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DNC Embraces ‘Religiously Unaffiliated,’ Belittles Americans of Faith

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) unanimously passed a resolution August 24 that embraced “religiously unaffiliated” voters and belittled Americans of faith.

The resolution proclaimed that 70 percent of “religiously unaffiliated” Americans share the values of the Democrat Party.

‘The religiously unaffiliated demographic represents the largest religious group within the Democratic Party, growing from 19% in 2007 to one in three today,” stated the resolution, passed during the DNC’s summer meeting in San Francisco.

In a reach for secularists or the nonreligious, the Democrats pointed out “religiously unaffiliated Americans overwhelmingly share the Democratic Party’s values, with 70% voting for Democrats in 2018, 80% supporting same-sex marriage, and 61% saying immigrants make American society stronger.”

The DNC further embraced and defended the nonreligious, asserting they “have often been subjected to unfair bias and exclusion in American society, particularly in the areas of politics and policymaking where assumptions of religiosity have long predominated.”

The Democrats continued by demeaning Americans of faith, referring to them as “those most loudly claiming that morals, values, and patriotism must be defined by their religious views.” Further, the DNC said religious Americans have “used those religious views with misplaced claims of ‘religious liberty,’ to justify public policy that has threatened the civil rights and liberties of many Americans, including but not limited to the LGBT community, women” and others.

The Democrats concluded that since “nonreligious Americans made up 17% of the electorate in 2018,” they also “have the potential to deliver millions more votes for Democrats in 2020 with targeted outreach to further increase turnout of nonreligious voters.”

As Fox News reported, the resolution was backed by the Secular Coalition of America, a group that lobbies on behalf of atheists, agnostics, and humanists on public policy. The group celebrated the DNC’s resolution as the first time a major party “embraced American nonbelievers.”

Ron Millar, coordinator of the Freethought Equality Fund PAC, which promotes the election of humanists and atheists at all levels of government, said:

We have seen record numbers of nonreligious candidates running for office. Hopefully, the DNC’s recognition of nonreligious voters will lead to more representation in elected offices, so that America’s lawmaking bodies more accurately reflect the growing number of nonbelievers in our great country.

Similarly, Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, referred to the DNC’s resolution as a “political landmark” that is “long overdue.”

However, Michael Wear, who served as a faith adviser to former President Barack Obama, called the DNC’s resolution “stupid on a fundamental level that transcends electoral politics.”

Wear, the author of Reclaiming Hope: Lessons Learned in the Obama White House About the Future of Faith in America, told Fox News a couple of weeks ago the Democrats had an opportunity to pull religious Americans into their tent because “President Trump has lowered the bar to reach conservative religious voters to an extent that we haven’t seen in this century.”

However, on Friday, Wear, still reacting to the DNC’s resolution, tweeted, “Trump is absolutely going to run this into the ground, and not just with white evangelicals.”

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Planned Parenthood Recruits Musicians to Propagandize the Youth

Planned Parenthood announced this week that it enlisted at least 136 pop singers and groups to market abortion at their concerts as part of Planned Parenthood’s Band Together campaign. 

This follows the abortion mill’s stinging defeat just over a week ago, when it lost $60 million in taxpayer funding upon exiting the Title X program due to its unwillingness to prioritize family planning over abortion.

Enlisting music icons who connect with mostly young Americans to propagandize the killing of the unborn is unconscionable and proves that the organization is increasingly desperate.

At least some of the artists on the list are exceptionally talented musicians.  That they would use those God-given talents to advocate for killing the most defenseless Americans, those who don’t have a voice, is beyond perverse.  It highlights the spiritual darkness Planned Parenthood promotes across society, funded with significant taxpayer support.

Christian recording artists frequently partner with Compassion International at their concerts, using their music as a platform to encourage concert-goers to support poor and desperate children from across the globe.  One of my kids was inspired at a concert and pledged support for an Ethiopian boy whom she writes and supports with financial giving. 

These musicians are using their gifts to promote a culture of life, compassion, and respect.  Compassion International asks people to be God’s hands and feet.  Planned Parenthood asks its supporters to protect their ability to destroy hands and feet created by God.

The Planned Parenthood collaborators are encouraging their concert-goers to become complicit in a culture of death and despair, one that finds the unborn life of a child no more significant than moldy fruit to be tossed in the garbage.

One of the more talented names on the list is Sara Bareilles, who wrote the music to Waitress, a show whose conclusion celebrates the redeeming power of life through the birth of a baby.  Ironically, had the fictional lead character in Waitress gone to a Bareilles concert, the story may have ended with no baby and a shattered woman. 

This latest outrage again demonstrates that abortion is akin to a sacred rite to its supporters.  It is reminiscent of Old Testament cultures who sacrificed their children to false gods and demons in the hope of receiving a blessing.  Today’s blessing is convenience and irresponsibility.

That these performers would repulse part of their audience in the interest of promoting this abomination is enlightening.  There is simply no depth of depravity to which this organization and its adherents are unwilling to descend.

Planned Parenthood’s website screams, “Now is the time to band together and say KEEP YOUR BANS OFF OUR BODIES!”  Nobody cares about their bodies.  What right-minded people care about is the tiny life being destroyed because it has become an inconvenience.

The Dr. Seuss character Horton the elephant wisely noted that “even though you can’t see or hear them at all, a person’s a person, no matter how small.”  A society is best judged by how well it defends its smallest and powerless members.  Those powerless members are not the well paid artists prancing on stage, but the millions of lives they are advocating be killed.

Musicians once took pride in their counter-cultural identity.  Today’s musicians embrace the worst aspects of culture to the cheerleading of the cultural elites and believe that it proves their courage and virtue.

Planned Parenthood puts the U.S. military to shame as the nation’s most efficient killing force.  The evil organization performed roughly 333,000 abortions last year.  That means that this organization’s carnage scorecard for a single year is more than 270 times the number of victims (1,196) of mass shootings since 1966 that the Washington Post ran in an attempted attack on the Second Amendment.  For some perspective, it takes this single organization two years to kill more Americans than lost their lives in the entire Civil War.  In less than five years, Planned Parenthood’s body count is a higher number than Americans who have died in all wars combined.

This latest extremist act shows that Planned Parenthood is increasingly acting like a cornered animal.  The U.S. is in a very different place from where it was in 1973, when Roe v. Wade set the stage for almost fifty years of uninterrupted slaughter.  The single biggest factor in that changed environment is the mass use of ultrasounds.

The Power of the Ultrasound

I was shocked upon seeing an early pregnancy ultrasound of our first child.  Due to the rhetoric around the abortion debate, I expected to see something resembling an amoeba or perhaps a tadpole.  What I saw instead was a baby who was very much alive.  This is the same reality that former Planned Parenthood clinic director and now pro-life champion Abby Johnson came face to face with, as fictionalized in the powerful movie Unplanned.  In the movie, Abby watches as a baby’s life is violently and callously snuffed out on an ultrasound during an abortion.  This moment crushes her spirit, tearing the veil of lies and rhetoric she hid behind and igniting her to become an unwavering champion of the unborn.

Ultrasounds have moved Americans to understand the enormity of the evil hidden behind antiseptic words and phrases like “women’s right to choose,” as if what people are choosing is no more significant than whether they order a ham sandwich or a hamburger. 

Planned Parenthood recognizes all too well that the game has changed.  It just lost a significant funding stream, are watching its ironclad grip on the courts slip and seeing states effectively restrict the killing.  This latest move to recruit pop star mouthpieces shows its increasing desperation to prevent the further erosion of its support.

The Way Forward

An organization as depraved as Planned Parenthood does not go gentle into that good night.  Conservatives will need to press this fight on all fronts.

President Donald Trump, who has been arguably the most pro-life president we’ve elected, effectively eliminated $60 million of taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood, but it is still only a fraction of the approximately $550 million the abortion all-stars receive annually from taxpayers.  This front in the war will not be over until taxpayers no longer contribute a single cent to this organization.  This will require the election of significantly more pro-life legislators to Congress.

We should continue to support all state efforts by courageous state lawmakers to restrict abortion.  This is the battlefield that spooked Planned Parenthood into collaborating with the music industry in the hopes of stanching the bleeding. 

As for these compromised musicians, to borrow from their perverse campaign, we can all decide to keep our hands off their music.

We’ve reached a point in history where a vote for just about any Democrat is a vote for abortion on demand up to and even after the moment of birth.  While we must continue the fight in the political arena, the real war is being waged for the hearts and minds of all Americans.  May this be the generation that finally ends this evil.

Fletch Daniels blogs at deplorabletouchdown.com and can be found on twitter @fletchdaniels.

Image: Eva Rinaldi via Flickr.

