Today Mankind is in Dire Need of More Philosophers like Anicius Boëthius

“A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.” — Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius


I recently read The Consolation of Philosophy by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius.

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius or Anicius Boëthius lived from 480-524 AD.

Boëthius was a Roman scholar, Christian philosopher, statesman and the author of the celebrated De consolation philosophiae (The Consolation of Philosophy), a largely Neoplatonic work in which the pursuit of wisdom and the love of God are described as the true sources of human happiness.

What mankind is suffering from today is a lack of happiness because mankind has forgotten the words of Boëthius that proved what truly makes one happy is based upon the pursuit of wisdom and the love of God.

Boëthius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy while in prison wrongfully accused of treason and awaiting his execution which happened in 524 AD.

The Pursuit of Wisdom and the Love of God

Boëthius, while in prison, lamented his state of affairs. Boëthius was a high level Roman official whose words were embraced by many before a few accused him of treason against the Roman state.

Boëthius wrote,

“These it is who kill the rich crop of reason with the barren thorns of passion, who accustom men’s minds to disease, instead of setting them free.”

Boëthius was the victim of “the usual sickness of deluded minds.” Today, we are seeing deluded minds that have singled out free men and women for punishment for speaking “truth to power.” In America these free men and women are simply exercising their Constitutional rights to petition their elected officials. For this effort to tell the truth they have been labeled terrorists, semi-Fascists and traitors.

GradeSaver.com wrote this about The Consolation of Philosophy,

Evil has no substance, according to Philosophy, because it cannot participate in the ultimate pursuit of mankind: the supreme good. Therefore people who inflict their wickedness on the good are not truly powerful, since they have no capacity to stop the good people’s attainment of the one thing that matters. God orders the world through Providence, and the order of things that happen on earth is called Fate. Though people on earth cannot understand the ways of Providence, they must nevertheless accept whatever Fate sends, for all fortune, good or bad, is good. Bad fortune can instruct the recipient in the ways of virtue, and, often is better for the soul.
God does not interfere with free will, Philosophy concludes. Though God knows all things past and present, this knowledge doesn’t preclude the freedom of choice of human beings. God’s knowledge is not like our knowledge, and doesn’t happen over a period of time. God had one act of knowing the world, and in that act knew all things, including all the free choices of all the people throughout the entire history of the world.
Finally, Boethius, through this long conversation with Philosophy, has been comforted. Philosophy leaves him with the advice to cultivate virtue, for the Heavenly Judge sees all things. [Emphasis added]

The Story of an American Patriot and Political Prisoner

Fast forward to 2022 AD and we see many American patriots in prisoned who have been wrongfully accused of participating in an “insurrection” and accused of treason just because they attended a rally on January 6th, 2022 in Washington, D.C.

These falsely accused political prisoners, like Boëthius, are still awaiting judgment.

Among these political prisoners, much like Boëthius, is a young man named Zachary “Zach” Rehl who on March 17th, 2021, the Federal Bureau of Investigation agents arrested him at his home in Port Richmond, Pennsylvania.  From October 2008 to May 2012, Zack was a U.S. Marine Corps non-commissioned officer in Yuma, Arizona. Zack is a 100% disabled Marine Corps. veteran with a wife and young child.

Why Zack?

Because Zack takes his oath to protect and defend the U.S. Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic seriously. Zack understands that the oath that he, and all those who honorably served our nation, does not expire until we do.

What are Zack’s crimes?

  1. Zack is the leader of the Philadelphia chapter of the Proud Boys. He was one of the organizers of the We the People rally outside the Independence Hall in Philadelphia in 2018, which supported Donald Trump.
  2. In July 2020, he attended the Back the Blue rally outside the Fraternal Order of Police lodge in Philadelphia where the Proud Boys members mingled with police officers. (c)
  3. “Just FYI, WE’RE HERE with you in DC now! Love you all!” he wrote on Parler on the evening of January 5, 2021. He had raised more than $5,500 via the Christian website GiveSendGo to fund his travel from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., USA. 
  4. Wearing a camouflage cap while carrying a Temple University backpack, he went to the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021. That day, Trump’s supporters held a peaceful Save America rally while the joint session of Congress was certifying the vote of the Electoral College and affirming Joe Biden‘s victory in the 2020 presidential election. During the Save America rally, he assisted Proud Boys leaders Ethan Nordean and Joseph Biggs but never entered the U.S. Capitol building.

You see Zack is an American patriot, a disabled veteran and a member of the Proud Boys. These are now punishable offenses according to this administration.

Like Anicius, Zack is a political prisoner who has yet to be judged by a jury of his peers.

Zach, in a letter to his wife, warned:

“They are jailing innocent people on bogus and trumped-up charges because those people simply supported the sitting president Donald Trump at the time; which is absolutely insane. If you think it can’t happen to you, look at me, because if it can happen to me, trust me, it can happen to you.”

Zack like Anicius faces an uncertain future. But he wears the full armor of God.

But Zack and his fellow imprisoned patriots  are consoled by the truth that people who inflict their wickedness on the good are not truly powerful, since they have no capacity to stop the good people’s attainment of the one thing that matters.

May God bless Zack, his family and his fellow political prisoners.

In closing, for those interested the below video is a lecture which was delivered on June 19th, 2019 at the Temenos Academy in London by Dr. Stephen Blackwood on the ancient Roman writer Boethius and his magnum opus ‘The Consolation of Philosophy‘. After tracing the Ancient Greek roots from which Boethius draws, Dr. Blackwood sketches the Consolation’s path to self-possession and true fulfillment, even amidst injustice, misfortune, distraction, and the inexorable movement of time. Dr. Blackwood argues that this perennially influential book, written as its author faced unjust imprisonment and torture, relates the inner life of the individual to the wider cultural renewal with which it is intrinsically connected.

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

The Fall of the House of Twitter

Twitter employees are calling it ‘Black Monday’.  Elon Musk is expected to fire many of them today, having already shown four top executives the door.  Estimates vary, but 10 to 50 percent of Twitter’s employees will lose their jobs today.  Don’t expect me to feel sorry for them.  Twitter censored me, then Facebook censored me.  Pride goeth before the fall.  I don’t feel the least bit sorry for these minor minions of the authoritarian Left who think they know the first thing about governance and try to silence anyone who disagrees with heir stupid little opinions.  It makes me smile to see them thrown out on their ear.

I’m not sorry in the least, not when I see the scope of the Left’s attempt to shut people like me up.  The Missouri Attorney General and others brought a lawsuit against Big Tech and the Biden administration for what the lawsuit calls a “massive, sprawling federal ‘Censorship Enterprise’.”  The case is ongoing.  Anthony Fauci, Jen Psaki, and other officials from the Biden administration now face depositions where they will have to explain how and why they colluded with Twitter and other social media platforms to shut people up about Hunter Biden’s laptop, the 2020 presidential election, COVID, and other topics.

As vast as that effort was, it only scratches the surface of what the authoritarian Left and their Democrat friends are doing to suppress speech in this country.

Democrat-controlled California just passed a law prohibiting doctors from disagreeing with the government about COVID treatments.  Which is really funny because I’ve given you story after story in previous commentaries, about public health authorities being completely wrong about COVID – so many stories, I’ve lost count.

The Republican National Committee just sued Google for suppressing 22 million get-out-the-vote and fundraising emails.  Google sent the mailings to users’ spam folders.  Right before the election.  Tell me that’s an accident.

A coffee shop in Virginia was forced to close after the owner celebrated the overturning of Roe v. Wade online.  Left-wing nasties bombarded the shop with negative reviews.

The comic strip ‘Dilbert’ was recently canceled in 80 newspapers without explanation.  The creator believes it is because the strip has been poking fun at corporations that are pursuing Woke agendas.

Canceling ‘Dilbert’ shows you just how weak the authoritarian Left really is.  It is so weak it can’t even stand a little ribbing from a comic strip.   That reminds me of Xi Jinping kicking Winnie the Pooh out of China because he didn’t like people saying he looks like Winnie the Pooh.

The Left is afraid of comic strips.  The Left is afraid of nobodies like me telling the truth – so afraid, we get kicked off of Facebook and Twitter.  The Left is afraid of coffee shop owners who think for themselves, doctors who exercise their independent professional judgment, parents speaking their minds at school board meetings, and FBI agents blowing the whistle on agency wrong-doing.  Trying to shut us all up – that’s weakness, not strength.  So to all you Jack Dorsey-booted left-wing authoritarian thugs out there, don’t think for a minute you have succeeded in getting rid of us.  You are too weak to succeed.  And we’re just getting started.

©Christopher Wright. All rights reserved.

