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.

GFK

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

–Prime Minister Winston Churchill, speaking to the British House of Commons (August 20, 1940), addressing the bravery of the RAF pilots engaged in the “Battle of Britain”.

Yes, I know that Winston Churchill was British, but his sentiments are so easily applied to our own national experiences. Also, Mr. Churchill was 1/2 American.

Today is Memorial Day, a day to remember our fallen who gave their lives on the field of battle.  Many assume that peace is the natural state of human affairs; it is not.  War and lesser armed conflicts have always been present, from the beginning of time.  Our own country was birthed through violent revolution, as we threw off the chains of King George III’s tyranny, and asserted our God given rights as Englishmen.  We fought The Late Unpleasantness, the Confederates wishing to reassert rights infringed upon by Northern commercial interests, and the United States seeking to preserve the Union.  World War I was the “war to end all wars”, but it only laid the foundation for the far more reaching and devastating World War II.  During WWII, we came belatedly to the aid of Great Britain, and together the English speaking peoples rescued the world from the dark forces of fascism. 

Following WWII, the Cold War came, as international communism spread its evil tentacles around the world, and the “West” faced a new and far more dangerous foe, given the nuclear age, in the Soviet Union.  Armed conflicts arose in Korea, Vietnam, The Dominican Republic, Grenada, Angola, Nicaragua, Cuba and other “hot spots” in the Third World.  The American soldier was present in all these events, seeking to preserve, not just our freedoms, but the freedoms we deem God to have given to all men.  In America, we go to war, not to conquer, but to preserve freedom for all.

Memorial Day, or if you prefer, Decoration Day, began simply enough, in Columbus, Georgia in 1866, as the ladies of that town gathered to mark the graves of the Confederate fallen, and to remember their sacrifices.  The commemoration quickly spread throughout the land, and is now annually celebrated with small town parades and ceremonies.  The theme and the purpose of the day is to never forget what others have done for us. 

John 15:13 states, “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”  True fulfillment is being filled with enough love that one is willing to sacrifice himself for something bigger than himself.  That requires, paradoxically, a willingness to overcome fear and be willing to take risks and fully live and, yes, face death in doing so.  On Memorial Day, we are thankful for the men who loved country more than self and in so doing freed future generations to live.  May we honor that sacrifice by fully living and pay it forward by being willing to do the same.

May we never forget, and may we always be grateful.

GFK

This coming Sunday is Pentecost, called Whitsunday in the English tradition. Although the etymology is somewhat confused, we should remember that the Pentecost Vigil was one of the two traditional occasions for baptizing catechumens, the first being the Easter Vigil. On both occasions, the newly baptized were clothed in white, symbolizing the washing away of sin in that sacrament. “White” Sunday signified the latter occasion for the newly baptized.

Another convincing etymological argument suggests that with the influx of Germanic words around the Norman Conquest, the word for “white” was confused with that of “wit,” which in Old English meant “wisdom.” Of course, wisdom is one of the gifts of the Spirit for which we are bidden to pray.

Standing behind the outpouring of the Holy Ghost into the life of the nascent Church is the Hebrew festival of Pentecost. Coming fifty days (pente) after Passover, Pentecost (Shavuot) came to be associated with the giving of the Torah at Mt Sinai. Liberated from slavery in Egypt, the children of Israel were now called to enter into a covenantal relationship with God through their obedience to the Law.

Pentecost was one of the three pilgrimage festivals when all males were required to come to the Temple in Jerusalem to worship (Deuteronomy 16.16). This explains why in the lesson for the Epistle from the Acts of the Apostles, pilgrims from all over the Diaspora were present to witness the apostles speaking in their own native language: Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.

Shavuot was also connected to the grain harvest in Israel that lasted seven weeks. Beginning with the barley harvest at Passover, it ended with the wheat harvest at Pentecost. The time of harvest was a joyous occasion, and at its conclusion two loaves of wheat bread were to be offered at the Temple.

We might recall that Our Lord spent 40 days between His resurrection and His ascension instructing the apostles and showing how He was the fulfillment of the Hebrew Scriptures. The parallel with Moses spending 40 days on Mt Sinai and receiving God’s commandments was not lost on the apostles. With that foundational teaching, they were now in expectation of the promised Comforter. Having spent nine days in prayer, God’s Spirit is given in abundance.

Recalling how God manifested Himself to Moses and the children of Israel at Mt Sinai with an earthquake and lightening, now He manifests Himself with a “rushing mighty wind,” and “cloven tongues as of fire.” Instead of the commandments written on tablets of stone, the law of the new covenant is written on the hearts of the children of the everlasting kingdom of God.

