At the University of Wisconsin-Madison this week, Fox News contributor and Second Amendment advocate Katie Pavlich faced a new brand of protest from liberal campus activists—sex objects.
Katie Pavlich thinks that you can murder campus sexual assault away. Young Americans for Freedom thinks that her presence on campus is necessary to defend free speech.
Therefore, Cocks Not Glocks: UW Madison will be gathering during Pavlich’s speech to create and present dick art that has ZERO literary, artistic, political, educational, or scientific value. You know, for free speech.
In order to participate, the event page encouraged students to “tie that dildo to your backpack and wear it proudly to class every day.”
If people think taking loaded guns to class is socially acceptable, harmless vibrating toys should be too.
Although Pavlich’s speech, hosted by the Young Americans for Freedom chapter at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, went smoothly on Tuesday, students did come out to demonstrate using these profanities.
For this reason, this week’s edition of “Problematic Women” is honoring Pavlich as our “Problematic Woman of the Week.” In this show, co-hosted with Bre Payton of The Federalist, we show clips of the protest Pavlich faced, discuss the hypocrisy of liberal Hollywood, and the Boy Scouts of America deciding to welcome young girls into its programs.
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For over 240 years, our elected representatives to the federal government have begun their public duties with prayer. When a session of the House of Representatives is opened, a prayer seeking God’s guidance is offered. Among other things, this is a reflection of the faith of many people across America who themselves seek His guidance in their lives.Nevertheless, there are always those who just can’t stand the idea of Americans, especially leaders, acknowledging their dependence upon God.
The Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) perpetuates its existence by trying to stamp out the very recognition of God’s existence from across our land, much as — quite sadly — communist governments tried to wipe out the church from public life during the last century.
The FFRF has challenged public monuments, prayer, and virtually any public recognition of religion. Like most on the Left, FFRF engages in bullying tactics threatening to haul the “offenders” into court for their “unconstitutional” activities. Unfortunately, too many school districts and city and town councils hand over their milk money to the bullies and capitulate.
When FFRF actually does sue, a very high percentage of their cases are simply dismissed. However, they occasionally find a sympathetic ear (just several days ago, a quite radical federal judge in Wisconsin ruled in favor of the group’s claim challenging housing allowances for pastors). After failing so many times, the FFRF is now trying a new tactic, with founder Dan Barker (who has publicly proclaimed his atheism but maintains ministerial credentials) applying to the U.S. House of Representatives chaplain to be able to lead a prayer.
His application was rejected, and he sued, claiming the practice of House prayer was in violation of the Supreme Court’s decision in Town of Greece v. Galloway (which had ruled permitting ministers to pray before legislative gatherings was constitutional).
Thankfully, Judge Rosemary Collyer from the D.C. District Court wasn’t too eager to go along. She rejected FFRF’s claims, holding that Barker could not piggyback on Town of Greece to demand that the House allow a “prayer” to what or whoever he wanted: “[C]ontrary to Mr. Barker’s hopeful interpretation, Town of Greece did not reference atheists — who are, by definition, nontheists who do not believe in God or gods — but ‘any minister or layman who wished to give [a prayer].'”
The interpretation of the Establishment Clause in this and other cases simply doesn’t require what Barker demanded. Sanity has prevailed — for now.
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), who was named a defendant in Barker’s suit, praised the ruling and observed:
“Since the first session of the Continental Congress, our nation’s legislature has opened with a prayer to God. Today, that tradition was upheld and the freedom to exercise religion was vindicated. The court rightfully dismissed the claims of an atheist that he had the right to deliver a secular invocation in place of the opening prayer.” He concluded: “I am grateful that the People’s House can continue to begin its work each day as we have for centuries: taking a moment to pray to God.”
Tony Perkins’ Washington Update is written with the aid of FRC senior writers.
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“America needs a national awakening to be aware of the growing number of public schools that are attempting to convert children to Islam and turn them into evangelists for the Islamic faith”
Watch the Premiere of “Islam in Our Schools”
The live stream of the premiere was a success! If you missed it live you can still watch the video of the event including an excellent question and answer session with me and Ryan Mauro.
Plus, an additional SURPRISE guest joins in and gives some great insight to the increasing issue of…. “Islam in Our Schools”
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There has been much discussion about how blacks are being targeted and shot by police. The narrative is that “white privilege” has kept Caucasians out of prison, while others are arrested just because they are black or Hispanic. Let’s look at two sets of data for 2016:
The racial breakdown of America and;
The breakdown of arrests in America by race and age.
Perhaps this will paint a clearer picture for readers about differences in arrests by race and age.
The U.S. Census Bureau estimate of the racial breakdown of America in 2016 is depicted in the below chart:
Race and Hispanic Origin
White alone, percent, July 1, 2016, (V2016)
76.9%
Black or African American alone, percent, July 1, 2016, (V2016)
13.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native alone, percent, July 1, 2016, (V2016)
1.3%
Asian alone, percent, July 1, 2016, (V2016)
5.7%
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone, percent, July 1, 2016, (V2016)
0.2%
Two or More Races, percent, July 1, 2016, (V2016)
2.6%
Hispanic or Latino, percent, July 1, 2016, (V2016)
17.8%
White alone, not Hispanic or Latino, percent, July 1, 2016, (V2016)
In 2016, 69.6 percent of all individuals arrested were White, 26.9 percent were Black or African American, and 3.6 percent were of other races.
Of arrestees for whom ethnicity was reported, 18.4 percent were Hispanic.
Of all juveniles (persons under the age of 18) arrested in 2016, 62.1 percent were White, 34.7 percent were Black or African American, and 3.2 percent were of other races.
Of juvenile arrestees for whom ethnicity was reported, 22.8 percent were Hispanic.
Of all adults arrested in 2016, 70.2 percent were White, 26.2 percent were Black or African American, and 3.6 percent were of other races.
Of adult arrestees for whom ethnicity was reported, 18.0 were Hispanic.
White individuals were arrested more often for violent crimes than individuals of any other race and accounted for 59.0 percent of those arrests.
Of adults arrested for murder, 52.0 percent were Black or African American, 45.4 percent were White, and 2.6 percent were of other races.
Black or African American juveniles comprised 52.0 percent of all juveniles arrested for violent crimes. White juveniles accounted for 58.4 percent of all juveniles arrested for property crimes.
Of juveniles arrested for drug abuse violations, 74.8 percent were White.
White juveniles comprised 64.7 percent of juveniles arrested for rape and 60.2 percent of juveniles arrested for larceny-theft.
In 2016, 92.0 percent of all individuals arrested were adults (18 years of age and over). Adults comprised 89.9 percent of all persons arrested for violent crimes and 86.4 percent of persons arrested for property crimes.
Adults accounted for 93.7 percent of persons arrested for drug abuse violations.
In 2016, 25.9 percent of persons arrested for arson were juveniles. More than half of those juveniles (57.4 percent) were under the age of 15.
Persons between the ages of 25 and 29 accounted for 17.1 percent of all arrestees in 2016.
When comparing these data sets the following stand out about “adult” arrests:
Whites are by far the largest group arrested for crimes (70.2%).
The total percentage of whites arrested for crimes (70.2%) is less than the percentage of “white alone” population (76.9%) but greater than the “White alone, not Hispanic or Latino” population ( 61.3%).
Whites comprise the largest race arrested for violent crimes (59.0%).
Black/African American arrests (26.9%) was just over twice the “Black or African American alone” population (13.3%).
Of those arrested for murder 52.0% were “Black or African American” or nearly four times higher than their population (13.3%).
When comparing these data sets the following stand out about “juvenile” arrests:
Of all juveniles (persons under the age of 18) arrested in 2016, 62.1 percent were White, 34.7 percent were Black or African American, and 3.2 percent were of other races.
Black or African American juveniles comprised 52.0 percent of all juveniles arrested for violent crimes.
White juveniles accounted for 58.4 percent of all juveniles arrested for property crimes.
Of juveniles arrested for drug abuse violations, 74.8 percent were White.
White juveniles comprised 64.7 percent of juveniles arrested for rape and 60.2 percent of juveniles arrested for larceny-theft.
As a law enforcement agency, given these data points, profiling criminals is a must.
To reduce “violent” crimes law enforcement would focus primarily on adult whites of which 89.9% were arrested. To prevent property/larceny-theft the focus would be on white adults first and white juveniles second. To stop drug abuse law enforcement would target the 93.7% of white adults and 74.8% of white juveniles. To reduce rape and arson juveniles would need to be profiled.
While black/African American juveniles arrested for violent crimes (52.0%) is high for their population, it is not indicative of the need for great police concern as juveniles (age 18 and younger) of all races only 8% (half black and half white) were arrested for committing a crime.
A law enforcement model must look at the profile of those who do the crime, if the police, given limited resources, are to be effective in reducing crime.
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Cue the funeral bagpipes. My fourth health insurance plan is dead.
Two weeks ago, my husband and I received yet another cancellation notice for our private, individual health insurance coverage. It’s our fourth Obamacare-induced obituary in four years.
Our first death notice, from Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, arrived in the fall of 2013. The insurer informed us that because of “changes from health care reform (also called the Affordable Care Act or ACA),” our plan no longer met the federal government’s requirements.
Never mind our needs and desires as consumers who were quite satisfied with a high-deductible preferred provider organization that included a wide network of doctors for ourselves and our two children.
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Our second death knell, from Rocky Mountain Health Plans, tolled in August 2015. That notice signaled the end of a plan we didn’t want in the first place that didn’t cover our kids’ dental care and wasn’t accepted at our local urgent care clinic.
The insurer pulled out of the individual market in all but one county in Colorado, following the complete withdrawal from that sector by Humana and UnitedHealthcare.
Our third “notice of plan discontinuation,” again from Anthem, informed us that the insurer would “no longer offer your current health plan in the state of Colorado” in August 2016.
With fewer and fewer choices as know-it-all Obamacare bureaucrats decimated the individual market here and across the country, we enrolled in a high-deductible Bronze HSA EPO (Health Savings Account Exclusive Provider Organization) offered by Minneapolis-based startup Bright Health.
Now, here we are barely a year later: Deja screwed times four. Our current plan will be discontinued on Jan. 1, 2018.
“But don’t worry,” Bright Health’s eulogy writer chirped, “we have similar plans to address your needs.”
Riiiiight. Where have I heard those pie-in-the-sky promises before? Oh, yeah. Straight out of the socialized medicine Trojan horse’s mouth.
“If you like your doctor,” President Barack Obama promised, “you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what.”
Is pathological lying covered under the Affordable Care Act?
Speaking of Affordable Care Act whoppers, so much for “affordable.” Our current deductible is $6,550 per person—$13,100 for our family of four. Assuming we can find a new plan at the bottom of the individual market barrel, our current monthly premium, $944.86, will rise to more than $1,300 a month.
“What’s taking place is a market correction; the free market is at work,” says Colorado’s state insurance commissioner, Marguerite Salazar. “[T]his could be an indication that there were too many options for the market to support.”
This presumptuous central planner called federal intervention to eliminate “too many” options for consumers the free market at work. Yes, friends, the Rocky Mountain High is real.
This isn’t a “market correction.” It’s a government catastrophe.
Premiums for individual health plans in Virginia are set to skyrocket nearly 60 percent in 2018. In New Hampshire, those rates will rise 52 percent.
In South Carolina, individual market consumers will face an average 31.3 percent hike. In Tennessee, they’ll see rates jump between 20-40 percent.
Private, flexible preferred provider organizations for self-sufficient, self-employed people are vanishing by design. The social-engineered future—healthy, full-paying consumers being herded into government-run Obamacare exchanges and severely regulated regional health maintenance organizations—is a bipartisan big government health bureaucracy’s dream come true.
These choice-wreckers had the arrogant audacity to denigrate our pre-Obamacare plans as “substandard” (Obama), “crappy” (MSNBC big mouth Ed Schultz), and “junk policies” (Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa).
When I first called attention to the cancellation notice tsunami in 2013, liberal Mother Jones magazine sneered that the phenomenon was “phony.” And they’re still denying the Obamacare death spiral. Liberal Vox Media recently called the crisis “a lie.”
