VIDEO: The Myth That the U.S. Leads the World in Mass Shootings

To understand the misleading narrative, we must look to the era of narrative-driven journalism and the politicization of society, both of which subjugate truth to ideology and politics.


If you asked me this morning which nation has the most mass shootings in the world, I would have said, with perhaps a flicker of hesitation, the United States.

This is a tad embarrassing to admit because I’m pretty familiar with shooting statistics, having written several articles on gun violence and the Second Amendment. Below is a basic overview of gun violence in America. While gun homicides have been steadily declining for decades in the US, mass shootings have indeed been trending upward.

This fact alone probably would not have led me to believe that the US leads the world in mass shootings, however. An assist goes to the US media and politicians.

“Let’s be clear,” President Obama said in 2015 after a shooting in North Carolina. “At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries.”

Sen. Harry Reid echoed this sentiment. “The United States is the only advanced country where this kind of mass violence occurs.”

Media headlines have left little doubt that the US leads the world in mass shootings. In fact, according to CNN, it isn’t even close.

The comments and data seem to conclusively say that the US leads the world in mass shootings and the violence is unique, a product of “America’s gun culture.”

It’s a slam dunk case except for one thing: it’s not true.

The Root of the Myth

Statistics on global mass shooting incidents from 2009 to 2015 compiled by economist John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center show that the US trails many other advanced nations in mass shooting frequency and death rate.

As Investor’s Business Daily noted on these findings, “Yes, the U.S. rate is still high, and nothing to be proud of. But it’s not the highest in the developed world. Not by a long shot.”

If this is true, how did the narrative that the US leads the world in mass shootings become the conventional wisdom? The myth, it turns out, stems from University of Alabama associate professor Adam Lankford.

Lankford’s name pops up in a montage of media reports which cite his research as evidence that America leads the world in mass shootings. The violence, Lankford said, stems from the high rate of gun ownership in America.

“The difference between us and other countries, [which] explains why we have more of these attackers, was the firearm ownership rate,” Lankford said. “In other words: firearms per capita. We have almost double the firearm ownership rate of any other country.”

Lankford’s findings show that there were 90 mass public shooters in America since 1966, the most in the world, which had a total of 202. But Lott, using Lankford’s definition of a mass shooting—“four or more people killed”—found more than 3,000 such shootings, John Stossel recently reported.

When findings do not mesh, scholars, in pursuit of truth, generally compare notes, data, and methodology to find out how they reached their conclusions. After all, who is to say Lankford doesn’t have it right and Lott is wrong? There’s just one problem: Lankford isn’t talking.

Lankford refuses to explain his data to anyone—to Stossel, to Lott, to the Washington Post, and apparently anyone else who comes asking, including this writer. (I emailed Lankford inquiring about his research. He declined to discuss his methodology, but said he would be publishing more information about mass shooting data in the future.)

“That’s academic malpractice,” Lott tells Stossel.

[Editor’s Note: Lankford has since published his research. It can be found here.]

Indeed it is. Yet, it doesn’t explain how one professor’s research was so rapidly disseminated that its erroneous claim quickly became the conventional wisdom in a country with 330 million people.

Truth versus Narrative

For that, we must look to the era of narrative-driven journalism and the politicization of society, both of which subjugate truth to ideology and politics. Media and politicians latched onto Lankford’s findings in droves because his findings were convenient, not because they were true.

This is an unsettling and ill omen for liberty. As Lawrence Reed has observed, the road to authoritarianism is paved with a “careless, cavalier, and subjective attitude toward truth.” Yet that is precisely what we see with increasing frequency in mass media. (Need I reference the Covington debacle and the Smollet hoax?)

More than a hundred years ago Mark Twain noted, “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

Twain’s quote remains true even in the age of the internet. Lankford’s erroneous research had free rein for two years and was disseminated to tens of millions of viewers and readers before the truth finally got its shoes on.

If you ask most Americans today which country leads the world in mass shootings, I suspect a vast majority would say the US. And there’s always a price for the erosion of truth.

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Jon Miltimore

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VIDEO: Texas Freeze Shuts Down ‘Renewable’ Power

Texas is experiencing a serious deep freeze which is causing people to lose power.

Texas investors larded their state with solar panels and wind turbines to rake in federal subsidies and tax credits.  Wind and solar are not only inefficient, a cold snap can shut them down all together.

CFACT’s Marc Morano discussed the Texas freeze with Tucker Carlson on Fox News last night:

“Warren Buffett famously said years ago that there’s no reason to build windmills without the tax breaks and without the subsidies… the same thing’s happening in Germany by the way right now Tucker. Their solar panels are covered in snow and Germans are freezing through winter much the way Texans are.  Who would have thought this would have happened in Texas?  But this is what we’re dealing with. And Biden now wants to nationalize this plan of the less than four percent that comes from solar and wind and make it our chief go-to energy source.”

After generations of striving, America at last achieved energy independence.  Forcing America to abandon efficient energy sources such as natural gas and nuclear power and pushing them instead to wind and solar which can’t deliver is a tragic mistake.

As Marc told Tucker Carlson:

“We were in a position where we weren’t just independent, we were dominant. We had our own domestic energy. So the Green New Deal is going to swap that for a reliance on solar and wind and electric cars which, by the way, are going to be using rare earth minerals from China — 90% of which dominates things like cobalt copper, nickel. And we’re going to now be reliant on China for these rare earth minerals to make these unreliable solar and wind power batteries!  So the Green New Deal is lose, lose, lose all the way.  We’re seeing it unfold in Texas like we’ve seen it unfold in California.”

Europe and Australia have already proven that forcing people to subsidize wind and solar energy raises prices for consumers while making energy grids unreliable.

It only took a little cold and snow to show that you can’t depend on them in Texas either.

Relying on wind and solar to power the grid is always a mistake.   Don’t count on the Biden Administration figuring that out.

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Utah Parents Push Back Against the Transgender Agenda – and Win

A group of Utah parents have prompted a review of an “equity book program” in their local school district after a teacher read a book favorable to transgenderism to a class of third-graders. The book, “Call Me Max”, written by transgender-identified author Kyle Lukoff, follows the story of a girl wanting to be seen as a boy.

The book is a transparent attempt to make children comfortable with the idea of changing gender. According to the book’s description, it is “a sweet and age-appropriate introduction to what it means to be transgender.”

Some parents, however, saw the book as an attempt to indoctrinate their children into a false view of gender and sex.

