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    I recently subscribed to The Epoch Times and am enjoying an
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    Dear Subscriber,

    As a Chinese expatriate, I have been unable to go home for 20
plus years. With the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) oppressing members
of the Falun Gong faith like me, going home would put my life and my
family in great danger.

    But now, my home away from home is every day starting to look
more and more like the home I left. The media is starting to tell me
what I should think and do. The government seems to more stringently
regulate law-abiding citizens with each passing day, while turning a
blind eye to certain destructive members or groups. Political cor-
rectness is taking precedence over actual correctness. 

    This is not the America I chose to stay in.

    Back in China, the prevailing attitude I saw growing up was to
not pay attention. Nothing mattered—not the government, not the
economy, not the corruption, not the killing—as long as your family
was okay and you had enough to eat. If times were hard, well, you’d
just have to live through it somehow. 

    What’s frightening to me is that I see many Americans thinking
that same way. The people who used to impress me with their gener-
osity and patriotism are now ostriches with their heads in the sand,
reluctant to think about anything that might disturb their happiness.
If even the citizens grow numb to losing their freedoms, what reason
does the government have to care? 

    We publish The Epoch Times for people of the world who still re-
vere Truth and Tradition, because we know only too well what life is
like without both of those things. And we will continue to, because
the way we see it, the United States is the world’s last bastion for
freedom. Many of us have already escaped a communist dictatorship
once. This time, we will stand our ground. 

     Our comfort rests in the fact that we have men and women like
you who are standing with us. Many of you write and tell us about
amazing things you’re doing to help protect our freedoms—they’re
truly exceptional stories, but we also understand that not everybody
has the time and money to do these monumental things. 

    Our only ask is that at the very least, you keep yourself in-
formed, engaged, and tuned in, even if it might be difficult. The
apathy of decent people is the fuel that feeds authoritarian flames.
At a time when the country we call home is at stake, it’s not a
mistake anyone can afford to make. 

    Thank you kindly for being a subscriber of The Epoch Times, and
we hope that we can continue to provide the information you need to
make the right decisions. 

    In Truth and Tradition, 
    John Tang 
    CEO

    I had read that a Chinese group owned the Epoch Times and was a
a little reluctant to subscribe but have truly enjoyed each edition.
    I remembering reading that they don't print anything they can't
verify and I have checked their articles many times and learned a
few things I only found in their pages.
    On top of the weekly paper, I have full access to their posts on
the social media outlets, many of which never appear on any liberal
biased sites.
    I have come to trust them and they boost my faith that God will
eventually heal our land after he has given them enough rope to hang
themselves.

Conservatively,
John

    Congress Ignores Pressing National Business While
It Obsesses on Jan. 6    
Star Parker

    As the House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack
on the United States Capitol starts public hearings, we must ask what
motivates those on the committee.

    Is the sole concern the ideals of the Declaration of Independence
and the Constitution of the United States? Or is it to get media to
attack and undermine political opponents?

    It is indeed possible that infractions of law can be investigated
without a carnival platform designed to mobilize media and national
attention.

    The public material of the committee already reeks of motivations
other than seeking truth.

    The committee has already announced on its website that the Jan.6
incident was "one of the darkest days of our democracy."

    Really? Against a civil war where some three-quarters of a mil-
lion Americans were killed, fighting over what American freedom is
about, one incident of a few hours, where law enforcement finally
prevailed, was one of our "darkest days"?

    There are just 24 hours in any day, so time taken on one matter
means attention not given to other matters.

    If these members of Congress really cared about our principles
of freedom and democracy, they wouldn't be ignoring every day other
pressing matters in which the freedom of American citizens is bla-
tantly violated.

    Take, for example, that as the Jan. 6 investigation monopolizes
media attention, on June 3 the Trustees of Medicare and Social Se-
curity issued their annual report.

    Both systems are bankrupt and in dismal shape financially.

    The cash shortfall of Medicare in 2021 was $409 billion. Pro-
jection is that Social Security will be out of adequate cash flow to
meet obligations to retirees by 2035 — just 13 years from now.

    The Trustees estimate that there are only adequate funds in
Social Security to meet 80% of benefits in 2035. The payroll tax, now
12.4%, would have to be raised 26% in order to generate sufficient
funds to meet those obligations.

    In other words, today every working American age 55 and below who
plans to collect Social Security benefits at age 67 is paying a pay-
roll tax into a system that cannot provide the benefits promised.

    Can you imagine a private insurance company sending a letter to
policy holders saying that, in 13 years, they will only be able to
meet 80% of the payments promised to policy holders?

    The lawsuits would be flying.

    Let's forget about the fiscal situation of the system for a min-
ute and whether it is even worth saving this program. How about the
issue of freedom that our members of Congress want us to believe
they care about so much?

    Take a young citizen, age 21, fresh with his or her new degree,
entering the work force for the first time. Immediately, 12.4% of
their paycheck is deducted into a system they involuntarily enter,
in which there are inadequate funds to meet promised benefits.

    Shouldn't this new young worker be able to say, "No, thank you,
I don't want to participate"?

    Even if the system were not broken, and benefits could be met,
in our free country, shouldn't everyone be free to manage their own
retirement?
 
    According to the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, the average
return of Social Security over the last 40 years was 1%. Over the
same period, average return on stocks was 6%.

    Back to this new young worker, by the calculations of the Com-
mittee to Unleash Prosperity, this single worker, if they earned the
median national income and were able to invest 10% of their income
into a diversified stock and bond portfolio over 40 years, instead
of paying the payroll tax, could have annual income at retirement of
$55,143 against $19,646 from Social Security.