Our Lord’s teaching in the Gospel tells us why the gift of the Spirit was given to the Church. He is to “teach us all things;” “to lead us into all truth;” “to dwell with us…to be in us.” The Spirit “which proceedeth from the Father,” sent by the Son, continues the ministry of Christ in us, even in Our Lord’s physical absence.

We have been praying these past nine days for the seven-fold gifts of the Spirit in our own lives and that of our parish: Wisdom and Understanding, Counsel and Fortitude, Knowledge and Piety and Fear of the Lord. May He grant us our prayer!

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The consequences of rationalizing evil

Aiding and abetting immorality will come back to bite you

BY:          Robert Knight, The Washington Times (May 17, 2026).

One day, when I was working as a reporter at a small newspaper, a colleague came into the office with a brand-new, very expensive camera he had just bought.

For a struggling journalist, it seemed like an outsized purchase. When I asked how he could afford it, he chuckled and said, “Easy. Insurance paid for it.”

Insurance?

“Sure. I broke a window on my car and then reported to police that a thief had taken a camera just like this one.”

“You broke your own window? And was the camera you said was stolen as good as this one?” I asked.

“Hardly,” he said. “There wasn’t any camera in the car.”

“So, you lied and ripped off the insurance company?”

“Why not? They rip us off every day and make millions off us.”

I was stunned by his moral ambivalence and the way he rationalized his thievery. By his reasoning, you could justify any theft from a large corporation.

In fact, that has become a rampant theme today, so much so that a New York Times editor, Nadja Spiegelman, coined the term “microlooting” to describe stealing from large corporations and feeling fine about it.

From people such as university professors and progressive politicians, we have heard a litany of rationalized wrongdoing that goes like this: Victims of an unfair system are entitled to get what is coming to them, and so are the perpetrators on the wrong side of social justice.

On a large scale, think of the looting in any leftist-inspired riot, such as the George Floyd “unrest” in 2020, that liberals largely excused as an understandable reaction.

A shocking number of people have made a folk hero out of Luigi Mangione, the man accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in cold blood on Dec. 4, 2024, on a midtown Manhattan street.

Mr. Mangione, who did not even have a UnitedHealthcare policy with a disappointing claim result, allegedly shot Mr. Thompson in the back. That is the act of a murderous coward, not a hero.

Yet Mr. Mangione’s legal team has raised about $1.5 million so far from donations from people who feel the shooting was justified. Thousands of people have sent him letters and gifts, and the “Free Luigi” movement has held rallies outside the New York courthouse. The internet is full of T-shirts, tote bags and merchandise with his image and the slogan “Free Luigi.”

Mr. Mangione’s next court appearance is slated for Monday, with a flock of supporters expected outside.

In a recent Wall Street Journal column, “When Rationalization Turns Deadly,” psychotherapist Jonathan Alpert writes, “Once frustration is aimed at a broad target — corporations, the wealthy, the system — it starts to act like moral credit. … The question quietly shifts from, ‘Is this right?’ to ‘Who deserves it?’”

Last month, Hasan Piker, who is part of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s entourage, appeared on a New York Times podcast in which he justified the killing of Thompson, the father of two teenage boys.

“Friedrich Engels wrote about the concept of social murder,” Mr. Piker said. “And Brian Thompson, as the UnitedHealthcare CEO, was engaging in a tremendous amount of social murder.”

Engels was Karl Marx’s co-author of “The Communist Manifesto” and other collectivist works. Their communist worldview has directly caused unfathomable misery, including the murders of more than 100 million people during the 20th century alone.

Mr. Piker has said, “America deserved 911,” called the American flag “a symbol of terrorism and oppression” and described America and Israel as “evil.” He has jokingly floated the idea of “killing landlords,” said “billionaires should be guillotined” and that straight, White males are “the most privileged group in human history.”

This goes down like butter among the lunatic fringe, such as the “transtifas,” a transgender anarchist movement implicated in many recent murders and terrorist plots. Mr. Piker is also a hero to the antisemitic “From the river to the sea” crowd that openly wishes for another Holocaust.

Despite these extreme views (or perhaps because of them), Mr. Piker is quite welcome in Gracie Mansion, where Mr. Mamdani is busy turning New York City into a version of North Korea, albeit with Broadway plays.

Someday, perhaps not until the afterlife, these men will have to face a justice system that cannot be manipulated.