I don’t have enough four-letter words for these propagandists. There are an estimated 450,000 consumers like us in Colorado and 17 million of us nationwide—small business owners, independent contractors, and others who don’t get their plans through group coverage, big companies, or government employers.
The costs, headaches, and disruption in our lives caused by Obamacare’s meddling meddlers are real and massive.
But we’re puzzles to corporate media journalists who’ve never had to meet a payroll and don’t even know what is the individual market.
We’re invisible to late night TV clowns who get their Obamacare-at-all-costs talking points from Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
We’re pariahs to social justice health care activists and Democrats who want us to just shut up and subsidize everyone else’s insurance.
And we’re expendables to establishment Republicans who hoovered up campaign donations on the empty promise to repeal Obamacare—and now consider amnesty for immigrants here illegally and gun control higher legislative priorities than keeping their damned word.
We’re the canaries in the Obamacare coal mine. Ignore us at your peril, America. You’re next.
Michelle Malkin is the senior editor of Conservative Review. She is a New York Times best-selling author and a FOX News Channel contributor. Twitter: @michellemalkin
Trust in the mainstream media is at a historic low—and rightfully so given the behavior of many journalists in Washington, D.C.
Ever since Donald Trump was elected president, it is painfully clear that the mainstream media covers liberals glowingly and conservatives critically.
Now journalists spread false, negative rumors about President Trump before any evidence is even produced.
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The gay owner of a coffee shop in Seattle kicked a group of Christians out of his coffee shop Sunday after declaring in obscene terms that he would like to sodomize Jesus Christ.
The owner heatedly tells the Christians to leave his shop immediately in a video posted to Facebook by Abolish Human Abortion, a Christian group seeking to end the practice of abortion.
“I’m gay, you have to leave,” the owner tells the group. “This is offensive to me. I own the place. I have the right to be offended.”
The group tried to explain that they hadn’t placed any in the shop, but the owner repeatedly told them to”shut up.”
“There’s nothing you can say. This is you and I don’t want these people in this place,” the owner says. The group asks why he can’t tolerate their presence, prompting the owner to ask them if they would watch him have sex with his boyfriend.
“Can you tolerate my presence? Really? If I go get my boyfriend and f— him in the a– right here you’re going to tolerate that? Are you going to tolerate it?” the owner asked. “Answer my f—ing question! No, you’re going to sit right here and f—ing watch it! Leave all of you! Tell all your f—ing friends don’t come here!”
The group gets up to leave, as one woman among them says, “just know that Christ can save you from that lifestyle.”
“Yeah, I like a–. I’m not going to be saved by anything. I’d f— Christ in the a–. Okay? He’s hot,” he said.
According to The Liberator, the Christian group had been handing out pamphlets to Seattle locals on abortion, sin and the Bible. The group entered Bedlam Coffee to take a break and drink coffee when a barista went upstairs to tell the owner that the group was there.
“They had good coffee,” Caytie Davis, a group member, said. “It’s just too bad the service sucked.”
Presidents Trump and el-Sisi have completely confounded me these last few days. Somehow Fatah and HAMAS, two terrorist organizations, by uniting, will create one viable Peace Partner for Israel.
Additionally, the elusive Peace between Israel & the “Palestinians” would bring Peace to the Middle East, despite 1,400 years of sectarian violence.
EDITORS NOTE: The featured image is of Mahmoud Abbas, leader of the PLO, less than a day after three Israelis were murdered while guarding the Jerusalem suburb of Har Adar, honoring their killer as a “holy martyr.”
It’s still amazing that acting in the interests of national security would be remotely controversial. There are two choices: keep out some harmless people or let in some harmful people. For years, Democratic and Republican governments have opted for the latter and claimed that to make the other choice was racist, bigoted and “Islamophobic.” Trump has grasped the nettle and chosen it anyway, and is being duly smeared. Future free people, if there are any, will look at the battles he had to fight to protect the American people from jihad terror and marvel at the insanity of our age.
“Supreme Court tosses one of two travel ban challenges,” by Lawrence Hurley, Reuters, October 11, 2017:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out an appeals court ruling that struck down President Donald Trump’s previous temporary travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority nations countries that has now expired.
In a one-page order, the court acted in one of two cases pending before the nine justices over Trump’s travel ban, a case from Maryland brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, which sued to stop the ban contained in a March executive order.
For now, the court did not act on a separate challenge brought by the state of Hawaii, which the court had also agreed to hear. That case also features a challenge to a separate 120-day refugee ban, which has not yet expired.
That case could yet be dismissed once the refugee ban expires on Oct. 24, meaning the court remains unlikely to issue a final ruling on whether the ban was lawful.
The justices were unanimous in deciding against ruling in the Maryland case, although one of the liberal justices, Sonia Sotomayor, noted that she would not have wiped out the appeals court ruling.
The justices had been scheduled to hear arguments in the case on Tuesday, but removed it from their calendar after Trump’s 90-day ban expired on Sept. 24 and was replaced with a reworked ban.
The expired ban had targeted people from Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia and Sudan. The new open-ended ban, scheduled to take effect on Oct. 18, removed Sudan from the list while blocking people from Chad and North Korea and certain government officials from Venezuela from entering the United States….
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Clemente Lisi: Diversity of thought would go a long way in improving newsrooms and the stories they produce, especially about religion.
In an era of fake “news,” readers are bombarded each day with stories – most of them legitimate, but sometimes totally made up – and fueled by social media. The newsgathering process, the method by which journalists report the news and editors determine the value of stories, has increasingly become a bone of contention.
Readers no longer blindly accept accounts in the morning papers or continuously streamed on Twitter feeds. Sloppy errors, perceived biases, and last year’s presidential election all helped feed into the narrative that the mainstream press is out of touch with everyday Americans. Indeed, the Internet has become both an opportunity for journalists, but increasingly also a challenge.
Newsrooms, from my experience, lack diversity. While diversity in the job market is the aim of all companies, no other industry needs it more than journalism. Newsroom diversity leads to big ideas, better debates, and improved news coverage. The problem? Diversity is often seen as having to do with either race or gender. Are there enough African Americans on staff? Should we hire another woman? These are all questions media companies grapple with behind closed doors every time there’s a job opening.
What employers never lose sleep over (or even talk about) is whether there are enough devout Catholics in their newsroom or if they need to hire a person of faith – any faith – to report on what’s going on in the world and in the community. Believing in God is taboo in the newsroom.
To say there is a religious blind spot in hiring is a gross understatement. But it make a big difference in the way important issues such as abortion and gay marriage are covered by media outlets such as The New York Times and The Washington Post. Media coverage can sway public opinion and help determine laws and policy. It impacts social mores and it’s being done largely without people of faith in key positions.
There is no more secular setting than in a newsroom. Liberal bias does exist in the media, but most journalists don’t see it. You can’t see bias when everyone around you thinks and feels the same way.
Clemente Lisi, a new contributor to The Catholic Thing, is an Assistant Professor of Journalism at The King’s College in New York City. He has nearly twenty years experience as both a reporter and editor at media institutions such as the New York Post, ABC News, and the New York Daily News.
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The Patriotic Democrat Party of President Truman, President Kennedy, and President Johnson was radicalized over the last 8 years, by the Obama administration, and Nazi Collaborator George Soros. The below listed article by Historian, Charles Sasser, outlines the policies and leadership of the new Democratic Party. America is under siege from within, the two new leaders’ of the Democratic Party plan to work with Socialists, Marxists, and Communists to subvert the U.S. Constitutional form of government, working from “inside the wire”, as described below and with the support of the traitors to the Republic listed in this oped.
The plan is being promoted by the Organization For Action (OFA), and is being funded by Nazi Collaborator Soros’ Tides Foundation, to fundamentally change the nation that was established by the Founding Fathers. The goal is to change the USA to a one party, Socialist State; Socialism throughout history has been Marxist inspired. Americans should not be surprised by Obama’s continuing effort to change America’s Republican form of government to Socialist State. The Democrat Party and the left of center liberal media establishment carefully hid Obama’s radical Marxist background from the American voters for 8 year.
In his youth, Obama was mentored “every day” after school in the home of the Anti-American Secretary of the Communist Party USA, Frank Marshal Davis. Obama developed close ties with Anti-Jewish former PLO Spokesman, Rashid Ismail Khalidi. Obama maintained close ties with the Anti-American domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, his wife, convicted terrorist, Bernadine Dorn, and began his political career at a fund raiser in their living room. Convicted felon, Tony Rezko, with close ties with the mafia, used mirrors to acquire Obama’s Chicago home. For 20 years, Obama sat thru the hateful Anti-American sermons by his spiritual mentor, Anti-American preacher Jeremiah Wright. Obama became a devout disciple and advocate of the Radical Anti-American Marxist, Saul Alinsky, and used his book, “Rules For Radicals”, as his text while indoctrinating radicals leftist thugs who demonstrated in Chicago.
Two new radical leaders of the Democratic National Committee, Keith Ellison and Tom Perez were hand-picked by Obama with the support of Nazi Collaborator George Soros. They took control of the Democratic Party from moderates and Blue Dog Democrats, and moved it radically left. George Soros, Bill Ayers, Andy Zee, Bernie Sanders, Al Sharpton, Valerie Jarrett, Bob Avakian, Obama, and Hillary Clinton supported the radical movement left.
The Democratic Party policies have shifted its support to Socialist, Marxist, Radical Black Nationalist Groups, the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR. Perez and Ellison have been supporting anarchist rallies, demonstration, and violent street riots that have been taking place nationally, since President Trump was inaugurated.
OFA, Soros, Ellison, and Perez are promoting the openly vicious “Trump Resistance Movement”, while employing the domestic terrorist organization, ANITFA as its violent foot soldiers, to execute Saul Alinsky’s Marxist policies in 400 planned street demonstrations in 2017.
The vicious “Trump Resistance Movement” is the beneficiary of an anti-Trump hostile left of center liberal media establishment. The “Trump Resistance Movement” goal is to disenfranchise 64 million Trump voters. For one year, with no proof, they have alleged that President Trump colluded with Russia to defeat Hillary, in order to destabilize and delegitimize the Trump administration. OFA has been focused on bringing down a duly elected President of the United States for the first time in 242 years.
Organizations funding the “Trump Resistance Movement” are Nazi Sympathizer George Soros’ pro-Communist MoveOn.org, Obama’s “Organization For Action” (OFA), Hillary Clinton’s “Onward Together” (OT), the ANTIFA Terrorists group (OT gave ANTIFA $800,000), Color of Change (the group planning to destroy 350+ Confederate statues in the US), Indivisible (the group working against Congressmen who support President Trump), By Any Means Necessary (BAMN), Bill Ayer’s Marxist Weatherman Underground Anarchist group, Ultra Violet (a women’s radical leftist group), Act Blue, The Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR, The Advocate Fund, The World Worker’s Party(a hard corps Marxist-Leninist Group that rioted with AN TIFA in Charlottesville), and The Communist Industrial Workers of The World (the Chicago based Marxist, Anarchist, and Socialist Organization).
The foundations funding the “Trump Resistance Movement” are The Ford Foundation ($2.35 million), WK Kellogg Foundation ($3 million), The Bauman Foundation, Nazi Sympathizer George Soros’ pro-Communist Open Society Foundation ($1.75 million to ANTIFA The Center for Community Change Action), Nazi Collaborator George Soros’ pro-Communist Tides Foundations, California Endowment ($524,000), New Media Venture, Philah Thropy Project, Propel Capital, The Public Welfare Foundation, The Compton Foundation, The Arkay Foundation, and the Emergent Fund (funded by the 3 leftist groups—the Threshold Foundation, the Solidarity Network, and The Women’s Donor Network).
Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison, the newly elected Deputy Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, is anti-Semitic, pro-Muslim Brotherhood, and pro-Nation of Islam. As a Muslim, Ellison believes in Shariah Law, and stated that he does not respect or believe in the US Constitution, “because its wordings were inspired by the Bible”. Ellison, is a member of the Nation of Islam, has worked very closely with Louis Farrakhan for many years; Farrakhan is the rabid anti-Semitic and anti-white leader of the Nation of Islam. Ellison has been intertwined with CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood for over 10 years, the Muslim Brotherhood paid for Ellison’ pilgrimage to Mecca in 2008.
