However, many of us then make the fatal mistake of saying something like: “Yes, but it’s a long way off before they will have an impact on the country, and I have more pressing things to attend to now.”
This single critical error is a primary reason why our country has been going downhill over the last few decades. Fact 1: we are losing to the Left. Fact 2: the main reason why is that Left is playing a very effective, long game.
The long game the Left is engaging in means that they plan to gradually subvert our country over a few decades — while we are attending to other matters. Their subversion is across the board: our education system, our values, our civility, our Science, our economy, our executive branch, our legislature, our judicial system, etc.
I’ve recommended this before, but it is worth repeating: PLEASEWATCH THIS FIVE MINUTE VIDEO, as it spells it out very clearly.
We are like live lobsters in the pot where the temperature is gradually being turned up.
Consider one astounding reality… Fact 1: Some four million US students graduate from US high schools every year. Fact 2: a conservative estimate is that some three million of those graduates are heavily propagandized with Left ideology, and have almost no Critical Thinking skills. Fact 3: Most of these propagandized, non-critical thinking people will shortly become voting citizens.
How long can America survive with 3± million new voters every year, who have been propagandized with Left ideology and who have no Critical Thinking skills???
Parents are our first line of defense!
With the above understanding, what should be the objectives of conscientious parents, in bringing up their children?
Good question, as this is a highly debated topic. Many hundreds of books have been written on this matter. Some of the better ones are by John Rosemond.
One common answer to this question is that parents should teach their offspring to be productive, happy adults. Sounds good, but what does that translate to?
Let me suggest 5 major objectives that quality parents would want to teach their kids:
How to Think (being a Critical Thinker),
Strong Values (e.g., Judeo-Christian standards),
Useful Knowledge (covering a wide range of life topics),
Good Habits (like brushing their teeth), and
WorthwhileSkills (like knowing how to cook).
Let me posit further that the most important one is the first!
Considering things carefully, ALL of the others actually depend on the ability to do Critical Thinking! Conversely, a Critically Thinking child will not only do better on each of the other items, but will need less parental involvement with them as well.
Let’s say, for example, that your top priority is Christian values — like going to Church on Sunday. That’s an admirable start, but will your child continue to attend weekly Church services after they have left the nest?
IMO, unless they have done Critical Thinking about the merits of going to Church (vs. doing it because they were told to, or out of habit), they are very likely to stop. Is that what you want? Is that what you would call success?
How does a parent instill Critical Thinking in their children?
STEP ONE is parents understanding the importance of this special skill. Please read this list of amazing benefits of your child being a Critical Thinker.
STEP TWO is understanding that it is very unlikely that your child is being taught to be a Critical Thinker in school — especially public. Worse, it is almost certain that they are being taught the OPPOSITE of being a Critical Thinker!
What? Yes, that is what is happening in the majority of K-12 schools, during the most formative years of their life. As I’ve written before, the appropriate subject area for children to be taught HOW to be a Critical Thinker, is Science. That’s because real scientists are people who instinctively ask questions: who? when? why? An essential ingredient of being a Critical Thinker is to ask questions when non-parents (teachers, older kids, media, authorities, etc.) are telling them something.
Why have I excluded parents? It’s because those people have a very special love for their children. No one else has this same commitment. As a result, children should never question parental authority. (That understood, children can certainly respectfully question parental opinions on things like politics, religion, etc.)
So how are schools teaching the opposite of Critical Thinking? The opposite is to be a robotic lemming. Schools are teaching children that they should: be politically correct, follow the advice of experts (e.g., re COVID), accept the conclusions of computers (e.g., re climate), go along with consensus (e.g., secularism), believe that reality is what is on the Internet and social media, etc.
That’s one of the main reasons I’m so opposed to the Next Generation Science Standards that have been totally (or mostly) adopted by 49 states! The progressive NGSS is a key part of the K-12 curriculum, and it is teaching conformance and compliance, not Critical Thinking.
STEP THREE is like many other things: parents teach Critical thinking by setting a good example. Actions are more impactful than words. Show your children how to constructively question what they see on their screens, by the parents doing the same for what is on TV, in the newspaper, on the Internet, etc.
STEP FOUR is to help them perfect this skill by doing some real-world exercises. For example, some parents have told me that they ask their teenager to read my twice-a-month Newsletter. Then the child picks one of the dozen or more topics covered by the Newsletter to discuss. The parent then chooses one of the articles in that section.
Twice a month they set aside at least 30 minutes for some parent-child private time, with no interruptions (which is a good thing in itself). The child then reads the article out loud to the parent, and they discuss what’s good (or bad) in the article. This provides an outstanding opportunity to see that your child is somewhat up on current events, and from a reliable source.
Further, it provides the parent a glimpse of their child’s thinking on this topic, as well as being an outstanding opportunity for the parent to share with their child their perspective on an important societal issue. And, of course, this happy event is also about Critical Thinking — e.g. conversing with your child how this article compares to what she has seen in the media, or taught in school, or heard from their friends, etc.
For anyone with refinements of this exercise — or other effective ways to teach children to be Critical Thinkers — please post them in the comments below.
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In my country, The Kingdom of The Netherlands, there are tens of thousands of people that live on the street. These downtrodden fellow countrymen of mine try to find sleeping places in gardens, in cars, in shelters for the homeless. If they are lucky, they may be permitted to sleep once in a while in the attick of a real home of family or friends.
Holland is one of the richest countries in the world. The problem of the downtrodden could technically easily be solved. There are enough empty homes. But the Dutch government want to give all empty homes to Islamic asylum seekers from the Third World.
In short: our own people in need, come last.
A very good friend of mine is one of these downtrodden. His name is Imro Parami. He immigrated in his youth from Surinam to The Netherlands. He has been discriminated against because he is a black man. Because he couldn’t find work, out of desperation, he became a drug addict. In the year 2018 I met him in a park, where he was using crack, a deadly drug. I convinced him to stop using that drug, and we became friends. He had no home, but stayed over in a shelter for problematic people. I taught him Judo, so he could defend himself in the dangerous world that he was in.
Mr. Parami doesn’t use drugs now for a long period of time. He is a devout Christian. But the Dutch government doesn’t like him: he is outspoken and a real man. He doesn’t fit in modern feminine society. Thus, he gets in trouble with the authorities continuously. He is put in jail, he has to do unpaid labor, he is checked upon et cetera. And the worst thing is: he doesn’t own keys to his own home, but lives in a small room in a shelter, with many unpleasant characters around him.
I do not write this article to improve the life of Mr. Parami alone. I want all downtrodden fellow countrymen of mine to be treated with decency by the Dutch government!
And now over to your country, the USA. You people have to be very careful to avoid that you also get a very large government. A large government isn’t there to serve the common people. It is there solely to serve the higher-ups of the government itself.
That’s all. Now I have to do activism in The Netherlands in the Dutch language again. That means that you Americans have to fight for your own situation. To improve the lives of the American downtrodden. The government cannot be the solution. The large government is the reason there are homeless drug addicts everywhere in America these days.
I wish you all Godspeed, if you join ranks with people that care. In the past, the Hells Angels did marvelous work for the downtrodden. Where are they now?
