A ‘One Flesh’ Sacramental Union

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Image: Wedding day: Emilia and Karol Wojtyła Sr., 1906

Eduardo Echeverria on marriage: it requires sexual difference – in the sexual act – as a foundational prerequisite, indeed, as intrinsic to a one flesh-union of man and woman.

St. John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and even Pope Francis – every one of these popes – affirms the moral and sacramental significance of the two-in-one-flesh bodily unity as foundational to the marital form of love. But it is precisely the embodiment of human persons, as man and woman, which has been lost in our culture, even among Catholics, for a proper understanding of marriage.

The unity attained in becoming “two-in-one-flesh” in marriage is grounded in the order of creation (Gen 1:27; 2:24), persists through the regime of sin, and it is affirmed and simultaneously renewed through the redemptive sacrament of marriage. I developed this point in an earlier column. But now I want to underscore that real bodily oneness, a one-flesh union between a man and a woman, actualizes marital unity.

Agreeing with Pope Francis’s critique of “gender ideology,” Cardinal Gerhard Müller, head of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, recently stated that gender ideology claims, “that man’s identity does not depend on nature, with a body that is limited to a masculine or feminine sexuality.” He adds, “There is an evident dualism behind all this: the body loses its significance vis-à-vis its own identity.” (The Cardinal Müller Report)

Contrary to this anthropological dualism, the Catholic tradition affirms that the body is intrinsic to selfhood, the human person is, bodily. This affirmation is rooted in the Church’s teaching on the soul/body unity of the human person. (Catechism of the Catholic Church 362-368) As John Paul says, “In fact, body and soul are inseparable: in the willing agent and in the deliberate act they stand or fall together.” (Veritatis Splendor 49) Therefore, we can easily understand why separating “the moral act from the bodily dimensions of its exercise is contrary to the teaching of Scripture and Tradition.”

This teaching is explicitly embraced by Benedict XVI (e.g., Address to the Roman Curia, December 21, 2012) and by Pope Francis (particularly in Amoris Laetitia 56, 74-75 and Laudato Si’ 155).

Click here to read the rest of Professor Echeverria’s column . . .

Eduardo J. Echeverria

Eduardo J. Echeverria is Professor of Philosophy and Systematic Theology, Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit. His publications include Pope Francis: The Legacy of Vatican II (2015) and Divine Election: A Catholic Orientation in Dogmatic and Ecumenical Perspective (2016).

Democrats in La La Land, while Republicans are laughing their Ossoffs

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Shortly after the Karen Handel win in Georgia’s 6th District race for the U.S. Congress the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) sent out the following in an email to their supporters:

[W]e know yesterday didn’t go as we hoped.

Make no mistake, we’re disappointed, and we know you are too.

But this race should have never been this close. Republicans had to pour tens of millions into a race that should’ve easily been theirs.

That gives us so much hope as we look toward 2018.

Let’s look at what each candidate raised and spent in the Georgia 6th District race:

The fact is that it was the Democrats who “poured tens of millions” into this race. In fact Democrats poured $32 million into the 4 special congressional elections to date and lost all of them.

Most of Ossoff’s money came from outside of the 6th District. Ossoff spent 7 times what Handel spent and lost by 6 percentage points. Democrats are living in La La Land if they believe this gives them “hope” as they look forward to 2018.

But wait, not so! The DCCC believes the Congress is in play in 2018!

The DCCC email contains a link to a video made by DCCC Chairman Ben Ray Luján who declares that the Democrats have a “real shot” at taking back the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018:

In the Daily Wire column 4 Dumbest Democratic Reactions To Their Stunning Defeat In The Georgia 6th Ben Shapiro lists the following reactions to Ossoff’s loss:

  1. Republicans Are Just Evil.
  2. Democrats Must Move To The Left.
  3. We Need A Hug.
  4. Civility Will Never Work!

To date Democrats have lost 4 special elections. The DCCC and Luján made the Georgia District 6 race a referendum on President Trump and his make America great again (MAGA) agenda. The DCCC was right, it was a referendum on President Trump’s agenda. That’s why Handel won handily. The DCCC has lost every special election, against a President and Republican Party that has relentlessly been demonized in the media, by some Republicans and most all Democrats.

So the Democrat base wants the DCCC to do more of the same, expecting different results?

This reminds us of how the media and Democrats treated candidate Trump during the 2016 presidential election. They lost in November 2016. They continue to lose.

