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    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
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    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.
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    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

    It was never "Don't say gay."

    It’s Not a ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Law. It’s an Anti-Indoctrination Law.
Douglas Blair / April 12, 2022

    LGBT activists deliberately misrepresent what Florida's new
Parental Rights in Education law does and doesn't do. 
    The radical left just can’t stop talking about Florida Gov. Ron
DeSantis’ anti-“grooming” law.  
    The left’s warped worldview prevents them from understanding why
DeSantis signed Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill into law
March 28, or why parents don’t want their children being indoctri-
nated into LGBT ideology. 
    The rabid response to the bill’s passage has been just as tell-
ing as the left’s initial opposition.  
    Consider Hollywood’s response at the Oscars on March 27, the
night before DeSantis signed the bill. Hosts Wanda Sykes, Amy Schu-
mer and Regina Hall opened the awards telecast by saying, “We’re
going to have a great night tonight—and for you people in Florida, 
going to have a gay night." They then repeated the word “gay” over
and over again.  
    Similarly, a new ad campaign from New York Mayor Eric Adams saw
several billboards erected in Florida cities such as Orlando, Tampa,
and West Palm Beach aimed at luring LGBT Americans to move to
Gotham.  
    One billboard features the text “Come to the city where you can
say whatever you want,” surrounded by the word “gay” in bright,
colorful letters. Another billboard reads: “People say a lot of
ridiculous things in New York. ‘Don’t Say Gay’ isn’t one of them.” 
    It’s comical how one-dimensional this line of attack is. In a
childish criticism of genuine parental concern, woke activists ac-
cuse anyone in favor of the new Florida law of trying to ban the
word “gay” from the collective vocabulary.  
    More insidiously, they claim that trying to ban classroom in-
struction of LGBT topics to young kids in kindergarten through
third grade is the same as banning gay people from existing at all.

    That’s a lie. 

    Americans concerned with LGBT indoctrination in schools don’t
want to ban gays from existing or saying the word “gay.” Their con-
cern lies squarely with activists in classrooms grooming children. 
    Try as they might to pretend this type of wildly inappropriate
instruction isn’t happening, the radical left can’t resist showing
their hand.  
    Starting in September, New Jersey’s first graders will be re-
quired to learn about gender identities, and how boys can be girls
if they want.  
    A lesson plan, titled “Pink, Blue, and Purple,” would have stu-
dents “discuss the range of ways people express their gender and
how gender-role stereotypes may limit behavior.”   
    The lesson plan suggests teachers tell students that their bio-
logical sex doesn’t matter, and that they can identify as  however
they feel. 
    “You might feel like you are a boy; you might feel like you are
a girl,” New Jersey’s lesson plan reads. “You might feel like you’re
a boy even if you have body parts that some people might tell you
are ‘girl’ parts. You might feel like you’re a girl even if you have
body parts that some people might tell you are ‘boy’ parts.” 
    This is the sort of indoctrination that the Florida law is try-
to explicitly avoid. It’s not the word “gay,” nor is it gay peo-
plein the wider world. It’s leftists infecting kids’ classrooms
with LGBT propaganda and grooming your child before he or she can
understand what’s happening.  
    Thankfully, Americans are beginning to wake up to the rot inflic-
ted by gender ideology. And as much as the left tries to pretend
that concerned parents are just homophobic bigots and that Florida’s
legislation is aimed at denying gays exist, that argument just does
not hold water.  
    Polling data from Politico shows that a majority of Americans
favor banning the teaching of gender identity and sexual orienta-
tion to kids from kindergarten through third grade. That number in-
cludes 46% of independents who also support the ban, making it dif-
ficult to claim this is an effort led purely by “evil” Republicans. 

    The “Don’t Say Gay” label is unfair. The bill stipulates no such
thing.
    Leftists should feel free to say, shout, or whisper the word
“gay” as much as they want. Just leave the kids out of it. 
    D. Blair

    So it seems that the Left feed the media their made-up lies and
then expect everyone to believe it. Most Democrats have a long and
notorious reputation for lying their way through their terms and
time in DC. 
    If they get caught, they blame Republicans for what they were
actually doing.
    They also have a habit of expecting everyone to be dumb enough
to repeat the same thing, often expecting a different result.
    The stunt they pulled in 2020 will assuredly come back to haunt
them this coming November. Just watch.
    Pray the God will heal our land by giving them enough rope to
hang themselves this time.