“Most people don’t need to be told that stealing, much less murder, is wrong,” Mr. Alpert wrote in his Journal column, adding, “It isn’t just a failure of knowledge but a failure of restraint.”

Indeed, the Apostle Paul wrote in the Book of Romans that people of faith and those of no faith are “without excuse” because God’s natural law is “written on their hearts.”

The problem with aiding and abetting immorality is that it comes back to bite you.

During my college days, one of my off-campus roommates often surprised me with his carefree thefts. When one of his car’s hubcaps disappeared, he found a similar car in a school parking lot and stole a matching hubcap from it.

“I needed it, so I took it,” he told me with a shrug.

After graduation, he went on to law school and then founded a small business. Without any irony, he lamented to me about the biggest problem he faced: dishonest employees who stole from him.

GFK

Today I am sharing 2 articles from The Washington Times. The 1st article addresses former President Obama’s duplicity, and the 2nd article concerns the ultimate demise of Cuba. Enjoy!

Obama and the art of projection

BY:          Everett Piper, The Washington Times (May 17, 2026).

In a recent interview with Stephen Colbert, former President Barack Obama said, “I’m worried about the Republican Party … I’d love a loyal opposition. I’d love a Republican Party that is conservative in some ways, that didn’t agree with me on a whole bunch of stuff but believed in [the] rule of law, judicial independence and empirical evidence and science. … There has been a Republican Party like that in the past, and I want to see that return.”

Thus, Mr. Obama once again proved to be the master of what Sigmund Freud called “psychological projection.”

Projection is the art of attributing your own negative qualities, thoughts and actions to others. In layman’s terms, it is the skill of the pot calling the kettle black, the tactic of accusing someone else of what you yourself are guilty of doing.

Projection is akin to looking out the window when you should be looking in the mirror. It is a manipulative tactic of blaming other people for your own sins. At its core, projection is the quintessential poster child of the self-serving lie.

Let’s take the former president’s above statement and dissect it point by point.

Mr. Obama suggests that it is Republicans who presently stand against the rule of law and that the Democrats represent the opposite. Is this true? Any honest reading of the news proves it is not.

Who can deny that it is the Democrats who have encouraged massive illegal immigration with all its compounding effects of welfare fraud, gang violence and general anarchy? Who can pretend that it is not the Democrats who have flooded the streets of Seattle, Portland and Los Angeles with illicit drugs, vagrancy and homeless encampments?

Who can deny that it is the Democrats who have fomented civil unrest and violence in our nation’s cities from coast to coast?

Does our former president honestly think we do not see the obvious: that it is he and other Democrats who have tacitly encouraged the burning and looting of businesses in Kenosha, Wisconsin, St. Louis and the District of Columbia? That it is his party that has campaigned to defund the police and stop paying for law enforcement in the very cities that his “useful idiots” are literally burning to the ground?

Yet Mr. Obama sits smugly commiserating with Mr. Colbert about the Republicans, who are supposedly at fault for the anarchy that the Democrats themselves inflame. This is Gaslighting 101.

Next, we have Mr. Obama’s claim that he wants an opposition party that believes in judicial independence. Really? If an independent judiciary is what you want, then why is your party now openly calling for upending the Supreme Court from its current configuration and replacing it with a packed court that will do your political bidding?

If judicial independence is your ideal, then why are you trying to throw the judicial branch of the American government into constitutional chaos simply because you do not like the rulings of the somewhat “conservative” opposition that you say you want and respect?

Does Mr. Obama think we do not see that he is guilty of advocating for the very judicial impropriety that he pretends to condemn? Some might call this throwing stones while sitting in a glass house. Some might call it a big lie. Some might call it textbook projection.

Then we have Mr. Obama’s pedantic preaching that he and his party are the ones who believe in science while Republicans don’t. Is there any truth to this?

Last I knew, it is the Democrats who keep telling us that they do not know what a woman is, and it is the Democrats who keep saying that boys are girls and girls are boys. Unless I missed the memo, it is the Democrats who keep saying that babies are not human beings and that executing them at their most innocent stage in life is somehow a moral good.

Mr. Obama keeps prattling on about “following the science” when he and his party show us time and again that they do not even believe in biology, genetics, the basics of physiology, or the ontological dignity of what it means to be human.

