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9/23/22 - China Swamp: Where Personal Corruption Breeds National Security Threats
The Hunter Biden laptop is the gift that keeps on giving. Memos on the laptop show the Biden family was involved in 21 deals in 2017 and 2018 to sell U.S. natural gas facilities and other energy assets to communist China. The ultimate goal was to give China ownership in all different phases of the natural gas industry in the United States. Lest you still believe the fairy tale Hunter Biden’s laptop is just Russian disinformation, you should know two whistleblowers with first-hand knowledge of the deals have stepped forward to verify the details, including the fact Joe Biden was a partner in one deal to the point he had office space to work on it. This is another reason to elect Republicans to the House. They have promised oversight hearings to bring all this to light.
It has also recently been reported that emails show Hunter Biden offered to introduce business associates to a high level Chinese Communist Party official, helped a Chinese influence operation gain a foothold in America, and co-founded Sinopec, the Chinese state-run energy firm to which Joe Biden has been selling oil out of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
But it’s not just the Biden family. Chinese incursions into the U.S. are widespread, extending throughout the Biden administration and beyond, and involving land purchases, media and influence operations, and infiltration of college campuses.
The Energy Department reportedly sold advanced government-funded battery technology to China. A Biden climate appointee who talks openly of leaving fossil fuels behind studied at a Chinese university flagged for its ties to China’s military. The university specializes in defense research and cyberattacks. Joe Biden appointed John Podesta to oversee $370 billion in climate spending, which is worrisome because Podesta sings China’s praises and encourages Chinese investment in American infrastructure. Last year, Joe Biden reversed Donald Trump’s ban on American businesses working with China-connected TikTok.
Also thanks to Joe Biden, colleges and universities no longer have to disclose their connections to China’s Confucius Institutes. China is rebranding the institutes to escape all the bad publicity the institutes have generated.
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, which receives federal funding, hired 20 members of the Chinese Communist Party between 2015 and 2021. There are concerns YouTube demonetizes channels raising questions about China’s activities. A Chinese biotech firm with ties to China’s military and COVID-19 program bought 1,400 acres of farmland in Florida to build a research facility. Observers are concerned this is part of China’s expressly stated goal of developing bioweaponry. Some 162 scientists who worked at Los Alamos returned home to China over the last 35 years to help China develop its nuclear and advanced weapons programs.
The China swamp is where personal corruption breeds national security threats. If we’re going to expose our soft underbelly to the Chinese communists, don’t be surprised when, one day, they slice it open.
Tell your congressional representative to get on the case. But China’s influence operations also extend to the state and local level. You might also start asking questions about China’s involvement in your neck of the woods.
9/22/22 - DeSantis Airlines Flies Unfriendly Skies
If Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ flying illegal aliens to Martha’s Vineyard was a political stunt, it sure worked. Finally, the country is buzzing about illegal immigration, and Joe Biden’s open borders policies are getting the attention they deserve. But left-wing activists and their willing accomplices in the press hate DeSantis for it, and are launching Stinger missiles - including a class action lawsuit alleging misrepresentation - into his operation.
DeSantis’ flights are meant to draw attention to the ruinous consequences of Biden’s open borders policies: chaos at the border, fentanyl deaths, and a growing terrorist threat chief among them.
Biden’s border chaos continues. The border patrol reports it has encountered more than two million illegal aliens so far this fiscal year, a record number. That’s 8,000 encounters a day, the highest ever. That doesn’t even count the ‘got-aways’. All these people are now in the country. Instead of closing the border, Kamala Harris wants to reward these law-breakers with a pathway to citizenship. Two more Texas counties responded to the border chaos by declaring it an “invasion” - bringing the total to 29 - and Texas Governor Greg Abbott has just designated Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations.
Speaking of terrorists, Venezuelan paramilitary personnel are embedding themselves into north-bound caravans and organizing into cell structures led by unit commanders once inside the United States. So it appears Latin American socialists are not done exporting revolution just yet. On top of that, an Inspector General report found the Biden administration let Afghan evacuees into the country who were not properly vetted, some of whom are national security risks. Oh, Joe, what have you done.
As for fentanyl, Florida authorities seized enough fentanyl to kill four million people. The fentanyl was routed through California, but there was enough left there to kill a girl who died at school and cause six other students to overdose. Record amounts of fentanyl and meth are being seized in Texas and Arizona. Oh Joe, what have you done.
Arizona authorities have lost track of 550 alien children. It is feared many of the missing children are now victims of sex trafficking. Almost 750 illegal aliens have died trying to cross the southern border this fiscal year. Texas morgues are ordering more refrigerators to keep up with the flow of dead bodies. Oh Joe, what have you done.
Double down, that’s what he’s done. In previous commentaries, I’ve given you more than two dozen policy changes the Biden administration has made to open the border. Here are two more to add to the list: prohibiting the use of GPS technology to track the whereabouts of illegal aliens released into the U.S., and allowing illegal aliens to receive food stamps, Medicaid, and housing benefits without being barred from permanent admission as a public charge. Also, an Inspector General report indicated the administration is doing a bad job screening visa applications in foreign countries and cannot certify applicants are properly vetted.
In previous commentaries, I’ve listed various theories that could account for why Biden wants the border open: replacing the present population and getting a permanent political majority for the Democrats. Here’s one more to add to the mix: Miss Venezuela 1984, now in the United States, warns an open border is prelude to a left-wing authoritarian takeover. It happened in Venezuela before Chavez took power, and it could happen here. If that sounds far-fetched, consider this. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, an open borders crazy, met with George Soros-funded groups during a trip to the border last year, according to government records. Wouldn’t you like to know what they discussed? Is it possible the Biden administration is in touch with socialist revolutionaries from Venezuela now in the United States to start the preparation for a left-wing authoritarian takeover? Are they here to disrupt the November elections and provoke a national emergency so the elections can be canceled? If not, what ARE they here for? Explain it to me.
But if you start asking questions like these, be prepared to fly some unfriendly skies.
9/21/22 - Election Fraud: The Jig Is Up
There’s so much Democrats believe about elections that just ain’t so. They yap all the time about election deniers, but never seem to worry about the election deniers in their own party. The list of Democrat election deniers includes Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Barrack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Stacey Abrams, Al Gore, Senator Patty Murray, and countless others who questioned election results. One journalist compiled a list of 82 Democrat election deniers. Republican researchers found 150. So spare me the phony narrative about Republicans being election deniers.
And spare me the whole mythology Democrats have built up that election integrity laws are Republican attempts to suppress the vote. The fact of the matter is election integrity laws were passed in 2021 in Arizona, Georgia, Texas, Florida, and Iowa. Voter turnout went UP, not down, in all five states in subsequent elections compared to 2018.
The Democrats are bitter clingers when it comes to election denier and voter suppression mythology. This whole charade is meant to deflect attention away from Democrat attempts to rig elections. The Democrat Secretary of State in Michigan is in court trying to keep dead people on the voter rolls. You gotta ask yourself why she would want to do that. Because it makes it easier to steal elections. When the votes are counted, you have to match up fraudulent votes for Democrat candidates with records of voters who haven’t voted. The dirtier the voter rolls are, the easier it is to find people who haven’t voted - like dead people. The easier it is to commit election fraud.
But ordinary people have had enough of Democrat cheating. Ordinary people just want free and fair elections back, and they’re working hard to achieve it.
One group discovered how easy it is to forge signatures on mail-in ballots. Just circulate a petition - ‘Mr. President, Save the Whales’ - scan the signatures, and drop them into real mail-in ballots you grabbed from apartment buildings or got from your Democrat buddies who work for the Post Office. Automate the process and, viola!, you have thousands of fake ballots you can drop into any old drop box, which the Democrats justified creating in the name of preventing COVID transmission but, somehow, we still have. When the people who signed the petition go to vote, they’ll be told they already voted. Folks, that’s how easy it is to steal your vote and how loose the Democrats want our elections to be.
A citizens group in Florida examined voter rolls and found thousands of instances where people did not live at the stated address, many addresses that weren’t residences, and hundreds of dead people on the rolls.
An activist in Wisconsin brought a criminal complaint against a Milwaukee election official for setting up a tent in a back alley to accept ballots from cars, no questions asked and no poll watchers present.
Republican and conservative groups filed suit in Pennsylvania over Democrat counties contacting voters to cure defects in their mail-in ballots in violation of state law.
After an activist in East Lansing, Michigan found nonexistent addresses, votes from closed college dorms, and other problems with the voter rolls, the County Clerk and willing accomplices in the media tried to discredit the work. Not a good look, resisting the cleaning of voter rolls. Don’t you Democrats realize how suspicious you look when you do that?
You also look suspicious when you defy laws that require the appointment of an equal number of Republican and Democrat poll workers. Kalamazoo hired 132 Democrats but only 60 Republicans for the August primary despite more than enough Republican names being submitted for consideration. In Flint, the ratio was even worse. [details here]
Connect the dots and the picture is unmistakably clear: Democrats try to rig the game and steal elections. So forgive me when I look at Democrat election so-called ‘reform’ proposals and see attempts to rig elections on steroids. One proposal - recently rejected by the Arizona Supreme Court for failing to collect enough signatures to put it on the ballot - would have gutted voter ID, eliminated safeguards against noncitizen voting, removed constraints on mail-in balloting, and facilitated vote trafficking by political operatives. A similar super-scam is pending in Michigan.
The Democrats, predictably, claimed the Arizona court was “suppressing democracy”. That’s all the Democrats have - empty rhetoric. But the jig is up. We see right through you. And we’ll go right on challenging election results and passing election integrity laws until every election in this country is free and fair, again.
9/20/22 - Woke Pentagon Ravaging the Military
Did you know that the diversity chief for the Defense Department’s K-thru-12 school system once tweeted, “I’m exhausted with these white folx in these [professional development] sessions.” She also tweeted, ““[T]his lady actually had the CAUdacity to say that black people can be racist too… I had to stop the session and give Karen the BUSINESS… [W]e are not the majority, we don’t have power” - the implication being that black people can’t be racist, which is crazy, they most certainly can. ‘CAUdacity’ is a play on Caucasians with the audacity born of so-called white privilege. The diversity chief deleted her Twitter account, trying to cover her tracks, but House Republicans found out about it and demanded the Pentagon investigate, which the Pentagon has agreed to do. But don’t hold your breath. It’s most likely this Woke Pentagon we’re stuck with for now will end up minimizing the whole thing or, even worse, congratulating the diversity chief for her courage to tell the truth and for bringing people together with her divisive rhetoric.
Concerns about the Woke Pentagon destroying our military didn’t begin with the discovery of the diversity chief’s tweets. One observer recently looked at the actions of the Biden Pentagon and said “the era of wokeness permeating all branches is impacting unit cohesion and combat readiness to such a degree that many ... worry about America’s ability to wage war effectively when required to do so.” The Secretary of the Navy recently wrote about his accomplishments after one year on the job, citing progress on sexual harassment, mental health, spouse employment, and other such issues. Critics pointed out he talked about everything except naval power and war-fighting capability.
In previous commentaries I’ve given you numerous examples of Wokitude taking over the military. Unfortunately, it’s still going on. Here’s the latest:
Recently obtained government records show the depth of communist-inspired Critical Race Theory (CRT) instruction at West Point. There’s even a slide entitled “Modern Day Slavery in the USA”. Kinda makes you want to go out and defend your country, doesn’t it?
The Pacific branch of the Air Force, which faces off with China, just banned all references to race, age, and gender in order to improve lethality. ‘We must embrace, promote and unleash the potential of diversity and inclusion,” an Air Force email said. I thought the Air Force was supposed to unleash bombers and missiles when called upon to do so, but I could be mistaken about that.
And, as usual, communist-inspired transgenderism is front and center. The Biden administration ordered last year that transgenders be allowed to serve openly in the military. As a result, it is now mandatory that transgenders be allowed into male barracks, bathrooms, and shower facilities, even if they haven’t had their surgery yet. So there you are, some private with no choice standing in the shower next to a transgender with female genitalia and, if you don’t like it, you’re subject to disciplinary action. So much for unit cohesion, there are more important things when you’re staring down the barrels of enemy guns, or so the Woke Biden Pentagon thinks. In case you don’t know it, it is a communist technique to deliberately introduce ideas that break everything down so communists can usher in the revolution. It’s called the ‘Hegelian Dialectic’ and it’s no secret.
But that’s not all: Drag Queen Story Hour for children may have been cancelled at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, but the Woke Air Force didn’t give up. It recently put on a drag show at a family festival at a base in Virginia. Meanwhile, the Navy announced it means business on preferred pronouns. Deliberately mislabel a transgender service member and you will face disciplinary action.
I’ve mentioned the effect all this has on morale and unit cohesion. But stories continue to come in about how it is damaging recruitment. The Army is having its worst recruitment year in 50 years and expects to be 40,000 soldiers short in three years. Feel safer now? The Army is shifting $1 billion to recruitment to compensate, and laying plans to rely more on reserves. A billion dollars will buy a lot of air time. I can see the ads now - ‘Be all you can be’, if you know who you are in the first place, don’t mind being used as a political pawn in the coming revolution, and would rather chase rainbows than fire a gun. Yep, a billion dollars ought to help recruitment immensely.
Retired military officers have been asking West Point about Critical Race Theory, political activism, and the other ways in which the academy has gone Woke. They’re not getting any answers, which is not surprising. Power concedes nothing, even if there is a demand. (Apologies to Frederick Douglass.) So jam it to us while you can, Democrats, the reckoning is coming in November.
9/19/22 - What’s the Matter with Kids These Days?
Today I free my inner crank and tell you to get off my lawn. I’m an attorney by training and had to pass three bar exams to be licensed to practice in three jurisdictions. It wasn’t easy, but my clients were assured I knew my stuff. That would no longer be the case if a proposal to do away with the bar exam carries the day. The Delaware Supreme Court diversity committee recommended that prospective lawyers be licensed to practice by gathering personal recommendations and working in clerkships instead of taking the bar exam. The committee said the exam is a “barrier” to blacks and Hispanics. But in a congressional hearing, Senator Ted Cruz pointed out the obvious racism in this approach, the notion that blacks and Hispanics are too stupid to pass the test. "Do you believe that there's something about Hispanics and African-Americans that prevents them from taking the bar exam and doing well on it?" Cruz, who is Hispanic, asked a judicial nominee who is black. Both took and passed bar exams. Cruz went on to argue cases at the Supreme Court, reaching a pinnacle of the profession.
If lower standards for lawyers don’t bother you, how about your doctor? Minorities in some circumstances can now gain admission to the University of Pennsylvania’s med school without taking the MCAT admissions test. All they have to do is complete college-level science courses. One doctor noted that doctors are called upon to make life and death decisions. “The stakes are too high to start lowering standards or taking shortcuts with basic fundamental scientific knowledge necessary for developing critical thinking skills to diagnose and properly treat diseases,” the doctor says.
Lower standards are not just a growing problem at professional schools. A college instructor at the University of Cincinnati says rules against plagiarism and cheating on tests unfairly affect minority students more than whites. “[T]he idea of academic integrity is racialized through and through,” he says. Minority students are more often accused of cheating, so his solution is to relax the rules and not be too “punitive” when cheating is found. So let me get this straight: minority students will never measure up no matter what, they need crutches to succeed and, on top of that, they need the intercession of a priestly class of professorial fixers if they’re going to make it through life. How is that not racist? How is that not ‘learned helplessness’? How does that not create resentment among anyone who worked hard to meet all the requirements without cheating?
Also in colleges, faculty hiring and tenure decisions in some places now depend in part on adherence to diversity, equity, and inclusion orthodoxy. This reduces the importance of academic merit and achievement in deciding who gets hired and who gets to stay. Tuition keeps going up while academic standards keep going down. At some point, people will figure out it’s no longer worth the money.
Academic standards are declining before college. I know a philosophy professor who says many students showing up in his classes now are not ready or able to learn. They haven’t done the work necessary to understand advanced material. To see how this might have come about, consider a place like Baltimore where a big report on grade-fixing last summer found thousands of grades were changed from ‘fail’ to ‘pass’. It’s a whole lot easier to pass kids through than it is to meet their learning challenges.
The future of all this is not good - elementary school students who never learn to read, professors whose heads are full of diversity theory instead of real knowledge, less competent professionals, and an adult population half of which is functionally illiterate. It leads to a society where it is perfectly acceptable to urinate and defecate on the street - ugh! Encouraging others to achieve less is the wrong way to go, no matter how good the reasons might sound. The best thing you can do for people is insist they meet high standards. If you don’t want to meet high standards, get off my lawn.
9/16/22 - War on Parents: We Have Not Yet Begun to Fight
Ordinary people are fighting back in the War on Parents, and winning.
A bank withdrew its support for the Boise gay pride festival after a backlash against the festival’s planned drag show for minors. A school district in Texas rejected transgender sports, pronoun requirements, and LGBT instruction in classrooms. The El Paso school board fired a teacher who told students not to judge pedophiles. The largest school district in Utah pulled ‘Gender Queer’ and 50 other inappropriate books from its library after parents complained. Parental complaints also scuttled plans to put a Planned Parenthood facility inside a Los Angeles high school. A school board in Pennsylvania paid $300,000 to settle legal claims by parents who were cut off from speaking at school board meetings in opposition to school board policies. Serves the authoritarians right.
And we have not yet begun to fight.
One weapon of choice is the lawsuit. Nothing like service of a signed complaint to focus the mind. The Arizona GOP sued the state Superintendent of Public Instruction who steered students to an online chat room to talk about sex. California parents sued after ‘nonbinary’ male counselors allegedly slept in girls’ cabins at science camp. Virginia parents sued a school board for adopting a policy hiding information from parents about their children with transgender issues. Another suit in Virginia argues a school board engaged in the moral corruption of children by adopting radical transgender policies. A suit in Rhode Island alleges schools violated the state’s open meetings law when the schools delegated policy discussions to outside groups which held secret meetings on antiracism and hiring practices. And Tennessee parents sued a school district for ignoring the state’s law banning CRT instruction.
Beyond the courtroom, a college professor recommends parents write letters en masse to colleges saying they will not pay to send their children to schools that force the use of preferred pronouns, discriminate against religious beliefs, or indoctrinate students in the classroom. Hit’em where it hurts: enrollment. [Conservative Teachers of America Facebook post] Warn teachers you will go after their state teaching license. [Id.] Read pornographic material from school library books at school board meetings. That causes an uproar. Lobby for a law like Virginia passed this year requiring parental notification when sexually explicit material will be used in the classroom. While you’re doing all of the above, organize to vote the bums out, it can be done.
I’ve just scratched the surface of what’s being done and what’s possible to fight back in the War on Parents. But if I haven’t inspired you to action, then I’ve failed. Spend the time, throw money into the fight, or let the groomers and the authoritarian Left take over. It’s up to you.
9/15/22 - War on Parents: Name the Enemy
I promised to show you how combatants other than school teachers and administrators are waging the War on Parents.
We start with teachers unions. The New Jersey chapter of the National Education Association ran an ad calling parents “extremists” for speaking out against divisive Critical Race Theory (CRT) and communist-inspired transgenderism at school board meetings. The ad accuses parents of ‘getting political’. Excuse me, but parents are only reacting to teachers unions getting political. The NEA spends twice as much money on politics than it does on worker issues. The NEA wants to ban the words ‘mother’ and ‘father’, and that’s not political? These people are nuts.
Yale University had posted a video on YouTube for two years, it is now trying to make disappear, extolling the virtues of its Pediatric Gender Program and the wonders of working with “gender-expansive individuals, 3 to 25…” Gender-expansive 3-year-olds? These people are sick.
Another combatant is the Democrat Party. Beto O’Rourke says parents shouldn’t question teachers about what is being taught in the classroom. He joins a long line of Democrats saying the same thing, including Terry McAuliffe who lost the Virginia governor’s race last year for saying it in a debate.
Then there’s the professional Left. The discredited Southern Poverty Law Center created lessons for elementary schoolers on systemic racism and white privilege. I guess the SPLC has to do something with the half a billion dollars it stashed offshore, somewhere. The Satanic Temple continues to burrow away, most recently winning the right to hold an event in a high school in Pennsylvania. The Satanic Temple is a fierce warrior. It sues if it doesn’t get its way.
Transgender activists are attacking from the flanks. They count avowed communists among their number. One activist brags about distributing transgender drugs to minors online. “Everything is free, no questions asked." Other activists work to get their critics deplatformed, calling them ‘terrorists’.
Subverted churches are joining in. Episcopal Church leaders at a recent convention voted up a resolution in favor of sex changes for all ages, calling it ‘religious liberty’. Pretty twisted. They oppose laws banning transgender drugs and surgery for minors. I suppose this means they support transgender drugs and surgery for gender-expansive 3-year-olds. Meanwhile, a church in San Diego allowed a drag queen to film a music video on its premises mocking Biblical Christianity and indoctrinating children.
The medical profession has joined the onslaught. A rainbow-haired doctor called parents who don’t allow their children to have transgender drugs and surgery ‘child abusers’. The North Carolina nursing board investigated a mom who is a nurse who spoke at a school board meeting against mask mandates. These most recent stories follow the American Academy of Pediatrics publishing a book brainwashing kids into pursuing transgenderism, for a modest fee, of course.
All these enemies are just following the lead of the FBI which, according to whistleblowers, cooks up fake domestic terrorism cases against parents so FBI agents can show good numbers and get promoted.
That brings us to Disney which, in many ways, is leading the charge in the War on Parents. The newest weapons in the Disney arsenal include a kids’ cartoon series with two men dating and a transgender ‘man’ who menstruates, a new gay Spider-Man with a “fearlessly femme identity”, and a new series for next year that will “push the needle” for drag. Mickey Mouse has put on a helmet and gone to war.
A powerful array of forces. But not unbeatable. Tomorrow, I’ll tell you about more parents who are stepping into the breach and winning against the transgender-industrial complex and other enemies we have named here today in the War on Parents.
9/14/22 - Mao’s Cultural Revolution Comes to America
The war on parents is escalating. Here’s what’s happening on the battlefield:
A series of undercover videos exposed what school personnel are really up to, in their own words.
A private school director in New York City was caught on video admitting she misuses her position to sneak her left-wing political agenda into classrooms. “I just keep trying to disrupt wherever I can,” she said. “And now that I’m in this position, I have so many opportunities to do that.” She said she won’t allow Republican views to be expressed and trashed white boys as being horrible, awful people who are protected by capitalism. Wow.
