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Biden Dares Talk ‘Democracy’ on D-Day?

There were cringe-worthy moments during Biden’s Normandy excursion. Perhaps the worst was him turning away from the 100-year old veterans who had flown over from the United States and waited for hours for him to shake their hands.

Biden walked away. French president Macron jogged back and greeted them.

Biden’s speech at La Pointe du Hoc, the cliffs the Rangers scaled during the early hours of June 6, 1944, came in stark contrast to the one given by Ronald Reagan forty years earlier.

Reagan recalled the courage of those young men, who were ready to die for their country and for democracy, “because it is the most noble political system devised by man.” Biden instead gave a pathetic campaign speech, where he implicitly criticized fellow citizens and his political opponent, comparing him to the Nazis.

The men who died on June 6, 1944 “are not asking us to do their job. They’re asking us to do our job,” Biden said. “Protect freedom in our time, defend democracy, stand up to aggression abroad and at home…”

Joe Biden wants to talk “democracy” when he is trying to throw his political opponent in jail? Really? It would be pathetic if it weren’t so serious. When Trump says Biden is not going after him but after us, and he’s just standing in the way, Americans understand exactly what he means.

In my view, Biden defiled the Rangers who gave their lives that day eighty years ago by trying to transform their sacrifice into a very narrow and partisan moment.

I’ve had the opportunity to visit the Normandy beaches twice on D-Day, first in 1974, the 30th anniversary; and more recently in 2019 with President Trump, on the 75th anniversary. Many lies have been told about Trump’s visit to France, which I won’t repeat here.

What Trump actually said has rarely been broadcast or recalled in print, so I will give you just a little flavor of that.

He called the 170 WWII veterans present that day “the very greatest Americans who will ever live” and the “pride of our nation.” To the 60 veterans of the D-Day landings, he said, “Our debt to you is everlasting.” Then he proceeded to tell the personal stories of some of the GIs who landed on Omaha beach that early morning, facing a German wall of steel.

“Colonel George Taylor, whose 16th Infantry Regiment would join in the first wave, was asked: What would happen if the Germans stopped them right then and there, cold on the beach? What would happen? This great American replied, “Why, the 18th Infantry is coming in right behind us. The 26th Infantry will come on, too. Then there is the 2nd Infantry Division already afloat. And the 9th Division. And the 2nd Armored. And the 3rd Armored. And all the rest. Maybe the 16th won’t make it, but someone will.””

He told of the story of two brothers who were wounded together that morning, but survived. One of them, Ray Lambert, received his fourth Purple Heart and Third Silver star on Omaha, and travelled back there in 2019, where President Trump said, “the free world salutes you. Thank you, Ray.”

Private First Class Russell Pickett was wounded in the first wave that landed on Omaha Beach, but vowed to return to battle. Six days later, after getting patched up in hospital in England, he rejoined his company. “Before long, a grenade left Private Picket again gravely wounded,” Trump said. “So badly wounded. Again, he chose to return…. He was then wounded a third time, and laid unconscious for 12 days. They thought he was gone,” but he survived. “And today, believe it or not, he has returned once more to these shores to be with his comrades. Private Picket, you honor us all with your presence. Tough guy.”

You can read a transcript of President Trump’s tribute to the Boys of La Pointe du Hoc in the New York Post.

Every young Ranger today dreams of visiting La Pointe du Hoc at least once during his lifetime, to be reminded of the courage and sacrifice of his forebears.

I was honored to be invited to the “dress rehearsal” by today’s Rangers of the scaling of the cliffs two days before the D-Day ceremonies. As one 50-year reservist told me when he reached the top, panting, it was damned hard even with modern scaling gear and clement weather. “But when they scaled these cliffs on D-Day it was cold and raining and they were getting shot at.”

You have to wonder if today’s Americans would have the courage to scale those cliffs today in the face of near-certain death. I think some would.

