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How AR-15s Became the Plastic Straws of the Gun World

How did AR-15s become the plastic straws of the gun world? It’s simple: Demagogues need scapegoats. Yet just as banning plastic straws won’t make a dent in the ocean-polluting plastics problem, banning “assault rifles” (which aren’t) won’t save even one life.

It’s tragic how, just like faddish teenagers playing a dangerous or stupid social-media-driven prank, so-called adults go on misguided, media-driven, lynch-mob kicks. Remember when SUVs were demonized as planet killers approximately 15 to 20 years ago? Some environmentalists claimed that SUV drivers were essentially “hate group” members, and other vandalism-crazy greenies would, ironically, set fire to the vehicles to combat global warming. Yet SUVs currently appear more popular than ever, and all is quiet on the gas-guzzler front. What happened?  The demagogues and their dupes have moved on to a different neurotic fixation.

Now the suburban soccer mom can drive her Panzer-size SUV (by the by, back in the “day” they were called “trucks” — ah, marketing) content in the “feeling” that she’s saving the environment because she supports banning plastic straws. Never mind that doing so likely won’t save even one marine mammal, since the U.S. is responsible for only one percent of ocean-polluting plastics, and straws account for just 0.025 percent of that. Never mind that anti-”strawism” began with erroneous claims in a nine-year-old’s science project (ugh, beam me up, Scotty). The lynch mob must be fed, and plastic straw users, well, really suck….

Joining straws in the dock, and giving new meaning to demonizing the one percent, are Assault Rifles™. Not only are they used in approximately just one percent of homicides, they aren’t even “assault rifles,” a term that had always referred to weapons that could be fired fully automatic or in more than one way (fully auto, three-shot bursts, etc). Now the term is being applied to semi-automatic (one trigger pull, one shot) rifles with certain cosmetic features (a military “look”), which is a bit like putting a Porsche body on a Yugo chassis and claiming the car will win races.

But, hey, as anti-gun crusader Josh Sugarmann once put it, these “weapons’ menacing looks,” coupled with the public’s confusion — “anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun — can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons.”

Yeah, it’s a con.

That said, AR-15s are used in an inordinate percentage of high-profile mass shootings. But believing that outlawing them would reduce these incidents’ frequency makes as much sense as believing that banning the BMW 4 Series — which AutoBlog.com lists as the car most likely to be involved in a crash — would reduce the accident rate.

Quite apropos, AutoBlog’s subtitle boldly reminds readers, “Remember: People cause crashes, not cars.” The point is that outlawing a vehicle wouldn’t take the kind of people who drive it off the road; they’d just get into accidents in a different vehicle.

This point is even more relevant for AR-15-category rifles. The AR-15 is commonly used in mass shootings for two simple reasons: It’s the most popular rifle in America.

And it looks cool.

In reality, though, such a weapon isn’t the best choice for committing mass shootings, which generally involve attacking soft targets at close range. More effective would be a semi-automatic, 12-gauge shotgun or even a pump-action one (and a shotgun was used in the Aurora, Colorado, shooting in 2012).

In other words, not only would mass shooters simply choose a different weapon if AR-15-type rifles were somehow unavailable, but it’s arguable that the rifle’s criminalization could push them toward more effective weaponry.

Speaking of which, presidential contender Irish Bob O’Rourke said in March, echoing many, “I just don’t think that we need to sell any more weapons of war into this public.” He’d have been more accurate if he’d stopped after his first four words. But the pitch is rhetorically effective, conjuring up images of flesh-eviscerating machine-gun fire.

Yet leaving aside the common argument that allowing Americans the same firearms the military uses was the Second Amendment’s actual intent, first note that the AR-15 was never used by the US military. In fact, while the M-16 — which uses the same platform but isn’t limited to semi-auto fire — was, it was supplanted a while back by the M-4; this, in turn, is set to be replaced by an entirely different rifle that will likely even use different, more effective ammunition (critics have long bemoaned the M-16’s/M-4’s relative lack of stopping power).

Moreover, how many guns weren’t designed as “weapons of war”? Bolt-action rifles were once state-of-the-art weapons of war. So was the flintlock. Go back even further, and clubs were weapons of war, and many people are still killed with them today. Should we outlaw baseball bats?

In fact, far from devastating, the AR-15’s standard round is small caliber (the same diameter as a .22) and has the second least power of the 41 cartridges found on this Rifle Cartridge Killing Power List page (note: When loaded with 5.56mm ammo, the power is somewhat greater but still relatively lacking). In other words, you can acquire any number of hunting rifles far more devastating than an AR.

This, mind you, is why some states have prohibited the AR-15’s use in deer hunting; its relatively weak round may not kill the animal, but simply send it off wounded and suffering.

It’s also why the seven-year-old girl in the video below could fire the weapon with ease.

YouTube screen grab

In contrast, I’ve seen a 240-pound man (who wasn’t prepared for the extreme recoil) almost knocked over by a 12-gauge shotgun loaded with a magnum shell.

So, we can outlaw AR-15-type rifles if it makes us feel better, but just as banning plastic straws won’t save marine life, it won’t save one human life. For this reason, it would also be followed by another scapegoated gun targeted for criminalization. Note here that Britain’s deadliest ever mass shooting, the Dunblane massacre in 1996, inspired sweeping anti-firearms laws — after being committed with handguns.

Oh, and London just surpassed N.Y.C. in homicides last year.

This is unsurprising since, as Professor Thomas Sowell illustrated, there’s no correlation whatsoever between stricter gun laws and lower murder rates.

This is why, more to fear than guns are demagogues — shooting off their assault mouths.

Contact Selwyn Duke, follow him on Gab (preferably) or Twitter, or log on to SelwynDuke.com.

How did AR-15s become the plastic straws of the gun world? It’s simple: Demagogues need scapegoats. Yet just as banning plastic straws won’t make a dent in the ocean-polluting plastics problem, banning “assault rifles” (which aren’t) won’t save even one life.

It’s tragic how, just like faddish teenagers playing a dangerous or stupid social-media-driven prank, so-called adults go on misguided, media-driven, lynch-mob kicks. Remember when SUVs were demonized as planet killers approximately 15 to 20 years ago? Some environmentalists claimed that SUV drivers were essentially “hate group” members, and other vandalism-crazy greenies would, ironically, set fire to the vehicles to combat global warming. Yet SUVs currently appear more popular than ever, and all is quiet on the gas-guzzler front. What happened?  The demagogues and their dupes have moved on to a different neurotic fixation.

Now the suburban soccer mom can drive her Panzer-size SUV (by the by, back in the “day” they were called “trucks” — ah, marketing) content in the “feeling” that she’s saving the environment because she supports banning plastic straws. Never mind that doing so likely won’t save even one marine mammal, since the U.S. is responsible for only one percent of ocean-polluting plastics, and straws account for just 0.025 percent of that. Never mind that anti-”strawism” began with erroneous claims in a nine-year-old’s science project (ugh, beam me up, Scotty). The lynch mob must be fed, and plastic straw users, well, really suck….

Joining straws in the dock, and giving new meaning to demonizing the one percent, are Assault Rifles™. Not only are they used in approximately just one percent of homicides, they aren’t even “assault rifles,” a term that had always referred to weapons that could be fired fully automatic or in more than one way (fully auto, three-shot bursts, etc). Now the term is being applied to semi-automatic (one trigger pull, one shot) rifles with certain cosmetic features (a military “look”), which is a bit like putting a Porsche body on a Yugo chassis and claiming the car will win races.

But, hey, as anti-gun crusader Josh Sugarmann once put it, these “weapons’ menacing looks,” coupled with the public’s confusion — “anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun — can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons.”

Yeah, it’s a con.

That said, AR-15s are used in an inordinate percentage of high-profile mass shootings. But believing that outlawing them would reduce these incidents’ frequency makes as much sense as believing that banning the BMW 4 Series — which AutoBlog.com lists as the car most likely to be involved in a crash — would reduce the accident rate.

Quite apropos, AutoBlog’s subtitle boldly reminds readers, “Remember: People cause crashes, not cars.” The point is that outlawing a vehicle wouldn’t take the kind of people who drive it off the road; they’d just get into accidents in a different vehicle.

This point is even more relevant for AR-15-category rifles. The AR-15 is commonly used in mass shootings for two simple reasons: It’s the most popular rifle in America.

And it looks cool.

In reality, though, such a weapon isn’t the best choice for committing mass shootings, which generally involve attacking soft targets at close range. More effective would be a semi-automatic, 12-gauge shotgun or even a pump-action one (and a shotgun was used in the Aurora, Colorado, shooting in 2012).

In other words, not only would mass shooters simply choose a different weapon if AR-15-type rifles were somehow unavailable, but it’s arguable that the rifle’s criminalization could push them toward more effective weaponry.

Speaking of which, presidential contender Irish Bob O’Rourke said in March, echoing many, “I just don’t think that we need to sell any more weapons of war into this public.” He’d have been more accurate if he’d stopped after his first four words. But the pitch is rhetorically effective, conjuring up images of flesh-eviscerating machine-gun fire.

Yet leaving aside the common argument that allowing Americans the same firearms the military uses was the Second Amendment’s actual intent, first note that the AR-15 was never used by the US military. In fact, while the M-16 — which uses the same platform but isn’t limited to semi-auto fire — was, it was supplanted a while back by the M-4; this, in turn, is set to be replaced by an entirely different rifle that will likely even use different, more effective ammunition (critics have long bemoaned the M-16’s/M-4’s relative lack of stopping power).

Moreover, how many guns weren’t designed as “weapons of war”? Bolt-action rifles were once state-of-the-art weapons of war. So was the flintlock. Go back even further, and clubs were weapons of war, and many people are still killed with them today. Should we outlaw baseball bats?

In fact, far from devastating, the AR-15’s standard round is small caliber (the same diameter as a .22) and has the second least power of the 41 cartridges found on this Rifle Cartridge Killing Power List page (note: When loaded with 5.56mm ammo, the power is somewhat greater but still relatively lacking). In other words, you can acquire any number of hunting rifles far more devastating than an AR.

This, mind you, is why some states have prohibited the AR-15’s use in deer hunting; its relatively weak round may not kill the animal, but simply send it off wounded and suffering.