Planned Parenthood announced this week that it enlisted at least 136 pop singers and groups to market abortion at their concerts as part of Planned Parenthood’s Band Together campaign. 

This follows the abortion mill’s stinging defeat just over a week ago, when it lost $60 million in taxpayer funding upon exiting the Title X program due to its unwillingness to prioritize family planning over abortion.

Enlisting music icons who connect with mostly young Americans to propagandize the killing of the unborn is unconscionable and proves that the organization is increasingly desperate.

At least some of the artists on the list are exceptionally talented musicians.  That they would use those God-given talents to advocate for killing the most defenseless Americans, those who don’t have a voice, is beyond perverse.  It highlights the spiritual darkness Planned Parenthood promotes across society, funded with significant taxpayer support.

Christian recording artists frequently partner with Compassion International at their concerts, using their music as a platform to encourage concert-goers to support poor and desperate children from across the globe.  One of my kids was inspired at a concert and pledged support for an Ethiopian boy whom she writes and supports with financial giving. 

These musicians are using their gifts to promote a culture of life, compassion, and respect.  Compassion International asks people to be God’s hands and feet.  Planned Parenthood asks its supporters to protect their ability to destroy hands and feet created by God.

The Planned Parenthood collaborators are encouraging their concert-goers to become complicit in a culture of death and despair, one that finds the unborn life of a child no more significant than moldy fruit to be tossed in the garbage.

One of the more talented names on the list is Sara Bareilles, who wrote the music to Waitress, a show whose conclusion celebrates the redeeming power of life through the birth of a baby.  Ironically, had the fictional lead character in Waitress gone to a Bareilles concert, the story may have ended with no baby and a shattered woman. 

This latest outrage again demonstrates that abortion is akin to a sacred rite to its supporters.  It is reminiscent of Old Testament cultures who sacrificed their children to false gods and demons in the hope of receiving a blessing.  Today’s blessing is convenience and irresponsibility.

That these performers would repulse part of their audience in the interest of promoting this abomination is enlightening.  There is simply no depth of depravity to which this organization and its adherents are unwilling to descend.

Planned Parenthood’s website screams, “Now is the time to band together and say KEEP YOUR BANS OFF OUR BODIES!”  Nobody cares about their bodies.  What right-minded people care about is the tiny life being destroyed because it has become an inconvenience.

The Dr. Seuss character Horton the elephant wisely noted that “even though you can’t see or hear them at all, a person’s a person, no matter how small.”  A society is best judged by how well it defends its smallest and powerless members.  Those powerless members are not the well paid artists prancing on stage, but the millions of lives they are advocating be killed.

Musicians once took pride in their counter-cultural identity.  Today’s musicians embrace the worst aspects of culture to the cheerleading of the cultural elites and believe that it proves their courage and virtue.

Planned Parenthood puts the U.S. military to shame as the nation’s most efficient killing force.  The evil organization performed roughly 333,000 abortions last year.  That means that this organization’s carnage scorecard for a single year is more than 270 times the number of victims (1,196) of mass shootings since 1966 that the Washington Post ran in an attempted attack on the Second Amendment.  For some perspective, it takes this single organization two years to kill more Americans than lost their lives in the entire Civil War.  In less than five years, Planned Parenthood’s body count is a higher number than Americans who have died in all wars combined.

This latest extremist act shows that Planned Parenthood is increasingly acting like a cornered animal.  The U.S. is in a very different place from where it was in 1973, when Roe v. Wade set the stage for almost fifty years of uninterrupted slaughter.  The single biggest factor in that changed environment is the mass use of ultrasounds.

The Power of the Ultrasound

I was shocked upon seeing an early pregnancy ultrasound of our first child.  Due to the rhetoric around the abortion debate, I expected to see something resembling an amoeba or perhaps a tadpole.  What I saw instead was a baby who was very much alive.  This is the same reality that former Planned Parenthood clinic director and now pro-life champion Abby Johnson came face to face with, as fictionalized in the powerful movie Unplanned.  In the movie, Abby watches as a baby’s life is violently and callously snuffed out on an ultrasound during an abortion.  This moment crushes her spirit, tearing the veil of lies and rhetoric she hid behind and igniting her to become an unwavering champion of the unborn.

Ultrasounds have moved Americans to understand the enormity of the evil hidden behind antiseptic words and phrases like “women’s right to choose,” as if what people are choosing is no more significant than whether they order a ham sandwich or a hamburger. 

Planned Parenthood recognizes all too well that the game has changed.  It just lost a significant funding stream, are watching its ironclad grip on the courts slip and seeing states effectively restrict the killing.  This latest move to recruit pop star mouthpieces shows its increasing desperation to prevent the further erosion of its support.

The Way Forward

An organization as depraved as Planned Parenthood does not go gentle into that good night.  Conservatives will need to press this fight on all fronts.

President Donald Trump, who has been arguably the most pro-life president we’ve elected, effectively eliminated $60 million of taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood, but it is still only a fraction of the approximately $550 million the abortion all-stars receive annually from taxpayers.  This front in the war will not be over until taxpayers no longer contribute a single cent to this organization.  This will require the election of significantly more pro-life legislators to Congress.

We should continue to support all state efforts by courageous state lawmakers to restrict abortion.  This is the battlefield that spooked Planned Parenthood into collaborating with the music industry in the hopes of stanching the bleeding. 

As for these compromised musicians, to borrow from their perverse campaign, we can all decide to keep our hands off their music.

We’ve reached a point in history where a vote for just about any Democrat is a vote for abortion on demand up to and even after the moment of birth.  While we must continue the fight in the political arena, the real war is being waged for the hearts and minds of all Americans.  May this be the generation that finally ends this evil.

Fletch Daniels blogs at deplorabletouchdown.com and can be found on twitter @fletchdaniels.

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Rejection of Moral Absolutes Plagues the Modern Left

If death — anyone’s death — brings you joy, you should intently re-examine your worldview.  Even the just execution of a mass murderer — which I support in every case — should not bring anyone joy.  As a Christian, I often find myself opposed — spiritually, politically, and otherwise — to those outside my faith.  However, I take no joy in anyone’s death, especially those outside of my faith.  Christianity teaches that “each one of us will give an account of himself to God.”  Any death that results in eternal separation from God is always particularly tragic.

However, for those who have put their faith in the things of this world, who are determined to rule their own world, death usually has no such significance.  Thus, for such people, like the death of an “inconvenient” child, the death of an enemy is often something to celebrate.  The most recent case in point is the death of the wealthy philanthropist David Koch.  After Mr. Koch died, many on the Left again found themselves in a celebratory mood.  We shouldn’t be surprised that those who engage in or promote the evil “shout your abortion!” movement would celebrate the death of a political enemy.

Nor should we be surprised that the hate-filled American Left would promise political — and perhaps other forms of — apocalypse if President Trump gets the opportunity to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with someone who will actually follow the Constitution.  Liberals dancing with joy over the death of Mr. Koch were soon brought back to Earth with the same-day news that Justice Ginsburg underwent a fresh round of treatment for a cancerous tumor on her pancreas.

Despite our political, legal, and moral differences, I admire Justice Ginsburg for her strength and determination to do her job.  As another recently noted, she has survived pancreatic cancer twice, lung cancer once, and colon cancer once.  And she’s 86 years old.  Many Americans — no matter their political stripes — would be very interested in getting the names of her oncologists.

In an interesting bit of irony probably lost on Justice Ginsburg and her like-minded ideologues, if the U.S. had Medicare for All, or some other version of single-payer health care — a dream of the American Left — almost certainly, Mrs. Ginsburg would’ve long ago departed this world. Thank God for the U.S. medical industry, right, libs?  (The U.S. has the world’s best cancer survival rates.)

In their foolish efforts to create “heaven on earth” — Utopia — modern liberals have often relied on the courts to give them what they could not otherwise gain by winning elections and passing legislation.  This is why the Left in the mainstream media — I repeat myself — and the U.S. Senate engaged in media malpractice and political treachery in their evil efforts to derail the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh.

Many have implied that if President Trump has the opportunity to name Ginsburg’s replacement, the battle that will erupt will make the Kavanaugh confirmation look like the Mayberry City Council debate on whether to hold a Founder’s Day parade.  This shouldn’t be the case — because, as long as Senate republicans have his back, there is simply nothing Democrats can do to stop President Trump from nominating and having confirmed any judge he wishes.

However, today’s Democratic Party is as far from rational as it is from moral.  Even more than the vengeful tweets over a dead philanthropist or the angry threats over a potential Supreme Court vacancy, few things illustrate this as well as the gender debate the modern Left insists we have.