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Iranian journalist and activist and President of the @WLCongressMasih Alinejad, “I will explain why the people of Iran danced after the death of Qassem Soleimani and now they are drinking wine to celebrate the death of seven more of Khamenei’s allies in the IRGC. This is a big no to the lobbies that made Soleimani a hero and whitewashed the murderous corps.”
در مصاحبه با جیک تپر مجری سرشناس CNN شرح میدهم چرا مردم ایران بعد از کشته شدن قاسم سلیمانی رقصیدند و حالا هم به سلامتی کشته شدن هفت تن دیگر از یاران خامنهای در سپاه شراب نوشیدهاند. این یک نه بزرگ است به لابیهایی که سلیمانی را قهرمان کردند و سپاه قاتل را سفیدشویی میکنند. pic.twitter.com/0dXeqAUyyu
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As women from Iran and Afghanistan, we endure imprisonment, lashings, rape, blinded, executed and constant terror simply for seeking freedom, equality, and dignity.
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In response to incumbent President Joe Biden naming Easter Sunday the national “Transgender Day of Visibility,” former President Donald Trump is declaring a “Christian Visibility Day.” The 45th president announced on Truth Social, “Election Day, November 5th, will be the most important day in the History of our Country. It will also be Christian Visibility Day, the biggest turnout of Christians in the history of our Country!”
In a Tuesday speech delivered in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Trump asked, “And what the hell was Biden thinking when he declared Easter Sunday to be trans visibility day?” He added, “Such total disrespect to Christians, and November 5th is going to be called something else. You know what it’s going to be called? ‘Christian Visibility Day,’ when Christians turn out in numbers that nobody has ever seen before.”
Trump’s national press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, called Biden’s “Transgender Day of Visibility” proclamation “appalling and insulting,” adding that it was simply part of the Biden administration’s “years-long assault on the Christian faith.”
In comments to The Washington Stand, FRC Action Director Matt Carpenter said, “The recent attempt by the Biden White House to overshadow Resurrection Sunday with so-called ‘Transgender Day of Visibility’ will undoubtedly have repercussions come November 5.” He continued, “Unlike Biden, Trump seems to be paying attention to what happened this past weekend when he said election day would be ‘Christian Day of Visibility.’ Christian voters are paying attention.”
“The Biden White House is not simply indifferent to America’s heritage as a Christian nation that marks its calendar with Christian holidays, his administration is openly hostile to that tradition,” Carpenter added. “I think former President Trump rightly sees the opening here to connect with Christian voters who are now seeing plainly the power of the presidency to point American civic life toward its harmful gender ideology or the resurrection of the Son of God from the grave.”
Ahead of Christmas, Trump pledged to form a task force if reelected in order to combat anti-Christian bias. “As soon as I get back in the Oval Office, I’ll also immediately end the war on Christians,” the 45th president promised. “Under crooked Joe Biden, Christians and Americans of faith are being persecuted and government has been weaponized against religion like never before.”
“Biden and his corrupt Department of Injustice have sent SWAT teams to arrest pro-life activists, they’ve targeted conservative parents at school board meetings who don’t want filth taught to their children, it’s filth, what they’re teaching in schools, it’s filth,” Trump stated. He then referred to the Biden Justice Department’s campaign spying on American Catholics who attend the pre-1969 Tridentine Mass, saying, “And now the communists, Marxists, and fascists are going hard after Catholics, even plotting to send spies into Catholic churches. … Just like in the Soviet Union from days gone by.” He asked, “If you’re a Catholic, why would you vote for a Democrat, with what they’re doing to Catholics? I don’t know what’s going on with the Catholics, but they’re really being persecuted.”
“A new report from the House Judiciary Committee proves that the Biden FBI actually targeted Catholics as potential domestic terrorists,” Trump noted, referring to a December congressional report. “And you know, evangelicals will not be far behind, because when that starts, it starts happening on a very major scale.”
Over the past several months, polls have consistently shown Trump beating Biden in November, both in hotly-contested battleground states and nationally.
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The hour is late, and open war rages across the United States. No sword is drawn, no shot is fired, yet lives, souls, and civilization itself all hang in the balance. This present war is not a political one — though politics and government are the weapons used in this combat — but a spiritual one. Two religions are struggling for supremacy over America: leftism and Christianity.
“Marxism,” “communism,” “socialism,” “progressivism,” and even “relativism” and “atheism” are common buzzwords among conservatives, but each of these political and social ideologies is merely a contributor to the emergent religion of leftism. Yes, leftism is a religion, it is not simply an ideology: it mandates its own worship, its own doctrine, and even its own sacraments. It promulgates its tenets, enforced by malleable legislation, as positive goods — that is, ends which are good in and of themselves, not simply means to achieve ends which are determined externally to be good, as most political forces do. It was once the norm for varying political factions to agree, largely, on what would be good for the nation — whether that be the support of families, the growth of the economy, or the bolstering of the nation’s borders — predicated on the express will of the people, but to simply differ on how best to achieve those goods.
Not so in the 21st century. Leftism differs fundamentally from its foe on what those ultimate goods are for the nation; in fact, its devoutly, fervently held positions place it in direct opposition not to a political force but to a religion — namely, Christianity, by far the most prevalent religion in America. Abortion, transgenderism, homosexuality, pornography, open borders, and all the agenda items of leftism are directly and incontrovertibly contradictory to the moral standards of Christianity. Of course, conservatism has long advanced Christian moral standards in the public and political spheres, but the increasingly-common brand of secular conservatism uprooted from Christianity has proven toothless in the snarling face of leftism.
Nearly 70 years ago, the Catholic author and orator Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen predicted the rise of the religion of leftism, orchestrated by Satan himself. “He will set up a counter church which will be the ape of the Church, because he, the Devil, is the ape of God,” Sheen wrote. “It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the Antichrist that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ.” The archbishop prophesied that the religion of leftism “will be brotherhood of Man without the fatherhood of God…”
Indeed, the good bishop’s words seem unnervingly more than prescient. For nearly 2,000 years, Christians have celebrated the solemn feast of Easter, commemorating and glorifying Christ’s triumphant resurrection from the dead and victory over the grave. It cannot be mere coincidence that, this year, President Joe Biden declared Easter Sunday to be a national “Transgender Day of Visibility.” Consider that this is more than simply spitting in the face of devout Christians; it is the institution of a new and fatal religion’s highest holy day, intentionally coinciding with the date of Easter Sunday. Christians believe that, through the sacrament of baptism, we are born again, shedding the stain of original sin with which we were born in order to share in the glories of life eternal, opened to us by Christ’s resurrection. Traditionally, baptized Christians would even take a new name, an outward sign of their new identities in Christ. Transgenderism is leftism’s diabolically inverted answer to this sacrament: death to the old self, shedding the identity (sex) with which one was born, and taking a new name to go with one’s new identity.
Every doctrine that Christianity preaches, leftism preaches its own perversion of it. The love advocated by Christianity is rooted in absolute truth, in “Love Himself,” as C.S. Lewis once put it. Leftism advocates “love” unmoored, anchored by nothing more absolute than the weight of fickle feelings and emotions — though, when those emotions are felt, they do reign supreme.
