Prevailing constitutionality on this feast day

Mississippi for the win! And Trump of course, but we all know every bit of this is in the Almighty's Hands. We thank Him for guiding the Supreme Court in handing down their ruling that might finally stymie the decades-long generational genocide of would-be Americans, by declaring the Truth that “the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion.”

The Supreme Court on Friday overturned Roe v. Wade, effectively ending recognition of a constitutional right to abortion and giving individual states the power to allow, limit, or ban the practice altogether.

The ruling came in the court's opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which centered on a Mississippi law that banned abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The Republican-led state of Mississippi asked the Supreme Court to strike down a lower court ruling that stopped the 15-week abortion ban from taking place.

"We end this opinion where we began. Abortion presents a profound moral question. The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives," Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the court's opinion.

This comes after a rare, historic leak to Politico of the court’s draft opinion earlier this year, drawing protests from pro-death activists at the homes of originalist justices and even an assassination attempt against Justice Kavanaugh. Here's the decision that overturns prior Roe and Casey rulings!

THE SUPREME COURT HAS OVERTURNED ROE V. WADE, ELIMINATING THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO ABORTION.https://t.co/ZNYRs3QnpJ

— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) June 24, 2022

Also this week, the SCOTUS ruled that states cannot deny public funds to religious schools, that Miranda warnings are just that (the protection, not the right itself), that voter ID laws can be defended, and that conceal-carry is a constitutional right (even in NY). All exceptional rulings, but this one that came today is a real game changer, and God-Willing a course correction for our troubled nation.

LIFE, our first Declared unalienable right as an Independent people in a free nation, should always be held sacred. With every indication of the progressive Left's reaction, their violence begets more violence, but this was nonetheless the right and proper call. 63+MILLION pre-born deaths since 1973 (19+MILLION disproportionately from the 14% of our black community by-design) has been cataclysmic for America's culture, and constitutes nothing short of a holocaust.

However divisive and abhorrent, the practice of abortion will still exist. Yet, this ruling now passes the decisions of how that practice is or is not offered back to the States respectively, or to the People, as it should have been all along. And for many of us, our prayer is that this decision effectively ends such a destructive human practice altogether. But for now, on this feast day, ALL Thanks Be to GOD.

Almighty God, who sittest on the throne judging right; we bless and thank thee for the courts of justice in this land that thou gavest them wisdom and understanding to discern the truth, and impartially administer the law in the fear of thee alone. We thank thee for the outcome that they have rendered to preserve the unborn in this land. Give grace to our State Legislatures to preserve the life and liberty of all, and to enact laws upon the best and surest foundations, that peace and happiness, truth and justice, religion and piety, may be established among us for all generations. Through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ do we render our thanks and praise, Amen.

H/t: BL

Related link: 26 states are “certain or likely to ban abortions without Roe.”

ADDENDUM: Sunlight may be the best disinfectant after all, particularly in regard to an honest perspective versus a dishonest media over the past several decades...

Another Media Lie — Multitudes *Not* Filling Streets over ‘Roe’ Reversal

Honoring their memory on Memorial Day

A quick message to all those we remember today:

Today is the day where once again we stop to remember those who went before us, who fought and died in the service of this great country.

I know that this country has changed a lot over the years, for better and for worse, and that sometimes it seems we have enemies all around us trying steal our most basic freedoms away.

But regardless of what we might be going through now, that doesn’t diminish in any way the sacrifice our family members and brethren gave for this country, America, which is still the greatest country in the world.

While physically remembering their sacrifice is a wonderful thing on a day like today, the best way we can honor them is to keep fighting, in our on way, to protect the liberties for which they fought and died.

Happy Memorial Day.

Corrective measures over the Left's politicization of Uvalde

The American Left are sick, noisy people, who never cease to score political points. Always focused on stripping more liberties away from the law-abiding for the sake of the children we're told, while promoting the abuse of our kids in the public schools with sexual perversions and propaganda, conducting their depraved contraceptive practices that have resulted in a preborn holocaust of inexcusable proportions, or in this latest horror, amassing visceral pleasure from the politicization of 19 murdered children due to what's become more apparent over the course of the week as a combination of police malfeasance, poor school security, and an utter failure to identify a threat. There were massive mistakes that have Texans livid, but have little to do with getting caught up in political theater, and everything to do with augmenting how we keep our most precious human commodities, our children, safe and secured...

Missed warning signs

Following a spate of mass shootings in Texas, the Uvalde school district invested in social media monitoring, campus police, and teacher training to prevent future tragedies. These early prevention measures did not flag 18-year-old gunman Salvador Ramos as a threat, even though he talked with numerous classmates and strangers online about guns and school shootings.

No officer on campus at start of shooting

Despite the Uvalde school district investing tens of thousands of dollars in security and training for an active shooter in recent years, no school police officer was on the scene when Ramos arrived on campus.

A mistaken tactical call and 19 officers waiting nearly an hour

Once Ramos was inside the school, officers made a crucial tactical error and temporarily considered the active shooting stage of the incident over, believing a barricaded standoff would begin instead. As a result, a group of as many as 19 officers stood in a hallway outside the classroom where Ramos was inside slaughtering students, waiting for backup and tactical equipment.

