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	The Crybaby Leftist Mind
	Victor Davis Hanson / June 30, 2022
	
    Modern progressives assume moral and intellectual authority.
	Consequently, their supposedly superior ends naturally justify
  almost any means necessary to achieve them.
	Among the elite, the Democrats’ “blue wall” states were once con-
  sidered a testament to the wisdom of the Electoral College. When that
  wall crumbled in 2016 to Donald Trump, the Electoral College suddenly
  was blasted as a relic of our anti-democratic Founders.
	The nine-person Supreme Court was once beloved. On issues like
  abortion, school prayer, same-sex marriage, pornography, and Miranda
  rights, the left cheered the court as it made the law and ignored
  legislatures and presidents.
	Republican court picks—Harry Blackmun, William Brennan, Anthony
  Kennedy, Sandra Day O’Connor, Lewis Powell, John Roberts, David
  Souter, John Paul Stevens, Potter Stewart, and Earl Warren—would
  often flip leftward. How could they not be swayed by the greater
  brilliance of their liberal colleagues?
	From affirmative action to Roe v. Wade to Obamacare, apostate Re-
  publican justices for a half-century greenlighted legislating from
  the bench.
	In response, was there any serious right-wing talk of packing the
  court with six additional justices to slow down its overreaching
  left-wing majority—or of a mob massing at the home of a left-wing
  justice? Certainly not.
	But now?
	Suddenly a narrow constructionist majority has returned matters
  of abortion to the states. And the once-beloved court is being
  slandered by leftist insurrectionists as illegitimate.
	Every sort of once-unthinkable attack on the courts is now
  permissible.
	Confidential draft opinions are leaked illegally. A senior senator
  threatens justices by name at the doors of the court. The homes of
  justices are surrounded by heckling protesters. And the very life
  of a justice is threatened by a would-be assassin close to his home.
	Consider also the Senate filibuster. Former President Barack Obama
  not long ago ranted that it was racist and a 180-year-old relic.
	Obama’s logic was infantile. When Democrats were in the Senate mi-
  nority, he was giddy that the filibuster could slow down the Repub-
  lican majority. Indeed, while a senator, Obama himself filibustered
  the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.
	When Democrats were in the majority, however, a pouting Obama
  blasted the filibuster as a racist, Jim Crow roadblock.
	Can the Jan. 6 committee issue some universal declaration that de-
  feated candidates should not question the integrity of an election,
  much less call for it to be ignored?
	Apparently not. In 2016, a defeated Hillary Clinton claimed the
  winner, Donald Trump, was illegitimate—this from the architect of
  the entire Russian-collusion hoax.
	Clinton then trumped her own inflammatory rhetoric by urging Pres-
  ident Joe Biden not to accept the 2020 tally of the balloting if he
  lost.
	Former President Jimmy Carter agreed that Clinton won the 2016
  election and Trump was thus illegitimate.
	Hollywood actors appeared in commercials, insurrectionary-style,
  urging Republican electors to renounce their constitutional duties
  and instead elect Clinton.
	On racial matters, the left is most intellectually bankrupt.
	During the recent confirmation hearings of an African American
  nominee to the Supreme Court, federal Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson,
  the left alleged that tough questioners were racists and sexists
  for “bullying” Jackson.
	Yet she got the kid-glove treatment compared with the character
  assassinations of past conservative nominees. Brett Kavanaugh was
  smeared as teen-aged rapist and targeted by former Democratic media
  heartthrob Michael Avenatti, now an imprisoned felon.
	Currently, loud mobs of affluent, young white women have been
  circling the home of African American Supreme Court Justice Clar-
  ence Thomas—just 1 of 5 court justices who voted to let the states
  decide the status of abortion.
	Thomas did not write the majority opinion that overturned Roe v.
  Wade, but then again, leftists have a toxic fixation with blacks
  who do not appreciate their condescension.
	In the left-wing mind, the buffoonish Capitol riot on Jan. 6 was
  an “insurrection.”
	Yet, the much larger May 31, 2020, riot that sought to storm the
  White House grounds and sent the president into a bunker was the
  sort of mob violence that “was not going to stop,” in the words of
  now-Vice President Kamala Harris.
	The recent pro-abortion mob assault on the Arizona state Senate,
  the left insists, was an apparent cry of the heart.
	What would the left do if after the 2022 midterms, a Republican
  majority Congress emulated its own infantile tantrums?
	Imagine a new House speaker, Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., tearing up
  Biden’s State of the Union address on live television.
	How about the House impeaching Biden twice, even as a private
  citizen in 2025?
	Envision a 22-month, $40 million investigation of the entire Biden
  quid pro quo, corrupt family syndicate?
	What if McCarthy booted left-wing congressional representatives
  from key select committees?
	And what if conservatives showed up screaming at the gates of one
  of Obama’s three mansions?
	How odd that leftists are destroying the very customs and tradi-
  tions whose loss will come back to haunt them when the Democrats
  lose the Congress in November.
	Crybaby tantrums won’t win over the public. These nonstop,
  puerile meltdowns have turned off most Americans who tire of whiny
  narcissistic hypocrites.
	***Victor Davis Hanson***