After (frequently) pointing out — and being far from alone — that the stupid, evil notion of “gender fluidity” most harms females — including young girls — I keep thinking the Left will soon abandon this wickedness.  Silly me.  I forget how blindly stupid those corrupted by evil can be.

Recently, the GOP candidate in Louisiana’s governor’s race, Ralph Abraham, made headlines — headlines! — because he ran a 30-second ad that included the phrase “as a doctor, I can assure you, there are only two genders.”  They were so aghast at MSNBC that host Chris Jansing declared that Abraham’s comments were “incendiary.”  According to NewsBusters, Jansing’s guest — because the Left must have its “experts” explain to us why there are not only two genders — went even farther and said that to declare that there are only two genders is now “despicable” and “un-American.”

In other words, a statement that, just a few years ago, the vast majority of us would’ve considered so obvious that it was patronizing is now “incendiary” and “despicable.”  Orwell was indeed a prophet.

Thus, it should come as little surprise that those who can’t tell the difference between who is a male and who is a female would choose to fight crime with euphemisms; still believe that “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot!” really happened; still think man-made climate change is a real problem with a political solution; believe that widespread institutional racism still exists in America; and would conclude that ”Seattle Has Figured Out How to End the War on Drugs.”

That last bit of editorial “brilliance” was recently proffered by The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristoff.  I guess Kristoff missed the fact that Seattle Is Dying largely because of rampant drug abuse (and because “liberalism is killing it“).  If he truly didn’t know this before, he does now, because many of the 1,300-plus comments following his piece told him as much.  Many of the comments were from Seattle residents.

SKM from Seattle wrote:

I live here and you don’t have the slightest idea what you’re talking about.  Downtown Seattle is a classic example of when inmates run the asylum.  Downtown Seattle frequently feels like “Night of the Living Dead.”  Quality of life issues here are outright dismissed, all in an effort to help drug addicted zombies that walk our streets.  Sleeping in doorways, public defecation/urination, shooting up right in the open, blatant drug dealing w/ out any fear of incrimination, verbal abuse, etc.  I can more easily get a summons for jaywalking here than dealing Fentanyl.

Another Seattle resident, “robofaust,” added:

As a 26 year resident of Seattle (and a x2 time voter for Ralph Nader and Obama), I couldn’t disagree more.  This city is littered with homeless drug addicts.  Seattle’s choice to “decriminalize homelessness” is just another term for enabling the self-destruction of thousands of people[.] …

Every few days I come across people who are passed out, or worse yet, who are actively shooting up, at the foot of my home.  Petty crime is rampant, and it is no longer possible to get the police to respond to a stolen bicycle or smashed car windows[.] …

The city’s drug addicts live in a parallel subculture that is disconnected from the lives of the locals who tolerate it in the name of social virtue.  This subculture is a law unto itself, and is rife with predators who prey on the weak with violence, theft, and sexual abuse[.] …

There will be political reckoning in the city for this, sooner or later.  Mr. Kristof’s analysis is deeply flawed.

In not just Seattle, but all over America, liberals have become “a law unto themselves.”  Thus, the nastiness in Seattle is only the tip of the iceberg.  Liberals think Seattle is doing a good job with criminal drug-users, that there are more than two sexes, that marriage is whatever we define it to be, that killing the unborn is merely a “choice,” and so on, because the Left in America long ago abandoned the idea that some things are settled for all time.

I hope there is soon a political reckoning.  There will certainly be a spiritual one.

Trevor Grant Thomas: At the Intersection of Politics, Science, Faith, and Reason.
www.trevorgrantthomas.com
Trevor is the author of the The Miracle and Magnificence of America.
tthomas@trevorgrantthomas.com

If death — anyone’s death — brings you joy, you should intently re-examine your worldview.  Even the just execution of a mass murderer — which I support in every case — should not bring anyone joy.  As a Christian, I often find myself opposed — spiritually, politically, and otherwise — to those outside my faith.  However, I take no joy in anyone’s death, especially those outside of my faith.  Christianity teaches that “each one of us will give an account of himself to God.”  Any death that results in eternal separation from God is always particularly tragic.

However, for those who have put their faith in the things of this world, who are determined to rule their own world, death usually has no such significance.  Thus, for such people, like the death of an “inconvenient” child, the death of an enemy is often something to celebrate.  The most recent case in point is the death of the wealthy philanthropist David Koch.  After Mr. Koch died, many on the Left again found themselves in a celebratory mood.  We shouldn’t be surprised that those who engage in or promote the evil “shout your abortion!” movement would celebrate the death of a political enemy.

Nor should we be surprised that the hate-filled American Left would promise political — and perhaps other forms of — apocalypse if President Trump gets the opportunity to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with someone who will actually follow the Constitution.  Liberals dancing with joy over the death of Mr. Koch were soon brought back to Earth with the same-day news that Justice Ginsburg underwent a fresh round of treatment for a cancerous tumor on her pancreas.

Despite our political, legal, and moral differences, I admire Justice Ginsburg for her strength and determination to do her job.  As another recently noted, she has survived pancreatic cancer twice, lung cancer once, and colon cancer once.  And she’s 86 years old.  Many Americans — no matter their political stripes — would be very interested in getting the names of her oncologists.

In an interesting bit of irony probably lost on Justice Ginsburg and her like-minded ideologues, if the U.S. had Medicare for All, or some other version of single-payer health care — a dream of the American Left — almost certainly, Mrs. Ginsburg would’ve long ago departed this world. Thank God for the U.S. medical industry, right, libs?  (The U.S. has the world’s best cancer survival rates.)

In their foolish efforts to create “heaven on earth” — Utopia — modern liberals have often relied on the courts to give them what they could not otherwise gain by winning elections and passing legislation.  This is why the Left in the mainstream media — I repeat myself — and the U.S. Senate engaged in media malpractice and political treachery in their evil efforts to derail the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh.

Many have implied that if President Trump has the opportunity to name Ginsburg’s replacement, the battle that will erupt will make the Kavanaugh confirmation look like the Mayberry City Council debate on whether to hold a Founder’s Day parade.  This shouldn’t be the case — because, as long as Senate republicans have his back, there is simply nothing Democrats can do to stop President Trump from nominating and having confirmed any judge he wishes.

However, today’s Democratic Party is as far from rational as it is from moral.  Even more than the vengeful tweets over a dead philanthropist or the angry threats over a potential Supreme Court vacancy, few things illustrate this as well as the gender debate the modern Left insists we have.

After (frequently) pointing out — and being far from alone — that the stupid, evil notion of “gender fluidity” most harms females — including young girls — I keep thinking the Left will soon abandon this wickedness.  Silly me.  I forget how blindly stupid those corrupted by evil can be.

Recently, the GOP candidate in Louisiana’s governor’s race, Ralph Abraham, made headlines — headlines! — because he ran a 30-second ad that included the phrase “as a doctor, I can assure you, there are only two genders.”  They were so aghast at MSNBC that host Chris Jansing declared that Abraham’s comments were “incendiary.”  According to NewsBusters, Jansing’s guest — because the Left must have its “experts” explain to us why there are not only two genders — went even farther and said that to declare that there are only two genders is now “despicable” and “un-American.”

In other words, a statement that, just a few years ago, the vast majority of us would’ve considered so obvious that it was patronizing is now “incendiary” and “despicable.”  Orwell was indeed a prophet.

Thus, it should come as little surprise that those who can’t tell the difference between who is a male and who is a female would choose to fight crime with euphemisms; still believe that “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot!” really happened; still think man-made climate change is a real problem with a political solution; believe that widespread institutional racism still exists in America; and would conclude that ”Seattle Has Figured Out How to End the War on Drugs.”

That last bit of editorial “brilliance” was recently proffered by The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristoff.  I guess Kristoff missed the fact that Seattle Is Dying largely because of rampant drug abuse (and because “liberalism is killing it“).  If he truly didn’t know this before, he does now, because many of the 1,300-plus comments following his piece told him as much.  Many of the comments were from Seattle residents.

SKM from Seattle wrote:

I live here and you don’t have the slightest idea what you’re talking about.  Downtown Seattle is a classic example of when inmates run the asylum.  Downtown Seattle frequently feels like “Night of the Living Dead.”  Quality of life issues here are outright dismissed, all in an effort to help drug addicted zombies that walk our streets.  Sleeping in doorways, public defecation/urination, shooting up right in the open, blatant drug dealing w/ out any fear of incrimination, verbal abuse, etc.  I can more easily get a summons for jaywalking here than dealing Fentanyl.

