What is the United States? Of course we are a country. But what kind of country? Are we merely a set of ideas, as some urge? Or are we more than that? Do we have a shared culture, shared values, and a common identity? James McGee seeks to answer that question in the article below. Enjoy his answer.

From Sea to Shining Chevrolet

What Dinah Shore understood about America — and what modern ideologues keep forgetting.

BY:          James H. McGee, The American Spectator (May 29, 2026)

See the USA in your Chevrolet
America is asking you to call
Drive your Chevrolet through the USA
America’s the greatest land of all

Most Americans are too young to remember the once-famous songstress Dinah Shore and her immensely popular television variety show, which aired from 1956 to 1963. At 76, I am officially “old,” and I was only a child when the show was “must-see” TV for families across America. In our household, at a time when we, like most Americans, had only one TV set, we watched Dinah Shore alongside our parents, enjoying her music and her vivacity. My sister and I watched Dinah Shore much less grudgingly than we watched Lawrence Welk, my dad’s favorite show.

For most of its existence, her show was sponsored by Chevrolet, and each episode concluded with her theme song, “See the USA in your Chevrolet”. An advertising jingle to be sure, but for most of us it meant far more than buying the sponsor’s latest automobile. “America” itself was the real message, and the song and the show itself spoke to down-to-earth love for the country itself. In an era when vacations often meant family road trips, and every day pleasures often revolved around the drive-in restaurant or the drive-in movies, we all connected to the message. 

We knew what we loved about America, and we knew that much of what we loved could be seen through the windows of a Chevrolet, or a Ford, or a Dodge. We knew that we loved our city neighborhoods and our small town squares. We knew that we were surrounded by good things, and, if some were more fortunate than others, we were all deeply connected, whether through Friday night football or Sunday morning in church.

Our fathers, not too long before, had experienced the whole world. Just in my neighborhood, one dad had driven 2 and ½ ton supply trucks up the length of Italy. Another had served as a radioman aboard an LST whose journey had spanned the width of the Pacific. My own father had fought his way from Normandy to Czechoslovakia. And even with allowance made for seeing a world at war, a world at its worst, they came home united in the belief that America was the “greatest land of all.”

Just over a month from now, we will celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary, as measured from the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Already, we’re seeing the buildup, with commemorative events planned across the length and breadth of the country. This is undoubtedly a good thing and, since celebrating the Fourth of July as the nation’s birthday is a now-hallowed tradition, the traditionalist in me simply wants to applaud and join unreservedly in the celebrations.

It’s not too early to get ready to celebrate, but let’s start by preparing to celebrate for the right reasons.

And yet, my reservations are real. For far too long, we’ve been told that the United States is a “creedal nation,” that is, we are united around a set of beliefs enshrined in such documents as the Declaration, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights — the most notable of the statements of purpose and value that define the American “creed” and, by extension, the meaning of America itself. 

This, however, ignores the fundamental fact that, for the better part of 200 years before 1776, an enterprise had been underway to build lives and homes in what would become the United States, and that those lives had meaning separate and distinct from the ideals to which we would aspire. People lived and worked across the newfound land. They loved and laughed, and cried and mourned, mainly without reference to a creed other than their several religious faiths and the values brought from their various “old countries,” soon to be annealed in the heat of life along a new frontier.

It also ignores the fact that, in the 250 years since, the greater part of American life has been that which would have been visible from othe windows of Dinah Shore’s Chevrolet. 

To borrow a phrase from yet another song of tribute, “From the mountains, to the prairies, to the oceans, white with foam, God bless America, My home sweet home.” Kate Smith’s rendition of Irving Berlin’s great anthem, in its original time and place, was in no way an appeal to a narrow “nativism,” but rather an appreciation of home, an appreciation that resonated all the more strongly in 1938, as the war clouds gathered all around us.

Leftists make sport of “mom’s apple pie and hotdogs,” and insist that these things — and all that they symbolize — are trivial when laid alongside the great aspirations that, in their view, define the meaning of America. The problem, however, is that when we reduce our nation to an idea, even a set of ideas, and assume that what makes us is our shared adherence to such ideas, then we have reduced ourselves to an intellectual notion.

Worse, when we’re reduced to a set of ideas, what soon follows is the corruption of the values that inform our cultural, political, and economic lives. And ideas — even noble ideals — are almost infinitely malleable when detached from how ordinary people try to live their normal lives. Malleability becomes the basis for manipulability, and soon our lives are turned completely upside down. 

Thus, for example, hardworking Americans who just want to live without interference are reduced to “the deplorables.” We’re asked to kneel before all manner of absurdities, from George Floyd’s martyrdom to Greta Thunberg’s climate alarmism. We’re asked to believe that Hamas murderers are somehow victims, that the IRGC thugs in Iran are idealist proponents of a “religion of peace.” We’re asked to ignore how fraudsters from around the world invent fresh ways of freeloading off our national wealth, built by generations of hard-working citizens.

In the midst of all this, we’re subjected to an unending stream of justifications for a leftist agenda, one crafted by twisting the meaning of our great aspirational documents and the symbols of our historical achievements. Thus, “social justice” depends on allowing crimes to go unpunished, from wholesale shoplifting to the brutal murder of innocent young women. Or, we’re treated to memes that take images of soldiers storming Omaha Beach on D-Day and pretend that these heroes were prototypical Antifa warriors. “Antifa,” of course,  remains the most perfect contemporary example of how historical truth is stood on its head, with the calumnies thrown at ICE agents a very close second.

George Orwell captured this monstrosity perfectly. “War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.” Conservatives often make sport of leftists with the simple phrase: “If they didn’t have double standards, they would have no standards.” But the rot goes much deeper, a rejection of the world as it is, not in favor of a better world, a world we might all share, but for a highly exclusionist utopian fantasy. It’s a world in which ideals can become bludgeons with which to punish those with whom we disagree.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident…” dissolves into meaninglessness in the hands of those who insist that there is no such thing as truth, only “my truth.” When the honest pursuit of objective truth disappears from public discourse, the result is not simply nonsense, but rather a world in which power-hungry cynicism pulls the strings. To give Mamdani or Omar their due, they are likely quite aware of the dishonest game they are playing. Unfortunately, they can easily exploit the rampant gullibility of their followers — when there is no “truth,” then it becomes very hard to hold such people accountable.

So, in the days ahead, let’s honor the founding of our country and take the time to reflect earnestly and honestly on the role our great founding documents have played in making our country Dinah Shore’s “the greatest land of all.”  But let’s not forget that our greatness resides in much more than words, even great an inspirational words.

We are a people, a very special people, in every generation welcoming to those who wish to become Americans rather than those who would bend our ideals to their self-serving ends. We are a people whose lives are lived in churches and schools, bars and bodegas, ball fields and tree stands, and in the offices, stores, and factories where we labor to support ourselves, our families, and our communities. America is a profoundly moral nation, but is more, much more, than simply a moral idea, however high-flown the rhetoric that adorns that idea.

It’s not too early to get ready to celebrate, but let’s start by preparing to celebrate for the right reasons. Let’s go for a drive together and, looking out the car window, remind ourselves of how great this country is.

GFK

Douglas Murray moved to America from Great Britain, and immediately immersed himself in his adopted country’s history and culture. Below he writes about the importance of the United States, its history, and his hopes for the future. It is a particularly perfect read on the eve of our nation’s 250th birthday.

Rediscover American pride and gratitude on the 250th anniversary

By:         Douglas Murray, The New York Post (May 28, 2026) 

John Trumbull’s 1819 painting, “Declaration of Independence,” depicting the five-man drafting committee of the US Declaration of Independence presenting their work to the Congress.

When I first moved to America, I made a determined effort to read up on American history. The need to do this — for someone educated in Britain — cannot be overstressed.

Most people outside this country are entirely ignorant of American history. Even the War of Independence is a mystery to most people. Jessica Mitford once observed that British schoolchildren leave their education with the sense that America did something bad in the late 18th century and it isn’t polite to mention it.

But if you are going to live in a country, you should make an effort to learn its history. Or so I think. Though I have discovered how unpopular this view is.

One of the books I started before moving here was Paul Johnson’s “A History of the American People”. It seized me from its opening lines: “The creation of the United States of America is the greatest of all human adventures. No other national story holds such tremendous lessons, for the American people themselves and for the rest of mankind.”

Johnson’s book was published in 1997, before the latest round of historians got to work.

Today most fashionable historians would dismiss Johnson’s opening lines as hopelessly gauche and unsophisticated.

That is because sometime from the 1990s onward, this country’s story started getting retold in another light. There was a greater emphasis on the way in which Native Americans were treated. A trend grew for pulling down all those American leaders who had literally been put on pedestals. And there was a concerted effort to center the trans-Atlantic slave trade as being at the heart — if not the foundation — of the American story.

All of these things are perfectly fine things to do. History is forever being rewritten, added to and put in a fresh context.

But sometimes you just end up with things slanted in a new direction. That is where things are now.

Recent decades have been a confusing time for anyone wanting to take part in the American story.

It may be wrong to present a view of a country that ignores its flaws.

But it is even more destructive to paint a picture of your country that shows everything in a negative light.

Today I see people on both sides of the political divide intent on pushing a story about this country that is not only unjust but deeply destructive.

On the radical left, we have people we might call the Mamdani-ites. People who have been brought up in a stew of post-colonialism, Third Worldism and anti-capitalism. These people (who sit in City Hall, don’t forget) talk about America as an illegitimate country.

They talk about America’s past and present as though it is one long history of rapacious seizure, dispossession and capitalistic greed. In their estimation, nothing has been earned in this country or by this country that has not been stolen.

These are people who — as Ronald Reagan said back in the 1960s — cannot look at a thin man and a fat man without thinking the fat man must have taken something from the thin man.

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On the radical right (further from power, but no less noisy) there is a similar movement. Popular podcasters and others also wish to pretend that there is nothing good about this country.

Some of them argue that America has been in decline since its heroic interventions in the two world wars. Others try, just as assiduously as their left-wing counterparts, to strip America’s achievements one by one. For example, only in America do you have whole swaths of people intent on believing that American astronauts never landed on the moon — making one of the great chapters in the American adventure into a fraud. And to what end?

Anyhow — why do I mention all this?

Because if a country is going to make even the most basic effort at integrating and cohering its people, it must have a story that people want to join. For that you have to have a history that is accurate — of course. But you must also have a story that is noble and aspirational.

Happily, there truly are few stories in human history as noble and aspirational as the American story. And as this country comes up to celebrating its 250th anniversary, you can feel the need to reaffirm that fact once again.