Ellison declared himself a supporter, ally, and defender of Communist Terrorists. He organized a fundraisings event for Communist terrorist, Sara Jane Olson, a member of the Communist movement Symbiotic Liberation Army. Ellison defends Joanne Chesimard, also known as Assata Shakur, who is wanted by the FBI for murdering a police officer; and is currently opposing extradition from her safe haven in Communist Cuba. Ellison has been close to the Communist Party USA for many years – even holding a fundraiser in the home of Minnesota Communist Party Chairman, Erwin Marquit. Ellison has even written articles for the Communist Party Web site, and when President George W. Bush was in office, Ellison compared him to Adolf Hitler.
The Radical Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Tom Perez, was Obama’s extreme radical left Secretary of Labor. Tom Perez was a longtime leader of CASA de Maryland, a militant leftist “immigrant’s rights group”. When Perez was the leader of CASA, Hugo Chavez, the Communist President of Venezuela, was sending him one million dollars a year, from Venezuela’s oil revenue; Chavez directed Perez to use the funds to keep the Southern border of the US wide open.
Perez has a long history of anti-white views, including making the declaration that “white people should not be entitled to protection under the Voting Rights Act.”
Perez previously served as the Assistant Attorney General under Attorney General, Eric Holder, and supported Holder’s repeated verbal and policy degradations of the US Constitution. He supported Holder’s execution of the “Fast and Furious Operation” scandal, and supported Holder’s prevention of the investigation of rampant voter fraud during the two national election during which Obama was elected. Those actions by Holder, led Congress to vote Holder “In Contempt of Congress”. Holder was the first Attorney General in 240 years to be voted “In Contempt of Congress”.
Ambassador Valladares, the former US Ambassador to the United Nations on Human Rights, stated Perez is a racist who hates the Bible, and that he is anti-Semitic as well. He said Perez’s goals have been to destroy the free market economy of the United States, to destroy the Christian society of the United States, and to turn the United States into a Marxist nation. Ambassador Valladares further stated, about Perez and Ellison, that: “The two new leaders of the Democratic National Committee are both racist, anti-Semitic, who ignore the Constitution, and the history of America.
Ambassador Valladares sad both of them have been and are allies of terrorist movements; they have shared the hatred for the United States, and its laws. They complement each other in their hatred of the Bible, they wish to sweep away this American society, with ideological mobs, terrorists, Communists, Radical Muslims, and the scum of the country whose goal it is to destroy it (the Republic). They joined the ranks of the Democratic Party, and with the complicit silence of the (former) leaders of the it (the Democratic Party), they took possession of it (the Democratic Party).”(April 25, 2017 by Frank de Varona – Bear Witness Central).
The corrupt left of center liberal media establishment continues to cover up the backgrounds of Keith Ellison and Tom Perez, the two new Radical Pro-Muslim Brotherhood, Marxist leaders of the Democrat National Committee. Millions of Americans have no idea just how radical, anti-Semitic, pro-Muslim Brotherhood, and pro-Marxist, Keith Ellison and Tom Perez are. Perez and Ellison are following the radical Marxist philosophy of Saul Alinsky.
Obama and Hillary are long time disciples of Saul Alinsky. Hillary wrote her senior thesis in support of Alinsky’s radical Marxist philosophy as outlined in his book, “Rules For Radicals”; it is a book of pure evil, and Alinsky dedicated the book to Lucifer. Hillary worked very closely with Alinsky during and after college. Obama taught Community Organizing in Chicago using “Rules For Radicals” as his playbook, while training radical leftists and Marxists in his classes to demonstrate in the streets of Chicago in front of commercial banks; they were very successful in extorting money from the banks. “Rules For Radical” was the play book for the Obama administration for 8 years, and is now it’s the playbook for OFA.
OFA operates out of 250 offices across the nation, with 32,525 members, say they have 5 million volunteers, and have 14 field organizers. OFA is operating with a growing war chest of $40+ million, and is receiving additional massive funding from Nazi Collaborator Soros’ pro-Communist “Open Society Foundation”, Soros’ “MoveOn.org”, and Soros’ “Tides Foundation”.
OFA has developed an on-line Anti-Trump Training Program, and runs a 6 week Anti-Trump Fellowship Program(there are over 1000 graduates of the Anti-Trump Training Program, with hundreds of new enrollees being trained). OFA is leading the mobilization and coordination of the “Trump Resistance Movement”. From January 20, 2017 to December 31, 2017, OFA scheduled 400 street demonstrations, in 42 states.
OFA has been organizing and coordinating 400 demonstrations in 42 states with the below listed leftist groups, while employing ANTIFA Terrorist as their violent foot soldiers. The leftist groups include the Communist Party USA (who endorsed both Obama and Hillary for President), the Marxist Leninist Communist Workers Party Front “ANSWER”, the Revolutionary Communist Party, The Communist Party’s “Progressive Unity Fund”, the Communist World Workers Party, the Communist Industrial Workers of the World, Bill Ayer’s Marxist Weather Underground anarchists, Black Lives Matter, the New Black Panther Party, Al Sharpton’s “National Action Network”, Socialists, Progressives (the new age name Communists have labeled themselves as, to mislead Americans as to their true identity), The World Worker’s Party, Color of Change, CAIR, The Muslim Brotherhood (MB ), Ultra-Violent, La Raza, and SIEU.
The new extreme radically left, Socialist/Marxist Democratic Party “no longer supports” the US Constitution, “Freedom of Speech” at rallies or in classrooms, they object to voter registration only for American citizens, oppose requiring picture IDs in order for citizens to vote, and opposes closure of the wide open southern border to prevent terrorist, drug dealers, and Illegal Aliens from entering the US. The corrupt left of center liberal media establishment has done an excellent job of concealing just how radically left the Democratic Party has become over the last 8 years.
Approximately70 elected Democratic members of Congress identify themselves as Progressives and are supporters of either Black Lives Matter, La Raza, the New Black Panther Party, The Nation of Islam, Al Sharpton’s “National Action Network”, CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood, and with sympathizers of Communist Cuba. There are plenty of photos of those 70 Congress members on the Internet refusing to rise to participate in the Pledge Allegiance to the Flag, when the American Flag is honored by the 435 members of Congress.
The Democratic City Council and the Democratic Mayor of Charlottesville, VA communicated with Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA representatives weeks before the violent riots erupted in Charlottesville on August 12, 2017. Young Democrats worked hand-in-hand with Black Lives Matter organized protest in the streets in St Louis for that continued for many weeks from mid-September on. The Charlottesville riots and the riots in St. Louis and Berkeley were funded by Nazi Sympathizer George Soros’ pro-Communist Open Society Foundation and Tides Foundations. The rallies turned into bloody riots, destroying property, supporting brutal beatings, promoting the setting fires to buildings & cars, assaulting police officers, stabbing targeted victims, attacking peaceful demonstrators, and focused on closing down free speech.
The “REAL SCANDAL” facing the nation today, is not the “False Russian Scandal” being promoted every day by the New Radical Democratic Party, Obama’s Organization For Action, Nazi Collaborator George Soros, Hillary Clinton’s Onward Together, Marxists, the Communist Party USA, Socialists, and outright lies by the left of center liberal media establishment, in their support for Obama’s Master Plan to disenfranchise 64 million American Citizens voters, in the drive to remove a duly elected President of the United States for the first time in the Republic’s 242 year US History.
The “REAL SCANDAL” is that the Republican leaders in Congress, Cong Paul Ryan and Sen Mitch McConnell, continue to ignore the “Real Russian Scandal”, that then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s transferred 20% of the United States’ uranium production to Putin in Russia with the approval and support of the then occupant of the Oval Office. As reported by the New York Times, nine investors in the “Russian Uranium Scandal” funneled $145 million to the Clinton Foundation as a payoff. Instead of Ryan and McConnell calling for the appointment of a Special Counsel to investigate the “Russian Uranium Scandal”, they have failed to support President Trump in his attempts to deal with the issues he was elected to fix, by 64 million Americans.
The New Radical Democratic Party has been able to frustrate many of President Trump’s campaign pledges, because Cong Ryan and Sen McConnell have been reluctant to support President Trump by:
Funding the secure southern border wall to will keep out drug smugglers, Radical Islamic Terrorists, white slavers, and Illegal Aliens;
Reducing the high personal federal income tax oppressing hard working Americans and in reducing the highest corporate taxes in the world;
Replacing Obamacare with an affordable healthcare system that will give Americans the freedom to select their own health insurance;
Passing legislation to cut off federal grants to sanctuary cities that refuse to abide by U.S. Federal Immigration Laws;
Canceling sequestration that is weakening & destroying the “Combat Effectiveness” of the U.S. Armed Forces;
Reining in reckless spending by an irresponsible Congress, that’s driven the National Debt up to over $20 trillion in the last 8 years;
Supporting enforcement of all US Federal Immigration Laws;
Supporting the appointment of 553 key Executive Branch vacancies;
Passing a bill to repair the crumbling infrastructure, and so much more;
Halting the discriminatory practice of excluding Christians Refugees from the Middle East, while only allowing hundreds of thousands Middle East/African Muslim Refugees to resettle in 187 cities at a cost of billions of tax payer dollars.
“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America,” declared Barack Obama during a campaign stop on Oct. 30, 2008, five days before the election that would make him the most powerful man in the world.
The concept of “fundamental transformation” has been discussed vigorously since then, especially in light of the many sweeping changes Obama brought to the country over his eight years in office.
Historian Charles Sasser sees Obama’s “fundamental transformation” in the context of an older and more sinister plan articulated by a pair of Marxist activists nearly 50 years ago.
“What we’re seeing now is this fundamental transformation, and it goes all the way back to [Herbert] Marcuse,” Sasser said during a recent appearance on the “Prophecy Hour” radio program. “In the 1960s when he [Marcuse] was talking about the ‘long march through the institutions,’ this is what Obama was talking about – the fundamental transformation of America.”
The “long march through the institutions” was coined by student activist Rudi Dutschke in the late 1960s to describe his strategy for bringing about the conditions for a Marxist revolution in the United States.
The plan was for Marxists to infiltrate all of America’s major institutions – politics, the news media, the education system, the churches, the entertainment industry – and slowly subvert those institutions from within, thereby subverting America.
Marcuse, a prominent Marxist intellectual associated with the Frankfurt School, agreed with Dutschke’s strategy and brought it to wider attention in his 1972 book “Counterrevolution and Revolt.”
Sasser, author of the brand new book “Crushing the Collective: The Last Chance to Keep America Free and Self-Governing,” pointed out Hillary Clinton has expressed shades of this idea as well. During a 2015 speech, the soon-to-be Democratic presidential nominee declared, “Deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.”
The imposition of political correctness is an integral part of this long march through the institutions, according to Sasser. Viewed from this perspective, the march is making excellent progress in certain areas.
“Let’s look at our education,” Sasser said. “We’ve got safe spaces; we’ve got all these people who refuse to listen to anyone who has an opinion different from their own. They will riot, break windows, everything else to keep people from free speech.”
The Marxists are also slowly but surely undermining Christianity, according to Sasser.
“In 2012, when Obama was nominated for a second term, the Democratic National Committee took God out of their platform, and when someone proposed that they put God back in the platform, the entire stadium [at the Democratic National Convention] booed the idea of putting God in the platform,” he recalled.
“Now, look a few months later: There was a prayer at an abortion rally, and they prayed to God for God to help on abortions.”
The radical leftists are subverting the political arena as well. In “Crushing the Collective” Sasser reveals a long list of organizations through which “socialist and authoritarian radicals” are working to undermine America.
This includes Socialist International, whose leadership includes or has included Democratic Party figures such as Howard Dean, Madeleine Albright and Tom Daschle.
It includes the Congressional Progressive Caucus, founded by admitted socialist Bernie Sanders. The CPC included 83 Democratic House members in 2010.
Sasser also singles out the Institute for Policy Studies, an old and influential far-left think tank whose membership has included many current and former congressmen, including Leon Panetta, Obama’s defense secretary and CIA director.
“Socialist International, the Progressive Party – look at the Progressive Party a little closer,” Sasser urged the “Prophecy Hour” audience. “Progressive Democrats of America, the Congressional Progressive Caucus – look at how many of those people in there are socialists and Marxists. Nobody wants to do that because it’s politically incorrect to say anything about it.”