It’s also why the seven-year-old girl in the video below could fire the weapon with ease.

YouTube screen grab

In contrast, I’ve seen a 240-pound man (who wasn’t prepared for the extreme recoil) almost knocked over by a 12-gauge shotgun loaded with a magnum shell.

So, we can outlaw AR-15-type rifles if it makes us feel better, but just as banning plastic straws won’t save marine life, it won’t save one human life. For this reason, it would also be followed by another scapegoated gun targeted for criminalization. Note here that Britain’s deadliest ever mass shooting, the Dunblane massacre in 1996, inspired sweeping anti-firearms laws — after being committed with handguns.

Oh, and London just surpassed N.Y.C. in homicides last year.

This is unsurprising since, as Professor Thomas Sowell illustrated, there’s no correlation whatsoever between stricter gun laws and lower murder rates.

This is why, more to fear than guns are demagogues — shooting off their assault mouths.

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Blame academia for the insanity at Thursday’s Dem debate

In watching Thursday night’s Democrat debate, I first felt as though I was watching a conservative spoof on a Saturday Night Live skit. 

There was Bernie Sanders, playing the crazy and deranged college professor, quite literally spitting insanity.  Kamala Harris was dancing, laughing, and spouting gibberish, leaving the distinct impression she was hiding an empty rectangular bottle under her podium.  Julián Castro was screaming maniacally at Joe Biden about something he didn’t say. 

Andrew Yang proudly informed the audience that he is Asian, so he knows a lot of doctors, while Spartacus was promising to release 17,000 criminals back into American communities as a good start.  I’d likely vote for any of those criminals over Cory Booker.  Joe Biden made the profoundly stupid point that only violent criminals should be in prison, forgetting to add Republicans to that list.

The longer I watched the debate, the more it started to sound like a stage full of radicalized college professors trying to impress their radicalized students.  From Beto O’Rourke’s claim that America’s founding can be traced to the first slave brought here in 1619 to the “white supremacy” sweepstakes in which O’Rourke, Julián Castro, and Cory Booker pushed their poker chips to the center of the table to see who could most obnoxiously condemn America, it gave off the nauseating ideological odor of a college classroom.

Sarah Sanders made one of the best observations in recent weeks when, reflecting on the Democrats running for president, she observed, ”I’m pretty sure they don’t even like America.”  She’s right.  They don’t. 

For those who are wondering how the Democrats could have produced such a distinguished slate of the sanity-challenged, it is because of radical liberal control of America’s colleges and universities.  The Marxist radicals of yesterday became college professors of today, seizing ideological control of much of America.

Just as Saudi-funded Salafist religious schools have radicalized large swaths of the Islamic world, American universities are radicalizing an increasingly large share of America.  This is aided by the fact that nearly 70% of kids now go to college, where most of them are taught not to think.

Every candidate on stage is convinced that the lion’s share of Democrat primary voters are radical Marxists.  Sadly, they’re all largely right, which is why any candidate who sounds remotely reasonable is running about the same percentage of voter support as you.  These candidates should know their voters, since every one of them is likely a product of America’s universities.  It is hard to overstate the damage this institution is inflicting on America but that outcome was on fully display during the Democrat debate.

A favorite Andrew Breitbart observation explains exactly what is going on.  He said, “You send your kids off to college.  They love you.  You walk away with a Cornell mom T-shirt.  You are walking away going, ‘This is great,’ and come Thanksgiving, your kid tells you that you are an imperialist and a racist and a homophobe.”

He could have added that your child will inform you that he is feeling the Bern, and you should, too.  All that for the bargain basement price of $250,000 or so.  This is a tragedy that is regularly playing out in American households as parents receive back kids they barely recognize. 

My first experience with the radicalization of academia happened about twenty years ago, when I was working on a Master of Arts in Literature degree at a mainstream public Virginia university.  I had never actually met a Marxist, but my first professor informed us that he was one.  I was bewildered that such an anachronistic creature still existed in the United States and looked at him with the same morbid curiosity I might have reserved for a two-headed snake. 

But I soon realized that I was the anachronism in that environment.  Every professor was some form of Marxist thinker.  They couched it in various terms such as post-colonialism, feminism, deconstructionism, queer theory, or some other “ism,” but they all believed that the U.S. is hopelessly corrupted by white patriarchy and that the institutions needed to be overthrown, replaced by some form of socialist power structure.  The literature we studied was just a backdrop for these professors to project their various theories on their students.

They were extremely effective at it.  Propaganda works, especially when couched in academic terms that appeal to the students’ intellectual vanity.  Out of all my classes, only one other student offered even a peep of protest, an Army officer who was equally bemused by what he was hearing. 

Fast-forward several years, and I was working on a Master’s degree in international relations at a graduate school that largely services military students.  One would think the professors would be a bit more conservative, considering the student population.  Wrong.  They were actually worse.  They added anti-Semitism to the Marxist and post-colonialist stew.  What was most depressing was just how much the students were carried along on the waves of the professors’ radicalism.  It was the Breitbart observation playing out in a military context. 

It continues to get worse as academia further devolves.  While in high school, one of my kids went to a selective program hosted by an elite university focused on creative writing.  She was the only non-liberal in the program, teacher and student alike.  She heard the usual bromides that conservatives in these situations hear, which went something to the effect of “We actually like you.  You’re not like all those other horrible people.”  It was a real eye-opening experience for her.  Most of her fellow attendees at that program are now in Ivy League schools.  Based upon her experience at that program, my daughter chose Hillsdale College and hasn’t looked back.

It is in the American university where the battle is being lost.  Parents sacrifice for and encourage their sons and daughters to attend these universities with the best of intentions, thinking they are the gateway to a better life.  The university returns them as Bernie Sanders acolytes who think Beto O’Rourke whispers words of wisdom. 

This also explains the increasing media radicalization.  These propagandists are the product of these same universities.  Conservatives who think media bias is the biggest threat in the country aren’t quite right.  These media representatives are a product of academia.  They were propagandized first before becoming mouthpieces themselves.  Just about every candidate on stage was radicalized at an American university.  Every K–12 teacher in America also has a liberal arts university degree, which again explains how so many schools have morphed from educational institutions into propaganda factories. 

These universities are doing all in their power to ensure they reach all the students with their propaganda and social engineering.  Even engineering and science majors are forced to take classes from these propagandists in the interest of producing “well rounded students,” a euphemism for indoctrinated liberals.  There are only a handful of colleges left that aren’t infected with this disease.

This is why every Democrat on a debate stage sounds like he or she despises America.  These candidates, many of them shifting left with the political winds, are chasing increasingly propagandized voters who are a product of colleges and universities.  They are radicals chasing a growing number of radicalized votes.

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

In watching Thursday night’s Democrat debate, I first felt as though I was watching a conservative spoof on a Saturday Night Live skit. 

There was Bernie Sanders, playing the crazy and deranged college professor, quite literally spitting insanity.  Kamala Harris was dancing, laughing, and spouting gibberish, leaving the distinct impression she was hiding an empty rectangular bottle under her podium.  Julián Castro was screaming maniacally at Joe Biden about something he didn’t say. 

Andrew Yang proudly informed the audience that he is Asian, so he knows a lot of doctors, while Spartacus was promising to release 17,000 criminals back into American communities as a good start.  I’d likely vote for any of those criminals over Cory Booker.  Joe Biden made the profoundly stupid point that only violent criminals should be in prison, forgetting to add Republicans to that list.

The longer I watched the debate, the more it started to sound like a stage full of radicalized college professors trying to impress their radicalized students.  From Beto O’Rourke’s claim that America’s founding can be traced to the first slave brought here in 1619 to the “white supremacy” sweepstakes in which O’Rourke, Julián Castro, and Cory Booker pushed their poker chips to the center of the table to see who could most obnoxiously condemn America, it gave off the nauseating ideological odor of a college classroom.

Sarah Sanders made one of the best observations in recent weeks when, reflecting on the Democrats running for president, she observed, ”I’m pretty sure they don’t even like America.”  She’s right.  They don’t. 

For those who are wondering how the Democrats could have produced such a distinguished slate of the sanity-challenged, it is because of radical liberal control of America’s colleges and universities.  The Marxist radicals of yesterday became college professors of today, seizing ideological control of much of America.

Just as Saudi-funded Salafist religious schools have radicalized large swaths of the Islamic world, American universities are radicalizing an increasingly large share of America.  This is aided by the fact that nearly 70% of kids now go to college, where most of them are taught not to think.

Every candidate on stage is convinced that the lion’s share of Democrat primary voters are radical Marxists.  Sadly, they’re all largely right, which is why any candidate who sounds remotely reasonable is running about the same percentage of voter support as you.  These candidates should know their voters, since every one of them is likely a product of America’s universities.  It is hard to overstate the damage this institution is inflicting on America but that outcome was on fully display during the Democrat debate.

A favorite Andrew Breitbart observation explains exactly what is going on.  He said, “You send your kids off to college.  They love you.  You walk away with a Cornell mom T-shirt.  You are walking away going, ‘This is great,’ and come Thanksgiving, your kid tells you that you are an imperialist and a racist and a homophobe.”

He could have added that your child will inform you that he is feeling the Bern, and you should, too.  All that for the bargain basement price of $250,000 or so.  This is a tragedy that is regularly playing out in American households as parents receive back kids they barely recognize. 

My first experience with the radicalization of academia happened about twenty years ago, when I was working on a Master of Arts in Literature degree at a mainstream public Virginia university.  I had never actually met a Marxist, but my first professor informed us that he was one.  I was bewildered that such an anachronistic creature still existed in the United States and looked at him with the same morbid curiosity I might have reserved for a two-headed snake. 

But I soon realized that I was the anachronism in that environment.  Every professor was some form of Marxist thinker.  They couched it in various terms such as post-colonialism, feminism, deconstructionism, queer theory, or some other “ism,” but they all believed that the U.S. is hopelessly corrupted by white patriarchy and that the institutions needed to be overthrown, replaced by some form of socialist power structure.  The literature we studied was just a backdrop for these professors to project their various theories on their students.