The DCCC message has not changed. Luján keeps singing the same tune. The Democrats will keep losing if they go down the path of hating Republicans, moving even further to the left, hugging one another and abandoning civility and resisting anything and everything proposed by Republicans.

Democrats are still in La La Land, while Republicans are laughing their Ossoffs.

When your opponent is committing suicide, don’t interfere.

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Blood Money: Sudan Hires U.S. Lobbyist to roll back sanctions

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Disgusting. Washington, D.C. law firm Squire Paton Boggs inks a $40,000 a month retainer to lobby for Sudan regime of indicted war criminal President Omar al Bashir endeavoring to keep the Obama Administration lifting of economic sanctions in place as the 180 day look back period ends on July 12th.

Following which the Trump Administration can either continue the monitoring of the situation or reimpose them if there is evidence,. There has indeed been much evidence of that we have reported in a number of New English Review articles and Iconoclast posts. from the conflict zones of Darfur and Nuba Mountains from colleagues Lt. Gen. Abakar M. Abdullah Chairman of the Sudan United Movement and Deborah Martin .

As John Pendergast of Enough Project cited in this Foreign Policy article says, the Squire Paton Boggs retainer by the Sudan regime of President Bashir amounts to “blood money”

You may have seen our post of the MSNBC Greta van Susteren “On the Record” segment on genocide in Sudan with intrepid journalist Boyette reporting on the rampage by the Rapid Support Force/Janjaweed mujihadeen force in Jebel Marra region of Darfur and Former Congressman Frank Wolf, the former head of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. They gave first hand evidence of the calumnies and rapine committed against indigenous black African people by Bashir.

As we keep pounding away, Bashir has killed over 400,000 in Darfur and displaced more than 4 million imperiled indigenous black African people. Further he has recruited a veritable Army of upwards of 150,000 mujihaden from the Sahel region, north Africa and Al Qaeda and Islamic State fighters to ethnically cleanse Darfur, Nuba Mountains, Kordofon and the Blue Nile regions of indigenous black African peoples.

That is the first step before invading adjacent states in the Sahel with the objective of creating a Caliphate ruled under Sharia Islamic Law from Khartoum. All supported by billions of dollars of alleged develop,ment projects with the backing of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and other leading members of the Arab League.

The absurdity of it all is the Obama Administration lifted the economic sanction because of alleged counterterrorism assistance, information on the whereabouts of Joseph Kony of the Lords Resistance Army. Especially when Sudan resistance leaders like Gen Abakar knew where the Bashir regime was harboring Kony. That information was passed on to US Africom with no response.

Perhaps time to bring the key leaders of the Sudan Resistance to Washington to present first hand evidence to the Congress and the Administration of Bashir’s genocidal jihad calumnies .

Sudan Hires U.S. Lobbyist to Roll Back Sanctions
As Khartoum tries to convince the Trump administration it’s worth more as a counter-terror partner than as a designated sponsor of terrorism.
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Ossoff’s Defeat is a Win for America!

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Did the Russians hack the Georgia election? Leftists are all over media creating straw-men to disguise the simple truth that voter’s have rejected their treasonous Trump resistance movement. Jon Ossoff losing in Georgia is the 5th election Democrats have lost since Trump’s shocking crashing defeat of Hillary. Losing the Georgia race has to be particularly painful because once again, Leftists lied to themselves and their base that Ossoff would surely win just like they did with Hillary.

My question is how crazy will Democrats’ official Resistance Summer domestic terrorism become after their devastating loss in Georgia? Thus far, Leftists have mock beheaded Trump; mock put a bullet in his head; mock stabbed Trump, dreamed of beating Trump with a golf club; talked about blowing up the White House, physically attacked Trump voters; kidnapped/tortured a Trump supporter and gunned down Republicans while practicing for a charity baseball game.

Leftists are disappointed, desperate, deranged and overflowing with hatred for our president and his supporters; an extremely dangerous mix of emotions. How much lower will Leftists take their depravity and violence?

My fellow Americans, I wish to express my deep heartfelt thanks for your help stopping Jon Ossoff, “Nasty” Pelosi’s latest anti-Trump minion. A handful of Hollywood Leftists spent mega-millions to help their Great Leftist Hope candidate win the Georgia congressional seat. Ossoff could not vote for himself because he does not live in the 6th district. Masters of deception, Democrats pretended their national Leftist push for Ossoff represented the thinking of Georgia voters. They lied.