Also in New York City, a middle school teacher was recorded encouraging students to engage in political violence and throw bricks at people who hold opposite views. She changed the words to the Pledge of Allegiance, so her class recites the idea America does not stand for liberty and justice for all, because black and brown people are excluded, they don’t get justice. If that’s true, why did Breonna Taylor’s family get a $12 million settlement from Louisville? The claim doesn’t make any sense. It’s garbage.
An assistant principal of an elementary school in Greenwich, Connecticut won’t hire Catholic teachers or anybody over 30 because they’re too conservative. He admitted to illegal age discrimination on video. He said he has progressive teachers who are adept at delivering left-wing messages to students without being obvious about it. “It’s subtle.... That’s how you get away with it,” he said.
Back in New York City, an assistant principal won’t hire teachers who believe in equality or a color-blind society. They have to give the correct Woke responses to diversity, equity, and inclusion questions and toe the party line on anti-racism or they won’t be hired. He would have fired a teacher who did not want to indoctrinate students with Black Lives Matter ideology, but the teacher quit first. Kindergartners at the school celebrate gay pride month by reading stories about a boy who wants to be a mermaid and encouraging children to be anything they want to be, genderwise. Transgender ideology becomes more explicit as the kids get older.
This is all in their own words and on tape, folks, there’s no denying it. They’re coming for your kids, and it’s not just the east coast.
Indoctrination also starts in kindergarten in Portland, Oregon schools. Kids are being taught the male-female gender binary is just a white colonizer construct and the ‘infinite gender spectrum’ is where it’s at. Forget the 57 genders, the number of gender choices is now ‘infinite’. Isn’t progress wonderful? According to the curriculum, some girls can have penises and some boys can have vulvas. This is not just the schools taking over the job of identity formation from parents, the agenda goes deeper than that. After six years of identity indoctrination, fifth-graders are asked to make Chinese youth league-style promises to carry on the revolution. They are asked to pledge to learn more about the ideology and the history of black trans women. They pledge to use correct pronouns. They pledge to watch films and shows with LGBTQ characters and, most importantly, they pledge to become leaders in their school on these issues. As we’ve seen in other contexts, the Left is hell-bent on turning students into 24/7 left-wing activists. Mao’s Cultural Revolution lives, and anyone who gets in the way will be sent to the countryside, figuratively speaking, to learn from the peasants and be reeducated.
L.A. is in pretty much the same boat with “trans justice” now the linchpin of instruction. But field reports are pouring in from everywhere:
A high school teacher in California keeps a ‘queer library’ in her classroom with books about orgies, kinks, fetishes, and bondage.
Schools in one Florida county are expelling students if their parents object to having them fill out a gender identity questionnaire.
Schools in one Pennsylvania county are encouraging boys to wear dresses.
There are more reports from all over the country about mandatory drag shows, Woke math classes that destroy competency, indoctrination starting at age 3, snitching on family and friends for microaggressions, expelling students for misgendering classmates, and more. There are so many reports, I can’t keep up, anymore.
The war is on. They’re coming for your kids. Get active or get steamrolled. Get involved before your kids become unrecognizable to you and turn on you, like the good little commies they are being trained to be. Do nothing and you’ll just have to hope they don’t come after you with a machine gun, like in Pol Pot’s Killing Fields, because that’s what communists eventually do.
I only discussed teachers and administrators today. The War on Parents is coming from several directions. Tomorrow, I will tell you about some of those.
9/13/22 - California Is Exporting Revolution and Stealing Your Kids
This is outrageous. California just upped the ante in the culture wars. The California legislature, with overwhelming support from Democrats, just passed a bill to have the state take legal custody of minors who travel from other states seeking transgender drugs and surgery. The bill is on Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk, awaiting signature.
California is not content with messing up its own children’s lives. Now, it wants to mess up your children, too. It is exporting revolution to the rest of the country. But, first, California will have to get it through the courts because such an assault on parental rights is unconstitutional and may well violate federal laws determining which state courts have jurisdiction in child custody matters. Observers are urging Republican state Attorneys General in other states to challenge California’s move. “Other states’ attorneys general will not sit idly by as California steals children from parents who don’t want them sterilized with these trans-treatments,” one observer said. Also, the bill is vague on who would actually take care of these minors, with observers noting the foster care system is already overburdened.
California’s move is made all the more outrageous by the fact the wheels are falling off the whole phony transgender narrative. An upcoming documentary exposes a lot of the things I’ve discussed in previous commentaries - the cynical transgender-industrial complex just out to make a buck, the artificial driver of social contagion infecting entire groups of kids who are falsely made to think they are transgender, and the cover-up of the regrets expressed by detransitioners whose names are legion, at this point.
The filmmaker is a lifelong Democrat in California who is generally supportive of the LGBTQ community. But she accuses educators and a therapist of driving her autistic, gender-confused daughter to mental breakdown and “catastrophic ruin” with transgenderism. The mother, after realizing four out of five of her daughter’s friends were identifying as transgender, asked the therapist about social contagion but got no answer. That’s malpractice.
The filmmaker also takes direct aim at the claim kids will commit suicide if they’re not allowed to transition, a claim that’s meant to scare parents into submission. “This is a total lie,” she says. “In our film, we have a therapist who specializes in counseling detransitioners, and she says this is precisely the opposite.” Her view is backed up by the research. Researchers making the claim about suicide and their willing accomplices in the media were later debunked by other analysts who pointed out the original data showed transgender drugs and surgery made no improvement in depression in the kids who were studied. On hearing the news, the University of Washington which participated in the study decided to keep quiet about it instead of correcting the inaccuracies that had appeared in media accounts.
Other recent news also blows up phony the transgender narrative. A whistleblower said the American Academy of Pediatrics deliberately squelched any serious examination of the issue before embracing transgenderism. Children’s National Hospital in D.C. was caught on audio admitting they give gender-denying hysterectomies to minors under 16, rendering them sterile for life. Meanwhile, it came to light at least 13 U.S. hospitals are in the business of performing gender transition surgery on minors. Ca-ching, Ca-ching!
A girl who had her breasts removed at 15 expressed regrets, pointing a finger at school staff and medical professionals who facilitated her gender transition without any serious examination of what was going on with her. They laid the suicide guilt trip on her parents, beating them into submission. “No child should have to experience what I have,” she says. “My consent was not informed, and I was filled with modernism.”
The modernists in California won’t be happy to hear that. But despite the wheels coming off the phony transgender narrative, they’re doubling down - exporting revolution and stealing your kids. Maybe Florida and Texas should pass laws offering sanctuary to California kids who feel threatened by the state’s recent law lowering the age of consent, making them easy prey for child sex abusers. Turnabout is fair play.
9/12/22 - 9/11: Why Do They Hate Us?
Americans gathered at Ground Zero, the Pentagon, and Shanksville over the weekend to remember the Islamic jihad terrorist attacks on 9/11 21 years ago. ‘Why do they hate us?,’ George W. Bush wondered shortly after the attacks. The bad news is they hate us because their religion commands them to hate us.
When you start with a holy book, the Quran, that says 164 times in various ways ‘slay the infidel’, you’re bound to have a problem. The 9/11 attacks would not have occurred but for the standard Islamic doctrines of sharia supremacy and jihad, as shown by Arabic-language sources of Al Qaeda messages at the time. Moreover, in 2009, five masterminds of the 9/11 attacks including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - calling themselves the “9/11 Shura Council” - wrote that the 9/11 attacks were an “act of Jihad”, jihad being “a great duty in our religion.” They quoted numerous verses from the Quran including the infamous ‘Verse of the Sword’ - “fight and slay the pagans wherever you find them.”
This isn’t just old news from the dustbin of history. Standard Islamic doctrine is unchanged today, and there are plenty fresh reminders it means business. There are also too many doctrinally-inspired Islamic jihad attacks taking place on a daily basis to dismiss the threat out of hand. Let’s see what sharia supremacists say in their own words, shall we?
An imam formerly based in Houston said non-Muslims are the worst of Allah’s creations, that they are worse than animals. He referred to a verse in the Quran which commands wives not to talk to their husbands if their husbands do not wage jihad.
A New York Times journalist said he favored killing and burning Jews “like Hitler did.” The Islamic Education Center in Houston is teaching children to pledge allegiance to Iran’s leaders and to become soldiers to kill Jews.
A prominent imam in France said, ‘I make no distinction between Islamism and Islam. Islamism is Islam in action.’ This echoes the words of Turkish President Erdogan who said in 2017, “There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.” The implication of these statements is that jihad attacks are the result of standard Islamic doctrine, not an extremist interpretation of Islamic doctrine.
A Swedish imam spoke of the “great battle” when all non-Muslims will be forced to submit to Islam, and he prayed to Allah to defeat or destroy Christians and Jews. “Sweden is ours,” he said. “It’s ours, whether they want this or not. In ten to fifteen years, it will be ours.”
Police in India discovered the battle plan of an Islamic group that wants to take over India by 2047. They will accomplish their goal by infiltrating the government, killing their opponents, and recruiting enough jihadis to eventually engage in a show-down with the government.
But we don’t have to wait until 2047 to see doctrinally-inspired Islamic attacks. Massacres are taking place daily as the Islamization of Africa continues. In our own country, a Muslim passenger screaming ‘Allah’ tried to storm the cockpit of a JetBlue flight out of Boston last year. This year, the FBI reversed itself and finally acknowledged the Islamic attack on the synagogue in Colleyville, Texas was an act of terrorism. The Colleyville attacker told officials that he wished he had died in the 9/11 terror attacks. Also this year, a man brutally murdered a woman in Seattle with a hatchet and bolt cutters after reading the Quran, which gave him the idea that he should kill her.
No wonder CAIR - the Council on American-Islamic Relations - wants to turn 9/11 into a national day of service and redefine 9/11 around efforts to counteract anti-Muslim bullying in school. No wonder CAIR wants to skip right over the Islamic terror attacks that killed 3,000 people in America 21 years ago. CAIR can deflect all it wants, but Islam’s victims are still dead and the holy Quran still commands Muslims to wage violent jihad until sharia covers the earth.
It’s time to have a serious discussion. If standard Islamic doctrine doesn’t really mean what it says, let’s hear that from CAIR and other Islamic leaders. If the doctrine does mean what it says and they really do hate us and want to kill us for religious reasons, let’s hear that, too.
9/9/22 - So Many Imperfect Humans, So Little Time
Among the smooth assurances advocates gave us when passing assisted suicide laws was the idea there would be safeguards built into the laws so assisted suicide would only occur when the requirements of law were met. Hah! What a bunch of bunk, as we now know. A doctor who advocates euthanasia just admitted in a journal article that safeguards fail. “(S)afeguards will never be perfect,” he wrote. “All laws about anything result in some instances in which the outcome is other than what the law intends.” Too bad that, when something other than what an assisted suicide law intends happens, it means that someone is dead who shouldn’t be.
This doctor was writing rather abstractly, but Belgium shows you exactly what happens when the safeguards in assisted death laws fail. One safeguard is that the person is supposed to ask for assisted death. In Belgium in just one year, over a thousand assisted deaths were done without explicit request. Another safeguard is that assisted deaths would be reported, so the government could keep tabs on what was happening and dial restrictions up as needed. Another bad joke. In Belgium that year, almost half of assisted deaths were not reported.
Hidden agendas thrive in darkness. And here, the authoritarian Left is getting its way. More people are dying from assisted suicide and euthanasia than ever before. Assisted death numbers continue to climb in places where such laws have been passed, regardless of safeguards, including the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Victoria Australia, and Oregon. Assisted deaths were up 36 percent in Ontario in a recent one-year period and 32 percent in Canada overall in 2021 over the previous year.
Canada is of interest because it’s out in front on this issue in many ways and what’s happening there is downright disturbing. Vulnerable populations are being deliberately targeted and pushed into assisted death - people who are less able to protect themselves from outside pressure, like veterans with PTSD, people with dementia, the mentally ill, children, the disabled, and the poor. In Australia, it’s the elderly. In Belgium, it’s infants. Gee, get rid of all these groups and we just might end up with a super-race. Sieg Heil!
It’s no accident the early Progressives and the National Socialists in Germany were all in for eugenics to create the perfect super-race. There’s a straight line from eugenics to the authoritarian Left’s preoccupation with assisted suicide and euthanasia today. But a funny thing happened on the way to Utopia. We ended up in a very sick place, instead. The Hitlerian doctrine of some lives being unworthy of life holds sway. We’re making the short jump from ‘the government needs to save money on social spending’ to a shift in societal attitudes that actively demonizes and targets the vulnerable. Once these demons are let loose, they cannot be controlled. We’ll end up like that psychology experiment at Stanford where ordinary people assigned to prison guard roles became unbearably authoritarian and cruel in a matter of days - except it will be real life, not just an experiment, and there will be no escape.
In the authoritarian Left’s drive to save humanity from itself, there eventually won’t be a shred of humanity left. As someone I know put it:
9/8/22 - How Democrats Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Electronic Voting Machines
Strange stories about voting machines continue to surface in the news.
Voting machines in Rhode Island displayed the names of 2018 candidates in a 2022 election, and misspelled another candidate’s name. Voters who used the machines were disenfranchised.
In Alabama, voting machines in two counties accepted Xerox copies of ballots while the machines were being tested, and machines in seven precincts showed more votes than voters. Who programmed it to do that?
An Arizona Corporation Commissioner sent a letter to all election officials in the state asking that they stop using voting machines. He said the machines are unreliable and vulnerable to attack, citing the case of a hand recount revealing a 62 percent error rate in tabulation machines. Who programmed the tabulator so it couldn’t even add? Even simple hand-held calculators can add.
A New Mexico county refused to certify the results of a primary election this year because of distrust of machines, but was ordered by the state Supreme Court to do so.
Citizen investigators found machines flipped the results of 2020 Supreme Court Justice races in Michigan, throwing the Court to the Democrats. The investigators also found voting systems in two states had the easily cracked password ‘123456’ and had Microsoft SQL software in three states which is unnecessary and allows data to be manipulated.
If you find it hard to believe voting machines flip votes, listen to this: An official post-election audit in Kansas uncovered the fact that thumb drives inserted into voting machines during an election flipped votes from one candidate for county commissioner to another who was initially mistakenly declared the winner. The company said it was a programming error and, supposedly, no other races were affected. That was some error. Who sat down and wrote a computer program for the machines to flip votes? Doesn’t sound like an accident to me.
So what happens when there are questions about machine results but the Secretary of State gets to certify the results of his own election and declare himself the winner? It happened in Georgia where citizen investigators monitored the voting in one precinct and found Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger got 53 percent of the vote in the GOP primary, but the machines gave him 68 percent of the vote. That one is being contested with a request to look at the actual ballots.
Trust in elections will not be rebuilt until vote-flipping and other documented problems with voting machines get resolved and stories like these stop appearing. It doesn’t help that all of this is a black box and the machine manufacturers scream bloody murder about proprietary information whenever citizens want to look inside their machines to see what is really going on when things don’t add up. Top Democrats like Barack Obama and Kamala Harris are on record expressing concerns about voting machines. Concerns from that side of the aisle about machines date back to at least 2003 but, nowadays, Democrats for the most part embrace voting machines and dismiss any questions that get asked as crazy-talk. Gee, I wonder why. The lady doth protest too much.
9/7/22 - Border News: Building the Case for Impeachment
Re-posted at DefendTheBorder.org
A new report shows the Biden administration has allowed one million illegal aliens into the country since taking office. That doesn’t even count another estimated one million who got in without being caught or as unaccompanied minors.
But the administration recently told us not to believe our own lyin’ eyes - illegal aliens aren’t just walking across the border, the White House says, even though there’s video footage showing them doing exactly that. The gaslighting is not appreciated.
Nor are the continued policy changes the Biden administration keeps making to open the border further. The latest is the administration’s announcement it will reimburse El Paso for the cost of sending illegal aliens to New York City on buses. Come on down, get your free bus ticket here!
And new details have been released on the administration’s plan to give illegal aliens identification cards. It’s supposedly a pilot program expected to begin in March and cost a couple million dollars, but there is already talk of expanding the program later. This shows the administration’s priority is to open the border further, not defend it against invaders who break our laws to get in.
Meanwhile, there are fresh reports of the problems Biden’s border policies are causing. It’s a familiar litany by now, starting with national security threats and drug trafficking. An investigation into passport fraud turned up nearly 30,000 Mexican passport holders with Middle Eastern names, raising fears Islamic terrorist groups are taking advantage of the chaos at the border Biden has caused to slip through without a close look. In addition, the Biden administration is still letting Afghan evacuees into the country without fully vetting them and admits it doesn’t know where they are. Dozens were flagged after entry as security risks, but good luck finding them now.
As for drugs, rainbow fentanyl pills made to look like candy to hook children are coming across the border. You might blame the Chinese Communist Party and Mexican drug cartels for trafficking the pills, but I blame the Biden administration for opening the border and creating the opportunity.
The Biden administration obviously also doesn’t care about the escalating number of migrant deaths its policies are causing. They’re up more than 50 percent in the last year and are at the highest on record. Pulling dead kids from the Rio Grande - more video the Biden administration doesn’t want you to see. Missing children are also just pawns in Biden’s cynical game: 57 illegal alien children have been reported missing in the Houston area since late last year. Most are missing from the homes of non-parent U.S. sponsors and others ran away from government shelters.
I’ve said many times Biden and his top border officials should be impeached for failing to faithfully execute our nation’s immigration laws. That will have to wait for Republican control of Congress but, in the meantime, some are fighting back as best they can. Florida brought a lawsuit on that exact point - failing to execute the laws. The case is in the discovery phase and border agents are giving details about the crisis at the border and the lives it is putting at risk. Another lawsuit, brought by ranchers and other plaintiffs, just survived a motion to dismiss. It challenges Biden border policies for the harmful environmental impacts they’re causing - trashed ranches, farmland loss, reduced biodiversity, and strain on water resources. Texas is busing illegal aliens to Chicago now, in addition to D.C. and New York. Chicago is another sanctuary city and now faces the prospect of becoming more dangerous with more illegal aliens showing up at their doorstep. New York is now the most dangerous sanctuary city in the country, according to a new report.
That’s what you get when you choose party over country, chase the unicorns and rainbows of diversity policy, and decide America is just too guilty to be allowed to continue as is. If you think that way, fine, let’s open up the border to the whole world as Biden is doing, destroy America starting with your city, and we’ll see how you like what comes next. How would you like to die - rainbow fentanyl overdose or Islamic terrorist attack?
9/6/22 - Court Records Show Biden Is a Fascist Who Threatens Personal Rights
Joe Biden continued his attacks on Trump supporters in a Labor Day speech in Wisconsin, claiming, among other things, they threaten personal rights. The speech was a follow-up to Biden calling Trump supporters “semi-fascists” ten days ago. Let’s set the record straight, shall we?
Documents obtained in a lawsuit brought by the Missouri Attorney General and others show that a dozen federal agencies participated in the Biden administration’s collusion with social media companies to suppress the free speech rights of Americans about COVID and elections. The Missouri Attorney General called it “a massive, sprawling federal ‘Censorship Enterprise’,” involving the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, the CDC, and others. If bringing the full weight of the federal government down on Americans who speak their minds isn’t a threat to personal rights, I don’t know what is, and Joe Biden’s in charge of it.
The scheme involves Leftbook and Fritter. Leftbook was in weekly communication with Biden administration officials about what to censor, the documents obtained in court show. This includes personal correspondence between Anthony Fauci and Mark Zuckerberg to suppress the lab leak COVID origin theory which has only gained credence with the passage of time. Leftbook also wrote to the Surgeon General asking “what the White House expects of us.” Fritter scheduled a meeting to brief White House officials on so-called “vaccine misinformation” and to discuss how to carry their “partnership” forward.
There’s more. The CDC had a direct pipeline to Fritter to tell them what COVID information to take down. The Cybersecurity Agency asked Fritter to remove accounts. The actions of the ‘Censorship Enterprise’ go on for hundreds of pages and involve more than 50 Biden administration officials. [Link to documents here] The White House even asked that Fauci parody accounts be taken down from Leftbook. Making fun of the king is not allowed in Joe Biden’s America.
These are the results of the first six weeks of discovery in the lawsuit. There’s more to come, but we can already see that the conspiracy between the Biden administration and Big Tech to deprive Americans of their free speech rights is much wider and deeper than anyone thought. As more conspirators are discovered, they will be added to the lawsuit. The White House is claiming its communications are privileged, although it is clear that its external communications are not. Mark Zuckerberg has already admitted Leftbook suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election, acting on a request from the FBI. He has a whole lot more explaining to do as to why his supposedly neutral platform is in bed with the lying dog-faced pony soldier Biden administration.
Now let’s set the record straight on fascism. Fascism is a dictatorship brought about by the combination of Big Business and Big Government. The textbook example is Mussolini’s Italy where the CEOs of the biggest corporations in the country were also the cabinet ministers in Mussolini’s government. You put Big Business together with Big Government and you have the kind of concentration of power our Founders warned us about. Bad things happen when too much power gets in the hands of too few people. Dissenting voices get silenced, for starters, as the documents obtained in the collusion lawsuit I’ve been discussing so thoroughly demonstrate.
So we’ve got a serious problem in this country, and it’s not 80 million Trump supporters. It’s the Biden administration and its bosom buddies in Big Tech. They are the ones threatening personal rights and suppressing free speech. They are the ones threatening democracy by suppressing important information, like the Hunter Biden laptop story, that could have changed minds before the election. A recent poll found most Americans believe Trump would have been reelected had there been “truthful” coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop story. If Big Tech collusion with political power brokers isn’t a threat to democracy, I don’t know what is.
Leftbook and Fritter have both censored me along with many, many others. And now they can live with the consequences. One of the consequences is that their entire Censorship Enterprise with the Biden administration - the whole stinking mess - is being dragged out into the open for all to see. Who are the fascists, again?
9/2/22 - Romancing the EV
Going somewhere for the holiday weekend? Not if you live in California and drive an electric vehicle, you’re not. California issued an emergency alert asking people not to charge their EVs because the power grid can’t handle the demand. This from a state that is moving to ban the sale of gas-powered vehicles. So how’s this going to work when the internal combustion engine is gone, natural gas appliances are banned, and everyone has to rely on electricity for getting around, heating their homes, and washing their clothes. The short answer is: it’s not. The numbers don’t add up. But that’s the bright green energy future into which your insane leaders want to take you.
