Why Flying Our Flag Upside Down is NOT Illegal nor Insulting to our National Colors

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The following are just some of the reasons we have reached that point where flying the American flag upside down is necessary as a symbol of national distress.

  1. FBI ordered to vet 25K national guardsmen because Biden Admin thinks there may be “white supremacists” or “right wing extremists” among them planning an attack.  Based on what?  1 NG guy from NJ found inside Capital building and one female Air Force vet shot to death inside capital building on Jan. 6th, 2021 inferring the entire military are potential insurrectionists?
  2. SOD orders entire military to stand down for 60 days to investigate for any extremists (and then what, court martial them?)
  3. Department Homeland Security ordered to look for people and groups that have contrarian views (e.g. conservatives) to the Biden Admin ideology and charge them as “domestic terrorists” – note under the unconstitutional Patriot Act a US citizen deemed to be a “domestic terrorist” even just because he/she has a different world view or thinks differently or opposes socialism can be arrested and imprisoned without Due Process and confined “indefinitely”.
  4. Biden has ordered all immigration laws be ignored e.g. stop deportations, let 14K detainees free, stop wall construction, let illegals across our borders which will include, violent gang members, murderers, drug traffickers, human traffickers, foreign terrorists etc.  – is this not a national security issue?
  5. Biden has reversed the Trump order that no federal (e.g. tax payer) $ flow to Sanctuary Cities which have been hotbeds of illegal alien criminal activities.
  6. Biden lifted the ban on transgenders in the military which allows mentally ill people to enter the military and have sex change operations at taxpayer expense.
  7. Biden has ordered the wearing of masks on all federal property and lands – so what does this mean for servicemembers training on federal lands?
  8. Biden has ordered the fed govt to “pursue a comprehensive approach to advancing equity for all with respect to race, ethnicity, religion, income, geography, gender identity, sexual orientation and disability” – can you imagine what this is going to do to military personnel policies including promotion system and policies ?  Also military pay.
  9. Biden has revoked Trump’s travel ban on nations with individuals posing a terrorist threat to the US.
  10. Biden is taking advice from and putting members of the Chinese Communist Party into key govt. positions and sure as hell has personally profited from millions $ provided him and his family from the Chicoms and the Russians.  Is this someone we want as our Commander-In-Chief.  I’m sure many, like me, who fought against communism putting ourselves in harm’s way  for so many years of our military careers are now exasperated at what has come to pass.

And the rush to socialism goes on –  if these actions in only the first two weeks don’t pose a threat to U.S. national security and our military readiness then I don’t know what does and this is only the tip of the iceberg.

For every military veteran who opposes this symbolism of flying our flag upside down, I’d bet anyone a six pack of their favorite beverage. Their are two currently flying their flags upside in a legal display of their first amendment rights.  There are no laws, ordinances, codes or even protocols that restrict this – if there were then why can people burn, stomp on, walk on, spit on, drag on ground, put in toilets full of urine and crap as displays of art, etc. etc. and get away with it.  It is a leftist propaganda fear tactic to tell folks they will be arrested if they fly their flags upside down.

By the way, any veteran who opposes flying our national colors upside down but watches NBA games or watched the Super Bowl on Sunday should look inward at the hypocrisy of supporting prima donna millionaires who think our flag and national anthem are symbols of “oppression” but criticize those vets who see flying the flag upside down as a symbol against our country becoming a socialist/communist state.

Remember what Benjamin Franklin wrote, “ “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”

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FLORIDA: Tampa Mayor sending police after people who didn’t wear a facemask at Super Bowl?

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It appears that Democrat Jane Castor, the Mayor of Tampa, Florida, is coming after those, like Governor Ron DeSantis (see Tweet below), who did not wear a face mask at the Super Bowl game.

Watch:

It appears that Mayor Castor is targeting Governor Ron DeSantis. Here’s why:

This is tyranny in its most transparent form. This is using the pandemic to impose a police state upon those who just wanted to drink their beer and enjoy the Tampa Bay Bucs win over the Kansas City Chiefs.

The Democrat Party and Biden are now officially The Fourth Reich.

They are now exposed for what they really are, enemies of We The People.

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis keeps door open on 2024 presidential run

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Watch the peerless Governor Ron DeSantis in his pre-Super Bowl interview. Can you imagine President Biden on the debate stage against this man? Governor DeSantis’ performance in Florida has been so outstanding, that it is becoming difficult to imagine not supporting him in 2024. He has everything you can possibly want in an effective candidate. He can also provide a real life contrast to the pro-lockdown Biden Administration.

Let’s see how President Biden contrasts his pro-lockdown policies with Governor DeSantis’ pro-freedom policies, that have much of the Northeast flocking to Florida.

Ron DeSantis keeps door open on 2024 presidential run

By Fox News, February 7, 2022

Gov. Ron DeSantis showed up on Fox and Friends Sunday and found himself for the second time in recent days addressing 2024 Presidential speculation.

The Governor did not close the door on the race in 2024, but as he did when asked late last week, the Governor will not say no to a run that would happen at the beginning of his second term, should he be reelected in 2022.

When host Will Cain asked DeSantis if he was going to take the 2024 plunge, the Governor laughed theatrically.

“We’ve got a great Governor’s election in 2022, which will be very important for our state and quite frankly I think, uh, you know, it gives us the ability to keep the momentum going, so that’s what we’re focused on.”

When asked if that was a no, the Governor demurred.

“That’s a ‘we have 2022 to worry about’,” the Governor said.

Indeed, the Governor is positioning himself nicely for whatever may come in the Governor’s race next year, with $9.5 million in his Friends of Ron DeSantis political committee. Though he has said that he doesn’t poll, allies do: the Florida Chamber of Commerce, as we reported on Jan. 29, had the Governor at 54% approval in its most recent canvass of the state.

Whether he’s running to serve the full four years is another matter, however, as enthusiasts in the conservative media continue to urge him toward the 2024 starting line. A recent Newsmax appearance saw the Governor address head on “speculation” that he would run for President.

As with the Newsmax hit, which allowed DeSantis to compare his leadership style favorably to that of other Republicans, the Fox News spot (purportedly “cohosting” a Super Bowl pregame segment) allowed him to go far afield of the action tonight at Raymond James Stadium.

Familiar tropes, such as maunderings about the left-liberal “partisan agenda” and narratives of the “corporate elite media” and Democratic-run “dystopias,” filled more of the segment than the Governor’s commentary on the Super Bowl, which he still sees as a Tampa Bay Buccaneers win.

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No, We Don’t Need a ‘Reality-Czar’: Let Truth and Falsehood Grapple

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It is hard to see how Americans’ well-being would be advanced by a ‘reality czar.”

New York Times writer Kevin Roose recently surveyed “our truth-challenged information ecosystem” and found a proliferation of “hoaxes, lies and collective delusions.” As he put it, that limits the Biden administration’s ability to “unite a country,” because “millions of people have chosen to create their own version of reality.” In response, he called for the creation of a “reality czar”-led government task force to root out disinformation.

Roose admits such a call for a “truth commission” sounds “dystopian,” before proceeding to ignore many ways it would be exactly that. For instance, the Times, the Biden campaign, the Democrat leadership, and others on board with the idea have come nowhere close to pursuing “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.” Yet despite a history of disseminating misinformation, clear biases, and suppression of those with different views, they would select the arbiters of Orwellian truth.

So who could be trusted as the reality czar? No one.

Just ask Democrats why they never suggested having one when Trump was in office. In politics, truth is subservient to power. But since any attempt to provably establish the truth would be littered with obstacles and controversies, and often beyond possibility, while creating a substantial threat to Americans’ freedoms, only someone who was indisputably committed to both truth and freedom could possibly be trusted to lead such an enterprise. And there are precious few who would qualify. If he wasn’t long dead, I would nominate John Milton.

Why Milton?

Before America’s founding, he argued for freedoms of speech and the press, and against censorship, in England. His defense of freedom of conscience later powerfully resonated with America’s founders, reflected in our First Amendment. So it is worth considering the principles he would follow to establish truth and preserve freedom, in his own words.

  1. If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.
  2. Truth and understanding are not such wares as to be monopolized.
  3. When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty obtained that wise men look for.
  4. Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
  5. Truth…Let her and falsehood grapple.
  6. Who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?
  7. Truth…needs no policies or stratagems…to make her victorious. These are the shifts and the defenses that error uses against her power.
  8. There is no learned man but will confess be hath much profited by reading controversies–his senses awakened, his judgment sharpened, and the truth which he holds firmly established…should it not at least be tolerable and free for his adversary to write…it follows then, that all controversy being permitted, falsehood will appear more false, and truth the more true; which must needs conduce much to the general confirmation of an implicit truth.
  9. Discern…in what things persuasion only is to work.
  10. No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality.
  11. Liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need.
  12. None can love freedom but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license, which never hath more scope than under tyrants.
  13. How oft [have] nations gone corrupt…by their own devices brought down to servitude.
  14. What do terms…which are at once corrupt and misapplied, denote but a people…ripe for servitude?
  15. Is it just or reasonable, that…voices against the main end of government should enslave [those] that would be free?
  16. They who seek nothing but their own just liberty, have always right to win it and to keep it…be the voices ever so numerous that oppose it.

In addition, Milton would have some other important qualifications in evaluating reality. He would not be misled by government promises that threaten the rights that comprise our liberty, just because the government doesn’t mention that fact.

Similarly, when benefit promises far out-weigh promised exactions from citizens, he would recognize that they are omitting some of the truth. As one of history’s most important poets, he would have expertise in what should be considered poetic license. As the second most important author in the English language, after Shakespeare, he would certainly also be alert to the abuse of language not in pursuit of truth, but of power over others. Just some of the words that have had their meanings warped are unity, we, rights, freedom, fair, justice, social, capitalism, need, and greed. And there has been plenty of added word twisting recently, with insurrection being near the top of the list.

It is obvious that discussing John Milton as a reality or truth czar is not a serious proposal. But that discussion reveals the position’s necessary requirements of the love of truth and the love of freedom our country was founded on.

Further, it shows that anyone fully meeting those requirements, if given the task, would find a great deal about the positions, promises and policies of those who appointed them both untrue and unworthy of freedom.

Consequently, no such czar would ever be appointed. And it is hard to see how Americans’ well-being would be advanced by anyone less trustworthy for the job.

COLUMN BY

Gary M. Galles

Gary M. Galles is a Professor of Economics at Pepperdine University and a member of the Foundation for Economic Education faculty network. In addition to his new book, Pathways to Policy Failures (2020), his books include Lines of Liberty (2016), Faulty Premises, Faulty Policies (2014), and Apostle of Peace (2013).

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The Power of Otherization

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Otherization is the age-old phenomenon advanced by individuals who have a sense of their own specialness in the world.  The only antidote for their destructive behavior is for the “others” to assert their dignity and reclaim their culture, civilization, and country.

Some time ago, it was suggested that I submit my essays to a respected online publisher. It was accepted, but when it came time to reading the published piece, I realized it was missing my explanation, the point of my effort. I checked it against the original and wondered how the line had been dropped. I called the editor’s attention to what I thought was an inadvertent glitch, only to learn that he had removed it intentionally, not realizing its cruciality. After a few words of explanation, he agreed to its reinsertion, but the initial readers had been robbed of my intent.

It happened yet again.  Finding no spelling or grammatical errors and, I assumed, feeling a need to “do something,” he took an action that suited his own predisposition.  In his own defense, he cited his credentials.  What good are credentials when the patient has died?  He said it was not his company’s policy to check rewrites with the author, and I explained it was not my policy to have my name attached to changes I’d not endorsed.  And that was that.

Now, years later, I sent my recent essay, “Wasted Lives,” to an Israeli publisher that had been posting my work for numerous years.  I was one of several listed as bloggers.  When I searched my work on the site this time, I found my essay was replete with typographical or spelling errors, sarcastic parenthetical remarks, one or two unusual introductory insertions, and a postscript following my closing quote from a prominent author.  I contacted the editor to ask what happened and realized that she had taken a particular interest in my essay. In fact, she posted it on the op-ed page, which, apparently, then gave her leave to insert and embellish at will.  Her interest was personal, and her interjections were to the situations, quite unnecessary since I provided my opposition to the propaganda in ensuing paragraphs and links.  She was obviously slighted by my displeasure, did not apologize for her blunders, and the piece, complete with the nonsense and misspellings, remains buried forever under my authorship.  That was also that.

These incidents, while certainly small potatoes, are representative of something much larger that we are seeing in our world today.

There are many in positions of varying degrees of influence who have come to believe that they have both the power and perhaps divine right to scrutinize the deeds of others and take any actions they deem appropriate for their own objectives.  They have become the superior beings over the inferior ones who must obey.  The superiors have the right to “otherize,” to wield their power, to view and treat other persons or groups as intrinsically different from and alien to themselves.  “Otherization,” the noun, describes the condition in which an individual or group is excluded by an artificially established norm, thereby creating the discord endemic to a class system.

In our own schools, academia has infused a program that, under the guise of diversity, has divided the children against themselves, taught them to otherize by ethnicity, race, sex, and country of origin.  Instead of equality in laws and opportunities, they are taught equity, for equal outcome, which is unfairly regulating opportunities and treatment for enforced conformity.  The current vilification that has captured and manipulated our population is turning people of color against all Caucasians, uniting against so-called “white supremacism.”  They are first imbued with a sense of victimization, resentment and anger, then inflated with an entitlement, superiority, and need for revenge.  They are never taught that all of mankind’s history is a story of enslavement of all people, and that we in the west have made the abolition of slavery the law of our land.

The new powerful are then spurred to riot, damage, loot, cause harm and pain, while being exonerated of conscience and remorse.  These are our own “jihadis,” protected by their uniform black clothes and masks to erase detection, shame and facial expressions.  They are united to loot, set fires, bring down monuments to erase our history, and blamelessly attack police and everyday citizens.  This power of destruction, permitted, and even fortified, to flourish with payments and donated signs and weapons, enriches them to continue.  Their destruction has now reached a price tag of many hundreds of millions of dollars.

We know the schools are complicit.  For too long our revolutionary academia abandoned their dedication to a good education and replaced it with social justice ideology – with the goal of redistribution of everything for equity – the same outcome regardless of talent, ability, hard work, acquired knowledge and achievement.  The promise of equal opportunity penned in the US Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson has been corrupted by the socialists; the lot of some coming at the expense of others.  The elements of tribalism and discord are overcoming civilization and the cardinal values we hold dear.”

Beyond the foregoing luminaries are those of far greater influence, the social-media ubermenchen of the Internet or World Wide Web, whose world view is socialism, globalism, and intolerance of the “others.”  Being bestowed with enormous wealth, they therefore presume that they must possess exceptional wisdom.  Known as “Big Tech” (BT), they use their technological muscle to censor, shadow ban, and data mine to swing our country’s ideology to the left.  Established in the milieu of freedom of speech, intellect, information, expression, differing ideas and honest debate, BT not only discourages these ideals but is capable of removing them entirely.  Any topic researched may come up its opposite, to the leftist platform, or completely obliterated.

They are self-anointed standard bearers whose rules are resolute.   Views deemed “hate speech,” without explanation or defense, are eradicated.  The culprits are Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Netflix, and Youtube, which limit “dangerous content” (others’ views) and have gone so far as to remove access to communication necessities from the President of the United States.  If they can do it to him, why not to the rest of us?  A 2020 survey showed that Americans believed Big Tech has too much power, their reach immeasurable, their damage unbounded.

Their power extends to political coercion, control of information to affect public relations and opinions.  Suggestions of buyers’ remorse with regard to the election of Biden-Harris are suddenly surfacing as voters are learning what was previously withheld – information detrimental to their Constitutional rights.  The acolytes of the elites further conducted ballot harvesting, tampering and stuffing; voter suppression, and illegal poling practices.  Their minions threaten job loss and even bodily harm. All of this is only acceptable to a self-proclaimed elite who think in terms of ‘them’ and ‘us,’ classic otherization.

The winner was announced, the installation made – of a mentally impaired man who is illegally using the title and position of President of the United States.  This was a dream come true, not for us, but for former President Obama, who openly declared that he wanted a third term as president, because he is assuredly pulling the strings in the Deep State.  He now has four more years to bring to ruin the country that he and his wife openly detest and disrespect.  And should the illegitimacy be challenged, a tall wall with razor wire (a wall that Democrats eschewed for our southern border) encircles the compound in Washington.  Further, 27,000 armed National Guards also patrol, a sure-fire sign of a tyrannical regime’s preparedness to fight the 80 million flag-waving, freedom-loving American citizens, the Others.

We are now as close as we could ever have imagined to being a totalitarian state, with companies closing and rampant job loss, citizens deprived of access to communication and other basic services, opinions stifled and threats of re-education camps or classes.  The left has ample control over every facet of our society and, cleverly, has shifted the blame to the victims, the Others, the inferior white Europeans whose ancestry built the best free nation in the world, the ones who said we have a Republic – if we can keep it.

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Biden’s intersectional policies are incoherent

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In the victim stakes the person with the thickest overlap of intersectional disadvantage wins.

Under the Biden Administration, we are going to be hearing a lot about “intersectionality” as an ineluctable dimension of social justice and the American Dream.

Intersectionality is a refinement of identity politics. It is not as complex as it might sound. For instance, being black or female or gay in America is regarded as a distinct identity that implies disadvantage or at least challenges on the path to equality. If someone ticks two or more of those boxes they have an intersectional identity. This means that their challenges and disadvantages are greatly compounded.

So, intersectionality identifies the overlapping prejudices that people face because of their ethnicity, race, sex, sexuality, disability, etc. In the victim stakes the person with the thickest overlap wins. The more prejudice, the more moral prestige, the greater the claim to affirmative support.

This is going to be important over the next four years, so let’s see how it’s working out.

American Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman, who read her poem, The Hill we Climb, at the inauguration of President Biden is a good example of the moral prestige of intersectionality. Amanda spoke of herself as “the skinny black girl, descended from slaves, raised by a single mother” who is now free to dream of becoming President. In those few well-chosen words, she bedded herself securely within the pie chart of intersectional disadvantage.

But the truth is rather more complex.

Amanda along with her twin sister was indeed raised by a single mother, Joan Wicks, a middle school teacher of English. However, Amanda’s back story suggests privilege too.. She attended a private school in Santa Monica called New Roads. The fees there are in the region of US$40,000 a year. New Roads is very politically correct. Its mission statement proclaims that “solidarity and allyship are in our DNA”.

Amanda went from New Roads to another bastion of American privilege, Harvard University, from which she graduated with a BA last year.

You would think that a thick layer of education privilege would thin out the layers of prejudice below it. Not so. New Roads and Harvard add to Ms Gorman’s social privilege but she retains the moral privilege of being intersectional. It’s a bit odd.

Kamala Harris is another black woman with a complex background.

She is a child of immigrants. But her parents came to America as promising students who rose rapidly through the ranks of academia to the position of tenured Stanford professor, in her father’s case, and lead researcher in the field of breast cancer, in her mother’s. America allowed them to prosper.

One can talk about glass ceilings but could Kamala Harris really have faced greater challenges than say, the son of a travelling salesman whose father died in a car accident three months before his birth and whose mother later re-married a man he described as an “abusive gambler and alcoholic”? That of course was Bill Clinton, a straightforward, clever, heterosexual, white, male. Despite these disadvantages, he could never be an intersectional victim. Why? Because the colour of his skin is the silver spoon he was born with, whether he recognises it or not. It is perceived to overcome or dwarf somehow all the other challenges of his early life.

The intersectionality virus sends politicians desperately digging in their identity for a category which makes them a victim.

President Joe Biden, as another example, can lighten the load of his straight, white male baggage by talking up his Irish ancestry. While his maternal grandfather is Irish, his paternal grandfather’s lineage, along with his surname, traces to Sussex in deepest England. His maternal grandmother is mostly French and he carries her surname as his middle name. Identifying with an oppressed race, however, is a good image and if the oppressed race concerned is Irish, well, sure that never did any American politician any harm.

Biden was not long in the Oval Office before he had mapped out the full extent of his commitment to identity politics and intersectionality in all its divisiveness. There is no area of his policy platform that it does not touch.

He even announced that help packages for businesses struggling as a result of the pandemic would be based on sex and ethnicity. Friendly media have since tried to rescue him from the fallout of his controversial remarks with helpful fact checks. But as President-elect he announced on January 10: “our priority will be Black, Asian, Latino and Native American owned businesses and women owned businesses”.

Statements like this sum up the flawed thinking underlying intersectionality and identity politics. Disadvantage is not seen as an individual condition. It is a matter of the colour of your skin, gender or sexual orientation. But there cannot be a surer way to “other” minorities than to stamp them with victimhood — even when members of the black community reject it as leading black commentators like Thomas Sowell, Larry Elder and Candace Owens do. These voices within the minority don’t count because they undermine the noblesse oblige of the elite who have placed themselves at the tip of a power pyramid with an ever-widening base of minority groups. Their position there depends on identifying such groups, stoking their grievances and shaming and silencing their named oppressors.

Because their political raison d’etre depends on attacking the dominant culture as the oppressor, intersectional victims can never be the unifying force that Biden pledged his government would be in his inaugural address. The composition of his cabinet crosses a wide spectrum of race, religion and gender identity, to be sure, but there is not, for example, a single evangelical Christian in the mix. This is not necessarily his fault of course. He would be hard pressed to find one willing to serve — but it does show the limits and limitations of inclusion.

The current US Supreme Court is ethnically diverse, too, but it leans decisively towards Christian conservatism, counting its sole black member, Clarence Thomas, among the conservatives — just another instance of how intersectionality works in real life.

This is not Biden’s idea of diversity because his does not extend to opinions and ideas.

Biden was right when he said in his inaugural address, quoting the words of St Augustine –who, incidentally, had little faith in the ability of politics alone to create a just society — that a multitude becomes a people when their identity is “defined by the common objects of their love”.

In his list of those objects, Biden gave special emphasis to truth.

But truth cannot be reduced to a slogan or appropriated by one or other political platform. Many of those who voted against Biden did so because for them it is untruthful to describe abortion as “healthcare for women — which is exactly what Biden did in the first few days in power when he set about reversing the restrictions Trump had placed around abortion during his presidency.

They would also hold it is untruthful to describe protests that cost US$1.4 billion of damage to property and the loss of 28 lives as “peaceful”. Or untruthful to say he supports women’s rights when he backs laws that allow biological men to compete against them in sport, to share their private spaces and potentially their prisons and refuge centres. Untruthful, too, to say that he defends minority rights when he continues to trade with repressive regimes around the world and to turn a blind eye to the oppression of the very minorities he has places at the centre of your domestic politics.

The Biden era, like the Obama era and the might-have-been Hillary Clinton era, is doubling down on identity politics. This is deeply divisive and creates pushback that will drive voters into the arms of populists and nationalists.

Biden still has time to change course but, with the agressively identitarian Kamala Harris at his elbow and rights bodies huddling parasitically around the seat of power, that won’t be easy.

COLUMN BY

Margaret Hickey writes on faith and social issues and has been published in The Irish Examiner, Human Life Review(US), Position Papers, The Furrow, The Iona Blog and The Irish Times. 

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THE PROBLEM WITH MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Is The Stream Being Poisoned?

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I understand the concern of many in traditional newspaper journalism about the unfair advantage that social media has when earning advertising revenue from free content generated by traditional media which has to pay its journalists. However, the mainstream media needs to look in the mirror to see if perhaps its bias and political and cultural positions are driving away readers, who move to social media precisely because the mainstream media content has become so one-sided. A good example is a recent story by The Canadian Press carried by many Canadian newspapers. Entitled “Domestic terrorism a growing U.S. threat”.

The article is accompanied by a photo showing Trump supporters waiving American flags and suggests that “a dangerous and escalating threat of homegrown violent extremism (is) following last month’s riots on Capitol Hill.”

A counter-terrorism expert is quoted as saying that prior to the January 6th riots, terrorism was largely an international threat and afterword it became a domestic one. Elizabeth Neumann says she believes “that we will be fighting domestic terrorism that has its roots and inspiration points from January 6 for the next 10 to 20 years.” However, it is quite preposterous to argue that a riot by about one hundred people of so far unknown affiliation dwarfs the largely peaceful rally by hundreds of thousands of peaceful citizens, expressing their concerns about the fairness of election proceedings. We need to discuss what is “domestic terrorism” and what is the danger in including in the concept only right wing riots, when all summer long, Americans were subject to horrific Black Lives Matter and Antifa destruction of the downtowns of large American cities, destroying small businesses. In Seattle the BLM and Antifa terrorists even set up what they called a sovereign territory. Such terrorism, including an attack and burning of a police station was largely tolerated by authorities, who were too fearful to adequately police these vast riots. The article referred to above does not even mention these summer riots when it comes to discussing domestic terrorism Why is that? And is there something wrong with the reporting of mainstream media?

In large part this is because media has a bias in favour of left wing terrorists and is all too willing to exaggerate the threats from right-wing terrorists. Compare the numbers, the violent tactics, and the influence of the BLM and Antifa rioters with any right-wing organization. I would suggest that there is no moral or political equivalency between Qanon and the Proud Boys on one side and BLM and Antifa on the other. Kamala Harris cheered on BLM as did other Democrats. The Democrats feature 4 younger politicians who call themselves the “Squad”. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar have made anti-Semitic anti-Israel statements and Ayanna Pressley has backed violent protests. Omar, quite soon after her election as a congresswoman, refused to retract anti-Semitic comments and Nancy Pelosi, Majority House Leader, despite pressure to discipline her, refused to take any action and Omar continues on the Foreign Affairs Committee. There are other Democrats who also can be categorized as far Left-wing, such as Bernie Sanders and Raphael Warnock, but the mainstream media obsess unduly on the marginalized right-wing groups, even though they are tiny.

Such right-wing groups of course owe whatever allegiance they have to media and Democratic party political attacks on moderate Conservatives, calling them “deplorables” who cling to their Bibles and guns. That is because such allegations seek to disenfranchise the moderate heartland. The result is that many are driven to extremist language as a consequence.

So, while many Democrats support far left personalities, few if any Republicans endorse far-right activists. The only exception might be Marjory Taylor Green, who was by bi-partisan efforts removed from her committee duties due to unacceptable comments made prior to running from office. Yet the Democrats refused to disassociate themselves in any way from the said Ms. Omar.

Conservatives who read mainstream media are faced with articles that are less news than opinion. Conservative readers were aware that election laws were changed to benefit the Democrats by allowing mail-in voting and during the election day itself Republican monitors were prevented from getting close to the ballots they were supposed to observe. Republicans, were not happy when news stories assumed, without due factual proof, that Republican complaints were “unsubstantiated.” And then, with the exception of the New York Post and Fox News, all mainstream media refused to cover the Joe and Hunter Biden story, despite documentary evidence of their conflict of interest between their business interests in China and Ukraine and Joe’s duty as Vice-President and now President. The media kept quiet about documentary and video evidence provided by former business partner Tony Bobolinsky, a most reputable gentleman.

The mainstream media became fond of calling President Trump and some of his right-wing supporters “authoritarian” However, under the guise of fighting the Coronavirus, it is the mainstream that supports lockdown, quarantines and potentially the need to show official documents before traveling from one state or province to another, where lockdowns and quarantines will take us somewhere truly authoritarian. More right-wingers are libertarian and prefer limited government powers, but we should note that the mainstream media is on the side of big and powerful Government with power to restrict free speech, and grant entry to undocumented aliens with criminal pasts.

Conservatives feel the game is stacked against them when big tech Oligarchs like the owners of Facebook, Twitter, and Google censor their comments. Abusing their privilege as a supposed non-journalistic “platform” to control the public’s ability to get unbiased information, is another way that the collusion between big tech and media and big corporations leaves conservatives feeling shunned and censored, driving them ever farther rightward – when such matters as the unsuccessful Russian collusion Special Investigation, the hopeless impeachment proceeding and the apparent criminality of false FISA applications, obstruction of justice in the destruction of cellphones and computers, showed it is the Democrats who are threats to the Rule of Law, and not so much President Trump. Chuck Schumer, Adam Schiff and Gerry Nadler can be seen to have been too successful in their manipulations, for their own good.

Just this week, Fox fired longtime conservative television host Lou Dobbs and this further moves Fox away from alternative conservative media and towards “mainstream media.”

The mainstream stream has dried up, another result of cultural relativism, political correctness and cancel culture; “mainstream” is defined as “the ideas, attitudes, or activities that are regarded as normal or conventional; the dominant trend in opinion, fashion, or the arts.” I do not regard this relativism, cancel culture, anti-Israel antisemitism and hatred of anything conservative to be “normal.” It is abnormal. Accordingly, the mainstream is dead, so those who try to ride the “dominant” views and have shunned me or my authors at Mantua Books can have their mainstream. Nearly half of all Americans voted for President Trump who is hated by most of the mainstream media. Such voters know that the mainstream media represents mainly the views of the Swamp, the Deep State, anti-liberal academics and bureaucrats and socialist NGOs.

Cambridge Dictionary defines “mainstream media” as those “forms of the media especially traditional forms such as newspapers, television and radio, rather than the internet, that influence large numbers of people and are likely to represent generally accepted beliefs and opinion.

If the mainstream media is supposed to represent “generally accepted beliefs”, today’s mainstream is deficient for rejecting such traditional beliefs as:

  • freedom of expression
  • the constitutional right to bear arms
  • not taking the life of a baby during pregnancy when such is a viable life.
  • limited government
  • support for the right of Israeli Jews not to be murdered by terroristic neighbours whose education system brainwashes children to murder
  • Iran is a terrorist supporting regime that admits it wants to use a nuclear bomb on Israel and foments war in Syria, Iraq and Yemen
  • China is not a friendly country and so breaches fundamental human rights that trading with China should be understood as supporting an evil regime.
  • self-sufficiency in energy is important for the U.S. and alternate producers of energy create as much if not more pollution than oil pipelines.
  • critical race theory is counter-productive to Blacks and is itself racist
  • biological men should not compete in women’s sports
  • all cultures are not equal, as cultures based on freedom and liberty are superior to cultures of hate, misogyny and abuse, which are inferior
  • Judeo-Christian ethics

And so, as mainstream media pleads its case for special compensation from internet platforms taking its content, we should use the opportunity to confront mainstream media. We should demand that mainstream media stick to its mission of fair journalism, emphasizing “normal” and “conventional” ideas, and “generally accepted beliefs and opinion”. If the mainstream is a poisoned stream, it will be detrimental to our liberal democracy.

©Howard Rothberg. All rights reserved.

Biden Announces Rollback Of All Jobs Created By Trump

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WASHINGTON, D.C.—In a surprise announcement at the start of the week, President Biden revealed that, for the good of the country, he will be eliminating all jobs created by Trump.

“Listen, folks– it’s time to wash away the mistakes of the past,” said Biden to a clump of bran in his cereal bowl he mistook for his labor secretary. “Trump was a bad racist man, and everything he did was bad. It’s time to roll back all the racist jobs he created and replace them with new, non-racist jobs– like windmill painters, solar panel squeegee repairmen, and COVID lockdown enforcers.”

Journalists at The New York Times praised the announcement as “a step in the right direction” toward forever erasing the Trump presidency. “All those millions of jobs have been tainted by white supremacy,” said Executive Editor Dean Baquet. “All those people who are losing their jobs should thank President Biden since they no longer work in Trump-created jobs and are now on the right side of history.”

Biden has promised to build special labor camps for people who have lost their jobs and still want to do some labor. “We will pay you with 1 bag of rice per week, and some delicious powdered milk!” he announced proudly.

Unfortunately, this measure is expected to eliminate most mainstream journalism jobs, since Trump created most of those too.

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Are No-Fault Divorces Destroying The Ideal of Marriage Between One Man and One Woman?

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I have been married to my wife and life partner for 55 years. Sadly, I am the exception rather than the rule.

QUESTION: Why haven’t we made it a priority to support, promote and reward marriage as between one man and one woman, till death do them part?

The first recorded evidence of a marriage ceremony uniting one woman and one man dates from circa 2350 B.C., in Mesopotamia.

The family is the bed rock of any culture and the highest ideal of any society. Marriage is more than a bond between one man and one woman. It is a spiritual, social and cultural construct that requires faith, trust and fidelity forever.

There are many things that destroy a marriage, and with it the family. Among them are:

  • Government policies.
  • Moral decay.
  • Cultural decay.
  • The destruction of the “sanctity of marriage” as between one man and one woman.

Government Policies

One of the government policies that has lead to the destruction of marriage as between one man and one woman, and with it the family, is no-fault divorces.

LegalZoom.com defines no-fault divorce as follows:

A no-fault divorce is premised on the idea that one spouse does not have to prove the breakdown of the marriage is the other spouse’s fault, either based on their behavior or mental state.

This idea that no-one is at fault is a big lie. The truth is that either the husband or wife or both are at fault. Placing the fault is a way of punishing the wrong doer. It is a way of preserving the institution and sanctity of marriage.

The following states have no-fault divorce laws. In these states, people do not have the option of asserting the other person is at fault for the divorce.

  • California
  • Colorado
  • District of Columbia
  • Florida
  • Hawaii
  • Indiana
  • Iowa
  • Kansas
  • Kentucky
  • Michigan
  • Minnesota
  • Missouri
  • Montana
  • Nebraska
  • Nevada
  • Oregon
  • Washington
  • Wisconsin

According to LegalZoom.com:

In the rest of the country, you may file for divorce either asserting one of several legal fault grounds or you may file for a no-fault divorce. Of course, every state has its own statutes governing divorce, but generally speaking, legal fault grounds include:

  • Addiction or chemical dependency
  • Adultery
  • Bigamy
  • Desertion or abandonment
  • Impotence
  • Imprisonment of one of the parties to the marriage (and, in some states, criminal convictions)
  • Marriage between close relatives (as defined by the statutes of each state)
  • Marriage obtained by force or fraud
  • Mental abuse or mental cruelty
  • Mental illness
  • Mental incapacity at the time of the marriage
  • Physical abuse or physical cruelty

The Role of the Church and Santified Marriage

The notion of marriage as a sacrament, and not just a contract, can be traced to St. Paul who compared the relationship of a husband and wife to that of Christ and his church.

Ephesians 5:23, 25, 28–31 reads:

“The husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. . . .

“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;. . .

“So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

“For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church.

“For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

“For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh”

Government Gets Involved in Marriage

To understand the history behind the massive and long term movement to infiltrate our institutions and government to destroy the family and marriage watch the below video.

WATCH: The Marxist-Inspired Evil. It’s all about sex.

Marriage began its downfall when government got involved. Before government involvement marriage, “was a private affair, an agreement between families that didn’t require government approval.”

According to the Ancestry.com article Marriage Licenses: More Than Just Permission to Wed:

Marriage licenses are a relatively new invention, dating only to the 19th century.

[ … ]

States started requiring a license and certificate because marriages have legal ramifications, affecting property, inheritance, and taxes. Couples needed to prove they were unmarried and of marriageable age (usually over 18), sharing some key details to get the go-ahead to wed. And in the 1930s, several U.S. states passed “gin marriage” laws, in response to Prohibition-era worries that people would enter into hasty marriages while under the influence of alcohol. They required couples to wait several days between receiving their license to wed and getting married.

Today government, with the approval of the U.S. Supreme Court, allows men to marry  men and women to marry women. Both concepts have been tried before and failed. Only one man and one woman, since the time of Adam and Eve, have been considered the bedrock of marriage. Without marriage between one man and one woman, for life, there can only be heartbreak and sorrow.

Our uniquely American culture was based upon the ideal of marriage as between one man and one woman. Divorce was considered not just a failure but a threat to our culture and society. Divorce today is heralded by many in Hollywood as a badge of honor. If you haven’t been divorced you ain’t woke enough.

Woe upon  the current culture of infidelity, sinfulness and evil.

Time to bring back marriage as only between one man and one woman. Damn be those who think otherwise for they are doing the work of satan to destroy families.

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

TIME Magazine: ‘Secret,’ ‘Well-funded Cabal’ Worked to ‘Protect’ 2020 Election

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Protect = steal. In this extraordinarily Stalinesque piece of propaganda the left reveals more than it deceives. They are boasting about stealing the election.

Time Magazine: ‘Secret,’ ‘Well-funded Cabal’ Worked to ‘Protect’ 2020 Election

By: Breitbart News, February 5, 2021:

Time magazine has published a detailed account of what it describes as a “conspiracy” between “left-wing activists and business titans” to create “an extraordinary shadow effort” to “protect” the 2020 presidential election.

The New York Times had reported on the effort in January, referring to the “Democracy Defense Coalition.” The Daily Beast hinted at it in the fall. But the Time article is the most in-depth report at what others suggested was going on behind the scenes.

The article by Molly Ball, titled “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election,” presents the effort as a heroic effort to preserve a free and fair election, and to fend off President Donald Trump’s anticipated claims of fraud.

Ball’s description, however, also matches what she calls a “paranoid” view of an effort to make it difficult for Trump to win:

The handshake between business and labor was just one component of a vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election–an extraordinary shadow effort dedicated not to winning the vote but to ensuring it would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted. For more than a year, a loosely organized coalition of operatives scrambled to shore up America’s institutions as they came under simultaneous attack from a remorseless pandemic and an autocratically inclined President. Though much of this activity took place on the left, it was separate from the Biden campaign and crossed ideological lines, with crucial contributions by nonpartisan and conservative actors.

…

Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears. They executed national public-awareness campaigns that helped Americans understand how the vote count would unfold over days or weeks, preventing Trump’s conspiracy theories and false claims of victory from getting more traction. After Election Day, they monitored every pressure point to ensure that Trump could not overturn the result.

…

That’s why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream–a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it. And they believe the public needs to understand the system’s fragility in order to ensure that democracy in America endures.

Ball describes the participants in this plan as “democracy campaigners.” It was led by Mike Podhorzer, a “senior adviser to the president of the AFL-CIO,” one of the nation’s most powerful labor unions, aligned with the Democratic Party.

Ball notes:

In his apartment in the D.C. suburbs, Podhorzer began working from his laptop at his kitchen table, holding back-to-back Zoom meetings for hours a day with his network of contacts across the progressive universe: the labor movement; the institutional left, like Planned Parenthood and Greenpeace; resistance groups like Indivisible and MoveOn; progressive data geeks and strategists, representatives of donors and foundations, state-level grassroots organizers, racial-justice activists and others.

By April, she notes, Podhorzer was hosting two-and-a-half-hour Zoom meetings with other participants in the project. They pushed Congress to fund vote by mail, and persuaded Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to contributed hundreds of millions of dollars to “election administration funding.” (As Breitbart News warned, Zuckerberg’s donations looked more like a Democrat get-out-the-vote effort, and was aimed primarily at Democrat-heavy counties in key battleground states.)

The campaign also used legal efforts to change voting procedures during the COVID pandemic, leading to a “revolution” in mail-in voting: ” Only a quarter of voters cast their ballots the traditional way: in person on Election Day,” Ball notes.

The group also used a “nameless, secret project” to fight “disinformation.” Their method was “to pressure platforms to enforce their rules, both by removing content or accounts that spread disinformation.” Ball does not mention the New York Post‘s story about Hunter Biden’s laptop, but tech companies, mainstream media outlets, and former intelligence officials leapt in October to call the laptop potential Russian “disinformation,” and to suppress it. Twitter blocked links to the story, and also locked the Post out of its account for more than two weeks. The story was later shown to be true, with Hunter Biden announcing — after the election — that he was under FBI investigation.

The group also decided to exploit the violent unrest that spread across the nation in the wake of George Floyd’s death in May, and took steps “to harness its momentum for the election without allowing it to be co-opted by politicians.”

Toward the end of the election, Ball reports, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce set aside old disputes to join the AFL-CIO in creating an alliance to reject claims of election fraud. Ball notes that some Republicans also aided in the effort.

As Breitbart News reported at the time, there was a nationwide left-wing movement to unleash more unrest if Trump claimed victory in a close election. Ball’s reporting confirms that the “shadow” effort was coordinating such efforts. She adds that the “national mobilization network” was told to “stand down” after it appeared Biden would be the winner.

Later, she says, Podhorzer’s network decided to make sure there were few counter-demonstrators at the January 6 “Stop the Steal” demonstration in Washington, DC, ensuring that blame for what happened would be placed on Trump alone.

Read the full article here.

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In Effort To Appeal To Socialists, Mike Lindell Introduces ‘OurPillow’

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CHASKA, MN—Mike Lindell, more commonly known as the “MyPillow Guy,” is making headlines once again with his newest line of pillows. MyPillow is now targeting the socialist demographic with the release of OurPillow.

“MyPillow did really well in the Trump era, but now with a new administration, it’s time to try out OurPillow, my comrades!” said an exuberant Mike Lindell. “And we are proud to announce that we are transitioning to overseas factories so every OurPillow will be made 100% in the communist utopia of China!”

A recent “As Seen On TV” commercial revealed that OurPillow will no longer perfectly adjust to fit individuals, but instead it will conform to the masses. It also boasts a patented, quick-drying, liberal tear absorbing foam. “It’s guaranteed the most comfortable pillow the State will ever own and let you use!” said Lindell.

“We love how inclusive OurPillow is, and now that the government is paying for it, everyone can enjoy!” said democratic socialist Millie Lenin. “Not to mention– the built-in deodorizer is a nice touch.”

When asked how to order OurPillow, Mike Lindell replied: “Look for OurPillow today being distributed at a breadline near you!”

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Democrats Announce It Is Safe To Reopen Now That Federal Government Has Tested Negative For Trump

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U.S.—Democrat leaders around the country are declaring it is now safe to reopen since the federal government’s tests have come back negative for Trump.

“The key indicator we were looking for before we could begin the reopening process was that Trump wasn’t president,” said Governor Gavin Newsom. “While we are at the worst point yet in this pandemic, it now makes sense to open– even though the science said the exact opposite last year when it was comparably mild. Because now, all the tests are indicating we have tested negative for Trump.”

Governor Cuomo agreed, saying that all his key science experts — the ones who haven’t quit yet in disgust — are advising him to go ahead and reopen since the tests are coming back negative for Trump. “When the tests were positive some weeks ago, we were pretty concerned,” Cuomo told a reporter down by the docks as he threw a dead senior into the harbor. “Now, the tests are all looking really good for Democrats, so we’re gonna go ahead and get started.”

Governor Whitmer last year cast a spell on Michigan so it would be always winter and never Christmas, but she says she is canceling the spell now and encouraging Michiganders to celebrate “the true Christmas: Biden getting elected.”

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Biden’s Excessive Executive Orders

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Within his first two weeks in office, President Biden has signed an unprecedented number of executive orders—47.

Writing for Quartz (1/31/21), Amanda Shendruk notes, “Joe Biden has been US president for less than two weeks and has already issued nearly as many executive action as Trump and Obama did in the same period, combined.” [Emphasis hers]

These include:

  • “Memorandum on Protecting Women’s Health at Home and Abroad.” The Mexico City Policy. Translation: abortions in other countries, paid for by you and me.
  • “Executive Order on Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation.” Boys identifying as girls can use the women’s restroom and locker-room. And bye-bye, women’s sports.
  • “Proclamation on Ending Discriminatory Bans on Entry to the United States.” Translation: We will not discriminate against would-be immigrants, including violent jihadists.
  • “Paris Climate Agreement” and “Executive Order on Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis.” With the stroke of his pen, he has already cost thousands of U.S. jobs in a move based on questionable scientific premises.

And on it goes with a radical agenda.

Even the editorial board of The New York Times (1/27/21) published an op-ed: “Ease Up on the Executive Actions, Joe.” They said, “legislating through Congress is a better path.”

One politician pointed out that to govern by executive orders makes us more of a dictatorship than a democracy. “We need consensus,” said he. He also observed: “I have this strange notion. We are a democracy. Some of my Republican friends and some of my Democratic friends even say: well if you can’t get the votes, by executive order you’re going to do something, things you can’t do by executive order unless you’re a dictator.”

Who said these things? Then-candidate Joe Biden in a town hall with George Stephanopoulos on October 15, 2020.

Into the third week of the Biden presidency, it appears to be the third term of President Obama. The 44th president once famously declared: “I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone, and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.”

In other words, if the people’s representatives (in the House and Senate) don’t act quickly enough or do what I want them to do, then I’ll issue executive orders to get my will done. Biden is continuing this tradition—and then some. He has slim majorities in both the House and Senate, but he is bypassing even them.

One doctrine the founding fathers of America seemed to agree upon is revealed in the Bible and proven by all history—that man is a sinner. Therefore, power was to be separated into three distinct branches of government. As James Madison, a key architect of the Constitution, once put it, “All men having power ought to be distrusted.”

Madison also observed (in Federalist #47): “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”

What Biden, and Obama before him, have engaged in could be called “executive overreach.”

Tim Goeglein, the D. C. representative of Focus on the Family, once said of such overreach:

“This is unconstitutional, and it’s not what our founders wanted.”

Randy Barnett, a professor at Georgetown Law and the author of Our Republican Constitution, once told me, “All three branches of government are supposed to be our servants, not our masters.”

But I asked him, “Haven’t times changed and thus circumstances changed?”

He answered, “Well, human nature has not changed. Human nature is, the idea that people basically pursue their self-interests—even if that interest is adverse to the rights of fellow people, other follow citizens, or adverse to the public interest. And you needed a republican Constitution to constrain the exercise of government and power.”

All presidents have the right to sign executive orders. And virtually all of them have used that right. But critics note that this is excessive—and not a healthy example of representative government. In effect, it is an end-run around “we the people.”

Calvin Coolidge, one of our most underrated presidents, said, “Ours is a government of the people. It represents their will….The real heart of the American Government depends upon the heart of the people. It is from that source that we must look for all genuine reform. It is

to that cause that we must ascribe all our results.”

Goeglein, who worked for the Bush 43 administration, said of the founders, “They designed a system that pushed power downward and outward because they feared centralization of power, and they feared the consolidation of power.”

Hopefully, Biden’s pen will run out of ink sometime soon.

©Jerry Newcombe. All rights reserved.

VIDEO: Recall Governor Gavin Newsom Roadtrip Boosted by Joe Collins

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LOS ANGELES, CA /PRNewswire/ — Kicking off his Recall Road Trip against Governor Gavin Newsom, Joe Collins and partners 1776 Forever Free and Recall Gavin Newsom 2020 collected hundreds of signatures at the Los Angeles City Hall on Sunday. The South-Central LA native will be visiting the largest cities in the state of California in an effort to collect the remaining signatures to remove Newsom from office.

The Navy Veteran was joined by hundreds of California residents whose lives have been drastically changed by Newsom’s inability to keep the state afloat. Regardless of political party or beliefs, people gathered in front of the municipal center to share the hardships they have faced ever since Newsom took office. For the past 2 years, California has had a rise in jobs leaving the state, failing schools, homelessness and crime. Newsom has mismanaged the state’s budget and has failed to be the leader the state and people need during a global pandemic. It’s time for change and a better leader.

Collins will continue his 28 day road trip all across the state of California, where residents will be able to start the initiative to recall Newsom. People will get to enjoy food vendors, live music and words of encouragement from Collins and his team as they promise Californians a better future.

Upcoming Dates

  • San Diego City Hall ○ Feb. 3rd – 12pm -2pm
  • Chula Vista City Hall ○ Feb. 6th – 12pm -2pm
  • Oceanside City Hall ○ Feb. 7th – 12pm -2pm
  • Irvine City Hall ○ Feb. 10th – 12pm -2pm
  • Los Angeles City Hall ○ Feb. 13th – 12pm -2pm
  • Long Beach City Hall ○ Feb. 14th – 12pm -2pm
  • Riverside City Hall ○ Feb. 17th –12pm -2pm
  • Ventura City Hall ○ Feb. 20 – 12pm –2pm
  • Ontario City Hall ○ Feb. 21 – 12pm –2pm
  • Glendale City Hall ○ Feb. 24 –12pm -2pm
  • Bakersfield City Hall ○ Feb. 27th – 12pm -2pm
  • Fresno City Hall ○ Feb. 28th – 12pm -2pm
  • San Jose City Hall ○ March 3rd –12pm -2pm
  • San Francisco City Hall ○ March 6th – 12pm -2pm
  • Sacramento City Hall ○ March 7th – 12pm -2pm

For more information on the campaign of Joe Collins for Congress, visit www,joecollinsforcongress.com/ or follow him at:

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New Social Media Startup Hopes To Be Successful Enough To Get Totally Crushed By Big Tech One Day

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GLASTONBURY, CT—An alternative social network dedicated to internet freedom is hoping to one day be big enough to be targeted and deplatformed by Big Tech.

“Man, if we can get big enough to have all the other social networks, all the app stores, and even our internet host ban us from existence — well, that’s the dream, isn’t it?” said one VP at the company during a meeting Wednesday.

The company’s executive board sat down and brainstormed ways they could grow their network to promote a free internet and allow creators to monetize their content, with hopes that one day they would be a big enough target for Twitter, Facebook, Google, Amazon, and the government to simultaneously crack down on. “You know, you start up these little social companies, and a lot of them go belly up pretty quickly,” said one spokesperson. “But with a lot of effort and a spark of creativity, you can make your social network big enough to get destroyed by Big Tech once you’re a threat.”

The social network’s three-step plan for growth is to build a cutting-edge, sleek platform that’s easy to use and helps users engage with creators’ thought-provoking content, then to go viral as users flee other social network sites due to a crackdown on free speech, and finally the big payoff: to get totally crushed by Big Tech one day.

“We’re just a small, growing company with big dreams,” the spokesperson added wistfully.

Big Tech is a behemoth, but alternative social sites are keeping the dream of free speech on the internet alive. Make sure to follow The Babylon Bee on Minds, the leading alternative social network dedicated to Internet freedom and creator monetization.

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