There was a time when Mr. Obama and many within his political party told us they were Christians and governed accordingly. If he and any of the rest of them still make such claims, then maybe they would do well to go back and read the book that their faith elevates above all others. Maybe they should start with these words from the Apostle Paul: “In passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.” (Romans 2:1)

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My time in Cuba helped me understand the island’s suffering

Instead of talking to communists, we should demand ‘Cuba libre!’

BY:          Don Feder, The Washington Times (May 17, 2026)

In a social media post last week, President Trump called Cuba a “failed country and only heading in one direction — down.” Then he added, “Cuba is asking for help, and we are going to talk!!!!”

The only thing Washington and Havana have to talk about is how soon the communists can pack their bags and leave.

I would like to volunteer to be part of the American negotiating team.

I feel a special connection to Cuba. I was there for a week as a journalist in 1998. What I experienced left a lasting impression. The situation was wretched when I was there. It is worse now.

Without Venezuelan oil, there are rolling blackouts. Hunger is rampant. In 2025, the average Cuban worker earned the equivalent of $16 a month. Garbage piles up in the streets.

The regime blames the United States for choking off its fuel supply. Good for us.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was asked whether he believes Cuba is a threat to our national security. Silly question.

Cuba has been a thorn in our side since Fidel Castro and his gang seized power in 1959. It has been allied with the worst of the worst: China, Russia, Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah. As Venezuela moved to Marxism, Cuba sent secret police to Caracas to instruct its goons in the instruments of repression.

Climate kook Greta Thunberg took time out from campaigning for Hamas to denounce the U.S. fuel blockade as “a brutal act of collective punishment.” Yet the suffering of the Cuban people is a result of the merciless regime that rules them, not the U.S. blockade.

Food and medicine are exempt. Most of the chicken in Cuba comes from Mississippi and Alabama.

Pre-Castro, Cubans had the third-highest caloric intake in Latin America. Today, the average Cuban gets half a pound of chicken and 10 to 12 eggs every 10 days.

Hardly a night goes by without a demonstration somewhere on the island. On March 13, a march through the streets of the regional capital of Moron ended with a mob storming the Communist Party headquarters.

In Cuba, the regime has all the guns, which makes open revolt impossible. It operates a string of political prisons where 1,200 are currently incarcerated. That is the equivalent of 40,000 political prisoners in the U.S.

On my first day in Havana, I was walking along the Malecon by the sea when I struck up a conversation with a gentleman who seemed well-informed. I invited him to come back to my hotel for lunch. He politely declined. Ordinary Cubans are not allowed to enter tourist hotels. It is one of the many contradictions of Cuban communism. Power to the people — but not access to the hotels they are forced to build.

The doorman at my hotel told me he was a civil engineer. He could earn $20 a month practicing his profession or $20 a day in tips. Communism turns engineers into doormen.

My most poignant encounter was on my last night in Havana. I met a young man who was selling postcards. He came to the capital to study physics but then decided there was not much of a future in that or anything else in Cuba.

When he heard me speaking English, he approached me. “You’re an American? For God’s sake, help me to get out of here! I don’t want to end up like them.” He pointed with his chin to older Cubans shuffling by on the street. I gave him $20 and the name of a contact who might have been able to help. I hope he made it out.

I think of him and others I met in Cuba as the island wakes from a 67-year-old nightmare.

The Miami-based Center for a Free Cuba is calling for the release of all political prisoners, bringing in international human rights monitors and holding free and fair elections for a popular government.

Cuba has been part of our consciousness for as long as I can recall: the Castro revolution, the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban missile crisis, the Mariel boat lift and the flight of more than 1 million Cubans, including the parents of Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Cuba’s rulers will never give up on communism any more than the ayatollahs will give up on radical Islam.

Talk is cheap. The island’s future lies in two words: Cuba libre.

GFK

. HOLLAND IS BACK HOME! She flew into Dulles yesterday afternoon, and will be spending a Summer of Leisure here in the Commonwealth. DUDLEY IS SO HAPPY to see her, that he forgot he was angry with English and me for leaving him to travel to Dallas.

It was not an easy trip for our little girl. She was supposed to arrive Tuesday afternoon. And then her flight was delayed. And delayed. And delayed. And then, cancelled. Sigh.

Luckily our daughter has her Father’s knack for traveling, and absorbing the slings and arrows that come flying at one occasionally. She rebooked her flight to Dulles. Then American Airlines automatically rebooked her to travel all night to Hartford, Connecticut, and the on to Reagan Airport. That must have been the U.S. Air portion of American Airlines, because when traveling from Dallas, Texas to Washington, D.C., you do not go by way of Hartford, Connecticut. So that plan was rejected in favor of 2 days’ delay.

