Romney/Biden love fest!

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“Righteousness guards one whose way is upright, but sin overthrows the wicked. Some pretend to be rich, yet have nothing; others pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth. Wealth as a ransom for a persons life, but the poor get no threats.” – Proverbs 13 vs. 6 to 8.

Last Sunday Mitt Romney made a comment that must sicken every true patriot to the pits of their stomachs.

In his words, “I take President Biden at his word as he is a man of honor.”

Romney said these words after Sniffer Joe saying how much he trusted Mitt. Wow!! Anyone else alarmed? A Biden/Romney love fest is sickening and extremely dangerous for America.

This kissy kissy hug fest was in relation to the infrastructure deal being worked on by a so called bi-partisan group of lawmakers including that traitor and RINO in chief, Mitt Romney.

I am insulted that any politician, especially a so called Republican calls possibly the largest crook, pervert, traitor and mentally challenged usurper a man of honor is outrageous. Add to that saying in other words that Biden’s word is sacrosanct and spoken in honesty and openness is insane.

Joe Biden has had over 40 years sucking on the teats of the American people and the taxes we pay and done nothing for the nation. He has made himself and his corrupt family incredibly rich and somehow fraudulently persuaded a lot of Americans that he is just a good old boy looking after the blue collar workers. He could care less for all Americans.

What a lie he has spun. What a lie he has lived.

Number 1 the group of Republicans working on this so called bi- partisan group are all RINOs. They do not speak for me or any of the other 75,000,000+ Trump voters.

Enough money has been spent. Money we do not have. Money just printed and causing hyper inflation as I write. Money backed on nothing but debt and enriching the Fed and weakening our constitutional republic.

The money they want to spend is not for anything other than paying back leftists and extremists for getting out the vote, both real and mostly fraudulent, in the 2020 election.

Romney is a disgrace to the GOP.

Romney is a self serving globalist.

Romney is a disgrace to America.

©Fred Brownbill. All rights reserved.

A Modest Proposal

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I have often wondered about people who express themselves under cover of anonymity.  I suspect that despite the bravado to support his vulgarity, he prefers secrecy lest he be recognized by family and friends.  He is properly deserving of shame.  He suggests that an incredible evil befall the world.

In response to my essay, “Endangered Species,” I received a reply from someone signed Kelvin Throop, who is R.A.J. Phillips’s literary character known for his acerbic memos.  His/her identity, therefore, remains anonymous.  And no wonder, inasmuch as s(he) expresses a theory for settling the strife in the Middle East that is taken from the worst inhumanity of Islam and Hitler’s fascism.  It is presented as an objective, modest proposal of conveniently disappearing an entire people.

We see the first sign of aggression in his opening statement, in which he devalued the target people – he thanked me for calling to his attention the similarity between Jews and polar bears.  He chooses to be unaware of the enormous and unprecedented accomplishments of such a small, scattered nation over 4,000 years.  While Throop’s ancestors were tribal pagans, sacrificing to idols, dwelling in caves or tents, and living in a state of constant infighting and chaos, the Jews were bringing monotheism, morality, and meaning to the history of humanity.

The Jews established the Sabbath for humans with comparable respect to animals, abolished slavery, and created the first human settlement in Jerusalem around 3500 BCE, which became the capital of the Jewish kingdom in 1000 BCE.   They brought us universal literacy and education; the sabbatical year; equality and justice for men and women; value to individuality and every human life; the right to a fair trial; the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; limited government powers; and charity, all the requirements for an altruistic concept of world peace.  Today, Israelis are industrious, innovative, and leaders in science, engineering, mathematics, the arts and entertainment, earning a remarkable number of Nobel Prizes in every major field.

American President John Adams said, “I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.  If I were an atheist, and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that chance had ordered the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.”  He understood that it was the Jews who first set us on the road to civilization by challenging the prevailing notion of “blind eternal fate” with a sense of purpose based on mutual respect, justice and kindness.

Throop’s disposition and conclusions reveal his desire to rid the world of Jews by forcing their cohabitation (his word was derogatory) with their sworn enemy, which is precisely what Mohammed and his disciples have done  since 622 AD.  The Koran reveals itself as being no common prayer book, but a tome of illuminating chapters, 114 of which (suras) are a preoccupation with and inspiration for killing Jews because they rejected the cruelty of Mohammedanism.  Islamic laws command not only that Muslims maraud and murder, but that they interbreed with chosen survivors in order to annihilate all traces of their existence.  This method worked to substantially increase the Islamic population while decreasing the non-Muslim populations of many countries in the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Africa’s Sahel region, and Central Asia, and now in Europe, bringing only misery.  The identity of most of these peoples – Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, Mithraists, Manicheists, Nestorians, Polytheists and more – have even been expunged from the annals of history as though they never existed.

What do we know about the 1400-year Islamic slave trade?  At least 80 to 90 percent of the captured 28 million slaves died en route to the slave market; a low estimate of 112 million never reached land.  Twice as many women as men were sent to the Middle East for sexual slavery, whereas twice as many men as women went to the Americas for agricultural work.  The male slaves in the Middle East were castrated and children of female slaves were killed at birth, whereas America’s slaves could marry, and their descendants became citizens of Brazil and the US.

Our wise antisemite, Throop, cannot comprehend that Jews, successful or failed, communist or capitalist, black or white, will not be erased, but will survive as Jews in the face of the world’s desertion or brutality —  today, as they have through millennia.  In spite of the persistence of the genociders, Israel has 6.5 million Jews, but this should be compared with 1.6 billion Muslims in the surrounding lands.  A comparison of the land masses is similar, with a mere 8,000 sq. mi. for the Jews and 7.386 million sq. mi. for the Muslims.