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FBI Arrests Disabled Marine, VA Cancels His Benefits For Peaceful Protest

The Jan 6th political persecutions are nothing than a Kafkaesque kangaroo court designed to criminalize opposition to the totalitarian Democrat regime. It’s all a massive theatrical production with real life repercussions carefully calculated to cover the Democrats insurrectionist election theft and treasonous “Russia hoax” crimes designed to oust a sitting president.

The unconstitutional prosecution of this disabled Marine is egregious and unconscionable. If America continues to allow this, no one is safe.

Judicial Watch reporting:

Patriot Zach Rehl received an honorable discharge from the United States Marine Corps…and received a 100% disability rating from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

But the FBI raided his home on March 17th, 2021, arrested him, and threw him in jail for peacefully protesting the stolen 2020 Presidential election at the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.

Zach didn’t attack the U.S. Capitol Police. (His own father and grandfather were Philadelphia cops, like my brother, for Pete’s sake.)

Zach didn’t break anything, or even hurt anyone’s feelings with harsh words.

He simply exercised his right to free speech as an American citizen.

Zach has been held without bail this entire time.

What’s more, he hasn’t had the chance to hold his baby girl even once.

And to add insult to injury, the VA notified his wife, Amanda, that they were cutting off Zach’s disability payments because he’d been charged with seditious conspiracy. Just charged – not convicted!

As you can imagine, all of this has been brutally hard on Zach, his wife, and two daughters. No freedom…no rights…no due process…IN AMERICA!

If the Biden Justice Department and its FBI can push around and seek to destroy a peaceful, disabled Marine veteran for exercising his right to free speech, they can push you and me, our families, friends, and fellow Americans around, too.

You and I, and the people we love in are in grave danger.

Zach warns about that in a letter to his wife:

“They are jailing innocent people on bogus and trumped-up charges because those people simply supported the sitting president Donald Trump at the time; which is absolutely insane. If you think it can’t happen to you, look at me, because if it can happen to me, trust me, it can happen to you.”

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NOTE: CONAN Daily provided the following background information on Zach Rehl.

  1. He lives in Port Richmond, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His parents are police officers in Philadelphia. (a)
  2. He worked as a telemarketing representative at Spectrum Marketing Services in Philadelphia from February 2002 to June 2003 and as a sales manager at T-Mobile in Philadelphia from January 2004 to July 2008. (b)
  3. From October 2008 to May 2012, he was a U.S. Marine Corps non-commissioned officer in Yuma, Arizona, USA. (b)
  4. From 2012 to 2013, he went to Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. He earned his bachelor’s degree in marketing from Temple University in Philadelphia in 2016 and his master’s degree in innovation management and entrepreneurship from the same university in 2017. (b)
  5. He was the owner of Bada Bing Sports Bar and Grille, which operated in Philadelphia from 2014 to 2015. (b)
  6. He worked as an agent at New York Life Insurance Company from June 2018 to August 2018. In September 2018, he joined Winchester Financial Services in Philadelphia as an independent insurance agent. (b)
  7. He is the leader of the Philadelphia chapter of the right-wing extremist group [this is code for American patriot and veteran] called the Proud Boys. He was one of the organizers of the We the People rally outside the Independence Hall in Philadelphia in 2018, which supported Donald Trump(a)(d)
  8. In July 2020, he attended the Back the Blue rally outside the Fraternal Order of Police lodge in Philadelphia where the Proud Boys members mingled with police officers. (c)
  9. “Just FYI, WE’RE HERE with you in DC now! Love you all!” he wrote on Parler on the evening of January 5, 2021. He had raised more than $5,500 via the Christian website GiveSendGo to fund his travel from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., USA. (d)
  10. Wearing a camouflage cap while carrying a Temple University backpack, he went to the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021. That day, Trump’s supporters breached the building while a joint session of Congress was certifying the vote of the Electoral College and affirming Joe Biden‘s victory in the 2020 presidential election. During the riot, he assisted Proud Boys leaders Ethan Nordean and Joseph Biggs. (a)(c)
  11. On March 17, 2021, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents arrested him at his home in Port Richmond. (a)
  12. On June 6, 2022, he, Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Enrico Tarrio and Dominic Pezzola were charged with seditious conspiracy. (d)
  13. He was 37 years old when he was charged with seditious conspiracy on June 6, 2022. (d)

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IRAN: Freedom fighters defy Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps ultimatum to cease protests

Note how Reuters once again refers to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as the “Revolutionary Guards.” Why won’t these “journalists” call the group by its correct name?

Security forces tear gas students defying Iran protest ultimatum

by Parisa Hafezi, Reuters, October 30, 2022:DUBAI (Reuters) -Protests in Iran entered a more violent phase on Sunday as students, who defied an ultimatum by the Revolutionary Guards and a warning from the president, were met with tear gas and gunfire from security forces, social media videos showed.

The confrontations at dozens of universities prompted the threat of a tougher crackdown in a seventh week of demonstrations sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was arrested by the morality police for attire deemed inappropriate.

“Security is the red line of the Islamic Republic, and we will not allow the enemy to implement in any way its plans to undermine this valuable national asset,” hardline President Ebrahim Raisi said, according to state media.

Iranians from all walks of life have taken to the streets since Amini’s death in protests that the clerical rulers said were endangering the Islamic Republic’s security.

Authorities have accused Islamic Iran’s arch-enemies the United States and Israel and their local agents of being behind the unrest to destabilise the country.

What began as outrage over Amini’s death on Sept. 16 has evolved into one of the toughest challenges to clerical rulers since the 1979 revolution, with some protesters calling for the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The top commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards told protesters that Saturday would be their last day of taking to the streets, the harshest warning yet by Iranian authorities.

Nevertheless, videos on social media, unverifiable by Reuters, showed confrontations between students and riot police and Basij forces on Sunday at universities all over Iran.

One video showed a member of Basij forces firing a gun at close range at students protesting at a branch of Azad University in Tehran. Gunshots were also heard in a video shared by rights group HENGAW from protests at the University of Kurdistan in Sanandaj.

Videos from universities in some other cities also showed Basij forces opening fire at students.

Across the country, security forces tried to block students inside university buildings, firing tear gas and beating protesters with sticks. The students, who appeared to be unarmed, pushed back, with some chanting “dishonoured Basij get lost” and “Death to Khamenei”….

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Will GOP Let Biden Nominate a Radical Leftist IRS Boss to Terrorize Americans?

The pressure will be on to appoint and clear a new commissioner as soon as possible.


Biden’s illegal Inflation Increase Act has prepped the IRS to act as a weapon of political terror. But it needs someone at the top to run the machine.

Here’s the stage being set.

Looming Leadership Void at I.R.S. Raises Concerns Over $80 Billion Overhaul – New York Times

Former commissioners warn that delays in nominating a new commissioner raise the prospect that transformation efforts will fail.

You know the kind of transformation they have in mind.

Last month, we were told that the Biden regime had narrowed its list of candidates. And based on the track record, we’re likely looking at a Warren person, someone with a background in advocating political crackdowns on conservative organizations and finding new ways to bend the tax code to pursue leftist agendas. As a plus, it’s likely to be a woman and a member of a minority group.

Now, Commissioner Rettig is officially stepping down.

The Treasury Department on Friday announced the departure of IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig, an appointee of former President Trump whose term is set to end in mid-November.

Before Congress approves a new permanent IRS head, the agency will be headed by deputy commissioner Douglas O’Donnell as acting chief, the Treasury said.

The pressure will be on to appoint and clear a new commissioner as soon as possible.

Congressional Republicans have a duty not to provide another rubber stamp to another radical Biden nominee. Especially, if the track record holds, we’re going to be looking at an extremist on a mission to terrorize Americans.

The media will claim that Republicans are holding up urgent reforms and that taxpayer services will be affected. That’s a lie. O’Donnell is a career employee and capable of running things.

As the IRS is already targeting conservatives while protecting leftists, as discussed in David Horowitz’s and John Perazzo’s new booklet: “Internal Radical Service: Abuse Of Taxpayer Dollars To Advance Leftwing Causes Illegally And Unconstitutionally”, we can only imagine how much worse it will get if the Biden regime gets full control of the terror machine that Manchin and Sinema helped them build. If Republicans fail to stand up for Americans against a new wave of political and economic terror, they will lose the confidence of the country.

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Divorce—Satan’s Destructive Weapon

This article will attempt to address one of the most serious problems in the Church, the Body of Christ, today. That problem is theft through fraud. I’m not talking about crooked preachers, or embezzlement from a church body by an employee; even though those can be serious problems, they are only isolated incidents that occur. The subject of this article is a much more widespread problem that affects the Body of Christ worldwide, but especially in the United States. The problem is divorce in general and among Christians in particular.

