advocates are also concerned about software installed in 36 states that handles election management, election night reporting, and voter registration. It goes by various names, but it all ultimately traces back to one owner, a company called KowINK. Critics say the software is not certified and connects to the Internet where it can be hacked. An audit in New Mexico where the software is used found manipulation in voter rolls and election night reporting. Backdated entries were found in Hawaii’s voter registration database, suggesting the entries were fabricated. That apparently happened in North Carolina where there were unexplained entries appearing in current voter rolls that should have been in the publicly available historical copies, but weren’t.
Meanwhile, concerns continue to swirl around tabulators, the electronic voting machines that count votes. It was recently discovered the federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC) investigated ES&S machines right before the 2020 election for leaving touch-screen voting systems in as many as 19 states vulnerable to the installation of malicious or unapproved software. The Connecticut Secretary of State wants to replace ten-year-old tabulators that have become unreliable and can no longer be serviced because the company that made them went out of business.
If I wanted to create the largest voter fraud operation in history, I would certainly hand over large chunks of the electoral process to left-wing nonprofits whose actions leave no doubt whose side they’re on, and to the Chinese who are so contemptuous of elections they don’t even have them.
4/19/23 - Hunter Biden: More Shoes to Drop
The House Oversight Committee is now investigating six additional members of the Biden family for illicitly profiting off of Joe Biden’s political career, bringing the total to nine. "The Biden family enterprise is centered on Joe Biden’s political career and connections, and it has generated an exorbitant amount of money for the Biden family," Committee chair James Comer said. He said the Committee now has “thousands of pages of financial records” that “confirm the importance of this investigation." Committee member Marjorie Taylor Greene alleged the evidence shows, “The Biden crime family participated in human trafficking by soliciting prostitutes from the United States and abroad in countries like Russia and Ukraine.”
Also, we learned yesterday the House Judiciary Committee has found evidence of a link between the letter from current and former intelligence officials dismissing the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation and the Biden presidential campaign. The laptop was later proven to be authentic, showing the real Hunter Biden and his activities. Republicans are calling the letter a substantial interference in the 2020 presidential election. The Committee is expected to release its evidence in a report later this month.
The House Oversight Committee has been following the trail of suspicious activity reports, bank records reluctantly but finally given up by the Treasury Department. U.S. banks generated such reports on more than 150 business transactions involving Hunter and James Biden.
Recent stories chronicle other evidence coming in against the Biden crime family:
- Senate Republicans have obtained Chinese bank records showing millions of dollars in payments from Chinese companies to Hunter Biden
- more than a dozen federal whistleblowers have provided information about Hunter Biden's potentially criminal activities to the FBI
- another whistleblower who served alongside Hunter Biden as an adviser to a Chinese energy company closely tied to the Chinese Communist Party said he gave “damning information” about Hunter Biden to the FBI in 2019. The company paid Hunter Biden more than $6 million in 2017 to pursue energy deals in the U.S.
- Hunter Biden received classified briefings from the State Department on a regular basis and used the information in Biden family business dealings
- emails on Hunter Biden’s laptop show he shared classified information with Burisma and used classified information in an otherwise impossibly well-informed report on Ukraine, Russia, and the United Kingdom
- another email on Hunter Biden’s laptop names Joe Biden as participating in a deal in 2017 to sell U.S. natural gas to China. Critics tie that to Joe Biden’s decision as President to sell oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to China.
- a Chinese energy executive who was arrested in the U.S. for money laundering paid Hunter Biden $1 million to be the ‘fixer’ in his case. The executive ended up serving only a few months of a three-year sentence.
- Finally, Hunter Biden’s business associates visited the White House more than 80 times when Joe Biden was Vice-President.
4/18/23 - What’s In Your Wallet: The Inescapable Nagging Left
Some Woke corporations are getting their comeuppance. Bud Light adopted a transgender spokesperson and was stung by conservatives boycotting the brand. The CEO issued a non-apology saying he never intended to divide people, then pivoted to a new wrapped-in-the-flag ad campaign featuring the time-treasured Clydesdale horses.
Bed Bath & Beyond removed MyPillow products from its shelves and is now scrambling to stave off bankruptcy. I stopped shopping there and I know others who have stopped, as well. I’m not sorry in the least.
Disney lost a quarter billion dollars on two animated films - Strange World and Lightyear - that promoted the gay agenda, just like the Disney executive said she was going to do. To “add queerness”, in her words, wherever she could. The problem is lots of people don’t want the radical gay agenda in their living rooms infecting their kids.
The SEC just allowed a shareholder resolution to go forward to investigate PayPal’s systematic political and religious discrimination against conservatives. The group bringing the resolution argued companies offering financial services to the public cannot discriminate.
Hershey started a campaign featuring a biological transgender male - a political activist, no less - to celebrate Women’s History Month and was promptly boycotted. They called their campaign “meaningful”. More meaningful than their bottom line, apparently. You might recall another candy company - Mars - replaced its lesbian M&M ‘spokescandies’ back in January after consumers revolted.
Nothing against transgenders and gay people - they’re just pawns in the Left’s game - but why do I have to be confronted with the Left’s radical sexual agenda when I’m in the candy aisle? But that’s the Left for you - not a single corner of life can be free from politicization. You will be assimilated. The Left is literally shoving its agenda down your throat any way it can. The only question to them is whether you will take it in liquid or candy form.
All this Wokitude blowing up in some companies’ faces hasn’t stopped others from trying:
- Walmart pushes diversity training on public schools in Arkansas
- Walmart also started charging its customers 42 cents a shopping bag to fight so-called ‘climate change’. That’s more than eight times my local bag tax.
- American Express is pleased to announce its customers can now track their carbon footprint through their purchases. It’s foreseeable the Left will try to make this mandatory.
- Children’s books are being scrubbed of words like ‘black’, ‘white’, and ‘fat’, and characters are being made gender-neutral
- Burberry launched an ad campaign featuring a transgender with a double mastectomy embracing another woman
- The Sims 4 video game for 12-year-olds allows gamers to take on double mastectomy scars, binders, and other transgender paraphernalia
The Left is in your face and in your wallet. This is why the political Right and anyone who doesn’t want the Left in their face 24/7 must keep fighting the culture rot the Left is inducing. Here are some ways to help you do that: The 1792 Exchange is a new database where you can look up corporate bias ratings on a thousand companies to see if they’ve gone Woke. Consumers’ Research just introduced company ‘Woke Alerts’ for your phone. 2nd Vote continues to soldier on, as it has for years, allowing consumers to align their purchases with their values. An important mission, in a world where the Left turns even horses into hectoring nags.