To their credit, they did something — and their actions have made a difference.

According to a report by KTLA, the Murray School District has paused the equity book program and is now conducting a review of all the books in the program. “Call Me Max” was not part of the school’s equity book program, but was read in a class when a student brought it from home.

Parents can be discouraged from raising concerns about curriculum in their schools for a couple reasons.

First, a lot of LGBT propaganda is often packaged with other content that is not objectionable.

Only two books on the list appear to be directly about the LGBTQ community. One of those is for fifth graders about the work of Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials in the United States. The other is for sixth graders and titled “Rainbow Revolutionaries: 50 LGBTQ+ People Who Made History.”

In addition to two LGBT books, the Murray School District equity book program includes books from black and Hispanic authors that give children a window into people and experiences they may not be able to understand. Not only is it not a problem for young children to be reading about the life and work of Frederick Douglass, it’s valuable.

But when good literature is packaged with bad literature as part of an “equity” curriculum, parents who object to the bad literature are likely to be portrayed as being opposed to the good literature as well. Sadly, in our current culture, being misunderstood is simply part of opposing bad policies and bad ideas.

Second, much of the problematic curriculum in schools is presented as “anti-bullying” curriculum. For many on the Left, the only way to solve the serious and tragic challenges of children who identify as LGBT is to create a world in which everyone affirms their identities and choices.

For Christians, that isn’t an option. But there can still be common ground because everyone wants to stop bullying. But even if we have the same goal, conflict will arise if our tactics are different. Some believe the best way to stop bullying is to encourage kindness and develop an atmosphere of respect despite differences. Others, however, believe the best way to stop bullying is to eliminate our differences and require conformity to a single set of beliefs.

When you engage with people who believe the solution to bullying is creating a world in which everyone believes the same things, conflict is inevitable. But it’s still worth it. It’s worth it because as parents, we aren’t fighting for our reputation or our social standing, we are fighting for the minds and hearts of our kids.

Besides, the world our kids are growing up in is going to require some courage. The pressure they face to conform and surrender will likely be much stronger than anything we faced. Their job will be made much easier if, in their moments of decision, they can be encouraged by the times they saw mom and dad do the right things even when it was going to be hard.

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Joseph Backholm

Senior Fellow for Biblical Worldview and Strategic Engagement

Joseph Backholm is Senior Fellow for Biblical Worldview and Strategic Engagement at Family Research Council. He combines extensive legal, political, and policy experience with a love for the way biblical truth cultivates human flourishing.

Previously, Mr. Backholm served as legal counsel and Director of What Would You Say? at the Colson Center for Christian Worldview where he developed and launched a growing platform that creates short, animated videos answering common questions about faith and culture. His YouTube career began as a self-identified “6’5 Chinese Woman” in a series of YouTube videos exploring the logic of gender identity.

He served as a legislative attorney for three years and spent 10 years as the President and General Counsel of the Family Policy Institute of Washington in Washington State where he managed educational, legislative, and electoral operations on behalf of life, marriage, religious freedom, and parental rights. He led three ballot initiatives on marriage and gender privacy.

He is a Washington State native who loves travel, sports, and whatever his kids are into. Joseph received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington and his law degree from Seattle University. He and his wife Brook have four children.

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Green Energy Leaves America Out in the Cold in More Ways Than One

February gave Texas the cold shoulder this weekend as an extreme winter storm pounded the entire state. As of this morning, power had not been restored to more than 4 million Texans. Hundreds of thousands have also lost water after the water treatment plants in Fort Worth, Abilene, and elsewhere suffered power outages. A handful of deaths from the cold have already been reported, although we may not know the true toll until the state digs itself out.

Prolonged power outages are always life-threatening for the sick and elderly, but are made worse by freezing temperatures. In subtropical Houston, temperatures dipped into the teens, while temperatures around Dallas plunged toward zero this morning. Residents have reported temperatures inside their homes are in the 30s and 40s, and they still have no power.

Economically speaking, the catastrophe was caused because power demand peaked as power production plummeted. But what role did lack of preparation and an over-reliance on so-called green energy play? The state had planned to implement 45-minute, rolling blackouts — because those always work so well for California — but was forced instead to cut power to entire regions for extended periods. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, responsible for running the state’s power grid, reported 30,000 megawatts of power generation went offline. For context, they also reported that nearly 70,000 megawatts of power was demanded, a new winter record.

If you believe NPR, most of the outages are at “facilities run by gas, coal or nuclear energy,” a narrative they’ve repeated over and over. Those reports are “false,” according to the Texas Public Policy Foundation. They pointed out gas, coal, or nuclear power plants work just fine in parts of the world much colder than Texas. The real problem, they said, is the state’s reliance on nearly 20,000 megawatts of wind and solar power. Wind power generation bottomed out at 2 percent, creating a system failure that knocked other plants offline, too.

It turns out green energy performs poorly in white-out conditions. This should come as no surprise. National Review’s John Fund pointed out that winter storms freeze wind turbines, and snow blankets disable solar panels. The Center for the American Experiment calculated that, during freezing conditions, wind turbines are a net loss of power because even when they are unable to produce power, they have to consume it to run electric heaters to keep the oil in their housing from freezing.

The lesson here is that green energy production is least available when it is needed most. Even if, by some miracle, America achieves 100 percent renewable energy production, we will need gas, coal, and nuclear-generated power as a backup for when wind and solar generation inevitably goes offline. Advocates believe that renewable energy can be stored in batteries to be used when needed, but the Texas Public Policy Foundation said batteries are an “impractical and expensive” solution. In Texas alone, they estimate the state would need more than 1,000 times its current battery capacity.

While Americans slowly freeze in their homes, President Biden in his first month in office has already aggressively restricted the fossil fuels that could keep them warm. He has revoked the Keystone Pipeline permit, restricted drilling offshore and in Alaska, and closed public lands to fracking. All this is done with an eye towards expanding green energy production. In fact, White House climate czar John Kerry inanely suggested pipeline workers who lost their jobs could make solar panels. But when energy matters most, renewables just can’t cut it. Americans will be forced to rely on foreign dictators to export the oil that will heat their homes. This is simply unacceptable. There is little chance that Americans will warm up to President Biden’s environmental policies.

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Essay in The Nation Calls For ‘Blue-State Secession’

In an essay published on Wednesday titled “The Case for Blue-State Secession,” the longtime leftwing magazine The Nation presents the case for a “blue-state secession,” claiming it is “the only way to ensure democracy and equal justice” for all citizens.