You can listen to my discussion of D-Day with Rick DeYoung on this week’s edition of Prophecy Today Weekend live at 1 PM on Saturday on 104.9 FM or 550 AM in the Jacksonville, Florida, area. We will also talk about a NATO Plan B for war with Russia, the possibility of a Russian nuclear “demonstration” to remind Americans of the devastation of nuclear war, and the European Parliament elections. If you miss the show live you can listen to the podcast here.

©2024. Kenneth R. Timmerman. All rights reserved.

VIDEO: Joe Biden uses D-Day speech to brag about killing Russians

Joe Biden traveled to Normandy, France, on Thursday to join world leaders for the anniversary of the D-Day invasion during World War II.

Biden used his D-Day speech to promote NATO’S war of aggression against Russia.

Biden probably doesn’t remember, but Russia was a U.S. ally during World War II. Without Russia, the Nazis would have almost certainly won that war and we would be living under Nazi rule today. Russia sacrificed more men in World War II against the Nazis than any other nation, by far. It basically wiped out a whole generation of Russian men who bravely defended their homeland against a massive ground invasion by Hitler’s troops. Many Russian civilians also died. A staggering 27 million Russian troops and civilians perished under the Nazi invasion.

But Biden used the commemoration of D-Day to brag about his own ability to kill Russians. This dishonors every one of the few remaining World War II veterans, most of them in their late 90s and early 100s and living out their final days, only to hear weasel politicians like Biden rewriting history.

Biden stood at the podium in Normandy Thursday with a smirk on his face and stated: “They’ve inflicted on the Russian aggression. They’ve suffered tremendous losses in Russia. The numbers are staggering. Three hundred and Fifty Thousand Russian Troops dead or wounded.”

©2024. Leo Hohmann. All rights reserved.

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The 80th Anniversary of D-Day: Let Us Never Forget Their Sacrifices And Ensure They Were Not In Vain

80 years ago, over 156,000 soldiers from the United States, Britain, and Canada, stormed the beaches of Normandy to bring down Hitler and Nazi Germany.

But Allied troops weren’t just attacking Nazi Germany.  This was an attack on totalitarianism to preserve Christian Western civilization.

Given the code-name of Operation Overlord, D-Day was the largest amphibious military assault the world has ever seen. General Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied forces, spoke to his troops on the eve of the invasion.

WATCH: D-Day 2024 – 80th Anniversary – Let Us Never Forget from Thomas More Law Center.

2,501 Americans died on the first day of battle.

President Ronald Reagan, during his speech on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day at Normandy, closed with these inspirational words:

“Strengthened by their courage, heartened by their valor, and borne by their memory, let us continue to stand for the ideals for which they lived and died.”

God Bless America,

Richard Thompson, Esq.
President and Chief Counsel
Thomas More Law Center

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BREAKING NEWS: Islamophobia Works!

Ha, they meant it for evil but God meant it for good. The facts are in, the result is overwhelming and the bad guys are pissed! Islamophobia works! It really is as simple as that.

In spite of the Muslim Brotherhood’s best propaganda efforts to coin a word, ascribe a negative connotation and have it stick on Americans who criticize Islam, the whole absurd plan fell to the ground like a Shia head hacked off by a Sunni jihadi.

How many beheadings can the average person see and then listen to Muslim leaders say that it has nothing to do with Islam before the average person says, “are you out of your freakin’ mind!?”

Now, in the eyes of the disassemblers this average person, aghast at this brutal Islamic activity, becomes an “Islamophobia.” Well, in the immortal words of Bill…”that dog don’t hunt.”

Tune in to see how we develop the rationale behind a new and improved concept – ISLAMOPHOBIA WORKS!