4/17/23 - Punching the Shark in the Nose
Sometimes it may seem like the jaws of the authoritarian Left are snapping shut, but the political Right is finding new and better ways to fight back. One involves ridicule, which I’ll tell you about near the end of today’s commentary.
The family of a donor to the University of Richmond is asking for its money back plus $3 billion in interest after the donor’s name - T.C. Williams - was stripped from the University’s law school because the donor owned slaves. One of the donor’s descendants said ‘if the family name is no longer good enough for the university, neither are the family’s financial contributions.’
A pro-life group fed up with the FBI’s favoritism toward abortion clinics and recalcitrance in investigating attacks on pro-life centers hired its own private investigators to find out who firebombed its Buffalo office last summer.
Following the creation of a bank and a shaving supplies company, a new online marketplace offers patriotic Americans sick of giving their money to Woke corporations and their transgender mascots a shopping platform for goods and services from thousands of businesses that share patriotic values. Also, if a parallel patriot economy sounds good to you, check out Patriot Mobile. I pay a little more for my service, but part of my money goes to a cause I support, Students for Life.
I love it when conservatives get back into power. Just look at the House Judiciary Committee, firing back on all fronts - the weaponization of government against the Right, progressive DAs who have turned their offices into crime factories, the rogue FBI attacking ordinary parents and Catholics, and more. In Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis is probing diversity, equity, and inclusion spending by public universities. He also appointed conservatives to the board of the left-leaning public New College of Florida to rein it back in. The conservatives newly in charge of a county commission in Michigan dismantled the county’s social justice programs and appointed a new health expert who is taking direct aim at the federal government’s phony COVID narratives.
Others on the Right are fighting back in court:
The Smithsonian agreed to a court order prohibiting it from discriminating against visitors based on the content of pro-life or other political messages on their clothing.
A waiter shot by a man who was released from jail after a nonprofit put up bail money sued the nonprofit out of existence.
A Catholic group is suing the FBI under the Freedom of Information Act for failing to release records regarding the FBI’s infiltration of churches to spy on Catholics.
A California doctor is suing the Stanford University health system for suspending him for speaking out against the government’s overreaching COVID policies. He is one of a group of doctors who succeeded in getting an injunction against California’s COVID ‘misinformation’ law which attempted blatant censorship of the truth. The Christian humor site Babylon Bee is suing California over another state censorship law.
A public library in Arizona backed down after being threatened with a lawsuit for banning a Christian story hour. A soccer player at Virginia Tech won a $100,000 settlement after her coach benched her for refusing to kneel during the national anthem at games. A court upheld sanctions against two left-wing professors in Tennessee who falsely accused a colleague of racism and falsely labeled a student conservative organization a “national hate group”. That’s what you get for believing your own propaganda.
But here’s my favorite: a man took his dog to the vet asking for a gender transition. The dog is male but was dressed in a pink tutu for the occasion, which you can watch on video. Like Saint Saul Alinsky of the Left said, ridicule is a very effective weapon.
I will soon be announcing my own project to hit the Transgender-Industrial Complex right where it hurts - the pocketbook. Stay tuned.
4/14/23 - Taking America for Granted
Shame on all the people who take America for granted. Like the silly 21-year-old who leaked secret American military documents to video gamers online. And shame on everyone else who fails to appreciate the magnificence of the Founders’ ideals - popular sovereignty, representative limited government, and individual rights. Where would we be without those ideals? Under the boot of a Putin or a Xi Jinping, that’s where.
Speaking of silly, shame on the Tennessee Democrats who proposed replacing the federal Columbus Day holiday with Super Bowl Monday.
Shame on Nancy Pelosi for saying Donald Trump has to prove his innocence, in complete contradiction to the constitutional principle people are innocent until proven guilty.
Shame on the Democrats who are trying to remove a statue of Lincoln who kept the Union together and freed the slaves.
Shame on Whoopi Goldberg who objected to House members saying the Pledge of Allegiance.
Shame on the California teacher who removed the American flag from her classroom and had her students pledge allegiance to the gay pride flag instead.
Shame on Tim Kaine’s wife for saying the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution enshrined slavery without mentioning amendments to the Constitution that got rid of the vestiges of slavery and perfected the Founders’ vision of liberty and justice for all.
Shame on the Florida Democrat who said exercising your Second Amendment right to bear arms is “fascism”.
And shame on the woman who trashed American citizenship as ‘racialized’, really just a white thing.
So, to all these people I say you better get a grip. You don’t know what you have until it’s gone. This is the best country on earth and lots of serious people before you have spent their time improving it for everyone instead of running their mouths. Stop making fools of yourselves and showing us your ignorance when you have no idea what you would replace America with.
Our founding documents are based on classical liberalism, the most coherent, sustainable, and humane idea in the entire history of political thought. You don’t have anything that can compete with it. If you’re as mindless as I think you are, you don’t have anything at all in that empty head of yours. Leave governance to serious people who have bothered to inform themselves on the principles of good governance and who have studied what happens when tyrants, mobs, and utopians succeed in taking over - blood flowing in the streets, that’s what.
You’re enabling them with your mindlessness and it’s gotta stop. This is no video game.
4/13/23 - Attack of the Computer-Generated Donation Mules
Today I show you we have a long way to go to clean up our elections.
The story making news is unemployed donors somehow being able to make scads of donations to Democrat political campaigns. This sprawling network of ‘donation harvesters and mules’, as they’ve come to be called, operates in several states. In Georgia, hundreds of unemployed donors gave over $24 million in 358,000 separate donations to Raphael Warnock’s campaign. In Washington state, an unemployed man made over 6,000 donations to ActBlue, the Democrat fundraising site. In one Washington county, there were almost 20 times as many donations as there are residents. Experts suggest computer algorithms are actually laundering large donations through lots of individuals who have no idea their names are being used. Why would this be done? Perhaps to cover up money Democrats are getting from drug cartels and foreign countries, like China. If you don’t like those explanations, then you explain it to me.
Democrat funny money is not the only problem besetting our elections. Recent stories show:
Six hundred voters were allowed to vote absentee after the polls closed in Ann Arbor in violation of state law. Some whose votes were counted had registered the day AFTER the election.
