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School CRT Program Targets Babies?

November 6, 2021/in Education, Elections, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Judicial Watch

If you want a close look at the madness of critical race theory, look at what’s going on in Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS), Maryland’s largest school system. Little of this is connected to reality, and it’s no wonder parents everywhere are objecting.

We received two sets of records related to the teaching of critical race theory, including a training course with information about a book titled “Antiracist Baby” that introduces the youngest readers to “the concept and power of antiracism,” and says it’s the “perfect gift” for “ages baby to age 3.”

The documents also include information from a course titled, “Digital Literacy 3” at Thomas Pyle Middle School. The course’s curriculum includes activities where the children discuss the identification of their gender, religion, and sexual orientation. The course also includes the children using “propaganda” to lead social justice movements.

We received the documents in response to our Maryland Public Information Act request for:

All records related to the development and implementation of a “Psychoeducational Lesson” related to a purported “dual pandemic” of Covid- 19/systemic racism in use by the Montgomery County Public Schools. Such records shall include, but not be limited to, email communications between MCPS officials responsible for formulating and implementing the lesson, including but not limited to those communications of Dr. Cheree Price, in addition to all other policy documents regarding its development.

In a September 29, 2020, email from MCPS intern Benjamin Mourad in the “Student Well Being and Achievement” office of the Office of Student Support & Engagement, to Elizabeth Rathbone, Coordinator of Student Health and Wellness, Mourad provides a list of trainings offered in the summer of 2020 to MCPS staff. This training includes:

REQ: Restorative Justice Training on Restorative Circles, Mindfulness & Other Restorative Practices
School-based Critical Staff Member Training
Counselors as Equity Literate Leaders
Implementing Culturally Responsive PBIS (Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports)

In an August 26, 2020, email titled “COVID-19 Update” to MCPS principals, MCPS Associate Superintendent for the Office of Shared Accountability Janet S. Wilson advises the principals that “Non-custodial parents” who request Zoom login information [for access to school and potential Zoom events, like Back-to School Night] should not be granted connection information:

Additionally, parents should not login to Zoom classrooms and observe class when the child is not with them. If teachers note a parent logging in separately from their student, they should notify their principal who can seek support from OGC (Office of General Counsel) or Compliance as needed.

To support students at the start of the year, all schools will be required to implement a student psychoeducational lesson during one of the school’s mandatory Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) block before September 18, 2020. This lesson will provide students crisis facts about the dual pandemic (COVID-19 and systemic racism) that is occurring around the country and here in Montgomery County.

Wilson then presents the principals with a “website for staff, students and families that highlights ongoing professional learning opportunities for the virtual opening of schools. For staff training opportunities are focused around these key areas:

Technology
Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment
Pedagogy
Social-Emotional Well-Being and Coaching for Engagement/Success
Accessibility Tools for Instruction and Home
Equity
Health and Safety
Onboarding, Induction, Mentoring, Communication and Collaboration

She further notes: “The professional learning opportunities are grounded in equity and social-emotional learning to ensure that equitable environments are established in the virtual and traditional learning spaces. Professional learning opportunities will be updated throughout the year, so please check back frequently.”

In an instructional video for teachers on “Teacher Tips for SEL (Social and Emotional Learning) on Covid19/Social Justice,” in which the presenter first instructs teachers how to set up Zoom classes for students and how to adjust a feature in the Zoom chat setting to “alleviate the possibility of students saving and sharing the chat for later.” At the 6:30 mark, the presenter, in a slide titled “Covid-19 and social justice surrounding racism,” directs teachers to use a “scripted response”:

We are currently living through a dual pandemic with COVID-19 and the Systemic and Structural racism occurring worldwide. A pandemic is an outbreak of a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects an exceptionally high proportion of the population. As you can see from this slide [featuring a Black Lives Matter protest poster], both are affecting lives of people in our community and around the world. Part of what we will discuss today will surround facts about COVID-19 and the Social Justice Movement in our country.
In an October 8, 2020, email to MCPS principals and others about “psychoeducational lessons and curriculum updates,” Wilson reveals that there is a “Social Justice Book club for Grades 4-8.”In a September 11, 2020, email titled, “Psychoeducational Lesson Drop In support,” MCPS Director of Psychological Services, Dr. Christina Conolly tells MCPS faculty:

We have had a lot of staff members who have questions about the implementation of the social justice slides on the lesson. Please be available to coach and/or co-teach with a staff member that may not be at a place on their anti-racism journey to effectively teach that section of the lesson.

A PowerPoint presentation titled “Family Guidance to the Psychoeducational Lesson,” includes the following slides for parents:

“Secondary Slide: Dual Pandemic” includes a depiction of Black Lives Matter protesters along with police officers in Germantown, Maryland kneeling at a George Floyd protest, as well as the headlines, “What It’s Like to be Asian During the Coronavirus Pandemic” and “Why the Coronavirus Looks Different to Black America.”
“Elementary Slide: Some Facts about Racism and Social Justice” contains a link to a video titled “Antiracist Baby,” based on a book written by Ibram X. Kendi.
“Teacher’s Notes,” advises teachers that the “Antiracist Baby” book introduces the youngest readers to “the concept and power of antiracism,” and says it’s the “perfect gift” for “ages baby to age 3.”
A slide titled “Secondary: A Brief Anti-Racism Glossary,” notes “Systems of Oppression identifies inequity by calling attention to the historical and organized patterns of mistreatment. In the United States systems of oppression (like systemic racism) are woven into the very foundation of American culture, society, and laws. (Social Identities and Systems of Oppression, 2019)]
“Secondary: Common Initial Crisis Reactions,” lists symptoms that secondary school children may experience because of crisis include emotional, cognitive, physical and interpersonal/behavioral symptoms. The category of physical reactions includes “decreased libido” and “hyperarousal.”
“Can Students opt-out [of the psychoeducational lesson]?” includes the bullet point, “Students cannot opt-out of the lessons,” but parents may request “an alternative method” for their children “due to mental health concerns.”

In a PowerPoint presentation titled the “3rd through 5th Grade Psychoeducational Lesson” a slide labeled “COVID-19 and Social Justice” includes the claim that, “People in African American and Latinx communities have been more likely to get sick from COVID-19 because of how racism and unfairness impacts their lives.” [Emphasis in original]

In a presentation titled “High School Psychoeducational Lesson,” a link is provided to the “Educator and Caregiver Learning Guide from Disrupt Texts” for the book titled “Antiracist Baby.” In the book the authors note, “To White caregivers … Racism is a problem that was invented by White people, and it is the work of White people to dismantle it.” The authors add that it is the responsibility of White caregivers to “study Whiteness,” and advise that, “Indigenous, Black and People of Color are not ‘minorities’ but ‘People of the Global Majority’ (PGM).”

In a September 15, 2020, email exchange with the subject line “Message about SEL (Social and Emotional Learning) and Psychoeducational lesson,” Wilson and other officials discuss parents wanting their children to opt-out of Black Lives Matter lessons.

Wilson writes: “I want to put on your radar that this [opting out] may be related to the anti-racist curriculum initiatives.”

MCPS Area Associate Superintendent Cheryl Dyson, replies: “Agree, Janet and Diane. I’ve heard directly from principals and directors. Some principals have parents who want their child to opt-out from the Black Lives Matter lesson.”

Area Assoc. Superintendent Diane Morris then responds: “Yes, I think so.”

The next reply, from MCPS Chief of Engagement, Innovation, and Operations Derek Turner, is entirely redacted, as is a “high importance” reply by MCPS Admin. Services Manager Felicia Yorro.

The new records include a draft activity assignment titled “Personal Identity Character Sketch” in which students were told to “focus on the intersectionality of your culture and another way that you identify yourself (your race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, class or another identity factor not listed here).” The assignment was adapted from the book “Courageous Conversations.”