   	Mr. Hanson has so clearly stated the difference between an evil
  mob of unruly, amoral, and unethical whiners while the true patriots
  who strive to adhere to the rule of law, stand by and await their
  their once again opportunity to clean up the mess the Democrats
  always seem to leave behind.
	Pray that God gives another chance to fix this once great nation.

  Conservatively,
  John

	Joe Biden is Lying About Savings Accounts and Debt

      The economy of the United States, for all intents and purposes,
  is on its way off a cliff.     
	Americans are postponing years-long plans they’ve made for
  retirement. Families across the country are spending multiple times
  more on gas than they’ve spent in previous years; that’s not to
  mention the rising costs of groceries and other essentials.	
	One poll after the next has shown the economy is a top concern in
  the minds of the American people. It will also significantly impact
  how folks vote in the midterm elections.	
	Despite all of these documented and consistent economic problems,
  Joe Biden has a very different perception. According to the current
  president, Americans are just thriving when it comes to their
  finances.	
	Breaking Down Biden’s Admitted Views on the Nation’s Economy
	On Friday, Biden put out a series of falsehoods about current
  economic conditions, falsehoods that are astounding even for him.	
	The president stood before the country and declared that a 
  "robust" economic recovery has been accomplished amid his leader-
  ship.
  Biden would later go on to incorrectly claim that debt is down,
  savings accounts are greater, and financial comfort is up since he
  has been into office.	
	This stunned many Americans, causing some people to question
  whether the president is living in an alternate universe of sorts.
	Multiple economists are saying a recession is coming. Just
  earlier this week, the BlackRock CEO stated inflation will remain
  with the nation for years on end.	
	Yahoo Finance even recently reported significant drops that have
  happened and are anticipated in Americans’ rates of saving money.
  Meanwhile, the Bureau of Labor and Statistics confirms wages are on
  a downward spiral and being outdone by inflation.	
	During the first quarter of this year alone, nationwide credit
  card debt surged up to $15.84 trillion, a major climb from the
  initial rate of $266 billion.
	
    An Avalanche of Negative Feedback
	As of Saturday morning, “#FJBiden” was trending on Twitter. The
  content of these tweets is full of Americans calling out the direct
  lies that Biden spread on Friday.
	Many people claimed the president is either delusional, getting
  bad intel from his advisers, or simply trying to gaslight the
  nation.
	Whichever it is, Americans who are living in the real world
  have pointed out the true reality of what they’re up against.
	Another common theme amongst criticism of Biden is how much
  people miss the leadership and presidency of Donald Trump.
	I saw this from an anonymous writer on the internet but is is
 no longer current so I will adjust it.
	Added to the gas prices are taxes, building supplies, store
 shelves empty and almost all types of insurance.
	Since Biden TOOK office he has sold, given, or worked deals that
 have drained nearly half of the Strategic Petroleum Reserves of oil.
	Recently, it was reported that he has sold millions of barrels
 of our reserves to China, of all places. We are early in his plan to
 distribute 1 million barrels a day for 90 days.
	Folks, the United States can no longer afford the destruction
 of our economy under this corrupt administration.
	We have to band together and support the Convention of States or
 the Republican candidates in the upcoming mid-term elections.
	The Democrats and the dark money are working hard at disrupting
 the state legislatures that make the rules in each state to govern
 the process.
	Fron Convention of States.