Also in Michigan, when people move from one county to another, their voter history is changed to show voting activity in the new county which actually took place in the old county. This makes it impossible to “know exactly who voted where, when, and in what manner – absentee or in-person....” Seems kind of screwy to me. Citizen activists suggest this craziness is deliberate.
Noncitizens are automatically registered to vote in Washington state when they go for driver’s licenses, even though some protest they are not eligible. State officials say state law prevents them from verifying citizenship. Well, that’s quite a machine - automatic registration followed by ‘our hands are tied’. How about untying them, Washington state? The same or similar problems have been reported in other places, including California, if memory serves.
A whistleblower, a Democrat who worked in a Florida county elections office, said the creation, printing, and storage of ballots is not secure despite state regulations. For example, there are no security cameras in storage areas and the areas are easily accessible. In addition, chain of custody forms for mail-in ballots received are often missing.
A citizens group in Maricopa County Arizona found, based on sampling, over a hundred thousand ballot envelope signatures were completely different from the signatures on file. The group also found affidavits unsigned or signed by someone other than the voter. In addition, there were dead voters, people who voted more than once, and voter registration forms with incorrect signatures.
California, which now mails ballots to all active registered voters could not account for 10 million ballots that went missing in the 2022 midterms. That’s a lot of ballots out there to be scooped up by unscrupulous post office workers, and from apartment building lobbies and elsewhere that could be used to commit election fraud. Not exactly a tight process, is it? But it’s the way the Democrats want the whole country to go.
Lots of citizen activists across the country are working very hard to make sure that doesn’t happen and to tighten elections processes back up to the point where we can have confidence in our elections again.
4/12/23 - Alvin Bragg’s Warped Priorities
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The House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing in New York City next week to highlight Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s deliberate choice not to prosecute serious crime while at the same time deciding to go after Donald Trump. Let’s take a closer look at Alvin Bragg:
More than a dozen prosecutors in Manhattan have quit because Bragg is soft on crime. “They didn’t want to work in this kind of office. They wanted to continue prosecuting the law,” a source told the New York Post.
Bragg is bought and paid for. George Soros donated $1 million to get Bragg elected. Soros denies it, but it’s undisputed he donated $1 million to the Color of Change group only days after Color of Change pledged to donate $1 million to Braggs’ campaign. That’s quite a coincidence, don’t you think?
When he was installed in office, Bragg issued a “day one” memo to staff directing them not to prosecute armed robberies. After a raft of criticism, he tried to weasel out of it, saying he only meant armed robberies where something other than a gun was used, but a plain reading of the memo shows it did instruct prosecutors not to bring felony charges in some instances for armed robberies with guns, but to downgrade the charges to misdemeanors, instead. Any way you slice it, it’s still an insane policy coming out of the same Woke school of thought that says abolish all prisons and courts. This is normalizing serious criminal behavior, something Bragg said he will not do when it comes to Donald Trump.
His office has unleashed another insane policy on the City. His lead prosecutor, Meg Reis, believes in ‘restorative justice’ - attempting to rehabilitate criminals by arranging kumbaya meetings between victims and offenders. She believes “incarceration doesn’t really solve any problems” and criminals are not really “bad dudes”. The victims of crime would beg to differ. This policy allowed a murderer to escape jail time. Moreover, this is the “default” position of the office, even for violent felons, and she works with a left-wing nonprofit called Common Justice to screen cases and divert them away from incarceration. Diversion is not a new concept in criminal justice but, until the Woke crowd came along, it was reserved for minor cases like shoplifting. But murderers and violent felons? Kumbaya!
One consequence of all this is that New York City police officers are leaving the department in record numbers. They’re fed up with being told they’re the enemy and with watching the thugs they arrest go right back out on the streets due to the state’s cashless bail law. Overtime costs for the officers who are left are through the roof, double the City’s extra-duty budget.
The City is dealing with an explosion of youth and gang violence. High rates of assault, car theft, and shoplifting continue to plague the City. Jim Jordan is right to throw a spotlight on all this and to question Alvin Bragg’s priorities in going after Trump.
The indictment fails to specify the underlying crime necessary to prosecute Trump. Thus, it fails to inform Trump of the charges against him, thereby violating his Due Process rights. Maybe Alvin Bragg should stick to prosecuting crimes we can see instead of obsessing on ones we cannot.
4/11/23 - All the News That’s Fit to Pimp
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Don’t believe everything you read. Major media outlets have been caught over the years taking money to print propaganda and slant stories a certain way. Among the paymasters are the Chinese Communist Party, left-wing foundations, super-rich Leftist George Soros, and the U.S. government.
The U.S. government has paid journalists to shill for Obamacare, green jobs, and, most recently, COVID vaccines. Now comes news the Biden administration paid the left-wing Poynter Institute another $23,500 to train journalists how to create supposedly “balanced and bias-free” journalism. Or at least that’s the cover story. The U.S. Agency for Global Media has previously paid Poynter for such training in the past. In addition, the State Department has paid Poynter $360,000 over the years for this training.
Poynter is funded by big Democrat donors like George Soros and Bill Gates. They get their money’s worth. Poynter started a “blacklist” of conservative news outlets it deemed “unreliable”. Poynter was forced to retract the list after fierce criticism. Poynter runs PolitiFact, the supposed fact-checking site that routinely attacks Republicans and conservatives. It has had to retract numerous fact-checks, including one that called the now widely accepted lab leak coronavirus origin theory “ridiculous”. So don’t believe everything you read in PolitiFact, either.
Poynter has urged social media platforms to censor what it deems to be ‘misinformation’. It parlayed that campaign into a $13.2 million grant from Google to Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network to help fight so-called “misinformation”. There’s also PolitiFact’s arrangement to censor information on Facebook.
All of this is uncomfortably close to the wide-ranging government censorship exercise - carried on with social media and left-wing advocacy group partners - now documented in multiple releases of the Twitter files and in the ongoing case Missouri and Louisiana brought against the Biden administration for censorship. You can be assured whenever any of these people talk about ‘misinformation’, what they’re really talking about is their desire to censor all views they don’t like and to vanquish their political enemies.
The Poynter Institute is not the only journalistic enterprise shown in recent days to be pushing its political views. To push the transgender narrative, NPR ridiculously claimed there is "limited scientific evidence" that men have a "physical advantage" over women in sports. But biological transgender males have been trouncing real women in swimming, cycling, weight lifting, and track & field, and everybody knows it. Moreover, females are getting hurt going up against males. This injustice will not stand forever, NPR’s political views notwithstanding.