A slide titled, “Five Approaches to Social Justice Activism” includes the section “Food, Festivals & Fun:”

Activism at this stage is based on cultural events and “celebrating diversity,” usually through cross-cultural programs and activities. Events tend to focus on surface-level cultural awareness, and often actually contribute to the stereotypes they are meant to challenge. People at the Food, Folks, and Fun stage might host an International Fair, a Multicultural Night, or a Diversity Fashion Show. Although these events have the potential to bring people together across difference, they do not have the potential to address injustices such as racism, sexism, classism, or homophobia.

The handout further notes that, “charitable giving” to such organizations as Amnesty International is a route people often choose “that will ease their own conscience, but don’t want to associate in any deeper way with a particular cause.” The handout also discusses volunteerism and is critical of “savior syndrome,” which it defines as when, “wealthy kids are sent into poor neighborhoods to do service-learning, but never discuss how their relative wealth is connected with the relative poverty of the people inhabiting those neighborhoods.” [Emphasis in original]

A draft presentation created by Montgomery County Public Schools Secondary Literacy Instruction is titled “Digital Literacy 3, Quarter 2: When Justice Isn’t Served” and features a “No Justice No Peace” logo, and features the following slides:

“Scenarios of Injustice” describes a group activity where the students, “Work together with your group to determine how you would address your scenario of injustice,” and “Everyone must prepare to present your ideas to the class.”
This activity includes a section where students are provided with a “Scenario of Injustice” to discuss and write down ideas about. In this scenario, students are told that they witnessed two men – one black and one white – fighting in a parking lot. Police arrive and separate the men -forcing the black man to the ground, handcuffing and putting him in the police car. The police question the white man who, “shakes hands with the policemen and walks away.”

The “Digital Literacy 3, Quarter 1” presentation features several “Graphic Organizers:”

Under the heading “Common Task, Gender Roles Reflection Graphic Organizer,” is a draft slide titled, “Reflecting on Gender Roles in My Life,” in which students are asked to “Describe when and how you first recognized your gender as part of your identity. It could have been in a positive, negative or neutral way.” It further asks the children to “Briefly describe how you felt about being a member of your gender group(s) in different aspects and stages of your life.”
Under the heading “Race Reflection Graphic Organizer” is a draft slide titled, “Reflecting on Race In My Life” that asks students to, “Describe when and how you first recognized race. It could have been in a positive, negative or neutral way.” Students are further asked about the race of their family members: “Are your parents the same race? Are your brothers and sisters? What about your extended family-uncles, aunts, etc?”
The “Religion Reflection Graphic Organizer” features a draft slide titled, “Reflecting on Religion in My Life,” and asks students to “Describe when and how you first recognized your religion. It could have been in a positive, negative or neutral way.” It further asks “Did you feel threatened, minoritized or privileged in this moment? Why?” and “Where do you go to worship?” and “Did your belief become stronger as you became older?”
The “Sexual Orientation Reflection Graphic Organizer” slide titled “Reflecting on Sexual Orientation in My Life” asks the children to “Describe when and how you first recognized your sexual orientation.”

A presentation titled “Social Justice Movement: Making a Difference” includes:

A set of slides that prompt students to “Create a timeline for your chosen social justice movement …” In this activity, the students are taught that a “catalyst” is “something that quickly causes change or action: such as “art, music, speeches, events, laws, movies, court cases, pop culture, propaganda, and literature.”

A presentation titled: “Researching Important Leaders and Organizations” includes:

A slide titled “Social Justice Leaders” that includes a picture of a Black Lives Matter protester with an upraised fist and long-time Communist Party USA member Angela Davis.

This material details how extremist race politics and CRT are being used to target children for political ends. Politics should immediately be removed from the curriculum of Montgomery County Schools. These CRT-laden teachings have no place in any American classroom.

AOC: Terry McAuliffe Lost Because He Didn’t Embrace Socialism Enough

November 5, 2021/in Elections, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Video/by Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.)

“Stupid is as stupid does.” – Forrest Gump

“There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force; socialism by vote” – Ayn Rand

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.” ― George Orwell, 1984

Just when you thought that Democrats couldn’t become more out of touch with reality we have a statement from Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (a.k.a. AOC).

OCASIO-CORTEZ EXCERPT:

“I think that the results show the limits of trying to run a fully 100 percent super moderated campaign that does not excite, speak to, or energize a progressive [Socialist/Communist] base, and frankly we weren’t even really invited to contribute on that race.”

Watch:

I wrote a column titled “Do Democrats Suffer From An Extreme Case Of Confirmation Bias?” In it I wrote:

It appears that Democrats are in denial when it comes to bad policy. The recent elections in Virginia, New York and elsewhere have interestingly revealed something that is called “confirmation bias.” Democrats just can’t seem see how voters disagree with them and their current economic, social, national security and cultural policies.

It is clear that AOC fits my conclusion that she and her fellow Red-Kool-Aid drinkers are stuck in George Orwell’s book 1984. Covid mandates are now the weapon of choice to control our culture. We are without a doubt in a cultural war for the hearts and minds of every American citizen.

It is now clear that Democrats want to enslave us by buying our votes with government largesse. You see there are a growing number of Americans who now “vote for a living” than work for a living.

I look forward to the 2022 mid-term elections with a new confidence and greater hope that we will restore our Constitutional Republican form of government.

Let us all pray that it comes to be so.

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Do Democrats Suffer From A Deadly Case Of Confirmation Bias?

November 5, 2021/in Commentary, Elections, Policy, Politics, Science, Social Issues/by Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.)

“Confirmation bias, the tendency to process information by looking for, or interpreting, information that is consistent with one’s existing beliefs.” – Britannica

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” ― George Orwell, 1984

Confirmation bias, a phrase coined by English psychologist Peter Wason, is the tendency of people to favor information that confirms or strengthens their beliefs or values, and is difficult to dislodge once affirmed.

It appears that Democrats are in denial when it comes to bad policy. The recent elections in Virginia, New York and elsewhere have interestingly revealed the Democrat Party’s “confirmation bias.” Democrats just can’t seem see how voters disagree with them and their current economic, social, national security and cultural policies.

To understand watch the below video of Democrat-Socialist Alexandra Ocaseo-Cortez take on the red wave in Virginia:

Democrats expect, and in some cases (e.g. Covid jabs) demand that everyone agree with their mandated and biased policies or else lose their jobs, freedoms, health, welfare and human rights.

Democrats and Their Confirmation Biases

We have written about key biases held by Democrats. Biases that even science says are false. However, because these biases fit the Democrat Party narrative (i.e. confirmation bias) they are seen as undeniable facts, and not biased fictions and lies.

Here are a few examples of Democrat confirmation biases:

Individuals can choose their gender, science be damned. This confirmation bias is based upon the LGBTQ+ agenda that says there’s no male or female but rather anything one can come up with that they believe. Medical News Today lists 72 genders including: neutral gender, null-gender, genderless, neutrois, androgyne, bigender, butch, cisgender and on and on. This reminds me of Forrest Gump’s statement, “Stupid is as stupid does.” This isn’t science its stupidity.
Mankind can control the climate (weather), simply by passing legislation, mandating we use green energy and throwing trillions of dollars at it. This confirmation bias is not based on science. Rather it is based on a false belief that if we don’t do something the earth will end as we know it. It is the confirmation bias of the environmentalist movement.
All white people are racists and supremacists. This has become the rallying cry of Democrats even in the face of the truth. As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., said, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.” As Americans we must judge people by their character not by anyones skin color. While we are all born equal nature and nurturing make us unique and different. Those who make bad decisions end up paying the price for their mistakes.
We must tax the rich. Taxations is the ultimate weapon of Democrats. Tax and spend is their mantra. From FDR to Biden today we are seeing massive spending bills coming out of the Democrats controlled Congress. As we write this Congress is voting on a $1.7 trillion spending bill filled with pork. The problem with taxing the rich is that eventually every taxpaying American feels the pinch. When the cost of fuel, food and services goes up, as it is under the Biden Build Back Better agenda, then everyone is getting taxed.
Islam is our friend and Jews (and Israel) are our enemies. The struggle between Islam and the rest of the world has been going on for over fourteen hundred years. Perhaps the flash point is the Israel and Palestinian conflict. We have seen, since 9/11 a growing effort to embrace Islam as a “religion of peace” when the actions of the followers of Mohammed is anything but peaceful. Yet we see Jews who are Democrats embrace confirmation bias in fear that they will be called Islamophobic. Which is worse, being called a name or having your throat cut?
Communism is better than free markets. We are seeing today how corporations in America are embracing Democrat policies over providing goods and services to their customers. In the first months of Hitler’s chancellorship, the Nazis instituted a policy of “coordination”—the alignment of individuals and institutions with Nazi goals. Institutions like: the public school system, corporations, social media platforms and even manufacturers have aligned themselves with the Democrat’s confirmation biases. Under Hitler culture, the economy, education, and law all came under Nazi control. So it is today with Biden and the Democrats’ Build Back Better agenda. EXAMPLE: Consider the 2019 controversy surrounding the Betsy Ross flag. When, shortly before Independence Day, Nike announced its plans to release an athletic shoe featuring the Betsy Ross flag, Nike spokesman Colin Kaepernick objected, condemning the flag as a symbol of racism and slavery. A social media storm followed. Consequently, Nike announced that it was halting production of the shoe. This controversy was trivial. But the episode points to something else. What is NOT trivial is the attempt to spread anti-American ideology into every area of American life and the fact that too many in positions of authority immediately retreat when confronted by “political correctness” and anti-Americanism.
Confirmation bias in public schools. The FBI has declared that parents who oppose Critical Race Theory taught in public schools are domestic terrorists. We have reported that our public schools no longer teach our children how to think, rather they are determined to teach our children what to think. Public schools have become propagandists for the LGBTQ+ movement. Public schools are not the places to teach children about this kind of perverted behaviors. What happened to public schools teaching our children to read, write and do arithmetic? This is just the tip of the iceberg. John Brownbill from the Save America Foundation wrote: I have to tell you all if I had kids in public schools anywhere in this country I would remove them and home school them. I would have probably gone to jail had my kids been at any of the above scenarios. How do parents keep their hands off these sick people in positions of authority that seek to further their sick and perverted ideology on our kids?
Confirmation bias in the Fourth Estate. Our government has three official branches—the executive, legislative, and judicial. But there is a fourth unofficial branch that is just as important. Thomas Jefferson once described what the fourth branch was. He wrote: “The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” Today we have a biased government and a biased press. Perhaps no where else is confirmation bias more evident than in the Fourth Estate. The term “fake news” is the best description of media obsessed and biased against telling the truth. What we now have is political propaganda, not news. This is especially true with the social media platforms of Facebook, Twitter and Google. Some notable exceptions are: Breitbart, The Ledger Report and the soon to be launched app TRUTHsocial.

Conclusion

Some may say that Christians are biased toward their beliefs. This is true as it is with those who follow Mohammed. The difference is in their actions toward one another. Christians love their neighbors, Islamists kill them.

One could say that conservatives (i.e. Republicans) are biased in their beliefs. That is true. Conservatives believe that the U.S. Constitution is truly the law of the land and guarantees each American citizen with the God given rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Which bias do you hold? How do you look at what is going on today in your home, community, city, county, state and nation?

Do you suffer from confirmation bias or do you seek the truth, which will set you free?

We believe that “extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” We are conservatives with a conscience.

What are you?

Since the November 2021 special elections the Democrats are going through Kubler-Ross’ stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression. But will they accept what happened this November at the polls or continue their confirmation biases and party on as if nothing has changed?

The mid-term elections in 2022 may once again prove that we the people are fed up with the Democrat Party.

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CARTELVILLE USA: Mexican Drug Cartels Take Over Small Town California

November 5, 2021/in Courts & Law, Elections, Immigration, Must Read, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Daily Caller

A Daily Caller undercover investigation has revealed Mexican drug cartels buying up land on the outskirts of Los Angeles to run illegal grow operations and training camps.

Join the Daily Caller’s Jorge Ventura as he ventures behind enemy lines in an American small town that’s become ground-zero for the new war on drugs and the losing battle against illegal immigration.

Watch as terrified citizens and an overwhelmed sheriff’s office struggle to keep control of their own backyards, within the borders of the United States, while Liberal leadership and corporate media turn a blind eye.

Going where others refuse to go, our reporters probe deep into the crumbling underbelly of California’s desert border towns as they feel the crush of lax drugs laws, unfettered illegal immigration and ruthless Mexican cartels.

Click here for a map of cartels near you in America.

Watch The Full Video On How Illegal Drug Cartels Have Seized Control In Small Town California

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— 2024 (@loveusa2018) November 12, 2021

VIDEO: Are Globalists Sabotaging Fertilizer Factories and Transport to Set Stage for a Crop Collapse in 2022?

November 5, 2021/in Economy, Elections, Policy, Politics, Science, Social Issues, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.)

Are globalists and environmentalists working to cause a collapse of our precious food chain? By harming the food chain they cause food prices to go up but even worse cause people to die of starvation. Is this the goal of the globalists and their environmentalist partners, population control? We have seen a major issue with the supply chain in the United States. Ships off of the Western seaboard are languishing because unions don’t want to work 24-7 to unload them.

Is this supply chain issue just the tip of a much bigger iceberg to undermine our food chain?

Health Ranger Report notes:

We now know that the globalist genocidal war against humanity is a multi-vectored assault on every system that sustains human life: Biology, energy, economics, freedom, self-ownership of your body and so on. Now, we have new information that reveals the food scarcity attack vector is targeting the fertilizer supply chain in order to unleash massive crop failures in 2022.

Fertilizer plants are being shuttered and freight trains that deliver fertilizer are being sabotaged. Energy prices are also forcing many plants to close down around the world, while China has put in place a phosphate export embargo against Western nations.

Crop production for 2022 is going to be catastrophic. The famine is “baked in” and now cannot be reversed until energy supplies are restored (and that’s not happening).

Watch this Health Ranger Report video and you be the judge.

It’s the culture war, stupid!

November 5, 2021/in Elections, Featured, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues/by MercatorNet - A Compass for Common Sense

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.” ― George Orwell, 1984

Elections that follow a Presidential race routinely trend against the party in the White House, so Republicans were expected to do well in the assorted votes that took place around the country this week.

But no one quite expected Tuesday’s results.

In Virginia — a state Biden won by ten points last year and that has been blue since the Obama years — the GOP snatched the offices of Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General.

Glenn Youngkin defeated Democratic candidate and former Governor Terry McAuliffe, while Winsome Sears took the lieutenant governor position and Jason Miyares becomes the state’s new Attorney General.

Republicans are also on track to take back the state’s lower legislative chamber, erasing a ten-point Democrat majority.

Even more surprising was the GOP’s performance in New Jersey. Blue since the days of Bill Clinton, New Jersey was supposed to be a walk in the park for incumbent Governor Phil Murphy, who enjoyed a ten-point lead in the polls. While Murphy is still projected to win, Democrats are rattled: if Murphy succeeds, he will only be putting down his Republican rival by a thousand or so votes.

In another blow for New Jersey Democrats, former truck driver Edward Durr, who spent only $153 on his general election campaign, is set to oust Democratic Senate President Steve Sweeney. Sweeney is the longest-serving legislative leader in the state’s history.

I LOVE @edwarddurr1's campaign video! pic.twitter.com/exQmVhvcY8

— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) November 3, 2021

Meanwhile, the Daily Wire reports that the New York GOP this week posted its best statewide results since 2016, and Republicans turned from blue to red a Texas seat that has a 75 percent Hispanic population.

Tuesday’s election results have been widely seen as a repudiation of the Biden agenda. Biden’s approval rating has fallen more at this point in his presidency than any other commander-in-chief since the Second World War.

Soaring inflation, worker shortages, a supply chain crisis, a collapsed southern border and the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal have seen Biden’s approval numbers bogged in the low 40s for several months.

