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8/15/22 - The Institutionalization of Transgenderism
A doctor at Boston Children’s Hospital put out a video selling “gender affirming hysterectomies” for children with gender dysphoria. Related procedures, like double mastectomies, are available at the Hospital to minors as young as 15 without parental consent. Not to be outdone, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh is putting out videos promoting puberty blockers for kids. Ca-ching, ca-ching.
The institutionalization of transgenderism is occurring, not only in children’s hospitals, but in the federal government and world medical societies. The Biden administration spent one and a half million dollars to develop feel-good programs for transgender inmates. It is also proposing a new rule to force private insurers to pay for children’s sex change drugs and surgery. The World Professional Association for Transgender Health lowered its recommended age for transgender drugs by two years to age 14 and by one year for some surgeries to age 15. Adults making choices in these matters is one thing, but there is a rush on to push life-altering transgenderism on kids who aren’t even legally competent to consent to a car loan.
That way lies trouble. The FDA placed a warning label on certain puberty blockers after reports of tumor-like masses in the brain, high blood pressure, and eye paralysis. Transgender advocates are trying to get to confused kids online, just like child sex predators, and telling kids how to get sex change drugs without their parents’ knowing about it. Stories are piling up about how transgenderism is separating parents from their children. Transgenderism is also ruining lives. More and more stories are piling up about young people who regret going down the road with sex change drugs and surgery, many of whom now want to detransition. [More here and here.]
Meanwhile, the transgender narrative keeps getting crazier and crazier. Germany is weighing a plan to let people change their gender declarations annually for government purposes. Transgender activists are pushing anthropologists not to identify ancient human remains as male or female. A blood donor was turned away because he refused to answer the question whether he had ever been pregnant. This insanity is getting institutionalized. The dictionary definition of ‘female’ is now those who identify as the ‘opposite of male’.
But the institutionalization of transgenderism is not inevitable. It’s possible to fight back and win. Britain will shut down its only gender clinic for minors after an investigation found doctors there were skipping all the normal case assessments and rushing even 10-year-olds into sex change drugs. We need a few investigations here. I suggest we start with Boston Children’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Ca-ching, ca-ching.
Brigham Young University stopped offering voice-coaching services for transgender clients at its speech clinic. But it’s really Florida that’s showing the way. Florida will prohibit Medicaid coverage for sex change surgeries and drugs, starting August 21st. The Florida medical board is moving to prohibit doctors in the state from providing sex change drugs and surgery to minors under 18. Victories like these are possible in your state. If you don’t know how to organize, contact me at tips@liberato.us and I’ll put you in touch with people who do.
8/12/22 - COVID Quacks and Liars
The CDC dropped its recommendations for social distancing and quarantining, citing the fact most Americans have acquired some form of immunity to COVID-19. The CDC might actually have gotten something right for once, but even a stuck clock is right twice a day. Otherwise, it’s been pure quackery and lies from our public health authorities since the pandemic began.
Presidential advisor Dr. Birx admitted in her book to making things up and to lying to President Trump and to the public about COVID recommendations. ‘Two weeks to stop the spread’ was completely made up, not based on science, and she immediately set out to see how lockdowns could be extended. Social distancing was made up, too, as she had originally wanted 10 feet. She also admitted she knew the vaccines would not protect against COVID infection. They overplayed the vaccines, she said. Now they tell us, after 30,000 people may have been killed by the vaccines.
It’s not just Birx. The CDC was caught cooking the books, overstating the COVID mortality rate among children in order to push childhood vaccination. Moreover, when the CDC was asked to substantiate its claim COVID vaccines don’t cause variants to develop, it couldn’t do so. Small wonder. In country after country, new COVID variants appeared after mass vaccination began.
These quacks and liars were wrong about everything, but they possess the soul of a tyrant. Last month, L.A. public health authorities were talking up COVID mandates again acting like it was a crisis, even though doctors there said: "Only 10% of our COVID positive admissions are admitted due to COVID. Virtually none of them go to the ICU, and when they do go to the ICU it is not for pneumonia. They are not intubated… we have not seen one of those since February." Some crisis.
They were wrong about masks. A recent study found masks are germ factories, some dangerous like staph. It also found the longer masks are worn, the greater the problems with bacteria and fungus become.
They were wrong about natural immunity. Another recent study found immunity from vaccines wears off quickly and natural immunity is better.
They were wrong about vaccine efficacy. Research from Harvard and Yale shows people who were not boosted did better than people who were. In Canada, four out of five people who died from COVID since February were vaccinated. Seventy percent of those were triple-vaccinated.
They were wrong about lockdowns. The lockdowns prevented children from building up immunity to common childhood infections. School closures had devastating impacts on education and did not reduce COVID infection rates. [more here at p. 20]
Our public health authorities are quacks and liars - case closed. And they want our trust? I’ve said many times, you are better off doing your own research and making your own decisions. But here’s what gets me: After all this insanity, there are still people out there who want more government. For the life of me, I can’t understand why.
8/11/22 - Republicans Are Violent and I’m the Tooth Fairy
“Social media platforms lit up with right-wing speculation, militant rhetoric and political fundraising after former President Donald Trump announced that his Mar-a-Lago home had been searched by the FBI.” This is how NPR frames the issue and is conditioning you to think about the raid on Mar-a-Lago. And their evidence for such a grand conclusion?
Subjective conclusory declarations, like this one: “It's been a lot of very hot talk and sometimes quite violent sounding.”
Then an immediate change of subject, a detour to social media posts after the 2020 elections.
Then an assertion “elected officials and high-profile media personalities” are using civil war language without giving a single piece of documentation.
Then resort to mischaracterizing reaction to the raid as conspiracy theory and false narrative. But what are people looking for a reason for the raid supposed to do when the FBI and Justice Department refuse to explain themselves and won’t release the warrant?
Then it’s back to “increasingly violent rhetoric from prominent figures” without a shred of documentation. Not a single example of violence cited in NPR’s story, not one.
Not much evidence, and this is what passes for news on NPR. I can’t tell if this was deliberate propaganda or these people live in a bubble and don’t know any Republicans. Either way, an unfortunate pattern is developing. Here, NPR is trying to make you afraid of everyone on the Right, calling them violent without any evidence. This fits a recent pattern in the liberal media and broader Left’s coverage of election integrity issues. There, Republicans and election integrity activists are being painted as conspiracy theorists and violent provocateurs. The Washington Post had a story about proposed legislation to “increase protection of election workers and officials against harassment and violence.” The left-wing group the Scrutineers is training its people that GOP poll workers are saboteurs and violent. “The same people who pushed The Big Lie about the 2020 election are threatening to disrupt the midterms,” their July 26th mailing said. The left-wing Brennan Center proclaims Republican conspiracy theorists make elections officials feel unsafe. Merrick Garland’s left-wing Justice Department has started a task force to “address threats of violence against election workers." That’s not all. I’ve seen countless stories, now, discrediting people working for fair and honest elections as racist conspiracy nuts, or far-right kooks who are chasing unicorns - never mind that voter ID laws get upheld by just about every court that looks at them.
Telling members that outsiders are violent and not to be trusted is a cult technique. To make this believable, cult leaders control the information environment and disparage outside sources of information as fascistic, reactionary, and not credible. I’ve even had a Leftist tell me the Wall Street Journal is not a credible source of information. Poppycock! Cult leaders shut off contrary information and give their members slogans to chant instead, like ‘Republicans are violent’ and that chant is growing louder even though it’s pure malarkey.
It’s all psychological manipulation. This is what cults do. The NPR story is a good example of cult techniques in action.
Left-wing media outlets like NPR smear because they don’t want you to know the real issues at stake. Real reporting on Mar-a-Lago would have covered Donald Trump’s extensive previous cooperation with the FBI and Justice Department about White House records over many months. [more here] Real reporters would have asked whether the judge who granted the warrant was informed of that history. Real journalism would have reported the fact that a watchdog group has now sued to make public the warrant. Doesn’t sound violent to me unless, of course, you think the Democrats calling the raid an abuse of power are violent, too.
NPR got one part of the story right. Trump is raising record amounts of money off the raid. That doesn’t sound violent to me, either. ‘Republicans are violent’ - what a bunch of horse hockey. Once again, I remind you of Wright’s Law: everything that comes out of the mouth of the Left can be deconstructed because everything that comes out of the mouth of the Left is garbage.
8/10/22 - Make Solyndra Great Again
The so-called ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ passed by the Senate contains $250 billion in Energy Department loan guarantees for, among other things, renewable energy. This should scare the bejeezus out of anybody who remembers the Solyndra green energy scandal during the Obama administration overseen by none other than Joe Biden.
The scandal resulted in $2.25 billion taxpayer dollars lost and a hundred criminal investigations. The centerpiece of the scandal was the disastrous $535 million loan guarantee to Solyndra which went bankrupt. Many other companies went bankrupt as well, like electric car maker Fisker Automotive which received a $529 million dollar loan to build a factory in Delaware, of all places. Hmm, wonder how Delaware got selected. Battery maker A123 went bankrupt after getting $250 million in stimulus money. Then there was the Crescent Dunes thermal solar power plant in Nevada which got almost a billion dollars in federal financing, but never reached its energy output targets, and went bankrupt in 2014.
Strict controls were promised for the loan guarantee program but, instead, we got good old-fashioned graft and corruption dressed up in a shiny new eco-friendly coat. Now we can expect a new round of companies to go bankrupt because they’re ill-conceived and have to turn to government for funding after finding no one in private financing will touch them.
The government loan office is already back in business. In May, the Energy Department announced a $500 million loan guarantee for a hydrogen storage facility in Utah, the first clean energy loan guarantee since 2014. But federal spending on fanciful environmental projects never really stopped. For example, $5.5 billion in funding for electric public transit vehicles was announced in March. Too bad about that electric bus that caught fire and burned up in Connecticut in July. The taxpayers got smoked on that one.
You can already catch whiffs of corruption in federal energy project spending under the Biden administration. A Biden mega-donor got a $500 million government loan to build a solar company in India. The federal agency involved has a history of prioritizing politically connected projects backed by huge political contributors. Joe Biden’s choice to head the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is all in for Biden’s green energy push and with good reason. He spent years lobbying for a company that is behind an offshore wind farm backed by the administration. A Democrat congressman from Illinois pushed for $273 billion in 'tax credits for clean energy' without disclosing his ownership interest in an alternative energy company that stood to benefit from the subsidies.
A top deputy for Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm pushed several policy recommendations from an energy storage industry lobbying group she used to work for. Granholm herself comes from the green energy swamp, being a big investor in a green energy company until ethics rules forced her to sell her stake for a cool $1.6 million profit.
So, what we have here is a new Solyndra Corruption Act handing a bunch of green energy cronies a huge new pile of federal money with which to enrich their friends in the green energy swamp. Expect prior patterns from the Solyndra scandal to hold. Expect more green energy companies to gorge themselves on government dough and go bankrupt. Expect taxpayers to lose billions more, and expect some of the loot to end up in the pockets of Biden cronies. We know this is going to happen and a lot more of our money will go down the drain. The only question is, how much are we going to be scammed out of this time?
8/9/22 - The Hydra-Headed Monster of Contemporary Censorship
Week before last, I told you about a lawsuit brought by the state Attorneys General of Missouri and Louisiana against the Biden administration for colluding with Big Tech to censor free speech on COVID, the 2020 election, Hunter Biden’s laptop, and mail-in voting, among other things. The case is getting interesting because the judge is allowing the plaintiffs to proceed with discovery and because people who were censored - the Gateway Pundit and scientists and doctors who criticized the COVID lockdowns - have joined the suit.
So keep your eye on that one, but understand the move to silence the political Right in this country is not confined to the Biden administration. Every corner of the Left is jumping in.
A professional Gay Gestapo group called for more censorship of information from the Right on social media and said the platform companies should become pronoun police.
A trans mafia group got a theater in Minneapolis to cancel a show by comedian Dave Chappelle whose jokes they didn’t like. Twitter supports the trans mafia, suspending Jordan Peterson, Dave Rubin, and a dozen others for poking holes in the phony transgender narrative. Heck, Twitter even canceled me for posting Tea Party information a few years ago.
A Democrat Senate candidate in Iowa demanded a town mayor take down a ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ flag outside somebody’s house. This guy is a real authoritarian because, when he was a Vice Admiral in the Navy, he banned Fox News at meal time, and wouldn’t let his sailors watch it.
A medical board threatened to decertify doctors for telling the truth about abortion; for example, how abortion is linked to breast cancer and infertility. Congressional Democrats and the New York Attorney General asked Google to hide information about pro-life pregnancy centers in its search results.
The Fairfax County school board in Virginia - professional left-wing activists all, and not a single parent among them - voted for mandatory speech guidelines and will now suspend any student as young as ten who misgenders another student or calls them by the name they had before they transitioned.
College administrators are using ‘bias reporting systems’ to punish the free speech rights of conservative students on campus. Under these systems, students are asked to inform on each other and report supposed incidents of bias regarding race, sexual orientation, and even ‘smoker status’ and ‘intellectual perspective’. The threat to free speech is obvious even before you get to ‘intellectual perspective’. Informing on your neighbor for saying ‘I don’t like the Democrats’ - are you kidding? Inform - that’s what they do in communist countries.
California Democrats introduced a bill to strip nonprofit groups on the Right - but not the Left - of their tax-exempt status if a claim can be made the groups endorse ‘insurrection’ or engage in ‘conspiracies’. Sounds like a roadmap for political persecution to me. I think they should throw in “conspiracy to undermine national integrity” while they’re at it. That’s the phony charge the Sandinista regime just used to put an opposition figure in prison for 10 years.
NPR formed a ‘disinformation team’ which is rich because NPR covered up the Hunter Biden laptop story and claimed there was no evidence Kyle Rittenhouse acted in self-defense, among other fits of disinformation of its own. In a recent speech, Barack Obama called on social media to “detoxify our discourse, particularly the scourge of ‘disinformation’.” You can dress that up any way you want, but it’s still censorship and thought control.
Controlling the information environment is a cult technique. Preventing information from coming in from the outside and telling members only to rely on what the cult leaders tell you is a cult technique. You don’t want people to think you belong to a cult, do you?
Maybe you like belonging to a cult, but I’ll tell you this: you’ll never shut me up until you pry this microphone out of my cold, dead fingers. And there are many more just like me and we’re organized. Seventy-five of us grassroots writers and media hosts with sizeable platforms of our own have formed a group and you’ll never succeed in silencing us all. If you start with me, I will sue you into oblivion and I have the trial experience to do it.
8/8/22 - China Reaping the Rewards of Elite Capture in Washington
China is conducting new military drills around Taiwan, including sea assault operations. China is pretty good at D.C. assault operations, too, judging by its recent successes in Washington.
Chuck Schumer stripped a provision from the CHIPS Act - which Joe Biden is expected to sign tomorrow - that would have prevented federal subsidies from U.S. chip manufacturers from ending up in Beijing. The measure would have barred U.S. manufacturers from making semiconductors in China that were developed with federally funded research. The provision was offered because everybody knows China steals U.S. technology.
Beijing is enjoying success at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, as well. Joe Biden sold oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to China, allowing China to boost its own reserves. Biden prohibited new tariffs on imported solar panels, overlooking potential trade violations by China which has been moving solar panel production to other countries to avoid tariffs. In addition, the Biden administration quietly told American investors they can keep shares of Chinese companies officially blacklisted for ties to China’s military. And he appointed a staunchly pro-Beijing banker to a business advisory council for Asia even though the banker - a Biden campaign donor - has, in one way or another, supported surveillance of the Uighurs, Chinese influence operations in the U.S. through Confucius Institutes, and China’s debt diplomacy by which it is gaining influence around the globe.
Beijing’s impressive string of successes in Washington doesn’t end with Congress and the White House. The State Department appointed a man from BlackRock Investment Institute to the Department’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board. The Institute advises investors to increase their stakes in Chinese companies. Just the man to advise the State Department on “strategic competition” with China, don’t you think?
The Association of Former Members of Congress has extensive relations with the Exchange Foundation, which has been described as a Chinese Communist Party influence operation. The Foundation donates a lot of money American colleges, think tanks, and nonprofits to buy influence. The ties between the Former Members of Congress group and the Foundation are wide-ranging and are thought to be the tip of the iceberg of a complex lobbying operation involving consulting firms, corporate clients, and foreign entities.
Maybe the lobbying effort is how U.S. taxpayer money keeps flowing to China in the form of NIH vaccine research grants to Chinese labs, grants which help China’s military. Grant money has also been flowing for years to U.S. labs infiltrated by China’s People’s Liberation Army.
Meanwhile, the CCP has been busy trying to get state lawmakers in New York, California, and elsewhere to pass pro-China resolutions and threatening them when they don’t comply.
They say we’re in a new Cold War with China. Sure feels like it. The Chinese tell us openly they are working for world domination. Their military has declared bioweaponry as the centerpiece of their military strategy, and we’re stupid enough to keep funding their efforts. Senator Josh Hawley has introduced a bill to prevent federal government contracts to consulting firms like McKinsey that also have contracts with China. Senator Tom Cotton introduced a bill to keep China from buying our farmland, which they have been doing near our military bases. The Center for Security Policy has been working to prevent U.S. government pension funds from investing in China. We at the grassroots can vet political candidates so we don’t send any more China sympathizers to Washington. These measures and more are needed if we are to prevent the Chinese, who are so good at elite capture, from capturing the rest of us.
8/5/22 - Soros Prosecutors: Earthquake in Florida
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis suspended the chief prosecutor in Tampa for refusing to enforce laws passed by the state legislature. This was not a random choice - Andrew Warren chairs the Florida Democratic Party’s Safety & Justice Task Force. In suspending Warren, DeSantis said, "Over the last few years individual prosecutors take it upon themselves to determine which laws they like and will enforce, and which laws they don’t like and won’t enforce and the results of this in cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco have been catastrophic."
Warren is on record effectively saying he refuses to enforce Florida’s abortion laws after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. He also indicated he would refuse to support state laws limiting transgender drugs and surgery for minors. He also adopted policies of ‘presumptive nonenforcement’, meaning he will pick and choose which state laws he will enforce and which he will not. This amounted to the assertion of a veto power over the state legislature, DeSantis said, which is not the role of a prosecutor. Exactly. I’ve been saying the same thing for months.
The New York Times reported that George Soros funded Warren’s 2016 campaign, and Warren does not dispute the report. Soros has spent $40 million to elect 75 progressive prosecutors around the country. He sees the rising crime rates and the damage to the Rule of Law he is causing, but he’s not the least bit sorry. He said this week he’s going to go right on supporting progressive prosecutors. The man is delusional, because he also said, “Judging by the results, the public likes what it’s hearing” from progressive prosecutors.