	We have all been conned by the corrupt media along with those
 select few who are acting out their plan to ruin our economy to a
 point of no return.
	The gullible liberal minions, even with their lifestyle is going
 down the drain continue to either not care about America, their
 fellow citizens, or the laws set forth in the Constitution.
	It is beyond me how people have allowed themselves to be fooled
 into hating someone so much that they would ruin any future that
 they had and leave a broken, weak, subservient nation for their own
 families to endure.
	God has a plan, but I pray that it does not require this disaster
 to complete its completion.

    Conservatively,
    John

	Supreme Court Targets the Real Enemy
  By Jeffrey A. Tucker July 1, 2022 Updated: July 1, 2022

	The flurry of rulings from the Supreme Court has everyone’s head
  spinning. The most significant among them, even if it doesn’t capture
  all the headlines, is West Virginia vs EPA. The majority opinion is
  impressive but the part I found truly wonderful is the concurring
  opinion by Neil Gorsuch. This is where we see things headed, toward a
  major and much-welcome curbing of the power of the administrative
  state.

	Just to review what this thing is, it is the unelected bureaucracy
  that rules the country without oversight from voters or legislatures.
  For well over 100 years, most courts have given it a pass, just as-
  suming that the “experts” in the bureaucracies are handling things
  just fine, faithfully interpreting legislation, and merely creating
  rules for easy compliance.

	Generations have gone by as this 4th branch of government has grown
  in size, scope, and strength. For the most part, its baneful imposi-
  tions have been felt by one business or one industry at a time. You
  have heard the stories. The car dealer complains of how the Department
  of Labor is making him crazy. The machine-parts manufacturer is going
  bonkers about letters from the Occupational Safety and Health Admini-
  stration. The energy company can never satisfy the Environmental Pro-
  tection Agency.

	They are stories and we find them unfortunate but we’ve generally
  avoided thinking of these as systematic, all pervasive, and truly dan-
  gerous to the idea of freedom itself. However, there are some 432 of
  these agencies. The authors of the Declaration of Independence noted
  their existence back in the day when they accused the English king of
  having “erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of
  Officers to harass our People and eat out their Substance.” They
  fought a revolution to end the tyranny but now we have a home-grown
  form, starting in 1883 with the Pendleton Act and continuing through-
  out the 20th century as each new administration creates its own
  bureaucracy.

	The thing has taken on a power of its own. Strangely, the topic
  hardly comes up at all during elections, and this is for a reason.
  Politicians running for office like to advertise their power to make
  change. They might even believe it. In reality, elected officials
  have very little influence over the conduct of public life relative
  to the administrative state. As Trump found it, not even the presi-
  dent is a match for the deep state.

	Here is what has happened since March 2020: the beast showed its
  face. Seemingly out of nowhere, these strange agencies and people for
  whom we never voted were ruling our lives. They restricted travel,
  forced us to cover our faces, closed our churches and schools, and
  forbid our businesses from operating unless they were big enough to
  afford a powerful lobbying arm in Washington. The whole scene was ap-
  palling. It caused many people—including some earnest judges—to take
  notice.

	Once you see the problem, you cannot unsee it.

	Consider the problem with inflation alone: it is largely the re-
  sponsibility of the Federal Reserve, which is among the most terrif
  ing of the deep-state agencies. This thing was founded in 1913 with
  the promise that it would end “wildcat banking” and contain the ex-
  pansion of money and credit so that we would have a more stable eco-
  nomic environment to encourage growth.