Another Seattle resident, “robofaust,” added:

As a 26 year resident of Seattle (and a x2 time voter for Ralph Nader and Obama), I couldn’t disagree more.  This city is littered with homeless drug addicts.  Seattle’s choice to “decriminalize homelessness” is just another term for enabling the self-destruction of thousands of people[.] …

Every few days I come across people who are passed out, or worse yet, who are actively shooting up, at the foot of my home.  Petty crime is rampant, and it is no longer possible to get the police to respond to a stolen bicycle or smashed car windows[.] …

The city’s drug addicts live in a parallel subculture that is disconnected from the lives of the locals who tolerate it in the name of social virtue.  This subculture is a law unto itself, and is rife with predators who prey on the weak with violence, theft, and sexual abuse[.] …

There will be political reckoning in the city for this, sooner or later.  Mr. Kristof’s analysis is deeply flawed.

In not just Seattle, but all over America, liberals have become “a law unto themselves.”  Thus, the nastiness in Seattle is only the tip of the iceberg.  Liberals think Seattle is doing a good job with criminal drug-users, that there are more than two sexes, that marriage is whatever we define it to be, that killing the unborn is merely a “choice,” and so on, because the Left in America long ago abandoned the idea that some things are settled for all time.

I hope there is soon a political reckoning.  There will certainly be a spiritual one.

Trevor Grant Thomas: At the Intersection of Politics, Science, Faith, and Reason.
www.trevorgrantthomas.com
Trevor is the author of the The Miracle and Magnificence of America.
tthomas@trevorgrantthomas.com

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Secularization and the Demonization of Donald Trump

All presidents are loved and hated by segments of the population, but the Left’s hatred for Donald Trump goes one step farther.  It’s demonization.  It can be equaled only with their demonization of George W. Bush.  Or Ronald Reagan.  Or Richard Nixon.  One has to go all the way back to Dwight Eisenhower to find someone the Democrats didn’t demonize.

The explanation for this lies in chasm that existed between Eisenhower’s 1950s and the Nixon of the ’70s.  The interlude is not a coincidence, because the 1960s made for one of the most tumultuous decades in American history, not just politically and socially, but intellectually.  Minds changed, and the “New Left” emerged.  The New Left was the brainchild of Marxists who, by the middle of the twentieth century, were disillusioned with the Soviet Union.  They abandoned some Marxist concepts like revolution and the abolition of all private property but maintained other parts of Marx’s thought, like socialism and secularism.  The Democratic Party subsequently became the party not just for socialists, but for those who wanted to jettison religion from society.  These new leftists exiled the Christian God and Satan from their cosmology.  Or so they told themselves…

Old (intellectual) habits die hard.  Since Christ came to Earth, Christians have known that Satan exerts a pervasive influence.  St. Peter tells us in 1 Peter 5:8 that our “adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”  The secular Left continues this tradition, but the new Satan merely becomes a material one.  He takes the form of tangible human beings with names like Nixon, Reagan, Gingrich, Bush, Palin, and Trump.  Still responsible for all of the ills on Earth, this Satan must be rejected at all turns, the secular Left believes.

This leads to some interesting phenomena.  Since Trump, by his very nature, is incapable of good, everything he does is inherently bad, such as raising tariffs to protect American workers.  The fact that many left-wing politicians have advocated the same policy means nothing because Satan can only do bad.

Since Trump is incapable of good, he cannot be responsible for the economic gains.  They must be attributed to Obama, the archetype of good.  A Vox headline reads, “The Truth about the Trump economy: A massive change in perceptions masks continuity with the Obama years.”  Sure, the black American unemployment rate is declining, but all good in the world comes from messiah Obama.

Or the economic gains are illusory.  Another Vox headline reads: “The average worker isn’t benefiting from Trump’s economic miracle”; actually, “the tax-cuts did more harm than good.”  The article acknowledges that wages are rising at 3.2% while inflation is 1.5%.  That sounds good, right?  Not so fast.  The article continues: “workers’ wages only grew about 1.7 percent within the past year — a pathetic amount compared to the sky-high payouts to corporate CEOs.”  Despite superficial appearances, the conditions of the poor and working class have not improved.  When Trump talks about economic improvement, he deceives.  After all, Jesus tells us in John 8:44 that Satan is the father of lies.  (Note that according to the two Vox articles, the American economy is simultaneously good and bad.)

And since Satan is racist, anything Trump says related to race must be racist.  If he criticizes a black mayor (or any black American, for that matter), it’s racism.  How else to explain political criticism?  Trump tweets, “So interesting to see ‘progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run.  Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.  Then come back and show us how it is done.”  Thinly veiled racism, of course.  And what other reason could there be for building a wall, except racism?

By abandoning Scripture, the secular Left creates false gods (Obama) and fake Satans (Trump).  Satan, like God, works through human beings, but no human being can be classified as God or Satan.  Jesus tells us we cannot worship two gods, and we must also recognize that there cannot be two Satans, although numerous angels and demons exist.  Any Republican who viewed Obama as Satan (and some mistakenly did) was just as misguided; at least some of God’s Holy Spirit resides in Obama, too.

The Western intellectual tradition is powerful, and it’s steeped in the concept of God and Satan.  Secularists haven’t abandoned these concepts.  They have just materialized them.  The left-wing mind continues the Christian idea that the world is governed by God and Satan.  But by mistakenly materializing these concepts and denying the power of the real God and Satan, they have created irrational versions of reality.

David Byrne is the author of Ronald Reagan: An Intellectual Biography.

Image: Gage Skidmore via Flickr.

All presidents are loved and hated by segments of the population, but the Left’s hatred for Donald Trump goes one step farther.  It’s demonization.  It can be equaled only with their demonization of George W. Bush.  Or Ronald Reagan.  Or Richard Nixon.  One has to go all the way back to Dwight Eisenhower to find someone the Democrats didn’t demonize.

The explanation for this lies in chasm that existed between Eisenhower’s 1950s and the Nixon of the ’70s.  The interlude is not a coincidence, because the 1960s made for one of the most tumultuous decades in American history, not just politically and socially, but intellectually.  Minds changed, and the “New Left” emerged.  The New Left was the brainchild of Marxists who, by the middle of the twentieth century, were disillusioned with the Soviet Union.  They abandoned some Marxist concepts like revolution and the abolition of all private property but maintained other parts of Marx’s thought, like socialism and secularism.  The Democratic Party subsequently became the party not just for socialists, but for those who wanted to jettison religion from society.  These new leftists exiled the Christian God and Satan from their cosmology.  Or so they told themselves…

Old (intellectual) habits die hard.  Since Christ came to Earth, Christians have known that Satan exerts a pervasive influence.  St. Peter tells us in 1 Peter 5:8 that our “adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”  The secular Left continues this tradition, but the new Satan merely becomes a material one.  He takes the form of tangible human beings with names like Nixon, Reagan, Gingrich, Bush, Palin, and Trump.  Still responsible for all of the ills on Earth, this Satan must be rejected at all turns, the secular Left believes.

This leads to some interesting phenomena.  Since Trump, by his very nature, is incapable of good, everything he does is inherently bad, such as raising tariffs to protect American workers.  The fact that many left-wing politicians have advocated the same policy means nothing because Satan can only do bad.

Since Trump is incapable of good, he cannot be responsible for the economic gains.  They must be attributed to Obama, the archetype of good.  A Vox headline reads, “The Truth about the Trump economy: A massive change in perceptions masks continuity with the Obama years.”  Sure, the black American unemployment rate is declining, but all good in the world comes from messiah Obama.

Or the economic gains are illusory.  Another Vox headline reads: “The average worker isn’t benefiting from Trump’s economic miracle”; actually, “the tax-cuts did more harm than good.”  The article acknowledges that wages are rising at 3.2% while inflation is 1.5%.  That sounds good, right?  Not so fast.  The article continues: “workers’ wages only grew about 1.7 percent within the past year — a pathetic amount compared to the sky-high payouts to corporate CEOs.”  Despite superficial appearances, the conditions of the poor and working class have not improved.  When Trump talks about economic improvement, he deceives.  After all, Jesus tells us in John 8:44 that Satan is the father of lies.  (Note that according to the two Vox articles, the American economy is simultaneously good and bad.)

And since Satan is racist, anything Trump says related to race must be racist.  If he criticizes a black mayor (or any black American, for that matter), it’s racism.  How else to explain political criticism?  Trump tweets, “So interesting to see ‘progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run.  Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.  Then come back and show us how it is done.”  Thinly veiled racism, of course.  And what other reason could there be for building a wall, except racism?

By abandoning Scripture, the secular Left creates false gods (Obama) and fake Satans (Trump).  Satan, like God, works through human beings, but no human being can be classified as God or Satan.  Jesus tells us we cannot worship two gods, and we must also recognize that there cannot be two Satans, although numerous angels and demons exist.  Any Republican who viewed Obama as Satan (and some mistakenly did) was just as misguided; at least some of God’s Holy Spirit resides in Obama, too.