They were extremely effective at it.  Propaganda works, especially when couched in academic terms that appeal to the students’ intellectual vanity.  Out of all my classes, only one other student offered even a peep of protest, an Army officer who was equally bemused by what he was hearing. 

Fast-forward several years, and I was working on a Master’s degree in international relations at a graduate school that largely services military students.  One would think the professors would be a bit more conservative, considering the student population.  Wrong.  They were actually worse.  They added anti-Semitism to the Marxist and post-colonialist stew.  What was most depressing was just how much the students were carried along on the waves of the professors’ radicalism.  It was the Breitbart observation playing out in a military context. 

It continues to get worse as academia further devolves.  While in high school, one of my kids went to a selective program hosted by an elite university focused on creative writing.  She was the only non-liberal in the program, teacher and student alike.  She heard the usual bromides that conservatives in these situations hear, which went something to the effect of “We actually like you.  You’re not like all those other horrible people.”  It was a real eye-opening experience for her.  Most of her fellow attendees at that program are now in Ivy League schools.  Based upon her experience at that program, my daughter chose Hillsdale College and hasn’t looked back.

It is in the American university where the battle is being lost.  Parents sacrifice for and encourage their sons and daughters to attend these universities with the best of intentions, thinking they are the gateway to a better life.  The university returns them as Bernie Sanders acolytes who think Beto O’Rourke whispers words of wisdom. 

This also explains the increasing media radicalization.  These propagandists are the product of these same universities.  Conservatives who think media bias is the biggest threat in the country aren’t quite right.  These media representatives are a product of academia.  They were propagandized first before becoming mouthpieces themselves.  Just about every candidate on stage was radicalized at an American university.  Every K–12 teacher in America also has a liberal arts university degree, which again explains how so many schools have morphed from educational institutions into propaganda factories. 

These universities are doing all in their power to ensure they reach all the students with their propaganda and social engineering.  Even engineering and science majors are forced to take classes from these propagandists in the interest of producing “well rounded students,” a euphemism for indoctrinated liberals.  There are only a handful of colleges left that aren’t infected with this disease.

This is why every Democrat on a debate stage sounds like he or she despises America.  These candidates, many of them shifting left with the political winds, are chasing increasingly propagandized voters who are a product of colleges and universities.  They are radicals chasing a growing number of radicalized votes.

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

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Bozell & Graham Column: God Takes a Beating on Television

It’s a fallacy to suggest that in the news media, business trumps politics. CNN and MSNBC’s dismal ratings are in direct proportion to their deliberate decision to embrace far-left anti-Trumpism. The same holds true for Hollywood, except in their case it’s not just anti-Trumpism that excites. The hatred is deeper. They are committed to levels of anti-Christian bigotry never before seen in their industry. There’s no discernible market demand for this bigotry, but it’s the mindset of the industry that believes Christianity must be insulted at every opportunity.

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The Democrat debate was terrifying. Who are these people?

Throughout the Democrat presidential  debate Thursday night, the candidates were positively entertaining in their quest to out-pander each other (can we say Yang?) – on health care, of course, but especially on race, then guns.  The agreed-upon talking point since the day he was elected has been that “Trump is a racist” even though for the first seventy-one years of his life, no one had ever, even once, suggested such a thing.  

Photo credit: YouTube screen grab

Trump had long been friends with nearly all high-profile African-Americans from all walks of life in New York.  He has helped countless African-American individuals, schools, and charitable organizations.  The man has never demonstrated an iota of racism or even race consciousness.  But as we all know by now, the truth is not a left-wing value as Dennis Prager often reminds.  They don’t like Trump, so any slur, any fabricated indictment of his character is A-OK, a sanctioned furtherance of the agenda to transform America into their dystopian utopia.  

White supremacy? Sounds like a plan.  Let’s go with it.  No made-up accusation is over the line.  No plan to eviscerate the Constitution is a bridge too far.  The left loathes the limits our Constitution places on our government.  Thank God for the genius of our Founders.  Without them, we would not have prevailed to this day.  As for the loathsome Beto’s vow to “take our guns,” he has no idea the power of the sleeping giant he has awakened.  Americans who revere the Constitution are filled with a terrible resolve.

Will we survive the socialist plan our Left has for us?  Only time will tell.  Given the Left’s promulgation of homelessness, (they pass out needles and ban straws),  their commitment to the  further dumbing down of education and their disdain for Judeo-Christian values, to open borders and all that entails,  and their fidelity to Marxist socialism,  if they take the White House, the House and the Senate, America as we know it will be over. The US will become a class-stratified society like that of old Europe, France before their Revolution. Our elites will see to it that their lives are not impacted in any way by the legislation they mean to impose on the rest of us.  That is not part of their plan.

The American Revolution was fought to free the American colonies from the tyranny of and taxation by England.  That same liberty-loving spirit led to the Civil War; freedom-loving Americans fought to end slavery.  The Republican Party was founded to do exactly that.   Any faux historian that says different is lying.  America was founded in 1776, its nationhood cemented with the ratification of the Constitution in 1788.  

Legitimate historians are rare these days; nearly all have been politicized by academia and its power to persuade, and by its love of Howard Zinn’s slanderous and wholly inaccurate version of US history.  The NYT’s silly claim that we have been a nation since 1619 when, according to them, the first slave arrived in the New World is utter nonsense.  Academia is now, with a few exceptions, thoroughly corrupt, committed only to the leftist indoctrination of the unsuspecting young.  

Only the perceived crimes of America matter now.  We are all to be indicted for being born here.  We are to be condemned and punished if born Caucasian, as if we had a hand in the nature of our birth.  And yet it is those of us who love America and are familiar with our history who care nothing about the color of anyone’s skin.  It is the Left that defines people and judges people by their race and not their character.   How else to explain their affection for illegal migrant criminals like those terrorizing Montgomery County, Maryland, one example that is being replicated across the country. 

The debate of Thursday night should be a huge wake-up call for all freedom-loving Americans.  Every one of the Democrat candidates wants to curb nearly all of the freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights – speech, assembly, the right to bear arms.  They mean to restrict our access to health care, fuel, food, electricity, mobility by car or air, goods in markets. 

 In short, they well and truly intend to transform the country beyond what Obama did on his watch and not in a good way.  They mean to punish all of us who support Trump because, like Hillary, we are to them deplorable for loving our country.   They are not alone.  The DNC debate audience in Houston were mind-numbed clapping seals. The more punitively race-conscious and socialist the candidates’ promises, the more they applauded.  

The fact that there have been no American flags on the stage at any of the Democrat debates says it all.  One thing is certain: This election season is going to be a bumpy ride.  Like the colonists of 1776, we are looking at the choice between freedom and tyranny.  All Americans need to be cognizant of the deadly seriousness of their vote in 2020.  Trump’s style and his tweets may offend some but his dedication to the preservation of America is boundless. He has pledged his life and fortune to the cause.  Gratitude is in order

Throughout the Democrat presidential  debate Thursday night, the candidates were positively entertaining in their quest to out-pander each other (can we say Yang?) – on health care, of course, but especially on race, then guns.  The agreed-upon talking point since the day he was elected has been that “Trump is a racist” even though for the first seventy-one years of his life, no one had ever, even once, suggested such a thing.  

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Trump had long been friends with nearly all high-profile African-Americans from all walks of life in New York.  He has helped countless African-American individuals, schools, and charitable organizations.  The man has never demonstrated an iota of racism or even race consciousness.  But as we all know by now, the truth is not a left-wing value as Dennis Prager often reminds.  They don’t like Trump, so any slur, any fabricated indictment of his character is A-OK, a sanctioned furtherance of the agenda to transform America into their dystopian utopia.  

White supremacy? Sounds like a plan.  Let’s go with it.  No made-up accusation is over the line.  No plan to eviscerate the Constitution is a bridge too far.  The left loathes the limits our Constitution places on our government.  Thank God for the genius of our Founders.  Without them, we would not have prevailed to this day.  As for the loathsome Beto’s vow to “take our guns,” he has no idea the power of the sleeping giant he has awakened.  Americans who revere the Constitution are filled with a terrible resolve.

Will we survive the socialist plan our Left has for us?  Only time will tell.  Given the Left’s promulgation of homelessness, (they pass out needles and ban straws),  their commitment to the  further dumbing down of education and their disdain for Judeo-Christian values, to open borders and all that entails,  and their fidelity to Marxist socialism,  if they take the White House, the House and the Senate, America as we know it will be over. The US will become a class-stratified society like that of old Europe, France before their Revolution. Our elites will see to it that their lives are not impacted in any way by the legislation they mean to impose on the rest of us.  That is not part of their plan.

The American Revolution was fought to free the American colonies from the tyranny of and taxation by England.  That same liberty-loving spirit led to the Civil War; freedom-loving Americans fought to end slavery.  The Republican Party was founded to do exactly that.   Any faux historian that says different is lying.  America was founded in 1776, its nationhood cemented with the ratification of the Constitution in 1788.  

Legitimate historians are rare these days; nearly all have been politicized by academia and its power to persuade, and by its love of Howard Zinn’s slanderous and wholly inaccurate version of US history.  The NYT’s silly claim that we have been a nation since 1619 when, according to them, the first slave arrived in the New World is utter nonsense.  Academia is now, with a few exceptions, thoroughly corrupt, committed only to the leftist indoctrination of the unsuspecting young.  

Only the perceived crimes of America matter now.  We are all to be indicted for being born here.  We are to be condemned and punished if born Caucasian, as if we had a hand in the nature of our birth.  And yet it is those of us who love America and are familiar with our history who care nothing about the color of anyone’s skin.  It is the Left that defines people and judges people by their race and not their character.   How else to explain their affection for illegal migrant criminals like those terrorizing Montgomery County, Maryland, one example that is being replicated across the country. 

The debate of Thursday night should be a huge wake-up call for all freedom-loving Americans.  Every one of the Democrat candidates wants to curb nearly all of the freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights – speech, assembly, the right to bear arms.  They mean to restrict our access to health care, fuel, food, electricity, mobility by car or air, goods in markets. 

 In short, they well and truly intend to transform the country beyond what Obama did on his watch and not in a good way.  They mean to punish all of us who support Trump because, like Hillary, we are to them deplorable for loving our country.   They are not alone.  The DNC debate audience in Houston were mind-numbed clapping seals. The more punitively race-conscious and socialist the candidates’ promises, the more they applauded.  