No, it doesn’t. San Francisco voters threw progressive prosecutor Chesa Boudin out on his ear in a recall election in June. The DA in Orange County won reelection against a Soros-funded challenger. Marilyn Mosby, the progressive prosecutor in Baltimore, lost her Democratic primary and is on the way out, so even some Democrats have had enough of George Soros and his bought-and-paid-for flunkies. We find out later this month whether the recall effort against the progressive prosecutor in L.A. has gathered enough signatures to get on the November ballot.
The new DA in San Francisco just adopted new policies to prosecute drug dealers caught with more than 5 grams of any drug, instead of sending them for social services without conviction. In addition, "defendants holding lethal doses of fentanyl will face felony charges." She also revoked over 30 plea deals Chesa Boudin had given out in drug crimes, so the clean-up of San Francisco has begun.
But the Soros troublemakers won’t go away quietly. A group of them just blasted a Virginia judge who threw the progressive prosecutor in Loudon County off a case for withholding information from the court in order to sell a light sentence for a 19-year-old burglar. But top Democrats in the county have signaled they want somebody else in the job.
These renegade lawless prosecutors have placed themselves above the law and their state legislatures. George Soros backed them precisely for the purpose of attacking our Rule of Law and creating chaos. They won’t go away on their own, so they will have to continue to be voted out or, as Governor DeSantis has so courageously done, be suspended from office. Other Governors - take note on how DeSantis did it and do the same in your state. Four down - 71 to go.
8/4/22 - Let Them Eat Bugs
I’ve said many times the keepers of the phony climate change narrative want you to be poor and, today, I’m going to prove it.
First, they want you to stop eating meat and start eating bugs. Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey, Jr. are among the celebrities telling you to make the switch. A big marketing, branding, and image campaign is underway to get you to eat bugs. PBS is part of the effort, with programming designed to convince you insects are tasty and eating them will fight climate change. One company’s pitch is that caterpillars are a healthier option than steak. You might want to check your food labels, because it’s already happening. Hope you’re not allergic.
An agribusiness giant is developing the world’s largest fly factory in my hometown in Illinois. The insect products are meant for animal and fish feed, but also for human consumption. As with PBS, this wouldn’t be happening without government subsidies.
It’s no accident the campaign to get you to eat bugs has begun at the same time a war on agriculture has started in several countries. In the Netherlands, the government has cut the amount of fertilizer allowed in full recognition that some farmers will go out of business. Dutch farmers have mounted large-scale protests, as a result. Trudeau is pursuing the same plan in Canada. Sri Lanka tried the same trick previously, only to have food prices skyrocket, bringing down the government. But look for the war on agriculture to continue. The UN told the truth in its magazine in 2008: it wants you to be hungry. "Hunger has great positive value to many people. Indeed, it is fundamental to the working of the world's economy. Hungry people are the most productive people..,” the article said. Eat bugs and be happy. The UN pulled the article off its website last month, claiming it was satire. Sure.
It’s not only food. The curtain has finally been pulled back on the climate authoritarians’ true plans for the automobile. Forget EVs. It’s better you have no car at all, according to the World Economic Forum. Private car ownership is “wasteful”, they say. Never mind what you want. Your desire for freedom and mobility doesn’t matter at all to these people. They want you stacked and packed in densely populated cities where all you need is Uber and public transit. To make that happen, they plan to turn great swathes of the country into no-go zones. Their 30 x 30 and 50 x 50 plans which will lock up half the land mass of the United States under government ownership. No joke, this is not speculation. These plans are out there for all to see, and the climate authoritarians are pushing them hard, now.
It’s no accident our Energy Secretary is cheering record high gasoline prices. It’s so historic, she says. The green energy transition can’t come fast enough so you will be poor, stuck in one place, and easier to control. That’s what the climate authoritarians live for.
So, second, no more cars. Third, you may have heard green energy is unreliable - it doesn’t happen when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow. That’s not a defect. That’s the whole point. Government officials are deliberately trying to destroy our energy supplies with their wars on coal and oil & gas development and replacing them with toys. You might think Biden and the rest are merely delusional. I’m not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. I think they hate us and want to control us. If they can’t control us, they’ll try to destroy us. It’s what the Left does. Read the history of the Left on this point and weep.
Our would-be overlords want you to be poor, but they have no intention of living by the same rules. Look at Taylor Swift. She was just named worst CO2 polluter of the year. Her defense? She didn’t make all those trips on her private jet herself. She loaned the jet out to her friends and that makes it all better. Do you see it, yet? She and her friends have no intention of eating bugs, doing without their cars and jets, or being poor. But these authoritarian creeps want to make it so you have no choice.
If you don’t want to be poor, it’s time for you to reconsider the causes and the politicians you support.
8/3/22 - Government by Phony Narrative Requires Cooking the Books
FBI whistleblowers reported the Biden administration is pressuring agents to reclassify cases as domestic terrorism in order to make domestic terrorism look worse than it is. The administration has claimed that domestic terrorism is the greatest threat to homeland security. So now it’s cooking the books to support the phony narrative. But what would you expect from an administration that employs a top official - Attorney General Merrick Garland - who is not above treating ordinary parents who speak out at school board meetings as ‘domestic terrorists’ so a family member can sell more indoctrination material to school districts around the country?
Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio wrote a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray with the details of the whistleblower revelations. “(W)e have learned that FBI officials are pressuring agents to reclassify cases as ‘domestic violence extremism’ even if the cases do not meet the criteria for such a classification,” the letter states. “Whistleblower disclosures have also detailed the agency’s effort to exaggerate [Domestic Violent Extremism or DVE] data to satisfy the Bureau’s leadership.... [Agents] are encouraged and incentivized to reclassify cases as DVE cases even though there is minimal, circumstantial evidence to support the reclassification.... [FBI executives] have pressured agents to move cases into the DVE category to hit self-created performance metrics. According to whistleblowers, the FBI uses these metrics to dispense awards and promotions.”
Awards and promotions for cooking the books - my, my. Congressman Jordan demands the FBI produce all the agency’s communications regarding domestic terrorism case classification, including those with the Office of the President. Jordan wants to know if the fish is rotting from the head down.
There are consequences to cooking the books. Inflating the domestic terrorism statistics boosts public support for going after ordinary parents who object to pornography and transgenderism when they speak at school board meetings. In other words, cooking the books give cover for persecuting political enemies. Also, phony domestic terrorism cases detract from the significance of real cases of domestic terrorism which undeniably exist.
In addition, phony performance metrics skew agency priorities and divert resources from other real threats. For example, Kamala Harris and others have a history of pressuring the Justice Department and FBI not to pursue black identity extremism which is a very real threat. The Waukesha killer who mowed down six and injured 62 others was a black supremacist.
More to the point, the FBI completely ignores violence from Antifa and other radical Left-wing groups, violence which resulted in the burning of entire city blocks and injuries to 2,000 police officers in the riots of summer 2020. After all that, the FBI told Congress the FBI does not consider Antifa to be an organization and does not keep track of its violent activities. We also know from an FBI informant who became a whistleblower that the FBI pursued an agenda of ginning up the white supremacy and domestic terrorism threats while ignoring reports coming in of operations being planned by Marxist terror cells affiliated with Antifa, Black Lives Matter, the Communist Party USA, and other left-wing splinter groups. The informant had infiltrated several left-wing domestic terror groups, but his FBI handlers weren’t interested. They were only interested in white supremacists to build a phony narrative. They kept asking the informant, “Where are the white supremacists?” That’s all they cared about.
The FBI leadership has a one-track mind about domestic terrorism. This single-minded focus has compromised the agency’s ethics - they’re cooking the books - and blinded the agency to real threats like Antifa which is not going away. The single-minded focus is now producing delusional thinking at the agency. The FBI is teaching agents that the Betsy Ross flag and other images from the Revolutionary War are evidence of extreme and violent militia involvement. The FBI’s training also singles out the Gadsden ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ flag. The Gadsden Flag was popularized by the Tea Party. Say what you will about the Tea Party, but nobody can claim with a straight face after 12 years of the Tea Party that it is a violent extremist organization.
Running the government on phony narratives has consequences. One of them is that the FBI is a sick organization and getting sicker by the day.
8/2/22 - Biden Administration Weakening National Security
The Biden administration is weakening national security in a number of ways. The first has to do with electromagnetic pulse attacks which could knock out our power grid, resulting in the deaths of tens of millions of people from lack of electricity. Russia now has a non-nuclear EMP weapon that can be delivered on hypersonic cruise missiles or launched from submarines. Such weapons can fry our nuclear ICBMs in their silos. China and North Korea are also developing EMP weapons. The Biden administration’s response? Janet Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, has said she is not concerned about EMP attacks.
Another concrete indication of the administration’s blasé attitude about national security is the blind-eye the Pentagon has turned to the effect of its Woke policies on military morale and recruitment. Who in their right mind would sign up to fight and die for such a horrible rotten country, which is how the Pentagon presents America to its troops. Who, indeed? The Army will fall 20,000 short of its recruitment goals this fiscal year and things look even worse for next year. The reasons include the military’s insane COVID vaccine mandate, which some say is a deliberate purge of conservatives from the ranks. But the reasons also include the Pentagon’s shoving Woke Marxist-derived policies like critical race theory and transgenderism down service members’ throats.
The Biden administration has also been taking a scissors to the terror group list. Earlier this year, it removed Gamaat Islamiya from the terror list. The group was led by Omar Abdel-Rahman, the Blind Sheikh whose followers bombed the World Trade Center in 1993. The administration also removed from the list the Houthis in Yemen, an Iranian-sponsored Jihad group that hopes its missiles will reach New York “in the very near future.” While we’re on the subject of terrorism, it is undisputed illegal aliens on the terrorist watch list are coming across the southern border, a border made porous by Joe Biden’s open borders policies as I’ve documented in many previous commentaries.
The Senate Armed Services Committee found Biden’s proposed defense budget inadequate for the second year in a row. The Committee added $45 billion for, among other things, more weapons to deter Russia and China. Meanwhile, the Navy’s current plans call for the number of ships to shrink from 300 to 280 by 2027. And an Army general warned Congress America is not ready for chemical and biological attacks. The food supply is especially at risk. Animal pathogens could be targeted at America, producing food insecurity in the United States.
Experts also warn America’s nuclear deterrent is in bad shape. Not only have our weapons become old and rickety, but the overall design - to bust Soviet missile silos - is woefully out of date in this age of mobile missile launchers. Russia has more battlefield tactical nukes, and a different attitude about using them. We draw a bright line at using any nukes, but Putin has threatened some 40 times to use them in Ukraine. The use of nuclear weapons per se is not unthinkable to the Russians. Russia outnumbers us ten-to-one in the tactical nuke category. China isn’t standing still, either. It is turning express trains into mobile missile launchers. China will tell you it aims for ‘world harmony’ which really means subjugation of the entire planet under Chinese rule - world domination. Compared to Russia and China, the Biden administration is twiddling its thumbs when it comes to nuclear deterrence. Forcing electric cars on us to save the planet is so much more important, you see.
Some might argue all of this is deliberate. The Biden administration hates America with a passion and is trying to destroy it. I believe that but, today, all I have to show you is how the administration’s policies are weakening our national security. That’s bad enough. Whatever the reason, the Biden administration is shirking its duty on Job One - national security - and we are less safe as a result.
8/1/22 - Biden’s Border Policies Veer from Insane to Berserk
The Biden administration is closing gaps in the border wall in Arizona, despite Joe Biden’s promise he would not build “another foot” of Trump’s border wall. Wouldn’t you love to know why Biden wants to build the wall, especially since Democrats have called the wall ‘racist’, making the Biden administration racist for building it? I would like to know, too, but all we get out of the White House is gaslighting. They’re not building the wall, the White House press secretary insists. They’re ‘cleaning up a mess left by the Trump administration.’ If you can figure out what that means, let me know.
Building the wall represents an about-face for an administration that has instituted numerous policy changes to open the border, changes I’ve documented in previous commentaries. The administration might be building the wall, but it’s still making policy changes to open the border at the same time, which makes absolutely no sense at all. The administration just confirmed it will be giving identification cards to illegal aliens. Border-jumpers should be detained and deported but, instead, the Biden administration is releasing them into the interior and now making it easier for them to travel by plane and access government benefits with a secure ID card. The administration’s recent announcement it will allow illegal aliens to apply for asylum online from anywhere in the world has been heavily criticized. One Senator called it an ‘open invitation to Chinese spies to enter the U.S.’.
The consequences of the new online asylum system have yet to be seen, but the consequences of earlier policy changes are already visible, and they are ruinous.
The masses of unaccompanied children pouring across the border have led to contracts costing hundreds of millions of dollars for a facility to house some of them in North Carolina while they await resettlement. The facility has rock climbing walls, an 8-lane swimming pool, mental health counseling, legal services - the works. I remember that a similar facility considered by the Obama administration during a previous alien child surge was canceled due to public outrage. Not this time.
Out of 30,000 catch-and-release aliens targeted to receive court summonses for failing to appear for immigration hearings, only 600 have been served. Officers call the exercise a “complete waste of time.” I call it a joke.
Federal air marshals had to be called in to help with the influx of illegal aliens at the border caused by Joe Biden’s open borders policies. The marshals escort aliens from processing facilities into the custody of border agents for release into the interior. Why authorities even bother with this step when the escort is for all of 50 yards is beyond me.
All this laxness has given rise to human smuggling operations inside the U.S. Last week, ICE found 73 illegal aliens living in six homes operated by smugglers in a wealthy area of Washington, D.C. It’s not clear who the cocaine found during the raid was for.
Building the wall in Arizona, while letting the alien invasion continue in Texas. Releasing aliens into the interior with summonses not worth the paper they’re written on while giving them secure ID cards. Continuing to tell the public the border is secure when obviously it is not - none of this makes any sense. But if you expect rationality from wild-eyed left-wing ideologues who hate America with a passion, you’re not going to get it. Who knows what the latest reversal is about, but it’s certainly not about admitting Trump was right, after all.
A doctor at Boston Children’s Hospital put out a video selling “gender affirming hysterectomies” for children with gender dysphoria. Related procedures, like double mastectomies, are available at the Hospital to minors as young as 15 without parental consent. Not to be outdone, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh is putting out videos promoting puberty blockers for kids. Ca-ching, ca-ching.
The institutionalization of transgenderism is occurring, not only in children’s hospitals, but in the federal government and world medical societies. The Biden administration spent one and a half million dollars to develop feel-good programs for transgender inmates. It is also proposing a new rule to force private insurers to pay for children’s sex change drugs and surgery. The World Professional Association for Transgender Health lowered its recommended age for transgender drugs by two years to age 14 and by one year for some surgeries to age 15. Adults making choices in these matters is one thing, but there is a rush on to push life-altering transgenderism on kids who aren’t even legally competent to consent to a car loan.
That way lies trouble. The FDA placed a warning label on certain puberty blockers after reports of tumor-like masses in the brain, high blood pressure, and eye paralysis. Transgender advocates are trying to get to confused kids online, just like child sex predators, and telling kids how to get sex change drugs without their parents’ knowing about it. Stories are piling up about how transgenderism is separating parents from their children. Transgenderism is also ruining lives. More and more stories are piling up about young people who regret going down the road with sex change drugs and surgery, many of whom now want to detransition. [More here and here.]
Meanwhile, the transgender narrative keeps getting crazier and crazier. Germany is weighing a plan to let people change their gender declarations annually for government purposes. Transgender activists are pushing anthropologists not to identify ancient human remains as male or female. A blood donor was turned away because he refused to answer the question whether he had ever been pregnant. This insanity is getting institutionalized. The dictionary definition of ‘female’ is now those who identify as the ‘opposite of male’.
But the institutionalization of transgenderism is not inevitable. It’s possible to fight back and win. Britain will shut down its only gender clinic for minors after an investigation found doctors there were skipping all the normal case assessments and rushing even 10-year-olds into sex change drugs. We need a few investigations here. I suggest we start with Boston Children’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Ca-ching, ca-ching.
Brigham Young University stopped offering voice-coaching services for transgender clients at its speech clinic. But it’s really Florida that’s showing the way. Florida will prohibit Medicaid coverage for sex change surgeries and drugs, starting August 21st. The Florida medical board is moving to prohibit doctors in the state from providing sex change drugs and surgery to minors under 18. Victories like these are possible in your state. If you don’t know how to organize, contact me at tips@liberato.us and I’ll put you in touch with people who do.
8/12/22 - COVID Quacks and Liars
The CDC dropped its recommendations for social distancing and quarantining, citing the fact most Americans have acquired some form of immunity to COVID-19. The CDC might actually have gotten something right for once, but even a stuck clock is right twice a day. Otherwise, it’s been pure quackery and lies from our public health authorities since the pandemic began.
Presidential advisor Dr. Birx admitted in her book to making things up and to lying to President Trump and to the public about COVID recommendations. ‘Two weeks to stop the spread’ was completely made up, not based on science, and she immediately set out to see how lockdowns could be extended. Social distancing was made up, too, as she had originally wanted 10 feet. She also admitted she knew the vaccines would not protect against COVID infection. They overplayed the vaccines, she said. Now they tell us, after 30,000 people may have been killed by the vaccines.
It’s not just Birx. The CDC was caught cooking the books, overstating the COVID mortality rate among children in order to push childhood vaccination. Moreover, when the CDC was asked to substantiate its claim COVID vaccines don’t cause variants to develop, it couldn’t do so. Small wonder. In country after country, new COVID variants appeared after mass vaccination began.
These quacks and liars were wrong about everything, but they possess the soul of a tyrant. Last month, L.A. public health authorities were talking up COVID mandates again acting like it was a crisis, even though doctors there said: "Only 10% of our COVID positive admissions are admitted due to COVID. Virtually none of them go to the ICU, and when they do go to the ICU it is not for pneumonia. They are not intubated… we have not seen one of those since February." Some crisis.
They were wrong about masks. A recent study found masks are germ factories, some dangerous like staph. It also found the longer masks are worn, the greater the problems with bacteria and fungus become.
They were wrong about natural immunity. Another recent study found immunity from vaccines wears off quickly and natural immunity is better.
They were wrong about vaccine efficacy. Research from Harvard and Yale shows people who were not boosted did better than people who were. In Canada, four out of five people who died from COVID since February were vaccinated. Seventy percent of those were triple-vaccinated.
They were wrong about lockdowns. The lockdowns prevented children from building up immunity to common childhood infections. School closures had devastating impacts on education and did not reduce COVID infection rates. [more here at p. 20]
Our public health authorities are quacks and liars - case closed. And they want our trust? I’ve said many times, you are better off doing your own research and making your own decisions. But here’s what gets me: After all this insanity, there are still people out there who want more government. For the life of me, I can’t understand why.
8/11/22 - Republicans Are Violent and I’m the Tooth Fairy
“Social media platforms lit up with right-wing speculation, militant rhetoric and political fundraising after former President Donald Trump announced that his Mar-a-Lago home had been searched by the FBI.” This is how NPR frames the issue and is conditioning you to think about the raid on Mar-a-Lago. And their evidence for such a grand conclusion?