Because Donald Trump happens to be the president on this anniversary, you can already hear some people gearing up for an act of rebellion or repudiation. A date that should unite the country — whoever the president of the time happens to be — may yet divide people afresh.

Artists and pop stars whose names some of us had long forgotten have already started lining up to say that they will not participate in any anniversary events because those events are linked to President Trump. Well, it wouldn’t be the first party spoiled by Milli Vanilli.

But what should be a unifying event risks being yet another round of the divisive culture wars.

Such a thing can and should be avoided. And it can be avoided by remembering the things that actually do unite us. Not the least of which should be a justified, deserved and earned form of pride in this nation.

As it happens, my latest reading has been a book by William F. Buckley, published in 1990, called “Gratitude: Reflections on what we owe to our country.” It is a wonderful, short book, but it reminds me that there are always two principal attitudes that can dominate our lives.

The first is resentment: resentment that we haven’t got everything we want or feel we deserve.

The second attitude is gratitude: gratitude for the inheritance we have got, the grace we can all experience and the opportunities that sit before us.

For a person, as for a country, the second attitude is infinitely more attractive. And — in the end — it is the only one that creates anything productive.

That is why I hope on this 250th, we can remind ourselves of the great human adventure that this country is still on, and the tremendous lessons that our national story will hold for generations to come.

GFK

If you listen to Democrats, and others, you hear a lot of complaining about the hostilities with Iran. Gas prices are too high is the principal one. Military spending is another. For a military action that has only been going on since March (actually, February 28), a large segment of Americans are quite impatient. Iran is a threat to people all over the world. Iran has been at war with the United States and Israel since 1979. Given the opportunity, Iran would explode nuclear weapons inside both the United States and Israel, murdering millions of people. And don’t be too smug, those of you who live in London, Paris, Rome, and Berlin; Iran does not like you either.

Today I am sharing a perspective from longtime journalist and commentator, Cal Thomas. Enjoy.

Americans whining over gas prices ignore Iran’s greater threat

Stopping a nuclear threat should matter more than cheaper fill-ups

BY:          Cal Thomas, The Washington Times (May 26, 2026)

Whatever the outcome of the “deal or no deal” scenario with Iran, the public attitude toward the war has been disturbing.

Despite President Trump’s constant admonition that Iran must never have a nuclear weapon, a majority of those polled now oppose the intervention. A side effect of the war has been complaints about higher gas prices.

That grumbling caused me to do some reminiscing about a different America and different Americans.

Over Memorial Day weekend, we again heard about “the Greatest Generation,” but do we take the time to consider what made it great

While political divisions existed during World War II, the slogan “We’re all in this together” forged a unity that is nearly unheard of today, unless we are attacked as on 9/11.

My mother told me what it was like during World War II, as I was too young to know anything about sacrifice. Doing without, getting only one Christmas present and saving paper, rubber bands and other things for the war effort was my normal.

Gas prices during the war averaged 20 cents a gallon, but gas was rationed, as were many other things, and long road trips were almost unheard of (the Interstate Highway System would not be built until the Eisenhower administration).

If Mom ran out of ration stamps before the end of the month, a neighbor who had some extras would share some of hers. It worked in reverse too. Neighbors knew neighbors. Neighbors helped neighbors. We were Americans, and that meant something.

Today, we seem to be plagued by complainers who whine about almost everything. Too many appear oblivious to the threat posed by Iran, preferring cheaper gas. They seem unconcerned about a greater cost in more than gas should Iran acquire nukes.

Let the devil take tomorrow. Help me fill up my tank for under $40 today.

As we approach the nation’s 250th birthday, the country that older Americans once knew seems to be slipping away. Teenagers take over the streets and trash restaurants. Fraudsters steal tax money meant for children during COVID-19. Antisemitism is on the rise. Respect for authority, including the police, seems to have evaporated. Institutions that once reflected what were regarded as foundational principles — from a useful education leading to real jobs, to objective truth and a near universal sense of right and wrong — are now regarded as relics from a distant past that few want to revisit.

Republicans hate Democrats and vice versa.

When my father and four of his brothers returned from the war, they had a sense of accomplishment. Evil had been defeated and prosperity would quickly arrive in the form of suburbia and flashy new cars.

The values that helped my parents and grandparents sustain themselves through the Great Depression and World War II were jettisoned during the 1960s, largely because universities and the wider culture claimed modern values were better. Bob Dylan summed up his generation’s ingratitude to the Greatest Generation:

“Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly a-gin’
Please get out of the new one
If you can’t lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin.”

They did change. Compared to the values of my parents and grandparents, that change — civil rights excepted — was not always for the better.

President Trump alludes to the entitlement sentiment that has gripped so many, especially younger people, when he asks Americans to endure higher gas prices for a short time in exchange for Iran not getting a nuclear weapon.

Gas prices have been high for only a few weeks. The Great Depression and World War II spanned 16 years.

Stop whining, America.

GFK

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world. Among the free peoples who govern themselves there is but a small field of usefulness open for the men of cloistered life who shrink from contact with their fellows. Still less room is there for those who deride of slight what is done by those who actually bear the brunt of the day; nor yet for those others who always profess that they would like to take action, if only the conditions of life were not exactly what they actually are. The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be a cynic, or fop, or voluptuary. There is little use for the being whose tepid soul knows nothing of great and generous emotion, of the high pride, the stern belief, the lofty enthusiasm, of the men who quell the storm and ride the thunder. Well for these men if they succeed; well also, though not so well, if they fail, given only that they have nobly ventured, and have put forth all their heart and strength. It is war-worn Hotspur, spent with hard fighting, he of the many errors and valiant end, over whose memory we love to linger, not over the memory of the young lord who ‘but for the vile guns would have been a valiant soldier.’”

–Theodore Roosevelt, speaking at The Sorbonne in Paris, France (April 23, 1910).

My friend Chris Boswell fell short in his effort to secure the Republican Party nomination for City Council in Lynchburg, Virginia. Chris is a successful businessman, a loving family man, and a civic minded man. He is involved in, and loves, his community. He would have been a great councilman. But even though he fell short this time, Chris will be back. Because the great ones do not always win, but they always get back up, and try again. Chris is a great one.

The UK Guardian is demanding that the United States stop deporting illegal aliens. The Guardian claims that all the deportation flights are releasing more greenhouse gases, and warming the planet, causing destructive “climate change”. Oh, my goodness! Mind your own business!

“. . . I’ve made my views on the Israeli government abundantly clear.”

–Comrade Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D. N.Y.), addressing his refusal to attend New York City’s Israel Day Parade.

Yes, Comrade Mamadani has made his views “abundantly clear”. He is a virulent anti-Semite. He hates Jews.

A large group of protesters, waving American and Israeli flags, gathered outside Grace Mansion to demand Comrade Mamdani’s resignation. Patriotic songs were sung, patriotic speeches were given, and the peaceful (as opposed to the Left’s mostly peaceful) crowd left the area cleaner than the found it.

There was even a Muslim contingent of protesters, denouncing Comrade Mamdani’s anti-Semitism. They held up signs reading “End Jew Hatred”. How ’bout that?

“This country is a f**king disgrace.”

–Congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier (D. N.Y.), referring to the United States of America.

Miss Chevalier was just endorsed by Comrade Mayor Mamdani. Of course.

A Chinese alien with a New York commercial drivers license drove a bus into a line of stopped cars in a construction zone on I-95 in Stafford, Virginia, killing 5 and injuring 34 persons. The driver did not read or speak English. These deaths and injuries are on you, Governor Hochul (D. N.Y.).

Governor Hochul is pushing a ban on ICE agents wearing masks while performing their official duties. HOW MANY TIMES must Democrats be told about the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause? Gosh, they are DUMB!

The riots continue at the New Jersey ICE Detention facility. New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill (D.) and Newark officials refuse to allow State or local police to assist ICE agents in defending the facility against the onslaught of the rioters. And while Governor Sherrill has repeatedly condemned ICE (for everything under the Sun), she has yet to utter 1 word of criticism for the protesters.

Governor Abigail Spanberger (D. Va.) has directed all Virginia law enforcement not to cooperate with ICE. So when ICE placed an immigration detainer on illegal alien and rapist Cristobal Liobardo, Arlington authorities released him back into the community, refusing to honor the ICE detainer. Walking around free in Arlington County, Cristobal Liobardo promptly raped another woman. Thanks a lot, Governor Spanberger!

There is drama in Blacksburg, Virginia, as Governor Abigail Spanberger fired VPI’s Rector. The Rector is refusing to leave. This should be fascinating.

The Virginia State Police are now again running background checks for private gun sales. Thank you Governor Spanberger for infringing upon law abiding citizens’ right to keep and bear arms.

Make Abigail Go Away.

“Every one of our neighbors with a uterus became the property of the state.”

–U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico (D. Tx.), referring to laws protecting innocent unborn children.  You know, like it says in everyone’s copy of The Bible, except his?

I don’t live in Texas, but I have spent a lot of time there. And everyone I’ve ever interacted with referred to “neighbors with a uterus” as women. Which is, of course, what they are. Except to Mr. Talarico. Who has used this particular noxious phrase on many occasions.

From James Talarico’s official campaign website:

He wants to grant amnesty to all “long time” illegal aliens in the United States;

He wants to create a “pathway to citizenship” for “short time” illegal aliens; and,

He wants to ban ICE agents from wearing face masks or otherwise concealing their identities.

Mr. Talarico now reveals that he has had a “secret girlfriend” for years. Uh, huh. This “secret girlfriend” was his chief of staff, before he secured for her another job in the Texas State legislature. Now “secret girlfriend” is an abortion lobbyist. Yup! She advocates for the murder of innocent unborn children. “Secret girlfriend” is also a “committed vegan”, and a regular at Cheerup Charlie’s, an Austin vegan gay bar, where she regularly attends drag queen shows, and participates in “Queer Trivia” and “Queer Karaoke”.

James Talarico. He is just like you. If you are a homosexual vegan living in San Francisco, with your “secret girlfriend” who is really not that into you.

U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner (D. Me.) is claiming that Senator Susan Collins (R. Me.) of “voting to send me to Iraq”. Interesting. The vote to authorize military force was taken in 2022. Military actions commenced in 2003. And shortly thereafter, Graham Platner voluntarily enlisted in the Marines, and was sent to Iraq. Mr. Platner left the Marines after 4 years, and then in 2009, he enlisted in the Army, and deployed to Afghanistan. Since the U.S. has not drafted a single soldier since the early 1970s, and since Mr. Platner volunteered for military service, his claim about Senator Collins is a damned lie. Because Graham Platner is a liar. He proves it time and again.