The Western intellectual tradition is powerful, and it’s steeped in the concept of God and Satan.  Secularists haven’t abandoned these concepts.  They have just materialized them.  The left-wing mind continues the Christian idea that the world is governed by God and Satan.  But by mistakenly materializing these concepts and denying the power of the real God and Satan, they have created irrational versions of reality.

David Byrne is the author of Ronald Reagan: An Intellectual Biography.

Image: Gage Skidmore via Flickr.

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Don’t tell me your pronouns — I can guess!

A leftist shtick that been going on for some time in universities, government offices, and other haunts of the chronically offended is the idea of choosing one’s own personal pronouns — and expecting the world to actually use them.  Under this scheme, it would be politically correct for me to self-identify as:

e.m. cadwaladr
he/him/his

The main point of this bold new level of wokeness is that a man who wants to entertain an essentially psychotic delusion that he’s a woman may now style himself:

Higgly-Piggly Doe
she/her/hers

If someone does not go along with such a man’s mentally aberrant state and address him according to his delusional identity, the offending person can be prosecuted in some localities.  Nor is this game limited to mere conventional gender dysphoria sufferers.  There are now sixtyish new pronoun sets, just as we are told there are sixtyish new genders.  I do not know what genders “zie/zim/zir” or “ey/em/eir” denote.  These words sound vaguely Yiddish to me — though they lack the Yiddish language’s quirky charm.  The new pronouns are always uttered with a certain peevish militancy that precludes them having charm of any kind.

Now, I am an eccentric to the core myself.  I spell out my pseudonym in lower case for no better reason than that I do.  However, people usually don’t notice and address me as E.M. or Mr. Cadwaladr, and this tells me nothing other than that they lack my interest in unorthodox typography.  Colleagues butcher my real name with predictable regularity — and yet I fail to run to the police or collapse in a mortified swoon.  My habitual retort is, “Well — I’ve been called worse things than that.”  I smile, and they smile, and the world continues to spin about its axis without any interruption.  I feel no need to slink away in tears to the nearest safe space — no need for a therapist to help me through the heinous crime against the all-important “me.”

Unfortunately for the fringe majority of us who would like to just get on with our lives, there are a certain number of people out there who live to make indignant spectacles of themselves.  They want their special pronouns recognized as a baby wants something soft and comforting in his mouth.  Being adult in size, if in no other respect, these people cry loudly and discordantly and will not be pacified with the ordinary pronouns our language has assigned to individuals with their particular sex organs.  They want choice!  They want the recognition that the world stubbornly refuses to give them!  They want what they want, and they want it now — no matter how inconvenient or how utterly ridiculous it is.  And if they don’t get it, they will cry or wag their arms like Trigglypuff or call you a Nazi for the benefit of their fellow deeply aggrieved, intersectional, walking, squawking, semi-literate, life-sized anime creatures.

You do not meet such people often, thankfully — though they occasionally turn up to family gatherings, much to everyone’s discomfort.  If you’ve never met one and just have to satisfy your curiosity, almost any Starbucks or similar café will prove a likely habitat for frequent sightings.  Even the barista may offer just the specimen you are looking for, complete with falsies, androgynous attire, and hair of a color not seen since Troll dolls declined in popularity in the 1970s.  But be warned: coffee shops lack the protective physical barriers one finds in more conventional zoos.  Don’t wear a red ball cap of any kind.  It is like waving a red cape in front of a bull.  Well — a pink-haired, effeminate, attention-seeking bull that utterly abhors itself.

I do not wish to be rude or unkind, but when a person of sex gender dresses in hot pants and purple lipstick, it is simply a non sequitur to believe that that person isn’t trying to draw the world’s attention.  I try not to stare at retarded children or people who have obvious deformities — but I have no qualms about staring at those animated tragedies made not by the hand of nature, but by themselves.  People have, I suppose, a certain right to be bizarre — but the rest of us have at least an equal right to snicker or to disapprove.  Sick of mind these colorful human parodies may be, but you and I have no obligation to celebrate the sheer flamboyance of their psychosis.

Generally, I try to leave the aggressively aggrieved alone, but should anyone ever absolutely insist I call him “zie” or “ey,” or “he” when she is clearly female, I am prepared with a response:

“Alright,” I will say, “I’ll take your word for it.  I will do my best to remember, every time I see you, that you consider yourself to be something nature doesn’t — but I do have one condition.  As you can see, I’m a person of average height at best.  I’ve always thought that being a little taller would have gotten me more respect and helped my self-esteem.  For the sake of fairness, since I’m remembering your special self-identity, would you mind crouching a little in my presence — just to acknowledge that, inside, I feel taller?”

This is just a bitter fantasy, of course, but even a racist, misogynist, homophobic white man can dream. I know from hard experience that you cannot win an argument with someone who’s insane.  An argument requires some mutually agreed upon set of standards — some grasp of that unforgiving, iron-clad thing we call “reality.”  Not everyone has that grasp.  Shout and protest as they might, the truth is not within them.

I would like to think these people would straighten up if they just got laughed at a few times, took an honest look in the mirror, and learned to think of themselves as something a little more substantial than a Pokémon’s ugly cousin.  I have a sad hunch, however, that most of them have departed so far from reality that they’ve forgotten its address.  Mass insanity has always been a pretty implausible notion for me until now — but here it is, front and center, in all of its diverse and fluorescent-dyed glory. No amount of normal coffee or cold water in my face has been enough to wake me from this nightmare.  I just can’t be woke.  The alien invasion has commenced, and the aliens are far more disturbing than anything in Area 51 and far more dangerous than mere Mexicans.  But I’ll be damned if I’ll learn new words for these refugees from the indoctrination archipelago.  The language of my ancestors still suffices.

A leftist shtick that been going on for some time in universities, government offices, and other haunts of the chronically offended is the idea of choosing one’s own personal pronouns — and expecting the world to actually use them.  Under this scheme, it would be politically correct for me to self-identify as:

e.m. cadwaladr
he/him/his

The main point of this bold new level of wokeness is that a man who wants to entertain an essentially psychotic delusion that he’s a woman may now style himself:

Higgly-Piggly Doe
she/her/hers

If someone does not go along with such a man’s mentally aberrant state and address him according to his delusional identity, the offending person can be prosecuted in some localities.  Nor is this game limited to mere conventional gender dysphoria sufferers.  There are now sixtyish new pronoun sets, just as we are told there are sixtyish new genders.  I do not know what genders “zie/zim/zir” or “ey/em/eir” denote.  These words sound vaguely Yiddish to me — though they lack the Yiddish language’s quirky charm.  The new pronouns are always uttered with a certain peevish militancy that precludes them having charm of any kind.

Now, I am an eccentric to the core myself.  I spell out my pseudonym in lower case for no better reason than that I do.  However, people usually don’t notice and address me as E.M. or Mr. Cadwaladr, and this tells me nothing other than that they lack my interest in unorthodox typography.  Colleagues butcher my real name with predictable regularity — and yet I fail to run to the police or collapse in a mortified swoon.  My habitual retort is, “Well — I’ve been called worse things than that.”  I smile, and they smile, and the world continues to spin about its axis without any interruption.  I feel no need to slink away in tears to the nearest safe space — no need for a therapist to help me through the heinous crime against the all-important “me.”

Unfortunately for the fringe majority of us who would like to just get on with our lives, there are a certain number of people out there who live to make indignant spectacles of themselves.  They want their special pronouns recognized as a baby wants something soft and comforting in his mouth.  Being adult in size, if in no other respect, these people cry loudly and discordantly and will not be pacified with the ordinary pronouns our language has assigned to individuals with their particular sex organs.  They want choice!  They want the recognition that the world stubbornly refuses to give them!  They want what they want, and they want it now — no matter how inconvenient or how utterly ridiculous it is.  And if they don’t get it, they will cry or wag their arms like Trigglypuff or call you a Nazi for the benefit of their fellow deeply aggrieved, intersectional, walking, squawking, semi-literate, life-sized anime creatures.

You do not meet such people often, thankfully — though they occasionally turn up to family gatherings, much to everyone’s discomfort.  If you’ve never met one and just have to satisfy your curiosity, almost any Starbucks or similar café will prove a likely habitat for frequent sightings.  Even the barista may offer just the specimen you are looking for, complete with falsies, androgynous attire, and hair of a color not seen since Troll dolls declined in popularity in the 1970s.  But be warned: coffee shops lack the protective physical barriers one finds in more conventional zoos.  Don’t wear a red ball cap of any kind.  It is like waving a red cape in front of a bull.  Well — a pink-haired, effeminate, attention-seeking bull that utterly abhors itself.

