Nationalism, National-Socialism, and Soviet Fascism in America

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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within… The traitor is the carrier of the plague. You have unbarred the gates of Rome to him.” — Cicero

A similar idea was expressed by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln; and human nature has not changed since Cicero. It is true—the traitor is the carrier of the plague…My beloved America the Beautiful is experiencing that exact plague today that was brought to us by Soviet Fascism…

For over thirty years, I have exposed this plague and warned Americans about it constantly by refraining the phrase: “Knowledge of Russia and its Intelligence is a MUST.” The former AG Jeff Sessions was a victim of the plague, because he did not know Russia, its Intelligence apparatus and recused himself from Russia Probe. Now, as a result, we have a political chaos in America every day for three years. Jeff Sessions Has Big Plans For 2020 running for Senate. I will forgive him on the condition that he will start learning the ideology of Soviet fascism today.

Nationalism and National-Socialism

During last three years President Trump has undergone relentless attacks and several incredible accusations: mentally ill, ignorant, incapable of thinking, Stalin, racist-Hitler, and nationalist. All of those has nothing to do with reality, but… he is a Nationalist. And I want to talk about Nationalism, because I am also a Nationalist.

Nationalism, an ideology based on the premise that the individual’s loyalty and devotion to the nation-state surpasses other individual or group interests. Encyclopedia Britannica

I am a nationalist and I know that a family is an initial-origin cell and foundation of any society. Family always seeks peace and tranquility for all its members, a society and nation as a whole have the same desire… Nationalism is a very peaceful, loyal and devoted concept of people who want to have a country with one culture, one language, one nation whose territory has secure borders. Nationalism is an ancient idea in history. Jews have been striving for a nation state since Antiquity, and achieved their goal of establishing the state of Israel only in 1948. Every nation wants to have a national identity, one culture and language on their territory plus strong and secure borders. Nationalism is a very patriotic and peaceful idea, unlike national-socialism, which was born in the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.

For your information national-socialism has an abbreviation—Nazi, Nazism. It has the same definition as Fascism. Europe is well familiar with national-socialism; every country in Europe had its own Quisling and Mosley. Europe has given the world three different types of Fascism: Italian fascism with mild application of force, German fascism with Holocaust, gas-chambers, excessive abuse of power by the Gestapo, and the third one Stalinist Soviet Fascism. All three are known to the world as militant, aggressive, and expansionist political forces with a common agenda–to conquer the world. Do you see the differences between nationalism and national-socialism? Yet, there is more…

The most well-known fascist leaders, Mussolini and Hitler, were proud to publicize their fascist ideology, in their speeches and books. You can read Hitler’s “Mein Kam” today. Japan joined Italy and Germany by 1940 and the three had established the “Axis.” Very soon their real agenda to fight Western civilization was revealed. Germany attacked Poland September 1, 1939 and WW II began. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941. The entire world was involved in killing, destroying, harming, sabotaging and terminating instead of creating, building, generating and producing. I saw all of that in Russia, Ukraine, and Europe…

The tragedy of the WW II is staggering: Deaths directly caused by the war (including military and civilians killed) are estimated at 50–56 million people, while there were an additional estimated 19 to 28 million deaths from war-related disease and famine. Total price to defeat the fascist “Axis” cost the world population 70-80 million. The Marshall Plan cost about $13.3 billion at the time, but dollars during the 1950s could purchase much more than today’s dollars. Adjusting for inflation and stated in today’s dollars, the Marshall Plan investment would be equal to $103.4 billion, invested by the United States of America. But … Fascism is alive and well…

Fascism Never Sleeps: Soviet Fascism

As a matter of fact, the Soviet fascism developed under the Iron Curtain is unknown to the world. That is the reason I have been writing about the ideology of Stalinism for the last thirty years. Unlike Hitler and Mussolini, being proud of their ideology, Stalin had masked and covered up the real identity of the Soviet regime—Soviet Fascism. He created a system of Political Correctness to deceive the opposition and the world. Under the term Socialism, Soviet fascism had been disseminated across the world with the application of Political Correctness deceiving and defrauding the people. Do you see now the main difference between Nationalism and national-socialism? We must pay attention to the ideology of Socialism, as an integral part of Fascism!!! Read here Political Correctness and the Socialist Revolution in America, October 31, 2019

There is only one Socialist system in the world practiced in real life—Stalin’s Soviet Socialism. It was an inextricably, intertwined blend of Socialist ideology with the force of punitive agencies—I use the term KGB talking about them. That force, coordinated by the KGB, helped HIS Socialist system to survive for many years, yet Socialism ended in the country where it was born. The collapse of the USSR in 1991 meant the collapse of the Socialist economy, which wasn’t able to produce, but the Police State under the KGB has re-emerged, bringing the KGB operative Vladimir Putin to the presidency of the Russian Federation. Nothing substantial has changed and under Putin’s leadership, the current crop of apparatchiks are flourishing in Russia today. The KGB is still running the country with a crony capitalism instead of failed socialism. Yet, the absence of Socialism opens the door to the Truth—the real name of the ideology is Soviet Fascism…

From the first day of Obama’s presidency the war against the American Republic began to transform our country to a Socialist Administrative State. Obama, the socialist, did not hide his real agenda, openly calling for the transformation, and began fighting the unique political system left to us by our Founding Father. Following Stalin’s model of weaponizing the Intel, Obama appointed as CIA Director a man who voted in the previous election for a Communist candidate—John Brennon. Socialist/Communist’s brain-washing war on America’s mind and soul had started by Socialist-Obama, lying constantly, using Stalinist Political Correctness and his holdovers. The train-engine of the coup against Trump has been moving ahead, combating Western civilization and you, the American people.

I have writing about the Dems’ American Socialist mafia, the carrier of the plague that has come from the KGB. I found plenty of Socialist methods and tricks being implemented in America, especially by America’s Socialist mafia. Schiff’s fabrication is reminiscent of the former head of the KGB in the Soviet Union, Lavrenty Beria’s, famous boast, “You bring me the man and I’ll show you the crime.” You see it in America today. Knowing well the Soviet abusive power of the KGB, I was stunned seeing the same here being exercised by the current Anti-Trump cabal, America’s Socialist mafia. I am using a term KGB meaning the entirety of Russian Intelligence Services.

The Dems were committing crimes and putting the finger of blame on the opposition for the last 3-4 decades. Nothing is left of Truman’s Party, only the title—the Democrat Party, an old shell, used by the America’s Socialist mafia to cover up its actual adherence to the ideology of Soviet fascism a plague brought by the KGB to our land. I have support from a professor of Law. LISTEN: Liberal Democrat Dershowitz Compares Democrats To Russian Secret Police Under Stalin, Blisters CNN, by Hank Berrien, November 11, 2019, DailyWire.com Dershowitz also ripped Democrats, comparing them to the Russian secret police under the murderous Russian dictator Josef Stalin, asserting, “The Democrats are now making up crimes.” He is right, I know Stalinism. Alas, it is here.

What does Rep. Sean Maloney and other Dems members of the Impeachment procedure know about Stalinism and Soviet fascism? They have been deceived and mislead by DNC for decades and now they are led by a Communist, Tom Perez, the Deep State, and “the Squad” –the plague Cicero was talking about…There are some decent Dems, but they are deceived and tricked—they don’t know Russia and its Intelligence apparatus and don’t understand how it is operating here, just like Jeff Sessions did not. Moreover, they don’t know Ukraine and the unthinkable corruption there—Soviet scale corruption…

They had no idea of how wide Stalinism and Soviet Fascism are spread across the globe. If you know Soviet fascism, you know what is going on in Hong Kong. It took Stalin two decades to build a Chinese Communist State with all the attributes of Soviet fascism, schooled by the Russian KGB. Things going on in Stalinist Russia years ago, is being repeated in all countries of “the Axis of Evil” under the Russian umbrella. Listen to this story:

A Christian house church leader told Bitter Winter the Communist Party is “replacing the words of God with human moral standards, secretly distorting the doctrine and eroding the foundations of the Christian faith.”

“This is a truly sinister approach. Only the devil would do such a thing,” the leader said. In China, the government controls churches by requiring them to belong to its Three-Self Patriotic Movement. ‘Truly sinister’: Jesus’ words twisted to promote communism.” ‘Only the devil would do such a thing’ By WND Staff Published November 10, 2019.