Mr. Platner has yet another problem. It seems that he maintains a profile on a “dating” site, where he received sexual suggestions and propositions from women, and sent to them provocative messages and nude photographs. This is after he was married. But it gets worse. Much worse. Mr. Platner also maintains a sexually suggestive profile on a website called “Predator’s Paradise”, which is known to sexually exploit children.

Graham Platner refuses to address the situation, or to face reporters, or to even put out a campaign statement. But Graham Platner did send out his wife to address the matter, where she mounted a rather pitiful defense of her husband. Because Graham Platner is not just a liar; he is a coward too.

Gullivar’s Steakhouse in Irvine, California–directly across from the airport–is closing. The purveyor of fine steaks, including melt in your mouth prime rib, was actor John Wayne’s favorite restaurant. Sad.

Burger King is bringing back its crown [chicken] nuggets. Pass.

Sean Hudson was the Director of Community Relations for Canada’s Major League Baseball Team in Washington.  Mr. Hudson intentionally blacklisted pitcher Trevor Williams from certain team social media content after Williams publicly criticized the Los Angeles Dodgers’ inclusion of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence drag group, which Williams argued mocked his Catholic faith.  When news broke of Mr. Hudson’s bigotry, the team fired him.

Tennis great John McEnroe HATES pickleball. For many reasons, but primarily for the noise made when one’s racquet makes contact with the ball. It is an annoying sound, but it is hardly worth getting worked up about. But then again, John McEnroe gets worked up over lots of things.

Paris-St. Germains soccer team won the Champions league title. Naturally fans reacted by starting fires, vandalizing buildings and automobiles, rioting, fighting with police, and setting off fireworks. More than 130 people were arrested for their participation in the “celebration”. Sigh. Who knew that Parisians had so much in common with folks in Detroit and Los Angeles?

GFK

Today is the last day of May. Where did the month go?

Now that the Church has completed the Easter cycle, we find ourselves looking forward to the long season of Trinity-tide. As we prepare for this coming Sunday, Trinity Sunday, we might recognize that unlike other Sundays of the year, this one is unique in that we commemorate a doctrine. By contrast, most Sundays of the church year are named in reference to Our Lord’s nativity, passion or resurrection; thus we have Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent and Easter. 

We often speak about the Doctrine of the Trinity as central to Christianity. However, as E.L. Mascall pointed out in his book, The Christian Universe, the Trinity is not a doctrine; the Trinity is God. The doctrine developed in the Church about the Trinity is in response to man’s experience of the Godhead, as recorded in Holy Scripture. The Father, the source of divinity, eternally begets the Son. By contrast, the Holy Ghost eternally proceeds from the Father; all of this taking place within the timelessness of eternity.

This is a profound mystery and can be known only through revelation. While there are indications of a community within the Godhead contained in the Hebrew scriptures, the Christian experience of the Incarnate Son and the Pentecostal outpouring of the Holy Ghost provided concrete and convincing evidence of additional Persons within the Divine Being.

The various controversies within the first several centuries of the Christian era provoked discussion and debate on the nature of God. As the Fathers reflected upon the scriptural evidence as well as their own experience, they understood that there were distinct Persons within the Godhead. God was not merely appearing in various modes in our experience of Him. Rather, each member of the Triune Godhead is distinct from each other, however, they are bound together in perfect and inexhaustible love and share a unity of will. Each Person of the the Triune God works together as One to accomplish the will of the one God, particularly where our salvation is concerned.

This community of divine Persons holds a deep meaning for man, as we are created in the image of God. This means that we are meant for community – not just with God but with each other. We understand and see ourselves more clearly in our relations to those around us.

Being created in the image of God also reveals that we are meant for love. In a very real sense, our telos is Love, agape. Love, in the divine sense, means desiring the absolute best for the other. We see this revealed in the relationships within the Godhead: each Person exhausting or emptying Himself completely for the sake of the Other.

We can also appreciate the recurring entreaty in the various Epistles that we be “of one mind.” If we are to emulate God in whose image we are created, we should strive to have a unity of vision and a unity of purpose as His people. Only in this way will we truly be the presence of the Triune God in this broken and fallen world.

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Parents, you’re failing God, your children — and America

BY:          Billy Hallowell, The Washington Times (May 22, 2026)

Americans’ spiritual understanding is dwindling to disturbing, subpar levels. Despite glimmers of revival that do show increases in intrigue and faith practices among young people, there are some troubling patterns observed among the general populace.

Researcher George Barna, director of research at the Cultural Research Center, found that just 4% of Americans hold a biblical worldview, with steep declines in recent years in people’s understanding of how Scripture calls them to live.

Amid these plummeting statistics, a new survey shows one key area where parents are failing on the spiritual formation front — and it involves prayer. The American Bible Society recently found that just 29% of American parents report praying with their children daily (16%) or often (13%).

These results, captured as part of the organization’s annual State of the Bible report, also indicated that an additional 21% pray with their kids sometimes, with 15% reporting they rarely do so and another 35% stating that they never invoke God with their children.

“Most American parents are open to the Bible, but behavior hasn’t kept pace with that openness,” John Farquhar Plake, chief innovation officer and editor-in-chief of the State of the Bible, said in a statement. “They’re curious but not deeply engaged.”

To say these statistics are alarming is an understatement, especially considering biblical proclamations addressing both prayer and parenthood. Ultimately, Scripture makes a number of realities clear when it comes to faith practices.

Primarily: Believers are called to pray, with invocations to God serving as a connective tissue that guide, sustain and provide solace to the human heart and mind. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 (ESV) proclaims, “Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.”

Prayer is seen as so essential that people are called to engage in it no matter the circumstance and in a consistent and ongoing fashion. This is a key part of the faith experience.

Proverbs 22:6 (NKJV) delivers yet another proclamation to parents surrounding spiritual formation, imploring them to spiritually prepare and equip their children.

“Train up a child in the way he should go,” the verse reads. “And when he is old he will not depart from it.”

This commonsense call for parents to prepare their children to understand the importance of God and moral values is voiced throughout Scripture. How can children understand the value of faith — and the parameters around how to live — if they aren’t taught these values?

Prayer isn’t just a step people take or a box they check off. It’s a key part of the faith experience that helps individuals navigate life. Beyond that, it’s a baseline action that allows the human heart to align with (and under) the Creator.

It’s an admission that we are accountable to the Lord and have a way to seek His ultimate guidance. Outside of Scripture, prayer is the lifeblood of our faith as we seek God and also look to elevate others’ needs above our own.

With the Bible in mind, parents are also failing on another metric: reading Scripture with their kids. While 14% of parents said they read the Bible with their children daily (5%) or often (9%), 25% reported doing so sometimes — and a whopping 62% report rarely (46%) or never (16%) reading the Bible to their children.

Of course, these numbers are for the general American population, but even among practicing Christians, the percentage of daily or frequent Bible reading was tragically lowat just 45%.

The Bible isn’t just a collection of fables or stories. It’s the centerpiece of the Christian faith and a guidebook for how humanity can properly live — and thrive. 2 Timothy 3:16 (NIV) provides a framework through which humans can understand the Bible in its entirety and fullness.

“All Scripture is God-breathed,” the verse reads. “And is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.”

Unfortunately, failing to pray with our children and read Scripture with them is creating a vacuum. In fact. I’d argue it’s the single greatest reason our culture has seen and experienced so much moral chaos and degradation.

The failure to read the Bible and pray — and, in particular, parents’ reluctance to bring these practices into our children’s lives — is akin to going on a cross-country voyage with no GPS, no map, no compass and absolutely zero clue how to get to our final destination.

It’s especially tragic when we consider the pain, suffering, loneliness and chaos so many young people face today. The Bible offers a path forward and a map to guide us where the Lord wants us.

Rather than ignore these truths, it’s time for parents to step up to the plate and to pray and read the Word of God with our children. It’s the very solution we need to the problems that individually and corporately plague us.

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A marriage crisis? Stunning stats raise concerns, hopes

BY:          Billy Hallowell, The Washington Times (May 15, 2026)

Marriage is the bedrock of a society, but what happens when America’s young people delay marriage or shift their perspectives on child rearing?

It seems our society is about to find out, as survey data shows that Generation Z — those born between 1999 and 2015 — holds views that have led them to deviate from past generations when it comes to marriage and family.

From a 30,000-foot view, people are now waiting longer to get married. In fact, the average age of Americans’ first marriage has ticked up eight years since the 1950s, now standing at age 30 for men and 28 for women.

But what do young people actually believe about marriage itself? Two statistics in particular from Barna’s new study, The State of Today’s Family, stand out. First, just 67% of

Gen Z respondents believe marriage is essential for raising children in a stable environment. This is the lowest percentage for any generation.

And 74% said they believe they can lead fulfilling lives without children. While this latter statistic is certainly true, as it’s possible to enjoy life and find fulfillment without having children, the sheer volume of Gen Z agreeing with this sentiment is troubling.

Some of the factors underpinning these numbers showcase fractures and issues in society and culture that seem to be causing anxiety and worry among Gen Z — emotions that are making these young people less likely to see the value of marrying young and child-rearing.

See, it’s not necessarily that young Americans don’t want or value marriage. According to Barna, 78% of Gen Z and 73% of millennials desire to get married someday; they’re just taking longer to walk down the aisle.

So, what’s driving the slower move toward marriage? Barna offers some data-driven theories.

“Rather than moving quickly toward marriage, many seem to be placing greater weight on emotional readiness, financial stability and the long-term viability of a relationship before deciding to marry,” the organization explained. “Based on Barna’s broader research on Gen Z, young adults today report high levels of anxiety, uncertainty and emotional complexity in their daily lives — factors that may shape how they approach long-term decisions like marriage.”

These fears and anxieties are unfortunate, though not shocking, given the costs of basic needs such as housing, food and other essentials. Add in education loans and the pressures that come with simply making it in a chaotic culture, and it’s unsurprising so many younger people feel such intense pressure.

This dynamic, in turn, makes a commitment such as marriage harder to fathom for some or, at the least, more of a distant goal achievable once emotions and circumstances temper.

While this is understandable — and even fixable as economic factors and social structures ease — the more troubling pattern surrounds Gen Z’s perspective on child-rearing. With just 67% agreeing that “marriage is important for raising children,” it seems there’s an erosion with which we must contend.

Not only is this the lowest percentage for any generation, but, according to Barna, it “signals a growing openness to different family structures and a loosening of the once-assumed link between marriage and parenting.”

And let’s not forget the 74% who believe they’ll find fulfillment without children. Parenting is deeply enriching and teaches people a great deal about themselves — and life. For Gen Z, as Barna noted, marriage is “no longer seen as the defining framework for family life in the way it once was.”

So what does all this mean? In some ways, we’re exploring the implications in real time. For one, the delay in marriage entails costs and benefits.