Across the board, commentators have suggested that these results spell disaster for Democrats at next year’s midterms. Pollsters have echoed the same. “Needless to say, tonight’s results are consistent with a political environment in which Republicans would comfortably take back both the House and Senate in 2022,” tweeted Cook Political Report’s Dave Wasserman.

Needless to say, tonight's results are consistent w/ a political environment in which Republicans would comfortably take back both the House and Senate in 2022.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 3, 2021

So whence the red tsunami?

If there is a single takeaway from this week’s results, it is that American voters are far more engaged in the culture wars now than in any past election. While the economy and Covid mandates were also on the table, the role of parents in education was a leading concern. This was especially true in Virginia.

“Republicans are looking to education as a winning issue ahead of next year’s midterm elections after putting it front and center propelled the party to a clear victory in Virginia on Tuesday,” reported The Hill.

The New York Times was even more blunt: “After Terry McAuliffe stumbled to defeat … a mild suggestion seems in order: Democrats probably need a new way to talk about progressive ideology and education.”

Virginia has been ground zero for a nationwide showdown between parents and school boards. For parents, the issues have been at least twofold: the sexualisation of their children through transgender bathroom policies and curriculum; and critical race theory which is souring race relations, especially in urban centres.

Youngkin stood with parents on these issues; McAuliffe stood in their way. The rest is history.

“I don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”
-Terry McAuliffe

Virginia. Remember this tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/NAxGJHdO9G

— Benny (@bennyjohnson) November 2, 2021

It also didn’t help that nationally, Democrats and their progressive institutions have been characterising dissenting parents as “domestic terrorists” and a threat to national security.

As conservative pundit Candace Owens put it, “I’m very surprised to learn that classifying parents as domestic terrorists for not wanting their children to learn racist and pornographic material in school is not a winning election strategy. Who knew.”

Clearly, calling Republican and Independent voters “racist” for harbouring such concerns was unsuccessful. But this hasn’t stopped progressive commentators from repeating the same slur in Tuesday’s aftermath.

Too bad for them that the face of “white supremacy” is now a son of Cuban migrants, and the first foreign-born black woman to assume a statewide office in Virginia.

Lieutenant Governor Elect Winsome Sears: "There are some who want to divide us and we must not let that happen. They would like us to believe we are back in 1963 when my father came…In case you haven’t noticed, I am black, and I have been black all my life." pic.twitter.com/NoJJc6qxBe

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) November 3, 2021

Too bad for them that making race and gender incidental — not central — is how to win the culture war. And elections.

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VIDEO: ‘Inside the World of Sharia’ by Anni Cyrus

November 5, 2021/in Policy, Politics, Religion, Social Issues/by Jamie Glazov

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.” ― George Orwell, 1984

This new Glazov Gang episode features Anni Cyrus, an artist, founder of Live Up To Freedom and producer of The Glazov Gang.

Anni discusses Inside the World of Sharia, revealing how Sharia is a supremacist law system and a tool of war.

ABOUT ANNI CYRUS

Iranian-born Anni Cyrus was married at 13 to a complete stranger in his middle 30s. When she didn’t do what he wanted her to, he beat her. Cyrus escaped to Turkey when she was 15 and made her way to the U.S. three years later. Now a U.S. citizen and human rights activist, she is speaking and writing to raise awareness and to help other girls and women like her.

Cyrus was born in the Islamic Republic of Iran after the 1979 Revolution, when the shah was overthrown and replaced by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. When Khomeini became supreme leader of Iran, he imposed sharia law, the legal code based on the Koran and other Islamic scripture. In his first speech upon his return to Iran, Khomeni decreed that the marriage age for women would change from 18 to 9.

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A Premeditated Crime Against America’s Most Disadvantaged Children

November 4, 2021/in Courts & Law, Culture War, Education, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Taxes, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by John Eidson

Why are America’s prisons filled with so many young black men? Are they inherently bad? Too shiftless to succeed? Too stupid to learn? Actually, none of the above. Most black men who do time were cheated out of a decent education by the inexcusably sorry public schools they had no choice but to attend.

And why do so many young black women fall into the demeaning lifestyle of government dependency? Are they inherently bad, too shiftless to succeed, too stupid to learn? In every case, no. Like their male counterparts, they too were robbed of a decent education by the grossly substandard public schools that failed to give them even a minimally acceptable education.

INFLICTING INCALCULABLE HARM ON GENERATIONS OF URBAN CHILDREN

The harm America’s biggest school systems have inflicted on urban kids who want to learn has gone on for so long that it’s tantamount to a premeditated crime against the most disadvantaged children in our society.

Consider the plight of minority students who have no choice but to attend the horrendous public schools in the nation’s capitol. For the school year 2010-2011, the District of Columbia Public School District spent nearly $600,000 per classroom of 20 students—$29,345 per pupil, to be exact—yet 8^th graders in the District finished dead last in a national proficiency test in math and reading. Dead last!

For that school year, DC’s public schools were the uncontested winner in the race to the bottom, with every other urban school district in America breathing a sigh of relief that they were edged out as the worst of the worst. From border to border and coast to coast, inner-city children are being robbed of a chance to learn by school systems that give little more than lip service to providing disadvantaged kids with a good education.

SPENDING MONEY LIKE IT GROWS ON TREES

Since the 1960s, urban school districts have received astounding sums from the U.S. Department of Education, yet their abysmal results have repeated like a broken record year after year after year. The 2009 stimulus bill signed into law by President Obama allocated $98 billion of additional funding to the DOE, nearly all of which went to the same Democrat-run school systems that have failed decades on end to adequately educate minority children.

Despite that intolerable failure, their answer to the problem is always more money.

But while children who want, need and deserve a decent chance to learn are getting the educational shaft, school superintendents and legions of other lavishly-paid, off-campus administrators are taking gargantuan bites out of school budgets:

From 1999-2010, Beverly Hall was superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools, a system that habitually graduated less than half its high school students. The year before she resigned, Hall’s compensation package included a chauffeured limousine and a salary of $389,000, more than twice the salary received by Georgia’s governor. Atlanta is not alone—many big-city school superintendents are paid more than their state’s governor. As head of one of the worst-performing school districts in American history, the superintendent of Baltimore City Schools is paid $320,000, $50,000 more than Maryland’s governor.
When federal grants—also known as political slush funds—land in their lap, urban school districts squander much of the money on lavish junkets disguised as “education conferences.” With one of the lowest high school graduation rates in the Atlanta area, the DeKalb County School District blew through a $382,000 grant from Obama’s 2009 stimulus spending by treating 184 senior administrators to a relaxing four-day stay at a luxury resort hotel & spa in Hollywood, California.

SCHOOL CHOICE: A WAY OUT FOR URBAN KIDS WHO WANT TO LEARN

The surest way to ensure that inner city children receive a quality education is through federally-funded school choice vouchers. Established in 2004 as a school choice pilot project by President George W. Bush and a Republican Congress, the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program provided thousands of minority students in the nation’s capitol with $7,500 scholarships.

The program enabled 1,700 black and Hispanic kids from low-income families to get out of DC’s notoriously sorry and unsafe public schools, and into the same kind of safe, high-performing private academies attended by the likes of Chelsea Clinton and the Obama daughters. Although the program was enthusiastically supported by eager-to-learn minority kids and their parents, President Obama and Democrats in Congress terminated it in 2010 at the behest of teachers unions, the Democratic Party’s most loyal constituency.

Sixty years ago, a black baby who would never set foot in a public school was born to a mother who chose to enroll him in top-rated private academies as he grew up. So what impact did private schooling have on his life? He’s done quite well. His name? Barack Hussein Obama, who exercised school choice for his own children, but denied it to disadvantaged children in the nation’s capitol.