Christianity upholds sacrifice as virtuous — the giving of oneself for the sake of love is the zenith of the virtue of charity. Christ Himself tells His followers, “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13). Leftism also values sacrifice, but never sacrifice of the self, only the sacrificing of others. Abortion is the ultimate example of this warped anti-virtue: sacrificing one’s own child for… financial comfort, a career, no responsibility, or even just consequence-free sex.
Christianity mandates submission to the will of God, accepting His design no matter how painful or difficult. Again, Christ Himself prayed, “O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt” (Matthew 26:39). Leftism demands obeisance to the only god it recognizes: the self-centered self. Transgenderism is demonstrative of this: just as Christian martyrs have willingly suffered torture for the sake of their faith, so the confused, self-centered, and self-loathing suffer mutilation and torture for the sake of their own wounded and twisted egos.
Like the dominant Christianity of the Middle Ages, leftism even has its own office of the inquisition. Those who do not toe the leftist line, who dare to question the new religion’s dogmas, are hounded out of the anti-church. The famed “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling is indicative of this. A multi-millionaire and self-declared feminist, Rowling was once a darling of leftist media and political activists. She supported the Labour Party in the U.K. and Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in the U.S. Yet as soon as she voiced her concerns over transgenderism, she became a “heretic” to the church of leftism, targeted for disbarment from all the institutions controlled by leftism.
Although leftism is a uniquely 21st century phenomenon, its fundamental principles are nothing new. In fact, God has been dealing with the motivating mindset behind leftism since before the world began. The chief and unifying tenet of the leftist religion — indeed, that of all its precursors and predecessors, also — is naturalism. When first Lucifer said, in the words of the poet John Milton, “Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven,” naturalism was born. Naturalism is the belief, the assertion that the creature can replace the Creator, that the peasant may, if he slays the King, rule in His stead. It is the hubristic declaration that “God is dead, I am god.”
Satan was the first to declare thus, in his immense pride, galled by the humility of God’s plan to become a man, to take on the form of a mere creature — “these disgusting little human vermin,” as Lewis called them in the character of Screwtape, a hateful demon. He has declared it ever since, leading countless souls astray. In the Garden of Eden, that was the temptation offered by the Serpent: “You shall be as gods” (Genesis 3:5). Throughout Scripture and, certainly, throughout human history, that has been the great temptation, the great sin: to be as gods. When Moses ascended Mount Sinai, after God led the Hebrews out of slavery in Egypt, that temptation reared its head and the Hebrews made for themselves an idol (Exodus 32). Even then, the Hebrews fell to worshipping the demon Baal, until the prophet Elijiah proved the supremacy of God and slayed the Baalite priests (1 Kings 18).
Whether in the twilight years of the Roman Empire, throughout the Middle Ages, into the age of discovery, or even now in the modern day, men are tempted to declare themselves God, to worship their own selves over the crucified and resurrected person of Christ, to adhere to their own principles or preachings as supreme. Leftism is simply the culmination of this evil, this unbridled, unrestrained pride, brought to the fore via political prowess and instituted in American culture via institutions long ago captured by the prophets of leftism: Marxists, communists, perverts, abortionists, eugenicists, atheists, relativists, and countless other little ideologues subservient to the Luciferian sin of naturalism.
The current division in America is not ultimately a matter of Left versus Right, of Democrat versus Republican, of communist versus capitalist, but of good versus evil, of naturalism (in the form of leftism) versus Christianity, of the fallen angel Lucifer and his minions versus the crucified and resurrected Christ and the forces of Heaven. The war being waged over America at present is not a matter of differing political opinions but of diametrically opposed religions.
One side says that unborn babies, the most innocent of all persons, may be executed at will, torn apart and unceremoniously vacuumed out of the wombs of their mothers; that children may, on a whim, decide to ingest hormones foreign and unnatural to their bodies before subjecting themselves to irreversible surgeries so horrific that not even the most warped and depraved authors of the 19th and 20th centuries could have imagined them; that procreation is wholly unrelated to the conjugal act, that two men might sodomize one another and call it “love”; that sex-trafficking and child sexual exploitation are just the price to be paid for virtual images of increasingly perverted sex acts, readily available to young and old at the mere click of a button; that a nation has no sovereignty and must be subjected to millions of unvetted, unrestricted immigrants.
The other side says that innocence is worth preserving, that unborn children and their mothers must be cherished and protected from the evils of the abortion mill; that children must be raised to think and think critically, think well, think deeply; that the family is the basic and fundamental unit of society, that the very fabric of civilization would unravel without the family as its basis; that love necessitates self-sacrifice, not self-gratification; that nations have a God-given right to defend their borders and preserve the safety and security of their own people; that Christ is indeed King.
This present war is not between two ideological factions but between powers and principalities, between leftism and Christianity, between good and evil, between God and Satan. “Choose you this day whom ye will serve… As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord” (Joshua 24:15).
The Washington Stand is Family Research Council’s outlet for news and commentary from a biblical worldview. The Washington Stand is based in Washington, D.C. and is published by FRC, whose mission is to advance faith, family, and freedom in public policy and the culture from a biblical worldview. We invite you to stand with us by partnering with FRC.
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The Biden administration is allowing immigrants applying for U.S. citizenship to identify as an “X” gender on their paperwork. U.S. Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on Monday that, effective immediately, immigrants applying for naturalization may pick “male,” “female,” or “X” as their gender, denoting “Another Gender Identity.”
Furthermore, applicants do not need to provide any supporting documentation in order to select an “X” gender. “You do not need to provide supporting documentation to select X as your gender initially or to change your gender selection for Form N-400,” USCIS stated. “The gender you select does not need to match the gender listed on your other immigration documents or on supporting identity documents, such as your birth certificate, passport, or state identification.”
“Historically, USCIS forms and associated documents have only offered two gender options: ‘Male (M)’ and ‘Female (F),’” the USCIS announcement explained. “This has created significant barriers for requestors who do not identify with either of those options.” The agency cited the example of other federal agencies, such as the U.S. State Department, which have allowed for a self-identified “X” gender on official documents as justification for its decision.
The agency advised, “Form N-400 is the only USCIS form that offers the X gender option at this time. Therefore, until we complete additional form revisions that add the X gender option, naturalization certificates are the only USCIS-issued secure identity documents that can reflect the gender X.” Form N-565, a request for a replacement naturalization or citizenship document, is reportedly still being revised to include an “X” gender option. Those who have filed an N-400 form which is still pending need only contact USCIS to request a change to “X.”
USCIS also updated guidelines in its Policy Manual to reflect the new gender option available, adding that there will be “other forthcoming form revisions that will add a third gender option…”
Referring to the death of Laken Riley, a Georgia nursing student who was brutally murdered by an illegal immigrant, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) posted on social media, “I’m sure Laken Riley’s family is relieved to know that immigrants can now register as ‘Gender X.’” He added, “Biden’s Department of Homeland Security is too busy implementing woke DEI gender policies to protect Americans and secure the border. … Close the border.”
The USCIS decision follows similar moves by other federal agencies, most notably the State Department. In 2022, Biden’s State Department announced it was adding “X” gender marker options to U.S. passports, a decision explicitly cited by USCIS in its own announcement. Additionally, the State Department has spent its time issuing warnings to staffers about “misgendering,” funding training programs for LGBT “allies,” and endorsing LGBT “Pride” events across the globe.