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“Tanscending” the idea of “American History” and Forgetting D-Day

Recently, Cal Thomas, in what has become a journalistic ritual, bemoaned the loss of knowledge about American history in a column titled “D-Day=Dumb Day for Many.” This historical occasion was the 70th anniversary of D-Day on June 6. Thomas cited a study by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni that showed only 70 percent of recent college graduates knew that D-Day occurred during World War II. This and other dismal statistics revealing historical ignorance were attributed to the fact that very few colleges require survey courses on American history.

But Thomas, and others similarly concerned, might be surprised to learn that not only is American history being overlooked, but that a movement among many history professors has been underway to eliminate the very category of “American history,” and even the idea of the United States as a legitimate nation. While attending the annual conference of the Organization of American Historians, I learned about such “reframing of history.”

The OAH claims to be “the largest professional society dedicated to the teaching and study of American history,” but its members seem to have a limited view and that is of the United States as an overwhelmingly oppressive, unjust – and illegitimate – nation.

This year’s conference theme, “Crossing Borders,” focused on slavery and segregation in the past, and on supposed persecution of “immigrants” (illegal aliens) in the present. Assumptions reigned among the panels I sat in on: ACORN was good, objections to forced busing for school integration were bad, the 1964 presidential election that allowed Lyndon Johnson to institute metastasizing federal programs was a positive counterforce to the election of Richard Nixon and the rise of the “right-wing.” The Plenary Session, “Remembering and Reassessing the Mississippi Summer Project” included activists from that summer of 1964, Dorie Ladner, Rita Bender, and Charles E. Cobb, singing praises to Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Tom Hayden, John Lewis, Harry Belafonte, Noam Chomsky, and Frantz Fannon. In the sprawling vendors area, publishers plied books for high school and college, including the graphic adaptation of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of American Empire, Eric Foner’s Who Owns History?, and paeans to Margaret Sanger, Mother Jones, Hugo Chavez, and Earth Day.

The strategies for teaching to the new A.P. U.S. History exam, discussed in one panel, were in keeping with the conference’s theme. But the genesis for such anti-Americanism became apparent in another session called “Internationalizing American History: Assessment and Future Directions”; it focused on the deliberate effort to teach American history from a “cosmopolitan” perspective, with that meaning incorporating the views of foreigners who do not believe in the legitimacy of this nation. At that session, I heard the phrase “what used to be called” prefacing “Early American History,” “the American Revolution,” and the “creation of the American republic.” The promotion of Common Core as presumably “internationally benchmarked” is no coincidence: historians have been working on imposing the “cosmopolitan” perspectives of history, a specific aspect of Common Core criticized by George Will.

The Prevailing View

Panelist Jane Kamensky of Brandeis University started off by declaring that American history needs to be “rescued from not only the national but from the nationalist framework” and that we must study a “diasporic” revolution involving “freedom struggles against imperial masters” of indigenous peoples.

Johann Neem of Western Washington University dissented by offering Hegelian theories about particularity and relationships as an argument for retaining the category of “nation.” He noted that works of the eighteenth-and-nineteenth-centuries are filled with “tolerance” for diversity, even though our national identity is mostly white Protestant. Neem is author of Creating a Nation of Joiners: Democracy and Civil Society in Early National Massachusetts.

The next panelist, Kristin Hoganson of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, challenged the idea that American history should be a national history. She cited three books that reveal how “partial” our histories have been: Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940, The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States & the Philippines, and Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State. Apparently, no history of “what used to be called the United States” is complete without a reference to occupation, imperialism, blood, and empire. Hoganson gave credit to Thomas Bender (New York University), the commentator on the panel, for making a “powerful case” for the “need for more transimperial history,” with his book, Rethinking American History in a Global Age.

Kiran Klaus Patel of Maastricht University in the Netherlands suggested a more European, “transnational” approach to the study of American history, and destabilizing boundaries. Fortunately, to him, in the 1980s and 1990s cultural history transformed all of history, including diplomatic history.

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu of The Ohio State University, where she has a joint appointment in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, asserted that there is need for more “global, gendered analysis,” for example, of how women opposed the Vietnam War, the subject of her second book, Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era. Her first book was Dr. Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity.