While marrying young is an incredible way to explore how to die to self and live for others during a formative time in our lives, there’s also something to be said for making sure we are economically and emotionally ready to take on such a massive responsibility.

Consider that Barna found 42% of millennials are now married and have just a 5% divorce rate. This is the lowest for any generation being tracked, prompting some to wonder whether the delay in marriage can yield more positive outcomes.

Regardless, culture more broadly must take a deeper look at the pressures that are delaying marriage to identify where policies and structural changes can help relieve unneeded burdens. Churches and faith leaders also must take an active role.

Younger generations are spending more time living single before finding a permanent partner. These institutions should intentionally pour into these people to help them form the emotional capabilities and skills needed — the selflessness, love of God and understanding of family structures — to create and foster positive and fulfilling marriages.

And churches should find ways to drive home the importance of a selflessness that sees children not as a burden but as a heritage that helps strengthen individuals, families and culture. The future state of our families — and nation — depends on it.

GFK

Today we have an eclectic collection of articles that address topics ranging from society’s stupidity to war to the younger generation’s lack of historical knowledge and perspective to a reminder of how much better things are today than they were under China Joe. All of these articles are quite informative and entertaining. I hope you enjoy them.

America’s Stupidity Crisis

BY:          Kurt Schlicter (May 27, 2026)

America has no shortage of crises. Even during this period of unparalleled prosperity, we face daunting challenges. And perhaps the biggest one is stupidity. There are a lot of stupid people out there. Incredibly stupid. Now, let’s distinguish that from the unwise. Unwise people can be smart but lacking in wisdom. I’m talking about morons. Nitwits. Idiots. I mean, people who can’t comprehend basic stuff. America has a stupidity crisis, and we must act. For too long, the dumb have dominated our society in the sense that everything is directed toward keeping them from fully expressing their dumbness in all its mouth-agape glory. These are the people responsible for hammers that come with warning labels telling you not to hit yourself in the head with a hammer. And they are bringing America down.

Stupidity is a sad fact of life that confronts us at every turn. We are slaves to the whims of people too dumb to remember to breathe, and so much of our society has been designed to cater to and ameliorate the consequences of their foolish choices. Everywhere you look, there is dumb. If you go to McDonald’s—which itself is dumb in an age where the once-yummy Big Mac is now the bland Medium Mac, apparently made with ground earthworms, while the famous French fries have gone from a crispy, tasty treat to a soggy, tasteless mess—the first thing you see is baffled people. They’re either baffled by the little computer screen you’re supposed to default to ordering from, or they’re baffled by the menu when they’re talking to the cashier. It’s McDonald’s. It’s not a hard choice. It’s not something you need to ponder. But they need to ponder. It’s like they’ve never been there before. That’s the thing about stupidity—every day, every experience, every moment is like the very first time they’ve encountered it. “What’s a McNugget?” they inquire, genuinely puzzled. “This hot mustard sauce… Is it hot and does it taste like mustard?”

And the worst part is that these people vote.

So, I got on an airplane the other day. That’s always enough to flush your faith in humanity down one of the things that Herr Oberstoysterfuhrer Graham Platner performs onanism upon. Yet again, we have the first-time phenomenon. It’s like a significant percentage of the passengers have never boarded a plane before. Much like how all happy families are alike, but each unhappy one is unhappy in its own way, every competent airline passenger is the same, but each knucklehead is different in his own way. There are the people lugging a steamer trunk down the aisle until they stop and try to stow it, only to be shocked to find it doesn’t fit in the overhead compartment—just like the last time they lugged the steamer trunk down the aisle, only to be shocked to find it didn’t fit in the overhead compartment.

Then there’s the guy who has to be on his phone having a conversation as he works his way down the aisle. If they want to take it to the next level, they don’t hold it to their ear—they hold it in front of their face on FaceTime with the speaker on so everyone can hear and see the idiot he’s talking to. Yes, because some guy who looks like he got dressed by having a hobo barf on him needs to have vital lines of communication to open while finding his seat.

And let’s not forget the ladies who look like they swallowed a carry-on, waddling down the aisle and getting irritated because their ample flanks are brushing the sides of the seats.

Again, these people vote.

The stupidity of people on social media goes without saying, but I’m going to say it anyway, even though it’s like pointing out that the sun rises in the east. At least on social media, you can detect clues that someone’s a slack-jawed numbskull pretty quickly. The new all-purpose dummy detector is any reference to either Israel or the Jews. Oh, you know something smart’s coming when you see that. Now, on social media there’s not just the denial of dumbness but the active assertion by people with inactive cerebellums that they are geniuses. There are so many dumb people pretending to be smart on social media that it’s become a cliché. Start with the people who think they’ve got a clever analogy to share.

They never have clever analogies. They are why we should require permits before people can use analogies. My new favorites are the people who analogize Trump’s dealings with Iran to Obama’s JCPOA. OK, because Trump may make a deal with the Iranians does not mean it’s the same thing as Barack Obama making a deal with the Iranians. It’s just not.

Different things are different. One can be good, and the other can be bad. But you’ve got a lot of people looking at their phones, nodding their heads at a parallel that’s not at all parallel.

Oh, and then you have the people who think they are experts on everything. When COVID came along, they were epidemiologists. When tariffs came along, they were economists.

Then the war with Iran begins, and they’re all experts on the Strait of Hormuz despite having been unable to locate it on a map before last Tuesday. That’s the worst kind of dumb person: the one confident in the soundness of his own stupidity.

Which brings us to the Democrats. The competition is pretty heavy, but perhaps the most egregious is AOC, the poster child for unearned self-confidence in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Have you noticed she’s not talking quite as much?

Maybe it’s competition from other idiots, but it’s almost like they’re pushing her aside because every time she opens her mouth about black cowboys or, heaven forbid, economics—“Are these evil billionaires in the room with us now, Sandy?”—someone out there has the revelation that this media-manufactured mannequin doesn’t have two brain cells to rub together.

Oh, but let’s not leave the Republicans out of it. They can be a marvel of stupidity and a demonstration of what happens when lackwittedness is supercharged with arrogance.

Take Thom Tillis and Bill Cassidy. Please. They really thought their voters wouldn’t notice that they had no intention of doing what they had been elected to do. And when their voters essentially told them to go pound sand, they were not merely stunned but offended. And to prove those voters wrong about their disloyalty, they loudly and publicly resolved to be even more disloyal now that they don’t have to worry about facing the electorate anymore. They proudly stand for the principle of lying to the people who elected them because of principles, or something.

That’s not good for their buddies still in office, but it’s good for us. Hey, I’m all for dumb people doing dumb things that hurt themselves. We America-first types are lucky that so many of our enemies are so stupid. It would make it a lot harder if they were cunning. You can say what you want about Mitch McConnell, but that guy was no dummy, and we’re lucky he’s on the way to retirement because he can be a problem. But Thom Tillis? Every time you see him, you hear circus music in your head.

Yet there is hope. Not everyone’s dumb. Trump is smart, but dumb people think he’s dumb. That’s OK. It’s always good to be underestimated. And in society, you occasionally see flashes of appreciation for smart things. I watched the movie Project Hail Mary the other night. It’s about a guy in space, and he solves problems by being smart. People love that movie. That’s because most people love intelligence. They like to see people being smart. They love to see people solve problems. To keep it on the space tip, you remember Apollo? We reveled in how smart we were in solving the problems of space. And now, watching Elon Musk launch rockets and then catch them on the way back down, the smart among us smile while the dumb get mad because he’s been successful and they live at their mom’s place, have $13.22 in their wallet, and can’t find one of their shoes.

Society needs to stop catering to the dumb. We need a society that demands more, that organizes itself around letting the smartest people do their smart things while imposing consequences upon people who do dumb things. Let’s make it uncomfortable to be stupid. Then we’ll probably have fewer stupid people.

And now we just have to figure out a way to keep dumb people from voting.

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War is hell, and peace can be bad too

Freedom is always paid in blood

BY:          Don Feder, The Washington Times (May 24, 2026).

War has dominated human history. The best we can do is to minimize its impact. In the past century, it’s possible that almost as many died from peace as from war.

Since the end of World War I – “the war to end war,” in case you’ve forgotten — there has been an interstate conflict, civil war or insurgency roughly every year-and-a-half.

When he was shown the Treaty of Versailles, which marked the end of World War I, Marshal Ferdinand Foch, the last commander of the French Army in that conflict, declared: “This is not peace. It is an armistice for 20 years.”

His prediction came to pass 20 years later.

World War I was followed in quick succession by World War II, the Korean War, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the Six-Day War, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Ukraine and now Iran.

Our attention is focused on our war with the Islamic republic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict. But there are also civil wars in Sudan, Myanmar, Syria, Yemen and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, not to mention Israel’s fight against Hamas and Hezbollah, which is part of an Arab-Israeli war that started in 1948 and never ended.

Our international efforts to avoid war have misfired badly. The League of Nations, launched at the end of World War I, was useless.

The United Nations, which was created in the optimistic afterglow of the end of World War II, has become a tool of totalitarians and tyrants. It’s now controlled by a combination of Muslim and Marxist regimes and old-fashioned dictatorships, whose primary purpose is to attack the United States and Israel and undermine real peacekeeping efforts.

If Israel discovered a cure for cancer, the U.N. would condemn it as Zionist aggression.

NATO helped to check the Soviet advance in Europe for a time, but has long since outlived its purpose.

Humanity is an aggressive species. No one wants war — except those who are in the grips of a delusional ideology and the savages who want what you have and are willing to kill you to get it.

Peace only comes through strength and the determination to use it.

The conduct of a war should not be determined by the price of gas or the need to avoid civilian casualties. How many civilians did we kill in bombing Germany and Japan to force an Axis surrender in 1945?

Pope Leo XIV says war never solved anything, thus betraying a tragic ignorance of history.

The Revolutionary War gave America its independence. The Civil War ended the institution of slavery on this continent. World War II stopped the Holocaust and freed Western Europe.

War can be like a surgical instrument used to excise evil.

More than 3,500 have died in Iran since U.S. and Israeli airstrikes began. The Islamic Republic executed 10 times that number for peacefully protesting before the fighting even began. If Iran’s maniacal rulers ever get their hands on nuclear weapons, the carnage will be incalculable.

Pyrrhic peace can lead to more deaths than war.

When the Bolsheviks won the Russian Civil War in 1922, bloodshed on the battlefield ended and a century of firing squads, torture cells, purge trials, planned famines and gulags began.

Deaths in the Chinese Civil War, which ended in 1949, were dwarfed by the body count from the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, Tiananmen Square and everything else that followed.