The fact that there have been no American flags on the stage at any of the Democrat debates says it all.  One thing is certain: This election season is going to be a bumpy ride.  Like the colonists of 1776, we are looking at the choice between freedom and tyranny.  All Americans need to be cognizant of the deadly seriousness of their vote in 2020.  Trump’s style and his tweets may offend some but his dedication to the preservation of America is boundless. He has pledged his life and fortune to the cause.  Gratitude is in order

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K–12: The Real Threat is Red Supremacists

August 2017, Charlottesville: Police disappear even as belligerents advance toward each other, and fighting in the streets begins.  The same tactic had been used successfully in Ferguson and Baltimore.  Who but President Obama and the respective governors could have given the orders to stand down?  Who else but mayors and police chiefs could have expedited such counterintuitive commands?

Democrats got their optics.  CNN could chant each day that the USA is full of white nationalists and right-wing criminality.  Obama must’ve been proud.  Anyone could see that white supremacists lurked on every street.

Funny thing: If you wait around for these people to turn up on their own, you will probably find they are as rare as Sasquatch.

Seriously.  Does anyone know a white supremacist?  Do they have any spokespeople on television?  Do they have networks as liberals do?  Do they have bestsellers and big rallies?  Do they run departments at great universities?  Do they control foundations?  Central casting wants to know: where do you find these people?  Probably you can’t, not unless you have top-level politicians willing to create riots on demand.

If you want something both menacing and commonplace, look in a completely opposite direction.  Look for red supremacists.  That would be hard-left people in control, or scheming to be in control.  But how can we know when they are present?

Consider that Americans split 50-50 on most of the main issues in this country: gun control, abortion, capital punishment, conscientious objection, voting age, drinking age, et al.  Surely, the hard Left works to change opinion on these issues.  But typically, there are no giant anomalies to prove what effect red supremacists are having.

Education is the opposite story.  When it comes to reading, writing and arithmetic, 99% of American parents want children to have these skills.  Naturally they get them, right?  Wrong, and that’s how you know that some serious subversion is going on.  Red supremacists seem to be everywhere in education.  Examining K–12 is remarkably revealing, like taking an x-ray of the whole country.

The gains that all parents want are routinely withheld from American children.  Reading is down.  Math is down.  Factual knowledge (AKA cultural literacy) is down.  Order and coherence in the classroom are down.  Satisfaction among teachers is down.  Satisfaction among parents is down.  The kids cry themselves to sleep.  Who voted for any of these things?  Nobody.  They were somehow imposed from on high.

Red supremacists are stealthy and secretive.  But you can detect their heavy hand.  Just look for aspects of education that are blatantly underperforming.  There the red supremacists are in charge.  What you call underperforming, they call “the long march through the institutions.”  They call it victory.

This takeover has unfolded slowly throughout the 20th century.  It’s the big unreported story.  John Dewey started implementing his vision around 1900.  He wanted to build scores of ed schools, indoctrinate teachers with his socialist theories, and send them out to the countryside to brainwash future generations.  The Comintern (Communist International) arrived in 1921, thousands of agents indefatigably chiseling away at every part of society.

If you observed a bunch of farmers using buckets with holes in them, you would know that red supremacists had taken over farming.  The strategy is simple: make people use what does not work.

The big gimmick in K–12 was to kick out phonics in 1931 and make children memorize sight-words.  Literacy went into decline and has never recovered. 

QED: Red supremacists wanted less literacy and used a fake instructional method to reach this goal.  But it seems they got greedy; they went too far too fast and became too obvious.  Fifty million functional illiterates!  Now the tide is turning as more people figure out the great hoax known as Whole World, Whole Language, and other aliases.  (Many feel that the situation today is like watching the German army retreat from Russia in 1944.  Very satisfying.)

Now we have to ask, who are these wretched creatures willing to dumb down children and steal reading from them?  They are sometimes called socialists, collectivists, totalitarians, communists, commies, or red supremacists — that is, people who think Marxist is a compliment.  They never stop working.  They give us a glimpse inside the novel 1984.  They’re always enthusiastic, always eager to do what their leaders tell them.  If they gain enough power, they will make life hell for everyone, themselves included.  That’s what happened in Russia, Italy, China, Cambodia, and Venezuela.

For education to improve, red supremacists must lose power.  That’s how complete their grip is.  If enough Americans start fighting back, improvement can happen.  For a change, children will learn to read in 1st grade.  They will know where Alaska is on a map of the world.  They will be able to multiply 23×36 in a timely way.  For now, education is sabotaged by theories and methods that hurt children.  Anyone who looks closely at these gimmicks knows they were designed with hostile intent. 

Sight-words are the paradigm of bad education.  Other gimmicks are almost as destructive.  Constructivism slows down the acquisition of knowledge even as educrats claim it’s a miracle cure.  Likewise, New Math/Reform Math/Common Core Math impede learning arithmetic by the simple device of introducing difficult topics before students are ready.

All this stuff is best called Dumb Ed.  Nobody but red supremacists would go near it. 

Bruce Deitrick Price’s new book is Saving K–12: What happened to our public schools? How do we fix them?  He deconstructs educational theories and methods at Improve-Education.org.

August 2017, Charlottesville: Police disappear even as belligerents advance toward each other, and fighting in the streets begins.  The same tactic had been used successfully in Ferguson and Baltimore.  Who but President Obama and the respective governors could have given the orders to stand down?  Who else but mayors and police chiefs could have expedited such counterintuitive commands?

Democrats got their optics.  CNN could chant each day that the USA is full of white nationalists and right-wing criminality.  Obama must’ve been proud.  Anyone could see that white supremacists lurked on every street.

Funny thing: If you wait around for these people to turn up on their own, you will probably find they are as rare as Sasquatch.

Seriously.  Does anyone know a white supremacist?  Do they have any spokespeople on television?  Do they have networks as liberals do?  Do they have bestsellers and big rallies?  Do they run departments at great universities?  Do they control foundations?  Central casting wants to know: where do you find these people?  Probably you can’t, not unless you have top-level politicians willing to create riots on demand.

If you want something both menacing and commonplace, look in a completely opposite direction.  Look for red supremacists.  That would be hard-left people in control, or scheming to be in control.  But how can we know when they are present?

Consider that Americans split 50-50 on most of the main issues in this country: gun control, abortion, capital punishment, conscientious objection, voting age, drinking age, et al.  Surely, the hard Left works to change opinion on these issues.  But typically, there are no giant anomalies to prove what effect red supremacists are having.

Education is the opposite story.  When it comes to reading, writing and arithmetic, 99% of American parents want children to have these skills.  Naturally they get them, right?  Wrong, and that’s how you know that some serious subversion is going on.  Red supremacists seem to be everywhere in education.  Examining K–12 is remarkably revealing, like taking an x-ray of the whole country.

The gains that all parents want are routinely withheld from American children.  Reading is down.  Math is down.  Factual knowledge (AKA cultural literacy) is down.  Order and coherence in the classroom are down.  Satisfaction among teachers is down.  Satisfaction among parents is down.  The kids cry themselves to sleep.  Who voted for any of these things?  Nobody.  They were somehow imposed from on high.

Red supremacists are stealthy and secretive.  But you can detect their heavy hand.  Just look for aspects of education that are blatantly underperforming.  There the red supremacists are in charge.  What you call underperforming, they call “the long march through the institutions.”  They call it victory.

This takeover has unfolded slowly throughout the 20th century.  It’s the big unreported story.  John Dewey started implementing his vision around 1900.  He wanted to build scores of ed schools, indoctrinate teachers with his socialist theories, and send them out to the countryside to brainwash future generations.  The Comintern (Communist International) arrived in 1921, thousands of agents indefatigably chiseling away at every part of society.

If you observed a bunch of farmers using buckets with holes in them, you would know that red supremacists had taken over farming.  The strategy is simple: make people use what does not work.

The big gimmick in K–12 was to kick out phonics in 1931 and make children memorize sight-words.  Literacy went into decline and has never recovered. 

QED: Red supremacists wanted less literacy and used a fake instructional method to reach this goal.  But it seems they got greedy; they went too far too fast and became too obvious.  Fifty million functional illiterates!  Now the tide is turning as more people figure out the great hoax known as Whole World, Whole Language, and other aliases.  (Many feel that the situation today is like watching the German army retreat from Russia in 1944.  Very satisfying.)

Now we have to ask, who are these wretched creatures willing to dumb down children and steal reading from them?  They are sometimes called socialists, collectivists, totalitarians, communists, commies, or red supremacists — that is, people who think Marxist is a compliment.  They never stop working.  They give us a glimpse inside the novel 1984.  They’re always enthusiastic, always eager to do what their leaders tell them.  If they gain enough power, they will make life hell for everyone, themselves included.  That’s what happened in Russia, Italy, China, Cambodia, and Venezuela.

For education to improve, red supremacists must lose power.  That’s how complete their grip is.  If enough Americans start fighting back, improvement can happen.  For a change, children will learn to read in 1st grade.  They will know where Alaska is on a map of the world.  They will be able to multiply 23×36 in a timely way.  For now, education is sabotaged by theories and methods that hurt children.  Anyone who looks closely at these gimmicks knows they were designed with hostile intent. 

Sight-words are the paradigm of bad education.  Other gimmicks are almost as destructive.  Constructivism slows down the acquisition of knowledge even as educrats claim it’s a miracle cure.  Likewise, New Math/Reform Math/Common Core Math impede learning arithmetic by the simple device of introducing difficult topics before students are ready.

All this stuff is best called Dumb Ed.  Nobody but red supremacists would go near it. 

Bruce Deitrick Price’s new book is Saving K–12: What happened to our public schools? How do we fix them?  He deconstructs educational theories and methods at Improve-Education.org.

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Pete Buttigieg: Dumbest Ever Smart Person?

Is Pete Buttigieg the dumbest smart person ever?

At CNN’s climate change freak show telethon, Buttigieg — the South Bend, Ind. mayor, 2020 Democratic Party presidential hopeful, and Harvard- and Oxford-educated Rhodes scholar — said in front of the entire world that defeating climate change will perhaps be more difficult than defeating the Nazis in World War 2.

