“The light of faith is a treasure that protects us from the darkness of sin.”
–St. Michael.
Representative Eric Swalwell (D. Ca.) not only confessed to his long rumored sexual affair with Red Chinese spy Fang Fang, but also accepted illegal campaign contributions from Red Chinese sources. Sigh. Why is this man not in prison?
Representative Nancy Mace (R. S.C.) who flipped and flopped enough to destroy her political career, has now found something permanent. Miss Mace recently got 9 tattoos on her body. They are not going anywhere.
Puddin’head is whining that she has received negative criticism over her decision to freeze her eggs. Well, maybe–just maybe–she should not have published pictures of her injecting hormones, and talked about the decision with reporters. If she had kept her private affairs private, then no one would know. People used to know things like that. But in the age of Facebook and Instagram . . . .
“I know we have efforts to increase diversity in district, so I’m wondering . . . are there financial incentives for black and brown people to work here? It’s an extra burden, quite frankly, to a black or brown teacher or administrator in the district, so I think we should start thinking about that, financially.”
–West Hartford, Connecticut public school board member LaToya Yagaloff.
I am pretty sure that paying someone more, or less, based on their skin color, is illegal. But maybe those laws do not apply in Connecticut.
In Maine, Minnesota, and Kentucky, government created “alternative financing programs” provide “Sharia law compliant” loans to Muslim applicants. What in the world . . . ?
Senator John Cornyn (R. Tx.) is still not over losing the Republican primary to Attorney General Ken Paxton. Senator Cornyn refuses to campaign for Mr. Paxton, is working to oppose closed party primaries in Texas (Senator Cornyn loves Democrats choosing Republican candidates), and suddenly opposes naming a Texas highway after President Trump, after previously coming up with the idea as his own. John Cornyn is a bitter, vindictive old man.
Why is ANTIFA merchandise being sold at U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico’s (D. Tx.) events? Hmmmm.
James Talarico is pro-choice (i.e. pro death) when it comes to abortion, because he “trusts Texans to make their own healthcare decisions”. But when it comes to vaccines, James Talarico believes in government mandates. He wants to remove all exemptions, including religious exemptions, for vaccines. Apparently James Talarico does not trust Texans to make their own healthcare decisions.
Jacob Smith, Senator John Cornyn’s long time deputy legislative director, has resigned to go to work for . . . James Talarico. Well, how about that? How is it that a Democrat (let’s face it, no real Republican, not even a liberal Republican, would work for Mr. Talarico) worked so long for Senator Cornyn? What does that say about Senator Cornyn? Perhaps it illustrates why Texas Republicans rejected him as their standard bearer.
Fatana Karimi, owner of a women’s beauty shop in Alexandria, Virginia, kicked out a Jewish woman from her salon upon learning that she was Jewish. She refused to finish the work she had begun, would not refund the woman’s money, and repeatedly insulted and threatened her. Fatana Karimi is from Afghanistan, and is Muslim.
Abdulloi Toshpulodzoda murdered his Northern Virginia landlord, but was found to be insane, and committed to the Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute. Someone there thought it a good idea to give him a 48 hour furlough. Shades of Michael Dukakis! Abdulloi Toshpulodzoda fled the United States on a Turkish Airlines flight out of Dulles Airport, and is now safely ensconced in Tajikistan. Good going folks!
The College of William & Mary is under federal investigation for conferring scholarships and other benefits on the basis of race. Mr. Jefferson, a graduate of what became the George Wythe School of Law at William & Mary, would not approve.
Make Abigail Go Away!
Former Baltimore Ravens linebacker O.J. Brigance has died at age 56. R. I. P.
ESPN co-founder William Rasmussen has died at age 93. R. I. P.
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Below is an article by the esteemed Dennis Prager, touching on how much things have changed since I have been alive, and not for the better. Read the article carefully, and you may well understand why this country has become so polarized.
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Why I Am Not a Liberal
BY: Dennis Prager (August 12, 2008).
The following is a list of beliefs that I hold. Nearly every one of them was a liberal position until the late 1960s. Not one of them is now.
Such a list is vitally important in order to clarify exactly what positions divide left from right, blue from red, liberal from conservative.