Subjective conclusory declarations, like this one: “It's been a lot of very hot talk and sometimes quite violent sounding.”
Then an immediate change of subject, a detour to social media posts after the 2020 elections.
Then an assertion “elected officials and high-profile media personalities” are using civil war language without giving a single piece of documentation.
Then resort to mischaracterizing reaction to the raid as conspiracy theory and false narrative. But what are people looking for a reason for the raid supposed to do when the FBI and Justice Department refuse to explain themselves and won’t release the warrant?
Then it’s back to “increasingly violent rhetoric from prominent figures” without a shred of documentation. Not a single example of violence cited in NPR’s story, not one.
Not much evidence, and this is what passes for news on NPR. I can’t tell if this was deliberate propaganda or these people live in a bubble and don’t know any Republicans. Either way, an unfortunate pattern is developing. Here, NPR is trying to make you afraid of everyone on the Right, calling them violent without any evidence. This fits a recent pattern in the liberal media and broader Left’s coverage of election integrity issues. There, Republicans and election integrity activists are being painted as conspiracy theorists and violent provocateurs. The Washington Post had a story about proposed legislation to “increase protection of election workers and officials against harassment and violence.” The left-wing group the Scrutineers is training its people that GOP poll workers are saboteurs and violent. “The same people who pushed The Big Lie about the 2020 election are threatening to disrupt the midterms,” their July 26th mailing said. The left-wing Brennan Center proclaims Republican conspiracy theorists make elections officials feel unsafe. Merrick Garland’s left-wing Justice Department has started a task force to “address threats of violence against election workers." That’s not all. I’ve seen countless stories, now, discrediting people working for fair and honest elections as racist conspiracy nuts, or far-right kooks who are chasing unicorns - never mind that voter ID laws get upheld by just about every court that looks at them.
Telling members that outsiders are violent and not to be trusted is a cult technique. To make this believable, cult leaders control the information environment and disparage outside sources of information as fascistic, reactionary, and not credible. I’ve even had a Leftist tell me the Wall Street Journal is not a credible source of information. Poppycock! Cult leaders shut off contrary information and give their members slogans to chant instead, like ‘Republicans are violent’ and that chant is growing louder even though it’s pure malarkey.
It’s all psychological manipulation. This is what cults do. The NPR story is a good example of cult techniques in action.
Left-wing media outlets like NPR smear because they don’t want you to know the real issues at stake. Real reporting on Mar-a-Lago would have covered Donald Trump’s extensive previous cooperation with the FBI and Justice Department about White House records over many months. [more here] Real reporters would have asked whether the judge who granted the warrant was informed of that history. Real journalism would have reported the fact that a watchdog group has now sued to make public the warrant. Doesn’t sound violent to me unless, of course, you think the Democrats calling the raid an abuse of power are violent, too.
NPR got one part of the story right. Trump is raising record amounts of money off the raid. That doesn’t sound violent to me, either. ‘Republicans are violent’ - what a bunch of horse hockey. Once again, I remind you of Wright’s Law: everything that comes out of the mouth of the Left can be deconstructed because everything that comes out of the mouth of the Left is garbage.
8/10/22 - Make Solyndra Great Again
The so-called ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ passed by the Senate contains $250 billion in Energy Department loan guarantees for, among other things, renewable energy. This should scare the bejeezus out of anybody who remembers the Solyndra green energy scandal during the Obama administration overseen by none other than Joe Biden.
The scandal resulted in $2.25 billion taxpayer dollars lost and a hundred criminal investigations. The centerpiece of the scandal was the disastrous $535 million loan guarantee to Solyndra which went bankrupt. Many other companies went bankrupt as well, like electric car maker Fisker Automotive which received a $529 million dollar loan to build a factory in Delaware, of all places. Hmm, wonder how Delaware got selected. Battery maker A123 went bankrupt after getting $250 million in stimulus money. Then there was the Crescent Dunes thermal solar power plant in Nevada which got almost a billion dollars in federal financing, but never reached its energy output targets, and went bankrupt in 2014.
Strict controls were promised for the loan guarantee program but, instead, we got good old-fashioned graft and corruption dressed up in a shiny new eco-friendly coat. Now we can expect a new round of companies to go bankrupt because they’re ill-conceived and have to turn to government for funding after finding no one in private financing will touch them.
The government loan office is already back in business. In May, the Energy Department announced a $500 million loan guarantee for a hydrogen storage facility in Utah, the first clean energy loan guarantee since 2014. But federal spending on fanciful environmental projects never really stopped. For example, $5.5 billion in funding for electric public transit vehicles was announced in March. Too bad about that electric bus that caught fire and burned up in Connecticut in July. The taxpayers got smoked on that one.
You can already catch whiffs of corruption in federal energy project spending under the Biden administration. A Biden mega-donor got a $500 million government loan to build a solar company in India. The federal agency involved has a history of prioritizing politically connected projects backed by huge political contributors. Joe Biden’s choice to head the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is all in for Biden’s green energy push and with good reason. He spent years lobbying for a company that is behind an offshore wind farm backed by the administration. A Democrat congressman from Illinois pushed for $273 billion in 'tax credits for clean energy' without disclosing his ownership interest in an alternative energy company that stood to benefit from the subsidies.
A top deputy for Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm pushed several policy recommendations from an energy storage industry lobbying group she used to work for. Granholm herself comes from the green energy swamp, being a big investor in a green energy company until ethics rules forced her to sell her stake for a cool $1.6 million profit.
So, what we have here is a new Solyndra Corruption Act handing a bunch of green energy cronies a huge new pile of federal money with which to enrich their friends in the green energy swamp. Expect prior patterns from the Solyndra scandal to hold. Expect more green energy companies to gorge themselves on government dough and go bankrupt. Expect taxpayers to lose billions more, and expect some of the loot to end up in the pockets of Biden cronies. We know this is going to happen and a lot more of our money will go down the drain. The only question is, how much are we going to be scammed out of this time?
8/9/22 - The Hydra-Headed Monster of Contemporary Censorship
Week before last, I told you about a lawsuit brought by the state Attorneys General of Missouri and Louisiana against the Biden administration for colluding with Big Tech to censor free speech on COVID, the 2020 election, Hunter Biden’s laptop, and mail-in voting, among other things. The case is getting interesting because the judge is allowing the plaintiffs to proceed with discovery and because people who were censored - the Gateway Pundit and scientists and doctors who criticized the COVID lockdowns - have joined the suit.
So keep your eye on that one, but understand the move to silence the political Right in this country is not confined to the Biden administration. Every corner of the Left is jumping in.
A professional Gay Gestapo group called for more censorship of information from the Right on social media and said the platform companies should become pronoun police.
A trans mafia group got a theater in Minneapolis to cancel a show by comedian Dave Chappelle whose jokes they didn’t like. Twitter supports the trans mafia, suspending Jordan Peterson, Dave Rubin, and a dozen others for poking holes in the phony transgender narrative. Heck, Twitter even canceled me for posting Tea Party information a few years ago.
A Democrat Senate candidate in Iowa demanded a town mayor take down a ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ flag outside somebody’s house. This guy is a real authoritarian because, when he was a Vice Admiral in the Navy, he banned Fox News at meal time, and wouldn’t let his sailors watch it.
A medical board threatened to decertify doctors for telling the truth about abortion; for example, how abortion is linked to breast cancer and infertility. Congressional Democrats and the New York Attorney General asked Google to hide information about pro-life pregnancy centers in its search results.
The Fairfax County school board in Virginia - professional left-wing activists all, and not a single parent among them - voted for mandatory speech guidelines and will now suspend any student as young as ten who misgenders another student or calls them by the name they had before they transitioned.
College administrators are using ‘bias reporting systems’ to punish the free speech rights of conservative students on campus. Under these systems, students are asked to inform on each other and report supposed incidents of bias regarding race, sexual orientation, and even ‘smoker status’ and ‘intellectual perspective’. The threat to free speech is obvious even before you get to ‘intellectual perspective’. Informing on your neighbor for saying ‘I don’t like the Democrats’ - are you kidding? Inform - that’s what they do in communist countries.
California Democrats introduced a bill to strip nonprofit groups on the Right - but not the Left - of their tax-exempt status if a claim can be made the groups endorse ‘insurrection’ or engage in ‘conspiracies’. Sounds like a roadmap for political persecution to me. I think they should throw in “conspiracy to undermine national integrity” while they’re at it. That’s the phony charge the Sandinista regime just used to put an opposition figure in prison for 10 years.
NPR formed a ‘disinformation team’ which is rich because NPR covered up the Hunter Biden laptop story and claimed there was no evidence Kyle Rittenhouse acted in self-defense, among other fits of disinformation of its own. In a recent speech, Barack Obama called on social media to “detoxify our discourse, particularly the scourge of ‘disinformation’.” You can dress that up any way you want, but it’s still censorship and thought control.
Controlling the information environment is a cult technique. Preventing information from coming in from the outside and telling members only to rely on what the cult leaders tell you is a cult technique. You don’t want people to think you belong to a cult, do you?
Maybe you like belonging to a cult, but I’ll tell you this: you’ll never shut me up until you pry this microphone out of my cold, dead fingers. And there are many more just like me and we’re organized. Seventy-five of us grassroots writers and media hosts with sizeable platforms of our own have formed a group and you’ll never succeed in silencing us all. If you start with me, I will sue you into oblivion and I have the trial experience to do it.
8/8/22 - China Reaping the Rewards of Elite Capture in Washington
China is conducting new military drills around Taiwan, including sea assault operations. China is pretty good at D.C. assault operations, too, judging by its recent successes in Washington.
Chuck Schumer stripped a provision from the CHIPS Act - which Joe Biden is expected to sign tomorrow - that would have prevented federal subsidies from U.S. chip manufacturers from ending up in Beijing. The measure would have barred U.S. manufacturers from making semiconductors in China that were developed with federally funded research. The provision was offered because everybody knows China steals U.S. technology.
Beijing is enjoying success at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, as well. Joe Biden sold oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to China, allowing China to boost its own reserves. Biden prohibited new tariffs on imported solar panels, overlooking potential trade violations by China which has been moving solar panel production to other countries to avoid tariffs. In addition, the Biden administration quietly told American investors they can keep shares of Chinese companies officially blacklisted for ties to China’s military. And he appointed a staunchly pro-Beijing banker to a business advisory council for Asia even though the banker - a Biden campaign donor - has, in one way or another, supported surveillance of the Uighurs, Chinese influence operations in the U.S. through Confucius Institutes, and China’s debt diplomacy by which it is gaining influence around the globe.
Beijing’s impressive string of successes in Washington doesn’t end with Congress and the White House. The State Department appointed a man from BlackRock Investment Institute to the Department’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board. The Institute advises investors to increase their stakes in Chinese companies. Just the man to advise the State Department on “strategic competition” with China, don’t you think?
The Association of Former Members of Congress has extensive relations with the Exchange Foundation, which has been described as a Chinese Communist Party influence operation. The Foundation donates a lot of money American colleges, think tanks, and nonprofits to buy influence. The ties between the Former Members of Congress group and the Foundation are wide-ranging and are thought to be the tip of the iceberg of a complex lobbying operation involving consulting firms, corporate clients, and foreign entities.
Maybe the lobbying effort is how U.S. taxpayer money keeps flowing to China in the form of NIH vaccine research grants to Chinese labs, grants which help China’s military. Grant money has also been flowing for years to U.S. labs infiltrated by China’s People’s Liberation Army.
Meanwhile, the CCP has been busy trying to get state lawmakers in New York, California, and elsewhere to pass pro-China resolutions and threatening them when they don’t comply.
They say we’re in a new Cold War with China. Sure feels like it. The Chinese tell us openly they are working for world domination. Their military has declared bioweaponry as the centerpiece of their military strategy, and we’re stupid enough to keep funding their efforts. Senator Josh Hawley has introduced a bill to prevent federal government contracts to consulting firms like McKinsey that also have contracts with China. Senator Tom Cotton introduced a bill to keep China from buying our farmland, which they have been doing near our military bases. The Center for Security Policy has been working to prevent U.S. government pension funds from investing in China. We at the grassroots can vet political candidates so we don’t send any more China sympathizers to Washington. These measures and more are needed if we are to prevent the Chinese, who are so good at elite capture, from capturing the rest of us.
8/5/22 - Soros Prosecutors: Earthquake in Florida
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis suspended the chief prosecutor in Tampa for refusing to enforce laws passed by the state legislature. This was not a random choice - Andrew Warren chairs the Florida Democratic Party’s Safety & Justice Task Force. In suspending Warren, DeSantis said, "Over the last few years individual prosecutors take it upon themselves to determine which laws they like and will enforce, and which laws they don’t like and won’t enforce and the results of this in cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco have been catastrophic."
Warren is on record effectively saying he refuses to enforce Florida’s abortion laws after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. He also indicated he would refuse to support state laws limiting transgender drugs and surgery for minors. He also adopted policies of ‘presumptive nonenforcement’, meaning he will pick and choose which state laws he will enforce and which he will not. This amounted to the assertion of a veto power over the state legislature, DeSantis said, which is not the role of a prosecutor. Exactly. I’ve been saying the same thing for months.
The New York Times reported that George Soros funded Warren’s 2016 campaign, and Warren does not dispute the report. Soros has spent $40 million to elect 75 progressive prosecutors around the country. He sees the rising crime rates and the damage to the Rule of Law he is causing, but he’s not the least bit sorry. He said this week he’s going to go right on supporting progressive prosecutors. The man is delusional, because he also said, “Judging by the results, the public likes what it’s hearing” from progressive prosecutors.
No, it doesn’t. San Francisco voters threw progressive prosecutor Chesa Boudin out on his ear in a recall election in June. The DA in Orange County won reelection against a Soros-funded challenger. Marilyn Mosby, the progressive prosecutor in Baltimore, lost her Democratic primary and is on the way out, so even some Democrats have had enough of George Soros and his bought-and-paid-for flunkies. We find out later this month whether the recall effort against the progressive prosecutor in L.A. has gathered enough signatures to get on the November ballot.
The new DA in San Francisco just adopted new policies to prosecute drug dealers caught with more than 5 grams of any drug, instead of sending them for social services without conviction. In addition, "defendants holding lethal doses of fentanyl will face felony charges." She also revoked over 30 plea deals Chesa Boudin had given out in drug crimes, so the clean-up of San Francisco has begun.
But the Soros troublemakers won’t go away quietly. A group of them just blasted a Virginia judge who threw the progressive prosecutor in Loudon County off a case for withholding information from the court in order to sell a light sentence for a 19-year-old burglar. But top Democrats in the county have signaled they want somebody else in the job.
These renegade lawless prosecutors have placed themselves above the law and their state legislatures. George Soros backed them precisely for the purpose of attacking our Rule of Law and creating chaos. They won’t go away on their own, so they will have to continue to be voted out or, as Governor DeSantis has so courageously done, be suspended from office. Other Governors - take note on how DeSantis did it and do the same in your state. Four down - 71 to go.
8/4/22 - Let Them Eat Bugs
I’ve said many times the keepers of the phony climate change narrative want you to be poor and, today, I’m going to prove it.
First, they want you to stop eating meat and start eating bugs. Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey, Jr. are among the celebrities telling you to make the switch. A big marketing, branding, and image campaign is underway to get you to eat bugs. PBS is part of the effort, with programming designed to convince you insects are tasty and eating them will fight climate change. One company’s pitch is that caterpillars are a healthier option than steak. You might want to check your food labels, because it’s already happening. Hope you’re not allergic.
An agribusiness giant is developing the world’s largest fly factory in my hometown in Illinois. The insect products are meant for animal and fish feed, but also for human consumption. As with PBS, this wouldn’t be happening without government subsidies.
It’s no accident the campaign to get you to eat bugs has begun at the same time a war on agriculture has started in several countries. In the Netherlands, the government has cut the amount of fertilizer allowed in full recognition that some farmers will go out of business. Dutch farmers have mounted large-scale protests, as a result. Trudeau is pursuing the same plan in Canada. Sri Lanka tried the same trick previously, only to have food prices skyrocket, bringing down the government. But look for the war on agriculture to continue. The UN told the truth in its magazine in 2008: it wants you to be hungry. "Hunger has great positive value to many people. Indeed, it is fundamental to the working of the world's economy. Hungry people are the most productive people..,” the article said. Eat bugs and be happy. The UN pulled the article off its website last month, claiming it was satire. Sure.
It’s not only food. The curtain has finally been pulled back on the climate authoritarians’ true plans for the automobile. Forget EVs. It’s better you have no car at all, according to the World Economic Forum. Private car ownership is “wasteful”, they say. Never mind what you want. Your desire for freedom and mobility doesn’t matter at all to these people. They want you stacked and packed in densely populated cities where all you need is Uber and public transit. To make that happen, they plan to turn great swathes of the country into no-go zones. Their 30 x 30 and 50 x 50 plans which will lock up half the land mass of the United States under government ownership. No joke, this is not speculation. These plans are out there for all to see, and the climate authoritarians are pushing them hard, now.
It’s no accident our Energy Secretary is cheering record high gasoline prices. It’s so historic, she says. The green energy transition can’t come fast enough so you will be poor, stuck in one place, and easier to control. That’s what the climate authoritarians live for.
So, second, no more cars. Third, you may have heard green energy is unreliable - it doesn’t happen when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow. That’s not a defect. That’s the whole point. Government officials are deliberately trying to destroy our energy supplies with their wars on coal and oil & gas development and replacing them with toys. You might think Biden and the rest are merely delusional. I’m not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. I think they hate us and want to control us. If they can’t control us, they’ll try to destroy us. It’s what the Left does. Read the history of the Left on this point and weep.
Our would-be overlords want you to be poor, but they have no intention of living by the same rules. Look at Taylor Swift. She was just named worst CO2 polluter of the year. Her defense? She didn’t make all those trips on her private jet herself. She loaned the jet out to her friends and that makes it all better. Do you see it, yet? She and her friends have no intention of eating bugs, doing without their cars and jets, or being poor. But these authoritarian creeps want to make it so you have no choice.
If you don’t want to be poor, it’s time for you to reconsider the causes and the politicians you support.
8/3/22 - Government by Phony Narrative Requires Cooking the Books
FBI whistleblowers reported the Biden administration is pressuring agents to reclassify cases as domestic terrorism in order to make domestic terrorism look worse than it is. The administration has claimed that domestic terrorism is the greatest threat to homeland security. So now it’s cooking the books to support the phony narrative. But what would you expect from an administration that employs a top official - Attorney General Merrick Garland - who is not above treating ordinary parents who speak out at school board meetings as ‘domestic terrorists’ so a family member can sell more indoctrination material to school districts around the country?
Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio wrote a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray with the details of the whistleblower revelations. “(W)e have learned that FBI officials are pressuring agents to reclassify cases as ‘domestic violence extremism’ even if the cases do not meet the criteria for such a classification,” the letter states. “Whistleblower disclosures have also detailed the agency’s effort to exaggerate [Domestic Violent Extremism or DVE] data to satisfy the Bureau’s leadership.... [Agents] are encouraged and incentivized to reclassify cases as DVE cases even though there is minimal, circumstantial evidence to support the reclassification.... [FBI executives] have pressured agents to move cases into the DVE category to hit self-created performance metrics. According to whistleblowers, the FBI uses these metrics to dispense awards and promotions.”
Awards and promotions for cooking the books - my, my. Congressman Jordan demands the FBI produce all the agency’s communications regarding domestic terrorism case classification, including those with the Office of the President. Jordan wants to know if the fish is rotting from the head down.
There are consequences to cooking the books. Inflating the domestic terrorism statistics boosts public support for going after ordinary parents who object to pornography and transgenderism when they speak at school board meetings. In other words, cooking the books give cover for persecuting political enemies. Also, phony domestic terrorism cases detract from the significance of real cases of domestic terrorism which undeniably exist.
In addition, phony performance metrics skew agency priorities and divert resources from other real threats. For example, Kamala Harris and others have a history of pressuring the Justice Department and FBI not to pursue black identity extremism which is a very real threat. The Waukesha killer who mowed down six and injured 62 others was a black supremacist.
More to the point, the FBI completely ignores violence from Antifa and other radical Left-wing groups, violence which resulted in the burning of entire city blocks and injuries to 2,000 police officers in the riots of summer 2020. After all that, the FBI told Congress the FBI does not consider Antifa to be an organization and does not keep track of its violent activities. We also know from an FBI informant who became a whistleblower that the FBI pursued an agenda of ginning up the white supremacy and domestic terrorism threats while ignoring reports coming in of operations being planned by Marxist terror cells affiliated with Antifa, Black Lives Matter, the Communist Party USA, and other left-wing splinter groups. The informant had infiltrated several left-wing domestic terror groups, but his FBI handlers weren’t interested. They were only interested in white supremacists to build a phony narrative. They kept asking the informant, “Where are the white supremacists?” That’s all they cared about.
The FBI leadership has a one-track mind about domestic terrorism. This single-minded focus has compromised the agency’s ethics - they’re cooking the books - and blinded the agency to real threats like Antifa which is not going away. The single-minded focus is now producing delusional thinking at the agency. The FBI is teaching agents that the Betsy Ross flag and other images from the Revolutionary War are evidence of extreme and violent militia involvement. The FBI’s training also singles out the Gadsden ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ flag. The Gadsden Flag was popularized by the Tea Party. Say what you will about the Tea Party, but nobody can claim with a straight face after 12 years of the Tea Party that it is a violent extremist organization.
Running the government on phony narratives has consequences. One of them is that the FBI is a sick organization and getting sicker by the day.
8/2/22 - Biden Administration Weakening National Security
The Biden administration is weakening national security in a number of ways. The first has to do with electromagnetic pulse attacks which could knock out our power grid, resulting in the deaths of tens of millions of people from lack of electricity. Russia now has a non-nuclear EMP weapon that can be delivered on hypersonic cruise missiles or launched from submarines. Such weapons can fry our nuclear ICBMs in their silos. China and North Korea are also developing EMP weapons. The Biden administration’s response? Janet Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, has said she is not concerned about EMP attacks.
Another concrete indication of the administration’s blasé attitude about national security is the blind-eye the Pentagon has turned to the effect of its Woke policies on military morale and recruitment. Who in their right mind would sign up to fight and die for such a horrible rotten country, which is how the Pentagon presents America to its troops. Who, indeed? The Army will fall 20,000 short of its recruitment goals this fiscal year and things look even worse for next year. The reasons include the military’s insane COVID vaccine mandate, which some say is a deliberate purge of conservatives from the ranks. But the reasons also include the Pentagon’s shoving Woke Marxist-derived policies like critical race theory and transgenderism down service members’ throats.
The Biden administration has also been taking a scissors to the terror group list. Earlier this year, it removed Gamaat Islamiya from the terror list. The group was led by Omar Abdel-Rahman, the Blind Sheikh whose followers bombed the World Trade Center in 1993. The administration also removed from the list the Houthis in Yemen, an Iranian-sponsored Jihad group that hopes its missiles will reach New York “in the very near future.” While we’re on the subject of terrorism, it is undisputed illegal aliens on the terrorist watch list are coming across the southern border, a border made porous by Joe Biden’s open borders policies as I’ve documented in many previous commentaries.
The Senate Armed Services Committee found Biden’s proposed defense budget inadequate for the second year in a row. The Committee added $45 billion for, among other things, more weapons to deter Russia and China. Meanwhile, the Navy’s current plans call for the number of ships to shrink from 300 to 280 by 2027. And an Army general warned Congress America is not ready for chemical and biological attacks. The food supply is especially at risk. Animal pathogens could be targeted at America, producing food insecurity in the United States.
Experts also warn America’s nuclear deterrent is in bad shape. Not only have our weapons become old and rickety, but the overall design - to bust Soviet missile silos - is woefully out of date in this age of mobile missile launchers. Russia has more battlefield tactical nukes, and a different attitude about using them. We draw a bright line at using any nukes, but Putin has threatened some 40 times to use them in Ukraine. The use of nuclear weapons per se is not unthinkable to the Russians. Russia outnumbers us ten-to-one in the tactical nuke category. China isn’t standing still, either. It is turning express trains into mobile missile launchers. China will tell you it aims for ‘world harmony’ which really means subjugation of the entire planet under Chinese rule - world domination. Compared to Russia and China, the Biden administration is twiddling its thumbs when it comes to nuclear deterrence. Forcing electric cars on us to save the planet is so much more important, you see.
Some might argue all of this is deliberate. The Biden administration hates America with a passion and is trying to destroy it. I believe that but, today, all I have to show you is how the administration’s policies are weakening our national security. That’s bad enough. Whatever the reason, the Biden administration is shirking its duty on Job One - national security - and we are less safe as a result.
8/1/22 - Biden’s Border Policies Veer from Insane to Berserk
The Biden administration is closing gaps in the border wall in Arizona, despite Joe Biden’s promise he would not build “another foot” of Trump’s border wall. Wouldn’t you love to know why Biden wants to build the wall, especially since Democrats have called the wall ‘racist’, making the Biden administration racist for building it? I would like to know, too, but all we get out of the White House is gaslighting. They’re not building the wall, the White House press secretary insists. They’re ‘cleaning up a mess left by the Trump administration.’ If you can figure out what that means, let me know.
Building the wall represents an about-face for an administration that has instituted numerous policy changes to open the border, changes I’ve documented in previous commentaries. The administration might be building the wall, but it’s still making policy changes to open the border at the same time, which makes absolutely no sense at all. The administration just confirmed it will be giving identification cards to illegal aliens. Border-jumpers should be detained and deported but, instead, the Biden administration is releasing them into the interior and now making it easier for them to travel by plane and access government benefits with a secure ID card. The administration’s recent announcement it will allow illegal aliens to apply for asylum online from anywhere in the world has been heavily criticized. One Senator called it an ‘open invitation to Chinese spies to enter the U.S.’.
The consequences of the new online asylum system have yet to be seen, but the consequences of earlier policy changes are already visible, and they are ruinous.
The masses of unaccompanied children pouring across the border have led to contracts costing hundreds of millions of dollars for a facility to house some of them in North Carolina while they await resettlement. The facility has rock climbing walls, an 8-lane swimming pool, mental health counseling, legal services - the works. I remember that a similar facility considered by the Obama administration during a previous alien child surge was canceled due to public outrage. Not this time.
Out of 30,000 catch-and-release aliens targeted to receive court summonses for failing to appear for immigration hearings, only 600 have been served. Officers call the exercise a “complete waste of time.” I call it a joke.
Federal air marshals had to be called in to help with the influx of illegal aliens at the border caused by Joe Biden’s open borders policies. The marshals escort aliens from processing facilities into the custody of border agents for release into the interior. Why authorities even bother with this step when the escort is for all of 50 yards is beyond me.
All this laxness has given rise to human smuggling operations inside the U.S. Last week, ICE found 73 illegal aliens living in six homes operated by smugglers in a wealthy area of Washington, D.C. It’s not clear who the cocaine found during the raid was for.
Building the wall in Arizona, while letting the alien invasion continue in Texas. Releasing aliens into the interior with summonses not worth the paper they’re written on while giving them secure ID cards. Continuing to tell the public the border is secure when obviously it is not - none of this makes any sense. But if you expect rationality from wild-eyed left-wing ideologues who hate America with a passion, you’re not going to get it. Who knows what the latest reversal is about, but it’s certainly not about admitting Trump was right, after all.
7/29/22 - Pushback Against Government/Big Tech Collusion Enters a New Phase
Newly obtained government records show the CDC met and corresponded regularly with social media companies to facilitate the removal of information about COVID the agency did not like and to push government narratives on the subject. This is important because free speech requirements generally do not apply to private tech companies, but do apply if the platforms become state actors doing the government’s bidding. The records show the CDC asked for the removal of specific tweets and posts as part of efforts to promote COVID vaccines and boosters, discredit natural immunity against COVID, disparage the vaccine injury reporting system (VAERS), and talk up masking. The government’s phony narratives on all these subjects have come under increasing criticism. The parties also coordinated congressional testimony. Attempts to pin liability on the social media platforms for government censorship under the state actor theory, including Trump’s case against Twitter, generally have not fared well in court so far, but the newly obtained records might change all that.
One pending lawsuit was brought by the state Attorneys General of Missouri and Louisiana. They sued the Biden administration for colluding with Big Tech to censor free speech on the origins of the coronavirus, the results of the 2020 election, Hunter Biden’s laptop, and the insecurity of mail-in voting. A federal judge recently granted permission to proceed with discovery. Subpoenas have been issued to Tony Fauci, the White House Press Secretary, other Biden officials, and five social media companies.
Efforts and calls to deputize social media companies have been widespread throughout the Biden administration. Whistleblower documents show DHS has been laying plans to secure tech company cooperation to push the government line on COVID, election fraud, domestic terrorism, and supposed disinformation and rumors. Calls to enlist the aid of social media have come from the Surgeon General, the White House press secretary, a White House climate advisor, and even Joe Biden himself. Writer Alex Berenson was suspended from Twitter after questioning the efficacy of COVID vaccines. He brought suit alleging the government had pressured Twitter into suspending him. The case was settled and his account was reinstated.
Government collusion with Big Tech to suppress speech and push phony government narratives raises a whole host of problems I’ve mentioned in previous commentaries. First, we do not want the government deciding what is true and suppressing information it deems to be false. That’s the quickest way to stop all progress in life if the government becomes the sole arbiter of truth. Second, what the government proclaims is true one day can easily be debunked the next. Hunter Biden’s laptop is a perfect example. At first, it was supposedly ‘Russian disinformation’, but it is now admitted the laptop is genuine. There’s no longer any serious dispute about that. What an embarrassment for those former intelligence officials and media types who all ran around saying ‘Russian disinformation, Russian disinformation’ - none of whom have apologized for being so spectacularly wrong or for so mindlessly serving their government masters. Third, we don’t want to live in fear. We don’t want to live in a country where we have to whisper the truth to each other on street corners for fear we will be hauled away in the middle of the night and persecuted if we challenge phony government narratives. Fourth, and finally, the rise of the authoritarian Left is the central challenge of our time. You put the power of left-wing government together with the awesome reach of left-wing tech companies and you get the kind of concentration of power our Founders warned us about. Let’s hope the courts start pinning liability on the fascistic tech giants who have colluded with government to control our minds and our lives.
7/28/22 - Wrong Way Obamacare
Senate Democrats and the White House reached agreement on another big tax-and-spend bill that would, among other things, extend expanded Obamacare subsidies for three years, well past the next presidential election - how convenient. The agreement was made possible when Senator Joe Manchin reversed himself on key provisions. A vote could come next week.
The subsidies were expanded in March 2021, supposedly temporarily as part of COVID relief. Continuing jumbo Obamacare subsidies is a bad idea for several reasons. First, they subsidize wealthy people who make three times the national median income. They can receive $7,800 a year in taxpayer money to subsidize their health insurance. Are you kidding me? Second, the jumbo subsidies hide the true cost of insurance. Premiums were slated to go up substantially - an average of 10 percent nationally - but they would go up less if the bill is passed. Democrats were freaking out about huge price increases hitting consumers right before the November elections and they would lose votes as a result, but they won’t have to worry if the bill becomes law. Third, the jumbo subsidies would cost far more than the Democrats claim. A CBO analysis shows the subsidies would add $248 billion to the federal deficit over the next decade. Fourth, 2.3 million people would lose their job-based coverage as employers fob off health insurance costs to the federal government. It’s never a good idea to deliberately make more people dependent on the government, but that’s what the Democrats live for.
Obamacare is still a turkey, jumbo subsidies or no. The Affordable Care Act has steadily become less affordable over time. In 2015, half of middle-class families paid 7.7 percent or more of their income on the lowest-cost ACA bronze plan. But in 2019, the cost swelled to 11.3 percent and, for 55 to 64-year-olds, 19 percent. Also, drug spending went up 2 percent a year between 2015 and 2019 for people in large group plans, but 11 percent for those with individual plans because of Obamacare’s guaranteed issue preexisting condition coverage, restrictions on true underwriting, and other regulations.
We have fresh reminders of other problems with Obamacare: It limits popular short-term health insurance, which prevents some people from getting insurance at all. It bans physician-owned hospitals, which makes zero sense unless you’re a special interest afraid of competition from people who know what they’re doing. Finally, the lies used to sell this turkey continue. Joe Biden recently claimed 100 million people would lose their health insurance if Obamacare’s preexisting condition coverage went away. That was too much even for the left-wing Washington Post which gave Biden two Pinocchios for his specious claim. Biden inflated the number by including people who would face price increases, but not lose their coverage. He also included people on employer plans which typically had preexisting condition coverage before Obamacare ever came along.
Never-ending jumbo subsidies, a string of broken promises and lies, declining affordability, herding people into government dependency - there’s not a lot to like here. We’ve gone the wrong direction and the Democrats remind me of ‘Wrong Way’ Corrigan who tried to fly from New York to California, but ended up in Ireland. Wish us the luck of the Irish - we’re going to need it.
7/27/22 - Which Burns Faster, Wind Turbines or EVs?
It’s been a rough couple of weeks for climate true-believers. If you’re one of them, buckle up, you’re about to get red-pilled:
A wind turbine in Texas caught fire and was destroyed after being hit by lightning. The 800 pounds of oil in the gear box produced a column of thick black smoke. Firefighters are not prepared to handle that kind of blaze. Before you dismiss this as a one-off, you should also know Mother Nature can destroy wind turbines with 200 mile-per-hour wind gusts in hurricanes. Wind turbines are only designed to handle 160 mile an hour winds. The flexible blades can bend, curve backwards, hit the tower, and destroy the whole thing. And you want to put more turbines in the Atlantic Ocean, smack dab in the middle of Hurricane Alley?
So much for romancing the turbines. But there’s always electric vehicles, right? A new electric bus caught fire and was destroyed in a bus parking lot in Connecticut. Those fires are hard to handle, too. Fire officials said, “Lithium-ion battery fires are difficult to extinguish due to the thermal chemical process that produces great heat and continually reignites....” This happened one day after the Governor celebrated a new law phasing in electric vehicles for the state fleet. Fires aren’t the only problem. If you buy a used EV and the battery quits, you will find a replacement battery will cost you more than the used EV did in the first place. And you won’t be able to get a replacement without condoning forced labor in China. You’re not in favor of slavery, are you? But don’t let me spoil the party. I’ll leave that to the countries having second thoughts about EV mandates because of the cost, the hit to living standards, the lack of infrastructure, and the wishful thinking behind them.
Oh well, there’s always solar panels, right? Never mind that their output can decrease 25 percent if it gets too hot outside. Worn-out panels end up “in landfills, where in some cases, they could potentially contaminate groundwater with toxic heavy metals such as lead, selenium and cadmium." That’s according to the left-wing Los Angeles Times, by the way.
Oh well, at least we’re getting rid of coal, right? Hate to break it to you, but China is building coal-fired power plants like there is no tomorrow, more than the rest of the world combined. Germany is turning back to coal after its disastrous green energy policies which shut down 14 nuclear power plants produced the highest household electricity bills in the world, and resulted in over-dependence on Russian gas. World coal-usage continues to go up, not down. So you can super-glue yourself to the Mona Lisa all you want, but the fact of the matter is whatever we do here in the West isn’t going to make any difference to climate change, not one bit.
Gee, all these problems nobody ever talks about. Oh well, at least our leaders have their hearts in the right place, right? Actually, no. Biden’s green energy transition is being led by green energy investors who are dictating government policy to enrich themselves. For example, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm was on the board of an electric car company and, in May, pocketed a cool $1.6 million from exercising stock options in the company. John Kerry - Saint John Kerry - has green energy investments in China. Hunter Biden owns a stake in a Chinese company that assisted in the purchase of a cobalt mine, cobalt being necessary for electric car batteries. Did the ‘Big Guy’ Joe Biden get 10 percent of this deal, too? Green-friendly ESG funds are moving into fossil fuel investments, profiting from the mayhem green energy policies have produced.
And you thought these people were environmentalists and true believers. Joke’s on you. You’ve been played.
7/26/22 - Election Integrity Professional Demolishes Guardian Hit Piece
Democrat-friendly media outlets are working overtime to discredit all efforts to achieve free and fair elections and to smear anyone involved in election integrity efforts. One of many such pathetic articles appeared in The Guardian, the left-wing British publication with a U.S. presence. The article drives the phony narrative that poll-watching and training for election integrity activists amounts to voter intimidation and is to be condemned.
The article specifically names Tim Meisburger, a member of my activist network devoted to achieving free and fair elections. Tim has spent 30 years observing overseas elections, culminating in his appointment as Director of the Center for Democracy Rights and Governance for the federal agency USAID. Tim is currently Director of the America Project’s election integrity program. The Guardian never asked him for his side of the story, so he wrote a letter to the editor demolishing the article, a letter which the Guardian has yet to publish. In the letter, Tim wrote:
This article is littered with “scare quotes”; a rhetorical device and cliché whose overuse reflects poorly on the professionalism of the author, and competence of his editor. Although this article is listed under “US news”, it is immediately clear that it is an opinion piece....
Early in the article Peter Stone ... plays the “Hitler” card, suggesting our leadership is pushing a “big lie”; a pejorative the left uses to refer to the opinion shared by many (according to recent polls, more than half of all Americans, including 30% of Democrats) that the 2020 election may have been affected by fraud....
As election and democracy professionals know, you cannot judge the legitimacy of an election by looking solely at what happens on election day, as many events can occur well before election day that affect the integrity of the election process....