So, what can Americans do to beat back the long Marxist march? Sasser is not optimistic; he does not believe conservatives can ever take back the cultural institutions now that those institutions have succumbed to the left.
Nor does he believe a single American president can stop the long march. Not even Ronald Reagan could stop it.
“Reagan was successful in what he did, but then as soon as he was gone, the march through the institutions continued, and I think we’re going to see the same thing now,” Sasser commented.
He noted the radical left is stronger than ever, and they seem to sense that.
“Obama said, ‘Now is our time.’” Sasser said. “Yes, now is their time. They think that they have the upper hand, that they can make America socialist, and I think they’re going to do that because we don’t fight back. We’re afraid to say anything because of political correctness.”
Sasser, who has spent much of his life studying history, knows societies that fall as far into the clutches of collectivism as the U.S. has do not bounce back well. They may survive, but in a diminished form. Italy is still around, for example, but it is nothing like the Roman Empire. Iran is a regional power, but it is not as prestigious as the great Persian empires of the past.
“I want to believe that Trump may be another Reagan, that we may have a chance,” he said. “But then I look at the institutions. Like Newt Gingrich said, once they own the cultural institutions, they’re impossible to regain, and if they own all of the institutions, including many of our churches right now, if they do that we can’t retake them if we can’t crush this idea of the collective.”
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Shortly after Donald Trump got elected president, a California mayor arranged a meeting with the Consul General of Mexico to assure the diplomat that his “sanctuary city” will continue providing safe spaces for illegal immigrants, according to records obtained by Judicial Watch. The documents show that Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin’s top aide, Stefan Elgstrand, sent an electronic mail to the Mexican Consul General in San Francisco, Gemi Jose Gonzalez Lopez, stating the following: “The recent events around Trump’s executive order reminded me to reach out to you. We are a sanctuary city and will continue to be. I imagine you are very busy dealing with the concerns and fears of many residents in the Bay Area, and we want to assist in providing safe spaces for them.”
Judicial Watch obtained the files as part of a California Public Records Act request for information surrounding riots by the radical leftist Antifa movement against President Trump and conservative personalities scheduled to speak at the University of California Berkeley. Media reported that fires were set, fences and windows broken, firebombs launched and commercial-grade fireworks thrown at police. A renowned, San Francisco-based pop culture magazine wrote that the uprising raised some big questions about the future of the free speech movement. Judicial Watch requested the files to shed light into how city, police and university officials handled the lawlessness, which received global news coverage. The request asked for records of communications between officials in the Berkeley mayor’s office and the Berkeley Police Department as well as records of communications between the mayor’s office and officials at UC Berkeley, one of the nation’s top public research universities.
The documents show a coordinated effort between Democratic city officials nationwide to “build the movement to resist Trump.” The operation is being financed by leftwing billionaire philanthropist George Soros through one of his groups called Center of Popular Democracy. Earlier this year Judicial Watch uncovered a scandal in which the U.S. government quietly gave millions of taxpayer dollars to destabilize the democratically elected, center-right government in Macedonia by colluding with Soros’ Open Society Foundation. The U.S. Ambassador to Macedonia, Jess L. Baily, worked behind the scenes with Open Society Foundation to funnel large sums of American dollars for the cause, constituting an interference of the U.S. Ambassador in domestic political affairs in violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. The cash flowed through the State Department and the famously corrupt U.S. Agency of International Development (USAID) and Judicial Watch sued both agencies for records related to funding and political activities of the Open Society Foundation in Macedonia.
The Soros-backed, northern California movement includes a taxpayer-salaried physics professor at UC Berkeley who advises Mayor Arreguin on how to handle conservative protestors at a spring rally. The professor, James McFadden, tells the mayor in an electronic mail obtained by Judicial Watch to “create a corral” and ask the Trump supporters to “get in the corral.” He describes Trump supporters as “delusional and paranoid about the world around them” and says they’re “willing to use violence to impose that order on us, especially when they have the blessing of a narcissistic authoritarian president.” A professor at another California public university tells the Berkeley mayor that the arrest of Antifa leader/middle school teacher Yvette Felarca for assaulting a political opponent (captured on video) at a Sacramento rally, in which seven people were stabbed, was a “McCarthyist political persecution” and he condemned Felarca’s arrest and teaching suspension “in the strongest possible terms.”
Ironically, Berkeley’s official government website brags about being a bastion of the free speech movement. “In Alameda County alone, Berkeley is ranked fourth in population behind Oakland, Fremont, and Hayward,” the website states. “And yet, we are famous around the globe as a center for academic achievement, scientific exploration, free speech and the arts.” Indeed, Berkeley is renowned as the birthplace of the free speech movement in in the 1960s. An opinion piece in a California newspaper points out that the city’s free speech movement has gone full circle, however. “Nowadays, Berkeley is rapidly becoming famed as one of the least tolerant cities in the country — where any challenge to left-wing orthodoxy is met with terrorist threats and mob violence.”
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This week, the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area released its fifth annual report titled The Legalization of Marijuana in Colorado: The Impact, Volume 5. We devote today’s issue of The Marijuana Report newsletter to highlighting a few of many significant findings the report contains.
National Families in Action has remade some of the graphs and charts in the report to emphasize key findings. This one shows how many of Colorado’s students were expelled, referred to law enforcement, or suspended in the 2015-2016 school year. This is the first year the Colorado Department of Education differentiated marijuana violations from all drug violations, and this year’s report will serve as a baseline to determine whether marijuana violations increase, decrease, or stay fundamentally the same.
Read The Legalization of Marijuana in Colorado: The Impact, Volume 5 here. This information appears on page 41 (PDF page 49).
The new report explains that although Colorado created its own Healthy Kids Survey, the combination of a poor response rate and the fact that several major counties with large populations had low or no participation rendered the 2015 survey’s results invalid. For a discussion of this see page 33 (PDF page 41). Volume 5 relies on the National Survey on Drug Use and Health to compare Colorado marijuana use with the national average for ages 12-17, 18-25, and 26 & older over a ten year period (2005-2006 to 2014-2015).
See data for these graphs on the following pages:
Ages 12-17, page 36 (PDF page 44)
Ages 18-25, page 56 (PDF page 64)
Ages 26 & Older, page 60 (PDF page 68)
Read The Legalization of Marijuana in Colorado: The Impact, Volume 5 here.
The report notes that data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2006-2011 Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), and 2012-2016 Colorado Department of Transportation show that drivers testing positive for marijuana who were killed in traffic crashes rose from 6 percent of all traffic deaths in 2006 to 20 percent eleven years later. Marijuana-related traffic deaths jumped from 9 percent to 14 percent once the state commercialized marijuana for medical use and from 11 percent to 20 percent after legalizing the drug for recreational use.
Read more about marijuana-related driving in Colorado here starting on page 13 (PDF page 21).
In 2016, more than one-third of Colorado drivers who tested positive for marijuana had marijuana only in their systems. Another 36 percent had marijuana and alcohol. Slightly over one-fifth tested positive for marijuana and other drugs but no alcohol, while 7 percent had marijuana, alcohol, and other drugs on board.
See page 18 (PDF page 26) in The Legalization of Marijuana in Colorado: The Impact, Volume 5 here.
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Why do some people recklessly repeat statements ad nauseam which are, in the end, simply not true? Because for many, the means justify the ends. Some people will believe anything if it is repeated enough, allowing proponents of claims such as those made about Mississippi’s HB 1523 to see them increasingly accepted as true. Unfortunately, this does not help our increasingly fractured society get along, but only cements intolerance toward many well-meaning Christians — who themselves would never act in such bad faith toward those who disagree with biblical truth.Since HB 1523’s challengers lost before the 5thCircuit after they were not able to show how the law injured them, they have now appealed to the Supreme Court — and have recklessly mischaracterized the circumstances surrounding this law in doing so.
Their petition opens by absurdly arguing that the religious exemptions in HB 1523 “demean” and “stigmatize” same-sex couples and deny them equal treatment under the law (ostensibly, because such exemptions allow some to withhold their approval of such conduct). In the petitioners’ view, “[t]hat is precisely the harm that Obergefell sought to rectify.”
This line of reasoning misleadingly implies that HB 1523 somehow was designed to undercut Obergefell. It wasn’t. The law simply provides exemptions for those whose consciences are implicated by Obergefell — which can be followed consistent with HB 1523; same-sex marriages are still fully treated the same by the state of Mississippi as other marriages. Just as objections to military service and abortion have long been protected in law despite fitting the petitioners’ notion of a “particular” religion (notably, the petition never really addresses these areas), the law can provide conscience exemptions in other areas too.
Nevertheless, the petitioners continue to try to condition the reader to the “goodness” of Obergefell and the nefarious nature of any religious objections to it (notwithstanding the Supreme Court’s own recognition to the contrary) — the warm sounding yet nebulous “promise” of Obergefell is discussed, HB 1523 is alleged to “repudiate central aspects of petitioners’ lives, families, and identities,” and the law is an “attempt[] to use religious exemptions to undermine rights to equality and dignity of LGBT people.” Even the Masterpiece case is subtly equated with “state attempts to limit Obergefell by creating unprecedented religious exemptions.”
Christians are trying to live with Obergefell, and just protect their own conscience by not being forced under penalty of law to celebrate something that is clearly contrary to scripture. Yet instead of trying to find a reasonable middle ground, opponents of HB 1523 are forging ahead and asking the Supreme Court to take this case with the help of none other than former Obama Solicitor General Donald Verilli — who famously admitted at oral argument in Obergefell that religious institutions that disagree with same-sex marriage could lose their tax-exempt status.
Those supporting HB 1523 and similar legislation might disagree with Obergefell, but they are not trying to change the ruling — they are just trying to protect themselves in the face of it. If only those who support Obergefell and disagree with HB 1523 would do the same.
Tony Perkins’ Washington Update is written with the aid of FRC senior writers.
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“I am saddened to learn today that the Boy Scouts of America has decided to fully integrate girls into its program and allow them to receive the highest award given to boys, the Eagle Scout award. Instead of allowing boys to be boys, the BSA is sowing increased gender confusion in its troops and gradually destroying the masculine, fraternal and iconic status that the program once had. This move is only the latest in a series of foolish decisions the BSA has made all of which flow from the moral compromise of their 2013 ‘vote’ to allow openly gay boys into the program.”
John Stemberger is an Eagle Scout, a former Scoutmaster, and a Vigil Honor member of the Order of the Arrow. He was the founder of On My Honor movement and became the Chairman of the Board for Trail Life USA in 2013. He has two sons formerly in the BSA now boy members of Trail Life USA and two daughters in American Heritage Girls. Trail Life USA is a Christian scouting organization for boys which started in 2014 and now has around 30,000 members in 750 troops chartered across 48 states.
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I am a graduate of the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) at Washington University, in St. Louis, Missouri. I graduated in July 1967 and because I received one of the first full two year ROTC scholarships I was given a Regular Army commission and had a four year service obligation, the same as graduates of the United State Military Academy at West Point.
I served in peace time and in combat with many officers, subordinates, colleagues and superiors, who graduated from West Point. They, to a man, were always fine officers and gentlemen. I retired from the U.S. Army in 1990 as a Lieutenant Colonel (LTC).
[I]t was unclear whether West Point was aware of his activity as a student until the Daily Caller on Wednesday published a sworn statement from a then-West Point history professor, which mentioned Rapone’s anti-U.S. and pro-communist views.
Retired Army Lieutenant Col. Robert M. Heffington gave the statement after a tense encounter with Rapone, whom he said had a “serious problem with military authority figures.”
Heffington said he shared his misgivings about Rapone with three close friends and colleagues, and one of them showed him Rapone’s Facebook page, which contained a number of anti-military, anti-government, pro-communist, and pro-Muslim posts stemming back to 2014. Read more.
West Point has produced former presidents, numerous corporate executives and officers of the highest caliber who have held the highest positions in our military and Department of Defense. I have only the highest respect for graduates of West Point. However, West Point is under intense scrutiny for admitting, graduating and commissioning someone like Spencer Rapone.