I have bad news for Robert Levinson’s family. Iran is a member country of “the Axis of Evil”. I am afraid that it was Russia who dealt with Robert Levinson. That means that experiment with Otto Warmbier in North Korea can be repeated in Levinson’s case, the way it initially was performed on Raoul Wallenberg in Russia. Read my book What is Happening to America? Xlibris, 2012. Soviet fascism is alive and well and never sleeps…

My fellow Americans!

President Donald J Trump presents an existential threat to Soviet Fascism.

Do you realize now what the radical Left armed with the ideology of Soviet Fascism means?

It was the ultimate goal and agenda of Stalin, Andropov and Putin to destroy America from within…

And the Democrat Party of the 21st century is doing just that before the eyes of the world…

Our Founding Fathers are rolling over their graves.

The human nature definitely has not changed since Cicero!

To be continued www.simonapipko1.com and on www.drrichswier.com/author/spipko/.

©2023. Simona Pipko. All rights reserved.

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Solving Some Major Societal Problems: Using Critical Thinking Skills makes it MUCH Easier to do

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Regarding a successful technique to solve major societal problems, I could speak in generalities, but I think it will be more interesting (and informative) to be more specific. I’ve written about our education crisis multiple times, as that is the largest threat to America and its values. So, I’ll pick an example in that field.

Specifically: Education —> K-12 —> Subject area of Science —> State Science Standards. To a concerned citizen, here are the basic facts for this scenario:

  1. FACT #1: Your State is one of 49 that has largely adopted the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). [Florida is the lone holdout.]
  2. FACT #2: The NGSS is a Progressive set of standards that has numerous major flaws (e.g., it doesn’t teach Critical Thinking, it has scrapped the Scientific Method, etc., etc.) [See here, page six, for ten major issues.]
  3. FACT #3: Let’s assume that you (and allies) are requesting that your State correct at least two of these serious NGSS errors — Critical Thinking and the Scientific Method omissions.

Unfortunately (but not surprisingly), the State’s K-12 Department of Public Instruction (DPI) is not receptive, and pushes back with a litany of excuses, like:

  • EXCUSE #1: The NGSS has been adopted by some 49 states — so how can they all be wrong?
  • EXCUSE #2: The NGSS was written by some academic experts.
  • EXCUSE #3: The NGSS has the support of important scientists (NAS), business people (Achieve), and teachers (NSTA).
  • EXCUSE #4: Your State’s academic experts support the NGSS.
  • EXCUSE #5: Their State Science Standards are better than some other states’ (as their DPI has made some improvements over the base NGSS).
  • EXCUSE #6: Making the changes you are advocating will require that teachers will have to attend Professional Development classes.
  • EXCUSE #7: Making the changes you are advocating will require that some textbooks be changed.
  • EXCUSE #8: Your State’s DPI has too much on its plate to be able to consider the changes you are recommending.
  • EXCUSE #9: The State has been following the NGSS for 10± years now, and few teachers, parents, citizens, or watchdog organizations have complained.
  • EXCUSE #10: The State Board of Education (SBOE) oversees DPI, and there has been no SBOE directive for DPI to fix any of the NGSS errors.
  • EXCUSE #11: The State Legislature has the authority to pass education bills, and no legislation has directed DPI to fix any NGSS errors.
  • EXCUSE #12: The State’s DPI has a schedule to review the Science standards every six years, and the next review is not until 2027.

Even the most ardent education reform advocates will likely capitulate when facing this daunting list of excuses. But, does Critical Thinking help here?

YES! You could probably eventually win by arguing each and every excuse listed above, but having twelve different fights is exhausting and time-consuming. Further, by the time you’re done, everyone will have forgotten what this war was about.

The Critical Thinking solution is to change the battlefield.

DPI is giving you bureaucratic answers. Bureaucratic arguments are based on: what makes them look good, what expands their power, what justifies a larger budget, etc., etc. It’s unlikely that you can change that mentality, as it is baked in.

On the other hand, there is something also baked into bureaucracies that is in your favor: they are employees of the public. If there is public disapproval of their job performance, they: will not look good, will not be able to expand their power, will not be able to have a larger budget, etc. In other words, this is a Public Relations (PR) war.

One of the most powerful PR tools that exists, is to CHANGE PERSPECTIVE. The problem is the same, but we look at it differently.

For this education issue, we are at a fork in the road, and the choices are: a) do we continue with second-rate State Science Standards, or b) do we quickly make some meaningful improvements? The bureaucratic response from DPI is “a”, turn Left.

A suggested different perspective for turning Right, is this:

  1. PERSPECTIVE #1: Which option is in the best interest of the K-12 children?
  2. PERSPECTIVE #2: Which option is in the best long-range interest of the State?
  3. PERSPECTIVE #3: Which option is in the best long-range interest of America?

In other words, every time one of the twelve excuses above is put forward, the appropriate response is: “Yes, I understand what you are saying, but which option is best for our children, state, and country?”

If that does not result in action on DPI’s part, then it may be necessary to go public, as the public will know which direction is best for our children, state, and country.

So the takeaway here is: don’t get tricked into responding to bureaucratic excuses. Move the fight to a winning battlefield.

In this example, correcting consequential K-12 state education subject standards’ errors quickly is indisputably in the best interest of students, and ultimately the state and our country — so none of the 12 excuses have any merit…

©2024.  John Droz, Jr. All rights reserved.

Here are other materials from this scientist that you might find interesting:

My Substack Commentaries for 2023 (arranged by topic)

Check out the chronological Archives of my entire Critical Thinking substack.

WiseEnergy.org: discusses the Science (or lack thereof) behind our energy options.

C19Science.info: covers the lack of genuine Science behind our COVID-19 policies.

Election-Integrity.info: multiple major reports on the election integrity issue.

Media Balance Newsletter: a free, twice-a-month newsletter that covers what the mainstream media does not do, on issues from COVID to climate, elections to education, renewables to religion, etc. Here are the Newsletter’s 2023 Archives. Please send me an email to get your free copy. When emailing me, please make sure to include your full name and the state where you live. (Of course, you can cancel the Media Balance Newsletter at any time – but why would you?

Minimum Wage

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Let’s have a conversation based on reason about the concept of the Minimum Wage.

I’m totally against the concept of having a minimum wage, based on moral principles. I do not see a role for the government in a deal between an employer and an employee.

Then, I can also argue, based on my many travels abroad, that a minimum wage is not good for work morale.

I have traveled half the globe, and have been a guest in many countries without a minimum wage. I have witnessed poverty in these countries, but also the opportunity for all citizens to get a low-paying job, to start a career.

Many Leftist politicians want to raise the minimum wage. If the government raises the minimum wage, then employers will employ less personnel for easy tasks.

As always, the solutions that the Left offers for economic problems, are worse than the problems themselves.

©2024. Matthys van Raalten. All rights reserved.

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The BRAIN Drain of Communist Controlled California is Underway

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The Communist state of California is about to have a massive brain drain of doctors and nurses and health care professionals once the Marxists in the California Assembly Health Committee advance a bill that will create a mandatory universal healthcare board that will ban pretty much all private healthcare in the once free state of California. Doctors work in private clinics not in government controlled Marxist price controlled dictatorships. They will leave California.

The Communist government of Venezuela, where my family is from, did the same thing as is happening in California and nearly all the doctors and nurses left and relocated to Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Panama, Uruguay and Brazil. Some even relocated to the United States. My dentist relocated from Venezuela to Bogota Colombia. My family relocated from Venezuela to Bogota Colombia, Brazil and Uruguay. They are engineers, doctors and entrepreneurs.

This Marxist ideology is fiscally dead in the water in Sacramento considering ALL of California’s $405 billion spent on healthcare annually in the private sector will relocate to the bankrupt state budget which has an estimated $73 trillion budget deficit. So to cover this exuberant cost taxes will definitely have to be raised to pay for it which will drive even more inflation. American citizens living in California will also have to pay for the healthcare of all the criminal illegal immigrants who have zero respect for our borders and sovereignty living in this collapsing economic mess.

The Communist dictator of California Gavin Newsom falsely stated a $39.9 billion deficit for 2024-2025 budget to keep the sheep following happy but of course like all Marxists their propaganda is always uncovered as a lie when in fact the data shows a growing $73 billion budget shortage.