... [U]ndisputed examples of incidents or programs that might give one cause to doubt the democratic legitimacy of the election include:
- Coordinated suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story before the election
- Introduction of many new election procedures as a response to COVID 19 that universally weakened the security of the election process
- Widespread use of insecure mail-in ballots and drop boxes, paid for in many cases by donations from a partisan billionaire.
- The use of state officials and resources to turn out voters in predominately Democratic areas, again paid for by a partisan billionaire.
- Ballot mules geo-tracked and videoed collecting ballots from partisan organizations and then stuffing said ballots in drop boxes
- Observers being prevented (on video) from observing counting processes
- Poll workers (on video) sending observers home and stuffing ballot boxes in the middle of the night
- The suspiciously coordinated suspension of counting in battleground states, followed by markedly different results when counting is resumed
These and other incidents may not be enough to sway Peter, but they are certainly enough to create reasonable doubt for many people. For me, as an election professional, the prevention of effective observation alone is enough to declare that the integrity of the election cannot be verified; and if we were overseas monitoring an election in a developing country and saw that, we would condemn the process and call for new elections....
The letter goes on from there and includes the inconvenient fact Meisburger left USAID at the end of President Trump’s term, not under a “cloud” as the article baselessly claimed.
That’s the rebuttal. Let’s see if the Guardian prints it. Don’t hold your breath. Open and honest debate, any more than free and fair elections, is not how the Democrats roll.
7/25/22 - The Border is Secure and I’m the Tooth Fairy
There he goes again. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said again last week the border “is secure”. Sure, and I’m the tooth fairy. This is gas-lighting of the highest order. How do I know? Let me count the ways.
Border agents called Mayorkas a liar for saying it. Hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens have poured across the border in recent months and the number of border stops is at an all-time high. A new DHS report shows about a third of those released failed to check in with ICE within 60 days as required. The government failed to collect many of their U.S. addresses and has no idea where many of them are. More illegal aliens are headed our way. One day last week, 3,000 migrants stormed the Mexican border with Guatemala, pushing their way past the Mexican National Guard on their way to the U.S. Watch the video if you want to see pure chaos. Things are so bad the Biden administration has stopped releasing the numbers of people who die illegally crossing into the U.S. Things are so bad, even Democrat big city mayors are complaining. New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said too many migrants are finding their way to these cities and are straining public resources. But they have only themselves to blame. The New York City website proclaims for all to see, “Many services and benefits are available to all New Yorkers, regardless of immigration status.” If you’re an illegal alien, not to worry. The website promises, “The City of New York has confidentiality protections in place for all New Yorkers, regardless of immigration status, who are accessing important City services.” Washington, D.C. has been a sanctuary city for years, with Bowser trumpeting in 2016, “We celebrate our diversity and respect all DC residents no matter their immigration status.” But now that the problem is in their face, she and Adams want the federal government to bail them out and let them escape the consequences of their own bad policies.
The feds are busy enacting bad policies of their own. In previous commentaries, I’ve listed numerous policy changes the Biden administration has made to deliberately open the border. Here are half a dozen more to add to the list:
The administration wanted to reduce the number of deportations where there was no immediate public safety risk, but the Supreme Court has blocked this for now, pending litigation. The number of prosecutions for illegal border crossings is down 80 percent, and that’s by design. The federal government just gave a contract worth at least $171 million to a left-wing group to help unaccompanied alien children avoid deportation. The administration reinterpreted federal law to allow people with Temporary Protected Status to leave the country and return even if they had come here unlawfully at the outset. Deported illegal aliens used to have to wait years before being allowed to reenter the U.S. legally but now they can come back in the next day without prejudicing their eventual application for legal status. Finally, the administration is instituting a new system to allow aliens to apply for asylum online from anywhere in the world.
Alejandro Mayorkas and Joe Biden hate America and they’re trying to destroy it by replacing who lives here. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: they should be impeached for refusing to faithfully execute the laws.
7/22/22 - The Mindless Expansion of Assisted Suicide Laws
California reported 486 assisted suicide deaths for 2021, a 12 percent increase over initial reports from the year before. The increase is understandable, given the fact California loosened its assisted suicide law in two important respects. First, it reduced the 15-day waiting period between two oral requests to two days. Second, it forced doctors who oppose assisted suicide to make referrals anyway against their conscience, just one of the many ways the authoritarian Left is advancing its cause through this issue.
Euthanasia deaths are also up in the Netherlands - 10.5 percent - and in Belgium by about the same percentage. The authoritarian Left won’t be happy until we’re all eating bugs while we’re alive and the state can tell us when to die.
The authoritarian Left is still on the march, expanding assisted suicide and euthanasia laws wherever it can. It tried to argue California’s assisted suicide law permitted euthanasia where lethal drugs are administered by others, but was shot down by a court.
In Canada, euthanasia for mental illness alone will go into effect in 2023. Canada is also the place where a climate activist asked for euthanasia based solely on his anxiety about climate change. People in Canada are applying for euthanasia based on chronic but not terminal conditions and even poverty. A good reason, a bad reason - if the authoritarian Left gets its way, it will soon be no reason at all. Wrong direction.
People in Colorado are being approved for assisted suicide for anorexia. A doctor there falsely attests anorexia is fatal when obviously it is not. So much for the original justification assisted suicide is reserved for cases of imminent death. Small matter to the authoritarian Left. Given that the wish to die is most closely associated with loneliness and depression, we can see where this is headed - no reason for assisted suicide needed, no questions asked.
Which is why euthanasia advocates want to remove psychiatric review from the process. They also want to let nurses and other non-physicians approve assisted suicide requests and automatically grant applications from anyone in hospice even though hospice residents are often discharged because they are no longer close to death.
There’s been a shift in the rhetoric on this issue - what were once ‘safeguards’ in the law to keep assisted suicide from spinning out of control are now ‘barriers to a good death’. The pretense is gone; the authoritarian Left WANTS assisted suicide to spin out of control. One reason is they want your organs. Organ harvesting on demand is big business in communist China, so why not bring it to America by having more people kill themselves and sign organ donation cards right before they do. Activists in California are fighting for the free speech rights of death advisors - ‘death doulas’ as they are called - to counsel people their time is up. One can easily envision a future where death doulas will become mandatory and spew a government line that organ ‘donation’ is really the way to go.
The Left used to be able to pretend assisted suicide would be rare and carefully bounded by safeguards in the law. Anyone who warned we were on a slippery slope was just crazy. No longer. Assisted suicides are up and the safeguards are systematically being dismantled. The experience of Canada and the Netherlands shows assisted suicide and euthanasia laws expand their reach until no limits are left, the laws trample conscience rights, and they threaten vulnerable populations like the mentally ill who aren’t even considered competent to consent to a car loan.
What are we doing to ourselves? Not enough people are stopping to ask.
7/21/22 - Hunter Will Skate
The investigation of Hunter Biden has reached a critical stage, with prosecutors weighing whether or not to bring charges. Their focus has narrowed to tax violations and making a false statement to purchase a firearm. Apparently, the juicy stuff from Hunter Biden’s laptop and business dealings - money laundering, failure to register as a foreign lobbyist, and such and the like - has been left behind.
Which is too bad, because it leaves a lot of questions unanswered - not only about Hunter but, more importantly, about Joe Biden. Tenacious investigator Peter Schweizer, author of a book documenting how communist China has captured American elites, asserts it is undisputed Hunter Biden received tens of millions of dollars from Chinese businesses having ties to Chinese intelligence when Joe Biden was in the White House as Vice President and the Obama administration’s point man on China policy. It is believed Joe Biden - the ‘Big Guy’ - gets 10 percent from Hunter Biden’s business dealings. This raises a whole host of major questions, like: Was Joe Biden selling his office when he was Vice President? Was U.S. China policy affected? Was national security compromised? Is Joe Biden in the pocket of Red China today? Unfortunately, it looks like we’re never going to know because prosecutors can only get interested in whether Hunter Biden lied when he bought a gun. And they want us to believe we don’t have a two-tiered justice system in this country - one for the high and mighty and another for us little people.
But no matter how you slice it, Hunter’s business dealings and kickbacks to Joe Biden still stink to high heaven. In recent weeks, it’s been conceded Hunter Biden’s laptop is genuine, not Russian disinformation as ridiculously claimed. Information from the laptop documents the Biden-Burisma connection and a pay-to-play scheme in Ukraine, how Vice President Joe Biden intervened to get a Ukrainian prosecutor off Hunter’s back, and Hunter’s questionable activities in Moscow, China, and Kazakhstan. The laptop also shows Hunter Biden met with Vice President Joe Biden at the White House or the Vice President’s residence at least 30 times, often just after returning from overseas business trips. A Hunter Biden business associate attended 21 of those meetings.
Emails on the laptop and now available online show a Mexican billionaire received access to the White House because Hunter Biden requested it.
Joe Biden claims to this day he doesn’t know anything about Hunter’s business dealings, a claim which has been thoroughly debunked. Recovered files from the laptop show, not only did Joe Biden know about Hunter’s business dealings, but Joe Biden offered to help more than once and even referred more business to Hunter Biden. The White House won’t answer any questions about the laptop (more here). Gee, I wonder why.
A recovered text message from Hunter Biden raises questions about why he was working with China’s chief of intelligence, and whether China arrested CIA sources in retaliation for the Justice Department arresting Hunter’s Chinese business partner. Emails show Joe Biden wrote a college recommendation letter for the son of Hunter Biden’s Chinese business partner. Bank records released by two U.S. Senators show Hunter Biden has financial ties to companies linked to the Chinese Communist Party or government. One of the companies wired $1 million dollars to a Hunter Biden company the same month the Chinese company’s lobbyist was arrested by U.S. authorities for bribery and money laundering. He was later convicted.
Most recently, the Biden administration sold China a million barrels of oil from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve. This was oil set aside to help Americans but Joe Biden sold it to China, specifically to Sinopec in which Hunter Biden has a financial interest. Our China policy is, what again?
Finally, we’ve been hearing for a long time Hunter would divest himself of a financial stake in a Chinese oil company. The latest report from two days ago is he still hasn’t done so.
In 1973, Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned in disgrace after a scandal involving a $10,000 bribe. My, how times have changed, and not for the better.
7/20/22 - Both Sides Raising the Stakes in Election Process
Georgia prosecutors are investigating all 16 Trump alternate electors in the 2020 election for alleged subversion of the Electoral College. Critics say the alternate electors were following the established constitutional process for challenging disputed elections.
Meanwhile, the Democrats are ramping up an effort to commandeer the election machinery by getting Democrats voted in as elections officials all across the country. This is a new $80 million effort and it’s patterned after George Soros’ multi-million effort to get left-wing Secretaries of State and out-of-control progressive prosecutors who won’t prosecute into office. The new effort is called ‘Clerk Work’ and it’s being spearheaded by the Run for Something PAC headed by a former Hillary Clinton campaign staffer. The $80 million is coming from a Hillary Clinton-affiliated (c)(4), Chan Zuckerberg, LinkedIn, ActBlue, and others. This follows another recently announced $80 million Democrat effort - the Alliance for Election Excellence - to schmooze local elections officials and give them ‘advice’. One of the participants - the Zuckerberg-funded Center for Tech and Civic Life - teaches elections officials how to conspire with each other and the media. Which could explain the recent spate of stories about how elections officials feel, oh so threatened by those mean Republicans.
But Team Red is also raising the stakes in the election process. It was just announced a Constitutional Sheriffs association is teaming up with True the Vote to investigate election fraud claims in the 2020 presidential election and future elections. Obama’s IRS couldn’t kill True the Vote and the organization is fresh off a stunning success with its ‘2000 Mules’ documentary showing extensive ballot trafficking occurring at COVID-era drop boxes. Democrats LOVE those drop boxes and are trying to make them permanent, and now we know why.
The sheriffs’ initiative is raising money so law enforcement will have the resources to conduct surveillance of drop boxes, use artificial intelligence to analyze drop box video, and set up hotlines to report suspicious activity at drop boxes and polling places. The Democrats are freaking out at the prospect elections just might become more secure. You should read the hysterical Reuters article on the sheriff’s initiative. If you didn’t know any better, you would come away believing the sky is falling. Reuters is a hopelessly left-wing arm of the Democrat Party posing as honest brokers of the news. They are anything but.
Team Red is continuing to enjoy success in getting common-sense election reforms adopted at the state level. Missouri’s Governor recently signed a bill banning drop boxes and requiring voter ID which has been widely upheld in the courts. Even Stacey Abrams will tell you voter ID laws are not racist. The Democrats have lost the voter ID argument. It’s all over but the shouting and, boy, do they continue to shout. Missouri’s new law also stops indiscriminate mail-in voting and gets rid of electronic voting machines in 2024, requiring them to be ‘air-gapped’ from the Internet in the meantime. This is a great victory for election integrity.
In case you’re one of the few Americans remaining who still believe the 2020 elections were the ‘most secure’ ever, have I got news for you. The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled the use of drop boxes in the 2020 election was illegal and candidates are calling for the state’s 2020 election results to be decertified as a result. In Arizona, newly released video shows ballot mules forging signatures on ballot envelopes. Federal authorities have confirmed two Iranian nationals hacked into a state computer election system in the 2020 election. There was illegal ballot harvesting in Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin, not to mention dirty voter rolls, nursing home fraud, and over a dozen more documented problems with the 2020 election. None of this can seriously be disputed.
No wonder people are up in arms and demanding election integrity. Citizen efforts to clean up the voter rolls are underway in Michigan, Maryland, and elsewhere. Recent articles from Democrat-controlled media are howling about election integrity efforts from professional paid groups on the Right, but they miss the mark. It’s the grassroots efforts that will eventually return us to free and fair elections. Smear us all you want, but we know we’re right, and we’re not going away. So, get over it. Your days of cheating are coming to an end.
7/19/22 - Bad Moves by Bad People for Bad Policies
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Move over, Deplorables. Here come the Despicables.
The January 6th Committee is putting on its dog-and-pony show supposedly for the purpose of passing new legislation to secure the Capitol building. But ask yourself this: if they had a case that insurrection occurred that day, why would they need to doctor the evidence they’re showing the public? Liberal Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz blasted the Committee for editing out part of Trump’s speech:
Speaking of environmental groups, green special interests couldn’t get the Green New Deal through Congress, so now they’re squeezing the private sector to achieve the same ends. They are:
The Left lies about more than climate change. Abortion activists claimed there was overwhelming public support for Roe v. Wade. They’ve been lying about public support for abortion since even before Roe. Today, the fact of the matter is 70 percent of Americans oppose abortion in the second trimester.
What other behavior would you expect from a bunch of liars? There are any number of stories about abortion clinics trying to hide botched abortions occurring on their premises (here’s one). The Biden administration is encouraging teenage girls to get secret abortions and hide them from their parents. A high school in Seattle is forcing students to sign a pledge saying they support abortion or they will not get access to a mentoring program.
These are bad people who have no moral compass for whom winning is the only thing. To them, the ends justify the means. It doesn’t matter how much they lie or who they hurt, as long as they win. But as George Orwell observed, you can’t reach supposedly noble ends with despicable means. The very process of using evil means will corrupt the people using them, making their ends unattainable, no matter how hard they try. They end up bad people. Are you one of them? I hope not. If you’ve listened to everything I’ve said and still say to yourself, ‘Go, Team, Go!’, you need to take a long hard look in the mirror and ask yourself how you could have let yourself become so Despicable.
7/18/22 - Tide Turning on Woke Criminal Justice Cabal
Last month, San Francisco voters, fed up with high crime, ousted progressive prosecutor Chesa Boudin in a recall election. The new DA has just cleaned house, firing 15 employees in a new emphasis on public safety. She vowed to hold “serious and repeat offenders accountable.” Put this together with the jurisdictions re-funding the police and walking back their no-cash bail policies, and it appears Woke criminal justice reform has passed its peak. Funny what happens when people get mugged by reality.
But there’s work left to do in many places. West Hollywood is reducing the size of its sheriff’s department despite the fact crime is up 137 percent. Chicago police are no longer allowed to chase people on foot. A one-man crime wave was arrested five times in ten days in New York City, after being released without bail for a slashing and other crimes. The New York subway stabber was released from jail the night before, having been given ‘time served’ for brandishing a knife at police. In all, violent crime is way up in New York and other cities controlled by Democrats.
Cashless bail, not letting police do their job, or getting rid of police officers entirely - we already know how these stories end, and they don’t end well. But hope springs eternal in the fantasyland of the mindless Left.
The stories will end just as badly in cities still stuck with progressive prosecutors. Steve Descano’s office in Fairfax, Virginia sought a light sentence for a man charged with assault and battery. The man went on to beat a 63-year-old woman to death at a bus stop. Next door in Loudon County, a judge removed the progressive prosecutor from a case for “deliberately misleading the Court and the public” in an attempt to ‘sell’ a plea deal. In Philadelphia, progressive prosecutor Larry Krasner dropped charges against three Antifa members who beat two Hispanic men. The progressive prosecutor in L.A., George Gascon, treated a 17-year-old repeat offender as a juvenile and asked the court to put him in a probation camp after the offender tried to kill a young mother and child, despite the fact the offender was on parole and violating the terms of his release at the time of the attack.
The puppetmaster behind all these progressive prosecutors is George Soros who has spent $40 million to elect 75 progressive prosecutors around the country. The man evidently wants to sow chaos and is spending his fortune to do it. Twenty-eight of his puppets signed an open letter after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade saying they will defy state laws that limit abortion. These lawless puppets want to play state legislature and decide what the laws should be, which is not their role. This is chaos. Before you say you kinda like the idea of not enforcing abortion laws, let’s change the facts: How would you like it if 28 Trump prosecutors said they would not enforce climate emergency laws?
On the Left, the issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution. Woke criminal justice reform isn’t just about evening the score for the supposedly downtrodden and oppressed. It’s about creating chaos, to make society stink and push frustrated citizens into voting left-wing authoritarian governments into power to clean up the mess the authoritarians created in the first place. But Woke criminal justice reform is on the decline and, now, two progressive prosecutors have gone down to ignominious defeat at the polls. If the Left wants to create further chaos, they’re going to have to find another way to do it.
7/8/22 - The White House Goes Full Pravda
I’ve often said the rise of the authoritarian Left is the greatest challenge of our time. You can see the truth of that statement in the way the Biden administration is trying to shut people up and snuff out competing points of view.
A reporter tried to ask the White House press secretary about favored media outlets being invited to special White House press events while others are shut out and blacklisted. His microphone was cut off halfway through his question.
A recent executive order threatens consequences for any public school official who merely questions a child’s desire for gender-transitioning drugs and surgery. Can’t have the new orthodoxy disrupted, you see.
White House climate advisor Gina McCarthy urged social media companies to “really jump in” and stamp out misinformation pointing out the inflationary costs and unreliability of green energy sources. Can’t have the magnificent green energy transition disrupted, you see.