Stopping one SWAT team, and another going absent

Even once elite reinforcements with gear like ballistic shields arrived, there were delays. ... Specially trained agents with the force’s Bortac SWAT team drove from the US-Mexico border to assist responding officers in Uvalde. ... The group was baffled why local officers told them to temporarily wait, according to the newspaper, and unsure why the Uvalde PD’s own SWAT team was not already on the scene.

Failing to find a key

Eventually, a group of Uvalde police, federal agents, and county deputies did prepare to breach the classroom where Ramos was hiding. They would’ve done so sooner, but the door into the room was locked... Border Patrol agents were only able to get into the room once a school staff member got them a key, raising questions about whether the school had common security features like a master box of room keys accessible to law enforcement—or whether police thought to ask.

Keeping parents in the dark

As all this was going on inside the school, parents were massed outside, where they desperately pled with heavily armed officers to go inside and save their kids. Instead, some were harassed, handcuffed, and tased by police on scene.

Some might look to reflect on the degradation of our public servants over the past few years, and how we're left with such caliber of uncertainty, particularly with regard to the brass. Perhaps it's also worth looking at how all the early indicators were missed in an era of censorship and cancellation over political discourse, while missing the real threats to our civilization. Time after time, these lunatics crave an attentive audience and telegraph intentions (no social media head's up to authorities?). While still others wonder why every school in America doesn't have armed, on-duty resource officers as staff members in an obviously more deranged era ever since Columbine. That speaks not only to the questions of mental health in our young Americans, but also their spiritual health of lost identity in a lost culture. Definitely failures on numerous levels with devastating consequences.

But simultaneously with the reports of the massacre, the Left launch the narrative. It's constantly about the gun for them, and not the twisted mind of the person wielding it. The Left immediately begin their misinformed protest parades, spouting off how there have been 27 mass school shootings just this year, when there's actually been 13 SINCE 1966, NOT THIS YEAR ALONE. But this fallacy is repeated just like the myth that the US leads the world in mass shootings. Again, FALSE. Facts don't stop their media pundits or political elites from spreading the lies, though, because that might disrupt their narrative on control and shine a light on the actual problem of evil.

We as a People must better prepare for it, recognize the indicators, communicate, and be willing to stand up to it without hesitation. It's never gonna be ideal, but the time for mistakes must be over for the sake of our progeny.

Related links: Uvalde gunman, isolated and bullied, was teased about being 'school shooter.' Then he bought guns.
Uvalde shooter’s sister in US Navy, ‘flatly refused’ brother’s request last year to buy him a gun
The Uvalde school police chief initially told the public there were 'some deaths' after the shooting. Authorities now say he refused to send cops into the building during the massacre.
Border patrol agent drove 40 miles to respond to mass shooting at Uvalde elementary school, sources say
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[“SICK SON OF B—-“] – Beto O’Rourke crashes Abbott presser on Uvalde massacre, gets escorted out in political stunt
Beta O’Rourke averts eyes, plays deaf when asked repeatedly: “How do you feel exploiting dead kids?”
‘To Hell With You Too’: Uvalde Mayor Who Called Beto O’Rourke ‘Sick Son of a B*tch’ Rips ‘Haters’ Who Politicize Tragedy
US Department of Justice to review police response
Some Families of Victims Outraged By Biden Visit to Uvalde

ADDENDUM: After Uvalde, the latest media narrative has been to soften what a mass shooting is to include inner city gang parties and biker gang shootings (much of what they never report on, ironically), particularly over Memorial Day, and attempt to equate those to these massacres committed by a lone gunman, all while continuing to push the lie that these occurrences are only an American problem, ignoring the factual data that shows otherwise, and also continuing to ignore the astonishing rise of mental illness (inclusive of pathological rage, undiagnosed ailment, family collapse, and the culmination of all these factors) over the past few decades, always in favor of disarming the citizenry instead.

Also, this question that I've had from the start continues to remain a mystery that the at-large media seems unconcerned with...

It’s not adding up!

Some of us already know what went down and who the people are responsible. pic.twitter.com/gMrAP73ZY2

— Desi (@Desi_3650) June 1, 2022

From a Wendy's salary? Something doesn't square about that burger. But even so, it might've helped if someone had just said something, because many saw the hints dropped. This is a critical area where we have to do better.

Related links: Ted Cruz explains the truth about school shootings after leftist reporter confronted him in Uvalde
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Every Mass Shooting Shares One Thing In Common & It’s NOT Weapons
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School Shootings Aren’t Caused By Faulty Gun Laws But By The Collapse Of The Family
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The wrong that we inherently know: the SCOTUS leak and the evil of abortion

Wow, how this week started... and it makes me wonder...

So, that SCOTUS draft opinion that leaked Monday evening, yeah, THAT is what actual treasonous insurrection looks like, America!

For all the left’s cries of “threats to democracy” and “insurrection” about things like uncensored speech on Twitter or literally walking peacefully through a door, what happened Monday night appeared to be a far truer and more dangerous example of treasonous insurrection.

A purported first draft of the Supreme Court opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson, overturning Roe v. Wade and its protection of a woman’s legal ability to kill her baby, was leaked by an unknown source to Politico in an all-out attempt to agitate chaos and undermine the U.S. Supreme Court.