Here’s one thing that will happen in that future. Everyone will have smart meters and the government will simply order the power cut off whenever it feels like it. Don’t believe me? It’s already happening. How did you like the story out of Denver this week, where 22,000 households were locked out of their thermostats and couldn’t adjust their air conditioning when it got hot? No car, no A/C, no appliances, whenever the government decides it’s time to control your behavior.
Colorado and California are among the states that have adopted green energy mandates. Hate to break it to you, folks, but green energy is just not up to the job. The numbers don’t add up. That’s why Illinois is already looking for ways to adjust its green energy mandates and escape the trap. They figure they can’t attract business to the state without being able to demonstrate they will have reliable energy supplies in the future. That’s the first sensible thing I’ve heard out of Illinois politicians for a long time.
Since I’m the skunk at the garden party, let me ask this: What is all this sackcloth and ashes supposed to accomplish? If I were a cynic, I would say the goal is wealth and power for a tiny elite that is personally heavily invested in green energy stocks, something I’ve reported on before. I could also say it’s about controlling the people, reducing their standard of living to make them poor, cutting America down to size in the world, waging Marxist war on capitalism, putting the globalists in control of your happiness, and degrowth and depopulation.
I’ve heard all these things and they sound plausible to me. But let’s take the entire exercise at face value, shall we? Leaving fossil fuels in the ground and making the transition to green energy will stop climate change and keep the planet from burning up, right?
There’s only one problem. Over 1,100 scientists and professionals from around the world just signed a declaration stating in no uncertain terms there is no climate emergency. “Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific,” they said. “Scientists should openly address uncertainties and exaggerations in their predictions of global warming.” So, anyone who tells you ‘the science is settled’ and the planet is burning up is lying to you for their own selfish purposes. There are real costs to green energy policies, the scientists went on, and the cure - getting rid of fossil fuels - will be worse than the disease. They criticize the unfounded beliefs that dominate media narratives and call for getting back to real science.
Emergency directives and smart meter shut-offs aside, let’s suppose you do manage to get your EV out of your garage this weekend. You have some other things to worry about. Your EV could explode at any moment. Hyundai and Kia just issued warnings. They recommend parking your EV outside so it doesn’t burn your house down. The town in Connecticut with the electric bus fire this summer has gone back to diesel-powered buses.
If you’re on the road, good luck finding a charging station, and hope it works when you find one. A police department in England is finding its EVs can’t reach some emergencies because the emergencies are too far away and the batteries run down before they can get there. In 2019, a police officer in California could not pursue a suspect because the officer’s EV ran down. The suspect got away.
If you’re driving an EV because you feel guilty about damaging the environment with fossil fuels, here’s something else to feel guilty about: pulling lithium out of the ground for your EV battery generates lots of carbon emissions, toxic wastewater, and other environmental damage. Indigenous peoples and governments in Latin America are wising up to this and are moving to clamp down on lithium mining. How will the numbers add up when more people in producing areas revolt?
Don’t get me wrong. I’m all for progress. I had halogens for years, but I love my LED lamps. But here’s what I’m not for: chasing unicorns and rainbows, turning everything upside down just because some people take it on faith the planet is burning up. And I’m not for blindly pursuing supposed solutions without ever giving a thought to what they will really cost or what new problems they will create. And I’m not for financially self-interested government officials telling us we have to ‘press the accelerator’ on the green energy transition when the numbers obviously don’t add up. I’m not for the inmates running the asylum. Take your romanticism and shove it! Get real and keep your hands off my thermostat and my life. Kapish?
9/1/22 - Joe Biden Wants to Put Y’all in Chains
Joe Biden will wrap himself in the flag tonight and deliver a primetime address to the nation on how we must restore our rights, our freedoms, and our democracy. As you listen to what undoubtedly will be a masterpiece of group-produced propaganda, just remember what his policies and the policies of the Democrat Party and its ideological masters on the hard Left really do to people.
The 15 percent minimum corporate tax in Joe Biden’s so-called ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ will wipe out the low income housing tax credit which has helped build and rehabilitate millions of homes for low income Americans. Way to go.
Home prices are at record levels and apartment rents have spiked. You can blame Democrat policies for driving up costs. Government mortgage subsidies raise home prices just like government student grants and loans have made college tuition rates go sky-high. The Fed buys mortgage-backed securities, artificially increasing the amount of capital available for the residential market, hurting affordability. Government has cut the supply of new rental housing with density restrictions and environmental regulations that tack on 30 percent to the cost of new apartments, and with rent control laws which cut incentives for new construction and upkeep. Leftist Utopia better come quick because people can’t afford to live here anymore.
The homeless problem created by Democrats is so bad in Portland homeowners are moving away because homeless people are camping out in their back yards with impunity. When L.A. tried to rein in the homeless camps near schools and parks, a Leftist mob descended on City Hall. We didn’t have such big problems with homelessness until Democrats and Leftists started romanticizing the subject and encouraging it.
Democrat-captured Oregon decriminalized heroin and cocaine, and overdose deaths rose 41 percent, two-and-a-half times faster than in the rest of the country. I’ll go out on a limb, here, and predict that putting the government stamp of approval on drug use and giving addicts free needles, free crack pipes, and safe places to shoot up in the name of ‘harm reduction’ will produce more drug use, not less. Society will be worse off for it. That’s just common sense.
Elsewhere on the Left coast, California passed a law restricting independent contractors who must now, in many circumstances, be considered employees and given employee benefits. Sounds great, right? Well, it means gig workers lose their autonomy to set their own hours and it also means higher prices for the rest of us. The trucking industry is especially hard hit, as many logistics companies primarily use truck drivers who own their own rigs. These drivers will now become employees, meaning fewer people will own their own businesses and become wage slaves. It’s all part of the Left’s master plan to attack freedom and drum out independent-minded people who want to be captains of their own fate in what has been, up to this point, the land of the free and the home of the brave.
The attacks on gig workers and low cost housing follow a familiar Democrat-Leftist pattern: things are just no darn good unless they’re perfect, unless we have Utopia. We saw it with Obamacare. Cheap catastrophic insurance that satisfied millions of people’s needs for decade became the enemy of the people because it didn’t cover everything. Now, gold-plated Obamacare policies force men to have pregnancy coverage and mandate essential health benefits, preexisting condition coverage, and restrictions on true risk calculation for aging, driving up costs enormously. The drive for perfection and Utopia pushed the cost of insurance policies northwards of $20,000 a year. Then they turn around and say, ‘Oh, but we’ll HELP you,’ first with subsidies, now with jumbo subsidies - subsidies that drive up costs further just like with tuition.
Obamacare is another insidious Democrat-Leftist dependency machine - the Democrats and the Left create the problem in the first place, then make it so you can’t function without the assistance of the federal government. It’s not supposed to be this way, and it’s not healthy because it produces perpetual children incapable of running their own lives, weaklings content to have the government take over all responsibility.
So, when you listen to Joe Biden’s fine words at Independence Hall tonight, just remember, he wants to put y’all in chains. They might be golden chains, but you will no longer be free if his side wins what Biden calls the ‘battle for the soul of the nation’. Take the chains - lose your soul, it’s that simple.
The Hunter Biden laptop is the gift that keeps on giving. Memos on the laptop show the Biden family was involved in 21 deals in 2017 and 2018 to sell U.S. natural gas facilities and other energy assets to communist China. The ultimate goal was to give China ownership in all different phases of the natural gas industry in the United States. Lest you still believe the fairy tale Hunter Biden’s laptop is just Russian disinformation, you should know two whistleblowers with first-hand knowledge of the deals have stepped forward to verify the details, including the fact Joe Biden was a partner in one deal to the point he had office space to work on it. This is another reason to elect Republicans to the House. They have promised oversight hearings to bring all this to light.
It has also recently been reported that emails show Hunter Biden offered to introduce business associates to a high level Chinese Communist Party official, helped a Chinese influence operation gain a foothold in America, and co-founded Sinopec, the Chinese state-run energy firm to which Joe Biden has been selling oil out of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
But it’s not just the Biden family. Chinese incursions into the U.S. are widespread, extending throughout the Biden administration and beyond, and involving land purchases, media and influence operations, and infiltration of college campuses.
The Energy Department reportedly sold advanced government-funded battery technology to China. A Biden climate appointee who talks openly of leaving fossil fuels behind studied at a Chinese university flagged for its ties to China’s military. The university specializes in defense research and cyberattacks. Joe Biden appointed John Podesta to oversee $370 billion in climate spending, which is worrisome because Podesta sings China’s praises and encourages Chinese investment in American infrastructure. Last year, Joe Biden reversed Donald Trump’s ban on American businesses working with China-connected TikTok.
Also thanks to Joe Biden, colleges and universities no longer have to disclose their connections to China’s Confucius Institutes. China is rebranding the institutes to escape all the bad publicity the institutes have generated.
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, which receives federal funding, hired 20 members of the Chinese Communist Party between 2015 and 2021. There are concerns YouTube demonetizes channels raising questions about China’s activities. A Chinese biotech firm with ties to China’s military and COVID-19 program bought 1,400 acres of farmland in Florida to build a research facility. Observers are concerned this is part of China’s expressly stated goal of developing bioweaponry. Some 162 scientists who worked at Los Alamos returned home to China over the last 35 years to help China develop its nuclear and advanced weapons programs.
The China swamp is where personal corruption breeds national security threats. If we’re going to expose our soft underbelly to the Chinese communists, don’t be surprised when, one day, they slice it open.
Tell your congressional representative to get on the case. But China’s influence operations also extend to the state and local level. You might also start asking questions about China’s involvement in your neck of the woods.
9/22/22 - DeSantis Airlines Flies Unfriendly Skies
If Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ flying illegal aliens to Martha’s Vineyard was a political stunt, it sure worked. Finally, the country is buzzing about illegal immigration, and Joe Biden’s open borders policies are getting the attention they deserve. But left-wing activists and their willing accomplices in the press hate DeSantis for it, and are launching Stinger missiles - including a class action lawsuit alleging misrepresentation - into his operation.
DeSantis’ flights are meant to draw attention to the ruinous consequences of Biden’s open borders policies: chaos at the border, fentanyl deaths, and a growing terrorist threat chief among them.
Biden’s border chaos continues. The border patrol reports it has encountered more than two million illegal aliens so far this fiscal year, a record number. That’s 8,000 encounters a day, the highest ever. That doesn’t even count the ‘got-aways’. All these people are now in the country. Instead of closing the border, Kamala Harris wants to reward these law-breakers with a pathway to citizenship. Two more Texas counties responded to the border chaos by declaring it an “invasion” - bringing the total to 29 - and Texas Governor Greg Abbott has just designated Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations.
Speaking of terrorists, Venezuelan paramilitary personnel are embedding themselves into north-bound caravans and organizing into cell structures led by unit commanders once inside the United States. So it appears Latin American socialists are not done exporting revolution just yet. On top of that, an Inspector General report found the Biden administration let Afghan evacuees into the country who were not properly vetted, some of whom are national security risks. Oh, Joe, what have you done.
As for fentanyl, Florida authorities seized enough fentanyl to kill four million people. The fentanyl was routed through California, but there was enough left there to kill a girl who died at school and cause six other students to overdose. Record amounts of fentanyl and meth are being seized in Texas and Arizona. Oh Joe, what have you done.
Arizona authorities have lost track of 550 alien children. It is feared many of the missing children are now victims of sex trafficking. Almost 750 illegal aliens have died trying to cross the southern border this fiscal year. Texas morgues are ordering more refrigerators to keep up with the flow of dead bodies. Oh Joe, what have you done.
Double down, that’s what he’s done. In previous commentaries, I’ve given you more than two dozen policy changes the Biden administration has made to open the border. Here are two more to add to the list: prohibiting the use of GPS technology to track the whereabouts of illegal aliens released into the U.S., and allowing illegal aliens to receive food stamps, Medicaid, and housing benefits without being barred from permanent admission as a public charge. Also, an Inspector General report indicated the administration is doing a bad job screening visa applications in foreign countries and cannot certify applicants are properly vetted.
In previous commentaries, I’ve listed various theories that could account for why Biden wants the border open: replacing the present population and getting a permanent political majority for the Democrats. Here’s one more to add to the mix: Miss Venezuela 1984, now in the United States, warns an open border is prelude to a left-wing authoritarian takeover. It happened in Venezuela before Chavez took power, and it could happen here. If that sounds far-fetched, consider this. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, an open borders crazy, met with George Soros-funded groups during a trip to the border last year, according to government records. Wouldn’t you like to know what they discussed? Is it possible the Biden administration is in touch with socialist revolutionaries from Venezuela now in the United States to start the preparation for a left-wing authoritarian takeover? Are they here to disrupt the November elections and provoke a national emergency so the elections can be canceled? If not, what ARE they here for? Explain it to me.
But if you start asking questions like these, be prepared to fly some unfriendly skies.
9/21/22 - Election Fraud: The Jig Is Up
There’s so much Democrats believe about elections that just ain’t so. They yap all the time about election deniers, but never seem to worry about the election deniers in their own party. The list of Democrat election deniers includes Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Barrack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Stacey Abrams, Al Gore, Senator Patty Murray, and countless others who questioned election results. One journalist compiled a list of 82 Democrat election deniers. Republican researchers found 150. So spare me the phony narrative about Republicans being election deniers.
And spare me the whole mythology Democrats have built up that election integrity laws are Republican attempts to suppress the vote. The fact of the matter is election integrity laws were passed in 2021 in Arizona, Georgia, Texas, Florida, and Iowa. Voter turnout went UP, not down, in all five states in subsequent elections compared to 2018.
The Democrats are bitter clingers when it comes to election denier and voter suppression mythology. This whole charade is meant to deflect attention away from Democrat attempts to rig elections. The Democrat Secretary of State in Michigan is in court trying to keep dead people on the voter rolls. You gotta ask yourself why she would want to do that. Because it makes it easier to steal elections. When the votes are counted, you have to match up fraudulent votes for Democrat candidates with records of voters who haven’t voted. The dirtier the voter rolls are, the easier it is to find people who haven’t voted - like dead people. The easier it is to commit election fraud.
But ordinary people have had enough of Democrat cheating. Ordinary people just want free and fair elections back, and they’re working hard to achieve it.
One group discovered how easy it is to forge signatures on mail-in ballots. Just circulate a petition - ‘Mr. President, Save the Whales’ - scan the signatures, and drop them into real mail-in ballots you grabbed from apartment buildings or got from your Democrat buddies who work for the Post Office. Automate the process and, viola!, you have thousands of fake ballots you can drop into any old drop box, which the Democrats justified creating in the name of preventing COVID transmission but, somehow, we still have. When the people who signed the petition go to vote, they’ll be told they already voted. Folks, that’s how easy it is to steal your vote and how loose the Democrats want our elections to be.
A citizens group in Florida examined voter rolls and found thousands of instances where people did not live at the stated address, many addresses that weren’t residences, and hundreds of dead people on the rolls.
An activist in Wisconsin brought a criminal complaint against a Milwaukee election official for setting up a tent in a back alley to accept ballots from cars, no questions asked and no poll watchers present.
Republican and conservative groups filed suit in Pennsylvania over Democrat counties contacting voters to cure defects in their mail-in ballots in violation of state law.
After an activist in East Lansing, Michigan found nonexistent addresses, votes from closed college dorms, and other problems with the voter rolls, the County Clerk and willing accomplices in the media tried to discredit the work. Not a good look, resisting the cleaning of voter rolls. Don’t you Democrats realize how suspicious you look when you do that?
You also look suspicious when you defy laws that require the appointment of an equal number of Republican and Democrat poll workers. Kalamazoo hired 132 Democrats but only 60 Republicans for the August primary despite more than enough Republican names being submitted for consideration. In Flint, the ratio was even worse. [details here]
Connect the dots and the picture is unmistakably clear: Democrats try to rig the game and steal elections. So forgive me when I look at Democrat election so-called ‘reform’ proposals and see attempts to rig elections on steroids. One proposal - recently rejected by the Arizona Supreme Court for failing to collect enough signatures to put it on the ballot - would have gutted voter ID, eliminated safeguards against noncitizen voting, removed constraints on mail-in balloting, and facilitated vote trafficking by political operatives. A similar super-scam is pending in Michigan.
The Democrats, predictably, claimed the Arizona court was “suppressing democracy”. That’s all the Democrats have - empty rhetoric. But the jig is up. We see right through you. And we’ll go right on challenging election results and passing election integrity laws until every election in this country is free and fair, again.
9/20/22 - Woke Pentagon Ravaging the Military
Did you know that the diversity chief for the Defense Department’s K-thru-12 school system once tweeted, “I’m exhausted with these white folx in these [professional development] sessions.” She also tweeted, ““[T]his lady actually had the CAUdacity to say that black people can be racist too… I had to stop the session and give Karen the BUSINESS… [W]e are not the majority, we don’t have power” - the implication being that black people can’t be racist, which is crazy, they most certainly can. ‘CAUdacity’ is a play on Caucasians with the audacity born of so-called white privilege. The diversity chief deleted her Twitter account, trying to cover her tracks, but House Republicans found out about it and demanded the Pentagon investigate, which the Pentagon has agreed to do. But don’t hold your breath. It’s most likely this Woke Pentagon we’re stuck with for now will end up minimizing the whole thing or, even worse, congratulating the diversity chief for her courage to tell the truth and for bringing people together with her divisive rhetoric.
Concerns about the Woke Pentagon destroying our military didn’t begin with the discovery of the diversity chief’s tweets. One observer recently looked at the actions of the Biden Pentagon and said “the era of wokeness permeating all branches is impacting unit cohesion and combat readiness to such a degree that many ... worry about America’s ability to wage war effectively when required to do so.” The Secretary of the Navy recently wrote about his accomplishments after one year on the job, citing progress on sexual harassment, mental health, spouse employment, and other such issues. Critics pointed out he talked about everything except naval power and war-fighting capability.
In previous commentaries I’ve given you numerous examples of Wokitude taking over the military. Unfortunately, it’s still going on. Here’s the latest:
Recently obtained government records show the depth of communist-inspired Critical Race Theory (CRT) instruction at West Point. There’s even a slide entitled “Modern Day Slavery in the USA”. Kinda makes you want to go out and defend your country, doesn’t it?
The Pacific branch of the Air Force, which faces off with China, just banned all references to race, age, and gender in order to improve lethality. ‘We must embrace, promote and unleash the potential of diversity and inclusion,” an Air Force email said. I thought the Air Force was supposed to unleash bombers and missiles when called upon to do so, but I could be mistaken about that.
And, as usual, communist-inspired transgenderism is front and center. The Biden administration ordered last year that transgenders be allowed to serve openly in the military. As a result, it is now mandatory that transgenders be allowed into male barracks, bathrooms, and shower facilities, even if they haven’t had their surgery yet. So there you are, some private with no choice standing in the shower next to a transgender with female genitalia and, if you don’t like it, you’re subject to disciplinary action. So much for unit cohesion, there are more important things when you’re staring down the barrels of enemy guns, or so the Woke Biden Pentagon thinks. In case you don’t know it, it is a communist technique to deliberately introduce ideas that break everything down so communists can usher in the revolution. It’s called the ‘Hegelian Dialectic’ and it’s no secret.
But that’s not all: Drag Queen Story Hour for children may have been cancelled at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, but the Woke Air Force didn’t give up. It recently put on a drag show at a family festival at a base in Virginia. Meanwhile, the Navy announced it means business on preferred pronouns. Deliberately mislabel a transgender service member and you will face disciplinary action.
I’ve mentioned the effect all this has on morale and unit cohesion. But stories continue to come in about how it is damaging recruitment. The Army is having its worst recruitment year in 50 years and expects to be 40,000 soldiers short in three years. Feel safer now? The Army is shifting $1 billion to recruitment to compensate, and laying plans to rely more on reserves. A billion dollars will buy a lot of air time. I can see the ads now - ‘Be all you can be’, if you know who you are in the first place, don’t mind being used as a political pawn in the coming revolution, and would rather chase rainbows than fire a gun. Yep, a billion dollars ought to help recruitment immensely.
Retired military officers have been asking West Point about Critical Race Theory, political activism, and the other ways in which the academy has gone Woke. They’re not getting any answers, which is not surprising. Power concedes nothing, even if there is a demand. (Apologies to Frederick Douglass.) So jam it to us while you can, Democrats, the reckoning is coming in November.
9/19/22 - What’s the Matter with Kids These Days?
Today I free my inner crank and tell you to get off my lawn. I’m an attorney by training and had to pass three bar exams to be licensed to practice in three jurisdictions. It wasn’t easy, but my clients were assured I knew my stuff. That would no longer be the case if a proposal to do away with the bar exam carries the day. The Delaware Supreme Court diversity committee recommended that prospective lawyers be licensed to practice by gathering personal recommendations and working in clerkships instead of taking the bar exam. The committee said the exam is a “barrier” to blacks and Hispanics. But in a congressional hearing, Senator Ted Cruz pointed out the obvious racism in this approach, the notion that blacks and Hispanics are too stupid to pass the test. "Do you believe that there's something about Hispanics and African-Americans that prevents them from taking the bar exam and doing well on it?" Cruz, who is Hispanic, asked a judicial nominee who is black. Both took and passed bar exams. Cruz went on to argue cases at the Supreme Court, reaching a pinnacle of the profession.
If lower standards for lawyers don’t bother you, how about your doctor? Minorities in some circumstances can now gain admission to the University of Pennsylvania’s med school without taking the MCAT admissions test. All they have to do is complete college-level science courses. One doctor noted that doctors are called upon to make life and death decisions. “The stakes are too high to start lowering standards or taking shortcuts with basic fundamental scientific knowledge necessary for developing critical thinking skills to diagnose and properly treat diseases,” the doctor says.
Lower standards are not just a growing problem at professional schools. A college instructor at the University of Cincinnati says rules against plagiarism and cheating on tests unfairly affect minority students more than whites. “[T]he idea of academic integrity is racialized through and through,” he says. Minority students are more often accused of cheating, so his solution is to relax the rules and not be too “punitive” when cheating is found. So let me get this straight: minority students will never measure up no matter what, they need crutches to succeed and, on top of that, they need the intercession of a priestly class of professorial fixers if they’re going to make it through life. How is that not racist? How is that not ‘learned helplessness’? How does that not create resentment among anyone who worked hard to meet all the requirements without cheating?