I can’t speak for anyone else, but I never liked having anything stolen from me. Being quite poor growing up, it was difficult enough to have, and keep, anything of value without the threat of loss to a thief. So, my parents always taught me to safeguard the things that I owned, specifically such things as my bike, my ball glove and baseball (yes, as a boy, I loved playing baseball).  I usually followed their advice and made sure those items were kept where they belonged. However, there were times when I would forget to do so, and yes, there were times when thieves took what belonged to me, due to my negligence. The result was disheartening since money was not easy to come by, hence the replacement of the stolen items was not a guarantee.

The Thief and the Fraud

We, as Christians, would do well to remember that, as good as our Father in heaven is to us, providing all that we need to be secure, healthy and prosperous, there is another spiritual being in the world who delights in trying to undo everything that God has done.

Jesus described Satan as “the thief”, the one whose sole purpose is ‘to steal, and to kill and to destroy”- (John 10:10 KJV). Satan, the thief, the killer, the destroyer, is always roaming around, looking for a victim of his deception, someone who can be turned from God’s word and redirected on a different path. This is exactly why the Holy Spirit instructed the apostle Peter to pen the words,

“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” (I Peter 5:8 KJV).

The word translated ‘sober’ in this passage is from the Greek word, ‘nepho (pronounced nay-fo) and it has duel meanings, 1) to abstain from wine, and 2) to be watchful.

Merriam-Webster defines a ‘fraud’ as: 1) a person who is not what he or she pretends to be: an imposter, 2) one that is not what it seems or is represented to be.

Notice in I Peter 5:8 that the devil is NOT a roaring lion, he only passes himself off as one to deceive and get his victims to willingly, and through fear, enter the trap he sets for his prey. Satan is a fraud and uses fraudulent methods to deceive and trap his victims. We are also told that he seeks anyone whom he may devour.  The word ‘may’ hints that the victim has something to say about the devouring process. Unless the victim cooperates with Satan, accepting the deception and lies offered, Satan can easily be repelled. James, the half-brother of Jesus tells us,

“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you” (see James 4:7 KJV).

The key to the repelling of Satan lies in being submitted to God. A huge part of being ‘sober and vigilant’ (Peter’s words) is to ‘submit oneself to God’ (James’s words). According to these scriptures, if one lives in a sober, vigilant manner, submitted to God, the devil must absolutely flee from that person.

History’s Greatest Heist

There have been many Hollywood movies created about great robberies, or heists, that have been committed throughout history. Some of these robberies involve huge sums of gold or other precious metals, large sums of money, priceless works of art, and large amounts of diamonds or other precious stones. As valuable as these might be, from the human perspective, none of them ranks near the top of the list of greatest heists. That dis-honor belongs to the stealing of the union of a man and a woman, joined together before Almighty God by the making of solemn vows, intended to be holy and unbreakable before God.

What Does God Say About Marriage?

God decreed the beauty and holiness of marriage when he crafted a perfect mate, taken from Adam’s own body, to join with Adam shortly after he was created. God intended for Adam and Eve to join (marry), be fruitful, multiply and replenish the earth. Adam said this to God after God had removed a part of Adam’s own body and used it to skillfully create Eve, his perfect helpmate:

And Adam said, this is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man” (Genesis 2:23 KJV).

Jesus, when questioned by the Pharisees regarding the lawfulness of divorce, answered them this way:

“The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that He which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder” (Matthew 19:3-6 KJV).

When God says that a marriage should not be dissolved by any man (or woman), I believe He means just that.  For reference, I have provided a link to a previous Chugley’s Chatter article on marriage.

How Important are Vows?

All my life, any wedding ceremony I’ve attended, including my own, had as an integral part, the wedding ‘vows’. I seldom thought about it but now must wonder, what exactly are ‘vows’ and how important are they? Merriam-Webster defines the word vow as: (noun) a solemn promise or assertion; specifically: one by which a person is bound to an act, service, or condition. 

Why Do People Make Vows? 

Based on the scripture where Jesus stated that, “what God has joined together, no man is to put asunder”, the making of vows, or solemn promises, as part of a wedding/marriage ceremony, is to ensure the participants understand how important the union of a man and a woman is in God’s eyes.

There are other occasions where vows are considered extremely important, such as entering the military, or assuming public office. In each case, the promise of ‘fidelity’ is a critical element for the participants to be successful. When any person who has publicly vowed fidelity to a government, a public office or another person, as in marriage, breaks the vow, nothing good follows

Knowing then the importance of vows, why is divorce so prevalent, especially in The Church?  There may be as many answers to that question as there are marriages, but a few are more likely to provide the best insight into this problem. Based on the explicit commandments from God’s Word about marriage, any marriage performed by a minister of the gospel before Almighty God is as much a vow to God as to the persons in the marriage, but that may not be understood, or taken seriously enough, by the participants. The vows made in the marriage ceremony are binding on both parties, and, in God’s eyes, should never be broken (Matthew 19:6 KJV). Marriage vows are made “in faith”, e.g. faith in the other party’s lifetime commitment to the union (till death do us part) and faith in God to provide everything needed to make the marriage successful. If God decreed that a husband and wife should not be ‘put asunder’ (separated), He would surely do all He can to help the husband and wife be successful in the marriage. It must be assumed then that, when a Christian couple decides to divorce, the Word of God was not truly believed by one, or the other, or possibly both.

The Right Kind of Love

Adam and Eve gave little priority to God’s Word when they were commanded to abstain from eating the forbidden fruit, and instead, disobeyed Him and sinned. Many Christian couples also place little priority on God’s commands regarding marriage. Based on God’s Word, and the making of marital ‘vows’ before God, if both participants are believers, why would they consider divorce a solution to marital problems? Did they marry simply because they ‘fell in love’?  And, what does it mean to ‘fall in love’? Is it biblical?  Love, at least the lasting ‘God-kind’ of love, is not something to ‘fall into’, but this is a question for a future article.

In the Bible, several words are translated ‘love’. There is the Greek word ‘phileo’ (Strong’s 5368, pronounced fil-eh’-o), which means ‘a fondness for’, or an ‘affection for’. This is considered by many to be ‘brotherly love’.

Then there is the Hebrew word ahab (Strong’s 157, pronounced aw-hab’), and it means to have affection for, sexually or otherwise. This could also be considered the Eros love, or the physical sexual attraction that brings a man and a woman together bodily.

Finally, there is the Greek word agapao (Strong’s 25, pronounced ag-ap-ah’-o). This is generally considered the ‘God kind of love’, or the love that God has for all mankind: “For God so loved the world (agapao) that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). This is the ‘love that gives unconditionally’. God’s love was, and is, based on a decision, not a physical attraction, and is expressed thus: “I choose to love you because you are valuable and precious to me, and not because you are lovable.” God loved us when we were in a sinful, filthy state and had nothing to recommend us for His love. It was strictly His decision, based on His agapao love, that provided the means for our redemption.

Therefore the kind of love that every should be built upon is not the kind that two people fall into, but rather a kind based on a decision to love, until death parts them.

Love in Marriage

All three types of biblical love must be found in a Godly marriage if it is to be successful.  The husband and wife must have a true affection for one another, such as that between best friends (phileo). They should also share the love that unites them sexually and makes them truly ‘one flesh’ (ahab/Eros). Most importantly, they must have, and understand, the God-kind of love, the love that gives unconditionally. Ahab and phileo love are based on a mutual attraction to, or fondness for, another that can be, and usually is, subject to outside forces that can cause the love to change, to decrease or even disappear altogether. Being more sensual based, these two types of love can be highly influenced by physical appearance, especially aging and/or sickness which eventually takes its toll on our human bodies.

Even so, these factors do not make them any less important in a marriage, but they should not be, indeed cannot be, the foundation for a solid marriage. The foundation must be based on the God-kind of love, the agapao love that God displayed when we were totally unlovable in our fallen, sinful state. In other words, the love that is based on ‘a decision’ and is therefore not subject to outside influences.

In a marriage, this God-kind of love could never be merely the product of a human thought process alone, any more than it could be solely the result of a bodily, physical, sexual attraction. It is based on making a decision which says, “I choose to love you because you are valuable and precious to me; and, just as God loves me, I will continue to love you even when you are the least lovable”. Only when the phileo and ahab love are added to the foundation of agapao love will marital success be possible.

Satan’s Weapon Against Marriage

Satan has hated marriage since God introduced the concept when he created Eve for Adam and instructed them to ‘become one flesh’. By doing so, God placed the responsibility for replenishment of the earth squarely on their shoulders. His perfect plan was to provide the means necessary for the two of them to present God with the family He desired to fellowship with. Satan began tearing married couples apart in the Garden of Eden by tempting them to defy God and receive the promised curse. Unfortunately, he has been very successful in his evil attempt for centuries. Even more unfortunately, men and women have made it easy for him in many cases.