It seems obvious the leak was intended to incite fury with the potential to pressure the justices into changing their final votes, to push Congress to try to codify Roe, and to pressure Joe Biden to rush to pack the court. The justices and their families are now targets for threats attempting to sway their decisions, and the 2020 summer of rage is surely recent in the bench’s memory. Politico as good as admitted the leak’s coercive purpose:

Deliberations on controversial cases have in the past been fluid. Justices can and sometimes do change their votes as draft opinions circulate and major decisions can be subject to multiple drafts and vote-trading, sometimes until just days before a decision is unveiled. The court’s holding will not be final until it is published, likely in the next two months.

The Supreme Court is one of the few American political institutions whose authority is still widely and bipartisanly recognized, although Democrat chatter of packing the court last year has already eroded it. Such a leak is an outright attack on the court’s gravity and process, the justices’ trust amongst each other, and the rule of law.

If you want to find anything in America’s recent political memory that fits the bill of actual insurrection, look no further than this. Undermining the judicial process in such a calculated and consequential way is textbook insurrection, defined by Merriam-Webster as “an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government.”

Neither speech on Twitter that challenges the regime’s narrative nor the events of Jan. 6, 2021, pose nearly the threat to the legitimacy of the U.S. government that this attack on our highest court of law could.

A swift investigation and prosecution of the leaker is obviously in order. Will it happen? The cynic in me knows by now the passes that one particular party and its operatives receive over the other by both unelected executive departments and the lapdog media (a real travesty that lawlessness isn't measured the same across all political lines). I hope this will be different, but I can't say that doubts aren't high when a rogue administration currently operates the levers of government.

That being said, there's much larger implications at play here, perhaps hard ones to talk about in our hyper-politicized sensitivities and rabid cancel culture; nonetheless, we need to be honest and confront these things for the evils they are...

For decades, the American left has furthered its agenda via leftists on U.S. courts. Thus, in order to get their way on a wide array of issues — abortion, marriage, LGBT issues, immigration, and the like — Democrats have not had to win elections. They merely needed control of the courts. With right-minded originalists replacing authoritarian leftists on courts throughout America, the left's hold on state and federal courts (much credit to President Trump!) has waned. This is especially true with the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS).

Given their obsession with sex, among leftists no issues are held in higher regard than abortion and anything related to the perverse LGBTQMYNAMEISLEGION agenda. Sexual perversion has become a sacrament among the modern left, and tens of millions of the most helpless and defenseless among us have literally been sacrificed in the name of "Do as Thou Wilt" in the sexual realm. Because they've been unable to get it done legislatively, much of the American left's agenda accomplishments on these matters have happened via U.S. courts.

Thus, the American left's vitriolic reaction to the egregious leak of a supposed SCOTUS majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson — which would overturn Roe v. Wade — should surprise no one. The leak was almost certainly a political stunt intended to intimidate pro-life justices, politicians, and citizens alike. This is what those who have made a god of government do. The left should take note: what the government giveth, the government can take away.

When one makes a god of government, virtually everything gets politicized. When most everything is politicized, much gets perverted. To keep their evil agenda alive, the left must constantly distort, deceive, and demonize. This was on clear display after the Dobbs opinion leak. ...

The idea that reversing Roe would end "access to abortion" in the U.S. was a common refrain among the hyperbolic left. As many on the right side of this issue have long pointed out, this is nowhere close to the truth. Even if Roe is finally overturned — because such a decision would merely return the matter to individual states — tragically, throughout much of America, abortion will remain as legal as it is today. Many Democrat-dominated states have been expanding their abortion laws in anticipation of the fall of Roe.

The anger on display by leftists after the Dobbs leak is revealing and scary. A recent Mollie Hemingway encounter at the Supreme Court was sadly not that uncommon:

Keep thinking about an abortion supporter I encountered the other night at the Supreme Court who screamed -- almost as if possessed -- "KILL THOSE F-CKING BABIES!" Such hate-filled extremism -- particularly compared to previous mantra of "safe, legal, RARE" https://t.co/H62fSM8hsY

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 4, 2022

Given the wicked Summer of Rage that we witnessed in 2020, none of this should be taken lightly. Additionally, the left is now directly threatening conservative Supreme Court justices. As Breitbart reports,

Justices John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Amy Coney Barrett, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, and Neil Gorsuch are all targets by an organization called, "Ruth Sent Us." The organization has published the justices' supposed home addresses online for the radical protestors to locate[.] ...

The website also asked protestors to "rise up May 8-15 and beyond[.] ... At the homes of the six extremist justices, three in Virginia and three in Maryland." The site says the main protest is scheduled for May 11.

Again, none of this should be taken lightly. We've seen the awful consequences of leftist policies on plain display for years now in the Democrat-dominated cities across America. Arson, thefts, assaults, murders, and the like have exploded where leftism rules and leftists abound. If given enough cover by their allies in the drive-by media and the Democrat party, I wouldn't be a bit surprised to see violence visited upon conservative justices.

However — and let this be a lesson to you, John Roberts — this is not a time for weakness! The left cannot be appeased. It must be defeated — politically, spiritually, and so on. The best defense against leftists' rampant evil is the light of the truth, whatever consequences it brings.