Conservatively,
John

    Eye Surgeries

    At the end of March, I had eye surgery on my right eye for
Pterygium. (Look it up)
    It required me to keep my eye bandaged for several days and 
an eye protector at night for 2 weeks.
    The surgery was successful but painful for almost 2 weeks as
the growth was large and almost invasive into my line of sight
    I will be having the left eye done in a couple of weeks but
this eye is nowhere near as bad but it hindered my ability to look
into the computer screen for long.
    I am still putting special drops in my eye for a couple more
days and all should be well until early May.
    Last year I had cataract surgery so I will have it all taken 
care of by the end of May.
    This growing old is not for the faint of heart.
    Have a blessed day and stay safe and may God continue to bless
our land and delivery us from all evil.

Conservatively,
John

    The state of Joe Biden’s United States
By Brooke Rollins in The Washington Times

    President Biden delivered his first State of the Union address
this week, and its theatrics proved a testament to his disastrous
first year in office. Frightened by the twin specters of continued
protests against draconian COVID-19 mandates and general American
disapproval, his administration caused the United States Capitol to
be ringed with new fencing — and they’ve put the National Guard on
alert. Perhaps nothing synopsizes the capsizing vessel that is the
Biden White House than this: They’re building a fortress around the
seat of the American people’s government but refuse to protect our
nation’s southern border.
    The sense of dread felt by the president’s apparatus is justified
because Americans deeply dislike the president. A pair of new polls
tell the tale.
    One of them, from NBC/PBS NewsHour/Marist, puts the president at
a mere 39% approval. That approval number is smaller than the lone
strong-disapproval cohort, which sits at 41% — with 55% disapproving
at large. All the subject-matter indicators are similarly bad. Only
36% approve of Mr. Biden’s economic record. A stunning 67%, more than
two-thirds of Americans, believe the country is going in the wrong
direction.
    Among Americans at large, 56% consider his first year in office
to be a failure. That last numbers gets more interesting when you
break it down: Mr. Biden’s first year is a failure according to 61%
of whites, 28% of Blacks and 56% of Hispanics. Every single age and
area cohort puts up a majority believing he’s failed.

    We should pause here to reflect on what these figures mean. Sent-
iment figures are not predictive of election or candidate-preference
outcomes, but they are suggestive. What these numbers suggest, espec-
ially as the president is the de facto stand-in for national Demo-
crats, is that Democrats won’t win nationally again for a generation.
    This may seem like hyperbole, but the numbers alone bear it on the
race/ethnicity figures. A Democratic candidate who loses more than a
quarter of the black vote, and a majority of the Hispanic vote, isn’t
going anywhere. A Democratic candidate who squanders the usual Demo-
cratic advantage among young voters isn’t going anywhere.
    An alert observer might note that this is consistent with the
unfolding reorientation of the Democratic coalition toward a mostly
white, mostly college-educated core demographic. That’s probably ac-
curate. But that even among them, Biden’s year-one failure is stark:
He loses a majority of men and musters only a plurality among women.
This is a coalition in collapse.
    The other poll, from WaPo/ABC, offers even worse news in its
approval rating for the president. It sits at a historic low of 37%.
    A figure this low in the era of modern polling usually represents
the nadir of a president’s fortunes. It also usually requires some-
thing catastrophic to have occurred that imparts upon the Nation a
sense of humiliation. That’s why, according to Gallup’s numbers,
President Lyndon B. Johnson got into this territory after Tet, and
President Ronald Reagan got into it after the Beirut massacre. Mr.
Biden has his own foreign-policy disasters to answer for — chief
among them the American defeat in Afghanistan and the failure to
prevent the Russian war upon Ukraine — but that is hardly the whole
bill of indictment against him.
    This second poll also illuminates the first’s picture of a col-
lapsing Democratic coalition with sentiment numbers speaking directly
to their likely electoral consequences. With midterm elections ra-
pidly approaching, Americans prefer Republican control of Congress by
a bare majority. They intend to vote for a Republican Congressional
candidate by a seven-point plurality. They give the Republicans just
shy of a 20-point advantage in efficacy on the economy.

    What does all this mean? A presidential-approval rating isn’t a
baseball score. It signifies something consequential — not just about
the state of the president, but about the state of America. Just over
a year after Mr. Biden took office, the country he helms is suffering
thanks to his leadership or absence thereof. We have endured defeat
abroad, war in Europe, economic insecurity, a historical border
crisis, generational inflation and more. The kicker to it is he’s
just getting started: This is only year one, and this administration
will last through to January 2025.