Also in colleges, faculty hiring and tenure decisions in some places now depend in part on adherence to diversity, equity, and inclusion orthodoxy. This reduces the importance of academic merit and achievement in deciding who gets hired and who gets to stay. Tuition keeps going up while academic standards keep going down. At some point, people will figure out it’s no longer worth the money.
Academic standards are declining before college. I know a philosophy professor who says many students showing up in his classes now are not ready or able to learn. They haven’t done the work necessary to understand advanced material. To see how this might have come about, consider a place like Baltimore where a big report on grade-fixing last summer found thousands of grades were changed from ‘fail’ to ‘pass’. It’s a whole lot easier to pass kids through than it is to meet their learning challenges.
The future of all this is not good - elementary school students who never learn to read, professors whose heads are full of diversity theory instead of real knowledge, less competent professionals, and an adult population half of which is functionally illiterate. It leads to a society where it is perfectly acceptable to urinate and defecate on the street - ugh! Encouraging others to achieve less is the wrong way to go, no matter how good the reasons might sound. The best thing you can do for people is insist they meet high standards. If you don’t want to meet high standards, get off my lawn.
9/16/22 - War on Parents: We Have Not Yet Begun to Fight
Ordinary people are fighting back in the War on Parents, and winning.
A bank withdrew its support for the Boise gay pride festival after a backlash against the festival’s planned drag show for minors. A school district in Texas rejected transgender sports, pronoun requirements, and LGBT instruction in classrooms. The El Paso school board fired a teacher who told students not to judge pedophiles. The largest school district in Utah pulled ‘Gender Queer’ and 50 other inappropriate books from its library after parents complained. Parental complaints also scuttled plans to put a Planned Parenthood facility inside a Los Angeles high school. A school board in Pennsylvania paid $300,000 to settle legal claims by parents who were cut off from speaking at school board meetings in opposition to school board policies. Serves the authoritarians right.
And we have not yet begun to fight.
One weapon of choice is the lawsuit. Nothing like service of a signed complaint to focus the mind. The Arizona GOP sued the state Superintendent of Public Instruction who steered students to an online chat room to talk about sex. California parents sued after ‘nonbinary’ male counselors allegedly slept in girls’ cabins at science camp. Virginia parents sued a school board for adopting a policy hiding information from parents about their children with transgender issues. Another suit in Virginia argues a school board engaged in the moral corruption of children by adopting radical transgender policies. A suit in Rhode Island alleges schools violated the state’s open meetings law when the schools delegated policy discussions to outside groups which held secret meetings on antiracism and hiring practices. And Tennessee parents sued a school district for ignoring the state’s law banning CRT instruction.
Beyond the courtroom, a college professor recommends parents write letters en masse to colleges saying they will not pay to send their children to schools that force the use of preferred pronouns, discriminate against religious beliefs, or indoctrinate students in the classroom. Hit’em where it hurts: enrollment. [Conservative Teachers of America Facebook post] Warn teachers you will go after their state teaching license. [Id.] Read pornographic material from school library books at school board meetings. That causes an uproar. Lobby for a law like Virginia passed this year requiring parental notification when sexually explicit material will be used in the classroom. While you’re doing all of the above, organize to vote the bums out, it can be done.
I’ve just scratched the surface of what’s being done and what’s possible to fight back in the War on Parents. But if I haven’t inspired you to action, then I’ve failed. Spend the time, throw money into the fight, or let the groomers and the authoritarian Left take over. It’s up to you.
9/15/22 - War on Parents: Name the Enemy
I promised to show you how combatants other than school teachers and administrators are waging the War on Parents.
We start with teachers unions. The New Jersey chapter of the National Education Association ran an ad calling parents “extremists” for speaking out against divisive Critical Race Theory (CRT) and communist-inspired transgenderism at school board meetings. The ad accuses parents of ‘getting political’. Excuse me, but parents are only reacting to teachers unions getting political. The NEA spends twice as much money on politics than it does on worker issues. The NEA wants to ban the words ‘mother’ and ‘father’, and that’s not political? These people are nuts.
Yale University had posted a video on YouTube for two years, it is now trying to make disappear, extolling the virtues of its Pediatric Gender Program and the wonders of working with “gender-expansive individuals, 3 to 25…” Gender-expansive 3-year-olds? These people are sick.
Another combatant is the Democrat Party. Beto O’Rourke says parents shouldn’t question teachers about what is being taught in the classroom. He joins a long line of Democrats saying the same thing, including Terry McAuliffe who lost the Virginia governor’s race last year for saying it in a debate.
Then there’s the professional Left. The discredited Southern Poverty Law Center created lessons for elementary schoolers on systemic racism and white privilege. I guess the SPLC has to do something with the half a billion dollars it stashed offshore, somewhere. The Satanic Temple continues to burrow away, most recently winning the right to hold an event in a high school in Pennsylvania. The Satanic Temple is a fierce warrior. It sues if it doesn’t get its way.
Transgender activists are attacking from the flanks. They count avowed communists among their number. One activist brags about distributing transgender drugs to minors online. “Everything is free, no questions asked." Other activists work to get their critics deplatformed, calling them ‘terrorists’.
Subverted churches are joining in. Episcopal Church leaders at a recent convention voted up a resolution in favor of sex changes for all ages, calling it ‘religious liberty’. Pretty twisted. They oppose laws banning transgender drugs and surgery for minors. I suppose this means they support transgender drugs and surgery for gender-expansive 3-year-olds. Meanwhile, a church in San Diego allowed a drag queen to film a music video on its premises mocking Biblical Christianity and indoctrinating children.
The medical profession has joined the onslaught. A rainbow-haired doctor called parents who don’t allow their children to have transgender drugs and surgery ‘child abusers’. The North Carolina nursing board investigated a mom who is a nurse who spoke at a school board meeting against mask mandates. These most recent stories follow the American Academy of Pediatrics publishing a book brainwashing kids into pursuing transgenderism, for a modest fee, of course.
All these enemies are just following the lead of the FBI which, according to whistleblowers, cooks up fake domestic terrorism cases against parents so FBI agents can show good numbers and get promoted.
That brings us to Disney which, in many ways, is leading the charge in the War on Parents. The newest weapons in the Disney arsenal include a kids’ cartoon series with two men dating and a transgender ‘man’ who menstruates, a new gay Spider-Man with a “fearlessly femme identity”, and a new series for next year that will “push the needle” for drag. Mickey Mouse has put on a helmet and gone to war.
A powerful array of forces. But not unbeatable. Tomorrow, I’ll tell you about more parents who are stepping into the breach and winning against the transgender-industrial complex and other enemies we have named here today in the War on Parents.
9/14/22 - Mao’s Cultural Revolution Comes to America
The war on parents is escalating. Here’s what’s happening on the battlefield:
A series of undercover videos exposed what school personnel are really up to, in their own words.
A private school director in New York City was caught on video admitting she misuses her position to sneak her left-wing political agenda into classrooms. “I just keep trying to disrupt wherever I can,” she said. “And now that I’m in this position, I have so many opportunities to do that.” She said she won’t allow Republican views to be expressed and trashed white boys as being horrible, awful people who are protected by capitalism. Wow.
Also in New York City, a middle school teacher was recorded encouraging students to engage in political violence and throw bricks at people who hold opposite views. She changed the words to the Pledge of Allegiance, so her class recites the idea America does not stand for liberty and justice for all, because black and brown people are excluded, they don’t get justice. If that’s true, why did Breonna Taylor’s family get a $12 million settlement from Louisville? The claim doesn’t make any sense. It’s garbage.
An assistant principal of an elementary school in Greenwich, Connecticut won’t hire Catholic teachers or anybody over 30 because they’re too conservative. He admitted to illegal age discrimination on video. He said he has progressive teachers who are adept at delivering left-wing messages to students without being obvious about it. “It’s subtle.... That’s how you get away with it,” he said.
Back in New York City, an assistant principal won’t hire teachers who believe in equality or a color-blind society. They have to give the correct Woke responses to diversity, equity, and inclusion questions and toe the party line on anti-racism or they won’t be hired. He would have fired a teacher who did not want to indoctrinate students with Black Lives Matter ideology, but the teacher quit first. Kindergartners at the school celebrate gay pride month by reading stories about a boy who wants to be a mermaid and encouraging children to be anything they want to be, genderwise. Transgender ideology becomes more explicit as the kids get older.
This is all in their own words and on tape, folks, there’s no denying it. They’re coming for your kids, and it’s not just the east coast.
Indoctrination also starts in kindergarten in Portland, Oregon schools. Kids are being taught the male-female gender binary is just a white colonizer construct and the ‘infinite gender spectrum’ is where it’s at. Forget the 57 genders, the number of gender choices is now ‘infinite’. Isn’t progress wonderful? According to the curriculum, some girls can have penises and some boys can have vulvas. This is not just the schools taking over the job of identity formation from parents, the agenda goes deeper than that. After six years of identity indoctrination, fifth-graders are asked to make Chinese youth league-style promises to carry on the revolution. They are asked to pledge to learn more about the ideology and the history of black trans women. They pledge to use correct pronouns. They pledge to watch films and shows with LGBTQ characters and, most importantly, they pledge to become leaders in their school on these issues. As we’ve seen in other contexts, the Left is hell-bent on turning students into 24/7 left-wing activists. Mao’s Cultural Revolution lives, and anyone who gets in the way will be sent to the countryside, figuratively speaking, to learn from the peasants and be reeducated.
L.A. is in pretty much the same boat with “trans justice” now the linchpin of instruction. But field reports are pouring in from everywhere:
A high school teacher in California keeps a ‘queer library’ in her classroom with books about orgies, kinks, fetishes, and bondage.
Schools in one Florida county are expelling students if their parents object to having them fill out a gender identity questionnaire.
Schools in one Pennsylvania county are encouraging boys to wear dresses.
There are more reports from all over the country about mandatory drag shows, Woke math classes that destroy competency, indoctrination starting at age 3, snitching on family and friends for microaggressions, expelling students for misgendering classmates, and more. There are so many reports, I can’t keep up, anymore.
The war is on. They’re coming for your kids. Get active or get steamrolled. Get involved before your kids become unrecognizable to you and turn on you, like the good little commies they are being trained to be. Do nothing and you’ll just have to hope they don’t come after you with a machine gun, like in Pol Pot’s Killing Fields, because that’s what communists eventually do.
I only discussed teachers and administrators today. The War on Parents is coming from several directions. Tomorrow, I will tell you about some of those.
9/13/22 - California Is Exporting Revolution and Stealing Your Kids
This is outrageous. California just upped the ante in the culture wars. The California legislature, with overwhelming support from Democrats, just passed a bill to have the state take legal custody of minors who travel from other states seeking transgender drugs and surgery. The bill is on Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk, awaiting signature.
California is not content with messing up its own children’s lives. Now, it wants to mess up your children, too. It is exporting revolution to the rest of the country. But, first, California will have to get it through the courts because such an assault on parental rights is unconstitutional and may well violate federal laws determining which state courts have jurisdiction in child custody matters. Observers are urging Republican state Attorneys General in other states to challenge California’s move. “Other states’ attorneys general will not sit idly by as California steals children from parents who don’t want them sterilized with these trans-treatments,” one observer said. Also, the bill is vague on who would actually take care of these minors, with observers noting the foster care system is already overburdened.
California’s move is made all the more outrageous by the fact the wheels are falling off the whole phony transgender narrative. An upcoming documentary exposes a lot of the things I’ve discussed in previous commentaries - the cynical transgender-industrial complex just out to make a buck, the artificial driver of social contagion infecting entire groups of kids who are falsely made to think they are transgender, and the cover-up of the regrets expressed by detransitioners whose names are legion, at this point.
The filmmaker is a lifelong Democrat in California who is generally supportive of the LGBTQ community. But she accuses educators and a therapist of driving her autistic, gender-confused daughter to mental breakdown and “catastrophic ruin” with transgenderism. The mother, after realizing four out of five of her daughter’s friends were identifying as transgender, asked the therapist about social contagion but got no answer. That’s malpractice.
The filmmaker also takes direct aim at the claim kids will commit suicide if they’re not allowed to transition, a claim that’s meant to scare parents into submission. “This is a total lie,” she says. “In our film, we have a therapist who specializes in counseling detransitioners, and she says this is precisely the opposite.” Her view is backed up by the research. Researchers making the claim about suicide and their willing accomplices in the media were later debunked by other analysts who pointed out the original data showed transgender drugs and surgery made no improvement in depression in the kids who were studied. On hearing the news, the University of Washington which participated in the study decided to keep quiet about it instead of correcting the inaccuracies that had appeared in media accounts.
Other recent news also blows up phony the transgender narrative. A whistleblower said the American Academy of Pediatrics deliberately squelched any serious examination of the issue before embracing transgenderism. Children’s National Hospital in D.C. was caught on audio admitting they give gender-denying hysterectomies to minors under 16, rendering them sterile for life. Meanwhile, it came to light at least 13 U.S. hospitals are in the business of performing gender transition surgery on minors. Ca-ching, Ca-ching!
A girl who had her breasts removed at 15 expressed regrets, pointing a finger at school staff and medical professionals who facilitated her gender transition without any serious examination of what was going on with her. They laid the suicide guilt trip on her parents, beating them into submission. “No child should have to experience what I have,” she says. “My consent was not informed, and I was filled with modernism.”
The modernists in California won’t be happy to hear that. But despite the wheels coming off the phony transgender narrative, they’re doubling down - exporting revolution and stealing your kids. Maybe Florida and Texas should pass laws offering sanctuary to California kids who feel threatened by the state’s recent law lowering the age of consent, making them easy prey for child sex abusers. Turnabout is fair play.
9/12/22 - 9/11: Why Do They Hate Us?
Americans gathered at Ground Zero, the Pentagon, and Shanksville over the weekend to remember the Islamic jihad terrorist attacks on 9/11 21 years ago. ‘Why do they hate us?,’ George W. Bush wondered shortly after the attacks. The bad news is they hate us because their religion commands them to hate us.
When you start with a holy book, the Quran, that says 164 times in various ways ‘slay the infidel’, you’re bound to have a problem. The 9/11 attacks would not have occurred but for the standard Islamic doctrines of sharia supremacy and jihad, as shown by Arabic-language sources of Al Qaeda messages at the time. Moreover, in 2009, five masterminds of the 9/11 attacks including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - calling themselves the “9/11 Shura Council” - wrote that the 9/11 attacks were an “act of Jihad”, jihad being “a great duty in our religion.” They quoted numerous verses from the Quran including the infamous ‘Verse of the Sword’ - “fight and slay the pagans wherever you find them.”
This isn’t just old news from the dustbin of history. Standard Islamic doctrine is unchanged today, and there are plenty fresh reminders it means business. There are also too many doctrinally-inspired Islamic jihad attacks taking place on a daily basis to dismiss the threat out of hand. Let’s see what sharia supremacists say in their own words, shall we?
An imam formerly based in Houston said non-Muslims are the worst of Allah’s creations, that they are worse than animals. He referred to a verse in the Quran which commands wives not to talk to their husbands if their husbands do not wage jihad.
A New York Times journalist said he favored killing and burning Jews “like Hitler did.” The Islamic Education Center in Houston is teaching children to pledge allegiance to Iran’s leaders and to become soldiers to kill Jews.
A prominent imam in France said, ‘I make no distinction between Islamism and Islam. Islamism is Islam in action.’ This echoes the words of Turkish President Erdogan who said in 2017, “There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.” The implication of these statements is that jihad attacks are the result of standard Islamic doctrine, not an extremist interpretation of Islamic doctrine.
A Swedish imam spoke of the “great battle” when all non-Muslims will be forced to submit to Islam, and he prayed to Allah to defeat or destroy Christians and Jews. “Sweden is ours,” he said. “It’s ours, whether they want this or not. In ten to fifteen years, it will be ours.”
Police in India discovered the battle plan of an Islamic group that wants to take over India by 2047. They will accomplish their goal by infiltrating the government, killing their opponents, and recruiting enough jihadis to eventually engage in a show-down with the government.
But we don’t have to wait until 2047 to see doctrinally-inspired Islamic attacks. Massacres are taking place daily as the Islamization of Africa continues. In our own country, a Muslim passenger screaming ‘Allah’ tried to storm the cockpit of a JetBlue flight out of Boston last year. This year, the FBI reversed itself and finally acknowledged the Islamic attack on the synagogue in Colleyville, Texas was an act of terrorism. The Colleyville attacker told officials that he wished he had died in the 9/11 terror attacks. Also this year, a man brutally murdered a woman in Seattle with a hatchet and bolt cutters after reading the Quran, which gave him the idea that he should kill her.
No wonder CAIR - the Council on American-Islamic Relations - wants to turn 9/11 into a national day of service and redefine 9/11 around efforts to counteract anti-Muslim bullying in school. No wonder CAIR wants to skip right over the Islamic terror attacks that killed 3,000 people in America 21 years ago. CAIR can deflect all it wants, but Islam’s victims are still dead and the holy Quran still commands Muslims to wage violent jihad until sharia covers the earth.
It’s time to have a serious discussion. If standard Islamic doctrine doesn’t really mean what it says, let’s hear that from CAIR and other Islamic leaders. If the doctrine does mean what it says and they really do hate us and want to kill us for religious reasons, let’s hear that, too.
9/9/22 - So Many Imperfect Humans, So Little Time
Among the smooth assurances advocates gave us when passing assisted suicide laws was the idea there would be safeguards built into the laws so assisted suicide would only occur when the requirements of law were met. Hah! What a bunch of bunk, as we now know. A doctor who advocates euthanasia just admitted in a journal article that safeguards fail. “(S)afeguards will never be perfect,” he wrote. “All laws about anything result in some instances in which the outcome is other than what the law intends.” Too bad that, when something other than what an assisted suicide law intends happens, it means that someone is dead who shouldn’t be.
This doctor was writing rather abstractly, but Belgium shows you exactly what happens when the safeguards in assisted death laws fail. One safeguard is that the person is supposed to ask for assisted death. In Belgium in just one year, over a thousand assisted deaths were done without explicit request. Another safeguard is that assisted deaths would be reported, so the government could keep tabs on what was happening and dial restrictions up as needed. Another bad joke. In Belgium that year, almost half of assisted deaths were not reported.
Hidden agendas thrive in darkness. And here, the authoritarian Left is getting its way. More people are dying from assisted suicide and euthanasia than ever before. Assisted death numbers continue to climb in places where such laws have been passed, regardless of safeguards, including the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Victoria Australia, and Oregon. Assisted deaths were up 36 percent in Ontario in a recent one-year period and 32 percent in Canada overall in 2021 over the previous year.
Canada is of interest because it’s out in front on this issue in many ways and what’s happening there is downright disturbing. Vulnerable populations are being deliberately targeted and pushed into assisted death - people who are less able to protect themselves from outside pressure, like veterans with PTSD, people with dementia, the mentally ill, children, the disabled, and the poor. In Australia, it’s the elderly. In Belgium, it’s infants. Gee, get rid of all these groups and we just might end up with a super-race. Sieg Heil!
It’s no accident the early Progressives and the National Socialists in Germany were all in for eugenics to create the perfect super-race. There’s a straight line from eugenics to the authoritarian Left’s preoccupation with assisted suicide and euthanasia today. But a funny thing happened on the way to Utopia. We ended up in a very sick place, instead. The Hitlerian doctrine of some lives being unworthy of life holds sway. We’re making the short jump from ‘the government needs to save money on social spending’ to a shift in societal attitudes that actively demonizes and targets the vulnerable. Once these demons are let loose, they cannot be controlled. We’ll end up like that psychology experiment at Stanford where ordinary people assigned to prison guard roles became unbearably authoritarian and cruel in a matter of days - except it will be real life, not just an experiment, and there will be no escape.
In the authoritarian Left’s drive to save humanity from itself, there eventually won’t be a shred of humanity left. As someone I know put it:
- Here’s my thought on assisted suicide: in a world without disabled people, and terminally Ill people, how do humans learn true compassion and empathy? (No church needed for those qualities) And for those who believe in the grace of God, where does one get the special grace that comes from caring for those who suffer?
9/8/22 - How Democrats Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Electronic Voting Machines
Strange stories about voting machines continue to surface in the news.
Voting machines in Rhode Island displayed the names of 2018 candidates in a 2022 election, and misspelled another candidate’s name. Voters who used the machines were disenfranchised.
In Alabama, voting machines in two counties accepted Xerox copies of ballots while the machines were being tested, and machines in seven precincts showed more votes than voters. Who programmed it to do that?
An Arizona Corporation Commissioner sent a letter to all election officials in the state asking that they stop using voting machines. He said the machines are unreliable and vulnerable to attack, citing the case of a hand recount revealing a 62 percent error rate in tabulation machines. Who programmed the tabulator so it couldn’t even add? Even simple hand-held calculators can add.
A New Mexico county refused to certify the results of a primary election this year because of distrust of machines, but was ordered by the state Supreme Court to do so.
Citizen investigators found machines flipped the results of 2020 Supreme Court Justice races in Michigan, throwing the Court to the Democrats. The investigators also found voting systems in two states had the easily cracked password ‘123456’ and had Microsoft SQL software in three states which is unnecessary and allows data to be manipulated.
If you find it hard to believe voting machines flip votes, listen to this: An official post-election audit in Kansas uncovered the fact that thumb drives inserted into voting machines during an election flipped votes from one candidate for county commissioner to another who was initially mistakenly declared the winner. The company said it was a programming error and, supposedly, no other races were affected. That was some error. Who sat down and wrote a computer program for the machines to flip votes? Doesn’t sound like an accident to me.
So what happens when there are questions about machine results but the Secretary of State gets to certify the results of his own election and declare himself the winner? It happened in Georgia where citizen investigators monitored the voting in one precinct and found Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger got 53 percent of the vote in the GOP primary, but the machines gave him 68 percent of the vote. That one is being contested with a request to look at the actual ballots.
Trust in elections will not be rebuilt until vote-flipping and other documented problems with voting machines get resolved and stories like these stop appearing. It doesn’t help that all of this is a black box and the machine manufacturers scream bloody murder about proprietary information whenever citizens want to look inside their machines to see what is really going on when things don’t add up. Top Democrats like Barack Obama and Kamala Harris are on record expressing concerns about voting machines. Concerns from that side of the aisle about machines date back to at least 2003 but, nowadays, Democrats for the most part embrace voting machines and dismiss any questions that get asked as crazy-talk. Gee, I wonder why. The lady doth protest too much.