	Even now, people believe that the Fed is going to somehow fix
  recessions and inflations, even though a deeper analysis reveals that
  the Fed itself is the cause of both. The Fed cannot be both the pro-
  blem and the solution, surely. This is becoming as obvious as the
  fact that the CDC cannot make a textbook pathogen go away with power
  and potions.

	Let’s take a quick look at the supposed 2 percent inflation target
  of the Federal Reserve. It might seem to you that they have long ago
  blown past this such that it is entirely cosmetic. But the Fed has a
  little trick up its sleeve. It says it doesn’t follow conventional
  inflation indexes like the Consumer or Producer Price Index. It is
  fancier than that. It follows instead the index of Personal Consump-
  Expenditures. And sure enough when we look at the PCE, we find
  tion that the Fed is pretty good at its job!

	All that changed recently when the PCE itself blew up. Now the Fed
  has been revealed to be utterly incompetent, in a way that is not
  different from the CDC, NIH, DOL, DOE, DOT, HHS, DHS, FTC, SEC, and
  all the rest of these glorified 3-letter agencies employing nearly 3
  million people who cannot be fired or controlled. The unique feature
  of our times is that the expert class in government has been unmask-
  ed as fakes at best and unrelenting menaces as worst.

	Here is where the Fed’s preferred measure of inflation stands
  today:

	So much for competence at the Fed! And yet, how exactly is this
  institution supposed to be controlled? We don’t vote for them. The
  Fed board is appointed by the president with Senate approval but this
  control is mostly mythical. The fancy economists run circles around
  the political actors with big words and fancy finance, so what can
  they do but approve?

	The political class too often acts like absentee owners of a
  far-off land: they have little choice but to trust the hired landlords
  to do a good job. That’s the administrative machinery that has become
  the real power, not only implementing the policies but making and en-
  forcing the rules too.

	With COVID, this whole scam was revealed to absolutely everyone—
  not just to small businesses but to every single individual and family
  in the United States. The whole bureaucracy announced to us what they
  have always believed but rarely said: your life is not your own. Your
  job is to comply. And so this raises the fascinating question of what
  precisely are we going for here and what kind of society and govern-
  ment do we want? Surely this should be up to the people!

	The Supreme Court in its most recent decision was dealing with a
  technical aspect of how regulations applied to a coal plant, but the
  implications of the decision are much larger. The EPA was determining
  policy, even making it, riffing wildly on legislation with the pre-
  sumption that courts will always and everywhere defer to the agency
  over industry and even over the words of the legislation. The court
  said no: it was the EPA that had been operating illegally all along.

	This decision is so startling because it shows a Supreme Court
  doing what it is supposed to do, serving as a legal check on the power
  ambitions of government itself. That’s what the framers intended. We
  have just begun, however. The Court needs to attack the whole machi-
  nery of the deep state at its very root, going after “Chevron defer-
  ence(1984), the Public Health Services Act (1944), the Federal Reserve
  Act(1913), and stretching all the way back to the Pendleton Act(1883)
  A nation ruled by a faceless deep state is not a representative demo-
  cracy and it is not consistent with the U.S. Constitution.

	When you consider the implications of this one decision, they are
  awesome. It doesn’t just apply to the EPA and its elaborate plans for
  changing the global climate through command and control. It also app-
  lies to every other agency, including the CDC and even the Federal
  Reserve itself. They all should be accountable to the people through
  their elected representatives. If we cannot get back to that system,
  we will lose everything.

  Jeffrey A. Tucker 

	We have to pray that the SCOTUS and God hold strong until we the
  people can regain control through faith and morals.