I believe in American exceptionalism, meaning that (a) America has done more than any international organization or institution, and more than any other country, to improve this world; and (b) that American values (specifically, the unique American blending of Enlightenment and Judeo-Christian values) form the finest value system any society has ever devised and lived by.
I believe that the bigger government gets and the more powerful the state becomes, the greater the threat to individual liberty and the greater the likelihood that evil will ensue. In the 20th century, the powerful state, not religion, was the greatest purveyor of evil in the world.
I believe that the levels of taxation advocated by liberals render those taxes a veiled form of theft. “Give me more than half of your honestly earned money or you will be arrested” is legalized thievery.
I believe that government funding of those who can help themselves (e.g., the able-bodied who collect welfare) or who can be helped by non-governmental institutions (such as private charities, family, and friends) hurts them and hurts society.
I believe that the United States of America, from its inception, has been based on the Judeo-Christian value system, not secular Enlightenment values alone, and therefore the secularization of American society will lead to the collapse of America as a great country.
I believe that some murderers should be put death; that allowing all murderers to live does not elevate the value of human life, but mocks it, and that keeping all murderers alive trivializes the evil of murder.
I believe that the American military has done more to preserve and foster goodness and liberty on Earth than all the artists and professors in America put together.
I believe that lowering standards to admit minorities mocks the real achievements of members of those minorities.
I believe that when schools give teenagers condoms, it is understood by most teenagers as tacit approval of their engaging in sexual intercourse.
I believe that the assertions that manmade carbon emissions will lead to a global warming that will in turn bring on worldwide disaster are a function of hysteria, just as was the widespread liberal belief that heterosexual AIDS will ravage America.
I believe that marriage must remain what has been in every recorded civilization — between the two sexes.
I believe that, whatever the reasons for entering Iraq, the American-led removal of Saddam Hussein from power will decrease the sum total of cruelty on Earth.
I believe that the trial lawyers associations and teachers unions, the greatest donors to the Democratic Party, have done great harm to American life — far more than, let us say, oil companies and pharmaceutical companies, the targets of liberal opprobrium.
I believe that nuclear power, clean coal, and drilling in a tiny and remote frozen part of Alaska and offshore — along with exploration of other energy alternatives such as wind and solar power — are immediately necessary.
I believe that school vouchers are more effective than increased spending on public schools in enabling many poorer Americans to give their children better educations.
I believe that while there are racists in America, America is no longer a racist society, and that blaming disproportionate rates of black violence and out-of-wedlock births on white racism is a lie and the greatest single impediment to African-American progress.
I believe that America, which accepts and assimilates foreigners better than any other country in the world, is the least racist, least xenophobic country in the world.
I believe the leftist takeover of the liberal arts departments in nearly every American university has been an intellectual and moral calamity.
I believe that a good man and a good marriage are more important to most women’s happiness and personal fulfillment than a good career.
I believe that males and females are inherently different. For example, girls naturally prefer dolls and tea sets to trucks and toy guns — if you give a girl trucks, she is likely to give them names and take care of them, and if you give a boy trucks, he is likely to crash them into one another.
I believe that when it comes to combating the greatest evils on Earth, such as the genocide in Rwanda, the United Nations has either been useless or an obstacle.
I believe that, generally speaking, Western Europe provides social and moral models to be avoided, not emulated.
I believe that America’s children were positively affected by hearing a non-denominational prayer each morning in school, and adversely affected by the removal of all prayer from school.
I believe that liberal educators’ removal of school uniforms and/or dress codes has had a terrible impact on students and their education.
I believe that bilingual education does not work, that for the sake of immigrant children and for the sake of the larger society, immersion in the language of the country, meaning English in America, is mandatory.
I believe that English should be declared the national language, and that ballots should not be printed in any language other than English. If one cannot understand English, one is probably not sufficiently knowledgeable to vote intelligently in an English-speaking country.
Finally, I believe that there are millions of Americans who share most of these beliefs who still call themselves “liberal” or “progressive” and who therefore vote Democrat. They do so because they still identify liberalism with pre-1970 liberalism or because they are emotionally attached to the word “liberal.”
I share that emotion. But one should vote based on values, not emotions.
GFK
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