Now moving north from the Communist Party headquarters in Sacramento let’s look at the corrupt Nancy Pelosi district of San Francisco, the human fecal capital of the world. This city, once a thriving financial hub and capitalist entrepreneur’s dream, is now fixing to adopt a law that bans grocery stores from going out of business unless they give the Communists in government six months notice.

So if your business is failing imminently because of massive government interference from the San Francisco controlled government Marxists, soon you will not be able to cash out and relocate or close your store unless you give half a year of notice. If you don’t, the Communists will let the customers sue the store owners. All totally unconstitutional violating the commerce clause.

So what happens when a store lays off its workers in California because they cannot afford the insane $20 an hour minimum wage to pay its once happy staff of high school kids and college students working a menial job. The kids who used to make extra cash on the weekends for cleaning a greasy grill or flipping a hamburger?

Well California has the HIGHEST unemployment rate in our Republic due to Newsom Economics which means the California unemployment insurance program is also in a downward spiral much like the rest of its economy.

The Marxist Gavin Newson is doing a great job destroying this once vibrant capitalist former Reagan Red state so don’t be surprised if the entire economy implodes like it did in Communist Venezuela.

Venezuela is the richest oil nation in the world yet the Communist injection into the free markets forced entrepreneurs to leave this once free country including my tax accountant highly educated wife.

Newsom in California has the same Marxist ideology as the installed president of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro so it’s not a surprise to see Oil Companies like Chevron planning on leaving California as did Tesla and gas prices lurching to over $7.50 a gallon.

So what is the result of the Marxist Newsom Nomics in California ? An exodus is in the works as thousands of homeowners are trying to sell their overtaxed property to get the heck out of this Marxist septic tank of downward poverty and despair.

Folks in the middle class can either stay in California and be downgraded to poverty status or leave California and reclaim their once prosperous standard of living in pro business pro entrepreneurial states like Nevada, Texas or Florida. Don’t forget the legislation being proposed to tax former California residents after they leave this septic tank. All unconstitutional of course.

The sniveling cockroach Gavin Newson also wants a constitutional ban on gun ownership which is a protected God given right under the 2nd Amendment. Luckily our Founding Fathers prepared us for Marxists like Newson, a bottom feeding Communist that kisses the backside of the Communist Chinese any chance he gets.

Perhaps Newsom wants to disarm ALL law-abiding Americans as do the Communist Chinese because he knows, as does Biden and other Marxist bottom feeders like Bernie Sanders, one day the American people will not take this crap anymore and BAM – a new civil war commences.

Buy more ammo ladies and gentleman and learn how to shoot your legally acquired constitutionally protected firearm. The enemy we face is within. Stay peaceful and stay vigilant, follow the Constitution and trust in God as your protector.

©2024. Geoff Ross. All rights reserved.

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The Do Nothing Republican Led Congress bans TikTok while giving the CIA run Facebook a pass.

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On Tuesday the Communist Democrats and Socialist Republican leadership in the U.S. Senate surprisingly signed off on forcing their Communist Chinese pals running TikTok to sell this social media platform to a neutral party or be banned in the United States. Great news for its competitors Facebook and You Tube.

The Communist Chinese can still buy land close to U.S. military bases inside our Republic without any interference from the do nothing republican controlled Congress.

Our borders are still wide open allowing military age Communist Chinese illegal immigrant men to enter our country. But hey nobody cares about that except for a few conservatives patriots with the misfortune of being members of the GOP.

The Communist Chinese responded to the possibility of losing access to the U.S. market via TikTok by its CEO claiming 1st Amendment violations but apparently even our constitutional rights are no longer an issue to the spineless jellyfish in Congress considering the 1st Amendment ban on free speech is currently the norm on our former president Donald Trump.

The do nothing Republican led Congress has banned TikTok pending its sale but have taken zero action against the U.S. company Meta (Facebook) led by Communist Mark Zuckerberg.

This enemy of the state in the past presidential election dumped millions of dollars into setting up unconstitutional voter ballot mail in drop boxes all over the USA contributing significantly to the ballot fraud initiated against Donald Trump.

The do nothing Republican led Congress has done nothing to stop the Communist Chinese discount retailers like Temu and Shein from buying millions of dollars worth of advertising on Facebook and Instagram funding indirectly Zuckerberg’s political frontline assault on Donald Trump.

Don’t forget that Facebook is nothing more than a massive online surveillance platform ran by former employees of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with Mark Zuckerberg as the chief agent.

If you as an American citizen are still divulging your personal information and expressing your religious and political positions on Facebook including your vacation plans, birth dates of your kids, grandkids and wives and girlfriends for the CIA to store on their Utah servers then stupid is as stupid does. Don’t forget to post your breakfast lunch and dinner too after spending half your day hitting the likes of your neighbors pet iguanas.

The Communist Zuckerberg also pays former CIA agents to be the fact checkers and decide what you can and cannot post on your ridiculous Facebook account.

The do nothing Republican led Congress makes no attempt to ban Facebook for its unconstitutional assault on conservative free speech which great patriots like Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Fl) can attest too but the weak spineless do nothing constructive Republican led Congress still thinks banning TikTok is the righteous thing to do so obviously their hypocrisy reigns supreme.

TikTok will no doubt sue the U.S. government using billions of dollars sitting in Communist Chinese banks to protect their surveillance platforms. The money in these Communist Chinese banks donated by all the American shoppers in profits after they purchased their Communist Chinese crap at Walmarts all over the republic.

American citizens are under more surveillance from the Biden Communists running the CIA, the FBI and NSA not so much from TikTok. Biden has initiated more unconstitutional spying on Americans just funded again by the low life bottom feeding Republican led Congress.

The bottom feeding cockroaches Obama and Hillary Clinton even spied on Trumps presidential campaign using unconstitutional FISA warrants.

My advice is don’t worry too much about TikTok, but pay close attention to our own government who have unprecedented access to your social media platforms in our republic.

The best advice I can give is to scrub, then delete your Facebook, Instagram and TikTok accounts and that will be the first step in dismantling the unconstitutional surveillance of your life and eliminating 90% of the drama it brings you.

But if you like giving the deep state all your personal data keep on posting and liking. The CIA are grateful to you.

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More God, More Peace

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These are crazy times. How does one retain sanity in these tumultuous days? Read the world’s best seller—and read it often—and it will give a great deal of comfort. Indeed, many of our great American leaders have found comfort and solace in the Word of God.

Want to change your life? Here’s a simple practice, which I have engaged in fastidiously for the last four years or so. Everyday, in addition to other personal Bible reading and studying, I read the chapter of Proverbs for that day. There are 31 chapters in Proverbs, just as many months have 31 days.

As I began this column on April 19th, I read my corresponding Proverbs for the day and came across Proverbs 19:23, “The fear of the Lord leads to life; then one rests content, untouched by trouble.”

But many are troubled today, because they have rejected God and the church. In that connection, there was a recent article by Ira Stoll in theeditors.com, which provided evidence that the lack of church attendance may be bad for mental health.

After mentioning the potential deleterious effects of social media on children, Stoll pens, “Yet there’s another, non-technology possible contributor to the mental health crisis that’s getting less attention but may be just as significant. That is the decline in church attendance.”

Hmmmmm. Interesting. Church attendance goes down. Mental health problems go up.

Stoll cites a Harvard Public Health study which suggested that the decline in church service attendance from 1991 to 2019 could account for nearly 30 percent of the rise in depression among teenagers.

Stoll also notes that a major review in 2022 of 215 studies (each with more than 1000 participants), showed that: “weekly religious service attendance is longitudinally associated with lower mortality risk, lower depression, less suicide, better cardiovascular disease survival, better health behaviors, and greater marital stability, happiness, and purpose in life.” More God, more peace.

Stoll adds, “plenty of mental-health clinicians I know see in religious-service attendance some of the habits and attitudes that can help to combat depression and anxiety. There’s the supportive community, the face-to-face interaction, the getting out of bed and out of the house, the sense of purpose and meaning, the expressions of gratitude and humility.”

In a blog for Psychology Today, Harvard professor of epidemiology Tyler VanderWeele notes the downturn for today’s youth: “Relatively speaking, young people are not doing as well as they once were. They report being less happy and less healthy; having less meaning, greater struggles with character, and poorer relationships; and less financially stable compared to their older counterparts. The differences in well-being with age were, in fact, much larger than they were for gender or for race. Some of the issue may also pertain to a crisis in meaning.”