Just as America, through all its struggles, has been the exception in the world when it comes to liberty, democracy and economic freedom, so to has our human experience as citizens of such a unique country given us the exceptional opportunity to lead towards the light of truth and away from the lies of darkness. Though sinfulness is built into our human nature, if we're honest with ourselves, we know inherently that our conscience recognizes right from wrong, light from darkness, righteousness from sin. Just as we all inherently know that this leak is a threat to democratic governance, we also know that the blight of unabated abortion has become unsustainable (to the tune of 63+ MILLION since Roe v. Wade in 1973, and 1.65+ BILLION worldwide since 1980).

We can be compassionate towards our fellow man struggling through the evils of the world (as we all do), while combating it, turning hearts and minds away from it, and God Willing, extinguishing one of the most grievous.

Related link: The true import of the Alito draft

The real misinformation lies within the Left's hypocrisy (UPDATE)

Apologies. I inadvertently took April off for Easter, but that's kinda important in an eternal way, so a much needed refresh. But we can't allow April to fly by without talking about Elon and The Deal.

Seems to be all the buzz for the better part of the month, particularly the latter half as the deal approached evermore certainty. From the comedy of Sears and Dice (and you better believe theBabylonBee) to the analysis of Brand and Rogan with their patented sarcasm, everybody's gotten in on this goldmine. And BOY, have the crazies gone from freakout to meltdown to pretty much revealing their hand in say, something like the last election...

This is exactly what the Machine\Left\Democrats have done to their opponents for years, you absolute 🤡 @AriMelber.

Enjoy the ride into irrelevance… https://t.co/DAdYU8YI2z

— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) April 26, 2022

Remember the rule: they'll always accuse us of doing what they've already done. 

All of this not over free speech, but the adherence to its censorship and control of any/all narratives, mind you. Peculiar how progressive Twitter accounts lost followers, while conservatives gained within days of Elon's purchase, isn't it Ari? It's like the dials were suddenly turned back. James thought so too...

At the end of two days of #TwitterFreedom I’ve added 73,000 new followers.

I don’t think anybody has fully grasped the devastating impact the pre-election suppression of free speech has had on our nation. #ThankYouElonMusk

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) April 28, 2022

There's a bigger picture here, though, that cuts to the heart of this 'misinformation' hypocrisy...

One thing the left is particularly good at is euphemism. Stalin made his bones as a Bolshevik thug by robbing banks in order to fund the revolution; they called it expropriation. Now the obviously desperate Progressives are pounding the table, demanding that we masses be protected from the scourge of misinformation that's poisoning our minds. Only public statements that are approved for their content by progressive partisans should be allowed to have influence. Hmmm...sounds like censorship to me.

This romance with censorship is nothing new. Back in the 1970s, after an unusually contentious local election, then–San Francisco supervisor Dianne Feinstein proposed an ordinance that would make it a crime to include a false statement in a political speech. Although I was still a registered Democrat at that time, I couldn't help but wonder what kind of Star Chamber would have to be empaneled to rule on every single political utterance.

As this is being written, Elon Musk's total takeover of Twitter has just been made official. It's within the realm of possibility that he could take a page from George Orwell and rename it The Ministry of Truth. Just kidding.

Uhh, hold on. No sooner than those words were written did the Biden Admin prove they weren't kidding about a Ministry of Truth! Newspeak, anyone? How hellishly Orwellian of 'em...

A federal speech czar? Just as the Founders imagined it, no doubt.

Earlier this week, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told Congress that his agency is creating a "Disinformation Governance Board" to combat "misinformation" coming from Russia as we near this year's midterm elections. The Biden administration's new Committee on Public Information will be led by Nina Jankowicz, "a disinformation fellow" who, perfectly enough, comes to the administration from a think tank named after Woodrow Wilson. Like Wilson, Mayorkas, himself a font of untruths, does not explain under what constitutional power he proposes to oversee speech.

It gets tedious to point this out, but you can vividly imagine the thermonuclear meltdown the country would be (rightly) subjected to if a Republican president assembled a government panel tasked with weeding out "disinformation." To our technocrats' dismay, this isn't Europe, where the state can dictate allowable speech and sometimes arrests those who don't abide. Here, citizens are the ones who call out the state for peddling misinformation, not the other way around.

The pro-censorship Left, which is to say the vast majority of contemporary Democrats, now have Barack Obama on board as well. The one-time neoliberal champion of free speech -- a freedom he employed aggressively to mislead the American people when it served his partisan interests -- alleged during a recent Stanford University speech that "people are dying" from misinformation. And, you know, if censorship can save one life ...

In case you didn't catch that, here's the ridiculous ninny the government is trying to put in charge of regulating OUR speech:

You can just call me the Mary Poppins of disinformation 💁🏻‍♀️ https://t.co/eGV9lpctYn pic.twitter.com/WVQFA2bPmq

— Nina Jankowicz 🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@wiczipedia) February 17, 2021

God help us as these people brazenly push us towards dystopian nightmares...

Elon Musk buys Twitter to save free speech and days later President Biden announces a Ministry of Truth.

It's like we're living through an Ayn Rand/George Orwell novel mash-up.

— Dan Sanchez (@DanSanchezV) April 28, 2022

...which is as good a segue as any to wrap up the discussion concerning the Left's hypocrisy on this...

Lurking below all of this is leftists' palpable lack of desire to defend their opinions. As Ayn Rand's fictional John Galt stated in his laying out of Objectivism, mystical ideas are the enemy of civilization. Feelings are supposed to have more weight than logic. Take climate worship, for example. There are forces that we will never understand...that are conspiring to destroy our world...unless we destroy them first by strangling the economic basis for modern life.