McCarthy’s urgings are part of a larger administration effort to work with climate activists and Democrat-controlled congressional committees to silence political opponents. The White House is recruiting activists and academics to discredit dissenters on climate change. Open records requests have been filed to find out just how far the speech suppression efforts go.
It’s been widely reported the DHS Disinformation Governance Board is merely paused, not shut down. Getting less attention is a new White House Task Force headed by Kamala Harris targeting supposed online harassment, abuse, and disinformation. The Task Force is in the business of policing online speech that offends the administration. You can dress this up any way you want, but it’s still censorship. Get your Stalin on, baby.
So what we have here is a government that seeks to take people’s free speech rights away. This is just the opposite of what government is supposed to do. Government is supposed to protect our rights, not take them away from us. [See the Instant Graduate Degree in Political Science]
As for free speech rights, you have the right to be wrong about climate change or anything else. The answer to erroneous speech is not government censorship; it’s more speech. If you think the green energy transition will lead to nirvana, make your case, don’t shut me up.
I guarantee you do not want to live in a world where the government decides what is true and disallows speech it deems to be false. You should listen to the survivors of communism in my speakers bureau who will tell you it is truly awful to live in a country where you have to whisper what you really think on street corners and agree in advance with the person with whom you are speaking you will tell the authorities you were only talking about football if you are questioned about what the two of you said to each other.
So here’s my message to everybody, the Biden administration included: The more you try to shut me up, the more I’m going to scream and I’ve got the trial attorney experience to do it. If you want to silence me, you will have to pry this microphone from my cold, dead fingers. Climate change is a hoax and transgenderism is communism. There, I said it. Come and get me.
7/7/22 - Impeach Joe Biden for the Border Invasion
Five Texas counties declared the crisis at the southern border an “invasion” and called on Texas Governor Greg Abbott to stop illegal immigration. Dead bodies, gang-rapes, and aliens coming through in camouflage clothing are now common occurrences in these counties.
Joe Biden’s open borders policies are to blame. Here are some more policy changes to add to the long list I’ve given you in previous commentaries: Joe Biden is legally obligated to spend money Congress has appropriated to continue building Trump’s wall, but Biden won’t do it. The Biden administration just approved subsidized health insurance for illegal aliens in Colorado. The administration is quietly removing Trump-appointed judges from immigration courts and replacing them with pro-alien appointees. The administration is also dismissing immigration cases by the tens of thousands in what observers call “de facto amnesty”. The administration is also allowing people who have worked with designated terrorist groups to enter the U.S. legally.
The threat to national security from Biden’s open borders policies is growing. Experts say there are more people who get away from border agents than are apprehended and most ‘got-aways’ are military-age males. There are now so many Muslims entering the U.S. illegally - including Muslims from terror-prone countries - a special shelter has been built for them just over the border in Tijuana.
Potential terrorism is not the only problem arising from Biden’s open borders policies. Illegal alien criminals with felonies are supposed to be deported, but Joe Biden just said Driving Under the Influence charges would not count. He must have forgotten the case of the nun who was killed by an illegal alien driving drunk in Virginia in 2010. I haven’t.
Meanwhile, deadly fentanyl continues to pour across the border, so much even Congressional Democrats are complaining. Another problem not getting nearly enough attention is widespread identity theft as illegal aliens seek U.S. credentials to work. The 51 migrants cooked to death in a truck in San Antonio recently were, sadly, just a few of the hundreds who die attempting to enter the U.S. illegally - over 700 last year alone. Finally, a government study confirms what we already knew - one-third of illegal aliens let go under the Biden administration’s catch-and-release program end up absconding. Nobody knows where they are.
The White House just told us again “the border is closed.” Surely they must know how stupid they look saying this when five Texas counties and anybody else with a lick of sense can see it’s an “invasion”. If Republicans take back the House, they might impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for failing to faithfully execute the nation’s immigration laws. I hope the Republicans don’t stop there. I hope they impeach Joe Biden for high crimes and misdemeanors. His loyalty is not to you and me. His open borders policies show his allegiance lies elsewhere. Joe Biden hates America and he’s trying to destroy it. For that, he should be impeached and thrown out of office.
7/6/22 - Democrats Crank Up Propaganda Machine on Elections
You need to be aware the Democrats’ propaganda machine is cranked up to ‘hi’ on elections. They are mischaracterizing just about everything having to do with elections these days.
Let’s start with the claim Donald Trump tried to ‘overturn the election’ and is, therefore a ‘threat to democracy’. I say he pursued legal challenges under the constitutionally-prescribed process for contesting election results, nothing more. Isn’t that what you would do if you thought an election was stolen from you?
Under our system, which has been called “messy” and “deficient”, legal challenges are brought under Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution having to do with the appointment of electors to the Electoral College. It is possible for rival sets of electors to be sent to Washington if state governors and legislatures don’t agree on the slate. The procedures go on from there to provide for challenges in the U.S. House and Senate to exclude electors from the Electoral College vote count. There were dueling electors in the contested election of 1876 and, in a challenge brought by Democrats, in Hawaii in 1960. Nancy Pelosi’s daughter led a challenge to Trump electors in 2016. Nobody accused the Democrats of trying to ‘overturn the election’ in those instances, did they? But that’s the propaganda we’re getting from the Democrats now and it’s escalated to the point where the Biden Justice Department is investigating Republicans involved in efforts to send alternate electors to Congress in the 2020 election. Trump forces also went to court and won on the merits in 22 out of 39 lawsuits brought contesting various aspects of that election.
So what, exactly, did Trump do? He pursued possibilities for alternate electors - just like Democrats before him - and brought cases in court, many of which he won. That’s it. No martial law, no calling out the army, nothing beyond legal processes. Democrats are twisting his efforts to convince you his efforts are something they are not.
Next, we turn to the claim that 2020 ‘election deniers’ are spreading ‘misinformation’ and pose a threat to future elections. The propaganda on this is very thin, turning quickly to reform efforts to improve future election integrity. The ‘election denier’ smear is intended to discredit legitimate efforts to enact voter ID laws which are routinely upheld by courts, curb the use of insecure mail-in voting which Democrat Jimmy Carter recognized is a problem, and get rid of things like dropboxes which only came in because of COVID but the Democrats have succeeded in making permanent in many states. If working for free and fair elections in the future is ‘election denial’, I’ll eat my hat.
The latest mischaracterization came when the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case testing the power of state legislatures to make laws regarding elections. To hear Democrats tell it, the conservative Supreme Court is poised to give unchecked power to state legislatures to shut out state governors and courts, favor their own party, and undermine democracy. You have to remember that Democrat elections officials approved dropboxes and mail-in voting in 2020, invoking emergency powers in the pandemic to do so, without permission from state lawmakers. If anyone is a threat to democracy in this situation, it’s unelected bureaucrats who worked overtime to help the Democrats 2020, not the duly elected state lawmakers. Moreover, a new government report shows how elections officials can work inside the system to threaten fair elections. That being the case, I don’t mind more oversight and stricter procedures mandated by state lawmakers who are the duly elected representatives of the people. Especially when Article I, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution gives primary responsibility for elections to state legislatures. Moreover, it’s been reported that local and state elections officials are secretly meeting with Democrat funders and left-wing organizations to discuss future elections - no Republicans allowed. What’s that about? This is all from government documents and can’t be denied.
So, when the Democrat propaganda machine tries to convince you Republicans are working to unlawfully overturn the results of past elections and rig elections in the future, your first reaction should be ‘poppycock’, because that’s what it is.
7/5/22 - Medals of Honor, Badges of Shame
Hershel “Woody” Williams, the last World War II Medal of Honor recipient, will lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol later this month. He died at the age of 98. The Medal of Honor is the nation’s highest military award for bravery, awarded by the President in the name of Congress. Williams went out alone to try to take out machine-gun positions on Iwo Jima so tanks could open a lane for U.S. infantry troops to advance.
He deserves our thanks for defending freedom. Other people in the news recently deserve our condemnation for undermining it. Shame on them.
The National Archives put a ‘harmful language alert’ on the cornerstone of freedom, the U.S. Constitution, warning readers the document supposedly contains biased or offensive language. The National Archives’ outrage is selective because no such warnings appear on a document containing the N-word or a document using the K-word to refer to Jews. But the Constitution? Beyond the pale, apparently.
The Democrat Party in Pima County, Arizona posted “F*ck the 4th” on social media sites, referring to Independence Day. I don’t care what led them to it. They are ingrates taking this magnificent country for granted, and that’s the issue as I see it in this situation.
The City of Orlando insulted the country in the course of inviting people to the City’s 4th of July fireworks display. “A lot of people probably don’t want to celebrate our nation right now, and we can’t blame them.... When there is so much division, hate, and unrest, why on earth would you want to have a party celebrating any of it?” The City apologized later, but a Democrat state lawmaker said it shouldn’t have. A Democrat - it figures. One time, my Tea Party was marching in a parade handing out pocket Constitutions. I’ll never forget - one lady held up her hands to refuse: “Oh no, I’m a Democrat. We don’t NEED the Constitution.”
Another Democrat, a congressman from Rhode Island, said, ““Spare me the [blanket-blank] Constitutional rights,” in reference to the gun debate. Congressman Cicilline, in case you don’t know it, the Second Amendment exists to protect us from wannabe tyrants like you.
A Major League Baseball manager in San Francisco said he would boycott the National Anthem at games until he ‘feels better’ about the direction of the country. Feels better? Gabe Kapler, thank your lucky stars you have a country to play baseball in.
With adults like these, is it any wonder more than 30 percent of school kids don’t know the 50 stars on the American flag represent the 50 states? Honestly, how long do you expect the country to last if we keep going like this?
But there are some bright spots amidst the decay.
In honor of Independence Day, a group of pro-America businesses donated a portion of their revenue to ‘Folds of Honor’ which provides scholarships to spouses and children of America’s fallen and disabled service members.
Another military-related charity, Wreaths Across America, donated land for a patriotic park in Maine that will have the world’s tallest flagpole plus remembrances of all 24 million veterans who have served our country since the Revolutionary War. That would include the forgotten black patriots who fought alongside the colonists in that War of Independence.
Scott Walker, the former Governor of Wisconsin, wrote an op-ed praising a high school student who petitioned her school to restore the Pledge of Allegiance. Good idea, I hope it catches on.
Florida is putting money behind its initiative to teach civics in school so students know what is required to maintain our Republic. The money will go for implementing the project and teacher bonuses.
Before you leave the 4th of July 2022 entirely behind, I encourage you to watch my Tea Party’s short Independence Day video on mooring ourselves in public and private virtue, preserving the proper balance of our Constitutional order, and emphasizing what brings us together in national unity and purpose, I also encourage you to remember the sacrifice “Woody” Williams and so many others made on Iwo Jima and other battlefields to defend our freedom. Those who scoff at our flag and the notion of patriotism dishonor their memory and sow chaos.
7/1/22 - War on Parents: Fight to Win
Imagine a country where a National School Boards Association got the Justice Department to label parents who speak up at school board meetings “domestic terrorists” and, not only that, the Association even wanted to call out the military on parents who object to school board policies. That country is America today. It warms the cockles of my heart to know that at least twenty-five state chapters have left the National School Boards Association for attacking parents.
Today, I show you more ways it’s possible to fight back against those waging war against parents and win. Suits against schools secretly gender transitioning children without parental knowledge are pending in Wisconsin, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. I’m not aware of any decisions, yet, though. Parents also sued in Pennsylvania over a teacher giving first-graders lessons about gender transitioning and dysphoria. Among other things, the teacher showed the 6-year-old class a video entitled, “Jacob’s New Dress”.
Parents have also filed suit on other theories. Parents in Virginia sued their school district for moral corruption of their children and violation of parental rights. A mother in Virginia sued her school district for alienation of affection, alleging that anti-racism lessons turned her 8th-grade biracial son against her. She can’t even ask him to help clean the house without him calling her a racist. Parents in New Jersey sued over anti-racism lessons, arguing they discriminate against whites and create a hostile educational environment.
People are fighting back in other ways, outside the courtroom. Some are seeking a parental bill rights for their state constitution, although such an effort was recently unsuccessful in Missouri. Also in Missouri, the state Attorney General sent subpoenas to seven school districts over invasive student questionnaires that pry into students’ sexual behavior and - get this - their parents’ political beliefs. A Florida school district fired a teacher for discussing her ’pansexual’ status with 12-year-old students. A Catholic bishop excommunicated a school that refused to stop flying Black Lives Matter and rainbow flags, which are inconsistent with Catholic teachings. Republican lawmakers in Congress have proposed a bill that would allow victims to sue doctors who performed mutilating sex change surgery on them when they were minors. European countries have taken steps to rein in the use of puberty blockers in children.
Some parents upset with school boards have worked to throw the bums out in the next election. The effort was so successful in one Texas county, that 10 out of 11 school board seats are now in the hands of conservatives. A recall election was successful in San Francisco where the new board voted to restore merit-based admissions to an elite high school, throwing out a lottery that was designed to increase diversity at the school.
Another victory was notched in Ohio where a school board cancelled Diversity Day after parents complained it was just political indoctrination. The victories don’t end there. A Virginia court ruled ‘Gender Queer’ and another sexually explicit novel are obscene and unsuitable for school libraries. Finally, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis prevailed over textbook publishers who capitulated and removed Woke content like Critical Race Theory from math textbooks.
So, you see, it’s possible to fight back and win. The Left wants you to think you’re crazy, you’re deplorable, you’re in the minority, you’re helpless, and you’re alone. None of these things are true. Now get out there and fight these creeps. Your children are depending on you.
Newly obtained government records show the CDC met and corresponded regularly with social media companies to facilitate the removal of information about COVID the agency did not like and to push government narratives on the subject. This is important because free speech requirements generally do not apply to private tech companies, but do apply if the platforms become state actors doing the government’s bidding. The records show the CDC asked for the removal of specific tweets and posts as part of efforts to promote COVID vaccines and boosters, discredit natural immunity against COVID, disparage the vaccine injury reporting system (VAERS), and talk up masking. The government’s phony narratives on all these subjects have come under increasing criticism. The parties also coordinated congressional testimony. Attempts to pin liability on the social media platforms for government censorship under the state actor theory, including Trump’s case against Twitter, generally have not fared well in court so far, but the newly obtained records might change all that.
One pending lawsuit was brought by the state Attorneys General of Missouri and Louisiana. They sued the Biden administration for colluding with Big Tech to censor free speech on the origins of the coronavirus, the results of the 2020 election, Hunter Biden’s laptop, and the insecurity of mail-in voting. A federal judge recently granted permission to proceed with discovery. Subpoenas have been issued to Tony Fauci, the White House Press Secretary, other Biden officials, and five social media companies.
Efforts and calls to deputize social media companies have been widespread throughout the Biden administration. Whistleblower documents show DHS has been laying plans to secure tech company cooperation to push the government line on COVID, election fraud, domestic terrorism, and supposed disinformation and rumors. Calls to enlist the aid of social media have come from the Surgeon General, the White House press secretary, a White House climate advisor, and even Joe Biden himself. Writer Alex Berenson was suspended from Twitter after questioning the efficacy of COVID vaccines. He brought suit alleging the government had pressured Twitter into suspending him. The case was settled and his account was reinstated.
Government collusion with Big Tech to suppress speech and push phony government narratives raises a whole host of problems I’ve mentioned in previous commentaries. First, we do not want the government deciding what is true and suppressing information it deems to be false. That’s the quickest way to stop all progress in life if the government becomes the sole arbiter of truth. Second, what the government proclaims is true one day can easily be debunked the next. Hunter Biden’s laptop is a perfect example. At first, it was supposedly ‘Russian disinformation’, but it is now admitted the laptop is genuine. There’s no longer any serious dispute about that. What an embarrassment for those former intelligence officials and media types who all ran around saying ‘Russian disinformation, Russian disinformation’ - none of whom have apologized for being so spectacularly wrong or for so mindlessly serving their government masters. Third, we don’t want to live in fear. We don’t want to live in a country where we have to whisper the truth to each other on street corners for fear we will be hauled away in the middle of the night and persecuted if we challenge phony government narratives. Fourth, and finally, the rise of the authoritarian Left is the central challenge of our time. You put the power of left-wing government together with the awesome reach of left-wing tech companies and you get the kind of concentration of power our Founders warned us about. Let’s hope the courts start pinning liability on the fascistic tech giants who have colluded with government to control our minds and our lives.
7/28/22 - Wrong Way Obamacare
Senate Democrats and the White House reached agreement on another big tax-and-spend bill that would, among other things, extend expanded Obamacare subsidies for three years, well past the next presidential election - how convenient. The agreement was made possible when Senator Joe Manchin reversed himself on key provisions. A vote could come next week.
The subsidies were expanded in March 2021, supposedly temporarily as part of COVID relief. Continuing jumbo Obamacare subsidies is a bad idea for several reasons. First, they subsidize wealthy people who make three times the national median income. They can receive $7,800 a year in taxpayer money to subsidize their health insurance. Are you kidding me? Second, the jumbo subsidies hide the true cost of insurance. Premiums were slated to go up substantially - an average of 10 percent nationally - but they would go up less if the bill is passed. Democrats were freaking out about huge price increases hitting consumers right before the November elections and they would lose votes as a result, but they won’t have to worry if the bill becomes law. Third, the jumbo subsidies would cost far more than the Democrats claim. A CBO analysis shows the subsidies would add $248 billion to the federal deficit over the next decade. Fourth, 2.3 million people would lose their job-based coverage as employers fob off health insurance costs to the federal government. It’s never a good idea to deliberately make more people dependent on the government, but that’s what the Democrats live for.
Obamacare is still a turkey, jumbo subsidies or no. The Affordable Care Act has steadily become less affordable over time. In 2015, half of middle-class families paid 7.7 percent or more of their income on the lowest-cost ACA bronze plan. But in 2019, the cost swelled to 11.3 percent and, for 55 to 64-year-olds, 19 percent. Also, drug spending went up 2 percent a year between 2015 and 2019 for people in large group plans, but 11 percent for those with individual plans because of Obamacare’s guaranteed issue preexisting condition coverage, restrictions on true underwriting, and other regulations.
We have fresh reminders of other problems with Obamacare: It limits popular short-term health insurance, which prevents some people from getting insurance at all. It bans physician-owned hospitals, which makes zero sense unless you’re a special interest afraid of competition from people who know what they’re doing. Finally, the lies used to sell this turkey continue. Joe Biden recently claimed 100 million people would lose their health insurance if Obamacare’s preexisting condition coverage went away. That was too much even for the left-wing Washington Post which gave Biden two Pinocchios for his specious claim. Biden inflated the number by including people who would face price increases, but not lose their coverage. He also included people on employer plans which typically had preexisting condition coverage before Obamacare ever came along.