    So, hey, members of the Select Committee. Enough of pretending
that you care about American freedom. How about wrapping up the car-
nival and getting down to the real challenges every American faces
today?
  ********** Star Parker

    Now the Select Committee has met and are boring Americans with
their skewed version of the events of Jan 6.
    The committee is made up of 7 angry hate-filled Democrats and
two RINO Conservatives that have ended their political careers due
to their liberal progressive and distain for the ideals of their
own party.
    So it is 9-0 and the lies and cut and pasted process seems to 
be remenisant of the two illegitimate impechment aimed at their
attempt to prevent Truump from running again for the Presidency.
    They have turned it into a circus with no defense and zero
evidence tying Trump to their skewed narrative and "We the People"
have seen through their lies.
    May God have mercy upon our nation.

Conservatively,
John

    What the Jan. 6 Committee Might Have Been
    Victor Davis Hanson / June 17, 2022

    Congress should investigate fully the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol
and similar recent riots at iconic federal sites.
    But unfortunately, it never will. Why not?
    The current committee is not bipartisan. House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi, D-Calif., forbade Republican nominees traditionally selected
by the House minority leader to serve on the committee.
    No speaker had ever before rejected the minority party’s nominees
to a select House committee.
    Pelosi’s own cynical criteria for Republican participation was
twofold: any willing minority Republican members had to have voted to
impeach former President Donald Trump while having no realistic
chance of being reelected in 2022.
    Of some 210 Republican House members, that left just Reps. Liz
Cheney, R-Wyo., and Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., who were willing and able
to fit Pelosi’s profile.
    A real investigation would have ignited argumentation, cross-
examination, and disagreements—the sort of give-and-take for which
congressional committees are famous.
    In contrast, the Jan. 6 show trial features no dissenting views.
Its subtext was right out of Soviet Minister of Internal Affairs
Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria’s credo: “Show me the man and I’ll show
you the crime.”
    If Trump was not considering a third run for the presidency,
would the committee even have existed?
    Its slick Hollywood-produced optics demonstrate that the commit-
tee has no interest in inconvenient facts. Why did a Capitol officer
lethally shoot a petite unarmed woman entering a Capitol window? And
why was the officer’s identity and, indeed, all information about his
record withheld from the public?
    Why did the committee not investigate whether large numbers of
FBI agents and informants were ubiquitous among the crowd? After all,
progressive New York Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg who was there
on Jan. 6 claimed, “There were a ton of FBI informants amongst the
people who attacked the Capitol.”
    About his own journalistic colleagues advancing a psychodramatic
“insurrection” narrative, Rosenberg scoffed, “They were making too
big a deal. They were making [Jan. 6] some organized thing that it
wasn’t.”
    A real committee would also investigate why there were lots of
warnings that a large crowd would assemble, but apparently little
government follow-up to ensure security, should rogue elements turn
violent.
    A real committee would learn why the government and media insis-
ted that officer Brian Sicknick was killed by Trump supporters—even
when it was known he died of natural causes.
    None of the questions will be answered because none will be
asked because the committee’s role is not inquiry but confirmation
of a useful narrative.
    A real committee would also investigate the other, far larger
and more lethal riots on iconic federal property months earlier.
    On May 31, 2020, for example, violent demonstrators tried to
rush the White House grounds. Rioters sought to burn down the nearby
historic St. John’s Episcopal Church.
    D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser mysteriously did not send police to
reinforce overwhelmed Secret Service agents who, at moments, seemed
unable to keep the mob from the White House itself.
    The giddy New York Times later crowed, “Trump shrinks back.” Was
the Times preening that the president was a coward for retreating
from a righteous mob?
    As a precaution, the Secret Service removed the president and
first family to a safe underground bunker.
    Such riots near or at the White House continued for much of the
fall, before mysteriously tapering off in the last weeks before the
election.
    Less than three weeks after the violent Washington riot, Demo-
cratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris seemed to incite the
continuing violent protests, “They’re not going to stop … This is a
movement … they’re not going to let up. And they should not, and we
should not.”
    Note that Harris’ cheerleading was joined by a host of prominent
left-wing luminaries who contextualized the violence. The 1619 Pro-
ject architect Nikole Hannah-Jones boasted, “Destroying property,
which can be replaced, is not violence.”
    Former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo pontificated, “And please, show me
where it says protesters are supposed to be polite and peaceful.”
    Note that the 2020 summer rioting, arson, and looting continued
for nearly four months. Its toll resulted in over 35 dead, some 1,500
police officers injured, around 14,000 arrests, and between $1-2 bil-
lion in property damage.
    The violence was often aimed at iconic government buildings,
from courthouses to police precincts. There were never any federal
investigations to determine why state, local, and federal officials
allowed the destruction to continue.
    Why were the vast majority of those arrested simply released by
authorities?
    And how had Antifa and Black Lives Matter radicals orchestrated
the violence using social media? What was the role of prominent elec-
ted officials in either condoning or encouraging the violence or com-
municating with the ring leaders?
    A truly bipartisan House select committee dedicated to ending
all violence directed at the White House, the Capitol, or federal
courthouses might have been useful in probing this dark period in
American history.

    And that is precisely why there was no such committee.
Victor D. Hanson from The Daily Signal

    If God is willing, America will see this fiasco for what it is
and these unlawful, evil people will receive what they are due for
the destruction of our great nation.
    The Constitution was written to keep the government in control
and the job of the elected officials is to ensure it is followed and
respected.