This is the kind of candidate Democrats vote for, and with whom Republicans want you and me to compromise.  If the election were held tomorrow, Buttigieg would receive tens of millions of votes.

I want Buttigieg to look in the eyes of a D-Day veteran — who spent hours in a boat full of feces, urine, and vomit, and who fought nearly a week at the beaches of Normandy, France, wondering if he’d live another second — and say that.  Over 16 million Americans served our Armed Forces in World War 2; approximately half a million are still alive.  Would Buttigieg muster up the intrepidity to utter his utterly inane statement to our surviving servicemen and women, or their families?

Would he say it with a straight face to the veterans of the other 18 Allied nations, or to their loved ones?

On my podcast, I often posit that there are only two types of Democrats: those who believe the balderdash that comes out of their mouths and those who don’t.  The only Democrats more dangerous than the ones who don’t believe the bull they peddle (the politicians) are the ones who do (Democrat voters).

Had I been given the opportunity to pose one question to Buttigieg, it would have been this: “do you actually believe what comes out of your mouth?”  I’ve asked numerous members of my audience, my production team, and like-minded friends and associates if they believe Buttigieg is sincere.  Almost everyone believes that Buttigieg’s remark was the lowest form of pandering, and I concur.

As a bonus, Buttigieg served in the United States Navy, from 2009 to 2017, in the Middle East, where Islamic supremacists, influencers of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, have been warring and murdering for thousands of years.

Buttigieg the Tragic Figure

Most of the Democrats running for president unequivocally strike me as amalgams of loathsomeness, hypocrisy, and ideological shapeshifting.  Take, for example, the shrew, Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).  Imagine lying for decades about your “heritage” to get ahead and then, when caught, actually whitewashing your own life story and personal history.  Warren recently removed from her campaign website the DNA test results that she claimed “proved” her American Indian ancestry.  Warren, a onetime conservative, “evolved” into a Democrat because it was good for Liz Warren, Inc.; her “transformation” has made her yet another affluent, white Democrat multimillionaire, who doesn’t believe any of the nonsense that comes out of her mouth.

How about former Vice President Joe Biden (D-Del.), who is now claiming that he opposed the Iraq War in 2002, even though he was one of the 29 Democrat senators (out of 50) who voted to authorize military force?  Biden’s revisionist history is so farcical that even his former boss’s chief strategist, David Axelrod, took him to task for distorting his own legislative record.

Democrats such as Biden and Warren simultaneously stand for everything and stand for nothing.  They’re the most dangerous type of politicians.

In Buttigieg’s case, however, there is a tragic sadness — a hybrid of the English playwright Christopher Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus protagonist, who sells his soul to the Devil to gain the powers of a deity, and Terry Malloy, Marlon Brando’s “I coulda been a contender” character from On the Waterfront.

To be clear, I hold no sympathies for Buttigieg’s wilting campaign; like most Democrats, his goals are to take my children, my money, and my freedoms.  Just ask the South Bend residents who didn’t vote for Buttigieg if they’re satisfied with his tenure as their mayor, a position he’s held since 2012.  South Bend’s rates of violent crime and property crime — oftentimes the gateway drug to violent crime — are well above Indiana’s and the national rates and have been for decades.  In addition, residents and police have the usual antagonistic relationship found in Democrat-controlled cities.  South Bend has had only Democrat mayors for the last 17,000 consecutive days; Buttigieg is just the latest in a long line of Democrats who have failed at governing. 

It’s because he’s young that I have such a visceral, adverse reaction to him.  As I make clear in my upcoming first book, 10 Warning Signs Your Child Is Becoming a Democrat, Buttigieg, 37, is the anthropomorphic embodiment of everything that’s gone terribly wrong with our youths.  The guy could have been a most formidable voice for the features and benefits of American constitutional nationalism.  Rather, to quote Malloy, he’s just a bum — wasted talent and intellect.  Buttigieg is anti-science (he believes that life begins at first breath); he’s anti-merit (sorry, Pete, but being gay is neither a skill nor an accomplishment); and he’s anti-reality — he regurgitates the usual debunked Democrat and DMIC (Democrat Media Industrial Complex) conspiracy theories, lies, and myths about firearms, white supremacists in every neighborhood, and American history.  At the CNN climate change town hall, Buttigieg made a complete fool of himself; seems that Harvard and Oxford aren’t sending us their best.

For all the narratives about the DMIC Chia Pet Robert “Beto” O’Rourke being the next Barack Obama, it’s actually Buttigieg who most resembles Obama — the overachieving, articulate young man.  Instead of being the antithesis of Obama, Buttigieg has ingratiated himself with the “fundamental transformation” cult.

To paraphrase Marlowe, Buttigieg could have been the face that helped persuade our young and minorities to better comprehend that Democrats are the U.S.’s original hate group, who care only about conquering the rest of us, and who want us living in fear of government — one of the precursors to tyranny.

It’s not the responsibility of America First nationalists to change the minds of Democrats — the exception being young voters.  It’s our responsibility to conquer them at the polls, in our schools, and in our culture.  Want evidence of why this is more urgently necessary than ever?  Look no farther than Buttigieg.

Rich Logis is host of The Rich Logis Show, at TheRichLogisShow.com, and author of the upcoming book 10 Warning Signs Your Child Is Becoming a Democrat.  He can be found on Twitter at @RichLogis.

Is Pete Buttigieg the dumbest smart person ever?

At CNN’s climate change freak show telethon, Buttigieg — the South Bend, Ind. mayor, 2020 Democratic Party presidential hopeful, and Harvard- and Oxford-educated Rhodes scholar — said in front of the entire world that defeating climate change will perhaps be more difficult than defeating the Nazis in World War 2.

This is the kind of candidate Democrats vote for, and with whom Republicans want you and me to compromise.  If the election were held tomorrow, Buttigieg would receive tens of millions of votes.

I want Buttigieg to look in the eyes of a D-Day veteran — who spent hours in a boat full of feces, urine, and vomit, and who fought nearly a week at the beaches of Normandy, France, wondering if he’d live another second — and say that.  Over 16 million Americans served our Armed Forces in World War 2; approximately half a million are still alive.  Would Buttigieg muster up the intrepidity to utter his utterly inane statement to our surviving servicemen and women, or their families?

Would he say it with a straight face to the veterans of the other 18 Allied nations, or to their loved ones?

On my podcast, I often posit that there are only two types of Democrats: those who believe the balderdash that comes out of their mouths and those who don’t.  The only Democrats more dangerous than the ones who don’t believe the bull they peddle (the politicians) are the ones who do (Democrat voters).

Had I been given the opportunity to pose one question to Buttigieg, it would have been this: “do you actually believe what comes out of your mouth?”  I’ve asked numerous members of my audience, my production team, and like-minded friends and associates if they believe Buttigieg is sincere.  Almost everyone believes that Buttigieg’s remark was the lowest form of pandering, and I concur.

As a bonus, Buttigieg served in the United States Navy, from 2009 to 2017, in the Middle East, where Islamic supremacists, influencers of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, have been warring and murdering for thousands of years.

Buttigieg the Tragic Figure

Most of the Democrats running for president unequivocally strike me as amalgams of loathsomeness, hypocrisy, and ideological shapeshifting.  Take, for example, the shrew, Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).  Imagine lying for decades about your “heritage” to get ahead and then, when caught, actually whitewashing your own life story and personal history.  Warren recently removed from her campaign website the DNA test results that she claimed “proved” her American Indian ancestry.  Warren, a onetime conservative, “evolved” into a Democrat because it was good for Liz Warren, Inc.; her “transformation” has made her yet another affluent, white Democrat multimillionaire, who doesn’t believe any of the nonsense that comes out of her mouth.

How about former Vice President Joe Biden (D-Del.), who is now claiming that he opposed the Iraq War in 2002, even though he was one of the 29 Democrat senators (out of 50) who voted to authorize military force?  Biden’s revisionist history is so farcical that even his former boss’s chief strategist, David Axelrod, took him to task for distorting his own legislative record.

Democrats such as Biden and Warren simultaneously stand for everything and stand for nothing.  They’re the most dangerous type of politicians.

In Buttigieg’s case, however, there is a tragic sadness — a hybrid of the English playwright Christopher Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus protagonist, who sells his soul to the Devil to gain the powers of a deity, and Terry Malloy, Marlon Brando’s “I coulda been a contender” character from On the Waterfront.

To be clear, I hold no sympathies for Buttigieg’s wilting campaign; like most Democrats, his goals are to take my children, my money, and my freedoms.  Just ask the South Bend residents who didn’t vote for Buttigieg if they’re satisfied with his tenure as their mayor, a position he’s held since 2012.  South Bend’s rates of violent crime and property crime — oftentimes the gateway drug to violent crime — are well above Indiana’s and the national rates and have been for decades.  In addition, residents and police have the usual antagonistic relationship found in Democrat-controlled cities.  South Bend has had only Democrat mayors for the last 17,000 consecutive days; Buttigieg is just the latest in a long line of Democrats who have failed at governing. 

It’s because he’s young that I have such a visceral, adverse reaction to him.  As I make clear in my upcoming first book, 10 Warning Signs Your Child Is Becoming a Democrat, Buttigieg, 37, is the anthropomorphic embodiment of everything that’s gone terribly wrong with our youths.  The guy could have been a most formidable voice for the features and benefits of American constitutional nationalism.  Rather, to quote Malloy, he’s just a bum — wasted talent and intellect.  Buttigieg is anti-science (he believes that life begins at first breath); he’s anti-merit (sorry, Pete, but being gay is neither a skill nor an accomplishment); and he’s anti-reality — he regurgitates the usual debunked Democrat and DMIC (Democrat Media Industrial Complex) conspiracy theories, lies, and myths about firearms, white supremacists in every neighborhood, and American history.  At the CNN climate change town hall, Buttigieg made a complete fool of himself; seems that Harvard and Oxford aren’t sending us their best.

For all the narratives about the DMIC Chia Pet Robert “Beto” O’Rourke being the next Barack Obama, it’s actually Buttigieg who most resembles Obama — the overachieving, articulate young man.  Instead of being the antithesis of Obama, Buttigieg has ingratiated himself with the “fundamental transformation” cult.

To paraphrase Marlowe, Buttigieg could have been the face that helped persuade our young and minorities to better comprehend that Democrats are the U.S.’s original hate group, who care only about conquering the rest of us, and who want us living in fear of government — one of the precursors to tyranny.

It’s not the responsibility of America First nationalists to change the minds of Democrats — the exception being young voters.  It’s our responsibility to conquer them at the polls, in our schools, and in our culture.  Want evidence of why this is more urgently necessary than ever?  Look no farther than Buttigieg.

Rich Logis is host of The Rich Logis Show, at TheRichLogisShow.com, and author of the upcoming book 10 Warning Signs Your Child Is Becoming a Democrat.  He can be found on Twitter at @RichLogis.

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The Trayvon Hoax: Unmasking the Witness Fraud that Divided America

After a painstaking investigation into the Trayvon Martin shooting, I have produced a film and written a companion book, both called The Trayvon Hoax: Unmasking the Witness Fraud that Divided America. Only after I started the project did I realize I had stumbled onto the most spectacular case of identity fraud in modern American judicial history. Thanks to the folks at American Thinker for allowing me to reveal it here for the first time.

I had originally set out to produce a documentary about the rise of 2018 Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum. The more I looked into Gillum’s success, however, the more need I saw to investigate the unanswered questions of the criminal case upon which Gillum built his career.

 

I had followed the 2012 shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and the subsequent trial of George Zimmerman from afar and, like many others, I had grave concerns about the lynch mob mentality that drove the case.

With his dying breath, Trayvon Martin made a final, desperate request of the man who shot him, “Tell Mama ‘Licia I’m sorry.” I was the first person in the media with whom George Zimmerman shared Trayvon’s last words.

Upon hearing Zimmerman reveal this, I had to rethink the direction of a documentary. As with Citizen Kane’s dying “Rosebud,” I was convinced that if I could decipher the meaning of Trayvon’s last request, I could find my way to the heart of the case, maybe even to the dynamic behind Gillum’s rapid ascent.

By examining Trayvon Martin’s 750-page cell phone records which included 3,000 photos and 1,500 contacts, I got to know Trayvon in the last months of his life. I learned he was neither the rocket scientist the media made him out to be, nor was he a thug. Trayvon was a good kid with many friends and family that loved him. “Mama ‘Licia” was one person Trayvon loved most. I learned what it was he was “sorry” for.

At the end, Trayvon was a very troubled teenager. I came to see his life as a series of betrayals, one more crushing than the next. His pain played out in reckless behaviors such as fighting, gun dealing, and heavy marijuana use. On the day of his death, Trayvon feared one more betrayal, this from the girl he knew as “Diamond,” the girl who had stolen his fragile heart, the girl with whom he was on the phone up to the very minute he died, the girl who would emerge, in various forms, as the “star witness” in the case against George Zimmerman.

Indeed, it was 16-year-old Diamond Eugene’s recorded phone interview with Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump and ABC News that prompted George Zimmerman’s arrest and the subsequent 2013 trial.

In my quest to find this mystery girl, Diamond Eugene, I found myself being pulled down a mysterious side road, a dark one. To understand Gillum, to understand Florida, to understand Trayvon, I would have to travel this road of many unexpected turns. At the end of it, I would discover, was hard evidence of an epic and ultimately lethal deception, a stunning witness fraud that divided America.

After speaking with Benjamin Crump, for any number of good reasons, Diamond Eugene refused to “follow the script.” She refused to speak with the state prosecutors or bear false witness against George Zimmerman under oath.

Instead, the plus-sized 18-year-old Rachel Jeantel was substituted for Diamond, and Jeantel became the key witness in the murder trial of George Zimmerman. Jeantel was a fraud. She was not the “phone witness” speaking to Trayvon Martin in the minutes before he was shot. She barely knew him. This witness fraud resulted in the seminal race hoax of the Obama years. I call it “The Trayvon Hoax.”

This is the hoax the media play on black Americans every day: that blacks should vote Democrat to protect themselves from a racist America where whites want to harm them because of their skin color. The massive racial turmoil stirred up by media coverage of the shooting followed, and no one has suffered more as a result than the black youth of America.

My investigation took me places I never expected to go. From the back alleys of Little Haiti in Miami to the bucolic campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee, I got an earful and an eyeful. I ended up centering both the film and book on “Diamond.” Indeed, after much search, I managed to find her.

Her full legal name is Brittany Diamond Eugene. And, in getting to know this young woman, I was introduced to Miami’s urban youth culture, a culture that thrives on some mix of sex, drugs, gangs, texting, clubbing, shopping, and social media. Diamond’s particular Haitian-American milieu featured its own unscrupulous subspecialty: identity switching.

Who knew about the witness fraud? Any number of interested parties profited from the hoax. The railroading of George Zimmerman, for instance, helped Trayvon Martin’s biological parents shift the blame from their parenting deficiencies to a racial scapegoat. They extracted a huge settlement from a homeowners association and cashed in on book and movie deals.

The family attorney, Benjamin Crump, got his slice of the insurance payout and forged a national identity as a civil rights champion. The old school race hustlers like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson reestablished their relevance and refreshed their cash flow. Of even greater significance, politicians like Gillum and President Barack Obama successfully exploited Trayvon Martin’s death to harvest votes and win elections; power!

As I argue in The Trayvon Hoax, if there is a main culprit of my investigation, it is the press. The Zimmerman case was ground zero for the explosion of fake news and the race hoaxes that have followed, one more preposterous than the next. Think “hands up don’t shoot” or the beyond preposterous Jesse Smollett racial “attack” by Trump supporters at 2 AM in subzero Chicago, a hoax so phony only the media could fall for it.

We expect individuals to be greedy and exploitive, politicians especially. It is the nature of the beast. As their very mission, however, the media are charged with shining light on political schemes. Time and again, however, the media have betrayed their craft. It is appalling that six years after the Zimmerman trial so much information was left for me, an independent filmmaker, to discover.

If the media had wanted to find the truth, it was there for the plucking. I was able to uncover it simply by reading publicly available information from the legal proceedings and following up on what I read. How is it possible no one in the media chose to do what I did? The answer is simple. The media did not want to know. The truth would not have advanced their fear-fueled racial agenda.

The power of investigative journalism is the ability to set the record straight, to change history for the better by shedding light on facts and exposing lies and liars. Can anyone even remember the last major investigation broken by a major news organization? I can’t.

In an odd way, I suppose I should thank our lazy and disingenuous friends in the media for making it possible for an independent film maker like me to tell the incredible story of The Trayvon Hoax. The book and film are available for pre-order on the official film website and on Amazon.com. Both will be available Monday, September 16, the day of the film’s premier at the National Press Club in Washington D.C.

You are about to see how America got played by an epic race hoax that divided us for no good reason and, alas, just keeps on dividing.

I will be screening The Trayvon Hoax and holding a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington DC on Monday, September 16 at 1 PM. The press and the public are invited to attend.

Official Film Website:  thetrayvonhoax.com

Hollywood film director Joel Gilbert is president of Highway 61 Entertainment. He is also a political commentator and foreign policy analyst. Among Gilbert’s many films are political documentaries including Trump: The Art of the Insult, There’s No Place Like Utopia, Dreams from My Real Father, Atomic Jihad, and Farewell Israel, as well music history films including Inside Bob Dylan’s Jesus Years.

After a painstaking investigation into the Trayvon Martin shooting, I have produced a film and written a companion book, both called The Trayvon Hoax: Unmasking the Witness Fraud that Divided America. Only after I started the project did I realize I had stumbled onto the most spectacular case of identity fraud in modern American judicial history. Thanks to the folks at American Thinker for allowing me to reveal it here for the first time.

I had originally set out to produce a documentary about the rise of 2018 Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum. The more I looked into Gillum’s success, however, the more need I saw to investigate the unanswered questions of the criminal case upon which Gillum built his career.

 

I had followed the 2012 shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and the subsequent trial of George Zimmerman from afar and, like many others, I had grave concerns about the lynch mob mentality that drove the case.

With his dying breath, Trayvon Martin made a final, desperate request of the man who shot him, “Tell Mama ‘Licia I’m sorry.” I was the first person in the media with whom George Zimmerman shared Trayvon’s last words.

Upon hearing Zimmerman reveal this, I had to rethink the direction of a documentary. As with Citizen Kane’s dying “Rosebud,” I was convinced that if I could decipher the meaning of Trayvon’s last request, I could find my way to the heart of the case, maybe even to the dynamic behind Gillum’s rapid ascent.

By examining Trayvon Martin’s 750-page cell phone records which included 3,000 photos and 1,500 contacts, I got to know Trayvon in the last months of his life. I learned he was neither the rocket scientist the media made him out to be, nor was he a thug. Trayvon was a good kid with many friends and family that loved him. “Mama ‘Licia” was one person Trayvon loved most. I learned what it was he was “sorry” for.

At the end, Trayvon was a very troubled teenager. I came to see his life as a series of betrayals, one more crushing than the next. His pain played out in reckless behaviors such as fighting, gun dealing, and heavy marijuana use. On the day of his death, Trayvon feared one more betrayal, this from the girl he knew as “Diamond,” the girl who had stolen his fragile heart, the girl with whom he was on the phone up to the very minute he died, the girl who would emerge, in various forms, as the “star witness” in the case against George Zimmerman.

Indeed, it was 16-year-old Diamond Eugene’s recorded phone interview with Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump and ABC News that prompted George Zimmerman’s arrest and the subsequent 2013 trial.

In my quest to find this mystery girl, Diamond Eugene, I found myself being pulled down a mysterious side road, a dark one. To understand Gillum, to understand Florida, to understand Trayvon, I would have to travel this road of many unexpected turns. At the end of it, I would discover, was hard evidence of an epic and ultimately lethal deception, a stunning witness fraud that divided America.

After speaking with Benjamin Crump, for any number of good reasons, Diamond Eugene refused to “follow the script.” She refused to speak with the state prosecutors or bear false witness against George Zimmerman under oath.