Life can be painful. Life without meaning and purpose can be unbearable. But life has meaning because there is a God, and He has revealed Himself in creation and in the Holy Scriptures. Through the years, many noteworthy Americans allowed themselves to be shaped by the Bible.

George Washington read the Bible so frequently, that many of its phrases come out in his speeches and writings. Appendix 2 of the book I co-wrote with Peter Lillback, George Washington’s Sacred Fire, demonstrates this. It’s as if you were to cut him, he would bleed Scripture.

When Thomas Jefferson’s daughter Polly died in 1804, his other daughter Martha came upon him, and remarked that she “found him with the Bible in his hands seeking consolation from the Sacred Volume.”

Abraham Lincoln read the Bible all the time. It comes out in his speeches too. Chiseled in stone at the Lincoln Memorial are some of them, including his Second Inaugural Address. That speech alone has three direct Bible quotes.

When he received a gift of a Bible, the 16th president noted, “All the good the Saviour gave to the world was communicated through this book. But for it we could not know right from wrong.”

Ronald Reagan once said, “Inside the Bible’s pages lie the answers to all the problems that mankind has ever known. I hope Americans will read and study the Bible.”

Despite those who would reject virtually anything Christianity would have to offer, the invitation of Jesus to those who will listen still stands: “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light” (Matthew 11:28-30).

Even in our highly secular age, multiple studies show that good things come from walking with God, in prayer, through His Word, and attending church.

©2024.  Jerry Newcombe, D. Min. All rights reserved.

Roughly Half of Gen Z Voters ‘Are Sympathetic to Hamas’

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Last weekend, multiple anti-Semitic protests broke out on college campuses including Ohio State University, Columbia University, and Yale University. The demonstrators tore down American flags, chanted about the death of Israelis and praises of the October 7 attacks, as well as some injuries and arrests. Ever since the war between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas broke out, intense targeting of Jews in the U.S. sparked as well.

Initially, people questioned whether the anti-Semitism was new or simply uncovered by the Hamas terrorist attack. But now, as more protests occur, many worry that colleges have become a breeding ground for not only leftist agendas at large, but also for much of this resurgence of Jewish hatred. Considering the amount of anti-Semitism displayed on college campuses in recent months, the news that a survey found roughly half of Gen Z voters “are sympathetic toward Hamas” is, for many, not a shock.

Summit Ministries and RMG Research released data on Monday showcasing “the startling difference between the sentiments of all voters and Gen Z voters specifically, those born between 1997 and 2012,” Breitbart reported. These particular results, which involved 1,003 registered voters, highlighted Gen Z’s terrorist sympathies with the label, “Landmark poll: Gen Z sides with Hamas.”

The respondents were asked, “Do you believe that Israel’s wealth and military power make its campaign against Hamas unjust?” According to Breitbart, “While most voters across the board, 58 percent, believe that Israel’s campaign is ‘just’ — compared to 21 percent who believe it is unjust — only 42 percent of voters aged 18-24 believe Israel’s campaign against Hamas is just. A plurality of voters aged 18-24 believe Israel’s campaign against Hamas is unjust,” Breitbart reported. This is despite the fact that roughly 60% of Gen Z voters “agree with the U.S. government classifying Hamas as a terrorist group.”

The survey also revealed that “one-third of Gen Z voters believe Israel does not have the right to exist as a nation. Across the board, just ten percent hold that same sentiment, showcasing the radicalization of America’s youth.” Comparatively, a Pew Research Poll from March found “roughly six in ten Americans (58%) say Israel’s reasons for fighting Hamas are valid,” even if they did not all agree with how Israel responded to Hamas.

However, even though the majority of the U.S. voters appear to side with Israel amid the war, the poll from Monday made it unmistakenly clear that almost the majority of young voters do not.

Meg Kilgannon, Family Research Council’s senior fellow for Education Studies, shared with The Washington Stand, “When colleges and even primary and secondary schools are educating their students in the ‘oppressor/oppressed’ paradigm, it’s little wonder that Gen Z will identify with Hamas as indigenous and believe that Israel is a ‘colonizing’ force.”

She continued, “We know that this is totally and biblically inaccurate, but this is a generation that has been formed by social media very profoundly where these ideas are pervasive.” As such, it leads to “a situation where there is very little downside for being a pro-Palestine protestor on a college campus in most states,” especially considering the fact that “universities have policies where they provide the police force and the court system to meet their need for (social) justice.”

Unfortunately, Kilgannon concluded, “this horrific situation is sadly not surprising.”

 

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Sarah Holliday

Sarah Holliday is a reporter at The Washington Stand.

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Where Is the Safe Space for Jews?

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A recent trend on college campuses is to install “safe spaces,” places where students — or certain identity-group subsets of students — can go to feel safe. These safe spaces are exclusionary by design; they protect students by insulating them. In extreme cases, safe spaces have been deemed to cover entire campuses, leading to the exclusion or disinvitation of undesirable visitors.

This “safe space” trend has been rightly ridiculed for its tendency to protect college students’ feelings from exposure to opposing viewpoints. Such exposure serves to sharpen the mind and used to be college’s main virtue. Thus, protecting students from “harm” by sequestering them from intellectual diversity undermines the whole point of college education.

But the silly “safe space” trend adopted the language of harm and safety because those are important considerations. Sticking with the collegiate context, students can’t devote themselves to their studies if they take their life in their hands every time they walk across campus. Fertilizing their mental acreage is orders of magnitude more difficult when outside sounds like a warzone, or a rock concert, or both at the same time.

The safety of college campuses — most of whom have a department devoted to preserving it — is often taken for granted, else loving parents would think twice before sending sweet Suzy off to a dormitory. Basic physical safety should be a guarantee on which all students can rely, regardless of their background. Unfortunately, that guarantee is no longer universal.

Where is the safe space for Jews?

On Sunday, Rabbi Elie Buechler of Columbia University’s Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus (JLIC) strongly recommended that Jewish students “return home as soon as possible and remain home until the reality in and around campus has dramatically improved.”

“The events of the last few days, especially last night, have made it clear the Columbia University’s Public Safety and the NYPD cannot guarantee Jewish students’ safety in the face of extreme anti-Semitism and anarchy,” wrote Buechler. “It is not our job as Jews to ensure our own safety on campus. No one should have to endure this level of hatred, let alone at school.”

Last Thursday, anti-Semitic activists took over Columbia University’s central quad, turning it into a tent city overnight. The activists, many of whom are students, have praised Hamas’s military arm Al-Qassam, called for the destruction of Israel, and openly invited the killing of counter-protestors. Despite more than 100 arrests on Thursday, the rabble have only grown bolder.

Now, university administrators appear to have given up any hope of reasserting control of their campus property. The rabbi’s counsel to Jewish students was “the reason why classes went virtual at Columbia today,” Rabbi Yaakov Menken, managing director of the Coalition for Jewish Values, said Monday on “Washington Watch.” By Tuesday, Columbia University announced it was switching to hybrid classes for the remainder of the semester.

“There was one professor, Shai Davidai, who was having none of it,” Menken continued. “He said, ‘I am bringing 10 students and alumni with me Monday morning. We’re going to go on to the campus. We’re going to go right into the middle of that anti-Semitic demonstration, and we insist you keep us safe.’”

Rather than keep him safe, “Columbia deactivated the access card of their professor,” Menken related in disbelief. “Professor Shai Davidai of Columbia University had his access card deactivated by the university to prevent him from interfering with the anti-Semitic, pro-Hamas demonstration at that campus.” Columbia University COO Cas Holloway personally appeared at the campus gate to prevent Davidai from entering the.

Davidai is an assistant professor in Columbia Business School’s Management Division, and he also leads Columbia’s anti-Semitism task force. Columbia administrators had to know that barring the head of the anti-Semitism task force from campus would provoke outrage, yet they chose to confront the backlash rather than confront the unruly mob that has taken over their campus. “Columbia was confronted with a clear choice either the anti-Semitic barbarians or the Jews. They expressly chose the anti-Semitic barbarians,” exclaimed Menken. “The entire administration of Columbia is utterly compromised by Jew hatred.”