Untrustworthy mainstream media outlets have been so bad on other stories recently, they have been forced to issue retractions. NPR wrongly reported Joe Biden’s son Beau died from injuries received in the military. The New York Times and Rolling Stone - also left-wing outlets like NPR - issued corrections to stories they ran about FBI whistleblowers. The Washington Post has issued a number of retractions recently, including the use of the terms ‘debunk’ and ‘conspiracy theory’ in a story criticizing Senator Tom Cotton for repeating the COVID lab leak theory, a theory now found credible by the Energy Department and the FBI. MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell had to admit she was less than precise when she claimed Ron DeSantis didn’t want slavery taught in schools.
These people are so invested in getting their political enemies, they cut corners and misrepresent the facts. Unfortunately, the media has been trending this way for years. CNN kept running stories for two and a half years about the Trump/Russia collusion hoax when it knew there was nothing there. And don’t forget Dan Rather, the CBS news anchor who was forced to resign in disgrace after running fake news about George W. Bush’s Air National Guard service. Left-wing partisan hacks, all. Just like Google News which skews its news curation to favor left-wing outlets, a recent study showed.
American journalism has gone from claiming it is objective, to admitting its liberal bias, to conspiring with leftist-controlled government agencies and left-wing billionaires to weaponize its coverage and wage jihad against its political enemies. Welcome to fascism, the combination of Big Government and Big Business. If you still believe anything they write, all I can say is, ‘there’s a sucker born every minute.’
4/10/23 - Abortionistas’ Dirty Tricks Kill the Innocent
Democrat abortion supporters will say and do anything to keep the party going. They’ll even throw the Rule of Law out the window.
HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez suggested the Biden administration ignore the court ruling invalidating the FDA’s approval of the abortion drug mifepristone.
But that’s just for starters. Here are some of the other things discovered recently abortionistas are doing to promote the radical abortion agenda:
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is stalling media inquiries about the investigation into the suspicious deaths of five babies at a D.C. abortion clinic a year ago - including Baby Boy 1 - some of whom might have been left to die after being born alive. D.C. police won’t comment. Once again, I defy anyone to look at the iconic photo of Baby Boy 1 and tell me he was not a human being. If you support his killing, you’re despicable.
No justice for the innocent and no Rule of Law. Here’s what else abortion activists are up to:
What a bunch of dirty, low-down tricks. These are disgusting people doing disgusting things to support a disgusting policy. Isn’t there something wrong when you have to lie, cheat, and steal to make your case?
But maybe you’re one of those people who thinks winning is the only thing and so the ends justify the means. If you’re one of those out there cheering the Democrats on, all I can say is you’ve got some serious soul-searching to do, if you can still find it.
- misrepresenting that the overturning of Roe v. Wade prevents medical care for miscarriages
- publishing false pictures of empty gestational sacs after nine weeks, suggesting abortion is no big deal, without disclosing the fact the embryos had already been removed
- forcing private insurers to cover elective abortions by executive order after the state legislature voted down the measure
- misusing medical privacy laws as a shield to thwart state investigations into abortionists who kill unborn babies in violation of pro-life laws
- slanting poll questions to falsely claim a majority of Americans support abortion
- letting less qualified nurse practitioners perform abortions
- falsifying health reasons to perform late-term abortions for healthy mothers who simply do not want to carry their babies to term
- ratcheting up the pressure on women who travel out of pro-life states to have abortions by reminding them their abortions have already been paid for
- trying to pass state laws to have schools facilitate secret abortions for students without parental knowledge or consent
- forcing students to buy subscriptions to their professor’s website that donates to Planned Parenthood
What a bunch of dirty, low-down tricks. These are disgusting people doing disgusting things to support a disgusting policy. Isn’t there something wrong when you have to lie, cheat, and steal to make your case?
But maybe you’re one of those people who thinks winning is the only thing and so the ends justify the means. If you’re one of those out there cheering the Democrats on, all I can say is you’ve got some serious soul-searching to do, if you can still find it.
4/7/23 - Justice for the Vaccine Victims
The government spent a billion dollars to get journalists to tell you the COVID vaccines saved a lot of lives and were a net benefit. Here’s the rest of the story:
According to official government numbers, almost 35,000 deaths have occurred within two weeks of COVID vaccination and may be linked to the vaccines. In addition, there have been more than 195,000 COVID vaccine reported hospitalizations and over 1.5 million COVID vaccine adverse event reports in all. When you consider the swine flu vaccine was pulled from the market in 1976 after it was linked to just 25 deaths, you have to wonder why regulators acted so differently this time.
The Florida Surgeon General may have issued a warning about the staggering increase in adverse event reports following COVID vaccination, but he was the exception. Others involved in the process did their best to cover it all up and follow the narrative, not the science. Hospital executives fired a physician assistant in New York for reporting COVID vaccine injuries to the federal government. It was more important to squelch the reports so people wouldn’t hesitate to get vaccinated, she was told. She blew the whistle, knowing she would be fired, but said, “I could no longer be a part of a system that is lying to the American people.... This whole system is corrupt.” Similarly, the chief medical officer at UC San Francisco instructed all staff not to associate COVID vaccines with any injuries and not to talk to patients about possible links. UC San Francisco deliberately won’t file COVID vaccine injury reports with the government which they are legally required to do. What accounts for such odd behavior?
COVID vaccine manufacturer Pfizer stands accused of covering up adverse events at one of its clinical trial sites. In one notable example, a test subject who had suffered severe adverse reactions to the vaccine was recorded as having COVID when multiple tests showed he did not. Then they said he was just suffering from anxiety. But manufacturers would never commit fraud just to get government approval for their products, would they? Naahh.
Meanwhile, fresh reports continue to flood in associating COVID vaccines and boosters with a multitude of health problems:
A lawsuit has been filed to stop the use of the Pfizer COVID vaccine in South Africa. It alleges substantial data manipulation, data inaccuracies, and inaccurate statements of outcome in the approval process. Commenting on the lawsuit, one expert challenged the conclusory statements of government authorities that COVID vaccines saved a lot of lives and were a net benefit. “It is highly likely there would have been substantially less deaths and illness in the global population if the vaccine had never been approved in the first place,” the expert said. More doctors around the world are calling for a halt to the shots.