Thomas Bender, considered the founder of the “transnational turn,” approvingly asserted, “The panel has embraced the international historiographical approach”– “except for one skeptic on the panel” (Neem). Bender suggested pushing students in the new direction of “entanglement with the planet, people, and nations,” requiring them to learn foreign languages like Arabic and Chinese. Jobs in the future, he said, will be in history that transcends the idea of “American history.”

The History of the Transnational Turn of History

I was shocked that history professors would want to eliminate American history as such. But then I learned that this “transnational” effort began in 1996. Under the direction of Bender, the Organization of American Historians and New York University’s International Center for Advanced Studies jointly established the Project on Internationalizing the Study of American History. They then met in Villa La Pietra, New York University’s Center in Florence, Italy, in 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000.

According to “The LaPietra Report,” the historians spent the first year at the Villa planning, then the next discussing “the theoretical issues that attended the project’s reconsideration of the assumptions that determined the temporal and spatial scales of conventional national historical narratives.” The third conference resulted in “exemplary” essays “probing either particular themes or reframing conventional historical movements or periods from a more international perspective.” The final meeting, in 2000, put attention on the “practical implications of the intellectual agenda.”

The Practical Implications

The practical implications include a “reframing of American history” in college and in K-12 education.

Such reframing includes preparing “globally competent citizens,” the aim of Common Core. The as-yet voluntary “College, Career, and Civic Life (c3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards” replace knowledge about American history with activism and follow those set for college in the Department of Education’s 2012 report, “A Crucible Moment” (roundly criticized by the National Association of Scholars in a special issue of Academic Questions). Replacing factual questions of traditional “national historical narratives” are loaded questions, as high school, and even younger, students are asked to evaluate primary and secondary sources, think “critically” and “deeply,” and “grasp the relevance of widening the lens of social analysis.”

It is no wonder that History Literacy rates continue to plummet.

Unlike the vast majority of professors at OAH, Robert Paquette, Hamilton College History Professor who co-founded the independent Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, teaches his students “that the United States was founded on the principles of limited government, voluntary exchange, respect for private property, and civil freedom.” In a recent SeeThruED article, he criticized the neglect of American history, noting that not one of the eleven New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) schools requires that undergraduates attend a single course in American history and “a substantial majority of these eleven elite colleges do not even require of their majors in history as many as one American history course.”

Paquette warns, “The United States cannot survive as a nation if the traditions and principles that made it cohere as a prosperous and distinctive country are distorted and marginalized.”

Cal Thomas makes a similar point in his column, remarking poignantly about the World War II veterans visiting the beaches of Normandy, probably for the last time in their lives: “if they could have foreseen what America would become and how little their descendents know, or care, about their sacrifice, would they have done what they did?”

But student ignorance is the aim of professors and teachers meeting at conferences that we pay for in taxes and tuition. While the Greatest Generation remembered D-Day, influential professors spent summers in an Italian villa discussing how to destroy the very idea of the United States in history classes. And then they congratulated themselves at a conference in Atlanta in 2014.

D-Day 2014: The saluting boy on Omaha beach [VIDEO]

“And a child shall lead them” — those are the words that came to mind as I watched this video of a young man honoring the memories of those who perished on D-Day. It is well worth seven minutes of your time.

The simple act of devotion from this 11-year-old American boy is more than commensurate to honor the last full measure of devotion of young American boys some 70 years prior.

Every now and then, when there are times of despair, despondency, and desperation we just need a little reminder of the greatness and goodness of America.

Bravo young man, Steadfast and Loyal!

EDITORS NOTE: This video originally appeared on AllenBWest.com. The Publisher of DrRichSwier.com served in combat with the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam. On the featured image you see this young American is wearing the Screaming Eagles patch. His heroes are those of the publisher and staff of this e-Magazine.