Conservatively,
John

    Transgenderism: Why Stop There?
    Deroy Murdock / April 01, 2022

    “Identifying” as someone who one is not has become all the rage.
If you think you’re somebody you’re not, the whole world is expected
to nod its collective head, if not stand up and cheer.
This is especially true for gender identity, as William “Lia”
Thomas has demonstrated so vividly in collegiate swimming pools.
Unheralded male swimmer William Thomas became NCAA champion female
swimmer Lia Thomas—Shazam!—just by saying so.

    What a cool magic trick.
    Gone are the days when a guy had to put some skin in the game to
pull this off. Or, more accurately, pull something off to get some
skin out of the game; namely, his penis. The old carving-station
requirement for gender transition has gone the way of the rotary
telephone. Today, mere affirmations will suffice.

    “Hey, I’m a girl!” And you are.
    As Yogi Berra might say, if he were alive and not in shock:
“Only in America.”
    Since simple declarations of identity can change people more
swiftly than scalpels, what’s next after the triumph of trans-
genderism?

    Why not transnationalism?
    Visualize Lupita Martinez. She lives in poverty in Honduras. The
mean streets of Tegucigalpa keep her at wits’ end. A crime surge on
public transportation is the last macaw that breaks the branch of
her patience.
    So, Martinez joins a caravan and heads north, to the U.S.
-Mexican frontier.
    When she comes face to face with a Border Patrol agent, Martinez
says the magic words: “I identify as an American.”
    “Welcome home, Lupita!” the federal agent says with a warm smile,
as he waves this Honduran American citizen back where she belongs.

    And why not transracialism?
    Picture Ludwig Von Thannhausen, age 18. He lives in suburban
Chicago with his native German parents who brought him to America as
a baby. He has blond hair, blue eyes, and looks like a young man born
in Oberpfaffenhofen who also happens to be white.
    But Von Thannhausen can’t get enough of things black.
He is obsessed with the Harlem Renaissance. He knows the literature
of Langston Hughes better than Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the paint-
ings of Aaron Douglas more than Max Ernst, and the music of Duke
Ellington deeper than Richard Wagner.
    His heroes stretch from Frederick Douglass to the Tuskegee Airmen
to Denzel Washington. He listens to everything from Motown to Par-
liament Funkadelic to Prince to Kanye West.
    He dreams of majoring in black studies at Howard University in
Washington, D.C., a historically black college. In fact, he’s apply-
ing as a black student and seeks scholarships intended for black
applicants.
    Von Thannhausen resembles a recruit for the Aryan Nation, but he
said the secret words: “I identify as black.”
    Who are we to disagree? If that’s his identity, that’s his
identity.
    And if his good grades, decent SAT scores, and impressive base-
ball record land him a spot at Howard, plus a $50,000 minority scho-
larship, then who are we to say that he is not really black?
    But what would we say to the kid who actually is black (you know:
dark skin, dark hair, etc.), applies to Howard, and misses out on
admission, a scholarship, or both? If not for Von Thannhausen, those
blessings would be hers.

    Why not transindividualism?
    Imagine that Bob Glenwood has multiple-personality disorder. He
identifies as Bob Glenwood, but also as Steve Jones, Myron Shapiro,
Jackie Washington, and Concepcion Gomez.
    So, he fills out five voter registration applications and re-
quests five absentee ballots.
    Who are we to say that Glenwood deserves just one ballot? How
dare we disenfranchise the other four people who live inside his
brain? That would be Jim Crow 3.0.

    As these (for now) fictional scenarios show, America will plunge
into ever deeper chaos if we simply let people “identify” as those
they are not and then deprive others of goods and benefits meant for
people who legitimately embody those identities.

    I identify as Walter Cronkite, and that’s the way it is.
D. Murdock
**********

    So when God created one man and one woman he did it for a reason.
He created races adaptable to their needs and he gave us a list of
rules to follow designed to keep us civil, empathetic, sympathetic,
and capable of loving each other and to multiply.
    I think we need to follow His commands and strive to be like
Jesus, knowing we all sin but should try not to judge each other
but to search for logical common ground.
    May God heal our nation.

Conservatively,
John

    Is Biden's "Success" Our mess?