QUESTION: Is Spenser Rapone an anomaly or endemic of something bigger?
That is the question raised and answered by LTC Heffington in his letter.
Before you read any further, please understand that the following paragraphs come from a place of intense devotion and loyalty to West Point. My experience as a cadet had a profound impact upon who I am and upon the course of my life, and I remain forever grateful that I have the opportunity to be a part of the Long Gray Line. I firmly believe West Point is a national treasure and that it can and should remain a vitally important source of well trained, disciplined, highly educated Army officers and civilian leaders.
LTC Heffington then writes, “However, during my time on the West Point faculty (2006-2009 and again from 2013-2017), I personally witnessed a series of fundamental changes at West Point that have eroded it to the point where I question whether the institution should even remain open.”
Here are the reasons that, sadly, LTC Heffington questions whether West Point should remain open:
First and foremost, standards at West Point are nonexistent. They exist on paper, but nowhere else. The senior administration at West Point inexplicably refuses to enforce West Point’s publicly touted high standards on cadets, and, having picked up on this, cadets refuse to enforce standards on each other. The Superintendent refuses to enforce admissions standards or the cadet Honor Code, the Dean refuses to enforce academic standards, and the Commandant refuses to enforce standards of conduct and discipline. The end result is a sort of malaise that pervades the entire institution. Nothing matters anymore. Cadets know this, and it has given rise to a level of cadet arrogance and entitlement the likes of which West Point has never seen in its history.
The cadet honor code has become a laughingstock. Cadets know they will not be separated for violating it, and thus they do so on a daily basis. Moreover, since they refuse to enforce standards on each other and police their own ranks, cadets will rarely find a cadet at an honor hearing despite overwhelming evidence that a violation has occurred. This in turn has caused the staff and faculty to give up even reporting honor incidents.
Academic standards are also nonexistent. I believe this trend started approximately ten years ago, and it has continued to get worse. West Point has stated standards for academic expectations and performance, but they are ignored. Cadets routinely fail multiple classes and they are not separated at the end-of-semester Academic Boards. Their professors recommend “Definitely Separate,” but those recommendations are totally disregarded.
Even the curriculum itself has suffered. The plebe American History course has been revamped to focus completely on race and on the narrative that America is founded solely on a history of racial oppression. Cadets derisively call it the “I Hate America Course.”
Conduct and disciplinary standards are in perhaps the worst shape of all. Cadets are jaded, cynical, arrogant, and entitled. They routinely talk back to and snap at their instructors (military and civilian alike), challenge authority, and openly refuse to follow regulations. They are allowed to wear civilian clothes in almost any arena outside the classroom, and they flaunt that privilege.
LTC Heffington ended his letter writing:
It breaks my heart to write this. It breaks my heart to know first-hand what West Point was versus what it has become. This is not a “Corps has” story; it is meant to highlight a deliberate and radical series of changes being undertaken at the highest levels of USMA’s leadership that are detrimental to the institution. Criticizing these changes is not popular. I have already been labeled a “traitor” by some at the Academy due to my sworn statement’s appearance in the media circus surrounding Spenser Rapone. However, whenever I hear this, I am reminded of the Cadet Prayer:
“…suffer not our hatred of hypocrisy and pretense ever to diminish.
Make us to choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong,
and never to be content with a half-truth when the whole can be won.
…that scorns to compromise with vice and injustice, and knows no
fear when truth and right are in jeopardy.”
West Point was once special, and it can be again. Spenser Rapone never should have been admitted, much less graduate, but he was—and that mistake is directly attributable to the culture of permissiveness and apathy that now exists there.
It hurts me to publish this as a retired Army officer as much as it saddened LTC Heffington who wrote this letter. LTC Heffington is truly an officer and a gentleman. He is doing what his training, oath and rank require – to tell the truth.
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Problematic Women Video: College Students Use Sex Objects to Protest Katie Pavlich
/in Culture War, Gun Rights, Policy, Politics, Regulation, Video/by The Daily SignalAt the University of Wisconsin-Madison this week, Fox News contributor and Second Amendment advocate Katie Pavlich faced a new brand of protest from liberal campus activists—sex objects.
The protest, named “Cocks Not Glocks,” was reportedly organized by students and led by Katherine Kerwin and focused on Pavlich’s views that guns can protect women from being sexually assaulted on campus.
Their rationale, according to Facebook, goes like this:
In order to participate, the event page encouraged students to “tie that dildo to your backpack and wear it proudly to class every day.”
Although Pavlich’s speech, hosted by the Young Americans for Freedom chapter at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, went smoothly on Tuesday, students did come out to demonstrate using these profanities.
For this reason, this week’s edition of “Problematic Women” is honoring Pavlich as our “Problematic Woman of the Week.” In this show, co-hosted with Bre Payton of The Federalist, we show clips of the protest Pavlich faced, discuss the hypocrisy of liberal Hollywood, and the Boy Scouts of America deciding to welcome young girls into its programs.
Watch in the video above.
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Judge: Congress Still Living on a Prayer
/in Commentary, Culture War, Policy, Politics/by Family Research CouncilFor over 240 years, our elected representatives to the federal government have begun their public duties with prayer. When a session of the House of Representatives is opened, a prayer seeking God’s guidance is offered. Among other things, this is a reflection of the faith of many people across America who themselves seek His guidance in their lives.Nevertheless, there are always those who just can’t stand the idea of Americans, especially leaders, acknowledging their dependence upon God.
The Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) perpetuates its existence by trying to stamp out the very recognition of God’s existence from across our land, much as — quite sadly — communist governments tried to wipe out the church from public life during the last century.
The FFRF has challenged public monuments, prayer, and virtually any public recognition of religion. Like most on the Left, FFRF engages in bullying tactics threatening to haul the “offenders” into court for their “unconstitutional” activities. Unfortunately, too many school districts and city and town councils hand over their milk money to the bullies and capitulate.
When FFRF actually does sue, a very high percentage of their cases are simply dismissed. However, they occasionally find a sympathetic ear (just several days ago, a quite radical federal judge in Wisconsin ruled in favor of the group’s claim challenging housing allowances for pastors). After failing so many times, the FFRF is now trying a new tactic, with founder Dan Barker (who has publicly proclaimed his atheism but maintains ministerial credentials) applying to the U.S. House of Representatives chaplain to be able to lead a prayer.
His application was rejected, and he sued, claiming the practice of House prayer was in violation of the Supreme Court’s decision in Town of Greece v. Galloway (which had ruled permitting ministers to pray before legislative gatherings was constitutional).
The interpretation of the Establishment Clause in this and other cases simply doesn’t require what Barker demanded. Sanity has prevailed — for now.
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), who was named a defendant in Barker’s suit, praised the ruling and observed:
Tony Perkins’ Washington Update is written with the aid of FRC senior writers.
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Watch the Premiere of ‘Islam in Our Schools’
/in Culture War, Education, National Security, Policy, Politics, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Martin Mawyer“America needs a national awakening to be aware of the growing number of public schools that are attempting to convert children to Islam and turn them into evangelists for the Islamic faith”
Watch the Premiere of “Islam in Our Schools”
The live stream of the premiere was a success! If you missed it live you can still watch the video of the event including an excellent question and answer session with me and Ryan Mauro.
Plus, an additional SURPRISE guest joins in and gives some great insight to the increasing issue of…. “Islam in Our Schools”
FBI Arrest Data by Race and Ethnicity in 2016
/in Commentary, Culture War, Policy, Politics/by Dr. Rich SwierThere has been much discussion about how blacks are being targeted and shot by police. The narrative is that “white privilege” has kept Caucasians out of prison, while others are arrested just because they are black or Hispanic. Let’s look at two sets of data for 2016:
Perhaps this will paint a clearer picture for readers about differences in arrests by race and age.
The U.S. Census Bureau estimate of the racial breakdown of America in 2016 is depicted in the below chart:
The most recent data release by the Federal Bureau of Investigation portrays those arrested by race/ethnicity. Below is a summary of FBI data (the full report may be reviewed and downloaded here).
Arrests, by Race and Ethnicity, 2016
Arrests, by Age, 2016
When comparing these data sets the following stand out about “adult” arrests:
When comparing these data sets the following stand out about “juvenile” arrests:
As a law enforcement agency, given these data points, profiling criminals is a must.
To reduce “violent” crimes law enforcement would focus primarily on adult whites of which 89.9% were arrested. To prevent property/larceny-theft the focus would be on white adults first and white juveniles second. To stop drug abuse law enforcement would target the 93.7% of white adults and 74.8% of white juveniles. To reduce rape and arson juveniles would need to be profiled.
While black/African American juveniles arrested for violent crimes (52.0%) is high for their population, it is not indicative of the need for great police concern as juveniles (age 18 and younger) of all races only 8% (half black and half white) were arrested for committing a crime.
A law enforcement model must look at the profile of those who do the crime, if the police, given limited resources, are to be effective in reducing crime.
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My Fourth Health Care Plan Just Died Thanks to Obamacare by Michelle Malkin
/in Culture War, Featured, Healthcare, Policy, Politics, Regulation, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Daily CallerCue the funeral bagpipes. My fourth health insurance plan is dead.
Two weeks ago, my husband and I received yet another cancellation notice for our private, individual health insurance coverage. It’s our fourth Obamacare-induced obituary in four years.
Our first death notice, from Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, arrived in the fall of 2013. The insurer informed us that because of “changes from health care reform (also called the Affordable Care Act or ACA),” our plan no longer met the federal government’s requirements.
Never mind our needs and desires as consumers who were quite satisfied with a high-deductible preferred provider organization that included a wide network of doctors for ourselves and our two children.
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Our second death knell, from Rocky Mountain Health Plans, tolled in August 2015. That notice signaled the end of a plan we didn’t want in the first place that didn’t cover our kids’ dental care and wasn’t accepted at our local urgent care clinic.
The insurer pulled out of the individual market in all but one county in Colorado, following the complete withdrawal from that sector by Humana and UnitedHealthcare.
Our third “notice of plan discontinuation,” again from Anthem, informed us that the insurer would “no longer offer your current health plan in the state of Colorado” in August 2016.
With fewer and fewer choices as know-it-all Obamacare bureaucrats decimated the individual market here and across the country, we enrolled in a high-deductible Bronze HSA EPO (Health Savings Account Exclusive Provider Organization) offered by Minneapolis-based startup Bright Health.
Now, here we are barely a year later: Deja screwed times four. Our current plan will be discontinued on Jan. 1, 2018.
“But don’t worry,” Bright Health’s eulogy writer chirped, “we have similar plans to address your needs.”
Riiiiight. Where have I heard those pie-in-the-sky promises before? Oh, yeah. Straight out of the socialized medicine Trojan horse’s mouth.
“If you like your doctor,” President Barack Obama promised, “you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what.”
Is pathological lying covered under the Affordable Care Act?
Speaking of Affordable Care Act whoppers, so much for “affordable.” Our current deductible is $6,550 per person—$13,100 for our family of four. Assuming we can find a new plan at the bottom of the individual market barrel, our current monthly premium, $944.86, will rise to more than $1,300 a month.
“What’s taking place is a market correction; the free market is at work,” says Colorado’s state insurance commissioner, Marguerite Salazar. “[T]his could be an indication that there were too many options for the market to support.”
This presumptuous central planner called federal intervention to eliminate “too many” options for consumers the free market at work. Yes, friends, the Rocky Mountain High is real.
This isn’t a “market correction.” It’s a government catastrophe.
Premiums for individual health plans in Virginia are set to skyrocket nearly 60 percent in 2018. In New Hampshire, those rates will rise 52 percent.
In South Carolina, individual market consumers will face an average 31.3 percent hike. In Tennessee, they’ll see rates jump between 20-40 percent.
Private, flexible preferred provider organizations for self-sufficient, self-employed people are vanishing by design. The social-engineered future—healthy, full-paying consumers being herded into government-run Obamacare exchanges and severely regulated regional health maintenance organizations—is a bipartisan big government health bureaucracy’s dream come true.
These choice-wreckers had the arrogant audacity to denigrate our pre-Obamacare plans as “substandard” (Obama), “crappy” (MSNBC big mouth Ed Schultz), and “junk policies” (Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa).