My wife Mary and I spent months in Georgia with the Conservative Campaign Committee in their boots-on-the-ground effort to inspire Georgia voters to “drop the remote and vote.” We ran radio ads on major stations, conducted numerous sign waving sessions at busy intersections, sent out mailers, organized phone-from-phone, produced videos and tons of social media. We left no stones un-turned to get votes for Republican Karen Handel.

Brothers and sisters who love America, we cannot let up. Rest assured, Leftists will triple down on their insane efforts to remove our president. We must stay engaged. Republicans must continue to vote in large numbers, not taking any of the upcoming races for granted. Again, thanks for you help carrying Karen Handel across the finish line. God bless.

San Francisco State University sued for fostering hostile environment for Jewish students

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“In particular, the suit accuses university administrators and police of being complicit in disruption of a speech last year by Nir Barkat, the mayor of Jerusalem. According to the suit, students and attendees were met with protesters shouting offensive chants and blaring bullhorns while school officials instructed campus police not to intervene.”

It is very likely that university administrators and police were complicit in this. At the University at Buffalo in April, university administrators and police did nothing while Leftist and Muslim protesters shouted me down for an hour and a half. They don’t want to face the wrath of the Leftist and Muslim students, and they agree with them anyway.

“San Francisco State University fosters anti-Semitism, lawsuit alleges,” by Emily DeRuy, Bay Area News Group, June 19, 2017:

Students and other members of the local Jewish community allege that San Francisco State University is anti-Semitic, according to a lawsuit filed Monday.

“SFSU and its administrators have knowingly fostered this discrimination and hostile environment, which has been marked by violent threats to the safety of Jewish students on campus,” reads the suit, which also names California State University’s Board of Trustees and other university employees as defendants.

The suit alleges that San Francisco State has “repeatedly denied” Jewish student groups, including Hillel and the Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi, equal access to campus events.

In particular, the suit accuses university administrators and police of being complicit in disruption of a speech last year by Nir Barkat, the mayor of Jerusalem. According to the suit, students and attendees were met with protesters shouting offensive chants and blaring bullhorns while school officials instructed campus police not to intervene.

“These defendants seem to believe that they are above the law, that discrimination against Jews is entirely acceptable, and that their response to criticism must go only so far as to placate Jewish donors,” said Amanda Berman, director of legal affairs for the Lawfare Project, which is representing the plaintiffs, in a statement….

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Cosby and Leftists’ War on Non-Victim-minded Blacks

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The Bill Cosby sexual assault trial ended in a mistrial. I will not address the case because I am clueless regarding his guilt or innocence. I am going to address the insidious campaign to destroy a black American icon.

I remember hearing black relatives trash the Cosby TV Show, claiming it was unrealistic and misrepresented the black American experience.

Democrats have relentlessly worked to convince blacks that America is a hellhole of racism where whites, Republicans and conservatives plot 24/7 how to keep blacks down. Therefore, it is not surprising that my relatives believed the TV show “Good Times” about a struggling black family living in the projects painted a truer portrait of black life in America. The truth is the Cosby Show was accurate. Blacks have pursued and achieved their American dreams since slavery. As a matter of fact, the first self-made female millionaire in America was Madam C. J. Walker, a black woman born in 1867.

It puzzled me why my relatives had a problem with a TV show exposing black youths to bigger and better things, inspiring them to pursue their American dreams. Football superstar, Deion Sanders lived in the projects. Going to a cook-out at his coach’s home changed Deion life. It was the first time Deion visited a home with a driveway.

As a black kid living in a Baltimore ghetto, my dad drove me through upscale neighborhoods. Dad said, “If you work hard and get an education, you can live like this.”

I find it incredible that Hollywood and the civil rights mafia turned on Cosby when he began speaking out; encouraging blacks to stop blaming whitey and take responsibility for their lives. Relying on someone other than yourself, weakens you. Therefore, Cosby offered real black empowerment. Outraged, Leftists launched war on Cosby when he instructed black males to pull their pants up, learn to speak English, stop having babies out of wedlock, stay in school and so on.

Black comedian Hannibal Buress trashed Cosby, accusing him of talking down to blacks.

Buress even criticized Cosby for not cussing on stage. In other words, Buress suggested that Cosby is a sell-out for speaking out against the I’m-from-the-hood persona.