    The good news, though, is that, if the State of the Union is
tested and divided, then the state of America is strong — because
unlike their fenced-in and heavily guarded elites in Washington,
Americans are strong. It’s easy to look at our leadership and feel
despair, but that would be a mistake. All we need to do is look to
one another to feel hope. This country isn’t done yet. The greatest
legacy of the failed administration of Jimmy Carter is it ushered in
the freedom, hope and prosperity of Reagan. Similarly, I am confident
Mr. Biden will usher in the return of America First!
By Brooke Rollins, The Washington Times

    I found this on my computer and it needs a few facts with it.
    It is now late April 2022 and we are still rolling downhill and
we seem to be picking up speed. Inflation has passed 10%, Gas prices
have reached beyond $4.40 a gallon. It fell back a little when old
Joe started drawing out of our limited reserves. He is now buying our
oil from Russia while the Fed went back to buying securities that the
smart investors sold off in an effort to hold the stock market from
collapsing.
    People are hurting and Joe doesn't seem to care.
And then there is the war in Ukraine that Joe refuses help, as 
thousands of innocent Ukrainians have been slaughtered. Putin is just
blowing anything from schools to entire housing complexes.
Biden is incapable of acting on his own or re-act until a crisis
has reached the point of "Why bother?"
    It is time to ask God to save us because our so-called leaders
lack empathy, morals, ethics and unable to tell the truth. They just
continue to throw money at everything.
    Lord, please heal our land.

Conservatively,
John    

    Why Is Everything the Left Doesn’t Like ‘Misinformation’?
Douglas Blair / March 07, 2022

    The government’s Big Brother-style crusade to control what gets
posted online continues apace. 
    U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy on March 3 demanded that
Big Tech companies provide the government with data surrounding
COVID-19 “misinformation” on their platforms. 
    The New York Times reported that Murthy asked the companies to
reveal “exactly how many users saw or may have been exposed to in-
stances of COVID-19 misinformation,” on top of providing the demo-
graphic data of those users.
    The request follows on the heels of an advisory released last
July, in which Murthy said misinformation “can cause confusion, sow
distrust, and undermine public health efforts, including our ongoing
work to end the COVID-19 pandemic.”
    The term “misinformation” has become a bit of a catch-all in the
COVID-19 era. It certainly can apply to actual untruths, such as that
the COVID-19 vaccine contains microchips. But far more frequently,
the term is weaponized against ideas the powers-that-be don’t like. 
     Take, for example, the ever-evolving tale of the Chinese lab-leak
hypothesis regarding COVID-19. 
    Ground zero for the initial outbreak of COVID-19 was quickly de-
termined to be Wuhan, China. The city is home to the Wuhan Institute
of Virology, a lab known for conducting gain-of-function research
into coronaviruses. When people started suggesting the two were
linked, the response from health authorities and corporate media was
instantaneous. 
    The hypothesis was lambasted as a racist conspiracy theory, and
anyone who tried to disseminate it was quickly labeled a fringe kook
or censored entirely on social media. Back in February 2020, Facebook
banned an article from the New York Post claiming COVID-19 could have
leaked from a lab. 
    Fast-forward a year to 2021 and suddenly the lab leak was no
longer misinformation worthy of exile from the internet. The same
outlets and experts who had gone to great lengths to smear anyone who
dared go against their medical decrees were suddenly singing a very
different tune.
    Facebook itself was forced to recant, and announced it would stop
removing posts that asserted COVID-19 leaked from a lab. 
    That brings us back to the issue of Murthy demanding data on
“misinformation” from these Big Tech platforms. As the lab-leak saga
demonstrated, the definition of what qualifies as misinformation is
incredibly nebulous and can change with the political winds. 
    Murthy’s fishing expedition to find “misinformation” is for one
purpose only; namely, control of our lives and of what we think. 
    As the pandemic dragged on, the government and Big Tech used the
label of “misinformation” to ban ideas and outlets they dislike. They
found that strategy to be incredibly effective and want to continue
using it into the future. 
    The strategy is no longer limited to COVID-19, either. The pop-
ular streaming site Twitch announced March 3 that it plans to ban
users who spread “misinformation” on other topics, including elec-
tion fraud, and chillingly undefined “misinformation that may impact
public safety.”
    Once censorship becomes a common strategy against perceived “mis-
information,” free speech is effectively dead. Don’t like what your
political opposition is saying? Label it “misinformation,” ban it,
and call it a day. 
    Many censorious tyrants have cloaked their actions in the name
of “public safety” as Murthy has. And as those definitions of “public
safety” rest on foundations as solid as shifting sands, it’s inevit-
able that the term “misinformation” will be abused further in the
future. 
    For the sake of free speech, it’s essential that Murthy and the
“misinformation” mob be countered at every turn. Americans should be
empowered to discover the truth on their own, and not have their
experiences curated by a biased bureaucracy or unelected tech czars. 
    The truth is out there. We don’t need Murthy to tell us what it
is. 
Douglas Blair