Never-ending jumbo subsidies, a string of broken promises and lies, declining affordability, herding people into government dependency - there’s not a lot to like here. We’ve gone the wrong direction and the Democrats remind me of ‘Wrong Way’ Corrigan who tried to fly from New York to California, but ended up in Ireland. Wish us the luck of the Irish - we’re going to need it.
7/27/22 - Which Burns Faster, Wind Turbines or EVs?
It’s been a rough couple of weeks for climate true-believers. If you’re one of them, buckle up, you’re about to get red-pilled:
A wind turbine in Texas caught fire and was destroyed after being hit by lightning. The 800 pounds of oil in the gear box produced a column of thick black smoke. Firefighters are not prepared to handle that kind of blaze. Before you dismiss this as a one-off, you should also know Mother Nature can destroy wind turbines with 200 mile-per-hour wind gusts in hurricanes. Wind turbines are only designed to handle 160 mile an hour winds. The flexible blades can bend, curve backwards, hit the tower, and destroy the whole thing. And you want to put more turbines in the Atlantic Ocean, smack dab in the middle of Hurricane Alley?
So much for romancing the turbines. But there’s always electric vehicles, right? A new electric bus caught fire and was destroyed in a bus parking lot in Connecticut. Those fires are hard to handle, too. Fire officials said, “Lithium-ion battery fires are difficult to extinguish due to the thermal chemical process that produces great heat and continually reignites....” This happened one day after the Governor celebrated a new law phasing in electric vehicles for the state fleet. Fires aren’t the only problem. If you buy a used EV and the battery quits, you will find a replacement battery will cost you more than the used EV did in the first place. And you won’t be able to get a replacement without condoning forced labor in China. You’re not in favor of slavery, are you? But don’t let me spoil the party. I’ll leave that to the countries having second thoughts about EV mandates because of the cost, the hit to living standards, the lack of infrastructure, and the wishful thinking behind them.
Oh well, there’s always solar panels, right? Never mind that their output can decrease 25 percent if it gets too hot outside. Worn-out panels end up “in landfills, where in some cases, they could potentially contaminate groundwater with toxic heavy metals such as lead, selenium and cadmium." That’s according to the left-wing Los Angeles Times, by the way.
Oh well, at least we’re getting rid of coal, right? Hate to break it to you, but China is building coal-fired power plants like there is no tomorrow, more than the rest of the world combined. Germany is turning back to coal after its disastrous green energy policies which shut down 14 nuclear power plants produced the highest household electricity bills in the world, and resulted in over-dependence on Russian gas. World coal-usage continues to go up, not down. So you can super-glue yourself to the Mona Lisa all you want, but the fact of the matter is whatever we do here in the West isn’t going to make any difference to climate change, not one bit.
Gee, all these problems nobody ever talks about. Oh well, at least our leaders have their hearts in the right place, right? Actually, no. Biden’s green energy transition is being led by green energy investors who are dictating government policy to enrich themselves. For example, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm was on the board of an electric car company and, in May, pocketed a cool $1.6 million from exercising stock options in the company. John Kerry - Saint John Kerry - has green energy investments in China. Hunter Biden owns a stake in a Chinese company that assisted in the purchase of a cobalt mine, cobalt being necessary for electric car batteries. Did the ‘Big Guy’ Joe Biden get 10 percent of this deal, too? Green-friendly ESG funds are moving into fossil fuel investments, profiting from the mayhem green energy policies have produced.
And you thought these people were environmentalists and true believers. Joke’s on you. You’ve been played.
7/26/22 - Election Integrity Professional Demolishes Guardian Hit Piece
Democrat-friendly media outlets are working overtime to discredit all efforts to achieve free and fair elections and to smear anyone involved in election integrity efforts. One of many such pathetic articles appeared in The Guardian, the left-wing British publication with a U.S. presence. The article drives the phony narrative that poll-watching and training for election integrity activists amounts to voter intimidation and is to be condemned.
The article specifically names Tim Meisburger, a member of my activist network devoted to achieving free and fair elections. Tim has spent 30 years observing overseas elections, culminating in his appointment as Director of the Center for Democracy Rights and Governance for the federal agency USAID. Tim is currently Director of the America Project’s election integrity program. The Guardian never asked him for his side of the story, so he wrote a letter to the editor demolishing the article, a letter which the Guardian has yet to publish. In the letter, Tim wrote:
This article is littered with “scare quotes”; a rhetorical device and cliché whose overuse reflects poorly on the professionalism of the author, and competence of his editor. Although this article is listed under “US news”, it is immediately clear that it is an opinion piece....
Early in the article Peter Stone ... plays the “Hitler” card, suggesting our leadership is pushing a “big lie”; a pejorative the left uses to refer to the opinion shared by many (according to recent polls, more than half of all Americans, including 30% of Democrats) that the 2020 election may have been affected by fraud....
As election and democracy professionals know, you cannot judge the legitimacy of an election by looking solely at what happens on election day, as many events can occur well before election day that affect the integrity of the election process....
... [U]ndisputed examples of incidents or programs that might give one cause to doubt the democratic legitimacy of the election include:
- Coordinated suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story before the election
- Introduction of many new election procedures as a response to COVID 19 that universally weakened the security of the election process
- Widespread use of insecure mail-in ballots and drop boxes, paid for in many cases by donations from a partisan billionaire.
- The use of state officials and resources to turn out voters in predominately Democratic areas, again paid for by a partisan billionaire.
- Ballot mules geo-tracked and videoed collecting ballots from partisan organizations and then stuffing said ballots in drop boxes
- Observers being prevented (on video) from observing counting processes
- Poll workers (on video) sending observers home and stuffing ballot boxes in the middle of the night
- The suspiciously coordinated suspension of counting in battleground states, followed by markedly different results when counting is resumed
These and other incidents may not be enough to sway Peter, but they are certainly enough to create reasonable doubt for many people. For me, as an election professional, the prevention of effective observation alone is enough to declare that the integrity of the election cannot be verified; and if we were overseas monitoring an election in a developing country and saw that, we would condemn the process and call for new elections....
The letter goes on from there and includes the inconvenient fact Meisburger left USAID at the end of President Trump’s term, not under a “cloud” as the article baselessly claimed.
That’s the rebuttal. Let’s see if the Guardian prints it. Don’t hold your breath. Open and honest debate, any more than free and fair elections, is not how the Democrats roll.
7/25/22 - The Border is Secure and I’m the Tooth Fairy
There he goes again. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said again last week the border “is secure”. Sure, and I’m the tooth fairy. This is gas-lighting of the highest order. How do I know? Let me count the ways.
Border agents called Mayorkas a liar for saying it. Hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens have poured across the border in recent months and the number of border stops is at an all-time high. A new DHS report shows about a third of those released failed to check in with ICE within 60 days as required. The government failed to collect many of their U.S. addresses and has no idea where many of them are. More illegal aliens are headed our way. One day last week, 3,000 migrants stormed the Mexican border with Guatemala, pushing their way past the Mexican National Guard on their way to the U.S. Watch the video if you want to see pure chaos. Things are so bad the Biden administration has stopped releasing the numbers of people who die illegally crossing into the U.S. Things are so bad, even Democrat big city mayors are complaining. New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said too many migrants are finding their way to these cities and are straining public resources. But they have only themselves to blame. The New York City website proclaims for all to see, “Many services and benefits are available to all New Yorkers, regardless of immigration status.” If you’re an illegal alien, not to worry. The website promises, “The City of New York has confidentiality protections in place for all New Yorkers, regardless of immigration status, who are accessing important City services.” Washington, D.C. has been a sanctuary city for years, with Bowser trumpeting in 2016, “We celebrate our diversity and respect all DC residents no matter their immigration status.” But now that the problem is in their face, she and Adams want the federal government to bail them out and let them escape the consequences of their own bad policies.
The feds are busy enacting bad policies of their own. In previous commentaries, I’ve listed numerous policy changes the Biden administration has made to deliberately open the border. Here are half a dozen more to add to the list:
The administration wanted to reduce the number of deportations where there was no immediate public safety risk, but the Supreme Court has blocked this for now, pending litigation. The number of prosecutions for illegal border crossings is down 80 percent, and that’s by design. The federal government just gave a contract worth at least $171 million to a left-wing group to help unaccompanied alien children avoid deportation. The administration reinterpreted federal law to allow people with Temporary Protected Status to leave the country and return even if they had come here unlawfully at the outset. Deported illegal aliens used to have to wait years before being allowed to reenter the U.S. legally but now they can come back in the next day without prejudicing their eventual application for legal status. Finally, the administration is instituting a new system to allow aliens to apply for asylum online from anywhere in the world.
Alejandro Mayorkas and Joe Biden hate America and they’re trying to destroy it by replacing who lives here. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: they should be impeached for refusing to faithfully execute the laws.
7/22/22 - The Mindless Expansion of Assisted Suicide Laws
California reported 486 assisted suicide deaths for 2021, a 12 percent increase over initial reports from the year before. The increase is understandable, given the fact California loosened its assisted suicide law in two important respects. First, it reduced the 15-day waiting period between two oral requests to two days. Second, it forced doctors who oppose assisted suicide to make referrals anyway against their conscience, just one of the many ways the authoritarian Left is advancing its cause through this issue.
Euthanasia deaths are also up in the Netherlands - 10.5 percent - and in Belgium by about the same percentage. The authoritarian Left won’t be happy until we’re all eating bugs while we’re alive and the state can tell us when to die.
The authoritarian Left is still on the march, expanding assisted suicide and euthanasia laws wherever it can. It tried to argue California’s assisted suicide law permitted euthanasia where lethal drugs are administered by others, but was shot down by a court.
In Canada, euthanasia for mental illness alone will go into effect in 2023. Canada is also the place where a climate activist asked for euthanasia based solely on his anxiety about climate change. People in Canada are applying for euthanasia based on chronic but not terminal conditions and even poverty. A good reason, a bad reason - if the authoritarian Left gets its way, it will soon be no reason at all. Wrong direction.
People in Colorado are being approved for assisted suicide for anorexia. A doctor there falsely attests anorexia is fatal when obviously it is not. So much for the original justification assisted suicide is reserved for cases of imminent death. Small matter to the authoritarian Left. Given that the wish to die is most closely associated with loneliness and depression, we can see where this is headed - no reason for assisted suicide needed, no questions asked.
Which is why euthanasia advocates want to remove psychiatric review from the process. They also want to let nurses and other non-physicians approve assisted suicide requests and automatically grant applications from anyone in hospice even though hospice residents are often discharged because they are no longer close to death.
There’s been a shift in the rhetoric on this issue - what were once ‘safeguards’ in the law to keep assisted suicide from spinning out of control are now ‘barriers to a good death’. The pretense is gone; the authoritarian Left WANTS assisted suicide to spin out of control. One reason is they want your organs. Organ harvesting on demand is big business in communist China, so why not bring it to America by having more people kill themselves and sign organ donation cards right before they do. Activists in California are fighting for the free speech rights of death advisors - ‘death doulas’ as they are called - to counsel people their time is up. One can easily envision a future where death doulas will become mandatory and spew a government line that organ ‘donation’ is really the way to go.
The Left used to be able to pretend assisted suicide would be rare and carefully bounded by safeguards in the law. Anyone who warned we were on a slippery slope was just crazy. No longer. Assisted suicides are up and the safeguards are systematically being dismantled. The experience of Canada and the Netherlands shows assisted suicide and euthanasia laws expand their reach until no limits are left, the laws trample conscience rights, and they threaten vulnerable populations like the mentally ill who aren’t even considered competent to consent to a car loan.
What are we doing to ourselves? Not enough people are stopping to ask.
7/21/22 - Hunter Will Skate
The investigation of Hunter Biden has reached a critical stage, with prosecutors weighing whether or not to bring charges. Their focus has narrowed to tax violations and making a false statement to purchase a firearm. Apparently, the juicy stuff from Hunter Biden’s laptop and business dealings - money laundering, failure to register as a foreign lobbyist, and such and the like - has been left behind.
Which is too bad, because it leaves a lot of questions unanswered - not only about Hunter but, more importantly, about Joe Biden. Tenacious investigator Peter Schweizer, author of a book documenting how communist China has captured American elites, asserts it is undisputed Hunter Biden received tens of millions of dollars from Chinese businesses having ties to Chinese intelligence when Joe Biden was in the White House as Vice President and the Obama administration’s point man on China policy. It is believed Joe Biden - the ‘Big Guy’ - gets 10 percent from Hunter Biden’s business dealings. This raises a whole host of major questions, like: Was Joe Biden selling his office when he was Vice President? Was U.S. China policy affected? Was national security compromised? Is Joe Biden in the pocket of Red China today? Unfortunately, it looks like we’re never going to know because prosecutors can only get interested in whether Hunter Biden lied when he bought a gun. And they want us to believe we don’t have a two-tiered justice system in this country - one for the high and mighty and another for us little people.
But no matter how you slice it, Hunter’s business dealings and kickbacks to Joe Biden still stink to high heaven. In recent weeks, it’s been conceded Hunter Biden’s laptop is genuine, not Russian disinformation as ridiculously claimed. Information from the laptop documents the Biden-Burisma connection and a pay-to-play scheme in Ukraine, how Vice President Joe Biden intervened to get a Ukrainian prosecutor off Hunter’s back, and Hunter’s questionable activities in Moscow, China, and Kazakhstan. The laptop also shows Hunter Biden met with Vice President Joe Biden at the White House or the Vice President’s residence at least 30 times, often just after returning from overseas business trips. A Hunter Biden business associate attended 21 of those meetings.
Emails on the laptop and now available online show a Mexican billionaire received access to the White House because Hunter Biden requested it.
Joe Biden claims to this day he doesn’t know anything about Hunter’s business dealings, a claim which has been thoroughly debunked. Recovered files from the laptop show, not only did Joe Biden know about Hunter’s business dealings, but Joe Biden offered to help more than once and even referred more business to Hunter Biden. The White House won’t answer any questions about the laptop (more here). Gee, I wonder why.
A recovered text message from Hunter Biden raises questions about why he was working with China’s chief of intelligence, and whether China arrested CIA sources in retaliation for the Justice Department arresting Hunter’s Chinese business partner. Emails show Joe Biden wrote a college recommendation letter for the son of Hunter Biden’s Chinese business partner. Bank records released by two U.S. Senators show Hunter Biden has financial ties to companies linked to the Chinese Communist Party or government. One of the companies wired $1 million dollars to a Hunter Biden company the same month the Chinese company’s lobbyist was arrested by U.S. authorities for bribery and money laundering. He was later convicted.
Most recently, the Biden administration sold China a million barrels of oil from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve. This was oil set aside to help Americans but Joe Biden sold it to China, specifically to Sinopec in which Hunter Biden has a financial interest. Our China policy is, what again?
Finally, we’ve been hearing for a long time Hunter would divest himself of a financial stake in a Chinese oil company. The latest report from two days ago is he still hasn’t done so.
In 1973, Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned in disgrace after a scandal involving a $10,000 bribe. My, how times have changed, and not for the better.
7/20/22 - Both Sides Raising the Stakes in Election Process
Georgia prosecutors are investigating all 16 Trump alternate electors in the 2020 election for alleged subversion of the Electoral College. Critics say the alternate electors were following the established constitutional process for challenging disputed elections.
Meanwhile, the Democrats are ramping up an effort to commandeer the election machinery by getting Democrats voted in as elections officials all across the country. This is a new $80 million effort and it’s patterned after George Soros’ multi-million effort to get left-wing Secretaries of State and out-of-control progressive prosecutors who won’t prosecute into office. The new effort is called ‘Clerk Work’ and it’s being spearheaded by the Run for Something PAC headed by a former Hillary Clinton campaign staffer. The $80 million is coming from a Hillary Clinton-affiliated (c)(4), Chan Zuckerberg, LinkedIn, ActBlue, and others. This follows another recently announced $80 million Democrat effort - the Alliance for Election Excellence - to schmooze local elections officials and give them ‘advice’. One of the participants - the Zuckerberg-funded Center for Tech and Civic Life - teaches elections officials how to conspire with each other and the media. Which could explain the recent spate of stories about how elections officials feel, oh so threatened by those mean Republicans.
But Team Red is also raising the stakes in the election process. It was just announced a Constitutional Sheriffs association is teaming up with True the Vote to investigate election fraud claims in the 2020 presidential election and future elections. Obama’s IRS couldn’t kill True the Vote and the organization is fresh off a stunning success with its ‘2000 Mules’ documentary showing extensive ballot trafficking occurring at COVID-era drop boxes. Democrats LOVE those drop boxes and are trying to make them permanent, and now we know why.
The sheriffs’ initiative is raising money so law enforcement will have the resources to conduct surveillance of drop boxes, use artificial intelligence to analyze drop box video, and set up hotlines to report suspicious activity at drop boxes and polling places. The Democrats are freaking out at the prospect elections just might become more secure. You should read the hysterical Reuters article on the sheriff’s initiative. If you didn’t know any better, you would come away believing the sky is falling. Reuters is a hopelessly left-wing arm of the Democrat Party posing as honest brokers of the news. They are anything but.
Team Red is continuing to enjoy success in getting common-sense election reforms adopted at the state level. Missouri’s Governor recently signed a bill banning drop boxes and requiring voter ID which has been widely upheld in the courts. Even Stacey Abrams will tell you voter ID laws are not racist. The Democrats have lost the voter ID argument. It’s all over but the shouting and, boy, do they continue to shout. Missouri’s new law also stops indiscriminate mail-in voting and gets rid of electronic voting machines in 2024, requiring them to be ‘air-gapped’ from the Internet in the meantime. This is a great victory for election integrity.
In case you’re one of the few Americans remaining who still believe the 2020 elections were the ‘most secure’ ever, have I got news for you. The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled the use of drop boxes in the 2020 election was illegal and candidates are calling for the state’s 2020 election results to be decertified as a result. In Arizona, newly released video shows ballot mules forging signatures on ballot envelopes. Federal authorities have confirmed two Iranian nationals hacked into a state computer election system in the 2020 election. There was illegal ballot harvesting in Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin, not to mention dirty voter rolls, nursing home fraud, and over a dozen more documented problems with the 2020 election. None of this can seriously be disputed.
No wonder people are up in arms and demanding election integrity. Citizen efforts to clean up the voter rolls are underway in Michigan, Maryland, and elsewhere. Recent articles from Democrat-controlled media are howling about election integrity efforts from professional paid groups on the Right, but they miss the mark. It’s the grassroots efforts that will eventually return us to free and fair elections. Smear us all you want, but we know we’re right, and we’re not going away. So, get over it. Your days of cheating are coming to an end.
7/19/22 - Bad Moves by Bad People for Bad Policies
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Move over, Deplorables. Here come the Despicables.
The January 6th Committee is putting on its dog-and-pony show supposedly for the purpose of passing new legislation to secure the Capitol building. But ask yourself this: if they had a case that insurrection occurred that day, why would they need to doctor the evidence they’re showing the public? Liberal Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz blasted the Committee for editing out part of Trump’s speech:
- It was unethical,” Dershowitz said. “Why was it unethical? ... [Trump] said at the end of the speech he wanted people to show their voices patriotically and peacefully. They doctored the tape! They edited those words out. If a prosecutor ever did that they’d be disbarred!