Fraud in the approval process. Regulators sticking their head in the sand when obviously there were problems. The medical profession conspiring with government to suppress adverse reaction reports and instill fear in hospital employees. Government putting big money behind the phony narrative the vaccines were safe and effective. The story may fade from the headlines, but I will continue to report to you on it until justice is achieved for the vaccine victims.
4/6/23 - Paper Ballots Beckon
Problems with electronic voting machines continue to make news.
The Shasta County supervisors in California got rid of Dominion voting machines and went to hand-counting paper ballots for future elections. Shasta County joins Nye County in Nevada and Osage County in Missouri in making this move.
It’s not hard to understand the antipathy towards voting machines. We start with the fact machine vote counting stopped simultaneously in the middle of the night in six swing states in the 2020 election with Trump ahead and, somehow, Biden was ahead when counting resumed. That’s never been explained and, as a government minister said, it’s the same technology they use to steal elections in Venezuela. Then we had the first court-ordered forensic audit of voting machines after the 2020 election in Antrim County Michigan which found their machines deliberately created a 68 error rate in the results right off the bat that elections officials could then fill in any way they wanted. Those aren’t machines that count votes. Those are machines that do something else.
Other problems with voting machines have been reported more recently:
What will happen with voting machines in Arizona is not yet known but, given all the problems with voting machines, don’t be surprised to see more jurisdictions moving to paper ballots in the future.
4/5/23 - Abortion Pill-Pushers Work the Dark Side
Washington state is the first to stock up on abortion pills in case legal action makes them unavailable. The state has ordered a four-year supply, about 40,000 doses of mifepristone. Given the known dangers of the pills, what this means in a state where some 60 percent of all abortions are by pill, is that roughly 2,400 women - one in 17 - will end up in the hospital because they have serious complications from an attempted chemical abortion. It is entirely possible some will die, because abortion pills are known killers, already linked to 28 maternal deaths in the U.S. alone. Other adverse reactions already numbered in the thousands by 2018, and the FDA has stopped reporting them - not exactly reassuring, is it? Abortionistas like to say abortion pills are “safer than Tylenol”, but that’s clearly not the case, but they don’t want you to know just how dangerous abortion pills really are.
Wyoming became the first U.S. state to ban abortion pills. Texas filed a lawsuit to block a Biden administration rule requiring pharmacies to fill abortion pill prescriptions nationwide, even in states where abortion is illegal. A conservative legal group sued the FDA for approving abortion pills on the pretext pregnancy is an ‘illness’ and without studying their safety. Abortion activists have answered with a litigation trump card of their own, arguing in a case filed in West Virginia that states can’t ban drugs approved by the FDA. Twenty-one Republican state attorneys general have asked the court to dismiss that case, arguing that just because the FDA approves a drug doesn’t mean states have to use it.
The pro-abortion movement has been lying from the beginning and they’re not stopping now. The architect of Roe v. Wade, Dr. Bernard Nathanson, admitted he repeatedly told the press the number of illegal abortions was 10,000 when the true number was closer to 200. True to form, abortion activists falsely claimed pregnancy was a “serious or life-threatening illness” in order to get the FDA to approve mifepristone quickly. In its haste, the FDA ignored evidence pill abortions cause more complications than surgical abortions.
Ever the devious ones, abortion activists have also created an underground network that has distributed more than 20,000 abortion pills to women since Roe v. Wade was overturned. This is completely illegal and is ironic, since abortion activists are the ones who claim abortions are ‘healthcare’ yet are completely willing to go outside the healthcare system in order to accomplish their political goals. They traffic the pills over the southern border, using disguises, burner phones, and encrypted messaging apps to distribute them. Because this is all outside legal channels, this means no oversight, no check-ups, and no follow-up to see how the women are doing. And no screening to make sure abortion pills are not being forced on vulnerable women by abusive partners.
If you are contemplating joining the underground network to help women get abortion pills, be forewarned you would be placing yourself in legal jeopardy. The husband of a Texas woman just sued three women for wrongful death for assisting his ex-wife in terminating her pregnancy by conspiring to unlawfully obtain abortion pills. “Anyone involved in distributing or manufacturing abortion pills will be sued into oblivion,” a Texas lawmaker said. And this doesn’t even cover what the authorities would do to you if you are caught dispensing prescription medication without a prescription.
If a court knocks down the prevailing two-pill procedure with mifepristone being the first step, abortion activists and their co-conspirators in industry are preparing to pivot to the “misoprostol-only” technique using just one type of pill. Misoprostol-only is much less effective, with a much higher failure rate necessitating additional doses or surgery to complete the abortion. Women will experience more bleeding, nausea, and cramping in the process. It also means more birth defects for babies born alive after unsuccessful attempts to abort them. Misoprostol-only is not approved FDA protocol.
Women who take abortion pills often end up regretting their choice and calling the Abortion Pill Rescue Network for a drug to reverse the attempted abortion. The drug is effective in two out of three cases and has already saved thousands of lives. Abortion activists working the dark side don’t want you to know that, either.
4/4/23 - Crazy People Are Running the Pentagon
A new report concludes the U.S. military is in decline and places the blame for the fall squarely on the Pentagon’s Woke politics. Public confidence in the military, recruitment, and retention are all down. The report says ‘creeping politicization’ has a ‘corrosive impact’ on the military’s war-fighting capabilities.
Look at some of the crazy people running the Pentagon and you can see why. In their rush to push ‘gender-affirming care’, Pentagon doctors claim that 7-year-olds are perfectly capable of making life-altering decisions about sex change drugs and surgery. That’s just nuts. How can 7-year-olds make decisions like that when 17-year-olds can’t even consent to a car loan?
Our crazy Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin can’t get it through his thick head that allowing drag queen story hours for children on military bases shows support for that activity. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley promised to get rid of them, but we’ll see if he actually follows through.
Kelisa Wing - the Pentagon’s diversity, equity, and inclusion chief until recently - tweeted in 2020 she was exhausted from hearing “white folx” saying black people can be racist. Under her theory, black people can’t be racist because they aren’t the majority. This is in line with critical race theory which holds that only people who have power can be racist. So I ask you, who has more power - House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries who is black, or me - just some little grassroots white guy?
Follow the money here because Kelisa Wing is accused of promoting her own books on defunding the police, white privilege, and Black Lives Matter at military events, in a conflict of interest. The Pentagon is spending $86.5 million on diversity and inclusion activities. The Air Force is also paying diversity managers $82,000 to $180,000 a year. None dare call it reparations.