Islam feeds upon hate, and hate feeds upon itself.  The Palestinians have eschewed every offer for a separate Palestinian state because their purpose is another Islamic state on Israeli soil.  This is Islamic holy war, to remove Jews from their land and from history.  The Palestinians are regarded as outcasts by their brethren whose surnames and heritage they share.  The commonality, their raison d’etre – the only justification for their existence – is Israel’s destruction, Jewish annihilation by conquest or inbreeding.  Unsurprisingly, Lebanese “Palestinians” pledge allegiance to “Palestine” with the Nazi salute.”

Throop’s repulsive suggestion echoes that of the Nazi fascists, particularly Heinrich Himmler’s psychopathic obsession with a blue-eyed, blond super-race, Aryans.  Germany seriously diminished its young male population by sending its viable workforce and potential fathers to fight two world wars; by deliberately exterminating Jews, Romani, homosexuals and blacks as part of Hitler’s Final Solution; and by Germany’s Nuremberg Laws that forbade intermarriage.  This depopulation left Himmler in the position of creating the Lebensborn Project (1935) to generate racially pure children by having SS officers mate with girls and women within Germany and from occupied countries, particularly in Scandinavia (Norway), in special “breeding clinics” to produce Aryan babies.

To protect the pregnant, unmarried women from the social stigma, their identities were suppressed, and they lived secluded in comfortable Lebensborn homes – ten in Germany, nine in Norway, two in Austria, and one each in Belgium, Holland, France, Luxembourg, and Denmark – furnished from the dwellings of Jews who had been sent to Dachau.  The newborn Aryans were specially baptized in keeping with the Nazi ideology, relinquished to the SS for indoctrination, and given to elite families to raise.  Had Nazism triumphed, the unique identities of the surrounding peoples would have been absorbed into the Nazi behemoth, exactly as Throop suggests for Israel.

By 1939, Himmler’s program was ailing, and locals were critical of the immorality, but the nightmare only increased.  In 1942, Hitler encouraged the SS to fraternize with non-German women, inviting them to the Lebensborn homes for privacy and safety.  Soldiers began kidnapping light-eyed, blond children of “racially good” countries, some orphaned, some forcibly stolen, and sending them to Lebensborn centers to forget their families and become Germanized.  As many as 100,000 were stolen from Poland alone, and those who were not racially pure or could not be Nazified, were often beaten and transferred to concentration camps for execution.

At the end of the war, May 1, 1945, one day after Hitler’s death, Americans discovered 300 children, ages 6 months to 6 years.  They were either returned to their birth families or, if too Germanized to be repatriated, put up for adoption.  The estimate was that the program included the theft of hundreds of thousands of children, of which only 25,000 were returned to their families.  Some were too Germanized to leave their adoptive families, while others, thousands, who could not accept the forced identities, were also exterminated.  When the Nazi regime collapsed, the children became social outcasts who suffered from horrible stigmatization and disgrace throughout their lives – leading to severe humiliation, rape, depression, alcoholism, criminality, drug abuse, and suicide.

During the program’s ten-year operation, an estimated 20,000 children were born in Lebensborn homes (10,000 in Norway), although names were changed, and secret records destroyed.  The resulting depopulation put Germany in a position of having to acquire a foreign workforce, to accept males from a culturally disparate, hostile Islamic culture.  Sweden may never return to its peaceful days after ceding its safety, security, and national identity.

Throop and his ilk would force this nightmare scenario onto the Jews of Israel, but we should be warned: what starts with the Jews never ends with the Jews.  These theorists cannot tolerate individuality or true diversity.  They must crush humanity into one coagulated mass.

Although the despots and methods may be new, America is faced with the same ideology of destruction and depopulation.  Our country has become the new battleground for intentional depopulation by Islam, Fascism, Communism, and globalists:

  • The invasion of foreign cultures with destructive practices of drugs, violence, rape, child-trafficking, and sexual slavery;
  • The divisiveness advanced in our schools that sows tribal hatred, racial violence, denial of G-d and country, and diminished white masculinity;
  • The incorporation of Critical Race Theory to our degraded, feminized military; denigrating patriotism, and providing brainwashing reading materials;
  • Bill Gates’s open declaration to depopulate an overcrowded world, proposing 350,000 to be killed daily, using scare tactics that include an unknown virus and gene-therapy injections to be administered by government decree;
  • Launching a COVID-19 fear campaign to the populace, using quarantines and masks for the healthy, followed by mRNA vaccines that may edit genes through “retro-integration,” with DNA damage passed on to future generations, its potentially catastrophic consequences to impact fertility.

The scene is ever-changing, and the players have innocuous names and revamped methods, but the old malignancy persists beneath the surface. The goal is always destruction of identity or, failing that, extinction.

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U.S. Spends $80 Mil to Train Minorities to Collect Health Data with Race, Socioeconomic Inequities

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The U.S. government is spending $80 million to train thousands of minorities in public health technology and improve health data collection involving race and ethnicity. It is part of the Biden administration’s efforts to “root out pervasive health and socioeconomic inequities” in the nation’s healthcare system, according to an announcement issued this month by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). “Ensuring that diverse representation is better reflected all throughout our health care system is priority for the Biden-Harris administration,” said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, a former California attorney general who served a dozen terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. “With this funding, we will be able to train and create new opportunities for thousands of minorities long underrepresented in our public health informatics and technology fields.”