The Washington Stand is Family Research Council’s outlet for news and commentary from a biblical worldview. The Washington Stand is based in Washington, D.C. and is published by FRC, whose mission is to advance faith, family, and freedom in public policy and the culture from a biblical worldview. We invite you to stand with us by partnering with FRC.
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President Joe Biden’s administration announced its plan on Thursday to protect bureaucrats from being fired by a potential second Trump administration.
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) finalized a rule that protects employees in the civil service by preventing the removal of their status and protections involuntarily, according to a press release. Under the new rule, an administration wishing to shift federal employees to a new category making them easier to fire would have to go through an elongated process, a move meant to be more time-consuming for a future president, Politico reported.
“Career federal employees deliver critical services for Americans in every community,” OPM Director Kiran Ahuja said in a press release. “This final rule honors our 2.2 million career civil servants, helping ensure that people are hired and fired based on merit and that they can carry out their duties based on their expertise and not political loyalty. The Biden-Harris Administration is deeply committed to the federal workforce, as these professionals are vital to our national security, our health, our economic prosperity, and much more.”
OPM just finalized a regulation upholding civil service protections for most of the country’s 2.2 million federal employees. Federal employees should be hired based on their skills & expertise – not on political considerations.
— U.S. Office of Personnel Management (@USOPM) April 4, 2024
The rule is widely viewed as a response to an executive order signed in 2020 by former President Donald Trump, Politico reported. The executive order targeted federal workers, removing protections from some employees and make it easier for the president to hire and fire them.
The executive order took some entrenched bureaucrats “in positions of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character” and put them in a different category considered “Schedule F,” making them easier to fire.
The OPM rule quotes this language directly, even referencing “Schedule F.”
The final rule advances “policy goals,” the press release states, by “clarifying that the phrase ‘confidential, policy determining, policymaking, or policy-advocating’ positions—a term of art to describe positions that lack civil service protections—means noncareer, political appointments. This rule prevents that exception from being misapplied to career civil servants.”
“Schedule F,” the OPM press release stated, would have rid employees of their civil service protections which ensure that employment decisions are “based on merit, not political considerations. ”
The final rule is set to be published in the Federal Register on Thursday, the press release stated.
“This rule is about making sure the American public can continue to count on federal workers to apply their skills and expertise in carrying out their jobs, no matter their personal political beliefs,” OPM Deputy Director Rob Shriver told reporters, according to Politico.
In addition to Trump’s executive order, conservatives have pushed the importance of remaking the federal bureaucracy, and Trump allies have indicated it could be a key priority in a second term. In 2023, a majority of political donations made by federal employees went to President Joe Biden and fellow Democrats, a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis found.
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A Florida voter told MSNBC host Jose Diaz-Balart that not closing the southern border was “unsafe” for the country in an interview that aired Wednesday.
President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign claimed Florida was “winnable” in November’s general election, citing a Florida Supreme Court ruling that allowed a law restricting abortion after the sixth week of pregnancy to take effect, according to NBC News. Diaz-Balart asked voters in Florida about their views on the upcoming election and what they would say to President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, eliciting an impassioned response from a Miami woman.
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“I think the southern border needs to be closed,” the voter, a young Hispanic woman, told Diaz-Balart. “I think it is unsafe for our country. I would love to believe the idea that everybody that is crossing the southern border is doing so in search of the American dream, but that’s not true.”
“I do agree with the wall. I think it makes sense,” the voter continued. “I think you lock your doors at night to make your house safe. I think we need some kind of measure to keep our border safe as well.”
Miami voter: "I think that the southern border needs to be closed…I do agree with the wall. I think it makes sense. You lock your doors at night to keep your house safe and I think that we need to have some kind of measure to keep our border safe as well." pic.twitter.com/G4yUq7k7c4
Trump held leads of 20% among voters in the swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin when it came to handling immigration and the economy, according to a poll conducted by The Wall Street Journal from March 17-24.
Former President Donald Trump and other Republicans have highlighted crimes committed by illegal immigrants after the murder of nursing student Laken Riley, blaming President Joe Biden for reversing multiple Trump border policies during his first days in office. Riley’s alleged killer, Jose Antonio Ibarra, an immigrant from Venezuela who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, was arrested by University of Georgia police and charged with murdering the 22-year-old nursing student on Feb. 23.
According to data released by United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP), 849,469 illegal immigrants have been encountered to date in fiscal year 2024, following 2,045,838 encounters in fiscal year 2023, 2,206,436 encounters in fiscal year 2022 and 1,659,206 in fiscal year 2021.
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Former President Donald Trump is leading President Joe Biden by large margins on key domestic issues across seven battleground states ahead of the November election, a poll released Tuesday evening found.
Trump is trouncing Biden by 20 points on handling of the economy, border security, inflation and the “mental and physical fitness needed to be President,” according to a Wall Street Journal survey among registered voters in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Inflation and illegal immigration have surged since Biden took office in January 2021, and questions concerning the president’s mental fitness continue to mount.
Swing-state voters also said they trust Trump 14 and nine points more than Biden to handle the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, respectively, according to the poll.
The only issues polled that Biden led Trump on were abortion and “protecting democracy.” Biden was trusted by 12 points more on the issue of abortion, as well as one point on protecting democracy, the survey found.
Trump also led Biden in the poll for a general election matchup by one point in Georgia; three points in Michigan and Pennsylvania; four points in Nevada; five points in Arizona; and six points in North Carolina. The two were tied in Wisconsin at 46%.
When independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr., “Justice for All Party” candidate Cornel West, Green Party candidate Jill Stein and Libertarian Party candidate Lars Mapstead were included, Trump’s leads grew in North Carolina and Georgia, according to the poll.
The former president’s margins stayed the same in Arizona, Nevada and Pennsylvania with the third-party contenders on the ballot, while his lead dropped by one point in Michigan and Wisconsin fell to Biden.
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Thank you for writing to me. Our Nation has a long history of producing the energy that fuels our cars, heats our homes, and keeps our lights on [TRUE]. Unfortunately, for too long, we have also relied on foreign nations to help meet our energy needs. As President, I am fighting to keep energy prices low by promoting domestic energy production [LIE], cracking down on price gouging [LIE], and laying a new foundation for true and lasting energy independence[LIE] by investing in a clean energy future.
Since I came into office, companies in the United States have produced record levels of oil and gas [LIE]. And to bring prices down at the pump [LIE], my Administration released millions of barrels of oil from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve [TRUE]. Across the country, oil and gas companies have thousands of permits that allow them to drill in the United States right now [LIE]—but they are choosing not to. And my Administration is calling on them to use their permits or lose them.
As President, it is my job to focus on the energy needs of Americans today and of the future [LIE]. To be truly free from our reliance on foreign oil [LIE], we are investing in all forms of energy here at home [LIE], including wind, solar, nuclear, geothermal power, and vehicle electrification [TRUE]. These investments are creating good-paying jobs and will lower energy costs for Americans [LIE]. And as we do this, we are making sure we leave no one behind—including rural America, the heartland, and energy communities [LIE].
Thank you again for sharing your thoughts about how we can bring true energy security and independence to America.
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A new “autonomous zone for palestine” has been set up by left wing activists in New York City.
This time on behalf of the Palestinian-Hamas movement in Zucotti Park.
