Sidney Powell: My Goal as Attorney For General Michael Flynn From Everything I’ve Seen Is “Complete Exoneration” (VIDEO)

In June General Mike Flynn hired well-known defense attorney Sidney Powell to represent him after abruptly firing his lawyers.

Jack Posobiec reported:

In an earlier interview with The Epoch Times Sidney Powell blasted the appalling two-tiered judicial system in the United States today where General Michael Flynn can get set up and prosecuted by deep state operatives while Peter Strzok can leak and lie and get off scot free.

President Trump praised General Flynn for retaining Attorney Sidney Powell.

In a court filing on Friday Attorney Sidney Powell revealed two very disturbing developments in the Flynn case.

According to Sundance at Conservative Treehouse:

In a filing today (full pdf below) Flynn’s defense lawyer, Sidney Powell, notes two significant issues: (1) Ms. Powell is being denied a security clearance she needs to review all of the documents in the case; and (2) the DOJ is refusing to provide the original FBI notes from their interview of Michael Flynn on January 24th, 2017.

(Source – Page #2 pdf link)

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This is absolutely outrageous behavior.

On Friday night Sidney Powell went on with Gregg Jarrett on Lou Dobbs Tonight to discuss the recent developments in the case against General Mike Flynn.

From the interview:

Gregg Jarrett: Are you considering withdrawing the guilty plea?

Sidney Powell: That is not what I want to see happen here. I am expecting frankly that we find evidence that warrants dismissal of the case for egregious government misconduct. But like I said we want to know the truth. That’s what I want to know first and I can’t even evaluate the validity of the plea until I have all the evidence.

Gregg Jarrett: In other words, you want to lay out all the evidence and then a judge on his own saying, “Prosecutors on the Special Counsel team you are unconscionable, you are unprincipled, you violated the Brady rules, and because of your egregious misconduct I’m dismissing the case against Flynn. Would that be the optimal result?

Sidney Powell: That would be the optimal result. The man, I believe, from everything I’ve seen now should be completely exonerated.

Sidney Powell is all about business.

Let’s pray General Michael Flynn is given justice and exonerated of all charges against him in the attempted coup of President Donald Trump.

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TV Stations Across America To Bring Back National Anthem

It’s about time this tradition came back. Patriotism wasn’t controversial yesteryear. American was good. Communism was bad. The Bible was true. People worked hard. Marriages stayed together. Kids got spanked. Life was good. And it’s not like life is bad now. By every conceivable measure, we are materially better off (even if our souls appear to…

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‘Will & Grace’ Star Refuses To Work With Trump Supporters

Further adding to the fairly proven existence of a Hollywood blacklist against conservatives, "Will & Grace" actor Eric McCormack said he refuses to work with Trump supporters, which should come as little shock to anyone, considering that his show has consistently portrayed Trump supporters as hat

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Ilhan Omar Defends Notorious Somali Terror Group on Twitter

Rep. Ilhan Omar publicly tweeted support for a group who is known to finance terrorism earlier this week.

The tweet went largely unnoticed until the Times of Israel picked up on it.

According to the Times of Israel report, Hormuud Telecom Somalia Inc. is a private Somalian telecommunications company founded by Ahmed Nur Ali Jimale in April of 2002.

“Ali Ahmed Nur Jim’ale (Jim’ale) has served in leadership roles with the former Somali Council of Islamic Courts, also known as the Somali Islamic Courts Union, which was a radical-Islamist element. The most radical elements of the Somali Islamic Courts Union eventually formed the group known as al-Shabaab,” The United Nations Security Council’s Report of the Secretary-General on the situation in Somalia reads. “Al-Shabaab was listed for targeted sanctions in April 2010 by the United Nations Security Council committee established pursuant to resolutions 751 (1992) and 1907 concerning Somalia and Eritrea (the ‘Somalia/Eritrea Sanctions Committee’).”

Hormuud Telecommunications has provided key material and logistical support to al-Shabaab to include weapons, private fighters, and ammunition.”

On 14 October 2017, according to a 2018 UN Security Council Report, a large vehicle-borne improvised explosive device exploded killing as many as 582 people. It was the deadliest terror attack in the country’s history.

“Two employees of the principal Somali telecommunications provider, Hormuud Telecom Somalia Inc., were also prosecuted in connection with the attack, for facilitating the entry of the large vehicle-borne improvised explosive device through the Sinka Dheere checkpoint on the outskirts of Mogadishu.” the report says.

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Lana Del Rey: ‘I’m Really Not More of a Liberal Than I Am a Republican’

Pop star Lana Del Rey responded to questions surrounding her personal political leanings in an interview with the New York Times and said that she is “really not more of a liberal than I am a Republican.”

The “Summertime Sadness” star dropped her fifth album Norman Fucking Rockwell! Friday and spoke to the New York Times about one of her more controversial lyrics in “The Greatest” — “Kanye West is blond and gone” – in the interview published Wednesday.

The Times mentioned the singer’s past decision to call out West’s support of President Trump and asked, “Have you heard anything in response?”

“I don’t want to elicit a response,” Del Rey said.

“You never feel better for having written something like that. But Kanye just means so much to us. And by the way, I’m grateful to be in a country where everyone can have their own political views,” she said before admitting that she does “not necessarily identify as a liberal.”

“I’m really not more of a liberal than I am a Republican — I’m in the middle,” the singer explained. “But it was more like the mood and the vibe around, Yo, this man is the greatest! Really? The greatest? It hurt me. Did I have to say anything? No. But it’s more just a line that represents a lot of things.”

Del Rey made waves earlier this month after dropping partial lyrics of her song “Looking for America” as a response to the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio.

“Now I know I’m not a politician and I’m not trying to be so excuse me for having an opinion — but in light of all of the mass shootings and the back to back shootings in the last couple of days which really affected me on a cellular level I just wanted to post this video,” she wrote to her nearly 14 million followers on Instagram.

The lyrics read in part, “I’m still looking for my own version of America/ One without the gun, where the flag can freely fly/ No bombs in the sky/ Only fireworks when you and I collide/ It’s just a dream I had in mind.”

The Grammy nominee actively wondered if it “is it the end of an era? Is it the end of America?” in her 2017 album Lust for Life.

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DNC Embraces ‘Religiously Unaffiliated,’ Belittles Americans of Faith

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Planned Parenthood Recruits Musicians to Propagandize the Youth

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Power of the Ultrasound

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

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

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

The Way Forward

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Power of the Ultrasound

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

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

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

The Way Forward

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

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

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

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

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

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Rejection of Moral Absolutes Plagues the Modern Left

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SKM from Seattle wrote:

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

Another Seattle resident, “robofaust,” added:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SKM from Seattle wrote:

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

Another Seattle resident, “robofaust,” added:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trevor Grant Thomas: At the Intersection of Politics, Science, Faith, and Reason.
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Trevor is the author of the 
The Miracle and Magnificence of America.
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Secularization and the Demonization of Donald Trump

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Image: Gage Skidmore via Flickr.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Image: Gage Skidmore via Flickr.

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