Instead, the plus-sized 18-year-old Rachel Jeantel was substituted for Diamond, and Jeantel became the key witness in the murder trial of George Zimmerman. Jeantel was a fraud. She was not the “phone witness” speaking to Trayvon Martin in the minutes before he was shot. She barely knew him. This witness fraud resulted in the seminal race hoax of the Obama years. I call it “The Trayvon Hoax.”

This is the hoax the media play on black Americans every day: that blacks should vote Democrat to protect themselves from a racist America where whites want to harm them because of their skin color. The massive racial turmoil stirred up by media coverage of the shooting followed, and no one has suffered more as a result than the black youth of America.

My investigation took me places I never expected to go. From the back alleys of Little Haiti in Miami to the bucolic campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee, I got an earful and an eyeful. I ended up centering both the film and book on “Diamond.” Indeed, after much search, I managed to find her.

Her full legal name is Brittany Diamond Eugene. And, in getting to know this young woman, I was introduced to Miami’s urban youth culture, a culture that thrives on some mix of sex, drugs, gangs, texting, clubbing, shopping, and social media. Diamond’s particular Haitian-American milieu featured its own unscrupulous subspecialty: identity switching.

Who knew about the witness fraud? Any number of interested parties profited from the hoax. The railroading of George Zimmerman, for instance, helped Trayvon Martin’s biological parents shift the blame from their parenting deficiencies to a racial scapegoat. They extracted a huge settlement from a homeowners association and cashed in on book and movie deals.

The family attorney, Benjamin Crump, got his slice of the insurance payout and forged a national identity as a civil rights champion. The old school race hustlers like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson reestablished their relevance and refreshed their cash flow. Of even greater significance, politicians like Gillum and President Barack Obama successfully exploited Trayvon Martin’s death to harvest votes and win elections; power!

As I argue in The Trayvon Hoax, if there is a main culprit of my investigation, it is the press. The Zimmerman case was ground zero for the explosion of fake news and the race hoaxes that have followed, one more preposterous than the next. Think “hands up don’t shoot” or the beyond preposterous Jesse Smollett racial “attack” by Trump supporters at 2 AM in subzero Chicago, a hoax so phony only the media could fall for it.

We expect individuals to be greedy and exploitive, politicians especially. It is the nature of the beast. As their very mission, however, the media are charged with shining light on political schemes. Time and again, however, the media have betrayed their craft. It is appalling that six years after the Zimmerman trial so much information was left for me, an independent filmmaker, to discover.

If the media had wanted to find the truth, it was there for the plucking. I was able to uncover it simply by reading publicly available information from the legal proceedings and following up on what I read. How is it possible no one in the media chose to do what I did? The answer is simple. The media did not want to know. The truth would not have advanced their fear-fueled racial agenda.

The power of investigative journalism is the ability to set the record straight, to change history for the better by shedding light on facts and exposing lies and liars. Can anyone even remember the last major investigation broken by a major news organization? I can’t.

In an odd way, I suppose I should thank our lazy and disingenuous friends in the media for making it possible for an independent film maker like me to tell the incredible story of The Trayvon Hoax. The book and film are available for pre-order on the official film website and on Amazon.com. Both will be available Monday, September 16, the day of the film’s premier at the National Press Club in Washington D.C.

You are about to see how America got played by an epic race hoax that divided us for no good reason and, alas, just keeps on dividing.

I will be screening The Trayvon Hoax and holding a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington DC on Monday, September 16 at 1 PM. The press and the public are invited to attend.

Official Film Website:  thetrayvonhoax.com

Hollywood film director Joel Gilbert is president of Highway 61 Entertainment. He is also a political commentator and foreign policy analyst. Among Gilbert’s many films are political documentaries including Trump: The Art of the Insult, There’s No Place Like Utopia, Dreams from My Real Father, Atomic Jihad, and Farewell Israel, as well music history films including Inside Bob Dylan’s Jesus Years.

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Greens know the destruction they’re pushing on the rest of us

Greens know that Australia could not electrify our cities, farms, mines, refineries, and factories, nor power our road, rail, air, and sea transport with just solar, wind, hydro, and batteries.  Yet green activists, their adoring media, their tax-funded academics, their subsidized green “industries” and their vote-seeking politicians keep babbling about “zero emissions.”

Greens know that Australia could not feed itself without farmers, graziers, and truckies using electric and diesel-powered pumps, tractors, harvesters, and trucks to produce food and deliver it to the cities every day.  Yet they tax and vilify diesel and make electricity more expensive and less reliable.  And they lock up productive grasslands and open forests, thus producing pest-ridden “parks” and “protected” vegetation infested with feral animals and invaded by inedible and fire-prone eucalypt weeds.

Greens know that we need more water storage just for today’s population.  Yet they continue to sterilize potential dam sites, delay new dams, and waste conserved water on “environmental flows.”  At the same time, they boost water consumption with more tourists, games, immigrants, and “refugees.”

Greens know they need a crisis in power, food, and water to achieve their goal of centralized U.N. control of all aspects of our lives.  Thanks to the many fools and quislings in federal, state, and local governments, and in tax-funded academia, education, and bureaucracy, this sinister hidden agenda process is well advanced. 

And all of this will provide zero climate benefits.

Greens know that Australia could not electrify our cities, farms, mines, refineries, and factories, nor power our road, rail, air, and sea transport with just solar, wind, hydro, and batteries.  Yet green activists, their adoring media, their tax-funded academics, their subsidized green “industries” and their vote-seeking politicians keep babbling about “zero emissions.”

Greens know that Australia could not feed itself without farmers, graziers, and truckies using electric and diesel-powered pumps, tractors, harvesters, and trucks to produce food and deliver it to the cities every day.  Yet they tax and vilify diesel and make electricity more expensive and less reliable.  And they lock up productive grasslands and open forests, thus producing pest-ridden “parks” and “protected” vegetation infested with feral animals and invaded by inedible and fire-prone eucalypt weeds.

Greens know that we need more water storage just for today’s population.  Yet they continue to sterilize potential dam sites, delay new dams, and waste conserved water on “environmental flows.”  At the same time, they boost water consumption with more tourists, games, immigrants, and “refugees.”

Greens know they need a crisis in power, food, and water to achieve their goal of centralized U.N. control of all aspects of our lives.  Thanks to the many fools and quislings in federal, state, and local governments, and in tax-funded academia, education, and bureaucracy, this sinister hidden agenda process is well advanced. 

And all of this will provide zero climate benefits.

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Vermont claims the right to compel health care workers to kill babies

A Vermont nurse alleges that she was compelled to perform an abortion in a hospital which has aggressively expanded its provision of abortion services right up until birth.  She relates a nightmare scenario:

After being told that she would be treating a patient who had experienced a miscarriage, she discovered that she had actually been scheduled to help with an elective abortion. According to a recently created policy, UVMMC [University of Vermont Medical Center] can punish staffers who refuse to participate in abortions when the hospital is short-staffed, and the nurse’s boss allegedly would not allow her to step out of the procedure. Fearing retaliation, or that she would lose her job, the nurse agreed to go through with it. When she walked into the procedure room, the doctor allegedly said to her, “Don’t hate me.”

The hospital states that it “promptly and thoroughly investigated [the claims] and determined that they were not supported by the facts.”  Yet, at least four other nurses have leveled similar allegations against this leading provider of abortions, transgender surgeries, and “fertility preservation” for children.

The hospital and liberal news media repeatedly seek to characterize this dispute as one of religiosity, but one can feel bad about killing a fetus without joining Opus Dei.  The real issue is not one of religious doctrine, but of whether that fetus approaching delivery is deserving of all those ethical duties that doctors and nurses vow to provide to…. human beings.  Indeed, all nurses and doctors suffer from performing such procedures, regardless of their religious beliefs — even hardcore “women’s rights” secularists.

James Michener, in his fascinating history Poland, recounts that Nazi soldiers laughed callously at Polish prisoners who were compelled to herd unsuspecting fellow Poles into showers to be gassed; to pile their corpses into carts; to heave the bodies by tens of thousands into brick ovens belching stench.  When the prisoners condemned to process their own countrymen could not take the horror any longer, they were in due course disposed of and replaced.

In Vermont, the budding Josef Mengeles are especially brazen, in the legislature as well as this hospital.  Employing Donald Trump’s 2018 election as justification, most all Vermont legislation planned for the session was scrapped in order to advance Planned Parenthood’s “emergency” Vermont agenda to preserve abortion availability until the moment of birth.  Voters were not consulted, except in sham displays of pretend democracy, at which opponents exponentially outnumbered supporters.  No ameliorating amendments were allowed; no fetal personhood in criminal cases was considered.

Vermont State House in Montpelier (photo credit: Public Domian Pictures)

Perhaps the tip of Vermont’s abortion-rights spear has been its Attorney General, TJ Donovan, who has not permitted any pretense of impartiality to impede his determination to advance all things Planned Parenthood.  Opposing Trump administration efforts to defund abortions, TJ  tweeted (June 20, 2019): “Over 10,000 Vermonters rely on #TitleX for wellness exams, cancer screenings, birth control & STI testing. I am committed to protecting Vermonters’ access to healthcare.”  Donovan is committed to providing abortions at taxpayer expense, without ever naming the procedure.

AG Donovan’s strategy has been to expand the definition of “family services” to incorporate abortions during that third trimester that Roe V Wade specifically identified as a stage where government held a “compelling interest” to protect a second life.  Donovan and his Planned Parenthood puppeteers have sued the federal government to prevent healthcare professionals from possessing “the categorical right to deny lawful and medically necessary treatment… to patients based on the provider’s personal views.”

The nurse forced to perform an abortion after asking to be excused is a real person.  TJ Donovan instead uses fictitious, hypothetical people in his brief:

77. The Final Rule’s definition of “health care entity” would expand the applicable statutes far beyond their plain meaning, to permit objections by human resources analysts, customer service representatives, data entry clerks, and numerous others who believe that analyzing benefits, answering a benefits-related question, or entering a particular preauthorization for an objected-to procedure, for example, is inconsistent with their personal beliefs

79. …An ambulance driver in a private, sub-contracted fleet, a customer service representative at an insurance company’s hotline, and a hospital pharmacist all share the right, under the Final Rule, not to be asked prior to hiring whether they can execute the core functions of their jobs without objection.