  Conservatively,
  John

      Inflation Hits 9.1 Percent in June, New 40-Year High
  By Andrew Moran July 13, 2022 Updated: July 13, 2022
	
	 The U.S. annual inflation rate climbed to 9.1 percent in June,
  reaching its highest level since November 1981 and topping the market
  estimate of 8.8 percent and May’s annual rate of 8.6 percent.
	According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the consumer
  price index (CPI) rose by 1.3 percent month-over-month. The monthly
  inflation also was higher than economists’ expectations of 1.1 per-
  cent.
	While the core inflation rate, which removes the volatile food and
  energy sectors, eased to 5.9 percent, that was higher than the fore-
  cast of 5.7 percent. On a monthly basis, core inflation rose at a
  higher than-expected pace of 0.7 percent.
	Food prices soared by 10.4 percent, while the energy index advanced
  by 41.6 percent.
 	Nearly every food item, except uncooked beef steak, was more ex-
  pensive last month. Pork surged by 9 percent, chicken soared by 18.6
  percent, and ham increased by 9.6 percent. Eggs spiked by 33.1 per-
  cent, milk rose by 16.4 percent, fruits and vegetables jumped by 8.1
  percent, and coffee swelled by 15.8 percent.
	On the energy front, fuel oil increased by 98.5 percent. Gasoline
  surged by 59.9 percent, electricity costs picked up by 13.7 percent,
  and propane and kerosene jumped by 26.1 percent.
	New vehicles surged by 11.4 percent, used cars and trucks jumped
  by 7.1 percent, apparel increased by 5.2 percent, and shelter climbed
  by 5.6 percent.
	Shelter costs, which make up about one-third of the CPI, increased
  by 0.6 percent in June from May. This was mainly driven by a 0.8 per-
  cent rise in rent of primary residence, the greatest rent increase
  since 1986.
	“Today’s shockingly high consumer price inflation number does not
  bode well for our country’s economic outlook,” Desmond Lachman, econ-
  omist and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, told
  The Epoch Times in an email.
	It makes it likely that the Fed will keep raising interest rates
  and decreasing its “bloated balance sheet” aggressively, he said.
	“The Fed will likely do so despite the growing signs of economic
  and financial market weakness both at home and abroad,” Lachman said.
  “That has to raise the risk of a hard economic landing before yearend
  and further turmoil in the equity and bond markets.”
	The S&P 500 ended 0.4 percent lower, its fourth consecutive drop,
  after tumbling as much as 1.6 percent earlier. The Dow Jones Indus-
  trial Average fell 0.7 percent, while the Nasdaq Composite ended
  down 0.2 percent, erasing nearly all of an early 2.1 percent loss.
	The U.S. Dollar Index (DXY), which measures the greenback against
  a basket of currencies, spiked with the news before ending the day
  lower by 0.13 percent to 108.02. The index has been on a tear in 2022,
  rallying about 13 percent year-to-date.
	A fake CPI report circulated online on July 12 and attempted to
  emulate the formatting of the May inflation data, using different
  dates and figures. It claimed that the annual inflation rate was 10.2
  percent in June. Despite being a forgery, it caught the attention of
  investors sending stocks slightly lower in the afternoon session on
  Wall Street.
	The White House braced the American people on July 12 for an ele-
  vated headline reading, noting in a memo that the June CPI report was
  out of date since it didn’t contain the dramatic decline in food and
  energy prices. U.S. officials are ostensibly looking ahead to the
  July inflation numbers to show that their efforts are succeeding.