Why do we do that to our fellow blacks? White people are free to pursue whatever paths in life they please. Liberals, black and white, try to keep blacks in their little black box of what they decree to be acceptable black behavior. Pro football quarterbacks Robert Griffin, III and Russell Wilson have been accused by Leftist sports writers of not acting according to their dictates of acceptable black behavior. My brother loves country music. I prefer sushi over KFC. Does this make us less black? In the minds of liberals, yes.

We have witnessed Leftists’ bring-down-Cosby campaign repeated numerous times against successful high profile blacks. The crime of these blacks is not viewing themselves as victims of racist America and achieving success the old fashion way — by earning it. How else can you explain Leftists’ visceral hatred for world renown retired neurosurgeon Dr Ben Carson, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, businessman extraordinaire Herman Cain and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas? All these extremely successful and inspiring blacks have endured major campaigns by Leftists to destroy and silence them.

Cosby was a powerful black role-model trailblazer, funny without being vulgar or telling black jokes. He achieved remarkable success and earned great wealth. Cosby’s life testifies that America truly is the greatest land of opportunity on the planet for all who choose to go for it.

What really landed Cosby atop Leftists’ excrement list was inspiring black youths to follow the road he paved to success. Leftists in essence said, “Cos, your black derriere is goin’ down.” Truly unfortunate.

Team Jihad: How Sharia-Supremacists Collaborate With Leftists To Destroy The United States

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Washington, DC – The unlikely alliance between Islam and the left isn’t on the media’s radar screen, yet the chaos on our streets and campuses is obvious and disturbing. The ever-more frequent jihad attacks, both at home and abroad, even more so. But the swirl of images flitting across our screens can be difficult to understand: protesters are carrying all kinds of signs, hurling abuse at our new president, and at those who would speak in defense of America and its free institutions… Black Lives Matter activists spew hatred for law enforcement, but are funded by wealthy establishment leftists. Muslim terrorists screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ are murdering innocent, men, women and children—in the name of the ‘religion of peace.’ Too much of it doesn’t seem to make sense. How can the jihadist Muslim Brotherhood, Black Lives Matter movement, and social Marxist anarchist leftists all be part of the same street scene?

To help explain this unlikely but very real alliance, Matthew Vadum, Senior Vice President at the Washington, D.C. think tank, Capital Research Center and an award-winning journalist, has authored an important new book for the Center for Security Policy’s Civilization Jihad Readers Series entitled “Team Jihad: How Sharia-Supremacists Collaborate with Leftists to Destroy the United States.” Vadum, already widely published on issues related to leftist infiltration and subversion within American society, here marshals a wealth of historical detail to document how and when the forces of Islam and the left first began to make common cause and how far they’ve come in the years since.

With a new president in the White House, the United States seems headed for changes on many fronts. None is more important to understand than the deeply anti-American working relationship among seemingly disparate forces like these that are united in their dedication to the overthrow of the U.S. Constitution and our system of law and order. Neglect, benign and otherwise, has allowed this unholy alliance of jihadists, street thugs, and cultural Marxists to advance unchecked throughout our society for far too long.

With this monograph, Matt Vadum offers the average citizen a clear and very readable explanation for what we all see happening around us.

Join us for a book launch and panel discussion on Tuesday, June 27, at 2:00pm, featuring the author and special guests:

  • Matthew Vadum, Author, Senior Vice President of the Capital Research Center
  • Frank Gaffney, President and CEO of the Center for Security Policy
  • Gregory Angelo, President of the Log Cabin Republicans

 The proceedings will stream live on the Center for Security Policy Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/securefreedom/

Study: The Surprising Effect of Marijuana Legalization on College Students

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Researchers from Oregon State University and the University of Michigan studied marijuana use among 10,924 college students at one large Oregon university and six other universities in states that have not legalized marijuana. Using data from the Health Minds Survey, they looked at marijuana use before and after Oregon legalized the drug for recreational use.

They found that marijuana use increased among all college students but was significantly greater among Oregon students compared to those attending universities in non-legal states. Although the legal age for using marijuana in Oregon is 21, more younger students used the drug than older students. Surprisingly, the greatest increase took place among Oregon students who also reported binge drinking (four to five drinks in about two hours). These students were 73 percent more likely to report marijuana use compared to their peers at the other six schools.