Standing in the way of this impending disaster is that pesky thing called common sense. Humanity didn't make it this far by not being able to make good decisions. Adversity may not be pleasant, but it can be instructive. Add to this the modern facility for the transmission of information. It started with cheap paper and web printing, then radio, and then TV. Now there are the internet, cell phones, and satellite coverage. Bottom line: It's virtually impossible to monopolize information. Hence the panicked demand for what really amounts to censorship from those who've lost their monopoly.

I mentioned earlier about controlling the narrative... keep in mind, half of these guys that I'm referencing throughout this are not conservatives. They are however believers in open, honest, free debate and opinion. When not even a liberal is safe, this is how far the radical left have lurched in their concerted effort towards total control. It's why you've got a guy like Elon Musk who's made to feel like this:

pic.twitter.com/Q9OjlJhi7f

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 28, 2022

But, hey, if they wanna keep pushing people, WELCOME brethren, to the battle in this brave new world!

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More: Can One Vote Make a Difference?
The Ministry of Truth is a Bucket of Lies

UPDATE: I'm guessing they smelled the midterms coming...

Orwellian Disinformation Board Scrapped

Still gonna take more than that to hold back the deluge, but don't think the Left won't pull out all the stops. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.

How Corporate America got woke

Wow! This is the best and most precise explanation I've heard, and couldn't come at a more prescient time to reinforce what the American citizenry are experiencing, many of whom work for these titans of industry, as they attempt to take control of our private lives...

How is it that Big Business “got woke?” Once the bastion of country club conservatism, it’s now a fortress of radical leftism. Vivek Ramaswamy explains this amazing and disturbing transformation.

Also, did you catch the reference in there that once again refers back to what they denied, then admitted, then said wasn't an admission of any wrong-doing? I believe TIME pridefully published something in regard to that rigging by a "well funded cabal"... always worth the reminder, even if nothing is going to be done about it. But that's for another time...

There's so much pertinent information in this five minute video, but the crux of Ramaswamy's explanation speaks volumes toward the situation many find themselves in, particularly as we move past covid: employed by companies we truly enjoyed and aligned with in so many ways, only to experience rapidly changing values that no longer reflect our own.

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Done with the "tolerance" of the totalitarian covid narrative

“The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.” ~ Augustine of Hippo

In searching for information on the roots of the authoritarian moves and motives experienced over the past few years by, well, every imaginable entity that wields power over us (government, news, finance, business, etc.), I ran across a superb piece from one writer who is frankly done with the "tolerance" of the totalitarian covid narrative that it was supposedly founded in. It's also of coincidence that I'm currently reading the brilliant book that this author references!

I don’t know about you, but I am done with tolerance.

None of this is to say that I have ever been an overly tolerant person of things I dislike—I am not. However, I have recently recommitted to my disdain for things I disdain.

I do not mean to suggest that I believe there should not be a relative level of tolerance. We live in pluralist societies and going along to get along is part of the equation in many cases. In addition, I am certainly not asking our governments to do anything about what is intolerable, as they themselves are the most intolerable of the lot.

Nonetheless, if the last two weeks years to slow the spread have taught me anything, it is that the leftist narrative is a wildly intolerant thing, and—at least in personal lives—there can be no room for much tolerance of the nonsense that masquerades as policy, or expert opinion, or what have you.

The leftist ethos of our day is intolerant of everything you stand for. They hate your religion, they hate your view of marriage, they hate your view of family dynamics, they hate your view of science, and they hate your view of medicine. Nowhere has this been more on display than in conversations about Covid—ugh, I hate that word at this point.

When this all started, we were told to “respect everyone’s wishes so they can feel safe.” Okay, fair enough, there is nothing wrong with giving people a little breathing room if they need it. But, after the initial scare in early 2020, it has been clear for anyone willing to take out a calculator and do some basic arithmetic that this thing never amounted to—and would never amount to—a plague of epic proportions.

No matter, math and reason need not apply when someone believes the narrative, because the narrative is the fullness of truth for someone committed to it—which is ironic because usually someone committed to the narrative doesn’t hold truth in high esteem. So, we sat back while people still held on to the narrative and stayed locked away in their homes.

Then there was news of a vaccine that would save us all, so we waited a little longer until they had as many doses as was needed to make it safe for us to take a stroll around other human beings. Then we waited a little longer until they had extra doses to be extra protected…then, when everyone was vaxxed to the max, we were told that the vaxxed couldn’t hang with the non-vaxxed…because the vax worked, but not really, but it did…but just not around the unvaxxed…because science.

At any rate, this rant about the silliness of the ins and outs of the schizophrenic nature of covidian thinking is only to illustrate that it is tolerance that got us here. Again, I do not mean that a basic level of toleration of things we do not like is somehow bad—it isn’t. However, it is tolerance of lies that got us here.

Rod Dreher may be or may not be your favorite, but the thesis of his book Live not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents is bang on. On our own, it is difficult to do anything about the macro-lies that dominate the corporate media. However, in our own lives each and every one of us confronts a lie to be lived or let-lived each and every day.