CUNY Professor Nathan Newman argues in the essay that despite “demands for secession by red-state leaders and conservative commentators” it is actually blue states that possess “the real case” for secession. American politics “systematically tilts money and power to smaller and more conservative states,” Newman claims, which undermines “the interests of the majority of the population.”

“Given the undemocratic power of the Senate to entrench its own minority rule, the threat of secession is the only viable route to restoring democracy and equal justice, not just for blue-state residents but for Americans in all 50 states who are hurt by our undemocratic political system,” he adds.

Ticking off a list of some of the left’s favorite issues, Newman complains that presidents are chosen by the Electoral College rather than the popular vote; that “white supremacy” grants flyover states like Wyoming disproportionate voting power; and that red states are holding back a full-on national commitment to combating “climate change” and racial inequality.

“If secession seems extreme, it’s no more so than the millions of undocumented families fearing forcible separation by ICE,” Newman blathers. “It’s no more extreme than the steadily rising economic and racial inequality we face. And it’s definitely no more extreme than the body count we face from climate change.”

Perhaps Newman is onto something. Considering that blue states like California are fast becoming unlivable, third-world countries under Democrat rule and are hell-bent on doubling down on their disastrous policies, many conservatives would happily cut those states loose in order to make America great again.


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Founded in 1865 by politically radical abolitionists, The Nation is the oldest weekly magazine in the United States and the farthest Left of all popular American magazines.

According to David HorowitzThe Nation “supported every Communist dictator in their heyday — Stalin, Mao, Fidel, Ho, even Pol Pot – and on every issue involving conflict between the United States and any of its sworn enemies during the Cold War, invariably tilted towards (and often actively sided with) the enemy side.”

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BLM Violent Riot Expert John Sullivan Was Paid by CNN and NBC for His Films of Capitol Riot

And while the likes of yours truly*** and other conservatives are suspended or banned at Twitter, a judge agreed with  Sullivan’s defense attorney who said it was too much punishment if Sullivan was banned from using social media like Facebook and Twitter because as his defense attorney argued that such a prohibtion was “wildly excessive and insensitive to the role that Facebook and Twitter play in the lives of many young people.”

It is how they reach their friends, he whined.

Here is Politico trying so hard to white wash Sullivan’s Black Lives Matter instigator role at the US Capitol on January 6th.

Remember this:

“Let’s burn this shit down!”

Judge refuses to ban Capitol riot suspect from Twitter and Facebook

A federal magistrate judge has turned down prosecutors’ effort to block a man accused of participating in the Capitol riot from using Twitter and Facebook, but ordered him to end his involvement with a business he founded that the Justice Department says promotes and glorifies violent protests.

The defendant, John Sullivan of Utah, has maintained that he attends raucous demonstrations as a journalist, sharing videos through his Insurgence USA website and social media platforms. Sullivan’s defense attorney even filed invoices with the court showing that CNN and NBC each paid Sullivan’s firm $35,000 last month for rights to video he filmed of chaotic scenes outside and inside the Capitol, including the deadly shooting of protester Ashli Babbitt by a U.S. Capitol Police officer.

[….]

Sullivan’s politics remain murky. He has described himself as an opponent of Trump and a backer of Black Lives Matter. However, BLM activists in Utah have disowned him, saying he seemed intent on provoking violence at protests.

[….]

However, prosecutors contend that Sullivan is not a mere bystander or chronicler of protests. Instead, they say, he actively encourages violence, telling viewers how to make Molotov cocktails and evade identification by police. He was arrested last month on charges stemming from the Jan. 6 riot, including interfering with police during a civil disorder. Sullivan was later hit with an additional charge: obstruction of Congress.

At a hearing on Tuesday afternoon on Sullivan’s release conditions, Washington-based Magistrate Judge Robin Meriweather split the difference between prosecutors seeking to eliminate Sullivan’s presence on the United States’ most popular social media platforms and a defense lawyer who decried what he said was an assault on his client’s constitutional rights.

“I am rejecting the broader prohibition on Twitter and Facebook and encrypted social media platforms,” Meriweather said, also ordering that Sullivan be taken off of 24-hour location monitoring via GPS.

He is just hanging out at home chatting with his friends on Twitter and Facebook, etc.

However, the judge said Sullivan “is to no longer work for Insurgence USA,” will have his internet use monitored by probation officials, and will be banned from using any social media platforms to incite riots, violent protests, armed conflict or violence. He’s also under home detention.

More here.

For me the fundamental question is why had no one (Pelosi, McConnell) asked for National Guard troops to arrive before January 6th when supposedly the FBI knew in advance that violence was planned for the 6th.

I don’t know which is more frightening: either the FBI didn’t know in advance, or FBI warnings were ignored. 

*** Get this!  My Twitter account is suspended because I refused to give them more information about myself.

So, naturally, I figured since it is suspended and they have removed all of my followers, I would simply quit and delete my account.

Guess what!  I am not permitted to “deactivate” my account because I am suspended.  

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Gina Carano is an American Hero

To the long list of American corporations that are hostile towards conservatives, add Disney and LucasFilm. If anyone doubted the censorious leftward bias of these entertainment juggernauts, that doubt was removed on February 10, when they fired Gina Carano, who played Cara Dune on The Mandalorian.

As reported in Gizmodo, a Lucasfilm spokesperson said “Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future. Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.”

“Denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities.”

It’s pretty easy to attract that accusation these days, so what were Carano’s offenses? Here are a few of the most noteworthy:

Back in September 2020, Carano wrote on Twitter “They’re mad cuz I won’t put pronouns in my bio to show my support for trans lives. After months of harassing me in every way, I decided to put three VERY controversial words in my bio.. beep/bop/boop. I’m not against trans lives at all. They need to find less abusive representation.”

A few weeks earlier, in August, Carano posted onto Twitter a photo of a crowd of WWII era Germans with their right arms extended in the Nazi salute. The photo included one person, circled in red, whose arm was not extended.

Then on November 5, Carano posted on Twitter the following: “We need to clean up the election process so we are not left feeling the way we do today. Put laws in place that protect us against voter fraud. Investigate every state. Film the counting. Flush out the fake votes. Require ID. Make Voter Fraud end in 2020. Fix the system.”