Where is the safe space for Jews?

Certainly not at Columbia University, nor at Yale. Sahar Tartak, a Jewish student at Yale who is also a conservative reporter, was physically assaulted and blocked by protestors while attempting to film the pro-Hamas demonstration — which included taking down an American flag on a university flagpole — at that university. After demonstrators surrounded and blockaded her, a keffiyeh-garbed man stabbed Tartak in the eye with a Palestinian flag he carried.

At this point, the terrorist groupies aren’t even pretending to be motivated by non-violent, humanitarian concern for Palestinian civilians. “Anti-Semitism is always about finding a façade, a pretense, and then moving on to their end goal, which has always been ethnic cleansing and genocide,” argued Menken. “They were never anti-Israel protests. They were always anti-Semitic protests that glorify terrorism, that glorify atrocities, actual beheading of babies and rapes and holding hostages. These are not decent human beings.”

Where is the safe space for Jews?

You won’t find one at MIT, NYU, University of Michigan, Ohio State University, UC Berkeley, or Boston University. I’m sure that’s only the tip of the iceberg, since the anti-Semitic protests have reached even smaller, lesser known schools like Cal Poly Humbolt or UNC Charlotte.

At this point, it seems like American Jews are safest anywhere that isn’t a college campus. But that’s obviously not a workable solution in the long run. Today’s students are tomorrow’s lawyers, bankers, and politicians — not to mention professors. Are American Jews simply supposed to accept a second-class status, where they don’t get to go to college and are governed by those who hate them? How well did that work in 1930s Germany? If Jews aren’t safe on American college campuses, then ultimately they won’t be safe anywhere else in America.

Where is the safe space for Jews?

Jews could perhaps find a safe haven on other shores. But a cursory glance around the world shows the same violent anti-Semitism on shameful display in American universities. Judging by U.N. voting records, America sits near the top of the list of pro-Jewish countries. If Jews can find few countries friendlier than the U.S., and they are hated here, where can they go?

Where is the safe space for Jews?

The obvious exception is the world’s only Jewish-majority nation-state (although two million Arabs also live there peacefully), the postage stamp-sized parcel of seacoast known as Israel. Established in 1948 in response to the Holocaust, the modern state of Israel has provided a safe haven for persecuted Jews of every nationality.

Yet Israel’s Jews are not safe even within their own paper-snowflake borders. Hamas proved that on October 7, 2023, when they launched an unprovoked invasion on a Jewish holy day, slaughtering more than 1,200 Jews, kidnapping more than 200 prisoners, burning, raping, and pillaging wherever they could. Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist group supported by America’s geopolitical adversary Iran, openly calls for Israel’s “annihilation” and has broadcast its intention to repeat its October 7 attack as often as it is capable.

Hamas is not Israel’s only threat. Hezbollah, another Iran-backed terror group, operates out of Israel’s northern neighbor Lebanon, and it has kept up frequent rocket barrages against Israel to divide its attention. “There are, I believe, about 80,000 Israelis who can’t go home every night because the rockets being shot in by Hezbollah out of Lebanon,” Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wisc.) remarked on “Washington Watch.” “Obviously Israel cannot permanently tell 70 or 80,000 of their citizens, ‘you can’t go home at night.’”

Behind these groups lies Iran, a global terror sponsor, which is close to developing a nuclear weapon and is avowedly committed to Israel’s destruction.

Where is the safe space for Jews?

But perhaps the campus mobs openly supporting Hamas are ignorant of Hamas’s goal and merely want American Jews to return to Israel. If that were true, they would also have to be ignorant of the words coming out of their own mouth.

“From the river to the sea, Palestine is almost free,” they chanted. That’s a strange twist on their classic, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” By “free,” they mean free of Jews. By “from the river to the sea,” the chant invokes (and confuses) the boundaries of the land God promised to give to Israel in Deuteronomy 11:24, “from the River, the River Euphrates, to the western sea.” The technical term for seeking to drive all people of a given ethnic group out of a given territory is “ethnic cleansing.”

Again, they chanted, “There is only one solution: intifada, revolution.” “One solution” echoes the Nazis’ “Final Solution to the Jewish problem”: extermination camps. Intifada and revolution — both terms for riots or armed uprisings — are the means by which this chant proposes to achieve its end: the annihilation of all Jews everywhere.

No, the protestors know very well what unthinkable barbarity these chants call for. They share the end of Hamas.

Where is the safe space for Jews?

The utmost irony is that these disgraceful displays of anti-Semitism were sparked by the attack on Israel. When most sovereign nations suffer an unprovoked attack by an international terrorist outfit, they receive universal acknowledgements of sympathy, solidarity, and solace, even from parties who usually maintain a frosty distance. But when Israel was attacked, that outrage provoked not only sympathy for Israel but also expressions of solidarity with those who attacked her — even before Israel had mounted any military response.

This has led some Jews, even non-Zionists, to the inevitable conclusion that Israel’s demise would only result in further attacks on Jews everywhere. “The idea that Jews can be safe anywhere if they’re not secure in Israel has just been shattered,” said foreign policy expert Caroline Glick. “It’s very clear that the security of all Jews everywhere is contingent on Israel defeating our enemies in Israel.”

Under the Biden administration, Israel’s closest and most powerful friend is working overtime to snatch that rightful victory away from them. If that happens, it will lead right back to the question we’ve been asking all along.

Where is the safe space for Jews?

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Joshua Arnold

Joshua Arnold is a senior writer at The Washington Stand.

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Nancy Pelosi Demands Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Resign, Israel should permanently ban her from entering the Holy Land

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Communist bottom feeding parasite Democrat Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) the former Speaker of the House kept her groupies under control in the Congress by forcing them to all wear virgin white outfits. Go figure right? The U.S. Virgin Islands probably should also be renamed just the “Islands” after Bill Clinton’s last visit there.

She, as in comrade Pelosi ran a tight ship and used her large political pectoral muscles adored in the past by her secret lover of 7 years President John F. Kennedy to illegally and unconstitutionally impeach President Trump twice.

Now this screaming harpy who should get royalty payments from the movie “Jason and the Argonauts” is calling on Israel’s brave and honorable Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign.

Don’t forget, Pelosi is part of the Military Industrial Complex and she blaming Netanyahu for blocking a two party state. Who in their right mind wants a terrorist state sitting next to Israel other than Pelosi?

Now Israel has been the land owner of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank plus its other territories since before the birth of Christ. So there is only one Israel with Muslim occupiers and squatters in these locals.

The Gaza Strip is gifted land by Israel to the so called Palestinians so the answer to this problem is to deport these Muslims back to where they originally came from like Iraq, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon.

Nancy Pelosi is the one who needs to resign for being President Kennedy’s alleged longest running mistress starting at age 15 and who was supposedly witnessed tiptoeing into Kennedy’s bedroom as the sun was setting.

She needs to resign for impeaching President Trump twice for no apparent reason other than for making a constitutionally protected phone call to the corrupt President of Ukraine and for telling his supporters to go home peacefully.

His second impeachment was adjudicated by the cockroach Pelosi while Trump was no longer president of the United States. Totally unconstitutional. The only President in history to be impeached from office when he was no longer in office.

She should also resign for her insider trading successes including her husbands investment of millions of dollars in computer-chip stocks while Pelosi and members of Congress were preparing to vote on legislation to subsidize the chip- manufacturing industry.

She should resign for providing aid and comfort to our enemies by voting for and providing them aid and comfort through Sanctuary city policies including the fecal capital of the world, her district San Francisco funded by U.S. citizen tax dollars.

She should resign for refusing to protect the American people by refusing to fund our Border Patrol and the much needed border wall, leaving our borders open and unsafe.

Stay strong folks November 5th 2024 will return a real American with a backbone back to the White House. He will restore global security and will be in office to continue his legacy. Much to the chagrin of Nancy Pelosi.

That man is Donald Trump.

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‘Just a Disaster’: Biden’s Title IX Rule Empowers LGBTQ Movement, Erases Women and Justice

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The Biden administration’s revision of a civil rights statute designed to protect women’s rights in education erases women’s protections, rewrites landmark civil rights legislation to advance the LGBT agenda by federal fiat, and waters down legal standards for those falsely accused of sexual harassment.