   Victor Davis Hanson / May 20, 2022

      If an administration deliberately wished to cause havoc on the
  border, to ensure fuel was nearly unaffordable, to create a crime
  wave, to spark 1970s hyperinflation, and to rekindle racial tensions
  what would it have done differently than what President Joe Biden
  has done?
      So is Biden malicious, incompetent, or a wannabe left-wing
  ideologue?
      When pressed about inflation and fuel price hikes, Biden either
  blames someone or something else, gets mad at the questioner, or
  claims former President Donald Trump did it.
      His administration apparently believes things are going well
  and according to plan.
      When polls disagree, his team either believes the American peo-
  ple are brainwashed or that they themselves have not supplied suf-
  ficient propaganda. So they never pivot or compromise, but rededi-
  cate themselves to continued failure.
      Why? Apparently, what most in the country see as disasters,
  Biden envisions as success.
      Take the border—or rather its disappearance.
      Never in U.S. history has an administration simply canceled im-
  migration laws, opened the border, and welcomed in millions of il-
  legal aliens. All arrive illegally, and without audit, or vaccina-
  tions and tests in times of a pandemic.
      Cartels now import lethal drugs at will into the United States.
  We have no idea how many terrorists walk across the border each day.
      Almost all the entering millions who break the law are poor,
  without high school diplomas or English skills, and in dire need of
  massive federal and state housing, food, education, legal, and
  health subsidies.
      Do the leftists in Washington believe that millions of dependent
  new residents will look to the left for decades of support and soon
  find ways to reciprocate with fealty at the polls? Is that why Demo-
  crats brag in unapologetic tribalist fashion about changing the de-
  mography of the electorate?
      Former President Barack Obama’s energy secretary-designate
  Steven Chu once gaffed in the 2008 campaign when he openly wished
  that U.S. gas prices would reach European levels.
      In truth, the left has always believed the only way to achieve
  its objectives of discouraging driving, forcing middle-class Ameri-
  cans onto trains and buses, and persuading them to live in urban
  high-rises rather than drive carbon-spewing cars from spacious sub-
  urban ranch-style homes was to encourage high fuel prices.
      Is that agenda why Biden, during the current energy crisis,
  simply canceled new federal oil and gas leases? As diesel hits $7 a
  gallon in California, why else did he refuse to finish the Keystone
  XL pipeline or reopen Alaskan oil fields?
      Inflation continues officially to exceed 8% per annum. Most
  consumers feel it is double that when they pay for food, fuel,
  building materials, houses, or rent—the essential stuff of life.
      What did the Biden administration expect would follow from keep-
  ing real interest rates at near zero, while printing trillions of
  dollars at the moment supplies were short and demand was spiking?
      Or did it think inflation more fairly “spreads the wealth”? Does
  it prompt new necessary attacks on “corporate greed”? Does it demand
  more federal intervention and socialist policies?
      If inflation is “bad” for most, it may not seem so to this left-
  wing administration.
      Violent crime is on its way to 1970s levels. The combination of
  defunding the police, radical city and county prosecutors who don’t
  charge or lock up criminals, and emptying jails and prisons have
  ignited a national crime wave.
      The Biden administration shrugs. It offers no new federal help
  to fund more police or charge freed criminals under applicable fed-
  eral statutes.
      Does it think it is more socially just to let criminals free
  than incarcerate them?
      Does it buy into “critical legal theory” that laws do not re-
  flect ancient ideas of right and wrong, but instead are “construct-
  ted" by the privileged to oppress the already oppressed?
      Is what Americans see as dangerous crime something the Biden
  zealots applaud as tough social karma?
      Americans are tired of the new woke tribalism. Judging indi-
  viduals on the basis of their race, gender, or superficial appear-
  ance is amoral, and contrary to the entire civil rights movement, 
  and the U.S. Constitution.
      It destroys any idea of meritocracy and divides the country
  artificially into supposed victims and victimizers.
      But do the Biden people see it that way?
      Or do they promote racial tensions and tribalism, as welcome
  revolutionary fervor?
      In that regard, the Bidenites promote identity politics as a
  good way to stir up the pot, to demonize supposed oppressors and
  deify the oppressed—all as a way of retaining political power. For
  the left, living in a socialist nation controlled by an elite is far
  preferable to living in a free and prosperous one answerable only
  to the people.
      The public believes the Biden administration has failed America,
  with disastrous results due either to its incompetence, belliger-
  ence, or left-wing zealotry.
      But Biden and his delusional team seem delighted with what they
  have wrought.

      In sum, what Americans see as an abject catastrophe, they cheer
  on as a stunning and planned success.
      Thank you, Victor
******
      SO, my hope is that Americans will learn from our previous dis-
  asterous experiences with liberal attempts to destroy our economy
  and use that to rebuild what Trump started and with God's grace
  we WILL Make America Great Again.

  Conservatively,
  John

      Green Energy and EVs are not a good plan.