President Trump pushed hard for a federally funded, 50-state school choice program for urban kids from low-income families, but was obstructed at every turn by the unholy alliance between the Democratic Party and teachers unions. Democrats eagerly subsidize Planned Parenthood so the lives of unborn urban babies can be snuffed out by abortion, yet are fiercely hostile to providing a first-rate education to disadvantaged minority children whose mothers chose to give them a shot at life.

THE PUBLIC SCHOOL PECKING ORDER

The following quote is attributed to Albert Shanker, former president of the American Federation of Teachers: “When school children start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing children.” Whether Shanker said that is disputed. But even if he didn’t, that’s the attitude teachers unions and Democrats have about where children stand in the public school pecking order.

The mutually back-scratching alliance between Democrats and teachers unions has cynically exploited urban school children for six consecutive decades. The harm they have inflicted on generations of America’s most disadvantaged young people has been so thorough, so devastating that it’s hard to conclude anything other than they couldn’t care less about the fate of the very children for whom they piously profess infinite concern.

Below are links to short videos that will break your heart. The first shows eager-to-learn minority students in the nation’s capitol literally begging President Obama to save their opportunity scholarships; the second shows a bewildered African American mother asking why oh why did the president she’d enthusiastically supported kill her daughter’s school choice scholarship. Who gives a damn about urban school children who want, need, and deserve to learn? Not Democrats or teachers’ unions.

WATCH: Disadvantaged kids beg President Obama …

WATCH: Bewildered mother asks Obama why …

Did Virginia Save America from Civil War?

November 4, 2021/in Commentary, Elections, Policy, Politics, Social Issues/by Save America Foundation

“Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.” – Arnold Palmer

It appears that Americans, many of whom had voted illogically for a mentally challenged criminal pervert because of an inane hatred of President Trump, have come to their senses.

Was it buyers remorse? I am sure that played a huge part as they have witnessed 10 months of Biden’s agenda as it destroyed this country faster than anyone envisaged.

Was it Scott Smith, who was arrested during a raucous June 22 school board meeting in Virginia when he protested the violent rape of his daughter by a pervert, supposed transgender freak in a skirt, in a neutral gender school bathroom.

Was it when the school district said it never happened as they moved the transgendered freak to another school where he did the same thing?

Was it the lies Virginia’s Governor told about CRT not being taught in Virginia school districts? ( knowing full well it was!)

Was it the Virginian Governor staying parents shouldn’t have an opinion on what is taught to their kids in tax payer funded schools?

Was it Virginia’s choice of Lt. Governor, a black former marine born in Jamaica , who ran as a Republican with a conservative pro America agenda?

This last Tuesday saw the beginnings of the hopeful demise of the extreme left of the Democrat Party, as candidates supported by the AOC Squad were demolished. Defund the police candidates were soundly beaten. The Clinton influence was expelled.

We witnessed the total nervous breakdown of the lefts favorite MSNBC and CNN political hosts. The weeping and gnashing of teeth could be heard all over this beautiful Constitutional Republic! It was sheer joy to watch them becoming unhinged!

We also saw the big names like Obama, the idiotic VP Kamala Harris and Biden’s influence severely curtailed. Interestingly I thoroughly agreed for the first time ever with something Kamala Harris said, “What happens in Virginia will in large part determine what happens in 2022, 2024 and on,”. IT SURE WILL!

So, I give Virginia a huge shout out because it was a bad day for Democrats but a great day for the United States of America. A great day for freedom. Unfortunately, bad days for Democrats and good days for America are synonymous of each other. The truth is the Democrats truly hate the United States of America and everything it has ever stood for whereas conservative patriots love the United States, it’s constitution and everything that it has ever stood for with a deep passion and a willingness to die should it be needed to preserve it all.

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The Pilgrims Learned of Socialism’s Worthlessness: Why Can’t We?

November 4, 2021/in Commentary, Culture War, Elections, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues/by Jerry Newcombe, D. Min.

Socialism, one of history’s worst ideas, has been disproved repeatedly and without exception. Yet it keeps rearing its ugly head—constantly being rebranded as a good idea.

Socialism only benefits the ruling class who implement this form of government theft.

Amazingly, early America had an experiment in socialism. The Pilgrim settlers tried socialism for two years–and it nearly killed them.

In his book, Socialism: The True History from Plato to the Present, William J. Federer quotes the socialistic bylaws imposed on the Pilgrims by those London merchants who funded the creation of their colony.

Under this agreement with these investors, the members of Plymouth Colony agreed to pool all their goods, and all the rewards of their labor, with each person being entitled to an equal share of it. No matter how hard or little you worked, you would get the same.

For our Providence Forum documentary, “The Pilgrims,” we interviewed Leo Martin, the founder of the Jenney Museum (Learning Center) in Plymouth.

Martin told me, “So now the Pilgrims come over here virtually in a socialistic situation, a communal living, where everybody at the plantation worked in the same field, grew their food, then at the end of the season, they simply evenly split with each other what they produced.”

We also interviewed Dennis Prager, founder of PragerU, for this special. He told me, “The Pilgrims did experiment with socialism or communalism, and they realized it didn’t work. It is against human nature. The moment you tell people that the community will take care of you, they work less. It undermines character.”

And that is precisely what happened. Governor William Bradford, the leader of the Pilgrims, who was their governor for about three decades, was also their key chronicler. His book, Of Plymouth Plantation, documents their amazing story, which includes the first Thanksgiving—the 400th anniversary of which we celebrate this month.

Bradford called some of the Pilgrim leaders together to, in our modern parlance, brainstorm on how to increase production of their corn. The conclusion was to abolish this “common stock” stipulation, instead giving each person or family their own land and letting them enjoy the fruits of their labor without being forced to work for others, so “that they might not still thus languish in misery.”

It worked. Abandoning socialism and implementing private land ownership and free enterprise increased production dramatically.

Bradford writes, “This had very good success, for it made all hands very industrious…The women now went willingly into the field, and took their little ones with them to set corn; which before would allege weakness and inability; whom to have compelled would have been thought great tyranny and oppression.”

Bradford admits that they had fallen for “the vanity of that conceit of Plato’s…as if they were wiser than God.” Plato is credited with being the first to present socialism—holding property in common.

When the Ten Commandments say, “Thou shalt not steal” (which implies private property). God does not add the stipulation, “unless thou art the government.” Socialism is theft by the government, taking by force what one has earned to redistribute it to one who has not earned it.

We give thanks that the Pilgrims learned of the bankruptcy of socialism before it was too late.

Leo Martin says it is a great thing that the Pilgrims abandoned socialism when they did because it helped them become productive and prosperous. Martin notes, “Did you know that today ten percent of the population of the United States are Mayflower descendants? Thirty million people from fifty-one.”

The Pilgrims were so grateful for what God had done for them that they set aside time to thank Him for His many blessings. Thanksgiving is an annual holiday reminding us of our nation’s Christian roots.

But socialism not only undercuts productivity. It undercuts thanksgiving to God.

Jesus said we are to pray to “Our Father which art in heaven.” Socialism teaches in effect, we should pray, “Our Father which art in Washington” as we depend on the government to provide for more and more of our needs.

The Pilgrims were godly people who sacrificed all their comforts so they could worship Jesus in the purity of the Gospel. They were very caring people who sought to fulfil the command to “love thy neighbor as thyself.”

If the Pilgrims found that socialism didn’t work for even them, how can we expect socialism to work for anybody, including those who are just selfish and waiting to get by off of the sweat of their neighbor’s brow? In short, once again, socialism proved to be a bad idea.

Isn’t it time humanity learned this repeated lesson from history once and for all? Socialism never ceases to fail everywhere it is tried.

Netanyahu vs Olmert—Comparing Chalk & Cheese

November 4, 2021/in National Security, Policy, Politics, Religion, Social Issues/by Dr. Martin Sherman

While it may be inappropriate that someone under criminal indictment should be a candidate for, or serve, as prime minister, it is far more inappropriate that he/she be precluded from doing so by abuse of the legal system.