Carano followed up with a Tweet on November 14 that featured an image with a satirical message, “Democratic Government Leaders now recommend we all wear blindfolds along with masks so we can’t see what’s really going on”

But the last straw came on February 10, when Carano tweeted the following: “Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors…even by children. Because history is edited, most people today don’t realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews. How is that any different from hating someone for their political views?”

And for all this, Carano was cancelled.

But nothing she did deserves cancellation. Carano offended trans activists that were being abusive and unreasonable to demand she post “gender pronouns” by her name. She questioned the integrity of the election because of what over a hundred million Americans would agree was, if not widespread fraud, then grossly unfair conduct.

And then she pointed out that only after political hatred is nurtured at the grassroots can it explode into organized genocide. She’s right. People who condemn her for this observation are either missing the point or are themselves the dangerous political fanatics Carano is warning us about.

Gina Carano is a fearless rebel and a free thinker. She is already landing on her feet. We wish her well, and proudly add her to the Winston84 directory.

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France Leading the West Against American Wokeism

In this terrible, morally inverted world the Democrats have deconstructed for us, the French are exposing American immorality, oppression and disunity.

France Might Yet Lead the West Against Wokeism

President Macron of France has now warned his countrymen of the menace of American academic and media “woke” thinking and of identity politics as a formula for social oppression and disunity.

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Comey email reveals FBI, DOJ made ‘premeditated effort to dislodge’ President Trump from office

The Justice Department and FBI engaged in a “premeditated effort to dislodge the duly elected president of the United States.

No one has been charged, no one has been jailed for this ‘insurrection.’

Comey email reveals FBI, DOJ made ‘premeditated effort to dislodge’ Trump from office: Gaetz

Florida Republican claims Trump was ‘set up … on the Russia hoax’ with ‘rotten information’

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Email reveals FBI couldn’t ‘sufficiently corroborate’ Steele dossier

The Justice Department and FBI engaged in a “premeditated effort to dislodge the duly elected president of the United States,” Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., charged Monday on “Hannity.”

Gaetz was responding to a report published earlier Monday by Just the News which revealed that on Jan. 12, 2017, then-FBI Director James Comey had emailed then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and said that the FBI was “not able to sufficiently corroborate the reporting” in the now-infamous Steele dossier. The email was sent the same day Comey signed a FISA surveillance warrant that declared Steele’s reporting as verified.

“Not only did our own Justice Department set up the president on the Russia hoax, they did it with rotten information and they knew the information was rotten when they did it.”

Despite this new evidence, Gaetz told host Sean Hannity it is unlikely the Biden administration will hold anyone to account.

“You know, I know, and all of the viewers know that there’s not going to be accountability under the Biden Justice Department,” Gaetz alleged, “because none of the career people there think the way to move up in the Biden Justice Department is to expose the Russia hoax. Instead they’re going to be targeting the President [Trump], his family members and the supporters of the America First movement.”

Hannity, Gaetz and former House Oversight Committee chair Jason Chaffetz also discussed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s failure to secure the Capitol ahead of the Jan. 6 riot and the ongoing lockdown in the nation’s Capitol despite the lack of an ongoing threat.

“She’s been charge for years,” said Chaffetz, “She hasn’t learned how to protect herself, members of Congress, the Capitol complex. The National Guard was ready to go, why didn’t those things happen?

“The Speaker is running out of excuses,” Chaffetz added. “She has surrounded the United States Capitol with a fence and a wall, but at the same time Biden and the administration is getting rid of the wall on the Southern border.”

“Let me caution against leaning too hard into the ‘What did Nancy Pelosi know and when did she know it?’ narrative,” Gaetz warned. “I don’t want to give the Democrats any more of a basis to be able to have this forever occupation of Washington, D.C.”

He added: “We now have a capital city wrapped in barbed wire, crisscrossed in barricades and it is not what our country deserves. So let’s not help Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats build a predicate for that extended occupation.”

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Woke At Last: Indiana’s Valparaiso University Cancels Crusader Nickname and Mascot

Our long national nightmare is over: all decent, properly woke people will be relieved and grateful that the one-time bastion of racism and Islamophobia in Indiana, Valparaiso University, is dropping its Crusader nickname and mascot. According to Valparaiso’s interim president Colette Irwin-Knott, “the negative connotation and violence associated with the Crusader imagery are not reflective of Valpo’s mission and values, which promote a welcoming and inclusive community. This is the decision that best reflects our values and community.” Yes, of course. Everyone knows that defending Western civilization, and being proud of those who did so, is out of the question these days. Nothing could be more unwoke.

Valparaiso student president Kaitlyn Steinhiser elaborated on the decision by saying: “The Crusader does not [represent the university] effectively. Valpo is and always has been a faith-based institution, and we want to make sure our symbolism is in alignment with our beliefs and speaks to the core values of the Lutheran ethos. At Valpo, we strive to seek truth, serve generously and cultivate hope. We do not believe having the Crusader as our mascot portrays these values.”

In any case, all this shame over the Crusader name, and expiating renunciation, is completely unwarranted. As The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS shows from primary sources, the Crusades were not, as the good people at Valparaiso University evidently assume, an unprovoked exercise of racist proto-colonialism directed against a peaceful Muslim world.

The Crusades were in reality a late, small-scale defensive response after 450 years of jihad attacks had conquered and Islamicized what had previously been over half of the Christian world.

Armies animated by the jihad ideology (or that eventually justified their actions by recourse to it) had occupied much of the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain — as well as Persia and much of India — centuries before a Crusade was even contemplated. They had entered France and besieged Constantinople, the capital of the Christian Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, several times.

The Seljuk Turks’ victory over the Byzantines at Manzikert in 1071, when they took the Emperor Romanus IV Diogenes prisoner, opened all of Asia Minor to them. In 1076, they conquered Syria; in 1077, Jerusalem. The Seljuk Emir Atsiz bin Uwaq promised not to harm the inhabitants of Jerusalem, but once his men had entered the city, they murdered 3,000 people.

That same year, the Seljuks established the sultanate of Rum (Rome, referring to the New Rome, Constantinople) in Nicaea, perilously close to Constantinople itself; from there they continued to threaten the Byzantines and harass the Christians all over their new domains. The Byzantine Empire, which before Islam’s wars of conquest had ruled over a vast expanse including southern Italy, North Africa, the Middle East, and Arabia, was reduced to little more than Greece. It looked as if its demise at the hands of the Seljuks was imminent.

The Church of Constantinople considered the Pope a schismatic and had squabbled with him for centuries, but the new Byzantine Emperor Alexius I Comnenus swallowed his pride and appealed for help.