9/7/22 - Border News: Building the Case for Impeachment
Re-posted at DefendTheBorder.org
A new report shows the Biden administration has allowed one million illegal aliens into the country since taking office. That doesn’t even count another estimated one million who got in without being caught or as unaccompanied minors.
But the administration recently told us not to believe our own lyin’ eyes - illegal aliens aren’t just walking across the border, the White House says, even though there’s video footage showing them doing exactly that. The gaslighting is not appreciated.
Nor are the continued policy changes the Biden administration keeps making to open the border further. The latest is the administration’s announcement it will reimburse El Paso for the cost of sending illegal aliens to New York City on buses. Come on down, get your free bus ticket here!
And new details have been released on the administration’s plan to give illegal aliens identification cards. It’s supposedly a pilot program expected to begin in March and cost a couple million dollars, but there is already talk of expanding the program later. This shows the administration’s priority is to open the border further, not defend it against invaders who break our laws to get in.
Meanwhile, there are fresh reports of the problems Biden’s border policies are causing. It’s a familiar litany by now, starting with national security threats and drug trafficking. An investigation into passport fraud turned up nearly 30,000 Mexican passport holders with Middle Eastern names, raising fears Islamic terrorist groups are taking advantage of the chaos at the border Biden has caused to slip through without a close look. In addition, the Biden administration is still letting Afghan evacuees into the country without fully vetting them and admits it doesn’t know where they are. Dozens were flagged after entry as security risks, but good luck finding them now.
As for drugs, rainbow fentanyl pills made to look like candy to hook children are coming across the border. You might blame the Chinese Communist Party and Mexican drug cartels for trafficking the pills, but I blame the Biden administration for opening the border and creating the opportunity.
The Biden administration obviously also doesn’t care about the escalating number of migrant deaths its policies are causing. They’re up more than 50 percent in the last year and are at the highest on record. Pulling dead kids from the Rio Grande - more video the Biden administration doesn’t want you to see. Missing children are also just pawns in Biden’s cynical game: 57 illegal alien children have been reported missing in the Houston area since late last year. Most are missing from the homes of non-parent U.S. sponsors and others ran away from government shelters.
I’ve said many times Biden and his top border officials should be impeached for failing to faithfully execute our nation’s immigration laws. That will have to wait for Republican control of Congress but, in the meantime, some are fighting back as best they can. Florida brought a lawsuit on that exact point - failing to execute the laws. The case is in the discovery phase and border agents are giving details about the crisis at the border and the lives it is putting at risk. Another lawsuit, brought by ranchers and other plaintiffs, just survived a motion to dismiss. It challenges Biden border policies for the harmful environmental impacts they’re causing - trashed ranches, farmland loss, reduced biodiversity, and strain on water resources. Texas is busing illegal aliens to Chicago now, in addition to D.C. and New York. Chicago is another sanctuary city and now faces the prospect of becoming more dangerous with more illegal aliens showing up at their doorstep. New York is now the most dangerous sanctuary city in the country, according to a new report.
That’s what you get when you choose party over country, chase the unicorns and rainbows of diversity policy, and decide America is just too guilty to be allowed to continue as is. If you think that way, fine, let’s open up the border to the whole world as Biden is doing, destroy America starting with your city, and we’ll see how you like what comes next. How would you like to die - rainbow fentanyl overdose or Islamic terrorist attack?
9/6/22 - Court Records Show Biden Is a Fascist Who Threatens Personal Rights
Joe Biden continued his attacks on Trump supporters in a Labor Day speech in Wisconsin, claiming, among other things, they threaten personal rights. The speech was a follow-up to Biden calling Trump supporters “semi-fascists” ten days ago. Let’s set the record straight, shall we?
Documents obtained in a lawsuit brought by the Missouri Attorney General and others show that a dozen federal agencies participated in the Biden administration’s collusion with social media companies to suppress the free speech rights of Americans about COVID and elections. The Missouri Attorney General called it “a massive, sprawling federal ‘Censorship Enterprise’,” involving the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, the CDC, and others. If bringing the full weight of the federal government down on Americans who speak their minds isn’t a threat to personal rights, I don’t know what is, and Joe Biden’s in charge of it.
The scheme involves Leftbook and Fritter. Leftbook was in weekly communication with Biden administration officials about what to censor, the documents obtained in court show. This includes personal correspondence between Anthony Fauci and Mark Zuckerberg to suppress the lab leak COVID origin theory which has only gained credence with the passage of time. Leftbook also wrote to the Surgeon General asking “what the White House expects of us.” Fritter scheduled a meeting to brief White House officials on so-called “vaccine misinformation” and to discuss how to carry their “partnership” forward.
There’s more. The CDC had a direct pipeline to Fritter to tell them what COVID information to take down. The Cybersecurity Agency asked Fritter to remove accounts. The actions of the ‘Censorship Enterprise’ go on for hundreds of pages and involve more than 50 Biden administration officials. [Link to documents here] The White House even asked that Fauci parody accounts be taken down from Leftbook. Making fun of the king is not allowed in Joe Biden’s America.
These are the results of the first six weeks of discovery in the lawsuit. There’s more to come, but we can already see that the conspiracy between the Biden administration and Big Tech to deprive Americans of their free speech rights is much wider and deeper than anyone thought. As more conspirators are discovered, they will be added to the lawsuit. The White House is claiming its communications are privileged, although it is clear that its external communications are not. Mark Zuckerberg has already admitted Leftbook suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election, acting on a request from the FBI. He has a whole lot more explaining to do as to why his supposedly neutral platform is in bed with the lying dog-faced pony soldier Biden administration.
Now let’s set the record straight on fascism. Fascism is a dictatorship brought about by the combination of Big Business and Big Government. The textbook example is Mussolini’s Italy where the CEOs of the biggest corporations in the country were also the cabinet ministers in Mussolini’s government. You put Big Business together with Big Government and you have the kind of concentration of power our Founders warned us about. Bad things happen when too much power gets in the hands of too few people. Dissenting voices get silenced, for starters, as the documents obtained in the collusion lawsuit I’ve been discussing so thoroughly demonstrate.
So we’ve got a serious problem in this country, and it’s not 80 million Trump supporters. It’s the Biden administration and its bosom buddies in Big Tech. They are the ones threatening personal rights and suppressing free speech. They are the ones threatening democracy by suppressing important information, like the Hunter Biden laptop story, that could have changed minds before the election. A recent poll found most Americans believe Trump would have been reelected had there been “truthful” coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop story. If Big Tech collusion with political power brokers isn’t a threat to democracy, I don’t know what is.
Leftbook and Fritter have both censored me along with many, many others. And now they can live with the consequences. One of the consequences is that their entire Censorship Enterprise with the Biden administration - the whole stinking mess - is being dragged out into the open for all to see. Who are the fascists, again?
9/2/22 - Romancing the EV
Going somewhere for the holiday weekend? Not if you live in California and drive an electric vehicle, you’re not. California issued an emergency alert asking people not to charge their EVs because the power grid can’t handle the demand. This from a state that is moving to ban the sale of gas-powered vehicles. So how’s this going to work when the internal combustion engine is gone, natural gas appliances are banned, and everyone has to rely on electricity for getting around, heating their homes, and washing their clothes. The short answer is: it’s not. The numbers don’t add up. But that’s the bright green energy future into which your insane leaders want to take you.
Here’s one thing that will happen in that future. Everyone will have smart meters and the government will simply order the power cut off whenever it feels like it. Don’t believe me? It’s already happening. How did you like the story out of Denver this week, where 22,000 households were locked out of their thermostats and couldn’t adjust their air conditioning when it got hot? No car, no A/C, no appliances, whenever the government decides it’s time to control your behavior.
Colorado and California are among the states that have adopted green energy mandates. Hate to break it to you, folks, but green energy is just not up to the job. The numbers don’t add up. That’s why Illinois is already looking for ways to adjust its green energy mandates and escape the trap. They figure they can’t attract business to the state without being able to demonstrate they will have reliable energy supplies in the future. That’s the first sensible thing I’ve heard out of Illinois politicians for a long time.
Since I’m the skunk at the garden party, let me ask this: What is all this sackcloth and ashes supposed to accomplish? If I were a cynic, I would say the goal is wealth and power for a tiny elite that is personally heavily invested in green energy stocks, something I’ve reported on before. I could also say it’s about controlling the people, reducing their standard of living to make them poor, cutting America down to size in the world, waging Marxist war on capitalism, putting the globalists in control of your happiness, and degrowth and depopulation.
I’ve heard all these things and they sound plausible to me. But let’s take the entire exercise at face value, shall we? Leaving fossil fuels in the ground and making the transition to green energy will stop climate change and keep the planet from burning up, right?
There’s only one problem. Over 1,100 scientists and professionals from around the world just signed a declaration stating in no uncertain terms there is no climate emergency. “Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific,” they said. “Scientists should openly address uncertainties and exaggerations in their predictions of global warming.” So, anyone who tells you ‘the science is settled’ and the planet is burning up is lying to you for their own selfish purposes. There are real costs to green energy policies, the scientists went on, and the cure - getting rid of fossil fuels - will be worse than the disease. They criticize the unfounded beliefs that dominate media narratives and call for getting back to real science.
Emergency directives and smart meter shut-offs aside, let’s suppose you do manage to get your EV out of your garage this weekend. You have some other things to worry about. Your EV could explode at any moment. Hyundai and Kia just issued warnings. They recommend parking your EV outside so it doesn’t burn your house down. The town in Connecticut with the electric bus fire this summer has gone back to diesel-powered buses.
If you’re on the road, good luck finding a charging station, and hope it works when you find one. A police department in England is finding its EVs can’t reach some emergencies because the emergencies are too far away and the batteries run down before they can get there. In 2019, a police officer in California could not pursue a suspect because the officer’s EV ran down. The suspect got away.
If you’re driving an EV because you feel guilty about damaging the environment with fossil fuels, here’s something else to feel guilty about: pulling lithium out of the ground for your EV battery generates lots of carbon emissions, toxic wastewater, and other environmental damage. Indigenous peoples and governments in Latin America are wising up to this and are moving to clamp down on lithium mining. How will the numbers add up when more people in producing areas revolt?
Don’t get me wrong. I’m all for progress. I had halogens for years, but I love my LED lamps. But here’s what I’m not for: chasing unicorns and rainbows, turning everything upside down just because some people take it on faith the planet is burning up. And I’m not for blindly pursuing supposed solutions without ever giving a thought to what they will really cost or what new problems they will create. And I’m not for financially self-interested government officials telling us we have to ‘press the accelerator’ on the green energy transition when the numbers obviously don’t add up. I’m not for the inmates running the asylum. Take your romanticism and shove it! Get real and keep your hands off my thermostat and my life. Kapish?
9/1/22 - Joe Biden Wants to Put Y’all in Chains
Joe Biden will wrap himself in the flag tonight and deliver a primetime address to the nation on how we must restore our rights, our freedoms, and our democracy. As you listen to what undoubtedly will be a masterpiece of group-produced propaganda, just remember what his policies and the policies of the Democrat Party and its ideological masters on the hard Left really do to people.
The 15 percent minimum corporate tax in Joe Biden’s so-called ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ will wipe out the low income housing tax credit which has helped build and rehabilitate millions of homes for low income Americans. Way to go.
Home prices are at record levels and apartment rents have spiked. You can blame Democrat policies for driving up costs. Government mortgage subsidies raise home prices just like government student grants and loans have made college tuition rates go sky-high. The Fed buys mortgage-backed securities, artificially increasing the amount of capital available for the residential market, hurting affordability. Government has cut the supply of new rental housing with density restrictions and environmental regulations that tack on 30 percent to the cost of new apartments, and with rent control laws which cut incentives for new construction and upkeep. Leftist Utopia better come quick because people can’t afford to live here anymore.
The homeless problem created by Democrats is so bad in Portland homeowners are moving away because homeless people are camping out in their back yards with impunity. When L.A. tried to rein in the homeless camps near schools and parks, a Leftist mob descended on City Hall. We didn’t have such big problems with homelessness until Democrats and Leftists started romanticizing the subject and encouraging it.
Democrat-captured Oregon decriminalized heroin and cocaine, and overdose deaths rose 41 percent, two-and-a-half times faster than in the rest of the country. I’ll go out on a limb, here, and predict that putting the government stamp of approval on drug use and giving addicts free needles, free crack pipes, and safe places to shoot up in the name of ‘harm reduction’ will produce more drug use, not less. Society will be worse off for it. That’s just common sense.
Elsewhere on the Left coast, California passed a law restricting independent contractors who must now, in many circumstances, be considered employees and given employee benefits. Sounds great, right? Well, it means gig workers lose their autonomy to set their own hours and it also means higher prices for the rest of us. The trucking industry is especially hard hit, as many logistics companies primarily use truck drivers who own their own rigs. These drivers will now become employees, meaning fewer people will own their own businesses and become wage slaves. It’s all part of the Left’s master plan to attack freedom and drum out independent-minded people who want to be captains of their own fate in what has been, up to this point, the land of the free and the home of the brave.
The attacks on gig workers and low cost housing follow a familiar Democrat-Leftist pattern: things are just no darn good unless they’re perfect, unless we have Utopia. We saw it with Obamacare. Cheap catastrophic insurance that satisfied millions of people’s needs for decade became the enemy of the people because it didn’t cover everything. Now, gold-plated Obamacare policies force men to have pregnancy coverage and mandate essential health benefits, preexisting condition coverage, and restrictions on true risk calculation for aging, driving up costs enormously. The drive for perfection and Utopia pushed the cost of insurance policies northwards of $20,000 a year. Then they turn around and say, ‘Oh, but we’ll HELP you,’ first with subsidies, now with jumbo subsidies - subsidies that drive up costs further just like with tuition.
Obamacare is another insidious Democrat-Leftist dependency machine - the Democrats and the Left create the problem in the first place, then make it so you can’t function without the assistance of the federal government. It’s not supposed to be this way, and it’s not healthy because it produces perpetual children incapable of running their own lives, weaklings content to have the government take over all responsibility.
So, when you listen to Joe Biden’s fine words at Independence Hall tonight, just remember, he wants to put y’all in chains. They might be golden chains, but you will no longer be free if his side wins what Biden calls the ‘battle for the soul of the nation’. Take the chains - lose your soul, it’s that simple.
8/31/22 - Communism Kills
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, is dead at 91. He failed to overcome communism’s inherent economic and dictatorial flaws. Why does it matter? Because transgender activists, the “trained Marxists” of Black Lives Matter, and others want to bring communism to America. If you think communism is cute, let’s start with the hundred million corpses it has produced in the last hundred years, and we’ll go from there, OK?
Gorbachev’s programs were called perestroika and glasnost. They were both big flops. Perestroika was his attempt to restructure the Soviet economy to rescue it from the lunacy of top-down Soviet central planning. I have an anticommunism speakers bureau. One of my speakers spent his professional life for U.S. AID and other trying to fix the ravaged economies of Eastern Bloc countries after the fall of the Soviet Union. One of the stories he tells about Soviet central planning was the factory that added 10-pound plates to irons so the factory could make the tonnage quota set by central planners in Moscow. How can you iron a shirt with that? Pointing out the folly of central planning is important because our current crop of leaders in Washington are hell-bent on forcing us to transition to green energy, no matter what problems it causes. Just ask Germans and Brits how happy they are with green energy at the moment. It’s been a disaster for them, and it’s going to get worse this winter. Oh, and California just passed a law allowing the government to set wages for fast food workers. Central planning, here we come. Perestroika is the wrong direction for the United States, and everywhere else, for that matter.
Glasnost was Gorbachev’s attempt to reconcile the internal contradictions of the Soviet power structure. It meant more consultative government and more freedom of expression. But the communist party lost control after media outlets pushed the boundaries of glasnost and started telling the truth about Soviet communism for the first time. Gorbachev became head of state in 1988. The Soviet Union went kaput three years later. So you see, communism was inevitable until it wasn’t. The part about freedom of expression is important because every day, now, new stories come to light about tech companies stifling free expression in America, sometimes in coordination with the government, which isn’t supposed to happen. Facebook just censored my commentary yesterday. Pravda has spoken.
American socialists dismiss the Soviet disaster completely with a wave of the hand and tell you the Soviet Union didn’t ‘do communism right’. So much for the Red Terror where Lenin killed his own people by the tens of thousands, the Great Terror where Stalin killed and imprisoned Russians by the millions, and the Holodomor famine where the Soviets took the grain out of Ukraine to finance their own industrialization, starving 7 to 10 million Ukrainians to death in the process.
So who does communism right? Red China, according to the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman. So, let’s take a look, shall we?
Mao starved at least 35 million - some say 65 million - Chinese in his engineered famine of the Great Leap Forward. My Anticommunism Action Team recently held a webinar about what life in China is really like. The webinar started with a victim of China’s religious persecution and forced labor camps talking about how the Chinese communists nailed people inside their homes during the COVID lockdown in Shanghai earlier this year, where some couldn’t get food and others couldn’t get the medical treatment they needed. Swell folks, these communists. The webinar went on to describe life in China without the Rule of Law, what it’s like to live under total surveillance and a social credit system, where freedom of expression is not allowed - no glasnost here, and people are killed on demand for their organs because the state can. That’s what ‘doing communism right’ means, Thomas Friedman, you ignorant fool.
China’s communist system is producing a younger generation known for ‘lying flat’ - no higher education, no spouse, no children, no career. They refuse to participate in such an inhumane system any longer. Chinese communism has also produced 400 million people who have quit the Chinese Communist Party.
Hate to break it to you Leftists, but all these problems are inherent in Marxist theory. You can’t escape them. So the more you do communism right, the worse the economy is going to get and the more people are going to die. What else would you expect from a system that starts out with the dictatorship of the proletariat and, somehow, never manages to move beyond it in the real world? And you Leftists know it. You can prattle on about social justice all you want, you just want power - wealth and power for a tiny elite. Marxist theory is the best excuse for tyranny ever invented, and that’s the horse you want to ride all the way to the bank and to the halls of power. But I got news for you. Read your own history. The revolution always devours its own. You might think you will be among the last wave of revolutionary leaders standing, but you will either end up like Trotsky with an axe in your head, or like Robespierre with no head at all. You might want to reconsider. Your revolutionary co-leaders you call your friends today will be your executioners tomorrow. Think about that the next time they’re looking at you funny. Communism kills, and it will end up killing you.
8/30/22 - Woke Corporations Can Abuse Us, But Not for Free
Last week, Texas put the investment company BlackRock on a list of firms that may not get to manage state pension funds because the firms boycott oil & gas stocks. BlackRock is trying to get off the list, but the story shows you there are starting to be real-world consequences for companies that go Woke. It’s a mixed picture right now, with some companies still playing footsie with the Wokemeisters on the radical Left and others leaving the field after being bruised in the culture wars.
Communist-inspired transgenderism is still a corporate favorite. Disney continues to lead the pack with plans for an upcoming show that will fly the transgender flag and spew the outlandish propaganda that men can have periods, too. Other companies are not far behind.
Crayola posted an ad featuring a transgender model wearing a chain-link bra over outside clothing in order to normalize transgenderism for the masses. Then there’s transgender Barbie from Mattel, billboards from Ben & Jerry’s pushing transgenderism in children, donations for transgender surgery for children from the Detroit Tigers, transgender appreciation night from the Milwaukee Brewers, and a book from Pizza Hut telling children as young as four how inspiring it is for boys to dress up as girls and perform for adults in drag shows. No, this is not normal, and interfering with children’s psycho-sexual development is not healthy for children or society.
Woke corporations are pushing other left-wing causes, too. Kroger removed pro-American merchandise from its shelves after a left-wing crank complained on Twitter. American Express pledged another $3 billion for diversity, equity, and inclusion events and programs, bringing the total to $4 billion. It’s also spending money to support climate change advocacy and illegal immigration.
But in addition to Texas, other people are pushing back. A former employee sued American Express for firing him because he is white and he objected to the company's "racially discriminatory" policies. A new Viewpoint Diversity Score ranks companies on how well they respect freedom of speech and religion. Microsoft and AirBnB are among the worst. Another 17 Republican-led states joined Texas in sending a letter to BlackRock accusing the company of putting Woke investment criteria above shareholder returns in state pension funds. An asset management firm in Ohio promises to take politics out of investing and focus on companies that deliver what they should - business excellence.
People are not only fighting back; they’re winning. State Farm abandoned its support for a transgender book program for kindergartners in Florida after a national backlash. Paramount refused to cave in to pressure to censor its old films to conform to today’s Woke standards. HBO welcomed back Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling despite her stance on transgenderism. And after PayPal froze the account of Moms for Liberty, a parental rights group - preventing it from receiving donations - Florida announced a new initiative to “prohibit big banks, credit card companies and money transmitters from discriminating against customers for their religious, political, or social beliefs.”
So, as you can see, the price of going Woke is going up. How long will shareholders be willing to pay it?
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, is dead at 91. He failed to overcome communism’s inherent economic and dictatorial flaws. Why does it matter? Because transgender activists, the “trained Marxists” of Black Lives Matter, and others want to bring communism to America. If you think communism is cute, let’s start with the hundred million corpses it has produced in the last hundred years, and we’ll go from there, OK?
Gorbachev’s programs were called perestroika and glasnost. They were both big flops. Perestroika was his attempt to restructure the Soviet economy to rescue it from the lunacy of top-down Soviet central planning. I have an anticommunism speakers bureau. One of my speakers spent his professional life for U.S. AID and other trying to fix the ravaged economies of Eastern Bloc countries after the fall of the Soviet Union. One of the stories he tells about Soviet central planning was the factory that added 10-pound plates to irons so the factory could make the tonnage quota set by central planners in Moscow. How can you iron a shirt with that? Pointing out the folly of central planning is important because our current crop of leaders in Washington are hell-bent on forcing us to transition to green energy, no matter what problems it causes. Just ask Germans and Brits how happy they are with green energy at the moment. It’s been a disaster for them, and it’s going to get worse this winter. Oh, and California just passed a law allowing the government to set wages for fast food workers. Central planning, here we come. Perestroika is the wrong direction for the United States, and everywhere else, for that matter.