The Biden administration obliterates the unique rights intended for women and girls by claiming Title IX’s prohibitions of discrimination against females in education apply to men who identify as women — regardless of their outward appearance — as well as those who identify as homosexual. Its “unofficial final rule,” released on April 19, now claims LGBTQIA+ activists may cite protections intended for women to accuse their fellow students of discrimination based on “sex stereotypes, sex characteristics, pregnancy or related conditions, sexual orientation, and gender identity.”

The term “gender identity” appears 289 times in the 1,577-page document.

The new rule also requires that these “discrimination” allegations only meet the lowest standard of proof, known as the “preponderance of the evidence.” The rule — announced by Catherine Lhamon, the Education Department’s assistant secretary for civil rights — also establishes “equitable grievance procedures.”

“They have completely demolished protections for women,” Meg Kilgannon, senior fellow for Education Studies at Family Research Council, told “Washington Watch” guest host Joseph Backholm last week. “It’s just a disaster.” The new proposed rule “impacts speech. It impacts a free and appropriate education.”

In a comment emailed to The Washington Stand, Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Rachel Rouleau called the new rule “a slap in the face to women and girls who have fought long and hard for equal opportunities.” The Biden administration’s “radical redefinition of sex turns back the clock on equal opportunity for women” and “will have devastating consequences on the future of women’s sports, student privacy, and parental rights.”

The Biden administration’s federal fiat — never approved by legislation — rolls back regulations instituted in May 2020 by then-Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos that reestablished legal norms and standards for those accused of sexual harassment.

Obama administration rules — also drawn up by Lhamon, a former ACLU attorney — allowed college sexual harassment investigations to be carried out by a single investigator, who acted as judge and jury. Vague definitions proscribing any “unwelcome conduct,” whether verbal or “nonverbal,” led school districts to punish students for unwelcome staring.

Under the Trump administration’s revised Title IX rules, anyone accused of sexual harassment on campus enjoyed the presumption of innocence, as in any other legal proceeding. The defendant also had the right to know the charges against him or her, examine all the evidence presented in the proceedings, have an adviser cross-examine any witness’s testimony, and appeal the ruling. The administration had to meet the more robust and normative legal standard of “clear and convincing evidence.”

At the time, Lhamon asserted that the Trump administration’s revised guidelines would make it “permissible to rape and sexually harass students with impunity.” No epidemic of unpunished campus rape followed.

The Biden administration’s new Title IX rule eliminates all these elements, which are standard in other consequential accusations.

“The final regulations restore and strengthen vital protections for students,” Biden’s Department of Education contended in a press release Friday.

All parties seem to acknowledge these rules will supercharge the number of sexual harassment cases on campus after it takes effect on August 1. “This rule is designed to encourage reporting,” a Biden administration official told journalists on a call Thursday.

Newly empowered with looser regulations, activist bureaucrats in the federal government, and on college campuses nationwide, “are going to enforce this rule, and they are going to enforce it aggressively,” predicted Kilgannon. “The Education Department laid down their marker and said, ‘Yes, indeed, you will face a penalty for this.’” States that refuse to implement the strategy will “be losing federal funds for your education programs in your state.”

Since more affluent areas, like the D.C. suburbs, rely more on property taxes to fund their schools, the threat of losing federal education dollars falls heaviest on the most vulnerable students living in underprivileged districts. “It is the poorest places who will be most harmed by this, because they rely the most on federal funding,” Kilgannon added.

To avoid running afoul of an activist bureaucracy’s interpretation of the newly broadened rule, education officials may shut down any speech that could turn into litigation, and threaten federal funding.

“This change reverses decades of progress toward equality, open discourse, due process, and parental rights,” observed the Southeastern Legal Foundation. The new rule will cause students to “self-censor rather than risk being reported for harassment” and “significantly undermines the role of parents — who should be the primary caregivers for their children and who are entitled to raise their children to share certain values and beliefs — by requiring conformity to the federal government’s views on biology and so-called gender identity.”

The regulations drew fire from Congress over these specific concerns. “Evidently, the acceptance of biological reality, and the faithful implementation of the law, are just pills too big for the Department to swallow,” said Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), chair of the House Education and Workforce Committee.

The new regulation pulls off a trifecta of administrative harm, as it “attacks the definition of sex, due-process rights, and free-speech rights,” said Inez Feltscher Stepman, a senior policy analyst at the Independent Women’s Forum.

The regulation also continues the decades-long trend of rewriting legislation through executive action. “Title IX was written in 1972 when ‘sex’ meant male and female, and no amount of interpretive jiujitsu permits a cabinet agency to rewrite the plain language of the law. Efforts to do so have failed repeatedly in Congress for one simple reason: Such an expansion of law is deeply unpopular, with opposition to these changes spanning both political and racial lines,” said Nicole Neily, president of Parents Defending Education, in a comment to TWS. Numerous polls have shown a supermajority of Americans oppose the extending of women’s rights to men, regardless of their self-identity.

“It is grotesque that the White House has chosen to capitulate to extremists in his party, sacrificing the First Amendment” in the process, Neily told TWS.

Women’s rights activists promise not to take the loss of their distinct place in the law lying down. “This is going to be the subject of lawsuits,” Kilgannon told Backholm, citing direct knowledge of multiple civil rights attorneys and organizations. Neiley told TWS explicitly, “This betrayal of students will not soon be forgotten by American parents, and we look forward to suing the administration over this policy soon.” Likewise, Rouleau told TWS that the “Alliance Defending Freedom plans to take action to defend female athletes, as well as school districts, teachers, and students who will be gravely harmed by this unlawful government overreach.”

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Ben Johnson

Ben Johnson is senior reporter and editor at The Washington Stand.

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Ten (10) Ways Science is Being Attacked

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There are more, but this is the condensed version…

Our modern society is 100% based on Science. Without Science, we would revert to Neanderthal (cave-man) status (i.e., lower than third-world country levels).

By and large, the public is unaware that Science has been under an intense assault for several decades now. Citizens are uninformed as the anti-Science agents are subtle in their attacks: they never come out and say that they are trying to undermine Science, they just do it. Further, the Mainstream Media is complicit with their campaign.

A good example is the K-12 Next Generation Science Standards now adopted in 49 states. It says “Next Generation” so what’s the problem? There are many — like the fact that they have scrapped the traditional Scientific Method! I’ve spelled out ten (10) problems with the NGSS in my Report: The Key to Fixing the US K-12 Education System.

A primary driver behind the assault on Science is that many environmental activists want to kill our modern society and revert to an agrarian version (think Bill McKibben). What they are effectively advocating is an idealized society that would be something like the 1800s — live in the country, with an outhouse, cow, chickens, and a few acres to grow vegetables. A horse would provide transportation.

Any practical person would see that such aspirations are fairy dust — but that is (in effect) what the result of a true “Net Zero” policy would be. Oh, and two hundred million plus American citizens would have to be “eliminated” in the process. This is exactly what happens when we substitute political science for real Science.

Put another way, these people hate Science, as it has made what we have today (modernity) possible. Some other reasons they want to kill Science are:

a) They are anti-American. We cannot maintain our lifestyle, or our position of world leadership, without many more competent STEM professionals. Globalists are working here to undermine the competency part, and thus America’s leadership.

b) They want nonsensical policies. Science is a gatekeeper that exposes when political policies on technical matters (COVID, climate, energy, etc.) are nonsense. When Science is diluted, the protection it offers to our country and its citizens is severely diminished.

c) They want citizens to support their nonsensical policies. Citizens need a Science background to be able to intelligently appreciate and apply to their own life, today’s complex technical issues.Regressives do not want Science-educated citizens making informed decisions.

d) Studentsneed some Science background to be able to better understand (and effectively use), the many technical gadgets that have become an integral part of our modern daily life. The Left prefers that students focus on superficial things like social media.

e) Yet another liability of our time, is that more children (minors) are being given the authority to make major medical decisions. I’m opposed to that, but it follows that the more genuine Science education they have received, the better off they will be in deciding about potentially life-changing health matters.

f) Real Science involves polite, open-minded debate about problem-solving. Students need to be taught how to constructively discuss differences of opinion. The Woke mentality disdains discussion and debate.

g) In addition to the K-12 educational basics (3 R’s), we need graduates to be Critically Thinking, problem-solvers. Science is the most appropriate subject area to teach both Critical Thinking and problem-solving. Education opponents are aggressively working to cut those off at the pass

HOW are they assaulting Science? In my well-attended 2012 Congressional talks (sponsored by the House Science and Technology Committee), I discussed fifteen (15) ways Science is being attacked. To keep this condensed, here are ten (10) of them:

  1. Using Consensus to imply Correctness
  2. Using Peer Review to imply Accuracy
  3. Using Scientists to imply Scientificness
  4. Using Computer Models to imply Reality
  5. Using Correlation to imply Causality
  6. Using Selective Data to imply Actuality
  7. Using Precautionary Principle to imply Reasonableness
  8. Using Engineering to Replace Science
  9. Misusing words, like “Theory”
  10. Adjusting the Raw Data, to Support Political or Economic Agendas…

If you prefer soundbites, what is going on here is that the Left is taking advantage of the fact that most citizens are technically challenged, so they are trying to substitute political science for real Science, and are counting on most people not noticing.