The multi-million-dollar investment will create a much-needed “pipeline of diverse professionals,” the HHS secretary added, assuring that it will help the country better prepare for “future public health emergencies.” The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated pervasive health and socioeconomic inequities, according to HHS, by, among other things, exposing gaps in the government’s public health reporting and data analysis around race and ethnicity-specific data. The administration aims to improve future public health responses in minority communities with data collection involving infection, hospitalization and mortality rates that also considers social vulnerabilities, race and ethnicity, age, gender, and other variables. “Representation is important,” Becerra said, referring to the need for diversity to tackle pressing healthcare challenges.

The new initiative is called Public Health Informatics & Technology (PHIT) Workforce Development Program and its goal is to train at least 4,000 individuals in informatics and technology and ensure the degree “programs are sustainable to create a continuous pipeline of diverse public health informatics and technology professionals.” A new curriculum will be developed focusing on topics such as data reporting that is inclusive of race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, the government funding announcement states. It will be created by working with local and state public health departments, community-based organizations, and others with “on the ground” experience dealing with pressing and critical challenged in public health informatics and technology. It is fair to assume leftist groups will be deeply involved in developing the program. To reduce “longstanding health disparities and inequities,” the administration has singled out institutions of higher learning that serve minorities—including historically black colleges and universities as well as tribal colleges Hispanic serving institutions—to receive funding priority.

It seems to be part of a broad effort that also includes local governments to prioritize the health of minorities over others. Earlier this year Judicial Watch reported that Virginia shifted its COVID-19 vaccination distribution to prioritize black and Latino residents even as desperate 85-year-olds struggled to get the shot. A few months later Maryland opened a “special clinic” exclusively for Latinos in its two largest counties to receive the vaccine. Public officials in Montgomery County, Maryland’s most populous, said the controversial initiative would help overcome inequities in the vaccine rollout as well as general health disparities that plague poor minority communities. Keep in mind that the shots were created as part of a Trump administration initiative called Operation Warp Speed to accelerate the development, production and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines and deliver 300 million doses to all Americans. The U.S. reportedly invested $18 billion on the project which involves several key government agencies—such as the Department of Defense (DOD), HHS and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)—and private companies.

During Obama’s presidency HHS’s medical research agency, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), invested hundreds of millions of dollars to racially diversify medical fields. The money started flowing after an NIH sanctioned study determined blacks who apply for federal research grants are less likely than whites and Hispanics to receive the awards. The study took years and was conducted to “learn more about the challenges facing the scientific community,” according to the NIH’s director, and to improve the diversity of its biomedical research workforce. He called the findings “disturbing and disheartening.”

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Federal law enforcement agencies conduct clandestine surveillance of thousands of U.S. citizens with the help of Microsoft

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“Targeting of Americans’ records ‘routine’” – Tom Burt, Microsoft Executive

The country is no longer America. Ignorance is no longer an excuse.

Microsoft exec: Targeting of Americans’ records ‘routine’

Federal law enforcement agencies secretly seek the data of Microsoft customers thousands of times a year, according to congressional testimony Wednesday by a senior executive at the technology company.

Tom Burt, Microsoft’s corporate vice president for customer security and trust, told members of the House Judiciary Committee that federal law enforcement in recent years has been presenting the company with between 2,400 to 3,500 secrecy orders a year, or about seven to 10 a day.

“Most shocking is just how routine secrecy orders have become when law enforcement targets an American’s email, text messages or other sensitive data stored in the cloud,” said Burt, describing the widespread clandestine surveillance as a major shift from historical norms.

The relationship between law enforcement and Big Tech has attracted fresh scrutiny in recent weeks with the revelation that Justice Department prosecutors obtained as part of leak investigations phone records belonging not only to journalists but also to members of Congress and their staffers. Microsoft, for instance, was among the companies that turned over records under a court order, and because of a gag order, had to then wait more than two years before disclosing it.

Reuters reports:

Microsoft executive says U.S. overuses secret orders for Americans’ data

By Raphael Satter

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States government is overusing its secret subpoena power to routinely gather vast amounts of data on American internet users, a senior Microsoft executive said in prepared testimony to Congress released on Wednesday.

In remarks for a U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee hearing, the executive said that in the last five years Microsoft had received 2,400 to 3,500 secrecy orders a year and that U.S. courts provided little by way of meaningful oversight.

Tom Burt, a vice president for customer security and trust, said that American law enforcement was ordering Microsoft to stay quiet about between one third to one quarter of the requests for data that it received, “developing a practice of reflexively asking to keep even routine investigations secret.”

“Providers, like Microsoft, regularly receive boilerplate secrecy orders unsupported by any meaningful legal or factual analysis,” Burt told lawmakers. “Many of these orders should never have been approved by the courts.”

The panel called a hearing into secrecy orders in the wake of revelations that the U.S. Department of Justice during Donald Trump’s administration had secretly sought the phone records of reporters and Democratic representatives to investigate the leak of classified material.

Word of the investigations outraged lawmakers and blew new life into efforts to rein in the federal government’s domestic surveillance powers.

Burt said that while the effort to target lawmakers and reporters disturb many Americans, “what may be most shocking is just how routine court-mandated secrecy has become when law enforcement targets Americans’ emails, text messages, and other sensitive data stored in the cloud.”

Burt called for ending indefinite secrecy orders, boosting transparency around their use, forcing the government to notify targets of such orders once their time was up, and raising the bar on such orders to prevent what he described as the current “rubberstamping process.”