When I first called attention to the cancellation notice tsunami in 2013, liberal Mother Jones magazine sneered that the phenomenon was “phony.” And they’re still denying the Obamacare death spiral. Liberal Vox Media recently called the crisis “a lie.”
I don’t have enough four-letter words for these propagandists. There are an estimated 450,000 consumers like us in Colorado and 17 million of us nationwide—small business owners, independent contractors, and others who don’t get their plans through group coverage, big companies, or government employers.
The costs, headaches, and disruption in our lives caused by Obamacare’s meddling meddlers are real and massive.
But we’re puzzles to corporate media journalists who’ve never had to meet a payroll and don’t even know what is the individual market.
We’re invisible to late night TV clowns who get their Obamacare-at-all-costs talking points from Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
We’re pariahs to social justice health care activists and Democrats who want us to just shut up and subsidize everyone else’s insurance.
And we’re expendables to establishment Republicans who hoovered up campaign donations on the empty promise to repeal Obamacare—and now consider amnesty for immigrants here illegally and gun control higher legislative priorities than keeping their damned word.
We’re the canaries in the Obamacare coal mine. Ignore us at your peril, America. You’re next.
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Michelle Malkin is the senior editor of Conservative Review. She is a New York Times best-selling author and a FOX News Channel contributor. Twitter: @michellemalkin
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Gay Coffee Shop Owner Kicks Out Pro-Life Customers
/in Commentary, Culture War, Policy, Politics, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Daily CallerThe gay owner of a coffee shop in Seattle kicked a group of Christians out of his coffee shop Sunday after declaring in obscene terms that he would like to sodomize Jesus Christ.
The owner heatedly tells the Christians to leave his shop immediately in a video posted to Facebook by Abolish Human Abortion, a Christian group seeking to end the practice of abortion.
“I’m gay, you have to leave,” the owner tells the group. “This is offensive to me. I own the place. I have the right to be offended.”
The group tried to explain that they hadn’t placed any in the shop, but the owner repeatedly told them to”shut up.”
“There’s nothing you can say. This is you and I don’t want these people in this place,” the owner says. The group asks why he can’t tolerate their presence, prompting the owner to ask them if they would watch him have sex with his boyfriend.
“Can you tolerate my presence? Really? If I go get my boyfriend and f— him in the a– right here you’re going to tolerate that? Are you going to tolerate it?” the owner asked. “Answer my f—ing question! No, you’re going to sit right here and f—ing watch it! Leave all of you! Tell all your f—ing friends don’t come here!”
The group gets up to leave, as one woman among them says, “just know that Christ can save you from that lifestyle.”
“Yeah, I like a–. I’m not going to be saved by anything. I’d f— Christ in the a–. Okay? He’s hot,” he said.
According to The Liberator, the Christian group had been handing out pamphlets to Seattle locals on abortion, sin and the Bible. The group entered Bedlam Coffee to take a break and drink coffee when a barista went upstairs to tell the owner that the group was there.
“They had good coffee,” Caytie Davis, a group member, said. “It’s just too bad the service sucked.”
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VIDEO: Israel’s ‘Terrorist’ Peace Partners
/in National Security, Policy, Politics, Video/by Damon RosenPresidents Trump and el-Sisi have completely confounded me these last few days. Somehow Fatah and HAMAS, two terrorist organizations, by uniting, will create one viable Peace Partner for Israel.
Additionally, the elusive Peace between Israel & the “Palestinians” would bring Peace to the Middle East, despite 1,400 years of sectarian violence.
EDITORS NOTE: The featured image is of Mahmoud Abbas, leader of the PLO, less than a day after three Israelis were murdered while guarding the Jerusalem suburb of Har Adar, honoring their killer as a “holy martyr.”
Supreme Court throws out appeals court ruling that struck down Trump’s previous temporary travel ban
/in Courts & Law, Featured, Immigration, National Security, Policy, Politics/by Jihad WatchIt’s still amazing that acting in the interests of national security would be remotely controversial. There are two choices: keep out some harmless people or let in some harmful people. For years, Democratic and Republican governments have opted for the latter and claimed that to make the other choice was racist, bigoted and “Islamophobic.” Trump has grasped the nettle and chosen it anyway, and is being duly smeared. Future free people, if there are any, will look at the battles he had to fight to protect the American people from jihad terror and marvel at the insanity of our age.
“Supreme Court tosses one of two travel ban challenges,” by Lawrence Hurley, Reuters, October 11, 2017:
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/in Culture War, Politics, Religion/by The Catholic ThingClemente Lisi: Diversity of thought would go a long way in improving newsrooms and the stories they produce, especially about religion.
In an era of fake “news,” readers are bombarded each day with stories – most of them legitimate, but sometimes totally made up – and fueled by social media. The newsgathering process, the method by which journalists report the news and editors determine the value of stories, has increasingly become a bone of contention.
Readers no longer blindly accept accounts in the morning papers or continuously streamed on Twitter feeds. Sloppy errors, perceived biases, and last year’s presidential election all helped feed into the narrative that the mainstream press is out of touch with everyday Americans. Indeed, the Internet has become both an opportunity for journalists, but increasingly also a challenge.
Newsrooms, from my experience, lack diversity. While diversity in the job market is the aim of all companies, no other industry needs it more than journalism. Newsroom diversity leads to big ideas, better debates, and improved news coverage. The problem? Diversity is often seen as having to do with either race or gender. Are there enough African Americans on staff? Should we hire another woman? These are all questions media companies grapple with behind closed doors every time there’s a job opening.
What employers never lose sleep over (or even talk about) is whether there are enough devout Catholics in their newsroom or if they need to hire a person of faith – any faith – to report on what’s going on in the world and in the community. Believing in God is taboo in the newsroom.
To say there is a religious blind spot in hiring is a gross understatement. But it make a big difference in the way important issues such as abortion and gay marriage are covered by media outlets such as The New York Times and The Washington Post. Media coverage can sway public opinion and help determine laws and policy. It impacts social mores and it’s being done largely without people of faith in key positions.
There is no more secular setting than in a newsroom. Liberal bias does exist in the media, but most journalists don’t see it. You can’t see bias when everyone around you thinks and feels the same way.
Click here to read the rest of Mr. Lisi’s column . . .
Clemente Lisi
Clemente Lisi, a new contributor to The Catholic Thing, is an Assistant Professor of Journalism at The King’s College in New York City. He has nearly twenty years experience as both a reporter and editor at media institutions such as the New York Post, ABC News, and the New York Daily News.
Historian Ties Democrats to Marxist Plan to Collapse U.S. from Inside
/in Commentary, Policy, Politics, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Joseph R. JohnThe Patriotic Democrat Party of President Truman, President Kennedy, and President Johnson was radicalized over the last 8 years, by the Obama administration, and Nazi Collaborator George Soros. The below listed article by Historian, Charles Sasser, outlines the policies and leadership of the new Democratic Party. America is under siege from within, the two new leaders’ of the Democratic Party plan to work with Socialists, Marxists, and Communists to subvert the U.S. Constitutional form of government, working from “inside the wire”, as described below and with the support of the traitors to the Republic listed in this oped.
The plan is being promoted by the Organization For Action (OFA), and is being funded by Nazi Collaborator Soros’ Tides Foundation, to fundamentally change the nation that was established by the Founding Fathers. The goal is to change the USA to a one party, Socialist State; Socialism throughout history has been Marxist inspired. Americans should not be surprised by Obama’s continuing effort to change America’s Republican form of government to Socialist State. The Democrat Party and the left of center liberal media establishment carefully hid Obama’s radical Marxist background from the American voters for 8 year.
In his youth, Obama was mentored “every day” after school in the home of the Anti-American Secretary of the Communist Party USA, Frank Marshal Davis. Obama developed close ties with Anti-Jewish former PLO Spokesman, Rashid Ismail Khalidi. Obama maintained close ties with the Anti-American domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, his wife, convicted terrorist, Bernadine Dorn, and began his political career at a fund raiser in their living room. Convicted felon, Tony Rezko, with close ties with the mafia, used mirrors to acquire Obama’s Chicago home. For 20 years, Obama sat thru the hateful Anti-American sermons by his spiritual mentor, Anti-American preacher Jeremiah Wright. Obama became a devout disciple and advocate of the Radical Anti-American Marxist, Saul Alinsky, and used his book, “Rules For Radicals”, as his text while indoctrinating radicals leftist thugs who demonstrated in Chicago.
Two new radical leaders of the Democratic National Committee, Keith Ellison and Tom Perez were hand-picked by Obama with the support of Nazi Collaborator George Soros. They took control of the Democratic Party from moderates and Blue Dog Democrats, and moved it radically left. George Soros, Bill Ayers, Andy Zee, Bernie Sanders, Al Sharpton, Valerie Jarrett, Bob Avakian, Obama, and Hillary Clinton supported the radical movement left.
The Democratic Party policies have shifted its support to Socialist, Marxist, Radical Black Nationalist Groups, the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR. Perez and Ellison have been supporting anarchist rallies, demonstration, and violent street riots that have been taking place nationally, since President Trump was inaugurated.
OFA, Soros, Ellison, and Perez are promoting the openly vicious “Trump Resistance Movement”, while employing the domestic terrorist organization, ANITFA as its violent foot soldiers, to execute Saul Alinsky’s Marxist policies in 400 planned street demonstrations in 2017.
The vicious “Trump Resistance Movement” is the beneficiary of an anti-Trump hostile left of center liberal media establishment. The “Trump Resistance Movement” goal is to disenfranchise 64 million Trump voters. For one year, with no proof, they have alleged that President Trump colluded with Russia to defeat Hillary, in order to destabilize and delegitimize the Trump administration. OFA has been focused on bringing down a duly elected President of the United States for the first time in 242 years.
Organizations funding the “Trump Resistance Movement” are Nazi Sympathizer George Soros’ pro-Communist MoveOn.org, Obama’s “Organization For Action” (OFA), Hillary Clinton’s “Onward Together” (OT), the ANTIFA Terrorists group (OT gave ANTIFA $800,000), Color of Change (the group planning to destroy 350+ Confederate statues in the US), Indivisible (the group working against Congressmen who support President Trump), By Any Means Necessary (BAMN), Bill Ayer’s Marxist Weatherman Underground Anarchist group, Ultra Violet (a women’s radical leftist group), Act Blue, The Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR, The Advocate Fund, The World Worker’s Party(a hard corps Marxist-Leninist Group that rioted with AN TIFA in Charlottesville), and The Communist Industrial Workers of The World (the Chicago based Marxist, Anarchist, and Socialist Organization).
The foundations funding the “Trump Resistance Movement” are The Ford Foundation ($2.35 million), WK Kellogg Foundation ($3 million), The Bauman Foundation, Nazi Sympathizer George Soros’ pro-Communist Open Society Foundation ($1.75 million to ANTIFA The Center for Community Change Action), Nazi Collaborator George Soros’ pro-Communist Tides Foundations, California Endowment ($524,000), New Media Venture, Philah Thropy Project, Propel Capital, The Public Welfare Foundation, The Compton Foundation, The Arkay Foundation, and the Emergent Fund (funded by the 3 leftist groups—the Threshold Foundation, the Solidarity Network, and The Women’s Donor Network).
Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison, the newly elected Deputy Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, is anti-Semitic, pro-Muslim Brotherhood, and pro-Nation of Islam. As a Muslim, Ellison believes in Shariah Law, and stated that he does not respect or believe in the US Constitution, “because its wordings were inspired by the Bible”. Ellison, is a member of the Nation of Islam, has worked very closely with Louis Farrakhan for many years; Farrakhan is the rabid anti-Semitic and anti-white leader of the Nation of Islam. Ellison has been intertwined with CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood for over 10 years, the Muslim Brotherhood paid for Ellison’ pilgrimage to Mecca in 2008.
Ellison declared himself a supporter, ally, and defender of Communist Terrorists. He organized a fundraisings event for Communist terrorist, Sara Jane Olson, a member of the Communist movement Symbiotic Liberation Army. Ellison defends Joanne Chesimard, also known as Assata Shakur, who is wanted by the FBI for murdering a police officer; and is currently opposing extradition from her safe haven in Communist Cuba. Ellison has been close to the Communist Party USA for many years – even holding a fundraiser in the home of Minnesota Communist Party Chairman, Erwin Marquit. Ellison has even written articles for the Communist Party Web site, and when President George W. Bush was in office, Ellison compared him to Adolf Hitler.
The Radical Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Tom Perez, was Obama’s extreme radical left Secretary of Labor. Tom Perez was a longtime leader of CASA de Maryland, a militant leftist “immigrant’s rights group”. When Perez was the leader of CASA, Hugo Chavez, the Communist President of Venezuela, was sending him one million dollars a year, from Venezuela’s oil revenue; Chavez directed Perez to use the funds to keep the Southern border of the US wide open.
Perez has a long history of anti-white views, including making the declaration that “white people should not be entitled to protection under the Voting Rights Act.”
Perez previously served as the Assistant Attorney General under Attorney General, Eric Holder, and supported Holder’s repeated verbal and policy degradations of the US Constitution. He supported Holder’s execution of the “Fast and Furious Operation” scandal, and supported Holder’s prevention of the investigation of rampant voter fraud during the two national election during which Obama was elected. Those actions by Holder, led Congress to vote Holder “In Contempt of Congress”. Holder was the first Attorney General in 240 years to be voted “In Contempt of Congress”.
Ambassador Valladares, the former US Ambassador to the United Nations on Human Rights, stated Perez is a racist who hates the Bible, and that he is anti-Semitic as well. He said Perez’s goals have been to destroy the free market economy of the United States, to destroy the Christian society of the United States, and to turn the United States into a Marxist nation. Ambassador Valladares further stated, about Perez and Ellison, that: “The two new leaders of the Democratic National Committee are both racist, anti-Semitic, who ignore the Constitution, and the history of America.
Ambassador Valladares sad both of them have been and are allies of terrorist movements; they have shared the hatred for the United States, and its laws. They complement each other in their hatred of the Bible, they wish to sweep away this American society, with ideological mobs, terrorists, Communists, Radical Muslims, and the scum of the country whose goal it is to destroy it (the Republic). They joined the ranks of the Democratic Party, and with the complicit silence of the (former) leaders of the it (the Democratic Party), they took possession of it (the Democratic Party).”(April 25, 2017 by Frank de Varona – Bear Witness Central).
The corrupt left of center liberal media establishment continues to cover up the backgrounds of Keith Ellison and Tom Perez, the two new Radical Pro-Muslim Brotherhood, Marxist leaders of the Democrat National Committee. Millions of Americans have no idea just how radical, anti-Semitic, pro-Muslim Brotherhood, and pro-Marxist, Keith Ellison and Tom Perez are. Perez and Ellison are following the radical Marxist philosophy of Saul Alinsky.
Obama and Hillary are long time disciples of Saul Alinsky. Hillary wrote her senior thesis in support of Alinsky’s radical Marxist philosophy as outlined in his book, “Rules For Radicals”; it is a book of pure evil, and Alinsky dedicated the book to Lucifer. Hillary worked very closely with Alinsky during and after college. Obama taught Community Organizing in Chicago using “Rules For Radicals” as his playbook, while training radical leftists and Marxists in his classes to demonstrate in the streets of Chicago in front of commercial banks; they were very successful in extorting money from the banks. “Rules For Radical” was the play book for the Obama administration for 8 years, and is now it’s the playbook for OFA.
OFA operates out of 250 offices across the nation, with 32,525 members, say they have 5 million volunteers, and have 14 field organizers. OFA is operating with a growing war chest of $40+ million, and is receiving additional massive funding from Nazi Collaborator Soros’ pro-Communist “Open Society Foundation”, Soros’ “MoveOn.org”, and Soros’ “Tides Foundation”.
OFA has developed an on-line Anti-Trump Training Program, and runs a 6 week Anti-Trump Fellowship Program(there are over 1000 graduates of the Anti-Trump Training Program, with hundreds of new enrollees being trained). OFA is leading the mobilization and coordination of the “Trump Resistance Movement”. From January 20, 2017 to December 31, 2017, OFA scheduled 400 street demonstrations, in 42 states.
OFA has been organizing and coordinating 400 demonstrations in 42 states with the below listed leftist groups, while employing ANTIFA Terrorist as their violent foot soldiers. The leftist groups include the Communist Party USA (who endorsed both Obama and Hillary for President), the Marxist Leninist Communist Workers Party Front “ANSWER”, the Revolutionary Communist Party, The Communist Party’s “Progressive Unity Fund”, the Communist World Workers Party, the Communist Industrial Workers of the World, Bill Ayer’s Marxist Weather Underground anarchists, Black Lives Matter, the New Black Panther Party, Al Sharpton’s “National Action Network”, Socialists, Progressives (the new age name Communists have labeled themselves as, to mislead Americans as to their true identity), The World Worker’s Party, Color of Change, CAIR, The Muslim Brotherhood (MB ), Ultra-Violent, La Raza, and SIEU.
The new extreme radically left, Socialist/Marxist Democratic Party “no longer supports” the US Constitution, “Freedom of Speech” at rallies or in classrooms, they object to voter registration only for American citizens, oppose requiring picture IDs in order for citizens to vote, and opposes closure of the wide open southern border to prevent terrorist, drug dealers, and Illegal Aliens from entering the US. The corrupt left of center liberal media establishment has done an excellent job of concealing just how radically left the Democratic Party has become over the last 8 years.
Approximately70 elected Democratic members of Congress identify themselves as Progressives and are supporters of either Black Lives Matter, La Raza, the New Black Panther Party, The Nation of Islam, Al Sharpton’s “National Action Network”, CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood, and with sympathizers of Communist Cuba. There are plenty of photos of those 70 Congress members on the Internet refusing to rise to participate in the Pledge Allegiance to the Flag, when the American Flag is honored by the 435 members of Congress.
The Democratic City Council and the Democratic Mayor of Charlottesville, VA communicated with Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA representatives weeks before the violent riots erupted in Charlottesville on August 12, 2017. Young Democrats worked hand-in-hand with Black Lives Matter organized protest in the streets in St Louis for that continued for many weeks from mid-September on. The Charlottesville riots and the riots in St. Louis and Berkeley were funded by Nazi Sympathizer George Soros’ pro-Communist Open Society Foundation and Tides Foundations. The rallies turned into bloody riots, destroying property, supporting brutal beatings, promoting the setting fires to buildings & cars, assaulting police officers, stabbing targeted victims, attacking peaceful demonstrators, and focused on closing down free speech.
The “REAL SCANDAL” facing the nation today, is not the “False Russian Scandal” being promoted every day by the New Radical Democratic Party, Obama’s Organization For Action, Nazi Collaborator George Soros, Hillary Clinton’s Onward Together, Marxists, the Communist Party USA, Socialists, and outright lies by the left of center liberal media establishment, in their support for Obama’s Master Plan to disenfranchise 64 million American Citizens voters, in the drive to remove a duly elected President of the United States for the first time in the Republic’s 242 year US History.
The “REAL SCANDAL” is that the Republican leaders in Congress, Cong Paul Ryan and Sen Mitch McConnell, continue to ignore the “Real Russian Scandal”, that then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s transferred 20% of the United States’ uranium production to Putin in Russia with the approval and support of the then occupant of the Oval Office. As reported by the New York Times, nine investors in the “Russian Uranium Scandal” funneled $145 million to the Clinton Foundation as a payoff. Instead of Ryan and McConnell calling for the appointment of a Special Counsel to investigate the “Russian Uranium Scandal”, they have failed to support President Trump in his attempts to deal with the issues he was elected to fix, by 64 million Americans.
The New Radical Democratic Party has been able to frustrate many of President Trump’s campaign pledges, because Cong Ryan and Sen McConnell have been reluctant to support President Trump by:
WND EXCLUSIVE
HISTORIAN TIES DEMS TO MARXIST PLAN TO COLLAPSE U.S. FROM INSIDE
Charles Sasser
“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America,” declared Barack Obama during a campaign stop on Oct. 30, 2008, five days before the election that would make him the most powerful man in the world.
The concept of “fundamental transformation” has been discussed vigorously since then, especially in light of the many sweeping changes Obama brought to the country over his eight years in office.
Historian Charles Sasser sees Obama’s “fundamental transformation” in the context of an older and more sinister plan articulated by a pair of Marxist activists nearly 50 years ago.
“What we’re seeing now is this fundamental transformation, and it goes all the way back to [Herbert] Marcuse,” Sasser said during a recent appearance on the “Prophecy Hour” radio program. “In the 1960s when he [Marcuse] was talking about the ‘long march through the institutions,’ this is what Obama was talking about – the fundamental transformation of America.”
The “long march through the institutions” was coined by student activist Rudi Dutschke in the late 1960s to describe his strategy for bringing about the conditions for a Marxist revolution in the United States.
The plan was for Marxists to infiltrate all of America’s major institutions – politics, the news media, the education system, the churches, the entertainment industry – and slowly subvert those institutions from within, thereby subverting America.
Marcuse, a prominent Marxist intellectual associated with the Frankfurt School, agreed with Dutschke’s strategy and brought it to wider attention in his 1972 book “Counterrevolution and Revolt.”
Sasser, author of the brand new book “Crushing the Collective: The Last Chance to Keep America Free and Self-Governing,” pointed out Hillary Clinton has expressed shades of this idea as well. During a 2015 speech, the soon-to-be Democratic presidential nominee declared, “Deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.”
The imposition of political correctness is an integral part of this long march through the institutions, according to Sasser. Viewed from this perspective, the march is making excellent progress in certain areas.
“Let’s look at our education,” Sasser said. “We’ve got safe spaces; we’ve got all these people who refuse to listen to anyone who has an opinion different from their own. They will riot, break windows, everything else to keep people from free speech.”
The Marxists are also slowly but surely undermining Christianity, according to Sasser.
“In 2012, when Obama was nominated for a second term, the Democratic National Committee took God out of their platform, and when someone proposed that they put God back in the platform, the entire stadium [at the Democratic National Convention] booed the idea of putting God in the platform,” he recalled.
“Now, look a few months later: There was a prayer at an abortion rally, and they prayed to God for God to help on abortions.”
The radical leftists are subverting the political arena as well. In “Crushing the Collective” Sasser reveals a long list of organizations through which “socialist and authoritarian radicals” are working to undermine America.
This includes Socialist International, whose leadership includes or has included Democratic Party figures such as Howard Dean, Madeleine Albright and Tom Daschle.
It includes the Congressional Progressive Caucus, founded by admitted socialist Bernie Sanders. The CPC included 83 Democratic House members in 2010.
Sasser also singles out the Institute for Policy Studies, an old and influential far-left think tank whose membership has included many current and former congressmen, including Leon Panetta, Obama’s defense secretary and CIA director.
“Socialist International, the Progressive Party – look at the Progressive Party a little closer,” Sasser urged the “Prophecy Hour” audience. “Progressive Democrats of America, the Congressional Progressive Caucus – look at how many of those people in there are socialists and Marxists. Nobody wants to do that because it’s politically incorrect to say anything about it.”
So, what can Americans do to beat back the long Marxist march? Sasser is not optimistic; he does not believe conservatives can ever take back the cultural institutions now that those institutions have succumbed to the left.
Nor does he believe a single American president can stop the long march. Not even Ronald Reagan could stop it.
“Reagan was successful in what he did, but then as soon as he was gone, the march through the institutions continued, and I think we’re going to see the same thing now,” Sasser commented.
He noted the radical left is stronger than ever, and they seem to sense that.
“Obama said, ‘Now is our time.’” Sasser said. “Yes, now is their time. They think that they have the upper hand, that they can make America socialist, and I think they’re going to do that because we don’t fight back. We’re afraid to say anything because of political correctness.”
Sasser, who has spent much of his life studying history, knows societies that fall as far into the clutches of collectivism as the U.S. has do not bounce back well. They may survive, but in a diminished form. Italy is still around, for example, but it is nothing like the Roman Empire. Iran is a regional power, but it is not as prestigious as the great Persian empires of the past.
“I want to believe that Trump may be another Reagan, that we may have a chance,” he said. “But then I look at the institutions. Like Newt Gingrich said, once they own the cultural institutions, they’re impossible to regain, and if they own all of the institutions, including many of our churches right now, if they do that we can’t retake them if we can’t crush this idea of the collective.”