In 21 years of fighting (1954-1975), an estimated 2.4 million died on all sides in the Vietnam War, including 58,000 Americans. Then came the 1973 Paris Peace Accords, followed by the Cambodian Killing Fields and an estimated 1.5 million to 3 million deaths in the course of a few months.

Freedom isn’t free. It’s always paid for with blood.

More than 1 million Americans died in all of our wars from 1775 to today. You can thank every one of them for the freest nation on Earth. Someone once asked conservative commentator William F. Buckley Jr. if there was anything worse than war. He replied yes, slavery.

Genocide is worse too.

Evil is held at bay only by those who are willing to walk the ramparts, gun in hand. When there are too few to keep that watch, a civilization dies.

On Memorial Day, thank the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice to keep us free. As the saying goes: Land of the free because of the brave.

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Have We Forgotten… So Quickly?

BY:          Bob Hoge (May 25, 2026)

I hear the pundits on the interwebs. I witness the often-vicious back-and-forth battles on social media. I see commentators whom I once respected descend into antisemitism and conspiracy theories.

Donald Trump has not completely vanquished the Deep State, they say, and his potential deal with Iran is a disaster that shows Operation Epic Fury accomplished nothing. Gas prices are up, which means that his economy is a fraud, and activist judges keep jumping in off the third rope to neuter his agenda, which proves he’s impotent. Detailed House investigative committee hearings that implicate high-ranking officials are often shrugged off as “strongly-worded letters,” with critics saying that they are pointless and that only hard-core consequences are noteworthy.

Of course, in reality, the wheels of justice move slowly, and accountability takes time, but that doesn’t matter to these fair-weather friends. They want heads to (figuratively) roll yesterday, and anything short of that immediate gratification is a failure.

We watch in fury as recalcitrant Senate Republicans refuse to nuke the antiquated filibuster and get things done — knowing full well that the Democrats will make that move immediately if they regain power. I agree — there are simply too many wimpy GOPers who won’t stand up and do what’s needed.

I understand the frustration, but the old adage applies: “Laws are like sausages — it’s better not to see them being made.”

My overall takeaway is different: I don’t think that any of this proves that Donald Trump is a failure; I think it proves how dangerous a world he’s dealing with. His enemies are legion: the mainstream media, the feckless globalist Europeans, Iran, the communist Cubans, the Deep State, the now hard-core extremist Democrat party, and the rising scourge of the Democratic Socialists of America.

Has he delivered on every single promise he’s made? Of course not. Has he magically solved every single geopolitical problem in just a few short months? Nope.

But I worry that for too many conservatives, they have forgotten where we were just 16 months ago. We had a decrepit president in Joe Biden, an inept wannabe successor who couldn’t string a sentence together, a group of rabid Democrat congresscritters who were hell-bent on turning our country into a woke socialist gender-race experiment that would rip our nation into a sad replica of the greatness it once was, a Defense Department War Department that seemingly was focused on us losing as much as possible, a Department of Justice regime that was more obsessed with punishing regular American citizens than it was on combatting criminals, and an autopen-run White House that let tens of millions of unvetted illegal aliens onto our shores.

Not to mention a COVID dictatorship that forced people to take shots that to this day raise questions about their dangerous side effects, and which caused countless people to be fired, have their careers ruined, and their family relationships destroyed.

Those days may be gone for the time being, but we cannot forget.

Trump is just a human being, an imperfect one, just as every human being in the annals of history has been. Do I like every tweet, every utterance? No. Am I a blindly allegiant cultist? Also no. But do I believe we are in almost every measure of life better off than we were just a short time ago? Absolutely yes.

And I feel that too many have forgotten that in the day-to-day sausage-making of politics.

This is not the time for weak knees. With the midterms coming up, the future of our republic is arguably at stake — and we saw what that was like during the Biden-Harris catastrophe.

Sky-high interest rates, people promoted to top jobs based on their skin color or gender identity, not on their merit, and an “America sucks” message broadcast out to the world.

We may have dodged a bullet in November 2024, just as Donald Trump did in July of that same year in Butler, Pennsylvania, but we have certainly not won the war. The Pelosis, Schumers, Hakeems, Newsoms, AOCs, Mamdanis, and their ilk are all still circling, waiting for their chance to strike and turn this country into their wokefest, socialist nightmare.

Think that’s too extreme? Come visit Karen Bass’s dystopian Los Angeles, where entire neighborhoods were burnt down to the ground because of incompetence, or other areas of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s California, where you need poop maps just to navigate the terrain and protect your shoes. This is what they want for you, and they’re determined to deliver that dark vision to your neck of the woods.

If it weren’t for the president, we certainly wouldn’t live in a climate where LA mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt and CA gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton even have a chance.

Looking to end the communist nightmare in Cuba and confronting the terrorist threat of Iran wouldn’t even be in our thoughts. Joe Biden certainly wasn’t going to do anything.

So while a whole lot of bystanders are busy twisting their knickers, the reality is that we live in an entirely different world than we did less than a year and a half ago. Those who forget to appreciate that fact do so at their own peril. 

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Millennials and Gen Z arrogance needs a history lesson

Youthful certainty can become dangerous political manipulation

BY:          Everett Piper, The Washington Times (May 23, 2026)

Of all the concerning trends in American politics right now, the juvenile arrogance of today’s millennials and Gen Zers must rank near the top of anyone’s list.

Just look at any social media thread on any given day and the proof reveals itself in spades.

The junior high–ish attitude of, as Bill Maher calls them, “the kids,” is legion, and it exists on both the right and the left. Whether it’s the “Groypers” of Nick Fuentes or the addled acolytes of AOC, the valley-girl cattiness of our rising generation is pervasive.

It doesn’t matter what the topic is; they know more. Suggest that socialism has never worked and never will, and their response is, “OK, boomer.” Point out that no nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity, and yep, you guessed it: “OK, boomer.”

Argue that if you really want to follow the science, you might want to start with acknowledging the biological fact of what it means to be male and female: “OK, boomer.”

Make clear that it might be a good idea to stop an Islamic regime hell-bent on your death and destruction from acquiring nuclear weapons: “OK, boomer.”

The list goes on and on. There literally seems to be no topic about which “the kids” don’t know more than anyone else. Whether it’s climate change, masking, vaccines, sexual identity, fiscal policy, education, the Electoral College, parenting, packing the courts, Charlie Kirk’s murder, Mossad, marriage or morality, the response is always the same: “OK, boomer.”

The thoughtlessness of the rejoinder is stunning. It’s as if an entire generation (or two) has been brainwashed to dismiss reality, logic and any semblance of rational thought and to simply respond with a flip of the hair, a roll of the eyes and, yes, the mindless and, oh so predictable, “OK, boomer.”

If you have a sense of deja vu here, you should. Stories of the pitfalls of youthful arrogance are as old as time.

Whether it be the medieval tale of the Pied Piper playing his music as all the children of Hamelin dance off to their death or the story of Robespierre rallying the know-it-all twentysomethings of France to cut off everyone’s heads, the moral is the same: A bunch of uninformed and poorly educated perpetual Peter Pans can be easily manipulated to do just about anything, even if the end result is their own neck in the guillotine.

Consider the cautionary tale of Mao’s Red Guard. Anyone who has even a mediocre public-school education should know it.

In 1966, Chairman Mao Zedong recognized that one of the best ways to bend his country to his political will was to exploit the idealism and ignorance of the Chinese youth. Mao knew that the poorly informed idealism of his own “Gen Z-ers” could be easily manipulated to consolidate his power and crush his opposition.

In other words, he understood very well that the analogy of “useful idiots” that Bogdan Raditsa coined in October 1946 was spot on and that he could easily use such fools to his advantage.

And that’s exactly what he did. Like the Pied Piper of Hamelin, Mao “played” his nation’s youth like a fiddle. He rallied Chinese teenagers and college students to foment chaos. As his young proteges worked feverishly to completely dismantle all that their parents had left them, he sat back and watched Rome burn.

This is the way one writer summarizes it. “Mao manipulated them, channeling their idealism [and ignorance] into a mass political weapon … He encouraged the students to attack traditions and weaken rivals … He used their sense of superiority. He amplified it through propaganda … and once mobilized, he pushed the youth to denounce teachers, party officials, intellectuals, and even their own parents.”

Mao was the master puppeteer of what was essentially the “OK, boomer” movement of his time, one that resulted in millions of people being killed and or imprisoned.

But here’s the take-home that today’s “smarter-than-thou” social media influencers seem to miss. Among the millions marched off to their deaths were the students themselves.

Why? Because Mao knew only too well how dangerous the untethered arrogance of the ignorant masses was — and so he used the power they had given him to forcibly “relocate” them to “reeducation camps” where they would either conform as obedient lemmings or die in hard labor.

George Santayana once warned, “He who doesn’t learn the lessons of history is doomed to repeat them,” and G.K. Chesterton chimed in: “The old man is always wrong, and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him.”

Oh, that our next generation takes a spoonful of humility and listens to the likes of Chesterton, Santayana and even their own parents and grandparents, for just two seconds before reflexively typing, “OK, boomer” to this article.

GFK

Mrs. China Joe claims that when she watched her husband’s disastrous debate in June 2024, she thought he was having a stroke. Hmmm. If that is true, why did you not intervene immediately and get him medical attention? If that is true, why did you drag China Joe onto a stage in front of supporters, and brag about how well he did in the debate? Sigh. Mrs. China Joe remains a big, fat, phony, lying fag face (rhymes with witch).

The U.S. Department of Justice sued Washington, Maine, Oregon, and Massachusetts for refusing to issue vehicle license registrations to ICE agents. Sigh.

Senator Elizabeth “Lieawatha” Warren (D. Ma.) wants the federal government to tax Artificial Intelligence, and use the money to invest “in the people”. Just what we need, more taxes, and more redistribution of money from those who earn it to those who did not.

Federal District Court judge Eleanor Ross was publicly reprimanded for having noisy sex in her judicial chambers. The married jurist was having an affair with a married police officer. She is an Obama appointee.

“Look, I’ve done this since 1984.  Hunger strikes never work.  We’re not going to change what we do because someone goes on a hunger strike.  As a matter of fact, if it gets bad enough and the physicians feel like they’re putting themselves in extreme danger, medical danger, then we’ll force-feed them.  We’ll get a court order and force-feed them.

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Hunger strikes do not work.  So they can put themselves in a position where they’re not eating, but it’s not going to cause them to be released.  We are going to continue to arrest people.  We’ll continue to detain people.  As far as complaining about ICE contract facilities, well, guess what?  We’re building our own warehouse facilities.  We will have the federally-owned detention facilities by the thousands of beds.  So look for the future.”