This lavish spending comes at the same time Joe Biden’s military budget proposes to cut the size of the Navy by another two ships, showing you the nation’s priorities have gone completely haywire. The Secretary of the Navy is giving top priority to fighting climate change - “we are accelerating and broadening those efforts,” he said recently. “This is an all-hands-on-deck moment.” Crazy as a loon.
Talk about crazy, the military is still trying to fire service members who refused the COVID vaccination even though the military vaccine mandate was lifted in the last defense bill.
Along with the Pentagon’s phony narratives come the speech codes to enforce them. Air Force Academy students are being told not to use the terms ‘mom and dad’ and, more seriously, they’re also being told not to call terrorists ‘terrorists’. How can you fight the enemy if you’re not allowed to even name the enemy? Pretty crazy. Service members are afraid to speak out against these narratives for fear of being labeled ‘racist’ or ‘sexist’.
Free speech is not the only casualty of the Woke Pentagon’s narratives. The Air Force has a pilot shortage. One observer attributes the shortage to the Air Force’s new emphasis on recruiting minorities to become pilots, making it difficult to retain mid-career pilots who are, in effect, being told they’re not wanted and are now a detriment to the mission. There’s that Woke-induced retention problem again. As for the Woke-induced recruitment problem, the military is now accepting recruits with ADHD and other behavioral challenges.
The Pentagon’s Woke narratives are producing weakness. It is folly to call diversity and climate change ‘strategic imperatives’ that are ‘mission critical’. I assure you America’s adversaries like China and Russia who openly say they want to displace us aren’t sitting around navel-gazing like this. As former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld used to say, “Weakness is provocative.” To deliberately make yourself weak, now that’s really crazy.
4/3/23 - A New Axis Could Challenge the West
A new report on the increasing threat from China got me to wondering about what we would face if China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea were to combine into a new axis to oppose the West like the Axis powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan opposed the Allies in World War II.
The report called the Chinese Communist Party an “existential” threat to the U.S. and “an adversary even more capable and dangerous than the Soviet Union was at the height of its power.” Earlier this month, Xi Jinping warned China will quickly elevate his country’s armed forces to achieve a “world-class” military. Xi formed a friendship with “no limits” with Vladimir Putin last year and the two agreed in writing to challenge “the United States as a global power, NATO as a cornerstone of international security, and liberal democracy as a model for the world.” When the two met a couple weeks ago, Xi told Putin, “Right now there are changes, the likes of which we haven’t seen for 100 years. And we are the ones driving these changes together.” Their summit also featured talks on “military-technical interaction”.
China is already helping Russia avoid Western sanctions by exporting navigation equipment, fighter jet parts, and other equipment for the war in Ukraine. China is getting energy supplies from Russia and is investing heavily in Iran’s energy industry.
One observer predicts Russia may soon give China access to its advanced submarine technology in exchange for various kinds of assistance. China’s industrial and dry dock base is positioned for a rapid buildup in nuclear submarine construction. Increased submarine activity would raise tensions in the Pacific and proliferation of such technology to Iran would raise tensions in the Middle East.
For its part, Iran is supplying Russia with drones to support the war in Ukraine. Iran has dreams of empire of its own that can be furthered through a new axis. Russia will soon deliver advanced Su-35 fighter jets and other military equipment to Iran. China recently brokered a normalization agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia, changing the strategic calculus in the Middle East. Russia is helping Iran develop weapons-grade uranium and cyber weapons.
North Korea is supplying Russia with millions of rockets and artillery shells. Pyongyang previously supported Iran with weapons in the Iran-Iraq war in exchange for oil. Iran and North Korea cooperate in nuclear and ballistic missile development, explaining North Korea’s success in its missile program. Last year, North Korea touted its military cooperation with both Russia and China.
It remains to be seen whether weapons sales and military cooperation will grow into a formal military alliance among these potential new axis powers. But it would be naïve to stick one’s head in the sand and not ponder what a new axis could do and the new threats it could pose. National security experts say the U.S. needs to build up its navy and modernize its nuclear forces. They also say the U.S. must combine with allies and the forces of freedom in bilateral agreements and in other ways to meet the challenges a new axis of authoritarian powers would present. Somebody needs to be thinking about what the new axis powers would attempt, given their aims, and what they would be capable of achieving if they coordinated. For example, what would the U.S. and its allies do if Russia moved on Lithuania and Iran moved in the Middle East to pin allied forces down in order to facilitate China’s invasion of Taiwan? If, as the new report says, the CCP is an existential threat to the U.S., wouldn’t the threat be all that much greater from a formal military alliance between China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea?
The government spent a billion dollars to get journalists to tell you the COVID vaccines saved a lot of lives and were a net benefit. Here’s the rest of the story:
According to official government numbers, almost 35,000 deaths have occurred within two weeks of COVID vaccination and may be linked to the vaccines. In addition, there have been more than 195,000 COVID vaccine reported hospitalizations and over 1.5 million COVID vaccine adverse event reports in all. When you consider the swine flu vaccine was pulled from the market in 1976 after it was linked to just 25 deaths, you have to wonder why regulators acted so differently this time.
The Florida Surgeon General may have issued a warning about the staggering increase in adverse event reports following COVID vaccination, but he was the exception. Others involved in the process did their best to cover it all up and follow the narrative, not the science. Hospital executives fired a physician assistant in New York for reporting COVID vaccine injuries to the federal government. It was more important to squelch the reports so people wouldn’t hesitate to get vaccinated, she was told. She blew the whistle, knowing she would be fired, but said, “I could no longer be a part of a system that is lying to the American people.... This whole system is corrupt.” Similarly, the chief medical officer at UC San Francisco instructed all staff not to associate COVID vaccines with any injuries and not to talk to patients about possible links. UC San Francisco deliberately won’t file COVID vaccine injury reports with the government which they are legally required to do. What accounts for such odd behavior?
COVID vaccine manufacturer Pfizer stands accused of covering up adverse events at one of its clinical trial sites. In one notable example, a test subject who had suffered severe adverse reactions to the vaccine was recorded as having COVID when multiple tests showed he did not. Then they said he was just suffering from anxiety. But manufacturers would never commit fraud just to get government approval for their products, would they? Naahh.