We knew it was silly that grandma or uncle so-and-so wouldn’t come out of their house to see family for six months—in fact, we knew it was a disturbed way to live. We knew it was wrong when they told us to put on masks, which have never been proven effective when dealing with a respiratory virus—especially not when the masks are old rags that hang on our rear-view mirrors. We knew it was a lie that you could ever make a “safe and effective” vaccine within a matter of months, no matter how well intended.

Nonetheless, most of us resigned to letting certain things go. “So-and-so just needs to do that to feel safe,” “so-and-so just wants to fit in,” “I will just give in to this and that because I need to save my strength for more important things.”

No!

After a few what-should-be universal truths -- Christ is Truth, Satan is the Father of Lies, and our own lies are from our hellish self, not our heavenly self -- the exclamation is further rationalized as it only should be...

Every, single, time we acquiesce to lies, we run the risk of living by them. It is a slippery slope that can become a veritable cliff if we are not careful.

How many readers have had the experience of watching a friend or family member descend into a covidian spell only to devolve from a rational person to someone who believes that their vaccine only works if someone else is vaccinated? Can you imagine how confused someone would have to be to believe that their seatbelt did not work if someone else did not wear theirs? Or how off the rocker you would have to be to think that if you had a headache, someone else also had to take an aspirin? The logic of the covidian narrative is no different: masks only work when everyone wears them; jabs don’t work until everyone is jabbed; and we are only “all in this together” when we stay as far from each other as possible.

If Covid is a serious illness, it is a serious illness of the intellect and an afront to truth itself. This paradigm did not begin with Covid, though. We were primed to live by these lies, or at least tolerate them for convenience’s sake, because we had been doing that for a long time. We have become so accustomed to lies on top of lies as the foundation of our social framework that we were not equipped to stand up for the truth.

When it came time to tell so-and-so that this plague was not a plague; or that the ear-looped handkerchief wouldn’t stop the plague that wasn’t a plague; or that medications not working unless everyone is medicated was literal proof that they weren’t, well, working; it was too late. We tolerated lies for so long that we became intolerant of truth. I might even go one step further and say that we aren’t only intolerant of truth, but we don’t even know what it is.

If you never hear something, how can you know that you have heard it when you do? I might say that I am intolerant to hot sauce, but if I have never had it, or if it has been decades since I have, then how can I even be sure that I am intolerant to it if I cannot remember what it tastes like?

There is much to hope for, however, as lies are tiresome things. The continual toleration of lies is intolerable, as man was created with an intellect and conscience, even if those things become hard to find. Lying creates a lazy and atrophied mind that eventually becomes defenseless. Yes, defenseless to lies, but more importantly, defenseless to truth. ...

It is the time to be intolerant of lies and to go on the offensive.

AMEN to that! The time in now to let loose the Lion.

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Liberty, restraint, a role model for all: Remembering Washington

"First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." ~ from Henry Lee's eulogy of George Washington

Though today marks the celebration, tomorrow the 22nd actually marks the 290th anniversary of our first president's birthday, the Father of our Country, the indispensable George Washington. And to set the record straight, today's holiday is not “Presidents’ Day.” No such holiday exists in law. Contrary to popular belief and the efforts of salesmen throughout the land, no congress nor president has ever changed this celebration (as far too few states across our land still acknowledge that truth). Nonetheless, it is in fact a celebration of George Washington’s birthday.

There are so many traits to admire about Washington, despite our misdirected woke generation's knee-jerk judgementalism of the past through a modern lens. Given the relentless war on America by our elites, it’s more important than ever to honor our heroes, starting with the man who started it all. So first, let's cover that: Washington and America’s liberty, because without the first we wouldn't have the second...

Historians have called Washington the “indispensable man.” Without him, we would have no country. ...

Washington wasn’t just the leader of our War of Independence, defeating what was the greatest military power in the world in the last quarter of the 18th century. Since the Continental Congress was so weak and indecisive, Washington was the de facto head of state from the time he took command of the Continental Army in 1775.

Before he became our first president, Washington presided over the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Only the love his countrymen had for him could have united the nation — Federalists and Anti-Federalists alike — around the United States Constitution. He saved America once during the revolution and saved it again in its tumultuous aftermath. Washington built America with a sword and a pen.

Do you like living in a country where the rights of citizens are enshrined in a written Constitution and a method was established therein for popular sovereignty? You can thank Washington. ...

The “woke” mob hates Washington because it hates America. If it can take him down, it can get anyone. ... He was a slaveowner — a generation that can afford the luxury of criticizing the past by contemporary standards tells us. Slavery was a great evil, and one which existed for most of human history and on every habitable continent. It exists today, in other guises.

That China has enslaved the Uyghurs didn’t keep it from the honor of hosting this year’s Winter Olympics. The children who sew soccer shirts in Asian factories (some for as little as a penny an hour) are slaves in all but by name.

Karl Marx (whose writings serve as the basis for the international movement that seeks to destroy America) was a racist and an antisemite, a fact that no Marxist party has ever acknowledged. Marxism itself is a form of slavery. The masses of Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea may not have actual manacles on their wrists and ankles, but their subjugation is just as complete as if they did. An army of Simon Legrees guards their borders to keep the field hands on the plantation.

A little more than 100 years after the beginning of the war to end slavery in America, the Soviets and their East German stooges built a wall to stop their slaves from escaping. ...