Anytime Satan can cause a man or woman to leave his or her mate, he has succeeded in stealing from those two people the most precious gift, other than salvation, they can receive.  For all married couples, marriage is, or should be, a treasure to be protected and cherished, but especially for Christian couples. The devil is successful when he can cause divorce among any married couples, but, I’m sure he gets much more excited when he can convince a Christian couple that divorce is the answer to their problems. In a Christian marriage, how does Satan use his weapon? Other than deception and lies, he is limited in his power to affect our lives. He must therefore get the husband and wife to cooperate with him since he cannot physically force them to separate. What are the means he uses for this deception?

One tactic he uses is to convince the man or his wife that there is someone better-looking, smarter or perhaps wealthier than the present mate. He may try to convince them that the marriage vow is not really that important, that, after all, marriage is nothing more than ‘a piece of paper’. He does not want either one to know that God considers marriage a “taking of vows”, a swearing if you will, to follow a specific moral path, in fidelity to one’s chosen mate, regardless of the problems encountered, or the potential outcome being other than that originally anticipated. Dissolving the marriage means that the vows meant little to nothing when taken, indicating a lack of character in one or both parties.

Satan works toward getting married couples, especially husbands, to lose their ‘self-love’.  God decreed that a man and woman, when married, should become ‘one flesh’, and God sees a husband and wife exactly that way, as ‘one flesh’. Paul wrote that, “So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones(Ephesians 5:28-30 KJV). Any man who fails to follow this scripture has placed himself in contradiction against his own body, and that cannot produce a good outcome. A person who does not love himself/herself will not know how to properly love another.

Assisting Satan

God has a purpose for every man and woman born into the human family. The Word of God is the guideline that must be followed for any person to learn what that purpose is. When a husband and wife decide to terminate a marriage, it means that one or the other, or possibly both, have either not learned their purpose for existence, or do not want to admit what that purpose is. The Bible, God’s Word, must be the marriage guide, as led by the Holy Spirit, in order for marriages to be successful. The Holy Spirit, guiding one into all truth (John 16:13 KJV) becomes the leader, directing the husband and wife on a certain path toward their purpose in life. Fulfillment, rather than gratification, is to be the main goal in marriage.  Without leadership, people seek gratification rather than fulfillment. The latter requires commitment and character.  The former does not”. (Quote from Marilyn Barnewall / NewsWithViews / Feb 25,2018)

Too often, married couples allow outside influences to alter the commitment they made when taking the marriage vows. When the commitment is gone the marriage is doomed. It takes a mighty effort on the part of both a husband and a wife to make any marriage work. Success is certainly not automatic. Once the glitter and the celebration and the giddiness of the wedding ceremony are gone, the real work begins. Only those couples who are truly tuned in to God’s Word have the slightest hope of having a good and lasting marriage, let alone a great one. The mates who remain in touch with God’s Word, which is His will, can experience a lasting fellowship with God as well as the joy of a wonderful, lasting God-ordained marriage.  Building a good, successful marriage is a sign of reverence for God.

Conclusion

In God’s Word, we are given great counsel, which when followed, will help any married couple build a marriage that works and lasts ‘unto death’. For example, the Apostle Paul writes in his letter to the Ephesian believers:

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,  That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.  Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.” (Ephesians 5:22-33 KJV).

If every Christian husband would realize that the word ‘love’, used by Paul in all the verses above is the agapao, the God-kind of love, and realize that he is to love his wife in the same unconditional way that God loves us, his marriage would become much stronger. Also of critical importance is for Christian wives to know that the word reverence in verse 33, is the Greek word phoebe, (Strong’s 5399, pronounced fob-eh’-o) and it means “to be in awe of”.  If a wife wants agapao love, respect and adoration from her husband, she should treat him with the same reverence, and awe, that we are all to show toward our heavenly Father.

The psalmist said it best:

“Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill?  He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart. He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour. In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not” (Psalm 15:1-4 KJV).

My desire is that these words have provided some insight into true Christian marriage with the goal that divorce should not be considered an option, or at least the very LAST option, when marital problems show up, and show up, they will.

Blessings!

budaroo@twc.com

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Watch For These 5 Red Flags In Pennsylvania’s Elections This Year

With the 2022 midterms fast approaching, Democrats in states like Pennsylvania are trying the same tactics they used to steal 2020.

Watch For These 5 Red Flags In Pennsylvania’s Elections This Year

By: Victoria Marshall, The Federalist, October 28, 2022

As the 2022 midterm elections approach, all eyes are on Pennsylvania.

Ever since former President Donald Trump carried the key battleground state in 2016 (the first Republican presidential nominee to do so in almost three decades), Pennsylvania has represented the nation’s “center of political gravity,” boasting crucial midterm contests that are key to either party’s control of the Senate. As Republicans gain in the polls (thanks in part to skyrocketing inflation and the country’s disastrous economic prospects), sinister games are at play behind the scenes.

This is nothing new to the Keystone State. Corruption-riddled Philadelphia has long been ground zero for Democrats’ election-rigging schemes. During the 2020 presidential election, Philadelphia County received the most funding from the Mark Zuckerberg-funded Center for Tech and Civic Life (a leftist nonprofit that funneled millions of dollars to blue counties in swing states to fund get-out-the-vote efforts for then-candidate Joe Biden).

But “Zuckbucks” were only part of Democrats’ cleverly-orchestrated plan to swing the 2020 election in Biden’s favor. Democrat secretaries of state in key battlegrounds also made last-minute, illegal changes to their state’s election laws, subverting the authority of their Republican-led legislatures. Pennsylvania’s then-Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar is no exception.

With the 2022 midterms fast approaching (and Pennsylvania a crucial decider of which party will wield power in the 118th Congress), Democrats are trying the same tactics they used in 2020.

1. Delayed Election Results

Acting Secretary of State Leigh Chapman is already warning voters to not expect results on election night, as it might take “days” to finalize as officials cannot begin processing mail-in ballots until Election Day. Already more than 1 million Pennsylvania voters have applied to vote by mail, with the majority of requests coming from Democrats.

Delayed election results seem to be the new normal in Pennsylvania. During the commonwealth’s contentious May primary, it took weeks for the results to be finalized (and for celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz’s win over former hedge fund CEO Dave McCormick to be sure). In the 2020 presidential election, it also took several days for the state to be called in Biden’s favor.

As Federalist Staff Writer Shawn Fleetwood notes, delayed election results are one warning sign of incompetent election administration and raise voters’ suspicions over the validity of an election. This is why many first-world European countries determine their election results within 24 hours of citizens casting their ballots.

2. Counting Undated Ballots

Chapman’s warning of delayed election results comes after she told counties to ignore a Supreme Court ruling that held undated mail-in ballots cannot be counted. The Republican National Committee and the Pennsylvania GOP have since filed a lawsuit against Chapman’s directive. Such a charge will only result in myriad inconsistencies and irregularities in how Pennsylvania’s 67 counties will process ballots, leading to further delays.

3. 240,000 Unverified Ballots

Almost a quarter of a million unverified ballots were sent to Pennsylvania voters this election cycle, a letter by 15 state lawmakers alleges. The mail-in ballots, the letter adds, were sent to voters without verification of their identity (social security number or government-issued ID) in the ballot application process. The GOP lawmakers are blaming Secretary Chapman’s office for issuing guidance in 2018 that instructed “counties to register voters without verification of identity” and are asking her office to “immediately issue a directive to all counties informing them of the requirement to set those ballots aside and not pre-canvass, canvass, or count any of them unless and until the applicant provides a valid form of identification.” As of October 28, Chapman has not responded to the letter.

4. Duplicate Voting

Philadelphia election officials are set to remove a key safeguard for catching duplicate votes as Election Day approaches. The procedure is known as poll book reconciliation, whereby election officials compare mail-in ballots with poll book records from Election Day. If a person is listed as voting in person on Election Day via the poll book, but the city also receives a mail-in ballot for that voter, the city will not count the mail-in ballot so as to protect against double-voting.

But now the Philadelphia City Commission is threatening to stop the practice because officials claim it will jeopardize their access to state funds. Newly-enacted Act 88, passed by the Republican-majority legislature, prohibits the vote count (after starting at 7 a.m. on Election Day) from stopping until all ballots are tabulated. Philadelphia election officials argue that because poll book reconciliation requires pausing the vote count, they’re at risk of violating Act 88 and will subsequently lose state funding. Such a narrow interpretation of Act 88 is a weak excuse for lessening election security measures. As such, government watchdog Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (RITE) has filed a lawsuit against the Philadelphia City Commission.