Using bizarre hypothetical exceptions, AG Donovan dismisses the baby’s life with the nurse’s conscience, to silence both.  But “human resources analysts” are never asked to dismember and discard little human bodies.

Extending this deceit, the Plaintiffs claim that compelling nurses to participate in abortions is necessary in order to enforce existing laws compelling ”sponsors of health insurance plans” to provide abortion (“contraceptive”) services:

117. A number of the Plaintiffs have enacted statutes or regulations requiring insurance providers to offer coverage for contraception and abortion….

n. Vermont law requires reproductive health equity in insurance coverage, such that a health insurance plan must provide coverage for contraceptive drugs and services to the same extent that plan provides coverage for any drugs or services. Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 8, § 4099c….

Moreover, Vermont’s AG averred:

C. The Final Rule harms Plaintiffs by threatening… congressionally-appropriated health care funds….

156. ….The Vermont Department of Health has received approximately $780,000 in Title X grants each year over the past ten years, with minor fluctuations….

But Vermont (and its Governor, Phil Scott) subsequently refused to accept that $780,000 in Title X grants:

Health Commissioner Mark Levine announced Monday that he had notified the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that Vermont would stop using Title X dollars to fund Planned Parenthood of Northern New England’s services at 10 clinics. Instead, the state will make up the $759,000 difference with general fund dollars set aside for just this purpose.

Vermont is hardly a wealthy state.  Yet, this publicity ploy for Planned Parenthood — openly hijacking Vermont’s General Fund to oppose Donald Trump — was praised by Republican Governor Phil Scott:

“It’s important that we maintain women’s rights and access to health care,” Scott said in the press release. “It’s unfortunate we are at this point, but I appreciate the collaboration with the Attorney General and Legislature to put aside contingency funding in the … budget.”

Vermont’s progressives compel nurses to choose between their job or a lifetime of nightmares, echoing the antiseptic rationalizations of Nazi soldiers compelling humans to slaughter and dispose of their neighbors.  Hitler’s social engineers killed millions in the name of liberating them from their poverty and genetic inferiority.  Abortion is similarly praised for its benefits in “population control.”

Attorney Donovan tweeted (July 5): “No employee should fear workplace discrimination because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.  We are ALL entitled to equal protection under the law.”  And on July 10:

“The deplorable treatment of children detained at the southern border is contrary to the rule of law & is un-American. It’s a stain on our country. I joined a coalition urging the court to act to protect the rights of children in immigration detention.”

AG Donovan’s joint lawsuit with Planned Parenthood discriminates against healthcare professionals in the workplace, to compel abominable atrocities against unborn children.  Concurrently, Vermonters’ anemic coffers have been diverted in a partisan show of Trumpian defiance: “…as for the federal money that Vermont has received annually since 1970? Unless the nation changes its mind, Vermont will pass up the funds from here on out.”

Perhaps as 2020 approaches, America will hear more voices of truth from the most trusted professionals in America: nurses.

A Vermont nurse alleges that she was compelled to perform an abortion in a hospital which has aggressively expanded its provision of abortion services right up until birth.  She relates a nightmare scenario:

After being told that she would be treating a patient who had experienced a miscarriage, she discovered that she had actually been scheduled to help with an elective abortion. According to a recently created policy, UVMMC [University of Vermont Medical Center] can punish staffers who refuse to participate in abortions when the hospital is short-staffed, and the nurse’s boss allegedly would not allow her to step out of the procedure. Fearing retaliation, or that she would lose her job, the nurse agreed to go through with it. When she walked into the procedure room, the doctor allegedly said to her, “Don’t hate me.”

The hospital states that it “promptly and thoroughly investigated [the claims] and determined that they were not supported by the facts.”  Yet, at least four other nurses have leveled similar allegations against this leading provider of abortions, transgender surgeries, and “fertility preservation” for children.

The hospital and liberal news media repeatedly seek to characterize this dispute as one of religiosity, but one can feel bad about killing a fetus without joining Opus Dei.  The real issue is not one of religious doctrine, but of whether that fetus approaching delivery is deserving of all those ethical duties that doctors and nurses vow to provide to…. human beings.  Indeed, all nurses and doctors suffer from performing such procedures, regardless of their religious beliefs — even hardcore “women’s rights” secularists.

James Michener, in his fascinating history Poland, recounts that Nazi soldiers laughed callously at Polish prisoners who were compelled to herd unsuspecting fellow Poles into showers to be gassed; to pile their corpses into carts; to heave the bodies by tens of thousands into brick ovens belching stench.  When the prisoners condemned to process their own countrymen could not take the horror any longer, they were in due course disposed of and replaced.

In Vermont, the budding Josef Mengeles are especially brazen, in the legislature as well as this hospital.  Employing Donald Trump’s 2018 election as justification, most all Vermont legislation planned for the session was scrapped in order to advance Planned Parenthood’s “emergency” Vermont agenda to preserve abortion availability until the moment of birth.  Voters were not consulted, except in sham displays of pretend democracy, at which opponents exponentially outnumbered supporters.  No ameliorating amendments were allowed; no fetal personhood in criminal cases was considered.

Vermont State House in Montpelier (photo credit: Public Domian Pictures)

Perhaps the tip of Vermont’s abortion-rights spear has been its Attorney General, TJ Donovan, who has not permitted any pretense of impartiality to impede his determination to advance all things Planned Parenthood.  Opposing Trump administration efforts to defund abortions, TJ  tweeted (June 20, 2019): “Over 10,000 Vermonters rely on #TitleX for wellness exams, cancer screenings, birth control & STI testing. I am committed to protecting Vermonters’ access to healthcare.”  Donovan is committed to providing abortions at taxpayer expense, without ever naming the procedure.

AG Donovan’s strategy has been to expand the definition of “family services” to incorporate abortions during that third trimester that Roe V Wade specifically identified as a stage where government held a “compelling interest” to protect a second life.  Donovan and his Planned Parenthood puppeteers have sued the federal government to prevent healthcare professionals from possessing “the categorical right to deny lawful and medically necessary treatment… to patients based on the provider’s personal views.”

The nurse forced to perform an abortion after asking to be excused is a real person.  TJ Donovan instead uses fictitious, hypothetical people in his brief:

77. The Final Rule’s definition of “health care entity” would expand the applicable statutes far beyond their plain meaning, to permit objections by human resources analysts, customer service representatives, data entry clerks, and numerous others who believe that analyzing benefits, answering a benefits-related question, or entering a particular preauthorization for an objected-to procedure, for example, is inconsistent with their personal beliefs

79. …An ambulance driver in a private, sub-contracted fleet, a customer service representative at an insurance company’s hotline, and a hospital pharmacist all share the right, under the Final Rule, not to be asked prior to hiring whether they can execute the core functions of their jobs without objection.

Using bizarre hypothetical exceptions, AG Donovan dismisses the baby’s life with the nurse’s conscience, to silence both.  But “human resources analysts” are never asked to dismember and discard little human bodies.

Extending this deceit, the Plaintiffs claim that compelling nurses to participate in abortions is necessary in order to enforce existing laws compelling ”sponsors of health insurance plans” to provide abortion (“contraceptive”) services:

117. A number of the Plaintiffs have enacted statutes or regulations requiring insurance providers to offer coverage for contraception and abortion….

n. Vermont law requires reproductive health equity in insurance coverage, such that a health insurance plan must provide coverage for contraceptive drugs and services to the same extent that plan provides coverage for any drugs or services. Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 8, § 4099c….

Moreover, Vermont’s AG averred:

C. The Final Rule harms Plaintiffs by threatening… congressionally-appropriated health care funds….

156. ….The Vermont Department of Health has received approximately $780,000 in Title X grants each year over the past ten years, with minor fluctuations….

But Vermont (and its Governor, Phil Scott) subsequently refused to accept that $780,000 in Title X grants:

Health Commissioner Mark Levine announced Monday that he had notified the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that Vermont would stop using Title X dollars to fund Planned Parenthood of Northern New England’s services at 10 clinics. Instead, the state will make up the $759,000 difference with general fund dollars set aside for just this purpose.

Vermont is hardly a wealthy state.  Yet, this publicity ploy for Planned Parenthood — openly hijacking Vermont’s General Fund to oppose Donald Trump — was praised by Republican Governor Phil Scott:

“It’s important that we maintain women’s rights and access to health care,” Scott said in the press release. “It’s unfortunate we are at this point, but I appreciate the collaboration with the Attorney General and Legislature to put aside contingency funding in the … budget.”

Vermont’s progressives compel nurses to choose between their job or a lifetime of nightmares, echoing the antiseptic rationalizations of Nazi soldiers compelling humans to slaughter and dispose of their neighbors.  Hitler’s social engineers killed millions in the name of liberating them from their poverty and genetic inferiority.  Abortion is similarly praised for its benefits in “population control.”

Attorney Donovan tweeted (July 5): “No employee should fear workplace discrimination because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.  We are ALL entitled to equal protection under the law.”  And on July 10:

“The deplorable treatment of children detained at the southern border is contrary to the rule of law & is un-American. It’s a stain on our country. I joined a coalition urging the court to act to protect the rights of children in immigration detention.”

AG Donovan’s joint lawsuit with Planned Parenthood discriminates against healthcare professionals in the workplace, to compel abominable atrocities against unborn children.  Concurrently, Vermonters’ anemic coffers have been diverted in a partisan show of Trumpian defiance: “…as for the federal money that Vermont has received annually since 1970? Unless the nation changes its mind, Vermont will pass up the funds from here on out.”

Perhaps as 2020 approaches, America will hear more voices of truth from the most trusted professionals in America: nurses.

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CNN’s Poppy Harlow Tries to Use Bush’s Bullhorn Speech After 9/11 to Support Gun Control

Former George W. Bush’s Bullhorn Speech is one of the most defining and iconic moments in American history, the only thing that compares to it is Franklin Roosevelt’s Day of Infamy speech. Unfortunately, CNN Newsroom co-host Poppy Harlow tried to use the sense of national unity in the circumstances of Bush’s speech on the eighteenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks to push gun control.

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