I do not wish to be rude or unkind, but when a person of sex gender dresses in hot pants and purple lipstick, it is simply a non sequitur to believe that that person isn’t trying to draw the world’s attention.  I try not to stare at retarded children or people who have obvious deformities — but I have no qualms about staring at those animated tragedies made not by the hand of nature, but by themselves.  People have, I suppose, a certain right to be bizarre — but the rest of us have at least an equal right to snicker or to disapprove.  Sick of mind these colorful human parodies may be, but you and I have no obligation to celebrate the sheer flamboyance of their psychosis.

Generally, I try to leave the aggressively aggrieved alone, but should anyone ever absolutely insist I call him “zie” or “ey,” or “he” when she is clearly female, I am prepared with a response:

“Alright,” I will say, “I’ll take your word for it.  I will do my best to remember, every time I see you, that you consider yourself to be something nature doesn’t — but I do have one condition.  As you can see, I’m a person of average height at best.  I’ve always thought that being a little taller would have gotten me more respect and helped my self-esteem.  For the sake of fairness, since I’m remembering your special self-identity, would you mind crouching a little in my presence — just to acknowledge that, inside, I feel taller?”

This is just a bitter fantasy, of course, but even a racist, misogynist, homophobic white man can dream. I know from hard experience that you cannot win an argument with someone who’s insane.  An argument requires some mutually agreed upon set of standards — some grasp of that unforgiving, iron-clad thing we call “reality.”  Not everyone has that grasp.  Shout and protest as they might, the truth is not within them.

I would like to think these people would straighten up if they just got laughed at a few times, took an honest look in the mirror, and learned to think of themselves as something a little more substantial than a Pokémon’s ugly cousin.  I have a sad hunch, however, that most of them have departed so far from reality that they’ve forgotten its address.  Mass insanity has always been a pretty implausible notion for me until now — but here it is, front and center, in all of its diverse and fluorescent-dyed glory. No amount of normal coffee or cold water in my face has been enough to wake me from this nightmare.  I just can’t be woke.  The alien invasion has commenced, and the aliens are far more disturbing than anything in Area 51 and far more dangerous than mere Mexicans.  But I’ll be damned if I’ll learn new words for these refugees from the indoctrination archipelago.  The language of my ancestors still suffices.

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The Lies of the 1619 Project

The New York Times “1619 Project” is being lauded by the media and many Democrats for what they believe is a long overdue discovery of the hidden truth of America — that it was founded on white racism and the enslavement of blacks, and that even today the belief in white racial supremacy is so endemic to America that it’s a part of our national DNA. The Project will likely be used to advance policies in Washington, D.C. and throughout the country that purport to remedy this alleged injustice. Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Kamala Harris (D-Cal.) has already called the Project a “master-piece.” But is it?

First, it’s hard to take its claims seriously when its creators and contributors are privileged blacks holding exalted positions in journalism, the media, and academia owned and controlled largely by whites. The Project’s creator, Nikole Hannah-Jones, is a black reporter employed by the white-owned New York Times. She holds a 2017 fellowship with the MacArthur Foundation, which was founded and endowed by a white man, in which she received a $625,000 no-strings-attached grant. She’s doing pretty well as a black woman in what she claims is a white, racist America. And, ironically, even though she condemns white America for its alleged systematic discrimination against blacks, she demanded that whites be excluded from the Project.

Second, Hannah-Jones had dedicated her career to writing about racial inequality. She had previously stated that whites are as racist today as our forefathers, but that we’ve adapted over time to cover our racism with a “sheen of deniability,” and that from Jamestown to today, racial inequality is an intentional act by whites against blacks. So, Hannah-Jones came to this Project with a particular point of view. By reading her prior work, one can easily surmise the conclusion of the Project without reading a word.

Third, the major premise of the Project is based upon a lie. It claims America was birthed in slavery in 1619 when the first 20 African slaves disembarked at Jamestown. It claims America was not a nation, “conceived in liberty,” as Abraham Lincoln intoned, but instead a white, racist state begat through the original sin of slavery. However, Jamestown was founded by a British company over a decade before the introduction of slaves; its purpose was to search for gold and establish trade to enrich its owners, not give freedom to anyone. America was born in 1776 when we declared our independence to free the American people, including blacks, from British rule.

Even the Project’s claim that the blacks at Jamestown were enslaved by whites is based upon a half-truth. It states, “The pirates had stolen [the slaves] from a Portuguese slave ship that had forcibly taken them from what is now the country of Angola.” But these Africans were likely captured and enslaved with considerable assistance from blacks. In 1619, the Portuguese allied themselves with the Imbangala, a fierce African tribe that lived by marauding other villages and enslaving other Africans. The Portuguese used the Imbangala to attack, defeat, and enslave the neighboring Ndongo tribe. The Portuguese then sold the enslaved Ndongo to the Americas.

Concerning the African slaves disembarked in Jamestown, Hannah-Jones writes, “They were no longer Mbundu or Akan or Fulani. These men and women… Just a few months earlier… [t]hey were free.” Yet, it’s highly unlikely that they had been free. The Mbundu were part of the Ndongo kingdom, which had a large slave population. About a third of the population of the Akan states were slaves or serfs. By the late 19th century, slaves still constituted about 50 percent of the Fulani Emirate. In African society, which was based upon the caste system, the upper castes did not sell their sons and daughters to the Portuguese, they sold their slaves.

Slavery was not introduced to “America” by whites at Jamestown. The Native American tribes here had a long history of enslaving each other and once blacks arrived, they enslaved them too. Some American blacks owned slaves. In some parts of the south, a greater percentage of free blacks owned slaves than whites. Only a small percentage of whites owned slaves. Slavery was not unique to America; it has existed throughout the world since before recorded history. In 1619, although slavery had been banned in Europe, it flourished in Africa.

Although America abolished slavery over 150 years ago, it still thrives in Africa. Africa has the highest rate of enslavement in the world with nearly 10 million enslaved today. There are more than three times as many people in forced servitude today as were captured and sold during the 350-year span of the transatlantic slave trade. The truth is America’s short-lived experience with slavery pales in comparison to that which has existed for millennia around the world and particularly in Africa. Slavery is “endemic” to Africa and is a part of its DNA — not America’s.

Contrary to what the 1619 Project would have you believe, slavery and racism do not define what America was in 1619 or what it is today. America was born in freedom in 1776 for most and then born again with a new birth of freedom in 1865 for all. After segregation was ended and the full panoply of civil rights ensured to all black Americans, America has fulfilled the promise of its original charter — that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” God Bless America!

Marc A. Scaringi, Esq. Mr. Scaringi is an attorney in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a radio talk show host of “The Marc Scaringi Show” on WHP 580AM and I Heart Radio and a Donald J. Trump endorsed Delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention. Follow Marc on Twitter @MarcScaringi

The New York Times “1619 Project” is being lauded by the media and many Democrats for what they believe is a long overdue discovery of the hidden truth of America — that it was founded on white racism and the enslavement of blacks, and that even today the belief in white racial supremacy is so endemic to America that it’s a part of our national DNA. The Project will likely be used to advance policies in Washington, D.C. and throughout the country that purport to remedy this alleged injustice. Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Kamala Harris (D-Cal.) has already called the Project a “master-piece.” But is it?

First, it’s hard to take its claims seriously when its creators and contributors are privileged blacks holding exalted positions in journalism, the media, and academia owned and controlled largely by whites. The Project’s creator, Nikole Hannah-Jones, is a black reporter employed by the white-owned New York Times. She holds a 2017 fellowship with the MacArthur Foundation, which was founded and endowed by a white man, in which she received a $625,000 no-strings-attached grant. She’s doing pretty well as a black woman in what she claims is a white, racist America. And, ironically, even though she condemns white America for its alleged systematic discrimination against blacks, she demanded that whites be excluded from the Project.

Second, Hannah-Jones had dedicated her career to writing about racial inequality. She had previously stated that whites are as racist today as our forefathers, but that we’ve adapted over time to cover our racism with a “sheen of deniability,” and that from Jamestown to today, racial inequality is an intentional act by whites against blacks. So, Hannah-Jones came to this Project with a particular point of view. By reading her prior work, one can easily surmise the conclusion of the Project without reading a word.

Third, the major premise of the Project is based upon a lie. It claims America was birthed in slavery in 1619 when the first 20 African slaves disembarked at Jamestown. It claims America was not a nation, “conceived in liberty,” as Abraham Lincoln intoned, but instead a white, racist state begat through the original sin of slavery. However, Jamestown was founded by a British company over a decade before the introduction of slaves; its purpose was to search for gold and establish trade to enrich its owners, not give freedom to anyone. America was born in 1776 when we declared our independence to free the American people, including blacks, from British rule.