And that is how the First Crusade came about: it was a response to the Byzantine Emperor’s call for help against Muslim invaders who threatened to destroy the Christian empire.

It is undeniable that the Crusaders committed many atrocities. So did their jihadi opponents. But in the main, the Crusader endeavor was not an exercise in imperialism or racism, but an attempt to protect Christians from jihad attacks.

So why shouldn’t Valparaiso University have a Crusader mascot and take pride in its own culture and heritage? Because that culture is spent, and weak, and confused, and anxious to appease a much more confident alternative culture that regards the Crusades as an affront.

The West continues its cultural self-abnegation in the face of the chimera of “Islamophobia” — a propaganda neologism designed to make people ashamed of defending themselves and their homeland against a newly aggressive Islamic jihad.

Valparaiso University is not alone. The rush to disavow any connection to Crusaders is part of a larger tendency to remain in denial about the jihad aggression that threatens so many in the world today. It manifests an acceptance of the Islamic view of history — which has been aggressively thrust upon the West in recent decades — that blames the origin of conflict between Muslims and Christians upon the evil Crusaders despite the timeline that proves this false.

At a time when the Crusaders’ ancient jihadi foes are newly invigorated and more aggressive than they have been for centuries, this cultural self-hatred is a recipe for disaster.

And as an aside, it’s interesting to note that Valparaiso University is dropping its nickname because it evidently thinks it glorifies the Crusaders, while the Cleveland Indians and Washington Redskins, and others have dropped or are in the process of dropping theirs because they think they’re demeaning to Native Americans. So are sports nicknames a sign of approval or of hatred and ridicule? The answer all depends on what will give you the most woke outcome.

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Everett Stern, Famed Whistleblower, Announces Run For United States Senate

WEST CHESTER, Pa./PRNewswire/ — Everett Stern, a famed whistleblower who has spent a career exposing fraud and corruption and bringing to light the presence of dangerous fringe groups in America, announced today that he is a candidate for the United States Senate.  Stern, 36, a Republican, is running for the seat being vacated by Senator Pat Toomey in 2022.

“Protecting and defending the interests of the United States of America is my life’s passion and the central purpose of my career,” Stern said.  “Now I want to take that dedication to the United States Senate and be a relentless voice for the benefit of the people of Pennsylvania.”

Stern is the founder and CEO of private intelligence agency Tactical Rabbit.  Part of the company’s work has included gathering inside information on radical political groups including the anti-law enforcement group FTP and the white supremacist organization Sovereign American.  Intelligence gathered by Stern’s efforts was passed on to federal law enforcement.

In 2011, Everett Stern gained international notoriety when he brought to light the illegal efforts of his then-employer, HSBC Bank, to launder money and assist nations involved in supporting terrorism and drug trafficking.  Stern’s work resulted in the bank being fined a record almost two billion dollars.

“The people of Pennsylvania deserve a leader who will fight for them against the most powerful special interests, the most entrenched politicians, and a corrupt system whose leaders have forgotten that they answer to the people,” Stern said.  “There’s never been a time when bold, unafraid new leadership has been more badly needed.”

For more information on Everett Stern, please visit his campaign website, www.everettstern.com.

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PODCAST: Who Is Filling Biden’s Cabinet?

I was recently talking to old friend Rick Trader of the Conservative Commandos Radio show regarding President Biden’s cabinet picks. This caused me to dig in deeper and look into their background. Naturally, they are all filled in by Democrats, just as President Trump’s was filled in with Republicans, but there is something else going on.

In theory, the cabinet Secretaries should be the most qualified people for their jobs, just as in the business world. The idea of appointing someone for political favoritism reeks of nepotism and, quite often, is an impediment to progress. We typically see ambassadorships rewarded to political donors but cabinet positions are used to run the country, and political rewards would be a serious mistake.

In looking over the appointments, some make sense, others are just plain off the wall. It appears Biden has been selecting people based on their race, gender, their far-left ideology, or their work in the Obama administration (6 in all). It was certainly not for their management skills. As one example, Pete Buttigieg is a young man who only served as mayor of South Bend, Indiana (home of the University of Notre Dame), with a population of 102K, which is rather small in comparison to most major American cities. Nonetheless, he was appointed Secretary of Transportation, a field in which he has no experience whatsoever. I suspect he was rewarded this for his position on climate control which he spoke on during his failed campaign for president.

Let’s look over the list of cabinet appointments, and consider their qualifications; let us also look at the immediate predecessor from the Trump administration.

CABINET – APPOINTMENT

AGRICULTURE – TOM VILSACK

An Obama appointee, he held this position from 2009-2017. He is also a former governor of Iowa.

Trump: Ed Schafer – served twice as Agriculture Secretary and is a former governor of North Dakota.

ATTORNEY GENERAL – MERRICK GARLAND

Garland is best remembered as the Obama pick to replace Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, which was not acted on by the Senate. He has been serving as a federal judge, on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Believed to be moderate in most decisions, but leaning slightly left.

Trump: William Barr – twice served as Attorney General.

COMMERCE – GINA RAIMONDO

Currently, she is the governor of Rhode Island. Her background includes being a venture capitalist. As governor, she cut taxes every year, removed thousands of pages of regulations, raised the state minimum wage to $11.50, and made community colleges tuition-free (a favorite with the far-left). However, her approval ratings routinely ranked in the bottom of all governors in the United States.

Trump: Wilbur Ross – successful businessman. Named by Bloomberg Markets as one of the 50 most influential people in global finance.

DEFENSE – LLOYD AUSTIN

Austin is a West Point graduate and served over 40 years in the military. If confirmed, he will be the first black defense secretary. Previously, he was picked as Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army by Barrack Obama.

Trump: Mark Esper – Also a West Point graduate, Esper joined the U.S. Army and served as an infantry officer with the 101st Airborne Division. He saw action in the Gulf War. Afterwards, he served in the 82nd Airborne and the Army National Guard.

EDUCATION – MIGUEL CARDONA

Cardona serves as the Connecticut commissioner of education. He has an extensive background in Connecticut education. The hard issues he faces include opening schools closed due to COVID-19, and transgender sports.

Trump: (acting) Phil Rosenfelt – been with the Department of Education since 2005.

ENERGY – JEFFIFER GRANHOLM

Former governor of Michigan. Was a member of the Obama transition team. Granholm is a distinguished adjunct professor of law and public policy at UC Berkeley. No energy experience.