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Jihad-Rep. Ilhan Omar Defends Comments Comparing USA and Israel To Mass Murdering Islamic Terrorists

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Awful.

Sanctioned by the Democrat party of jihad, Jew hatred and election theft.

Ilhan Omar defends comments comparing Israel, US to Hamas, Taliban

CNN’s Jake Tapper called out Omar’s original tweet, which drew criticism from members of Congress, asking if she regretted sharing it with the public.

By Jerusalem Post, June 30, 2021

Rep. Ilhan Omar  defended her statements comparing Israel and the United States to terrorist organizations such as Hamas and the Taliban, in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper.

Following the 11-day escalation in May between Israel and allied terror groups in the Gaza Strip, Omar attempted to draw comparisons between the war in Afghanistan and the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict, stating atrocities have been committed by all sides and each should be held accountable for their “crimes against humanity.”

Tapper called out Omar’s original tweet, which drew criticism from members of Congress, asking if she regretted sharing it with the public.

“I don’t,” Omar replied on Tuesday. “I think it’s really important to think back to the point that I was trying to make. Obviously, I was addressing Secretary of State [Antony] Blinken.”

Tapper then questioned whether Omar understood why these comments and her track record of anti-Israel rhetoric could be seen as antisemitic by her fellow Jewish congressional members, onto whom she then shifted the blame.

“I’ve welcomed any time my colleagues asked to have a conversation to learn from them [and] for them to learn from me,” replied Omar. “I think it’s really important for these members to realize that they haven’t been partners in justice.

“They haven’t been engaging in seeking justice around the world and I think I will continue to do that,” she said. “It is important for me as someone who knows what it feels like to experience injustice in ways that many of my colleagues don’t.”

RELATED ARTICLE: Jihad-rep Omar Blasted For Vicious Remarks About Jews in Congress: ‘This Is What A Modern Day Muslim Supremacist Looks Like’

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WATCH: President Trump on the Border in Texas

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Watch what real leadership looks like. Daily reminder: Trump won.

WATCH LIVE: Greg Abbott, Donald Trump visit Texas-Mexico border on Wednesday

By: KSAT, June 30, 2021:

SAN ANTONIO – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and former President Donald Trump will pay a visit to the border on Wednesday, roughly two weeks after the governor announced plans to pay for the construction of more border wall with taxpayer money.

The pair of GOP politicians will provide a media briefing around 11:30 a.m. Wednesday before a tour “of the unfinished border wall” at 12:30 p.m., according to a release from Abbott’s office. You can watch the event live in the video player at the top of this article as well as on KSAT.com/tv.

The press conference will be held at Weslaco Department of Public Safety Headquarters.

Abbott and Trump’s visit comes after a handful of other politicians, including Vice President Kamala Harris, have made trips to the Texas-Mexico border in recent months.

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Poll: School Choice Support at All-Time High As Government Schools Abandon Education For Hard Left Indoctrination

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Public schools destroy our children, smash their ability to think, render them miserable jackboots for hard left. Look what they’ve done to our children. Think Hitler youth.

Poll: Support for School Choice Growing

As three quarters of voters support the idea, according to a RealClear Opinion poll.  Also from the story: … a majority of voters (66%) say that some or all of the COVID funds the federal government set aside for K-12 education should be directed by parents. Most voters in both parties agree parents should direct all or some of the funding.

New Poll: School Choice Support at All-Time High

Support for school choice in America continues to soar.

According to a June poll from RealClear Opinion Research, polling more than 1762 registered voters, a majority support school choice (74% vs. 16% opposed) while 10% are unsure. This is true across party lines, with 83% of Republicans, 69% of Independents, and 70% of Democrats saying they strongly or somewhat support school choice.

Additionally, a majority of voters (66%) say that some or all of the COVID funds the federal government set aside for K-12 education should be directed by parents. Most voters in both parties agree parents should direct all or some of the funding.

These results represent a marked increase in support for school choice since similar polling was conducted in April 2020. Overall support has increased from 64% to 74%; public school parent support has increased from 68% to 80%; Democrat support has increased from 59% to 70%.

Major Findings:

· 74% of voters support school choice

· 66% of voters believe parents should have access to COVID education stimulus funds

Statement from Tommy Schultz, CEO of the American Federation for Children:

“Public support for school choice is at an all-time high. And, as the nation recovers from unprecedented, nationwide school closures, a new story is unfolding. Parents are rising up and demanding the freedom to choose the best educational environment for their children. Thankfully, more and more lawmakers are listening. Already in 2021, seventeen states have passed legislation to improve, expand, or create new school choice programs.

For thousands of children, this means new opportunity and new hope for a brighter future. While we celebrate these transformative policy wins for kids, the work continues. We at AFC will continue fighting for every child in the country to have access to the American Dream through educational choice and opportunity.”

Full details:

Question: School Choice

Generally speaking, would you say you support or oppose the concept of school choice – which gives parents the right to use the tax dollars designated for their child’s education to send their child to the public or private school which best serves their needs.

Support:

All: 74%

Race & Ethnicity:

Asian: 70%
Black: 73%
Hispanic: 69%
White: 76%

Party ID:

Democrat: 83%
Republican: 70%

Question: Funding Students over Systems

On average, American taxpayers spend $15,946 per student nationwide on K-12 public education. Would you support giving parents a portion of those funds to use for home, virtual, or private education expenses?