–U.S. Border Czar Tom Homan, addressing the continuing protests and riots in New Jersey.

ANTIFA and other Leftists continue to protest and riot at an ICE Detention Facility in New Jersey. Trucks and other vehicles are being blocked from entering and leaving the facility. Riot police are working ’round the clock shifts to maintain order.

And who are the protesters and rioters up in arms about? Who do they want released into the community? Not hard working illegal aliens who are just like your neighbors. The people that ANTIFA wants released, and who are being held at this New Jersey facility are murderers, rapists, and drug dealers. THIS is who the Democrats prioritize over you, the law abiding American citizen.

Governor Tampon Tim (D. Mn.) pardoned an illegal alien after he served his sentence for armed robbery. Following the man’s release, Governor Tampon learned that ICE had arrested him, so he pardoned the man hoping to help him avoid deportation. ICE is not bound by the pardon, and can still deport him. But Governor Tampon’s actions could gum up the works. Which was his intention.

U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico (D. Tx.) is weirder than Mary Pete Buttigieg. The President calls him Alfred E. Neumann.

“I will say that we already have a lot of voter suppression in Texas.  It’s baked into our laws.  I’ve fought fiercely against many of those laws when they were coming through the legislature.  Texas is one of the hardest places to vote in the country as a result.  It’s why we see such low voter turnout in our State compared to other States.”

–James Talarico.

Mr. Talarico wants illegal aliens to vote. Aren’t they Americans too?

Representative Al Green (D. Tx.) got beaten in his primary election. Congress will be a little quieter next session without the loudmouth. Representative Green has been thrown out of the State of the Union address 2 years in a row, for being disruptive. And his only Congressional accomplishment has been to repeatedly file baseless articles of impeachment against President Trump.

Governor Gavin Newsom (D. Ca.) called for a 100% State income tax on any California resident who receives compensation from the federal government due to abuse by the China Joe Administration. What a (*&@$!

Seattle’s socialist mayor Katie Wilson refuses to investigate allegations of fraud in government social welfare programs. Mayor Wilson insists that to investigate the crime of fraud unfairly targets immigration communities, and is “racist”. Wow.

Beginning June 8, Chick-Fil-A returns some fan favorites to its menu. The items include the Peach Milkshake, Pineapple Dragonfruit flavored beverages, and the Honey Pepper Pimiento Cheese Chicken Sandwich. YUM!

On July 14, Chick-Fil-A will hold its annual cow appreciation day. Customers who show up in proper cow attire receive a free entree. Pass.

Kentucky Fried Chicken is returning fried pickles to its menu. Okay.

President Trump announced he might attend 1 of the New York Knicks NBA finals games, as he was a life-long fan. Governor Kathy Hochul immediately pounced on the President’s comments, expressing skepticism of his claim, and demanding that he name the starting lineup of the “1993 championship team”. Uh, Governor Hochul? The Knicks did not win the 1993 NBA championship. The Chicago Bulls won in 1993. The Knicks’ last championship was in 1973.

Southeastern Conference football coaches are upset that they voted to adopt a 9 conference game schedule (out of 12 total games). It seems to have occurred to them that this change would prevent them from scheduling their traditional “cupcake” weekends. Ahhhhh. What a shame.

The SEC likes to tout its conference as the best college football conference. Well, you cannot be the best unless you play the best. Which means the elimination of “cupcake” weekend.

NHL New Jersey Devils legend Claude Lemieux has died at age 60. R. I. P.

GFK

“Once we unite and live in communism, hell will no longer be on earth and heaven will no longer be beyond this world.  Everything which has been presented to us by Christianity in prophecy and phantasy is about to be wholly realized in the true human society according to the eternal laws of love and reason.”

–Moses Hess, A Communist Credo (1846).

This is typical of socialists.  Socialism, like communism, is a secular faith.  According to Marxist theory, socialism is the final transitionary step to communism, which in turn ushers in the earthly utopia.

New York City Comrade Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D.) announced that his administration would start seizing real estate from “irresponsible” landlords, and transfer the real estate to “responsible” non-profits, to be used for the betterment of “the people”.

It is absurd to believe that Comrade Mayor Mamdani and his minions can manage every aspect of New York City better than the citizens who actually built the city.  Heck, the New York City government cannot even manage to perform its governmental functions. 

As once stated by Ronald Reagan, “the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.”  Accordingly, when all these grand experiments fail, the planners believe that they failed not because of them and their secular creed, but because of you, the stingy, stubborn, greedy voter or taxpayer who selfishly never gave the managers the means to manage and give you the utopia that you’re too stupid to see glistening just over the horizon — or the Hudson.

California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer (D.) vowed to arrest ICE agents working in California. He is also vowing to arrest and prosecute White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. He cannot do this, of course. But if he tries, he might get a chance to spend some time in federal custody. And he will not like it.

All the California Democrat candidates for Governor pledged to oppose requiring commercial truck drivers to be proficient in English. They characterized the requirement as “racist”.

Minneapolis, Minnesota Mayor Jacob Frey (D.) was not the only State politician to celebrate Memorial Day by honoring serial criminal George Floyd. Governor Tampon Tim (D.) skipped a Memorial Day ceremony he had committed to, in order to attend a George Floyd memorial service.

Remember Tampon Tim bragging about his military service when he was campaigning to be Vice-President? Hmmmm. I’m pretty damn sure that serial criminal George Floyd was not a veteran, or killed in combat. Pretty sure.

New Jersey Mikie Sherrill (D.) continues to complain about not being permitted to inspect an ICE Detention Center, and about ICE, generally. Newsflash, Governor: you are not a federal official. You have nothing to do with ICE or federal immigration law enforcement.

“I’ve laid my hand on the Bible three times and swore to protect and uphold the Constitution of the United States, and I intend to do that.”

–Campbell County, Virginia Sheriff Whit Clark, dismissing the Democrats’ newest unconstitutional gun grab.

“The citizens of Amherst County have the right to bear arms as long as they’re qualified individuals to do so.”

–Amherst County, Virginia Sheriff Jimmy Ayers.

The Commonwealth’s Attorneys in Pulaski and Powhatan Counties, Virginia, have now joined their colleagues in Smyth and Spotsylvania Counties, and will not enforce the Democrats gun ban. GOOD FOR THEM! WINNING!

Make Abigail Go Away.

Virginia Democrats are in a lather over the growing gun rebellion. They are now clutching their pearls over the thought of prosecutors actually upholding the U.S. Constitution. These same people haven’t uttered a peep about Steve Descano, the Commonwealth’s attorney in Fairfax County who repeatedly releases violent illegals back into the community.

I am very disappointed in South Carolina Republican legislators. Very, very disappointed. They are the epitome of The Stupid Party.

In Texas, the Republican primaries saw Attorney General Ken Paxton annihilating incumbent Senator John Cornyn, and State Senator Mayes Middleton beating Representative Chip Roy in the Attorney General race. On to November!

“The Bible is silent on abortion.  I trust Texas women to make decisions about their own bodies, to shape their own destinies.”

–U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico (D. Tx.).

The Bible is quite clear in its emphasis on preserving all life, including innocent unborn life. Perhaps James Talarico overlooked Exodus 21:22-25 which actually addresses the killing of life in the womb directly.  And while Jesus never uttered the word “abortion” as recorded in The Gospels, it does not follow that he approved of it. Indeed, why would Jesus speak on abortion, when God’s commandments concerning the sanctity of life were well known? James Talarico is an evil, lying man, misusing Christian teachings to lead Christians astray.

 “I often think, when reclaiming symbols, I think about the American flag.  The American flag is such a complicated symbol for most of us.  In many ways like Jesus, like the cross, it’s been co-opted and, in some ways, its true meaning has been betrayed.”

–James Talarico.

The flag stands for freedom, individual liberty, and the rule of law.  All things that are antithetical to Democrats like James Talarico.

“There is absolutely no question if we target the wealth where it has been hoarded and we pull it back into our system and put it into social programs like health care, child care and paying teachers what they are worth, we will absolutely improve the lives of working Americans and, quite frankly, improve our society as a whole.”

–U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner (D. Me.).  A true commie at heart.

What is MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+? MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ is an acronym, used primarily in Canada. It stands for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two‑Spirit (a term that is used by Indians to describe people who embody both masculine and feminine spirits), Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, and Asexual people. Sigh. This is insane. I am not going to use this acronym, though I have no doubt that it will be widely used in the United States very soon.

Poland is offering to build permanent military bases for the United States to relocate their European based troops from Germany (and perhaps, France). Let’s move!

The Pope apologized for the Catholic Church’s support for slavery in the trans-Atlantic trade. Huh. When do you think the United States Democrat Party will apologize for its support and defense of slavery over the decades? Do not hold your breath.

British Petroleum fired its chairman, Albert Manifold. The removal had to do with conduct. Hmmmm.

Blue Bell ice creams is bringing back its delicious Peaches & Vanilla ice cream. For a limited time only.

Former Atlanta Braves 3rd baseman Bob Horner has died at age 68. R. I. P.

Former Miami Dolphin defensive lineman, Manny Fernandez, a member of the “No Name Defense”, has died at age 79. R. I. P.

Clarence B. Jones, speechwriter and advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr., has died at age 95. R. I. P.

Jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins has died at age 95. R. I. P.

Kerry Sharon, 69, the San Diego, California man who was brutally beaten by a deranged Leftist who took offense at the man’s Trump and American flags, has died as a result of the injuries suffered in the attack. A deranged Leftist murdered this man–a U.S. veteran–because he disagreed with his political views. So senseless, so evil; up the charges, convict him, and seek the death penalty. R. I. P.

GFK

Today we are focusing on the 2 tiers of justice present in our society. Specifically, why do Democrats get a pass after committing serious crimes, but Republicans get put in prison for jaywalking? Hmmmm.

Below are 2 articles which lay this problem out nicely. And it is a problem. Because the Democrat cry that “no one is above the law” should be true. Sadly, it is not true.

Will Democrat wrongdoers ever face justice?

Public memory of leftist malfeasance is short thanks to legacy media

BY:          Robert Knight, The Washington Times (May 24, 2026).

Have you noticed that nobody on the left ever—ever— seems to pay a penalty for criminality and even treason?

“What will it take?” you might ask.

Exhibit A: When Joe Biden was vice president, he boasted on Jan. 23, 2018, before a Council on Foreign Relations audience that he had told the president of Ukraine in March 2016 to fire a prosecutor — or lose $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees.

Viktor Shokin, the prosecutor general, was investigating Burisma, the energy company that had given Mr. Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, a plum job on its board. The elder Biden recounted his discussion with then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and an aide:

“I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion.’ … I looked at them and said, ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. … Well, son of a bitch. He got fired.”