Trump: Dan Brouillette – previously served as the Deputy Secretary of Energy from August 2017 to December 2019.

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES – XAVIER BECERRA

He is currently attorney general of California. He was previously a Congressman representing downtown Los Angeles. While in the House, he served as the chair of the House Democrat Caucus from 2013 to 2017. Becerra is perhaps best known as the AG, along with 15 other Democrat-led states, to file a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the president’s declaration of a national emergency to fund and build the southern U.S. border, as well as many more lawsuits against the administration. He is far-left.

Trump: (acting) Norris Cochran – part of DHHS since 2006.

HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT (HUD) – MARCIA FUDGE

Fudge is currently a Democrat member of the House from Ohio. Her background is substantially different than her predecessor.

Trump: Dr. Ben Carson – a pioneer in the field of neurosurgery. He was also a professor of neurosurgery, oncology, plastic surgery, and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He is also known for his run for the presidency in 2016. If anything, Dr. Carson was over qualified for his job as HUD Secretary.

INTERIOR – DEB HAALAND

If confirmed, she will be the first Native American cabinet secretary. She has been very active in Democrat politics, such as speaking against the appointment of Judge Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court. She also actively supports the Green New Deal and Medicare for All. She is far-left.

Haaland’s appointment is controversial as a group of 15 Republican House members sent a letter to President Biden urging him to withdraw her name claiming, her nomination is “a direct threat to working men and women and a rejection of responsible development of America’s natural resources.”

Trump: David Bernhardt – also worked for the Department of the Interior during George W. Bush’s presidency.

LABOR – MARTY WALSH

Walsh is the current mayor of Boston. He is one of the few cabinet appointments cruising through his confirmation hearing. Walsh has an extensive background in unions, both as a member and as a mayor working with them.

Trump: Eugene Scalia – served one year as Solicitor of the Department of Labor during the George W. Bush administration. He is a son of the late Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia.

STATE – ANTONY BLINKEN

An Obama appointment serving as deputy secretary. Also served in Clinton’s state department and on the National Security Council for then VP Biden.

Trump: Mike Pompeo – former CIA Director, graduated first in his class as a West Point graduate, also served in the House of Representatives (KS).

TRANSPORTATION – PETE BUTTIGIEG

Former mayor of South Bend, Indiana. Ran for president in 2020. He worked on John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign as an advisor, policy and research specialist. No transportation experience. He is far-left.

Trump: Elaine Chao – Naturalized citizen. Married to Sen. Mitch McConnell. She has served the Department of Transportation since 1986, particularly in the Maritime Administration. Served as Deputy Transportation Secretary from 1989-1991. She was also the longest-serving Secretary of Labor.

TREASURY – JANET YELLEN

Recently confirmed, she is the first female Treasury Secretary. She has prior experience as the chair of the council of economic advisors and chair of the Federal Reserve under Obama. She comes from academia, where she has taught economics for many years at Harvard and the London School of Economics.

Trump: Steven Mnuchin – American investment banker at Goldman Sachs.

CONCLUSION

As with any job, people should be eminently qualified to successfully fulfill a job, but this isn’t always the case in Washington, DC. Unfortunately, the best people are not always available. After all, they would have to sacrifice their business careers in order to serve. So, you have to ask the question, are the people selected doing this for love of country or are there other ulterior motives, such as political recognition and power?

As we can see, not all of the candidates herein are qualified for their positions. This is like hiring ditch-diggers to work in Silicon Valley. Undoubtedly, all will tow the line when it comes to Democrat values and priorities, but will that make for a well-oiled machine to run the country? In all likelihood, when the Biden administration is done, we will have another costly mess to clean up and not a clean and productive hand-off. Unfortunately, this is how the American public elects to operate.

In the business world, there are two tried and proven tactics to rationalize failure; first, blame your predecessor, and; second, reorganize everything, making it difficult to straighten out later on. What we are now witnessing in the Biden administration is both excuses being implemented at warp speed. God help us!

Keep the Faith!

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MIKE PENCE: Water Boy For The Deep State — Part 2

“For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The goal of the Communists is to enter into men’s minds and cast God down from his throne.” –  Karl Marx

“A person’s character is shown through their actions in life NOT where they sit on Sunday.”  – Navonne Johns – artist


Mike Pence was President Trump’s traitorous plague. He was given every opportunity by the president to excel, but everything he touched was deliberately detrimental to President Trump and to the nation.  Dr. Peter Navarro said of Pence, “The final betrayal was on January 6th, 2021.”  Pence was chosen by the RNC, just like republican VPs before him.

Many months ago, my dear friend Marilyn Barnewell sent around a list of Mike Pence failures that were shocking.  She gave me permission to use them in an article with my own additions.  Everything done by Mike Pence countered the intent of Donald Trump.  Very few who surrounded the president were trustworthy and many were brought into the administration by the incompetent and untrustworthy transition team leader Michael Pence.

Trotskyites

President Trump was acquitted from this second fraudulent and unconstitutional impeachment, but I can guarantee you the enemies of freedom will never stop until they have destroyed the man completely.  This is the cadre of Trotskyites and Stalinists that Mike Pence sides with and endorses.  And their strength has grown exponentially.

Remember the FBI Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team attack on Roger Stone and his wife at 6 a.m. at his Florida residence with CNN filming it all after a Miami FBI agent alerted them?  Totally unnecessary as the prosecutors could have called Stone’s attorneys and told him to turn himself in… what they wanted was a show of force against those who oppose the communist powers who hate America and the freedoms and liberties of her founders.

The latest attack was on physician and attorney Simone Gold, leader of America’s Frontline Doctors. Federal agents arrested Gold in California days after she publicly admitted that she had followed other protesters into the Capitol building on January 6th, as Congress was scheduled to certify the 2020 presidential election. Officials also arrested John Strand, the communications director for America’s Frontline Doctors, who had joined Gold at the Capitol.  Widely viewed footage from the Capitol on January 6th shows police removing barricades for protesters and standing by as they wander through the building.  Unnecessary were shackles and a night in jail for Dr. Gold…another show of force against those who fight for constitutional and free speech liberties.

The globalist communists are saying to us, “You’d best not fight against us or we will take you down.”  And Mike Pence has sided with both neo-con Trotskyite Republicans and full-blown communist Democrats because he wants to run for President.  Puppet Pence could win as the commies have their arm up the backside of Mike Pence.