And Holland did not complain at all. She did not cry. She did not whine. Which cannot be said of many people. Holland reports that when it was announced that the flight was cancelled, there was almost a riot, as grown adults melted down at DFW. Shortly after that, Holland was off to a nice dinner with her friends, and then safely back in her apartment for the night. The rioters got to eat at TGI Fridays, and sleep on the B Concourse.

Luckily Holland left Dallas ahead of the Memorial Day Weekend rush. And the thunderstorms that plagued Dallas again yesterday.

English informed me of a very fun fact. Between Memorial Day and Labor Day, inclusive, Americans eat 818 hot dogs every second. That is 7.5 billion hot dogs. WOW! I am not keeping up my end in this regard.

The President must be a native born U.S. citizen as a qualification to serve in office. Naturalized citizens can serve in other elected federal offices, such as Congress, as well as the courts, and State offices as well. Should that change? Should only native born U.S. citizens be members of Congress or federal judges, or even bureaucrats? If not, why not? And if you disagree, I have 2 words for you: Ilhan Omar.

“The Class of 2026 is graduating at an incredible, exciting time for our nation [. . .]

Our national strength is back, our morale is back [. . .] confidence is back, and, above all, American is back, BIGGER and BETTER and STRONGER than ever before.  We have a STRONG, GREAT, RESPECTED country again”

–President Trump, speaking to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy graduating class at commencement.  The President later pardoned all those cadets currently on restriction.  WINNING!

The President is an inspiring leader, always ready to proclaim the greatness of our country, and to praise those who make it great. But day in and day out, he endures the slings and arrows of media and Democrat criticism (but I repeat myself), most all of it false, the rest misleading. But he keeps plugging. Do you hear Leftists praising America? Or do you hear Democrats denigrating our country, cheering for our enemies, sabotaging our economy, and lecturing us on how to live our lives?

Let us look at a small issue, the restoration of the Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial. President Obama spent $34 million over 2 years to restore the Reflecting Pool. President Trump spent $13 million over 2 weeks to restore the Reflecting Pool. AND, he got sued for doing it! Did the media criticize President Obama for the Reflecting Pool restoration? It did not. Did the media criticize President Trump over the same thing? Yes it did!

How about the price of gasoline? The average price of a gallon of gasoline has spiked at $4.50, due to the Iranian conflict. The media has gone nuts over this, proclaiming over and over that the President caused this, and the midterm elections will punish Republicans for raised prices. Hmmmm. The average price of gasoline hit $5.85 a gallon under President Obama, with no Iranian war to cause the price spike. Instead, high prices occurred due to federal government policies, restricting production. The media’s reaction? Crickets.

Finally, let us look at armed conflicts. Under President Obama, the United States was in its 10th year of the Afghanistan War, with no end in sight, and no plan to end it. The media was fine with it. Under President Trump, after 10 weeks during which the United States has neutered and destroyed Iran’s military capabilities, and imposed a complete naval blockade closing the Straits of Hormuz, depriving Iran of any income, the Democrats and the media have declared Iran the winner, the United States the loser, and insist that Iran is stronger than ever.

Donald Trump does not need the job of President of the United States. He was wealthy, successful, and influential long before becoming President. He has nothing to prove. But he is in his second term, working every day to make America great. He wants the American people to succeed. He works to make success available to all Americans. He works to keep our country safe. He works for our country, because he is a patriot. You will hear none of this on the evening news broadcasts.

Do you think the media might be biased? Do you think the Democrats are lying for political advantage? Of course you do! And if you truly do not, you are not paying attention.

A former federal prosecutor was indicted on criminal charges for secretly emailing sealed, confidential documents to her personal email account. The disgraced former federal prosecutor labeled the files as cake recipes in her attempt to avoid detection. She faces 20 years in prison, if convicted.

Senator John Thune (R. S.D.) just adjourned the Senate until June, without finishing the pending spending reconciliation bill. Because he is throwing a temper tantrum about his buddy Senator Bill Cassidy (R. La.) being tossed by Louisiana’s voters. All hail The Stupid Party! A$$HOLE!