      Batteries, they do not make electricity – they store electricity
  produced elsewhere, primarily by coal, uranium, natural gas-powered
  plants, or diesel-fueled generators.  So, to say an EV is a zero-
  emission vehicle is not at all valid.
      Also, since forty percent of the electricity generated in the
  U.S. is from coal-fired plants, it follows that forty percent of the
  EVs on the road are coal-powered, do you see?"
      Einstein's formula, E=MC2, tells us it takes the same amount of
  energy to move a five-thousand-pound gasoline-driven automobile a
  mile as it does an electric one. The only question again is what pro-
  duces the power? To reiterate, it does not come from the battery; the
  battery is only the storage device, like a gas tank in a car.
      There are two orders of batteries, rechargeable, and single-use.
  The most common single-use batteries are A, AA, AAA, C, D. 9V, and
  lantern types. Those dry-cell species use zinc, manganese, lithium,
  silver oxide, or zinc and carbon to store electricity chemically.
  Please note they all contain toxic, heavy metals.
      Rechargeable batteries only differ in their internal materials,
  usually lithium-ion, nickel-metal oxide, and nickel-cadmium. The
  United States uses three billion of these two battery types a year,
  and most are not recycled; they end up in landfills. California is
  the only state which requires all batteries be recycled. If you throw
  your small, used batteries in the trash, here is what happens to them.
      All batteries are self-discharging.  That means even when not in
  use, they leak tiny amounts of energy. You have likely ruined a
  flashlight or two from an old, ruptured battery. When a battery runs
  down and can no longer power a toy or light, you think of it as dead;
  well, it is not. It continues to leak small amounts of electricity.
  As the chemicals inside it run out, pressure builds inside the bat-
  tery's metal casing, and eventually, it cracks. The metals left in-
  side then ooze out. The ooze in your ruined flashlight is toxic, and
  so is the ooze that will inevitably leak from every battery in a
  landfill. All batteries eventually rupture; it just takes recharge-
  able batteries longer to end up in the landfill.
      In addition to dry cell batteries, there are also wet cell ones
  used in automobiles, boats, and motorcycles. The good thing about
  those is, ninety percent of them are recycled. Unfortunately, we do
  not yet know how to recycle single-use ones properly.
      But that is not half of it.  For those of you excited about elec-
  tric cars and a green revolution, I want you to take a closer look at
  batteries and also windmills and solar panels. These three technolo-
  gies share what we call environmentally destructive production costs. 
      A typical EV battery weighs one thousand pounds, about the size
  of a travel trunk.  It contains twenty-five pounds of lithium, sixty
  pounds of nickel, 44 pounds of manganese, 30 pounds cobalt, 200
  pounds of copper, and 400 pounds of aluminum, steel, and plastic.
  Inside are over 6,000 individual lithium-ion cells.
      It should concern you that all those toxic components come from
  mining. For instance, to manufacture each EV auto battery, you must
  process 25,000 pounds of brine for the lithium, 30,000 pounds of ore
  for the cobalt, 5,000 pounds of ore for the nickel, and 25,000 pounds
  of ore for copper. All told, you dig up 500,000 pounds of the earth's
  crust for just - one - battery."
      Sixty-eight percent of the world's cobalt, a significant part of
  a battery, comes from the Congo. Their mines have no pollution con-
  trols, and they employ children who die from handling this toxic ma-
  terial. Should we factor in these diseased kids as part of the cost
  of driving an electric car?"
      I'd like to leave you with these thoughts. California is building
  the largest battery in the world near San Francisco, and they intend
  to power it from solar panels and windmills. They claim this is the
  ultimate in being 'green,' but it is not.  This construction project
  is creating an environmental disaster.  Let me tell you why.
      The main problem with solar arrays is the chemicals needed to
  process silicate into the silicon used in the panels. To make pure
  enough silicon requires processing it with hydrochloric acid, sul-
  furic acid, nitric acid, hydrogen fluoride, trichloroethane, and
  acetone. In addition, they also need gallium, arsenide, copper-indium
  -gallium- di selenide, and cadmium-telluride, which also are highly
  toxic. Silicon dust is a hazard to the workers, and the panels cannot
  be recycled.
      Windmills are the ultimate in embedded costs and environmental
  destruction. Each weighs 1688 tons (the equivalent of 23 houses) and
  contains 1300 tons of concrete, 295 tons of steel, 48 tons of iron,
  24 tons of fiberglass, and the hard to extract rare earths neodymium,
  praseodymium, and dysprosium. Each blade weighs 81,000 pounds and
  will last 15 to 20 years, at which time it must be replaced. We can-
  not recycle used blades.
      There may be a place for these technologies, but you must look
  beyond the myth of zero emissions.  
      "Going Green" may sound like the Utopian ideal but when you look
  at the hidden and embedded costs realistically with an open mind,
  you can see that Going Green is more destructive to the Earth's en-
  vironment than meets the eye, for sure.
  Anonymous contributor.

      Electric vehicles are a danger to the environment well above
  that of a gas powered vehicle.
      Imagine getting into a serious accident and being pinned under
  a half ton of toxic chemicals.
      Please don't fall for this scam being forced on the people who 
  have trusted the corrupt media for years.
      We must pray that this mess is stopped and God will heal our
  land.

  Conservatively,
  John

    Last Days of the Republic: Leftist Policies Could Push America
to Its Breaking Point
Victor Davis Hanson / @VDHanson / May 13, 2022

    In President Joe Biden’s America, the traditional bedrocks of the
American system—a stable economy, energy independence, law enforce-
ment, hallowed universities—are dissolving.
Americans are now entering uncharted, revolutionary territory.
    They may witness things over the next five months that once would
have seemed unimaginable.

    Until the Ukrainian conflict, we had never witnessed a major land
war inside Europe directly involving a nuclear power.
In desperation, Russia’s impaired and unhinged leader, Russian
President Vladimir Putin, now talks trash about the likelihood of
nuclear war.

    79-year-old President Joe Biden bellows back that his war-losing
nuclear adversary is a murderer, a war criminal, and a butcher who
should be removed from power.

    After a year of politicizing the U.S. military and its self-in-
duced catastrophe in Afghanistan, America has lost deterrence abroad.
China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia are conniving how best to ex-
ploit this rare window of global military opportunity.

    The traditional bedrocks of the American system—a stable economy,
energy independence, vast surpluses of food, hallowed universities,
a professional judiciary, law enforcement, and a credible criminal
justice system—are dissolving.

    Gas and diesel prices are hitting historic levels. Inflation is
at a 40-year high. New cars and homes are unaffordable. The necessary
remedy of high interest and tight money will be almost as bad as the
disease of hyperinflation.

    There is no southern border.

    Expect over 1 million foreign nationals to swarm this summer into
the United States without audit, COVID-19 testing, or vaccination.
None will have any worry of consequences for breaking U.S. immigra-
tion law.

    Police are underfunded and increasingly defunded. District at-
torneys deliberately release violent criminals without charges.
(Literally 10,000 people witnessed a deranged man with a knife attack
comedian Dave Chappelle on stage at the Hollywood Bowl last week, and
the Los Angeles County district attorney refused to press felony
charges.) Murder and assault are spiraling. Carjacking and smash-and
-grab thefts are now normal big-city events.
    Crime is now mostly a political matter. Ideology, race, and poli-
tics determine whether the law is even applied.

    Supermarket shelves are thinning, and meats are now beyond the
budgets of millions of Americans. An American president—in a first
—casually warns of food shortages. Baby formula has disappeared from
many shelves.

    Politics are resembling the violent last days of the Roman Re-
public. An illegal leak of a possible impending Supreme Court rever-
sal of Roe v. Wade that would allow state voters to set their own
abortion laws has created a national hysteria.

    Never has a White House tacitly approved mobs of protesters
showing up at Supreme Court justices’ homes to rant and bully them
into altering their votes.

    *There is no free speech any more on campuses.*

    *Merit is disappearing. Admissions, hiring, promotion, retention,
grading, and advancement are predicated increasingly on mouthing the
right orthodoxies or belonging to the proper racial, gender, or
ethnic category.*

    When the new campus commissariat finally finishes absorbing the
last redoubts in science, math, engineering, medical, and profes-
sional schools, America will slide into permanent mediocrity and
irreversible declining standards of living.

    *What happened?

    Remember all these catastrophes are self-induced. They are
choices, not fate. The U.S. has the largest combined gas, coal,
and oil deposits in the world. It possesses the know-how to build
the safest pipelines and to ensure the cleanest energy development
on the planet.

    Inflation was a deliberate Biden choice. For short-term politi-
cal advantage, he kept printing trillions of dollars, incentivizing
labor nonparticipation, and keeping interest rates at historical
lows—at a time of pent-up global demand.

    The administration wanted no border. Only that way can politi-
cized, impoverished immigrants repay left-wing undermining of the
entire legal immigration system with their fealty at the ballot box.

    Once esoteric, crack-pot academic theories—“modern monetary
theory,” critical legal theory, critical race theory—now dominate
policymaking in the Biden administration.

    The common denominator in all of this is ideology overruling
empiricism, common sense, and pragmatism. Ruling elites would rather
be politically correct failures and unpopular than politically in-
correct, successful, and popular.

    Is that not the tired story of left-wing revolutionaries from
18th-century France to early 20th-century Russia to the contemporary
disasters in Cuba and Venezuela?

    The American people reject the calamitous policies of 2021-2022.
Yet the radical cadres surrounding a cognitively inert Biden still
push them through by executive orders, bureaucratic directives, and
deliberate Cabinet nonperformance.

    Why? The left has no confidence either in constitutional govern-
ment or common sense.
    So as the public pushes back, expect at the ground level more
doxing, cancel culture, deplatforming, ministries of disinformation,
swarming the private homes of officials they target for bullying, and
likely violent demonstrations in our streets this summer.

    Meanwhile, left-wing elites will do their best to ignore Supreme
Court decisions, illegally cancel student debts, and likely by the
fall issue more COVID-19 lockdowns. They will still dream of packing
the court, ending the filibuster, scrapping the Electoral College,
adding more states, and flooding the November balloting with hundreds
of millions more dollars of dark money from Silicon Valley.

    When revolutionaries undermine the system, earn the antipathy of
the people, and face looming disaster at the polls, it is then they
prove most dangerous—as we shall see over the next few months.
***************
    This is not an accident. No one could be this hate-filled and 
lack and morals or empathy for this country or the citizenry.
    We have to find a way to stop this evil. 
    Pray for God's grace and guidance before it is too late.

Conservatively,
John

    Losing the People? Then Change the Rules
    Victor Davis Hanson / @VDHanson / May 05, 2022
****
    Court-packing—the attempt to enlarge the size of the Supreme
Court for short-term political purposes—used to be a dirty word in
the history of American jurisprudence.

    The tradition of a nine-person Supreme Court is now 153 years
old. The last attempt to expand it for political gain was President
Franklin Roosevelt’s failed effort in 1937. FDR’s gambit was so
blatantly political that even his overwhelming Democratic majority
in Congress rebuffed him.

    Yet now “court packing” is a law school cause celebre. It is
hailed as a supposedly quick fix to reverse the current 5-4 conser-
vative majority.

    Recently, a rough draft of an opinion purportedly overturning
the Roe v. Wade decision that had legalized abortion in all 50 states
was leaked to the media by someone inside the court.

    That insider leak of a draft opinion was a first in the modern
history of the Supreme Court. It violated all court protocols. Yet it
was met with stunning approval from the American left.

    The leaker either intended to create a preemptive public backlash
against the purported court majority in the hope that one or two jus-
tices might cave and switch under pressure—or to gin up the progres-
sive base to fend off a likely disaster in the November midterm
elections.

    The recent leak, however, is consistent with a left-wing assault
on the court that has intensified over the last five years. Democrats
have gone ballistic ever since former President George W. Bush’s and
especially former President Donald Trump’s appointees solidified a
conservative majority.

    During Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings in 2018, pro-
testers stormed the Senate chambers in protest. The left rallied
behind the now-convicted felon Michael Avenatti, who publicized
crazy, wildly untrue charges about a teenaged Kavanagh.

    Later in spring 2020, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., whipped up a
protest crowd right in front of the Supreme Court. He directly
threatened Justices Neil Gorsuch and Kavanaugh:
  (I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you
have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won’t
know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.)

    What exactly did Schumer mean by “you will pay the price” or
“you won’t know what hit you”?

Who or what would hit the two justices—and how exactly?

    But it is not just the court the left is targeting. Long-standing
institutions and even constitutional directives are now fair game.

    At the 2020 funeral of Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., former President
Barack Obama crudely proposed bringing in Puerto Rico and Washington,
D.C., as states—and with them likely four left-wing senators.

    Obama’s “eulogy” also damned the 180-year-old Senate filibuster.
Yet as a senator, Obama himself resorted to the filibuster in an ef-
fort to block the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.

    The Electoral College is under continued assault, especially
since Bush in 2000 and Trump in 2016 were elected without winning the
popular vote.

    The Founders’ arguments for the Electoral College are never men-
tioned. But the drafters of the Constitution felt it forced candi-
dates to visit rural areas. They believed it would discourage Euro-
pean-style multiple splinter parties. It made voter fraud more dif-
ficult on a national scale. And it emphasized the United States of
America. That is, America today is 50 unique states that are repre-
sented as such in presidential elections.