Glasnost was Gorbachev’s attempt to reconcile the internal contradictions of the Soviet power structure. It meant more consultative government and more freedom of expression. But the communist party lost control after media outlets pushed the boundaries of glasnost and started telling the truth about Soviet communism for the first time. Gorbachev became head of state in 1988. The Soviet Union went kaput three years later. So you see, communism was inevitable until it wasn’t. The part about freedom of expression is important because every day, now, new stories come to light about tech companies stifling free expression in America, sometimes in coordination with the government, which isn’t supposed to happen. Facebook just censored my commentary yesterday. Pravda has spoken.
American socialists dismiss the Soviet disaster completely with a wave of the hand and tell you the Soviet Union didn’t ‘do communism right’. So much for the Red Terror where Lenin killed his own people by the tens of thousands, the Great Terror where Stalin killed and imprisoned Russians by the millions, and the Holodomor famine where the Soviets took the grain out of Ukraine to finance their own industrialization, starving 7 to 10 million Ukrainians to death in the process.
So who does communism right? Red China, according to the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman. So, let’s take a look, shall we?
Mao starved at least 35 million - some say 65 million - Chinese in his engineered famine of the Great Leap Forward. My Anticommunism Action Team recently held a webinar about what life in China is really like. The webinar started with a victim of China’s religious persecution and forced labor camps talking about how the Chinese communists nailed people inside their homes during the COVID lockdown in Shanghai earlier this year, where some couldn’t get food and others couldn’t get the medical treatment they needed. Swell folks, these communists. The webinar went on to describe life in China without the Rule of Law, what it’s like to live under total surveillance and a social credit system, where freedom of expression is not allowed - no glasnost here, and people are killed on demand for their organs because the state can. That’s what ‘doing communism right’ means, Thomas Friedman, you ignorant fool.
China’s communist system is producing a younger generation known for ‘lying flat’ - no higher education, no spouse, no children, no career. They refuse to participate in such an inhumane system any longer. Chinese communism has also produced 400 million people who have quit the Chinese Communist Party.
Hate to break it to you Leftists, but all these problems are inherent in Marxist theory. You can’t escape them. So the more you do communism right, the worse the economy is going to get and the more people are going to die. What else would you expect from a system that starts out with the dictatorship of the proletariat and, somehow, never manages to move beyond it in the real world? And you Leftists know it. You can prattle on about social justice all you want, you just want power - wealth and power for a tiny elite. Marxist theory is the best excuse for tyranny ever invented, and that’s the horse you want to ride all the way to the bank and to the halls of power. But I got news for you. Read your own history. The revolution always devours its own. You might think you will be among the last wave of revolutionary leaders standing, but you will either end up like Trotsky with an axe in your head, or like Robespierre with no head at all. You might want to reconsider. Your revolutionary co-leaders you call your friends today will be your executioners tomorrow. Think about that the next time they’re looking at you funny. Communism kills, and it will end up killing you.
8/30/22 - Woke Corporations Can Abuse Us, But Not for Free
Last week, Texas put the investment company BlackRock on a list of firms that may not get to manage state pension funds because the firms boycott oil & gas stocks. BlackRock is trying to get off the list, but the story shows you there are starting to be real-world consequences for companies that go Woke. It’s a mixed picture right now, with some companies still playing footsie with the Wokemeisters on the radical Left and others leaving the field after being bruised in the culture wars.
Communist-inspired transgenderism is still a corporate favorite. Disney continues to lead the pack with plans for an upcoming show that will fly the transgender flag and spew the outlandish propaganda that men can have periods, too. Other companies are not far behind.
Crayola posted an ad featuring a transgender model wearing a chain-link bra over outside clothing in order to normalize transgenderism for the masses. Then there’s transgender Barbie from Mattel, billboards from Ben & Jerry’s pushing transgenderism in children, donations for transgender surgery for children from the Detroit Tigers, transgender appreciation night from the Milwaukee Brewers, and a book from Pizza Hut telling children as young as four how inspiring it is for boys to dress up as girls and perform for adults in drag shows. No, this is not normal, and interfering with children’s psycho-sexual development is not healthy for children or society.
Woke corporations are pushing other left-wing causes, too. Kroger removed pro-American merchandise from its shelves after a left-wing crank complained on Twitter. American Express pledged another $3 billion for diversity, equity, and inclusion events and programs, bringing the total to $4 billion. It’s also spending money to support climate change advocacy and illegal immigration.
But in addition to Texas, other people are pushing back. A former employee sued American Express for firing him because he is white and he objected to the company's "racially discriminatory" policies. A new Viewpoint Diversity Score ranks companies on how well they respect freedom of speech and religion. Microsoft and AirBnB are among the worst. Another 17 Republican-led states joined Texas in sending a letter to BlackRock accusing the company of putting Woke investment criteria above shareholder returns in state pension funds. An asset management firm in Ohio promises to take politics out of investing and focus on companies that deliver what they should - business excellence.
People are not only fighting back; they’re winning. State Farm abandoned its support for a transgender book program for kindergartners in Florida after a national backlash. Paramount refused to cave in to pressure to censor its old films to conform to today’s Woke standards. HBO welcomed back Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling despite her stance on transgenderism. And after PayPal froze the account of Moms for Liberty, a parental rights group - preventing it from receiving donations - Florida announced a new initiative to “prohibit big banks, credit card companies and money transmitters from discriminating against customers for their religious, political, or social beliefs.”
So, as you can see, the price of going Woke is going up. How long will shareholders be willing to pay it?
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8/29/22 - You Won’t Believe What Top Democrats Said About Illegal Immigration
Are you ready for your quiz? Who said: “Illegal immigration is wrong, plain and simple. Until the American people are convinced that we will stop future flows of illegal immigration, we will make no progress.” Chuck Schumer. “If making it easy to be an illegal alien isn’t enough, how about offering a reward for being an illegal immigrant? No sane country would do that.” Harry Reid. |
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“I think we can enforce our borders. I think we should enforce our borders.” Dianne Feinstein.
“I’m deeply opposed to illegal immigration, and I call on the federal government, the President, and the immigration services to stop the inflood of illegal immigrants into this country.” Tim Kaine.
“It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating, for a nation of immigrants, to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years and we must do more to stop it.” Bill Clinton.
“I voted numerous times when I was a senator to spend money to build a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in, and I do think you have to control your borders.” Hillary Clinton.
“We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently, and lawfully to become immigrants.” Barack Obama.
Don’t believe me? I put the video on the website. There’s no denying it.
Last question: What do all these people have in common? They’re all top Democrats who said these things in the past and they belong to a party that has now become the Open Borders Party because it thinks that’s the way it will take, and hold on to power, in America, permanently.
The head of the Open Borders Party is joe Biden who, when he was a senator, joined Barack Obama in voting for the Secure Fence Act of 2006 which authorized the construction of 700 miles of fencing and vehicle barriers on the border. But one of the first things Biden did in the Oval office was to issue a proclamation stopping the construction of Trump’s border wall.
But now it’s time for their quiz. I hope they’re ready. Here’s what I want to ask:
Bill Clinton, almost 5 million illegal aliens have poured into the country since Joe Biden took office. How do you suggest Joe Biden stop it?
Hillary, given that Joe Biden stopped construction of the wall, do you blame Texas for busing illegal aliens to New York and D.C. and increasing the number?
Chuck Schumer, is it progress in your view that Joe Biden’s open borders policies, that you have done nothing to oppose, led to the seizure of 1.2 million fentanyl pills by border agents last week and there’s now enough fentanyl to kill everybody in the country? How do you define ‘progress’?
Finally, for Barack Obama: Did you vote for the Secure Fence Act in 2006 because you believe in the wall or because you just wanted to get into power?
I close with something from another top Democrat, Dick Lamm, former Governor of Colorado. He said on video in 2004, if you want to destroy a nation, start with no longer enforcing its immigration laws and turning it into a multicultural country full of people who won’t assimilate. He was being facetious. Too bad his party took him literally.
“I’m deeply opposed to illegal immigration, and I call on the federal government, the President, and the immigration services to stop the inflood of illegal immigrants into this country.” Tim Kaine.
“It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating, for a nation of immigrants, to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years and we must do more to stop it.” Bill Clinton.
“I voted numerous times when I was a senator to spend money to build a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in, and I do think you have to control your borders.” Hillary Clinton.
“We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently, and lawfully to become immigrants.” Barack Obama.
Don’t believe me? I put the video on the website. There’s no denying it.
Last question: What do all these people have in common? They’re all top Democrats who said these things in the past and they belong to a party that has now become the Open Borders Party because it thinks that’s the way it will take, and hold on to power, in America, permanently.
The head of the Open Borders Party is joe Biden who, when he was a senator, joined Barack Obama in voting for the Secure Fence Act of 2006 which authorized the construction of 700 miles of fencing and vehicle barriers on the border. But one of the first things Biden did in the Oval office was to issue a proclamation stopping the construction of Trump’s border wall.
But now it’s time for their quiz. I hope they’re ready. Here’s what I want to ask:
Bill Clinton, almost 5 million illegal aliens have poured into the country since Joe Biden took office. How do you suggest Joe Biden stop it?
Hillary, given that Joe Biden stopped construction of the wall, do you blame Texas for busing illegal aliens to New York and D.C. and increasing the number?
Chuck Schumer, is it progress in your view that Joe Biden’s open borders policies, that you have done nothing to oppose, led to the seizure of 1.2 million fentanyl pills by border agents last week and there’s now enough fentanyl to kill everybody in the country? How do you define ‘progress’?
Finally, for Barack Obama: Did you vote for the Secure Fence Act in 2006 because you believe in the wall or because you just wanted to get into power?
I close with something from another top Democrat, Dick Lamm, former Governor of Colorado. He said on video in 2004, if you want to destroy a nation, start with no longer enforcing its immigration laws and turning it into a multicultural country full of people who won’t assimilate. He was being facetious. Too bad his party took him literally.
8/26/22 - What’s Your Emergency?
Did you know we’re still in a federal COVID emergency? Did you know the Biden administration plans to extend it another 90 days in October? Did you know Joe Biden cited the COVID emergency as the legal justification for canceling student debt, even though the emergency is over enough for his administration to argue COVID restrictions should be lifted at the border?
A famous economist wrote in 1979:
It’s a pretty safe bet that, once the COVID emergency is over, the climate emergency will begin. Which is one reason the authoritarian Left should never be allowed to get its hands on power again.
One thing that is foreseeable under a climate emergency will be a move to force rural and small town Americans into big cities to conserve gasoline, all to save the planet, you see. Leftists are already salivating about the prospect, because they hate you and think you’re a useless eater.
What you believe matters nothing to them. Joe Biden is trying to force Catholic hospitals to kill babies in abortions after the overturning of Roe v. Wade. And surprise, surprise - he’s invoking another emergency law, this one related to medical treatment, to do it.
Maybe he should just take over all the Catholic hospitals and have the government run them. That’s what Maxine Waters wanted to do to the oil companies. She said in a congressional hearing, wagging her finger: “Guess what this liberal will be all about. This liberal will be all about socializing, uh, uhm....” There she paused and you could see the wheels turning - ‘should I say this out loud or not?’ She continued: “[This liberal] would be about, basically, taking over, and the government running all of your companies.”
Then we have FBI whistleblowers stepping forward this week to warn us how the FBI has become politicized and hell-bent on saving democracy from the people. The nation’s premier law enforcement agency, unfortunately, has descended into political persecution. The whistleblowers said major investigations at the Bureau - like January 6th and Hunter Biden’s laptop - have been twisted for political reasons. They also pointed to the FBI’s witch hunts against two dozen parents opposed to school board policies.
That’s not good. At least the FBI is supposed to have weapons, but now we have the IRS recruiting armed agents willing to use deadly force against people who don’t pay their taxes. And Joe Biden just signed a bill to double the size of the IRS. I bet you didn’t know a bunch of other federal agencies are armed and weaponized, too. Ones you wouldn’t expect, like the Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration, and - get this - the Department of Education Inspector General’s office. Hmm, I wonder if they go to school board meetings, too. Feel better about your government, now?
Yes, the authoritarian Left is all about emergencies - big and small, wherever they can conjure them up. The far Left Green Party in Germany is setting up reporting centers where neighbors can inform on neighbors who use the wrong pronoun or don’t want their country overrun by migrants. The California Attorney General’s office leaked the names and addresses of thousands of gun owners in the state, setting them up for doxing or worse. The World Economic Forum just published an article saying there are good reasons to chip your kids. Ah yes, implants - the government needs to know where you are at all times, right? I’m telling you, these people hate you and don’t think you should even exist. “We just don’t need the vast majority of the population,” a World Economic Forum adviser said this month. We’ve got a “useless class” of “unemployable” human beings who “are no longer part of the story of the future” as the World Economic Forum wants to tell it. Replacing people with machines is a big part of that story.
Well, that’s pretty clear. But the future is now. We’ve left the era where people simply had political disagreements, and entered an era where authoritarian Leftists are at war with the rest of us. There is no compromise with these people. They must be defeated, and you can start with the Democrat Party which has lurched Left and is growing a big authoritarian streak. What’s their emergency? Democrat leaders don’t have enough wealth and power for themselves, yet, and they’re trying to get it from you. Power is the great motivator, as parents who attend school board meetings and others who want to keep their freedom are finding out.
8/25/22 - Muriel Bowser, Oh Pobrecito!
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser thinks the illegal aliens bused to the nation’s capital from Texas and Arizona are in her city temporarily. Boy, is she in for a rude awakening. The aliens have nowhere else to go and say they want to stay.
The aliens are placed in hotels instead of the city’s homeless shelter system. All they get is a hotel room - which they and their children can’t leave - and three meals a day. No city services of the kind typically offered to the homeless in D.C. The new arrivals are not allowed visitors or even to go to each other’s rooms, which is a problem for large families spread across multiple rooms. They’re not given keys, but have to ask to be let in. There are no translators and the security guards, who don’t speak Spanish, are aggressive in enforcing the rules, leading to fights. Welcome to Muriel Bowser’s America. I can’t wait for the first class-action lawsuit naming her as a defendant.
"The city promotes the narrative that they're only here temporarily," a volunteer said. "However, the families are staying.... They have no contacts in the United States and they have nowhere else to go." We can blame the Biden administration for letting them into the country in the first place and the Bowser administration for trying to handle the situation on the cheap. Her solution? Keep asking the National Guard to take care of the problem, even though they keep telling her ‘no’. Oh, pobrecito! After years of promoting D.C. as a sanctuary city, she just can’t believe Biden’s border problem has landed in her lap and blown up in her face. Careful what you wish for.
But if she’s looking for sympathy, she won’t find any among mayors of towns along the border. “If we can do that, they can too,” one mayor, who has had deal with as many as a thousand new arrivals a day, said. “Their numbers [of illegal immigrants] are pretty low. I know they can do it.” A spokesman for Arizona said the state’s “hospitals, community organizations, [and] nongovernmental organizations are being strained tremendously. So, the goal here is to alleviate the burden for Arizonans.” Seven more Texas counties just declared an invasion at the southern border, bringing the total to 17.
Bowser shouldn’t look for sympathy in the Biden administration, either. The administration is still bending over backwards to pack the country with as many illegal aliens as it can. The latest policy changes opening the border and welcoming illegal aliens include final rules preserving the unconstitutional DACA program. Why do I say unconstitutional? Because Barack Obama said many times he didn’t have the authority to create the DACA program, but he did it anyway. DACA is part of a web of Biden rules intended to cut the number of deportations of illegal aliens as much as possible.
Biden’s relaxed border rules for children have led to a number of older illegal aliens posing as children to avoid expulsion. Border agents just caught ten in El Paso. More than 650 have been caught in the El Paso sector in just the last fiscal year, alone. Agents warn many more pretenders get through because the government does a bad job of screening them at the border.
In previous commentaries, I’ve documented numerous other policy changes the Biden administration has made to open the border. I love immigration, but I’m not for shredding the Rule of Law in the process. I’m also on record calling for the impeachment of Joe Biden and his partner in crime DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for refusing to faithfully execute the nation’s immigration laws - laws passed by your duly elected representatives in Congress and signed by former presidents.
So you can criticize me all you want, but let’s see what tune you sing after Texas or the feds send hordes of illegal aliens on buses or midnight flights to your town.
8/24/22 - Equity: Nice Smile, Teeth of Iron
The Minneapolis Public Schools and school board just got sued over a teacher contract exempting minority teachers from seniority-based layoffs and favoring them in reinstatement. The lawsuit cites the Equal Protection clause of the Minnesota state constitution which is analyzed the same way as the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The teacher contract is a perfect summary of the shift in civil rights thinking from ‘equality’ to ‘equity’. Under equality, an objective standard like seniority would generally carry the day. But under ‘equity’, disadvantaged groups always win, objective standards be damned, no matter who gets hurt in the process. This is basically communist thinking. Declare certain groups to be class enemies who always lose, henceforth, and other groups who automatically win, regardless of the merits of the case. Under Lenin, the Soviet Union confiscated houses from class enemies and gave them to the hero worker class. Maybe you like that idea, but Lenin also killed peasant land owners by the thousands just because they were land owners, class enemies. If you can't see the injustice in that, you are very far gone and there’s no hope for you. Lenin called them bloodsuckers, vampires, and plunderers. Today, class enemies are called racists, bigots, and homophobes in a similar effort to justify injustice.
Hopefully, you can see the shift in civil rights thinking to ‘equity’ is poisonous and manifestly unjust. The lawsuit against Minneapolis schools is new, so we’ll have to wait awhile to see what happens, but Judicial Watch - the group that brought the suit - has prevailed in Equal Protection cases in the past. Asheville, North Carolina settled one case by removing racial favoritism from scholarships and teacher grants. Judicial Watch also won in California, knocking down gender quotas for corporate boards.
I’ve commented on other situations where the poisonous diversity narrative ran smack-dab into Equal Protection principles. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot only gave interviews to “black and brown” journalists and doubled down when criticized, but eventually backed down entirely. A U.S. civil rights official warned two colleges that segregated graduation ceremonies for Black, LGBTQ, and other minority students violate federal anti-discrimination laws. A Texas law requiring out-of-state students to pay higher tuition than illegal aliens was knocked down. But justice doesn’t always prevail in these situations. Utah public health officials were warned dispensing COVID drugs based on race was illegal, but did it anyway with the Biden administration cheering them on.
Other instances where equality under law is threatened have come up, recently. Another watchdog group that opposes "radical, divisive, and discriminatory ideology" in healthcare brought a civil rights complaint against the Emory University med school for granting scholarships to students who "self-identify as an under-represented minority."
The American Bar Association abandoned a plan to yank accreditations from law schools that failed to boost enrollment of ‘underrepresented groups’ to the ABA’s satisfaction, that is, schools that failed to meet the ABA’s totally subjective diversity standards.
A New Jersey parent took dead aim at the Woke policies at her son’s school and sued the school for creating a hostile environment for whites with its programs to indoctrinate students about institutional racism and white privilege. The suit argues such indoctrination is straight out of totalitarian reeducation camps, which reinforces my point about all of this going back to communist thinking.
Unfortunately, the Biden administration is institutionalizing racism, racial payback, and so-called ‘equity’ in every corner of the government. It is favoring racial and LGBT groups with quotas and other goodies in contracts, grants, benefits, hiring, apprenticeships, and in a dozen other ways, regardless of individual qualification or merit. All this is being done on the sly to avoid legal challenges.
Whatever you call this, you can’t call it equal protection of the laws. Class enemies everywhere, beware, Lenin lives. Kill the Kulaks! But before you sign up to pull the trigger, you should know Lenin had to reverse himself and let peasants own land again after communism wrecked the economy. Poisonous policies have a way of self-destructing, so can we get through the Wokism phase quickly, please? We need to get back to the thinking that made the Civil Rights Era great - true equality before the law - before civil rights thinking went off the rails.
8/23/22 - Many Roads to Riches on Capitol Hill
Sometimes it seems there are almost as many ways for members of Congress to be corrupt as there are members of Congress.
A company in which Paul Pelosi holds an 8 percent ownership stake just had $1.7 million dollars in federal pandemic relief loans forgiven. Gee, I wonder how that happened. He’s the guy who bought perhaps $5 million in stock options in a computer chip company before the big vote on subsidies for computer chip companies. He wasn’t the only one. A former chair of the Dallas Federal Reserve recently criticized the Pelosi’s and others connected to the Hill for taking advantage of inside information for years.
When I was in high school, Senator Charles Percy from Illinois put all his holdings into a blind trust so he never knew what his money was invested in, or how his Senate votes affected his personal fortune. I always admired that and thought it is the solution to the insider trading problem on Capitol Hill.
It’s not just stock. Down-for-the-struggle Squad member Ayanna Pressley introduced a bill to provide taxpayer-funded relief for landlords, then picked up a nice rental property portfolio just two months later. But we are supposed to have blind trust the people we send to Congress have our best interests at heart, not their own pocketbook.
She’s not the only one who might be thinking being in Congress is the road to riches. Since 2000, at least 90 former members of Congress have registered as foreign agents to lobby on behalf of foreign governments, with Communist China coming on strong in recent years. These former members know where their rice bowl is buttered.
Then we have good old-fashioned nepotism, the latest example being Chuck Schumer’s son-in-law who just scored a position as director of government affairs for Blackstone, the big private equity group which is keenly interested in infrastructure and tax legislation Congress might pass. Schumer previously blocked legislation that was opposed by companies that had hired other members of his family.
No story on Capitol Hill corruption would be complete without the use of campaign funds for personal enrichment. Top Democrats in the House - Maxine Waters, James Clyburn, and Ilhan Omar all have put family members on campaign payrolls to the tune of millions of dollars. California Democrat Eric Swalwell wants to use campaign funds to pay for babysitters while he travels overseas. The campaign fund of deceased Congressman Alcee Hastings recently shut down but not before giving the last $23,000 to his widow for no apparent campaign purpose. If this is within the rules, there’s something wrong with the rules.
Everyone’s heard of congressional junkets - free trips to exotic places having no legislative purpose. But here’s the dirty little secret: Outside groups get millions in federal grants, fund hundreds of these useless trips - not to mention campaign contributions - then turn around and lobby for more federal grants. Nice racket they got going there.
Stories like these would be amusing if they weren’t so criminal. The House Ethics Committee recently referred the Democrat Delegate from Guam to the Justice Department for possible prosecution for taking excessive campaign contributions and trying to hide them. A former Democrat House member from California was just indicted for money laundering, wire fraud, and campaign finance violations - 28 counts in all. Among other things, he is accused of funneling money from his businesses to friends and family so they could donate it to his campaign. Pretty ingenious.