Pence Upbringing

Pence’s father helped build a Midwestern empire of more than 200 gas stations that provided an upbringing on the “front row of the American dream.”

The collapse of Kiel Bros. Oil Co. in 2004 was widely publicized. Less known is that the state of Indiana — and, to a smaller extent, Kentucky and Illinois — are still on the hook for millions of dollars to clean up more than 85 contaminated sites across the three states, including underground tanks that leaked toxic chemicals into soil, streams and wells. Pence and his sibling inherited sizeable funds from their father, but Mike lost it all in faulty investments.

Pence family’s failed gas stations cost taxpayers $21M in Indiana alone.  Pence’s older brother Greg Pence was the President when Keil went bankrupt.  On November 3rd, 2020, Greg Pence won the general election representing Indiana’s 6th district.

Pence Congressional Votes

Mike Pence was anathema to everything Donald Trump stood for, yet he was chosen.  Before Pence’s principles became malleable, folding needlessly on both Obamacare expansion and religious freedom, the rumored VP pick still had some pretty left leaning neocon economic positions; positions that conflicted in every way with the overriding message of the Trump candidacy in 2016.

Congressman Pence voted for every free trade bill he saw.

Voted yes on free-trade agreement with Panama.

Voted yes on free-trade agreement with Korea.

Voted yes on free-trade with Peru.

Voted no on assisting workers who lose jobs due to globalization.

Voted yes on Central America Free Trade Agreement.

Voted yes on the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement.

Voted yes on a US-Singapore free trade agreement.

Voted yes on free trade agreement with Chile.

Governor Pence

Pence voted to keep the United States in the World Trade Organization and to maintain normal trade relations with China. Pence renewed the sister-state agreement with China in 2015 as did many of our republican governors across the nation who neither care nor know anything about the communist Chinese regime whose desire is ownership of America.

In April of 2015, Governor Pence sent Indiana’s congressional delegation a letter urging them to vote for Trade Promotion Authority, Trans-Pacific Partnership and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

Indiana’s GOP chose Lt. Governor Eric Holcomb to replace Mike Pence in 2016.  Holcomb is a carbon copy of weasel Pence and he continued the partnership with the Chicoms.

In late March 2014, Governor Pence signed on to new academic standards, and those new standards replaced common core with common core.  The governor and his staff hoped no one would notice.

Five times Governor Pence helped China steal American jobs, something Trump was dead set against.

VP Pence

Ever notice how Pence is always missing in action when something detrimental happened to our president?  He always disappears so he’s not to blame and he’s done it time and again and it started with the Access Hollywood tape and his collusion with Paul Ryan to remove Trump from the Republican ticket.

Michael Flynn – There was a text message via FBI Agent Peter Strzok which could be interpreted to reference an intelligence relationship with the vice president’s chief of staff, Josh Pitcock whose wife worked for Strzok.  Pitcock was fired in June of 2017 and replaced by Nick Ayers when it was suspected he was the backdoor to the FBI.  After Mike Flynn’s phone call with the Russian Ambassador, Pence and top White House aides secretly met with Deputy Director of the FBI, Andrew McCabe, and then demanded National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s firing.  When the president didn’t move quickly enough, a mysterious leak to the Washington Post had its intended effect.

Many reporters have alleged that Mike Pence and others like Kellyanne Conway were leakers.  Interestingly enough, Kellyanne worked for Pence when he was a congressman and they’ve been friends for years.  Pence’s nephew actually married Kellyanne’s cousin, so there is a family connection.

Pence claimed the Turkey ties of the former NSA Chief are an affirmation of the decision to fire Michael Flynn, but he obviously hasn’t a clue of CIA Imam Fethullah Gülen or his charter schools which pose dangers to America and her children, or does he… Surely Pence knows there are three Gülen Islamic charters operating in Indianapolis, Indiana, and that in 2014, the FBI raided 19 charter schools affiliated with the Gülen Movement in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois for reasons allegedly related to crimes linked to education tenders.

The Transition Team was originally headed by Chris Christie, but he was fired unceremoniously by Steve Bannon at the alleged behest of Jared Kushner whose father had been sent to prison by Christie.  Pence was appointed to take over the job, and he hired his close establishment friends, including Reince Priebus as Chief of Staff, Dan Coats for Director of National Intelligence (DNI), (who certainly did nothing to force the FBI to release exculpatory evidence for Flynn) and Betsy DeVos for Education Secretary who with her husband Dick, has financed Mike Pence throughout his political career.

None of his hires have been good, and the only one who stayed for the duration was DeVos, and she resigned in “disgust” after the January 6th storming of the capitol by Antifa pretending to be Trump supporters.  They were actually ushered into the US Capitol building.

Worse however, is the fact that a conversation between the former Defense Secretary, James Mattis and the head of the U.S. intelligence apparatus, and Mike Pence’s Indiana friend and appointee, Dan Coats were talking about taking “collective action” to remove an elected president! That’s called sedition… A seditious conspiracy.

“Additionally, Bob Woodward points to VP Mike Pence as the whisperer who made sure President Trump blindly nominated officials who could facilitate Trump’s removal. Dan Coats came into the DNI position from his role within the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI).”

Julian Assange and Wikileaks – Mike Pence claimed the CIA does not spy on American citizens albeit whistleblower Assange has the proven goods and even former Judge Andrew Napolitano agrees.  Napolitano says the government listens to everything we say even in our own kitchens.  Here is the reason President Trump did not pardon Assange and Snowden.  Blame the GOP for Trump’s impeachment trial, they backed it to keep him from pardoning Assange and Snowden.

Author Phil Haney who many believe was murdered last year, worked for the Department of Homeland Security for 13 years and wrote, See Something, Say Nothing.  He spoke about Pence hosting a Muslim Brotherhood meeting inside the White House as well as the VP’s support for Sam Brownback and the Abrahamic Family Center in Abu Dhabi.  Link

Vote Fraud – Back in 2017, Trump put Pence in charge of voter fraud, but it appears nothing was done or even investigated.  Pence was to oversee the Georgia runoff regarding vote fraud; how did that work out for us?  Vote fraud goes back decades.

Chamber of Commerce – Pence was in South America waving happily behind New World Order Chamber of Commerce head Tom Donahue.  Donahue gave a blistering speech against the President. Pence said nothing.

Space Exploration – Pence was in charge of Space Exploration and wanted men on the moon again in 2024. (Neil Armstrong who I met in Wapakoneta, Ohio in the early 80s, and his crew already did this in July of 1969) Did we hear about any of Pence’s advances and accomplishments?  Silence.