The zone, which commandeers public property, boasts signs like “this is the people’s park,” “no more cops,” “no pigs allowed” and much more (Townhall).
Demands:
Liberation of Palestine
NYPD funds redistribution to community
No cops on MTA
Mayor to resign
Empty buildings to be used for migrants
This is public property. Bulldoze the bastards. This is against the law. Why allow this? It will only grow.
An “Autonomous Zone for Palestine” was set up today in Zucotti Park (Manhattan)
Demands:
– Liberation of Palestine – NYPD funds redistribution to community – No cops on MTA – Mayor to resign -Empty buildings to be used for migrants
Far-left extremists are trying to occupy Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan in a Palestinian version of “CHAZ.” The autonomous zone declares the land theirs and that zionists and “pigs” (law enforcement) are not allowed there. pic.twitter.com/OK9PwuSsyA
— Jason Curtis Anderson (@JCAndersonNYC) April 1, 2024
Visgrad 24: An “Autonomous Zone for Palestine” was set up today in Zucotti Park (Manhattan). Demands: Liberation of Palestine, NYPD funds redistribution to community, No cops on MTA, Mayor to resign, and Empty buildings to be used for migrants (X).
An “Autonomous Zone for Palestine” was set up today in Zucotti Park (Manhattan)
Demands:
– Liberation of Palestine – NYPD funds redistribution to community – No cops on MTA – Mayor to resign -Empty buildings to be used for migrants
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The effort to rebuild the recently collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge near Baltimore, Maryland, could quickly turn into a years-long quagmire as a result of environmental red tape under the Biden administration, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The Baltimore Bridge was struck by a container ship navigating the Patapsco River out of the Port of Baltimore in late March, sending several cars and workers into the water and rendering the passageway unusable. It is unknown exactly how long the bridge could take to rebuild, as officials could expedite the process, but experts warned the DCNF that government red tape, such as environmental reviews filed by government entities or environmental activists, could slow down its construction after debris is cleared from the site and new plans for a replacement bridge are drawn up.
“If the bridge gets special regulatory treatment, then five years is a reasonable timeline,” Ryan Young, senior economist at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told the DCNF. “There is some hope for this, based on last year’s collapse of a stretch of I-95 near Philadelphia. It reopened in 12 days, mostly thanks to red tape being waived. It would have taken months otherwise. Of course, that was a much smaller project.”
Following the disaster, the Biden administration announced that it would be sending $60 million to the city of Baltimore to assist in the clean-up and rebuilding, far from the sum needed to rebuild the project fully. President Joe Biden has also pledged to completely cover the cost of reconstructing the bridge, pending Congressional approval, according to Reuters.
An official cost of a new bridge has yet to be announced, but some estimates are around $500 million up to $1 billion, depending on the size and design of the project, according to the AP. The original bridge cost just $60.3 million to build, according to CNN.
“The Key Bridge recovery can take multiple paths, but the two we need to be keeping an eye on are first, where is the red tape around environmental historical preservation bogging down the efforts to help this community recover, and second, what coordination is occurring at the federal level to effect a more resilient recovery for the community, who’s looking at what the vision is, long term,” Brian Cavanaugh, visiting fellow in the Border Security and Immigration Center at the Heritage Foundation, told the DCNF.
A similar bridge disaster occurred in 1980, when a freighter struck the Sunshine Skyway in Tampa Bay, Florida, according to The Associated Press. Construction on a new bridge finished 7 years later, in 1987, 19 months later than it was originally projected to be complete and $20 million over budget.
“Federal and state regulations, including in Maryland, give NIMBYs and environmentalists a lot of ways to block projects,” Young told the DCNF. “Hopefully the Key Bridge’s high visibility will help them restrain their worst anti-development impulses, but that is no guarantee.”
Many large infrastructure projects are often bogged down by environmental reviews, such as California’s high-speed rail project, which has spent more than $600 million on environmental reviews since it was approved by voters more than 15 years ago.
“My fear here is that people can generate environmental reviews that they flag concerns for, say the oyster population or if there’s a bird that breeds in the Patapsco River or water quality,” Cavanaugh told the DCNF. “All these things could easily be triggered through a federal review process and would drag on. Those reviews are not always efficient. The efficacy of those is to be determined by others, but they’re certainly not expedited.”
The Biden administration has expanded the national environmental review framework, rolling back changes that the Trump administration made to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which requires federal agencies to review the environmental impacts of projects before approval. If the federal government remains involved in the project, environmental reviews may bog down the process, as the average NEPA environmental impact statement between 2010 and 2018 took 4.5 years to complete, halting construction completely, according to the White House’s Council on Environmental Quality.
“The rebuilding cost will almost certainly be higher than the original bridge, for several reasons, though I have no idea by how much,” Young told the DCNF. “A good rule of thumb is Edwards’ law—costs are usually at least double what officials first propose.”
Some analysts say that after cleaning up the site, creating new plans and building the bridge, the whole process could take up to a decade, according to WYPR, an outlet local to Baltimore. It took six years to build the Transcontinental Railroad.
“I fear that the cost of regulations is going to be more impactful than people are giving it credit for,” Cavanaugh told the DCNF. “Depending on what design they go with, like what birds fly in the area or what fish are in the Patapsco River, the cost of studying that and mitigating the negative impacts would be a problem. The mitigation measures to make the bridge more resilient and safe are going to be an added cost. But that’s an added cost not captured by inflation for any bridge built today.”
The Maryland Governor’s Office deferred the DCNF to statements made in previous press conferences. The White House did not immediately respond to a request to comment.
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America has been talking about the Deep State for decades. But nobody drew attention and indicated the main points: who did create it, when and how? I am a former Soviet defense attorney, and I think I can answer those questions. Maybe it sounds strange, but the idea of the Deep State was born in Soviet Russia, a hundred years ago. Socialist Revolution 1917 in Russia had a definite agenda—destruction of capitalism and buildup of Soviet Socialism. That task has never changed. On the contrary, the idea was developed by Joseph Stalin, a Russian Communist Dictator, refined by the KGB’s Chairman Andropov, and delivered to Vladimir Putin at the end of the 20ht century.
Of course, TikTok is a definite threat to America’s national security in the 21st century, the same way the Stalin/Andropov design has been destroying the US in the 20th century, infiltrating our democratic institutions: business, court, government infrastructure, and …the Democrat party. The idea of the Deep State has become a reality under Bill Clinton, the first Manchurian President, who established control and power of the infiltrated Democrat party—the base of the Deep State. Barack Obama has inherited it creating a hegemony of the Party, by his Cult of Personality. A senile Biden managed by Russia’s Intel just continued all of that. The collusion with Russia’s Intel has never stopped for any of them. This is the exact reason I have been warning you, writing about the KGB’s Mafia/Army—the Evil Doer for the last forty-three years.
I know Soviet Socialism and constantly have been sharing knowledge with you—it is again Russia… Terrorizing political opponents is the KGB Mafia/Army actual activities, I’ve warned you for the last several decades. The Democrat’s leadership has conspired with weaponized law-enforcement and DOJ to entrap Trump and the White House was totally informed about it. All channels discussed the event, yet nobody presents it as international precedent, like I did. I don’t trust Biden’s theatrical performances, reading on prompter what has been written by his staff. The policy of open borders intertwined with Putin’s KGB Mafia/Army—the Evil Doer that executed invasion to America from 120-160 countries. The surging crime on the streets has started by Democrats states decade ago and continues. Read my column about Russian Socialist Revolution 1917 and you will be struck by the resemblances of the events in two revolutions.