A nation that allows its heroes to be debunked is doomed. And so, as the 290th anniversary of his birth approaches, let us drink a toast that echoed throughout the land when our republic was young — “To Washington and liberty.” Without the first, we wouldn’t have the second.

Also of note was Washington's restraint, a key tenet of who the man truly was... something not only our current occupant could stand to observe, but also our neighbors to the north, and many others abroad...

Washington is remembered today not only for virtues of bearing, decorum, and personal integrity, but also for making the right choices when they mattered most. ...

Cynics note that Washington was ambitious, but that is beside the point; great men must always be ambitious. A friend and biographer of Abraham Lincoln wrote that Lincoln’s ambition was “a little engine that knew no rest.” What makes a great man in power is not lack of ambition, but restraint. Washington waited for power until he was summoned by the people, and he laid it down of his own accord. In so doing, he set the great republican precedents: Power is given by the people, and it is theirs to give and nobody’s to retain too long.

Restraint also guided Washington’s approach to the law. The people had adopted the Constitution, and it was Washington’s job to obey it. In his Farewell Address, he cautioned that “the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. . . . Resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts.”

And to riff off of an MLK line, what was overall remarkable about George Washington was the content of his character, demonstrative of his status as a role model for all...

Hidden behind myth, written off by revisionists as just another dead, white, male slaveowner, Washington was in fact a man for the ages.

Born a Virginia aristocrat, he carefully cultivated his virtues — self-control, moderation, civility; his strengths physical and moral — to become the most widely admired presence first in the 13 colonies, then in the new nation.

He created two American institutions [shaping the US Army and setting the future course of American government itself]... Yet his importance goes far beyond his résumé. It was Washington who emphasized that America was a republic when he rebuked those who wanted a monarchy or an exalted president.

Likewise, he set the precedent for presidential limits by refusing entreaties that he accept a third term. “Washington’s last service to his country was to stop serving,” writes Richard Brookhiser [in his landmark 1997 book, “Founding Father”]. He was also the only slaveholding founder to free his slaves.

For all these reasons and more, there was no dissent when Henry Lee famously described Washington in death as “first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen.”

Far-left efforts like the 1619 Project now claim that many Americans have no reason to honor Washington. But far more accurate is the understanding reflected in the musical “Hamilton”: One of the show’s most compelling moments is the entry of Gen. George Washington as the American rebels suddenly face 32,000 British troops in New York Harbor.

It’s not just his dramatic, staccato lines (“We’re outgunned. Outmanned. Outnumbered. Outplanned”), but the fact that the guy playing him is black. The show powerfully, magically, claims America’s founders for all of today’s Americans. The principles they fought for belong to us all.

That last piece also made mention towards the end that unlike other notable presidents, Washington left no memorable lines that we continue to quote today. But maybe that's because far too often they're lost on a modern society that's too caught up in its own inundation of meaningless chaff really. So maybe let's rectify that with a few, shall we? It might become clear to us why he's not quoted more in these times...

"Government is at best a petulant servant and at worst a tyrannical master."

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Experience has taught us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession, and when the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."

"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."

"But if the laws are to be so trampled upon with impunity, and a minority is to dictate to the majority, there is an end put at one stroke to republican government, and nothing but anarchy and confusion is to be expected thereafter."

"Be Americans. Let there be no sectionalism, no North, South, East or West. You are all dependent on one another and should be one in union. In one word, be a nation. Be Americans, and be true to yourselves."

"Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light."

"Let me ask you, sir, when is the time for brave men to exert themselves in the cause of liberty and their country, if this is not?"

"Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?"

"Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do--then do it with all your strength."

"Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics."

"It is impossible to govern the world without God. It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits and humbly implore his protection and favor."

"Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my thoughts, words and work. Wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb and purge my heart by Thy Holy Spirit. Daily, frame me more and more in the likeness of Thy son, Jesus Christ, that living in Thy fear, and dying in Thy favor, I may in thy appointed time obtain the resurrection of the justified unto eternal life. Bless, O Lord, the whole race of mankind and let the world be filled with the knowledge of Thee and Thy son, Jesus Christ."

On Honesty: Remembering Lincoln

Today marks what would be the 213th birthday of the most favored & pivotal 19th century president, the Rail-Splitter, the Great Emancipator, and everyone's familiar with the Honest byname, one Abraham Lincoln. And it's that latter alias that's worth highlighting in today's age of lacking honesty, integrity and truth...

The future president was first called "Honest Abe" when he was working as a young store clerk in New Salem, Ill. According to one story, whenever he realized he had shortchanged a customer by a few pennies, he would close the shop and deliver the correct change-regardless of how far he had to walk.

People recognized his integrity and were soon asking him to act as judge or mediator in various contests, fights, and arguments. According to Robert Rutledge of New Salem, "Lincoln's judgment was final in all that region of country. People relied implicitly upon his honesty, integrity, and impartiality."

As a member of the Illinois legislature and later in his law practice, he took advantage of his reputation for honesty and fairness to help broaden his constituency. His good name helped win him four consecutive terms in the legislature.

Lincoln soon moved to Springfield, Ill, and began his law practice, a profession at which he admitted there was a "popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest." His advice to potential lawyers was: "Resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer. Choose some other occupation, rather than one in the choosing of which you do, in advance, consent to be a knave."