Even the Project’s claim that the blacks at Jamestown were enslaved by whites is based upon a half-truth. It states, “The pirates had stolen [the slaves] from a Portuguese slave ship that had forcibly taken them from what is now the country of Angola.” But these Africans were likely captured and enslaved with considerable assistance from blacks. In 1619, the Portuguese allied themselves with the Imbangala, a fierce African tribe that lived by marauding other villages and enslaving other Africans. The Portuguese used the Imbangala to attack, defeat, and enslave the neighboring Ndongo tribe. The Portuguese then sold the enslaved Ndongo to the Americas.

Concerning the African slaves disembarked in Jamestown, Hannah-Jones writes, “They were no longer Mbundu or Akan or Fulani. These men and women… Just a few months earlier… [t]hey were free.” Yet, it’s highly unlikely that they had been free. The Mbundu were part of the Ndongo kingdom, which had a large slave population. About a third of the population of the Akan states were slaves or serfs. By the late 19th century, slaves still constituted about 50 percent of the Fulani Emirate. In African society, which was based upon the caste system, the upper castes did not sell their sons and daughters to the Portuguese, they sold their slaves.

Slavery was not introduced to “America” by whites at Jamestown. The Native American tribes here had a long history of enslaving each other and once blacks arrived, they enslaved them too. Some American blacks owned slaves. In some parts of the south, a greater percentage of free blacks owned slaves than whites. Only a small percentage of whites owned slaves. Slavery was not unique to America; it has existed throughout the world since before recorded history. In 1619, although slavery had been banned in Europe, it flourished in Africa.

Although America abolished slavery over 150 years ago, it still thrives in Africa. Africa has the highest rate of enslavement in the world with nearly 10 million enslaved today. There are more than three times as many people in forced servitude today as were captured and sold during the 350-year span of the transatlantic slave trade. The truth is America’s short-lived experience with slavery pales in comparison to that which has existed for millennia around the world and particularly in Africa. Slavery is “endemic” to Africa and is a part of its DNA — not America’s.

Contrary to what the 1619 Project would have you believe, slavery and racism do not define what America was in 1619 or what it is today. America was born in freedom in 1776 for most and then born again with a new birth of freedom in 1865 for all. After segregation was ended and the full panoply of civil rights ensured to all black Americans, America has fulfilled the promise of its original charter — that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” God Bless America!

Marc A. Scaringi, Esq. Mr. Scaringi is an attorney in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a radio talk show host of “The Marc Scaringi Show” on WHP 580AM and I Heart Radio and a Donald J. Trump endorsed Delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention. Follow Marc on Twitter @MarcScaringi

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A recess that Nancy Pelosi is going to hate

Can you imagine what Democratic townhall meetings are like this summer?  The representative hosting the meeting will very likely face an angry mob ready to hang President Trump.  The mob will either say “do something” or “do more” or stuff that we can’t print on a family blog.

We could call it the summer of impeachment, as we see in this article by Adam Shaw:   

In California, Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., was immediately grilled about impeachment at a town hall this month. When she said she broadly favors impeachment, she was met by “rousing applause” according to Politico.

“People said, ‘Well, this might be risky, you might not get reelected,’” Porter said. “I said, ‘I am here to do what’s right.’”

In New Jersey, Rep. Mikie Sherrill, D-N.J., faced a more hostile reception when she said she opposes impeachment at this time and reportedly was interrupted multiple times as she made her point. The crowd accused her of playing politics, according to Politico, and threatened her with a primary challenge.

“Don’t be last to speak up. You’ll be challenged,” one woman told her.

And don’t underestimate their ability to challenge you.  Just ask a fellow named Joe Crowley who didn’t take a young woman named Ocasio-Cortez seriously.

Ultimately, all of this will head to Speaker Pelosi’s office.  She will face a very angry mob in her own caucus.  They will get more and more irrational as they come to terms with President Trump’s reelection.   

Nancy Pelosi is not singing “See you in September” this summer.  

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Can you imagine what Democratic townhall meetings are like this summer?  The representative hosting the meeting will very likely face an angry mob ready to hang President Trump.  The mob will either say “do something” or “do more” or stuff that we can’t print on a family blog.

We could call it the summer of impeachment, as we see in this article by Adam Shaw:   

In California, Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., was immediately grilled about impeachment at a town hall this month. When she said she broadly favors impeachment, she was met by “rousing applause” according to Politico.

“People said, ‘Well, this might be risky, you might not get reelected,’” Porter said. “I said, ‘I am here to do what’s right.’”

In New Jersey, Rep. Mikie Sherrill, D-N.J., faced a more hostile reception when she said she opposes impeachment at this time and reportedly was interrupted multiple times as she made her point. The crowd accused her of playing politics, according to Politico, and threatened her with a primary challenge.

“Don’t be last to speak up. You’ll be challenged,” one woman told her.

And don’t underestimate their ability to challenge you.  Just ask a fellow named Joe Crowley who didn’t take a young woman named Ocasio-Cortez seriously.

Ultimately, all of this will head to Speaker Pelosi’s office.  She will face a very angry mob in her own caucus.  They will get more and more irrational as they come to terms with President Trump’s reelection.   

Nancy Pelosi is not singing “See you in September” this summer.  

P.S.  You can listen to my show (Canto Talk) and follow me on Twitter.

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Why do elected officials embrace the same Islam that wants to destroy them?

I am truly puzzled by what is going on in this increasingly dark world.  On the one hand, all kinds of Islamic associations and groups in places such as Europe, the United States, Canada, Australia, and Sweden demand not only to be treated like everyone else, which they are, but granted special privileges — such as application of sharia law.  Yet Muslim governments — even in those semi-moderate countries such as Turkey and Egypt — systematically discriminate against non-Muslims. I fail to see the justice of this in the 21st century…or are we still wallowing in the Dark Ages?

The solemn duty of all majorities, all people in power, is to serve as protectors of all minorities and the powerless.  The list of people who need fair treatment and are entitled to it is indeed long and is not limited to religious minorities.  Women, even to this day, are among the most disenfranchised groups in the world — sadly, most shamefully, in Islamic lands.

While Western European countries (E.U.) and the United States are going above and beyond to cater to new arrivals, the Muslim migrants, and illegal aliens, they can do a lot for U.S. citizens, the veterans, the poor, and the needy, who are completely neglected.

Elected officials: Are you listening?
Elected officials: Do you care?
Elected officials: Are you doing anything?

It is beyond belief that America, the greatest superpower on the planet, is gradually losing its own power to political correctness.

This is an important question that it is in everyone’s mind: what did we learn from the 9/11 attacks?  Answer: Absolutely nothing.  America had the opportunity of a lifetime to learn from this tragedy and from its European allies and stop this mess of Islamic immigration before it got out of control.  On the contrary, president after president started to appease the 7th-century mentality of pro-sharia Muslims, and they started to bring even more Muslims from countries such as Somalia and Kenya to resettle them across the U.S.  In other words, like Germany, America too committed cultural suicide.

Hiding behind religion, Islam started to infiltrate in every place of our government with the aim of replacing liberty with 7th-century Islamic barbarism.  Its goal: To bring Western civilization under the rule of Islam.

It is foolish to believe that politicians are out there strictly to serve the good, whatever that may be.  It is prudent to keep in mind that society produces politicians by the truckload but Lincolns and Washingtons with great rarity.

Islam by no means is a religion.  It was started by Muhammad as a cult and spread like a wildfire with violent jihad as its engine.  To understand how quickly Islam spread around the world, we must see the timeline of Islam.

Fourteen hundred years later, the civilized world, by its own sheer stupidity, brought these Islamists inside their gates, hoping they could learn and behave like humans in no time at all.  What a gigantic mistake, and now we are stuck in quicksand and unable to move.

If they only knew that true Muslims do not and cannot believe in freedom of choice or any man-made law, such as the U.S. Constitution, perhaps they would have stopped them from invading the civilized world.

Islam means “submission”: everything is up to Allah, as clearly and repeatedly stipulated in the Qur’an.  The raison d’être for the Muslim is to be unconditionally submissive to the will and dictates of Allah.  Everything a “good” Muslim does is contingent upon the will and decree of Allah, he is indoctrinated to believe.  A Muslim is, first and foremost, an Ummahist — a citizen of international Islam.  Thus, it is crucial for Muslims to donate money to pro-Islam politicians in order to advance the cause of Islam — something the Western mind completely ignored while it became America’s historical failure.

Islam is a belief of a backward people in a primitive and barbaric age.  It is hooked in time and place.  It harbors the ambition of taking the 21st-century world back 14 centuries and ruling it by its dogma of violence, intolerance, injustice, and death.