Yes, we are witnessing A Global Spy Ring run by Vladimir Putin, described in my column under that title. A member of a legal community at the time of the KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov 1967-1982, I’ve learned from him a lot about the KGB in Russia. Responsible for designing a protocol of America’s infiltration, Andropov spaced it as a simultaneous intrusion of the American Security Apparatus and media. It was shocking to watch America in the last thirty years and see that all. You can read the details in my columns and books. We still don’t know Russia and her Intel waging WWIII against the American republic. Remember my definition of WWIII: Recruitment, Infiltration, Drugs and Assassinations. Putin is the next generation of Stalin/Andropov’s devoted disciples, Trump is an existential threat to him and Biden. Seven years of Hoaxes aimed at Trump were Putin’s KGB Mafia/Army production. I recognized it instantly by the familiar handwriting of corruption, fabrication, provocation, deceit, and fraud.
As a matter of fact, Biden’s White House created authoritarian paradigms in America. Glenn Beck is right “the Democrat Party is historically un-democratic and now they find a new way to do that ” June 2, 22. I would add “the Democrat Party is a Party of Socialist Charlatans.” I have been writing about that new Socialist way for over thirty years. Interview with the Democrat Sen. Mark Warner in Cavuto on August 6, 2022 illustrates the inability of the Republicans to rebuttal the Socialist Charlatans—Con men, thuds. I purposely introduced the term. Some Republicans don’t know the Socialist modus operandi: lies, deceit, and fraud. They also can’t perceive the fact that the KGB mafia/Army—the Evil Doer– was turning the Democrat Party to Socialist Party. The collaboration was going on for decades under the nose of incompetent leadership of the CIA and FBI. The result you see in the states run by the Democrats today–total destruction. To understand what is going on in America, read my column:“ The Truth: Putin’s Socialist Revolution in America.” August 11/2022
Pay attention to Biden and his White House team. Something strange is happening in the American Kingdom—it self-divides itself. The executive branch battles the US Supreme Court, while Fentanyl is killing thousands of our citizens. It is even worse: Stalin’s aggressive Putin’s twins-brothers, Chairman Xi and the “Axis of Evil” under the Russian umbrella are attacking Western civilization with impunity. The Republicans don’t know the major Russian agency that manages A Global Spy Ring—The KGB Mafia/Army. Read my column under that title. Without this knowledge the Republicans are unable to evaluate the impacts of the international events and can lose the presidency in the 2024 election… We are at WWIII.
The recent terror act in Moscow is the boomerang of Stalinism and we desperately need the knowledge of Russia today. Historian Devid Satter comments are said it all:
“Regarding the terrorist attack in Moscow: the FSB (a former KGB) and the Putin regime are perfectly capable of blowing up their own people for political reasons. In this case, however, it appears we are dealing with an attack by ISIS.” David Satter, journalist and historian.
I couldn’t say it better, but David didn’t read my books or columns and he didn’t know that ISIS was a Russian creation, managed by the KGB in the Middle East, Afghanistan and Syria in the 20th century. Stalin has married Soviet Socialism with Islam, creating Jihadists and we are now experiencing his legacy. Please, read my columns describing in detail Russian infiltration into Muslims regimes through the Soviet Muslim Republics neighboring the Middle East and the rise of global anti-Semitism. The Soviets/Russians have followed Stalin’s design to manage the Middle East through Iran. You can see it today… and this friendship with Islam is one of the factors for raising global anti-Semitism, let alone the anti-Semitic nature of Stalin’s Russia. Watch how Biden betrays our close-loyal friend Israel due to the Putin/Biden collusion: Hamas-Israel War has revealed it, whatever lies and fraud the Biden team throw on you…
There is another knowledgeable man, Gen. Jack Kean. He is also right about Russia and Putin, explaining how Putin intends to build the Great Russian Empire and destroy NATO. Gen. Kean also didn’t read my columns and was unaware of Putin’s ability to break NATO through Turkey, a member of NATO. A long ago, Putin and his KGB helped Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to gain Turkish Presidency. For me, Erdoğan is a typical Socialist Charlatan, implementing in Turkey Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet Fascism. Analyzing his presidency, you will recognize him as Stalin’s devoted disciple and therefore–Socialist Charlatan…
America’s pundits use several terms to identify the Dem’s forces: the Leftists, the Radical Left, and a Progressive Left–a very shallow meaning of the enemy. In the era of the ideology and Woke-fraud, the definition should be more concrete. To show the proliferation of fraud, I offered a term Socialist Charlatans—Con men, thugs, 20-25 years ago to emphasize the double fraud they are implementing globally. Both words carry “the odor of mendacity” in politics. Stalin’s Soviet Socialism is a fraud and Charlatans are the word describing different kinds of human treachery and dishonesty. There are thousands of Socialist Charlatans if not millions in America—a bastion of the Deep State. The network has no specific nationality, race, or ethnicity, it is a political entity run by Vladimir Putin, who called himself a Globalist to confuse you. Let me give you different kinds of Socialist Charlatans with the same agenda: destruction of capitalism and implementation of Soviet Socialism globally.
The FBI Director Mr. Wray warned us:“ China is targeting our critical infrastructure.” Probably he is right. But there was not a word about Russian/Chinese Intel, which is an unseparated bastion of Socialist Charlatans. I don’t trust the FBI, they failed miserably by not identifying the real culprit orchestrated and supervised the attacks on 9/11. Both the Committee on 9/11 and the FBI missed the real predator of the events—the Russian Counterintelligence. There are two facts confirming that. First, America still doesn’t know the truth, because the FBI had prevented America from learning the truth by reading my columns and books. Second, the FBI deliberately submitted my name to the FISA Court and the Court made me a Foreign Agent with subsequent banning of my writings in 2002. Check this fact in Fact-Check. The FBI failure has even more dangerous consequences facing American people.
The FBI Director Mr. Wray warned us:“ China is targeting our critical infrastructure,” never mentioning Russia, because he doesn’t know Russia. By knowing Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet fascism, I expect catastrophic events of sabotage against our infrastructure waged by Socialist Charlatans as well. America is not prepared for those attacks due to the miserable failure of the FBI… WWIII is a reality. It is a multi-faceted war with no berries, targeting our national security, economy and the wellbeing of the American people. The Republicans have no elementary knowledge of the Israel-Hamas War: all Middle East Muslims’ criminal gangs like Hamas and Hezbollah managed and supervised by Putin’s Evil Doer. Biden’s team waged this war in collusion with Vladimir Putin by shameful surrender of Afghanistan in August 2021—a sabotage of our national security. Read my column: A Quick Crash of Afghanistan and The Man Who Wants to Run the WorldAugust 24, 2021.