We have a prime minister mired up to his neck in investigations. He has no public or moral mandate to determine matters of such crucial importance for the State of Israel. There is concern—which I must say, is real and not unfounded—that he will make decisions based on his own self-interest of political survival, and not on that of the national interest…because he is in such profoundly deep distress—Benjamin Netanyahu, Channel 2 News, 2008.

Q: The determination that positive media coverage should be considered “bribery” is a legal precedent. Is it appropriate to set such a precedent for the first time in a case against a prime minister?

A: Every legal precedent has to begin at some point. So, just because it involves the prime minister, we should delay the precedent for another time? Shai Nitzan, Israel’s State Prosecutor, who headed the Netanyahu criminal probe, on the decision to indict PM Benjamin Netanyahu for bribery, on unprecedented charges, in answer to interview question May 8, 2019.

…we’re seeing the weaponization of criminal justice for political purposes… Alan Dershowitz, professor emeritus, Harvard Law School, on the Netanyahu investigation, November 18, 2019

There is not enough proof of a criminal offense. I think it is very dangerous to start indicting people based on negotiations with newspapers. That’s what politicians do…To start interfering in the relationship between media and the government poses a tremendous danger to free speech and…to democracy, Alan Dershowitz, December 27, 2018 .

The Netanyahu trial is once again underway, as the prosecution slowly works its way through its 300-long list of witnesses. It might yet be early days, but so far, they hardly seemed to have made a compelling case for conviction.

More inappropriate than an indicted candidate

However, in the echo chamber of the overwhelmingly Bibi-phobic mainstream media, much has been made of Netanyahu’s 2008 demand that then-incumbent PM, Ehud Olmert, resign (see introductory excerpt)—because of his legal predicament.

Ostensibly, this creates an understandably awkward situation for Netanyahu, exposing him to charges of blatant hypocrisy and double standards—and provides grist for the mill of those wishing to introduce legislation barring anyone, who has been criminally indicted, from running for prime minister.

Clearly, this is not a demand that can—apriori—be dismissed as totally unreasonable. After all, who would not recoil at the prospect of anyone, under a credible indictment of rape, murder, arson, assault, or armed robbery, presenting his candidacy for the premiership and possibly becoming the elected leader of the nation.

So, understandably, while for many it may seem inappropriate that an individual under criminal indictment be permitted to run for, or hold the office of, prime minister, it is far more inappropriate that he/she be precluded/removed from office by abuse and distortion of the legal system.

All this ought to be born in mind by anyone trying to draw any equivalence between the case of Ehud Olmert, and that of Netanyahu.

Comparing chalk & cheese

As readers will doubtless recall, Olmert, who served as Israel’s Prime Minister from 2006 to 2009, was imprisoned for 16 months after being found guilty of bribery and obstruction of justice, offenses related to his term as mayor of Jerusalem and as minister of industry and trade.

However, in stark contrast to Netanyahu, Olmert was indicted—and convicted on the basis of the prevailing interpretation of the law! No “creative” legal precedents were needed to be invoked to prosecute him. With Olmert, there were no claims of selective prosecution, complaints of extortive coercion of state witnesses, or allegations of investigative misconduct by the police. Moreover, Olmert was strongly pressured by members of both his party and his coalition partners to resign. Netanyahu, on the other hand, enjoys overwhelming support as leader of his Likud party and unequivocal approval of numerous like-minded Knesset factions.

But perhaps the starkest difference—and arguably the most compelling in terms of the foundations of democratic governance—is the massive difference in support the two men had from the Israeli public.

Indeed, public support for Olmert was beginning to crater even before the full impact of his legal woes took effect. Thus, in early 2007, his favorability was in single digits—with one poll putting it as low as 3%. By mid-2008, 70% of the public “thought he should go.”

Despite anti-Bibi bile

With Netanyahu, the picture is dramatically different!

Despite being saturated with toxic Bibiphobic bile and force-fed with anti-Netanyahu venom by much the mainstream media, the public’s support for him soared, making him by far the most popular politician in Israel—even though his indictment was well known, and thus, already discounted in the figures for his immense popularity. Indeed, recent polls see a Netanyahu-led Likud as easily the biggest party, with up to 36 Knesset seats, almost double its nearest rival, and dwarfing all the other factions, almost none of whom reach a double-digit tally of seats.

In terms of personal stature with the electorate, Netanyahu outstripped all his competitors for the individual most qualified to serve as prime minister by huge margins—according to some polls, by more than double his nearest rival, Yair Lapid, and more than quadruple the current incumbent, Naftali Bennett.

It is important to reiterate here that this sustained popularity endured in spite of the fact that the criminal proceedings against Netanyahu were well underway and the substance of the accusations against him was widely known common knowledge—which in itself seems to constitute a grave public indictment of the nation’s legal system and a grim picture of the credence the public accredits it.

Weaponizing the legal system for partisan political purposes

But apart from the ringing post-indictment public endorsement of Netanyahu, there are other factors that set the Olmert and Netanyahu cases apart.

For example, while in the Olmert case, there are no allegations of selective enforcement, in which similar violations by others were left unindicted, this is far from true with Netanyahu. Indeed, in his case, there is perturbing and persuasive evidence of selective enforcement, in which dozens of incumbent politicians undertook identical—or at least, very similar–pursuit of favorable coverage with nary an indictment being filed against any of them.

Another feature, which underscores the qualitative chasm between the cases of Olmert and Netanyahu touches on how the police probes were conducted and how prosecutory evidence was collected.

With Olmert, there were no significant instances of police investigative misconduct or malign mistreatment of witnesses. Indeed, in Olmert’s case, the two major prosecution witnesses, who played a major part in bringing about his conviction, came forward of their own volition. The one, died before the trial ended, the other, Olmert’s longtime personal assistant, volunteered testimony against him—after she felt abandoned by him and signed a plea bargain for a reduced sentence for her involvement in Olmert-related offenses.

With Netanyahu, the situation differed drastically. Indeed, arguably even more troubling than the allegations of selective enforcement are persistent reports of police misconduct and mistreatment, and extortion of witnesses to obtain incriminating statements against Netanyahu and other co-defendants.

Thus, Netanyahu-associates, originally stoutly supportive of him, were reportedly coerced into becoming state witnesses for the prosecution after police compelled an incarcerated interrogatee to sleep on a flea-infested mattress, threatened to reveal an extramarital affair to a detainee’s spouse, and attempted to enlist the son of a co-defendant to persuade his father to fire his attorney and hire a more compliant one.

Ill-begotten & ill-conceived

But perhaps the most substantial and far-reaching difference between the legal sagas of Olmert and Netanyahu is the impact each one is likely to have on the Israeli legal establishment and its enforcement agencies.

Thus, while in Olmert’s case, the investigations, the trial, and the conviction of the relatively unpopular prime minister did not stir up a significantly negative impact on the credence and reputation of the bodies involved in the police investigation, in the resultant indictment, and in the consequent conviction, this is highly unlikely to be so in Netanyahu’s case.

After all, if he is forced to step down under the weight of what is perceived by many—both professional jurists and concerned laymen—“dubious” (to be charitable) indictments, this could well result in a severe blow to the fabric of Israeli democracy.

For it will demonstrate that any democratically elected leader—no matter how popular with the electorate or how impressive his achievements—can be deposed by the vindictive whims of a politically adversarial civil society elite—and the (ab)use of its unelected position of power and privilege—to circumvent the will of the people.

Indeed, one thing is beyond doubt: No good result can come out of these ill-begotten and ill-conceived indictments.

If Netanyahu is found guilty, roughly half the Israeli public will feel that there has been a gross miscarriage of justice—and the already tenuous public trust in Israel’s system of law and order will be eroded even further.

On the other hand, if he is acquitted, roughly half (the other half) of the Israeli public will feel that there has been a gross miscarriage of justice—and the already tenuous faith in Israel’s system of law and order will be denuded even further.

Among the biggest losers will be those who launched this reckless and needless initiative in the first place.

Regrettably, the public mistrust, which it will generate in them, will certainly be richly deserved.