Read The Atlantic story here. Read Science Daily summary here. Read journal abstract here.

Contaminated Marijuana Still Reaching Consumers in Oregon

Oregon has the toughest rules in the nation to keep pesticide-tainted marijuana off store shelves, yet contaminated pot continues to be sold. The state wrote even tougher rules but faced such a backlash from growers it modified them somewhat.

The Oregonian/OregonLive recently conducted a spot check to see if the modified rules are keeping pesticide-containing pot from being sold. The media outlet’s 2015 reporting on widespread contamination prompted the state to establish the rules in the first place.

The paper had ten samples tested by two different labs; three came back contaminated. A second round of tests of the same products resulted in only one showing contamination. Everyone – both the state and the industry — is frustrated with the lack of precision in the testing process.

A manager of Oregon’s Health Authority, which wrote the rules, says the state’s system isn’t a promise that every product on the shelf is pure. “I don’t think it’s reasonable for the general public to think that everything is 100 percent clean and safe,” he says. Instead, the system is designed to reduce but not eliminate risk.

Read OregonLive story here.

Senators Reintroduce CARERS Act to Repeal Federal Prohibition Of Medical Marijuana

Would you take a medicine that can contain hazardous pesticides, harmful bacteria, several kinds of fungi, molds, mildew, and even dangerous heavy metals? One whose labeled dose has been shown to be inaccurate? Whose labeled potency has been shown to be untruthful or inconsistent from dose to dose?

Fortunately, the medicines available today are so safe we don’t even think to ask such questions. Advances in science and medicine over the last century extended the average lifespan by 30 years.

Part of the reason for this achievement is the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which requires that all medicines be pure, safe, and effective before they can be marketed to the public. Drug makers spend millions of dollars and many years to develop and test a new medicine to obtain FDA approval. And patients who wish to take part in clinical trials to test the new medicine are told all its known harms so they can decide whether to participate.

But several members of Congress have decided such protections are not necessary for marijuana. They have reintroduced a bill to legalize medical marijuana in states that legalized the drug for medical use despite the fact that not one medical marijuana product produced in those states has been approved by FDA.

A particular irony is that the lead senator introducing the bill, Rand Paul, a libertarian who wants to reduce the size of government, is creating a situation where the states will need to create 50 FDA’s to protect the public health.

Or, states can take the view of the Oregon Health Authority manager in the story above:
“I don’t think it’s reasonable for the general public to think that everything [every marijuana medicine] is 100 percent clean and safe.”

Buyer beware.

Read A Libertarian Future story here. Read Senator Booker’s press release here.
Read Carers Act here.

New Study Estimates the Cost of Driving Under the Influence of Cannabis in Canada

In a first of its kind study, the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction calculated the number of Canadians who use marijuana (10 percent) and drive under the influence (just under half of users) and the estimated costs associated with such behavior. Data were from the year 2012.

Driving Under the Influence of Cannabis (DUIC) collisions caused 75 deaths at a cost of $8,532,200 per death, 4,407 injuries at a cost of $84,600 per injury, and 7,794 people involved in property damage at a cost of $10,700 per person. Total costs add up to $1.09 billion.

Sadly, those ages 16-34 who make up approximately one-third of the population accounted for nearly two-thirds of the victims.

Read Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction press release here. Read journal article here.

Entrepreneur Explains How to Set Up a Home Marijuana Garden as The Fresno Bee Warns That ER Docs Are Seeing Frequent Cases of Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome (CHS)

Emergency room physicians have seen an uptick in compulsive vomiting since California legalized marijuana for recreational use last November. The patients’ vomiting is accompanied by frantic screaming and kicking.

The phenomenon is called Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome of CHS. It occurs exclusivity in chronic marijuana users and was not identified until 2004 when Australian doctors made the link between chronic use and CHS.

Doctors say THC and other cannabinoid concentrations are much higher in today’s marijuana and may be contributing to more cases. The only long-term treatment is to stop using pot.

Read Fresno Bee story here.

Tobacco-Marijuana Nexus Begins . . .

Imperial Brands, a tobacco giant in the UK that removed the word “tobacco” from its name 18 months ago, is looking to diversify as smokers quit. It has hired medical marijuana expert Simon Langelier, who is chairman of the Canadian firm PharmaCielo which supplies cannabis oil extracts. Prior to that, Mr. Langelier spent 30 years at rival tobacco firm Philip Morris.