Pennsylvania state Rep. Seth Grove has also written a letter to the Philadelphia County Board of Elections demanding answers to the county’s failure to comply with Act 88. According to Grove, under current law, a voter who’s requested a mail-in ballot should not be permitted to vote on Election Day. By allowing such voters to vote in person on Election Day, administrators are “relying on an unlawful post-election process to check mail-in ballots returned after poll books are printed” and “knowingly permitting perhaps thousands of voters to cast regular rather than provisional ballots, in violation of the law.”

Philadelphia’s poll book reconciliation process, then, would not be necessary if election administrators were actually following Pennsylvania law.

5. Poll Watcher Instructions Violate Pennsylvania Law

The Pennsylvania Democratic Party‘s “Poll Observer Manual” directly conflicts with Pennsylvania state law in its instructions to poll watchers. For example, the manual tells poll watchers to “Assist voters and election officials as necessary and appropriate to resolve smaller issues.” Additionally, the manual encourages poll watchers that their “diligence” ensures “that eligible voters vote and that their votes are counted,” before enjoining them to “make sure to monitor constantly whether voters have questions with which you can assist.”

But guidance from the Pennsylvania Department of State website states that “Poll watchers are not permitted to approach voters in the polling place.” The guidance specifically warns that talking to voters is an example of voter intimidation: “Examples of voter intimidation include, but are not limited to … Confronting, hovering, or directly speaking to or questioning voters.”

The Pennsylvania Democratic Party did not respond to The Federalist’s request for comment.

What Can Be Done?

As Pennsylvania will be a crucial decider for which party will take power in 2023, expect Democrat attempts to subvert free and fair elections in Pennsylvania to only increase as Nov. 8 approaches. The incidents outlined above are only a handful of the myriad election integrity issues the Keystone State faces. But instead of being intimidated by such challenges, concerned Pennsylvania citizens must remain vigilant so as to keep their elected officials accountable and ensure the 2022 midterms are conducted securely.

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Credentialism, Crisis and Censorship: How the Left Eliminated Debate

Everything that progressive fascists believe is now an official fact.


“The Big Truth: Upholding Democracy in the Age of the Big Lie,” authored by a CBS reporter and a political activist, is the latest effort by leftists to wrap themselves in the banner of truth.

Media bias has shed its protective coloration of neutrality and blares that its side, leftists, represent the truth and conservatives the ‘lie’. The title of the “The Big Truth”, an otherwise forgettable exercise in virtue signaling, is interesting only because it so perfectly encompasses a media feed that is a mad libs game of “X Republican lied, Y Democrat hopes truth will win out.”

The problem is that this isn’t just propaganda distilled to its raw essence so that every media headline now reads like the title of Al Franken’s “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them”.

The problem is that the leftists created the infrastructure of a new truth using the three Cs, credentialism, crisis and censorship, to eliminate debate and the marketplace of ideas.

Credentialism has experts, activists, academics, members of leftist think-tanks and non-profits, wrongly described as non-partisan, and other interested figures with degrees, declaring that a leftist narrative, global warming, systemic racism, transgenderism in children, or election results is a fact backed by studies and research. A crisis is declared accompanied by dire warnings that questioning their manufactured truth will cost more lives. In the final stage, censorship, internet monopolies, allied with the media and politicians, suppress disagreement as misinformation.

Before, in between and after the media serves as the connective tissue, promoting partisan hacks as experts, hammering home the crisis and pressuring tech firms to censor dissent.

While pandemic lockdowns will quickly come to mind, the model was operating before then and has come to be used on virtually any issue from refugees to questioning elections (won by the media party) to crime and school sexualization. Everything the Left believes is now a fact and a crisis, disagreeing with it is disinformation, treason and terrorism. The crackdown swiftly follows.

Facts, we are often told, cannot be debated. And since everything the Left believes is a fact, there is no longer any room for debate. Reasonable and intelligent people of good faith, the media tells us, would never disagree with these facts. Only bigot, trolls and extremists peddling disinformation, dissent. And since they disagree with the truth and the facts, they’re liars.

And censoring “extremists” and “liars” has become the new civic duty of internet monopolies. This is the ubiquitous progressive fascism of cancel culture, censorship and endless battles against misinformation that have come to define what used to be the marketplace of ideas.

Questioning the credentials of the experts is an attack on science, facts and the very idea of truth. Civil society, the experts tell us, can’t exist unless we trust them. Anyone who disagrees is out to undermine society and tear apart the official artificial truth that is meant to bind us in the digital Mordor being built by mighty tech monopolies one server farm and fact check at a time.

Add on the second C, crisis, and there isn’t even any time or space to debate the ethics of silencing political dissent while people are dying from cow flatulence, law enforcement or an inability to speedily sexually mutilate children. Censorship becomes more urgent than ever.

Declaring that their opinions are “truth” and that any disagreement is a “lie” is a crucial element.

The media’s narrative is more than just propaganda. The rhetoric you used to hear from Franken, Stewart and Colbert has become a crucial part of a massive censorship scheme. But by focusing on the negative, the censorship of dissent, it’s easy to miss what has actually happened, which is a manufactured consensus tying together the government, the media, think-tanks and non-profits, academia and internet monopolies in one totalitarian system.

Progressive fascism suppresses disagreement in order to unilaterally impose its official “truths”.

At the heart of the debate is the question of what truth is and how we arrive at it. Media bias and debates over what objective journalism is run up against the “new truths” every time.

A simple bit of factual objective reporting might be that Bob X shot Jack Y in the head in the middle of Main Street. Caught on camera, what went on down is the indisputable truth. The new truth, the one that increasingly shows up in media coverage, is that systemic racism, income inequality and the lack of gun control laws led to a shooting on Main Street. Bob and Jack, like all individuals, are mere bit players in the larger leftist sociopolitical dramas of class and race.

The school shooter is an afterthought in the scramble to call for new gun control laws, the rapist is just a figment of abortion laws and misogyny, hurricane victims have to make way for reports about global warming. The traditional leftist belief that people are just pawns of the academic phenomena pervades the media because it represents the new truth.

The new truth treats a worldview as a fact. Individuals in the media have become types, irrelevant as people, vital only in that they convey the larger leftist worldview. A school shooting victim who advocates for gun control can easily gain a national profile, but one who calls for locking up criminals never will.

Journalists used to think that truths were personal, not political. The new truth has reversed everything with the ultimate truths being political and personal truths relegated to the anecdotal.

Who, What, When, Where, and Why has been reduced to only the last W. Only the ‘Why’ matters and the answers are always political. The ‘Why’ is systemic racism, global warming, a lack of gun control laws, the patriarchy, capitalism, homophobia, colonialism, and the rest of the attacks on civilization. The other four Ws are just there to provide examples to illustrate the fifth.

The media wraps itself in the banner of the truth because it’s retreating from the facts. Its fact checks, a crucial tool for both credentialism and crisis, will often deem things that are true to be false because they lack context. And given enough of the right context, things that are factually false can be made to seem true and things that are factually true can appear false.

Credentialism makes narratives seem to resemble facts. But the narrative is a belief system that contends that leftist ideas are absolutely true in some higher sense, despite failing to work in real life. It’s the ‘truthiness’ that Colbert made his career mocking, with activists in expert drag to make it seem as if it’s the product of objective research rather than feelings.

The Left is not a movement of facts, no movement is. People are not passionately driven to fight and die, to uproot lives and transform society by objective facts and research studies. They fight out of love and hate, a desire for independence, tribalism, greed, ego, idealism and a search for meaning and a thousand other intangibles that are part of human nature, not for facts.

Emerging in an era where scientific discoveries were changing the world, the Left has always garbed its prejudices, biases, drives and malice in the veneer of academic theory. Its genius has been to bridge the lower realm of the peasant revolt with the intellectualism of the salon, the mind and the heart, claiming the sanction of both reason and empathy when it has neither.

The new truth is more of the same. Its truth is the conviction that the holistic leftist worldview is factually accurate in all of its details. The expert credentialism deployed to create facts and then fact checks is just apologia for an ideological movement. What used to be propaganda, activists in expert drag, has morphed into full progressive fascism that is out to impose its truth on you.

And to silence everyone who disagrees.

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Musk Orders Layoffs Ahead Of ‘Significant’ Payout For Twitter Employees

Just two days after taking control of Twitter, owner and CEO Elon Musk is launching a wave of layoffs ahead of an expected stock grant to employees, The New York Times reported Saturday.

Twitter employees are scheduled to receive the grant on Nov. 1, which comprises a “significant portion” of employees’ compensation, according to the NYT, which cited four anonymous sources. By firing employees before Nov. 1, Musk may be able to avoid paying for some grants, which were set to be paid out in cash under the conditions of Musk’s deal with Twitter to take the company private.