Then came Supply Change. I was very suspicious, but I had not enough knowledge to expose the sabotage. The derailment of the train in East Palestine, Ohio was clear to me. I saw it as a well calculated and coordinated act committed by Socialist Charlatans to inflict a lot of harm to the region. Now a current hit of the bridge, tragedy in Baltimore by the ship with 754T of hazardous material was definitely also a well-calculated and coordinated act committed by Socialist Charlatans inflicting monumental damage to the country’s economy. There had already been three bridges hit by the ships in 2024. There will be an investigation of the Baltimore bridge hit, but I don’t trust any investigation made by Biden’s team. Criminals shouldn’t investigate themselves like in Soviet Russia. The Republicans have a chance to investigate the Dems’ system of destruction beginning decades ago and expose their army of Socialist Charlatans…
The Army of Socialist Charlatans in America
I have been following Bill Clinton since my immigration in 1981. As I stated above, he was the first Manchurian President, known to me. Clinton’s Mafia had been “eyes and ears of the KGB.” it continued acting under Obama by his anti-police policy in America. Clinton left another devastating legacy by assigning his right-hand George Stephanopoulos to create a one-dimensional state media to serve Democrats, a-la the Soviets. I don’t know the Trump case against ABC News and George Stephanopoulos for defamation, but I have written a lot about George and his father’s affiliation with Liberation Theology, infiltrated by the KGB. George has “accomplished” a great deal. I don’t know how he did it. Maybe a lot of other Socialist Charlatans helped him in his assignment. Just look at the current American Media and you will see his “achievements…”
There is another Socialist Charlatan—Mayor Pete, who is constantly lecturing us about democracy. Mayor Pete is repeating professionally his father, who was a lecturer of Marxism-Leninism in Russia. Lecturing Marxism-Leninism in Russia, you must have ties to the KGB. When I found that information about Peter’s father, the events presented the real picture of WWIII. Do you know who had vetted Mayor Pete? I don’t know. Maybe you know who did vet the rest of the Biden government with 90% of them socialists and communists? I don’t know. By law it is the responsibility of the FBI to vet an upcoming government, and this is a big question. Does the FBI have the knowledge to vet Socialists and Communists in America? Does the FBI have the knowledge to vet Socialist Charlatans in America? Both answers have the astounding NO!
There is more. I have purposely reminded you about Clinton’s Mafia with the network of the lawyers serving the Dem’s party and Socialist Charlatans. Michael Cohen was Trump’s lawyer, defending the interests of his client, until everything changed and Cohen became a perjurer. The changes have been brought by Cohen’s lawyer, Larry Davis, a member of Clinton’s Mafia, still acting under the belly of the country. I have been writing about Larry Davis a great deal and he is not alone. Abbe Lowell, a current Hunter Biden’s lawyer, also belongs to the Clinton’s Mafia network within a deeply partisan Dem’s party. Don’t be surprised by Hunter sabotaging the Republican House committee, buying time. The Dems’ priorities in the 2024 election are control and power by any possible means, including usage of Stalin’s Socialist modus operandi: lies, deceit, fabrication and fraud…
Socialist Charlatans are the cadres, main force of the Evil Doer and the Democrat party—watch Biden’s team. Can you now grasp the variety and different kinds of Socialist Charlatans tearing apart the American democracy of our wonderful country? They have riddled all spheres of our society from the streets to the business. Jessie Smollett is a typical Socialist Charlatan—a political Con man! The Sam Bankman who got 25 years in prison is also Socialist Charlatan, who worked with and was supervised by the KGB’s Mafia/Army to bankrupt our economy and provide money for Vladimir Putin.
The recent Dem’s Manhattan fundraising with three Democrat-Presidents elevated themselves on the stage has completed the picture of current American Chaos created by the Democrats leadership. No money can buy the Truth! I have reminded you about Clinton’s Mafia and Obama’s anti-police policy for a reason—both are alive and well in 2024. Three Dem’s Presidents showed unity in covering up crimes they had committed and pro-Palestinian protesters emphasized it at Manhattan fundraising. The truth is that three Democrats’ Presidents have defended themselves by their theatrical performances aimed at deceiving you. Using Stalin’s postulate, they were accusing Trump of crimes they themselves had committed.
I stand with Evan! Today marks a year since WSJ’s journalist Evan Gershkovich was arrested and imprisoned in Russia. I don’t think he can be freed soon: Russia is playing a geopolitical game with Americans, incompetent Americans. Evan is innocent, but Russia, as usual, is waiting for a bargain to trade him for a more valuable Russian spy or Socialist Charlatan, who implements the Dems agenda and arrested. Everything written here the Dems know, it is written for the Republicans to know the truth and act accordingly. The Dem’s party destroys the American Constitutional republic designed and left to us by our Founding Fathers. They hate America and committed treason. This is a reality of life!!!
The Republicans do not know Socialist Charlatans and are dealing with Joe Biden in a too delicate manner. What is the legal position of Hunter Biden to border AirForce 1 and Airforce 2? It is only the relation with the President. Tony Bobulinski has testified about the relationship and common intent. In fact, Hunter Biden revealed his intent to influence paddling by the telephone message to his Chinese client, and Joe Biden met with this client. I believe, this unity of the INTENT based on the relation, constitutes the crime that was committed by the group (the aggravating circumstances). In my opinion, Susann Rice is running this Unity to cover up the Democrat party crimes had committed before. She also runs Biden’s staff in cahoots with Vladimir Putin. That means, the White House policy is directed by Putin. I told you so before.
Those who talk about Marxism in America are not helping the Republicans to escape a vicious circle of incompetence. They are bringing “the odor of mendacity” and rehabilitating the actual culprit Putin’s Global Spy Ring and its manager the KGB’s Mafia/Army—the Evil Doer. Marxism was used by Socialist Charlatan, Joseph Stalin, who preached Marxist’s rhetoric and weaponized law enforcement agencies, building a network of punitive agencies and fraudulent ideology of Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet Fascism. The Republicans have seven months to learn about our deadly enemies: the Socialist/Communist tandem of the Russian/Chinese Intel.
My fellow Americans! We are witnessing the Putin Socialist Revolution in America. Educate yourselves by reading my columns to grasp the fraud degrading the world.
Stop Biden’s implementation of Stalin’s Soviet Fascism in America!
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The resurrection of Jesus from the dead is the cornerstone of historic Christianity. But is there scientific evidence it really happened? Some scholars believe that yes, there is and it’s in a cathedral in Turin, Italy.
The Shroud of Turin, a linen cloth 14 feet by 3 feet, contains the image of a man who was badly scourged, was crucified, wore a crown of thorns, and was stabbed in the chest with a Roman lance. Of course, all of these wounds fit what the Bible says happened to Jesus. Is the Shroud of Turin Jesus’ actual “clean linen shroud” given to Him in death by Joseph of Arimathea?
The word in Greek for shroud is sindon. There are many scientists who specialize in sindonology, which means study of the Shroud of Turin. Scientists such as physicist John Jackson, Ph.D. of Colorado Springs or the late biophysicist Dr. John Heller, author of the seminal book, Report on the Shroud of Turin.
The late Alan Whanger, M.D. of Duke Medical Center, once told me: “The Shroud is the most intensely studied single object in existence. There are probably 67 different fields of scientific and academic interests that have looked into the Shroud in one way in another.” He also said, “it provides scientific proof that something so extraordinary happened that there doesn’t seem to be anything else in human history that would fit.”