Speaking of environmental groups, green special interests couldn’t get the Green New Deal through Congress, so now they’re squeezing the private sector to achieve the same ends. They are:
- pressuring banks not to lend to fossil fuel companies which supply most of our energy
- using ESG (environmental, social, and governance) scoring - which some states have moved to outlaw - to withhold capital from fossil fuel companies, and
- proposing through the SEC that corporations make burdensome climate disclosures, not only about themselves, but about their suppliers, vendors, and shippers, imposing major new laws while bypassing the democratic process.
The Left lies about more than climate change. Abortion activists claimed there was overwhelming public support for Roe v. Wade. They’ve been lying about public support for abortion since even before Roe. Today, the fact of the matter is 70 percent of Americans oppose abortion in the second trimester.
What other behavior would you expect from a bunch of liars? There are any number of stories about abortion clinics trying to hide botched abortions occurring on their premises (here’s one). The Biden administration is encouraging teenage girls to get secret abortions and hide them from their parents. A high school in Seattle is forcing students to sign a pledge saying they support abortion or they will not get access to a mentoring program.
These are bad people who have no moral compass for whom winning is the only thing. To them, the ends justify the means. It doesn’t matter how much they lie or who they hurt, as long as they win. But as George Orwell observed, you can’t reach supposedly noble ends with despicable means. The very process of using evil means will corrupt the people using them, making their ends unattainable, no matter how hard they try. They end up bad people. Are you one of them? I hope not. If you’ve listened to everything I’ve said and still say to yourself, ‘Go, Team, Go!’, you need to take a long hard look in the mirror and ask yourself how you could have let yourself become so Despicable.
7/18/22 - Tide Turning on Woke Criminal Justice Cabal
Last month, San Francisco voters, fed up with high crime, ousted progressive prosecutor Chesa Boudin in a recall election. The new DA has just cleaned house, firing 15 employees in a new emphasis on public safety. She vowed to hold “serious and repeat offenders accountable.” Put this together with the jurisdictions re-funding the police and walking back their no-cash bail policies, and it appears Woke criminal justice reform has passed its peak. Funny what happens when people get mugged by reality.
But there’s work left to do in many places. West Hollywood is reducing the size of its sheriff’s department despite the fact crime is up 137 percent. Chicago police are no longer allowed to chase people on foot. A one-man crime wave was arrested five times in ten days in New York City, after being released without bail for a slashing and other crimes. The New York subway stabber was released from jail the night before, having been given ‘time served’ for brandishing a knife at police. In all, violent crime is way up in New York and other cities controlled by Democrats.
Cashless bail, not letting police do their job, or getting rid of police officers entirely - we already know how these stories end, and they don’t end well. But hope springs eternal in the fantasyland of the mindless Left.
The stories will end just as badly in cities still stuck with progressive prosecutors. Steve Descano’s office in Fairfax, Virginia sought a light sentence for a man charged with assault and battery. The man went on to beat a 63-year-old woman to death at a bus stop. Next door in Loudon County, a judge removed the progressive prosecutor from a case for “deliberately misleading the Court and the public” in an attempt to ‘sell’ a plea deal. In Philadelphia, progressive prosecutor Larry Krasner dropped charges against three Antifa members who beat two Hispanic men. The progressive prosecutor in L.A., George Gascon, treated a 17-year-old repeat offender as a juvenile and asked the court to put him in a probation camp after the offender tried to kill a young mother and child, despite the fact the offender was on parole and violating the terms of his release at the time of the attack.
The puppetmaster behind all these progressive prosecutors is George Soros who has spent $40 million to elect 75 progressive prosecutors around the country. The man evidently wants to sow chaos and is spending his fortune to do it. Twenty-eight of his puppets signed an open letter after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade saying they will defy state laws that limit abortion. These lawless puppets want to play state legislature and decide what the laws should be, which is not their role. This is chaos. Before you say you kinda like the idea of not enforcing abortion laws, let’s change the facts: How would you like it if 28 Trump prosecutors said they would not enforce climate emergency laws?
On the Left, the issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution. Woke criminal justice reform isn’t just about evening the score for the supposedly downtrodden and oppressed. It’s about creating chaos, to make society stink and push frustrated citizens into voting left-wing authoritarian governments into power to clean up the mess the authoritarians created in the first place. But Woke criminal justice reform is on the decline and, now, two progressive prosecutors have gone down to ignominious defeat at the polls. If the Left wants to create further chaos, they’re going to have to find another way to do it.
7/8/22 - The White House Goes Full Pravda
I’ve often said the rise of the authoritarian Left is the greatest challenge of our time. You can see the truth of that statement in the way the Biden administration is trying to shut people up and snuff out competing points of view.
A reporter tried to ask the White House press secretary about favored media outlets being invited to special White House press events while others are shut out and blacklisted. His microphone was cut off halfway through his question.
A recent executive order threatens consequences for any public school official who merely questions a child’s desire for gender-transitioning drugs and surgery. Can’t have the new orthodoxy disrupted, you see.
White House climate advisor Gina McCarthy urged social media companies to “really jump in” and stamp out misinformation pointing out the inflationary costs and unreliability of green energy sources. Can’t have the magnificent green energy transition disrupted, you see.
McCarthy’s urgings are part of a larger administration effort to work with climate activists and Democrat-controlled congressional committees to silence political opponents. The White House is recruiting activists and academics to discredit dissenters on climate change. Open records requests have been filed to find out just how far the speech suppression efforts go.
It’s been widely reported the DHS Disinformation Governance Board is merely paused, not shut down. Getting less attention is a new White House Task Force headed by Kamala Harris targeting supposed online harassment, abuse, and disinformation. The Task Force is in the business of policing online speech that offends the administration. You can dress this up any way you want, but it’s still censorship. Get your Stalin on, baby.
So what we have here is a government that seeks to take people’s free speech rights away. This is just the opposite of what government is supposed to do. Government is supposed to protect our rights, not take them away from us. [See the Instant Graduate Degree in Political Science]
As for free speech rights, you have the right to be wrong about climate change or anything else. The answer to erroneous speech is not government censorship; it’s more speech. If you think the green energy transition will lead to nirvana, make your case, don’t shut me up.
I guarantee you do not want to live in a world where the government decides what is true and disallows speech it deems to be false. You should listen to the survivors of communism in my speakers bureau who will tell you it is truly awful to live in a country where you have to whisper what you really think on street corners and agree in advance with the person with whom you are speaking you will tell the authorities you were only talking about football if you are questioned about what the two of you said to each other.
So here’s my message to everybody, the Biden administration included: The more you try to shut me up, the more I’m going to scream and I’ve got the trial attorney experience to do it. If you want to silence me, you will have to pry this microphone from my cold, dead fingers. Climate change is a hoax and transgenderism is communism. There, I said it. Come and get me.
7/7/22 - Impeach Joe Biden for the Border Invasion
Five Texas counties declared the crisis at the southern border an “invasion” and called on Texas Governor Greg Abbott to stop illegal immigration. Dead bodies, gang-rapes, and aliens coming through in camouflage clothing are now common occurrences in these counties.
Joe Biden’s open borders policies are to blame. Here are some more policy changes to add to the long list I’ve given you in previous commentaries: Joe Biden is legally obligated to spend money Congress has appropriated to continue building Trump’s wall, but Biden won’t do it. The Biden administration just approved subsidized health insurance for illegal aliens in Colorado. The administration is quietly removing Trump-appointed judges from immigration courts and replacing them with pro-alien appointees. The administration is also dismissing immigration cases by the tens of thousands in what observers call “de facto amnesty”. The administration is also allowing people who have worked with designated terrorist groups to enter the U.S. legally.
The threat to national security from Biden’s open borders policies is growing. Experts say there are more people who get away from border agents than are apprehended and most ‘got-aways’ are military-age males. There are now so many Muslims entering the U.S. illegally - including Muslims from terror-prone countries - a special shelter has been built for them just over the border in Tijuana.
Potential terrorism is not the only problem arising from Biden’s open borders policies. Illegal alien criminals with felonies are supposed to be deported, but Joe Biden just said Driving Under the Influence charges would not count. He must have forgotten the case of the nun who was killed by an illegal alien driving drunk in Virginia in 2010. I haven’t.
Meanwhile, deadly fentanyl continues to pour across the border, so much even Congressional Democrats are complaining. Another problem not getting nearly enough attention is widespread identity theft as illegal aliens seek U.S. credentials to work. The 51 migrants cooked to death in a truck in San Antonio recently were, sadly, just a few of the hundreds who die attempting to enter the U.S. illegally - over 700 last year alone. Finally, a government study confirms what we already knew - one-third of illegal aliens let go under the Biden administration’s catch-and-release program end up absconding. Nobody knows where they are.
The White House just told us again “the border is closed.” Surely they must know how stupid they look saying this when five Texas counties and anybody else with a lick of sense can see it’s an “invasion”. If Republicans take back the House, they might impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for failing to faithfully execute the nation’s immigration laws. I hope the Republicans don’t stop there. I hope they impeach Joe Biden for high crimes and misdemeanors. His loyalty is not to you and me. His open borders policies show his allegiance lies elsewhere. Joe Biden hates America and he’s trying to destroy it. For that, he should be impeached and thrown out of office.
7/6/22 - Democrats Crank Up Propaganda Machine on Elections
You need to be aware the Democrats’ propaganda machine is cranked up to ‘hi’ on elections. They are mischaracterizing just about everything having to do with elections these days.
Let’s start with the claim Donald Trump tried to ‘overturn the election’ and is, therefore a ‘threat to democracy’. I say he pursued legal challenges under the constitutionally-prescribed process for contesting election results, nothing more. Isn’t that what you would do if you thought an election was stolen from you?
Under our system, which has been called “messy” and “deficient”, legal challenges are brought under Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution having to do with the appointment of electors to the Electoral College. It is possible for rival sets of electors to be sent to Washington if state governors and legislatures don’t agree on the slate. The procedures go on from there to provide for challenges in the U.S. House and Senate to exclude electors from the Electoral College vote count. There were dueling electors in the contested election of 1876 and, in a challenge brought by Democrats, in Hawaii in 1960. Nancy Pelosi’s daughter led a challenge to Trump electors in 2016. Nobody accused the Democrats of trying to ‘overturn the election’ in those instances, did they? But that’s the propaganda we’re getting from the Democrats now and it’s escalated to the point where the Biden Justice Department is investigating Republicans involved in efforts to send alternate electors to Congress in the 2020 election. Trump forces also went to court and won on the merits in 22 out of 39 lawsuits brought contesting various aspects of that election.
So what, exactly, did Trump do? He pursued possibilities for alternate electors - just like Democrats before him - and brought cases in court, many of which he won. That’s it. No martial law, no calling out the army, nothing beyond legal processes. Democrats are twisting his efforts to convince you his efforts are something they are not.
Next, we turn to the claim that 2020 ‘election deniers’ are spreading ‘misinformation’ and pose a threat to future elections. The propaganda on this is very thin, turning quickly to reform efforts to improve future election integrity. The ‘election denier’ smear is intended to discredit legitimate efforts to enact voter ID laws which are routinely upheld by courts, curb the use of insecure mail-in voting which Democrat Jimmy Carter recognized is a problem, and get rid of things like dropboxes which only came in because of COVID but the Democrats have succeeded in making permanent in many states. If working for free and fair elections in the future is ‘election denial’, I’ll eat my hat.
The latest mischaracterization came when the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case testing the power of state legislatures to make laws regarding elections. To hear Democrats tell it, the conservative Supreme Court is poised to give unchecked power to state legislatures to shut out state governors and courts, favor their own party, and undermine democracy. You have to remember that Democrat elections officials approved dropboxes and mail-in voting in 2020, invoking emergency powers in the pandemic to do so, without permission from state lawmakers. If anyone is a threat to democracy in this situation, it’s unelected bureaucrats who worked overtime to help the Democrats 2020, not the duly elected state lawmakers. Moreover, a new government report shows how elections officials can work inside the system to threaten fair elections. That being the case, I don’t mind more oversight and stricter procedures mandated by state lawmakers who are the duly elected representatives of the people. Especially when Article I, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution gives primary responsibility for elections to state legislatures. Moreover, it’s been reported that local and state elections officials are secretly meeting with Democrat funders and left-wing organizations to discuss future elections - no Republicans allowed. What’s that about? This is all from government documents and can’t be denied.
So, when the Democrat propaganda machine tries to convince you Republicans are working to unlawfully overturn the results of past elections and rig elections in the future, your first reaction should be ‘poppycock’, because that’s what it is.
7/5/22 - Medals of Honor, Badges of Shame
Hershel “Woody” Williams, the last World War II Medal of Honor recipient, will lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol later this month. He died at the age of 98. The Medal of Honor is the nation’s highest military award for bravery, awarded by the President in the name of Congress. Williams went out alone to try to take out machine-gun positions on Iwo Jima so tanks could open a lane for U.S. infantry troops to advance.
He deserves our thanks for defending freedom. Other people in the news recently deserve our condemnation for undermining it. Shame on them.
The National Archives put a ‘harmful language alert’ on the cornerstone of freedom, the U.S. Constitution, warning readers the document supposedly contains biased or offensive language. The National Archives’ outrage is selective because no such warnings appear on a document containing the N-word or a document using the K-word to refer to Jews. But the Constitution? Beyond the pale, apparently.
The Democrat Party in Pima County, Arizona posted “F*ck the 4th” on social media sites, referring to Independence Day. I don’t care what led them to it. They are ingrates taking this magnificent country for granted, and that’s the issue as I see it in this situation.
The City of Orlando insulted the country in the course of inviting people to the City’s 4th of July fireworks display. “A lot of people probably don’t want to celebrate our nation right now, and we can’t blame them.... When there is so much division, hate, and unrest, why on earth would you want to have a party celebrating any of it?” The City apologized later, but a Democrat state lawmaker said it shouldn’t have. A Democrat - it figures. One time, my Tea Party was marching in a parade handing out pocket Constitutions. I’ll never forget - one lady held up her hands to refuse: “Oh no, I’m a Democrat. We don’t NEED the Constitution.”
Another Democrat, a congressman from Rhode Island, said, ““Spare me the [blanket-blank] Constitutional rights,” in reference to the gun debate. Congressman Cicilline, in case you don’t know it, the Second Amendment exists to protect us from wannabe tyrants like you.
A Major League Baseball manager in San Francisco said he would boycott the National Anthem at games until he ‘feels better’ about the direction of the country. Feels better? Gabe Kapler, thank your lucky stars you have a country to play baseball in.
With adults like these, is it any wonder more than 30 percent of school kids don’t know the 50 stars on the American flag represent the 50 states? Honestly, how long do you expect the country to last if we keep going like this?
But there are some bright spots amidst the decay.
In honor of Independence Day, a group of pro-America businesses donated a portion of their revenue to ‘Folds of Honor’ which provides scholarships to spouses and children of America’s fallen and disabled service members.
Another military-related charity, Wreaths Across America, donated land for a patriotic park in Maine that will have the world’s tallest flagpole plus remembrances of all 24 million veterans who have served our country since the Revolutionary War. That would include the forgotten black patriots who fought alongside the colonists in that War of Independence.
Scott Walker, the former Governor of Wisconsin, wrote an op-ed praising a high school student who petitioned her school to restore the Pledge of Allegiance. Good idea, I hope it catches on.
Florida is putting money behind its initiative to teach civics in school so students know what is required to maintain our Republic. The money will go for implementing the project and teacher bonuses.
Before you leave the 4th of July 2022 entirely behind, I encourage you to watch my Tea Party’s short Independence Day video on mooring ourselves in public and private virtue, preserving the proper balance of our Constitutional order, and emphasizing what brings us together in national unity and purpose, I also encourage you to remember the sacrifice “Woody” Williams and so many others made on Iwo Jima and other battlefields to defend our freedom. Those who scoff at our flag and the notion of patriotism dishonor their memory and sow chaos.
7/1/22 - War on Parents: Fight to Win
Imagine a country where a National School Boards Association got the Justice Department to label parents who speak up at school board meetings “domestic terrorists” and, not only that, the Association even wanted to call out the military on parents who object to school board policies. That country is America today. It warms the cockles of my heart to know that at least twenty-five state chapters have left the National School Boards Association for attacking parents.
Today, I show you more ways it’s possible to fight back against those waging war against parents and win. Suits against schools secretly gender transitioning children without parental knowledge are pending in Wisconsin, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. I’m not aware of any decisions, yet, though. Parents also sued in Pennsylvania over a teacher giving first-graders lessons about gender transitioning and dysphoria. Among other things, the teacher showed the 6-year-old class a video entitled, “Jacob’s New Dress”.
Parents have also filed suit on other theories. Parents in Virginia sued their school district for moral corruption of their children and violation of parental rights. A mother in Virginia sued her school district for alienation of affection, alleging that anti-racism lessons turned her 8th-grade biracial son against her. She can’t even ask him to help clean the house without him calling her a racist. Parents in New Jersey sued over anti-racism lessons, arguing they discriminate against whites and create a hostile educational environment.
People are fighting back in other ways, outside the courtroom. Some are seeking a parental bill rights for their state constitution, although such an effort was recently unsuccessful in Missouri. Also in Missouri, the state Attorney General sent subpoenas to seven school districts over invasive student questionnaires that pry into students’ sexual behavior and - get this - their parents’ political beliefs. A Florida school district fired a teacher for discussing her ’pansexual’ status with 12-year-old students. A Catholic bishop excommunicated a school that refused to stop flying Black Lives Matter and rainbow flags, which are inconsistent with Catholic teachings. Republican lawmakers in Congress have proposed a bill that would allow victims to sue doctors who performed mutilating sex change surgery on them when they were minors. European countries have taken steps to rein in the use of puberty blockers in children.
Some parents upset with school boards have worked to throw the bums out in the next election. The effort was so successful in one Texas county, that 10 out of 11 school board seats are now in the hands of conservatives. A recall election was successful in San Francisco where the new board voted to restore merit-based admissions to an elite high school, throwing out a lottery that was designed to increase diversity at the school.
Another victory was notched in Ohio where a school board cancelled Diversity Day after parents complained it was just political indoctrination. The victories don’t end there. A Virginia court ruled ‘Gender Queer’ and another sexually explicit novel are obscene and unsuitable for school libraries. Finally, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis prevailed over textbook publishers who capitulated and removed Woke content like Critical Race Theory from math textbooks.
So, you see, it’s possible to fight back and win. The Left wants you to think you’re crazy, you’re deplorable, you’re in the minority, you’re helpless, and you’re alone. None of these things are true. Now get out there and fight these creeps. Your children are depending on you.