Imperial chairman Mark Williamson said Imperial will benefit from Mr. Langelier’s experience in tobacco and “wider consumer adjacencies.”

Skeptics have long warned that the tobacco industry, given its expertise in crop farming and distribution, will likely join and probably take over the marijuana industry. If so, it will likely apply its Joe Camel marketing tactics targeting adolescents as new smokers to targeting teens as new marijuana users.

Read the Independent story here.

Pictured: a Nevada legislator on a study tour of medical marijuana dispensaries, sniffs sample product.

. . . And So Does the Alcohol-Marijuana Nexus

The legalization proponents who wrote the Nevada recreational marijuana ballot initiative, which passed last November, had some help from the state’s alcohol industry. Mysteriously, the law specifies that all marijuana grown in Nevada will be distributed by alcohol distributors. This is unique to Nevada.

The state wants to license others to sell pot, but the liquor lobby has sued the state claiming it has exclusive marijuana distribution rights.

Just this afternoon, the judge hearing the lawsuit ruled for the alcohol industry and against the Nevada Department of Taxation which would have issued temporary licenses to medical marijuana dispensaries to sell recreational pot between July 1 and January 1, 2018 when licensing regulations will be completed.

Read Daily News article here.

It’s hot in Phoenix… Naturally

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Natural Southwest heat causes propaganda to rise like the Phoenix.

It’s hot in the American Southwest.

So hot that airlines have been delaying flights for their smaller planes, waiting for cooler, denser air to provide better lift.

Yet you can’t have a heat wave without warming campaigners coming out of the woodwork to proclaim it evidence of “climate change.”

The Southwest is broiling. Are you paying attention, President Trump?” asks Jill Filipovic at CNN.

The Atlantic asks, “Did climate change ground flights in Phoenix?” and concludes, “Yes, but it didn’t act alone.”

This is nonsense.  We shared more examples at CFACT.org.

Despite the media hype, these sizzling temperatures are historically normal.  The all-time high temperature for Phoenix of 122 degrees F has stood since June 26, 1990.

Did manmade global warming play a significant role in this recent Arizona heat wave? Almost assuredly not.

The small amount of warming that took place last century, well within range of natural variation, is simply too small.  Even after activist scientists got done fiddling with the data, the most warming they could come up with were amounts of less than one degree Celsius above the global temperature baseline.

Only in the surreal world of climate modeling is manmade global warming shown to be an evil, threatening menace. Fortunately we live on a real Earth, not a computer derived-one like in the film The Matrix.

How much cooler would Phoenix be had Americans never built factories and power plants or driven SUVs?

The question is absurd.

So is attributing hot desert weather to global warming in a world that hasn’t experienced any meaningful warming this century.

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Dear 0 for 4 Democrats

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During the unconstitutional eight-year reign of Barack Obama, your party lost over a thousand governmental seats nationwide. You lost numerous governorships and state legislatures, some for the first time since the Civil War. You lost the U.S. House, the U.S. Senate and the White House… You also lost the trust of average working stiff Americans across the country.

Since then, you have lost four of four special elections as of Georgia’s 6th House District on June 20, despite record campaign spending and Republicans shooting themselves by running a dozen GOP primary candidates. Maybe it’s time for some introspective thought…

Can you become an “American” party again?

While socialist Bernie Sanders and his fans insist that your party must shift even further towards global Marxism, away from American principles and values of national sovereignty, security and individual liberty, maybe you should actually consider becoming an “American” party again…

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” – Declaration of Independence

How did your party drift so far away from the most fundamental American precepts?

We hold these truths to be self-evident? You think everything is subjective in nature and driven by political agenda alone. Nothing seems “self-evident” to you. Everything must be decided by an unelected and unaccountable oligarchy of lifetime political appointees or their surrogates downstream. Even the most obvious truths are rejected by you, when those truths do not suit your agenda.

That all men are created equal? According to you, this is not so. Some are created less than equal, namely your laundry list of less than equal special interest voting blocs, that you labeled “minority” groups with special rights to help make them “equal.”

That they are endowed by their Creator? You folks don’t even believe that any of us were created. You think we evolved from apes, or birds or fish. You not only refuse to acknowledge that there is a Creator, you attempt to block all public discussion of relative foundational doctrines within our Founding documents, especially in your re-education system.