Support:

Support: 66%

Race & Ethnicity:

Asian: 64%
Black: 73%
Hispanic: 63%
White: 66%

Party ID:

Democrat: 66%
Republican: 66%

Date: June 21 – 24, 2021

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Blinken Presses U.S. Allies to Bring Back Islamic State Jihadis

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Yeah, come on, people. What could possibly go wrong? Sure, they might commit a jihad massacre here or there, but what’s a few deaths compared to the horror of being Islamophobic?

US Blinken presses allies to repatriate Islamic State fighters

France24, June 28, 2021 (thanks to Henry):

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday pressed US allies to bring back citizens arrested overseas for joining the Islamic State group, warning they could not be held indefinitely in Syria. Blinken made the appeal in Rome at a meeting of an 83-member coalition on defeating the extremist network, where he and the Italian hosts called for greater attention to the jihadist threat in Africa….

RELATED ARTICLES:

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Netherlands: Muslima recruited for Islamic State, gets prison and compulsory psychological treatment

Australia: Muslima migrant who stabbed man while screaming ‘Allahu akbar’ now stabs fellow inmate

India: Muslim poses as Hindu to lure girl and rape her multiple times

Islamic apologist Shabir Ally: ‘If the prophet Muhammad did not exist, then there’s no reason to be a Muslim’

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PODCAST: In Praise of the Stars and Stripes

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Singer Macy Gray was in the news recently, not for her music but for an Op-Ed she penned calling for a change in the design of our flag, “Old Glory.” She claimed, “The American flag has been hijacked as code for a specific belief. God bless those believers, they can have it. Like the Confederate (flag), it is tattered, dated, divisive, and incorrect… It no longer represents democracy and freedom. It no longer represents ALL of us. It’s not fair to be forced to honor it. It’s time for a new flag.”

This has charged liberal progressives to seek a new flag, as well as changing the national anthem. All of this seems particularly strange as we approach our July 4th Independence Day, where both will be on proud display.

Ms. Gray is obviously ashamed of our flag, and in doing so, she expresses her contempt for the country which allowed her to make money, attain stardom, and accept the accolades of her industry. Like many on the left, she wants to change the basic tenets of the country, replace its icons, re-write history and subvert the U.S. Constitution. No, she is not a believer in this form of government as it was originally designed and, like so many Democrats, believe it is time to re-write it. Then again, it seems rather obvious she doesn’t know the difference between a democracy and a constitutional republic.

I’m also not convinced Ms. Gray understands how the American flag came into being. I even wonder if she knows who Betsy Ross was. As most of us know the thirteen red and white stripes represent the thirteen colonies (CT, DE, GA, MD, MA, NH, NJ, NY, NC, PA, RI, SC, and VA). These were the first to lay it on the line and break away from Great Britain, a very bold and bloody experience. The blue rectangular canton represents the “Union” of states, as depicted by five point stars for each state. (Yes, there is currently 50 states for those of you who didn’t take Civics; not 51 nor 57). As states were added to the original thirteen states, stars were added to the flag accordingly. (Gee, I cannot believe I have to explain this).

Other than this, there is no other hidden meaning in the flag. No, it doesn’t represent racism, capitalism, socialism, or any other “ism.” If anything, it represents the Republic we live in, liberty, and the U.S. Constitution. American men and women have followed it into all of our military conflicts, and have died for it. So, for Ms. Gray to say our flag is “dated, divisive, and incorrect,” is an insult to everyone who fought and died for it, honored it in parades, schools, and countless public events.

I have been to numerous parades over the years, both as a participator and a side-liner, and I have always been inspired by the people who stand, salute, cheer, and even cry as the flag passes them. If anything, we need a little more flag waving, not less.

Perhaps the most memorable moment of Independence Day is the playing of John Philip Sousa’s “The Stars and Stripes Forever!” For years, Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops made this their signature music as they played it annually on the 4th of July, much to the delight of those in attendance as well as those watching on television.

Sousa wrote the piece on Christmas Day in 1896 and first performed it the following year. In 1987, by act of Congress, it became the official National March of our country.

The music is particularly stirring. So much so, few realize words accompany it. Below are the lyrics. If you read them carefully, you will not see racism or any form of oppression between the lines. Instead, you will see how much Sousa loved our flag and the country it represents. His credentials were impeccable, and he was highly decorated and achieved acclaim around the world.

The Stars and Stripes Forever!

by John Philip Sousa

Let martial note in triumph float
And liberty extend its mighty hand
A flag appears ‘mid thunderous cheers,
The banner of the Western land.
The emblem of the brave and true
Its folds protect no tyrant crew;
The red and white and starry blue
Is freedom’s shield and hope.

Other nations may deem their flags the best
And cheer them with fervid elation
But the flag of the North and South and West
Is the flag of flags, the flag of Freedom’s nation.

Hurrah for the flag of the free!
May it wave as our standard forever,
The gem of the land and the sea,
The banner of the right.
Let despots remember the day
When our fathers with mighty endeavor
Proclaimed as they marched to the fray
That by their might and by their right
It waves forever.

Let eagle shriek from lofty peak
The never-ending watchword of our land;
Let summer breeze waft through the trees
The echo of the chorus grand.
Sing out for liberty and light,
Sing out for freedom and the right.
Sing out for Union and its might,
O patriotic sons.

Other nations may deem their flags the best
And cheer them with fervid elation,
But the flag of the North and South and West
Is the flag of flags, the flag of Freedom’s nation.

Hurrah for the flag of the free.
May it wave as our standard forever
The gem of the land and the sea,
The banner of the right.
Let despots remember the day
When our fathers with might endeavor
Proclaimed as they marched to the fray,
That by their might and by their right
It waves forever.