The China Joe Administration opened up a criminal investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center on the same bases as did the Trump Administration. But instead of pursing the SPLC’s grift of funding racism in order to profit off its donors, the China Joe Administration dropped the investigation. Instead, Attorney General Merrick Garland paid the SPLC to train its attorneys. The Justice Department allowed the SPLC to guide smears of traditional Catholics, the Moms for Liberty group, and other traditional values organizations. And it seems that the Obama Administration was well aware that the entire “Unite The Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, at which 1 woman was murdered, others injured, and which China Joe claims inspired him to run for President, was funded entirely by the SPLC. There are no words to describe the depravity of the Democrats’ use of race and hatred to manipulate the American people, to their advantage.

As an aside, the SPLC’s annual income under the China Joe Administration rose from $51 million to $133 million. Want to guess which political party the SPLC supports?

“The last job I had in uniform — my job was to get better.  It was to heal.  It’s a very selfish thing.  My job was to heal.  The Marine Corps paid me to get better, and then I retired.  And there’s nothing wrong with that, but it was unfinished business.” 

–FOX News host Johnny Joey Jones, who reenlisted in the United States Marine Corps.

Joey Jones lost his 2 lower legs in Afghanistan, in service to our country.  His attitude is inspiring.  He is a great American.

Virginia Abigail Spanberger (D.) signed an executive order banning ICE agents from election polling places, and instructing election officials to evict any ICE agents who appear. That is not going to work. But why? Why would you ban ICE agents from election polling places, unless it was because illegal aliens from voting? Maybe Abigail is worried about losing that 20% of Fairfax County’s population.

Make Abigail Go Away!

“The reality is that we expected the Supreme Court of Virginia to respect the constitution and the will of the people.  They did not . . . We will make sure that Justice Kelsey does not serve anymore come this January.”

–Virginia Delegate Dan Helmer (D. Fairfax), expressing his anger over not getting to run for Congress in a gerrymandered district.

Threatening to toss a Virginia Supreme Court Justice? The Democrats are unhinged! Dan Helmer is a carpetbagger, and a LOSER!

Washington, D.C.’s Southwest Neighborhood Library branch celebrated its 5th birthday with a drag queen story hour for children. Sigh.

Lucy Biggers is a former “climate change” activist. She was a giant among the climate scolds. But recently, Lucy Biggers has had a change of heart. She reveals that the entire “climate change”, “global warming” agenda is a hoax. It is a scheme to control people’s lives. It is tyranny, dressed up in apocalyptic garb, insisting that control is necessary to save our lives. IT IS A LIE!

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library’s 250th American Celebration Exhibit opens today, and it has lots of nifty things to see, including, but not limited to:

• Benedict Arnold’s Oath of Allegiance to the United States;
• Alexander Hamilton’s gold mourning ring containing a lock of George Washington’s hair (only on display through June 19, 2026);
• George Washington’s surveyor tools and glasses (only on display through June 19, 2026);
• An American flag that was flown on the Apollo 11 mission;
• William J. Stone’s engraving of the Declaration of Independence;
• Lincoln’s “I Would Save the Union” letter;
• John Hancock’s letter to Elbridge Gerry from the night of Paul Revere’s ride;
• A letter giving an account of the Battle of Bunker Hill;
• Thomas Jefferson’s glasses and inkwell and pen;
• A three-volume set of “A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States”, inscribed by John Adams to Alexandre, Duc de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt;
• A 1776 edition of Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense”;
• Revolutionary War officer’s uniform and spouse’s dress;
• An 18th-century American flag.

It sounds fantastic. I want to go, and hope to do so. I hope you all do too!

Southern Living magazine ranked the best grocery store cakes, and Costco won. Huh. It seems that the judges liked the cake to icing ratio. Also, Costco gives you a 1/2 sheet cake for a price less than 1/2 the price of other grocery stores sold their 1/4 sheet cakes. Whole Foods came in 2nd.

In Great Britain, Henry Nowak as stabbed 8 times by Vikrum Singh Digwa. The police arrived, where Henry Nowak lay bleeding on the sidewalk. Mr. Digwa told police–falsely–that he only stabbed Mr. Nowak because Mr. Nowak called him a “racist” name. So police naturally arrested Mr. Nowak, and let Mr. Digwa go. And while Mr. Nowak was obviously bleeding profusely from his 8 stab wounds, the police ignored his pleas for help, and continued with the arrest process. Mr. Nowak died at the scene.

Sage Creek Elementary School in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada has eliminated any mention, celebration or consideration of Mothers’ Day and Fathers’ Day. Instead, the school will only recognize “families”. Hmmm. Coming soon to a Leftist run public school near you.

Iran is hell bent on national suicide. The United States has been very patient, and loathe to inflict complete destruction on the country. But the time has come to act. Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran!

GFK