The room erupted in laughter. I viewed the video several times. It’s real. You can access the audio on YouTube.

Nothing ever happened to Mr. Biden, whose family was also getting rich from deals with communist China. As a matter of fact, he became president three years later, with a stunningly implausible 81 million votes.

Fast forward to July 25, 2019. President Trump had a phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who was seeking more U.S. aid. At the end of the call, Mr. Trump asked Mr. Zelenskyy to look into well-founded allegations involving the Bidens.

Democrats sprang into action. On Sept. 24, 2019, the House started a formal impeachment inquiry. Three months later, they voted to impeach Mr. Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, although the Senate declined to convict.

Democrats impeached Mr. Trump again after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, staged a kangaroo court trial and again failed to secure a Senate conviction.

I bring all this up because we have a huge institutional memory hole thanks to a legacy media controlled by leftists. Even after eye-opening exposures, Democrats skip away and conduct business as usual, their misdeeds forgotten.

President Barack Obama’s attorney general, Eric Holder, lied under oath about the U.S. shipping guns to Mexican drug cartels in 2012 and was held in contempt of Congress. Big deal. He stayed on as the nation’s top lawman for three more years.

In July 2016, under Mr. Obama, the FBI launched Crossfire Hurricane, which kicked off the Russia collusion hoax. Corrupt officials said the Trump campaign was getting help from Russia (which it wasn’t), and that a dossier full of disinformation was proof of Mr. Trump’s corruption. All of it was false, but that didn’t matter.

The scandal tied up the first Trump administration and wasn’t resolved until 2023 with the Durham report’s release. FBI officials who misled a FISA court faced no charges.

After the Jan. 6 riot, several former Trump aides were hauled into court, including Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro. The two men rightly refused to testify against their boss and thus destroy Oval Office confidentiality. They were sent to prison for several months.

The list of Democrats, by contrast, who were caught red-handed with no consequences is as long as your arm. Then-Rep. Adam Schiff, California Democrat, who was ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, lied about having evidence of the Russia collusion and pushed the fake dossier. He is now a U.S. senator.

Mr. Obama’s IRS targeted conservative and tea party organizations from 2010 to 2012, trying to ruin them. Nonprofit division head Lois Lerner took the Fifth and left with a government pension.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton broke security rules, lied about her server and destroyed evidence. U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice flatly lied about what happened at Benghazi, Libya, in 2012, when four Americans were slain.

Biden health officials lied about the efficacy of alternative treatments to COVID-19 and ruined people’s lives with vaccination and masking mandates.

Mr. Biden’s attorney general, Merrick Garland, targeted pro-lifers and traditionalist Catholics while ignoring attacks on churches and crisis pregnancy centers.

And then there was the FBI raid in 2022 on Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, four unfounded criminal prosecutions and several attempts to remove him from state ballots. Democrats say that holding anyone accountable for these abuses is “weaponizing government.”

After all this, take heart that the tide finally may be turning toward justice.

Former FBI Director James Comey, who leaked confidential conversations with the president to the New York Times, has been indicted for his reposting an online meme apparently calling for the killing of the president.

The FBI under Director Kash Patel has brought 11 felony counts against the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has been stoking hatred against Christians and conservatives and making millions while funding real hate groups like the KKK.

The FBI is revisiting the Russia collusion hoax, including roles played by Obama intelligence adviser James Clapper, who lied to Congress about the NSA surveilling Americans, and former CIA chief John Brennan, who helped concoct a letter by 51 national security experts that lied about Hunter Biden’s laptop just before the 2020 election.

The agency is also reportedly looking into COVID-19 czar Anthony Fauci’s conduct before and during the pandemic.

On May 15, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a settlement with Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston to stop gender transitions on minors, pay $10 million to the state, fire the doctors and open a detransition clinic to help kids recover their natural sexuality.

The only thing better would be criminal charges.

There’s much more, but let’s pray that the wheels of justice might finally be rolling.

I told a friend about all this. Unimpressed, he said, “I spell ‘accountability’ this way: p-r-i-s-o-n.”

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Is Prison the Best Place for Certain Prominent Democrats?

Just look at the nefarious behavior of Jack Smith. And he’s far from the only one.

BY:          J.B. Shurk, The American Thinker (May 22, 2026).

Reports last week confirmed that former special counsel Jack Smith “secretly arranged” to preserve evidence in his criminal cases against President Trump in order to maintain the threat of future prosecution once the president leaves office.  This is not a big surprise.  Democrats have thrown every civic norm out the window in their ruthless efforts to target Trump’s businesses and send him to prison for life. 

In his quest to imprison an American president, Jack Smith accused Trump of engaging in a conspiracy to “overthrow” the 2020 election, as well as retaining possession of classified documents after leaving the White House.  Both allegations are ridiculous, and Smith’s own words make him sound like a lawfare hitman and anti-MAGA zealot.  He told members of Congress in January, “Our investigation revealed that Donald Trump is the person who caused Jan. 6, it was foreseeable to him, and that he sought to exploit the violence.”  Smith stated emphatically that Trump committed “serious crimes.”  

Serious crimes?  You mean like using the FBI to spy on all the Republican presidential primary candidates in 2015 and 2016?  Oh right, that was President Obama.  Or fabricating intelligence in order to justify a counterintelligence operation against candidate Trump?  Oh, that was Obama’s corrupt CIA director, John Brennan.  Or paying British Intelligence operatives to manufacture a fake “Russia collusion” dossier implicating Trump?  Oh, that was Hillary Clinton.  Or using the FBI and CIA to frame President Trump as a Russian spy?  Oh, that was Obama and Clinton, too.  Or sabotaging President Trump’s administration by using a Democrat spy on the National Intelligence Council to construct a false story about an innocuous phone call in order to trigger a bogus impeachment?  Oh, that was Intelligence Community Democrats attempting to hide Joe Biden’s corruption in Ukraine by, again, framing President Trump for a quid-pro-quo “crime” he never committed.  Or submitting fraudulent documents to the FISA Court in order to maintain spying operations against President Trump?  Oh, that was corrupt James Comey, corrupt Robert Mueller, corrupt Andrew Weissmann, corrupt Norm Eisen, corrupt Mary McCord, and their Democrat accomplices in the FBI and DOJ who covered up Obama’s illegal spying operations while framing President Trump as a criminal, spy, and traitor.  

Listening to Jack Smith call President Trump a “serious” criminal sounds ridiculous when serious criminals Obama, Clinton, Brennan, Comey, and legions of their Democrat colleagues, subordinates, and co-conspirators in the DOJ, FBI, CIA, D.C. courts, and FISA Court (see Judge James Boasberg’s impeachable offenses) have never been properly investigated or punished for undermining President Trump’s election, sabotaging his administration, and framing him for treason.  The most powerful Democrats in the country organized a coup d’état in broad daylight and dragged the country through a barbed-wire field of partisan propaganda for the last ten years, and Jack Smith wants Americans to be upset that President Trump retained documents that he was entitled to possess?  It’s just such lunacy.  The constant gaslighting from D.C. operatives is equally infuriating and exhausting.  

Glossing over the Democrats’ monstrous Russia Collusion Hoax, their relentless efforts to subvert the Trump-led government, and their continuing obsession with tossing the president in prison for imaginary crimes is bad enough, but Jack Smith does what all Democrats do: He pretends that the January 6, 2021, protest for election integrity was an attempt by Trump and his supporters to overthrow the government.  This lie is so brazen that it’s astonishing how Democrats can keep telling it with straight faces.  

The people who showed up at the Capitol that day had one objective: to express their strong belief that mail-in-ballot fraud, violations of multiple states’ electoral statutes, and numerous voting discrepancies had tainted the 2020 election.  Several senators intended to make these very arguments before the certification of the election’s results.  The people who gathered outside the Capitol were exercising their First Amendment right to assemble peaceably.  They were unarmed.  Most had no criminal records.  A large number had served their country in various capacities.  Most who entered the Capitol walked around as tourists, took pictures, interacted in a friendly manner with Capitol Police, and posed no threat to anyone.  

Only after law enforcement officers chose to fire flash-bang grenades on the assembled crowd did a section of the protest turn into something that could be described as a riot.  Trump supporters — not police officers — died on January 6.  Ordinary Americans exercising their constitutional rights were thrown into a state of fear of being hurt or killed.  

Nevertheless, Smith continues to propagate the lie that the three-hour event at the Capitol was somehow the greatest threat to the country since 9/11, Pearl Harbor, and the Civil War (real comparisons that Democrat propagandists continue to make).  Smith and his fellow Democrats desperately wish for Americans to believe that a hot-chocolate-drinking gathering of grandparents, revelers, and veterans was somehow going to topple the government of the United States.  If a crowd of retirees is capable of overrunning Washington, what’s the point of a trillion-dollar military budget?  

Smith’s perpetuation of the Democrats’ J6 propaganda is bad enough, but the fact that he treats that day as equivalent to the Civil War is all the more preposterous given that Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and their fellow Democrats openly encouraged Black Lives Matter domestic terrorists to burn down neighborhoods, loot businesses, and murder civilians throughout the summer of 2020.  If President Trump “caused Jan. 6” and the events of that day were “foreseeable” to him, then the violence and mayhem of 2020’s so-called “summer of love” were certainly foreseeable to Democrats.  The BLM riots of 2020 were the most costly in American history, and Vice President Harris encouraged Democrats to donate money to a bail fund that put arsonists, rapists, and murderers back on the street.

Were the Democrat-organized riots of 2020 “foreseeable”?  Of course.  Did prominent Democrats “exploit the violence,” as Smith accuses Trump of doing with January 6?  They absolutely did.  Biden and Harris ran for the White House on the message that the violence would end once they were elected.  Will preening, self-righteous Jack Smith investigate, harass, arrest, or prosecute any of these Democrats?  Of course not.  Will Democrat rioters be tossed into pre-trial solitary confinement and refused bail by partisan prosecutors and judges?  Definitely not.  To this day, Democrats celebrate BLM and Antifa domestic terrorists as champions for civil rights.  When Democrats burn cities to the ground, the arsonists get statues.  When MAGA Americans protest for free and fair voting, they are condemned for crimes they never committed.   

Unfortunately, this is how leftists all over the world now operate.  Brazil’s communist President Lula has imprisoned his predecessor, President Bolsonaro, for supposedly trying to overthrow the government.  French President Macron has permitted his political opposition, Marine Le Pen, to be prosecuted and convicted for similarly bogus “embezzlement” crimes.  Germany has flirted with designating the popular anti-immigration party, Alternative for Germany, a “terrorist” organization and banning its candidates from running for office.  When the “wrong” candidate won Romania’s presidential election eighteen months ago, the country’s Constitutional Court annulled the outcome by blaming “Russian interference.”  