Don’t get mad - get even. Asking your member of Congress if they will put all their holdings into a blind trust like Charles Percy did is a good place to start.
8/22/22 - The Ivy League Is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed
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Two law professors from Harvard and Yale wrote in the New York Times last week that our Constitution is “broken” and should not be reclaimed. Not only that, the whole notion of constitutionalism - the idea we should have ANY constitution - should be thrown out. This is the logical conclusion of the thinking of the Progressive Left which has been pushing toward direct democracy for more than a hundred years.
It’s not clear what the professors would do with the current Constitution, but they outline a number of steps they would like to see taken. First, make the Constitution easier to amend to inject more democracy into it. Create more states in the Union to help make this happen. Next, reorganize the Congress to make it more democratic and reduce the power of the Senate so it could not obstruct the will of the People as expressed in the House. This would put the basic structure of government, including how presidents are elected, into the hands of today’s voters. Only then do we get to the glorious Progressive future where we are no longer beholden to the past, present and future demands are fully met, abortion and labor rights are guaranteed, and values like racial equality and environmental justice would be protected - all achieved through ordinary statute without having to bother with a constitution. Then society can undergo constant reinvention and no longer be chained to old ideas.
It is folly, the professors say, for Progressives to try to work within the existing constitutional framework which has pesky things like the Electoral College, the Senate, and conservative Supreme Court majorities, which are mere impediments to be brushed away in the new nonconstitutional order. It’s time to radically alter the rules of the game, they say - time to openly defy the Constitution and usher in total democracy without constraints. Wow, how come they haven’t been arrested for insurrection, yet?
All of this might sound pretty good, if you were born yesterday. The Founders studied every constitution known to humanity and rejected direct democracy as completely unworkable. It invariably descends into mob rule and the tyranny of the majority tramples the individual - the most important minority of all - as well as individual rights. It’s rich that these professors use their constitutional rights to speak their minds and earn a living to trash the Constitution. What if new congressional majorities decide the good professors should be silenced and canceled? If you throw out individual rights, they would have no recourse. How much do you think they would like unconstrained popular rule, then?
What if new congressional majorities did other things the professors didn’t like? What if it became a conservative majority governing from the Right and saying things like ‘climate change is a phony narrative and we’re going to throw out every law and policy based on it’? The professors would be back arguing for a constitution to keep this from happening. Which is why I can’t take their argument seriously - it’s just left-wing expediency to advance Progressive policy goals.
Then there’s the notion that society needs constant reinvention at the fundamental level, 24-7. Congress settles the basic structure of government and fundamental values one day only to turn it all upside down the next. Who wants to live in a system where the rules change by the minute? Change, change, change. I first ran into this while studying the Marxist theorist Grace Lee Boggs of Detroit. She was all about constant and perpetual change. I’m sorry, but the desire for constant change is pathological. It’s sick. Society does not need constant uproar at a fundamental level every alternate Tuesday and Thursday.
Some old ideas are pretty good, like having a roof over your head instead of sleeping in the park at night. But the professors are right - some old ideas aren’t worth preserving. Harvard and Yale - established by dead white males of European descent three or four centuries ago - those are old ideas, too. As long as we’re throwing out old ideas, why don’t we start with Harvard and Yale? If the Marxist claptrap we’re hearing from the professors is any indication, the Ivy League is broken and should not be reclaimed.
8/19/22 - For Democrat Politicians, Crime Pays
Seattle’s leaders have decided this is a perfect time to go even softer on crime. Fatal shootings may be at a record pace, and a lot of officers may have resigned after the city defunded the police but, hey, it’s a perfect time to give dangerous juvenile and adult offenders who steal cars, sell drugs, and take guns to school a chance to stay out of jail. Why? Because the criminal justice system is racist, homophobic, and transphobic, you see. So the city figures it will be better to divert these cases out of the criminal justice system entirely and put them in front of a panel of left-wing activists who will show ‘understanding’ and ‘compassion’ and decide how, if at all, to hold the offenders accountable - kumbaya. I can’t wait for the first time one of those activists gets mugged. We’ll see what they think then.
Seattle’s leaders aren’t the only ones who have lost their minds. Another Democrat, John Fetterman, Senate candidate in Pennsylvania, wants to let one-third of the people in prison out on the streets because, he says, everyone will be safer or better off that way. Sure. Two Democrats running for Congress in Colorado voted while in the state legislature to reduce the penalty for felony murder at the same time the homicide rate was spiking in Denver. They also voted to lower the penalty for the possession of fentanyl and other hard drugs, and now opioid overdose deaths in the state are up 54 percent. Way to go, Democrats!
Being soft on crime has other real consequences. Starbucks closed 16 stores because, in the words of its CEO, “America has become unsafe.” “Many more” store closures are coming, he said. The Chicago Bears want to leave Chicago for the suburbs because of high crime in the city, despite being offered $2.2 billion in incentives to stay. Chicago police are making fewer arrests in response to the increased level of dangerousness and the Woke vilification of their efforts. Woke vilification is also a factor in police officers leaving the force faster than they can be replaced in other Democrat-run cities - Portland, Philadelphia, and L.A. - as well as New York City where suspects let out under the state’s no-bail law are often quickly rearrested. That law has emboldened criminals in the Big Apple, with over $2 million in jewelry being taken in one recent smash-and-grab heist. The no-bail law was adjusted this year to allow judges to consider repeat offenses in setting bail for some crimes. New York City Mayor Eric Adams wants further reforms in cases where public safety is involved, but the state’s Governor is against it.
It’s time for your quiz. How many times did I say the word ‘Democrat’ in today’s commentary? What is it about Democrats and being soft on crime? You might think from the information I’ve given you today that Democrats would come to their senses and strike a more appropriate balance between public safety and the rights of the accused. You might also think Democrat politicians don’t know what they’re doing when it comes to crime. I humbly submit to you they actually do know what they’re doing. They know exactly what they’re doing. They’re pandering to constituencies that, at least for the moment, are in the thrall of being Woke. For Democrat politicians, it’s all about staying in power, no matter how many people get hurt or how many businesses leave. Better King and Queen of a garbage dump than not being royalty at all. It’s despicable, but there it is.
Moral of the Story: If you want crime to go up, vote Democrat. It surely will, as night follows day.
8/18/22 - Biden’s Open Borders Policies Will Produce Parallel Societies on U.S. Soil
I love this headline from the New York Times: “G.O.P. Governors Cause Havoc by Busing Migrants to East Coast”. The New York Times - best known for covering up the Holocaust and the Soviet-engineered famine that killed 7 to 10 million people in Ukraine - is wrong. The fault here lies with the Biden administration. Joe Biden caused this havoc with his open borders policies. But for Joe Biden’s open borders policies, southwestern Governors would not be having to give liberal sanctuaries on the East Coast a taste of their own medicine.
I’ve documented in previous commentaries countless policy changes the Biden administration has made to open the borders to a flood of illegal aliens. Here are some more ways the administration is deliberately popping the rivets of the nation’s immigration laws: The U.S. Marshals Service is declaring itself a sanctuary for illegal aliens, meaning it will no longer hold detainees for ICE for deportation. The Marshals Service is a bureau within the Justice Department, putting it under the control of Biden administration political appointees including Democrat partisan Attorney General Merrick Garland.
The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to approve guidelines giving most illegal aliens a pass when it comes to deportation. The administration cooked up the guidelines in a conspiracy with pro-open borders advocacy groups from outside the government. The administration is ending the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy for asylum applicants after winning a court battle for permission to do so.
The administration is establishing a boat-and-bus route from Colombia to Panama to bring illegal aliens to the United States quicker. The administration terminated the ICE union to silence criticism and make it easier to fire whistleblowers who are now without union protection. For all its recent talk of building the wall again, the administration halted construction of the wall near San Diego.
As a result of the administration’s open borders policy changes, border encounters in July were more than triple the Trump administration average, and that doesn’t even count the got-aways. The number of arrests at the southern border is closing in on 2 million for the fiscal year.
There are real consequences in inviting millions of people to invade our country. Border agents arrested ten more terrorism suspects at the border in July. A Defense Department whistleblower revealed the administration has released 324 unvetted Afghan evacuees on a terror watch list into the U.S. Another 9/11, anyone?
There are other consequences, as well. Border crossers are dropping like flies, but the administration doesn’t care. An FBI-led operation rescued 84 victims of child sex trafficking and found 37 more missing children in the last 2 weeks. Increased child exploitation has been linked to Joe Biden’s open borders policies. The amount of fentanyl seized at the border in July was triple the amount seized in June, shattering all previous records and providing enough to kill every single American.
You only have to look to Sweden to see the future of all this. They let their country be invaded by hordes of migrants bringing an alien culture with them. Then there was a wave of bombings in major cities. That was followed by the establishment of Muslim no-go zones, which were once vociferously denied but are now admitted. Things have deteriorated to the point, now, where the ruling party is reversing itself and proposing to break up Muslim majority areas so a parallel society does not get established in the country, a proposal also made in Denmark which let itself be overrun.
So, when the New York Times and other lapdogs for the Biden administration accuse southwestern Governors of causing chaos by busing illegal aliens to the East Coast, just remember it is the open borders crowd that is bringing us chaos to the point where parallel societies on U.S. soil are now a real possibility. If you don’t believe me, all you have to do is walk in downtown Minneapolis where the Islamic call to prayer is blasted from two dozen mosques and heard on every street corner every day. So, take a walk there, while you still can.
8/17/22 - Extremism In Defense of Election Integrity Is No Vice
Allow me to introduce you to the nation’s newest ‘domestic violent extremist’. The Republican Secretary of State of Louisiana issued directives to preserve 2020 election materials and to take the state out of ERIC, a Soros-funded voter roll maintenance operation which critics deride as a thinly disguised get-out-the-vote effort for Democrats. This Secretary of State must now be considered a ‘domestic violent extremist’ under new guidelines from the Department of Homeland Security. A DHS whistleblower leaked an agency bulletin telling agents people who talk about ‘government overreach’ and ‘election fraud’ are possible ‘domestic violent extremists’ and a threat to law enforcement. You might call me a ‘domestic violent extremist’, too, because I’ve been talking about government overreach and election fraud since early Tea Party days, and I’m not going to stop, so come and get me.
There continue to be problems with our elections, and we in the grassroots are not going to stop on that front, either.
Mass mail-in voting causes chaos, as Jimmy Carter reported in 2005, but the practice will continue in some places in the 2022 elections. You mail out ballots to everyone on dirty voter rolls - including dead people and duplicate registrations - and you end up with millions of missing ballots some of which get stolen and voted by bad actors. Speaking of dirty voter rolls, a citizens group in Michigan found more than 22,000 active registrations for people who no longer live in the state and should be removed from the rolls.
Wisconsin lets anyone order an absentee ballot online, which is a recipe for fraud. A citizen tester got permission from several people to order ballots in their name and elections officials sent all the ballots to his address, no ID needed. It’s easy to see how this could be scaled up into major fraud.
Electronic voting machines failed a logic and accuracy test in a recent Colorado county recount. An elections official falsified machine certification records before an election in New Mexico. Certification problems have to be fairly common, because I know a grassroots activist who documented shady certification of electronic poll books in my state.
A poll challenger was thrown out of the big vote counting center in Detroit this month for asking too many questions and pointing out that various rules were not being followed. A similar problem occurred in the progressive prosecutor recall effort in Los Angeles this week. Elections officials threw out 27 percent of the ballot petition signatures, causing the petition to fail, whereas only 20 percent of signatures were deemed invalid in the Gavin Newsom recall last year. So something’s fishy, but election officials wouldn’t allow anyone to observe the process.
Voter fraud continues to be caught and prosecuted, although to a very limited extent relative to the amount of fraud that’s out there. South Carolina hasn’t had a voter fraud prosecution in 18 years, for example, but Wisconsin has 10 new cases for impersonating voters, voting twice in different states, and other fraudulent activities. A former police chief and a city councilman just pled guilty to buying votes in elections in Louisiana. Hmm... I wonder if the judge who took the plea is a domestic violent extremist like the Secretary of State.
Finally, Wisconsin State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos squeaked by in his primary, then immediately fired the special counsel he had previously hired to investigate fraud in the 2020 election, bringing the investigation to an end. The special counsel had found, among other indicia of fraud, up to 100 percent voter turnout in nursing homes, which would include people with dementia. It’s too bad the investigation won’t be continuing because the Democrats have a long history of committing voter fraud in nursing homes and you can bet they’ll keep right on doing it in future elections in Wisconsin and probably your state, as well.
The Speaker in Wisconsin is Republican. The GOP establishment across the nation, for some strange reason, is just not interested in uncovering election fraud. They must like losing. They will tell you their focus is on future elections, not past elections. This is what you typically get out of RINOs, even though there’s no way to fix the problems with future elections unless you understand what went wrong in the past. But Liz Cheney’s crushing defeat should show them they are an endangered species. My national RINO Hunt Team is on the case and we - and election integrity activists more generally - will not quit until we right the ship and restore free and fair elections in this country, whether the RINOs and the Democrats like it or not. DHS can’t lock us all up.
8/16/22 - Driving Stakes in the Heart of the Phony Climate Change Narrative
It’s been a bad stretch for the phony climate change narrative, lately.
A new report shows 96 percent of NOAA’s temperature stations don’t meet the agency’s own placement standards. They are deliberately placed near urban areas in order to overstate average temperatures, leading to the now-routine bogus claims we’re having the ‘hottest year on record’.
Someone pointed out the inconvenient truth that NASA has recognized over the years that the biggest factor affecting temperature and climate is the sun, specifically, variations in the earth’s solar orbit. Fly too close to the sun, and things get a little warmer, whodathunkit.
Those disappearing coral reefs in Australia? Well, guess what - they’ve rebounded to record levels. Environmentalists routinely tell you the sky is falling and the coral reefs are disappearing, but neither is true.
The climatistas prattle on about extreme weather events, but the fact of the matter is that the number of climate-related deaths has dropped by 99 percent since 1920 and is now approaching zero - except for storm chasers, of course. Oh, by the way, the number of tropical cyclones has dropped 13 percent since pre-industrial times, a new study found. Sorry to rain on your anti-growth parade.
The climate change crowd is deceiving you when it claims extreme weather is increasing and climate change is to blame. It turns out that the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - IPCC - recently changed its methods, producing an increase in extreme weather events on paper but not in the real world. “(T)he latest IPCC report has introduced novel 'attribution' statistics and now insists that things are getting worse. It's yet another case of scientists trying to scare the public into compliance," a recent paper said.
So-called experts say sea levels are rising, but photos show they’re not, and the satellite data underlying the sea level rise claim has not been vetted for satellite altitude which makes all the difference in the method used.
Greenies hyperventilate about the water level at Lake Powell being down 94 feet since 2000 and blame evaporation from hotter temperatures, but it is government policies that produced the drop. The original plan was to hold back water in wet years to make up for dry years, but the government now releases more water than originally planned in wet years, leaving no cushion. You can’t blame that on climate change - or maybe you can, if you’re dishonest.
Similarly, it is government policies that are producing the increasing wildfire problem in the West. Litigation under environmental laws and environmental reviews have delayed thinning and controlled burns. Some controlled burns are being done, stupidly, in windy conditions. So look to forest management, not climate change, if you’re sincerely interested in finding the culprit instead of just demagoguing the issue.
California and Germany are finding out that alternative energy isn’t all sunshine and lollipops. Faced with electricity shortages from pursuing green energy policies, both are moving toward increasing reliance on their fossil fuel and nuclear power plants.
If you’re pinning your hopes the planet won’t burn up on the new climate bill Joe Biden is signing today, you might want to reconsider. If you use U.N. climate models and everything in the bill goes swimmingly, the average temperature of the earth in the year 2100 will be 61.972 degrees instead of 62.0 degrees, best case. I’m so relieved, and I’m so glad we’re spending $739 billion dollars to achieve a drop of 0.028 degrees. Lollipop, anyone?
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
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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.
Did you know we’re still in a federal COVID emergency? Did you know the Biden administration plans to extend it another 90 days in October? Did you know Joe Biden cited the COVID emergency as the legal justification for canceling student debt, even though the emergency is over enough for his administration to argue COVID restrictions should be lifted at the border?
A famous economist wrote in 1979:
- ‘Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded — and once they are suspended it is not difficult for anyone who has assumed emergency powers to see to it that the emergency will persist.
It’s a pretty safe bet that, once the COVID emergency is over, the climate emergency will begin. Which is one reason the authoritarian Left should never be allowed to get its hands on power again.
One thing that is foreseeable under a climate emergency will be a move to force rural and small town Americans into big cities to conserve gasoline, all to save the planet, you see. Leftists are already salivating about the prospect, because they hate you and think you’re a useless eater.
What you believe matters nothing to them. Joe Biden is trying to force Catholic hospitals to kill babies in abortions after the overturning of Roe v. Wade. And surprise, surprise - he’s invoking another emergency law, this one related to medical treatment, to do it.
Maybe he should just take over all the Catholic hospitals and have the government run them. That’s what Maxine Waters wanted to do to the oil companies. She said in a congressional hearing, wagging her finger: “Guess what this liberal will be all about. This liberal will be all about socializing, uh, uhm....” There she paused and you could see the wheels turning - ‘should I say this out loud or not?’ She continued: “[This liberal] would be about, basically, taking over, and the government running all of your companies.”
Then we have FBI whistleblowers stepping forward this week to warn us how the FBI has become politicized and hell-bent on saving democracy from the people. The nation’s premier law enforcement agency, unfortunately, has descended into political persecution. The whistleblowers said major investigations at the Bureau - like January 6th and Hunter Biden’s laptop - have been twisted for political reasons. They also pointed to the FBI’s witch hunts against two dozen parents opposed to school board policies.
That’s not good. At least the FBI is supposed to have weapons, but now we have the IRS recruiting armed agents willing to use deadly force against people who don’t pay their taxes. And Joe Biden just signed a bill to double the size of the IRS. I bet you didn’t know a bunch of other federal agencies are armed and weaponized, too. Ones you wouldn’t expect, like the Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration, and - get this - the Department of Education Inspector General’s office. Hmm, I wonder if they go to school board meetings, too. Feel better about your government, now?
Yes, the authoritarian Left is all about emergencies - big and small, wherever they can conjure them up. The far Left Green Party in Germany is setting up reporting centers where neighbors can inform on neighbors who use the wrong pronoun or don’t want their country overrun by migrants. The California Attorney General’s office leaked the names and addresses of thousands of gun owners in the state, setting them up for doxing or worse. The World Economic Forum just published an article saying there are good reasons to chip your kids. Ah yes, implants - the government needs to know where you are at all times, right? I’m telling you, these people hate you and don’t think you should even exist. “We just don’t need the vast majority of the population,” a World Economic Forum adviser said this month. We’ve got a “useless class” of “unemployable” human beings who “are no longer part of the story of the future” as the World Economic Forum wants to tell it. Replacing people with machines is a big part of that story.
Well, that’s pretty clear. But the future is now. We’ve left the era where people simply had political disagreements, and entered an era where authoritarian Leftists are at war with the rest of us. There is no compromise with these people. They must be defeated, and you can start with the Democrat Party which has lurched Left and is growing a big authoritarian streak. What’s their emergency? Democrat leaders don’t have enough wealth and power for themselves, yet, and they’re trying to get it from you. Power is the great motivator, as parents who attend school board meetings and others who want to keep their freedom are finding out.
8/25/22 - Muriel Bowser, Oh Pobrecito!
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser thinks the illegal aliens bused to the nation’s capital from Texas and Arizona are in her city temporarily. Boy, is she in for a rude awakening. The aliens have nowhere else to go and say they want to stay.
The aliens are placed in hotels instead of the city’s homeless shelter system. All they get is a hotel room - which they and their children can’t leave - and three meals a day. No city services of the kind typically offered to the homeless in D.C. The new arrivals are not allowed visitors or even to go to each other’s rooms, which is a problem for large families spread across multiple rooms. They’re not given keys, but have to ask to be let in. There are no translators and the security guards, who don’t speak Spanish, are aggressive in enforcing the rules, leading to fights. Welcome to Muriel Bowser’s America. I can’t wait for the first class-action lawsuit naming her as a defendant.
"The city promotes the narrative that they're only here temporarily," a volunteer said. "However, the families are staying.... They have no contacts in the United States and they have nowhere else to go." We can blame the Biden administration for letting them into the country in the first place and the Bowser administration for trying to handle the situation on the cheap. Her solution? Keep asking the National Guard to take care of the problem, even though they keep telling her ‘no’. Oh, pobrecito! After years of promoting D.C. as a sanctuary city, she just can’t believe Biden’s border problem has landed in her lap and blown up in her face. Careful what you wish for.
But if she’s looking for sympathy, she won’t find any among mayors of towns along the border. “If we can do that, they can too,” one mayor, who has had deal with as many as a thousand new arrivals a day, said. “Their numbers [of illegal immigrants] are pretty low. I know they can do it.” A spokesman for Arizona said the state’s “hospitals, community organizations, [and] nongovernmental organizations are being strained tremendously. So, the goal here is to alleviate the burden for Arizonans.” Seven more Texas counties just declared an invasion at the southern border, bringing the total to 17.
Bowser shouldn’t look for sympathy in the Biden administration, either. The administration is still bending over backwards to pack the country with as many illegal aliens as it can. The latest policy changes opening the border and welcoming illegal aliens include final rules preserving the unconstitutional DACA program. Why do I say unconstitutional? Because Barack Obama said many times he didn’t have the authority to create the DACA program, but he did it anyway. DACA is part of a web of Biden rules intended to cut the number of deportations of illegal aliens as much as possible.
Biden’s relaxed border rules for children have led to a number of older illegal aliens posing as children to avoid expulsion. Border agents just caught ten in El Paso. More than 650 have been caught in the El Paso sector in just the last fiscal year, alone. Agents warn many more pretenders get through because the government does a bad job of screening them at the border.
In previous commentaries, I’ve documented numerous other policy changes the Biden administration has made to open the border. I love immigration, but I’m not for shredding the Rule of Law in the process. I’m also on record calling for the impeachment of Joe Biden and his partner in crime DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for refusing to faithfully execute the nation’s immigration laws - laws passed by your duly elected representatives in Congress and signed by former presidents.