COVID: The Greatest Weapon Against Freedom

November 4, 2021/in Commentary, Elections, Healthcare, Policy, Politics, Science, Social Issues, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Rod Eccles

Since about March of 2020, the world has been enthralled and rolled over the Sars CoV-2 virus otherwise known as COVID-19. We, the public, the citizenry of the world including here in the USA wondered how this could have happened and where this virus came from.

Early on we heard rumors that it started in a biomedical laboratory in Wuhan, China. But true to leftists media form, the rumor was thought to be that of conspiracy nut jobs. We also heard rumors that the virus first appeared as far back as August or September of 2019.

Again the media said this was the nut job scenario and could not be taken seriously. After all, this was all happening on then President Trump’s watch and we all know that the left said he had to go by any means necessary. By the way, nobody on the left disputes this.

So we were told the infections started in China in the beginning of December 2019. President Trump jumped on this issue as soon as he could get real information. He began to limit travel to and from China. The left through a fit.

Remember House of Representatives Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi going to a “China Town” and decrying loudly that everyone should hug Asians? She did do that and it was all over the news. Thus Trump was a racist for sure.

Then the virus began its stampeded across the USA. We saw American cases begin to rise in January 2020. Then President Trump restricted travel to and from China to nearly zero and again the left screamed racism.

Then came March 2020 and the world stopped. It just stopped. Here in the USA we went into an unprecedented “lock down” where only “essential” workers were allowed to go to work. Businesses big and small were shuttered. Employees that could not work from home were laid off. Unemployment skyrocketed into the double digits.

We were told, just 15 days to flatten the curve so our hospitals and medical workers would not be overwhelmed by COVID-19 cases. But over those two weeks, the number of cases kept rising as did the death toll. (However, that death toll is in serious question for reasons I will not go into with this article)

As the numbers kept increasing, even though nearly 100% of small and medium businesses were closed, a new approach came down from high. MASKS. They would save us all. Mask mandates popped up almost everywhere as governments all across the USA from the Federal level down to the local municipal level touted the effectiveness of masks. Masks of any kind including simple cloth masks many folks made at home.

But this edict came after one of the top government Medical Professionals in the nation, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said these sorts of masks were silly and ineffective. By the way, Dr. Fauci not only did a 180 degree turn, he still wants masks to be mandated for everyone just about everywhere especially for children in school.

There is a problem with masks however. The United States Government says these kinds of mask (sans COVID-19) are not effective against viral or many biological diseases, especially those that are airborne. Various governmental agencies agree how ineffective they are.

Not to mention we now have numerous studies that show just how ineffective these masks are. And to further drive the point home, most manufacturers of these masks overtly state that their masks are not intended to prevent viral infection or prevent viral spread.

And lets not forget the Social Distancing requirements. That was one of the biggest uses of fear mongering our government has used through this entire pandemic. But the truth is that 6 feet is not enough. In fact, WebMD has a report on a study that says in order to truly be effective, Social Distancing should be at least 26 feet. More than 4 times the distance touted as being protective in social settings.

But social distancing along with wearing a mask and closing all but “essential” businesses was intended to flatten the curve. Another bad idea. Johns Hopkins actually has an article that shows what flattening the curve does. The only conclusion after reviewing this study is that flattening the curve does relieve the immediate stress on our health care system. For the short term. The reality is that it extends the pandemic by months or even years thus actually causing MORE death and debilitation.

So why did our government, under now President Joe Biden, double down on something that doesn’t work? Answer is simple. POWER and CONTROL.

Even as everyone wore a mask anytime they went anywhere outside of their home (some communities even mandated via arrest and/or fine that you wear the mask anytime you were off your own property including OUTSIDE.)

Even parks and beaches were closed yet the spread did not stop. Probably because everyone was herded into large box stores to make essential purchases.

Lets rewind or should I say “circle back” for a moment. President Trump saw how devastating this virus seemed to be so he initiated something called Warp Speed in order to find a vaccine. This meant that drug manufacturers could speed up the research and development of said vaccine.

Seeing a big fat payday, these pharmaceutical companies went to work. And in a matter of months they had vaccines ready for human trials. Then these trials were fast tracked. This means there was not extensive testing at any level to detect or find any side effects of these new drugs. There was no time to see how effective these new vaccines would be in the short and long term. Even though we were told they would be up to 96% effective.

BUT, hold on. We were not saved. You see, during the presidential campaign of 2020, then candidate Joe Biden said he wouldn’t trust a vaccine created under President Trump. Many Democrat candidates of all levels echoed those sentiments.

November of 2020 the elections came and Biden won the Presidency. Democrats won control, basically, of the Senate and kept their stranglehold on the House. As Biden came into office in January of 2021, their tone on the vaccines changed. Almost overnight.

At first they strongly recommended that people get the vaccines. They even had “shows” of various Democrat leaders getting the “jab”. We are told it was one of the three current vaccines in use in the USA.

When some in the media suggested that there should be a mandate, the Biden Administration and even Nancy Pelosi said they could not do it because it would be unconstitutional.

Unconstitutional until they figured out a way to ignore the constitution and begin federal mandates and push and connive and coerce local and state governments and business to do so in the Feds stead.

But wait. There is a problem with the vaccines. A growing number of people are developing serious side effects after taking the drugs. Not to mention we have learned that they do not perform as promised and their efficacy has plummeted to below 50%. Fully vaccinated folks are getting COVID-19 and some are even dying. But the mandates persist.

A number of studies show that the COVID-19 vaccines indeed to not work as promised. They do indeed produce some serious side effects including liver problems, high blood pressure and other serious maladies. And a number of studies show that these vaccines do not seem to protect as well as natural immunity. In other words, people who have had COVID and recovered have a better built immunity against repeat infection than those who get the vaccines.

In the United Kingdom, there was and is an outbreak of COVID cases among the fully vaccinated. In fact the number of people hospitalized for COVID there who are fully vaccinated, exceeded 76%. The number of people dying there due to COVID, well according the the Brits, 80% of the deaths were of those who were fully vaccinated. I guess that throws out a LOT of the reasons they are using in the USA to get the “jab.”

I wont even get into the issue of wanting to force these vaccines upon your children. The thought of kids getting these things frightens me to no end. Let me just say that there are major studies that show that kids between 12 and 17, especially boys, are at increased risk of myocarditis. Not something to take lightly.

And yet our governments seem bent on making sure each of us bend to their will. How? By actually telling you that if you don’t get the vaccine you will lose your job, not be able to attend popular events, eat out at a restaurant or even shop in person for groceries. In other words, Biden and the Democrats will crush your basic rights as outlined and protected by the Constitution.

In short, the left wants to mandate things that don’t work and wont keep you safe and in some cases may even kill you if you don’t bend to their will. I wont bend. I wont willingly take any current COVID-19 vaccine. Indeed at least 70 million other Americans refuse as well. The government and business does not have the right to force anyone. That is nothing more than authoritarianism and communism.

That’s not America to me. Is that America to you?

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Hit the Courts and Fight Hard! Without Vote Fraud, Ciatarelli Wins New Jersey HANDS DOWN

November 4, 2021/in Commentary, Courts & Law, Elections, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Selwyn Duke

It won’t be news to many that New Jersey is as crooked as a dog’s hind leg. This extends, of course, to its electoral system. Thus can it be said assuredly that without vote fraud, the remarkably corrupt and fairly stupid Garden State governor, Goldman Sachs guy Phil Murphy, would have lost Tuesday’s election hands down.

Murphy’s challenger, Republican Jack Ciatarelli, has a slim advantage after late-counted votes have trimmed his margin. As of this writing, he leads the incumbent 49.65 percent to 49.60 percent with 97.51 percent of the precincts reporting. It’s a good bet at this point that more than enough votes will be found to put Murphy over the top. After all, anyone who thinks spontaneous generation is a myth hasn’t seen Democrat ballots magically appear in a car trunk or in a truck overnight.