	Peak Inflation?
	Over the past month, crude oil and gasoline prices have fallen by
  notable levels amid growing recession fears and weaker demand out-
  looks.
	West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude has slumped by about 17 per-
  cent to below $100 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange
  since the middle of July. The national average for a gallon of gaso-
  line tumbled by roughly 7 percent to about $4.65, according to AAA.
	Agricultural commodities have also plummeted, with corn, wheat,
  and soybeans down by approximately 20 percent in the past month.
	“The softening food, energy, and commodity prices, the improved
  supply chains, the easing shipping costs, and lower purchasing mana-
  ger indices hint that U.S. inflation may have hit a peak last month,
  of will hit one soon,” Ipek Ozkardeskaya, a senior analyst at Swiss-
  quote Bank, wrote in a research note.
	Even if inflation has peaked, market experts believe prices for
  many goods and services in the marketplace will remain elevated, such
  as rent and airline fares. Core CPI could moderate, too, because of
  weaker used car prices.
	The headline inflation reading prompted the interest-rate futures
  market to revise its expectations that the Federal Reserve will raise
  rates by 100 basis points at this month’s Federal Open Market Com-
  mittee (FOMC) policy meeting. Most of the market had anticipated a
  three-quarter-point increase at the upcoming rate-setting committee
  meeting, with small odds of a full point hike, according to the CME
  FedWatch Tool.
	Price stability has become the central bank’s primary objective,
  even if it triggers a recession and extends the selloff in the finan-
  cial markets. Fed Chair Jerome Powell has stated that it’s possible
  to navigate a soft landing, but noted that it isn’t a guarantee.
	Bryce Doty, senior vice president and senior portfolio manager at
  Sit Investment Associates, says the Fed’s actions will exacerbate pro-
  blems in the economy.
	“The Fed’s clear mistake of destroying demand by aggressively
  raising rates instead of supporting businesses desperately in need of
  workers will further extend shortages,” he wrote in a July12 research
  note. “Just think of the incredible growth we would have if another 2
  to 4 million workers re-entered the workforce. Supply shortages would
  dry up and inflation pressures would dissipate. Instead, the Fed’s
  actions will slow growth and inflation will persist longer than it
  should.”
	However, Deutsche Bank analysts believe that the U.S. central bank
  needs to maintain its hawkish attitude as inflation continues to show
  that it’s “a demand-driven phenomenon.” In the past couple of months,
  consumer demand has eased. Personal spending rose by just 0.2 percent
  in May, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Retail sales
  unexpectedly fell by 0.3 percent in May, the Census Bureau reported.
	At the same time, with near-term recession fears growing, the
  financial institution expects the peak fed funds rate will be 4.1
  percent, but economic downturn concerns “could well short-circuit
  the Fed’s hiking cycle before it reaches our current terminal rate
  expectations.”
	Following the June FOMC meeting, the Fed updated its dot-plot from
  March, projecting that the benchmark rate would hit 3.4 percent this
  year, 3.8 percent in 2023, and drop back to 3.4 percent in 2024 (pdf).
	“My expectation is that inflation will soon peak,” Lachman said.
  “It will do so as a result of the U.S. and world economy moving into
  a recession, as well as a result of the slump presently underway in
  international commodity prices in general and oil prices in partic-
  ular.”
	Next on the inflation front, the BLS will release the June producer
  price index on July 14. Economists forecast that it will come in at
  10.7 percent year-over-year, down from 10.8 percent in May.
      Andrew Moran

	This would be a mixed bag considering that Biden is propping up
  the market with our strategic Petroleum Reserves and rampant buying 
  of US securities and bonds with unsupported money.
    God still has his plan for our nation.
  Conservatively,
  John