Meanwhile, fresh reports continue to flood in associating COVID vaccines and boosters with a multitude of health problems:
- stroke
- heart problems (more here)
- heart attacks in pregnant women
- emergency hospitalization for children under 5
- children dying suddenly
- aggressive testicular cancer
- miscarriages and stillbirths (more here)
- AIDS, and, last but not least
- shorter life expectancy
A lawsuit has been filed to stop the use of the Pfizer COVID vaccine in South Africa. It alleges substantial data manipulation, data inaccuracies, and inaccurate statements of outcome in the approval process. Commenting on the lawsuit, one expert challenged the conclusory statements of government authorities that COVID vaccines saved a lot of lives and were a net benefit. “It is highly likely there would have been substantially less deaths and illness in the global population if the vaccine had never been approved in the first place,” the expert said. More doctors around the world are calling for a halt to the shots.
Fraud in the approval process. Regulators sticking their head in the sand when obviously there were problems. The medical profession conspiring with government to suppress adverse reaction reports and instill fear in hospital employees. Government putting big money behind the phony narrative the vaccines were safe and effective. The story may fade from the headlines, but I will continue to report to you on it until justice is achieved for the vaccine victims.
4/6/23 - Paper Ballots Beckon
Problems with electronic voting machines continue to make news.
The Shasta County supervisors in California got rid of Dominion voting machines and went to hand-counting paper ballots for future elections. Shasta County joins Nye County in Nevada and Osage County in Missouri in making this move.
It’s not hard to understand the antipathy towards voting machines. We start with the fact machine vote counting stopped simultaneously in the middle of the night in six swing states in the 2020 election with Trump ahead and, somehow, Biden was ahead when counting resumed. That’s never been explained and, as a government minister said, it’s the same technology they use to steal elections in Venezuela. Then we had the first court-ordered forensic audit of voting machines after the 2020 election in Antrim County Michigan which found their machines deliberately created a 68 error rate in the results right off the bat that elections officials could then fill in any way they wanted. Those aren’t machines that count votes. Those are machines that do something else.
Other problems with voting machines have been reported more recently:
- Dominion executives admitted their machines are not secure, can be hacked, and are “riddled with bugs” that can lead to incorrect results.
- A federal cybersecurity agency (CISA) admitted election systems in Georgia have serious problems that could allow bad actors to “fix election results”.
- A voter registration and election management system in use in several states (BPro) is uncertified, untested, and connected to the Internet allowing parties in and out of government to access it. It can connect with the left-wing nonprofit ERIC and allow the use of plug-ins that can change results.
- Irregularities were discovered in the machine tabulation of the results of a New Jersey school board race after human error during software installation allowed results on USB drives to be counted twice. An audit failed to catch the problem, which was only discovered later by accident. The problem was so serious it may flip the outcome in the race.
- A cybersecurity expert recently demonstrated how he could hack voting machines and change results without leaving a trace. The problem stems from widely-used SQL management software which is not certified and bypasses security features. He easily manipulated the database with a cell phone and didn’t even have to enter a password.
- Another expert disclosed that voting machines in Wisconsin can be hacked, despite years of denials by election officials there.
- Another expert testified before an Arizona Senate committee it’s easy to write code to change voting machine results without a trace. He said machines can be hacked in lots of ways and can never be secured. The only way to have a secure election is not to use machines, he said.
What will happen with voting machines in Arizona is not yet known but, given all the problems with voting machines, don’t be surprised to see more jurisdictions moving to paper ballots in the future.
4/5/23 - Abortion Pill-Pushers Work the Dark Side
Washington state is the first to stock up on abortion pills in case legal action makes them unavailable. The state has ordered a four-year supply, about 40,000 doses of mifepristone. Given the known dangers of the pills, what this means in a state where some 60 percent of all abortions are by pill, is that roughly 2,400 women - one in 17 - will end up in the hospital because they have serious complications from an attempted chemical abortion. It is entirely possible some will die, because abortion pills are known killers, already linked to 28 maternal deaths in the U.S. alone. Other adverse reactions already numbered in the thousands by 2018, and the FDA has stopped reporting them - not exactly reassuring, is it? Abortionistas like to say abortion pills are “safer than Tylenol”, but that’s clearly not the case, but they don’t want you to know just how dangerous abortion pills really are.
Wyoming became the first U.S. state to ban abortion pills. Texas filed a lawsuit to block a Biden administration rule requiring pharmacies to fill abortion pill prescriptions nationwide, even in states where abortion is illegal. A conservative legal group sued the FDA for approving abortion pills on the pretext pregnancy is an ‘illness’ and without studying their safety. Abortion activists have answered with a litigation trump card of their own, arguing in a case filed in West Virginia that states can’t ban drugs approved by the FDA. Twenty-one Republican state attorneys general have asked the court to dismiss that case, arguing that just because the FDA approves a drug doesn’t mean states have to use it.
The pro-abortion movement has been lying from the beginning and they’re not stopping now. The architect of Roe v. Wade, Dr. Bernard Nathanson, admitted he repeatedly told the press the number of illegal abortions was 10,000 when the true number was closer to 200. True to form, abortion activists falsely claimed pregnancy was a “serious or life-threatening illness” in order to get the FDA to approve mifepristone quickly. In its haste, the FDA ignored evidence pill abortions cause more complications than surgical abortions.
Ever the devious ones, abortion activists have also created an underground network that has distributed more than 20,000 abortion pills to women since Roe v. Wade was overturned. This is completely illegal and is ironic, since abortion activists are the ones who claim abortions are ‘healthcare’ yet are completely willing to go outside the healthcare system in order to accomplish their political goals. They traffic the pills over the southern border, using disguises, burner phones, and encrypted messaging apps to distribute them. Because this is all outside legal channels, this means no oversight, no check-ups, and no follow-up to see how the women are doing. And no screening to make sure abortion pills are not being forced on vulnerable women by abusive partners.
If you are contemplating joining the underground network to help women get abortion pills, be forewarned you would be placing yourself in legal jeopardy. The husband of a Texas woman just sued three women for wrongful death for assisting his ex-wife in terminating her pregnancy by conspiring to unlawfully obtain abortion pills. “Anyone involved in distributing or manufacturing abortion pills will be sued into oblivion,” a Texas lawmaker said. And this doesn’t even cover what the authorities would do to you if you are caught dispensing prescription medication without a prescription.
If a court knocks down the prevailing two-pill procedure with mifepristone being the first step, abortion activists and their co-conspirators in industry are preparing to pivot to the “misoprostol-only” technique using just one type of pill. Misoprostol-only is much less effective, with a much higher failure rate necessitating additional doses or surgery to complete the abortion. Women will experience more bleeding, nausea, and cramping in the process. It also means more birth defects for babies born alive after unsuccessful attempts to abort them. Misoprostol-only is not approved FDA protocol.