If President Trump hadn’t possessed the financial resources and sheer grit to face down the onslaught of malicious and meritless prosecutions against him, he would likely be in a courtroom or a prison today.  If he hadn’t been re-elected a third time, January 6 defendants would still be awaiting trial or serving time in prison for an imaginary “insurrection.”  

Forget about Jack Smith.  He’s no lawman, and he has no principles.  He’s nothing but a corrupt propagandist, partisan hack, and lawfare assassin. 

Nothing will change until prominent Democrats are prosecuted and convicted for their crimes.  Until then, it’s open season on all of us.

GFK

“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.  Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”

–General George S. Patton.

Just so.

“We gave up our yesterdays for your tomorrows.”

–David Yoho, 98, a World War II veteran, who enlisted in the military when he was but 16 years old.

President Trump laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery and gave brief remarks, on Memorial Day. May God Bless Our Fallen Warriors’ Souls. They were the best of America, and gave all for the country they loved.

We had barbecue for dinner on Saturday night, and Holland made hush puppies. And not just any hush puppies, but the lightest, tastiest hush puppies I have ever eaten. They were golden brown and crispy on the outside, fluffy and airy on the inside.

What is interesting about Holland’s cooking, is that no one in our family–not me, not English, and not Holland–had ever made hush puppies before that evening. We had been talking, and Holland had expressed an interest in learning how to bake bread. I then suggested that she start with biscuits, but then changed to hush puppies. And lo and behold, she did it.

What Holland may soon regret is that now that I know she can cook delicious hush puppies, I shall likely request them often. But then, how could she possibly deny her Father?

A deranged man who believed he was Jesus Christ, opened fire with a gun at The White House on Saturday, getting off 30 rounds, and wounding a pedestrian. Secret Service agents returned fire, and killed the shooter.

“We saw woke and weak leaders trying to make West Point look like woke Princeton, which happens to be my long lost and lost alma mater.  They tried to introduce diversity and inclusion studies.  They hire professors who advocated for anti-American ideologies right here in these halls, but no more . . . Let me be perfectly clear, you are not an ‘army of one’, and you are certainly not an army of woke.  You are an American army, an army of warriors.”

–Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, speaking to the United States Military Academy [West Point] Class of 2026, at commencement.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard resigned. She is stepping down to care for husband who is undergoing cancer treatment.

“While the circumstances around her departure are deserving of our sympathy, let’s be clear: Tulsi Gabbard’s only positive contribution to our nation’s national security is her resignation.”

–Senator Adam Schiff (D. Ca.), commenting on Director of National Intelligence Gabbard’s resignation to care for her husband who is suffering from cancer.

Adam Schiff is a disgusting, repugnant, loathsome, inhuman, heartless, detestable, sorry excuse for a human being. And those are his good qualities.

In the United States House of Representatives, both sides of the aisle came together Thursday to oppose what had been a decade-long bipartisan effort to build a women’s history museum in Washington.  The legislation, which specified the museum’s site, was nearing the finish line but lost dozens of Democrats who had supported it just a month ago.  It failed in the afternoon on a 204-216 vote, in which 6 Republicans joined all Democrats in voting no.  Eight (8) other Republicans did not vote.  Among the Republican opponents, some conservatives simply disapproved of a museum focused on women at all.  The Democrats opposed the legislation because the museum would only focus on biological women.  No “trans” women.  In other words, the women’s history museum would not focus on men who thought they were women.

Ahead of the Memorial Day Weekend, Governor Gavin Newsom (D. Ca.) urged motorists to avoid buying gasoline from Chevron stations. Governor Hair Gel–who has not driven his own car since 2004–is angry that Chevron is moving its headquarters from California to Texas. Jacka$$.

The San Francisco Chronicle endorsed former Representative Katie Porter (D.) and San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan (D.) in the upcoming California gubernatorial primary. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! What a *#&@ joke!

San Francisco, California is banning gas water heaters, beginning in 2027. And if your current gas water heater breaks down, you cannot fix it. Instead, you must replace it with a heat pump water heater, which is not effective, and is expensive.

San Diego, California resident Kerry Sharon, 69, was beaten mercilessly by Thomas Butler, 32. Mr. Sharon was on his property, which he had adorned with U.S. and Trump flags. Mr. Butler began screaming at Mr. Sharon before attacking him, apparently incensed that he was a Trump supporter. Mr. Sharon is in critical condition, and is not expected to survive. Currently, Mr. Butler is being held on a charge of attempted murder, which will be upgraded if Mr. Sharon does not recover. Leftist violence strikes again.

“And this is exactly why I choose not to recite the Pledge of Allegiance during every council meeting.  As much as I love this country, I use that moment to ground myself – to center our communities and remind myself of the injustices and harm that continue to affect so many, both locally and across the globe, under this nation’s influence.  We must not tune out – they want us to become numb to the realities we see in the news – it’s part of the plan to keep us complacent.  But instead, we resist.  We surround ourselves with loved ones, take time to rest, remain vigilant, and stay steadfast in the fight for equity, justice & humanity.”

–Sacramento, California city councilman and congressional candidate Mai Vang (D.), explaining why she refuses to place her hand on her heart, recite the Pledge of Allegiance, and turns her back on the American flag.  It is all President Trump’s fault. 

Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong wants to “defund the police”. Is that still a thing?

“Today, we remember George Floyd, who was murdered by a former Minneapolis police officer six years ago.  That moment changed our city forever.  It forced Minneapolis to confront painful truths about race, policing, inequity, and trust — and demanded hard conversations and accountability.  Since Floyd’s murder, our city has been challenged not just to say we’ve changed, but to prove it.”

–Minneapolis, Minnesota Mayor Jacob Frey (D.), who neglected to celebrate Memorial Day, preferring to honor a drug addled career criminal, who most certainly was not murdered.

In New Jersey, rioters celebrated Memorial Day rioting outside of an ICE Detention Facility. Instead of waving American flags, the rioters waved ANTIFA flags. New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill (D.) arrived at the facility, and demanded to be let in to tour the facility. ICE officials rejected her demands, so Governor Sherrill spent her day in the company of the rioters.

A federal judge in Tennessee has dismissed the criminal charges pending against Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Not because there is no evidence that he did it. He did it, and the evidence supports the charges. But the judge determined that the Justice Department’s motives in bringing the charges were impure, and “vindictive”, though he could not cite any specific facts to support his determination. The Justice Department is appealing.

In Indiana, a state trooper stopped to assist a stranded motorist, and eventually transported him to a nearby hospital. As the trooper assisted the emergency room personnel, the motorist shot him 3 times, wounding him critically. My gosh!

“The Army does things differently, and as a whole, they do things much worse.  As an organization it’s awful.  Full of fat, lazy trash who would rather not be in uniform.”

–U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner (D. Me.).

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger (D.) signed yet another executive order dictating how ICE agents could effect arrests of illegal aliens on Commonwealth property. Ha, ha, ha, ha!

Make Abigail Go Away.

The Spotsylvania and Smyth County, Virginia Commonweath Attorneys have notified local Sheriffs, and the Governor, that they will not prosecute violations of the newly enacted gun laws. Because the laws are clearly unconstitutional. Democrats are not happy. WINNING!

Make Abigail Go Away.

In North Carolina, the Republican Party obtained a consent judgment requiring elections officials to purge the voter rolls of any non-citizens. Because despite Democrat denials, aliens register to vote, and actually vote, in the United States.

Amarillo, Texas’s Big Texan steakhouse offers a contest whereby a patron can enter its steak eating challenge. If you can finish a 72 ounce steak, baked potato, salad, and roll in 1 hour, the meal is free. If not, you pay $72.00. I’ve been to the Big Texan, and have watched folks try [and fail] to eat the whole thing. It’s a hoot.

This year–the 66th year of the Big Texan’s existence–it is taking its 72 ounce challenge on the road. The Big Texan is going to retrace the path of old Route 66, beginning in Santa Monica, California, and going all the way to Chicago, Illinois. Along the way, the Big Texan crew will stop in various towns, establishing a “pop up” restaurant, and invite all comers to try the challenge. This sounds fun.

The United Nations climate panel admitted that it has been wrong for years. We are not all going to die from “climate change”. We never were.

Alberta, Canada is going to hold a referendum on whether to remain in the country, or depart, establishing itself as an independent nation. While the odds are long in opposition to independence, it would be the smart move. Canada is a dying nation, socialist in nature, hostile to individual liberties, and in the words of former California Governor Arnold Swarznegger (R.), ruled by “girlie men”.

Alberta has lots of oil, timber, and other natural resources. It would make an outstanding 51 State.

Since 1776, about 1 million Americans have died in the defense and service of our country. Since 1973, about 66 million unborn children have been murdered for their mother’s convenience. What does that say about American society?

Congratulations to Felix Rosenqvist on winning the 110th Indianapolis 500 in the closest finish in the history of the race. Congratulations to Daniel Suarez on winning NASCAR’s Coca-Cola 600 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Congratulations to Princeton University on winning the NCAA Men’s Division I Lacrosse Championship. The Tigers dominated Notre Dame. Professor Griffith is pleased.

Congratulations to Tufts University on winning the NCAA Men’s Division III Lacross Championship. Tufts beat Rochester Institute of Technology. And Congratulations to Northwestern University on beating the University of North Carolina, to win the NCAA Women’s Division I Championship.

“Let’s not do that thing where we’re trying to pretend this isn’t what it looks like.  Abdul Carter is a black man and a Muslim and given the things that Trump has said about/done when it comes to both groups, it’s fair and also not surprising that he has a problem with it.”

–Serial racist and former ESPN commentator Jemele Hill, defending New York Giant Abdul Carter for attacking his teammate, Jaxson Dart, for introducing the President of the United States at an event.

Robert Woodson grew up poor in the projects in Philadelphia. He joined the Air Force at 17, eventually graduated from college, and earned a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He became a prominent member of the civil rights movement in the ’50s and ’60s, but eventually split off from any involvement in the leading civil rights organizations after they became wholly owned subsidies of the Democrat Party. He built the Woodson Institute, and began the hard work of improving life for black people, free and separate from the government and its subsidies. He dismissed the race hustling of folks like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, and spent time seeking free market, liberty oriented solutions, working close with the Reagan Administration, particularly with HUD Secretary Jack Kemp. Robert Woodson believed in solving problems, not complaining about them, and for 40 years after he left the civil rights mainstream, he worked to make a difference in the lives of others. Robert Woodson was a patriotic American. He died at age 89. R. I. P.

NASCAR driver Kyle Busch has died at age 41. R. I. P.

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