With certain inalienable Rights? You openly deny that all Rights are “natural rights” endowed by that Creator and insist that our rights are alienable by men in congress and your British Common Law courts – ignoring entirely the following from our Declaration – “to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them…” – In your “world view,” all rights come from you and none are inalienable by you, as a result.

That among these are Life? The womb was once the safest place on earth for any infant child, but thanks to you folks, it is now statistically the most dangerous place on earth for any American child. You fail huge in the “right to Life” department! You own the “right to kill” agenda.

Liberty? Your party is even worse on individual Liberty than it is on the inalienable right to Life itself, if that’s possible. You have turned every federal asset intended to protect and defend the American people and the American way of life, against these people and their inalienable right to individual Liberty. You have replaced the right to individual Liberty with your right to take Liberty from some for the alleged benefit of others, enslaving both in that process.

The pursuit of Happiness? Your idea of happiness is undermining Constitutionally protected freedom, liberty, sovereignty and security for the American people with the pursuit of happiness for people in our country illegally, and the greater good of the global commune.

Your party has not only failed the American people in all of these basic precepts, you have become overtly destructive of these ends…

Can your Party become American again?

My opinion is, NO… you can’t. Your party is too far gone. Not only is it no longer of any use to the American people, it is an active agent for the global commune and destructive of all things American.

Because the American people have soundly rejected you and your anti-American ideas in election after election after election, you now employ “jihad” war tactics of targeting innocent unarmed Americans in soft zones like a baseball field, college campuses, inner city markets and malls. You provide aid and comfort to our enemies at the expense of American lives. Your entire party has become treasonous against the American people!

Because you have so completely failed all Americans in your anti-American pursuit of “social justice” for every non-citizen seeking to bring harm to America, including through your so-called “refugee resettlement” program for jihadists, your party is now on the brink of extinction.

Still, you don’t seem to get it! (Some Republicans don’t get it either)

It’s quite simple really…

  • When asked to protect human life, you protect the right to kill instead
  • When asked to protect Americans, you protect illegal aliens instead
  • When asked to protect our national sovereignty, you build a global commune instead
  • When asked to protect our borders, you attempt to erase our borders instead
  • When asked to uphold and enforce our constitutional laws, you seek to undermine them instead
  • When asked to protect our economy, you outsource our economy to benefit others instead
  • When asked to protect our 1st and 2nd Amendments, you attack them instead
  • When asked to respect the 10th Amendment, you act as if it doesn’t exist instead

I could keep going with this list for several pages, but hopefully, you can see your problem here. You are 180-degrees opposite of our founding principles and values and every American citizen. I’m shocked you can get any votes at all today, anywhere in America. If not for your dumbing-down efforts through your Common Core public re-education system and your mind-control over the weakest among us, you wouldn’t get a single vote anywhere.

So, what now for you?

If you allow the Bernie Sanders of the world to push your party even further left, that will be the final death of your party in this country. It’s over at that point… You should see that clearly by now, though I doubt that you do. Your collective heads have been fried, turned inside-out. You couldn’t be more backwards if your life depended on it.

Your only option for party survival at this late date is to purge your party of all anti-American global Marxists and rebuild from the ground up on American foundations. You don’t have any other options…

The odds that you will do this are worse than your 0 for 4 record in recent special elections. It’s time for the Democratic Party to join the ash-heap of history. Your future is hopeless in America. Voters across the political spectrum are no longer manipulated by your anti-American rhetoric or your campaigns based on nothing more than unfounded character assassination of your opponents.

It’s time for America to move beyond the Democratic Party of yesterday and towards a new second Party based on American principles and values. You really screwed up!

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Handel wins handily, Democrats 0 for 4, pollsters wrong again

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In an article titled Heavily Funded Democrat Falls Short as Georgia House Seat Stays Republican The Daily Signal’s Rachel del Guidice reports:

Republican Karen Handel soundly defeated Democrat Jon Ossoff in Tuesday’s closely watched, historically expensive race for the congressional seat once held by GOP superstar Newt Gingrich.

Handel, 55, a businesswoman who was Georgia’s secretary of state, had 127,021 votes or 53 percent with 99 percent of precincts reporting.

Ossoff, 30, a documentary filmmaker and former congressional aide who does not live in the House district, had 114,390 votes or 47 percent.

Polls had the race going down to the wire.