“I was told to expect somewhere around 50 percent of people will be laid off,” Ross Gerber, CEO of Gerber Kawasaki Wealth and Investment Management, told the NYT. Gerber, whose firm has invested less than $1 million in Musk’s takeover, claims to have been informed of the layoffs by Jared Birchall, the head of Musk’s family office.

Some managers are being asked to prepare lists of employees to be cut, and layoffs may begin as soon as Saturday, the NYT reported. The cuts are expected to be company-wide as part of Musk’s efforts to enhance profitability, which include looking for new ways to monetize the platform through advertisements and other means.

Musk on Wednesday denied reports that he intended to lay off 75% of the social media platform’s staff, but was expected to make some cuts to the company, according to Bloomberg. If confirmed, the layoffs would follow Musk’s decision to fire a variety of top executives as he took the helm, including former CEO Parag Agrawal and Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal.

Twitter did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

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What Some Schools Are Teaching Kids Is So Obscene, Parental Rights Activists Can’t Even Read It On TV

  • Under federal guidelines, TV and radio stations cannot air obscene content, some which parental rights in education advocates say are in school curriculums.
  • “When my kids were younger or just in my earlier life, I can’t think of a time that I would be talking about a children’s book, and I couldn’t discuss it on the radio. This is a new phenomenon where you cannot discuss what is in a book used for children,” Erika Sanzi, Parents Defending Education director of outreach, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
  • Parental rights in education advocates have been told to avoid talking about different types of sex and images which appear in several school districts’ sexual education curriculums.

Parents and parental rights advocates seeking to shed light on what is being taught in schools say television stations won’t even broadcast what’s in their school curriculums because it’s too obscene.

It is against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) guidelines to describe sexual conduct or feature any “grossly offensive” language on a radio or television broadcast. Parental rights in education advocates told the Daily Caller News Foundation that television and radio stations do not allow them to talk about the obscene curriculums and books allowed in schools.

“When my kids were younger or just in my earlier life, I can’t think of a time that I would be talking about a children’s book, and I couldn’t discuss it on the radio,” Erika Sanzi, director of outreach at Parents Defending Education, told the DCNF. “This is a new phenomenon where you cannot discuss what is in a book used for children.”

Sanzi told the DCNF that a producer at a television station told her she could not discuss the different types of sex that 10-year-olds learn in the “Human Growth and Development” curriculum of a Wisconsin school district due to FCC regulations.

“There was anal sex, oral sex and vaginal sex,” Sanzi told the DCNF. “She was like, ‘oh, my God, like you can’t say that.’ The main thing that she was telling me was that I couldn’t use explicit terms for body parts and I couldn’t describe these different types of sex that that the kids learn about.”

Sanzi said other television stations and radio stations have made similar requests, citing FCC guidelines.

Schools around the country often feature sexually explicit content in their curriculums; the New Jersey Department of Education’s sexual education standards teaches fifth graders all the ways “pregnancy can be achieved” and introduces eighth graders to all the types of sex, including anal sex.

Some school districts feature books such as “Gender Queer,” which depicts illustrations of the main characters masturbating and receiving oral sex, and “This Book Is Gay,” which teaches “boy-on-boy sex” and is described as an instruction manual for LGBTQ students.

Scarlett Johnson, head of Ozaukee, Wisconsin’s Moms For Liberty chapter, was told by a cameraman for WISN 12 News that the station could not air footage of her signs featuring images and language used in a Wauwatosa School District’s sexual education curriculum because it was too obscene, she told the DCNF.

“He said ‘I am going to have to blur the images so much that no one will be able to tell what they’re looking at.’ The language on there, there was anal sex, there was erection, wet dreams,” Johnson told the DCNF. “There were the graphic images of the condoms and then the images of the vulva, vagina, penis. And they all came straight from the curriculum.”

Johnson said to that because she cannot talk about the graphic images and material in schools, she is forced to talk about different aspects of sexual education curriculums that do not give the entire picture.

“Because of that, we never talked about the real issues. I’m just getting upset about it and upset that it’s always ‘oh, you just don’t want to read some some kindergarten book about gay parents or princess boys,” Johnson told the DCNF. “It’s so much more than that.”

Under FCC guidelines, obscene content is always prohibited, while indecent and profane content is not allowed to be aired between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. when “there is a reasonable risk that children may be in the audience.” Sanzi said she understands parents who raise concerns that the content not appropriate for public broadcast is in school curriculums.

“I certainly can understand why a parent would say if you can’t say it on the radio, and you can’t say it on TV and you can’t read it in a public board meeting, perhaps it’s not appropriate for our eight-year-olds,” Sanzi told the DCNF.

The FCC, New Jersey Department of Education, Hillsborough School District, Wauwatosa School District and WISN 12 did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

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Who is David DePape & What Really Happened in Paul Pelosi’s House?

UPDATE: Did It Only Take Carlson 47 Seconds to Destroy the Paul Pelosi Narrative?: ‘Who Exactly Is David DePape?’


The legacy media and Biden are all in trying to pin the attack on Paul Pelosi by David DePape on Trump supporters. Biden compared the attack on Paul Pelosi to the J6 Save America Rally in Washington, D.C.

Now that’s the kind of propaganda being pushed far and wide by Democrats and their legacy media outlets.

QUESTION: Does this narrative make any sense at all?

It is early in this case but there are some things that we do know from the San Francisco Police Department.

Let’s look at the facts and some other theories on what happened on Friday night at 2:30 a.m. PST in the Pelosi house.

Who is David Depape

While doing research on David DePape we came across this comment on a forum,

Makes hemp jewelry, lives in Berkeley, nude protestor….yea that every right wing extremist megamagarepublican hobbies

The details of this attack are unusual. According to MSNBC’s Andrew Blankstein, Tom Winter, Antonio Planas and Tim Stelloh,

Police Chief William Scott said during a Friday news conference that officers arrived at the Pelosi home for a well-being check shortly before 2:30 a.m. PT. Police then witnessed an attack on Paul Pelosi.

What is a well-being check?

According to San Francisco’s ABC7 News,

One of the highest number of calls San Francisco police officers respond to are “well-being checks,” according to the city’s data close to 18,000 calls in 2019.

MSNBC’s Blankstein, Winter, Planas and Stelloh then reported,

Both DePape and Paul Pelosi held a hammer moments before a violent confrontation, Scott said.

“The suspect pulled the hammer away from Mr. Pelosi and violently assaulted him with it,” he said. “Our officers immediately tackled the suspect, disarmed him, took him into custody, requested emergency backup and rendered medical aid.”

So, Paul Pelosi had the hammer first and then David DePape took the hammer from Pelosi and began beating him with it.

QUESTION: Why?

Here’s one theory as to the why,

While we cannot confirm that Paul and David were doing the nasty, what we can say is that there was a confrontation and both men had during the confrontation held the hammer that inflicted physical damage to Pelosi, according to the San Francisco Police Chief and eyewitness report of the officers who were called to the Pelosi house for a well-being check.

There are more questions to ask given Paul Pelosi’s recent run in with the California Highway Patrol (CHP) on a Napa roadway for driving while intoxicated. Watch this CBS Sacrament video report with CHP dash camera of Paul Pelosi.

According to the New York Post’s ,

The man accused of attacking Paul Pelosi with a hammer had been living in a school bus weeks before the attack, neighbors said.

Those who know David DePape, 42, told The Post they’ve seen him living in a yellow school bus parked in front of the Berkeley home of his ex, San Francisco pro-nudist activist Gypsy Taub, with whom he shares three children.

“He usually kept to himself,” neighbor Ryan La Coste told The Post. “He would just give us a blank stare when we would walk by. We tried to stay clear of him. … No one knew he was here because he would be on the bus or he just didn’t communicate.”

[ … ]

DePape’s neighbors, Margarita and Julio Gonzalez, said he used to live in the Victorian home with Taub and the children but at some point, began staying off-and-on in the two dilapidated school buses on the property.

“He is homeless … but I never seen him being violent,” Margarita Gonzalez told The Post. “He never had work. In the beginning when he lived with (Taub), he just stayed inside the home and she was the one who did the shopping and everything.”

When she heard about Pelosi’s attack, Margarita said she also was shocked her neighbor had been accused.

“I was surprised because I never saw him aggressive,” Margarita Gonzalez said. “I don’t think [the attack on Pelosi] was something personal. … Maybe there’s a mental problem with him.”