So you can criticize me all you want, but let’s see what tune you sing after Texas or the feds send hordes of illegal aliens on buses or midnight flights to your town.
8/24/22 - Equity: Nice Smile, Teeth of Iron
The Minneapolis Public Schools and school board just got sued over a teacher contract exempting minority teachers from seniority-based layoffs and favoring them in reinstatement. The lawsuit cites the Equal Protection clause of the Minnesota state constitution which is analyzed the same way as the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The teacher contract is a perfect summary of the shift in civil rights thinking from ‘equality’ to ‘equity’. Under equality, an objective standard like seniority would generally carry the day. But under ‘equity’, disadvantaged groups always win, objective standards be damned, no matter who gets hurt in the process. This is basically communist thinking. Declare certain groups to be class enemies who always lose, henceforth, and other groups who automatically win, regardless of the merits of the case. Under Lenin, the Soviet Union confiscated houses from class enemies and gave them to the hero worker class. Maybe you like that idea, but Lenin also killed peasant land owners by the thousands just because they were land owners, class enemies. If you can't see the injustice in that, you are very far gone and there’s no hope for you. Lenin called them bloodsuckers, vampires, and plunderers. Today, class enemies are called racists, bigots, and homophobes in a similar effort to justify injustice.
Hopefully, you can see the shift in civil rights thinking to ‘equity’ is poisonous and manifestly unjust. The lawsuit against Minneapolis schools is new, so we’ll have to wait awhile to see what happens, but Judicial Watch - the group that brought the suit - has prevailed in Equal Protection cases in the past. Asheville, North Carolina settled one case by removing racial favoritism from scholarships and teacher grants. Judicial Watch also won in California, knocking down gender quotas for corporate boards.
I’ve commented on other situations where the poisonous diversity narrative ran smack-dab into Equal Protection principles. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot only gave interviews to “black and brown” journalists and doubled down when criticized, but eventually backed down entirely. A U.S. civil rights official warned two colleges that segregated graduation ceremonies for Black, LGBTQ, and other minority students violate federal anti-discrimination laws. A Texas law requiring out-of-state students to pay higher tuition than illegal aliens was knocked down. But justice doesn’t always prevail in these situations. Utah public health officials were warned dispensing COVID drugs based on race was illegal, but did it anyway with the Biden administration cheering them on.
Other instances where equality under law is threatened have come up, recently. Another watchdog group that opposes "radical, divisive, and discriminatory ideology" in healthcare brought a civil rights complaint against the Emory University med school for granting scholarships to students who "self-identify as an under-represented minority."
The American Bar Association abandoned a plan to yank accreditations from law schools that failed to boost enrollment of ‘underrepresented groups’ to the ABA’s satisfaction, that is, schools that failed to meet the ABA’s totally subjective diversity standards.
A New Jersey parent took dead aim at the Woke policies at her son’s school and sued the school for creating a hostile environment for whites with its programs to indoctrinate students about institutional racism and white privilege. The suit argues such indoctrination is straight out of totalitarian reeducation camps, which reinforces my point about all of this going back to communist thinking.
Unfortunately, the Biden administration is institutionalizing racism, racial payback, and so-called ‘equity’ in every corner of the government. It is favoring racial and LGBT groups with quotas and other goodies in contracts, grants, benefits, hiring, apprenticeships, and in a dozen other ways, regardless of individual qualification or merit. All this is being done on the sly to avoid legal challenges.
Whatever you call this, you can’t call it equal protection of the laws. Class enemies everywhere, beware, Lenin lives. Kill the Kulaks! But before you sign up to pull the trigger, you should know Lenin had to reverse himself and let peasants own land again after communism wrecked the economy. Poisonous policies have a way of self-destructing, so can we get through the Wokism phase quickly, please? We need to get back to the thinking that made the Civil Rights Era great - true equality before the law - before civil rights thinking went off the rails.
8/23/22 - Many Roads to Riches on Capitol Hill
Sometimes it seems there are almost as many ways for members of Congress to be corrupt as there are members of Congress.
A company in which Paul Pelosi holds an 8 percent ownership stake just had $1.7 million dollars in federal pandemic relief loans forgiven. Gee, I wonder how that happened. He’s the guy who bought perhaps $5 million in stock options in a computer chip company before the big vote on subsidies for computer chip companies. He wasn’t the only one. A former chair of the Dallas Federal Reserve recently criticized the Pelosi’s and others connected to the Hill for taking advantage of inside information for years.
When I was in high school, Senator Charles Percy from Illinois put all his holdings into a blind trust so he never knew what his money was invested in, or how his Senate votes affected his personal fortune. I always admired that and thought it is the solution to the insider trading problem on Capitol Hill.
It’s not just stock. Down-for-the-struggle Squad member Ayanna Pressley introduced a bill to provide taxpayer-funded relief for landlords, then picked up a nice rental property portfolio just two months later. But we are supposed to have blind trust the people we send to Congress have our best interests at heart, not their own pocketbook.
She’s not the only one who might be thinking being in Congress is the road to riches. Since 2000, at least 90 former members of Congress have registered as foreign agents to lobby on behalf of foreign governments, with Communist China coming on strong in recent years. These former members know where their rice bowl is buttered.
Then we have good old-fashioned nepotism, the latest example being Chuck Schumer’s son-in-law who just scored a position as director of government affairs for Blackstone, the big private equity group which is keenly interested in infrastructure and tax legislation Congress might pass. Schumer previously blocked legislation that was opposed by companies that had hired other members of his family.
No story on Capitol Hill corruption would be complete without the use of campaign funds for personal enrichment. Top Democrats in the House - Maxine Waters, James Clyburn, and Ilhan Omar all have put family members on campaign payrolls to the tune of millions of dollars. California Democrat Eric Swalwell wants to use campaign funds to pay for babysitters while he travels overseas. The campaign fund of deceased Congressman Alcee Hastings recently shut down but not before giving the last $23,000 to his widow for no apparent campaign purpose. If this is within the rules, there’s something wrong with the rules.
Everyone’s heard of congressional junkets - free trips to exotic places having no legislative purpose. But here’s the dirty little secret: Outside groups get millions in federal grants, fund hundreds of these useless trips - not to mention campaign contributions - then turn around and lobby for more federal grants. Nice racket they got going there.
Stories like these would be amusing if they weren’t so criminal. The House Ethics Committee recently referred the Democrat Delegate from Guam to the Justice Department for possible prosecution for taking excessive campaign contributions and trying to hide them. A former Democrat House member from California was just indicted for money laundering, wire fraud, and campaign finance violations - 28 counts in all. Among other things, he is accused of funneling money from his businesses to friends and family so they could donate it to his campaign. Pretty ingenious.
Don’t get mad - get even. Asking your member of Congress if they will put all their holdings into a blind trust like Charles Percy did is a good place to start.
8/22/22 - The Ivy League Is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed
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Two law professors from Harvard and Yale wrote in the New York Times last week that our Constitution is “broken” and should not be reclaimed. Not only that, the whole notion of constitutionalism - the idea we should have ANY constitution - should be thrown out. This is the logical conclusion of the thinking of the Progressive Left which has been pushing toward direct democracy for more than a hundred years.
It’s not clear what the professors would do with the current Constitution, but they outline a number of steps they would like to see taken. First, make the Constitution easier to amend to inject more democracy into it. Create more states in the Union to help make this happen. Next, reorganize the Congress to make it more democratic and reduce the power of the Senate so it could not obstruct the will of the People as expressed in the House. This would put the basic structure of government, including how presidents are elected, into the hands of today’s voters. Only then do we get to the glorious Progressive future where we are no longer beholden to the past, present and future demands are fully met, abortion and labor rights are guaranteed, and values like racial equality and environmental justice would be protected - all achieved through ordinary statute without having to bother with a constitution. Then society can undergo constant reinvention and no longer be chained to old ideas.
It is folly, the professors say, for Progressives to try to work within the existing constitutional framework which has pesky things like the Electoral College, the Senate, and conservative Supreme Court majorities, which are mere impediments to be brushed away in the new nonconstitutional order. It’s time to radically alter the rules of the game, they say - time to openly defy the Constitution and usher in total democracy without constraints. Wow, how come they haven’t been arrested for insurrection, yet?
All of this might sound pretty good, if you were born yesterday. The Founders studied every constitution known to humanity and rejected direct democracy as completely unworkable. It invariably descends into mob rule and the tyranny of the majority tramples the individual - the most important minority of all - as well as individual rights. It’s rich that these professors use their constitutional rights to speak their minds and earn a living to trash the Constitution. What if new congressional majorities decide the good professors should be silenced and canceled? If you throw out individual rights, they would have no recourse. How much do you think they would like unconstrained popular rule, then?
What if new congressional majorities did other things the professors didn’t like? What if it became a conservative majority governing from the Right and saying things like ‘climate change is a phony narrative and we’re going to throw out every law and policy based on it’? The professors would be back arguing for a constitution to keep this from happening. Which is why I can’t take their argument seriously - it’s just left-wing expediency to advance Progressive policy goals.
Then there’s the notion that society needs constant reinvention at the fundamental level, 24-7. Congress settles the basic structure of government and fundamental values one day only to turn it all upside down the next. Who wants to live in a system where the rules change by the minute? Change, change, change. I first ran into this while studying the Marxist theorist Grace Lee Boggs of Detroit. She was all about constant and perpetual change. I’m sorry, but the desire for constant change is pathological. It’s sick. Society does not need constant uproar at a fundamental level every alternate Tuesday and Thursday.
Some old ideas are pretty good, like having a roof over your head instead of sleeping in the park at night. But the professors are right - some old ideas aren’t worth preserving. Harvard and Yale - established by dead white males of European descent three or four centuries ago - those are old ideas, too. As long as we’re throwing out old ideas, why don’t we start with Harvard and Yale? If the Marxist claptrap we’re hearing from the professors is any indication, the Ivy League is broken and should not be reclaimed.
8/19/22 - For Democrat Politicians, Crime Pays
Seattle’s leaders have decided this is a perfect time to go even softer on crime. Fatal shootings may be at a record pace, and a lot of officers may have resigned after the city defunded the police but, hey, it’s a perfect time to give dangerous juvenile and adult offenders who steal cars, sell drugs, and take guns to school a chance to stay out of jail. Why? Because the criminal justice system is racist, homophobic, and transphobic, you see. So the city figures it will be better to divert these cases out of the criminal justice system entirely and put them in front of a panel of left-wing activists who will show ‘understanding’ and ‘compassion’ and decide how, if at all, to hold the offenders accountable - kumbaya. I can’t wait for the first time one of those activists gets mugged. We’ll see what they think then.
Seattle’s leaders aren’t the only ones who have lost their minds. Another Democrat, John Fetterman, Senate candidate in Pennsylvania, wants to let one-third of the people in prison out on the streets because, he says, everyone will be safer or better off that way. Sure. Two Democrats running for Congress in Colorado voted while in the state legislature to reduce the penalty for felony murder at the same time the homicide rate was spiking in Denver. They also voted to lower the penalty for the possession of fentanyl and other hard drugs, and now opioid overdose deaths in the state are up 54 percent. Way to go, Democrats!
Being soft on crime has other real consequences. Starbucks closed 16 stores because, in the words of its CEO, “America has become unsafe.” “Many more” store closures are coming, he said. The Chicago Bears want to leave Chicago for the suburbs because of high crime in the city, despite being offered $2.2 billion in incentives to stay. Chicago police are making fewer arrests in response to the increased level of dangerousness and the Woke vilification of their efforts. Woke vilification is also a factor in police officers leaving the force faster than they can be replaced in other Democrat-run cities - Portland, Philadelphia, and L.A. - as well as New York City where suspects let out under the state’s no-bail law are often quickly rearrested. That law has emboldened criminals in the Big Apple, with over $2 million in jewelry being taken in one recent smash-and-grab heist. The no-bail law was adjusted this year to allow judges to consider repeat offenses in setting bail for some crimes. New York City Mayor Eric Adams wants further reforms in cases where public safety is involved, but the state’s Governor is against it.
It’s time for your quiz. How many times did I say the word ‘Democrat’ in today’s commentary? What is it about Democrats and being soft on crime? You might think from the information I’ve given you today that Democrats would come to their senses and strike a more appropriate balance between public safety and the rights of the accused. You might also think Democrat politicians don’t know what they’re doing when it comes to crime. I humbly submit to you they actually do know what they’re doing. They know exactly what they’re doing. They’re pandering to constituencies that, at least for the moment, are in the thrall of being Woke. For Democrat politicians, it’s all about staying in power, no matter how many people get hurt or how many businesses leave. Better King and Queen of a garbage dump than not being royalty at all. It’s despicable, but there it is.
Moral of the Story: If you want crime to go up, vote Democrat. It surely will, as night follows day.
8/18/22 - Biden’s Open Borders Policies Will Produce Parallel Societies on U.S. Soil
I love this headline from the New York Times: “G.O.P. Governors Cause Havoc by Busing Migrants to East Coast”. The New York Times - best known for covering up the Holocaust and the Soviet-engineered famine that killed 7 to 10 million people in Ukraine - is wrong. The fault here lies with the Biden administration. Joe Biden caused this havoc with his open borders policies. But for Joe Biden’s open borders policies, southwestern Governors would not be having to give liberal sanctuaries on the East Coast a taste of their own medicine.
I’ve documented in previous commentaries countless policy changes the Biden administration has made to open the borders to a flood of illegal aliens. Here are some more ways the administration is deliberately popping the rivets of the nation’s immigration laws: The U.S. Marshals Service is declaring itself a sanctuary for illegal aliens, meaning it will no longer hold detainees for ICE for deportation. The Marshals Service is a bureau within the Justice Department, putting it under the control of Biden administration political appointees including Democrat partisan Attorney General Merrick Garland.
The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to approve guidelines giving most illegal aliens a pass when it comes to deportation. The administration cooked up the guidelines in a conspiracy with pro-open borders advocacy groups from outside the government. The administration is ending the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy for asylum applicants after winning a court battle for permission to do so.
The administration is establishing a boat-and-bus route from Colombia to Panama to bring illegal aliens to the United States quicker. The administration terminated the ICE union to silence criticism and make it easier to fire whistleblowers who are now without union protection. For all its recent talk of building the wall again, the administration halted construction of the wall near San Diego.
As a result of the administration’s open borders policy changes, border encounters in July were more than triple the Trump administration average, and that doesn’t even count the got-aways. The number of arrests at the southern border is closing in on 2 million for the fiscal year.
There are real consequences in inviting millions of people to invade our country. Border agents arrested ten more terrorism suspects at the border in July. A Defense Department whistleblower revealed the administration has released 324 unvetted Afghan evacuees on a terror watch list into the U.S. Another 9/11, anyone?
There are other consequences, as well. Border crossers are dropping like flies, but the administration doesn’t care. An FBI-led operation rescued 84 victims of child sex trafficking and found 37 more missing children in the last 2 weeks. Increased child exploitation has been linked to Joe Biden’s open borders policies. The amount of fentanyl seized at the border in July was triple the amount seized in June, shattering all previous records and providing enough to kill every single American.
You only have to look to Sweden to see the future of all this. They let their country be invaded by hordes of migrants bringing an alien culture with them. Then there was a wave of bombings in major cities. That was followed by the establishment of Muslim no-go zones, which were once vociferously denied but are now admitted. Things have deteriorated to the point, now, where the ruling party is reversing itself and proposing to break up Muslim majority areas so a parallel society does not get established in the country, a proposal also made in Denmark which let itself be overrun.
So, when the New York Times and other lapdogs for the Biden administration accuse southwestern Governors of causing chaos by busing illegal aliens to the East Coast, just remember it is the open borders crowd that is bringing us chaos to the point where parallel societies on U.S. soil are now a real possibility. If you don’t believe me, all you have to do is walk in downtown Minneapolis where the Islamic call to prayer is blasted from two dozen mosques and heard on every street corner every day. So, take a walk there, while you still can.
8/17/22 - Extremism In Defense of Election Integrity Is No Vice
Allow me to introduce you to the nation’s newest ‘domestic violent extremist’. The Republican Secretary of State of Louisiana issued directives to preserve 2020 election materials and to take the state out of ERIC, a Soros-funded voter roll maintenance operation which critics deride as a thinly disguised get-out-the-vote effort for Democrats. This Secretary of State must now be considered a ‘domestic violent extremist’ under new guidelines from the Department of Homeland Security. A DHS whistleblower leaked an agency bulletin telling agents people who talk about ‘government overreach’ and ‘election fraud’ are possible ‘domestic violent extremists’ and a threat to law enforcement. You might call me a ‘domestic violent extremist’, too, because I’ve been talking about government overreach and election fraud since early Tea Party days, and I’m not going to stop, so come and get me.
There continue to be problems with our elections, and we in the grassroots are not going to stop on that front, either.
Mass mail-in voting causes chaos, as Jimmy Carter reported in 2005, but the practice will continue in some places in the 2022 elections. You mail out ballots to everyone on dirty voter rolls - including dead people and duplicate registrations - and you end up with millions of missing ballots some of which get stolen and voted by bad actors. Speaking of dirty voter rolls, a citizens group in Michigan found more than 22,000 active registrations for people who no longer live in the state and should be removed from the rolls.
Wisconsin lets anyone order an absentee ballot online, which is a recipe for fraud. A citizen tester got permission from several people to order ballots in their name and elections officials sent all the ballots to his address, no ID needed. It’s easy to see how this could be scaled up into major fraud.
Electronic voting machines failed a logic and accuracy test in a recent Colorado county recount. An elections official falsified machine certification records before an election in New Mexico. Certification problems have to be fairly common, because I know a grassroots activist who documented shady certification of electronic poll books in my state.
A poll challenger was thrown out of the big vote counting center in Detroit this month for asking too many questions and pointing out that various rules were not being followed. A similar problem occurred in the progressive prosecutor recall effort in Los Angeles this week. Elections officials threw out 27 percent of the ballot petition signatures, causing the petition to fail, whereas only 20 percent of signatures were deemed invalid in the Gavin Newsom recall last year. So something’s fishy, but election officials wouldn’t allow anyone to observe the process.
Voter fraud continues to be caught and prosecuted, although to a very limited extent relative to the amount of fraud that’s out there. South Carolina hasn’t had a voter fraud prosecution in 18 years, for example, but Wisconsin has 10 new cases for impersonating voters, voting twice in different states, and other fraudulent activities. A former police chief and a city councilman just pled guilty to buying votes in elections in Louisiana. Hmm... I wonder if the judge who took the plea is a domestic violent extremist like the Secretary of State.
Finally, Wisconsin State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos squeaked by in his primary, then immediately fired the special counsel he had previously hired to investigate fraud in the 2020 election, bringing the investigation to an end. The special counsel had found, among other indicia of fraud, up to 100 percent voter turnout in nursing homes, which would include people with dementia. It’s too bad the investigation won’t be continuing because the Democrats have a long history of committing voter fraud in nursing homes and you can bet they’ll keep right on doing it in future elections in Wisconsin and probably your state, as well.
The Speaker in Wisconsin is Republican. The GOP establishment across the nation, for some strange reason, is just not interested in uncovering election fraud. They must like losing. They will tell you their focus is on future elections, not past elections. This is what you typically get out of RINOs, even though there’s no way to fix the problems with future elections unless you understand what went wrong in the past. But Liz Cheney’s crushing defeat should show them they are an endangered species. My national RINO Hunt Team is on the case and we - and election integrity activists more generally - will not quit until we right the ship and restore free and fair elections in this country, whether the RINOs and the Democrats like it or not. DHS can’t lock us all up.
8/16/22 - Driving Stakes in the Heart of the Phony Climate Change Narrative
It’s been a bad stretch for the phony climate change narrative, lately.
A new report shows 96 percent of NOAA’s temperature stations don’t meet the agency’s own placement standards. They are deliberately placed near urban areas in order to overstate average temperatures, leading to the now-routine bogus claims we’re having the ‘hottest year on record’.
Someone pointed out the inconvenient truth that NASA has recognized over the years that the biggest factor affecting temperature and climate is the sun, specifically, variations in the earth’s solar orbit. Fly too close to the sun, and things get a little warmer, whodathunkit.
Those disappearing coral reefs in Australia? Well, guess what - they’ve rebounded to record levels. Environmentalists routinely tell you the sky is falling and the coral reefs are disappearing, but neither is true.
The climatistas prattle on about extreme weather events, but the fact of the matter is that the number of climate-related deaths has dropped by 99 percent since 1920 and is now approaching zero - except for storm chasers, of course. Oh, by the way, the number of tropical cyclones has dropped 13 percent since pre-industrial times, a new study found. Sorry to rain on your anti-growth parade.
The climate change crowd is deceiving you when it claims extreme weather is increasing and climate change is to blame. It turns out that the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - IPCC - recently changed its methods, producing an increase in extreme weather events on paper but not in the real world. “(T)he latest IPCC report has introduced novel 'attribution' statistics and now insists that things are getting worse. It's yet another case of scientists trying to scare the public into compliance," a recent paper said.
So-called experts say sea levels are rising, but photos show they’re not, and the satellite data underlying the sea level rise claim has not been vetted for satellite altitude which makes all the difference in the method used.
Greenies hyperventilate about the water level at Lake Powell being down 94 feet since 2000 and blame evaporation from hotter temperatures, but it is government policies that produced the drop. The original plan was to hold back water in wet years to make up for dry years, but the government now releases more water than originally planned in wet years, leaving no cushion. You can’t blame that on climate change - or maybe you can, if you’re dishonest.
Similarly, it is government policies that are producing the increasing wildfire problem in the West. Litigation under environmental laws and environmental reviews have delayed thinning and controlled burns. Some controlled burns are being done, stupidly, in windy conditions. So look to forest management, not climate change, if you’re sincerely interested in finding the culprit instead of just demagoguing the issue.
California and Germany are finding out that alternative energy isn’t all sunshine and lollipops. Faced with electricity shortages from pursuing green energy policies, both are moving toward increasing reliance on their fossil fuel and nuclear power plants.
If you’re pinning your hopes the planet won’t burn up on the new climate bill Joe Biden is signing today, you might want to reconsider. If you use U.N. climate models and everything in the bill goes swimmingly, the average temperature of the earth in the year 2100 will be 61.972 degrees instead of 62.0 degrees, best case. I’m so relieved, and I’m so glad we’re spending $739 billion dollars to achieve a drop of 0.028 degrees. Lollipop, anyone?
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
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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.