We must do everything in our power to stop this revolt against humanity and modernity.

I am truly puzzled by what is going on in this increasingly dark world.  On the one hand, all kinds of Islamic associations and groups in places such as Europe, the United States, Canada, Australia, and Sweden demand not only to be treated like everyone else, which they are, but granted special privileges — such as application of sharia law.  Yet Muslim governments — even in those semi-moderate countries such as Turkey and Egypt — systematically discriminate against non-Muslims. I fail to see the justice of this in the 21st century…or are we still wallowing in the Dark Ages?

The solemn duty of all majorities, all people in power, is to serve as protectors of all minorities and the powerless.  The list of people who need fair treatment and are entitled to it is indeed long and is not limited to religious minorities.  Women, even to this day, are among the most disenfranchised groups in the world — sadly, most shamefully, in Islamic lands.

While Western European countries (E.U.) and the United States are going above and beyond to cater to new arrivals, the Muslim migrants, and illegal aliens, they can do a lot for U.S. citizens, the veterans, the poor, and the needy, who are completely neglected.

Elected officials: Are you listening?
Elected officials: Do you care?
Elected officials: Are you doing anything?

It is beyond belief that America, the greatest superpower on the planet, is gradually losing its own power to political correctness.

This is an important question that it is in everyone’s mind: what did we learn from the 9/11 attacks?  Answer: Absolutely nothing.  America had the opportunity of a lifetime to learn from this tragedy and from its European allies and stop this mess of Islamic immigration before it got out of control.  On the contrary, president after president started to appease the 7th-century mentality of pro-sharia Muslims, and they started to bring even more Muslims from countries such as Somalia and Kenya to resettle them across the U.S.  In other words, like Germany, America too committed cultural suicide.

Hiding behind religion, Islam started to infiltrate in every place of our government with the aim of replacing liberty with 7th-century Islamic barbarism.  Its goal: To bring Western civilization under the rule of Islam.

It is foolish to believe that politicians are out there strictly to serve the good, whatever that may be.  It is prudent to keep in mind that society produces politicians by the truckload but Lincolns and Washingtons with great rarity.

Islam by no means is a religion.  It was started by Muhammad as a cult and spread like a wildfire with violent jihad as its engine.  To understand how quickly Islam spread around the world, we must see the timeline of Islam.

Fourteen hundred years later, the civilized world, by its own sheer stupidity, brought these Islamists inside their gates, hoping they could learn and behave like humans in no time at all.  What a gigantic mistake, and now we are stuck in quicksand and unable to move.

If they only knew that true Muslims do not and cannot believe in freedom of choice or any man-made law, such as the U.S. Constitution, perhaps they would have stopped them from invading the civilized world.

Islam means “submission”: everything is up to Allah, as clearly and repeatedly stipulated in the Qur’an.  The raison d’être for the Muslim is to be unconditionally submissive to the will and dictates of Allah.  Everything a “good” Muslim does is contingent upon the will and decree of Allah, he is indoctrinated to believe.  A Muslim is, first and foremost, an Ummahist — a citizen of international Islam.  Thus, it is crucial for Muslims to donate money to pro-Islam politicians in order to advance the cause of Islam — something the Western mind completely ignored while it became America’s historical failure.

Islam is a belief of a backward people in a primitive and barbaric age.  It is hooked in time and place.  It harbors the ambition of taking the 21st-century world back 14 centuries and ruling it by its dogma of violence, intolerance, injustice, and death.

We must do everything in our power to stop this revolt against humanity and modernity.

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The kindness of socialism

Socialism is the quieter path to Communism. Vladimir Lenin said, “The goal of Socialism is Communism.” According to Tom Perez, Chairmen of the Democratic National Committee, socialist candidates are the future of that party. But anyone who has paid attention lately knows that they are its present.

Almost all of the Democrat candidates for president support socialism. They have not yet openly supported Rashida Tlaib’s claim that the rich did not earn their wealth, which she says should be confiscated and given to the poor. But the wealthy already pay most of the taxes in America. And since the Democrats want to give free everything to everyone, it must be presumed that they know who would have to pay the bill for all that free stuff. 

Socialism is not kind, however. In practice, it has always led to ubiquitous poverty. The wealthy class are devastated, but not to spread the wealth evenly. The wealth that is stolen from the wealthy ends up in the hands of a new class of overlords of society, those who had promised that all would be equal after the victory of the revolution over the unjust wealthy classes.

And when the new overlords are in power, after they have confiscated what did not belong to them, and after “nationalizing” industries “for the benefit of all,” they then assign as administrators of industry, of utilities, and of all departments and institutions of society, those who are more corrupt, inept, and stupid than any capitalist. A capitalist, after all, wants the system  to continue to produce. A socialist only wants to confiscate that which a capitalist created. That is the historical model.

So while socialism pretends to be kinder than capitalism, it really only produces poverty, degradation, and chaos. Socialists do not know how to govern. And in order to maintain control, they find it convenient to exercise totalitarian power. 

They disarm the population. They prohibit criticism of the government. They intimidate, persecute, jail, torture, and execute dissidents and the opposition. They do all they can to control communications, associations, movement, employment, food, electrical power, and whatever else they might control.

But since they are so corrupt, inept, and stupid, while they are robbing their compatriots blind, they allow infrastructure, industry, and the economy, all of which they have taken over, to crumble, leaving the population to sink out of prosperity into a mean daily existence centered around finding a morsel of food. That is the essence of the kindness of socialists.

Of the Democratic presidential candidates known for the longest as loving the socialist paradigm, Bernie Sanders has said that Venezuela’s is a model society. But to be fair, he said that when finding toilet paper in Venezuela was still possible. Today he might see things somewhat differently. 

If elected as president, any one of the Democrat candidates would do their utmost to arrange America’s economic affairs so as to advance the same Cloward-Piven strategy that has been for decades at the center of the Democratic Socialist movement to bankrupt America. They really have not been trying to hide it.

Socialism is the quieter path to Communism. Vladimir Lenin said, “The goal of Socialism is Communism.” According to Tom Perez, Chairmen of the Democratic National Committee, socialist candidates are the future of that party. But anyone who has paid attention lately knows that they are its present.

Almost all of the Democrat candidates for president support socialism. They have not yet openly supported Rashida Tlaib’s claim that the rich did not earn their wealth, which she says should be confiscated and given to the poor. But the wealthy already pay most of the taxes in America. And since the Democrats want to give free everything to everyone, it must be presumed that they know who would have to pay the bill for all that free stuff. 

Socialism is not kind, however. In practice, it has always led to ubiquitous poverty. The wealthy class are devastated, but not to spread the wealth evenly. The wealth that is stolen from the wealthy ends up in the hands of a new class of overlords of society, those who had promised that all would be equal after the victory of the revolution over the unjust wealthy classes.

And when the new overlords are in power, after they have confiscated what did not belong to them, and after “nationalizing” industries “for the benefit of all,” they then assign as administrators of industry, of utilities, and of all departments and institutions of society, those who are more corrupt, inept, and stupid than any capitalist. A capitalist, after all, wants the system  to continue to produce. A socialist only wants to confiscate that which a capitalist created. That is the historical model.

So while socialism pretends to be kinder than capitalism, it really only produces poverty, degradation, and chaos. Socialists do not know how to govern. And in order to maintain control, they find it convenient to exercise totalitarian power. 

They disarm the population. They prohibit criticism of the government. They intimidate, persecute, jail, torture, and execute dissidents and the opposition. They do all they can to control communications, associations, movement, employment, food, electrical power, and whatever else they might control.

But since they are so corrupt, inept, and stupid, while they are robbing their compatriots blind, they allow infrastructure, industry, and the economy, all of which they have taken over, to crumble, leaving the population to sink out of prosperity into a mean daily existence centered around finding a morsel of food. That is the essence of the kindness of socialists.

Of the Democratic presidential candidates known for the longest as loving the socialist paradigm, Bernie Sanders has said that Venezuela’s is a model society. But to be fair, he said that when finding toilet paper in Venezuela was still possible. Today he might see things somewhat differently. 

If elected as president, any one of the Democrat candidates would do their utmost to arrange America’s economic affairs so as to advance the same Cloward-Piven strategy that has been for decades at the center of the Democratic Socialist movement to bankrupt America. They really have not been trying to hide it.

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Nurse with Terminal Cancer Fulfills Dream of Going on Ride-Along: ‘I Have Unending Gratitude for Cops’

Stephanie Anderson, a former nurse from Eagan, Minnesota, has terminal cancer and is determined to make the most of her remaining days. Anderson, who has a deep level of respect and gratitude for police officers, wanted to participate in a ride-along with her local police department. She put the word out on Facebook, explaining that…

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