Reporter Michael Shellenberger wrote on his website,

But DePape’s politics have little rhyme or reason. In past years DePape shared a post about Stephen Colbert’s 2006 roast of President George W. Bush at the White House Correspondents dinner; linked to videos of Disney films altered to make it look like the characters were swearing; and claimed, “Jesus is the anti-Christ” — not exactly a litany of right-wing tropes.

And, as I discovered yesterday, DePape lived with a notorious local nudist in a Berkeley home, complete with a Black Lives Matter sign in the window and an LGBT rainbow flag, emblazoned with a marijuana symbol, hanging from a tree. A closer look reveals the characteristics of a homeless encampment, or what Europeans call “an open drug scene.” In the driveway, there is a broken-down camper van. On the street is a yellow school bus, which neighbors said DePape occasionally stayed in. Both are filled with garbage typical of such structures in homeless encampments. People come and go from the house and the vehicles, neighbors say, in part to partake in the use of a potent psychedelic drug, ibogaine. [Emphasis added]

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What is known to date:

  1. Paul Pelosi drinks to excess and was recently arrested by the California Highway Patrol when his car ran off the road. See video above.
  2. The San Francisco Chronicle identified DePape frolicking nude outside city hall with dozens of others at the 2013 wedding of pro-nudity activist Gypsy Taub, who was marrying another man.
  3. A 2013 article in The Chronicle described David DePape as a “hemp jewelry maker” who lived in a Victorian flat in Berkeley with Taub.
  4. David Depape sells necklaces made of hemp.
  5. David Depape lived in a yellow school bus.
  6. DePape was in the Pelosi home, which is interesting given that she is such a high ranking political figure you would think they had an alarm system.
  7. We don’t have the who, what, where, when and why the DePape/Pelosi confrontation began.
  8. It appears that first Paul Pelosi had hold of the hammer and then DePape took the hammer away from Pelosi and began beating him with it according to the police.
  9. According to the The Western Journal, “When police were sent to the home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband Paul around 2:30 a.m. Friday, they were told there was a man there waiting for Nancy, but he was described on the call as a ‘friend’.”
  10. Finally, the police photo of the alleged break-in via a patio window (click here to the view photo) shows that the broken glass is on the outside and not the inside. This indicates that the window was broken by someone in the house, not someone trying to get into the Pelosi house.
  11. On October 31st, Fox News reported that Paul Pelosi’s attacker was in The U.S. illegally.
  12. And, the U.S. Capitol Police had live video feed at Pelosi home but didn’t notice break-in.

Given the instantaneous response from the media that DePape was a “conspiracy theorist”, posted about QAnon and “racist” remarks and was according to the SF Police “someone with sprawling and contradictory views.”

Clearly it’s to early to tell what really happened on Friday.

David DePape does not fit the profile of a Trump supporter. DePape does fit the profile of a drug user who is down on his luck with a broken relationship who’s living in a broken down yellow bus in San Francisco, California. Beyond that we cannot, for the life of us, understand why DePape was in the Pelosi house other than to “see Nancy.”

As they say time will tell and eventually the truth will reveal itself.

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Roberto de Mattei: The mission of the Church and of the Vicar of Christ on earth is this and no other: to recall the saving truths that the world ignores or despises.


As of October 21, Italy has a new government: the best possible government at the worst historical moment since the birth of the Italian Republic in 1946.

What does it mean, the best possible government? It means that since politics is the art of the possible, those who govern cannot constitute an ideal government, but only that which reality permits. Giorgia Meloni has had to take into account the international and European context, which leaves very little autonomy to our country, because nation-states, after Maastricht, have been stripped of much of their sovereignty.

The premier must also keep in mind the media firepower of the so-called strong powers and the driving forces within a center-right coalition made up of different political souls. Like any man of politics, she can do what is concretely possible, while not forsaking a few basic principles that guide her.

And this appears to be the best government among those possible, because it is the first right-wing and conservative government of the Italian Republic since its foundation.

Silvio Berlusconi, who deserves a great deal of credit for having stopped the rise of communism in Italy in 1994, was and is a liberal in the European sense of the term, but he has always defined himself as a man of the center, rather than a conservative.

Giorgia Meloni is a woman of the right, in 2020 she was made president of the European Conservatives, a group whose cornerstones are the defense of the sovereignty of nation-states, the control of illegal immigration, freedom from arbitrary and oppressive taxation, the rejection of ideologies such as that of gender.

This grouping includes the Law and Justice party (PiS) that governs Poland. And everything leads one to think that Giorgia Meloni will follow, in terms of international policy, the approach of Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki rather than that of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. “We will not give in to Putin’s blackmail,” she said amid applause in the October 25 speech with which she won the confidence vote in the Chamber of Deputies.

In her first speech as premier, Giorgia Meloni condemned Nazism, fascism, and racial laws, and presented a vision of society founded on the values of the Western and European tradition: “We are the heirs of St. Benedict, an Italian, the principal patron of the whole of Europe.”

Businesses and families are at the center of Giorgia Meloni’s platform/manifesto. Businesses will get more help through tax cuts and support for investments aimed at the country’s economic development.

The family, she says, represents the “core of our societies, the cradle of the affections and the place where the identity of each one of us is formed. Therefore, we intend to support and protect it and, with this, to support childbearing, which in 2021 recorded the lowest birth rate from the unification of Italy until today, in order to emerge from the population freeze.

On immigration, she stated that the government wants to stop illegal departures and break the chain of human trafficking in the Mediterranean.

On the environment, she maintained that “there is no more convinced ecologist than a conservative; but what distinguishes us from a certain ideological environmentalism is that we want to defend the nature that has man in it.

Giorgia Meloni quoted a phrase of Roger Scruton’s, “one of the greatest masters of European conservative thought,” according to whom “ecology is the most vivid example of the alliance between those who are here, those who have been here, and those who will come after us.” “Protecting our natural heritage,” she added, “is no less a duty for us than is the safeguarding of our heritage of culture, traditions, and spirituality, which we have inherited from our fathers in order that we might pass it on to our children.”

The new Italian premier concluded her speech with these words:

The day our government took its oath before the head of state was the liturgical memorial of John Paul II, a pontiff, a statesman, a saint whom I had the honor of knowing personally. He taught me something fundamental that I have always treasured. ‘Freedom,’ he used to say, “does not consist in doing what we please, but in having the right to do what must be done.” I have always been a free person, I will always be a free person, and for this reason I intend to do precisely what I must do.

This government, however, finds itself facing a dramatic situation. Italy and the West have been at war since February 24, 2022. A hybrid war, but a real one, which has not yet reached its peak, and which could have serious repercussions not only in the military theater but also within individual nations, threatening the social fabric that ensures their survival and setting off phenomena of protest, even violence.

But the political and economic catastrophe that is threatening Europe as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, even before the geopolitical reasons, has its ultimate roots in the abandonment of the natural and Christian order on the part the West. The conflagration of war appears to be only the latest outcome of a historical process with cultural and moral origins.

It must be said that without special help from God a change of course appears humanly impossible. This help is obtained with prayer, which allows us to obtain the grace to follow the natural law.

The mission of the Church and of the Vicar of Christ on earth is this and no other: to recall the saving truths that the world ignores or despises. Paraphrasing Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, who said “he who prays is saved, he who does not pray is damned,” it’s worth repeating that when a nation returns to the natural and Christian order, it rises again. When it moves away from this, it plunges into chaos.

This is the fundamental crossroads before which the new Italian government finds itself, to which we extend our best wishes, assuring it of our prayers.

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ORLANDO, FL: Democrat Blows The Whistle On Staggering Allegations of Systemic Ballot Harvesting in Black Neighborhoods

Ballot harvesting is the practice in which political operatives collect absentee ballots from voters’ homes and drop them off at a polling place or election office. It may sound pretty innocuous, but this practice can and has been abused across the country. We saw this play out in the 2018 midterm elections in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District when a political operative abused the process of harvesting ballots, which resulted in the North Carolina State Board of Elections to call for reelection. — Committee on House Administration


The former candidate for Orange County commissioner describes widespread vote trafficking operation in Orlando area, authorities see enough evidence to warrant criminal probe. This is treason. Why hasn’t anyone been arrested?

Just the News is reporting that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ new election crimes unit has recommended state police open a full criminal investigation into a Democrat whistleblower’s detailed complaint of a long-running, widespread ballot harvesting operation in the African-American communities in politically important central Florida.

Background: In late August, former Orange County Commissioner candidate Cynthia Harris filed an affidavit with the Florida Secretary of State’s office alleging that ballot harvesters showed up at her home attempting to collect her ballot when she shut them down. Harris claims they are part of an illegal ballot-harvesting operation that’s been going on for years in the black community in the Orlando area. According to Harris, ballot harvesters are paid $10 for each ballot they collect.