    A Cabinency of Dunces
    Victor Davis Hanson May 26, 2022

	 As the nation sinks inexplicably into self-created crisis after
  crisis, debate rages whether President Joe Biden is incompetent,
  mean-spirited, or an ideologue who feels the country’s mess is his
  success.
	A second national discussion revolves around who actually is
  overseeing the current national catastrophe, given Biden’s frequent
  bewilderment and cognitive challenges.
	But one area of agreement is the sheer craziness of Biden’s
  Cabinet appointments, who have translated his incoherent ideology
  into catastrophic governance.
      Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas has essenti-
  ally nullified federal immigration law. More than 2 million foreign
  nationals have illegally crossed the southern border without audit
  and without COVID-19 vaccinations and tests during a pandemic.		
	Mayorkas either cannot or will not follow federal law.	
	But he did create a new Disinformation Governance Board. To head
  his new Orwellian Ministry of Truth, he appointed Nina Jankowicz—an
  arch disinformationist who helped peddle the Russian collusion, Steele
  dossier, and Alfa Bank hoaxes.	
	While Jankowicz’s adolescent videos and past tweets finally forced
  her resignation, Mayorkas promises his board will carry on.
	In the days before the recent Virginia election, grassroots parent
  groups challenged critical race theory taught in the schools.
	In reaction and under prompts from teachers unions, Attorney Ge-
  neral Merrick Garland directed both the FBI and the Justice Department
  to establish a special task force apparently to “investigate threats”
  from parents against school board members.
	The FBI recently has been knee-deep in political controversies. It
  illegally doctored a FISA application to entrap an American citizen.
  Its former directors, under oath before Congress, either claimed
  faulty memory or admitted lying to federal investigators.
	The last thing a scandal-plagued FBI needed was to go undercover
  at school board meetings to investigate parents worried over their
  children’s education.
	We are in a fuel price spiral that is destroying the middle class.
	Yet when Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm was asked about plans
  to lower gas prices, she laughed off the idea as “hilarious.”
	Later, Granholm preposterously claimed, “It is not the administra-
  tion policies that have affected supply and demand.”
	Apparently haranguing those who finance fossil-fuel production,
  canceling the Keystone pipeline, suspending new federal oil and gas
  leases, and stopping production in the Arctic National Wildlife Re-
  fuge all had nothing to do with high fuel prices.
	Currently, supply chain disruptions are paralyzing the U.S.
  economy.
	The huge Port of Los Angeles has been a mess for more than a year.
  Since last fall, dozens of cargo ships have been backed up to the
  horizon. Thousands of trucks are bottlenecked at the port.
	During the mess, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was not
  at work. Instead, at the height of the crisis, he took a two-month
  paternity leave to help out his husband and two newborn babies.
	Such paternal concern is a noble thing. But Buttigieg is supposed
  to ensure that life-or-death supplies reach millions of strapped
  Americans.
	This winter, trains entering and leaving Los Angeles were routine-
  ly looted in the Old West style of train robbing—without much of a
  response from Buttigieg’s transportation bureau.
	In Senate testimony, Secretary of the Interior Secretary Deb
  Haaland refused to explain why her department is slow walking federal
  oil and gas leases at a time when Americans are paying between $5 and
  $6 a gallon for gas.
	Haaland was unable to provide simple answers about when new leases
  will result in more supplies of oil and gas. Her panicked aides slid
  talking points to her, given that in deer-in-the-headlights fashion,
  she seemed incapable of providing senators with basic information
  about U.S. energy production on federal lands.
	The United States is sending many billions of dollars' worth of
  sophisticated weapons to Ukraine to combat Russian aggression. We
  rightly claim it is not a proxy war against Russia, but instead an
  effort to help stop a brutal Russian invasion.
	Why then did Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin tell the world the
  very opposite in a fashion that could only convince Russians that
  our real aim in Ukraine is to destroy Russia as a superpower?
	As Austin put it publicly, “We want to see Russia weakened to the
  degree that it can’t do the kinds of things that it has done in
  invading Ukraine.”
	Even if that description of the agenda is true, why broadcast it,
  given Russia has more than 6,000 nuclear weapons and its president,
  Vladimir Putin, is increasingly erratic and paranoid?
	The common denominator to these Biden appointees is ideological
  rigidity, nonchalance, and sheer incompetence.
	They seem indifferent to the current border, inflation, energy,
  and crime disasters. When confronted, they're unable to answer simple
  questions from Congress, or they mock anyone asking for answers on
  behalf of the strapped American people.
	We don’t know why or how such an unimpressive cadre ended up run-
  ning the government, only that they are here and the American people
  are suffering from their presence.
  ****Victor Davis Hanson

	Sadly this group of misfits seems to think that they are doing 
  something right regardless of the disaster they are creating.
	Add to that a Vice President that has no clue of her duties and
  the ones she has been given, she shirks them off. As the Border Czar
  she has yet to even go there. SHe just cackles.
	If the good Lord is graceful to us we will remove a large number
  of these people along with many Representatives and Senators in the
  upcoming midterms and the sane and ethical portion of DC can begin
  to rescue the US from more damage.