The Shroud was dismissed by some as a fake because of the carbon-dating in 1988 of a single specimen (divided into three tiny parts). They claimed the specimens dated to around 1260-1390. But critics of that particular test say that the sample chosen came from a rewoven (and dyed) part of the Shroud, which was often displayed during the Middle Ages.
Meanwhile, in February 2024 in Washington, D.C., there was a press conference at which British film-maker David Rolfe issued a million-dollar challenge: Make an accurate replica of the Shroud with the means available to a supposed Medieval forger, and you can win a million dollars. (The deadline is May 31).
Recently, I did a radio interview with Rolfe, who made such great documentaries as “The Silent Witness.”
Consider these facts. The Shroud is the most scientifically studied artifact in the world. That includes the 40 space age scientists who had round-the-clock access to the Shroud for five days in 1978. This group was known as “STURP,” The Shroud of Turin Research Project.
Some of them thought they would prove this thing to be a fake within 10 minutes. But they soon learned how wrong that assumption was.
A few years later, they sent out an official summary of their conclusions: “We can conclude for now that the Shroud image is that of a real human form of a scourged, crucified man. It is not the product of an artist.” [emphasis added]
We know where the Shroud has been since 1357, when it showed up in the household of a French crusader. Consider these facts:
The human anatomy represented on the Shroud is 100% accurate—far ahead of what they knew back in 1357.
The Shroud’s image is a photographic negative—that’s 500 years before photography was developed.
The faint image on the Shroud was not painted on. It was somehow lightly burned on. Shroud-film-maker David Rolfe told me that the image was produced by “an unbelievable amount of energy in an infinitesimally small amount of time” (40-billionth of a second).
The blood on the Shroud is real human blood—with all the wounds corresponding with the passion of Jesus in the Gospels. The blood type was relatively rare—AB+. The blood did not see decay—meaning, He was sandwiched inside that cloth for about 36 hours. Yet the blood was undisturbed, which means He somehow went through the cloth (or dematerialized within the cloth). It was not yanked off Him.
The image of the Shroud is three-dimensional. Paintings and pictures don’t have that property.
And on and on it goes.
Long ago, author Marc Antonacci noted in his book, The Resurrection of the Shroud (2001), that if a Medieval artist put the Shroud together, he “would have had to have a knowledge of light negativity, light spectrometry, microscopy, radiology, human physiology, pathology, hematology, endocrinology, forensics, and archaeology.” (pp. 8-9)
In the colonial days, there was a common practice in the Anglican churches to display the Apostles’ Creed, the Lord’s Prayer, and the Ten Commandments in large words. This panel on the walls is called a reredos. Of course, included in the creed is that Jesus rose from the dead.
In my view, the more you study about the Shroud, the more you realize, Wow, this is a scientific reminder of the fact that Jesus is risen. “He is risen indeed.”
For this piece, special thanks go to columnist Myra Kahn Adams
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A government watchdog group has filed a complaint with the Biden administration over its use of a dataset frequently used to push its climate agenda.
Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) filed the complaint with the Commerce Department over the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) “Billions Project” dataset, which purports to keep track of natural [and climate] disasters that have caused at least $1 billion in damages going back to 1980. The billion-dollar disasters (BDD) data — cited frequently by the Biden administration to insinuate that climate change is intensifying and justify sweeping green policies — is based on opaque data derived from questionable accounting practices, PPT alleges in the complaint.
“American families and businesses continue to struggle with persistently high inflation, which many attribute in large part to the energy policies and government spending of the current administration. The idea that blatant violations of scientific integrity could be underlying the rationale for these policies should concern every American,” Michael Chamberlain, PPT’s director, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Unfortunately, this is far from an isolated incident. The Biden Administration came into office pledging that its decision making would be grounded in the highest-quality science, but all too often has failed to live up to those promises.”
The complaint was filed with the Commerce Department, as NOAA operates under its auspices, Chamberlain told the DCNF.
PPT’s complaint alleges that NOAA does not adequately disclose its sources and methods for compiling the BDD dataset, adds and removes BDD events from the dataset without providing its rationale for doing so and produces cost estimates that are sometimes significantly different than those generated by more conventional accounting procedures.
While NOAA states that it develops its BDD data from more than a dozen sources, the agency does not disclose those sources for specific events or show how it calculates loss estimates from those sources, PPT’s complaint alleges.
The complaint further alleges that NOAA’s accounting methods are opaque and “produce suspect results.”
For example, when Hurricane Idalia took aim at Florida in 2023, NOAA initially projected that the storm would cause about $2.5 billion worth of damages before insured losses ultimately came in at about $310 million, according to PPT’s complaint, which cites the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation for that figure. Nevertheless, NOAA subsequently marked up its estimate for how much damage the storm caused to $3.5 billion, a discrepancy for which NOAA provided no explanation, PPT alleges in its complaint.
NOAA researchers have disclosed in the past that the agency considers factors such as functions pertaining to livestock feeding costs — in addition to more conventional types of damages — in their cost calculations.
Further, the complaint alleges that BDD events are quietly added and removed from the dataset without explanation, citing Roger Pielke Jr., a former academic who believes climate change to be a real threat but opposes politicized science. In a forthcoming paper analyzing the merits of BDD statistics, Pielke compared the dataset in late 2022 to the dataset in the middle of 2023 and found that ten new BDD events were added to the list and 3 were subtracted without explanation.
Apart from the issues with methodology alleged by PPT in its complaint, the use of BDD events as a proxy for climate change’s intensity is inherently misleading because economic data does not reflect changes in meteorological conditions, Pielke has previously explained to the DCNF.
For example, increasing concentrations of assets, especially in coastal areas, can confound the usefulness of BDD events as an indicator for the intensity of climate change, as Energy and Environment Legal Institute Senior Policy Fellow Steve Milloy has previously explained to the DCNF. Hypothetically, the same exact hurricane could hit the same exact place, decades apart, with vastly different damage totals; this would be the case because there are simply more assets sitting in the way of the storm, not because the storm was any more violent due to worsening climate change.
NOAA has acknowledged this limitation of the dataset in prior communications with the DCNF.
Additionally, NOAA will add disasters to the list retrospectively because it adjusts for inflation, meaning that a hurricane that caused $800 million in damages in 1980 dollars would be added to the list because the damages exceed $1 billion when adjusted for inflation, for example.
The Biden administration has frequently cited the BDD dataset to substantiate its massive climate agenda.
For example, Deputy Energy Secretary David Turk cited the dataset in written testimony submitted to lawmakers in February explaining the White House’s decision to pause new approvals for liquefied natural gas export terminals.
The BDD statistics are also referenced Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5), the Biden administration’s landmark climate report that is intended to provide the most sound scientific basis for lawmakers and officials to craft climate policy.
NOAA asserted that the increasing frequency of BDD events is a sign of intensifying climate change in a January press release and blog post summarizing 2023, and then defended the use of the dataset in subsequent communications with the DCNF.
“Sensational climate claims made without proper scientific basis and spread by government officials threaten the public’s trust in its scientific officials and undermines the government’s mission of stewarding the environment,” PPT’s complaint states. “It also poses the danger of policymakers basing consequential government policy on unscientific claims unsupported by evidence.”
NOAA declined to comment, citing the active nature of the scientific integrity complaint. The White House and the Department of Commerce did not respond immediately to requests for comment.
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