    The Biden administration also narrowly failed to push through a
national voting law. Such legislation would have superseded the
states’ constitutional rights to set most of their own balloting
protocols in national elections.

    So what is behind leaking Supreme Court drafts of impending
opinions, or seeking to pack the Supreme Court with 15 justices, or
ending the Senate filibuster, or adding two more states to the 60-
year-old, 50-state union, or curtailing states’ rights to set their
own balloting procedures, or trashing the Constitution’s Electoral
College?

    The answer to those questions also applies to President Joe
Biden’s promise to cancel millions of contracted federally guaran-
teed student loans simply by a pre-midterm election executive fiat.

    And how can Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas open-
ly negate federal immigration law? How can he welcome millions to
cross illegally the southern border?

    The answers are obvious.

    The hard left had detoured from the mainstream of American voters
onto a radical trajectory. So it will never find 51% public approval
for any of its current extremist and crackpot initiatives.

    Instead, it sees success only through altering the rules of go-
vernance or changing the demography of the electorate—or both.

    Still, leftists should be careful about what they wish for.

    Latinos are historically transforming en masse into conservative
voters.

    Leftists are also greenlighting powerful precedents for the next
Republican president. He may follow their lead by simply changing any
rules, laws, customs, and traditions anytime he deems them
inconvenient.
****
    These are evil enemies of America and we must pray to God that He
will deliver us from evil. Pray without ceasing.

Conservatively,
John

    The Green Immoralists

Victor Davis Hanson / March 10, 2022

    Thousands are dying from Russian missiles and bombs in the
suburbs of Ukraine.
    In response, the Biden administration’s climate change envoy,
multimillionaire and private jet-owning John Kerry, laments that
Russian President Vladimir Putin might no longer remain his partner
in reducing global warming.
    “You’re going to lose people’s focus,” Kerry frets. “You’re
going to lose big-country attention because they will be diverted,
and I think it could have a damaging impact.”

    “Impact”?

    Did the global moralist Kerry mean by “impact” the over 650
Russian missiles that impacted Ukrainian buildings and tore apart
children?
    Are Russian soldiers losing their green “focus”? When Putin
threatens nuclear war is he merely “diverted”? Would letting off a
few nukes be “damaging” to the human environment?
    Climate change moralists love humanity so much in the abstract
that they must shut down its life-giving gas, coal, and oil in the
concrete. And they value humans so little that they don’t worry in
the here and now that ensuing fuel shortages and exorbitant costs
cause wars, spike inflation, and threaten people’s ability to travel
or keep warm.
    The Biden administration stopped all gas and oil production in
the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge region of Alaska. It ended all
new federal leases for drilling. It is canceling major new pipelines.
    It is leveraging lending agencies not to finance oil and gas
drilling.
    It helped force the cancellation of the EastMed pipeline that
would have brought much-needed natural gas to southern Europe. And it
has in just a year managed to turn the greatest oil and gas producer
in the history of the world into a pathetic global fossil-fuel 
beggar.
    Now gas is heading to well over $5 a gallon. In over-regulated
blue states, it will likely hit $7.
    But how will the Biden administration square the circle of its
own ideological war against oil and natural gas versus handing the 
advantage to our oil- and gas-producing enemies, as Russia invades
Ukraine?
    Or put another way, when selfish theory hits deadly reality, who
loses? Answer: the American people.
    President Joe Biden lifted U.S. sanctions on the Russian-German
Nord Stream 2 pipeline designed to provide green Germany with loath-
some, but lifesaving, natural gas.
    But first Biden canceled the Keystone XL pipeline in the United
States. He has no problem with pipelines per se, just American ones.
    While Biden doesn’t like the idea of Germany burning carbon fuel,
or Putin reaping enormous profits from Berlin’s self-created depen-
dency, or Germans importing liquified natural gas from America, Biden
also does not like the idea of forcing German families to turn off
their thermostats in mid-winter when there is Russian-fed war not far
from Germany’s borders.
    Here at home, Biden gets even crazier. As our enemies around the
world reap huge profits from record high oil and gas prices, did
Biden ask Alaska, North Dakota, or Texas to ramp up production?
    In other words, did he ask Americans to save fellow cash-strapped
Americans from a self-created energy crisis, in the way he assured
the Germans that during war reality trumps theory?
    *Not at all.

    Instead, Biden came up with the most lunatic idea in recent dip-
lomatic history of begging autocratic and hostile regimes the world
over to pump more oil to lower America’s gas prices.
    For years, America has sanctioned the oil-rich Venezuelan dicta-
torship, a narco-terrorist state that wars on its own people and its
neighbors. Now Biden is begging strongman Venezuelan dictator Nicolas
Maduro to pump the supposedly dirty fuels America has in even greater
abundance but finds it too icky to produce.
    Biden also has beseeched the once sanctioned, terrorist Iranian
government. He wants Tehran to help us out by upping the very oil and
gas production that America has tried to curtail for years. So, in
return, Iran is demanding a new “Iran deal” that will soon ensure the
now petro-rich theocracy the acquisition of nuclear weapons.
    On the eve of the Russian invasion, Biden begged Putin to pump
even more oil to supplement its current Russian imports to the United
States.
    Did Putin see that surreal request as another sign of American
appeasement that might greenlight his upcoming planned invasion? In
Russian eyes, was it more proof of American weakness and craziness
after the humiliating flight from Afghanistan?
    Biden has blasted the human rights record of Saudi Arabia’s royal
family. Now he is begging the monarchy to pump more of its despised
carbon-spewing oil to make up for what his administration shut down
at home. Is that why the Saudi royals refused to take his call?