  Conservatively,
  John

    Democratic Hypocrisy

    The Pattern of Democratic Hypocrisy

    Fences are a good place to start.
    Democrats were all for a wall/fences on the southern border
until Trump said he would build it. Then the Democrats decided
that there was no way they would allow that even when the funds 
were available.
    Obama closed down the tours of the White House because of 
budget cuts in 2013 that were cramping his generous wasting our
tax dollars. The tours cost $74k per week. 
    He didn't let it cramp his style of renting a $21M house, the
Blue Heron Farm. It was closed 4 different time since then.
    When the Biden coup took over, he and Pelosi stopped the tours. 
He put out a letter stating that it would resume the tours in April
but I don't think it has.
    Keep in mind that Republicans were not behind any efforts
against completing the construction.
    This has been going on for decades but let's just go forward.
    Although they allowed the mobs of liberal protesters roam the
halls of the Capitol during Committees ruthless grilling of Trump's
Supreme Court nominees. Then Democrats again permitted during the 
two illegal attempts to impeach Trump, both of which could not find
any law that he might even come close to violating. Both were also
based upon lies fabricated by the left in an effort to keep him from
fulfilling his promises to the American people.
    More and more proof is being uncovered about the 2020 election
in more races than just the coup against Trump and millions of loyal
conservatives. Not to mention that they chose to focus their illegal
efforts in the same states that Trump had flipped in 2016.
    They even corrupted the laws written by those state legislatures
in order to literally, break the law to steal the Electoral votes
at the last minute before and while votes were being counted by, as
we now know, people who were witnessing breaking those laws but, of
course, we all know that Obama had corrupted the Justice Dept. that
enabled them to pretend it never happened. 
    Now we know much of the truth and karma is coming.
So, Jan 6 was the last day for Trump's final legal CHALLENGE to
the Electoral count.
    Democrats had to fabricate something to disrupt this challenge
about 1 pm when the count was to begin.
    Trump had planned a rally at the White House so that some of his
65 million conservatives could peacefully and patriotically walk to
the Capitol to have their voices heard.
    This was actually a big mistake on his part because he provided
cover for the left and Pelosi to disrupt the proceedings and they
took full advantage of it.
    So back to Pelosi having barricades erected designed to have 
their hired thugs push their way into the Capitol, but they knew that
Trump followers were never violent or armed, so her people went out
and invited people to come in one set of doors while the hired thugs
destructively forced their way in a different doorway.
    Now back to the fence.
    Pelosi used that excuse to construct an 8' fence around several
blocks after she refused Trump's offer to bring in 10K National
Guard soldiers. After Jan 6th, Pelosi brought several thousand
NG members and posted them around the Capitol fence for months.
    I will remind you that Republicans have never been violent or
destructive unless, as usual, provoked by liberals.
    Amid the riots around the blue cities after they tried to burn
down the Presidents Church near the White House, Pelosi had another
8' fence constructed in May 2021.
    In July 2021 Fences went up after Capitol riots got too close to
where she worked. I watched her fabricate unrest for the optics 
because it was obvious that since she had no need for fences after
Biden was installed. After all she turned them on and off to make it
appear as if the riots were not of her making.
    Biden finally opened the public tours of the White House finally
in April 2022.
    Since then, the Democrats have put together a troupe performance
not even worthy of turning on the stage light under the guidance of
a network producer that cut and pasted and scripted a made for late
night comedy rendition of their fabricated version of the events of
Jan 6th without any Republican committee members, any witnesses, any
verifiable evidence and laced with the most boring reading amateur
actors reading every word spoken.
    They provided no explanation as to who the people were who tried
to violently breach the Capitol in spite of 14K hours of videos they
refused to share with the public. They also arrested some 800 people
who for an undisclosed reason were ALL conservative.
    There was NO cross examination of any of the so-called witnesses
even though they mostly provided hearsay testimony.
    The evil and lack of ethics, morals, patriotism, and concern for
their fellow human beings tells me that the Democrats are close
minded, hate-filled and anti-Christian at a level never before seen
in this country. 
    I fear the mid-term election could mark the end of the American
Dream and our Constitutional freedoms.
    Faith and God's grace will guide Christians through this.

Conservatively,
John

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    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