Women who take abortion pills often end up regretting their choice and calling the Abortion Pill Rescue Network for a drug to reverse the attempted abortion. The drug is effective in two out of three cases and has already saved thousands of lives. Abortion activists working the dark side don’t want you to know that, either.
4/4/23 - Crazy People Are Running the Pentagon
A new report concludes the U.S. military is in decline and places the blame for the fall squarely on the Pentagon’s Woke politics. Public confidence in the military, recruitment, and retention are all down. The report says ‘creeping politicization’ has a ‘corrosive impact’ on the military’s war-fighting capabilities.
Look at some of the crazy people running the Pentagon and you can see why. In their rush to push ‘gender-affirming care’, Pentagon doctors claim that 7-year-olds are perfectly capable of making life-altering decisions about sex change drugs and surgery. That’s just nuts. How can 7-year-olds make decisions like that when 17-year-olds can’t even consent to a car loan?
Our crazy Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin can’t get it through his thick head that allowing drag queen story hours for children on military bases shows support for that activity. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley promised to get rid of them, but we’ll see if he actually follows through.
Kelisa Wing - the Pentagon’s diversity, equity, and inclusion chief until recently - tweeted in 2020 she was exhausted from hearing “white folx” saying black people can be racist. Under her theory, black people can’t be racist because they aren’t the majority. This is in line with critical race theory which holds that only people who have power can be racist. So I ask you, who has more power - House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries who is black, or me - just some little grassroots white guy?
Follow the money here because Kelisa Wing is accused of promoting her own books on defunding the police, white privilege, and Black Lives Matter at military events, in a conflict of interest. The Pentagon is spending $86.5 million on diversity and inclusion activities. The Air Force is also paying diversity managers $82,000 to $180,000 a year. None dare call it reparations.
This lavish spending comes at the same time Joe Biden’s military budget proposes to cut the size of the Navy by another two ships, showing you the nation’s priorities have gone completely haywire. The Secretary of the Navy is giving top priority to fighting climate change - “we are accelerating and broadening those efforts,” he said recently. “This is an all-hands-on-deck moment.” Crazy as a loon.
Talk about crazy, the military is still trying to fire service members who refused the COVID vaccination even though the military vaccine mandate was lifted in the last defense bill.
Along with the Pentagon’s phony narratives come the speech codes to enforce them. Air Force Academy students are being told not to use the terms ‘mom and dad’ and, more seriously, they’re also being told not to call terrorists ‘terrorists’. How can you fight the enemy if you’re not allowed to even name the enemy? Pretty crazy. Service members are afraid to speak out against these narratives for fear of being labeled ‘racist’ or ‘sexist’.
Free speech is not the only casualty of the Woke Pentagon’s narratives. The Air Force has a pilot shortage. One observer attributes the shortage to the Air Force’s new emphasis on recruiting minorities to become pilots, making it difficult to retain mid-career pilots who are, in effect, being told they’re not wanted and are now a detriment to the mission. There’s that Woke-induced retention problem again. As for the Woke-induced recruitment problem, the military is now accepting recruits with ADHD and other behavioral challenges.
The Pentagon’s Woke narratives are producing weakness. It is folly to call diversity and climate change ‘strategic imperatives’ that are ‘mission critical’. I assure you America’s adversaries like China and Russia who openly say they want to displace us aren’t sitting around navel-gazing like this. As former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld used to say, “Weakness is provocative.” To deliberately make yourself weak, now that’s really crazy.
4/3/23 - A New Axis Could Challenge the West
A new report on the increasing threat from China got me to wondering about what we would face if China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea were to combine into a new axis to oppose the West like the Axis powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan opposed the Allies in World War II.
The report called the Chinese Communist Party an “existential” threat to the U.S. and “an adversary even more capable and dangerous than the Soviet Union was at the height of its power.” Earlier this month, Xi Jinping warned China will quickly elevate his country’s armed forces to achieve a “world-class” military. Xi formed a friendship with “no limits” with Vladimir Putin last year and the two agreed in writing to challenge “the United States as a global power, NATO as a cornerstone of international security, and liberal democracy as a model for the world.” When the two met a couple weeks ago, Xi told Putin, “Right now there are changes, the likes of which we haven’t seen for 100 years. And we are the ones driving these changes together.” Their summit also featured talks on “military-technical interaction”.
China is already helping Russia avoid Western sanctions by exporting navigation equipment, fighter jet parts, and other equipment for the war in Ukraine. China is getting energy supplies from Russia and is investing heavily in Iran’s energy industry.
One observer predicts Russia may soon give China access to its advanced submarine technology in exchange for various kinds of assistance. China’s industrial and dry dock base is positioned for a rapid buildup in nuclear submarine construction. Increased submarine activity would raise tensions in the Pacific and proliferation of such technology to Iran would raise tensions in the Middle East.
For its part, Iran is supplying Russia with drones to support the war in Ukraine. Iran has dreams of empire of its own that can be furthered through a new axis. Russia will soon deliver advanced Su-35 fighter jets and other military equipment to Iran. China recently brokered a normalization agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia, changing the strategic calculus in the Middle East. Russia is helping Iran develop weapons-grade uranium and cyber weapons.
North Korea is supplying Russia with millions of rockets and artillery shells. Pyongyang previously supported Iran with weapons in the Iran-Iraq war in exchange for oil. Iran and North Korea cooperate in nuclear and ballistic missile development, explaining North Korea’s success in its missile program. Last year, North Korea touted its military cooperation with both Russia and China.
It remains to be seen whether weapons sales and military cooperation will grow into a formal military alliance among these potential new axis powers. But it would be naïve to stick one’s head in the sand and not ponder what a new axis could do and the new threats it could pose. National security experts say the U.S. needs to build up its navy and modernize its nuclear forces. They also say the U.S. must combine with allies and the forces of freedom in bilateral agreements and in other ways to meet the challenges a new axis of authoritarian powers would present. Somebody needs to be thinking about what the new axis powers would attempt, given their aims, and what they would be capable of achieving if they coordinated. For example, what would the U.S. and its allies do if Russia moved on Lithuania and Iran moved in the Middle East to pin allied forces down in order to facilitate China’s invasion of Taiwan? If, as the new report says, the CCP is an existential threat to the U.S., wouldn’t the threat be all that much greater from a formal military alliance between China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea?