It is welcome news that Florida is now set to become the sixth state to require both parental consent and notice before minor girls can get an abortion. A bill mandating this has passed both houses of the state Legislature, and Gov. Ron DeSantis has promised to sign it.
Ensuring that a child’s parents are involved before any medical or surgical procedure is performed on a minor patient makes sense in any state.
In Florida, though, it makes extra sense. Florida is home to a huge immigrant population, many of them undocumented and vulnerable, and special care should be taken to protect these vulnerable girls.
Surprisingly, abortion is often excluded under existing commonsense parental consent laws, even though it is an invasive surgical procedure with significant potential for harmful complications.
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In Florida, for instance, it is illegal to tattoo a child under 16, and parental consent is required for minors between 16 and 18. Anyone with a child in school knows how delicately and diffidently school administrators handle any medical intervention, even the administration of Tylenol for cramps.
Surgeons would lose their licenses if they performed a tonsillectomy on a child without informing the parents or guardians or seeking their consent.
In fact, from an ethical standpoint, children are deemed unable to consent to medical treatment since they may be unable to grasp complicated medical facts because of their age and inexperience.
Yet, the abortion lobby insists that minor girls should be allowed to access abortion without any parental oversight because such oversight could be a “threat to young women’s safety.”
But protecting girls from abusive or neglectful parents can be done with judicial waivers (included in the Florida bill) and without stripping good parents of their ability to protect their daughters from abusive boyfriends or older men who may be raping them and then coercing them to abort.
Sexual predators are happy when their victim has an abortion without the knowledge or involvement of her mother and father. It lets them keep abusing the child undetected.
Taking parents out of the picture doesn’t just leave girls to the mercy of bad men, it takes away parental counsel, guidance, and support. Parents who don’t know their child has had an abortion are unable to ensure their daughter will receive adequate follow-up care. In the absence of proper treatment, a minor complication can quickly become life-threatening.
All of these good reasons for requiring parental consent are even more important in Florida.
In my hometown of Miami, more than 50% of the population is immigrant. Many are undocumented. Far too many are vulnerable people whose lack of English and, sometimes, work papers consigns them to dangerous neighborhoods where their children live in close proximity to gang activity, prostitution, and human trafficking rings.
Sadly, after labor trafficking, “domestic minor sex trafficking,” constitutes “the … most prevalent and under-reported and under-prosecuted human trafficking offense in Florida,” according to a Florida State University study.
Given the prevalence of sexual abuse of girls here, it is simply unconscionable that Florida parents would not be informed if their minor daughter is pregnant and seeking an abortion.
Existing law requires abortion facilities and providers to alert the authorities if they suspect a young girl seeking an abortion is being abused by an older man or being trafficked as a prostitute, but abortion providers are in the business—the big business—of performing abortions and certainly cannot be counted on to report this.
One undercover sting video of a New Jersey Planned Parenthood showed a clinic manager telling a man posing as a pimp that when he brings his 14- or 15-year-old “girls” in for abortions they should lie or play stupid about their age. She is seen coaching the “pimp” on how to manage his underage prostitutes, some of whom, he says, do not speak English.
A girl’s natural protectors and defenders are her mother and father. A law that puts Florida parents back in that crucial role will be an important bulwark against the abuse of minor girls. It also will help ensure young women undergoing the tragedy of an abortion will receive the appropriate medical care should something go wrong.
The only losers when this commonsense, reality-based requirement becomes state law will be the sexual predators and greedy abortion providers who put profits over people.
Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie is a policy advisor for The Catholic Association. Twitter: @GChristiemd.
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Washington, DC (April 28, 2020) – The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) has requested that McDonald’s warn its employees about a pornography website that is targeting them for recruitment during COVID-19. Porn website IsMyGirl reportedly sent a press release to 500,000 McDonald’s workers to entice them into creating pornographic content.
In a letter to McDonald’s Corporation CEO Chris Kempczinski, National Center on Sexual Exploitation President & CEO Patrick Trueman asked that McDonald’s send company-wide messages to warn employees about pornography website IsMyGirl’s offer and to educate about the harms that getting involved would entail.
“In light of legal actions McDonald’s employees have recently taken towards corporate regarding sexual harassment, it is even more important and timely for you to respond to this targeting of your employees,” Trueman wrote.
“We do not believe this is a ‘legitimate option’ for anyone, especially those who are already particularly affected or suffering during these trying times. It is vital to recognize that pornography itself is a form of sexual exploitation, where ‘performers’ endure physical and mental trauma due to sexual harassment, grooming, abuse, and more.
“We are particularly concerned for your employees living in households where domestic abuse and manipulation may lead to pressurized environments forcing them to partake in this industry to gain promised financial stability.
“It is vital to recognize that it is impossible for the pornography industry to judge from the content of a video or image whether force, fraud, psychological coercion, social manipulation, etc., were used to instigate it. This is especially true considering many sex traffickers and abusers will groom victims to claim that they are operating of their own free will.
“In response to the targeting of your employees, we believe it is your social responsibility to make them aware of the exploitation and harms of the pornography industry. This action will also advance your reputation by refusing to aid in further trauma and effects of the trade, including sexual harassment and harms that your workers may face.
“We call on your company to live up to your corporate ethical commitment to ensure the health and safety of your people and provide a workplace free of harassment and its effects,” Trueman concluded.
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As far as liberal set-ups go, it certainly followed the formula: a phone call, the Russians, a high-ranking government official’s son, lying prosecutors, even some of the same politically-motivated FBI agents. But the case against General Michael Flynn had another familiar storyline in the Left’s war against Donald Trump — a lack of evidence. Based on the bombshell evidence today — a damning picture of FBI corruption, coercion, and entrapment — it seems General Flynn’s only real crime was ending up in an administration the Democrats wanted to destroy.He was on the job for less than a month. The three-star Army general had only been working as President Trump’s national security advisor for a few weeks when news broke of his resignation. Later, we learned that he’d pled guilty to misleading the FBI about a call he had with a Russian ambassador. But even then, folks said, it didn’t add up. A lot of people — former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy the loudest among them — cried foul. Why would Flynn lie to the FBI about a call he knew they were listening to? And if there was “no evidence of wrongdoing” in that conversation (as even the Washington Post reported), why was he subject to an investigation in the first place?
“Flynn is not a foreign agent,” McCarthy insisted at the time. “There was no need to ‘grill’ him over the contents of a conversation of which the FBI and Justice Department already had a recording. And the FBI has no business probing the veracity of public statements made by presidential administrations for political purposes — something it certainly resisted doing during the Obama administration. It is easy to see why Democrats would want to portray Flynn’s contact with the Russian ambassador as worthy of an FBI investigation. But why did the FBI and the Justice Department investigate Flynn — and why did ‘officials’ make sure the press found out about it?”
Now, more than three years later — after Flynn lost his job, his house, and his reputation — we know exactly why. As part of his court battle to have his guilty plea withdrawn, the general’s legal team has explosive new evidence showing that the FBI was intentionally trying to frame the general for perjury. In a shocking series of handwritten notes from his FBI interview, written after a meeting with top FBI officials James Comey and Andrew McCabe, agents planned to set Flynn up. “What is our goal?” one of the notes read. “Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?” “If we’re seen as playing games, the [White House],” another writes, “will be furious.” Of course, it will come as no surprise that one of the agents in on this set-up was none other than Trump-hating Peter Strzok, who got his tips on how to handle the interview from Lisa Page.
“I did not lie to them,” Flynn has insisted since his January suit to clear his name. So why plead guilty? Because, it turns out, dirty prosecutors from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s staff threatened him that if he didn’t, they would charge his son with a felony for a paperwork oversight at DOJ. When Flynn finally agreed, they kept the deal a secret — which, as McCarthy points out, is illegal. “Under federal law, all understandings that are relevant to a guilty plea must be disclosed to the judge.” If it had been, he points out, “it would have illustrated the hardball that Mueller and his band of activist Democratic prosecutors were playing in an effort to nail President Trump.”
But ethics, as Flynn’s attorney, Sidney Powell, is finding out, isn’t exactly a hallmark of the FBI. She’s uncovered piles of evidence of misconduct — including missing or “edited” reports about Flynn and the details of his interviewed (which offered fewer protections than an actual criminal proceeding). But then, this is an agency that’s used subversive tactics to undermine Donald Trump and the democratic process since before he was even elected. They’ve abused their authority for years, openly (and secretly) plotting against this administration, ignoring a “Mount Olympus of evidence” against the last one, and now, using KGB-type tactics to ensnare an American hero. Who can even be surprised? The only thing that should shock America is that there continues to be no justice or accountability for how this agency operates — which, to this point, includes subverting its own leaders from inside the walls of government!
This didn’t start when Donald Trump arrived on the scene. The last four years of political prejudice has been staggering, to be sure, but any trust Americans had in the nation’s top law enforcement agency was misplaced long before that. Our country deserves better. General Flynn and President Trump deserve better. But the FBI’s treatment here is business as usual. And that, some argue, is the scandal. It must stop.
Tony Perkins’s Washington Update is written with the aid of FRC senior writers.
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President Trump once used the word “plague” with disgust on his face talking about Covid-19 at a WH coronavirus task force briefing. He reminded me of my Father, who often used the word “plague” with the same disgust on his face talking about Soviet Socialism. There is an inextricable chain of events in the world we live in and as a student of history, I have found a striking similarity in human behaviors in the events of the 1980s and 2020. I’d like you to be a judge.
It was in the 1980s, around the time I was about to immigrate to the West and visited my father in Leningrad to say goodbye to him. We had a conversation that I recalled in my first book Baltic Winds: Testimony of a Soviet Attorney, pp. 315-316 and in my third book: What is Happening to America? pp. 164-165. I’ll give you the essence, a short transcript of the conversation between three of us my Father, my son Roman and me:
“Separation from you will be one of the most difficult experiences of my life. It’s even more painful that I can’t help you. But the thought that you and your children will be free at last gives me some comfort. Yet you have to promise me one thing.” He glanced at me and waited as I dried me eyes.
“What should I do, Papa?”
“I want you to promise me that no other country will ever seduce you—not England, not France. You must go to America… there won’t be peace in Europe… you’re entering an unfamiliar world, and I want you to understand the transformation going on in it. Have you heard about the American hostages in Tehran?”
“Well, I’ve heard something.” Roman said
“It’s not something! Young people… students brainwashed by Marxist ideology, took those Americans and humiliated them. The only crime of those hostages is that they’re American.
Do you know who’s behind that ordeal?”
“No, I don’t.”
“The Soviet bandits, who are spreading the plague of hatred against America because they can’t destroy it the way they’re destroying Europe.”
“What do you mean, destroying Europe?” Roman asked.
“I mean just what I said. In our age, ideas run the world, and the wrong ideas destroy it. You… are leaving because the country adhered to a wrong idea. That’s why I want you to go to America. …Did you meet the KGB agents recruiting students in your law school?”
“Yes, we had them every year. They asked for cooperation.”
“You see how easy it is—first indoctrinate and then recruit. Remember, the KGB uses the same strategy in major universities around the world. It gets its payoff when youngsters become professionals. In the Middle East some of them join terrorist groups trained by the Soviets, in Europe they join the government. Let me tell you about the results of that. In the thirties, the KGB recruited five students from Cambridge in England, and later on it had the entire British counterintelligence in its pocket. You are not staying in Europe… you must do your utmost to get to America.”
What a short lesson of real history! What an analogous use of the word “plague” with disgust in different continents, different countries, and forty years apart. What an incredible connection of times in human feelings! My father knew well Soviet Socialism and Communist ideology. What an ideological tie of times! Don’t you see a direct similarity between coronavirus in 2020 and conversation about Soviet Socialism with my Father in 1980? I do and that drives me to present some explanations:
The Ideological Ties Between Times
Yes, what an ideological tie of times forty years later! Today, we are blaming Chinese Communist regime of the crime of spreading the global coronavirus pandemic. Do you know where the Chinese Communist regime came from? It came from Soviet Socialism and was implemented by Josef Stalin. It took Stalin twenty-nine years to achieve the result by 1949. Russian Security Services and military have built Chinese Communist State and implemented the entire Soviet governmental structure and institutions, which means placing the Soviet system within the Chinese State with the Communist Party on the top, like in the USSR. Mao had accepted the Soviets leadership of the Socialist Camp after the KGB attempted to poison him. You can read the details on the Chapter 5 Tell me Something I Don’t Know, What is Happening to America? By Simona Pipko, Xlibris, 2012.
Moscow had been running all Soviet Republics and having identical departments for all involved–it had eased the control. Asian experience of implementing Soviet Socialism in Mongolia, North Korea, and China also helped Stalin to implement his Soviet Socialism within Eastern Europe. Under the Warsaw Military Pact it was done the same exact way—replicating the Soviet governmental structure with all its negative features of total secrecy, fraud, disinformation, stealing technology, nepotism– the entire Soviet System to all countries of the Eastern Europe. That was a simple way for the Kremlin to run the Socialist Camp from Europe to Asia and all mentioned countries had received from the Kremlin the Project of 1955 to study and follow it. To grasp this recent pandemic, read here my column Covid-19: A Fascist Act of Terror Against Humanity, April 12, 2020.
Don’t be confused by the different terms Marxism, Communism and Socialism—all three are a fallacy-a fraud with a utopian concept. In fact, we were dealing with Stalin’s Soviet Socialism, which began killing Americans in the 1950 Korean War, when Soviet pilots were shooting down American planes. The Vietnam War of 1962-1975 with Chinese volunteers had brought another killing of over 50 thousand American military. After that the Soviet killing field moved to Middle East: in the Beirut barracks bombing 243 U.S. military men were killed in 1983. The collapse of the Soviet Union has changed the world temporarily, yet, by the end of the 20th century and Putin’s presidency, Russia has obtained power again; close relations with China resumed and a new group of the Chinese leaders has been trained and drilled by Moscow. The killing of Americans was also resumed in the attack of 9/11/2001, near 3 thousand Americans killed in New York…
Yes, there is no more Soviet Socialism, it was replaced by a new criminal cabal—the Axis of Evil under Russian umbrella. Russia is there again in a new century, because Putin and his Security apparatus are still running this criminal cabal and the war against American capitalism. Only people who know Russian Security Services, I called them the KGB, are aware of Russia’s power in the world through the agents of influence, designed by the Project of 1955, I called then the Soviet Charlatans. We also should consider a great “success” of the Russian/Chinese Intel, infiltrating all corners of our society: the governmental institutions, especially the House of Representative, business, sport, academia, and the media…
Agents of Influence or the Soviet Socialist Charlatans
History is the Mother of all sciences. In this time of crises, stress, anxiety, and fake news, history is the only way to find the Truth. We are at war, in asymmetrical war. It was the Soviet Russia that injected viruses in the war, opening a new sinister front against Western civilization and American capitalism. Though today, with all eyes on China, we should remember: China has the same counterintelligence apparatus that Russia has, (under different names), the same institutions, agenda and methods against us. Knowing Chinese politicians, their connection to Russia, their incompetence and dishonesty using lies, fraud, intimidation, and deception, I don’t expect a word of truth from them–they are all Socialist Charlatans. So, I have found some objective materials. Here is one of them:
Nature, WUHAN, CHINA, by David Cyranoski, 22 February 2017. It is a big column and I give you one paragraph, where I found three Red Flags:
“The Wuhan lab cost 300 million yuan (US$44 million), and to allay safety concerns it was built far above the flood plain and with the capacity to withstand a magnitude-7 earthquake, although the area has no history of strong earthquakes. It will focus on the control of emerging diseases, store purified viruses and act as a World Health Organization ‘reference laboratory’ linked to similar labs around the world. “It will be a key node in the global biosafety-lab network,” says lab director Yuan Zhiming.
Three Red Flags:
First: The wet market is the Asian primitive medieval tradition in the times of plague and cholera. The Wuhan lab was built in the 21st century. Why was the location of the lab chosen in proximity to a wet-market, known for its anti-sanitary conditions? I suspect it was done purposely with mischief reasoning to have a current explanation. Besides, the bat-virus was researched miles apart from the wet-market…
Second: The Wuhan lab “…will … act as a World Health Organization ‘reference laboratory’ linked to similar labs around the world.” This is telling me the Soviet agenda to run a global organization through their agents–I have no doubts the W.H.O. General-Secretary Theodor is a KGB agent, recruited in Ethiopia and has been promoted since… Besides him, Bill Gates is also closely connected to the W.H.O. sponsoring it. The KGB agents serve an ideological agenda, regardless of their race and ethnicity, it doesn’t matter he or she is Russian, American, Chinese or Ethiopian—they are all the Soviet Socialist Charlatans confronting the U.S.A. The tendency to infiltrate the world organizations was and is the ultimate Communistic agenda to have a global control.
Third: Who is the Director of the Wuhan lab? His name is familiar to me. I am not a biologist, but I know Chinese politicians, and especially China’s Presidents. The Wuhan lab construction started under President Jiang Zemin in 2003 and I suspect that he and the Wuhan lab’s Director are relatives. Their last name spells a bit differently, yet, I still suspect. Look at this former Chinese President:
Jiang Zemin is a Chinese retired politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of China from 1989 to 2002 as Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China from 1989 to 2004 and as President of the People’s Republic of China from 1993 to 2003… I still suspect the relation, which will testify to the lifeblood connection between ideology and virology in the world of Communism.
Russia/China: The Biological Connection
I believe there is not only an ideological connection between Russia and China, but a criminal bio-chemical connection as well. It was Soviet Socialism that injected viruses in this war for Global control. I’ve told you the story of my client who worked by the Soviet government assignment in researching HIV in Africa. Having the same Soviet System, and common agenda, the Russian virologists provided Chinese scientists with needed techniques to use viruses in this current war. As a result, we have several types of the viruses connected to HIV, besides coronavirus–a new one. Please, listen to a respected contemporary scientist:
Professor Luc Montagnier, who was the 2008 Nobel Prize winner for Medicine, claims that SARS-CoV-2 is a manipulated virus accidentally released from a lab in Wuhan. Chinese researches are said to have used the coronavirus in their work to develop an AIDS vaccine. Fragments of HIV DNA are believed to have been found in the SARS-CoV-2 genome. Indian researchers have already tried to publish the results of the analyses that showed that this coronavirus genome contained sequences of another virus, the HIV virus (AIDS virus)” Man Who Discovered HIV Makes Explosive Comments About Origins Of The Coronavirus, The Patriotic Voice, April 22, 2020
I am talking about Russia/China ties for a reason—both are totalitarian states, both our mortal enemies working hand in hand. Nothing substantial has changed in Russia since a devoted disciple of Stalin/Andropov Putin become the President–runs by the KGB’s officer the Soviet system was revived in Russia. Here is a Russian journalist’s opinion today: “Putin’s pyramid has no system of checks and balances other than Putin himself. Neither the parliament, nor the court, nor the press can become a truly serious obstacle to those influential groups that seek to maximize their income by any means. … This kind of standard procedure results in two types of abuse: bribes and kickbacks.”Will the Putin System Exist Until 2042? By DMITRY TRAVIN
As you can see, very little has changed in Russia during last forty years. Perhaps only the titles have changed: Stalin had a Socialist Camp, Putin has the Axis of Evil under his Russian umbrella. Of course, China is still the most dangerous economically and militarily to the West, but it is worth remembering the criminal cabal of the Socialist Charlatans in America and around world. Iranian boats are provoking our military ships at the time of global pandemic. Look at the chorus of Russia, China, North Korea and Iran how they are covering up the real number of Covid-19 victims, lying and deceiving the world, while the pandemic kills 60 thousand Americans.
Be ready for several bombshells about America’s Socialist Charlatans, yet the story requires a separate column. At least, I hope now you understand the reason I renamed Soviet Socialism to Soviet Fascism. History is the Mother of all sciences and we can expect a very challenging time ahead. North Korea is a Stalinist police state. Knowing the events in March 1953 in Moscow after Stalin’s death, I can predict a power struggle in a highest echelon of the North Korean authority, like it was in Moscow in 1953…
Two men who meet in the name of peace believe themselves capable of declaring what is right and just for the entire world.
Early February 2019 ushered in a momentous event, the joint signing of a covenant, “The Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together,“ by the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed el-Tayeb, the head of Sunni Islam, and the Roman Pope Francis for a One World Religion. The historic ceremony was held in front of religious leaders of other faiths as a call for peace between nations, religions, and races, although historically, Islamic peace is never achieved and it is they who continue to wage war. The declaration of peace, freedom, and women’s rights is indeed a beautiful document as described by Vatican News. Yet the imam is one man and the Islamic blood lust has maintained its presence in our world for 1400 years as a tribute to its founder, affecting even its own with intimidation and rules of torture, murder, and suicide. Islam is the one religion that has been incompatible with the others and the Pope would do well to question whether Catholicism and the others would be willing to relinquish their own laws to accommodate the one that demands their elimination, in the quest for peace and a one-world religion.
Indonesian Muslim scholars also agreed to boost harmony and spirituality over the violence of the past by encouraging a school curriculum for “teaching Islamic history that contains the compassionate character of the prophet.” The suggestion is hardly comforting if it is the same prophet who beheaded the 600 to 800 Jewish men of Medina and enslaved the women and children, and whose descendants continue to engage in the same art of decapitation by the sword and bondage into the perpetual future.
Islam is a complete 100% system of life with religion being the camouflage for the legal, political, economic, social, and military components. The Koran is designed to emotionally and physically control every aspect of human life for the devotee and the kafir (non-Muslim) through mind control via five-times-daily prayers and speech control, as well as through threats and wanton violence. Worldwide, Muslims exercise a disproportionate influence on others and work to get the ruling government of the nation they invade to permit them self-rule, sharia, first within the confines of their limited living quarters but eventually with the immutable goal of establishing Islamic law throughout the land. They are commanded never to assimilate in their host culture and to destroy crosses and overtake churches. Thus are the indigenous people victimized and engulfed. It is safe to say that Muslims, through Hijrah, are making headway in virtually all the countries of the world, although recognizably not at the same pace or using the same technique. Muslims are a factor in 95% of the world’s wars and gaining ground so that a totalitarian regime’s signature to such a virtually submissive pact is suspect.
Islam sees itself as superior to all other peoples and takes offense at signs of progress accomplished by cultures that preceded it. To that end, its goals are to destroy those cultures’ histories and replace them with their own – to present themselves as the original and best of humanity when all others are gone. Allah’s Messenger said: “By Him (Allah) in Whose Hand my soul is, surely the son of Mary [Isa (Jesus)] will shortly descend amongst you people (Muslims), and will judge mankind justly by the Law of the Quran (as a just ruler) and will break the Cross and kill pigs and abolish the Jizyah [a tax] ….” (Bukhari 3:2222)
Christians who do not accept Muhammad and the Qur’an are considered the vilest of created beings:
“Nor did those who were given the Scripture become divided until after there had come to them clear evidence. And they were not commanded except to worship Allah, sincere to Him in religion, inclining to truth, and to establish prayer and to give zakah (alms). And that is the correct religion. Indeed, they who disbelieved among the People of the Book and the polytheists will be in the fire of Hell, abiding eternally therein. Those are the most vile of created beings.” — Qur’an 98:6
It is prudent to note that while most religions give alms (tzedakah, in Hebrew), and Israel is invariably the first responder to any nations in need of help during natural disasters, Islam specifies that alms and aid not be given to those who do not honor Islam.
Just as Mohammed captured and has since had full control over Mecca and Medina, Islam established a mythic link to overtake Jerusalem, and Rome is in its sights once again as its fourth holiest city. Vatican City is 100% surrounded by massive, 39-foot-high walls built in the 9th century for protection against the Saracen pirates who pillaged St. Peter’s in 846. From that first jihad attack into Rome in 846, Islam declared Rome would follow the fate of Constantinople 500 years before, and the Christian basilica would become a mosque. This, then, is tyrannical globalism and its underlying raison d’etre, with which the Pontiff has signed a peace pact. Although his is a noble mission, without written rules of agreement and, indeed, trustworthy mutual compromises, it may still be too soon to prepare for celebration.
There is no doubt that there were some globalist spectators to the historic event, who, if included in the event, would tirelessly campaign for eliminating nationalism and border sovereignty. To facilitate the control of the world population, they prefer overarching establishments, such as the EU (European Union) and WTO (World Trade Organization) to have control and make decisions for all others. Can we – and should we – trust someone at the top to decide our fuel needs? food and quantity requirements? How about medicines and treatment accessibility? our education, entertainment, and available technology? Can the administrator be capable of making impartial, unemotional judgments, and what if he/she allows personal biases to direct the making of decisions that affect the rest of us? We must be guided by our own local supply and demand issues, the obtainability of goods and services, or be overtaken by a socialist economy that always results in scarcity, poverty, hunger, and death.
if one or some of the attendees hold communist leanings, with the belief that man is incapable of self-governing, the stronger master will be put in charge. Such an ideology controls the information circulated, the art produced, the leaders to follow and the thoughts to ponder, and leads to arrests without due cause, punishment without trial, forced labor by humans owned by the state. Contrary to the Commandment, Thou shalt not steal, private property will be eliminated, goods commonly owned, production controlled and distributed to others, and the freedom to earn and benefit in accordance with the individual’s productions seized.
Judaism has been a persistent annoyance to Islam for 1400 years. Would the Roman Catholic Church now consider joining Islamic forces or would Islam agree to lay down its billion swords? Is the Holy Father aware that Islam’s open warfare has already declared, “First comes Saturday, then comes Sunday,” meaning, once Judaism is obliterated, Christianity will follow. Yet, how can there be an agreement when even word definitions differ so drastically? To the Pontiff, peace is the absence of war and the hope of amity throughout the lands. To the imam, peace is Allah’s blessing to make war against the infidel and bring all to submission, and it is the submission of all that is seen as peace.
Although I have no personal investment in anyone’s belief choice, I am fully attentive regarding their future deeds. I favor the continuation of the Church’s position of “subsidiarity,” which is to support, but to not interfere with, a community’s internal life, whereas Islam has its finger firmly positioned on every aspect of human and communal life. Would Islam agree to alter the Koranic dictates and eliminate corporal punishment in its rule or would the pope acquiesce to meting out severe pain for select insubordination? How would their view change the people’s autonomy over their own culture, health, and safety and over individual national sovereignty? Would any group that’s given complete dominion over how we live, how we conduct our personal lives or our business affairs, and how our wealth is spent, truly rule with our best interests in mind? Globalists seek a dictatorial society.
History has provided us with many leaders. Would the ruler of the new globalist world be a Pericles? a Moses? a Charlemagne? Or a Mugabe? a Pol Pot, or a Hitler?
Does the Pope understand that his new friend may represent his steadfast adversary? Putting our future in the hands of a few is a decided threat to the United States Constitution. We have had enough history to learn what should be obvious, that the more power is removed from the people, the more power would be consolidated to those in control. This is a menace not to be ignored, no matter who sits at the summit.
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Worldviews have consequences. The pandemic that grips the whole world is symptomatic of the deadly grip that the ungodly leadership in China holds over a wide populous (including tens of millions of Chinese Christians).
The coronavirus did not just come out of nowhere. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) claims that it came out of the wet markets of Wuhan, a city of about 11 million people. But there is evidence that it may have originated in a biolab, the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Steven Mosher, the president of the Population Research Institute, certainly thinks so. He says corners were being cut, leading to the virus escaping from the lab. But the CCP tried to hide these things. As we know now, they allowed flights from Wuhan to the rest of the world, but not flights from Wuhan to other parts of China.
Recently I interviewed Mosher on my radio show. He argued,
“This didn’t come from nature. This came from man. This came from the leadership of the Communist Party, which was putting a rush on research in their biolab in Wuhan. And I think they were putting so much pressure on the research that the researchers cut corners, and this dangerous coronavirus…escaped from the lab.”
Mosher continued, “And there the story gets even worse. Because after it escapes, it could have been contained very, very quickly by using means that we’re all familiar with—contact-tracing, finding out who Patient Zero was, tracing that person’s contacts, putting those people under quarantine. Instead, the deadly virus was allowed to spread throughout the city of Wuhan. China hid it….Even to this present day, they are still hiding what they know about the virus.”
And yet millions of Americans are ready to blame President Trump for the virus crisis rather the actual perpetrators.
Furthermore, millions of young Americans want to see America become a socialist nation—which often leads to communism. They think socialism means sharing and fairness to everybody.
A recent Gallup poll found that the younger you are in America, the higher your view of socialism. Only 51% of Americans aged 18-39 had a high view of capitalism with 49% preferring socialism. At the same time, of those older than 55, 68% were positive toward capitalism with only 32% in favor of socialism.
Gary Bauer of American Values told me in a recent TV interview: “I think all of us have been disturbed by polling data that shows that young Americans particularly seem to be very open, if not outwardly and completely supportive, of socialism….The majority of students that are saying that socialism is a good thing have not been educated in any way shape or form about what socialism is.”
Mosher noted the CCP (and communism everywhere) is built on a series of lies:
There is no God.
Man is not made in the image of God; instead he’s just a little higher than the apes.
The Party can create paradise on earth, if you give it all power.
Chairman Mao who forced communism on China in 1949 is the greatest mass-murderer in the history of humanity, exterminating as many as 45 million of his own people. When he took over the world’s most populated country, one of the goals was to “dominate wider parts of the world,” notes Mosher. And in 1958, Mao set up the “Earth Control Committee.”
Thus, it is possible that the whole world has been upended by a group of atheists who reacted criminally in response to accidents in a lab that was dealing with very dangerous substances. No wonder the state of Missouri filed a lawsuit last week against the government of China.
At least we can say that their irresponsible reaction to the virus once it began to spread has brought misery to many parts of the world. Many Chinese people themselves would gladly not have the Communists rule over them. But, amazingly, as noted, we have many in America who want communism or socialism.
I asked Mosher about this trend among young people. He chalked it up to the naivete of the young and the “miseducation” many of them receive in the schools.
They think socialism can work—if just the right people put it into practice. But in every communist regime, Mosher observes, they kill at least about 10-15% of their own people in order to remove the “counter-revolutionaries.”
Of all the sins and crimes of communism throughout the last century and a half—and there have been many—the outbreak of the coronavirus and the failure of the CCP to truly cooperate with other agencies to control this before it became a pandemic has got to be among the greatest crimes of all.
There was an old saying during the Cold War, “You can trust the communists to act like communists.” It is about time naïve Americans woke up to the rotten fruit of communism.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Jerry Newcombe, D. Min.http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngJerry Newcombe, D. Min.2020-04-30 07:44:502020-04-30 07:44:50The Chinese Communists Lied and the People Died
I had a friend who used to be very class conscious when it came to work. He wouldn’t socialize with other people he deemed below him and was very choosy when it came to where he lived. If the wrong class of workers were in the neighborhood, he wouldn’t visit the area (let alone move into it). It had nothing to do with race or religion, only the types of jobs people had. In his mind, there was a clear delineation between people based strictly on their livelihood; e.g., blue collar labor, technical people, middle management, professional people, and executives. I guess we are all a little class conscious about how people make a living, a kind of one-upmanship, but I never saw it quite this vividly before.
This bothered me because I believe in the dignity and honor of any job, regardless how mundane it may seem. This caused me to do some soul-searching as to why I felt this way and I suppose it is because I am acutely aware of my family’s history; e.g., how we came to this country from Scotland, which certainly wasn’t in a luxury liner, how we struggled to get a foothold here, how we survived the Great Depression, and how we prospered following World War II.
Like many of you, I can recall the menial jobs both my grandfather and father performed to help the family survive. Interestingly, they never complained about it but, rather, always spoke with pride of how well they did their jobs. For instance, my grandfather used to be employed by the Wickwire Steel Company in Buffalo, New York where he ran a machine to make the rebar mesh used in such things as concrete sidewalks. It was certainly not a glamorous job. In fact, it was rather difficult as the machines would frequently break down. Instead of waiting for the machine to be fixed by someone else, as his union wanted him to do, he learned how to fix the machine himself. He figured he couldn’t get paid if the machine was idle, so he devoted his own personal time to learn as much about it as he could. His knowledge of the machines grew to the point where he eventually became the head of maintenance. Whereas he could have done nothing, instead he elected to take a proactive approach.
To my grandfather’s way of thinking, his job was no better or worse than anyone else’s. He was just thankful he had one and did it to the best of his ability. This taught me you should not look down your nose at anyone for the job they have, but rather how well they perform it. I have much more respect for the common uneducated laborer who knows what he is doing as opposed to a well educated professional who is a derelict.
It is fundamental to the human spirit that we all believe we are leading a worthy and honorable life. Since work is an inherent part of our life, how meaningful our job is depends on what we make of it. If we take a defeatist attitude and treat it as a triviality, we will suffer from low self-esteem and become jealous of others. However, if we adopt a professional attitude towards our job, regardless of its magnitude, we will have a more positive sense of self worth.
With this said, I don’t understand the obsession a lot of High School Guidance Counselors have in pushing students towards a college education. Not everyone is predisposed to attending college, some are better served by going into a trade school or the military. Yet, many guidance counselors pooh-pooh such institutions thereby creating a snobbish attitude towards them. Believe me, there is nothing dishonorable about learning mechanics, auto repair, plumbing, carpentry, or serving in the military. Imagine where we would be without such professions.
One of the main reasons I have enjoyed my time in the Masons is that we are taught regardless of your station in life, everyone serves on the level. In other words, everyone has an equal say regardless of who they are, thereby taking ego out of the formula and creating a sense of cooperation.
I do not know how well we are passing this lesson of work dignity to our young people, but I fear we are creating a generation of people who are more class conscious than the last, and never satisfied with the job they have, regardless what it is. From a psychological point of view, this should have profound long term effects on our productivity and our culture.
Keep the Faith!
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http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Tim Brycehttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngTim Bryce2020-04-30 06:25:312020-04-30 06:27:48PODCAST: The Dignity of Work
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Democratic presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden was cleared in federal court today of charges that some claimed were based upon credible allegations of sexual assault when the judge quickly realized that Joe Biden was not a Republican.
“Well, this looks pretty serious… let’s see who is on—wait a minute. He’s a Democrat! I can find no fault with him,” declared a fourth circuit federal judge hearing preliminary claims.
“It is well established in this court that Republicans are the ones who want to silence women and control their bodies. Haven’t you seen The Handmaid’s Tale?” the judge further added before banging down the gavel.
The bailiff immediately grabbed the female accuser by the collar and threw her up into the air out onto the sidewalk, just like in the cartoons.
The allegations against then-Senator Joe Biden date back to 1993. Several other people had corroborated key details relating to the seriousness and timing of the intern’s story including a discovered CNN clip of her mother calling The Larry King Show and a neighbor confirming that the woman had told her at the time what had happened. However, this circumstantial evidence of vile behavior, even interpreted under the generous standard of “believe all women” set by the government in prior cases involving Republicans, was declared to only be valid if the alleged perpetrator was a greedy, evil Republican.
“This is a victory for the judicial standard in our country of assuming the accused are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law,” stated Alyssa Milano. “We always need to maintain this standard of maintaining silence and withholding judgment on such cases when it is convenient and maintains our narratives.”
“I believe and hear you, Joe” she added.
At publishing time, celebrities were circulating a video in which they were singing individual lines of “Imagine” off-key in support of the rich, old, white male Democrat who was promising to take down the bad orange man.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00The Babylon Beehttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngThe Babylon Bee2020-04-29 14:17:312021-10-08 01:46:05Judge Dismisses Sexual Assault Allegations Against Biden On Grounds That He Is Not A Republican
WASHINGTON, D.C.—While President Trump and some Republican governors are pushing to reopen the country soon, Democrats are much more cautious as they see a looming disaster if America ends the shutdown early: Trump getting credit for a growing economy.
“Right now, we have record joblessness, and GDP is certainly going to take a huge hit,” said Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. “That’s exactly what you want in an election year when you’re running against an incumbent. If we reverse that too soon, we’re basically helping Trump’s reelection.”
“If we reopen now, it could be an absolute disaster,” added Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. “We could have people in November saying, ‘Wow. Things are getting better. Trump is doing a great job.’ It’s hard to imagine anything worse than that.”
Pelosi and Schumer said that “out of an abundance of caution,” they need to wait to make sure things stay pretty bad until after the election, as that will be the only way to stave off another Trump term.
“Oh, and I guess if we reopen things too soon,” Schumer added as an afterthought, “it could also lead to a resurgence of people dying.”
“Well, we’d have to hope,” Pelosi said, “or it would look like Trump knows what he’s doing.”
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00The Babylon Beehttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngThe Babylon Bee2020-04-29 06:40:242021-10-08 01:46:06Democrats Warn We Shouldn’t Reopen The Country Until We Can Be Safe From Trump Getting Credit For A Good Economy
WASHINGTON, D.C.—At his press conference last night, President Trump told everyone to stay hydrated and drink lots of water.
“Water’s tremendous, very powerful stuff,” he said. “You won’t believe the things they can do with water. Water balloons. Water slides. Water beds. It’s amazing. You can freeze it and make ice, I’m told. Ice is great for lots of things. Ice cream. Ice cubes. Igloos.”
“Anyway, drink water.”
Horrified journalists scrambled to warn Americans not to drown themselves in their pools and bathtubs.
“Trump says water is good — but this is very misleading,” said Rachel Maddow. “Did you know that water kills many people every year? These dangerous, unhinged remarks from the president could cause many to drown themselves. Plus, do you know what’s hidden in water? Sharks. This president wants you to die from a shark attack!”
Representatives for various bottled water companies quickly released a statement distancing themselves from the president’s remarks and warning everyone not to submerge themselves in the ocean for minutes at a time.
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http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00The Babylon Beehttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngThe Babylon Bee2020-04-28 08:43:062021-10-08 01:46:06Trump Says To Drink Lots Of Water, Media Reports He Told Everyone To Drown Themselves
With Americans hunkering down at home in the throes of the coronavirus pandemic, it can sometimes feel like the end of days. However, for an unseen number of our countrymen, today’s struggle is hardly different from a miserable day-to-day existence.
If you work in the school system or as a teacher, then you know who I am talking about. The kid who comes to class with incomplete homework, a bad attitude, and no respect for authority.
His mother—these days the dads are hardly ever in the picture—is not engaged in her child’s life or schooling. In fact, if you were to go to her house to talk to her, you would likely find her sitting on the couch, strung out on drugs, living in a filthy home that resembles a pigsty.
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Homeless people walking the streets often get our attention because they clearly have nothing. But more insidious are the men, women, and, sadly, children, who go through life like zombies. No goals, no discipline, no positive influences, no inspiration, no hope.
This dystopia is the reality in today’s America, even if it’s rarely spoken of in polite company and hardly ever is the focus of mainstream media. It’s the dark and despairing side of America that we want to pretend does not exist, but it surely does.
Go to a Third World country, as I have many times, and you will see people living in abject poverty. But the emotional and spiritual poverty you encounter in America is almost worse because we are all blessed to live in a land of possibility and promise that rewards hard work and offers more opportunities for advancement than any nation.
And yet, so many of our neighbors squander the rich offerings placed before them, opting instead to live off of government subsidies and merely skate by in life.
Young people bounce from dead-end job to dead-end job, too busy thinking about the next puff of marijuana, hit of meth, or other poison that they use to pollute their bodies and deaden their minds.
And those stimulus checks that have begun arriving as a way for the government to take care of the most vulnerable? Most of that money will never make it to these people or have any real impact.
The government will have garnished much of the funds to collect unpaid child support and alimony. The credit card companies will gobble up the dollars, taking a small bite out of the debt that most Americans carry over from one month to next.
We have become a nation of indentured servants, slaves to lenders, and self-made deadbeats.
It sounds surreal, but inside the homes that line the inner-city streets of this country, the existence of the coronavirus may even be good news.
Misery loves company and for those who prefer complaining to hard work, it will bring joy to see so many people who are usually gainfully employed scrounging for their daily bread, filing for unemployment, and relying on handouts from Uncle Sam to sustain themselves.
For those whose poverty is not just financial but also mental and spiritual, the coronavirus makes no difference whatsoever. It’s just the latest chapter in life’s book of misery. When you have nothing to live for, then dying can seem like a good option in that it provides a reprieve from the daily pain of life.
Before the COVID-19 virus came to our shores, we had a self-made virus of entitlement and laziness that had already infected millions and was continuing to spread. It was the virus before the virus. In pockets of the Deep South, the Midwest, and from the East Coast to the West, you will find people living the lives I describe.
Previous generations of Americans—those who, if they are still alive, are the most susceptible to the virus—faced down hardships and emerged victorious. They confronted fascism in World War II and liberated concentration camps. They prevailed over communism and survived tumultuous cultural and geopolitical shifts.
I can only wonder if future observers will say the same about the generation coming of age in the 2000s. Will they have the fortitude and will to survive and thrive? The signs are not encouraging.
America may be the world’s only superpower, but how long can that be sustained when so many of our citizens drag their neighbors down and are bursting the social safety net, which was designed to provide short-term assistance as opposed to a lifetime handout?
Make no mistake about it, our country is sick. Unless we are willing to take our medicine and change our lifestyle and mentality, then our collective demise is unavoidable.
Armstrong Williams is a columnist for The Daily Signal and host of “The Armstrong Williams Show,” a nationally syndicated TV program. Twitter: @Arightside.
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After the 2016 presidential election of President Donald J. Trump, I stopped counting the numbers of Republicans and Conservatives who told me how unpleasantly life had changed for them.
Through eight years of President George W. Bush––even through the Reagan years, they said––they could still speak to their friends and relatives and agree to disagree about political issues.
But the reaction to the Trump presidency, they told me, was so extreme, the hysteria so sustained, the venom so poisonous, the rationality so nonexistent, that they couldn’t even go to a happy affair like a birthday party or wedding or dinner at a restaurant without World War III breaking out.
No surprise. While glamorous billionaire businessman and TV star Donald Trump had been lionized for decades before he became president by the very people who are vilifying him today, while office-seeking Democrats held out both hands for his generous contributions to their campaigns, and while leftists like Oprah and the fake-news media whores considered it either a privilege or a scoop to interview him, all that changed when he descended the Trump Tower escalator with his dazzling wife Melania in June of 2015 to announce his candidacy.
WHY THE CHANGE?
Indeed, why did the “tolerant” Progressives display––and exhibit to this very day––such florid and feverish intolerance?
Why did the thug groups of the Left––like Antifa, Black Lives Matter and Occupy Wall St.––step up their violence and downright anarchy in their anti-Trump protests?
Because of the existential threat candidate and now President Trump posed to their hundred-year ambition to destroy the America they loathe––the America that embraces free markets and capitalism, the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, free speech, the right to bear arms, et al.
To the horror of all those socialist/communist-admiring Progressives, the empire-builder Donald Trump turned out to be a rock-ribbed believer in everything they detest:
American Exceptionalism.
The urgent importance of a strong military.
The simple sanity of closed borders.
Deep respect for the working-class people who built and run not only his buildings but America: electricians, plumbers, masons, elevator operators, on and on and on.
The destructive nature of high taxes.
The strangulating effect of strangulating regulations.
The clinical insanity of selling out to China, Iran and other countries.
The consummate fakery of the media and most polling companies.
Yes, the Progressives had just about succeeded in actualizing their destroy-America goal––eight years of Barack Obama and his socialized medicine (Obamacare), socialized education (Common Core), eviscerating our military, and funding terrorist states like Iran. All they needed was eight more years of Hillary.
SMELLING THE COFFEE
I happen to live about 18 minutes from New York City, in one of the meccas of leftwing madness on Long Island. In my suburban community, a Marxist Forum actually exists, voters overwhelmingly cast their ballots for Democrats, including a state legislature that not long ago stood on their feet and applauded a law to allow mothers in labor to end the lives of their fully developed, nine-months-in-utero babies literally one minute before birth. You read that right––applauded!
It’s a community––much like those in far-left California, Oregon, Michigan, et al––that spoon-feeds socialist propaganda to preschoolers straight through high school and college; mandates that students watch Al Gore’s film on the hoax of global-warming, “An Inconvenient Truth”; teaches the Gospel of Victimization for everyone––except those big bad white men and capitalists––and features six-foot posters of the Cuban communist mass murderer Che Guevara in their classrooms. Really.
As it happens, I was raised in a strict and religious home that voted Democrat. After high school, I married, had three children and moved to New York. Having been a truant in high school and then happily having skipped college, my mind was relatively uncontaminated by the leftist sewage that afflicts most people on the East and West coasts.
My education came from real life. For instance, one day I read in our local newspaper that a vote was being held to welcome 75 students from a lower-income neighborhood in Queens to be bussed into our town in order to attend our “superior” schools.My husband Steve and I voted for this proposal because we had grown up in New Haven, CT, where race relations were harmonious. Our high school’s president was black. I was the co-captain of the cheerleading squad with a beautiful black girl; Steve was a New-England Championship winner on a basketball team with four black guys (they affectionately called him the “light bulb”).
These experiences were so ingrained in our hearts and minds that when we moved into our first home, we hosted the New York Times-sponsored Fresh Air children for three consecutive summers.
But back to the referendum. To the absolute shock of the leftwing powers-that-be, it was resoundingly defeated. Although I was completely apolitical at the time, a neighbor urged me to attend a gathering to protest the vote.
That was when I went to my very first school board meeting. I was about 25 at the time, and my kids were about 7, 5, and 2. At the meeting, the smooth-talking school board president––the wealthy owner of several baby furniture stores––said the following: “The community has spoken. But the community is wrong. We are going ahead to extend the invitation to those students in Jamaica, Queens, in spite of the vote.”
RED FLAG!!!
Sitting there, I remember saying to myself: “I don’t think that’s legal!” Silly me, I thought that when you voted for a person or policy, that was the decision of “We the People,” and if you didn’t like the vote, you had to fight harder the next time to get your opinion voted into law.
For me, it was a vivid picture of dictatorial, fascistic, arrogant leftism in living color. And although I didn’t know the language of politics, I knew this species was not for me.
I knew it again when my sanctimonious neighbors told me I should join them in supporting the boycott of lettuce spearheaded by Cesar Chavez in 1970 because he wanted lettuce pickers to have the right to form their own union. Then I found out they sent their children to the supermarket to buy the lettuce!
A few years later, when my youngest child went to kindergarten, I decided to enter nursing school. The same thing that attracted me to conservatism attracted me to nursing: Facts!
I always tell people that if they were my patients, and I was calibrating IVs or drawing medications into a syringe to go into their veins, I would never do these things based on my feelings or instincts or emotions. Why? Because the correct dose could cure you, and the incorrect dose could kill you.
And yet, feelings and instincts and emotions are the three arch criteria on which Progressives base all of their misguided policies––always to the detriment of America!
By the way…the principal of the Jamaica high school in Queens wrote to Mr. Smooth-Talking school board president, saying that he would never let his students attend schools in a community that didn’t want them.
LIKE SHOOTING FISH….
Today, left-right debates have devolved into the children known as leftists resorting to acting-out temper tantrums and vicious name-calling, and the grown-ups known as conservatives usually remain slack-jawed at what they are seeing and hearing.
My own exchanges, however, are usually hilarious––and certainly revealing of the aberrational “thinking” of leftists in general. As an aside, they are always scowling during these exchanges, and I am always smiling…yet another thing that drives them mad.
Progressive: Trump is only lowering taxes for his rich friends. Me: I understand….you like high taxes. Progressive: Well, I’m not saying that….
Progressive: Trump is only quashing regulations to get pro-union votes. Me: I understand…you like waiting three years to get a new roof on your home. Progressive: Well, I’m not saying that…
Progressive: Trump is spending all our money on the military. Me: I understand…you like a weak military. Progressive: Well, I’m not saying that…
Progressive: Trump is a racist for closing our borders. Me: I understand…you would never get a lock or alarm system on your home. Progressive: Well, I’m not saying that…
You get the picture. Whether it is Democrat governors or senators or representatives or candidates for office, the rationality factor, the sane factor, the intelligent factor, the pro-American factor is simply missing.