    Misinformation seems to be a catch-all used to attack those that
disagree with the liberal left.
    Virtually every story about the ANTIFA and BLM's attempt to de-
stroy America for over a year.
    The lame excuses for fencing off the "People's House" is yet
to be told.
    The truth about the Covid-19 pandemic and all things pertaining
like masking, social distancing, vaccine proof, death count, actual
number of Covid cases, etc.
    The true events of Jan. 6, 2021 are still being hidden along with
14,000 different videos of the truth.
    We are still waiting for the truth about the disaster called the
abandonment of our people in Afghanistan.
    One can call out everything that comes out of the White House but
in truth, they are just the typical lies that Americans are being fed
by the corrupt media and the accomplished liars that walk the halls
of Congress.
    Don't we deserve better? We endured 8 years of Obama and after a
prosperous 4 years we have been forced back into the swamp.
    It is time to call the liars what they are.
    They are like the little boy who cried wolf until no one believed
him anymore.
    Let's stand up and take back our country.
    Pray for God's mercy and His grace.

Conservatively,
John

    The Downside of Electric Vehicles

    Let me propose just a few scenarios of what could come from
mandating everyone having electric vehicles.
    What's a person to do?
    Imagine Florida with a hurricane coming toward Miami.  
    The Governor orders an evacuation. All cars head north.
    They will all need to be charged in Jacksonville.
    How does that work?
    Has anyone thought about this?
    If all cars were electric vehicles (EV), and were caught up in
a three-hour traffic jam with dead batteries, then what?
    Much of the power is generated when the wheels are turning and
the vehicle is moving. Braking contributes but minimally.
    Not to mention that there is virtually no heating or air condi-
tioning in an electric vehicle because of high battery consumption.
    Imagine if you get stuck on the road all night, no battery, no
heating, no windshield wipers, no radio, no GPS (all these drain the
batteries), all you can do is try calling 911 to take the women and
children to safety.
    But they cannot come to help you because all roads are blocked,
and by then they will require all police cars to be electric also.
    I would have to believe that the tiny gas tanks will be either
not an option, by then, and if they were still an expensive option,
we would have used them BEFORE we panicked.
    When, or if, the roads become unblocked no one can move! Their
batteries are dead.  How do you charge the thousands of cars in the
traffic jam?
    Same problem during summer vacation departures with miles of
traffic jams. There would be virtually no air conditioning in an
electric vehicle. It would drain the batteries quickly. 
    Where is this electricity going to come from?
    Today's grid barely handles users' needs. Can't use nuclear,
natural gas is quickly running out.
    So, oil fired is out of the question, then where? 
    What will be done with billions of dead batteries, the greenies
say we can't bury them in the soil, can't go to landfills. They only
last up to 10 years, at best and cost $5000 or more to replace.
    The cart is way ahead of the horse.
    No thought, whatsoever, has been put into how to handle any of
the problems that batteries can cause.
    Is anyone aware of how most electricity to charge batteries is
produced?
    About 65% of all electricity in the US is produced by fossil
fuels. Much by coal and oil.
    The liberal press doesn't want us or themselves to even talk or
report on any of this.
    Another point to include is charging cost and time. To charge a
weak battery will take about 8 hours depending upon how much it was
run down. 
    You will need a 200-amp circuit in your home that will use up to
150 kW to recharge. The cost varies to about $1-2 per charge. You
should also remember that most charging stations charge a small fee.
    Now you must also remember, there is NO trade-in for your gas
powered vehicle.
    Currently in France, thousands of (EV) taxis are now stored as
inoperable because the batteries are dead and to replace them would
cost as much as the value of the vehicle itself!
    The bottom line is that there is still an enormous amount of
fossil fuels needed even for EVs. And if it runs down you can't call
AAA for a can of gas but I am sure they can arrange a very expensive
tow to the nearest charging station, wherever that might be.
    You won't be able to plan on any long trips without planning on
an hotel for a night or two.
    Oh, the batteries are not recyclable and I imagine there is a
huge fee to get someone to get rid of them.
    So I guess you have to plan on buying a new car every 6-7 years.
Personally I would rather pollute than sit on the side of the road
or ride in a tow truck.
    I have trouble understanding why so many people don't see just
how expensive it will be for the little effect it will actually have
on the environment.
    The US has more oil under the Midwest that the rest of the world
combined. About 2 billion barrels.
    If we return to pumping our own and sell the excess, gas would
quickly return to less than $2 a gallon. 
    The economy would rebound, and inflation will drop. We will get
much more for our dollar. The cost of virtually will go down.
    And FYI: Our air is almost the cleanest on the planet. We are in
the top 10 of over 200 countries.
    The United States is NOT the problem, our government is.
    God promises to heal our land. Let's give Him a chance. Pray...