Dr. Ronnie Jackson – This one is priceless.  Dr. Jackson was Trump’s personal physician, but Mike Pence’s physician raised concerns about Jackson because his physician had some heated interactions with Dr. Jackson.  First reported by CNN, Dr. Jennifer Peña detailed her claims of professional misconduct against Jackson in memos to senators considering his nomination to head the VA. CNN also reported that Dr. Jennifer Peña claimed Jackson may have violated Second Lady Karen Pence’s patient privacy rights by sharing details of a medical incident involving her and chief of staff John Kelly.

Jackson withdrew his name from consideration for head of the VA, saying the “false allegations” against him had become a “distraction” for the president. Ultimately, Dr. Peña resigned.  Dr. Jackson won his Texas congressional seat in a runoff.

North Korea – Pence made the statement that North Korea could end up like Libya, whose former leader Muamar Gaddafi was killed in an uprising years after giving up atomic weapons, “if Kim Jong-un doesn’t make a deal.”  Gaddafi never should have been murdered, his people were living in relative security and peace.  Even President Obama admitted it was the worst mistake of his presidency to take out Gaddafi.

North Korea hit out at VP Mike Pence calling him “ignorant and stupid” as the reclusive state made a renewed threat to cancel an upcoming summit between the two countries.

Choe Son Hui, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, released a statement via the state-run KCNA news agency lambasting a recent media interview Pence gave to Fox News.

“I cannot suppress my surprise at such ignorant and stupid remarks gushing out from the mouth of the US vice-president,” she said in the statement.

Coronavirus Task Force

And just how do you think Pence did on this nightmare from hell that caused millions of middle-class businesses to shut down forever.  Thanks to Pence, he brought in the worst medical advisors in the nation…every one of them a hardcore Democratic socialist.  Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Deborah Birx, and Dr. Robert Redfield.  All of them are connected to the World Health Organization, the mouthpiece for the Communist Chinese Party (CCP).

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late 1880s and is now part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a national public health institute in the United States. It is a United States federal agency, also under HHS and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Please read, Is Anthony Fauci Guilty of Negligent Homicide.  His ties to the left and purposeful destruction of Trump’s magnificent economy by the Democratic Socialists is obvious. Add Deborah Birx, mentored by Fauci, and virologist Robert Redfield and we have a shutdown of society, controlled masking of all Americans, and the destruction of first amendment freedoms guaranteed by our unalienable Bill of Rights.

Covid-19 allowed many Americans to work from home.  Now that they’ve found they no longer have to go to an office and can work from anywhere, they are moving from their high tax blue states to conservative red states and bringing their leftist politics with them.

We can thank establishment globalist Pence for purposely choosing leftists to demolish Trump’s fabulous economy.

Olivia Troye was a former adviser to Vice President Mike Pence who was his lead staffer on the coronavirus task force.  She endorsed Democratic nominee Joe Biden for president. In an advertisement recorded for Republican Voters Against Trump, Troye slammed President Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Troye, a lifelong Republican, said Mr. Trump’s “biggest concern” was how the pandemic would affect the election.

By now we know the virus was a massive hoax, and a flu that does kill and has killed thousands, but it has been portrayed as a pandemic which it is not.  The many restrictions on American citizens are nothing but totalitarian control by the enemies of freedom.

Conclusion

How many Sunday shows has Pence been on defending the President from the myriad of vile attacks? How many times has he publicly defended the President’s family?  Where was he with both attempted impeachments?  Where was he when President Trump had Covid-19? The Pence silence was deafening.

Pence hides behind his “faith” and disappears whenever Trump is attacked.

Would you vote for Pence in 2024?

Next up, Part Three

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DEFEND FLORIDA ACTION ALERT: Please Take Action on Two Key Gun Bills

ACTION ALERT 1 Florida State Legislation

House Bill (HB)133 – Surrendered Newborn Infants aka “Baby Box Bill”. (Related bill is SB122)

This bill extends the safely dropping off of unwanted babies from 7 days to 30 days.

It is being heard in the Children, Families, & Seniors Subcommittee tomorrow, Feb. 16, 2021, in Tallahassee at 1:00 PM, Room 214 House Office Building.

WHETHER YOU CAN ATTEND OR NOT, please go to this website and click on Appear at Meeting to show your support of this bill.

If you cannot attend, please CALL THIS NUMBER, (850) 717-4840, and state your Support of HB133.

Friends, there are 18 members in this Committee and only 3 are Democrats. This should pass with no problems, YET the Dems have successfully killed this bill in prior years because they have more people speaking and showing support Against it!

Let us know you called, emailed committee members, or attended!

Click here to support for HB 133


ACTION ALERT 2 Federal Legislation

Contact Senator Marco Rubio and Senator Rick Scott to Drop Support of Gun Confiscation Bill S 292

Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott (are) acting more like California Democrats than Florida Republicans.

Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott just announced they’re teaming up with radical anti-gun Democrats to push a “Red Flag” Gun Confiscation bill, S. 292.1

S.292 is a bill to provide family members of an individual who they fear is a danger to himself, herself, or others, or law enforcement, with new tools to prevent gun violence.2

With friends like these, who needs enemies?

We need to stop this trend of Republican-sponsored gun confiscation in its tracks.

Demand they withdraw their “Red Flag” Gun Confiscation bill and stop trying to appease the gun grabbers immediately

Email Senators Rubio and Scott today. Your message can be as simple as:

As a strong supporter of the Second Amendment, I demand you withdraw your support for S. 292, unconstitutional “Red Flag” Gun Confiscation.

Enter your email at these addresses:

Sen. Marco Rubio: https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact

Sen. Rick Scott: https://www.rickscott.senate.gov/contact_rick

1 “Red Flag” Gun Confiscation bills (disingenuously titled Extreme Risk Protection Orders) call for legally owned firearms to be forcibly confiscated from law-abiding Americans without due process, based on unsubstantiated accusations from disgruntled family members, neighbors, co-workers, and/or current or ex-romantic partners, or roommates. In other words: Gun Confiscation without due process. The National Association for Gun Rights expects all pro-gun members of the U.S. House and Senate to join us in opposing this type of gun confiscation.

https://nationalgunrights.org/default/assets/File/Red%20Flag%20Position%20Paper_CTS%20edits.pdf

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/292/text?r=4&s=1

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