Happily, an overwhelming majority of Americans have both eyes and ears. They are watching. They are listening. They are keenly aware that Democrats are not on America’s side.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Joan Swirskyhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngJoan Swirsky2020-04-25 05:53:502020-04-25 05:53:50Leftist Nonsense –– Like Shooting Fish in a Barrel
NEW YORK, NY—In a rare visit to her district, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dropped by the unemployment office to explain to everyone why losing their jobs was actually a good thing.
Ocasio-Cortez explained how those who had worked for oil companies were involved in an inherently evil industry. Furthermore, she said, by losing their jobs, they were pushing America closer and closer to a socialist utopia where nobody works. Finally, she told them they had thrown off the capitalist shackles of work and income.
“What a great turnout today!” she said cheerily as she turned on her megaphone, though she was shouting into it backward until an aide helped her turn it around. “Work and income are capitalist constructs! You should be thankful! I’m just so excited to see that everyone here, like, is totally ready for a socialist workers’ paradise. Like, if nobody works, then the government just has to pay for our stuff, because, like, otherwise, money wouldn’t exist.”
Nobody seemed to understand her, but she pressed on. “Anyway, just keep fighting the good fight and topple our capitalist overlords!”
“You love to see it!”
She tripped on her shoelaces and fell on the way out, but an aide was ready to free her with a pair of scissors he always keeps handy just for such an occasion.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Dr. Rich Swierhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngDr. Rich Swier2020-04-24 06:57:112021-10-08 01:46:06AOC Drops By Unemployment Office To Tell People How Lucky They Are Not To Have Oppressive Jobs
WASHINGTON, D.C—As more state governors lock down and enslave their people, one hero has been called to save Americans from their masters.
President Donald Trump says he was commanded by a burning rose bush in the Rose Garden to confront Democratic state governors over their tyranny. He first said he wasn’t sure he could do it as he was too awesome and good at this kind of thing and it would go to his head, but the rose bush agreed to send Mike Pence along with him to balance his amazingness out.
“Let my people go!” Trump cried as he threw down a MAGA hat and miraculously transformed it into a Big Mac, which he then ate. “Greatest miracle, maybe ever.” But the governors had their own Satanic magicians who performed similar tricks, turning their pink women’s rights hats into vegan milkshakes.
“Sad! Not good!” Trump said. “If you will not let my people go, more plagues will be unleashed — the best plagues, maybe ever. We’re talking bigly plagues.” Sure enough, Lake Erie turned to blood, Pepe the Frogs spread across the land, and locusts descended on everything and ate everybody’s crops. The Democrats didn’t seem to mind the Angel of Death plague though, since most of them are already cool with abortion.
After the tenth plague, some of the governors finally relented, allowing Trump to lead his people to freedom across a miraculously parted Missouri River.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00The Babylon Beehttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngThe Babylon Bee2020-04-24 06:47:412021-10-08 01:46:06Trump Threatens More Plagues Unless State Governors Let His People Go
How does a lifelong conservative voter in Chicago switch to being a liberal voter? He dies.
If the left is so great and their ideas are so wonderful, then how come they often have to cheat to win elections?
During the coronavirus, with its extraordinary upending of our regular life, some want to use this crisis to permanently change how we vote in this country. This reminds me of the left’s slogan, “Never let a crisis go to waste.”
On March 16, the A.P. reported on a new law in Chicago whereby prisoners can vote in prison (not just by absentee ballot):
“A state law enacted last summer requires that Illinois’ 20,000 pretrial detainees be given the opportunity to vote. That means absentee ballots must be distributed in every jail in the state. But the law also requires that any county with more than 3 million residents set up voting machines in the jail. Cook was the only county to qualify.”
On April 3, CNN observed,
“The coronavirus crisis has prompted new calls to expand access to voting ahead of November’s election and intensified the long-running partisan fight over voting rights…. And House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said she wants money dedicated to vote-by-mail to be part of the next coronavirus bill.”
It may sound good, but some of the left’s tactics have been designed to basically steal the vote.
The left has been pushing for illegal immigrants to be able to vote. And every time an illegitimate vote is cast it nullifies a legitimate vote that is cast.
If there is cheating by Republicans against Democrats, I’m not aware of it. If you answer, “Watergate,” please note that was about half a century ago.
As we face the critical election this year, 2020, we do well to stay on guard against any means from anybody to steal our vote. Veteran journalist Bob Knight wrote a book, Liberty on the Brink, on the left’s efforts to falsify elections.
In a TV interview, he told me, “One thing is to allow millions of illegal immigrants into the country, not keep track of them, and then weaken the voting laws….In the book, I go through a number of ways they do this. They fight voter ID laws, which are very common sense laws because everybody agrees on them.”
Scott Powell, a senior fellow with the Discovery Institute, told me: “In America you have to have an identification to fly, to buy alcohol, to drive a car. Voting in an election is one of the more important things an American citizen can do, and there should be unanimous support for voter identification. Without voter identification, we are more likely to have electoral fraud, and that can swing elections in key areas.”
One of the key strategies of the left to try and sway the outcome of upcoming elections is a movement to abolish the Electoral College. But that was a brilliant concept by the founders in the Constitution itself to allow for states across the nation to have their say in the outcome of the election for president. The left just wants the big cities (usually liberal) to decide.
As constitutional attorney Jenna Ellis points out, “The Electoral College is a process that was put in place to safeguard the safety of the voters and to make sure that every state has a voice and has representation.”
Bob Knight gives an example of a practice rife with the potential for voter fraud: “Ballot harvesting is one of the latest techniques that the left is using to, I believe, steal elections. Ballot harvesting is legal in some jurisdictions, and it means you can go out and collect ballots from people you’re not related to. Usually you cannot vote, you cannot turn in a ballot for someone you’re not related to, and that’s to prevent vote fraud.”
He points out that on election night 2018, in normally conservative Orange County, California, several Republicans were leading—one of them by 14%. And then, says Knight: “Thousands of ballots came in [later] that were harvested by volunteers, usually union leaders. And that swept the Democrats to power in all congressional districts in Orange County. Now I can’t believe that Orange County overnight became a Democratic county, other than the ballot harvesting that facilitated it.”
Yes, the coronavirus may alter some of how voting is done in this critical election year. But it ought not to be the means by which the left tries to steal our vote.
Knight notes how serious this threat of voter fraud is: “The left is trying to take over the country and impose a socialist state on America. If they win this time around, I’m not sure we’ll ever get the American freedom we’re used to back.”
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Jerry Newcombe, D. Min.http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngJerry Newcombe, D. Min.2020-04-24 06:37:482020-04-24 06:43:01The Cheating Factor in the Elections
With Americans hunkering down at home in the throes of the coronavirus pandemic, it can sometimes feel like the end of days. However, for an unseen number of our countrymen, today’s struggle is hardly different from a miserable day-to-day existence.