    *The moral of Biden’s oil madness?

    Elite ideology divorced from reality impoverishes people and can
get them killed.
By Victor Davis Hanson

    This was a good article to share though it is over 2 months old.
    Mr. V. Hanson is one of my favorites. Enjoy
    Put your faith in God and Pray that He will have mercy on the US

Conservatively,
John

    Biden's Budget Lies
  Terence Jeffrey / March 30, 2022
    President Joe Biden claims his budget is fiscally responsible.
    But it spends over $1 trillion a year more than it takes in over
the next 10 years, driving Americans deeper into debt. 

    “Show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.”

    When releasing his fiscal year 2023 budget proposal on Monday,
President Joe Biden said this was something his father had told him.
He then made a claim about a “value” his budget proposal purpor-
tedly advances.
    “The first value is fiscal responsibility,” Biden said.
    That is a lie.
    In his speech, Biden elaborated on this lie.
    “The previous administration, as you all know, ran up record bud-
get deficits. In fact, the deficit went up every year under my pre-
decessor,” he said.
    “My administration is turning that around,” Biden continued.
“Last year,” he said, “we cut the deficit by more than $350 bil-
lion. This year, we’re on track to cut the deficit by more than $1.3
trillion. $1.3 trillion. That would be the largest one-year reduction
in the deficit in U.S. history.”
    But what do the Treasury’s official numbers actually tell us
about the recent history of federal spending and deficits?
    In the first three years of the Trump administration, the deficit
grew—but never exceeded $1 trillion. In fiscal year 2017, it was
$665,826,000,000. In fiscal year 2018, it was $778,996,000,000. In
fiscal year 2019, it was $984,388,000,000.
    To be sure, these were very high deficits. But they were less
than what Biden has planned for post-COVID-19 America.
    In fiscal year 2019, before the pandemic, the federal government
spent $4,446,611,000,000. But, in fiscal year 2020, with the pandemic
on, federal spending climbed to $6,551,872,000,000—a one-year in-
crease of $2,105,261,000,000. The deficit that year jumped to a re-
cord $3,131,917,000,000.
    In fiscal year 2021, the fiscal year in which Biden took office,
government spending increased again to $6,821,532,000,000 and the
deficit was $2,775,553,000,000.
    This decline in the deficit from a pandemic-period record of
$3,131,917,000,000 to a still astronomical $2,775,553,000,000 is what
Biden was talking about when he said, “Last year, we cut the deficit
by more than $350 billion.”
    This year, the administration estimates the deficit will be
$1,415,000,000,000. That is what Biden meant when he said, “This
year, we’re on track to cut the deficit by more than $1.3 trillion.”
    Now, Biden has proposed a budget that projects continuing annual
deficits of more than $1 trillion—in the post-pandemic era.
    He will not bring the deficit back down, for example, to the
$778,996,000,000 deficit that the federal government ran in fiscal
year 2018, which was the first full fiscal year President Donald
Trump was in office.
    As of Monday, the total federal debt was $30,316,415,445,123.62.
Of that, $6,512,008,255,649.32 was in what the Treasury calls
“intragovernmental holdings.” That consists largely of money the
Treasury has borrowed from the Social Security trust fund to pay
current expenses that have nothing to do with Social Security.
    The other $23,804,407,189,474.30 in federal debt consists of what
the Treasury calls “debt held by the public.” This is debt that has
been financed through the sale of Treasury securities.
    Under Biden’s budget proposal, what is going to happen to this
$23.8 trillion in “debt held by the public”? Will it be paid off? No.
Will it be paid down? No.
    According to Table S-10 in Biden’s proposal, it is going to grow
to $39.542 trillion by 2032. That is an increase of approximately
$15.738 trillion from what the debt was Monday.
    In fiscal year 2023, according to the estimates Biden published
in Table S-10 of his budget proposal, the federal debt held by the
public will grow by $1.197 trillion. In each of the nine years after
that, it will grow by increasing amounts. In 2032, the last year es-
timated in Biden’s budget, the debt will increase by $1.815 trillion.
    “The value is fiscal responsibility,” Biden told America when he
released this budget.
    Anyone who actually looks at Biden’s budget proposal, which is
posted on the White House website, will know this is not true.
    As of March 29, the day after Biden released his proposal, the
U.S. population is 332,589,749, according to the Census Bureau.
    Biden’s plan to increase the federal debt held by the public by
$15.738 trillion would add approximately $47,320 in debt on behalf of
every person now living in this country.
    The total federal debt held by the public of $39,542,000,000,000
that Biden now projects for 2032 would equal approximately $181,891
for each of the 332,589,749 people now living in the country.
    That also would be approximately $250,707 for each of the
157,722,000 people in the United States who, according to the Bureau
of Labor Statistics, actually had a job as of February of this year.
And it would equal approximately $300,002 for each of the
131,806,000 who worked full time in February.
    According to Zillow, the value of a typical home in the United
States in January 2021, when Biden took office, was $272,000. (It has
now increased to $331,533.)
    According to Harvard University’s website, the 2021-22 school
year there will cost a student approximately $74,528 for tuition,
fees, board, and room. At that rate, four full years at Harvard would
cost $298,112.

    In other words, under Biden’s budget projections, in just 10 yrs,
the share of the federal debt per the current number of full-time
workers in this country will be approximately equivalent to the
current cost of a typical American home or a Harvard education.

    "I think it is obvious that Biden has no clue as to what his
handlers are doing behind his back or while he weekends in Delaware.
    I fear that we are experiencing 'elder abuse' on a daily basis
and only God can save our nation..

Conservatively,
John