Again, all this and more is explained in my Report: The Key to Fixing the US K-12 Education System. For those in a hurry, just read five pages, starting on Page 3.

Currently, 49 States have gone off the rails regarding their K-12 Science Standards! Unless we fix this — quickly — our future will be severely compromised.

Here are other materials by this scientist that you might find interesting:

Check out the Archives of this Critical Thinking substack.

WiseEnergy.org: discusses the Science (or lack thereof) behind our energy options.

C19Science.info: covers the lack of genuine Science behind our COVID-19 policies.

Election-Integrity.info: multiple major reports on the election integrity issue.

Media Balance Newsletter: a free, twice-a-month newsletter that covers what the mainstream media does not do, on issues from COVID to climate, elections to education, renewables to religion, etc. Here are the Newsletter’s 2023 Archives. Please send me an email to get your free copy. When emailing me, please make sure to include your full name and the state where you live. (Of course, you can cancel the Media Balance Newsletter at any time – but why would you?

Cynic

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In the Spring 2024 issue of WWII History magazine is an interview with a veteran whose diary reads: “12:30am attacked by German planes. We were at our guns but did no firing. We only hoped they couldn’t see us in the darkness.” Then he relates: “…[he] despised having to make dozens of pies to feed the crew…. [I] would go to the top of the ship and start flinging off the pie tins.” This man then had the audacity to continue: “I was glad I did my duty…and did it well”.

Some have said, if you are paid, given educational, medical and retirement benefits to do a job you volunteered for, “serving” in the military or as a LEO or firefighter, doesn’t make you a hero and are owed anything other than a thanks.

Back about 1990, the CEO of a Free Food Bank bragged he was paid $100K/year. GoFundMe type projects are great for tax deductions and especially good for the executives of these 501C3s who take their (very generous) cuts off the top and are proud to say, “I was glad I did my duty…and did it well.”

Julius Boreali in Operation Overlord

U.S. Coast Guard veteran Julius Boreali recounts his time aboard an LST during Operation Overlord.

This article appears in: Spring 2024

By Brian Buckwalter

Julius Boreali’s diary entry from May 29, 1944, is different from the more typical “calm sea, sun shining” entries that precede it: 12:30 am attacked by a group of German planes. They blew up a big oil depot. They tried to get it for 3 yrs and finally got it. Killed some American soldiers in barracks. We were at our guns but did no firing. We only hoped they could not see us in the darkness. One plane was shot down.

The attack was a sign of things to come. Boreali and his Coast Guard shipmates were docked in Falmouth, England, making preparations for the largest amphibious landing in history. In a matter of days, they would be starting the 170-mile journey across the English Channel toward Omaha Beach on the coast of Normandy, France.

The son of Italian immigrants, Boreali was born December 15, 1922, and grew up in Howes Cave, New York. In 1942, there was a high potential to be drafted into the Army, so he decided to enlist in the Navy instead. But the day he went to Albany to sign up, the line to join stretched three blocks.

He looked across the street and saw that no one was waiting outside the Coast Guard recruiting office. They took him on the spot, and three days later, he was at their training station in Manhattan Beach, New York.

Next was Wildwood, New Jersey, where he learned to be a baker. That’s also where he learned he would be stationed on a tank landing ship, commonly known as an LST.

It was dangerous duty. “You get on one of those, you’ll never come home,” Boreali recalled someone telling him.

LSTs were 300-foot-long, flat-bottomed ships designed specifically for amphibious landings. They could operate in shallow water, and their bows could open to offload vehicles, tanks and personnel from their giant cargo holds. Boreali said the ships looked like giant floating bathtubs.

Looks aside, LSTs would become a major part of the Allied forces’ ability to push into France and sustain operations to overthrow German forces and end the war in Europe.

Boreali and the rest of the crew on LST-27 learned of their exact role when they read what was posted on the ship’s bulletin boards:

To: ALL HANDS Subject: Coming events. We of the Western Naval Task Force are going to land the American Army in France.

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Screwtape returns with an updated dictionary for woke folks

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In 1942, C.S. Lewis published The Screwtape Letters, in which Screwtape, a devil, mentored his nephew Wormwood on how to manage his patient, so as to serve their common spiritual master. Screwtape advised: “Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church.” “Do remember you are there to fuddle him.”

Wormwood failed in the end and was eaten. 

A recent letter from Screwtape has been intercepted. It is addressed to Dr Slubgob, Principal of the Tempters’ Training College for Young Devils. The text of the new letter follows. 

Dear Dr. Slubgob,

The Supreme Council has been long in hammering out our duties in this hour to Our Father Below. Designs grow more intricate. I trust your pupils’ progress.

In haste I write to ensure your terminology, and your program’s instruction, is current (as of when I write this, April 2024). Herewith a small lexicon showing the true significations for you and the young devils to comprehend and for their patients not to:

Social justice: The subserving of Our Father Below. (By adding “social” to “justice”, we encumber the concern for human society inherent in their word justice.)

Democracy: The interpretation, judgment, and rule of Our Father Below and His votaries, and extending to our institutions, satellites, cut-outs, and other allies.

Populism: Political movements that oppose us, particularly if represented by a popular personality.

Misinformation: Miscreancy (which, as you know, changes monthly, so tell the pupils to stay current). WrongThink.

Disinformation: The witting expressing of miscreancy.

Malinformation: (Under review: we’re reconsidering how and whether to utilise this term, because the “information” deceit is too exposed. Exclude for now from the active vocabulary.)

Fact-checker: One who guards our big lies with auxiliary lies.

X denier: One who differs from our dicta about X.

Y apologist: One who differs from our dicta about a person Y, whom we detest.

An extremist: One who makes plain that he disfavours us.

A fascist: Anyone who disfavours us.

A misogynist: One who disfavours us. Use for males.

A racist: One who disfavours us. Use especially for whites.

A white supremacist: One who disfavours us. Use especially for whites.

A right-winger: One who disfavours us.

Conspiracy theorist: One who is onto us and exposing our secrets.

Diversity: Use while favouring those of diverse ethnicities, races, genders, and sexual orientations who favour us.

Multicultural: Use while celebrating those of diverse ethnicities, races, genders, and sexual orientations who favour us.

Inclusion: The inclusion of those of diverse ethnicities, races, genders, and sexual orientations who favour us, and the excluding of all else.

Equity: Exercising power to favour those who favour us and to disfavour all else.

Hate: Dislike by one of our opponents of something we pretend to respect.

Hate crime: The expressing of such dislike by one of our opponents.

Hater: An opponent who expresses dislike of something we pretend to respect.

Rules-based international order: Geopolitical decision-making conformant to our diktats of late.

Promoting democracy abroad: Our undertaking regime change.

To be clear: Something we say to summon intimidation of our opponents.

The Great Reset: Something we say to convey to our opponents: Knuckle under or we will hurt you.

Build Back Better: Dispossessing our opponents of their stuff.

DEI: Something we say to convey to our opponents: Knuckle under or we will hurt you.

ESG: Something we say to convey to our opponents: Knuckle under or we will hurt you.

Sustainability: To our liking, as opposed to our disliking.

The truth: Our dicta.

Decency: Conforming to our dicta and diktats.

The Constitution: Our agenda.

God Bless America: Oil we sometimes pour on those liable to draw away from the presence of Our Father Below.