How can we know Murphy is only competitive because of vote fraud? It’s simple: “The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior,” as the saying goes. So time for a little flashback:

“A judge has ruled that new elections must be held in Patterson [sic], New Jersey, after mail-in voting allowed massive voter fraud to take place,” wrote The Political Insider last August. At issue was a May 12, 2020 City Council special election between two Democrats.

“An investigation caused 20 percent of ballots to be rejected, and charges of voter fraud were brought against [challenger Alex] Mendez, another councilman, and two other men,” the Insider continues. “Mendez and the councilman were accused of the unauthorized possession of ballots that weren’t their own, and also of submitting voter registration applications for those not eligible to vote.”

Mendez would nonetheless go on to win a November election redo over five-term incumbent William McKoy — by 13 votes — also, allegedly, aided by ballot fraud. But was this just a one-off? Hardly.

Another flashback: A man the New York Post described as a “top Democratic operative” spoke to the paper last August under the condition of anonymity and admitted that he and his team have been committing mail-in vote fraud “on a grand scale, for decades,” as the Post put it.

“There is no race in New Jersey — from city council to United States Senate — that we haven’t worked on,” stated the Democrat operative. He also revealed that such efforts, which extend far beyond NJ, “could be enough to flip states.”

Get the picture?

By the way, mail-in balloting is considered the kind most conducive to vote fraud, which is why it’s illegal in France.

So unless you think NJ Democrats suddenly had a Road to Damascus moment — and if you do I have some great oceanfront property to sell you in North Dakota — you can bet that the left-wing fraudsters have been hard at work stealing votes for the remarkably corrupt and fairly stupid Murphy.

This is why this matter must be sifted to the very bottom, with the Republicans dispensing with the Mr. Nice Guy routine.

In the past there has often been an attitude holding that, well, unrelenting challenges to any election are “divisive” and bad for the nation. But, actually, what really harms the country is allowing crime, vote fraud or otherwise, to go unanswered. Vote fraud is particularly damaging, enabling demagogues’ ascendancy and undermining faith in our entire system. It literally rots the soul of a nation.

For that matter, the vote should also be thoroughly audited in Virginia, where GOP challenger Glenn Youngkin has apparently unseated incumbent Clintonista and likely sociopath Terry McAuliffe. It seems that Youngkin will win by approximately two percent of the vote, but his margin also would almost assuredly be far greater were it not for vote fraud.

Electoral fraud should be made a major national issue (discussed infinitely more than COVID), as it’s far more deleterious to our civilization than any virus. Corruption should ever and always be exposed and crushed mercilessly. Evil should never be allowed to prevail.

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Reconstructing American Manhood—One NDAA at a Time

November 4, 2021/in Education, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues/by Family Research Council

In September, a startling report was published by the National Student Clearinghouse regarding college enrollment. It found that almost 60 percent of college students were women, while only 40 percent were men. In the last five years, the percentage of male college students has decreased by an astonishing 71 percent. While there are certainly many factors that have contributed to this decline, there is no denying that young men in America are struggling with finding a sense of purpose.

And is it any wonder? As Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) observed on “Washington Watch,” the American Left has been on a singular mission to deconstruct manhood and masculinity in the name of “equality” and “taking down the patriarchy” for a long time, and it has been hugely successful.

“They want to get rid of the concept of manhood and womanhood,” he said. “They want to get rid of the concept of men who actually will be independent, who will be strong, who will stand up for themselves and their families and their rights. And what they really want to do is sell this idea that America is a toxic place, an oppressive place, and men by their very nature are toxic and oppressive so that if you are a man and if you believe in being a man [and] you want to exercise what [is] traditionally thought of as the masculine virtues—strength, independence, willingness to fight, assertiveness—that those are inherently toxic.”

As Hawley pointed out, nowhere has this war on manhood been more blatant than in our nation’s schools. “We see this taught in our schools … our boys are taught this, that if boys are rambunctious, they need to be medicated. If they’re assertive, they need to be called out. We see young men told that their manhood is inherently toxic and oppressive. And what it’s leading to [is] a whole bunch of men basically shirking their responsibilities, withdrawing from the labor force, withdrawing from their families. We’ve got an epidemic of fatherlessness in this country, and it’s becoming a society-wide crisis.”

To make matters worse, it has now become painfully clear that the Left’s war on men has turned into a simultaneous war on women. “The Left now has decided that they don’t really believe in the concept of gender,” Hawley said. “They don’t think anybody should. They don’t think that ‘manhood’ is a real thing. They don’t think that ‘woman’ is a real thing. Democrats won’t use the word ‘mother’ anymore. They talk about ‘birthing people.’ They talk about ‘individuals’ who get pregnant. They won’t say, ‘woman.'”

Hawley went on to underscore how this war on gender differences has far-reaching consequences. “The Left has developed this weird obsession with gender and trying to erase all gender distinctions,” he noted. “Whether we’re talking about women’s sports, whether we’re talking about women’s locker rooms or whether we’re talking about the draft, there are real differences between men and women, and those are wonderful things [that] should be celebrated and protected, not erased.”

It has indeed gotten so bad that the Left is now trying to make it mandatory for women to register for the Selective Service as part of this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) (Hawley has filed an amendment to remove the offending language from the bill). “We shouldn’t force our mothers and our sisters and our daughters to fight our wars for us,” he said.

As Hawley has observed, “most Americans say if a woman wants to serve [in the military] that’s wonderful – and by the way, women have been absolutely central to our war efforts since we have been a country, in many different ways, including, of course, fighting. But the idea that they be forced into compulsory service,” instead of having men shoulder those responsibilities, “I just think it’s crazy.”

Any day now, the Senate could take up the NDAA, which currently has a requirement for women to register for the selective service. Please tell your senators to support efforts like Hawley’s that would strike this requirement, and protect women from being forced to register.

** Family Research Council’s Stand Courageous Men’s Ministry is doing its part in reconstructing manhood by helping men develop a strong biblical character, cultivate positive habits, build and rebuild relationships, and make commitments that will move men closer to God’s good purpose and design. Learn more about this vital ministry at StandCourageous.com.

VIDEO: Herd Immunity USA – It’s Here! The Government COVID Calamity Is Over*

November 4, 2021/in Culture War, Healthcare, Must Read, News, Policy, Politics, Science, Social Issues/by Graham Ledger

The CDC itself is now reporting that upwards of 83% of the U.S. population (16 and up) has some form of “protection” (immunity) against COVID either through vaccination or past infection. By any epidemiological standard, that is HERD IMMUNITY, folks. *Yet, the fight against the government-lead war on Liberty remains full throttle. The important thing here is this: governments are scaring and threatening Americans into capitulation and submission.

Graham Ledger speaks with Dr. Christine Northrup about the dangerous of the so-called vax for COVID and why the vaxxed and unvaxxed must “just say no” all government COVID mandates.

SHOW NOTES:

Is the US FINALLY on the verge of herd immunity? CDC study estimates over 80% of Americans are now protected from COVID-19 through vaccination or recovery from the virus

CDC Buries Study Finding That Student Masking Has ‘No Statistically Significant Benefit’

ACLU Says The State Forcing People To Take Vaccines Is A Victory For Civil Liberties

Ask for COVID vaccine proof, face a $5,000 fine in Florida

Newsbreak 133: Team of Scientists Confirm Presence of Toxins Graphene, Aluminium, Cadmium Selenide, Stainless Steel, LNP-GO Capsids, Parasites, Other Toxins Variously in 4 COVID Vaccines: Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson

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Hey…even super Lefty Bill Maher agrees with me.

"I know some people seem to not want to give up on the wonderful pandemic, but you know what? It's over."
— Bill Maher

— Kevin Sorbo (@ksorbs) November 5, 2021

Whistleblower Says Pfizer Vaccine Trial Included ‘FALSIFIED DATA’ https://t.co/RLH2lTpoHX pic.twitter.com/BkdhQfYynn

— Atlas Shrugs (@atlasshrugs) November 4, 2021

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