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U.S. Mayor Assures Mexican Consul His ‘Sanctuary City’ Will Provide Safe Spaces for Illegal Aliens
/in Courts & Law, Featured, Immigration, Policy, Politics, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Judicial WatchShortly after Donald Trump got elected president, a California mayor arranged a meeting with the Consul General of Mexico to assure the diplomat that his “sanctuary city” will continue providing safe spaces for illegal immigrants, according to records obtained by Judicial Watch. The documents show that Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin’s top aide, Stefan Elgstrand, sent an electronic mail to the Mexican Consul General in San Francisco, Gemi Jose Gonzalez Lopez, stating the following: “The recent events around Trump’s executive order reminded me to reach out to you. We are a sanctuary city and will continue to be. I imagine you are very busy dealing with the concerns and fears of many residents in the Bay Area, and we want to assist in providing safe spaces for them.”
Judicial Watch obtained the files as part of a California Public Records Act request for information surrounding riots by the radical leftist Antifa movement against President Trump and conservative personalities scheduled to speak at the University of California Berkeley. Media reported that fires were set, fences and windows broken, firebombs launched and commercial-grade fireworks thrown at police. A renowned, San Francisco-based pop culture magazine wrote that the uprising raised some big questions about the future of the free speech movement. Judicial Watch requested the files to shed light into how city, police and university officials handled the lawlessness, which received global news coverage. The request asked for records of communications between officials in the Berkeley mayor’s office and the Berkeley Police Department as well as records of communications between the mayor’s office and officials at UC Berkeley, one of the nation’s top public research universities.
The documents show a coordinated effort between Democratic city officials nationwide to “build the movement to resist Trump.” The operation is being financed by leftwing billionaire philanthropist George Soros through one of his groups called Center of Popular Democracy. Earlier this year Judicial Watch uncovered a scandal in which the U.S. government quietly gave millions of taxpayer dollars to destabilize the democratically elected, center-right government in Macedonia by colluding with Soros’ Open Society Foundation. The U.S. Ambassador to Macedonia, Jess L. Baily, worked behind the scenes with Open Society Foundation to funnel large sums of American dollars for the cause, constituting an interference of the U.S. Ambassador in domestic political affairs in violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. The cash flowed through the State Department and the famously corrupt U.S. Agency of International Development (USAID) and Judicial Watch sued both agencies for records related to funding and political activities of the Open Society Foundation in Macedonia.
The Soros-backed, northern California movement includes a taxpayer-salaried physics professor at UC Berkeley who advises Mayor Arreguin on how to handle conservative protestors at a spring rally. The professor, James McFadden, tells the mayor in an electronic mail obtained by Judicial Watch to “create a corral” and ask the Trump supporters to “get in the corral.” He describes Trump supporters as “delusional and paranoid about the world around them” and says they’re “willing to use violence to impose that order on us, especially when they have the blessing of a narcissistic authoritarian president.” A professor at another California public university tells the Berkeley mayor that the arrest of Antifa leader/middle school teacher Yvette Felarca for assaulting a political opponent (captured on video) at a Sacramento rally, in which seven people were stabbed, was a “McCarthyist political persecution” and he condemned Felarca’s arrest and teaching suspension “in the strongest possible terms.”
Ironically, Berkeley’s official government website brags about being a bastion of the free speech movement. “In Alameda County alone, Berkeley is ranked fourth in population behind Oakland, Fremont, and Hayward,” the website states. “And yet, we are famous around the globe as a center for academic achievement, scientific exploration, free speech and the arts.” Indeed, Berkeley is renowned as the birthplace of the free speech movement in in the 1960s. An opinion piece in a California newspaper points out that the city’s free speech movement has gone full circle, however. “Nowadays, Berkeley is rapidly becoming famed as one of the least tolerant cities in the country — where any challenge to left-wing orthodoxy is met with terrorist threats and mob violence.”
New Report on Impact of Legal Pot in Colorado Schools
/in Education, Healthcare, Policy, Politics, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by National Families in ActionThis week, the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area released its fifth annual report titled The Legalization of Marijuana in Colorado: The Impact, Volume 5. We devote today’s issue of The Marijuana Report newsletter to highlighting a few of many significant findings the report contains.
National Families in Action has remade some of the graphs and charts in the report to emphasize key findings. This one shows how many of Colorado’s students were expelled, referred to law enforcement, or suspended in the 2015-2016 school year. This is the first year the Colorado Department of Education differentiated marijuana violations from all drug violations, and this year’s report will serve as a baseline to determine whether marijuana violations increase, decrease, or stay fundamentally the same.
Read The Legalization of Marijuana in Colorado: The Impact, Volume 5 here. This information appears on page 41 (PDF page 49).
The new report explains that although Colorado created its own Healthy Kids Survey, the combination of a poor response rate and the fact that several major counties with large populations had low or no participation rendered the 2015 survey’s results invalid. For a discussion of this see page 33 (PDF page 41). Volume 5 relies on the National Survey on Drug Use and Health to compare Colorado marijuana use with the national average for ages 12-17, 18-25, and 26 & older over a ten year period (2005-2006 to 2014-2015).
See data for these graphs on the following pages:
Read The Legalization of Marijuana in Colorado: The Impact, Volume 5 here.
The report notes that data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2006-2011 Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), and 2012-2016 Colorado Department of Transportation show that drivers testing positive for marijuana who were killed in traffic crashes rose from 6 percent of all traffic deaths in 2006 to 20 percent eleven years later. Marijuana-related traffic deaths jumped from 9 percent to 14 percent once the state commercialized marijuana for medical use and from 11 percent to 20 percent after legalizing the drug for recreational use.
Read more about marijuana-related driving in Colorado here starting on page 13 (PDF page 21).
In 2016, more than one-third of Colorado drivers who tested positive for marijuana had marijuana only in their systems. Another 36 percent had marijuana and alcohol. Slightly over one-fifth tested positive for marijuana and other drugs but no alcohol, while 7 percent had marijuana, alcohol, and other drugs on board.
See page 18 (PDF page 26) in The Legalization of Marijuana in Colorado: The Impact, Volume 5 here.
The Supreme Falsehoods of HB 1523 Opponents
/in Commentary, Courts & Law, Culture War, Policy, Politics, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Family Research CouncilWhy do some people recklessly repeat statements ad nauseam which are, in the end, simply not true? Because for many, the means justify the ends. Some people will believe anything if it is repeated enough, allowing proponents of claims such as those made about Mississippi’s HB 1523 to see them increasingly accepted as true. Unfortunately, this does not help our increasingly fractured society get along, but only cements intolerance toward many well-meaning Christians — who themselves would never act in such bad faith toward those who disagree with biblical truth.Since HB 1523’s challengers lost before the 5thCircuit after they were not able to show how the law injured them, they have now appealed to the Supreme Court — and have recklessly mischaracterized the circumstances surrounding this law in doing so.
Their petition opens by absurdly arguing that the religious exemptions in HB 1523 “demean” and “stigmatize” same-sex couples and deny them equal treatment under the law (ostensibly, because such exemptions allow some to withhold their approval of such conduct). In the petitioners’ view, “[t]hat is precisely the harm that Obergefell sought to rectify.”
This line of reasoning misleadingly implies that HB 1523 somehow was designed to undercut Obergefell. It wasn’t. The law simply provides exemptions for those whose consciences are implicated by Obergefell — which can be followed consistent with HB 1523; same-sex marriages are still fully treated the same by the state of Mississippi as other marriages. Just as objections to military service and abortion have long been protected in law despite fitting the petitioners’ notion of a “particular” religion (notably, the petition never really addresses these areas), the law can provide conscience exemptions in other areas too.
Nevertheless, the petitioners continue to try to condition the reader to the “goodness” of Obergefell and the nefarious nature of any religious objections to it (notwithstanding the Supreme Court’s own recognition to the contrary) — the warm sounding yet nebulous “promise” of Obergefell is discussed, HB 1523 is alleged to “repudiate central aspects of petitioners’ lives, families, and identities,” and the law is an “attempt[] to use religious exemptions to undermine rights to equality and dignity of LGBT people.” Even the Masterpiece case is subtly equated with “state attempts to limit Obergefell by creating unprecedented religious exemptions.”
Christians are trying to live with Obergefell, and just protect their own conscience by not being forced under penalty of law to celebrate something that is clearly contrary to scripture. Yet instead of trying to find a reasonable middle ground, opponents of HB 1523 are forging ahead and asking the Supreme Court to take this case with the help of none other than former Obama Solicitor General Donald Verilli — who famously admitted at oral argument in Obergefell that religious institutions that disagree with same-sex marriage could lose their tax-exempt status.
Those supporting HB 1523 and similar legislation might disagree with Obergefell, but they are not trying to change the ruling — they are just trying to protect themselves in the face of it. If only those who support Obergefell and disagree with HB 1523 would do the same.
Tony Perkins’ Washington Update is written with the aid of FRC senior writers.
Also in the October 11 Washington Update:
Kellyanne Conway to Address VVS
The NFL Needs to Stop Kneeling on The Taxpayer’s Dime
Boy Scouts’ Decide to Fully Allow Girls into Program and Earn Coveted Eagle Scout
/in Commentary, Culture War, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Florida Family Policy Council(ORLANDO, FL) In response to the move by the Boy Scouts of America to fully include girls in their programming, Florida Family Policy Council President John Stemberger issued the following statement:
This change makes me even more grateful for Trail Life USA and American Heritage Girls – two Christian Scouting movements that parents can trust.”
John Stemberger is an Eagle Scout, a former Scoutmaster, and a Vigil Honor member of the Order of the Arrow. He was the founder of On My Honor movement and became the Chairman of the Board for Trail Life USA in 2013. He has two sons formerly in the BSA now boy members of Trail Life USA and two daughters in American Heritage Girls. Trail Life USA is a Christian scouting organization for boys which started in 2014 and now has around 30,000 members in 750 troops chartered across 48 states.
The Boy Scouts of America announced its decision to allow girls to join the BSA program and obtain the rank of Eagle Scout, the organization’s highest award earlier today. The BSA Board of Directors voted unanimously for the controversial change to their programming.
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Should the United States Military Academy at West Point Remain Open?
/in Must Read, National Security, Policy, Politics, Regulation, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Dr. Rich SwierI am a graduate of the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) at Washington University, in St. Louis, Missouri. I graduated in July 1967 and because I received one of the first full two year ROTC scholarships I was given a Regular Army commission and had a four year service obligation, the same as graduates of the United State Military Academy at West Point.
I served in peace time and in combat with many officers, subordinates, colleagues and superiors, who graduated from West Point. They, to a man, were always fine officers and gentlemen. I retired from the U.S. Army in 1990 as a Lieutenant Colonel (LTC).
It saddened me to receive a copy of a letter from LTC Robert M. Heffington, U.S. Army (Retired). A sworn statement by Colonel Heffington has been referenced in multiple publications dealing with former West Point Cadet, and now U.S. Army Lieutenant Spenser Rapone. In a Breitbart column titled “West Point Launches Investigation over Its Handling of Communist Soldier” Kristina Wong reports:
West Point has produced former presidents, numerous corporate executives and officers of the highest caliber who have held the highest positions in our military and Department of Defense. I have only the highest respect for graduates of West Point. However, West Point is under intense scrutiny for admitting, graduating and commissioning someone like Spencer Rapone.
QUESTION: Is Spenser Rapone an anomaly or endemic of something bigger?
That is the question raised and answered by LTC Heffington in his letter.
LTC Heffington’s letter begins with,
LTC Heffington then writes, “However, during my time on the West Point faculty (2006-2009 and again from 2013-2017), I personally witnessed a series of fundamental changes at West Point that have eroded it to the point where I question whether the institution should even remain open.”
Here are the reasons that, sadly, LTC Heffington questions whether West Point should remain open:
LTC Heffington ended his letter writing:
It hurts me to publish this as a retired Army officer as much as it saddened LTC Heffington who wrote this letter. LTC Heffington is truly an officer and a gentleman. He is doing what his training, oath and rank require – to tell the truth.
Duty, honor, country!
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