Just the News reports- Harris described an intricate system funded by liberal-leaning organizations that dispatch ballot brokers into black communities to pressure voters to turn over their ballots. The $10 fee per ballot is divvied up among the parties who help complete the harvesting.

Harris explains:

You the candidate, or any political party, can find out when the absentee ballots are mailed and to whom. What happens is these ballot harvesters—they know which batch has gone out— they go to the door, and they ask you for your absentee ballot. Well, in communities that don’t look like me, no one does this, but in our community, it’s kind of like at accepted practices that the man is coming by to pick up my absentee ballot, or the lady is coming to pick up my absentee ballot.

And you know, it’s just utterly ridiculous that people don’t understand that once that ballot leaves your hand and it’s not placed in the mailbox or is not directly given to the supervisor of elections, you don’t know where it goes.  It’s possible that they throw them away—we’ve seen evidence of that. You see them, they steam open the ballots, and then they mis-mark them so that if it’s not for their candidate then that ballot is spoiled, so when people think that the numbers are low, it’s really not low, it’s just that someone has intercepted before it gets to the proper authorities

Cynthia Harris appeared on Just The News with John Soloman, where she explained what happened when the alleged ballot harvesters came to her door in 2017.

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In Orlando, Jaw-dropping Allegations of Systemic Ballot Harvesting in Black Neighborhoods

By Athena Thorne, PJM, October 27, 2022:

Florida’s new Office of Election Crimes and Security (OECS) has collected enough evidence of jaw-dropping systemic ballot harvesting in the Orlando area to recommend state law enforcement open a full criminal investigation. Ballot harvesting — the collection and casting of third-party ballots — can lead to fraud and is illegal in Florida.

Investigative news site Just The News obtained a statement from the Florida Department of State, confirming the OECS investigation:

“The Florida Department of State, Office of Election Crimes and Security (OECS) was made aware of this issue around September 1, 2022,” the department said. “After further inquiry, OECS received additional information related to the allegation on October 17, 2022, and performed a preliminary investigation.

“Since OECS is an investigative entity and does not [have] authority to make arrests, the office forwarded the complaint to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement for possible violation of section 104.0616, Florida Statutes,” it added.

Just The News reports that the OECS investigation was launched after Cynthia Harris, a former candidate for Orange County Commissioner, filed a sworn affidavit with the Florida Secretary of State’s office. In her affidavit, Harris described a long-standing, systemic ballot-harvesting operation in the Orlando area’s African-American communities. On Wednesday night, Harris appeared on Just the News, No Noise to discuss the electoral exploitation of black communities that she says has been going on for years.

“So what happens is, in our community, when absentee ballots are mailed, you, the candidate, or any political party can find out when the absentee ballots are mailed and to whom. What happens is these ballot harvesters, they know which batch has gone out, they go to the door and they ask you for your absentee ballot,” said Harris. “Well, in communities that don’t look like me [aka white communities], no one does this,” noted Harris, who is black. “But in our community, it’s kind of like an accepted practice that the man is coming by to pick up my absentee ballot, or the lady is coming to pick up my absentee ballot.”

Just The News reports that Harris “even recorded a ballot broker coming to her home in 2017 to collect her ballot, and obtained the script that harvester was given by her bosses to make the pitch for a voter to turn over their ballot.” Harris, a Democrat, alleges that the entire operation is funded by progressive organizations:

[Harris] filed a sworn affidavit in late August with the Secretary of State’s office alleging that illegal operations to collect third-party ballots have been going on for years in the Orlando area where voting activists are paid $10 for each ballot they collect.

She described an intricate system funded by liberal leaning organizations that dispatch ballot brokers into black communities to pressure voters to turn over their ballots. The $10 fee per ballot is divvied up among the parties who help complete the harvesting.

There is so much more in the report from Just The News that at this point I’m just going to send you there if you want to keep reading. But suffice it to say that, in her affidavit, Harris served up plenty of what sure sounds like actionable information and evidence.

Harris had long been frustrated with the alleged underhanded system in place in her community, but her motivation to finally come forward and swear out an affidavit likely stems from her own experience with wonky ballot counting last summer. Harris ran in the primary for Orange County Commissioner and came in second place on election night, pleased to have made it to the runoff stage. But during a recount, Harris told Just The News, her tally dropped by 14 votes, and she was declared the third-place winner. Her experience parallels what Republicans across the country have been pointing to for years as evidence of the need for greater election integrity.

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New Email Reveals Establishment’s Efforts to Oust Trump

A Concerted Campaign to Oust a Sitting President.


This was the real insurrection.

Was the country always this corrupt? And no one has been indicted or convicted. It’s staggering.

New Email Reveals Answer to Establishment’s Efforts to Oust Trump

By: Jeff Carlson and Hans Mahncke, The Epoch Times, October 28, 2022:

An FBI email previously not known to the public has revealed that the bureau planned to make Igor Danchenko—the primary source for British former spy Christopher Steele’s Trump dossier—a confidential human source (CHS) before it had even interviewed him.

The revelation, which was discovered as a result of special counsel John Durham’s case against Danchenko, indicates that the FBI deliberately targeted 2016 presidential candidate and later President Donald Trump with claims it already knew at the time to be false.

The email—of which only the subject line has been made public—was first uncovered by an internet sleuth who goes by the moniker “Walkafyre” and was included in hundreds of unused exhibits from Danchenko’s trial.

The FBI used Danchenko—who was acquitted last week on all charges of lying to the FBI—in its investigation of Trump, despite knowing that Danchenko had helped fabricate the dossier.

With the benefit of this new information, a renewed examination of the timeline between the Nov. 8, 2016, presidential election and the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller on May 17, 2017, reveals that the FBI—with the help of the Obama administration and Washington establishment figures—executed a concerted campaign to oust a sitting president.

Email Reveals FBI’s Plan for Danchenko

The newly discovered email was sent by FBI agent Kevin Helson to unknown recipients on Jan. 12, 2017. The email’s heading reads “Plan to Convert Danchenko into CHS.”

This email is critical for several reasons. It shows that the FBI intended to hide Steele’s main source behind CHS status after they had previously discovered Steele couldn’t back up the claims in his dossier despite their offer of $1 million to him for any corroboration. As a CHS, Danchenko also would be shielded from any external investigations—including those of Congress.

Of equal importance, Helson’s email also proves that the FBI planned to convert Danchenko into a CHS before the FBI had even interviewed Danchenko. Had they thought the dossier was real, there would have been no reason to hide Danchenko. Instead, the FBI would’ve been touting the existence of a crucial source.

The FBI proceeded to make him a CHS despite interviewing him several weeks later, in late January 2017, when Danchenko disavowed the claims in the dossier, saying during his interview that it was based on rumors and bar talk made in jest.

It had previously been assumed that the FBI only decided to make Danchenko a CHS after he had been interviewed.

This move by the FBI also directly coincided with President Barack Obama’s wishes expressed during a Jan. 5 White House intelligence briefing on the dossier that he wanted to withhold information from the incoming Trump administration.

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Oregon Prepared To Institute ‘One Of The Most Extreme’ Gun Restrictions In The Country

Oregon voters are considering passing one of the most restrictive gun control measures in the country that would raise the barriers to purchase a firearm and place gun owners on a searchable database.

Measure 114, often referred to as the Reduction of Gun Violence Act, is a ballot measure that will require background checks, firearm training, fingerprint collection and a permit to purchase any firearm, according to the legislation. Oregon already requires background checks for gun owners, and the new legislation will cost the state $49 million annually while also placing an expected 300,000 residents on a gun owner database, according to Fox News.

“This is the most extreme gun control measure in the country, or at least one of the most extreme. It will virtually eliminate firearm sales in Oregon as written,” Oregon State Shooting Association President Kerry Spurgin told Fox News.

The legislation would require those who wish to own a firearm to complete a gun safety course regulated by the police. The measure also would restrict magazine capacity to ten rounds, an issue gun control groups have prioritized for many years.

“This measure will not make our community safer. It will put our communities at greater risk for violence because it requires that every sheriff’s office and police agency divert scarce public safety resources to background systems that already exist,” Deschutes County Sheriff Shane Nelson said in a video statement, according to Fox News.

California maintains a similar database for owners of concealed carry permits, yet the Reduction of Gun Violence Act aims to place all gun owners on a database, according to the legislation. Data on gun owners from the California database was leaked in June, and gun rights advocates have argued that a centralized gun database will lead to an abuse of power.

The legislation was pushed on to the Nov. 8 midterm ballot by Lift Every Voice Oregon, which obtained over 130,000 signatures, Fox News reported. A Oct. 4 poll by The Oregonian shows that 51% of likely voters will support the measure in November.

Lift Every Voice Oregon did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

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