Conservatively,
John

    Biden's Apparitions

    I stumbled upon this from December and wished I had been the one
to post it.
    By now even the few sane and patriotic Democrats know how true
this could be but most are afraid to admit that they screwed up in a
royal way. 
    Those that aided in the corruption and illegal manner used to 
pull off this coup obviously lack any loyalty to the US and have no
morals or ethics, will one day answer for their actions but this is
would be good for a laugh if it wasn't so sad for the 330M actual
citizens.

    Ghost's of Policies Past
By: Bill O'Reilly December 19, 2021

    The Ghost of Policies Past

    According to legend, there are many ghosts residing in the White
House, apparitions that go all the way back to President Martin Van
Buren. The "Little Magician," as he was called, once allegedly ap-
peared to a trembling Chester Arthur asking a simple question: "how
the heck did you get in here?"

    President Arthur hid under the covers.

    As Christmas Eve evolves into early Christmas morning, I fear
that Joe Biden may receive a visit from another spirit; that of Jimmy
Carter. Stranger things have happened in the White House. Just ask
Bill Clinton.

    Anyway, if my intuition is correct, the scene might go this way.

    "Jooooooooe, awaken Joe! I've been sent to warn you. Heed what
I say!"

    "Is that you, Jimmy. I'd know that accent anywhere."

    "It is I, Joseph, the ghost of bad policies past. And I have a
question: what in tarnation are you doing?"

    "No joke. I don't know what I'm doing. Can you help?"

    "Jooooooe! Don't you remember the gas lines in the late 1970s?
I messed with the energy industry and got my tush kicked!"

    "But climate change..."

    "Silence! Gas and heating oil price rises have ignited inflation!
People are angry, Joe. People are getting hammered financially!"

    "If in fact ...."

    "It is a fact, Joe. Just look at Tiny Tim. He can no longer af-
ford a Big Mac."

    "No, I can't bear it. Tiny Tim denied fast food?"

    "And the border, it's wide open. Millions of folks just walking
in here. Why, Joe, why?"

    "Future Democrat voters, Jimmy. I'm not being facetious."

    "Jooooooe, your approval rating with current voters is 9 percent.
And can you explain Kamala?"

    "Well, they like her less than me. If in fact."

    "Joe, look out the window and see the future. There's Tiny Tim
wearing a Trump hat. To the right is Nancy Pelosi retiring from the
House after your party loses 100 seats next November. And finally,
wait, I feel another ghostly presence! Why it's Ronald Reagan."

    "Good evening, gentlemen, it's nice to be back in the White House
this Christmas morning. It's tough riding horses in Santa Barbara
when you're invisible."

    "Do you have words of wisdom for me too, President Reagan?"

    "Yes, Joe, I do. Just keep doing what you're doing!"

    I just thought this was funny and surely Americans deserve much
better but with Democrats it just seems to continue to get worse.
    I pray that ALL have a very blessed Christmas and God has mercy
upon or struggling nation and finds enough good souls to keep us
from becoming another Sodom.
    Merry Christmas and have a very Happy New Year.

    May God have mercy on America and rescue our nation.

Conservatively,
John