Ossoff out spent Handel by a margin of 7 to 1 and lost by 6%. Ossoff spent $200 for every vote he received. It’s the message not the money. President Trump’s message resonates as do his tweets supporting Handel. Presidential tweets cost Republicans nothing but win elections.

Additionally, conservative businessman Ralph Norman (R-SC) defeated liberal Archie Parnell (D-SC) in the special election for Congress in South Carolina’s 5th district.

There are four takeaway points from these four races:

  1. Trump and his make America great again agenda is a winner for Republicans.
  2. Money is no longer king when it comes to winning elections.
  3. The political pollsters still can’t get it right when it comes to predicting election outcomes.
  4. The Democrat Party is in big trouble and needs to rethink what it is doing at the local level. They are out of touch and out of office.

“This is a huge win for conservatives,” Cole Muzio, president of the Family Policy Alliance of Georgia, told The Daily Signal in an email. “A record-setting fundraising haul, busloads of out-of-state volunteers, and national unity around Jon Ossoff could not convince Georgians to vote against their own interests.”

There have been four hotly contested special elections where Democrats have lost. They have lost because voters are voting “in their own interests.” It’s the economy stupid, not Russia.

This race is just another indicator that President Trump’s agenda is in tune with voters. The question is will the Republican congress deliver on repealing and replacing Obamacare, lower taxes, eliminate the regulatory burden on businesses and build the wall.

If Republicans do what they promised the 2018 midterm elections will see America turn deep red.

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EDITORS NOTE: The featured image is of Republican candidate Karen Handel thanking supporters in Atlanta as the first returns come in Tuesday night in her win over Democrat Jon Ossoff in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District. (Photo: Curtis Compton/TNS /Newscom)

Mark Steyn on Tucker Carlson: ‘The Left wants to prevent debate from taking place’

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Mark Steyn discusses a frequent preoccupation of this site, the growing authoritarianism and thuggishness of the Left (and Leftists’ Islamic supremacist allies). They don’t want to debate, and probably know in their heart of hearts that they would lose any debate, and so instead they are increasingly moving to crush all dissent.

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Good riddance to the Russia myth — and blame Team Obama for promoting it

Hillary 2.0

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Hillary Clinton’s political career is finally dead (we hope)…..but now we brace for the rise of Chelsea Clinton. More Clinton corruption guaranteed.

VIDEO: Banned documentary on anti-Semitism in Europe posted on internet

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Elder of Zion has published parts of a German documentary on anti-Semitism in the EU. Elder of Zion reports:

A chunk of the documentary on European antisemitism that was barred from being shown on TV has been translated and subtitles added, by the Vlad Tepes blog.

Here are the three parts released so far:

Today is the UN-designated World Refugee Day

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The first World Refugee Day was held on June 20th, 2001 (3 months before 9/11) and it is used as a focal point, for open borders activists and leftwing media, around which to organize a political message.  So, you have probably noticed many stories in the last few days about the need for more third world peoples to be admitted to the first world.

Just to give you an idea, there are pages and pages of World Refugee Day logos like these around which to build propaganda campaigns (to guilt trip the West, especially the US, to take in more third worlders).

You likely know, but here (below) is a handy graphic to confirm that the US takes the majority of the refugees that the UNHCR is selecting for western countries from their camps. (BTW, recently a Somali man wrote to me to tell me about the fraud in a UN camp in Africa where people were being paid off to move certain applications to the front of the line. Of course, I have no way of verifying this.)

If you are scratching your head and saying, but doesn’t Germany take the most? the answer is that Germany is being flooded by ‘asylum seekers’ and economic migrants who have gone there on their own steam.  They are not considered third country refugee resettlement cases.

Germany will presumably sort through the hundreds of thousands of Africans and Middle Easterners and make a determination about how many will be given permanent residence as legitimate refugees and ultimately citizenship.

Favorite Open Borders talking point: small neighboring countries (to Syria) take more refugees.

When you see stories about Turkey (I’m posting one shortly) and their millions (?) of Syrian refugees, remember those are NOT people going to be granted permanent resident (citizenship) status in Turkey, likewise those in Lebanon or Jordan will not become voting citizens of those countries.

Resettled UNHCR refugees will be given citizenship in the country in which they are placed, so for this the United States is destination number one!

See here, from IRIN:

According also to IRIN yesterday, Canada is going to take up some of the 2017 slack that meany Donald Trump is supposedly responsible for.

Go for it Justin, let’s just make sure our northern border is secure!