Phrases like, “The emblem of the brave and true,” “the flag of Freedom’s nation,” and “Sing out for Union and its might,” describes how Sousa and patriots feel about the flag and our country. The song, like the flag, should put a smile on the face of all red-blooded Americans as it represents the true spirit of the American people. It is not based on the dogma of a political party, but for our country as a whole. Nonetheless, Democrats like Ms. Gray would have us believe the flag reflects the values of the Republican Party and, therefore, should be abolished. Forget that it was used in battle to free the slaves, forget it was followed by soldiers, sailors, and Marines in two World Wars, Korea, Viet Nam, etc. Forget that it is a recognized symbol of freedom around the world. Forget all that.

The reason the left hates the flag is not because of racism or oppression, but because true Americans love it. They hate America that much and want a different country instead.

To those who want to change the flag, it’s music, and other national icons, you are not kidding anyone. You are simply trying to usurp the spirit of America, a spirit which has helped so many people, both foreign and domestic for well over 200 years, for which I say to you, “Go to Hell!”

Keep the Faith!

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Who Was the Biggest Mass Murderer in History?

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At least 45 million were starved, shot, tortured, and worked to death.

Who was the biggest mass murderer in the history of the world? Most people probably assume that the answer is Adolf Hitler, architect of the Holocaust. Others might guess Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, who may indeed have managed to kill even more innocent people than Hitler did, many of them as part of a terror famine that likely took more lives than the Holocaust.

But both Hitler and Stalin were outdone by Mao Zedong. From 1958 to 1962, his Great Leap Forward policy led to the deaths of up to 45 million people—easily making it the biggest episode of mass murder ever recorded.

Historian Frank Dikötter, author of the important book Mao’s Great Famine, recently published an article in History Today, summarizing what happened:

Mao thought that he could catapult his country past its competitors by herding villagers across the country into giant people’s communes. In pursuit of a utopian paradise, everything was collectivised. People had their work, homes, land, belongings and livelihoods taken from them.

In collective canteens, food, distributed by the spoonful according to merit, became a weapon used to force people to follow the party’s every dictate. As incentives to work were removed, coercion and violence were used instead to compel famished farmers to perform labour on poorly planned irrigation projects while fields were neglected.

A catastrophe of gargantuan proportions ensued. Extrapolating from published population statistics, historians have speculated that tens of millions of people died of starvation. But the true dimensions of what happened are only now coming to light thanks to the meticulous reports the party itself compiled during the famine…

What comes out of this massive and detailed dossier is a tale of horror in which Mao emerges as one of the greatest mass murderers in history, responsible for the deaths of at least 45 million people between 1958 and 1962.

It is not merely the extent of the catastrophe that dwarfs earlier estimates, but also the manner in which many people died: between two and three million victims were tortured to death or summarily killed, often for the slightest infraction.

When a boy stole a handful of grain in a Hunan village, local boss Xiong Dechang forced his father to bury him alive. The father died of grief a few days later.

The case of Wang Ziyou was reported to the central leadership: one of his ears was chopped off, his legs were tied with iron wire, a ten kilogram stone was dropped on his back and then he was branded with a sizzling tool – punishment for digging up a potato.

The basic facts of the Great Leap Forward have long been known to scholars. Dikötter’s work is noteworthy for demonstrating that the number of victims may have been even greater than previously thought, and that the mass murder was more clearly intentional on Mao’s part, and included large numbers of victims who were executed or tortured, as opposed to “merely” starved to death. Even the previously standard estimates of 30 million or more would still make this the greatest mass murder in history.

While the horrors of the Great Leap Forward are well known to experts on communism and Chinese history, they are rarely remembered by ordinary people outside China, and have had only a modest cultural impact. When Westerners think of the great evils of world history, they rarely think of this one.

In contrast to the numerous books, movies, museums, and and remembrance days dedicated to the Holocaust, we make little effort to recall the Great Leap Forward, or to make sure that society has learned its lessons. When we vow “never again,” we don’t often recall that it should apply to this type of atrocity, as well as those motivated by racism or anti-semitism.

The fact that Mao’s atrocities resulted in many more deaths than those of Hitler does not necessarily mean he was the more evil of the two. The greater death toll is partly the result of the fact that Mao ruled over a much larger population for a much longer time. I lost several relatives in the Holocaust myself, and have no wish to diminish its significance. But the vast scale of Chinese communist atrocities puts them in the same general ballpark. At the very least, they deserve far more recognition than they currently receive.

What accounts for this neglect? One possible answer is that the most of the victims were Chinese peasants—people who are culturally and socially distant from the Western intellectuals and media figures who have the greatest influence over our historical consciousness and popular culture. As a general rule, it is easier to empathize with victims who seem similar to ourselves.

But an even bigger factor in our relative neglect of the Great Leap Forward is that it is part of the general tendency to downplay crimes committed by communist regimes, as opposed to right-wing authoritarians. Unlike in the days of Mao, today very few western intellectuals actually sympathize with communism. But many are reluctant to fully accept what a great evil it was, fearful—perhaps—that other left-wing causes might be tainted by association.

In China, the regime has in recent years admitted that Mao made “mistakes” and allowed some degree of open discussion about this history. But the government is unwilling to admit that the mass murder was intentional and continues to occasionally suppress and persecute dissidents who point out the truth. This reluctance is an obvious result of the fact that the Communist Party still rules China. Although they have repudiated many of Mao’s specific policies, the regime still derives much of its legitimacy from his legacy.