According to Judge David Davis, in whose court Lincoln practiced for many years, "The framework for [Lincoln's] mental and moral being was honesty, and a wrong cause was poorly defended by him." Another judge who had worked with Lincoln agreed, saying "Such was the transparent candor and integrity of his nature that he could not well or strongly argue a side or a cause he thought wrong." ...

By the time Lincoln was president, statements he had made previously, such as "I have never tried to conceal my opinions, nor tried to deceive anyone in reference to them," and "I am glad of all the support I can get anywhere, if I can get it without practicing any deception to obtain it" had become a source of strength for him as a leader.

Everyone, even his bitterest political opponents, knew exactly where they stood with Lincoln. Because he didn't have to waste time convincing his opponents of his sincerity, he was able to devote his energies to solving political issues and winning the war.

Lincoln as commander in chief was honest and straightforward with his generals, always telling them directly what he did and did not appreciate about them. An example of his candor is the following excerpt from a letter to Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker in early 1863:

"I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appear to me to be sufficient reasons, and yet I think it best for you to know that there are some things in regard to which I am not quite satisfied with you. I believe you to be a brave and a skillful soldier, which of course I like . . . I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship."

Finally, in search for the reason Lincoln was so adamant about honesty, a quote by one of his closest friends, Leonard Swett, is revealing:

"He believed in the great laws of truth, the right discharge of duty, his accountability to God, the ultimate triumph of the right, and the overthrow of wrong."

It's worth heeding these lessons towards honesty, whether discussion or debate, throughout today's authoritarian tugs within & without.

If there's one thing we should take away from Honest Abe, it's that honest conversations always approach Truth closer than totalitarian lockdowns of free speech and one-size-fits-all narratives ever will. Lest we forget...

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

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First Principles: Remembering Reagan

Today marks what would be the 111th birthday of my favorite president thus far in my lifetime, the Great Communicator, the Gipper, as Rush always called him, Ronaldus Magnus, the one and only Ronald Wilson Reagan. And I thought I'd share the fantastic words of one great young patriot, who so elegantly reflects on what Reagan meant not just to the conservative cause, but how he exuded American first principles for the common man...

[A]s we near two decades since his passing, President Reagan is still the most influential political figure of modern-day conservatism. Much has changed since Reagan made his exit from the political arena, and both conservatism and America as a whole need his vision now more than ever.

It is difficult to capture an extensive life such as Reagan’s in the space of a single column, but a highlight of his career was his style of messaging that made him an effective spokesman for conservatism. [W]ith Reagan’s ability to communicate enduring political principles into clear, concise and common language... the key to his success as “The Great Communicator,” was the sincerity behind his words and his ability to connect with everyday Americans.

Conservatism is about carrying on the best of what has come before us, and Reagan found much success in articulating the value of traditional ideas, patriotism, respect for the rule of law, faith, free enterprise, peace through strength, individual initiative and appreciation for our ancestors. Those principles were on display throughout his speeches, whether he was making the case for limited government in “A Time for Choosing,” delivering his famous impassioned plea for liberty at the gates of the Berlin Wall, or commemorating the sacrifices of the heroes at the beaches of Normandy.

And although he defended his views confidently, he was able to do so in a positive and respectful way. Nevertheless, in his farewell address, Reagan said, “I never thought it was my style or the words I used that made a difference: it was the content. I wasn’t a great communicator, but I communicated great things” that “came from the heart of a great nation — from our experience, our wisdom and our belief in the principles that have guided us for two centuries.” ...

Reagan wrote that “growing up in a small town is a good foundation for anyone who decides to enter politics,” and his early years in Dixon allowed him to “get to know people as individuals, not as blocs or members of special interest groups.”

[W]hat made him appeal to so many Americans was that he was a leader to whom they could relate on a personal level. Despite his rise to success as both a Hollywood movie star and prominent political leader with dozens of influential friends and acquaintances, he always held on to the values he developed in Dixon. Reflecting on his upbringing, Reagan recalled: “I grew up observing how the love and common sense of purpose that unites families is one of the most powerful glues on earth and that it can help them overcome the greatest of adversities. I learned that hard work is an essential part of life — that by and large, you don’t get something for nothing — and that America was a place that offered unlimited opportunity to those who did work hard. I learned to admire risk takers and entrepreneurs, be they farmers, or small merchants, who went to work and took risks to build something for themselves and their children, pushing at the boundaries of their lives to make them better.”

Those experiences left him with a true hopefulness for the future of America, but Reagan’s optimism was different from that of many politicians. His was not an overambitious idealism that government can create a path to “progress” and solve all of the challenges faced by our country, but it was rather a firm belief that America’s citizenry — ordinary people like parents, farmers, and small business owners — could best serve the needs of their country and bring about positive change through their own initiative. Reagan’s political philosophy came from the understanding that government is most effective when it seeks to create an environment where family, church, civic association, business and local community can flourish.

In his final farewell as president, Reagan remarked that “as long as we remember our first principles and believe in ourselves, the future will always be ours.” Three decades later, that advice still holds true.

Likewise, this young writers words also seem to coincidently reflect on the essence of this Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany, where we implore the Lord to "keep thy Church and household continually" in His Truth, just as Reagan observed "how the love and common sense of purpose that unites families... overcome the greatest of adversities." Both should stir a true hopefulness for the future of America.