Keep an eye out for my next, for terms and significations shall change, as change is one of our best devices. Colleagues here express concern that the significations may be dwindling to such an extent that our verbalisms lose their effect.

The moment is critical, so temporise elsewise — remember our faithfuls, vanity, careerism, bodily pleasure, and confusion — to carry your patient through to what must be our decisive triumph.

Yours truly,

SCREWTAPE

Is this dissection of woke language on point? Leave a comment if you have more for the list.

This article has been republished with permission from the Brownstone Institute.

AUTHOR

DANIEL KLEIN

Daniel Klein is professor of economics and JIN Chair at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where he leads a program in Adam Smith. He is also associate fellow at the Ratio Institute (Stockholm), research fellow at the Independent Institute, and chief editor of Econ Journal Watch.

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Despite Police Pushback, Biden Presses On With Visit To Syracuse After Two Cops Were Just Slain

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President Joe Biden is pressing on with his scheduled trip to Syracuse, New York, despite pushback from law enforcement who are grieving the loss of fellow officers in the line of duty.

Biden is set to travel to the city on Thursday to promote the CHIPS and Science Act and announce a grant delivered by the legislation, according to CNY Central News. The president opted not to delay the trip following the loss Syracuse Police Officer Michael Jensen and Onondaga County Lt. Sheriff’s Deputy Michael Hoosock in the line of duty on April 14 during a shootout.

Because officers are still grieving the loss, local law enforcement expressed worry to the White House over the timing of the trip, Jeff Moran, the president of the Syracuse Police Benevolent Association, the union representing the city’s officers, told the Daily Caller.

“The department expressed their concerns to the Biden administration regarding his visit, and the quick turnaround of a Syracuse police officer being buried and an Onondaga County Sheriff’s deputy being buried, and then the manpower that it would take and everything that our members have been through in the past week. Those concerns were expressed to the Biden administration and the Biden administration elected to move forward with the visit,” Moran told the Daily Caller.

The Syracuse Police Department told the Daily Caller that while they never asked for the White House to postpone the trip, they did express concerns about their ability to handle the president’s visit amid the loss of two officers.

‘The Syracuse Police Department did not request that President Biden postpone his visit to Syracuse. We did, however, in early conversations with the Secret Service, express our concern about SPD’s capacity to adequately cover this detail, as we were grieving the loss of two fallen officers—Syracuse Police Officer Michael Jensen and Onondaga County Sheriff Deputy Lt. Michael Hoosock—and planning their services,” Syracuse Police Department Chief Joseph Cecile told the Daily Caller in a statement.

Local law enforcement officials had told CNY Central News that they hoped the trip would be delayed in order to give them time to grieve and recover from the loss of their officers. The officers told the outlet that they had not had time to mourn the loss while also having to plan the funerals for the fallen officers.

Republican New York Rep. Brandon Williams expressed his concerns to the president about the trip on Monday in a letter obtained by the Daily Caller.

“In light of these tragic events, we are hearing from local law enforcement officers that personnel are still recovering from this tragedy and grieving their fallen brothers. I echo their request that you postpone this week’s speaking engagement in Central New York,” Williams wrote.

“I would be happy to join you in announcing this critical funding at a later date—it is worth celebrating. Mr. President, I ask you to heed the calls of local law enforcement and postpone it to a later date,” he continued.

Several New York congresswomen echoed Williams’ sentiments in Monday tweets.

“I stand with our local Police officers in asking Joe Biden to postpone his poorly timed visit to Upstate New York in the best interest of our brave and hardworking law enforcement officers who are already facing additional strains following the death of two beloved officers only days ago. Our Upstate New York law enforcement deserves our full support from every level of government,” Republican New York Rep. Elise Stefanik tweeted.

“The courageous men and women of [Syracuse Police] and the Onondaga Sheriff’s office should not be burdened by the President’s visit after last Sunday’s tragedy. I fully support our law enforcement, and stand with them in opposition to this misguided and cruel move by the Biden Administration,” Republican New York Rep. Claudia Tenney said in a tweet.

Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh’s office told the Daily Caller that they did not make a request to the White House to delay the trip, though he did ask Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to provide the state’s police force to assist with the visit, and the request was granted.

“President Biden will travel to Syracuse, New York to discuss how the CHIPS and Science Act and his Investing in America agenda are creating jobs and opportunity in communities across the country,” an administration official told the Daily Caller.

Moran expressed concern over the amount of police presence the president’s trip will require and the strain it will put on the grieving officers.

“We’ll have to wait to see how many volunteers actually sign up for the detail but at this point in time, we still have members out on administrative leave because of the critical incident and our protocol,” Moran told the Daily Caller. “I just, I can’t emphasize enough, I mean, we’re crushed. We’re heartbroken. The result of the loss of Officer retention. And now we’re being told that we have to fill President Biden’s detail.”

AUTHOR

REAGAN REESE

White House correspondent.

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The Republican In Name Only Socialists Just refilled the Corrupt Ukrainian government Pensions

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The do nothing Socialist Republican Party continued its reckless spending of our hard earned tax money by handing the corrupt Ukrainian government $69.84 billion dollars. This means the Ukrainian government officials will still be able to take their vacations to Italy and Greece this summer and get their pension funds refilled. Also the Ukrainian fire department and basket weaving grandmothers will also get paid.

Does anyone know what happened to all the past tax payer money our republican socialist and communist democrat party gave to Zelensky the president of Ukraine? A man who has blocked new future elections in Ukraine which is on par with the communist dictatorships of Cuba and Venezuela.

What’s interesting is that our own government contractors like Lockheed Martin and others only received $23 billion to restock our republic’s weapons for self defense. So House Speaker Johnson and his pal Comrade Joe Marxist Biden continue to put Ukraine “first” and America “last”.

This is the norm for the worthless fraud republicans working with their communist democrat pals in congress. Inflation will never get under control with these low IQ cockroaches running the republic. Which means the value of my house will continue to rise exponentially. Which is good for me but not for our economy.

As an after thought note – The U.S. Army is requesting $185.9 billion for fiscal year 2025 budget request an increase by a dismal $400 million. Not that the Army needs the money considering nobody is joining the ranks of this once powerful patriotic branch of the armed forces.

Patriotic Americans who once considered a military career do not want to take showers with guys who think they are women playing soldier, nobody is interested in the woke indoctrination, even our Space Force is led by a guy wearing a thong and red lipstick.

Americans are also sick and tired of watching the dismantling of history with the renaming of army bases. Even our powerful diesel tanks are being converted into green new deal battery powered shells so we don’t pollute the air of our enemies.

The Republican party has pretty much dissolved into an abyss of Socialist ideology by refusing to block all this garbage as they wander far off the conservative path thumbing their noses at their constituents who elected them.

The real grass root conservative republicans are hard working Americans that have been stabbed in the back multiple times by these scum liberal Republican in Name Only socialists.

Rep. Mike Gallagher has just quit Congress. His final act was to vote in support of giving our hard earned tax dollars to the corrupt Ukrainian government. Good riddance to him.

Rep. Jake LaTurner, R-Kan., has also announced that he will not seek re-election this fall. Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, announced in October 2023 she would not seek re-election. She has been collecting a tax payer paycheck since 1997. A career politician indeed.

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash, who chairs the Energy and Commerce Committee and has served for nearly 20 years, she announced in February 2024 she would not run for another term. Lastly Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., chairman of the House Financial Services Committee has thrown in the towel.

So the fake news media will no doubt announce the republicans are losing their grip on power by a thin margin when in all reality nothing has changed in the arrangement of the deck chairs on the Titanic. There is no ideological difference between the Republican and Democrat members of Congress. So losing republicans changes nothing. The Communist agenda continues to advance.

I estimate during my 40 year affiliation with the GOP before terminating my R to the Conservative Party of Florida I spent over $250,000 of my own money helping republicans get elected plus I helped raise over a million dollars with my political affiliations in Texas and Montana during the Bush year’s and thereafter after.

My hard work got me some nice invitations such as breakfast in the White House with the Bush administration folks. It was a nice experience to meet Condoleezza Rice but looking back all I did was help advance the socialist destruction of our republic.

Not anymore. We can make a difference though by electing Trump in November 2024. If you want to secure our republic and give Trump the authority to veto all the crap expenditures being pumped out of the Congress vote Trump. Stay strong patriots.

©2024. Geoff Ross. All rights reserved.

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