I experienced China’s official ambivalence on this subject first-hand when I gave a talk about the issue while teaching a course as a visiting professor at a Chinese university in 2014.

For both Chinese and westerners, failure to acknowledge the true nature of the Great Leap Forward carries serious costs. Some survivors of the Great Leap Forward are still alive today. They deserve far greater recognition of the horrible injustice they suffered. They also deserve compensation for their losses, and the infliction of appropriate punishment on the remaining perpetrators.

In addition, our continuing historical blind spot about the crimes of Mao and other communist rulers leads us to underestimate the horrors of such policies, and makes it more likely that they might be revived in the future. The horrendous history of China, the USSR, and their imitators, should have permanently discredited socialism as completely as fascism was discredited by the Nazis. But it has not – so far – fully done so.

Just recently, the socialist government of Venezuela imposed forced labor on much of its population. Yet most of the media coverage of this injustice fails to note the connection to socialism, or that the policy has parallels in the history of the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and other similar regimes. One analysis even claims that the real problem is not so much “socialism qua socialism,” but rather Venezuela’s “particular brand of socialism, which fuses bad economic ideas with a distinctive brand of strongman bullying,” and is prone to authoritarianism and “mismanagement.”

The author simply ignores the fact that “strongman bullying” and “mismanagement” are typical of socialist states around the world. The Scandinavian nations—sometimes cited as examples of successful socialism- are not actually socialist at all, because they do not feature government ownership of the means of production, and in many ways have freer markets than most other western nations.

Venezuela’s tragic situation would not surprise anyone familiar with the history of the Great Leap Forward. We would do well to finally give history’s largest episode of mass murder the attention it deserves.

This article first appeared at the Volokh Conspiracy.

COLUMN BY

Ilya Somin

ILYA SOMIN is Professor of Law at George Mason University. His research focuses on constitutional law, property law, and the study of popular political participation and its implications for constitutional democracy.

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Federal Government Imposes Up to $14,000 in ‘Hidden Taxes’ on Households Every Year, New Report Reveals

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Most Americans pay close attention to how much of their money is taken in taxes each year. But there’s another, less obvious way the federal government imposes financial costs on citizens—and according to a new report, it amounts to trillions annually.

The fiscally-conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) just released its annual “Ten Thousand Commandments” report, which documents the “size, scope, and cost of federal regulations, and how they affect American consumers, businesses, and the U.S. economy at large.” Report author Clyde Wayne Crews explains how we face a “hidden tax” from the economic burden of our massive regulatory state. After all, tens of thousands of new regulations are imposed every year.

The report estimates the economic costs of federal regulation at an astounding $1.9 trillion annually.

To put that abstract sum in context, it’s nearly as much as the federal government collects in income and corporate taxes in a year. And a country that produced $1.9 trillion in output would be the 8th largest economy in the world (excluding the US). $1.9 trillion is more in economic output than Brazil or Italy produce in an entire calendar year.

Much of this $1.9 trillion in “hidden taxes” is ultimately borne by everyday Americans. To understand why, simply remember that regulations increase the costs associated with production. An unnecessary environmental regulation, for example, may force companies to take more cost-intensive steps during the production process. Ultimately, this leads to higher prices at the check-out line.

The CEI report explains that if we assume the costs all ultimately fall on consumers, then it equates to up to $14,368 in annual costs per US household.

This is a huge hit to the wallet. $14,368 in annual regulatory costs amounts to roughly 23 percent of the average household’s spending budget. It’s more than the typical household spends on food, transportation, healthcare, or anything except housing.

Oh, and don’t forget the $88 billion in taxpayer money spent by federal agencies each year just to administer, implement, and police these regulations.

The takeaway here is broader than just the financial impact of federal regulation, as significant as that may be. It’s yet another reminder that, as economist Frédéric Bastiat famously identified, the costs of government go beyond the obvious, what is “seen,” and extend to the “unseen.”

Of course, when it comes to the ever-expanding federal government, the most obvious cost is what the politicians in Washington, DC take from us in taxes every year. But this new report further proves that the unseen, hidden costs of the federal government’s growing involvement in economic life are even more drastic than what comes directly out of our paychecks.

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China Is Spanking Biden!

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The People’s Republic of China has raised its level of aggression towards the US exponentially since the fraudulent arrival of the Biden Administration into power.

They, like all our enemies, Syria, Russia, Iran etc. understand they are dealing with a crook, all be it a severely mentally challenged crook. They know he is weak and they know he is corrupt. They understand he is doing to America what they could only dream of doing. Destroying us.

They fear nothing anymore as opposed to when the lawful winner of the 2016 and 2020 elections, President Trump was in office. There was a strong patriotic man who put our interests first, who loved as opposed to hating America.

Apart from being caught red handed in the bacteriological attack on the rest of the world, otherwise known as the Chinese Virus ( Covid ) and having evidence that they hid the problem, lied about it, did nothing to restrict its rapid global spread and fed the gullible and weak WHO lies which they accepted, China has been busy on many other fronts. I have told you before, that I believe when China realized what they had done, that the result could have been the ruination of their economy, made a deliberate decision to spread it internationally so as to destroy other economies and not leave themselves at a disadvantage.

I wrote a few weeks ago about how these Commies broke the Hong Kong agreement with the UK. The basis of that agreement was that the human rights allowed under British rule would be good for the first 50 years of Chinese rule. The people of Hong Kong have been systematically stripped of those basic human rights. They, the Chinese, have thumbed their noses at the British with seeming immunity and now are doing the same to the United States as China flexes it’s growing financial muscle and military strength.

China has taken the lead in refinancing an almost destroyed ( By President Trump ) Iran and its economy. It is pouring money into Iran and opened a Chinese Iranian bank. It is ignoring American sanctions on Iranian oil exports and financial dealings.

They are blatantly treating the Uighur minority in the most barbarous fashion and destroying independent religious practice within its borders. They are constantly terrorizing Taiwan.

To all these actions and many others we have not seen Biden or his administration say anything with any substance. Oh yeah, he talks a great talk about white racism, white privilege, right wing suprematism, Donald Trump and his actions which were destroying the very swamp where Biden made a great living for over 40 years. But on China despite several meetings and opportunities nothing has been said that would make China pause. Not even give them a perceived problem.

European nations are as weak and obviously not willing to act alone without America. This we have seen with the UK as regards Hong Kong. No European country is interested nor has the backbone to take on China without the US leading the way. ( And paying for it!! )

China is feeling its oats again. They feel invincible and in today’s world they may just be right.

How pitiful that that evil Communist country is now fearless of the rest of the world. America has become an old toothless dog that no longer can guard anything. We are susceptible to bribes and are determined to turn our once proud nation into a third world socialist country ruled by other nations.

Biden is a total disgrace. He always has been. He always will be. He and his family are corrupt and perverted. He is a proven traitor who has enriched himself at the expense of our Constitutional Republic.

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States Ending Ultra-Generous Welfare Are Doing Better in One Big Way, New Data Show

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We’ve got a new contender in the competition for the least-surprising news development of all time. As it turns out, if you pay people more to stay on unemployment welfare than they can earn working, and then scale back the benefits, more people will go back to work. Shocking!

Some have denied and pushed back against this basic economic reality, largely for political and partisan reasons. But new data on the unemployment trends across states taking different approaches to unemployment welfare make this truth truly impossible to deny.

Recent history offers us something of a natural experiment. The $300/week federal supplement on top of existing state-level unemployment benefits is set to expire at the end of September. Yet the dysfunctional expansion of the welfare system has meant that 42 percent of the unemployed can earn the same or more by not working. In 21 states, unemployed households can earn the equivalent of $25/hour while not working.

The work disincentives here are obvious. It’s hardly shocking that a record-breaking number of small businesses report being unable to fill their job openings.

So, dozens of conservative-leaning states have discontinued the benefits early, while dozens of liberal-leaning states have left it in place.

Thanks to recently released Labor Department data on unemployment claims, we can now, quite predictably, see the welfare rolls expanding in the states where the unemployment bonus remains in place. Yet the number of people on welfare is rapidly shrinking in the states where the supplement is set to expire or already has expired.

“The 26 states that have announced their plan to end participation in the $300 weekly unemployment bonus have seen a 12.7 percent decline on average in initial claims over the past week,” the fiscally-conservative Foundation for Government Accountability reports. “Meanwhile, states that have indicated they will continue participating in the unemployment bonus programs have seen an increase in initial claims by an average of 1.6 percent during this same period. The 12 states that have officially opted out of the $300 weekly bonus thus far have seen consistent declines each week since ending participation in the bonus.”

In other words, people are leaving the welfare rolls and returning to work in the states where the government is getting out of the way. They are not doing so as much in the states where expanded welfare continues to create dysfunctional incentives.

“State leaders are proving that ending enhanced unemployment bonuses can reignite the economic recovery for workers and businesses alike,” FGA Senior Research Analyst Hayden Dublois said. “This recent report highlights how ending the bonus will help get unemployed individuals back into the workforce quickly, help fill the record number of open jobs, and ensure small businesses can thrive.”

Of course, a strong correlation alone does not prove causation. But when combined with the fact that this result is exactly what basic economic theory—or even an elementary understanding of how humans respond to incentives—would predict, it’s strong evidence nonetheless.

When politicians muck up the labor market and discourage work with excessive welfare, dysfunction is sure to ensue. Getting the government out of the way does more good than any “stimulus” scheme ever will.

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INSURRECTION: Soros-Funded Sunrise Movement Besieges White House

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Activists from the far-left, George Soros-funded group the Sunrise Movement launched an insurrection at the White House on Monday, blocking every entrance and demanding that the Biden administration put climate change-related initiatives at the forefront of its agenda, particularly regarding the ongoing infrastructure negotiations.

Radical socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), who whined for months that the so-called “insurrection” by Trump supporters at the Capitol Hill on Jan. 6 left her devastated by PTSD, apparently overcame the trauma long enough to make an appearance and encourage the leftist assault on the Capitol.

“What we are here to tell them is that you can’t break this promise to us anymore,” AOC told the crowd. “They’re setting up a world that they won’t have to live in. Ok, that’s why this matters. That’s why we fight.”

The Progressive Caucus also endorsed this Democrat insurrection, praising the radicals for making it clear that lawmakers must “go big, bold, and fast to fight the climate crisis.”

Don’t hold your breath waiting for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to denounce this act of domestic terrorism by her own Party, much less launch a commission to investigate it.

Sunrise Movement (SM)

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On November 13, 2018, More than 200 Sunrise Movement demonstrators staged a protest outside the office of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, to demand that Democrats make the battle against climate change a top priority beginning in January 2019. The protest, which was praised by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, resulted in 51 arrests.

During a single weekend in December 2018, a number of SM members joined likeminded staffers of Ocasio-Cortez as well as members of Justice Democrats and New Consensus, in drafting the text of the aforementioned Green New Deal.

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